Two hours later, first period had come to an end and we had a short, 15 minute break before we had to return to class. Kid , Liz and Patty, who were absent the entire morning, had finally joined them but refused to tell why they weren't in class earlier. Black Star was bragging about some mission that he "obviously won, him being 7000 times more godly than every creature that lives in this world and beyond", Tsubaki tried to get him to shut up, Patty was trying to make Liz's hair look like a giraffe, Kid complained about a giraffe not being symmetrical and Maka clearly wasn't paying attention to anything that was being said. Soul looked at her, trying to find out what exactly was happening in that small head of hers. A few minutes later he decided that by staring at her he wouldn't become any wiser, and asking her wouldn't get him far either. Fine, he would ask Lord Death himself. "I'm off, i'll probably see you guys in class" he mumbled, not too loud and disappeared before they could ask him where he was going. Everyone went silent for a second, trying to analyze the situation, then ignored it and continued their 'regular' stuff. Maka was too busy thinking about the words she just heard to notice Soul had ran off. "We need you to protect Crona even harder. Medusa will not only try to kill you and Soul, she will do it the way she likes. You have to accept that she'll try to make Crona help her with it. You'll have to protect Crona, and at the same time stay away from him as much as you can, because he may not be aware of it, or want it, but he could try to kill you under Medusa's influence." Suddenly she felt sick, the idea of the innocent Crona, trying to kill her and her partner was unbearable. It reminded her of what happened in Italy, where Soul got his scar. Thinking about it, she still blamed herself for it, although it happened quite a long time ago. She would never forgive herself. Soul said he didn't care about the scar, that he even thought it looked cool on him, but how could he not care ? His body is maimed for the rest of his life, all because of her! Maka grabbed her chest as she felt a stabbing pain. "Maka?" Kid called her name, when he noticed she wasn't feeling well. Even Black Star shut up for a moment to look at her, slightly concerned. "Maka you okay ?" She nodded and forced a tiny smile while she let go of her stomach. The pain slowly faded away as they heard the bell ring, and headed towards their next class.
When they got to class, Maka finally noticed Soul ran off in the middle of the break and still hadn't returned. She sat down and kept staring at the door until their teacher started the lesson. Where was he ? It wasn't exactly special for Soul to skip classes, but when he did he always took Black Star. He rarely went alone, because that 'wasn't cool at all, he would look like a loner'. And since Black Star obviously was sitting and yelling somewhere behind her –you can't really ignore his presence- Maka was a little concerned. About 20 minutes after class started, some kid Maka didn't know stormed into the classroom, out of breath, desperately trying to say something. Our teacher immediately paused the lesson and kneeled down next to the boy, gently patting his back. "Take a deep breath, calm down." The boy listened and tried to slow his breathing down. "Now tell me what's wrong". He looked around the class, and his eyes stopped when they met Maka's. "Crona's fighting Soul outside ! Somebody stop them, they're being serious" he yelled. Maka's eyes widened and she didn't even hesitate a nanosecond before running out of the classroom as fast as she could. Her brain didn't get any time to think of a reason why in Death's name they would fight, as she opened the school's huge, symmetrical front door and saw them standing there.