Hello everyone! Just going to warn you that this chapter will make you laugh and then later, you'll burst into either angry screams or painful tears! Just warning you!

I don't own Soul Eater

Kamisama, help my readers swallow this chapter and not want to kill me...please.

Enjoy...maybe...and please review!

Lost Voice: The Angel in the Ocean

Chapter 6: Found Peril

"I am the greatest man alive!" laughed Black Star

As Maka, Soul, and Kid emerged from the office, they found Black Star parading down the steps with Tsubaki following him at the heel. Soul quickly introduced the two since he knew Maka hadn't been awake to meet them. It was after that when Black Star acknowledged them for the first time.

"Who the hell are these two? Damn, that girl is so flat!"

"I'll laugh when she cuts you open Black Star! Hopefully she's symmetrical about it!" called Kid.

First, Maka had to figure out what Black Star meant. She had heard many terms and she had seen many things; Maka had lived several bits of a normal life, but this one stumped her. She wrote quickly to make her inquiry, 'What does Black Star mean by flat in that text?'

"He means you have no breasts, which according to most men makes women unattractive. It's untrue in your case," Soul admitted, red as fire.

Maka's eyes looked down at herself and Soul turned away, filled with an abashed feeling.

"No, Black Star!" wailed Kid.

Black Star went on his way, leaving behind mass amounts of painful asymmetry behind. Tsubaki apologized desperately as Kid burst into moody tears of melancholy. Maka broke into soundless laughter and Soul laughed too, only his was audible. Hearing Soul made Maka's heart swell with joy and longing; joy for Soul, longing for her lost voice. Without it, she couldn't even sound like she was laughing; there was no vocal in anything she did. She was like an empty doll without a sound to make or emotions to be seen; except she did have emotions...emotions unexpressed...

Suddenly, Maka's crystals, her crystal heart, and the heart mark on her chest went aglow. She quickly pulled Soul's arm, writing speedily across her paper pad.

'Two kishins!'

A crash rang outside, making Kid yelp, surprising Tsubaki, and leaving Black Star unaffected. Soul was ready for a fight as he turned to Kid.

"Two kishin things are outside, we'll be back!"

Not a chance, no way he was getting put in danger again! After placing her crystal heart on the table for safekeeping, Maka ran forward and away from Soul as she wrote.

'No! You are staying inside and out of danger!'

"Maka, no! Let me come too!"

'Dammit Soul, no! You are not getting hurt again because of me!'

"Maka, let me help you!"

She shook her head violently and ran towards the door. Soul chased after her and Maka turned to him with another written thought.

'Please Soul...I can't handle seeing friends get hurt...I learned that while you were wielding me. I'm not used to it...just let me do this and stay inside. I'm too reluctant right now...maybe someday I will.'

She began her run again and Soul tried to follow again, only for Kid to catch him and hold him back.

"Soul, let her go!"

"Kid, let go! I'm not leaving her alone!"

Maka slipped out, transforming her arms and making her initial lunge. Kid sighed irritably, why was Soul dense? Probably because he wasn't symmetrical and that messed him up.

"This is what you get for being asymmetrical. Weren't you listening to Maka's song?"

"Kid, what the hell are you getting at? Her song was one of the very first things that I ever came close to crying over; yes I listened!"

'Someday I will find someone

I know I will

And by this crystal heart

I shall not let him be killed

I'm surrounded by danger

But he doesn't have to be...'

Maka gave a silent cry as one kishin sliced her side and another landed a cut into her back. Falling toward Earth once again, Maka quickly did a flip back upwards and stabbed the kishin in the chest. Knocking it down, she sliced it all over it's upper torso, slashing it's heart. Just as that one faded in that glow, Maka was struck in the back, where she was already wounded badly. The kishin slammed her into the side of Kid's robust and enduring mansion.

"Kid, let me help her!"

"You really shouldn't be shocked."

"Kid, I'm not shocked; I'm nothing close to it! Dammit Kid, don't you see that I'm panicked?"

"There's no need to panic, Maka is very capable. Watch her will you?"

Maka stood up, turning her scythe arms into larger, longer blades that glowed white, much like the blade did for her special attack. That was because this was her special attack...She jumped forward at the kishin, silently howling in severe pain. With an 'x' shaped slash, the kishin became four separate pieces and disappeared.

'Because I believe in my strength and my heart

That I can protect him

If I truly try

But first, I must find him...'

Maka kneeled down in the grass achingly. She felt so conflicted. She knew she could trust Soul, but she felt like she couldn't trust herself to allow him to wield her. Why was this so easy and yet so hard? It had only been one day, why was she so trusting? She knew why; the crystal heart, the sincerity, the battle, how remarkable it had felt when they fought together. He had given her no reasons to doubt him and that was why she trusted him so early during their time. It wasn't like many others her age gave her reasons to trust her and they had never treated her kindly anyway. Soul was the opposite when it came to her treatment and she loved how it felt. For once, she was being given respect and adoration outside of her parents. Upon seeing her kneeling in the grass tortuously, Soul struggled harder. It was at this point that Kid could no longer hold Soul back any longer. The white haired, red eyed teenager went charging out the door, screaming Maka's name. Her crystals and heart shaped mark glowed as she began her healing.

Danger was screaming at Maka's heightened senses and so was Soul. She wasn't listening to a damn thing he was saying as she made a decision she knew he would hate. Maka didn't care because she knew that if he took it, he would be perfectly vindicated. Maka stood up straighter and summoned both the physical and emotional strength she needed to do this. With her clean and white human hands, Maka shoved Soul back at Kid's mansion with a force considerably weaker than her strongest.

"Maka, what the hell?"

She jumped back...now if he'd just stay there...no! Soul ran back and she tonelessly screamed, shaking her head with vehement protest.

"Maka, just let me! I know you're afraid, but you don't have to be alone! You-!"

A kishin landed behind Maka and slammed her to the side using one of four arms. Soul backed up, finally understanding Maka; just a bit too late. He turned to rush to Maka's side, but the kishin's longest arm mutated and was slammed right into Soul's torso.

Two caterwauls rang; one blaring and one completely aphonic...

Red went everywhere...