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Spirit has put down his phone for the ninth time in the last thirty minutes. His eyes were filled with worry, "Stein, why isn't she answering her phone? She said she would call back as soon as she got off the plane, and it's been an hour since the scheduled landing time!"

Spirit Albarn waited thirty minutes for Maka to call. He just thought that she failed to remember to call him. But after a while, he just called her. When he wasn't answering her phone, which she kept on her at all times, he grew uneasy. She was practically in love with that Android after all.

"It is always possible that the plane has been delayed. Spirit, you worry too much." Stein said impassively.

"If the plane has been delayed, then why hasn't Maka called me to tell me?"

It was currently four o'clock PM in Death City, Nevada and the plane should've landed at three, seven o'clock over in Orlando, Florida, due to the time difference.

"Her phone could've died." Stein pointed out.

Spirit was silent for a while. He finally said, "Yeah, I guess you're right." He sighed, "I'm just worried about her, you know? This is the first time she's been on a trip like this without any adults with her and I don't want anything to happen to her."

"Maka's a resourceful girl. She can take care of herself." Stein sat down at Spirit's kitchen table.

"I know she is." Spirit sighed, "I mean, I already screwed up with her mother. I don't want to be cut out of Maka's life completely too. With her going on this trip, it shows that she doesn't need me anymore." Spirit sat down at the table as well and sulked.

Stein looked at Spirit, his face void of any expression. Sometimes he thought that Spirit can be too emotional when it came to Maka.

Then again, what does he know? He never had a kid.

XxXxX

"Hey Kid, where do you think we are right now?" Tsubaki asked.

"Well, we're probably somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains. I'm not quite sure what state we are in though." He answered.

"What time do you think it is?" Liz questioned while looking at the setting sun. The sunset was beautiful with its golden rays shining down on them. The sun gave everything a golden orange hue.

It definitely treated Maka well. The light was accenting her features well and her ashy blond pigtails were practically glowing gold.

She looked beautiful.

Well, Soul thought so.

Black*Star's stomach gave a loud growl, "It's time for us to eat."

"Yeah, we should stop. It looks like it's going to get dark soon." Soul remarked, shoving his thoughts away. "And we do need to think about food."

"Well, I don't think we should eat the food we have now. We should go look for something else to eat and save that for emergencies." Maka stated.

"We could just go look for some nuts or berries or something." Liz mentioned.

"Yeah, you girls can go find some food and me, Soul and Kid can build us some cover!" Black*Star exclaimed.

"Okay, first of all, it's Soul, Kid, and I, not me, Soul, and Kid." Maka corrected. "And it's build some cover for us, not build us some cover."

Black*Star gave her an exasperated look and said, "Quit being such a grammar Nazi!"

"We prefer the term intellectual badass." Maka replied calmly. Soul and Kid chuckled while the girls rolled their eyes and shook their heads in amusement. Black*Star frowned at her comeback.

"You might get lost." Kid pointed out, directing the statement to Liz.

"Don't worry, we won't go far!" Liz responded.

"And if we do, we'll scream!" Patty cheerfully piped in.

"Alright, I guess it's okay then." Kid replied.

"Okay, we'll be back soon! Come on guys!" Tsubaki said.

The girls walked off in search of some food and the guys got to work on the shelter.

They were at the foot of a hill they were walking down on then and there was an alcove in the it. The guys decided that they were going to find a large piece of wood and make a roof with that, using the alcove as a sleeping space.

Black*Star and Kid found some think branches to use as a roof and Soul was off finding some wood to make a fire for the night.

Black*Star jammed the branches into the clay-like earth and set them down to make a tent-like structure. It made a pretty good makeshift shelter.

Soul set down the wood he found.

"Do you think it is a smart idea to start a fire here?" Kid questioned, looking at the surrounding trees.

"It can't be that bad. If we're careful nothing bad will happen." Soul answered.

"Yeah. Just put it that open space over there and we are good." Black*Star added.

"…Do you know how to start a fire Black*Star?" Soul asked. The two boys stared at the kindling, clueless on what to do. Kid rolled his eyes, but didn't help them. Something hilarious might happen after all.

