"Hey Soul?"

I asked Soul as we were walking to Crona's room.

"Yeah? What's up Maka?"

"I was wondering, how do you feel about Crona? Be honest, I won't mind your answer."

I smiled a bit as we kept walking.

"Well I-"

"Hey you two."

Professor Stein popped up around the corner startling me a bit.

"Oh hey Professor Stein."

I smiled looking at the professor breathing normally.

"Hey professor."

Soul said to professor Stein as he looked up to him.

"I didn't mean to startle you Maka. I just have a message from Lord Death."

Stein said to us.

"Yeah we know about that he want's us to meet up with him for a meeting."

"Oh, well then I don'have a message from Lord Death. Where are you two headed?"

"We're going to see Crona. See how he's doing."

"Yeah, what she said."

Soul said as he chuckled and punched my arm a little bit.

"Well that's nice of you Maka and Soul. I'm headed back to my class. I'll be seeing you guys later."

"Bye professor Stein!"

I waved at him while he was walking away.

"Yeah, see you later Professor."

Professor Stein waved at us before walking away.

"Here we are!"

I smiled brightly as I knocked on the door.

"Bout time."

Soul chuckled.

"Hey Crona, you there?"

I waited for a response, nothing. Nothing but the sound of a cricket chirping was heard.

"Yo Crona, come on! You there?"

Soul asked as he knocked on the door as well. Yet again, nothing. Where was Crona?

We opened the door slightly.

"Crona?"

I was the first to enter the room. I looked around in the room, first thing that caught my eye was Crona.

He was lying on the bed, and there was black blood all over the floor.

"CRONA!"

I rushed to his bed to see him, lying there motionless. He was dead.

"There must have been a fight here. You could tell cause Ragnarok is out."

"I don't understand! Who could've done this?!"

I began crying. I can not believe someone murdered Crona. He's so sweet and innocent.

"Maka, everything will be okay. I promise we will find someone who-"

Soul stopped as he walked to a piece of paper that was laying right next to Maka. He picked it up to see what it said.

"Beneath the stone there is a place unknown. Where the sun doesn't shine, I could be anywhere, even in your mind. Be careful of what you find, and make sure to look before the sun shines."

Soul finished reading the paper.

"Stupid riddles. We need to take this to Lord Death right away, Maka."

I didn't respond to him, just thinking about Crona and all that we've been through was what was on my mind.

"Maka, I'm gonna go tell this to the others. You coming?"

Soul asked me with a serious tone. I shook my head as I remained by Crona's side. I didn't want to leave, not even to see the others.

"Alright I'm going ahead, I hope you don't do anything stupid, Maka."

He chuckled as he walked out of the room, leaving it opened a bit. I walked up to the corner of the wall, right next to the bed and sat there. Hugging my knees, depressed that my closest friend was murdered.

I was walking down the Death room, to go see Lord Death and the others. I feel bad for Maka, since she just lost one of her good friends. I saw the door and walked through it. There they were, Lord Death, Spirit, BlackStar, Tsubaki, Death the Kid, Liz, and Patty.

"Hey Soul, what brings you here?"

Blackstar chuckled as we highfived each other.

"Same thing that brought you here. Hey Tsubaki."

I said smiling at everyone.

"Hey Soul! Uh, Soul. Where is Maka?"

She asked me as I gave her a concerned look.

"Lord Death, may I speak with you?"

I walked up to him not paying attention to Death the Kid and his girls.

"Hey Soul, hi hi what's up?"

"We have...a situation going on Lord Death."

"Hmm, situation? What kind of "situation" do we have?"

He said as he tilted his head at me.

"It's Crona. He's been...he's been...murdered."

Everyone stopped with what they were doing.

"Hmm, murdered you say?"

"Yes, murdered. We found this note."

I said as I gave him the note.

"Murdered you say?"

Death the Kid said as he walked to me and Lord Death.

"Yeah, murdered. Maka's pretty upset by it."

"I can imagine that, do you know who could've done this?"

"No, I don't. Lord Death can you solve the riddle on that note? I don't understand riddles that much."

I said to him.

"Well, it says this. Beneath the stone there is a place unknown. Where the sun doesn't shine, I could be anywhere, even in your mind. Be careful of what you find, and make sure to look before the sun shines. Hmmm, this is quite the mindboggler. I'll take a look at this Soul, in the meantime there's something important I'd like to tell all of you."

"What is it father?"

"Yeah, why did we have to come here?"

Death the kid, then Blackstar asked.

"Well, we will be having two new students arriving at the DWMA. I am good friends with their parents and thought they would be good for the academy. They should be arriving tomorrow."

Lord Death said happily.

"Well, that's great news. I can't wait to meet them."

Kid said.

"Oooooh, a new student! Yay, yay, yay!"

Liz giggled.

"Well, they will be given a warm welcome to the academy. Isn't that right Tsubaki?"

"Yeah Blackstar."

Tsubaki said as she smiled.

"So is that all you wanted father?"

"Yes it is. Now Soul, I'll send someone to you when we have this riddle solved. In the meanwhile we will hold a funeral for Crona. This is, rather disturbing news for us. Thank you for reporting it."

"Hey no problem Lord Death."

I chuckled.

"Hey Soul, is it okay if we go see Maka?"

"Yeah, I wanna go cheer her up!"

"Well, I'd say yes but she probably would like to be alone. We can all see her tomorrow. I'm going to go check on her, it was nice seeing you guys. I will probably see you later."

"Alright, sounds good Soul!"

Blackstar said as he highfived me again.

"Bye Soul! Tell Maka I'm sorry to hear what happened to Crona!"

Tsubaki said as she smiled waving at me.

"What they said."

Liz, Patty and Death the Kid said all at the same time.

I walked out of the room. I feel awful knowing what happened to Crona, I want to know who's responsible for this.