It has been a while since I have written a Soul Eater fanfic. (and I toke down the other down because it was not noting right for me when writing). I just learned about a few days ago that theres a continuation of the manga...I feel kinda stupid now but what can you do? This is based after the anime it has nothing to do with the continuation in the manga...sorry. Also theres a character in this story that looks and kinda acts like Medusa and has her last name...I'm somewhat not sure if she's her in a different way or something yet so please bear with me because I do know she's Kid acts somewhat different in this story that he normal does but he is stil OCD crazy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Soul Eater just Alice Inn Carter Life and Tarah Life.
Thank You x3
Ch. 1 Memory (Read top before hand)
"Kid no it's too dangerous!" Liz called weakly her broken body covered with bloody wounds, her sister Patty unconscious from the lost of blood.
It was suppose to be a simply mission just go check on the sudden disappearances of young students, find them and bring them back if there was any trouble that befell the students causing their disappearance help those missing younger students and get back to the DWMA as quickly as possible. Get in and get out simple as that…
Or so it would have seemed.
It has turned out that the younger students who had been sent of the mission were killed by a very powerful witch who had the ability to speed up time and travel dimensions. It was believed, with farther investigation, that the student's ages were sped up until their hearts had given out killing them and the dead corpse turned to dust.
Luckily when the witch had attacked Kid and the Thompson sister they were not affected by her curse. The reason: when the sisters' souls resonance with Kid's which was immortal (he was over hundred years old after all) their souls were safe since Kid's immortal trait protected them.
But the time witch had more up her sleeves. She was able to combine her magic with (as it was known by witches) practical magic. This enabled her to manipulate the vegetation around the battle field making them into monstrous foliage creatures laced with poisonous spikes and sharp razor like fangs, these monsters vegetation had a one track mind. They did their master's biding with a mindless loyalty.
Kid stopped mid-run turning slightly on his heals and smiled at his only conscious pistol, his own face bloody and bruised beyond recognition. "I have to go this, the witch has to be killed before she becomes unstoppable."
Liz tried with an excruciating moan to rise to her feet. "Let me go with you-"
"No!" Kid said sternly causing the broken girl to loose her balance on her weak arms unable to move nothing but her eyes pleading with him. He continued to smile softly. "You're too weak you don't have enough strength to even change into your pistol form…besides your sister needs you."He turned his gaze to the barely breathing girl.
Liz choked. "But you can't fight alone!" She sobbed. "Your injured too you know, Kid!"
"And you're more so then I…"He sighed. "I can't let you get yourself killed needlessly."
"But Kid-"
"No!" He's eyes grew bright with determination. "This is my battle now."He began to run toward the waiting witch. "Besides…I can't fight with just one pistol…it's unsymmetrical."With one last smile he was gone…
"Kid…"She whispered before loosing consciousness.
Slam Bang Slap Crash…
Dodge that vine, jump over those poisonous spikes coming of that creature's body then slice it in haft with the heel of your shoe and continue to block, just block those attacks. He needed to get off the defensive and go on the offensive. However he didn't have his weapon for obvious reasons. He needed to find something, some sort of weapon that he could use to attack that witch.
"That's it!"He thought when the young Shinigami spotted two giant spikes from the beat that he had dodged just laying on the ground unused."If I can just get to those spikes I can use them as weapons." Dodging one more vegetation creature he toke his chance and leap towards the spikes.
"What are you waiting for" The ghastly time and dimensional witch called out to her mindless monster. "Stop him now!"She pointed a thin, slender, old finger towards the wayward meister.
With a moan the creatures obeyed their master moving quickly towards Kid.
Just as Kid reached the spikes that lay on the ground the monsters surrounded him, they were hungry and bloodthirsty. The water that was once a source of nutrition for the plant-like-creatures was now a type of substitute saliva that dripped down their new mouths that hungered for the taste of skin, preferable him skin. Who would be the first to taste a young Shinigami's maturing skin on their new tongues? Two vegetation creatures closed in on the lone meister, the others lingering closely behind.
Everything seemed to slow around Kid as he reached for the weapons on either side of him as he grouched close to the ground; his eyes closed picturing the desperate, pleading look in Liz's eyes wanting his to allow her to go with him and Patty her body extremely broken needing immediate medical attention. He needed to kill the witch for them to make the witch pay for hurting two of the closes people in his life. As the two monsters wrapped their slimy vine like tentacles around him touching his cheeks his eyes snapped open glowing blue his Sanzu lines connecting once more as it did that day when fighting the Kishin. He whipped his head two both of his side with a determined death glare, scaring the creatures. With a flowed motion he span the spikes in his hands as if their were Liz and Patty gripping the nonpoisonous side he slit the creatures from the abdomen to their heads not one drop of their substitute blood touched his clothes or skin.
