For once in her life, Amane was actually wide awake during one of Stein's lectures. Masanori was taking notes as usual, while his brother was off in his own little world. Amane began to wonder what he was always thinking about. Masahiro had his arm on his desk and his head rested in his hand. His eyes were half closed as he started falling asleep. Stein continued his lecture until he paused for some reason and looked up at the students.
"Maka, Amane, I just remembered that Lord Death would like to see you and your weapons." Stein informed loudly.
"Yes!" Soul shouted standing up. The lecture was boring as always and getting out of it made him happy.
Soul's shouting caused Masahiro to almost wake up, making his head fall and hit his desk with a loud thump. He jerked awake and his brother rolled his eyes. They stood up and began heading to the Death Room.
"I wonder what he wants." Masanori wondered aloud.
"It might be a mission." Maka suggested.
"Well, I can't think of any other reason he'd want to see us." Amane stated as they arrived in the room.
Lord Death turned around and waved at them with his abnormally large hand.
"Hello, everyone. Good to see ya." Lord Death greeted in his goofy voice.
"What is it that you want?" Masahiro asked.
"I have a mission that you must complete." Death replied.
"What's the mission about?" Soul asked.
"A strong witch has been spotted in a forest near Death City and you must take care of her." he stated.
Everyone just stood there not saying a word. Amane sighed and turned to walk out.
"Let's get this over with." she said.
The others walked after her, some waving goodbye to Lord Death. Amane stared at the ground most of the time, somewhat disappointed. She preferred to go on missions alone, and on occasions with Kid. It's not that she doesn't like Maka, she just isn't sure if Maka is strong enough. Amane wouldn't be very happy with learning the hard way if Maka really was weak.
They had been walking for what felt like hours. The twins and Soul were already in their weapon forms. Masahiro claiming that it is best to be able to fight on a moments notice; however Maka accused them of being too lazy to walk. Maka was probably right, the twins are really lazy. This didn't bother Amane though; she was used to the twins' laziness. As they continued walking, Maka noticed a small figure in the distance.
"What is that?" Maka asked as her pace sped up.
"It looks like a person." Amane replied matching Maka's pace.
They made it to the small figure and Maka knelt down next to it. It was a girl, or a small woman, it was somewhat hard to tell. The girl was curled up on the ground, her hair covering her face. Her arms were wrapped around her stomach where her clothes were stained red. Amane had strange feeling about this, but decided to brush it off. Maka placed a hand on the girl's shoulder.
"Are you okay? We'll get you some help." Maka said.
Amane rolled her eyes. The answer seemed kind of obvious. The girl is curled up on the ground, bleeding from her stomach, and she has her arms wrapped around it in pain, she's obviously not okay.
"It hurts." The girl whimpered.
Amane noticed something strange about the girl's tone of voice. It sounded innocent and she was in pain, but it seemed almost fake. Her tone of voice seemed to sound a bit, happy? No, it seemed more evil and sadistic.
"It's okay. You're going to get help." Maka assured.
"Actually, you're the one who's going to need help." The girl said as she stood up.
Maka jumped back in surprise. The girl's voice was innocent sounding, but it quickly turned into something that sounded more hate filled and sadistic. The girl lifted her head revealing her face as she released her soul protect. Amane and Maka got ready to attack her the moment they realized she's a witch. The girl wasn't as little as they assumed she was. She was more of a short or small woman. An evil smile was plastered on her face. Amane could tell by the witch's eyes that she was filled with bloodlust. She took off her stained clothes, revealing a clean dress underneath it. After fixing her dress, she put on a stereotypical, black witches hat.
"This must be the witch Lord Death told us about." Masahiro said.
"No duh, dimwit." Masanori sighed.
"Hey, don't call me a dimwit!" Masahiro shouted.
The twins began fighting and Amane closed her eyes, getting frustrated. The fighting continued for a little while longer before she got sick of it.
"Shut up you two, you can fight later. We have a mission we must complete." Amane shouted in frustration.
"Sorry." the twins said.
"Well, before we start our fight I think I should know the names of the people I'm about to kill. And your killer's name is Tori." The witch declared.
