Ray tried to endure the dust as she searched threw Kid's stuffs, she already found a black and white photo album, his diary and his notebook. But no signs of the item she's after. She sighed when suddenly Boy rushed in, his smile was so much like Kid's. They looked identical except his stripes are on the right,

"Ray! I've got a mission for us!", Boy said,

"Huh?."

"Well...you have to collect kishin souls at some point so I think you should start early, and at the same time my father asked me to take scores of your fighting skills to see how good you are."

"Where is it?", Ray asked as she stood up,

"Its in China", Boy said reading the piece of paper,

"C-China...", Ray said shakily,

"Whats wrong with China?", Boy tilted his head,

"Nothing...", Ray muttered as they went out of the room.

In China, Chang Chun

"Uh...I'm so cold...", Boy trembled, he couldn't spit out the words clearly caused by his teeth shaking with his whole body,

"Eh, your so annoying, why didn't you bring anything warm?", Ray asked,

"How did you know this place is cold?."

"Uh...why? Well...I...", Ray ditched the conversation and quickly went inside a small shop,

"Hey!", Boy moaned as he followed.


"Aiya! Is it really you Xing Tong?!", the old shop keeper took off his glasses and looked carefully, Ray waved her arms trying to say no as Boy just stood there in confusion.

"No no, you must be mistaken!", Ray said trying to leave the shop,

"Eh, you can't lie to me young lass, I'm the town's best tailor! I can see through your bad quality scarf", he laughed,

"Hey! My scarf if NOT bad", Ray snapped,

"Ho ho, I'll give a better scarf to you for free", said the tailor as he quickly snatched the scarf off Ray, she gasped as she plopped on the floor, covering her face at the opposite direction of Boy.

"Eh...I'm afraid I don't get it, I mean, he knows you? And did he call you las-", the conversation broke when the tailor came back with a purple scarf that looked exactly like Ray's old scarf except it was smooth and comfortable when Ray quickly snatched it and covered her face quickly,

"Thank you", she bowed,

"Don't worry, so what brings you here, Xing Tong?", the tailor looked threw his draws,

"I need something warm for my friend", she said,

"Eh? Your boyfriend eh?", he asked, Boy blushed,

"No...my friend", Ray corrected him,

"Eh, young love, you don't have to hide it from your best friend, I'll need to make something that suits his hair, please go and get some black cloth and white fox fur", the tailor said as he pointed at the back, Ray went without hesitation.

"So uh...Sir, is he your best friend or...", Boy asked,

"Eh? Your not from here are you? No wonder you don't hate her, but then again, I don't know why everybody hate her", he said as he settled down on his little stool with a sewing machine in front of him,

"Huh?."

"Eh, she was bullied me lad, and so she moved but her parents died on their trip to London, so she was sent to the orphanage, after those years I had no connection with her", he grinned, his chinese accent was faint but it was still there,

"But your her best friend?", Boy asked,

"Yup, thats right, clever girl she is, she likes learning and one day she tumbled over my humble shop and I taught her how to make clothes, she didn't have a friend so I became her only friend", the tailor smiled, Boy felt a sudden sadness rush inside him but urged himself to correct the tailor,

"Your mistaken sir, he's a guy", Boy said, the tailor raised a brow and laughed,

"Oh, I know she looks like a guy and she's really flat chested but really? You can't tell?", the tailor laughed as Ray stomped out of the storage room,

"AHEM, Mr. Tailor, may I speak with you for a second?", she said as she plopped the stuff on the table,

"Eh, sure", he stood up and disappeared behind the shop, Boy waited as he leaned against the wall.

Five minutes later they both came back, the tailor scratched his head, and began working,

"Oh silly me, my english is not so good these days, of coarse she- I mean, he is a boy ho ho", he laughed,

"Uh, ok, what happened in there?", Boy asked, turning towards Ray,

"English lesson", she shrugged,

"Ok...", Boy didn't want to have second thoughts so he just stuck with the idea they had an english lesson.

Half an hour later, Ray leaned against the wall as Boy paced around the room waiting for them to continue on their mission,

"Done!", the tailor man said as he passed Boy a black puffy jacket with white fox fur around the hood and the end of each sleeve, Boy smiled and carefully put it on.

"Thank you, how much does that cost?", Boy asked,

"Its free me lad, now you'll be warm", he patted Boy on the head, Ray bowed and left the shop dragging Boy along with her,

"Now, where's the kishin soul?", Ray asked,

"Dunno, have to find it first", Boy answered, Ray sighed as she closed her eyes and concentrated,

"Its that way", she said as she ran towards to direction to a small park, Boy followed. Ray jumped up the houses and passed the alleyways, Boy had to be quick to catch up to Ray. They finally arrived at the park, a little girl was crying and laughing at the same time, her pupils are gone, and all thats left in her eyes are a sheet of red instead of white.

"Come out, come out wherever you are", she laughed, Ray spotted a few kids hiding behind a trash can, they were trembling as the girl went closer and closer to them,

"Are you gonna take the score?", Ray asked, Boy gulped,

"Ya know, she's just a kid, you don't have to hurt her", Boy suggested,

"So? 'She's just a kid', I've heard that before, if she's evil, she needs to be destroyed", Ray snapped as she jumped off the roof and onto the snowy ground,

"Eh? You've come to kill me?", the girl asked,

"Yes, your soul has become a kishin egg and you must be destroyed", Ray said as she charged at amazing speed, the girl dodged easily, and frowned,

"Aw, master Wind said your hard to take care of, that is if you don't use your shadow powers", she laughed as black spikes shot from her hand, it looked like she was using her blood, Ray's eyes widened, she didn't know black blood still existed these days, but she couldn't care less,

"Uh, what a pain", she muttered, she unleashed 1/10 of her power, shadows from the ground rose up and attacked the child,

"Oh! So its true, you do call spirits from dead!", she clapped her hands and grabbed out a torch, she shone them on the spirits and they backed away, didn't disappear, just back away.

"Crap...", Ray mumbled and sent out more shadows but this time, they're white, again the girl lighted the torch but the shadows got closer and a dark aura seemed to take over as the girl screamed her head off. Moments later, when the spirits finished devouring her, there were no remains except for the little red orb. Boy's mouth wouldn't close even though he wasn't saying anything, he quickly jotted down notes about Ray's powers: Shadows, blackish purple and white. Powerful and can devour people, rises from hell. Similar to witch craft and Satan's work.

"Don't tell me, your going to give that to your father", Ray said in annoyance,

"I have to, we collect all of the students data and their fighting styles", Boy nodded as they grabbed the red soul and headed back to the DWMA

TO BE CONTINUED...