Howdy friends! this is probably record uploading time. Two chapters in one day? Eff yea! okay. nothing has changed since last chapter. I'm still spelling disabled and I still want more reviews. Chapter 5 is completely done and I'm halfway through chapter 6, but they will never be uploaded until this story gets more fricken reviews. Please?(:
This is one of my favorite chapters. It introduces my favorite character ever. you all better like it. And I still don't own Soul Eater.
Soul Eater: What Happens Next?
Chapter 4
"How is this my fault?"
"You broke my alarm clock!"
"Yeah well you said we could sleep for thirty more minutes. Soo, not my fault."
"MAKA-CHOP!" Soul held his head in pain and grumbled. These morning squabbles between the two were becoming more and more common, and although neither of them said it, they didn't like it. But then again, neither was doing anything to change it.
"What the hell? She's really gotta stop that..." Soul got up and dusted himself off. He looked forward and saw Maka impatiently waiting for him. "Not cool, Maka."
"Whatever Soul. Just hurry up."
With Black Star and Tsubaki
"Please Black Star, we're already late enough as it is… You can run 5 miles after school." Black Star looked at his partner. He didn't want to neglect his training, but he also didn't want to make Tsubaki upset.
"Alright, Tsubaki. Let's go! I'll just up it to 50 miles after school!" Tsubaki sweat dropped, but followed her friend.'If you keep pushing yourself like this, you'll end up more exhausted and tired than anything...' The rest of their walk was almost completely peaceful, which is something most would find unusual for Black Star. But it was normal for Tsubaki. Her miester was loud and obnoxious around everyone, but when it was just the two of them, he was calm and even caring. 'You've really grown up, Black Star. Even if you won't show anyone else, I'm sure they've notice how much stronger you've gotten. And to think you used to be so vain and loud... I'm glad you've finally realized you're more than what everyone thought.' Black Star was a good 10 feet ahead of her when he slowed down. "Hey, Tsubaki. Weren't you afraid of us being late? Come on slow poke!" Tsubaki looked at him and smiled warmly.
"Coming Black Star!" She quickly caught up to him and they fell into a comfortable stride. After walking for a few minutes, the pair caught sight of Kidd and the Thompson sisters.
"HIYA KIDD!" Said boy stopped walking and turned to greet his friends.
"Black Star, Tsubki. Good morning you two."
"Ha, you guys late too?" Tsubaki nodded to Liz.
"Black Star insisted he finish his morning training."
"Sounds about right. Patti wanted to finish her paper mâché giraffe before we left. And of course Kidd had to make sure it was symmetrical..." Taubaki giggled. Patti proudly showed said giraffe and then proceeded to tear its head off. Kidd near passed out.
"WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU DO THAT? IT WAS PERFECTLY SYMMETRICAL AND NOW YOU'VE RUINED IT! HOW DISGUSTING." He dramatically fell to the ground crying.
"Oh Kidd..." Liz shook her head. She had to admit that Kidd had been getting less OCD about symmetry these past few months, but he still had his major freak outs all the time. Patti worked her magic and started the process of calming him down. At some point during his episode, Chrona and Ragnarok appeared on the scene. Tsubaki engaged him in a conversation that quickly started using big words, so Liz lost interest in that rather quickly. That was something else she noticed. Since his last encounter with Maka, when he was on the bad guys' side, Chrona was slowly but surely starting to change. He was becoming more outspoken, although whenever Black Star or one of the other guys challenged him, he'd lose some of his confidence and the girls had finally gotten him out of that weird dress that he wore before. Now he wore jeans, tennis shoes, and a T-shirt. Chrona had also seemed to take a liking to Patti for whatever reason, and Liz personally thought it was adorable in a weird way. She heard her name being called and turned to see Maka and Soul approaching them.
"Oh hey guys! I see you're both late too?" Maka looked slightly irritated. Judging by Soul's expression the two had had a fight a little bit ago. 'Hm, they sure have been fighting a lot more than usual recently... I wonder what the issue is.'
