CHAPTER TEN: THE AWAITED BATTLE: LIVE OR DIE?
Black*Star kicked the doors off their hinges, exposing the room that said doors had hidden before the assassin laid his feet on them...Medusa's main room. As Maka was the only one out of the three Mesisters present who'd been in this particular room before, she could see that the Madness must have redecorated; the once purple arrows on the square platforms where now pitch black, the platforms themselves were cracked and stained, but what really caught the ash blonde haired girl's attention was the various crude images of three stick figures (one with pigtails, one with a star on his chest and the last with a skull symbol) being killed in various ways by a taller one; the Madness. Speak of the devil, the Madness himself stood in the middle of the room, his back turned to them, his arms folded behind his back as he stared into nothingness.
"You kept me waiting, children." the Madness spoke up, the Mesisters tensed slightly. "Don't you know it's rude to be late?"
"And don't you know it's rude for you to even be standing?" Soul, in weapon form, snarked back.
"Good tongue, Evans. Too bad I have to rip em out." the Madness chuckled as he turned, his smirk wide as always.
"You won't harm anyone else!" Maka snapped.
"The killing ends!" Black*Star added his agreement.
"Whatever you have planned, we'll stop it!" Kid held his pistols tight.
"Plan?" the Madness raised a eyebrow as though the word was foreign to him. "You really think I have a plan? Do I even look like a planner?"
"No, but you look like-" Patty yelped when the Madness's eyes narrowed.
"Don't ever mention his name in my presence!" the Madness breathed in to calm himself as he continued, all the whilst glaring at the pistol that rest in Kid's hand. "Plans never succeed...improvising on the other hand, is awesome! All I wanted to do was to get back at small tits for killing snake bitch, didn't know if there were any loved ones so I just killed a random bunch of scum in case they were special to her...it was than when i realized that i could spread myself. A army of the dead just came as a bonus. This is my revenge: Death City perishes all because you refused me the kill that was supposed to be mine."
"You killed them just because I killed Medusa?!" Maka asked, bewildered.
"Gotta have build up." the living Black Blood shrugged.
"You're disgusting..." Liz spat.
"Thanks. I'm so glad you noticed-"
"AYIEEE!"
The Madness stepped aside, narrowly missing the hyperactive assassin's punch.
"You forgot about me, buddy!" Black*Star smirked.
"Ah, the egotistical shit's back for a rematch?" the Madness held up his arm and from it burst a black claymore. "Alright, I'm flexible."
"Ready for this?" Kid asked Maka, who hummed in response.
"Always."
Three Mesisters, four Weapons and Black Blood all locked in a battle to the death...one of many battles occurring on this day.
The Grogon boy barely avoided the explosion, feeling the burning heat of it. Solider One stared blankly at her foe. Lord Madness wants this boy dead? Why? He's not even putting up a fight...
"Eruka, please!" now he was pleading. Who was this Eruka person; perhaps a identical human in appearance to herself? Solider One shook her head. Now was not the time to get distracted by such trivia things. Her Master has issued a order and as his first child, she must obey at all cost.
"Ribbit." unlike before where she use only the strange black orb shaped explosives, this time from her hand came a black spear that narrowly hit the boy.
"You dumbass! Just hit her!" the loud, rude voice came from the sword the boy held.
"But it's Eruka and-"
"Forget it! She's gone, the bastard's gotten to her! Now finish this already so we can find the spell?"
Solider One's ears perked up on the sword's blubber. Spell...they threaten her Master's life! Her sun yellow eyes narrowed in determination to destroy-
"Scream Alpha."
The sword emitted a sound that erupted through Solider One's eardrums; but the time she recovered, the boy was gone. No doubt hiding in the room.
Well, he can hide all he wants, it will only delay his inescapable fate...
Crona whimpered slightly in his corner, the cold lifeless look that Eruka gave him stuck in his head. Sure she wasn't the nicest witch, but she was certainly nicer than Medusa. During their time under the snake witch's servitude, the two had a mutual understanding of each other, knowing what it was like to be used and abused by the cruelest of people. But now she's a slave to the Madness...
"R-Ragnarok..." Crona sniffed slightly. "Is there a way to change her back?"
"Doubt it, kid." the Demon Weapon said bluntly. "Only way we can think of is to off her."
"What?" Crona asked in shock. "B-but-"
"Look at her, she's a living zombie for the sake of the gods. Do you really think she'd wanna live like this?"
