Soul Eater (Zeri/Durn)

It's okay if I start this now, right? Since Durn is a lazy bum and won't make his profile on time like he should be. But anyway, Durn: I'm just posting my intro to the role play. It will revolve around Selena and...you know what? You'll find out.

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Selena sat in her seat, writing down notes from Professor Stein's lecture. Her short, purple hair was aimed straight down, as she was slightly hunched over. She wore a dark purple shirt that covered most of her large bust, and short, khaki pants with a belt holding it up. Her small, delicate hand flew gracefully across her notebook, her writing cursive, neat, and small.

To Selena's left side sat...no one. To her right sat...no one. She was the only one in the entire row, all the other students crammed in the other rows, just so they didn't have to sit near her. Selena often switched seats with the different rows, just to smile at their reactions. It was actually quite sad, they were so busy cramming themselves in other rows, they didn't have enough space to take down notes without annoying their neighbor.

Selena didn't mind being alone. She was a child of two powerful meisters, but she turned out to be a weapon instead. This was obviously a very odd and rare occurrence. On top of that, she was exceedingly smart, the top of her class. Those who felt inferior to her often bullied her, but the reality was that she was inferior to them. Most everyone had a weapon and a technician, but Selena was just a lone weapon, who's form no one knew except she.

"Miss Rose, repeat what I just said 15 minutes ago," Professor Stein said suddenly, looking up at her.

Selena's demeanor didn't change. She simply straightened her back, looked Stein directly in the eye, and said: "A healthy body requires a healthy mind, and a healthy soul. Without equilibrium between these three important parts of our beings, we would become corrupt, and die."

"Very good," Stein said, "I'd expect no less from someone like you, Miss Rose." Professor Stein then continued on with his lecture, as if nothing had happened. The surrounding students, however, were downright terrified. Selena simply ignored them, and in her mind, turned the other cheek. She didn't mind the other students treating her like this. She was quite used to it. In fact, she felt sorry for them.

Soon enough, Professor Stein finished his lecture and was beginning to finish his final words before letting the class loose. Today, however, he seemed to have something more to say.

"And with that," Stein was saying, "I am more or less not-so-pleased to announce the dreadful-yet exciting-arrival of our new, victim student." Stein threw an eraser from the chalkboard at the door, "Come in!" He shouted, sarcastic hostility obvious in his tone.

What a fantastic day for Aaron Bishop it was, yes indeed.

He had successfully entered the walls of Shibusen Academy with little effort, and was now an official student! Everything was just so amazing to him: the functions of the soul, the Kishin, the technician and weapon, all of it. Yet, unfortunately, none of it made any sense to him at all, but to him, that was perfectly okay.

Dressed in his typical attire, a bland and boring black jacket with an orange undershirt, a pair of dark blue, denim jeans, and a pair of shining, silver headphones that he wore around his neck for no apparent reason, Aaron scratched his light brown hair that went down to the back of his neck as he wandered through the endless corridors of Shibusen. He had already passed by the request board, the infirmary, and even Shinigami's office, yet he still hadn't located his own classroom.

"Aha! There it is!" Aaron shouted with a tinge of victory spread throughout his voice as he looked at the sheet of paper he was given by the school's registration desk in the main foyer, "Room 101!" He happily murmured to himself as he knocked on the door, which was, shortly after, pelted with a piece of chalk that exploded into a puff of smoke.

"Uhm... Yes sir!" He shouted into the door before walking in, slightly nervous after hearing the professor's reaction - but it had to be just a joke... right?

The lecture hall was a typical college lecture hall, to put it simply. The checkered, circular floor where the teacher did his thing branched out into multiple, desk-like rows that went on for a little while. After quickly observing the room, he turned to the professor, "H-Hello. My name is Aaron Bishop. I'm the new student, as you probably already know." He laughed awkwardly, not sure how to handle the situation.

"Whatever you are, just take a seat." Stein bluntly remarked after listening to Aaron's introduction.

"Alrighty..." Aaron mumbled as he observed what seemed to be a nearly empty row of seats, that was occupied by a lone girl. He then walked up to said row and entered it, took a seat next to the purple-haired girl that was in it, and pulled out his notebook.

The other students were absolutely horrified. Nobody had ever done this before. Ever. Nobody ever thought about doing it either. It was just...

