SOUL EATER RE:SONANCE

“It’s been a 2 years since the defeat of the Kishin, Asura. Kid has assumed the role of Shinigami after his father’s passing. I know he’ll do a good job but he still seems on edge sometimes. Prof. Stein and Ms. Marie are excused from teaching so they can raise their child, I wonder if he or she’ll be a meister or a weapon...maybe both hehe. Anyways, I hear we’re getting a new teacher this year, along with some new students. I’m taking my graduation exam next year, wish you would be around to see that Mama. I haven’t seen Black Star or Tsubaki around. But since they both already graduated I would assume they’d be on missions a lot. Good for them. Kid still wants us to keep fighting against would-be Kishin. He’s sent Soul out on many missions lately. Wish i could be there with him. But he’s a Death Scythe.. guess he has to answer to Kid over me a lot of the time. But that’s fine, I still have him going on my secret missions from time to time. Papa’s been stationed in England, I guess Kid didn’t want him here anymore. He still calls me everyday. I’ve begun to open up to him, after our fight on the moon. Hope you’re doing well wherever you are Mama. -Love Maka”

Maka closes her diary as she leans back in her chair. “Well now that I’m done with that, I guess it’s time to get some breakfast,” Maka said as she gets up “Soul’s the one that usually cooks, and Blair can’t make anything but Soul’s nose bleed. Guess I’ll get some at the academy” Maka gets dressed in some blue shorts and an apricot t-shirt. Along with a black jacket and her regular white shoes. Her hair in her casual long style. With a few strands tied back behind her head. She leaves her apartment and walks down the street towards the DWMA.

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Elsewhere in a western valley town. A young man in a black hoodie walks into a motel. He rings the bell at the desk as a receptionist comes to help him. “Room for one, S.E.” He says as he flashes a small black card with a white skull symbol on the front. The receptionist doesn’t say a word As she gives him a small key and points to the stairs. The young man thanks her and walks up the stairs to his room and once inside takes off his hood. “Ah, finally here, That 4 hour drive through the desert better have been worth it,” Soul says as he takes out a small device. “Kid says there was a Kishin egg spotting around here and since I can’t eat souls anymore. He’s given me this to capture the soul once I get it.” He goes to the window and looks out across the town. “The question is...where in this town is it” He exclaims. “Guess I could go ask around for any clues, I saw some shady people on my way in here. That’d be a good place to start” He leaves the motel and proceeds to walks towards the entrance. Bumping into a rather large man on the way there. “Oh my bad, I wasn’t looking where I was going,” Soul says while looking up at the man. To which the man just smiles from under his hood and cloak and proceeds on his way. After he was gone out of sight down the road Soul felt a shudder throughout his body, like a small electric shock. ‘What the hell was that, where’d it come from?’ He said as he looked around. “Could it have been that Kishin-egg? I better keep looking around”

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Soul reaches the town’s entrance about 5 mins later and finds the people he was looking for in a small covering. Not really a house or even a shack. Just some pieces of wood making a sort of awning. He walks up to them and asks if they’ve seen anything strange happening around town in the past few days. One of the men doesn’t answer and just looks at him. The second one, a more skinner man gets up and goes over to Soul. “I hear tell that at the stroke of midnight a gargling howl can be heard upon the rooftops. And a creature that looks man and a wolf can be seen jumping across the night sky. Then in the morning, a farmer has lost one of their livestock.” He says with a shaky yet serious tone. “A group of the town’s bravest men have banded together to form a hunting squad but they haven’t been successful yet.” Soul stands there as he listens to the man’s story after which he speaks up. “Thank you, And where exactly would I find this hunting squad? I’d like to speak to the leader.” “Oh..uh I don’t know. You could try the town’s main building. At the other end of the main street,” The man says as he points to the largest building in the town. “There might be a member in there.” Soul thanks him and begins to walk down the street towards the main building while he thinks to himself. “Could this be the kishin egg I was looking for. I never knew something or someone could become one off of eating animal souls. If that’s even what’s happening. Well even if it’s not, I still have a duty to protect the peace. I’ll take care of it anyways”

