I do not soul eater

Chapter 22

Miley is Missing:

Stein discovers the secret of the witch's identity?

Miley was staggering down the hallway. Her vision was blurry her head as in agony. She sighed the tired to distract her from that by thinking about the dream she had last night. She wasn't sure if she would call it a dream of nightmare. She was just standing in the dark, she couldn't see anything. She could hear voices but not she couldn't understand what they where saying. If she could hear the voice it didn't make any sense to her anyway, but thinking about this wasn't helping her it was making her head ache worse.

She actually bumped into the door frame on her way in to the dispensary. She hoped Nygus would be able to give her something for this. She looked up from the ground the brightness of the lights made her hear swim. Her vision split and she held on to the door frame from support. She hoped Nygus wasn't out but then she felt a very familiar presence next to her. She tired to look at him but her head swam again.

"Are you alright?" He asked. His voice which was usually clam and soothing seemed to echo around her brain like someone yelling though a megaphone into a cave. She felt tears forming at the corner on her eyes.

"I." She was panting now. "A. Splitting headache." Her knees started shaking. She wasn't sure how much longer she would be able to stand.

"I can see that," while lowering his voice to just below a whisper. "You need to lay down." He told her, he half carried her to one of the beds. "You should rest for a while." He covered her up, Miley was to weak to argue. He also turned off the over head lights, so they wouldn't bother her either.

"Don't you need those?" She asked, pitifully. "I mean, you don't need them to see?"

"Don't worry I have desk lamp for times like these get some rest Miley." He told her. He kept glancing between Miley and his watch he had a meeting with Lord Death soon. He shouldn't be gone to long. He noticed she had kicked off he blankets he shook his head. He was glad she never really changed. He covered her up again before heading to the Death Room.

He found the God of Death and Spirit waiting for him. He just making a report on how the Staff Team was holding up after the whole ordeal. "Nothing seems amiss at the moment," He had just finished saying it when the lights went out. He felt his body tense, there should only have been a few second gap for the generator to kick on, it never did. Sid came hurrying down the walk away.

"The whole city is in a black out!" He said.

"What?" Stein said. What could be happening? He mind quickly went to Miley, who was defenseless, he hurried back to the room empty. He quickly looked around and he didn't find her. He took a deep breath. Could they have been after her? It was not possible for someone to get into the school without someone noticing. He went out into the dark hallway. He started searching for her soul, it wasn't in the school he tell that. He pulled out a cigarette and lit it. This wasn't right, it wasn't right at all where was Miley in all of this? Someone collided with him, he wasn't surprised in the slightest to see Mason panting on the floor in front of him. The boy was cover in sweat and panting, it looked like the had ran all the way to the school.

"Where is Miles," he panted. "Please tell me you know where she is."

"Take a deep breath Mason," He told the weapon. "You need to calm down. Don't worry we are going to find her." Mason took a few more breaths.

"So you don't know where she is?" He asked sounding heartbroken.

"I told you, we are going to find her."

They had covered a quarter of the dark city, the little sun light they had was fading fast. It was pointless to follow Miley's soul, she didn't stay in one place to long, her soul was wondering all over the place. She didn't even to seem to have a place she was going, it just pointless wondering with no point, it was almost like she didn't know where she was going.

Miley was very confused, she had no idea how she had gotten where she was. She was back inside of her own soul. The last she remembered was going to sleep. She looked around all there was darkness. She didn't understand the other two times she had been here it had been bright and sunny. She looked up at the dark clouds. She could tell they where thunderheads. She shivered at the thought of a thunderstorm happening where she couldn't escape. She bit her lip, she didn't understand. Why was she here?

Night had fallen, and they still hadn't caught up with Miley. Mason seemed to be losing to the panic of not knowing what was happening to his meister. They turned down another street, Stein did, he was about half way down when he noticed that Mason wasn't with him. He retraced his steps to find Mason sitting at the base of a wall holding his head. He quickly crouch down to check on the weapon. "Are you alright?" He wondered if the boy was just feeling the pressure.

"It's my head, it just started hurting. For no reason." The boy rubbed his temples. "I don't really know why." He muttered.

"Does it feel like your head is splitting open," Wondering if his headache and Miley's where connected. The boy just nodded. "Then you need to get home and lying down. I don't think you should be wondering around the city, Miley could barely walk with hers."

The weapon shook his head and started to get up. "I'm not going home without her. I don't think I could." He grunted.

"As heartless as this sound, you're going to slow me down and that isn't going to help Miley."

Mason was fully one his feet now. "Don't worry I'll keep up." He had that look of determination in his eyes Miley usually gave Stein. He knew that Mason would never give up looking for Miley, even if he had to crawl. These two kids where going to drive up a wall and back down again. The only thing important to them was each other it didn't matter what stood between them they would find each other. Most of the time Stein enjoy this quality of this particular team but in times like these they needed to learn when needed to be handled by other people.

