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[Waking Up]
Death City, Nevada – DWMA Infirmary (one week later)
"YOUR GOD WILL NOT TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" BlackStar shouts as he bursts through the double doors of the infirmary.
"BlackStar please don't shout." Tsubaki says trying to calm the over excited assassin.
"NO! If Maka won't wake up on her own then I will wake her myself!" BlackStar declares.
"If you so much as touch my meister your dead" Soul says from Maka's bedside.
Crona looks on in fear as the two bicker about waking Maka.
"I-I don't think w-we should d-disturb her." Crona stutters trying to reason with them.
"Oh ya, then what are we gonna do? We don't know when she will wake up and that crazy bitch of a witch is still running loose somewhere." BlackStar says getting a little irritated.
"Well we don't need to be messing with her while she is in a coma, remember what Stein said, she could still go into shock if she wakes up too soon." Soul says standing from his chair and walking over to BlackStar.
BlackStar looks at Soul with a bit of hurt on his face and Soul puts a hand on his shoulder in understanding.
BlackStar looks over at Maka who is still lying on the infirmary bed and nods, he then turns to leave.
"Come on Tsubaki; let's go see if we can find any of that cake that Maka likes from the bakery down the street." BlackStar says as he leaves through the double doors.
"Yes." Tsubaki says with a sorrowful smile as she takes a quick look at Maka and then follows after her meister.
Soul walks back over to his chair next to Crona and slumps down.
"Th-thank you" Crona says as he looks over at Souls hunched form.
"For what?" Soul ask.
"It must have been hard to admit that." Crona says back.
Soul looks at the demon meister for a moment before turning to his own meister.
"Ah." is all he said back.
Since Maka was first brought to the infirmary she has shown no signs of waking, this was a week ago. Stein checks on her several times a day every day and he can't seem to figure out what is keeping Maka in a coma, her injury has healed well and the stitches can be taken out in a few days. The fact that Maka is not waking up has put everyone on edge; Crona and Soul haven't left Maka's bedside since they first arrived unless to go to the bathroom or someone forces them to take a walk, Kid has been by a few times, but he has been working with Kim to decipher the books he got from the library, Crona has not told anyone about what he discovered for fear of what they might do. Since the attack Lord Death has sent Sid, Nygus and Spirit out to find anything they can about the witch that had caused all this. So far no one has been able to find the accursed witch and without anyone knowing it Maka was just getting worse and worse as the time dragged on.
The sun shone through the windows and down on Maka as she slept, the sun didn't seem to bother her as it landed on her face.
Soul looked over to her from his position and took her hand, 'She looks like she is just asleep, so why won't she wake up?' He thought as he noticed the sun hitting her hair giving it a soft glow 'Please Maka, you have to wake up'
Crona looked out the window of the infirmary as he waited, that seemed to be all he was doing lately was waiting, 'I can wait, no matter how long it takes I will wait for you Maka' Crona thought as he looked back at the sleeping girl next to him.
Death City, Nevada – Coffee Shop In Town (later that day)
"Kid can I have some cake? Can I? Can I? Can I?" Patty asked bouncing up and down in front of Kid who was sitting at a table on the front patio of the coffee shop.
"Yes Patty you can have some cake." Kid said rubbing both of his temples.
"Alright Patty leave Kid alone, he has had a hard week." Liz said getting up to lead her younger sister away.
"Aww, but it's so much fun!" Patty says giggling as she skipped inside the coffee shop.
Liz followed as Kid stayed in his seat patiently waiting.
Kid had gone to Kim and Jacqueline's place to ask for Kim's help translating the books he found on the witch, like he thought the book was in a language that was known to witches, so for the past week he has been working with Kim as well as trying to find ways to help Maka's situation, but without knowing anything about the witch Mave Zorida there was not much he could do. Finally after a week Kim was able to translate the last of the books and is now waiting for her to get the information.
'It has taken too long, I should have found something to help Maka days ago, but I'm stuck sitting around unable to do anything' Kid thought as he clenched his hands together.
"Kid! Hey KID!" someone yelled.
Kid looked around to see Kim and Jacqueline walking towards where he was sitting, Kim was waving while Jacqueline just followed with a blank expression.
They finally made it to his table and sat down; Kim was wearing a frilly blue tank top and black capris, while Jacqueline is wearing a regular black graphic tee and jeans.
"Kim, Jacqueline." Kid nods.
"Hey." Kim greets back.
