DWTD Chapter 11
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Soul POV
I waited in the dark, damp Death room for further instructions from Kid and hoping to hell I can get back to looking for the asshole I have to work with. I had told Black*Star about the girl over drinks and how her father is retardedly over protective, that if he wanted to get the girl, he would have to do it at the school or on the way to school. But just as he was about to go look for her earlier that morning, her father stepped in and started stalking her like a lost puppy dog. With that, his chance of capturing her without witnesses disappeared and that brings us back to the Death room.
Black*Star and I have been waiting in here for about two hours now, Kid made sure to tell us to be within shouting range of the room until he returned. It's actually less boring in here then the rest of the school, at least there is a fire to look at. The school was filled with nerds or jocks, neither really blended well with me, I could kick the shit out of any person that tried to start shit with me and I usually did. I also got a good lecture about power differences and I was told that I needed to contain myself. What fun is school if you can't occasionally beat the shit out of people? None. That's the main reason I hate this place.
I let out a very audible sigh and lean further down in my chair. This whole day has been nothing but a waste of time, I could have been spending the day looking for the demons, or at least tracking down leads. I continue to stare at the fire and think of ways I could catch these shape-shifting bastards, my previous idea of using the Alburn girl as bait was dashed away as soon as I found out she was the one Kid was looking for. I might be able to extract some more information from the father, I might be able to use someone else as bait. Maybe they were into flat-chested book worms. If only it could be that easy, I would have a large supply of candidates to choose from in this school...
"Stop being quiet and entertain your GOD!" screamed Black*Star, startling me so bad that I fall out of my chair.
"Goddamn it, Black*Star! Don't fucking yell! You scared the shit out of me!" with a scowl on my face, I sit back down on my chair. "If you want to talk, use your indoor voice."
"The mighty Black*Star doesn't trouble himself with such childish requests!" he lets out a booming laugh and jumps on his chair, one foot on the seat and the other resting on the arm. "BOW TO YOUR MASTER!"
Without hesitation, I swing my legs over the arm of my chair and kick the chair out from under his feet. With the grace of an obese aquatic mammal, he falls face first towards my outstretched foot, crashing into it with enough force to cause a massive nose bleed. The sight of Black*Star laying in a pool of his own blood was enough to make me burst out in laughter, his crumpled body lying in a heap between the two chairs.
"You know, I might just kill you for your sacrilegious actions, Soul," he manages to mumble after a few moments. After slowly stumbling to his feet, he takes a swing at my face, I dodge and retaliate with yet another kick to the face. The almighty Black*Star trips backwards into his chair and falls to the ground, his nose bloody and his eyes vacant.
"What are you animals doing?!" an angry voice suddenly comes from the darkness in front of me. Within a few moments, three figures start to emerge from the fog wall, the middle figure seemed to be carrying something on it's shoulder as the the other two walk slowly on either side. It took only a second to realize that it was Kid, Liz and Patty and just a second more to notice the nasty look he was being shot.
"I-it was al-ll S-s-oul's f-fau-ult..." a mumbling Black*Star managed to say behind the curtain of blood, "He-e k-k-ic-hicked me i-in-n the f-fa-"
"I don't care who the fuck started this shit, you two are grown ass adults and should know better! I mean, how childish are you?! All my hard work making all of these chairs straight and exactly the same length apart is ruined! Do you have any idea how long it's going to take me to put it back to it's former position?!" the irate Grim reaper dropped a slender body onto his wooden desk before walking over to me and Black*Star, Patty and Liz each took a seat next to his desk and watched the small body. "If you hadn't given me good information that led to the capture of Miss Alburn, then I would have severely punished you for this mess," the reaper comes closer to me, a look of pure disgust spread across his face, "I shall forgive this once, and only once."
