Hello everyone i am Ches i just want to say sorry for all the grammar and spelling mistakes in the last chapter. i had lost my beta readers because it was spring vacation so i wasnt able to give it to my friends to prof-read it for me. Any way here is chapter six of my story. thank you for your patience.
Chapter 6 - Fight
Maka and Ches quickly jumped in opposite directions narrowly avoiding the tear filled girl's attack. She swiftly started after Ches swinging as mercilessly as she had with Maka. Having already seen the rag girl's attack pattern, even thou he was puking at the time, he had an easier time evading the attacks. Duck, jump, fall back, he quickly fell into a rhythm, dancing around the attacks. What he couldn't dodge he blocked using the metal on his shoulder and forearm, never getting a clear shot to attack back or even get away. Maka solved that. Flying in with a swift kick she knocked the girl away. Asura's soul reached down and ripped another shred off of the girl's soul.
"How the hell are we supposed to fight?" Soul's face appeared in the blade. "We can't kill an innocent girl."
"I think we are going to have to Soul." Maka looked down at her partner. "I just don't see any way around it. Whoa!"
Maka just managed to dodge a lunging back slice from the ragged girl. But her full length coat didn't fare as well, it now had a giant gash in the right side. Ches tagged in to dance again, giving Maka and Soul the time think things through. The gears in his own head in over time.
"There might be a way." Ches started to plan in his head putting his body into auto pilot.
"Maka" Ches yelled at her while forcefully shoving the ragged girl back using his left arm. "I think I have a way to beat her." Jumping back he told her his plan, whispering so quietly that even Soul couldn't hear it. "There is just one thing I need. I don't think I could do this without knowing her name, do you think you could find out what her name is using your Soul Perception?"
"Maybe, but do you really think this will work?"
"It's the best chance we have without killing her. I'll buy you time." Ches ran forward to meet the ragged girl using the metal to force the rampaging girl's body backward, away from Maka.
In the meantime Maka braced herself against the pole of Soul's scythe form, closed her eyes, and breathed in.
She was floating. Floating in a never-ending black expanse, just like the last time she tried something like this with Crona. And also just like last time the first thing she saw was her own soul coming to greet her like an old friend. It was easier this time to locate the soul she was searching for.
"Probably because I'm not relying on the black blood's insanity and I'm not fighting at the same time" she thought to herself.
She quickly saw Asura's soul. It was kind of hard to miss with the size of it and the light it gave off. Near it was Ches's soul. It was then that she realized what kind of weapon he was. She smiled now reassured that the plan would work. She turned away from his soul and started to look around the Kishin's soul for the ragged girl's soul. It took a while because of how small it now was, but when she saw it she knew it belonged to the girl. Maka approached and wrapped her arms around the soul that was falling apart, and yet still fighting to stay together.
Suddenly the girl's attacks got faster, and the tears slowed but didn't stop. Ches was struggling to keep up, and was starting to lose ground. Yet he smiled.
"Maka must have found her." He said to himself.
Cuts now stretched across his right forearm and left shoulder. "Of course Asura is going to aim there. He isn't some mindless beast, he is going to aim for my weak spots." Stepping up his game Ches started to try to push with each block trying to keep the demon away from Maka and Soul.
After about thirteen minutes the ragged girl slowed down not moving quite as fast and the tears speed up again. It was as if each time she swung her arms or took a step something was trying to pull her back. Someone was fighting on the inside. Ches was now able to push her farther back and then planted himself firmly in place creating a wall not letting her get a step closer towards Maka and Soul.
Maka's eyes snapped open. "Ches! Her name is Gwen!"
He pushed the girl back and ran to Maka. "Are you sure?"
Maka nodded at him. He turned to face Gwen, disengaged the metal on his arms, and started to walk forwards.
"What are you doing?! She will cut you to pieces." Soul shouted from inside his scythe form.
Ignoring him Ches spoke. "Maka use your Soul Perception to watch for your moment to strike. Use dinjin hunter, that should be enough to at least harm him. After all you were able to kill Medusa with it when she was a ghost."
Maka nodded as he continued walking toward the dazed Gwen who had started to get up, her tears still flowing.
As Ches approached she got up.
"Gwen" He spoke.
Her eyes widened even farther than they already were mimicking the eyes on Asura's soul, and started to swing her left arm wildly. Asura had realized the danger.
"I know you didn't kill those people, I know you didn't kill your friends," with each step and word the swings got faster wanting to slice through anything that got in range.
"I know you didn't kill your family."
Her scythe blade slammed into his unprotected right shoulder. There was no blood, for the blade was reversed the sharp cutting edge is on the wrong side of the blade. He smiled looking dead into her eyes, and took her right hand in his.