So here's the next chapter and I apologise in advance for how crapy it is, but as always I hope you guys enjoy.
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Maka rushed over to the twins feared etched into her face. Soul was following, watching in horror as his new friend was impaled by her twin. A blood began to pool on the floor and yet Cassie didn't wake. Her grip on her brother only tightened in protective manner, as she did this the blade of her brothers arm went deeper into her body and finally she let out a groan of pain, but still didn't wake. Maka went down on one knee, inspecting the damage that had been done. She didn't dare touch the two, for fear of making it worse. Soul stood petrified, what had just happened? Why can't I move, I feel so helpless? He asked himself over and over again as the scene played out before his eyes.
"Soul!" Maka screamed at her weapon getting no response, "Soul!" She tried again. This time eye responded, flicking his head in her direction. "Get a mirror in here now! We can call Lord Death and use the mirror to transport her to the school."
Soul didn't respond, he simply rushed out of the room, nearly tripping at the door. When he entered again he was carrying a body sized mirror, which he placed in front of Maka. Maka turned to it breathing on just enough to create a cloudy patch. She raised her hand to it and wrote out the numbers 42-42-564 while saying the following, "42-42-564 when ever you won't to knock on deaths door." There was a small flash of light before a being dressed in a black robe like thing that pulled his feet together, a skull mask covering his face appeared in the mirror. "Word Death sir!" Maka exclaimed.
"Hi ho, hay oh, what's up kiddos?" He asked in a singsong voice.
"Our friend is dying! Please help her," Maka screamed before moving aside so Lord Death could see what was happening. He gasped when he saw the sleeping Cassie being secured by the sleeping Hunter.
"Stein come here." Lord Death called.
"What is it Lord Death," Stein answered. Stein had stiched all over his body, sewing all his limbs together and a screw sticking out of I his head. He wore a lab cote and a pair if glasses that made his green eyes dull. The man walked over to lord death and Lord Death pointed to the mirror.
"Can you go though the mirror and administrate first aid to that young girl." Stein jumped threw the mirror appearing in front of Maka and Soul as flesh and blood. It didn't surprise them, used to the weird mode of transportation by now.
As Stein went to check on the injury, a frown set into his features. "What's wrong Doctor Stein, is she gonna be alright," Maka asked rather impatiently.
"Not if we don't work fast. From the amount of blood that she has already lost I would guess that one of her organs as been punctured." Maka gasped at the news, Soul staring at the dying girl before him. "But there as a problem, if we move this boy then she will lose even more blood and t he chance of her dying will be far higher." The scientists brows furrowed as he spoke, trying to figure out a way to save the girl.
"Then what can we do?" Soul asked. He had tried to use his usual cool tone, but it was edged with fear. The fear that his new friend would die and he was able to do nothing into prevent it.
"I have and idea but we will need to work fast," Stein said.
"What ever you ask," Maka responded rushing Stein.
The man before them pulled out a syringe from his lab coat and plunged it into Cassies shoulder. Her grip on her brother loosened and Stein instantly went to work. He ushered Soul over and got him to hold a clothe to the wound, as he and Maka removed Hunters arm from Cassies stomach. He pulled it out the way it had gone in, careful not to create anymore damage. Once Hunter had been removed he was paced on the other couch, where Maka tried to wake him. Soul was holding the clothe tightly to Cassies stomach, but the blood was seeping through and Stein could not go any faster then he already was. He had already begun stitching her stomach back together with a needle and thread, the only thing that he could use that would work for long enough for her to be transported to a hospital. He saw that an enormous amount of blood at already left her body and begun working faster, completing the last stitch with a sigh. The blood had stop leaving her body now, but she was still in a critical condition. Before Soul could even fall to the floor in exhaustion, Stein had left the house, the still sleeping girl being carried gently in his a arms.
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Cassie woke in a hospital room the next morning, Hunter asleep in the chair next to her bed, his fingers curled around one of her hands. Cassie had no idea where she was, but it appeared that she was in a hospital, even she knew that much. She tried to shift into a sitting position, but grunted as a pain shot through her chest. Cassie could tell that it was far worse than a simple crack rib, what on earth happened to her. Fear rose within her, what had happened, who did it and why? It was while these questions ran through her head that Stein walked through the door, Maka and Soul close behind.
"What happened?" She asked as her eyes met the man before her, "And who are you?" Shock filling her eyes at the new comer.
"Calm down," Stien said, raising a hand to show his gentleness. "I am Doctor Stein, I teach here at the DWMA." Cassie nodded her head, excepting him as a good guy. "If I am correct you are Cassie and that is your twin Hunter." He said gesturing to Hunter.
"That's correct." Cassie responded not entirely willing to blurt out her identity to a total stranger. "So what happened?" She asked, defiance in her tone.
"While you and Hunter were sleeping, his arm turned into a blade and pieced your left lung, cracking three of your ribs along the way. You lost an extremely large amount of blood, so I am afraid you will be staying here for a while." Stein motioned to the IV drip that was connected to Cassies arm, she hadn't even notice the pain being to much.
"What did you tell Hunter?" Cassie questioned pushing herself up fulling and trying not to scream as pain shot through her. Maka went to help her, but she just brushed her off.
"We didn't," Soul answered, his normal cool tone having returned.
