She dragged her claws across the metal walls on either side of her, making horrible high pitched scratching sounds. Joining the scratching sound, like a sickening chorus in a sadistic song, was a soft laughter. Her laughter was coming from whatever she had left of a soul, and the only reason why she was laughing was because the world is a funny place to her. The laughter and screeches went together in perfect harmony. The only thing missing was a scream to top it off, and it would have been the perfect scene to a horror movie. Soon, the hallway came to a stop and she stopped as well dropping her hands to her side, she began to talk with herself.

"It's almost time." She said, licking her lips in anticipation. "We just have to wait for the sun to finish setting. Then we can go out and find some more souls to eat." Her laughter sounded way too happy after that last comment.

She frowned. "But, what if we get caught? What if that girl comes back with her scythe?" She asked with her voice in a low whisper and looking around, all most as if saying it to loud will cause them all to show up.

"Let them come." She cackled as she rubbed her hands together. "They should have strong, delicious souls. They should provide more of a challenge for us to." She stated after a fit of laughter.

She walks outside and looks around, just to make sure that no one is watching. She raised her hand, "Come here my lovely pet~" she cooed. From the shadows leapt a big black mass of darkness. It jumped to land on her arm, on the way there it turned into a large crow. It cawed at her and she scratched under its chin. "Good boy. Listen, I want to eat some more souls tonight. And I want you to look for some for me. Think you can do that?" She asked as she stopped scratching his chin and kissed the top of his head. He cawed and flew off, as he got above the buildings, he exploded and turned into several littler versions of himself and went in different directions. "Such a good boy. He obeys Mommy so well." She smiled sadistically as she ran off to the city.

~~O_O~~

Synthia perched on the top of a building waiting for her pet to come back with some news. She had done a quick search of the city and didn't see any one of interest. And after some time of thinking she decided that it was better if she just laid low for a while, as in not walking around until she knew where her target is, that girl had definitely seen her. And if she was from DWMA, she would have told Shinigami by now or at least some choice friends. She heard wings fluttering and looked up from her thoughts. She smiled when she saw her minion. "Bring back good news I hope." She said teasingly as she held her arm up so that he could land on it. The bird hopped to her shoulder and whispered into her ear. Telling her that there is a drunk woman over on Death Alleyway. It was a dead end a there was nowhere to run. 'The perfect opportunity.' She thought as she smiled widely.

She smiled at her pet and told it to remind her that when she gets home to give him a treat. Then sent him away. 'So let's go get this soul. Shall we?' she asked herself as she jumped off of the building. To Synthia's satisfaction, Death Alleyway wasn't that far from where she was. When she got there, the woman was so out of it that she didn't even hear the laughter that was the warning signal to start running. She elongated her fingers to claws by gathering shadows around them. She shoved the woman against the wall and put her hand over the woman's mouth. Synthia smiled and leaned in so her face was closer.

"The interesting part is killing you." She whispered as she dragged the point of her finger across the woman's cheek cutting it, making the woman shudder with fear. "The best part is eating your soul." She licks her lips and the woman starts to cry. "But do you wanna know the part with the most fun?" She asked pulling her head back and raising her arm getting ready to slice her in half. But before she could kill her, the woman screamed. But, the scream ended early. Synthia chuckled as she looked at the woman. "The part that is the most fun…is scaring you." She stated in a matter of fact tone as she liked the blood off of her claws. Victory was short lived as the girl with the scythe showed up again. This time with a few friends.

_~O_O~_

Maka was currently with all of her friends. Black*Star was boasting that he could beat anyone and that he was a god. Soul was laughing at Black*Star and saying that he could take him. Tsubaki just walked in silence as always with a sweat drop sliding down her face. Death The Kid was being dragged by Liz because he thinks that one of the candles in front of the picture was too short. Liz was telling him to suck it up because this is the first time that they have been out in a long time and of course Patty was laughing at the two of them. And Crona was just walking with Maka talking about nothing in particular when Ragnarok decided to make an appearance. Poking him and pulling at his hair, causing the whole group to have to stop.

"Stop teasing him Ragnarok!" Maka said slapping his hands away from Crona's checks, which were currently pulling on them.

"Make me!" Ragnarok shouted as he pulled one of the corners of his mouth and stuck out his tongue.

