This World of Darkness
*Do not own Soul Eater or any of its characters. Just a huge fan.
Chapter 13: Medusa's Feet
*In the jungle...
Giriko was still wandering around for Sid. He could just take his anger out on some other ass hole, he was in the middle of a war for crying out loud. But NOPE! Giriko was still pissed that Justin thought he could just walk off like that before Giriko cut castrate his ass, and he wasn't about to let the zombie get away after one rat already escaped his wrath.
Giriko clenched at his chest, which he had been doing for some time now. There was a stabbing pain that just wouldn't fucking go away. But his unquenchable rage and blood lust was what was keeping him going. He ignored the pain, just wanting to kill someone's ass.
He forced a crooked smile onto his sweating face. "Hehehe..." he tried to laugh off his bad health as mere exhaustion. "I don't care how much my body is trying to beat me down...I'm gonna find that zombie, and when I do...I'LL FUCKING KILL HIS ASS!" he screamed.
He then looked down and stopped for a moment. His vision started to blur and he felt like he was going to collapse, was this just exhaustion? Either way, Giriko took a deep breathe and actually took a minute to regain his composure. He closed his eyes and sniffed the air, trying to make out the sent of blood besides his own.
Unfortunately for Sid, the two weren't that far apart. In fact it didn't take Giriko too long to make out the stench of Sid's dead flesh and it's spilled blood. Giriko smiled. "How convenient...You're close too..."
He stood straight and took another deep breath before making another sadistic smile. "And it doesn't feel like you're going anywhere fast..." his eyes widened with devilish joy. "WHICH MEANS I DON'T HAVE TO OVEREXERT MYSELF LOOKING FOR YOU!" he growled.
He began walking forward and was starting to clam down. As he walked, he noticed the pain in his chest gradually die down and for the most part he started to feel fine.
He began looking for Sid completely sure that he would be able to annihilate the zombie as soon as he found him. Maybe after that Giriko could actually rest for a moment. He didn't want to stop fighting, especially with so much more ass to kick, but even he had to accept that he needed to wait until he got his complete strength back, but that would have to wait until after he had his fill of killing.
Unfortunately, this pain wasn't something that was going to simply leave...
Inside Baba Yaga Castle...
Arachne was still sitting on her bed with the demon god in her arms. She tried to keep cam while in front of him so not to arouse suspicion, but inside her head was a cluster of irritation and worry.
Just what the hell was going on behind those chambered doors and beyond the walls of her castle? Neither Mosquito nor Eibon had reported anything back to her for a few hours now. All she could hear was the death and destruction of the chaotic inferno taking place around her safe little haven.
Her eyes narrowed as she lifted her head and made a scowl. "What the hell is going on?" she thought to herself. "I haven't heard from Mosquito or Eibon in ages, and now that I think about it, what in the world has become of that samurai?" she lowered her head back down.
She stared at the basically sleeping Asura as she continued to stroke his hair. "Sister..." the word slithered through her mind like the snake she was thinking of. "What in the world are you up to? You tell me yourself that you and the DWMA are coming to take me out?"
Arachne made a very confused face. "Obviously she has something up her sleeve, but..." she was silent for a long moment until she eventually asked what was eating away at her. "Why in the world would you ever align yourself with...THEM!"
Arachne lifted her head back up with a now blank expression. "You and I both Know EXACTLY why this is not okay."
"I admit to not understanding some things about whats going on in that sick little mind of yours, but do you really want to end this so badly that your willing to..." Arachne couldn't even finish the thought. She was disgusted with her little sister for joing such a group, but she was mainly confused as to what she was doing all this for.
Arachne's eyes suddenly widened. She sighed as her lips stretched into a sinister smile. "Oh...now I get it..." she chuckled silently under her breath. "Oh, Medusa...how fooled you must have everyone if things are going this well for you."
"I might be the spider, but I can see that you have your own little web that everyone is trapped in." she looked down at Asura. "Well...everyone but me...as long as I have my trump card." Arachne's grin was filled with madness. The look in her eyes was the look of a spider ready to devour it's prey. "You wont win this...little sister..."
*Somewhere else inside Baba Yaga Castle...
Black Star's duel with Mosquito was just beginning. Mosquito, who was now in his fastest dart-like form (READ THE MANGA!) rushing at Black Star whom was evading the bug man at every turn, but he simply wouldn't give up.
Black Star wanted so badly to turn around and crush this pest's head in, but even he knew that if he took even a second to turn around and prepare, Mosquito's nose would long have already pierced and killed him. Black Star was definitely faster than Mosquito but in this form the butler could easily catch up with him if Black Star stopped for anything.
He didn't even need to turn around to see if the beast was still chasing him, he could still hear the sound of collateral damage rushing towards him, and that was enough to keep him moving.
Black Star at least shouted something as he sped through the castle just to aggravate the butler. "Hey weevil dude! You're the butler here right?! Well you're gonna be the one to clean up all this shit your breaking just to catch up with me, right?!"
