Yes! The second day is done! Sorry for the really long chapter. For those of you who don't like long-ass fanfics, I'm sorry to tell you that the future chapters will be about this long. In fact, they might be longer. But I will do my best to narrow down the amount of words.
Disclaimer: I own neither TWEWY nor Soul Eater. I also don't own the song featured in it. This is completely fan-made.
It was the second day. Maka and Neku were in the Scramble Crossing. It was still a bit early, so Neku was still not awake yet. Maka, being the early bird she was, was wide awake by now. She read a book to pass the time, but didn't pay much attention to the words. Her mind was set on other things.
Why was Medusa at Udagawa? Was it because Soul and I were there?
Maka thought about it, but she shook her head
Nah, I'm pretty sure that her business is with Shibusen. But then why was she in Shibuya in the first place?
Maka stopped reading when she realized something important.
Wait a second...was she the one who shot me? Maybe she was teamed up with someone else. If that's the case, then was it that person who killed me?
Suddenly, Maka's phone started ringing. "Makuro ni kasoku, hachou no SOUL STYLE~ Mamorinuku dame, tsuyoku nareru, heiwa to seigi wa DEATH OF THE RULE~"
"That's your ringtone?"
Maka turned around and saw Neku awake. He rubbed his eyes and yawned.
"Sorry. Was it too loud?"
"Nah, I woke up a few minutes ago. I just decided to lie down for a while since the mission's not here yet."
"Well, it's here now." Maka's phone kept ringing. "Akai shibuki wa, suukou na yaiba~ Kizuna umareshi toki, negai wa todoku~ FIGHT OUT! FIGHT OUT!"
"From what I can tell, that's you singing, right?"
Maka blushed a little. "M-Maybe..."
"You sound great! But I hear another voice singing. Who is it?"
"Oh, that's-" Maka stopped midway into her sentence. Her expression turned a bit more solemn.
I do trust Neku, but is it okay if I just tell him about Soul?
"...a friend of mine. Now lets see the mission." She flipped open her phone.
"Go to Udagawa. You have 100 minutes. Fail, and face erasure." Maka and Neku winced when the timer appeared on their palms.
Udagawa...I'll find answers there.
"It's a bit far from here. Plus, we might run into walls. Let's go now." Neku started running, Maka following suit.
"Hey, Neku? You seem to have a really good knowledge of the game. Is this actually your first time playing?"
Neku stopped running. He stayed silent.
Maka stopped a few inches behind him. "Something wrong?"
Neku finally spoke up. "I've played for three weeks straight before."
Maka gasped. She wished she never asked.
"You've played three games in a row...and yet, you risked your life for us back in Udagawa...I'm really sorry..."
Neku patted her head and smiled. "It's nothing to get worked up about right now. We have to focus on the mission." He started running again. Maka followed him.
They ran into a wall at AMX. However, instead of the usual guy in a hoodie, the person standing by the invisible wall was a Mizune sister.
"Mizune? What are you doing here? And why do you have weird wings?" Maka asked.
"Chi chi chi," was all the mouse-witch said. Maka looked at Neku to see if he had any idea what she said. He shook his head.
"If you can't talk, then how are you going to tell us how to get past this wall?"
Mizune took out a poster and a marker. She wrote something down. When she was done writing, she turned it around for them to see.
"Defeat all the noise here."
Neku scanned the area. "There's a lot of noise in the area. It'll take up too much time."
"Then how are we going to clear the wall?"
"We need some players to help us." It was right on that note that a familiar voice sounded out of nowhere.
"Move it! Move it! MOVE IT!" Some one ran toward them at an amazing speed. Neku dragged Maka out of the way, knowing that she'll get mowed down if he didn't.
Wait! Is that-
"Black Star!"
The boy turned around to see who called his name. "Maka! Am I glad to see-"
"Black Star, look out!"
"Wha-" Before he could finish, he ran straight into the wall. There was a big red mark where he slammed into it.
