Title: Taken
Warnings: SEVERE Angst, Kidnapping, Implied rape, character torture... Enjoy?
Pairings: SoulxMaka Implied KidxPatty and BlackstarxTsubaki
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater.. if I did.. I'd be rich. :D
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Soul PoV.
I hadn't seriously expected to beat the five meisters and their weapons when I'd come through the tunnel, but I didn't go down without a fight either. I'd managed to knock out one of the meisters, and had gotten one of the weapons unconscious, but I'd been overwhelmed easily without my meister. I had expected to be put into a cell, but what I *HADN'T* Expected was that they would lead me right to Maka. I had seen the extent of her injuries when we'd met in our resonance, but seeing them in person was one hell of a shock. It was a shock, but seeing him kissing her made me furious, made me want nothing more than to rip that wolf to pieces. I had both of my arms trapped behind my back by the Meister from before, the woman her weapon had called Kats. She had one hell of a strong grip, and with her incredibly tall weapon standing next to me, I knew better than to try and shift my hands into sythes to escape.
When they steered me around the corner, I heard Medusa's voice along with the voice of the wolf man we knew as Free talking. What I didn't understand is what they'd been talking about – at least until I saw who it was they were talking to. Or rather, what they were doing – when I saw that, I saw red, and knew right away that Free was the one that had scared her as badly as she'd been when we'd met. I wasn't acting cool at all when I screamed at him, struggling against the hands holding my arms. Both Free and Medusa started, turning to look at me as I struggled, though I instantly stopped moving when the blade of the glaive was pressed to my throat. My eyes traveled up the length of the blade to the arm that connected to the womans shoulder.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." The cold voice would have sent shivers down my spine if I hadn't been watching Maka instead of the people around me. Free had moved around my meister and wrapped his hand around her throat, his free hand around her side. I could see the slight look of pain on her face as his elongated nails dug into her skin, and I only got more upset when I saw the blood welling around his nails. Her eyes had focused on me and I could see the veiled hope, but also the fear in them. I hadn't been her partner for so long and not learned her subtle moods, nor had she not paired up with me and couldn't know mine. Instead of saying anything, or giving away anything big, I just lowered my head and smirked, a wide smile that could have split my face but didn't. "Madame Medusa, We've another prisoner for you."
"Oh, how quaint. So you brought the Meisters' weapon to us. What an interesting turn of events… Tell me, Soul Eater Evans… what would you give to see this pretty girl of yours set free?" I grit my teeth, knowing full well that she knew the answer but was only toying with me. A blind fury laced through me when Free tightened his grip on her throat, but I was proud of my partner when she didn't make any noise because of it. She was the coolest partner ever… I didn't say anything to Medusa, or about Free touching Maka, though I would have loved to insert my sythe into his backside. "Oh, come now. Don't be like that, Soul Eater. Why don't you come talk to me a bit hmmm? Let's settle this once and for all, I'll tell you what.. You hand yourself and those five outside over to me and I'll let the girl go."
I knew she had no intentions of doing any of that, and instead of listening to Maka's strangled exclamation, just looked up at Medusa and grinned. "Tch.. I'll trade myself without a second thought if you wre actually going to let her go. It's uncool to expect someone to speak for their friends. I wouldn't let any of them give themselves up for this – Maka is my Meister.. not theirs." The cuff to the back of my head dropped my gaze from the witch, and sent me to the ground in a very not cool way. I was worried about Maka, and what would happen to her at this point.. but I couldn't do anything about it right now. So uncool.
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I woke up laying on the floor in a cell much like Maka's and coughed as I forced myself to get up. First my elbows, then to my knees and then I stood wondering at the idiocy that these guys didn't chain me down as they did to Maka. Then again, I'd probably just cut through any shackles they would put on me, but was there a guard outside the door? I walked over to the door, and could hear a quiet coughing outside of it and smirked, shaking my head. What a waste of manpower, the others would come find us eventually, I trusted that.. but where was Maka?
The stone walls felt cool against my palm as I ran my hand around the room, searching for anything that felt familiar, like Maka. There wasn't a window or anything, but maybe I could sense her through the walls. I didn't have Soul Perception like Maka did, but we had a connection deeper than most of the Miesters with demon weapon partners did. I walked the room at least three times before giving up and pressing my back against the wall and sliding down. With my knees pulled up, I stretched my arms over them and closed my eyes, trying to concentrate and not lose my mind in here. From what I knew, Maka had been missing for three days now, which meant that had been three days for them to do whatever they wanted.
