Maka and the others marched towards the Gorgon hide out. The enemy had found them hours ago, striking when they were asleep. Now they were forced to fight the spider sister's army to get to their target. Above them storm clouds continued to rumble in. Soul now supported a wounded shoulder, holding it with pain as his back hit a rock. Maka was at his side in an instant ready to take on any arachnid army member.
"Damn, they just keep coming." He cursed as Maka took out three more members.
"Just rest abit Soul, I'm sure we can get through this quickly." She whispered taking out another approaching enemy.
Wes wasn't doing any better as he hid behind his own rock carefully aiming his bullets. He needed to find Blair and get out of here, he was not the fighting type.
"Hey sewer rat, if we live through this, I'm killing you!" he yelled as Maka nodded in reply. The battle was never ending to them as more and more Gorgon men attacked them.
Blackstar smiled as he and Mifune took out another round of Gorgon soldiers. For once the samurai was not using a blunt edge sword, he intended no survivors this time.
"Blackstar more to your right," the female assassin's voice crackled through the earpiece he now had in his ear, courtesy of the Chameleon family. The male ninja smirked as he took out the indicated Gorgon men, by Tsubaki.
"No mere mortal can defeat a god like me," Blackstar boasted as he twirled his gun on his fingers. Tsubaki nodded from her sniper position before looking over to Angela.
"Angela, how are things looking ahead?" she asked as the brown haired girl blinked.
"Is that a pink haired child and a busty woman running towards us?" she asked pointing behind them. Tsubaki cocked her head before using her own scope to make out the approaching figures.
"Oh my," she gasped causing both assassin and samurai to glance up at the dual snipers.
Crona smiled as she noticed Maka fighting alongside her friends. Blair smiled widely as she took notice of Wes. His white hair glowed as lightning illuminated the sky above them, rain pelting down on the battlefield making the soiled ground wet and muddy.
"Hurry Crona, they need our help, nya!" Blair cried as she raced forward to her boyfriend's side. Wes stared dumbfounded as Blair stood beside him all smiles.
"Blair, you're alive," he smiled grateful that she was here beside him and not being torchured in Gorgon manor.
"Crona-chan helped me escape, nya." Blair smiled as she ducked and Wes shot at an Arachnophobian member.
"Crona?" Wes repeated as he risked a quick glance at the pink haired child who stood beside the albino and blonde fighters. At Blair's nod, Wes' frown turned to a small smirk at the knowledge.
"Cool," he whispered before pulling the bar maid to his chest and firing more rounds at the now thinning enemy.
Maka panted for breath as Soul and Crona took up the slack. She was covered in mud and her hair was flattened to her face as the rain and dirt plastered to her being. She felt miserable at the moment, despite her friends who stood loyally beside her. Her normally energetic green eyes were dulled from the harsh pounding of thunder and bullets ringing through the air around her. Hadn't she left this life before?
"Maka, more soldiers coming from the hill on your left." Crona warned as Soul drop kicked a man after running out of bullets to shoot. Maka turned her attention to the large group of final Aracnian soldiers coming into battle. She quickly reloaded her empty weapon and positioned herself for the final leg of her journey.
Crona closed her eyes as she raised her sword from her back holster.
"Ragnorok, I order you to kill them, in the name of Crona Gorgon." She whispered menacingly causing the people around her to stop in fear as her soul grew stronger and the aurora around her thickened.
"This is the power Maka, of a true murderer," Crona whispered meeting the frightened green eyes of her friend. The pigtailed blonde fell to her knees in shock at how easily the frail experiment had taken out the enemy in one fatal blow.
Maka fell to the ground in horror as Soul wrapped his arms protectively around her small shaking frame, ignoring the droplets of rain pelting them from above.
"Maka," he whispered as she shielded her face in his neck. He carefully patted her back in comfort as Kid and the twins took out the last of the enemies. Even Tsubaki and her group of assassins came to meet them.
"I've got you; so Wes I see you found Blair." Soul smiled, taking notice of the purple haired cat girl by his brother's side.
"Yeah, turns out Crona saved her." Wes said as he folded his arms.
"Sorry sewer rat, I owe you an apology." He said holding his hand out to the young blonde. Maka smiled before accepting the apology with a firm shake of the hand.
"Maka, Crona," Kid said as approached the group. Soul glared daggers at the mayor's son and his cronies. Did they still not trust her, his Maka who had just risked her neck to save Blair and them? Crona, he could understand some sort of insecurity, but they were treating her like an old friend. He noted how Patty hung from the pink haired girls frail shoulders, laughing at a lame joke the child had spoken.
"She indeed has proven useful in the extermination of both Capone and the Arachne forces, but now can she defeat her own family the Gorgons?" he asked eyeing the frightened blonde in the albino's arms.
Kid was right could she defeat her family? The Gorgon sister's had taken her in when her parents abandoned her and turned her into this killer everyone feared she was. Was she a killer, did she have the same power over death as Crona possessed? Kid seemed to think so, the twins looked at her with distaste when she met their gaze.
