(A/N: I'm still alive guys, here's another chapter for you.)

:Death the Cutie's POV:

I got dirt all over my clothes when we fell off the ferris wheel, not that I cared, I mean, it was just dirt. While Crona and I were walking around the carnival I spotted Soul and Maka. They were at the test-your-strength booth.

(C) "Hey guys."

(Maka) "Hi C. Hi Crona."

Soul had a mallet in his hands as he swung the hammer down. The small metal ball barely made it half way up.

(Soul) "Damn it..."

(Maka) "My turn!"

Maka grabbed the mallet and easily hit the metal ball to the top, but she didn't ring the bell.

(C) "Dang, I think Maka just beat you, Soul."

(Soul) "Well I don't get practice swinging a huge scythe around!"

Maka laughed.

(C) "Let me go next."

:Maka's POV:

C took the mallet from me and I watched her gently swing the mallet. It didn't look like she put much effort into it, but she rang the bell. Crona looked alarmed by the loud noise, so I patted him on the back.

(Maka) "Wow C, that was impressive!"

(C) "Thanks!"

(Soul) "Eh, it was cool."

(Maka) "You're just upset because you got beat by two girls."

(Soul) "Well I'm obviously friends with girls that take steroids."

(C) "Psh, you don't need to take steroids to win this game, you just need to know how to toggle the rig that keeps the bell from ringing."

C was holding up a broken wire that used to connect to the machine. The man at the booth didn't look to happy about it.

(Man) "Ay little girl! What do you think you're-"

(C) "First of all, don't call me a little girl. Second of all I do believe that unlicensed electronic modifications are illegal. So show me your license and I will take the consequences of breaking your little machine here."

(Man) "Uh..."

(C) "That's what I thought."

C dropped the broken wire on the floor.

(Maka) "How did you know how to do that?"

(C) "Let's just say that this isn't the first time I've been to a carnival."

:Liz's POV:

Why do all these carnival games have to be so hard? I'll never win Patty a stuffed giraffe... I looked around and saw a game that looked pretty easy, all you had to do was throw the ping pong ball into one of the cups, I can do that. I ran over and saw that Cody was already there.

(Cody) "Hey, Liz."

(Liz) "Hey."

(Cody) "Here to win that stuffed giraffe?"

He pointed to the only stuffed giraffe on the shelf.

(Liz) "Yeah, so?"

(Cody) "What a coincidence, me too."

Well this makes my life harder...

(Liz) "Well... I need this giraffe to make my sister happy, and when she's happy, I'm happy."

I looked at him with a sweet face.

(Liz) "Don't you want me to be happy~?"

(Cody) "Ah, I see what your doing, blondie, but I really need to win this giraffe."

I sighed, he's not making this easy. I payed for three ping pong balls and so did Cody... This won't end well... To get the giraffe I just need to get a ping pong ball into the blue cup. First one, miss. Second one, miss. The third one I threw bounced off a red cup into the blue one! My eyes lit up.

(Liz and Cody) "I'll take the giraffe!"

We both yelled at the same time. I guess Cody got it in a blue cup too.

(Man) "Hey, you can't both have the giraffe. You need to decide who's gonna take it."

(Liz) "I need this giraffe for Patty!"

(Cody) "I need this giraffe for Todd!"

(Man) "Well only one of you can have it so-"

A little girl interrupted.

(Girl) "Mommy, I want the giraffe!"

Me and Cody looked at each other. We exchanged some glances then looked at the man.

(Liz) "Give it to the girl..."

We both walked over to a bench and I sat down in defeat.

(Liz) "I'll never get a giraffe for Patty!"

I heard some people coming from a distance.

(C) "God of death, do they have anything other than stuffed giraffes here?"

I saw C walking with Soul, Maka and Crona.

(Liz) "C?"

(C) "Oh hey Liz, Cody, what's going on?"

She was holding a ton of stuffed giraffes.

(Cody) "How on earth did you get so many giraffes?"

(C) "I won them."

(Liz) "Are you kidding me? I've been trying to win a stuffed giraffe all day!"

