Disclaimer: I don't own Soul Eater at all except my OCs.


"Down these stairs, I believe," Aura stared at the entrance before her, "Exactly as the images were shown."

Soon the area above shook, noting the sudden quake Aura immediately ran into the entrance

"Somethings happening up there," She stated, "But I have to move on."

Running through the halls, Aura still felt a pull inside her. It was becoming stronger and stronger the more she ran down the path.

W-What is this feeling?

By that time Aura found herself before a door, the same door bearing many eyes.

Slowly Aura opened the doors with both hands as she walked in.

Scanning the room, the rest of the area was completely dark. However Aura was able to notice yellow papers stuck to the pillars holding the room together.

"Charms?" Aura muttered as she walked onwards, "Is that...?"

At the end of the room, a bag bearing three eyes hanged in the middle being held by chains covered in the same charms.

Aura was about to take a closer look until a bandage draped onto her shoulder, whipping out her tonfas. Aura came face to face with a man wearing a red sweater. His face was completely covered by bandages, but a few strands of black hair stuck out. Supposedly the area where the three eyes are marked on the bandages was the location of the man's eyes.

"My dear puppet is finally here..." A familiar voice spoke behind the bandages, "Aura."

Aura shivered upon hearing this unfamiliar man speak her name, "You're the one who drowned me here wasn't it."

"Heh," the man spoke, "It's seems you've completely forgotten about your old friend."

"Old friend?! I don't even know who you are!" Aura retorted.

"Does the name 'Asura' ring a bell?"

Asura...?

Aura thought for a moment until a painful sound causes her to falter, "M-My head!"

Clenching her head Aura's vision began to fade as she felt herself fall to the ground.

"It seems your soul still remembers me," Asura laughed, "Now my dear puppet...sleep as we await for the witches."

"HELP!" Was the last thing Aura screamed before plummeting to the ground a few feet away from the bag.

The man disappeared without a sound.


"A strategy meeting right in front of your enemies?" Medusa smirked, "I know what you have up on your sleeves, but you're missing one thing."

Stein froze realizing what Medusa meant, "Shit."

"HELP!" A yell sounded farther down in the path, it was none other than Aura's voice.

"Aura?!" Black Star, Maka, and Kid responded in shock.

"It seems that only the black blood is left as the last key in awakening the Afreet," Medusa smiled deviously, "You should've payed more attention to her than me, Professor Stein."

"Why is Aura there or better yet why is she involved in this?!" Kid questioned the Professor who grimanced.

"Aura's soul, " Stein began, "You and Maka remember seeing those chains around her soul, right?"

Kid and Maka nodded whereas Black Star had absolutely no clue as to what they're talking about.

"When Lord Death first saw her, he recognized the chains surrounding her soul as a familiar acquaintance. It wasn't just any normal chains, those were the remaining pieces of when the first Afreet Asura didn't succumb to madness."

"Correct," Medusa answered, "She was indeed an interesting piece needed for Asura. It's still a wonder as to how Aura and Asura met, but no matter...Shall we begin?"

"Nake, snake, cobra, cobra ra, nake, snake, cobra, cob bra..."

"Listen. Don't worry about getting past her on your first try. An opening will show itslef. Stay calm." Stein reminded the students, "The plan still the same. Even if Aura has fainted, her soul is still there."

"Here she comes!" Stein warned as Medusa aimed her magic.


Aura's POV


Where am I?

I wondered as stood in the middle of a void.

I'm back in the void again...

Soon an image played before me. I watched helplessly standing as the scene showed a younger version of me greeting the same man I met, except without his bandages.

The face almost looked like Kid's face except he had three eyes. The third was on his forehead and was close compared to the pair of eyes staring back at the younger me. While his black hair had a white stripe across, as he smiled earnestly at the little girl before him.

"What's your name?" The younger me asked.

"Asura," the man, responded. "Your's?"

"Aurelia Reeds!" She cheerfully sang, "But you can call me Aura."

