After this chapter Ramona will be acting as my co-writer. I'm sorry this chapter took so long to wright! Things with my mother, work, school. (Quick summary: I have detached myself from my verbally abusive bitch mother, I've quit my job and Ramona and I have taken time off from school to live in Japan for a year or so… so yeah…. Good times…) So Sorry if this sucks! Peace!

~AnimeOFG

AnimeOFG: Anything to say before we get started everybody?

Soul: AnimeOFG doesn't own Soul Eater

Ramona: She wishes she does… Oh does she wish she does…

(WARNING /!\ This chapter may be gruesome for some viewers. Please don't view if you're under 18. Or do. I don't give a fuck)

They arrived at the place Stein had sent them, a small cabin in the middle of the woods. Everyone was prepared to fight and get Maka back. "This place is so small." Patty said to Liz. "This should be easy, right sis?"

Liz stared at her sister. "He's the kishin of illusions Patty. It might look small on the outside,"

"But it could be a labyrinth on the inside." Kid said finishing her sentence. "Let's go. Liz, Patty."

The sisters quickly turned into pistols for their meister, Tsubaki became the enchanted sword for Black*Star and Soul being on his own turned his arm into a blade.

"Are we ready?" The scythe asked the others.

"Yes." They replied in unison. With determination and bravery in their souls the team bust into the small cabin.

The inside was small with a narrow hall way that led to a black door. Soul, Kid, and Black*Star slowly walked down the hall and they opened the door entering a ballroom. The room was filled with twenty girls who all were wearing elegant dresses of different colors and styles along with masks that made them look like china dolls. "What the hell…" Black*Star said before he bumped into one of the girls.

"Andrew!" The girl screamed. "Andrew! Please! Please save me! He's going to kill me! Please!"

"Everyone," Kid said while looking at the screaming girl. "She's dead"

The others looked at him, "What do you mean Kid?" Tsubaki asked "She's moving and talking."

"No," Kid said. "She shouldn't be able too. It's hard to see but I don't think anyone in this room besides us has a soul." The girl began to cry acting absolutely hysterical then she turned to Soul "You… You didn't help me until it was too late. He took everything from me until I was broken… Did you even think I might be suffering Andrew? Or did you just realize how I wasn't worth your time?"

"What… My names not-!"

The girl grabbed his arm. "He beat me! He burned me! He cut me! HE TORTURED ME! HE BROKE ME ANDREW AND WHAT DID YOU DO?! YOU FOUND A NEW WEAPON! YOU SWEPT ME UNDER THE RUG LIKE DIRT! Well… now… I'm gone… Now I can show you how strong I can be when I don't have to worry about death." The girl turned her hands into daggers trying to slice Soul.

He quickly dodged her attacks while Kid started to blast her in the back with Liz and Patty. The girl brushed it off easily continuing to slice at Soul. "I'm not some stupid bitch! I know that you picked Talia as your new weapon after you learned I was missing! She made fun of me all the time! I thought you loved me but I can see know that you'd just go from girl to girl. At least my kidnapper acted like he cared! He called me his Lilly! At least he treated me nicely at the party! I was so lonely that night! You left me to go off with your friends! AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH!?"

"SHUT UP!" Soul yelled driving his scythe arm into her stomach. "I'm not the boy who abandoned you! I'd never abandon my partner!"

"Y-you'd never abandon me? But my vision… I forget if I even saw it… Was it a dream or… was I insane…" The girl began to use her hands to stab herself laughing. "It's funny isn't it? I can't remember if I saw it in a dream or not. Or did Sakaku tell me you left, or did I wish you left me for her? HA HA! I don't even care anymore! My body's out of blood anyway. He bled me dry! I'm just glad my soul is gone… Black gems are better than an ordinary soul. Twice the power you know?" She walked backwards off of Soul's blade. "Never mind, I can't remember. It's hard thinking, killing is better. But you'll die soon enough. He's almost ready. She's breaking as we speak. Even if you save her she's going die. HAHAHA NO WAIT HA HA SHE WON'T WANT TO LIVE! Just leave!"

