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Disclaimer: I don't own Soul Eater or any of it's character's, no copyright is intended!

This story follows the Anime and is set shortly after The Kishin "Asura" was killed, and most things have gone back to normal now.

Sorry to any Marie lovers, but she won't be in this story, because I don't like her very much.

Italics - Means the person is thinking just so you know.

...

It was like any other day in Death City, some students from the D.W.M.A. were on missions to fight Kishins or Witches, while the others were in class. Everyone in Crescent Moon were pretty much bored out of their skulls from having to listen to Professor Stein go on and on about whatever.

In amongst these students was the young strong-hearted, flat-chested and skilled Scythe Meister Maka Albarn, the laid-back, lazy and cool Scythe Soul 'Eater' Evans, the big-headed and hyperactive Assassin and Meister Black Star, his kind weapon Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, Lord Death's one and only son, that's obsessed with symmetry and has a slight O.C.D problem Death The Kid (he's also a Meister ), and his twin hand-gun weapons the Thompson sisters, Elizabeth 'Liz' and Patricia 'Patty'.

Maka was lost in a book, Soul was slowly falling asleep, Black Star had already fallen into a deep sleep, Tsubaki was in a day dream, Patty was humming a tune to herself, while her older sister was filing her nails and Kid was just staring blankly down at Stein from his seat, with his arms folded across his chest.

Then Stein suddenly stopped talking and caught his student's attention by scraping his fingers across the chalk board behind him, which made a loud screeching sound. All the students jumped and covered their ears upon hearing the deafening sound, "Before I forget Maka, Soul, Black Star, Tsubaki, Liz, Patty, Kid Lord Death wants to see you all after class," Stein stated before he went back to writing stuff on the chalk board for the students to read.

'Huh? Lord Death?' Maka wondered as she put her book down, and glanced to the young Reaper that was sitting in the row in front of the row that Maka was sitting in.

"Wonder what my Father wants now," Kid smiled as he turned to his weapons, who were sitting beside him, and smiled back at their Meister.

Once their class had ended the group of seven made their way to the 'Death room'.

"So what do you think your Dad wants to see us about Kid?" Maka asked the young reaper.

"I'm not too sure," Kid replied as he slightly glanced to the young Scythe Meister.

"Maybe it's because he wants to give me a medal for finally surpassing God and defeating that damn Kishin," Black Star stated with a proud look on his face.

"I highly doubt that, since you weren't even the one that defeated Asura, that was Maka remember?" Kid pointed with a roll of his eyes to Black Star.

"Minor details," Black Star frowned as he glared slightly to Kid.

"Father what is it you wanted to see us about?" Kid asked his Dad as the group of three Meisters and four weapons all came rushing into the 'Death room'

"Ah good I'm so glad you're all here, well the thing is as you know there has been a rumor going around about a powerful person in a black-hooded cloak wandering and causing hassle around Death City." Lord Death explained in his cheery and childish voice.

"Yeah, so?" Soul asked while the rest of the group just all looked to one another.

"So I need you seven to check it out, just to make sure this person isn't causing harm to anyone, okay?" Lord Death stated with the same cheery voice he used a minute ago.

"Why us?" Soul asked with a sigh, which caused him to get a glare from his Meister.

"Because you seven are one of the most skilled groups in this school, plus you're some of the only Meisters and weapons that aren't doing missions right now," Lord Death explained with a slight frown behind his mask that was directed at the Scythe.

"Alright Father, we'll do our best," Kid stated with a determined look on his face.

"Very good, you are all dismissed," Lord Death nodded with a smile to the students, before they all nodded to him and left the 'Death room' a minute later, and headed out on their mission.

….

"Do you guys see anything from up there?" Soul asked as he looked up and called to Kid and his weapons.

"Nope, no luck," Kid shook his head with a slight sigh as he called back down to the Scythe.

