Soul Eater: The Eternal Paradox
Summary: Inside the soul
Disclaimer:I don't own Soul Eater.
Author note: This story will be based more on the magna then the anime but you should still be able to know what's going on if you have only seen the anime.
Chapter 12: Secrets of the Soul
Soul was on the floor, or at least he thought he was everything was a bit murky. He saw the floor was checker board pattern of black and red squares. Then he noticed he was wearing a black suit with white stripes and red shirt with a black tie. At first he thought he was in the Black Room but it didn't look like it, there were shapes he wasn't familiar with. Then He noticed the girls were on the floor too and dress differently just managing to come to. Tsubaki was in a grey outfit and a short black scarf, her arms and legs were wrapped up in white bandages, there was even one tapering her waist also her pant legs seemed a little puffy. Liz and Patti were wearing their old outfits with the red tops and jeans along with their cowboy hats. Liz was wearing longs jeans and bracelets on her wrist, while Patti was wearing puffy jean shorts.
"That was rough" Liz commented "Where are we?"
"Not sure" Soul told her even though he had his suspicions
It was dark but as they started to move forward more light flooded into the room reveling several shelf filled with books. The shelfs seemed to slowly turn into a massive spiral.
"Where's Maka?" Tsubaki asked
"I think we're in her." Soul told her "Well in her soul."
"Oh pretty" commented Patti
They turned to see what Patti thought was so pretty.
There was this tiny little speck of light wafting toward them. It was so tiny, it looked so fragile that touching it would break it,it was peaceful,playful, it seemed pure, delicate and beautiful.
The four weapons just stared at the little speck as it spun around them almost playfully.
Patti let out a small laugh as the little speck danced around her. The speck quickly started to spin around Tsubaki and Liz.
"What is it, big sis?" Patti asked "A fairy?"
"I don't know Patti."
"Maybe it's a firefly?" Tsubaki suggested "I heard fireflies can be symbols of hope."
The little speck then turned its attention to Soul and circled around him playfully in a quick pace.
"It does seem to like Soul." Liz pointed out
Soul was a little annoyed but couldn't bring himself to swat the little thing,he told himself that it was part of Maka he shouldn't risk hurting it but something told him it was more than that even if he couldn't understand what. Soon they heard the sound of foot steps coming closer, the little speck wafted away. Soon Maka walked towards them. Her hair had changed now she had two pony tails but unlike one on each side like they were used to they both hung off the back of her head. Maka's clothes were different too, was more straight edge black coat that gave her more defined shoulders, she was wearing white gloves, she had on a yellow vest with a white collard shirt below it, she had on a striped green tie,she wore simple black boots and wore red pencil skirt. Soul couldn't help but notice the good job the skirt did in showing off her legs. Then Soul gasped as he remembered that when he and Maka did this they knew each others thoughts.
"It's okay Soul" Maka told him "there is no time for modesty."
"What are you talking about?" Liz asked
"Did they?" Soul asked Maka
Maka reassured Soul "Don't worry I blocked that thought from them."
The other girls looked at each other confused.
Tsubaki broke the silence by asking "What's going on?"
"You are in my soul."
"Figured as much from all the books." Soul pointed out
"Yeah, I like books." Maka told them "I have every book,story, piece of knowledge, idea or anything I ever had in my head in those books."
Patti picked up a book at random and tried to read the book title out loud "Ka-Kama Su-"
Maka ran over grabbed the book from Patti and threw it as far as she was able. The Maka then grabbed another book and handed it to Patti.
"Oh its pop up." Patti said opening the book
Liz trying to change the subject to the blushing Maka " What's with our clothes?"
"Yeah, this place is shaped by my mind, your clothes are based on how I see you and how you fit into my world. I guess I'm a little nostalgic you're all wearing the same clothes as the day I met you."
"So why did you bring us here?" Liz said almost accusing her
"Yes, I need you here to talk to you, we don't have a lot of time but I have a lot to explain."
"Yeah you haven't been very forward about things."
"Yeah you can no move roadrunner fast and move earth with your feet." Patti added "How do you do that?"
"My soul is special. I have a grigori soul it lets me do things. One of the things it allows me to match soul wavelength to anyone."
"Wait what?" Soul asked "You had trouble matching my soul wavelength before."
