A/N: So uhm, i'm beginning to wonder WHAT I AM DOING WITH LIFE!

T=T

Mari's eyes were wide as pain rolled over her and her heart felt like it stopped as she felt her body mutating. She looked back and saw dark, black feathers, covered in her blood. She began to shake as she saw that the wings were bigger than they had been, reaching and stretching to the black of the room.

She could feel them digging into the walls, fusing to them, and hot pain raced over her in another wave. She gasped as her teeth turned to the needle teeth, and her fingers grew into long claws.

She heard the chair snap to pieces and her body lifted off the ground a little. She looked to the side, horror filling her heart as she saw that the skin on her arms was moving in a way that didn't look human.

Mari screamed as giant, dark, shadowy tendrils shot out of her body and suck into the walls, suspending her off the ground completely.

'What's happening?' Kyoki asked, but Mari's mind was screaming and she didn't hear the question.

Arachne walked forward, not able to resist the urge to get a closer look at Mari. "Wonderful! She is beautiful!"

"Lady Arachne!" A small man standing at the back of the room said. "It's dangerous!"

Arachne ignored him and walked right up to Mari. "Beautiful..." she said.

"Beautiful...?" Mari asked, her small bit of sanity hiding in the back of her mind. Some of the black tendrils wrapped around her wrists and stretched her arms out. Her head lolled, the pain overcoming her mind. She closed her eyes, small tears slipping out.

"Mosquito, get a sample of the tendrils, and some of her feathers." Arachne said, her voice sounding greedy.

"It's dangerous, Lady Arachne. I don't think-" he started.

"I'll do it myself then!" She said. She reached forward to Mari, her hands reaching toward a tendril that wrapped around Mari's middle, under her chest and around her waist a few times.

Arachne paused as she looked at Mari's stomach, her skin smooth and soft, the three keshin eyes dark and red. She leaned in, looking closer at her stomach. It moved like there was something under her skin, in her stomach.

"Oh." Arachne said simply, right before Mari's stomach ripped open in a spray of black blood and dark tendrils shot out and tore up the right side of Arachne's face.

"Lady Arachne!" Mosquito said, running forward.

Mari trembled as the tendrils pulled back into her stomach, fitting between all of her missing organs. Her stomach closed and her tears dripped down onto the floor.

Arachne was laughing while holding her face. "You got me there!" She said in her sultry voice.

"Lady Arachne! I'll have her exterminated for hurting you!" Mosquito said, pulling out a small phone to call someone to do the job.

"No! You fool!" Arachne said. She took her hand away from her face and her magic started healing her. "We'll keep her. She's too dangerous to get close to, but we can use her as bate to get the others to come. Though, we'll hide her for a little while. Break her, so when they find her, she goes berserk." Arachne turned, laughing a little. "Mosquito, I want you to seal this room." She said, walking swiftly out of the dark room. "Leave her in solitary confinement, they did that to her at the academy. It should break her." The door slammed shut and Mari was in darkness.

Mari was alone, in the dark, and no one was there. Her body was still, and her heart felt like it was slowing down.

'Close your eyes, Mari.' Kyoki's voice said, and Mari did so. Her body fell unconscious and her mind fell into a deep sleep.

The tendrils held Mari's body up, while the giant, black angel wings grew. Feathers began to grow from the tendrils, causing them to look even more like shadows, fluttering and flickering. Black feathers soon began to sprout from Mari's flesh, too.

'So.' Kyoki said. 'This is what a true monster looks like.'

* * *

Mari was in the streets of Death City, but something was off. The stones beneath her feet seemed to move slightly, and there were no people around her. She walked down a familiar path that led to her old house, wondering if it would still be there.

She saw the building and began to run to it. She burst through the door and saw that none of the lights were on, creating an uncanny darkness. She saw that one of the lights was on, in the kitchen.

'Hello, Mari!' a happy voice said. Mari looked over to the table and saw... Mari. No. Kyoki, her long blue hair braided down her back. 'I made tea!' she said, sounding like a little girl.

Mari walked to her and sat down at the table. It looked like a little kid's tear party; delicate cups set out, a flowered teapot. 'Kyoki...?' Mari asked and the other girl looked up.

'What is it, Mari?' she asked.

'Where are we?' Mari said, her eyes flitting around the room, little things out of place.

'We,' Kyoki said. 'Are in a place that is made from your thoughts and memories.' She said. She stood, walking to the kitchen door that had closed. She pulled it open and Mari stumbled back as she saw endless darkness.

