Anime: Soul Eater
Pairing: Death the Kid X OC
Summary: A skilled technician that's not in Shibusen? Unacceptable! Jade is recruited by Death the Kid himself to join Shibusen and help keep the world in order. A mystery begins to unravel as both Jade and Kid search for answers about their fathers. Can they really choose between love and family? Can they choose between life and death?
Author: Triggerspec
OC: Jade and Victor (Vic), (oh and I forgot to mention the crazy jungle guy)
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater or the characters. I also cannot take credit for the similarities to the plot. All credit goes to Atsushi Okubo. (I only take credit for Jade and Vic)
Italics = thoughts

Everyone: -silence-
Maka: Kid, are you okay?
Kid: -raises an eyebrow- Yes, I'm fine.
Everyone: -looks around at one another- ...
Vic: Why doesn't anyone ask if I'm alright?
Black Star: Because you're a big guy! We know that you'll pop up and make a grand entrance even though your a supporting character!
Vic: SUPPORTING! If it wasn't for me Jade wouldn't even-
Me: -smack Vic- Shut it. Do you need to ruin my story now? And the rest of you... You don't need to act as if everything is going wrong! They haven't read the chapter yet!
Everyone: -stares and blinks-
Maka: Sorry, it's just...
Me: -twitch- -sigh- -presses enter-


The desert was almost mystifying as the sands seemed to blend into the reddish colour of the sky. Maka with Soul ran with all her might, in a direction she really had no idea of.

"Hey Maka!" Ignored, "Stop running!"

The blonde stopped and bent over to catch her breath, the weapon soon turned out of the scythe like form to talk with the girl.

"We both know that your running hard. But where do you think you're heading?"

The girl than realized what she had done. Maka got so caught up into running to save Crona and Miss Marie that she never even thought of where she should be going first.

"I have no idea..."

"Geez, you should really think about the consequence before you take action. I did ask you what you wanted to do, but you won't get to Medusa running around like that."

"You're right. Sorry."

"So, what are we gonna do now?"

"I'll use my Soul Perception ability to seek out Medusa's hide out."

"Medusa has her Soul Protect on, right?"

"But it's different for Professor Stein. Besides, Crona and Miss Marie are also looking for her right? If I can sense their souls, I can use them to track down Medusa."

"Professor Stein, who even Shibusn couldn't locate... and Marie and Crona who went after him. So we're trying to find three people who could be anywhere in the world, without any clues? I can't even begin to imagine that."

"But I'm sure it'll turn out alright. I think, somehow, it'll turn out fine. For that I need your help, Soul."

"Uh, Sure."

Soul turned back into a Scythe and Maka, now with an idea began to run in a direction with a destination in mind. After a few moments, Soul asked another question.

"What about Jade?"

Maka looked over confused.

"Do you think she should be imprisoned like that? I don't trust her at all, but... It seems.. uncool."

"I don't know. But, I'm going to save her too."

In a room where there is no light, no warmth to feel and the only sound are of chains and your own breathing. In a room such as this is where ones sanity is clearly challenged. But then, when the world around you begins to tremble, shake and shift with such a force, that also can do damage to one's mind. Both Jade and Vic though a distance away, their minds seemed linked when the earthquakes began.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?"

The two shouted in sync. Seconds ran into minutes that dragged on to moments. Something big was happening out there, but it seemed no matter the force, the walls of the cell wouldn't seem to collapse. Jade took a deep breath and began to ignore the commotion. Listening to the sound of her breathing and watching the darkness as it continued to blanket her sight. Hours passed and that is when Jade felt the first sign of it. Something she remember Kid explaining to her. A feeling she presumed he felt in the place her father was held. As her thoughts began to complicate themselves, swirling around in such loops that a question would question her own question, a tinge of madness was bubbling in her mind and behind the bandages the half opened eye began to glow a crimson shine.

