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Fluffy Puppy Trio

Chapter 7: Fading

There's that point in life where just when things seem to be going well, things simply fade and fail. Today, something just snapped in three minds for an instance where everything just went completely wrong. Grasps on former minds were being lost and things were going to get worse. Four functioning minds would have to come to the rescue to save three fading, but working minds over a matter of days or so. Today, progression was about to cause regression and things would start to slip away into fading hope, serving a bowl of reality to seven people.

"Soul, what have you done!"

"Black Star, oh my freaking gosh! What have you done to the futon!"

"Kid, why are you breaking stuff? Since when did you go asymmetrical!"

"Maybe he'll be less annoying!"

These were four cries that wouldn't be forgotten anytime soon. With these four exclamations, the slow realization of regression surfaced.

Maka chased Soul who ran wildly, dragging a torn cushion in his mouth.

"What the hell Soul? Give me the couch cushion!"

Abruptly, Maka cornered Soul and saw his red eyes for an instance. They were wild, lost, and so not Soul.

"Oh my gosh...Soul!"

She knelt down and his eyes softened as he let out a whimper or something like that. As she gently removed the cushion, his eyes came into what Maka saw as Soul's.

"Soul? Are you okay?"

"I...I...what the hell just happened?"

"You tore apart...like five cushions or something...and my pillow...Plus you scared the crap out of Callie; you chased her all over the house."

"Merow!" called Callie from the corner of the living room, where she cowered fearfully.

"Wait...wait what? Maka...what? I...I...I don't remember..." his voice shook.

Maka clasped her hand over her mouth in horror as the tornado of scattered cotton, feathers, and torn fabric proved something had gone wrong. She stared into Soul's crimson orbs with her emerald orbs and he groaned, lowering his head into her arms, praying to hold just one bit of his coolness. Maka held him, proving she held none of this against him, but oh how badly something had gone wrong.

"Black Star, why are you chewing up the futon? And why is there a wet spot on it...?"

He was tearing apart the cushion like a crazed mad dog and Tsubaki was pretty sure that wet spot was not drool. Tsubaki ran over to him and he turned, showing her a pair of crazed and wild blue eyes she had never seen before, not even from her egomaniac meister.

"Black Star, what are you doing? Please calm down, what is wrong with you?"

She wrapped her arms around the tiny dog she knew was her meister as tears welled in her eyes with worry. At first, a rumbling growl tore from his throat, warning her, but she held tighter until...

"Tsubaki...?"

She pulled back, red in the face as she stared to him with her indigo eyes.

"I, the amazing Black Star, wishes to know what just happened!"

"Um, you tore apart my futon...and I'm pretty sure you wet it too..."

"I, the loving and godly Black Star, would never do such a thing!"

She lifted a trembling hand and pointed to the irremediable futon she had been sleeping on for a long time, the one they would have to replace. There was no way even Maka's decent sewing skills could repair this...what had just happened?

"I...I...I...Tsubaki, I did this?" Black Star, for the first time in awhile, sounded mortified.

Tsubaki could only nod as the bewildered weapon held her slipping meister.

"Kid, seriously, quit breaking stuff! What is your conniption?" cried Liz wearily.

Patty followed Kid and helped him break more stuff.

"Patty, don't help him!" yelled Liz.

"This is fun! Can we keep him as a dog?" asked Patty.

"Something isn't right Patty, don't you think? Kid would never break perfect symmetry!" screamed Liz as she tried to catch the berserk poodle form of the son of the Grim Reaper. She finally caught him and held him by the collar as he struggled against her hold.

"Kid stop! You've destroyed symmetry!" yelled Liz.

He snapped back in, just as Black Star and Soul had earlier.

"Wh...what? What happened to my symmetrical house? Liz, Patty, what the hell happened?"

"Kid, you lost it. You went completely bonkers and destroyed the house!" exclaimed Liz.

"I helped; it was fun!" squealed Patty.

Kid looked up at Liz in pained horror and she nodded to further affirm the truth.

Later that morning, all three dogs sat in the nurse's office with Stein while the four girls had to meet with Death while awaiting Stein's return.

"It was so weird. Soul was just talking to me about our trip to the bathhouse and then Callie walked by and he lost it! He chased her all over the house and then tore up my pillow along with five couch cushions. I cornered him at one point and his eyes were so wild and...they just weren't Soul."

"Yeah, Black Star was still asleep when I got up to cook breakfast, but then I came back to find him tearing apart my futon, which he also...urinated on...His eyes were wild too."

"That's pretty much what happened to Kid. His eyes were crazed too and he simply tore apart symmetry, it was scary."

