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"speech"
'thought'
"Materia/Skill"
*DWMA Intercom*
"Weapon Form speech"
'Weapon Form thought'
(Sean POV)
Black Star charged at me at threw one of the chained sickles at me and I immediately got into the Royalguard stance that I've learned from Dante. The weapon wrapped itself around my armored hand and Black Star yanked on the chain to propel himself forward.
"You tricky little monkey." But I planned for something like this. So I got into another stance and let Gilgamesh rev to its maximum limit, and then I shouted out, "STRAIGHT!"
I threw my fist forward and it connected with Black Star's face, making a sick crunching sound… yeah, he's gonna feel that tomorrow.
He was thrown back and slammed against the outer wall of the DWMA. Black Star's Weapon partner, Tsubaki, changed back from her kusarigama state and ran over to Black Star, who groggily sat himself up right.
That blow could have killed him… oh, that blow could have killed him. Gilgamesh degenerated and I rushed over to the kid and his partner.
"Hey, is he alright?" I asked Tsubaki, who looked at me with an angry glare.
"Thankfully he is, but you should have gone a little easier on him. What were you thinking using that much power?!" She yelled in my face.
We were close together. Like, nose to nose close. I felt the heat rush to my face.
"Look, I can fix him up good as new. But you have to trust me." I said. She started to calm down a bit and eventually backed away from me.
"Are you sure… that you can help him?" She asked me, worry in her voice.
"Yeah, I'll do my best. I just need to take a look to see how much damage he took." She backed away from the fallen Black Star to allow me to look at him. I knelt down to him and held his head by his chin. His face was really red and I swear I heard his jaw crack earlier too.
"Alright, this calls for Level 3 magic." I said as I stood up and summoned Oathkeeper to my left hand.
"Curaga!" A large blooming flower appeared above Black Star's head and he was enveloped in a deep green aura.
When the magic died down, I called off Oathkeeper and helped Black Star up to his feet.
"Aw man, what happened?" He asked while holding his once broken face.
"You tried to fight me, I kinda smashed your face in, Tsubaki yelled at me, and I healed you." I said, trying to make it sound like no big deal. I brought him over to Tsubaki, who took him and helped support him by slinging his arm over her shoulder.
"Think you can handle it from here? I have a meeting with Lord Death to get to." I said while she gave me a nod and a gentle smile.
"Good, well I gotta go. See you two around." I said while walking away and raising my hand in a 'goodbye' gesture.
When I started to get near the door, I heard heavy panting. I turned around to see Cloud, bending over, hands on his knees, and breathing like he just ran a 200 mile marathon.
"Uh… Cloud? You okay man?" I called over to him. He stood slightly straight and started to trudge over to me. Of all people, I didn't think that Cloud could trudge.
"I'm… fine. Let's just… get this… over with." Cloud said in between breaths. I nodded and opened the door to the DWMA and walked through with Cloud following behind me. While we were making our way to the Death Room, I started talking to Cloud.
"So what took you so long anyway?"
"Stairs… Called off Fenrir… Couldn't drive up stairs… without getting sick… so many stairs…" Cloud panted, which was completely out of character for the blond brooder.
Well, we eventually ended up in the Death Room and knocked on the door, which was answered by, "Yes, come on in, the door's open." Same old cheery Lord Death. Hard to believe a guy like that is a Grimm Reaper.
Cloud and I walked into the Death Room and through the guillotine arch-ways. When we made it past those things, we were greeted by the sight of Lord Death, who was standing in front of the large mirror that was always in the room, and Spirit, the current and only Death Scythe that was ACTUALLY a scythe.
"Hello Meister Sean, Cloud, good to see you two. What do I owe this pleasant visit?" Lord Death asked in his usual happy voice.
"Well Lord Death, I came here to talk about some of my friends from out of town coming to visit for the day."
"Well I don't know why you'd need to talk to me about that, unless one of them is a witch and you need me to lift the barrier." Lord Death questioned.
"Well you see Lord Death; these friends of mine are like me and Cloud… you know, not of this universe."
"Oh, I see. Yes, that would require my attention. Well… as long as they're friends of yours and they don't do anything stupid, reckless, or anything that would cause damage to Death City… I don't see why not. But how are they going to get here?"
