Hello everyone and welcome to my new story Remnant of Death for which I have big expectations for

If your wondering about my other story Death's Academy I have not given up on it and I will post up a new chapter next week

Character might be slightly OoC sorry about that and this story will not follow the Canon and the Canon characters will only be made as references or have minor appearances

Disclaimer: All property is owned by it's rightful owner I only own the story

Oh and before I forget, A big thanks to Tails Anhidec who has been giving me ideas for my stories so check him out when you get the chance

So now without further ado lets begin

8/23/14: I have revamped the chapter by editing the writing to be more understandable for your enjoyment, I will be doing the same to the the other chapters as well so enjoy


Nothingness. That's all he could see or feel, truly nothing as he fell forever in the pits of the Tree of Life. Death gave up his life to let humanity live once more and to save his brother from the blame that was placed on him falsely when he accidentally started the End War. In the end Death knew that if giving up his life was the only means to save his brother than so be it, that's what an older brother should do to keep his family safe

"So this is my life, forever falling down into nothingness for the sake of a doom civilization and my brother. I expected I would go out in a much more. . . Bloody way" Death mused as he continued to fall through nothingness

Death let his mind drift thinking back to his many accomplishments and damnations he done in his journeys taking some pleasure at the memories as that is all he has left. He continued to fall through nothingness before noticing something in the corner of his eyes and looked over to see a speck of light in the vast emptiness "Either insanity has finally set in or I'm actually getting freed from this place" Death said sarcastically as a blinding light enveloped him closing his eyes at it did so

When Death opened his eyes again he noticed he was still falling but not in the eternal nothingness but in a bright blue sky falling down into a vast red leafed forest far below ". . . What's with my kind always falling from a great height" Death muttered sarcastically as he crossed his arms. He continued to fall all the way down into the forest and landed with resonating crash shaking the ground itself from his impact

As the dust dissipated from the crater Death was standing in the center of the crater he created. He uncrossed his arms and brushed the dust of his shoulders before cracking his neck. Death looked around as he rolled his shoulders and saw the carnage he created from his impact "Meh, I've had worse impacts" Death muttered shrugging as he walked out of the crater and looked around his surroundings to see he was entirely alone in a vast red forest.

Death flinched when he felt a pain go through his head for a moment as if something was trying to get out. The pain subsided and Death wondered if it was a backlash from the fall but knew it couldn't be because he suffered worse falls than that. Death thought about it for a moment and shrugged

"I wonder where am I or what plane of existence is this located in" Death said as he closed his eyes and concentrated trying to connect to a Serpent Hole to a different world. He was deeply shocked when he felt this plane of existence wasn't even connected to the vast pathways in the between or any other existence 'I can't even feel the Charred Council's presence but that's impossible their influence is everywhere, how is this even possible' Death thought as he began walking into the forest but stopped when felt something on his face

Death realized what he felt was the wind hitting against his bare face and realized that he doesn't have his mask anymore "Shit, if wasn't for fact that I thought I was actually going to die I would never take my mask off. I am not going to walk around and let any being, whoever walks this plane of existence, see my face" Death said seriously as he took off his tattered cloak and wrapped it around his face so that only his eyes could be made out if the dark interior of the cloth

Death then walked forward a bit into the red forest until he came upon another destroyed clearing with crater just a small distance from him and when he got to the crater and looked down into it he saw Harvester and Redemption lying in the middle of the crater "Well at least I'm not going unarmed in this world" Death muttered as he went down into the crater and picked up his scythe Harvester and his brother Strife's gun Redemption

"Well looks like I'm not returning you anytime soon" Death mused as he popped Redemption's bullet chamber open and put in some soul bullets in before locking it back in place and holstered it. Death then separated Harvester into its smaller twin form and place them on each side of his hip

Death walked out of the crater and went on his way through the vast red forest. After awhile he began to think that this world was uninhabited as he made no contact with any creature or felt any presence around him. That was before he began sensing a strange form of life that felt eerily familiar to Corruption. Death stopped walking as he felt it watch him as if he was prey "Whoever you are come on out, I'm bored of you following me" Death shouted out as he stopped and turned to hear rustling of bushes as the creature came out. It was a pitch black wolf like creature standing on two legs with. It had several bone spikes sticking out of its arms and spine along with the bone mask that covered its entire upper portion of its head. The mask had red markings going down the side of the face and red eyes

