Chapter 11: Dai's Soul

"In the end, a soul is just ones own way to escape the fate of Death…"

A dark figure of a male appeared out of the city shadows. Stein turned his frame around and seen this figure. Everyone turned their attention towards this unknown person, and kept it that way until they revealed themselves.

"Look what we have here…Bulls-EyE" Medusa lowers herself from being air-born, and takes a place upon the ground.

Dai walks from out of the cold shadows and a small smirk appeared on his face. Maka began to shiver from Dai's insane presents and so does Stein.

"What's your purpose of being here?" Stein looked back questioning the boy.

Dai glances up from the shadow of his hood, "That is none of your concern…"

"Enough of these childish games," Medusa points to Ren, and she slowly starts to walk towards Medusa. Taking her off her feet; being in mid-air, slowly moving towards Medusa. As this happens, Medusa snaps her fingers then Stein, Maka, Soul, BlackStar, and Tsubaki get push to the nearest wall, unable to move.

Maka, and Tsubaki attempt to grab and pull Ren back but it seemed impossible to go towards her body, as they were all blew back by Medusa.

Dai stands firmly with his hands inside of his pockets, as a dark black soul were redeveloping around him. Little streams of white lines made a somewhat X around the globe-shaped soul and his eyes turn black.

"I suggest you give Ren back…That is, if you want your small miserable life…"

Medusa placed Ren upon the ground and she stood beside of her, smirking at the sight of Dai's soul. "You really think that little soul can withstand mine? I envy your bravery, but I have no intentions on fighting you. I just came to collect my little experiment."

"Experiment huh?"

Dai smiles as his insanity took over his soul and begins dashing toward Medusa, taking his hands from his pockets, clinching them, was making a fist. He leaps into the air and attempts to smash Medusa's head in with his fist. He reaches Medusa's head as she looked up at him from above.

For miles, everyone could hear a huge pounding, almost like a tall building falling, and the ground began to crack from the pressure of Dai's punch. When the smokes cleared, everyone that was pinned to the wall became release, and fell to the ground. Dai's fist was into the cement and he was on one knee with no one around him.

"Damn it…I missed…"

Stein, Maka, Soul, Tsubaki, and BlackStar rose from the ground and Stein walked over to Dai kneeing down beside him.

"Medusa has Ren now, I think you know what to do." Stein looked over to Dai and waited for his response.

Soul and the others started to walk over to Dai, but paused and stood their looking into the distance of the sun. Stein appeared to be walking past them and they all followed besides Maka, she stays standing there looking at Dai.

"I wonder if he really does care for Ren, or if this all was an act. Wait, what am I saying? If he did all this, he must have at least cared." Maka says to herself.

Dai picked himself up from kneeing down and started to walk into the sunset, with his hands placed into the pockets of his pants. "I have to go save Ren…"

Maka started to call out Dai's name but failed to open her mouth. She watched Dai disappear into the setting sun, and then turned around, walking back into the school.

Stein turned his head to the side looking back at the following students. "You all go home now…I will take care of this."

Soul's voice became louder as he spoke. "But, Professor Stein, what abou-"

Maka from the back of them all interprets him, "no he's right. We have to let an adult take care of this situation.

"Thank you Maka." Stein walks until he is unseen in the schools hallway and the children walk the other direction, following the path they came in.

Stein reaches his office inside of the school and sits in his usual chair. "I wonder if I should inform Dai and the others about this urgent matter." He places his hand on the side of the bolt on his head, and begins to turn it clockwise.

"This is only something the Shinigami and I are aware of, and if I tell them. They might overreact and do something drastic. However, I have to give it a shot. On top of all this, I have to continue Dai's training."

"I don't need training…" Dai appears sitting in the window of Stein's office, with his eyes focused on the outside setting sun.

"And why not?" Stein says questioning the boys comment.

Dai jumps down from the window, and looks up towards Stein. "Simple as this, I already have the power to defeat Medusa. I just need the control of this strange power. Saying this I need to control the black blood inside of me"

"So I am guessing that you want me to train you with using the blood?"

Stein seemed cautions to ask the question of the black blood, but it seemed Dai were serious about this particular training.

"I need this training by this week is up, so I can save Ren…" Dai's expression looked more serious then usual.

Stein adjusts his glasses and stares at Dai. "I fully understand what you are saying, but this is not going to be that easy like ridding a bike."

"I know, and I am prepared for the intense training…" Dai lowers his head some and the hood from the jacket covers his eyes from sight, making his mouth the only thing Stein saw.

Professor Stein is a genius of using soul wavelength so he can fight with or without a weapon. He is able to use the Witch Hunter for both long-range and close-range combat. Using his immense control over his soul wavelength, he can create soul-based shields and immobilize the opponent.

He can also send a powerful burst of soul wavelength through the opponent's body. For unknown reasons, Stein is the only one who can fully understand Dai's dark insane soul. In addition, is the only known person who can actually train his soul to Dai's advantage, until now…

Dai raises his hood from covering his eyes and looks up at Stein with a confused expression, "Stein, what was it you were talking to yourself about earlier, I overheard you mention something about telling the others and I something important."

"Oh, that, it was nothing really important," Stein seem to stare into space as he finished his statement.

"Well, whatever… I will be back here tomorrow for training." Dai disappeared, leaving nothing but a black smoke behind.

"I know I must tell him, but I can't. I can not tell him just yet that I am his father…"