'Let me go!' Maka screams out..it being muffled as this short man carries her down a hallway quickly..She's able to thrash again, maybe because she's away from Arachne but she doesn't have time to wonder about that now. Crona and everyone else is out there fighting thousands of troops to get to her!..and this fucker is taking her to a room so Arachne can steal her body! She's come this far! She's not going to let this be her end! It can't be!
"Stop struggling! You should be flattered lady Arachne thinks your worthy of her time, you miserable wretch!" The man growls as he hurries a long this hallway..He ends up dropping her..Maka hitting her back hard, knocking the wind out of her..it doesn't stop her from trying to wiggle away..it's no use. The man grabs her again, yanking her up, he throws her over his shoulder, and starts walking quickly. " Your the most persistent brat I have ever met! Don't you see it's useless? Lady arachne always gets what she wants.." He stops at a door..kicking it open with his foot. "..And what she wants is your body..she wants your life and by god i'll make sure she gets it."
'Noo!' Maka thrashes her hardest..closing her eyes..grinding her teeth..She can't..she won't let this happen! Crona and Ragnarok are out there for her! So is Kid, Patty, Liz, Soul, Justin and Giriko! They're all here because they believe in her..because they care about her..
She's life. She's meant to protect them..Maybe her life will be nothing but suffering..She rather suffer then see her friends fall..They have done nothing but be there for her..
She has to fight..fight to the very fucking end..
"Aw shut up!" The man throws Maka Into a blue ball..He quickly closes the opening to it..and it seals. Not that Maka could get out, even if the ball was open..with her bonded like this it's impossible to do fucking anything!
Maka growls..wiggling till she's sitting on her legs..her green eyes glaring daggers into this man..only to stop when she takes in this room..This room..is covered in red writing all over the walls..on the floor..It's blood..Maka knows It is..She doesn't know what it says..yet it causes all the hairs on her body to stand up..a shiver being sent down her spine..her eyes shake..a fear so deep consuming her..making her curl into her self..She desperatly wants to cover her ears..She hears..screaming..bloody screams..screams of pain..screams of desperation, angst..lost..They scream for her..they scream at her..someone stop it! Stop it now!
"Ah..what's wrong Maka? Don't like how I decorated the room?" Maka trembles as she looks up..Arachne has appeared in the room..the door shutting and locking behind her..The smirk on her face Is sinister...surprisingly she snaps her fingers..and the binds and the gag on Maka disappear..Maka immediately covers her ears..her teeth chattering.
"W-What have you done? T-The screams.." Maka trembles..not able to get ahold of herself.
"Those my dear, are the screams of my sacrifices to you."She chuckles darkly. "This blood is all for you Maka..or should I say.." Her lips curl. "Death.."
Deep In Maka..The girl in the cage's..breath hitches..her bangs covering her eyes..her body lighting up in dark light..
"I-I'm not.i-i'm not her!" Maka grips her hair tighter..something stirring in her as the screams get louder..it's like the walls are oozing blood..it keeps coming..so much of it.
"Exactly..These deaths pain you Life..but Death..oh death it gives her a thrill doesn't it? It makes her stronger..more prepared for me. I'm showing you Death..I will fulfill your purpose." Arachne closes her eyes. "To sacrifice Death..to go the easier route..You must sacrifice 10 pure souls..pure from sex, pure from drugs..pure from sin.." She chuckles darkly. "Children. They are the only sacrifice to be made that would be suitable. These walls are written in the blood of four year olds, three year olds, five year olds..You hear their cries..and the cries of their mothers as I ripped them of their babies-"
"YOUR SICK!" Maka screams out..rage overcoming her..Maka feels her power explode out..ready to bust this ball and kill her..Kill this heartless bitch! She'll regret ever untieing her!-
Her magic hits the ball..only to bouch back at her..hitting Maka..shocking her. Maka cries out in pain..falling to her knees..her eyes wide in shock.. "W-What..?"
"You won't be able to destroy that ball with Magic..any attacks you use will be sent right back to you. Do you like my creation? I made it just for you, just for this ritual.." Arachne chuckles at the hateful glare she gets from Maka. "You call me sick Maka..yet you have child's blood on your hands as well..I know what you did to that circus."
Maka tenses badly..a pang of guilt hitting her when she thinks of that ruin carnival..Maka looks away..gripping her fist. "..I-I didn't mean to do that! I didn't want to! it.."
"Maybe you didn't mean to do it..maybe you did. It doesn't matter. You still did it. Doesn't change the sin." Arachne shakes her head. "Your a monster just like me Death-"
"I"m not fucking death!" Maka screams..power coming out once again..only to shock herself..She cries out..falling down on her face..She trembles..it hurts. "..I'm n-nothing like you, you sick bitch! I feel remorse..I feel guilt! Your a heartless bitch that takes mothers from their children!" Maka screams..getting back up. "You killed my mother! Why?! Why the hell did you kill my mother! Why did you curse me?!"
"I have no idea what your talking about my dear.." Arachne only smirks. Amused. " I do know Kami got what she deserved. I wish I was the one to put her down, but alas, I didn't get the pleasure to-"
"Your a fucking lair!" Maka pounds on the ball with her fists..trying to out scream the screams of these children..their blood on the walls calling to her..begging her..pleading with her.. "I know it was fucking you! You hated my mother! You probably wanted to get back at her and try to kill me! Admit to it you fucking bitch!"
"It's true I hated your mother, killing you to get back at Kami sounds good, but i'm sorry to inform you my hands are clean on your mother's death.." Arachne smirks as a book appears in front of her. "It could have been any one..I wouldn't even doubt it was the grand witch herself, trying to get rid of you before any more witches found out what you are. You see..the grand witch has respect for you..she won't take your life for her own, but she would want to kill you so no one else could and become stronger then her..but that bitch will be bowing down to me after this! So will the whole world!"
Maka's face falls a bit..She..she hs to be lying! This whole time she couldn't have been going after the wrong person!..No! No it has to be this bitch! Medusa said she was the one!
The book flips open a page..candles appearing on the floor in front of Maka. "Enough talking. Let's end this once and for all shall we? Your story ends here witch of legend!"..Arachne points a finger at her..the candles blaze a bright fire..The blood on the walls starts to run..and the screaming of the little children get louder, causing Maka to cry out, covering her ears..trembling..curling into herself..Arachne's smirk is so wicked. "..And my story begins."
"Get out of my way!" Crona screams as he slings his sword..Ragnarok yells out with him in his rage, and when Crona slings the sword a power shoots out of it, cutting through all the ten men that had him surrounded..killing them all in one scoop..He doesn't feel guilt or remorse..Crona only has one thought in his head..one motive..one thing that's keeping him going..
Maka...
"Fuck there's so many of them!" Ragnarok growls when Crona started running through the large wave of enemies..trying to get to the castle..They surround him again..pointing their guns at him, ready to blow Crona's head off..Ragnarok's eyes flash..and in that moment Crona can hear what he's thinking..feel what he's feeling..
He's worried about Crona..He's afraid..He's angry..so many strong emotions..they mix with Crona's own..getting him to cry out and sling the sword for the 7th time..slicing these soldiers up before they can put a single hole in Crona..
Crona has killed so many..He's been fighting his way through this mass army..trying to get to the castle..he doesn't even know how far he is from where he started..everything is so chaotic..gun shots going off every second..smoke in the air..odd creatures running around, killing arachne's troops in horrific ways like swallowing them whole..Crona has lost Medusa..he doesn't know where his mother is..but he thinks she's ahead of him. He needs to move faster. He needs to get out of this stupid battle..he doesn't care about these people..or the bullets flying by him or the smoke, or the screams..or even winning against them..
He only cares about Maka. He needs to get to her..he needs to save her..and so does Ragnarok. He can feel it..Crona understands him better now..how he likes to hide all that he feels..likes to pretend he doesn't feel anything..when really he's a very deep guy. Crona feels Ragnarok's love for Maka..feels his desperation on getting her back..Crona understands Ragnarok is just like him..feels just like him..
Ragnarok needs Maka just as much as Crona needs Maka.
"M-Maka.." Crona pants..picking up the pace, he keeps his sword out, stabbing anyone that gets in his way..He keeps running..he refuses to be surrounded again and having to stop..
He saw her..he saw her up on the top floor..in that woman's arms..Maka was staring right at him..He saw her eyes..how they lit up..before she was snatched away from his view..
"We'll get that fucking bitch!" Ragnarok growls..knowing what Crona is thinking about..it gets his own blood to boil. " We'll get to Maka on time! We fucking have to!"
