Albarn against Law part 1
It is morning once again over death city and now when the battle operation in Baba Yaga castle was over, I thought things would turn back into normal but I was so wrong. The kishin Asura is still out there somewhere and now when BJ is dead. I'm the one with the strongest soul perception ability.
''Maka! Come on! Stein is waiting for you,'' Soul, my weapon partner, yelled as he knocked on my door. Things had been very awkward since Stein had figured out I'm half weapon. He had taken a blood test and then detected the weapon blood in my blood. Of course, it had been difficult to find it, but he had found it. That left me with two choices, one, ignore the weapon blood coursing through my veins or two, embrace it and try to use it if something ever happened to Soul and I had to fight by myself. Since I was the weakest meister in my team, I felt like this is something I have to do to not slow down the team. Soul had been upset and it had been very tense between us.
Groaning, I got up from the bed and I grabbed a checkered black and white skirt, a white dress shirt with a black tie and a cardigan with the lord death emblem on. Quickly getting dressed and put my hair into my usual pigtails, I got out of my room and was met with Soul. He wore his usual grey pants, a black leather jacket and an orange shirt. He didn't wear his black headband anymore.
''Yea, I know,'' I looked down at the floor boards in shame. Soul must feel betray now when I train with Stein to control my weapon blood. I can already make scythes come out from my limbs, but fighting with them is a completely different thing. It is much harder to fight with them than with Soul.
''Soul… I'm sorry for choosing what I chose… but… I'm just so weak. I don't want to be left behind Kid and Black*Star!'' My voice rose as I talked and at the end, I exclaimed at him.
''Fool. You aren't weak,'' Soul said as he turned his back toward me, ''you have never been weak, Maka. You may not have raw power like Black*Star or Kid's reaper blood, but you have something they do not possess in the length that you have. You are strong in your own way.'' His voice was rough like the pre-kishin Jack The Ripper but at the same time he purred like a kitten.
He left the apartment and I was alone. I hated how things were between us now. Soul has always been the one person I trust the most. He is the one that is always there for me no matter what and now over the years we have been partners, I want to be more. I can't control my feelings I'm feeling for my albino partner. It just happened, I fell in love with my weapon partner and that is why I hate how things are between us. I know I can't confess to him since it would ruin our partnership, but I can't just ignore my feelings for him.
Looking down at the ground, my heart was heavy as a stone. I clenched my hands as my eyes grew watery. ''Soul… I'm sorry.'' I need to get a grip on myself. I'm late to my practice with Stein.
Taking deep breathes. I tried to ignore the lump in my throat as I left the apartment but it was hard. Soul is the only one I can trust with my life. He saved me countless of times but the time when he jumped in front of me to save me from Chrona, that is the worst. I can't change what happened that night but if I could, I would have never have opened the door.
Slowly, my feet dragging on the asphalt, I arrived at the spot Stein and I trained at. It was by a meadow with beautiful daisies and other wild flowers scattered everywhere which spread lovely colors on the green grass. Stein stood on the meadow and smoking as usual, looking spaced out.
''You are late,'' he said as he took a drag from the cigarette. Obviously he wasn't as spaced out as I thought he was.
''I'm sorry. I overslept!'' I apologized. Bowing quickly as Stein put out is cigarette and threw it away somewhere in the meadow. That is too shame since this place is really beautiful.
''Shall we get started?'' He asked as he screwed his screw which went right through his head.
I nodded as I sprout scythe blades from my arms and legs. Stein's face twisted with madness.
''Bring it on, I will dissect you.'' When Stein turned mad like that, it always seemed to scare me, but I had to pull through and not let fear beat me.
Slowly running toward Stein clumsily, since I didn't really know how to move with these blades. I swung my arm, trying to get him with the blade but he just easily dodged it with his head.
''You are too slow. Stop thinking about the blades, they are a part of your body and parts of your body won't hurt you unconsciously,'' Stein said calmly as he continued to dodge all my attacks at him.
He sighs as he grabbed one of my pigtails and flipped me around like he had done when we had first fought him. He held me close to him and I could feel his hot breath hitting my left ear.
''You are too slow, Maka. Stop using your brain and use your instincts instead,'' his grip around my pigtail tighten and it felt like he was going to rip it off my head. Letting out a scream, Stein rolled his eyes and pushed me to the ground. ''If you would have used your instincts instead of your head, maybe you would have made a blade go through my torso.''
