Well, I suppose I better have a "wrap up" chapter before I leave…*yawns* Sleep deprivation setting in…mind getting foggy…losing story drive…shutting down. *thunk* Wefis;ioducn wefp wiefwebufawe awewg quifoweirufnvxcklv'xdtfkbn . *Snorts and gets up* Sorry guys, but I'm really losing it, I actually did fall asleep on the keyboard a few times today. I'm being forced to eat sugar to keep myself awake, since I hate coffee and I don't know any other things that have caffeine in them. Geez… but England will be much better, because I won't be forced to be active during what my body considers the middle of the night. (helpful hint, six hours ahead, so afternoon is eight to midnightish) So my body is being very confused because my parents took us on this nature hike thing, and I could practically hear my brain shouting "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING UP!?" to which I replied "No clue." Yeah, kinda sucks to be me right now. *yawns again* So then, wrap-up chapter…I'll read the last ten chapters and kinda do a top-off, just to satisfy you people until I get back. I'll make it as long as possible! (Making Xmas AMV)

Kage's POV:

"So, why are we here again?" Blackstar said, tapping a foot impatiently. "It's our birthday, and we wanna take you guys to the Grand Market." I said, humming to myself. "What's that?" Maka asked, looking around at all the crumbling buildings. "Think of it as the biggest indoor market for the denizens of the magical underworld for several hundred years." DK said impassively, yawning. "So it's a mall?" Liz said, perking up. I seesawed my hand. "Kinda. There aren't any actual stores, just stalls. There are also a couple big bunkhouses for the stall owners and overnighters." Akuma shook his head, snapping his fingers. "Just remembered. Guys, no attacking anybody here, witches or otherwise, even if it's Asura himself, this is a neutral zone. You'll get us all torn apart."

"You actually think the Kishin would come here?" Kid said skeptically, and we both shrugged. "Hey, everything and anything for everyone and anyone. That's an attractive prospect, and there's something else. They got guardians, and wards. It is actually impossible to use magic, and meisters and weapons can't resonate. Basically, once you step inside, no matter whom or what you are, you only have the abilities a human has, no Soul Force, no transforming, and no nothing otherwise. That way, neutrality is reinforced, because most of the people who would normally be looking for trouble are helpless, and human thugs can't even get in. However, if someone does try to attack someone else, after everyone knows who started it they mob 'em. Basically, if say, Blackstar attacked a witch, everyone in the building would attack you all at once and we'd be helpless to stop them. Get it? No fights." I said, looking sternly at the aggressive meister. He sighed and nodded.

We walked up to the huge brick warehouse, and the guard in the sunglasses who always stood in front of the huge metal doors bared his teeth. "Business and group." He said firmly, holding out a hand. "Kage and Akuma, Nightstalker and stall holders, Maka, Blackstar, and Death the Kid meisters, first timers, and Liz, Patty, Tsubaki, and Soul weapons, also first timers." Akuma fired off, and my answer came hard on his heels. "Window shopping and possible purchasing of weapon-meister related objects. No overnighting." He nodded, leaning forward and sniffing each of us in turn. "Proceed and remember the rules." He growled, glaring at the others. They all gulped and we stepped in, and me and Akuma waited a moment to let the full impact shine through. "Magnificent, isn't it?" DK said, smirking.

They nodded dumbly, seeing brightly colored stalls stretch out far beyond the confines of a mere warehouse. People in strange outfits bought even stranger items, and a throng of languages pulsed up into the air. "Whoa…" Soul said softly, and Patty giggled. "Yup, welcome to the Grand Market, home of pretty much any kind of item you might want to buy. Be free!" Akuma chuckled, already starting to move forward. The others all shuffled their feet, and I laughed. "Oh c'mon, nobody's gonna attack you here. Shoo!" I said, making flapping motions with my hands. They all slowly floated into the crowd, inspecting the items in the stalls as they kept an eye on their partner out of habit. Akuma and/or DK headed for their favorite spot, the gun depot.

