This World of Darkness
*Do not own Soul Eater or any of its characters. Just a huge fan.
Chapter 4: Meanwhile!
Giriko jumped at Justin flailing his blades in every direction attempting to kill the priest. Justin may have been easily dodging his attacks but it was rather easy due to Giriko's massive amount of rage blinding his focus. "Would you just stand still already!"
Giriko finally brought his saw down on Justin but the death scythe countered by blocking with a blade from his arm. "Why would I stand still? I don't necessarily wish to be torn to pieces." Justin said a little bored.
"As long as I'm here, that's not your call!" Giriko jumped back just to rush forward again and swing a barrage of slashes at the death scythe.
Meanwhile...Inside Arachne's chamber...
Arachne was still sitting on her bed with Asura in her arms. She pet his hair as he enjoyed having his face pressed against her chest. She smirked. "Just wait a little longer, Asura. Soon all of this nonsense will be taken care of and we can reform what's left of this world."
Asura was silent, but then again, he hadn't spoke ever since he was released fro his prison. Arachne looked up when she heard the sound of her bedroom doors opening. The one who walked in was her servant, Mosquito.
He took a bow. "Lady Arachne, certain information has been brought to our attention that you want to hear."
"Well what is it?" she asked not taking her eyes off Asura.
"Well as a quick update, we are still fighting off the DWMA's forces. So far we have only been able to hold them back, but I assure you, my lady, we will end them soon."
"Alright, but if that's not the main news you wanted to bring me then what is it?"
He stood back up. "Well, Lady Arachne, it's your sister." Arachne's eyes shot up but her expression remained the same.
"What about my sister?"
"A few minutes ago, some of our monitors picked up a large amount of madness and energy coming from her castle."
"Oh? Is that so?"
Mosquito looked up to her. "Is there anything you would like done about it, my lady?"
Arachne took a moment to respond. "...No" she looked back at Asura. "Whether or not that energy came from my sister does not matter. At this point she holds no threat against me and will be caught in my web like the rest of them."
"Are you sure, my lady?"
"Let it be, Mosquito. Return to your post, I would like all this over by the end of the day."
"Yes ma'am." he turned and left her. As Mosquito exited the room, Arachne's mouth stretched into a unsettling smile. She laughed a little to herself.
"Hehehe, oh dear sister of mine, even if you somehow become stronger, there's now way you can ever defeat me at this point." she looked down at Asura as she continued to stroke her fingers through his partially revealed hair. "Medusa...you may have been the one to revive Asura but you have failed to take assimilate him and now he is mine."
Her smile then became sadistic. "After all, I've always been better than you."
Meanwhile...
Mosquito walked down the hallways of Baba Yaga Castle until he finally reached the communications tower. Some of the soldiers greeted him as he entered. One with a lab coat and clip board walked up. "Mosquito-sama, how may we help you, sir?"
"I have come to receive a progress report on the weapons system and the artificial madness tools." he said looking back and forth.
"Everything has been going well, sir. However, with the attack from the DWMA, our progression has slowed down."
Mosquito looked forward with a serious face. "Is that so? Damn those kids." he looked around. "Were is Eibon? I need to speak with him."
"I'm right here, sir." said a new voice.
Mosquito looked to his side and, sure enough, the sorcerer Eibon presented himself. He was much different then how the miesters saw him in the magnetic memory field. He had dark skin with short black hair and wore a black and white plaid hat. He was wearing a black leather coat over a plain white shirt with two black belts crossing his torso and two similar white belts wrapped around his black pants. And lastly, he had a belt around his waist with a familiar book strapped to it.
"What can I do for you, sir." he asked nonchalantly.
"Lady Arachne has entrusted you with the completion of this cannon ( the one used towards the end of the anime), so I'd like to know why a person of your caliber would be able to get something like that done quickly."
"Patients, sir. I hate to keep lady Arachne waiting but this isn't the kind of thing that can be done over night."
"You were allied with us for a reason, just see to it that you carry out your promises, sorcerer."
"Of course."
Mosquito turned around and began to walk out of the room. "You don't have much time left. I would prefer if you finished before the enemy stormed our base."
"It will be done sir..."
"You'd better be right." and he was gone.
Eibon stood staring blankly. After a moment, he cracked an eerie smile. "As you command, Mosquito."
Meanwhile AGAIN!...
*At a certain house not seen in 20 episodes...
"RACHEL! OH GOD, MY BABY, ARE YOU OKAY?!" said the little girl's mother.
"Hi mommy." Rachel responded casually.
Rachel's mother (who I don't think was ever given a name in the series) hugged her daughter tightly not wanting to let go. At the same time, her father was speaking with the DWMA miesters.
"We can't thank you enough. We've been so worried about her."
"We're glad she's safe now as well." said Stein. Marie, Maka, Soul, and Crona were still with him, including...Medusa. Medusa was using soul protect so not to arouse suspicion, but the magic neutralizing handcuffs they picked up from the DWMA on the way to Rachel's house would do that anyway.
The mother picked Rachel up and stood up straight. "Do you know why she disappeared? Or have any idea what was the cause of all this?" she asked walking forward.
Medusa tried to not look guilty, but it was rather hard with three of the victims of her plan standing RIGHT THERE.
Stein hesitated to tell them the truth. Was it such a good idea to tell the child's parents that she was possessed by an evil witch with the intent to destroy the world when that particular witch was standing right behind him?
...No...it wasn't...
"All we know is that she must have been kidnapped but we were not able to find the person who did it. I'm sorry, I hope that doesn't worry you to much." Stein finally responded.
The father stepped forward. "You've brought our little girl home safe and sound, that's all we care about right now."
