~Your p.o.v~

I looked at my mother, my eyes hard and she stared at me intently. She started laughing, holding her sister's soul in her hand. "Child!" she said, holding her stomach as she laughed. She stopped laughing and looked at me. "Use your power, or I'll kill someone you love." She said.

I stiffened. "No." I said.

She looked at Asuka holding Mari. "Well then." The woman said, a minion coming forward and taking medusa's purple soul. "I'll kill Mari, and tell everyone it was you."

My blood went cold, and Asuka looked up at me. "No... no one would believe you..." I said, my hands shaking as my resolve began to crumble.

Arachne's eyebrows lifted. "But would they believe you if Mari's blood was on your hands?" she said.

I trembled, frustrated tears beginning to fill my eyes. "Please..." I said. "Don't.."

"I don't need you to bring my sister back, just, it would be faster if you did it." The woman said. "My engineers have created a machine to bring souls back to life."

I fell to my knees as she started walking to me. "Please stop." I said, regret filling my chest. Mari was going to die now, and probably Asuka, and it was all because of me.

Arachne's hand wrapped around my arm and she began to pull me towards Mari and Asuka. "Now, how to kill someone with black blood?" she mused.

I pulled at her, but I had always been weak, and I couldn't even get my shirt free. She threw me down before Mari and pulled long knife from the folds of her dress.

She leaned down and put it in my hands. "Kill her." She said.

I looked at Mari. 'No...' I thought. 'What am I doing?'

There was a push on my shoulders, and I fell forward, my eyes growing wide as I watched the knife plunge into Mari—

No. Asuka flung her body out and the knife stuck into her stomach, missing Mari. I gasped, my hands still on the knife, Asuka slowly beginning to bleed.

She looked at me, smiling. Mari seemed to feel Asuka's blood dripping down onto her face, and she opened her eyes, and they widened and she saw the knife.

"Asuka?" she asked, her body rising. She tried to stop the bleeding, and Asuka finally seemed to realize what she had done, and smiled as she realized she had saved someone. She put her hands on the wound, Mari trying to help.

"Oh, oops." Arachne said, laughing a little again. My hands dropped form the blade, my eyes wide with fear. What had I done?

            "Seems like we got the wrong one." Arachne said.

Asuka's eyes closed as her blood soaked Mari's hands, and she fell forward. Mari silently caught her, and brushed the hair out of her eyes. "Hey... hey..." Mari said, tears forming in her eyes, as if she had been in the same place before, watching someone die in her arms. "You're going to be fine..." she said.

There was a loud crash and the castle rumbled again, and I looked up. Forms were at the end of the hallway, their bodies silhouetted against the light. There were yells and I tried to make out their faces. I turned, seeing Arachne was gone, everything.

Three people stopped around me, and I looked into Soul, Black Star, and Kid's faces. They looked worried, and they started asking questions.

"Are you okay, ____?" Kid said, searching me for injuries.

"Did she hurt you?" Soul said, looking at Asuka's blood on my hands.

"Did she make you do anything?" Black Star asked, anger in his voice.

Tears fell down my cheeks as I pointed at Asuka. Stein was next to her and Mari, Atsuki and Rin there as well. Mari had silent tears falling down her cheeks as she silently took her shirt off and began tearing it into strips. She tightly wrapped them around the blade handle and the deep cut. Rin took her jacket off and put it on Mari's shoulders, tears forming in her eyes too.

I was silent, and the three boys looked at me, their eyes questioning. "She pushed me." I said, a sob catching in my throat. But Arachne was right. They were going to blame me, because I had the blood on my hands.

A strangled noise came from Mari as her hands slipped from the cloth because there was so much blood. She took in a breath, everyone silent. She wiped some of the blood from her forehead.

Stein put a hand on Mari's shoulder. "It's too deep." He said.

Mari screamed and ripped the knife out of Asuka, blood flowing stronger. Rin gasped, Mari putting her hands on Asuka's stomach. White hot dark magic flashed over her whole body and black flames burst over the wounds.

Atsuki reached out a hand to stop the insane girl, until he saw the fire burn out. All of us watched as Mari took in deep breathes, all of our eyes going to her chard fingers, and the tiny white scar on Asuka's smooth skin.

Asuka gasped, and coughed once, her eyes slowly fluttering open. Mari pulled her close to her and started sobbing. "Don't you dare die!" she cried.

I smiled, tears falling from my cheeks, even as Asuka looked at me over Mari's sobbing shoulder, and I saw emotions flick behind her eyes; fear, pain...

...Anger.