Jacqueline just nods in greeting.
"So how has your day been Kid?" Kim asks.
"Long." Kid answers.
"Geez so stiff" Kim replies resting her head on her hands.
"I am in no mood to play around Kim, do you have the information?" Kid asks a little irritated.
"Fine." Kim says pulling out some papers from a bag she was carrying and handed them to Kid.
"So how is she doing?" Kim asks with a more serious tone.
"She has showed no signs of waking up, but there are no problems with her injuries." Kid replies looking over the papers he was just handed.
"So how much do you want for your services?" Kid asks looking up for a moment.
"Nothing" Kim replies.
Kid stared at her for a moment wondering if he heard her right.
"Excuse me?" Kid asks.
Kim looks over to her side as she replies, "I said I don't want anything in return."
"Oh, may I ask why?" Kid asks again.
"Because Maka is a friend and I don't like that she was hurt. If there is something I can do to help I will do it." she replies trying to hide a slight blush.
Kid smiles as Kim and Jacqueline stand up.
"Tell Maka to get better for me, ok?" Kim asks.
"Will do" Kid says back as he watched them walk away.
Patty and Liz come out of the coffee shop with cake.
"Heyy Kid, we got cake!" Patty says as she and her sister walk to their table and sit down.
"We got you a piece, I made sure it is perfectly symmetrical." Liz said as she sets the plate with strawberry cake down in front of him.
"Hmm" Kid replies not really paying attention as he read the translated pages he had just received.
Liz just sighed and sat down and started eating her piece of cake.
A few minutes passed and Kid had not touched his cake, when all of a sudden Kid's eyes widened at what he had just read.
'No, this cannot be' Kid thought.
All of a sudden ringing could be heard from Kid's pocket, he reluctantly tore his eyes away from the paper and took the small hand mirror from his coat pocket.
"Hello." Kid said as he answered the call.
"Kid! You have to hurry!" BlackStar said from the other side of the mirror.
"What? What's wrong?" Kid asks looking at the blue haired assassin who seemed to be running.
"Soul just called, Maka woke up!" he replied.
Kid stood abruptly and gathered the papers as he called the twin pistols; Kid summoned Beelzebub from his hand.
"I'm on my way." Kid says as he ends the call.
'If what the book says is true then I need to talk to Stein right away, hold on Maka, I'm coming' Kid thought as he caught Liz and Patty after they transformed and flew off on Beelzebub toward the school.
Death City, Nevada – Infirmary (before Kid was called)
Crona had gotten up to get drinks for Soul and himself leaving Soul alone with Maka.
Soul grabbed Maka's hand as he leaned down into his chair and closed his eyes, he soon fell asleep.
As Soul opened his eyes he found himself surrounded by darkness, he looked around and found the double doors he knew all too well, he reached forward and opened one of the doors and walked in; noticing that his orange t-shirt, blue jeans and sneakers were replaced by the usual black pinstripe suit with red dress shirt, black tie and black dress shoes. Soul noticed the large grand piano in the middle of the room and walked over to it, he put one hand in his pocket and took one finger and pressed down on a key, the sound rang out throughout the room; bouncing off of the black and red checkered tile floor and muffled by the deep red curtains that blanketed the walls.
"Well Soul, so nice of you to join us." a voice said from behind him.
Soul knew the owner of this voice so he did not turn around, he ignored it for the most part.
"What do you want ogre?" Soul asked.
"Why nothing, I was just wondering if you would play while you were here." the little red ogre replied.
"No, why wou…" Soul began before something the little ogre said clicked in his head.
"What do you mean by join us?" Soul asked as he turned from the piano to face the ogre.
The little ogre's smile grew as he motioned with his overly long arm towards a large curtain; once he did the curtain parted, both sides moving away to show what was hidden behind them.
Soul could not believe what he was seeing; lying on an antique chaise lounge that had a black wooden frame and red velvet cushioning, was Maka dressed in the black dress and black ribbons holding her hair up in her usual pig tails.
'Why? How?' Soul questioned himself.
He stepped forward staring intently at his meister afraid that if he looked away for even a second she would disappear.
She lay there just like in the infirmary, she looked peaceful and asleep.
Soul stopped until he was just a foot away from her, he then reached out his hand, once his fingertips grazed her cheek Maka's eyes shot open, and she then shot up into a sitting position staring off in front of her.
Soul stepped back a little out of shock.
"Maka?" Soul said trying to get her attention.
