Heya hope you enjoy this next chapter. There's a few surprises that have been added in for you all. I hope you enjoy as the drama unfolds.
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"Liz this was covered in our first course at DWMA. You know the difference between a Meister and a Weapon." Kid knew that Liz wasn't dumb, but he couldn't believe she could have forgotten something so simple. It was one of the fundamentals that DWMA drilled into it's students.
"Look, I haven't forgotten. I know what the school says. But think about it. Her mother is a Meister and her father is a Weapon. When me and Patty first started transforming we didn't even know we were." Liz wrapped her arms around herself for comfort. "The transformations would knock us unconscious, so we had no idea what was going on. We'd wake up wherever we passed out. Sometimes we wouldn't transform at the same time and we'd get separated because anyone with street smarts knows not to pick up a random gun you see laying on the sidewalk." Liz chuckled at the last part.
"I don't-" Kid interrupted only for Liz to continue.
"Just listen to me Kid." Liz tightened her grip on her arms. "We'd wake up with holes in our clothes. At first we thought someone shot us in our sleep but we saw no wounds. Thought we were somehow invincible until we got grazed by a bullet one day and bled. It got worse and we'd transform at random times and be stuck like that for long periods of times. We'd find ourselves passed out in stores, gutters, and alleyways." Patty, who had been corralling the younger doctor in a corner for peaking at Maka dropped what she was doing with a swift smack to the doctor's head, walked over to her sister and held her as she knew what her sister was about to tell Kid. "One of the times Patty and I got separated I got picked up by a drug dealer. I had started to become aware of what happened whenever I was in my weapon form a few weeks before that, but it was only on and off, ya know?" She placed her hand over one of Patty's and rubbed it gently with her thumb. She loved her sister and didn't know what she'd do without her.
"He had me stuffed under his bed and when I was able to transform back, he was asleep above me. He knew what I was as soon as he saw me. He tried to lock me up because he planned to lock me up and use me as long as I was useful. I was able to escape and find my way back to Patty. We got control of our transformations and a few years later you found us." Liz hated how her and Patty had to live but if given the choice she'd do it again because she doesn't regret meeting Kid. Liz was fairly certain that Patty felt the same way.
"Who was he?" Kid inquired. Everyone in the room knew that his reason was not just for knowing's sake. He planned to string the man up and make an example of him in the most symmetrical way possible. To show that no one was to mess with his sisters even if it was before they became his sisters.
"Just a drug dealer." Liz put it simply. It was more than that though. He'd assault women in his neighborhood. Which led to his death. "A man broke into his house and tortured him and killed him. Then he stole all his valuables. So he got his just desserts."
"Ah." Kid responded a little disappointed.
"Aw Kiddo wanted to beat the shit outta him!" Patty shouted gleefully then pounced on him and pulled him into a hug. She brought his ear down and whispered into his ear, "I beat ya to it. I made sure he suffered for what he did to Liz so don't worry." Patty patted him on the back then released him. "He's so cute. Back to Maka, sis." Patty guided Liz back to a safer topic since the current one was still hard for Liz to talk about.
"What could be happening with Maka is Weapon Rejection. It'd explain why it's not traceable in her soul and why she's been acting so… weird lately." Liz said getting back on track. She sat on the edge of the bed and held Maka's hand. "Being raised to believe it's impossible could make her deny the development so it forces its emersion. Her continued rejection can be fatal, Kid." Liz was not joking. Kid could tell how worried Liz was by the look in her eyes.
Kid fought back the urge to repeat that it was impossible to be both a Weapon and a Meister but instead said, "We need to wait for Marie and Stein."
Psilocybin was a witch who was not welcome to the meetings of the Witch's Order because she had made a mistake which had resulted in her being banished for nine thousand years. She had light brown hair that she wore in a tight bun on the top of her head which she hid under her witch's hat that was a tan color, had tan buttons around the base of the hat before the mushroom shape, and came to a curve much like her name sake. She wore a black button up dress shirt with bell sleeves that went past her hands and she had a matching skirt with the same as the ones on her hat now go down both sides of her skirt to her knees.
