Chapter 8: Friendships or Love

I walk into the school, acting like nothing had ever happened. I was sortof late so sneaking in was a fail, but hey so far so good. A few more feet then...I am pulled into a dark corner of the school, well I failed. I see the person who pulled me in was my weapon, well ain't that a surprise. "Where the hell were you last night?" I look away. "Oh I just tried to look for the kishin, thats all." "You are a complete idiot sometimes Maka." I glance back at him. "You didn't help and why are you getting mad at me? You didn't even try to find me!" "I did to Maka, when I looked back you were gone, you scared the crap out of me!" I shook my head. "Yea right Soul!" "I'm telling the truth, now here's a question... did you ever make it home last night?" I look away. "Can tell when I lie?" He nods, dammit!

"No I didn't make it home. But" I grabbed his arm and pull him closer. "You don't have to care about me Soul, my Mama never knows what happens and Papa never cared, so you don't need to..." He pulled me closer and hugged me. "Soul, what are you...?" "Shut up Maka." I closed my eyes and relaxed. "Soul what period is it?" He chuckled. "Why? Does it matter?" I smiled. "No." The bell rang and the halls filled up, we quickly separated so nobody got the wrong idea. I walked towards the library to get a new book, Im a very fast reader. "Hey its the two star take down!" I turn to see the red haired girl, the one who talked to me in the shower room. "Hey ...again." She gives me a big smile, by any chance is she related to Black Star? "So how ya doin?" I giggled. "Oh good and you?"

She gives me a thumbs up. "So Maka where is those friends of yours?" "Don't know, who are you?" She smiles. "I am Lily, meister." Another female meister, there is one in my class but I never talked to her. "How bout me seeing you after class?" I shrug. "Guess" "Great see ya Maka!"

After class I was outside the school for no reason, but Lily found me. "Hey buddy, come here!" I walked over to her and she started talking again. "Listen, my weapon Tira and I have been dealing with this kishin for a month now, its a real pain and hard to take down with a simple blow, think you can come with us and help?" I thought for a moment, she does need help. "Okay." She smiled. "YAY THANKS MAKA!" She ran off. I felt a hand grab my shoulder. Tsubaki waved. "Hi Maka." "Hey." She looks in Lily's direction. "So you're doing a mission with her?" I nod. "Well ... good luck Maka." I hit my head.

"Where are we going?" "Soul shut up!" Man this guy! "Hey Maka, you must be Soul." Soul nods. "Soul this is Lily." "Who?" I hit my head. "Im Lily, nice to meet ya!" Soul gave her a nod. "Then who's that?" A girl comes from behind Lily, she had black hair and hazel eyes, she wore a white dress. "This is Tira, come say hi Tira." She waves and goes back behind Lily. "Sorry guys, she is very shy." Soul and I nod in agreement. "Well what do you need help with Lily?" She smiles. "Down in Russia, a woman named Lady Pain." Tira nods and speaks. "She is so hard and Lily can't fight her on her own, plus Lady pain is scary."

I fold my arms across my chest. "I see, so Lady Pain is a very strong enemy that no one should fight on their own." Tira nods. Lily looks down at her. "Here Ti want your glasses?" Lily hands her her glasses, she puts them on. Soul points out. "Why doesn't she wear her glasses in the first place?" "Oh she drops them easily." Soul mumbles. "Had to ask." Lily giggles. "Aw anyways, lets get moving." We nod. "Ti and I will get there by car, though I'm to young to drive, how will you get there?" Soul points outside. "Got a bike out there." Lily smiles. "Come on." Soul looks at me. "By the way, where is your vest and cloak?" I start walking. "Now you've noticed?"

"Well yea, what happened to it." I stop and hit my head. "Nothing okay God!" Soul grabs my arm. "Lets get going before you kill yourself again." He found his bike and started it up, I hop on behind him and we drove off. I noticed a small black car driving next to us, the driver was Lily, you could only see half of Tira's face, she waves at us. We were off to Russia, my first enemy outside of Death City.