'Wh-what!?' Mari said.

Kyoki shut the door and turned. 'I think...' she said. 'After your body mutated, you went into a coma or something like that. I cant see anything but darkness out of your eyes.' Kyoki said, pouring some tea that was bright pink.

'How do I wake up, Kyoki?' Mari asked.

'I don't know.' Kyoki said.

Mari walked over and sat down across from Kyoki. She took a cup in her hand and sipped the tea, starring out of the window at the endless darkness. 'I hope I wake up.' Mari said absently.

'Why?' Kyoki asked, eating a little cake that had appeared out of nowhere. 'I like it here, with you. Way better than it was with those other two idiots.' Kyoki took a bite of cake. 'And there's cake.' She added slyly.

Mari ignored her and kept starring out the window. 'I bet time passes differently in here.' Mari leaned against the table and let her head rest, her gaze off in the distance.

* * *

Mari's eyes slowly opened and she could feel pain all over her body. She heard someone yelling her name again and again and she tried to move, her body feeling as if it was trapped by something.

"Where..." Mari's said, her voice sounding odd after not having been used for... How long had it been? "How... l-long...?" Mari asked, her eyes slipping closed as she tried to get a hold of her bearings.

"Mari!" I voice sobbed and Mari kept her eyes shut because of a terrible light pouring in from somewhere. There what sounded like a million voices pounding in the room and Mari wanted away from it.

"Where am I?" Mari asked again, hoping someone would answer.

"Mari?" a voice said. "Is that really you?"

Mari opened her eyes, trying to see through the bright light. "Yes...?" she said, not exactly sure what was happening.

She looked around herself, trying to remember...

She saw the dark, feathered tendrils and faint memories began to flash back to her. Her eyes went wide and her lips parted, a scream escaping her mouth. Her eyes were wide with fear as she remembered everything. Arachne, the pain, everything.

Mari could feel the tendrils holding her body up loosen and lower her to the ground. A bunch of different people ran forward. Mari tried to push herself up, her body trembling. She felt something holding her down to the ground and the people stood back as the tendrils moved.

Mari clawed the ground, her hands not claws anymore. Her fingers split open and her blood speckled the stone floor. The tendrils began to move back into Mari, her skin splitting to except them.

"What the hell...?" Someone said.

"They're going... back..." the other person stopped.

Mari could feel the tendrils moving back into her and she curled into a ball with pain. Mari's body felt cold and began to lose feeling.

"Mari!" Someone said and their arms went around her. They lifted her and cradled her weak form. "Mari... Mari what happened?"

Mari tried to open her eyes. She saw the face above her and tears began to spill down her face. "K-Kidd?" she asked.

Kidd looked into her eyes, searching. "You remember me? After all this time?" He brushed hair out of her eyes, his tears falling onto her face.

"Kidd... what do you mean... all this time?" She asked.

"You don't... it's been..." He stopped.

"Kidd," Mari asked, her stomach feeling weird with fear. "How long have I been in a coma?" she asked.

"W-we don't know how long it was... but we found this place, Arachne's "lair", five years ago." Kidd said, not meeting Mari gaze. Her throat closed and she tried to take his hand, but she could barely move her fingers. He saw her hand moving and her grasped it. "We sensed a big soul wavelength, and we found this room. At first you were barely recognizable. It's been..." Kidd trailed off. "It's been hell without you, Mari."

"Kidd... it's okay." Mari smiled, all of it fake. "I'm awake. Everything's-" she jerked as she felt pain tear through her. She shakily looked back and saw the two black angel wings. I had thought they had just been a bad dream, a figment of my imagination. My breathing got rapid as I saw they were physically fused to the walls.

"Mari... it's okay." Kidd said. "We're going to get you out of them." He said, his voice scared.

"Mari." A man's voice said.

Mari looked up and her heart stopped for a moment. "St-stein?" she asked, confused. "But you were... you were in a coma... and Bella..." Mari said, her head spinning.

"I woke up three years ago." He said. "Bella's eight..."

"So if... Bella is... eight..." Mari felt anxiety begin to fill her chest. "I... I was missing... for... for..." Mari said, her hand beginning to shake.

'So it was a long time.' Kyoki's voice said.

I started shaking.

"E-eight years...?" Mari said. She felt Kidd take her hands and hold them. Had it really been eight years?

"Stein, we need to cut these things off her." A man's voice said, but Mari wasn't able to see who it was.

