"Mifune and the witch Angela? No I don't think I've heard of them sir." Tsubaki said as she held Black★Star close to her. He twitched in her grip as he was recovering from the reaper chop given to him by Lord Death.
"We've recently learned that Capone and his men are going to be launching a raid on Angela's hideout. If this is true it's a good opportunity for the two of you." Lord Death said.
Black★Star raised his head from Tsubaki's shoulder in as soon as he heard the word opportunity. He began doing simple mental math on his fingers and turned to Tsubaki.
"If we kill Capone and his men, and the witch Angela we can get all of those kishin souls plus the soul of a witch I can turn you into a Death Scythe in one go!! Yahooooo!!" Black★Star said as he ran from the main platform of The Death Room down the tori gated pathway and out the door.
"Black★Star wait up-" Tsubaki said with a small sigh, realizing that he was already too far gone, both mentally and literally.
She turned to Lord Death and bowed, "Thank you for this opportunity sir, I swear we wont fail you again."
"I'm certain of it, and there's also another part of this mission at least...one of you should know about."
Tsubaki blinked, "What's that?"
"There's a new student at the DWMA, one that I'm certain you've heard about. He helped Maka and Soul out with Jack The Ripper."
"Oh you mean Nate? I've heard some of the other students talking about him since he got here last week, what about him?"
"Well, he'll be accompanying you two on this mission, which I'm certain is news Black★Star will take perfectly normally and not overreact to at all..."
Tsubaki's eyes widened slightly, confused.
"Isn't it a bit dangerous to send a weapon by themselves without a meister, especially on a which hunting mission?"
Lord Death crooned to the side as he said "While it is a little unorthodox, Nate has proven himself to be capable in handling more dangerous missions, plus the weapon he can turn into is nothing to scoff at."
"What weapon is that sir?"
Death let out a high pitched chuckle. "It's probably for the best if you see it for yourself first, be prepared for the mission. You both leave first thing in the morning."
"Yes sir!" Tsubaki said as she bowed again before turning and striding out of The Death Room.
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Black★Star seemed to be in quite the mood the next day, not helped by the fact that Nate was late to meet them. Tsubaki had told Black★Star the news that a new student would be accompanying them along for the mission. Black★Star didn't seem to care, saying "I'm such a big man, even Lord Death wants my help training the newbies!" Tsubaki just shook her head.
Nate finally appeared coming down the street and up to the apartment building where Black★Star and Tsubaki lived. He keeled over putting his hands on his knees.
"Sorry-I'm...late." He said huffing and puffing. Tsubaki closed her eyes, fully expecting Black★Star to launch into a rage at the new guy, ruining his first real witch hunt.
But to her surprise Black★Star said nothing and began walking his way down the street, Tsubaki and Nate just followed behind him and the trio set off on their hunt.
Tsubaki was the first to break the silence as they walked, turning to Nate and extending a hand to him.
"I'm Tsubaki, and this is Black★Star it's nice to meet you. I heard you helped out Maka and Soul with their recent mission how'd that go?"
Nate was a bit taken aback by how gorgeous Tsubaki was, but he cleared his mind of such thoughts and moved his thoughts over to her question.
"It was pretty exciting not going to lie, I've never done anything like it. I can still feel my blood pumping-"
Black★Star stopped walking...
"Alright lets get one thing straight new guy! This ain't gonna be like with Maka, you're just here to watch the big man do his thing got it?!"
Black★Star didn't wait for a response and kept walking. Nate slid over to Tsubaki and raised a hand to his mouth and whispered to her.
"What crawled up his ass?"
Tsubaki began bowing in apology for Black★Star's behavoir and said, "sorry he's just like this with new people y'know. Once you get to know him over the course of the mission I'm certain he'll like you."
The mission the three were going on was a few states over from Death City so they'd be going by one of the DWMA's private planes. The walk to the landing strip on the edge of town was mostly silent save for a few conversations between Tsubaki and Nate.
"So, which of you is the weapon and which is the meister?" Nate asked.
"I'm the weapon and Black★Star is the meister, he's a pretty strong one at that." She looked to Black★Star, she knew how strong he was even if others didn't always see the best in him.
"That's pretty cool, what kind of weapon?" Tsubaki blushed a bit, not used to so many direct questions on her at once.
"I'm what they call a High Performance Multi Modal Weapon, or a shadow weapon, depending on who you ask. It basically means I have multiple weapon forms. What about you?"
Nate's eyes felt like they'd shoot out of his head from jealousy.
"I can turn into a sword, kinda boring sounding I know but I can also teleport, so that's pretty cool right?"
Tsubaki gave him a little clap of her hands and nodded. "Yes, that's very cool." Nate, truth be told, felt a little patronized by that.
After a while of walking, which seemed to be the only mode of transportation in Death City, the trio ended up at the landing strip and boarded the stark black jet with skulls on the side. The inside of the jet had this lavender smell to it and the seats were made of a cushy black leather.
Black★Star hopped into the seat farthest to the front, since he felt he should be the one closest to the front. Nate and Tsubaki took seats behind and beside him and the three were off as the jet pulled off from the run way and made its way to Cinder castle, home of Angela the witch.