Maka's eyes open suddenly when she hears a loud boom destroy the darkness of the quiet around her..She's no longer just floating in nothingness..She's in a field..The moon shining down on her..but she isn't looking at the moon.
Maka's eyes widen as she watches a 19 year old Kami jump into the air..She does a flip, her body lighting up in blue light..power shoots out of her like spikes..Impaling a green haired girl that jumped up after her. The girl's eyes are wide in shock..blood spating out of her mouth..The blue spike has gone through her chest..through the heart. Kami's smirk is sinister as she recalls her power..doing a flip she lands on her feet..while this girl falls on her head..breaking her neck.
It's safe to say, this green haired girl is dead.
"Rachel!" A blonde girl cries out when she sees what happened to her fallen companion..She's wearing a dark cloak..Her blood red eyes darken in hate as they lock on Kami..who is just grinning from ear to ear...It's mad..it's dark..full of nothing. The blonde girl screams out in her rage, pointing her finger at Kami..
Only for a snake to suddenly wrap around her..tightening it's grip around her chest so no words could leave her..The blonde girl shakes in fear..as Medusa appears in front of her..a blank look on her face.
"..Please..don't..kill me.." The blonde girl wheezes out..only for the snake to tighten it's grip, getting her face to turn blue.
"Ah, Brittany.." Medusa hums as she rubs her cheek..She smiles sweetly..and Maka can see the hope in this blonde girl's eyes.. "..I always thought you were a bitch." This gets the blonde girl's eyes to widen in alarm..
Medusa to shoves her two fingers..into This girl's eyes sockets..The girl can't even scream..the snake constricting her air..She's crying tears of blood..Medusa keeps her fingers inside the girl for a moment..letting her suffer..before two snakes made of black magic come out of her fingers..shooting through this girl's brain, coming out of the back of her skull..
"Disgusting." Medusa rips her fingers out of this girl's eyes..turning her back on the body that's starting to be eaten by her snake. Kami appears behind her..Her back pressed against Medusa's..as five other girls in cloaks appear around them..their hoods up.
"Looks like we have more bitches to kill." Kami grunts. "Arachne really out did herself this time huh?" She grins, glancing back at the older woman. "We really pissed her off this time." She chuckles.
"oh yes. I agree." Medusa grins back at her. "Let's see how my sister takes it when we send her back, these girl's body parts in the mail."
"You cocky bitches!" One of the five girl's screams as she steps forward. "This is where you fucking die Medusa you excuse for a royal! You know Arachne is the next Grand witch! Why don't you just-"
Just as this girl is going off..in a blink of an eye Kami is in front of her..two of her fingers touching this girl's forehead..Kami's hand looking like a gun. All has gone silent..as her mother grins..
There's a boom..Kami's hand recoiling back as if she really fired it..The hooded figure's blood splats out...a hole in the back of the hood..the girl falls to the ground..lifeless.
"Boom.." Kami blows at her two fingers like a gun. "Head shot."
The other four girls stare at Kami in shock..maybe not believing she killed one of them so easily..or maybe it's the twisted grin on this woman's face..the twisted grin that gets Maka to curl into herself a bit..Because it's a twisted grin she knows all too well.
"Good one." Medusa hums getting Kami to beam at her...Her mother does a mock bow.
"Thank you! Thank you!" She kisses Her hands and throws them up like she's throwing her kisses out.
"Get her!" a hooded figure screams..before all four charge Medusa and Kami..her mother and the snake witch exchange a look..as the ground around them starts to fall apart when one of the hooded figures punches the ground. They jump away from each other..Medusa using her vector arrows to impale one of the hooded figures..they make a strangled cry..before going limp. The arrows of dark magic making a tearing sound as they rip out of this person..as they rip out of bone, and muscle..
Kami lands on her tip toes..she does a twirl.. "Whirl wind!" She cries out..blue power coming out like a wind..It knocks a hooded figure away from her..Maka watches in awe as the wind..turns razor sharp..This hooded figure is sliced piece by piece..Leaving nothing but a bloody mess on the ground..a stain..
Two down. Two to go.
Medusa lands as one of the girls appears in front of her..her hands lighting up with purple light..her mouth open, about to scream a spell..only for Medusa to lash out, sticking her hand down her throat..Snakes coming out of the ground, wrapping around this hooded figure's hands..
"Tell me Kami.." Medusa hums..her smirk evil at how this girl is trembling so bad. " Should I have my snakes eat her inside out? Or maybe I should just kill her. One shot. It's up to you.." Medusa eyes the hood..and it comes down..revealing a brown haired girl..her brown eyes shaking..frighten tears falling down her face. "I do believe this is the girl That sent that awful witch hunter on you..at least one of them...It's your call my Kami."
"Rain...Do it now." Maka tenses at the voice..it's a whisper but she hears it..She looks beside her..only to see..Arachne..a younger version of her hiding behind a tree..She's watching the fight from behind it..A look in those odd eyes that Maka doesn't understand..But her being here can't be good news. She wants to warn her mother..to warn Medusa..
But she can't. She's not really here.
Kami stares at this shaking girl..Stares at this girl blankly..There's no anger..no sadness either. "Make the bitch suffer." Her mother's voice comes out as a growl..it's not her mother's voice..It's a voice of a demon..a demon of bitterness..of hate..Yet..it's her mother. Maka tenses at how..blunt..how..dangerous those words sounded..How cold they were..and the look in her mother's eyes..It's hard looking at them..because this isn't the woman she grew to know.
Her mother is kind. Her mother helps the homeless, and offers a smile to everyone. Her mother goes to church, she prays. Her mother loved her...her mother was a surgeon..She helped people..She was a good person. She was beautiful..
This woman..this woman is dark, bitter..Maka isn't use to this side of her mother..yet it's still her mother..and even with seeing this..she can't think any less of her mother..no..It's the world's fault..it's that man's fault..He did this..he fucking did this..
"As you wish." Medusa's lips curl..as she rips her hand out..only for ten snakes to come out the ground..The girl's mouth is held open by magic..as snake, after snake..slowly slivers down her throat..She gurgles..she's choking..it's a sickening sound..it's sickening watching these snakes sliding down her throat..to see them move..to see the fearful look on this brown haired girl's face..Maka wants the gurgling to stop..wants this sight to stop. It gets her skin to crawl..thinking of something that she doesn't want..going down her throat..something alive..something like that..But this girl deserves it doesn't she?..she's the reason her mother is like this..It's her fault..
It's the world's fault. It's this girl's fault. It's fate's fault. It's that man's fault..
But it isn't her mother's fault.
Kami..watches with that blank expression again..She doesn't look happy..She doesn't look sad..she doesn't look like anything..that's when Maka sees it..
A hooded figure behind her mother..Maka can tell by the way it's moving it's hands..it's saying a spell..power gathers in it's hands..It's going to attack her mother, it's going to kill her mother!
"Mom! Behind you!" Maka screams, her eyes wide.
"Yes..now." Arachne chuckles from behind the tree..watching with a amused smirk..
Medusa looks over at Kami..to see if she's happy with what she's doing..only for her face to fall. "Kami!" She shouts..fear in those snake eyes.
Her mother whips around..just as this spike of power shoots out at her..In shock..her mother can't move..She stares at the spike..like a deer caught in head lights..It's aiming for her heart..she's going to die..
"Finally. She's finally going to be-" Arachne starts..only to stop..
Maka stops screaming..her throat closing up..everything seems to stop..
Kami's breath hisses..as she puts a hand to her chest..there's blood on her..but it's not her own..Kami's eyes shake..they're dilated..her mouth open in shock..or in a silent scream..Maka doesn't know.
Medusa stands in front of Kami..The spike meaning to kill Kami..has been stopped by Medusa's shoulder..it's gone completely through..the tip of it almost touching Kami's chest..but it's not. Kami didn't get hurt. Medusa took the blow for her.
Everyone seems..shocked by this. The hooded figure trembles..Arachne has gone silent..her eyes slightly widen..She seems almost confused..
"Sneaking up on some one from behind.." Medusa straightens herself out..a dark look in those snake eyes that gets chills sent down Maka's spine..the moon casting a shadow over her face..her blood drips from the spike..but soon the spike fades away, leaving nothing but a large hole in Medusa's shoulder. "..and they call me a snake." Medusa snaps her fingers..