"I hope you don't mind if I sit here. The name's Aaron."

Selena smiled, "My name's Rose, Selena Rose," Selena replied, ignoring the odd looks she was receiving from the other students. This was the first person who was not terrified of her, so she would make the most of it. Selena tapped her pencil on the desk, slightly distracted by Aaron's appearance.

"Miss Rose!" Professor Stein shouted suddenly, causing Selena to nearly jump out of her seat. Professor Stein's eyes narrowed slightly, "Good to know you're finally absorbed in something other than your notes, but please pay attention to what I am saying." The other students snickered and giggled in response, Selena blushed and put her hands on her lap.

Professor Stein ignored the giggling kids. Still sitting in his chair, he announced, "Today's lesson will be a bit longer, so we can help Aaron catch up with our level. First thing we need to do is-" Stein stopped looking over at a group of kids who were not paying attention. He just sat there, staring at them until they noticed that he had stopped talking. "Am I interrupting you, Nuba and Nora?" He asked. They shook their heads.

"Aaron, tell us what you know about being a technician."

"What?" Aaron blinked, staring at the professor, at a complete loss at what to say, "Well..." He closed his eyes for a second, trying to remember what was on that oddly informative wiki he was looking at before he arrived at Shibusen, "I know it involves keeping a close relationship with a partner who transforms into a weapon and stuff..." He scratched the back of his head, a little embarrassed and at a loss of words, "... and you go out and capture Kishin, but that's not the most important part of being parter and parter, technician and weapon, is it?"

He began to ramble, not even sure if what he was talking about was remotely accurate, "The most important part is keeping an equal balance between three different aspects of your body that'll help you excel best, and get along and cooperate with your partner and stuff... I dunno what those three things are... but that's kinda right, right?"

After he finished speaking, Aaron attempted to silently laugh off the embarrassment and attention he brought to himself with the unprepared speech.

"Your lack of knowledge is astounding, Mr. Bishop," Stein said, his emotionless expression unchanging. He paused for a second, looking over the other students. "Since you are a technician, you must have a weapon. So, if you will, come up to the front of the room, and we will test out all of the free weapons that we have."

Stein watched as Aaron nervously got up and made his way to the front. Stein looked over at one of the free weapons. "Kyle Moss, you're a free weapon, right? Why don't you come over here and let Aaron try you for size?" Stein asked. A student on the far left side of the room stood up and made his way over to Aaron. He was extremely tall with flaming red hair and a large, bulky appearance. He looked as if he could snap Aaron in half with just two fingers. Kyle didn't look very happy.

"Let's do this worm," Kyle snarled.

Aaron smiled and waved at the bulky fellow, hoping to make a nice impression, yet he utterly failed as the large boy just continued to sneer in his general direction. Aaron then slightly tilted his head toward Stein and asked in a whisper, "Do I really have to do this? He doesn't seem like a very... polite person."

"Yes, now go." Stein's emotionless complex didn't change one bit as he shooed Aaron off toward the bulky child.

Reluctantly, Aaron motioned toward the free weapon as multiple thoughts ran through his mind. "Was doing this in front of the entire class really necessary?" He wandered closer, "This is terrible.", and closer, "I wonder if Selena-" He came to a halt. He was now in front of the red headed stepchild boy and grimaced at the sight.

Without warning, Kyle instantly transformed into what seemed to be a giant battle ax with a bright red handle and a solid, shining blade attached to its top - serrated and frightening.

"Woah, hold on!" Aaron cried as his unprepared self attempted to catch the ax, only to fail miserably as its weight was of an unbearable amount for the weak boy. The blade was now piercing through the floor's tile - surely something Aaron would have to pay for later. With all of his strength, Aaron managed to pick up the ax and swing it around a little bit. His endeavors resulted in failure, for this was clearly not the weapon for him.

"Can I try somebody else?" He moaned.

"Yes, you are obviously not using your soul resonance to bond with your weapon. A different person for you might be best," Stein said, completely ignoring Aaron's obvious distress. He scanned the students again, attempting to find a different free weapon.

Selena sat there, staring at Aaron with a sort of longing. She didn't understand what she was feeling. It was as if she wanted to be his partner. Selena could see that his soul was a gentle one, if not a little clumsy. She simply stayed seated, twiddling her pencil in between her fingers.

