"Oh come on, you think the kishin is gonna fall from that?! You wimp! You couldn't even tickle it with that kind of lousy move" T scoffed from on top of a cloud.
"HYAAAAAAAAAAA. GENIE HUNTERRRRRR!" Maka screamed while soul's blade grew in size. She brought him down and the powerful attack cut an entire Boulder in half.
"DEATH CANNON!" Kid yelled before firing Liz and Patty off at another one.
"I'LL CUT THIS THING INTO SAWDUST! GYAAAAAAA!" Roared Blackstar as he used Tsubaki to cut a giant oak tree into splinters.
They all fell over panting, weapons doing so after they changed to human form.
T clapped as she flew down to the ground.
"Your power is growing. Now then, how well do you think you did today?" She asked.
"Well…I think we did great" Maka replied while gasping for breath.
"I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but the only team here who seems like they will have a considerable chance of stopping Arachnophobia or The Kishin is Soul and Maka" Raitoburēdo sighed.
"What?! Even after I cut a tree into literal splinters in under a second?!" Yelled Blackstar.
"You, Tsubaki, Kid, Liz, and Patty do have a good chance to weaken The kishin, and at the very least, to stop his Allies….I'll admit that, but even now, after several weeks of training, the odds are still higher when stacked against you. However…they are now stacked much lower in a side by side comparison. Now then, I have to go back to heaven. I have some work on Brew I need to finish up before it is one hundred percent functional again so This will be the last time we will meet until the final fight is resolved. You have many angles watching out for you. I hope it will help." T said to them while flying through a rift.
(Three days after the Kishin's Defeat)
"I'm getting worried…we hav'nt seen T once since the last time we were training with her…she said we would meet with her again after the fight ended and she usually sees us almost every day…" Maka said.
She and her friends were sitting on the stairway to The DWMA. "I wouldn't worry, Maka. I mean it's not like she can die, right?" asked Blackstar.
At that moment, T flew out of a rift, Landing in front of them with a scroll. "Listen carefully, I only want to read this once. The kishin is defeated, but his madness still exists in an overabundance throughout this region. You all have a new responsibility. Do NOT let it culminate. If it does, it will take on the forms of those who the kishin last saw as well as their abilities. Those being you. Assuming you fail, you will need to fight your doppelgängers to the death. In other news, the weapon stolen by the Kishin is still missing. Be alert at all times or you are more than likely to die" she read.
"So that's how you greet us?!" Yelled Blackstar.
"I was given an urgent message to deliver to you. That takes precedence over any greeting or idle talk. Now that it's out of the way, hello and sorry for not dropping in lately" she told him.
"Question, how exactly do we keep the madness from collecting?" Liz asked.
T shrugged. "I'm an angel, not a oracle. Figure it out yourselves within the next…I'd say about a week or so...otherwise we all suffer. And before you ask who suffers more, the culminated madness can turn us angels to stone while destroying the heavens, and kill you mortals while tormenting the earth" she said.
"Basically, it all depends on who you ask. On one side, it puts angles into a state of icy cold Paralysis without killing them and destroys their home. On the other, it kills you mortals but leaves your home standing, just in chaos" Raitoburēdo explained.
"And the more time you spend talking to us, the less time you have to figure out how to stop this all from going down and Prepare for it. The celestial clock waits for nobody. So if you wish to prevent a fate not much better than ultimate doomsday from consuming the earth and heavens whole, get moving. Here is a list of places to look that offer the best chances at finding something of use" T finished.
She handed Maka a different scroll before departing.
"It says here that there is a library in the next city over which has some books about how to disperse dark powers. There is also one right here in The DWMA library as well as one we all know isn't an option" she said.
Kid stopped attempting to look over her shoulder. "And which one would that one be?"
"The Library of Alexandria" she replied.
Kid, Liz, and Patty left for the neighboring city shortly afterwards while Maka, Soul, Tsubaki, and Blackstar headed to the academy library.
A few hours passed with the latter group not finding anything. However just as they were ready to give up. A giant, dust-covered Tome fell from a high shelf and knocked Blackstar out cold upon landing on his head.
Tsubaki opened the book and she, Soul, and Maka started to examine the table of Contents.
"Hmm, chapter one is plagues, two is spirits, three is curses and spells, four is Monsters, five is Mob bosses, six is body odor, seven is Annoying people, eight is…..dank memes, and nine is weeds…..then ads….next is puppets…..….streakers…..Chinese bootlegs….Pepsi man for the PS1….angry midgets….ah, madness is page 192,321,536. No wonder this thing knocked Blackstar out….." Soul read.
Tsubaki flipped to that page. "So all we need to do is make sure there aren't more than ten crazy people within nineteen feet from each other anywhere closer than five miles from where the kishin was defeated last?"
Maka facepalmed. "That would be easy if it wasn't for the fact that they just built an insane asylum a few blocks away from the Academy to house the thirty plus people who are still under his influence…..I guess we're screwed" she said.
"Well not necessarily, you could potentially fight and beat your shadow clones, assuming they don't have the artifact on hand" said T's voice. They looked up and saw her resting on a support beam without her robes on. "And just as an incentive to do so, if you three do die in the process, you'll more than likely get turned to stone as well, your clones will take over the kishin's work and all hope for a peaceful future will be lost forever in an eternally downward spiral of madness, chaos, and demonic presences."
Blackstar looked at his friends, then back to her. "So how do we know when they start gunning?"
"Well for one thing, you will likely see my or some other angel's stone body somewhere near here. And if you don't, then Raitoburēdo will let you know. Remember that he can move without my help, even in weapon form. It's just a huge chore for him. Also, as for my newest estimate of how long you all have until shit goes down, around a day and a half" She answered.
"A day and a half?! I thought you said a week or something!" Patty screamed.
T uncovered her ears. "Why don't you try calculating such short timeframes using an astrolabe in the middle of the day when there are clouds all over the sky?!" She asked.