"Did I ever tell you that I love it when you blush?" she giggled. My face turned a deep red, I tried to look away but Maka's laugh brought my gaze back to her.
"W-what's f-funny?" I asked.
"Oh nothing, its just that whenever I say that you blush even more." she giggles again.
"Bu-" I started but Maka interrupted me.
"Shh. I'm going to make breakfast, you go ahead and get ready." She gave me a bright smile and ran out to the kitchen. Her smile always makes me happy, no matter how i'm feeling. I started to get dressed and Ragnarok decided to come out to start my day.
"Quit smiling, it's making me feel all gross. It feels like i'm dieing." I hadn't realized I was smiling...
"Quit exaggerating."
"I'm not exaggerating, whenever you talk to her it feels like i'm slowly being burned."
"S-sorry."
"You better be sorry i've gone through almost a full year of burning pain because of you and her. Next time it happens i'll burn you."
"S-sorry."
"Whatever." He dissapeared into my back and I continued to dress. When I finished I walked into the kitchen and the smell of cinnamon overwhelmed me. I walked up to her and she turned around to wrap her hands around my neck. Her warm touch made me blush.
"Guess what i'm making," she says covering my eyes.
"Umm... F-french toast?" I guessed.
"Close, but no."
"I don't know. Cinnamon s-something?" she giggled and uncovered my eyes.
"You didn't even try. I'm making scrambled eggs with cinnamon-chocolate chip bread."
"S-sounds delicous." I tried saying. Gosh, the blushing and stuttering!
"Yep." she poked my nose which made me blush, again. "Does everything I do make you blush?"
"I g-guess." She giggled and turned back to cooking the eggs.
"It's almost done, sit down." I listened to her and sat down at the table. I watched as she turned the eggs and she touched her finger on the side of the pan.
"Ouch!" she went to the sink and started to run cold water on her finger.
YES, BURN. BURN UNTIL YOU MELT. I continued to stare at her finger.
"Crona? Crona, are you alright?" Her voice brought me back.
"Huh? Oh y-yeah, i'm f-fine." I shook my head a little bit and tried to focus on something else. Why was I thinking that? That's not something I would think, especially about Maka.
"Okay, well breakfast is done. Here's your plate." She set down a plate for me and another for Ragnarok. She sat down on her side of the table with her plate.
"T-thanks." I smiled at her and started to eat. Ragnarok popped out.
"Finally, something to eat!" He picked up his plate and like normal, he shoved the plate into his mouth and spit it out empty. Maka made a 'gross' face and picked at her plate while I finished mine.
"Here i'll clean that up." She said grabbing for my plate.
"No, i'll do it." I grabbed the plates she had in her hand and went to the sink to clean up.
"Okay, thank you." She looked back at me for a moment, after she made a face she walked to our room and shut the door. Blair jumped up onto the counter and made me squeak.
"Nya~ sorry I scared you."
"M-make some noise before you jump in front of m-me!" She only laughed at me. I continued to clean.
"What are you doing today?" Blair asked.
"It's Monday, i'm going to school."
"That's sooooo boring! No one will play with me!"
"Shouldn't you be at work?" I asked her.
"Yes, but they're doing renovations. It's boooring being all by myself."
"If you want something to do, you can clean the apartment." I offered.
"Ewwww! No way, that's gross. I don't clean, and besides your bedsheets might end up in your bathtub."
"Good point." Blair doesn't clean, at all. She doesn't even know how to clean. She tapped her paw on the counter for a moment.
"I'll go talk to Maka." She jumped off the counter and went to our bedroom. I heard them argue for a minute about Maka's privacy and the door is shut for a reason. I finished up my cleaning and looked at the clock. It's only 5. Ugh, what to do... I guess I could watch t.v., or do some cleaning... I'll probably clean. After about an hour of me cleaning the apartment and Maka going back and forth between getting ready and talking to Blair, we were out of things to do.
"Thank you cleaning." Maka said.
"It's fine, it needed cleaning and we still had tons of time before we needed to go to school."
