The reason I didn't update yesterday and why it's so late today: Christmas lights/decorating 'nuff said
Chapter 9: settling in
(Maka pov)
It's had been a few hours since we got back and Melody still wasn't awake. I was starting to get worried, she had already slept past dinner and it was starting to get late.
"I wonder when she'll wake up?" I thought out loud.
"Don't know, but if you think about it, it's pretty understandable why she's still asleep." Tsubaki replied.
Liz raised an eyebrow questionably yawning as she asked. "how so?"
"well she did have a near death experience, woke up only to go all out fighting black*star, got wounded again from that, then father caused her mind to reveal her memories to us by forcing her soul to take up a chain resonance with us for a quite a long time. Plus she did go through the experience of time travel." Kid ticked off each event on his finger as he explained.
I nodded trying desperately to keep my eyes open. Soul had already gone to bed earlier, the poor guy had been up driving since last night after our mission with barley a wink of sleep only to come back and have all of this dropped on his lap so it was highly understandable that he would tired.
I yawned and looked at the clock, it was already 10:30. "Alright how about we all go ahead and get some sleep, I doubt Melody will wake up and try to run way or anything." Everyone nodded and went to their respective sleeping places and all but collapsed when they reached them. Shaking my head at my friend's antics I made my way to my room. Once I got there I checked on Melody, when we got back Soul and I had pulled out one of those blow up mattress and put it in my room for her. After confirming that she was indeed still asleep I collapsed on my bed and fell into a peaceful slumber.
*CRASH* *CLANG* "IDOIT WATCH WHAT YOUR DOING!" jumped up and nearly landed on the still slumbering Melody. i through my door open and made a b-line for the kitchen.
"What's going on in here?!" I yelled as I turned the corner and walked into the kitchen.
"Oh high Maka." Sitting in front of me covered in flour was Soul and the rest of the Gang. Soul was the one who had greeted me. Liz and Patty were trying to comfort Kid who was having one of his OCD break downs due to the mess, and Tsubaki was busy scolding Black*sat for something and the bag was right behind him, I would guess that he was the one who spilled the flour.
Soul attempted a weak laugh. "yeah about all this, well ya see we all got up an hour or so ago but you and Melody were still asleep so we didn't want to wake you up. But we were all kind of hungry so I offered to make breakfast…..hey what's with that look I can cook just fine!" he added the last part after I had stared at him with wide eyes silently praying for the person who got stuck with him in the future…oh poor Melody, god I hope her mom could cook or else that child must have had the worst diet on earth. I shook my head and motion for soul to continue his explanation.
He shot me one last offended look before doing so. "so yeah like I was saying, I offered to make breakfast but Tsubaki and Kid said that they wanted to help since it was the polite thing to do or something like that, which lead to Liz, Patty and Black*star wanting to help. I didn't see any problem with it so I let them. Everything was going fine until it came time to do the pancakes and Black*star went to grab the flour out of the cabinet and accidently split some flour on Patty's head who thought that that meant that black*star was trying to start a food fight so she reached into the bag and tossed some at Liz who was surprised and smacked the pan she was she was getting against Black*star's head causing him to fall and the bag of flour to turn into a smoke bomb which lead to this." By the time he was done Liz and Patty had successfully coxed Kid out of his meltdown and he and Liz were scolding Patty. Tsubaki was trying to get Black*star to clean up.
I clapped my hand together to get their attention. "All right this kitchen isn't going to clean it's elf so let's get a move on! Also seeing as pancakes are now not an option how about eggs, toast and bacon?" they all gave their approval and just as I was about to assign them there different areas to clean I heard a loud yawn behind me.
"Good morning gu—whoa what happened in here!?" Melody asked as she surveyed the damage.
"Well Soul was going to cook breakfast-" I began to explain but Melody cut me off.
"Dad cooking? Oh you poor souls." she stated sympathetically.
"Hey!" soul protested.
"Sorry daddy dear but as far as I know you can't cook worth a flip. The British can cook better than you." (an: no offense to any British people reading this I actually have a family member who is British and he can cook some delicious stuff. This is just a part of Melody's character.) I nodded my head in agreement.
"Anyway let's get this cleaned up before we do anything else." I then went on to give each person their individual tasks. When we were done I ordered everyone out of the kitchen except for Tsubaki who I knew I could trust with helping me.
"Man what a morning." I sighed
"We didn't mean to make a mess, Soul just wanted to let you sleep. But, um, if you don't mind me asking is Soul's cooking really that bad?" I was about to answer when someone beat me to it.