"R-Right." Crona cuts off this man's hand that was holding a gun..about to fire at him..his blood squirts out and he cries in pain..Crona keeps running..He has to keep running..he has to be fast-
"Keep Medusa away!" Crona hears someone shout over all the commotion..He keeps running..He doesn't need his mother. No..Ragnarok's thinking the same thing he is..After this is over..Crona grips the sword..it lighting up..They take Medusa out..All of this ends today..all of it..
"Crona look out!" Ragnarok suddenly roars at Crona..The pink haired boy catches something from the corner of his eye..He jumps back..a knife barely missing his face. That was close..but he keeps running..not paying attention to the man who threw it- "Crona left!" Crona turns quickly..holding Ragnarok up to block an ax..huh..that's a new one. Crona grinds his teeth..trying to push this guy off..but the man with the ax is big..he leans with his body weight, making it impossible for Crona to push him off..The ax is pushing..it's getting closer to Crona's face.. "Fucking push dumb ass!" Ragnarok growls..the sword lighting up..Crona feels that power flow through him..He pants..but with Ragnarok's support..he starts to push this guy off of him..
"Y-Your wasting my time!" Crona screams..his eyes starting to shake as he slings his sword up..ripping the ax from this man's grip..with a battle cry, he stabs this man right in the chest..ripping it out quickly..Crona's brain is on fast forward..it's hard to understand anything..It's so loud..the battle field..booms..and bits of dirt and flesh flying everywhere..the sky has turned dark from all the smoke..The screams are muffled..the sounds are muffled..all Crona can hear are his own thoughts..and Ragnarok's..It's like it's only him and Ragnarok..and there's a bunch of straw in their way..They're blocking the way to Maka..She's there..up there in the castle..
He will slice through all this straw..he will slay anything in his way and save the princess-
"Crona!" Ragnarok's shout gets his eyes to open..when had Crona closed them?..Crona blinks..taking in the man at the end of his sword..he had stabbed him through the throat. and now he's holding him up by it. He doesn't remember doing that..He doesn't remember being so much closer to the castle now either.. "Your fucking losing it! Don't let all this power go to your head! You need it to save Maka!" Ragnarok's words get Crona's eyes to focus..He rips the sword out of the man..knowing he's right..He has to maintain himself..He hasn't lost himself since..
Judas.
"Crona block!" Ragnarok's scream gets Crona to open his eyes again..his arms moving automatic..the sword hitting away a knife that was thrown at him.. "That was fucking close! What's wrong with you?..Your head..it's..it's getting all fuzzy..fuck now i'm feeling funny..what's..what's..wrong with you?"
Crona doesn't know..his head is feeling broken again..but..it can't be madness can it?..Judas is gone..but..that doesn't mean madness is gone...Crona has always been a victim to Madness..it was his get away..how he dealt with a lot of things..No matter how strong he thinks he's gotten..Madness has always been stronger..
The madness is threatening to consume him..and this isn't Judas's madness..it's from something much darker..much eviler..
If Crona loses himself..He'll never be found..he'll drag Ragnarok with him if he's not careful...
"S-Sorry..I.." Crona pants out..his mind starting to get lost in the darkness..he starts swinging the sword..recklessly..leaving openings for the enemy to attack him..Ragnarok grinding his teeth as the feeling starts to overwhelm him as well...
The straw is getting closer..He needs to cut them right?..rip them apart?..why?..what is he doing again?..right..kill..kill..kill all of them..kill and rip and tear and-
Crona falls to his knees..letting go of the sword when this feeling becomes too much..He grips his hair..his breathing uneven..everything spinning about him.
"Fuck Crona get a hold of yourself! Pick me back up! What the hell are you doing?!-" Ragnarok starts yelling at him from the ground..his face in the blade of the sword..he looks like he wants to come out to beat some sense into Crona..but he knows better..The dark fuzzy feeling left Ragnarok as soon as Crona let go of him. Ragnarok stops his commands..when he sees a enemy reload his shot gun..He aims it right at the pink haired boy that is mumbling things to himself. His piercing blue eyes flash. "Crona get up! Your going to fucking die! What about Maka!"
Maka..
that name cuts through the dark haze in his head..slicing right through it like it was nothing..Crona's head whips up..his eyes wide with being alert..only to come face to face with the end of a gun's barrel..and a arachne troop's smirk.
"Say your prayers fucker!" The man chuckles..his finger on the trigger.
"Crona move!" Ragnarok roars out..that desperation there..that urgency..
He knows Crona can't out run a machine gun..nor is he strong enough alone to fight this gun away from the guy..
Judas..you said..you said Crona didn't need you..but here he is..about to get gunned down because he's too fucking weak to even fight madness..He's not going to even make it to the castle..and Maka..oh Maka she's..
Judas... Crona stares into the barrel of the gun..his eyes shaking..knowing what's about to come...He still needs you..
He needs you and he doesn't know where you are.
Just as this man is about to pull the trigger..to end Crona's life..a gun shot goes off..in a blink of an eye..Crona sees blood coming out of this troop's head..a head shot..with a gurgling sound..His limp body falls to the ground..the machine gun at his side..Crona stares at him with wide eyes..who-
"Crona are you alright?" Crona looks over only to see Kid running towards him..liz and patty right by his side firing at the enemies that are getting too close..Kid stops in front of Crona..his clothing is stained with blood..he's panting.
"That was close he almost blew your head off!" Patty makes a whistling sound as the Thompson sisters stop by Kid.
"Did you see my fucking aim Kid?"..A white haired boy runs backwards..shooting troops off with his machine gun before he stops next to kid, grinning at him.
"Not now." Kid gives him a irritated look..Crona crawls over..and picks up Ragnarok..as soon as he touches his hilt..They reconnect..Crona gasps as he feels the worried Ragnarok had for him..the fear..He also feels how he's a bit Pissed off Kid showed up..
"Crona.." Ragnarok appears on the blade..frowning. "You almost fucking died..if OCD boy didn't show up with his gang you would be headless right now. You have to be fucking careful! Maka's waiting for us both to get to her, not just me. Get your fucking head right before you kill yourself!" He's growling..he sounds mad..but Crona knows how he's really feeling..they are connected..He's just worried..concerned..it's nice being able to know what this boy is truly feeling.
"I-I'm sorry.." Crona bows his head..biting his lip.. "i-it won't happen again..i.."
"Is he..talking to his sword?" Liz frowns looking over at the pink haired boy that is mumbling something to the black sword he's wielding..She shoots at the troops coming their way.
"The madness must be effecting him..." Kid shoots his machine guns..taking out all that tries to get to close.
"Talking to a sword is fucking retarded, they're not even cool." Soul grunts..before he rubs his machine gun..after he guns down 10 people. "..Right Shawn?" He smirks at his gun.
"..Seriously? Shawn? You named your gun Shawn?." Kid glares at him before he looks back over at Crona. "Crona you-" His eyes widen when he sees the three enemy troops that have sneaked up on the boy still talking to his sword. "Crona move!-"
"What a bunch of pussies!" Crona turns around..with Ragnarok ready only for Giriko to jump out from no where..a chain saw running in his hands..with a sharp grin and a quick slash..He goes through all three of the troops..cutting them to bits. "Sneaking up on a kid from behind!"
"They are cowards. Just like the witch they serve." Justin comes up from behind Giriko..he gets in front of Crona and holds out his hand..there's not a scratch on him..those blue eyes could never be read. " come on..get up. It's harder for madness to catch you if you are moving."
Crona's breath catches..wondering just how Justin knew right away that's what's wrong with him..Justin just got here right?..Crona can feel Ragnarok tense..this guy use to be their enemy..so it's understandable..Crona's not too sure he wants to take his hand either after all-
Then he sees something..a young baby..those blue eyes..Ragnarok holding it..caring for it..moments in Ragnarok's life flash in his head..making him gasp and pull his hand away from Justin..looking at him with wide eyes..
Cousin. He's Ragnarok's cousin...no wonder Ragnarok's emotions are starting to go haywire-
"What's wrong with you?" Giriko takes a step towards Crona..the pink haired boys eyes widen..more flash backs zooming past his head..
Best friend. That's what he was...
Crona feels Ragnarok's feelings..there's guilt..uncertainty..longing?..is that longing?
"Y-You.." Crona breathes out..gripping the sword tighter..his eyes wide.
"Yeah it's fucking me!" Giriko grins at him. "Long time no fucking see huh?"
