A/N hello. This is my first crossover. I hope you all like it and R&R. Oh, so it this chapter is setting up how they came to be in fairy tail. Please enjoy.

Maka's POV

"Maka," Soul said from inside of his scythe form, "He's getting away, hurry!"

"Right!" I answered as I quickened my pace up the steps of the cathedral.

To my right Kid was on his skateboard climbing as well, and to my left Black Star was also running. At least they were both keeping pace with me and not jumping ahead as I knew they could.

"Maka, did you see it?" Kid asked me.

I nodded, and from the bond I had with Soul I could tell that he wanted to know what we were talking about, so I said aloud "His soul; it's different than the ones we usually deal with. There is something off about it."

"It's still becoming a kishin, right?" Soul asked me.

"Yeah,"

"Then I will eat it and we can forget about his weird soul." He said with one of his toothy smiles. Not that I could see it, but I knew Soul well enough to know what his face probably looked at.

Then Black Star chimed in from the side and said "And besides, as if small fry like him could beat a big star like me!" It almost made me want to groan at how cocky the blue haired miester was. But I took the high rout and ignored him in exchange for focusing on Soul's words.

I smiled with determination and nodded my head. He always seemed to have this effect on me. Coming up the last few steps, we were now on the flat ground of the top floor. Now we had it cornered, right in front of us stood an evil soul that we had been sent out to get rid of. And it could not escape this time.

A different team had been after him before, but now they were in the infirmary at the Academy. We had been sent out in hope that the stronger team would come back victorious.

Dr. Stein would have gone with my dad, but they had already been called out on a different mission. We were the DWMA's best choice after them. It was now our responsibility to get rid of this threat before it could endanger more lives.

It was cloaked in black, so I really couldn't see what it looked like. But I felt its soul wavelength. I could see that it was becoming a kishin, and that if we didn't stop it, it would only devour more and more souls.

I made the first move. With a nicely timed jump I swung Soul around in an attempt to lob off the things head. Sadly the move fell short of the mark, and it somehow twisted gracefully away. I was caught off guard by that; I hadn't thought it would be that fast.

"My turn!" Kid announced as he pointed the muzzles of the Thompson sisters at the thing. In rapid succession he fired off his compressed soul wavelengths at his target. I couldn't help but admire the unison that the three of them had as they attacked.

I could also tell from the muted thuds that I was hearing that he was hitting his mark.

When the dust settled and we all looked to see if that had done it.

"Was that supposed to hurt?" A rough voice laughed at us.

I gasped and Kid looked at the man in amazement. We hadn't sensed that he held that much power. And no one could brush off one of Kid's attacks as if it was nothing. The only time that it was even possible would be if we were dealing with a witch or something.

"God Kid, when did your attack become so wimpy?" Black Star asked with a short scoff. The bluenette then crouched with the kusarigama (two scythes connected by a chain) in his hands.

"Black Star, be careful!" I tried to warn him, but since when does that guy listen to me? He barely listened to his own partner at times.

"Don't worry Maka, you and Kid are small. I'm big, so I can handle this guy." Black Star gave his normal egotistical answer.

I glared at the blue haired boy, we were just about the same height! It was just his hair that was big.

Moving with speed that most wouldn't have thought possible, unless of course you knew him, Black Star rushed forward and started to slash with Tsubaki. I felt my eyes widen in amazement as he once again seemed to doge all of Black Star's attacks with ease.

That was one thing that I knew from experience was hard to do. In fact, I hadn't seen anyone who was even able to do that with all of his attacks.

"I have a really bad feeling about this guy," I told Soul quietly. I knew that he probably feel the tension growing inside of me. It was like a knot had formed in my stomach and was making it uneasy. I wanted to take this guy out, and fast.

"What do you mean?" Soul asked as Black Star jumped away from the kishin-egg.

