Hey guys. I started working on this chapter two days after I updated the last one, but my computer decided that it wanted to crash, consequently leaving my files (including an amv that I've been working on for a couple months) inaccessible. FML. Anyway, here's your second chapter of So Crazy. Hope you like it :D
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Chapter 2: Dreams
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"And you're sure that this information is correct?" asked the black cloaked man behind the mask.
"Positive, I checked it out myself. He's in there." replied his blue companion.
"Good. Send for them."
"But sir, they're only kids."
"Yes, and they can handle it. They're the strongest bunch of children I've seen since your generation. Besides, you will be accompanying them."
"Yes sir." And with that, Sid left the death room.
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"Yahoo!" exclaimed the blue haired boy as he bounded up the stairs to Shibusen.
"Black Star, hold on!" pleaded an exasperated Tsubaki with Soul, Maka, Liz, and Patty right behind her.
"Sorry Tsubaki, I guess I keep forgetting how hard it is to keep up with a big man like me. AHAHAHAHA!" Black Star proclaimed from the topmost stair.
The group of students headed to the Crescent Moon classroom, plopped down in their usual seats, and started chatting away the time before class started.
Soul glanced around the classroom. They were the first ones there. "How uncool." was his comment.
They all looked around as they heard the distinct clacking sound that signaled the arrival of their teacher. Sure enough, a few moments later, Professor Franked Stein entered the room rather ungracefully, as the wheels in his rolling chair caught the entrance and he fell backwards. He seemed not to have noticed, because he spoke from the floor.
"Ah, good. You're early. Shinigami-sama wants you six in the death room. He's got a little surprise for you" Stein said, smiling. Before the students could question him further, he left the room. So, the group made its way over to the death room.
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"What?"
"We found him, Liz. We found Kid."
"When? Where!?" she asked the 10 foot tall Shinigami standing on front of her, almost ready to cry.
"Sid found him in a church just north of Florence. He came back for back up. I want you six to go with him."
Liz glanced around and studied her friends. Tsubaki looked anxious, twisting her hands and holding them close to her chest. Patti looked as close to tears as she was. Maka wore a shocked expression, her mouth hanging a little, and Soul looked agitated again.
Black Star confused her the most. He wasn't yelling and "Yahooing" and running out of the room. He just stood there, his jaw set.
"Sid will fill you in on the details of the mission when you're close to the site. Good luck."
"Alright, let's go." said Sid, coming out of the shadows.
The group walked to the door.
"Liz-chan." Liz turned around.
"Please, bring him back." said the Shinigami, his back to her.
"Y-yes sir."
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The plane roared loudly as it left the pavement to join the clouds. It was strange, being on a plane, as they usually got around in Kid's hands while he rode his skateboard. And there he was again. Death the Kid. Always floating around in her mind. She would breathe easy once they got him safely home.
"Kid." she mumbled under her breath. Maka looked over.
"Liz-chan, what makes you so attached to Kid? The only times I ever see you with him are when you're scolding him about his obsession with symmetry."
Liz thought for a moment before realizing that she missed his crazy obsession. It made her life a little livelier.
"Patti and I grew up on the streets of Brooklyn." she started. "Our parents were killed by some mugger who wanted their money. I remember when the babysitter got the call. We never had any other family to take us in, so we went to the orphanage. We kept hopping from house to house. Sometimes they would hit Patti for being so clumsy. I hit them back. We decided to run away. We went around mugging people for food and money. I never really realized that we were doing the same thing that the man who killed our parents was doing."
"Yeah, but you were doing it to stay alive, right? He just wanted money." said Maka.
Liz shrugged. "You never know. Anyway, one day Kid decided to stroll down our alley. We figured even if he was just a kid, he would have a decent amount of money, since he's so dignified and well dressed. I went up to him and jammed Patti into the side of his head and told him to give us all his money. We thought that since he was just a kid, he would be scared shitless, like most grown men were at gunpoint, but he just stood there, looking up at me with this look. It was like he didn't care that we were about to kill him. He handed over his wallet and just walked off. Later that day, a couple guys came up to us and said they saw us mug Kid and that they wanted all of our money. Then they decided that money wasn't all they wanted and grabbed Patti. I didn't know what to do. But Kid appeared out of nowhere and started beating the crap out of the guys. Then he gave me back his wallet! It was weird. He asked us if we had anywhere to stay, and when we said no, he told us that we could stay at his mansion. When we got back to his house he asked us if we would be his weapons, mumbling something about us making him symmetrical. We couldn't exactly say no. He saved our lives."
There was a pause before Maka said the most comforting words Liz would ever hear.
"Don't worry, we'll get him back."
"I just hope it's in one piece." Liz said, more to herself than to anyone else.
"Kid's strong, he'll be fine. Right now we have to worry about Black Star."
Black Star had been attempting to jump out of the plane door for the past half an hour, insisting that "A big man like him didn't need a plane to fly." Liz chuckled and suddenly felt a wave of sympathy for Tsubaki. How she dealt with him, Liz would never know.
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Plunk Plunk Plunk
The monotone rhythm of the leaking pipe had ceased pissing the boy off and started to lull him to sleep. His chains rattled a little as he slumped to the ground and started to dream.
He dreamed that he was at his house with his friends, safe and happy. He dreamed that Maka was hitting Soul on the head with a book because he had his feet up on the furniture while Soul was grumbling that hitting him wasn't cool. He dreamed that Black Star had gotten hold of a karaoke machine and was singing off tune and making sure that he was the spotlight, while Tsubaki looked embarrassed. He dreamed that Patti was at the table with a box of crayons next to her, coloring her heart out. He dreamed that Liz was on the couch, painting her nails and fixing her hair. He dreamed that he was sitting next to her, his brilliantly golden, half lidded eyes gleaming with happiness while a grin stretched across his face. He dreamed that he faded away, leaving only his friends in the room. He never wanted to dream again.
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I was intending to make this the chapter where Kid gets rescued, but the part where Liz was telling Maka about Kid rescuing her and Patti took a lot more space than I had anticipated. And sorry about the last part, but my friend had a dream about his girlfriend and when he realized it was only a dream and she wasn't really there, he started crying, and it kinda inspired me. I was gonna have Kid wake up crying too, but I kinda like how I ended it. See you guys later!