When Lily stopped Soul did some awkward turn and stopped. "Soul do that again, I'll puke." "Better not." Lily got out, she was wearing a black sweater and skinny black pants, Tira was wearing the same thing but now a grayish scarf. "Well were here." Tira waves her arms out. "Lady Pain is here, we have to wait for a horrible yet hilarious scream!" And then a horrible yet hilarious scream comes from a narrow path. Soul points over in the direction. "Little thing is right, that was hilarious." We start running towards the sound. Then it all went black again. "Soul its happening again!" I felt him grab my shoulder. "Damn Maka, get your vision back."

I heard Tira. "Whats wrong with her?" Lily spoke up. "Maka do you see a red light?" I focused on the darkness. "Maka your eyes are different to." "What?" My eyes are different? "Maka focus, what do you see?" I stare but no red light, only three blue bulbs, they seem so familiar. "No red only blue." I never got how this is triggered. "Wait!" Something was coming up fast. "Move Lily, Tira now!" I felt myself get jerked in one direction, I hit my head against a wall. "You okay Maka?" "Yea." Soul touched my head. "Maka can ya see now?"

I shook my head. "AW lucky, this chick is ugly." I heard Tira. "Thats Lady Pain." I squinted my eyes shut then opened them to see a white skined woman with dark holes for eyes, pitch black hair, and mouth dripping in blood. I grab my partners arm. "What the hell is that thing?" Tira shouts. "Lady Pain!" I saw Lily stand. "Now Ti!" Tira jumps. "Right." She started glowing white and transformed. Okay I have never seen a weapon like that at the school, Tira the sweet, shy girl was a fucking cannon or a bazooka. "Soul." "Yea!" I grabbed my partner now the form of a scythe. "Wow Maka, nice weapon." I smile. "A bazooka?" She gave me a devilish smile. "Watch this." Lily jumps up high, with Tira, and shoots three huge white cannons. "Maka why is their ammo white?" I look. "Not sure, but my theory is, we all have a soul color, when a weapon changes it shows. Yours is blue, I'm guessing and Tira's must be white."

"Makes no sense but okay." Lily shot another cannon, but missed. I ran up and hit Lady Pains hand, she blocked it and sended me flying back. I hit the brick wall, feeling pain run through my cuts on my back. "Damn, she hard." I started running again but Lady Pains tongue shot through my leg, I screamed and stabbed it. It removed from my leg. "Lily you need a more powerful attack or something, have anything like that?" Lily jumps back next to me. "Yea but as soon as I say move come right behind me, we clear?" I nod. Lily and Tira started glowing white, they spoke at the same time. "Lets Go, Soul Resonance!" I slashed at Lady but watching the girl and her weapon glow and the power was unbelievable! "MOVE MAKA!" I jump and land right behind Lily.

"Super Skill, Final Explosion, Disintegrate!" A huge beam came out of Tira and hit Lady Pain. Smoke filled the area. "Lily what was that?" She looks at me surprised. "Final explosion: Disintegrate." I smiled. "You must be powerful to do that!" "Yea I guess, whats your resonance?" I stare at her. "Huh?" I point at myself. "Me, I can do something like that?" Lily giggles, then a tongue went through Lily's chest, we all scream! "LILY!"

Lily fell to the ground. Tira changed back and held her meister's head. "Lily chan?" I saw Lady rise from the ground. "LILY CHAN WAKE UP PLEASE!" Tira started to cry, and so was I, I point at Lady. "I am going to kill you if its the last thing I ever do!" Lady smiles. "Bring it, Maka." I started to run and came to her head! I pull Soul up to her neck, Soul spoke. "One wrong move Bitch then its hell for you." She smiles so evily. "Well now, isn't this a surprise, I finally found a child who is very powerful, and her soul smells delectable." I move Soul around her neck cutting her. "Better not!" She starts to laugh. "Well not you then how about him?"

She points at Soul. "What about this boy here, he smells almost like you, a few differences but okay." I twitch. "Oh what is it Maka, afraid? Or is it how you feel for him." I clench on to Soul, she laughs even harder. "I see, you're just to shy to admit it." "DIE BITCH!" I decapitate her and she becomes a single kishin soul. My partner changes back. "Maka was all that true?" I felt my face get warm. "N-no not all of it." I grab the soul and brought it to Tira who watched the whole thing. "Here Tira." She shook her head. "No Maka chan its yours."

