Hey, guys, mot a lot of Edits here...
CHAPTER FIVE: The Search for Black*Star: Maka's Feelings?
"Can you believe him?!" Soul snarled from his seat on the couch next to Crona. It was around the evening when the group went to Maka's to avoid all the stares the students went their way after Black*Star's departure. "That son of a-"
"Soul!" Maka reprimanded with a glance to Tsubaki, who is currently having a ice pack placed on her bruised cheek by Kid. Soul nodded and stopped.
"I'm sorry, Tsubaki." he received a nod in return.
"So...any ideas on what we should do?" Liz asked.
"Well, I guess we can only do one thing." Kid answered, a stern look on his face. "We wait."
Now, Maka has heard a lot of stupid strategies in the past, this one took the Noble Prize for "The Dumbest Plan" ever in the Non-Existence Award Nominees, No, really. After the deaths of a witch and a teacher, Kid wants to wait?! The son of Lord Death must have seen her look and continued.
"Look, it's like Father said...we have yet to know who we're up against and we can't fight him without Black*Star-"
"The hell we can!" Soul snapped. "We don't need him! We'd be better off without him and his ego getting in the way!"
"And what if we just leave him in his fit of rage? What would he be to us next: alley or foe?" Kid questioned in the same calm voice.
Soul bit his tongue...God, he hates the Reaper's wisdom sometimes..
"So how are we gonna make him better?" Patti spoke, petting Blair.
"If I know Black*Star, he'll be training himself to defeat the Madness all by himself." Tsubaki frowned. "We should split up and look for him. But be careful everyone..."
"You're coming?" Liz looked surprised. "Even after what he-"
"Black*Star is my friend...even if i'm not his." Tsubaki put the ice pack down and stood. "And I'm not gonna stand by and let him kill himself."
Maka smirked. "Yeah, he's a idiot, but he's our idiot. We're getting our friend back!"
"And afterwards, we can celebrate with giraffes!" Patti chirped in.
...
"Maybe later..." Kid simply said as he then addressed Soul, ignoring the young "Aw!" from the youngest Thompson sister. "You coming with?"
Soul grinned slightly, showing off his fangs.
"One condition...I get to hit him once."
"Done."
Blair sat up and left onto the floor as Patti stood with her friends and ventured outside to find Black*Star. As soon as she was alone, she sighed.
"Ah, well...looks like I'm cooking dinner."
Stein sat in his favorite chair, rubbing his eyes slightly as the computer screen's light shone on his face. He made no attempt to type as he normally would, oh no. The professor was too busy looking through Medusa's old notes of the Black Blood, Lord Death's words running through his head.
"Perhaps so that each drop of Black Blood lost in battle becomes a creature of madness with no fear and remorse."
He turned the screw in his head as he read through the notes.
Medusa created the BlacK Blood to inject into Asura, but she clearly experimented on it prior before injecting it into the child; Crona. Her notes describving Crona's pain had phrases such as "blood-curling" and "insufferable brat crying", but what made him even more disgusted was that soon after injecting him with it, Medusa had locked her own son in the black room with no food or water for five days...five days!
This made Stein grit his teeth to no end. Just who could-
"Tsk, tsk. Thinking too hard is bad for the brain, Stein."
Stein's head went up in a instant, his eyes wide and his mouth opened in horror as he stared at his computer screen. There, staring back , was a woman with long blond hair and yellow slits for eyes, a woman who was the bane of his existence...a dead witch.
"Medusa." Stein did not loom at all surprised...after all, he got used to it after the first few hallucinations.
"I'm happy to see you." Medusa cooed. "I missed you..."
"How are you even-"
"Oh, please, do use that head of yours." the witch interrupted. "We both know I'm not real, as I recall...you murdered me."
"Yet you're in my head." Stein glared.
"Well, I was the one who showed you the light." Medusa smirked. "I made you stronger, unbound by the laws of the Reaper, I let you do as you please."
"No..." Stein snarled. "You made me a monster."
A chuckle was her reply.
"No, Stein...I already made a monster and it's doing a fine job fulfilling it's purpose."
