Chapter 1: A year later
Everything was blurry at first when Soul began to wake up. A bright light shun in his face. His head felt like it was smashed against the wall a few times, or had too many Maka Chops from an encyclopaedia. Soul looked down, away from the light then seeing his body and legs. He was sitting on a chair in what looked like a pitch-black room. Only he was light up from a nearby lamp. Soul tried to rub his eyes but soon found them tied up behind him. Soul shook his head and started to panic, tugging on the chains that bound him. Shaking violently and kicking out, trying to free himself. But it was to no avail.
"Hey! What's going on! Where is she! What have you done to her! Come out you cowards!" Soul roared. Suddenly a door swung open to the right of him. A bright light came from the door, almost blinded Soul. Then a figure stood in the doorway. Soul's sights were too blurry to make out who the figure was, only that it belonged to a human. The figure stepped in and shut the door behind it. Soul couldn't see where the figure was through the pitch-black room.
"Where are you? Show yourself!" Soul shouted. Suddenly a scratching noise of metal and concrete was heard. Something metal was being dragged towards Soul. Soul's vision started to go back to normal and he saw a dark figure in front of him just behind the light holding a metal chair. The figure turned to sit down in front of him.
"Your name is Soul Evans, you are a student death scythe in the Death Weapon Meister's Academy which teaches Meisters and they're weapons how to fight against Kishin's. We found you at the ruins of the lair that belonged to the witch Medusa Gordon. You had an accomplice with you, where is she?" the figure asked. It had a low, dark scary menacing voice that would scare away children, for Soul he was unphased by the voice and said nothing. The figure stood and sent a punch towards Soul's face.
"Where is she?" the interrogating figure shouted again.
"I won't tell you a damn thing! I'm her protector! You'll get nothing from me!" Soul roared back. The figure walked forward to Soul and grabbed him by the throat.
"You are going to tell me everything about your friend and where she is, and you better do it quick. Because if you don't we are going to kill you", the figure spoke again. Soul glared at the interrogator who's now in the light. He is fully cloaked with his hood over his head and half his face, the other half of his face wore a black thick wool mask. There was no way for Soul to tell who it was.
"That's…not true…my friends…will save me…", Soul choked. The interrogator let go of him and sat back down.
"I can promise you not even your friends will save you. They will watch you die if you don't tell me where she is!" the interrogator promised Soul, turning away to sit back down into the shadows.
"If my friends won't come she will", Soul muttered, glaring his red eyes towards the interrogator.
"Well you better hope that happens before we kill you. Tell you what, why don't you start from the beginning? Since there are some things I don't understand, perhaps you can help me understand why, then maybe you'll finally tell me where she is", he finally asked.
"You want me to tell you a story?" Soul asked with a confused look.
"Your words, but yes. Start from one month ago.", the interrogator said in a calm way, his scary voice still lingering.
"Okay, I woke up and I played my video games and went back to…", Soul said sarcastically but was then pushed backwards by his throat to the ground, his arms being crushed under his weight and the chair. The interrogator was choking him again.
"In the afternoon of that day you and Maka got yourselves ready to go out to a concert with friends!" the interrogator roared. Soul looked up a little scared, this guy knew a lot.
"Do not screw with me Soul! I want only the truth out of you and eventually the location of that girl!" the interrogator continued then releasing his grip from Soul's throat. Soul started coughing, it was twice as bad when in an awkward position. Soul wasn't fussed about the coughing or the choking; he was fighting the pain of his right arm. Soul's right arm was snapped in half in a fight of jealousy against Death the Kid, and the weight of the chair and Soul was causing pain. Finally the interrogator pulled the chair back up with Soul on it. The interrogator went back to his seat facing Soul.
"Now talk, tell me the story", the interrogator ordered. Soul glared at him for a moment but then sighed.
"It was Tsubaki's birthday and I watched Maka frantically get ready…" Soul finally started, the interrogator listening intently.
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"Our ride is going to be here any moment now and I'm still not ready!" Maka panicked as she ran from room to room looking for something. Soul sat on the sofa with his arms behind his head.
"You've checked everywhere?" Soul finally asked with a bored tone.
