The previous night, at Blackstar and tsubaki's apartment. "I just don't get it why is it always, Maka, report to the death room, Maka can I talk to you, Maka this, Maka that!" Blackstar yelled, obviously frustrated, Tsubaki just tried to calm him down. "I'm sure it's for a reason, besides apparently Maka has to take a new medicine now, so that might be a part of it.". Blackstar suddenly snapped his fingers "I know how I'll make everyone see how much bigger a star I am than her, I'll fight Maka tomorrow, Yahoo!" the narcissistic assassin called. This can't end well… his weapon partner thought.
"What now?" Soul called. "If you want a fight you'll get one, come on Maka.". Maka slowly got up and walked up the stairs reaching the top where Blackstar was waiting. Soul transformed, Maka catching the scythe and moving into a ready position, I can't make him bleed, I can't run the risk of losing control. Maka thought. Blackstar rushed forwards and threw a punch, Maka dodged, hearing her opponent's fist fly past her face, Maka then moved forwards and delivered a kick that caught Blackstar in square in the chest. He slid back and looked directly at her, "I didn't expect hand to hand from you, but I've got you beat there.", he rushed forwards and threw two quick punches Maka dodged the first, however the second caught her in the stomach, she was thrown back by the force, but landed on her feet, sliding back, before swinging soul in a wide arc, slamming his handle into Blackstar. The assassin slid back several centimeters before hitting he with a ruthless barrage of punches and kicks, finishing with a soul force attack, Maka was thrown on her back, steam rising from her bruises. "I can't believe they think you're so special, honestly your worse than your dad.". That struck a nerve, Maka tapped into every bit of her vampiric power, and charged, Blackstar was to busy gloating to notice until she was already right in front of him, Maka delivered a punch that hurled Blackstar back a foot, he landed sliding backwards on the ground. Maka followed hitting him again and again. Blackstar looked at his opponent, her eyes were glowing bright red, even more surprising was that all of Maka's bruises had completely vanished. Maka hit him in the stomach, causing him to cartwheel across the ground, coughing up blood. For the first time, Maka began to fall back, away from Blackstar, Soul who had transformed back into a human looked on as his meister collapsed, her hands shooting to her throat, "So you're afraid of blood are you." Blackstar said, moving closer to Maka and swinging his hand, covered in blood towards her, "Blackstar.. RUN!" Maka yelled before collapsing back over, she stood back up, her eyes glowing even brighter, moving forwards with her vampiric speed, tackling Blackstar onto the ground, her mouth opening to reveal glistening fangs. As Maka moved in towards Blackstar's neck, a burst of gunfire hit her and she rolled off blackstar, steam rising from the points of impact. Tsubaki ran to her meister, transforming into a kusarigama as Blackstar stood back upright. "Maka, what's going on?!" Soul shouted the question. "That's it, just give in, and take their blood." the voice in Maka's head spoke again and again, encouraging Maka to just let go and allow the curse to control her. Crona then dashed in between Maka and the rest of her team, her friends. "Maka, I don't know why you're doing this, why are you attacking your friends. You always seemed so nice, so why are you doing this?" the demon swordsman asked. This got Maka to fight back for control. Her body collapsed, before her hands shot to her head and she shouted out "you'll never win, you'll never break me!.", and falling still again.
Maka woke up in the death room on a small mat, the sunlight streaming in from the room's windows was so bright to her, and she rolled so that she was facing away from the unwelcome light. "Oh, so you've finally woke up, have you." Lord death spoke as Maka sat up. Blackstar was the first among her friends to speak. "I wanna know how you got so fast and strong, and why you suddenly went all crazy and looked like you were gonna bite me?." the assassin asked. "I think we all deserve to know what the hell happened." Kid spoke next, earning a look from his father. "I guess I've kept this from you guys for too long now." Maka said. "you know how that thing bit me in greece, what you don't know is that when it bit me it inflicted its own curse on me.". "Of you haven't guessed it yet the curse is vampirism, I am now a vampire, why I attacked you was because you were bleeding, I could smell your blood, and due to the curse, I lost control and attacked you, that's where the extra speed and strength came from as well." Maka said. "Wait what?!" Blackstar shouted. "that medicine that I take now is a blood substitute to keep me from losing control like that again." Maka said. "that makes a lot of sense." Kid said. "I was wondering what could cause an attack like that from someone who isn't usually very violent." Kid said. "well I think it's pretty cool that my meister is a vampire." Soul said simply. "I will have to consider punishment for losing control like that." Lord Death said. "Of course sir." Maka responded, "and soul, it's really not cool." Maka said. Turning to leave the room by lord death stopping her by speaking again, "we have located another one of arachne's previous allies. We are sending your team, as well as Ox Ford's team to apprehend or kill mosquito." the reaper said.
