Angels and Dragons.
Hi all, well since I am suffering from writers block with my other stories and have just found the greatness that is Soul Eater I thought I'd give this a go. I'm mostly basing this off of the manga I've read. I hope you enjoy!
Chapter one: In which a Shinigami gets sick.
It was meant to be an easy mission. Fight and retrieve the kishin souls from the witch Yanna's minions and take her soul if she appears. All of the elite students had been dispatched for the mission which was why it should have been easy. There weren't many of them and the witch Yanna's soul wasn't meant to be particularly powerful. But despite what they had thought they had been wrong and it was Death the Kidd that was paying for it.
"We need to break that barrier!" Maka yelled over the wind that had picked up since the spell had begun.
"And how do we do that?" Killik asked scowling at the barely visible magical barrier separating he and the others from Shinigami's son.
"Chain resonance?" Black Star suggested whose gaze was also transfixed on the son of death who was currently floating ahead of the witch unable to move and screaming his lungs out. "What the hell's she doing to him anyway?"
"We have to do something!" Liz screamed her right hand shaking as she pointed her sister at the barrier having already tried blasting it with everything she and her sister had.
"Soul?" Maka yelled knowing he'd know what she was thinking.
"Ready when you are Maka!" He called preparing his piano already thinking of what piece they would need.
"You guys keep them from interfering!" Maka yelled referring to the men still poised and ready to stop them from helping their friend. "Okay Soul, let's go soul resonance!" Their souls merged and Soul began to play choosing the adagio of souls to quiet the witch's soul in hopes that it would disrupt her spell. As the piece reached it's peak Maka struck with a demon hunter easily slicing through the barrier and performed a complicate turn to avoid Kidd in order to take a swing at Yanna but the witch dodged it and used her magic to disappear before Maka could do anything else. Maka turned just in time to watch Kidd crumple to the ground looking too still to be healthy. Liz and Patty cried out before the shorter transformed and both ran to their meister's side trying to get him to open his eyes or respond to their desperate voices. Soul transformed as well and ran to his friend's side to check his pulse.
"Not cool," he said pulling his hand back before adjusting Kidd's position so that he would be more comfortable, "his pulse is weak and he's barely breathing. We need to get him back to Shibusen fast!"
"But I don't understand," Tsubaki placed a comforting arm around a sobbing Liz, "what could do this? I mean he's a shinigami right?"
"Yeah, he's been hurt before but his powers always fixed him right up pretty quick." Black Star added looking unusually concerned.
"Whatever that spell was must have disrupted his healing ability." Ox said with a hand on his chin, "Kim, try some of your healing magic to see if it helps him" The young witch and Meister nodded and got to work.
"I'll contact Shinigami-sama," Maka said pulling out a hand mirror, "he needs to know." She breathed on the mirror and wrote the numbers that would contact Lord Death.
"Hey ho! Maka! How goes the mission?" Shinigami's jovial face appeared in the mirror but at Maka's face he became serious, "What's happened?"
"It's kidd he's. . ." she glanced over at the still form to her right that had yet to give any evidence he was alive save for the gentle rise and fall of his chest and the faint beating of his heart.
"Kidd? What's happened? What's wrong with my son?" Maka had never seen the mask of death look scared and she hoped that she would never see it that way again.
"The witch Yanna cast a spell and now he won't wake up." Maka said more quickly than she'd initially meant to. Shinigami's image turned away from Maka.
"Get a team out there to pick them up, I want my son safe now!" she heard someone shout 'yes sir' before he turned back to her, "What happened when this spell was cast?"
"What do you. . .I mean. . ."
"Please Maka it's important I know what happened when she cast that spell!"
"Well, she said some words I didn't recognise. At least not in any language I know. Then Kidd screamed out as if in pain." She took a deep breath trying to remember every detail of what she had seen from the moment she had heard Kidd's scream, "he rose off of the ground a few feet and his eyes glowed, then the wind picked up and the witch looked like she was being covered in black elctricity. . ."
"No, it can't be." Death muttered.
