A/N: Alright chapter 3! Let's go!
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Chapter 3: Down the Well
The albino carefully slid the door open, he could barely see inside, he squinted as he tried his best to see. Coming in after him, Maka also squinted as she tried looking through the darkness. She set down their backpacks by the door and pulled out a small flashlight. she flicked it on. Much to Soul's surprise the only thing they found was a well in the middle of the entire building.
"You've got to be kidding me?! A well there's nothing else down here" Soul exclaimed. He was immediately shushed by his miester as they both made their way down the small stair case. Although it was just a bit, Maka could feel a strange energy coming off the well, or from inside the well. She carefully placed a hand on the edge of the well. The old wood creaked as she moved her hand along the edge.
"Something is off...I can feel it, it doesn't seem like a witch's magic...how could that kishin egg just disappear like that. Why did it come in here specifically, I think it's the well" Maka whispered. Soul looked at her and squinted, she could not be serious if she was about to do what he thought she was about to do. He glanced over to the side and notice a small rope ladder.
"Looks like people have been down there" Soul pointed out the rope ladder to Maka who nodded. She held Soul's hand tightly as she nodded at him. The weapon gave a lazy grin before transforming into his weapon form. Maka grasped Soul tightly in her gloved hands. She sat on the ledge of the well, taking a deep breath, she jumped in.
Immediately the two were engulfed with a bright blue light, shocked Maka let go of Soul who transformed. He wrapped an arm around his miester'swaist as they fell down the well. "What the hell is going on!?" Soul shouted. He looked up to find nothing but the blue light. Maka looked around and soon enough the two landed in the ground. The two looked up towards the top of the well expecting to see the ceiling of the shrine they were in, but to their surprise there was nothing but a dark night sky full of stars.
"W-where are we?" Maka whispered softly. She stood up, free from Soul's protective grasp. Her mind was racing and so was Soul's. What the hell was that blue light just now, did they travel somewhere else just now? How is that possible? The young miester sensed no witch magic. Maybe it was a different kind of magic that transported them. "We have to get out of now" the girl muttered. She placed a hand on the side of the well, observing a way on how to get out.
Soul frowned, despite being a pretty strong weapon, he did slightly lack the athletic aspect. "So, any plans on how to get out, it seems like the rope ladder is gone" he noted. He yawned loudly and scratched his head, spending the night down a dirty old well wasn't exactly the coolest thing to do on the Death Scythe's list.
"Just transform and I'll jump as out of here" opposite of Soul, Maka was extremely fit and athletic. The pig tailed girl grabbed her weapon's hand, for a second a flash of bright light flashed as Soul transformed once more. Maka grunted as she jumped up high. She bounced off the well's wall and with one last final big jump she was out of the well. The girl paused as her entire environment was unfamiliar. "We're not at the shrine anymore..." With this in mind the young meister started walking through the forest they were currently surrounded by.
The blade on her death scythe glimmered, "Maka where do you think you're going?" Soul said, he was usually the one to stop his partner from making random rash decisions for the both of them, but even now, he didn't quite know what to do in this situation. Forest surrounded the two as they kept walking deeper and deeper into the foreign forest. A few minutes had passed as they approach a large tree in the center of a large clearing. Approach the tree a little closer Maka saw there was some sort of dent with some scarring on the tree bark, as if something was stabbed into the tree.
"Hey I think I see some smoke coming from over there!" Soul says as he transforms back into his human form. He points towards a couple of trees. "Civilization, let's go, maybe we can get some information about this place, plus it beats staying in the middle of a dark forest." The albino drags his partner by the hand and towards the smoke. Soul wasn't one to go into depth in missions, but now his curiosity had peaked and he wanted to find out where they were.
The two walk for a while before they face a small river, a bridge connecting what seemed like a village on the opposite side they were on. The two look at each other in confusion, they seemed to have gone to some kind place lacking the modern structures they had seen earlier that even in the streets of Japan. Even the air was free from pollution, you could see the stars very clearly. The weapon and meister pair cross the bridge and approach the almost empty village. The two could hear horses and other barn animals within the village.
They look around some more before the two approach some stairs leading up to a shrine, different from the one earlier that evening. Coming down the final few steps of stairs was an older looking lady with an eye patch on one eye. She lets out a startled gasp as she noticed the two strangers in weird clothing.
"Who are ye? What ye be doing here I the middle of the night?" The old lady asks as she holds a bow tightly in her grasp. She cautiously backs away from the two newcomers as they looked at her strangely. She was wearing traditional Japanese priestess attire. Maka had recognized this since she had researched a bit to the country the weapon meister pair were heading to.
Maka holds up her hands in defense to show that she and Soul meant no harm the old lady might think they would do to her. She steps in front of her albino friend to do all the talking as she usually would. "We don't mean any harm; my friend and I are just lost and we want to know what this place is"
At this the old lady softens her expression a bit seeing that the two were just some teens getting lost in the woods. "This be the Musashi Province my child, where ye heading too?" At this Maka froze, although Maka was not a history buff she had refreshed her memory on Japanese history and knew for a fact that Musashi Province is now Tokyo Japan. She bit her lip slightly.