"Yeah, because somebody broke my alarm clock." Maka looked accusingly at Soul.
"For the last time, YOU said we could sleep for 30 more minutes!"
"And we would have known when those thirty minutes were up if you hadn't smashed my clock!" Now that brought about some more questions. Tsubaki looked curiously at her friends.
"Um...why was Soul even in your room? And why would he have a reason to smash your alarm?" Without even thinking of what her response would probably imply Maka answered.
"Because it woke him up. And Mr. Cool Guy over here wanted to sleep longer." Kidd, who had by this point recovered from his episode, asked his question next.
"So you're saying Soul was in your bed when the alarm clock went off?"
"Yes, that is what I'm saying." Apparently Maka didn't quite get what they were asking.
"When the hell did you two start sleeping together?" Liz really knew how to cut to the point. Maka's face matched Soul's eye color when she realized what her friends were thinking. Soul seemed to have decided to start paying attention to the conversation too at that point.
"WE AREN'T SLEEPING TOGETHER!" They screamed in unison. Patti burst out laughing even more.
"YOU GUYS TOTALLY ARE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"No we aren't! I had a nightmare okay? Soul just came to make sure I was okay, and whenever he was leaving I was still afraid so I asked him to stay!" Liz sighed.
"We know you aren't... We just wanted to have a little fun with you two... But jeez Maka, that's like your tenth nightmare in the past two weeks." Tsubaki made her way over to her friend.
"Are you sure you're okay? These seem to be causing you a lot of sleepless nights. You're a lot jumpier than normal too."
"I'm fine you guys. They're just bad dreams. It's not like I'm gonna die from them or anything." Soul shook his head.
"Yeah but you scream your head off every other goddamn night..."
"Can we just drop it please? We're almost 2 hours late you guys!" Reluctantly they all agreed to leave it. Not forever, but just for now. The 8 of them quickly made their way to the DWMA and didn't say anything or let their eyes wander, just to avoid any further delay. When they finally climbed the steps the group was met with an unexpected surprise. Before them were four of the old students. Hunter was leaned up against a wall near the entrance of the school, Lance was sitting on the awkward half wall with Sierra leaning against him, and Ember was laying on the top step with her headphones in and blaring. Lance looked over at the sound of footsteps.
"Jeeez, could you guys have gone any slower? We've been here since fucking 7 o'clock." Kidd raised an eyebrow.
"Why exactly are you waiting for us?" Sierra looked at them and answered.
"Your dad told us to. He wants to speak with all of us."
"Strange, he didn't mention that to any of us." Lance rolled his eyes and sarcastically replied to Kidd's comment.
"Probably because you weren't here on time?"
"Hm, I suppose you have a point there." There was a light silence in the air. Lance seemed nice enough to them all, whereas Hunter had been staring them down since they got there. The two girls didn't seem too bothered by their presence, though one was completely unaware that they were even there. Liz looked at Ember for a bit. Hunter noticed and answered the question he knew the blonde had.
"She's asleep. Ember can doze off just about anywhere as long as she's got her music with her." Now that's something Soul could respect. Hunter added another thought, "She also hates waiting. We're pretty sure it's physically impossible for her to stay completely still." Chrona looked at the sleeping red head. He, of course, took the 'keeping still' comment very literally.
"She's being really still now..." Sierra laughed and moved from her spot by Lance over to her friend.
"He didn't mean that literally, though it's true enough. Look at her left foot" Chrona and the others looked where Sierra had instructed and sure enough Ember's foot was moving to the beat of the song currently playing. "Even if she's asleep, she's moving. Ember is a really fidgety person." After she said that, Maka took a second to look around.
"If you don't mind me asking, where is that third guy, Trace?" Sierra was about to answer Maka's question when Lance loudly coughed, gaining everyone's attention.
"He's already in the Mirror Room with Stein, Spirit, and your dad. Someplace where we should all be. Like right now." Sierra turned to her weapon.
