Welcome to Time VS Space! Sequel to Race for the Scythe Of Time. Make sure you read Race for the Scythe of Time before this.
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Soul, Kid, Aros and Ikas were standing across from Maka and Asura. A brooding silence was over them. Ikas was giving Asura a cold stare. Maka was giving Kid and Soul a confused look. Kid was giving Soul a look asking what they should do, and Aros was just smiling, not knowing what else to really do.
Maka broke this awful tension filled silence as she cleared her throat to speak. "So, Kid, Soul, Sora," She began eying the scythe and two gods. "What happened in there? Who's the blacked haired guy in the glaring contest with Asura?"
Aros raised his hand and smiled. "First, I kind of have to apologize for lying to you and Asura-san." He said. "I actually am Aros, God of Dimensions." He said, not wanting Maka to keep calling him Sora when he had no more need for that name.
Maka nodded. "And the other boy?" She asked confused by who Ikas was.
Now that they were in the sunlight, Soul and Kid were able to actually be able to see how sickly pale Ikas was. He was also quite thin, his bones seemed to be sticking out in any place they could. If he had his tattered shirt off, they would probably be able to see every single rib.
Both Kid and Soul were instantly worried, wanting to find something for the god to eat and a place for him to rest but he demanded they try and get Maka and Asura to aid them.
"And why does he look so malnourished and exhausted?" Maka added.
Aros grinned and slung an arm around Ikas' neck. "This here is my big brother Ikas, God of Time. My other big brother, Gyro, God of Space just got freed and is off plotting the destruction of the world." He said casually.
Asura stared at the two gods. "More…gods? I have more competition to become the strongest god in the world!" He demanded and his expression grew more enraged. "And ANOTHER god is trying to drown the world in destruction and madness?" He accused.
Ikas rolled his eyes. "Gyro isn't that pathetic to do something so sad as just cause chaos. He's going to literally destroy the planet. Quite possible enslave the human race also." He said. "He's not a minor god like you, Kishin."
With that Asuras scarves lunged at Ikas. "Take that back! I could kill you easily!" He yelled as his scarves grabbed Ikas.
But the moment they touched him they were ripped to shreds. Several scythe blades were protruding out of Ikas' body. They began to sink back beneath the skin.
"I wont take back what is the truth." He said and the two gods resumed there glaring match.
Maka nodded. "And why he looks this way?" She asked pointing to Ikas' frail fragile form.
Aros shrugged. "He's been spending thousands of years stuck in weapon form, using every ounce of energy he had to keep Gyro sealed away. I'm not surprised he is this exhausted. Wouldn't you be if you hadn't eaten in thousands of years yet were burning all of your energy all day long to keep a god as strong as you sealed in weapon form also?" He questioned.
Maka paused to think and nodded. "That does make a lot of sense. I get your point." She said nodding. "But what happened in that cave? It felt like an earthquake out here."
Aros laughed nervously. "Well…That's a long story. Anyways…..Kid…Soul…you explain to Maka what happened." He said backing away slowly.
"What? Coward!" Soul yelled as Aros began running away at full speed away. "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" Soul demanded.
Aros laughed. "I HAVE TO CHECK ON BASS! WITH GYRO OUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT EFFECT THIS COULD HAVE ON HIM!" He shouted back and was gone in seconds. Not because he ran out of view, but more like he just vanished in thin air.
"How did he do that?" Kid and Maka asked in unison, eying Ikas.
The God of Time rolled his eyes. "He's traveling through dimensions right now. That way of travel could allow him to travel from the south pole to the north pole in just twenty minutes." He explained as if it were obvious. "Anyways, you guys explain what had happened in there now, or Kid, so help me I will rip that shackle off of your wrist."
Kid blinked. "And that will be effective….how?" He asked and Ikas looked at Kid like the Shinigami was the worlds biggest idiot. Kid glanced at his shackle that was still on his wrist as he felt a slight burning sensation.
