Bruder Titans

Chapter 7
Dedicated to Big Brother Mukad

Waking to the light pouring in from the window, Eis rubbed his eyes and slowly made his way out of bed to get dressed. He had slept in only his boxers the night before so he could remain as cold as possible. Each breath he exhaled produced a smoky white cloud. He smiled in amusement at himself as and blew out before pulling a shirt Parasit had in the guest rooms closet over his head.

Eis was surprised that after all this time, Parasit had kept the spare clothes of himself and their friends. The styles were all old of course but that did not bother him. Everything he wore for years was the same, gray, white, blue, and black. He had been here a little over a week and each day, he was surprised at all the memories every single thing brought back. Parasit had saved everything left behind by their friends. It seemed he too wanted everything to be as it once was.

Till made sure he was still nice and cool in the clothing he had chosen before heading up the few steps to the kitchen. He knew his friend would not awaken for a while so he decided to start cooking something to eat. He did not know what time it was and did not feel the need to find out, it wasn't important he would cook whatever he felt like.

In Parasit's room, there was a horrific noise. A sound that would cause women and children to shriek in fear and terror. A sound that seemed like Satan himself was making. This sound.. was Parasit's snoring…
One would wonder why the mohawked man was not awakened by himself but that mystery would remain unsolved.

Back down in the kitchen, Eis had prepared a true feast. He smiled at his work and turned on the stereo, cranking the volume as loud as he felt comfortable with. He filled his plate and leaned up against the counter, eating completely relaxed. He could finally hear the old stairs creaking underneath the feet of the home's owner. Eis looked up to see Parasit coming around the corner, he seemed to have just put on a new pair of pressed black pants and socks as he walked down to the guest room.

"What have I told you about the music Till?" he asked in English through his very strange accent.

Till just tilted his head in confusion before hearing the volume increase greatly.

"When you play something, turn the bastard up full blast!!" He bit down on a sausage and smirked.

"You are going to make yourself deaf.."

"What do I care? I can just take the energy from someone else and heal my ears."

"Ja but you will take their memories and thoughts and become even more confused than you already are," the ice conjurer countered.

Parasit thought long and hard for a moment before speaking. "So?... What's your points?"



Eis shook his head. After all these years little had changed about Parasit. He was still an enigma that was only getting worse.

"So.." Till began, "Do you have everything you'll need for the trip?"

"Ja.."

"What time do we leave tonight?"

"Pretty late…"

Parasit seemed to be dreading leaving his adopted homeland. He knew that he had to leave but that did not mean he had to like it any. He absentmindedly created a glowing blade and began to clean his fingernails.

"Well.. I guess tonight's the night.."

Parasit nodded.

"What do you want to do until it is time to go?"

"Jager" he answered quickly. "Just because we have to leave the bottles here doesn't mean we have to leave the Jagermeister here…"

Eis smirked and nodded "Wundervoll! Sounds like a plan."

A figure shaded by shadows stayed in the alley he slept in the day before. He was growing frustrated with all of the searching that yielded no results. He had killed quite a few people and each did not bring him any closer to finding and capturing his targets. He had exhausted all of his detective skills. Tonight he would try the last place they should have chosen to hide, the old house they all lived in together those few years ago.

"If they are there," he thought, "I will do more than just capture them.. How could they make me look so foolish?!"

"Still nothing I see"

Naughtseemann looked up to see a beastly man with pale white skin walk towards him wearing a dirty white trench coat.

"Tier" he said, acknowledging his presence.

Tier smiled and tiled his head up to reveal fanged grin, two glowing red eyes, and scars.

"So have the masters sent you to monitor my findings? Did they send you to help?"