"I can't explain it, but I just know that it feels wrong. Like nothing I have ever felt before." I attempted to explain. I knew that at least Kid and Tsubaki knew what I was talking about. They both had a way with sensing souls. Though, admittedly I knew Tsubaki didn't see them like we did. But she could feel their presence.

"Ah-ha-ha, Is that all that you kids got?" The man asked.

His laugh sent shivers down my spine. What the hell was he? As if to answer my question a magic circle seemed to appear in his hands and his soul seemed to get stronger somehow. I braced myself for the ping of a witches soul to come to my senses, but it never happened.

"That's impossible!" Kid stated as if he had read my thoughts.

When a witch used magic the soul protect would come undone and we would know that they had the powers of a witch, but this guy was using magic and his soul still felt and looked human. What was he?

As if in answer to my question, shadows shot out from he man and started to attack us. In rapid succession they came at us. I guarded with Soul and saw the other two guarding as well. It was all we could do in order to keep the shadows away from us.

"We have to use Soul Link!" Kid called as he shot the shadows back. Black Star laughed at the situation he was in.

"Just admit it, you just want to work with a big star like me! But that's okay. For today I'll share the spotlight." He graciously told us. I was too used to this response to scold him for the moment. Maybe I would later.

I smiled as I accepted the two's soul wavelengths. I could feel the power of the souls build between the seven of us as we all passed our wavelengths back and fourth between the seven of us.

"Tsubaki, enchanted sword mode!" Black Star called, getting ready to use his own shadows as a weapon.

"Right!" She answered just before she changed her form.

"Let's go!" I called. Working in sync with one another, we made our move.

The problem was at even if our speed had increased, his somehow did too. No mater how much faster we had gotten, he still managed to slip by out attacks. It was really starting to tick me off. I even began to wonder if he was just toying with us.

"It seems I have overstayed my welcome here, how about we take this to my world?" The man asked with a lazy flip of his hand. A black magic circle formed around him at that, and he still seemed to be perfectly fine.

Above him, the air seemed to shimmer and swirl, growing. With a final laugh at our wasted efforts, the man took a step back into the swirling air and seemed to dissolve from our view. The magic circle going with him, but he spinning air stayed the same.

"What do we do now?" Soul asked.

I looked at Kid and saw that he was focused on the portal like thing behind him. I did not like the way he said he wanted to take this fight to his world. Maybe he was feeling the same way.

"We follow him!" Black Star announced taking a step forward.

"H-hold on Black Star! You have to think this through!" Tsubaki said with concern.

"She's right, we cannot just go in. It could be a trap for all we know." Kid said. I could here agreement from Liz and pouting from Patty.

"So we are just going to let him get away?" Soul asked everyone.

The other two miesters looked to me. I was the one who was supposed to lead us after all. My opinion mattered. Even if I wanted nothing more than to finish him, I had to think of the team and the DWMA first. I couldn't afford to make the wrong call.

"We have no choice. We can't go in there unprepared." I finally agreed with Kid.

I hated he fact that the snake was getting away, but there didn't seem to be any other choice at this point. I did think that he would be back, the question was when.

Summoning up my will power, I turned my back the the portal and began to walk away. The soul link between us dropping. At that exact moment a gust of wind seemed to blast me in the face. Two rope like shadows took hold of my legs and began to pull me towards the spot where the air was turning.

"Maka!" I heard Soul yell. I hadn't realized that I had dropped him when the shadows started to pull. He had even reverted back to his human form.

"Soul!" I called back. I could see his outstretched hand, and I tried to grab it, but the pull was too strong.

"SOUL!" I called, panic ebbing its way into my voice. My heart beat to a new rhythm of fear as he was just out of my reach.

"MAKA!" He yelled back at me. With that, I forgot about the others of my teem and found myself the the whirl of air that the strange man had created.

Before I lost sight of them, I saw more shadow ropes coming out and wrapping around the others before starting to pull them in as well.

We didn't even get his soul, and he was pulling us through the portal.

Damn him.