Maka giggled. "Yep, you're definitely Black Star." Neku and Mizune held back a laugh.
"Sigh...and to think that I have to stick with you for the rest of the game," A voice from above said.
Maka, Neku, and Black Star looked up. There was a boy on a flying skateboard who looked almost symmetrical. Almost.
Black Star growled at him. "Shut up, Kid."
His skateboard landed and disapppeared. He walked toward Black Star and flicked him.
"Asymmetrical idiot."
"Kid!"
He turned around. "Well, if it isn't Maka. Still symmetrical, I see."
"Yep, you're definitely Kid." Then Maka realized something important. "What are you doing here? If you guys are here, then that must mean..."
"Yeah. We're dead."
"How?"
"We dunno. All we remember is that we were in Udagawa and found some strange markings, then something attacked us."
Neku thought about it. "Strange markings..."
"Why aren't Tsubaki, Liz, and Patty with you?" Maka asked.
"That's what we'd like to know. Looks like Soul isn't here either."
Neku interrupted. "Uh, guys? The mission?" They looked at the timer. 50 minutes left.
"Oh, crap! We have to start kicking some noise ass!" Black Star exclaimed. He got into a fighting pose.
Kid also readied himself. "We'll cover this side. You two take care of that side."
Maka and Neku nodded in agreement. They readied themselves. The group of noise was some frogs, wolves, and snakes.
"Wait! Since when were snakes part of the noise group?" Neku asked. A wolf dashed toward him, but he slashed the wolf away before it could get to him. While Neku was busy with the noise, a snake creeped up on him and bit his ankle.
"Ouch!" Neku reaced down to examine the wound, but a frog distracted him. Then a wolf jumped on him. When he looked up, he saw all of the noise surrounding him.
"Why don't you back off?!" Maka used Tin Pin Wheel and dashed to her partner. The noise got knocked away as she dashed right through them. A frog disappeared. Neku must have leveled up this pin pretty good.
"Neku! You okay?" Maka ran to Neku. She examined Neku's wound.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little dizzy." He got up and brushed himself off. He stumbled a little, but recovered quickly. He lashed out at a wolf, but missed completely.
"Are you sure you're fine? Your aim was really off," Maka said as she attacked the noise with a spinning slash. Some of them disappeared.
"I said I'm fine."
"Uh, you're facing the wrong way. I'm over here."
Since Neku was too delirious from the snake bite, Maka had to do all the work. When Black Star and Kid were finished with their share of noise, they helped her out. It took a while, but the job was eventually done. The wall disappeared and Mizune flew away.
Black Star wiped his head. "Good, we cleared the wall. We have 15 minutes left. Now let's go!" Maka and Kid paid no attention to him since they were taking care of Neku.
Maka dragged him onto the side of her back. She tried to run carrying him, but she wasn't able to and fell down.
Black Star sighed. "Just hand Phones over to me. I'm strong enough."
Maka nodded. She got up and walked to Black Star. He got Neku off her and put him on his back.
"Speed Star!" On that note, Black Star dashed away. Maka saw him run off as a streak in the distance.
"Get on."
Maka turned around and saw Kid on Beelzebub. He motioned for her to get on. She did and held onto him .
"Hang on." The skateboard started to ascend. Maka's grip tightened. Then they were flying off at a speed equivalent to Black Star's. Everything that they saw was blurred as they were flying. Soon, they caught up with Black Star and Neku.
Maka tugged on Kid's sleeve. He looked back at her, but didn't stop riding as the timer ticked down.
"I'm just wondering...who even told you about the game in the first place? I'm pretty sure that you didn't come here all prepared."
He kept his focus on driving Beelzebub, but also paid attention to Maka. "Well, there was this guy who seemed to know the game pretty well. Um...Sanae Hanekoma, was it?"
Neku perked up. "Huh? Where is he?"
"Do you know this person?"
