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Maka

The air felt cold around me. I slowly opened my eyes, to an unknown darkness. Soul, Black Star, and Tsubaki have all disappeared. I'm alone with nothing to hold onto, no voices to reassure me that I'm dead or alive.

"Maka? Maka!"

That voice! It couldn't be...

"MAKA!"

"Chrona?" I whispered.

How? I don't see him, or anyone, it's pitch black in here. "Chrona!" I called a little louder. No response. Instead, a bright, fluorescent light shone directly in my face. I covered my eyes for a second, and then I heard another voice, this one sounded worried.

"Maka! Get up! Maka!"

"Soul!" Without hesitation, I reached towards the light, but I was stopped when a hand jerked on my shoulder. I gasped and whipped around to see who the owner of the hand was, and it was him...Chrona.

Black blood oozed from his pours, his eyes were as black as the room. He looked exactly as he did when we encountered him on the moon...horrifying.

"Maka. Where are you going?" He said, "You promised you'd get me out of here. Why haven't you done that yet? Why?"

Soul

My knees were cold and wet from the snow. I didn't see who did it, heck I didn't see anyone. One minute, we heard a voice call out to us, and the next thing I remember I was laying in the snow with Maka.

I placed Maka's head on my lap and tried to shake her awake. Nothing. "Maka!" I said, "Maka! Wake up, Damnit!"

That only made things worse, her body only became heavier and heavier. Luckily, we were in town, and the hospital wasn't that far. I lifted Maka out of the snow and started running toward the hospital, not even thinking of the others.

Maka's body kept sinking in my arms the closer we got, it was getting harder to lift her. "Hang in there Maka, just a little longer. Don't you quit on me!"

Maka

I heard Soul's words coming from the direction of light. "SOUL!" I yelled. "I'M RIGHT HERE! I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE, YOU IDIOT! CAN'T YOU HEAR ME!? I'M RIGHT HERE!" I struggled in Chrona's grip, but it was no use.

"Get me out like you promised, Maka." His face was inches from mine. "That way we could be together, like before. You won't have to worry about the others ever again."

This wasn't Chrona, this was a monster who was created from fear itself. It's not real...It's only my imagination...An image of my worst fear. But it seems real...His touch is real...

I squeezed my eyes shut, and concentrated my way out of this nightmare. But I could still feel his grip, and it's getting tighter and tighter by the minute. I yelled at the top of my lungs and threw my body forward, using every ounce of strength I had, toward the light in front of me.

I no longer felt Chrona's death grip. The scene around me slowly changed. I'm no longer in darkness... Instead, I slowly resurfaced into a bright, warm room.

Soul

Maka jerked forward, screaming as if someone stabbed her. She looked terrified, with her eyes nearly popping out of her head. She was sweating and gripped the bed so tight, her knuckles disappeared into the white sheets.

I sat next to her bed and watched as she caught her breath. "You alright? You look like you've seen a ghost." She ignored me completely, and started ripping out her pigtails. "HEY! DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME!? I ASKED IF YOU'RE ALRIGHT!" I snapped.

"It couldn't be...I saw him...it wasn't real...It wasn't real." She said in between breaths, in a panicked voice. I've never seen Maka act this way before.

"Ah! So you are up. I was just doing some tests to see what was wrong." A familiar voice said from behind the curtain, blocking our bed from the rest of the room. Then, out of nowhere, Dr. Stein ripped the curtains back causing them to shriek against the rails.

"Dr. Stein!" Maka said, completely calmed down.

"Hello Maka, Soul. It's been a while, hasn't it?" Dr. Stein sat backwards in a rolling chair, like he always did in the Academy.

"Yeah...How's Marie and Azusa?" Maka asked with excitement in her voice. I don't get how she can go from passing out, to having a panic attack, to having a friendly conversation with Dr. Stein. It makes no sense!

"They're both doing well. How are you feeling Maka? You seem to be in higher spirits." Stein pointed out.

"Oh...umm...I guess...I'm doing fine." Maka didn't seem too sure. She's hiding something, I know it.

Stein straightened in his chair, causing a glare in his glasses. "You guess? Tell me Maka, what happened to you?"

Maka

To be honest, I don't know what happened. It all occurred so fast and sudden...

I lost my train of thought when the door flew across the room and Black Star appeared with Tsubaki. He rushed to my bed and jumped on top, like a monkey. "MAKA! ARE YOU ALRIGHT!? I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, BUT ONE MINUTE WE WERE ALL UNCONSCIOUS, AND THE NEXT YOU AND SOUL WERE-"

Before he could say anymore, I grabbed a book from the table beside my bed and gave Black Star a big 'Maka chop', right on the head.

"BLACK STAR!" Tsubaki yelled, after I knocked him unconscious.

As I set the book down, I heard more footsteps walk into the room and Liz, Patty and Kid were all at the doorway.

"Well, at least we know Black Star's here." Liz said, looking at the fallen door.

"Liz, Patty, Kid! What're you guys doing here?" I asked, extremely excited to see all my friends again.

"We were stalking yo- " Patty began to explain, but was stopped when Liz pulled her back with her hand over Patty's mouth.

"We saw Black Star heading this way, so we thought something was up and followed him here." Liz answered in a rushed, high pitched voice, that caused all of us to sweatdrop.

"Kid you've been quiet, what's..." I glanced towards Kid, who was over by the medicine cabinet organizing the bottles.

Death the Kid

IT'S NOT SYMMETRICAL! IT'S UNBALANCED! DIGUSUTING, HORRIBLE!

Calm down. Just remember, you can make everything symmetrical. Balance is 'key.' So, if I put this right here, and make that go here...

Maka

"Who do you think could've done this?" Liz asked.

"The voice we heard, before we were knocked unconscious, said something about 'Noah!' and 'Brew!'" Soul explained.

"Noah? Why does that sound familiar? Brew? Brew has been destroyed for 9 months." Kid put his hand on his chin, as he was lost in thought. He joined the group after he organized the bottles so they were symmetrical on each side.

"Well whoever it is, they obviously have a grudge against us." I add to the conversation.

"Maka!" poked his head in through the doorway. There's one more person who-" was cut off, when someone let out a deep shriek behind him.

Then, as I'm hardly surprised, my freak of a dad came barging into the room with tears running down his face. "MAKAAAAAAAA!" He yelled. "I HEARD WHAT HAPPENED, SO I RUSHED HERE AS FAST AS I COULD! Are you okay my sweet, Maka?"

I just stared at him with a dumbfounded face, and then pretended he wasn't even there. But he made it harder to ignore him, when he kept poking and looking for bruises. So I picked up the book again, and gave him the biggest 'Maka Chop' I could.

Everyone just stared at me with blank expressions on their faces.

Soul

I'm not really surprised Maka did that to her dad. But she could've at least tried and gave him a little more respect. He's just like every other father, worrying about his little girl.

I never had that feeling. My father never really did that for me, it would always be my older brother, Wes who'd worry for me. He was more like a dad to me than my actual one.

When I look at Maka, and her relationship with her dad, sometimes I get a little jealous because she has something I don't...A family that treats her the way she wants.

I'm soooooooooo sorry I've been behind. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please leave a review of your opinion on this ;)