Chapter 9: What Are You!?
It was eleven o'clock at night and Kai was over at Maka and Soul's apartment which he was frequently now. A movie Maka had chosen played on the T.V. But Maka was asleep in Kai's arms. It was getting late and Kai had to be heading over to Kid's for his mission. He picked Maka up and carried her to her room and tucked her into bed. He gave her a kiss on the cheek and started to leave the apartment. However Soul was standing in his room door waiting for Kai.
"So your going to go on the mission then?" Soul asked.
"Yea I am, I've been on missions before with Mifune, I should be fine." Kai answered as he turned to face the demon scythe.
"You be careful out there, I'd hate to deal with an upset Maka." Soul joked, Kai didn't laugh though, he'd hate to cause Maka heart ache.
"Don't worry about it Soul, I'm a lot stronger than you know, I'll come back." Kai stated, he's been so fun to be around since him and Maka got together, but he was dead serious for missions.
"Ok then, Stay cool out there." Soul grinned, he gave Kai a fist bump before he left, Kai returned the grin and went on his way.
He walked all the way to Kid's place. He cleared his head of all thoughts except for the mission. When he arrived at Kid's house, Kid was already to go and Liz and Patty where in there weapon forms, still asleep.
"You ready to go Kai?" Kid asked, "We won't be returning until we complete the mission."
Kai drew his Katana from it's sheath, freshly polished and sharpened. Kai put the blade back in it's sheath and swung it onto his back. "I'm ready..." Kai said, his words almost cold, Kid could feel the intensity of his will to perform to expectation.
It took Kai and Kid 3 hours to fly to the small town in Northern England where a clown and multiple Kishin eggs were reported. Kai jumped off with Kid as soon as they got to the town square.
"It's quiet..." Kid said, trying to listen for any sign of the Kishin Eggs and Clown.
"Yea, but it won't be for long..." Kai responded, he drew his Katana from the sheath. It's blade shone brilliantly in the moon light. Inscribed on the blade was a phrase Kid didn't know. The handle was wrapped in dark blue fabric and had a small pummel on the end of the handle that resembled the blade of a kunai.
As if out of know where Kid, and Kai were attacked by a horde of Kishin eggs. Kid quickly dispatched a couple of them with Liz and Patty as Kai was slicing them up with ease. Without speaking a word the two had adopted a system, Kid would take out enemies from afar and the ones that got close, Kai would slice through with grace and precision.
"This is working way better than I imagined!" Kid yelled as he unleashed a barrage of attacks on the horde.
"Less talking more killing!" Kai demanded, he was cold when it came to dispatching threats.
"Right..." Kid replied. He didn't realize Kai was so precise and graceful in his art, but that came at a price for his complete concentration and cold attitude.
After a few more moments of unrelenting force against the kishin eggs they had been dispatched. Kid fed Liz and Patty their souls they had collected while Kai wiped the blood off his blade. He knelt down and recited a saying.
"Domine exaudi verba mea mors Honora cecidit, et date animas Salvation Amissus..." Kai said with the sound of sorrow present in his voice.
"What the hell was that?" Liz asked, all three members of the team looked at Kai with curiosity. They had never heard such a thing before.
"It's a saying I say to remember the fallen..." Kai began, they looked at him in wonderment never hearing such a thing before. "Honora Cecidit is special to me, It means Honour the fallen. The rest is just a small prayer I learned." Kai finished his explanation.
"Hmm, how interesting, I didn't know you did that." Kid said, pleasantly surprised in seriousness Kai had now, he wasn't cold, he was merciful to those who had fallen.
There brief sentiment over the corrupted souls was short lived as a powerful clown came down from the rook top of a pub and slashed at Kid , Liz and Patty.
"Damn, this one is extremely powerful!" Kid yelled to Kai.
"I can see that, but we've got no options but to fight him here and now!" Kai yelled back. With out hesitating he ran towards the clown and started to put his wavelength into his blade making small shock waves where ever the blade hit. Kid began blasting away at the clown.
