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Kid's p.o.v.

I walked into Stein's class that Sid was subbing and took my normal seat and smiled at the group as they sat by me. Sid was sitting at the desk focused on his laptop and looked very focused in it. Probably playing a game. The bell rang and everyone took their seat and Sid stood up. He cleared his throat. "I always liked starting class as the bell rings." Oh god it's that boring speech of his again! "I am going to take role call now. After we will begin on new materials. You have midterms coming up and I don't need you failing so I am sorry to inform you but you will not be doing your favorite page in the text books today. Nope. I have to actually teach you today because Stein disappeared-"

"I'M BACK CHILDREN! DID YOU MISS ME???" The door burst open and Stein rolled in on his chair, tripping up in the doorway and fell. He stood up and dusted himself off and sat back down in his chair and rolled to the middle of the classroom. "HI EVERYONE! I HAD TO COME BACK EARLY FROM-VACATION BECAUSE I REMEMBERED YOU GUYS HAVE MIDTERMS! How about a warm welcome?" He laughed. The whole class started cheering. Poor them they had to actually be here while Sid was 'teaching'. I laughed and clapped. "Ok Sid, thank you for subbing and I'll buy you a donut after class. Bye!" He gestured to the door.

"Bye Stein! Peace out class!" Sid walked out casually.

"Alright class, what has he done to you? One person at a time. Please raise your hands." Stein smirked. The whole class raised their hand and I did as well hoping he would call on me. "Hmmmm.....Ma-Death the Kid. How are you? Where is Noire?"

"Hi Stein, welcome back." I stood up letting my hand down. "She went off to get a witch soul. Oh I'm fine just a little annoyed by Sid trying to play teacher."

"Sid can be a good teacher.....I'm just not making another zombie." Stein pulled out a cigarette and lit it, starting to smoke.

"How was your 'vacation'?"

"Excellent. Spirit is with your dad right now."

"Oh? This should be good now he wont be so lonely and I might be able to buy a new house since my last one was sold." I glared at Alexander for a second.

"Is that so? That's sad to hear. Now I know that my girls are being watched by Lord Death right Maka?"

"Huh?" Maka looked up from her book and gasped. "WHOA YOUR BACK STEIN!" She paled. "He's back to."

"Yes, 'he' is back. Let's just say that you may be seeing him today. He wants to catch up with you." Maka looked over at Soul.

"OH MY GOSH SOUL DID YOU SAY ANYTHING TO THEM! I SWEAR IF YOU DID I WILL MAKA CHOP YOU!"

"I ONLY TOLD THE BOYS!" Soul stood up quickly and hopped over the desk running down to Stein. "RUN FOR IT BOYS!" My hand was grabbed by Black Star as he dragged me down to Soul in a hurry.

"AHHHHH CRAZY CHICK ON THE LOOSE! DO SOMETHING STEIN!" Black Star yelled.

"Oh? What happened? Tell us what? Maka? What is this secret? Spill it right now or else it's detention for the lot of you." Stein looked up at her.

"Uh..." She walked down to him and whispered something into his ear.

"OH! Well you boys deserve it. Ok, go back to your seats everyone. No, that's not what Spirit wants to talk about. He just misses his little girl."

"Hmmmm we all got a secret now." I whispered looking at the boys mostly at Black Star and walked back to my seat and sat down. Black Star quietly sat down next to me and looked down at Stein as the class settled down.

"Alright, anyone else?" Stein looked around the room.

"HEY STEIN! WHERE DID YOU GO ON VACATION AND WHY?" Patti asked.

"I went to England and got married to someone." Stein shrugged.

"How romantic!" Patti said to her giraffe. I looked at her and chuckled.

"Hey Stein what are we dissecting today?" I asked.

"Hm? Oh....that's odd....I don't have a subject today....If you have any suggestions I would gladly take them." Stein looked up at me.

"I have a few. Let's start with Thomas, Alexander, Cori, hmmmmm.... Hey KIM YOU WANNA BE DISSECTED?"

"HELL NO! IF YOU DISSECT ME, I'LL CHARGE YOU!" Kim stood up and threw a book at me.

"Ah!" I dodged the book. "Thomas it is."

"Isn't Thomas the one that broke Fade's heart?" Stein looked at Thomas and then at Black Star. "Right?"

"HELL YES! DISSECT HIM!" Black Star shouted. Stein smirked and stood up, pushing his rolly chair away.

"Oh Thomas? The vote is out. We are dissecting you today! Fun right?" Stein took a step towards him and Alexander.

"Huh?" Thomas looked up from a piece of paper that he had been passing back and forth with Alexander. "What?"

"We are dissecting you today." Stein walked over to him and took the piece of paper and read it silently then looked up at me. "On second thought...I think we are about to watch Kid challenge you to a meister duel...."

"What's on the paper?" I asked casually and Patti and Liz looked at me. Stein walked up to me and set the paper down on my desk. This is how it read:

Hey Thomas, they left today right?

Yeah, they should be back in a few days.

Good, did you prepare for it?

I will after this class. Oh look Stein is back.

Oh dear. More dissections. At least we have time to plan out how exactly we are going to kidnap the girls when they get back from Italy.

Yeah, so let's begin. When they get back and start walking off th

Stein had his arms crossed as he watched me read it while Liz and Patti read over my shoulder. I handed it over to Black Star and stood up.

"Liz, Patti! Let's give the boys a big fat welcome back greeting."

"Right!" They stood up and transformed without hesitation. Black Star stood up as well and narrowed his eyes at Thomas.

