Symbiotic Insanity

A CroMa fanfic

Chapter 5

Maka stumbled up the steps, carrying the groceries in both her hands. They were pretty heavy, but Maka eventually made it up the stairs. "Strange, Crona usually would've been right there to help me with the groceries. Oh well." She set down one of the bags, and fished for the key in her pocket. She pulled it out of her pocket, and unlocked the front door. Strange, she could've sworn that she had left it unlocked. She picked up the groceries in both of her hands, and went inside, closing the door behind her. SHe set the groceries down on the counter, and was about to put them away when suddenly, she heard a faint snore down the hall. "Soul, I'd better not find you being lazy!" She walked down the hall, following the sound of peaceful snores, and stopped in front of Crona's room. She opened the door, and saw Crona on his bed asleep. She walked up to him and looked at him, he looked so peaceful. "I was really hoping that I would be able to talk with you some more this morning." She stroked his hair for a couple seconds and then left the room.

"Hey Crona! Wake Up!" The demon swordsman heard within his own head. Crona slowly, but swiftly sat up on his bed. He looked at the alarm clock. It was 11:35 pm! He couldn't recall being that tired. Well, he couldn't help it, it was what it was, he had been asleep till 11:35 pm. "Wait, didn't Buddy say something was going to happen tonight?"

"Hey Buddy, what did you wanna do?"

"You'll see first I want you to do something for me."

"What?"

"I want you to look in the mirror"

"W-Why?"

"Just trust me."

"O-Okay." Crona slowly walked towards the mirror that Maka had gotten him, and looked at himself, unsure of what was happening.

"Ready, Crona?"

"I-I guess so. For what?"

"This!"

Suddenly, black slime started form out of his chest, and started to move around the rest of his body, engulfing him. Black tentacle-like things, started to wrap themselves around Crona's limbs and entire body, until the black slime completely engulfed him, and started to form around his body, fitting to his physical structure. Crona was terrified! He didn't know what was happening, or what it was doing to him. His hair seeped through the black slime, as did his clothing. He couldn't see anything for a few seconds, and when he could, it was blurry for a few seconds as well. He was staring at the floor.

"So what do ya think, Crona?"

"Huh?"

What was Buddy so enthusiastic about? He nearly suffocated him! Or so he thought. He finally looked at the mirror, and was shocked. He was still clothed, and could still see his hair, but he looked completely different. His skin wasn't pale anymore, it was black slime. His eyes were whited out, and massive too, curving at each end. His teeth were razor sharp like Buddy's, only Crona had lips. He stuck out his tongue, it wasn't normal, it was spiked and more came out then was supposed to, like rope.

"Buddy! What did you do to me?" His voice didn't sound normal either, it was split. It was split between three different voices, Crona's regular voice, a higher version of Crona's voice, and a lower version of Crona's voice. In response to this, he slapped his hands over his mouth. Which made him notice something else: his fingers were longer, and they spiked at the tips. He looked closer and saw one last thing. He pulled down the collar of his hoodie and white T-shirt, and saw the head of a whited-out snake on his chest, with the body of the snake rapped around his torso 3 times, and ending on the front of his abdomen, in a curl, right on top of his new abs. Apparently this symbiote had also made him buffer, he didn't know if it made him stronger, but he certainly looked buffer. He also couldn't help but feel energized, and amazing. Eventhough he didn't fully understand this symbiote stuff, he loved the way it felt.

"Why don't we find out, huh?" Buddy chimed, energy and excitement in his voice.

"H-how do we do that? Why am I even asking this? Look at me! I can't be seen like this! I-I don't know how to deal with this!"

"Quit your bitchin' and just climb out the window"

"Huh? But eventhough this is the first floor, it's as high as a second floor, I can't make a drop like that."

"Heh heh, you're not going to drop, you're going to climb, climb to the roof."

"W-what?"

"Just do it!"

Hesitantly, Crona walked over to the window, and opened it. He stared down at the ground outside the window, fear nearly took him, but he was more afraid of what Budy could do, he remembered what he did to Ragnarok, and didn't want that to happen to him. With that thought in mind, he put one foot on the window sill, it seemed easy enough, so he put both feet on the window sill and started crouching. With in seconds of doing so, Crona slipped and fell out the window. Before he could hit the ground, he closed his eyes and slapped both hands against the wall, his feet following soon afterwards. When Crona opened his eyes, he saw that he was clinging to the wall.

"H-how did I know to do that?"

"Heh heh, because I told you how."

"W-what? B-but you didn't say anything!"

"I didn't have to, in a way, I'm a part of you, which means I have direct access to your brain."