"You know the spell?" Maka glanced back over at Kidd again where Kim was shaking her head at Ox in what Maka could only assume meant that her magic wasn't working, "And Kim's magic's not helping him."
"It won't."
"Huh?"
"Do not let your guard down for an instant," he told her, "protect my son and if the witch Yanna returns do whatever it takes to keep him away from her. Did she touch him when casting this spell?"
"No."
"Good. Sid and a recovery team will be with you shortly. Please Maka, protect my son."
"Of course sir." Maka nodded her head. The mirror showed her own face and she placed it back in her pocket.
"You okay?" Soul made her jump but she leaned her body into his and sighed when he wrapped his arms around her from behind.
"Shinigami-sama look scared." she replied placing her arms on his.
"I would be too if my only son was hurt." he said in her ear.
"He wants us to keep on guard." She told him, "He said if she comes back to keep him away from her at all costs." Maka turned to her weapon and boyfriend, "Soul I don't think it was that Kidd was hurt that scared him the most. I think Shinigami-sama knew what that spell Yanna used was and was scared of that."
"Kidd's tough, he'll be fine and we'll work on figuring out what's going on later. Let's worry about him for now okay." He told her kissing her cheek. The pair walked over to the rest of the team and told them what had been said then all but Patty and Liz took up defensive positions around their fallen comrade should the enemy return. They only had to wait twenty minutes before Sid and the recovery team arrived and they were soon heading back to Death City.
Killik, Ox, Kim and their weapon partners had gone home for the night but the rest of Spartoi chose to stay close to the room occupied by their friend. Kidd was being checked over by Stein whilst his worried father watched on anxiously. They had been back at their beloved school for several hours and so far they knew nothing more than what they had found out at the scene.
"Oh god, what if he dies?" Liz wailed, "I mean I know he's a pain with his OCD but he's a sweet kid, he's like an annoying little brother. I don't know what I'd do without him!"
"Kidd'll be okay sis you'll see!" Patty said happily, "When they let us go sit with him we'll tell him how bad we'll mess up the mansion and he'll wake right up." She giggled but there wasn't the usual force behind it, it sounded almost empty and was the only sign that the shorter Thompson sister was just as worried as her sister.
"But what if he's not?"
"Then I'll just have to beat him up in the after life." Black Star said from the chair he was sitting on where he had his arms folded, shoulders hunched and his face hiding behind his scarf.
"Your sister's right Patty. He'll be fine Liz." Tsubaki assured.
"Yeah he'll be obsessing over everything asymmetrical in no . . ." Soul started but stopped the minute the door opened.
"Professor Stein, what's wrong with Kidd?" Maka asked standing up along with Liz who gave him a hopeful look.
"The spell syphoned off a considerable amount of his shinigami power." He replied twisting the screw in his head a few times.
"What does that mean?" Liz sniffled.
"It means that his body has slipped into a coma until his strength can regenerate." Stein told them, "There's no telling when he'll wake up, but I'm told the fact that the witch did not touch him during the casting of the spell bodes well for him."
"He will wake up though right?" Black Star asked.
"Eventually."
"And then he'll be fine right?" Patty asked.
"He'll be very limited for a while and will tire easily, but yes he'll be fine once he's had a chance to regenerate the power that he's lost."
"Can we see him?" Maka asked trying to look past their teacher, "I mean if shinigami-sama is okay with it of course."
"His father is already back in the death room organising a world wide search for the witch Yanna." Stein told them moving to one side giving them the indication that they should enter the room, "He said that she needs to be eliminated quickly. The spell she used is an ancient one and it was thought that all knowledge of it was lost centuries ago. The fact that even one witch in this world knows the spell could be very dangerous for not only Kidd but Death himself as well."
"Why, I mean they're like gods right?" Soul asked.
"The spell is designed to drain the power of god like beings and channel it into the caster." He told them watching as the teens surrounded their fallen comrade's bed pulling up chairs to make themselves more comfortable, "I'm told this spell is the reason why shinigami-sama and Kidd are the only ones left of their kind."
"Wait there were more shinigami?" Liz asked wiping away fresh tears caused by the sight of Kidd's limp form in the hospital bed.
