AN: Hey guys just a heads up there will be a Full Metal Alchemist reference in this chapter. If you have seen the brotherhood version or if you have read the manga, you will probably be able to catch it.

Disclaimer: I do not own soul eater, nor do I own Full Metal Alchemist.

Chapter 20

Soul's Pov

I was leaning up against the black board, trying to wrap my head round the fact that Maka was back, and that I had 2 of her children in my class. Let alone the fact that we were going to be partners again. I was quickly drawn out of my thoughts, by a sudden high pitched scratchy voice.

"well now you have to tell us!" Jennifer had blurted out, I was impressed with Quinn's and Mia's patients. Hell I'm the teacher and I can barley stand Jennifer on her good days.

Quinn and Mia exchanged a brief look, with Quinn looking quite board and annoyed. "Uh, you with the blond hair, what is your name?" Mia asked.

Looking pleased that she had caught the new kids attention, Jennifer smirked. "My name is Jennifer, but you can call me Jen."

Mia squared her shoulders, "Well Jennifer, if you ever find a partner, you will learn that some missions..." Mia paused, and took a deep breath. "There are some missions that you'll prefer to not talk about. The memories could be embarrassing, painful or crippling. Some things may hurt to deep, and you may not be able to openly discuss them. If that ever happens to you I just hope that your peers will be supportive and understanding."

I was stunned, how old did they say they were? Almost 15? What could they have been through that would have caused them to mature so much?

I was once again pulled from my thoughts when Mia cleared her throat. "With that being said Jennifer, please understand this particular battle is sometimes hard for me to share. Quinn hates when I talk about it... that is why I was consoling with him before I decided to tell you."

Quinn's glare was fixed on the back wall. His body was stiff, and he kept his gaze focused on the wall even when Mia looked over at him. Even if Mia hadn't just stated that this was a painful memory for them, it would be clear by Quinn's body language alone.

"As we just stated, when we first started to hunt pre-kishins Quinn would wield me in my weapon form. From time to time we would switch so that I was the miester, but our soul resonance was slightly stronger with me acting as the weapon, so Quinn normally acted as the miester.

Our mission had started out like any other. We arrived in a town called West-bros where our target, Barry the Chopper, had been last spotted there. We where roaming the empty streets in search of him. Barry had this nasty habit of dismantling his victims before he devoured their souls. Which is how he had gotten the nick name of Barry the chopper.

When we finally found him, Barry was busy carving up his latest kill. He was much larger than we had expected him to be. We came up behind him and Quinn shot him with a few of our wavelength arrows. We thought that we had killed him once we heard his scream, but no we only pissed him off while also alerting him to our presence.

There wasn't a mark on him, and he was now charging straight for us. Quinn shot off another arrow at him, but again nothing happened. Barry was swinging around what looked like an over sized meat cleaver. He was so fast, we could hardly dodge his attacks. Quinn was starting to slow down with exhaustion from continuously dodging attack after attack.

After a while of running and dodging attacks, Barry had eventually managed to skim his cleaver across Quinn's right arm. It wasn't quite enough of a blow that you could see bone, but it was a deep slice none the less.

Quinn had also been knocked into the wall next to us, and Barry had us now pinned with our back to the wall. Quinn was barley able to use me to block his next few attacks. I was shouting at Quinn, begging him to switch with me so I could wield him. He refused though, Barry's attacks were to fast to allow us to switch places, not only that but Quinn was barley able to hold off the attacks, and I was weaker than he was. I wouldn't have stood a chance against them.

I don't know if Barry was getting board with us or if he was just getting tired of the fact that we were putting up a fight, But his attacks got faster and stronger. One of the attacks managed to push Quinn on to his knees, and the blade started to dig into Quinn's shoulder. Quinn some how managed to shove Barry away from us. I used that moment of separation to transform back into my human form.

I knelled next to Quinn, I was trying to get him to transform... I was careless and distracted, I didn't notice that Barry was now right behind me. Quinn saw and pulled me out of the way at the last second..."

