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ANTICIPATION:

That Childhood Feeling of Excitement

The teens looked death between the eyes.

The blue haired teen let out a battle cry, swinging his Weapon around his head. He launched his scythes, holding on by the chain so each raced for his opponent's throat.

Tyler sprung, and in a flash he too was a chain scythe. Hikari crossed her arms, blocking the attack with the two scythes. With the twist of her wrists the chains hooked together, and she pulled her opponent to the ground with a mighty heave. The teen sprung back up, spinning and pulling his weapon back before letting them fling towards Hikari again. Hikari jumped back and kicked up a cloud of dust. The teen fell into a coughing fit, wiping the grime from his eyes.

"YAH!" Hikari's foot collided with his face in a round house kick and she spun around, kicking him once again in the face. The teen groaned, his nose spewing blood.

The scythe barer leaped into action, raising her partner. Sakami, suddenly very serious, transformed into a Tenei blade, and Mary blocked the Meister's attack with the double sided s-shaped scythe. Mary grunted as she gritted her teeth and leaned back. She then thrusted forward, knocking her rival off balance. In one quick motion, she swept her feet from under her. The pale blonde started to tumble, but she planted her scythe in the ground and kicked Mary squarely in the chest. Mary wheezed for breath, blocking another attack before their blades met again.

"Wimp," A boy with white shaggy hair appeared the in scythe's reflection, his teeth bared in a snarl.

"Butt face!" Sakami shouted, her eyes two blazing flames as she dug her bladed self into the other.

Mary pulled away, twisting the pole till she held a scythe in each hand. Sakami's reflection smirked

"Show off!" The scythe hollered.

"Pea brain!" Sakami responded loudly.

The teen with the pistols started firing. Tatum changed into her Weapon Form and Saya was deflecting the bullets with the chakram. Saya ducked and rolled, flinging the sharp metal frisbee at her opponent. The black haired teen came to an abrupt halt taking a glance at Saya as the chakram flew back into her hand.

"Your ribbon is untied," he said.

Saya lowered her eyebrows in confusion, glimpsing down at her shoes. She kept her Weapon raised as she replied, "What?"

"Your shoe. It. Is. Untied." He growled.

"Um...your point?"

"I cannot fight you unless you are somewhat symmetrical!" The teen ranted. "I mean, give me an attempt instead of being a lopsided swine!"

"Have you looked in the mirror lately? Only half of your head has white streaks," Saya sweat-dropped.

The male looked up at his bangs and gasped. "You're right! I'm asymmetrical garbage!" He fell face first into the dirt and began pounding his fists and kicking his legs. "Swine! Lopsided swine!"

"No you're not, Kid!" The reflection of one of his Weapons appeared in the gun. The reflection in the other was much younger and acting as if the temper tantrum of her Meister was the funniest thing she had ever seen.

"Um..." Tatum's reflection appeared in Saya's Weapon. "What's going on?"

"The kid who's trying to kill us is having a meltdown," Saya explained with a slight wince.

"Garbage! I'm such garbage!" The teen wailed.

The blonde teen and Mary, who were caught up in an intense battle, stopped and watched the black haired teen bawl in the dust.

"Ignore him, he does this all the time," the blonde rolled her eyes, letting the butt of her scythe rest in the sand.

"Really?" Mary's eyebrows seemed to disappear into her hair.

"What is he doing?" Tyler's reflection asked. Hikari had turned to watch the sobbing teen with a confused expression.

"Flipping out because he's not symmetrical," the evil blonde sighed.

"I AM BLACK*STAR, THE GREATEST ASSASSIN WHO HAS EVER LIVED AND I AM GOING TO ASSASSINATE YOU!" The blue hair teen cried, falling out of nowhere towards Hikari, his scythe's raised. Hikari took a step to the side, letting the greatest assassin who had ever lived face plant into the sand before clouting him over the head with her foot.

"Idiot," Hikari glanced down to see a large lump forming on the 'assassin's' head.

"Black*Star! Are you alright?" The chain scythe was once again a girl and she bent down, cradling her Meister against her chest. "Black*Star?!"

"Kid, really! You're not garbage! You're the most symmetric person I know! Only you corrected your father about the time school started. And only you can hang pictures perfectly symmetrical! And only you can dress exactly symmetrical, Kid! Don't fret the stuff you can't control. Just because half of your head has white stripes, doesn't make you asymmetrical garbage."

The teen sniffled. "Really?"

"Of course! Would I lie to you?" The two pistols became girls again. The oldest girl patted his back with a smile. The little girl only continued to squeal giggles.