I let out a sigh of relief, Kid's punishments are usually pretty rough, when he is not beating the daylights out of us, he sends us on horrible missions that involve using ourselves as bait. He is one that likes to see pain, but only if it is organized and symmetrical. Yes, the greatest power source in the United States happens to be extraordinarily OCD.
"So, is that who I think it is?" my eyes quickly dart from Kid, to the body on the desk, and then back to him, my voice low and disinterested. I tried to seem bored by the concept of having her here, but secretly I was thrilled. This girl may be a bitch, but she was able to see our door, and better yet she was able to land a hit on me. She wasn't all that bad to look at either.
"Her name is Maka Alburn, as you so kindly informed us-" the reaper started heading back towards the desk, glancing at a very giggly Patty along the way.
"Did you kill her yet?" I interrupted him, my voice sounded a little more worried then I intended it to.
"No, not this moment. She has been knocked out until we can figure out what we are going to do about her. With her father acting as a current ally, I think it would be a poor idea to kill his daughter while he is trying to eradicate demons for us," his attention was now completely focused on the girl, his back was facing us.
"Let's just kill them both, my Lord," laughed Patty, she sat at the edge of her seat, looking at the reaper with longing, "We can do this mission ourselves! I already know what one of the demons looks like!" she turns her head to me and give a large, creepy grin before turning back to Kid.
"You know what one looks like?! How the hell did you find one?!" I was flabbergasted, my jaw dropped and I was fuming mad. Kid assigned me that damn assignment, who the hell does she think she is?
"We will discuss that later, for now we need to determine why she can see things normal humans cannot..." the reaper stared the fire for a minute, then turned to look into the darkness behind Liz and Patty. He turned his body to face the girls and it looked as if Patty was going to have a fit, and in a split second, he grabbed both girls and kicked an oncoming blade to the foggy floor. Black*Star and I were on our feet in a moment, but we couldn't get to the reaper before the next attack came.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" a scythe swung down, cutting through the black and fog, and was caught by the young reaper. Patty merged with the shadows and Liz pulled a knife from a hidden holster, Black*Star and I both ran to the reaper as Patty kicked someone out of the shadows. The man had tear streaks running down his face and snot coming from his nose, he reeked of booze and his clothing was torn and stained. The red haired man looked miserable, but angry, he lunged at Kid again with his scythe, missing again and again as the young reaper dodged him and countered each swing with a blow of his own. However, this didn't detour the red-haired menace, he accepted each blow and tried harder to kill Kid.
"I WILL FUCKING END YOU! HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY MAKAAA!" he shrieked, his voice echoing in the room, and his movements becoming more staggered, "YOU WILL SUFFER FOR LAYING YOUR HANDS ON MY GIRL!"
"Hey, Alburn," I said with a large grin on my face. The pissed off parent paid no attention to me, he just continued to furiously swing at Kid, it wasn't until I made my next comment that he stopped. "Well, then. If you are determined not to look, maybe I will do something extra horrible to this daughter of yours," his pupils turned to slits and his face went pale at the sight of me holding his girl. I sat on Kid's desk with Maka in my lap and Liz's knife in my hand, while he was fighting with the reaper Lord he didn't notice the rest of us gathering around his precious little girl. He took one step towards us and I brought the knife to her throat, "No, no. You come any closer and I'll cut her open and make you watch her bleed to death."
"I will kill you before you-" the man's voice was barely audible over the fire behind me.
"You won't get the chance to kill him," Black*Star cut in, his hands were folded in front of him and he was standing to my right, "You will have to go through me first."
"Not just him, but us as well," Liz piped in, she gave Maka a nervous glance and stood off to my other side as Patty's shadow extended out and grabbed the disgruntled father by the ankles, slowly wrapping herself up his legs and constraining his body.
"The choice is yours Mr. Alburn," Kid said calmly from behind him, "We had no intentions of harming your daughter, but she is a threat to us, and if you don't cooperate we will have no choice but to kill her." His eyes focused on the weeping man, he took a few steps forward and put a hand on the constrained man's shoulder.