Meanwhile…
"Stein we have to move faster or Kid, Liz, and Patty could be killed!"Spirit said within his weapon form.
They had gotten an urgent message from Kid saying that the disturbance that the students were investigating was a witch who was an every powerful time/dimensional witch who had killed the students by aging them and tuning them to dust. They needed back up and needed it ASAP.
"I am going as fast I can Spirit!" He hissed, "We headed out an hour before Sid and Nygus!"
"I know Stein but I have a bad feeling about this…"He said his voice laced with worry.
Stein could only give him a side glance as he increased his speed.
One by one the creatures fell to their deaths by Kid's hands leaving only a Kishin egg behind for Liz and Patty to consume and regain their strength .He placed his fingers on the closes one memorizing the contours of the egg his eyes were still glowing blue. "These are for you…Liz…Patty…" He said his voice filled with rich undertones, strong and proud unlike his own 'normal' voice.
"It seems it is just you and me young shinigami."The raspy vice of the witch became more soft and youthful.
He turned to find the witch who was dressed in a long black cloak which gave her body no form. Her skin was pale yet the old worn long wrinkles on her face began to lessen changing her into the picture of youth (no less then twenty five years of age) with the wind whipping her lavender hair into her face. Her soft pink lip stretched into a gentle smile.
"So it would seem ,witch." He hissed readying himself into a fighting stance.
"I would love to stay and fight with you young shinigami…however…" She raised her left hand and without a word opened a portal that lead to another place unknown to any but her. "I must be going…"
Kid growled. "No you are not!"He leaped towards the witch with lighting speed causing her to fall to the ground with Kid pinned on top of her. He spun both of the poison laced spikes pointed it at the witch's heart. "You with only be leaving as a soul!"
Meanwhile…
"Stein, look!"Spirit called his eyes widen with horror.
"What-"Stein stopped dead in his tracks. Spirit transformed back into his human form.
"Liz! Patty!"Spirit called to the unconscious girls.
"Death Scythe…Professor Stein…" Liz called weakly to the two teachers. Spirit lifted her up onto his lap her head resting on his shoulder.
"What happened?"Professor Stein asked the young girl.
She choked out a little blood before answering him. "T-the witch was very powerful…too powerful for us maybe." She took a shaky breathe in. "We were badly hurt but Kid refused to give up and-"
"Kid" Stein echoed, "Where's Kid."He looked around only to find reminisce of a battle field.
"H-he when after the witch." She grabbed the teacher's forearm. "Please make sure he doesn't get badly injured…I-I have a have a bad feeling…something bad is going to happen to Kid I just know it!"
Stein looked the girl straight in the eye she look frightened and desperate he had never seen her like this before. "I promise I will do everything in my power to help him."
"We both will." Spirit added as he glanced sideways at Stein.
"Thank you."She whispered before loosing consciousness again.
They stared at Liz for a moment longer before Stein reached for a small communicator in his ear to contact Sid and Nygus."Sid."
"Go."Sid called on the other line.
"Get here as fast as you can both Liz and Patty are in need of immediate medical attention."
"Where's Kid in all of this?" He asked with confusion lacing his voice.
"He when after the witch." He simple stated, "All I need you and Nygus to do is look after the Thompson sisters, we'll go after Kid and the witch. Got it?"
"Go it."With that the communication ended
"What he said, Sid?"Nygus asked from with her weapon.
"Liz and Patty need medical attention ASAP."
"Where's Kind."
"He when after the witch."
"By himself!"
"Yeah…"
"I don't like the sound of that." She said with worry.
Sid began to pick up speed as he ran towards the source of the communication.
"We have to getting going, Stein." Spirit said after placing Patty next to her sister both girls lying against a tree's truck.
"Right." He stretched out his hand for his weapon.
Spirit nodded transforming back into his weapon form, Stein spun him once before he began to run again leaving the girl with the knowledge that Sid and Nygus would be there soon.
"Funny how you are the one to kill me, after all your death will come soon after."The witch smiled knowingly
"What are you talking about?"Kid said gripping the spike in his raised hand tighter.
"I not only have the power to transcend time and space but I can predict the future of the person I choose." She smiled madly. "You face many trials in your future after the icy cold grip of death in this world takes you…
"What are you talking about?" He asked confused and angry.
She continued without answering his question. "I wonder…will you remain be the same shinigami you are or will the curse change you."With that she pulled Kid's raised hand down plunging the spike into her heart, supposedly killing her. Kid was stunned she would pull her arm down killing herself.