Psilocybin was a witch with an affinity over mushrooms along with some earth and general plant-based abilities. With her earth-based abilities she set up a base in a cave like structure 10 miles from the tree line from Death City. This cave, in times of need, could be made to burrow underground if Psilocybin exhausted the energy for it. Psilocybin also had the ability to control mushrooms and create sentient mushroom minions from them. These minions would do whatever she told them. She would send these minions out, never to Death City, and they'd seek out a youthful target and spit a powdered portion of their cap at their target.
The dust of their caps contains a strong concentration of Psilocybin's magic and a very well known civilian illegal substance known as 'magic' mushrooms. Much like you can gather from her name when you become under her spell you experience everything like you would if you had eaten some magic shrooms. The visual and auditory hallucinations would be five times worse than actual shrooms. You will start out just hearing her voice calling out to you and you won't be able to fight her call. Then once she has you, your consciousness will trap you in your best dream. Then starts the bad trip of LSD when you're not in the best environment and everything goes bad as it all twists and becomes a living hell.
While these victims are in this state, they are made to carry the partly spent minion to find another victim who will be used as a sacrifice. They'd return and the first victim will be sent out with a minion and collect two more sacrifices before becoming a sacrifice themselves. Then the cycle will repeat. Each sacrifice would then be drained of their life essence and it would be bottled. Each sacrifice yields a small amount of essence, so she required a great number of sacrifices.
Each sacrifice would be drained of their life essence and it would be bottled, and she'd use the essence to live as a young woman for all her life. She liked to appear twenty years old and feared aging more than anything. The essence was only needed for very powerful spells that required days of cooking before they could be used. This had been her progress for 500 years and it worked for her. Along the way she discovered a fragment of a legend that foretold the ability to tip the scales of power from Lord Death to whomever wielded the weapon. Unfortunately, by the time she got to hiding place of the rest of the legend she found out that Asura had already gotten the parchment and he'd torn it into 7 fragments and sent it across the world.
Psilocybin had been searching for this weapon for years, but all leads ran to Asura and he was on the moon. She sent her minions all around the world to search for the fragments. She needed this weapon to tip the scale of power away from the Brat death to her so she may rule. With the power of the Gods on her side of course she'd be able to challenge the boy, especially with the many years of experience she has over him. Psilocybin needed to free Asura and manipulate him to her will.
To find a way to free Asura she needed to find out how he was sealed on the moon. She traveled to Death City by a special breed of mushroom minions. It was a large mushroom that required the combination of a minion and essence. This caused the palm sized shrooms to enlarge depending on how much essence she gave the mushroom. In this case she gave it just enough for her flatten to top into a platform for her to sit atop and ride. Once she was five miles from Death City, she ground down the rest of the mushroom and consumed the rest of the dust to add the dust to her supply.
A meister named Maka Albarn was mentioned in all of the incident reports and seemed to be the easiest target. All Psilocybin needed was for her minions to grab her a picture of the young woman as she restocked her supplies in town. Her minions were successful and even went out of their way to get a few strands of her hair from her hairbrush at her apartment and grabbed her sports bra from the dirty clothes that was drenched in sweat. A thing to remember about the minions is that they do exactly as told, and they will go out of their way to do anything that will please their master. They got out of her apartment without being seen since she and Soul were at DWMA when they went in.
Psilocybin hid the items and the minions in a paper bag amongst her groceries and went back home. She turned one of her existing minions into an enhanced minion for transport. This method of transportation was never used within five miles of the city since the witches that were working with the young Lord Death had a spell set up to trace and trace incoming spells.
"Bring me the twine." Psilocybin instructed one of the three minions she had standing next to her as she sat outside of her cave near a damp patch of soil. She was channeling her magic into the soil where she buried the hair and bra. Periodically she'd toss a handful of the powder she has consumed, from her shroom minions, over the years on her workspace. "This is going to take some time." When the minion returned with the twine, Psilocybin set it on her lap. "Go grab ten vials of essence."