"Alright, Aura."

I gasped in realization as my face paled as well, "A-Asura..."

This...this is a memory isn't.

"Then how come I can't remember!" I angrily clenched my head in distraught, "Was what Asura said true?!"

I looked up to find the image Asura staring back at me, a frown was slapped on to his face.

"Unfortunately, it is," Asura responded as he tried to place a hand against my face.

"Stay back!" I lifted my tonfa up to bash at him, but it didn't land on his face. Instead it was in Asura's plam.

"Don't worry. The one you're seeing right now...is none other than a messenger delivering a message of the Asura before he became an Afreet."

What?

"A message from Asura before he became an Afreet?" I repeated his words.

"I'll begin my message," Asura? began.

Aura...This may be the last time you'll see me like this, but don't be mad. I'm doing it for your safety. You were the first person that didn't surrender to the madness that wavered around me. It was as if I saw a light that burned brightly within you that accepted me. Even if we were from different worlds, it didn't matter to me. However fear was beginning to overwhelm me. On the last time I met with you, I bounded a part of my power around your soul to keep myself from eating yours. Not only that I sealed the bandages on your soul with the memories and a fragment of me to remind you of our times.

Asura? waved his hand over my chest as a blue soul covered in chains shined above my chest. The chains were also covered on the tonfas I held.

"But it seems it didn't stop Asura's madness from gaining control over you," Asura? spoke as the soul went back into my body making the chains leave my sight.

"In the message, Asura said that he placed bandages on me, right?" I questioned Asura?, "Then how come my soul and weapons are wrapped in chains instead of bandages?"

"Your past," Asura? answered, "The pain you received over the years drastically changed the bandages form. As for the weapons, the chains connecting your weapon allow you to control the chains in your soul. Not only that, I am the being that resides in your weapons from now on."

"What, but that's not possible! I'm not a meister!" I admitted.

"But you inherited a part of Asura's power," Asura? reminded me, "Asura was indeed a meister and a shinigami as well. Having inherited a part of him allows you to weild a weapon like the DWMA students you see often."

This is literally a heck of a nutshell I'm in.

"Then do you have a name? It's weird calling you Asura, when the real Asura is...you know," I suggested, "I mean I have to call you by your name."

"Unfrotunately Asura didn't name me, " Asura? responded.

"I see...then it's decided! I'll name you, Richter or Shade for short!" I assured to him.

Shade blinked at me, "Shade has a completely different meaning than Richter. Plus Shade doesn't match the real name you given me."

"Just shut up and go back into the tonfas," I retorted at him as he made a smirk. His form as Asura changed to that of a young man bearing black hair being kept up in a blue headband causing his bangs to stick out and cover his face. The third eye disappeared as well as the red eyes replaced with brown eyes. He was now wearing a black sleeveless turtle neck, white jeans, and black combat boots.

"As your wish, meister," Shade did as told as he went back into the tonfas, "Never thought I'd be able to become a weapon for such a harsh meister like you. What happen to the little girl from Asura's memories?"

Answering I spoke, "Well that girl has now grown to face her fears, and she's not going down."


Third POV


"Those are it." Free spoke after finding the body of fainted girl and the bag holding Asura in.

"Yeah. Medusa was right. The puppet followed accordingly to plan," Eruka noted as she began placing black blood into the syringe, "All set. This is it."

Unfortunately for them, Death the Kid charged in glaring at the scene before him.

Aura!

His focus thus was placed onto the black syringe as Kid zoomed over to destroy the black blood container. Free intercepted causing Kid to rebound to attack in the air only to meet face to face with another illusion caused by Asura's madness.

"What the-?! Damn it!" The illusion made Kid shoot constantly at nothing

"He's hallucintaing too! Now's our chance!" Free began as Eruka proceeded the plan before Free re-entered his hallucination.

Back over to Eruka, she stopped to throw a bomb she summoned to throw at the incoming Black Star, but the impact caused the both of them to fall. Eruka ended up dropping the syringe in act.

