Secrets of Legend
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater, Doctor Who or Is This a Zombie or any their elements in fact.
Chapter 12: Brave New World
War what is it good for?
I hope you answered it without me. If you didn't the answer was: absolutely nothing.
It's not to say that wars mustn't be fought, sometimes evil arises that won't be reasoned with and it must be fought. The cost can just seem daunting.
Sometimes you have to ask if its just worth it?
The Judoon were mercenaries, soldiers used to fighting for the highest bidder. Those big man rhinos could take a punch and dish them out just as easily. At that moment the surviving Judoon had decided money wasn't worth it.
After Shadow left the world they had fought with the vampires and they held at bay but there were factors that crushed them under foot.
One of these factors was dressed in a white dress and had pink hair.
Chris was not anywhere near the rhino like aliens but instead drukenly down the street.
She looked like a young girl and you'd think she was not a threat but in fact she was one of the most dangerous people there.
As she swaggered down the street she didn't give any sign that she was upset and certainly none that she was sober. Not even when a troop of Sontaran surrounded her and pointed their weapons at her.
Sontaran's were warriors born and breed, they idolized the idea of dying in battle so they never ran away from battle. They didn't shout or say anything but waited just long enough for her to react before they would attack her. That was the honor of the sontaran that they gave them a chance to fight back.
Chris slammed down the large sake bottle she carried onto the ground. Tremor of power surged through the air and a large splash of sake shot out the bottle top. Without any action that any of them saw the little stream of liquid split off in mid air and like little tiny little missiles shot out in every direction striking the aliens through their hearts.
They collapsed without any effort.
Chris didn't seem happy, she wasn't she would much rather be out there drinking instead of fighting at the end of the war. Chris was a fighter and a warrior and she had seen so much pain and she didn't want to make more of it. This battle, this war, it seemed different as the whole world seemed to collapse around it.
It was this kind of fighter that made the Judoon want to leave. At that moment the thin rod like rocket raised into the air as the Judoon on it had decided to have enough.
"I guess they had enough." Chris mumbled to herself as she watched the ship take off.
Nene walked over to her, "That fin thing at the end. Do you think that's important?"
Nene didn't bother to wait for answer as she grabbed a nearby car and raised it above her head. With a huff she tossed the car right at their ship. The car exploded on contact with the ships and that rockets started to fall apart starting with the fin that helped stabilize the flight patterns. The ship started to spin wildly out of control spiraling into the Deathsmiths ship. As the ships collided, the extra thrust caused both ships to go higher and higher in the air. Then even from a distance those below on the ground could see levels erupting coming off the ships.
Finally both ships exploded together high above the air.
Yuki watched that happen and then the vampire looked at her relative, Akuma watch on without much emotion of his face.
Yuki was a ninja so the idea was there were going to be fights but she couldn't see how anyone could get so used to death. None of them enjoyed it but they just moved along like broken toys, just going with the motions.
The other vampires spread across the city attacking the aliens that were attacking the city who now scrambled as two of their ships were no longer above them. But soon the sky was filled with ash.
In another world Liz sat by Kid while Patty sat next to her. A long tube was in her arm as the blood flowed into her meister.
Patty grabbed her sister's hand and gave it a tight squeeze. Patty looked out of the window at the strange sky. "Sis, I'm scared."
Liz put her free arm around Patty, "So am I."
The world was slipping away with more ways than one for those sisters. They didn't know if the blood would help Kid or if they would even make a difference in the end.
0000
Maka's head hurt.
That was certainly the first thing that Maka noticed, the second was that she felt tired.
"Maka wake up." A gentle voice nudge her from her slumber.
Maka's eyes quickly found her mother standing before her. That was her mother but something was different about her. Kami wore a dark blue pencil skirt, a white collard shirt underneath a black sweater with a green tie. Her long hair flowed behind her without even the pony tail she usually kept it in.