Soon after Stein and Spirit arrived to find the battle finished. Kid turned his head toward them his blue glowing eyes faded the line disconnected he smiled weakly at them and lifted to his feet the portal beside him still open. "You guys came a little too late to the battles over-"He fell to his knees weak from the lost of blood. The teachers ran towards the fallen meister, concerned for his wellbeing.
He raised his hand in a comforting gesture. "I'm alright…I'm alright." He whispered weakly.
Stein nodded and lit a cigarette. Blowing out the smoke he took off his white lab coat throwing it over him. "You did good Kid."
Kid smiled to himself. "Thank you."
Spirit whistled loudly at the scene before of him. "You killed all of these creature things and the witch by yourself." He said kicking the dead witch with the spike still in her chest assuming her abilities were slowing her body from becoming nothing more then a mere soul.
"Not all of them."He coughed. "Some of them were killed by Liz Patty and I before they got seriously hurt."
Spirit nodded them spun on his heels turning back to the witch not noticing the witch's hand begin to move. "What about that portal?"He asked pointing with his thump towards the swirling vertex.
Stein moved close to the portal until he was mere inches away. He lit another cigarette after he finished his last one and blow the smoke sideways not allow the smoke to fly into the entrance. "Not sure…we may have to perform some experiments to see what exactly this thing is."
"Damn."Spirit hissed kicking a rock close by. "I need to get back to the city to be with Maka." He whined "But if we do that we'll be here for who knows how long."
Stein tilted his head back giving the other a lazy look before smiling wide. "Actually I think she is pretty happy you're gone right now."
"Stein!" He began to whine, but Kid was not paying any mind to the argument anymore. He was frozen something wasn't right in the air. Slowly but surely he began to turn his head towards the direction of the 'dead' witch was to find the witch moving and pulling the spike out of her heart!
He gasped quietly; shocked the damned witch was still alive. In an instant Kid was on his feet, if he didn't do something now Spirit would be killed! "Look out!"He yelled.
Everything happened in an instant. He pushed Spirit out of the way and into Stein's arm. Both men didn't know what had happened before it was too late. "Kid!" Both men yelled but there was nothing they could do to stop the prophet of the witch.
The sound of blood being vomited out the young Shinigami's mouth was all too familiar. "Ah-ahh…"
"Maledicam te calamitate ... animus caligo oblitus illis clausulis ad vos ... immortalitatis factus luxatis, abiit a corpus numquam redire ... maledicam te in meum nomen et omnes veneficas!"She said with her dying breathe plunging the spike that once lay deep in her chest into Kid's abdomen. Kid screamed on the top of his lungs as he felt the dark magic move within his body. It was too powerful for the extremely weaken meister as he fell hitting the ground hard and laying in his own pool of blood.
"HA, HA, HA, HA, I have done it the son of Lord Death will now die by my hand!"
"Kid." Spirit called to the boy who saved his life. He was horrified and angry extremely angry. "Damn you witch." He growled transforming and landing perfectly in Stein's hand.
"You won't get away with this!" Stein finished. And with one flowed motion he slit the witch in haft leaving only her soul behind.
Uncaring about the witch's soul they turned their attention back to Kid who was becoming paler and colder by the second.
"What is happening to me?" Kid thought to himself. "My memories what are happening to them?"
All of the precious memories of his life began to fade at an alarming rate. Everyone and everything that had been part of his life was leaving him and there was nothing he could do about it. Was this what the witch was rumbling on about coming true?
"My…my heart it's slowing I can feel it…why, why is everything becoming blurry?" That is when it hit him…he Lord Death's son heir to the Death throne was dying.
He gritted his teeth and gripped the grass with fierce determination. No it won't end this way. His eyes shot towards the portal. "The portal is my only hope now…I know it."
"Kid, Kid can you hear me?"Stein asked.
"Stein he's getting colder we have to get him back to Sid and Nygus ASAP-"
Suddenly Kid stood gripping his midsection, his face contorted in pain. "No, no medical attention," He grunted, "I won't be needing it where I going." He mumbled the last part as he slowly made his way over to the portal.
"Kid, what are you doing?" Spirit asked as he watched Kid log his way toward the portal not knowing what he was about to do.
"Give Liz and Patty the Kishin eggs, split them evenly, and tell them I'm sorry…for not coming."He inched closer and closer towards the portal.
"Kid what are you…KID DON'T DO IT!"Stein yelled after realization set in. Kid was going to fall through the portal.
Kids slowly but surely turned his face drained of any color there once was his eye color began to dull, blood continued to spew from the wound, but a soft smile remained on his face. "That witch cursed me you know. I'm dying. I won't make it back no matter how much I want to. But I strongly believe this portal is my ticket to cheat." He laughed ironically, "to cheat death."