The gang had been walking around Death City, looking for this strange person in the black-hooded cloak for about two hours now. Everyone was on the ground, bar Kid who was floating on his skateboard above the rest of the gang, while holding Liz and Patty in his hands (they're in their weapon forms).

"Hold it, something's coming," Kid called down to the gang, as he warned them and could sense a very strong soul coming their way.

Soul and Tsubaki transformed into their weapon forms as their Meister's caught them and stood on their guard ready to fight whatever was coming.

Everyone was ready to fight, only to all let their guard down, when the only thing coming was a simple long black snake that slithered out from behind a building, and up to the group on the ground.

"Huh? A snake?" Soul questioned with clear confusion in his voice as he transformed back into his human form, not seeing any reason to stay in it since it looked like there was no danger now.

The snake suddenly turned to Maka and seemed to smile in an odd way, before it jumped into the air and transformed into a fifty foot king cobra.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Black Star exclaimed as the group of seven looked to the giant snake with their mouths agape.

The snake smiled in a twisted sort of way as it looked down at Maka, and then opened its mouth and let an ear-bleeding scream out.

Everyone covered their ears as they all tried to block out the deafening scream that the snake was making. Everyone bar Maka.

Maka stood staring in shock at the screaming cobra, to everyone else the scream of the snake sounded like an ear-bleeding sequel of pain, and sorrow, while to Maka it sounded like an evil laugh of someone she once knew.

The cobra closed its mouth and smiled down at Maka again, before it picked her up with its long black tail, and threw her hard into a building that was behind the gang.

"MAKA!" Soul called out to his Meister as he looked to her with a worried look on his face, while Maka had almost been knocked out from the impact of her back hitting the stone building behind her, and was now just barely able to stop herself from losing conscious.

The snake raced up to Maka and pinned her up against the building that she had been thrown at with its tail, and opened its mouth again to let out another ear-bleeding scream, only this time it was louder.

Again the scream sounded like a painful sequel to everyone else, but to Maka it sounded like a familiar voice yelling the word, 'DIE!' at her.

All the while Kid was able to fly over to the snake, and silence it by shooting it in the back of its neck. The snake turned to Kid with a death glare, while still pinning Maka up against the building.

"Get lost!" Kid cursed at the snake, before shooting it smack bang in its right eye.

The snake let out another scream, and let Maka fall from the building and land in her weapon's arms, Maka blinked slowly as her mind went black and she could feel herself losing conscious. The last thing the young scythe Meister heard was soul telling her to 'Hold on', before she closed her eyes and finally gave in to the darkness, as she fell unconscious in Soul's arms.

"Get her to somewhere safe!" Kid called to Soul before the scythe nodded to him.

"KID, LOOK OUT!" Liz cried as the snake shook off the pain in its right eye and growled, before it whipped the young Reaper with its tail, and caused him to fall from his floating skateboard, and down to the ground below him. The Reapers eye's slowly blinked as he caught sight of the cobra's eyes, and saw something very familiar in them.

Kid smashed into the stone hard ground chest first, which caused his heart to skip a few beats and almost all of his ribs to break. Liz and Patty quickly transformed back into their human forms once their Meister hit the ground, and called out his name with worried tones in their voices.

Kid's weapon's voices came, as a blur as the last thing Kid saw before he lost conscious was the cobra transforming back into its original small size, and racing away from the gang. The young Reaper could feel his breath running short, as his mind went completely blank.

…..

Maka awoke to the sound of the familiar worried voice of her weapon, she blinked a few times as her eyes adjusted to the light of the room, and then sat up. Maka looked around her and saw that she and the rest of the gang were in the infirmary of the D.W.M.A. and she was in one of the beds with dressing wrapped around her head. Maka's head and back were killing her and she had no doubt that it was from that snake's attack.

"Maka, you're awake," Soul turned and sighed with relief as he smiled to his Meister.

"Yeah, what happened to the snake?" Maka asked with a returned smile to her weapon.

