This World of Darkness
*Do not own Soul Eater or any of its characters. Just a huge fan.
*Takes place following the anime after Medusa was cut in two by the Genie Hunter.
Chapter 1: Storm Before the Typhoon
Medusa's eyes slowly widened as she watched herself fall apart. Dammit, how could she allow herself to be cut down so easily? She looked at her daughter and the members of the DWMA as they watched her slowly fall as well.
The look in their eyes was enough to make her vomit, thinking that she was already defeated. But...perhaps she was...defeated...
The others watched silently as the snake witch's remains faded. Stein stared blankly as uneasy thoughts filled his head. You'd think he'd enjoy such a sight, but not this time.
The doctor turned away and clicked his screw a few times trying to push out the odd feelings flooding his mind. "Maka, Crona, Marie...it's over. Let's go."
Crona continued to stare into space. Lady Medusa was pure evil but for some reason Crona felt...empty. The feeling of retribution and satisfaction she thought she would receive by liberating herself from her mother never came. Medusa may have been heartless, but she was still the child's mother.
After a moment off staring blankly at where her mother's body had fallen, Crona felt Maka tap her shoulder. "Are you okay, Crona?" the tone in Maka's voice showed that she knew exactly what was bothering Crona.
Crona turned to look at her friend but turned away again before answering. "I...I don't know." Crona placed a hand on her head. "I don't...feel right Maka..."
Crona's eyes widened slightly when Maka hugged her unexpectedly. Crona looked at Maka a little surprised. Maka started to stand up and pulled Crona up with her. Maka smiled as she let go of the pink haired girl. "It'll be alright..."
Crona was silent at first but then looked as if she was about to cry. She embraced Maka again and started to whimper with Maka hugging Crona back in response.
Marie and Stein watched the two blankly, or at least Stein was (Marie looked like she was about to breakdown in tears). "What's with you?" Stein asked nonchalantly.
"Oh come on, Franken." Marie whined. "Even YOU have to admit this is a little sad."
"I'm trying not to think about it..." he said pulling out a cigarette wanting to clear his head.
"Why not...?" she asked whipping her eyes.
"If you keep thinking about someone you've lost you'll destroy yourself from the inside, it's unhealthy for mind, body, and soul." he said lighting the cigarette now in his mouth.
Marie looked at him confused. "Wait, are you talking about Crona or yourself?"
Stein was silent.
Marie then looked at him angrily. "Oh for the love of-You still love her, don't you?!"
"I never said that." Stein said emotionlessly.
"Oh, you typical man..." Marie said turning away from him.
As Maka and Crona continued to hug each other, the two meister's weapons spoke up. "Um, I'd hate to break up this nice little moment you two are having but we need to get out of here." said Soul.
Ragnarok then popped out of Crona's back and rested over her head. "Yeah! What the hell are we still do'in here?!"
Maka and Crona then let go of each other a backed up a step or two. "Um, yea. Right Soul."
"Yeah, okay Ragnarok."
The two meisters then looked at each other and smiled. "Come on, Crona. Let's go."
"Y-yeah..." and the two began to walk over to Marie and Stein.
...but...
SLASH!
The two teacher's and Crona's eyes slowly widened as blood spilled from Maka and she fell to the floor.
"AAAGGHHHH!" she shrieked grasping at the large cut she just received to her thigh.
Crona got down on her knees and tried to help the girl. "Maka! Maka! What happened!?"
Soul changed into human form and attempted to help his meister up. "Maka!? Oh damn, what was that!?"
Marie and Stein watched with horrific shock as they saw a figure rise up from the abyss surrounding the platforms of the room.
Maka slowly stood herself up. "Y-yeah, I'm fine. What was that?"
They all then looked at the opposite side of the platform they were standing on and gave looks of terror when they saw an arm grasp onto the ledge.
The meisters and weapons watched paralyzed as the snake witch rose from the depths alive and well. She was perfectly fine and void of any wound received by the Genie hunter.
As they watched, the little girl, Rachel, slowly started to wake up. Her eyes slowly opened to see the witch as she tried to force herself awake. "S...s...s-snake..." she said tiredly.
The vector witch stood on her feet and looked down on the two meisters in front of her. Medusa...had survived the Genie hunter, but how could she do so and come out unscathed?
Medusa smiled as she took a look at herself. She started to chuckle and soon erupted into maniacal laughter. "HAHAHAHA! Are you sure that wasn't suppose to help me?" she took another good look at herself as the others looked at her with rage and Crona with fear.
"Hahaha, I'll admit that I thought I was done for at first but it seems that not only am I fine but I'm better for that matter." she smirked evilly when she saw the angered looks on their faces.
