Story No. : 02-SOE-008
Name : Ghost Stories
Rating : T
Pairing : None (Apart from some minor Soul x Maka and stuff like that…)
Genre : Supernatural / Horror
Warning : Ghosts, Little bit of Fluff, Minor Zombies, SLENDER MAN!, MAJOR Character Death
Description : Slender Man Crossover. The Soul Eater gang is given a couple of days off and decides to take a camping trip to the forests near Death City. When they get there, Maka tells a ghost story. Is it true, or is it false? They're about to find out… (Do not read if you're easily scared, or if you relish your ability to sleep at night.)
x-X-Beginning of Story-X-x
She lay on the ground, unable to move. It wasn't that she didn't want to…
…She couldn't. She couldn't do anything.
She tried to breathe, but she had no lungs to pump the oxygen in and out of her body.
She tried to open her eyes, but where her eyes once were, were now empty sockets.
She tried to listen, but her ears were absent.
She was bleeding. Thick blood flowed out of her and onto the cold ground.
xXxXx
"Maka, tell us a ghost story!" Patti said, looking at the blonde meister with large eyes. Liz however, was less than amused. In fact, she wasn't amused at all.
"No, Patti! It'll prevent you from going to sleep!" She said, panicking at what sort of ghost stories Maka had in stock for her. Black Star was in his usual superior manner, much to Tsubaki's shame. Kid was looking rather bored, and Soul was just sitting there, resting slightly. All seven of them sat around a campfire in the woods, with their tents pitched up behind them and their sleeping bags waiting for their owners to get some sleep.
"Aww, come on, sis! It'll be FUN!" Patti said, much to Liz's anger and terror.
"Okay, gather around." Maka said. Liz looked like she would rather leave than listen to what story the young scythe meister had in mind. Everyone else however, obliged and moved closer.
"This story is real." Maka said simply. "My mother told me this when we were still together. One day, she and her friend went off to the woods. They were investigating several disappearances there. When they got there, my mother's friend started saying that she was hearing things. She was hearing children scream in terror, and she was seeing words in the air. They were warnings. Then, the first walking dead came. My mother finished them off easily, but her friend was almost in tears. She said that she was seeing ghosts. They were coming right at her, scaring her to death. Then one day, she just disappeared…" Liz looked ready to faint.
"What happened to her, Maka?" Kid asked.
"No one knows. She just… disappeared. All that was left was a single note next to her bed. The note said that all that see the surgeon will disappear without a trace." Maka said. But then she began to look around, afraid. Everyone else did the same, but rather out of curiosity rather than fear. However, Liz did it out of extreme fear.
"Why are you afraid, Maka?" Soul asked, concerned about his meister.
"Because…" Maka began, lowering her voice to a whisper. "These are the same woods that my mother and her friend went to." Liz fainted right there.
"Ha!" Black Star said, confident as ever and unfazed from Maka's ghost story. "A big star like me isn't afraid from a simple story! If this 'Surgeon' out there is so tough, then tell him to come and face me in combat! I will never be defeated!" Patti took this opportunity to laugh out loud at the stupidity of the Dark Arm meister. Tsubaki was apparently thinking about what Maka had just said, shivering from time to time.
"Maka, was that story really true?" Kid asked. Maka nodded, sincere about what she had just said. "Then this place is obviously a hotbed for kishin activity, so I would suggest that we investigate." Maka nodded again.
"But in the morning. Liz obviously needs time to forget about the ghost story…" Maka said, looking at the oldest Thompson sister, who happened to be fainted.
"Hey, I think I know who this 'surgeon' might be." Soul said.
"Who?" Kid asked. Soul grimaced.
"Well, I was surfing the internet, and came across an article titled 'The Slender-Man Wiki'(1), and one of the names of Slender-Man is the 'surgeon'." Maka looked at her weapon partner, looking slightly more afraid. Even Kid started to feel fear, as he was familiar with the Slender-Man legend.