"You bastard. I don't even know why you two would want Noire.....but you NEVER EVER even THINK about KIDNAPPING MY FADE!" He held out his hand to Tsubaki who transformed for him. Stein stepped out of the way and watched. Kyle and Cori looked at us and then at Maka and Soul.

"HEY MAKA, THEY WANT TO MESS WITH OUR FRIENDS, LET'S TEACH EM A LESSON." Cori yelled and Kyle looked up from a text book.

"Whoa Stein is back.... I don't have to read this page either!? AH!" He threw the book down and stood up. "Who's the victims?"

"We're ganging up on Thomas and Alexander," Maka said as she stood up and Soul transformed.

"UH... UH... Hey guys no hard feels we were just gonna kidnap them and bring them to the party house for a surprise welcome back party..." Thomas said as he looked up at us all.

"Don't care. I'm the one who is greeting Fade when they get back." Black Star hopped up onto the desk and glared at Thomas. "Not you."

"Alexander." Thomas said as he stood up quickly pulling Alexander out of the desk. "How about we leave, I have a feeling we are not welcome." I laughed.

"Your damn right your not! That's my girlfriend and sister your talking about kidnapping. I do not take to kindly to kidnappers. Just look at what happened to... Ok I didn't kill any of them.... but they all ended up dead."

"That's because Noire kicks ass and takes names later," Black Star said.

"I KILLED JOSHUA! HAHAHA! I DID KILL ONE OF THEM! I WILL KILL AGAIN IF I HAVE TO."

"Yeah....we aren't welcome here. Come on Thomas." Alexander straightened his hoodie and walked over to the door, shooting me a glare.

"Not so fast. I challenge you. You gonna run from a challenge boys?" I asked and walked down to Thomas as he looked me in the eyes. He had yet to move from where he was standing.

"Thomas. He's not worth it." Alexander turned and looked at Thomas from the door.

"Thomas, it is so worth it. Right here, right now." I looked over at Alexander. "Get over here and protect your meister."

"Hmmmm....apologize Thomas." Alexander smirked. "I'll let you battle him if you apologize for calling me gay the other night."

"Oh I am not apologizing for that." Thomas crossed his arms and I looked at the two raising my eye brow.

"Then bye." Alexander shrugged and opened the door.

"Fine Alexander! I'M SORRY BRO! COME BACK SO WE CAN KICK ASS TOGETHER!" Thomas ran over to Alexander. Alexander smirked and looked over at me.

"Alright." He shut the door and transformed into his shotgun for Thomas. Thomas caught him then turned to me and smirked. I gasped. Ah.. A gun fight? This will be interesting.

"AHHHHHH! IT'S A GUN FIGHT!" I heard the students rush to one side of the room to a corner.

"KICK HIS ASS KID!" Black Star shouted from where he had stayed. The whole gang had stayed put and were watching.

"AND IF YOU LOSE I'LL TELL ON YOU TO NOIRE!" Maka shouted.

"Well, I don't plan on loosing." I faced Thomas and Alexander and aimed at him. "Liz, Patti, Soul Resonance."

"Right Kid!"

"Are we making confetti?" Patti asked.

"Yes, code confetti." I laughed and smirked at Thomas.

"What the hell kind of code is that?" Thomas asked.

"He means us, retard." Alexander whispered.

"OKAI KID!" Patti laughed and I felt them get ready for soul resonance.

"We are going to make sure they don't leave this room walking out." I told the girls.

"Make them crawl." Liz laughed.

"We ready?" I smirked as I aimed at Thomas's chest.

"Whenever you are." Patti giggled. Thomas narrowed his eyes and watched me. Stein was sitting with the gang and watched on recording this.

"BYE BYE THOMAS!" I laughed evilly as I fired at him. Thomas dodged and shot at me with great reaction time for someone against me.

"Don't be so sure about yourself." He said as the shot grazed my arm. Pain went through my body and I felt Thomas's disgusting soul wavelength in the shot. I have to remember that this guy lives for speed he races speed cars when he isn't in DWMA. I need to stay focused and find the right spot to aim at to not miss him. I watched his movement as we done a little dance as we shot at each other. I noticed he was weaker at shooting on his left side so I kept to the left and shot at his feet hoping to trip him up. When he fell over from dodging, I hit him hard in the chest as he fell. Sadly I missed his heart. I watched as he stayed down for only a minute then got back up and shot at me so we continued our little dance once again. He shot at my arm and got me bad with the arm I held Liz. I groaned and attacked him since we had moved closer to each other and knocked him over throwing Liz to the side and grabbed Alexander tossing him and pointed Patti to Thomas's head. I smirked and got up.

"He's not worth it Patti."

"Hmm? Not worth what? WAIT A MINUTE! Were we trying to kill him? I thought we were playing around....." Patti untransformed and looked at Thomas. "Hey Kid, do you want me to make him unconscious?"

"No that's Black Star's job. Black Star, tag your in."

"YAHOOOOOO!" Black Star got up and came down to us and smirked evilly at Thomas. "You should have stayed in New York. You were safe there." Black Star grabbed his collar and hauled him to his feet. "If. You. Ever. Come. Near. My. Goddess. Again. I will kill you. Got me?" Black Star punched him in the gut and sent his soul wavelength into him, making him scream. Alexander untransformed and ran over to us to try to save his meister.

"THOMAS!" He reached out to the two and was about to tackle Black Star to the ground. I laughed and grabbed a hold of him and narrowed my eyes.

"Hello Alexander. I want to tell you something. Your never to go near my sister or Noire ever again, if you do I will make you watch Thomas die and then I will kill you. Understand? Now I am gonna put you in time out for a week away from Thomas in the dungeon." I walked over to the wall and slammed his head up against the wall knocking him out. "Stein! I have to go down to the dungeon, be back later. Black Star bring Thomas. He is getting one right across the hall."