"Breakfast will be done soon. Go wash up, you have a long day at school."
Maka looked around confused, she was wearing her usual orange pajamas.
"What about the others? Soul? What about Shadow? The Philosopher's stone? Is the world ending?"
Kami stared at her daughter confused. "Maka, don't stay up reading fantasy novels before bed."
Kami walked off to finish breakfast. Maka looked around the room certainly seemed like her room but as if someone had taken her thing and placed them in another room. It had her things and placed like how she's placed them and the room felt comfortable.
Maka found a pair of black and white school uniform that reminded her of the uniform she used to wear when she started school. It was a simple black and white plaid skirt. The top was a basic sailor uniform that was black and white too, the ribbon in front of it was red though being the uniforms only real color. Maka found the same skull insignia pin on her lapel. Maka took a shower and put on the uniform.
Maka didn't see what else to do but to go along with it. She certainly wanted to know what was happening but she was also hungry so she followed the smell of freshly made food.
She still didn't understand why she appeared in this house, why her mother was acting so strange, and why did the collar that Shadow placed on her suddenly vanish. Maybe even more so why had everyone else vanished.
The only reason that came to mind was that she was knocked out when the box opened everything was a dream but it felt too real to be any dream she ever had.
This was a mystery well beyond the most bizarre mysteries she had ever read about in any of her mystery novels. She braced herself to whatever she might find, for all she knew Shadow was behind this and this was all a trap. Worse yet this could be the result of Shadow actually getting the stone and twisting the world to his whims.
As she took a step into the next room Maka was more than a little surprised. She found an open kitchen with her mother and the Doctor fixing breakfast that included eggs, bacons, sausage, toast, pancakes, and hash browns. There was also fresh orange juice. Mmmmm juice.
Maka was certainly not expecting that.
"Meow!"
Maka's head turned to find Eu, now dressed in a uniform like hers but without the skull pin and lacking her usual armor, at the corner of the room feeding two small cats. One was a small black kitten that looked just like the one Maka saw at Eu's home. Next to that small cat was a purple cat eating cat food topped with a small tuna fish.
"Blair!" Maka was surprised to find her pet cat there.
The cat let out another, "Meow." Before she started at her fishy snack.
Eu gave the purple cat a small pat on her head, "She's hungry today."
Maka stared as she was sure she heard Eu speak, but there was no weird twist in reality and sense of great power flooding the air.
"Good morning." Eu gave Maka a cheery greeting.
Maka didn't notice it the other time Eu had spoke but her voice was soft and sweet almost innocent to boot.
Maka thought for a fraction that Patty might sound like that had she not always been happy giggly and maybe a lot calmer and serene. Maka shook that thought off as it had no real importance at the moment.
"Come on eat up." Kami called over Maka to a nearby by table were she placed breakfast.
Maka sat down and started to eat, it was good but it still didn't feel right.
"Wow these are good!" Maka help but let out.
"Thank you, I took a class." The Doctor grinned.
The Doctor seemed different, he didn't seem to carry that invisible burden that he had. He wasn't wearing dark clothes but dark pants, a light colored tweed jacket, a blue bow tie. He seemed genially happy, he seemed happy before but it also seemed like he was just so troubled.
"Stop bragging." Kami poked at his ribs, "Yes, you make good eggs but don't get full of yourself."
Eu let out a soft giggle at their back and forth.
Maka was quiet, she decided to study them see what was wrong. She looked for any hint of what this whole things was.
"Maka? Is something wrong?" Kami asked her. "You've been awfully quiet. Is something worrying you?"
"No, not at all." Maka did her best to reassure her mother.
"Is it the school festival? I'm sure it will turn out fine."
"No, it's nothing, I'm just a little tired."
"Okay, well, we should head out to school."
"Yeah, school." Maka agreed trying to go along with everything.
Everyone seemed to get they're thing which were mostly in bags and satchels and Maka would have forgotten hers if Eu hadn't handed it to her.