Two mushrooms popped up from the rich soil and a grin grew on her face. All she needed now was to form a connection with the young meister and this would work. With the vials on her lap with the twine she entered a meditative state that pulled her into the inky black of the insanity that plagued Maka's dreams. This state of meditation she was using was similar to astral projection. Since it was only her consciousness that transferred through astral projection, she didn't have to worry about being seen by the owner of the dream, so she didn't bother cloaking herself.
"MAKA!" Spirit Albarn shouted repeatedly as he ran down the hall and shot into the room. He nearly took the door off its hinges. The doctors were no longer in the room, but instead in a study two doors down in case there were questions for them, or anyone needed medical attention. Spirit stopped in his tracks upon entering the room when he saw the familiar blonde woman next to the bed his daughter was laying in.
"Oh, death help us…" Muttered Liz.
"My dear wife-" Spirit began with tear filled eyes.
"Ex-wife." Interrupted Kaori with a hard expression towards him.
"My favorite scent." He referred to her by a secret pet name he had for her. "How many times do I have to explain that was a misunderstanding? I love you and I never cheated on you." Spirit explained. It was true, he hadn't cheated on her. His womanizing ways, besides his straying eyes, hadn't started until after she had left them and divorced him.
"Enough. Maka caught you. You told her 'not to tell mommy.' I caught you." Kaori was holding back the urge to smack her ex-husband. "Lord Death, who else are we waiting for?" She inquired.
"Honey, look, she kissed me. It wasn't my fault. How many times do I have to tell you that SHE kissed me?" Spirit continued to defend himself. He forgot that Kid was even there at the moment as he was too focused on his wife who was his everything.
"Liz and Patty are on their way with Marie, Stein, and Soul." Despite how calm Kid appeared, he was fuming. Soul should have never laid his hands on Maka and Kid would make him pay for that. Soul would wish he was shipped to some scummy country and demoted all the way to zero stars for the rest of his life.
"I see." Kaori knew that if they were efficient then they would not be too long. She wouldn't have to deal with her cheating husband much longer. She had heard about how he had become after she left. Remembered how he'd look at every woman who passed by with 'assets' that he liked.
"Honey, Maka and I miss you so much." Spirit whined as he wrapped his arms around one of her legs and rubbed his tear covered cheeks on her leg. "Please come back." He didn't know how to deal with the fact that Maka was unconscious and that no one was telling him anything. He couldn't do this alone. He just wanted his wife to come back to him and his daughter.
"I heard that your father had taken in two girls, but I hadn't been able to get back to death city to see the young ladies myself." She stated softly. "I'm sorry for your loss. If you need anything, please let me know." Kaori placed her hand on hand on Kid's shoulder and the grief that ran through him, from his father's death, traveled into her through the contact. He missed his father and wished to see him one last time. Kid felt as if he hadn't spent enough time with his father while he was living either as he had been so young when his father died. The sound of footsteps down the hall alerted them all to the fact that the others had arrived. A small baby's cry was heard with them.
"Kaori its so nice to see you again." Marie said as she walked up to the woman who stood up, kicked her ex off her leg, and met the woman halfway. Kaori put her hand on Marie's elbow instead of shaking her hand because of the newborn baby girl in Marie's arms. The baby had a thin knitted cap on her head and was swaddled snuggly as she gurgled and giggled at her mother. Stein caught up quickly and stood next to Marie and wrapped his arm around Marie's shoulder's.
"Ah Kaori." Stein smirked as he saw the sobbing mess she made Spirit. "You look beautiful as always." He picked his words wisely, not to avoid trouble with Marie, but to trigger the right reaction from Spirit.
"Don't you look at my wife like that!" Spirit shot up from the ground where he was gripping his exes' leg while sobbing. "I will cut you to shreds and it would be a public service!" Spirit jabbed Stein in the chest to back Stein away from Kaori and was seething from anger afterwards.
"Enough Spirit…" Kid sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. He was getting a headache from Spirit already and they hadn't even began. "Now that everyone is here, we need to talk."
