Well after fighting with publishing my first chapter I think I got this down. I am happy with the response for my first chapter, thank you SoulxMakaForeva and Domo for being my first reviewers. I can't wait to hear more from others and will continue trying to give you all the best I can give you in my writing – Caitlin
I do not own Soul Eater or anything relating to the franchise.
[The Mission]
Death City, Nevada – Maka, Soul and Crona's apartment (next day)
"SOUL! I told you to get up!" Maka shouted from the kitchen as she made a quick and light breakfast for them to eat before leaving.
"Alright fine, I'm up I'm up." Soul said groggily walking out of his room in just some plain black boxers and making his way to the bathroom to take a quick shower.
"I told you we had to get up early to head out this morning, what were you doing up so late last night?" she asks putting jelly on some toast she had just gotten out of the toaster.
"Nothing, just couldn't sleep." Soul replied back walking into the bathroom, 'Just thinking about your damn legs again' he thought to himself as he turned on the shower to a cooler temperature.
Crona brought his bag into the living room as they shouted back and forth; Maka noticed him as he walked to the dining table and sat down.
"Hey Crona, glad to see someone is ready, would you like some toast or fruit?" Maka asks walking over to him wiping her hand off on her apron.
Crona looks over at her and gives a small smile, "Yes, some fruit w-would be nice." he replied back.
"Alright, what would you like? We have apples, grapes, oranges and um oh we have bananas." she said back looking at a large bowl they use to keep fruit in.
"A banana would b-be fine." he said back.
Maka grabbed two bananas, one for herself and one for Crona, then made her way over to him and handed him one with a smile.
"Th-thanks Maka" Crona said as he grabbed the fruit from the girl, 'I wish she would always smile, it makes her eyes shine' Crona mused to himself.
"Not a problem." she replied back as she went to her room to change.
Soul finally finished in the shower as Maka shut her door; he went to his room and put on blue jeans with a skull belt, a white t-shirt, white convers and finally his slim black headband pushing his naturally wild hair back away from his face some. When he was finished he walked out to the kitchen and grabbed a few slices of jellied toast and sat at the dining table with Crona. He looked at the timid pinkett, who seemed to be less tense than usual; he was wearing a white long sleeve shirt with a black short sleeve shirt over it, skinny jeans and black convers.
As the two boys ate in comfortable silence Maka walked out of her room in a short black skirt with a loose belt, a white long sleeve shirt tucked into her skirt, a black button vest, her signature boots and her hair in her usual pig tails.
Soul took a real good look at his meister as she made her way with her bag to the living room, her hips swaying and her mile long legs showing for him to look at, 'Oh death she is just making this harder than it has to be' he thought as he turned his head trying to calm the blood heating his face.
Soul was not the only one who noticed how good Maka looked; Crona was currently sitting in his chair with a bright blush on his face trying to not openly gape at the breathtaking meister in front of him.
"Alright if you boys are done eating we can head out." Maka said turning around to face the two boys who were trying their best to hide the bright color on their faces, some doing better than others.
"Is everything ok?" Maka asks walking over to the two of them.
"Crona your flush, do you have a fever? Do you need to stay home?" Maka asks the boy with a bit of a worried expression as she puts her hand to his forehead.
Crona just stares at her with wide eyes and his blush intensifies from her touch.
"Oh my, you're somewhat warm." she remarks looking at him.
Ragnarok took this opportunity to materialize from Crona's back and lean over his head to get in Maka's face, "It's because you are dressing up like a hostess that Crona is acting like a pathetic little school girl you fat cow" he said pointing a finger at Maka's chest.
"Don't call her that!" Crona yells at Ragnarok and Maka gapes at the demon weapon.
"What she is! Look at her ass, its huge!" Ragnarok shouts back.
At this comment Crona blushes again, 'That's not a bad thing' he thought to himself, much to his own horror.