"Um we're trying to go to Tokyo?" Maka said, well asked. She was still unclear on things, but if what this lady was correct, Soul and her just went back in time. The older lady's eyes widen as the familiar named rang in her ears.
"Come with me child, they call me Lady Kaede" with that Kaede began making her way but to her hut where hot food was ready for when she came back from the shrine. Soul and Maka looked at each other confused. Soul shrugged and began to follow the priestess as she went into a hut nearby. Hesitantly Maka decided to follow, she didn't seem to be harmful.
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Once inside the hut Kaede had the pair sit with a bowl of hot soup. She grunted softly as she sat down on her mat and stirred the food pot. "Ye two come from the future, there is another girl like ye two, do you possess a shard of the Shikon jewel?"
"Shikon Jewel?" Soul asked in a lazy like tone, he looked over to Maka who was puzzled like he was, and Maka knew everything. "We've never heard about this Shikon jewel" the albino replies as he takes a sip of his stew. To his surprise it's pretty good.
"It is a powerful jewel that increases the power of one greatly! It was shatter by the girl from Tokyo, her name is Kagome, she is searching for the shards along with her friends" Kaede explains as she puts a lid on the pot. She smiles fondly, it was a gift Kagome had brought back from the future just for her. It was after she had returned to the future for the first time and came back with her silly yellow bag stuffed with supplies for her new journey.
"If ye are not in possession of the jewel how did ye manage to travel back in time?" The elder priestess raises an eyebrow, the two teens in front of her were dressed even wilder than what Kagome usually wore.
"We just jumped in the well and we were surrounded by the blue lights" Maka explains, she sets down her now empty bowl of stew, she was pretty hungry since she skipped out on the meal the flight had provided.
"Ah yes the Bone Eaters well in Inuyasha's forest, but why did you jump in the well in the first-place child?" Kaede was intrigued, she hadn't known that you could pass the well without a shard of the jewel.
"We...have a mission to do and we were exploring the well and well, this is where we ended up I guess" Maka pulled up her knees as she extended her hands towards the fire to warm up. She didn't want to reveal their too much information on their current mission"
"Hey Lady Kaede, where would we find this Kagome you were talking about, she seems to be traveling through the well often" Soul says, if the two of them wanted to get some information concerning the kishin eggs, this Kagome girl would definitely have some answers.
"She be traveling with her companions, they left this afternoon and headed north" Kaede answered. She carefully stood up and began setting up two tatami mats side by side. "Rest and tomorrow ye shall set out to find Kagome"
Again, the pair looked at each other in confusion, but they both just nodded at each other, they didn't have much to lose and they were both a little exhausted with the nights events.
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The next morning the pair awoke to the loud Rooster making noise. Maka sat up when she opened her eyes, she had forgotten that they were in feudal Japan. Her hand flew on to Soul's shoulder as she tried to wake her weapon up from his slumber. His red eyes fluttered tiredly as he noticed his meister, already awake.
"Ah good morning, I made breakfast, eat up and ye can head out to your journey" Kaede stirred the pot she had previously prepared dinner in. After a quick breakfast and the meister weapon pair profusely thanking Kaede for food and shelter the two set off north in search for Kagome.
Soul and Maka walked side by side, "Maka this is going to take forever, let's just use your Grigori wings and see if we can find her" Soul said as he grabbed Maka's hand tightly. At this the girl smiled, even though Soul was sometimes a bit too laid back, he also always had a couple of good ideas up his sleeve.
Soul transforms and Maka handles him expertly, swinging him as she closes her eyes. The two concentrate as they started to resonate their souls. Soul's blade shrank as he spread wings which flapped as they stretched out. With a running start, Maka jumped onto Soul's pole, crouching down and using one hand to hold her balance as they begin to move forward.
"Alright let's do this!" Maka yelled loudly as she flew through the forest, a big grin formed on her lips as the excitement of flying through the forest was a rush for her. At this Soul laughed at his meister, the two sped off into the unknown together.
A/N: End of chapter 3! Hope you enjoyed it! Don't forget to review! Thanks for reading! You cannot tell me that Maka wouldn't just jump out from the well, because she fucking would ha-ha! Also, I'm using a lot of factors from the Soul Eater manga since I recently revisited it for some research, can't say the same for Inuyasha but yeah.
Shout Outs:
MonkeyQueen88YT: That's totally fine! Still a good movie, I do recommend watching it! Thanks a bunch! I had other stories in mind that I want to write but really shouldn't get too ahead since I'm starting college this month haha. Thanks for the review
Queenie: Oh hello again guest! Glad you're enjoying it! Hope you enjoyed this chapter as well. Thanks for the review!