Chapter 1: The Contract

(Gospel P.O.V)

It felt like forever in that twisting darkness, the only sound was my faint breathing as I fell. "Well well. What have we here?" a voice said beside me.

I turned, seeing a figure wrapped in scarves floating beside me. "W-who are you? What are you?" I mumbled into the darkness.

"I? I am many things. I am the fear in your heart little girl. I am the shadow on the moon at night, the dagger in your back, that little voice that whispers in your head. I am Kishin, I am Asura." I heard his voice echo in the darkness. "Now I ask. Who are you little girl?"

"G-Gospel." my voice echoed weakly. I saw three eyes in that darkness, glowing red, one above the two. Entrancing, unnerving.

I don't know how long I lay there, suspended in the darkness, Asura's uncomfortable presence beside me. I summoned Celestial Wish and looked around in the blackness of that void, I saw it, a curled up body.

"Ow, girl, put that light out. It's annoying." it hissed, waving a hand at me to return Celestial Wish. I complied, not knowing how long I'd have to stay in the darkness.

After what seemed like eternity, Asura spoke again. "Hey girl. If I freed you from this darkness, what would you do? Where would you go?" he asked.

I pondered on his question, "I'd go look for some meaning in life. I'd go search for what secrets this world has to offer. What lies beneath this layer of protection our minds offered us." I said quietly.

Asura laughed, "Oh, I haven't heard an answer like that in a while. Tell you what, my resurrection is coming up soon. When I'm free, I'll come back for you." he said.

"I'll hold you to that Asura. . ." I whispered, drifting back into unconsciousness.

The darkness around me began to convulse one day, the sounds of fighting echoed, "W-what's going on?" I asked, turning towards the source of the commotion. I could hear the yells as I felt lighter all of a sudden, something had punctured the darkness and was flooding it with something like liquid darkness. I watched Asura convulse and straighten up. "I will return girl. Wait for me." he said.

I knew different, he would never come back, that first minute I saw him. "No, I believe this is good bye." I echoed, bringing him into an awkward embrace before saying him, "Farewell Asura, I hope you find happiness out there." I smiled sadly.

"Good bye then girl. You may have been the first real friend I ever had." he said, stretching into the darkness, the last wisps of his dark aura left and I was alone again.

Suddenly, I felt myself falling through space and smacking into hard stone. I saw Asura regard me with a sad look in his eyes before jumping up through a hole I guess he created himself. "Good bye. . ." I said, falling back into darkness.

I could hear voices in my head again, Asura had receded and Lucifer and Aurora had returned. "God, what happened. We lost connection after Kingdom Hearts dropped you off here. Though, where are we?" Aurora asked.

"Beats me, but I guess it was part of some greater plan. I can feel it though, so much darkness. It feels great." Lucifer sighed in my head.

"Wait, there's something here." Aurora cautioned, looking out over the void that surrounded my heart, one light in a sea of darkness, countless other specks of light floated everywhere, some larger than others.

I looked up from our conversation, three blood red spheres hovered above the void. It felt wrong, I knew then it was Asura's heart. "What a twisted guy." Lucifer commented as the heart circle broke and I awoke again to a dark, starry sky.

I tried to stand, seeing the cloudy sky overhead, the moon grinned down. Literally. I summoned Celestial Wish and Eternity's End and staggered through the streets, everywhere people yelled and ran as a black hooded figure faced off with Asura.

Eternity's End kicked in my hand, sending a dark streak at him as he moved to engage the hooded figure. The beam dissipated as it drew close and I heard the hooded thing yell out, "SHINIGAMI CHOP!"

The shockwave it emitted when it smacked into Asura blasted me backwards, sending me flying into a trash can, beside some other unlucky people.

I woke up in a clean bed, my head bandaged, my left leg in a cast. "Ugh, w-where am?" I asked for what seemed to be the fifth time that day.

"The hospital." came a muffled reply. I turned, beside me was a woman. "I'm Nygus, the nurse here." she said.

After seeing a man with no skin and swords coming out of my hands, I wasn't really surprised anymore. I let out a pained laugh, "So it wasn't a dream . . . I was really there." I sighed.