After Maka had finally come back to herself she got a very angry look on her face, which scared Crona just a little bit, all of a sudden, "MAKA-CHOP!" the girl shouted bringing a large book from out of nowhere down onto Ragnarok's head.
Ragnarok clutched his head and glared at Maka before retreating back into Crona's blood stream.
"I-I'm sorry M-Maka." Crona apologized as he looked at the girl as she huffs at the disappearance of the demon weapon.
Her face softened as she heard this and looked over to the boy with his head down, "It is not your fault Crona, Ragnarok is just an insensitive jerk." she replied back now smiling again.
He looked up and gave a small smile of his own.
"Well that was comical." Soul said getting their attention, he had successfully managed to cool his head as his meister and the demon weapon fought.
"Well I don't like that he insulted me." Maka said back looking over at her partner.
"Ragnarok insults everyone." he gave back trying to get her to feel better.
Maka smiled at him and turned to walk to all of their stuff that was piled in the living room, "Your right" she replied back feeling happy that Soul would try and cheer her up.
After they cleaned up they all grabbed their coats and bags then headed out of the apartment to Soul's bike; as Soul and Maka got onto Soul's orange motorcycle Crona had Ragnarok transform into a dragon like creature so they could fly. After they were all situated they headed for the entrance to Death City so they could head out and get on their way.
Maka held onto Soul as he drove looking up to see Crona flying not far above them keeping pace.
When they neared the entrance to the city Soul and Crona slowed down, this caused Maka to look around Soul to see something she was not expecting. BlackStar; wearing his ninja clothes, and wrist guards, and Tsubaki; who was wearing her tan dress, loose belt, and grey and black stripped elbow length fingerless gloves, were standing there while Kid was standing on Beelzebub; in his usual black suit and shoes, holding Liz and Patty in their pistol forms; which were in their usual red halter tops while Liz wore skinny jeans patty wore puffy shorts, both wearing their cowboy hats. They finally noticed them coming as BlackStar grinned wide and waved at the oncoming teens, Kid just smiled and waited patiently as Soul and Crona came to a stop in front of their friends.
"Hey guys, what are you all doing here?" Maka asks looking at her friends happily but also a bit confused.
"I called them here." someone said from behind the teens.
Everyone looked back as Stein showed up on his own motorcycle; which was white complete with stitching across the whole thing, while Spirit leaned against his shoulder in his scythe form.
"Professor Stein? What are you doing here?" Maka asks.
"I am accompanying you all on this mission." he replied back as the sun caught his glasses giving them a glare; he was wearing his brown and grey stitched shirt with black pants and black shoes.
"But I thought it was just going to be Soul, Crona and I on this mission?" she asked back.
"After some new information that came in late last night Lord Death thought it would be a good idea to send you all and myself and Spirit just to be safe." he said.
"What kind of information?" Kid asks before Maka could.
"It has come to our attention that this particular witch is known for her immense cruelty and use of humans to experiment with spells." Stein said with a blank expression, "So we decided that it would be best if all of us went, for safe measure." he added in.
"Well if that is what honorable father has decided then it cannot be helped." Kid said readying himself on Beelzebub again.
"YOUR GOD SHALL GRACE YOU ALL WITH HIS PRESENCE ON THIS MISSION HAHAHA!" BlackStar shouted at them all as he put his fists on his hips and puffed his chest out.
"Anyway we should get going." Stein said interrupting BlackStar's show of his godliness.
As everyone agreed they all headed out of Death City and got on the road, they were traveling through the vast amount of desert that surrounded the city when Maka looked around at her friends; in front of them Crona was flying alongside Kid above them a good eight feet, while to her left BlackStar and Tsubaki were running alongside her and Soul, Maka wouldn't admit it to BlackStar himself in fear of inflating his ego any more than it already was but she had mentioned to Tsubaki that she was very impressed at their stamina and ability to keep up with them on missions while they were on foot, to her right Stein was on his motorcycle keeping the same speed as Soul, just five feet separated them, while her father was still in his scythe form seemingly asleep as he was leaning against steins shoulder.
