"Maka! On your left!" Called a muffled voice from the girl's scythe. Acknowledging the warning, she dodged the deformed man with ease, sending the blade straight through his stomach. There was a harsh, demonic screech as the man erupted into a mess of black smoke and finally a glowing orb.
"Aww c'mon, Maka! You took all the fun!" Complained a blue haired boy, revealing himself from the shadows. "And I was just about to try out my new technique.." He muttered, throwing his demon blade carelessly were it stuck in the soil just before turning into a beautiful black haired women.
"Sorry," The blonde meister, Maka, said sheepishly, a hand rubbing the back of her neck. "I just saw an opening and took it." Her demon scythe was now in his human form and devouring the glowing orb of a soul whole.
"It's ok, Blackstar. I'm sure there's more kishin eggs were that came from." The black haired women chimed in, attempting to cheer up the pouting assassin.
"I can't understand for the life of me why father would send our whole team for such a simple mission anyways." A black haired boy with three white, perfect half lines of sanzu on the side of his head, who until now, had been silent, spoke up, tossing up two transforming twin pistols in the air.
"Team building?" Maka offered.
"Maybe… It's just, lately, I've been noticing father's seemed a bit… off." The boy continued, vacantly fussing over a small cowlick on the side of his head with his hand.
"So you've noticed it, too?" The blonde's scythe, a white haired boy with seemingly glowing red eyes added in. "Things at the academy itself have been off. Missions have gotten easier, and a hell of a lot closer for that matter. I remember when we'd have to travel all day to get to a destination, now it seems like their all right in our backyard."
"It's probably just slow times right now?" Maka tried, half heartedly.
"Maybe… I don't know, I just have a bad feeling; though it may be just that, a feeling." The boy took in his surroundings before summoning his demon skateboard, Beelzebub, and boarded it. "Liz, Patti." He called, beckoning his weapons, only to look down in horror as Patti, the younger of the two pistols, drew stick figures in yellow crayon on his shoe. Liz, the elder, bit her lip to hold back imminent laughter. "P-patti… Wh-what have you done?" He asked, his tone grim.
"Look Kid! Its me and you and Liz and-" She stopped mid sentence once she caught sight of his face, which now resembled that of a child who had just had their block tower knocked down. Patti attempted to wipe the crayon off, still giggling, but only managed to make matter worse by smudging the yellow wax deeper into the polished shoe. In a single movement, Kid snatched the crayon from Patti and made a similar, but not quite the same, smudge mark, all the while muttering something about asymmetrical garbage. Sighing in dismay, he glared at Patti, then looked back at the half annoyed, half amused crowd.
"Right then. I will see you all tomorrow, seeing as I now have to return home and appropriately dress myself." He growled the last few words at Patti, now in pistol form.
The next day seemed normal at the start, Maka had woken up early, fixed breakfast for Soul and herself and checked over her schoolbag for all the essentials, but she couldn't shake what Kid had mentioned early. She felt stupid for not realizing it sooner. Something was off. Sid, the assistant teacher had been gone for days, Professor Stein's Soul felt off balanced in a way and Lord Death had been sending them on odd missions lately. "Soul, breakfast is ready." She called to her partner somewhere in the distance.
After eating a quick breakfast, Maka and Soul hopped on the back of the motorcycle and drove to the academy. Once the duo reached the doors, they stared at them in shock. A poorly hand written note was pasted to the closed academy doors.
Dear students,
I'm sorry to announce that classes with be cancelled for today. It seems
certain circumstance have occurred leaving me no choice but to close
the academy for a single day. Please enjoy and take advantage of this
much needed and unexpected break. Be ready for classes tomorrow!
Lord Death
"Father's penmanship has always been so messily asymmetrical." Kid's voice came from behind Maka and Soul, causing them to jump. Maka noticed Kid's voice was off, his mind was defiantly on other things. "Something's wrong, I'm sure of it now; And I have a feeling the Academy won't be closed for just today."
"What's going on? Is it a Kishin? Witch?" Soul asked, looking to Kid for answers. "What's so important that they had to shut down the academy? Not that I'm complaining; it just seems so odd."
