YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

Now on with the story.

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Soul's POV

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It was the next day. I didn't sleep at all that night. I was too worried about Maka. I got out of bed after several failed attempts to sleep when the alarm went off. I went into the kitchen, hoping to see Maka either cooking breakfast or waiting for me to cook it.

She wasn't.

Instead, it was Blair in cat form, looking rather solemn, charring fish for breakfast.

"I've been wondering." I started to say, while walking into the kitchen. "What were you looking for yesterday?"

She seemed a bit surprised, but that was to be expected after sneaking up on her. "Oh. That." She said after finally regaining her composure. "It's nothing."

I groaned internally. 'It's nothing' in girl talk is either 'It's something and I want you to press on.' Or 'It's something but drop it.' She could also be speaking the truth and think nothing of it. Wasn't that whole 'girl talk' thing reserved for talking to crushes and boyfriends? Even if it is, who am I to say she doesn't have a crush on me? She certainly seems to want to bath with me a lot. Or I could be overthinking the entire thing. Which is surprising for me.

"Okay." I decided to just brush it off.

"Hey," She pointed towards a clock. "Doesn't school start in half an hour?"

He stood there for a minute, staring at the clock, doing the math which shouldn't have taken him that long.

"SHIT!" I yelled before bolting to get clothes on, quickly eat breakfast, care for hygiene (Minus shower), etc.

I ran out of the apartment and dashed towards school.

TIME JUMP

It was class time. Stein was at the teacher's desk at the beginning of class.

"Today we will be doing something different. Due to the recent activities, instead of dissection, we are doing research to see if we can find out anything about Asura and Maka." He stated to the class.

Stein also had one more announcement.

"Before you start researching, we have one more thing to cover in regards to the Excalibur task." He stated

Everyone groaned.

"Don't worry, only one student is going there." He continued. "As you can guess from that sentence, the people going have been decided. Sid with Nygus, Me with Marie, and Justin Law are the 5 staff members going. The single student going is Hero."

Everyone, including me, snapped their heads towards Hero in confusion. He seemed proud. Finally got that big job that he's been wanting.

"And what is my noble assignment?" Hero asked adamantly.

"You have the most important job out of all of us." Stein answered. Hero's ears perked up. "You will be the one to talk to Excalibur so that the other members don't try to strangle him."

Hero seemed defeated. "Not the stupid sword…."

"The reason that you were chosen is because you're the one who has tolerated Excalibur the longest. As long as he doesn't sneeze, I feel like you'll be fine. We're leaving an hour before school starts tomorrow."

I couldn't argue with the choices made. They seemed logical. Send a large portion of the talented people to the place where you think they'll show up while still leaving a few talented people behind as protection.

Stein then told us to get to research. And research I did. I looked in books like Madness and how it works, Soul Wavelengths 101, 50 Kishin tales, etc. But still nothing!

I felt useless! Like a Spork! I couldn't find anything useful! I couldn't do anything to help her!

Near the end of class, I looked around the room and saw Crona in a corner with Miss Marie sitting next to… Him? Her? It?…. Crona. Sitting next to Crona. I decided to walk over and sit down on Crona's other side.

"Hey, Crona, are you okay?" I asked…. The pink-haired meister.

"I don't know how to deal with Maka gone. And being a Kishin no less!" Crona answered solemnly.

"I don't know how either. I honestly don't."

Crona brought his knees to his chest and buried his face into his legs. I could hear quiet sobbing. Marie and I both put our hands on his back, lightly patting him.

When suddenly, Ragnarok burst out of his back. He loudly exclaimed "WHO NEEDS THAT FAT COW, MAWA OR WHATEVER IT WAS!"

The simultaneous glare of everyone in the classroom had the same potential energy of a neutron bomb. But Ragnarok wasn't intimidated by it. He merely gained more confidence in his insults. "SHE'S SUCH A WEAKLING, EVEN CRONA COULD TAKE HER DOWN IN HER KISHIN FORM!"

The simultaneous glare intensified. But Ragnarok still didn't care. Crona had stopped crying however.

"Don't you… EVER… Call Maka a weakling again…" Crona muttered to him.