"Kid you're not in your right mind." Stein said slowly inching his way toward the seemingly gone mad meister. "If you just calm down and come with us we can got you the medical attention you needed."
But Kid wasn't listening. "Tell everyone I'm sorry for not coming back…tell father I'm so sorry for not being the son I could have been and that I love him…tell Liz and Patty the same thing."
"Kid, listen to us!" Spirit yelled. "Don't do something stupid, Kid are you listening? Are you going to ignore a direct order from a teacher? Kid!"
Again their orders fell on deaf ears as Kid pulled off the silver neck buckle skull and throw the emblem to their feel. "You can bury this in place of my body or keep it as a remembrance." He shrugged his shoulders carelessly. "I don't really care what you with is just remember me okay?"He tipped on his heels causing him to fall back into the swirling vortex.
"KID!"
He smiled softly and whispered "Good bye."
"No, Kid!"Spirit yelled sprinting towards the now imploding portal. If it wasn't for Stein tackling the red head he surely would have been killed by the final explosion of the portal. "Kid…"
Death the Kid son of Lord Death sole heir to the Death throne and beloved friend and meister too many was no more…
(Same time…Primary Earth. )
"So Alice…tell me again why we decided to go get junk food when we knew that the forecast said it looked like to be a cloudy humid day and now we are caught in a wicked bad storm?" Carter Life asked, his twin sister Tarah nodding in agreement.
Alice Inn huffed mumbling something inaudible before speaking louder. "It's not my fault the damn weatherman said the rain would fall until later to night."She picked up a stick close to her and began poking at a small stone in the middle of a forming puddle.
"Whatever…"He rolled is eyes. He knew it wasn't her fault but any chance to poke fun at his best friend (next to his sister of course) was funny to him.
"It's so hot."Tarah whined stretching the so and hot until it annoyed the other two.
"It's summer sis. What the hell do you think it would be? Cold?"
Oh yes it was summer. Hot, humid, wet, mosquito biting, summer. They had just finish a hellish first years of high school at St. Mary High School. Thankfully they all made out alive and could spend the summer in their abandon school bus out in the forest just watching anime, reading manga (when not reading summer reading books), mapping out cosplay for conventions and making CMVs. But it had been raining for two weeks straight since school ended and they had been sitting in Alice's home bored out if their minds. However now that the rain had stopped they thought it would be a good chance to go have some fun out at the school bus after buying the source of energy for all teenagers : junk food. But boy were they wrong to go to the convenient store before heading off to the bus because the rain started again soon after leaving said store.
(A/N: The name of the school is just a generic private high school if it is your high school's name… don't mean to be rude but its not. I am NOT basing it off of any High School it is just inspired by my elementary school that closed after 150 years soon after I graduated.)
Tarah's eyes brighten. Her eyes darted to one of two brown paper that sat next to her one was filled with chips and candy the other filled with Cola-Colas."Speaking of cold I'm gonna have me some Cola!"Her eyes became mad. She loved her Cola-Colas. She pulled out an ice cold cola and processed to opening the can.
"Oh! Hell no!" Her brother said pulling the can of soda away mere seconds before she could open in.
"Carter!"
"I said no! We don't need you on a sugar high out here in the rain. I can deal with your laughing fit when you have these highs but not your hyperness or rather when you're bouncing off the walls." His sister jumped for the can.
"Gimme me soda." She said in a three year olds voice. Luckily her brother was taller then she so he just lifted it up a little out of her reach.
He laughed. "No way!" Tarah began to jump furiously for the cola while Carter just switched hands when she got close to getting the bottle.
Alice laughed wildly at the scene before her with the twins following suit. Wanting to join in on the fun she grabbed the can from Carter hand. She was the same height as Tarah though she could jump a little higher then the other.
"Hey!" They said in union.
She lightly shook the can just enough to hear the liquid inside but not enough to cause the liquid inside to explode when opened. She smiled smugly. "Tell you what as much as I love seeing this I'm a good girl as you know and as such I'll give you the soda back Tarah."
Tarah throw up her hands smiling wide. "YAY!"
"But in one catch."Alice quickly added.
Tarah throw her hands down and hunched over pouting. "Ahhh."
Alice laughed. She loved her best friends little corks. "YOU HAVE TO CATCH ME FIRST!"She ran still under the shelter of tree that they found on the side of the road.
"Hey come back here!" She ran after her laughing.
"Don't forget about me guys!"Carter yelled trying to catch up to the other two.
