Title: Still searching

Author: Words Are Redemption

Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater, the OC is my own though.

Also if the text is presented like so – 'italics and apostrophes'- it means thoughts and whatever crosses the character's mind.

Also bold letters means shouting or emphasising an aggressive emotion.

Author's notes: If this OC seems a bit overpowered then just know that I intended him to be, it's due to his background which will eventually be revealed in more clarity.


Chapter 2 – Taste of power

Kid was the first one to attack - since he has projectile weapons, there wasn't any need to rush in close like Maka and Black Star are doing. Kid jumped high into the air so he could get a clear shot and prevent his opponent from dodging his bullets, as Kid unleashed a hail fire of rapid shots towards his target, Black Star was first to engage the enemy.

Onyx was sidestepping and spinning to avoid the storm of pink pellets, but stopped as he saw Black Star rush down the steps at a break neck speed, 'OK, ok… it seems like the boy with the guns will stop firing if one of his teammates gets in his way or is too close to me. If that's the case, this will be over in no time.'

Black Star threw the sickle in his left hand towards Onyx, who moved sideways effortlessly and dashed towards Black Star and gave him a devastating combo of non-fatal hits which left Black Star stunned. Just as Onyx was about to knock Black Star out, a scythe slashed at his arm which actually almost cut him; had he not moved his arm to deflect the hit. 'A scythe huh? Alright then, this means that the girl will have to keep me in a specific area to do any real damage because the scythe only has one blade at the end of it's long pole; I'll just get in real close and take her down first.'

Onyx grabbed Black Star's collar and tossed him in front of Maka who stooped for a second, this allowed Onyx to close the gap towards Maka. Maka dodged most of Onyx's punches but couldn't maneuver her scythe due to the close proximity; so Maka could not attack as well as she normally would. After a couple more dodges, Onyx found an opening and ended up clotheslining Maka and then picking her up and throwing her into Black Star – who was trying to sneak up behind Onyx.

Maka coughed twice before getting off Black Star, 'Oww…he's really tough, I think I'm going to need to use soul resonance,' Maka being lost in thought didn't realise that Black Star had already used soul resonance with Tsubaki and was now engaging Onyx with his cursed sword.

"Aww come on Maka, less thinking more doing, losing to this chump is totally not cool," replied Soul, able to hear Maka's thoughts due to their partnership.

Maka engaged her soul resonance stance and powered up, blue aura surrounding her and catching Onyx's attention. From Maka's point of view it looked like Black Star suddenly got really angry because his ears were flushed and his sword attacks were being performed with more strength. Onyx knew his taunting worked wonders on such a prideful boy, Black Star was getting sloppy even at the warning of his weapon. Onyx dodged a few more times before stepping in closer towards Black Star and palm striking him in the neck which caused Black Star to raise sword a little; Onyx took this opportunity to kick the sword away with his right foot and then, almost instantaneously, brought the same foot back down low, sweeping Black Stars legs from under him and while Black Star was in mid air, Onyx elbowed him in the neck and Black Star hit the ground hard.

"BLACK STAR!" Tsubaki screamed, changing back into human form and shaking the unconscious boy.

Onyx looked at Tsubaki as she turned around to glare fiercely at him, he was about to say something when he felt two massive spikes of soul energy to his left and right side. He glanced to his right first to see Kid with two arm cannons - reaching up to shoulders in length- charging up two shots, 'he's not going to shoot, not with his teammates so close to me. I'm safe for now,' Onyx thought as he glanced to his left – where the real problem lied. To his left was Maka running at him with a determined look on her face and a giant blue, glowing axe like weapon replacing her scythe's blade. 'Dammit if I dodge, she might hit that black haired girl over there, or even worse the boy.'

Onyx didn't even try too dodge, he just rushed as quickly as he could towards Maka, trying to get the other girl and her meister away from the fight. "GENIE HUNTER!" Maka screamed as the giant blue blade cleaved Onyx's left side, tearing through half of his shoulder and all his ribs on the left side of his body.

