Secrets of Legend
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater, Doctor Who or Is This a Zombie or any their elements in fact.
Chapter 10: Life Flashes
They say if you seek death that is all you find. So, there must always be a distinction between a killer and those who must kill to save and Kami knew this. Her mother drilled it into her mind as a part of her spirit. They descended from a clan of warrior from Japan and being a warrior can take a toll on the soul and one her mother hoped Kami would never have to pay. So Kami learned to be brave, to stand to her moral code and to be human.
Still making it distinct what it means to be warrior and a killer means you still have to walk down a path of death. Kami especially as she had been a meister who worked for Death. That all means that Kami had made her peace with her own death. She had no illusions that she would live forever and she couldn't recall a time when she did. So coming close to it wasn't anything new, in fact this was at least the third time she was stab badly enough to bring her to this point.
Of course Kami didn't think any of this, she was too much in shock to think of anything actually. The sharp point of the blade punctured her heart and her body struggled to survive. The heart wasn't pumping and soon muscles would fail.
The only her brain could process at the moment was that her daughters were in front of her. She barely understood what was happening but she did get some peace from knowing her last moments were with them.
The emotions that Maka and Eu felt as they watched the blade puncture their mother's heart and slowly painting her shirt red are not easy to describe. You could call them shock, horror, anger, rage, sadness, despair but really their emotions went far beyond that.
Stunned was a good enough descriptor of the moment though. Everyone hadn't expected that.
An owl flew down toward Shadow, "They're coming."
Quickly the witch known as Pallas took human form.
Kim raced out of the hall of the school with her partner Jackie by her side. And right behind them were Stein, Spirit, Enrique who was holding a mirror with Tezca inside, the death scythe Djinn and his meister Zubaidah, Dengu and his meister Alexander.
They all seemed to arrive in time to watch Kami die. They had been comrades and fought by her side. Maybe it seemed like the most fitting thing to be there at her final moments. Honestly they would have all liked to avoid it. Kim had told Azusa and Marie about what happened in the school with Shadow. Azusa then directed them to battle she detected in front of the school. Azusa ordered Kim to gather the other death scythes to fight it and they only managed to gather a moment to late to do anything about the dragon. And there was certainly nothing to do about this death.
"Oh, the cheater, the mad scientist and the back ground scythes and meisters along with the witchypoo and the hot-for-her-meister-lantern. Glad that whole plan worked out." Shadow smirked as he held the scythe with perfect level.
"Kami…." Spirit said tears filling his eyes.
Stein placed a hand on Spirit's shoulder, if he would avenge Kami's death than Stein would eagerly help and he knew the others would jump in just as quick.
"LISTEN!" Shadow yelled never letting his arm or hand move. "Listen, Kami isn't dead she is merely mostly dead."
"That doesn't make it better!" Haruna shouted.
"Shut it! No comments from the peanut gallery." Shadow spat back quickly.
Many around them had abilities and some of the abilities could tell them that Kami's soul was getting weaker and her life was ebbing but for the moment she was alive.
Shadow continued to talk as his words sped up, "Dead is not the same as mostly dead. I'm keeping the scythe just enough to cause damage that will kill her if left untreated. It's a small rupture in the heart and I'm keeping the blood from spilling out which would rip it open. If that happens she will be dead faster than you can say time for the funeral. Luckily we have someone with enough power to save her." He glanced at the necromancer. "You could even drag her back from the other side. Now the thing is she wouldn't want that. She a warrior and she knows death. She will fight to live but not forever. If you bring her back she will be like zombie boy and she won't die. She will thank you for saving her but that will be a show. She doesn't want to live forever, alien boy has made it very clear the downside of immortality. She would have to watch as those she loves dies and she may never say it but she won't be grateful. Life has no meaning with an ending."Shadow had to take a quick breath. "You don't want that either since you are afraid she will end up Like your dreamy King of the Night. I will give you one chance to fix her heart and save her from that fate. This is something I picked up from a red coated reaper in the Land of Fiction. Her life will flow out, her past, and those around her will get a good look into it. We can see it and find the moment she hid the stone. She might have had the moment erased from her memory but I doubt she yanked it out of her soul. That's why I need all of you here. She cares about you, by sheer instinct her soul will lash out like a wild hurt beast but it won't kill you right away because she does care. And this will hurt so I decided to have as many people around as possible to make this short work. Ready?" He didn't bother to pause. "Go!" He pulled out the scythe. "Find the memory and I will stop this and let you save her!"
He had spoken really fast so no one really got what he was saying expect fro a few including the Doctor and that's because he's usually the one giving fast and complicated explanations.
They expect blood to come out and some did but what they didn't expect was film strips. Like from an old movie reel burst forth from her chest and reach for them.
Eu took a step in an attempt to reach Kami and heal her. The film wrapped around her and dug into her skin. The film strips filled the air reaching for everyone present and grabbing them.
"Cinematic Record of Kami Albarn's life!" Shadow yelled as the film strips wrapped around him and Pallas. "Find anything good let me know!" He yelled with glee.
