Chapter 2: Kid's Suspicions! Can Ryoha Muster His New Mission?

It's been bugging Kid's mind...who is Ryoha and Christina and why are they chosen to randomly join the investigation? This is annoying, he thought. First, the deaths of Meisters are now being caused by OTHER Meisters, this Ryoha and Christina, and then this "Steele Duo." Who are they? To be a rumored pair they must be strong. I'll have to ask Stein later about them.

Soul and Blackstar were better with a few days of recovery...and by better I mean...back to their normal selves, loud, obnoxious, and immature.

"Grrr. I want to find out who that punk was who beat me!" Blackstar said annoyed. "No one beats the best Blackstar!"

"Obviously someone did." Soul said with a grin.

"Screw you!"

"Ok enough you two." Maka told them. "You've been better for 3 days and you go back into arguing." Blackstar and Soul were playing paper, rock, scissors while she was talking, ignoring her. Maka looked and sighed. "Those two are so...stupid."

"You learn to deal with it." Tsubaki said walking next to her.

"Is it a guy thing to be so stupid? PaPa is freakishly stupid, Blackstar is anooyingly stupid, Soul is ridiculously stupid."

"Guess Its a Guy Thing." Tsubaki said laughing. Maka then laughed with her, looked back at the boys, Blackstar was getting upset that he kept losing. Score was 4-3, Soul's favor.

"Argh! You're cheating!" Blackstar said angrily.

"How the hell do you cheat in Rock, Paper, Scissors dude?" Soul asked.

"I don't know, but goddamit YOU'RE doing it!"

As they reached class, they caught up to Kid who was waiting for them. Stein then came into the classroom.

"Kid and Thompson's sisters, you have a mission in Europe. There's been a kishin, a powerful one so be on your guard. We sent someone earlier and thought they could use some help just in case." Stein had told them.

"Yay! A Field Trip!" Patti said as she jumped out of her seat in joy.

"Europe? Ugh..." Liz said. "Eurpoe is boring..."

As they reached Europe, there was no sign of kishin yet. So they went shopping.

"Ok I take it back..." Liz said with a new outfit. "Europe is awesome!" Kid was still in thought about the incidents.

"Kid, you okay?" Liz asked.

Kid nodded his head. "Just...thinking."

"Oh okay." Then suddenly a loud scream was heard. It was a girl scream.

"Liz! Patti! Transform!" Kid said. The sisters nodded then transformed into two pistols. Kid grabbed them and ran to the direction of the scream. Kid got onto to a rooftop to avoid from being seen, when he was running he saw a young girl and a broadsword on the ground in an alley. Kid went down to investigate, and there were souls.

"Damn...a meister and her weapon were killed." Kid said. "I must've gotten here too late." Kid put his head down. The girl was cut in many different places with a deep stab wound. The broadsword was bent and chipped at the top. Kid examined the site again...their souls were not taken.

"Was it another meister!?" Suddenly a kishin appeared. it growled at kid as it was hungry for the souls.

"Damn. You two ready?" Kid asked Liz and Patti.

"Yeah!" They said simultaneously. Kid began shooting at the kishin. It avoided the shots and it crawled on the wall. Kid followed it while shooting, but the kishin was too fast. It landed by the souls, but Kid ran and shoved the kishin, pushing it farther from the souls now bloacking its path. The kishin growled again and charged Kid. Kid prepared himself to shoot, but the kishin jumped into the air. It was going for the souls again, but Kid got 3 shots on it. The kishin landed, but the bullets just rolled off the kishin as if it were rubber.

"What?!" Kid yelled. "I can't hit this thing?!"

The kishin then attacked Kid, it hit Kid in the arm with its sharp claws. Kid's left arm was cut but not badly.

"Kid you okay?" Patti said.

"Yes. Patti. It didn't get me good." Kid suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arm as he started to feel nauseous. He couldn't see straight. Posion. The kishin's claws were poisoned. Kid fell on one knee, still trying to stand, the poison was spreading quickly.

"Kid!" The sister said. They transformed back to human selves trying to help Kid.

"Come on we've got to get you out of here!" Liz said.

"I'm...*cough*...fine!" Kid said to her. Suddenly, the kishin was behind Liz, preparing to strike. "Liz watch out!"