"It got away," Soul confessed with a slight frown on his lips.

"What, why?" Maka asked surprised that no one had fought the snake off after she had collapsed in Soul's arms.

"Maka do you remember Kid shooting the snake in the eye, which caused it to let you go?" Soul asked.

"Yeah," Maka nodded.

"Well after you fell unconscious the snake got its own back on Kid, and he well…" Soul paused as he looked to the bed next to Maka's and sighed slightly.

Maka followed her weapon's gaze and gasped, as she set her eyes upon the young, sleeping and badly wounded Reaper in the bed beside her.

"Is he going to be alright?" Maka asked with concern in her voice, as she looked to Liz and Patty.

"We're not too sure, Nygus told us that he had broken about five of his ribs, and almost punctured his right lung, but he seems stable now," Liz explained with a slight smile to Maka, while she slightly glanced to her Meister.

"Not only that but every now and again his chest and eyes keep glowing golden, and then stop all of a sudden," Soul added as everyone looked to the young wounded Reaper.

"It's nothing to worry about it's probably Kid trying to heal himself, but then failing to do so," Nygus explained as she sat next to Maka's bed in her chair, writing down things on her clipboard.

"Wait Reapers' can heal themselves?" Soul asked as he and Black Star seemed shocked by this.

"Why yes of course, he is a God of death don't forget, so it's really no surprise that he is able to heal himself, and maybe even other people too," Nygus explained again to the two guys as she slightly looked up from her clipboard for a second, but then looked back down to it again a moment later.

Maka looked over to Kid with a slight smile and sighed as she watched his bare chest rise a fall slowly (Kid's chest has been operated on because of his broken ribs, so at the moment his chest is bare and has a few stitches in places from where Nygus had cut him open to fix his ribs).

Suddenly out of the blue, Kid's breathing sped up and he instantly started to cough up blood. Not a second later and the young Reaper was fitting while blood partially poured out from his mouth, and onto his bare chest.

Nygus quickly ran over to him, as the gang all looked to Kid with shocked and scared faces.

"What's going on?" Soul asked as he looked to Kid with a worried look, while Liz covered her mouth and could feel tears welling up in her eyes.

"I'm not sure actually," Nygus stated as she desperately tried to calm the young Reaper down.

'Kid,' Maka looked to Kid with sheer terror in her eyes as she could sense Kid's troubled soul, 'His soul is rejecting his body, why?' Maka questioned as she too could now feel tears welling up in her eyes.

Kid suddenly sat up in his bed and opened his eyes, while putting a sudden stop to the fitting, but not to him coughing up blood (which he was still doing). Kid's eyes didn't look right they had no pupils in them, and were for some strange reason literally glowing golden. The young Reaper rested both of his hands over his blood-stained chest as they too started to glow golden. Kid's chest suddenly glowed golden and his ribs started to fix back together, and he was able to put a stop to him coughing up blood.

"What's happening to him?" Black Star asked.

"Don't worry he's just healing himself," Nygus explained in a calm voice.

Kid's chest and hands stopped glowing as the blood on them suddenly disappeared. Kid closed his glowing eyes for a minute and sighed, and then opened them again as they went back to normal a minute later.

Kid turned his head to the rest of the gang, and smiled to them nervously, "Sorry Did I scare you all a bit?" Kid asked with a nervous chuckle, before the gang all sighed in relief and Liz and Patty walked up to their Meister and hugged him tightly.

Kid hugged them back before he turned to Maka and smiled to her, "Are you alright?" Kid asked the young scythe Meister.

"I'm fine Kid, but I think you need to worry about yourself right now," Maka pointed out with a slight returned smile to Kid.

"It's okay, I healed myself, my ribs are fixed, my blood and breathing have settled and my soul is back to the way it should be," Kid explained as his weapons' let go of him.

"Does that mean it's not rejecting your body anymore then?" Maka asked with a hopeful smile to Kid.