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He reaches the main building as he opens the doors and looks inside. “Hey! Anyone here?” He asks while looking around. No one seems to be there but Soul spies a few beer steins dripping so there were people here but he missed them. He closes the door and leans against it. “Hmm. What now? I could wait for them to get back but i am starving. Plus ill need to sleep if I’m going to want my strength at midnight.” So Soul begins to make his way back to the motel to get something to eat and take a nap before getting up around 9:30 pm. He grabs his jacket and the device given to him buy Kid and heads downstairs. When he gets to the lobby he sees 3 rather large burly men talking to the receptionist. They stop talking once they spot him, one of the men walks up to Soul and glares at him “Who are you? Shouldn’t you be in your room? The demon will..” He’s interrupted when Soul passes by him to talk to the leader. “Hey, are you the hunting group for that midnight creature?” Soul asks nonchalantly. “Yes, we are, I’m Goro. Who are you?” The man said, leaning over Soul. “The name’s Soul, I’ve come from the DWMA to look into the sightings of your creature and put an end to it. If you’d allow me to.” Goro looked at him and at the other 2 men “You came from DWMA? Must mean you work for the Shinigami. If you want to help ill allow it. If we even manage to find the damn thing.” “Cool, I’ll see you guys at midnight” Soul then walks out the door.

One of the men, the one that stopped Soul initially spoke up after he left “Boss why’d you allow him to come along? He doesn’t look all that strong.” To which Goro responds, “He came from DWMA, that means he’s specially trained to deal with things like these. Don’t let appearances deceive you.” “Alright boss,” Says the man as him, Goro, and the 3rd man leave the hotel. A few hours later it’s 11:50 pm approaching Midnight as Soul sits on a rooftop looking into the distance as he transforms his arm into a Scythe blade and looks into its reflection. “Wish you could be here to Maka. It’s not the same…” He’s interrupted as Goro yells from the ground that he has his men stationed at every corner of the city. So they can keep the beast contained while Soul does his work. Soul hops down several awnings “Thank You, but I can’t do this alone. I’ll rely on you to have my back if things go south” Goro smiles “Of course, this is my town after all.” They shake hands as a signal flare goes up in the North East side of town, indicating a spotting of the creature. Goro and Soul nod to each other as Goro takes off on foot and Soul goes over the rooftops. They arrive to see the creature standing there over one of Goro’s men, his throat slashed open and his severed arm in the creature’s mouth. Blood splattered all over the ground. The scene only slightly illuminated by the wavering light of the man’s soul rising out of his body. With a grin, the beast drops the severed arm and eats up the soul in one swift gulp. Its body surges with power as he now turns his attention to Goro.

Goro stands in shock as he then yells loudly in anguish and pulls for his large hatchet and knife. Charging at the beast with rage, “CHUPACABRAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

He swings his hatchet but is too slow as the Chupacabra leaps away onto the rooftops to escape, to where Soul is waiting. “Surprise” Soul slashes at the beast with his scythe arm causing a large cut in its chest and for it to shriek out in pain as it falls to the ground. It rolls around in agony before shambling to its feet a look at Soul and Goro with angry fearful eyes. Its greenish-blue fur bristling out like a cat. It breathes heavily and raspily as it tries to run away, but its speed is reduced due to its pain. It still manages to escape into an alleyway and give Soul and Goro the slip. “Where did that demon go?” Goro says in a loud angry voice. Clearly grief-stricken and with a hint a vengeance as well. “I’m not sure but it couldn’t have gone far with that wound. Tell your men to close in the circle. We’ll trap it.” Soul says as he pats Goro on the side trying to calm him down. “No I’m finishing this. That monster’s gone too far...he just killed my brother. I’m not letting him live another second.” After which Goro goes off running in search of the Chupacabra with Soul tailing behind. They later come to the town square as they spot a trail of blood. They follow it as it leads to the large building Soul had been to before. The door of which was swinging open. “In there huh? Okay” Goro growls as he kicks the door down and walks in looking around. “WHERE ARE YOU?? COME AND FACE ME MONSTER!!” he yells. Soul comes running up from behind yelling for Goro to get out of where he was standing. As he had noticed that the blood trail has stopped at a puddle of blood and Goro in his rage had missed it. Sure enough, sitting in the rafters above Goro sat the Chupacabra, his chest still bleeding but not as much as before. The wound beginning to heal. It dove down at him slashing his chest and face splashing blood everywhere and sending him crashing into a table and few chairs. Chupacabra looms over Goro ready to finish the job but before he could he was kicked into the bar by Soul as he stood between him and Goro. “Back off, I won’t let you touch him,” Soul says as he transforms his arm into a weapon. A serious look on his face as he looks at the beast as it jumps to its feet and lets out a loud shriek. Goro wheezes out a few words. His face a bloody mess. “Pl-Please finish h-him DWMA..” “I thoroughly intend to” Soul replies as he leaps off into combat.