"You can mess with my brain?"

"Don't worry, I just wanted to put the directions on using the symbiote into your mind, training someone to use the symbiote can take weaks, months, even a year! I want us to have fun now!"

"I-I really don't know about this."

"Just climb, will ya?"

Crona took a deep breath, and began to climb the wall. The bricks felt cold beneath his fingers, it was October alright. Crona saw the window he fell out of as he was climbing and closed the window, he didn't want Maka to worry. He kept climbing and climbing, past the second floor and finally to the roof of the building. He looked behing him, the ground was even further down then he remembered.

"Finally, now walk over to the ledge."

"Are you trying to kill me?"

"No, just do it."

Crona walked over to the ledge in front of the house, gazing at the other buildings of Death City. The wind was blowing from behind him.

"What do you want me to do know?"

"Jump! Now!"

Startled, Crona fell from the ledge. Half way down the building, he threw his hand in front of him, and shot a long, black symbiote tentacle out from the palm of his hand, and on the corner of another roof. The tentacle retracted, pulling him towards the ledge. Crona hit the wall of the building in front of the one he fell from with a loud thud. It was strange, he thought he should have felt a lot more pain, but he didn't, it hardly hurt at all.

"Man, you're such a clutz!"

"Sh-shut up, you made me do this. Is that all?"

"Almost, now it's time for the real fun, swing to the DWMA and back, then we're done."

Relieved to hear this, Crona climbed on to the ledge of the roof, and leaped from the roof. He was shocked to see how far he could leap, he had leaped from the roof he was just on, on to the roof of the building to his northeast. However, now there was a much bigger gap between the buildings. He didn't care, he ran to the edge of the roof and leaped from it. Half way to the ground he shout out a tentacle, swinging in an arc a few feet above the ground. Once he was at the end of his swinging arc, he pulled back the tentacle, and shot another one at another building, and kept doing this over and over again.

He swung past the buildings, in between some, the wind rushing through his hair and against his skin, exhilirating almost everyone of his senses. It was a rush he had never felt before, he was getting addicted.

He noticed something on the ground, and leaped from his current tentacle to the spot he had seen. There was a decently huge crater before him in the concrete. Crona knew this spot too well, this was where he got hit with the meteorite known as the "Day Star." Where it all began. He also remembered the pain, the massive pain from being hit by the damned thing. Crona began to rub the right side of his face, remembering all that pain. However, the pain he felt wasn't just physical, it was also emotional. He remembered seeing Maka, how beautiful she was that day, he remembered how he was ready to run up to Maka and finally ask her out, but then he was hit with the meteorite. He'd never forget Maka's terrified expression, the way she looked when she saw him get face planted.

"Whatcha lookin' at?"

"N-nothing...just stuff."

Buddy burst out of Crona's back, and stared at the crater before them.

"Oh yeah, this is where my vessel crashed into your head, and how I came to be your symbiote."

"Yeah."

"Well, no time for memories, you don't want Maka to worry do you?"

Crona snarled a little at the fact that Buddy used Maka as a motivator for the task at hand, but he was right. He turned around and ran, then leaped up and swung off on another tentacle.

Blackstar and Tsubaki were in the shopping district, they had just gotten back from their mission, and as promised, they were going to go see Crona. They just decided to pick up a few things to make dinner with, they're treat. Blackstar was carrying a couple of bags, as was Tsubaki. They were walking through the shopping district looking around to see if they should get anything else.

Blackstar was as hyper as ever, but Tsubaki decided to just let him be and have his fun.

"Yahoo! This is gonna be the bes dinner ever!"

"You bet Blacstar, but don't forget why we're going."

"Oh yeah! Crona!"

"I'm going to let you off the leash on this one, but please...don't go too crazy."

"Yes! Don't worry, Tsubaki, I'll keep it under control!"

"Thanks, Blackstar."

Tsubaki leans over and gives Blackstar a kiss on the cheek. Blackstar blushes as he keeps walking. Suddenly he sees a black streak flash above them, and jolts back.

"What is it Blackstar?"

"Nothing, I thought I just saw something... never mind, let's go."

The twosome then took off towards Maka's house, meeting up with Maka, Blair, Soul, and everyone else who was there when Crona woke up at the hospital.

Crona was now swinging faster, and faster, through the gaps between buildings, and above the streets and alley ways. He was also elevating slightly higher as he swung too. Before he knew it, he was one giant leap from the DWMA. Crona plummeted from the building tops, towards the ground, and half way before hitting the ground, he shot out a tentacle, and swung in a giant arc, and at the end of the arc, pulled back the tentacle, and flew threw the sky, and landed on the tip of one of the DWMA's giant Red needles. He burst out in laughter, loud and crazy, and sounding as alien as he did back at the house.