As memories of so many years ago flashed through her mind. Happy moments ripped away by her mother, ripped away by Lord Shinigami himself. And then further crushed as she becomes held mercilessly in this cage of insanity. What does one think about when one has all the time in the world just to think? Is it even possible to keep a focused mind in an environment like this? Honestly, is one able to keep a balanced mind in general? There is horrible things happening all over the world at any time. Hell, I've witnessed such things that normal people would go insane to think about. No matter the rules, the world is unstable... I wonder, how does one become fearful? Does fear make the world a safer place? Becoming to fearful to do such horrendous things, or maybe it's what makes the world an unsafe place. Driving people to do things like my father seemed to fall to. No matter what the emotion, nothing will completely save this earth. Something new is always evolving in the darkness. That's when it hit her. Even not knowing what fear really is, not understanding the curiosity one would feel of not knowing. Something that Liz once mentioned. People are what create their own madness. Curiosity and imagination of what lies underneath. People bring upon their own problems and...

"URGH! Get me out of heere!"

The more Jade thought, the more the thought about thinking more drove her muscles to twitch and her mind to become unstable. She was never one to sit and think about the consequence, she was more of a just do it, type of person. With all the strength she could muster up in her state, she pulled and tore at the chains that enveloped her.

Asura stood watching Lord Shinigami as the man stood with the Death Scythe in his hands.

"My point is... I have stopped imagining."

"Huh? Wouldn't it be rather boring to give up imagining?"

"Boring? I take offence of putting it like that."

"If there's another way of putting it, then please let me know!"

Lord Shinigami charged at the apathetic man with a shining blade in his hand. It didn't take much effort for Asura to dodge out of the way from each swing. Hoping from one wooden tombstone to another.

"You've always been like that. Simple and cowardly. Getting rid of your anxieties like that one by one was the only way you could be at ease. You partnered with Vajra and fought alongside us. So that we could share those anxieties... but you betrayed not only innocent people, your own partner... and even your own daughter."

Another swing, another dodge.

"I'm surprised someone like you would say such naive things. How are you to know whether I betray my own kin or not? Rules and order cannot hold anxiety in check."

"Denying that anxiety with madness will only bring fourth more anxiety!"

With a flare of anger, Lord Shinigami was able to grasp Asura's neck and throw him into the ground before continuing his words.

"It's so simple why can't you see it?" Strike after strike,after strike, "Even a child could tell you that will leave you with nothing."

"The truth cannot be held by clinging to order coated by rhetoric and lies. Covering up what is inconvenient and putting off the real issues will not hide all the rips in it."

With a shot from the weapon in his mouth, Asura managed to slip out of Lord Shinigami's grasp.

"I guess you really are beyond salvation after all."

"Is providing false peace really that noble?"

Red glowing bullet like shots were fired from Asura's mouth at the shinigami.

"I'm at least confident that I'm not a nuisance like you!"

Which was easily blocked and countered with a charging strike. Once again to be dodged. It's hard to really determine what will happen when two equally strength Gods fight. The two shinigami suspended in the air, once again head to head after many counters failed. No agreement could be understood by either side...

It took everything out of her, but finally the wall in front of her had become rubbish. She stood, slightly battered from fighting the steel wall that held her in, but it was no match for her. Jade was beginning to sense a familiar feeling within the air and loud noises were heard rumbling through the building. It was about a dozen or so cells away before she found the correct one.

"Vic!"

"Jade? Is that you?"

With a concentrated punch the steel door blew in and landed indebted into the wall just over Vic's head. The boy sat with eyes the size of saucers as his life flashed before his eyes.

"ARE YOU INSANE!"

The boy wiggled and shouted as Jade fiddled with the chains and wraps holding down the hysteric boy.

"You can feel it too right?"

Vic calmed down as Jade continued. All he could do was nod. With a couple clinks the chains fell limp and Vic could feel the circulation back in his body. Jade held out her hand with a smile.

"Shall we?"

