It seemed to be a normal day where nothing could go wrong for anybody. Cherry put on her headphones and put her music player in her pocket as she then took a walk out of her house to run some errands for her mother.

"Atticus, mind taking the trash out?!" Emily's voice called out.

"Coming, Mom!" Atticus called back and soon went to do that.

"What's your deal?" Cherry muttered to her music player as it seemed to have music go on and off and not play all the way, fiddling with her headphone cord as she was about to cross the street.

Someone saw her walking across the street and soon pointed his/her hand towards her as his/her hand glowed, ready to fire. Atticus stuck his tongue out and then took out the trash, about to go back inside before seeing Cherry wandering around, but she looked busy.

"Stupid music..." Cherry muttered.

Atticus soon saw someone about to shoot Cherry with what his knowledge told him was a Kai Blast. Cherry hummed firmly and the shot soon came towards her.

"Cherry, nooooooo!" Atticus cried out, a bit dramatically and soon dove in to save her, and ended up taking the shot for her, and where the shot didn't bounce off, but actually hit him in the heart.

"Ugh..." Cherry groaned. "Atticus Fudo, you owe me a new phone!" she then glared.

Atticus looked at her as he looked different.

"Atticus...?" Cherry asked. "No need to get emotional... You know I don't mean it."

"I'm sorry, Cherry... I tried..." Atticus muttered.

"Tried?" Cherry frowned. "Tried what?"

"I'm sorry..." Atticus whispered before he let out a gasp and he closed his eyes.

"Atticus? Atticus, wake up, this isn't funny!" Cherry told him, trying to shake him awake.

Unfortunately, Atticus did not wake up.

Cherry tried to move him, but it was no use. "Atticus? Come on, Atticus... Wake up... You gotta go home..." she then said, trying not to cry. "I can't believe I let this happen... I'm so lame..." she then muttered before yelling out, running around. "HEEEELP! Somebody! Anybody!... Help..." she then cried out before she only heard her own echo for a while.

Emily was soon seen coming out after hearing Cherry's cry.

"He's just sleeping..." Cherry told herself. "That's it... He's only sleeping... He just fell asleep on the sidewalk..."

"Cherry...?" Emily asked.

"Atticus is sleeping!" Cherry exclaimed, going through denial.

Emily was confused why Cherry said that until she saw her oldest son dead. Atticus, of course, didn't respond to them.

"He's sleeping, I tell you, he just fell asleep!" Cherry cried out with actual tears.

The person with the Kai Blast soon hid away for right now. Atticus's body soon vanished.

"Come on, Cherry, let's get you home..." Emily suggested, taking Cherry's arm and walking her back home.

"Atticus is asleep..." Cherry muttered as she seemed a little out of it. She soon noticed Atticus's body was gone.

Cherry seemed to mumble to herself.

"Hmm..." Emily hummed in thought before sending Cherry home and went to look at the family's Book of Magic.

Cherry seemed to stare into space and mumbled about Atticus, going through the seven stages of grief. She was shown to also be rocking back and forth while she was doing that.

"Cherry!" Michelle called a bit sharply as she came to her daughter. "Why aren't you running errands?"

"It's all my fault!" Cherry cried out, now going through guilt. "I've been so mean to him, and now he's gone!"

Michelle could now tell that this was more important than errands.

"How could he do this to me?!" Cherry soon glared out of anger. "He's always doing the stupidest stuff and it's all my fault! Every time we go on an adventure, he comes out looking awesome, and I just make myself look like a fool! I HOPE HE FRIES!"

"Excuse me, Michelle, she's going through the seven stages of grief." Emily said to her son's friend's mother.

"Uh... But why...?" Michelle asked.

Emily frowned. "Atticus is... Dead..."

"I'm all alone in the big empty world..." Cherry shuddered. "What am I gonna tell everyone at school?"

"Which stage is she in now?" Michelle asked.

"I think this is loneliness and bargaining." Emily guessed.

"I'm going to be in so much trouble..." Cherry muttered. "How am I gonna go out in public without him? He's my ROCK!"