Onyx gritted his teeth in pain – it felt like his soul was being drowned in lava, He struck Maka right in the solar plexus and she was downed instantly; her eyes rolling into the back of her head and spittle flying out her mouth. Before she hit the ground, her scythe changed back into human form and caught her; whatever the white haired boy said to Onyx was blurred out by Onyx's instincts kicking in; telling him to turn around. When he did, he saw that the boy with the arm cannons was aiming directly at him, the pinkish orange glow of energy forming around the two cannons blinding him slightly. Onyx kicked Soul in the back and threw Maka after him, then he proceeded to try and dodge the arm cannon shots, while Onyx was in mid dodge his left side stung in blinding pain and he felt his now severed ribs move; this caused Onyx to stop mid dodge and get caught in the explosion of Kid's blast. Smoke caressed the air around Onyx as he lay there with eyes closed. He could feel his left side bleeding heavily from Maka's attack and he felt singed all over by Kids blast; too top that all off, his ears were ringing like he had aftershock from standing too close to a detonating grenade.

(-)

"Hmph…if only you weren't so soft on the kids then you'd be fine and probably carving up Medusa right about now. Why the hell'd ya go easy on those munchkins anyway, sparky?" Asked a rough, flamboyant but female voice emanating from Onyx's katana.

"Sis…if he did not go easy on those children then they could have been seriously injured or worse. I think he is a good and brave man for doing what he did." Replied another female voice, this one was very quiet and reserved but held unmistakeable admiration for Onyx.

"Yeah well I think he's a pussy, plus if ya just wanna bed him just do it, don't act all sweet and innocent like ya always do, talk to him properly like I do, you've never even had a one on one talk with him before have ya?" Asked the rough female voice in a teasing but direct manner.

"It's not an act! And I never get to have a private conversation with him because you are either always there next to him or interrupt us!" Shouted the shyer voice, quite loudly for a quiet girl like herself.

"ohh looks who's getting catty, wanna a fight lil' miss angel? Then bring it!" Challenged the rough voice.

"No I do not want a fight and why are you always so rude? You insult everyone, even your own sister and master." Replied the shy voice sounding like she was on the verge of tears.

"Oh go cry me river princess. Oh yeah and a reality check for ya; he ain't my master, he's my meister – there's a difference, but sure go ahead, if you wanna call him 'master' that's fine with me. Ya always stuck me as the type to love getting dominated any way." The rough voice said the last sentence under her breath but the shy voice caught the gist of it.

"I… I… I… Well um…you see… I have a reason for that… but," the shy voice started stuttering and got quieter and quieter the further she got with her sentence until her rambling wasn't even audible anymore.

"Errr… ladies please stop arguing in my stead, thanks." Said Onyx just rising off the ground covered in burns and bleeding seriously, he was breathing heavily and gasping for breath.

"Master! Are you alright?" Asked the shy voice, her tone dripping with concern.

"He's burnt and his left side looks like someone dissected him and just left him there. OF COURSE HE'S NOT 'ALRIGHT' YA DUMBASS!" The rough voice shouted, saying 'alright' in a manner that mockingly impersonated her sisters' higher pitched voice.

Before anyone could respond to the outburst, five pink bullets sliced through the thick smoke; the first two bullets hit Onyx in his chest and right shoulder and the other three were surprisingly dodged by Onyx.

"So even after taking a dirt nap you can still dodge bullets eh? Gotta hand it to ya, you one tough bastard sparky." The rough voice said in an extremely vague tone of admiration.

"I'll take that as a compliment," replied Onyx while rubbing the two searing new bullet marks he just received not ten seconds ago.

"I hear voices, that stranger must be close," said Kid as he approached the last step of the stone stairs – Kid's soul resonance shot had blown away about half of the steps and Onyx along with them.

"Yeah okay, just be careful, I can't sense his soul with my soul perception; he could be anywhere," Stein said, holding Spirit – Maka's father – in his hands in the form of a giant cross with one side of the horizontal bar as a scythe blade.

As Kid and Stein entered the smokescreen, they heard two female voices; one very loud and the other soft and quiet. Both Stein Kid looked at each other and nodded, they both separated and flanked the source of the two voices. As they approached closer and closer to the voices; they readied their weapons and rushed the last few steps into a clearing where the smoke had long since dissipated. However the only thing the two meisters saw was a sword in it's sheath; there was no sign of the man in black.