"B-but how...? That should have killed you..." Maka said trying to restrain herself.
Even Stein was amazed that Medusa was perfectly fine after receiving what should have been a fatal blow.
Medusa chuckled again. "Allow me to explain to the best of my abilities how this is so." they were angry but listening. "I think that would have been the death of me for sure but you cut me down at a, well...inconvenient time."
"What do you mean by that?" Soul asked.
"You may have hit me but my body was in the process of refreshing itself into my beautiful adult self. I think all you really did was delay the inevitable."
"That still doesn't make sense!" Maka shouted starting to get up. "The Genie hunter still should've cut your soul in half."
Medusa stared at the meister blankly then looked down with a sly smile. As she rose her head back up, the eerie grin she gave was enough to make all they're spines shiver. "Perhaps I'm just too strong." she hissed evilly.
Maka's eyes filled with hate. There's no way that could be the reason, something had to have gone wrong. But right now, wondering how Medusa survived that was the least of they're problems. Medusa pulled out her vector blade once more.
She began to walk towards them menacingly. "Let me tell you something, DWMA: up until now you have been fighting me as a mere child and only one of you in this room as ever fought me one on one otherwise." Stein flinched to the comment. "And now that I have no reason to hold back and I'm back to me grown up self..." her face was more snake-like than ever. "I'm going to end your lives with everything I've got."
The DWMA and Crona were nearly blown away when Medusa unleashed an enormous madness wavelength. It was obviously hurting them. The madness was as poisonous as the snake it came from. She then jumped at Maka with great speed. Crona and Soul's eyes widened as they watched the vector sword come down on Maka who also stared in horror. "I think I'll kill you first, you annoying little girl!"
Maka was about to scream and she closed her eyes truly thinking she was about to die, but the blade did not pierce her, though she did feel blood. She slowly opened her eyes which soon widened in shock at the sight before her.
Not only was Soul also staring in shock but Stein and Marie as well...Crona had stepped in front of the attack and saved Maka once again. Even Medusa was a bit surprised. "Again? Do you think I LIKE stabbing you, Crona?"
"Wh..."
"Hmm? What was that?" Medusa asked bored.
"Why do you hate them...?"
"Hmm?"
"Why do you hate me...?"
Medusa looked a little surprised that Crona said that. She then gently pulled her sword from the child who's wound was healed by her black blood and stepped back. "Crona...you've hurt my feelings." then suddenly several vector arrows rose up and tied themselves around Crona's arms and legs and lifted her into the air binding her.
"CRONA!" Maka shrieked with the other watching helplessly. Medusa then sat on her tail and rose herself up to her daughter. "Crona, how could you think that?" she asked coming closer. She then placed a hand on Crona's face. "I love you with all my heart." this caused Crona's eyes to widen as Medusa smiled showing what seemed like true compassion.
Maka got angry again. "If that was true then you wouldn't force Crona to do all the horrible things you've made her do!" she shouted.
Medusa looked down at Maka but didn't respond. "You think just because you're her mother she has to do every little thing you say. What kind of parent would make their child betray her friends and then try to even kill her?!" Medusa actually started to get mad.
"How could you put her through all this?!"
"Maka..." Soul said trying to calm her down.
"Shut up!" she said to her weapon while trying to get off the ground. But the instant she stood Maka coughed up some blood and was caught by Soul before falling back down.
"See!? You're gonna kill yourself if you get to carried away with a wound like that." he said helping her up slightly.
"But Soul..."
The two looked up at Crona who still seemed rather shocked from what she had heard. When the two looked at Medusa the angered look on her face scared them. usually Medusa would always have a mocking smile but right now she seemed truly angered.
"Who are you to tell me how to raise my child?" Medusa said angrily. Maka, Soul, Marie, and Stein looked at her oddly.
"Are you saying that I don't love my own daughter?" Medusa asked lowering herself and Crona.
"That's exactly what I'm saying, you liar." Medusa's eyes narrowed.
"Vector plate." instantly a vector plate appeared under Maka and flung her to a nearby wall. "MAKA!" all the others shouted. Soul, Marie, and Stein rushed to her and helped her up. As she rose she coughed up more blood. "Ack!"
"Oh god, Maka!"
"That's it, she can't do anymore." Stein said. He took a look at the wound that Medusa gave her earlier. Stein then took Maka and laid her down on the ground and pulled her shirt up enough to get to the cut (no comment). "I can seal this wound up, but she's still too injured to fight."
He then looked at Marie and Soul who were staring at him worried. "I don't know who but we're gonna have to get out of here so I can tend to her properly."
They then looked at Medusa who was once again smiling evilly. "Maybe you shouldn't judge ME until you're a mother yourself, little girl. Oh I'm sorry, can she not here me?"