They laughed and ran around the underbrush of tree that shielded them from the rain for a long time. Each time Tarah got close enough to the can of Cola-Cola Alice would pass it on to Carter as if they were playing football. The soda was getting warm and surely from all the shaking the soda had become explosive and flat. It didn't matter to them anymore at least their minds were off the sour weather and their ruined plans of going to the school bus.
Tarah, after many attempts finally caught the can. "Booyah Bitches! I caught the cola ca-"
Suddenly an inhuman moan filled the wet humid air. The three teens froze turning to the overgrown bushes behind them. "Carter…please tell me that was your stomach." Tarah whispered horrid.
"I thought that was your stomach."
The moan filled the air again this time sounding more human then before. Tarah scream running over to her brother and held onto him tightly both teens were shaking violently. "Monster!"
Alice crushed her brows, not at all afraid of the noise. "Wait guys no that's not a monster that sound like a human." She moved closer.
"What the hell are you doing?" Carter whispered angrily holding his sister furiously.
The girl fell onto her knees mindful of the possibility of poison ivy, trigs, thorns, and bugs as she when into the overgrowth. "Someone might be hurt in there we gotta go something."
It was in her nature to help if it was needed. Her mother was an ER doctor and her father was a field medic serving over seas at the moment. She was also the second oldest of four her older brother following in her father's military foot steps and when into the army and was serving long side her father so she had the responsibility of taking care of her younger siblings when her mother was still at work (today she had the day off). She was planning to become a doctor after high school just like her mother.
"Fine but don't come crying to me when there's a serial killer or escaped convict in those bushes." He called back to the girl.
Alice stopped mid-crawl and turned her head back to him giving him a look that said. "You're frikin' kidding me right?" He shut his mouth after that while she continued on her merry way.
As she crawled deeper into the brushes she found the area to be crushed flat before she even got there. "What the hell?" she whispered to herself. She shook it off maybe others were here before.
She kept her eyes opened for any sign of the source the sound. The moans had become quiet after a while and that made her worry. Either the source was moving way or something very wrong happened. She looked back behind herself finding she was farther then she thought she was but decided to venture a little farther before going back. That was when she found a bloody hand with a comical looking skull ring on it. "What!" She reeled.
"Alice what happened." Tarah called worried for her best friend.
"I'll tell you when I know myself."She called back as she stood to get a better view. What she found was very disturbing.
The boy in a black suit with white stripes who looked to be about her age was a bloody mess. He was spread-eagle. His midsection was bloody and looked to still have blood gushing out from it. His black hair was matted dirty and bloody. His face was unrecognizable riddled with bruises cuts and blood dripping out of his mouth. His breathing however was what worried her. He sounded like he was gasping for air it was raspy and coarse. He wasn't getting air in when he should have been if he didn't get medical attention now he would surely die.
Knowing this she ran as fast as she could back to the others who were waiting for her. "Carter, Tarah call 911!"
"What happened?" Tarah called back to Alice.
"A kid about our age looks to have been mugged and left for dead out in the forest. I have to go back to check on him just call the police NOW!"She ran back to the boy and just as she did the rain seem to pick up.
She slid on her knee cutting them badly but she didn't care one bit as she lifted the kid's head onto her knees and thighs. "Hey, hey kid are you alright can you hear me? Answer me if you can."
The boy moaned again and opened his eyes showing honey eyes that rapidly dulled into a dirty mustered. She gasped. "His eyes. What's happening to his eyes?" she thought franticly. That was when she noticed the white lines in his hair that were melting away by the rain. She whipped her fingers into the lines them rubbed them into her skin to see what is was. "Temporary hair dye?" she mumbled bewildered.
Her mumbling brought him out of his foggy haze. He stared up and passed Alice looking into the gray rainy sky. "Liz…Patty…I'm sorry…" He closed his eyes again his breathing slightly slowed.
Alice stared at the boy with confusion. "Who are Liz and Patty?" It seemed that Carter and Tarah were listening to her for she heard police and ambulance cars in the distance.
She shook the boy lightly just enough to make him open his eyes again they were cloudy this time. "Don't you dare close your eyes on me now! The ambulance is almost here all you have to do is keep those eyes open okay."
He seemed to understand as he tried to keep his eyes open. "Hey can you tell me what you name is?"
His eyes darted to her and stared credulously. "I…I…"He wasn't able to answer when she heard EMTs speaking with the twins.
"Who's injured?"
"A kid in there, our friend Alice Inn is in there with the boy right now."
"Thank you."She could hear them running in the bushes.
"EMT tell me if you can hear me."
"Over here!"She called back, no sooner did you speak did they found her and the bloody boy.
"What happened?" The EMT asked.
"I-I don't know Carter, Tarah and I were just fooling around out by the dirt road there when we heard a wicked bad moan I came in to find this boy here and then we called the police."