Mia paused as if trying to find her words, I was studying both Quinn and Mia. The room was dead silent, waiting patiently for one of them to continue with their story. I had expected Mia to be the one to speak, but to my surprise it was Quinn who continued.

"Mia, if your going to tell the story you may as well tell the truth. Yes I saw Barry's attack at the last moment, but I wasn't fast enough to pull Mia out of the way. I was only able to alter where she got hurt... The Cleaver sliced down her back in a straight line just to the left of her spine. If I hadn't been so slow I could have prevented it."

Mia grabbed Quinn's hand and spoke softly. "Quinn, you saved my life. If you hadn't been there, that cleaver would have been embedded inside my skull."

"I was the reason you got hurt in the first place Mia, I'm the oldest I should have been able to protect you."

Mia looked slightly hurt, but mostly annoyed. I could tell that this was an on going argument between them. Mia was about dispute the past with the stubborn red head when Stan cleared his throat to get their attention.

"Um, If you don't mind me asking... What happened after Mia got hit? How did you guys get out of that mess?" Mia squeezed Quinn's hand before speaking.

"Well, I don't remember much. I remember that my back felt hot and wet and then I couldn't feel anything but the pain. I think I blacked out, I can remember hearing Quinn's voice shouting my name, but it quickly became muffled and then the next thing I knew I was in the hospital and Quinn was lying on my bed next to me asleep. I've heard what happened after I lost conciseness but Quinn would be able to tell you better."

I couldn't take my eyes of the the two standing in front of me, Quinn turned and looked into Mia's electric green eyes. It was then that I finally got a good look at Quinn's eyes, They were a deep molten crimson very much like mine are. Strange, I've never really seen someone with eyes so much like mine before. Not even Wes had eyes like mine, his were more like a muddied ruby.

Quinn took a shaky breath, "After Mia got hurt, everything around me moved in slow motion while I knelled there holding her. Her shirt became soaked with blood, I was desperate.

I wasn't even paying attention to Barry I couldn't have cared less about what he was doing or if he was still there or not. After what seemed like a life time of staring at Mia's still form I guess you could call it madness took me over. My blood felt like fire surging through my body, I saw red and everything was moving in fast forward.

I summoned a blade to my arm and used it to block Barry's next attack, I felt this deep overwhelming need to tear him apart, he needed to pay for what he did to Mia. I didn't have a miester, but I didn't care. I let myself get lost in... well like I said before the madness, is the only way I can describe it. Barry and I exchanged blows with each other, and I eventually was able to cut him down.

'Madness? Blood? That sounds like what happens with me when my black blood takes hold of me... but no, there is no way Quinn has black blood.'

After I finished him off I ran back to Mia's side trying to get her bleeding to slow down. I didn't even bother to with Barry's soul, our mom, dean and Professor stein found us soon after that.

We didn't find this out until much later once we were in the hospital, but apparently there had been some kind of miscommunication about how strong Barry was, or he had eaten more human soul's than we had originally been aware of. Mom, Dean and Stein had been looking for us. They had heard my screams when Mia got hurt, and came running to help.

Stein was able to slow Mia's bleeding enough so she could be moved to the hospital. I was patched up, and then I stayed by her side until she woke up about 4 days later."

Mia started to chuckle, "As always being overprotective. One of the first things he said to me was, 'From now on I'm the weapon, and your the Miester.'"

"We were taught early on by our mom... that the weapon will always protect their miester. Being a weapon means you are prepared to put your life on the line; to give everything, including your life, to protect your miester."

Call me crazy, but for a split second I could have sworn that I saw Quinn looking at me, when he mentioned 'giving everything for your miester'. I shook my head slightly to clear it, 'seriously soul... you are obviously seeing things.'

I cleared my throat to bring the rooms attention back to me "Aright class It has been more than 15 minutes. Quinn, Mia please take your seats we need to start today's lesson." All throughout the lesson my eyes kept drifting to the back of the class where Quinn and Mia where seated.

For what seemed like the better part of the day, the same few questions kept running through my mind. 'Just what have these two been through? How powerful are they? And if dean wasn't their father who was?'