Chapter 10

Isamu screamed in agony, both emotional and physical. With each passing moment, his soul's size was increasing and turning black as the night sky, and his body had started its transformation into his werewolf state. Meanwhile, back down on the ground, everyone was staring up at the roof, wondering what was happening. Maka got a terrified look on her face as she started to run towards the school. She could see what was happening to Isamu's soul, and she was also worried for the safety of True. She yelled back to Liz and Patty, who had arrived shortly after the incident started, "Take care of the children!" Liz and Patty both nodded as Maka ran up the stairs.

Tom and Izalea both watched in fear as Isamu started transforming into his werewolf form. Meanwhile, the witch smiled and watched the whole thing unfold. Isamu yelled up to the sky as his voice started forming into a roar. Black fur started coming out of every part of his body and he grew by about four feet. His torso got too big so both his hoodie and shirt ripped off, but his necklace was still, now very tightly, fitting around his neck. Both his shoes and lower part of his pants were both also torn off, so all he was left in was a pair of ripped shorts and his necklace. Isamu snorted out some visible breath from his nose, as he slowly lifted up his head to look at the witch. The witch smiled at him as she slowly started drifting away from the top of the school. "Sadly, my immortal friend, I am not prepared to subdue you quite yet. I just came here to confirm my theory about you. So I'm afraid I'll have to bid you, a-" Within the blink of an eye, Isamu was in front of the witch, staring her in the face with his bright purple and bright blue glowing eyes. The witches face turned to shock as he grabbed her by the neck and jumped off of the building with her.

Izalea ran over to the ledge and looked down, "What- What was that?! Did you see that?!" Tom was kneeling down next to True as he looked down sadly and closed True's empty eyes.

"Yeah, I did… and that wasn't Isa. Whatever it was…" Tom stood up and stared at her, "We have to stop it. At least restrain it." Izalea looked at him with a worried look,

"I-I don't know man. Did you see that thing? Did you see how fast it moved?"

Tom yelled, "Then we'll just have to be faster! It's time to try the tie and dive!"

Izalea looked at him with a bit of surprise, then gave a nervous smirk. "Alright then, I'll start heading down to the ground floor."

Izalea ran to the stairs as Tom turned and yelled at her. "Hurry!" Tom then went over to the ledge and looked down at the scene below him. "A fall like that might only keep it him down for a couple minutes at most…"

As Izalea was running down the steps her cell phone started to ring. "Ah, great! Who the hell could that be?!" She picked up the phone and spoke with heavy breathing as she was running, "Yeah?!" She heard the voice on the other line.

"Hey, Pedals, it's me, Toni." Izalea kept running.

"I'm… kinda busy here Toni… could this wait?"

Toni responded with a bit of curiosity, "You runnin' a marathon or somethin' Pedals?" He got himself back on track, "Anyway, I looked into that case your school had you sniffin' around about."

"Oh yeah… what'd ya find- JESUS HOW MANY STAIRS ARE THERE IN THIS DAMN BUILDING?!" Toni continued with a slight curious tone that turned into concern.

"Yeeeeah, well listen, Pedals, I… I don't want you getting' involved with this, alright? I talked to your father too, and he said he doesn't want you involved either, for your own good."

Izalea was reaching the bottom of the stairs, "Listen… I'll… talk to ya about it later Toni… But thanks for lookin' out."

"Yeah, no problem Pedals, I'm always lookin' out for the families favorite little rebel." They then both hung up the phone as Izalea kept running and as she was doing so, she passed by Maka. Maka looked towards her as they passed each other and Izalea just looked down at the ground with a sad expression as she kept running.

Isamu landed a few yards away from the witch on their hard fall. The witch was lying in a pile of crumbled up rocks. She had put up a magical barrier underneath herself just before impact, so the damage wasn't as bad, but still bad enough to the point where she couldn't move. Every civilian in the crowd of people had cleared out of the area once Isamu made impact with the ground. Isamu grunted as he slowly stood up, still in his werewolf form. Meanwhile, Sam and the others had run up the stairs to the front of the school to look at the spectacle. Sam then squinted her eyes towards the witch, when she had a realization. "ISAMU! STOP!"

Sam ran toward them both as Cynthia held out her hand. "Sam!"

Rane then grabbed Cynthia's other hand, "You can't! If you get in his way he'll kill you, you know that!" Cynthia stood there with a pained look, knowing he was right.

Isamu started walking toward the witch when Sam suddenly ran in front of her, blocking his path. "Isamu, stop! I know her! She's my friend!" She looked back at the witch, then looked at him. "Please… YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE ME!" Isamu stopped and stared at her for a moment, different thoughts running through his head. He remembered Sam was there with him, when they were both attacked and wounded by the witch. But just as he was about to let his guard down, another thought filled his head. This time… it was of True's face and voice. "Mr. Isa!... Mr. Isa!... You're the best Mr. Isa!" Isamu had a few tears drop down the fur on his face as he roared out to the sky. Sam got a fearful look on her face, when suddenly Isamu backhanded her across the platform into a wall, knocking her unconscious. Isamu continued to walk forward towards the witch, when the front doors to the school opened and two long chains wrapped around his feet, tripping him. Then, the chains began to wrap around his wrists as well. Isamu growled while he was being restrained on the ground and he saw Izalea walk out.

"Tie!"

Tom, who was still on the roof, punched both his hands together forming his shield, and jumped off the roof, "DIVE!" As Tom was falling though, Isamu roared out once more as he started struggling, and Izalea's chains started breaking. Izalea let out a cry of pain, as she had no choice but to release him. Tom saw this and instinctively transformed into his shield mode fully to take the incoming blow. Isamu caught Tom while Tom was in his shield form, and threw him at Izalea, knocking them both out cold and sending them flying backwards a good amount.

