Every once in a while you've just got to do something crazy.
If you don't, then the next time you do something crazy,
It'll be insane.
You can't stay composed forever.
And the longer you try to
The worse it gets.
-Seth McClissey
Soul Eater: Blood Laced Wine
In Maka and Soul's apartment.
Maka blinked her eyes open.
A day had passed since the incident at the house.
Maka pushed her blankets away from her and glanced at the clock, it was seven in the morning.
She sighed and got out of bed to get changed.
"Just one more day." She muttered as she approached her closet.
As soon as the door was opened, out jumped Blair.
"Heeeyyy!" the cat yelled as she bounded into Maka.
Maka was taken off guard and was soon knocked over from the force of the blow.
"Ow." She huffed annoyed.
"Sorry Maka," Blair apologised," but I was so excited to see you guys again, I wanted it to be a surprise!"
Soul came out of his room, he knocked on the door.
"Hey, Maka," he called, a hint of worry in his voice," you OK?"
She managed to sit up.
"Yeah I'm fine," she assured him," Blair's back."
Ten minutes later.
"So you decided to hide in her closet?" Soul asked, they were all eating breakfast.
He was dressed in a blue t-shirt with grey pants.
"What," Blair shot back," was that a bad idea?"
"What I don't get is when you managed to do it," Maka stated," we didn't leave the house at all yesterday."
Maka had dressed in her usual casual wear of a t-shirt and light pants with a jacket over top, the collar was flipped up to cover her neck.
"Oh, that couldn't stop me," Blair beamed," I just came in through the window while you were asleep."
Soul shook his head.
A knock on the door caught their attention.
"I'll get it." Soul said as he got up.
He was surprised to see Kid, Liz and Patty standing in the doorway, Liz and Patty in white shirts with beige shorts while Kid wore a black shirt with grey pants.
"Hey guys," he stammered," what's up?"
Kid looked at Soul and then Maka.
"I need to speak to you two," he stated," now."
The urgency in his voice was very evident.
"Yeah sure-" Soul attempted, but Kid had already started walking away.
Liz shrugged at him and followed Kid with Patty in tow.
Soul looked back at Maka with a puzzled looked on his face.
"C'mon," she said, pushing away from the table she fiddled with her sling and walked towards the door," nice seeing you Blair."
And with that, they left, leaving Blair on the table.
The cat sighed.
"Aw," she whined," I'd hoped for the three of us to have some fun together, oh well."
She hopped to the closest window.
"Guess I'll just have to find my own fun." She stated before jumping out of the apartment and into the streets below.
Meanwhile Maka and Soul had just caught up to Kid.
"Hey wait up," Soul demanded," what's going on?"
Kid stopped at the beginning of a street, he pointed to the lonely house at the end.
"Oh," Soul huffed," that."
Liz looked at Soul.
"What do you mean by that?" she asked.
"So you two know as well." Kid stated.
Soul nodded.
"How long?" Kid inquired.
"Since the night before yesterday." He answered frankly.
"And you never thought about telling me?" Kid asked, he turned to both Soul and Maka.
Maka looked away from him.
"Hey," Soul started," you don't know what happened!"
"That's right I don't," Kid shot back," so maybe you can start from the beginning!"
The two of them kept yelling at each other like this while Liz, Patty and Maka all stood to the side.
Liz looked at Maka's left hand.
"Hey," she began," did you draw on yourself or something?"
This caught both Soul and Kid's attention.
Maka simply closed her fist and looked away.
"It's blood." She muttered, to no one in particular.
Everyone except for Soul stared at Maka, he simply shook his head.
Liz turned to Soul.
"Wait," she began, she pointed to the bandage on his cheek," that wasn't there a few days ago."
"No it wasn't," Maka confirmed, she pulled back her uptuned collar, revealing her new bandage as well," and neither was this."
Liz and Kid both looked at Maka and Soul, while Patty was off in her own little world.
"What the hell happened to you two?" Liz asked.
Maka shook her head.
"She doesn't remember." Soul explained.
Kid and Liz turned to him.
"What," he asked," she doesn't?"
Soul leaned up against a wall.
"It was weird," he began, he eyed the small house," and the person in that house is crazy."
Kid looked at the house.
"Do you remember?" Kid asked Soul nodded.
"Yeah," he stated," but it just seemed fake, like it wasn't really happening."
Thirty feet above the group.
Fisher was lying on the roof of one of the buildings on her new street.
She sighed behind her mask, she wasn't wearing her heavy parka today, but she still wore the cut-off shirt and bandages.
She had her red hair in a ponytail.
She was hanging her head over the side of the flat roof, she looked down.
"Hm, what's this?" she asked aloud as she looked at the group below her.
A strange noise emitted from the case on her back, it sounded like a dying breath.
"OH you're right Ko," she said, she looked at Soul and Maka," it is those two from before."
Her attention was grabbed by the sight of Kid, she clasped her hands together.
"Oo," she cooed," it's him."
The case leaked a large drop of blood onto the roof, she swiped some up onto her gloved finger and she looked at it thoughtfully.
She listened to the conversation.