"No..." Crona sighed. "You're right. W-we need to free her from this life."
He was close, he could hear the battle cries...he had to hurry.
Black*Star aimed a stab, but the Madness was able counter, knocking Tsubkai out of his hands in the process. The living Black Blood's smirk of satisfaction remained on his face even when his blue haired foe dodged a attack and grabbed the katana weapon on the floor. Black*Star swung down on the Madness just as Maka prepared to strike with the scythe in her hands. However, the weapons hit what felt like steel. The Madness used this distraction to kick the two away. Kid took action by shooting rapidly, successfully hitting the Crona lookalike in the back.
"Lucky shot." the Madness snarled as the blast holes where he was hit slowly healed. "But that won't help you."
"How bout this!" Maka's combat boot slammed into his face, the force of the kick threw back a few spaces. The scythe mesister twirled her weapon slightly, the blades red color being nothing more than a blur. "You'll not win this fight!"
"I already have!" the Madness smiled malevolently . "Your attacks ain't working, small tits."
"What was that!" Maka demanded, a red vein on her forehead.
"I expected better from Asura's killer."
"You'll find I'm full of surprises." the Scythe Meister used her weapon as some sort of pole to help deliver a kick to the face, but the Madness grabbed her foot and pulled her forward to his face.
"So am I..." the Madness purred, his mouth dangerously close to her neck. Kid saw this and glared.
"You disgusting monster!" Kid started shooting rapidly at the Madness, making him drop Maka. The creature had no time to heal as the blasts hit him full on, soon creating smoke. When the smoke faded, there was no sign of the Madness.
"I did it?" Kid asked in disbelief. "I thought-"
Maka collapsed in a heap. The others rushed forward to him.
"Maka?" Soul shook his mesister.
"Maka?!" Black*Star asked.
"MAKAKAA!" Patty screamed.
Stein grunted as he avoided a swipe from the wolf, which snarled at the scientist that avoided him. Mifune grabbed a sword and stuck it right into the Immortal's back, a howl of pain echoed throughout the desert. Free turned to face it's attacker, exposing the bruises and cuts that bore his snout. Mifune glared back at the possessed creature. Around them were very few numbers of Black Blood Zombies still standing; courtesy of they other students and Free blindly attack anyone, regardless of if they're living or reanimated corpses.
"You poor creature...robbed of your free will." Mifune sighed. "But soon you'll see the light."
His only response was a growl and a attempt to the bite the man's head off. Seconds later, a two halves of a katana laid on the sand. Blair fired several exploding pumpkins, they all hit the sand around Free.
"I can't get to him! He's too strong!" Marie said. The wolf howled as he pounced...
He could see them, about to be knocked over by the wolf. Shoving Blood Zombies away and ignoring the looks of shock and disbelief, he ran forward and the corrupted Immortal whined at the force of the punch he received. Kim, Jackie, Ox and Harvar looked up at their savor in shock and disbelief that the savor was him off all people.
"Sid?" Kim gasped, feeling the zombie to check if he was not a mirage. "Is that you?"
"Who else could it be?" Sid smirked.
"How are you even-" Jackie was cut off by Free's snarl as he charged towards Sid, his teeth bared. Just before he could bite the zombie's head off, Sid grabbed Zombie's snout shut and held him by the throat.
"Marie, quickly!" Sid shouted to the Hammer weapon, who nodded and ran towards the wolf, her hand glowing yellow. The Healing wavelength purged through Free's body, the wolf collapsing to the ground as the process was done, slowly becoming the appearance of a man. The others watched on as Free slowly opened his eyes, though s bandage covered one.
"Wha...what happened?" Free groaned. "Last thing I remember was...Eruka! Where is she!"
Blair sighed whilst Free looked round for his witch companion. "Free...she's dead."
The Immortal looked at the magical cat in silence, as though trying to comprehend what he has been told. Eruka..this one friend...dead? Impossible! And yet...he could see the truth on Blair's face, a fire brunt in his heart, slowly feeling his body with rage.
"Where is the Black Blood?!" he sneered, Stein was more than happy to answer.
"His pawns are all over the desert. Let out some hate."
"Don't mind if I do!" Free yelled as he grabbed one zombie, slamming it on his knee, relishing in it's death cry.
"Is he gonna be alright?" Sid asked.
