This World of Darkness
*Do not own Soul Eater or any of its characters. Just a huge fan.
Chapter 3: Obelisk
Everyone was staring at Medusa shocked. "Are...Are you serious?" soul asked breaking the silence.
Medusa blushed and put a hand to her face. "Oh dear me, I'm sorry. That was much too forward." she ten looked at them much more seriously . "What I want is to destroy Arachnophobia...and Arachne"
Maka looked at her oddly. "But she's your sister, right?"
"I hate her guts as much as she hates mine. And besides, she's been an infected thorn in my side for 800 years." everyone was still staring at her as if they didn't expect her to say that. She noticed this and smirked. "Don't tell me your surprised."
Crona tapped her mother's shoulder. "Mother...?" she asked as Medusa turned her head. "Why do you and Lady Arachne hate each other?"
Medusa just stared at Crona rather emotionlessly. She turned back around and looked at the floor remembering her dark past. "It wasn't always like that..." she began. "I think I can remember a time where she and I got along but things change."
"...You think you remember?" Marie asked after a moment.
Medusa turned to her and smiled. "800 years of madness can really throw a person's mentality out of whack, so it wouldn't be surprising that I can't exactly remember every little thing." she turned away again. "But I remember all too well why I hate that bitch."
Crona flinched. "W-what did she do...?"
Medusa was silent. "I don't really want to say, Crona"
Stein stepped forward. "Regardless of whatever kind of vendetta you have on your sister, what does that have to do with the Kishin? I doubt that was just a slip of tongue just now."
Medusa turned to him and took a deep breath. "I want him destroyed. Do I necessarily need a reason for that?"
"We all oppose what the Kishin stands for but in your case, you DO need a reason. You were the on who went to the trouble of reviving him and now you want him gone all of a sudden? What happened to the whole new world order thing you kept talking about?"
Medusa put a finger to Stein's mouth. "Sssshhhhhhhh, boy friend no talk." she snapped. He looked at her rather confused.
Marie got mad. "Hey! He's not your boy friend!"
"He is now. He hugged me and told me he loves me, so he's mine now." Medusa said crossing her arms.
"THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!" Marie shouted. Stein just stood silent.
Everyone stopped when the heard the voice of another person in the room. They all looked and saw it was the little girl that had taken control of. she was waking up but was still very tired. She sat up and yawned before looking around while her vision slowly returned to her. "W...w-where am..."
Medusa began to walk up to her. eventually she stood right in front of the child and looked down at her.
"...Mommy..?" Rachel said still not entirely sure what was going on nor who she was looking at.
"Aw, that's so cute." Medusa said as she bent over and scooped Rachel up in her arms.
"What do you think you're doing?" Marie asked firmly.
"Well I don't know about you, but I think we should return this girl to her home before anything." they all looked at her oddly which caused her to give them a look of confusion. "What's with the faces."
"Ok, either you really are trying to trick us or you and some nice person miles from here just switched personalities." Soul said which was basically what everyone else was thinking.
"Is it seriously that hard to think I can be nice?"
"YES!" everyone shouted (except maybe Crona).
"Yeah it kind of IS hard to accept with everything you've put us through!" Maka yelled.
"You can't just expect us to think that you've changed so easily!" Marie shouted as well.
Medusa just stared at them but then looked down a little depressed. She hugged the girl in her arms tightly more or less just to hold something rather than who it actually was. Rachel barely responded because she was so tired. The other started to show confusion.
"I honestly never considered that you thought that of me, Crona." she looked up and faced her daughter. "I guess my pursuit of chaos kept me from letting you know how I felt."
Crona looked at her mother not knowing what to think.
"Crona's about 17 years old." I don't know how old Crona really is. "Did you seriously never stop to think that maybe, JUST MAYBE, you were being too rough on her?" Marie said still not wanting to believe Medusa.
"What part of evil, sadixtic, madness-filled witch do not understand?" they all gave er an odd look after she said that. She smirked. "As mad as I am, I'm suprised that I can still maintain enough of my intelligence to out smart all of you time and tiame again."
"Not helping your case..." Maka said with a bored expression.
"Oh but it is, miss Albarn." Medusa looked at Rachel who was still in her arms. "Such an uncontrolable craving for carnage usually disracts me from the things I love compared to the things I want." as Medusa stared at the child she could not help but think of the very few times she held Crona in such a way when the child was younger.
