The Lost Warrior
Disclaimer: I don't own any elements from Soul Eater or Is This a zombie.
Chapter 06: Trust
"You know something." Maka started studying the girls, they didn't flinch at the words.
Niko began, "Yes, we do. I would have loved to say more earlier but there is only so much-"
"Morgan La Fey is alive." Will just blurted out. "And she's behind this whole thing."
Niko turned to her sister, "We-"
"I know! We really don't have time and we need them."
"How do you know this?" Maka spoke up, "Why should we trust you? You're saying you know who is responsible for this but you don't tell us until after mama and Eu are taken. Somehow you knew that your blood would work to help Nene. You want to take your word for all this but don't give us a reason to trust you."
Maka was not usually so paranoid but it had been a rough day and couldn't help but wonder if they could have prevented what happened.
The two girls looked at one another, it was a shared look of guilt. Maka was mostly venting but could they have actually stopped this from happening?
"We couldn't do anything," Niko said. "even as much as we wish we could do something."
Maka repeated, an anger bubbling up in her, "Why would we trust you?"
Will looked her right in the eyes a sadess filling her eyes, "Because we want them to get home as much as you do."
Maka used her soul perception to look at their souls, she usually didn't do this as it was an invasion of privacy but she did now to make sure they were being honest.
Niko's soul was smaller, she wasn't as brave or as tough as she wanted to be seen as. She got into her own head a lot, she over thought things and hated coming off unprepared because she was afraid someone would get hurt if she was. Deep down she was very sensitive, always worrying about those around her. She cared deeply, she was passionate but did everything she could to keep her passion from lowering her guard down. She knew very well a life could be snuffed out, and wouldn't let that happen. She forged her passion, she focused it and readied herself for the fight that would come and she swore she'd protect those she cared about, especially her sister. Though her passions could get the better of her sometimes, usually bubbling up in a temper tantrum or outright fury, something Maka could relate with.
Will's soul was bouncy and energetic, taking everything there was. She paid attention to the world, taking in every color, every smell, and every experience and treasured them both the good and the bad. She could be a bit distracted by that but made sure to pay attention to the really important things. She always kept an eye on her little sister. She tried to always get her to smile and be happy even when things were scary. She always tried to protect her sister, and when it came time to get serious all that energy was focused and she got as serious as anyone.
There souls shined brilliantly, naturally resonating whenever they were close to one another. They were each other's beacon always leading the other back or leading them where they meant to go.
Both girls were sincere in their desire to help, they were honest and anything they kept hidden was not done by their own desire. They feared failing to help more than anything at the moment and now faced that possibility.
"Okay," Maka said softly.
"Really just like that? Black Star blurted out, "just did a 180?"
Ayumu agreed, "Yeah, why are you trusting them all of a sudden?"
Maka shrugged, "It's hard to explain."
"You looked at their souls." Stein told them, to Maka's embarrassment, "So did I. They want to help, I say we let them. It doesn't matter that they can't tell us how they know this what's important is they can tell us what we need to know them get everyone back."
Seraphim nodded, "Well put, tell us all you know."
"Tell us where they are?" Nene's voice came from the doorway.
Stein quickly went over to her, "You need to get back into bed. It's a massive stroke of luck that you survived everything, " Stein started to push her back into the room to get her back into bed.
Nene just started to walk and pushed him back without much effort.
"Oh, okay, I guess you don't need as much rest as I thought." Stein simply commented.
Both girls looked at her with a mix of relief and worry, Niko speaking up first, "Are you sure you're okay?You did just-" She swallowed her own words, "stabbed."
Nene gave them a small smile, "Now tell me where Kami and Eucliwood are?"
Niko gulped, "Castle of Tauroc."
"That's in Cornwall," Will added helpfully.
"That's the castle," Maka spoke, "Papa was telling me about when they fought Morgan La Fey, he told me they went to that castle."
"I guess we're gonna need to book a flight." Soul started to put things together, Maka probably wanted to fly straight there but if things were so serious they'd need everyone's help.
"Well, get things ready to head out as soon as possible." Liz spoke up, a determined fire ignited in her eyes.