The meisters had some idea of what this was, it was what you saw when you died. The whole life flashes before your eyes thing. It was a collection of Kami's life that manifested as old film thanks to the scythe Shadow had brought out. They also found out they were painful, the Doctor would explain it as an intense psychic burst overwhelming them. It also didn't help that like snakes the film wriggled into the air and into their skin and into their eyes. Many fell to their knees as a Kami's life flashed before them. They all got random flashes of memories and there didn't seem to be any picking which one you got. In all likelihood with everyone searching for the right moment they all die from the stress before anyone found it. Still Shadow was willing to gamble as he dived in. The Doctor got the plan and tried to arrange them with his psychic abilities to find it before Shadow did. Still they were all overwhelmed by the flood of memories.
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She brushed her fingers through her short blonde hair, it had been freshly cut into a bob cut and her red skirt was ironed, her vest clean and her tie with the school symbol was straight.
Inwardly she questioned herself ,'Why am I making such a fuss for him?'
She walked out onto the balcony of the school and Spirit was standing there looking at the sun set.
Her heart raced for a moment. Kami wondered why that happened when she saw him. He'd flirted with her for months to no result and then she found out about the experiments that Stein did on him. She told Lord Death and they had become partners. Spending more time together she started to see past the surface and more to the real him.
She didn't know it at the time but in a few short moment they would share their first kiss.
Black Star watched the moment. He knew that Kami had loved Spirit but never expected to see this. He never expected to see her act so girl or even see her that young.
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A small blonde girl rested her head on her mother's lap. She always found peace in that spot. Her mother would watch animes and other shows dubbed from Japan. Since she moved from Japan to the United States to go to the DWMA she missed her life in Japan and the shows would help her remember.
The girl would watch the shows with her just to spend time with her mother and slowly she developed a guilty pleasure for the shows too because they would always remind her of her mother.
Enrique watched this moment, they knew from the memory that Kami had lost her mother. He could feel the warmth the little girl felt come from her mother and the sadness of the woman that would know the absence. The monkey saddened for his friend.
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Tezca the demon mirror was surprised that he was affected as he was a soul in a mirror. Still he could feel the memories trickle into him.
He found himself confused as Kami not only stood wearing an orange hazmat/space suit but she stood in front of Eibon. The location was in a magnetic distortion in an Alaskan Island.
"The suit can let me stand here for days Eibon. Not that I want to. At the very least I'd like a chair at some point."
"I'm still a little surprised you found me." Eibon told her.
"Oh, please, who do you think I am. I found your manuscript. I know Excalibur, and I know what you hide in your book."
"You're still that woman with a sharp mind and a sharp tongue that traveled with the time walker all those years ago."
"I'm surprised you didn't say anything about sharp blade."
"I thought it was too obvious."
"Come on, Eibon, you probably haven't spoke to anyone in years and I'd like to think we're old friends." Kami huffed.
"Fine, what did you want to talk about?"
Tezca wasn't sure how long they talked about but did over hear a few important details.
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Kami stared off at the horizon as the sun set. She sat on top of the remains of the Great Pyramid of Anubis. Lord Death had asked her to make sure the rebuilding was going on without trouble. She still wondered what kind of idiot would destroy it by accident.
"Oh, that's a sight."
She turned back to see a man in a blue pin striped suit and brown coat looking over her back.
Kami smiled at him, "Hello Timelord. You look better. Can I call you the Doctor again?"
The Doctor looked downcast for a fraction of a second, "Yes."
Pallas watched the moment as pain wracked her body and she forced herself to move on to find the right moment.
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Kami couldn't say that she and Stein were the best of friends, some would argue that they weren't friends at all. Really she liked to think at worst they were rivals that made each other better.
Certainly they're sparring matches didn't make anyone think they were friends. Through their entire time at school they often had intense sparring matches. Marie, Spirit and Azusa watched from the side. Both Spirit and Marie both sighed to watch the fight happen once again. Azusa just studied her fight as she fixed her glasses in her usual detached manner. School was coming to an end so they were more than tired of all of it.
Each attack they sent at one another has either dodged or blocked. Stein was certainly stronger but Kami was faster. A strong attack is good but if it doesn't land it was as good as a gentle breeze. They ended up usually doing more damage to the area around them than each other.
What gave Stein the edge was Kami's temper, Stein didn't mind reminding her about his experiments on her boyfriend.
Kami let her guard down and went to punch Stein only for him to slip beneath the fist and moved towards her gut. He opened his palm ready to strike and Kami silently cursed feeling so foolish to let him get that opening. She knew he'd using his soul force to knock her back and just braced herself for it. But then a second past and his palm was an iota away from her gut. His eyes opened up in surprise as he looked up to her.
Kami noticed a slight light flicking from his eyes. "You don't know, do you? You wouldn't risk it with a sparring session."
"What are you talking about?" She questioned him.
He looked back down to her gut where with his soul perception he saw a small wisp of a new soul forming within her. Stein just walked away without saying another word.
