Peter walked over to her and gently took the knife from her. "Hey it'll be alright. Your friends are gonna do everything they can to help. You'll get through this." He spoke softly and comfortingly. Peter thought to himself. "Wait. Maybe... What if..." He said. "That could work. If it's how that Dreema woman says it is. She wouldn't want the soul after that." He said.
Zadock stopped chanting and held his hand up with his aura glowing in his palm "consider your next words carefully, what ideas do you have and why are you trying to help when you're partially to blame for this?"
"Are you kidding? When it's my fault that's when I should be helping. I don't know why I set him off. But, I did. So I take responsibility for what happens next." Peter said. "Listen when that guy Jeremy talked about regrets Dreema said that when mixed with the happy it was like putting together two things that don't mix. Something she doesn't want. Maddy is in a state of shock, depression, and terror. So. What if we add the opposite. Give her something to help her love life. A soul that's happy. To Dreema that's like rotten eggs." Spider-Man said.
Maddy frowned. "you guys can't fix this.." Tears kept falling to the ground. "I..really don't deserve to be a hero anymore.."
Peter turned to her. "No. If there was ever a time to keep being a hero, this is it. It's what made me a hero." Peter said. "Listen I'm like you. I've done so mang things I wish I hadn't. But those things taught me to help people." (Okay choice time. I honestly think that it might help her to keaen Peter's identity and Ben's story. But that's a long story so I can do it, abridge it, or just not your choice)
"I went against my one rule..." She looked at the dead body. (do an abridged version)
Peter took off his mask. "Listen I understand. But the best way to take responsibility for this is to move on and help others. My name is Peter Parker. And I was just a kid who suddenly got these powers. And when I didn't use them to stop a thief. That same thief killed my Uncle. I've felt what you're feeling more than once. It's up to us to prove we're more than our past. To take responsibility for it... And prove who we are by our next actions." He said. "Be more than what happened tonight. Prove with your future actions that you are a hero." He said.
"He's right you know." Kala said poofing in. "You did what you did to help Joey, now we're going to help you. my shadow filled in me in what happened." Maddy sighed just looking down."okay."
Zadock closed his eyes at all the story telling and the talk of feelings to everyone it would look like he was getting angy but Kala could tell he was stressing and she could guess it was because he didn't know how to help and he felt useless. "Look Maddy I don't know what to tell you to make you feel better about taking a life, honestly I'm not the one to give advice about life and death when I bend it on a daily basis. All I want to say though is that all these stories share a theme of self forgiveness, and while it may not happen right away it has to happen eventually otherwise you're likely to become the worst part of yourself."
"Thanks Zadock..I'll try to forgive myself." Maddy said wiping tears from her eyes. Kala went over to Zadock. "We'll figure out something."
Zadock made a distracted sound as he stared at Maddy's soul and began to consider if and how he could fix the situation.
(You do understand these characters are having a moment right lol)
Maddy just went to being silent. Kala made one of her books appear and started flipping through the pages.
Kala looked at Peter. "Hmm that may work"
Dru looked at Dreema "one last chance before I take this to powers higher than us." Dru said calmly as he out a hand on Joey's shoulders.
"Good luck" She chuckled before disappearing.
There was nothing regarding the devil cell in her book.
" that doesn't mean we won't try." Kala said.
Dru sighed and said "Joey I have a proposition for you to save Maddy to starve Dreema and to probably piss her off what do you say?" Dru focused on rousing Joey to look at him and hear him.
"Some of us have been trying to remove it for centuries." He said as he pulled his shirt off showing a skull with firey eyes on his back.
"What can we possibly do?" He asked.
"Hmm..yours looks different than hers." Kala said. "Hmm." Maddy stood up and started walking away.
"We can starve her of her food source, your feelings. While we do that you could call a favor with the council of me starting with The immortal."
"Their all different, each one is different based on the person" He replied
"But Dru... she's a god... she feeds off of the suffering of all living beings... even the ones beyond our atmosphere." he replied
