This World of Darkness
*Do not own Soul Eater or any of its characters. Just a huge fan.
Chapter 15: Love isn't Easy pt 2-STEIN vs MEDUSA!
Medusa forced a crooked smile the instant Stein's words reached her ears. She began to laugh sadistically, though this did not surprise Stein, as he was not about to allow her to escape.
But regardless, she threw herself back into him, causing him to back into a nearby tree. The instant Medusa no longer felt Stein's hands on her, snapping away the stitches he placed on her was a joke.
Several vector arrows sprouted from Medusa's body, instantly freeing her. She slammed herself against Stein, forcing him even harder against the tree. She grabbed his arms and forced them away as she brought her face to his with a beastly grin, ironically in contrast to his (for once) calm smile.
"Well, DAMMIT Stein! I was beginning to think that I had become to smart for my own good. It was actually making me laugh on the inside to see all of you buy this little act so easily. Just how long have you been playing charades yourself?" her words were like growls that he could feel against his throat.
Stein still had that calm smile as he spoke. "Actually it was my plan to act into making you act out your own plan...if that makes sense."
"You mean to say that you actually started this shenanigan knowing that i would try all this so that you could twist your plans around my plans?" she asked know giving him a calmer look.
"Yep..."
"Bullshit..."
"How so?"
"Even if that WAS the case, there's a huge hole in your plan right now." she said now smiling more innocently.
"Really? And what is that?" he asked.
She instantly kneed him in the stomach causing him to arch forward. She grabbed him by the collar of his coat and brought him in front her. "YOU FORGOT THAT I'M TEN TIMES STRONGER THAN YOU!" she shouted as she drove a kick into his back sending him through the jungle.
He landed on all fours and instantly shot himself up and spun around. He looked at just how far she had thrown him, it was quite far from the camp site (which unfortunately only proved the might of her kick).
Before Stein even had the time to prepare himself for the upcoming onslaught, Medusa had used a vector plate to launch herself right in front of him. His eyes widened as he was met with the insane gaze of her eyes.
She swung a fist at him but he blocked and caught it with one hand. She immediately swung her other fist, just to have the same result. With their hands together, Medusa grooved her fingers between Stein's and the began to push back at each other. Medusa smiled her venomous smile. Ya know, last time you had your handy little death scythe with you but now it looks like your defenseless again." she hissed.
"I seem to recall you saying the same thing back at your castle." Stein said, STILL trying to keep a calm face the whole time..
Medusa pushed herself forward. And I recall you losing pretty bad!" she then forced all her weight against him and knocked him back into a tree.
He let out a grunt as his back slammed against the trunk. Medusa took a step forward, laughing as she came closer. "Perhaps you can see now just how much I was holding back during our fight at the DWMA."
Stein was silent.
"Perhaps you can also see that you miesters are deprived of your weapons you become useless."
Stein still said nothing. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a carton of cigarettes. Medusa saw them and smirked. "Do you just carry those around WHEREVER you go, Professor?"
He stuck one in his mouth and lit it. He calmly took a puff and lowered his head. "Mind if I ask you something?" he asked, finally breaking his silence.
Medusa tilted her head and smiled. "What is it."
He then looked up at her. he was giving her quite an odd stare. it wasn't exactly cold or intimidating but it was serious. "Everything you said...all the crap you made up to try and win over our sympathy and trust..." he then smiled a rather creepy smile. "Some of it wasn't actually crap, was it."
She arched a brow. "And what do you mean by that? If your saying that you think some of my reasons were based on facts, then i think that's rather obvious, Stein." she said in a mocking tone.
"Well I mean a few things you said in particular that grabbed my attention."
Now she actually looked a little confused.
Stein's smile lightly faded. "For one thing, I don't believe the reason you gave us for why you wanted all this and hate the DWMA. I think you didn't want to tell us what really happened to you in the past but at the same time you wanted to make us feel sorry for you,"
She now gave him an icy stare.
Stein continued. "You also said that you hated your mother and favored your father...THAT I think i can believe." he took another puff from his cigarette. "But the question I'd like to ask, Medusa, is the thing that's been bothering me the whole time you've been with us."
She kept the coldness in her eyes but Medusa started to show genuine curiosity as to what Stein was getting at.
Stein continued. "I want to know..." he paused for a moment. "What are your plans for your daughter after this?"
Medusa just stared at him. At first she was a little confused. She thought to herself: that should be rather obvious, but she could see why he would be so curious about that. "Well, Stein, I think that's fairly obvious. Once all of you are dead I guess I just have to take her back with me. I'm not too worried about what she'l say when your gone. After all, the child will live forever, like me, and time heals ALL wounds."