The room suddenly was filled with music. All the girls took off their masks. Once they did the music changed to a distorted track. The girls all looked insane and happy with bruises, cuts, and burns all over their arms, faces, and legs. Each one began to say a short rhyme in a monotone voice. "The prince angered the maiden so she ran away. The demon stole the maiden, tortured her each day. The prince had lied, the maiden died, the demon had her soul. The maiden had been killed just as the madness took its toll."

Soul felt a part of himself die as he heard the last two lines. He tried to sense Maka's soul wavelength around him and found it flickering down below the ground. "I think I know where she is!" Soul yelled to the rest of the group.

The girls all snapped their attention to Soul glaring at him. "You're going to save her but not me!?" They all screamed in unison. "HE WAS RIGHT! YOU NEVER DID LOVE ME!" All the girls rushed towards Soul some changing into weapons, others using the weapons. "WE LEFT BECAUSE WE WANTED YOU TO COME AFTER US!"

"SOUL, WE'LL FIGHT THEM OFF! GO FIND MAKA!" Kid yelled before resonating with Liz and Patty blasting a hole through the crowd of girls.

(Soul's POV)

I ran to the nearest door slicing through insane zombies at the same time. Once the door closed shut behind me it disappeared leaving a blank wall behind me. I ran forward ignoring what was around me. 'This kishin works off of illusions… I just have to focus on what's real and try to stay grounded to reality…'

I made my way through the dark hall hearing screams all around me. The same screams I heard in my dreams calling my name over and over. It was Maka. I passed a few doors that were wide open. I looked inside only seeing identical rooms each one having a single chair in the middle and blood on the floor. I bit my lip drawing blood. I'm going to make this kishin wish he had never taken my meister… Finally after what seemed like an eternity I reached the end of the hall.

A stainless steel door was in front of me. As I approached it the screams around me grew louder until… Silence… My heart shattered. I threw open the door as fast as I could seeing Maka in the middle of the room tied up on a chair, her blood painting the ground, gashes were all over her body leaking blood everywhere. Her eyes were open in fear; her normally emerald orbs looking glazed over and dulled of color. I could feel her soul screaming in anger, confusion, sadness and self-hate. A tall figure stood in front of her laughing as he cut her leg with a small knife. The black blood in my body took over. I ran straight forward lodging my scythe arm into the back of the person hurting Maka. The wild discordant notes of a piano were all I heard as I ripped into the person's torso. "You were the one who took my meister. I'm the one who's taking her back."

The person turned around. Although the face of the person was different I could tell it was the Kishin I was looking for. A sadistic smile plastered his face. "Oh, it's you. Surprised you got here so quickly. I thought my beautiful dolls would keep you waiting." He said stepping off of my blade. Quickly he turned around and cut me across the cheek with the knife in his hand and kicked me to the ground. Pain shot through my body. He laughed at me before stepping over to Maka, her soul trembling in fear.

"They just wanted to be saved you know. I'm truly the only one who loves them. Well this is better though. I was thinking if that happened you'd get her after my angel here felt the sweet release of death. Now it will be even more entertaining seeing your face as the final light of life dies in her beautiful eyes." He leaned forward grabbing her chin with his hand. "You truly are the prettiest yet."

"Get your filthy hands off my meister you bastard!" I yelled at him. He looked my way smiling even bigger.

"That's right you're still here! Now what to do with you… shoot you, electrify you, cut you up… Oh it's hard to choose… I know! Why not beat you and have you watch as I do those things to your meister." Sakaku said before he kicked me in the head leaving a big gash over my eye. I tried to get up but when I could manage it he would grab a knife and cut me in the legs. My body felt bruised and the last sensation I could feel was pain before I completely collapsed.

"Good you're not trying to move anymore. I've changed my mind about torturing Maka… I'd rather have some fun with her. I know her screams are enchanting but they're even more wonderful if she's trying to fight back." He said as he started cutting her from her bonds in the chair. Her body limp and motionless until he whispered something in her ear which caused the color to return to her eyes and the body to begin thrashing around trying to break her hands from his grip.

"NO! Stop! PLEASE! I don't want to! Please!" She screamed causing tears to run down her face.

