Soul Eater Fanfiction:"Gone" - Chapter 50 – Marionette
'Bang' 'bang' 'bang' the continuous sound of gunshots. Followed by a loud complaint "YOU'RE ALL ASYMETRYCAL!" just by that sentence you could already tell who it is, alas it was no other than our young shinigami, Death The Kid.
The group of assigned rescuers, composing of Soul, Kid, and the Thompson sisters have done a good job in tracking the witch Eruka to her hideout. They are currently fighting their way to get inside the tower. This is the place where Shibusen's Intelligence had presumed where Soul's meister is hidden.
Unfortunately for the group the witch had sensed their arrival and had summoned mutant beings as guards surrounding the said tower. Their purpose not to eliminate but to give her some time, the witch was planning to start their meeting with a big surprise.
Fortunately for the group, the moment the mutant guards rouse from the ground their displacement had triggered Kid's OCD. Sending him in a rampage to eliminate all he deems 'asymmetrical', thus the fight was cut short.
With no more to block their way, the group entered the tower. Soul with no care of showing polite for the one he hates, instead of opening the door he sent it flying with just one kick. "Eruka!" he shouted the name of the hiding witch, though it showed that she had no intentions of answering their call.
Soul took one step forward when he suddenly felt a jolt of pain coming from his leg. Something had bit him, he kicked the thing that bit him and backed two steps forward transforming his arm into a sharp blade. "Hiss" the two boys turn their heads to where the sound came from, only to see nothing but pitch black.
"Hiss" came the sound again, the boys kept their guards up awaiting for an attack. In the back of Kid's eyes he saw a glint, split eyes gazed at him. Kid pointed his gun as the creature slid out of the shadows and revealed to be a large black snake.
Kid shot his guns 'once', 'twice', the snake had managed to avoid every single blow. Soul ran to the snake and slashed his blade at it, though it didn't cause much damage. The snake turned its head to bite the young deathscythe.
Soul was barely able to dodge the attack, his leg with the snake's bite mark is starting to get numb, but he was determined to not let it get in the way. Soul sprinted to the flight of stairs with the snake following behind. Kid shot his gun at the snake again, slowing it down a bit. Soul saw the opening, he jumped and landed on the snake's head, using his weight to keep it's mouth closed.
With a whip of his blade he cut off the snake's head. The snake's once solid form in a sudden turned in to black goo, but they already know what it really was. Kid directed his vision to the puddle of liquid with wide eyes, "It's black blood." he said his suspicions coming true, Soul stared at Kid a suspicion also in mind.
'Black blood. . .that means...' Fear engulfed Soul's features, something they feared had occurred. One of their worst enemy has gone back to haunt them, and now most probably more powerful than before in the accompaniment of one of the most wicked witch existing.
"This means that the witch 'She' is with Medusa, and they have Maka! This mission might be harder than what father had comprehend it to be. The possibility of us winning this isn't quite high" Kid said calculating what to do at this moment forward.
"Well, it's too late to back down now, and there's no way I'm going to let this chance slip." retorted Soul, with a nod the two ended their conversation and prepared themselves for what awaits when they reach the top of the tower.
The stairs seemed never ending, whilst running Soul felt a pang of pain in his head. 'Long time no see young child' a voice said in his head. The imp that had hidden himself for a long time had returned as well, but not quite. After the short greet the voice quickly disappeared and the pain vanished.
'That snake's bite might have triggered my black blood a bit. Good thing it was just one bite-' "Soul!" His thoughts were interrupted when he heard Kid's voice "It seems like the witch caste a spell again making this stairs unending" the two stopped running.
"Tsk, what are we supposed to do know?" "I think there might be another way, I can sense someone's soul behind that wall" Soul turned to the mentioned wall "I'm supposed to break this down?" "likely" came his short answer.
The young deathscythe used his blade and the wall came crashing down with only one slash, which was quite suspicious. The two went through and saw something they weren't prepared much for.
There standing in front of them was Chrona, she/he was held up by strings attached to her/his arms and legs. She/he looked exactly like a puppet. The two stared wide eyed at her/him. Behind Chrona's back appeared Eruka, she caressed her/his face with her fingers and left a reddish mark on her/his cheek wit her fingernails.
A trickle of black blood appeared on Chrona's cheek, her/his skin was paler than usual and her/his eyes remains lifeless. It was obvious that she was unconcious.
Eruka gazed at the boys and showed a wicked smile similar to Medusa's, and said in glee "My dear marionette is happy to meet you -geko". At the mention the said marionette grinned.