So much stuff is going on at once now..all these people are gathering around him..Justin, Giriko, kid, liz, patty..and that weird boy with the white hair. He's not use to them being on his side..well Giriko was never a problem..or that weird kid..but Kid and his group..and Justin were his enemies..they wanted to hurt Maka at some point..now they're all here..fighting the same battle he is..because they want to save Maka..
The war..bodies dropping around him..the shouts..these people..Ragnarok's past and feelings..it's hard to all take in..so over whelming..so-
Suddenly..there's a beam of light..it shoots out from the castle..into the sky..
"NO!" Kid roars out..his face dropping in horror. "Arachne has started the ritual! Maka doesn't have much time left!"
Maka!
Crona jumps up..all the confusion breaking away..his eyes locking on the castle..the ritual has already started! Maka's in trouble! He needs to stop wasting time and get to her! Crona feels Ragnarok's thoughts flow through his own..the swords starting to vibrate in his hands.
"We need to get to the castle's gates now!" Kid shouts.
"How? There's to fucking many of them!-" Giriko starts
"I can get us through.." Crona cuts them off..everyone looks at him as he lifts up the sword..it's glowing brightly now..Maka's smile in mind..They need to get to her..their panic..their worry..their love combines..turning into raw power..The sword is getting harder to hold. " Once I release the power..you r-run behind it..i-it will create a p-path.." Crona pants..
"What are you-" Kid starts..only for Crona to cry out in this feeling..not able to hold it anymore..with all the strength he has he hits his sword to the ground..making a slash..The black power comes out..and like a wave it cuts through all in it's path.
"Now!" Crona shouts..running behind the black power..his sword out and ready to kill anyone in his way that this large slash doesn't.
"Holy shit! How the fuck he do that?" Giriko and Soul blink, yelling out at the same time.
"It doesn't matter! Follow his lead! Back him up!" Kid commands as he runs after Crona..everyone else following suit..
The powerful attack cuts through most of the enemies in it's way..They're getting closer to the castle..it's almost too easy..a straight shot.,.Maka..they're coming..That's when..the power fades away..right at the gates..Crona skids to a stop..in front of the gate are 30 troops..and the gate is made of metal..Shit..his power didn't reach all the way over here-
Justin walks till he's standing by Crona's side..he puts up his hands..closing his eyes. "We surrender."
"What?" Kid stops, looking at Justin with wide eyes.
"Justin what the hell are you-" Giriko starts..
Only for Justin to open up the jacket he's wearing..in the flick of the wrist..He throws five small disks at the group of thirdy and the gate. "god forgive me of my sins..You may want to get down." Justin drops down, all following suit..as the bombs go off..blood and guts flying everywhere..along with pieces of the gate..the gate is down..Justin did it!
"Wow.." Giriko blinks..staring at what his lover just did..He looks down at Justin..and grins sharply. "that was fucking hot! Nothing gets my gears going then-"
"This is not the time for that!" Kid yells at Giriko, getting his eye to twitch as they all get up.
Crona wastes no time..running towards the now open gate..all he has to do is get past the gate..and he's in the castle..Maka's on the upper floor..He can't save her..he can-
Crona hits something hard..like a wall..but he doesn't see anything..It knocked the wind right out of him..
"What is it Crona?" Kid is the second to make it to where he is.
"T-There's something blocking the way.." Crona starts, trying to catch his breath.
"It's a force field." Justin runs next to Giriko..the two girls and Soul behind them. "Arachne is making sure no one is to get through..."
'Fuck!" Ragnarok growls out..Crona feels his rage..and he feels his own..He starts hitting the force field with his sword..trying to break it..trying to get to Maka..he needs too..he needs to now! She' needs him!
"It's no use...the only way to bring it down is if-" Justin starts..everyone but Crona looking at him as he starts to explain..He stops when..someone new appears in front of them.
"Crona.." Medusa pants out as she hits away another spider..it trying to suck her of her power..Crona tenses and looks over at her..his eyes widen when she grabs a hold of him. "My sister is on the top floor..in the room at the end of the hall. You must stop this.." Medusa holds her hand out..the force field is able to be seen..her fingers twitch..and a small hole opens in it..the snake witch grinds her teeth. "Go now..i can't make it through..i'm too strong..to force my way through will be a risk that no one will be able to make it through..go..now." Medusa holds her hands out..holding..trembling. "It's only a matter of time before my bitch of a sister stops even this. Hurry!"
Crona only stares at his mother a moment..those snake eyes..hold something he can't read..it's a emotion..and just that surprises him..Crona grips his fist and nods..running through the small hole in the force field..heading into the castle.
"Crona careful of traps!" Kid shouts after him..running through the hole..
"Yay thanks witch lady!" Patty cheers as her and liz run through. "To bad we still are going to kill you later!"
Medusa..smiles at that..her hands shaking. "Hurry the rest of you..they know now. It's only a matter of time!"
"got it!" Soul runs through..smirking backat her. 'Nice ass by the way."
"Vulgar." Justin wrinkles his nose as he runs through..along with Giriko who is close by the blonde..making sure no harm comes to him..
"They made it through.." Medus pants..She lets go of the force field..letting it close back up just in time for it to light up..if she was still holding the force field she would have been shocked..There's no way she can get through the barrier like this..her sister isn't stupid.
This barrier was made to keep her out after all..every since that war..She's been huddled in this castle..heading..her plans hidden..that's okay. Medusa's have been too...at the same time they have been out in the open...
Today will be the day she proves she's the better sister..that Arachne is nothing but a spoiled brat..Medusa killed her mother..and she's going to kill her sister.
Medusa looks up..before she disappears..
She has to find another way in.
Everyone's heard a child cry..you probably even heard them scream..but have you heard..a child scream when they are dying?..suffering?..the high pitch sound..the deserpation..and fear in such a young, pure voice..Have you looked at a four year old's blood painting a wall before?..while hearing that four year old scream?..Telling you of their painful death..
Maka hopes you haven't. IT's horrible..a hell in it's self. She trembles in the blue ball..gripping her hair..crying out..trying to drown out these screams..it's too much..they want her help..but they are already gone..They already lost their life..it hurts..make it stop..
"Here before me..is the witch of death and life..accursed being.." Arachne starts chanting words..looking at the book in front of her..She out stretches' her hand. "On the blood of the innocent I wish to make a sacrifice! I wish to take away her curse and make it my own!" Arachne shouts in a loud voice..The blood on the walls pours more..the children's begging and screaming getting louder-
"STOP IT!" Maka roars out..in this feeling..something shoots out of her..power..the power shocks her back down..but..a light makes it out of the ball..and out of the ceiling..
"Ah..there we go." Arachne smirks as she lets go of the book..it floats by her side. " Now that I have you prepared...Death..my dear..your so quiet. I have gotten you the blood of the innocent..just as you like. I've killed them in your honor Death.."
"..." Death doesn't say anything..still hugging her knees to her chest in her cage.
"You..Bitch.." Maka trembles..her body already aching from getting herself shocked..her eyes shaking as she still hears those kid's screams. "I'll never..let you fucking do this..those kids..those poor kids.." Maka grips her fist..forcing herself back up. "I will fucking kill you! You'll pay for all you've done!"
"Sorry life but this doesn't even concern you." Arachne smirks.. "Death..talk to me..I don't care for Life, I care for you. Don't you like your sacrifices? Things are so hard for you aren't they?..No one understands you..not like I do. Let me be nice to you death..I can take it all away.."
"..Take it all away?.." Death mumbles to herself..staring from her cage at all the blood painting this room from Maka's head..those eyes could never be read...her face blank.
"Yes my dear.." Arachne coos..a wind picks up in this room..the bloody letters lighting up..something's happening..Maka can feel something stir inside her..it's strong. It's dangerous.
"This does fucking concern me! This is my body! This is my life! I'm not letting you take it so you can destroy the world!" Maka screams..trying to keep her power in so she doesn't shock herself again. " I've worked too fucking hard for that! Keeping death at bay all this time..fighting all the damn time to keep her in this cage so she doesn't kill anyone..so she doesn't hurt the ones I love..I'm not letting you steal all that away from me!"
"You hear how she talks about you death?..how she keeps you in a cage like a dog! She only thinks of your body as hers..Your nothing but a monster in her eyes, In everyone's eyes! No one will pity you my dear..Life will not shed a tear for you...your nothing but a horror to the world..they want nothing to do with you..how sad.."
"There use to be someone.." Death grips her bars. "..That didn't think of me just as a horror.." She looks up..her expression so dark. "But I killed him didn't I?"