I answered Lord Death's question by clapping my hands together and slowly separating them, forming a large, purple energy version of the Kingdom Key. I thrust the giant energy key forward and the teeth seemingly disappeared into thin air. I slowly turned it to the left and a loud CLICK noise rang through the Death Room.
The key disappeared and opened up a large portal leading to a stain glass path. On that path were three figures, two male and one female. Slowly, those figures were getting closer and closer, until they stepped out of the portal and in front of me, the portal closing behind them. The three figures were easily recognizable as Lucas, Doran, and Aqua.
Lucas was wearing an orange hoodie, black pants, and gray boots with white straps.
Doran was wearing black boots, dark blue jeans, a white t-shirt, an open black trench coat, and a flowing, tattered brown scarf.
Aqua was wearing her usual armored shoes and bell sleeves, but she also wore blue skinny jeans, a loose light purple t-shirt, and a black headband was in her hair.
"Hey Sean, we made it!" Doran yelled.
"Doran, wasn't that scarf un-damaged last time I saw you?" I asked. Doran sheepishly scratched the back of his head and tried to explain.
"Well you see, a bit of damage can be caused by demonic purple lightning and explosions during a training session." I noticed that the scarf looked freshly charred as well, adding to the epic factor that was already his outfit.
"It just happened ten minutes ago didn't it?" I asked. While he just nodded his head and I face palmed.
"Seriously Doran, what the hell?" I asked my friend. Aqua just giggled at me and walked over.
"Hey there." She said, wrapping me in a hug. "Hey yourself." I returned the hug and it lasted for only a few seconds.
When we broke apart, Aqua reached onto a belt loop on her pants and took off the rectangular grey and yellow Digivice Burst that belonged to me, and was home to Renamon.
"She's still asleep. When she wakes up, you can let her out." She said with a cute smile.
I nodded and immediately turned my attention to Lord Death and Spirit, both looked confused, and in Spirit's case, in Aqua's direction.
"Spirit, back off or I'll cut you down to the little ant that you are." I said while wrapping an arm around Aqua, killer intent seeming to radiate off my form. Spirit just started to sweat profusely and scurried away to hide behind the large mirror.
"Well hello boys and girl, it's good to meet some of Meister Sean's friends. I am Death, the Grimm Reaper, as you might be familiar with. I have heard many great things about the three of you and your many battles. If anything were to happen to you in your stay, I know that you can defend yourselves well. But I'm afraid that you'll have to run along now. Being the Headmaster of the DWMA, I still have many responsibilities to do." Lord Death spoke.
I bowed to him respectfully, which gained a raised brow from Lucas and Doran and a giggle from Aqua, the three of them not used to seeing me do something so formal.
"We understand Lord Death. I think I'll take them around the city and maybe back to my apartment. Until next time, goodbye. Come on Cloud, we've got work to do. Showing my friends around will take a while." I said, Cloud grunting and trailing beside me while Aqua, Lucas, and Doran followed us under the guillotine arches and out of the Death Room.
"So let me get this straight, you're working for the Grimm Reaper?" Lucas asked as we exited the Death Room.
I nodded my head, "Basically. But it's not just me and Cloud, there are countless Meisters and their Weapon partners here at the DWMA to not only work for Lord Death in order to collect 99 Kishin souls and a Witch soul, but to come and learn as well. It's a school of sorts that was created to keep the peace in this world." I explained.
"We're given out missions to collect the Kishin souls, but some missions are off-limits to the lower level Meister & Weapon pairs. Meisters like Sean are only 1 Star Meisters, as are most students at the DWMA, with some of the older and more experienced students being 2 Star Meisters. Most of the faculty and their partners take on the harder missions because they're 3 Star Meisters." Cloud included, in his usual stoic manner.
"So how many souls have you guys collected so far?" Doran asked.
I grinned in his direction while walking down the hallway, "In the three months that I've been in this universe, Cloud and I have already collected 99 Kishin souls. We're currently in the process of collecting the Witches soul. But of course, what did you expect?"
Lucas and Doran both gave me a toothy grin and a thumbs up, while Aqua smiled warmly at me.