Fortunate for me, I managed to catch myself before I crashed down on the meadow. ''You need blood lust Maka. Anger, make yourself angry and you won't be using your brain. I have seen you angry and you aren't thinking then. Get yourself angry Maka!'' He scolded at me. It was terrifying seeing Stein scream at me but I knew it was for the best.
I was lying on the ground as Stein's eyes blazed with anger and disappointment at me. ''You have a strong soul perception and now when BJ out of the way, people will hunt you down and if you don't improve, you will die.'' He said harshly to me as his eyes didn't move, they were glued to me. ''You are our only hope at finding the kishin but you can't find him if you get killed in a fight. It is time you stop being a control maniac and let lose.'' Stein growled as he turned on his heel as his white lab coat swished by the sudden turn. ''Practice is over. Don't get yourself killed.''
I continued to lay down in the grass as I watched Stein angrily walk away. I just couldn't understand why I couldn't do this. I am a scythe meister but I can't use my own blades. Is there something wrong with me? No, I'm just new to this, I have to practice more until I can get this but why did Stein think I needed bloodlust and anger so much? How would I accomplish by finding that? I know I have a short-temper but it is nothing like the anger Stein want to see in me. Somehow I will have to use anger to block my own thoughts and go by my own instincts, but if I go on my own instincts I could become easily reckless. Wasn't that one of the academy's teachings? Not to become reckless in a battle?
Sighing I stood up from the ground and brushed away the dirt from my skirt. I will have to clear my mind on this one. Maybe I should find Soul and try to talk to him. I don't like the way we parted this morning and I hate being on wrong terms with Soul. After all, we wouldn't want our soul wavelength to be out of sync because Soul will always be my first choice of weapon. I would only use myself if I had to.
I walked away from the meadow as I head toward I don't really know. I had no idea where Soul was so I would have to use my soul perception to find him. Taking a deep breath and stopping dead in my tacks, I was ready to use my soul perception as everything became black and I could see all the different kinds of souls around me.
''Hi Maka!''
I was interrupted by a familiar voice of one of my friends. My soul perception had stopped before I found Soul and I opened my eyes to see Patty and Liz inside of the basketball court. Patty and Liz smiled happily at me as they waved. I returned the smile and waved back, heading toward my friends.
''Hi Maka, can we talk to you for a sec?'' Liz asked as she took a seat on the bench. I nodded as I took a seat beside Liz as Patty took the other seat beside her big sister. They both wore the same attire like me, white and black checkered skirt with a cardigan with the Lord Death's emblem on.
''You see, things went bad at Baba Yaga castle,'' Liz said as she started to fill me in on details like Mosquito and how he had died to this figure who called himself Noah and how he had been trapped and left behind. ''He said he wanted to collect him since he is a reaper.'' She finished her story.
I made a thinking face as I looked at Liz, ''So Kid was trapped inside of the book?''
''Yeah,'' Liz replied coldly but I could see she was hurt by the memory of it.
''It went like ''RAAAAAGHH'' and stuff,'' Patty said happily but she didn't say it like her old self. Sure, if you didn't know her you would have said she acted like always but the spark in her childish behavior was just not there.
''I'm pretty sure he called it ''the book of Eibon'''' Liz said and I froze. I had stumbled onto that name before. I had once checked it out from the library using my father's card and only left the signature M, but was that book so special you could suck in things and people in it? It didn't seem like it.
''Since you are big on books we thought you might know something about it,'' Patty said as she looked at me for once actually serious. I wasn't sure if the book I had stumbled over and the book this Noah man had any connection to one another, but I couldn't give the sisters false hope if it was just a regular copy, right?
''Well… I'm not sure,'' I said sincere since I wasn't actually sure. It was better to save this information for later.
''Awww, well that is not use,'' Patty said as she stood up and walked in front of me. Her face was close to mine as she looked at me suspicious. Could they have figured it out I was holding information from them? ''So how is things with Soul going?'' Patty asked and I almost jumped off the bench from the sudden question.
My cheeks heated up as I grind my knees together skittishly, ''well, um, it could be better.'' I tried to avoid Patty's blazing sapphires eyes but they were glued to my emerald ones.
