I don't own Soul Eater.

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When Medusa saw the gate to Death City she wanted to remove the cloth from her head and look more, but instead she brought it tighter around her. Opposite her the redhead groaned.

"Finally," he moaned as he stretched.

"You would think that for someone who doesn't leave Death City often he wouldn't be so eager to get back," the brunette said from up front.

"I want to see my darling daughter!"

"Too bad she doesn't want to see you," the grey hair one commented drily.

The redhead started to cry loudly, screaming a name to the heavens.

The brunette rubbed his face. "Did you really need to do that? You knew that he would react like that."

Her master shrugged and started to smoke a cigarette. As they got further into Death City Medusa couldn't help but watch the people around her. Unlike the Hellenic cities she was use to this city was more orderly. People didn't drive their cart every which way, in the market people waited in line, and there wasn't pushing or shoving.

It made her sick to her stomach. These people were even less free than her.

As they got nearer the center of the city she saw a large, over exaggerated castle. No subtlety at all. Just who was this "Lord Death"?

The brunette parked the wagon and they got out. Medusa followed the men into the castle, where they met a dark haired woman wearing glasses.

"That didn't seem take you very long. You did bring back the witch?"

"Be nice Azusa," a blond woman with an eye patch came up from behind her.

Azusa frowned. "The last thing we need is failure. Already the plague is spreading. Did you bring the witch?"

Stein stepped to the side, showing a woman wearing a Virgin's Dress and a Virgin's Veil. The dress was shapeless, and ankle length with long sleeves, and the Veil was really a large garment wrapped around her head so that her eyes would only show.

"Doesn't seem you had much of a fight," Azusa said with a raised eyebrow.

Stein raised his left hand and showed them the bracelet. "She doesn't have choice."

The blonde gasped. "Stein, you bought a slave?"

Spirit rubbed the back of his neck. "It was kind of an accident."

Azusa clapped her hands twice. "Lord Death is waiting for us. We shouldn't keep him waiting any longer."

As she walked away Stein and Spirit groaned. "Queen of Committee Chairman."

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Medusa looked around the death room when they entered. They seemed to have crossed into a different dimension. As she looked around she spotted a large man in a black robe and a silly skull mask. "That's Lord Death?" she asked with a raised eyebrow that no one could see. Several glares were directed at her.

Lord Death turned to look at them. "Oh, so this is the witch," he said spotting Medusa. "And just what do you have to say for you self?"

Medusa shrugged. "I wasn't trying to kill them."

"Oh?"

"My experiment failed, which is strange because it worked the first time."

"'Experiment', ay?"

Medusa didn't say anything. What was the point if he was just going to continue to copy her words?

"How do we know she's telling the truth?" Azusa asked.

"Before we arrived at Death City I told the witch that she couldn't lie to us," Stein said.

"Um, no offence Stein, but I don't think you just telling her will stop her lying," Lord Death said as his mask made an expression that would translate into a raised and lowered eyebrow on a human face.

Stein held up the bracelet. "Oh. A slave bracelet. Were you acting on you own accord?" Lord Death asked Medusa.

"I was."

"And do you believe that you can make a cure."

"With time and the proper materials, yes."

Lord Death clapped his oversized hands together. "Great! Why don't you get started then?" A dismissal, but Medusa had one more thing to ask.

"What happens to me when you're done?"

They all looked at her. For a moment none of them said anything. Perhaps they don't get that I have almost no control over myself, Medusa thought bitterly. How I would love to slaughter everyone in this room.

"I think we'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Lord Death said. Another dismissal, but Medusa didn't say anything. She just followed her new master out the door.

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His house wasn't a house, it was a lab, but Medusa couldn't bring herself to be surprised. He had briefly show her around his house, and explained the rules to her, which were pretty much "don't bother me" and "don't touch my experiments". When he showed her to her room he watched her for a few minutes before leaving.

Her room was like the rest of the building: colorless. There was only a bed, a single window, a desk, and a closet, which was useless because she only had one dress. In the desk she found a candle holder, a few candles and some matches.

Medusa looked around her room, noting that this was the first time since she had a room to her own since she left the Witch Kingdom, before it was destroyed.

She lay on the bed without bothering to move the light blanket that covered it. It wasn't very conferrable, but it was better than she usually had.

The icy feeling that she was so used to on her back prickled as she laid down, but she was used to that too. She closed her eyes for a moment and before she could think she was sound asleep.

In her sleep the icy feeling spread across her back and onto the back of her shoulders. She didn't notice.

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Stein watched Marie pace across the floor of what Marie would call the living room. The only thing in the room was his desk and various work material.

He couldn't tell if she was mad or concerned. Maybe a little of both.

"Stein she started a plague! Do you really think that it's a good idea having her here?"

Stein shrugged. "I've ordered her not to harm anyone here."

"But she might find a loophole! What if she kills you in your sleep?"

Stein raised an eyebrow. "Then I'd be dead."

For a moment it looked like Marie was going to punch Stein. "Stein, I worry about you."

"You shouldn't."

"But that what friends do; they worry about each other."

Stein raised a second eyebrow but didn't say anything. Marie sighed. "If you're sure..." She walked to the door, and with a good bye walked out.

Stein lit a cigarette and sighed. Marie worrying about him was nothing new, even if it was annoying.

"So she isn't your lady?" a voice said behind him.

Stein turned to see Medusa standing there. "No. She's just a friend."

"Then where is your lady?"

"I don't have one."

Medusa's eyes blinked in what could have been surprise. It was hard to tell only being able to see her eyes. "Then who runs the house?"

Stein's eyebrow rose again. "Me."

Medusa blinked, and then stepped forward. "Then what should I do first?"

"What materials will you need to make the cure?"

"First I will have to remake the elixir and figure out why it caused it. For that I will need many ingredients. Then I will need to examine the dead to figure out what the elixir did to them. I will need ingredients for the cure, and a test subject to test it on."

"And how long will that take."

"Two full moons," Medusa said without blinking.

Stein took another drag of his cigarette. "You will start as soon as possible."

"I will go the market tomorrow and start gathering ingredients." She started to walk towards the kitchen.

"Where are you going?" Stein asked.

Medusa turned back with her hands on her hips. "The kitchen. Or would you rather go hungry, Master?"

"Doctor."

Medusa raised an eyebrow that Stein couldn't see. "Hmmm?"

"Doctor Franken Stein. You will not call me master."

Medusa let out a chuckle. "Most men would love for someone to call them master. Especially a woman."

"I'm not most men."

Medusa chuckled again. "I don't doubt you," she said looking around. The stiches weren't painted on. Somehow they were real. "I will go make dinner Doctor."

Stein watched her with a blank face, while Medusa walked away from her new master, wondering of poisoning counted as hurting.

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Well, there's another chapter. Please tell me how you like it.

Medusa's Virgin outfit is based off of what Islamic women were. We're learning about the monotheistic faiths in Ancient World History and for some reason I could get them out of my head so I put it in.

This story is going to be about mostly Medusa because she is an awesome character, and I don't understand why people hate her so much. I thought it would be interesting to put a character who likes to be in control in a role where she had no control.

Anyway, please tell me if any of the characters are OOC.