This World of Darkness
*Do not own Soul Eater or any of its characters. Just a huge fan.
Chapter 11: Time for War part 4
*Nearly an hour later...
Stein, Medusa, and all the other meisters and weapons had finally gotten back to the battle field. It felt odd for Maka and Soul because they were here not too long ago. They were all standing on a ledge where the could oversee nearly the entire jungle. The explosions and carnage of war, even the spot of Baba Yaga castle's location could be seen from where they were standing.
This scenery was new to most of them. Kid, Liz, Patty, and Marie had never seen this thick valley of trees and death. All of the weapons were already transformed and in the hands of their respected meister, including Marie, whom Stein was wielding.
Medusa just took a nice long look across the jungle's canopy. She had been through this mess not to long ago, but it had been years since she was able to see this much of it. The sound of another explosion rushed through the tree tops. Everyone else flinched instantly at the loudness but Medusa stood still and smiled. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and released a peaceful sigh. "It's been so long since I've heard the sounds of an actual war." she said while opening her eyes.
"I really hope you don't mean that in a good way..." Marie sighed.
Medusa glanced at the weapon in her hammer form and after a moment finally smirked. "But of course. After all, I'm hear to help you, remember?" she said with an almost sinister tone.
Marie sighed. Stein glanced at his weapon partner and then to Medusa. "Medusa..." he began, getting the snake witch's attention. "I think it's fairly obvious that I don't need to remind you the consequences of what will happen if you get carried away, but I cant help but feel that I should anyway."
Medusa looked at him oddly and laughed. "Stein, you teaser, don't you think I'm a little too smart to betray you at this point?"
Stein made an unconvinced face that basically said whet everyone else was thinking: you aren't exactly the most trustworthy person here, even if you have changed.
Crona, who was standing next to Stein, lightly tugged on the edge of his sleeve. Stein looked at her. "um, Professor..." she began nervously. Stein waited for her to continue. she looked up at him nervously and finished her sentence. "I'm sure that if she's said she'll be good now, she really means it." she was clearly worried for her mother's well-being.
Medusa blushed a little. She had never really heard her child say anything positive about her like that. Stein noticed the surprised look on Medusa's face and made a faint smile, causing Medusa to turn her head away a little embarrassed.
Stein looked back to Crona and decided to make a joke. "I know she means it Crona. I was just testing your mom because I wanted to see if she really want's to stop being a bad little girl and start being a good little girl for a change." this statement earned a very confused look from Crona. Medusa blushed harder and look at him angrily. Medusa got even angrier when she could hear faint laughter from the other's. She turned to them with a menacing stare. "Is something funny?" she growled.
Everyone who had laughed then turned away and acted like nothing was even said. Somehow ironic and obvious at the same time, Marie got the biggest kick out of it.
Medusa Walked up to Stein and brought her face close to his. "You, sir, just lost a lot of bed points."
Stein stared at her. "...What?" he said slightly shocked and confused when he got what she meant.
"Why don't we just go over the plan then?" she said still a little mad.
Stein fixed his glasses and coughed trying to change to another subject; perhaps Medusa is not the best person to anger. "Yes, well..." he paused and looked at Maka and Kid with their weapons. "Okay, so we already know that Black Star is already out there some where running a muck with Tsubaki. We also know that Sid and Naigus are out there as well. The route to the castle that Medusa is going to have us take will most likely keep us from finding them, which is almost a good thing because I DO NOT want to have to explain to either one of them why Medusa is helping us, especially in the middle of a battlefield."
Maka and Kid nodded their heads. "That gonna be a headache having to explain to someone like Black Star why she's with us this time." Soul commented.
They all groaned knowing that they would have to eventually have to explain that to their hard-headed friend. "Yeah, I don't want to think about that right now. Anyway, We're basically going to follow Medusa now. She'll take us straight to where we need to be while the others back at the academy get their part done." he then looked at Medusa and smiled. "After you ma'am." he said in a playfully sarcastic way.
"Oh, what a gentlemen..." Medusa responded equally sarcastic as she began to lead them down into the jungle.
They walked down a hill side connected to the cliff they were just on and worked their way down. As they walked, the jungle slowly became thicker and muggier. Such a perfect miserable area for the castle of an evil witch.
Several minutes later, they were still walking still with quite a ways to go. As they continued to walk, Kid slowed down his pace slightly to allow Crona to catch up with him. As she neared him, he eventually just came right up next to her. "Hey, Crona..?" he asked silently.
"Oh..." she began, turning to look at him. "Hi, Kid. What is it."
"Maka already told me what happened at Medusa's castle to cause all this with your mother. But if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you what happened."
Crona looked at him a little confused. "Well...I don't know what I could tell you that she didn't already."
Kid then looked at Maka. "Yeah but...somehow I just feel like she didn't tell me everything." he then looked back at Crona and waited for an answer.
Crona sighed. As the words that she would soon speak formed in her head she could not help but blush. "Well um...basically...when she became an adult again...Professor Stein and the others could barely touch her and it was getting to the point where she could have possibly killed them...and...and..." Crona blushed harder almost not wanting to admit the next part.