"That doesn't matter." Arachne smirks as she holds out her hand..the writing lights up more..it gets Maka to scream and grip her hair..the kid's cries of pain are becoming overwhelming. "I don't think of you as a horror..I understand you Death..you're in pain. Don't you want me to take it away?..all of your hurt will be gone..i'll become you death..me and you could be partners.." Arachne reaches her hand out..
Death's breathing is uneven...she's trembling..hiding her face in her knees now..stuck in this room that's so empty now as Maka screams..trying to fight her way out of the ball she's in but it's no use..Death..only has the silence to comfort her..alone in this cage..locked away..arachne's words ring through her ears..making her hug herself tighter.
"Death-" Arachne starts again, only for the door to bust open..this causes the bloody letters to stop lighting up..and the candles to dim. Maka sighs in relief..panting, laying in his ball..Shit..the screaming has died down to a ringing.
"Lady Arachne!" A woman troop calls for her nervously..get urgently. "Lady Medusa is opening up the barrier!"
"What'?" Any rage in Arachne changes, her face falls..before it hardens. "She is not getting through!" Arachne places her hands on the ground..mumbling something under her breath..her hands lighting up. "..Go check the force field! Report back to me immediately if Medusa has made it through! Go!"
With that the woman troop runs out as if her life depended on it..leaving Arachne alone with Maka..and that short man in the corner who hasn't said anything this whole time..his lips twitch like he wants to talk..but he doesn't.
Maka stares at Arachne..and from how she's laying..she can see the woman's odd eyes..She can see something flash through them...It's a emotion she can't place..but..it looks close enough to fear that it gets Maka to smirk.
"What's..wrong Arachne?" Maka pants out, getting the spider witch's attention..Maka's smirk hasn't left. "Afaird your..little sister will kick your ass?..or maybe your afraid that Medusa's actually better then you..i think so. You hide in this big ass castle..with all these troops and your barrier..you act as if your a queen..yet the grand witch still lives..your no queen. Your just..a scared little bitch."
"Say what you must but at the end of this I will be the last one standing. My mother always taught me to act like a royal. I am meant to be the next grand witch..my sister was a mistake. My mother should have killed her a long time ago, take her out with the trash like she did all the others."
Maka feels..a anger burn saw Medusa's past..saw how hard she worked for nothing..how her sister was held higher then her..no matter what she did..Maka saw what her mother did to Medusa..saw her get defiled at such a young age..Medusa has gone through shit..but this woman..this spider witch..
"The only fucking trash around here is you!" Maka pounds on the ball. "You've had everything handed to you! The only reason your bitch of a mother treated you so well was because your the same kind of witch as her! If you were anything else she would have kicked you the curb! Medusa's had to work for everything she's gotten! Unlike you, she doesn't hide behind anyone, she's not afraid to get her hands dirty while all you do is sit on your ass and tell others to do your work for you!" Maka grips her fists..her eyes so narrow.
"..Your just like Kami.." Arachne starts to chuckle, shaking her head. "Always protecting my sister, standing up for her. Tell me Maka...why are you standing up for her? Why do you speak fondly of her? At least i'm not a liar..i don't play with hearts..nor with emotions. Why do you stand for Medusa..when she wants the same thing as me?" Arachne smirks at how Maka's face falls a bit. "She wants your life just as I do.."
"Your lying!" Maka growls. "I"ve been with Medusa all this time, she's never tried to do this shit! I'm pretty sure if she wanted to kill me, she would have already done it!"
"Ah, but you see Maka..She' wants more then just Death like I do.." Arachne starts to chuckle. "..My sister not only wants to sacrifice death..but you, as well Maka. To saciface both life and Death..Life must suffer a great deal. Life must kill others..life must give into her darkness..getting lost in it..Life must be consumed by death..before you can sacrifice death..This method takes much longer..alot more time and devotion.." Arachne smirks at how Maka's eyes shake slightly. "She's been lying out you all this time..trying to sacrifice you Maka..pretending to be some kind of saint! Everyone's been lying to you Maka but especially her..She's been making you suffer all this time, trying to make you go mad, and lose yourself so she could steal both your body..and sacrifice you."
"i don't believe you! All my troubles..all my pain..it's come from you! Not Medusa! She..She adored my mother! She wouldn't do that because she adored my mother!" Maka trembles..thinking of Eruka..
"A life for a life."
"That plant monster you faced so long ago..was hers. That gem she tried to give you..would have strengthen the madness in side you..it would have made you lose it. She's been trying all she can to break you. Think about it..all your troubles..it has been here, not me."
"You just want me to go against her..you don't like how I know she's so much more kick ass then you.." Maka growls..panting taking a step back..her eyes shaking.
"Believe me or not..it doesn't matter. Your going to be gone soon anyway." Arachne smirks as that female troop runs back in.
"Lady arachne! Medusa hasn't gotten through but seven of her warriors have! One of them being Medusa's pink haired child!" The woman seems panic.
Maka's eyes widen..her chest tightening in hope..Crona! HE's in here! He's coming for her...
"Kill them all." Arachne glances back at her. "No matter what..make it so they do not make it here."
"Yes mam." The troop bows before running out.
"Don't fucking touch him!" Maka screams at the girl, pounding on the ball..her eyes alight in rage.
"Now..death.." Arahcne ignores Maka..the door closing. "..Back to where we were..As I said I can take this all away from you..i can let you out of this cage..set your free..I will obsorb you..and I will take your tittle from you..You won't be in pain.." Arachne holds out her hand. "..You can come to me quietly..and i'll destroy your cage gently..and i'll hold you as I take you death..something that no one would do..." Arachen's eyes get dark..the blood on the walls starting to light up getting Maka to grip her hair. "Or I can take you by force. I will rip that cage apart, and rip you of everything till you give in to me..so..do you fight..? or are you going to come quietly?"
"Of course she's going to fucking fight! She wouldn't-" Maka starts..panting..
That's when..Death suddenly stands up in her cage..her bangs covering her eyes..she looks up..those eyes..oh those eyes of death..dark pools of green..dark with hate..yet the hate hides a deep emotion Death rather not show..
Loneliness..
Death locks eyes with Arachne..she grips her fist...
"I'll come quietly."
"Fuck it's already started! I swear if Maka doesn't make it out of this.." Ragnarok growls to himself..he's trying to be tough..but now Crona can see right through him. He feels Ragnarok's fear..along with Crona's own as he runs down this hallway, deeper into the castle, ignoring the calls from the others behind him. Crona doesn't care about what they're saying..neither does Ragnarok.
Crona's eyes shake..his heart beating like crazy in his chest, threatening to pound out of his ribs..His legs move quickly..he can't stop, he can't slow down..Maka needs him. Maka's in trouble..He can't..he can't lose her..the love of his life..the girl that gives him joy..puts a smile on his face..She made him into the man his is now..she's the one that brought him closer to Ragnarok..all her.
He can't let the madness consume him..even now as he runs..he feels the darkness weighing down on his legs..the odd laughter in the back of his mind..he can't ive into the temptation..or the fear..
He has to save her.
Crona grips his sword..knowing Ragnaork is thinking about the same thing as him..about Maka..about all their times spent together..they can't lose that. Cant' lost her.
"N-No,." Crona skids to a stop..as his shaking blue eyes take in a problem... There's two stair cases leading upstairs..both going up..but then out to different locations.. "W-Which way do we go?"
"Shit that fucking light is gone, we can't use that to track her!" Ragnarok grinds his 's a panic stirring in him.
'Crona!" Crona turns around as Kid finally catches up to him..the others close behind. Kid pants. "We finally caught up..you must be careful..this castle could be full of anything-" Kid stops when he takes in the stairs..insteard of reacting as he should, he smiles at the two staris..distracted by the perfect symmetry of the two.
"Which way do we go?" Liz looks around at the two stair cases.
"We could spilt up." Soul suggests, raising his eye brow at Kid, who is talking about symmetry under his breath..his eyes shaking..
The madness is getting to everyone.
"We don't spilt up. We take the right stairs." Justin stops with Giriko in front of the right stairs, glancing at Crona. "Trust me, we take these stairs, head down the hallway. We will find her in the last room like Medusa said." Justin grabs Giriko's hand..holding it tightly..lovingly..looking at him with a look that can't be read. "..we have to hurry. We will have company soon."
Crona doesn't question him. He grips his sword..Ragnarok's thoughts..his feelings along with his own gets the dark sword to light up as he starts running up the many stairs to the top of the castle.
"Damn he's fast." Soul grunts as he grabs Kid, the raven making a sound of protest..but a slap from Liz and a kick from Patty snaps him out of his symmetry fit..Kid shakes his head..trying to regain himself as Soul keeps running, dragging Kid with him till he starts running on his own.
