Whispering shadows

Shadows and Bloodshed

FINALLY! its been ages but i finally have the 4th chapter!...no wait...its the 5th. THE FIFTH CHAPTER! I am doin' well!

And its all been read and approved of by my fablous beta reader lil-leper-kid who is fabulous.

Thanks for the reviews... to the people who DID review. To you silent readers...I love that you read and favorite and put me on alert, but would it kill to to click a button and write a sentence?

Faye jumped as the school bell rang. Gathering her notes, she looked at her fingers. They were splattered in ink. A smile twitched on her lips, so this was school...what a novelty.

"Faye!" the call came from Crona, who was standing outside the door. Mostly everyone else had left. Picking up her bag, she walked over to him. He was standing apart from a group of people; she didn't know most of them.

"Crona! School is so amazing, um...so what do we do now?" She ended her sentence in a whisper, moving slightly closer to him in the face of all these people.

Crona was about to answer when Maka jumped in. "Faye-chan! Let me introduce you

to Black Star, and Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, they're back from the Spartoi unit today, they..." she was cut off by Black Star, who leaped over to Faye and posed.

" SO! MAKA HAS FINALLY GIVEN ITO YOUR PLEAS AND LET YOU MEET ME! THE MIGHTY BLACK STAR!" he yelled, laughing manically at the end of his announcement.

Faye yelped and shrank away from him, moving behind Crona, who blushed as everyone stared at him in surprise. Maka was the first to recover, moving Crona aside to speak to the confused Faye.

"Anyway, were heading to combat practice, the teacher is...an old adversary of Black Star's, that's why they're here" she explained as she started to guide Faye down the hallway.

Faye glanced back at Black Star, who was still boasting loudly to thin air, or rather, to Tsubaki, who was smiling softly and nodding, while gently guiding him along. Faye wondered how she did it. If she was his weapon, she would have to see him every day, right?

She caught sight of Crona, who was walking a little behind herself and Maka, and she exchanged a small smile with him. She blushed a little as she turned back around. She wasn't sure what these feelings were, but every time she saw Crona, she felt a jolt of happiness. It was a wonderful feeling. She had never felt anything like it before, and she was have meant to have-

She lost her train of thought as Maka announced:

"We're here!"

Faye's eyes grew wide as she took in the huge room they had entered. It was as big as a chapel, with different levels, like balconies all the way to the roof.

All around them, students were battling, or practicing moves. They fought each other, or automated dummies that fought back, and the room was filled with noise and war cries.

Faye's hands twitched and she bit her lip worriedly. She could feel the adrenaline pounding through the fighters, the excitement, she could sense the fear, and in some, the anticipation of the kill.

The shadows awakened inside her, whispering, filling her head with fog. They wanted blood spilt, they needed to hear the death scream of an enemy, craved the last rush of power before the kill. They had been fed, but their appetite was never curbed.

She took in a shaky breath and tried to step back, bumping into someone.

Senses too acute, she whirled around, her eyes flashing black for a moment.