All eyes were on Soul now at his sudden outburst. Sighing, the white haired boy furrows his brows and takes a step forward. "Look…I get that you guys are worried about me and all but…" He pauses for a moment and glances at Maka. The look of concern in her eyes only made his stomach tighten. He turns away from her and continues.

"We can't just kill people. We can't. By doing that we would be falling right into the Kishin's hands. Besides, if we want to get out of here alive don't you think we should try to have safety in numbers? I mean it couldn't hurt…"

Kid crosses his arms and ponders for a moment. As Soul looks around at the rest of the group he saw that they were far from convinced. Sighing, he kicks at the dirt floor. "This is hopeless…"

"But Soul…" A pair of hands soon wrap around Soul's wrist and he turns to look at Maka. "Those two nearly killed you. If you had made just a single mistake you would have-"

"I know Maka, I know…"

"So then why? Why are you defending them? Even you must know that if we let them live they might try something!" Maka explains. A determined Soul shakes his head and narrows his eyes. "Maka, don't you see? Killing someone…that stays with us forever. If we kill and get out of here we're going to have blood on our hands and it'll stick with us to our grave."

To this, Kid looks up finally ready to speak. "But Soul, you're forgetting we basically do kill for a living. At the DWMA we are trained and practice in order to fight witches and all sorts of monsters. And we kill them. So what makes this any different, Soul? They are enemies of the DWMA after all."

Soul glares at Kid and clenches his fists. "No, you're wrong! This isn't like the DWMA! We're simply killing for sport here! That's all this is! A sick game!"

Right then, Free and Eruka take the moment to run away and push past a distracted Kid. Stunned and thrown off his feet, Kid groans and sits up quickly as he glances at the fleeing pair. "Liz! Patty! C'mon we can't let them get away!"

"Right!" Patty says with a nod as she converts to a pistol and is grabbed by Kid. Hesitating, Liz bites her lip and looks from kid to the escaping couple. Astonished, Kid blinks as he stares at Liz, confused as to why she wasn't changing into her weapon form. "Liz!? C'mon we gotta do this now!"

"Y-Yeah, sorry!" Suddenly out of her trance, Liz turns into her weapon form and is quickly grabbed by Kid who turns his aim to Free and Eruka.

"No Kid!" Soul cries out as he rushes forward, blocking Kid's shot. Giving Soul a look of bewilderment, Kid clenches his teeth. "What are you doing Soul! Get out of the way!" Shaking his head furiously, a stubborn Soul refuses to move. Dazed and confused at the scene, Jackie blinks as if hoping this scene was all just a dream. "S-Soul why are you…?"

Fearing for Soul's life, Maka tries to take a step forward but is stopped when Soul puts out his hand. "Don't Maka. This is between me and Kid right now…" Groaning in annoyance, the young Shinigami shakes his head. "Soul what's your problem? Get out of the way this instant!"

"I won't" Soul says with a cold tone in his voice. Narrowing his eyes, Kid feels his fingers start to tremble slightly as they are at the trigger. "Soul…I'll only ask once more. Move. I don't want to have to shoot you…"

Once more, Soul repeats the same thing. "No." Suddenly a tinge of fear shoots down Maka's spine. Would Kid really shoot Soul? This is starting to look worse by the second…

Kid soon found himself biting his tongue as he heard Soul's firm 'no'. Damn it Soul…why won't you…

Quickly moving a few feet to the right, Kid now has a free shot at the disappearing Eruka and Free. Seeing this sudden action makes Soul lunge to the right to try and get in the way. It all seemed to be happening in slow motion. Everything just seemed to take an eternity. Soul leaping in the way. Kid's trigger fingers already in motion. Even the gunshots. It was all in slow motion.

By the time Maka realized what was happening, her eyes went wide and she let out a thundering shriek.

The sudden shriek was a surprise to Asura. The Kishin cocks his head to the right to see a scene that simply looked too good to be true. Grinning, he lets out a chuckle. "Oh how I love scenes like this."

Confused and curious, Black*Star gazes at the camera monitors and soon lets his jaw drop. He couldn't believe what he was looking at. It couldn't be real. The image of Soul's body on the floor with Kid holding his smoking pistols after firing each one. "N-No way…"

Even Tsubaki let out a heartbroken gasp, followed by quiet sobbing. "it can't be…!"

