A New World

A girl, who seemed to be in her teens, lay across the cold and hard cobblestoned floor; unconscious. Her breathing gradually slowing down and deeper. The angry thunder and the chilling rain were the only thing that was there for her.

A silhouette slowly creeped towards her and gently caressed her face. Revelling, memorizing, and etching her visage in his memory so he would not ever forget.

A knock came into the house of a lone husband and wife, who weren't blessed with a child of their own, in the middle of the night.

The wife, who was a light sleeper, got up on her feet and slowly stalked towards their door. She peeked at the small whole on their door but found no one. Thinking that maybe the person who knocked couldn't have gotten far, she decided to open it and found the girl sprawled just across her doorstep.

She cried for her husband to come and help her get the poor girl inside. The husband rushed downstairs in a heap of panic and carried the girl inside.

The wife, tended to the girl and nursed her. She changed her clothes, kept her warm and fed her bit by bit.

Three days passed and the girl had stabilized but she still wasn't waking up. The wife got worried and so she sent her husband to go fetch a doctor. The husband returned an hour later with the doctor in tow who examined her but found nothing wrong.

"It could be that she doesn't want to wake up. She prevents herself from waking up."

"Is that even possible, Doctor?" The wife asked, worried for the girl who weirdly snatched her heart.

"It could be. I do not see anything wrong with her health so I advice that you keep on talking with her, encourage her to wake herself up, and tell her you love her. She is your daughter, no?"

The wife could only nod at the doctor's words before her eyes drifted to the sleeping girl's face. The husband thanked the doctor in behalf of his wife and saw him out. He could clearly see that his wife had been taken in by the girl they happened to pick on their doorstep.

"Kami, you should take a rest. I will watch over her for you." Her husband said as he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"Spirit. Earlier, the doctor asked me if she was my daughter." Kami, the wife, spoke slowly while not tearing her gaze away from the girl. "I couldn't answer him. I couldn't tell him that I only found her on the street; in front of our doorstep."

"You didn't need to tell him everything. You don't need to answer it."

"That wasn't it. For a long time, we weren't given a child. For a long time, despite doing almost anything, I wasn't able to conceive one -"

"And I don't hold it against you." Spirit cut her.

"But what if she's the one?" Kami said and turned to look up to the man of her life. "What if she's the one to complete us, Spirit? What if she's the one to complete our family?"

"I don't know about that, Kami. She's not waking up so we don't know where she's from, or what happened or who she is. What if her family's waiting for her return? What if they're worried sick about her? Can you bear that?" Spirit asked and sat beside his wife. "I know you love this girl already, I can see it in your eyes, but until she wakes up and we find out her identity, we can't decide rashly, okay?"

"But Spirit, no one's looking for her. No one's issued a missing person case." Kami reasoned out.

"Kami you're just tired. Take a rest first, okay? Then we'll talk later." Spirit said with a kind smile and Kami nodded at his words. Maybe she was indeed tired that's why she could say those.

"Okay." She answered and turned back to the girl. "Wake up soon, Maka dearest." And placed a kiss on her forehead.

"Maka?" Spirit asked, unfamiliar with the name.

"I think it suits her." Kami said with a smile. "Well then, watch over Maka for-"

Kami was cut when a shrill scream escaped from the slumbering girl's lips and she suddenly shot up.

"Soul!" she screamed as she let her eyes scan the room she was in unfortunately not spotting the person she was looking for.

"Soul?! Where are you?!" She cried and turned to the shocked couple, who stood frozen at her bedside. "Who are you? Where's Soul?!"

"De-Dear, how are you?" Kami asked and slowly sat beside her.

"Who are you? Where am I? Where is Soul?!" The girl repeated.

"Sweetie, we don't know of this Soul but we found you unconscious at our doorstep three days ago. Do you remember your name? What happened and how you ended up here?" Kami asked gently.

"You... are humans." The girl spoke softly and did a second look around. "So I am in the human's realm."

"What are you talking about? What's your name, little girl?" Spirit asked this time.

"My name is fille de macabre. Maka for short." Maka introduced herself.

Kami and Spirit both gaped at her before they turned to each other and looked back to her, the surprise still in each of their faces. Kami smiled widely before she picked Maka's hands up and smiled at her.

"So you really are 'Maka'."

"Do you know me?" Maka asked and arched a brow at the beaming lady.

"No. It's just that I find it amazing to have guessed your name." Kami smiled kindly. "How did you get here, Maka? What happened to you? Do you remember?"

Maka's brows scrunched together as she tried to piece together the fragments of her memory about what happenned to her, but oddly enough, she got nothing.

"I-I don't remember. Wha-What's happening? Why.. Why can't I remember anything?" she muttered to herself.

Kami looked worried as she held Maka's shoulders.

Maybe… Maybe this is the sign? Maybe… I… Maybe we can keep her as our daughter.

"Maka?" she started and grabbed the troubled girl's attention. "If… If you can't remember what happened to you, why don't you stay with us for the time being?"

Her suggestion shocked not only the girl they just found collapsed on the road but also her partner in life. They both turned to her, who wore a very kind and gentle smile, with a confused expression.

"Kami… What are you saying?" her husband was the first one to ask.

"Ye-Yeah. Do you hear yourself? Me? A person you do not know?" Maka added, unbelieving that someone was as crazy as her- letting someone they do not even know live in their home.

"I don't see the harm. Maka is far away from home, right?" Kami asked to which Maka just nodded gently.

"And we, both, didn't have the luck to have children of our own. Isn't it an advantage to both parties? We will have the family we've always wanted and you, as long as you cannot remember what happened and find out how to get back to your place, will have a place to stay at for the time being."

"I… I guess that works as well." Maka agreed, thinking that the woman had a point. As of the moment, she doesn't know how she'll return to her own realm and she doesn't know what happened to her and Soul. "Then, I'm in your care from now on, Kami-san."

"Oh, no need for such formalities. Since you're our daughter now, you can call us Mama and Papa. C'mon, try it honey." Kami said with a big smile.

"Mama, Papa." Maka spoke and nodded to each of them, acknowledging them.

Kami felt a surge of emotion take over her whole system as she flung herself towards Maka and engulfed her into a warm and tight hug as warm liquids streamed down from her eyes.

"I've always dreamed of hearing that. Oh my Goddesses! I have a daughter now. Spirit!" Kami cried and turned to her husband, who was clearly fighting back the tears in his eyes. She gave him a gentle and warm smile before she spoke gently. "Spirit, we have a daughter."

Spirit could not contain it anymore as he embraced his wife and daughter tightly, afraid that if he'd let go he would wake up and find it all to be a dream.

"Oh my God! We finally have a daughter! We have a daughter Kami!" he repeated and kissed his wife lovingly.

"Oh sweetie. Thank the Gods for you." Kami whispered as she held Maka in her arms and rested herself in Spirit's hold. For that moment, they did seem like a family. Maka loved that warm feeling she got as she was encased in their embrace. She felt happiness. She felt love.

And without hesitation, she loved the couple, who adopted her, back. She completed their family.

This is a new story I made. I hope you give it lots of love and review. Please support this new story of mine! Thanks!

Xoxo,

Halloween G.