"Yes I have! No matter where I look I can't find it… Oh god I didn't leave it at the academy did I?" Maka suddenly gasped, she then let out a frustrated growl through her teeth and continued to look inside her bedroom. The sound of everything being re-arranged in her room reached the ears of Soul.
"You've checked the bathroom? You don't have it on showering right?" Soul yelled to her.
"Yes I checked!" a frustrated Maka answered back.
"Checked behind the draws next to your bed? Might have fallen down behind it while you turned in your sleep" Soul yelled over again.
"Doing it now, it's not there!" Maka shouted back. Soul sighed.
"Did you check the kitchen? You don't wear it washing dishes", Soul shouted to her again. There was silence, the noise from the room ceased and Maka didn't answer. Soul looked over his shoulders and the sofa to the bedroom.
"Maka?" Soul called. Suddenly a speeding Maka dashed out of the bedroom and into the kitchen, mere moments passed before she echoed the apartment.
"FOUND IT!" shriek Maka in joy. Soul grinned and turned his head to the kitchen. Maka walked out with a silver bracelet on her right wrist. It was a small thick chain. Hanging on the chain there was a silver scythe designed like Soul, a silver chain sickle designed like Tsubaki, two silver pistols crossing designed like Liz and Patty and finally a silver soul that was shaped like Maka's head, pink-tails and all. Maka rushed to the sofa and sat down next to Soul, putting on her shoes. Maka was wearing a black T-shirt of her favourite band, topped with skinny jeans and now red all-star converses. Suddenly the door knocks before she ties her shoelaces for her left shoe.
"The doors open!" She stated and rushed to the door, then stepping on her shoelaces. She tried to recover but ended up twirling around and then fell towards the door. She then landed on something that wasn't the door. It was a warm, comfortable, wore clothing and sounded like it had a heartbeat. She slowly looked up into golden eyes with a few strands of black and white stripped hair. They eyes of Lord Death the Kid
"I didn't know you were eager for Ballet Maka?" he joked, Maka going red of embracement and straightening up.
"H..hey", she finally said fiddling with her fingers. Kid looked down to her untied shoe.
"I'll get that for you", he said kneeling down to tie her shoes.
"Kid can't you do that in the car? We're going to be running late if you don't hurry!" a voice shouted. Maka looked up to see a black limo with Liz and Patty waiting outside, dressed up in their normal attire, apart from Patty who was in a short blue skirt. Both of their hairs were done very nicely, and by the looks of it, symmetrically. No doubt Kid took his time to do it. Maka then checked the clock inside to find out that they are already fifteen minutes late.
"There, done", Kid suddenly said and Maka looked down to him.
"Great, lets get go…", Liz began.
"No wait! The knots aren't symmetrical, I must start over!" Kid announced. Kid was suddenly grabbed by the collar by Liz and dragged to the limo.
"You can sort it out in the car! It's a six-hour trip out of Death City! I'm sure you can do it by then!" Liz told Kid annoyed. Kid reached helplessly for Maka's feet as he is dragged.
"No! They're not perfect and it bothers me! It does it does it does!" Kid moaned before almost getting tossed into the limo. Maka giggled at the scene and started walking, Soul locking up behind and all of them were inside the limo.
"Where to now?" the driver asked.
"To Tsubaki's house…OOF!" Kid answered then was taken by surprise as Maka landed on his lap.
"Hello", she said happily as they waited for Soul.
"Hi", Kid replied and both of them leaned in for a kiss. Kid raised his hand to Maka's cheek and caressed his thumb lightly in a circle.