The beast simply chuckled wickedly. "Nein I'm just here to watch you be all serious and fail.. Have some fun!" He pushed Naughtseemann's shoulder. "Lighten up" Tier laughed at his comment 

with a disturbing display. Before he could realize it, he was up to his neck in black water. He looked behind him to see a bright city street, no one noticing the situation happing in the alley. The water appeared to be held back by the light as if it was a tank. Tier went to turn his head back towards the dark sailor when he felt a boot touch the top of his head.

Naughtseemann looked down at him, standing on the water as if it were black concrete. His strange black and white eyes could be seen, barely, underneath his hood. He gave Tier a gaze that seemed to pierce his very soul.

" Tier… You always seem to forget that you can never be too sure of the people around you.. it could get you killed…." The man pressed his boot down a bit, causing Tier to have a mouth filled with the oil looking water before spitting it out. He couldn't move, he was at the mercy of this being that was far more of a beast than he could ever become.

Taking a deep breath, Tier looked up at his capture and ally. "Alex… What do you propose we do?"

"We work together..."

With that, the black water receded. Tier slowly felt control over his body coming back to him. He stretched and cracked his head as he watched Naughtseemann descend back to the pavement as if he was on a lift.

"Well partner… sounds like a plan" The beast smiled.

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Back at the house, the two young men were ready to leave for the airport. They had everything they would need packed in large backpacks and had decided to stop drinking. The would be saving that for when they would either reach their destination or when they would come back.

"Well I guess this is it-" Eis was cut off by the lights going out.

"Alright.. maybe that's just the weather or something…" Parasit made his way to the door and opened it.

"Good evening Para" Before him stood a beastly monster in the form of a man.

"Hello Tier…"

Tier grinned and pulled down the hood of his coat. "It has been a while…" There was a long uncomfortable silence…

Suddenly, in a quick white blur, Tier grasped Parasit's neck and tossed him into the woods behind them like a rag doll.

"Para!!" Eis ran towards Tier with glowing blue eyes and glowing hands. He reached for Tier's body only to seemingly phase right through him. Stumbling, Eis turned around to see a pack of six white wolves with red eyes staring him down. "Oh Scheiße!"
Eis stumbled once more before running as fast as he could with the weight on him back.


One of Tier's wolf forms curdiously closed the door to the house before turning it's attention to the fleeing man. All six alabaster animals raised their muzzles to the air and howled loudly before giving chase.

Eis looked behind briefly to see the horrid sight. "Scheiße Scheiße Scheiße Scheiße!!"
He found himself tripping over something hard. "Scheiße!!" He looked down to see Parasit, hurt but alive.

The man groaned and raised himself off the ground with the help of Eis. "Come on, let's go!!"

The two kept running into the woods, hearing the growls from the beasts behind them, not paying any attention to the changing color of the puddles of water around them.

"We are going to die aren't we?" asked Eis to his dark friend.

"No, they need us too bad…"

"Well that's a-"

"But that will not stop them from trying…"

There was a silence as the two ran for their lives.

"Scheiße…" cursed Till once more.

Both men felt themselves tripping once more, falling flat on their faces. They both groaned in pain and annoyance and looked up to see another opponent before them.

"Oh great.. it's you Alex.." Parasit looked up at the dark figure, black water droplets fell from his coat, a patch that seemed to have been on his right shoulder appeared to be long gone, and his black and white eyes looking quite disturbed.

"You live in this country let you don't have the respect to speak it's language… what a shame…"

"You should be one to talk! You are disgracing your country and your father!" Parasit was met with a swift kick to the face that sent him flying back a few feet. The man stood, taking off him back pack. "Eis.."

"Ja?"

"Now.. we stand and fight."

Eis stood slowly before dropping his pack as well and nodded. "Ja…" His eyes and body glowed a pale blue as he opened the palms of his hands at Naughtseemann, firing shards of ice.

