CHAPTER 1:
When I met you. . .
The town of Marygould. It is about 50 miles off the desert from Death City. However, due to an accident that happened 5-6 years before, people decided to forget it's existence and consider it nothing but a distant fairytale. We take you now to Marygould Elementary school.
A little girl with emerald green hair and blue eyes wandered down the streets the Marygould's Elementary school, she kept her head down and a white and orange baseball cap covered her face and her hands were buried deep into the pockets of her orange sports jacket, appearing to be no more than 6. She had bruises from the beatings she had gotten from the other students. Why? Because she was 'weird'. She had had no friends since the day she was born, she longed for one, to know how it felt. She reached the school and took her seat in the far back corner of her 1st grade class. The teacher wandered up to the board. "Ok class, time for our mandatory history lesson, we must teach you this by order of the school." The class sat up in a serious manner. "This lesson is on the wanted assassin who once fought her way through our little town, Chi-Alli Takanashi." The class stirred as the little emerald-haired girl buried her head in her arms. "Hey, Isn't that 'Bunny Girl's' mom?" She unburied her head and stood on her chair. "MY NAME'S USAGI! DO NOT CALL ME BUNNY GIRL*!" (*Usagi is rabbit in Japanese) "Miss Takanashi, sit down now!" Yelled the teacher. Usagi showed sadness on her face. "Yes miss teacher lady." "Now, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted-" she looked at Usagi. "Chi-Alli was an assassin who killed many people in our neighborhood before finally leaving to pursue new targets and has not been seen since and is wanted at large and-" Her words drifted off in Usagi's mind as she gazed out the window. She watched the butterflies in the recess yard, they appeared to be dancing with one another. "Looks like even butterflies can have friends." Then she saw a boy, chasing them. He looked at Usagi. She pressed her face against the window as she saw him smile at her. "Miss Takanashi!" The startling yell of the teacher made Usagi fall out of her chair. The class chuckled at her. "What is so important out there that you can't pay attention to the lesson?" She looked up to the teacher and got off the floor. "T-There was a boy outside, I've never seen him before." The teacher looked outside. "There's no boy out there." Usagi gazed back out to see him gone. "But there was-" "You've got to stop living in your ridiculous fantasies, I know your still young but have some common scene." One of the other students yelled. "Ya, she thinks Death City's real!" The class then laughed along with the student who screamed. "No, it-it's real, and I'm gonna be a miester." The class's laughter grew stronger. Tears welded up in her eyes as the bell rang. "Ok class, recess." The kids rushed out the door still choked up from laughing, Usagi followed lazily behind them.
She sat by the oak tree in the playground, the only place she could be alone. She opened her book bag and pulled out two stuffed animals, a pink elephant and a stuffed penguin. She laid the elephant by the tree. "Mr. Snifflmen! You've gone from your pleasant life of eating peanuts to eating souls, and now you must be punished by facing me Usagi and my weapon partner Devon the Penguin! Devon transform." She chucked Devon aside and picked up a stick. "I am Usagi, master of the Demon Stick!" She then began poking at the elephant toy. She swayed in a unique way and never missed a shot. "Take that, and that, and-" "Hello." "Eep!" She swiftly turned around whacking the person in the face. "OW!" He fell to the ground. "Ohmygosh, I'm so sorry, hey, you're that boy I saw earlier." Usagi reached her hand out to him. He grabbed it and she helped him up, he was brushing off the dirt from his clothes. "I've never seen you around her before," she gazed up at his hair. "I like your hair." The boy blushed a little. "Oh, thank you, I-I like your's too." He brushed his black hair with three complete stripes going around his head. "Thank you." She blushed too. "I'm Usagi, this is Devon." Usagi picked up the penguin and made him wave a flipper. "My name's Kiddo." "What are you doing in Marygould, it's a pretty sleepy town ya know." He sighed. "Ya I know, my father didn't want me to come, but my mom brought me so I could make friends. Father won't let me talk to the other kids in town." Usagi cocked her head away from Kiddo. "Ya, I don't have any friends either." Kiddo looked away too. "All the people in this town think I'm crazy, I try to tell them how much fun my home is but they just laugh." "Well, where are you from." "Death City." Usagi's jaw dropped. "YOU'RE FROM DEATH CITY! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO BELIEVES IN IT, BUT YOUR'RE ACTUALLY FROM IT, THAT'S SO COOL, GOING TO DEATH CITY IS MY LIFE-LONG DREAM!" Kiddo's eyes widened. "It is?" "Ya! Hey, you wanna play with me?" Kiddo's eyes widened even more. "What game?" Her smile enlarged. "Let's play miester, it's a game I made up, where we're the miesters and Mr. Snifflmen's the kishin and Devon here is my partner." She pointed to the stuffed animals by the tree then to the sticks on the ground. "Choose your weapon." Kiddo grabbed two sticks of about the same size. "Hey, no fair, you can only have one stick!" She yelled. Kiddo's face went pale. "What's wrong?" Kiddo began to shiver. "But- Then I'll be asymmetrical! I need sticks in both hands." "Not if you hold one with both hands like dis." Usagi held her stick with two hands. "Plus it gives you more force on the blows, try it." Kiddo placed one stick down and grasped the other with two hands and color regained to his face. "Ready?" "Ready!" "HEEEEYAAAA!" and they both attacked.
After hours of beating a stuffed elephant with a stick, the two kids got tired, so they laid on the ground and stared at the clouds. "Hey Usagi?" said Kiddo. "Ya?" "We're friends, right?" Usagi and Kiddo sat up. "No." Kiddo frowned. "Oh…" "We're best friends." A silence fell. "Usagi." "hmmm…" "I-I promise I'll take you to Death City, someday." They both laid back down on the grass until. . . "WHERE THE HECK HAVE YOU BEEN?!" The teacher was in Usagi's face. "Ahhh!" She screamed. "You've been gone for 5 hours, we were about to send a search party." Kiddo's face went into shock again. "5?! NO! Say 8!" The teacher grabbed Usagi's wrist. "We're taking you to the principal." And she drug Usagi. "NO! You can't, my friend!" "I'm not saying 8 so a 6 year old can stop crying." "KIDDO!" and Usagi was drug more and more away. "Don't worry Usagi, I'll get my mom, she'll know what to do, best friends are always there for best friends!" and with that, Usagi was drug out of sight from Kiddo.
"Miss Takanashi, what the heck were you doing skipping school?" asked the principal. "I'm sorry miss, but I-I was having fun with the only friend I've ever had and-" "NO ECUSES! YOU'VE BEEN NOTHING BUT TROUBLE SINCE YOU GOT HERE, NOT TO BE SURPRISED SINCE YOUR MOTHER WAS CHI-ALLI!" Usagi sunk her head. "And so now your punishment is-" "STOP! Don't punish her!" The door swung open revealing Kiddo. "Kiddo, you came back!" He smiled. "Of course, I keep my promises." Then a woman bearing a striking resemblance to Kiddo walked through the door. "I'm sorry if my son caused any trouble here." "Well as a matter of fa- HOLY MOTHER OF GOD YOU'RE LADY DEATH!" Usagi's eyes widened. "Kiddo, you're a-a shigigami?!" "Didn't I say that?" "No." "Whoops." "Whoops, how could you not say you were a shigigami?!" Lady Death had long black hear, golden eyes and three white stripes in her hair like her son. She glanced to the children. "Go play, I'll handle things here." After that was said both kids were outside the school. Hours went by like minutes as the two played various games. Then Lady Death emerged. "Mama!" yelled Kiddo. "Everything's cleared up, you have nothing against you miss…" "Takanashi!" Lady's smile vanished. "T-Takanashi…?" "Mama, are you ok?" She perked up. "Yes I'm fine, well it's getting late Kiddo, we should be heading home." The kids were surprised, they grew so used to each other that it was hard to see one leave. "Lady Death ma'am, can Kiddo, ummm… sleep over tonight?" Lady smiled. "I don't see why not, but your gonna have to ask your-" "YES!" they both screamed and ran towards Usagi's house. She swung the door open. "DADDY!" she yelled. A man with medium length blue hair, glasses, and a lab