Soul's Afterlife

by JLyn0430

Because of the horrible damage caused by Spirit to Maka when she was just a child, serious extremes happened. Marie thinks Maka's a cold-blooded killer. But that's just the start! Will every one else think this as well? And what does Maka need to accomplish so she can move on from Death City? What's holding her back? This is the sequel to The Forgotten Life of Maka Alburn.

5. The First Fight

Soul's Afterlife: Chapter 5: The First Fight

A/N: I can't believe this story is already on chapter five. Can you? Sho hopefully this story will get at least a little more popular, I posted an update on The Forgotten Life of Maka Alburn. Sho it now has eleven chapters! Yay! Mini celebration! Anyways, I hope to introduce a new character of mine, a little spoilers alert, but the character isn't entirely mine, she based off of an ancient Egyptian goddess. For sure, she's in this chapter our the next, I don't yet.. Anyways, enjoy the chapter!

-JLyn

"Anything? Are you picking up anything?" Soul asked impatiently. Maka glared at him.

"It doesn't happen spontaneously, Soul." She said, sounding quite impatiently.

"Well, how am I suppose to know? I don't have some amazing power that tells me where soul's are!" He protested. For the last hour or so, they have been sitting on a rock, at the edge of the forest, trying to pick up a witch's soul, for Soul to devour. To him, Maka looked amazing standing on the rock, with her eyes closed. Her arms out stretched to keep her balance. She seemed to glow in the little sunlight hitting her. She stood like a statue, not counting the very slight movement she made to breathe. Then, out of no where, her eyes shot open, pulling Soul how of his gaze.

"Somewhere, down south, is a powerful soul. A soul we want!" She said. She jumped off the rock with grace. She smiled at him. "Just a step closer to moving on." Soul faked a laugh.

"Yeah.. Great." He sighed and scratched his head in nervousness. Maka gave him a confused look, but shrugged it off. She spun on her heel and walked in the direction her senses pulled her too. Then she stopped.

"What?" Soul asked. She turned around.

"We haven't fought together since we died. Obviously we can fight, or else Lord Death would've told us, but what if it's different?" She asked, sounding scared. Soul laughed.

"Of course we can fight! It's not gonna be any different!" Soul answered and laughed. But Maka continued tho give that worried look. The same look that always got Soul to cave, even when he didn't like her in this way.

"Fine. Let's try." He said, while turning into a scythe and landing in Maka's hands. She twirled him in the air, and swung at a tree. Little did they know that an afreet was hiding at the top of the tree, looking down on them. Maka studied the afreet. She ruled it out as being Stein, luckily for them. The afreet jumped out off the tree and landed in front of them.

"Get his soul, Maka" She charged after the afreet. The afreet squealed. It spun around and shot some type of green acid at her. She front flipped out of danger. The afreet sprouted a tentacle like limb and it continuously grabbed at Maka. With her graceful moves and flips, it never got her. She swung at its feet. It fell to the ground, and it fell on its face. Maka ran halfway up a tree and flipped on to it's back. She then stabbed it in the back, straight to it's heart. It made a slight squeal, them disappeared, leaving nothing but a soul left behind. Soul changed back into his human self, and grinned at the soul. He picked out up and devoured it, without a doubt in mind.

"Feel better?" Maka asked and smiled. Soul looked up at Maka, and smiled back.

"Yeah. I do." He stood up and stepped a little closer to Maka. Without him realizing it, she was hugging him. He was shocked at first, but then hugged her back.

"Just wait, we'll be moving on in no time." Maka said. That was the last thing Soul wanted to hear. He hugged her tighter. She tensed for a moment, but then just returned the tighter hug. After a moment if silence, Maka backed away.

"Okay, we need tho head down south." She said while turning away and walking, confidently. He couldn't keep it in anymore. He had to tell her.

"Uh.. Maka, I've been feeling..." He trailed off. Maka looked at him, clearly waiting for the rest of the statement. He might've imagined it, but she looked kinda.. hopeful... hopeful for what? "Uhh.. nervous...about fighting a witch and trying to break that stupid barrier."

"Oh. Uh yeah. Me too" Maka said.

A/N: Yes this chapter was short. But I posted a chapter this morning. Give me some credit. But I really do hope you like this chapter. It had action and very mild romance. So please stay with the story. I do hope you like the story. We're up to 131 viewers! Another mild celebration!

-JLyn