I hooked my arm through Kid's when all the others were gone, and he twitched. I smiled at him shyly. "Well, you do owe me another date." I said, looking down, and he chuckled and wrapped his arm around my waist. "So where's your favorite spot?" he asked me, and I brightened. "Oh yeah, c'mon!" I said excitedly, tugging him in the opposite direction of DK and Akuma, because quite frankly I wanted to be uninterrupted for the next couple hours.

Multiple POV's:

"I sense a fishy aura." DK said abruptly, and I twitched. "What? Who?" I asked, and he frowned, putting down the machine gun we had been looking at. "The Reaper and Kage are all by themselves." Our eyes twitched, or whatever. Being in the same body was kinda hard to describe. I clenched my hands, inhaling an exhaling slowly. "You know, we're looking at this all wrong." I said as DK began moving us towards the location of Kage and Kid's souls rapidly. "Yeah?" He asked, and I shrugged. "They both seem pretty serious about this. Think about what Kage might do to us if we interrupt her when she doesn't want us to." He skidded to a stop. "Uh…yeah…I suppose we don't really know if that's them over there." He said, backpedaling. "And besides, she could do worse." He muttered, tossing a coin at a shopkeeper and swallowing one of her raw mice. I choked, feeling the fur and gunk slide down my throat. "Dude…" I coughed. "…you have to remember I'm in here too…"

He shrugged. "Meh, when you're dead everything starts to taste good. But these are kinda an acquired taste…mmm, spicy." He reached for another tray, and I didn't even want to know what was on it. It had a lot of legs and a lot of slime. "DK, no." I said, quickly backing away. He sighed, rubbing the back of his head. "But normal food here sucks…" he whined as I headed for a burger stand. "Don't care, I'm hungry and I'm not eating whatever the hell that stuff was." I said, buying a cheeseburger and taking a huge bite. DK gagged, and I swallowed it again. "How can you even stomach this junk…" he moaned, holding his stomach. "We're going to have a hard time eating…" I sighed, leaning against a lamppost.

"Wow…" I said, seeing a whole street full of books. I happily delved in, seeing Soul talking to a man on the corner about his bike care. "What's this about?" I asked, picking up a book with a black cover and swirly orange markings. The woman clicked her glasses, and then shrugged. "That's a rare subject. Shadow magic. Literally, not the dark mage drivel that's cornering the market these days." I blinked. "I have a friend who's a shadow witch. How much is this?" She shrugged again, then named her price. It was a bit high, but then again, this was a rare book. "Hey Soul, I got Kage her birthday present!" I said excitedly, holding it up in the air as I met up with him again. "Yeah, same here." He said, gesturing to a bike behind him. It was black and sleek, obviously meant for speed. "She'll love it!" I said, beaming, and he grinned. "She better, that was all my saving money."

"How about this one?" I asked, shoving it under Tsubaki's nose. She flinched, then gingerly put it back. "Blackstar, we've been over this. Kage doesn't want autographs, she wants something nice. Something like this." She held up her present, a picture of all of us at a basketball game, me being the center focus, obviously. I studied it. "Well then, I'll get an autograph book signed by all of us. Mine is the biggest, of course." I snorted, chucking some money at the old dude and grabbing a black book. "Blackstar, that's…actually a good idea." She admitted, blinking. I quickly signed it, then shoved the book at her. "Now you." She pulled a pen out and neatly wrote her name in. "Now let's get some food I'm hungry!" I shouted, running off to the smell of burgers.

"What about this?" Patty asked, shoving a giraffe under my nose. "No Patty, we need something Kage'll like. Oh, here's some clothing." I said, my face lighting up. "Oh, this is cool." There was a jacket like the one Kage was always wearing, but she probably didn't want another one. Beside it was a black tank top, with the words "Mess with me and you die." written across it in spiky orange letters. "That one." I said, pointing at it and giving the guy some money. He nodded, wrapping it up. "Oh, shiny!" Patty cooed, grabbing some knee-high boots. "No Patty those are too big for you…hey wait mister, how much are those?" I asked, seeing they were just Kage's size. I coughed up the money and added it to our bag, shopping for Kage all done. I quickly counted out what we had left, and grinned. "C'mon Patty, let's shop!" I shouted, dragging her back into the forest of outfits.