The ground underneath the hooded figure opens up..vector arrows..more them a hundred of them come out of the ground..impaling this girl vertically..one vector arrow going from her front..tearing through her stomach, her lungs, and out her skull..This girl's blood drips..the only thing breaking the quiet of this night now..This field has turned into a field of blood shed..The green grass has been tainted..with blood, guts..Death lingers in this field..
"Pathetic." Medusa growls as the vector arrows rip out..the body falling to the ground, lifeless. "She tried to kill you Kami..with such a cheap shot."
"Medusa.." Kami runs to the girl..pulling her into a embrace to hold her up..She has such a deep frown on her face as she looks at where Medusa is bleeding. "..You shouldn't have done that.." Kami puts her hand on Medusa's shoulder..her hand lights up..before the wound starts healing..Kami's eyes hold..a guilt..a sadness. "you could have died."
"Don't be stupid Kami." Medusa shakes her head. "If I didn't do it, you wouldn't be standing here right now. Don't complain about it. Be grateful." She glances at all the dead bodies. "..We have to burn them, make it look like a witch hunter did this..just like last week."
"Okay.." Kami still looks down..looking at the shoulder that is now healed. "..I just..wouldn't know what I would do if you died Medusa.." Kami grabs Medusa's hand. "..I need you."
Medusa stares at this other girl blankly a moment..those snake eyes can't be read..She grabs Kami by the chin and lifts her head up..so she's looking at her.
"I'm not going anywhere..as long as you need me.." She rubs Kami's cheek. "Then i'll always be there."
"..You promise?" Kami hugs her tightly..looking up at the taller woman with those bright, green eyes.
"You have my word." Medsua gets closer..Her lips mere inches from Kami's. "Now be quiet. You know I hate when you talk like this. So sweet it's sickening."
"Oh boo." Kami chuckles lightly..getting Medusa to grin..before she claims the younger girl's lips for her own..Their faces covered in blood..but they don't seem to mind.
"oh my.." Arachne's eyes widen..before they settle..and she smirks..and oh, it's a evil smirk. "..So..That's what's been going on with you two..My sister, a royal, with garbage like Kami..it's comical!.." Arachne chuckles to herself..as she starts to walk away. "..I think I finally know how to break you Medusa..because now I know..That you have a weakness..I know what you care about."
With that..this spider witch fades away..Medusa and her mother unaware..
Everything fades away.
No..No that fucking bitch..Did..did Arachne really curse Maka's mother..just to hurt Medusa?..would she..would she really go that fucking far?
Yes. Yes she would.
When everything comes back to her..She can't help her chest tightening..she can't help feeling sick..when her eyes..fall on her mother's tombstone..She's back in the cemetery..the one back in that town full of people that hate her..that cast her aside and labeled her the crazy girl..she's back in this awful place..staring at her mother's grave..the grave she hasn't been to since the funeral.. It's night time again..but there isn't the moon giving light to this place of death..nor do the stars shine..the sky is blank. Keeping these tombstones alone in the dark..with only their wilting flowers from love ones keeping them company..Yet those flowers just die..just die, like the person they are laid for.
The flowers can't be held by the dead..so why do we leave them?..to remind ourselves how quickly life ends?..The flowers never last..each week you have to put new ones down..so why do we do it?..to feel as if we are leaving our fallen something?..to make ourselves feel better?..seeing pretty flowers against a cold stone in the ground..indicating where someone that use to be apart of our lives is?..
Staring at the flowers..Maka doesn't feel better..
All these people are still dead..her mother is still dead.
She wants to leave this horrible place..she doesn't want to look at her mother's name in that tombstone...She wants to go home..she wants to leave-
That's when..Maka's mind stops..
Medusa just appeared..She's standing in front of her mother's grave..her bangs casting a shadow over her eyes..so Maka can't see them...Medusa..falls to her knees in front of this stone..her hands digging into the dirt..
"..Why Kami..why did you push me away?" Medusa's quiet voice..breaks the silence..she doesn't look up..Maka still can't see her face. "..Why couldn't you have listen to me?..I told you..I told you what could happen if you left..but you didn't care. You..you could still be alive now.." Medusa hits the ground..it's weakly. "..You said you didn't need me Kami! You said you were okay..You told me you could handle yourself.." Medusa grinds her teeth..a wind blows..moving her bangs..
Maka can't help her stomach to turn..a gasp escaping her lips..
Medusa..the snake witch..is crying. They're silent tears..but they're there..Medusa glares at the tomb stone. "..If you can handle yourself..if you didn't' need me..why the fuck are you under the ground? Why are you dead!" Medusa screams..It stuns Maka..She's never really seen her lose her cool..never could imagine tears falling down those evil eyes..
Silence answers Medusa's question..She bows her head again. "..What happened? How could this have happened?..You.." Her voice gets quiet again..before she looks up..those tears are gone..a fire in those snake eyes..yet a sadness..that seems so unnatural. "..It never had to be this way..you did this to your self.." Medusa gets up..and starts to walk away..
Maka..starts following her..she doesn't know why..but her legs move on their own..Medusa walks for a long time..her hair in her face..her walk slow..Maka can't tell what this woman is thinking or feeling..but after seeing those tears..Maka knows..
Medusa might have loved her mother...or at least..she really cared. She really was her mother's friend.
"Noooo!" A woman's scream echos through this alley way Maka finds herself in after following Medusa..The snake witch looks up..only to see two figures ahead..
One is a woman laying on the ground..She's missing her hands..her body a black..She's been burnt to a crisp..The only thing that isn't black on her..is the top of her head..it looks like she had pink hair..Clearly this girl was a witch..and she was killed by a witch hunter.
"Mizune!" The other figure cries out..Maka's eyes widening when she realizes who it is..
Eruka holds this burnt body in her arms..tears falling down her cheeks..her body trembling..such a painful look in those black eyes of hers as she looks at this dead girl..Her cries are nothing but despair and hurt...
Medusa stares at her a moment..before she slowly walks up to Eruka..The frog witch notices Medusa's feet when she stops right beside the fallen witch. Eruka whips her head up..a look in her eyes saying she's ready to fight..only for her expression to fall when she sees who it is.
"M-Medusa..what are you doing here?" Eruka holds Mizune closer. "Please..just leave us alone..she.." Eruka's voice cracks.
"..You cared about her." Medusa states more then questions..Eruka whips her head up..looking at Medusa with confusion. "..I cared about someone too.." Medusa looks down at Mizune. "..I also lost her."
..Eruka only looks back down at the fallen witch..Those tears still there.. "She was like a sister to me..Her family raised me!..I..I let them all down."
"You can fix this." Medusa states..Eruka gives her a look like she's crazy.
"Oh yeah? How? She's dead! You can't bring the dead back!" Eruka sobs.
"That's where your wrong." Medusa locks eyes with this girl. "..The death can be brought back..and I will bring Kami back."
"Your insane..' Eruka stares at the lifeless body with longing though.
"A life for a life.."Medusa speaks under her breath..before she stands up. "You can sit here and cry about your fallen friend..but your tears are wasted. They won't bring her back." Medusa starts to fade away-
"..Are you saying..you can really bring Mizune back?" Eruka..looks at Medusa..with something in her eyes..something like hope.
"..Yes. It will take some time..some planning..but I could help you get her back..of course it will cost you." Medusa turns to look at Eruka.
"..Cost me what?" Eruka visibly gulps.
"Your life. You will belong to me. You will do as I say..You will be my servant, and in return, I promise..you will get Mizune back." Medusa holds out her hand.. "..It's not like you have much of a life anyway..Your a weak witch, you only had Mizune, and now she's gone. I could make you stronger, I could give back to you what death has taken..take my hand, and seal your fate."
Eruka seems to think about this for a moment..She looks at the burnt body of her friend..She wipes the tears from her eyes..before she looks at Medusa with a fire in her eyes. "..For Mizune..for my sister.." Eruka closes her eyes..as she puts her hand's in Medusa's "..I'm yours..Please..help me."
"As you wish." Medusa's lips curl in a sick smile..as she grips Eruka's hand..The frog witch cries out in pain..something happening when their hands connected.. "I'll help you..you poor, unfortunate soul."
Everything fades away.