Stein just gave her a look and for a while didn't say anything. "Yeah...somehow that's exactly what I thought you would say."
She looked at him a little confused but tried to hide it.
"Ya see, the thing is..." he began. "I actually think that Crona is the one hole in your plan." he said smiling.
She stared at him this time annoyed. She wanted to say something to deny it, but for some reason she couldn't think of a lie, or anything else to say for the matter.
Stein could tell that he had just verbally cornered her and he couldn't help but smirk. "I've known you long enough to tell the difference between when your acting and when your serious. And when you hugged Crona back at your castle, he could tell that you'd wanted to do that for a LONG time." he said with a mocking smile.
Medusa's face snapped into an angry one. Stein was actually intimidated by the power he could feel from her, but he knew he had to say the things he was about to.
"And although your plan this whole time was to have the kishin take out all your enemies, including us...I think deep, deep, DEEP down in your dark soul...that you actually wanted to do some good."
Now Medusa just smirked. She laughed a little at what he had said. "It's amazing how you can go from sharp to dull in an instant, Franken! Do you honestly think I would EVER do something good for the DWMA and the rest of the-"
"Actually, I do..." he said cutting her off.
Her mad smile faded. "What?" she spat.
He took a moment before continuing. "I think that after what I've said to you and after everything between you and Crona, for the first time, you've actually felt what its like to be cared for."
Medusa's eyes narrowed with anger.
Stein smiled again. "And now that you've had a taste of what it's like to be loved..." he through his cigarette to the ground and stepped on it. "You don't want it to end..."
Medusa now looked infuriated and was trying hard to hold back a blush. "You're wrong..." she growled.
"Actually, I think I'm exactly right..."
"Shut up..."
"Admit it."
"Shut up."
"You want to be able to love Crona."
"Shut up!"
"I guess in a way, Crona was like you. You just don't know how to deal with people."
"DAMMIT, I SAID SHUT UP!" Medusa lunged at Stein and grabbed him, sending the two flying through the trees. Medusa had actually flung the two outside of all the trees and into a nearby lake. They both fell into the murky, dark water.
Stein swam up and jumped out of the water landing on a rock formation protruding from the lake's surface. He looked around and waited for Medusa to emerge. As he waited, he realized the water was awfully cold. Is it possible that her cold blooded body would not be able to get out? He thought to himself how awkward it would be to have to save her after everything that was just said.
But as he thought, something started bubbling up from the water. It was obviously Medusa so he prepared himself for any kind of strike. But as he waited, something strange happened. The water had turned completely pitch black and now it seemed like the whole lake was starting to go crazy.
Stein's eyes narrowed. what in the world was Medusa about to do? He looked closer at the water and noticed something that made his eyes widen. The water was now gone and what remained was a giant pool of living vector arrows.
Stein narrowed his eyes again. This was definitely looking bad already and Medusa hadn't even rose up yet. Literally as he finished that though, he felt the ground (or in this case the rock he's on top of) started to rumble.
In the spot where he originally thought Medusa would emerge, a giant black figure burst from the vectors. Stein looked at the figure almost horrified. What emerged from the vector pool was a gigantic snake made from millions of vector arrows. The snake's body was so long that it was able to wrap itself around the entire lake.
"You don't know anything about me!" the snake said with Medusa's voice.
Stein's eyes widened when he heard Medusa's voice through the mouth of the giant serpent. "M...Medusa?" he questioned.
Medusa attempted to strike Stein but he jumped onto another rock formation (which there were conveniently many of). How long have you bee able to do this!" Stein shouted.
Medusa turned to him. "This is the first time, so I guess you just PISS ME OFF THAT MUCH!" she tried to strike him again. This time he stayed and actually grabbed her mouth. He put all of his might into pushing her back.
"ADMIT IT!" he shouted. "ADMIT THAT YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO STOP ALL THIS AND BE WITH CRONA!"
"NEVER!"
Stein focused his wavelength into his hand and quickly gave an uppercut to her chin knocking her away. Out of rage and as a simple reaction, Medusa's tail came up and she whacked Stein as hard as she could to the side.
Stein flew and coughed up a small amount of blood right before almost falling into the vector snakes below. Not wanting to die, Stein forced most of his strength into his feet, jumped off the vector arrows, and landed on another nearby rock.
He tried to catch his breath as Medusa approached him. She brought her head right down to him. "What makes you think you could ever assume what I've been through? You talk about the horrors that Crona, yourself, and all your student's have endured, but have you EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT PAIN IV'E GONE THROUGH!" she roared in his face but he kept calm.
"Actually, I think about it every day."
Medusa looked at him confused.
