A sound soul, dwells within a sound mind, and sound body.

" You what!?" Maka exclaimed. Black Star just shrugged while Tsubaki bit his bottom lip.

" No way... What happened?" Soul wondered. The assassin just crossed her arms and shrugged again. Only Tsubaki sighed and began to tell what happened.

...

" Black Star wait! Are you sure you know what you're doing!?" The two were running through the forest, and Tsubaki was starting to fall behind.

" Yeah yeah, I know!" However when they stopped by a tree once spotting the enemy, Black Star hopped right in front of it.

" Hi there! I'm Black Star and I'm here to assassinate you!" She screamed excitedly. Only the kishin just roared and swung a gigantic arm at her. Tsubaki wanted to switch into a weapon so they could fight it, but the girl just kept hopping around to dodge the attacks. Finally, Black Star ran passed him while yelling to retreat.

...

" So after explaining to Sid what happened, we had to talk with Lord Death..."

" And he failed you both?" Maka asked with a wince. Black Star just laughed triumphantly.

" Nope! He said we could do makeup and we still get to be EAT students now." Tsubaki smiled at this one as well.

" It's true. He said he had faith in us and that it certainly isn't... my fault but we are happy we got that far."

" I bet he wanted to help me surpass the Gods. Why else would he do that?" The blunette boasted proudly.

' Possibly because he felt sorry for Tsubaki.' Both Maka and Soul thought. Besides that point, all four managed to pass the exam and they got to go to early graduation with the rest of the other advanced beginners. How happier could they possibly get?

...

" Soul? Come on, they'll be sure to call us yet." Maka spoke through a door of the classroom. His partner finally came out while fixing her hat. They wore black robes and a flat, square-shaped hat with Lord Death's face on it. She gave a nervous smile and Maka grabbed her hand before pulling her to walk to the front of the school. It was nearly dark, and blinding lights showered the sky from the large lamps out in the front. It was as if the whole town came to cheer for them. The two lined up with the rest of the graduates, easily spotting Tsubaki and Black Star, who was hopping around to get noticed more.

Lord Death was brought through a mirror and he spoke quite a short speech.

" Howdy! Here we have our new EAT students! That's all." Everyone laughed though, and names were called alphabetically. Maka was easily the first one called and everyone cheered and clapped. This went on for a while before Black Star was called, and she made quite a show. The soon, Soul was called, receiving some whistles and cat-calls as well, causing her to blush, and Maka to scowl.

A party was easily done right on the spot, and it continued until midnight.

It was a while when Maka and Soul decided to retire early, seeing as they had lots to prepare for. They came home laughing away randomly, while hiccuping occasionally. That was quite a lot of Root beer they drank and the chugging contest Black Star started did not help a bit.

" Maka, I think I'll show-*hic*-er first."

" I'll go after then. *hic* Goodnight."

" Good-*hic*-night."

They were both excited to start their new months as EAT students and couldn't wait for the morning. They both also hoped that something exciting would happen during their years. Something that is life changing.

So now, the real story of Soul Eater begins.

Shibusen, or also known as DWMA (Death Weapon and Meister Academy), is a school that teaches young meisters and weapons to fight for good in Death City. The said school is also the academy that produces the most powerful, hard working students. The school was created by the one and only, Lord Death, after Kishins arrived from the souls of the humans who crossed the wrong path. Now that the background has been set, let's get to work!

...

: Soul Resonance :

...

" Need...more...power." The monster muttered and turned it's skull-like head towards a woman that had just screamed.

This one looked tasty.

" Aaaaah! " The woman ran away from the gory scene and ran as fast as she could before the monster could catch up to her. She panted hard as she ran down the street but unfortunately, her foot had met a crack causing her to trip.

The monster slowly crept up to the scared adult and crawled on top of her.

" Want... more... power." It growled as a tongue licked its wet claw. It raised its moist weapon and was about to slash her chest when the sound of a tongue clicking.

It turned it's head towards the source of his interruption, the sound being two figures on a staircase.

One figure happened to be sitting on the first step with a thighs holding together to hands. The other was standing next to the other sitting.

" Hey Soul. That Kishin. He isn't human." The person standing finally said.

" Yes Maka." A feminine voice came out.

" In the name of Lord Death, we must purge and slay this Kishin."

