Chapter 3: Recovery of the Defeated. His Name is Jyin.
This chapter took a little longer to type out than I would have hoped for, but never the less I hope you enjoy the following chapter. I don't own Soul Eater.
The DWMA infirmary is currently occupied by the six students who went to capture Jyin. Their injuries varied from bruises to broken and they were all unconscious when a recovery party found them. Clay needed to go under surgery due to the large cut on his torso. According to Professor Stien however, they are all expected to have a full recovery in less than a weeks' time. Thanks to the group's efforts, the DWMA finally knows the following; the attacker's name and his motive. The cost of this information was little in comparison to the six injured students, but was better than nothing.
~At the Albarn/Evans residence
"Are you sure you don't want to come?"
"I don't think having a bunch of us going over to the infirmary is a good idea. You can go to represent all of us."
Maka wanted to deliver a 'get well' fruit basket to the hospitalized students and is currently asking Soul to accompany her.
"All right then, I'm off." she said leaving out the door.
"Take as much time as you need." Soul answered back.
~At the DWMA infirmary
"Thank you for visiting 'Scythe Miester' Maka." Goe said with a bow," your weapon and friends are not with you?"
"I came to represent all of them." Maka smiled putting down the fruit basket.
As of right now, Black Star and Tsubaki are paying a visit to friends and babysitting the child there. As for Kid, Liz, and Patty are taking a trip the mall buying girl accessories for whatever reason.
Aside from Maka and Goe, all of the wounded miesters and weapons were also accounted for. Everyone was awake expect for Ox, who has taken the most damage out of the six. He had a broken arm, fractured both of his legs, 3 fractured rib bones, and a dislocated jaw. Luckily, Stien was able fix his bones before it became any worse than it could have been. He was lucky to be discharged in a week rather than a month or longer even.
"Do you want to know more?" asked a hoarse voice
Maka turned to see a bandaged Harvar. Aside from his bandages, he seems okay, but the lenses on his glasses were cracked which indicated he was struck pretty hard at one point during their fight.
"That would be very helpful to know." Maka said as she pulled up a chair to sit on," Is this Jyin guy strong or just someone who uses cheap trickery?" she asked.
"He's terrifying." Goe said from behind Maka, shivering with fear.
"I wouldn't say it's an exaggeration to call him a monster, if you get where I'm going with this." Harvar replied "His senses and reflexes are superhuman and he can move just as fast as Black Star, so fast that we could barely keep our eyes on him."
"His strength is also truly unbelievable." Nate added, "He was able knockout Hory with a single hit, jump up trees effortlessly and was able to send Ox crashing through the forest with a single attack and I'm starting to think that he's still holding back on his true physical power."
Maka could feel the surrounding souls in the room quiver.
"Despite all this, I think is the most troublesome and scariest thing about our fight was his technique." Clay said continuing the conversation, "It wasn't martial arts or any acrobatics, but he attacks by dodging and countering."
"Do you mean he doesn't attack you guys at all?" asked Maka confused.
"No, before he attacks, he avoids any upcoming attacks and then he attacks by bypassing any future attacks." Clay clarified, "For example, when me and Akane attacked him with swordplay all he did was observe our movements while dodging and was able to block all of our attacks and figure out our blind spots to deal damage when he finishes his analysis."
All of them nodded in agreement.
"Wait a minute, he was able to do same to you too Goe?" Maka asked shocked, "Don't you focus on long range attacks?"
She nodded vigorously and said "We attacked him from above, but after hit him once he found our location in the trees and dodged our attacks and cornered us."
"That's amazing!" Maka gasped, "He could trace long range attacks back to their source by injury? That's pretty cool."
Everyone glared at Maka with cold eyes. She quickly focused herself back on the subject and remembers to NOT compliment the enemy. Especially if the victims are right in front of her.
"I'm sorry, please continue." she quickly said.
"Anyways, in conclusion to his fighting style, he really doesn't have one." Harvar said, "With his inhuman reflexes, senses, speed and strength he relies on adapting to the fight rather than using a focused fighting technique."
"After all of those battles with the kishins, witches and other thugs, I wouldn't be surprised if he is several levels higher stronger than we can actually predict." Akane said, "He picked a good time to start training thanks to the madness that is making rise to new kishins and witches at abnormal rates."
Maka took a moment to soak up the information and pondered a bit. She then came up with a terrifying theory.
"Wait, does that mean if he keeps on fighting he'll just get stronger and stronger?!" she asked, "And that he that he doesn't have any sort of weakness?!"
The silence and the pale faces answered her question clearly.
"Not quite, he's somewhat inexperienced." a hoarse voice said.
"Did we wake you Ox?" asked Harvar slightly concerned, but relieved that he seems to be doing fine.
Ox was laying on the bed farthest away from the rest of the group and was drinking milk from the carton all the while. His cast on his arm and his leg indicates that he still hasn't fully recovered yet.
"Actually I was awake when you started to mention the 'Devil Weapon's' fighting style." he said.
"What do you mean by he's inexperienced? You out of all us should realize that he's a monster of a fighter." Goe pointed out.
"Hear me out, do you remember when you fought him back then?" asked Ox.
"Well duh, he knocked Mimi right out of the trees into the ground." she sarcastically retorted, "That wicked look on his face will haunt me for a while."
"Do you mean when Mimi shot that Jyin guy in the leg" asked Maka trying to keep the yelling down.
"Yeah that's right, do you guys remember what he said after he attacked all of us?" Ox asked.
"I thank you for this fighting experience. Learn something new every day, right?" Nate responded. "That's what he said word by word."
"Correct, that means he was unfamiliar with attackers who uses bow as a main weapon." Ox explained, "This means that we just have to fight him with a weapon or battle tactic that he's not seen."
"If we can get information on his previous battles, maybe we can an idea of what he have and haven't fought before." Maka said as she caught up on as where Ox was carrying the conversation too, "We should tell Lord Death about this."
"He's at a meeting right now."
Everyone turned to see Crona and Ragnorok at the entrance of the infirmary with 'Get Well' bouquet.
"I'm the only person in the world who wields a demon sword." he said, "Ragnorok is a one of a kind weapon, Jyin has never fought against a weapon like him before."
"No one is like me! I'll pummel that pipsqueak!" Ragnorok yelled swinging his fists.
"You're the pipsqueak here." Everyone thought sweat dropping.
Ok that concludes this chapter! I'll try to post another chapter before the holidays, but if not have a happy holiday and thanks for reading!