"You got it all wrong; it'll be us killing you. My name is Maka and I'll be taking your soul." Maka replied.
Maka then began to attack the witch and Amane followed suit. The witch easily dodged their attacks, only getting a small scratch on an occasional hit.
"Is that all you got?" Tori asked.
"Don't be so cocky." Maka spat.
Tori got her broom and flew up and away from Maka when she almost got the witch. The witch looked down at Amane, a sadistic smile on her face. Amane glared at Tori and, without realizing it, lost control of her soul protect for a quick second. Maka was the only one who noticed this. She brushed it off though, knowing that completing this mission was more important at the moment. Tori began to say something, no one knew what she was saying, but they knew it was a spell. Maka and Amane prepared themselves for what might happen next.
Amane tensed up a bit when she found herself suddenly surrounded by a cloud of black feathers. She swung her weapons around trying to get the cloud to go away. It only took a few seconds for her to realize it was helpless. She glanced down at her weapons.
"We should hurry up and finish this fight." Amane advised.
"Right." The twins agreed.
Amane threw her weapons in the air. She placed two fingers on each ribbon that was tied around her weapons. The ribbon slipped off as her weapons continued to go up into the air. She tied her hair back to keep it out of her face.
"Soul Resonance!" the three shouted.
The weapons began to gleam brightly and as they fell they blew away the feathers. Their forms shortened into double bladed daggers. The whole weapon was colored black. Other than the color, there was nothing really amazing about it. Their form is basically a dagger, but with another blade on the opposite end of the other blade.
Amane caught her weapons, twirling them with her fingers, and then prepared herself to charge at Tori, who, at that moment had a very displeased look on her face. Maka and Soul did the same thing, performing Witch Hunter. The two meisters charged at the witch and attacked her. Amane attacked her from behind while Maka attacked her front. Once again, Amane's Soul Protect failed for another quick second, nearly messing up Maka's attack.
Amane stabbed Tori's hands; the blade's going straight through it and into her broom. Even though she knew of the risks, Amane remained behind the witch, her hands still gripping the dagger handles. She knew that there is a small possibility that the witch could still escape. Maka slashed at Tori and about a second before it reached the terrified witch, Amane pulled her daggers out of Tori's hands. As she fell backwards, she placed her feet on the broom and pushed off; managing to get away a second before the attack reached the witch.
All the weapons transformed back into their human forms and they all watched the witch's soul float down and stopped right in front of them.
"So who gets it?" Maka asked.
"Well you killed her, I just held her still." Amane stated.
"Well we haven't collected all the kishin souls yet, so I'll just have to bring it back to Lord Death." Maka said.
Maka and Soul headed back to the DWMA to see Lord Death, while Amane and the twins headed home. The mission had lasted so long that school had already ended about an hour ago. This upset Amane a bit, since she wanted to bother Kid. His obsession with symmetry was annoying at times, but it was also a bit cute. The twins snapped her out of her thoughts when they began poking her face.
"Hey, Amane." Masahiro started.
"We just asked you a question." Masanori finished.
"Oh uh… what was it again?" Amane asked.
The twins looked at each other, sighed, and then looked back at their meister. They had a bit of a twin telepathy kind of thing going on. They pretty much agreed with each other on the fact that she was probably busy thinking about Kid.
"What's for dinner?" the twins asked.
"I don't know. Why don't you cook instead?" Amane asked.
"I thought you said you're cooking!" Masahiro complained.
"Yeah, but I changed my mind. I'm too tired." Amane said before running ahead of them.
The twins began running after her, trying to catch up, "Hey that's not fair!"
Back at the DWMA, Maka and Soul had made it to the Death Room.
"Hello, hello!" Lord Death greeted.
"Hello, Lord Death." Maka and Soul said.
"How was the mission?" Lord death asked.
"It went well. We have the witch's soul." Maka informed.
"Okay, well just leave it with me for now." Lord Death said as he took the soul.
"Lord Death, there's something else I want to talk to you about." Maka stated as she stared at the ground. Soul glanced over at his meister and knew something was wrong.
"What is it?" Lord Death asked, tilting his head to the side.
Maka took a deep breath and looked up, a serious expression on her face, "Amane… She's a witch."