A Missing Soul

Chapter 4

Soul's eyes slowly flickered open...

The colors were different this time, as he turned his aching head to the side. He felt his heart beat slowing down with every breath. Suddenly the colors became shapes, and everything came into view except...he didn't know where he was. 

He was no longer in the valley surrounded by cliffs, but lying on bright green grass surrounded by mountains. A brown tent lay above me, darkening me from the sun. I slowly lifted up my arm until it came into eye view. There was a long, tan bandage wrapped around my arm. My head lifted up off of the ground, and the pain from before was gone.

"Be careful" Soul froze. His eyes averted over to the right where a brown haired boy sat on the grass.

"Wh-what?" Soul stuttered.

"I said be careful, you're still healing" He said without even glancing towards Soul.

"Who the hell are-" Soul said angrilly before a pain hit his stomach hard, he fell back onto the grass in pain.

"Like I said...be careful" The mysterious boy stood up off the grass and kneeled down beside Soul. He grabbed the grey bottle over on the side and held it to Soul's lips, "Drink this" Soul kept his mouth shut. "If youd don't drink it you will die" He said getting a little irritated. 

Soul slowly wrapped his fingers around the bottle and slowly drank a sip. He let go, and turn to the side...it tasted disgusting! He tried to spit it out but it was already half way down his throat by now. 

"Now...was that so hard" The boy muttered before turning his back to Soul. 

"Who are you?" Soul asks calmly, but it wasn't hard to hear the intense anger in his voice. 

"My name's Phoenix" He said turning around. Soul looked up at the silver streaks running through his hair. 

"What's with your hair?" Soul asks.

"Look who's talking" Phoenix says with a smile pointing towards Soul's messy, blood stained white hair. 

 Soul laughs. "Wh- what happen?"

The smile disappears from Phoenix's face. "I don't know, I heard a scream, and followed the echoes. That's when I found you...what do you remember?"

Soul looks away as he starts to remember falling off the cliff...and...Maka..."Maka..." He mutters.

"Who?"

"My..partner, my..friend, we were in a battle, and I was thrown over the cliff....but...Maka wasn't..."

"Who were you fighting?"

"I don't even know...we were just sent on a mission, and it got out of hand..." Soul looks down and tries to hold onto the tears. He looks up at the boy, "I have to find her" Soul tries to lift up off the ground, but quickly falls back.

"I don't think you will be saving anyone...at least not right now..."

"You don't understand I have to find her...no one knows what happen, it's up to me..."

"Listen, I'll go back and search the area, but you need to stay here and rest, because you cant help anyone of you're dead" 

Soul thinks for a second..."Okay.."