Somewhere near by, someone could hear the laughter. Not just anybody, it was a certain blonde, it was Hiro. He had been walking from the DWMA's library, trying to find answers as to how to find a weapon partner. Nobody knew this but him, but if he didn't find a weapon partner by the end of the year, he would be expelled. As he was walking from the DWMA, he heard the laughter, and saw a figure on one of the red needles, he couldn't make out what it was, but before he had a chance to really observe it, it took off. He wasn't sure, but he could've sworn that he saw pink hair.

Elsewhere, Crona was in a rush back to the house. He had forgotten that everyone was going to be back at the house tonight, for a get-together for Crona's recovery. Crona arrived at the front doorstep, and tried to open the door, but forgot that he locked it when he slammed the door on Liz. "Oh crap! I totally forgot that I slammed the door on Liz! She's gonna kill me!" Buddy then burst from his back, hearing all the distress.

"What's the matter, hit another wall?"

"No, I'm locked out, and Liz is gonna kill me tonight."

"The door, I can fix."

Buddy, then lashed out at the door, and slipped inside the key hole, unlocked the door, and returned into Crona's back.

"No dirty jokes about what just happened."

"I don't really think of those, but you'll probably get an earful from Ragnarok."

Crona slipped into the house, and closed the door behind him, locking it. He rushed into his room, and sood in front of his mirror.

"Alright, you- we've had our fun, now it's over. Get this off of me before they show up!"

"No need to shout."

Buddy made the symbiote recede, and Crona was pleased to find himself normal again. He still had an hour to kill, and felt exauhsted, he decided to take a nap.

Bang! There was a loud pound on the door, and Crona shot up out of bed. Half-dazed, he walked over to the door, and he opened the door. Soul was standing there, he wasn't wearing his jacket this time.

"Come on, everyone's here. Don't tell me you forgot?"

"Trust me, I didn't forget."

"Well come on then, let's go."

Crona followed Soul into the living room, and everyone was there even the Mizuki sisters, Erika, and Free. Blackstar saw him, and ran up to him immediately.

"Hey Crona! I heard some meteorite made you its bitch!"

Everybody laughed, even Crona. Crona could smell something, something good, he looked in the kitchen and saw Maka and Tsubaki making dinner for every one. Maka's apron was covered in sauce and other things and she still looked amazing to Crona. The Mizuki sisters were all standing in a line, Crona didn't know what they were doing, but they looked happy. Suddenly, someone grabbed him from behind, it was Free. Blackstar and Erika followed by searching through Crona's hair, trying to find where the meteorite hit Crona. They found a big purple swolen spot, it looked pretty bad.

"JEE-ZUS!" Blackstar exploded over the room, everyone was starting at the spot on Crona's head. Free let Crona go, and gave a pat on the back.

"Well, that wasn't the only weird thing I saw today."

"Oh yeah, something really made you jump, but you never told me what it was Blackstar."

"Well, I could've sworn I saw this black streak just flash past us above our heads!"

Crona was sweating nervously a little, but noone seemed to notice.

"Well, i-it was probably nothing."

"That's what I told Tsubaki, Crona!"

Marie chimed in with her relaxing, cheerful tone "Alright you guys, this is a party, we're not going to worry about anything."

"She's right! Come on guys, it's time for dinner anyway!" Maka chimed. Everyone smiled and moved towards the kitchen for dinner. Crona made his way too, but Liz pulled him aside, and stared right into his eyes.

"Please don't kill me." whispered Crona, trying to keep the conversation a secret.

"I'm not going to kill you, you...you were right. I shouldn't have acted the way I did."

"Nor the way you always do towards Hiro."

"I know, that too, I'm going to clean up my act, starting tonight."

"I dunno, don't you think you're going to frighten the others if you do that now?

"Heh heh, alright smart ass, lets get something to eat, I'm hungry."

Letting go of Crona, the two got their dinner, and sat down on the couch, joining everybody in the living room. They all ate and laughed the night away. Noone went home, it turned into a slumber party, everybody passed out somewhere in the house.

Deep in the middle of the night, when everyone was asleep, one soul still remained awake. Buddy, who was lying dormant inside of Crona, started to feel uneasy.

"I don't know what this is, but my senses are telling me something bad is on its way. I don't know what it is, but Crona, I hope you stay on your gaurd. There's no telling what it is, or what I'll need you to do."

End of Chapter 5