"What? I can't hear you over Thomas!" Black Star smirked and looked at me as he held a writhing Thomas up. "He's a little shook up."

"Wow, Thomas I don't even recognize you, did you get a new hair style?" I laughed and picked up Alexander carrying him over my shoulder. Black Star dragged Thomas behind him as he walked over to me.

"So....dungeon. Can't wait to tell Lord Death what they were planning." Black Star smirked.

"I have a better idea, let's take them to the death room right now." I smirked. "The can't escape from it. Things might get interesting."

"I like the sound of that." He smirked and walked past me, opening the door and walked through it, letting it slam on Thomas. "Oh....Oops." He laughed evilly as Thomas whimpered in pain and curled up on the floor the best he could with Black Star holding his shirt collar. I laughed at gave the class the peace sign and followed Black Star out the room to the Death room. I knocked on the door.

"Hey dad! I got to boys trying to kidnap your princess and her weapon. I thought you might want to speak with them."

"Oh come in Kid!" The door opened and Spirit came out and took the boys from me and went down the hall towards the dungeon stairs. "BLACK STAR GO BACK TO CLASS!" Lord Death appeared in the door and pointed down the hall. Black Star obeyed and left. "Kid, I've got to teach you some stuff." He gestured for me to come in. I walked in with a raised eyebrow and walked over to the coffee table that had a tea pot and two cups on it.

"Uh.... Ok."

"I'm going to teach you how to use the Death Mirror to spy on people! Fun right! Pick someone, anyone." My dad walked over to me.

"Spirit?" I smirked.

"Hmmm...he's a good start. He's pretty close. Ok, come stand in front of the mirror." Lord Death pointed to a spot on the floor. I walked over to it and looked into the mirror.

"What's up with wanting to teach me this today? Shouldn't we have Fade here as well?"

"I wanted to spy on her actually with you....but we'll wait until we watch Spirit for a few minutes. Ok you know who you want to see so ask the mirror with your soul to show it to you."

"Ok. Mirror Mirror standing up, show me the-"

"NOT LIKE THAT! It's like with your rings and skateboard. You've got to sort of get it to respond to your soul's will. NO JOKING AROUND!" I was shinigami chopped by my dad. I rubbed my head and nodded closing my eyes and thought of Spirit and the mirror. Come on mirror show me that red head. I opened my eyes at the mirror and then at my dad. My dad was watching the mirror. "Good job Kiddo!" He ruffled my hair and laughed as I saw Spirit slam Thomas and Alexander into separate cells with as much force as he could muster. I chuckled and smirked as I closed my eyes and thought of Noire and the mirror hoping to see her. I wonder what she is doing anyways. When I opened my eyes, I saw Noire giggling as the cats loved up on her on the airplane while Fade was munching on cookies watching a TV.

"AHHH! THOMAS! YOU'RE SO CUTE!" Thomas was licking Noire and Misty was curled up to her head and seemed to be purring in her ear. "GO GET FADE!" Fade tensed up and looked over at Thomas as he pounced at her then curled up on her lap and closed his eyes knowing better then to do anything more like he done with Noire.

"Ha!" Fade giggled and laid back giggling.

"When we get to Italy Fade, are you really going to call Black Star as soon as we land?" Noire questioned.

"Nope. I am gonna find the nearest pizza joint." She smirked. "So remember when I told you I would tell you what happened last night between Black Star and I?"

"I don't wanna know. I really, really don't want to know. I still have innocence. I'm just going to assume he read you a bedtime story and you two went to sleep together." Noire said.

"Right after we had a pillow fight." Fade joked and looked at the tv turning it to Teen Titans Go.

"Hey Fade? Should I call Kid like he asked me to? I don't know....I mean I don't want to be clingy or anything.....and then you are going to that pizza joint....." Noire whispered.

"We said we would call but I don't remember agreeing to calling them as soon as we land... Did we?"

"I think we did...." Noire frowned and laid down upside down with her head hanging off of the couch, looking directly at me, but she couldn't see me.

"Well we could just text them and then call them later when we get a hotel room. Hey we should study that folder before I forget about it." Fade sat up quickly.

"Already studied it. It's one of the Mizune sisters and this one was connected with the Kishin gang that we whipped out last time. There have been sightings of this witch with another person, so she might not be alone. If her sister's show up, we're screwed. They fight better together and they can combine to form one powerful sexy witch. They've probably killed many men from just the bloodlost from their gushing noses. That's one of the reasons why Lord Death probably assigned us to it. We aren't boys." Noire summarized. "So we are fighting a witch that has sisters that combine to form one sexy witch and hopefully it's just the one sister. The likeness that we will see the other sisters is slim. They haven't been sighted there."

"I hope it is just one. I don't feel like going through getting all those souls again or worse, death again."

"I won't ever let that happen again." Noire sat up quickly and wrapped Fade into a hug. "I swear."

"I know, but still. I was just saying the worst." Fade whispered and I closed my eyes thinking of Stein to stop spying on them deciding it was wrong to watch it. I opened my eyes to see the mirror showed Stein teaching the class.

"Alright class, this is called soul resonance. Has anyone achieved this yet? I don't really remember where I left off.....Kind of blanked out on that one....I feel like I've discussed this with you guys already.... Um....Maka?"

"Uh. Soul Resonance?" Maka nodded. "Soul?" Soul was snoring next to her with his head on the desk. "SOUL! WAKE UP." Maka pushed him out of his seat. "How can you be asleep already? Five minutes ago there was a huge fight...Dude."

"M-Maka? What's going on? Did you want something?" Soul sat up and yawned, putting his head back down on the desk as he got back in his seat.