Stein watched the moment. He remembered the day and even remembered it when he first saw a soul forming in Marie's body. He knew the moment would be overshadowed because in a few hours time the younger Kami would get a call about her parent's death.
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Kami sat across a table at a restaurant. Sitting across her was a girl with long silvery hair wearing a cute purple frilly maid like outfit, her helm was all that was left of her usual armor.
Kami smiled, "You looks so cute in that. I can't believe you have a job and something of a normal life. I'm so happy for you."
Eu sat with her usual stoic face but there was happiness in her eye. They were quiet not because they ran out things to talk about but because they felt another presence. Both of them ran from the table ignoring everyone else.
The sky was cloudy and across the street they found a blue box parked. A tall melancholy man stood and looked back at them. There was a look in his eyes. The moment hit them like a truck of bricks hitting a nuclear war head. The man looked at them once more and gave them a wave and sad a smile. The Doctor stepped back into the Tardis with his long brown coat wafting behind him as he started to door was his way of saying goodbye. He paused because he like few others knew to listen when Eu spoke.
The girl shouted at him, "Good Bye, Doctor. Good bye, Father. Good bye, papa."
He could hear the sadness in her voice and the air cracked with thunder as rain started to fall. He didn't dare turn back and he closed the door. Soon the Tardis vanished in a whirl of wind. Kami held Eu.
Haruna watched in confusion and who that man was, he didn't look like the Doctor. Still she felt the pain and sadness Kami felt in the moment and knew he was important to both of them.
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The eight year old girl fell over to be caught by her father.
"I guess the recoil is still a little much for you." He smiled at her.
They were at a gun range and her father was teaching her to fire a gun. She knew it wasn't normal thing for a father and daughter to do but he had been a gun meister and she always felt closer when they had target practice together.
Alexander couldn't help but chuckle seeing the little girl that was Kami. He knew she would need that target practice.
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"Ah! This is annoying!" Shadow yelled out as he reached around. He was using his powers to find the right memory but it was not as easy as he had hoped.
He found himself on the Tardis as it was filled with blue light. The Doctor was working on the console. From what he could gathered this was a recent memory from only the night before.
Kami was standing by the door dressed in a purple robe. She gave a long tired sighed, "I know you don't sleep as much as we lonely humans do but do try to rest."
"I will." The Doctor said in a childish tone.
"You've got that think-y look on your face. It's the same no matter the face."
"What did you see in Clara's soul?I know you've checked, it's a nasty habit with you to make sure they don't want to kill me."
"Companions have tried to before."
"Now what did you see?"
"The usual, a dreamer, puts you a pedestal, there has been some heart ache, it seems like a parent has been lost, has a bit of a crush, lying about it but not to herself, has a bigger ego than she knows or admits to it, she is eager for adventure (dangerous considering she's traveling with you), loyal and brave though. Still she's got some issues against herself."
"Anything else?"
"No should there be, she's just a girl. What are you hiding, Timelord?"
The Doctor leaned in and spoke to her.
Shadow listened in to the Doctor calling explaining why he called her the impossible girl.
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Kami sat in the cave as a small white penguin like creature stared at her removing its top hat as he held his cane close. She was just a teenaged girl.
"I'm sorry I already have a partner." She told him. "I just heard from two other class mates about you and wanted to meet you myself. I don't know why they seemed so overwhelmed, you seem easy to get along with."
He blinked at as he stared at her, "I'm sure your partner is very lucky. I have the feeling that you'll be a great meister."
"I hope so. I heard you like telling stories." She smiled at him. "If you don't mind I'd like to hear one."
Djinn was surprised to see the small weapon act like that. He certainly heard how Excalibur could be too much for people but Kami had no trouble. It seemed that even centuries Excalibur recognize the girl before him even if she had yet to meet him.
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She was five and drawing on the sidewalk with some chalk. She had been alone. For a long time she had been alone. She blamed her eyes. She saw things that no one else seemed to see. Sometimes the world would turn dark and everyone was replaced but floating orbs and she knew things from them, she could read them like the books that kept her company from time to time.
Her father's was passionate and lively. Her mother's was like staring at the sun too long, it was so radiant. The mail man who delivered their letter was always so bitter. She tried to explain it to the children in the neighborhood but they made fun of her. The children teased her and called her crazy and they all refused to go near her.
"Grandfather?" She heard a young woman talking to the older man that walked next to her.
The girl looked over to them. They seemed a little strange but she didn't pay attention to any of that as he head hurt a little her usual sign that it was happening again.
"Please no." The small girl pleaded hopping that it would all stop and she could be normal and have friends.
Her eyes flashed as the world turned dark as she stared at the orb of the two people. Her body shook overwhelmed but what she was seeing, they were not human, frankly far more than human, that was when she got a glimpse at how much more of the world there was. That would be the first time she didn't feel so much of a freak.
They were something all together more than she could understand. The girl burned bright with untapped potential. The man was far more, he was old, far older than he looked. For an instant when she saw his soul she saw it all, she felt it all. The world beneath her feet spinning like a giant carrousel, the sun burning so bright and flying aimlessly through space. Tiny webs of coincidence and hope threading through everything woven into a vast tapestry. One that stretched out to the start and the end of everything. A mere glance was too much for her and it caused her to pass out. The old man walked towards Kami.
