A Real Leader
After their conversation with Lord Death was over Michael and Chloe left the death room to find Kyle. He was waiting outside for the two of them. "So," Kyle said as they stepped outside, "we're Death's personnel hit squad now?"
"Yea pretty much," Michael said, "but let's get back to check on Damien shall we?"
"Yes sir," Kyle said mockingly to his new leader. Michael frowned slightly at Kyle's sarcasm but ignored it. The three of them left to get themselves back to Stein's home.
"Damien moved!" Liliana yelled as she jumped up to get Professor Stein. Stein and Marie rushed in and saw that Damien was slightly tossing and turning then he suddenly stopped.
"I think he is going to wake up sometime soon," Stein said, pushing up his glasses and smiling.
"Come on Damien," Liliana thought while smiling, "come back to us."
Damien woke up in the darkness. He could see the outlines of two souls in front of him. The closer the souls got the more pressure he could feel on himself. He looked around the darkness and wondered where he was and who the souls belonged too.
"This bitch better be awake by now," Kyle said as he walked up to the door. Michael grabbed Kyle and turned him around, punching him in the face as hard as he could. Kyle bounced off of the wall of Stein's house and hit the floor.
"Dammit Kyle," Michael yelled, "you wouldn't even be here without Damien!"
"Yea show some respect Kyle," Chloe added.
"I'll show respect if I feel like it," Kyle coughed.
"Excuse me?" Michael asked kicking Kyle.
"I said," Kyle stood up drawing his Desert Eagle, "I'll show respect if I feel like it.. sir!"
"I've had it with your sarcasm shit Kyle," Michael held his arm out and Chloe transformed into her Bass form.
"And I'm sick of saving you guys all the time," Kyle yelled, "like with the White Witch."
"I'm going to make you hear the Sound Of your own goddamn Madness!" Michael yelled as he began to play his bass, his illusion forming around Stein's house. A familiar formed in front of Kyle, it was holding two hatchets and dodged as Kyle fired at it. The familiar lunged at Kyle and caught a bullet in the mouth. As the familiar disappeared another one appeared and attacked. Kyle pulled out his .44 magnum and fired at this one, hitting it in the chest. Kyle watched it and then noticed 5 more as he looked up. He turned his Desert Eagle into an M4 Carbine and fired into the five. As more appeared Kyle began to advance forward, killing each one quickly. The .44 magnum became a sawed-off shotgun and Kyle fired at a familiar that had appeared behind him. One had gotten really close so Kyle dropped the carbine and materialized a knife out of his wrist. Kyle stabbed the familiar in the chest 5 times and then slit it's throat, turning his attention to the other familiars that were appearing between him and Michael.
"Stein," Marie burst into Damien's room, "Michael and Kyle are fighting outside!"
"What?" Stein stood up quickly and looked at Liliana who also stood up to go outside. "Liliana stay here with Damien." Stein ran outside with Marie.
"These two are at each other's throats without you Damien," Liliana thought, feeling helpless without her miester and best friend, "I need you… the others need you." Damien began to move back in forth slightly.
Kyle stabbed the next familiar in the eye, dropping into the floor and moving onto the next two. He sprouted another knife out of his other wrist and stabbed them both in the neck, wrapping his hands around their throats and slamming them into the floor. He threw one of his knives into the next and pulled out a G18 to fire a hail of bullets into to two more rushing familiars. "I could do this all day Mike," Kyle laughed as he materialized two machetes. He blocked a hatchet and stabbed the familiar in the stomach, after a second he moved the familiar to use it as a shield against another hatchet. Kyle kicked the familiar off of his machete and into another familiar.
"Kyle," Stein said as he came out of his house, "You need to stop this!" Kyle continued to rip every enemy that came his way apart.
"Damn," Michael said as he continued playing, "maybe it's time we stopped letting Kyle Get Away With Murder, Chloe." The song changed as more familiar's appeared. Kyle fell back as one kicked him in the chest. He responded by stabbing its foot into the ground and putting the other machete through its throat and than running past the others. As some closed in he cut them down, getting closer and closer to the stage. He left the machete in one of their skulls and the other was impaled through one that had tried to jump at Kyle. Kyle got onto the stage and used a knife to slit the throat of a familiar that had attacked him. Kyle yelled as his blade went to pierce Michael's eye but his arm was stopped. He looked to see a white, skeletal claw gripping his wrist.