Nothing they did worked. It just kept shaking off their attacks and coming after them, even madder than before. It was starting to worry Kid, but Kai kept on attacking refusing to relent.
"Liz, Patty, SOUL RESONANCE!" Kid yelled, without hesitation, Liz and Patty resonated their souls with Kid, his Soul swelled up with power, Kai pulled back to get out of Kids shot. Liz and Patty took on the forms of cannons that had attached themselves to Kids arms, their resonance astounding Kai.
"Death Cannon!" Kid yelled as he unleashed a full blast of his wavelength at the clown. The shot was a direct hit. But they had under estimated this clown, it was stronger than the others that they had faced in the past.
"No that's impossible..." Kid said in disbelief. Clowns were tough, but not this tough. While he was in his state of disbelief the clown had thrown a piece of debris at Kid. He noticed just in time but at the cost of Liz being hit. She flew out of his hand and reverted to human form, bleeding and unconscious.
"Kid, is Liz ok!" Kai yelled as he tried to hold off the clown from doing any further damage. But it wouldn't work for long, this clown kept going.
"I don't know, but I can't fight...my symmetry has been broken...and my friend hurt..." Kid sank to the ground, accepting this as defeat. Kai could hear Patty yelling in her weapon form for Kid to fight for her sister, luckily Liz awoke, but wasn't in any condition to fight.
"Kai...you-you'll have to do this on your own..." Liz regretted. Kid carried Patty into cover and began trying to treat her wounds.
"Very well then, it's my turn, I'll try to be quick Kid!" Kai yelled. Without hesitation Kai cut his hand on the blade of his sword and proceededed to run the blood on his hand down the act caught Kids eye. What the hell was he doing.
All of a sudden Kai's sword blade turned crimson red and blue lightning was sparking of the edges of the blade due to his wavelength. "Let's go, BLOOD RESONANCE!" Kai yelled, and with that his wavelength exploded from him and his blade grew a foot in length and width. Kid was shocked at what he was seeing, surely this wasn't natural, he was far more powerful, way faster, and was pushing the clown back.
"Let's go, Blood Legacy Strike!" Kai yelled, his blade turned an even darker red than before and his free arm turned into a Katana blade. Kid was shocked, Kai wasn't a meister, he was a weapon, but he learned to fight just as Justin Law did, on his own.
Kai's attack ripped the clown apart, finally killing it. Kid, Liz, and Patty were silent, how was a single resonance like that so powerful. Kid was about to put it out of his mind for the time being bu t Liz had a worried face. All the meister, and weapons turned around to see another horde of Kishin eggs coming for them, yelling and screaming at the defeat of their possessor.
"Kai we need to get back!" Kid yelled, not even Kai's duel wielding skills could save them. Kai wasn't responding. "Kai, KAI!" Kid yelled getting frustrated at Kai's ignorance.
The demon sword/meister turned around but something was wrong. His eyes were pitch black, and he looked like he was crying blood. His smile reminded him of when Maka and Soul resorted to using Black Blood against Crona, and this was how it was described to look. Kai started chuckling to himself for no reason.
"Kid scared..." Patty whispered to her meisterr, afraid of this new Kai.
"What's wrong Reaper, don't want a little fun, HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Kai began going crazy. Was the madness in the world affecting him? Or was this a side affect of his power he thought he could control.
Without anymore hesitation, Kai jumped into the horde of Kishin eggs. Kid didn't know that they could still scream in pain. The sounds horrified Kid, Liz and Patty. They watched as Kai lifted one of them and slowly impaled them until it was their soul that remained. Liz and Patty hid their eyes, but Kid couldn't look away.
"WHAT"S WRONG WITH HIM!?" Liz cried, there wasn't any way this was the guy who tucked Maka into bed, tried on suits with Kid and Soul, the warrior who prayed for the souls salvation. No this was a monster straight from the pits of hell.
Kid watched the carnage completely speechless. Body parts where thrown to side as if they were trash, the blood curdling screams of the kishin eggs crying out for help as they were torn apart, this crazy demon Kai laughing the entire time as he committed these atrocities. They were Kishin eggs but they still deserved to be treated with mercy. But they would get none, Kid watched as Kai, showered himself in their blood, tore out their bones only to beat another down with them. It wasn't a mission to collect Kishin eggs anymore, it was a massacre.