"Good." Stein said. He then turned around and began to walk away with the others, but as they did, Rachel looked back at Medusa and gave the witch a look that she did not know how to accept. It was neither happy nor sad but instead a face that wanted to know who this snake was. It was a face that wondered if this woman deserved divine retribution or not. Medusa couldn't leave, not without getting something of her chest.
"Wait..." she said causing the others to stop and turn to look at her with confusion. Medusa looked at Rachel's parents and prepared to admit something that might have horrible consequences. "It was me...I was the one that took her from you."
Rachel's parent's eyes widened as did the weapon's and miester's. Stein pulled her aside. "Medusa, what do you think you're doing?" he whispered to her.
"Let go of me, Stein. I have to do this."
He stared at her not believing what she was doing. They could have got her away without anyone ever knowing. But the more Stein thought about it, the more he realized that Medusa might be right to do this. Crona felt worried that her mother may have just put herself in a horrible situation.
"What...?" asked the girl's father.
"Is that true..?" asked the mother.
"Yes it is." she released her soul protect revealing herself to them which REALLY worried the miester's and their weapons. "I am a witch. Several months ago (I don't know how much time the show is suppose to span) I received several fatal wounds and survived by possessing your daughter's body. But I recently regained all my energy and had to exit her body."
Rachel's parents stared at her not knowing what to say or think.
Medusa looked down then back up after taking a deep breath. "And while I know there is no reason for you to ever forgive me, I have to apologize. I am truly sorry for all the harm I have caused you." Medusa's face was emotionless throughout those two sentences.
Rachel's father pointed at Medusa and looked at Stein. "Is she serious?" he asked firmly.
Stein didn't want to answer truthfully but Medusa already came out with it so...He sighed. "Well...yes, but-"
"What possible reason could you have for not telling us this?" Rachel's mother interrupted.
Stein was caught in a corner. But Medusa spoke again. "If you have any anger it should be directed at me."
They looked at her angry but she kept her expression firm. Normally Medusa would be laughing and rubbing such a thing in the victim's face, but if she was going to change, this is where she needed to begin. "I don't care if you hate me and I don't care if you don't except my apology, but to clear my own conscious I have to say I'm sorry."
Rachel's mother started shouting. "You sadistic Bi- You think you can just do something like this and apologize so casually-!" the father stopped her by placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Hold on, honey."
"But..."
Rachel's father (it's getting tedious to write that) walked up to Stein and whispered something to him. "What's gonna happen to her. It feels like you were trying to defend her for a second."
"Believe me when I say that she will be severely punished for what she's done. Taking your daughter from you is only one of the many terrible things she's done. But for certain reasons, we aren't going to do anything like having her executed."
"Why not, if she's so dangerous?"
"Because...she has a daughter as well." Stein then looked at Crona also directing Rachel's father towards the girl. Crona felt a little uncomfortable when they looked at her, she thought they might be discussing something bad about her mother.
Rachel's father just stared at Crona then at Medusa. Stein could tell he was thinking real hard about something, he just hoped it would be positive. Rachel's father turned around and walked over to his wife. He put his hands on her shoulders. "Honey, I think we should go inside now. It seems like they have everything under control."
"Wha-...but what about..."
"I think it's fine to leave it alone. Besides we should probably spend some time with Rachel, don't you think?" he said patting Rachel on the head.
She looked at Rachel and smiled after a moment. "Yeah, I guess."
As they turned around and began to walk inside, the mother thanked them one more time, but then Rachel finally said something. She waved to Medusa. "Bye bye, snaky. I hope you feel better soon."
Everyone looked at her rather confused, especially Medusa. After a moment her parents decided to disregard it and walking inside, thanking the DWMA once more. Crona walk up to Medusa and tapped her shoulder causing Medusa to turn around. "Mom, do you know what that was about?"
"Um, no..I..well." Medusa thought to herself, with only one possible reason for why the girl said that floating around in her head. Is it possible that while possessed, Rachel could feel what Medusa felt, she could see what the snake had seen in the past?
...
Medusa snapped back to reality when she felt Stein's hand on her shoulder. She turned and looked at him. "Come on." he said. "We have to get back to the DWMA to discuss your situation with Lord Death."
She hesitated but nodded eventually. They all started to walk to the academy. As they did, Medusa was mentally contacting a certain frog. "Eruka...Eruka...Answer me..."
*In Arachnophobia's base...
Eruka was running back and forth trying to avoid being caught and or found out by REAL soldiers. She hid behind a wall and slid down to the floor. he took her mask of and sighed. "Oh man. Why does this have to be happening to me...?"
"Eruka..."
"Hmm?"
"Eruka..."
"Who's there?"
"IT'S ME, ERUKA!"
"LADY MEDUSA?!"
"Calm down. Listen there's something very important I need to tell you."
"Lady Medusa, I don't think I can keep this up much longer."
"Eruka, please...just shut up and listen."
"...W-what is it...?"
Medusa was silent for a moment.
"Lady Medusa...? Are you there...?"
"Eruka..."
"Hmm...?"
"You're free."
YAY, FINISHED! I don't really have anything to say except acknowledge a comment I recently got. A guest has brought to my attention that there is a huge plot hole in my story from the first two chapters and that is that the DWMA did not exist during Medusa's childhood and therefore my reason for her hating them is void. I have many things to say to this.
1. I usually forget things very easily. I almost forgot about Eruka and had to add r in just now. So derp on y part.
2. While the DWMA and weapons didn't exist yet, Lord death and his team did (though I'm aware that's a different situation).
3. Only God and Okubo know why Medusa hates the DWMA, so this is just my own made up reason.
4. It's a fanfiction, so get over it.
I'm not trying to sound mean and I have no ill will towards this comment or the person who wrote it, constructive criticism is fine, I'm just trying say that you should enjoy the story rather than dig that deep for errors.
fun fact: Eibon isn't Eibon :D