"But I had fun!"

"Uh-huh, I see," murmured Lord Death.

Stein suddenly arrived in the room followed by three clearly daunted dogs, the three distinctive dogs the girls knew as their partners. Each one walked slowly toward their female partners, unable to look them in the eyes at this point.

"Lord Death, I know what's going on. First, why don't you three tell the girls?" asked Stein.

All three glared up at him with pained eyes.

"What? Why do we have to? This is too uncool and I..." Soul couldn't finish and he had to turn away from Maka, whose lap he wouldn't even go into.

"I, Black Star, refuse to tell my follower this undignified information!" yelled Black Star.

"You're the scientist, why can't you do it?" protested Kid.

Maka reached out and rested a hand on Soul's back.

"Tell me Soul. Please, just tell me," Maka pleaded.

Soul cringed and turned to her, still not looking her in the eye yet. He swallowed back uncool tears and finally looked her in those green orbs.

"The spell is progressing and...we're all mentally becoming dogs. Maka, I'm truly becoming a freaking dog!" yelled Soul, dropped his head into her arms and howling about the uncool predicament they were all in.

"S...Soul...oh Soul, no!" cried Maka, dropping her head into his long silky fur.

Unlike him, she shed her tears. Tsubaki gasped, clasping her hand over her mouth.

"Oh Black Star, this is terrible!" she wailed.

"Yay, Kid is becoming a full dog!" cheered Patty.

"Patty, that's not good!" screamed Liz, pain written into her voice.

Maka, Tsubaki, and Liz all looked at Stein.

"Tell me it's not true," murmured Maka, gritting her teeth.

"Please!" cried Tsubaki.

"Seriously, don't let it be true!" agreed Liz.

"It is true. The spell Daikirai casted changed them on the surface initially, but had no affect inside at first. This is why they were able to speak English and act somewhat human. However, the spell is still changing them, it is now affecting the brain. The potion I'm creating will reverse it, but that doesn't change that is happening," Stein stated.

Maka held Soul tighter and kissed his cheek before looking hard at Stein.

"Tell me how I can help," she requested.

"I'm sorry?" he asked.

"I'm not going to lose Soul! Tell me how the hell I can help! I'll visit that stupid greenhouse and get more flowers or go collect something else. Just tell me, damn it!" cried Maka.

Everyone stared at Maka for a long moment; even Soul rose his head to face her.

"Maka...you..."

"Soul, I'm going to do whatever it takes."

"Me too!" called Tsubaki

"What, Tsubaki!" yelped Black Star.

"I'll do whatever I can too!" called Liz.

Patty sighed, "Alright, me too."

Kid found tears in his eyes at his symmetrical partners while Soul touched his furry forehead to Maka's. In the mirror, Spirit's gut wrenched and he let his tears fall.

"I love you so much Maka...but you already know that."

She held him, "I love you Soul. I will help get this potion made, I'll do every damn thing I can."

"I'm sorry, what just happened?" Lord Death asked.

"Dad, you need to pay attention!" yowled Kid, "Why don't you ever pay attention when it's important?"

Death looked at the yapping Grim Reaper Miniature Poodle scrutinizingly.

"Someone needs to send that dog to obedience school," Death stated.

"What? Dad, I'm your son and I'm not supposed to be a dog!" protested Kid.

Black Star burst into laughter and Tsubaki groaned.

"Hah you silly Poodle. Unlike the amazing and lovable Black Star, you have to go to obedience school! I am the godly Black Star, who is too great for such a lowly school!"

"Again, are you sure you're lovable?" asked Soul.

"That yaping Chihuahua should go too!" called Death.

Unfortunately, unable to suppress himself, Soul broke into a fit of laughter too.

"Ah, how the godly have fallen! I thought you'd surpass god, so why are you having to take obedience school?" inquired Soul.

Black Star growled while Kid continued yapping and Death pointed at Soul.

"And that big dog needs to go too!"

Maka sighed, holding Soul tightly, "You just couldn't keep your mouth shut, could you Soul?"

Soul groaned mournfully and licked her cheek reassuringly.

"No, I could not."

Stein chuckled, "This might turn out best anyway. You three can attend obedience school today while the girls take a little trip to get an ingredient I need."

Death nodded, "Spirit, take the dogs for obedience school. And explain their special condition to the instructor."

Maka's father emerged from the mirror. Maka gave Soul a kiss to the cheek and he licked her cheek before rising to follow. Tsubaki hugged Black Star and the Thompson sisters each gave Kid a high five. The day would go on with the pairs split apart and they wouldn't see one another again until the next day.