"Stein asked about soul resonance. Pay attention smart one."

"Let's see.....soul resonance.....isn't that when a meister and a weapon connect souls? Yeah, that's it." Soul shrugged and watched Stein who watched him.

"Soul, if you find my class boring, you'll find detention boring....or maybe....a little to die for." Stein smirked and pushed up his glasses. "You'd fit right in 'cool guy'."

"I know it!" Patti raised her hand. "I just done it with Kid."

"Oh that....It needs a little work you two....Kid needs more practice to polish it up. He could do a lot better than that." Stein said bored as he waved it off. I gasped and looked over at my dad.

"It does not." I muttered and looked back at the mirror and made a fist. "Damn Stein. I would get him for that if I was in there but I'm in here."

"I saw it Kid....You....um....look like you haven't practiced in a while. Maybe you've been relaxing with Noire too much?" My dad suggested. "It wasn't that bad, buuuut.....as a shinigami....."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! IT WAS BAD? DAD I HAVE TO GO PRACTICE! I'M PULLING THE GIRLS OUT OF CLASS AND I AM GOING TO THE GYM TO PRACTICE ALL DAY UNTIL I PASS OUT! BYEEEEEE!!!!!!" I ran towards the door quickly. Practice? That's what I need so be it! I know I have been to busy goofing off, I feel bad now. That's it. I will train twice a day for now on. Once before school and once after school. I shall better myself. I can't be looking bad, that wouldn't be good for my reputation. So what I didn't get him on the first hit! Who cares? I DO! I CARE SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! I slung the door open and ran out it.

Noire's p.o.v

We landed in Italy and got our stuff to the nearest hotel that allowed pets. Then we found a pizza place and got a table. "Fade, did you feel weird on the plane like someone was watching?"

"A little. Do you think my dad was spying on us?" Fade asked and looked at the menu.

"Maybe in his boredom." I shrugged and looked around. Fade nodded and yawned.

"I think so. He is so weird but he was probably just checking in on us to make sure we was on the plan and safe still or something."

"Makes since. Lord Death and his mirrors...." I laughed and watched as a hot waiter walked up to take our order.

"Hi! I will have a sweet tea please." Fade said and gave the waiter a smile.

"Ok, and you miss?" He looked at me.

"Oh....um....Pepsi please?" I smiled at him and he smiled back as he wrote it down.

"Ok, what kind of pizza ladies?"

"Peperoni." Fade said quickly. "Thick crust, and extra sauce."

"Great!" He left with the order and I smiled at Fade.

"You gonna text Mr. Blue Head who is surely missing his Goddess?"

"No, he's in school and I don't want Sid to take his phone or worse."

"Since when do you care what happens to Black Star?" I smirked and sat back watching her.

"Since I decided that it gets me out of texting him."

"That's what I thought. You're coming up with excuses to avoid him."

"Why would I avoid him?" Fade looked confused.

"I don't know. Why would you? He's just going to get you for it later." I winked and rested my head on my hands.

"I don't know what he could possibly do to me that he hasn't already done. I will just find a way out of it. I could go visit one of the cabins."

"True." I shrugged. "I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't want to go to the one in the mountains at this time of year." I laughed.

"Why not?"

"It's freezing up there. It's like....October."

"Yeah but that gives him a reason to follow me there to keep me warm and then id be curld up to him all night and day keeping warm. So cabin in the mountains is not an option for me."

"Hmmm, he'd follow you anywhere wouldn't he?" I laughed. Lucky me, Kid wouldn't do that.

"He is like a shadow. I am surprised he stayed home on this trip."

"Maybe he's planning something for when you get back." I shrugged. It would make since right? He's probably going to lock her up with him again and I'll be stuck with no Fade for awhile.

"Oh god he is, he's planning a wedding. OUR WEDDING! How could I forget?"

"I don't know....Amnesia?"

"No... I guess jet leg? Hey Noire will you be my maid of honor?"

"Of course I will!" I smiled at her and the waiter came back with our stuff, giving us our drinks and our pizza.

"Enjoy ladies." He smiled and walked off.

"Yay!" Fade smiled and started eating a piece of the pizza. I giggled and started eating mine.

"Hey Fade? Should we start searching for the witch tomorrow or tonight? It depends on when you want to get back to Death City, sooner or later?"

"Is the sightings during the day or at night?"

"Most are at night, like a rat." I ate a piece and watched her.

"Then we should try tonight then." She smiled and looked out the window. A person with purple/pink hair ran down the street quickly with a sword in his hand. Wait a minute.....he looks familiar.....

"Fade?"

"Yeah? Does that guy seem suspicious or what?" She started to pull out a wallet and threw money out onto the table "Lets go follow him!" She giggled and grabbed my hand pulling me out into the streets and ran after the guy keeping a hold of my hand to not loose me.

"Shouldn't we try to blend in?!" I yelled to her as I tried to keep up. Why's the kid got a sword anyways?!

"He's not even paying attention to us, he looks to be focused on something else." She told me.

"Fade, that's the guy from those dreams!" I warned her.

"Well then let's follow him, we might get some answers."

"You're really intent on just straight out following him...." I mumbled.

"What's he running for anyways?" She started thinking out loud.

"Maybe the world is ending? No...that can't be it. It's scheduled for next Tuesday," I joked.

"That reminds me, where is my parties I get before the end of my single life?" Fade asked and we ran into an ally after the boy.

"Well I just became the maid of honor. Cut me a break while I start planning things for you to do. I don't think you want to go to an Italian strip club. I don't anyways...No, we are going to find something fun to do like go to a night club or something...."

