TYL

While the other Arcobaleno and Skull had a functioning relationship as colleagues, he did not necessarily trust them completely although it came close with Fon and Verde. As a result, he did not want to raise any hopes with his current project: breaking the Curse. He met with contacts among other Immortals who had been around for much longer. Several times he'd met with Lady Majeedah to bounce ideas off of while she, in turn, provided him with what information she had found. Given that she was the oldest known Immortal, it was a good bit but still not enough.

It was during one such meeting with her that the memories hit and he passed out in her foyer.

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Ten years of normal memories slammed into him and then the chaos brought on by the Mad Sky Byakuran.

Everything came to a head with a box on the stoop of the Arcobaleno Mansion that was addressed to Skull but with no other markings. After checking the box for any number of insidious elements and deemed safe, it was brought inside for the Cloud. Up to this point, the Arcobaleno had been relying on guerrilla tactics against Byakuran's Wreaths after Lal and Colonello's near miss. This meant that all of them just so happened to be there to witness something they never thought possible.

Skull's purple eyes darkened to black with an unearthly gleam as he pulled out seventeen little jars one by one, each with an eye ball just floating in preservative liquid. Skull's Flames went still in his body before exploding. With careful, shaking hands, he placed all but one of the jars back in the box. One that was a golden-hazel that seemed to be pressed to the side of the jar instead of floating like the others. Setting the box carefully aside, he walked outside, snarl on his lips and jar in hand. His movements were predatory and combined with his glowing eyes and snarling expression, the usually docile cloud looked rather Feral. He was a Cloud filled with Rage, a Territorial Rage. The Arcobaleno were caught off guard because he had never shown any signs of having a territory so what the fuck.

"Tell Tsuna it's time to end this bullshit. Byakuran is mine." The sounds that left his lips were growled and guttural words as he stalked to his bike and left.

No one argued. Not in this state. Instead, Reborn simply passed on the message to Tsuna and they followed the trail of Raging Flames. No one noticed the Misty tint to his Cloud Flames.

Skull used the eye to point him in the right direction. He knew exactly what those jars meant the moment he saw the first one. The bastard had found the other Immortals and found a way to kill them, bypassing the Elixir. Except for his little brother Maiza. The one eye that still was trying to return to its body, unlike the others which meant they were dead. Maiza's other guardians were dead meaning that it was only him now. Just the two remaining Avaro brothers with one bordering on Discord. He snarled and let his flames spread through his bike to propagate its speed. Unacceptable.

Of course the asshole was waiting and his Flames swirled around his hands, Cloud on the right and Mist on the left.

"Where is he." The demand was snarled.

Byakuran's response? A body, a very familiar body, was tossed at his feet, missing one hazel eye. Skull froze and he watched as his brother's body did not regenerate. Next thing he knew, his hands were at Byakuran's neck with dagger claws on the left and hardened nails on the right. Then he was thrown back sans one arm, but it regenerated between the elixir and the Cloud Flames.

Mist Flames turned him into a demon, gave him weapons of war, made night terrors come to life as comrades of war, left destruction in his wake. Cloud Flames propagated his strength, his durability, the elixir in his blood, the strength of his Flames, his speed, his everything.

Byakuran laughed and grinned and smirked and taunted, using his knowledge of other worlds to shred the mind of the Cloud Arcobaleno.

"Well Little Biasio. Can't protect another brother."

A meteorite would have left a smaller crater.

So it went, destroying the world around them and Flames swirling. Skull's Flames combined to give him his adult body back, Mist supplying the illusion and grounding it while Cloud propagated the realness until it was his body. Sky flames tried to split the flames apart, to disharmonize them to break the body down, to sow Discord in the soul of the last Avaro.

Neither saw the other Arcobaleno arrive at the edge of the war zone they created. They didn't see the Wreaths, Vongola or Varia either. This resulted in the deaths of the Wreaths driving Byakuran closer to Discord and Skull pressed his advantage. He fell into his Rage completely and Byakuran started losing ground. Limbs flew and Skull's returned to his body while Byakuran was not so lucky. No one interrupted when he caved the Sky's head in.

"Tch. And here I thought you might actually manage to kill me too."

His face was anger, derision, agony, disappointment but no one was close enough to see any of it. Flames swirled and he was in his Cursed body again as he spit on the white haired corpse at his feet.

Then the world spun and all he saw was black.

—-

Startled purple eyes flew open and he gasped for breath while olivine hands smoothed his hair.

"Breathe, Biasio. You are safe."

The younger Immortal flushed. "My apologies, Majeedah."

Her eyes bored into his own. "What did you see."

He told her and then he left to check on those he called His, desperate to see for himself that all of them were safe.

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Author's Note:

Majeedah is a canon Baccano character that is referenced in the light novels as possibly the oldest Immortal is exist.

Each eye in a jar was for a different Immortal that Skull considered to be part of his territory. If you want a list of everyone one, let me know in PMs or reviews and I'll post it at the end of this little two-shot.