"Why? Why is everyone targeting my poor Maka? She hasn't done anything wrong!" his weeping was becoming more intense, his eyes were puffy and red and his body was shaking violently.
"She found our room without help," stated Kid, turning back towards us and walking, "Your daughter found the door and from what I heard, was able to land a hit on Soul," a loud cackle was heard from the restraints holding Spirit, even Black*Star snickered at the last comment. Kid gave the tow of then a nasty glance and they both went silent, "I need to know if you are hiding anything from us, Mr. Alburn. Demons don't pick sacrifices out of nowhere, especially when it's from something as important as this. You are hiding something and I need to know what," he walked behind his desk and sat in his chair, his eyes focused the on the man he was questioning.
"I will tell you everything, just please, take the knife away from my daughter's throat," his words were soft but clear. When I heard Kid snap his fingers, I threw the knife at Liz, she caught the blade and smoothly hid it in her hidden holster. A second snap was heard and the shadows holding Spirit were removed and a smiling Patty took her place on Kid's right side.
"Take a seat please... everyone," said the reaper, gesturing to the chairs lined in front of him. I stood up, still holding the unconscious girl in my arms, I walked to the nearest chair. Spirit was about to snatch her out of my arms when Black*Star grabbed his hand and threw him back.
"Tsk, tsk asshole, you get the girl when we get the truth," he boomed with a smile on his face, "And trust me, we'll know if you're lying!"
The upset father took his seat, but never took his eyes off me. "About 8 years ago, I was on a huge hunt for a vicious demon by the name of Lucious. He was abducting woman and children and killing them, using their life forces to power up his dying master. It wasn't working the way he was hoping, so he turned his sights on reapers, thinking their powers could boost him to his once former glory. He tried to get me..." his eyes were hidden behind his hair and he leaned forward in his chair.
"Lucious captured Maka and my wife, Kami. He told me that if I didn't surrender the location of our clan's base, he would kill my wife and child before my eyes, torturing them slowly until I cracked." His body started to shake and tears dropped down into the fog, "I couldn't do it. Revealing the base would have been the end of the country, millions would have died at the hands of Lucious and his master. I watched as he pulled my wife's eyes out one at a time, chopped off each of her fingers and forced them in her mouth, cut her and various places and pour vinegar and salt in her wounds. She suffered tremendously, she was awake through all that and much more..." his words stayed clear, he started rocking back and forth. "Just before she died, she made me promise to save Maka, she told me to do anything it took to protect her and I failed. He shot her in the head shortly after Kami passed away, and I lost it. I honestly don't remember what happened, I blacked out and when I finally came to, I was holding Maka in my arms and was surrounded in entrails, organs, bones, skin and blood. It was everywhere, but all I could really see was my pale white Maka. I did the only thing I could think of; I split my soul..."
"Wait, you split your soul?" I interrupted him, completely confused, "But only Grim reapers can do that!"
"Demon hunters are not normal reapers, extremely powerful individuals can pull off this stunt, but it is a taboo. There is no telling what can happen to both the reaper and the human involved in the fusion, most simply die from the shock," Kid explains for Spirit, "Continue with your story Mr. Alburn."
"I transferred enough of my soul to bring my daughter back to life and to have her heal her wounds. She didn't remember anything that happened thank god, but she did have occasionally out bursts. She would kill people in her sleep, when she blacks out she becomes a predator and kills the wicked in gruesome ways. We have had to move almost every year because people have been able to track her down and have tried to take her life, she awoke a few times covered in blood and screaming, I was able to erase some of those memories. I took up drinking, partly because of my wife's death and another for an excuse. It was easier to have Maka blame me for being a drunk then to have her discover the truth..."
I looked down at the girl in my arms, it was hard to believe that this girl had the soul of a demon hunter in her, or that she could kill for that matter. She looked so small and helpless.
