"Magnificent…I'm sorry Angela." Anguished, Mifune shakily stands before the battered, bloodied beaten Blackstar pinned to the ground below defeated as the victorious Mifune quivering, quaking, slowly stands only then for his knees to buckle as he slowly closes his eyes, the tears freely falling from the stoic swordsman.
"Don't apologise we can…we can fix this we can…" Tsubaki offers meekly, catching Mifune grimacing, draping his arm over her as she helps him towards the castle.
"Please get me as close to that castle as you can." Pained, Mifune requests from her.
"Of course…" Tsubaki nods her head hopeful of aiding him only then to gasp as they reach the castle when a sudden spike of a black blur impales into Mifune's side, scarlet soon erupts from his shirt staining his cream shirt as he falls flat to his knees as he comes crashing down.
"No you won't." Curtly, the voice calls out as Tsubaki furrows her brow at the eerily strange familiar voice but before she could answer…
"Mifune!" Tsubaki cries out concern clear upon her face gasping at the metallic feather flung into his chest as Mifune simply stares softly down at the blade, his hues dilating at the sheer sight of the now bloodied blade. Next thing he knew, he coughed crimson, spluttering, staining the floor below.
"N-NO! Why!? Why would you do that!?" Horrified, Tsubaki demands from the male with the coal cloak draped over his form as he simply stares down at the group from the building hanging above them as he simply stares, confusion clear upon his face.
"He was far from this world…isn't it better to put him out of his misery rather than delay the inevitable?" Ingram quirks his head to the side stunning Tsubaki who simply stares at the man who turns his back to the group before heading back inside the castle. Tsubaki feels the male in his arms begin to disperse into petite petals shattering, scattering into the open air.
"Maka…is Arachne still alive…? I mean that body…" Confused, Soul furrows his brow at the sheer sight of Arachne's slumped body on the floor, acting more like a mannequin as Maka holds Soul in his scythe form with Medusa standing in Arachne's room, ready for anything or so the three think…
"I can't say for sure whether this is magic or not but I feel Arachne from the insanity that is flowing through this room." Maka furrows her brow, her greens narrow furrowing further focused on the task at hand.
"A body is nothing more than a container isn't that right sister?" Smirking, Medusa calls out looking up at the spiderweb slowly dangling down greeting them, almost.
"Vector storm! Compress!" Medusa summons a wave of arrows shooting from the ground acting as some sort of shield combating against the webs making Maka gasp when seeing through the stings of web seeing a smirking Arachne amongst her webs, smirking smugly at her supposed recent victims only then to perk up at Medusa's arrows coiling around said webs thrown her way, coiling them into a teeny tiny black ball.
"Incredible! Did you get her?" Hopeful, Maka asks as she turns to Medusa only to gasp when the black bundle of arrow splits apart, sputtering out as the webs are released into the open once more.
"…Not good enough." Medusa mutters tsking uder her breath bitterly.
"Foolish sister that won't work on me I have abandoned my body to become insanity itself." Arrogantly, Arachne proudly proclaims
"Become insanity? What are you…?" Mystifed, Maka furrows her brow befuddled.
"You're after the kishin aren't you? You think by becoming insanity itself the kishin will be drawn to you." Medusa gathers brow furrowed, her gold glaring at Arachne.
"I shall become mother of all." Antagonistically, Arachne proclaims pride laced in her tone determination drenched in her tone teasingly dripping down her voice.
"A mother? Don't make me laugh, you call yourself the mother of weapons but you're nothing. All you do is steal, steal the children of the true creators, first you steal the title of mother of the demon weapons then you have the never to try to steal from the child of the true mother of demon weapons. There is not an inch of originality within your veins." Scoffing, Medusa cackles, chortling smirking at the foolish nature of her sister.
"It mattered not who originated it. Nor who did the creating what matters is what you achieve from it in the end and you…you can't even win yourself a man's heart. What good are you really? Doctor Stein was that his name? You had quite the crush on him if I recall it's such a shame, he only saw you as a replacement to her…" Haughtily, Arachne declares scowling, seething, her hues darkening deranged almost as she glares daggers at her little sister before a coy cocky smirk crosses her ruby red lips. She smirks smugly at her sister sadistically, a gleam glinting in his webbed plum purple hues.
"At least he has a bone of creativity within him. You laughed at this body of mine before but which one of us is in the more ridiculous form now hm?" Cockily, Medusa smiles innocently quirking her head to the side on the tippy toes as she gestures to her childish form.
"Medusa…I shall devour your very mind!" Mad, Arachne snarls seething, coal black claws forming as next thing Medusa knew she was thrown into the bottom of a web, stuck as she flails about only to feel a warm breath brush against her cheeks as her scared dilated yellows gaze into a pair of poisonous purple, spider webs oozing out of her broken looking spiral eyes as she opens her feral fangs, ready to feast upon her sister.