"I might be the butler, but such a task would be an enormous waste of my time, that's what we have servants for. AND I'M A MOSQUITO! NOT A WEEVIL!"
"Well in a second you're gonna be a mosquito with a broken nose."
"What the hell is that suppose to-!" before Mosquito could finish his sentence, Black Star quickly moved to the side revealing a pillar right in front of Mosquito. He was going to fast and couldn't stop, plus it was too late to redirect himself. He smashed right into the pillar, his nose piercing clean through the pillar.
Mosquito grunted as his face collided with the stone. He then brought his hands up and began to pry himself from the pillar. Once he removed himself from it he looked side to side with a very angry scowl. "Where the fuck did that little shit go...?" he growled under his breath.
"LOOKING FOR ME, NEEDLE NOSE!?"
Mosquito looked up, but before he could make out anything, Black Star's clenched together fists impaled the unsuspecting butler in the face. Black Star forced a great deal of strength into his attack not holding back anything.
Mosquito grunted and coughed up a small bit of blood as he was forced backwards and rammed into the ground. Black Star landed with a victorious stance. "HA! How do ya like that, ya old geezer?"
Mosquito didn't respond, it looked like Black Star had knocked him out with that punch. Black Star actually looked at the seemingly unconscious butler with a confused face. "Hey, dude...Are you okay...?"
Still no response from Mosquito.
After a moment Black Star sighed. "Oh come on. Seriously man? Don't tell me that you're gonna go down after just one punch. That wasn't even a real fight!" Black Star exclaimed in disappointment.
"Black Star...!" Tsubaki spoke up. "What does it matter? We're here to rescue Angela, remember? Let's go while he's unconscious."
Black Star sighed. "Well if he's not gonna get up, then I guess there really isn't any point in sticking around." he lowered Tsubaki and began to walk of past Mosquito. "Okay, let's get go'in."
"Thank you, Black Star..." Tsubaki said smiling with relief that the battle was over.
As they walked off, one of Mosquito's eyes opened wide. It was red with multiple pupils swarming through his iris. "I've had enough of this..!"
*With Medusa, Stein and the others...
Medusa had finally led the group to a point where, while not too close to the castle, they were at least able to see it. Medusa was right, she had gotten them to an area that had the castle in sight and at the same time was far from the battlefield.
"Well there it is..." Medusa commented as they all took a long look at Baba Yaga Castle.
Crona could not help but feel a little bit of fear. This was actually her first time seeing her aunt's castle. She couldn't help but tremble a little. In that nightmare of a building was a woman just as evil as her mother was (even though Medusa is officially the evilest character in the series, I'm serious go look it up and the Demon God himself, Asura.
Kid turned and noticed how scared Crona looked. "Is there something wrong, Crona?" asking this caused the rest of the group direct their attention to Crona, of course causing her to blush a little.
"Um...well...It's just..." she said trying to form a sentence.
"It's just what...?" Maka asked after a moment.
Crona looked at the castle once more and after a moment finally spoke. "...Does it HAVE to look like a giant spider?!" she exclaimed with a little embarrassment.
Everyone with the exception of Medusa couldn't help but think: "Really..."
"Well, Crona..." Maka began. "Arachne is a SPIDER themed witch, so it's only natural that some of her things including her castle would look like spiders."
"Yeah but..." she looked at the castle once more. "I't a giant spider though!" Crona whined (adorable /:[)
"If you think the outside is bad, you should see the inside." Medusa snickered.
Kid glanced at her with a sarcastic face. "Haha, you're not helping." Medusa just laughed.
"so what do we do now?" Liz asked from her weapon form.
Stein lit a cigarette. "Well for right now we just have to wait here until it's time for us to do our part." he then pulled a small communicator out from his pocket. He began to walk off while setting up the device. "I'll call BJ to see how long it will be before he has the cannon ready. I'll be right back." he said right before walking behind some trees.
Marie transformed out of his hand and stood with the rest. "Hurry back." she said as he vanished into the jungle. Marie paused for a moment. "Wait, why does he need to go somewhere else to talk to BJ?" she asked with a confused look.
"Ah, who knows. He's a weird guy." Medusa commented.
Marie turned to her with a slight frown. "You're not that normal yourself, ya know..." this earned a sly smile from the snake witch.
The meisters and their weapons looked back Baba Yaga castle. It was itching at them all hat they were gonna have to just stand here for a while and do nothing. "Well..." Soul began. "What are we supposed to do in the mean time?"
Medusa then wondered over to a large rock lodged in the ground and sat down on it. "Well I don't know about you all, but I'm gonna give my feet a break." she lifted up one of her legs and crossed it over the other. "Dang it, it's been a while since they've been this irritated." she said as she began to massage her foot.
"Well why don't you were shoes?" Maka asked with genuine curiosity.
Kid looked at Medusa's bare feet. "Ya know, I've never actually said anything but I've been wondering that as well."
Patty: "Yep!"
Liz: "Same here..."
Soul: "Ditto."
Marie: "I've been wondering as well."