"…Sure I do. Just rub two sticks together like this." Black*Star sat down and proceeded to rub to twigs together. He had great determination on his face and he adamantly rubbing the sticks, but nothing happened. He kept at it for a while and still, nothing happened.

"Don't hurt yourself." Kid muttered sarcastically.

"This is going to be a long night." Soul said, wearily looking away, sighing.

XxXxX

The girls were walking along, trying to find anything that could be edible. They weren't having much luck.

"I wish we could find something to eat already. I'm starving." Maka complained.

"Yeah, me too." Tsubaki sighed.

"Hey look, a squirrel!" Patty shouted. "It's such a cute squirrel!"

"Let's follow it." Maka declared.

"Uh, why?" Liz questioned.

"It might lead us to food." She said simply.

The girls followed the squirrel carefully until they came upon a bush with dark blue berries on it. Or was it purple?

The squirrel was nibbling at the berries until it ran away into some nearby bushes. The girls walked over to the bush cautiously.

"Do you think it's okay for us to eat?" Tsubaki asked uncertainly.

"The squirrel was eating it." Liz mentioned.

"But it could be immune to the berries if they are poisonous." Maka pointed out.

"Poisonous?" Liz squeaked, her sky blue eyes widening.

"Squirrels can be immune to stuff?" Patty asked absent mindedly, referring to what Maka said earlier.

"How about this, we all eat the berries and if they are poisonous, then we all die or become very sick at the same time." Maka announced. "And if they are not poisonous, then… we don't die."

"What about the guys?" Tsubaki asked. "Won't they be devastated if they found out we ate a poisonous berry and died from it?"

"…They can mourn for their loss."

Liz moaned, "Oh, I don't want to die young! I have so much to live for!"

They all took a deep breath and took a berry. They popped them into their mouths. When Liz, Patty, Tsubaki, and Maka tasted the berries, they all had bright smiles on their faces.

"They're blueberries!" Patty exclaimed.

"Cool, so we won't die." Liz said, relieved.

"Okay, so we will just take these back then." Tsubaki reasoned.

Tsubaki and Liz picked the berries and use their shirts as baskets. Patty was off admiring the squirrel that emerged from the bushes and Maka just stood there, her eyebrows furrowed.

After a moment, her eyes widened in realization, "Shit!" Maka stomped her foot on the ground in frustration. "Damn it!"

The squirrel scurried away in fright.

The three girls were surprised by her sudden outburst. Maka noticed this and said, "I left my phone on the plane! I could've called somebody for help!"

Liz's eyes brightened with an idea, "Wait, I have my phone in my bag!" Liz rummaged through her bag. She took her iPhone out and saw that the screen had imploded on itself. You could see the computer chips from inside the phone and some of the chips were snapped in half.

The phone was completely and utterly useless.

Liz held her busted phone and looked at it, "That figures."

"It must have broke when you jumped off the tree. You did land on your back." Tsubaki dolefully said. "I wish that I remembered my bag!"

"This has seriously been a bad day." Maka said bitterly.

"Well, even if we can't call anybody, at least we have food and water!" Patty said positively. "It's better than nothing!"

Liz smiled at her younger sister. Patty's bubbly personality can definitely be inspiring sometimes.

"Yeah, I guess." Maka mumbled, still kicking herself for being so forgetful.

"We should go back." Tsubaki suggested.

Everybody complied and started walking towards the place where they left the guys.

XxXxX

"Screw this! Who needs fire anyways?" Black*Star chucked the two sticks away from him, glaring at them.

"Uh, we do?" Soul said a little sardonically. Kid rolled his eyes because Black*Star didn't know the basics of starting a fire. You needed more than just wood to get one going.

"Ugh, look at those sticks, mocking me. You know what, I am going to show those piece of twigs who's boss!" Black*Star wan not about to let the simple task of making a fire defeat him.

He retrieved the sticks and tried again.

Kid was right, Black*Star would make a fool of himself.