"He'll be fine." Mifune answered.
Kim noticed something off...
"Wait, how come you're not surprised that Sid's alive?!"
Her only answer was Stein turning his screw and a causal "He wasn't."
As for the student's reactions? well, it could only be summed up with one word:
"WHAT?!"
Maka opened her eyes slowly, feeling herself on a hard surface. Getting up, she saw that her surroundings resembled a dungeon cell with crudely drawn pictures, a bookshelf and a bed. The defeater of the Kishin noticed that her yellow blouse and black coat were missing as well.
"Where am I?" she asked herself . No sooner did she ask the question, the cell door opened, exposing bright light that nearly blinded Maka. Through the hands blocking the light from her eyes, she saw the outline of a person, a very skinny person wearing a black robe with his back turned to her. "Crona? What are you doing here? I thought you were looking for the spell."
No answer.
"Crona?" Maka asked in a concerned tone. She only took one step forward when "Crona" spoke in a voice that certainly wasn't the stuttering shy voice she knew and loved.
"He was never that great." "Crona" raised his arms dramatically. "He's a sniveling, naive little shit. When he saw you, he saw a way for a normal life...but he didn't count on that being fucked up."
The figure slowly turned and Maka briefly saw the blue eyes of her crush before they slowly became the sunlight yellow of the Madness.
"Why bring me here?!" Maka said, straight to the point.
"I just wanna have a talk." the Madness answered. "You used the Black Blood once..."
Maka winced slightly at the memories of the day she lost her mind...and the day she became friends with Crona.
"Yes, and I won't use it again."
"Good for you, bitch. That's not what I'm saying. Before you fucked it all up, I was the top dog here! I lived in him, I made him go mad, but not enough to possess him. Ragnarok saw to that."
"And I'm supposed to care, why?" Maka snarked.
"...Every time he used the Blood, I was used, I made him powerful, I was Geppetto and he was Pinocchio." the Madness looked bitter at Maka before continuing. "Than you came and showed him friendship...God, I would have puked. When he nearly died, I was fucking pleased to leave him at last, knowing he'd die. But you had to help save him!"
"He's my friend!" Maka snapped. "I couldn't just let him die!"
"That and you love him." the Madness knew he hit a nerve when Maka glared. "God knows why."
"You really wanna know?" Maka asked. "It's because he's the sweetest boy I ever met, he never deserved to suffer under Medusa. He's more the boy you are. Hair color or not, you're still Crona's blood..and that's all you'll ever be."
The Madness smirk fell and instead became a frown of disgust. Before Maka could blink, she felt her back hit the wall as she slid down it and onto the bed. No sooner had she landed, the Madness slit his wrist and two trails of black blood wrapped themselves round Maka's arms and legs, binding her to the bed, the Crona lookalike sneering down at her.
"Do not compare me to HIM!" he punctuated his final word with a squeeze of the throat, not enough to choke, but not enough so it would hurt. The sneer fell and the maniacal grin was back as he looked at Maka. "And I can see why he likes you...so strong, so feisty and so...hot."
Maka struggled to get the creature off him, but he insisted on grabbing her wrist and hold them over her head. The Madness smirked at Maka's yelp as his long nail slid up her leg and grazed her skirt.
"I'm gonna enjoy this." the Madness went to lick Maka's neck, only to receive a headbutt in response. He snarled and grabbed her by the pigtails, lifting her headup so they were eye to eye contact. "You're not playing by the rules."
"Screw your rules." before the Madness knew it, Maka had manged to free her self from her bonds and kick the Madness away. She stood up defiant. "You may think of yourself as this ultimate evil when really you're just pathetic. You have no plan, you just murder for the sake of it and you have a grudge against one who has never done anything to you. Not to mention, you can't even fight. No wonder Medusa found you useless."
"You just really wanna die now, don't you?!" the Madness was seething at this. Not waiting for a answer, he grabbed Maka-
Solider One was feeling annoying right now. There was still no sign of the target and she lost contact with her master. A noise made her turn swiftly to see a bookshelf move. If she wasn't a mindless zombie controlled by Black Blood, Solider One would have smirked whilst she walked over to the bookshelf, the strange bomb in her hands ready to kill-
"Now!" Soilder One felt herself being shoved to the ground onto her stomach by him. She bucked, writhed and lashed with her feet, but the sword had turned into a strange black creature held her down. The boy held a pitch black knife like object, no doubt form his own blood, regret very clear on his face.
