Warning This chapter is the last chapter of the series and contains character deaths. And there's a slight MakaxSoul. Enjoy!

Everyone was fighting their hardest, desperate to win and afraid to die. Black Star was fighting off all the witches to the left of Amane and Maka was fighting off the ones to the right while Kid protected her back.

On Black Star's side, there were quite a few witches who kept ganging up on him. Each using spells that either made him fall or make his attacks miss. Tsubaki had transformed into all of her different weapon forms in less than four minutes. It seemed like no matter what attack plan he had, they always ended up in failure and he would come back to square one. He managed to kill two of the witches, but with each one he killed, there would be one or two more to take that witch's place. He threw his chain scythe at a witch who easily dodged it. Yanking on the chain, he pulled it back and tried again.

As he tried to fend off all the witches, he failed to notice that he was beginning to be surrounded. A witch came up behind him and, before he had the chance to stop it, she slashed at his arm. The witch that cut him wasn't able to get away, though. A large blade was thrust through the stomach of the witch. The person holding the weapon was a male in his 30s. He had a dark skin tone and his hair was so short that he looked nearly bald. The man's muscles stood out, but nothing stood out more than his hands. One was normal while the other was some metal contraption that was attached to the stub on his arm. He withdrew his gigantic weapon, which seemed to be kind of a cross between a changdao and a panabas, from the witch.

"Young man, I believe that you should get that arm fixed." He informed in a voice so deep that one would start to wonder if that's his real voice.

"I'll be fine. Nothing can slow down Black Star!" he stated proudly as he held his arm.

"Are you sure?" the man asked.

Black Star took a moment to look down at his arm and noticed that the witch had cut down to the bone. If it hadn't been for the man killing the witch, he would've lost his arm. In fact, if he doesn't get it fixed now, there would be no arm to fix later.

"I can't abandon my spot though." He said.

"I'll take over. Just go get that arm fixed." The man replied.

"Yeah, I think that's best, Black Star." Tsubaki agreed.

He hesitated a moment before he too agreed and left, but not before informing the others that a stranger who saved him would be taking his place.

Maka and Soul were beginning to fall behind. The number of witches seemed to double with every passing second and to their dismay, a large group of evil humans were beginning to gather. Maka ran faster to catch up to her team. A bright light shone in the sky and saw Kim write the words Team Eta Down in the smoke trail that she left with her weapon. She made her way over to Amane and stopped her.

"Why are we stopping?" Amane asked.

"We can't continue like this. It'd be faster to just let you and someone else go ahead." Maka informed.

Amane was beginning to protest, but looked up to the sky to read that Team Kappa and Gamma needed assistance. She looked to Maka and sighed, "Help the others. Kid and I will go ahead."

"Do I stay back and help the girl?" the large man who took Black Star's place asked.

"I think it's best if you do… uhm… What's your name?" Amane asked.

"Toussaint." He stated.

"Thanks for helping out. Come on Kid, let's go." Amane said then ran off with Kid.

"Soul Resonance." She said as she tossed her weapons in the air and pulled the red ribbon off of it. Rather than tying her hair up in a ponytail with the ribbon, she tied it around her two daggers. They began to glow and the handles lengthened by 2 inches and the blades we're almost more than half the size of Amane. Her weapon now looked like a large completely black cross with red ribbons wrapped all around it for both decoration and to hold the two weapons together. Kid looked over at Amane and her weapon with wide eyes.

"I didn't know your weapons could do that." He said.

"Neither did I. I found out last week when we were practicing our soul resonance and I messed up." She replied happily.

"Nice mess up." He chuckled.

As Amane and Kid came closer to the Grand Witch Maka and Toussaint were fighting off the evil humans. Maka slashed at the witches and the evil humans. When she was being surrounded to the point that she could barely move, she knew that she couldn't wait any longer. After running through it in her mind for a few seconds, she positioned herself in the perfect spot and preformed witch hunter, wiping out all enemies within a ten foot radius. Right when she was beginning to think that it would get easier after that, a witch that had just avoided the attack stabbed a needle into the back of Maka's arm. Turning around she quickly killed the witch and took the injection needle out and threw it to the ground.

"Soul, what the hell was that!" she asked.

"I don't know, but it doesn't look good." He replied.

Just then, another witch, who very much resembled a wolf, grabbed Maka by her arm and threw her to the ground. Maka quickly turned on her back to look up at the wolf like witch.

"Immobilize." The witch stated and her eyes began to shine a golden color.