''That is too bad. Ever since you found out you were a weapon too you have been slowly flouting away from each other,'' Patty pointed out facts as Liz looked at me and Patty. Patty straightens her back as she stepped away from me a little.
''Patty is right; you and Soul are like epic. Your soul connections run so deep you can't go on without crushing on each other. I just know he likes you back,'' Liz said as she smiled at me. My cheeks were heated and I could feel how they pounded from the heat. ''you know what. You should go to him right now and confess. I know I saw him at the school so I think he paid Black*Star a visit.'' My heart beat fast and hard at Liz's words. I knew I had to confess sooner or later but I had hoped on the later but when Liz gets and idea in her head she won't stop until it is done.
I took a deep breath, ''Fine, I will talk to him but I won't promise any confession from me.'' I said as I got up from the bench and started to head toward the school. Now when I -sort of- knew where Soul would be at I wouldn't need to use my soul perception so I continued to walk toward the growing building.
Liz's words rang still through my mind about confessing my feelings but what if he doesn't feel the same? I would be heart broken.
I arrived at the stone stair up toward the school and I started to ascend the steps.
But if Soul liked me, he would become my boyfriend and just think about the connection we would have to one another. Soul would love me, his meister, the one with zero boobs and childish pigtails. But then again, how could he love me? I am a poor meister, an unattractive girl and just utterly boring. No one looked at me with that spark of love in their eyes except papa, but him I didn't want to feel it from. He cheated on mama and lied right up to his face. He will never change; he will always be a cheating lying pig.
I was almost at the top of the stairway when my eyes widen and my heart broke. At the entrance of the school, I saw Soul making out with none the less than our cat Blair. The heat in my cheeks had instantly drained and my eyes got watery. My limbs grew weak but I forced myself to not fall. It was too much seeing my weapon and love kissing someone else and I did the only thing that got in my mind. I quickly turned around and ran down the stairs.
I didn't bother with being quiet. My steps echoed what felt over the whole Death City as my tears colored the steps. The wind blew in my hair as I ran as fast as I could.
''Maka How did it-'' I caught a brief look from the Thompson sisters as I continued to run away. It was too hard. My heart ached with pain as my legs were exhausted from the heartbreak. I wanted to give in and just fall to the ground and cry out my pain but I couldn't. I couldn't break out crying here of all places. I have to get to a silent and calm place.
My feet continued to hit the ground as I pushed myself to run faster. I ran through alley ways and other ways to lose anyone who were fallowing me. I had unconsciously run out of Death City and I saw Doctor Stein and Miss Marie, facing Justin Law. Justin Law had come and saved Soul, Chrona and me from Giriko and the golem but something was strange with him. On his sleeves were the three eyes of madness, the symbol of the kishin and around his neck was one of the kishin eyes. His headphone weren't designed after Lord Death's mask but was now the one of the madness symbol. Something had changed him, he used to be the number one Lord Death fan but now he had turned his back on the academy and joined the kishin. Was he the one who had killed BJ? It is possible since he is obviously the enemy now.
''You got some nerve to strolling back to Death City like this,'' Stein said as I watched his back. His word practically dripped poison was he stared at the once allay. ''What are you after?'' He growled as Miss Marie stared at Justin. No one of them had seemed to notice my soul or presence yet.
''Maka Albarn?'' Stein asked and my eyes widen as I looked at Justin's smile. It was like he was amused that he managed to guess right. Somehow, just looking at Justin's smile, something inside of me just twisted. The pain and sorrow was shortly turned into anger and hatred toward the priest. My pain form the heartbreak had turned to burning hatred. Stein had warned me for this man. He knew he would come for me and my soul perception but now he was going to step up and defend me from my foes. I couldn't let this happen. I have lost my weapon anyway now, there is no way we can sync soul wavelength ever again. It is over between Soul and I and it is time for me to step up and fight my own battles even if that means I will die in the hands of this man.
Without as much of a thought more, I ran up to Stein and Miss Marie and quickly knocked them out. They feel to the ground and Justin's facial expression went from one of mocking amusement to one of cheer shock and then into a maddening grin.
''Hello Maka, I have want to see you again,'' Justin greeted as he showed off his teeth in a mocking grin.