"My apologies." Kid frowns..glancing back at the Thompson sisters..they seem to be holding up alright..the madness isn't effecting them..so why does he feel it?..why is it so strong?
"Are you alright Justin?" Giriko looks over at the other man..their hands have separated so Girko can carry his chainsaw..but the older man is as close as he can be. Girkio frowns at the look in Justin's eyes..how they're glassy..he knows what that look means..
"I'm fine." Justin reassures..offering a smile. "the madness..i can handle it..as long as I have you..that's all I need."
Girko looks away from Justin..to hide how his tan face gets a little pink from his lover's words. "Alright..good..." Is all he can say..He's never been good at expressing emotion..yet Justin gives Giriko that smile that warms his heart..damn..his face gets darker.
"Hmpt!" Patty pouts to herself at the display of affection the two men are sharing as she runs by her sister's side..that should be her Justin's smiling at..She bets she could make him smile too. She's good at that. She bets she could be better for the blonde then that rough man...
"A-Almost at the top.." Crona mumbles to himself to keep calm..his brething uneven, sweat dripping down his face...he can't think of failure..he can only think about getting Maka back..he'll make it in time..he has to.
"Don't you think it's fucking weird we haven't been attacked yet?" Ragnarok comments suspiciously..the sword vibrates in Crona's hand..ready for a fight.
Crona doesn't respond as he finally makes it to the top floor..the first thing he sees is a large red bed..a spider web on the ceiling above it..glisting as if tiny rain drops have been captured in it. This room is nothing but a bed..and two hallways. Damn it, which way does he go now?
"This must be where we saw Maka from the battle field!" Kid comments as he looks over at the window.
"Justin w-which way?" Crona turns to the blonde as he makes it up with Giriko.
"We go-" Justin starts..only for someone t orun out of the shadows..running and grabbing ahold of Justin before anyone can register what's going on..
"Get back!" Arachne's troop threatens, a knife placed at Justin's throat..getting Girko's eyes to shake.
"Get the hell off of him!" Giriko roars..but when the troop places the knife harder on Justin's neck..the older man backs up.
"You all are going to die now. Reinforcements are on their way. Your all going to pay for-" This troop starts..
Only to be shot in the shoulder...then the stomach..the bullets barely missing Justin. The troop lets go of the knife..taking steps back in shock..staring at the reckless blonde haired girl who just shot her..twice.
"Get your dirty hands off my man!" Patty shouts, the glare on her face dangerous.
"your man?!" Giriko growls-
"Shut it old man!" Patty grins at how this gets Girkio to fume, his eye twitching..then she smiles at Justin who's looking at her with big eyes. "You okay baby?"
Justin only nods..slightly blushing at how she's looking at him..alarm flashes through Giriko's expression when he sees this..he quickly pulls the younger man into an embrace, burying Justin's face in his chest.
"Justin's mine you little brat!"
"Not for long~" Patty chimes, getting Girkio's face to get red with anger.
"Why you-"
"Justin which way do w-we go!" Crona shouts at the blonde desperatly..theirrunning out of time!
"Left!" Justin pushes himself away from Girko to yell this..but whne Crona turns to start running down the hallway..he finds it's blocked by a good number of troops..all have their guns locked and loaded..Soul and Kid aim their machine guns back.
"Get out of our way!" Crona and Ragnarok threaten together, the sword lighting up again-
"One of the troops holds out a black gem..it lights up..a sharp pain is sent throughout both Crona's and Kid's bodies..gettting them to cry out..dropping their weapons.
"Child of Medusa..you along with everyone else with you are going to die."
"Kid! What the fuck's wrong with you?!" Soul drops his gun..to hold the thrashing Kid in his arms..Liz and Patty grabbing ahold of him as well..trying to stop him from hurting himself.
"No! That gem is hurting them because they are of witch's blood! We have to destroy it!" Justin cries out, aiming his hand gun..but even he knows they can't win against so many machine guns pointed their way..girko gets in front of Justin..baring his teeth as the troops put their fingers on the triggers
They...they are going to die..They're going to kill them.. Crona can't move..no matter how much Ragnarok yells at him..his body isn't responding..
This is it. He's going to die here..so close, yet so far.. from Maka..this..this can't be..but it is..
As Crona thinks of Maka..watching as these troops are about to end him..he thinks of a old friend.
Judas..He couldn't..he couldn't save her..Crona's sorry..you gave up everything for him..you died..and yet here Crona is failing..
"J-Judas.." Crona speaks his name softly..bowing his head. "H-Help." It's weak plea,,Crona knows it won't be answered " I s-still..need you..M-Maka's going to die...she.."
Suddenly..one of the troop's eyes they start to bouche..He turns on his heel...before he starts firing at his own team. The shaking eyes spread among them..as they start killing each other..laughing madly..Crona's eyes are wide..him not believing what he's seeing..and tthis feeling..it's so faint but..
"J-Judas.." Crona gasps out.. "Is that..y-you?"
There is no response as these troops continue to kill each other..
That's when Crona hears it..a loud, bloody scream..it's loud, booming..continuous..what makes his blood turn cold, all his thoughts leaving him is who this scream belong stop.
Ragnarok trembles in the sword, his eyes wide with panic..His emotions going haywire..both boys cry out..Crona forcing himself up..he runs towards the left hallway..that horrible scream hasn't stopped..
Maka! Hang in there..
They're coming.
"W-What?" Maka looks at Death from her mind..seeing the Girl in the cage..with that odd look in her eyes..Maka's eyes shake..not believing what she just heard. "What do you mean you'll come quietly?! She killed our mother-"
"Your mother!" Death cuts her off..screaming..she turns those eyes on Maka..they turn black with hate. " She was never mine! She locked me away just as you have! She wanted me to never appear! She was your mother and your mother alone! I don't give a fuck about your mother!"
"..Don't you get it?! If you give in, she's going to steal our body-"
"Shut the fuck up life! It's not my body! This spider witch is right! You know you don't think of this body as ours..you think of it as yours and i'm a trespasser you rather just lock in a fucking cage and try to forget about! The only reason your upset is because you are going to lose your body! What the fuck am I losing?!..I've already lost everything there is to lose. My freedom..my.." She trails off..her voice still dark..those eyes still full of hate and rage..yet..they change..only slightly.
Arachne smirks..being able to hear Life and Death's words..Her smirk is amused..She watches with those eyes confidently..knowing she's won. "She has nothing to lose so why don't give in to me? I appreciate you Death..iIknow your where the real power lies."
"Don't rfucking listen to her Death! Your smarted then this! If you give into her your going to die! She's going to take away your title! You'll no longer be death!-" Maka screams..her breathing uneven..as she stares back at Death's glare..that glare of malice.
"..I want to disappear!" Death roars..getting Maka to stop..looking at her with wide eyes..death pants..her teeth bared.. "I don't want to be fucking stuck in this cage any more! In this fucking quiet room! She can have my title, she can be death! It's a curse! It's nothing but a fucking curse, so if she wants it, she can have it. I don't want to be here any more..i want to be away from this fucking place! Away from you! Away from everyone! I'm tired of fucking suffering! You have no idea the pain i've been through you little shit! No more!" Death's voice is loud..it booms..shaking the fire place room..and as Maka stares into her eyes..She's dragged into those dark green pools..going into the head of someone she's never wanted to be close to...Death's eyes flash..
That's when..Maka sees..scenes past by her. She's standing in the fire place room..but she knows she's not really here..
"Oh death~" Maka blinks as she looks in the Cage..seeing that demon behind Death in the cage, covering her eyes..a mad smile on his face. "Guess who!"
"A dumb ass?" Death grunts before she goes to elbow Judas in the stomach..he only smirks and disapears..to reappear out of the cage in front of her.
"Oh don't be like that my baby lumps!"
"..Don't ever call me that again." Death's eye twitches. "Can you leave me the fuck alone?"
"Nope! Never~" Judas grabs the cage and starts shaking it, grinning at the girl who's glaring at him. " I could never stay away from you my husband. My love. My everything!" Judas sighs happily. "Hey..hey death..." Judas leans close.
"What the fuck do you want?" Death snaps..backing up from him even though there are bars separating them.
"Do you think we're going to get married-"
"No."
"Do you think we're going to love each other forever-"
"I don't even love you now!"
"Do you think I could fuck you in the ass?-"
"Would you leave me alone?!"
"I knew you would feel the same way as me husband! We are going to get married and love each other forever and i'm so going to fuck you in the ass!" He gives her a derpy smile..licking his lips.