"Well then, you guys didn't come here for boring explanations. Let's go see the city!" I shouted while raising a fist in the air. The guys did the same, while Cloud sighed and Aqua giggled.
(Time Skip: 1 hour)
"And here's the apartment." I said as I unlocked the door. After an hour-long tour around Death City and the DWMA, I felt that it would be nice to just sit down and let my friends relax for a bit. The five of us entered the spacious apartment and walked into the living room.
"Wow, sweet place." Doran exclaimed, plopping down on the couch.
"It's a little big for two people though, don't you think?" Lucas wondered.
"Eh, it suits our needs. Besides, we have people over every now and then. So it's perfect." I explained.
I walked into the small kitchen area and opened the fridge to grab a bottle of water. "You guys want anything to drink?"
"Root Beer if you have it!" Lucas exclaimed.
"Do you have any milk?" Doran asked. I turned around and gave him a thumbs up while grabbing a can of root beer for Lucas.
"I'll just have a bottle of water." Aqua said.
So I grabbed the milk and tossed Lucas his root beer, that way I'd have a free hand to grab Aqua's water. When I did that, I placed both the milk and the water down so that I could grab a glass for Doran.
"Hey Cloud, do you want anything while I'm over here?" I asked the blonde swordsman.
"Not thirsty." He replied in his Cloud-ish tone.
"Fine, whatever." I shrugged. I went back to pouring the milk into Doran's glass. When I was done, I put the milk back in the fridge, grabbed the milk and the bottled water, and walked out of the kitchen to deliver the remaining drinks.
So I passed the glass of milk to Doran, who replied by snatching it out of my hand and chugging it in one big GULP, and I handed the bottle of water to Aqua, who thanked me with a nod.
"So what do you guys think of Death City?" I asked them.
"It's pretty cool once you get past the word 'Death' in the name. Which is very misleading by the way." Doran replied.
"Yeah. From the sound of it, you'd expect the streets to be littered with corpses and stuff like that." Lucas chirped in after another sip of his root beer.
"But all in all, it's a wonderful place to be." Aqua said as she finished her watter.
I nodded and turned my head to Cloud, who was glaring out of our window for some reason.
"Cloud, is everything okay?" I asked the blonde swordsman.
He looked over at me and turned his head so that it was tilted slightly to the floor. "Yeah, it's nothing."
(Outside of the apartment)
"So that's him, huh?"
The owner of the voice was a tall teenage boy, about fourteen years of age, with tanned skin, slicked black hair with two bangs framing his face, and bright blue eyes similar to Cloud's. He was wearing an open dark blue hoodie with distinct pale angel wing glyphs on the back, no shirt so that the world could see his slightly toned stomach, black jeans, and dark blue sneakers. In his hand was an extremely long katana blade that seemed slightly unwieldy.
The blade shimmered in the sun and a voice could be heard from it.
"Yes, that's him. Even in death, I will continue to follow him. We are destined to forever cross swords."
A face was seen in the blade and long silver hair and mako-infused eyes glinted in it's reflection.
"It seems that he's also found his own Meister. But we must not reveal ourselves just yet. Do you understand, Ochita?"
The now dubbed Ochita nodded his head.
I understand perfectly. You become my partner and teach me all you know and in return, you help me find my sister. That was the deal. Right, Sephiroth?"
"Indeed."
The blade started to glow and change form. Free from Ochita's grasp, the sword changed into a tall man with long silver hair that reaches past his back. He wore a long black coat with silver pauldrons, matching black pants and boots, and a belt underneath his coat that slightly revealed the emblem of SOLDIER.
"For now, I mask both of our energies. But Cloud's skills have not dulled over these past months. Let us make our leave."
With that, both Weapon and Meister dissapeared in a swirl of black feathers.
"And that's a wrap on the long awaited fourth chapter of Fenrir's Soul! I'm REALLY sorry about the wait for the new chapter! I have no excuse."
"But who is the mysterious Ochita? Why has Sephiroth appeared in Death City? What has happened to Ochita's dear sister? Read on to find out!"
"The OC Ochita belongs to Kamen Rider Ebon. Thanks for the character!"
