Prologue
Red. Blood red. Those were the thoughts that flashed through Staz's mind as he saw Akim impaled on what seemed to be a knife made of blood. The weapon pierced his chest and captured the fist-sized organ crucial to sustaining life. The streaks of blood steered his thoughts to a subject long since discussed. Just like her, he thought, recalling the bright red hair he loved. Mom. A series of memories came back to Staz as he recalled the woman in question. Running around the house, making a pillow fort, helping make a pillow fort, cooking dinner with Richarz and Braz too, watching 'Totoro' with her. Staz…..Staz… "STAZ!" The cry brought him back to Earth and the battle they were fighting. Looking down, he saw the girl he had been so desperate to bring back to life. She was dressed in a different outfit and looked a little scuffed up, but she looked as innocent and enticing as the day he met and lost her. "Are you-" "Staz!" Fuyumi's question was cut off by Braz's sudden exclamation.
Turning his head, Staz saw him fighting the hulking 'child' Akim had created, but something was off. The patchwork creation had been extremely aggressive and fought Braz to the point the latter of the two nearly lost too much blood, but he was now doing nothing more than flopping around like a fish out of water. "WHAT'S GOING ON!?" Staz shouted. "His heart was what sustained his power and the connection to Grimm! You need to get rid of it!" While he wasn't fond of being bossed around or his brother, the sincerity in Braz's eyes shoved Staz's ego into the passenger seat while his sense of loyalty drove him to his finishing move. "Well then… let's get this over with." His spaciness was quickly thrown out the window and a strange swagger took its place. The tell-tale yellow and purple aura quickly absorbed his right hand as Staz clenched his hand. The blonde haired phantom began seizing as his heart was being crushed. "I'm pretty busy, so you can just drop dead, okay?" As he finally made a fist, a 'thwack' could be heard as the organ was quickly mangled. The corpse dropped to the ground at the same time as Kelly, Burgundy and Amber (the lumbering behemoth) collapsed, as though existing was harder than reciting all the numbers of p. A smile forming on her lips, Fuyumi let out a shout of joy over their victory. "Finally, that took forever!" Staz pretended to complain. Hearing a shuffle, he looked over at Bell, who was making her way through a frame revealing Wolf, White Step, and the members of the Blacklist lying on hospital beds. The injuries and amount of bandages varied from 'Banged up' and 'Pretty Close To Destroyed'. "I got this," said Bell, her typical sass once again taking center stage. The frame and Bell quickly disappeared when suddenly, Staz felt two arms surround his torso. He saw Fuyumi hugging him surprisingly tightly. He was about to say something when- "GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!" Oh sh- Glancing towards the northernmost part of the mountain, he saw Akim's magic, which quickly reverted back to Grimm's. The shape of the magical hand reminded Staz of his own, and made him smile at the irony. Villain fighting villain, hand to hand, for the sake of the Demon World. Using his own magic, Staz propelled himself high into the sky, eyes to the eye of Grimm's magic. "LET'S FIGHT, JACKASS!"
~Fin~