I do not own Soul Eater
This is a fanfic side story off of the series written by one Ninjagirl91, from her Staff Meister series.
"Miley, he was killing you, not trying to kill you." Stein shook his head as he tried to pull Miley away from the still body of the witch. She didn't need to be here, and he knew she wouldn't like what he had to do later with James. Though it would give him a unique opportunity, finding just what the boy really was even after all of this. That would have to wait; right now he had a temperamental young woman to deal with.
As Franken tried to be at least a bit gentle with the crying girl his tugging instant turned into a jerk, a lift, and a pull ending up with placing Miley ever so unceremoniously behind his back shielding her. Stein didn't know if he should be trusting is own sight at this moment; Medusa, was just standing there staring at him with that sickly sweet grin of hers. "Miley, do you see Medusa standing there?" Stein quickly asked as he tried to find any reason say for his own madness that would bring an image of this monster to his eyes.
"Yes, she's the one, she made James attack me. She -" Miley was cut off by Fraken putting an arm out in front of her shielding her while backing a few steps away from both the body of the witch boy and Medusa. He didn't quite understand how Medusa was there, but if Miley was able to see her as well than he couldn't blame his madness for this just yet.
"How are you here? What made this possible, answer me." Stein took a rough approach in his line of questioning, trying to get as many answers out of the woman as quickly as possible just so Miley didn't have to stay any longer than was necessary.
Medusa took the few steps between her and James's still body slow and very deliberate, keeping her slick smile the whole way.
"My dear Franken, haven't you figured it out yet?" Medusa asked as she slowly knelt next to her son. She started to stroke the boy's messy raven black hair ever so gently.
"My son made this possible. His power is just so…special." The woman let a small chuckle slip as she moved the stray strands of hair from James face.
"He can warp what is, he can make dreams real, and with enough guidance he could become a god." As Medusa spoke her smile became greater and greater as did the cold feeling she was giving off. "I will be his mother, the mother of a god."
"James would never follow you!" Miley screamed as she pulled against Stein to get past him.
Stein struggled to keep Miley from pushing past him and attacking Medusa right then. Piece by piece Stein started to put it all together, somehow Medusa had used the witch as some kind of insurance in case she was killed. Now she was acting on it, but how, and even now that the witch was dead, wasn't it?
"How do you plan to do all that with a dead witch?" Stein asked coldly, knowing full well just how Miley would react, but he had to know this.
Miley just stopped, even after all James had been through, where he had come from and all he had done Stein only just saw him as some witch? The girl slowly looked up at Stein, a few tears still staining her face she slowly shook her head trying not to believe what she thought Stein saw James as.
Medusa still smiled, kneeling next to James in the alleyway stroking his hair she slowly bent down to the boy's ear. Whispering something into his ear she sat up but not before placing a very small peck of a kiss on his forehead.
Stein felt his stomach churn; this was making him severely sick. The Medusa that Stein knew wasn't anything like this, not like a real mother; did she really intend to play this act all the way? It was then that the bolt-headed professor noticed a twinge in the air and slight bits of movement from James, so he wasn't really dead; this was bad, very bad. "Miley you need to leave, now."
Miley just ignored Stein and at once upon seeing James start to move called out to him, still trying to reach him, "James! James!"
The boy twitched and like someone waking up from a deep sleep he groggily sat up looking about, but it wasn't Miley that he turned to. "Mama? What…happened?" James still seemed to be in a sleep induced daze as he reached up to tug on Medusa's hoodie.
"It's okay James, you were just hit a little hard, and you're fine now." Medusa cuddled James as he pulled himself up. He was looking around and started to realize just what had happened to him and who had also shown up in the alleyway. James's eyes fell on the stern faced Stein and the overjoyed Miley standing just behind his outstretched arm. It was Stein that had hit him, and that hard too. Though he still had not forgotten what Miley had done to him.
Finally standing up on his own with Medusa at his back, James stared straight at Miley, remembering what he had been doing just before being so forcibly rendered aside. "I'm going to kill her." James's voice was low and slick as he started; slowly holding his arms out in front of him, his palms open and facing towards the ground. Medusa could hardly contain her own excitement, as she held a hand on James's shoulder. "Show me James; show me just what you can do."
As Medusa watched, as did Stein and Miley, from out of the shadows of that alleyway bled a pack of black, ghostly wolves, each one with soulless, glowing blue eyes, maws that dripped with some black ichor and growling. James didn't need to utter any commands of them, through thought alone did he control his illusions, but to these he gave them an order just so Miley could hear it. "Kill her."
Before the pack of shadow wolves ran in, Miley could see it of James, his body seemed to tremble, his hands were unsteady. He was weak, but from just this illusion? Or was it what Stein had done? The girl only had so much time to think, putting so much together she only found that if they could exhaust James then they could get him back from Medusa.
She didn't have time for anything else as with a quick snap, Stein had backhanded one of the wolves into a wall, though its form seemed to burst apart as it was hit the wolf only faded back to where it was standing before the hit. "Miley, he is trying to kill you, get going." Stein tried again to order the girl to leave.
"I can't leave, I can help him." Miley pinned as she watched James manifest more wolves.
