Epilogue

"So, how is she doing?" Soul asked Spirit, he didn't bother facing the young scythe, he was too worried about his daughter who hadn't woken up from the battle yet. Soul waited a moment for the Death Scythe to answer, but silence was his only response.

"She'll be fine, her injuries took a larger toll on her than I previously thought, but she'll wake up soon." A familiar voice said from behind the demon scythe. Professor Stein walked into the room with a clipboard that he lazily looked at.

"You said that three hours ago." Spirit finally broke his silence, but he wasn't to pleased with the professor's previous estimate on her awakening.

"I'm sorry Spirit, but even I am subjugated to the different recovery times or a single person." Stein explained as he tossed the clipboard onto a counter beside Maka's bed. She looked peaceful and happy, as if nothing was wrong.

"Why are you hear, Soul?" Spirit asked as he finally turned around from his sleeping daughter.

"We were originally going to wait till the dance, but I think it'd be better if she saw this before, so she could get over the shock." Soul explained as he held up the sealed letter in front of Spirit's face. HE eyed the letter suspiciously.

"Who's it from?" Spirit asked as he took the letter and looked at the seal.

"It's from Kai, Kid retrieved it after the battle." Soul stated, Spirit put the letter on the night table beside Maka for her to open when she woke up.

"If that's all can you leave." Spirit stated, Soul simply nodded and left the man to tend to his daughter. As Soul walked down the hallway, he felt guilty over having just left the letter there for Maka to read, whatever that letter stated, she'll be heart broken.

At The Christmas Dance

Kid, Liz, and Patty stood on the outside balcony of the DWMA's ballroom, looking out onto the city, the smoke from the battle still billowed up in thin streams, and the rubble remained untouched. Kid and Liz sighed at the sight.

"Hey guys look, it's Bella and Soul!" Patty yelled excitedly as the two joined the group in looking at the city.

"You guys look like you could use some cheering up, I can see you didn't feel like dressing up either." Soul smiled towards the three, they returned his smile and then turned back around to look at the city.

"You think, she's gonna be ok?" Liz asked to nobody in particular.

"Maka, I'm sure she'll be upset, but she'll understand in time." Soul responded as he leaned over the edge of the balcony's railing.

"It is for the best, after all, he'll return when he's ready." Bella added, as she leaned over beside Soul and wrapped her fingers into his. Liz turned around and smiled when they saw Lyra and Petra walking up to them.

"Hey guys, you feeling ok?" Liz asked the musician pair. Petra and Lyra smiled at the group as they made their way to the edge of the balcony like everyone else had.

"We're ok, a little shaken up from being smacked around by the kishin but other wise, perfectly fine." Petra explained as she took in the cool night air with relief.

"Well at least we won, right?" Lyra asked enthusiastically, everyone smiled when she said that. She was right, they had won, but at a steep price.

All of them looked out at the city in silence, the sounds of the party happening behind them didn't coax them to join in the celebrations like everyone else was. All they wanted to do was just stay and be silent, with only each other, and the cool winter breeze.

"There you guys are." A familiar voice had said from behind them, they all turned around to see Darman, Amicus, and Lamia who was hanging off off Amicus's arm. "We've been looking for you, you guys did a good job in the fight." Darman complimented.

"Thanks, it was difficult." Petra returned to the card meister.

"Petra and Lyra, Azusa wants to see you." Amicus stated, the two girls nodded and made their way to the death scythe's table. All the death scythes that were present at the battle were at the table, including the bandaged Justin.

"A, there you two are." Azusa spoke up. "I have heard about your bravery on the battlefield against Ruina and believe you can be of some more use than you already are under Sid's control, so I extend to you an invitation to join my own elite task force, you'd work beside Me, Darman, Amicus, Scitus, and Carta, as well as hold the rank of three-star meister, what do you say?"

"Uh...we-re...uh..." Lyra tried to say an answer but the offer to work with a death scythe and obtain a rank they'd been attempting to gain ever since they started at the DWMA.

"What she means to say is we'd love to, but what about the others?" Petra answered, she didn't want to feel guilty about getting a promotion while the others don't.

"Don't worry about them, Lord Death is the only one who has any jurisdiction over his own son, and the friends he has made his most trusted team members." Azusa explained, After this Petra lifted her hand out to the death scythe, Azusa smiled and shook her hand, "Welcome to the team, specialist Suavis."

