Hi, I'm so so so so sorry it's been so long!
We have all our mocks coming up so I've been really busy but at last I've finally updated!
I'm so relieved because I like this story and I didn't want to abandon it...
Well here you go, chapter 10!
My eyes slowly, lazily, opened, still heavy from being knocked out. I wasn't sure how long I'd been out cold but my body felt cold from the metal floor and my limbs were stiff. I groaned heavily and sat up, my eyes finally adjusting to the light.
I was in a cage.
I quickly snapped to, standing and hitting my head on the low roof of the metal box. It wasn't big with metal bars and one side that was just a flat sheet of metal. Crap! I'm trapped! I rubbed my sore head and looked around noticing that the other cages in the room that had previously been empty were now occupied.
Liz, Patty and Tsubaki were in their own separate cages, to separate the weapons from their meisters and then Kid and Black Star were locked in a cage together… now that was just cruelty. I almost felt like laughing if it wasn't for the sudden realisation that Maka wasn't with them.
I looked around, noticing that there were further cages on the other side of the cavern. Blue electricity fizzled around the bars, trapping the occupants inside. Crona was passed out inside one and next to him was Kirimi. But still no Maka.
"Ah so you've woken up." A voice echoed from next to some of the machinery and for the first time I noticed the boy standing there. Cal's blue eyes stared coldly at me and I couldn't help growling slightly. "I had hoped you'd wake up first actually," he admitted, stuffing his hands in his pockets calmly and walking towards my cage. I flinched back.
"Where's Maka?!" I shouted. Cal ignored me and continued, still walking forward.
"I mean we were never really introduced and maybe I didn't make a great start, although I'm not really making a great end either, trapping you like this. But that's just how things are I guess!" He crouched down next to the bars and cocked his head.
"Tell me where Maka is!" I shouted again. Cal only laughed pulling some keys out of his pocket. He dangled them close to the bars but I wasn't interested.
"Oh Maka is safe and of course. She's the only reason I agreed to do this."
"Agreed to do what? Kidnap children and lock them in cages!" I lurched at him and he fell back, the bars of my own cage instantly springing to life and sending white hot electricity through me. I fell back.
"Oh didn't I mention, your bars are charged, there's no point trying to escape." He stated, getting up and brushing himself down. "Now if you'll excuse me, my Maka is waiting." He turned and walked away, dropping the keys on the floor about three metres from me.
"Your Maka?!" I shouted after him. How dare he say that, how dare he! Fuming with anger and hate I threw myself at the bars, throwing my transformed arm at the metal again and again. Electricity fizzled through me and finally I sank down. There was nothing I could do, nothing at all. I was trapped here and Maka was out there, with that bastard.
….
It was only about twenty minutes before I heard the gasp from the cage next to me. Tsubaki woke, clutching at her chest and frantically whipping her head around, her long hair only inches from brushing the seemingly fine bars.
"Hey." I smiled at her, trying to make our desperate situation seem slightly better. The truth was that inside I was screaming. I needed to find Maka, my meister, who was probably in a worse place than us right now.
"W-what happened?" She whispered, raising her hands to her mouth and leaning slightly forward towards the bars.
"Stop." I told her and she froze. "The bars are electric." She nodded not needing to ask to know that I had found out the hard way.
"They have us all in these cages, separated so that we can't fight our way out. " I looked around the room. "They knew we would come." Tsubaki gasped.
"Cal! He was behind this!" She looked down, focusing, "I remember now, he hit you over the head. Black Star was the first to try to attack him but then all these creatures came from nowhere and the next thing I know I'm in here…" Her eyes welled up a bit at the thought.
"Hey, it's going to be ok…" I tried to sound comforting but I'm pretty sure it was failing. Tsubaki looked up and smiled regardless.
"Papa! Papa!" The shout made me whirl round. The whole reason we were here was finally awake and calling to me from across the cavern. Kirimi's eyes were welled up with tears and she leapt forward, putting both hands firmly on her bars.
"Kirimi don't!" I yelled but it was too late. Blue electricity crackled around her tiny fingers, spreading slightly up her arm but she didn't let go. She just laughed. I cocked my head at her, the panic in my mind subsiding.
