"W-Why are you tying me up!" Crona demands as Free and Eruka take rope and tie it around Crona as he is held back in a tree. Noah crosses his arms, looking at the boy. "Because you're dangerous according to your mother. Just as dangerous as Justin. Can't risk anything. Sorry kid."

"J-Just let me go!" Crona whimpers and struggles against the rope tied around him. Shaking his head, Noah crosses his arms. "Can't do that."

The pink haired child cries out as he uses all his strength to try to break free. Noah sighs and removes his plaid golf cap. "Look kid, you aren't going to get anywhere trying that…"

Shaking his head and refusing to listen, Crona continues to struggle. "Y-You don't understand! It's Justin! He m-might be coming this way!" Tensing up and glancing over at Medusa, Noah opens his mouth but no words come out. Shaking her head angrily, Medusa frowns. "He's lying. Its probably a trick to try and get us to let him go."

"N-No I'm being serious! I-I was with him! I barely got away!"

Looking from Crona to Medusa, Free rubs the back of his neck nervously. "I dunno Lady Medusa…he seems too shaken to be lying, don't you think?"

Glaring at Free, Medusa hisses. "You dare question me?" Looking down quickly, Free shakes his head. Noah lets out a small chuckle and then puts his cap back on. "Okay so I can see we're all on edge about this so tell ya what…I'll go check it out. If I find Justin then expect me to not be back for a while. If he ain't there then I'll be back before you know it. Sound good?"

Free gives a slight nod and Eruka murmurs in agreement. Medusa merely scowls and rolls her eyes. "I can't believe you're actually considering that. It's a lie, I'm telling you." Smiling warmly, Noah steps over to Medusa and hooks his arm around her waist. "Ah, is someone going to miss me? Heh."

Blushing lightly, the witch scoffs and turns her head away. "Yeah yeah…whatever…"

Grinning, the sorcerer plants a soft kiss on the witch's lips and then pulls away, walking off. "I'll be back in a bit then." Free raises his brow and gives Medusa a look of utter disbelief. "Since when were you two exclusive?"

Frowning at the floor and hiding her blush, Medusa crosses her arms. "We're not…"

Whistling as he walks in search of Justin, the male sorcerer smirks as he licks his lips. God that snake witch is cute. I'll make her mine. In time. He suddenly stops and squints as he sees a figure up ahead. His eyes soon widen at realizing that the figure was none other than Justin Law. He was surprised to see the young death scythe bleeding. Justin was breathing rather heavily as he held his wound, an evil glare on his face.

Sighing and quickly glancing at the book of Eibon, Noah raises his brow. "This is going to be a pain."

Staring up at the sky, Black*Star stops to ponder for a minute. So uh…how many days have passed? Like…five? Six? Maybe even seven? He suddenly bursts out laughing, grinning proudly. Haha! The mighty Black*Star is still alive! How do you like that, Kishin! I will never die! Yahoo!

"Um…Black*Star?"

The blue haired male turns around to see his weapon and friend, Tsubaki. "Um would you like to join us? Kid said he had an idea for what we could do tonight so…" The kind female smiles gently and Black*Star grins, nodding. "Of course I'll join! It's what a star would do! Haha!"

Sitting down with the others, Black*Star and Tsubaki turn their attention to Kid. The male shinigami sighs softly and looks up, meeting everyone's gaze. "So it was just now that I decided for this but…I thought it might help us forget about this dumb death battle…"

Tilting her head at an angle, Maka gives Kid a curious look. "What exactly did you have in mind?"

Kid offers a kind smile. "Well I was thinking…Maybe we could talk about life. Pretend that this isn't here. That we aren't here." Nodding, Soul smirks. "I kinda like that idea. Don't even acknowledge the fact that we're here dude." Smirking, Liz turns to look at Kid. "You remember the past week when we were at Maka's house?"

Recalling the event, Kid cowers in fear. "Oh no…please don't speak of the unsymmetrical home...Maka how do you live with yourself!" Giggling, Maka kindly smiles. "I'll be honest, I personally had everything unsymmetrical that day just to throw you off."

