Partners

Haze

Her fingers dug into the dirt in desperation as her eyes searched through the fog clouding around her. Where had he slid off to? "Soul!" Her voice was rasp as she breathed in the dust and the pattering sounds of the kishin egg whipped passed her from behind. She looked over her shoulder, saw nothing in the mist and looked forward again.

The thick haze had appeared before they set out to find this evil soul. The weather had been murky in this area from what they heard because of the close proximity of the sea to its shores. The clouds hung low and covered the land so thickly that Maka had a hard time spotting out her enemy even from ten feet away. Whilst fighting against the weaponized human, Soul had been knocked from her hands and the scythe slid out of her line of sight and into the far reaches of the misty air around them.

"Maka!"

The Meister perked up at the sound of his voice. He was only a few feet away, but he was still completely out of sight. She pushed herself onto her feet and sharply looked around her surroundings to make sure the demon hadn't snuck up on her.

"I'm over here." Her voice pushed through the haze like a beacon of light made to escort him toward her. "Follow my voice!"

The shadow she noticed in front of her was approaching faster than humanly possible. She hadn't had time to react before the Kishin egg she and Soul had come after was breaking through the cloud and swinging its claws at her. Maka jumped up, landed on the weapon's arms and pushed off to jump over it. Without Soul she was defenseless, but she was at least able to evade attacks long enough for her and her partner to be reunited.

Just as her boots crashed against the moist Earth, Maka turned at the heel to face the evil soul as it faced her again. The mist had begun to envelop it as it stood it's ground and watched her with burning red eyes. "Soul!" She called out to her weapon again, and darted her eyes across the endless sea of haze. "Soul, come here!"

Suddenly, a familiar warmth snatched up her hand and she spun her head around to catch the blazing eyes of a Pianist in pain. Blood ran from his forehead and over his left eye, sharp teeth bearing in a livid growl at the kishin egg. "Sorry." He uttered between clenched teeth. "It decided to knock me around a bit, but I'm cool."

"You sure?" Maka squeezed his hand.

Soul's lips tugged into a grin to reassure his Meister. "Yep. Let's kick it's ass now."

Now that she'd grown used to their strained eyesight, and now that the shadows that flashed across her vision were definitely owned by the enemy, Maka had no trouble exterminating its existence. She swung Soul around in a full force throw and his blade cut clean through the monster like a hot knife on butter. As her weapon partner swallowed down it's blood red soul and sighed in relief, she felt herself relax and reach out to touch her fingers to his wound.

"Want me to patch this up back at the hotel?"

"It'll heal on its own."

"Stupid. It'll make you cranky in the morning if you let it sit."

Soul mumbled to himself at that and she slapped her hand against the source of his blood, causing him to yelp. He was always so stubborn, but she supposed that was for the better. Despite the differences between them, his pigheadedness was just as severe as her's was. It was sort of a bad thing considering two obstinate people normally bashed heads a lot, but somehow they managed. She was glad for that, and she didn't have know him as well as she did to see that he was too.

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