"Father, we barely managed to win our first fight with Mosquito, why are you sending us of all the weapons and meisters in the academy, wouldn't it be better to send a more experienced team?" Kid voiced his concern for the order. His father responded with " That's precisely why we're sending you to capture him, you have experience fighting him, and won't be caught by surprise as easily as some of the other students or even teachers here.". Maka spoke, "he's like a vampire in the fact that he gains power by taking blood, so your sending a vampire against him, it makes sense, but there's also the danger that I'll lose control.". Lord Death spoke again, "that's why I'm sending Crona with you, as it appears that black blood does not trigger your bloodlust, and thus he will be our fallback if you lose control, staying between you and the rest of the team, hopefully causing you to attack Mosquito.". Kid then said "That still doesn't change the fact that Mosquito is a dangerous opponent.". Lord death responded "Kim will also accompany you for that very reason, if you are injured you are expected to retreat, and Kim will use her healing magic on you.". "So when are we leaving?" Blackstar asked. "you leave for Italy in two days, I hope you're prepared to leave." Lord Death responded.

the flight to Italy was pretty average, if you include Blackstar's rampant shouting average. When they arrived, they immediately agreed that housing was of number one importance. "I've got an idea, but only if we can't find a hotel." Soul said, causing everyone to look at him, confused. Tsubaki got everyone back into focus, splitting them up to find a hotel, there weren't very many in town, at least that the team could afford anyways. The few with affordable rooms had insufficient vacancies, or none at all. "So Soul, what's your idea?" Maka asked, after the group came back together from the various hotels. "My brother lives near here, he's pretty well off, I might be able to get us to be able to stay at his place, but I don't know if he'll be okay with so many people." Soul said. Everyone looked at Soul with shocked expressions, he never talked about his family, even Maka was largely in the dark about his past. Maka spoke first, "I'd like to meet your brother, besides it's not like we have many options at this point.". When they arrived at the house, they saw a massive mansion, with a gate and a winding drive leading up the property to the house's gate, there was a buzzer on the front gate with a camera and a speaker for requesting entry. Soul pressed the button, and said "It's Soul, open up.", the gate swung open and Soul led the group up the drive. "I don't know how to deal with people that have big houses." Crona muttered, causing Maka to console him. when they arrived, they saw a man with familliar red eyes and white hair standing at the door. "Soul it certainly has been a while since you've visisted." the man said, "yeah, sorry to come on such short notice Wes, but I need to ask a favor." Soul responded. Wes spoke again "I'm assuming that favor involves the large number of people that you have taken to my doorstep.". Soul spoke again, "You assumed correctly, you see were a team from the DWMA to track down one of the last remaining arachnophobia leaders, they were the organisation that surrounded the kishin and the witch aracne; we need a place to stay for a few days, we were sent out a very short time after the academy located our target so we couldn't pre book, and every hotel was either too expensive, or didn't have enough rooms. So we came here as a last resort.". Wes spoke again, "I'll grant your request if you do one thing,", Soul inquired, "and what might that be.", Wes finished "Play the piano for me while your here, I always liked your music.". "yeah sure..." Soul responded. Wes then led them into a large room, with several couches, a large TV and a grand piano in the corner of the room, "The guest rooms are upstairs and to the left, I'll leave it up to you to divide them.

a man with dirty blonde hair stood in a clearing in the forest, he looked to another, standing across from him, the three eyed mask that had become organization standard, it was a moment before the first man spoke, "it appears that things have progressed involving Maka much faster than I intended, you will retrieve her for me.". The masked man simply said, "I will assemble a squad at once my lord.". The masked man then departed leaving the first alone with the creature behind him, it was brown in color, with a long neck, and a serpentine head, it lacked forelimbs, instead having a set of long bat-like wings, it had powerful hindlimbs, and a long tail, tipped with a stinger, it purred at him, "yes I know girl, this all is very troubling.".