Groaning and rubbing the side of his head Ikas explained slowly as if talking to a three year old. "The shackle connects us. You may not be able to feel it, but there are tiny spikes in there that when you put it on, they inserted themselves into your wrist so it wouldn't easily be removed. If I rip it off, it will most likely rip your arm off, or the spikes will slice through a important vein." He said annoyed. "Technically, if that goes off of you, your soul wavelength can be badly damaged permanently." He said with an eye roll.
Kid nodded nervously and turned to Maka and Asura. "Well, to start things off, both Soul, Leo and I managed to get into the cave before the cave in at the entrance." Kid began with a calm authority in his voice.
Soul piped up his own comment with a shrug. "Leo caused that. As soon as we entered the cave, he turned into a douche bag." And continued to slouch as he leaned against the rock behind him. "He made me keep running, I ran over a weapon. I found out it was a scythe, the douche bag stepped on it breaking it claiming it was just a stone replica."
Kid continued explaining. "Soon those two entered and I felt a icy feeling on my soul and found where it was coming from then dug up Ikas from the ground." He turned to Ikas. "That icy feeling was you, wasn't it?" He asked in a tone screaming accusation.
"I may have been a weapon but my soul was still there." Ikas said. "What you felt was my soul, I'm surprised the Albino Scythe didn't feel it." He said eying Soul, who turned red with rage. "So, Miss Albarn, Kishin. Will you two aid us in destroying my brother Gyro before he destroys Earth?" Ikas asked.
Maka nodded. "As a meister of the DWMA it's my duty to protect and maintain humanity." She said.
"No." Asura said bluntly with no emotion whatsoever in his tone. Everyone stared at him in shock, except Ikas who still, since Kid had awakened him, had yet to show actual emotion.
"Why not!" Maka demanded.
Asura shrugged. "I'm not going to protect the world. If I have to, I'll kill the God of Time and eat his soul." He said.
Ikas rolled his eyes. "I'M the god of Time, Gyro is God of Space." He corrected.
"Yeah, God of Space." Asura nodded. "Anyways, if I start to fear him, I'll kill him and eat his soul, become more powerful, drown the world in madness, eat the other gods souls. And eventually drown this world into destroying itself." He said casually.
"Even if you eat Gyros soul, you wont be able to take on Aros and I." Ikas commented.
Asura glared at him. "You want to bet?" He asked.
Maka and Kid were about to oppose but Ikas beat them to it. "If I have to prove it, then I will." He said.
Asura stiffened. "I will kill you right here, right now, if I have to." He said, his scarves twitching, wanting something to rip apart.
"Fine by me, the humans and Shinigami will have to move a safe distance away, but I'm fine with a duel now." Ikas said boredly. "It's been a while since I had a chance to actually do anything, this would be a good test for my motor controls. You were trapped in your skin for 800 years right? You know how it feels after being brought out again, a bit stiff in the joints, needing something to get your muscles loosened up." Ikas said taking a few steps back.
Asuras scarves recovered his face. "Maka, go drag your scythe and Shinigami a good distance, we don't want you guys getting killed while I am killing the Scythe of Space." Asura said.
"Scythe of Time. Gyro is the Sword of Space." Ikas corrected once again. "It's not hard to remember that I'm Time. Gyro is Space." He said as he began stretching his arms over his head. "But Kishin is right, you do not want to be in the crossfire."
Maka, Kid, and Soul all nodded nervously as they began retreating.
"Are you sure you want to fight the Kishin?" Kid asked. "It might be a difficult fight considering you've been in weapon form for so long." He pointed out. Ikas just gave him a blank look and Kid felt like the chain was suddenly ice by how cold the metal was on his skin.
Maka grabbed Kid by the back of his shirt and dragged him farther from the battlefield. "Asura, don't kill him! He's a friend!" Maka yelled at Asura as they got a good distance away.
"Fine! I wont for now!" Asura yelled back as he began charging up Vajra.
Ikas just stood in front of him, thirty feet away. He looked calm, and not even the least bit scared. Nor did he look like he was going to move at all. As Asura fired the shot, Ikas just stood still.
"MOVE IKAS! DODGE!" Kid screeched.
But a strange thing happened. One moment Ikas was right in front of the blast. The next, Asura was in his place and Ikas was where Asura was when the blast was fired.
