Angels of Death
Maka Albarn sat next to her weapon partner Soul. They were waiting for Professor Franken Stein to arrive and begin their class for the day. The other students were all talking about random rumors around the school but the biggest rumor was the new student coming from Europe. As Maka starred at the page in her book she could over hear other students speculating about the fact that an 18 year old miester was on his way to study at the academy without any prior schooling in this field. "Why is he starting so late?"Maka thought to herself when she noticed that Black Star and Tsubaki had gone missing from their seats.
"Hey guys look!" A student yelled from the window. Other students began to congregate around the windows. Maka and Soul stood up to walk over to the window when a voice from the front of the class called to them.
"Maka, Soul," it belonged to Death the Kid who was standing next to the entrance of the class room, "it seems that Black Star has gone to challenge the new student with Stein acting as a supervisor."
"Yea!" Pattie, one of Kid's weapons jumped in, "Black Star said he is going to show the new guy who is boss around here!"
"Pattie you should really calm down," her sister Liz said putting her hands in front of her chest in a calming gesture. Soul and Maka walked down to the trio and followed them out of the class.
"What do you say Maka?" Soul asked, "I could go for ring side seats."
"Yea let's go," Maka said beginning to jog toward the front of the school, "Black Star might like to see some support." When the group arrived at the front of the school a large group of students had already gathered.
"Where is this guy?!" Black Star yelled standing with Tsubaki in front of the large crowd. They were all facing the stairs that led up to the school.
"Maybe he decided not to show?" Tsubaki said timidly.
"Yea," Black Star scoffed, "I wouldn't want to fight a great assassin like myself if I were him anyway!"
"Hey look someone's coming!" A student yelled from the crowd. Black Star smirked as Professor Stein walked up the stairs, an older teen was with him, he wore a black suit with a white collared shirt and a black tie, he also wore a long trench coat. Dark sunglasses covered his tan face, short black hair was visible on the back of his head.
"Bout' time he showed up," Black Star laughed confidently.
The teen looked at Stein, "Why is everyone out here? Is this like a welcoming party or something?"
Stein laughed and looked at him, "That kid with the blue hair is a very confident and accomplished weapon mister, he thinks he'll surpass God and as such he felt a need to challenge you, you're a big thing around here right now Damien."
"Hmm," Damien looked down and then up at Black Star, "Black Star is it?"
"Yea that's my name," He answered Damien, "you'll do well to remember, I'm the man that will surpass…"
"God?" Damien interrupted him "Yea Stein already told me that."
"How dare you interrupt me?" Black Star asked angrily, "Tsubaki! Let's go, Kurisigama mode."
"Right," Tsubaki said transforming into a shapeless yellow light and then forming into two sickles chained together.
"You don't even have a weapon!" Black Star yelled grabbing Tsubaki and getting into his fighting stance, "What's wrong? Couldn't find a partner?"
Damien smirked and reached into his suit, he pulled out a large silver revolver. It had a wood handle with a crimson rose on either side and green stems on the bottom of the Barrel that led to the roses on the handle. "Oh such perfect symmetry!" Kid yelled from the crowd. Damien aimed the gun at Black Star and it began to glow red. It transformed into a large Scythe with three blades facing in one direction and three more on the bottom facing the opposite direction, it had a small silver cylinder in the center of the pole. "Now it's gone…" Kid mopped while starring at the floor. Damien twisted each side of the scythe and the cylinder split in half revealing chains that connected the two separate scythes.
"You're copying my weapon?!" Black Star yelled. "Who the hell do you think you are?" He charged at Damien, throwing one of his scythes at him. Damien spun one of his scythes and then slammed it down into the oncoming scythe, pinning it's handle to the floor.
"Is he really copying Tsubaki?" Maka asked.
"No," Stein said, "that's Damien's own weapon and you just saw all three forms."
"What he has three weapons?" Maka's eyes widened, "He's never even attended a weapon miester academy!"
"That didn't stop him from being my brightest and best student," Stein smiled, pushing up his glasses. Maka looked up at Stein in a mix of disappointment and disbelief.
Black Star jumped forward at Damien swiping with the scythe in his hand, Damien dodged back and grabbed his wrist with his free hand. Black Star dropped Tsubaki and jumped back wincing in pain. "Argh," He held his arm, "What did you just do?"
Damien looked at his hand and then at Black Star, "I guess I over did it."
"What did you do..?" Black Star asked again.
"Oh I'm sorry," Damien smiled weakly, "I just shorted out your wave length so that you wouldn't be able to hold onto Tsubaki without hurting yourself. You should be fine now." Damien pulled his scythe out of the ground, releasing Tsubaki. Black Star grabbed her and pulled the other scythe to him. He looked at Damien angrily and charged at him, swinging wildly. Damien dodged over and over until he saw his opening, "How do you expect to surpass God with such anger?" Damien smirked, he wrapped his chain around Black Star's wrists and threw him to the floor.
"You think I'm going to lose to you?" Black Star said standing up, "Because I wont! Tsubaki go, Enchanted Sword mode!"
"Oh look he's using his full potential," Stein laughed.
"Come one Black Star finish this loser already!" Soul yelled.
"I don't think he can," Maka thought to herself noticing Damien's calm expression as he watched Black Star prepare for Soul Resonance.
"Let's go Tsubaki!," Black Star said once she had transformed, "Soul Resonance!"
"This should be interesting," Damien smiled as he recombined his weapon into one scythe and stood with the scythe behind him.
"Shadow Star!" Black Star shouted charging toward Damien. As he prepared to block, Black Star teleported out of sight catching Damien off guard. Damien moved to avoid Black Star's attack from behind but the slash took his sunglasses off and they broke as they hit the floor. Just then Maka saw that Damien had light hazel eyes, she lightly blushed when she realized that she was staring. "Go shadow puppet," Black Star said causing his shadow to attack Damien. Damien blocked by slashing away the shadows and then jumping back.