By that timetable, I'd gotten in contact with her through resonance two nights ago.. which made tonight the third that she would be missing. Damnit, I hated math, and reached up to rub my head, feeling a massive headache coming on. Out of nowhere, a high pitched scream tore through the air and it chilled me to the very core of my being, because I knew exactly who it was. Before I knew it, I had surged to my feet and was launching at the door, my right arm changing to a sythe that I used to ram through the door, only to have an electric shock go through my blade, sending me flying backwards until I hit the opposite wall and then the ground before I could get hold of myself again. Damnit that had hurt, but …Maka… My feet hit the ground and I ran again, crashing my shoulder into the door, ramming my arm through it for the second time.
This time, I didn't get electrocuted, which was interesting, but the laughing from the other side of the door brought my attention to the 'guard'.
"What's your issue?" I pulled my arm back through the door in preparation to stab at the source of the laughter.
"Nuttin'. Jez be you's lil' girly sounds like she be havin' some fun." My teeth ground together as I pulled my arm back, preparing to send it flying through the door again.
"What did you say?" I could feel my eyes narrowing as I talked to him, gritting my teeth and trying not to let the bastard outside know how much his words affected me. He didn't speak again, only laughed when Maka's scream cut through the air again. I hated being unable to do anything, but I could concentrate on the source of the noise. Forcing my eyes to close, I also forced my breathing to still, to smooth out so I could concentrate. The scream came again, and I forced myself not to launch at the door, but to rotate slowly and concentrate on the sound. There, it had come from my left, and I smirked. That much I could handle, that much I could do and turned to face the wall. There was no guarantee, but maybe I could slice through the wall – but there was also a chance of hurting Maka if she was right next door to me.
Instead of taking the chance that I might hurt her, I dropped to my knees and began working at the stones near the base of the wall. Her screaming had stopped after the third one, but I knew enough to know that she wasn't out of danger. Instead of letting myself dwell on it, I did the only thing that I could do, and that was concentrate on getting to my meister. She would hold out until I reached her, that much I knew. I was sure of her strengths, she wouldn't have made me a Deathstythe if she hadn't been strong. Just hold on, Maka… You can hold on until I get there. I hated listening to her cries, but I knew that for now, they were silent.
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After some time, I could hear some sound through the wall through the progress I'd made. So far, I had managed to scratch out a block about the size of my fist, and another block slightly bigger. This had given me a decent opening to see through – just a crack, but it was an opening nonetheless. What had been so surprising, was the thinness of the wall, only about a foot thick, if that. Through the small opening, I could see something that looked like an arm, but nothing other than that. With another small grunt, I pulled out some more stone work, finally pushing the last bit out of the opening into the other cell. Now I could get my hand and arm through the small hole and that's just what I did. My fingers touched the wounded arm and slid over the skin trying to follow it as far as my arm would go.
I couldn't reach very far, but fingers touched my own questing ones tentatively before gripping onto my hand tight enough to almost hurt. There was no way in hell that I would ever forget the hands belonging to my meister, and tightened my own grip on hers. I tried to give her as much comfort as I could without saying a word, and soon after, her first hand was joined with a second. My fingers were warmed through her grip, and I felt another bit of skin before I realized that she'd pressed our joined hands to her forehead.
"Maka…" I grunted and started pulling at more of the stones, trying to bring the opening larger so I could reach more of her. As my right arm dug at the rocks, my left was still clinging to Maka, and her shaking had become more concerning as time went on. "Maka… if you can, tell me if you see any souls coming our way… We need warning if this Is going to work." I couldn't hear her say anything, but I felt the slight release of pressure on her death grip on my hands and knew it as the affirmation that it was. While I dug with my free hand, I kept my mouth running, which was uncool. Though, more uncool was the shaking that my partner was constantly doing, and when I spoke, I could feel her shaking die down.
Finally, I made enough of an opening to get my shoulder through and after I had more room, I inched forward and wrapped my arm around her. She helped me with this by dragging herself up against the wall, leaving me room to bring my arm around her stomach instead. She was pushing herself onward despite her injuries, and it warmed me despite knowing she was hurt. At least her shaking had stopped, and I kept working at the stone.
