Maka woke up the next morning, she was feeling a bit different, as if nothing could hurt her. "Medusa-sama, she's awake." Mizune shouted through the door. Medusa walked in, nodding her head slightly to herself and slightly to Mizune.
"Hello, Maka. How are you feeling?" Medusa asked as she removed the dirty rag from the scythe meister's mouth. Maka gagged and spit to the side, narrowly missing the witches left foot.
"I feel different, like nothing can hurt me." She replied, attempting to wipe her mouth. "Can you unbind me? My arms are hurting really badly. Not to mention I have quite a few itches." Maka's left hand was twitching in irritation as she waited patiently for Medusa's answer. Insted of answering, Medusa used vector arrow, narrowly cutting the ropes that were binding the small girl. "Thanks."
"Now, every few hours I will be in here with a needle. You'd better be ready each time I come in." Medusa walked away but stopped by Mizune. "By any chance, do you know where Eruka went? She just up and dissappeared."
"No, I don't. Sorry, Medusa-sama." Mizune bowed appologetically. Medusa just sighed and left the room.
~To Death Bucks~
It was exactly eight o'clock Friday and Kid was just arriving at Death Bucks. He, of course, was the first one to arrive. Kid waited with Liz and Patty for Soul and Black Star to arrive. "Hurry, hurry, hurry. She said at eight o'clock!" Kid mumbled to himself as Soul arrived.
"Sorry I'm late, Blair was distracting me." Soul said, still partially annoyed at the purple cat. Kid just nodded a short nod and ushered him inside.
"Go find Eruka, she's probably wearing something to disguise herself." Kid whispered as Soul walked in and straight towards a table in the corner where Eruka was sitting, wearing her usual attire without the orange witches hat. As he sat down, Black Star arrived with Tsubaki and went inside after Kid. "Alright, we're here, Eruka. What do you need to tell us?"
"Listen, as you probably know already, Medusa has Maka." The six of them nodded and waited patiently for her to continue. "Well, I know where they are. But if I tell you, you need to set out right away. I already know that Medusa has put black blood into her, and is planning to use her against this school. Personally, I hate this school since the people here kill witches, but, I don't want to see it fall by the hands of a fellow student. I'll give you the adress, but remember, set out as soon as I hand it to you." Eruka reached into her back pocket and pulled out a slip of paper, handing it to Tsubaki. "I must go, Medusa probably already knows that I'm missing."
They all nodded and she turned into a frog, hopping away from the group of weapons and meisters. "Well, let's set out. We need to get to Maka before it's to late." Black Star shouted, earning a glare from everyone except for Tsubaki who apologized immediatly. The group of six left for the place where Maka was being held captive.
~To Maka~
It was the second time Medusa had come in the room, which meant that two hours had passed. "Hurry up with the shot this time, please." Maka asked, slightly annoyed. Medusa grumbled something incoherently and shoved the needle into her arm, making her cry out in pain. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
"Yeah, you'd better be." Medusa growled out, one of the snake tattoo's shifting slightly as she noticed Eruka's presence. "Eruka! Where in Death's name have you been?" She shouted, startling the frog witch.
"I-I went to spy on Shibusen. Sorry I didn't ask before going, Medusa-sama." Eruka bowed and walked over to the two. "I see you've undone her bonds. Are you sure she isn't going to run the first chance she gets?" Medusa shook her head 'no' and proceeded to slowly inject the black blood into Maka's system. Eruka just nodded and left the room, looking for the Mizune sisters.
"I'll be back in another hour. Until then," the witch threw a wave over her shoulder as she exited the room, locking the door as it closed, secluding the scared girl by herself yet again. Maka was still plotting her escape, but she was having quite a few troubles planning how to do this. She was pretty sure all the windows in the room were locked, not to mention Free might be waiting out there if she did manage to get out. As Maka was thinking this, Eruka silently slipped into the room, closing the door as silently as she could manage.
"Maka, your friends are on their way here. I never actually went to spy on Shibusen students, I went to tell them where you were. Please, don't say anything to Medusa-sama or she'll kill me and I really don't want to die. I'm to young to die!" Eruka had started crying the moment she said Medusa's name. Maka nodded, then decided on something.
"Eruka, can you help me get out of here so I can meet them somewhere?" She asked the witch, waiting for the answer she was sure was going to be a 'no'. Eruka wiped her eyes and nodded, walking over to the farthest window in the room.
"You'll have to," she hiccuped, "go through this window. The Mizune sister's are watching the other windows along with Free." Maka nodded and got up, slightly stumbling as she did so. The witch unlocked the window, ushering the petite girl to hurry through. "Hurry up, please." She folded her hands together so Maka could get up to the window.
"Thanks for the help, Eruka. I can make sure no one hurts you, even if it means that Shibusen will treat me as a traitor." Maka crawled out the window, breathing in the fresh scent of the night air. She waved goodbye to Eruka and ran as fast as she could.
~Time skip~
~To the gang~
"Are we there yet?" Black Star complained. Three of the six had been walking for two hours. The other three had been riding on Beezulbub, Kid's skateboard. "Hey, I see something in the distance!" Black Star shouted and ran towards whatever it was he'd seen.