(Cody) "So was I!"

:Death the Cutie's POV:

Liz and Cody looked pretty shocked when they saw all of the giraffes I got.

(C) "Psh, you guys want these? Take 'em."

(Liz) "Thank you, thank you, thank you! Now I have a giraffe for Patty!"

I'll never understand what's so great about giraffes. And so, we all walked. Eventually, we bumped into Todd and Patty at the shooting game.

(Patty) "DIE DIE DIE DIE!"

Basically, you need to shoot down six targets and you win. But it's not that easy. Patty was doing pretty well, she hit one target on the top row and two on the bottom row, just before she ran out of ammo.

(Patty) "DAMNIT! AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN!"

(Todd) "Patty! Calm down! You're scaring me!"

Before Patty could pay for another game (shinigami knows how long she's been at this booth) I stopped her.

(C) "Let me have the next game."

(Patty) "Fine! But I get to go after you."

(C) "No, don't waste your money on this game, Patty."

I payed the man for a game.

(Man) "Rifle or pisto-"

(C) "Pistol. Make it quick."

The man loaded the toy gun and handed it to me. I examined the bright orange tip of the gun, then held it upright and aimed. One thing I should mention is that I hold my guns right side up, unlike Kid, who for whatever reason, shoots with his pinkies. I took one shot for luck, then two, three, four, five, six, seven, I shot all the targets down. The man handed me a stuffed giraffe, oh joy.

(Patty) "No fair! Lemme go again! I'll aim better this time!"

(C) "It doesn't matter if you know how to aim well, you just need to know how to shoot with a crooked barrel."

(Soul) "How do you know so much about these games?"

(C) "I told you, I've been to the carnival before."

(Soul) "And exactly how many times has that been?"

(C) "Enough times for me to know that all of these games are rigged."

(Maka) "Hey, do you guys want to start heading over to the haunted house now?"

(C) "Sure, sounds good. Let's regroup first."

I spotted Kid by the fun house. He was on the ground banging the floor. There was quite a crowd gathered around him, so I made my way through and crouched next to him.

(C) "Uh, Kid?"

(Kid) "No! No! Don't make me go into that haunted house!"

(C) "What? This isn't the haunted house! This is the fun house."

(Kid) "There's nothing fun about this asymmetrical abomination!"

(C) "Well then I guess it's your lucky day, because we're not going in the fun house."

I dragged him away from the crowd and took him to the rest of the group. Todd and Patty were both holding stuffed giraffes.

(Patty) "No way! This giraffe's huge!"

(Liz) "Yep, I won it just for you!"

Won it? I'm the one that won that giraffe.

(Todd) "Brother! You got me a giraffe too?!"

(Cody) "Yeah, just like I promised.

" What is it with these people and giraffes? Todd and Patty looked at each other's giraffes. The small spark of joy seemed to disappear.

(Todd) "Oh... Uh... I like your giraffe, Patty..."

(Patty) "I like your giraffe too..."

Just a second ago these two were little balls of energy, and now they were both looking at the ground... You can almost feel the awkward.

(C) "Uh... Is something wrong...?"

They both shook their heads.

(Patty) "Actually... Todd...?"

He looked up.

(Patty) "I was wondering... Do you think we could..."

(Todd) "Trade giraffes...?"

(Patty) "YES!"

A bead of sweat dropped down my forehead... I leaned over to Liz.

(C) "Those giraffes look exactly the same to you, right?"

(Liz) "Yeah. They are exactly the same."

Todd and Patty switched giraffes and returned to their usual energetic selves.

(BlackStar) "Hey! Shouldn't you guys be at the Haunted House?"

BlackStar and Tsubaki joined our group.

(Soul) "We were just about to head there, you coming?"

(BlackStar) "Of course I am. How are you guys going to survive without your god around?"

Does he ever give this 'god' thing a rest...? I guess not. We were fairly close to the Haunted House. By this time the sun began to set.

(Soul) "Wait."

We all turned to Soul.

