SOUL EATER: ~AFTERMATH~
Chapter 8 - The Subject of Resonating Souls... Can They Pull it Off?
The days passed by rather quickly. It was only three more days until Dani's birthday and everyone but her seemed to be interested. Patty had to be the most excited because she was constantly asking Dani what she planned to do when she turned seventeen.
"I'm really not sure could you please stop asking me?" Dani sighed.
"Ugh, such an ugly number seventeen... No symmetry in it at all." Kid spat at the ground.
"Don't let them get to you Dani, I'm sure you'll find something to do for your birthday." Jake said trying to change the subject.
"Oh, that sounds interesting! I mean both of you will be of age and-" Liz started to joke.
"GAH! SHUT UP! I didn't mean it like that Liz!" he shouted turning red in the face.
"Then why are you blushing?" Patty asked innocently. Everyone started to laugh as Jake slinked away feeling like everyone was against him. When they all got to school there were two familiar words written up on the black board.
'SOUL RESONANCE'
"Today children, we are going to work on the topic of Soul Resonance." Stein began. "Quite simply... I'm going to see if you and your partners are compatible with each other. Now I'm going to split you into groups. Dani and Jake, you'll be with... Messor and Ryder, as well as Clarabella and Luna."
"HEY! Me and Messor can already resonate souls perfectly! We don't need to take this stupid class!" ranted Ryder.
"Aw... I wanted to be with Kid..." Luna said frowning.
"Well I'm sorry but Kid is already well past this part of the learning process and as for you Ryder... I saw the bond between you and Messor and it was rather loose if you ask me."
"YOU DON'T KNOW CRAP!" Ryder shouted.
"I know that if you aren't out of my class and practicing your soul resonance in the next sixty seconds I'm going to dissect you..." Stein threatened.
They all stared at each other and made their way from the room as quickly as possible with Messor ambling out behind everyone.
"What a dick!"
"Calm down Ryder..." Messor said in his plain monotone voice.
"Jake I really don't want to practice with these guys... I mean what if I mess up?" Dani said shamefully.
"Dani you won't mess up. Besides if you do it means I'll be messing up too." Jake replied.
"Well you two can work on your soul resonance I'm going to go look for Death the Kid." Luna told them.
"What do you mean? Like you're going to stalk him?" Jake asked.
"It's not stalking... it's admiring from a far... out of sight... twenty-four seven..." she blushed.
"Thaaaaat would be stalking."
"Just let her have this one..." Clarabella waved her hand at Jake.
"Okay then. Well let's get to work Dani... Wait, where the hell did Messor and Ryder go?" he asked looking around.
"While you were busy trying to explain the definition of the word stalking to Luna, they snuck off. Guess it's just you and me." she said looking at the ground.
"That's okay... now you don't have to worry about messing up in front of people." he held out his hand and Dani nodded turning into her sword form. He held her straight upwards and closed his eyes.
"Alright... Soul Resonance." Jake exhaled slowly.
They began to feel a sort of static between them. The random energy continued to build until they thought they were ready. At the moment it felt like it had hit a maximum Jake swung Dani but to his horror she slipped from his hands and stuck in a tree.
"AH! SORRY!" Jake shouted to her.
"What was that! You threw me into a tree!" she yelled back at him.
"Calm down, let's just try it again." he walked over and pulled her from the tree. He turned her sideways this time and held her at his side like a samurai.
"Soul Resonance..."
Once again the energy began to build between them. At the height of the feeling everything seemed to slow down.
"Whoa... Jake is it just me or is everything getting slower?" Dani asked in surprise.
"No I see it too." he looked at a falling leaf which had come to a complete stop in midair. He swiped Dani at it splitting it in two but it still didn't move. He swung her at a few branches clearly going through them but like the leave the remained where they were. He felt the energy slowly fade and as the feeling left everything around him began to speed up again. The leaf came apart and fell as two halves. The branches he had sliced also fell from the trees.
"Wow! We can stop time? That's amazing! Try it again!" Dani was ecstatic.
"Okay..." He turned her the same way he had her before and said it again. This time he didn't feel the energy. He began swinging Dani around violently until she slipped from his hands again lodging her in yet another tree. She changed back and stomped over to him.
"Grrr..."
"Hey look it was an accident! I really didn't mean to do that. I just thought that if I swung you that it might-"
"Look at that branch we chopped earlier." she interrupted him. He looked upwards and the second he took his eyes off her he felt a hard blow directly to his undefended area.
"GAHHHHH!" Jake shouted falling over.
"I'm not going to be your weapon if you just keep flinging me into trees!" she said pouting.
"Well I'm not going to be your partner if you keep hitting me in the groin!" he coughed at her.
They both sat on the ground for a moment longer before Jake suggested that they get back to class. On their way back they ran into Ryder and Messor. Ryder was holding a cup of coffee from Uncle Bob's and Messor was simply messing with his shirt collar. Back at school they ran into Luna and Clarabella.
"So did you find Death the Kid?" Jake asked her. Luna blushed and Clarabella explained that when they had found him he spotted her and tried to ask her name, but due to her being incredibly shy of him she ran away.
"Haha. That's pretty sad." Dani laughed.
"Shut up! You'd be embarrassed if you had to talk to someone you liked!" Luna yelled at her.
Dani paused and looked at Jake who was talking to Black Star, Soul, and Maka. She looked back at Luna and even though she knew they couldn't see her mouth on the other side of her coat she smiled.
"Somehow... I think you're wrong."
Chapter 8- FIN