As the kishin striked, it was countered by a staff. A meister saved them. He held the kishin back.

"Go! I'll hold the kishin off! You three get out of here! NOW!" He was struggling, but kept it at bay. His voice was deep and firm...almost intimidating. But he had on a mouth-covering mask, the only thing they could see was his eyes, his blue spiky hair, and a tiger on his vest.

Kid then passed out due to the posion. Liz and Patti had carried Kid back to the academy. A few hours had passed, and Kid had woke up in the infirmary with everyone around him.

"Bout time you got up." Blackstar said. "I was starting to get bored."

"Oh thank goodness!" Liz said.

"Yay! Kid's up!" Patti said happily.

Kid was confused. "What happened? The kishin! What happened to the kishin?!"

"It was taken care of. By a masked meister i guess." Liz said.

"And the souls?!"

"We had to leave or else you would've died."

"..." She was right, if they stayed any longer Kid would've died.

Stein walked in. "The souls are confiscated. Nothing bad happened to them."

"That's a relief." Tsubaki said. "You said a masked meister Liz?"

"Yes. He had a mask on so we didn't see his full face. He had blue spiky hair and tiger on his back."

"Interesting." Stein said. "Whoever they are. They go to the Academy."

"But..." Kid said. "Maybe they were the pair that killed the pair before me. Because when we arrived..."

"We know Kid. That's a problem. Maybe they did kill the pair, but they saved you three."

"That is true." Liz said.

"That doesn't matter! We have to find out who they are." Kid exclaimed.

The door opened. Ryoha and Christina entered the room with medicine.

"Oh he's up now?" Christina said. "How are you feeling Kid?"

"Better..." Kid said shallowly.

"Bet you don't trust us do you?" Ryoha said. "I can tell by the look on your face." He walked to Kid and gave the medicine. "Take a sip of this. This should drain the posion's effect on you." Kid drank it and lied back down.

"Why are you helping me?" Kid asked.

"Sensei asked us too remember? The other day? You were there."

"I know. But why?"

"As it looks you need all the help you can get."

"He's right y'know." Christina added. Liz was getting a feeling that she heard his voice before.

"Excuse me...Ryoha was it?" Liz asked.

"Yes?" He answered.

"Have we met? Your voice sounds familiar..."

"hm...not that i know of. Maybe you've heard me around school a couple of times."

"Maybe..."

10 minutes had passed and Kid and closed his eyes, everyone except Stein, Ryoha and Christina went home.

"Ryoha, I'm leaving you two in charge of watcching over Kid." Stein said.

"Yes Sensei." They both said the same time. Stein had smiled.

"Also...that was a close call you two had done. Tomorrow, you have more rounds to do. I'll have the Thompson sisters watch over him from there."

"Okay. But its weird..." Christina said sitting in the chair. "Why us?"

"You two are the strongest in the Academy. The 'Steele Duo'."

"I understand that...but still."

"No buts. You two have a mission to do. Once the mission is over, then you can question like you always do." Stein said with a smile.

"I don't question you!" Christina said pouting.

"Would you two stop bickering?" Ryoha said. "Geez you're worse than my siblings."

"Ha okay. I'll see you two tomorrow. Goodnight," Stein said as he left the infirmary.

Kid...was not sleep, he heard the entire conversation. He thought to himself, Those two are the Steele Duo?! What does that mean? They've been skipping, and what mission is Stein talking about? I have to get to the bottom of this...sooner than later.

The next morning, Kid was still resting, Blackstar and Tsubaki were watching over him for the time being.

"Blackstar. Let me ask you something." Kid said.

"Shoot." Blackstar replied.

"When you and Soul were attacked...can you give me more details?"

"Uhhh...they were a boy and girl. The boy was the meister, and he had a face covering mask. The girl was a Weapon, she turns into two swords. They're pretty fast."

Kid then thought, Boy and Girl? Face-covering mask? Hmm...

"Why did you ask me that?"

"I'm trying to figure something out."

Later that night, Kid snuck out of bed and went to check on the streets of Death City. As he was walking, the sisters caught up with him.

"How'd you know i was out here?" Kid said, already knowing the answer.

"We know you too well." Liz answered.

"Hmph, here to help?"

