Disclaimer : I do not own Soul Eater, neither the manga or anime... but i own a shinigami called Daru and a ninja called Tanith and BeL :D
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Summary (as promised in the other summary ^^) : Maka Albarn ventured deep into the Underworld in order to find her mother, Kami. On the way, she unluckily encounters a shinigami named Daru. He and her make a deal that if she can get him some souls then he will give her her mother. Maka agrees and her first mission was to enrol into Shibusen, school for Meisters and Weapons. Maka cautiously keeps her distance from everyone at the academy but especially her partner/weapon Soul Eater Evans. What happens when she starts making friends? And what will happen when they start opening up her heart? The answers' simple. Nothing but darkness awaits.
Chapter 28
Into your Past: The Final Battle Continues
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Maka fell, butt first onto the ground.
"Eh? Where am I..?"
A little boy with red eyes and white hair was in front of her. He looked exactly like…
"S-Soul..?"
"Do I know you?" he said.
"Where… Is this?" Maka said getting up.
"What do you mean where this is? You're in Newbay Village."
"A-Are… Are you Soul Eater Evans..?"
For a minute, Maka thought her surroundings blurred a bit.
He laughed. "Soul Eater? I'm Soul Evans! You're weird!"
"O-Oh… Nice to know..?"
"Why are you here?"
"I don't know. Looking around."
"You sound pretty shady lady. What's your name?"
"Maka. Maka Albarn."
"Wanna tour around the village?"
"Sure."
"Who's this Soul?" said a lady with brown hair and blue eyes. She looked very… Plump…
"Oh. A visitor." Said Soul bluntly.
"S-Show her around, Soul!" The woman shook my hand. "Welcome to Newbay! Glad to have you!"
Maka smiled weakly. "G-Good to be here…"
Soul tugged at my coat and signalling me to go.
"Well… There's not much around here…" he said walking around with me.
All the villagers smiled and waved as we walked pass.
"Such… A nice atmosphere." Maka said waving back at them.
Soul looked at her. "You think?"
"Yeah."
"It's… So peaceful…" Maka looked around. The air was clean and the birds were chirping cheerfully. All the villagers were happy and smiling. "I don't… I don't get it… What's so evil about this..?"
"Maka Albarn…"
Maka jerked up. "Who are you? And why do things keep using my head as a chat room?"
"I am Phoenix. Saved your butt before, remember?"
Maka made a face. "Oh. Right. What do you want?"
"As you have noticed, this isn't an ordinary village."
"Yeah I noticed. What do you mean by not ordinary though?"
"The darkness has eaten away at his memories. This is Soul Eater Evan's last memory."
"W-What..?"
"I don't have much time left. There is someone I must be with."
"S-S-So hurry up and tell me how to save him!"
"Do not let him fall asleep or lose consciousness. His existence here is the only thing keeping the illusion up. If he is down then… You'll merely be a part of his memory. If he has any sanity left that is. Do well. I must go."
"W-Wait!"
"Oh and by the way, make sure you don't die here alright?"
With that, the voice stopped. "Don't die here? Is that all it's gonna say to me..?" Maka sighed. "Why do keep having creepy conversations with the voices in my head? Am I going crazy..?"
"Maka! Oi Maka!"
"Eh?"
"The tour's finished! This place is my house."
A girl with short, roughly cut white hair came running out of the house. "Big brother!"
Maka gaped. "W-W-W-What did you call him..?"
The girl looked at me. "Who're you?"
Soul ruffled the girl's hair. "This is my sister. Valkyrie."
"He never told me he had a sister!"
"That's a visitor, Maka." He continued.
The girl smiled. "Hello Maka – chan!"
"S-S-S-S-S-SHE'S SO CUTE!"
Valkyrie's face changed. "Wanna have an arm wrestling duel?"
"EH?"
Soul hit her head. "Quit it, Val."
Valkyrie tugged his arm. "Then I'll have a match with you!"
"Nah. Can't be stuffed."