"Little weakling," Kyle grunted, changing back to his human form and returning to his seat.

"Yes, how about you Selena?" Stein asked, making Selena's heart skip a beat. The crowd of students began to whisper to one another, commenting on the irony of the moment. Selena immediately stood up and went to the center of the room.

She held out her hand to Aaron, intending on transforming as soon as he had a firm grip on her. When he did, the first thing she would turn into would be the broadsword.

After hearing Stein call out to Selena, Aaron's distress instantly melted away; it got even better when she didn't refuse, too. "Haha... Are you ready?" Aaron murmured toward Selena, a little bit shocked and unsure what do to, but whatever, he'd probably manage.

"Let's go!" He cheered as he reached out for Selena's hand, and as soon as their hands connected, Selena instantly burst into a shining orb of light that molded into a broadsword that was firmly gripped within Aaron's hand.

"This could definitely work..." He mumbled to himself, happily swinging the sword around without a care in the world. Well, except for whenever he would pass by Stein, then his visage would instantly turn serious and stern, but just for a moment.

A series of murmurs drifted throughout the classroom. They were obviously surprised by Selena's true weapon form. After Aaron stopped swinging Selena's sword form around, she addressed him, "Are you done playing around? Because this isn't all that I have." With that, Selena transformed again, this time into her whip form.

Once Selena had finished the transformation into a rather long whip, she shot out spikes from her body. So now she was a long whip with spikes protruding from her form. "Well?" Selena asked, as if wondering for Aaron's opinion.

"Woah!" Aaron fell backwards slightly, as if literally taken aback by the sudden change in forms, "You mean you have more than one form?" He asked, a little skeptical at first. He didn't know if this was common in the world of weapons or not, but whatever it was, he liked it. "That's a pretty neat ability you've got yourself there."

Aaron smiled as he flicked around the spiked whip, causing the barbs protruding from the whip to occasionally eject outward toward walls and desks alike, yet the bare whip would just sprout more spikes as the old ones flew off.

"Do you have any other form?" He asked curiously, "Or just those two?"

"I have one more form, but I don't know if your soul will be able to handle it," Selena said nervously. "This form is more powerful than the others that I have, since it taps into the technician's own soul and, with every strike, blasts it out at the enemy." Selena paused for a second, contemplating whether she should at least let him try.

"If you feel like you're about to explode, release me immediately," Selena warned, then transformed herself into the last form, a long staff. It seemed to have the same qualities as metal, but was much lighter and much more flexible. It seemed to glow with a blue aura.

"Uh... Are you sure-... Uhm... Okay..." Aaron hesitantly walked forward with the staff very slowly, showing extreme hesitance after listening to Selena's warning. "Here goes nothing, I guess..." He murmured to himself, not exactly sure how to handle the situation.

He then bit his lip and braced himself for a shock of agony as soon as he slammed the staff into the ground, but, to both his and the entire class's surprise, he was perfectly fine. Aaron blinked.

"Huh?" He stared at the staff, which was currently protruding from a small crater that he and Selena had created with the attack. Aaron could see, to his own amazement, a strong aura of blue power emitting from the crater. He then gently removed the staff from the ground and held it very carefully.

He then looked at professor Stein and smiled, "Well?..."

"Class dismissed!" Stein shouted, not even bothering to look at Aaron again. The entire class bolted out the door at the moment, leaving Aaron and Selena behind. Selena reverted back to her human form, eying Aaron warily, as if she was worried that he might fall or something. She couldn't help but wonder if he was really okay. Stein now looked at them, staring into their souls. Quite literally.

"A kind, caring soul combined with a clumsy one. Not a bad match, although it could be better." Stein said, his eyes emotionless as always. He flicked his wrist at the door, "Go on, get out why don't you? Unless you want me to dissect you."

Selena immediately pushed Aaron out the door, not intending on becoming one of Professor Stein's many experiments. "Come on, Aaron," Selena said hurriedly, "Let's go practice your technique with the sword first."

"Oh, okay. Sure!" Aaron kindly responded to Selena's request, slightly lost in his own world after all that had just recently happened. It all went by much too quickly for him to comprehend, "I'm new here, so I really don't know where to go yet; this place is gigantic... Would you mind leading the way? Sorry to be a bother, haha..."