Soul felt her wilt at Kid's harsh words as he continued to yell at her. He growled cuddling her closer to him and mumbling soft words of encouragement instead to the woman in his arms. Kid held the bridge of his nose as he glared down at the two before him sitting in mud.
"For a perfectly symmetrical girl, you are a disgrace to mankind." The man snarled as he motioned Liz forward. He smiled before whispering instructions in her ear and a small smile escape her features. A yelp escaped her mouth as the gun, held loosely in her hands was yanked from her and handed over to Kid.
"What the hell," the albino brother's protested before stopping mid stride as the young politician placed the cold barrel to her warm head. Multiple protests began as Tsubaki and the others pleaded for Kid to stop. Maka merely shut her eyes hoping to go quickly instead of the painfully slow way she could go by her enemies' hands. She suddenly felt Soul's hands move over her body as his own body melded over hers pushing the guns barrel from her forehead to his own, completely shielding her from the angry Politian and his hit men. Her eyes flashed to Soul's blazing red orbs as he glared daggers at the regally stance Death the Kid.
"Move aside Soul," Kid ordered as he clicked the safety on the gun making Maka flinch more and cling to the older male.
"Maka me," Soul spat as he rubbed calming circles on Maka's arms and lower back. Wes and the others quickly moved to the albino's side as they waited for the mayor's son to lower his weapon.
"I order you all to move," Kid spat as the twins began to get involved. Crona looked up from her spot that Patty had placed her in. None of Maka's new friend's dared to obey the order given by the political son.
"Kid, why do you hate me, what did I do to deserve such prejudice from you?" she asked peering over Soul's shoulder as she questioned the raven haired man. Both Liz and Patty eyed their boss, they were also curious as to why he hated her. His golden eyes flashed with anger as his hold on the gun shook. The weather seemed to be the perfect reflection of his new mood and the situation at hand.
"She knows why," he spat causing her to flinch back in both terror and knowledge.
"Lady Medusa, the woman escaped," Free bowed as both Gorgon sisters eyed him from their seats.
"It seems your plan is failing as well sister," Arachne giggled from behind her webbed fan. Medusa's snake like eyes flashed to his sister before her own laugh managed an escape.
"Not at all, Eruka, bring me my crystal ball." she ordered as the silver haired girl came forward holding the glass orb.
"Here lady Medusa, ribbit." Eruka bowed as she placed the ball infront of her master. Arachne watched in interest as the grigori and her friends appeared in the reflection. A small scrimmage seemed to be on the rise from the sister's standpoint.
"And they are not the only ones, my dear lover is on his way in as well," Medusa mused as the scene changed to reveal a white haired man hunched over and crawling to the exit of the building they were in.
"You have summoned Stien here, doesn't he loathe you dear sister?" Arachne asked as they continued to watch the man laugh once he entered the building.
"I'm sure Asura will keep him company, I do control him now." Medusa laughed allowing her pet snake to be brought to her by an uneasy Mizune. All three servants to Medusa watched in silence as the sister's continued their arguments.
"Giriko and Mosquito are yet to be finished as well," Arachne stated as she returned to absently crooning her boyfriend.
"We'll see," Medusa mused as she returned her attention to the crystal ball infront of her.
Stien had left Marie alone at home under the guise of going to help the young adults beat the Gorgon sister's. That part had been true at the time, until Crona slipped him something in his tea when he had seen the experiment. Now here he was inside of the sister's home unable to remember much past Medusa's own name. It seemed his conscious was only limited to a small portion of his own being in his mind. He hated feeling weak, but in order for him to be saved he needed the others to find him and fast. Footsteps where heard as he neared the chambers Medusa was in.
"Welcome Dr. Franken Stien…" Medusa greeted as the double doors before him opened, he couldn't help but smile.
Soul and Wes looked between the two fighters as Kid turned to Liz.
"I'm sorry Elizabeth, for everything that has happened." He whispered before returning his gaze back to Maka.
"Your crimes against the Thompson twins and myself are unforgivable, therefore Maka Albarn, for the killings of both my and the twins mothers, I sentence you to death." Kid said before firing the pistol in his hand.
Wes Evans blinked as he was covered in blood, the others weren't in any better shape as his eyes traveled over them. Had Maka really killed his mother and the mother of the feared Thompson sisters? Did his mother know of this when she gave Soul the order to marry Maka before she killed her? Did Maka kill those mothers due to her own mothers absence?
"Wes we need your help!" Blair yelled as she huddled over the bloody figures lying wet on the ground. Wes didn't know the specifics, but as he moved forward he only wanted one thing. And that was to protect his sewer rat, because she was now his family just as much as the pale boy lying in blood on the ground.
"Soul Damnit, it's not cool to die on your brother. Now wake the fuck up!" Wes screamed as Blackstar and Mifune eyed a distressed Death the Kid.
"My plan is working smoothly sister," Medusa smiled as Stien closed his eyes in sadness.