Cassie dropped her gaze before muttering a quick thank you, that they were only just able to hear. It was this moment that Hunter decided to wake up. He looked into Cassies eye and he broke down in tears, throwing himself on top of his older sister. "Thank god your alive." He said between sobs, "I don't know what I would do if I lost you."
"Knowing you probably jump off a cliff." She said sarcastically. Her brother laughed and once again pain shot up her chest, but she didn't show any sign of it, not wanting to dampen her brothers mood.
"What happened? No one would tell me Cassie?" He asked pulling back, eyes full of tears.
"My hand transformed while I slept and I must have curled into a ball because it went right through me." She laughed a little, scratching the back of her head with her hand.
"Again?" Hunter asked suspiciously. Soul and Maka flashed Cassie concerned looks at her brothers comment, a small smile slipping onto Steins face at the mention of similar injuries.
"Yeah, but it was much worse this time."
"You did have a lot of scars on your torso, so this has happened before then." Stein chuckled. In response he got a glare from Cassie, as she hugged her brother. Stein pulled out a smoke and lit it, breathing in on it hard. "Anyway I have to go," he begun, "but I will be back later to escort you to Meet with Lord Death, he has a lot of questions to ask you." Stien removed the smoke, before leaving the room, Maka and Soul following after saying a few goodbyes.
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Stein returned a few hours later and as promised, escorted the twins to see Lord Death. Cassie still had the IV drip attached to her arm, pulling along as she walked. The three people stopped in front of a door and waited till a cheery voice from inside called them in. They walked in, Stein first. Hunter held onto Cassie's arm, not really shore what to expect of a death god. They both gasped at the room. It was massive, the walls and roof a sky blue and clouds moved across the room. There're were several windows at the top of the room that were small and with no curtains. Cassie and Hunter were so transfixed with the room that they hadn't realised that Stein had already walked ahead. They ran to catch up with him, following the straight path down. The path was marked out with giant guillotines and it frightened the twins a little. They reached lord death and froze, he was nothing like they expected and they had to catch themselves before they broke out on laughter. Next to Lord Death was a rather tall man that appeared in his late twenties early thirties. He had fiery red hair and a small smile on his is face. Behind lord death was a full length mirror that reflected the room back at it self. Lord death caught the smiles on the twins faces and said in a happy tone. "Well you two seem to be happy."
Cassie and Hunter stopped smiling and stood up straight. "Lord Death these are the ones from last night."
Lord Death made an Oh sound from behind his mask. "I'm Cassie and this is Hunter." Cassie said wanting to be referred to by her actual name. "We are weapons."
"Yes yes, I am well aware of that." Lord death said, a smile in his voice. "If you don't mind I have some questions to ask you."
"And you have to answer true fully." The red headed man said.
In response Hunter hissed, "and you are?"
"Death scythe," He growled back in an annoyed voice.
"Well there goes first impressions." Cassie thought. She grabbed her brothers shoulder in a firm grip and gave him a warning look, "back down, don't attack them and don't give them a reason to attack us." She said with her eyes.
"But sis," he responded in silence.
"Don't, this is our only chance Hunter." Hunter backed down, suddenly finding something every interesting on the floor. "Go ahead." Cassie said waiting for the first question.
"First, where are your parents?"
Hunter froze, he remembered little of his real parents and Cassie only remembered a little more then him. They had died when they were only a few months old and the evil Miss Bell had taken them in.
"Dead." Cassie answered. Cassie placed a hand on her brothers trembling shoulder, she knew how much he hated to talk about there parents. Even thought they were only a few months old when they died, she remembered. Cassie had a perfect memory's nod often told Hunter about them.
The large room filled with silence before Death asked his next question. "Where have you been living since they died?"
"In an orphanage some ways away from here, I can't tell you the name of the town though."
"Why not?"
"Don't know it." Hunter said turning his gaze to the shinigami.
"We know that it is many miles away from here and small. It is also very pore, little food and water is available there and once when enter they usually don't leave." Cassie finished with a blank expression upon her face.
"How did you guys get out then?" Death Scythe asked worry etched in his features.
"We escaped, naturally," Hunter answered in a isn't-it-obvious tone.
"Yes," Death said nodding his head. He turned to stein and continued, "look into that please. Okay, how long have you two known that you were weapons?"
"Six years," they said together.
"Last question." Cassie and Hunter nodded, "where did you get the scars on your back?"
Cassie froze, images flashed in her vision. All the times she was stripped bear and whipped, all the times as a child that she had screamed out in pain because of that evil tool of torture. Because of her perfect memory, she felt all the pain again, remembered there sound of her skin whipping as the leather on the whip made contact and cut through her skin like a knife. There were only two things she had ever feared, the first losing her brother the second the whip. Cassie begun hyperventilating, she pulled her hands up to cover her ears from the screams in her head and fell to the ground, pulling the IV drop down with her. Hunter bent down to his sister, knowing exactly what was going on. There was nothing he could do that would bring her out of this state, he simply pulled her into a hug and begun to whisper reassuringly in her ear. "Don't worry Cassie. She's not here, we won't ever have to see her again." None of the reassuring words got through to Cassie as it felt like she was being torn apart from the inside, she held in a scream as her mind to one of the very first times it happened.