"HAH! GOTCHA, BITCHES!" Hollered a rough female voice, in obvious glee.

Before anyone could even say anything, a shadowy figure appeared behind Kid – the smoke moving away from the surface area of the body. Onyx peered down at Kid and without so much as a breath struck him with both hands in his temples. Needless to say, Kid passed out from the sudden unprepared for shock of two blunt objects colliding with two of the most sensitive pressure points of the human body.

Stein turned around as Kid hit the floor and charged at Onyx. Onyx expected this and readied himself in a stance which supported both his upper and lower body equally; so he would not be as easily knocked over. However what Onyx didn't expect was that one of Kid's pistols turned back into human form and grabbed the other pistol and fired slow but accurate shots in Onyx's direction.

Onyx dodged most of the slow shots but they were much too accurate to dodge completely; Onyx got skimmed by the bullets four times and one hit him square in the right thigh. 'This might be too much too handle at once…'

Onyx blocked one of Stein's slices with his uninjured arm – well not uninjured per se, but certainly in better condition to block than his left mangled arm. Stein then tried to attack again but after two more dodged hits, Onyx was too close for Stein to use his scythe effectively, 'he's employing the same tactics he used against Maka and Soul on me, that's smart; scythes have a very specific cutting area. But that's not good enough, time to use soul menace,' Stein thought as he slammed Spirits edged side into the ground and smacked Onyx in the right rib, sending jolts of soul energy to amplify the damage done; and amplify it did, Onyx felt one of his ribs crack and a queasy feeling spread all over his body.

After engaging in one hell of a hand to hand fight, both fighters were looking like masses of bruises and blood; Onyx of course being in worse condition due to previously inflicted injuries, but Stein wasn't looking too good either; his glasses had been cracked and discarded, he was dizzy from all the fluid but powerful blows to his head and he was also slightly limping from where Onyx cross-blocked one of the mad scientist's kicks using both his elbow and his kneecap to fracture Stein's shin by trapping it in a vice like position and then applying pressure to crush the bone.

"I've had enough, SOUL RESONANCE!" screamed Stein, smiling madly as he grabbed his death scythe and held it high in the air; the blade glowing an ominous violet and tripling in size and length.

'I can dodge this no prob-' Onyx thought, but as he tried too move he realised that he couldn't move his feet – upon closer inspection Onyx saw bright white threads - or something similar- tying his feet to the ground. "SHIT!"

Onyx could only look on as Stein loomed over him with his scythe looking way too much like a guillotine. Onyx cursed inwardly because of what he was going to do next.

"SOUL PROTECT, OFF!"

"what?" questioned Stein at the sudden turn of events, that was all he had time to say before Onyx with glowing violet eyes looked at him for a second; Onyx's eyes were emphasised by the shadowy black obscuring his whole face due to his hood. As Stein blinked, Onyx was gone. Stein suddenly felt something slam against his neck from behind and being caught off guard Stein could not counter Onyx's throw; Stein being sent sprawling across the battle torn ground looked up just in time to see himself be engulfed by a dark blue light source- Stein felt like he was being repeatedly hit by lightning as he struggled to even breathe let alone stand up, just as Stein was sure he was going to die, he was pushed back by a huge shockwave which sent him flying at around thirty miles per second at a lamppost which he collided with horizontally and bent in backwards a bit.

Stein looked up to see Onyx falling sideways to the floor.

'No…not like this, damn Medusa, damn DWMA, damn it all…' thought Onyx as he drifted slowly in and out of darkness. After a few seconds or minutes or hours – Onyx couldn't really tell, all he could feel was emptiness and how light his body felt; an unfamiliar but tragically comfortable feeling. Finally all Onyx could make out was his sword and sheath, reaching out for them instinctively, he finally succumbed to all his wounds and blacked out the last thing he felt was touching something hard – undoubtedly his katana – followed by two pairs of warm hands – one pair shaking him roughly and the other clutching on to arms desperately. And then…darkness.