"Well you're not the ugliest thing I ever seen but you come a close fifth" Death said wryly as the creature howled at him as many others began coming out of hiding and began surrounding him "No matter where I am there's always something that wants me dead" Death said dully

Two of the creatures came charging at him swinging with their claws as he jumped over them and pulled out Harvester from its sheathe. He spun around slicing both of them in half "Weak in power but strength in numbers" Death muttered as he instantly saw their methods of attacks

Three more of the creatures came at him as he jumped out of the way as another came and swiped its claw downward. Death moved out of it way before slicing it's arm off and spun around it slicing upward. The strike severed its other arm off but Death wasn't done as he brought both scythes up and brought it down onto its chest before ripping them out in opposite directions cutting the creature in half.

Death spun around, swinging his scythe downward into a lunging creature piercing it's skull and with a tug he split the creatures face in half. Death used the momentum and spun around his scythe in a downward arc up impaling another creature in its stomach. He forced it onto its knees by breaking both its legs with two swift kicks as Death grabbed its face and looked into its eyes seeing the fear in its eyes before bringing his other scythe down and decapitated it

He rolled out of the way from two more creatures attacking him as he connected his scythes into it's combined form and swung in horizontal arc killing the two in a single strike as the rest of the creatures stayed back slowing receding into the forest glaring and growling at Death "Well at least they're smart enough to be wary of me now" Death said looking at the growling creatures before they stopped growling and began whimpering. This confused Death as he didn't do anything yet to get such a reaction as he watched them run away with their tails between their legs

"What just happened?" Death asked outloud confused while watching the figures of the creatures fade away in the distance. He scratched his head wondering what is going on until he felt another presence behind him, one much stronger than the creatures he was fighting. Death turned around and saw the creature with half of its body concealed behind the trees

the pitch black creature had a human like figure but more lanky but with a profound muscle structure, it had long arms and its hands were long jagged claws, on it's body it was covered in bone armor covering its chest, shoulders, legs, and forearms but the most distinguishing feature was the mask covering its face while only revealing its blood red eyes and the black mist flowing from its head giving it a image as if its hair was on fire. The mask itself was an exact copy of Death's old one but this one had blood red markings going down from the eyes and on the center of its forehead it had a symbol that looked oddly like the marking on Death's shoulder

". . . . Well. . " Death said staring at the creature in front of him "It seems I just found my new mask" Death said darkly as the creature stepped forward in long strides until it was a just a few feet away from Death as they stared directly at each other neither one backing down from their gaze

The creature raised its arm and held it out horizontally to its body as the bladed edge of it's claws were facing Death. The creature lunged forward swinging it's claw at Death who jumped above it's strike and blocked using his scythe as the other claw came down on him sending Death a few feet away. Death landed on the ground skidding slightly on his feet with Harvester impaled in the ground slowing his movement as he slowly stopped as he pulled on Harvester and shot forward dragging Harvester out of the ground with him

Death swung Harvester at the creature who blocked it with it's claws and parried, slashing. Death countered by ducking from the slash and pulled out Redemption firing shots at the creature hitting it a few times. The shots hit through its chest and shoulders through the armor it was wearing as the creature wailed slightly in pain

The creature jumped back from Death's reach but he shot his aura grip and onto one of it's arms and pulled shot pulled him towards the creature. Death closed the distance and sliced off it's free arm off making it wail out in pain as it broke out Death's manifestation's grip stumbling back as it did so

Death was then stunned slightly as he watched as the bullet wounds he made healed. He then watched as the arm stopped bleeding and became elongated, covered in a bone substance making it jagged with a bladed edge "Adaption, never seen that before on a creature" Death said mildly in awe at the creature's instant change

The creature let out a wail as it lunged forward with it's new 'arm' trying to impale Death as he just moved out of the way and ducked from the remaining claw and sliced that one off as well making the creature wail for a bit

the severed arm became like it's other as the creature began stabbing forward with both of its 'arms' faster and faster at Death who was sidestepping and ducked from the stabs and slashes. Death rolled under the creature to face it's backside and sliced it's legs off and watched as the creature grew four spider like legs that were identical to its arms with jagged armor made of bone-like substance covering it

