Kid awoke, slightly disorientated as he sat up, holding a hand to his forehead as the other rested next to him. "I won't be getting much more sleep." He murmured to himself, fisting his hand in the sheets. That's right, he hadn't been getting much sleep since Stein announced that Maka, his Maka, might die. 'Stupid Medusa, stupid Stein, stupid everyone. Why couldn't we live normal lives? Except for the fact that we have partners that turn into weapons of course.' Liz slammed the door open then, temporarily blinding him from the flouresant hallway light.

"Kid! Good, you're awake. Soul, Black Star, Tsubaki, and Patty are all waiting downstairs for you, Chrona refused to come though." She half yelled. Kid waved his hand in a 'go away' gesture before falling back onto his bed and into the warmth of his pillows. The blond shook her head before walking over to him and grabbing the left side of his head, effectivly ruining the symmetry of his hair.

"Liz!" The boy shouted, quickly sitting up and attempting to fix the symmetry. "I'm up, I'm up. What time is it anyway?"

"Half past midnight." She stated then walked out of the room to allow him to get dressed in privacy. 'I remember the last time I woke him up. He got out of bed and... Oh God, I don't want to remember this!' She thought, shuddering. Exactly eight minutes later, Kid waddled out of his room, fully dressed.

"What exactly did you need me for anyway?" Kid asked, rubbing his eyes slightly. Liz even noted the small amount of skin-colored blush on his cheeks. 'Probably hiding the bags under his eyes.'

"Everyone is downstairs discussing a way to get back at Medusa for what she did to Maka," she answered, grabbing Kid's hand and dragging him down the grand staircase. Kid seemed to actually wake up as he hurried down the stairs, now dragging Liz. "Wow, I mention Maka and you don't get depressed?"

"Shut up, Liz. We're trying to find a way to get back at Medusa." Kid chided as he sat down next to Soul. The weapon just rolled her eyes and sat on the floor next to her now-asleep sister.

"As I was saying, I found out where Medusa's lair is when I overheard Stein talking about her with Spirit." Soul said, gesturing his hands just so he had something to do. "Her lair seems to still be in the desert where we found Maka. Eruka agreed to meet us here this time so that she could come with us. She's been wanting to get back at Medusa and now that she's free from all of the snakes, she wants to help us," Soul's expression grew somber, "but we don't know how to sneak her into Kid's house."

"Especially since Lord Death could walk in at any given moment and he'd immediatly kill her off." Tsubaki replied softly.

"I have an idea, why doesn't she just go to Soul's or your house?" Liz pondered, slightly afraid that it was something she shouldn't have said.

"Because ever since Maka's kidnapping and our involvement with Eruka to get her back, Lord Death has been keeping our houses under close watch." Soul answered dryly. "So the only place that would be safe to bring her is here."

"I can tell Father to keep away for a while because we're doing a school project that I don't want him to see," Kid murmured.

"Yeah but what if he asks to see the project?"

"We tell him that it was only something we wanted to test out and it blew up so we threw it out."

"That might just work!" Black Star grinned, waggling his eyebrows.

"Now, back to the matter at hand, how are we getting back at Medusa for kidnapping Maka, almost killing her, and causing Kid so many sleepless nights?" Liz promptly asked, wanting to get back on track. "We'll probably need to fight her so that's one thing, but what about getting to her first?"

"We sneak in, its as simple as that." Patty grumbled upon waking and sitting up.

"What about Free and the Mizune sisters?"

"Leave that to me," Mifune, yes Mifune, said as he leaned against the window he'd come in through. Angela popped up and gave a small smile.

"Mifune!" Tsubaki cried, getting up and going to hug him. "We were wondering what was taking you so long, and I was starting to think you bailed on us and weren't going to come after all."

"Alright, alright, I'm here though, aren't I?" Mifune chuckled lightly after untwining himself from the raven. "I'll keep them distracted so it makes it easier to sneak in for you guys. One last question to get this all set up, when are we leaving?"

"Two days from now."

I sowwie but from now on, most of these chapters are going to be semi-short, short, medium, and rarely long.