Ragnarok: "Yeah, what's up with that."
Medusa's eyes widened slightly. "W...wait, are you guys serious?"
They all nodded their heads. Crona eventually asked as well. "Mom, why don't you ever wear shoes?"
Medusa just stared at them blankly for a moment still holding her foot. "Um...seriously...?" she asked wondering if this was a legitimate question. They all nodded their heads (except for the weapons) letting Medusa know that they were genuinely curious.
Medusa sighed. "Well it's because I don't like to wear shoes, it's as simple as that." she huffed. "They cause your feet to stink and crush your toes together, I don't want any of that." she said crossing her arms. "I wouldn't dare dirty my beautiful feet with such apparel."
"But it IS okay for you to walk around barefoot and possibly step on something sharp?" Maka asked confused.
"Yeah, an besides, your feet would get twice as dirty if you didn't were something to protect them." Marie asked adding to Maka's question.
Everyone stared at Medusa as if waiting for a rebuttal. Eventually the snake witch grit her teeth and almost looked angry, but at the same time she blushed a little when she finally responded. "I'm not afraid of ever stepping on something sharp because I use a Magic energy under my feet to constantly burn away stuff like that, same thing for if I'm about to step on something gross."
Kid arched a brow. "But if you're going to do that, it's basically the same thing as wearing shoes, so why don't you just wear them?!"
Medusa's blush grew darker. "Maybe because I want to show of my feet, OKAY?!" she exclaimed. "Every women has something about them they want to show off, and I like to show off my feet! And I just..don't...like...SHOES, OKAY?!" she was flustered and it caused everyone to step back a bit because her sudden outburst seemed to come from nowhere.
Everyone was silent for a moment. Medusa was staring at them intently but at the same time was trying her best to ignore her own red face. she finally calmed down and then spoke. "How about we talk about something else...?"
...
The situation seemed kinda too awkward now for anyone to think of something to say. They only one that had any clear thought was ironically Crona who was still wondering to herself: "Women can use feet to be sexy...?" there was so much the pink haired girl was naive to.
*With Black Star...
Black Star was wondering the hallways of Baba Yaga Castle, STILL looking for Angela. He was surprised that there weren't any guards or soldiers around, but it was very likely that they were all out on the battlefield.
"Dammit..." he said looking back and forth and up and down. "This place is so big...The war could be over by the time we found her."
"Well, I don't know about you..." Tsubaki began. "But I'd be okay with that..."
Black Star sighed. "Well I guess when i find her, I still got to get her outta here..."
All of a sudden, a giant black wave of god-knows-what grazed Black Star's arm, burning it. "Agh! DAMMIT!" he grunted as he tried to evade whatever the hell just attacked him. As Black Star turned around, he came face to face with an unfamiliar face with a very familiar aura.
He was a very tall and slender man (HA!) with slicked back black hair and was wearing a black suit and tie. It was hard to tell at first, but it appeared as if he had three black pupils in each eye. The man's overall appearance was like that of a butler.
Black Star made an "are you fucking kidding me" face. "What, seriously...? Another Butler? How many of you guys am I gonna have to deck before I can be on my way?"
The man was suddenly right in front of Black Star. Black Star didn't even see the guy flinch, his speed was incredible. "You misunderstand, BRAT." the last word he said was filled with a stain of coldness that matched the brutality of the punch that he delivered to Black Star's stomach.
Black Star gasped and grunted with some blood running down his mouth. "I am no NEW opponent..." was what the butler man said right before his punch sent Black Star across the room and into a wall.
"B-Black Star!" Tsubaki exclaimed in horror.
The butler fixed his position into a fighting stance. "This...is my form 800 years ago..."
EXTRA:
Maka: so we're just suppose to sit here and wait until it's time to activate the plan?
Stein: basically...
Marie: Hey medusa, I don't suppose you brought anything that could entertain us like when you pulled that Doritos a chapter or two ago.
Medusa: sorry, guys, not this time.
Everyone: sigh...
Medusa: oh, well I do have this one movie with my but I'm not sure you guys will like it.
Everyone: What is it?
Holds up DVD: 50 shades of grey...
Everyone stares oddly at the video...
Marie:...yeah, I think we'll pass.
"Stein: oh, I like that movie."
Everyone except Medusa who his now smiling: WWWHHHAATTTT!
Well...finally...Okay, this time you guys can be mad at me if you want to because there is no excuse for why this took so long. It was just laziness (that and I have a full time job now). Anyway, one thing I want to go ahead and take care of is...well...in the last chapter, an unknown person was talking to Medusa. I asked you guys to put in the comments who you thought it was, but I only got one response :( ...Anyway, he guessed it was Shaula...well...HE WAS WRONG, HAHAH! No it wasn't Shaula, and I honestly don't think you guys will see it coming unless you take a very lucky shot in the dark. Finally, for those who haven't read the manga, the guy at the end is Mosquito as his younger self.
More chapters on the way! Also, check out my deviant art page :D (I use the same user name).