"Whoa." Michelle said.

Emily frowned herself.

"I'm so sorry about your loss..." Michelle told Emily. "This must be very hard for you."

"It is." Emily nodded.

The two women soon hugged each other. Cherry yelled out and soon ran off to go to her room, but she went through the wrong door and ended up in the linen closet. The two mothers soon noticed this.

"Should we get her?" Emily asked.

"Uh, maybe the Supernatural Realm will be merciful to her?" Michelle smiled nervously.


Cherry cupped her face with her hands as she ran and fell on the ground in the middle of the forest and soon let out a big cry, and where Drell seemed to be there as he heard her cry. Cherry curled up as she cried, feeling so stupid and depressed.

"If one of you stupid people left another baby in these woods, I swear I'm gonna-" Drell growled as he brought out his wand in an aggressive way and soon looked down. "Oh, it's Cherry crying... What's the matter, Cherry? You run into a wall again?" he then asked with a laugh. He soon saw that Cherry was still crying and could tell this was serious. "Hey..." he then called. "Quit it... Oh, come on, I'm sure whatever's wrong isn't that bad..."

Cherry soon stopped, but didn't look at him.

"What happened?" Drell asked. "You break a nail or something?"

Cherry shook her head.

"Your parents make you feel bad or something?" Drell asked.

Cherry still shook her head.

"Oh, come on, Cherry, you're acting like someone died." Drell shrugged.

Cherry looked back with puppy dog eyes filled with tears and she had taken off her glasses. After seeing this, Drell realized what this meant. Cherry wiped her eyes and let out a small whimper.

Drell took her arm and pulled her away before making her sit down in front of him. "Alright, tell me what happened..." he then said to her.

"ATTICUS IS DEAD!" Cherry blurted out.

After hearing what she blurted out caused Drell to go pale. Cherry soon broke down crying again.

"Oh... Oh... Wow... Um... How did this happen?" Drell asked. "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything!" Cherry replied. "I had to do something for Mom and he just tackled me!"

Drell hummed before bringing out his crystal ball. Cherry continued to cry.

"Please stop crying..." Drell said. "It breaks my heart..."

Cherry soon stopped and looked in deadpan. "Don't you have to have a heart to break?" she then asked.

The crystal ball began to show what happened. Cherry soon looked like she was going to cry again.

"No more crying!" Drell told her.

"But I'm in grief!" Cherry defended.

They soon saw what happened.

"I'm still in grief..." Cherry muttered.

"QUIET!" Drell scolded. "And watch..." he then said gently.

Cherry soon took a look for herself. And where she saw what happened and why Atticus tackled her out of the way. "Wait... Go back..." Cherry said.

The image was soon rewound to before the shot was blast to show who had done it.

"Who is that?" Cherry asked.

"Hmm... Not sure." Drell said.

"You don't know?!" Cherry asked him. "I thought you knew everything!"

Drell simply shrugged.

"What do you mean you don't know?!" Cherry asked as she soon had a panic attack like shown in some animes. "You're supposed to tell us everything! What kind of warlock are you?!"

Drell soon pinched her mouth closed with his fingers. "If you let me help you with Atticus, will you calm down?" he then asked.

Cherry nodded, a bit nervously.

"Good." Drell said.

"Wh-What's happening?" Cherry asked.

"Let's watch, shall we?" Drell told her, patting her on the head as they watched.

Atticus was soon hit by the blast and his body disappeared somehow.

"What the-?! Where'd he go?!" Cherry panicked.

"I'm going to take her voice away..." Drell shook his fist in annoyance.


Atticus groaned and he soon opened his eyes and sat up as he woke up somewhere that wasn't his home. "Huh? Where am I?" he then asked. "Cherry?" He soon stood up and began to look around.

There was a golden gate with a man beside it.

"Uh, hey." Atticus said.

"Name?" The man asked.

"Atticus Fudo..." Atticus replied, feeling confused. "Where am I?"

"This is the Great Hall of Judgement." The man replied, taking note of this.