"Every day I wonder what could have happened to a this person that could make her so evil. And I think about it not only because it's quite a mystery...but also because you're just like me."
Medusa continued to stare at him, growling a little at his words.
"And I think to myself..." he continued. "That I could've easily ended up in the same situation. What happened in our lives that was so different that it tipped the scales so that you would be so black hearted and I would be fighting for the supposed good side."
"Shut your mouth!" Medusa growled.
"No!" he shouted back. "Why don't you shut YOUR mouth and realize what it is you want to do already."
Medusa was infuriated. She was one step away from swallowing him whole, but for some reason she was frozen, not knowing what to do.
"Medusa..." he began. "Your the smartest person I know...but right now...you're the biggest fool I know."
Medusa's snake eyes narrowed. She then let out a roar. "DAMN YOU! Hundreds of vector arrows shot from the lake and rushed at Stein with full speed. Stein stood in place and every arrow missed him.
"I know you're not gonna kill me..." Stein said calmly.
Medusa then rushed at him herself. "I HATE YOU!" she screamed as she came at him. But the instant she would have crashed into him, all the vector arrows including the giant vector snake ignited, causing a gigantic explosion throughout the whole area.
As the smoke cleared, the situation hand drastically changed.
Medusa and Stein were locked into a deep kiss...
Vector arrows and water started to pour down like rain, drenching the two. Medusa's hair was flattened at wet from the water, her outfit was soaked, and Stein's coat was drenched as well but they both ignored it and continued to make out.
The two stopped and Medusa looked away, blushing. "God dammit, I hate you..."
Stein smirked. "Yeah, but you love me as much as you hate me."
She tried to hide her blush. "Shut up..."
Stein stared at her. He couldn't help but think her wet hair brought out her beauty. And whats more is that because her outfit was so wet , it stuck to her figure and showed off her magnificent curves. Stein couldn't help but be aroused.
Stein grabbed Medusa's chin and had her look at him. She couldn't hold back the blush anymore, her face was beat red. "So..." he began. "Are you gonna cut the crap and just help us already?"
"What makes you think that I would ever do that?" she said angrily at the same time trying NOT to look embarrassed.
"How about because I already know you're going to." said with a slight smile.
Medusa's anger faded. She turned her head away and sighed. "I can't..." she sighed.
"What was that?" he asked.
Medusa got angry again. "Because...Because...DAMMIT! BECAUSE I'VE ALREADY WORKED SO HARD! I'VE SPENT A VERY LARGE PORTION OF MY LIFE MAKING SURE THAT ALL THIS SHIT WOULD GO AS PLANNED!" Stein was taken a little bit by surprise when she started shouting. "EVERYTHING WOULD'VE GONE PERFECT, BUT THEN YOU HAD TO COME ALONG AND MESS WITH MY HEAD!"
"I messed with YOUR head?" Stein commented sarcastically.
"OH, SHUT UP, ASSHOLE! YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!
"WELL LET ME ASK YOU THIS!" now Stein started shouting. "IF YOUR PLANS HAD ACTUALLY GONE ALL THE WAY THROUGH, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE WHEN WE WERE ALL DEAD AND YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE LEFT!? WHAT THEN?!"
Medusa looked at him not knowing how to respond. She had never felt so much confusion, anger, and even sadness all at once. "I...I..." at first she could barely speak. She couldn't believe she was letting all this get to her. She was MEDUSA, the person none for having now love, no compassion, and no sympathy. So why of all times now was she allowing herself to get so flustered? Was it because it was Stein?
Eventually...an answer just came out... "I...I...I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE LET MYSELF DIE, OKAY!"
Stein's eyes widened. He couldn't believe what he just heard. "What...?" was the only thing he could think to say.
At first Medusa wished she could've taken that back. "I...I...I don't know." she started speaking a bit frantically. "If everything had gone according to plan, then there probably wouldn't have been any reason for my to go on, okay?"
"No, it's not okay..." Stein said firmly.
Medusa looked at him still angry. "WELL FUCK YOU! IT'S NOT YOUR DAMN CALL!"
"Medusa..." he said trying to get her attention.
"WHAT! WHAT THE HELL IS IT!"
"..." he did say something but she could not hear him.
"What!?" she shouted again.
this time she could hear him. "You're crying..." he said.
The anger dropped from her face. She put a hand up to one of her cheeks and felt tears rolling down from her eyes. She looked at Stein and saw sympathy in his eyes. This caused her to blush again as she tried to hide her face from him. "You bastard..." she said softly. "Why'd you have to go and make me do that..."
Stein just looked at her with pity in his eyes. This was no acting this time, Medusa the feared, evil, cruel snake witch was breaking down right in front of him. He took a step closer to her.
