As usual~ i do not own Soul Eater or any of its characters~
Kiel Lancet is an OC though

MAKA----

In the two days that Soul had been gone, it made her realize that his presence had helped her in a lot of ways and not just to help her get through the loneliness she always feels. His presence had been protecting her from irritating offers of partnership - which she honestly needed protecting from. Now, without him, it was like she was drowning from the different wavelengths that were clinging to her own. Weapons who were meister-less were approaching her one at a time - she didn't even know that there were still partnerless weapons in Shibusen; they shouldve been partnered the first few weeks of September, which was two months ago. There were also weapons who had the gall to partner up with her when they already had partners - these ones she had wanted to punch due to their selfishness.

Sighing with exasperation, she returned to her previous task of reading on Shibusen's roof - the place only a few students were allowed up on. Reading couldn't help take away the thoughts that continuously plagued her mind and it caused her to slam the thick book closed. Instead, her CD player was brought out and she hoped her lullaby would help her clear her mind and calm down before the next lesson started. Yes, it was her lullaby; it had helped her sleep easily for the past few days. She never got tired of listening to the same tune over and over, and instead craved for it. If she was suddenly asked to meet her fiancée then she would comply with the request easily. The marriage seemed to have been temporarily forgotten but she was reminded each time she listens to the musical piece.

Listening to the composition strangely reminded her of Soul and breifly wondered if he was alright. Swiftly extracting her small phone from her pocket, she flipped it open and stared. It was a gift from her papa, the phone, and luckily it looked ordinarily decent, knowing her papa's hopelessly bad taste in choosing gifts. The small dangling charm was her favourite part, silver (pure or fake, she didn't know) customised to look like Stein's description of her soul, given to her by her partner.

He had said he'd check up on her and yet there were no calls from him for the past few days. The memory of just waiting all night for his call as she stared at the phone and stuff made her pout in annoyance.

Should she call him?, she thought as her fingers twitched, wanting to enter the much needed numbers. Refraining from dialling his number she only groaned loudly in frustration as she swiftly pocketed the device.

A quick spike of someone's wavelength alerted her to an arrival - another weapon, as she expected, offering to partner up with her. She kept her eyes trailed to the desert town view in front of her, ignoring the visitor as he quickly approached.

The weapon made a slightly quivering 'ahem' sound to grab her attention that she had to acquiesce to. Looking at him with a weary expression she noticed that he was one of her frequent pursuers, Kiel Lancet, a classmate. As usual, his bronze hair was spiked up in the most absurd manner, dressed in ripped baggy jeans and a dark coloured hoodie and he had the same arrogant look planted on his face.

"Hi Maka-chan," it was said in such a forced cheerful voice it made caused a twitch to appear below her right eye.

"Hey Kiel," she said it nonchalantly, tearing her gaze away from him. He stood right beside her sitting form, towering over her.

"Look. Can you try my wavelength again? I was only one percent under your requirement right?" Yes, Kiel was a pretty capable knife weapon, almost matching her chosen sync requirement, which was eighty percent, his was seventy eight the last time she tried. She could take him on as a weapon if she wanted, its just that…she didn't want anyone to replace Soul as her weapon just yet. Was it now time to finally choose a new weapon?

"Hey! Are you ignoring me?" Being so deep in thought, Maka didn't notice that she had fallen into a trance and forgot about his request. The boy, in anger, swiped the CD player that she had been cradling in between her hands and pulled the earphones out of her ear. Before she noticed the disappearance of the item, the device fell in pieces beside her, the shiny pieces of her fiancee's CD falling in bits infront of her.

Her vision slowly blazed red as she looked up at the perpetrator, whose fingers were transformed into small knives. She stood slowly, calming herself to no avail, and dusting off her skirt.

She looked to him with eyes filled to the brim with danger. If looks could kill, he should've been dead by now.

