This World of Darkness
*Do not own Soul Eater or any of its characters. Just a huge fan.
Chapter 5: New Ally Part 1
Eruka stood in silence not believing what she just heard, in fact, she thought she heard Medusa wrong and asked her. "E-excuse me, what did you say...?"
Medusa sighed. "Darn it, Eruka, you heard me; you're free to go. I'm going to take the snakes out of you."
Eruka still couldn't believe what she was hearing. "W-w-wait a minute!? Why this all of a sudden?!"
"Eruka, shut up and listen to me for a second."
Eruka was silent.
"I guess I should have said you "will be" free soon. I'm with the DWMA right now and let's just say that the game plan has changed."
"Wait, were you captured?" Eruka asked.
"Don't interrupt me, I don't have a lot of time to explain this so please listen." Eruka was silent now. Medusa continued. "I'll set you free soon but for right now I need you there just a little longer. I won't go into detail, but I'm going to help the DWMA take down my sister-AND BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING..." Medusa mentally shouted the last sentence anticipating that Eruka might interrupt.
Medusa sighed again. "Like I said, I won't go into detail right now. What I need you to do is just hold on and keep out of sight. once we've come up with some kind of plan I'm going to contact you again with further instructions, but for right now just lay low. Am I understood?"
Eruka was still dumbstruck by what she was hearing and although it would mean freedom for her she couldn't help but feel worried that something very serious was happening with her soon to be "former"; master. "S...sure, Lady Medusa. I'll keep out of the way."
Medusa sighed one more time before her next sentence. "Thank you, Eruka, and thank you for your service up until now."
Eruka's eyes widened a little but then Eruka actually looked a little concerned. "Y-yeah."
"I have to go now, Eruka. I contact you again with a plan, okay?"
"..."
"Eruka?"
"Alright, Lady Medusa..."
"Goodbye." and with that goodbye Medusa cut off there communication. She was still waking with the Stein and the others but they were now in sight of the academy. She couldn't help but feel a little nervous. She had several people eye her on the way over here. The probably thought she was a witch that the DWMA caught.
"Something wrong?" Stein asked.
Medusa looked at him. "Oh it's nothing..." she said with an innocent smile, but that smile soon faded and was replaced with a frown. "I'm just a little nervous about all this is all."
Maka looked at her oddly. "Nervous? It's not like you haven't met Lord Death before under similar circumstances."
"Yes, but this is the first time meeting him and being truthful about my changed self. For some reason I don't see him taking my change of heart too lightly."
"Don't worry." Stein said turning his head to her. "I told you I would handle it, so just tried to keep calm."
Medusa blushed a little at the tone in his voice but turned her head away. "Whatever."
Marie walked up closer to Stein. "Are you sure about this? This isn't exactly the first time we've taken her word on something just to get stabbed in the back later. I mead what if she really isn't-" Stein put his hand up to stop her.
"Marie, just trust me on this."
"...Do you really love her?" she sad a little sadly.
Stein looked back at Medusa with Marie looking back at her as well. "Yeah...I do...In a twisted sort of way." He faced forward. "I meant it when I said she was the most interesting woman I've ever met; so beautiful yet so evil."
"Shut up, Franken. You KNOW that's not what I want to hear."
"Then what do you want to hear? That I love you?"
Marie looked at him a little embarrassed and blushed. "I..." she couldn't think of how to counteract that question.
Stein looked away from her and was silent for a moment. "I suppose I do love you Marie but this woman...this snake has some kind of grasp on me. She's not even a weapon and yet I feel like are souls are able to synchronize." He turned and looked at her. "I know I'm not very good at showing affection, but please understand hat this is difficult for me as well."
Marie just stared at him. She felt like she should get mad but at the same time she could understand. Some people just click more than others. No matter how much she didn't want to accept it, it looks like she had to. She sighed. "Are you sure you can convince everyone?" she asked faintly.
"Yes...I'm sure..."
*A little later...
"WWWHHHAAAAAATT!" screamed a certain death scythe.
"Now Spirit, please calm down." Stein said nonchalantly trying to calm down the dumbstruck death scythe.
"Don't you tell me to calm down! Why the hell is Medusa with you?! How the hell did she get her Adult form back?!" Spirit then stopped and realized what he said as he scanned the snake witch's once again gorgeous body. "~Oh my~" he said passionately. "How did she get her body back?" he said this time a little perverted.
Medusa frowned and blushed ready to kick the death scythe were the sun don't shine, but he was quickly silenced by someone else. "Maka..." name was followed by a large crash. "CHOP!" and down he fell.
They all stared at the death scythe who had been crushed into the ground. Medusa turned to Maka and, almost with a mocking smile, said. "Why thank you, miss Maka. If you hadn't done that, then I would have had to in a much more fragile area."
Maka turned away. "Give me a break. I did it because he doesn't learn otherwise."
"I swear, those chops get stronger every time." Spirit said pulling himself off the ground. (*actually, I can't remember if Maka ever Maka Chopped spirit or not. someone correct me on that.)
"Tell me about it." Soul said in response.
"Anyway, you guys mind explaining what's going on? With witches, anything can happen, but this seems especially out of nowhere." Spirit said finally regaining his composure. He looked at Stein. "Well, mad doctor...? What's going on?" everyone's eyes fell on Stein.
"I's a long story, but the short version is that Medusa has agreed to cease her destructive experiments against the Earth in exchange that whatever punishment we give her is not death. She also wants to take down Arachne and the kishin and has agreed to be a benefactor in our side of the war between us and Arachnophobia." Stein's tone was disturbingly casual for the situation.
Spirit just stared at them all with shock. He looked at Stein with a concerned face. "Are...are you sure?"
"Yes, why?"
"Dammit, don't ask me WHY, Stein." Spirit said a little irritated. "You know just as well as I do what she's capable of." Spirit then turned his head to Marie. "Frankly, Marie, I'm surprised your okay with this."
"Well..." Marie began. "I...can't say that I am okay with it, but..." Marie glanced over to Medusa. Crona was holding on to the snake witch's arm almost as if scared that something might happen to her mother. She then glanced at Stein and then back to Spirit. "But I suppose I can try and give her a chance."
Spirit looked at her confused. "But..."
"Listen Spirit, if you knew the full story, you'd probably be on board with us right now about all this but, like I said, it's to long of a story to explain right now. Right now we need to see Lord Death immediately.
Spirit was still very skeptical about all this. He would assume that Medusa had control over Stein, but that would mean that she had control over all of them, which didn't seem to likely. He sighed. "Alright..." they all looked at each other. He then pointed at the door leading to the Death room that they had been standing in front of the whole time. "But I bet 'ya Lord Death's gonna want a little more of an explanation."
Stein smirked. "Yeah, I know..."
Spirit smirked back. "You're crazy, man..." they all walked through the door for what could be very nice negotiations or looked down on as a terrible crime...
...Yeah...I know...I'm gone forever and then return with a pretty damn short chapter, BUT YA KNOW WHAT?! I have been going through some pretty tough shit for the past two months. School issues, family issues, a huge ice storm that knocked out the power, my computer being a dick, countless snow days, picking up wreckage FROM those snow days, DAMMIT! But I thought that I shouldn't make you dudes wait any longer. so just know that I'm back and I'll try to post more chapters soon. I'm sorry that it took so long, but I was going through some pretty bad times...