Chapter 4

Warren woke up in a bed, with Riko leaning across the bed and starring straight down at his face. "Good morning." She said as a smile split her face. "I'm glad your still alive."

"Riko? Where are we?"

"Who is Riko?" Riko and Warren both looked over to see a lady standing at the side of the bed. Her long black pony tail reminded them of Hideko. When she looked up from the paperwork in her hands, they could see the family resemblance "And we are in the school's hospital."

"Oh, no one. I was… Um… Dreaming."

"I'm no one, huh?" Riko put her hands on her hips and looked away from them. "I'll remember that." Warren glanced at her with an apologetic look. "You didn't have to say it like that." Riko relaxed again.

"Hideko said your Warren, right?" He nodded. "I'm her mom, Tsubaki. Your going to be sore for a few days, so no more sneaking around. Do you remember what happened?"

"Yeah. There was an explosion, then this meister showed up. He was going to kill us. If it wasn't for Hideko, we would be dead."

"Most of the teachers are trying to find out what happened last night, so I'm sure there will be a few people who want to talk with the two of you. For now, relax and don't worry. You don't have anything broken, but you've got some heavy bruises." She was shaking her head as she walked away.

"I guess I'll live, huh." Warren looked at Riko.

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, your giving me more excitement then I've ever seen." Riko laughed at him.

Death the Kid stands over the half destroyed building in his cloak and mask. "Patty, go see if Liz found anything yet."

"Ooooh Kay." Patty walked away leaving Kid standing there with Soul.

"Man, this has been a long night." Soul was rubbing the back of his neck.

"Soul. Your sure you didn't get a better look at the person who went out with Warren?"

"No. They were headed in this direction when I lost them. I wish I had more information for you."

Kid nodded. "Well, I was informed that Warren has been brought into the school. He's currently in a hospital bed. Somehow, he managed to get injured last night and the other person with him, is no where to be found. And to add another twist, he was found only a couple of blocks from here. When we're done here, I'll be paying him a visit. Oh Soul… Go get some sleep before you fall over."

As Soul left, Liz and Patty walked up. "Hey, Kid." Liz said. "No one has come to any conclusion as to why this building was blown up. It's an empty warehouse to a store down the block. They just bought it a couple of weeks ago. And there hasn't been any kind of suspicious… Well, anything."

"Then that's the question we need to answer. Why blow up a empty building?" Kid turned to look at the school.

Maka was standing out side of the school's hospital wing, stopping anyone who might try to get in. Black Star walked up to her and asked, "Any news yet?"

"Tsubaki hasn't said anything yet. Can you keep watch for a minute. I'll go in and see if anythings changed." He nodded and Maka stepped into the room. "Tsubaki."

"Ah, Maka. Come on in." They shared a look. "He's finally awake."

Maka walked over to Warren. "Warren right? Do you remember who I am?" He nodded. "May I ask you some questions?" He nodded again. "Good. First, where you at the explosion site?" Warren shook his head. "Alright, you were found in the area and injured. Do you know what happened?" Again, Warren shook his head in a no. "Do you have any idea who might have been involved?" Another no. "Why did you go out there and what happened to you?"

Warren saw the look on Tsubaki's face behind Maka. So he told her almost everything. Instead of Hideko's name, he used Riko's. He told her that they were out when the explosion went off, how the meister attacked, and how they escaped. Leaving out the smoke bomb and filling it in with more running and lucky turns. As Warren was giving her full details about what happened, Maka opened her senses to view Warren's soul. His Soul itself was a lonely soul, but strong. Along with that, there was magic involved with his soul. It looked like a black string tied around it. As she looked closer at the string, it led away from his soul. As she followed it, it flowed out of his body and stopped to hover next to him. The end that was floating in mid air, was tied around another soul. This one was almost invisible. If the black string wasn't there, she would have never seen the soul floating there. These two souls were bound by this magic. 'What is this?' Maka was thinking. 'I've never seen anything like this. What kind of magic could do this?'

Warren saw her eyes widened and asked her, "Is there something wrong?" He followed her gaze to Riko. 'Does she see Riko?' He thought.

"Warren, I have one last question for you? Have you ever meet a witch before?"

"No. Why do you ask?"

"No reason." Maka left without saying anything else except her goodbyes.

