Heaven or Hell

The awkward and befuddled pink haired Corona stumbled and wobbled against her feet for a moment before she caught herself back on balance.

"Jeez, it's not fun traveling through electric currents," Corona groaned.

Forgetting everything at once I jumped on Corona hugging her.

"Corona! Your back! Oh," noticing it wasn't the right time to hug my friend in public I stopped hugging her and gave her a look over.

She looked more mature and wiser, yet had a dark glow around her body that seemed dark and dangerous. Her choice in fashion had changed as well. Corona was wearing a tattered black robe, black cargo pants a scarlet tank top and a pendant that glee red and a bright magenta... Wait, where did she get that pendant.

"Corona... Did you happen to meet Kah?" I asked.

"Yes I did, she looks oddly like Maka chan."

"Corona... Do you have horns?"

"Yeah, I fused with Kah chan when she entered my soul, but I wasn't scared at all, because she said she's a friend of Maka chan. How do you know Kah chan Maka?"

"Sister! Sister! Oh good, I see that you safely made it! Maka san, I must leave you now and cut our fuse. Is your soul strong enough to be on it's own?" Mah spoke from the pendant.

"Yeah, I just need to make it until the transfer is done right?"

"Yes, do your best Maka chan."

My eyes lacked out and I was back in the dark place I had fused with Mah in. The light jumped from my body, blowing the winds of purity from my body, making my hair blow towards Mah coming out of the fuse, as if they were saying, don't go. Mah was now in front of me. The sword of white had disappeared along with her. Mah looked like a true angel now. A bright shining halo, two new white wings that looked like they were carved from the heavens themselves.

"Thank you Maka, my wings came in nicely, that means your final destination is near, don't worry you won't die yet until Kah gets her wings, then all that's left is destiny," Mah spoke like a true angel she was. Her voice like silk. Her voice like snow falling gently from the sky. Her voice like mine if I was pure and innocent.
When I thought it was time to leave this room, nothing happened. I looked up at Mah's sparkling green eyes.

"Maka... I need to tell you something."

***

The cloudy image of the real world slowly came back and cleared up. I saw Mah glowing like white flames approach Corona. Her wings moved around as if she was adjusting them into her back carefully. Mah shivered when wind caressed her wings. She yawned drearily and looked up at the sky and tch'd.

"I like white snow clouds instead of thunder clouds... Hm," Mah waved her hands at the sky and suddenly an outburst of white began to spread across the black clouds and killed the lightning.

"There, much better, snow really does fit this scene considering it is December after all, oh," Mah's gaze went off at the giant clock tower.

"11:11, make a wish, see you in another time Maka, it was a pleasure getting to know you," she curtsied for me and turned to Corona.

Like the snow that fell when I was in the Himalayas, a couple years ago, light feather white pieces of Mah transferred into Corona, being sucked into the pendant. Corona suddenly fell back from the sudden intrusion of another influenced inside her soul. I caught her last minute and drug her off, far away from Tim as possible. Patty and Liz went back into human form to come help me with Corona. After Corona was taken somewhere safe I was tackled down with rejoicing hugs and tearful eyes that damped my shirt by a a little. I looked down at myself. I had gone back to my regular cloths and regular non-glowing skin, no halo and no sword with wings. Just me.
But soon Tim was getting irritated with all the drastic changes and was already lunging at Soul and BlackStar. Liz and Patty went back to Kid leaving me to attend to Corona, who's pendant was starting to glow an pinkish orange and her pale skin glowed a medium gray color. It was happening. Corona's full magic and complete fusion of both angel and demon. I remembered what Mah said about angel and demons immune to madness and how Corona was consumed by madness. It'll be good for her then. For a girl who was born for madness, she'll get a life deprived of having madness.

White fluffy flakes of snow dropped down from the sky, gently pelting all of us. I saw the distress and strain my friends put in trying to break Tim down the level of madness. But Tim bulldozed through them one at a time, but at the same time they retaliated quickly, fighting like the fierce people I grew to know.
The thin coating of snow on Corona's body suddenly began to glow and turn into feathers of black and white. The magic must of set in. Then her entire body engulfed itself into a gray glow, so powerful that I had to shield my eyes. When it died down Corona's ice blue eyes were widened, staring up at the sky In a funny way as if she were gone. And just like what the fusion did to me before, Corona's outfit had changed. She wore an open white and black kimono, a white dress, that went down to her knees, with black flowers spouting upwards. A half black half white fabric chocker necklace held the pendant closely to Corona's neck. Two black horns poked up a centimeter below the shining gold halo above her head. And tickling agains my legs was two wings. One was black and the other was white. Her pink hair was washed silver from the clashing shades of both angel and demon.

I barley recognized her myself, even more when she got up holding two blades. One was black as night with obsidian wings across the grip, and the other was the same white sword I had held moments ago. The look in her eyes were different. They shown with confidence.

This made me smile and forget everything in the world.

I gazed down at my hand. Time was near. The black line nearly lined up with all the others. And I felt it. I felt the Demon Sword inside me grow and grow with impatience, ready to law me apart. Possibly into shreds like I wished for. As I watched the battle From the sidelines I felt my heart tear up. It was a foreign felling, the tugs and the pulls slowly tearing it away, but still kept it pumping vigorously.

The feel.

The pain.

The quiet agony I kept silent.

Is this what it feels like to be torn to shreds? I'm glad it's only me facing this, if I had let my other friends face this I wouldn't take it.

My vision blurred and my lips bled from my teeth tearing at them to stop from sobbing. I silently cheered then all on.

Tsubaki

Liz

Patty

Corona

BlackStar

Kid

And finally

Soul

To be able to see this all brought me a melancholy of happiness. To see Corona be apart of this and use her magic and swords along with Mah and Kah likes she's suppose to, made me glad.

But when will I reach my final destination?

With blurred eyes I looked at the clock tower and rubbed the tears away, long enough to see the big hand and little hand match up with the twelve.

Midnight.

I'm officially seventeen now, on December Tenth.

Am I truly a tragedy itself?

Tear

My eyes widened. A bell rang through the air along with maddening cries and breaths from the battle that went on.

But all I really heard was the last rip that torn my heart into shreds.

I fell onto the blacktop that was covered in snow. My breaths kept escaping me and I fought a battle of my own to suck in more air.

Live! Live! Live

Doing this too many times made me cough wretchedly into the snow, making my heart go more limp. When I pulled back a red rose was on the spot where I had coughed. A thorny rose, a soft rose, a rose made from my blood, corrupting this haven of snow.

Live, live, live

I turned with the little strength I had left onto my back and blinked up at the snow falling sky and white clouds that blanketed it. I tried grasping onto hearing my heart beat, but there was no last symphony for my ears to hear before I rested enternally.

Live, live... Live

My eyelids shut closed. Breath was now gone, heart beat gone, there was nothing peaceful about it. Then, like flipping a switch, I was gone.

Live...