"What's wrong reaper, to soft to have a little fun!" Kai yelled at Kid as he gouged out the eyes of a Kishin egg with his bladed arm.
Kid was lad when the enemies had finally been silenced even though their cry's of pain were ringing in his ears. At the realization of no more enemies, Kai passed out. His arm returned to normal, and his sword went back to it's regular polished blade, dripping with blood, and he cut on Kai's hand had clotted. Kid walked up to Kai who had regained some consciousness.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!?" Kid demanded furious at the person he had thought was his friend. But the Kai he knew wouldn't have performed an entire massacre the way he did. Without any choice, Kid brought Liz, Patty, and a restrained Kai back to the DWMA, his father was going to hear about this.
In The Death Room
Kid burst into the Death Room, furious at what had happened, he dragged an unconscious Kai behind him. Lord Death, Mifune, Stein, Sid, and Spirit where all in the room wondering why Kid was so angry.
"Hey Kiddo, whats up?" Lord Death asked.
"What's up, father you sent me on a mission with a psychopath!" Kid yelled at his dad.
"Why what happened to Kai?" Mifune asked worried about the condition of his apprentice.
"What happened, he went bat shit crazy, and started to massacre every Kishin Egg he saw, slowly and painfully! None of it was ok, and what the hell was the power he used!?" Kid continued to yell.
"It's as we thought, He used his power to long and to intensely on the mission, it woke up his parents blood in him while he was using his resonance." Stein explained, only the four people who knew about Kai's training understood what was going on, Spirit and Kid were both confused.
"Listen Kid, their is somethings you need to know about Kai. For one, as you figured out he is a weapon, not a meister. The second thing is at the same time he is a meister." Lord Death began explaining, hoping Kid would cath on.
"I don't get it, how can someone be a weapon and a meister?" Kid asked, finally starting to calm down now that he was getting answers.
"You see Kai's family lineage is a whole history of weapons, demon swords mostly. Because of his lineage and skill, Kai can resonate with his family blood that he had put into his sword, the only draw back is he has to be bleeding to do it, and he can only do it with that Katana. When he cuts his hand it allows the blood of his family to act as a amplifier for his wavelength. Because of this his blood is a weapon in it's own right. By using his wavelength to access his family powers, he gains hundreds of years of experience and knowledge, because of this t counts as if he's using another weapon, hence why we called him the blood meister." Stein explained trying to make it as simple as possible.
"So your telling me, that Kai uses his blood as a weapon because his wavelength can activate the dormant abilities of his family? So he is classified as a blood meister, but a weapon at the same time?" Kid tried to clarify.
"Exactly, unfortunately Kai's parents weren't the best role models as both had become Kishin eggs when Kai was developing. So in intense situations, he ends up accidentally succumbing to his parents madness. That resulting in what you saw today. But that is only activated in moments of pure rage, over use of his blood resonance, or if he begins to bleed out." Mifune finished the explanation.
"Ok so his blood resonance let's him get in contact with his blood, and it affects the blade?" Kid asked this final question, overwhelmed with the new knowledge he had recieved.
"His parents forged the sword when they found out Kai was a katana, so when they made his sword, they put his blood inside the blade for blood resonance to work, as they have done since about two hundred years ago." Lord Death answered.
Kid turned to look at Kai, he didn't know what to think anymore, would he be willing to risk him with his friends, or would he destroy them all in dire situations. Kid was definitely going to be more wary of this "blood meister" now. Mifune and Sid picked Kai up and carried him to the infirmary to recover.
"Father, thank you for answering my questions..." Kid said to Lord Death.
"No worries Kiddo, but don't let this new knowledge lessen your friendship with him, he only resorted to that because of the seriousness of the situation." Lord Death pleaded with his son, hoping Kid wouldn't treat Kai any differetly.
"I onlypromise to try..." Kid responded, he turned around and began to leave the room, wondering how they were going to deal with this problem.