DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING, NO SOUL EATER NO NOTHING

Why was it always her? Yes she had the grigori soul, yes she was a high ranking scythe miester and yes her father would give up lord death for her safe return home. But this was ridiculous. What motive was there for this elaborate kidnapping if it could be called that? Plus she was bleeding along her side. Now that she thought about it her captor had knifed her from her underarm to her knee on the left side. She couldn't move her body at all on that side. A perfect excuse to not have a struggler.

"Soul help, I'm scared." Maka whispered as she tried to huddle in a small dry corner. Wait dry? She was in a basement or lower building with pipes! Now if she could only get Soul's wavelength to link with hers she would be found in no time. But what if that was what the killer wanted? She didn't want to bring her friends especially Soul into a trap. They had just found each other and now someone was going to have to die. A part of her was glad it had been her chosen and not one of the others. But her assailant was Rika; Soul's temporary partner? That brought on her first question; why was she here?

"An easy question to give Maka dear." Rika mused as she emerged from the shadows. Maka shrunk back unaware she had been thinking aloud.

"You see, Evans has a strong tie to you even when you were supposed to be dead. I would stay awake and here him weep and talk with you for hours. It was sickening to me. Your bond reminded me so much of the one I shared with my own weapon Jager. But that night when we went to face the head witch Maabaa, he was hit by a spell making him a permanent weapon melted into my skin. Unlike the blackblood though he can become any weapon I need inside my body or out. The witches considered us a prime specimen like caged rats!" Rika snarled hatred twisting her features.

"I vowed on my partner's life that I would exact revenge on all who trusted or helped witches. They were and are our enemies." She yelled striking the wall beside the pigtails head. Debris fell hitting the young miester in the head causing her to yelp in pain.

"You think that hurts little girl. Why don't I give you a piece of my medicine? Endure the pain I was forced to go through day and night without rest!" Rika growled as she began beating the already injured miester. Maka was at a disadvantage, no way could she run or fight back with the injury she had to her body and the injuries she was taking now. If the others didn't hurry soon she would be dead from blood loss.

"Soul we've been running for hours are we close yet?" Kid asked as Soul paused to gather his bearings. He could feel her, his miester was injured and needed him but where was she. He knew the direction and the area but he had no location.

"You're a shinigami Kid, why can't you help locate her?" Soul asked tired of the little rich boys complaints.

"Soul, she had been missing for months considered dead, it will take time for me to relearn her soul's wavelength." The shinigami explained. Blackstar pushed the two apart taking a stand in between them.

"Stop it, Maka would hate it if we fought right now while she's fighting to stay alive." The ninja said calmly. Perhaps Tsubaki was rubbing off on him; though the pigtailed miester had been his friend since practically birth.

"She's so close but I can't put my finger on her exact location." Soul ground out punching a nearby tree. Liz and Patty sulked as they turned to Tsubaki for answers.

"Look around Soul, Maka-chan is closer than it seems." She smiled giving a knowing nod to her left. The empty field seemed just that in the dark; empty. But once lightning from the coming storm illuminated the area a giant mansion covered the horizon blocking all view across the field.

"Angel." Soul whispered as screams began to blend in with the thunder.

"Let's go Maka needs us." Soul ordered as the weapons transformed for their respected miesters and darted to the abandoned home.

"Knock, knock." Soul growled as he pushed open the door. The place was a mess, cobwebs, dirt, dust, furniture everything a haunted house needed was there. Liz whimpered from her gun form as Kid shushed comforting words to her. Soul was on a mission though he had to find Maka.

"Blackstar, I want you to search the top of the house, so go climbing. Kid you help me search the lower levels. Because Maka will be injured I'll need someone to help me protect her once I get her." Soul instructed as Kid followed him down the cellar steps.

"Sure is spooky." Patty laughed.

"Shut up, I'm scared and I want to go home, let's get Maka and leave." Liz whined as Kid nodded his approval.

"Trust me that's the plan, but Maka always tells me to make backups so I have." Soul whispered. Before either shinigami or weapon could respond voices and footsteps began advancing closer to them.

