Black Star and Tsubaki walked around the woods, strangely quiet.

"Any sign of your brother, Tsu?" Black Star asked but Tsubaki was only looking around instead of replying. "Tsubaki?"

She covered his mouth to make Black Star be quiet, leaning to whisper in his ear.

"My brother is a master of stealth, so don't talk too much or else he'll get the drop on us." She whispered, pulling her hand away. "He could be following us and we'd never know."

Black Star nodded as he tried his best to remember his ninja training, incomplete or not.

'A ninja's greatest tool is silence. Become one with the darkness and you will be invisible to all.' Black Star thought.

A noise caught their attention. Tsubaki instantly became a ninja sword/tango in Black Star's hand, who got in a ready position to attack.

"Is it him?" Black Star asked.

'Not sure. Get closer.' Tsubaki whispered.

Black Star nodded as he shuffled quickly to the bush, ready to attack who or whatever was inside.

And it was... no one inside.

'Nothing.' Tsubaki said, glaring at the bush as she mentally scolded herself. 'Should've known he would be playing tricks on us.'

"So how do we find him?" Black Star asked.

'Hmmm. I'll go smoke bomb and search through as far as I can reach.' Tsubaki thought as she transformed into a smoke bomb.

"Hope you're right about this." Black Star said.

Unsure of this, Black Star still threw Tsubaki to the ground and she exploded in a giant cloud of smoke.

'Where are you?' She thought, concentrating in her "weapon" form and was sensing every leaf, twig, insect, and etc. within her smokescreen.

Suddenly something moved in and kicked her, knocking her out of her smokebomb form.

"Tsubaki!" Black Star said as he caught her.

Tsubaki held her ribs, which were nearly broken from the attack.

"Someone just hit me but it didn't feel like my brother." She said with a hiss of pain.

"Are you okay?" Black Star asked.

"I'm fine." Tsubaki said as she changed into a chain scythe in Blakc Star's hands. 'So get ready. It looks like my brother found himself a victim to use.'

"Great." Black Star said, grinning. "It wouldn't be much of a challenge if things were easy."

'Since when do you care about east?' Tsubaki quips as the person who Masamone possessed walked forward.

His eyes black with red pupils as shadow like tendril tattoos covered his arms as legs. In his hand, was a black katana with white wrappings around the handle.

"That him?" Black Star asked, looking at the katana.

'Yes. In his hand, that's the Enchanted Sword. My brother.' Tsubaki said as the person chuckled, a mix of Masamone's voice and the voice of his puppet.

"Hello, little sister. How many years has it been since we last saw each other?" Masamone teased.

Tsubaki didnt reply as she just looked at her brother in anger, sorrow, and regret as the person he possessed walked forward.

"So you're the enchanted sword? Not bad but I expected you to be tougher looking." Black Star said with a grin.

"Big talk from someone like you. A member of the Star Clan in the DWMA, the world is growing closer to madness than I thought." Masamone said.

"Doesn't matter who I am, what matters is that we're here to stop you." Black Star said, pointing at Masamone.

Masamone just chuckled as he pulled himself up, the "sword," getting into a fighting stance as he made the person grin.

"This will be fun." He said.

"On that we agree!" Black Star shouted as he rushed at Masamone.

Masamone's hostcjust stood there, until Black Star tried to attack...only to then vanish in the blink of an eye.

"Huh?!" Black Star let out in surprise.

"A true ninja never blindly charges into battle." Masamone said, appearing behind Black Star and ready to kill him.

Tilting, Black Star barely dodged the slash as he swung back, aiming at the Enchanted Sword instead of the controlled victim.

However, Black Star underestimated how strong the sword was he and Masamone clashed multiple times. The exchange was making Black Star move back and dodge as Masamone attacked relentlessly.

He ducked down as the sword slashed through a tree with ease, making it crash in the forest as Black Star jump away.

"Is that all you have, child?" Masamone asked.

"Not even close! Let's do this!" Black Star shouted as he grabbed the chains and began swinging both sides of the cabin scythe like saws. "Try some of our Star Saws!"

Chucking at the flashy attack, Masamone smirked and disappeared into the shadows.