I stare at her. "Take the thing." "NO YOU TAKE IT!" I back away. "Tira..." "Lily won't wake up." Soul to the kishin soul out of my hands and ate it. "What she wasn't going to eat it." I stare at the cannon, now a human crying for her meister, wanting her to wake up, but now I know. She won't. "I'm going to call Lord Death, Soul watch them." He nods and I run to find a mirror. Finally found one. "42-42-564 whenever you want to knock on deaths door." The mirror started going bing...bing...bing. "Hello Lord Death are you there?" Lord Death's image showed up. "Yo yo YO!" I giggled. "This is scythe meister Maka reporting sir." Lord Death stares. "Really? Whats the news now?" I frown. "Soul and I were with Lily's team, but now Lily needs some help can you send someone to pick up her and her partner?"

"Yea yea sure, is Lily okay?" I nod though I'm sure now its a lie. "We will be there soon, you and Soul can go now." "Yes sir." I walk back to the others. Tira was still crying holding Lily and Soul was leaning against a tree, I walk up to Tira. "Tira, someone from the school is coming to get you and take you and Lily home, okay everything is going to be okay now." She looks at me. "Will Lily wake up then?" I nod. "I'm sure." She smiles. "Lily it will be okay now." I look at Lily, her chest is covered in blood and her mouth was full of blood, no way is she alive. "Tira sweety?" She looks at me. "Yes Maka chan?" I put my hand on her head.

"Lord Death suggested that Soul and I leave now, so were leaving okay?" She nods happily. "Lets go Soul." "Yea." We walked to the bike and started it up. "You shouldn't have said she was going to live Maka." I stare at my partner. "What was I suppose to say?" He looks down. "Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say to someone." I grab my left arm and tried desperately not to cry. I hop on the bike and we drove off to Death City. "Soul..." "Yea?" I rest my head on his shoulder. "I want this day to end." He nods, and we fell silent.

As soon as Soul dropped me off I climbed into bed and couldn't stop thinking. Lily could be dead and I told Tira a lie a bad and cruel lie. At around eight o' clock, Papa came home. "Hi Papa where were you?" Papa sat down on the chair and sighed. "I had to find some little weapon and her meister, she looks dead, you know her?" I acted confused. "What does she look like?" He lifts a hand up. "Well the meister had red hair and yellowish eyes, and wore a black outfit, she had a flower name, was it Daisy?" I shrug. "Papa how is the meister doing?" "Im sure she's dead Maka, she has been stabbed in the chest, no return now." I felt like crying. "I have some unfinished homework Papa, see ya." Papa nods. I walk into my room and grabbed a notebook. It said on the cover "Poems" where I write my own personal feelings. I went to the next avalible page and tried to write but the only thing that came out were my tears. I threw my notebook down and tried to fall asleep, but sad, tired and deamless night is what I get.

I went to the nurses office and saw Tira reading a book to Lily, who wasn't even awake. I walked over and her the rest of the story. "And the princess ran away and was never seen again. The end." I tap her head and she turned around. "Maka chan...hi." I wave. "How's Lily?" Tira covers Lily's shoulders. "She's still asleep." I pulled up a chair. "Maka chan, it's funny." "What?" She looks at me. "When I first came here, I was bullied alot. Lily was one who never stopped teasing me and called me a runt. I'm really little so coming here was alittle scary, my parents don't live here so I was alone.I was being teased by my size but I'm only seven in a half, Lily was being picked on once so before they could hit her I blocked her hit and she helped me. Ever since then we were partners." I smile. "Wow Tira." I closed my eyes and opened them to see her white soul, it looked so calm. "Maka do you think its awkward?" I glance at her. "Awkward?" She looks at Lily. "That my partner was at first my bully?" I giggled. "Tira my weapon threatened to kill me at first." She starts to laugh. "Are you serious Maka chan?" I nod. "Because I think your weapon really likes you."