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I'd had to stop four times during the digging at her warnings each time. Our warnings had been skin of our teeth, and I began to wonder if she had lost her ability to sense souls. I had been taken out once, and that wolf and Medusa had come to Maka three times. Each time, I was resisting the urge to put my sythe through the wall and try to gut them. I wasn't sure how long we'd been down here, but I'd managed to get enough of a hole near the corner that I could get my shoulders through. Thankfully, I was still young and my shoulders were the biggest part of me. Maka wasn't conscious when I scrambled through, but at least I could see the extent of her injuries in person rather than in our souls.
I lifted my unconscious meister into my arms, cradling her against my chest and tightening my grip on her. She looked worse than she had before, but I should have expected it. Despite that, I was still shocked at the extent of her injuries. Listening for the footsteps outside, I gently shook Maka, trying to get her to wake up. She finally did, much to my relief and I grinned at her, pushing some hair from her face.
"'Bout time you woke up… You'll waste away if you keep sleeping like that." Her sudden grasp on my neck wrung a grunt from me, but I didn't move or fall, just tightened my own grip on her. "Hey, hey.. it's not cool to cling like that you know." Despite my gentle admonitions, I was proud of her, and her strength to hold on. "Kid and Blackstar are still outside.. we won't have to wait long.. they'll get us a distraction."
"Just…Don't leave me here." I sighed, pressing my face into her hair and shaking my head. She'd been so strong before, facing Medusa with commendable bravery… Something she was well known for. Her bravery had carried us through thick and thin, and I admired her for that.
"I don't intend to. Maka.. if you can get through the wall with me, we can break out of here." She looked up at me and I lreaned my hand down, pushing some dirty blonde hair out of her face. "Come on.. I'll help you through it. I think there's only one guard outside my cell, instead of the three that you have.." She shifted her feet as if to point out the chains that were wrapped around them. They'd removed everything on her arms except for the manacles that they would attach the chains to when they wanted her.
"Can you…" I smirked, removing one arm from around her and transforming it into a sythe that I used to slice the chains near her feet. "Thanks.." This timid Maka was something I was never used to and all I wanted, was to see her get better. Slowly, I moved away from her and started my way back through the hole, trying to bring her with me. She balked at first, but finally followed me through the hole. We had just gotten her chest through the wall when explosions rocked the place and caused debris to fall around our heads. I yanked her through, wincing at the gut wrenching cry she gave out when her knees were scrapped just as the roof of her cell caved in.
"That was too close… Maka, are you okay?" She was shivering again and I pulled off my leather jacket, wrapping her in it. I hadn't wrapped her in it in her cell because I wasn't sure that we'd get her through the hole and didn't want to leave any hint that I was there if we hadn't gotten her through. "Come on…" I climbed to my feet, helping her up, but had to slide my arms under her legs and around her shoulders to carry her. She was too weak to stand on her own, but I didn't mind holding her. Another blast rocked our location again and I stumbled, grunting as I struggled to keep hold of her. "Damnit…Not cool."
"It's Blackstar… and Kid. Soul, we have to get out of here. They don't know where we are." I glanced down to Maka and frowned, my balance in tact again. My original plan had been to had her wield me as we broke away, but I couldn't do jack with her in my arms. She seemed to understand that at the same time that I was considering my options, and I knew the moment she gasped. "Leave me alone, Soul…I-"
"No. I've told you before – I'm not leaving you behind." I smirked, lifting my hand from her lips and shifted her in my grip until I could press my lips against hers. "Come on… Let's get out of here." I smirked at her flushed expression and shifted my grip again, changing my arm into a sythe once I had her on my back. "Ready?"
"Yea." Her word sent us rocketing towards the door, my blade slicing through the lock, sending the barricade flying open as we charged through it. The guard at the door had fallen to my slice and I gave him only a passing glance before racing down the hall. More explosions rocked our pathway, sending me stumbling every time.
"Jeez, are they *TRYING* to kill us?" Maka laughed at my comment and instead of getting mad, I just smiled, having missed the laughter from my Meister. I slammed to a halt at her shout and slung my hands behind me, supporting her as we ground to a halt. The hallway before us was blocked by a tall woman with a braid. "Shit.."
"Hello again, Soul Eater Evans." I grit my teeth and adjusted my grip on Maka, knowing that she was in no position to fight, or even get away on her own. Of course, the trembling only made me more concerned for her safety. Shit, this wasn't cool at all.