Sheesh, even Bite Size is almost done. Still a couple more chapters or so, so just wait up.
Remember that Blankdude is the original owner of this story and that I need reviews and I crave them so that I know how I'm doing.
I do not own Soul Eater and Blankdude owns Raichel as well. If you really really want to, I guess I could kind of own Chewer...but I really don't want to...O_O
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Bite Size
Chapter 10: Into the Night
"You should only really put us in there if you want your rat dead or, at the very least, severely wounded!" called Maka as Raichel held them over the cage.
"Last time I checked, it's bigger than all five of you," Raichel calmly noted.
Soul smirked, figuring he knew what Maka meant. Black Star shook his fist and bellowed.
"I, the godly Black Star, demand that you release me and my followers at once!"
Raichel laughed as Tsubaki clapped a hand over his mouth and Chrona sunk to her knees, moaning fearfully.
"You guys will just have to stay here. I'll come visit in the morning and see if I'll have to clean Chewer's cage."
"You will! Of his carcass that is!" bellowed Maka.
Raichel shrugged, "Oh well. He bit me last week, so I really have no use for an idiot who bites the hand that feeds him."
With that, Raichel dropped the shrunken meisters and weapons into the cage of a large rat named Chewer. He was gray with red creepy eyes and, although not truly that large, he was gigantic to the shrunken ones before him.
"Soul!" Maka called.
"What the hell are we doing?" asked Black Star.
"We're going to fight you uncool dummy!" yelled Soul, turning himself into Maka's shrunken but potent scythe.
"Oh. Tsubaki!"
"Understood!"
"Ragnorak!" cried Chrona, standing up with her willingness to fight too.
A giant black, indescribable blob with eyes bursts from Chrona's back, shrunken to proportion as the sword develops in her hand. Maka twirls Soul above her head, overjoyed to be wielding him once more finally after these past days of fun, adventure, and hell all in one.
"Missed this Maka, didn't you?" Soul asked her.
"You have no idea Soul. No idea whatsoever."
"You so sure?"
Maka paused and blushed slightly. Idiot! Of course he missed it too! Sure, the past days had been okay, but they were also nothing compared to being able to fight proudly together. The break was nice, but it was time to fight now!
Maka grinned, "Let's do this!"
"Yahoo! I, the amazing Black Star, shall kick your ratty ass!"
"Black Star, watch your mouth!"
"L…let's go!" Chrona declared in her signature stammer.
The three meisters charged at the rat, Maka leaping into the air, Black Star ducking to the underside, and Chrona flying over to the side. Frightened, the rat turned, striking Black Star with its foot and Chrona with its tail. Both jumped back up and ran at it as Maka landed a slash into the side. Squeaking, the rat turned and bit Maka's arm, sending a yelp from her lips at the large bite. Normally so large, it was huge inside of Maka's shrunken arm. Black Star jumped on its back and stabbed him, only going so deep and nonfatal due to lowered strengths in this state. Chrona slashed the hind end and the rat screamed in a loud squeak before turning and striking all three of his offenders. Maka's blood fell as the others hit the glass walls of the cage. She ran right forth, not letting her wound stop her as Chrona and Black Star both arose and charged too. Maka leaped up, Black Star ran forward, and Chrona sidestepped, letting the rat rush at Black Star. Maka slashed its back, Black Star sliced the underbelly, and Chrona stabbed the side, sending the rat into the cage wall, squeaking and bleeding. No longer fighting, all five friends knew it would be dead by morning or sooner. Maka knelt down, holding her arm and lucky her bone wasn't showing to mean something worse than what it already was. Soul came out and knelt by his meister, holding his arms around her and thankful to be with her, even in this mess. Chrona let Ragnorak fade into her and Tsubaki came out to stand by Black Star.
"I think that rat shall be our escape tonight," Maka noted.
"You mean until then we're stuck in this rathole!" screamed Black Star.
"No Black Star, she means that we're going to get out and dance with all of the cute dollies until dawn," Soul hissed with sarcasm.
"Ew, I'm too godly for those…things!" yelled Black Star.
"Uh…I don't think I could handle something like that. Sounds kind of…w...weird."
Maka laughed before turning serious, "We are not dancing with those ugly objects. I swear on it all that if it gets brought up again, I'll scream into the ear of whoever brought it up until that ear bleeds."
Soul looked at her, eyebrow raised; just what in living hell made her say that? Then he saw a Barbie and Ken in the corner…um…cuddling….and he suddenly felt repulsed.
"I agree with Maka….dolls are so uncool…" moaned Soul.
"And horrifyingly ugly…" Maka shuddered at the memory of Miss Blue and Ms. Pink
"For now, we should rest up for the escape tonight," Tsubaki noted.
"Yeah. Tonight, we can lean the rat against the glass wall and climb up onto it. From there, we can jump over the wall of the cage," Maka noted.
"Then what?" inquired Chrona.
"From there…I think I can get us to the front door," Maka answered.