Naughtseemann put up a black barrier of pure water that was quickly frozen. "You don't stand a chance Till" He said coldly in German. "You shall lose everything."
The man seemingly disappeared only to reappear behind Eis without his coat. He punched him in the side of the face as he turned to look at him. His skin was a mixture of dark shades and pure sickly grays, the whites of his eyes were blacker than the night sky they were fighting under and the irises 

were a mix of white and gray. His hair was a mix match of white and black. His body seemed to be naturally muscular but it was quite obvious that they were almost never used.

Looking down at the man he knocked to the ground, he walked calmly to him. His black boots crushed small twigs under his weight and left black puddles of water in his wake. Till looked up at his friend turned enemy and starred into his soulless eyes.

"Alex.. Stop this"

" I can not do that Till" The man's arm seemed to go from it's gray colors to a pure black. It rippled, ebbed, and flowed. "This is the end…"

"You got that right.."

"Hmm? AAAGGH!!" The dark man felt two sickle like blades cut into his back and pull him backwards.

"Did you forget about me? You are supposed to be the expert strategist here.." Parasit pulled on the glowing chains from his arms once more. "Maybe I should take some of that from you!" As he spoke, a blue energy seemed to come out of Naughtseemann's body and travel through the chains.

"Nein!!" The man turned around and grasped the chains before tossing Parasit to an oncoming pack of white wolves, the chains ripped out of his body, spilling some nearly back blood. Naughtseemann panted briefly and his eyes stayed locked on Parasit.

"You've made the same mistake twice.." Eis stood and blasted him with an icy cold force. The sailor let out a cry in pain and disappeared once more in the darkness. Giving Till a very uneasy feeling.

Across from the ice conjurer, Parasit was swinging two glowing blades around his boy. "Here puppy, puppy, puppy.. BRING IT!!"

The wolves growled and each leaped at him with open jaws. Parasit swung a blade upward, slicing one deep, spilling the contents of the body out all over the ground. Another came from the right, he swung his right blade around the left side of his body; the blade the wrapped around him and sliced through the skull of the other creature. Another went to bite for his leg, a quick stab of the left handed blade settled that.

The other 3 stopped their attempted attacks and stood over the fallen bodies. They showed their teeth and began to transform, along with the seemingly lifeless bodies.
Before Parasit stood three miniature Tiers. Each was thin but very muscular.

"Well?" The mohawked man's blades glowed. He put his hands together and a glowing staff with two blades on each end replaced the two separate weapons.

The three beasts raced towards him, roaring. He quickly smashed the staff into the chin of the one in the middle before swinging the weapon majestically, his coat twirling with him. The creature to his right ducked down allowing his 'brother to the left to take the coming blow full force. The creature looked into Parasit's red violet eyes and snarled. Parasit smirked and narrowed his eyes as he withdrew the blade and gave a thrust backwards, impaling the other Tier through the stomach before running the one before him straight through. The creature roared in great pain, Parasit smiled wickedly and pushed it further into him. The remaining small Tier spat in his face before punching him 

hard, knocking off the smile. He punched him harder and harder until Parasit transformed his blade once more into a giant sabato sword, slicing the beast in two.

The man drew picked up the large weapon, letting it rest on his shoulder. "Well I guess that's- oh Scheiße.." The three bodies disappeared in an instant, the earth rumbled and seemingly growled.

"Spiel Mit Mir… Play with me Parasit!" The voice was very deep and menacing. The ground ripped open suddenly and a large beast leaped out and stood before him.

"Oh not again!!" Parasit steadied his weapon and prepared to strike or be struck.

Behind the two, a battle of ice and water was waging. One would think Eis's task was fairly simple but his enemy would melt into nothingness before trying to douse him with water. He had been struck already, his left forearm was incased in black ice. He was doing his best not to panic as he leaped and slid out of the way of the demented dark sailor he was trying his best to evade.

" You cannot keep continuing to do this Till. You will simply end up a block of black ice" Naughtseemann was very calm. His voice seemed to come from everywhere.. and it did. Everywhere there was water, there was his voice and his eyes. As long as he was in the general area, water and shadow were his to control.

