As Devereaux charged into the clearing Death the Kid, Patty, Liz, BlackStar, and Tsubaki were all on their last legs, Devereaux pulled out two miniature scythes and chucked them at the girl, and as it knocked her off balance Kid knocked her over. Devereaux ran at the girl with his arm scythes extended as everyone stepped back, she barely got her daggers up as Devereaux slammed his scythes downward and BlackStar swung at her sideways.
"Is Maka okay?" Kid asked Devereaux
"She's awake, but she has a concussion." Devereaux replied
"She jumped between you and this girl, why?" BlackStar asked him
"Love makes people do weird things." Tsubaki replied
After awhile Devereaux summoned up a strong that pushed everyone except himself and the girl away from the, the first band directly on his wrist glow a light blue, and to everyone's surprise the girl seemed to fear the band. As streams of visible wind were pulled into Devereaux's body they noticed why soon as streams of wind appeared on his scythes, when he swung at the girl she launched into an invisible force field, and everyone turned around to find Maka stumbling into the clearing.
"Maka you should be resting." Liz told her
"I'm not going to rest while Devereaux is in dangers way." Maka replied weakly before running straight at the barrier
"Maka there's a barrier." Patty yelled
"I know, even when there a wall I'll find a way to him, and even a 50 foot gap won't stop me." Maka replied as adrenaline started to flood her body
When she slammed into the barrier it felt exactly like a brick wall for awhile but then suddenly she fell through the wall slowly like it was made of syrup, when the girl notice that Maka was through she shot a few fireballs out, but Devereaux stepped between Maka and the girl as the fireball hit him.
"Are you ready for a rise of power?" Devereaux asked her
"You just got hit by three fireballs, so I need to know if you're ready." Maka told him
Devereaux just grabbed Maka hand before he disappeared in a gust of golden wind and reform in Maka's hands in his weapon form, and as soon as that happened Devereaux powered up the power band. At first it flickered and when it held the light blue color both Devereaux and Maka felt a cool breeze go through their bodies as their earlier wounds healed up, and soon the pure power rushed through their bodies. Everyone saw it as a golden light encasing Maka and Devereaux for a short while and they saw through the light a small set of useless wings, but as the girl swung at Maka she hit empty air. Suddenly Maka appeared behind and swung the scythe up, since the girl was tired from before all she could do was turn around as before the scythe cut her in half, and as her two halves fell to the ground Devereaux turned back to his human form and looked at the dead body.
"Did you know her?" Maka asked him
"Yeah, she was a kind person before the kishin's madness wavelength corrupted her." Devereaux replied as he lit a match
Everyone watched as Devereaux placed the match in between the two halves of the girl, her body easily caught fire, and as Maka looked at him she saw resentment in his eyes. He blinked quickly and next time she saw them they held a cold anger then he turned towards Kid.
"Are there two books in your father room bound in red leather with these symbols on them?" Devereaux asked him before drawing a few symbols into the dirt with one of his scythes
"Yeah, and they are perfect symmetrical even though my father said they didn't have to be." Kid replied before Devereaux punched him in the jaw
"You asshole, they were not symmetrical for a reason, Medusa is looking for them, and now that they are symmetrical she can locate them." Devereaux told him before he and Maka took off towards the Death room
When they actually got outside the Death Room Devereaux cursed when he found the door was locked, he took a step back held his hands out in front of him, and the door flew off the hinges. Inside was Death him and he looked a little bewildered as he looked from his door to Devereaux.
"What the hell, couldn't you have waited for me to unlock it?" Death asked him
"No, your son connected the books power lines, so we don't have much time." Devereaux replied as he stepped pass Shinigami
When he got to the display case holding the books he placed his hands against the glass and right before Death and Maka's eyes the glass disintegrated, Devereaux looked at the book that were set on black as he took hold of one, and he pulled with all his strength. When the book finally came up the momentum carried Devereaux backwards as he fell into Maka taking her to the ground, he quickly got up and helped her up before opening the book.
"It's been three times so far that you've taken me to the ground." Maka told him
"Okay, I need complete silence to find the incantation I'm looking for." Devereaux replied
Maka watched over his shoulder as his fingers went over a bunch of symbols she couldn't place, and after an hour of searching through the book Devereaux stop on a page with only three symbols on it.
"You'll want to step back Maka." Devereaux told her
Maka did as she was told as five rings etched themselves on the ground, she knew instantly that those were the rings of power that went up his right forearm and his weapon forms handle, and the first one lit up instantly.
"Interesting, they feel the exact same as the three lines of Sanzu, but yet they are different." Shinigami told Maka as the second ring powered up slowly
"Could we possibly get some wind going around the room?" Maka asked him
At that BlackStar got into the with Tsubaki who had turned into her weapon form, and he started spin her around quickly causing a tunnel of wind to go towards Devereaux who greedily started to absorb to power up the third ring.
"We need more wind." Maka shouted out into the hallway and her father came running down the hall
He turned to his weapon form in Shinigami's hand who started to spin him creating a second wind tunnel which when combined with BlackStar's the fourth ring powered up at a snail's pace, but the fifth ring stayed blank. Maka took a deep breath before walking towards Devereaux, with stares of bewilderment from except Devereaux who at the moment was absorbed in repeating the chant over and over as he absorbed the winds, and when she got to the edge of the fifth ring something stopped her in her track.
"Could I be of any assistance?" A feminine voice asked from behind her
When she turned around she found the brunette that Soul was walking with was standing behind and she was wielding Soul himself. Maka quickly felt around the force field until she found the weak spot and then she turned towards the girl.
"I need you to cut right here and hold it open if you can." Maka told the girl while patting the weak spot
Maka quickly stepped back as the girl swung down she saw the force field tear, and when the opening was large enough Maka stepped through. She took a deep breath as she noticed the different between the two spots, while outside the barrier she saw everyone on the outside only, but as soon as she stepped through the barrier she could see everyone's souls. Maka cleared her head and started towards Devereaux as quick as she could, when she got there she notice that his pupils were a pure golden color, and she quickly took his face in her hands and kissed his cheek so she didn't stop his chant. She felt the winds pick up around as the final ring powered up, after awhile golden bolt of lightning shot between the two books, and as they dissipated so did the rings. Devereaux fell to ground passed out with the book still open beside him and Maka noticed that the page that used to have three symbols was now flooded with at least 100 different symbols, but when she looked at the book cover she could easily read the symbols and she was shocked by what it said.
"Do you know what it says?" Soul asked her
"Book of Devereaux, this is a book either about him or specifically for him, or maybe both." Maka replied as she flipped through the pages
"Can you read anymore?" Spirit asked her
"No, but that's what interests me." Maka replied as she held tightly onto the book