He sighed, "Poor girl, she seems to have bitten off more than she could chew." The gray hand man looked down on her. "You will have to be far more careful in the future."
The old man and the girl helped carry Kami to her home and left her on the porch to rest.
Patty watched on confused, something about the man was familiar. In the most faint way he reminded her of the Doctor that Kami was friends with. Still as she looked at the young Kami she understood her, feeling so alone.
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Kami watched the battle field covered in snow. She pulled her coat close over her frame. The cold was getting to her skin. She had her fill of wars long before this.
"Its time to go." A red haired woman put a fur coat on her. Her own armor just sticking out of her thick coat. "Its over now and we have to find shelter." She tried to give her a smile.
"Huh, I think that's the first time you've smiled since I've known you. It looks good on you."
Eu watched as Nene and Kami walked away. She had seen them like that before when they returned from battle weak and tired. Eu hated that they had to go into battle for her but they did. They kept moving forwards and Eu knew she had to do the same.
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Kami held her small daughter in her arms. The small toddler in her orange dress played with her mother's long blonde ponytail. Kami smiled, she was glad she let her hair grow out so her daughter play with her hair.
Kami put her daughter in her high chair. "My turn" Kami grabbed her pig tails like wings. "Flying Maka. Fly so high."
Maka giggled, "Mama! I'm flying!"
Jackie watched them play and she couldn't help by chuckle. She might have to bring this memory up with Maka.
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It couldn't have been more than a few years ago. Kami had been visiting Tezca and Enrique when something blazing in fire roared across the sky. They had just been having a meal around a small fire as they camped in a valley after checking a village. Kami knew what the flaming ball int the sky was.
"Enrique. Tezca! Go back to the village and get them ready to move."
"What are you talking about?" Tezca gave her a confused look even through his big mask.
"Track my soul." Kami ordered him. "If anything happens get everyone away as quickly as possible. Do that mirror trick of yours."
Kami was already running away.
"Are you expecting trouble?" He yelled back at her.
"Yes, that's why I'm sending you away!"
It was dangerous, dangerous beyond explaining. It was a ship and she knew the kind it was. Her better reason told her to run the other way but she had to see, she had to make sure everyone on that ship was dead. The reason being that the ship was a dalek ship. Kami had no idea why the ship would be there of all places. When she finally arrived at the very edge of the valley the ship had been cracked open. Kami searched inside hopping that every single monster was dead. One along would be enough to kill whole armies. In the dark ship she ran into her worst fears.
Alone, beaten, nearly dead a dalek moved along the halls. It almost looked like a metal salt shaker and it seemed silly to be afraid of it. Still it could wipe off all the life off the world.
As Kami stared at it she didn't know what she planned on doing. It should have been a scouting missions and she shouldn't have gone into the ship. She should have used soul perception to see and leave. No she made a mistake and she knew even a weakened dalek would be able to kill her before she managed to do anything. Her body tensed up as she prepared for what was to come.
"Exterminate!"
"Get down now!" A voiced yelled.
Kami didn't hesitate to do just that. As she hit the floor a blast of energy flew over head and straight at the dalek which quickly exploded.
Easy to saw that the exploding case and now splattered squiddy remains surely meant that the dalek was a goner.
Kami dared look to where the shot had been fired.
Kami found and older man with gray hair and a tired look in his eyes. He wore leather and a belt across his chest. He held a rather large gun which he quickly tossed to the side.
Kami's soul perception kicked in as she wanted to have some idea of who this man was, she didn't believe it. "Doctor?"
The man looked away. "I am not the Doctor."
"Yes, you are. I know that soul. It's older and …. " she let her voice trail off. "I know you, Doctor."
"I long since lost the right to that name." He turned his back to her.
"The Time War?" Kami remembered why the last Doctor she met said he had to stop traveling with her.
"Yes, now do yourself a favor and forget about this. The dalek ship crashed through a tear in time. I will return to the front line and seal the tear." He paused. "You might also want to run, I set off the self destruct."
"Wait, what?" The lights in the ships blinked on and off.
A computerized voice said. "Self Destruct In Ten Reels."
Kami looked around and when her eyes fell back on the man she realized he was gone. As the count down started to go down Kami raced for the exit.
Kami ran and jumped into the air just as the ship exploded.
Kami looked around for the man. "Doctor!"
She only received the sounds of the Tardis engines as her reply. Somewhere a war of terrible stakes and of horrors beyond her imagination was happening. Something terrible had turned her friend that only wanted to see the universe and help people into a warrior. She let herself fall to the ground saddened by saddened and pain she had seen in his soul.
"That was strange." Clara said out loud as she watched those events unfold. "I've never seen that face before."
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"Contract?"
Kami was sitting on the floor of her parents home. After hearing about their death and after their funeral she was left with the duty of packing up their things. Spirit volunteered to help but Kami felt she had to this alone. She was just a girl about to enter adulthood and it didn't make it easier to losing her parents. Being alone didn't help.
