When Maka asked Nate if he wanted to take down the prolific serial killer Jack The Ripper, who'd been terrorizing the streets of Death City he pictured something a bit more glamorous than this.
Nate stood in a dingy alley, much like the one where he'd saved Evelynn. He, and Maka had decided to split up to search the streets for signs of Jack prowling in the nigh. So far he'd come up empty, with the most exciting thing he found being a black cat with a cute witches hat who'd seemed to be following him before trailing off.
Nate ducked out of the alleyway and looked around the dark empty street. The street was dimly lit by a few gas powered lights attached to a few of the buildings so Nate couldn't see much. He tuned into his other senses for a moment, focusing mainly on his hearing. After a few moments he opened his eyes again, and sighed.
"This is boring, hopefully Maka and Soul are having better luck." The thought was barely able to finish forming in his mind before he heard a woman's scream cry out into the night. He immediately transformed is arms into the dual blade's of Excalibur and looked around to locate the sound of the scream.
He ran out onto the street to try and locate where the noise had come from. He looked up to the roof tops of the buildings around and focused his power. He needed to teleport like he'd done in the alleyway fighting those two goons. A bird's eye view of the block should help him find this girl before its too late.
He closed his eyes and jumped into the air, only to land on top of the nearest roof just as he'd hoped to. The clank of the roofing under his feet sounded as he ran across the roof tops into the night.
After running himself ragged on top of the buildings he finally saw Maka and Soul come into view, the two were standing in front of what looked like a dismembered woman's corpse in front of an alleyway. Both of them had hard, solemn looks of rage on their faces.
"We couldn't get to her in time...may her soul find peace in death..." Maka said, clasping her hands together in short prayer before turning to Nate and Soul. A look of steely determination in her eyes.
"Jack Gallows, aka Jack The Ripper typically strikes multiple times in one night. He's probably still in the area-" She was cut off by another scream a few blocks away.
"Go go go!" Maka said as she broke out into a run down the alley way, Nate and Soul following behind her.
The trio got to a large set of steps a good ways down the alleyway, and their eyes finally fell onto Jack The Ripper...
The man's proportions were all wrong was the first thing Nate noticed, the second being the long demon weapon claws that were coming out of the ends of his arms.
Maka pointed at him, catching Jacks attention from the woman he'd been stalking, as she said. "Demon Weapon serial killer Jack The Ripper. You've strayed off the path of humanity and onto that of a Kishin, In the name of Lord Death I'm here to claim your soul!"
With those words Soul began to glow the familiar glow of a weapon's transformation as he jumped into the air, fully turning into his scythe form. He fell down and Maka caught him in an intricately performed flourish, before brandishing her fully transformed scythe.
"Your soul Is mine!" Was the last thing Nate heard before they were both charged by Jack.
Both of them immediately stepped back as Jack went to slash at Maka, she deflected with the bar of her scythe and threw Jack backwards, almost causing him to topple down the large set of steps behind them. Nate stood to the side lines as Maka had told him to prior to the mission starting. He was only to strike when he was sure of it.
Jack righted himself and defended against a slash from Maka using his long and bloody cleaver like claws. As he guarded his face Maka delivered a slash with all of her might knocking some of the blood into Jack's eyes as he hopped onto his head and jumped down a set of the steps.
This move had put Jack in the middle of both Nate and Maka, she obviously wanted Nate to show her what he could do and this put Jack in a purely defensive position.
Nate, noticing this, tapped into his teleportation ability and appeared above Jack delivering a devastating slash to the killer's back. Jack prepared to strike back, momentarily distracted by Nate so much that he forgot the much bigger threat of the two.
In a flash Maka charged up the steps and collided the curved long edge of Soul into the killer's body, cutting through the man in an instant.
The man's body began to disperse and left a small light red orb in its place.
"Huh? Is it over?" Nate asked, still in a battle stance with his arms transformed. Maka giggled at the display of earnestness and innocence.
"Yeah man, the battle's over but the good parts just getting started." Soul said from within his scythe form before partially transforming and grabbing the Kishin egg that floated before their eyes.
Fully hopping out of his scythe form and back into his human one, Soul put the red Kishin egg to his lips and swallowed it.
"phew! Thank you Maka, and Nate for a good meal." Nate just stood there utterly flabbergasted at what he'd just witnessed.
"What's a matter? The nickname is Soul Eater for a reason. You did explain how this stuff works to him right Maka?" Maka let out a small awkward laugh and stepped in front of Soul.
"Basically, Soul has to eat 99 Kishin souls and the soul of a witch to turn into a Death Scythe, one of Lord Death's weapons. It's simple as that really-"
Soul jumped in and cut her off, "and that was my 99th one. Isn't that just the coolest thing?"
With the impromptu lesson over Nate just let out a sigh and sat on one of the steps closest to them and asked, "so what's next?"
Both Maka and Soul turned to him and said, almost in unison, "Next we take the soul of the witch Blair..."