Rebecca reached down to touch her toes. It was one of the little things Cordelia had taught her- warmer muscles meant limber movements and that meant being able to dodge unexpected blows from the opponent.

Just beyond her Reba stood patiently, rocking idly back and forth on her heels. "You're ready?" She asked curiously.

The school bell had just rung, and so Reba and Rebecca were waiting for Blackstar to arrive with a teacher to be the judge of their battle.

Rebecca shrugged nonchalantly in answer of her question. She bent down to touch her toes again. "Eh, I'm not planning on having to work too hard on this one. We can beat this child without too much effort."

"Don't underestimate him, he looks really strong. Have you seen his arms? They're really big!"

Rebecca laughed. "I know right? He's like a freaking miniature body builder."

Reba giggled. "Do you think he would be like one of those guys who lift giant weights on the beach?"

"Or like the guys who sit under waterfalls?"

"Or like-"

"Talking about how big a star I am?"

Blackstar had arrived, the zombie professor Sid and Tsubaki in tow. Behind him trailed Maka and Soul, who had apparently come to be spectators. Rebecca chuckled. "Yes that is exactly what we're doing."

"Are you ready? I understand how intimidating I can be, so if you need some time preparing yourself I'll let you have it."

"Um, no, I think I'm good."

"Are you sure? Because Reba looks pretty scared to me."

Rebecca glanced at the blond cowering behind her. "Oh, she's… sort of scared of Sid."

Sid, who was standing behind Blackstar, frowned. "Back when I was alive I wouldn't have been offended by that, that's the kind of man I was."

"But you're offended now?" Maka said, filling in the blanks.

"… A little bit."

"Don't take it personally," Rebecca offered. "She's just had something against zombies since she watched this stupid anime where there was this world wide pandemic that turned everyone into zombies and all of these high school kids were trying to save their sorry butts."

"But there's only one of me."

"Actually I think that it's more just the fact that you're a zombie…."

"I see."

"…yes."

Blackstar quickly ruptured any awkward silence as he spoke loudly. "Can we please stop talking about how weird Sid is and start focusing on how the great me is going to beat you into the ground?"

At this Rebecca snorted and pulled at Reba's hand so she would stand next to her. "Don't worry about Sid, Reba, just focus on this joker."

Reba shook her head as if to clear it and then nodded with an air of determination. "'Kay."

Blackstar cackled in glee. "Get ready to be defeated by a God! Tsubaki!"

"Right!" She glowed and promptly transformed into a chain-scythe. "Don't underestimate them Blackstar. Remember what Lord Death said, they're very strong." Tsubaki warned half-heartedly- already too aware of the fact that her meister would completely disregard her advice.

"Yeah, whatever. Count us off Sid!"

Sid walked to the front steps and called, "Reba and Rebecca, are you ready?"

"Yeah!"

"Yep!"

"Meister Blackstar and Tsubaki, are you ready?"

"Yahoo! Let's go!"

"Yes."

"Alright then," Sid nodded, and with a slicing of his giant hand through the air and bellowed, "Fight!"

Blackstar reacted immediately, lunging past the pair and slinging Tsubaki out in such a manner as too wrap the chain around Rebecca's wrist and pull her to the ground.

To avoid this, Reba and Rebecca sprung apart, and Blackstar spun on a dime and lunged toward them again.

"Oh!" Reba stumbled back a few steps as Backstar sliced at her, and when she fell backwards and landed on her butt Rebecca slid in and kicked his legs out from under him.

"This kid's fast!" She exclaimed, sounding impressed, as she quickly helped Reba back to her feet.

Sitting with Soul on the school steps, Maka frowned. "Why won't one of them transform?"

Soul shrugged. "Building up anticipation I guess?"

Blackstar seemed to be wondering the same thing. "Too afraid to fight me after all?"

Rebecca smiled brightly. "I like to play with my prey a little before I kill it, don't you?"

There was a communal pause, and a few seconds later Maka finally laughed awkwardly and said, "Look's like Rebecca has a bit of a sadistic side."

Not fazed in the least, Blackstar seemed to take this last statement as an open challenge, for he cried, "Yeah? Kill this! Speedstar!" And before she had time to move out of the way he was brandishing Tsubaki in Rebecca's face and then her had pushed her to the ground.

Rebecca, though surprised at the sudden attack, recovered well and rolled over before he could pin her. She flipped and bounced off her palm and then back onto her feet. "Getting serious? I can respect that. Reba!'

"Oh- 'Kay!"

Reba, who had been previously standing behind Blackstar, weaved by him and grabbed onto Rebecca's hand. The blue haired boy jumped backwards several feet, not sure what to expect.

In one second Reba was merely a flash in the air and in the next Rebecca was holding an extremely oversized mallet.