Semon Town, Nevada – Close to the town square (same day)
After about forty minutes of traveling the group arrived at the town of Semon; once known for their wonderful glass work. The group looked around at the broken down town; there is debris and broken glass everywhere they looked.
"What happened here?" Tsubaki asked coming to a stop at the center of town.
Everyone did the same with some getting off their mode of transportation.
"Well there was a horrid outbreak of Kishin Eggs in this town about fifty years back, none have tried to rebuild after the horrible incident, everyone just moved on and the town fell from the maps like it never existed." Stein told them.
"How horrible" Tsubaki said putting her hand over her mouth.
"Humph, they can't scare me, I the great BlackStar will bring this witch down and everyone will bow down before me!" BlackStar declared.
Everyone seemed to just ignore his little declaration as they moved further through the city trying to find the witch, Maka, Stein and Kid were using their Soul Perception to find her soul.
Kid got closer to Maka as Liz and Patty stayed back talking to Tsubaki and BlackStar.
"So do you know what this witch is supposed to look like?" Kid asks her trying to start up a conversation, 'What kind of question is that!' he was now beating himself up on the inside for his own stupidity.
Maka looked over at him as he was looking down with a strained expression, "No, but don't worry we will find her and beat her." she said giving him a reassuring smile and going back to looking for the witch.
'Ya, I wouldn't expect any less from you Maka' Kid thought as he looked at her with a warm smile.
Soul walked up on the other side of Maka sending a glare to Kid while she wasn't looking, 'Tsk, if he thinks he can cozy up to Maka while I'm here he's mad' Soul thought.
Kid just returned the glare, 'What's his problem, it's not like Maka is his' Kid thought looking back up in front of him.
"Over here." Stein called to his students as he came to the outskirts of the town.
They all reached him and looked at what he was staring at; there was a tall figure with its back to them in the middle of a clearing with broken down walls scattered about.
"Is that her?" Liz asks.
"No, I don't think so." Maka replies straining her eyes to look closer.
"Well then who is it?" BlackStar asks getting impatient.
"It is no one." Stein replies.
Everyone but Kid and Maka look at him confused, all of a sudden the figure jerks to where it spins around to face them with its head down; it is wearing a long black coat that covers its whole body and a large hat that covers its face.
"How is that not somebody, it moved?" Soul asks looking at Stein confused.
"Because that thing doesn't have a soul" Maka replies for Stein.
Everyone looks at the now moving figure; it seemed to be having trouble walking, like its legs were made of cloth.
Everyone got into their stances.
"Liz! Patty!" Kid said.
At this both Liz and Patty transform, fly up and into Kid's hands upside-down, once he had them in hand he got into a defensive stance.
"Tsubaki! Chain Scythe Mode!" BlackStar yells
"Right." she says back transforming and flying into the air to fall down into BlackStar's hands.
Crona held out his hand and without having to say anything Ragnarok is in his demon sword form as Crona clenches the hilt.
"Soul, are you ready?" Maka asks her weapon.
"Of course." he replies back.
They interlock hands while Soul transforms, once done Maka spins him around a bit and positions him in front of her waiting for the fight.
Stein stays back with Spirit standing next to him.
"YOUR GOD WILL SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE!" BlackStar shouts running forward and slashing straight through the middle of the figure.
Everyone looks on in awe at how easy it was to defeat it, as it fell over the hat came off of its head revealing a mannequin.
"What! All that for some stupid doll?!" BlackStar shouts out irritated that he didn't get a real fight.
All of a sudden a sickening laughter could be heard throughout the forest that surrounded the clearing.
"Who's there? Come out and face the all mighty BlackStar." he shouts out looking all around him.
"I am sorry boy but you are not who I am looking for." the voice speaks back in a mocking like tone.
"How dare you!" BlackStar shouts back getting ready to run into the forest.
"Stop BlackStar!" Kid shouts out to him, "She is just trying to separate us, stay where you are." he says to try and calm the ever growing anger in his friend.