"Yeah that was before I figured out how to do it. You know how Excalibur can be used by anyone, that's because he has the same type of soul, its like that because both the meister and the weapon have to agree on the partnership. Excalibur can't be used unless he want to be used. If I use that ability I can use any weapon, that's how I managed to use Patti and Liz earlier, they thought they were used by Kid so I had their permission even if they didn't know it."
"Yeah about that" Liz started up "Pretty messed up using us against our meister."
"Sorry about that but I had to win. Neither Black Star or Kid would do what I told them unless I beat them, it's a whole way of the warrior thing."
"What do you need us for anyway?" Tsubaki said "You have Soul can't you just use him?"
"There is this technique I can use but it will be difficult to pull off, I need to use all four of you at once."
"Can that even be done?"
"Maybe, it's never been done before were one meister uses four weapons at once. Kilik came closes by using the two pot while they used Patti and Liz."
"So you just need to resonate with all of us?" Soul put it bluntly
"That's the trick naturally I can't resonate without all of you unless I use the abilities that I have with my grigori soul. To use it at this level I have to have all of you working with me. The only way is if you all trust me completely."
"Well, that a little difficult" Liz rebuffed "All day you've kept stuff from us or just lied to us."
"Liz" Tsubaki scolded
"No, no she's right" Maka stepped in "That's one of the reasons you're here. Look I'll admit that I've been lying, its because there are things in the future I'm trying to protect." Her hand started to feel for her ring under the glove "My future isn't perfect but there are somethings some people waiting for me and if I say the wrong thing I might never get back to them." That's when they saw something in Maka's eyes they rarely saw: fear. "So here we are. I need you to trust me. I'm going to let each of you ask me one question. You can ask me anything and I will tell you the truth, I won't be able to lie to you, you'll be able to feel me lying. So you can asks me anything?"
"Anything?" Patti chirped
"Anything just know that if I tell you something...it could change my future if you know it. But still if you ask I'll tell you."
The weapons looked at each other and then Maka.
Patti was the first to step up and looked into Maka's eyes "So in this future are you happy?"
Everyone remained silent for a moment before Maka smiled "Yes,I'm very happy."
"Good" Patti smiled back at her before giving her a big hug.
"So" Tsubaki started "You're married now?"
Maka nodded softly.
"Do you love him?"
"Yes, and I know he loves me." Maka said confidently
Tsubaki smiled and with Patti no longer hugging her she ran up to Maka and hugged her herself, she hugged her like a big sister hugging her little sister. Tsubaki let her go and Liz to ask the next question.
Liz understood Maka a little more, all the lies were done to protect people she loved and Liz couldn't be angry at her for that. "So Maka..." Liz began "You're all grown up now. Married and everything. So this guy, please tell me he makes you happy."
"Everyday."
Liz hugged her "You know when I said makes you happy I meant that he makes sure you-"
Maka cut her off "Yeah, that's why I said everyday."
Liz let out a laugh. The room turned to Maka and Soul, it turned tense as the two stared at each other.
Soul stared into Maka's emerald eyes, he had a lot of questions to ask but he was afraid of the answer and what it could mean. "So..." he finally said "does your husband deserve you?"
Maka smiled "He really does. I think you would like him."
Soul mumbled something before he said "Now what?"
Maka snapped her fingers and light filled the room revealing a large black piano. "Now Soul play the piano."
"You have a piano in your library?" Soul asked
"Yes, Soul you had a profound effect on me."
Soul sat down at the piano and began to play at the piano and the room was filled with music.
At Death Square a figure stepped out of the crack. His form was hidden underneath a black cloak but a gray beard was visible. Every weapon in the square transformed. A wave of madness flooded the area. Marie sent her calming wavelength into Stein to keep him calm. Both Kid and Black Star fought off the madness if Maka hadn't slammed them earlier they wouldn't be able to stand it.
Kronos spoke with a calm authoritative voice "The lines of Sanzu." He said to Kid "You must be the fragment from Lord Death." then turning towards Black Star noticing his tattoo "Strange I thought all the members of the Star Clan had been killed by this point of time. Strange Neither of you have brought weapons."
"Doesn't matter we will stop you." Black Star told him
"You can't stop all of us." Kid told him as his amber eyes looked deeply within the black cloak
The sky turned blood red and Kronos began to speak "You have managed to defeat my horde, no small task I grant you but me finishing you off is beneath me. It would be like stepping on an ant hill."
"I'd like to see you step over this ant hill." Black Star taunted
"Very well." Kronos said as one of his arms turned into a curved blade
In a black blur stretched towards Kim,Jackie and Blair and a red rift was created sucking the three in.