"Was she really with Stein?" Liz asked
Soul nodded.
Fisher studied the souls of the five people below her.
"Boy, they look appetizing," she muttered," she rolled the large drop of blood in the palm of her glove," right Ko?"
The case moaned once more.
She suppressed a laugh.
"Yeah," she replied," I guess we can't just kill them."
She gazed down once more, they were still talking.
"Whoever she is," Soul continued," she's crazy."
She stopped, the drop of blood rolled to the side of her slanted palm.
"We need to warn my father." Kid offered, the rest muttered their agreement.
Fisher gritted her teeth, the drop of blood reached the back of her hand.
She sharply lifted her hand, the drop fell towards the group.
Back on the streets.
"We need to warn my father." Kid stated, the rest agreed.
The five of them got ready to go.
The sound of something hitting the ground in the middle of the circle caught their attention.
Soul felt something fall into the hair in front of his face, he ran his fingers through it.
"What was that?" Liz asked, looking around.
One by one, everyone's attention turned to Soul, who was running his fingers through some bloody hair.
He looked at his hand, his mouth hung open.
Slowly he looked up, sure enough, there was the white mask looking back down at him.
"Are you talking about me for a reason?" the person called in a noticeably annoyed tone, everyone looked up at the voice.
"Is that-"Kid began.
"Yeah." Soul confirmed in a surprised tone.
The person flipped off of the roof and landed amidst the group, she pinned Soul against the wall with her forearm.
His feet dangled almost a foot off the ground as he tried to get her arm off of his throat.
Everyone backed away, excluding Maka, who made a grab for the woman.
This earned her a boot to the stomach which pushed her back a few meters.
"Shit," Kid thought," she's fast."
The person brandished three knives in her left hand, they seemed to appear from nowhere.
She rested these blades on Soul's stomach, they danced on the fabric of his shirt.
"Liz, Patty!" Kid called.
"Right." They both replied, they turned into their weapon modes and took their place with Kid.
Kid leveled the two at the woman.
"Let him go." He barked, the woman slowly turned to face him.
She roughly let Soul fall to the ground, he grabbed his throat and gasped for air, he had started to change colour.
She gave an audible huff of disappointment while shaking her head.
She turned towards her house and began walking, she moved right past Kid and his partners without even glancing at them, she could have disarmed him if she wanted to as all Kid could do was stare at her in disbelief.
Maka moved to Soul's side.
"Wha-"Kid blurted when the woman was behind him, he spun and raised Liz and Patty to aim at the back of her head," where are you going?"
She stopped walking.
The woman flexed her fingers, her knives disappeared.
Kid gritted his teeth.
"Are you going to shoot me?" the woman asked.
This caught him off guard.
"Y-yes." He stammered confused.
The woman laughed, she turned to face him.
She reached for the side of the case on her back with her right hand, a weapon shot out of the case and into her waiting fingers.
Kid looked at the weapon, it looked like an axe with a large blade and handle, the thick blade curved to the woman's fingers.
What caught his eye was the shape of the blade.
On the side with the handle there was a large curve that looped around itself, the rest of the back was straight and the outside of the curved blade ended with a large barb.
It looked like an oversized, bladed meat hook with a handle.
Blood fell from the weapon, it dripped onto the ground until not a single drop remained on the weapon.
"Lucky for you," she chuckled," Ko and I aren't very-"
She trailed off, Kid gripped his pistols tighter.
"Hungry." The woman finished in a hiss.
Her tone creeped Maka out.
"Soul, you OK?" she asked.
"Yeah." He replied, he began turning into a scythe.
She stood in fighting position.
"Maka," Kid began, not taking his eyes off of the woman," how can you fight with only one arm?"
"Who said that was ever a problem?" she shot back.
She loosened the loops on her sling and let it hit the ground.
She shakily clenched her fist a few times and moved her arm a bit, it still moved with a jerky range of motion however.
It obviously hadn't healed completely.
"I can fight with you," She assured Kid as she took her place beside him," and besides, we have a score to settle."
Kid simply smiled at her.
"Right." He muttered.
The woman straightened and sighed, all of them were surprised by this.
She turned her back to them and stretched her arms out.
"Oh I'm so BORED!" the woman wailed.
"HUH!?" All of them blurted.
Her weapon moaned, she turned to face them again.
"I know, I'm sorry," she assured it," I need more serious prey for you."
She took the case from her back and opened it on the ground.
She put the weapon back in the case and closed it.
She replaced the case on her back and looked at them.
"So sorry," she said, looking right at Kid, she began to turn," but I'll be going now."
Kid shot at her feet, she stopped moving.
"I don't think so." He hissed.
The woman turned to him once again, she laughed.
He gritted his teeth.
"What's so funny?" he shouted.
She ignored him and kept laughing.
"It's good to see that father passed on something to you." She stated, she began to reach for her mask.
Kid and Maka tightened their grip on their weapons.
Her reddish hair swayed in the wind.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked her.
She gripped her mask and slowly pulled it from her face.
"It's been a long time," she stated as her green eyes locked with his," they call you Kid now, right?"