Maka closes her eyes..wanting to be in darkness for a moment..trying to process all that..Her head hurts all the more but..Medusa..Medusa did cry for her mother..Can you imagine..seeing the same eyes of the snake witch that killed so many innocent people..That ripped families apart with no guilt at all..Seeing those evil eyes..cry. Cry for her mother..because Medusa really cared...
Maka knows now..she won't be able to do it. She won't be able to kill Medusa..no..not after seeing all this..It's too much..It gets her chest to tighten..
So..This is why Eruka is with Medusa..Medusa made a deal with her..that she would bring back her friend...not only bring back Mizune..but Maka's mother..How did she plan on doing that?..Could..could Medusa really give her back her mother? Why hasn't she said anything about this to her?..Maka can feel her heart pick up speed..Maka needs to talk to Medusa..needs to find out about this..if there's a way to bring her mother back..Maka wants to help. She wants her mother back..
When Maka opens her eyes..She can't help her mind to stop for a moment..
She's back in the mansion..In one of it's hallway, with all those angel paintings..they're staring at her..taunting her with they're beauty..taunting her with the heaven they live in. When she's going to hell. Is she up?..Did she wake up?..then why is she here..how did she get here?
Maka takes a deep breath..her legs seem to move on their own..She walks so slow..the wood creaking underneath her feet..her eyes glancing around..for some reason she feels like she's looking for something..something is calling her..pulling her forward..The more she walks down this hallway..the more warped the angel's faces get..They're turning into demons..Maka wants to leave..wants to run away..but she keeps walking..she has no control..
Only when she steps in something wet can she stop. Maka doesn't have to look down to know what it is..it's thick...and it's all in front of her..staining the wood..
It's blood.
A panic raises in her..who's blood is it? There's not that many people here..Anxiety claws at her and she starts to run..following the trail of blood..please Crona be okay! Not him..please..she's the one with no time..don't take him..please..keep him safe..She's the one that's suppose to die..not him!
Maka keep running..The trail of blood seems to go on and on..Till She come to a stop in front of a door..
The door to the library.
The trial of blood goes under the door..Inside Maka hears the distinct sound of wailing..and roaring..She reaches out to grab the door handle..
Only for the door to sling open by it's self..A scream so loud shocking Her..It's of a man?..
"Help!" He roars..Getting Maka to scream at the intensiveness of it..
That's when everything fades away.
Crona hums to himself quietly..trying to calm his nerves as he runs his hands through his love's hair..He doesn't think about how this is her last day..Doesn't think of the demon..doesn't think of anything but her. He smiles at her chest moving against his own..Grateful for every breath she takes..for every mumble she makes. He rubs her cheeks gently..touching her with the tips of his fingers..the faintest smile on his lips..Just being around her makes him happy..makes him forget how bad things are right now.
Maka takes away all the bad. Maka is everything to him.
Her blonde hair is sprayed out against the pillow she's laying on..Making it look like she has a halo..Even after all she's been through..her face glows..she glows..She's beautiful. She's a angel..his angel.
"Your my back bone..Your my corner stone..Your my clutch when my legs stop moving..~" Crona softly starts to sing to her, the song he was humming...He kisses her forehead..He's singing to keep his mind off everything..So he doesn't have to think about how this is her last day..or the war she will have to fight in tomorrow..or about Judas..or about Ragnarok..He sings to her.. "Your my head start.. your my rugged heart..your the pulse I've always needed..~" Crona puts a hand over her heart.. "Like a drum b-baby, don't stop beating..l-like a drum baby, don't stop beating..l-like a drum don't stop beating..~" Crona's voice gets a bit shaky at this..trying not to think of when her heart won't be beating.. "..L-Like a drum my heart never s-stops beating for you.~"
Maka moves slightly, getting him to tense and take his hand off her chest. Did his singing wake her up? Crona watches closely as she starts to move more..
Then her whole body tenses and her eyes shoot open..There's fear..confusion..She grips on Crona tightly..Her breathing uneven.
"M-Maka are you okay?" Crona puts a hand on her cheek..moving his face closer so she knows it's him..
She doesn't respond right away..but He watches as that fear in her eyes..dies away..Her eyes going back to normal size..she lets out a shaky breath.
"Yeah..i'm fine." Maka wraps her arms around Crona..burying her head in his chest. "Just a crazy ass dream.."
"W-What happened?" Crona rubs soothing circles in her shoulder..nuzzling the top of her head...he frowns. "W-Was it a bad dream?"
"You could say that.." Maka makes an odd sound in Crona's chest.. "Crona..what do you know about my mother?"
Everything stops for Crona. He tenses..his throat closing up..his eyes wide..He bites his lip to stop his whimper..to stop himself from just confessing to her right now..but todays' her last day..She..she doesn't know does she?..She couldn't possibly..
But Maka is waiting for an answer..So Crona swallows down his fear..and he answers.
"N-not much.." Crona speaks quietly..hoping Maka can't hear how he's feeling..guilty. "I know w-what I do know from you..t-that she was a good person..and t-that you loved her.." He almost sobs at that..but he keeps himself together..he has to.
"..Do you remember seeing her as a kid?" Maka's voice is quiet. "Medusa and my mother were really good friends..like..really good friends..so do you many remember seeing them together as a kid?"
"..." Crona is silent for a moment..before he nods. "Y-Yes..I remember seeing her at s-some of the witches meetings..M-Medusa use to go out to m-meet her I think..i-it's hard to remember so far back."
"How old were you?" Maka tightens her grip on him.
"I-I was four.." Crona seems to be trying to recall something.
...Wait..so..her mother was still involved with Medusa when Maka was four years old?
"So they were still friends then?" Maka frowns slightly.
"I d-don't know if I would call it that.." Crona rubs her shoulders. "..I-I think they were..b-but I remember Medusa saying something a-about it having to be kept secret..w-well..she kept me a-away from your mother..I-I don't think she wanted K-Kami to know I w-was a boy.." Crona's voice gets softer. "S-She was embarrassed of me..embarrassed that Kami had y-you..and she had me..I t-think..I r-remember her saying I w-wasn't allowed to see you..t-that I ruined everything..."
Maka thinks of Medusa's and her Mother's plan of raising their children together..Did Medusa having a boy really ruin that?..If Medusa had a girl..would Crona have been raised as her sister?..It's too weird to think about..If Crona turned out to be a girl..her life might be so much different..She might have two moms..instead of having a mom and a dad..Crona might not have ended up being her love..but her sister..It's weird right?
"You know Crona..it's good you are a boy..'" Maka looks up at him..he looks so ashamed..She kisses his cheek and smiles at him. "If you were a girl..You would be my sister."
"H-Huh?" Crona blinks at me..He looks confused.
"My mother and Medusa had a plan of raising us together..So, if you were a girl, hell we would have been sisters." Maka chuckles slightly at the thought.
"O-Oh that's weird.." Crona frowns..His eyes getting glossed over in thought..
"..Do you know what happened Crona?" Maka looks at him seriously. "..I mean..my mother and Medusa were good friends right?..it's weird they just fell apart..and it's hard to believe that medusa having you changed everything.." Maka thinks of Spirit..thinks of what Medusa said about love..and how her mother found it.. "..Did my mother just..leave everything for Spirit?.." This doesn't settle well in her stomach..thinking of that man..ugh..
"N-No."
This gets Maka to look at him in surprise..Crona's gaze is shifting..such a guilty look in his eyes. "..M-Medusa told me..it w-was all my fault..o-once I was born she was so ashamed..s-she couldn't have Kami k-knowing that she gave birth to a boy..S-She told me she made Kami leave because of me..I o-over heard when I was little her talking to someone..apparently she got a place for Kami to stay..M-Medusa went there a lot I think.." Crona trembles. "M-Medusa told me that K-Kami wanted to stay..wanted to s-stick with a p-plan that I didn't understand till now..b-but my mother couldn't because of me..s-she said she couldn't kill me..T-That I ruined everything."