As they were prepared to leave a woman raced out from the other side of the house. She had long wild hair and a long almost victorian looking blue dress. She honestly looked confused.
"Up?" The Doctor gave her a kind smile. "I left you some breakfast on the table. Microwave give it a minute in a half."
"Doctor?"
"Some people call me that."
She looked around almost as if lost or confused. Then she jumped forwards and kissed him or possibly bit him from her angle Maka wasn't sure.
"Dad! Idris!" Eu looked away blushing slightly."Mom can you do anything?"
"Nope," Kami told her looking away herself. "You know how they get when they get like this."
She yanked the Doctor away from the odd woman. "You can have him after work. Have a good day, Idris." Kami waved as they left.
As they walked Maka decided to try and talk.
She got her mother to tell her all sort of things. For the most the story didn't seem to change. Kami had known the Doctor for years and he was traveling most of his life. After her marriage fell apart and Kami divorced Spirit Kami travelled with him for a while to clear her mind. On their travels they ran into Eu and adopted her as their own. They actually seemed to settle together to watch over Eu and let Maka move in with them.
There did seem to be one noticeable change.
"His wife?" Maka was more than a bit surprised.
"Yes, Idris is his wife. Don't act so surprised. You're more tired than I thought. Try not to over exert yourself today."
Maka tried to remain calm as they reached a school. It looked like a normal school to her, there did seem to be something familiar about it.
In fact the school was exactly like the school that Ayumu was enrolled into in every way.
"Maka!" Maka almost shook when she heard Soul voice call out.
Maka turned to the source of the voice to find Soul coming toward her. He was wearing a collard shirt and a black pants jacket combo uniform. Next to him were Black Star and Ayumu both wearing similar outfits. Black Star and Soul both had skull pins on their lapels too.
"Soul!" Maka practically cheered.
As they reached them the Doctor smiled, "Well, we are off. They want the teachers in a meeting before classes starts."
At that moment Maka realized they were teachers at the school.
Kami smirked at Maka and gave her a playful nudge, "Go on love birds."
Both Maka and Soul turned red hearing her mother say that, they didn't think they could get more embarrassed. "If you two are going to make me a grandmother please don't do so on school grounds."
The way the she eyed Maka and Soul as she said that almost made them faint. It would be far from the first time Kami implied that should get together.
Eu giggled while both Ayumu and Black Star chuckled.
Kami winked at them as she left.
Maka eyes fell on Eu who was looking at Ayumu and notice how she started to blush. Eu slowly moved two lunch boxes to her back. Maka was given one by her mother and assumed she gave one to Eu and didn't know where Eu got the second one.
"I have to do something. Please excuse me." She said that quickly and walked off in a rather brisk pace.
"Eu…" Ayumu let out.
"Do you guys know?" Maka said quietly.
"It is you, right?" Soul asked. "I've seen Ox, Kim, Harvar and Jackie but they don't remember anything about the attack on the school."
"And the world isn't falling apart!" Black Star yelled out getting a few odd looks from other school mates that were walking by.
"I woke up in a house." Maka told them. "My mom woke me up. The Doctor and Eu were there too but they didn't seem to know anything about anything. They're acting weird."
"Eu was talking, it doesn't hurt her." Ayumu stated.
"Yeah," Maka agreed. "Mama has always had a certain edge to her especially after… my dad." Maka shuffled uncomfortably for a second.
"The grizzly bear thing?" Black Star suggested.
"Yes, she always seemed a bit ready to fight anyone that would try to hurt anyone. Not like she would but that she was ready, there was something fierce about her and it's been replaced by something calmer." Maka paused. "And the Doctor is married to some crazy woman!"
"Okay, that is more than we got." Soul shrugged.
"Yeah, we just woke up in my house." Ayumu told her. "They were in Eu's and Haruna's bedrooms."
"Yeah, and these uniforms were just there." Black Star tugged on his jacket.