"Not just Shinigami, but fairies, gods and Angels too, but they were virtually wiped out centuries ago," He replied shrugging, "I'll be back at my lab but Nygus is about and she'll come get me if something goes wrong. I take it you'll all be staying with him for a while?" Liz nodded but the others stayed silent assuming that they didn't really need to answer him, "I thought as much, well I'm sure he'll appreciate the company. Goodnight."
There were murmurs of goodbye and thanks as the professor left before the room went silent. Liz took Kidd's hand and nearly began crying again at how cold and clammy it felt.
"I'm only holding one hand and he's not even flinching." She sniffed rubbing his hand softly with her thumb. Maka walked over and brushed a stray lock of hair that had strayed out of it's usual pristine style away from his closed eyes so that it wouldn't irritate him should he wake up.
"He feels really cold." She said moving her hand to touch his forehead with the back of the same hand, "Maybe we should find him another blanket."
"I'll get it!" Patty jumped to her feet and rushed off to the storage room that housed clean linen for the infirmary.
"It's funny," Black Star started, "I never thought Kidd could look paler than he already did."
"Yeah," Soul agreed, "he get's any paler he's gonna be see through." It was a poor attempt at lightening the mood and no one laughed.
"What if Stein's wrong?" Liz asked now gripping Kidd's hand with both of her own as if he might disappear if she let go.
"We go find that witch and make her put it right." Black Star said slamming one fist into another.
"Please Black Star," Tsubaki placed her hands on his shoulders, "not now. Kidd needs us here."
"I know." He replied.
"Hey he's warming up." Maka said her hand still on his forehead. Liz could feel his hand getting warmer too and there was a flush forming on his pale cheeks. Before long Kidd was whimpering in his sleep and breathing heavily as if in pain. "Black Star go get Nygus and get her to contact Stein." The blue haired teen stared blankly for a moment, "Go already!" Maka yelled as Kidd began tossing and moaning.
"Is he having a nightmare or something?" Tsubaki asked sidestepping just in time to avoid being bowled over by a returning Patty who dropped the blanket she'd found onto the ground and knelt down to watch her Meister with terrified eyes.
"No I think he's in pain." Maka said gently pressing on her friends shoulders in case he should start thrashing Tsubaki stepped forward to help as well. Soul went to the end of the bed and placed his hands on Kidd's legs.
"Think it's something to do with the spell?" Soul asked grunting as Kidd began to thrash with quite a lot of force. Maka was having difficulty and was grateful when Black Star arrived with Nygus in tow and took over from his girlfriend who went over to Liz and pulled the older girl away so that Nygus could check on the young death god.
"Stein said something like this might happen," she said preparing a needle with a powerful painkiller that his blood wouldn't instantly nullify, "The human side of him is reacting to his powers regenerating. I just hope this drug Stein prepared for him does the job or it's going to be a long few days." She injected the painkiller and went to prepare a drip for him that would keep a constant supply until his power completely regenerated.
"I think you guys should go home, wash up and get some rest," she said checking his pulse and temperature, "he's not going anywhere any time soon." She smiled as Liz gently stroked the sick boy's hair as she tried to sooth him.
"I'm not leaving him," she said resolutely, "if he wakes up alone he might freak and you know what he's like when he freaks out, he's liable to hurt himself. And I'd better make sure everything's perfect in here too." Her sister nodded and already began rushing around arranging anything in Kidd's possible line of sight to ensure it wouldn't upset him in anyway.
"We'll all stay," Soul told her, "at least until he wakes up. He's our team mate we just want to make sure he's okay."
"All right but it might be quite a wait you know." She warned. Taking note that Kidd had stopped thrashing and the two boys holding him stepped back.
"He's our pal and it would be ungodly not to wait for a friend to wake up after something like this." BlackStar told her with a finality which told her there was no point in arguing with the teens. So she left to inform Lord Death and continue her shift.
I have written several chappies already but I wanted to post this one now just to see if anyone liked it. I'll still post the rest just cause I can, and when I feel they're ready, but I might not finish the story if no one like this. So hope you do, rating might go up tho not sure yet, toodles Angel xxx