"Chill you big baby. Lord Death won't mind if we take a bit longer. He's been waiting as long as we have been, remember." She turned back around and Lance made a face at her. The girl seemed to be able to sense it and faced him again with a pouty face, threw a pebble that seemed to materialize out of nowhere at him, stuck her tongue out, and then turned back around. 'We're supposed to learn something from them?' Maka watched as Sierra started to wake Ember up. She shook her ever so lightly but received no response. She took her iPod and turned it down so that Ember would be able to hear her.
"Come one sweetie, time to wake up. Up up up." Ember mumbled something incoherent and rolled to the opposite side Sierra was on. She sighed and stood up. "Hunter, you're good at waking her up..." Said boy rolled his eyes but pushed himself away from the wall he had been against the whole time. He walked over to his miester and leaned over her. He then proceeded to kick her in the stomach. Not hard enough to seriously hurt her, but hard enough to get her to jolt upward. She looked up at him with daggers in her eyes.
"What the fuck was that you jackass?" He didn't even dignify it with an answer before turning around and heading towards the entrance of the school.
"Let's go." Something in the way he said that made everyone start moving. Although he started walking first, Hunter seemed to slow down and went from walking with Lance, to walking with Ember and Sierra, to walking with Maka. Black Star had been on the other side of her but he slowed and walked next to Soul. Maka's friends didn't take their eye off of the boy walking next to her.
"Hey stranger."
"Hey. How you holding up? You seem to be doing better than when I last saw you." Maka looked up at him and smiled.
"I'm okay. Everything is healing up fine thankfully. I'm just lucky you showed up when you did." He shook his head with a smirk on his face.
"That's great to hear. But don't even talk like that, got it? You made it out okay, and that's all that matters. Me showing up was just pure coincidence." Ember looked back when he said that. 'And if you hadn't she'd be dead. Pretty lucky coincidence.' Hunter looked away from Maka and to his miester. He motioned for her to join them and so Ember slowed her pace and walked on the other side of Hunter. "Maka, I'd like you to meet Ember, my miester." Maka looked over to the girl and smiled.
"It's nice to finally meet you. Hunter has told me a little bit about you." Ember looked from Hunter to Maka.
"Likewise, Maka. From what I heard you put up quite a fight in that alley. I can respect that. Now what exactly did Hunter tell you?"
"Well like I said, only a little bit. Basically just that you were a great miester, and that you two don't actually need each other in battle... Is that true?" Ember looked back up at Hunter, amusement and an unknown emotion all over her face.
"Did he now? I wasn't aware he'd just share that kind of stuff with a complete stranger. But I guess since he's already decided to tell you that, I can confirm it. We don't need each other in fights, and we actually hardly use each other. Before Hunter and I agreed to be "partners" we fought solo. He's more than capable in fighting without a miester, as you saw, and I don't need a weapon." Sierra and Lance looked back when Ember said that.
"It's not just those two that are sufficient going solo. Lance and I are too, and so are Trace and his partner, Kiara. We just pair up because it makes battles end faster." Maka was even more amazed than before. Their entire group was made up of completely independent people. And of course that cause some major disbelief with Soul, Black Star, and Liz. Even Chrona and Tsubaki found it a little out there. Patti wasn't even paying attention to anything being said.
"There's no way that that's true. Maybe for weapons, but not two girl miesters." Ember turned around to look Soul straight in the face. She was glaring daggers at him.
"Are you fucking joking? You think that just cause I'm a girl that I can't handle myself?" Soul stared right back at the girl.
"No, I don't that you can't handle yourself. I just don't believe you can handle yourself against Kishin eggs with no weapon." Black Star nodded in agreement.
"It's just a fact that guys will always be stronger than girls."
"Ummm, what?" Liz, Maka, Ember, Patti (who just started listening), Sierra, and Ember were now all glaring at Black Star. Soul just shook his head at his friend.
"Jeez Black Star, that wasn't what I was getting at at all..." Lance turned his head to look at Black Star.