"Yeah," Will started, "we don't have time to fly. They're going to try again."
Niko sighed, "Yeah, you're not gonna like it. The thing that happened with Liz and her baby, that actually delayed her plans."
With that Niko started to explain what Morgan's plans were. Needless to say none of them were happy to hear that an evil witch was about to try and become a god along with two other Arthurian villains, Kill four gods, and brainwash Kami.
"…Yeah, and they're probably going to try again when they account for the baby." Will ran her fingers through her hair. "If they do that…"
Liz panicked, she barely found out she was pregnant and always already facing a threat to the baby.
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"What's happening?" Kami looked around, her mind was so blurry.
She waved her fingers infront of her, her hands were covered with flames.
Something was wrong, she was covered in white flames and she was certain that was off. She felt numb, like something should be happening.
"No, don't worry." Morgan told her, "take deep breaths. You're fine, we're all going to be fine."
Morgan walked over to her son who was on the floor shouting, "They're here! They're here!" He swung wildly at the air.
Morgan was glad that the spell she placed on Kami was holding, because shed didn't gain the powers she expected. Something disrupted the spell, something else was drawing power from Kid, another connection and that sent the whole ritual haywire.
The old gods didn't die, the spells didn't go all the way though most of their power was transferred to them but they didn't take it all. Kami did indeed gain the power from Excalibur and judging from the new stripes in his hair Lancelot got Kid's abilities. Morgan seemed to have gained the power of the creature in the book while Mordred seemed to have gained Eibon abilities.
Morgan could not have guess what he was seeing, Eibon always had the ability to foretell events long to come, she had training and the mind not to let such visions over well her but Mordred did not.
Kami looked around as Morgan tried to calm Mordred down. Lancelot looked shaken but besides his hair nothing much seemed different, though Kami noted he was having trouble looking in her direction. Kami noted those odd people, they looked in pain and unable to move. Except the girl in the middle seem she seemed to squirming in pain, the only reason she didn't seem to be screaming was muzzle over her mouth.
Kami wasn't sure why she felt bad for the girl, she did something bad, isn't that what Morgan told her? Maybe it because she looked so young and defenseless. There was something ednering about the girl that made Kami want to hug her and tell her it would be fine.
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They needed to act quickly, Morgan La Fey was a witch of great power and cunning. It wouldn't take her all that long to find a work around and complete the spell.
Though their strange allies did seem to have a plan for that.
The group gathered what they needed and headed towards the front of the school, right before the steps.
There was the sound of sirens and people running through the city streets. Some of the fighting had spilled outwards and there was going to be damage. They didn't much focus on that, Spirit and Azusa were in charge of that. Stein and Marie had to go tell the others and try to get any help they could muster. They would also have to get Kim to try and talk to the witches and inform them of Morgan La Fey. Stein had been tempted to come along but since Marie was unable to transform he'd be without a weapon. He could fight without one but as Kami's fight with Lancelot showed they had to go all out without holding anything back.
That meant Ayumu had to pick up a certain pink chainsaw.
As they arrived at the bottom of the steps they found a young girl drawing in chalk.
"You got here faster than I thought. You told them, didn't you?" Kana didn't even bother to take her eyes off her work.
"Or did you start to late?" Will spat back.
Kana pouted, "There were a lot of people blocking the path." She held out and pointed at Nene. "She fought a knight near here."
Nene shrugged, she took a minute to get a new shirt from her apartment, she had to do something about the stab hole. "Oh, it's you."
Kana did raised her head and looked at Nene, "I'm sorry for what happened."
"So am I."
"I did try to warn you."
"I would have done it anyway."
"I'm glad you're okay." Kana kept on sketching away, "But you're going to have to wait."
"Hey Kana," Patty waved at the girl.
"You know her?" Tsubaki questioned her.
Liz crossed her arms, "Yeah, she used to hang around with some of the girls that came to the cafe we used to work at. She's kind of a brat."
"Congrutalions on the unplanned baby." Kana yelled at her.
"Kana be nice." Niko told her, "Maybe try to speed up we are on a time crunch."
