Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Reaping of a Reaper
Title: Realm Travel, Hunt for the Kishin Part 1
Genre: Drama/SuperEpicNinjaBattleTime
Characters: Soul/Maka Gale/Stien /Asura
Chapter 2
Reaping of a Reaper
Stien stood staring into the black abyss. His cigarette slowly burning down to his unclenching lips. His hands pressed inside, and he focused intently. He had been silent for hours working to view the contents of the realm the Kishin had opened without becoming tangible within it. Spirit paced back and forth endlessly mumbling to himself, crying, and eventually repeating the process.
"I can see their wave lengths within the realm pool" He proclaimed, releasing his hands and lighting a new cig. Spirit burst into tears, "Ooh thank heavens my little Maka is ok!" Waves of affection continued to pour as Excalibur appeared beside him. "Fool!" He commented, "I presume you included the Kishin when you said "Their wave lengths?" Excalibur inquired in his most heroic voice. Stien smirked madly, "Yes that's correct."
"Ahhh my Maka needs our help lets go!" Spirit Spouted in a high pitched tone and jumped in the air assuming a pool diving position. "FOOL!" Excalibur burst whacking Spirit with his cane before he could reach the realm pool. Spirit slumped over from the blow, obviously mentally distraught from his silencing.
"We can not just burst into this new realm!", Stien continued, " We must find where in the realm Maka has appeared, and assume the role of someone close to her. Entering a new realm automatically gives you a role in their society, but if we are to be any help we must Decide where we best fit." Spirit Stared past Stien into the Dark rings of the realm before them. "How are we going to be able to do that?" He whispered to himself.
"Excalibur and I shall go." Stien commanded.
"What your leaving me behind!?" Spirit whimpered ,"but why?"
"Someone must look after Lord Death in our absence, and death city needs a temporary Leader as well." Spirit Shot up with excitement, "You mean me!?" Now Maka will have to love me, Spirit beamed in his head.
"Fool!" Excalibur pointed his cane once more. "This job would obviously better suit me with my twelve centuries of experience", His poorly crafted eyes stared off into the distance as if apart of an epic," However I am here to observe. Where the battle goes so to shall I."
"Indeed I figured as much." Stien remarked while puffing a cloud of grey from his nose.
Meanwhile…
A Large crowd had gathered around a small wooden stage. The event seemed eccentric with brilliant colors and posters scattered around, However the people were not even half as enthusiastic. They all wore the same blank face of disapproval. Maka and Soul were among the crowd so to not upset the balance of the realm, but had yet to see anything of importance besides the word "Reaping" that seemed to be scattered across the courtyard as if they new reapers were here. Perhaps parties were thrown in honor of the DWMA in this realm.
All hopes of such an easy answer to the bulked up crowd dropped to the ground, as a man took the stage. He wore a white suit, and a devious smile that stared directly through Maka's soul. No one seemed disturbed or surprised by his presence, however Maka began to tremble and hid her face on Soul's shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Soul asked, Obviously concerned.
"Its him!" Maka said, "I can see his soul, Its the Kishin!"
The man on stage coughed loudly and addressed the crowed.
"Hello, I am President Snow, as you all know." His politician smile faltered a little from lack of applause, but he continued none the less. " Each year as always I will be choosing whom among each district shall compete. This competition is in honor of our pledge to never wage war again, and is a necessary reminder at that." He became annoyed from the crowds lack of participation and moved quickly to end the ceremony.
"Lets get him Maka!" Soul whispered. "No we can't! If we stray from this realms intended path that drastically, we will die!"
"Who's to say this isn't the realms chosen path!" Soul protested.
"Actions based on our realms knowledge and desires surely will not match this realms, and that alone is enough proof to know its not an action we can take Soul!" Soul Looked down in annoyance and plotted how best to go about moving past this obstacle.
"- In conclusion I shall now draw the names of those who will be sacrif- I mean sent to the arena." He snorted at his own accidental wordplay. Snows stubby figure walked to the glass bowls before him and grabbed a slip of paper from each, chuckling as he walked back to the podium. "Eurrmmhmm", He scoffed," Our female is Maka Albarn!
"What?" Maka jumped at the sound of her name,"Whys the Kishin saying my name?"
"I think you won something?" Soul suggested.
"Well come up here my dear we haven't got all day" A demonic grin followed Maka as she detached herself from soul and walked across the stage.
Snow played a sly smile and continued on as Maka sat down. "And the boy contestant shall be..." He paused for dramatic effect looking from face to face of the unamused crowd. "Gale Hawthorne."
Maka looked to see a tall boy, about her age, walk up to the stage. He was toned and had a sturdy figure. His face matching that of all those in the town as he sat down beside Maka she couldn't help but think how cute he was. Maka Shook her head confused. She never thinks like that about boys, what was going on?
"So this is how it ends huh Maka." Gale gave her a weak smile and extended his hand as if to hold hers.
Maka jumped at the sudden intrusion and pulled her hand away shyly. "Ummm.." Maka blushed," Is this some kind of match maker TV show? Im sorry I didn't sign up for this!" Gales meager attempt of a smile faded. "Are you feeling alright Maka?" Gale stared into her eyes confused. Makas emotions seemed to not be her own, and the unusual scene before her was bringing her to a breaking point.