BlackStar gives out a growl but does what he says.
Not long after the laughing came back and more of the odd walking figures appeared out of the forest.
"Now what? There has to be at least twenty of them." BlackStar asks getting back into a defensive stance.
"We will take them out." Maka answers.
The four meisters go in and start attacking the odd mannequins; which were going down without a fight and were easy to kill.
Stein looked on uneasy about how easy it was to kill the dolls, 'Something is not right' he thought reaching out for Spirit. Spirit got what he wanted and changed after grabbing Steins arm, allowing him to swing the scythe around to get used to the weight.
As the students were fighting Stein was using his Soul Perception to look for the witch, he looked through trees to see a small glow, he makes his way cross the field without much of a problem until he felt a shock after stepping too close to the forest. He staggered back causing Maka to run over to him to see if he was alright.
"Stein! Are you ok?" she asks.
"Maka get away now!" Stein bites back pushing her back with his arm
"Why what is the matter?" she asks getting more worried.
A loud high pitched noise was then heard from the forest, everyone was covering their ears while Stein was trying to get Maka away from the edge of the forest. Out of nowhere a black blur shot out of the top of the trees to hover over the field.
"Ah there you are my dear." the voice said.
The black figure descended down to stand on the ground in front of the group who had backed up to huddle together defensively.
The black figure laughed as it said "Soul Protection Cancel" the area shuddered with the power of the witch's soul as it was released. The black on the figure seemed to fade away showing a tall, slender woman draped in dark wine colored silk robes, she had long chestnut brown hair that was loosely curled and eyes that were a glowing yellow, her skin was dark and smooth with long legs and a sizable chest.
"Well it is finally nice to meet you, my dear." the woman said looking directly at Maka.
"Who are you?" Maka asks the witch not intimidated in the least.
"Oh what bravery you have, how nice, but that won't last long my dear especially when I am done with you." she replies back ignoring the anger that seemed to come to Maka's face as her question was ignored.
"I said who are you?" Maka bit out through clenched teeth.
"Oh my so sorry my dear, how rude of me, my name is Mave Zorida, but you can call me M." she gave back giving out a polite smile and slight curtsy.
Maka felt uneasy at the witch's use of manners.
"Why are you here?" Maka asks.
"Why for you of course." M says looking her dead in the eyes.
Maka froze, she didn't know why but she couldn't move, M used this chance to run forward towards her, the group all dodged out of the way except Maka.
"Maka Move!" Soul shouted out at her.
All Maka could do was stand there and watch as the witch got closer and closer, just as the witch was about to hit her Soul transforms and grabs his meister, his back to the witch, as she was bringing her arm down Stein uses Spirit to block the attack and push M away from his students, from the shock M loses her concentration which allows Maka to move again.
"Maka come on we have to fight." Soul says still holding and looking at his meister.
"Y-Ya ok." Maka gets out as Soul helps her to keep her balance.
Soul transforms again when Maka is able to stand up straight.
"Ready?" Maka asks getting herself ready once again for the fight.
"Of course" Soul replies back with a smirk from his reflection on the blade.
BlackStar is the first to strike at the witch, he comes up from behind and jumps trying to catch her off guard, at the last minute she disappears into a black blur to only reappear to his right hitting him in the side with her foot, BlackStar jumps away clutching his side trying not to wince in pain.
"BlackStar are you ok?" Tsubaki asks looking at her meister through the blade of her weapon form.
"Ya no problem, she can't take down such a big star like me that easily" he replies back with a smirk trying not to show any pain.
Kid tries next shooting the witch in her side as he runs at her, M dodges his next round of attacks as she jumps back away from the two teens as they go for her again.
Crona came up on her without her noticing and lands a blow of his sword to her left side, she hisses in pain before turning and puncturing him in his chest, her hand didn't get far though as Ragnarok hardened the black blood to keep him safe, the witch pulled her hand out and slung the black blood to the ground before grinning at the boy who was slumped over some.