"It's only 6:38, we still have half an hour until we need to leave." Maka stated.
"Yeah, we can watch t.v. or a read a book until then." I said.
"Sounds good. I think i'll get into my new book." She said heading towards the bookshelf. We were interrupted by a knock on the door. Me and Maka exchanged glances and shrugged. I walked over and answered the door.
"Hi!" I was attacked by a hug from Theresa.
"H-hi." I answered.
"Hey Theresa, how was your vacation?" Maka asked her.
"It was a lot of fun."
"She went on vacation? When?" I asked.
"She told everyone she went to go visit her parents but she actually took a small vacation to get stress off her mind. She went to hawaii for a couple of weeks." Maka answered me.
"Yeah, don't tell anyone though. Especially Amanda, she doesn't like our parents but she knows that I still visit them. But, if she knows that I went to Hawaii without her she'd kill me."
"I promise not to tell. You don't have to stand in the hall, come on in." I said waving my hand inside my apartment. She gave me a happy smile and she practically skipped in.
"I bet you have tons of stories to tell!" Maka squealed.
"I do! You'll never guess half of them!" Theresa said plopping herself on the couch. Maka sat next to her.
"I'll make coffee, that way we can chat while we wait till' it's time to leave." I said.
"Good idea." Maka and Theresa synced. They giggled a little and started to talk more. I brought them both a cup of coffee when it was finished.
"So, I found out I had a cousin living in Hawaii. He was pretty cool, his name is Dylan. I think he's 29 and he's married, he has identical twin girls. Alora and Anny. They are adorable. His wife was so sweet, she greeted me and made me cookies. Her name is Tammy. I have so much to tell and so little time!"
"It sounds like a lot of fun, we still have lunch today and we can hang out after school. I don't think we're busy. We don't really have anything to do, do we Crona?" Maka asked me.
"Not that I know of." I answered.
"Yay! Thank you guys so much! I don't want to bother you-"
"Your not bothering us at all, we love your company."
"Okay, thanks. Um, it's 7 so I guess it's time to go."
"Yeah it is. I can't wait to hear the rest of the story!" I laughed a little at them. I don't understand the relationship they have. It's funny although I don't understand. I guess i've never had that kind of relationship with anyone before. I grabbed their coats for them as we walked out the door. I handed the coats to them and they laughed at eachother because they almost forgot their coats.
"Hey Crona, wheres your coat?" Theresa asked me.
"I don't get cold. Or hot..." I answered.
"Oh, okay." Theresa didn't say anything else, I don't think she understood what I said but she accepted my answer. They laughed and talked the entire way to the DWMA, I thought it was nice of them to get along so well. I still don't understand friendship very well, I hardly understand normal relationships. Now i'm in a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship with Maka and i'm confused out of my mind what I should do. I must be pathetic to Maka, she probably knows everything about relationships and thinks that i'm dumb. I should ask her about it, when her and Theresa are done with their girl talk of course... I listened to their conversation the entire time, I started to smile every once in a while. We were greeted by the whole group (Soul, Amanda, Kid, Liz, Patty, Tsubaki, Black Star) and I hadn't realized we were at the DWMA.
"Hey guys, wassup?" Soul asked.
"Just getting here, what about you guys?" Maka answered.
"Nothing, just hanging out. Waiting for you guys. Hey Theresa."
"Hey." Theresa answered.
"Yeah, hey Theresa. You didn't tell me you were home." Amanda said wrapping her arm around Soul.
"I just got back, like literally an hour ago."
"Why didn't you come home?"
"I wanted to say hi to Maka and Crona."
"Oh, so Maka and Crona are more important than your little sister? I'm going to class, don't wait up." Amanda said leaving the group.
"Why is she such a jerk?" Black Star jumped into the conversation.
"She hates my parents, I went to go visit them. I don't understand her." Theresa answered.
"I better go see if she's okay." Soul said, "bye guys."
"Bye." We all said.
"So, the God has planned something special for lunch today." Black Star said.