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Meanwhile back in Death City it’s getting around 9:30 pm as Maka is hanging out at the Academy. “Hnngh Im soooo bored” Maka sighs as she sits at her seat in the main classroom. She looks each of her sides, at the seats that normally would belong to Black Star, Tsubaki, Soul, and the rest of the gang. “Why am I the last of us to graduate...im smarter than all of them, and I’m the one that defeated the Kishin. So...WHY AM I THE LAST!!!!!” “Sounds like someone is frustrated” a friendly voice said from the other side of the doorway as Kid walked into the room. Not in his normal Shinigami cloak but instead his black suit from when he was a student. “Ahh..Shinigami-sama I sorry for being here past school hours. I just…” Maka stammered as she tried to leave. “No its ok..please, Can i sit with you?” Kid said in a calm refreshing voice as he sat in the seat beside Maka’s. “Time sure flies when your with friends huh? One moment you’re a student, the next you’re the one running the whole operation. Kinda makes you wish for when times were simpler” “Yeah..but you’ve done so much for us Kid, I only wish i could be there to help to” Maka said as she took out a picture of their first group mission. The Magnetic Field Brew Recovery mission. Kid looked at the picture and smiled “Thanks but I’m not really sure if I’m right for this job...I always feel like there is someone out there that could do it better. You’re lucky, being able to be at home reading, watching tv, just hanging out. Freedom is a luxury not all of us get.” “Are you kidding, do you know how boring that gets. I wanna do something..get sent out on some missions. Help protect the peace Cro..” Maka fell silent as she sat back in her chair a few tears start rolling down her cheek “Crona left behind.” A moment of silence fell over them as Kid coughed to break it up “Well I have to be getting back to work, Liz’ll kill me if I don’t have those reports in by tomorrow morning” He walks to the doorway and looks back, “Thanks Maka, and take care.” “You to Kid” Maka replied. After which Kid left back down the hallway. Maka stretched in her chair as she stood up and started to make her way to the doorway. She stopped though because she thought she heard a noise coming from the top row of seats. But after a few seconds of silence she left. Once she left a little tuft of rainbow hair came rising out from under the desks.

Back at the Soul fight, Soul was caught in close combat with the Chupacabra. His arm had suffered some slashes but so did the beast, it shrieked at Soul as it lept in for another slash. Soul jumped to the left barely evading, “It’s getting faster...how is that possible? After all the damage its taken” He got his answer as the Chupacabra latched its mouth onto its open wounds and began to suck its own blood. The wounds then began to heal themselves as it also seemed like the beast was growing in size as well. Getting more body mass and muscle. “What the hell..it’s drinking its own blood to gain power. That’s just...really uncool and really disgusting to.” After it was done it jumped up to the rafters and started jumping across them getting fast and fast with every jump before he was nothing but a blur to Soul. After which he launched himself at Soul but missed, he made a huge crater in the ground where he landed though. ’Shit..i don't wanna get hit with that directly..or even indirectly” “How are you gonna beat him then?” Goro said. He had pulled himself into a safe place behind the bar. “Glad to see your alive..cause you’ll want to see this." He got into a defensive stance with his scythe arm in front of him “I'm gonna have to use..the Rhythm Hunter”

END OF CHAPTER 1

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