"Crona!" Maka yelled out to him running over to help him.
M looked over at the girl running towards them, "That's right dear come here." she said in a low tone.
Crona heard this and started to worry about Maka, 'I can't let her get to Maka' he thought, "Bloody needle." he said as the blood on the ground from his wound grew spikes and flew up piercing the witch in the right shoulder, arm and leg.
"AAAHHHHH!" the witch cried jumping away from the boy to assess her damage.
Maka got to Crona and took a look at his chest as the witch was busy.
"Are you ok?" she asks with much worry in her voice.
"I'm fine, Ragnarok hardened our blood." he said back to calm her.
"Ya and you better thank me for it to." Ragnarok said.
Taking a look at the wound she saw it was true it was pretty shallow and it wasn't bleeding anymore, she looks up at the boy with a reassured smile.
Crona was looking down at her with his own smile until movement from behind Maka caught his attention.
"Look out!" both BlackStar and Kid shouted at them.
M was hurling towards them with a scary expression on her face, before she got to them Crona pushed Maka out of the way while he got hit with her fist in the gut sending him back a ways.
"Crona!" Maka yelled again from her position on the ground.
Crona landed with a thud, after a second he sat up holding his stomach, "I-I'm fine." he replied back.
"Maka look out!" Soul shouted as she whipped her head around to see M coming straight for them with her hand back ready to strike her.
She quickly kicked herself back and slid to a stop low to the ground on her feet.
"Soul!" Maka shouted.
"Ya!" he shouted back.
"SOUL RESONANCE!" they both shouted together.
As their souls connected Maka stood up positioning Soul behind her above her shoulder.
"Witch Hunter!" Maka shouted out.
Soul's blade transformed into a large glowing crescent moon shaped blade with an eye in the middle.
Just as Maka was about to bring Soul down to send the blade at the witch, she disappeared.
Maka kept her stance becoming confused, when all of a sudden she reappeared right in front of her crouched down, Maka looked down with wide eyes as the next moments seem to slow down and all the sound faded away.
M took her right hand and shoved it into the middle of Maka's gut.
M looked up at Maka who wore a shocked expression before she whispered something into her ear.
Before she could register what happened M threw her up and kicked her full force, this sent Maka flying back, she hit one of the broken down walls of what used to be a building. She never let go of Soul until she hit the wall and fell to the ground. After being stabbed the Witch Hunter shattered. Nobody could move to shocked at what just happened.
It wasn't until M started laughing did Stein start to move towards her with anger evident on his face; Crona, BlackStar and Kid did the same, all coming at her from different angles ready to kill her.
"Don't worry dear; this is not the last time we will meet." M said as she started to laugh and disappear into a black blur again, this time she didn't reappear.
"Maka! Maka!" the group heard Soul shouting as he transformed back and leaned over her side.
Everyone ran over, weapons changing back into their original forms.
Liz and Tsubaki looked on unable to do anything while Patty just lowered her head so her bangs covered her face.
Kid was standing next to Soul looking down at her as the blood pooled underneath her.
Crona stood just behind the two boys shaking with tears in his eyes.
Spirit stood back looking on with a blank expression not believing what was going on.
Stein came around to the other side of her to assess how bad the injury was.
All the while Soul kept on shouting out her name and telling her to open her eyes.
'What is that? Someone is shouting, they need to shut up its hurting my head' Maka thought as she slowly opened her eyes, what she saw confused her, all of her friends were looking at her like the world was ending, she looked up at Soul who now had her in his arms soaking his white shirt red and clutching onto her like his life depended on it.
"S-soul" Maka said in a weak voice.
"Maka! I'm here." he said back looking at her with watering eyes, he refused to cry because she was not going to die, he wouldn't let her.
"Your shirt, are you hurt? Are you ok?" she asks lifting her hand to touch his cheek.
"I'm fine." he said back a little shocked she was worried about him at a time like this.