Maka just kept staring off into the dark corner of the Black room.
"Hey Maka, answer me." Soul said reaching out to grab her shoulder, once his hand touched her Maka started screaming bloody murder, as if she were in pain.
Maka pulled her knees up to her chest and her hand went to the sides of her head as she continued to scream.
"Maka! MAKA! It's ok it's me Soul!" he tried telling her, but she just kept screaming.
The little ogre was behind them now laughing as Maka's screaming got louder and louder.
Soul turned around and glared at the red demon as he laughed.
"What is going on? What is happening to Maka?" Soul asked anger evident in his tone.
"Hahaha, well she has finally woken up from her little nap is all, nothing to worry about she just has to get used to the pain." the ogre said as he looked on with amusement.
"YOU BASTARD!" Soul shouted as he lunged toward the red ogre.
Just as he was about to tackle him Soul's eyes flew open to hear screaming and shouting.
"Soul! Soul! Wake up!" Crona shouted as he shook the scythe awake.
Soul shot up out of his chair as the screaming from the Black room didn't stop.
"What's going on?" Soul asked.
"Its Maka she's awake, but something is wrong." Crona replied as he let Soul go to move to Maka's side.
Soul looked over to see Maka sitting upright in the infirmary bed in the same position as the Black room.
'What the hell is going on?' Soul thought as he ran to his meisters side with Crona.
No matter what they did Maka would not stop screaming, she just kept getting louder and louder the more they tried to calm her.
Stein burst through the infirmary doors and ran to the opposite side of the boys.
"What happened?" Stein asks as he tries to grab hold of Maka's wrists.
"I don't know I heard screaming when I was coming back from getting drinks and found Soul asleep while Maka was sitting up screaming." Crona said trying to help Stein grab her wrists.
"Soul, do you know what happened?" Stein asks looking at Soul.
Soul looks back at his teacher unsure if he should tell him what happened in the Black room.
Before Soul could answer Maka started thrashing and screaming bloody murder, her hands going to the place that the witch had pierced.
"Try to hold her still; don't let her rip open her stiches." Stein instructed as he ran over to the infirmaries medical cabinet and took out a vial of clear liquid, he then took a syringe from his pocket and filled it with the clear liquid.
Once Soul and Crona had Maka's arms pinned down to her sides while she thrashed on the bed Stein ran back and without warning stuck the syringe into her upper arm injecting the clear liquid as well.
In just a few moments Maka was calming down; she stopped thrashing and her screaming was nothing but painful whimpering.
"What did you give her?" Soul asks looking down at his meister.
"Chlorpromazine, it's a sedative, but she is conscious, she will just be quiet and unaware of her surroundings." Stein replied putting the syringe on the end table beside the bed.
"Soul you should probably call the others." Stein said as he checked Maka's vitals.
"Why?" Soul asks looking back at the doctor.
"Because we need to find out if they have found any information that may help us with why Maka has been in a coma for a week, with this new development there is no telling what has been happening inside of her mind." Stein tells him.
"Alright, I'll call them." Soul says as he walks over to the doors of the infirmary.
As Soul calls BlackStar Crona sits back down in his chair beside Maka.
"Will she be ok Professor?" Crona asks looking over at the grey haired meister.
"I am not sure, but I don't like what just happened." Stein replies as he checks the stiches on her abdomen.
"Well she didn't rip her stiches at least." Stein says as Soul walks back to his position next to Crona.
"I called BlackStar, and he will call Kid." Soul says taking a seat in his chair.
"Hmm, why not call Kid yourself?" Stein asks looking at Soul with a smirk.
"None of your business" Soul snaps back.
Stein just grins as he covers Maka's stomach back up and pulls the covers over her chest.
"Well when they get here we all need to have a talk about what we know." Stein says as he walks to the infirmary desk and sits in the wheelie chair backwards.
"Whatever." Soul says back as he looks at his meisters half lidded eyes.
Crona looks over at Soul uneasy with his attitude about the situation.
'Now that Maka is awake, I will have to tell them the truth' Crona thought as he looked over at Maka 'I just hope they don't do anything to hurt her'
(Present time with everybody)
Kid had just arrived at the steps to the DWMA when BlackStar and Tsubaki ran up; Tsubaki in a pale blue summer dress with sandals and BlackStar who was wearing a tight black muscle shirt, camo cargo shorts and black sneakers holding a small pastry box from a popular bakery in town.
When Kid landed he sent Beelzebub back into his hand while Liz and Patty transformed back into their original forms.
