This World of Darkness
*Do not own Soul Eater or any of its characters. Just a huge fan.
Chapter 2: A Soul Lost in Hate
Medusa and the others continued to stare at Crona shocked. Medusa turned away from Stein and looked at her child with narrowed eyes. "Crona..." she said firmly.
Crona got up and wiped the tears from her eyes. "P-please mother. Please don't do this anymore..." she said sniffling a bit with Medusa continuing to stare at her coldly.
"First you come here with the intent to kill me but can't even muster up the courage to do so and now you have the nerve to ask me to stop?...Stop WHAT exactly Crona?" Crona was silent still tying to stop crying. "Stop hurting your so called 'friends'? Stop my plans to eradicate these DWMA worms?"
Crona mumbled something, but Medusa could not hear her.
"What was that?!" Medusa shouted a little annoyed.
Everyone watching wanted to say something but they couldn't. They knew Medusa was in a mood where she'd be ready to cut them down the moment they intervened. Medusa began walking towards Crona giving Stein the Chance to get up.
"I want you to stop hurting everyone.." Crona finally responded.
Medusa narrowed her eyes even more. Crona's words where starting to aggravate Medusa but the snake witch felt as if she was getting mad for a different reason. Crona stood on her feet. "Mother...All you do is hate..."
Medusa stopped and her questionable anger changed to confusion, but her eyes stayed narrowed.
"I want to know..." Crona continued. "Why do you hate everything...? Why do you want to see everything destroyed?"
Medusa started to get mad again.
"I want to know mother..." Crona looked into Medusa's eyes. "If you love me then why do you act like you hate me...?"
Medusa growled under her breath.
"Yeah! Why is that?!" Maka shouted.
Soul tried to keep her from getting carried away. "Maka, don't..."
"If you love Crona you need to show that you love her!" Marie shouted (who had transformed back to human and helped up Stein).
"Be quite, Marie." Stein said firmly.
"But Stein-"
"Now is not the time to get involved...They need to settle tis themselves."
Medusa didn't now how to respond. Surely this was a question that the Child should have asked years earlier. She continued forward. "Explain to me Crona, what exactly have I done to make you even slightly fathom that I HATE you?"
Crona looked at Medusa a little confused but then looked down. "It's just..." Medusa stopped and tilted her head. "It's just...the dark room, the threats, asking me to do these horrible things, even Lady Arachne said that you didn't love me..." Crona could just barely utter the last few words.
"Arachne..." Medusa said coldly under her breath.
The other meisters and weapons were silent but their heads were dizzy with paranoid thoughts. They feared that this conversation might take a turn for the worst. Crona and Medusa were silent as well, until...
"How is that a reason?" Medusa asked braking the silence. Crona looked at her mother confused.
"What do you mean 'how is that a reason'?" asked Marie angrily.
Maka got up. "You've been horrible to Crona. Of course she would think that you hate her."
"Women just don't listen, do they?" thought Stein and Soul at the same time.
Medusa was silent for a moment, which caused an uneasy feeling to shroud the surrounding meisters and weapons. They even took a step back thinking that they had just angered her.
"I see..." Medusa finally responded. She lifted her head showing a face that was neither angry nor sad nor even sadistic. It was a completely blank expression. "In that case...I can understand why you might have thought that I didn't love you Crona and I'm sorry." the last two words she said blew the minds of everyone in the room.
If that wasn't shocking enough, she then smiled, but innocently. "But don't ever think that I hate you, Crona. You're my little girl and you always will be." Crona's eyes widened as the other stared at Medusa in confusion. "But even still..."
Medusa then turned around and looked at the members of the DWMA with hate complimented by a menacing grin. "I still have my reasons for tearing you apart." she growled.
The weapons and meisters actually showed a hint of fear that Medusa found delicious. She began walking back towards them, licking her lips ever so deviously. "I love my darling Crona and there's nothing ANY OF YOU can say otherwise." her smile became even MORE venomous. "And there's also nothing on this planet that can stop me from tearing your souls out!" she then leapt at them with her vector sword ready to end all their lives at once.
Maka, Soul, and Marie flinched and became paralyzed in fear when one man's calm voice broke the tension. "Is that so?" Stein said not showing an ounce of fear.
Medusa arched a brow and landed only a few feet from them. "What was that, doctor?"