"Stop fooling yourself." It was Stein's time to get the upper hand. "I have read your notes; the Black Blood, or Madness, has no loyalty to you, it acts on it's own accord."
But Medusa was quick to shoot him down.
"True...but I did create to make others suffer...and it's performing just as expected, even after my own failure of a child. My experiment is a success even after my death, my legacy lives on!"
"What you did to Crona was unforgivable!" Stein snapped. "And your little "experiment" will meet's it's end before it can kill anything else!"
"But how can you kill something that has not been seen?" Medusa questioned. "I win...you lose! The madness will take you and...I'll be waiting!"
Stein wasn't aware that he screamed, he wasn't aware that he threw his chair at the computer screen that showed the laughing witch, causing it to shatter and send sparks everywhere, he wasn't aware of anything until his study door was knocked on.
"Stein? You okay?" it was Marie...sweet innocent Marie. The professor breathed in a bit as she walked in, a concerned look in her one visible eye.
"Yes, everything's fine." his voice was hoarse from his scream. "What is it?"
"It's Lord Death...he wants to talk..."
But Stein was barley paying attention for he instead read through a entry on his desk. As soon as he was finished, a huge grin found itself on his face.
"Stein?"
Stein turned, his grin so big it creeped Marie slightly, though she was glad to see there was no sign of madness on it.
"Tell Lord Death I found something important..."
"Hey, Crona!"
The Swordsman in question yelped slightly as Soul called for him.
"Y-yeah?" Crona really wished Soul didn't catch him staring at Maka...
"Seen the idiot yet?"
Crona thanked the Gods that Soul didn't notice.
"N-no, not yet." Crona said nervously.
Soul raised a eyebrow but nodded nonetheless.
"Crona," Crona's heart started thumping against his chest as Maka spoke to him. "Me and Soul are gonna go look over there, can you stay here and look again?"
"Uh-yeah, sure." Crona blushed and did so even more when Maka hugged him slightly. Soul simply raised his brows and smirked slightly at Croan hesitantly hugging her back.
"I'd give them two days..." he muttered to himself. Despite what others theorized, he and Maka saw each other as brother and sister, not lovers. Besides, she has small tits. But really, he can tell that his Meister is crazy over Crona just as much as the latter is...the way she looks at him when his back is turned, the joy she expressed when he recovered, how fricking obvious could she get?
Eventually, Maka pulled away and started walking away with Soul, leaving Crona to look round.
"You enjoyed that, eh?" Soul grinned, showing his teeth.
"What?" Maka blushed.
"Oh, come on. I saw the way you looked at him. Just tell the guy?"
"...I can't, Soul. " Maka shook her head. "Crona never had a friend before me, I don't wanna rush this."
"Than hope you plan on dying a virgin."
One Maka Chop later and Maka dragged her injured weapon by his feet, fuming slightly.
No sooner were they gone, Ragnarok burst through Crona's back.
"The hell, Crona?!" he fumed slightly. "You had her right there and could have fucked her-"
"R-ragnarok, please, S-he likes Soul and-" Crona was cut off by a punch from his Weapon.
"Oh, stop being a pussy for Christ's sake!" Ragnarok snapped, ignoring Crona's yelp. "Just find Blue Boy and tell Pig-Tails. Fucking pussy..."
As the Demon went back inside him, Crona would only think one thought out loud:
"I don't know how to deal with having a crush."
The Swordsman heard something and only had time to turn as a fist met his face...
"39,789...39,790...39,791..."
The young ninja performed another push-up, showing no sign of resting anytime soon. Rest was for the weak and Black*Star was anything but weak. He WAS going to find this Madness, he WAS going to kill it!
And nothing will stop him.
Sic em.
The yellow eyed "man" smirked as "his" mindless beast jumped off the rooftop, ready to attack the arrogant little shit.
Time for him to act like the wolf he is...a free Wolf.
Black*Star jumped out of the way before the wolf could slash him.
"...You picked the wrong day for a fight."
And charged into battle.
End chapter.
Yeah, this chapter had the least edits as I was quite happy with it the first time, but i added a few minor bits
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