The lower half of her face was obscured with a black cloth, but she pulled this down as well.
At this point they saw that this "woman" was their age.
Her scarred face smirked at them.
"You have some new scars," Kid remarked, he lowered his pistols, Maka glanced at him confused," Alexis."
Alexis had a few scars on her pale face, one horizontal cut from her right jawbone and over her lips that ended right beneath two black cuts that ended at her ear and one more that began on the left of her nose and ended at her left brow.
Even with the scars, she still looked pretty, they looked like they belonged on her skin.
She smiled and clapped her hands together, her sharp teeth looked menacing.
"Oh you do remember!" she beamed, she was acting like Patty.
She untied her hair and let it fall to her elbows, the red shimmered gold.
"It has been so long," she started, her voice strangely sweet," I'd thought you had forgotten about me, father certainly hadn't."
Kid gritted his teeth.
"What does dad have to do with this?" he hissed, everyone looked at him shocked.
Alexis smiled at him.
"A lot actually," she scoffed," maybe you should have a chat with him."
"Wait," Soul started," you two are related?"
Alexis turned to him and Maka.
"Black blood hmm," she muttered, she grinned slightly," appetising."
Maka squirmed under her gaze.
"We're not blood siblings if that's what you mean," she stated with a slight frown, her eyes narrowed at Kid," we just have the same person to blame for our existence."
Her smirk returned.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Maka yelled.
She smiled widely once more at them.
"Ask him," she laughed, she pointed at Kid," he knows exactly who I was."
Kid glared at her.
"Was?" he repeated.
She giggled at him.
"A lot has changed," she explained," since then."
"Aren't you going to fight us?" Maka asked in a confused tone.
Alexis glanced at her.
"Again," Alexis began in an annoyed tone," Ko and I aren't hungry right now."
They both stared at each other for a few seconds.
"What are you doing here?" Kid finally asked, Alexis turned to him once more.
Her eyes narrowed slightly.
"Well I can't lie to you," she giggled, she tilted her head slightly," I've enrolled in the academy."
All of them stared at her, her face changed, she frowned.
"Oh so transparent." She muttered, she pulled up the cloth and replaced her mask.
"You can't be serious!" Maka shouted.
The mask turned to her, she felt Alexis' gaze even through the mask.
"Like I said," Alexis assured her," I won't lie to Kid."
"Dad would never agree to that!" Kid shouted angrily.
This caused Alexis to physically flinch.
She slashed at the air with her hand.
"What would you know about father," she shouted," I spoke to him the night before yesterday, it's already happening!"
The group were taken aback by this.
Alexis turned from them and began walking.
"Alexis wai-" Kid tried.
"That name is for friends and family and all of you are neither," she yelled cutting him off, she stopped walking," until that is what we are, call me Fisher."
She resumed her trek to her house, leaving the five of them to process what had just happened.
The weapons all reverted to their human forms.
Soul handed Maka her sling.
She stared at the fabric for a few seconds.
"Kid," she began without looking at him," who is she?"
Everyone turned to Kid.
"She," he began, his eyes narrowed at the retreating girl," is a problem."
He turned and began walking.
"H-hey, Kid where are you going?" Maka called.
"WE are all going to see my father," he explained angrily," because WE need to talk to him."
His tone caused them to look at each other, Liz simply shrugged and began following Kid with Patty in tow.
Maka shot Soul a worried look before they too followed.
Author's Note: hey It's me Gorse the Almighty.
Just wanted to say "fooled you" shit didn't go down this chapter, but it almost did.
Anyway as you can probably tell, Kid is pissed, "but why" you may ask, that may be answered next time. (might be answered)
I just couldn't bring myself to have any of the group fight her just yet, they're all wounded in some way so she sees them as unworthy opponents at the moment.
Besides I was thinking of a Maka and Soul vs Alexis and Ko match when the EAT class starts with sparring, just to establish her and Ko's abilities.(to an extent anyway)
And that's just a thought, I may do this I may not, let me know if you want the first (real) combat in the story to be a Maka and Alexis fight.
I for one think that would be epic, but if you think say Kid or BlackStar would be better( I hate him so much) then be my guest and let me know.
I'll probably do either the most badass sounding fight or the easiest to make, or if you guys want I can treat you with a fight of some other kind (I won't, jussayin) and test my skills in that matter.
This is, however the major reason I just couldn't have them fight yet, if they did that then whoever fights her won't be surprised by her style, which I think I made very well.
Just a warning, the next chapter is where this STARTS to get messed up, my combat is very blood and gore, hack and slash, gouge your eyes out fun… for the whole family.
Just a small warning, that's all, I did rate this as half horror right, right?
Anyway, if imaginary blood just makes you vomit out your internal organs just stop reading and take a breather, anyone who didn't die during any horror movie ever however will be able to handle it, which SHOULD be everyone, but if not then ok, no ending for you. :T
I'm not saying there will be combat next chapter and I'm not saying there won't be combat next chapter, I'm just saying that I'm going to let what happens in Microsoft Word, stay on the internet forever ok?
Ok.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter, bye.
-GorseT