AN: Sorry, I had a major writters Block for the longest time. But now that I sat down with rockin' music the whole story idea of what is to come next just came together. Now the chapers will be comming out alot sooner than they had. And thank you to those who have stayed loyal to reading this and replying. Those replys inspire me to keep going, so reply!

"Ruined! Ruined, ruined, ruined!" Liz yelled walking through the desert. Patty and Kid walking at her sides. Black*Star and Tubaki were following right behind them as well.

"It's alright. You still have a way to become the princes weapons." Tsubaki said to her with a worried smile.

"I know, but I didn't want to risk my life at all! That's why I made the wish to look like civil, precious, and delacte princesses! Patty, why did you have to say yes?" Liz cried.

"Well if you're weapons you guys will have to be in a fight at some point." Kid said.

"Well yeah but..." Liz said thinking.

"I say if you just have to kick but to get where you want it's a pretty good deal." Black*Star stated. He walked up in front of Liz and looked at her.

"Do your best." he said with a determinded smile. Liz looked at him then looked to her sides at Kid and Patty. They both smiled at her as well.

"Alright! Let's do it!" Liz said more determinded to get it over with. They all cheered with her.

Following farther behind less enthusiastic was Maka and Soul.

"Why do I have to be stuck on a mission like this?" she sulked with her head hanging. Soul was walking next to her with his cool atitude.

"It's not like we were'nt already on the search team in the first place. Stop your crying." he stated.

"It's not about the mission itself. It's him." she said pointing to Black*Star. "You remember how uncooperative he was at the palace. Just think how the mission is going to go. A disaster." she said looking at the ground again as she kicked some sand with her feet. Soul looked at his depressed partner, he had to cheer her up or else they really weren't going to get anywhere with this mission.

"You know how we messed up on our last assignment, keeping people out of the room?" he asked still walking forward. She shook her head yes thinking about that as another thing to be sad about.

"We need to make up for it on this mission. Being on the same team as that guy will give you a challenge as well." Maka thought about it putting a finger up to her mouth. "Not to mention this is our biggest mission ever: Retreave Shinigami's son. If we complete this it will be the greatest we ever done and we'll both get stronger." he said smiling revealing his sharp teeth. Maka pondered on the truth her reliable partner said. She smiled.

"You're right! If I can put up with this guy I can put up with anyone! Let's go, Soul!" she yelled running closer to the group ahead of them. He watched her and smiled.

"She is so not cool."

*BACK AT THE PALACE*

"Are you sure you didn't get anything on him?" Stein asked. He and Spirit were meeting up with Sid who Stein sent on a mission to spy on Noah.

"I didn't get anything out the ordinary." Sid said. Stein thought for a while. The tip of his cigarett lit up and he blew out a cloud of smoke.

"Alright, thanks for doing this." Stein said with a smile to Sid. After Sid left the room only Spirit and Stein were left in silence.

"You aren't giving this up are you?" Spirit asked breaking the silence. Stein breathed out another puff of smoke.

"That's not what you expect of me, is it Senpi?" Stein asked with a smile.

"Not you. What is it that makes you so suspicious of Noah? Besides his whole vibe, it always seemed like bad news to me." Spirit said.

"That isn't enough for you? If you want more of a reason, he always seemed fond of Shinigami's son. It's more like he wants him for himself." Stein said.

"For what reason?" Spirit asked still confused.

"That's what we need to find out." Stein said blowing out another puff of smoke.

"And we can't just arrest him without proof." Spirit stated.

"Right. That's what Sid was for...and the next guy." Stein said blowing his last smoke cloud in the shape of Shinigami. "I'll see you later, Senpi. I have to go meet up with some one." Stein said leaving the room as he put out his cigarett bud in the ash try on the desk.

After Stein left Spirit smiled. "I guess I didn't notice till now, but ash trays were put around the palace ever since he came here."

*AHEAD AT MEDUSA'S LAIR*

"Everything went according to plan." Eruka said to Medusa.

"Perfect." Medusa said. She looked into her crystal ball and seen everything Stein seen.

"That's genius, Medusa. Switching the Shinigami's mask and Franken Stein's glasses with replicas of your own." Eruka complimented.

"Mizunes did a good job switching them with the extra time Free gave them distracting that shinigami boy as well. And no one in the palace noticed a thing." Eruka thought to herself.

"Indeed." Medusa said. She listened to Stein's conversation that was happening.

(picture this back at the palace)

"Thank you for coming, BJ." Stein said meeting him in the halls of the palace.

"Sure. And you wanted me to come for what?" BJ asked.

"I know you are good for investigating, so I need you to look after someone named Justin." Stein said.

"Him? I thought he was taking the place of the prince." BJ said confused.

"That's right, I just want to know a little more about him. And if you could would you interigate him for me as well?" Stein asked.

"That's what I'm here for." BJ said with a sigh.

As their conversation ended Medusa was caught in her own thoughts and didn't listen to the rest.

"They're loosing trust in Noah's henchman. They're getting suspicious of Noah." Medusa thought to herself with a chuckle.

"Soon his plans will be set back or not complete at all if they keep this feeling about him. Oh well, he's of no use to me anymore any way. I'll take him out of my plans." Medusa said.

Just as Medusa was about to fade out her crystal ball Mizunes came in, in their mice form, and started squeeking.

"What? How far away are they?" Medusa asked. Their response ,once again, was a series of squeeks. Medusa noticed her crystal Ball had the view of Noah. She then listened to their converstation.

"...and thanks again for the information on who kidnapped the prince. Where did you get it from again?" Stein asked.

"Oh, Justin had been collecting information and he had resorcess that lead to his kidnapper being that of a witch. And some evidences shows of it being the witch at the location I told you. The witch Medusa." Noah explained.

"He sold me out before I could do the same to him." Medusa thought to herself with a look of discust on her face as she stared at Noah in the crystal ball.

"What should we do Medusa? Thoses kids are on their way here." Eruka asked. Medusa pulled her hood over head and made the images on her crystal ball fade away.

"There's nothing much to worry about. He sent a bunch of children after us. We can take care of it easily." Medusa said with a smile as she got up and started walking towards the door.

"I'll just need to talk to a someone dear to me." she said with a small chuckle and one of her small black ,electric looking, snakes twist out of her mouth.

Who is Medusa's "dear friend"? Will Justin kill BJ this time? Will Liz or Patty ever find out where the Prince is or who kidnapped him OR that the prince is right next to them? Will Soul ever think Maka is cool? All these questions and more will be answered in the next chapter of Diamonds in the Ruff.