He placed his hand on her shoulder and looked her in the eyes. "You three did good."
She smiled. "Thank you."
After that they braced the boy steady and placed a hand powered oxygen mask over his mouth and nose, his shirt was ripped open to find what appeared to be a stab wound that they placed gauzes on it and then a heart meteor on him. They lifted him up and out of the bushes after that. By that time her mother and Carter and Tarah's parents arrived everything was already explained to them.
"Mom." She called running over to her and hugged her.
"Oh, me linda, I'm glad it wasn't you." Alice mother Maria said whispering a deluded Spanish prayer into her ear. (Her mother was Hispanic and her father was all American).
In response she gripped her mother's t-shirt that had the lovely sent of roses from the perfume that her father had sent to her from over seas. However her eyes darted back to the caravan of EMTs that surrounded the boy. "What about him, mama? Will he be okay?"
Maria stared back to the ambulance as it as it drove away. She squinted her eyes as she tried to read the name of the hospital it was from. It was heading to the hospital that she worked at. "I don't know my love but I do know that the EMTs are taking him to the hospital I work at."
She pulled away from her mother with wide tearful eyes. "Can we go be by his side mama?"
Maria pulled her daughter back kissing her on top her head. "Of course me linda of course."
BEEP…BEEP…BEEP…
The constant beeping of the heart meteor was her only companion in the late midnight early morning. About an hour and haft ago Carter and Tarah had gone home and her mother had another hour to work before she could clock out. A baby sitter was watching the younger children back home.
It had been two weeks since the incident and boy had been taken out of the ICU four days ago which surprised most. Nevertheless they were happy that Stripes as they came to call the boy impart of the stripes that once dyed his hair, he was out of the ICU so quickly giving everyone hope that he would make a speedy recovery.
However Stripes was still a child and as such they had sent out an AMBER alert and many asked police officers to somehow find the boy's parents. No one came to claim him. Alice felt sorry for the boy and asked both her parents (her father was on video chat at the time) if they could take boy in. She hadn't received an answer yet. But before they could even think of bring the child in they had to discuss the issue of why the boy was left for dead in the forest. The police had spoken to Tarah, Carter and Alice to see if they knew anything but of course they didn't. The only one who may know what happened was still unconscious.
She signed placing her elbow on her knees then her chin on the hand. "Please wake up." she whispered sleepily.
As if he was listening to what she said the boy began to stir in his sleep. She gasped and ran out of the room to find help. "Nurse, nurse!" She called.
A young woman no older then twenty-five in scrubs turned back to the wayward girl. "Can I help you miss?"
After catching her breath she spoke. "The…boy…in the room…is waking up."
"Oh, thank you."She left to find the doctor who had the boy's case. About two minutes later a doctor flanked by a small army of nurses descended on the small room leaving Alice to wait in the hall as they did their work.
Where am I? Who am I?...I don't understand.
The boy opened his eyes to find many people unrecognizable to him walk into the room to examine him. "Hey there son…do you know where you are?" The doctor asked.
"N-no…"He said confused.
The doctor lifted his hands in a comforting gesture. "No need to worry. You're in the hospital."
"O-okay."
The doctor took a small flash light to his eyes to check for any sign that could be dangerous to the boy's health. "Can you tell me your name?"
"Name?" The teen crushed his brow together confused even more them he already was. "What is that?"
The doctor and nurses paused each giving the other a shocked look before the doctor signed. "Amnesia."He simply stated.
Alice gasped after hearing what was has in the room. "Poor kid he has no memory."
The doctor or nurses didn't speak much to him after that only to ask him simple questions or to do something for them like to moving his toes. But he wasn't paying any mind to that. He was still very confused.
What is going on? I don't understand? All of my memories…they're gone?
He tried to picture what his life was like. The images that did come into his mind were fogy and distorted. Nothing made sense.
What's my name? I don't…wait! I think I remember something! A word or name maybe? Kid. No some things missing…Death? But is that my name…Kid Death? No… that's not the right order…maybe…I don't know!
The doctors and army of nurses left soon after giving the waiting girl a warning to not push the boy he was still in a very fragile state because of his memory lose. She undersood. She gingerly knocked on the door. The boy didn't seem to hear as he continued to stare blankly at the wall in front of him.
"Hey here." She said pulling the chair she once sat in closer to the bed and grabbed his hand. She was surprised that his hands were so callous but to him the touch of another human other then a doctor was ever comforting.
"Do I know you?" He asked.
She smiled and shook her head. "No."
"Oh."
"But my friends and I were the ones who found you two weeks ago."
"I've been out for two weeks!" He said surprised.
