A/N Hi people! Sorry it's been a bit over what I thought it would be... I am afraid that family and school have been driving me up a wall. I don't think I've been sleeping the night way either. But who needs sleep anyway? Please enjoy this and tell me how I am doing! And I have found that reviews are like candy! And that I suck at keeping my word at the moment. I didn't lie about updating; I was just prevented from doing so... And because you guys convinced me by being awesome, I decided to update this story before my other one!


Maka's pov

Before us were about fifty to sixty ape like creatures. And they were huge! I think that you could have fit about two good sized people inside of one of them. Looking at their souls, I could tell that they were very perverted and really not all that strong. I already didn't like them at all.

"M-m-m-monsters!" I heard Liz mutter in fear. I still didn't understand why she was so frightened of monsters. She had to know that as long as she was with Kid it wasn't like any could actually hurt her or anything. Not to mention she was a weapon. They usually didn't get hurt at all. Well... there were a few exceptions.

"Soul," I called, and he was already thinking along the same lines as I was. I didn't even need to finish the thought before he had become a scythe and flew into my waiting hands.

"I thought you said there were only about twenty five of these things!" Kid decided to ask the obvious question that was on everybody's mind. He was already standing with the twin postal sisters in their weapon form, his legs parted to prepare for the kick back.

With an exasperated sigh, Erza said "It appears as if we have been given faulty information on the request the guild had received. But no matter, it's not like these are that strong to begin with."

Her tone should have told me something was up, but I was worried about what Black Star as doing at the moment. With his usual whoop, he had divide head long into the mass of ape monsters. As he did I couldn't help but wonder what the red headed girl thought was strong. People often did have different levels that they considered weak or strong.

With protesting sounds of our own, Kid and I rushed forward to join the fight with our childish third partner. And probably save him from himself.

"Woman!" A few of the monkeys chanted. That was when I was reassured that they were perverts. In fact, over half of them started to come for me. Though I'm pretty sure if they knew most of the weapons were female they would have gone for them as well.

When they fell I was surprised that they didn't fade away and just leave the souls like the monsters would have in our own world. It was almost inconvenient that they stayed around as corpses. I now knew that Soul wouldn't be collecting any souls from here. Too bad, it would have been a nice way to get ahead while we were gone.

I think that the others thought the same. Black Star was a little taken back by it, but he fought on. I think that Kid was expecting it though. It really shouldn't have been a surprise. I remembered that I had heard Lucy talking about not being able to actually get a soul after all.

It was after the fourth perverted ape had fallen at my and Soul's hands that I realized the Fairy Tail mages were not fighting with us. One look at them and I could see why.

They were all in a ready stance, with the exception of Erza and Natsu. Erza had Natsu by the back of his scarf and was holding him back from trying to join the fight. I could see that he was also covered in a fine dousing of flames.

"Why are you not helping us?" Kid asked then from where he was gunning down Vulcan after Vulcan. His long distance attacks were clearly better at taking these things out.

"This is a test of strength. If you all pass it, then we will better know how prepared you are for our world. We will help when we are needed, but not a moment before then!" The scarlet haired knight told us.

I won't lie; I was slightly annoyed with that response. Even if I understood the reasoning, I still wanted some help with this. But if she thought we could take down twenty of these monsters each, then I guess that was what we would have to do.

Besides, they were brainless monsters. I remembered that Kid had to take out a pyramid scandal at the Anubis pyramid before, and that was over a hundred mummies. These things couldn't be any worse than those were.

"Come on Soul; let's show them how it's done!" I spoke to my weapon partner. This was going to be just what we needed.

Within seconds, another five were down. I was just about to spin out for my next target when a roar ripped through the air.

All of the vulcans stopped their assault on us and looked at the shadows that were coming ever closer. Flying at us were three monsters that I thought resembled dragons. I almost did call them dragons. They were pure white, had shortened muzzles, and worst of all they had sharp teeth and claws.

"Blizzardvern!" Lucy called over to Erza with some fear in her eyes.

"We must have stumbled upon their herbs somehow. Ah, yes, over there! They are simply protecting their food supply." Erza called over.

"What is a Blizzardvern?" Kid asked while keeping an eye on the three hulking figures, as well as the now frozen vulcans. There were only about ten vulcans left as it was.