"Oh for god's sake!" Ragnarok then popped out of Crona's back and just said what she could not. "Crona started crying."
"Ragnarok!" she exclaimed now with her face completely red.
"A lot..." he finished.
"ummm..." was all Kid was really able to say until he noticed something. "Hey, Ragnarok?" he asked getting the demon sword's attention.
"What is it, stripes?" Ragnarok said turning to kid.
"You look bigger than the last time I saw you. In fact, I can tell entirely, but you do look a little different in general." Kid said noting that Ragarok's body had in fact changed.
He was not as large as his original form but he was definitely bigger. The muscle build in his arms and torso was starting to come back as well. For those of you who have read far enough in the manga, remember when he started to get his normal body back and he was basically a skinny version of his old self? Yeah just imagine that.
"Yeah, that's because my power has started to finally come back like lady Medusa's did, DUH!"
"Oh, God. Forgot I asked." Kid then looked back at Crona. "As you were saying."
Crona was still blushing but she tried to continue regardless. "Well yeah, I started to cry really hard and then I asked why my mom hates everything including me, but when I said that, it seemed to offend her. She told me that even though it may seem that she didn't love me, she actually did."
Kid had become very interested in where Crona was going. Maka told him most of this but Crona was fitting in little details that Maka left out.
Crona continued. "Then Professor Stein and my mom got into a discussion about why she hates the DWMA but in the end of it all Stein was able to convince her to change her ways, also because my mom likes professor Stein, and I think he likes her."
Kid stared at her oddly in reaction to that last sentence. Because they were off fighting the rest of Medusa's team, none of them were there to hear Medusa reveal her feelings for the doctor during the battle under the academy.
Crona blushed once more and looked at Kid with a nervous expression. "So does that mean that Stein is going to kinda be like...my...d-dad?"
Kid nearly freaked out at the question. "Um well, I mean, I'm not sure how tat would work. I mean, if they...um...umm..." he couldn't think of what to say. Crona blushed nervously thinking that she made him feel uncomfortable.
Kid then smiled and looked at her now calm. "I'm sorry, Crona. I should have just trusted Maka's judgement."
Crona tried to shake off the awkwardness she felt. "Um...yeah..."
"Well for whatever it's worth, I'm glad for you, that you and your mom can finally be happy together." he then looked down and thought of something. He smirked. "Ya know, it's kinda odd, but you and I aren't that different."
She looked at him a tad confused.
He looked into her eyes with his own golden ones. Their piercing gleam made a feeling rise in Crona that she was not sure she had ever felt before. "Crona..." he began. "We are both very powerful beings born of an even more powerful being. I have My father who is the grim reaper and you have your mother who is one of if not the most powerful witch. But I know nothing of my mother and we know nothing of your father. It's an interesting coincidence isn't it?"
Crona just stared at him for a moment. Everything he said was true, It was quite unique how they shared such a specific aspect. For some reason the look in his eyes was too much for her to handle and she could not help but blush and turn away. "Um, yeah. It is quite a coincidence..." she finally said with a faint smile.
"Oh brother..." Ragnarok sighed as he sunk back into Crona's back.
The young demon witch and shinigami then looked at each other with a similar thought in their heads. But before either could say anything, Medusa yelled to the back of the group. "Come on and keep together! Just because I'm taking you through the safe way doesn't mean there won't be any traps indefinitely!"
"Jeez, thanks for killing the moment mom..." was what was going through Crona's head. But something definitely had just sparked inside of her that would do nothing from this point but grow and flourish.
Maka, who was ahead, looked back at the two who were starting to catch up. "I wonder what they were talking about?" she whispered to herself.
*Inside Arachne's castle...
Mosquito's rage was boiling. He was walking back and forth trying to put his head around how thing s could have gotten so bad so fast.
"Damn, damn, damn, damn!" is what was screaming through his mind. "Okay, so Eibon's nowhere to be found, Mifune's been defeated, that little brat witch somehow escaped, I can't get a hold of Giriko, and to top it all off, I think Lady Arachne is losing her patience. DAMMIT! Could things get any worse?!"
An Arachnophobia scientist thin walked up to him. "M...Mosquito, sir..." he sounded distraught, not good.
"What is it...?"
"W...Well sir, I hate to inform you of this but we have a problem...two problems actually..."
Mosquito looked at him with his face full of anger. "What!?" he shouted. "Where in a deep enough hole as it is! What could it possibly be now?!"
"W-well, Sir, not too long ago, We received a report that one of the enemy has been taking out many of our front line soldiers by himself and with ease."
"WHAT?!" Mosquito shouted in anger. "What the hell is the other bad news?!"
"Well, Sir, you see-" before the arachnophobia scientist could respond, an explosion fired from the wall and blinded both men.
Mosquito coughed a few times as he fanned the dust out of his eyes. When his surroundings were made clear again his eyes widened at what he was looking at.
"This was the other problem sir..." was the last thing the scientist was able before he lost consciousness. The thing, or actually person, who had smashed into the room was Black Star.