"Ah! Why would you do something so sinister!"

Laughing, the group tells stories all night. Smiling widely, Maka gazes up towards the darkening sky. Its really crazy how we're having a blast right now. It's the first time we've all laughed since we got thrown into this. I wish tonight would just last forever…

Frowning angrily at the camera screen, Asura scoffs and turns away. "How boring. Those kids better start killing each other soon. They waste their time telling stories? I just don't get it! What good will that do!" Looking back at his cameras, he gives a slight yawn and then fixes his attention to the battle between Noah and Justin. "At least this will keep me occupied. This rivalry is really heating up."

Still tied to a tree with Medusa watching over him, Crona's eyelids begin to grow heavy. His wound hadn't been tended to and even though the bleeding had stopped, he was still hurting. Groaning lightly, Crona feels his head drop and the rest of his body grows weak. Smirking, Medusa approaches him. "What's the matter? Feeling tired? How does it feel knowing you can't harden your blood from your weak body?"

Feeling rather annoyed, Free sighs and frowns. "C'mon Lady Medusa you don't have to be like that to him." As she turns to glare at him he avoids her eyes and looks away. Looking back at Crona, the snake witch smirks. "Just look at you. You're pathetic. You might even die here if your wound doesn't get patched up."

Crona barely looks up and mutters, "Y-You'll die, mother…You'll all d-die…"

Grabbing Crona by his neck, Medusa angrily snarls. "How dare you-"

"RUN!"

The sudden voice makes everyone turn to see Noah rushing towards them. His cheek was bleeding and he had a cut above his eye. "Justin's here! You guys have to go, now!"

Eyes wide and barely having time to react, Medusa notices the priest quickly approaching from behind. "But Noah! You-"

Putting a finger to her lips, the sorcerer shakes his head. "Don't waste your time worrying about me. You all need to go. Now!"

Turning to Free and Eruka, Medusa gives a nod and they both take off, running. Looking at Crona, she frowns and runs off, not bothering to untie him. As Justin soon stands in front of Noah, he growls angrily. The male sorcerer smiles and lowly chuckles. "Kinda wish I had asked Medusa for a kiss just in case that was my last time seeing her. Oh well."

Glaring, Justin lunges forward, his blades going for Noah's neck. Seeing the attack coming, Noah casually side steps away and smirks, bringing up the book of Eibon. "Might as well go all out, don't ya think?"

Before Justin can attack again, Noah mutters a few words under his breath and a large purple glowing worm creature emerges from the book. "Ha! Here we are!" Grinning, the sorcerer flashes Justin a smile. Angrily clenching his teeth, the death scythe charges forward, attacking the worm and trading blows with it. Noah's grin soon disappears as he sees Justin muttering something like a prayer under his breath.

"Oh crap, that's-"

Quickly leaping out of the way, Noah ducks under a boulder to avoid the blast as he hears Justin yell out, "Law abiding silver gun!" The blue beam shoots a hole in the worm, disintegrating the creature. Pulling on his cap tighter, Noah takes a deep breath. "Looks like I'll need a different approach. He is a death scythe after all…"

The sorcerer turns to look at a certain tree and just notices that a pink haired boy was tied to it. His eyes widen as he realizes Crona had been tied up all this time. "Oh shit."

It seemed that Justin noticed it too and the death scythe soon approached Crona with a rather displeased look on his face. Crona barely took notice, his gaze on the floor as his loss of blood had come at a heavy cost. Justin raises his blade and utters a single word, "Die."

As the blade comes down, blood pours out, coating Justin's blade in warm, thick red substance.

Glaring angrily, the priest jumps back. "You dare interfere!?"

Noah huffs loudly as his arm remains up and bleeding. He looks back at Crona and sighs. The child was unhurt. Why the hell did I just do that…Why did I help the kid…it would have been one less contestant so why…

Standing up straight and facing Justin, he frowns slightly at him. "We have unfinished business, Justin."

Clenching his fists, Noah steps towards him. "Justin Law, I'm taking your soul."

END OF CHAPTER 12
DEATH COUNT: 6