"It tickles!" She giggled. Tsubaki and me stared at her dumfounded. This was just weird. What does she mean it tickles? It hurt A LOT last time I checked!
"Kirimi?" I asked.
"Yes papa?"
"Doesn't it hurt?" She looked down at her hands.
"Nope!"
"She's your child right?" Tsubaki said, "Well maybe she has some special talents; I mean she is weapon and meister mixed with black blood!" I nodded as it occurred to me that there was probably a reason that the witches wanted her so badly.
I looked across the floor towards where the keys had been dropped by Cal. They were still just as far away as they had been before.
"Kirimi, is there anything else that you can do?" I asked. The little girl nodded, a grin spreading on her round face.
"I can do lots of things!" She looked a little guilty, "But Mamma used to tell me not to tell anyone…"
"But you can tell my and your Aunt Tsubaki can't you?" I leaned forward hopefully.
"Well ok I guess…" She smiled again, "I can turn into a black and white scythe and I mamma always says I have more power from my black blood. But then she makes me take all this nasty medicine to control it." She pulled a sickly face before continuing. "It's so unfair because Seth never has to take any!"
"Is there anything else?" I urged her on, the thought of Maka being stuck with that creep Cal still fresh in my mind.
"Well… I am learning to destroy things with my soul wavelength from Uncle Black star and I can use my soul perception like mamma-"
"Wait what was that about destroying things?" I interrupted, "What can you destroy?" Kirimi pulled a face.
"Not too much, I can just make things I touch break or shatter with my wavelength."
"It's worth a try!" Tsubaki said optimistically. I looked up at Kirimi.
"Please, could you try on the bars?" The young girl sighed in a way that made her seem much older and mature that she was or should be.
"Ok."
…
It wasn't like I had expected. The noise was like a gunshot that cracked through the whirring of the machines that were dotted through the cavern as the top half off the cage was smashed and thrown up. The blue electricity fizzed out and pieces of debris flew off into the room, some crashing into a near machine.
I winced at the noise and the plume of grey smoke that was flooding into the room before I noticed Kirimi; still standing with her hands held up to where the roof had been, her eyes closed tightly. She sank to her knees and smiled slightly at me but her beautiful green eyes were tired and the edges of her snowy hair were singed.
"Kirimi! Are you ok?" I shouted suddenly worried to her.
"I'm ok Papa." She whispered back, standing shakily and making her way towards the keys on the floor slowly. I watched her desperately wanting her to stop and this all to go back. I wanted her to be safe. Why am I so protective? But I already knew the answer. Because she's my little girl; my one and only little angle.
I tried to shake the thought from my head. I'm a teenager, not a father! But it wasn't true; it couldn't be. Not with the amount of pride I felt for this strong little girl and the amount of love I had for her.
She grasped the keys and made her way over to my cage, wobbling with exhaustion. I watched as she went round and slowly but surely undid the lock. The door instantly slid back with a whooshing sound and I pulled Kirimi into my arms.
I felt her weak limbs collapse and she let out a long breath as she fell into sleep. I held her tightly. My little Kirimi. My little memory of Maka. That's right, because I will have a future with Maka.
Very carefully I pulled myself out of the cage and reluctantly laid Kirimi down on the clod stone floor. Tsubaki was still waiting patiently and still smiling kindly at me. I smirked back before unlocking her cage.
"Here take these and get everyone out." I said, handing her the keys, "I'll leave Kirimi here with you but promise me you MUST protect her."
"I promise." She nodded, "but where are you going?"
A shrill shriek echoed through the tunnels and filled the cavern.
"I'm sorry but I have to find Maka!" I said, starting to run off. "Get the others awake before those creatures get here and then get out!" I shouted back. "Don't wait for me!"
Tsubaki nodded and scurried off to get all the cages open. I turned and ran in the direction that Cal had left in. Don't worry Maka, I'm coming. Just wait for me, just be alright…
Behind me the broken machine from Kirimi's explosion gave off a spark that smouldered on the ground, seemingly burning out, before springing back to life and lightly crackling as it spread, unnoticed behind the busy Tsubaki…
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I don'tknow how long it will be before chapter 11 but there will be one and it will be sooner than this one! XD