"I'm sorry, Eruka." he brought the knife down and Soilder One's last thoughts were of how her master would be furious.
Crona dropped the knife, ignoring the sound of it cluttering for he had eyes only on the corpse of Eruka. Now she can finally rest in peace.
"G-goodbye Eruka.." Crona sighed. Ragnarok squinted at the hat on the body, it still had it's trademark frown, but something else caught his attention.
"Hey, Crona! Look at this!" the Demon Weapon held the piece of paper up to Crona so he could read.
The Mortal Spell
Immortals, always believing they're superior simply because they have a longer lifespan and cannot die.
Well, that's clearly not the case anymore...having test various ways to dispose of one, a certain incantation worked.
Now no Immortal cretin will ever be a threat to me, as long as I have this spell.
Crona read through the paper again, double checking every last detail, a smile coming to his face.
"D-do you think this will work?" Crona asked. "H-he's not a immortal, he's Black Blood."
"Stop whining, it's worth a shot!" Ragnarok snapped. "Now let's go!"
Ragnarok than pulled his hair almost as though Crona was a steed, leading him to the door.
"TALLY HOO!"
"Ow, hey, quit it, that hurts!"
A Blood Zombie crawled on the floor when a boot crushed it's head completely, it''s owner snorted.
"We win!" Stein yelled, the warriors cheered, many congratulating each other with words of thanks and praise. Stein turned to the others. "You did great, everyone."
"But what about the Madness?" Marie asked.
"Yeah, I wanna rip him a new one!" Free snarled, the thought of his dead friend still clear as crystal in his mind. "I'll kill him!" the Immortal tore his bandage off his eye. The group around him looked stunned. "What?"
"The Magic Eye..." Kim gasped.
"It's gone!" Mifune finished.
Maka sat up straight, nearly head butting Soul in the process. No sooner had she done so, her face was than introduced to Patty's breasts as the blonde twin bearhugged her.
"Oh, Maka! You're awake! We were all worried, Black*Star slapped you a few times, SOul was gonna do CPR, but you're awake!" Patty giggled, oblivious to her friend's pain of the hug.
"OK, sis, I think that's enough." Liz got her sister off the Meister quickly. "You alright?"
"Yeah." Maka nodded. "Just had to talk inside my head."
"Yeah , I know the feeling." Soul grimaced, thinking of the red demon in his head.
"But where's the Madness?" Tsubaki asked. Her answer came from heavy breathing nearby. The group saw the Madness standing there, a hand on his chest in what seems to be pain.
"What's wrong with him?" Kid asked in confusion.
Solider One, come in! Come in! Charles, Matthew, any fucking body!
My army's gone, eh? Fine, whatever don't need them anyways! No more improvising...this time I do what I should have done as soon as wolf boy worked for me!
"What's he doing?" Black*Star wondered the same as everyone else as the Madness slowly reached into his coat's pocket, his hand emerged with a small circle object with markings. Kid's blood ran cold at the sight of it.
"Don't you dare use that eye, monster!" Kid demanded. "You don't know what it'll do to you!"
"What are you talking again about?" Soul asked.
"It's the eye of the Witch Queen Mabba!" Kid exclaimed. "If he uses that-"
Everyone than understood.
"Are you insane?!" Maka yelled.
"Yep." the Madness said wickedly, his spider like hands caressing the eye.
But before anyone could stop it, the eye sunk into his hand, vanishing from sight. The Living Black Blood grunted slightly as he began to glow with a dark aura. The group could only gape in horror as a horrible sound emitted from the Madness; a laugh of pure insanity.
"Oh, yeah! This is it! POWER!" the Madness cackled gleefully. "Now, Kiddies...let's have some FUUUUUNNNNN!"
The Madness exploded into the dark aura, which grew larger and larger until it swallowed the inhabitants of the room and soon ll they all was darkness.
The darkness faded and Maka felt that their surroundings have changed. She looked up to see the bright blue sky with white clouds and two windows in the sky...the Death Room.
"Hya, Maka!" Lord Death waved from his platform, Spirit looking pleased to see her.
"Lord Death?" Tsubaki asked, ignoring the father of Maka. "What are we doing here?"
"I was about to ask the same thing."
It seemed that even the fighters in the desert were in the room as well and they looked just as confused as the group.