Maka stares at him with wide eyes...Medusa is the one that kicked her mother out?..just because she was so embarrassed of having a boy?..Maka would think her mother would be understanding...Kami seemed to care about Medusa..Maka can't see her mother really caring if Medusa had a boy..so why was it such a big deal-
"..S-She was p-protecting y-your mother." Crona's voice gets Maka's thoughts to stop. She looks at this boy..who is looking up at the ceiling..his expression can't be read. " M-Medusa was breaking the l-law..keeping me alive..If i-it were to be found that she kept h-her son alive..her, and anyone involved in it would b-be put to death by the witch's c-council..M-Medusa made me read the rules..j-just to make me feel worse about it. M-Medusa has broken a lot of rules with me..S-She didn't want Kami getting dragged down with h-her..s-so she sent her away...b-because for some reason..she couldn't kill me..t-that's all she said to me..t-that's all I can remember in my earliest memories..her s-saying she couldn't kill me..s-she wanted too..I k-know she still wants to..w-why even go through all the trouble?"
Maka closes her eyes..So that's why.. "..It's really illegal to keep the male offspring of witches alive? Why is it such a big deal?"
"..T-The rule book s-said we aren't f-fit for life..a g-girl is a full-blooded witch..w-we are only half..w-we are freaks. In the b-book of the witches..It s-says there's only s-suppose to be full bloods..full blooded witches..and full blooded humans..a m-mixture is a disgrace..a m-mutation...i-in their words, i'm a m-mutant..any boy born of a w-witch is." Crona rubs my hair..like he's trying to comfort Maka..when he's the one that sounds so lost..so hurt.
Maka feels her blood boil at this..thinking of Crona..her love..thinking of Kid..They are mutants..they deserve life just like anyone else.. "That book is fucking wrong Crona. Your not a mutant. Your a beautiful boy. I don't care if your half blooded, full blooded..your still Crona to me." Maka grabs his chin..forcing him to look at her.
"M-Maka.." Crona looks at her with wide eyes..a slight blush on his cheeks.
"This rule really pisses me off." Maka growls.. "Who the hell wrote the book?"
"..M-Mabba." Crona frowns "The g-grand witch..."
"More like grand bitch." Maka shakes her head..Crona twitches slightly at that. She closes her eyes...trying to pull everything together...Medusa didn't kill Crona because of her mother..Medusa protected Kami by sending her away..getting her another place to stay...so what happened after that?..If they still met after this..when does Spirit come in?..
"M-Maka.." Crona's soft voice breaks her thoughts and she looks at him..his gaze is shifting. "..C-Can we talk about something else?"
"Sure." Maka lets out a breath as she cups his cheeks..giving him a passionate kiss on the lips..She can feel this boy melt under touch..his ams pulling her closer..his heart beat picking up speed. His lips..so soft..They haven't changed..just like this boy hasn't changed..still timid..She remembers their first kiss, back at the asylum..this boy fell on her..tripped..His lips clashing against hers..and after she had a taste of him..she needed more, and more, and more..
Now here she is..and she still can't get enough of him.
"I love you" She speaks this against his lips..the boy blushes..his breath hitching..
"I l-love you too Maka.." he breathes against her lips..his pale blue eyes looking into her own..those pale blue eyes that started this all..
"When all this is over.." Maka smirks slightly. "Remind me to draw your eyes. I need to fucking do that..I wanted to and I never got to it!"
"O-Okay.." Crona chuckles. "I-I'll tell you Maka..a-and maybe..w-we could..color again?..I-I miss piglet.." He fidgets.
"Hell yeah! We can color! When all this is over Crona we can do whatever the hell we want..We can color, I can draw you so many times..we can travel, we can dance, anything we want!" Maka giggles..just thinking about it..she closes her eyes..focusing real hard..before her nose wiggles against his..
"Y-Yay!" Crona grabs her face..wiggling his nose back..he laughs with her..both thinking ahead...thinking of better times..thinking how their life could be like..
Maka has to make it out of this alive first.
Suddenly..Maka stops laughing..she winces before she holds her face in her hands. Crona stops laughing..his smile turning into a concerned frown. "M-Maka are you okay?" He gets closer when Maka moves her hands away..giving him a weak smile..
"Yeah..my head really hurts though.." She takes a deep breath. "..Crona..could you..get me a glass of water?" Maka frowns. "..If you don't want to, I can't get it myself i-" She starts getting up, only to wince.
"N-No Maka please don't get up." Crona lays her back down..giving her a firm look. "I-I'll get you a glass of water..y-you just rest here, i'll be right back okay?.."
"Okay.." Maka is still wincing as she watches Crona get out of bed slowly..before he starts making his way to the door.. "..Hey Crona?"
The pink haired boy stops at the door..he turns to look at her..with those pale blue eyes..those eyes full of love..and determination to make her feel better. "Y-Yes Maka?"
"..I just want you to know..your everything to me." Maka smiles at him softly..Crona looks at her with wide eyes. "Your so..good. So pure..you called me your angel once..but your really my angel Crona. You made me a better person..and for that..I want to say thank you."
"..' Crona stares at her a moment..before he looks to the door. "I-I didn't do anything Maka..the p-person you a-are now..is the p-person you always were. You're the o-one that's done all the hard work..i've j-just been there..b-by your side, following your lead.." he opens the door. "No one is pure...and i'm s-sure as hell n-not." His voice is really shaky..but he quickly walks out..closing the door behind him.
Crona takes deep breaths..leaning against the bedroom door..His eyes are shaking..his chest hurting..It took all he had..not to just tell her..just tell her how much of demon he really is..just tell her how tainted he really is..how tainted his hands are..It's too much..Her asking him about her mother..then talking about him..saying how pure he is..how good he is..
She doens't know..The guilt is eating him alive..she deserves to know..
What if she dies and he never gets to tell her?-
No. Maka isn't dying. That isn't going to happen..She's going to live..she's going to be with him forever..Right?
Not if she finds out about what he's done..Like Medusa told him..he's ruined everything. He ruined Kami's life..and handed her death. It was him. He did it. He's not pure..He's nothing close to it..Yet Maka smiles at him..tells him she loves him..that he's everything to her..
It hurts..He feels like dying when he sees that smile..that smile just for him..it hurts..She's smiling at a freak..a demon that ruins everything..that ruined her life..that took everything away..
Crona pants..gripping his fist..This is her last day..telling her now..would be like a death sentence for her..she needs to keep her sanity..He needs to keep his mouth shut..
No matter how much it hurts.
Now..It's time for him to get her some water..to be of use to her. Crona nods to himself before he leans off the door. He starts running down the hallway..wanting to get Maka a glass of water as quick as possible..the head ache looks like it's hurting her..He doesn't want her to hurt..She doesn't deserve it..
If he could trade places with her..If he could some how carry her burden..he would. He would set her free..let her run away from all this..and he would take her time..he would be taken by Arusa..
And he would be able to deal with it..
He can't deal with Maka being taken though..not her. Not his love. Not his happiness..not his life.
Crona picks up the speed..running down stairs and into the dinning room..no one is here..he doesn't allow him self to think as he runs into the kitchen..right up to the cabinets that hold the glasses. He opens it up quickly..taking out a large glass..it looks like it holds a lot of water.. grips it tightly..afraid he'll drop it with his shaking hands as he hold the cup under the sink and starts to fill it up..
"C-Come on.." Crona shifts impatiently..waiting for the water to fill it up..Once it's full, he shuts the water off and turns around..ready to run up to Maka..ready to give her this water and take away her pain..
Only for the inside of his wrist to feel like it's on fire.
Surprised, Crona yelps..dropping the glass of water..before he can catch it, it falls to the ground and shatters..water getting every where. He can't even worry about that as he grabs his hand..turning his wrist to look..
The vertical eye on The inside of his wrist is lighting up..it's burning..getting Crona to scratch at it..he moves around, desperate for the pain to stop..He runs out of the kitchen...blinding by the pain-
Then the pain stops. His wrist stops hurting..
Crona's eyes widen..He isn't the only one in the dinning room...Crona stares at the back of a boy..he doesn't know who this person is..it's not Ragnarok..it's not Judas either..
Just as soon as Crona saw the boy..in a blink of an eye he's gone..
Crona's wrist starts hurting again..but the pain is dull..one thought striking his head..booming through his mind louder then a drum.
Maka!
Something isn't right..Crona takes off running as fast as he can out of the dinning room..He can't feel his wrist anymore..He just runs..panic gripping his heart as he runs back up the stairs..and down the hallway towards their room..
Only to see that boy again..reaching for Their door knob-
"S-Stop!" Crona shouts..still running toward this person..
The boy's..head turns. It twists..in a way that would break a normal person's neck. It's eyes are nothing but blackness..the boy's face pale..the veins of his face able to be seen..His mouth opens..showing off his pointed teeth..Even with this boy being so warped..Crona knows this boy..