'Be on guard! He could strike from anywhere!' Tsubaki shouted, looking around through there chains.

"Right." Black Star said.

Black Star looked around and waited for Masamone to reveal himself or to strike first.

'Focus. Take a breath and focus.' Black Star thought, being calm for once and thinking the situation through.

From high in the tree, Masamone jumped into the air.

'Now you die.' He thought, aiming to impale Black Star.

Tsubaki glanced back and gasped at her brother!

'Behind you!' Tsubaki warned Black Star.

Jolting amd jumping, Black Star dodged the attack and twisted around.

"Got you!" Black Star shouted as he launched a Star Saw at the Enchanted Sword!

Masamone blocked the attack and knocked the "saw" away before blocking another.

"Impressive." He comments.

'Seems like Tsubaki trained this one herself. He might actually be a challenge.' Masamone thought, readjusting his stance. 'Good.'

He blocked another Star Saw before controlling the shadows to attack, making Black Star jump back again.

'He's good! Gotta try something else!' He thouhht as he pulled back a scythe and threw it around the forest to create a web of chains.

'Excellent move, Black Star!' Tsubaki said with a smile.

"Thanks! Let see him get past this!" Black Star said with a grin.

Masamone chuckled as he slowly pulled back, hiding in the shadows of the forest again.

'Once again, very clever, child, but let's see what you do against this.' He thought before making a counter.

The enchanted sword made multiple shadow figures and spread them around the trap zone.

In the middle of the trap, Black Star and Tsubaki waited for Masamone to trigger the trap.

'Come on, Mr. Shadow Man. We're ready for you.' Black Star thought as a shadow moved towards the trap.

Jostling one of the chains as Black Star turned to it!

"Got you!" He shouted, pulling the chains and making them wrap around the shadow man.

Within seconds of their failure, the shadow man faded away.

'It's a fake!' Tsubaki shouted as multiple shadow figures rushed at Black Star. 'Look out!'

"Got it!" Black Star shouted before charging his soul wavelength and punching the ground! "BIG WAVE!"

An explosion of his soul energy burst around him, making the shadows disintegrate into nothing.

"You think shadow puppets are going to stop the great Black Star!?" He shouted, searching for Masamone.

'Drat. I didn't expect him to have such a power soul wavelength.' Masamone thought, glaring at Black Star from a treetop. 'He needs to be dealt with first before I deal with Tsubaki.'

Jumping high from a tree, Masamone made his controlled wielder dive straight down towards Black Star to kill him!

'Black Star, watch out!' Tsubaki said, able to see her brother come down fast!

Too fast for Black Star to dodge as he looked up and saw Masamone was 2 feet from him, the blade coming close to impaling him!

"VECTOR PLATE!" A voice shouted.

A white arrow formed under Black Star and sent him backwards, away from the attack as Masamone cushions his fall with shadows!

"TCH!" Masamone let out as his host rose up, glaring upwards towards the new arrival. "You."

"Me." Maka said, standing next to a sitting Black Star. "Seems like you found him."

'We didn't but he attacked us before we could signal you and Kid.' Tsubaki said.

"Makes sens, he seems to have been watching us this whole time and tried to keep us separated." Maka said.

'We didn't think he could make creepy shadow figure people. That's how he tricked us.' Soul said as Black Star stood up.

"Where's Kidd and the Thompsons?" He asked.

"Not sure." Maka said, keeping her focus on Masamone. "I have a feeling we'll have to beat that information out of him."

"Sounds great to me." Black Star said, preparing for round two.

"Hehehehe." Masamone chuckled with a smirk, preparing his host. "Two against one? Maybe this will be a duel that's worth my time."

"Guess we'll see." Mak aid with a glare.

"Get ready Enchanted Sword, Masamone, your soul is ours!" Black Star shouted with confidence.

"You're being too optimistic, boy." Masamone said, glaring at Black Star.

'Someone has to.' Soul said with a grin. 'Hope you're ready to get your ass kicked, shadow boy.'

"Then show me what you can do." Masamone said.

The two sides rushed at each other, ready to end things here and now.