"Alright!" Black Star rushed to where the syringe dropped.

"No you don't!" Eruka yelled however yet another illusion was placed as Eruka muttered in a disturbed manner, "This is a hallucination."

Black Star was ready to hit the syringe as well, but a chain from out of nowhere pulled Black Star to the ground.

"Whoa!" Black Star yelped nearly dropping Tsubaki in the process.

"Black Star!" Kid and Tsubaki called out to the blue haired boy who was immoblized on the ground.

Where did that chain come from?!

Kid questioned as he continued firing shots at Free.

"I won't let you get in the way of Master Asura's revival." Walking out of the shadows, Aura stepped into the light as the chain dangled from one of her tonfas. Her eyes were dulled out making it show that Aura wasn't in complete control of herself.

"Aura!" Black Star, Tsubaki, Liz, Patty, and Kid cried in shock seeing their friend act this way.

"Now, Frog Witch and Werewolf. Master Asura is waiting eagerly for his revival. I'll deal with these two alone, "Tossing Black Star over to Kid's side, Aura faced the two as Eruka readied the injection.

Unleashing the link of chains on the otherside of her tonfa, Aura began circling her tonfas into a more helicopter like spin beside her, "Let's see if you can get past me..."

Kid clenched his hands on his guns.

"Hey, Kid!" Liz called to him, "I don't think Aura's in control of her body!"

"Yeah, her eyes! Her eyes!" Patty pointed out.

"What?" Kid inspected closely at the Aura standing before them. It was indeed true, her eyes seemed as if they were in a daze compared to how she was at the gala!

"I'm sorry Aura, but I won't let you get in my way as a hero!" Black Star charged forward, "ORYA!"

Black Star charged on, but Aura smirked as she let him pass by him.

Kid was baffled as to why she'd let Black Star ahead.

"Sixth senth or not...illusions will always appear when focusing on one target," Aura recited causing Kid to flinch.

Kid tried to warn the other,"Black Star, wait!"

But it was too late, the hallucination got to him. Slashing the poles instead of the syringe in the process.


Once Afreet Asura formed clothes around himself and knocking out Kid and Black Star...

"Ngh!" Aura yet again dropped to the floor on her knees, as her eyes returned to normal, "DAMN IT! YOU DAMN BASTARD! HOW DARE YOU TAKE CONTROL OF ME!"

She yelled angrily at the recently revived Afreet Asura.

"It was for your own good, after all you wished for freedom, and I granted it," The Afreet smiled maniacally.

"Shade, Desesperado mode!" Aura called as the tonfas formed into one rifle, "The only one who got freedom was you! Desesperado Impact!"

A blast of bullets shot at the Afreet, "It's no use, as long as you're soul remembers me...it won't hurt me at all."

"Fuck you!" Aura cried as she continued shooting bullets at the retreating Afreet, "You fucking asshole, get back here!"

"Aura, your energy is already drained from being placed under the Afreet's control. Don't push yourself any longer," Shade warned

"You won't get away!" Luckily Maka ran in just in time.

"Maka use me as a boost!" Aura told as Maka used Aura's shoulders as a boost to grab the bandage of the Afreet.

"Hah..." Aura slumped as Shade caught her in the process after returning to his human form, "I told you so."

"Shut up Shade, it's bad enough we let the Afreet escape," Aura retorted weakly.

"Aura, are you okay?" Tsubaki asked from her weapon, "Kid, Liz, and Patty noticed you were under an influence."

"Yeah, I'm fine Tsubaki. How's Kid and Black Star?"

Liz responded, "Fainted, but still alive. So who's the guy?"

"My weapon, Shade. Who loves to be judgemental and often stays in his weapon form."

"I resent that," Shade answered.

Aura stared at the sky from the hole, as the red clouds disappeared.

I don't think I'll be able to go home now, not after meeting the Afreet Asura.