"Whether or not there were no casualties the implications here are serious." Death stood, his robe somewhat torn and his mask severly cracked yet not in pieces. "One of the academy's top weapons has become a Kishin. We need to act fast."
"I don't understand it. He seems so different know." Spirit was sulking a distance away from the group.
"This Kishin is a lot different from Asura. I have no way of predicting on his course of action." Death seemed stern yet concerned.
"From what I can gather, where as becoming a Kishin made Asura even worse of his original affliction, Victor seems to have had his personality completely reversed by the madness." Stein deduced.
"What do you mean?" Maka asked. She was still weakened from the battle, especially after her original plan was made ineffective.
"Back in the day, Victor was an uptight yet blank, like Stein." Stein ignored Spirit's remark. "He was also had many fits of depression, but he was still able to control his emotional tendencies more than anyone I know."
"With Asura, rather than killing his fears off, it amplified them, making his madness completely irreversible." Stein continued. "But the opposite seems to have happened to Victor."
"He seems so… disturbed…" Spirit mentioned. Maka was surprised on how hard Spirit was taking this.
"The other thing strange about him is his madness wavelength." Stein kept on in his lecture. "With Asura, it radiated from his body, spreading throughout the world like a sun. Here, Victor seems to be able to control it." His eyebrow twitched. "He came so close to me yet I didn't feel myself affected in anyway. I only felt it after he and Lord Death began fighting."
"So is this Kishin going to be more of a threat?" Maka asked.
"I'm not sure. What I don't understand is why did he leave? I felt a tremor in his soul and he simply left."
"Actually," Maka answered, "he struck Crona, freaked out and just… left."
"Hmmm…"
"Professor Stein! Professor Stein!" They all looked at the doorway and saw a student running through the guillotine passages and up directly to Stein. "I have the sample Professor." He handed him a circular beaker full of a glowing red chemical. Stein have a weak smile.
"Excellent. This is just what I need." He began to walk off.
"Stein? Stein, what is that?" Spirit asked.
"A blood sample from Victor." Everyone directed their full attention to Stein. "With a little observation, I might find out a few things about our former friend." Lucky Kid shot him at that time or they wouldn't have had the puddle of blood. "Oh, by the way, I would keep and eye on Crona and Black Star in the meantime. Who knows that blast the took did to them." That was when he walked off.
Crona and Black Star were in the infirmary along with Sid after their battle, still a little groggy from the hit they took. Nygus was paying close attention and care towards the three meisters, especially Sid, when Maka, Marie and Tsubaki came in to check up on the others. Marie got a box of chocolates since she knew of Ragnarok's sociopathic tendencies.
"Crona. Black Star. You have visitors." Nygus said with a clipboard in her arms. In walked the girls who came to their bedsides while Nygus was checking up on her undead miester.
"Maka… Marie…" Crona was tired but still happy to see them.
"Hey Crona. I hope your feeling better." Maka said with a warm smile on her face.
"Uh, yeah."
"It's nice to see you still with us. Nygus told us that the hits you took where pretty brutal."
They heard a faint bubbling sound coming from the I.V. hooked up to Crona, full of black blood. The dark liquid formed two small golf-balls that where supposed to be Ragnarok's eyes.
"If it wasn't for me she wouldn't." Ragnarok nagged from the device. "Ooh, is that chocolate?" The I.V. started to bounce over to the both of them, trying to reach for it. "GIMME, GIMME, GIMMIE, GIMMI-" Until the I.V. fell over, tugging at Crona'[s arm slightly. The both of them started to giggle slightly as Crona looked at them with feelings of embarrassment.
Beside all of them had Tsubaki at Black Star's side. His body was aching, but Black Star wasn't much of a complainer when when his pride interfered.
"I hope your feeling okay." Tsubaki said with a sad face.
"It's alright Tsubaki. A man as big as me can't be struck down by some creepy demon guy pointing at me like that." He said with a grin, his right eye closed from his sore head. Tsubaki made a light smile. Well, he seems okay. For Blackstar of course...
Crona cringed slightly from her tooth that must have broken from the battle. She brought her hand to her cheek in mild discomfort.
"What is it Crona? Is it your tooth?" Marie brought her hand to Crona's cheek to see what was the matter. Crona looked up, where a small glint reflected off of her eyepatch.
"Such an obedient little child you are." Crona blinked, and in Marie's place sat Medusa, her hood over her hair, her ear to ear grin menacing as ever, and Marie's eyepatch was instead her eye, glowing a bright red gleam.
Crona's eyes were dilated and her body shaking violently.
"Crona, what's wrong?" Maka said. In Maka's place stood the tall figure that put her their in the first place, Victor. His figure tall and slim, his eyes were completely red, the arrows on his back blending in with the arrows that started to grow.
"Hello little witch. I hope your feeling better." His toothy grin reached across his face. Crona put her hands on her face in fear, hoping the malevolent figure's before her would leave. "Your soul seems tasty. Might I have a taste?" His long inhuman tongue began to lick his lips.
"No…" Crona moaned.
"Crona?" Maka took a step forward.
"Stay away…"
"What? why?" Crona felt like she was about to lose her mind.
"Stay away!" She immediately slapped Marie's hand away and got out of her bed, running out of her room with the black blood in the IV leaking to the ground. Marie put her had close to her, feeling hurt at the way Crona was behaving.
Tsubaki and BlackStar watched as Maka and Marie ran after her. "What's with her?"
Tsubaki couldn't help but feel concerned.