"I would just stop talking man. Ember has a pretty big temper. She's probably one of the last people on earth you'd wanna piss off."
"And you know Liz isn't afraid to kick your ass." Black Star looked from Lance to Kidd and then to Soul and finally to the girls.
"Whatever..." Ember huffed and then turned back around. The rest of the walk was silent except for the occasional question or a small conversation. When they finally reached the Mirror Room's door they all went inside. When they entered they immediately went to the circular platform where Lord Death, Stein and Spirit were standing. When Spirit saw his daughter he immediately entered crazy dad mode and went running towards her.
"Oh my darling little girl! How wonderful it is to see you here!" He jumped towards her for a hug but Maka side stepped and continued walking forward. Stein just turned back to his conversation with Death while Patti and Ember laughed at Spirit's new found pain. Lance looked towards Maka with a blonde eyebrow raised.
"Daddy issues?"
"You don't even know." He chuckled at her deadpanned reply and then everyone turned their attention to Lord Death.
"Well now everybody, care for some tea?"
"I think we should just skip to explaining to them what we need. We have them all in the same place and who knows when that'll ever happen again." Stein's comment caused Maka and her friends to look around. That's when they noticed that Trace was resting comfortably on one of the strange crosses that were around the Mirror Room. Everyone was there. Except for Trace's partner. Liz commented on that.
"Apparently not everyone. Where is Kiara?" Trace, who appeared to have been asleep, opened one of his eyes revealing a dark eye. His gaze rested on the group.
"She's around, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. She's not gonna make herself known. Kiara hates large groups, and she doesn't really have any interest in meeting you guys."
"WHAT? Who wouldn't want to meet the incredible Black Star!" Maka rolled her eyes.
"A lot of people..." She said it loud enough for Liz and Tsubaki to hear, but not Black Star. Soul and Kidd looked at each other and seemed to have the same thought, but Chrona beat them to their question.
"Why did she even, uhh, err, agree to help?" Trace scoffed at his question.
"Kiara and I didn't even want to help with this new threat whenever Lord Death called us. But Sierra and everyone else didn't really give us too much of a choice. They still have some sense of duty to this place for whatever reason. Kiara and I never have." It wasn't the most comforting statement in the world, that's for sure. Even though it was only two of them, knowing that some of the people who were supposed to be there to help didn't even want to caused some issues with trust. It was tenser after Trace had said that, and Patti had decided to look around the room to focus on something else. That's what caused her to notice something in the window.
"Heeeeeyyyy, there's someone in that top windooowww!" Everyone followed Patti's point to the highest window in the room and sure enough, someone was up there. Trace looked up too and then went back to his previous position with his eyes closed. Sierra saw the younger kids expecting expressions and looked back to Trace. Seeing that he obviously wasn't going to give them the explanation they wanted, she took it upon herself too.
"That would be Kiara. We managed to drag her along this time, but she went up there the second we got here and refused to come down... But don't worry, you'll meet her face to face eventually." Maka and her friends looked back up to where Kiara was, but she was too far up for them to see what she looked like. Maka decided to try a soul perception, but when she did she realized that this girl wasn't giving anything away; she had a soul protect on. Maka looked to Trace, hoping he would be easier to read, but apparently he was on the same boat as his miester. 'Damn, two soul protects? What's up with them?' She looked next to Sierra, and was pleased to see she wasn't hiding anything.
Sierra's soul was a deep orange color and overall caring and warm, just like a mom's would be. But a deeper look showed that it was also pained, and extremely protective.
She turned her attention to Lance next. His soul was a dark blue, but lighter than navy. It came off as childish and extremely competitive, and was also aloof and loyal.
Ember's soul was red, and had the dominating feeling of rebellion and cunningness to it. When Maka examined it more, she saw it also skeptical, unsure of its surroundings, loud, and it seemed to have odd little scratches on it.