She nodded slowly. "My name is Alice Inn by the way…what's yours" She bit her lower lip. She wasn't supposes to overexert him.
He looked down at the bed sheets removing his hand from hers and gripped the covers. "I-I think I know but I'm not sure if it's my name or if it's someone else or if I'm making it up."
She bit the lip a little harder. "How about you tell me it and if we like it it'll be your name. Okay?"
He seemed to ponder this for some time before he nodded. "Okay."
She smiled and stretched out her hand. "Hi my name is Alice Inn. What's yours?"
He smiled softly accepting the hand shake. "Kid…Kid Death."
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Ahhh…"Kid awoke from the hellish dream in a cold sweat. "Just a dream…or memory."
Kid Death had been having these recurring dreams ever since being discharged from the hospital last summer; it was the middle of sophomore year in an ever unseasonably warm winter. The dreams came few and far between but it was hard to detect when the nest one would occur.
"Kid, sweetheart, it's time to get up or you'll be late for school!"Maria called from the bottom of the step of the colonial home.
"Okay mom I'll be right down." He called back sleepily. Soon after being discharged from the hospital Maria and Kyle (Alice's father) afford Kid to stay with them. Not wanting to go into foster care he accepted their offer graciously. Since that day Kid had come to call Alice's parents his own.
After turning off the alarm clock he slip his hand over his face tiredly not knowing Alice had placed a grease like mixture of it to sack revenge for him pranking her by reorganizing her manga collection. His feet hit the cold hard wood floor sending shivers down his spine. "I hate winter." He mumbled to himself as he entered the adjacent to his bedroom.
Soon in the bathroom notice the grease now blackening him face. "ALICE!"
From down stairs Alice sat at the dinning room table with her little sister Sophia, little brother Mikey her older brother Chris (who had returned home soon after Kid moved in), Maria who was cooking tonight's dinner of later since she would be at work at the time and Kyle who had returned him two weeks after Chris and Kid came home.
Kyle turned his head towards his daughter who was now sipping her orange juice happily. "Do I even want to know?"
She smiled madly. "Nope."
After washing the substance off his face and brushed his teeth he proceed to his dresser which was very much organized just like his room and pulled out a graphic tee designed to resemble the top haft of a tux, black skinny jeans, red suspenders that would lay undone on his body, and a hoodie when zippered all the way reveal a skull design. From the nightstand he pulled out prescription glasses that were red and 'nerd' looking as Alice called them but they were perfect for Kid and the skull rings that were on him at the time of his accident. "Hopeful these will keep me warm for the field trip to Boston today." He bit his lip he really hated the cold the hotter the better for him.
After perfectly a lining the clothes in the way he would ware it on his body he precede to taking of the muscle tee he all ways wore to go to sleep. He signed after the tee was off as his eyes glanced at the mirror that faced him. His slightly ripped torso was riddled in scars and skin graphs. He hated those scars with a passion. They always reminded him he had no past. The vague memories filled his mind with the people and things that were nothing more then shadow that were mostly part of his life once now haunted him every time he stared at the scars giving him a headache.
Whipping his head away before the headache could appear he change into his day clothing. After dressing he headed down stairs to find Alice eating buttered toast. She smiled widely as Kid entered the kitchen. Kid glared deadly at her. "Oh thank you, Alice for the lovely present this morning."
"Thought you would like. That's what you get for messing up my manga collection."
"Messing up?"He echoed raising an eye brow. "I was merely organizing the mess." He said dully.
"It was already organized."
"Hum. Yeah right you just keep telling yourself that."He when to the fridge and grabbed two Eggos placing them in the toaster. "Anyways it wouldn't matter for as the saying goes 'Karma's a Bitch'."
"Fuck you."
"Language!" Kyle and Maria said in union.
"Sorry." The teens called back.
After a minute the Eggos popped up and were eaten and they were out the door with twenty dollars each for food in Boston. "You better not stop to stare at something symmetrical, Kid; you know what Sister M said about being late today."
"That we wouldn't be going." He said dully. Almost every other day they would be late to school because of Kid and his OCD obsession of certain thing on the way to school. They had served about fourteen detention because of his refusal to leave the site of beautiful symmetry or him organizing the thing into perfect symmetry and the admiring his work.
"Yeah and I really want to go to Boston so you better not fucking stop that skateboard of your." She said clipping her helmet and placing her roller-skates on her feet.
"Whatever." He said rolling his eyes getting the skateboard that was designed with a skull on the bottom out of the closet in at the entrance of the home. Kid was a natural on the skate board and many believed he might have been an avid skateboarder in his forgotten past but there was no way to be sure.