"In your dreams." Death snaps, sticking her hand out of her cage to give him her middle finger.
"Oh no.." He grabs her hand, she struggles to get out of his grip..only for him to put her whole middle finger into his mouth..licking it with his tongue..Maka catches the shiver through death..and how her cheeks tint. Judas pulls up..and kisses the tip of her middle finger. "..Not fuck me..fuck you." He gives her a wink..
This seems to snap death out of her state..her blush darkening but her glare coming back ."Get off of me you creep!" This only gets the demon to laugh, and hold onto her tighter..
This scene fades away..
"Good morning death." Maka feels a pang in her chest..when everything comes back. Custos stands in front of Death's cage..the girl inside glaring at the angel..hugging her knees to her chest. The angel smiles at her..seeming not to sense her hostilness.
"Fuck off." Death grunts, her glare not falling.
"You don't have to be so abrasive." Custos frowns before looking around..he looks back at Death. "..Where is the demon?"
"How should I know? He's probably off somewhere fucking something up." Death growls. "Why are you asking me? It's not like i'm his baby sitter!" Death grumbles..
"..Are you not worried? He's been gone for a while.." Custos looks up at the ceiling.
"So? I'm glad he's gone!" Death looks away from Custos..gripping her knees tighter.
The angel stares at her a moment..he looks in deep thought before he closes his eyes-
"What? Are you going to leave too?" Death scoffs..getting Custos to open his eyes. "Must be nice being able to leave and come as you please." death glares at the wall..those eyes so dark. "I"m glad your fucking leaving. Maybe you'll both disappear and leave me the fuck alone." She snaps..yet..those eyes..change only slightly..
"I'm not leaving you." the angel's words..gets Death's glare to fall in confusion..She looks over at the angel that's smiling at her gently. " I wouldn't leave you. No one likes to be left alone..not even you death..i can see right through you." Death's eyes widen..only for her to glare away from him, hiding her face.
"You don't know shit angel. Stick to the bible, that's all you know."
Custos walks..before he sits next to her Cage..She glances at him..and he smiles at her..getting that glare to fall once again...Death tries to glare again..but her eyes hold something else..gratitude?..relief?..as she looks at this angel that's staying with her. "Would you like to pray with me to pass the time?"
"..You already know the fucking answer to that angel."
This scene fades away..
"Hey death.." Judas gives Death a goofy smile..He's wearing a pink dress..and a brown wig..make up..He really looks like a girl..white high heels that make him like a giant towering over her cage..He has a piece of apple pie in his hand..holding it up oddly. "Wana see my butt?"
"Hell no." Death glares at him..but her cheeks tint slightly. "What the hell are you going dressed like that? Do you have to come in her with a fucking new weird outfit every time! Your no girl so stop dressing like one!"
"Oh husband you're so mean!" Judas pouts, throwing the apple pie down..it splatters on the floor. "you see! That's what you just did to my heart! Because I know you like it baby! You just have to fight me all the time..don't fight your feelings you know you want all this man-lady." He rubs up and gropes his non existing boobs, licking his lips.
"There's nothing to fight. I feel nothing but contempt for you ass hole."
"Wow..for someone who only tells the truth to others..you sure know how to lie to yourself huh?" Judas tilts his head..a thoughtful expression coming to his face that gets Death to tense.
"I'm not lying to myself-"
"OH yes you are! Just admit it! You love me! You love me sooo hard! Harder than a rock! Harder than my fucking boner!"
"Your suppose to be a girl!" Death's eyes twitches, pointing at his outfit. "And I don't fucking love you! The day I say I love you is the day I hug and befriend life! It's never going to happened!"
"Oh I don't know..anything is possible..if you just.." Judas sneakers alittle before he moves his hands..making a rainbow for a spilt second. "Believe!"
"..Your so gay..why do you even waste your time in here? I obviously don't give a fuck about you."
"I am gay! So gay for you Death! My baby lumps!-"
"I said to stop fucking calling me that!-"
"So baby lumps..i'm really digging that suit." Judas grins..Getting Death to stop, raising her eye brow in confusion "You just look so dashing husband!"
"What-" Death looks down..only to stop..She's wearing a black suit..with dress pants to match. She whips her head up, looking at Judas who is looking her up and down with hungry eyes. "How the fuck did you get this on me?!"
"I have my ways!" Judas chuckles, leaning closer. " Oh husband I really do love your mustache-"
"Oh fuck you! I'm taking this shit off!" Death growls, she goes to unbutton her suit..but when she sees the pale skin of her stomach she stops, her face getting dark.
"Please continue." Judas purrs. "I agree you look much better without it." he winks.
"..Give me back my clothes!" Death snaps.
"I will if you call me your wifey."
"Go to hell."
"Oh husband your my only true home."
"I hate you so fucking much."
"I love you so fucking much~"
The scene fades away.
"Death are you okay?" Custos frowns..looking at the girl In the cage that's burying her face in her knees..
"Why do you care angel? I'm not your fucking problem." Death growls, glaring up at the Custos.
"I care because I care for everyone. I'v shared this room with you for a while now death..though your vocabulary and actions are upsetting..I consider you my friend-"
"Friend?! Me?" Death laughs at that, shaking her head. " You're a dumb ass if you think we're friends! Why would you even want to be? I"m evil remember? The end of the world? The one that consumes all? Consumes the life you protect? And you say we're friends?" She laughs again..but it sounds bitter.
" You are my friend. I do care for you even if you are death..There's good in everyone..in everything. In the most horrible person..you can find good..There's good in you too Death..your role was chosen for you..I do not hate you for it." Custos takes a step forward..Death's laugher has stopped..Her looking at him with her face a bit fallen. "Now tell me what's wrong Death. I know you well enough to know your upset."
"I"m upset because you won't leave me the fuck alone..." Death closes her eyes..hiding them from Custos because they have changed..she turns her back to him.
"..I'll be right behind you death..waiting for you..if you want to talk i'm happy to listen..There's no reason to keep things in and suffer alone.." Custos voice and smile is soft. "..Not when you have people who care about you here.."
Death doesn't turn around..yet Maka sees how her eyes shake..a slight blush on her cheeks..She puts a hand to her heart..She never does turn around..but it's obvious the angel's words have gotten to her..
The scene fades away.
"Look death!" Judas suddenly appears in front of Death's cage..wearing a black suit with a tail coming out of the back..it's skin tight..showing off ever curve of his body..on his head are black cat ears. He grins madly. "I'm a kitty cat!"
Death stares at him a moment..before she hits her head on the cage. "When will.." She hits her head again. "It stop?
"Cat! I'm a kitty cat! And I dance, dance dance and dance dance dance!" Judas starts moving his hands, forming them to look like paws..He dances around her cage..Getting Death to grip her hair.
"Would you stop it already? I can't deal with it..not today.." Death growls..knowing he won't listen..but she tries-
"Okay." Judas stops..the cat suit leaving so he's wearing his normal clothes..Death blinks..looking over at him in shock.
"Okay?..that's it? Your actually going to stop?"
"I can tell my husband isn't feeling too good! I don't want you to feel worse."
"IF that's true then get the fuck out of here." Death grunts..
"Okay." Judas smiles at the look of Disbelief on Death's face. "But here..I got you something.." Judas snaps his fingers..a purple flower appears in his hand..He puts it in her cage..that odd smile still on his face. "A beautiful flower for a beautiful girl. Things are going to get hard..just know I really do love you Death. Your my girl. You'll always be my girl. Take my flower and feel my love!" Judas chimes..before he fades away.
Death stares at where he was..before she looks down at the purple flower. "..Feel his love?" Death scoffs yet..Maka's surprised..when she sees the smile from on Death's face..it's small..that hate not in her eyes as she stares at this flower. "Beautiful huh?" That smile growls slightly as she reaches for the flower..to take it..to hold it..but when Death's fingers touch the flower..
It dies. It wilts..turning a grey color..Death's hand recoils..her eyes wide..her hand shakes as she stares at the flower she killed..then..her eyes..oh her eyes..they change..into something painful..She holds her face in her hands...
"I..I actually forgot what I was..who I was..You make me forget Judas..why..why give me a flower..when you know i'll only kill it?..Why..Why give me your so called love.." Death trembles ."..When i'll only destroy it?"
The scene fades away..
Maka tenses when her eyes take in..Custos laying on the ground..bleeding..Asura over him..This is Custos's last fight again..why is she seeing this-
Maka blinks..when she sees..Death standing off to the side..staring at Custos with wide eyes..She out reaches her hand.. "W-Wait don't-"
Custos fades away..leaving death standing there..her mouth open..that pain Maka saw when she killed the flower there..