He's the boy that Maka tied up..the one they thought Medusa got..
Crona can't help to stop at looking at this boy..his eyes wide..frozen..he wasn't expecting this..
The boy stares eerily at Crona a moment..before it's head twist back so it's looking at the door..it grabs the door knob-
This snaps Crona out of his trance. This boy wants to get to Maka..something screams inside of him..This boy wants to hurt Maka.
"N-No!" Crona growls and runs towards this boy. "Y-You don't touch her!" He doesn't know what he's going to do..but he won't let this..thing touch her. Ragnarok trusts him..Maka trusts him..
He's done letting them down.
The boy..suddenly appears right in front of Crona..his head twisted backwards..his mouth open in a silent scream. Crona freezes mid run..only for this boy to back hand him..
It feels like he just got hit with a truck. Crona hits the ground and bounces from this hit..He cries out in pain when he lands on his ribs..His face feels on fire..Crona tries to get back up..only to fall back down..
He's weak. He's nothing without Ragnarok..nothing with out Judas.
"How pathetic." The boy appears in front of Crona..smirking..his body twisted in a odd crab-walk..looking at Crona upside down..green goo leaking out of his mouth. " So your Judas's host? Heh..You poor boy." This boy chuckles..his voice is deep..it rumbles. " He's abandoned you like he does with all his hosts. Look at you..so weak..it's delicious."
Crona can't help but to feel fear..looking into this boy's..no..this demon's eyes..seeing those eyes of nothing but blackness..this warped boy..Crona thinks his ankle might be broken. That one hit did him in..
"Let's hope that girl puts up more of a fight then you." The boy grins when Crona's eyes get wide and he tenses. " I heard she has a pretty nice ass, might just make her hurt in more ways then one..rip her soul from her body as I viscously fuck her. That sounds good." He laughs in Crona's face..watching his rage build. The demon turns around. "That sounds real-"
"You won't fucking touch her!" Crona screams..before he forces himself up..he doesn't think of the pain..He tackles this boy. The boy makes a grunt..before him and Crona fall down the stairs...They roll..Crona tries to keep himself on top..The boy twists his head so he's face is mere inches from Crona's..Even though his front is against the stairs...He opens his mouth..before green goo shoots out..getting all in Crona's face..Crona can't see, put he continues to hold onto this boy as they fall down the stairs..He punches him..hits him as hard as he can..the boy grunting before they both hit the ground. The demon throws Crona off..He hits the wall and cries out in pain. Crona wipes the goo from his face..so he can see..
The boy right in front of him..Scowl on that pale, dark face.
"That's it. I don't give a fuck if you belong to Judas. Your fucking dead." The boy growls as he grabs Crona..he roars in his face..Crona struggling in his hold..red blood on the corner of his mouth.. "I'll make you suffer!" he throws Crona once again..the pink haired boy hits the ground hard..he does a roll..before skidding to a stop..Crona coughs blood..These blows probably have broken some of his ribs..
This is it..he's going to die here..
"D-Do to me what you want.." Crona wheezes out, gripping his stomach. "..B-But don't..touch her."
"Ohh look at the hero!" The demon chuckles..the boy's head going around in a circle..making a sickening cracking sound. He grins at Crona. "Oh but you see..once i'm done with you, i'm going to fuck your girl silly while I rip her apart. I'll drink her tears, and love every scream she makes."
"No!" Crona screams, trying to get up..only to hear a crack..he cries out in pain as he falls back down..He can't get up..He feels angry tears start to fall down his face..He's angry at this demon..angry at himself..for being to weak..for not being able to get back up..Not able to help her..to be what she needs..
"Good bye~" The boy laughs as he jumps toward Crona..going to end him..
He feels fear..but not for himself..for Maka..He's going to hurt Maka if he doesn't do something..if this guy kills Crona..he's going to kill Maka..Those angry tears turn into desperate ones...When this boy gets right on him..he calls on the name that comes to his mind..He can't do this alone..
"J-Judas!" Crona cries out.
"He won't help you now-" This demon laughs..about to strike Crona..about to crush to end him..
Only for his hand to be caught..by the person that is now in front of Crona..
"Now now..What do you think your doing?" Judas..the demon stands before Crona..The boys savoir. Judas's mad smile grows at how this other demon shakes a bit. "I do believe.." Judas twist the boy's wrist at a odd angle..breaking it. The demon growls in pain..trying to get out of Judas's hold. "That this boy belongs to me. You weren't trying to kill him.." Judas digs his long finger nails in the boy's flesh..digging at his wrist getting him to yelp. "..Now were you?"
"O-Of course fucking not. I was just fucking with the brat." The boy speaks hastily..his black eyes wide..he looks surprised..confused..
"J-Judas.." Crona looks up at this demon in awe..he's surprised he actually came too..he hasn't answered any of his other calls..
"Oh that's funny." Judas hums..before he lets go of the demon's wrist..Only to grab his neck..The boy gurgles..Judas choking him as he lifts him off the ground. "If you were just 'fucking' with him. Why is he bleeding so much? He looks like he's in pain. You hurt him and I don't take kindly to someone hurting my best friend."
Crona feels..a relief wash over him..Judas..is his best friend. He's here, protecting him..He can't be a traitor right?..this proves it..it has to.
Judas mad smile grows..his vines gathering around him before they latch out..They go through this boy's shoulders..wrapping around him..The boy roars in pain as the vines hold him up in the air..green goo falling out of the boy's wounds..
"Your in time out!" Judas points a finger at this boy, a scolding look on his face. "You know better!"
"Fuck you Judas!" The boy growls..but he's stuck in the air..A wince on his face.
"Not today!" Judas huffs before he turns on his heel to look at Crona. "Best friend!" Judas gasps as he falls to his knees in front of Crona..a frown on his face..Crona can't help to notice..Judas looks a bit different..His skin is darker..He has his vines back..His eyes..are darker..they shake more..Crona can feel the madness radiating off of him..and it's making him nervous.
"J-Judas.." Crona coughs..holding his stomach. "..T-Thank you for saving me..I-I didn't think you would come.."
"Why's that?" Judas tilts his head..seeming like he's really confused.
"..Y-You haven't been answering my calls.." Crona frowns. "W-We really n-need to talk about-"
"Your so hurt Crona! Here, let me get a look at your wounds." Judas suddenly gets on top of Crona..He's not pressing on him..but before Crona can say anything..his shirt melts..it turns back to black blood..falling off of him, exposing him to this demon.
"W-What are you-" Crona tenses..trying to push Judas off..only for the demon to pin his wrists beside his head.
"Don't move." Judas eyes narrow..getting Crona to freeze. "Your ribs are broken..and so is your ankle...I can fix it..it's just going to hurt okay? Do you trust me?"
Crona looks into this demon's eyes..the eyes of madness..They bonce around..his eyes don't look anything close to a human's anymore..His hand more like claws then hands..he thinks of these past couple of days..Thinks about all that he's been though..being locked in a cage..being let out..thinking of this boy..not knowing what to do..He might be stupid but..
"I t-trust you." Crona breathes out..He watches as this demon smiles at him..iit's a smile full of relief.
"Good. No matter what Crona..know i'm on your side." Judas leans down..so he's saying this against the skin of his ribs..He takes a finger nail and makes a small cut on his ribs..Getting Crona to whimper in pain but he bites his lip. Judas puts his mouth over the cut..Crona feels something go inside him..it burns..it hurts!
"Shhh.." Crona hears Judas's voice in his head..the demon is stroking his hair..his mouth still on the cut. "It will be over soon."
Crona takes shaky breaths..He feels this demon's blood work through him..placing back his ribs..fixing all his broken bones..before all the pain is gone..and Crona can breathe normally..
"There.." Judas pulls away..Giving the small cut on his ribs a kiss..and it closes up. He looks up at Crona..those eyes dancing madly. "All better!"
"..Y-Yeah.." Crona stares at him a moment..just realizing something..he frowns. "..I-I thought I w-was never going to see you again..w-we did a exorcism today and-"
"I know! Did you like my acting?" Judas grins. "I'm the best fucking actor out there! I bet if I wasn't..you know, a demon. I could be better then Johnny Dep. People would love me even more then they do now!"
"..S-So that scream..?"
