AN: Hey everybody, welcome back to more The More Things Change. Sorry for the hiatus like departure, I have been working on the outline for this chapter since the last time I updated. Other reasons include school, as all my reviewers know, but I now have 2 B's and 2 C's and 1 A, which covers all my classes, and I have also been watching the anime. But after that it made me think of a question. I've already asked 1 person about this, mostly because that one person was the one to inspire me to read Soul Eater, but do we ever find out if Crona is a boy or a girl? I have tried looking this up, asking people who have never watched the show or read the manga, and now I'm asking you guys. Plus, I'm kind of questioning this now that I think of it. Is Free really immortal? We saw some sort of trick to make him immortal with his fight against Kid, but I'm just confused about this stuff. Please answer these questions, I actually don't have any friends who read or watch Soul Eater.

Eamonn: Wow, needy.

Lilith: *Slaps Eamonn upside the head* Hey be grateful. He might actually incorporate this into the story.

Me: Maybe, maybe not. I'm not entirely sure right now but I do know this: I don't own Soul Eater and this is entirely the work of a fan. And we may see a fight this chapter, I'm not entirely sure I just decided to wing this stuff. So without further ado, let's get started.

Chapter 8

*Eamonn POV*

Crystal-sensei was about to go on with the lesson she was teaching when a crash resounded from the halls. The fire alarm began to blare and everyone else began to get into formation to leave. The teachers all had a suspicious look on their faces so I decided to stick to the back. Lilith seemed to have the same idea as we both went to the back of the line.

"Got any idea why the teachers look so suspicious?" Lilith whispered as all teachers other than Maka-sensei ran out of the room like it was on fire.

"No, but I know how we can find out," I whispered back as we began to leave the room. After a few minutes of walking the halls, heading towards the dungeon instead of outside like we usually do for a fire drill, me and Lilith side stepped out of line and ran towards the front of the school.

Before we could go any further, a hand grabbed us from behind and dragged us back to the line. "Where do you to think you are going?" Daisuke said as Sora, Rage, and Hikari all came over as well. We tried to get out of his grasp but it was hard to. "You're supposed to stay in line and follow Maka-sensei. Not go wondering away." Daisuke didn't look to happy, Sora was even worse giving me a glare, Rage was just being calm about the whole thing, and Hikari was trying to catch her breath.

"Come on, really? You guys are really going to buy this BS?" Sora was about to say something when I just continued anyway. "That was the fire alarm. If there was a fire we'd be going outside, not to the dungeon. I want to know what the teachers are keeping from us so if you want to stop me then just try." I said, wrenching out of his grasp and making a run for the front door. I made out a few things as I ran away though.

*Lilith POV*

Daisuke and Sora were about to go after Eamonn when I blocked their way. "Lilith, what are you," Sora asked, leaving his sentence hanging. Daisuke looked like he was conflicted between not fighting me and getting past me to catch up to Eamonn.

"Don't take another step," I yelled at them. "Don't you think it's odd that-" I was about to continue when an invisible force forced me to fall down on my butt. "Crap, forgot about this stupid watch." I said as I stood back up, brushed myself off and got in their way again. "As I was saying, don't you think it's odd that the teachers are just sending us to the dungeon with no reason? Eamonn was right that they're hiding something from us and if there was a fire we should be going outside." They seemed to get the point of my statement but still didn't look convinced.

"Look, I may not know much about this, but I do know for a fact something's up and I'm not going to be left in the dark if we're in danger." I grabbed the hem of my shirt and began twisting and untwisting it. "I'm not going to stand by when someone could get hurt." I turned away from them. "That's why I'm going to follow him. Be sure to tell Maka-sensei for me. I'll gladly take whatever punishment she'll give me." And with that I ran off to join Eamonn.

*Third POV, we are still in the same location*

The four of them just stood there in shock. If they didn't know her as well as they did they probably would have blamed Eamonn for making her this reckless, but they all felt kind of guilty. She was going to find out if they were in danger or not because she wanted to protect them.

"Better go tell Maka-sensei then," Sora said as he turned to leave when Rage grabbed him by the arm and stopped him.

"Are you kidding me? We're going after her," He said with a toothy grin. Hikari decided to pipe up as well.

"She's doing everything to protect us, so we should kindly do the same and go after her. I'm sure the others will feel the same so I'll go get them." She ran off and Daisuke just stared in disbelief. They were going to disobey the rules to that extent? No way was he going to let this happen.

"Daisuke let it go," Sora said as he put his hand on Daisuke's shoulder. "Which would you prefer: Lilith dead or breaking the rules to protect one of your friends?" Daisuke seemed to give it some thought.

After a few moments of silence, he smirked and gave his answer. "Well we can't have Eamonn protecting her now can we? If anyone's going to lend her help, it'll be us that does it," he said. After all the time he'd spent in school, this was the first time he'd ever broken his school persona. And with that they all waited for Hikari to get back with everyone else.

*Eamonn POV*

I got up from the ground after falling down. I really need to talk to Stein-sensei about getting this off. I heard footsteps coming from the hallway and I got ready to fight in case it was Rage, Sora or Daisuke. When I saw it was Lilith I got into a more comfortable stance. "So what happened?" I asked her as she stopped and stretched her back.

"Well I convinced them to not follow and just ran. I told them to tell Maka-sensei though. Let's go before she follows us," she said while continuing to run. I decided to follow so that I wouldn't be hit with one of her Maka Chops. I hate it when she does that.