Maka was about to say something but was interrupted by a scream. It was cut off quickly but they could tell that it had come from the alley way a few blocks from them. Liz, Patty, Ragnarok, Tsubaki and Soul turned to their weapon form and they ran to the alley way and saw Synthia licking her elongated fingers. The woman's body lay on the ground with her blood pooling around the four-teen year olds shoes. She had turned to look at them, making blood splash up on to her already stained grey sweats. Smiling widely, she wiped whatever blood hadn't dripped off onto her straight jacket, which was splattered with blood. Then she gently pulled down the sleeves which had been torn to make shorter and had blood stained all around the wrists.

Smiling, she closed her eyes and tilted her head to the side. "Hello again…" She opened her eyes and looked at Maka "I'm sorry, I don't think I ever got your name." Closing and then opening her hands made all the joints pop in union.

"You shouldn't care about her! I'm the big shot here!" Black*Star shouted as he lunged at her with Tsubaki as a Chain Scythe. Being caught slightly off guard, Synthia blocked and stumbled backwards. Taking advantage off her current vulnerability, Kidd shot Liz and Patty at her multiple times. The black haired girl covered her face with her hands and the bullets that were aimed at her face bounced off, the ones aimed other places though, went in. Quick pain shot up her arm, stomach, legs and shoulders. Using her magic, she threw one of the trash cans at Kidd. Then, feeling that someone was behind her, she quickly seeped into the ground. Just as she melted with the shadows on the ground, Crona slashed out at her.

"Hey… Where did she go?" Asked Liz who turned back to human form along with Patty to check to make sure that Kidd was ok. There is a large chance that the trash sent him into shock, with his large OCD issue and all.

Maka looked around, it was just like last time. She disappeared and she wasn't seen of sense then. But when she vanished last time, she was completely off the radar. Maka could still feel her soul somewhere near, but it was bouncing around the alley, like a phone signal being bounced around the world so you can't track it. A loud screeching sound got their attention, a figure sprouted from the ground. It looked human, but the eyes, mouth and the holes that were supposed to be the nose were glowing red. The back was twisted and bent, the arms long and crocked, its fingers sharp and extended, the body was thin and this thing's mouth was made of jagged points that dripped white on to the ground. It stayed attached to the ground, its legs were hidden somewhere beneath the shadows. It swept its arm out and hit Black*Star, sending him cashing into the wall. The thing growled at Maka and hunched over, using its large hands to hold its self up and clawing at the ground, leaving marks and creating horrible noises. Maka took the stance to attack it, but it suddenly exploded into a black smoke and vanished in the shadows, much like Synthia does. Crona was standing over the girl that had summoned it, he had hit the back of her head with the hilt of Ragnarok. Maka walked over to them both and raised her scythe to strike, but Soul flew out of her hand.

"What?!" Maka turned to the footsteps she heard. A boy around her age walked up, his light brown hair was thin and went to his shoulder. A black shirt with a rock band logo was overlapped by a thin jacket that was coming undone at the ends. His black jeans were ripped, tattered and covered in holes and his combat boots were covered in dried mud. The green eyes were empty and watching them, Maka and Crona.

~_-O.o-_~

Synthia couldn't see clearly, everything was blurry and the world was spinning around her. She propped herself up on one elbow and coughed up some blood. She knew that if she didn't get up soon she would die, from the people she was fighting or from blood loss. The soft voice showed up again, it told her that she needed to get up. Saying words of encouragement, praising her for all of her good work and that she still has some more jobs to do. Synthia's brain was currently scattered, so the words said by the other woman made no sense at the current moment. Her breathing was heavy and she shook her head to try and clear it. Things were coming in and out of focus. She heard faint words, they came from a voice she knew. A voice that she lived with ever sense she left Death City so many years ago. Shakily, she lifted herself up so that she could see what was happening. She saw her roommate with a hand gun pointed at the kids she was just fighting. He was saying something in his always calm and cold demeanor and the girl with the scythe was yelling at him. He looked at Synthia and said something that looked like 'Are you alright?' but she couldn't hear him, she could just barely make out that it was him.

'You need to leave. NOW.' The voice told her severely 'Just because you have a friend here doesn't mean that you are safe. They will not stop until they know for sure that you are dead.' Synthia shook her head trying to grab ahold of the things that she was being told. She understood the words, she just couldn't make an action out of them. After a few, long, drown out seconds, her head cleared and she glared at them all and snarling. She explodes into smoke so that she could vanish into the darkness.

When she left the boy cursed under his breath and the students of DWMA looked at him, wanting an answer for what had just happened.