The mallet itself was made from pale wood, but the center of it's base and much on the handle was wrapped in red ribbon, and either end was covered in beige canvas with a large star emblem imprinted on it- the Edwards family seal making itself known again.

Maka nearly fell over in surprise, "A- a hammer? But, when I think hammer I think, straight-forward and to the point! And when I think about Reba I think small and demure and… wha?"

Soul grinned widely and crossed his arms. "Eh, I knew it."

Maka looked quite peeved by this statement- actually, it looked sort of like her eyes had caught fire by the way she stared at him. "You did not! There's no way!"

Soul took one look at his angry meister and quickly backtracked. "Cool it, Maka! I'm just saying that I could tell that Reba was the weapon. Could you imagine Rebecca being wielded by her?"

Maka, now slightly calmed, frowned and leaned back. "I guess. But it seemed like someone like Reba wouldn't want to hurt anyone."

Soul shrugged. "Just take it from a weapon himself, I could tell."

"Hmph, sure, whatever Soul."

Rebecca hefted the mallet over her shoulder. "You're feeling a little heavier than usual, maybe you should've ate less at lunch today, fatty."

"What?" Reba cried indignantly, her voice reverberating from deep within the wood. "You ate just as much as me and you know it!"

"Hmmmm? What was that? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about chubby-cheeks."

Before Reba could retaliate she was interrupted by Blackstar's scoffing. "Hah! You think you can take down the great Blackstar with that giant block of wood?"

"Hey! Why is everyone being mean to me today…?"

Rebecca smirked. "Careful what you say, one good smash from Reba and you could find your nose lodged somewhere in the vicinities of your brain, fun right?"

"Hah! As if you could even catch a God, I'm way out of your league!"

She considered this and then gave a feral grin. "Well. I've always enjoyed a good challenge."

And then she sprung at him.

Maka gasped audibly and Soul glanced over at her. "What?"

Maka shook her head. "They're so in synch! Even when they're not resonating, their souls are so close that I can actually sort of hear a thrumming sound. Do you hear anything?"

Soul shook his head and so Maka looked back at them thoughtfully. "Their souls… it sounds sort of warm and melodic… it's so strong I can't believe I didn't hear it earlier."

Sid nodded. "Even though I cannot see souls even I can hear it. A great source of their power comes from the fact that they are extremely dependent on each other, though that's understandable."

"What do you mean?"

"First of all, those two grew up constantly reminded of the fact that they and Reba's sister were all they had left, so they are very close, but you could tell that already, couldn't you Maka?"

"Yeah."

"Second of all, they were raised and trained by a death scythe."

"Huh? You mean Cordelia was-?"

"Yes. Actually, Stein and I attended school with her, and she was at the top of our class. She and Stein were considered rivals by most, even though near the end of our schooling she began to pursue him romantically. She was incredibly intelligent, but had to decline the position of serving Lord Death as a death scythe because of her frail health. Sadly, her meister was killed in a car accident a few days before our graduation and no one has heard tale of her since then."

Maka frowned, "But Reba said that her meister Saya was taking care of her."

"Did she really?" Sid mulled over this as he watched Blackstar jump over Rebecca and slice at her from behind. She nimbly jumped out of the way and rammed the end of Reba's handle into his abdomen to knock the air out of him. "Perhaps that's something new."

Back in the midst of things Blackstar picked himself off the ground and paused to regain his breath. "Blackstar," Tsubaki instructed. "You need to get closer in. Reba's range is longer than mine, and right now they're just toying with us." Blackstar nodded as Tsubaki continued, "We would do better in enchanted sword mode, at least then we would be able to parry their attacks."

"Right, thanks Tsubaki. Enchanted sword mode!"

Rebecca looked impressed as Tsubaki changed forms. "So you're an assassin then! How cool!"

The assassin in question posed enthusiastically. "Damn right I'm cool! Who do you think you're talking too?"

"You're right! I should step it up a notch!" Rebecca swung Reba over her head and at him easily and he dodged by jumping over and landing on the other side. Rebecca used her momentum to complete the turn and hit him from that side instead.

He stumbled forward as the mallet collided with him but as Rebecca let down her guard to laugh he turned and thrust his sword in a direct path into her side.

"Yikes!" Rebecca cried, and jumped high into the air, flipping at the peak, and then using the momentum to slam Reba into her opponent. However, just as she was about to make contact with Blackstar's head he cried, "Smokestar!"

"Oof!" Rebecca landed heavily on the ground where Blackstar had been a few seconds prior, leaning forward to balance out her weight. With a sigh she straightened and slung Reba back over her shoulder. She squinted into the haze. "A smoke bomb? That's pretty neat."