The one sitting finally stood up with an arm raised.

" Hey Maka. It's almost like me you know. I'm a weapon that takes form of a human but that's not the problem is it?" Her arm turned into a large blade with a red and black pattern.

" The issue here, is his soul." The one named Soul, transformed into a scythe, the glimmering object swinging around until the boy, Maka, grabbed a hold of it and swung it over his shoulder.

" Blood Thirsty Jack The Ripper. Your soul is mine!" He yelled. The Kishin roared and scrambled up the staircase.

" Let's go Soul Eater!"

" Yes sir!"

Maka immediately clashed the scythe with the claws and stayed on his defense. He turned around while blocking another blow behind his back and continued their way down until Maka noticed his foot tip on the edge of the stair step and hopped up, stomping on the Kishin's face to boost himself up and landed back.

The Kishin felt the stairs and hopped up, being followed by Maka who got ready to attack.

" This will be our 99th soul!" He screamed as he sliced his way through the monster and landed on the ground. Soul got out of her weapon form and grabbed the Acreet egg.

" We're almost there Maka!"

"Yeah! We only have a Witch's soul to collect and you'll become a death scythe!"

...

: The Ninety-ninth soul! Will Soul become the ultimate Death Scythe?:

...

As Soul took a small bite at the Acreet Egg, Maka began searching for a window and sighed in victory. He began to write down numbers as he spoke.

" 42-42-564...Whenever you want to knock on Death's door..." As Soul walked up beside him, the window quivered for a moment before focusing on a large black and white figure known as Lord Death.

" Hi there! Lord Death? Scythe Miester Maka reporting."

" Ah Maka! Howdy, howdy. How did it go?"

" We have just collected out 99th soul Sir, and we are ready to move on to a Witch's soul"

" Aha. I knew it. Your are just as terrific as your father Maka. Like father like son!"

Maka rubbed the back of his head with an embarrassed smile. Unfortunately their little chat was interrupted by an irritated voice.

" Hey! Soul Eater!" The girl turned her head at the right side of the screen to see a red-headed woman with a dress attire on.

" If you think of slutting on my son then as death scythe...no...", the woman leaned down in front of the screen. " As his mother I will castrate you alive, you got that missy!?"

Soul sighed as she looked away. This again. Ever since Maka's mother found out about their partnership, she's been finding it hard to not be annoyed at the woman breathing down her neck. Plus the glares she got.

" Don't worry ma'am. I don't plan on doing that okay?"

The woman then turned to face her son. " Maka-San. Mommy loves you."

Maka made a face before turning away with a disgusted look. " Oh please. I don't even refer to you as my mother so don't call me that!"

The woman gasped dramatically and in a second she was crouched against a dark corner holding an object while muttering.

"Erm... Putting the family matters aside! As you both know, a Witch can be very dangerous. So taking her soul won't be so easy in fact, I've seen so many and Weapons die from their fatal attempts. So do try to be careful. If you screw up even once, all your souls will be confiscated. I can't have my star students taken away from us." Lord Death spoke up.

Maka nodded. " Yes sir, Lord Death."

Soul also nodded.

" You can expect the best from us Lord Death."

" Good, good. Alrighty then bye bye!"

The screen blanked and Death turned around with a vein popping out. " You really are annoying Spirit..."

" MAKA!"

POW!

" If you don't shut up then I'll use my Reaper chop to!"

"Please tell me this before you do it." The woman muttered face-first on the floor.

The pair made it to their target's house that was very unusual.

" Eh? A pumpkin house?" Maka said with a raised eyebrow.

" Oh. That's actually pretty cool, but I don't think we should sneak in. The witch would probably know we're here." Soul responded with her hands behind her back.

" H-hey Soul! Maybe we could at least try." But Soul had already made her way to the door but it was locked, just as she expected.

" Damn. Maybe a window."

" Soul! Wait up- Wh-what are you doing?" Maka watched Soul walk up to him, and he blushed at their close distance. His heart pumped even faster when she leaned her head closer with pouty lips yet her eyes were open.

Did this mean she wanted to...

" Carry me?" Maka fell. Of course. There was no time to be thinking about such things at a moment like this when you and your partner are trying to catch and kill some witch.

" U-um... Sure. Where though?"

...

