Prologue:
It felt frail and weak, nothing compared to the greatly powerful being it was once known as. The lack of souls travelling between the boundaries of life and death was… most disappointing. The lack of death in the world of Remnant meant that Death's powers were slowly draining from him. No souls meant no food for Death. The less food, the weaker you get, until the point where you are unable to continue, death for mortals, losing your job for Death.
The options were limited. They were limited, now there was only one option left. Cross the boundaries between life and death, return to your mortal form once more, and take any soul you can find. Of course, returning to Remnant and slaying everyone in sight until Death's hunger was satisfied would be out of the question, the Dullahan would have Death's head to add to his collection if he were to do something that so clearly broke the laws of life and death.
The only way Death would survive would be to sap what remained of the souls of the Grimm creatures. The humans and Faunus said that the Grimm were soulless. Oh how wrong they were. Although Grimm appear to be soulless, seeing as they have no aura, it is quite the contrary. Grimm souls were so little in proportion that they had been overlooked by scientists. Nevertheless, Grimm still had souls, albeit only 3% that of a human soul.
And how would Death sap the souls of Grimm without being questioned by the police for running out into the forest and slaughtering hundreds of Grimm? By joining Beacon Academy. Death's current power was just slightly below the skill level of Remnant's most professional and skilled Huntsmen and Huntresses that still existed in the living world, meaning Death would have to limit his skill to the level of the students he would be fighting alongside.
Its abilities it had acquired as Death still remained with it as a mortal, meaning it could still sap the souls of the living around him and produce its weapons and armor on command, as well as having above average human reflexes, speed and strength.
Although, in its mortal form, Death was not superhuman or inhuman, it was still extraordinarily powerful. If the students and staff at the academy were bright enough, they may notice the significant amounts of death and greed its aura gave off, meaning that its fellow students may find out that it was, indeed, Death itself. This would be highly unlikely since Death is just a mere story to scare the kids if they did anything bad. Either way, it was time to redesign Death's mortal form.
For its mortal form, Death had chosen to create a human male with short black hair and golden eyes, 17 years of age in order to get into Beacon. He stood at 6 foot 4 inches with a fairly muscular build and a respective body shape, nothing too over the top like a wrestler would be. His complexion was pale white; as if he were a cold-blooded human (Death couldn't change that due to the lack of souls he had encountered).
For casual clothing he wore a pitch black hoodie with a white stripe running up the center of the back and onto the hood, the hood usually remained over his head, and a pair of solid black tracksuit bottoms accompanied by a pair of black and white trainers. The boy wore a black face mask that covered the bottom half of his face and had the bottom half of a skull painted on it. The figure of the boy was complete with a pair of thin black leather gloves.
For combat attire Death decided to create the strongest and most lightweight armor possible, mimicking Death's own armor in its true form. The armor was a gleaming silver and glimmered in the light, covering the mortal's body from neck to toe, leaving the head exposed. The head was covered by a grey hood and his face was once again covered by the same half face mask. The shoulder pads each had two spikes protruding from them, each one curving upwards. The fingertips on the gauntlets were sharp and acted as claws. Down his back was a black cape attached to the shoulders and fell the back of his knees.
As for weaponry, Death decided to use dual sickles as the mortal's main weaponry instead of its traditional double handed scythe, although Death could call on its scythe at any given moment. The smaller weapons would allow for more versatility on the field of battle whilst the scythe would grant him greater reach and power.
Having designed the weaponry and appearance of its new mortal form, Death was ready to descend to the world of Remnant.
Death had to admit, it had created a pretty good looking human.
-Death's Game Plan-
-7 Steps to keeping your soul-
1. Create a new mortal form
2. Descend to the world of Remnant in your new mortal form
3. Pass the admission test for Beacon Academy
4. Make friends
5. Take the souls of any friends that die
6. Attempt to live on the small amount of souls that the Grimm possess
7. Get someone else to take over your old job, probably a Dullahan
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