Anticipating more fighting, ee took care of the leftover apes in a second and then braced for the incoming predators.

Erza answered again, she seemed to be the one to take to the educating of the knew people in their midst. "They are herbivores, but they are worthy opponents and very protective of their groves. This will be another good test. We shall take out the two smaller ones, your group can take out the bigger one in the center. A Blizzardvern's scales are a commodity and will catch a high price in the right places."

"Right!" We all chimed as the three of us took on a new stance. Soul and I were in the top while Black Star and Tsubaki were to my left, leaving Kid and the Thompson sisters standing to my right, flanking me.

"Gray, you and I will take the one on the left. That leave Natsu and Lucy with the one on the right!" Erza ordered.

"Aye sir!" The two boys called out as Lucy merely nodded.

The blue cat, Happy, grumbled about never being included when they fought like this.

Erza called out "Ex-quip" and she began to glow. When the glow faded she was in an armor that sported black demon wings and a long sword.

Looking to my right I saw that Lucy had two things that looked like keys in her hands. Calling out in a clear voice she said "Gate of the scorpion, gate of the bull, I open thee! Scorpio, Taurus!" In two flashes of golden light two new figures appeared. One looked like an over grown cow and the other a human scorpion.

"Moooo, Lucy-sama, nice body!" The cow said. That of course caused Lucy to slap her hand to her face and mumble something incoherent.

The scorpion had come out calling "We are!" for some odd reason.

What amazed me the most was the fact that they seemed to have complete trust and faith in Lucy. I knew from one glance that they would listen to her every word. They adored her and would let her lead them anywhere. Similarly, I saw that she loved them as family and trusted them with her life. It seemed like the bond between weapon and miester, only stronger by a long shot.

I turned back to our target to see that it was almost on us now.

With a burst of speed we began to cut away at the creature. I slashed with Soul as a scythe and found that the scales were rock hard. I turned to see that Tsubaki and Black Star had much the same effect. Looking to Kid I saw that the soul bursts coming from the pistils were barley doing anything at all.

"Distract him for a moment!" Kid called out to us. Black Star and I gave him a nod, or I did at least, Black Star was muttering about how it was useless seeing as he would be done with the thing in no time.

"Soul Resonance!" I heard him and the sisters call out. I didn't watch as I continued to swipe at the creature.

Paring a glance at the others, I saw that Erza was causing a lot of damage with her swords, and that her armor kept switching somehow. Also, Gray seemed to be able to make ice out of nothing and use it as a weapon. It was stunning.

On our other side, Taurus and Scorpio were combining their attacks while Natsu was going crazy with his fire and had a huge smile on his face. He was also somehow in the air due to Happy being his wings. I couldn't help but wonder why that didn't make him motion sick, but decided I didn't really care enough to ask later on.

The point was that I could tell that they would all be done in a matter of moments.

Turning back to our own creature, I heard the tell tale signs that Kid had finished gathering energy and was ready for his shot. Both Black Star and I jumped back to let him fire at the Blizzardvern.

When they did shoot, a black beam of energy sailed towards the target and pushed it back several yards. I could tell that it was a good hit. But, with that being said, it also made the thing angry. It opened its mouth, and I expected a roar, instead I saw that it was letting out a beam of ice right at us.

I cursed as Black Star came to the front and yelled out "Soul Resonance, Star Guard!" Tsubaki in her kusarigama form had formed a star with the chain and with Black Stars soul wavelength, it made a shield that protected us from the blast.

Once it was over I stepped up and said "My turn!" I could tell that the other two groups were done and were watching our fight progress. With a slight growl Soul and I called out "Soul Resonance!"

I poured my soul into Soul and he in turn amplified my soul wavelength and sent it back into me. We repeated this process until we were ready to attach.

"Ahhhhh," I started to shout when we were ready, Soul shouting along with me. The blade of his scythe started to glow blue before suddenly expanding into a larder blue blade make completely out of soul energy.

"Witch Hunter!" I yelled out as We started the cut into its right shoulder and I swung Soul to cut down to just below the left arm.


A/N: I hope that you enjoyed that! I tried to make it longer to make up for my tardiness. Please review and tell me how I did. I hope it was worth the wait!