"Really where?" she inquired, I could feel her glare as I recounted what little I could remember.

" . . . so I woke up here." I finished. I could feel her unease. "Is there a problem?" I added when she stood up.

"No, no. I just need to call someone. She breathed into a window, "4-2-4-2-5-6-4" I heard her mutter. A pinging noise accompanied the end of the statement, " . . . knock on Death's Door."

"Well hello, Ms. Nygus. To what might I owe this pleasure?" a squeaky voice called. "Is it to do with our guest?" he asked.

"Yes sir. Despite her condition, I think you need to have a chat with her." Nygus said.

A few hours later, I asked Nygus to leave for a bit. 'Hey Aurora, I could use a little help. Do you know any healing magic?' I asked.

'Well yes, give me a minute.' came the reply.

I closed my eyes and found myself on the platform of my heart again. Aurora stood in front of me, "C-curaga!" she yelped.

Immediately, I felt the pain in my leg disappear as I stood up with the fracture gone. "Thanks." I said, letting the floor beneath me shatter and waking up to a scythe, a curved sword, I think it's called a katana. A pair of guns, brass knuckles and a spear facing me.

I could hear a voice in the background, protesting. "Hey guys, just calm down. I think it was. . ." she yelped, stopping when my eyes flutter open.

In short, my scream shattered the glass that was beside the bed and woke up half the sleeping city. "W-what do y-you want f-from m-me?" I stuttered. "I-I was j-just s-sleeping."

"Shut it witch!" the boy with blue hair said. "I'm gonna kill you and make Tsubaki a Death Scythe! Then I, The GREAT BLACK STAR WILL SURPASS GOD!" he yelled, equal to my screech.

"What is going on in here?" a squeaky voice asked. "I felt a witch but I never expected you kids to come running." the same black, hooded figure said from the door.

He came in the room while I was still protesting, the weapons inches from my face. "That girl there is a witch, Lord Death. Do you expect us to just let her live?" the boy with the spear said.

"I'm not even a witch!" I protested, flustered and scared. Underneath the bed, I summoned the keyblades. 'Maybe we should just show ourselves' Aurora murmured.

'Very well.' Lucifer sighed.

I raised the blades overhead and watched as they turned back into Aurora and Lucifer, except they were there and not in my head.

"Get away from her!" Lucifer yelled, kicking the blue haired boy and flipping him into the one with brass knuckles. Aurora summoned ice and pelted the one with the guns. I flipped out of bed, kicking at the boy with the spear and landing on my feet as we ran.

We ran from there, picking up our pace as we reached a sort of forest, with strange, arrow like branches. A girl barred our path, "Who are you?" she asked.

"Gospel." was my simple reply.

The child seemed to ponder this before waving me to follow her. "I've never seen you before. No matter. Why are you here?" she asked.

"A group of people surrounded me when I woke up, they were pointing weapons at me. I thought I was going to die. . . T-they said I was a witch." I said, sobbing softly as we continued to follow her.

(Medusa P.O.V)

She really doesn't know a thing about the DWMA, "They're a group of people who hate us. I am a witch myself, when they found out I was using magic to help them, they chased me away." I said. It was a half lie.

The girl looked down blankly, her two weapons had long but gone back to weapon form.

"Join me, and my associates." I said as we stepped into the main hall of the castle. Since that idiot Death Scythe and Stein had cut me in half and forced me into this ridiculous form, I've been using it to my advantage.

"Free, Eruka, Mizunes. We have a guest." I said.

(Gospel P.O.V)

I looked up and saw a girl in a polka dotted skirt and long sleeved shirt. A man in prison clothes and a chain ball around his leg came behind her. Lastly, a group of five little, childlike even, girls came out, all were wearing black cloaks that stuck out like tubes and had mouse shaped hats. They stood on top of each other and created a single figure.

"Hey, I don't think we want to be dealing with these people." Aurora said.

"It's not like we have a choice." Lucifer argued.

I nodded, more to myself than anyone else. "I-I guess I don't have a choice. I'll join you." I said.