DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN SOUL EATER

*MAKA*

Soul's body was suspended by several strands of clear spider webbing that coursed through the room. Blair and the others had explained to her what had happened and now here she stood on the balcony railing watching helplessly as her lover, battered and bruised was being killed. Maka screamed his name as Soul's eyes closed and the feel of his soul faded. Her heart stopped as the three witches behind her called after him repeatedly.

"I've had enough of playing with my food. And it walked so wilily into my web." Mused Arachne as she raised her hand to tighten the web and destroy his body to release his soul. Maka snarled as she launched herself from the balcony and onto the floor behind the witch. The witch blinked as she turned to face the grigori soul. The blondes eyes dulled as her body slumped forward and in a flash of light blades of black and silver formed on her body.

"How dare you hurt him so badly." Came her hollow unemotional voice. Her body had finally taken its last defensive action. Activating her weapon blood, she dashed forward engaging herself in a battle with the witch, all to save her loyal servant her weapon miester her love.

"Your one foolish grigori." Arachne smiled as she turned fully to the girl and blocked her barrage of attacks. Even though Maka was injured from her abuse under both Medusa and Asura, her attacks didn't suffer as her body protected itself. She kicked at the witch turning to deliver a lower kick at the same time causing Arachne to be unable to defend both.

*Blackstar/Tsubaki/Free*

"Damn, this guys like immune to my godliness." Blackstar panted as he stood up from his latest hit against the wall of the castle. Asura laughed as he held Tsubaki in the air by her throat. She was struggling, kicking her feet uselessly in the air and holding his wrist.

"Now watch as I kill your precious weapon miester." The kishin laughed as he began to squeeze the Asian girl's throat tighter. Blackstar saw red as he rushed forward holding his katana in a fighting position and thrusted it into the man's side. As Asura dropped the girl, Free aimed and ice beam at the red eyed demon encasing him in an icy prison. Two female voiced suddenly met the three fighters as they turned to see the Thompson twins. Tsubaki raised herself from her overseers lap rubbing her sore throat.

"Tsubaki, Blackstar!" the twins yelled happily at having found someone they knew.

"Liz, Patty, where's Kid?" Tsubaki asked hoarsely as Blackstar glanced around for their symmetrical obsessed friend.

"Noah came and then did something with his book and they disappeared in a flash of light!" Patty explained. The group listened and after a quick introduction of Free, they made their next decision.

"Quick, let's find the others and save Maka!" Liz said as they shot one last glance to the kishin and ran towards the main hall.

*Kid*

It was torcher. He hung from the wall in chains as the right side of his body was shirtless and his right pant leg was torn off. His face was bruised and bloodied on the right side as well as the left was left unharmed. Death the Kid was completely asymmetrical, he wanted to die.

"Master Noah says you're a shinigami, is that true?" Gopher asked as he removed Kid's right shoe and sock.

"Yes, now let me go your defiling my symmetry." Kid glared as he twisted his elevated body away from his captives hold. Gopher yelped as he backed up from the struggling shinigami. As Kid watched the fidgety boy run away he released a sigh. Liz and Patty had to be worried about him, who would keep them symmetrical, would they still fold the toilet paper and fix any crooked pictures? So many things could go wrong, he needed to return, and what about Maka? Had Soul and the others found her yet? As a shinigami like his father, he needed to know. But how could he be a shinigami if he could be beat like this by asymmetry?

*The witches*

Blair and Eruka held Soul's body as Mizune worked to lower him from the binds that held him. He was very pale and his chest barely lifted as he struggled for breath. "Soul, you moron, if you die, I will come haunt you along with Maka and we will drag you out of the afterlife, now wake you're ass back up!" Blair snapped as she and the others lowered his body to the floor. Both scars were now accompanied by several more smaller lacerations making every part of his body sensitive to touch.

"This looks bad," Eruka stuttered as they shielded the boy's body from an attack made by Arachne.

"Soul, Maka!" Liz shrieked before her and the girls ran to his side.

"No fear Maka, your god has come to save you!" Blackstar called as he and Free stood ready to fight. Maka ignored him as she now held a black scythe with silver teeth like images on it. The scythe itself looked like Soul's scythe. Arachne continued to laugh despite her wounded appearance. Maka screamed as she launched herself at the witch for her final attack.

The group of friends shielded Soul from the blast as Arachne's body exploded leaving behind a reddish purple soul floating in its place. Maka gently took the soul in her hands and hugged it to her chest before running to Soul's side. Liz and Tsubaki made room as she fell to her knees beside her fallen weapon miester. He looked so weak as he face scrunched in pain and blood pooled beneath his body from his wounds. It was his soul that had saved her, it seemed so scared and now his soul was so weak. Pressing the witches soul to his mouth she forced him to eat it. The group waited in silence as Maka held his head.

"We have to get him to safety, hurry I know of a place." Blair said summoning her pumpkin. After getting Soul onto the flying vegetable they made their way to the home of the flaming raccoon.