"We just finished fighting when we found ourselves in here." Marie said. "Did Crona say the spell?"
"No..." Soul shook his head. "The Madness had the Magic Eye and it looks like it destroyed him. The Magic must have been too much for him."
"Somehow I doubt that." Free said. "But where's Pinky, anyways."
"Oh, he's over there." Lord Death pointed to a corner where Crona sat, his eyes closed. "Don't worry, he's fine. Just unconscious."
"Well we need to wake him up in case the Madness shows up again."
Black*Star nearly stopped breathing at the sound of the voice. He turned slightly to see the zombie he held in his arms two days ago in the alleyway.
"Sid?" Kid beat him to it, receiving only a nod. Black*Star just stared blanking, his arm trembling.
"Sid?" Black*Star said, his voice shaking. "Could you come here, please?"
Sid approached cautiously. The assassin lifted up his arm as though to fist bump his teacher, but as soon as Sid was in range, the zombie received a punch the jaw that made him on his back slightly. As Sid got up, he groaned slightly.
"Okay, maybe I deserved that."
"Maka..."
"Oh, crap." If Sid had pupils, they'd be wide right about now.
"CHOP!" Maka took her textbook off the dazed zombie's head and grabbed him by the dreadlocks. "How could you just trick us like that?!"
"Maka, please!" Lord Death's voice brought everyone's attention. "It was my idea to pretend that Sid was dead. It was only a flesh wound, not everyone dies of a stab, ya know."
"Father?" Kid asked.
"That coffin we buried was empty, I just used a little light show just in case the Madness was watching, we had to make him think he had the upper hand. My hope was that he'd become arrogant in his "murder" that he would expose himself to others whilst Sid rested in the dungeons to regain his strength."
"People have died!" Kid snapped at his father. "You just let him-"
"No, I did not!" Death said sharply. "The death of Matthew Damien was his own doing. I gave the order to avoid the Madness but he ignored it. if I could have prevented it, I would have."
"So..it's really Sid?" Black*Star asked.
"It's me, kid." Sid smirked. Black*Star just grunted.
"Good to have you back."
"Ah, come on. I know you missed him, Black*Star." Tsubaki said.
"What? missed you, yeah, but not-" the egotistical kid tried to insist.
"You cried over my "body"." Sid said.
"Because there was a onion in the bin nearby!"
"Yeah, yeah."
"How sentiment."
Everyone turned in the Death Room turned at the sound of the voice; Blair and Crona flinched slightly at the sight of the Madness, his arms crossed and his smirk ever so like Soul's.
"Glad to see your're alive, Sid." the Madness nodded in his direction. "Means I kill you all over."
"You..." many jumped at the sound of inhuman snarl that came from Free, his one eye fixed on the Madness with rage." You killed my only friend!"
"And enjoyed it." the Madness added casually.
Free gave in to his rage and with a scream of fury, ran right towards the Madness. The moment Free's fist made contact, he felt nothing but air the second after. The next second, he felt a hit to his back, pushing him back. Free growled and swung his foot round, the Madness being something that enjoyed avoiding the leg and grabbing it. Free struggled to get free, than than felt the burning fist that hit his stomach. The Madness was quick to knee his face when he was down and then with one flick, knock him onto his back.
"The eye..." Kid observed. "It's made you-"
"Powerful?" The Madness interrupted. "Stronger, sexier? All of the above? Take your pick, either way they're all correct."
"But you won't be for long!" Lord Death said, his high pitched voice slowly becoming deeper with each word he spoke. "I will do anything to defend my city, and I won't let you destroy it with your insanity."
"You will try, Reaper."
The Madness shot out electricity from his finger tips at Lord Death, who simply adsorbed it with his hand. The Reaper made this first attack by extending his arm towards the Madness, the white hand slowly becoming a shadow like claw, the claws barley missing, shredding the coat slightly. The Madness knocked the arm away and held his arms out, using his new magic to levitate the cross foundations that resided in the Death Room , diverting their path through their ascent to dive mid way to Lord Death, who used his large hands in a blur of swipes to knock them away, one right through the mirror on the platform whilst a second landed near the still unconscious Crona held by Maka.
"The power of a God." Black*Star said, struck with awe.
"The power of my dad." Kid corrected more calmly.