So she was surprised to hear anyone.
She looked up and sitting on a box was a small cat-rabbit white creature with red eyes.
Kid paled seeing that creature, in one of the school files about a creature like that and that it would only bring grief where ever it went.
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Spirit found himself in a cave. He watched Kami right after she started traveling speaking to Excalibur. The subject was him, how his actions caused her so much pain. As she cried the weapon didn't speak he just gently held trying to make her feel better. Excalibur might have an ego that dwarfed others but all he did was try to comfort a sad woman.
As he saw her tears Spirit couldn't help but feel the shame wash over him again.
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"Black Star stop trying to pick a fight." Kami grabbed a toddler Black Star. "Play nice!"
Kami placed him back on the ground with a young Maka and a young Kid.
Tsubaki couldn't help but gasp. From the memory she could tell that Kami was left with Black Star and Kid along with Maka one after noon. It wasn't common in fact it was a last minute thing when Lord Death failed to find a new sitter for Kid's as his old sitter quit. But for one after noon these three played together. They didn't even know, they were too young to remember. Still Tsubaki wondered if fate was at play here. Still the silent blossom smiled enjoying the idea of how their friendship stretched across time. Then she flinched as she saw young Black Star try to pick a fight between him and Kid.
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Kim was trying to figure out what she was watching. At a food cart Kami was drinking next to a buxom red haired woman and a pink haired woman in white that could be mistaken for 10. Kim was sure she had seen them somewhere.
"You can do better then him, sweet heart." The pink haired loli nudge Kami in the side. "Your ex is an idiot and-" She then noticed that the nudge had caused Kami to collapse onto the red head and she passed out. "You still can't hold your liquor." The drunk pink haired woman took a swig of her drink.
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"Shut up, Jack." Kami sat at the edge of a fountain. Sitting next to her was a handsome man in a blue coat.
Jack smiled at her in a reassuring way, "I'm just saying with the meta-crisis and that face you saw… that would be his last life."
"No, I won't accept it even if I see body. He could make a double or something. I'd have to run test to make sure he's actually…" She couldn't finish the words.
"I'm sorry." He told her before getting up. "You're here and Torchwood business is taken care for me tonight. The world isn't ending." He offered her his hand. "Why don't you come with me tonight? We can get dinner and figure out where else you can look for him."
Kami smiled and with sigh said, "Sure, why not?" She took her hand.
Zubaidah watch the events, she wondered how long until Kami realized she just agreed with a date. As she saw Kami blush a little she assumed it happened then. The man had a certain charm to him and could see him flirting with many people but Zubaidah was a good judge of character and could tell the man was more loyal than a certain death scythe. She was happy that her friend was allowing herself to date after her divorce. Zubaidah made a note herself to ask Kami about it later and see how to date ended. And maybe ask for his number.
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Liz felt her body grow stiff as she looked into the face of madness, into Asura's face. After the battle on the moon she had the occasional nightmare about him.
"Hey." He said.
"Hello there." A man walked up right up to him.
The man had long flowing hair and wore a victorian styled coat along with a vest. Liz couldn't help but think the man looked like he'd stepped out a period piece. Also she couldn't help but think he was a rather beautiful man. The small cravat was a bit much in Liz's opinion.
The man held out a small paper bag to the taller Asura, "Would you care for a jelly baby?"
Asura leaned in and plucked out a small red baby shaped gummy candy. He sniffed it. "I'm not sure what father would say about it."
"It's a candy."A voice told him.
It belonged to Kami, she looked only a handful of years younger.
Asura nibbled onto the candy before she nestled back into his scarfs.
They were in some sort of temple and at a distance Liz could see a figure in the distance, a dark figure, Liz wasn't sure of it at first but it was Lord Death. This form he took was terrifying and really unlike the goofy reaper she knew.
Asura huddled by a wall as Kami stared daggers at him.
The man whispered to her, "Be nice, Kami. The things that you are angry at him for he hasn't done." He told her. "As much as it pains me yelling at him or even warning him won't change things."
"Doctor?" Another voice called out.
Liz saw that it belonged to Eibon, she'd only seen him once in Alaska but he looked just the same.
"It looks like you've decided to change your appearance again."
Asura butted in, "Yeah, I liked the you with the scarfs." With that said the would-be-kishin yanked on his own scarfs, the ones he felt safe with only because of a previous encounter with the Doctor.
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Index watched as Kami sat in bed with a small baby in her arms. The baby had short blond hair. A red haired man slept in a chair nearby as an older man with a question mark umbrella and a panama hat walked up to her holding a small stuffed bunny.
He spoke with a Scottish accent, a heavy one at that, "Kami, she's such a cute little girl. Here you go little one, I brought you a cute little present."
"Doctor, people typically bring a stuffed bear."
"The bunny rabbit is far more fitting. " He smirked as the r's rolled off his tongue. "You are already planning on giving her pig tails."
"What? I like pig tails on a girl. They're cute."
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Kami sat by a small table across from the Head Witch and they looked to be sitting on a cloud as they drank tea.