Kid sighed. "I don't think it's anything of the sort, but I don't know for sure. If it was something like that, we'd be called in to help…"
"Your god has arrived!" Blackstar announced, Tsubaki standing behind him, shaking her head, obviously embarrassed. "Huh?" Blackstar tilted his head and looked around. "Where is everyone?"
"My father has decided to close the academy for the day. I-"
"Yaahoo!" Blackstar howled, literally jumping in excitement. "I can finally finish practicing that new move!"
Soul and Blackstar began talking adamantly about new fighting techniques. Liz and Patti transformed from thier pistol forms, taking their own look at the note. Kid brought his hand up to his mouth in a pondering gesture as he looked around the deserted campus. "Hey, Maka?" He asked. "How long were you and Soul here before I showed up?"
"Not long, maybe a minute or two, why?"
"And did you see anyone on your way here? Not necessarily anyone from the academy, but anyone in general?" He continued, ignoring her question.
Maka thought back to their ride up to the school, now that she thought about it... "No, actually, we didn't." Maka stated, thinking back.
"Maka look out!" Soul screeched, tackling Maka just in time to miss a disfigured woman. The woman turned her head back and forth from the open space in front of her and the teens that were now readying themselves for battle. Finally deciding to stay she turned to the small group on taloned, eagle like feet.
"I suppose I ought to stock up on human souls before they are hard to come by." She grinned, teeth pointing in every direction.
"Hard to come by? What does she mean?" Tsubaki asked from Blackstar's grip.
"Oh, so it's true?" The woman croaked, her voice distorted through a sneer. "Death City really has been cut off from… Outside activities." The woman threw her head back as her body began to morph into what seemed to be a scorpion. "No matter. You won't live long enough to realize it anyways."
Taking her chance while the beast was distracted, Maka ran around her side, scythe raised, just to meet air as the scorpion woman moved at break neck speeds. She landed shoulder first, in the dirt, and jumped back up again, repositioning her weapon in a more comfortable grip. She tried her attack again, this time from the back, only to meet the same fate. "Your too slow, Maka." Blackstar sneered, readying himself for an attack. "Tsubaki, Demon sword!" Blackstar ran at the woman, considerably faster than Maka, but was only thrown back against a rock by the woman's poisonous tail.
"Death by poison always taints the soul." She remarked, looking at the now unconscious Blackstar. Maka, taking her second opening, ran at the demon, leaped into the air and dug her blade in the ground were the woman had been mere moments ago, just seconds too late.
"Maka, let me handle it." Kid called, much to Maka's opposition. "Let's face it, I have a better chance of hitting it than you do striking it with Soul." Kid twirled his pistols around before the rested in their respective positions at his pinkies.
"Mmm… A reaper's soul?" The demon scorpion hissed, her attention now fixed on Kid. Maka, determined to help out, charged at the demon once more, only to receive a thick tail lashing her back, sending her flying across the clearing.
"Maka! Stay back!" Kid yelled as he missed the shot due to the beast's sudden movement. The scorpion legs on the woman grew larger and longer as the lower half of her body shifted into a spider, Kid looked at her as if he was going to be sick. Slightly wincing as the woman made her way towards him, he took a final shot and it was all over. Her body exploded into smoke only leaving her soul in its place.
Kid threw his twin pistols in the air were they landed firmly with their feet on the ground. Soul helped Maka up and Tsubaki was trying to help Blackstar regain consciousness. 'Death City has been cut off? Human souls hard to come by?' Kid replayed the words over and over in his head. Something was wrong. Something was seriously wrong.
Done with chapter one! Ok, so this is a complete shot in the dark here; and this is also what happens when your thinking of KidxMaka while watching World War Z. Soul Eater meets Zombies? And not 'Sid' zombies? I think yes. Sorry for the OOC. I'm really not trying to make it seem like Maka is needy and can't fight, its just I'm trying to get the plot bunny to work its magic here. And I also suck at writing fight scenes. And also, I promise, though it may not seem like it, this fic will be filled with KiMa goodness, fluff, comfort, protectiveness, the works. Just, It may take a few chapters to even start ^^ I love reviews! Please let me know if you think I should continue :3