After she was gone, Tsubaki said, "Thank you. I would like to ask my daughter a few questions first."

Riko looked down at Warren and said, "For a minute, I thought she could see me too. But if she couldn't see me, what was she looking at?"

"Hideko, what's wrong?" Satomi asked her. "You look like you've seen a ghost."

"Maybe she confessed her love for someone and got turned down." Kaylee added.

"What? Hideko wouldn't do that." Both Satomi and Kaylee turned to look at Hunter. "What?"

"I'm done." Hideko looked even more depressed and got all three of them to turn back to her. "Somehow, I made things worse."

"What are you talking about?" Satomi asked.

"I went to see Warren last night." Hideko said.

"Why would you do that?" Hunter sounded a bit angry when he asked. Again Satomi and Kaylee shot him a look. "What is it with you two?" Both girls shook their heads at him.

"We weren't very far away from the explosion. Then some meister came out of nowhere and was going to kill us." The other three fell silent. "Warren got hurt and I left him there."

"Hideko, why would you do that?" Satomi asked.

"I didn't know what to do. I got him help, but I left him." Satomi put a arm around her. "I went to go see him, but your mom was standing outside. I don't think it would have been good to try to see him."

"We can send Kaylee in there to spy." Hunter suggested.

They all turned to look at Kaylee. "Why me?" She moaned.

Maka caught Kid on his way back into the school. "Kid, I need to speak with you." After a short walk, the two of them entered into Death's chamber. "I went and viewed Warren's soul." Liz, Patty, and Black Star walked in after them. Maka continued, "His soul has been intertwined with another soul. There's defiantly magic involved, but there's no way to tell who put it there. The strangest part is, I could just barley see the second soul. But it was floating by his side, as if the person was there. I've never seen anything like it before. Normal magic stays on the soul, but I've never heard of seeing the connection to another soul without seeing the other person in the same room. It's unheard of… I don't know what it means."

"So we now know magic is involved somehow with Warren. But we still have no details or clues as to whether or not Warren's involved with what's happening out there. Maka, did you ask him about what happened?" Kid seemed to be deep in thought, but gave Maka his full attention.

"Of course. And unless he was lying to me, he doesn't know anything."

"Alright, before I talk to him myself, I want Angela to go look him over. Maybe we can get some answers from her." Kid said. "Maka, will you go get Angela and introduce her to Warren. Explain everything to her before hand."

Maka nodded. "Will do." Maka left the chamber to go get the witch Angela.

Angela had a few run ins with Black Star when she was a kid. He was the reason that the school took her in when she was a kid and shes now currently helping to change the way of the DWMA. Changes for how the DWMA looks at the witches they hunt down. The DWMA is now working with witches to find the witches who have gone evil, instead of any and all witches being on Death's list. They carefully choose who makes it on Death's list. Maka her self has a very open mind about working with the the witches. She became great friends with another one of the first witches that came to the school. So when Maka entered the lab in which Angela worked, they shared a friendly greeting before she was filled in on what was going on.

Tsubaki looked up from her desk and greeted Maka and Angela. "Hello you two. He's sleeping at the moment."

Maka opened her sight and saw the floating soul move from were someone would have been sitting next to him, to were someone was standing next to him. "Nothings changed." Maka was confused by what see saw. It was like there was someone there that they couldn't see.

Riko was looking between Maka, Angela, and Tusbaki. 'What should I do? Should I wake him up? What's she doing?'

Angela stood next to the bed and put her hands out over Warren. Her hands hovered over Warren and had a slight glow to them. Angela started whispering to herself, so quiet that you could only hear a word here and there. Maka kept her sight opened, but didn't see any changes happening. Angela stayed like that for almost twenty minutes before her hands lost the glow. She put her hands down and shook her head. "This magic spell, was not cast on him."

Riko tilted her head and said out loud, "Of course not. It was cast on me." She knew no one would hear her, but couldn't help trying to talk to them.

Maka was so confused that all she could say was, "What?" She looked at Warren for a long moment. "That doesn't make any sense. Someone had to cast it on him."

"Maka, if you say there's another soul attached to his, that's where the magic comes from. For some reason, that magic was drawn to him and attached itself onto him." Angela looked back at Warren then added. "This is old magic. I don't know much about it."

Tusbaki asked, "Is there anyone who would know?"

"Yes, but not anyone good."