Will They Let Us Down?

By: Carol Molliniere

A/N: Based on my reaction to the latest chapter of the Soul Eater Manga. Spoilers and dark themes ahead, and it contains an OC.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize. WiS and her Protectors I own.

This AU is written before I knew of the events of the fourth GoC book. Whatever. This is fanfiction.

"You've seen it too, haven't you?"

Mother Nature looked up at the voice on the Sun. Her face changed to a grim frown, and she nodded.

"The Grim Reaper is dead," she said. "And his son has taken his place. But the battle on the Moon is ever bleaker, and the forces of Shibusen are weaker and weaker, even with the new Reaper there with them."

"And the Man in the Moon is already insane," the Woman in the Sun reminded Mother Nature. "He has been insane for a long time; that is why his Moon Clipper takes on that appearance."

"And what of your Sun?"

"I'm fighting the last vestiges of madness seeping in. It's getting more and more difficult to keep it up, though…"

Mother Nature spotted the fragility in her voice. "Pitch already has the Fearling Prince he wanted. The Guardians have long given up, and they were replaced by Shibusen, fighting the demons and madness that Pitch and Asura have brought into the world. Your Protectors are losing their strength against the forgotten values of the world."

"So I told them to return to humanity as well," the Woman in the Sun concluded. "A horrible decision, I know, but it saved them from the fate of the Guardians. And then we trusted the world to the weapons and meisters of Shibusen."

Mother Nature looked back up at the Moon Clipper, once renowned and in glory. Now it was a face of insanity, sneering down on everyone. On that Moon a battle was going on, one to save the world once and for all. If they won, then Asura would lose. Pitch would lose. And the world would be at peace.

And if they lost…

"Will they let us down?" she asked herself.

I haven't been this afraid to write a fanfiction since "Fear".

And I know, nothing makes sense. But I think that's how it would go if ROTG were incorporated with SE. (Be glad it's not.)