Greetings dear Reader!
I got the idea of this story while reading a side chapter of Kaichou Wa Maid Sama (yeah, I know my brain makes crazy connections sometimes…). Anyways, I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it (even if this is just the prologue).
Disclaimer : I do not own Soul Eater
Maka
When I was younger, before Papa came back drunk every night wearing another woman's perfume, Mama would tell me bedtime stories. One of them was about a demon that had befriended a little human girl. At first he just thought of her as a past time, she made his long and dull life interesting, so until he got bored with her, he decided to keep her around.
This softhearted demon possessed 3 magical items that made him to be the strongest demon around. These items were a silk scarf that protected him from all harm, a book that could answer any questions, and his immortal heart.
One very cold winter the little girl fell really sick. There had been a plague going around the village; it wasn't deadly for the grown-ups, but the children would usually get terrible fevers and not make it through the night. Not wanting to lose the source of his distraction so early, the demon gave the little girl his scarf so that she'd never fall ill again.
A few years later, the demon and the girl were still very close friends, but the demon had his domain to rule over, so he didn't have as much time to play with her as when she was younger. One summer evening, after playing hide-and-go-seek with the demon, said demon had to go back to his castle and attend to some urgent demon business. Curious, and having never visited her friend's house, the girl decided to follow him.
To get to the demon's castle you had to go through a cursed forest, but she told herself that as long has she stayed far enough so that she wouldn't be spotted, but close enough as to not lose him, she would end up at his castle in no time.
As the sun began to sink under the horizon, she had trouble seeing were she was going and ended up getting lost. By sundown the villagers started yelling through the forest, looking for the girl that hadn't return home for diner. Alarmed by the ruckus going on in the forest, the demon went to see what was amiss. After a very long night of searching, just as the sun was rising once again, the demon found his friend and gave her his magic book so that if she ever got lost, she could ask the book to show her the way back home.
As the years passed, the girl became a beautiful young woman, and she and the demon became really close. Unfortunately, with her being a human and him a demon, they never told each other that they had fallen in love with one another. Meanwhile, her parents decided that she was of age to find and marry a suitable gentleman, so they decided to send her to the city to meet with respectable suitors.
Without saying goodbye to her very dear friend, she left for the city the very next day. On the way there, her carriage crossed an old bridge that broke under the weight of the horses and fell into the river. When the demon heard that the girl had drowned, he rushed to her side and gave her half of his immortal heart to bring her back to him. Once the demon had given her is last treasure, she knew that she was as much his that he was hers. And up to this day demons would have to give all 3 of their hearts to belong to their soul mates.
But that was just a fairytale... right?
I got a comment saying that the Prologue was 'an unique one-shot fanfiction'. It actually made me (very) happy to know that people liked the fairy tale even if I never intended to make a SoMa DemonxHuman story (and I personally think it was rushed, but that was the point since it was just to get into the story). So I decided to go more into details; if ever you are interested in reading the full fairytale version of The 3 Hearts of a demon, you can now go check it out : Soul's 3 Hearts