"We came here hopping for some clue of what was happening or at least to find the others."
"Tsubaki and Haruna?" Maka asked. "You haven't seen them?"
"Yeah, and if that isn't the only thing to worry about." Soul told her, "I can't transform, Black Star can't use soul force and Ayumu can't do any of his zombie things."
"I couldn't use soul perception either."
"I think we have to find the others. See if they know anything." Ayumu suggested to them.
They had sometime before classes started they decided to look for the others. At the very least they thought they hoped that those with them during the white explosion would remember. They hoped Shadow wouldn't show up but in the mean time they had to find Tsubaki, Haruna and maybe Clara.
They could only hope that together they could figure out what was happening. They could only help that they'd have to search for hours to find them and even then they couldn't be sure they wouldn't be like Eu, Kami and the Doctor.
"Ayu-moron!" Haruna jumped into the air tackling the zombie that as far as he could tell was no longer a zombie.
His face hit the floor and nose first. "Haruna!"
Haruna was wearing a similar uniform.
Tsubaki came running towards them wearing her own uniform with the same pin, and it was the general consensus that Tsubaki wore the uniform better.
"Black Star!" Tsubaki quickly wrapped her arms around her meister.
"Don't worry Tsubaki Black Star is here and everything will be okay." He patted her head.
"Leafy woman was acting strange!" Haruna continued to talk as the other help Ayumu get up and stop bleeding form his nose. "The whole Vampire ninja complex was now a girl's dorm. They made me put on a uniform and come to school. Can you believe that? They're making super genius Haruna go to school!"
"I think you're missing the headline." Soul glared at the girl he doubt could truly be called a super genius.
"None of the vampires were vampires. They all seemed like normal girls." Tsubaki added. "I couldn't transform either."
Maka quickly explained it to them that the same thing happened to them. They looked around the school for Clara. They found her in a very unlikely place.
They found her talking to Kid. Kid was Kid, he wore his usual black suit except it looked a little more business like and professional. Next to him was Liz dressed in her professional business outfit that she wore when she was assisting Kid.
"Ms. Oswald I hope you won't make that mistake again." Kid scolded Clara.
"I'm very sorry sir. I just sort of lost track of time." Clara apologized.
Liz nudged Kid, "Well, classes are about to start so better get to home room."
"Right." Kid nodded and the both of them went down the hall.
As Clara turned around she saw the others, "Please tell me none of you have gone mad."
Comparing notes they found out that they were indeed the only ones to remember what happened.
Clara sighed, "I got in trouble because it turns out I'm and English teacher here. Can you believe that? Me as an English teacher? The Doctor is John Smith the Physics teacher? Kami is history teacher? Your friend Kid is the principal and Liz is his assistant."
"I guess that kind of makes sense." Maka mused out loud. "He's basically the principal of DWMA now."
"I saw that teacher of your with the screw in his head but without the screw, he's the biology teacher. The blond woman… Marie, right?" Clara snapped her fingers as she got her name. "She's the home economics teacher. Nygus is the nurse. Azusa is a math teacher. Akuma is the ethics teacher."
Maka was duly impressed that Clara seemed to memorize their names so quickly after meeting them. Honestly she wasn't sure they exchanged their names after they saved them.
"Yes," Haruna pointed out. "Leafy and Yukimori said they were having a disciplinary squad meeting with the idol vampire."
"Everyone has gotten placed in a role that suits them." Maka surmised, "I'm no sure what happened but whatever that white light was it had something to do with it."
"Then why are we the only ones that seemed to remember?" Ayumu pointed out. "Should Eu and her parents remember, they were closer to it than any of us."
"Oh, look at this." Clara pulled out the news paper. The headline was about three crooks caught in an attempt to steal a precious Gem.
Judging by their pictures they were Pallas, Mordred and Shadow. The worst of it was that Shadow seemed to escape custody. Also judging by the mug shots someone roughed up Mordred.