"AND WHAT'S A PUNY LITTLE PANSY LIKE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?"

Crona didn't respond. Instead, he hit Ragnarok with one of his strongest punches ever. The SMACK sound made by his fist connecting with the black creature echoed throughout the classroom.

Ragnarok was knocked unconscious after that. He fell back into Crona's bloodstream. Crona seemed ticked off, but went back to crying over Maka.

Shortly after that surprising turn of events, class was over. I headed home, had some half-assed dinner that I threw together, and went to bed.

I was expecting another restless night, but after 30 straight hours awake, I fell right asleep.

The next day was mayhem. Those 5 staff members and Hero were gone, and in class, there was just a note saying "Same thing as yesterday. Report to Spirit outside of the Death Room if you find something."

I had no clue where to start, when an idea popped up in my head.

I decided to go to the library. I walked into the library and talked to the librarian. A tall man in a suit and tie. He had a handlebar moustache but seemed nice.

"Where's the shelf that had the book on Excalibur?" I asked him.

"Right over there." The librarian answered, pointing towards a bookshelf with no spaces open.

I walked over to the bookshelf and looked at the books close to it. Specifically, the titles.

151 ways to die your hair

Reasons why Excalibur should be sealed off in another dimension

History of Turnips

[Blank Cover]

Why I married my dog

Wait… Blank cover? I wondered what was in it. I carefully pulled the clean book out of the dusty bookshelf. A fine layer of dust covered the area that the book was on.

I opened it up, and figured out something extraordinary. To me at least. It was Maka's Journal. I didn't know that she had one.

I figured that I should have read it there, but something told me that I needed to show Lord Death first.

So I talked to the Librarian, explained how this book probably wasn't in the library's inventory and was important to the research, and he let me walk out with it after signing something saying that he took it, just in case.

I walked to the Death Room with the Journal in my hand. When I finally reached the doors, Spirit saw me and stopped me.

"Do you have any information?" He asked me, eying the book in my hand.

I held the book up and simply said "Maka's Journal. I found it in the library near where the Excalibur book was. It was put there recently."

He gave me an odd look. Then the book.

"Hand it here, so that we can look through it."

"Don't you think Lord Death should be present when it's read?"

"True."

He opened the doors to the Death room and walked in after I did, closing the doors behind him, leaving a note explaining his absence.

Lord Death turned away from the mirror and looked at us, then the book, curiously.

Spirit explained the book in the same way I did with him. I then handed Lord Death the Journal.

Lord Death opened the notebook and started reading.

[Date that is a month ago from present day]

Today I decided to get a journal. I don't know, I just sort of had the overwhelming urge to buy one and start writing in it. No clue why, just did. So I bought one and I'm now writing in it.

It was fairly normal.

[Date that is day after last one]

Today I saw someone in the restaurant. He was wearing dark clothes and hid his face. He sat down at a table and nobody paid any attention to him. Not even Soul, who got a little bit protective after the fight with the Kishin.

That would be normal, minus the fact that I didn't remember a man like that in the restaurant that day. And the fact that a little doodle of Asura's 3 eyes was on a corner of the page.

[Date after last one]

I went to the Library in the DWMA today and saw the strange man again. And once again, no one else noticed him.

This was more concerning since Spirit was watching the Library closely that day and didn't see a man like that. Also, there were now 8 doodles of the Asura eyes.

[Next date]

Today, the man spoke to me. He saw me on the streets, stopped me, looked up to the sky and said one of the weirdest sentences.

"You know what the sky needs? A little bit more red."

This was borderline terrifying. First of all, red clouds is a sign of abundant madness, as I learned from the failed attempt at research the day before. Also, the sides of the paper were filled with doodles of the Asura eyes.

[Next date]

It was barely legible. There were so many doodles of the Asura eyes all over the page, drawn over the writing, on the sides, in the corners, etc. Only 4 words could be seen on the page.

HE CAN HEAR YOU

The next couple of entries were normal, with no sign of what had just happened.

Then came the journal entry for the day when he had that nightmare and it all began.

It was just a sketch. A simple sketch of the DWMA in flames.

And that was it.

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Trying to make every other day!

Not sure if this counts!

Still need a new summary!