The scene fades away..
Now...Maka tenses when she sees..Crona..He's holding that demon in his arms..the demon is fading away..talking to Crona who is crying..fading away as well..Off to the side..is death..The girl's body is trembling..her hand out reached for Judas..those dark eyes..They look..human..weak..desperate. "P-Please..I..I d-don't want to take him..I a-already took custos..n-not him.." She pleads to someone..but no one hears death.
Maka's too busy..looking at Death that she misses the kiss Crona and Judas share..she looks back when Crona is lifted up..Judas gives him a smile..before he fades away..Crona crying out in pain..before he fades away.
"No..Please! Don't.." Death falls to her knees..looking at where Judas was. "..Don't..don't go.." The pain is in her eyes..deeper then before...She holds her face in her hands..laying on the ground..
Everything fades away..
When Maka comes back from Death's thought's..the girl is shaking again..that pain in her eyes Maka saw in the flash backs.. "N-No more.." Her voice trembles.. "I was given kindness..maybe even friendship..and that was taken from me..I was given a flower..just to kill it with my own hands..I don't..I don't want to be in this room anymore..I don't want to be left with nothing but the quiet..It's not the quiet that bothers me.." Death hugs herself. "..It's knowing why it's quiet that bothers me..knowing i'm the one that silenced them both.."
Maka only stares at Death..speechless..This girl..she's only seen her act in hate..She's only seen her rage..She only thought of death as death..as something that wanted to kill and destroy..yet..those flash backs..Death cared about Custos and that demon in some way..and then..she had to take them away..
Maybe..Maka pities her..but..
"You won't have to suffer anymore dear.." Arachne speaks up..taking a step closer. "I will let you out..and I will take all of it away.." She lifts up her hand..it lights up.
"..I'm all yours." Death doesn't look at her, still bowing her head.
"NO!" Maka screams..in her head she gets in front of Death's cage..shielding it. "I'm not going to let you do it!...even if you're in pain, if you die, and arachne takes over the world is doomed!"
"The world is doomed either way." Death states plainly..She doesn't look up..her bangs covering her eyes.
"Your still going to try to fight this Maka?..oh well..I would move out of the way of that cage if I was you.." Arachne smirks..her hands lighting up-
The door busts open..stopping arachne. She glances over..only for her eyes to slightly widen..when a troop stumbles in..a gun wound in her shoulder and stomach.
"They..They made it..up here..fighting..reinforcements..they..they're going crazy..Intruders..coming..this way.." The troop's voice fades..as this person falls..hitting the ground limply..it's blood pooling around it..
"Damn it!" that short man growls..finally speaking. He takes a couple of steps further, his nose getting bigger. "I'll take care of the brats! You continue with-"
"No. I'll take care of them. I want to kill medusa's child with my own hands.." Arachne smirks..before she points at Maka. " Release the wicked, capture the light!" Arachne speaks in a loud voice..
A shock of purple power goes straight for Death's cage..Maka braces herself..not going to move from protecting it..It hits her full voice..getting her to scream in agony..it feels like her very being is falling apart..yet she doesn't move..if she moves..it will hit the cage..it will let death go..then kill her..Maka has to stand her ground..
But how long will she be able to hold out?
"Watch her, it's only a matter of time before Life gives in." Arachne smirks. "I'm counting on you mosquito..I have some little bugs to take care of..seems they all too, have gotten trapped in my web." She laughs madly..before she fades away..
Leaving Maka to scream..still in that blue ball..protecting the cage..Death doesn't do anything..doesn't look up..
Death doesn't care anymore.
"Maka!" Crona screams, running past all the crazies killing each other..his sword is glowing, his heart, along with everything else shaking, trembling in fear, in panic.
"We have to stop her!" Kid and Justin roar out..every one takes off running with Crona..ready to bust into that room, rip Maka from the clutches of Arachne, ready to save her, to end all of this..
Please..Crona pleads..he doesn't know who he's begging to..but he's begging..Not Maka..Not all he has..He's lost to much..don't take her away..
It hurts more..to have something and then for it to be taken from you..than to never have something at all..To hold someone in your arms..that gives your life meaning..only..for the next day..they're gone..in a box..underground..
Pain. So much of it. He feels tears sting the corner of his eyes in his desperation..the more he hears Maka's scream..she's in pain. She's hurting. She's dying. His love. His everything..the only thing he's ever had..
Ragnaork's thoughts and feelings are jumbled in with his own..and really..it's as if they are one in this moment..feeling the same things..thinking the same things..
Arachne the spider witch will die. Maka..Maka they have to stop this, they have to save her!
Crona keeps running..his eyes locked onto the door..the door that has his beloved..the door that's keeping him away from her, stopping him from saving her..
Maka..Has always been Crona's saving grace..His angel..The one he didn't even think was real at first..She held him..healed him..protected him..stood up for him. She gave him courage. She gave him love. She makes him feel special..She has always been their..saving his life in more ways then one..
Now it's his turn. Now he's the one going to save her. The one that is going to stand tall, and deal with his actions..He is as guilty as Medusa in this..His actions..have lead to this..and now...now he's going to end it.
End it all.
"Wait!" Justin suddenly cries out, skidding to a stop. "Everyone stop! Turn back now Arachne's-"
Before he can finish..the spider witch appears right in front of Crona..The boy gasping, not expecting her to just show up..with a push of her hands..a strong wind sends Crona flying back..along with everyone else in the hallway. Liz grabs Patty, protecting her as they land hard on the ground..back where the bed is..Girko doing the same for Justin.
"Fuck!" Ragnarok roars as Crona gets back up quickly..Arachne has appeared in this room with them..a smirk on her face..she's blocking the hallway..and Maka's still screaming. "Maka's still in trouble! Move the fuck out of the way bitch! "
Crona roars out with Ragnaork's rage and charges towards Arachne, his sword ready, his eyes on fire.
"So your Medusa's child..the one she most desperately hide from me.." She chuckles as she puts her hand up..stopping Crona in mid air before he can get to her..she grins at him.. "I see why now, Medusa's little girl is really a boy. What a criminal my sister is! So very disgusting of her! IT's too rich!" Arachne throws Crona..He hits the wall with a cry of pain. "I bet my mother is rolling over in her grave!" She screams this..those lips twisting.
"Your about to fucking join her in the dirt!" Ragnarok screams, Crona pants before he screams with him, getting right back up..about to charge her again-
"Crona!" Kid grabs him..stopping him. The pink haired boy fights with him..only for kid to tighten his hold.
"Get off!"
"Listen Crona you can't make it through like this! She'll just keep pushing you back.." Kid looks at him seriously. "..We will take care of her..let us fight her..you rub past her and save Maka.." Kid grips his shoulder. "..You go and save her..She's waiting for you."
"Yeah we got this bitch Crona!" Patty cheers, getting her cross out.
"Go and fucking get that dumb ass so we can end all this shit." Girko starts up his chain saw..Justin takes a step forward...pulling out two crosses.
"To save her Crona..you must break the ball she's in..it will stop the ritual. You must hurry. She doesn't have much time." Justin grips his crosses.
"Right! Witch arachne!" Kid steps in front of Crona, pulling out an ax from his suit..his cross necklace shinning proudly. "This is the day you die! In the name of my father, in the name of Maka, You will be destroyed for all your sins!" Kid stances himself..those pericing eyes narrowing. "I judge you."
"Fuck yeah show that big titted lady who's boss with some yoga." Soul bends his back like Kid, holding his machine gun..smirking. "I don't know much about witches, but I know if you shoot a bitch enough she stays down."
"You all are going to defeat me? Your nothing young witch hunter! Your all nothing but pawns in this great, great game!" Arachne's hands light up..her eyes turning black-
"We may be the pawns.." Justin jumps in front of her..throwing the cross right on her hand, getting her to gasp, taking a step back, it breaking her spell..Justin's eyes..are on fire. "But you are no Queen Arachne, and it will be known to all in this battle."
"Attack now!" Kid shouts at Soul..who starts firing his machine gun..hitting Arachne only a couple of times before she puts a force field up, her wounds healing. Patty and liz throw their crosses at the force field..it wavers..Arachen takes a step forward..her eyes locked on soul who's still firing at her..Her eyes starting to turn black with a rage-
"Crona now!" Kid commands..Crona wastes no time. He sees his opening..a space right behind Arachne..Crona runs..the fastest he's ever had..as Arachne starts fighting off the other six that are throwing crosses at her, jumping on her..Crona's able to make it past her..Arachen's eyes widen.
