Stranger
Liz POV:
As we walked up the path towards Maka's house I noticed bits of shattered glass laying in the snow in her front garden. Blood drips stained the pure white snow, it was obvious something had happened, Maka's bedroom window had been broken into shattered glass.
"What the hell happened here?" Tsubaki gasped staring at the scene of Maka's ruined house.
Crona's been here.
"Maka!" I exclaimed running through the open front door. "Maka where are you?"
I ran upstairs to her bedroom where the window had been smashed up. More its of glass were left all over the carpet floor as if they were in a rush to pick up the shards of the broken window.
"Where's Maka?" Patty asked running into the room behind me.
Maka POV:
I sat there for ages looking up at the green eyed wolf that held my friend's soul inside. After all this time I finally knew where Black*star had been hiding, he'd been trapped inside this wolf's body, unable to escape.
"Can you hear me Black*star?" I asked looking up at its face. "It's me, Maka."
It nodded closing its eyes for a second then opening them again so it could stare at me once more. Its sad green eyes became sadder as did mine as I realized it couldn't speak.
Tears dripped off of my chin. "I'm sorry this happened Black*star, I'm so, so sorry…"
I buried my teary wet face in its soft grey fur soaking strands of its ruff with my tears. My whole body shook each time I sobbed letting more tears fall from my emerald eyes.
I need Kid, oh god, I wish he was here…
"Black*star…" I looked up at the grey wolf's green eyes. "Do you know where Kid is?"
The wolf quickly stepped back out of reach, nodding rapidly. It continued to nod until I stepped towards it and answered it once me.
"Can you show me where?"
The wolf in front of me suddenly looked horrified, as if it remembered something terrible and traumatizing that had once happened and it pained it as it played it back inside of their head.
"Black*star…?" I questioned. "What's wrong…?"
And that's when it started shaking uncontrollably right in front of me.
Liz POV:
"We have to find her!" I yelled.
"Calm down…" Tsubaki said trying to get me to stop yelling.
"What if something horrible happened to her?" I yelled once again. "What if Crona's got her!"
"Maka's smarter than that!" Patty shouted. "She may be sad all the time, bet she knows better than that!"
We stood in silence thinking about what would happen if Crona had managed to get hold of Maka. Would she be dead? Would she have managed to escape? Would Crona not be bad at all and he would help Maka find Kid?
"God…" I sighed. "I just hope she's okay…"
Maka POV:
"Maka!" The pink haired boy called from the entrance of the forest. "Come out wherever you are!"
I hugged and held on tight to the wolf in front of me, trying my best to prevent it from shaking any longer. No matter how tight my grasp was around its furry body, it wouldn't stop shaking.
"Please…" I whispered as a tear dripped from my eye and splashed again the wolf's nose. "Please Black*star… please stop…"
It was as if Black*star heard me, it stopped shaking, as if under Black*star's own will. Was Black*star able to control himself? But what Kid said, by the way he said, Black*star wouldn't be able to do that.
When you change into a wolf, you won't remember anything.
Could Black*star actually remember who I was, and if he could, was he able to turn back into a human without the moon?
"Maka!" The sound of Crona's voice startled me once again. "I know you're in here, I can smell Kid's wolf stench!"
"Black*star!" I exclaimed not caring how loud I was. "Please help!"
The wolf looked down on me with sad green eyes, closing them and then reopening them again slowly. It tilted its head forward then stepped past me towards Crona's direction.
He called out again. "I'm really starting to lose my temper now!"
The wolf sat against the cold hard ground and pointed its nose up to the sky and as it did it let out a loud high pitched howl against the trees echoing all around me and every other living thing that was hiding in the forest.
The wolf turnt to face me one last time and as it did I heard Black*stars voice inside my head one last time. Run Maka…
I spun around as fast as I could and ran the other direction of the grey furred wolf, running as fast as I could, not letting anything in my way stop me.
Run Maka…
Tsubaki POV:
"All we can do is wait…" I sighed placing my palm against my face. "It's the best thing to do."