"Oh a night club sounds fun! I think I rather go to a spa though.... Or go gambling for a night... Or go to Las Vegas.... Yes! What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas baby. Let's go there and have the night of our lives. Oh look Noire he fell to a dead end and here we are cornering him." She stopped as the boy turned to face us. The boy raised his sword and couldn't meet our eyes as he trembled.

"I can't deal with this....They followed me...."

"Shut it you little brat! I'll put tacks in your shoes if you don't move it! Look at them! Fresh meat! You know what we do with our meals?! We toy with them! Now stop your quivering and get moving! She'll have our heads if we fail this time! You won't be eating for another month!" A voice said out of nowhere.

"But I don't know how to deal with my ribs! I'll lose weight! Tacks would make my shoes hurt!" The boy cried straightening up. "A-and Lady M-Medu-"

"Crona! You'll do as your told!" The voice said again, coming from the black sword. I stared at them in curiousity. What the hell?

"Noire what's this child's problem... Is he talking to himself or is he talking to that weapon? Oh my!"

"I think he's a meister....but his soul....it feels....kishin...." I furrowed my eyebrows and studied the kid.

"What should we do? We have no clue what this kid is."

"I dunno....but I think his weapon called us fresh meat....It looks like the weapon is the decision maker in that pairing.....not cool at all. Shouldn't the meister be the one that makes the calls?" I looked at Fade confused.

"They seem to be totally... stupid about how things work. Who the hell has been teaching them this stuff? How about we give the kid a lesson?"

"Well, I don't like being called fresh meat....HEY! You freaking pig! Just because we're girls doesn't mean that we aren't strong!" I turned to look at them. "Don't just blow us off and think we are your 'meal'. We'll wipe the floor with you." Crona froze and looked at me.

"S-she talked to us....What do we do Ragnorok? S-she's yelling at us! I don't know how to deal with girls! Much less screaming girls! Ahhh! She's scary!" Crona backed up. What the hell?!

"It's easy. You shut their trap! You kill girls!" Ragnorok told Crona. I looked to Fade for instructions on how to take this.

"Did they just say they would kill us?" Fade started laughing.

"I think they did....or at least this Ragnorok did." I shrugged and looked back at them.

"HEY YOU LITTLE PIECE OF MEAT! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE RIGHTS TO SAY MY NAME!" Ragnorok shouted at us. "Get em Crona!"

"Ha! You can try to kill us but it will end badly, see I am Fade Death. Prepare to meet Noire, my weapon, she's gonna dissect you." Fade giggled and held my hand a bit tighter. Understanding the new pressure on my hand, I transformed for her.

"Stein much?" I asked.

"Hey look, we get to have a sword fight Crona!" Fade smiled.

"T-They remind me of that girl.....that girl with her weapon.....in the church....." Crona looked at us and looked at Ragnorok.

"Does it matter?! Just get them! I'm kind of hungry and they've gone and gotten on my bad side!" He shouted. Crona looked at us and got in a weird fighting stance.

"Crona, why did you lead us into an ally with a dead end? I expected you to be following someone. So who was it?" Fade asked as she pointed me at Crona.

"M-my l-lady ordered me to." Crona muttered, charging us.

"Ordered you to do what exactly?" Fade dodged Crona and jumped over him landing directly behind him and turned around to face him taking her chance she tried to stabbed Crona, but it was like hitting a rock. Crona looked at us over his shoulder and swiped at Fade, grazing her cheek.

"Fade! Get away from him!" I shouted at her. She gave him a good clean stab....and I didn't even cause a scratch!

"AH! What the hell! Noire why didn't you go through him?" Fade asked and backed up looking at Crona.

"Did you know? My blood is black." Crona turned to look at us.

"What? Black? Are you crazy child? Blood is red." Fade looked down at me. "Is black blood even possible?"

"When it dries after being separated from the body....This is weird...." I frowned.

"Noire what do we do? Should we run and call for back up?"

"Do you wanna be known as the losers who called for back up on their witch mission? Plus, this is a test remember? Lord Death wants to see if we have what it takes. That's the reason we go on missions." I bit my lip and looked up at her. "Plus....I want to know more about this kid...."

"Yeah but how do we stab 'black blood' over there?"

"I dunno....You've got a point? Right hooks?"

"Lets try for his hand or head."

"Ok." I smiled. Crona tilted his head.

"Don't you understand? I'm going to kill you and you can't do a thing about it! You can't hurt me no matter how hard you try! You're just weak! You won't ever be able to understand me at all! Never!" He started to charge us again. "Screech Resonance!" He started screaming with his sword and swiped up at us. In the moment that it took to realize that it was going to hit Fade, I had already moved into a position to protect her by myself and took the blow. I screamed as I felt the pain and looked at my shoulder where I had a large gash and squeezed my eyes shut as the kid jumped back, surprised at the fact that I had gotten in the way.

"NOIRE! DUMMY IM THE SHINIGAMI NOT YOU!" Fade pulled me close to her and glared at Crona with the famous death glare. "Your. Going. To. Die." She looked at me. "Change back."

"Nuh uh. I'm fine....really." I opened my eyes and managed a smile as I looked up at her. "Seriously."

"Well you better be, you have to marry Kid before you die silly."

"Why so you can put Noire Death on my tombstone instead of Noire Albarn?"

"Yes. Plus I want to make sure I get a spot right by you in the grave."

"Kid would get mad if I died an Albarn wouldn't he?"

"He might go on a black out rampage- hmmm. Noire make me black out?"

"What? Why?!" I looked up at her with wide eyes.

"Crona needs to pay for touching my weapon with that disgusting sword of his."