"No. You wouldn't, would you? I love you guys!" The teen got up and pulled his weapons into a strangling hug. "Even if you two aren't symmetrical to each other, I love you so!"

Everyone but Kid, the assassin, and the assassin's weapon sweat-dropped.

Saya cleared her throat. "So...um…what happened to us dying?"

"Oh! Right!" The blonde Meister twirled around to face Saya, Tatum, Mary, Sakami, Hikari, and Tyler. "It was a test! And you passed!"

"A test?" Tatum's jaw dropped. "I thought you were going to kill us!"

"Nah. Maybe if you were weaklings, but you guys fought almost like us veterans." The scythe became the white haired male once again, and he gave them a simper. "Even though we took an easy on you. We could have easily whooped your asses into next Tuesday but we didn't."

"Veterans?" Hikari's puzzled gaze fell on Black*Star.

"Stein wanted us to attack the first group that came in," The white-haired boy put his hands in his pockets with a shrug. "He wanted some group to prove themselves."

"I'm Maka by the way," the girl shook each of their hands. "This is my Weapon Soul."

Soul gave them a grin.

"I'm Tsubaki and this is my Meister Black*Star," The long haired teen gave them a shy smile. Black*Star was still knocked out cold.

"And this is-" Maka began but the black haired teen has already stood up and brushed himself off. "I am Death the Kid and this is Liz and Patty."

"Nice to meet you!" Sakami grinned, happy now that the veterans weren't a threat to her very existence. "I'm Sakami and this is my Meister Mary! HAI P-E-E-P-O-L-L!"

Mary was silent, her face red with embarrassment.

"I'm Saya and this is Tatum," Saya introduced.

"Name's Tyler, and this is my Meister Hikari,"

"Hiya," Hikari smiled.

There was a moment of awkward silence.

"So um…nice weather," Maka tried. Sakami burst out laughing, tears pouring down her face.

"She is insane," Mary uttered with wide eyes. "I've been matched with the Queen of Crazy Town."

Death the Kid cleared his throat. "At the moment, you're all wanted inside. There has been a posting on the board, and the other students are being directed there as we speak."

"So let's go!" Patty clapped her hands, giggling at the laughing Sakami. Mary grabbed her Weapon by the ear and followed the others inside the school.

~Freshman Class~

It is Death Weapon Meister Academy Rules that your first mission will consist of teams of four- two Meisters and their Weapons due to safety concerns. Your teammates will also be people you have not bonded with or simply do not know they even existed. These teammates will not be your roommates but will be scrambled in such an order to enable new friendships and partnerships!

The missions will be basic and made for beginners. You and your parents will set out to achieve the Kishin egg. Simple enough?

Challenges will be placed in the way of you achieving the soul, whether our doing or not. Therefore you must work together, increasing your bond with your Meister or Weapon.

The teams are listed below. Each team list is followed by a location.

Good Luck!

~Lord Death-

~Mission Teams~

Lennon Jones & Zyon Creed, Adelina Mendoza & Enrique Velasquez

Kokone Ari & Rosabella Shea, Dawn Forester & Damon Lancer

Jason Hills & Lily Hideakou, Nanami Kurusugawa & Damian Holtzman

Kale Awara & Maiya Ohotnik, Saya Deut & Tatum Fleyme

Mary Debster & Sakami Oto-name, Sakaki Murasame & Aphrodite Demetrius

Hikari Adachi & Tyler Eon, Mabel Lin Rose & Shadow Pierce

Zeplin Forrest & Ayatsuri Mine, Victor Besrodny & Nikolai Besrodny

There was greetings and introductions all around as the freshman class mingled by the main bill board. The air sparked with excitement at the prospect of their first mission and of their training finally being put to good use. None of the locations were much farther than ten or so miles away from Death City but none of the students seemed to really care. The buzzed with anticipation as they chattered, rocking on the balls of their feet and shuddering with joy. They weren't really members of the Academy until they had a soul under their belt.

Even in the dead of night when the students settled down, the excitement lingered on as they rested, their things prepared and their bellies full. The next few days would be great ones and they couldn't wait.

With snoozes and snores on the rise, not one of them had any idea how things would turn out. They could only wish or boast that everything would be in their favor. And through this sleepy bigheadedness not one noticed the strange yellow eyed men gathering once on the outskirts of town, their twisted plot thickening as the night broke into deeper night and eventually into dawn…

Another painfully short chapter. But I promise you the next few will be long and action packed-you just wait.

Otherwise, I hope you can spare a good review. Till next time~

-Prism Fire-