I shook my head and look at Lily. "Lily, better wake up soon." Tira giggles. "Bye, Tira." I stood up. "Bye, bye." I left Tira and went to first period. I walked into the classroom, and sat right next to Tsubaki. "Hey Maka." I smile at her. "Hey Tsubaki." I felt someone tape my head, I look up to see my partner. "How's Lily?" I look down at my desk and shook my head. "I have a feeling that she isn't going to make it." I pulled out my book and began to read. "Maka slow down, I can't read as fast as you." "TSUBAKI!" She looks at me. "Well I can't." I hit my head. "No need for violance." "Shut up Tsubaki!"

I started watching TV, the first time since I don't know when, maybe I was just busy. Whenever I have nothing to do I channel surf. Papa walks in. "Maka its five in the morning what are you doing up?" I didn't respond I kept flipping through channels. "Maka whats wrong?" I sigh. "Papa?" He nods. "Yea Maka?" "When you were a student did anyone in your team die?" He sighs and looks at me. "When I was fifteen, I knew a guy named Yuro, he was a meister like you and a kishin named Gomo the clawed freak, sliced him in three. His girlfriend was his weapon and saw the whole thing, so we had to take her out and retreat at once." I look away. "Do you miss him?" Papa pats my head. "I do Maka."

I got up and walked into my room. I started reading. "Hey Pigtails." I look over at my broken window and Soul poked his head through. "Hey." "Come on, were going to the school." I sat up. "Do you know what time it is?" "Yea." I had to ask. "Okay I'll get ready just wait out there." "Fine." I stripped out of my pajamas and started getting dressed in the usual, mini skirt, white shirt, and black socks. I brushed my hair and put it up in pigtails. I strap on my shoes and hop out of the house. "Soul why are we going so early?" "Because now come on." I hop on the bike and we drove off.

We came to the school around six and walked right in, it seemed so empty, only a few kids. I ran to the nurses office, before anything I need to check on them. As soon as I get there, horror fills my eyes, sadness, horror, and pain. I saw Tira crying and Lily covered up, I was right, she was dead. I hid my face, no not Lily. I heard Tira. "Lily chan, please Lily chan, don't go. You're not an angel yet its not to late, please. You can't, I can't do this alone I'm only seven in a half. I walked towards her but Soul pulles me away. "Soul what the hell?" I stare. "Just don't Maka." "Why Soul?" He shifts a bit to the side. "Because she needs to be alone with her meister, that's why." I shook my head. "You don't know that!" He grabs my arm. "Shut up, come on were gonna be late for class!" He starts dragging me. "We came here early how are we going to be late? Soul quit dragging me now!"

During class I did almost nothing, I was done with my book so I couldn't read or yell at Tsubaki. No I just watched Soul and Black Star play squares. "No dude you need to make squares not a fucking stare case!" Black Star made another random line. "Dude really?" Soul made a line and made a full box. "This is why I don't play squares, you cheat." I hit my head. "I don't cheat." I took the paper and ripped it in two. They both just stare. "MAKA!" I gave them another piece of paper. "Play tic tac toe, not fucking squares." They take the paper and began to play tic tac toe. "Maka this is boring and Soul keeps on winning." I roll my eyes. "Then don't play." Tsubaki giggles. "Maka doesn't care it looks like." I smirk. "Nope." I fiddle with my tie. "When is class over?" Soul shrugs. "Why don't we ever do any school work here?" Black Star looks at the paper, then made an X. "We did once, and I think thats it." Tsubaki fiddles with her hair. "Maybe something terrible has happened." I shook my head. "Not likely." "Wait why are we talking about this?" We all look at Soul. "You brought it up."

I walked into the nurses office, Lily wasn't removed yet. I sat on the chair next to her bed. "I...I" I began to cry. "I'm so sorry Lily!" I covered my face with my hands. "Its all my fault, I'm so sorry." I just sat there alone and in tears. I look away from my hands and saw a sparkle from Lily's neck. I grabbed it and saw a locket. I took it from her neck and opened it, it had a picture of Tira in it. How sweet, I hid it in my skirt pocket. "I'll give this to her Lily." I left the nurses office, and headed towards the library.
"Uh... I would like to check this out please." The librarian looks at me then slides over, creepy. "Okay then young lady..." He hands me the card and I put my initials, then walked towards the wall and began to read.