Lastly Maka looked at her knight in shining armor. Hunter's soul was a light green color. It was cynical and, much like Sierra's, pained. She tried to look deeper into it, but when she did, Hunter looked at her and in a split second he did a soul protect, cutting her off from further information. 'What the...?' At that moment, Maka decided that something was being hidden. Even though no one directly said it or was avoiding a certain topic, they were. And Maka was going to find out what.
Apparently everyone had been doing a size up of each other, because Lord Death had just broken the silence that Maka had never noticed.
"Now, I'll make this quick. I have a mission for you all. And when I say you all, I mean ALL 14 of you. 15 if you want to include Ragnarok." Soul raised a brow.
"Isn't that kind of impractical? Even sending 4 people on a mission is usually too much." Death nodded at Soul.
"Why yes it is! But it's gotta be done kiddos! I'll be having the eight of you (Kidd and his friends) work the most with the 6 of you (Hunter and his friends), and so I need all of you to see what the others are capable of. You need to know who fights with what kind of weapon, how they go about fighting, where their weaknesses are, their strengths are, and all that stuff. I'd prefer to gradually do this by putting you in groups made up of two pairs and just switching you all around till you've worked with everyone and found who you work best with, but we just don't have the time to do that." Ember raised her eyebrow. Nobody liked this plan. Nobody liked either plan if they were being completely honest.
"Lord Death, what if this mission turns out being a complete disaster?" That seemed to be the question he had been waiting to hear.
"Great question Tsubaki! If you all miserably fail this, no worries. I'm sending Stein and Spirit to do damage control if you all end up blowing it."
"Well that's comforting..." Liz mumbeled under her breath. Kidd looked from Liz to his father.
"Where will this mission be taking place exactly?" There was a silent hope among the girls for it to not be somewhere cold.
"Welp Kiddo, you'll all be traveling by plane toooooooooooo: Oymayakon! It's located in Russia. Pack warmly! It's their winter right now, and the temper can get as low as -96.2°F."
"Oymayakon?!" The girls all shrieked out. Of every place they could have gotten, they get the place that's only beat out in coldness by Antarctica. Fucking great. Lord Death was about to give out more mission details when Stein interrupted.
"Excuse my interruption, but appears we're now short 2 people." Everyone looked around and the first they noticed was that Trace was no longer resting comfortably on the cross. Sierra automatically looked to where Kiara had been, and sure enough, she was gone too.
"When did they even move?" Black Star was beyond confused, and so were his friends. Sierra just shook her head.
"Those two never stay in meetings like these the whole time. Actually they hardly stay any place longer than necessary." It wasn't really the fact that the two had left that unsettled everyone (aside for, their four companions), it was more so the fact that the two had left and gone completely unnoticed. Trace's resting spot had been right in their line of sight the entire time, and Kiara's perch on the window had been so high up that any of them would have noticed if she moved, they'd all been unconsciously looking to it the whole time. And then the fact that Lord Death hadn't even noticed... It didn't make sense to any of them. Lord Death sighed and spoke.
"Well, I'd say we've covered everything that was extremely pressing. You have 5 days to prepare for your trip, and you'll be leaving at 5 AM sharp. Sierra, please be sure to inform Kiara and Trace." She nodded. With that Death dismissed them all and told them that they did not need to attend their classes until they had returned from the mission.
"YAAAHOOOOOOO! Now that's something the great Black Star can get used too!"
"Hate to break it to ya. But it's only for this mission, dumbass." Soul just loved bursting his friends bubble. By this point they we all outside, so Black Star of course turned to Soul, looking for a fight.
"Take that back, peasant! My superiority makes me 10 times smarter than you!" Soul rolled his eyes.
"Whatever." Black Star went to throw a punch at Soul, and would have probably hit him if he hadn't been doing a ridiculous battle cry. They ended up having a mock fight which meant that they were only allowed to use their human abilities (just punching and kicking and dodging and jumping, only slightly more intense). Hunter and Lance watched intently with a fidgety Chrona, asking Kidd questions here and there. The girls were in no way interested in the fight. Ember and Liz were still sulking about the mission's location, Patti was making a tower out of flat rocks, and Maka was having a conversation with Sierra.