"Oi! I'm no looking at that the whole trip!" Soul complained entering the car. It was a year since Galorphar murdered Lord Death, making Kid the new lord, a year since Maka and Kid loved each other. During the year Soul wasn't too happy with Maka and Kid dating, but as the year went by he gradually changed from being jealous to being a very protective brother. Kid and Maka broke they're kiss when Soul got in. Maka then tapped Kid's shoulder playfully. Getting Kid's attention she pointed to her shoes. Kid looked in disgust at them. Maka pulled her feet towards the two and Kid then began his work on the unsymmetrical shoelaces. Maka said nothing to Kid as he was working on her shoes, letting him concentrate on his perfection. It didn't stop her though from running her fingers through his hair. Maka looked to Liz and Soul who were talking while Patty was using her colouring book. She was happy that everyone eventually forgave Soul of his actions last year, it wasn't like Soul meant for things to escalate as they did and it wasn't his fault for running into the wrong person. But what she was really happy about was when she convinced Kid to stay with her at the DWMA than leave. His official reason was to carry out the duty of a Grim Reaper, since his soul wasn't bound to Death City like his fathers. But his real reason was because of him Maka died, and he gave up part of himself and another soul to bring her back. It was only luck that the exchanged soul was that of Galorphar's, who now rests in hell. But it still didn't change the fact that Maka died and if she remained with him she would be in constant danger and he might not be there in time to save her. Maka chased Kid to the outskirts of Death City until she caught up with him and pleaded him to stay. She looked towards Kid with a happy smile as his tongue was sticking out slightly as he was concentrating on her shoelaces. She also looked at the black gloves he always wears now, when Kid brought her back to life his left hand's skin, muscle and flesh burnt away, leaving only his skeletal hand. So Kid always wore his gloves so he would still remain symmetrical. The car slowed down to a stop. Liz looked out the window to see that they arrived at Tsubaki's and Black*Star's apartment. The driver hit the horn three times and saw the door opened. Tsubaki and Black*Star then came running out the door to the limo, they were wearing they're usual attire, but it seemed like it was their cleanest and best. Tsubaki locked up behind her and followed Black*Star to he limo, getting in.
"Haha! Hey everyone!" announced Black*Star as he entered the car, followed by Tsubaki.
"Hi everyone!" Tsubaki said excitedly.
"Hey birthday girl!" Liz greeted with a smile.
"Hey Tsubaki happy birthday!" Maka cheerfully said.
"Another year older, cool", Soul said, giving his trademark Shark-Toothed grin.
"Yey Birthday girl! I made you a giraffe!" Patty burst out handing over a coloured in giraffe from her book.
"Aww thank you Patty", Tusbaki said happily. Soon everyone was looking at Kid as he was so focused on tying Maka's shoes he didn't even notice the car stopping, let alone Tusbaki getting into the car. Maka with her hand in his hair decided to grab it and yank his head up.
"ARGH MAKA!" Kid groaned then having his head turned to Tsubaki.
"Oh…Tusbaki…when did you get here? Happy birthday", Kid said with a forced smile, his hair still being pulled. Tsubaki gave a happy grin.
"Thank you Kid", she said cheerfully. Maka let go of his hair and his face snapped back to Maka's shoes, still in the middle of doing them. Maka then slipped her hand into Kid's coat pocket and pulled out a comb and began to comb where she grabbed his hair, not that it was already messy with her fingers going through them. In the drive after two hours Kid finished with her shoelaces and everyone was talking about Tsubaki's birthday, what she got for her birthday, what happened in the DWMA and other things. More hours went by and it laughing moon was up so everyone decided to take a little nap.
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Kid opened his eyes and looked around. He seemed to be standing in the middle of what use to be a town or city razzed to the ground. Everything was flat but showed signs that buildings use to be there. The sky was purple and black lightening struck around the area. Rain then started to pour down on Kid. It was warm. He lifted his hand to see the rain was in fact blood. A thumping noise was heard behind Kid. He spun around to see all of his friends lying on the ground dead. Kid's eyes widened greatly.
"Liz! Patty! Soul! Black*Star! Tsubaki! Lucy! Crona!" Kid called running to each one, all dead by what looks like a soul beam going straight through them.
"Kid…" a whimpering voice reached his ears. He spun around to see Maka alive and horribly injured, bleeding and crawling towards him.
"MAKA!" Kid screamed and went to run to her. But he didn't. Something was keeping his feet in one place. He couldn't move. He suddenly saw someone approaching from behind Maka. He was in a red and purple robe with a red hood up, black gloves and boots. There was only one person that Kid knew look like that and that was Galorphar.
"Maka! Behind you! Maka! Leave her alone!" Kid screamed. But then Galorphar reached her and stood on her to keep her still. He moved his left hand and hovered his palm over her back, magic building in up. His right hand grabbed his hood and pulled it down. Kid's eyes widened when who he saw wasn't Galorphar, but himself, cockily wildly as he is seconds from killing Maka.