No matter how hard Maka tried, she couldn't turn away; she couldn't look away from those eyes. When she tried to lift up her weapon and attack, she couldn't. Her arms wouldn't move.

A satisfied smile made its way onto the witches face as she saw that her spell was a success. The spell would only last a few more minutes, before the effect wore off and she couldn't take her eyes off of the girl or let something get in the way of her line of sight for more than three seconds or else the spell would be broken. Reaching over, she picked Maka up by her hair. She reached into her dress pocket and pulled out an injection needle.

"I could just kill you right now to get it over with, but I'd rather see you suffer first." The witch said.

Soul began to panic more than Maka was. Quickly he transformed back into his human form. He held Maka's hand, his fingers intertwined with hers and he left an arm still as the blade. Swinging his arm around, he cut the needle through the center, but in the process of doing that, he had to cut Maka's hair. He swung his arm again and cut right through the middle of the witch, smirking when he saw her astonished face. Changing his arm back to normal, he turned around and helped Maka to her feet and held her close.

"You okay?" he asked.

"Fine, but… YOU CUT MY HAIR!" Maka exploded.

Soul sighed and transformed back into his weapon form, "And right when I thought I was going to get a thank you."

Amane could tell she was getting very close. Stabbing the bottom blade into a witch in front of her, she jumped onto her weapon so that one of the side blades cut into another witch. As she ran forward, she ripped her weapon out of the ground. Somewhere along the way, she ended up losing Kid, leaving her all alone. And she came to a quick stop when she finally spotted the Grand Witch. Before she could bet mobbed by the many witches that surrounded her, the Grand Witch held up a hand, signaling them to stop. A smile came across the witch's face which caused Amane to shudder.

"You made it. What an absolutely wonderful surprise." She said.

"Well then, old hag, are we going to end this or not?" Amane spat.

The witch laughed, "Oh what an impatient girl."

Amane clutched her weapon tightly and ran forward and swung at the witch, who, to her dismay, easily dodged it. From the corner of her eye, she saw the witch throw a dagger that was hidden in her sleeve. She tried to dodge it, but ended up getting a cut on her arm. Amane knew that the witch was refraining from using magic since it was possible for Amane to steal it. Reaching up, she gently touched the necklace that had been given to her long ago. She tucked it into her shirt, knowing that it would be easy for the Grand Witch to cut its chain. She continued swinging at the witch, but was only able to land a few hits. Her head began to feel as if it was throbbing and she fell to her knees. Of course, it was the poison and it started to take effect at the worst possible time. During this short time of weakness, a witch was able to sneak up on her and stab her with a needle, injecting a bit more of the poison. Amane was able to kill the witch and destroy the needle before any more of it could enter her body.

The Grand Witch watched Amane stand back up in frustration. She didn't like what she saw; she didn't like it at all. Completely forgetting about the necklace that Amane had, she used her magic. A bright green began to come out of her sleeves and they shout out at Amane, and wrapped around her. Some of the magic got sucked into the necklace, but the rest remained there. They began to burn Amane's skin and she began ripping all of the green magic off of herself. When it was all gone, her body was covered in burns, some worse than others. She staggered forward a bit before she ran forward and swung her weapon so that the bottom blade cut into the ground and threw dirt and the Grand Witch, getting it into her eyes. If the Grand Witch was allowed to play dirty, so was she. She stopped where she was and swung her weapon at the witch.

"SOUL!" Amane heard someone scream. There was no doubt in her mind that it was Maka who had yelled.

The scream was enough to throw off Amane's attack and allow the witch some time to move. The attack was somewhat successful, cutting off the witch's right arm. Amane shouted random profane words and continued to swing at the witch. She began to grow very tired and she tripped over a rock and fell to the ground. The witch walked over to her calmly and kicked her in the stomach.

"I thought you'd put up more of a fight." She said.

Amane coughed and struggled to get up, but ended up falling back to the ground. The Grand Witch pulled out a short sword, her magic wrapped around it. As she brought down the sword upon Amane, she shouted in anger as someone got in the way. Masanori had transformed into his human form and took the hit for her. Blood splattered onto Amane's face, but she didn't care, she was too distracted by what had just happened. She watched in horror as Masanori fell to the ground, clutching his shoulder.

"Damn you!" Masahiro shouted, as he lunged forward at the witch and stabbed her in the stomach. He felt a monstrous pain in his chest and he looked down to see the sword.

"Just returning the favor." The witch sneered.