"Black Star!" Tsubaki called after her meister, following behind just barely. By then, she had noticed it as well. "I-I see it too!" Since Tsubaki had longer legs, she managed to run even faster than Black Star. As she neared the thing, she realized what it was. It was a dirty and bloodied Maka.
"Wh-What did y-you guys find?" Soul huffed as he made it to the same spot. He hunched over to catch his breath as Kid, Liz, and Patty arrived.
"It's Maka." Black Star said solemnly. They all looked down at the bloody girl, wondering what she was doing all the way out here when she should've been at Medusa's base.
"Wasn't she supposed to be at Medusa's base?" Patty voiced their thoughts, breaking the concentration of everyone there. "Ne, I think we should get her to Naigus-sensei, she doesn't look so good." Patty prodded Maka gently, causing her to wake up.
"Huh..? W-Who is it?" Maka asked, her voice was pained. Obviously she had been tortured, like they all had originally thought. "Patty? Everyone? What're you doing here?" Her vision was slowly starting to adjust to the minimal light shining down upon the group from the moon. As she looked around, tears formed in her eyes. They'd come looking for her, they really had missed her. Maka pushed herself up onto her knee's, swaying side to side slightly. "You really did miss me," the tears that had formed slowly dripped off of her chin and onto the desert ground.
"Of course we'd look for you, dummy. We missed you and Soul needed his meister." Kid smiled, feigning braveness so no one saw how worried he really was. "Do you need help up? You can ride on Beezulbub while we take you back to Shibusen," he gestured towards his skateboard where Liz was sitting. Liz quickly wiped her eyes as she noticed the two looking at her.
"Here, I'll help her." Liz offered, getting off of the floating board and heading towards Maka. She reached a hand out, helping the shrivelled girl up. "Maka, did you lose weight? You... You don't weigh as much as you used to. Not that you're fat or anything." She gently eased Maka onto Beezulbub as the group headed back towards Shibusen slowly. Maka smiled weakly as she nodded to the older girl. It pained Liz to see the meister in so much pain. It wasn't usual, the girl was always so lively and active, giving Maka-chops to whoever annoyed her. 'What happened to our Maka? What did that evil bitch do to her? I'm going to kill her whenever I see her, thats a promise.'
~Tsubaki's p.o.v~
This wasn't normal, Maka was in pain. I really want to help her, but how? How am I supposed to help someone when I'm not a doctor? If only we'd gotten to her sooner, we'd've been able to save her from all this pain. I know everyone feels the same way, I can tell by the looks on their faces. Liz is pained, Patty, Kid, and Soul are sad, and Black Star has no expression, or energy. I wish I could take all this pain away from them, I don't like when my friends are hurting whether it be on the inside or out. "Maka, please get better." I whispered to myself as Maka's eyes slowly closed, her breathing slowly coming to a stop.
"Guys, Maka's not breathing!" Liz shouted as Maka's breath fully stopped. I froze. I couldn't move, one of my best friends was dying, and I couldn't help. Everyone had rushed over to her while I stayed frozen where I was. They were helping, I wasn't. Why, why does this have to happed right now? We need Maka, I need Maka. Who else am I going to talk to when Black Star does something compleatly stupid? Who am I going to spend the nights with during the weekends? Why couldn't it have been me insted of her? There was shouting, screaming, crying, all the emotions mixed into the group at the moment while I was still frozen, a look of pure horror on my face.
"Father!" I heard Kid shout, it seems he had used magic to summon his father. "We need medical help now! Maka, Maka's dying!" He was crying while Lord Death was trying to calm him down, to no avail. 'What did Medusa do to her? Why Maka?' I thought to myself as people rushed by in a blur. I couldn't think or see straight, something was blurring my vision. Tears? I was crying, I actually did have emotions deep down inside.
~Maka's p.o.v~
'It's cold, silent, but it feels welcoming. Where am I? Could it be, I'm dying? I can't die now, I need to be there for my friends, especially Kid, Tsubaki, and Soul. Please, Lord Death, don't let me die. It's not my time to go yet. I still have things I need to do, things that I need to correct. I never got to tell Soul that I was sorry, or to tell Kid how I feel about him. Please, please, don't let me die yet.' I thought to myself as my body temperature started to slowly drop.
~Kid's p.o.v~
Why does she have to die now of all times? Why can't she live? We need her, no, I need her. I haven't had a chance to tell her how I feel about her, she need's to live. I need her to live. I could feel Maka's temperature slowly drop, and I knew she was dying. Her grigori soul was fading away, the color in her face was gone, she wasn't breathing. Is this how its supposed to end? Am I supposed to go on living without her? Are we supposed to forget about our time with her? No, that would never happen. 'Please, father, don't let her die. We, no, I need her. If she's gone, I'd kill myself just to be with her, please don't let her go.' I was crying, as was everyone else.
"Please, don't die on us Maka!" Black Star shouted, he was crying harder than all of us. He really needed her, more than any of us, even me. She'd been there since they were two, she was his best friend, and would always be his best friend. "Maka, please, don't go." If we could, any of us would've given up our souls just for her to live, thats how much we need her.
Rin: A sad, sad ending. It even made me cry!
Maka: Why'd I die?
Rin: You aren't fully dead... Yet...
Kid: RIN YOU BIG MEANIE! Don't make my love die T^T
Rin: I'll do what I want! R&R peepz! Tell me what you want in the next chapter and I'll concider it!