"See for yourself, it's fine trust me," Kid reassured Maka with a smile and a slight wink.

"Thank goodness," Maka sighed with relief before everyone began asking Kid all kinds of questions about him healing himself, and if he was alright.

Kid just smiled nervously as he glanced to Maka, who smiled back to him, but seemed to be worried about something as well. Kid knew it was about the snake and how it had attacked Maka and himself.

….

On the other side of Death city Dr. Franken Stein was busy on his computer trying to work out a couple of things, when all the lights in his house suddenly shut off, and so did his computer.

"What's going on, a power out?" Stein questioned to himself as he looked around the room.

Stein heard a slight thud come from his bedroom, he sighed as he stood from his chair and walked to his bedroom to see what had made the noise.

Stein flicked the light switch only to end up sighing as he remembered that his power had just gone out, while he walked into his bedroom. Not really finding a cause to the thud he heard before, Stein decided to leave his room, but was stopped in his tracks by something.

"Vector Plate!" Stein heard a familiar voice call out, before a black arrow (pointing away from the open bedroom door) appeared under his feet, and he was thrown into his bedroom wall.

Stein rubbed his throbbing head as he looked up to see, a familiar person jump through his bedroom window and walk up to the open door.

"Stein, long time no see," Stein heard the familiar person state as they closed the bedroom door, "Vector Lock!" The person rested their hand over the door, as a minute later a giant padlock in the shape of a black arrow appeared over the door handle.

"M-M-Medusa?!" Stein questioned with a stutter as he couldn't believe who was standing in his bedroom.

"Miss me?" The snake witch smiled as she walked up to Stein.

"There's no way you can still be alive," Stein stated as he slightly glared to the witch standing above him.

"Oh really, well if I'm dead then how come I can do this?" Medusa asked as she kneeled down in front of Stein and pressed her lips to his with a smile.

Stein's eyes widened with shock and surprise as Medusa the snake witch kissed him on the lips. Stein grabbed hold of the witches' shoulders and pushed her away from him as he glared at her again.

"But how? Maka killed you I was there," Stein asked as he was both confused and still very much in shock.

"Well you see Stein I did the exact same thing that I did after you killed me, I broke my soul into the snakes in my body and I was able to once again return, but this time I decided to wait a little longer so my power could grow to full strength, and I could come back in my own body, rather than someone else's like I did last time," Medusa explained while she rested her hands over Stein's feet.

"Vector Chains!" The witch smiled as chains suddenly appeared and hung around Stein's feet.

"But that can't be right-

"Oh but it is after all, in order to really kill me for good, you need to kill my snakes as well, otherwise I'll just keep coming back," Medusa stated while she grabbed both of Stein's hands, and hung chains around them too.

"But Maka used 'Genie Hunter,' no one but the Kishin should be able to fight that kind of attack off," Stein pointed out before he broke free from the chains that were hung around his hands.

"Did you really think that would work?" Stein asked as he slightly smirked to Medusa.

"No I was just testing you is all," Medusa smirked back, "Oh and speaking of Maka, I think my dear Cobra gave her quite the scare earlier," Medusa added with a sly chuckle.

"What did you do to Maka?" Stein asked with concern in his voice.

"You shouldn't worry about her, I think the Reaper's precious son is in more trouble right now," Medusa stated before she stood back up and pulled Stein up off the floor with her.

"Vector Lock!" Medusa rested a hand over Stein's chest, and before he could even react, a black, arrow-shaped padlock appeared over his chest.

"I have to warn you that if you try and escape, that padlock will impale your chest," Medusa stated with a cheerful smile to Stein.

"What are you planning to do with me?" Stein asked with another glare to the snake witch, while he slightly glanced to the padlock that was hanging over his chest.

"Vector snake. Transport!" Medusa simply said with a more sinister smile, before a giant king Cobra came up from the floor and carried Medusa and Stein through the bedroom window, and off into the night.