The sky was dark, with a giant full moon looming over the Emerald Isle.

"You okay, Rye?" Kylie asked, in her Weapon form.

"Yeah. I'm just gonna have a nasty scar." I said, patting her sheath. "There's that McJacklin guy."

I watched the evil killer walk around, looking for someone to kill.

"Go time." Kylie said as I jumped off the top of a building.

"Frank McJacklin!" I said, smashing into the ground behind him. "Your soul is mine!" McJacklin roared at me and jumped, trying to cut my stomach open with his claws. But I was a step ahead of him, drawing Kylie and blocking his claws, sparks shooting up Kylie as I pushed him back. I ran forward when Frank sliced at me, doing exactly what I hoped he did. I jumped and ran along the side of a building a few milliseconds before his claws hit where I had been and landed behind him, and swung Kylie back with all of my strength, chopping the murderer in half.

"That wasn't hard." Kylie said, turning back into her human form.

"Uh, Kylie, you didn't absorb the-" I began, but was rendered speechless when Kylie grabbed the afreet egg and ate it! "No! Spit it out! Those things are probably poisonous!"

"Calm down. Soul eats them all the time." Kylie shrugged. "Soul says they don't have a taste, though, when the one I just ate tasted like a doughnut."

"Great. You eat afreet eggs. If an afreet pops out of your chest like in Alien, I'm going to say 'I told you not to eat those afreet eggs, but noooo, had to go and eat them like Soul.'"

"Done now?"

"Yeah. Let's go home." I said, picking her up. "So, how long until your birthday?"

"A couple days." Kylie said.

"Ya' mean you haven't been counting down the days until ya' turn into a teenager? Guess that means you don't care-"

"Three days, Riley." Kylie said.

I chuckled. "I've pulled that on you since you were a kid, and ya' still act the same way." I heard Kylie lightly snoring. "Huh. Musta been harder on her than me."

M

I was watching TV with Tsubaki, idly talking about our friends.

"Isn't Kylie cute?" Tsubaki said.

"Yeah. Other girls went crazy when Riley walked in piggybacking Kylie, both of them listening to music." I said.

"That was adorable. I mean, Kylie was wearing the left ear-bud and Riley was listening to the right ear-bud." Tsubaki said, smiling at the memory. "How's Riley after, you know..."

"I pushed him down a staircase? Better." I said. "He was really forgiving, considering I permanently chipped his tooth."

"I haven't really noticed his tooth." Tsubaki said. "What do you think of Riley, anyways?"

"He's a good friend. Hasn't had an easy life, especially with his dad. He likes my eyes, and he's really close to Kylie." I said.

"Sounds like a certain Meister has a crush on our Irish friend." Tsubaki said.

"Wha! No I don't!" I protested.

"Okay. I believe you." Tsubaki winked.

I sighed. "Okay, I do. But I cracked his head open and he's nearly Crona's boyfriend already. Not to mention he probably thinks of me as a friend."

"Ask him about it."

"Then I'd look stupid. Plus, it'd be awkward." I said. I mean, Soul had asked Kylie to be his girlfriend (you could tell by the way he smiled for a few milliseconds when he saw her.)

"Is it any more awkward than if he was dating Crona?" Tsubaki asked.

"I don't know. Crona needs somebody to make her feel better." I said.

"Might as well ask. You never know, Maka." Tsubaki smiled. "You know the Halloween dance is soon, right?"

"Yeah." I said. "I wonder if Riley is going to go to the dance or stay home with Riley."

"You'd think Kylie would stay home when she could be around Soul?" Tsubaki asked.

"What do you mean? Are they a pair?"

"Not yet. Soul is going to get Riley's approval."

"That's probably a good idea." I said.

"Well, yeah." Tsubaki said. "Do you think I should ask Black Star to the dance?"

"Do you like him?"

"Yeah."

"Then do it." I said.

"Alright." Tsubaki said. "How should I ask him?"

"Shout 'yahoo' and kiss him on the lips.*" I said with a smile.

"That was very uncharacteristic of you." Tsubaki said.

A/N: *I know Maka would probably never say anything like that, but the idea came to me and I had to put it somewhere.

-MN1