"No whatever me! I mean it Kid Death!" She hissed rolling out the door.
"Hey wait for me!" He yelled jumping on the board trying to catch up to her.
Alice and Kid lived a good distance from anything making them get up an hour before the sun rose to make it in time for the first bell. Because they lived so far and in a huge house many believed her family was swimming in money despite the economy being so bad but that was far from the truth. Her father inherited the home mortgage pay in full by his descended uncle. Because of that they were able to focus on more important things.
It took about a haft an hour to get to the school by then it was about 7: 15 they would have gotten there quicker if Alice hadn't have to remind Kid not to stop. By that time the students were lining up on the side of the school waiting for the school bus.
"Come on Kid everyone's already outside!" Alice said going into the school to place her skates inside her locker Kid being not too far behind.
The school wasn't very large it was a moderate sized shool whose teachers gave you the one on one attention you needed to get better in school. That and the fact the classes were small to begin with seeing as the school once an all girls school opened its doors to bos about two years ago. In that type of school you would be able to know your classmates man when their was only twenty kids in your class.
"I'm right behind you."
Once the skateboard and skates were placed in the lockers of Alice and Kid they ran back outside just as the teacher of the science class and Kid, Alice, Tarah and Carter homeroom teacher Sister M began to check her attendance.
Carter whistled. "Cutting it a little closes there you two." He asked the two who were trying to catch their breathe hands on knees.
"You…have…no idea."They said in union smiling.
"Kid Death!" The teacher called.
"Present!"
Tarah smiled. "Well at least you are here on time for once and Carter."Tarah placed her hand out in front of her brother. "You owe me five dollars."
He growled pulling out a crisp five dollar bill and forcefully placing it in her hands.
"You…were…betting on us!" Alice yelled.
"Yes." They simply said.
"Alice Inn."
"Here "She turned her glance from the teacher to the twins. "I fucking hate you two." She smiled knowing they wouldn't take it seriously.
"We know."
"Carter Life and Tarah Life."
"Here."
"Present."
The teacher Sister M closed her attendance book the sound made all the students stand at attention in fear of her. She smiled to some it reminded them if a snake. "Just the way I like it." She thought.
"Alright now that I know you all are here I have some ground rules for you that I expect all of you to follow." Her deadly glance made all the students glap in fear. "1. I want all of you to pay attention to what the tour guide says on the Freedom Trail...I might not be the history teacher but I can still hand out detentions for disobedience. 2. I do NOT want anyone wondering off during the tour. I will not go looking for you. And 3. No texting, no playing music or any type of technology besides a camera that I have approved of will you be allowed to use on the tour. I don't care if you use it on the bus or after the tour but if I find it out I will take it away and you will not get it back until the end of the school year…That means at the end of Finals. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes Sister M."
"Alright everyone on the bus!"
The four looked at each other with once thought in mind: get to the far back ASAP!
Smiling Alice and Kid being the quickest of the four rushed to the front of the students and reached the entrance in record time just to be stop by a long slander arm blocking their way. "I'm glad to see that you two made it on time." Sister M smiled.
Sister M otherwise know as Sister Madeline Medusa was a young who loved teaching just as much as she loved God. She was the science teacher at the school though today she would be playing the role of chaperon since the hostory teacher had to leave on short notice because of a family emergence. (She would much rather be staying her grading science papers). She had blonde that was tied in front of her face in such a way that the brades joined twisting into one brade that laid in front of her chest. On her arm was a strand birth mark that was made of dots if one looked closely (without catching her attention) could let it formed into a snake.
"See what you can do when you are not late." She lifted her hand away from the door. "You can do nice things."
"Oh yes Sister M! We understand now." Kid said credulously.
"I am every happy to hear that…I do expect you be on time from now on." She smiled knowingly.
"Oh yes ma'am from now on we will try our best to be on time." Alice said slowly as if she was a young child trying to understand what a teacher was asking her to do. This in some ways is exactly what was happening now.
Knowing Alice was just being a smartass her friends tried to stiffen a laugh that was caught in their throats.
The teacher shot them down with a glance. "Are you being smart with me?"
"No ma'am." She smiled
Finding no evidence she was lying she allowed them onto the bus where they broke to in a fit of laugher. "Man that was good."Carter laughed whipping tears from his eyes.
"You're telling me! She's a natural when it comes to being a smartass and getting away with it I should know I live with her!" Kid laughed.
"I would bet!" Tarah yelled.
Before taking her seat at the very back she bowed to her admirers relishing in the moment. "Thank you. Thank you I will be here all week!"
They all laughed harder.
A/N: Tell me what you think about the story so far If you didn't like it don't worry it gets better but please no flames thank you.