AN: Hello there my Purple Bandidos and- *tons of static fills the air before clearing up again* Sorry about that, the wifi at my house is getting messed up so at the moment there might be some interference from other stations, such as some YouTubers. Not entirely sure who that was, but I'll ask one of my friends later.

Eamonn: That was PurpleRodri, an LPer.

Me: How do you know that?

Eamonn: I'm subscribed to him on YouTube.

Lilith: Really? I took you more for a gamer rather than a YouTuber.

Eamonn: Well I am working on an LP right now but-

Me: Hey, no advertising any YouTube channels, though non-existent in the real world it is.

Eamonn: Well sorry, but isn't YouTube why you haven't updated?

Me: … If I said no I'd be lying. But it's not important in the slightest what I was doing, but what is important is-

Random Feed: For just 10.99 you can-

Me: - and I plan to have this chapter be over by 4:00 a.m.

Eamonn: Yeah, I think you got cut off again.

Me: Crap, well all I said is welcome back, sorry for not updating this much, this chapter is going to introduce an OC I got awhile back but there wasn't a good place to introduce them until now, and I'm ending off the fights from last chapter quickly to start off with, and you probably won't like what happens, I know for a fact Hikari-Angel143 won't be happy. But without further adu-

Random Feed: And now here's your local weather-

Me: - I'm going to pause on purpose then start.

Chapter 10

*Third POV*

Stein and Kitsune were about to finish their Resonance when Medusa became stiff and looked around with her eyes. "Let their attack hit you," she heard a voice in her head say. Apparently her boss was nearby and wanted to her to intentionally get hit. "If this works it'll be one step closer to your goal, and I'll know the limits of our enemy." Medusa scoffed at that. She thought she knew their limit as well, but they had surpassed it easily.

Stein and Kitsune had finally finished resonating, revealing the gauntlet changed into a black, full arm casing, covering Steins entire right arm, appearing to be mechanical, and the eye, no longer yellow but was green instead, was now on his shoulder. Yellow lines coursed from the center of Stein's palm to the eye, showing that it was sending their Soul Wavelengths to each other constantly. The elbow and was larger than the rest of it. Stein just pointed his palm at Medusa as the hand changed to what appeared to be a laser rifle. "Lightning Reign." Electricity charged up at the barrel and shot out a very wide particle beam that engulfed Medusa's entire being.

Her scream could be heard, but her body wasn't sustaining any physical damage. She was the only one who could tell though, seeing as she was hidden by the beam that had engulfed her. "Very good my pawn, that is all I need," the voice from before said, her body starting to shatter.

Medusa closed her eyes as the last trace of her disappeared. "You'd better put this body back together soon you egotistical bastard." And with that, her entire body was gone.

Stein stopped his attack, breathing heavily, as Kitsune changed back to her human form, also panting. "So, you think we got her?" Kitsune asked as they looked over to where Medusa had just been standing moments before, only ashes remaining.

Stein tried to catch his breath as he pulled out a cigarette and lit it. "No, she's slippery and wouldn't let something like that kill her." He took in a long breath and blew out. "She got away, but I don't think she got away on her own." Kitsune looked at him confused.

"You mean an accomplice?" Stein shook his head.

"No, more like a boss. Whoever that is, they must be very powerful or have a lot of influence." Kitsune sat down on the ground and scratched her head.

"And I was hoping for some down time after this whole thing blew over." Stein followed suit and sat down as well.

"Well, we'll just have to wait and see in the end, now won't we?" He asked as Kitsune just laughed and nodded. The two then stayed where they were, waiting for their strength to return to them.

*First POV, Crystal*

Archibald's 6 blades all merged together to form one single blade, blood dripping down the blade. It seems that Stein got an injury. I wasn't much better, having forced myself past my physical limit and straining a few muscles trying to cut this doll. I spun the blade around a bit and caught it in my left hand, pointing it at the doll. "Bloody Bonds," I said, stating the name of the Resonance.

The doll didn't even seem to react to the change, but it charged nonetheless, both of its arms spear like and tried to thrust them at me. I just moved slightly and let one of them cut my arm a bit to strengthen my next swing. It turned on its heel and slammed its arm into me, throwing me to the ground. Had I not been wanting that I probably could have stopped that.

I stood up and let it charge once again. I just swung the blade once, cutting the entire thing in half, not getting hit while I did so. And I had even done it one handed. I was slightly impressed with myself because of that. In all my time of working with Archibald this was the first I had successfully done it.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard a 'splat' as opposed to a 'thump.' I turned around to see why it had made that sound, to see that it had melted down. It still resembled its original shape, but only barely. It was mostly a black liquid that had started to evaporate. "Archibald, you ever seen this before?" He changed back to his human form and walked up to examine the liquid.

"No, this hasn't happened in my experiences as a teacher. This has to be an experiment that a few witches have conjured up," he said as he stood back up. "But this is the least important thing at the moment. We should probably go help the students out." I turned over to the students who had showed up for the brawl, seeing that they were each holding up alright.

"No, we'll let them handle this." Archibald looked at me surprised. "Look at them, they're holding their own. If we interfere they won't get much real world experience." I looked out over them, remembering the days when I helped from the sidelines here at DWMA. "I mean, would we be where we are today without experiences like this?" He just sighed.

"I guess not, but we never got to the front lines for this, only holding back the minions." I just shrugged.

"Hey, experience is experience. It counts wherever or however you get it, no matter what it is," he looked at me and shrugged. I turned around to see if Stein and Kitsune were done, when I saw that the other 3 dolls were standing there, getting ready to avenge their fallen comrade, I guess. Though, I was feeling light headed now. I knew that I hadn't been fighting that long or hard, so it was kind of confusing. I guess either I worked harder than I thought or something was up with these dolls. "And it looks like we'll be getting more. Archibald we-" I couldn't even finish as a wave of blue flames separated the dolls from us.