Medusa had been locked in battle with the revived contestants when Black*Star and Tsubaki's sudden mood swings came to her attention. Now her gaze averted to the camera room and it was her turn to look shocked. What? Did those kids actually betray each other? That's certainly going to have some terrible aftermath…

Everything on the island in that moment was still. Everything was calm. Quiet.

Maka had finally stopped shrieking and was now on her knees, panting heavily with her hands dug into her hair. "No no no…"

Kid stood in the same motion as he had right when he shot the pistols, his face frozen with horror and shock. This is...a dream right? There's no way that just happened. It has to be a dream. Has to be.

No one was talking. No one was saying a word. Everything that happened seemed to suck the essence out of everyone. Jackie simply stood staring at Soul's body, her eyes twitching as she did. Pot of Thunder and Pot of Fire were shivering as they held each other's hands. Even Free and Eruka had stopped running to look at the scene that just took place. Eruka brings a hand over her mouth as she sees and realizes what just occurred. "Oh my Death…Free, those kids just…"

Nodding slowly and looking away, the werewolf let out a heavy sigh. "Yeah. I know…" Taking Eruka by the hand, Free starts to walk away, with a slight shake of his head. "Those idiotic children…"

Coughing up a mouthful of blood, Soul groans in pain. Maka soon jolts to her feet and rushes to Soul's side. "Soul! Oh my Death! Please don't go! Don't leave me like this!"

Slowly looking over at Maka, a small smile forms on the Soul's lips. "Oh…yeah sorry about that Maka…I just didn't want anyone to be killed…heh…silly me, huh?"

Bursting into tears, Maka puts her face on Soul's chest. "I should have done something! I should have stopped you!" Shaking his head, Soul lifts his shaky hand to hold Maka. "This isn't your fault…not one bit. I knew damn well what was gonna happen and I took the risk."

Jolting her head, Maka turns to look at Kid with an enraged look on her face. "What were you thinking!? You idiot! Soul is in this position cause of your stupid obsession with killing them!"

Staring blankly into space, Kid slumps his shoulders and shivers a bit as he whispers, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Putting a hand on her wrist, Maka glances at Soul. "Don't take it out on him Maka…he did what he thought was right. Besides…it was an accident…he wasn't aiming at me when he had shot. I moved in his way, remember?"

Her anger suddenly changing back to sadness, Maka feels her lip quiver as tears start to brim in her eyes again. "S-Soul I need you…I-I can't live without you…please don't leave me…I'm sorry…I'm sorry for this all Soul…!"

Smiling softly, Soul's eyes begin to grow heavy and finally close as his grip on Maka starts to loosen. "Its okay Maka…I love you. Never forget that. You were the best meister I ever had…"

With those words, Maka feels his body go limp and she desperately starts to shake him. "Soul…? Soul! SOUL!?" Tears running down her cheeks, Maka sobs loudly as she continues to shake Soul, his face fading and turning pale. Wrapping her arms around his neck and clinging to him tightly, Maka lets out a scream mixed with her sobs that nearly shakes the island.

In a matter of moments, Jackie sinks to her knees and bursts out crying along with Pot of Thunder and Pot of Fire. Seconds afterwards, Kid followed their lead and let out his sorrowful and guilty sobs. Hearing Kid cry soon made Liz cry as well. The one unexpected cry however came from Patty. No one had ever heard her cry before. Her crying seemed the most devastating and heartbroken of them all.

The cries of all the DWMA students reminded them all of something. It reminded them that death was always lingering around the corner. That death would be there to take any of them at any given moment. Soul's death however seemed to cause an even greater horror. It made all of the DWMA students realize there was no hope.

END OF CHAPTER 19
DEATH COUNT: 11
R.I.P. Soul Eater Evans

Note: I know, I know, a lot of you probably hate me for this and its completely understandable. But hey I warned ya didn't I? Told ya to expect shocking deaths so…ta da! Heh…no? Yeah sorry about that but with that aside…what'd you guys think? I'd really like feedback on this chapter in general so I can kinda get a feel with where to go on the next chapter.