(Soul) "Just going into the haunted house would be boring. Let's have a punishment for whoever runs out first."

(BlackStar) "That's a great idea!"

(C) "What is it with you guys and punishments?"

(Soul) "It'll be fun."

(C) "Not really..."

(Kid) "Yeah, we all know that Liz is going to lose anyways."

(Liz) "Hey!"

(Kid) "Well, it's true."

(Liz) "What about you? You probably won't even go in because of your OCD. You didn't notice how asymmetrical that haunted house is!"

(C) "Oh god of death... Here it comes..."

(Kid) "NOOOO! YOU'RE RIGHT! WHY ARE THERE AN UNEVEN NUMBER OF WINDOWS? AND WHY ARE THERE SPIKES ON ONE SIDE OF THE HOUSE BUT NOT THE OTHER?! WHY!?"

I leaned over to Soul.

(C) "So what's the punishment?"

(Soul) "How about, whoever runs out has to attend Excalibur's 5 hour story telling party."

BlackStar grabbed Soul by the shoulders.

(BlackStar) "Are you crazy? That's suicide! You don't know! You haven't met him!"

(C) "So not even our 'god' can handle Excalibur..."

(Soul) "Hey, let go of me."

Soul pushed BlackStar's hands off of him.

(Soul) "You don't have to worry about it if you're not a scaredy cat."

(C) "Whatever, lets go inside already."

(Kid) "You can't expect me to go in there! It's asymmetrical!"

(C) "*sigh* I can assure you, Kid, that the inside is much less asymmetrical."

I tried to push him through the entrance but he wouldn't budge.

(C) "C'mon, the more time you spend out here the longer you'll have to look at the asymmetrical exterior of the house."

I eventually coaxed him into the house. He sighed and slipped his hands into his pockets. We all walked through the house together in our own small groups. The haunted house was dark, obviously, with fog carpeting the floor. The walls had skulls carved into the sides and there were the cutest little holograms of ghosts. Then there was the occasional zombie or spider or dead school girl that would jump out in front of you. Not very scary if you ask me. There were also black cats walking around... Real black cats. And I have no clue where they come from, they just kinda, appear... I don't think they're even supposed to be here. Someone should monitor that...

I glanced over towards Liz, who was holding onto Patty like her life depended on it. Patty, on the other hand, was laughing like a crazy person. Maka looked a bit spooked too, maybe he didn't notice but I could see her clinging to Soul. Tsubaki seemed more concerned about BlackStar because he was yelling all kinds of nonsense. Then I looked at Crona. He was just walking, casually.

(C) "Crona?"

He looked at me.

(C) "I know this isn't the scariest haunted house in the world, but... You're not just a little bit frightened?"

He looked around at all the ghosts and zombies and skeletons and spiders, then he turned back to me.

(Crona) "Lady Medusa is scarier than any of this stuff."

I didn't realize it, but I chuckled. He gave me a disapproving look and I stopped laughing. I guess his mother is a sensitive topic... Mother...

(C) "Sorry."

(Crona) "What?"

(C) "I didn't mean to laugh."

(Crona) "Oh, why were you laughing?"

(C) "Well because... Never mind..."

I guess he didn't understand why I was laughing? I don't know. We just continued walking.

(Liz) "H-hey guys..? D-does anyone know where Patty went..?"

(Maka) "Wasn't she just with you?"

(Soul) "How do you lose your sister, if you were holding on to her?"

(Liz) "I- I don't know! I can't find her!"

(C) "Well it's not like she's lost, the haunted house isn't that big."

(Liz) "N-not that big? We've been in here for half an hour!"

(C) "We've been in here for five minutes."

(Patty) "BOO!"

Maybe I shouldn't have stood so close to Liz, because she screamed in my ear when Patty came out wearing a table cloth...

(Patty) "Hahaha! I gotcha sis' you shoulda seen the look on your face!"

Liz sat in the 'emo corner', crying.

(Liz) "Patty why do you hate me...?"

Patty accompanied her, with reassuring pats and the usual giggles.