"I don't know what happened." Clara admitted. "If the box created a new world and pulled everyone in. Or it sent us to a parallel world to escape what was happening in ours or something else. In the mean time try to blend in and not to cause trouble until we can figure things out."
The bell rang and Patty came running by in her uniform like Tsubaki it had the pin.
"Come on guys let's get to class!" Patty said all excited by what the day had in store.
They started to follow when Patty stopped them. "Ms. Oswald why are you being silly? Your room is the one across the hall."
"Right, sorry, my mistake." Clara gulped, she was going to be a teacher and she didn't have the first idea of what to do.
The other followed Patty to their class room. It looked just like the one Ayumu usually went to. Maka noticed Kim and Ox talking while Jackie read something while Kilik tried to talk to Harvar. Ayumu spotted Anderson and Orito talking to Kanami and Taeko. He also spotted Eu sitting next to the chair he usually sat in. Ayumu sat there and the others worked their way to empty chairs hopping no one would say anything.
Then someone with pink hair and a white simple dressed entered.
Haruna's eyes grew wide, "CHRIS! What are you doing here, you little drunk?!"
Chris smacked her with her black book. "Pipe down Haruna." Chris spoke in a serious and sober tone. "And who are you calling a drunk? Sit down now before I give you detention."
Haruna winced as she sat down.
"I won't take too much of your time." Chris spoke to the room.
Ayumu was astounded that he was seeing a sober Chris in this world.
Chris continued, "I'll take attendance and you can get to your projects. Your Class Representative and Head of the Disciplinary squad Kirara Hoshikawa has something to say."
Sarasvati entered and went o her the head of the class and she was followed by Seraphim and Yuki all wearing the same black school uniform. The only difference was that they wore a green arm band around their arms.
Sarasvati spoke, "I know people are worried about the festival and with time running out there is plenty of reason to be. I trust in each and every one of you. Use your time wisely and I know that you will be able to accomplish everything. Remember we open tomorrow so if you need to stay here tonight to finish please let us know."
Chris spoke up again, "Remember just because none of us are teaching you all the teacher are here… somewhere so don't be afraid to ask for anything."
"So get started and lets make this the best school festival ever." Sarasvati told the class who quickly cheered.
Those who remembered how things were supposed to be were shocked stiff, they were in some sort of strange world and now they had to set up a school festival.
What they didn't know was that outside the school Shadow stood on the corner of the street and watched.
He turned around and walked…. into a street lamp.
"Crap!" Shadow rubbed his nose. "I keep forgetting I can't make portals anymore."
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The world was ending and there was little secret to it. Impossible images filled in flickers. There were those like Ariel, Akuma, Stein and the head Witch that saw it clearer than others. It seemed impossible to stop and in many ways it was.
There were few that could do anything to help and they had vanished.
They could up hope and wait for the world to end but they didn't. Maybe it was because they knew those people they knew their would be chance.
Even as a million-million worlds sat in the brink of their end there was hope even if it slowly dwindled.
Pallas entered the Death Room and looked straight at the Tardis. Mordred's troops were busy fighting the meister and none were able to guard the huge hole in the wall that was made when the ship crashed in. Pallas closed her eyes and heard the rustling of wings. She opened her eyes to see a two Weeping Angels frozen in stone before the Tardis.
"And the angels have the phone box." Pallas whispered now that the ship was in their control.
She saw Shadow killed Kid and when the chance came the Head Witch would die too. The so called alliance between the witches and the school would never come to be. Better yet the school and all it's meister would be crush under foot.
Pallas felt a sense of joy happy that all the witches killed by the school would have their justice.
"It's almost over now." Pallas smiled to herself.
Authors Notes: Okay, so as always leave a review telling me what you think. I'd be happy to hear what your guess for what's happened to everyone in the new world is. I like hearing what readers think. I hope to have an update for you all soon. So until next time enjoy and review.