When the two meisters noticed each other they nodded and took off into the school running as fast as they could to get to the infirmary.
After a few minutes the small group arrived at their destination, BlackStar being who he is burst through the double doors making as much unnecessary noise as possible.
"What happen? Is Maka ok?!" BlackStar asks walking into the room looking around frantically.
"Calm down BlackStar, there is no need to make so much noise." Tsubaki tries to calm her hyped up meister down.
Kid along with Liz and Patty walk in and shut the doors behind them, once inside Kid walks over to Maka's bedside opposite of Soul and Crona.
Kid looks down and notices her half lidded eyes and faraway look.
"What did happen Professor?" Kid asks turning to their teacher.
"Tch, like you care." Soul comments under his breath.
Crona's eyes widened hearing Soul's comment, unluckily Kid heard it too, Kid turned back around to face Soul.
"What did you say?" Kid asks.
Soul looks up at the reaper with anger in his eyes.
"You heard me." Soul replies.
"I was hoping I heard you wrong but it seems to me like you are implying that I don't care about Maka." Kid says back.
"Ya, well then I guess you heard me just fine." Soul bites back.
"How dare you accuse Kid of not caring!" Liz yells now joining the escalating conversation.
"Oh ya? Then why hasn't he been in to see her more than just a few times?" Soul asks with irritation.
"Because he has been busy trying to find out information on the damn witch that did this to her, I don't see you doing anything to help Maka." Liz replies back with the same irritation.
Souls eyes widened in anger as he abruptly stood up.
Crona did the same worrying about the fight that was soon to come.
"How can you say that when you have nothing to show after wasting a whole week running around with some old books!" Soul says.
"Because we didn't waste any time, we actually found something of great importance." Kid interjects looking at Soul with annoyance.
'How dare he accuse me of wasting my time when all he has done is sit around doing nothing this whole week while Maka lay there in a coma' Kid though as he stared Soul down.
Soul grits his teeth as he stares heatedly at Kid who stares back with the same intensity.
'Damn symmetry obsessed bastard, trying to make me look like I don't care about my meister, I love her more than anyone and now here he is trying to look like a hero' Soul thought as he stuffed his fists into his pockets and sat back down.
"I don't think this is the right time to be fighting about such things." Tsubaki tries to reason.
"Nah, let them fight, it will help them with their pent up frustration." BlackStar says putting his hands behind his head while still holding the container of pastries.
"As much as this little discussion has helped you all get closer, I think we need to talk about a more pressing matter." Stein cuts in.
Everyone looks to their teacher as he looks over at Maka.
Everyone silently agrees as some nod their heads.
"Now, let's start with Soul, you never did answer me about what happened when Maka woke up." Stein asks the scythe.
Everyone's attention turns toward Soul as he looks to the side.
"I was asleep." he replies back.
"Well is that all or is there more?" Stein asks with a knowing look.
Soul locks his jaw before he answers, "When I fell asleep, I ended up in the Black room. I ended up seeing Maka there."
Everyone's attention was immediately back to Soul as he said this.
"She was sleeping like she has been, but when I touched her she suddenly woke up and started screaming, I tried to get her to tell me what was wrong but she just kept screaming louder and louder, then the ogre started laughing so I asked him what the hell was going on, but he said something strange and I didn't get what he meant." Soul continued.
"And what did he say?" Stein asked.
"He said that she has finally woken up from her nap and just has to get used to the pain." Soul replies.
Stein looks thoughtful for a moment before he sits up straight in his chair.
"See I told you it makes no sense." Soul says as he looks at the Professor.
"No, it makes perfect sense." Crona says as he looks at Maka with guilt.
"What do you mean?" Kid asks.
Crona frowns as he looks over at Soul and then finally the rest of the group.
"I have been lying saying I didn't know anything about Maka's condition." Crona says.
"What do you mean?" Stein asks.
"When Soul left the room and no one else was around I grabbed Maka's hand and I felt something." he replies.
"What was it?" Stein asks again.
"It was the black blood." Crona says as he looks down.
Everyone in the room stopped and stared at Maka for a moment before they turned their attention to Stein.
"But we took care of the black blood after the big fight; we got rid of it, didn't we?" Soul asks looking at Stein.
"Yes and no." Stein replies.
"What do you mean yes and no?" Soul asks tired of all the confusing answers.