"What now?" Maka complained.
"Secrets a God may never give out. You'll see at lunch. I must prepare, Tsubaki you will help me!"
"Okay." Tsubaki answered, "This will be fun, I promise guys." Tsubaki said walking away with Black Star.
"Well that just leaves us..." Kid said.
"Yep." Maka answered. Kid started pulling at Maka's hair.
"K-kid what are you doing?" Maka asked him.
"One ponytail is lower than the other, I have to fix it." He said fixing her hair.
"O-okay then."
"Get used to it, if my hair isn't parted correctly he gets in my face." Liz said.
"Why hasn't he done that to me sis?" Patty asked Liz.
"Because your hair is short and hard to mess up." Liz said rubbing Patty's head. Patty started to giggle.
"Ahh, now it's completely symmetrical. Beautiful." He stepped back and continued to look at Maka's hair.
"Well, class will be starting soon. Shouldn't we get going?" Theresa said.
"Good idea." Kid said, "I'll be a little late. I'll be there in a bit though." Kid said. We all said that was okay and started to walk towards class. I watched as Kid went down the basement steps, he's probably going to see Cumo.
"Go ahead to class." I told Maka. She looked back to where Kid went and nodded. They left and I followed Kid down the steps. I don't think he noticed me at all. I do have somewhat quiet but uneven footsteps. I watched as he stood at the front of her door and started to talk. It started out as a mumble but his voice grew louder.
"Cumo why did you have to do this? I thought that you were happy. I don't know what to think, to say. I don't know what to do about... us. Are we still a couple? Are we only friends? Do you still love me." Suddenly a loud burst of laughing came from the cell.
"Love? Do you even know what the hell your talking about? Love isn't a real thing, it's a trick that our minds play on us. Love is something that we use as an excuse to have sex. Sex is all 'love' is, men are usually the users of the stupid and mindless trick. Spirit Albarn is a good example. Let's see, he cheated on his wife, divorced, can't stay out of the bar, get's laid every night, has two kids. Ha! What else doesn't come from that excuse of a man?" She started to laugh more. Kid started to cry but I could hear him swallow hard.
"No, that's wrong. Love is when you care about someone, you want to be there for them. Sex isn't the main objective for love. It's no trick, unless you are Spirit Albarn. Plus, he only has one kid, Maka."
"Ha, your stupid you know that? You should do research instead of seeing me everyday. Spirit has two children, one went with him the other went with Kami. Maybe you should listen to your father sometimes. Life has more meaning than love, study and symmetry. Ugh, I hate that peev of yours. I'm nothing but a ball of madness waiting to burst out of these bars. This is a 'witch proof' room but you'll see 'witch proof' when I kill all of your family and friends." She started to laugh again.
"You aren't evil, Cumo. You do love, you are a witch. But, you are also half human, that human side is what makes you so beautiful and sweet. I understand you were abused and raised as a witch but as soon as you broke from her spell, what did you do? You came to the DWMA to meet your cousin and to become a better person. You always were a better person, but us, your friends made that side of you come out." There was a pause and eery silence.
"Leave me ALONE! I don't want you to see me, I want you to leave, go die in a hole somewhere away from me. I don't need you or anyone else. I will torture everyone until they can no longer breathe or open their eyes!" She started to scream. Kid banged his fist on the door once and I could hear him cry. I started to walk towards him as the bell rang. Once I got to him he had collapsed to the floor crying into his hands. I sat next to him.
"She can't understand you. She doesn't understand anything your saying." I told him. He realized I was there and wiped his eyes.
"I didn't realize you were down here." He said.
"I'm here because I think you need help. I know it's hard for you to deal with this. Trust me, I have no idea how to deal with this. But, we have to get over it somehow because until that kishin is killed Cumo and I are going to contiue to fall into the madness."
"How did you know about the kishin?" Kid asked me.