"What the he-?" Asura didn't get a chance to finish as he was hit by his own attack. The next moment Ikas had him pinned to the ground, his foot planted firmly on the back of Asuras head as he pushed the kishins face into the ground.
"How did he do that?" Soul breathed.
Asura shot his scarves at Ikas but they only touched air as Ikas was once again gone from where he was there and was several feet away from Asura.
Asura kept throwing attacks at Ikas, and the same thing kept happening. Whenever it got close, Ikas would vanish. If Asura shot Vajra Ikas would vanish at the last moment and during that moment Asura would end up right where Ikas had been. It was confusing, Soul kept swearing that Ikas had to been faster then Blackstar during Soul Resonance.
All the while during the battle, Kid felt an itching sensation on his wrist the shackle was on.
Finally the battle was over with Asura some how ending up on the ground tied up with his own scarves. Ikas sitting on him, scythe sticking out of his body, ready to strike Asura if he showed signs of attacking.
Ikas untied Asura and got up as the scythe retreated back into his body. "How did you do that?" Soul demanded.
Ikas walked away from Soul and towards Kid. As he was beside Kid, his back to Soul he glanced over his shoulder and gave Soul a blank look. "I am the God of Time." He said before vanishing again.
Kid sighed as Soul began yelling out is annoyance that he wouldn't show up again. Maka turned to Asura. "Can you please help us?" She asked.
Asura looked away. "No." He said. "Nothing will change that."
Maka frowned then slowly shook her head sighing. "I would have never thought to have had to resort to this." She said.
Soul and Kid glanced at each other in confusion.
'Resort to what?' Kid mouthed to Soul.
'I have no idea.' Soul mouthed back.
Maka had an reluctant expression as he looked away from Asura. "If you help, I'll give you a pair of my panties." She said.
"I'LL HELP!" Asura cried joyfully (1)
Kid, Soul, and Maka sweat-dropped at that as Asura eagerly grinned like a little kid getting candy for Christmas.
"So, with that shall we go?" Kid asked. The others nodded and Asura raised his hand. "Yes Asura?" He asked.
"Your father isn't gonna let me in Death City moron." He commented.
Kid thought a moment. "If you stay in Death Room, do not eat souls, and let Father know that you're on our side, then you could possible stay." He said and glanced around for Ikas. "He must have left for some reason…" He said.
Three days later, no one had still seen hide nor tail of Ikas. And Kid still couldn't get the shackle off his wrist.
Which he was attempting at the moment.
Kid put some oil around the shackle on his wrist in an attempt to make the skin under it more slick so he could slide the shackle off. He began pulling it down wincing in pain. "Damn!" He said as he felt his skin start to bleed. "Those damn spikes are still in there!"
A tingling sensation filled his wrist as he began pulling on the shackle again.
"Are you suicidal or something?" Ikas asked from behind him.
Kid jumped and turned around. "When and how did you get there?" He asked surprised.
Ikas shrugged. "I'm able to turn invisible." He said casually.
Kid looked surprised. "Really? That's neat."
"No." Ikas retorted. "I was using sarcasm, idiot. I just transferred my essence into the shackle so I could rest up and regain a bit of my strength I lost while keeping Gyro in place." He said. "Anyways, no one told me the Demon God slash God of Madness was a pedo who's obsessed with that Maka girls panties."
Kid scratched the back of his head. "Well, even I didn't know that. This is the first time I ever saw those two working together." He openly admitted. "Anyways. You can go straight into the shackle?" He asked.
Ikas nodded. "I just said that."
"I know, but….you're the reason the shackle keeps itching, burning, or turning icy cold." He accused glaring at Ikas.
The god of time sighed as the shackle began a tingling sensation once more. "that shackle is a piece of my essence. The feeling it puts on your wrist will match my emotions." He explained.
Kid nodded, realizing the reason the shackle tingled was because of Ikas was irritated.
At him.
"I think we should introduce you to Honorable Father." Kid said changing the subject.
"Great. I get to meet the new 'Major God'." Ikas said sarcastically as he followed Kid.
