Maka's POV
I rose up out of my bed and looked over at my alarm clock. 7 a.m. I sighed, not wanting to face Chrona. Knowing what Professor Stein had said, having to kill her, made my throat burn and my head hurt.
"Maka." Soul called knocking on my open bedroom door.
I looked up from where I had been staring down at the hard wood floors.
"Y-Yea?"
"Come eat, after that, get ready." He said turning around.
I got up from my bed and followed him down the short hall to the kitchen.
"Nya~ Maka, good morning!" She called from the table, in her human form for once.
"Morning Blair." I said taking my own seat at the table.
Soul sat in his seat and ate the fresh steaming scrambled eggs.
I stabbed a pile on my plate with my fork and ate it.
"Soul, did you make these?" I asked grabbing another bite, he wasn't the best cook around and Blair only knew how to make, burnt, fish.
"Yea…" He muttered grabbing another fork full of eggs.
I couldn't help but smile and continue to eat.
"Well, aren't we quiet this morning?" Blair said as she stood up to toss her dirty plate into the sink.
"We just woke up." Soul said tossing his own plate on top of Blair's.
"Done?" He asked me. I nodded and he grabbed my plate from in front of me.
"Soul, you're acting very sweet this morning!" Blair chimed now from the couch.
"Shut up." Soul yelled.
Blair giggled. I smiled and walked to my room to changing to my normal 'fighting/school' clothes.
I shut my door behind me and pulled a clean skirt and shirt from my closet, along with my now clean black coat and yellow sweater and tie.
I slipped my yellow argyle pajamas off and slipped into my other clothes.
Once fully dressed and exited my room to find Blair in her cat form and Soul chasing her with a broom, he was also fully dressed in his normal clothes.
"Blair, you damn cat!!" He yelled at her. She slid herself under the coffee table and Soul stabbed the broom stick underneath it.
"Maka!!!" She called in a whining manner, "Soul is trying to kill me again!"
"Damn right!" He yelled stabbing her under the table with the broom.
"Soul, stop it and let's go." I said laughing.
He gave one last glare at the little midnight blue cat and threw the broom in a corner of the kitchen and headed for the door.
"Blair, don't burn the apartment down." I warned following Soul out of the door. I heard her meow from behind it as I shut the door.
I followed Soul down the street, stay extremely close.
"Maka, it's okay." He said turning his head so he could see me as we walked up the stairs to Shibusen.
"I-I know." I muttered.
Soul gave a crooked grin, reveling his sharp teeth.
We headed up to Shinigami-Sama's quarters.
"Ah Welcome you two~!!" He called from in front of his large mirror that was used for communicating.
"What do we need to do?" Soul asked as we approached him.
"Practice." Stein said walking up beside Shinigami-Sama.
"Practice what?" Soul and I asked together.
"Practice to where you can get 'Demon Hunter' in one try." Shinigami-Sama informed.
"Oh." We muttered.
"Well, let's go." Stein said walking toward the door we had just come from. My father appeared beside him.
"MAKA!!!!" He cried running to me. I pulled out my Maka-Chop book and slammed my father over the head with it. Soul burst out laughing.
"M-Maka?" Death Scythe cried.
"Let's just go." I muttered.
"So are you and Death Scythe going to be our training partners?" Soul asked as we headed down the front steps of Shibusen and in the direction of the old woods.
Once there Stein and my Father stood at the other end of the clearing. Soul and I just looked at each other, unsure of how to use demon hunter.
"Just concentrate and max out your spirit wavelengths, but keep them stable and even with your partners." Professor Stein instructed.
"Alright then." Death Scythe said cracking his knuckles and changing into his Scythe state.
"Maka, ready?" Soul asked.
"Mmm." I replied extending my hand to him and nodding. He took it and changed into his own scythe form.
I grabbed a hold of Soul and spun him the letting him rest on my shoulder.
"Hmm, you seem ready." Stein said, lighting up one of his cigarettes.
"Let's just get this over with." Soul said.
I shut my eyes and let my spirit wavelength rise.
"Higher Maka." Soul said as his rose above mine.
"I'm trying!" I called letting it extend out farther, soon mine was to the max, along with Soul's. Our wavelengths were stable and equal.
"Nice, now, Soul Resonance." Stein said tossing his finished cigarette to the ground and stomping on it.
"Soul Resonance!!" Soul and I called in unison.
I stood there, holding Soul who had enlarged into a long bright blue scythe.
"Damn." I muttered.
"Maka! Quit! You still have to keep your wavelength stable!" Soul scolded.
"I know!" I argued fixing the tiny bit that had gone down.
"Focus Maka!" Death Scythe yelled from Steins hands. "Chrona!" He called.