"I can't take it!" Maka shouted,Breaking their eye contact. "Soul we are leaving!"
"Right!" Soul announced
"We got a runner! Move move take her down!" Soldiers dressed in white immediately appeared around them.
"No! Gale shouted" Maka turned just in time to see a man dressed in white make contact with Gales fist, then suddenly everything went black, and she hit the cold wood paneling of the stage. A familiar voice called her name, but she couldn't remember who it was.
SLAM! Maka jolted awake by the sound of something against her wall. It was the first thing she had heard since she fell asleep, despite the fact that there was now a low unending rumbling clearly ringing in her head. She slowly sat up, despite the rude awakening, and took in her surroundings. The room was bright with gold and red design elegantly sprinkling the entire vicinity. A one person couch sat in the corner of the room beside an arching window and a dresser. To her confusion trees could be seen flying past in between the red curtains that sat over most of the window. The smell of cherries and blood sat thickly in the air within the room as if to match the interior design.
"Oh you're awake?" Gale smiled rubbing Maka's arm. She looked down to see that she was in a queen size bed, with Gale laying beside her. "Ahhh!" She screamed, "What happened last night!? Why are you in my bed!" Her eyes grew wide and another slam vibrated the wall, The shock, knocking her to the ground. "Be careful." Gale laughed, Offering his hand to her. "You mean you really don't remember last night?"
"I don't think I want to!" Maka whimpered, " Because the only way we'd end up in that bed together is by force!"
"Ouch," Gale replied blankly, "But you're right it was by force." Maka stared, and slowly stood to her feet turning completely red.
"You PERVERT!' Maka jumped at him, picking up a nearby book and pounding Gale over and over across the head, Blushing helplessly.
Gale Obviously had enough and grabbed both Maka's wrists with one hand, Holding them in the air. "I didn't force you!" he shouted "The PeaceKeepers did it, and it's not perverted its tragic!"
"Ooh sure play the blame game!" Maka shouted twisting in his grip," You were forced, to force yourself on me?" Maka thrust a leg up to Gale's head Knocking him to the floor. His head hitting the wall. "Thats the worst excuse I've ever heard!"
"Force myself on you?" Gale asked confused, as he tried to get back to his feet. "Its not my fault we ended up in the games, I didn't force anything!"Maka with one final swoop brought her foot down on Gales face, and silence followed, He was obviously knocked out. Maka paused thinking on his words...
"Wait we were forced into the games, not into having s... Oh God Gale are you ok!" Maka realizing her mistake and pulled Gale back onto the bed where he lay limply. Several bones were sure to be broken, and she felt all the more pain seeing the damage she'd done to such a beautiful face. Three thuds in quick succession came thru the wall once more and then suddenly a boy with light blue hair, shattered through the wall and piled on top of gale and Maka.
"Is that all you got?" Laughed the boy, spitting blood and smiling. "I shouldn't expect anything better from a lowly district one student like you." A small boy appeared in the hole that was made by the other. His annoyance was plain on his face as he spoke. "That's the third wall I've put you through Star boy, and I will not hesitate to put you through another."
He suddenly became very serious. "The name is Black Star, Get it right because one day you will all bow before me!"
"Black Star?" Maka asked looking up to the person standing on top of her and Gale. "She suddenly smiled and jumped up throwing her arms around the muscular boy. "Black Star I thought you were dead!" she cried pressing her now crying face on his shoulder.
"You see Kid?" Black star Jeered, " My reputation precedes me! Shake with fear, Because I'm going to be the one to surpass God"
Maka slowly let go of Black Star. "Reputation.. Precedes you? Black Star its me Maka!"
"Of course you are" He smiled "I have thousands of adoring fans!" Black star proclaimed loudly, "Don't take offence if I don't know all your names!"
"Im done with this foolishness!" Death the Kid flew through the hole he'd made in the wall and spun a three sixty around black star before putting a final kick that flung him through the arching window of their room.
"Black star!" Maka shouted. The bed she sat on jolted suddenly, and she looked to see a rope had been tied from the bed and hung out the window.
"He may have saved himself now," The Kid chuckled " But that rope is too long, he will be dragging on the ground right about now at roughly 88 miles per hour. Hahaha," His gloating continued " How satisfyingly symmetrical."
Gale lye knocked out on the bed, Black Star continued to drag along outside the window, And The Kid strut back to his room aboard a train leading to an unknown game, all oblivious to their past friendship. Maka Absorbs all of this and realizes
"I am in way over my head."
NOTE:That's Chapter Two For you! I hope it wasn't completely lame x.x and i tried to throw in some humor along with expressing the memory loss of all those that were driven mad before being thrown into the new realm. I also would like to point out that I know Snow didn't usually go anounce the people who would be entering the games, however I believe it wasn't a far stretch from being able to happen in that dimension if he had desired it, so it was a perfect way for the kishin to insure they all ended up in the games.. FYI lol. My story has a lot of pieces and they all fit in my head, however if I forget to express a certain piece that makes the story seem like its hypocritical please point it out so i can better explain in the next chapter! Pleaaaasssee Give me some feed back im dying for info on how im doing! OH and by the way "DONT BE MAD SOUL WILL BE BACK SOON!"