Safe from the cold (Soma)

Finding the kishin

"He's in there." Maka told Soul softly. "He seems to be alone but-." She cut her self-off and spun around. Silently she walked back a little bit to a mound of snow and grabbed the two children by the back of their shirts. "Just what do you two think you're doing?" She scolded. "This isn't the place for two kids who are only information gatherers."

"But... but we can fight too." Elettra said and gave a smile. "We're trained to protect ourselves when we're collecting data."

"It doesn't matter." Soul broke in. "This isn't a soul you can just sneak around. We're miles from the town already, what happens if he find you? You have nowhere to run."

"What about you? Acting all cool, but you're in as much danger as us." Reiner stepped up looking at Soul.

Soul smirked as he put his hands in his jacket pockets. "That's true, but the difference is you're a kid and I'm an adult. Not to mention I'm a death scythe." The two children looked up in awe as he looked at Maka who crossed her arms. "Maka's right. This isn't a place for you two."

"You may be a grown up but you can't underestimate our fighting!" Reiner hollered angrily making Maka jump and Soul tried to quickly cover his mouth. It was too late. The door to the house flung open and a tall man with neatly parted black hair and a thick mustache walked out. He stopped as he caught sight of the four.

"Run." Maka told the two children who just looked at the man as his stance changed. His body language gave off the feel of death, before long barrels slowly slid down from his hand. "Soul." He nodded as he quickly transformed and landed in her hands as she moved in front of the children. They stood in shock as she spun Soul around and planted her feet, ready for a battle. "Soul and I will take care of him. Run!" She yelled as she ran at the man. He pointed the barrels at her and made a motion as if pulling a trigger. Maka shifted to dodge being hit before she swiped at him, cutting the barrel in half. However, as soon as she did that the rest fell to the snow covered ground like a sheath to reveal a shimmering blade. Before Maka could move he swung, but she was able to pull Soul up to block before jumping away.

"How many weapons does this guy have?" Soul complained as they eyed their enemy.

Maka glanced over to see the children still standing in place. "It doesn't matter all it takes is one miss step and those kids are dead." She told him. "We have to stop this guy."

"Right." Soul agreed before once again they charged in ready to attack. She swung and was able to catch his arm before he swung back. She shifted to avoid the hit, spinning her body and bringing Soul back around for another attack. She was blocked and he pointed a small barrel at her. Maka ducked and swiped at his legs as he fired making him miss but as she turned he pulled large barrel from his chest with a grin.

"It doesn't matter who you are. You will all parish in the flash of my fire!" He yelled. Quickly Maka tried to attack. He jumped back and turned to face the children to the right and pushed his arms from his chest out straight quickly, firing off the cannon like gun in his chest. Maka ran and pushed the children out of the way, but she was hit by a few of the pellets in the spray making her connect with the ground with a wince.

"Maka!" Soul yelled and was about to transform when she pushed up to her knees.

"I'm fine." She said softly as she held her side. Blood oozed from several small wounds on her side and her arm. She looked at the children to see them tearing up at the sight. "Don't worry. This is nothing. Now run back to the village and stay there until we come back. It's not safe here." She gave a small smile as the boy stood up and nodded roughly. Reiner grabbed Elettra's hand and pulled her behind him as they took off.

"Maka, you okay?" Soul asked as she used the scythe to stand up. "If we have to retreat-."

"I'm fine Soul." She said and she pulled him in front ready for another attack. "We need to give them time to get far enough away anyway. We just have to avoid being hit by that cannon and get close enough to take him out."

Simone fired off another round and she rolled out of the way. Turning he fired again making her dodge again. Again and again he fired off the cannon like barrel in his chest, but Maka continued to dodge. After each blast she got closer and closer until he fired one off that send a cannon ball at them, the blast knocked her back but not before she had wrapped the bade around him and pulled. She did it. They were able to defeat yet another evil soul. They heard rumbling and the ground began to shake. Maka turned to see a wall of snow rushing at them.