Tears began pouring out of Amane's eyes as she looked away, not wanting to see any of this anymore. 'I was so close!' she thought angrily, 'I was so damn close!' She looked back up just in time to see a large gun pointed at the witch's head.

"Scum like you belong in hell." Kid stated then pulled the trigger.

All the witches screamed in horror as they saw their leader killed. Some had already run off in fear during the middle of the fight. Amane pulled the necklace out of her shirt and placed the crystal to the Grand Witch's soul, absorbing it. Looking over at Masahiro and Masanori, she realized that only one could be saved, because one had already been lost permanently. Masanori held his brother's body close to himself, tears streaming down his face and falling onto Masahiro's face. Amane crawled over to her friend and pushed herself into a sitting position. She wrapped her arms around him, allowing him to cry on her shoulder. Kid heard screaming and looked around. What he saw caused him to panic and he shook Amane. She glanced up at him as he helped her stand up. He pointed over at Maka, and Amane began running over to her.

Maka was on her knees crying over Soul's body, a large wound on his stomach. Soul had his hand on her cheek and she had her hands placed over top of it.

"Soul, don't go." Maka cried.

"I'll be fine." Soul said, "I just want you to know that… I love you."

This caused even more tears to form in her eyes, "I love you too Soul." She whispered her words barely audible. She felt Soul's hand slip away and saw it fall to his stomach.

Just then, Amane and Kid came running up, by that time Liz and Patty were already back in human form. Amane knelt down next to Soul, Maka glaring at her the whole time. Amane took off her necklace and held it over Soul's wound.

"Revive." She whispered.

The crystal on the necklace began to glow along with Soul's wound. In a matter of seconds, his wound was healed, but had she helped him in time? Everyone watched hesitantly, waiting for some sign of him being alive. As they began to lose hope, they saw his hand twitch then his eyes slowly opened.

"Soul!" Maka shouted as she threw her arms around him.

Amane smiled at the two, but as usual, received a glare from Maka, though this glare didn't hold as much hate. "I still despise you, but I'll learn to like you. It'll take time though. And… thank you." Maka said.

Two Days Later

A funeral was held for all of those who had died during the war. Lord Death stood in front of everyone, holding a sheet of paper.

"We had successfully killed the Grand Witch and won the war, but we had lost so many in the process. On this day we grieve the loss of our comrades, our friends, and the ones we loved most. Here I have a list of all who had died…" Lord Death began.

As he began reading off the names, Amane tuned him out. She looked down as she clutched the end of her black dress. Some of the names that Lord Death spoke weren't completely tuned out. She heard the names, Ox Ford, Azusa Yumi, Black Star, and Masahiro. Amane began to think back to when she discovered that Black Star had been killed. He wasn't able to get his arm fixed since he stopped halfway there to aid a team in need of help. His arm was completely cut off and was outnumbered. Her thought's then turned to the stranger, Toussaint. He wasn't actually much of a stranger. He was the meister of the man who had helped her find her way to Kid's house. Suddenly, she snapped out of her thoughts and looked up at Lord Death who had just finished. He nodded, signaling that now was the time that people would place a flower or a bouquet of flowers on the graves.

Masanori stood up and walked over to his brother's grave, followed by Amane. After she had placed a flower on his grave, she left to go to Black Star's grave. Masanori did not follow, simply stating that he would sit with his brother for a bit longer. Tsubaki had just placed a bouquet of flowers on Black Star's grave when Amane arrived. They stood in silence for a bit before Amane turned to look at Tsubaki.

"So what will you do?" she asked.

Tsubaki was silent for a moment before looking over at Amane, "I'm going to continue attending the academy, but I'm not getting a new meister."

"I understand."

"Yeah, I could never replace Black Star."

Kid made his way over to them and took Amane by her hand. "It's time to go." He said.

Amane nodded and waved goodbye to Tsubaki. Liz, Patty, and Masanori said that they would just catch up to the two later, wanting to stay awhile longer. Kid and Amane began heading to his house.

"Amane, who will be the leader of the witches now that the Grand Witch is dead?" Kid asked curiously.

Amane looked up at Kid, "Me." she stated.

Author's Note: The end! I'd like to thank all the people who had stuck with me through this whole story. I can honestly say that some of the past chapters could have been much better, but hey I'm a beginner. And I just discovered how to put those line things in, I'll make sure to use those in the future. I hope you all enjoyed. Please write a review! I enjoy criticism, but don't be mean about it. Love ya'll! 3