"It will take me as long as it takes me, Aunty." Kana told her back, her voice stoic as ever.
Seraphim looked at the sisters, Will shrugged, "We're her aunts."
"Her parents have the same issue." Niko mumbled, "She's spirited, her other aunt is the only one that can really get her to behave."
Maka thought she had better luck with children and took a knee to talk to Kana, "Hello I'm Maka."
"I know who you are." Kana scribbled a little faster.
"Oh, yeah, I guess your family has a lot of secrets."
"What are you drawing?"
"You're smart, can't you figure it out?"
Maka smirked, it was a game for the girl, she was smart and wanted to see who else was smart. She wanted to test her limits. Maka shrugged, she decided to play along.
Kana was drawing something big, she couldn't make it out, Maka quickly climbed a few steps and looked down. "It's an array! A spell array, you're trying to do magic. Are you a witch?"
Maka walked back down to the girl, "No I'm not. I don't have any magic and i can't power this circle. But I have an aunt, she knows a lot about magic. My parents have to travel a lot for work and they leave me with her. She taught me how to read fates with cards, and all the things I know about magic."
"So, what does it do? Oh, wait, I've seen this before when we went into Eibon's book."
"Yes, it will work a lot the same way. It will take us to where your mother is. There is a lot of magic coming from there," Kana pointed to the purple clouds overhead, "That's what's going to power this. This will take us all the way back to the source but we need something to focus us."
"And that is blood." Niko spoke up, "Ah, your blood Maka. We need a bit of blood to- do a thing. Blood goes to blood, it will lead us to your mom."
"It should get us there in a minute." Will clapped her hand, "that is if she ever finished it."
Kana scowled at her, "I'm done." Kana got up and grabbed Maka's hand pulling her over, "Stand right here."
"Everyone who get on the circle if you want to come along."
Patty paused a moment with her sister, "You sure it's a good idea sis? I mean, you have a passenger on board."
Liz gave her a small smirk, "I know, and the moment we get back I'm going on maternity leave, but-" She sighed unsure of what exactly to say, "we have to get Kid back. I have to be there and make sure he comes back."
Patty looked up at her, "I guess I'll just make sure you come back safe and sound."
As they all gathered round Maka found herself standing before Kana as Niko and Will stood at the sides. Kana handed her a tarot card that seemed rather sharp.
"Just a little blood, cut the tip of your finger." Kana instructed her.
Maka didn't hesitate to remove her glove and cut her hand, "Ouch!" Maka let out realizing how sharp they really were.
As a drop of her blood drop on the floor she realized that the other three were doing the same thing. The circle began to glow.
"Why did you-" Maka started off, Maka didn't finish as they grabbed her hands forming a circle.
Kana continued, "Resonate with us, and think of you mother."
Maka hesitated for a brief second, but she felt their souls reach out for hers. Maka gasped as she felt the pull from them. There was something strange about the resonance, there was something familiar in their souls.
Maka didn't have much to ponder this as they felt the wind around them pick and spin them about.
She felt energy around them and suddenly sensed a sea of energy and countless souls through it. Then from out of the endless sea she felt the pull of a familiar soul, her mother's soul but it felt different something was different.
The group collapsed to the hard stone floor.
They weren't in the school anymore, that was for certain as they found themselves looking at those who just started to step into godhood.
"Uh, have you been helped?" Kami spoke up confused by the sudden appearance of their new guests.
Maka stared at the woman before her, she was her mother but she scarcely looked like her mother. White flames clung around her making her long coat coat flap making it look like pair of flaming wings. Her hair was wild mess and her eyes little more than white balls of flame, she looked at her own daughter with such detachment that it made everyone feel uneasy.
"Mama," Maka let out.
Kami looked around, "Morgan is she talking to you?"
"No," Morgan said smiling at how well her spell had edited her memories.
"The fairy princess?"
"No, they are trying to confuse us. Take them out before they can accomplish anything."
"Okay," Kami said without hesitation.
Her hand tingled and a pair of flaming sword formed in her hands.
"Huh, did not know I could do that. "