"C'mon bro!"
"No –"
Soul stopped mid sentence to the sound of screaming.
The three ran to the village to see it completely set afire.
There, in front of them was it.
"How are you even alive? Didn't I eat your soul already?"
"No! You were drunk and ate some other person's soul!" yelled Kami Albarn attacking him.
"You seem so sad about the death of another person." Daru said sarcastically.
"SHUT UP! WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO MY DAUGHTER WHILE I WAS GONE?"
"Nothing… Nothing at all."
"YOU SICK SICK FUCKIN SON OF A BITCH! DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE,DIIIEEE!"
"For once, I wish it was your idiot of a husband coming to the rescue."
Kami stopped. She made a disgusted face. "He's… Still alive..?"
Maka couldn't help trembling. Her legs felt like jelly. "N-No… T-This… Isn't a time… To be scared…" she thought through gritted teeth to control her fear.
"Maka!" Valkyrie helped her up as Soul stood in front of them.
All the villagers, every one of them, were gone.
"They didn't run away..."
Blood dripped from the monster's beak.
"They were devoured…"
Maka tensed. She stepped next to Soul.
"What are you doing?" he exclaimed, pushing her back.
"This… Was the thing that killed my mum! Just… Stay here! I don't want to get any more people killed."
Maka ran towards the monster but soon realised she didn't have her scythe. She cursed aloud.
It pinned her to the ground, its blood red eyes making her freeze.
"Maka!"
"No…"
She grabbed its huge arm with two hands and sent a massive dose of her soul wavelength into it. It screeched and she jumped away from it.
"AGHHHH!"
Soul and Maka whisked around to see Valkyrie being pulled away by another monster.
"What? There's… TWO?"
Soul bolted towards Valkyrie, reaching out for her. But it was too fast.
It turned around and shot a blast out of its mouth, hitting Soul, full frontal.
The other one which was hit by Maka's wavelength shot one from it's mouth as well, directly at Soul.
"SOUL!"
"BIG BROTHER!"
Maka dashed towards him. "I can't let him get another shot from that!"
She held him tight and screamed as the blast hit her.
"MAKA!"
The two bird monsters created a black portal and went in, cutting out Valkyrie's scream.
The crackling of flames continued as Maka lay there with Soul.
The surroundings blurred.
Maka slowly got up. Soul was drifting off. He was losing consciousness.
She tightly hugged his limp body, crying. "Wake up… Soul… Please… Wake up…"
The surroundings shattered and everything was black.
Maka held on tightly to Soul as they fell into the pit of nothingness.
"I… Won't let you go..!"
There was a bright light and Maka soon found herself back in the Underworld, with Soul by her side.
She got up and poked Soul's cheek. "Oiiiii. I'm expecting a thank you anytime now."
He groaned and got up. "Thanks…"
"Are you ok..?" Maka asked him, still worried.
He looked at her then grinned. "I'm fine." He blew at the air. "It's so not cool getting my ass saved by a girl…"
For the first time in days, Maka managed to laugh. "Get used to it!"
"Hey Maka. Got a question."
"What?"
"Where are we?"
"And you ask me now!" she sighed. "You're in the Underworld…"
She glanced at him. "Daru… Didn't say anything… Did he?"
"Like what?"
"L-L-Like about me being BlackScythe and that if we did Soul Resonances then you would find out that I worked for Da… You didn't need to know that…"
Soul stared at her.
Maka sighed. "I know I should've told you sooner but I… I just couldn't… And seeing you in this state… It hurts, alright..?"
He grinned and flicked her forehead.
"OW!"
"Revenge for all the Maka – Chops you've given me." He pushed me slightly. "Idiiiiiot. You're my partner. We'll always be partners. So you shouldn't hide anything from me."
Maka found a way to smile. "Thank you So –"
BOOM!
Maka sighed. "Right. There's a fight going on so there ain't time for any sweet moments…"
Suddenly, the door got smashed down (yet again) and Kid, Liz and Patti came running through being chased by a stampede of zombies.