"Great, were all happy for you, come Petra, let's go celebrate!" Justin yelled as he jumped up and began to pull her away from her partner and new boss.

"Justin, what are you-" Was all they could make out before she was just out hearing distance.

"Um, she'll be ok right?" Marie asked, slightly concerned for the young guitar meister.

"Yeah she'll be fine, secretly she likes." Lyra joked as she pulled up a chair to discuss their job with Azusa.

On The Dance Floor

Justin led Petra out into the middle of the dance floor, after awhile she just excepted to just go along with whatever he was up to. In one quick movement he positioned her so that they were face to face and slowly moving to the music that was being played.

"So congratulations on your promotion, how does it feel to be a three-star meister?" Justin said with a smile on his face.

"It's pretty great, I've wanted that title every since I met Lyra." Petra explained.

"Well you deserve it, after all you did help take on Ruina." Justin continued to compliment her, she smiled as they moved to the music, it was soft and gentle. Justin's face slowly turned from a smile to a frown.

"Hey what's wrong?" Petra asked, concerned over her dance partner.

"It's nothing, just I have to leave soon, and I haven't done something I really wanted to do." Justin shared, Petra looked at him intrigued by what he could mean.

"Justin, you've lived here almost your whole life, what could you possibly need to do anymore?" Petra asked out of curiosity. Justin simply smiled and looked at her.

"...this..." was all he said before he made his lips touch hers in a passionate kiss. Petra was shocked by the movement and decided to just let it happen, after all, she did like him. They continued to kiss for three more seconds before Petra was suddenly pulled away, Justin opened his eyes to see Lyra dragging Petra away by her ear.

"You and I need to have a talk missy." Lyra teased, Petra rolled her eyes out of annoyance, and forced her self out of Lyra's grip.

"Of course we do...in my defence, he started it." Petra responded to Lyra who just shook her head.

"I don't mean that, good for you two by the way, but we need to leave and prepare for Monday, that's when Azusa wants us to start." Lyra explained.

"Alright, I guess we can leave then, besides, you kinda killed the mood anyway." Petra joked as the two walked out of the ballroom.

In The Infirmary

Maka awoke to her hand being held by her dad, if this was any other time she would have freaked out at him, but by the look of him as he slept, she decided to allow the moment to continue a little while longer. It wasn't long before Stein walked into the room.

" Hello Maka, glad to see you awake, you feeling alright?" Stein asked as he pulled up a chair, he turned the back towards Maka and sat on it so he could rest his hands on the top of the arc.

"I feel ok, a little sore though." Maka answered the professor.

"Good, you should be ready to leave tomorrow morning." Stein responded, he sat their for one more moment and got up to go tend to some other patients. Maka looked to the nightstand and saw the sealed envelope with her name on it.

"What's this?" She thought aloud, she broke the seal and pulled out the letter and proceeded to read it.

"Dear Maka,

If you're reading this, something has happened in the battle with Ruina. Either I have died, or done something that would put all of you in danger. IF something happened, I've either snapped and have gone permanent Malus, or went Kishin to protect you all.

I would like to say that if I have disappeared, then I've done the only thing I could do in order to protect you, and everything else, I've turned myself into a kishin. I'm sorry, but if I returned to the DWMA I don't know what could happen, so I've temporarily left the DWMA until I can control myself and be sure that I won't turn into another Asura, or Ruina. I refuse to allow myself to become a monster. If I turned into a permanent Malus, I would have probably been imprisoned or killed.

I'm not the best and really writing down my feelings on a piece of paper, but I hope you are understanding what I'm saying. You are the only person to ever mean more than my own life to me, and I would do anything to protect you, and I probably already have. I love you Maka Albarn, and I will return to you one day, I promise.

Love,

Kai Vesania"

Maka looked at the letter with tears in her eyes, she couldn't believe it. Kai was gone. She put the letter back onto the table and rolled over, ripping her hand, out of her fathers. She buried her face into the pillow and began to sob quietly, wishing that Kai was there to comfort her. All she could do, was accept his disappearance, and try to move on.

"I love you Maka Albarn, and I will return one day, I promise." kept playing through her mind over and over again.

"I love you too Kai Vesania, and you better return to me..." Maka sobbed out loud, as she continued to cry her sobs got quieter and quieter as she began to cry herself to sleep.

