The Shinigami

"...looks like I should go introduce myself..."

"Tell me again, why did you drop your Death Note?"

"Well...I guess since it's been done before, it will return to me in the end, besides it does get boring up here..."

"You think someone would know how to use it?"

"Aren't you the one who translated it into English?"

"Oh yeah, later dude."

The first of the two talking left the area called the Shinigami Realm, the second of the two started to laugh, "I can't wait for the show to really start!"

Eddy was in class with Edd and Ed, it was a week after their homeroom teacher and Kevin died. During that time Eddy used the Death Note three more times, once on some jerk named Alan who shoved him, once on some kid named Louis he saw write "Eddy's a jerk" on the wall, and once on some chick named Mackenzie who couldn't decide on what to order in over half an hour of her time to get to the lunch register. Eddy hid the Death Note in his room so he wrote down whoever messed with him in a notepad he carried with him. Eddy being bored looked around at his class, everyone seems edgy these days, probably because of the kids here dying. I think I heard about someone moving due to it... Eddy saw Johnny who was freaking out for some reason, he's been too uneasy, maybe I should lay off for a while, he is one of my pigeons after all... as you may have guessed, the classroom got a new teacher, a girl named Ms. Trize, and some of the guys had their eyes on her. "Pay attention, this is English class, not free hour..."

Johnny was rocking in his chair a bit, this is all Plank's fault! If he didn't forget his math homework I wouldn't be in this mix with all the questions every time someone... Johnny shook his head, "Jonathan, do you need to go see the nurse?"

After classes Eddy got with Edd and Ed, "So, what do you guys wanna do today?" Eddy then notice a police officer standing outside the school, Eddy looked a bit nervous and went into a whisper "What's with the 5-0?" Edd looked at the officer and whispered back "A safety regulation, they're looking for suspicious people in the school area..." The trio headed back to the cul-de-sac, for the heck of it they decided to take a turn that led near the cemetery, the three boys noticed a girl crying over there, "Is that Nazz?" asked Ed, "She must be mourning over Kevin, the poor thing...." said Edd a bit sad. Eddy dragged the others to keep going "Just leave her be, give her space y'know?" the Eds left. Nazz was crying next to Kevin's grave, "You and that stupid bike! I knew it'd get you hurt one day!"

Inside the cul-de-sac, Eddy once again said, "What's the plan for today boys?" Edd looked a bit uneasy, "C'mon Double D, we can't let this get us down! I mean, we the Eds, have a reputation to uphold!" Edd shook his head, "Sorry Eddy, I just can't..." Eddy looked over to Ed, "What about you big guy? Want to do some scamming?" Ed looked around, "On who?" Eddy looked around, the Eds were the only ones outside, everyone seemed to have disappeared. "I don't get it," Eddy said after looking around for the third time, Ed had an idea, "Maybe they all got sucked into-" "I think they're just afraid..." pointed out Edd, Eddy started to panic oh no! With no kids around, there'll be no scams, and no scams means.... Eddy remembered what happened when he went crazy... "If I start gambling with squirrels again, hit me."

The Eds decided to just call it a day and go home, Edd got to work on chores while Ed went down to his basement bedroom again. This time however, he locked the basement door and his window and put a cover over it. He opened the door to his sponges, but he cleared the sponges out revealing a secret door that led downwards. Ed descended into a hidden room, he turned on an above fluorescence light. In the room was a desk with a computer, and a file cabinet, Ed turned on the computer, "It's been a while since I worked on a case, but with so many 'Unexplained deaths' at once...and in my town, I can't ignore it." a single letter E showed up on screen, "L, eat your heart out..." Ed was about to do something when..."ED! MOM SAID YOU CAN'T LOCK YOUR DOOR!" Ed quickly turned off the computer and light and ran up the stairs, "Oh crap, I almost forgot..." he put the sponges back and opened the door to his room, "Hello baby sister! What can Ed do for you?" Sarah pointed at Ed "Mom said it's dangerous outside so I need you to walk me to Jimmy's!" Ed nodded, Sarah walked upstairs Almost forgot about her... I'll have to be careful to make sure she doesn't find out about the real me...

Eddy got home and went to his room, no scams... nothing to do... Eddy walked over to his turntable and put on some jams... but he felt like someone was watching him... Eddy turned around and saw someone, or something, on his bed. The someone wore heavy clothing and bandages on his head eating chocolate, Eddy backed into the turntable and yelled "Who the hell are you?" the someone swallowed the chocolate he was eating and said "Relax kid, I'm not going to hurt you," the someone got up and walked over to Eddy, "it's just that you have something of mine...." Eddy thought about the Death Note, "That book is yours?" the someone nodded, "What are you?" the someone stood up "I am a shinigami, a death god if you will, the name's Sidoh." Eddy backed next to his grooming table, death god? Oh man, I'm gonna die... Eddy grabbed a pair of scissors, Sidoh walked closer to Eddy, Eddy then jabbed the scissors into what he thought was Sidoh's heart. Sidoh started to laugh, "Man, aren't you something, you can't kill me! Didn't you read the instructions?" Eddy looked confused, "Take out the Note and I'll show ya..."