"What happened to beating the crap out of them huh?"
"There's too much!" screamed Liz.
Maka slapped her forehead. "And where the hell's Tanith?"
Liz pointed a shaky finger to a big, bulky zombie.
Maka gaped. "NOOO! TANITH!"
"No Maka, look up!" said Kid.
Maka looked up further and saw Tanith chewing on his head.
Soul made a face. "That… Is sick."
Maka turned slightly green. "I think… I think I'm gonna throw up…"
"DO THAT LATER!" exclaimed Kid.
"BUT NOW, RUN!" screamed Liz.
The stampede smashed through another wall where Daru and Kami stopped halfway during a fight.
All of them froze.
"Mum..?"
"Maka!"
Mother and daughter ran into each other's arms and cried.
"This is the part where I'm supposed to re-kill you, not let you get into a mushy reunion with your daughter." Said Daru.
The two flared up with anger.
Soul, Kid, Liz and Patti stared at them. "WOAH. Like mother like daughter…"
Kami began laughing. "LET'S KILL THIS MOTHER FUCKIN BITCH, MAKA."
Maka's face turned into an evil grin. "LET'S, MUM." She turned over to Soul and he turned into a scythe.
"There goes the mother and daughter duo." Said Liz.
"YAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Black Star and Tsubaki landed next to them.
"How was your fight?" said Kid.
Black Star grinned.
BeL's limp body landed next to him with a loud sickly thud.
"I applaud you." Said Kid.
Liz turned around. "Why aren't they attacking..?" she said pointing at the zombies.
"Probably cause Daru Daru is here!" giggled Patti.
After numerous clashes with Daru, Kami and Maka, the two were smashed against the wall. Seeing this, Kid and the others joined in the fight as well.
They all collapsed at his feet, defeated.
He laughed, a triumphant and victorious laugh. "AHAHAHAHHAHA I HAVE WON! THERE ISN'T ANYONE IN THE WORLD WHO CAN DEFEAT ME!"
"Ergh…" Kami dropped from the wall and got up.
Daru approached her, chuckling. He held her up by the neck and choked her. Kami screamed.
"I WILL CRUSH YOUR BONES!"
"AARRRGHHHHHHH!"
There was a feeble slice at his back. "You're still alive too?"
He dropped Kami, she fell to the floor unmoving.
Maka was breathing heavily.
"Poor thing. Let me end your misery."
He grabbed Soul from her hand and threw him hard into the wall in front. He turned back into human form and collapsed to the floor.
Daru pointed around. "You have no one left."
Maka didn't say anything. "I… I will kill you…"
"I HATE…"
He grabbed her head with one hand and hauled her up.
"… TRY HARD PESTS…"
He squeezed her skull and she screamed, her eyes watering with pain.
"… LIKE YOU…"
In one final move, Daru sent down massive amounts of black electricity energy. Maka's scream turned into a painful and agonizing screech.
"…WHO NEVER GIVE UP!"
Maka fell with a sickly thud, coughing up lots of blood.
Daru continued laughing, his laugh echoing throughout Underworld.
Something hit Maka. She pushed herself to stay awake. At her feet was a mirror.
She reached out for it. On the mirror, it said, "Press against his chest and force wavelength through…"
She looked back and BeL lost the light in her eyes. "Thanks, BeL…"
Maka got up, trembling.
"Are you still alive? How many times do I have to kill you?"
Before he could do anything, Maka shoved the mirror against his chest and used the last of her energy to push all her soul wavelength that her body could offer into him.
There was no reaction at first but then he started yelling. It got louder and louder and Maka struggled to stand up and hold the mirror at once. It was getting heavy.
Daru disintegrated into a burst of flames and Maka dropped to the floor. The mirror shattered at the impact and all the souls flew around.
"Did it…"
Maka rolled herself to face the sky. There were millions of souls floating around, trying to find their body.
"Lanterns… They look like lanterns…"
End of Chapter 28