"Uh huh," Reba commented. "I wish I could do that."

Rebecca snorted. "Yeah, how 'bout you get right on that?"

"I was just saying! So where is he?"

"Shh, listen."

There was a brief silence and then a whisper, "Can't catch me."

And then, "Speedstar!"

And then Blackstar was moving so fast he appeared to be in three different places at once, laughing maniacally.

Reba scowled and watched as Blackstar ran circles around her. "Reba." She muttered.

"Oh? Now?"

"Yeah, he's being annoying."

"Oo-kay, tell me when."

"You see this?" Blackstar cackled. "This is the speed of a God, hahahahaha!"

Rebecca clenched her fists and adjusted her hold on Reba.

"Can't catch me!" He taunted.

"And that's where you're wrong! Now!" Rebecca cried, and then she wasn't where she had been a second before, and then suddenly Blackstar found himself lying on the ground bleeding profusely from the head.

"Blackstar!" Tsubaki cried and rushed to his aid as his eyes rolled around in his head semi-humorously.

"Humph." Rebecca grumbled, and she stuck the mallet's tip into the ground. The heavier end leaned too and fro amiably for a second before there was a brief flash and Reba assumed a more humanoid form.

"Feel better now?" Reba grinned.

"Yes, loads, thanks."

"You know, you probably shouldn't have hit him so hard…"

"Well he was trying my patience." Rebecca said snippily. "And I've always made an effort to smash small pests that irritate me."

Blackstar gripped his head and groaned. He glowered at Rebecca as she and Reba knelt down beside him. "A God can never be a pest."

"Sure, whatever you say. How's your head?"

"Fine!" He snapped, and sprung to his feet- he then turned a startling shade of white and was forced to sit back down.

"Yeah… maybe you were right." Rebecca said, making a wry face at her cousin. "I shouldn't have hit him so hard."

Sid and the other spectators came to join them, with Sid announcing that they were the definitive victors.

"Awesome." Rebecca straightened, high-fiving her partner.

Maka stared at her curiously. "What was that thing you did earlier?"

"What do you mean?"

"Your last attack, it wasn't a matter of speed- it was just that one moment you were there and then the next you were across the courtyard."

Rebecca's face was the picture of innocence. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"But I saw-"

"You must have not been looking very closely Maka. Maybe the smoke was still clouding your vision?"

Maka still seemed hesitant and so Soul nudged her in the shoulder and grinned toothily. "Just let it go."

"Okay…"

Soul turned his smirk at Blackstar, "Got your ass kicked, didn't 'cha, moron?"

"Shut up!" Blackstar sprung up again- this time more successfully- and brandished his finger furiously in Rebecca's face. "You think you're on top now! Well I'll show you who the big star really is! One day I'll be bigger than God. Hahahaha!"

Rebecca paused.

She stared.

And then she finally groaned and dropped her head in her hands. "Okay! Fine! I give up! You surpass me all mighty one! Happy now?"

Blackstar's self-confident smile was bigger than the sun. "No thanks! I'm gonna beat you fair and square some day, so you better get ready for it." He thrust his hand out. "Alright?"

Rebecca looked like someone had just told her that she would have to deal with a blue-haired brat pestering her for the rest of her life. Which is exactly what someone had just told her.

"Alright." She said wearily, and shook his hand.

"Yahoo!" Blackstar cheered; he then promptly collapsed into a human blob in the middle of the courtyard, mumbling something about a good night's sleep. Tsubaki ran towards him with a worried look on her face while Soul and Maka just ignored him.

The brown-haired mister turned slowly to Reba, and then said miserably, "Can we move back home now?'

The only thing Reba could do was laugh.

Sheesh this one was long! Next chapter is about the same length though... Laugh. How do I know that? Because I have a system; I post the chapter as soon as I have the next one typed up. I don't know why I have this system... but I do.

Something I noticed: The Soul Eater fanbase isn't very OC friendly. I.e. Stories with OC's aren't as popular and don't have as many reviews. (Granted, some of them aren't all that fantastic, so this is understandable.) Hmm, but yes. Just some insight.

So just a question, is the summary for this story, too misleading? If you could give me your opinion I would greatly appreciate it.

But, I AM SO PUMPED FOR THE CHAPTER AFTER NEXT. AHH! I'M GONNA TRY TO HAVE IT FINISHED BY TMMRW! (...this will never happen.)

Reviews make chapter's come faster! (THIS IS A LIE, BUT REVIEWS ARE SO GREATLY APPRECIATED THAT I OFTEN KEEP THEM IN MY INBOX TO GIVE ME COURAGE. SADLY THIS IS NOT A LIE.)

Ah, I am bursting with love right now. I love you guys.

LOVE, Sasha