Hello, it's the new guy, Mr. 96. I've been neglecting to do the disclaimers on these guys a lot, because doing the disclaimers is a pain in the ass, but here I go anyway: I do not own Soul Eater. If I did, Death the Kid would have a Southern accent, and characters like BlackStar and Ragnarok, who I hate, would be actively smited by the author's will. That won't happen here, regrettably. It's basically every idea I've had about Soul Eater during my three weeks at a college (never mind what a high schooler was doing in college) except for Death the Kid having a Southern accent. I mean, c'mon, he's badass either way!
Maka and Death the Kid had finally caught up to Medusa. Now we'll kill that witch and bring Stein and Crona back to their senses! they thought. Crona turned around. "You're idiots, aren't you?" he said, his eyes piercing through their souls. Stein also turned. "Indeed," he said, with malice in his voice, "You don't know why we're doing this."
"What are you talking about?" replied Soul, who was quite angry with what was happening. "Medusa took Marie's body just so she could control you guys, isn't that it?"
"No, no!" replied Crona. "Medusa may be mean to me, but she's still my mother. And she brought in Stein to be my father. You know what that means?"
"It sounds like she's intent on starting some sort of 'family,' if that's what you mean," replied Death the Kid.
"You're absolutely right as always, Kid," Stein retorted. "This is what we wanted. To finally be a family."
Maka was angry at this. "You call a mother who punishes you because you don't know how to deal with what she wants you to do and a father who'll experiment on you a family?" she cried at Crona.
Crona frowned. Maka didn't seem to understand anything. "Shut up!" he cried. "I don't know how to deal with being treated like a friend, or a member of the DWMA! At least with Medusa I can understand how to live with being a monster!"
"I agree with Crona," Stein continued, "I thought it'd be interesting to experiment on what it would be like to finally be with someone who shared the same madness as I did." (Note: a bit of a spoiler here, but in the next chapters I'll have Stein turning into a Kishin)
Death the Kid was furious. "Stein," he said, "Even as a teacher at DWMA, you were despicable! How could you have done this?"
Stein shrugged. "It started with an experiment to revive the dead-but that's not important now!" His expression changed from madness to calm.
"Remember this: Don't follow us. We don't want to come back." As Stein said this, he turned to leave, but in doing so, dropped a copy of a photo. Maka checked and looked at it. It was a picture of Medusa and Stein together, with their arms around Crona. The moment no one thought existed.
In truth, the photo was a fake. Just something Medusa came up with to keep Crona by her side. Nevertheless, the "family" kept it with them, and framed it. But on the day that one of the two that she'd taken went insane, that one developed into a Kishin and destroyed the photo.
(Note: Don't ask whether the Kishin I'm referring to is Crona or Stein, I purposefully made it vague because Stein goes bad in the anime, while Crona goes bad in the manga.)