"But what if Maka needs us?" Liz yelled at the top of her lungs. "I can't let anything happen to her! I can't just sit here and watch!"
"Sis…" Patty slowly placed her arm out towards her and tried to calm her down. "Everything will be okay…"
Liz knocked Patty's arm away. "No it won't! Nothing will ever be okay anymore!"
Silence echoed all around us. I had never heard silence quite this loud before. My heart was thumping in my chest, I didn't know anything anymore.
"I'm going to find her…" Liz sighed turning around to walk away.
I leapt to grab hold of her wrist. "Wait!"
She pulled her arm away. "I'm tired of waiting…"
And with that being said, she walked away without another word and without taking one last look behind her.
Maka POV:
My legs were beginning to way down my speed, blisters and blood covered the soles of my feet, pain was all that I could feel in every bone in my body, it was excruciating.
Run Maka…
I prayed, I prayed that both Soul and Black*star were okay. I didn't know what to do, I just about only knew which way to run, as if my heart was telling me every tree and every direction.
Run Maka…
Blood covered my forehead as thorns scraped across my face tearing away the skin over and over again. But still, I couldn't stop running, not know, not ever…
I could still hear Soul's screams inside my head, over and over again. It brought tears to my eyes, I hadn't known him or Kid for long but it still pained me that I didn't know if they were okay.
Run Maka…
Suddenly my weight fell in front of me and my body flew forward and hit the ground. The blood ran down my nose and dripped onto my hands in front of me, as did tears and anything else that covered my body.
I was in pain, I could hear my heart thumping in my ears, thumping in my chest, thumping everywhere. I thought it was going to break through my skin.
My vision was blurry as I slowly lifted my head, but as I did I noticed a black figure lying on the ground in front of me. My vision was so blurred it was hard to make out who it was, but when I saw the three white stripes curved around the left side of his hair, my heart stopped thumping.
I-I can't run…
Liz POV:
I walked out of the front door and slammed it shut behind me not wasting anymore time, I was so determined to find my best friend, and was so determined to protect her through everything.
"Ow…" I heard a groan coming from behind the fence. "Help…"
I stood stunned staring at the fence beside me, I couldn't see anyone or anything. So I carried on walking up the path.
"Please…" The voice groaned again. "Help me…"
I walked slowly towards the fence and saw the same white haired boy that had brought Maka to the hospital just a couple of weeks ago. He was surrounded by blood and he was clutching on tightly to his arm.
I jumped over the fence. "Oh my god! Are you okay?"
"M-Maka…" He stammered. "Crona's gone after Maka…"
"I know!" I exclaimed trying to stop the bleeding on his arm. "But we really need to get you help."
"No!" He winced in pain. "Save Maka…"
I saw in his eyes that he cared for her, he cared for her pretty much the same as everyone else. How I cared for her, how Black*star cared for her, how Kid, cared for her…
"I'm going to find her…" I closed my eyes slowly. "Everything will be okay again…"
The boy slowly reached up to my face with his unwounded arm. "Nothing will be okay, Crona won't give up until he gets his revenge…"
"How do I stop him?" I asked widening my eyes. "There must be some way…"
"You have to take down the one he most cares for…" He struggled to keep his eyes open.
I gasped. "Maka…?"
"N-No…" He smiled slightly. "…Medusa…"
Medusa…? Who is she, I've never heard of her…
"I'm losing too much blood…" The boy winced again. "It hurts…"
I placed my hands on his open wound trying to stop the bleeding. "You'll be okay, you'll be okay Soul!"
"Please…" He closed his eyes. "Save Maka…"
His body fell limp on the ground in front of me, but still blood poured out of his wound. His eyes remained closed and as I placed my ear to his lips there was no sound of any air escaping through his partly opened mouth.
"Soul…" I asked slowly pulling away from his body.
There was no reaction, he was still laying there unconscious. He said nothing, did nothing, he was nothing.
"SOUL!"