Stein lit another cigarette (because he's Stein) and then looked at her blankly. "Okay, so you claimed that you really do love Crona and that we were wrong to judge you thinking that you hate her. I can accept that..." the other weapons and meister stared at him confused. what was he about to get at. "But there's another topic here that we've been beating around the bush with but you've only slightly brought up."
Medusa tilted her head and smirked. "And just what is that, Stein?"
"...Your reason for wanting to destroy the DWMA, even Crona mentioned it to you a few minutes ago." he then looked firmly into her eyes. "You said your ultimate goal is not the destruction of this world and the chaos that befalls us is just a part of the new evolutionary chain...But I think you have a reason that you hate the DWMA specifically. Something that you perhaps have been keeping to yourself."
Medusa stared at Stein coldly.
"So Medusa, why don't you tell me, or better yet US, what that reason might be?"
Medusa continued to stare at him menacingly but he stood as calm as ever. Medusa then smiled. "Hehehe, you really want to know why?" They all stared at her surprised that she would give the answer but they were more than interested to hear. She looked at them with an evil smile. "Is killing my parents, my friends, destroying my home, nearly beating me to death as a little girl, and just all together avenging the witches that you've killed a good reason, you worthless FUCKS!"
They all stared at her completely shocked, especially Crona. Wow...were to begin... That was most likely the thing going through all there heads. None of them could speak. Was all that true? Medusa lies about everything, but that seemed like a good reason to hate the DWMA.
"M...M-mother..." Crona muttered.
Medusa turned around and looked at her child.
"I...I-is t-that..." Medusa could tell that Crona was tying to ask 'is that true?'.
"Yes, Crona. It's all true. Your grandparents, my mother and father, where killed by the DWMA, and when I was very little I was beaten nearly to death by a group of weapons and their meisters."
The weapons and meisters in the room still didn't know what to say. Medusa spoke again. "To be fair, I hated my mother, she was crueler than even I. But my father was so nice to me. Whenever I was feeling sad he would try to make me happy." she turned to the members of the DWMA. "And you bastards took him away from me...anyone who I held close was eventually taken from me."
The weapons and meisters couldn't believe what they were feeling. They were actually feeling...sorry for her...
Medusa had been smiling the whole time but now she frowned. She looked down now depressed. "That's why I hate you people."
When she looked back up her eyes immediately widened when she saw Stein right in front of her. Out of sheer instinct she attempted to cut him with her sword but as her arm came towards him he caught it and held it there. She looked at him confused and angry. She tried to punch him with her free arm but he caught that one as well.
"I see..." he said after she struggled for a moment. She stopped struggling and looked at him confused. He looked down at her. "From everything you just said, I suppose it makes a lot of since now..."
He gave her a sympathetic look that she did not like. "Perhaps the reason you can't show your daughter or anyone else love is because you have forgotten yourself what it feels like to be loved." she looked at him angrily as her eyes slowly widened.
"I could throw you over my shoulder right now." she growled.
"Then why don't you...?"
She just stared at him. "Because I..." she looked away from him.
Eventually she just closed her eyes and sank down on her knees. Stein let go of her arms. Medusa sat on her knees and stared at the ground. "...I hate you, Franken..." Stein just stared at her with no reaction.
"But at the same time...I love you." she looked up at him angrily.
He then kneeled down in front of her. "Medusa..." her eyes widened in confusion...when he put his arms around her and hugged her...
Everyone's eyes widened at the sight of this, especially Marie's.
Stein then let go of her. "Stop doing all this...For your sake and for your daughter's sake..."
She just stared at him not knowing what to think. But before she could do anything, she heard the sound of footsteps racing towards her and before she knew it Crona hugged Medusa from behind. Medusa's eyes widened only slightly. "Mother...please stop this..." Crona faintly cried against Medusa's back. Even Marie couldn't help but get a little teary eyed over the whole ordeal.
Medusa then placed a hand on one of Crona's arms. Medusa looked like she was about to cry. "I can't..." she said.
"Why not?" said Stein standing up.
"I've already built up everything so high and have past the point of no return. Even if I wanted to stop how could I?!" she shouted causing Stein's eyes to widen slightly.
"If I stop, all that will happen is that you DWMA will have me executed for the horrible things I've done." Crona hugged Medusa tighter.
