Chapter 4 – Crona vs. Academy Students?
Yuki and Aoi looked at Crona and screamed, ''Maka!" in unison. Before any of them knew it, Soul got out of weapon form and in place of Maka, was sliced down by Crona and his weapon. Crona looked at Maka and Soul and frowned upon Soul's actions.
''Soul!" Maka shouted, kneeling beside him. ''Wake up! Soul please.''
''You're an idiot. Hurry and get out of here, Maka.'' Soul managed to say between breaths.
Crona walked over to Maka, holding up the sword up once again. Maka braced herself, but did not dare to abandon Soul. Instead she put her head to his chest to see if his heart was still beating. Crona stopped himself, looking at her closely.
''This is all my fault,'' Maka said with tears streaming down her cheeks.
Crona was about to swing at Maka until Aoi had blasted his head with one of the dark energy shots from Yuki's gun form. The shots were so powerful; it slammed Crona into the front entrance door. Before Aoi could do another shot, a blade came into Crona's stomach from the door. Everyone froze up instantly.
''How did that get there?" Crona asked, his eyes widening. Stein kicked the door open.
''Professor!" Yuki called out to him.
Crona got kicked into one of the seats in the building, breaking through it and went through another seat as well. The blade that had stabbed through Crona revealed its human form, Maka's father. He was a tall man who wore a dark suit with matching black shoes. His hair was red while his eyes were blue, and his voice sounded so smooth when he talked.
''Your papa has arrived,'' said Maka's father, not turning around to face her, but everyone knew it was directed towards her.
Maka ignored him and instead turned towards Stein who was kneeling down next to Soul and Maka. He put his lab coat onto Soul to cover him up.
''Is he going to be all right?" asked Maka with concern in her voice.
''The wounds serious, which means we need to get you two out of here as fast as possible,'' he answered her. He then turned his eyes towards Mizuki and said, ''if you are going on a mission, at least tell me first before going off and leaving me wondering as to where you went.''
Maka's father looked over to Crona who was getting up from the ground before he said, ''I got to admit, though, it was an easier fight than I expected.''
''Professor, who are those two?" asked Maka.
''Don't worry about it,'' he answered before standing up. ''Let's take care of this, shall we, Spirit?" Maka's father nodded, a smirk formed around his lips. He went back into his weapon form.
''Crona hurry up and stop being an idiot, '' said the creature from Crona's back. ''If you don't focus, we're going to be in real trouble with her.'' It was now pulling Crona's hair roughly, yanking his head around as he did so.
Stein got into his position with Spirit in his hand. Crona got into position as well before lunging at him with his sword. Crona instead stepped to the side and swung his sword at Stein. Stein blocked Crona's attack with Death Scythe. Stein stepped towards Crona, pulling his arm up along with the rest of his body and throwing him onto the floor next to them. Stein brought is hand up and said ''Soul Force'' to himself before sending his palm down on Crona's stomach, sending terrible shocks into Crona. Crona spit out some black blood as he screamed. Stein was about to hit him with his soul wavelength again, but something went through his stomach, which turned out to be Crona's black blood. The blood around them turned into needles, and was sent down onto Stein. Stein moved out of the way, however just in time. Stein slid backwards, but caught himself. When he was ready, Stein ran towards Crona through the black blood needles dodging them all. He launched himself up into the air, coming down onto Crona with Death Scythe. Crona barely moved out of the way and was not ready for Stein's next attack. Stein sent his soul wavelength into Crona once again, making Crona scream his terrible scream. Crona had gotten pushed out of the building and was now on the streets. Stein ran outside and looked around.
''Were is he?" He asked slowly and cautiously.
''Time to die, screw head,'' said the creature on Crona's back with an evil snicker.
Stein looked around more, just seeing him, but it was too late. The needles were sent into Stein, piercing through his skin instantly. Blood splattered everywhere, flying through the air. Stein simply smiled and gave out a coy laugh.
''I think I'd like to dissect you now,'' he said to Spirit.
''Let's get this over with!" Spirit replied with happiness in his voice.
Aoi twirled Yuki's gun form around in her hand before smiling and saying, ''I think we can help you two out with that!"
''Alright!" Yuki said.
Stein was ready to leap towards Crona and give him another taste of the soul wavelength, but there was one problem; the blood would stab him as soon as they detected him under them. This is where Aoi began to help. She shot down each and every one that she saw, making sure all of them were gone so Stein would be able easily pass towards Crona and finish him off. Crona and the creature had both been so focused on Yuki and Aoi destroying the blood that they hadn't noticed Stein had disappeared.
''I don't see him!'' The creature said as it looked around nervously. ''Where is the screw head? Damn it!"
Stein them came from mid air, kicking down Crona's head into the hard pavement below them. Crona got up slowly, but was too dizzy to see anything in his path. The creature was frantically slapping Crona's face; trying to get Crona to pay attention so they wouldn't get another hit with Stein's soul wavelength. Stein took is chance to do as the creature had been gone into hysterics about. Crona fell backwards, black blood staining the street before them all.
''It's over now,'' Stein said, picking up Death Scythe and twirling him around.
Crona lay on the floor, not moving with his sword next to him. Yuki looked over to Soul, a concerned expression spread across her face.
''Will Soul be okay?" She asked Mizuki in a low voice so no one would hear them talking.
''I'm not sure,'' replied Aoi with the same quiet volume as Yuki had used when she asked her.
''Do you really think it was Maka's fault for, you know…''
''I don't think it was anyone's fault to be honest. Maka was doing her duty as an academy student to try and defeat Crona and Ragnarok.''
''Did we fail our mission?" asked Yuki.
''I don't think so. Failing would have meant death and we certainly did not die. Well as far as I know, anyway.''
The both of them giggled to themselves upon saying this. Their laughter stopped, however as their eyes made their way back to Soul and Maka.
Suddenly out of nowhere a snake put Crona in its mouth and left. Everyone looked at it in awe, not expecting for Crona – who was passed out at the moment - to make and escape like this. Everyone's eyes followed the direction the snake was going and found Medusa in the air on her broom with an evil smirk on as usual. She chuckled to herself softly.
''I was just dropping by,'' she said to those who were standing there. ''Who would think I'd run into you two?" Her gaze turned towards Spirit and Stein who looked at her with glares.
''Who is that?" asked Maka, tilting her head to the side.
''I'd love to stay and play, but I have other things to deal with,'' Medusa simply replied. Before she left she winked at Yuki and Mizuki without anyone noticing her do so. She suddenly flew off on her broom into the night sky along with Crona in the snake's mouth.
''Let's get Soul back to the D.W.M.A quickly,'' Stein said with a concerned tone in his voice as he spoke.
Soul, please be okay, thought Maka to herself as she looked at Soul. I know this is my fault, but you have to live – no you need to live. By now her eyes were watery and one tear had made its way down Maka's cheek ever so slowly. Spirit who put a hand on Maka's shoulder interrupted her thinking.
Spirit said to her with smile, trying to comfort his daughter, ''Come on, let's go home…''