Meanwhile, Stein was back at his lab. As usual, his lab was completely dark with the exception of the screens on with different data on each. He was alone at the moment, Marie went off to visit Crona at the infirmary. She still lived with him in his lab, and was planning to move back to Oceania after the Kishin was defeated. That will put on hold however, due to to the new Kishin out and about.
He was using his equipment, his beaker and bunsen-burners, his computers and scanners, and was trying to find ways through the Kishin's biology. He wouldn't tell anyone, but the real reason he was scanning it was his curiosity. At the moment, this was the closest he had towards dissecting a Kishin such as Victor.
Victor. You always have been one of the more intellectual of my collegues. Why would you do something as risky as this?
He cranked at the device in his head, pondering what all he was looking for. He did a recording of his DNA and copied it many times, cleaned out the corrupted parts that his Kishin anatomy has altered. He looked into the screen, the 0s and 1s coming again and again as the binary recorded his findings.
"Good. Very good." The Glowing green number started to glow red, the numbers moving about in a way they weren't supposed to. "Uh Oh." The binary numbers left a very peculiar shape in black; three vertical eyes. The room began to warp, becoming darker and darker as the computer screen became a dark crimson. From the blackest end of the room emerged Victor, his glowing eyes breaking the darkness. The arrows slowly flowed out from the black, flowing like ribbons against a faint breeze.
"Victor. Franken-Stein. Both in the very same room alone again. How are things?" He asked.
"What are you doing here?"
"Really? Is that all you have to say? Come on. I thought we were friends." He gave an obviously fake hurt expression. "I'm here because of your madness. It's so deliciously rowdy. I couldn't resist."
"Then why are you holding back? My psyche should be completely shattered by now."
"Simple. I don't need to. Your mind will shatter on it's own." He began to laugh outloud until Stein interrupted him.
"Medusa's Castle. What were you doing there?" He continued to his work, trying to ignore the shape of Victor's corrupted soul.
"It's always 'work, work, work' with you people. How about a drink and light chat on how thing where going?" Stein didn't answer. Victor sighed in disappointment and floated over to his file cabinet. "I was with Essum to find a witch to complete the set of souls that we have found." He opened the file cabinet. "I was gonna be a Death Scythe." He laughed out loud and began to rummage through the student records.
"We soon came across the location of a witch that live in isolation far east of this very city." He tossed some filed behind him, others he reorganized out of order. "We took a flight to a mountainous area in the western half Canada. It was rather bizarre. The tree's were oddly shaped, the mountains were drenched in mist. Very strange. We hiked out in those mountains for weeks, only relying on clueless passer-buyers and Essum's soul perception."
He stopped moving and looked at Stein with a scared/stressed expression, his hair mildly unruly. "We were there for THREE-STRAIGHT WEEKS!" He immediately snapped back to his evil grin, his hair flowing as he went back to the files.
"Eventually we came to a large castle that was as oddly shaped. It was coursing with arrows and a very unsettling aura." He then crossed his legs like he was sitting, the arrows on his back imbedding themselves into the ground, keeping him afloat. "Inside the castle was a lone woman. She lived all alone and needed company when winter hit the mountains. She seemed so sweet… at the time…"
Stein nearly jumped when a folder from the cabinet was plopped beside his work space. He turned around, curiouse on why the room has gotten so quiet. He saw nothing. The red light from the computer turned back to green. The darkness of the room vanished, and Victor has disappeared.
Stein began to pant in exhaustion, weakened from the Kishin's very presence. "How interesting." He struggled to stand on his feet as he archived what was left of the data made on his experiment. He took one long look at the folder Victor set on his desk until he opened it. He opened it and saw that it was the student record that belonged to Crona.
"Hmmm? Why would Victor be so interested in Crona?" He thought. "When I last looked at Crona's soul, she did had a few similarities to Medusa, but that only explains so much." He looked over to the bookshelf on the very right of the wall. On the top shelf, rather than keeping books in it, he kept samples he has stored and could be analyzed for later. He took a small vile that contained a small liquid. It had a small trace of Crona's skin tissue from when he was treating her wounds back at Medusa's castle.
He place some of the liquid into a small beaker and had it analyzed. What came onto the screen surprised the mad doctor beyond his own understanding.
Crona was running, not caring where she would end up, down the halls of the school. Behind her, arrows were chasing her on the walls, pillars cracking and the paint wore out. She ran, her hands over her face while trying to hold back tears. Other students simply looked as the pale girl and the others chasing after her.
She came to a dead end at the other side of the floor. She touched the wall, cowering against it, as Medusa calmly walked towards her, the world she walks behind, withering and crumbling away. "Whats the matter?"
Crona was shaking, covering her face as she slid onto the floor against the wall.
"What a disobedient child. I'm going to have to punish you." She reached her hand to her child, laughing sinisterly. She removed Crona's hands from her face, to reveal Maka on her knees infront of her with Marie standing behind her.
"Crona, whats wrong?" Crona couldn't hold back any longer, as she broke down crying, pulling Maka in a hug, who then hugged her back.
"Maka," she struggled to say in her sobbing. "She was here."
"Who was here?" Crona's tears ran down Maka's shirt. She thought it was all over, but it's no longer the case.
"Lady-Medusa!" Maka's eyes widened, hugging her tighter. Marie made a frustrated expression and tightened her fist. "She was here. She wanted to… to…" She cried harder, wanting it all to stop.
"Don't worry. We won't let her take you again."
Anyone got the little in-joke I made there? Victor, Frankenstein… Dr. Victor Frankenstein was the name of the main character in the old novel. But again, this is pure coincidence so just ignore it.
I have currently made a picture of Victor that I have loaded onto my computer and I am currently in the process of putting it onto the internet where I will have a link set up on the computer.
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