Kage's POV:

"Go on, I dare you." A man said, nudging Kid. He gulped, one eye twitching. "Do it!" another shouted, and the crowd picked up the chant. "Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!" I smirked at him. "If DK and Akuma are anywhere around, they would have said something by now. Make them shut up already." I groaned, covering my ears with my hands. He flushed and gently tugged on the edge of my jacket. I easily slid out of it, and the crowd whistled approvingly. "Why are we doing this again?" he whispered, staring at his feet and turning red. "They said they'd pay us a large amount of money and they meant it. C'mon, it's just my jacket. I still have a top on." I said teasingly, folding my arms.

We had been strolling around, and a couple of people had mockingly asked Kid and me to start making out. We both refused, and they upped the stakes, saying if Kid could take my top off they'd give us a thousand dollars each, and pulled out the money then and there. So we had been sat down and then a crowd started gathering…long story short, we were now surrounded by a bunch of adults all making wolf-whistles and urging Kid on. "I can't do it." he whispered, and I smirked. "Kid, I'll still be decent. Trust me, we'll cheat 'em of their fun." He flushed brighter, but shakingly removed my top, so in ordinary circumstances I'd have nothing but my bra on. And I did, but then my shadow slid up my body to cover me, a loose blot of inky darkness hovering around my torso.

There was a collective "Aww" of frustration, and Kid peeked up at me. I grinned at him, reaching out of the cloud for my jacket and top. "See, completely decent, and now we have a whole heck of a lot more money than before." I said, yanking my tank top on and tying my jacket around my waist. The men scowled as they handed over the money, but a deal was a deal and my top had come off. I pocketed it, hooking my arm through Kid's again and waltzing back out of the building. "What time is it?" I asked him, glancing around for a clock. "Umm…three, I think." He said, squinting in remembrance. "Crap, we gotta go see the others!" I yelped, grabbing his arm and sprinting away. A few moments later we had all met up at a lunch area, with the others all bearing mysteriously birthday-present looking packages.

Blackstar, of course, had to go first. "Here! This'll be the best present you ever received, because it came from me, Blackstar!" I nodded absently, opening it to see an autograph book with his signature, but as I flipped through it I saw Tsubaki's, Maka's, Soul's, everyone's. Even Kid's. "Thanks Blackstar. I'll keep this somewhere safe." I told him, giving him a thumbs up. He beamed at me, returning the gesture. I opened Tsubaki's next. "Aww, thanks guys." I said softly, pocketing both of the gifts. "Me next!" Patty shouted, shoving a bag into my lap. I opened it, seeing some new leather boots. "Cool." I said, yanking off the old ones and slipping them on. I took an aggressive stance, kicking over Akuma's head experimentally. "I like these." I said, resting both feet back to the ground. Liz and Patty high-fived each other, and I pulled out a new tank top. "Hmm…sweet." I said, summoning a shadow cloud and changing.

Maka edged forward, handing me, no surprise, a book. I flicked it open, grinning when I saw all the new spells I could try. "Thanks." I said absently, already itching to try these things out. They all jumped as the bell clanged overhead, but Akuma and I didn't even flinch. "Wonder who wants us now?" I asked, looking up. They all glanced at us. "Someone rang the bell on our table 'cause they wanted to talk to us. We nod if we want to talk as well." I said, and nodded slowly with Akuma. I saw a large man with a ball and chain attached to his foot walk up to us, and raised my eyebrows, along with Akuma. "You're that werewolf with Medusa, aren't you?" I asked slowly, and he nodded. "Yeah, that's me. You Kage and Akuma?" We nodded. Maka and the others stiffened up, reaching for each other subtly. "No fighting." I said out of the corner of my mouth, and they flinched, looking guilty.

"Medusa sent me to talk to you two. Said something about binding a pumpkin guy?" he said, collapsing in a chair across from us and rubbing a hand across his forehead. We nodded again. "You're an expert in Spatial Magic, we need that to actually bind him properly. Much as it pains me to say, we don't currently have someone with your ability in our ranks. While we managed to remove him from my body and weaken him greatly, he's still alive and dangerous. We need you to bind him after we weaken him enough for him to die, because killing him would be a very bad thing, despite his obvious aggressive stance. We need his power to remain Nightstalker." I said in a businesslike tone, steepling my hands. Akuma nodded. "Yeah, he's real tough to kill anyway. If we accidentally do, it'll be pretty bad, but not all that bad. Better than having him alive." He said neutrally, leaning back and folding his hands behind his head. "Umm…guys, are you seriously trusting Medusa?" Maka growled, one eye twitching. We both shrugged. "Meh, with the Pumpkin King you need all the help you can get." DK said, yawning and looking at his nails.