"Look, I know you wanna know more about Kiara since she's the only one you haven't met or seen yet." It was almost as the the older girl could read her mind.
"Well, yeah. I just wanna know why she won't just meet us and what she's like... And why her and Trace don't want to help..." Maka had a feeling that she was reaching with what she wanted to know, but it shouldn't have been that surprising. Sierra exhaled a long breath before she spoke.
"She doesn't really like people. Kiara is kind of anti social when it comes to new faces... Oh man. Maka, I'm really sorry, but it's really not my place to tell you this..." Sierra's brown eyes reflected her conflicted facial expression. It was obvious that she didn't like not telling Maka what she wanted to know, but it was also very apparent that she couldn't. And Maka wanted to know why.
"Can't you tell me anything? Like her last name?"
"Slayer. That's Kiara's last name." Maka nodded.
"Anything else?" Sierra was about to respond but someone beat her to it.
"Maybe you should stick your nose out of other people's business, sweetie." The voice was smooth and harsh at the same time. It definitely belonged to a female, and this female didn't seem happy. Apparently everyone else had heard it too, because they were all looking for the owner of it. Maka looked around and then started to look up.
"Getting warmer... warmer." The higher Maka looked, the "warmer" she got, until her eyes finally rested on the figure about 45 feet up.
"You're on fire." The girl was sitting on the edge of one of the red spikes coming out of the building. She had almost jet black hair and was slim. She wore black skinny jeans and had black combat boots on with them. She had two studded belts on but they weren't there to hold her pants up, just to add more to the outfit. Her shirt was white, loose and off the shoulder, and stopped directly above her belly button, which was pierced, and exposed a toned stomach. There were signs of tattoos on her, but she was too high up for Maka to see. Maka then noticed another person on the spike directly next to it. 'Trace.. So that must make her...'
"Kiara.. Slayer?" Maka tried to sound as tough and collected as she could.
"Sorry, wrong person." Of course Maka didn't believe that, especially when Sierra and Ember started laughing. But Black Star seemed too.
"WELL, then who are you mystery girl? Why don't you help my loyal subjects and I find the girl we're looking for!" That wasn't embarrassing for anyone of anything.
"I think I'll pass..." Maka shook her head at Black Star, and then looked back at Kiara. She needed to get things on track again.
"Look, I know you're Kiara. Just come down here and explain some things to us."
"Maybe if you say please, princess." Maka visibly cringed. She hated being called princess. Kiara noted the cringe, and immediately started picking at it. "What's the problem, don't like being called princess, princess? Let me guess, that's what your papa calls you. And I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you have some unresolved daddy issues. Oh, am I striking a nerve? What he do, sleep around with some hot young blondies? Tore the family apart? How heartbreaking. Now our little princes here feels abandoned and betrayed by all men. You poor poor thing you." Her voice was dripping in sarcasm. Soul looked to his miester and saw her shaking.'Damn that was harsh.' Sierra looked to her friend.
"Don't you think that was a little uncalled for Kiara?" Said girl shrugged.
"Not really." Liz looked accusingly at the older girl.
"What's your problem? You bitch!" Kiara raised a slim eyebrow.
"Ha. Takes one to know one." Liz, Patti, Kidd, Tsubaki, and the rest of their group decided something right there. They did not like Kiara. Maka looked back up at her.
"You talk big and you act like your hot shit, but do you have anything to back that up with?" Lance looked at Maka like she just grew a third head.
"You are not actually thinking of challenging Kiara to a fight are you." Hunter looked Kiara.
"There's no thinking here, Lance. That was a challenge." He turned to Maka and Soul. "You are fucking insane." Maka just looked at him and smiled, then turned back to Kiara.
"You ready, Kiara?" Said girl looked at them again with a positively beyond bored expression.
