I do not own soul eater

Chapter 8:

The official fight:

An uncover Mission?

Miley stared at the screen, she sighed, still nothing. There was still no connection. She sighed again and glance at the clock on the bottom on the monitor. Yep it was eleven-thirty. She knew that she needed to get some sleep, but her brain just wouldn't slow down long enough. It would matter how long she lay in bed, she would still be awake, she might as well be doing something.

She stood up, maybe some tea would help her calm down. She took a sip, nope, it tasted wonderful but didn't help her fully wired brain. She heard Mason enter the room. His hair was messy and he was rubbing the corner of his eye.

"Geez Miles, do I need to call Stein to get you to go to bed?" She could tell he was serious. That was what scared her.

"Shut up, Mason." She pouted, the last thing she needed was a lecture from the professional insomniac that they called a teacher about regular sleeping habits. "I'm just nervous. I don't want to lose."

"We won't. I know you're the better Meister. We'll show her, but you staying up all night won't help us." He lead her to her room. Taking the empty tea cup and kissing her on the forehead. "Now if you need me, I'll be across the hall. Sleeping like a normal person." Miley tossed and turned, sleep wasn't coming. She finally gave up about one and started reading a book.

The next morning came and Miley discovered that her body seemed to be on autopilot. At fist she saw this as a good thing, she could think about other things. Like the missing kids. It still really bother her that there was nothing connecting the dots. It was like the coloring book pictures. The ones that here half unfinished, and you can see the picture and you know where the lines go but no pencil or pen to finish it. To her it was really annoying. She didn't realize she was at school till she walked into something solid, it turned out to be a classroom door.

"Ow..." she gasped with clutching her forehead.

"Oh, I'm sorry Miley..." Came Chorna's timid voice. "I didn't see you there. Are you okay?" The pinked hair meister started looking Miley over.

"It's fine Chorna, completely my fault. I wasn't watching where I was going. To be honest, if I didn't walk into this, it would have been something or someone else."

"Okay, good luck today..." after that the Demon Sword meister took his leave.

"Thanks," Miley muttered. She really didn't want to think about fighting Molly when she was this tried. She headed for Stein's classroom. She didn't care if he was in there or not, she needed to lay her head down for a few minutes. She was glad to find the room empty.

She never realized how comfortable a desk could really be. She felt someone shaking her. She ignored them. She had five more minutes she could really use them. "Come on, Miley." Stein said.

"Class doesn't start for another five minutes." She half whined. She wasn't really sleeping it was more of just resting her eyes, it seemed to be making it worst instead of better.

"I know that, but I need to talk to you." She lifted her head. He was holding out the file for her to take. "I want you to have a look at it, but this is one of my personal files don't lose it."

"Why do you want me to look at it." Wasn't he just lecturing her the other day about peaking into this exact file?

"Sometimes you just need to have a second pair of eyes look at it."

After that time went by very quickly. Miley was ready for her fight with Molly but not quite ready to fight in front of other teachers. She arrived with Mason. She saw Molly and her partner right away. Her partner was a half a head taller then Mason! That made him almost six foot six! He was tall and muscular. His skin was a dark tan, almost brown. He had a stone hard face, and cold black eyes. This wasn't Molly original partner. Miley wondered what had happened.

"Alright girls, remember that this is a sparring match. Don't take it too far. It won't prove anything."

"Yes, Professor." Both girls said. It was her and Molly's fight, there partners where just standing by them.

"Alright then," He said simply. "Let's get started."

Miley held out her hand for Mason. Who just nodded and turned into weapon form. Miley loved the feeling of the smooth wood. Molly imitated the smaller girl. Miley knew that Molly had a new partner was different which gave her the advantage. Miley was familiar with her fighting style with her old partner not her new one. Her first partner had been a double sided ax. This one was a spear. Miley felt a little better. The defensive style would be similar to hers, which she knew the weaknesses of.

Molly made the first move by running at her. Miley only had to quickly step to the side. She was tired, she really needed to end the fight quickly, but she doubted that would happen, Molly seemed really fired up. Molly made a swipe at her with the blade, Miley ducked then rolled behind the taller girl and slammed her across the shoulder blades.

Stein watched the two girls fight. He would admit he was very impressed with both of them. Molly had adapted to her knew partner very well. Molly had a flexible soul, but she was all brawn. She didn't think her attacks though. This fight wasn't going to be very long. Molly was doing this all out of anger. Anger that was misplaced. Miley had no idea, that Molly's partner was expelled for attacking her, Miley wasn't even aware she was attacked.

"I see you have a knew partner what happened to you're old one?" Miley asked while blocking Molly's downward slice.

"Don't act like you don't know! If you could learn to suck it up and didn't run to a teacher every time someone called you name." Molly attempted to hit Miley with the but of the spear, but Miley was able to get Mason under it and push it up, which also gave her room to land a kick to Molly's gut.

"What are you talking about?" Miley asked. What did she mean? Miley never complained to a teacher about the bullying, Stein only knew, because someone else told him, and now he would force it out of her.

"That was a nice move." Sid said. "I didn't think Miley was at that level in combat, she seems so passive sometimes."

