I'm back…

I can't believe that I forgot to do this before…

Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater. If I did, my name would be Atsushi Okubo, and it isn't.

I believe that that's it.

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Marie's POV

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"WHAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-T?" Yelled pretty much everyone in the room, even Stein looked surprised to me!

What happened next, was, of course, everyone talking at once.

"It can't be true!"

"No way!"

"Hmmph."

"There must be some mistake!"

I wasn't even really sure who said what or if I said anything, what I said! But the next question was Lord Death's, and it was heard above all else, silencing everyone in the room.

"Are you sure?" He asked in his funny voice.

Soul looked into the distance, almost as if he were mad at something or someone… "I hope not, but I had a long, clear look at her…"

This deepened everyone's concern.

"Well then, we'll just have to have a meeting."

Stein nodded. "I'll call it in." He stated plainly.

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The next day

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We decided to use the ballroom. We gathered all of the students and nearby staff. Even Crona was there.

The crowd was restless, gossiping and chattering to each other about what it was about.

Stein was the one who was doing the talking.

He walked up on stage in his normal attire and started talking.

"Could everyone please calm down?" He asked in a calm nature that didn't suit him.

The crowd calmed down a bit but kept on chattering.

"Shut up or I'll dissect each and every one of you!" That shut everyone up.

"As most of you know already," He started, making sure that everyone was paying attention. "Asura's back."

"WHAT?!" A few people from the crowd who didn't know about it already yelled. The others just grimaced.

After they calmed down, Stein continued.

"And as most of you don't know," He paused for a moment to make sure that they were all listening. "Maka's a Kishin now."

"WHAAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAAA-AAAA-T?!" Yelled pretty much everyone in the crowd.

After that, it was a blur of noise and movement. Everyone was rushing to get their opinions out there, with roughly the same reactions as before.

"It can't be!"

"No way!"

"Impossible!"

"Hmm…"

"There must be a mistake!"

After about half an hour of the crowd trying to calm themselves down, Stein spoke again.

"Okay, everyone calm down." He tried to persuade them. They mainly stayed quiet. "One question that hasn't been answered so far is 'how?' And that's what I'd like to do."

"How can you answer that without knowing the whole story?" Someone from the crowd asked.

"We theorize with the information that we currently have."

THEORIZATION TIME

IT IS STEIN UNLESS I SAY OTHERWISE (ADDITIONALLY, EVERYONE WHO ISN'T STEIN WILL SPEAK IN ITALICS)

"The first and most obvious conclusion is that she went about it the normal way: eat enough human souls, and poof! You're a Kishin."

"However, Maka's not the type to do that. Furthermore, even if she did, she'd have to eat a lot of human souls. Eating even one will turn your soul into a Kishin egg, which can be easily noticed."

"And doing it all overnight quickly is next to impossible and frankly, we would notice if that many humans just suddenly disappeared. So that's ruled out."

"The next idea is that she found some sort of shortcut. Maybe a strong soul or something like that."

(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Strong souls were something in the Manga. They're worth 99 human souls.)

"However, that would make her just a plain Kishin with some varying template, kind of like how not all Death Scythes have the same abilities. Maka was practically a clone of Asura with his exact same powers."

"Therefore, we can rule out her being a regular Kishin altogether."

"Isn't it possible that it wasn't Maka?" Asked Killik Rung from the crowd.

"It is possible, but Maka's been missing for the entire day, hasn't been heard from, and, most importantly, Soul saw her face during the fight."

"It's possible that Soul was lying, but he would have nothing to gain from lying about that."

"It's also a distinct possibility that Soul made a mistake. But since Maka is our only suspect so far, since we saw Asura fly away through the city, and the fact that all of the evidence that we have so far points to her, it's most likely her."

"And now back to how. It's possible that she gave up to madness and Asura is using her as a puppet. However, once again, the Maka we know wouldn't do that."

"It's also extremely likely that Asura was directly involved in what happened."

"So while we don't exactly know how, we know some things that it wasn't."

"Next up is why they came here."

"They wouldn't have just come here, to the DWMA without a good reason."

"Asura was found near the library. PresumablyMaka was found in Classroom Crescent Moon."

"After Asura disappeared, we checked inventory on the books. We found one missing."

"Which one was that?" Asked BlackStar, who was confined to a wheelchair.

"The one on Excalibur."

"WHAT?" Yelled pretty much everyone in the crowd.

"We don't know what they want with it, but just in case, we'll send guards to keep a tight watch on him."

"Who would volunteer for that job?" Asked BlackStar.

"No one. So we'll have to force some people to go. BlackStar, Tsubaki, and Soul are safe due to the recent fight."

Those 3 people breathed a sigh of relief.

"We haven't actually thought of who will do it yet."

"And finally, why is Asura back?"

"This one, I haven't actually come up with a decent hypothesis on."

"You see, Asura isn't the only person to become a Kishin. However, all of the others had been lesser Kishin."

"So when they died and stayed dead, we assumed that it worked like that for Asura too."

"We were apparently wrong."

"Nah." Said the crowd sarcastically.

"So that's it for now."

THEORIZATION TIME OVER

RETURN TO REGULAR SPEECH

"Any questions?" Stein asked, looking towards the crowd.

No one had any questions.

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I swear to Asura, if this every-other-day update timing thing continues on for the entire story, I'll be deeply impressed with myself.

Once again, looking for a new summary for the story!