"KIM!" Ox screamed out but they were gone. He ran towards Kronos but in a blur he ran towards them and created another rift sending them away. Kronos began repeating this to every group sending them away. Until Kid and Black Star were left back to back alone, then he struck. They weren't dead Kronos came to take Deaths soul so he wanted that to be the soul he feed on first.
Kid and Black Star woke in a forest when a roar broke out in the air. A massive green T rex ran towards them.
"Okay you're big." Black Star admitted
Ox was waking up as Harvar carried him away, they were in a large crowd running. The sky was turning black from smoke. Ox saw a large mountain spilling out smoke and he realize it was Pompeii when Vesuvius blew.
All Ox could say was "I'm Sorry Kim."
Kim was just waking up tied to a pole surrounded by wood. She looked to see Jackie and a blacked out Blair in the same situation.
"What?" Kim said seeing a group around them dressed in pilgrim clothing.
Jackie sighed "They're going to burn us for being witches."
"What?"
"We fell out of the sky and the talking cat gave it away." Jackie told her "Out of all the places..."
Kim wasn't listing anymore "Ox..."
Stein and Marie found themselves neck deep in quick sand and sinking.
Marie franticly reached out from Stein's hand "Stein?"
"Don't Panic Marie you'll just sink faster." he told her
She started to cry "Stein I need to tell you something-"
"No, you don't I already know." He smiled at her
"All right" through her tears Marie smiled back at him
Every team found themselves in similar situations, one team found themselves huddling in the ice age, one found themselves in a half sunk Titanic, one found themselves in No Man's Land in War World Two and many more.
Back in Death Square Kronos looked to see it empty except for Alan franticly trying to finish the last speaker. Alan didn't know what else to do, this is what he was told to do and he didn't bother to run seeing how fast he was. Kronos walked towards the pair, he didn't see any reason to waste any extra energy with those two. With the last cable in place Alan hit the switch and every speaker started to play. The square was filled with strange and garbled music.
"What's this about?" Kronos said more confused then scared
He walked over towards Alan with his blade ready to strike when something happened. Janis jumped in front of Alan and out of sheer fear and will to live in a blaze of white light transformed into a speaker. Alan managed to catch her as everyone looked on confused. Kronos quickly got over it and went on with his attack. Out of sheer instinct Alan wrapped the cord from the speaker Janis around his arm, he placed his hand on her and focused his wavelength into her like he had been taught. There combined wavelength blow out of the speaker and shot Kronos back.
"He's hurt?" Alan remarked
Janis was still in shock to really say anything. Kronos got up and looked at the pair. Alan was inspired and plugged in the cord into the speaker controls.
"One more time" he whispered to Janis
Their wavelength blared through the speaker carried by the music filling the square. Kronos collapsed as the speakers blew up. Rifts opened up and everyone taken was brought back, scared but alive. Ox and Kim ran into each arms. Kronos writhed in pain, for a moment it looked like there were a hundred of him occupying the same space before he stopped shaking.
"What did you do?" he screamed
Then a voice echoed through the now quiet square. "Well it's a complicated soul resonance amplified through a massive sonic resonance. It's interfering with your spacial temporal fold undoing them and bringing everyone back. It's also keeping you in this time period while the effects last. If I was here when that happened it would have sent me back."
"What?" Kronos asked
"I don't know I'm just repeating what I was told. Basically loud noise undo your time powers."
"Whose speaking?"
"Well in this time frame they know me as Maka Albarn."
"Maka Albarn?" Kronos said with a hint of fear in his voice. "The Angel of Death?"
"That's what they call me."
Kronos did not intend to fight today but if he had to fight and the stories about her were true then she would make a fine meal.
He turned both arms into curved blades "Show yourself!"
Maka descended from above. Soul was in his Scythe mode with massive white wings made of light behind him. Maka stood on the staff with her arms outstretched. Wrapped around her arms was Tsubaki in her chain scythe mode wriggling beyond Maka arms length like a snake. The ends of the chains scythe wrapped around the Patti and Liz now in larger death cannon mode. Carefully Maka sent her wavelength into all the weapons, they responded now if extension of herself.
"I'm here" Maka told him
Authors notes: Sorry it took me an extra day to write this chapter. It turned a lot longer than I thought. Okay so now tell me what you think, I want at least two review for this chapter. I thought it was pretty good now tell me if you agree. If you have question I will answer them in the review. So review.