"Thank you Mr. Alburn, this explains Patty's story and confirms why she can see our entrance. However, something is going to have to be done about her," Kid said behind his folded hands, he stood up and walked around his desk towards me and Maka.
"What? I thought you were going to give her back to me once I told you the story?!" his eyes widened and he tripped while trying to stand up, his legs apparently weak from shaking so much. "You can't go back on your word! You can't! I WANT MY LITTLE GIRL!" tears came flowing faster down his cheeks.
"Calm yourself, you will leave with your daughter. But she will be told the full story in a few weeks time when she takes part in the reaper test," Kid lifted the unconscious girl from my arms and held her while Spirit struggled to his feet, my eyes widened with disbelief. What the hell is going on here?
"No, I won't allow this! Do you know how hard I worked to keep this away from her? I don't want her to live this life!"
"So you would rather have her abducted again?" Spat the child reaper, his temper finally starting to crack, "Your daughter was captured by one of the demons you are hunting, she managed to fend him off with an element of surprise, but he will be wise to her trick next time, and I think she should be given the chance to hone her reaper skills and protect herself!"
"I can protect her!" cried Spirit.
"YOU LET HER GET CAUGHT ONCE ALREADY!" screamed Kid, placing Maka back into my arms and in the blink of an eye, he was holding Spirit in the air by his throat. "STOP BEING STUBBORN AND LISTEN TO ME!"
"PEOPLE DIE WHEN THEY TAKE THAT TEST! I CAN'T LET HER DIE AGAIN!" choked the hanging man, he was trying to loosen Kid's grip, but it was futile.
"She isn't like normal people!" growled Kid, "She has an advantage against anyone we pit against her! Worse case; she dies and the demons lose their sacrifice and cannot complete the ritual. Best case scenario, she lives and becomes a powerful reaper. Either way, we can make this work," he dropped Spirit and stood above him in a threatening manner.
"My Maka, please, please! Help her, I don't want her to die," the man was almost completely engulfed in the fog, weeping sadly into his arm.
"We will try our best," he turns to look at me, "I will have to fill you in on everything, Soul. Black*Star, Patty and Liz, I want you three to find everyone else and meet back here immediately," with those words, the other three reapers muttered a 'yes, my lord' and disappeared into the darkness. Kid sat at his desk, "Spirit, you will take your daughter and go home. We will come for her in a few weeks time and collect her for the test. If you try to flee, I will hunt you down personally and kill you, I will then have Maka face the strongest opponent I can find and make sure she dies in battle."
"I understand," his crying stopped as he returned to his feet. He took a couple steps towards me and held his hands out, "I want my daughter back now." I looked at Kid for confirmation before handing over the girl, the red haired man took his daughter and headed out the door at the top of the staircase and without a glance back, he slammed the door shut.
"I want to discuss all the details with you before everyone comes back," the young reaper suddenly said, startling me, "Come closer and I will tell everything."
I am soooooo so sorry guys! Major writers block! I though this chapter was going to be more based on Patty and Liz, but I wanted to speed up the story a little. The next chapter will skip the Thompson girls again and go right into Tsubaki!
I will update extra for missing Thursday AND Saturday, shout outs to Zyba for kicking my ass and helping me get this chapter out! Any encouragement or sass is accepted when I miss a chapter, don't be afraid to scold me for my laziness!
Anywho, I really hoped you all enjoyed all this shit, I will be getting to the reaper tests within a chapter or two and I promise some really disturbing violence! Don't be afraid to leave comments, questions or suggestions in the box below!
PS- A couple people have been asking about lemon and with whom; I am going to confirm lemon in later chapters (there will be a warning in the story description for those that are not into that and a quick non-graphic summary in the following chapter) and it is definitely between Soul and Maka (yup, I know I crushed some dreams, but I have always been a huge fan of SoMa)
Thank you for reading Dancing With The Devil! See ya next time!
