Stranger

Maka POV:

"Ow…" I groaned rolling around in shards of glass.

Crona laughed looking out of the broken window looking down on me. "That looked like a nasty fall!"

I coughed and a drip of blood ran down the corner of my lips. "Go to tell you little shit!"

He stopped laughing. "Well… that was rude."

Slowly I sat up letting the blood drip off of my chin. "Shut up!"

He placed his palm against his forehead. "Oh my, looks like I'm going to have to come down there and teach you some manners."

He stepped up onto the window frame, crushing what was left of the glass underneath his feet. Then without hesitating, scared that he would fall he leapt out of the broken window and landed flat of his feet just a few meters away from me.

That evil smiled of his widened right across his face, showing his sharp teeth. "I'll try to do this as painless as possible…"

He continued to step closer towards me and as he did I slowly began to notice that his body was shaking, getting faster and faster by the second.

"No…" I started to struggle to get up on my feet. "Stay away…"

"I will ruin Kid's life!" Crona exclaimed gripping hold of his head.

"Stay away!" I screamed at the top of my lungs still trying to stand up.

Suddenly Crona stopped shaking as he was thrown forward as something came in contact with the back of his head. He quickly stepped his foot out in front of him lunging forward managing to keep hold of his balance.

"Leave her alone!" A voice yelled coming from behind me.

I knew that voice straight away when I heard it, but a part of my heart broke a little more when I knew that it wasn't Kid's.

I stammered. "S-Soul…"

"Run Maka!" He yelled motioning me to move quickly. "Go!"

Placing my palms against the ground letting more glass dig into my skin, I pushed up off of the ground and used all of my strength to run. I ran towards the forest that was in front of my house, running as fast as I could, not letting myself look back.

Soul…

Soul POV:

It's him… the one that killed my whole family. Now's the time for revenge.

"Who the hell was that…?" Crona groaned standing up fully. "That bloody hurt…"

"Crona." I said sharply taking a step closer towards him.

"Oh…" He chuckled slightly turning to face me. "It's you…"

Seeing him properly for the first time in fourteen years made me feel anxious, scared and other feelings I couldn't explain but as I stood there staring right into his evil purple eyes, I remembered what he did.

"You monster!" I yelled as loud as I could throwing my fist towards his face. "You killed my family!"

My fist hit him just between his eyes with all the force that was built up inside my arm, but he just stood there, it had done no damage whatsoever, he stood perfectly normal.

I stammered. "What…"

My fist rested against his face for a few seconds longer and it was then that slightly Crona's entire body started shaking rapidly, getting faster and faster by the second.

Quickly he grabbed hold of my fist and bent my arm back behind me and kicked my forward bending my arm back and snapping the bone.

"Aaaaaa!"

Maka POV:

Tears formed in the corner of my eyes as I heard the screams of the only boy I had left, the only one that hadn't left me. But now he was screaming in pain, wanting someone to help him as Crona caused him as much pain as he possibly could.

"I'm so sorry Soul…"

The bell continued to ring blocking out the sounds of Soul's screams only to bring it back then take it away again. Soul's screams wasn't the only sound that was being blocked out by the ringing bells. The sounds of the whispering air flowing between the leaves on the trees faded away only to come back again and the sounds of the snow being crunched underneath my bare feet.

Kid, where are you?

Liz POV:

The sounds of a boy screaming somewhere beyond the trees of the forest lingered in the air around us, along with the sounds of the warning bell. The sounds blended in together running through my head over and over again.

"What's going on?" Tsubaki spun around several times trying to find what was causing the screaming. "Who is that?"

I clenched my fist tightly. "We need to go…"

"But what about Kid?" Patty asked. "Maka will be devastated…"

I started to walk back the way we came. "I'm sure she'll understand."

"What's with you Liz?" Tsubaki grabbed hold of my shoulder. "Don't you care about Maka?"

My jaw dropped as I throw her hand off of my shoulder. "Of course I care!"

"Then why are you walking away, we can't stop looking." She huffed.

I bowed my head staring at my feet. "It's just…"

We stood there in silence, listening to the sound of the bells, and of the screams, every second it was as if they got louder and they got sharper.

"Kid's a wolf…"

Suddenly the bells and the screams completely just stopped.

Maka POV:

I ran through the forest, trying my best to jump over every branch and dodge every tree and bush that came across me. I tried to run as fast as I could but the weight of my tired body was slowing me down, but I had to keep running. I had come to close to give up now, I was to close...

I can't hear Soul's screams or the bells anymore. Has Crona gone?

I felt tears drip from my eyelashes and roll down my cheek towards my chin. It was as if it was clinging onto my chin for dear life and didn't want to drip off, it didn't want to come part of the snow on the ground.

Please come back Kid, I need to save you!

I threw my head back continuing to run. "Kid!"

Suddenly my foot got caught underneath a root that was coming out from underneath the ground causing me to lose balance and stumble forward. I got closer to the snowy forest floor, getting closer and closer till I smacked my head against that hard cold ground.

"Kid…" I sobbed as I lay in the snow staring at the trees beside me. "I need you…"

A shadow quickly moved past the trees that were a way in front of me, it ran back and forth as if it were circling me. I didn't have to think to know what it was that was staring right back at me.

It stopped moving and sat there behind the trees looking at me with sad, watery, curious, gorgeous green eyes.

A wolf with green eyes, I've never seen this wolf before…

It stared right at me, staring right down into my soul, into my past life as if it knew it all. It wasn't scared and it wasn't angry, it didn't want to hurt me but it didn't want to come close to me.

I let out a long deep sigh. "Black*star…"

Liz POV:

"Who's Crona?" Patty asked looking up at me. "And what does he want with Kid?"

I shook my head slowly. "I don't know…"

"Why does he want to kill Maka?" Tsubaki exclaimed.

I sighed. "I keep telling you I don't know…"

"You must know something!" Patty huffed. "What do you know?"

"I know that Kid's a wolf and so is Crona, Crona and Kid used to part of the same pack but Crona's turning insane." I took another deep breath. "I don't know why he wants to kill Maka…"

"Does Black*star know anything?" Tsubaki raised an eyebrow.

"Once again I don't know…" I placed my palm against my forehead.

Tsubaki sighed as did Patty. "We have to go back and talk to Maka…"

Maka POV:

I pulled myself up using the tree that was beside me and slowly I started walking to the grey furred green eyes wolf that was sitting so, so still.

I held my hand out towards it. "It's okay, I won't hurt you…"

It stood up of its four feet and took a small step towards me, followed by another then another after that one until it was standing just a few inches away from me.

Black*star, what happened to you?

It sat down in front of me and waited till I placed my palm against its soft fur and sat with it. And that's what I did, I stroked its fur and sat on my knees in front of I staring into its bright green eyes.

"Black*star, what happened it you?" I asked it letting another tear run down my face. "Who did this to you?"

He bowed his head and nuzzled my cheek placing his soft fur to my skin. Slowly I placed my arms around its neck and hugged it letting a few tears drip onto its fur.