(Patty) "I don't hate ya sis' you know that!"

After walking in the haunted house a bit, things start getting redundant. First there's ghosts, then spiders, and snakes, then there's more ghosts and more spiders and more snakes, then the ground starts vibrating... Wait, the ground starts vibrating?

(Maka) "Do you feel that?"

(Soul) "What?"

(Maka) "The ground is shaking."

(C) "This isn't a part of the haunted house..."

(Kid) "An earthquake?"

Debris from the ceiling started falling to the ground. The dust combined with the thick fog made it hard to see. I closed my eyes and tried to focus. I could tell that Maka sensed it the same time I did.

(Maka) "It's a Kishin."

:Maka's POV:

(C) "YES!"

C seemed really excited, everyone turned and looked at her.

(C) "What? Am I the only one that gets excited whenever there's a Kishin?"

(Kid) "Yes. Most people tend to react with fear when they see a Kishin."

The ground started cracking.

(Maka) "Guys! I think we should get out of here!"

I could feel it. The Kishin was... Right below us? We all dashed out through the entrance. I took a quick look behind us and saw the Kishin burst out of the ground. It looked like one of the gollums we had fought with Giriko. One glance at Soul and he turned into a weapon.

:Death the Cutie's POV:

No one here shared my love of excitement... What a shame... Oh, well. Todd and Cody transformed as I summoned my skateboard.

(Todd) "WAIT!"

(C) "What?"

(Todd) "My giraffe!"

I looked down to see Todd's giraffe laying on the floor, while simultaneously shooting at the Kishin. I was already high in the air on my skateboard.

(C) "Todd! This is no time to be worrying about your giraffe, there's a Kishin we need to defeat!"

(Todd) "Cutie! Please?"

(C) "We can get your giraffe later."

(Todd) "No! We need to get him now!"

Todd changed into human form, while we were still in the air, and clung onto my back.

(C) "Todd! Are you crazy?!"

(Todd) "Yes! Can we get my giraffe now!?"

(Cody) "Just get the boy his giraffe, C."

Jeez, what was I thinking when I picked two boys to be my weapon partners?

(C) "Fine! We'll get your giraffe."

I carefully descended and got to where Todd's giraffe was. (Which was a pretty good distance away from the Kishin) He jumped off the skateboard and ran towards it, immediately hugging the toy.

(Cody) "Should we continue attacking?"

(C) "Nah, they got it from here. I'll just sit here and watch."

I tossed Cody in the air and he changed back into human form.

(Cody) "Wait, you're seriously going to sit here and watch while there's a Kishin attacking the carnival?!"

(C) "Yes."

I took a seat on the ground.

(Cody) "You're insane!"

(C) "I'm insane? Todd's the one that made us stop to get his dumb giraffe."

(Todd) "Hey, I can hear you..."

(C) "Well it doesn't matter anyways, this battle is almost over."

(Cody) "Well you and I can still fight."

(C) "Maybe I don't feel like fighting anymore."

(Cody) "But you can't just sit here and not help!"

(C) "Yes I can. I'm doing it right now."

Cody continued to tell me about how I should help my friends when they're fighting, and stuff like that, but at that point I had stopped listening. I was preoccupied with the battle happening in front of me. This is the perfect time for me to observe. It was kinda hard to see with all the dust in the air, along with the loud bursts of fireworks. Fireworks? It's nine thirty already? Jeez, it's getting late. By the time I looked again, the huge monster was replaced with a pile of dirt and a Kishin egg soul. I made my way over to everyone, maybe they didn't notice I left.

(Soul) "Hey C, did you have fun not helping us defeat that Kishin?"

They noticed.

(C) "You guys didn't my help with that fight."

(Soul) "That doesn't mean you can just-!"

(C) "Soooo... We're all going to Excalibur's five hour story telling party, right?"

(A/N: This chapter is probably all over the place, and I'm sorry for the rushed ending. I just really needed to get this chapter published. I was going to split this into two chapters, but then one of the chapters would've been really short. Well anyways, thanks for reading!)