"Excalibur!" Alduin roared as he jumped out of his bed and charged straight at the dancing annoying sword. However, his punce missed as the creature cheekily jumped over his head, leaving him to drop face-first onto the floor. "Damn you!" Alduin roared as he continued to chase the creature. Maka and Soul looked on, sweat-dropping, as the boy chased the little dancer all around the medical room.
"Should we stop him?" Maka asked.
"Wait a bit. It looks interesting." Soul grinned as Lucifer sighed from the side. His master wasn't exactly calming himself down.
Finally, Alduin's extended hand managed to grab Excalibur by his silly tophat. As the creature flailed wildly mid-air, Alduin glared daggers at him. "I'm going to have roasted holy sword for dinner tonight..." Alduin smirked with a lick of his lips.
"FOOL!" Excalibur snapped at him as he used his staff to smack Alduin in the eye. "OW!" Alduin fell back as he lost his grip on the creature. As it landed on its two feet like a cat, Excalibur continued to speak. "I'm best served smoked with a tad of spices, not roasted." "That doesn't even make sense..." Maka sighed from the sidelines.
"Why you..." Alduin once again began his ferocious crackdown on the waltzing annoying sword. "LUCIFER!" Alduin extended his hand, much to Maka and Soul's aghast. Obeying, Lucifer morphed into his cleaving form as Alduin begun to swing the sword at Excalibur. He was careful not to destroy the walls of the medical room but when you are being annoyed by a certain white creature, you can't be too careful.
"WAARRGH!" Maka yelled as a shelf came shooting over her and Soul's head. A office chair was next as now Soul and Maka played a game of avoid-the-flying-furniture-sent-by-the-raging-boy-from-the-future. "Woah watch it!" Soul turned his arm into his scythe blade in time to slice a table into two.
"Sorry!" Alduin apologized half-heartedly as he continued his mad rampage on Excalibur. The creature seemed to be enjoying himself as he now begun to dance over Crona's body. Maka gasped. "Alduin no!" However, her voice was dulled by the annoying singing of Excalibur as Alduin raised Lucifer over his head, ready to bring it down on Excalibur...and Crona. And Alduin had barely any time to react as he felt his hands swing the blade just as Excalibur jumped off.
"Woah! Woah! Easy!" Alduin gasped as a black gloved hand extended from the unconscious Crona's belly. "Ragnorok..." Maka gave a sigh of relief as she and Soul stood in an area that is now choked full of wood and broken furniture. "Where did this come from?" Soul thought out loud as he picked up what seemed like a pulverized refrigerator.
Somewhere else, Mary is wondering where her fridge has gone to this time.
"Argh...you nearly screwed the poor guy..." Ragnorok pulled out his full form as Alduin allowed Lucifer to revert back to his true form. The German Shepherd sat at one side as he watched the two converse. "Guess you are a friend of hers?" Ragnorok pointed at Maka.
"Umm...yeah..." Alduin still was having doubts about friends but now is definitely not the time to think about that. "Guess Crona got the whole thing wrong huh...Haaaa...Emotional as always..." Ragnorok used his clenched fist to poke at his unconscious master.
"Tell him that when he wakes up. We could use his help."
"Wait a minute here...help? Help for what? What's in it for us?" Ragnorok held his arms akimbo as he waited for Alduin's response.
'Really now? I have to argue with him?' Alduin thought to himself as he suddenly felt Maka approaching from the side. "MAKA CHOP!" Maka yelled as her book came crashing down on the surprised Ragnorok's head. This time, she had a bit more force behind it as the book-shaped dent reached down to Ragnorok's six-pack. Alduin gawked as Ragnorok simply reshaped himself back, though the creature seemed to be seeing stars. "Goddamn it...not astronomy again..."
"What's in it for you is a good candy and a cherry on top." Alduin stared at Maka's seemingly pathetic offer. Candy for a mission that could kill you? Surely the creature will refuse.
Once again he was wrong. "OHHH! CANDY!" Ragnorok smiled to himself as he produced a watering mouth under his x-shaped nose. "You got a deal!" Ragnorok extended his hand to Alduin. Alduin looked on at it, not knowing whether he should receive it.
"What are you waiting for?" Maka snapped him out of his doubts.
"Go on..." Lucifer assured him telepathically.
"Fi...fine..." Alduin gave in as he extended his own hand and let it grasp the cold hard skin of Ragnorok. "It's a deal..." Alduin stammered as he shook hands with the gleeful creature.
"Great! I'll tell Crona right after he wakes up!" "Let me handle him..." Maka volunteered with an eager smile and Alduin nodded in agreement.
As Maka went to explain to the listening Ragnorok about the entire mission, Alduin noticed Odahving entering the medical room door. However, the red head seemed to be down-and-out, as he seemed to be in a uneasy mood. "What's wrong?" Alduin approached the brooding Odahving. "Huh?" Odahving jumped as his thoughts are disturbed.
"Woah woah what happened?" Alduin pressed in as Odahving seemed to be broken from a trance. "Ahhh...ah...I met Ahzidal and with Stein's help, managed to kill him..."
"Ahzidal? How did he get here?"
"Paarthurnax sent him. He wanted to kill me and you."
"Guess he knows about the crests. Anything else?"
Odahving was about to open his mouth to tell Alduin about Ahzidal's last words but he decided to let it go. "No...there is nothing else..."
"What's wrong? You seem down." Alduin scanned Odahving's face while Soul walked about the room trying to redo the furniture setting.
"Me? Down? You got to be joking..." Odahving tried to fake a smile as Alduin gazed at him with his jet-black eyes. "Hmmm...maybe I should whip up a meal for you..."
"YES!" "HUH?" Alduin gawked as Soul suddenly begun to grab his leg. Maka gasped as Ragnorok grinned cheekily at the scene. "What the hell! Let go!"
"I just can't wait! Your cooking is so much better than that fla-" BANG! Alduin awkwardly watched Maka dragged away the now unconscious Soul Eater from his leg.
Beside him, Odahving watched the whole scene play out. But he couldn't bring himself to laugh at it or at least giggle. Somehow, Ahzidal's words weren't something he could easily ignore and if he interpreted right, it means that he, the second-in-command, will kill Alduin, the leader.
"No way..." Odahving whispered to himself, his fists clenched with confusion. "I'll ruin everything?"
Lucifer gazed with concern at the red dragon from his sleeping position. Unbeknownst to everyone else, Lucifer had his eyes on Odahving the moment he walked in. His sweaty furrowed forehead, his nervous eyes looking about everywhere, his mouth with the smallest of twitches and his arms prickly-like with goose bumps. The boy had heard something that had unnerved him greatly. And Lucifer knew that the next few days might reinforce Odahving's loyalty.
Or break him instead.