"Yup!" Patti said with a smile. They then transformed, and continued walking.

10 minutes of nothing, then they heard noise...like a fight. Kid quietly walked over to the site and saw. Two people were fighting. One had a machine gun, while the other...nothing. Where's his wepaon, Kid thought. While the machine gun was shooting, the boy was dodging the bullets trying to get in closer. But he had his oppurtunity, the machine gun had overheated, and the meister dropped his weapon because of the heat.

"Dammit! Hot hot hot!" The meister said. He had a face covering mask. That's right, Kid thought, there's more than just one. The other meister took the oppurtunity to attack, he dashed at amazing speed and hit the meister with three hit combination. Left punch, Right uppercut and a jumping spin kick. The gun meister was then left unconcious, his partner tranformed back to normal and went to his aid.

"I suggest you tell me everything I need to know about you and master's plan." The victorious meister said coming into the light. A face covering mask!? Kid thought, what the hell is going on?

"I'm not telling you anything!" he yelled.

"Suit yourself." He punched the weapon in the face rendering him unconcious. The boy then sighed, "We aren't going anywhere. No one's telling us anything."

Us? Kid thought.

"Yeah..."A voice was heard...but where? "We have to keep trying though."

Kid then popped out of the shadows with his guns pointed at the meister.

"Hold it!" Kid yelled. "You...who are you? And why did you knock out your own accomplice? Are you in it for yourself? Answer me!"

The meister was surprised that he was snuck up on. "It's not what you think..."

"Don't give me that crap! who are you working for?! And that other voice...who is that?"

"You ask a lot of questions which i can understand. But I cannot answer them..."

"Oh yeah!" Kid felt a sharp pain from earlier, the poison was starting to get to him again. He grabbed his arm in agony.

"Are you okay?" The meister asked worried. Kid shot at the boy, but he avoided.

"You're coming with me!" Kid began shooting the meister, but he kept avoiding. Kid shot more times and a bullet was going to face. No way he can avoid this, Kid thought. But the meister blocked it.

"What?! But how?" Kid said.

The boy sighed, "Steel gloves." He showed them in the light as the light reflected off the gloves.

"Steel?" Kid asked.

"Hiya." The gloves said. The boy opened one hand and punched it. "OW!"

"shut up!" He said.

"What? I can't say hi?"

"Now see this is where we have problems Christ..." he stopped.

"So I was right to have suspicion." Kid said smiling. You two are the ones killing meisters, Steele Duo, am I right."

The boy sighed, "You're right...we are the Steele Do, Ryoha and Christina. But we don't..." Kid cut him off, shooting him.

"You're despicable beings! You don't deserve to live!"

Ryoha was constantly avoiding left and right, "Kid listen to me!"

"Why?! I know you're purpose! You may have everyone else fooled but not me!"

As Ryoha kept avoiding he thought to himself, I guess force will let this boy think for a second. He began moving faster, dodging Kid's bullets and getting closer to Kid.

"Damn he's fast!" Kid said. he jumped on a roof and started shooting while Ryoha was chasing him avoiding the bullets.

"Kid wait!" Liz said. "Just listen to him!"

"No! He doesn't need any words with me!"

"But he saved your life!"

Kid's rage clouded his judgement, he still kept shooting Ryoha. Ryoha began closing in on him and Kid was left wide open...BAM! At blinding speed, Ryoha was in front of Kid, he then punched in the stomach, making Kid lose air. Kid fell to ground, and coughed up blood.

"Kid!" The sisters said as they transformed back.

"I told you...he doesn't need to speak to me..." Before kid passed out he heard Liz, Ryoha and Christina talk.

"Why?!" Liz said. "Aren't you our friends?!"

"Yes...we are." Christina said. "But right now, we need to get Kid to the Academy."

"Before that! You're going to tell me why!" Liz said...she sounded as though she was going to cry.

"Ok...I'll tell you..." Ryoha said. Kid then went unconcious...not hearing the conversation.

Kid had awoke 3 days later from the fight. Liz, Ryoha, Patti and Stein were watching him.

"What...happened?" Kid said dazed.

"You got beat up basically." Stein said.

"Really Sensei? That's the first thing you tell him when he wakes up for 3 days?" Ryoha remarked.

