Finding the Way Home

2: Waking Up

Soul's POV

The last thing I remembered before waking up was drowning in the tank Maka and I had been placed in. I remembered all the pain in my lungs from not being able to breathe, and not even having the ability to change into a weapon from the lack of energy.

When I woke up, I was lying in Kid's bed, and I oddly felt no pain in my lungs anymore. I didn't focus on it too much, and I got up.

How am I not dead? I asked myself.

Maka's POV

I remembered banging on the side of the tank Soul and I were drowning in, each time farther apart than the last and softer from the lack of oxygen. After that, everything was black, until I woke up in a bed I recognized as Crona's.

Why am I in Crona's bed? I asked myself. And why am I not dead?

Black Star's POV

I remember fighting the kidnappers off with Tsubaki in my hand and Kid and Crona helping. I felt myself get stabbed, multiple times, but despite the pain I kept moving. I was fighting to save my best friend, before it was too late for him and Maka....

I woke up in Tsubaki's room, but everything looked different. It wasn't as decorated as it used to be, before all that happened. There was simply her bed and an alarm clock on her night stand. I was only able to recognize it as her room because of the bed frame.

I stood up, and I realized I felt no pain at all, like maybe it had all been a dream. I looked at the time on the alarm clock, and it read 10:30 am.

Maybe I should go to the school. I thought.

I walked to the school, getting there at about 11:00, and as soon as I walked into the door, I was shocked.

I didn't recognize a single person in the hallway.

"Who the hell are you?" I asked someone, but he ignored me.

After a while of just walking around, wandering why I didn't recognize anyone, I walked into Stein's classroom.

But in stead of Stein at the front teaching, Crona was up there. And he

"Did I end up in some alternate universe or something?" I asked myself outloud, though nobody even looked my direction when I said that. "What the hell is going on?"

I walked up to Crona and waved my hand in front if his face. "Come on this joke is old already!"

Maka's POV

I went to the DWMA, hoping to just find my friends and for them to tell me it was all a dream, that we'd be going to the beach house tomorrow and prom would be the next day. When I walked in, I couldn't find anyone I recognized in the school, until I ran into Black Star, who was freaking out in the hallway, yet nobody looked at him. Which knowing him, was the reason he was freaking out in the first place.

"Black Star why the hell are you freaking out?" I yelled at him, even though I knew it was because nobody paid any attention to him.

"Because, Maka, I can't recognize anyone here! Nothings the same!" He yelled at me. "And don't you think with me freaking out like this at least someone other than you would have given me some weird look by now? Nobody has even looked at me since I got here! I walked into Stein's classroom, but Crona was teaching, and Stein wasn't even in there, and Crona looked older!"

"Will you stop yelling, Black Star?" Someone shouted behind me, and Black Star looked up hopefully, then made a dissapointed face.

"Seriously, it's like we're ghosts or something...." Black Star said, and I saw Soul walk up to me.

"I know. The first place I went was the death room, and Shinigami Sama wasn't there, but Kid, Liz and Patty were. I think their in charge now. Either way, my presence wasn't even acknowledged." Soul said. "Maybe all of that wasn't a dream. Maybe we're all really........" Soul trailed off.

It got quiet between the three of us after that. There was only the sound of students laughing and talking in the hallways.

Then Black Star said something. "Sooooo...... how are we supposed to get back?"