The beginning said, I lonely and sober in deep darkness, but my crave for blood is still within me. What the? I closed it and looked up at the ceiling. What is wrong with the world now, everything is messed up, death and the beginning of this book. Lily didn't deserve death, why am I so lucky? I got a kick to the arm, I fell on my side. "Hi Maka." I sat back up. "Asshole." Soul laughs. "Why are you bugging me?" He sat next to me. "Eh. I like how you react to certain things." I shook my head. "Like everything you say or do gets me pissed." He nods and lays down. "You should probably get up." "Make me pigtails." I rolled my eyes. "You are a total punk." "And..." I smile. "And... nobody likes you." He laughs. "Well how come I always get love letters." "That you hate." He looks away. "Yea but they like me." I giggled, I started reading again. "No, Maka don't read now." I didn't look away. "Why?" "Talk to me." I roll my eyes. "Big baby." Soul hits my arm. "ABUSE!" "Hey!"

It was still bugging me, this locket. I need to find Tira... like thats going to be easy? I hate searches, but at least I'm not with Soul. I heard a big BOOM noise and started running towards it. I look and saw a few kids running for their life. And Tira her arm a half weapon. "Tira what are you doing?" Her hazel eyes were full of hurt. "Maka Chan they...they started picking on me and Lily Chan! So I tried to kill them." I stare at her then lightly hit her head. "No Tira if someone's picking on you get me or Soul, we'll take care of them." Tira changed her arm back. "I'm sorry." "No one blames you sweety, you lost a loved one, they should be nicer to you."

She looks up at me. "Maka how would you acted if your weapon died?" I look away, why would I think of that, my partner, dead. "I would feel like ...suicide." "Sould I suicide." I started freaking out. "NO NO NO NO SUICIDE FOR TIRA NOW!" She nods. I remembered the locket, and took it out. "Tira close your eyes." She did. "Can I open them now?" I giggled. "Nope." I put the neckless around her neck. "Open." She looks and gasps. "Maka it's pretty." "It was Lily's." She opened it and saw her picture. She looks on the other side. "Maka Chan look." I saw a corner of paper and took it out, it was Lily's photo. It fits perfectly on the other side. "Are you happy Tira." She looks upo at me and smiles. "Thank you Maka, for everything." She runs off, I don't know if I'll ever see her again.

I'm walking home, nothing new. I'm happy though, I did something good. But I have this feeling that something bad is going to happen any minute now. Oh well must be my imagin-AH! "Ow.. chalk?" Well thats great who in their right mind would leave this here? "NO MY AMINALS!" I turn and saw a blond girl with pink rosy cheaks and a pink shirt that shows her shoulders. "Huh?" "NO !" I step away. "Thats a penguin?" "Not ." "Thats a zebra?" I kept stepping on said animals. "Patty what are you doing silly?" The girl turns towards the voice, guessing she's Patty, well I also turn. A tall tan girl with brown hair that went to her waist, she was wearing a purple tank top that showed her stoumach and skinny jeans. "Sis, she keeps stepping on my aminals." "Well then don't put them where people walk." The girl walks up to me. "I am so sorry about my sister, she is alittle off, even for her age." I nod. "Oh by the way, I'm Liz, you are?" "Maka." She grins. "So what are you doing out here?"

"Um...going home?" Patty shouts again. "AH shush it, little brat." I see Soul walking by. "Hey pigtails, who are these girls?" Patty hits him. He growls then looks down with an evil smile. "Oh hey chalk let's see what I can do with the red one." Soul starts scribbling on Patty's drawings. Liz and I start laughing. "Well well, Liz Patty, I didn't know you had new friends." All of us stop, except Soul. Hey wait the boy who untapped me from the ground. "This Kiddo is Maka, and that boy is an ass." Soul points to a ...I think a donkey. "No that is." "Kid walks over to me and smiles. "Well Maka, we meat again." I nod. "Kiddo you know her?" "Yes and don't call me Kiddo." Liz rolls her eyes. "Well I have your things fixed." I clap. "Kiddo what fixed?" "Dammit Elizabeth don't call me that!" She giggles. "What its cute." I look over at Kid. "So it looks like I can have my vest and cloak back."