He let out a dry laugh, still a little bit shaken and nervous after the show that he was forced to put on during class. That Stein guy was quite a character - an odd one, at that.

"Uh, sure." Selena said awkwardly, moving to Aaron's front. She grabbed his wrist and started pulling him in the correct direction. " I'll show you around the school in a little bit. The first thing we need to do is find something to eat. I'm starving," Selena was actually not all that hungry, she just wanted an excuse to get away from the school building for a little while. Besides, by the time they managed to find something to eat, she would be hungry anyway.

Selena took Aaron outside the school, and was halfway to the first few steps when she sensed something was wrong. She looked around, but saw nothing to be worried about. She frowned, still worried despite that fact. She headed towards the stairs, but was stopped by an arrow that blew up at her feet. Selena jumped slightly, looking around again.

A boy had appeared before them, a large bow raised and pointed at them. His hand was at the string, ready to fire another arrow. It was Noto, the bow technician and his weapon, Haruka. Noto had a scowl on his face as he glared at Selena.

"All this time, and you never revealed your form to anyone. Yet you show yourself to this clumsy oaf," Noto said, still glaring at Selena. "I'm here to find out what he has that no one else did. Put up your guard."

Selena bit her lower lip, looking up at Aaron. "Well, Aaron? It's your call."

Aaron blinked. From what he could gather, this situation was not a friendly one, and that it was rather serious in emotion, "Err..." Aaron scratched his head, looking about as he ruminated uncomfortably over the situation. His eyes widened as he found himself a plan, "Isn't it against school rules to duel with another team without a faculty member present?" He gave the other technician a nonchalant smile, meaning no harm.

He then looked at Selena and responded to her question directly, "I don't see a problem with getting a little bit of practice in, but I don't want to do that in an illegal way, so..." His voice dragged off as he gazed at the other technician once more, his eyes filled with fury. He then took Selena's wrist once more and began to turn around, "This probably wouldn't se such a good idea, you know, to get into a fight right now, don't you think?... Maybe another time." He laughed slightly, "Let's try and see if we can find another place to practice, Selena."

"We have a teacher watching us," Noto interrupted, jerking his head over to the side. A tall, blue-skinned man stood not too far off, frowning at them with large teeth. It was Sid, a three-star meister who taught at the DWMA. He had his arms crossed, and seemed to be waiting for the battle to start. Noto turned his head back to Aaron and Selena. "No chickening out of this fight, clumsy oaf," Noto said.

"Hey Noto," The bow spoke up. It was a female voice, and held an air of authority to it. "We don't want to hurt them too much, so let's just stay with this form." Authoritative and a little controlling.

"Right, I can agree with that," Noto replied.

"Noto isn't the sort of person to let others escape from a fight," Selena said to Aaron, grabbing hold of his hand with hers. "We don't have a choice in the matter. The best form for fighting him is probably the spiked chain whip." With that, Selena began to transform into such a whip, making sure that the handle appeared in Aaron's hand and the rest of her body transformed into the body of the whip. "I don't think we should try soul resonance yet," Selena said, "So just do the best you can, Aaron."

"Whatever you say, Selena." Aaron sighed reluctantly as the girl shifted into her weapon form and found herself a tight grip within Aaron's right palm. The end of the whip fell to the ground and made a light, chingling noise as any steel would normally make against a stone pavement. "I-I guess this means we start now?" He laughed nervously as he attempted to avoid eye contact with the vicious looking student.

"Selena... it was a pleasure working with you." Aaron mumbled jokingly as he eyed his weapon, smiling slightly as the moment was quickly interrupted by an arrow that grazed right past Aaron's left ear, "Woah!"

"Come on, oaf! I won't miss next time!" Noto taunted the boy as he prepared another arrow, which magically appeared in position as he pulled back the empty string of the bow.

An image of Selena's head and upper torso appeared from the whip. Her image was bent slightly due to the round shape of the whip. "Be careful, Aaron. Noto isn't a great physical fighter, but his aim is perfect. Just make sure you block every attack and you'll be fine."

"The skill to block my attacks isn't all that he needs," Noto spat, readying yet another arrow and pointing it at them. "Battle start!" Noto fired the arrow, aiming it at Aaron's blond head, intending to finish the battle early and move on with his life.

"React quickly!" Selena barked.