"Kid, i'm falling into the madness he's radiating. I can't just randomly be going mad because I have black blood. Something has to set it off. Medusa's snakes are what started my madness, I wouldn't kill unless she used a snake. Cumo already has troubles controlling her dark magic because she's a witch. She was born to kill and create catastrophe. The madness throws her into a endless pit of it." I explained.
"How do you know all of this?"
"I honestly have no idea." I answered. "Maybe because I lived it."
"I see." He said. He looked down at his hand. He must of punched the door hard, his hand is bleeding.
"Are you okay, Kid?" I asked him.
"I'm fine. Its just i've never felt this way for anyone before. Crona, I love her and she slipping away from me." He started to cry again. I put my hand on his shoulder and continued trying to comfort him. After a while we were quiet and tried to gather ourselves before we headed to class.
"Kid i'm sorry. I don't mean to be so violent..." we heard crying from Cumo's cell, "I can't control myself anymore. Soon, I won't be able to even be sane. I still love you, I promise. I wish I could tell you in person." Apparently Cumo thinks that we left. Kid stood up quickly and put his ear up to the door and listened to Cumo's crying.
"You can tell me in person. I'm right here." Kid said.
"Kid? Kid! I'm so sorry, I wish I could stop this. It's so hard, I don't know whats going to happen to me."
"Nothing bad is going to happen to you. We're going to stop this madness and you'll be completely fine."
"You should leave, please. I can feel myself falling back into it, leave before I say something again."
"No, i'm going to stay here with you. I won't leave you." I put my hand on Kid's shoulder.
"Kid, she's trying to say that she's not going to be able to control what she says to you. She's still concious on the inside and she knows whats going on while shes in the madness. It hurts her, we should leave so she doesn't have to go through that." I explained to him.
"Thank you Crona. Thank you Kid. I hope you'll be alright Crona, i'm sure this is just as hard for you. I hope you don't fall in like me, fight it." Cumo said.
"But, Cumo-" Kid started.
"Kid, let's go. I'm sure she doesn't want to hurt you anymore." I told him. He wiped his eyes and nodded his head. We walked out from the basement and walked to class. By the time we got there, Kid looked fine except for his bleeding hand. He put his hands in his pockets so no one would notice. Stein gave us a 'you're way too late' look and we sat down. He continued his lecture but looked at me and Kid constantly. I wrote down all the notes I could during class, hoping that I wouldn't in too much trouble with Stein. When class ended (20 minutes after we got to class) Stein called me and Kid down to talk to him.
"I'll see you in class." Maka said leaving. I nodded and listened to what Stein had to say.
"Explain to me why you and Kid were 40 minutes late to class." Stein said.
"We were talking to Cumo." Kid said.
"I see... Well, I understand that but where we have a kishin loose I have to start the long and intense lectures. You both need to be here when I teach them. Especially you Crona. Maka, Theresa, Soul, Amanda, and you need all the teaching you guys can get. None of you have been on a mission since the Giriko incident."
"That shouldn't of stopped Soul and Amanda. They had nothing to do with it." I told him.
"I'm not going to explain the reason why Soul and Amanda didn't go on missions. But Lord Death told me that you all need to go on a mission sometime next month or you get assigned an extra assignment. I would arrange a training day sometime soon and somewhere safe." Stein explained.
"Alright sounds good." I answered him. "Can I go to my next class?" I asked him. He waved his hand as a sign that it was alright for me to leave. Stein and Kid stayed and talked for a while. I walked slowly to Marie's class. A mission... I wonder how it would go, who would I kill? The training should help, this time we'll go to the forest behind the school. I hope we wouldn't destroy much, but atleast we'd be safe. I entered Marie's classroom and seen that Spirit was subbing for Marie. I'm sure that Maka is ticked off already. I wonder if I should tell her what Cumo told us. Spirit has two kids? I've only seen pictures of Maka, no sister or brother... I haven't seen any pictures of her mom either... I sat down by Maka and could tell that she was trying to ignore Spirit. She was trying to write a paper and her hand was on her forehead clearing her vision from Spirit. I watched as Spirit stared at Maka until the bell rang.