"What! No! Maka! Maka!" Kid screamed as he watched himself blast a purple electrical beam into Maka's back.
"FAILURE!" a dark scary voice echoed behind Kid. He turned to see where that came from, only to be met by a giant shadow form of his dad.
"Father! I didn't…!" Kid stammered out, tears now streaming from his eyes.
"You failed to protect Death City and the lives of every citizen! You were supposed to be a grim reaper! Your nothing but Garbage! Scum! Failure! You not worthy of being a grim reaper! Not worthy to take over from me! You should just die! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" Lord Death continued to shout through Kid's ear's pointing his massive foam like finger at him. Kid dropped to his knees holding his ears with both hands. He turned to see the dead Maka with her hand reached out towards him. Kid pathetically began to crawl towards her hand. The second Kid's finger's touched her hand it blew away like sand, along with everything around him until he was in utter darkness. Everything went quiet. Kid looked around to see nothing and hear nothing.
"Your perfect symmetry my son…Nothingness!" Galorphar's voice ran through his head until absolute silence. Kid tried to scream out but no sound was heard. He was helpless, alone, and scared.
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Kid opened his eyes jolting his seat. He looked around him, finding himself back in the limo with everyone asleep.
"Kid? You okay?" Maka said on his lap, he woke her when he jolted. He looked at her face.
"Maka?…" Kid said raising his hand to her cheek. She smiled to him and placed her hand on his.
"I'm here Kid", Maka said with a smile. Kid's face was paler than usual and was sweating slightly.
"You had a nightmare?" Maka asked. Kid gulped looking down, panting for breath, but eventually nodding.
"Do you want to talk about it?" She then asked.
"…Death city was in ruins…all of you were dead and I was the one that caused it. My father called me a failure and…he…put me in a hell where there was nothing, no sound or anything…just utter darkness of…nothingness", Kid muttered. Maka lifted his head up by his chin.
"You know that will never happen and you are not a failure, your father surely doesn't think that after the things you've done", Maka comforted with a smile.
"But I let you die didn't I? And I broke the rules of everything to do with a Grim Reaper. Maybe he is right I am scum, garbage and I do deserve to…", Kid began his break down but had a hand placed against his mouth.
"Don't…don't do that again…you know I don't like seeing you like that", Maka said. Kid reached for her hand and pulled it away and looked into her eyes.
"But you still died on my watch…how could anyone forgive me for that. It's been a year and your father still hasn't forgave me… I just I just…", Kid began again.
"Kid…", Mak tried to interrupt.
"I just don't want to see you die again… I can't see you die again… I don't want to lose you", Kid whimpered, looking down. Maka lifted up his chin again so she can see his golden watery eyes.
"Your not going to loose me" Maka promised to Kid, pulling his head towards her, locking lips with each other. Kid and Maka tasted each other's ecstasy, enticing Maka to open her mouth. Maka accidentally escaped a light moan as their tongues collided, each arm wrapped around his head. Kid's right hand crept slowly up her leg until it slipped underneath her shirt and rested on her lower back, his fingers caressing circles. Maka's hand slipped down behind his jacket and through in-between two buttons of his shirt, gently rubbing her fingers along his skin. Kid and Maka broke they're kiss to look into each other's glistening eyes, slowly reaching forward for more. Suddenly the limo ran over a bump on the road causing everyone to bounce, waking everyone up. Kid and Maka quickly moved they're hands away from the positions they were in and straightened themselves out. Looking like nothing happened.
"What was that?" Soul asked rubbing his eyes.
"A road bump. My lord we have arrived" the driver said over the speakers.
"All right!" Black*Star shouted cheerfully as the car slowly moved to a stop.
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"…We then decided to fall asleep until we got there. We were then woken by a road bump and the driver said we arrived", Soul continued to say to the interrogator.
"What happened next?" he asked.
"I want a drink of water", Soul then asked glaring at him.
"What happened next!" the interrogator shouted.
"I want a drink!" Soul shouted back.
"You'll get your drink in a moment, what next!" the interrogator ordered, his dark voice booming around the room. Soul sighed looking down.
"Then…I met her…", Soul resigned. The interrogator then nodded and stood up. He walked into the darkness of the room. Suddenly the door opened again and the interrogator left in the light, shutting the door behind him.