The Madness smirked slightly before seemingly vanishing. Lord Death found himself narrowly missing a slash from long nails from behind. The Crona lookalike growled slightly, his arm taking a different form.
"Get over here!" his arm shot straight at the Reaper and dragged back towards the Madness who chuckled slightly and threw him up in the air. To his annoyance, Death was able to catch himself in mid air and Reaper Chop the arm off as it went for him again. The Madness smirked as though he felt not pain from the attack, his arm slowly reforming.
"You're strong."
"So are you." Lord Death said.
"Thanks, I do try!"
The Madness slashed wildly at Lord Death, who dodged each attack before using one hand to quite literally backhand the creature into the floor. The Madness was up in a flash and flew up the Death Room, smiling down at the Reaper and his son.
"Family bonding time is over!" the living Black Blood sneered, flying straight at them, his hands crackling with magic. Kid fired shot after shot at him; the Madness flew left and right to avoid all the blasts before firing a pitch black ball at Kid, which knocked the Reaper's son away slightly. Lord Death charged in the air at the same speed as the Madness, both of them slowly becoming closer and closer, their hands glowing with energy. "It's over, Reaper!"
"Even if I can't kill you, I can still seal you away from my students!" Lord Death boomed, his hand glowing slightly. From his hand came a yellow ray of energy; the Madness countered with a pitch black blast. Said two rays meet on impact and began pulsing back and forth. The Reaper and the Black Blood groaned in concentration as they struggled to regain control of their respective rays of energy.
"Dad doesn't look good." Kid observed the sweat on his father's mask. "I have to help!"
"Ooo, does this mean we can do it?!" Patty clapped her hands excitedly.
"Oh, yes, Patty." Liz smirked. "It does!"
"YAY!"
"SOUL RESONANCE: DEATH TWIN CANNON!" the trio's scream echoed throughout the Death Room as the observes of the battle saw Kid's twin pistols become cannons attached to his arms, slowly building up purple energy.
"Resonance stable." Liz's voice calculated. "Ready in three, two...one."
"READY!" Patty giggled.
Kid simply fired two large energy blasts, they hit the two waging rays and slowly began aiding the yellow ray, pushing the black ray to it's master, who could only reply as anyone else would in his situation.
"Crap."
The force of all four rays hitting the Madness at once knocked him off his feet and he flew far away, hitting many cross foundations as he finally came to a halt on the floor. The father/son team looked at each and nodded.
"Nice work, Kiddo." Lord Death patted his son's head.
"Father!" Kid mumbled.
"As much as I like these moments," Stein interrupted, his eyes not on the Reapers, but over their shoulders. "What are we going to do with the Madness?"
"I-I managed to read the spell before we were brought here." Crona said, not caring that all eyes were on him in either distrust or surprise that he's awake. Maka, on the other hand, smiled at her crush.
"Great. Now you can use it, Crona." she smiled and Crona smiled back.
"Would they just kiss already?" Sid whispered to Black*Star.
"Believe me, we been waiting Death knows how long." Black*Star said.
"Hurry and say the spell, Crona." Kid urged. "The Madness' regaining it's strength.
That zombie's alive?! FUCK IT! Why I can losing! I'm Madness itself! I can't lose-
Spell...they know? And he's here? Of all the idiots to kill me, they pick Him? HIM?!
The Madness got to one knee and was about to strike when he saw his reflection in a shard of glass from the shattered mirror. Looking back at him,with the same look of horror that slowly morphed into outrage, was a young looking teenager with pink bangs of hair and yellow eyes. The "precious" gray streaks of hair and beard laid scattered on the floor. The Madness's mind broke.
I can't look like at him! He's not me! He can't know the spell! Him...he...me...spell...him...me...he...spell...kill.
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Kill him.
It all happened so fast. Crona had just got out one syllable when a black blur pounced on him and pinned him to the floor. The collision created a wave that knocked the others away to the other Academy warriors, a invisible barrier appearing to ensure they wouldn't interfere. Crona could only look into the eyes of the Madness as they slowly became slits; the long nails became claws, the pink hair grew in length as did his fangs, his torn coat looking like a ragged cape on his shoulders as the Madness locked eyes with his doppelganger. Gone was the childish playful maniac that fought Maka and stalked Blair. In his place was a savage failed experimentation, blinded by rage and hatred for the one being he despised more than Medusa.
"CRONA!"
End chapter here... sorry if it seems really rushed
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