" See anything yet?" Maka asked. He was holding his partner up see through a window. She squinted before nodding and muttering something, and the meister yelped when she hopped up from his arms.

" Soul where are you going!"

" It's a bathroom, Maka. Come on." Soul hopped through the window and looked around. It seemed like there wasn't anyone home. They were so sure that the witch would be home. She was about to tell Maka to come up as well when the door opened slowly to reveal a man walking through the door, with no shirt on.

" Wah... wah..." Soul could feel her face heat up as blood dripped from her nose. The man stared at her in surprise before smirking and slowly walking up.

" Well hello there. I don't believe we've met." The weapon could not make a sound as she was backed against the wall. He looked so... hot! But that hat looked alot like a...

" I hope you don't mind but I was about to take a bath. Want to join me?" The man asked with a seductive look.

...

" AAaaaaah!"

" Soul!?" Assuming something was wrong, Maka was in the bathroom in a matter of seconds, before giving a deadpan look. His partner had swirls for eyes as she looked ready to faint from all that blood loss. The man was just smirking and he spotted the meister.

" Oh look. More guests." Maka yanked Soul's arm and shook her.

" Soul! Snap out of it would you! He's the witch we're trying to catch after all!"

" Witch?" The man repeated with raised eyebrows.

" Y-yessir..." Soul responded faintly before transforming into a scythe. As Maka grasped the handle, the other looked fascinated.

" Dear me, she turns into a scythe?", He threw the towel from his waist away and suddenly, he was wearing a dark attire, " Why don't you be a good little boy and give it to Blaire-San?" Maka frowned and readied himself as the man's hand began to glow as he raised it with a dark look.

" Pum-pumkin pumpkin, Halloween Cannon!" A huge pumpkin flew out of his hand and Maka gasped as it flew across the room.

* BOOM!*

...

: Soul Eater :

...

Round 2.

" I'm really sorry about before Maka. But he just came... like that!"

" It's fine. This time, we'll sneak up on hi-"

" Sh! I hear something!" Soul dragged Maka to a tree and the two listened to foot steps. However, Blaire saw their bottoms sticking out and he immediately latched onto Soul.

" If it isn't the cute, little-scythe girl!"

" W-waaaah!" Blood squirted everywhere.

Round 3.

" This time, I wrote down a strategy so we'll be sure to defeat him" Maka said as they walked through the forest. Soul made a face.

" We can't exactly rehearse it when we only get one shot at getting his soul."

" Well then, can you come up with something better?" Maka asked irritably as he stopped and Soul stopped as well and pouted while looking the other way. Before she could retort, they found Blaire crouched behind them.

" Pumpkin..."

" ..?"

" Pum-pumpkin... Halloween Cannon!"

* BOOM!*

Round 4.

Glowing pumpkins dashed across the street, hurling towards Maka who dodged everyone one of them.

" Just give up little boy. You can't defeat me- huh?" Blaire said as he looked closer.

" Maka, you can't get at him if you keep hopping away like that!" Soul's metallic voice came out. The meister frowned.

" Well maybe if you stopped screaming like that, maybe I could actually do something." Soul realized that her miester sounded so... Stressed. He needed to let out his anger but the fustration of not being able to get Blaire was building up.

" How can you make such a false accusation like that!?"

" Che... Men's intuition." As the two argued even more, Blaire decided to jump in.

" Hey, hey! If you guys keep fighting, she could just come with me. I would never yell at her for anything." Blaire egged with a knowing look. This made the insides of Maka churn and he grasped the handle of the scythe tighter.

" Back off would you!? Don't go trying to take a weapon without going through the meister first!" The man sitting on the floating pumpkin hummed before grabbing the hem of his hat to pull it down slightly with a predatory look.

" Well then in that case, I'll kill you, then take it." With that, he hurled the large pumpkin at the other male, who dashed to the side, however a large, snake-like hand grabbed his leg and hurled him up into the sky. Maka used the red and black blade to land onto a roof and huffed.

" I can't get at him in this rate. What should we do Soul?" When he received no response, Maka looked at his weapon. " Soul? Hey Soul, what's wrong? You aren't still mad about earlier are you!?" Blaire floated up, loving the scene that was going on between the two.

" Hey, hey! If you guys keep fighting, she could just come with me."

" I would never yell at her for anything."

He can't get to him, huh? Maybe there is a way...

