Chapter 9

(Flashback)

"Could you help a guy out, Maka?" He said, sheepishly

"Alright-"

A pair of short claps echoed around the pair and they looked around and saw the little demon in a human form of black hair, pale skin, yellow eyes, and shark-like teeth. He wore a dark suit and dress shoes. Scorpia or Rachal, on the other hand, was in a dark purple dress with black lace shoes tied to her thighs.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the Soul-kun and his little angel."

"You bitch." Maka sneered

"I'm going to enjoy tearing off your wings, little angel and drowning you and Soul in black blood."

(Present)

"Can't really do that, bitch."

"Oh, then explain to me, how are you going to stop us?"

Maka smirked,"If we are no longer here."

"Wha-"

Maka and Soul vanished into thin air, leaving Rachel and the little demon alone in the inky darkness of Soul's hiding place.

"That cow." She snarled before everything went white.

(Back in the Real World)

Maka snapped awake and moving away from Soul who finally woke up with a groan and a sigh a large amount of black smoke blew out from his mouth.

"Maka...?"

"Welcome back, Soul." She smiled awkwardly

Soul was then punched in the face by Black Star, while Soul nursed his bloody nose, saying lowly 'I was expecting that.'

"Black Star, what the hell?"

"That's for ambushing me!" Black Star snarled

Everyone was really angry at Soul because of what happened as they remembered everything.

Because Soul was under the control of Rachael in a unique form of madness isolating Maka, it was for an entire year of planning however when Maka was on a different assignment where she couldn't bring Soul with her, he was affected harshly and was drawn towards Racheal.

While Soul could detect kishin souls he couldn't detect certain types of witches along with their negative influence. He was drawn in and was soon her puppet when continued to unleash concentrated doses of madness making the little demon stronger and making him take over and he started to date Racheal.

Racheal needed to isolate Maka away from her friends and turn her friends against her, but they were not called prodigies so lightly.

Death the Kid and Black Star would be the strongest ones to take care of and then the rest would fall into place along with the rest of the Sun class as the students had a slight jealousy towards the prodigies of the sun class, Maka, Black Star, Death the Kid and their weapons, Racheal just aggravated the jealousy into full blown hatred.

Maka's misery was just providing more and more power to Racheal, however, it started to fade when Maka's misery turned to apathy and then to disgust, weakening Racheal's hold on the group's minds and when Maka renounced the class, it caused an overflow of emotions that were able to finally make their appearance in their physical bodies instead of just inside.

Their souls were practically bleeding as they were finally able to get out what they were thinking. When they met Maka in the gym it was eroding her hold on them and when she encased them all with her soul, it shattered the hold entirely causing the group to experience immense pain.

The madness was much more subtle than Medusa or Arachne's as Medusa used her smarts to create madness in a liquid form, Crona and Soul being the two main subjects on black blood and Arachne was the powerhouse of the sisters and the last Scorpia was the weakest but her form of madness ensnares people around her, stringing them around like puppets.

Soul was just one of many she had led around on a string.

The rest of the day was long and tiresome, Soul was proven to be under the influence of the witch Scorpia, who manipulated him into breaking his connection with Maka, the little demon made sure their fuckings were not noticed, until now making Soul look like he was about to lose the rest of his lunch.

The rest of gang needed to stay under Professor Stein's supervision and make sure there is nothing left of the madness so no one has a relapse.

Jackson stared at Soul, who stared back. The confrontation between the two was going to happen sooner rather than later, while Soul was not at fault when he pushed Maka away, she came to him and he fell for her.

The way she looks when she got a new book, the way she pouted when she couldn't understand something, the way she would grind her shoes into the dirt when she had to ask for help, were among the many things that made him fall for her.

Soul, however, was her first partner, dealing with many things and the person she put her trust into only to have it smashed to pieces in a plot by a witch. They insulted each other, she nagged him while he waved her off, they were opposites and clashed, but they made the most of it.

However the most important question would be, who would get Maka? Will she stay with Jackson? Or will she go back to Soul? If either of them happens will the rival fight for her? What will Maka say about this?

Maka, on the other hand, was dealing the weapons who ensnared her into a group hug, crying and wailing that they were sorry and didn't mean it. She just smiled back and let them hug her to death.

Another problem will soon arise as the group will now have to face sooner rather than later, Maka's explosive love triangle and Scorpia/Rachel's plans.

Ending it! I'm ending, I'm sorry, I've drawing a blank about this chapter so I decided to make the final battle between Scorpia vs Maka and both gangs at the end. Also, Scorpia will have a say in the next chapter, considering she is now in hiding and people will be hunting her down. Soul and the gang will have a discussion with Maka and how they were brought under Scorpia's control and Maka will be conflicted between going to be under some stress along with seeing how the Sun class is doing. Later, if anyone has any ideas then please either review or PM me, please. Also, I thank all of those who have reviewed me so far.

~Kourtney Uzu Yato