Maka ran as fast as she could back to the infirmary. Stein had contacted the meisters with bad news, six of the weapons had slipped into a coma suddenly, two had begun to cough up small amounts of blood and one had died shortly after she left. Soul however had stopped breathing and had to be monitored had trouble getting him to take a breath and for the first several minutes, it seemed as if Soul wasn't going to get through.

She arrived to see a frightened Crona still at Soul's side.

"You can't leave Maka, she won't know how to deal with that. I won't either. Come on Soul, please." He replaced the compress on soul's forehead.

"Crona, I'm here now, when did-"

"Just a few minutes before professor Stein told you to come back.

"Thanks for being with him, I can take over now."

"okay, is their anything you need Maka?"

"Nothing you can do unless you can wake Soul up and make him feel alright." Maka sat down in the chair.

"Hey Soul, I'm back. I need you to do something for me, I know you already do so much, but this is really important. Fight it, you have a fight this soul, please. Lord Death has Kid looking into this, Liz and Patty weren't affected by this. We'll have the answer soon,just hold on okay?" The Meister's tears fell on her weapon's chest as she rested her head gently over his heart.

"M-Maka?" The weak voice whispered. She raised her head to find a pair of crimson eyes looking at her.

"Soul, I'm so happy to hear your voice, are you okay?" She asked worriedly.

"As okay as I can be I guess." Maka felt a deep sadness in her heart, Soul was the strongest person in her life,her rock, he wasn't supposed to be weak and lying in the infirmary, he should be at her side helping to solve the problem."

"Do you want anything?"

"Yeah, you to calm down."

"I can't, we still don't know and - things are going from bad to worse. I can't do this without you Soul."

"I'm not going anywhere for a while, you have to be strong enough for both of us right now. It's going to be fine." He turned his head to cough and had a difficult time catching his breath.

"Soul, I-"

Don't worry about it, so does anyone at least have some idea?" Maka shook her head.

"No, Lord Death is trying, he sent Kid and Black Star out to see if they could find something. I'm scared Soul."

"Don't be, it's not doing any good."

"What if we can't figure it out, if we don't know how -"

"Don't think about that. Its okay."

"no it's not, almost all the weapons are sick and what are we supposed to do?"

"You'll find a way." Soul didn't have the strength to stay awake, Maka replaced the dry cloth with another cool one and reached out to him, stroking his white hair.

"I won't let anything happen to you Soul.' She vowed. Suddenly Stein entered the room.

"Meisters, we're all upset about the loss of Akina. Lord Death has a request that I was told to mention to you all. He needs four or five Meisters to meet him in the death room, There's a special mission he needs to send this group on. Unfortunately it's without your weapons so please think carefully.

Maka didn't need to think twice, she had to go, for soul.

"Hey Crona, can I get you to help me look after Soul?"

"Sure maka, you're going aren't you?"

"Yes. Will you please promise me that you'll do what you can for him."

"I promise, I'll stay by him,I can deal with this."

"Thanks Crona, I owe you."

"just be careful and come back as soon as you can" Crona replied and Maka vanished into the hall along with three other students. She would find what was causing this and make Soul well if it was the last thing she did.