Prologue: In The Dark / Shattered Windows

"Maaakaaaa!"

Soul yells at the top of his lungs, probably waking up the neighbours and a certain 'stray' cat that ever so often resides in their house.

Said meister stumbled into her partner's room, tripping over discarded sneakers and piles of clothes on her way.

"Soul, it's 3 in the morning, would you like to tell me why the hell you're making so much noise?" The sleepy girl replied, irritation obvious in her voice.

"I think the power is out" Soul almost whispered.

"What made you think that, the fact that the A.C. is off and the apartment feels like an oven or the fact that the street lights aren't on…"

She really didn't mean to be so bitchy; it was waaaaaaay too early to be awake.

The pair were training all day yesterday and soon they would be teachers at the academy, with classes to teach and fights to supervise, they were both exhausted.

But they didn't mind, Maka and Soul got to do what they loved and got paid for it. Soul's favorite past time was scaring kids and telling them he was

going to eat them.

While Maka really enjoyed teaching. It was her way of giving back to the academy and she loved almost every minute of it.

"Soul, open the windows; I'm going to look for some flashlights."

Just as Maka began stepping over piles of clothes and stacks of empty video game cases,she was almost to the door when something ran past her.

It looked as if it was almost limping. But the way it hunched, it's hight and the speed it ran at. There was no possible way it was human.

Maka gasped and started stumbling backwards.

"Maybe i'm imagining things." She whispered, trying to reassure herself.

"Maka what are you imagining, did you see something?"

"S-s-soul, didn't you see that?"

"See what Maka?" He gave her a worried look.

"I swear something just ran down the hallway…"

"I didn't see anything, maybe this heat is getting to you." Soul chuckled at his remark.

"Soul, I'm dead serious, something just ran down the hall!" I yelled at him.

"CRASH"

Maka looked at Soul, obviously trying to hide her panic. Her hands were already beginning to sweat and her heart was pounding inside her chest.

Soul on the other hand was getting excited. Adrenaline already kicking in, he transformed his arm into a scythe, the blade reflecting the moonlight onto his face.

He got low to the ground and started walking out of the room in front of his meister. The two stalked down the hallway and into the living room.

"Nothing there" He mumbled.

Maka creeped towards the kitchen, not letting her guard down. She began to hear a strange dripping noise, it came from the kitchen but oddly, it didn't sound like water. It sounded thick and very heavy… almost like blood. She waved her hand at soul, getting his attention. Still crouching, he moved towards her.

The dripping became louder as the pair approached the kitchen. As they approached the sink Maka slipped. She tried to grab the closest object but failed as hand slipped off of the kitchen counter and she slammed onto the tiles.

The fall knocked the wind out of her lungs. What she saw next almost made her stop breathing altogether.

There it was a massive kishin hanging from the ceiling. The biggest she and Soul had seen all month. It was about as long as a school bus and as wide as a bookshelf.

Black fluid was flowing from in between its razor sharp teeth. What was shocking is that it was pretty beaten-up. There was black fluid pouring out of large gashes all over its body. A massive part of the kishin's abdomen was gone, black fluid poured out of the hole and onto her body.

Maka rolled out of the way as it dropped down from the ceiling above. Mouth wide and metal talons hurtling towards her.

Soul ran past and sliced its arm off. It shrieked in agony, black fluid gushing out where the limb was missing.

"It's too early to be fighting kishins!" Soul grumbled walking towards his partner who was pulling herself off the ground.

"CRASH!"

Glass flew all over the room.

"WAHOOOO! Your God is here to save you peasants!"

The blue haired monkey screamed. Tsubaki in the form of a chain-scythe lay in the hands of her partner. Black Star ran past the Kishin, slicing it in half and standing next to Soul and Maka.

He had grown taller and more muscular over the past two years but mentally, Black Star hadn't matured a day.

Tsubaki didn't change much at all. She was still beautiful just the same but she became even more mature, if it was even possible.

Said weapon returned to her human form and began running towards Maka. "Oh my God, Maka are you okay! I'm sooooooo sorry. I promise we'll fix the window in the morning!"She was practically wailing and turning red with shame.

"Tsubaki, it's fine. Don't even worry about it." Maka smiled, reassuring her.

Of course she was annoyed but this was expected of Black Star.

"So what brings you here Star?" Soul asked, shoving his hands into the pockets of his sweat pants.

"We got an assignment from Lord Death to find that bastard and kill 'em. But somehow when he was running away, we lost him and heard the racket in and this is where we found him."Black Star replied, pulling shards of glass out of his clothes and arms.

"So can we blame the power going on you?" Soul asked, restraining his laughter.

"Actually, that wasn't us. When the power went, we got distracted and that's when we lost the kishin" Tsubaki explained, helping Maka off the ground.

"Well that makes sense, but then what made the power go out?" Maka asked as she started picking off the glass as well.

"I dunno. We can ask Lord Death later this morning at the teacher's meeting." Soul managed to say between yawns.

"Tsubaki, we should get going. I wanna catch some sleep before the sun comes up." Black Star said to his partner, also yawning loudly and scratching his head.

"Well then I guess we're off!" Tsubaki chirped. She gave Maka a hug while Black Star and Soul fist bumped. After they left, Soul and Maka tried to clean up as much as possible in the dark but actually we didn't clean that much. Soul just kept throwing the rag at his partner until she slipped and cut her hand on some glass. While he was cleaning the cut, the power came back.

"It's almost six" Soul murmured, checking the time on the stove which was still splattered with the nasty black stuff.

"Yeah, I guess we should start getting ready." Maka got off the counter and walked towards the bathroom. She glanced once more at Soul who was closing up the first-aid kit and started walking back down the hall.

Maka slammed the bathroom door and turned the shower on. Pulling off her shirt, she looked at herself and began searching for anything out of the ordinary. The meister turned to see her back and there it was. A large bruise, probably the size of basketball in the center of her back.

"Shit" She mumbled, pressing a finger into the edge of the purple splotch. Wincing, she began to stretch her shoulders and grabbed two asprin out of the medicine cabinet and popped them into her mouth.

So I finally re-wrote this chapter the way I wanted it! I actually didn't mean to upload the prologue as two chapters the first time so I decided to put them together and upload them as one :) Anyways thanks for reading! Please leave a review, it would mean alot to me and I promise this story is gonna get updated more often now that everything has settled down. -Lulu ❤