Till looked at his arm it didn't seem like much use in it's current condition. He was standing on a rock to avoid any water. He would be lying to himself if he thought he was untouchable but he was more ready here than on the ground. He could feel the air move behind him and he turned quickly to see Naughtseemann leaping in the air with his fist pulled back, the hand seemed to be made of pure water. Eis quickly delivered an upper cut to the sailor's chin with his frozen hand. Naughtseemann fell on his back while firing a sphere of water into the air.

Looking up, Eis could only mutter one thing before bolting off the rock, "Scheiße…"

With a loud rumble, Naughtseemann set off his water bomb. Black rain poured from the sky. Each little droplet shaped itself into tiny needles and seemed to be aiming for Eis.

"Oh Scheiße Scheiße Scheiße Scheiße Scheiße!!" Eis ran as fast as he could, the blow he delivered to Naughtseemann had knocked some of the ice off of his hand and he was slowly regaining use of it but it wouldn't mean anything if he where to be flash frozen by the water falling onto his skin. He looked and quickly saw his salvation, Naughtseemann's coat. He picked it off the ground, put in on and tumbled to the ground, wrapping it tightly around himself. The water landed and merely slid off of his back but the fight was not over yet. Far from it, he had to end this and escape.

Eis quickly got to his feet and went over to where the dark sailor had laid. There was no sign of him. Eis processed all the information he had on him in his mind, wondering where he could have gone only to hear..

"I believe that is mine," said Naughtseemann. He grabbed Eis's left shoulder and turned him around to face him. He readied his powers in one hand and a fist in the other but all thought left him as he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. He looked down to see a large ice sickle stuck in him, his dark blood draining out slowly.

Eis gritted his teeth and pushed the piece of ice in his opponent all the way before concentrating his powers and freezing his opponent's entire body, inside and out.


"I know this won't kill you, Alex. But it'll keep you from chasing me for a while…"

The dark man's face showed no expression as he froze completely. Till took off his jacket and draped it over his former friend before smashing his ice covered forearm against the frozen body, shattering both bits of ice almost entirely.

"I shall see you once again.. on the battlefield.." Eis looked up and over to Parasit, he was doing his best to avoid the beast Tier had transformed into. It seemed like the man had given up all hope in hurting the creature, he was just trying to stay away.

"This will be fun" The ice conjurer thought sarcastically as his hand glowed light blue. He formed a ball of freezing water vapor in his hand before throwing it at the beast. Tier's claw was just centimeters away from Parasit's face when he noticed his leg was frozen. He stared at Eis and growled while the freshly formed ice cracked. Seeing his chance, Parasit rammed a glowing dagger into the chest of the beast. Tier howled and batted away his attacker, neglecting to notice the chain attached from himself to his enemy.

"I got you know Schwulah" Parasit muttered. A blue energy started to flow from Tier, it grew into a huge aura and quickly shot down the chain to the energy vampire commanding it.

Eis fired all the volleys he could muster at the beast. Tier's movements and strength made it impossible to freeze him but he was slowed down for the time being and the energy being drained from him was not helping matters for him either.

Finally, the beast stopped moving, he slowly shrank down to his original size, leaving the normal Tier in a trace-like state before falling flat on his face. With one good jerk, Parasit retrieved his dagger and absorbed it back into his body.
The energy that now flowed through him was amazing! It was unlike anything he felt before. He felt as if he could do anything! However what he needed to do now was grab his backpack and flee the country.

"Well?" He looked at Till.

"Time to go.." Eis picked up a backpack and handed it to Parasit before putting his on his back.

As the two men walked on, battered and bruised, they savored their small victory, leaving their opponents behind. It would take quite some time but they would make their way to the United States and possibly find help. It would be quite a journey, but well worth it.
If only they had spared a few more moments to make sure one opponent was truly defeated… They were still the prey of a beast, now hurt and weakened but still on the hunt…