Damien looked at the two souls in front of him. They had collided and were pushing each other back and forth. Each time they clashed there was a jolt of energy that struck the dark floor around Damien. He reached out to touch the souls and was shocked, he stumbled back and looked at the blue soul that had helicopter blades. It had a black stream of energy floating into it. He followed it with his eyes but it led into the darkness where he could not see.
The skeletal claw twisted Kyle's wrist and threw him to the floor. A large, thin figure floated out from behind Michael, I had slick, chalk white skin and was draped in a black cloak. Its face was covered by a mask with six red slits in it for the creature's eyes. It had six thin wings on its back and was holding a large sword. Kyle aimed his G18 up at the creature but the weapon was hit away from his hand by the creature's sword. The creature picked him up and looked him directly in his eyes. Fear gripped Kyle, "So this is it Michael?" Kyle shook, "You're going to let the kishin have me?"
"Plagosus is only doing this because you've become a threat to me," Michael said looking at Kyle with pity. Plagosus dropped him to the floor and a long, talon like foot stepped out of his cloak and onto Kyle's chest, pinning him to the floor. Plagosus brought his blade up and prepared to bring it down into Kyle's throat.
Liliana watched through the window as Plagosus appeared from behind Michael and grabbed Kyle's wrist. She looked at the vial that contained Victoria's soul and then at Damien who was still tossing and turning. "I was going to wait for you but if you don't wake up then I'll never reach the goal that you wanted for me," Liliana opened the vial and consumed the soul inside hoping that Damien would wake up to see what she had become.
Damien's attention to the dark strand attached to one of the souls once he felt a third soul materialize. It was a kishin soul with 6 wings on the back of it. It was pushing the smaller soul with the helicopter blades back. He tried to reach forward again and felt a sudden surge of energy behind him. He turned and saw a soul behind him that was becoming more and more powerful with each passing second. He felt himself being drawn to the energy but at the same time blinded by the light emitting from it. He reached out and felt a hand grabbing his.
Suddenly he found himself standing with Liliana in her scythe form in his hands. He was in Stein's spare room, he looked down and saw that a red aura was emanating from his weapon.
"You're back!" Liliana yelled happily.
"Yea," Damien smiled then turned his attention to the window where he saw Plagosus standing over Kyle, his sword raised, "damn it Kyle what did you do?"
Plagosus brought the blade down but was surprised to feel his sword jerk upwards and the sudden sight of three scythe blades in his stomach. "Nice to see that you're awake Azrael," Plagosus' whispering voice said.
"Damn it Plagosus," Damien said looking up at the Kishin, "my name is Damien. Anyway, you really don't need to be here." As he said that he pushed the kishin into the ground and spun his scythe like a saw until the creature dissipated. As Damien grabbed his scythe he turned it into its chain scythe form and threw one of the chains around Michael's ankle. He pulled Michael toward him and put his other scythe to Kyle's throat as he stood up. "What the hell are you two doing?" Michael stood up but remained silent.
"I'm sticking up for myself because I'm sick of being treated like the bottom of the ladder," Kyle said pushing the scythe out of his face. Damien twitched angrily and then wrapped the chain around Kyle's throat, kicking him to the floor and tightening the chain around his neck.
"Kyle we treat you like this because you earn it," Damien growled, pushing his foot into Kyle's chest and pulling up on the chain, "you act like you're so much better than everyone but you're just an immature kid."
"Fu.." Kyle was cut off by the chain choking him, "fine I'll shut up."
"Ok then," Damien stepped off of him and undid the chain on Kyle's throat, "Michael I have to go and see Lord Death so fill me in on anything I missed while we head up there." Michael nodded and Damien extended his hand to help Kyle up. After he thanked Stein and Marie Damien and the group headed for the death room at the DWMA.