"All fake." Judas ruffles Crona's hair..getting closer. "Good job..you did great. I was a bit worried you would give them my name..but you didn't. You stayed true to me.." Judas is practically laying on top of Crona now..those mad eyes inches from his own. " You make me sooo happy..I could just.."
And then he kisses Crona. It's soft..The demon's eyes slipping shut. Crona stares at him with wide eyes..his lips frozen in place as the demon nips at them and bites.
"J-Judas stop-" Crona tries to push him off..only for the demon to growl and kiss harder. This shocks Crona..he gasps, once his mouth is open, the demon shoves his tongue in, making sure to taste all of Crona..This kiss is different from all the other times..forceful..hard..painful. Crona tries to push him off..only for his wrist to be head back by his bed..by thornless vines. The demon's hands start to roam shamelessly on Crona's bare chest..feeling down his smooth stomach that is concaving in from his touch..he feels with the palm of his hand down to his hip..before moving it behind..grabbing Crona's ass roughly.
Crona doesn't like where this is going. His commands of telling the demon to stop are muffled by Judas's mouth on his..Crona can't push him off..he can't do anything..
He's at this boy's mercy..
Crona is getting fearful when Judas grabs his member through his pants..even more fearful when he sees what's going on above them..
The boy...the other demon has ripped one of the vines out of him..and he's working on the second one..he's going to get free!
When Judas breaks the kiss, Crona screams.
"J-Judas the boy he's-" Crona stops..when he looks into Judas's eyes..
His eyes are red..his face warped in a snarl..Those eyes..are filled with nothing but lust and madness.
It's terrifying.
Crona feels overwhelmed..with the madness he feels..it's washing over him..it's getting harder to focus..his mouth is twitching..This isn't' good.
Judas leans in again..this time kissing and biting at Crona's neck..It's rough..yet every kiss..every bite..is like a injection of madness. Crona's eyes are unfocusing..refocusing..any words of refusal can't seem to come out..but he's groaning..and his lips are twitching more..Everything starting to spin..he feels like laughing. The demon rolls his hips against Crona's..Moaning into his neck at the fiction it causes..
Things are spiraling out of control. He has to stop this now...But everything is too funny..the room is spinning..all he can do is moan and groan..wasn't he suppose to be doing something?..His head hurts..all he can see is three vertical eyes staring back at him..at every kiss..at every bite..they get bigger..The demon kisses down..Biting and licking Crona's harden nipple..
Those eyes are huge now..Crona can't help it! He lets out a giggle..
Suddenly the kisses stop..so do the bites..The madness suddenly leaves Crona..those eyes disappearing..He gets his vision back..that odd smiling falling from his face as he looks over at the Judas..He standing far away now..A hand over his mouth..Those eyes back blue..They shake..
"I almost took you.." Judas says under his breath..but Crona hears him. Judas frowns. "All this demon power just adds to my boner for you..This is why I didn't want-"
Suddenly that boy drops down from the sky..he's bleeding out of his shoulders..Crona tenses..ready for him to jump him again..Only for the boy to turn..and run..he's running up the stairs..
Maka!
"J-Judas stop him!" Crona screams, he can't worry about being mad at Judas right now..He needs to save Maka. He forces himself up.
"Mother fucker!" Judas growls.. before he runs after the demon..He's a lot faster then Crona..in a blink of an eye he's gone.
"M-Maka!" Crona cries out In worry, he runs up the stairs..hoping to god that Judas got to that boy before he got to Maka..His face is still hot..from both anger and embarrassment...yet he cant' really be angry with the demon..He saved his life..and he's saving Maka right now..and the look in his eyes after..He didn't look exactly guilty..but he didn't look happy either.
Maka..
Crona picks up the pace..his chest is clenching in panic..please..please..be okay. Crona runs to the door to their bed room..and tackles it open..
Then..the worse sight lays before him..
A empty bed. A empty room.
Maka isn't in here..she's gone.
Everything stops for Crona..his stomach turning too much..he might just puke..He walks a couple of steps in..wanting to make sure..wanting to look closer..wanting to prove his eyes wrong..that she's in here, safe and sound..waiting for her water-
But she isn't here.
"Crona i'm back." Crona hears Ragnarok's voice behind him now..his heart beat picks up speed..when he feels Ragnarok's gaze..on what he's looking at . "..Crona..where the fuck is Maka?"
Crona turns slowly around..Ragnarok is already glaring at him..his eyes narrowing..his being flickering..
This..this is really, really bad. How can he even explain all this to Ragnarok?..no matter what he says..it doesn't change the fact that..
"I d-don't know!" Crona grips his hair..He screams..The desperation seems to take Ragnarok aback a bit. "We h-have to find her! T-there's a demon In the mansion! It's after her! I left to go get h-her some water because her head was hurting..o-only to run into him! I-I tried fighting him..I t-tackled him down stairs but he ended up getting away from me..I d-don't know where he is and when I came in here to check on her..s-she was gone! " Crona is close to hyperventilating..he couldn't tell Ragnarok about Judas...not now..when they have to focus on saving Maka.
'Fucking shit!" Ragnarok roars..He doesn't look like he's mad at Crona..not yet..His face is nothing but worry..a panic in those piercing blue eyes. "We got to fucking tell Medusa! She'll be able to find her quicker with the necklace!" With that he fades away..leaving Crona alone..
Crona takes a deep breath before he runs out of the room..running towards his mother's room..his mind swirling..they need to get to her first..they need to get to her before the demon does..
Crona knows he hasn't dodged the bullet from Ragnarok..after they find Maka..Ragnarok will beat the shit out of him..and if they don't..
Hell..who knows.
If they don't find her..Crona hopes Ragnarok just kills him. It's what he deserves..He wasn't enough..He couldn't protect her..couldn't save her..
He's weak. He's nothing but a boy..
And because of that he's ruined everything.
"M-Maka!" He cries her name..hoping she will answer..hoping she's okay..and that she'll be smiling at him..
But she doesn't answer..and he doesn't see her smile..
He only has the silence..and the thoughts of what could have happened..
Maka..where are you?
"N-No one is perfect..and i'm s-sure as hell not." Crona's voice is bitter..Maka frowns..reaching out for him only for the boy to leave, closing the door behind him..
She wasn't expecting that response..Why did he sound..so sad?..almost angry? She didn't think she did anything..
Maka can't think much of this..before it happens again. A sharp pain in her head. Maka was being strong for Crona..acting as if she's just having a head ache..but it's much more then that..
She's still hearing that roar..the roar for help.
It's pounding in her head..Getting her to cry out in pain..She closes her eyes..rocking back and forth..gripping her hair..all she can hear are screams..It's painful..Maka covers her ears..but it doesn't no anything..it's in her head...It's stinging..getting her body to be covered in goose bumps..It's getting worse, the screaming getting louder..more desperate..
"P-Please..stop!" Maka pleads..her eyes shutting as tight as they can..It's maddening..It's eating at her sanity..Someone..please..stop this! She can't..she can't deal with it. She can't deal with these screams. Can't deal with all the loud noises..She needs it to stop! She needs it ot stop now!-
Suddenly..the pain is gone..the scream dying down to a light ringing..The air around her changes..into something better..warmer..lighter. Maka opens her eyes..Custos is standing before her..a frown on his face..those green eyes holding concern for her like they always do. He's holding out his hand..so it's over Maka's head but not touching her..He's gotteen the screaming to die down..
"Maka are you alright?" Custos holds his hand there..it's glowing slightly.
"I am now..but I still here it..the screaming." Maka hugs herself..glad it's died down..she just wants it to stop completely now. "Why the hell am I hearing it?..Is..it madness?..am I going mad?"
"No. It's a cry for help..just like the other times when you had dreams of the places that need you..someon is calling for life." Custos looks like he wants to touch her..to offer her comfort..
But he can't. He's an angel..and Maka is a witch..They were never meant to work together.
"A cry for help? Then why the hell does it hurt? And it's not like I can see the person..I only hear they're screams.." Maka frowns a bit confused.
"it hurts because it's so close..someone in this mansion is calling on you Maka..someone is in need. It's so intense..for the one that's screaming is full of emotions..Strong ones."
"Someone in the mansion?.." Maka frowns deeply at that. "..Who needs help? There's not that many of us here.." Maka winces when the screaming starts to get louder again.