"Dazzle me, princess." Soul grabbed Maka's hand and in an instant turned into his scythe form. "What a cute toy." Maka ignored her rouse and charged toward the building, getting ready to get to Kiara's height.
"Oh God... This is not going to end well..." Sierra was visibly horrified. Ember just laughed and sat back, waiting for a show.
Maka jumped up and went from pillar to pillar, spike to spike to get to her desired target. When she reached the spike Kiara had been at, she stopped immediately. There was no one there. She looked over and saw Trace just sitting there.
"Just missed her. Nice effort though, you got up here a lot faster than we bet you would." Maka almost fell over.
"What? Aren't you fighting too?" He shook his head in response.
"You challenged Kiara and her abilities. Not the both of ours combined. Smartest move you made out of your idiotic challenge. Not that you even thought about that." Maka was baffled. Kiara's friends seemed to have no faith that Maka could win. What had she gotten herself into? At that moment, something made contact with Maka's cheek. Something going fast. She didn't even realize she was hit until she met the ground with such tremendous force that she created a small crater.
"You really shouldn't let your guard down honey. This is a battle after all." Maka shakily got up, her cheek now swollen and her leg bleeding from where a sharp rock cut it. She nearly balled at the amount of pain she was now in. Soul appeared in his scythes blade.
"Fuck! Maka! Maka, you okay!" She slowly got up and clenched Soul's metal handle.
"Y-yeah.. I think so." Maka got out of the crater and looked up to Kiara, who was back in her original spot, only she was standing with her arms crossed.
"You're the scrawny brat who took Asura down? No way in hell. If that's how you take on every battle, then I'm actually surprised that you aren't dead yet." Maka ignored her and charged again. Kiara shook her head. "Dumbass..." She jumped from her spike and landed behind where Maka was, quickly turning and crouching in one swift motion, sticking her leg out, effectively causing Maka to do a very painful face plant on the stone ground. Maka recomposed herself and got up quickly. She turned and swung Soul at Kiara, but the girl was no longer there. Maka was attempting to stop swinging Soul but something else stopped her, literally. Kiara had grabbed the very end of Soul's handle and forcefully pushed it the opposite way, causing it to crash directly into Maka. She choked out blood and was thrown backwards from the force, slamming into a nearby wall. Everyone minus Trace looked on utter horror.
"This can't be humane... She's actually trying to kill her!" Tsubaki cried out. Liz was tightly holding on to Kidd's arm.
"Kiara isn't even trying. She's just toying with your friend at this point." They looked at Hunter. "She shouldn't have just rushed into this fight.." They looked back to the fight and Black Star almost passed out. Kiara was going after Maka, trying to slice her. With Soul.
"WHAT THE HELL? Why is she wielding Soul?"
Maka rolled from side to side, blindly trying to dodge her own weapon.
"How can you wield Soul?" She managed to gasp out. She saw that Kiara still had soul protect on, so even wielding her own weapon should be impossible, let alone someone else's. Then there was the fact that Soul wasn't trying to change back. 'What the hell is going on?' She went to dodge another attack but didn't move fast enough. Soul's blade made contact with Maka's arm, creating a deep gash in it.
"M-MAKA!" Soul painfully choked out. He couldn't transform back to human form. Every time he tried it caused him an insane amount of pain. 'The the hell did this chick do? Why can she wield me without getting burned? Why can't I transform back? Fuck!' Kiara just kept swinging Soul. Maka finally figured out what the girl was trying to do. 'She's trying to corner me.' But she figured it out too late. Maka was now against a wall, and Kiara was right in front of her. She put the unsharpened side of Soul's blade against the girl's neck. Kiara leaned in so her mouth was next to Maka's ear.
"Check mate, princess." Maka's eyes grew wide and she was about to gasp but Kiara's fist connected with her stomach and she ended up coughing up more blood instead. Kiara dropped Soul and backed up. He finally changed back to his human form and was gasping for breath, his arms and mouth bleeding. He looked to Maka and then to Kiara. 'Now I get it.' Maka looked up and the look in her eyes told him that she got it too.