Medusa gave a look of confusion when Stein held his arm out to her. "I won't let that happen." she continued to look at him confused.
"Oh yeah...?" she said getting mad again. "And why the Hell is that?"
"Because I love you." the words caused Medusa to blush and everyone else's eyes to widen with shock.
"Stein..." Marie mumbled to herself.
Medusa just stared at him. "What did you say...?"
"I said because I love you."
Medusa looked down. At first she looked angry but then she smiled. "Hehehe...Hehe-Hahaha..HahahahahaHAHAHA!" she just laughed hysterically and placed a hand against her hand and eyes. At first Stein was confused but then he noticed something. tears...tears were streaming down her face but she continued to laugh and smile.
She stopped laughing and stared at him with a smug smirk. "You said it...I finally got you to say it..." Stein's face remained blank. She smirked again. "No use playing emotionless doctor anymore, Stein." she slowly got up causing Crona to let go of her and stand up as well.
Medusa then spread her arms out and collapsed against Stein, wrapping her arms around him at the same time. She rubbed her head with her eyes closed against his chest. "You realize that because you said that you're mine now, right?"
"It's worth it if your going to stop this chaos."
She put her hands on his shoulders and looked him in the eyes. "Ho are you going to handle all the slander that's going to be thrown at me?"
"I'll take any responsibility for you."
"It's because of me that the world is going to hell right now, the convincing won't be easy."
"I'll take care off it."
"What about the DWMA?"
"I'll take care of it."
"What about the Shinigami?"
"I'll take care of it."
"What about-"
"I'll take care of it."
"You've got an answer for everything, don't you?"
"Yes."
She laughed. "Alright."
Everyone's eyes widened. "Alright what?" Maka asked.
"I suppose I'll stop. But not for you..." she said looking at Stein. "And definitely not for any of you..." she said looking at the others behind him. She let go of Stein, turned around, and looked at Crona. To the girl's amazement, Medusa hugged her and smiled. "I'm sorry, Crona. I'm sorry that you thought I hated you. Please don't ever think that your mother doesn't love you."
Crona slowly started to smile as her arms slowly found themselves wrapping around the snake witch. As the two hugged each other, Crona cried into Medusa's chest. "D-do you mean it? You'll stop."
Medusa petted Crona's hair. "Only for you, honey. Only for you."
"Wow..." Soul finally said. "I never thought Medusa would ever be straight about anything. Especially this, it almost doesn't feel right."
"You don't think she's trying to trick us, do you?" Maka said still feeling unsure.
"Na. It's not my place to judge this kind of thing, but I'd say what we're looking at right now guarantees that she's telling the truth.
"Yeah but..."
"Hey, don't sweat it. It makes Crona happy and Professor Stein said he would take care of everything."
Maka looked again at the sight of the mother and daughter hugging. Even to her surprise she found herself smiling. "Yeah..." she looked at Soul. "I'm definitely not going to forgive Medusa, at least not for a while anyway, but if this makes Crona happy."
"Hey, I ain't gonna forgive her yet either, but if she's willing to give up all the shit she's been putting us through and means it, well then I'm willing to give her a go at it."
Marie was silent but she felt like crying. SHE loved Stein but now Stein has said that he loves Medusa. Her heart was broken but at the same time she couldn't help but feel a bit of hope. This snake woman has put the entire world in danger personally caused a huge deal of damage to many people. But if Stein could change her, then maybe it was for the best.
Marie thought this whole time that she was the one who needed to keep Stein stable, but perhaps it is Stein that needs to keep Medusa stable. Either way she was sad but at least it was a feeling of sadness not too great for her not to smile in the end.
Medusa and Crona stopped hugging each other and Medusa turned to Stein. "Stein..."
"...Yes..."
She was silent at first. "...I want to help you take down Asura."
Everyone's eyes widened...
Yay! another chapter done. I hope that this story doesn't get all of my attention because I have to other stories I've got to continue. But I hope you guys liked this chapter and yes, Medusa is good now. Now that we are going on to the fight against Arachnophobia next, there's all kinds of crazy shit that's about to go down. Also at the end of the first chapter I said that the beginning of this story was just a prologue for what's to come, if you thought this bit with the fight against medusa was the prologue...this wasn't even a third of the prologue! MWAHAHAHAH!