After what seemed like forever we finally reached the front of the school and I saw a few figures as well as the teachers that left, plus Maka and Soul. They were just standing there staring at the figures, who after I counted turned out to be 9. "How are you still alive?" I heard Maka asked. She seemed to be asking everyone there, since they all seemed to smirk at the question.

"How you ask? I lived after being cut in half and you ask me how I'm still alive?" The hooded woman asked, then moved her head to look at Stein. "No thanks to you and Spirit." She practically spat out that last name.

Stein took in a breath of his cigar and blew out before responding. "You shouldn't have resurrected the Kishin then. Besides, if it wasn't me then you'd have just been taken out by some other Meister." He was about to take another breath of smoke when an afterthought came to him. "Didn't Crona kill you, now that I think about it?" The woman removed her hood, revealing a nice face and black hair.

"He did, but I did the same thing I did when I fought you and took control of someone else's body," she said with a malicious grin.

Hold on, these guys all began to look familiar. I saw them in a few of the books in the library. The black haired woman was Medusa, the flying guy was Gopher, the man in the jail stripe outfit was Free, the guy who was actually quite the gentlemen in looks was Mosquito in his form from 400 years ago, and the last one who was a female was Giriko. Somehow he remade himself using his DNA and transferred his soul into it and became a female. It was rather funny if you thought of it.

"Enough of this, let's just get rid of these people and take on the targets," Free said as he threw the ball and chain at the teachers. They were all separated into 3 groups of 2: Maka-sensei and Soul-sensei, Stein-sensei and Archibald-sensei, and Crystal-sensei and Kitsune-sensei. 2 of the black metal dolls went up to Maka-sensei and Crystal-sensei. Stein was about to go help Maka-sensei when a spear like thing hit the ground in front of him. He turned to see that Medusa was the one who shot it.

"Now, now Stein, you're doom will be my hands." She shot a few more of the spear things at him and he dodged out of the way.

I turned my attention to Maka-sensei and Soul-sensei to see that the metal doll actually backed off as an explosion sounded from where Maka-sensei was standing. I was about to go out and help her when I heard her and Soul-sensei both shout out. "Soul Resonance!" After that I saw her shoot out riding a pole with some sort of spiked wings at the end. She turned her head to see Gopher flying over to attack again. She was about to fly over and retaliate when a chain smacked the pole and knocked her out of the way. After a second look, I saw that there was blood running down her left arm.

"Don't think I'm going to let you go that easily girly," Giriko said as her hair turned into chain saws and began whirring at high speeds. She moved her head a bit and the chain flew off and began heading towards Maka-sensei. She dodged easily, but was hit with a punch to the face as she did. She nearly lost concentration from the impact.

"You're fighting 2 opponents girl. You can't take us too lightly," he said smirking a bit as he did. He flew after Maka-sensei and tried to deliver another punch but she easily dodged. She also dodged Giriko's attack when it came at her.

I would have gone to help out when I felt a fist connect with my face. I fell over and saw that it was Free. "Well what do you know, I found one already." He smirked as he began to chant. "Wolf wolves. Wolf wolves." A ball of ice surrounded his ball and chain and he threw at me. It wasn't very fast so I could dodge it easily, but he came up to me with amazing speed and delivered a kick to the gut, sending me sliding back a few feet.

He was about to attack again when a few claws, a scythe blade, and another spear blade stuck through him. A chain wrapped around his arm and flung him to the other side of the courtyard. I turned to see that all of Lilith's friends were there: Sora, Daisuke, Nicole, Fay, Hikari, Rage, Luka, and Ayako. "Looks like you could use some help," Sora said while everyone got into a horizontal line with Lilith at the end. "Would have come sooner, but we had to wait for everyone."

He helped me up and I just accepted it. "Thanks. I don't know what would have happened had you not shown up, but I know it wouldn't have been good." He looked genuinely surprised by this and soon smirked and stood next to Daisuke.

"Let's go help the teachers," Daisuke said as everyone ran towards a different person. The battle for DWMA, as I like to call it, began.

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AN: Again sorry for the lateness and this isn't on the regular day. School got in the way. I have told my reviewers the reason, but I had some grade issues, but their resolved now, but I have to work hard to keep them up. I also am sorry for not putting this up sooner. This was all BSed because after they left the room in the outline for this story, I couldn't come up with a good transition and this was the best I could come up with.

Eamonn: Ah well, you can't win them all.

Lilith: That's right. And please answer the questions asked before. I think they might be incorporated later on. But don't expect updates too much. The summer might be loaded with them, but for now not so much.

Me: And to end this off I want you guys to look at something. That AN above was written yesterday and this AN was written just before uploading. Before I even wrote this AN one of my teachers showed a video I didn't even know about, and now I'm trying to spread this as much as I can. It has to do with Africa and bad things, so many I can't name them all. Here's the URL: http : / www . youtube . com / watch ? v = Y4MnpzG5Sqc

I have big trouble with URLs and Fanfiction so sorry for the spaces. Look it up, this is important stuff. And please spread it to your friends, your family, your neighbors, heck even put it in your stories to let people know about it.

Lilith: Well I believe that is it for now, so Eamonn if you would please?

Eamonn: Only because their my designated lines, not because you asked me to. You know the drill of reading and reviewing so please do so. We will see you later. So until then, ciaossu.