"Uh..." Neku hesitated for a moment. "Y-yeah. He's a friend that watches over the game to make sure nothing goes wrong." Maka knew that wasn't the whole story, but she decided to leave it at that for now. She still had something else to ask Kid.
"Why did you guys come here?"
"Well, we texted you that we were coming along as well."
"Huh? When?"
"Well, since it looks like you didn't get it, it must have reached you after you died."
"We're here!" Black Star alerted them. He skidded to a stop. Kid stopped in midair, then landed gently. Then Beelzebub disappeared.
Black Star set Neku down. "You alright, Phones?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. And the name's Neku."
Maka looked at her hand. "The timer's gone."
"Look guys!" Black Star yelled to them. Everyone went to where he was.
"These are the markings we were talking about!"
Neku became mortified. "No way..."
"Something wrong?"
"I know these marks. They're supposed to create taboo noise that attack anyone, including reapers and players." He turned to Black Star and Kid. "The noise created from these markings must have killed you."
"Very good. Maybe you've changed from the stupid hectopascal you used to be."
Neku froze when he heard the voice. The man walked up behind him. Neku tensed when he felt the man just inches behind him. He slowly turned around, finding some yellow eyes meeting his own blue ones.
"The Grim Heaper..." Neku's fists tightened.
"Quit calling me that. The name's Sho Minamimoto."
"I thought you died."
"Ah, but you forgot to put something into your calculations. If I was dead, I would have been erased, body and soul. But I still had my body, didn't I?"
Maka got a little nervous. How did Neku know him? Plus, he doesn't look like a good guy.
"So this is your new partner?"
Minamimoto was now facing Maka. Shivers went down Maka's spine. He looked really menacing.
"And to think that it was so easy to shoot you dead."
Maka's fear was replaced with anger. "It was you...You killed me!"
He got closer to Maka. "And what if I did?" They met eye-to-eye. Her fears were back again.
Neku dragged Minamimoto away from her. "What business do you have with the game?"
"Nothing really...Just the fact that I'm the new Game Master."
Neku was enraged. "Who died and made you Game Master?!"
"Shouldn't you know the answer to that? Oh, and just in case you didn't know, you have two Game Masters."
"Two?! But I thought that we can only have-" Neku stopped himself. The only one who can determine that is the Conductor. The last Conductor, Megumi Kitaniji, was erased. According to his knowledge, the Composer hasn't picked out a new one yet.
"Then who's our second master?" Maka asked.
"Me."
The voice made Maka's, Black Star's, and Kid's blood boil. They knew too well who it was. They turned around and saw her.
"Medusa?! Why?"
"I have my reasons..." Medusa flew closer to them.
"Maka Albarn...Black Star...Death the Kid...and of course, the legendary Neku Sakuraba."
"How do you know me?" Neku asked. "I've never seen you before in my life."
"Minamimoto told me about you."
"What are you doing here in Shibuya?" Kid asked.
"Well, I was bored, so I followed Maka and Soul around. But then, I heard of a certain conquest of Shibuya. Once I'm the Composer, I can rule the whole city. First Shibuya, then the whole world, beginning with Death City."
"Don't you dare lay a finger on Shibusen," Black Star hissed.
"I might. Until we meet again." Medusa disappeared. Minamimoto followed right after.
"This can't be..." Maka's knees fell to the ground. Neku, Kid, and Black Star tried to comfort her.
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"Someone has to fill in for the Conductor. Who's it gonna be?" Hanekoma asked.
"If I knew, then I would have made the decision a long time ago," Joshua replied.
"If you can't find the real deal yet, then why don't you use a substitute?"
Joshua thought about it. "Well, there isn't anybody good right now..."
"You have to make a choice. NOW."
"I was hoping I wouldn't have to resort to this...looks like that I'll have to be the substitute."
In case you don't know, the romaji for Maka's ringtone is from the song "Mauve-iro no Sympathy." This is Maka's and Soul's character song. If you don't know the song, then look it up. NOW. It's such an awesome song!
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