"I bet you money that's not the welcome wagon." Kid hissed as he and Soul hid in a small closet.

"I love when I've been fed." A male voice laughed as a small female laugh accompanied. Soul knew that laugh it was Rika's.

"You haven't been fed yet Jager, just wait till she's completely broken. We'll kill her weapon first." Rika laughed. Strange only one set of footsteps and yet he and Kid were witnessing two shadows.

"I sort of feel sorry for the girl though." Jager said as he and Rika came closer.

"Why, it's not like she cares anymore?" Rika asked her weapon.

"Well, you did well in breaking her spirit but she still seemed abit off, like she faked it or something." Jager noted as they passed by the alcove closet. Both Kid and Soul stood stunned; in Rika's palm was a blood clad human.

"Not cool." Soul mumbled as Kid motioned for Soul to go ahead while he tailed the odd couple. As the two went their spate ways Soul eased his mind to feel his partner's weak link. After an hour of roaming the dark hall with nothing to show he heard light banging and a weak yell. Soul's eyes widened; no matter how small or quiet that sound seemed he would always recognize it. He had feared he would never hear that horrible noise again and for once he was glad to hear them. Not for the reason behind it but because it meant she was alive still. His love and his angel is alive. Carefully he made his way to the wood door and tapped it twice.

"S-Soul?" Maka's weak voice called out.

"Maka, it's me I'm coming in get back." He ordered as his arm transformed into a scythe blade. She squeaked as her weapon busted in and rushed to her. Soul snarled as he noticed the blood and odd markings covering her exposed skin. Her cloths were tattered and barely covering her and ashy blonde hair lay matted and bloodied across her face.

"You found me." She whispered as she buried her face in his neck. Soul tightened his grip on her careful to not injure his miester more.

"I never doubted that I would find you my angel." He whispered as tears fell from his eyes. He had nearly lost her again and it was all that bitches fault.

"Well, well so we did have a rat in here." Rika sneered throwing Kid and his two weapons into the room.

"You bitch let us go, why are you doing this?" Kid growled as he grabbed his pistols and aimed them at her.

"I didn't think I could defeat a shinigami so easily; but knowing your weaknesses after training with you guys has made this all the more like child's play. Right Blackstar?" she asked turning to the assassin hidden in the rafters.

"How dare you doubt a god like me. Your just another enemy that we will defeat." Blackstar said darkly. His eyes were crazed into white star.

"Please your friends are in no condition to fight. Kid your pistols are at their limit and Soul is useless without his miester to fight with." Rika laughed as she allowed her red blood to transform into a spear.

"It's time to accept death. Be happy at least you all died together." Rika said as she began her dual with the ninja miester. Suddenly Kid's, Soul's, and Maka's eyes widened, Tsubaki smiled as she grabbed the injured miesters hand.

"You deserve to kill her." and with that both her and Kid lifted the blonde and allowed Soul to become her scythe.

"You're a foolish god Blackstar." And with that she raised her spear to strike the finishing blow.

"Yeah I may be foolish but she's not." Blackstar smirked as Soul's witch hunter form sliced through the miester/ weapon pair leaving a solid grey soul.

"Is that safe to eat?" Soul asked as he returned to human form and grabbed his miester.

"It will totally go to your hips but you should be safe." Maka laughed as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

The group returned to death city and explained to lord Death all that had happened. Maka had suffered a lot of physical damage making Soul responsible for the house work and Maka's food poisoning last week. Two weeks after the incident Maka had returned to school and somehow kept her title of top of the class from her rival Ox. Soul smirked as he waited by his locker.

"Hey Maka." He asked fully aware of the fan girls lurking behind the corner.

"Yeah what is it Soul?" Maka asked as two strong arms wrapped around her. the wounds had still not healed completely and her face still and forever will hold the scars from the accident.

"I love you and only you my angel." And with that his lips crashed down upon hers and a chorus of angry yells echoed from the fan girls unlucky enough to witness the prized weapon become a public item with his miester.

" I love you too Soul." She whispered back. "You know you have to tell my papa; right?"

"Anything for you my master." Both walked hand in hand past the fangirls and up to death's office.