Kid raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean? He's the God of Death, Lord Death himself. He's pretty powerful." Kid commented, "One of them most powerful beings on the planet."
The shackle began burning, like it was on fire.
"No. He is not." Ikas said through clenched teeth. "A Death God is a minor god. That is there classification. There are several gods more powerful then him." Ikas said.
This caught Kid's curiosity. "There are more gods besides your brothers and Asura, Father, You and I?" Kid asked.
Ikas nodded. "There are several gods. Each have there own little role. Your father just happens to be the only one that actually interacts and lets the humans know he exists. The others prefer to be unknown."
"Who are the others?"
Ikas seemed to be calm again as the shackle felt normal.
He thought a moment to remember the other gods names and there role. "The major gods are, in order, the big three, which is Gyro, Aros and I." He began. "Then there is the Gemini Twins; Éire and Jiao God of Light and God of Darkness. Sapphire, Goddess and guardian of Children, Ector God of Balance," He explained.
Kid nodded eagerly. "And the minor gods?" He asked.
"Ursula Goddess of Water. Fiare God of Fire, Seraphim Goddess of Life, Shinigami the first God of Death, then your father the new God of Death, Asura the Demon god, and then you, the mini-Reaper." Ikas said.
Kid's eye twitched a bit at the 'Mini-reaper' comment but kept walking. "That is a lot of gods and goddesses." He said whistling a bit.
Ikas nodded. "Most of them were trained by my brothers and I, they were our closest friends. Our best allies…" He trailed off a bit a smile forming. "Eire and Jiao were little pranksters. Always in the form of children, never to age. Eire loved making the light around us turn into a strobe light, I swear he blinded Gyro at least fifty times a month. Jiao kept tricking Aros into thinking it was night when it was only noon."
"Ector was obsessed with everything being perfectly balanced. He also believed in getting even, he created the 'An eye for an eye' saying. Ursula was a beautiful woman…. Heh from the waist up. Waist below would often times change to different bottom halves of sea creatures. One day it would be an octopus bottom, the next, a sharks or dolphin bottom. She created the mermaids into her image." Ikas' lips twitched at the corner a bit.
Kid nodded. "They sound interesting and nice. What about the others?" He asked.
"OH, Fiare was a hothead, always challenging Gyro to fights. Those two were rivals in every sport imaginable in that time. Seraphim always ended up brining back to life the plants and animals they accidentally would kill or hurt during there matches. She hated death and thus Shinigami but also, he was her brother so she also loved him. Those two balanced each other out just as Eire and Jiao did and just as I and my brothers did." He said.
"What about Sapphire?" Kid asked, he had not mentioned her yet.
A warm smile formed on Ikas' face. "Sapphire was a beautiful woman. Her hair was long and golden. Her eyes, warm, welcoming and promising protection. They were like a peaceful safe forest. She was kind. Treated everyone equally, from the most innocent child to the worst, most wanted killer. But she would become deadly when she was protecting children from harms way. If someone would try to harm a child in her care they would die the moment she found out. But she loved everyone, and everyone loved her….especially Gyro and…" Ikas cut himself off and shook his head. "She was a great person, loyal and caring." He ended.
Kid nodded, getting the feeling he wanted to say something else but stopped at his fathers door to the Death Room.
"We are here." He said to Ikas.
I hoped you liked this.
I think I'm becoming like Z-raid XD That panties thing was a comic by her that Yuki showed me on DeviantART.
Anyways, all those gods I made up except for Asura Kid and Lord Death. Shinigami was the original Grim Reaper, thus making Kid and Lord Death his descendants. Shinigami is the only of those gods who is dead for sure, I don't know which other ones of them I will have died while Gyro and Ikas were stuck in weapon form for those thousands of years.
Wow, nine pages! This was long, very long~. I hope you enjoyed reading this fanfiction. Because I enjoyed writing it.
Next chapter: Ikas will meet the DWMA while those searching for him will have returned. A fight will break out while Ikas explains what Gyros plans are to the DWMA. Meanwhile Gyro and Leo are finding old allies and Aros is finding people to aid him and Ikas in brining down Gyro. What Leo is will also be revealed.
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