Marie jumped at Medusa ready to crush her with her hammer but Medusa easily dodged her and delivered a heavy blow from her knee to Marie's stomach. "Ack!" she shrieked.
The whole time Crona was still sitting motionlessly on the ground where Medusa let her down. She said it...she actually said it: I love you Crona...
Feelings that Crona had never felt poured into her being and threw her head into a frenzy of confusion. She put her hands on her head as if she was having a head ache and turned to Medusa. Crona didn't know what to do. Her mother finally said "I love you" for the first time but at the same time Medusa was trying to kill the people she cared for.
"HEY! Get it together idiot!" Ragnarok shouted getting Crona's attention. "Get up and do something already!"
Crona stood up and tried to pull herself together but she couldn't stop thinking about what her mother just said. I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you...I love you with all my heart. Did Medusa really mean that?
Crona remembered when she met Arachne the spider witch scoffed that Medusa didn't care for Crona at all and was only using her as a tool. Ragnarok then popped out and shock Crona's head. "Are you deaf AND blind!? Do something already! I don't give a shit about those guys but if you don't want to see them cut to pieces you'd better move your ass!"
Ragnarok's words wouldn't reach Crona as she just stared at the brutality that was her mother. Crona actually felt like she was about to cry.
Medusa tossed Marie to the side with the latter quickly grasping onto the edge of the platform before falling off. The snake witch turned around and jumped at Maka kicking Soul out of the way in the process.
"Stop it..." Crona murmured.
Medusa swung her sword down in an attempt to cleave Maka in two but she was stopped by Stein who blow the witch away with a jolt of his soul wavelength. Medusa landed on her feet. "Come on, Stein. Do you really want to do this?"
He was silent.
"They can't give you anything you want, Stein. Where as I am offering a world where people like us thrive like wild fire. A world constantly evolving, not bound by the rules that your precious DWMA uses to keep everything locked down..."
The two were silent until Stein smirked. "Believe me, it's the very thing that my mind craves and you are the most interesting woman I have ever come across." Medusa smiled to the comment to which Marie look hurt. "But at the same time I can't except."
Medusa looked at him confused. "Oh? Why ever not?"
"I can't just let insanity get the best of me. I need to keep myself in check or else I could do god knows what. That's why I can't come with you, all you want is absolute destruction which is exactly what I can't allow myself to fall into."
Medusa's face was blank. "If that happened I would destroy everything around me including myself." he said looking up.
"Hmph." Medusa stepped forward. "I think you've misunderstood my intentions, Stein. What would be the point of all this if it where just to destroy the world. The carnage is only a prologue for the new order that is awaiting us." she said with an evil smile. Now Stein's face was blank.
"Or maybe I should say awaiting me, because I think you've made it clear that you are a fool who has rejected my offer for the final time!" she then jumped at him but Marie quickly rushed to Stein, changed into weapon form, and jumped in his hand. Stein then blocked Medusa's sword with the death scythe but was still sent stumbling back a bit.
"When I told you I loved you Franken I meant it. But if you're not going to cooperate then I'll just kill you and get it over with. Stein was surprised to find that Medusa was actually pushing him back even though he was using all his strength to push her back. Medusa noticed this on his face and smirked. "Surprised, Doctor? You didn't think that I was using my full strength when we fought under the academy, DID YOU!?" she easily blew him back and swung at him repeatedly.
He was able to dodge her but he wouldn't be able to for much longer.
Crona, who was still frozen, was now starting to tremble. "Stop it..." she said once more.
Medusa jumped in front of Stein and kicked him to the ground.
"Stop it..."
Medusa put a foot on Stein's chest to keep him from getting up.
"Stop it..." Crona started to cry.
Medusa aimed her sword at Stein's throat. "Well, it's been fun doctor."
"STOP IT!" Crona shouted falling to the ground.
Instantly everyone stopped and looked at her, including Maka and Soul, who were at least standing now.
"P-please stop! Stop mother, please! Don't hurt them anymore!"
Medusa turned to Crona with a shocked expression at what she was seeing.
Crona lifted her head. "PLEASE STOP, MOTHER!"
First chapter done, many more to come...seriously, this might be over 40 chapters because there's A LOT I have planned for this. If any of you reading this are here because you've read one of my other stories, Story of Ana, then you might be thinking that this is the story that I said I was going to be writing later on. Well don't think that. That idea was scrapped to make room for this. I don't know how long it will take for each chapter because this is the third story I am working on right know but this one didn't take long so hopefully every so often.
Also, everything happening in the first few chapters is just a prologue for what's really gonna be happening, I'm serious this is gonna be LONG. hope you liked it.