"If you say so....Don't get mad at me whatever you do....So Fade I was thinking, when you go on maternity leave after Black Star gets you pregnant on your honeymoon, should I train with Kid until you have your baby? To keep sharp?" I asked. Don't kill me....

"NO KID WILL NEVER USE YOU FOR A WEAPON! I DONT CARE HOW MUCH HE BEGS, NEVER! YOUR GONNA GO ON A BREAK WITH ME. UGH! I SWEAR NO ONE WILL TOUCH YOU!" Fade snapped her head towards Crona. "I KNOW WHAT I SHALL DO! I WILL MAKE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF YOU! DONT WORRY, YOU WILL LIVE TO TELL IT AND LET IT BE KNOWN, SHE IS MINE AND SHALL NEVER BE TOUCHED! NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!" Fade smirked evilly and glanced around probably making a quick plan in her head of how she would make an example out of him.

"Evil....." A cold shiver went down my spine.

"What is she going on about? I can't deal with examples! Doesn't she know that anyone who challenges me ends up hurt?! Everyone around me always gets hurt! If she wanted to save her weapon, she should have stayed home! I can't deal with this!" Crona wobbled around and put a hand up to his head as he lowered it. "I JUST CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS!"

"Crona! Tear the ignorant souls up! That's what you do with them!" Ragnorok shouted at him.

"You're right. Then they won't make an example out of me." Crona straightened up and focused on us. "Ragnorok," Crona got in his stance again, "Screech Alpha." Crona started to run up to us, bringing his sword in a downward swing as he made that terrible noise again. I winced as the screech grated on my nerves and followed the swing with my eyes, checking to see where it would land and got in the way again before it landed on Fade's fighting arm. The screech vibrated through my body and I coughed up a little blood in my weapon/ soul land form.

Another injury appeared on my arm, a little deeper than the first and I winced, keeping in a scream. Crona kept pushing and I couldn't help it. The pain was overwhelming and I screamed in pain. "You and your partner will only keep getting hurt if you keep fighting this way! My screech resonance can harm other weapons even in their forms just as bad as if they were normal humans!" Crona yelled at Fade as he stared her down over the clashed swords. Fade made her move then and dropped her arm down quickly moving her arm out of reach and Ragnarok hit a brick wall. Fade grabbed Crona by the shoulder and brought him in close and kneed him between the legs then threw him backwards as she realized something.

"Noire, I've got it! I know what to do with this brat next time we meet him. But as for now... Let's get a good blow and leave. Bow mode, Soul resonance?"

"I-if you say so." I transformed again for her and started bringing up the level of her soul wavelength, amplifying it. She stepped a few feet away from Crona and aimed for his left eye.

"W-what? Two forms? Ragnorok! I can't deal with this! They didn't tell me that she could-"

"Does it matter what they tell us?! Just get out of here! I don't like the look of that form!" His sword started liquefying and went to Crona's back, taking the form of what looked like he was supposed to be taking a human form attached to Crona. W-what?! WHAT?! Crona screamed and ran away, disappearing quickly before Fade could shoot him. Fade gasped.

"HEY GET BACK HERE! I STILL HAVE YET TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF YOU! COWARD! HUH. Good riddance." She smirked. "What was they so scared of anyways? I thought they wanted a meal. I was gonna buy them pizza afterwards."

"Yeah right Fade. You were going to buy yourself pizza." I untransformed and fell to my knees when I tried to stand up and fell face first into the pavement. "Ow."

"Aw come on Noire, how are we supposed to defeat the witch if your faceplanting the ground?" Fade joked and picked me up.

"I don't know. Don't you think that my face could make a lovely tree that could one day fall over on a witch and kill her?" I giggled as I tried to ignore the pain all over my body.

"I thought it was a house that killed the witch." She smiled at me and carried me out of the ally. "It's ok. I will get that fixed up. Good thing that your not the meister."

"Yeah, what a stroke of luck." I looked around and then up at Fade. "Sorry Fade...."

"Hey, don't ever, ever block a blow for me like that again! You scared me. Your a weapon. I can take a blow I am a shinigami, I will heal in like two days. You might take a day longer."

"Exactly, I'm a weapon. Weapons protect their meister! It's my honor as a weapon! Ok? Anyways, just because you have this 'I can't die. I'm a shinigami' thing going through you head doesn't make it exactly true now does it? Well....what I mean is, you can still get really, really hurt and I promised- no swore- I wouldn't let that happen again." I looked up at her with a serious look in my eyes. "You can't talk me out of not protecting you."

"Well, as long as you don't die you can protect me all you want. Just remember I asked you to fight with me not die for me."

"That was fighting with you. I'm not suicidal unless someone makes it look like death is inevitable and they took my reasons for living. Suuuuuure, I was suicidal with James after he killed you, but that situation called for it."

"Well." She concluded her point with that and kept quiet.

"Aw, cheer up Fade! I'm going to be fine! That shouldn't have happened anyways. Weapons aren't supposed to get hurt like that in their form. It's just him, not other people." I gave her one of my brightest smiles.

"Who is his boss anyways? He said a lady that name begins with M. Do you think it could be that witch we are after?"

"Maybe....It's not the one that he was running with when I was trapped in my dreams because the one we are after is a mouse witch...not a snake witch....." I frowned a little and stared up at the sky.

"You have a point. So since the sun is down, let's get that arm wrapped up then get started searching for the mouse witch."

"We need a cat. WAIT A MINUTE! We have cats....Naw, that won't work...." I laughed and looked up at her.

"Perfect idea." Fade carried me into the hotel and up to the room then sat me on the bed and got out the bandages and bandaged me up quickly.

"We aren't going to tell your dad about this right?" I bit my bottom lip and looked at her. I don't want him to think that we need help....