"No, I'm pretty sure that the woman in the yellow wall paper was a sign of madness not a magical construct."
"Nyamu?"
"Alice's story could either be madness or drugs it's really up to interpretation."
"Nyamu."
"Maybe." Kami admitted taking a so of her drink.
Dengu Dinga the rainbow axe death scythe stared in confusion. He had known Kami for a while he knew she had little to no problem becoming friends with even some of strangest being but this was a bit much. He never expected to see one of Death's strongest meister having tea casually with the head witch. Then again he had always been confused on how she got along so well with Enrique. Sometimes it seemed like they talked despite the fact one was a monkey.
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The room was dark and it wasn't so much a room as a dark hall. For some reason it looked familiar to Ayumu.
The door to the house was kicked open and Kami rushed in with a sword before her.
"Damn!" She cursed as her eyes fell to the bleeding body on the ground. She had been outside a moment before and used her soul perception in time to see someone claiming the soul.
Kami's eyes stared into the darkness. "You're trying to claim his soul, I won't let you. Stop now and leave or don't and you won't." Kami held the sword with an easy grace.
"I would like to see you try." A harsh voice spoke as she held her own sword now covered in blood.
Kami jumped the space between them and Kami pressed forward. Kami continued to attack keeping her opponent from countering. Kami forced an opening and slashed at attacker with her the blade flickering with her soul force leaving a large gash in her opponents arm.
"Damn!" The attacker hissed away as she found that the wound wasn't healing.
Kami caught a glimpse of the girl as she fled, it was Kyouko.
Kami turned back to find Eu sitting by the body.
"I'm sorry we were too late."
Eu was picking up the body and held it close to her whispering words to it.
Kami couldn't hear the words but Ayumu knew them.
Please don't die.
Kami felt a surge of power run through the group. "Eu, what did you do? You pulled his soul back?"
The sound of sirens was heard, "The police are coming. We have to get him from here. There is a graveyard nearby that seems as fitting a place for him to wake up."
Kami carried the body out of there. Ayumu realized it was him. That was when Eu made him into a zombie.
"You like him don't you?" Kami asked as they moved and Eu didn't answer. Kami just gave her a tired smile.
From there Eu would stay with Ayumu while Kami kept traveling with the hopes of drawing away those that were chasing them.
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They were in the forest and a man in a pin stripe brown suit and coat raced as he carried Eu on his back. Eu looked beyond exhausted. The man was known as the Doctor and he was used to running but even he was getting tired. He had been trying to end a war and in the end the results were not to his liking. The kind girl on his back was tired and in pain as her power were broken. The war was at a stalemate and now forces from all over wanted the girl. Some wanted to take her powers, some wanted to use her, and some wanted to kill her. The Doctor certainly wasn't going to let that happened. They barely managed to escape castle because of one of her knights, Naegleria, stayed behind to hold off the attackers.
As they ran creatures began to tear through the trees.
Megalos.
A large kangaroo with a black school jacket jumped towards them. As it over sized hand reached them something fell down and cut its hand.
"No." A steady voice said.
Kami held out a sword almost in flames with her soul force. She had been traveling up in the trees so she could attack anything that try to attack them.
The megalo moaned as it started to collapse into a gold dust.
"Get moving!" Kami barked at the alien.
"Yes, ma'am." The Doctor nodded as he continued to run.
Kami pulled out a pen, a gift from Eu, and it turned int a scythe. She held the scythe and sword as she waited for the next attack. She didn't have to wait long as more raced out to meet her.
"I hate squid!" Kami forced the spike at the end of the into the head of the squid like megalo as she ended that beast. Quickly she slashed at a Koala shaped one that jumped at her. More and more megalo came out of the forest.
Quickly the beasts jumped out and tried to rush her. As it looked like they had engulfed her. There was a burst of white light and as the megalos were engulfed with white flames.
"Ow!" Kami moaned as she stumbled backwards. It took a lot of her soul force to blast them but she didn't have time to rest. She quickly raced for the Doctor and reached him as he reached his faithful blue box. The Doctor fumbled for the key to the door.
"Just snap!" Kami raced at him.
The Doctor snapped his fingers and the doors popped open. Something new howled over heard and a second later a surge of power filled the air and explosion forced them into the box and the box to tip over.
"What now!" The Doctor yelled out as he barely clung to the console inside the room.
Looking out through the door he saw a giant whale in the sky. It was probably looking for the source of the power it sensed and that was Eu.
"I am not dying because of a whale." The Doctor pulled a lever and the doors and the whole place started to shake.
With that they escaped and started traveling together. Kami and the Doctor adopted the girl as their own daughter so even the Underworld couldn't say no about them taking her. Their own reputation would certainly deter enough of the people after the necromancer.
Soul watched the whole story play out. He they acted around the girl and how protective they were. There was no question that they were her parents doing everything they could to protect their daughter.
0000
Maka watched Eu and Kami sitting on a chair in the Tardis console. Kami held out a picture.
"That's Maka." Kami told her.