"Maka are you okay?" I asked her.
"I'd be much better if he wasn't here." She pointed towards Spirit.
"I can write notes for you if you'd like." I offered.
"It's fine, i'll write my notes. I just have to keep myself from throwing a book at his head."
"Okay." Spirit started class and did the creepiest thing ever. He took role but started with the girls, then he wrote down some of their names on his clipboard. I understand why Maka hates him so much... I was writing my notes when I noticed that Spirit kept looking up at me.
"Crona Gorgon." He said after putting something on the board.
"Y-yes?" I asked.
"I must ask you to move a couple of seats away from Maka."
"Wha- Why- O-okay." I can't argue with him. I started to get up.
"No, Crona stays next to me." Maka said sitting me back down.
"Your obviously being distracted by him, which affects your school work. That means he has to move."
"The only person interrupting my schoolwork is you. In fact, you've stopped the whole class. Why don't you just go back to writing on the board before I have a book thrown at your face." Maka furiously said.
"Maka, you wouldn't hit your fath- eaugh!" Maka threw a big dictionary at full speed which hit him right in the forehead. He layed on the floor with a spout of blood pouring out of his forehead. BLEED, BLEED UNTIL YOU TURN GREY AND CAN NO LONGER BREATHE. I stared at him.
"I guess that means this is all we have of class today." Kim said.
"Good, he was giving me a headache." Jaqueline said leaning back in her chair.
"He shouldn't teach this class. He hardly even knows what soul resonation means." Maka said. I snapped out of my weird thought. I didn't say anything. I couldn't say anything. I don't have anything against him, he hasn't done anything bad to me. Other than the creepy stuff he does, and him trying to keep me away from Maka, I don't have a reason to dislike him. Why did I think that?
"Are you okay Crona?" Maka asked me.
"I'm fine. Why do you ask?" I answered.
"Well, your- nevermind. It just seemed like something was wrong." Maka said.
"Nothings wrong." I gave her a fake smile. There is something wrong, but I don't want to worry her. I'm starting to get the thoughts. Which means that my madness will progress really fast from here on out. Maybe not as fast as Cumo, but it'll be fast. I need to try to control what i'm thinking, maybe that will slow down the process a little. Maka looked over at me and was going to ask me something, but the bell interrupted her.
"I'll see you at lunch." Maka smiled at me and left. I followed behind until we got to the locker rooms. Fitness class is terrible for the guys. Constant weight lifting, lots of running, little stretching... The girls get it easier, they have to run more than us, but the weights aren't as heavy and they get to relax most of the time. We were only half way through class and I was drenched in sweat, I wasn't the only one though. Most of the people in my class ran outside and started to make snow angels to cool themselves off. As I watched, I could only laugh. I have no idea why it was funny, I just started to randomly laugh at them. After laughing until my sides hurt, I sat down and waited for Sid to tell us our next instructions. The guys were piling into the room and they looked like they were shivering.
"Alright pipsqueaks. This year we've got a lot of snow so I can't have you running until you turn into icicles. But, Lord Death did tell me that I could make you guys run atleast 2 miles, so about 8 laps around the track outside. Once you finish, get a drink, do 100 sit-ups, 150 push-ups and you have the rest of class off. Enjoy." Sid said waving his hand to tell us to go. I instantly got onto the track and started to sprint. Some of the guys tried to catch up with me but were too tired on the 5th lap. I'm surprised they made it that far. I finished running and started to do my sit-ups. About halfway through my push-ups, my class started to come back into class.
"Gee Crona, have you been practicing or something?" Kilik asked me.
"No. Why?" I answered as I finished my push-ups.
"Well, it takes an average person to run 2 miles in an hour. It only took you 30 minutes. We all finished at about an hour and 25 minutes, plus your already done with all your push-ups and sit-ups." Kilik pointed out.
"Y-yeah. I guess your right. I don't know, I guess i'm getting used to it?"