"Not at all. Thomas! Misty. Let's go searching for mice!" She let them out of the pet carrier. Thomas looked up at her from his sleeping position curled up next to Misty and blinked slowly at her as if he thought she was crazy. "C'mon boy." She grabbed him and put him on her shoulder than threw me a bottle of pain killers. "Let's not be late for our dinner date with our witch soul."

"Mkay!" I smiled and took out a pill and put it in my mouth, grabbing a glass of water off of the nightstand and took it then stood up. "We aren't really taking him are we?" I looked at her out of the corner of my eye. "He'll get in the way when we get to the meeting place for our date."

"Yeah, he kind of cant come he has to baby sit Misty." I put him on the bed. "It was a great idea though... he would've been a great trapper."

"Well can't you sense souls Fade?" I shrugged and petted him as I walked over to her. Misty sat up inside the carrier and stretched, coming out only to be pounced on by Thomas and they started running around the room like wild cats in a game of tag. Fade grabbed my hand and pulled me out the room and down the hall quickly. "Can you Fade?" I tilted my head. You are taking a while to answer....maybe she can't and she doesn't want to answer and look bad.

"Can what?" She tilted her head acting clueless.

"Sense souls?"

"Why do you have a sudden interest in that?"

"Um....we are hunting souls....It's not a sudden interest. Oh wait a minute! Stein said something about witches being able to use Soul Protect or something like that to hide their witch souls from us after meisters started getting the ability to Soul Search!" I put my fist in the palm of my hand. "So something like that wouldn't really help us anyways unless the witch took it off to use magic!"

"How'd we get to that subject?" Fade giggled and dragged me out of the hotel and looked around the street and side walks.

"So Fade....You can't sense souls....can you?" I laughed a little. "It's ok. Black Star can't sense them either. His soul sensitivity is very small. You two make a great couple!" I busted out laughing and put a hand over my mouth to try to stifle it.

"Are you doubting me?" Fade stopped and looked me in the eyes. "I don't like being doubted." I stopped laughing and stood up straighter.

"No ma'am." I said quietly and quickly.

"Good." She smiled and then started walking down the sidewalk. "This way."

"How do you know which way to go? What if it was....this way?" I pointed East as I started to follow her.

"Because I am a genius and know it is this way." She pointed up at a witch in the sky heading over just flying. I gasped.

"AMAZING!" I watched the witch fly by and my mouth started watering.

"Dinner time for Noire, don't I choose the best of the best for you to eat?"

"Hmm mmm." I nodded slowly, not taking my eyes off of the witch.

"Come along, I think it will be heading towards that creepy dark park over there that says 'ABSOLUTLY NO TRESSPASSING AFTER DARK.'" Fade grabbed my hand and lead me over to the gate.

"I'm so spoiled." I mumbled.

"Yes you are. At least you can admit it." Fade giggled and hopped over the fence.

"I wouldn't have been able to five minutes ago, but then that witch....I think I'm in love." I giggled and followed suit. She looked up at the sky then grabbed my hand and ran towards the middle of the park. She slowed down and hid behind a tree as we got within feet of the witch and pulled me close to her as she glanced around the tree to look. I peeked as well and saw the small witch walking up to Crona and snapped her fingers.

"CHE, CHE, CHE!" Crona nodded and ran off quickly, leaving the witch by herself. The witch looked around and pulled out a case and opened it, taking out a few pieces of paper and glanced them over and put them back and shut it. She then shook her head and kicked the case angrily. Fade let out a soft breath and looked at me nodding and then walked out taking off her coat.

"Hello." She said simply. The witch looked at Fade and glared as she caught a whiff of her.

"CHE, CHE, CHE!" The witch started floating a few inches off the ground and released her soul wavelength, making a breeze as the power surged. My mouth watered again as I felt the power of her soul washing over the area and stepped out from behind the tree walking over to Fade with a dazed look.

"Hm. I only say one word and you just assume I am here to kill you... Smart mouse." Fade grabbed my hand. "Well, let's get this over with then."

"UH HUH." I transformed into my usual for her. She smiled at the witch and showed off by spinning me around for a minute then pointed me at the witch. The witch had her arms crossed, tapping her foot in the air as Fade twirled me.

"Che, che?"

"Yes. I'm done now. Let's begin since you don't want to show off." She laughed then. "Wait that whole unleashing your soul wavelength was showing off? Wow. NOT!"

"Fade, why are we playing games with miss mousy?" I whined. The witch clenched her fists.

"CHE, CHE, CHE!" She pointed at Fade and her whiskers started glowing and got a little longer.

"Now her whiskers are growing... Wow Noire this is definitely not what I expected for your witch soul."

"Does it MATTER?!" I started to panic thinking that Fade was going to walk away from this witch thinking she wasn't good enough.

"No I suppose not. Oh well. A witch soul is a witch soul." She charged the witch quickly with no hesitation. The witch soared upwards at the last minute and came swooping down, hitting Fade with her whisker when she did. Fade screamed in pain as it cut through her flesh, but lucky her, it wasn't deep. My eyes widened and I stared at the witch with a new hunger. So that's what those whiskers do....AWESOME! Fade smirked and looked around the park scoping the area then charged the witch again this time jumping over her and ran a few feet away and then turned back to the witch and motioned the witch to come at us. The Mizune sister raised an eyebrow and adjusted her witch hat and smirked evilly.

"Che, che?"

"Come on. You scared of me?"

"Che, che, che." The witch shook her head no and threw some sort of magic at us. Fade dodged the balls of magic and ran over to where she placed her jacket on a bench earlier.

"Come on, is that the best you can do?"