"The victor of this battle is Kiara Slayer." Everyone looked suddenly to the building entrance where Stein and Spirit stood.
"And how long of you two been there?" Stein looked to Kidd.
"The whole time. You think we'd just let Kiara fight one of you idiots without proper safety precautions? You kids may have been unaware of her abilities, but we certainly aren't." Kiara looked to them too.
"Cute. You actually thought I was gonna kill her." Maka and Soul limped their way over to the others. Now that she was closer Maka got a better look at Kiara. Her eyes were the first thing she noticed. They were lifeless and cold, and the same black color as Trace's. She wore a dog tag too. Her ears were each pierced three times, her nose was pierced, and she had a small scar next to her left ear. She then noticed her tattoos. There was one on her left wrist and it said 'Renegade' in a beautiful cursive like writing. The underside of her left arm had three more, but they were in an ancient language so it was hard to tell what they said. Her right hand had a beautiful design that went from her wrist to each finger. On the right length of her side was another tattoo. It was larger than the others and in the shape of a very elegant and old looking key. Maka had a hunch that there were more tattoos on the girl, but she had them covered up. There was no denying that this girl was absolutely beautiful either. Her dark hair was wavy and long, coming all the way down to right below her boobs, which she wasn't lacking. Everyone seemed to be less on edge now that the fight ended, except for Black Star. He didn't know why but he couldn't just leave it alone. He silently charged towards Kiara, and by the time the others noticed, it was too late for any kind of warning. Kiara stared him down as he got closer, and right as he was about to punch her, he was abruptly stopped. Between him and Kiara now stood Trace, whom had his arm in its blade form and pressed against Black Star's throat. It was the most terrifying blade that any of them ever saw. It was pitch black and long. The main blade went in the direction Trace's arm was bent for about a meter and a half. Then there was a curved part that went back and was completely sharp all around and another piece that was coming out from right above where the curve started. He looked like he was ready to slice Black Star's head off.
"Don't EVER try and touch my miester you little fuck. Or I WILL kill you on the spot." Trace's tone sent chills down everyone's spine, including Stein and Spirit's. Black Star slowly lowered his fist and backed off. Kiara rolled her eyes.
"Down boy." Trace huffed and his arm turned back to normal. He turned his back to the large group and walked past Kiara, hands in his pockets. She sighed and faced everyone.
"Looks like we're leaving." She cast her gaze directly at Maka. "Bye princess." She winked and then trailed after her weapon who had stopped and was waiting for her. Shortly after, Ember and the other three of her companions went in the same direction, saying their goodbyes as well.
"So that was the girl whom my father has always thought so highly of... Quite impressive." Soul and the others nodded. There was no denying that Kiara was on a completely different level than them, and although no one saw what the other five were capable of, they had a very strong hunch that they were too.
"Is it weird that I feel kind of bad for this new bad guy?"
"Surprisingly, no." With that last comment, everyone headed to their respective homes whether it be to train, heal up, or gather information. They all wanted to be prepared for what lied ahead of them, especially because they were slowly learning that it was going to be a lot more challenging than they first thought.
BOOOOOM! I fucking love Kiara Slayer. She's going to be putting everybody in their place. I hope you all come to love her hurtful words and cruel attitude as much as I do3 I'm gonna do later chapters focusing just on my characters backgrounds, and her's will be so well written that you'll think I'm fricken J.K Rowling. (JKKK) but seriously; you guys will hopefully love those
And just so you all know, that random place that these guys are going to totally exists. google it, that's what I did hahahahahaha. and just incase anyone was disapointed in that ending, I'm not sorry. I know that I half assed it. I've accepted that. edit in your minds if you really want to.
OKAY. love you, mean it. byyyee! Review or no chapter 5! I'm serious.
(8/3)Edit: I'm not gonna say what I edit anymore. Cause by the time I'm done I don't remember. And it's usually just spellingand grammar.