"Kiel, there was absolutely no need for that." Most of her words were said through clenched teeth and the danger was clearly heard in her voice. "I was actually debating with myself whether I should take you as my weapon." The boy released a quiet 'oh' and his face was slowly transforming with fear. "I think you've just lost your chance."

"What!? But you were ignoring me! You know that I'm the closest weapon you can take on! Probably even the only one!" How aggravatingly arrogant! Seriously, she will Maka chop him in a minute. Luckily, it wasn't the book that he shredded into pieces.

"What are you talking about? You're not the only weapon here, Kiel."

For some reason, Kiel's face turned blue with anger and all his fingers transformed into small knives. Seeing him dangerously charging towards her, Maka didn't even flinch, didn't even move and instead…smiled.

She's already felt their presence since Kiel decimated her CD player. And now, she felt them moving. She knew she was safe.

The charging Kiel was stopped short as a figure from above crashed in the distance between him and Maka. Dust enveloped the figure as the impact destroyed the floor of the roof, making a huge dent on the concrete.

"Welcome back," Maka announced as the dust subsided and the form of the blue haired meister with a chain scythe appeared before the now frightened Kiel. "Black*Star, Tsubaki."

"HYAHOOO!" The egotistical idiot was the same as ever, probably even more tanned and taller than when she last saw him.

"Are you alright Maka-chan?" Tsubaki's voice was one of those that Maka desperately missed, and for a moment she felt her loneliness subside with the dust by their feet.

They were back.

"Oi! Yeah you, you little pathetic worm!" Black*Star shouted whilst pointing majestically at the frozen Kiel, his voice containing amusement and venom directed towards the scared boy. "You dare threaten one of my followers?"

"Oi. Who's your follower?" Maka chided jokingly using a monotonous voice, a smile planted on her features.

"Well who wouldn't want to worship me and my greatness? Everyone loves me! Right, Tsubaki?" Maka would never expect his ego to change.

"Y-yeah!"

During the peculiar conversation, Kiel was slowly moving away from the crazy trio, but unfortunately a chain wrapped around his ankle and pulled him back, causing him to fall face first on the concrete floor. Conquered.

"You think that I, a great god, couldn't see your petty attempts to escape? I am all seeing! Hyahahaha!" He said this as he forcefully stepped on the poor boy's back, posing gallantly in victory.

Maka crouched in front of Kiel's powerless form with a smirk. "Kiel," she uttered oh-so-sweetly, "I expect you to replace my CD player. Or else you'll have to face someone even worse than him."

"Hey! No one is worse than me!" Black*Star immediately interjected.

"Kiel," she said, ignoring the egotist, reclaiming the boy's attention, "I'm worse than him, believe me." The boy vigorously nodded his head, his arrogance dissipated infront of the two prodigies' forms.

Straightening herself, she asked her bluehaired friend to release his captive, both of them observing his hasty escape with mirth.

Tsubaki returned to her human form and went to quickly greet the green eyed meister with a tight embrace.

"Aw, guys, I could've handled him myself!" Maka chided with a pout as the taller girl squished her – it was as if her fun was taken away from her.

Black*Star released a hearty laugh. "Well, it was quite dangerous-" Maka made a move to interrupt but he blurted out before she could, "For him I mean. We saw your face transform into 'angry demon' mode and thought we better save the guy from you before you hit his brains in with that big thing," he said, motioning to the thick book on the floor behind him.

All Maka could do at the moment was laugh, and her two friends joined in her hysterics.

She was just glad they were back.

She wasn't alone anymore.

A/N: ahh~ good 'ol blackstar~ didn't get to put many lines for tsubaki though T^T
Heehee~ the gang is partly complete 8D
i thought i shouldn't focus the whole story around our favourite couple (even though i want to)
And her lullaby…poor maka…heehee~ a little fluff idea is brewing in my head o wo
introducing Kiel, who will hopefully have an (almost) important part to play in this story~

will update on monday since i will be working tomorrow...(ugh...)
returning to the Evans residence next chapter~

thanks very much for those who reviewed~
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ILU guys *hearts*