Isamu then walked up to the witch and stood in front of her, staring down at her with hatred in his eyes. The witch smiled and laughed as she spit up blood. "Go ahead… Do your worst… This isn't even my real body…"

Rane had heard what she said and whispered questioningly, "Real body?" Isamu roared out to the sky once more and lifted his hands to prepare the final blow. But in less than half a second, before he could deal the blow, nearly all the staff of the DWMA had showed up and pinned him to the ground. Justin Law had the old time witch trial style stocks around his neck, Soul turned both his arms into scythes pinning down his left arm while Spirit did the same thing only with Isamu's right arm, Tsubaki had her ponytail in chain scythe form holding down his left leg while Black Star used his bare hands to hold down his right leg, Blair had conjured up pumpkin stems from the ground to hold down his tail, Stein sat on the lower part of his back while Static sat on the upper part of his back, and finally, there was Kid standing in front of him aiming one of his guns straight at his face. Isamu stared up at Kid and growled, now unable to move.

Static charged up his hand with electricity and spoke in a serious tone. "Down boy." He then put his hand on the front of Isamu's head and sent out a major electrical shock. Isamu went limp, and was then knocked out. Afterwards, his body turned back to normal, and he reverted to his regular self again.

Rane walked up to the witch with Cynthia. Rane stared down at her with distain. "There's only one witch who has the power of mind control…"

The witch chuckled a bit and coughed up more blood. "If they thought… a couple of… bratty N.O.T. students could get rid of me… they didn't know my full capabilities in the first place…"

Rane kneeled down and looked at the witch in disgust, "Go back to your own body… Shaula Gorgon…" He then sent out a pulse with his eyes, as the witch's eyes faded back to their normal selves and she fell unconscious. As the witch became normalized, so did all of the civilians that were brainwashed as well. Meanwhile, back on the roof, Maka had slowly opened the door leading to the outside. She put her hand up to her mouth as tears formed in her eyes and she slowly started walking towards True's body. She shook her head as she stood in front of him, and fell to her knees.

She picked him up and held her against her chest, sobbing. "NO!"

Soul then walked up behind her and and leaned down as he hugged her from behind and whispered to her sadly. "It's not your fault, Maka… It's not your fault…" Maka just kneeled there, sobbing, holding her dead student, whom she had treated as her own.

A few hours later, in the death room…

Kid screamed out at Stein and Marie, "How could you not have told me?!"

Stein spoke in a stern yet calm voice, "We had his abilities under control. The witch… just sent him over the edge…"

"His presence in this school antagonized an attack that injured many and cost a student their life just so she could get to him! How could you possibly think you could keep the son of a monster like free under control?!"

Stein stared at Kid and crushed the cigarette beneath his shoe as he spoke with a slight tone of irritation. "He is MY son, and you need to learn to watch your temper… Lord Second…"

Kid took a deep breath as he spoke again. "As you would expect from a situation like this, it cannot go unpunished… I'm sorry Stein, Marie… but your son must be exiled from the city…"

Marie stepped forward and spoke in a frantic voice, "You can't exile my baby! There has to be something we can do to calm the situation!"

Kid spoke up calmly, "Marie… half the city just witnessed Isamu badly injure three of our best E.A.T. students, and get subdued by half of the entire school faculty… steps have to be made to make the citizens of this city feel at ease, and that means making sure that never happens again."

Stein spoke up, "Then let me train him. Before, I had no way of helping him harness his powers because I didn't want him to know the truth about his past and about his real father. But now that he knows, I can work with him to help him control them."

Kid sighed and looked down, "Listen you two… the citizens are going to want to punish someone for this attack… and since Shaula is nowhere to be found yet… Isamu is just unlucky enough to be in the crosshairs…" Marie held Stein and cried into his chest as Kid continued. "Listen you two… Once we catch Shaula… once we bring her to justice… then we can talk about honing his skills… but until then, I'm going to have to put him in the chamber beneath the school… the same chamber that my father used to contain the kishin Asura."

Marie continued to cry into Stein's chest as Stein tried to comfort her. Suddenly Spirit burst into the room, "Lord Second, we've got a problem!"

"What is it?"

Spirit spoke in a panicky voice. "It's Isamu, he's escaped from his cell and we don't know where he is!"

Kid yelled at him, "Go find him now!" Stein and Marie looked at each other, both worried.

In the east end of the city, Isamu had a bag slung over his shoulder and was just a few steps away from the gates that exited the city. He stopped though, when he heard footsteps running towards him. "Isamu!" He heard Luna call out to him, and beside her was Ben.

Isamu spoke with his back turned to them. "I'm not staying… I… I can't stay…"

Luna stepped forward a bit more with a hopeful smile, "C'mon, we can explain to everyone how you weren't yourself. We can explain how that witch manipulated you and made you do those things!"

Isamu turned around, "How about we explain how I couldn't save True… Or how about we try to explain how I broke both of Izalea's arms while they were in weapon form. Or how about explaining how I gave Sam a concussion and both she and Tom haven't become conscious yet!"

Luna gave him a sympathetic look, "But… that wasn't…"

Isamu looked down and to the side, "Look, why don't you just stay away from me… A monster like me never could've loved you in the first place…" Luna got a hurt and shocked look on her face.

Ben then suddenly ran at Isamu, "You ass! She's just trying to help!" Ben threw a punch, expecting it to be blocked, but he was surprised when the sound of his fist connecting with Isamu's cheek echoed through the air. At a closer look, he could tell that Isamu had tears running down his face.

Isamu turned around again, "Like I said… just stay away from me…" Isamu then walked through the gates, leaving the city that he once knew, along with all his friends, behind him.