"This is getting ridiculous now" Death muttered as he ducked from another slashed and jumped out of the way as it brought it's 'legs' down on him impaling the ground but became stuck from impaling the ground. Seeing his chance Death ran up its legs and jumped bringing down harvester onto its chest slicing it open. Before the creature could heal itself Death manifested two gauntlets and plunged its fingers into the creatures wound and ripped its chest open revealing it's black heart

Death jumped onto its body and pulled out redemption and jammed it into the creatures heart and fired causing blood to splatter everywhere as the bullets tore through its heart and out its back as it let out a screech of pain before falling onto its bloody back

Death got off it's body and walked up to it's head and gripped the edge of it's mask but as he did he was sent flying into a tree. He landed on his knees as he looked up wide eyed as he saw the creature stand up again as the as the decimated heart fell out of it's chest as not one but two hearts replace it as the wound closed up making it look like nothing happened

"That's it. I had enough games" Death said angrily as a whirlwind of purple smoke envelop him and exploded outward causing the creature to stagger back as the purple smoke dissipated revealing Death's giant hooded skeletal winged reaper form holding it's equivalent sized scythe ornate with skulls on the side and the blade jagged and sinister looking

The creature seemed terrified as it began to slowly back away from Death who floated towards the creature with menace pouring off him as he lunged forward swinging his scythe cutting the creature in half and grabbed it by its throat before it with his skeletal hands before it fell down. He let go of Harvester, letting it float in the air as he brought his other hand onto its mask and with and quick tug he ripped the creatures mask off revealing it's face that looked similar to the Watchers of the Council

The creature began wailing in pain from it's mask being removed as Death snapped its neck and grabbed Harvester and sliced it's head off as he twirled his scythe for a second and brought it down again cutting it's body in half as well along with its decapitated head

Death then let go of Harvester again and closed his palm and opened it as a purple fire covered it and threw it at the creatures decimated body burning it to a crisp as the creature tried to heal itself but for only the fire to stop it until it let out an ear shattering screech as it fell down dead it's body still burning in the purple fire as it soon became a pile of ash

A whirlwind a purple smoke covered Deaths form and dispersed as Death's normal form dropped to the ground with Harvester and the creatures mask in his hands "Try coming back after that, I dare you" Death said snidely as he wiped the inside of the mask clean and took off his shroud covering his face as he placed the mask on his face

"Ah, much better" Death commented as the mask fit perfectly on his face like his old one as he began walking away from the ashes that was the creatures body that was blowing away in the wind

Death walked a good mile or so when he began feeling presences in the distance but not like the ones he felt from the creatures in the forest something else, something similar yet different, strong

Death followed the presence to see a village and saw what he couldn't believe "Are those. . Humans?" Death muttered in amazement as he remembered the species was wiped out from existence and couldn't have come back to the world that was devastated so soon from his sacrifice

It took Death awhile to think about this new revelation and began putting pieces together as realization came to mind "This world, this is the actual world the creator wanted the third kingdom to have not the one that was destroyed and these people are what the people of the third kingdom was suppose to become a species of strong and resilient warriors instead of the lazy and corrupted beings they became" Death said as he slightly scowled at the memory of the humans of the other world who only cared about themselves and never fought for what they believed in

Death walked up to the village thinking about what he just learned and looked to see a group of people with minimal amount of power surrounding a group of four with exceptional prowess who were carrying a variety of weapons

"Don't worry we'll deal with the Morsumbra for you" the man Death could guess was the leader of the group of four said to who old man who he was guess was the leader of the village

"Thank you, Thank you" the old man said happily

"Alright, lets head out and kill the. . ." the leader of the group of four stopped what he was saying as he saw Death standing a few feet from them and stared at him

Everyone including the group of four all stood there with their jaws slightly agape as the villagers began backing away slightly in fear "Usually when people run away from me it's because I done something, care to tell me what I did" Death asked dryly as he stared at them with a bored expression

the leader shook his head and looked at Death. He rubbed his eyes and looked back at him again "That mask where did you get it" The leader said tensely staring at him wide eyed

"This mask" Death said tapping his mask playing coy with them

"Yes that's the exact mask the Morsumbra Grimm wears" The leader of the group said staring at Death warily him who began chuckling mildly

"Morsumbra, 'Death's shadow' that's what that blasted thing was called" Death said still chuckling at the irony of the situation of him killing 'his' shadow "Though I must admit the damn thing wouldn't die no matter how many times I cut it up" Death said still chuckling as shook his head slightly realizing that he was literally fighting himself no matter how weak and annoying it was