"Judgement?!" Atticus asked. He soon gulped before looking up to see a halo above his head which meant only one thing.

"Oh, not to worry, Atticus, you'll go into Heaven," A woman smiled. "You belong in Heaven because you're so good-natured."

"What?!" Atticus yelped. "You mean I'm... I'm...?!"

"Stone cold, I'm afraid." The woman said.

"But I'm not ready yet." Atticus said.

"Oh, don't worry, Atticus, you'll learn to love it here, we just need to get your record book, and then you'll be here for all eternity." The woman smiled, angelically for her namesake.

'I can't believe this...' Atticus thought to himself in dismay. 'Murdered in the prime of my life... Well, Cherry might be better off... Even when I'm dead, she's not nice to me...'

"Wow, I can't believe you got killed... So lame..." Cherry badmouthed Atticus in his memory with a bitter tone as she knelt next to his dying body before it disappeared.

"Now let's get you to King Yemma, he's the one that has your record book." The woman said.

"There's a mistake here!" Atticus cried out before he was forced to sit on a cloud.

The golden gates soon opened up and Atticus was made to follow the woman to the man in charge.

"Wait... King Yemma?" Atticus asked. "Aren't I supposed to meet God?"

"No, no, that's the big guy; you meet King Yemma so he can decide if you meet God or not." The woman said.

"Oh..." Atticus said before shrugging. "I guess that makes sense."


When they came into a room with a big man in charge, he didn't appear to be human, he looked more like a monster than a person. He was also in giant size which was surprising to Atticus.

"Who do we have here?" King Yemma asked.

"Atticus Fudo." The woman informed.

King Yemma soon brought out the record book.

"That's a big book." Atticus commented.

"Heh, you should see the one in The Furnace of Eight Divisions." The woman mumbled.

King Yemma soon opened the book to where Atticus's name was. Atticus gripped his collar nervously.

"No need to worry," The woman said. "He's just going to decide if you're good enough for Heaven... Or you go to the other place."

Atticus hoped that he wouldn't go to either place because he didn't want to be in Heaven yet, but he also didn't want to go to Hell.

"This is very interesting..." King Yemma said as he took a look.

The woman soon took a look with him.

"Look, this is all very nice, but I DON'T WANNA DIE!" Atticus cried out.

"Well, you are dead." King Yemma told him.

"I know, but isn't there someway I can go back?" Atticus asked.

"No, but you can be able to compete in a Martial Arts Tournament." King Yemma said.

"Uh, a Martial Arts Tournament?" Atticus replied.

"Don't worry, you'll love it," King Yemma smiled, putting his arm around him. "Based on what I've seen in your life after all, especially with how you're so selfless and thinking of others, especially to your loved ones."

"I guess a Martial Arts Tournament would be nice to compete in," Atticus said. "Where is it being held?"

"A special world we call The Other World," King Yemma informed. "Annin, get him ready."

"Yes, sir." The woman nodded.

"I think I'm ready because you see I'm wearing weight clothes along with regular clothes and my boots are also weight clothes." Atticus told them.

"We just need to let the others know you're here first." King Yemma smiled.

"Alright..." Atticus said before sighing. "Oh, Cherry's probably glad I'm gone... She's always yelling at me."

They soon informed the competitors that Atticus was there. Atticus twiddled his thumbs.


"I don't yell at you!" Cherry called out into the crystal ball.

"He can't hear you." Drell said.

"Sure, I may be snarky, but I'm not mean!" Cherry continued.

"Apparently you can't hear me either." Drell said.

"Come on, Atticus, you can get through this!" Cherry ranted.

"Are you done?" Drell asked.

Cherry looked at him and soon sat down, feeling dumb.

"And the Oscar for the most over-the-top reaction to a death goes to-" Drell smirked, clapping his hands slowly.

"Can we just keep watching?" Cherry pouted.

"Sure, but two rules..." Drell replied.

"Yes?" Cherry asked.

"Sit down, and shut up." Drell scolded.

"Alright." Cherry sighed.

Drell patted her on the head.

"Quit touching me!" Cherry complained as she didn't like being touched.