coat emerged from the basement. "What is it honey, are you hurt, sick, female problems?" Usagi had a confused face. "No, can my new friend sleep over?" He almost fell over on that comment. "N-New friend?! O-Of course." He never saw his daughter so happy. She ran off to get her friend. Then a young girl a little older than Usagi walked over with plates. "What's got her so excited?" she asked in a caring voice. "Herma, your little sister's bringing a friend over…" She almost dropped the dishes. "What?!" Then emerging from the stairs was a sleepy girl not as old as Herma but older than Usagi. "'yawn' What's all the fuss about, you know a person like me needs her beauty rest." Herma rolled her eyes. "Hikara, it's 7 o'clock, it's dinner time." Herma was setting the table. "What's with the extra plate, is mom finally deciding to show face around here again?" An awkward silence filled the Takanashi household. Chan fidgeted his glasses. "N-No, Usagi brought a new friend home with her. "Here!" they all looked over and Chan fell from his chair. "I-It's a-a boy…?!" "Daddy, Herma, Hikara, this is Kiddo." Hikara walked over to them basically sticking her oversized breasts in Kiddo's face and made her voice all sexual and creepy. "Well, aren't you a cute little boy. . ." "Hikara?! Stop it! Come on Kiddo, you can sit by me." After dinner they went up to Usagi's room. "This is my room." Kiddo's eyes sparkled at the sight of a neat and tidy space with a bed in the middle of the room and a window in the middle of where the bed is. "I can see the whole town through my window here, it's quite a sight." They both looked through the window. The reflection of the smiling moon lit up the town of Marygould, the streets were bear except for one person. Even from her second story window Usagi could tell clearly who it was. She bolted out the door. "Where are you going?!" yelled Kiddo as he chased her. Usagi hit the street. "MAMA! Is it you?" Kiddo stopped. "Mama?.." Then another shadowy figure appeared in the distance. Chi-Alli didn't even need to turn around to tell who it was. "Madame Death Scythe, long time no see." It was Kiddo's mom. "Chi-Alli." Her face showed clear anger. "You were a fool to show up on my home turf, now you will die." she cocked her hand and a flash of light and a clanging sound appeared before where her hand was a blade. "We'll just see." and Lady Death's arm became a scythe blade. "Your mom's a weapon?!" both kids said at the same time. Chi-Alli ran up and tried to stab Lady Death but was blocked by her scythe arm. "Chi-Alli, how long's it gonna take before you realize you can't kill me…" She smirked. "Well if I can't kill you-" she turned and swiftly ran towards the children. "I'll just kill your son!" No time for Lady Death to react before the blood spilt from the wound she cut. "NO!" Horrified shrieks came from Kiddo as he watch Usagi who had jumped in front of him at the last second fall to the ground. "No, Usagi wake up… Please…" He nudged her unconscious body. "Kiddo!" Then Lady Death felt a sharp pain in her back. Chi-Alli had struck a blow to her while she was distracted. She fell. "Now for you." She loomed over Kiddo, a horrified look on his face as she was about to strike she witnessed something strange. "What, what's happening?" She saw the left side of Kiddo's stripes begin to fade away. "Chi-Alli!" She and Kiddo looked behind her. "D-Death scythe." said Kiddo. He was surrounded by DWMA troops. "Lord Death saw it all in his mirror, he knew you would be striking here, so he sent his forces." "F-Father." Death Scythe signaled the troops to have their weapons ready. "Face it, you can run or you can die, take your pick, however, if you do run we will find you." Chi-Alli sunk her head. "This isn't over." and in a puff of greenish smoke she was gone. Death Scythe grabbed Kiddo's hand. "Come on we're taking you home." "NO! What about Usagi, we can't leave her here, please we have to stay with her or-" "KIDDO CAN'T YOU TELL SHE'S DEAD!?" he snapped, enough of his childish whining. They loaded Lady Death onto a truck and Death Scythe slowly walked a crying Kiddo to it as well, not looking back. Usagi silently opened her eyes to see Kiddo leave. "K-Kiddo, you- you promised." and everything went black.