"Yes, they both doing very well. I find it rather interesting, Molly has done very well adjusting to a new partner in just a few weeks. But Miley works harder then any one could imagine. Not that I'm Molly doesn't."

"You know very well what I'm talking about!" Molly glared at her. "He was expelled because you're a cry baby!"

Miley started at the girl in confusion. She really hated not remembering what happened. It sucked because now she was being attacked because something she doesn't even know about. She would just have to ask Stein about it later, he would fill her in. She knew that she would have to deal for the time being.

'Miles, why don't we use Earthshaker?' Mason thought to her.

'I don't want to hurt her...' Was her reply.

'On the ground, then pin her down. You can stay awake long enough for someone to call the fight.' Miley believed that her partner often held too much faith in her but it was worth a shot.

Stein watched Miley's feet slide into position. He knew where this was going. He felt a smile spreading over his lips. If she did this right, the fight would be over. He hoped that her own body wouldn't take it to far.

"Legendary Skill of the Staff Meister, Earthshaker!" Miley slammed the ground, and it started to shake violently. Mason and Miley had gotten much better at keeping the rate down. He was glad Miley didn't want to rip her soul every time she tried to fight. Molly lost her balance and Miley seized the chance to pin into the grass. She waited but no one was calling it.

Stein didn't want to class the fight. Molly could say that favoritism allowed her to win. Stein looked at Sid who seemed to get the hint. "The winner is Miley." Miley stood up but felt her knees shaking, then the rest of the world went black.

When she awoke, she knew where she was. She awoke there some often. She sat up with Stein sitting next to her. "Why am I here?" She inquired. She really wasn't sure. True she fainted but she did that all of the time.

"You were unresponsive to over ten minutes. You had some nice technique during that fight. How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine, I hope I did well in that fight I've only been training with you the last two years. Plus our fighting styles where similar because of the weapon types." She knew telling Stein she was fine never worked. He would need proof of it himself. She held out her arm. She wouldn't be getting out of there till he checked her vials. He chuckled as he started checking her pulse.

She arrived home, and her was dead tired, she was going to skip dinner and go to bed. She lay down and closed her eyes. They flew open again when she remembered the file Stein had giving her. Well there when that idea of sleep.

The next morning was more in a rush to get to school then normal. She couldn't believe that they had both missed this at first. She wasn't paying attention in her hurry. She found herself smacking right into something very solid. She landed on the floor holding her forehead. Geez twice in one week, maybe she should have stayed home.

"Oh, Miley. Are you alright?" Came the gentle voice of Marie. Miley couldn't move. She was still unsure of what to think of Stein's partner. Miley didn't know her very well. She just sat there staring like an idiot. "Come on, let me see." Miley allowed her hands to be pulled away. It hadn't really done any damage. It had more of just surprised her. It was her fault she was the one not paying attention. Then her brain remembered why she was in a rush, she didn't want to explain everything twice, plus wasn't sure what Marie knew about the missing children.

"I'm fine really." She said while plastering the most fake smile on her face. She felt Marie's delicate hand under her chin.

"Just be careful, from now on, we don't want you hurt Miley."

Miley hurried into Stein's classroom. She felt her foot catch in the threshold and wished had taken the time to walk. She watched everything spill out over the floor. She felt her eyes staring to burn from frustration. She really didn't want him to see her cry. She was to tired, she couldn't really fight it. But this was more important then sleep or him seeing her cry.

"Are you alright?" There was actual concern in his voice. She bit her lip, maybe Molly was right, she was a cry baby. She pushed herself up so she was sitting on her knees. Stein had bent down to check on her. She was rubbing her eyes to make both the tears and the sleepiness. "There's no reason to get upset." He said while getting some of her things.

"It's just not my morning." she told him, while reaching for one of her notebooks. She was trying to act normal. It wasn't really working. "First I walk right into a door, then I trip and sent stuff flying." She couldn't believe she was whining to him.

"Everyone has a bad day or two." He said, while placing her books on her desk. "There most been a reason, that you are in such a rush to get here this morning."

"I found something." She said while digging though what was left of her fallen things. "It's small but it might be somewhere to start." They picked up the last of her things on her desk. "There where four girls that all went to the same privet school."

"That's interesting, how did I miss that?" He said while opening the file.

"Maybe you're not getting enough sleep." She could tell that he wasn't sleeping anymore. He body was showing signs of it. There were dark circles forming under his eyes. She flinched has his hand made contact with the back of her head.

"You need to practice what you preach." He scolded.

Later that day, Stein stared at the profiles of the missing girls. He had looked over these a million times but he still missed it. He began looking thought the news stories again. Nope they ever mentioned that. The name of the school was mentioned but not that they were classmates. He couldn't figure out why no one noticed.

He had already spoken to Lord Death, now he was waiting for the death god to decide. The school was a good place to start. He stared at the computer screen. He would get his answer the next day and it shocked him.

"I think an uncover mission would be wise." The comical death god said while tilting his head to one side. "We need to gather some information, perhaps Miley is right, it maybe a good start.

"I agree but who would go?" He had a bad feeling he would be involved, sometimes being the best could be the worst.

"I'm still thinking about that."

Alright chapter 8, we're getting some where! Alright let me know what you think!