She looked back at the others. She sighed. "Okay, if I agree to accept whatever punishment is bestowed upon me without a fight, will you get off my back already?"
"How do we know you won't try to run off the instant you get a chance?" asked Maka.
"What would be the point of that. I could kill you all right now if I wanted to, so I wouldn't be saying this unless I meant it."
They were all silent but that was a rather good point. Medusa had the power to destroy them all now and be done with it, so what reason would she have for following them just to do it later? Medusa walked up to Stein. "Besides..." she placed her pointer finger against his chest. "This guy knows I won't try anything, right?"
Stein didn't respond, he just looked at her blankly. "You are definitely going to receive punishment, but if you cooperate with us then we can see to it that the sentence is not death." he said
"Yeah, let's make sure it's not the latter." she chuckled nervously. Medusa could then feel Rachel starting to wake up. "Perhaps we should go ahead and return this girl before anything else."
"Yeah..." they all said in sync.
Medusa began to walk out with everyone else, though they were all giving her odd looks. "What's with the faces?" she asked smiling.
"You know we're gonna keep an eye on you, right?" Maka said.
Medusa laughed. "I'd be insulted if you didn't." she said once she stopped laughing. As they walked Medusa stopped when she felt something tug on the back of her shirt. She turned around and saw it was Crona.
"Um...m-mother...?" she muttered nervously.
"...Yes, Crona...?"
"...Um..."
"...Yes?"
not knowing what to say, Crona wrapped her arms around her mother and hugged her tightly striking Medusa with confusion. "Thank you..." Crona finally said, not able to look her mother in the eyes.
Medusa smiled after a moment. "I truly am sorry, Crona...about everything."
*Meanwhile, miles upon miles away in the midst of chaos.
While the three miesters and their weapons were handling Medusa, the rest of the DWMA had their hands full with Arachnophobia. True madness was about to unfold...
*Somewhere, God knows where...
The sound of gears grinding and shear sharpness of a guillotine's blade were the only thing that could be heard for anyone possibly still alive. The death scythe priest was still locked in his duel against the enchanted chainsaw. Justin Law and Giriko were in the middle of a fight that both were determined to kill the other.
Giriko threw himself at the death scythe with the saw blades of his leg ready to cleave Justin in two. Justin block with a blade from his arm, but Giriko managed to force him back. "THAT'S NOT GONNA SAVE YOU EVERY TIME!" Giriko shouted over the roar of his own motor.
Justin said nothing; he just stared at Giriko blankly, which pissed the chainsaw off. He forced Justin into a tree and nearly cut the priest in half but only the tree was severed once Justin ducked. "Would you just standstill already!" Giriko growled.
Justin jumped away then casually stood up. He turned and looked at Giriko with a mocking smile. "Why? Even if I didn't move you wouldn't be able to injure me."
Giriko's eye twitched...
He forced his chain blades into the dirt and shot himself at Justin. The death scythe prepared to block but Giriko raised his blades as a diversion and took the chance to nail the priest in the chest sending him to the ground. Giriko jumped in an attempt to come down and tear Justin's head from his torso with the stomp of a foot.
But as Giriko came down, Justin looked up and fired a silver gun right in the chainsaw's direction. Giriko's eyes widened as he barley avoided loosing his head. He landed on the ground as Justin stood back up. "Dammit, so even when I do knock you down you just get back up like the cockroach you are."
"I must say that you are like a roach as well." Justin said with a blank face.
"...The fuck you just call me."
"Now that I think about it, you work for an organization that appears to be bug themed, but you are not a bug like your comrades."
"...What!"
"Unless you really are a cockroach, that is." Justin said smiling.
Giriko cracked an angry smile. "...I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU, YOU WORM!"
"Now we're talking about worms?" Justin said nonchalantly in contrast to Giriko's anger.
Another Chapter. I know it's much shorter than the last one, but I didn't want this to take any longer, especially since I'm spending a week with my friend and won't be able to write as much. Why was this chapter called Obelisk you may ask, because I wanted it to, YAY! So know we are going to the Arachnophobia fights, prepare for Hell. Also, someone commented asking me to proofread these chapters. Well it's not my fault, my computer is a piece of crap...seriously my step dad has the same problem when he's working on it. The Keyboard. Just. Sucks! But I will try to be more careful :)