"Good, so long as you didn't get hurt." she said lowering her arm to rest at her side again, suddenly she started coughing and blood started to spill from her mouth.
"Maka!" Kid and Soul said as Kid crouched down to wipe her mouth with a handkerchief.
"Thank you Kid" Maka said weakly with a small smile.
She looked up at Crona and then the girls, "Don't look like that, Crona come on smile for me." she said looking at the crying pinkette.
"B-but Maka I ca-can't smile w-when your h-hurt." Crona stuttered out trying to hold in his sobbing.
"There is no reason to be sad, look I'm still ok." she replied trying to lift up only to fall back with a pained cry.
"Maka don't move." Kid said as Soul tightened his hold on her.
"We need to get her back to the DWMA." Stein said with a serious face as he looked at Maka's wounds.
"Why is it so cold Professor?" Maka asks looking over at him.
He looks down at her trying to keep a calm face, "Because you're losing a lot of blood." he tells her.
"Oh." is all she said before she started coughing again then closing her eyes as blood trickled out of her mouth.
"Maka! No Maka!" Soul said slightly shaking her.
"Hmm." she lets out faintly opening her eyes.
"You need to stay awake." he said desperately.
"But I am so tired." she drawled closing her eyes again.
"NO Maka! NO!" he said shaking her again.
"Stop moving her Soul." Stein says grabbing Maka's wrist to check her pulse.
"I'm sorry Soul." Maka barely gets out before passing out.
"NOOO! MAKA PLEASE WAKE UP! PLEASE!" Soul shouts, but it was useless she could not hear him.
"I can try and slow the bleeding but we need to get her back to Death City." Stein says.
Soul set Maka down and gets up backing away a bit, 'This cannot be happening! Maka can't die, I haven't showed her how much I love her yet' Soul thought looking down as Stein who was trying to stop the bleeding from Maka's wound.
Kid looked over at Soul with a sad expression, 'It's not fair, I haven't had enough time with her yet, she can't die, not now' he thought as he walked over to Liz and Patty who were crying and holding each other.
Crona was on his knees watching Stein and a lifeless looking Maka, Ragnarok had materialized but was being quiet not sure what to say to his meister, he wouldn't admit it but he actually liked Maka, she helped Crona more times than he could count.
BlackStar was with Tsubaki rubbing her back while she cried on his shoulder, he just looked on at his childhood friend that he considered to be a sister to him, 'Your strong Maka, don't give up just yet'
(Inside Maka's Mind)
'It's so cold and dark; I can't move either, what happened? I'm so tired I just want to sleep' as Maka was drifting farther and farther away in her mind a dark glow started to appear in front of her crouched and floating form, 'What is that?' she asked to no one in particular.
"I can save you." the dark glowing orb said to her.
'But I don't need to be saved' Maka thought.
"You're dying child, and I can save you." it spoke again.
Maka just looked at it hesitantly.
"Don't you want to see your friends again? Don't you want to live?" It asked her.
'I do, but I cannot trust something that I cannot do for myself' Maka thought.
"But you will be the one doing it, it will be your choice and your will that will keep you alive, I am just opening the door for you."
Maka stared at the dark orb trying to figure out if she should trust it or not.
'If I die I won't be able to see everyone anymore' she thought.
"That's right, think of how sad they will be, of all the people that will cry when you are gone." it coaxed back.
'If it is by my will that I will live then I suppose I must try'
"Yes, it is your choice, but you must hurry." the orb said back.
Maka looked at the orb long and hard before she raised her hand and grabbed it, all of a sudden the dark light it was emanating grew brighter, Maka felt a sharp pain in her body and she started to scream until the light faded and she fell deeper into her mind again.
Somewhere deep in the desert far outside of Death City stood a small mansion, in a dark room of the mansion stood M who was hunched over a basin of dark water smiling from ear to ear, "I finally caught you my dear" the witch said letting out a sickening laugh that rang throughout the mansion and into the night.