"Get away from me, Stein..." she said with sadness in her voice.
He took another step closer.
"Stein, I said get away." she said this time a little annoyed.
He put his arms up as he approached her which caused her to try and move away from him out of instinct. But she found herself unable to go anywhere considering they were standing on a rock in the middle of a lake.
"Stein, I mean it! leave me alone!" but as she tried to push him back, he wrapped both his arms around her and embraced her. She simply blushed and looked at him with confusion.
He then looked at her with be far the most simple and genuine smile he had ever made. "I don't know if there's a god...but I'm pretty sure I was put on this earth so that you wouldn't have to destroy it."
She just stared at him with her eyes slightly wide and still a little confused. But only seconds after he said that, she decided to just accept what was happening. She would never admit it, but he was right...about everything...
She nuzzled herself against him trying to draw in warmth because she just now realized how cold she was. She closed her eyes and laid her head against his chest. This caused him to smile because he could never see her doing this. "Comfortable?" he asked with a little sarcasm.
"If you ever tell anyone that this happened, I swear to any existing god that I will kill you."
He chuckled a little. "I'll keep that in mind." he looked around and tried to figure out which way the camp sight was. "We should probably get back to the others..."
"Just let a little longer..." she said not wanting to take her head away.
Stein allowed it and let her have her moment.
*5 minutes later...
Medusa and Stein had dried off and were about to head back to the camp sight. They were trying to come up with a reason for why they might look wet or why everyone suddenly went unconscious.
"I think I'll leave coming up with the excuses to you." Medusa said.
"That's fair I guess, I was the one who knocked them out."
Medusa smirked. "We could say that the madness got to you and I had to be the hero and snap you out of it."
"Oh, so you mean literally the exact OPPOSITE of what just happened?" he responded sarcastically.
"Just tell them whatever you want, Franken." Medusa said with a sigh and a smile.
"So is it safe to assume that you'll be on our side from now on?" he asked.
"It's gonna be kinda awkward but I guess so..." Medusa realized something and gave Stein an odd look. "Oh yeah, now that i think about it, you technically knocked out my daughter when you pulled that little stunt." she gave a sharp-toothed grin. "Ever touch her again and I'll snap you like a twig."
"Noted..." he then noticed her shivering a bit. Her cold blood won't let her warm up as fast as he has. So Stein took of his coat and put it around her.
She gave him a look but then accepted the offer and wrapped the coat around herself. The two started to head back both thinking that they would never again mentioned what had just happened.
"Medusa...?"
"Yeah, Stein...?"
"When this is all over, try to remind me that there's something I've got to ask you."
Medusa looked at him confused. "Why can't you just ask me now?"
"This definitely isn't the time or place for it." he responded.
"Um..." she was still a little confused but decided to just go with it. "Okay..."
As the two walked something very dark was happening in Medusa's mind. Something she was not aware of. Medusa was going to try and do good for real but something was slowly forming in her subconscious that would say other wise. Something dark, something evil, something malevolent...a monster...
EXTRA:
Medusa: Wow, we were literally the only two characters used in this chapter.
Stein: Are you complaining? I thought you loved the screen time and attention.
Medusa: Of course I do. I hope I one over all the readers with my flawless acting.
Stein: PLEASE don't tell me your still gonna betray us...
Medusa: What? No. I mean just to get all the fans' attention.
Stein: I don't think that's really a problem...
Medusa: Was that a compliment?
Stein: I guess so.
Medusa: *Cat face & Hugs*
Okay, I'm about fucking DONE with explaining why chapters are taking so long, so if your expecting an apology then go !#$$$#$ YOURSELF! But, hey, at least this chapter is much longer :D
Before I forget, I wanna give a shout out to a guy that reads my stuff named Mika Ninja. If your reading this, I just want to let you know that you are a VERY nice person and I appreciate all your comments.
I don't know when the next chapter well be out, but I had a lot of fun writing this one, so hopefully not long.
It looks like (most) of Medusa's true feelings have been revealed and now is the time where I say: YES, she is 100% good at this point, and if you can't except it then GO ! #$% YOURSELF! LIKE SERIOUSLY! TO THAT ONE DOUCHE BAG THAT QUESTIONED ME ABOUT THIS, ISN'T THIS WHY FANFICTIONS EVEN EXIST YA DAMN IDIOT!
...Well...I've got nothing left to say except...If your a follower or you check on this story regularly for updates...don't...only god knows when I will finally get one of these chapters done, so just check every so often. I just feel really bad that I've taken sooooo long to make this chapter that I've probably lost some readers, but if your sticking with me, then thanks :)