"Sure, that works." Kilik said starting his sit-ups. I got a drink and sat down on one of the benches. I thought they were being slow because they were freezing cold, I didn't think that I was going very fast. The madness is improving my black blood. Its what is accelerating my muscle strength, my endurance, and my healing. Maybe the madness is going a bit faster than I expected. That only means that we're going to have to train faster and harder so we can kill this kishin. I want to be there this time, so I can show everyone that i'm not weak. To show them that I actually try, i'm no longer working for Medusa or any other witch(well attempting not to), that i'm just like any other student. (with black blood, family issues, little group of friends, and so many other problems) I always try so hard to fit in, i'm always the oddball though. Why am I all of the sudden in a depressed mood? I need to talk to Maka... After class ended I met up with Maka and the group in the cafeteria.
"Hey, Crona." Kid greeted me.
"Hi. I'm not feeling too hungry today. You guys can get lunch without me." I said.
"Are you feeling okay?" Maka asked me.
"Fine, why?"
"You've been... off, today." she replied.
"How so?"
"I'll explain later. You have to eat Crona, your still way too skinny to not be hungry." She giggled.
"You need some meat on your bones, good thing they're serving barbeque today." Liz said.
"Barbeque?" I asked slightly confused.
"Yeah, things like steak, ribs, pork chops, and lots of salads. It's yummy." Maka said.
"Oh okay..." I answered as they dragged me towards the lunch bar. They started to point out different food selections and what some good sides were. They basically filled my entire tray. We sat down at the table and they realized that they may of went overboard on my food.
"Whoops, sorry Crona. I can take half, I haven't gotten my food yet anyway." Maka said.
"Its okay. I don't mind." I answered. Maka went to the tray area and grabbed a clean tray and some utensils. She began to scoop some of the food off of my plate onto hers.
"I love this stuff. Especially with some dessert afterwards." Maka said.
"Gee Maka, even with the food split between the two of you, you both still have a lot of food. No wonder you have fat ankles." Soul laughed. A moment after his comment, a book was sent flying into his face.
"I don't have fat ankles, you're blind."
"Ow, so not cool." He said laying on the floor. Theresa and Amanda joined our table. Amanda sat down and then helped Soul up. Wiping off any dirt or pieces of food that got on his clothing, then she kissed his cheek.
"Hey Theresa, hows your day going?" Maka asked Theresa.
"It's okay. I need to catch up on some school work but i'm good. Can you help me study? I need some help getting my work done and studying for the final exams."
"Yep. The exams are next Friday, so I would study as much as you can." Maka replied.
"Yay, thanks. When should we set up a study session?"
"We can do it after school at my place. Crona has to work and i'll be all by myself."
"Sounds good." Theresa said. We chatted for the rest of lunch. I guess Maka has been noticing my strange attitude. I was hoping not to worry her, but I guess that failed. After lunch, we all walked to Stein's class (since we all have the class together). The bell rang and we were all ready with paper and pencils out but there was no sign of Stein. After about 10 minutes, he came rolling in on his chair. He of course hit the spot of the floor that was raised a little bit and fell down. His head hit the corner of it. NEXT TIME YOU'LL BE DECAPITATED. I could only stare at the spot where he hit his head. Maka waved her hand in front of my face.
"Crona, hello? Stein asked you a question." Maka said.
"Huh? Oh, uh r-repeat what you said please." Stein sighed and asked me again.
"What is the difference between a pre-kishin and a full fledged kishin?" Stein asked me.
"Um, a pre-kishin is a person that has started to eat human souls. After a while of eating human souls, which is forbidden, they enter different stages of strength, hunger, and power. A full fledged kishin is when that pre-kishin has gone through all of the stages and it has gained a great amount of power. It feeds constantly and creates destruction. All full fledged kishins radiate madness at different levels and have different abilities to manipulate people." I answered.
"Good Crona. It looks like you've done your studying. I suggest that you continue the good work and don't space off during class. Next time I won't interrupt your lala land, you'll get a scalpel thrown at you instead." Stein warned.