"Chrona…" I whispered. I shut my eyes tighter and made my soul wavelength grow larger.
"Maka, I don't think I can make mine go any higher!" Soul complained from the glowing blade.
"Yes you can!!" I yelled. I felt it, his quivering, gone. His grew along with mine. Branching out. Growing.
I heard Professor gasp.
I reopened my eyes and to find Soul purple and even larger. I swung, because he was so large and I couldn't keep him up any longer.
"We did it Maka." He praised after we had swung the attack. Stein and Death Scythe walked over to us. I feel to the ground breathing heavily. Soul changed and laid back onto the grass.
"That took every ounce of energy I had!!" Soul complained. Huffing hard.
"Suck it up and do it again!" Stein said standing over top of Soul and staring down at him.
"Okay Okay." Soul said scrambling out from under Steins feet and onto his own.
"Maka?"
"Lemme catch my breath. Soul, you were huge! I could hardly hold on to you!"
"Swing the second he changes." My Father said walking over to a tree and leaning up against it.
"Listen to him for once, Maka." Stein said walking toward my father.
I glanced over at Soul who was laying down in the grass and staring up into the bright blue sky which only had a few clouds.
"Soul."
"Yea?" I asked sitting up.
"Let's try it again." I said pulling myself up from the ground and looking back down at Soul. I extended my hand and surprisingly Soul took it without complaining he was tired.
"Let's go you two!" I called over to my father and professor. They grinned and Stein grabbed a hold of my father who had transformed. I had already had Soul hanging slightly over my shoulder.
"Ready Maka?" His voice echoed from the blade.
"Mmm-hmm." I said planting my feet.
Again we attempted Demon Hunter.
"Soul Resonance!!" Soul and I called again, this time I knew what to expect if we reached the Demon Hunter Level. First Soul started off as a normal Witch Hunter, but soon burst into Demon Hunter.
I swung, hard. I chopped a dozen trees down from the bottom and Professor Stein could barely get out of the way in time.
Once I the attack had been distributed I dropped to my knees, Tired again. Soul changed back into a human.
"Maka!" He called me name.
I looked up and he was smiling down at me. "We did it again." I said smiling back.
"If I can hardly get out of the way, then I am sure Chrona can't." I cringed at Stein's word choice. "You two are ready." He said dropping Death Scythe onto the grass. He transformed and hugged the ground.
"Aw sweet ground~ I almost got killed by my own daughter!!"
"Shut up dad." I said from across the opening.
"Now both of you head home and rest. Tomorrow at 8 a.m. come to Shinigami-Sama's room. From there we will track Chrona down and put an end to Medusa's madness." Stein said walking into the surrounding woods.
"Good Luck Maka!" My father called scrambling up from the grass and running after his Meister.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day. The day Soul and I have to kill Chrona, to put an end to her suffering and her mother's madness.
"Maka, hey, just try not to think about it yet." Soul said pulling me up from the ground.
"Right. Like that will be easy."
"Just shut up and let's go home." He said walking toward the direction Stein and Death Scythe had gone in.
I followed, stubbornly, back to the house.
Soul's POV
I stared out my window, at the moon.
"I just hope she can pull through tomorrow." I muttered to myself.
"Why not kill us now? While you have this chance, slice my head off." I heard a creepy voice from behind me. I turned toward my closed door, nothing.
I flew up from where I sat and ran to Maka's room.
Maka was sound asleep; the only sound was her mumbling to herself and her breathing, along with Blair's. I walked over to the edge of her bed and stared down.
"She can't do it." That same malicious voice said, "She can't kill her best friend, she's weak!"
"Dammit, go away!" I yelled. Maka rolled over in her bed. Grabbing both her ears with her hands.
"Stop it, please!!" She screamed.
"Maka!" I said looking at her face to see if eyes were open.
"She's dreaming, fool." The voice said.
"Go away." I muttered, looking at Maka.
"Soul, make it stop! I don't want to hurt her!!" Maka cried again. Blair shot up from her spot at the foot of the bed looking around.
"Maka…" I whispered. I felt, useless. Like I couldn't do anything, even though Maka cried out in her sleep for me to help, I couldn't. Wasn't it my job as a weapon to protect my Meister? Then why couldn't I complete my job?
Blair made her way softly across the bed to where Maka's head laid half way off her pillow; Blair placed a paw onto her hand.
"She should sleep for a little while longer without any nightmares. Nya." Blair said groggily, yawning.
I sat down in the floor up against Maka's bed. I flung my head against the edge of it and attempted to get a little bit of sleep.
I don't really remember if Demon Hunter is even Purple XD I just took a crazy guess so leave the correct color in a review :] and tell me what you think of it :]
Pwease pwease _
~Roxas
