Soul Eater: The Next Generation

Chapter 13

Spike steps in front of me protectively, “Who the hell are you?”

The boy yawns, “I’m not interested in you. I’m here to kill Ellie.”  The boy pushes off the wall towards me.  He strides confidently to where we are standing.  In one movement he pushes Spike away so that he falls onto the floor.

“Oh. So pretty.  What a shame that you have to die,” the boy says stroking my face.

“Get away from her! Ellie! What are you doing?”

I’m frozen.  I can’t move.  I can’t react.  Who is this kid? What is he? My vision is blurring.  Why am I reacting so badly? I’m not even conscious of what is going on around me now.  I’m overthinking it probably.

“Ellie!  Help! He’s going to kill me!” Spike screams.  That makes me snap out of it.

I swing my leg up, into the boy’s gut, kicking him away from Spike.

“There you are,” Spike says as he transforms, but not before I see his face.  It’s bruised and his forehead is bleeding.

“Sorry.  I’m here now.”

“Oh, so the pretty girl attacks now.”

“Trust me, there’s more to me then my features.  But, I’m pretty sure you’ll realize that when this battle is over,” I smile sweetly, twirling Spike around my hand.

“Oh, you’ve got a mouth on you.  I like that.”

I feel Spike’s soul tense.  Wait how can I feel his soul if we aren’t resonating?  Before I have time to think about it, the boy lunges at me.  I deflect his attack with the butt of the scythe.

“Hm. Good reaction rate too.” He attacks again to the same result.  He attacks a good ten more times all with no avail.  By the end of the last attack he is panting heavily.

“What? Are you getting tired already? Poo, no fun,” I jeer at him. His face twists with anger as he lunges at me again. “You are a slow one, huh? You just attack, attack, attack, but you never actually make any leverage.”  I’m pissing him off, and he is putting more energy into each attack and getting more exhausted with every attack.

“Well, why don’t you attack me back then? If you want a real fight?”

“Spike, didja hear that? He wants ME, to attack HIM!”

“Boy, this guy has a death wish, huh Ellie.”

“Well, I might as well give him what he wants.”

“WITCH HUNTER!” We both scream simultaneously. The resonance comes quickly.  More quickly then usual.  With little, to no energy put through it. What is going on?

I swing Spike down and across at the boy.  The attack hits him and thrusts him down the alleyway. I then proceed to do three rapid- fire attacks at him.  By the end, the boy is lying face-up, defeated.

“Please… Kill me.  They will do it anyways for being defeated. Just kill me,” he murmurs before passing out.

Spike transforms out of weapon form. “What should we do with him?”

“We’re taking him to the DWMA, of course,” I say as I pick up the teen’s body and throw it over my shoulder.

“What? Why on earth would we do that?”

“Because, that was an assassination attempt of a DWMA student.  Whoever this guy is needs to be imprisoned.”

“Who is he anyway? Is he a Kishin? Or a wizard?”

“Neither.  I have no clue what he is.  Which is all the more reason that we should take him to Lord Death,” I say walking off towards the Academy with the boy on my back.  This kid is the priority, but I also have questions about what Spike and my souls are doing.  Why was resonance so easy? Why could I sense what he was feeling, even when I wasn’t focusing on his soul?  Lord Death has to have some answers.

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