Your daughter?
"Yes." Kami smiled as she spoke. "I hope you two will meet someday soon. Maybe if the Doctor figures out how to direct this old ship."
The console binged.
"Sorry if that came out rude." Kami told the machine before turning to Eu. "How about we get some cookies before bed? I know where the Doctor hides them."
Maka watched her mother and Eu walk off and didn't know what to make of it.
0000
The Doctor was struggling with all the memories as he tried to keep anything sensitive away from Shadow. He was finding it a Herculean task, every second he was flooded with a life time of memories and some of them were just filled with anguish and more than a little bit of anger.
The Doctor found himself watching one of Kami's memories. Kami was climbing on top of what looked to be a European castle. Kami reached through and open window and pulled someone up, "Come on Anastasia."
Soon she pulled up a girl with long blonde hair wearing a white dress.
The girl less than gracefully walked on the roof.
"Be careful." Kami told her. "Your parents wouldn't be too happy about this."
"Then why did you insist and doing this then?" The young girl asked.
"How long have I been your body guard?"
The girl pondered this for a moment. "About six that monster managed to enter the castle and nearly-"
"But it didn't." Kami told her. "I managed to stop it and you were saved."
"But you're leaving now?"
"Well, soon. I agreed to stay so your parents could fix the holes in the security and that I could train your guards a little better. I even trained you and you've gotten more skilled. Though I'm still worried about you fighting in real world setting."
The girl puffed up her cheeks in anger, "I would be able to defend myself if I had to." She crossed her arms, "Are you returning to that school you talked about? What did you call it?"
"The DWMA, The school where you people can train to be meisters, people from all over go there. No, I'm just sort of traveling, I'm not going to Death City for a while."
"Why not? Didn't you mention you have a daughter going to school there?"
"I did and she does. She wants to become a meister and she does have the talent for it, and she will do much better without me there. If I were to stay I would be there and they would always compare her to me. If she is going to be the best meister she can be then she has to do it without me. She can be her own person and make the path she's on her own."
The girl noted a tone of sadness in her voice, "You must care about her a lot."
"Yes, and now to answer your question. I wanted you to see this." Kami stretched her hands forward to the city just beyond their reach. The city was filled with light and made the whole city shimmer.
"Princess Anastasia Yngling, you've lived most of your life in this castle and I just want you to know there are wonders out there. I know your parents are trying to protect you by keeping you here but you should go see the world one day."
"Is that why you travel?"
"Yes, I had a friend that would talk about traveling about the wonders of the everyday life and the wonders of the whole Universe and I thought I'd try it out."
The Doctor couldn't help but smile seeing how Kami was.
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"DOCTOR!" Shadow yelled. "Enough of this! The field of the mind might not be bound by the same constricts of time but you can feel it! She's dying."
Shadow stood before the bow tied time lord. Shadow's skin was cracking. "She trying to protect you and she's letting us die. The problem is that she won't be able to hold out for much longer and the stress of her soul will tear you too and you feel it. The pressure!"
The Doctor grit his teeth he was using his psychic powers to influence what they found and the pressure was higher on him than others.
"Will you let them all die alongside her just to hide one memory."
The Doctor glared at him.
"Fine, let's just see if we can't make it a little harder for you."
They stood on a battle field that smelled of death and fire and suddenly the other joined them.
"Where are we?" Stein was the first ask.
"The battle for the stone." Shadow told them. "On a long forgotten world during its last hour."
There were countless fighting with weapons and ships they couldn't understand. Kami was a savage beauty fighting any construct raised from the ground with any weapon she had. Her hair a wild mess as she flew at the attackers. Eu had abandoned her armor and wild energy flew around her in ways none had seen before. The Doctor in a brown trench coat rode on in the palm of a large creature almost out of myth. His device glowed as the sonic waves disturbed the stones power just a little not to get killed right away.
Everyone was fighting a glowing figure in the distance that only laugh at their struggle. It was a game of king of the mountain and with all that power and might their forces were loosing.
They couldn't help but watch the struggle.
"Albarn! Or whatever you want to call yourself! It's now or never! Do you really want to relive these deaths!" Shadow yelled to the heavens. "This is your souls so don't pretend you don't hear me!" They all started to feel a great pressure on their very beings almost as if they were about to be ripped apart from the inside.
Maka watched as the image of her mother before her fought monsters raising from nothing. Her mother fought with everything she had at an enemy that seemed to have endless energy. Maka wondered how many times her mother had been in these battle for life and death. Even these little glimpses into her life were not enough. Maka had questions for her mother and as pain went through her she didn't know if she would ever get any answers to them.
Kami fought with everything she had, with the precision she got from her father and the warrior's heart that she got from her mother. Still she felt that she couldn't make it through this battle. The Doctor was leading the forces with the skill of a general and using his device to disrupt the energy of the stone to let them get close. That let the troops get closer and gave them a shot but the sheer force was burning out his modified sonic screwdriver. Even with his scary impressive skills as a general people were dying around them at rates that would sicken just about anyone. Eu unleashed her full power but it caused her pain and she wouldn't be able to bare it for much longer. Still the necromancer glowed like a goddess as she desperately tried to fight off the power of the stone and protect everyone. The sky and world warped at the power the stone held and it looked ready to suck up the whole world and in fact it actually started to.
