Walking in the huge front doors of the school was eerie, and the shadows of
twilight didn't exactly make for a picnic. Every so often, one of the meisters,
usually Heather, would try to pick up on their Soul Wavelengths- Stein or
Medusa. Lord Death's soul was still surrounding the city, so we couldn't find
them by that. At least that meant he was still in the city. Once, walking down
the hallway, I asked Heather if we were still going the right way. A few seconds
after she closed her eyes, she stumbled. "Where are they?" Emiko asked. "I
dunno- I tripped walking with my eyes closed. Lemme try again. She closed her
eyes, and this time she stopped walking first. "It looks like they're. . . Under
the city."
That made enough sense, I suppose. I mean, Death City is a dome. Going inside
the dome- or hiding people there- must not be very hard. "Well, we have to save
them- Death and Stein." Emiko said, and it settled a sort of pact between us. If
only for the night, the six of us were a team, and we had a mission.
Now, getting under the school was more difficult. But after searching for about
half an hour, we saw a snake. Unusual for a school, not unusual for Medusa. We
tried to follow it, but we were only able to follow it for a while before it
noticed us and tried to attack us. Zander quickly turned his hand into a sword,
and killed it. Only a few minutes later, another snake came along. Again, we
were only able to follow it for a while- but this one because we lost it in the
dark. "Hey, look" said Brooke, "There's a hole here, and there aren't holes
anywhere else. Maybe. . ." She turned her hand into a spear and poked it
cautiously in the hole. She poked around a little, and must've pressed some sort
of button. A door in the wall opened up, revealing a twisted sort of hallway.
She glanced back, and we followed her. The air was a little musty, and I couldn't help but wonder how this hall got here.
After a while, the tunnel opened up into a sort of cavern. The ceiling was high, but the stalagmites made the ceiling seem lower than it was. We walked slowly, and every footstep seemed to be screaming our presence. About fifty feet into the chamber, there were bars set in the rock. Apparently whatever was in there wasn't leaving anytime soon. Zander walked up to the bars and peered inside. There, sitting in one corner of the cell, was Stein. He was staring straight at Zander, with his glasses lopsided and his coat was ripped along one of it's many seams. "Uh, guys? he asked. The rest of us stepped closer. Stein shrank into the corner and began to mumble "Don't eat me! I don't want to be eaten!" Emiko stepped up and began to talk in a way only she can do- soothing, yet not letting you forget that she CAN and WILL shoot your head off if you give her a reason to do so. "Mr. Stein, we're here to help you can you tell us anything useful? About the witch? Lord Death? Tell us what you know, or we WILL eat you." A look of focus came into Stein's eyes. "Medusa, she. . . Lord Death's in there." Slightly confused by his answer, we continued down the chamber and around a corner. The weapons switched to weapon form, and the three meisters walked down the hall until they came to a door. It was not an unusual door in itself, but the suspense of opening it made the three eye the door with suspicion. Finally, Emiko walked right up to the door and banged on it with her fist. When we got no answer except for what seemed like a faint shuffling beyond the door, She pushed it open cautiously. The first thing we saw was that we were in a huge cavern. The next thing we noticed was Lord Death. And the third thing we noticed was Medusa, sitting atop the massive birdcage- shaped cell, with bars inches thick.
As soon as he saw us, he said, "Why on earth are you kids here? he asked, trying to hide the edge of anger in his voice. "To save you. If you don't mind." I said, my voice sounding much stronger than I felt. "Snake. . . Cobra. . . Snake. . . Snake. . . " Medusa began to mutter. John, Brooke's Meister, ran forward, jumped on top of the cage, and swiped the spear at Medusa, but she wasn't there. Somehow, there was a snake in the exact place where she'd been sitting. As he swung the spear, the snake lunged, and wrapped itself around the spear's slender handle. Out of shock, John dropped the spear, and the snake, into the cage.
Lord Death walked over and calmly plucked the snake off of the spear handle. He then "Reaper- Chop" -ed the snake, and handed Brooke- the- spear back out to John. "Thanks" John muttered. Just at that moment, Medusa leaped down from who-knows-where and took a seat cross- legged on the floor. "Zander, honey, come out of that silly weapon form and sit next to your mommy. Heather, Brooke, Emiko, and John looked at me. Right. They don't know that both of us are related to witches.
Zander's face appeared in the katana. "Shut up. Maybe you ARE related to me by blood, but that doesn't have to mean I'll listen to you. You wipe my memory, try to make me kill my meister, and you expect me to pretend nothing happened. That's not gonna happen. I'm Charlotte's weapon, and I'm here to help her kill you.
"Oh, honey, you thought that I erased your memory? I gave Chrona that unpleasant task. He complied, when I put some threats in the right places. And since he goes to the school, that made it almost too easy. Of course, Mr. Reaper here found out what was going on soon enough. So he was... dealt with."
Zander's soul wavelength changed then- like he just realized something. "Soul resonance" he mumbled, "We're bringing her down."
