A/N: Hello again. Wow...Three whole chapters in one night! It's actually morning of course, seeing as it's 1:10 am, but whatever! I'm not going to update anymore of this story tonight, but tomorrow!
Disclaimer: I don't own Soul Eater. It's too cool.
Chapter 3: The Forest of Symmetry - Kid and Soul's plan?
When Soul got home, he noticed Maka and the Sue had already arrived. He could hear their girly chatter in the next room. Soul couldn't help thinking to himself about how uncool it was that he had to deal with a Mary Sue living in his house. Why couldn't it have chosen Black*Star as a relative? Not cool.
"Soul? Is that you? I was just wondering, are you OK? With me staying here?" She rounded the corner to face him. "I know you've never really liked me, I mean I was never like you or our brother. I couldn't play an instrument or really do anything in our family. I know that's why they kicked me out...but, well, I was just wondering if you thought the same as them. They did love you so much." Now the SheBeast was just looking for trouble.
The stupid SUE had the AUDACITY to claim that his parents 'loved him so much'. HA! It made him laugh! Those fools were so caught up in their quest for fame and fortune they forgot to take care of their own children! Wes took better care of him than his parents EVER did and he was practicing most of that time. This stupid Mary Sue doesn't know anything about his life and it's really pissing him off.
She just proved herself a fake. Yes! Soul finally had proof! He doubted that Maka would believe him just yet though, since she was already under its spell. He just smiled a strained grin and said, "of course I'm ok with you staying here. It's totally cool. And I'm not like them, my-err-our parents. Don't worry about it. We're together now, that's all that matters."
Might as well play into it's creepy messed up plot. If it's looking for attention, Soul will give it. For now at least, until him and Kid come up with a plan.
Maka entered the room and saw that they were having a 'moment' and left them in peace for the night.
"Well I'm pretty tired, so..." Soul claimed
"Yeah, yeah. Me too. Night Soul, sleep well," she gave a sickly twisted smile, one Soul noticed and pretended not too. They parted ways and Soul laid down to rest for the night dreaming of Kishin eggs and Mary Sues
~~~~~~Patti~~~~Liz~~~~~~~
Kid arrived home to his worst nightmare. His house. Was. A mess. His candles were burnt down unevenly, his picture was tilted, His couch pillows were not symmetrical, one was tilted 42 degrees instead of 45. What had gone on here?
"Kid! You're home! Um, about the mess, heheh," Liz said, popping out of nowhere. Kid's jaw had dropped and his eyes went wide. He started making a sort of noise expressing his distress.
Kid suddenly snapped out of his shocked funk and started fussing about the house fixing the giant mess Liz and Patti had created. He continuously muttered things like, "this should look like this" and "I need to move this." Patti came out of wherever she was to observe as Kid flew about the room.
"What's he doing?" She asked her older sister.
"Well, he's fixing the 'mess'," Liz said in a bored voice. She turned her sister to leave Kid to his own devices. "Well we're going to be in this room, bye!" The door slammed behind them.
"Why do they do this to me!" Kid continued to rush around fixing up the place until everything was perfect and exact. Then he went to sleep symmetrically. He dreamed about Symmetrical things and symmetry, like the number eight. His dreams soon turned to the Mary Sue and it's evil.
~~~~~~DWMA~~~~~~
The next morning both Soul and Kid woke with thoughts of the Mary Sue. It had so easily taken over their friends minds, or at least charmed them. It was appalling and amazing at the same time.
Soul had had a rough night full of dreams of memories of Wes and the Piano and his parents. None of those dreams held any hint of the stupid Mary Sue that claimed to be his 'sister'. It disgusted Soul, how it managed to trick his friends into liking it and Maka offering it housing.
Kid continued fretting over his supposedly unsymmetrical room. He couldn't stand the thought that he might have missed something. The painting? No. Maybe. The candles? No, he threw them out and got new ones and made sure to light both at exactly the same time. He ran home three times before Patti and Liz managed to keep him at the school for their lessons.
Stein, today, had decided to do a lecture on traitors. How to spot them and how to deal with them. It was tricky business so Soul and Kid had to pay attention and not chat about the Sue. It was useful information for their mission.
After the lesson, everyone went on with their daily business. Soul attempted to be friendly with Marylyn to appease Maka. He also wanted to make sure no one suspected her yet. They needed to find a sound strategy before doing anything drastic.
Kid and Soul talked a little throughout the day about how to fix the problem. They didn't come up with any good ideas. They considered just killing her in her sleep, but scratched the idea because people could think they were killers.
They also thought about going to Kid's father, Lord Death, but scratched that idea as well. They figured he would either ignore the problem, not believe them, or just watch as it played out.
The Sue's behavior often caused the boys to wonder if it was playing with them. That it knew that they knew and was mocking them because it knew they couldn't do anything about it. It would often flirt with everyone, even Stein! She had asked for extra lessons because she was so new. Stein acted oblivious, but they knew he didn't really like it. He couldn't turn down giving extra lessons though and that upset him.
Turns out, the little Sue was a weapon without a meister. She, according to Lord Death, was one of the best weapons without a meister that the school had ever seen. She was no Justin Law, that was for sure, but she was apparently really good.
That caused problems of course. If the boys plan turned south and they were forced to attack her, it could be potentially problematic. Maka would most likely not side with them which would leave Soul without a weapon, as would Patti and Liz, which would leave Kid without weapons.
It was sad, how much power a Mary Sue held. It disgusted them and they hated it. How could they make their friends see? They got together after class ended. The rest of the group spent their time fawning over Marylyn and went to a park or something. Soul and Kid claimed they had to do some extra training so they went off to the forest to have their conversation in secret.
"Soul, we need to do something before this Mary Sue takes over. It's already got just about everyone from the academy convinced, plus my father and the rest of Death City. At this rate, it'll take over the entire world!" Kid huffed and sat down of a chair he happened to pull out of...somewhere.
"I know Kid, this is turning serious. Hey, wasn't it supposed to go after a man? Isn't that the main goal of a Sue? To find one of the coolest guys and make him fall in love with her or something?" Soul went to lean against a tree, hands in his pockets, as always.
Kid looked thoughtful for a moment before answering. "Well it's possible that it hasn't chosen a target yet. It could have just come without full knowledge of who it wanted to feed off of first. Mary Sues feed of the men they get. They slowly suck out their soul until all of their personality has left them. It makes me quake in my perfectly symmetrical shoes, but it happens."
They sat together for a while, just thinking. The silence of the forest comforted them. They allowed their minds to go wild and meld with the wilderness around them. Soul loved the heaven of solitude the forest provided and Kid loved to be able to get away from the constant asymmetry of Death City. Here the trees were perfectly symmetrical and nothing could change that, and that's what he loved about it.
They both came to a decision together, a risky plan and a tricky one as well, but they hoped it would work.
"We need to confront the others. Tell them that Marylyn is a Mary Sue," Kid spoke first.
"I agree. We should try to get everyone together without Marylyn being there and just tell them."
They grinned at each other and hoped their plan would work. If not, they weren't sure if they would be able to succeed.
A/N: Thanks for reading! I'll get more later today! R/R!
