Soul's Afterlife: Chapter 7: One Acidic, Powerful Dream

A/N: This is just unreal! So far, 237 people have read my story! And it makes me just that much happier when I post a new chapter , and I think "I don't have to worry! They'll like it!" And I seriously hope that's what you'll be thinking, when you read this chapter. So I really hope you like this chapter. But an update on the new character I told you to be expecting: she will more than likely be introduced in this chapter. But no promises! Enjoy the chapter!

-JLyn

Soul walked through the door to their old apartment. To his surprise, Tsubaki or Black*Star hadn't come in to clear out all their junk and put the place up for sale. He very gently put Maka down on the couch and went into her room. He searched for her old textbooks. If they were going to beat the barrier, they had to study. And since Maka was clearly in no condition to do anything involving her brain at the moment, he had to start them off. He hauled three or four medium sized textbooks from Maka's room to the kitchen. He opened one, then began.

She was spinning. Spinning so fast, she was a blur. Her dress, ironically forming five sides, were pointing up, much like tails. And as she spun faster, the tails began to spray a green, acidic liquid. The liquid hit Soul. He fell to the ground, in agony, screaming at the top of his lungs. Maka attempted to go to him, help him in his time of need, but she couldn't. She held to an invisible wall. She couldn't even lift her legs. It was as if an anchor was tied around her ankles. She struggled. She felt her wrists would be bleeding, if she could bleed. The women who was spinning in the five-sided, tailed dress laughed.

"How precious! I just KNOW you're here to fight me, to take my soul. Well tough luck! You may have beaten my long lost sisters, Medusa and Arachne, but you can't beat me! No one's beaten me! No one's beaten the one and only SERKIT!" The women who claimed to be named Serkit, laughed even louder. Her dress was a blackish color, with fainted red spread around the fabric carelessly. Her hair was hair was straight, jet black and went down to her hips. Her skin was whiter then white. Her facial features were flawless, she looked as if she just stepped out of a magazine cover. It didn't help the fact she was as tall as a pole and as skinny as one too. Maka couldn't help but wonder if she seduced her victims into dying a quick and painless death, so she could go back to her vanity ways for a little while longer.

"Good luck trying to kill us! We've already been there and done that!" Maka choked out, gritting her teeth as she fight through the pain in her wrists and ankles.

"Oh honey. You don't think I know this?" Serkit then glared. "Only ghosts are affected by my barrier! You're just lucky you didn't break it. But I mean, come on! Did you honestly think witch hunter would break a very powerful barrier? I mean not even genie hunter would break the barrier! Are you really THAT stupid?" All Maka could do was glare. She no longer had the energy to speak.

"Don't you EVER talk to her like that again! And if you do-" Soul was cut off.

"You'll do what? I mean you're one to talk! You're still sitting there in pain, clutching your stomach like it's eating you from the inside, out! Some sidekick you are!" That was it. She had crossed the line. She had gone too far. Soul turned his arm into a scythe and ran at her, ignoring the pain screaming at him. He swung at Serkit. She dodged and lifted her arm. Out of nowhere, a bracelet, or what looked like a bracelet, emerged from her wrist. It too shot a green, acidic liquid. But this had a different effect. It knocked Soul out. Then Serkit turned to Maka. Maka could more see, it wasn't a bracelet. It was a scorpion.

"You're lucky you're quiet. You should tell your sidekick he should shut up sometimes. Oh wait! No you won't be able to! You went remember a damn thing." Serkit shot the liquid at Maka.

Maka woke up. She shot straight up. Soul looked up at her, half smiling, half worrying. She saw he had all of her textbooks on the kitchen table.

"Look up the name Serkit." She stood up and demanded. She scrambled to the kitchen, pointing at the book Soul was looking at. He gave her a funny look, but the desperation in her eyes proved to Soul, she was serious. He flipped quite a few pages and finally found one which looked promising.

"It says here, she was an old witch among many, but was exiled nearly a hundred years ago. There's no way she's the one we're looking four Maka."

"Bullshit!" She slammed her hand on the table. Soul jumped a little. "She's still here! She's Medusa's and Arachne's long lost sister! And how many times did Medusa come back?!"

"Well.."

"Exactly! You want to know how she did it? She left behind one of her little scorpions and came back! Serkit is to scorpion as Medusa is to snake! Soul, don't you get it? They may have put down in history she's dead, but she's not!"

"Where is all this coming from, Maka? I doubt you even knew about this Serkit before now!" Soul stood up, more worried then irritated.

"I had a dream about her...kinda... I don't know...It seems so real. In my dream, she tried to erase our memories of her, but I guess she failed with me..." Soul shook his head in disbelief.

"We need to talk to Lord Death about this." He walked into the bathroom and came out with a handheld mirror.

"Well..why not Stein?" Soul dropped the mirror. Maka seemed confused. "What? Is he out of town?"

"You don't know what happened to Stein?" Soul asked.

"What? Is he all right?"

"Maka, does us being dead, ring a bell?" He tested.

"Well no shit. Why?"

"Maka, Serkit didn't necessarily fail on erasing your memory, if the dream really did happen. She just erased a certain part of your memory."

"What do you mean?" She pushed Soul to get to the point.

"Maka. Steins an afreet."

A/N: So it was this chapter I introduced Serkit! I wasn't sure when it would be. But I figured this would be a great place to end the chapter. And since its the weekend, I know a chapter will be posted. Sunday night probably. So look forward to that. As always PM me, comment on the chapter. If you liked the chapter, favorite and/or follow!

-JLyn