"Maka!" I yelled before I felt something hard connect with the back of my head.

Darkness. Nothing but darkness surrounded me. Was I dead? No. I could feel my soul; I could hear the sounds of screaming that I thought I'd heard before. They brought me so much pain… Why did they affect me so much? I tried to find the source of the sound so I could quiet it but couldn't grasp where it was coming from. Then a light formed in the darkness. It was where I was supposed to go. That's where the screaming was coming from. Then the screaming pierced me again when I heard words. "STOP, PLEASE! IT HURTS SO MUCH! SOUL!"

I reached the light as quickly as I was able but by then all sound was mute. I heard nothing as I slipped back in to the light.

I woke up and felt my body shutter in pain. I felt as if time was standing still until I heard a voice that made me want to kill say, "Now I'm satisfied. Your beautiful body is of no use anymore. Now I just need your soul."

The pure white rage I felt crossing through me clouded my vision. "Hey you fucker!" I said standing up locking my eyes on the bastard in front of me and nothing else. "It's time for you to die!"

He charged at me but I quickly blocked his attacks until he stepped back. I felt Oni Claw at the back of my sanity as my mind was enveloped in the black blood. I felt a terrifying smiled form on my lips as I began to play my piano. "Now it's my turn to show you some pain." I said.

I didn't see, I felt. I felt the blood drip down my blade, I felt the tearing of the flesh of the monster, I felt the pure madness cloud my thoughts with only one word pulling me back from the edge of being lost for good.

'safe'

'Is she safe…'

My vision came back to me. Blood that wasn't there before was on the walls making the room smell disgusting and a single kishin egg floated in the middle of the room as I approached Maka's shaking form on the ground. She sat sprawled on the floor hugging herself tightly mumbling things that I couldn't understand. "It's okay now Maka, he's gone. He can't hurt you know." I said before placing a hand on her shoulder making her flinch away and give a terrified shriek. "No, no, please, stop, I-it h-hurts so m-much…" she whimpered out.

Confused I examined her to make sure she was okay. I mentally wished I could murder Sakaku again when I realized something I should have earlier, much, much earlier. When I first saw Maka in here she was hurt badly, her clothes were ripped some but still there. Now she was hurt even worse with new bruises on her face and wrists, and her clothes were shredded to a point of nonexistence, and blood was coating her legs.

I covered her with my black jacket, causing her to flinch one more time before her tired, abused, and fragile body fainted in my arms. The others burst in at the exact same moment. Black*Star and Kid looked around the room before their eyes fell on Maka and I. Liz, Patty, and Tsubaki turned back into their human forms and began inching closer to Maka. I quickly snapped at them and held Maka closer.

"Soul," Kid began to say.

"Call the first person you can think of and have them meet us outside as soon as possible. Her pulse is steady but incredibly weak. Nobody touches her except me until we get back to the DWMA. Understood?"

Everyone silently nodded as Kid got out his phone. I felt tears begin to stream down my face. It felt like a thousand years had gone by since I'd last seen her.

Suddenly I felt Kid's hand on my shoulder. I looked up at him not giving a shit about my now tear stained face. "Stein, Spirit, Ms. Marie, Sid, and Nygus will be here soon. You're going to need to get up… If you can…" He said glancing at my injuries.

"Of course I can." I said trying to stand.

"Soul…" Kid said.

"I said I'm fine!"

"I'm not saying you aren't! I just… I'm sorry about what happened to her too but you need to know it wasn't your fault."

I went silent for a minute before letting out a forced laugh. "Kid, you really don't need to lie to me. Now come on, let's go wait for Stein."

I looked down at Maka once more. Even though I was this close her soul wavelength still felt dimmed but it gave off the most incredible feeling of fear and shame I had ever felt.

AnimeOFG: And done! FINALLLLLLLYYYYYYYY! OKAY, PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF KAMI REVIEW ON THIS ONE! I NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS THINK! THANK YOU FOR READING AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE ME CONFIDENCE IN HELPING ME SLAY THE DEAMON WRITERS BLOCK!

Ramona: Stop YELLING!

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