"Let's just go to sleep…" Kid said, much to everyone's (Except Black Star's) agreement. Black Star, who rarely slept, just tossed and turned in his sleeping bag.
"Good night." Maka called, before the black void of sleep slowly passed over her.
x-X-The Next Day-X-x
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
The sudden scream shattered the dreams of the seven friends, sending then into a sitting position with looks of shock on their faces.
"What the?!" Kid said, jumping to his feet. "Liz, Patti!" Both of the Thompson sisters wasted no time in transforming into their weapon forms; identical twin pistols. Tsubaki and Soul took this as a sign to transform as well, and all 4 weapons were caught by their respective meisters. Kid kept his pinkies on the triggers, and pointed them at the source of the scream, while Black Star and Maka quickly jumped to their feet.
"Sis, who do you think that was?" Patti asked. Liz was pretty worried about what was going on. "I don't know Patti, but she must be in trouble." Liz said, and Kid nodded.
"Maka, are you seeing any unusual souls?" Kid asked. "Because I'm not seeing any souls, apart from our own."
"Yes, but it's a really weird soul." Maka said. "It's black, and I don't recognize it at all…"
"Maka, could it be Slender Man?" Soul asked, dreading what Maka might say. Maka shrugged, indicating that she didn't know. Black Star was shouting at the top of his voice, ranting that he wasn't scared of a tall and long-armed freak that had more length than sense. Oh joy…
"We need to get him to shut up." Maka said. Soul looked at her, confused. "Why, Maka?" He asked. Maka turned to face her.
"Because he's alerting every single ghost and zombie in these damn woods where we are." Maka said. Liz was about to think that shooting Black Star would prevent those scary creatures of hell from zeroing in on them.
"Too late for that!" Kid said. "They're here!" He pointed to about 100 undead coming at them from all directions. Some were walking, some were limping, some were crawling, and some were doing an odd-sort of worm movement to move. All 3 meisters gripped their weapons tighter, and engaged in battle.
Maka was slicing the heads off of the undead faster than you could say "Headless Zombie!" She was also doing her best to dodge them when they charged at her and held their arms out. Maka sliced off several of the zombie's arms and proceeded to cut them in half, whether horizontally or vertically it didn't matter. Black Star was moving fast, being sure to show his speed to the zombies. He would taunt them, and then slice them apart with his quick reflexes and speed. Kid was firing round after round at the zombies, but there seemed to be no end in sight.
Just then, Maka noticed something.
The zombies were just melting out of the shadows.
"Everyone, stop fighting!" Maka yelled. Everyone looked at her as if she were crazy. "What?!" They all yelled back at her. Maka gave them a glare that said plainly "If you don't do as I say, you'll regret it." So, the followed her instructions. And when the zombies got ahold of Maka…
…Their hands went right through her.
"What the?!" Black Star said, recoiling. Maka rolled her eyes. "They're hallucinations. They're not really here, at all. It's all in our minds, though I have to say that this is obviously the work of genius…"
"…Or Slender-Man." Soul said creepily, much to Liz's anger and fear. Kid regained himself when the zombies finally melted into the shadows. "We need to investigate. It's our duty as students at the DWMA to investigate any and all kishin and witch activity." Maka nodded, much to the fear of Liz, who was already running her hands through her hair in a futile attempt to calm herself. Patti snickered at her sister's fear, but wasn't laughing outright loud.
"Okay. But we shouldn't split up." Maka said, much to Liz's agreement. Black Star however, wasn't happy.
"What? You afraid of Slender Man?" Black Star taunted. Maka glared at him. "It's not that. It's just that Slender Man can finish us off easily if we're alone." Kid nodded, while Liz was nodding her head frantically in her weapon form.
"You two can stay here and cower in fear! The great Black Star isn't afraid of some weirdo in a tux!" Black Star said, stomping away furiously. Maka and Kid just stared at his retreating back in shock, horror, and amazement.
"How did he know that Slender Man was last seen in a tux?" Soul asked. Kid and Maka shrugged.
xXxXx
Black Star stomped through the forest, angry at his teammates for being such cowards. He kicked a nearby rock, sending it flying about 10 meters forward.