"I don't know..but if you don't act soon it will be too late." Custos has a far away look. "I am a bit concerned..something doesn't feel right."
"What-" Maka starts..only for the screaming to get intense again..It's desperate..it's calling for her..Maka feels her chest tighten..She closes her eyes and grinds her teeth. "Damn it! I don't even know where they are-" That's when something flashes through her mind..in the dream..the library. Maka's breathing is uneven..but she has to see is calling for her..She thinks of the library..and fades away..
When she opens her eyes..she's in front of the library doors..the screaming in her head has stopped. It's gone from her head..Custos isn't with her anymore..There isn't a trail of blood like in her dream..butshe hears something..the faint sound of someone talking..shouting..She feels magic in the air..something is going on behind this door..It's her choice now. She can get involved..or she can walk away...Should she get involved then? With so much going on..
Maka grabs the door handle..closing her eyes..
Maybe she's turned soft..or maybe she's just curious..She needs to see who it is..then she'll decided what to do..if she will help..or if she'll just walk away.
Maka takes a deep breath..before she opens the door..her eyes falling on a sight that she will never be able to unsee..It's a scene you would think you would only find in a gruesome horror movie..one of those scenes..that you would never imagine..even in your darkest of nightmares..
A..woman she thinks..lays on the ground..wait no..looking closer..even though she doesn't want to..She sees the blue hair..she isnt' wearing her hat..
It's Eruka.
Maka puts a hand over her mouth..Her stomach turning..This woman..has been mascaraed. Her face, that use to be so smooth, so flawless..is messed up. Those cute dots on her cheeks..have been cut out, leaving holes that you can see her teeth through. Her eyes open..the eye lids have been stitched open..The small girl is naked..exposed..showing in full view the horror that is inside this girl..
There's something..moving inside of her..they're small..but there's hundreds of them..They stick out slightly..it's sickening looking. There's holes in her body..one on her stomach..Maka watches in horror as a small snake slivers out of it..There's..snakes in side of her..
What makes her want to puke the most..
Is that Eruka is alive. Some how she is..Maka sees the faintest movement of her chest..Sees how those black eyes are shaking...in both fear and pain..This girl has been like this a while..Any scream she would have made for help..destroyed..by the fact her mouth is sown together..Her hands are gone..cut off..she can't save herself.
Maka can't think of anything..This sight destroying her thought process..Eruka isn't alone.
"-you bitch!" Free roars..holding this girl in his arms..he's in her blood..Those eyes of his sharp..narrow..animalistic.. When ever he reaches out to touch her stitches in her mouth..A dark magic shocks him..Getting him to grind his teeth..his eyes starting to shake in panic. " I'm going to fucking kill you! Eruka please..fuck..fuck! You fucking sick bitch! Eruka don't die! Medusa!" He roars out..in anger..In desperation..
That's when Free's eyes..fall on Maka.
"You!" He shouts, getting Maka to tense..her heart beat drumming in her ears..Free points at her..His eyes wide. "You! You can save her! Help she's going to fucking die why are you just standing there?!" He roars at her..
Maka's body feels like lead..it doesn't move at his command..
Free's eyes..they change.. "..Please.." It's quiet..but she heard it..his plea..the look in his eyes..dersperation..as he holds Eruka in his arms..She's dying..she's in pain..
Medusa did this..yet Maka doesn't think Medusa would just kill her for no reason at all..There had to be a reason..yet with the look in Free's eyes..
She can't say no.
Maka closes her eyes..and appears right in front of Eruka..kneeling next to the body..getting a better look at something she just wants to run away from..
"There's a block on the stiches..I couldn't get to them because i'm not a witch.." Free looks at her with hopeful eyes. "You can..you..your life! You can save her! Please!"
Maka's breathing becomes uneven..this isn't just a normal heal..Eruka has..snakes all in her body..She's badly hurt..how can she save her? Maka puts these thoughts aside..The first action she takes is putting her hand over Eruka's face..The stiches to her eye lids and mouth come off..the cuts healing..
As soon as the mouth is unstitched.. Eruka screams. It's so loud..painful. Maka winches...Blood is coming out of her mouth..Her eyes water..as if now her body can react..
"I found her..in Medusa's lab.." Free breaths heavily..before he holds out his hand..there's..Eruka's dots...wrapped in some ice. "I found these..I brought her here..I couldn't risk traveling with her like this..she wouldn't make it..Just..just save her!"
He's asking for too much..Maka knows..this is dangerous..most likely Eruka won't make it out of this..but she takes her dots..and puts them back in the holes..using her magic to seal them back in place..
Eruka is still screaming..She's in so much pain..Maka almost wants to kill her..to put her out of this hell..But Free is looking at her with hope..He's holding Eruka..The look in his eyes..
is it love? Maka doesn't know.
"I'm going to numb you Eruka..I'm going to get all these snakes out okay?..I am.." Maka says slowly as she puts a hand over the frog witches face..mumbling a spell under her breath..
Eruka's screams slowly start to die..till She's only staring ahead..her eyes wide..tears streaming down..Maka knows she can't feel the pain for now..but the spell will wear off soon.
"..Why did Medusa do this?" Maka Looks at Eruka's hands..before looking at Free..He isn't looking at her..he's looking at Eruka..running his hand through her hair. "..Do you have her hands?"
"No.." Free growls..He holds Eruka closer..who seems to be in a state of shock. "..I don't know what the fucking bitch did with them!-"
"Then i'll have to heal her with out them.." Maka knows what this means..Eruka can't use her hands anymore..She only has her mouth..She's so much weaker..she might not even be able to be a witch anymore..Maka takes a deep breath..before she puts her hands on the stumps..healing the wounds..So she has round stumps at her wrists.
Now the hard part..The fucking snakes.
"..You.." Eruka speaks..getting both Maka and Free to tense, the ware wolf getting closer..Eruka's eyes shake as she looks at Maka. "..You can't..save me."
"Don't fucking talk like that." Free growls. "this is the witch of life! She'll save you!-"
"I"m..ashamed.." Eruka looks at Maka..with such a sad look..her voice so quiet. "I always..admired you..I read about you..me and..Mizune did..We w-would read your story..for fun..I never..thought..you could be real..and that..I would b-be apart of your life.." The words are hard to get out..she's struggling. "..Don't heal..me..I've..tried to kill you..to ruin you..so that..I could have..her back.." Eruka looks Maka in the eyes. "..I'm y-your enemy..I..want..you dead..a life..f-for a life.."
"..How would killing me bring her back?" Maka tenses a bit at this..
Didn't..didn't Medusa promise Eruka to bring her back?..and her mother..what does She have to do with it..? What does her death have to do with it..?
Eruka opens her mouth..Only to scream..Her face falling..She's in pain again..the spell has worn off.
"Stop fucking talking and save her!" Free growls..his teeth baring..his chest is puffing..He's holding eruka's head in his chest..trying to sooth her..
"Damn it!" Maka hisses and quickly says the numbing spell..Eruka's screams die down..Maka has work to do..how can she get all the snakes out..without killing her?
"The snakes respond to Medusa..what do you have of hers?" A voice coos in my head..it's not Death..it's not Custos..but it sounds familiar.
What does she..have of-
The necklace. The necklace Medusa gave to her mother.
Maka takes off the necklace..and hold it in front of the hole in Eruka's stomach..The necklace lights up..and all the snakes stop moving..They are still inside..but they have stopped.
"Command them.."
"..I want you all..to disappear..without hurting her." Maka feels kinda stupid..in her head she doesn't believe this will work...but the necklace lights up..
And when Maka blinks..all the snakes are gone..They just disappear..they don't come out..they're just gone..
"Your mother used the necklace to..to get places Medusa didn't want anyone in..She had snakes guard the place.. Your mother used the necklace..and the snakes would listen to her..It's different right? Thinking she cared. That she would give that power to Kami. What do you think?..you think Medusa trusted her? What do YOU think happened to them Maka?"
Maka can't answer this voice..as she looks down at Eruka..she coughs as Maka goes through her body..healing any wound the snakes had caused..
"Your.." Eruka speaks again..getting Maka to look at her..She's crying again. "..Your just..l-like I knew she would be..n-nothing like me..nothing like Medusa..I w-wish..I w-wish you had a happier ending now life..and..i-i'm sorry..I'm selfish..w-we're all selfish..we a-ask for to much..and I-in the end..it will be y-your death.." Her eyes close..and her head rolls to the side..She's only past out..