On The Outskirts Of Death City

Kai stood on the cliff side, looking out towards the city. He stood there, just waiting. For his two most trusted contacts to arrive to give him the information he desired. It wasn't long before he heard the foot steps the individuals. He turned around to see Alexis and Crystal walking up to him. Alexis wore a dark blue t-shirt with light blue waves on the ends of the sleeves, and dark blue skinny jeans. Crystal wore a light blue tank top that had a white crystal on it, and her jeans were black in colour.

"Hey guys, you find out anything?" Kai asked his two cousins, they stopped at what they figured was a safe distance away from him to keep his wavelength from affecting them.

"Yeah, here you go, it's all in there." Alexis answered as she tossed Kai an envelope that had a multitude of dossiers, ancient history texts stolen from museums, and even sighting locations. Kai looked over these records for a few seconds and slipped them back into the envelope.

"You sure you want to go hunting for this guy...Cett...is that right?" Crystal asked her kishin cousin, with a slight hint of concern present in her voice.

"I have to, he's apparently a master in all forms of the madness wavelengths. He's my only shot to be with Maka now." Kai explained as he looked towards his cousins. The two girls eyes were drawn to the glowing crimson ring in their cousins eyes that had become a permanent feature.

"Well since you don't want to give yourself away we brought Shadow Rider for you to use as transportation, along with 50,000 on this debit card and plane tickets with a pass for vehicle transportation to Europe where he was last spotted." Crystal told him.

"You can stay with Claude in Amsterdam, and Conrad in London if you need to." Alexis finished, Kai eyed them suspiciously at the mention of the families current head. "Oh don't be like that, he offered, plus he doesn't dream anymore according to him."

"Yea well Claude I'll take up, for Conrad, I think I'll just purchase a hotel room instead of staying with that hot head." Kai responded, both Crystal and Alexis chuckled at Kai's little joke. "Well I better go, thanks guys, see you around." Kai waved as he accepted the money, tickets, and drove off on his motorcycle away from Death City, towards what was in his mind, a better future.

Somewhere In A Secret Laboratory

A coffin layed hooked up to multiple computers. It was quiet in the room. A single girl sat in the corner of the room, her head leaning on her hand hair asleep. Her hair was orange and long, and she wore a black skirt, with a pure white t-shirt, her sneakers were black and white. When a computer began making a noise she opened her emerald eyes and walked over to it. She punched in a few numbers and the coffin began to vent some steam. She looked to see it open and boy who was twenty-one in age sat up from it. His snow white hair was straight and fell in front of his face. As he stepped out, his white t-shirt, and black pants, he rubbed his head and opened his orange eyes and looked around the room.

"Alison, what year is it?" The boy asked as he stepped out of the machine coffin.

"It's the year 2013 A.D." Alison answered immediately.

"My, my how a few millennium can fly when you sleep. Tell me Alison, is Cett still around?" The boy asked again.

"Yes he is, he's turned up with his weapons, but rarely." Alison responded to the boy. He looked amused.

"Of course he is, that fool is to stubborn to die, tell me why are their three madness wavelengths besides Cett, and two of them are from the deceased?" HE asked one final question.

"It seems that in your time asleep, there have been three kishin created out of the humans. There was Asura, the first one to attain the rank, Ruina, a girl who wanted nothing more than power, and the new born Kai Vesania, who turned out of love. Asura was killed by our people's chosen being to watch over the humans souls, and then once again by his son and his friends. Ruina was recently killed by the newborn" Alison explained.

"I see, so we have three problems to deal with if both Death and Cett are still around, and this Kai is going to be a problem too." The boy thought to himself. "Get the creation tanks ready, and begin harvesting the dead wavelengths, we can use their wielders to our needs." Alison nodded and went to turn around to make the preparations. "And Alison, bring me some scissors and some food, I'm dying of hunger hear, and my hair is very irritating, maybe even a new change of clothes while your at it." HE ordered the girl.

"Yes master Sage, I will get on these tasks," Alison began, "And sir, welcome back to world, the amount of madness that has grown in it is disturbing." Alison finished as she walked out of the computer filled room.

"Thank you Alison, I'll begin preparations for the purge of all madness and it's wielders in time." Sage returned, "And I'll start with Lord Death and Cett!"