Stranger
Maka POV:
I lay against the ground motionless. I was in shock, I could hardly breathe.
The boy I had been waiting days to for him to come back was lying unconscious on the cold forest floor right before my eyes.
"Kid…" I stammered. "Kid…?"
There was no reaction, he was as still as motionless water on a dull dry sunny day with no breeze floating in the air.
I pushed myself towards him and began to shake his shoulders.
"Kid!" I exclaimed. "Wake up!"
He stirred, groaning, trying to turn onto his side to face me. He continued to struggle, trying to work up the strength to turn on his right, but he just could do it.
"Maka…" He moaned.
"It's okay!" I slowly turned him to face me. "I'm here, its okay!"
He opened his eyes revealing the two shinning bloodshot golden orbs. "Leave now…"
My eyes widened. "What…? No, I'm not leaving you!"
He grabbed hold of my hand. "Y-You're… in danger Maka…" He stammered for words. "You need to leave… now."
"NO!" I yelled gripping onto his hand even tighter. "I'm not letting you go ever again!"
I sat there staring down on him watching him breathe slowly, watching his chest raise then fall again over and over. Being able to see him again made my heart skip several beats, making me forget everything else that was happening.
Slowly I placed my palms against either side of his cheeks and held my forehead against his. "I thought I'd never see you again…"
Liz POV:
Every bone in my body felt weak. I couldn't move, I just continued to kneel by Soul's dead body staring down at his closed eyes and the opened bloody wound spread across his arm.
Soul…
Slowly I pushed myself to my feet, still bowing my head to stare and the red eyed white haired boy that lay in front of me.
Save Maka…
Keep my head tilted towards the ground I began sprinting up the path and ran through the gate and began running all the way to the entrance of the forest, not stopping for air, not stopping at all.
"I'm coming Maka…"
Black*star POV:
I stood there, trapped in the wolf's body staring right at the pink haired boy. I stood there unafraid, staring right into his purple fearful eyes. I wasn't going to let him get Maka, I was going to protect her.
He laughed. "You think you can protect her?"
I rose to all fours and tilted my head forward, nodding towards him, standing strong so he knew that I was not afraid.
"Think you're strong enough to take me down?" He laughed again. "Ever heard of the story, the boy who cried wolf?"
I immediately thought back to the day where I was attacked by Crona, the blood, the screams, but yet, the silence…
"No matter how loud he yelled, how hard he cried." He looked around. "No one heard him."
And that's when I started shaking, every part of my wolf body started shaking furiously.
No…
Maka POV:
"What happened to your face?" Kid gasped placing the tips of his fingers over the scratches. "It's all cut up…"
I smiled and placed my hand over his. "It's okay…"
"It's not okay Maka…" He sighed. "You're all covered in blood."
I giggled. "I'm fine, I promise…"
We sat in silence for several minutes just staring at each other, staring deeply into each others eyes. His golden orbs staring right at me. Staring right down into my soul, right into my whole life story, he knew everything.
I sniffed. "Please don't ever leave me again."
He threw his arms me as quickly as possible and pulled me close towards him. "I promise, I'm so sorry…"
Liz POV:
I ran through the forest, faster than I had ever ran before in my life. I jumped over huge branches that were blocking my way. Scratches covered my arms dripping with little blood, running down towards my wrist.
I longed for a big gasp of air, but I couldn't force myself to stop, no matter how many stitches I got in the side of my ribs, I wasn't going to slow down for anyone or anything.
Suddenly a howl so high pitched and so loud shattered my eardrums forcing me to stop running and spin around in every direction alerted.
No…
As I turned around, I was surrounded by wolves. There was a wolf in every direction. I tried to count how many there were, there were four. But no matter how many of them were surrounding me, I was still scared, I was so afraid.
Black*star POV:
"The fight will begin soon." Crona laughed once again taking a step closer. "There's not enough of you to protect that stupid girl of yours…"
I couldn't stop shaking, no matter how hard I tried, I was still rapidly moving continuously and I couldn't stop it.
Stop Black*star…
I heart Maka's voice inside my wolf mind, was she behind me and saying this directly to the wolf I was trapped inside? Or was it just my mind playing tricks on me.
You can do this Black*star… Everything will be okay…
Rage filled up inside of my body, it carried on filling up until I couldn't become any angrier. I was still shaking but I couldn't feel anything turn inside me, I wasn't shaking because of the change anymore, I was shaking because I was angry.
SHUT UP!
I charged towards him, running on all four of my paws and leaping off of the ground towards him. I held out my claws and dug them into his shoulders pinning him down to the forest ground.
"Is that the best you can do?" Crona smirked showing no sign of fear.
My wolf eyes widened. What is he?
Suddenly I was thrown, he threw me backwards away from him throwing me in the trees then letting me fall back to the ground.
Maka…
Liz POV:
The four wolves just stood there staring at me, staring in on me, but they weren't going to hurt me, I could tell by their eyes, that they weren't going to hurt me.
One of them slowly tipped back their heads and pointed their nose up to the sky and then, they howled. It was such a beautiful sound, a high pitched beautiful song, as if it were just for me and nothing else could hear it.
Then other tipped back its head and joined in with the howl, then other, then the last one joined in tipping back its head and let the howls escape.
What's going on?
And the as if on cue the wolves lowered their heads and bowed before me, showing me that there was nothing to be afraid of, nothing at all.
Maka POV:
"What is that?" I spun my head round as I heard the howls of wolves echo through the forest.
Kid's eyes widened as he turnt to where the sound was coming from. "There here…"
"What…?" I questioned stepping towards the sound. "Who's here?"
He didn't answer me, he just continued to listen to the sound around him of each wolf joining in with the other, singing in howls, howling in song.
"Kid…?" I asked again. "What's going on?"
He turned back to face me. "It's starting…"
Black*star POV:
I lay against the cold hard ground staring at the pink haired boy in front of me, there was no way that I could defeat him, he was just too strong. I could hardly breathe, I could hardly stand, I wasn't strong enough.
The wolves were howling, they were howling like there was no tomorrow, like this would be the last day they would spend on this ground.
Crona's expression horrified. "What…"
I saw through my wolf eyes that he was worried about something, he was afraid, he was scared, but about what?
"There meant to all be dead!" He yelled grabbing hold of the strands of his hair. "This isn't possible!"
Is he talking about the howls?
Maka POV:
He slipped his palm into mine and linked our fingers together. He turned to face me and stared down into my forest green eyes. He looked troubled and afraid, I didn't want him to feel that way. I could see in his eyes that he was tired and he was pained but I didn't know why.
"Don't be afraid." I placed my hand on his cheek. "You should never be..."
Something heavy was smashed up against the back of my head and caused me to fall to the ground. I hit the solid forest floor and knocked my head once again and this time everything around me went black, there was nothing that I could see.
"Maka!"