Dinner at the home of Wes Evans had progressed unexpectedly, it was informal, as Wes seemed to share the same laid back personality as his brother, Crona had always shied away from Wes so when Wes asked him what he thought of the house, he freaked out, resulting in Maka calming him down and (with Ragnarok's less than helpful input, his appearance surprising Wes.) getting Crona to have an intelligible answer. After the meal, the group split up into small social groups, talking amongst themselves about the coming mission. After about an hour the groups split up, and headed to bed. The group awakened the next morning and began preparations to find their target. A strange noise broke their preparations, of course they ignored it the first time, but the sound returned again, and again. The group went out to investigate the noise, as they approached the source, they saw a white object for a second before it promptly disappeared, they looked to one another, and decided to finish preparations and head out, they ate a brief breakfast, and thankfully Wes didn't question Maka as to what she was putting into the water. Once they arrived at the forest where Mosquito was supposedly hiding out, they began to formulate a plan, "those of us that can fly should do an aerial sweep of the area, those of us on foot should stay together and proceed with caution." Kid said, "If you find the target, signal the rest of us, the foot group can use Tsubaki's smoke bomb mode, I'll use this, Kid said revealing a small flare gun, Kim can use Jaquelin's fire, and Crona, you can use Ragnarok's screeching.". Maka then spoke, confused, "I thought Crona would be with the foot group.". Kid looked to Crona, the demon swordsman spoke, "Ragnarok, black dragon mode." the group looked on as ragnarok emerged, his neck elongating, and his arms transforming into wings, "Oooh are we doing some flying?" the demon sword asked, seeming to be excited, before transforming into a sword, leaving just the wings on Crona's back. Kid summoned beelzebub, and flew upwards on the skateboard, Jaquelin transformed, Kim took the lantern and launched into the air. Crona then took off, the three spreading out to cover a large area. Maka and Blackstar moved slowly through the trees, looking up periodically to check for a signal from the others, when a burst of flame was seen from above the treetops, they ran, towards it, reaching a fallen tree where the others were waiting, "Mosquito's just beyond those trees in a clearing, what's the plan?" Kim said, Blackstar simply said "We capture the target, before leaping through the trees into the clearing where Mosquito was standing. He spoke as the rest of the DWMA strike team entered the clearing, "we've been expecting you.", as Mifune stepped from the shadows. "This guy again?!" Blackstar said, "hey guys, I'll take the samurai, you fight the bug.". Maka nodded, as the weapons transformed, Maka moved first, slashing at Mosquito, her opponent jumped back, transforming, and the battle began. Tsubaki had already transformed into the enchanted sword, and Blackstar was ready to settle the score between Mifune and himself. Mifune opened the way he did every fight between the two, launching his swords to create an arena, the two charged, their blades meeting once again. Crona slashed twice at Mosquito, missing both times, Mosquito commented, "I've never seen this one before, wait, that's Medusa's little brat isn't it." at the mention of his mother's name, a look of fear briefly crossed Crona's face, Maka swung quickly at Mosquito, but Soul's blade merely bounced off his body, however the attack drew Mosquito's attention long enough for Kim to land a hit with a blast of Jaquelin's fire. Blackstar continued to savagely attack Mifune, the latter's guard never failing to block an attack. The samurai countered, and began to press his own offensive advantage. Precise blows hammered against Blackstar's guard, causing the meister to give up some ground, however a narrow miss from shadowstar brought the battle back into a stalemate, with neither side having an advantage to press. Mosquito had bowled down Crona and Maka, leaving the two ranged fighters to engage him, Mosquito attacked brutally at Kim, missing again and again, he raised his arm to attack once more when he heard, "Soul resonance, Witch hunter!" from behind him, a blow from the Witch hunter catching him across the back, Crona then said, "My turn, screeching resonance, Screech Gamma." and swinging Ragnarok repeatedly against Mosquito, striking again and again, casing a series of shallow cuts along Mosquito's back, punching Maka square in the gut, sending her flying into a tree, snapping said tree in half and said, "I'm gonna suck all the blood from your body!" before being shocked as the tree was lifted and tossed to the side, Maka stood where she had landed, steam rising from the series of scrapes taken during her trip through the tree, eyes glowing blood red, and said "That's not a bad Idea.", Soul, having recovered from his minor tumble after Maka dropped him on her way to the tree, transformed, and Maka charged at a speed that the combatants could barely track, slashing soul with such strength that she managed to cause several deep cuts on her opponent's arms, "that was nothing I could kill you anytime I wan-". Mosquito's sentence was cut off by a sword being thrust completely through him, the blade was wrenched upwards through Mosquito's body, as the bloody corpse fell, the soul of a kishin egg floated down towards the ground, to be picked up by a man, holding a bloody shortsword, wearing a mask with three eye holes. The man crushed the soul in his hand, allowing the remains of it to drift towards the ground before anyone could react, he dashed to Maka, grabbing her, and placing a small cloth over her mouth, her body went slack, allowing for the man to flee, disappearing into the forest. Blackstar looked in shock at what had happened, Mifune looked in that direction, sheathing his sword, and moving to gather the rest of his weapons, Tsubaki, having reverted back to human form, looked at the samurai, "I still don't understand why you wouldn't want to teach at the academy, taking the alternative of working for an organisation like arachnophobia. "I can't go to the DWMA because Angela will never be safe there because she's a witch.". Kim then approached him, and said "That's not exactly true."