"They's such cowards!" Black Star said angrily. Tsubaki carefully listened to Black Star, and decided to correct him. "Black Star, they're you're teammates. And they're also your friends. Please, you should go back to them and listen to them." Black Star ignored his weapon partner, and stomped off in no particular direction. He paid no attention to the ghosts surrounding, finding them rather bothersome rather than scary.
Then, he came across a note pinned to a tree.
"What is it?" Black Star asked. Tsubaki carefully paid attention to the note, which only said 2 words. "It says, Help Me." And the moment Tsubaki said those two words, darkness enclosed them. Black Star used his finely honed ninja senses to try and search for the intruder, but found nothing.
"Tsubaki, Kusarigama mode." Black Star said simply, as Tsubaki complied and transformed into the silver chain scythe that Black Star had once used as his primary.
Unfortunately, it was too late for them.
Darkness closed in around them, swallowing them. And when the darkness subsided…
…There wasn't anybody standing there anymore. All that was left was the note, which said the two words, Help Me.
xXxXx
Maka and Kid searched through the forest, searching for their friend and ally, Black Star. But for some reason, they never found him. Instead, they came across the Help Me note. Kid stared at it, observing, while Maka stood guard.
"I have no idea what happened here." Kid said. "But this looks like one of the few places where Black Star could've-" He was cut short by the ground collapsing under him.
"Kid!" Maka yelled, rushing forward to try and grab his hand, but missed by a couple of centimeters. She silently hoped that Kid could summon Beelzebub. But where the ground had swallowed him up, left only a patch of Earth that looked like it had never been moved for hundreds of years. By this time, Maka was hyperventilating, obviously trying to find some way to breathe normally, but the unsettling reality of being chased by Slender-Man would cause anyone fear.
"Maka, we should go." Soul said simply. Maka nodded, running off, attempting to find a way out of these demonic woods.
Then, she saw him…
…Slender-Man.
He stood tall, looking at them, and moving closer, teleporting sometimes for faster results. Maka gripped Soul harder, and charged. She sliced right through Slender-Man, only for him to disappear. He reappeared behind Maka, and she did a 360 and sliced Slender-Man in half, and once more he disappeared.
"Maka, he's growing weaker." Maka's faithful weapon said. Maka nodded, and sliced through Slender-Man one last time.
And this time, he stayed dead.
Both Maka and Soul rejoiced, happy at their victory over one of the most powerful and terrifying creatures of the modern world. Both of them silently honored their friends, Black Star, Kid, Liz, Tsubaki, and Patti. Both of them hoped that they were happy where they were, and no longer caring about worldly matters. Maka walked out of the woods, while Soul transformed into his human form, walking close to Maka.
By the time they exited the woods, it was almost sunrise. And then, what they saw was a sight worse than what they had seen…
…At least 10 Slender-Men, coming at them from all directions. And no matter how hard Soul tried, he couldn't transform into human form. Both of them were paralyzed, fearing what was going to happen.
Their vision blurred…
Their fear grew…
Their headaches became so intense they dropped to their knees…
And then… darkness.
xXxXx
She lay there, welcoming what was coming. Already she had lost everything, even her own organs.
She lay there, hoping that it would come.
Her one and only salvation and an ending to this pain.
Death.
Because after all, nobody escapes from the Tall One alive.
Nobody.
Not even those who would dare read this.
x-X-End of Story-X-x
Number of Words: 2,122 (Excluding Author's Notes and Description)
Date Uploaded: Sunday, January 06, 2013
A/N: I am SOO sorry for not updating sooner! And I'm sorry if you were offended by the deaths of your favorite characters, or if the ending traumatized you. Don't worry, it traumatized me as well. So, you have your revenge, right? And well, I'm starting school again, so it'll take longer for me to update. Remember, this is just a story…
…And stories don't come true, right?
(1) The Slender-Man wiki is a real site, which I do not own.
~Omega02x~