"Medusa!?" Maka calls out concerned by the body of the girl who comes crashing down.
"Is that a mental attack like the one she used before?!" Soul furrows his brow.
"Oh I wouldn't compare it to the likes of that." Tauntingly, Arachne form above chuckles amused at the thought.
"Where's Crona? What have you done with them!?" Mad, Maka demands from her.
"As you can see from my corpse over there. I have abandoned physical form no attacks will affect me now. I shall enjoy killing you slowly but surely." Sadistically, Arachne smirks smugly down at her.
"Maka…" Soul calls out to her.
"Yeah…" Maka nods her head knowing what must be done unaware of the waves upon waves of madness emitting from her.
"Naigus tend to Blackstar's wounds!" Sid orders Naigus.
"Don't you go dying on us Blackstar." Naigus kneels down trying to tend to the battered beaten Blackstar.
"What the…ngh!" Sid grimaces cradling his head.
"Nhhh!" Tsubaki soon joins in grimacing alongside the others all except two.
"And so it begins…" Bemused, Ingram smirks smugly at the sight of the struggling people outside before heading further into the dark depths of baba yaga's castle.
"Insanity like a pleasant breeze." Softly, a small smile crosses Noah's lips looking up, his nose twitching at the almost spring like breeze in the air that is madness.
"This is…inside that book and flowing in from outside the book the insanity wavelength not good… how irritating all I can do now is believe in the others…" Kid tsks under his breath as he descends down further into the dark depths of the book he has found himself trapped in.
"Maka is this…!?" Soul begins brow furrowed.
"This isn't good Soul…all the souls here in the castle are falling into the insanity Arachne is sending out throughout the castle we have to do something and fast!" Firmly, Maka tells her partner.
"Do something about it…but how!? We're right by her if this is the source of madness that's affecting everyone why isn't it affecting me!?" Soul ponders out loud.
"That's the deal." The demon confirms.
"So I'm being protected by Maka's anti demon wavelength." Soul gathers his eyes widening when realizing.
"You got it." The demon agrees.
"If I can transmit my wavelength to the others…" Maka mutters brow furrowed.
"But how do we do that?" Soul asks Maka.
"Soul…lend me your power." Maka asks Soul.
"With my piano but my piano will never reach the entirety of the castle nor the surrounding area urgh there has to be someway…" Soul furrows his brow at the problem at hand.
"Come on what's wrong? Get playing I want to hear some sweet music! Hurry it up the piano strings are gonna slacken before you get anything done at his rate. Hell the whole damn thing will be covered in cobwebs." Annoyed, the demon snaps scowling, moving up and down huffing, crossing his arms over his chest as he berates Soul.
"I thought I told you to shut- that's it! Maka could you focus harder on your soul perception?" Soul asks Maka.
"Focus?" Frowning, Maka furrows her brow at the thought.
"Quickly!" Soul snaps sharply.
"What are you up to?" The demon's eyes narrow watching Soul begin to twirl with the strings shoot out through their room, hearing the faint bouncing hum of the room courtesy of the silken strings shot out throughout the room.
"Oh…like one big stringed instrument and here I thought you only played keyboards. Clever very clever." Coyly, the demon dubiously chuckles amused almost at the plan.
"Th-This is…you mean to commandeer my web!?" Angrily, Arachne seethes, snarling at the thought offended, insulted even.
"Huh? This music…" Surprised, Sid exclaims.
"Listen everyone to Maka's melody." Soul closes his eyes sitting down before the piano as he begins to play…
"Maka…" Touched, Tsubaki whispers brow furrowed.
"Heh what a stupid tune." Teasingly, Blackstar smirks smugly as the melody resonates throughout the castle grounds.
"It's even being transmitted back to me." Arachne tsks scowling.
"It looks like you severed your network just a little too late your madness washes away and your body." Boastfully, Medusa mocks her sister smirking sadistically at her elder sister trying to keep her poker face.
"Ngh!" Arachne grimaces at the sharp sting being dealt to her side cracks spewing out of her fragile frail skin.
"I have you that's what happens when you try to creep into the cracks of people's hearts…" Maka proudly proclaims, determination dripping down her tongue.
"Girl…to think I was actually caught in my own web." Amused, Arachne remarks brow furrowed flinching from the waves of pain being dished bounced back at her, cracks soon forming crawling upon her once perfect porcelain skin.
"Let's do this Maka." Soul tells Maka determination drenched in his tone as she too nods her head in understanding.
"Soul resonance! I'll be taking your soul." Seriously, Maka tells Arachne, her plum pupils glaring down at Maka ready to finish this once and for all.