Not two blocks from where they started up, Stein had lost Mason again. He sighed now, either of the Staff team was not accounted for. He suddenly wondered if that was the point, did they want Mason to find Miley? He walked along the streets alone, then suddenly had to side step to the left. He wasn't sure what he had dodged till he had to catch the weapon. For a whole ten seconds he was relieved to feel the smooth wood staff in his palm. "Calm down Miley," He told her. "It is a good thing you took a swing at me and no one else you would have taken them out." He barely finished when Miley ribbed the Staff out of his grip.

Miley took another swing at him. He was suddenly very torn about the situation. He didn't want to hurt the little meister but she didn't seem to be playing around. She was aiming real blows including take a swipe at his knees which he had never seen Miley due before. For awhile it was a game of cat and mouse going on. Stein would admit he was very impressed on how far Miley had come during her years at the Academy. He kept dodging but he couldn't keep doing this forever it was clear they where not going to get any where, but he didn't want to hurt the girl either. He was about to pin Miley to the ground when he heard a familiar voice and it shocked him.

"Alright Miley, that's enough for now, stand down." Stein felt rage course though his body. Now he understood why Miley thought she knew the witch that had attacked her. She had known her, the witch was Diana. He couldn't believe it! He couldn't believe was of Sara's old school friends would actually use her daughter as a weapon against the academy, that she and Charles worked so hard to protect. They had trust her to protect their daughter not turn into to the everything they wanted to destroy. How dare she mess with Miley of all people. He was going to make her pay.

She looked just as Miley described, Stein couldn't believe that he really had missed this. She was barely a head taller then Miley, her hair was as black as a raven's feather and just as glossy, it was pulled into a elegant bun with bits of hair framing her face. Her figure was slim and dress she was wearing seemed to be make of Raven's feathers. Her skin where so pale the seem to glow in the darkness. Her eyes where dark gray piecing and had no kindness in them. The idea that Miley had to stare into those cold eyes all those years, no wonder she didn't she was worth any one's time, because Diana had made her feel that way. A person didn't get those types of eyes over night. An evil grin spread across her pale lips. "Why hello Stein, odd night to be going to a walk isn't it? Shouldn't you be off cutting something or someone open."

"What do you want with her." He demanded.

"What are you talking about?" She said while putting her around Miley's small shoulders. "I'm Miley graduation remember?" She said her voice had a hint of a laugh in it.

"Last time I checked you seem to give those rights up to travel." He said off hand trying to stay clam. "You can't just drop a child off some where and then just pick them up again it doesn't work like that."

"Oh my," She giggled. "You grown attached to her haven't you? I mean I had heard rumors about it but," She giggled again. "I didn't even think you had those kinds of emotions, Stein." She really started to laugh, "We both know why I'm here, Stein I'm a witch." She said matter of fact air, "She's going to be very useful to me."

"What might that be?" He demanded. There was no way he was letting her leave with Miley.

"Now that would be spoiling the surprise. I just need her to run a little errand for me then I will destroy her, after all us witches can't have the staff meister around now can we?" She had again with a laugh in her tone. Stein couldn't understand why Miley was just standing there. "I guess I can give you a little hint on the situation. I did notice you fighting her earlier, tell me Stein how good has she gotten thanks to your hands on training. What is it like to watch her and know that you helped create this force of nature?" She gestured to Miley as she did so. "But I have just one real question for you Stein. Can you destroy what you created?

Stein could do nothing but stand there in shock. He understood completely what Diana was saying. He watch in horror as Diana and Miley disappeared with a whirlwind of feathers. He wasn't sure if he would be able to move for a while. The idea of her using her... it wasn't even that she was being used against him, that Diana had decided to used the child that done nothing but try and get her attention her entire life. Diana didn't want her, Miley had to figure out how to grow up on her on and now Diana wanted to use her as a pawn. Stein felt sick just thinking about it. The odd pain in this chest which he had started feeling when the power went out seemed to spreading to the rest of his body now. It was odd but he knew what it was, he had only really felt it once before and he was hoping he would never have to feel it again. It was the feeling of loss...

Stein wasn't sure how long he was standing there when Spirit found him. "Stein, where have you been, Miley's missing and no one can find her! I would have thought you would be..." The Death Scythe was shocked into silence when he saw his form partner's face. "Stein, you're..."

"I know, Spirit, Miley is now in hands of the witches. We need to tell Lord Death as soon as possible." He quickly wiped away the annoyance off of his cheek, that wasn't going to help anyone especially Miley.

Woah, wow that was a whirlwind Alright tell me what you think!