"Wait, are you saying you-" one of the men of the group said pointing at Death as he backed away slightly

"If your asking if I killed it, then yes" Death said as the groups eyes widen and took a slight step back which made Death raise a brow behind his mask at them "Is there something I should know" Death asked dryly

"The Morsumbra Grimm or as you said Death's shadow Grimm is the most deadliest Grimm of this world, Legends say the Morsumbra will only reveal itself to those who are destined to die by it's hands or when it yearns for the taste of human blood like it was doing to this village" the leader said gesturing behind him as the villagers were still looking at Death Warily

"Legend also states that even if you killed it the Morsumbra would corrupt your soul and turn its killer into a Morsumbra itself. And yet" the said looking sternly at Death who realized whats going on "Here you are. not dead, saying you killed it and wearing it's mask" the Leader said gesturing to his mask "Even if we killed it we were prepared to kill ourselves from turning into it, and yet here you are walking around like nothing is out of the norm" the leader said pointing at Death who looked at them bored

"If your done with the accusations, I'll be leaving now for I am not corrupted" Death said interrupting the mans speech and walked around the group who rushed ahead of Death and blocked his path

"We are not going to let you go until we are sure you are not it's next host" one of the men in the group said determined

"Why? even if I am the Morsumbra, why risk your life" Death asked questionably

"It's our job as Hunters to kill Grimm no matter how hard the battle is we will prevail to keep our way of life alive and strong for others to enjoy" the leader said with eyes burning with determination which Death had to smile slightly at

'Creator if this how your species were to come out I would've gladly help them during the End War' Death thought to himself as the Leader continued

"So turn yourself in and let us be done with this ordeal" The man said sternly as Death let out a chuckle

"Alright First off, I am not corrupted it's impossible for me to be corrupted" Death said dully as the group eyed him warily "Second even if I am corrupted, which I'm not, do you really think you can take me" Death said as he let his wrath pour out and forced everyone in the vicinity to be knocked off their feet while the group of hunters were struggling against the outburst of power staring at him wide eyed

"W-What tremendous power" one of the hunters said shaking slightly as the power Death gave out came rushing back to him and settled "Now, make your move" Death said darkly as the hunters looked at each other a bit before holstering their weapons "That's what I thought" Death said smirking behind his mask

"Now that's out of the way I'll be leaving now" Death said as he walked forward as the group of hunters moved out of his way

"Hey stop at least tell me your name" the leader of the group said as Death stopped and looked at him dully

"You first" Death said as the man looked at him with seriousness in his eyes

"My name is Raphael Manakel and I have a proposition for you" Raphael said as Death looked at him skeptically

"What?" Death asked slightly wondering what he wants

"I would like you to join us" Raphael said shocking his group with his proposition

"Denied" Death said automatically as he began walking away from them

"W-Wait hear me out" Raphael pleaded as Death ignored him and continued forward

"Come on at least listen to why I proposed that" Raphael said pleadingly as Death stopped and gave him a dry look

"I could already tell you just want me to be with your group so you can have a powerhouse member, and No I will not be that member so look for somewhere else" Death said bluntly as he went on his way

"H-Hey! at least let me take you to your next destination for payment for getting rid of the Morsumbra, besides it'll be better to travel with a group than being alone since you're a faunus" Raphael said trying to reason with Death who stopped an thought about it

'It would be beneficial to have a guide seeing as I have no idea of the layout of this land and it's customs' Death thought before turning back to Raphael "To next town and give me a map of the area and that's it" Death said as Raphael seem to beam from Death accepting his offer

"Deal. Alright guys lets head home" Raphael said as the others who nodded in agreement still wary of Death

"Come on lets go" Raphael said gesturing Death to hurry up as Death just stared at him for a second before walking forward with the group

As Death walked forward he began thinking back to everything that's happened from entering to this world and not finding a pathway out or even the Charred Councils presence. Out of everything that happen in such a short time one thing made him wonder from their conversation as Death turned to Raphael and asked him something "What's a faunus? And why did you call me one?"


And that's all he wrote *Sigh* now then I'll posting up one chapter after another so next week will be Death's Academy and the week after will be Remnant of Death and so on

So I hope you enjoyed so please leave a review, comment, PM, and point out mistakes and with that I'll see you all later, Have a great day