Another pumpkin is hurled and Maka was forced to dodge it, however leading him to slid down on the planks and he could only use the tip of the blade from falling. The meister looked up with a pleading look.

" Soul, why won't you answer me? I'm sorry, alright?" The scythe did not respond, but transformed back into the girl so only their hands were held together, in which Maka was relieved to see. Only, he was confused to see why his partner wouldn't look at him.

" Maka..." Was all she said, and she let go, causing him to fall down.

As Soul hopped to the ground, Maka climbed out of the dumpter with annoyed look.

" Why did you do that!?"

" I don't think... we should continue like this..."

" Wh-what do you mean?" He had never seen her act that way. Why did she want to leave him, after all they've been through together? To not be with Soul anymore is like...

" I mean... I want to be Blaire's scythe." Soul whispered with a guilty look. This made Maka's mouth dropped and Blaire to clap his hands together in excitement. Soul slowly walked over to the man's side, hiding her eyes under her bangs. Maka couldn't stand to see those two so close together. It hurt his eyes. It hurt his heart to see Soul betray him. Until a theory came up...

" Blaire! You're using magic on her aren't you!?" The sound of Soul sighing caused him to look up in confusion.

" Maka, it's so obvious. Any girl would choose a guy like him instead of well... You." She forced herself to say. A while longer...

" What the hell is this?", He whispered while looking down," Why do woman cheat so much, always going from man to man, just like my stupid mom. I wish that all of you would just die!" Soul looked up but hid her shock and hurt expression. She was only doing this for their good. If only Maka would just notice.

" Hey Soul, remember when you said how a men's intuition doesn't make sense? Then what sense does this make, idiot!" The area fell silent as the boy huffed, tears sparkling as it fell to the ground. Soul blinked before smiling, and raised her arm, transforming it into a blade.

" Feel better now? You needed to get all that stress out." She only said and the meister slowly looked up as his eyes widened.

" Wha..?" And suddenly, he caught on.

" Maka!"

" Right!" Dashing forward to grab her hand that turned into the handle, he dug his shoes into the ground and swung the scythe into Blaire's torso. The witch had evaporated into mere shadows that uncovered a purple soul floating innocently.

Maka let go of Soul, who turned back into human form and hopped to the ground with a humored look.

" We did it Maka. Your screaming fit and all." The boy only stared blankly before laughing softly and rubbed his eyes.

" Yes, we did. Thank you, Soul." The weapon nodded and clutched the glowing soul, that wore a hat and had to mysterious points on the side. Maka watched the girl look at it before glancing at him with a shy smile.

" I'll become a death scythe after this, right?"

" Yeah... You will." Soul sighed and turned her head and took the soul into her mouth. It was as if everything happened so fast. From their meeting, to the end where she becomes the ultimate weapon. Isn't this what she wanted in the first place? To stand out from Wes, to be little sister that can play the piano and happens to be Death's weapon. If that was so, why was she slightly depressed? Well, here comes the big moment...

...

" ..."

" Er... soul? Did you... Change?"

" ... Ah... Nothing really happened to be honest."

" Meow." The duo jumped and slowly turned their heads to the source of the sound and both sweated to see a cat. If nothing happened when she ate the soul, then why does that hat look awfully familiar like...

" You can't be..."

" No way..."

The cat meowed again and sat still in front of them.

" Nya. You DWMA students make such false accusations." The cat then transformed with clouds puffing out, once clearing to show the man crouched in front of them. " I'm really just a cat with magical powers."

Soul gasped.

" Th-then... I just ate 99 souls and cat's soul!?" She yelled, collapsing to the ground. Maka irked.

" Not only that..."

" If you screw up even once, all your souls will be confiscated."

" All your souls will be confiscated."

" Confiscated."

" That means we failed!" Soul literally felt like crying and the two immediately hopped on a yellow and black motorcycle.

" Aw! We were so close and we blew it!"

" I'll go ahead and take the blame for this as a meister!"

" Nya, Soul where are you going!? I thought you wanted to be Blaire's?" Soul blushed and Maka scowled as he turned his head towards the flying magical cat.

" Can't you get lost already!?"

" Soul-kun! Be mine!"

Soul sighed before leaning down. Even if this meant she and Maka have to start over from the beginning again:

She actually felt pretty happy about their crappy situation.