"Yay!" Patti said happily. "Kid's up!"

"3 days?" Kid asked.

"Yeah...3 days." Liz said.

"Oh...why is...he here?" Kid said pointing at Ryoha.

"He's our friend Kid. He helped you out...twice."

"So? He's the one...*cough*...killing meisters."

"No he's not Kid."

"He's the one that's been helping you. Well trying to." Stein added.

"Wha...what?" Kid said confused.

"It's true. I've been trying to figure out what's been going on myself. I've been posing as the other meisters to get answers."

"Oh okay." Kid said understanding.

"Right now you need to rest, the poison is starting to disappear due to your three day rest and the medcine. If you just sit in bed, you'll be back to normal in no time." Ryoha said.

Kid nodded and closed eyes. Spirit then walked into the room.

"Did the meister give you any information?" Stein asked.

"Yeah...good information...but bad news." Spirit said with files in his hands.

"What do you mean bad news?" Ryoha asked.

"Just look." Spirit brought the files to the table and spread them out. The files showed three women, but all were in a different date. one was in the 1920s, one in the 1940s, and the recent one in the present. Ryoha's face changed int disappointment.

"Mom..." Ryoha said.

"Mom?" Liz asked.

"Yeah. Yari Mutsumi." Spirit said. "a.k.a..."

"Lady Luck III." Stein finished for him.

"Lady Luck?" Liz said. "THE Lady Luck?"

"Yeah...THE Lady Luck." Ryoha said wih his head down.

"But isn't that a good thing?"

"Yes and no. My grandmother Lady Luck II...made it a good thing. She gave our family wealth...while my great grandmother, made it terrible. My mom is following my great grandmother's footsteps. Saying 'The world is better off with the strong and not weak'."

"Wow...that's..." Liz said.

"Harsh?" Stein said. "Yes. She wasn't like that before."

"You knew my mother Sensei?" Ryoha asked.

"Yeah, Spirit and I both. She went to DWMA with us. She stopped coming to school senior year because, well she was pregnant. With...i guess you?"

"No. My older sister."

"Oh...this could be bad."

"I don't think so. My sister isn't all that bad...last time i seen her."

"How long ago did you see her?" Spirit asked.

"About two months before i entered the academy my first year."

"3 years...I don't know...we'll have to see."

"Well back to what I was saying." Stein said. "Yari was a good girl...at the time. Her weapon, Daisuke Mutsumi, was a nice guy...before he died. But they had a kid...well two...and they got along just...not for long."

"Dad died from a disease." Ryoha said.

"Your mother killed him...Her mother gave her the power of Lady Luck, but her grandmother...persuaded her differently."

"Wha...what?" Ryoha said confused.

"We had to fight Yari...to stop her from bringing Luck and riches to the wrong people, and giving the innocent the worst. Luckily, we didn't kill her or take her in, hoping she would change her ways and worry about her family. But i guess not." Stein said shrugging.

"So what we have to do now..." Spirit said. "Is stop your mother again, by any means neccessary."

Ryoha said nothing, but absorbed the information.

"Can you handle that Ryoha?" Stein asked. "Right now...you're one of the few that can stop her."

"I realize that...but...I can't. Not to my own mother." Ryoha said. Christina then walked in, and saw everything.

"It's your mother huh Ryoha..." Christina said. Ryoha nodded. "I really hoped I didn't want run into her again."

"Again?" Liz asked. "What happened the first time?"

Christina turrned around and lfited her shirt. There was a large scar going down her back. "That woman has strong magic, she did this to me because she believed I was weak and pulling Ryoha down, disrupting the 'Family Tradition' i guess."

"That's why we never left Death City, she would always find us." Ryoha said. "But...I guess this is what needs to be done." He stood up and took a dee breath. "We'll take her in...but we won't kill her..."

"We'll try..." Stein said.

"He's right Ryoha...even if she is your mother..." Spirit said. "She can't do any more harm to the academy or the innocence.."

Ryoha said nothing, he looked down and nodded. "I'll be going home for now." He left out with Christina following him.

"He's going through so much..." Spirit said.

"Yeah...I don't want to kill her as much him...but if we have to...we have to." Stein said.

End of Chapter 2: Kid's Suspicions! Can Ryoha Muster His New Mission?