Eddy took out the Death Note from his huge closet and showed it to Sidoh, Eddy opened the book, "Only five names? Well, that is average but I was expecting a bit more..." Sidoh then pointed to the inside cover, "Here, rule 18: 'A god of death cannot be killed even if stabbed in his heart with a knife or shot in the head with a gun. However, there are ways to kill a god of death, which are not generally known to the gods of death.' don't tell me you didn't read all the rules..." Eddy just shrugged, "I'm not the one to just read things..." Sidoh laughed, "I knew the Note would fall into the hands of an idiot!"

Edd watched the news, to keep himself busy he also folded the laundry. Recently, I've been given less chores and more notes saying "We love you son," Mother and Father must be worried sick about me...

"We now go live to Dr. Nick who has his say in the recent crisis of Peach Creek,"

"I don't know how to explain it, the victims all seemed to be in good health.... except for the dying part."

"Dr. Nick, is it true that all the victims died of heart failure?"

"Yes, but none of them had any symptoms of an incoming heart attack,"

Edd turned off the TV, that's not right... that's almost unreal... he looked outside to see Ed helping Sarah walk over to Jimmy's. At least some things won't change... Edd looked up at the sky, it looked like rain.

Eddy was walking with an umbrella outside, he was trying to read the instructions of the Death Note "You know, it's not wise to have that out in the open..." said Sidoh who followed closely behind, "Hey, I just learned that some death god owns this thing and you want me to stay in a closed out room? No thanks..." Eddy started to read rule 3, "Besides, I'll just say it's just a Gothic story or something..."

Later, Eddy and Sidoh had walked near the cemetery and Eddy had finished reading rule 7, "So that explains why I can see you, since it says here I should be able to recognize your image and voice..." "True, true," said Sidoh "So, I can decide how a person will die? Not just kill them?" "Exactly," Eddy read rule 8, "...what does this mean? I can't go to Heaven or Hell? Does that mean religion is right? What'll happen to me?" "Oh, you don't have to worry about that, you'll see when you're dead... hey, is that a girl over there?" Sidoh pointed at the cemetery, Eddy looked towards it, "Yeah, that's Nazz, why?" "What's she there for?" Eddy hid the Death Note, he started to get nervous, "Uh...well....her uh... friend just died and...." Sidoh laughed "You killed him? Oh man, that's rich! But hey, that just means you thinned out some competition huh?" Sidoh continued to laugh, Eddy looked at the ground, "Hey, who's that? One of her friends?" Eddy looked over at Nazz, he saw some guy looking at her, "Who the....oh great...it's him..."

"Who? Her boyfriend?"

"No! It's this one jerk from the high school, what's his name.... Bobby!"

"Bobby?"

"Yeah, once in a while he goes to our school to beat up boys and harass girls. What's he doing here?"

Nazz looked up, "Oh, it's starting to rain, I'd better get going..." soon, the rain would be the least of her worries since some guy with a sick mind was watching her, ...heh, heh, this one's got some looks for a kid... it's been a bit boring since the police began showing up around the school.... the guy Bobby crept up behind Nazz,

"What's he doing?" asked Sidoh, Eddy thought for a moment, like he saw this in a movie before... "Dear God... he's going to..." Eddy took out the Death Note, and looked up at the rain "Hey Sidoh, is 'Death by Lightning' available?" Sidoh nodded, Eddy wrote down Bobby's name...for I beheld Satan, as he fell from Heaven! LIKE LIGHTNING!

It was then that Nazz felt like she was being watched, and turned around just in time for her to see her stalked get struck down by a lightning bolt, she couldn't believe what she just saw. Oh...my...God... he's dead...I'd better get home! Nazz ran out of the cemetery, she saw Eddy under an umbrella is that Eddy? What's he doing here?

"I can't believed that worked..." Eddy said as he hid the Death Note into his jacket, he noticed that Nazz was looking straight towards him and Sidoh, "Uh oh..." "Don't worry, she can't see me...we should leave..." Sidoh reassured him, that's when Nazz approached Eddy, "What're you doing in the rain Eddy? You could get struck by lightning!" Eddy tried to stay cool, not to cause suspicion "Uh... yeah... hey, shouldn't you be getting home? I got an umbrella..." Nazz walked under Eddy's umbrella, "Thanks Eddy, but what are you doing out here?" think of an excuse, think of an excuse... "I just like walking in the rain... if it isn't storming..." good one, Nazz gave Eddy a puzzled look "I didn't know you were like that..." Eddy shrugged, he started walking back to the cul-de-sac, for some reason, no other lightning appeared.

To be continued...

Notes: I chose Sidoh to be the owner of Eddy's Death Note because his voice actor in the English Dub is Sam Vincent, the voice of Edd. I just noticed but I haven't included Rolf, or the Kankers yet... maybe I'll do that in the next chapter...