"I swear, I come back to report and what do I find? We're being attacked by people we defeated already and these crazy dolls that send out a Madness Wavelength," a voice said from on top of one of the spikes that jutted out from the skulls on the school. I saw a dot on top of the one that we had just recently fixed, no thanks to Black*Star (seriously, he's no longer a student yet he still goes up there, bragging about his strength and picking fights with some of the staff as they come in). He jumped down and landed in front of me, letting me get a better look at him. He had messy black hair, pale skin, and icy blue eyes. He wore brown shorts, black converse, and a long sleeved, icy blue button down shirt with the top button open and a vertical collar, revealing an open collared white shirt underneath it. In each of his hands was a jutte. "They must be made out of black blood." He turned to his right and looked directly at Ayako, who was rushing up to Giriko with Luka.

"Um, excuse me, just who are you?" I asked as he just ignored me and yelled out over Ayako, ruining both her sneak attack and my good mood.

"Hey Ayako!" She looked over to him and smiled when she saw who it was, though I was still wondering who it was. "I think you might need some help over there." Both of the juttes glowed and combined, forming KIT, who had leapt into the air and landed on Gopher.

Though we could hear Gopher's distress, I ignored him as Luka ran over towards us and Ayako ran over to where the sounds of Gopher freaking out could be heard. "I thought you'd show up sooner or later," Luka said as she stopped by the mystery man.

"Yeah well, better late than never," he said as he looked at the three dolls that had finally recovered from their shock. "Now, let's show them just what we can do." He held out one hand and Luka changed into her weapon form. She changed into a scythe with a maroon blade that had 3 holes near the base of the blade and several holes going along the blade, one nearly as large as the blade and the rest getting smaller until they reached the end of the blade, at both ends located in such a way that if it were rotated in a full circle, the target would be cut with both blades. The staff part was pure black but where the mystery person grabbed wars pure white. At the ends where the blades met the blades where onyx skulls with a spike sticking out, such that it appeared to be continuing from the scythe blade. He spun it around a bit one handed and then grabbed it with both hands.

He looked over his shoulder at me. "As to who I am miss," he spun the scythe both of his hands as he rushed forward and slashed one of them completely in half. "The name if Keigo Kurogane. Don't forget it." The one he cut in half fell on the ground in a puddle of the same liquid the one I had defeated .

The other two looked down at their comrade and looked up at Keigo, who was beginning to pant. I couldn't make out what he was saying, but I could make out from his lips that he said, "can't hold my sanity much longer around this Madness." I looked at him confused.

"Hey, Luka, let's finish these guys off quickly. I'm not in the best shape so I can't keep this up for long." He looked at the weapon as her face reflected on one of the blades. She mouthed "Alright, let's get things done; not really awake enough to deal with these guys anyway," but I couldn't hear her say it*.

"Let's go! Soul Resonance!" I heard both of them yell simultaneously as Luka's blades grew larger and longer, gaining an almost crystal like sheen to them, and a black aura surrounded the entire scythe. "Shadow Scythe: Witch Hunter." Keigo swung it around a bit and held it out in front of him. He began spinning it one handed, causing very fast winds to be created from the rotations.

The two dolls didn't seem bothered by the winds as they pressed forward, attempting to harm Keigo, but he had none of it. He simply kept spinning as the wind started to become visible. He kept the spinning up as he moved it and slashed straight through both of the dolls with no difficulty. They just melted into pools. He seemed to relax a bit as Luka just changed back to her human form, spinning in circles slightly.

She stumbled over her own feet and fell onto her butt. "Next time, don't spin me so much," she asked as he helped her up.

"Sorry, just getting the feel back," he said as he rotated his wrists and then his shoulders. He then looked over to the others. "Their fights are going to be even harder though." He turned back to me and sat down next to me. "Though for now I think I'll let these guys determine the results themselves." He stretched and lay back on the ground. "If we interfere, it'll hurt their pride and they'll always be expecting help from then on, not learning to stand alone." He then closed his eyes and drifted to sleep.

I just looked out over the students. My Soul Perception wasn't the best, but I could tell that they were going to have trouble with their fights from here on out. Even though we had won ours, it was up to them to finish theirs.

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AN: And with that-

Random Feed: You can have this can opener-

Me: I'll get cut off again and then tell you I expected that and that the chapter is now done. Give me a sec will you? *leaves room*

Eamonn: Where's the POS going?

Lilith: Porbably just going to talk to the wifi signals.

Eamonn: … You do know they can't be talked to right?

Lilith: Oh yeah, but remember where we are.

Eamonn: True, he would do that. But until he gets back, how about a reference?

* - OK, not much of a reference. It's just that I believe that unless a Meister and Weapon are currently Resonating, others can't hear the weapons voice. Almost like a voice in your head, only this one is real. If this doesn't make sense to you I'll try to explain it better.

Me: OK, the signals have stopped for now so we can end this AN easily.

Eamonn: Then what about upload?

Lilith: And reviews or PMs?

Me: … I'll take care of that off-AN. But anyway, yeah, hope you guys liked. Oh, and I didn't know what to put for Keigo's lower half since his creator, GureiFox, gave me a pic of only his upper half so I kind of BSed the lower half. I hope that it works though. Again, hope you guys liked and I will try to get another chapter up soon. Eamonn if you please.

Eamonn: You know the drill of reading and reviewing so please do so. We will see you later. So until then, ciaossu.