Chapter 3
"It looks like more cells are turning gray, she is getting worse" Mira feared "I'm going to the library to search up some stuff" she then left the room
"So what are we gonna do? Mira has to leave at times to search things, and Maka can't be left alone" Kid pointed out all standing around Maka's bed
"We could do shifts, watching her" suggested Liz
"That would work I will go first" replied Soul
"I will make a schedule" stated Tsubaki
The next day the six got permission for each to miss class at a curtain time. After lunch it was Tsubaki's turn to watch Maka for an hour and a half.
Tsubaki was sitting on a chair next to Maka's bed when Mira came into the room with a pile of notes and random books Tsubaki stood up and went over to Mira they started to talk to each other. About a minute later Tsubaki turned around to see Maka's bed empty.
"Oh no" she gasped then turned to the door starting to yell for Maka "MAKA, MAKA" she ran out the door she yelled down the left hall then down the right hall, down the right hall was Patty, Liz, Kid, Soul, and Black star walking towards her to check on Maka.
When they saw Tsubaki yelling with a worried guilty face, they ran towards her.
"What happened where is Maka?" asked Soul
"I...I'm sorry, I turned around to talk to Mira when I turned back she, she was gone" Tsubaki cried, Black star put his hand on her shoulder
"It's okay we just need to find her we didn't see her, so she must have gone that way" Kid pointed in the opposite direction, they all nodded then ran that way.
"I should have watched her better" Tsubaki cried into her hands
"It's okay we will find her, Come on let's look" Black star tried to comfort her, she nodded and they ran off to catch up to the others
After a few minutes of walking around the school they turned the corner to see a figure quickly run around the next corner. Everyone else picked up the pace and ran after it knowing it was most likely Maka since all the other students and teachers where in class.
Kid, Liz and Patty turned right to cut her off down the hall while Soul, Tsubaki and Black star kept running straight.
Everyone kept running until Kid and the sisters turned a corner and saw Maka to the left, who spotted them she stopping with wide surprised eyes, then immediately turned to run the opposite direction but saw Soul, Tsubaki and Black star coming down the hall towards her, she panicked and pulled out a random bat, holding it in her shaky hands she pointed it right then left in a threatening and shaky way, while everyone surrounded her.
Her eyes were still black, which made Soul sad he missed Maka's Green olive eyes, she just looked dead, gone, it was like it was just a hollow body.
"Stay back I'm not afraid to use this" she pointed the bat at everyone her voice cracked tears ran down her face
"Maka its okay we are friends we don't want to hurt you" Soul tried to assure, with his hands in a defence or surrendering position
"Ya right that's what you say before beating me up then leaving me for dead"
"No Maka we would never, do that" Tsubaki pleaded for her to understand, but was hurt from the implications
"No I don't trust you, you are all traders!" she yelled out
None of them not even Black star liked what she was saying they were hurt, they would never hurt her, they wished she would understand.
"You...you hurt me you Betrayed me, I trusted you like I have never trusted anyone and you BEAT ME AND CRUSHED WHAT EVER I HAD LEFT!" she yelled out more and more tears falling from her eyes, and with every word and every tear crushed the others more and more
Then finally her whole body collapsed falling to the ground.
Everyone sat in the infirmary, no one saying a word just sitting in silence. As it seemed bet everyone had a million thoughts going through their mind like what would happen next? Will Maka ever be okay? Will she ever trust again? And many more questions forming.
Finally Mira came into the room and walked up to Maka lifting her shirt to see her stomach almost fully gray, she looked at Maka sadly.
