It had been exactly three days since the deaths of Justin and Noah. No one else had died in the meantime. But following the events of Medusa coming across Kid's group, it seemed that Maka and Kim had been kidnapped.

Soul clenches his fists and glares at the sky. "I swear when I find that witch, she better pray that I don't kill her. Nobody hurts my meister…" Kid puts a hand on Soul's shoulder causing the male to turn around. "Relax, Soul. We'll find them. You'll get Maka back. I promise you that." Sighing, Soul smiles a bit and nods. "Thanks dude…"

Jackie crosses her arms and looks down, feeling herself shrink. Kim was taken. She was kidnapped by Medusa. She was sure that Medusa would kill her soon. Kim…damn it, no! I won't let this stupid game take my best friend! Looking up, she sees Ox standing over her. "Jackie. I need your help." Curiously looking at the male, Jackie tilts her head. "Need my help on what?"

Ox looks to the side and bites his lip. "I…I don't have a weapon anymore…and well I don't want to put the twins in danger so...do you think maybe you could be my weapon? Just temporarily. Until we find Kim." Blinking, Jackie thinks for a moment. Seriously? Is he for real?

She shrugs her shoulders and flips her hair back. "Fine. Whatever. As long as we get Kim back. That's all I care about." Nodding, Ox offers her his hand and she blinks in surprise. Raising her brow, Jackie looks up at him. "What the hell is this?"

"A gesture. That we'll both protect each other no matter what. We can't die if we want to get Kim back. You got my back, I got yours sort of thing" Ox explains. Smirking, Jackie takes his hand and shakes it. "You are such a weirdo sometimes."

Sitting alone in the snowy area of the island, Crona hugs his knees and ponders. Noah's words were still ringing in his head. If you can't kill me how do you expect to survive out there? You won't get far if you don't have a killing instinct when the time comes. You need to be ready for that, kid!

Looking down, Crona fidgets with his feet. "Killer instinct, huh…" Sniffing a bit, the male wipes at his tears that start to roll down his cheek. "I don't know h-how to deal with all of this…" Standing up, he rubs his arm and continues walking, his head down and his shoulders drooping. At hearing the sound of voices in the distance, Crona raises his head and turns. He could just barely make out the figures. There were at least five of them. As he narrows his eyes to try to make out the figures, he takes a step back and lets out a gasp. "M-Maka…"

In the distance was Maka with Kim at her side and both girls had nervous looks on their faces. Medusa walked behind them, her hand raised to them, ready to strike at any moment. Biting her lip and hiding her anger, Maka clenches her fists. Damn you, Medusa! Just you wait…Soul and the others will find you soon…

Free and Eruka exchange glances and mutter each other a few words. Medusa snaps her head back at the pair. "Is there a problem?" Eruka quickly shakes her head. "No of course not Lady Medusa!"

Medusa scoffs and rolls her eyes as she turns back to the two DWMA students. Kim shivers and holds herself, staring ahead. Maka glances over at Medusa and stares into her eyes angrily. The witch smirks and tilts her head. "What is it, child? Do you hate me?"

Looking away, Maka clenches her teeth and growls a bit. "I'll get you for this, Medusa…"

Outside of the isolated island, the DWMA was still searching frantically for the lost meisters and weapons. Running his hands through his hair in frustration, Spirit Albarn curses under his breath. "its been over a week, Lord Death…we still have nothing…"

Chairs were set up in a circle around the Death Room. At the very end sat Lord Death himself with a serious look. "We have no idea what has happened to our fellow students. But I assure you Spirit we will find them. We'll do whatever it takes to get them back." Crossing his arms, Franken Stein lets out a sigh. "This search appears to be going nowhere. We have nothing on their whereabouts and we're one staff member short. Sid appears to have gone missing around the same time as the children."

Sniffing and wiping her tears, Marie Mjolnir bites her lip. "Those poor children! W-Who knows what they're going through at the moment…" Adjusting her glasses and folding her arms, Azusa Yumi turns to look at Lord Death. "Any other ideas, Lord Death? We really have nothing to go on."

Shaking his head, Lord Death stares at the floor blankly. "I'm afraid not…"

Standing up quickly and glaring, Spirit bites down on his tongue and soon tastes warm blood in his mouth. "How much longer do you expect us to wait, Lord Death!? How much longer until we find them! I'm sick and tired of these bullshit promises! I need my Maka! I need my daughter!"

Stein quickly puts his hand on Spirit's shoulder. "Relax Spirit, you just need-"

Swatting his hand away, Spirit angrily shakes his head. "No, damn you! What I need is Maka! I need her to be safe! She's all I had left, don't you get that!?"