"So we need to go back to the DWMA, like right now." I said, standing up and dusting myself off. Akuma did the same. "Hey wait." Soul called, and I turned. He tossed a set of keys to me and winked. "Black one." I grinned and darted out, seeing a sweet black bike leaning against the railing, and turned the keys, hearing the ignition rumble to life and turn into a humming purr. I felt someone tap my shoulder, and turned to see Kid. "Going to leave without saying goodbye again?" he asked softly, and my smile dropped. "Uh, well…you didn't get me a birthday present." I said firmly, putting both hands on my hips. He smiled slightly. "I was hoping to wait until Akuma and DK weren't around, but I suppose I have to give it to you now." He said, wrapping his arms around my waist. I grinned. "I suppose." I whispered, sliding my arms around his neck.

He kissed me, bending me over my new bike, and I kissed him back, winding my fingers through his hair and rubbing the back of his neck gently. I heard a choking sound and then the familiar click of a rifle cocking and quickly switched positions, putting my back to the people watching us. I heard a muffled curse "C'mon Kage move over! I need to shoot him!" I freed one hand and waved it at them in a shooing motion, then Kid reclaimed it, tugging it back down to his hair. We broke apart for air, and he whispered "Happy birthday Kage." I grinned at him. "Goodbye Kid." I returned, hugging him tightly and letting him summon Beelzebub and zoom off as I waved. I turned, seeing Akuma/DK aiming an anti-aircraft cannon at Kid's retreating figure, and Free staring at me. "Uh…you two seeing each other then?" he asked, scratching the back of his head.

"Not if we have anything to say about it!" DK/Akuma shouted, switching the safety off. I walked over and shoved the cannon down, aiming it at my chest, and they dropped it, scowling at me. "Akuma," I said, seeing his eye fade back to green. "If you harm him I will…" I muttered my threat in his ear, and he whimpered, clapping a hand over his mouth. His right eye turned back to DK's color. "You wouldn't…" he whispered, horrified. I grinned at them. "I damn well will if you try to hurt him again." I said, slinging a leg over my bike and gunning the engine. "What'd she say?" Free asked, scampering after us as Akuma jumped on and we roared off. "You don't. Want. To. Know." DK muttered, eye staring vacantly at the air in front of him. Akuma nodded numbly.

So then…*yawns* That's all I could think up that wasn't a horribly mean cliffy. I mean, I'm not going to be updating for 19 days at the very least. Since I discovered this site I haven't not posted for more than two days. (I haven't updated this, but I managed to finish some more oneshots for my Hellsing fanfic) That would be 19 days without any updates. That's too cruel, even for me. So this was a filler chapter, a nice little tie-up whilst I'm gone. (Yeah, that's a word. "whilst" Google it) Now I'm less sleep deprived because I accidentally slept in till 11:00 AM. Yeah, big sleep schedule oops. Oh well, I'll fix it somehow…*sighs* So then, this is the last word coming from me until the 16 of July. Hi! Hehe, sorry, couldn't help it. My dad's putting up the pool right now, so hopefully I can swim when I come back. What sucks, I think, most about this trip, is I'm missing the Fourth of July. Yeah, no pyromaniac displays this year…*sniffles* Oh well, maybe my sister will save me some smoke bombs or something. (love those things!) Interesting trick you can do, put them under a bucket or something, then light them and wait a second, and when you pull it up there's like this cool effect…you'll have to try it to find out. Leave me plenty of reviews for when I come back! Also as a recap, I'll be going to England, Wales, Scotland, and both sides or parts of Ireland. See you there! (I believe there are twenty-two people who have looked at this who live in the UK and Ireland) Review, Request, Rcomment. Auf Wedersien! Catsvrsdogscatswin over and out!