Then Soul stood up "So... what do you suggest? I can't just sit here anymore and watch my partner wither away, it's no cool" he said angry of the lack of usefulness
"I agree, I might have an idea" as she stated that everyone looked up at her questionably "You see I did some research and I came to the conclusion that the punch of energy was actually sent to her head, and is bringing out her worst fears, for her is betrayal I'm guessing, as her fears become more real to her, she slowly loses a part of herself into her fear, into her own head which in turn is killing her body, in a way"
"Okay, we're with you so far" Soul half nodded
"What's your idea then?" asked Kid
"The more she believes her fears are real, the more of her disappears, you will all go into her mind and you have to convince her that it's not real and to come back, but that might be hard she has trust problems everyone knows that"
"Okay I get it" Black star notified, everyone looked at him oddly surprised he understood
"Stine is coming after classes we will do it then, for now go back to class I will keep an eye on her for now" everyone nodded and walked to class glad they would be able to do something for their friend.
Later after classes everyone joined Mira and Stine in the infirmary. They all sat around Maka in a circle holding hands while Mira and Stine stood on the outside. All the lights were off and candles around the room, it was quiet.
"Okay everyone you are all going into Maka's mind, you must convince her nothing in there is real and what is out here is what is real, how you convince her is up to you" Stine revealed
"You must all close your eyes and think about Maka, think of her green eyes, think of her voice, her smile let yourselves be pulled in" Mira got them to think, everyone did as they were told
The next thing everyone know they were on the streets of death city, but as they looked around it was different in a way, it was a mix of black, white, and grays with very little colour. It was sad, it made them feel depressed like there was no hope.
"I hate this place already" shivered Liz
"It's depressing, I wanna cry" Patty frowned
"Let's just find Maka and get out of here" stated Kid
"Agreed" everyone else agreed in unison
They started to walk around, looking everywhere until they herd evil laughter that sounded much like them and clearly heard Black star. Everyone looked at each other shrugging not knowing what it was. They followed the laughter to an ally way, they peered around the corner trying not to be seen the watched.
They saw themselves surrounding Maka in the middle of the ally wall who was cringing.
"What do you want? you beat me up yesterday" she wined
"That was yesterday this is today" smiled Soul evilly then kicked Maka in the shins she just cringed, Soul watching around the corner took a step to go intervene but someone pulled him back.
"Don't go out now, we should watch for a minute, I don't think we want to be seen by thoughts other uses, they might want to taking over our lives in the real world they look like us but they are just monsters that feed off of the pain of people in the real world" told Kid, Soul wasn't happy about it but stayed knowing if that did happen and the monsters took over his life they couldn't help Maka, he turned back to what was going on in the ally.
"You're just a useless brat I don't know why Soul every kept you around" Black star spoke to her he laughed followed by the others then punched Maka's face
"You are nothing, your weak" spat Patty
"I have been hiding, how do you keep finding me" she yelled sadly
"There is always a way, we are connected to you" Kid laughed then kneed her in the gut causing Maka to spit blood
Maka who would be crying but was out of tears, reached behind a dumpster then pulled out a bat. She pointed at them nervously, scared but shaking a lot "Get away I will hit you with this" she yelled at them
Tsubaki bushed everyone out of the way she had and evil smirk on "Ya right you would" she smirked ripping the bat out of Maka's hands, then started beating Maka to the ground with it, while laughing everyone else joined in and started kicking her.
Tsubaki who was watching felt sick; she turned around and walked off a few feet with one hand over her mouth crying the other over her stomach, her back to everyone else. Everyone saw her walk off, sadly Black star walked over to her; he put his hand on her shoulder. When he did she fell to her knees.
"You...and Maka where my first friend...or the first ones to want to get to know me I can't watch that" she cryed
"You would never do that to anyone, everyone knows that, that thing over there" Black star pointed to the Ally "It isn't you, inside Maka knows that, we are here to snap her out of this hell, so let's go and do that, lets help her"
Tsubaki looked up at Black star; she gave him a slight smile and a small nod. He helped her up and they walked over to the others. They looked into the ally they were still beating on her.
"Your dirt don't you feel it" yelled Liz
To be continued…
Sorry I took soo long to update, my story was done from the beginning but I couldn't find the time to update now hear it it hope you liked it please review for future stories.