"Y-yes s-sir." I answered. I wonder how long I was just staring at that spot. Obviously long enough to gain his attention. This is going to become difficult for me. Not only do I think hostile things, but I play the scene in my head and forget that everyone is watching me. When will it get to the point when I am no longer having thoughts but are acting out? I wrote notes through the rest of Stein's class, hoping that maybe looking busy will keep me from having a discussion with him. The bell rang and I quickly gathered my stuff.
"Crona, don't leave quite yet. I'd like to talk to you." Stein said his eyes fixated on his papers. Crap. I left the desks and stood in front of him. Maka stopped.
"I'll see you when I bring you dinner." Maka said kissing my cheek and leaving. I blushed a little. Stein waited until everyone left the classroom and closed the door.
"Is everything alright?" Stein asked me.
"Just fine." I lied.
"Quit lying to me. I can tell when your lying, so don't try to fool me." Stein said.
"O-okay. Nothing is a-alright." I confessed.
"So tell me whats wrong. For a long time you haven't had troubles with concentrating in my class. Even when you had lack of sleep, you focused well. What is bothering you?"
"I-... The-.." I didn't know how to explain it.
"The madness has started its effect. Hasn't it?"
"I-it has." I replied.
"I see. Well, what can we do to help?" Stein asked.
"Help? There is no help, all I can do is wait it out and try to slow it down. No matter what happens, I think hostile thoughts, I'll eventually uncontrollably laugh hysterically, then i'll begin to hurt people." I said tears welling up in my eyes. Stein only looked at me for a moment.
"I'm sorry. I'm not locking you up like we did Cumo." Stein said.
"What, why? I have to be, i'll hurt people if you don't."
"Crona, you are basically my son. I can't watch them do that to you. We refused to lock up Cumo, but for specific reasons i'm not allowed to say, we had to lock her up. You aren't going to the same route. We're going to train constantly and hard, 4 times a week beginning next week. You all will quickly get stronger and we're going to kill this kishin before it causes anymore harm."
"O-okay. But what if it's too late? What if my madness progresses faster than I thought it would and I start to hurt people? What would you do?"
"Anything to keep you out of a cell." Stein replied, "How long until you think you'll corrupt?"
"Um, I don't know... Maybe 3 or 4 months, I can't be sure."
"Alright, we'll have to work fast then. Faster than I intended."
"Stein, can I ask you a question?" He nodded, "How could you tell it was the madness?"
"It's obvious to me Crona. Do you forget that I was just a big ball of madness before I became sane and worked for the DWMA? I can see the signs and detect it wherever I go. My body is a magnet for madness. Plus, your eyes."
"My eyes?" I questioned.
"Your eyes dialate and become a very bright blue, almost white. I assume thats what happens everytime you get a hostile thought. So, that will be our sign for when we need to distract you." Stein said.
"Oh, alright." I answered.
"Okay, you may leave now, I don't want you to be late for work. Tell Maka and the gang that first practice is next Monday right after school. It will take place in the forest behind school grounds."
"Alright, goodbye professor Stein." I waved goodbye. He waved back and I quickly left. I so hope that I am not late for work! I ran as fast as I could and made it just in time. My boss greeted me and I got dressed ready to begin my shift. Today was very busy, until about 6. Maka came in with a brown paper bag which is my dinner. We chatted for a bit, talked about school, my work, home, etc. She left around 7 o' clock. Which meant I had one hour of work left, it was quiet and almost lonely. After work, I cleaned up a little and came home with a bag of free muffins. I walked through the door and Maka greeted me.
"Hey Crona, how was work today?" She asked me.
"Really busy, it slowed a little though." I answered.
"Good, come have a seat." she said patting the couch. I sat down next to her and placed the muffins on the coffee table. She seemed like she wanted to be serious.
"What's been going on?" She asked me.
"Nothing." I lied.
"Quit that! Everytime I feel that there is something wrong you hide your wavelength from me. I know there is something wrong, tell me now. You were fine yesterday, other than our fight."
"Well..." I started.