Maka saved her life.
Free holds her against his chest..nuzzling his head into her hair...He looks at Maka with a look..those brown eyes of his glistening. "..You did it..you saved her.." He glances around..before looking back at her. "..Maka..listen to me. I don't know what the fuck is going on now..but your in danger. You need to get the fuck out of here..You need to leave Crona and that ghost behind. They are on the same side we were on...I need to go. I'm getting Eruka the fuck out of here..I promise though..I won't forget this." Free gets up quickly..his body changing..He gets on all fours..Eruka laying on his back..He turns to that wolf..those eyes..even animistic seem..softer. "..I'll be back."
With that..This animal roars before Maka can ask him anything..He runs..before jumping out of the library window..
Maka doesn't even follow..her mind is swirling again..trying to place together what they said...
Eruka said she wanted Maka dead..so she could bring her back..but in that flash back..Medusa told Eruka she would help..So..Medusa..wants her dead too?..And..what was he talking about?..Crona and Ragnarok being on the same side?..They couldn't' want her dead..No..They're on her side..
If Medusa wanted her dead..Then why go through all the trouble? Why-
Suddenly Maka hears the library door open behind her...
"H-Help..please.." Maka turns around..and can't help her eyes widening..when she sees that boy..the boy that they tied up a while ago..limping towards her..he has wounds in both of his shoulders..tears falling down his face. "This place is a mad house! I-i thought I could find my way out..but I couldn't'! I..I barely escaped her..p-please help me!' He pleads..
Maka lets the tension escape her shoulders..at seeing his tears..He looks scared..alone..weak. "Your lucky you're not dead right now." Maka walks so she's right in front of this boy..she puts her hands on both of his shoulders..her power going out..healing him-
The boy grabs her hands.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" The boy sobs..He looks so grateful..
"Your welcome.." Maka takes her hands from his..only for him to grab a hold of her.
"Please! You need to get me out of here! I can't stay! She wants to kill me!" He pleads.. "You promised me you would take me home!"
Maka's head is hurting..she feels sick..Thinking if..what if this whole time..Medusa was really trying to kill her?..It just..her head can't wrap around it..Her family would never be apart of that..
"You promised!" this boy breaks her thoughts with his shaking her..
She did promise him..didn't she?..She could do it really quick..get it out of he way, come back here..have a chat with Crona..or more like have a chat about Medusa about Eruka..and their plans of bring the dead back to life..
With this in mind..Maka nods.
"..I'll take you home..just think of your home..and i'll take you there.." Maka grabs a hold of him..putting a hand to his forehead..closing her eyes to concentrate.
"O-Okay.." The boy grips her..
Maka sees a city..it's in ruins..yet she can see a lot of people out and about..it's not that badly damaged..it seems some of the stores are still working..This gives her hope..there has to be hope. It's a pretty place..the most live people she's seen In a long time..
"Got it.." Maka takes her hand off his forehead..keeping her eyes closed. "You ready?"
"Y-Yes thank you so much!" the boy sobs..
Maka doesn't see though..The sinister smile on his face..as she grips him tighter..
And they fade away.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck!
Ragnarok appears right in front of Medusa's doorway..Crona right behind him..He can't think..He can't even register this..
He doesn't know where Maka is..
It's her last day.
Ragnarok reaches out to rip this door open..Only for it to fly open by it'self..Medusa running out..her eyes wide only to skid to a stop when She sees the two boys.
"What's going on? I felt.." Medusa seems a bit shaken up...She looks around..something changing in her eyes. "..Where's Maka? Is she still in her room?"
"N-No!" Crona pants.
"We don't know where the fuck she is!" Ragnarok flickers..Those piercing blue eyes shaking..His poker face has fallen..any emotion he feels..can be read like a book.
He's worried. He's anxious..he's afarid.
Medusa closes her eyes..only for them to shoot open..Her face pale. "Why is she out of the mansion?!" Her breathing is uneven. "Maka what are you doing?!" The snake witch fades away...about to go get Maka..
Only for her to reappear..she gets sling across the hallway..Medusa doing a flip..skidding to a stop on her bare feet..Her eyes are wide in shock.
"What the fuck happened?" Ragnarok turns..panic starting to crawl at him more.
"It's-" Medusa starts..
"I believe I can explain."
Medusa and Ragnarok tense..they slowly turn around...knowing this voice..but..but It can't be..
"The demon!" Ragnarok gasps out and takes a step back..Medusa's brows forrow..before her eyes light in realization..and She looks at her son..
Crona is looking at Judas..Determination in his eyes. "E-Explain..w-what's going on? Where is she?"
"Maka likes to play hero..she's been traveling out of the mansion under your noses for a couple of days now. She went out to help other's again..but you see..since it's so close to her time..my father knows where she is at all times..as soon as she stepped foot in the city she's in..My father saw this as a opportunity.." Judas grins..his eyes bouncing. "He put up a force field around the city if you will..Nothing gets in..or out. No magic can destroy it..There's no way for you to get in."
"Your lying!" Medusa takes a step forward..her eyes flickering in rage. "There has to be a way-"
"Holdy up there! I said there was no way YOU could get in.." Judas smile is so large. "..I didn't say anything about me.." He does a twirl on his heel. "I could get in there..easily..I could even take one of you with me! That is.." Judas stops turning to smirk at Medusa. "If you want my help?"
Medusa takes deep breaths..Ragnarok is looking at the demon still in shock..
"but..we fucking got rid of you..Crona-" Then he stops..Ragnarok looks at Crona..something flashing in his eyes when he sees the pink haired boy look down...Ragnarok's eyes narrow..a deep anger building inside of him..
"..Will You take me to Maka?.." Medusa locks eyes with this demon..straightening herself out..
"No." He chuckles and does a twirl.
"No?" Medusa's eyes narrow in hate..
"Not you! "Judas puts an arm around Crona..smirking. "I'll take Crona, and Crona only! He's the only one that trusts me! Your both butt faces."
This gets both Medusa and Ragnarok to glare at Crona..
"I hope you fucking know that means i'm coming too." Ragnarok growls, taking a step forward, his teeth bared.
"of course!" Judas purrs. "..It wouldn't be a party without you, now would it?.." the demon's lips curl.
Ragnarok glares him down..The demon chuckles before he does a twirl away from him..leaving Ragnarok right in front of Crona..
"..You fucking gave us the wrong name..!" Ragnarok feels that anger build..He's trembling..his eyes glaring into Crona..His chest puffing up. "You...You fucking traitor! I knew it!-"
"D-Don't start that!" Crona screams..shocking Ragnarok..getting him to stop talking. "This demon is what's going to get us to Maka! If I had gotten rid of him how the h-hell would we get to Maka huh?! He's on our side! S-Stop worrying about him and worry about g-getting Maka back!" Crona pants..He's stern.
"..She trusted you." Ragnarok snarls out..getting Crona's face to fall.
"Alright that's enough!" Medusa snaps..getting both boys to look at her. " This is Maka's last day! It's 6 o clock! At 12..her time is up. The demon could show up at any time! You must save her!" Medusa points at the demon who hasn't stopped smirking. "Hurry up and take them!"
"Sureee thing!" Judas puts his arms around Ragnarok and Crona...Ragnarok glaring so darkly at both the demon and Crona..The pink haired boy is looking down..Judas is grinning from ear to ear. "Let's get this over with!"
They fade away..
Medusa's bangs cover her eyes..
"..Maka...You have just fallen into your own hell."
The quiet of the empty mansion..agrees with her.
Everyone is gone but her now.
Well damn. This chapter was shorter then I thought it would be but oh wells. I got it out pretty fast though :P
Thank you all for your support..i really can't believe how far I've gotten with this story..I literally have every thing planed out now..and I know the ending. It's good hearing how you guys think it's going to end..it lets me know who's on my tail and who i'm leading astray.
I was listening to the radio, driving home from work..and I think Kelly Clarkson's new song 'people like us' fits this story pretty good. When she says this is for the damned..I think of Maka. For the lost, Crona. And for the forgotten, Ragnarok If you haven't listen to it, do and you'll know what i'm talking about!
So judas is back hehe, of course he was acting!..but what else is he acting on?
Well till next time:)