Kid looks at the ground. "Yea...about that its at my place, I didn't know your address so..." "Oh." Liz wraps an arm around me. "Lets invite them over Kiddo!" "What no and shut up!" Liz giggles, Patty hugs Soul. "Yea lets let them come over!" Soul rubs chalk over her face. "We wouldn't have enough guests." I raise an arm. "Soul and I know two more people." "Who?" Soul takes out his phone. He talks for a bit. "Well two more." "FINE!" Kid and the two girls leave. I walk over to Soul who was still playing with chalk. "My parents never let me have chalk, your clothes would get to messy, mom would say." I smile. He rubs pink chalk on my face. "Look Maka." I saw what he drew, it was a red bloody heart and a pink spider climbing it. "I don't get it." Soul shrugs. "You don't have to." He tapes my cheek and walks off. I stood there, frozen.

The dark night was now light up by stars, I counted them one by one, then lost track, okay. 1...2...3..4...5...6...7...8...9...10 no wait I counted that one already. 10, no god I hate counting stars. I found the house, and wait thats a fucking mansion! I saw Soul standing on the steps. "Hey thanks for telling me the address at home, thank god Papa was gone. Why are you standing here?" Soul looks at me. "The dude Kid said to come at eight very strict like so I'm gonna wait until eight o' one and knock." Soul looks at his cell then knocks. "Soul nobody gets made for being a second late." Kid opens the door. "BASTARDS, I SAID EIGHT AND I MEANT IT, YOU RUINED IT!" Liz pushes Kid to the side. "Come in you two, right on time."

"LIZ DON'T BE NICE!" Soul and I walk in, we see Black Star and Patty playing squares, Tsubaki waves me over. "Hey Tsubaki." She waves and looks at the game. "So you two were on time?" "Alittle early, but we got yelled at for some reason." I smile. Soul takes the chair and yawns. "I'm hungry." Kid stood next to Liz. "Go get something then." "No to lazy, how about the meisters who weren't on time go do it." I look at Soul, he smiles at me. "That means it Black Star and I." Liz spoke up. "Rock, paper, scissors challenge begin. Black Star and I held up our hands. I spoke. "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Maka chop!" I hit him with the book. "OWWW CHEAT!" I point. "Go and get food Black Star." "NO!" I held up my book. Black Star leaves. We sat down. Patty sat next to me. "Maka want to play makeover?" I shook my head. "I hate make up." "Here I'll put some on you!" I scream and hide behind Tsubaki. "Fine."

"I found chips." Black Star threw the chips at Soul, he opened them and shoved a ton in his mouth. It was kinda fun, Patty kept on attacking me with make up, Liz took some of Soul's food and Black Star talked to Kid. "Maka I'm out of chips." "So?" Soul throws his head back and moans. I sigh. Kid pulles my arm. "Maka let's go on a walk together." "Wha-?" Kid drags me out. The last thing I saw was Soul's face, and it did not look happy.

"Kid why did you drag me out here?" Kid smiles. "Because." I frown. "Changing subject, why do you hate Liz so much?" Kid's smile turns into a frown. "She pisses me off, she calls me Kiddo, Kid-Kun and other nicknames. And she looks so unsymmetrical." "Judgmental on looks huh?" Kid looks away. "Well her eyes, hair, arms, and boobs aren't symmetrical at all, so unattractive." I giggle. "You like her don't you?" Kids face turned red. "NO I DO NOT LIKE HER!" I laugh. "You lo~ve her." Kids face was so red.

"Shut up! What about your partner, do you get along?" I nod. "Sometimes we fight, but he is so nice and handsome, I mean his eyes, his laugh, and how he plays it feels like heven." Kid nods. "But lately I've felt like exploding around him, its so stupid and it never goes away, I feel my face heating up just by thinking about it." Kid looks at me. "Maka I know how well you do in school, father calls you a star student in every class, but there's one you lack at." I stare at him filled with rage. "What is it?" "It's love."

This took forever, I was busy and today was nothing so... I got done at least. Lucy sorry I didn't start a new paragraph when someone spoke, I have been under alot of stress. I thought of something fun, want to ask a question to any of the characters then review a question to any of the characters. They will be up before chapter 9 ... now like always should I continue? See Ya