Stein crouched next to her. She still couldn't believe that Stein was here. "Mari." He said. "I have to get you off of these things." He said.

Mari nodded. "Stein... there's a snake in my stomach." She said, remembering what Arachne had done to her.

Kidd flinched. "Mari... Stein, we need to-"

"Later." Stein said. "We cant even mover her right now without her being in a state of utter agony."

Mari looked up at Stein, her body shaking a little. She sat up, blood rushing to her head. "Pl-please no..." she said. Her head was still spinning with confusion and her vision started going fuzzy.

"Kidd, catch her!" A girl's voice said as Mari fell backward. Mari's body arched in pain as the wings pulled at her. "Stein!" the same girl said.

Mari looked up and saw a faint form that she recognized. "Tsubaki...?" she said.

Tsubaki smiled. "You remember me."

"Mari?" another voice said.

Mari struggled to keep her yes open as she looked up. She saw her friends. All of them were there. But they all looked different. Older.

She saw Ray and she was crying. "Mari!" the blonde said and she fell next to Mari. She wrapped her arms gently around her and Mari pressed her face into Ray's neck, the warmth comforting. "Mari... I couldn't s-save you, again... I'm so so-sorry!"

Mari lifted one of her hands and put if on Ray's arms. "I-it's okay Ray... I'm okay... really..."

"Shut up!" Ray said and Stein reached out his hands to take Mari away from Ray. "You are anything but okay, damnit!"

Mari closed her eyes and smiled sadly. "What's a little more pain...?" Mari said. Mari looked around. There were so many people from the DWMA. It felt like the entire school was there. Mari looked back to Stein as he spoke.

"Mari, I'm going to put you under." He said. She nodded and he bent next to her. He pulled out a swab and started to clean a patch of skin.

"What happened?" Mari asked.

"When we found the base, five years ago, we didn't know you were here. But the immense wavelengths your soul was sending out let us find this place. We waited to attack, and came up with a system to take the building in one attack. Arachne fled and we didn't find this room because she locked it with strong magic. We found it last year, and found the entrance was sealed. We had engineers working on the door for a year, and just today, we got it open. Almost the entire academy is here. We didn't know what would be in here. There could have been tons of Keshins. We didn't know. The wavelength was to big to know."

Mari nodded. She didn't anything and Stein looked up. "Are you alright?" he asked. She nodded again. "Ray," Stein said. "Could you let go of her, please?"

"No." Ray said and held onto Mari a little tighter, causing a jolt of pain to go down Mari's back. She gasped and Stein grabbed Ray's wrist.

"Ray, please let go of her." He said and Ray let go of Mari, seeing she was in pain. Stein went back to Mari. "Okay." He said. He pulled out a syringe and Mari pulled away into Kidd. "Mari," Stein said calmly.

"You don't get it..." she said. She looked down at the ground. Her other friends turned. "Stein... she tore me open... with one..."

"I know." Stein said.

Kidd turned her face towards his and looked into her eyes. He kissed her forehead, tears welling up in his eyes. He didn't say anything, just put their heads together and was quiet. Mari closed her eyes and sighed.

Stein gently took the shot and put it in her arm. Mari bit her lip as memories flashed. She drew in a shaking breath and squeezed her eyes closed tighter. Stein moved away and she relaxed a little.

"Put her over here." Stein said.

Kidd moved, carrying Mari as gently as he could. He put her down next to Stein, her back facing the great, monstrous angel wings that were fused to the walls. They tapered down and led down into Mari's back, right on her shoulder blades. There were small feathers protruding from her back and leading down even to her legs and the front of her stomach, tiny and black.

Mari's eyes began to close as Kidd moved away. Here body felt numb and it was nice because she didn't feel any of the pain. She smiled a little, but it began to fade as she felt the absence of arms around her. She had had the feeling of being held for a long time, and now it was ripped away from her as suddenly as a delicate flower in a strong windstorm.

Someone took her hand and Mari opened her eyes a little. She saw Kidd holding her hand, Ray next to him, tears streaming down her face. "Don't cry, Ray..." Mari whispered, her words starting to slur together.

Ray held her face in her hands and started crying harder. She looked at Mari through her fingers. "I-I'm sorry..." she said. She unzipped her jacket and leaned forward. She tucked the jacket up by Mari's face, taking her other hand too.

The faded purple fabric touched her face and she knew it was something special to Ray, that helped her get through hard things, and Mari smiled, her vision blurring completely, then going dark.