you know this is your biggest mistake.
what a waste, what a waste, what a waste.
and of all the things you never explained,
you know this is your biggest mistake.

Since fighting Asura life for Death City had been hard. It took quite a while for things to get back to a semblance of normal. Lord Death himself had taken a few weeks to recover. Deathscythe as well. However, thankfully the threat of the Kishin was gone – for now.

It took a few months for Death City to be restored to its former glory. Then from that things slowly started to shift and turn for the best. The DWMA continued again as scheduled. Meisters and their weapons took guidance under the faculty and leadership of Lord Death.

Life changed for the trio and their weapons too.

Black Star and Tsubaki were regarded with great respect, and the great BlackStar was now seen as the great star he was. However, it wasn't to the aspect of being more than any God that existed, so his vicious speeches, fighting, and trials didn't stop.

For Death the Kid, he renewed the relationship he had with his father. Patti and Liz were there with him too. While Lord Death insisted that there was no apology needed, Kid insisted that there definitely was. It took at while for him to get past it, and in all reality he still never stopped blaming himself for what Asura had done to his father. For Patti and Liz, they continued to follow Kid around and do as they pleased.

Maka and Soul continued on as they always had. Their bond silently stronger than ever. They continued to work hard with both their studies and their assignments. Their ninety-nine souls took a while to get though. It wasn't until a year after the fight with Asura that they were able to make Soul into quite the formidable Death Scythe. Still unhappy with not being the strongest one ever – only to have Maka's father be the one higher than him – Soul and Maka continued training together.

Crona and Ragnarok started fresh at the academy. Crona's tameness never really left him but he warmed up to the school once more, and had always been grateful that they welcomed him back even though the regret of what he'd done sat on his slender shoulders with great weight.

For BlackStar and Kid, the road to having Death Scythe's kept on having road blocks. For BlackStar he constantly got ahead of himself and merely kept on pushing it off saying that when he actually put his mind to it Tsubaki would become that Death Scythe no problem. Tsubaki the ever gentle soul merely kept following him faithfully. Kid however had no such excuse. Instead his problem was and would clearly always be; symmetry. Every time the three of them would go into a fight there would always be an odd number of souls. Patti and Liz made no worry about it though. They merely humoured him and kept on.

Maka and Soul worked their way into four star Meister and weapon. BlackStar and Kid made their way to three stars with their weapons respectively. Crona and Ragnarok stayed at a modest two star, however the pair of them would've had no qualms with staying one stars.

And so that was how their friendships and powers grew and sustained themselves. All the way up to the end of their schooling years. Into the famed ages of eighteen or mildly older for the few who were.

And that would be where the beginning of this story starts – in the winter no less.

they say that things just cannot grow,
beneath the winter snow.
or so I have been told.

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First song- Biggest Mistake – Ellie Goulding
Second song- Winter Song – Ingrid Michaelson & Sara Barielles