"Well what? You've been spacing out, you seem distant, your lying to me. Its making me worried. I also noticed something about you today. Your eyes changed color, and they dialated. It terrified me Crona."
"Why would that terrify you?" I asked her.
"Because it reminds me from when you were with Medusa. Whenever we fought, your eyes did that. It scared me then too, I felt like I was going to lose myself. But I was brave and continued to fight. I can't do that this time, I can't fight your fight. I can't fight you." Maka told me.
"Alright, i've been having... hostile thoughts." I confessed to her.
"What? When did this start?"
"This morning, I don't know why today was so special. It started at fast rate, I should've only had one or two thoughts today. I've had 3 or 4 so far, and I laughed somewhat hysterically in fitness class today. I guess no one noticed it was hysterical though, everyone was making snow angels and it seemed funny to me. It might of seemed like they were drowning or something to me, I don't know! I don't know how to deal with any of this!"
"Alright, let's calm down. We will figure this out, try to prevent it somehow."
"Preventing won't help. It will use my strength and once i'm too tired to hold back, the madness will overwhelm me." I told her.
"Well what are we supposed to do?"
"My only choice is preventing it, whether I get tired or not. We're going to train with Stein next Monday after school in the forest. He told me that we will have to work hard and fast to kill the kishin before I fall into the madness."
"Okay, who does he want to train?"
"All of us. Me, you, Kid, Amanda, Black Star, and all of our weapons."
"Alright. I guess we're gonna have to do what we gotta do. It's 9:30, do you want to go to bed? I'm sorry that I threw all of this onto you, i'm just worried about you."
"It's alright. I know your worried, but it's only going to get worse. I think we should go to bed." Ragnarok decided to make an appearance.
"Would you guys shut up already and go to bed? All these dumb emotions are giving me gross feelings and I can't sleep." Ragnarok complained.
"Where have you been all day?" I asked him.
"Nowhere. It's too cold and your annoying so I don't enjoy to be out all the time. Leave me alone."
"Ragnarok will you do us a favor?" Maka asked him.
"Doing the fat cow and the wimp pipsqueak a favor? Oh let me think, hell no! Why the hell should I do you a favor? The only favor I would do for you is torture." Ragnarok said.
"Well so much for asking nicely..." Maka mumbled, "Would you keep Crona from falling into madness?"
"No, if he's falling into madness that means I get to eat souls! And he still owes me one from our fight from the golem. Why should I help?"
"Because he is your meister. Think about the innocent people, sorry Crona not trying to say you would kill anybody." Maka apologized.
"It's fine." I'd probably kill someone anyway.
"No-" Ragnarok was going to say.
"Ragnarok!" Maka said pleading to him.
"Alright, fine! Stop pleading, its disgusting. I'll do my best, but if he has a crazy moment and summons me, I can't do anything but try to hold back. Which is hard as hell." Ragnarok said.
"Thank you." Maka said looking a lot happier.
"Yeah whatever. Stop smiling, before I rip it off your face. Can we go to bed now? These emotions are making me sick and feel gross." Ragnarok said.
"Yep." Me and Maka said in unison. Ragnarok dissolved back into my blood and we went to bed. Hopefully next Monday I won't be too sucked into madness.
Sorry for the long wait! I haven't had internet for a loooong time. So, I haven't been able to upload any chapters. Every once in a while I get a spike of internet, but it only lasts 5 minutes which isn't enough time to upload a chapter. I tried to make the chapter longer, so hopefully that makes up for the late post. Thank you guys for so much support! I get good reviews all the time and the suggestions are great! Leave more suggestions for me! I get writers block and it doesn't help that i'm in school now. I don't have much time to write a chapter often so whenever I get a chance, I run my fingers like the olympics. Keep reviewing! It makes me happy to see that everyone is enjoying the story. I might not get to implement Ragnarok or every character all the time because my fingers and my brain get tired. Plus, i'm afraid that I might get their personalities wrong, so better safe than sorry. Talk to you all next chapter! Bye Bye!