He stood with a menacing stare. He looked back and forth and then smirked. "So..." he began. "Is this were all you alleged big shots are hiding?" he said pointing Tsubaki at Mosquito.
At first Mosquito did not recognize the blue haired assassin, but it did not take long for him to remember those annoying brats that he had to fight during the fight for (the fake) brew. "Dammit..." he growled. "Just my luck that A punk like you would be the first to get in here..."
"What, does that scare you, bug man?" Black Star responded with a mocking tone.
"Black Star..." Tsubaki said trying to get her meister's attention. "You promised me that you would try to do this without engaging in to much battle. This guy is a general, we can't waste time trying to fight him." she said reminding him that they were only here for Angela.
Black Star lowered Tsubaki and Sighed. "Yeah I guess you're right. Hey monopoly guy...?" he said trying to get Mosquito's attention.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Are you referring to me?" Mosquito responded trying to restrain his anger.
"Yeah could you tell me if you've seen a little witch with, like, a chameleon thing go'in in? She's always happy, always with Mifune..."
Tsubaki sighed at how casual Black Star was being. She told him to be safe but this was ridiculous.
Mosquito realized that he was talking about Angela and instantly discarded his confusion. Right now Mosquito had a lot of pinned up rage and he was about to take all his frustration out on this annoyance in front of him. "No..." he began with an almost creepy tone in his voice. "No I can't say I have. I'm actually looking for such a child myself.." he began walking up to Black Star.
"But...It looks like I have found another brat that I can take my anger out on..." Mosquito's body instantly grew much larger. His arms became long and muscular like the time they fought inside the magnetic field. He kept approaching Black Star who was not even flinching. "So...I hope you don't mind being torn apart..."
"Tsubaki, I know I promised you that we would do this the safe way, but I don't think this guy is gonna give us that option."
Tsubaki was silent for a moment. "Yes...I know..." she then smiled. "So let's try to beat him as fast as we can, alright Black Star."
Black Star smiled. "Now that's what I like to here." he readied his weapon in preparation to fight.
*Back in the jungle...
Sid was hiding behind a tree. He had a large cut across his shoulder and was bleeding badly. "Damn the chainsaw maniac..." he whispered.
"Sid, your wounds are too severe for you to keep fighting like this. You have to let me patch you up and get out of here." said Naigus who was in her weapon form.
"No..." he was panting a little. "There's no way that we can find the time for you to give me medical attention with that freak looking for us. And even if I try to run, he's much faster than I am, especially in my current state."
"But if you keep fighting him, he'll kill you."
Sid smirked. "Naigus, you should know that a zombie doesn't fear death."
"Now is seriously not the time for jokes." Naigus said firmly.
"Yoo-Hoo! Zombie?! Where are you?!" the sound of Giriko's menacing voice was accompanied by the sound of saw blades rapidly cutting through trees. And unfortunately for Sid, he was heading in his direction.
"Dammit!" Sid exclaimed as he jumped out of the way just in time to avoid being cleaved in two by Giriko's Chainsaw.
"You're not getting away that easily!"
EXTRA:
As Medusa Stein and the others walk, Medusa eventually stops and turns to everyone with a smile.
Medusa: Okay I thin this is a good place to take a break.
Everyone else: Wait, what?
Medusa then lays out a long fabric an sits down.
Medusa: Anybody in the mood for a short picnic?
Stein: What...?
Maka: We can't just stop and take a break!
Kid: Yeah! We have an important mission to take care of.
Medusa: I brought Doritos.
...
Everyone then sits down and begin eating the food of the gods.
Yogi bear: Hey, mind if I get in on this?
Everyone: GO AWAY!
AngrySoundwave: How about me?
Medusa: You go away too.
Angrysoundwave: Hey! I'm the damn writer and I will take some mother fuck'n Doritos if I want!
Well another chapter up and we are past #10. I actually nearly finished this earlier, but my fucking finger slipped and pressed the wrong fucking button and deleted nearly 300 words of dialogue. Ya know, I'm so sick of that happening. There really needs to be some kind of auto save function.
Anyway, I didn't want to at first but I think I will start a Crona x Kid thing in this story. I have no idea how long it will take to develop because it was not part of my original script for this story, but whate'vs.
In other news, I recently got a job, so I'm not sure how much time I'll get to work on this because it's a full time job (but, damn, does it pay well), but I do not intend to quit on this story. There's still like 30-40 chapters left... :D
Lastly, I recently watched the final episode of Soul Eater Not!...Seriously...Can not ONE adaptation of my favorite anime series ever end in a way I like. I'm serious, I really fucking hated the ending of Soul Eater not! for multiple reasons. It's bad enough that I hate the endings of the anime and manga for the normal series, but now this series has let me down too?! The Soul Eater Not! manga is the only thing left that can redeem itself, so there's some hope but not much because the manga has gotten so boring compared to the anime. But my unsatisfaction with each series is why I make these stories, isn't it? It's my anger that's aimed at what I love that gives me the inspiration to write and make fics. Kinda ironic, isn't it?