The ragdoll saw the miniscule twitch in his young master. The magic in the room responded to the sudden distraction of the caster and everything was starting to go to shit. The fluffy, long-haired cat jumped onto the shoulder of the young male and purred into his ear. The observers stood in fascination as the ragdoll and calico occupied the shoulders of the young Reaper and helped to stabilize the magic of the room. Izzy cursed silently and backed out of the room and led everyone back up the stairs and into the living room.

Everyone sat in stunned silence and they stared at everything and anything in the living room. Maka made a face at the picture of the brothers climbing all over Spirit. Spirit himself had picked up another picture of Alex in his arms, staring down at Kid in between two cushions (to prevent the newborn from moving) and staring up at his Father in awe and amazement. Another picture was next to it and it contained a picture of Alex, looking like he fell down the stairs, with his hair all over the place and his right foot and left arm transformed into a scythe blade. The adults and younger kids looked at the pictures scattered across the living room and seemed to awe at every single picture containing the two brothers. Izzy picked up her phone and messaged the rest of their friends. They were all kinda pissed that no one said anything, but they understood why they didn't say anything earlier.

Izzy felt the magic in the house begin to settle. Right at that time, the doorbell rang and Izzy opened it to reveal the rest of the class. Cameron was in the front of the group and he greeted the young girl.

"Yo~"

"Sup". The young meister replied.

"Markus is gonna be a little late. He was doing something when we called him and he said he'd swing by soon."

Izzy nodded and gestured for the group to enter. A few minutes later, the magic had finally settled and some of the group sighed in relief. They heard the pounding of feet coming from the stairs and watched as the teen ran towards the door. If it were possible, his pale complexion got paler. As the teen got closer to the door, it opened to reveal Markus and the two bumped into each other causing them to fall on the ground.

"Oof"

"Ughhh"

Everyone made it to the door to see the two boys sprawled on the ground. They both sat up and rubbed at their heads.

"Geez, Xan, if I knew you missed me that much, I would've finished sooner."

Alex glared at Markus and remembered why he was running.

"Ah, that's right!"

Before Alex could run away, Izzy grabbed his shirt and yanked him back. The pair fell to the ground and Alex grumbled under his breath.

"The hell?"

"Did you find out who it is?"

Alex looked up at his meister and nodded.

"Do you know who they are specifically?"

Alex shook his head.

"Where are they?"

"Currently in the city."

Izzy turned and looked at the rest of their classmates.

"Well, let's get a going!"

/

Izzy and Alex stood on the roof of a building overlooking the city. The destruction from the earlier battle was still there. The citizens were working on repairing the damages done. Looking at them, they probably should tell them to leave and evacuate to the underground shelter. Izzy directed some of the class to do that and she went with them. Markus and Alex remained behind.

When they left Markus wrapped an arm around his boyfriend and felt the younger male lean into his side and sighed. Alex started telling Markus about what had happened after they departed from the Death Room. Markus frowned and rubbed his boyfriend's side. He was worried about the younger male, but was content to have the younger tucked into his side. Alex perked up and looked over the edge of the building.

"There!"

Down below, amongst the crowd, a cloaked man was walking among them. The man looked up at the younger Reaper and smirked, jumping up onto the roof across from them and looking at them.

"Hello there, young master. It's been a long time since we last met. How are you?"

Alex glared at the man and sneered at him.

"How the hell do you know me? I've never seen you before."

In the blink of an eye, Alex was now face to face with the creepy guy and the man had a thumb on his lips. The man had leaned closer and purred into the teen's ear.

"I'm pretty sure you remember me, right~? From your younger years~"

Alex felt an icy feeling go down his spine and opened his mouth to tell Markus to move, but was stopped when he felt pain in his body. He looked down and saw the man had stabbed his hand into his abdomen. The young Reaper looked down in shock and looked back up at the man, blood flowing from his lips.

"You're the man from..."

The man smirked and nodded, removing his hand from the teen's abdomen. The teen felt his consciousness slipping as he heard his boyfriend yelling for him.

/

Markus watched in horror as the love of his life, his mate, was injured in front of his eyes. His inner vampire demanded for him to tear this person in half for what he had done to his beloved. The man looked at Markus and the vampire hissed at the man and prepared to leap at the man. The male lunged at the offender and looked at the empty space. Markus looked around wildly and turned to see the man standing there, smirking down at him.

"You can tell Death that I look forward to seeing how he deals with everything and to not worry. I don't need his younger brat any longer."

Markus looked down and yelled in frustration.

/

Izzy and the others nodded at the adults in the living room and turned to leave when the front door slammed open. Markus, panting and fangs poking out, looked at them in distress.

"ALEXANDER WAS TAKEN!"