"We were able to reduce the black bloods affect when you both resonate, but we were never able to completely get rid of it, only suppress it, Maka knew this but she didn't want anyone else to worry about her." Stein says back.
Soul looks over at his meister trying to hold in frustrated tears as he comes to terms with the information.
'Stupid, you shouldn't of kept this from me, of course I'll worry, I love you, but you should have told me anyways' Soul thought as he looked back to Stein.
"So what does this mean?" he asks.
"Well I think this is where I come in." Kid says as he pulls the translated pages out of his jacket pocket.
All attention turns to Kid as he unfolds the paper.
"Because the books I found on the witch Mave Zorida were in a language known to witches I went to Kim to get her help deciphering the books content." Kid says as he hands the papers over to Stein.
"What I found is not good and what has happened today has confirmed my suspicions." Kid says gravely.
"And what might that be?" Stein asks looking over the paper Kid had handed him.
"That Maka is now Mave Zorida new test subject." Kid said in a serious tone.
Everyone's expressions turned serious at the new news but no one said anything.
"I also believe that she will come back for Maka." Kid adds in.
"What makes you say that?" Soul asks looking over at the reaper.
"Well after Mave stabbed Maka she said that it was not going to be the last time they met, which means the witch knew Maka was not going to die and had no intention of killing her. I also noticed that right after Mave had stabbed Maka she whispered something into Maka's ear." Kid says.
"Now that you mention it she did do something like that didn't she." BlackStar says as he takes a seat in a nearby chair.
"Yes, I believe it was a spell, and whatever that spell was brought the black blood out in Maka and was the reason she was in a coma for so long." Kid adds.
"So how do we fix it?" BlackStar asks.
"Only witches know how to reverse a spell." Kid says.
"Then all we have to do is get a witch to reverse it." BlackStar says again.
"What about Kim?" Tsubaki adds in.
"It's worth a try." Kid says.
Everyone looks to Professor Stein to see what his view on the matter is; Stein looks back as he thinks.
"It is the only lead we got right now so it can't hurt to give it a try." Stein says.
Everyone gives a smile at the prospect of Maka getting better.
"Mm ah" a voice slurred out
All eyes in the room turned to the girl lying on the infirmary bed.
Maka had set up on the bed and was staring out the window.
Soul was immediately at her side looking at her eyes as she stared at the clouds that were going by.
"Maka, hey Maka" Soul said trying to get her attention.
Stein got off the wheelie chair and walked over to the opposite side of the infirmary bed.
"Maka can you hear me?" Stein asks.
Maka slowly looks over to Stein and looks into his eyes; Stein's eyes widen slightly at the sight of empty emerald pools.
"Good, now don't move your head, alright" Stein says as he takes a small flashlight out of his lab coat pocket.
Stein shined the light into her eyes one at a time and noticed that her pupils did not react.
"Is she ok?" Soul asks as he looks at Maka and then back to Stein.
"She seems unresponsive but I think if she were in a more comfortable environment then she might show more of a reaction." Stein answers back putting the flashlight back into his lab coat pocket.
"Does that mean we can take her home?" Soul asks.
"Yes, but I will check in everyday and if you need anything or if anything changes call me immediately." Stein replies.
Soul nods.
"So when can we take her home?" Crona asks.
"Once I take another blood sample and run a few more tests." Stein replies walking over to the infirmary medical cabinet.
"And how long might that take?" Kid asks taking a seat in an empty chair.
"Should only take a few hours, a day at most" Stein says as he takes out a couple of vacuum tubes and a butterfly needle to collect blood.
As he walks back over to Maka she looks over at him with empty eyes.
"Maka, I am going to draw some blood, I need you to hold still and not move your arm, alright." Stein says slowly and calmly to the girl.
Maka just stares back at him with a faraway look.
Stein pulls up a chair and sits next to her, then grabs her right arm and lays it down and ties a band around her upper arm, Stein then took her arm and held it firmly; Maka looked down at her arm as Stein slid the needle into a vein in her lower arm, as he did this he looked for a reaction but Maka didn't even twitch.
'No response to painful stimuli, no constriction of the pupils to light, what is going on with you Maka?' Stein thought as he attached the vacuum tubes to the adapter attached to the butterfly needle.
The moment the vacuum tubes were attached to the adapter blood started to shoot into the tubes; when Stein looked at the blood his eyes widened, as did Soul and Crona's.
"W-why is this ha-happening?" Crona stuttered.
Stein just looked at the blood hard as he thought.