A few moments later, the girls came back with Liz and Tsubaki's shirts full of berries. Maka was glowering at nothing and Patty was just humming along, without a care in the world.

They walked over and set the blueberries on Maka's bag. The boys noticed Maka's glare.

Black*Star asked, "Geez Maka, who crapped in your cornflakes*?"

"I left my fucking phone in the damn plane." She muttered.

"Ooh, Maka has a potty mouth- SHIT!" Black*Star got a major splinter in his palm. Tsubaki rushed over to help pull the splinter out.

Pot calling the kettle black, huh Black*Star? "Look who's the potty mouth now!"

Black*Star scoffed, "I bet that I won't cuss longer than you!"

Maka raised a brow, "Is that a challenge, because I can beat you in a heartbeat!" Her competitive spirit was emerging.

"You know what, it is a challenge! I bet that I can go longer than you without saying any bad words!" Black*Star exclaimed. "That also includes words like suck and crap or anything like that!"

"And if I win?" It is amazing that a little competition can transform someone's attitude so quickly.

Black*Star pondered that thought for a while. He finally said, "If you win, me and Soul-!"

"Soul and I."

Black*Star's eye twitched, "Soul and I will be your servant until someone comes and rescues us. If I win… you can't Maka Chop me at all until someone comes!" He was going to bet money, but that's kind of inadequate in the situation they're in right now, so he did the next best thing.

Avoid certain death by the means of a book.

"Whoa, wait one minute, how did I get pulled into this? Maka don't agree, just say no!" Soul exclaimed frantically.

"You have a deal, Black*Star!" The two shook hands.

Soul walked over to a nearby tree and smacked his head into the trunk. "I told you to say no."

Tsubaki shook her head at her boyfriend's competitive antics. She decided to change the current subject, "That's a nice shelter you built!" She also noticed the array of twigs and sticks around the site. "Are you going to make a fire too?"

"You're da…" Black*Star trailed off, looking at Maka's smirking face. "You're dang right we built an awesome cover! All thanks to me!"

"He failed to mention that he couldn't start the fire." Kid spoke. Black*Star gave him an evil glare.

"A fire? That's easy to make!" Patty walked over and grabbed a flat stone and started to strike the piece of wood with it. She got some sparks and Patty began to blow on the smoke that was created with them. In no time, she made a small, but doable fire.

Black*Star's lips were pressed into a thin line, trying to keep himself from spouting a list of… creative words.

Soul and Kid were laughing at their friend's loss of pride. Maka was smiling expectantly at Black*Star, waiting to say something that she desperately wanted to hear.

Maka turned to Soul questioningly, "Do you know how to start a fire?"

"It wasn't required in my aristocratic upbringing." He said simply. "I never thought I would need to know how."

Tsubaki rubbed Black*Star's back comfortingly. Liz wasn't all that surprised about Patty knowing how to start a fire. Kid taught them how to when they went camping with him and his father one day. Surprisingly, Kid didn't freak out over the asymmetry of the forest. He has gotten more mellow about his OCD since middle school.

Night was falling fast and the gang decided to head into their temporary home to at least try to get some rest for the next day.

You know, I think I prefer writing in Soul's point of view. I find it interesting, even though I'm a girl, I guess.

We have a little competition going on here don't we? I have a poll up for you guys to vote on who wins the bet. Or you can just state it in a review. It doesn't really matter.

Who do you want to win?

Maka

or...

Black*Star?

The poll doesn't have a set date on when it ends right now, but I will tell you when I update again.

Speaking of updates, I will not update next week because I am going out of town next weekend. But I'll bring my laptop, so I'll have a chapter ready or something.

PLEASE REVIEW! It would only take up a little bit of your time and I want to know if I need to change this or anything. But it's your choice! *Smiles creepily*

*This is actually a really funny story, you see, this girl came walking into my class all angry and this guy was like, "Who crapped in your cornflakes?" The girl though it was funny and now everytime someone comes into class angry, everybody says, "Who crapped in your cornflakes?" I thought I would share a piece of my insane life with you guys.

I just thought I would enlighten you guys and share a piece of my insane life with you. :)