"Yep, well, He is in my time at least." We turned to see Melody leaning against the wall, a smirk on her face.
"Melody what are you doing in here? I thought I said for you guys to wait in the living room." I asked
She shrugged in return. "No offense to them but I'd really rather stay with the intelligent people. Said people happen to be you and aunt Tsubaki, I mean Lord Kid is smart but Uncle Black*star accidently mention the stripes and well…." She trailed of not needing to finish the statement.
"Lord Kid? Aunt Tsubaki? Uncle Black*star?" Tsubaki asked curiously.
Melody's eyes widened not realizing until now what she had said. "oh well, in my time you and unc- I mean Black*star as well as everyone else are my honorary aunts and uncles." She explained "as for the 'Lord Kid' thing well….."she looked behind her to make sure no one else was listening. "It's like I told Maka." She gestured for me to finish and I obliged, leaning over to whisper in Tsubaki ear.
"In her time Kid has taken over as the Grim reaper." Tsubaki nodded in understanding.
"Well let's get cooking, Melody you do the eggs, Tsubaki you do the bacon and I'll take care of the French toast." I instructed. Tsubaki nodded and Melody gave playful salute. We were half way through when Liz walked in holding something behind her back.
"Why Maka" she sang, a sly smirk on her face. "don't you want some music to have some fun while you work?" oh no, I did not like that tone at all. Melody didn't hear anything past 'music'.
"Music? But of course we would want some, bring that sucker over here!"
"if you say so~" she sang as she sat down Soul's CD player and pulled out one our home made dance mix CDs.
"Now Liz that's just mean." Tsubaki laughed. I raised an eyebrow questionably
"What are you talking about?" Melody and I asked in unison. But upon closer inspection I realized it was the same CD player and CD from Melody's memory.
"Oh no." I groaned
"Oh yes!" Liz teased holding up the items
"What are you guys talking about?" melody asked, completely lost. Tsubaki sighed.
"well when we were….well….you know, looking through your memories we sort of kind of wel….." liz got fed up with waiting.
"We saw you and future Maka dancing the mambo # 5 and Macarena while cleaning a few dishes before Soul and some younger blonde version of him walked in."
Melody nodded before the information set in. when it did the poor girl turned 50 shades of red.
"w-w-w-what?! Um…I mean...uh." she cleared her throat. "That's a cool story bro. and that blonde look alike of my dad was my younger brother Zack." She tried to sound cool but she was still red as a tomato. we all laughed.
"uh guys do you smell something burning?" Liz asked.
"oh crap!" Tsubaki, Melody and I yelled in unison. Quickly we saved the food and called everyone in to eat.
"Man that was good!" Black*star yelled patting his now bloated stomach. Soul looked around.
"What are you looking for?" I asked him
"anyone seen Blair?" and if summoned by her name alone the door slammed open and Blair came running in with a what looked like a back pack in her hand. As she approached I noticed it had splotches of red paint on it. No, not paint, blood.
"Maka, Soul! I think someone might be hurt Nya~" I jumped up
"What do you mean?"
"I found this in the alley way next to the apartment! Nya~" she held up the bloodied backpack.
"My pack!" Melody Jumped up. We all turned to stare at her.
"um, not to sound rude , but who are you Nya~?"
"this Is Melody, she my…daughter, from the future." Soul explained still not used to the fact that Melody was his daughter.
"I'll explain later." I told her after noticing her confused expression. "Melody, what are you talking about?"
"It's just as I said, that's my backpack. Remember, I explained in the death room that I had been on my way to a sleep over at my friend's house when I had been attacked. Well that's my bag." She nodded towards the object in question. "if you don't believe me open that sucker up and the first thing you'll see should be an orange IPod and a Black and white Samsung galaxy."
"Samsung what?" Black*star asked
"Sorry, new modal from my time." Blair did as told and found exactly what Melody described among other sleepover items.
"Yeah so if you don't mind…." Melody trailed off as she reached out to the bag. Blair in turned handed it over. Melody growled at the state of it. "Freaking witch, making me get blood on my favorite bag! Oh well I guess it kind of look kick ass. Hey do you guys mind if I go get a shower and change after everything I feel really grungy"
"no it's okay bathrooms right down the hall to the left." I pointed out.
"hey, how about we all head to the basketball court after you're done?" Liz suggested we all agreed and Melody went to get ready.
Short I know but I'm kind of having writers block and didn't know what else to do. So if anyone has any ideas that would be great! Also how do you all feel about one or more of Melody's friends coming back in time as well? Please review and give your opions and I'll see you tomorrow, hopefully with a chapter that actually matters.