"Che, che." The witch sounded a little irritated. "Che, che, che, che! CHE!" I giggled.

"Let me at her."

"My pleasure." Fade took off towards the witch quickly and went to stab her as soon as we reached her. The witch gasped as the blow hit and threw us back with the force of her soul and the trees blew back as the witch held where she was stabbed and glared at us.

"Che, che."

"Gotcha." Fade giggled and done a slight bow then ran towards the witch again slinging me this time to cut the witches hat off. The witch was gone when I was supposed to knock her hat off, and I strained to hear her.

"Don't tell me she left! FADE! YOU SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH MY DINNER!" I sniffled as I looked up at her. "You lost her!"

"I didn't loose her! I swear!" Fade turned around to look for the witch. Fade was knocked over from behind and the witch ripped me away from Fade, throwing me a good few feet into the tree line and grabbed Fade by the throat and soared up a little, laughing evilly. She laughed and grabbed the witch's arm and dug her nails into the witches skin and managed to get her throat free then headbutted the witch hard. The witch narrowed her eyes and started diving at the ground with Fade, slamming her down into the dirt.

"CHE CHE!" The witch soared up again and hit her with magic, just as I was untransforming. Whoops....Um....Kind of....got stuck....in a tree....Nice throw....I ran back out of the trees and to Fade's side, pulling her out of the crater that was created around her.

"Hey, you ok?"

"YEAH! I'M FINE!" She yelled at me and held her ears.

"OH MY GOD YOU'VE GONE DEAF!" I stood up quickly and ran my hands throw my hair, clenching it between my fingers.

"WHAT?" Fade yelled at me. "STOP MONKEYING AROUND AND TRANSFORM!"

"WHAT FORM MISS DEAF?!?" I shouted into her ear.

"WHY ARE YOU YELLING? HOW ABOUT A BOW?"

"Ok then." I took a step back and transformed. Jeez, I'm going to force you to go to the doctor's to get that hearing checked.

"Great! The ringing stopped. Let's go get revenge." Fade said calmly and turned towards the witch. The witch watched on in small interest like we were nothing. Fade giggled and aimed the witch down then shot at her. The shot missed as the witch disappeared again. Fade groaned and rubbed her ears. "Aw come on I don't want my ears to ring again, stop playing around and let me kill you mouse." Fade looked around and stayed still. The witch showed up again at her elbow and smirked evilly as her whiskered glowed again and she stabbed Fade with them. Fade gasped and bit her lip taking in the pain as she wrapped me around the witches head and pulled upwards choking the witch. The witch squeaked loudly and stayed right where she was, even pushing into me to get at Fade better. I transformed into a sword without permission and laughed evilly. Short range it is miss mouse. Fade looked into the witches eyes then kicked her body away as she cut her neck deep and pulled away wanting to play with the mouse a little longer and stabbed the witch straight through the chest. The mouse's eyes widened as she coughed up blood and spat at Fade, leaving a red smear on her cheek. Fade kept me in the witches chest not daring to pull out as she watched the witches eyes. The witch desperately scrabbled at my blade, trying to pull me out and squeaked in fear and pain. Fade kicked the witch into the ground and pulled me out then and stepped down on the witches face. "Giving up already?"

"Che!" The witch said weakly and grabbed Fade's foot and ripped it out from underneath her and sent us crashing to the ground then crawled ontop of her and grabbed Fade's hand that held me and tried to make her stab herself with me, but I untransformed and tackled the witch off of her and held her down.

"TOUCH HER AGAIN AND I'LL BE AS SAVAGE AS I CAN WHEN I EAT YOU." I glared into her eyes and pressed my hand down onto her stab wound as hard as I could making her squeak in pain. Fade stood up walking over to me.

"I had that handled you didn't have to cut in." Fade smiled and leaned down looking at the witch and poked its face. "Any last words before I cut off your head?"

"Che, che, che." Pretty sure that meant 'damn you all to hell'. I smirked and looked up at Fade.

"Are we done playing then?"

"Yeah. Time to make you an awesome death scythe girlie!" Fade reached out for my hand. I smiled softly and gave her my hand as I transformed into a sword. The witch grimaced as she sat up and looked at us with the hopeless look of knowing she was going to lose with the wounds she already had. "Think of this as a... favor." Fade twirled the blade around then slung it at the witch and cut her head off as she looked away. I closed my eyes when Fade did it and opened it when I felt that she had stopped moving me.

"Fade?"

"What's up?" She looked down at me.

"Are you ok?"

"Totally!" She smiled at me and looked at the witch soul. "Dinner is served my lady."

"Awwwww, thanks! Looks awesome....and purple?" I untransformed and picked up the soul. Fade smiled and leaned in poking the soul.

"I wonder if it will have a taste."

"Why's it purple?" I tilted my head and stared at it hard.

"I think that's just how it goes." Fade shrugged and then opened up her mouth and pointed at it. "Eat up." She smirked and sat down to watch from the ground. Wha? Eat this soul? But it's PURPLE. I held it up to my eye level and stared it down, but my mouth started watering again as I felt it's power. OH MY GOSH, YOU'RE GORGEOUS! I held it up to my mouth and took a small bite curiously and ended up shoving it in my mouth in happiness and munched slowly on it with my eyes closed, savoring the texture and power. Fade watched me with wide eyes and wiped off her face from the witch blood. I swallowed and doubled over as I felt a change in my soul coming on. Ahhhh! Scary! I looked at Fade as I fell to my knees in front of her. She gasped and watched me not moving a inch. I closed my eyes and felt power wash over me and felt my soul start to get stronger and felt the full power of the witch soul. Is this what happened to Spirit and all the other death scythes?