"Oh no you-" She turns..ready to kill Crona..Only for Kid to jump on her back, shoving a cross against her throat, getting her to gurgle..
Crona doesn't look back. He keeps running..He hears screams from behind..he feels the magic..but there's only one scream he truly hears..one scream that brings him horror..
Maka's..Maka is still screaming.
Crona gets to the door, and bust it down..not able to think about what he might see..His heart beat is ecstatic..his mind flooded with Ragnarok's feelings...
If possible..his chest hurts even more as his eyes take in Maka..his beloved, screaming to the top of her lungs..She's in a blue ball, her body lighting up in odd black light..Tears falling down her face..blood at the corner of her mouth..She looks..drained..this light is draining her..making her frailer..bonier.
"Maka!" Crona and Ragnarok cry, the sword lighting up as Crona jumps in, ready to destroy this ball-
Crona is kicked in the face, sent flying back into the wall. He's not able to even figure out what happen before something sharp shoots out at him..Crona jumps out of the way..baring making it out from being impaled.
"You little shit!" Crona blinks..as he takes in this short man in front of him..his eye brow is twitching..his nose..is what almost stabbed him..He looks like a old man.. "I'll kill you for trying to get in the way of what lady Arachne wants."
"What the fuck are you?" Ragnarok grunts..this gets something to snap in the man.
"I"ll show you what the fuck I am!" He roars, his nose getting thicker..it comes back, only to shoot back at Crona, Crona blocks it..having a sword fight with Ragnarok...and..this guy's nose. He's small, so he's very fast..Crona cries in pain when he stabs him in the leg..
"Crona!" Ragnarok shouts out in concern as it rips out of his leg..Crona roars out, lifting up his sword to cut this man's head off..
Only for his nose to shoot out faster..going right through Crona's shoulder into the wall..pinning him to it...The man rips Ragnarok from his hold..leaving Crona weaponless.
"Get the fuck off me! Crona!" The sword shakes, trying to get out of this man's hold..but he can't.
"It's over for you! You little shit!" The man barks..about to stab Crona with his own sword..
Crona hears maka's scream..knowing she's right there..His lips go in a tight line..
"No."
"..No?" The man stops mid way..not being able to help it..the boy's voice has changed completely..his bangs covering his eyes.
"This isn't over.." Crona grabs the man's nose that's in his shoulder..He starts to..pull it out..his teeth grinding. "Maka isn't going to die..This isn't going to be the end of her..She isn't going to be taken!" Crona struggles..the man is trying to keep his nose in..but..this boy is finding strength..Crona looks up..his eyes so dark..so full of determination.. "I won't let her!" He screams before he rips his nose out of him..his blood splatting but he doesn't care..he kicks this man in the face..ripping Ragnarok from his hold.
"Fucking finish him!" Ragnarok roars..Crona feels it..feels all the emotions..becoming one with Ragnarok once more..He roras out..before swinging the sword down..the man is about to stab him with his nose..
When Crona decapitates him. Cuts his head clean off. The man's blood gets on him..in his hair..in his mouth..He doens't care. He feels nothing..
Then he hears her scream..yet again. Crona wipes around..Maka's..detrating..She's dying! "Maka!" Crona and Ragnarok roar out..the sword lighting up, he jumps towards it..and with a powerful cry..He slices across the ball..overing Maka's head..
It cuts right through it..The ball breaks..The black light fades away from Maka..her screams dying..as she falls weakly..not able to hold herself up.
"M-Maka!" Crona catches her before she falls..he pulls her out of the ball..and holds her close to his chest..He knows he shouldn't..He's tired of it..but he cries. He cries because she's been hurt..because this is all his fault..he cries he has her..and she's breathing..alive in his arms.
Maka groans..her eyes fluttering open..She looks around groggily..but when her eyes fall on Crona..they widen..She grabs a hold of him. "C-Crona? You m-made it..you..you saved me..where..where Is Ragnaork?..is he okay? He.."
"I'm right here.." Ragnaork's voice is soft as he appears on the blade..Maka has to rub her eyes..but when she still sees this..She blinks.
"Your..ah..sword?"
"Long story, lets get you the fuck out of here."
"Are you alright Maka? Please let me carry y-you, we're going to get out of this.." Crona holds her tightly..kissign her forehead...his tears keep falling ."..Y-You keep getting ripped from m-me..You c-can't..you c-can't leave me anymore!" Crona finds himself yelling this..nows not the time for this..he knows..yet he can't stop himself..He can't lose her anymore..can't be ripped from her..He needs her..it's too painful..He needs her so much. "P-Please..i can't.." He can't do it. He needs her. He wants her by his side always..He never wants to her that scream..he just wants to hold her forever..keep her safe and warm..hold her with Ragnarok..they can both keep her safe..Just them..that's all..He never wants to lose that..THis is his family, the only family he's ever known.
Maka looks up at him with wide eyes..before they go back to normal..She smiles..gently as she reaches out..touching the wound on his shoulder..healing it..before touching his thigh..healig him once again..She cups his cheeks..wiping those tears away. " It's okay Crona..it's okay..i'm here..i'm okay.." She leans in..kissing him on the lips..capturing those querying lips..he hicups..holding her even closer..trembling ..he kisses her back..with such feeling..such a passion..She knows She means everything to him..and he means everything to her..
Ragnarok stays in the sword..watching as this goes on..with out jealous..with out anything dark feeling..He sighs..in relief..
She's alive. She's going to be okay..
"I can get up.." maka pulls away from the kiss..she only winces slightly..before she gets up..standing tall.
"Are y-you sure you don't need help?" Crona reaches out for her, but she shakes her head, giving him a reassuring smile.
"I'm fine..now lets go out there, and win this fucking war huh? Kill this bitch once and for all." Maka grins..grabbing Crona's hand..the one that's holding Ragnarok.. "Together."
"T-Together."
"Fucking together!" Ragnarok joins in..not helping to smirk..just a little bit.
"She's o-out here Maka..Kid and the others are fighting her.." Crona shifts.
"Then lets help them! Come on! We can kill her!" Maka roars..a hate so deep forming in her eyes..it takes Crona aback as she grabs him and pulls him out of the room..running down the hallway..ready to fight this bitch with all her friends..ready to make her pay for the shit she's done...
They skid to a stop..a gasp leaving Maka's lips..as she takes in..her friends..
Kid, liz, patty, soul, Justin and Girko..all lay on the ground..limp..Giriko on top of Jusitn..as in a way to protect him..Kid is laying on his back..his head lolled to the side..Liz is in front of Patty..but both of them are out...Soul is on his stomach..all their eyes are closed..their bodies hurt..racked with marks..
"Well.." Arachne smirks, looking at Crona and Maka that hae just came in this room..Shed's siting on her bed..drinking some wine. "That was a waste. They were like ants trying to take on a ant eater..idiots." She chuckles.
"You bitch.." maka's voice trembles..her eyes shaking.
"T-They lost..so quickly.." Crona grips Ragnaork..steping forward. "M-Maka I want you to get out of h-here-"
"I'm not leaving you. We fight together. We can fucking take her." Maka feels her self calm..when she sees that everyone is breathing..they're just knocked out..Arachne didn't kill them..
Thank god.
"Take me?.." Arachne stands..her smirk is so twisted..her eyes bouncing slightly as she stares at Maka..with a hungry. " No..It is I..who will take you my dear. Take everything from you!' She roars out..her eeys getting darker..those webs in them getting brighter..this woman..is changing..Her bones crack..She gets taller..her lower half..getting larger..rouder..She loses her legs..only for them to be replaced by 8 more..Her dress rips..exposing her top hair almost completely..only a black web around her chest..Maka stares at her..in disgust..She's..half human, half spider..Magic is coming off of her..her buttom half black..and of a spider..
"Let me show you Maka.." Arachen laughs..her fingers twitching..her magic gathering. " Why my mother likes me so much..let me show you, that i'm worthy to be death..."
"M-Maka.." Crona stands by her side..griping her hand tightly..She looks over at him..seeing the fire in his eyes..She looks down..seeing the sword light up..Ragnaork's eyes on fire as well..She nods..before glaring back at Arachne..Her power builds..her hair moving..
All Crona said was her name..just her name..told her everything she needed to know. That he's here..that they both are..That they will stand with her to the end..
By the end of this..there will e one last witch standing..and best believe it's going to be her.
Crona lifts up his sword..Maka's hands twitch..Aranche smirks..
Lets end this war.
Here you go! I don't have much to say..please review and let me know what you think! till next time:)