Slamming his hand down, Lord Death quickly yells out, "ENOUGH!"

With that, every person in the room goes quiet and Spirit sits down, staring at his feet. Sighing, Lord Death rubs his head. "Oh dear, my head aches from all this stress." Looking at Spirit, Lord Death continues. "Spirit. I understand your pain. I know how you must feel about all this. My son has gone missing too as you all know."

Nodding, the staff members all look at each other for a moment. Standing up, Lord Death claps his hands together. "So! We need results! If we can't find them anywhere near here then search places that have never been researched before! Caves, underground tunnels, islands, sewers, everything! We must not rest until we find the children!"

Murmuring in agreement, the DWMA staff members stand up and quickly walk out of the Death Room with filled determination. "Wait Spirit. Not you." The red haired male turns around slowly. "What is it?"

Lord Death gives him a look that sent a strange feeling into his stomach. He soon gets nervous at Lord Death's words. "I have a special task for you."

Crying out as she hits the floor, Kim cowers in fear and looks up at the witch. Medusa scoffs and rolls her eyes. "Didn't you hear what I said? Get going!" Her lip quivering, Kim bursts into tears and stays on the floor. Glaring angrily, Medusa raises her hand. "You stupid-"

"Wait!" Maka rushes to Kim's side and helps her up, looking back at Medusa. "Its fine…she can walk…"

Smirking, the witch crosses her arms. "Fine then. But if for any reason you two stop walking, I'll pierce you in the back." Frowning, Maka turns away from her and looks at Kim. "C'mon now Kim you have to keep moving…"

The pink haired female sniffs and wipes her eyes as she begins to walk with Maka holding her arm. "I need Ox…and Jackie…" Nodding slowly, Maka sighs. "We'll get to them soon. Don't worry." Standing behind Medusa and glancing at each other, Eruka and Free give a slight nod. "Lady Medusa."

Turning around, the witch frowns. "What do you two want?"

Taken by surprise, the witch feels her eyes widen as Free lunges forward, attempting to claw at her face. Getting grazed on her cheek, Medusa winces and backs away. "Just what do you think you're doing!?"

Frowning at Medusa, Eruka steps forward. "We don't want to be your little slaves anymore Medusa. We're done." Hissing in anger, Medusa raises her hand. "You do realize I still have my snakes inside you, right!? I can just kill you!"

Free growls and steps in front of Eruka. "I won't let you do that." Maka starts to back away with Kim as she sees the situation start to get out of hand. She looks at the pink haired female and whispers, "We have to go, now…before its too late…"

It was right then that Maka heard a familiar voice call out to her. "M-Maka…"

Turning around, her eyes widen as she sees Crona emerge. "Crona! What are you-"

"Maka! Kim!"

More voices. Only this time it sounded like…Soul! The white haired male rushes forward, only to stop in front of Medusa. Kid and the others look around at everyone and nervously gulp. Everyone was here. There was no way out of this situation. Sooner or later someone was going to die.

Grinning widely, the Kishin lets out a laugh. "This is going to be great! Everyone is here, Arachne! This is the battle in which all bets will be made! Right here!" Smiling gently, Arachne fans herself and nods. "Indeed. This shall be interesting. I'm curious on how it'll play out." Rubbing his chin, Asura smirks and licks his lips. "This is it. This is what we've been waiting for."

Outside of the island, a male in a large bear mask watches. "Whoa, what do we have here?" The male scratches the top of his mask and chuckles. "If I'm correct, that's a sphere of madness surrounding the island." Stretching and yawning, the male stands up straight. "Well, looks like I should notify Lord Death."

Back on the island, all the contestants had stopped moving to stare at each other. No one moved for a long moment. Maka felt the sweat dripping down her face as she nervously bit on her lip. What's going to happen? This isn't looking good…

Scoffing, Asura looks to one of his switches. "If they keep standing like that, I'll have to scare them to make them kill each other!"

Smiling, the spider witch nods. "Go ahead, Asura. I think it would certainly make things jumpy for them." Grinning, the Kishin presses the button.

It was at that moment that a booming sound was heard that shook the entire island. Everyone stares at the ground and screams as they see large cracks forming. Kid quickly looks up and shouts, "Everybody move! The ground is about to give out!"

At those words, everybody finally snaps back into reality and scrambles to get to a safe area. Running to Maka, Soul sees that the ground below her was ready to give out. "Maka! Move-"

Before she could react, the floor under her caved inwards and Maka lets out a shriek as she finds herself falling down.

END OF CHAPTER 14
DEATH COUNT: 8