"Are you sure this is the place?" I asked Bryan as we entered a run-down town.

"Yep." Bryan said carefully watching some older guys hanging out on the curb smoking.

"Why would this person hang out in this dump?"

"I guess it's a good hideout place for her."

"Ugh, well let's just get this over with."

"Here we are." Bryan said stopping next to a bar.

"Are you serious!"

Bryan laughed and he went in. I groaned and followed. There were two men chatting at the counter with the bartender. Another guy was sleeping in a booth. Then we saw a lady with blue hair and a blue dress.

"I'm guessing that's her." I said nodding towards the blue lady.

"No it's the obese guy sleeping over there." Bryan joked.

I grinned and we went towards her.

"Excuse me." I said to the lady.

"Huh?" The lady looked up with tired eyes.

"Are you Sapphire Stone?" I asked.

"The one and only. Hahaha!" Sapphire said lazily and laughed.

Bryan and I glanced at each other. The same thing was going through our minds. She's drunk!

"Well, we have a few questions for you Sapphire." Bryan said.

"No! I didn't steal the freaking fish from the damn pond!" Sapphire said as she started to drift off to sleep.

I rolled my eyes as Bryan just stared at her.

"Hey, Joe! Some kids are trying to talk to Sapphire but she's too drunk. Get that drink that get's her back to normal." One of the guys near the counter said.

"Sapphire." Joe said and passed her some odd-looking drink.

Sapphire laughed and drank it. Then she like completely changed.

"Oh, hello children." Sapphire said checking out her blue nails.

"This place is messed up." I said to Bryan.

Bryan nudged me.

"We have a few questions for you." Bryan said.

Sapphire looked up from her nails and stared at us.

"You're DWMA students aren't you?" Sapphire asked.

We nodded.

"Well, I see the DWMA is after me again." Sapphire smirked.

"Not exactly, it's just that you're a suspect for this DWMA hit list." I explained.

"A hit list? Sounds interesting." Sapphire said as she got out a nail file.

"You should know about the hit list. You went after DWMA students before." Bryan said aggressively.

"Oh, so you expect me to know what's going on at the DWMA? Pha-lease! I could care less." Sapphire said filing her nails.

"If you could care less, then why did you go after DWMA students?" I asked.

"Children, that does not concern you."

"In fact, it does." I said.

"Whatever. Just go back to Death and worship him or whatever you students do."

Bryan and I glanced at each other. She's got attitude!

"Sapphire, you have to cooperate or we won't hesitate to kill you." Bryan said firmly.

Sapphire laughed quietly and said "Not if I kill you first."

Bryan quickly transformed and I charged at her. The men ran out of the bar. She stayed perfectly still. This made me wonder what she was going to do. Then all of a sudden this huge bubble came from the ground beneath me and it trapped me. Luckily I dropped my scythe and Bryan transformed back to normal untrapped.

"You children are stupider than I thought!" Sapphire said.

I got angry and started kicking the bubble hoping it would pop. What hella kind of person can trap people in bubbles!

Then the bubble started shrinking.

"Have fun getting squished!" Sapphire laughed.

"Ali!" Bryan ran towards it and started pounding on it. I glared at Sapphire and noticed she had a smaller bubble levitating in her hand. It was shrinking also. Maybe it was a controller for the bigger bubble.

"Go destroy that bubble! Now!" I said pointing at the little bubble.

Bryan saw it and charged toward Sapphire. I couldn't stand anymore and had to crouch. Bryan jumped into the air and aimed for Sapphire. He transformed his arm into part of the scythe. As he landed Sapphire disappeared and her shadow turned to water. Bryan just stood still.

"Sometime today!" I shouted as I crouched down more.

Then Sapphire appeared behind him and that's when Bryan swiftly slashed the bubble. I fell out of the bubble just in time. I sighed of relief and got up. Now I really wanted to kick this lady's ass!

Bryan transformed and I carefully charged at her again. Water came up from the floor and turned sharp and pointy. I jumped as the water came below me. Then I landed on Sapphire(who was checking her nails again!)while my scythe glowed and slashed her. She started to disappear.

"What did you achieve? I'm not the one responsible for the victims of the hit list. But I know who is." Sapphire said grinning.

"What! Tell me!" I said.

"It's DWMA students. They're names are-"

Sapphire disappeared and her red soul appeared.

"Damn it!" I said and fell to the ground with my hands on my face.

Bryan transformed back.

"Come on Ali, don't swear."

"I think I have the right to! Why didn't she tell us before we fought if she knew who's doing this!" I asked frustrated.

"She probably just wanted to get you angry before she died." Bryan said as he ate Sapphire's soul.

"I don't know. She seemed so serious." I said still on the ground.

"Oh well, let's report back to Lord Death." Bryan said giving me a hand up.

"Hmm…she said two students you say?" Death said pondering when we told him everything.

"It could be a clue but she could've easily been lying." Bryan explained.

"True, true. But we can't just ignore this can we?" Death said.

"No sir." Bryan said.

"Well thank you very much you two. Bye!" Death said waving.

As we walked back to class Bryan stared at me again.

"Quiet again?" He asked.

"I'm just thinking about all this. When you think about it, it could be students. Who else could know most of the students' names?" I explained.

"You got a point."

"And remember that girl who was complaining about the hit list that one day?"

"Yea."

"She could be one of them."

"It does make a lot of sense."

I stopped before we entered the classroom.

"What?" Bryan asked.

"I have some research to do." I said grinning.

"You realize you're gonna skip class, right?"

"Yep, just tell Professor Sid that Stein wanted to see me." I said walking off.

"Ok."

I quickly sneaked into the office. The secretary must be on a lunch break because no one was there. I go towards a back room. I see a computer and I quickly sit down at it. It required a log in and password. Strangely the password was already typed in. So I go look on the secretary's computer and look at her username. It was Secretary. Very creative. I go back to the other computer and type it in. I hit enter and hoped the password was real. It worked.

I excitedly go onto the students' records. I look through the pictures until I see that girl's face. I click on her record. This is what I saw:

Sherry Charleston

Miester Level: One Star

Partner: Kate Esther

Behavior towards Learning: Unwilling to cooperate

Professor: Franken Stein

Story: Sherry used to be known as a criminal until she met Kate who became her friend and convinced her to join the DWMA with her. She's been excused of murdering but was found innocent. When Sherry joined the DWMA she stopped her wrong ways and became a nice, quiet student but does not cooperate at times.

There was more on her record but I already found what I wanted. I grinned and sent this to my laptop at home. I also sent Kate's record. I'll read hers later. I got up satisfied and quickly left the office.