"Alright play time is over," Damien said throwing his scythe at Black Star. It swirled toward the young meister but he jumped over the scythe and looked at Damien. All that was in front of him was Damien's trench coat on the floor.
"Where did he…" Black Star was suddenly interrupted by three scythe blades penetrating his left lower leg from behind. He called out in pain as Damien pulled down on the chain, ripping the assassin out of the air. He came down, slamming hard into the ground. The impact caused Black Star to cough of blood. Damien then threw his other scythe down next to the assassin's face.
"I promise you'll live but let this be a lesson for breaking my glasses and leaving me almost blind in this sunlight." Damien sneered from above the other meister and reached down to remove the scythe from Black Star's leg.
"Black Star!" Maka, Soul, Kid, and the Thompson Sisters all screamed in unison. Damien stepped away from Black Star and was suddenly shocked by Stein from behind.
"Damien didn't I tell you not to go over board?" Stein asked angrily.
"Sorry," Damien coughed as he fell to the floor. His weapon suddenly transformed into a beautiful young girl with long black hair and pale skin, her eyes were red and she wore a black collared shirt with a black hoodie over it that had fur on the inside of the hood, a short black skirt, black knee high boots and a Crimson Rose in her hair. She caught Damien in her lap and held him.
"Damien are you ok?!" The girl yelled concerned.
"He'll be fine Liliana," Stein answered for him.
"I'm fine don't worry," Damien winced and stood up. Liliana clung to him and helped him up. "I just need to get used to that again."
"Bastard!" Maka yelled running up to Damien as Soul transformed. Damien looked up as Maka's Scythe came down on him. He dodged to the side and disarmed the female miester, taking her to the floor and staring into her eyes gently.
"I promised him that he would live," He whispered, "I don't break promises." Damien stood up and watched as Stein carried off the injured assassin. Tsubaki looked over at Damien with anger. He walked over to her, his hands in his pockets. "I'm very sorry, I lost my temper and wanted to end the fight quickly." Liliana handed him a pair of sunglasses she had pulled out of her jacket pocket. He placed them over his hazel eyes. Tsubaki's expression became calm.
"I know he'll be fine," She said looking down, "I'm sorry that this is how you were…"
"No worries," Liliana interrupted her smiling, "Damien and I are used to people attacking us first, our first soul came from a demon that thought I was dinner. If Damien hadn't walked by at that moment because I was late for our first date I'd be dead."
"You two are a couple?" Maka asked surprised.
"Well yea," Damien said laughing, "what better partner can a miester ask for than the one he loves." Liliana blushed and smiled. "Anyway, I never got introduced to you so maybe you can introduce yourselves on our way to Black Star's recovery room?" Damien began to follow Stein and the rest of the group followed as well.
"Lord Death you asked to see me?" Stein asked as he entered the main part of the Death Room. Spirit and Lord Death were standing in front of Death's mirror.
"Yes," Death said, "I was wondering what Damien was thinking when he fought Black Star."
"Well Lord Death," Stein began when he was interrupted by Death the Kid's voice.
"Father," Kid walked up to the three adults, "Who is that new student? He's never attended any kind of school as a Miester yet he is extremely skilled."
"I think it's better if Professor Stein explains son," Death said looking at Stein.
"Well," he began, "Damien Wolf was once a student of mine. His parents gave him up at birth and at that time Spirit and I took him in. We raised him until he was about 7 years old and in that time I trained him as a meister. He quickly learned how to control his soul wave length and he was even able to use Spirit as a weapon, although Spirit was a bit tall for him."
"I see," Kid contemplated the information and then asked, "So why only until he was 7?"
"The DWMA sent him away," Spirit jumped in, "you see one day when we were at the park just relaxing Damien saw a crow flying and became fascinated with its wings. He said he wanted to be able to fly just like them."
Stein frowned, "That's when my more scientific nature began to show and well…"
"He spliced a Raven's DNA into Damien's genetics in an attempt to give him wings like a raven…" Death finished for the scientist, "after that I had no choice but to separate him from Stein."
"It worked you know," Damien suddenly appeared behind Kid along with Liliana. "I don't feel like ripping this nice suit but I do have a pretty cool set of wings. They're not that bad actually and Lord Death I regret that you sent me away because Stein was the closest thing to a parent I had."
"How did you.. oh nevermind," Death sighed, "Damien I'm very sorry but at the time I was only doing what I saw was best."
"Yea and I had to teach myself everything I know now," Damien looked slightly angry.
"But if you hadn't come to Europe we would have never met love," Liliana said placing a hand on his shoulder.
"She's got a point," Spirit laughed, "plus didn't you get our letters and books? How else would you have gotten so good and trained the other two?" Damien nodded with a smile.
"What?" Kid looked at him surprised, "what other two?"
"I have helped teach two other Meisters who are about my age," Damien told him, "the second one, Kyle, should be arriving tomorrow. He expects to beat Death so when he meets you he's going to want a fight Kid, trust me."
"Thanks for the warning," Kid said, "well that's all the information I wanted for now."
"Stein," Damien said, "Do you mind if Liliana and I stay at your place for now? We don't exactly have a place at the moment."
"Of course," Stein smiled, "you're always welcome in my home Damien." Stein walked passed Damien, "but for now we should get to class." Damien nodded and grabbed Liliana's hand, leading her with Stein and himself.
"Two more.." Kid sighed, "I just hope they all turn out like Damien in the end."
"He really has a good heart," Spirit said, "if he didn't I would have killed him for putting his hands on my Maka."