Shadow hunter chapter 4 part 2
Maka turned away from Tsubaki and began to walk home. She wasn't tired or sick. She was furious. Not at Tsubaki, she was mad at Soul. At how willing he was to be used by some one else, to put his life in someone else's hands. It made her blood boil. While all of them fought side by side there is a special relationship reserved for a weapon and their meister. That he had violated.
But that doesn't mean Tsubaki is free of guilt either. No, no, no. While Maka knows that its irrational she can't help but hate. Hate her for how Tsubaki eagerly accepted Soul, hate her for how easily resonance came to them, hate her at how she could feel their souls at ease together. She hated her soul. "I have to fix this" she said to herself " I have to make up with soul because I need him to come back. But more than that he needs me. That's right, I'm doing this for his own good. I'm keeping his insanity in check, without me he'll fall apart. And I can't let that happen. So tomorrow I'll go to Shinigami sama and demand Soul be separated from that woman. Not for me, for him. Because I care about Soul and I won't let her destroy him." with Maka's plan now sorted out she rushes home with new vigor.
She throws open the door to their apartment and after grabbing her pajamas and a clean towel enters the bathroom to run a nice hot bath. Before she starts to undress she looks in the mirror and sees a black smudge on her cheek. She runs some water on her hand and wipes it off but when she looks up again it's even bigger than before. She looks at her hand and realizes her hand is covered in the stuff and prepares to get in the shower to cleanse her self. Her hand feels itchy so she uses her other hand to scratch it. She can feel a tingly sensation running up her arm she looks down to see. Ants. Her entire arm. Covered in ants. Swarming not a single piece of skin left exposed they don't stop. They're at her cheek to she can't see them but she can feel them. Crawling all over her skin, hundreds of ants, thousands of legs leaving no spot untouched. But Maka's better than this. She knows what this is.
Madness. After her panic fades she pushes her soul to it's limits, stretching her wavelength for the first time without the help of soul. She knows that out of her friends she is the weakest but this is her specialty this is her pride. Her anti-magic wavelength the only thing she has of her mothers, besides a stack of post cards in her bedroom. She knows she can't succumb to this she can't fall into the madness. Because soul needs her. She knows she is the one thing that stands between him and insanity.
The insects fly off other and dissolve into mist." Oi mama you okay?" the concerned voice of Soul coming from behind her. Maka felt the strong arms of Soul snake around her from behind. " I heard you screaming" she snuggled back relaxing in his embrace.
" I'm okay now it was just-"
" Madness? I honestly don't see why you resist me" Maka turned and to her horror she wasn't in Souls warm embrace, she was face to face with the not so little red demon. His toothy grin was only made creepier by his magnified size. " You struggle so hard only to yet again fall to me. Why? Why? Why! You struggle against me just like that boy! But you know, and he knows, you need me. You want me you crave the madness that makes you strong. So why? Why do you run from me? But now you have no choice. Not just for my same but for the boy. It's time for me to take the lead!" Maka barely had time to scream as the demon lifted her up into the air "I've been waiting for this!" his large arms held her above his open mouth " bon appetite!" she knew it was an illusion. A fabrication of her mind as she fell into madness. But that didn't make his teeth hurt any less as he mercilessly chomped down. His teeth as knives of pain tearing through her skin, her muscles ripping, her bones breaking. She couldn't even scream as madness devoured her.