"I will run a few additional tests in light of this new discovery." Stein said as he set the tubes aside and took the needle out of Maka's arm, putting gauze on the puncture point and then wrapped it in self-sticking tape.
"What happened?" Liz asks as she walks over.
Stein gets up from his position next to Maka and walks over to the infirmary desk.
"Maka's blood has turned black." Stein says nonchalantly as he labels the tubes with blood in them.
The rest of the group reacts as expected; some gasped, eyes widened and Kid and BlackStar stood from their chairs.
"What do you mean?" BlackStar asked walking over to Stein.
"It seems that the spell that the witch put on Maka definitely has to do with the black blood." Stein says.
"Once Maka gets moved back into her apartment we should have Kim takes a look at her." Kid said.
"That sounds good; Soul, Crona does that sound good to you?" Stein asks the two teens.
"Yes." Crona replies sitting back down in his chair.
Soul just nods his head as he makes his way back to his seat.
"Alright I will take these and go run the tests, you all make sure not to upset Maka, and don't make too much noise." Stein says as he looks at BlackStar.
"Again?! What are you looking at me for?" BlackStar asks.
Stein just shakes his head as he grabs the black blood filled tubes and makes his way out of the infirmary.
Once Stein left the group of teens fell into silence.
Annoyed with all the quiet BlackStar walks over to Maka's bedside and sits down where the Professor had previously been.
"So Maka, Tsubaki and I went down to that bakery you often go to and we got you your favorite angel food cake." BlackStar says showing her the small pastry container.
Maka looks over at the small container and just stares at it.
"I'll go get a plate and fork." Tsubaki says as she makes her way out of the infirmary.
Liz and Patty walk over next to BlackStar.
"Hey Maka, would you like me to do your hair?" Liz asks.
"Ya! And I can do your nails!" Patty exclaims.
Maka looks in their direction without looking them in the eyes.
Liz sighs as she shoves BlackStar out of the chair to take his place.
"HEY! What was that for?!" BlackStar shouts.
Maka flinches and tries to move back.
BlackStar sees this and gets a guilty look on his face.
"Sorry Maka." BlackStar says as he gets up and backs away.
Liz moves closer as Patty pulls up another chair.
"Don't worry Maka no one here will hurt you." Liz says with a calm voice.
Maka relaxes and Liz moves to play with her hair, Patty grabs her hand and starts to paint her nails.
Soul gets up and walks to the window opening it breathing in the warm air, it was well past noon and the sun was laughing as it sat in its place in the sky.
Crona got up and joined him as the girls played make-up with Maka.
"Do you think she knows what's going on?" Soul asks.
Crona looks over thoughtful and with a small smile.
"Yes, I believe she does, when I was under the full influence of the black blood madness I could see what was going on but I could not do anything." Crona replies.
"So Maka is in there." Soul says looking over at the pinkette.
Crona nods as he looks back at the young Death Scythe.
"There all done." Liz says as she stands up.
Patty giggles as she lets Maka's hands go also done.
Soul, Crona and Kid look over as the two sister grin in satisfaction.
All three boys look on with smiles as Maka raises her head.
Liz had put Maka's hair back in her usual pigtails, and Patty had painted her nails a green that matched her eyes.
The doors to the infirmary opened and in walked Tsubaki.
"I found a plate and fork in the kitchen." Tsubaki says as she makes her way into the room.
BlackStar brings over the pastry box and hands it to Tsubaki.
As Tsubaki makes up the plate Soul and Crona make their way back to their chairs next to Maka.
Once Tsubaki was finished she walked over and sat down opposite of the two teens and tried handing the plate to Maka.
"Here you go Maka, it's your favorite." Tsubaki says as she holds the plate closer to her best friend.
Maka just stares down at the plate.
Kid comes over and puts a hand on Tsubaki's shoulder.
"Maybe she needs a little help." Kid suggests.
Tsubaki nods and takes the fork then cuts the piece of angel food cake; she then holds the fork full of cake up to Maka.
Maka looks over and stares at the fork for a moment before she opens her mouth.
Tsubaki smiles as she feeds the cake by hand to Maka.
Not long after the first bite the cake was gone.
"There that should help you feel better." Tsubaki says as she gets up to put the plate away.
The teens make idle chit chat as the day goes on waiting for Stein and his test results.
As they did Maka was fighting a losing battle in her own mind trying to make her way out of the darkness as the black blood swallowed her up dragging her further and further into the depths of her subconsciousness.