With her weapon in hand, Maka Albarn Agilely swung one long, powerful, and fluid motion at the witch who had ducked just in the nick of time.
"You cannot hit me stupid girl!" Maka stood with her weapon over her back.
"One of us is going to be successful." She replied.
"Ha ha ha and you think it will be you, that is cute." The witch Glenn cackled. Anger steamed through Maka's veins. She hated it when her enemies doubted her strength, yet she sort of relied on it.
"Maka." Soul/her weapon spoke to her "Stop losing your cool over her stupid attempts to bait you. Just get the job done so we can go home." Listening to his words Maka inhaled and exhaled. "Right!" Glenn hovered barefoot on the ground, the element she controlled was the wind so she effortlessly stayed in midair. Glenn flipped back her red hood with large fox like ears on top. She also wore a red orange dress (with gold accents) that attached itself to the hood, and wore white tights underneath. Maka got into stance, ready to begin the charge and attack.
"I hope you are hungry Soul!" Maka shouted as she ran full speed at Glenn who only laughed and pointed a long black painted nail at Maka. "Come and get it." She said aloud. With some circular motions of her hands wind accumulated into a powerful burst of air. Glenn's long, curly, crimson hair blew back over her shoulders like flames. Maka, with all her strength sliced through the air with henry, the curve of the scythe was in perfect alignment with Glenn's body. If Maka had a moment to think she would probably wonder why Glenn was looking at her with sinister confidence.
As the scythe came within distance Glenn thrusted her palms forward causing a mini tornado to hit Maka and Soul dead on. Maka was blown back thirty feet and Soul was knocked out of her hands and flung ten feet from where Maka had fallen. After tumbling to a stop, Maka gave herself a few seconds for the stars dancing in front of her eyes to disappear. Soul, still in weapon form at the moment bounced once, twice, three times before he was knocked back into his flesh form. Eyes wide he jumped up and ran to his meister.
"Are you alright!" He called out to her helping her to her feet.
"y-yeah" Maka said with her free arm cupping her head.
"Approaching her head on is not going to work." Soul pointed out.
"How else can we?" Wicked laughter echoed over to them. Glenn with her head thrown back was laughing it up. Maka growled.
"Focus Maka." Soul snapped.
"Right…" How can we get past her winds? Maka thought to herself. "I got it!"
"What is your plan?" Soul asked.
"Okay, she always waits until I am in range before she throws wind at us so that will get me close, and then when it is thrown I will slide underneath and slice her open releasing her soul. Thus you consume it and we go down in history!" "Let's do it.". "Soul resonance!" They shouted together.
The duo recieved the same power up feeling that was familiar to them as they had resonated hundreds of times in the past. Glenn closely watched the entire thing and got ready with an even stronger tornado.
"Here we gooooo! Maka charged.
"Ha ha ha! Are you really trying again? Fool!" Maka was fifteen feet away when Glenn released the tornado.
"Ahh! Maka cried sliding across the ground, her right leg in the lead and her knee dragging painfully across the ground. She swung Soul around slicing cleanly through Glenn, who was taken by surprise. Glenn turned to dust and scattered across the grounds. Her soul was all that remained. Red-orange and flickering slightly.
Maka tried to stand but a sharp pain shocked her body. Looking down at her knee she saw that it was scrapped badly and oozing blood.
"Maka!" Soul said turning back into his human form.
"Ah! It just stings, that's all." Maka reassured him. Maka sat back on the ground and flicked off a small pebble lodged into her flesh. She gritted her teeth to stop from screaming. Soul looked at her with concern.
"You will be alright but, we need to stop the bleeding. Soul removed his head band and offered it to Maka. Maka looked him in his crimson eyes.
"That is your favorite head band!"
"Your wound takes priority Maka, here." Henry knelt down at the end of Maka's feet and carefully inclined her leg as he looped Maka's foot inside the plush head band and slid it all the way up to her knee where the wound was the worst. It was much too loose so he gently tied a knot in it.
"Come on I have a soul to eat." Soul said helping Maka to her feet. While supporting Maka he eagerly crossed the distance to the delicious looking soul that he had been dreaming of so he could finally fulfill his destiny. Finally Soul could become a death scythe. He made sure that Maka was stable "Go on Soul, you deserve it!" She smiled. Soul could not help but to smile a little bit. He reached out his hand to grab the soul. The soul did not feel like any soul he had held before. It was as cold as the night air, when it should have been as warm as the summer sun beaming on to your upheld face. For the soul of a witch…it felt powerless, almost like he was holding nothing at all. Soul shrugged and proceeded to swallow the soul whole as he preferred always to do. In midair the soul flickered and died."
"What?" They both said at once.
"Ha ha ha, As if I could possibly be easily be beaten!" A voice yelled from afar. Looking up Soul and Maka spotted Glenn many feet off the ground perched on her broom stick. "No!" Maka cried.
"Go on, eat it!" Glenn mocked. "You deserve it! Ah ha ha! It was only a projection of myself, idiot! You have failed!"
"I am not done yet!" Maka called out grabbing Soul by the arm, two seconds passed and Maka was wondering why he had not changed into a weapon yet.
"What are you doi-?"
"Maka, you are hurt, we cannot win this time." Soul interrupted.
"Nonsense, I can pull through it." Soul shook his head.
"No, we need to treat your wound."
"It is taken care of." Maka hissed. She looked down at her leg and was shocked to see that Soul's headband had reached its capacity with her blood. She felt woozy but refused to show it. "We are too close to retreat." She said stubbornly.
They both looked each evenly in the eye, emerald battling crimson.
"Are you both going to stand there all day? I am getting bored!" Glenn said inspecting her claws.
"I want to end her!" Maka told Soul.
"Another. Day." Soul said in an icy voice.
Maka stamped her foot and nearly black out from the pain shooting up her leg. Her cry pierced the forest surrounding them. Looking down at her throbbing foot, Maka saw that it was swollen twice its normal size. She must have twisted it when she slid across the ground and not noticed because of the pain her knee gave off.
"See, you cannot do it today."
"I can do it Soul! Stop holding us back." Maka yelled in his face. Maka regretted he words when she saw for a small instant; Hurt in his eyes, But it was quickly turned to aggravation "I am sorry, I just know we can-."
"That is enough! You two are boring me to death with you senseless chit chat." Glenn yelled down at them. Meet your doom children, ah ha ha!" Glenn swooped down sending one of her tornados strait for the both of them. Maka was blown back adding more stress to her ankle. The pain was enough to make her collapse.
"Ha ha ha!"
"No!" Maka whispered. Attempting to get back on her feet and failing. She let out a wail of anger. Soul rushed to her rescue helping Maka to her feet, or foot since she carefully avoided adding any weight to her injured foot.
"Let's get out of here." Soul said as he was leading Maka forward.
"Leaving so soon?" Glenn cooed. Maka could only move so fast and Glenn was rapidly approaching.
"Hold on." Soul called out to Maka.
"Wha-?"
Soul swooped Bree up in his arms and ran straight to the protection of the thick trees.
"Ah ha ha! Yes run, RUN with the knowledge that you will never defeat me!" Glenn's voice carried throughout the trees Soul was avoiding so he did not trip or accidentally knock Maka's foot into a tree. "Just relax." He ordered. "We will be home soon." Maka looked down at her knee as her body filled with the emotions of shame and more pain. She bit her lip. They had been able to defeat the Kishin, but still not a dirty, rotten witch. However so disgusted with their retreat, she was relieved to be off her feet. Maka did just as Soul told her to do and relaxed; Soon drifting off from total body and mind exhaustion.