"You ask as if I have a choice..."

Vic sarcasticly remarked before his body shined and took form of a knife twirling in the fingers of Jade. This is it... What I've been searching for. Jade ran as fast as she could to the Death Room, where she figured whatever was happening was happening there.

"As an old friend, let me give you a small piece of advice. Being bound by these so called rules and order that you've created will be fatal. You're rules create limits... Atleast I have let my kin grow to create her own, to let her find her own limits. However, yours won't live that far."

With the slightest turn of his head, the large red beam no longer aimed at the shinigami went straight for the bystanders. Azura, Excaliber and the most valued person, Lord Shinigami's own son.

As the dust settled, Kid was the one to stay conscious from the explosion, he frantically searched only to find his father done.

"Father!"

He fell on his knees, beside his father, large pieces of his body missing, his mask looked as if to fall apart by the touch of a breath.

"You fall for such easy tricks because you are bound by pathetic rules and ties of obligations..."

"Fool!" Excalibur scolded, pointing the pearl white cane at the Demon God. "Rules are decided upon by each individual."

"That's precisely why Shinigami lost to me. Not having to live with tiresome rules about parents-"

His vision was distracted as he looked out to see Jade standing in the entrance of the Death Room. Images of Arachne flashed through his mind, as well as images of a past he had almost forgotten. His hands grasped his head as if to hold the pieces together as he let out a horrified howl of agony. Jade looked torn at the sight, not only of her father in pain and to what he has done, but seeing Kid kneeling at his dead father.

"Kid..."

With the quiet tone of his name the boy looked over to see Jade standing in the middle of the guillotine pathway.

"Jade, what happened to you?"

Other than telling the truth as to how his father had lied and locked her up she just smiled.

"I fell down the stairs on my way here."

"No... No I have too- I have to repair myself... I have to leave..."

As he went to leave, Jade went chasing after him, only to be stopped at the edge of the walking town by Kid grabbing her waist.

"Father! Wait!"

"It's useless Jade, he made his choice when he became a Kishin."

Jade struggled to release Kid's grasp but it was futile, "No it's not! I can save him! I won't let anyone hurt him again!"

Kid's face was pained, he was torn between his love and his hate. Jade was protecting the man who had just killed his father and yet he couldn't let that go. Jade watched as her father wandered right into the bosom of some witch.

"I'm afraid..." Asura said in a shaky voice.

Jade's blood boiled as webbed eyes mocked her, "It's okay. I'll protect you. Always."

"I'm afraid... I can't let you live."

Jade's struggling weakened as she watched them. It didn't take long for those webbed eyes to dim and Jade stopped for a moment.

"What?"

Was all the dying which could gasp out before her body slowly disintegrated. Asura stood with a large purple soul in his palm.

"So this is a witches soul?"

He licked his lips before he swallowed the orb whole. Jade gasped as the power of her own father ten-folded and he seemed to grow, breaking out of his outfit into some sort of monster. Jade once again began to struggle and Kid didn't loosen his grip. Both saw a strange force field grow around the Kishin and they knew that they were running out of time. I have no other choice. Kid pointed the two pistols in his hand toward the heart and stomach of the girl he wrapped around.

"If today makes us enemies... Please, give me this moment."

Jade froze at feeling of metal pushing against her. The words cut her like a blade as the warm grasp of Kid finally sank into her skin. She let herself go limp and held Kid's hands as the grasped the pistols.

"I love you..."

"Forever."

With that final word Kid pulled the two triggers and beams of pink went through Jade on an angle, avoiding Kid himself. Behind the pink light splashed dark red. Jade began to slip but Kid caught her and dropping Liz and Patti. He carefully laid the girl on the ground before Liz's voice broke his daze.

"Kid, I'm sorry but we need to go."

He looked over to see the dome closing. With a flick of his wrist he was on his skateboard and grasping the two pistols. He raced toward the dome, with the objective of destroying the Kishin.