Everyone nodded and settled all the way across the cage, away from the dead rat. Soul and Maka in the corner, Chrona in the middle, and Black Star along with Tsubaki in the next corner. Soul lifted Maka's arm, making her wince as he looked it over.
"Damn rat, it got you badly… Soul grumbled.
He pulled his t-shirt off, leaving him in his shrunken tank top as he wrapped the black shirt around Maka's arm, using the sleeves to tie it around.
"Thanks Soul…"
"Don't worry about it.
"Not just for this but….for everything you've done over these past few days. I'm so glad you…care enough to do all of that for me…"
Soul leaned back and tapped the back of his head to the glass cage wall. His red eyes went soft and he heaved a heavy sigh.
"Maka, if you think the word 'care' sums it up, you're either dense or dumber than you sometimes act."
"Hey!"
Soul turned to her, "Hay is for horses Maka."
"What are you even saying?" she whelped.
Soul rolled his eyes, his face red as they are, "You idiot."
"Soul-!"
She never finished….
"Aw," sighed Chrona quietly and happily for her friends.
"Black Star, look!" cried Tsubaki.
"Hah! I, the god of love, knew that was coming!"
Tsubaki glanced at him, "You definitely are the god of something, but certainly not love…."
"Hey! I protest that!"
Tsubaki rolled her eyes and Black Star pouted.
Soul pulled back and held a red as fire Maka to his chest.
"That's what I meant…" he whispered.
"Soul….Soul I…."
She sighed and melted against him, "I…love you Soul…."
Soon enough, darkness set its blanket over Death City as the sun let the moon come up. Laughing and bleeding, the moon floated above, sitting in front of the clouds as its notorious laugh rang. Black Star, by losing an epic game of rock paper scissors, was forced to position the gross, bloody, and dead rat against the cage wall. In return, he was allowed to escape first. He climbed on the rat the instant he had it set and dove over the cage wall.
Thud! Crack! Thud! Black Star struck the table and bounced off, popping his back lightly with a crack and sending him to where he crashed on top of a very ugly doll, Mr. Green; the brother of Miss Blue and Ms. Pink.
"Agh! It's so ugly, it's so ugly!" screamed Black Star.
"Quiet Black Star!" hissed Tsubaki as she jumped down, landing on the table with her feet.
Maka jumped down with Soul next, both landing on their feet before Chrona jumped out to join them. All four jumped down, where Tsubaki found Black Star kicking Mr. Green repeatedly for being 'ungodly and ugly.' She dragged him off, where they rushed to follow Maka and the others. Maka led them down the hall, soon recognizing it from when Raichel had carried her to the door. Quietly, she gave them a hand signal and ducked against a wall to check around the corner.
The house itself may as well have been asleep. Nothing was astir and even every maid had gone to sleep. Maka smiled and led her friends onward, to the front door and the windows as many shadows flowed into the darkened abyss of a room. Looking around, Maka noted the controller cords for the window blinds hanging down and she jumped for one, motioning for everyone to follow her. They all climbed up and ended up onto the sill, where they all finally saw the laughing moon. The window having been left open a crack by accident had a hole in its screen. All they had to do was open the window.
"Everyone, heave!" Maka called.
Side to side, everyone grabbed an edge of the window and pushed it upwards, causing only a slight budge. Grunting and moaning, they finally managed to get it lifted up enough for escape. Not daring to celebrate yet, the five friends slipped into the world between the window and its screen before climbing out the hole and leaping out into the night, plummeting to the grass below. Only this grass felt furry and was…breathing?
"Possum!" screamed Maka half a minute later.
"Crap!" everyone yelped in unison before they all rushed from the now running possum and flung themselves into the grassy ring near the edge of Raichel's side of the street.
Flying through the night, all five made it across the street to the apartment. Now, the only question was how to get up to the fifth floor?
"Crap…how are we going to do this Maka?" Soul asked.
"Um…I don't know. We could wait for someone to come in…Oh! We could call Blair in our apartment! We have a mirror-phone now," Maka stated.
"Our number is 10-77-666 isn't it?" Soul asked since they had only recently gotten the damned thing and he hadn't quite learned it yet.
Meanwhile, Tsubaki and Chrona began looking for a mirror or something.
"Yup, that's the number alright."
"Okay…" Soul murmured
Black Star threw his fist into the air, "I, the amazing Black Star, demand to be let inside right now!"
Tsubaki and Chrona returned carrying half of a compact, the half with the mirror in it. Maka fogged it and put in the number. Blair, yawning heavily, soon answered the mirror.
"Meow! What? Oh! Soul! Maka! Blair's so glad you guys are okay! What's going on?"
"We're outside the complex and need to be let in," Soul answered.
"Okay! Blair shall come let you in!"
She hung up and the miniature group of five waited in the night until the purple haired catgirl retrieved them and took them to Maka's cardboard home, where they'd have to be until she finished the cure, which she nearly had done as it was.