Soul Eater - A Soul That Feels

The Link

Torrent took the opportunity and reached out her hand. She made her skin touch Justin's cheek and she gently pressed her forehead against his.

Slowly, she began to bore through his soul. Torrent's soft soul, her kindness, slowly seeped into Justin's harsh soul.

"Torrent!"

She closed her eyes as she fell to her knees with Justin.

Stein gritted his teeth and turned to Giriko. He held out his hand. "Let's do this. We need to make sure nobody interrupts her."

For a moment, Giriko just stood there. He clenched both hands into fists. "Let's do this." He held his hand out and grabbed Stein's offer. "I won't lose him for that."

Stein turned and flicked his right hand out, swinging Giriko close to the ground. He brought it to his body and made contact with Gopher, who quickly kicked off and shot into the air.

'He's fast. Remember that he's nimble and he's capable of doing a lot of damage.'

'Right. What's his weakness?' Stein asked, not going for Gopher's bait for chase.

'Attack Noah. It'll make Gopher go ballistics.'

'Got it.' Stein turned and kicked off, running full blast at Noah, who had engaged with Sid. 'Get down!'

Sid ducked as the wide swing came from behind him. Noah used the book to blow a blast stronger than necessary to back away and slow the blow. The rotating blades grazed the pages and Noah noticed Justin.

He kicked off and sped towards Justin.

'He's going for Justin!' Giriko yelled through the Resonance Look.

Sid shot after Noah when Stein saw it.

Torrent raised her left hand to Justin's face as tears began to flood from both of them. She had to place her madness within Justin to stop whatever was driving him mad. Torrent's lips slowly parted and she gave Justin a little kiss.

Stein felt like he'd hurl, but then he saw her eyes open when she'd begun to back away. She sat there as Justin's eyes opened. His natural soul flooded the area around him and Torrent smiled at Stein. She didn't need the madness when she was that close to Justin! She was human...

Torrent suddenly grabbed Justin and he turned his head to see Noah.

A flash of maroon and Torrent was standing beside Sid. She touched her chest and then connected to the Resonance. 'We're okay. Justin's here.'

There was a pause and then Torrent dove forward, sliding on her stomach to avoid a blow from the book.

Justin ejected a clamp and it twisted her into the air so she could land on her feet.

'Let's take him down!' Justin yelled. There was a conviction in his voice.

'Good.'

Torrent jumped back. The other three jumped back as well. Their shoulders collided.

Torrent brought her arms up, her left curling around her body, her right curling around her head. Justin's shimmering guillotine hung before her and the shackle was behind her. Stein brought Giriko around and was holding him like a tonfa. His left hand reached over his right arm and he touched the opposite end of Giriko's blade, his stance wide. Kami brought Spirit up and then jammed the cross into the ground. She used her left hand to hold the end and her right turned her body away from the blade. Sid crouched low and held Mira close to his arm, his body in a defensive position.

They all closed their eyes.

Maka saw it. Their souls began to fuse and link. Slowly, eight individual souls vanished. One soul formed between their backed shoulders. She gasped.

Although it was small, it was super dense. There was a pair of cat ears on it's surface, as well as a clamp coming off the little wisp on the top. A chain with sharp teeth moved over it's outside, right over a stitch that held it together from the left to right slash. There was a small star where hair would be clipped back, as well as a black cross etched on the right side, below the stitching. A silver sheen covered it and there was a small black circle on the top.

"That soul..."

Torrent opened her eyes first. Sparks flew across her skin and through the links of Justin's chain. She twisted to the left and the guillotine flashed through the air.

Noah had used that time to release a bunch of soldiers from his book. They began to charge and she used the swirling guillotine to slice them down. The way the chain swung around her resembled Black*Star's movements. She lunged forward and threw the shackle. It opened and grabbed one guy.

He grounded his feet and she pulled the chain taut.

No words, but Sid ran down the length of the chain and used the foot soldier to jump into the fray. That had knocked the guy out.

Torrent turned and brought her arm over her head. She literally made him face-plant.

She had made him do it in front of the kid. Her eyes fell on them and they saw Stein's determined stare looking through her.

Torrent released Justin, who appeared beside the downed man. His crosses were back. He touched the man and gave him a quick prayer before he held his hand out. Again, no words.

Stein reached down and grabbed him as he ran passed.

Justin went flying back, his chain wrapping around another soldier and knocking him into the others. Justin remained in his weapon form as Stein kicked of a tree to change directions and took down several of them that were going for the kids.

Justin did a leap-frog over Stein's head, pushing down with his hands to be sure he cleared Stein's head. He grabbed onto a tree and swung to crouch on the branch.

Stein was suddenly struck through the shoulder by a sharp object and he was pinned to Justin's tree. His grip slipped and Giriko crouched down, five feet under Stein's feet. He got up and held his hands as fists in front of him. The sharp chain dangled between his clenched fingers. He raised his hand and flicked. The chain shot out.

Justin swung down and used his guillotines to keep his feet to the tree as he took hold of the spike. He pulled and it came free after the fourth pull. Justin hopped down and put his hand to Stein's shoulder.

Giriko just looked over his shoulder and then forward again. He smirked.

"How are you so coordinated?" Noah asked, a hint of fear under his frustration and anger.

Giriko wanted to answer, but kept his mouth shut. He smirked and his sharp teeth shone in the light.

"Wanna know?" Kami's hand touched Noah's shoulder. She pulled his shirt and flung him to the ground. "Nobody can sense our wavelength anymore. We can speak without opening our mouth." She lifted her foot and, almost as if paying homage to the original, stomped in Giriko's fashion. Her foot narrowly missed the rolling Noah as he got away.

But he only got so far when a huge burst of wavelength shot through his body.

As he fell, Torrent's smoking fist was where his back had been. Her hood was down and her hair was still settling. Her eyes held Giriko's wildness, but Stein's determination as she got out of Stein's stance. "We're all connected. We've got the Resonance Link holding our souls together. There's nothing we can't achieve together." She lifted her foot in the same way Kami had done.

The difference was the ice shaping out the bottom of her bare foot. It had something red tinting it to the sun's rays.

Torrent brought her foot down.