Then it happened, a ship flew straight at the stone in a last ditch effort to end it. With a tremendous explosion, one that made space and time ripple at its force, and it ended. The world seemed to go black.
Hour later or maybe even days something followed the darkness and brought more than a fair share of pain. Kami woke up to a world that was dead, the Doctor and Eu were nearby on the ground along with the toppled over Tardis. The blue box and a bit of Eu's power barely managed to protect them.
It didn't take them long to find it, a red glowing stone on the barren sand. As they reached it power reached back to them. Pain filled their beings. Their minds were nearly torn apart as it whispered to them about their wishes, for freedom, for hope, for family, for love, for peace for any of million little things. It tempted them with it all and enough power to change the world. They could have anything and everything they ever wanted no matter how impossible and if they let the stone do it they would be happy. If the three of them hadn't been together it might have lulled them in but the connection they shared with the Tardis made a small mental block which tripped the stone's power just enough to see past the illusion and promise to the screaming inside the stone. In the stone billions of souls screamed in nothing short of hell. That was what gave the stone its power, the power of billions of souls and to use it would be to extinguish countless souls inside.
As much as they were temped to use the stone for happiness, to be freed from a curse or to bring back their home they couldn't. The cost was too much and in the end they too would be twisted by the stones power. Killing can twist a soul and to purposely use someone's soul for your own gain would have be several times worst than that. Then there was connecting your mind to the stone to use, the sheer power and pain could drive you insane. To use it you'd end up destroying not only those captured souls but your own. They knew they couldn't use it and they couldn't free the souls inside it and they couldn't let anyone use it.
0000
It was a mix of Shadow's psychic influence, his shouting trying to irk the meister and just Kami's sheer drive to live even as her body started to die that made things happen. They were all forced through various memories of Kami. Some of the memories were of her precious memories, some were just the small bit of her life like her brushing her teeth and then there were moment Kami really would have preferred to keep secret.
Maka found herself somewhere dark.
Kami appeared in a burst of light using that vortex manipulator as she carried a medium sized wooden box. She laid it down at a warped altar.
"I really hope this works." Kami said with a worried tone.
Maka's eyes grew wide as she realized where the memory was taking place.
"There we go!" Shadow crept behind Maka sensing the memory he wanted so desperately to find.
0000
There was a lot of screaming as everyone collapsed to the ground. Shadow manipulated the scythe and pressed the blade deep into Kami forcing the reels to suck back into her body. Finally he pulled it out again and used the scythe to lean against. After a second he tossed the scythe to the side.
Eu was down on a knee, she was gasping as pulled off one of the gauntlets on her hand. As Kami collapsed into her arms. Eu let a ball of purple light focus in her hand and pushed the light in on Kami's wound. Kami hissed in pain as the flesh forced itself to heal, still considering she just had her heart stabbed not being dead might be a good thing.
Everyone was shaking as that had been an ordeal. Though some were dealing with it better than others. Stein for example was used to taking soul based attacks and redirecting them but this was something else. His skin ached as if the reels had torn at it even though his skin was like it was always.
"Pallas! Get on your feet!" Shadow gulped at the witch. "Get the armies ready. Remind them the orders. No angels eat by sending anyone back, we don't need crazy time travel as the world ends. A moment on the lips they become a life time on my hips. Tell everyone, the angels, the knights, the monsters, and the oh my's that I want wreckage. I want a people hurt and screaming. I want every single witch and meisters fighting them so we don't have to deal with them. Then acquire the Tardis." A shadow tendril grabbed Index from the ground and tossed him toward the witch. "Index, earn your keep and help her out. If I'm not back in an hour destroy the whole city."
Index let out a few groans of pain as Pallas held him, she herself didn't look much better. The owl witch let out, "What about Mordred?"
Shadow sighed as a tendril wrapped around the knight, who had been knocked out this whole time a short distance away, and flung him off the stairs. "Tell his knights that the wizard did it."
Pallas gulped as did Index, they both knew Shadow was likely to get rid of them when they ran out of use.
The other were trying to move but found themselves having more than a little trouble at it. Finally Kid managed to get on his feet.
"Oh, your payment." Shadow said, "I promised you to end the DWMA and Witches alliance." Pallas certainly didn't like the idea of the witches suddenly becoming friend with their long time enemies, "Okay, let me get to that now."
Shadows wrapped around his arm forming a large spike. If Kid hadn't been so affected by the trip down Kami's memory lane he might of reacted faster. He reacted like everyone did as Shadow closed the gap between them and pushed the spike through his chest. He acted with shock and horror. The spike punctured all the way to the other side of Kid's chest.
"Kid!" Liz yelled out as she watch blood gushing out of her meister.
It wasn't a small hole it was a little bigger than a fist and it went through his chest. Shadow smiled at the young reaper, "Okay, human loving reaper. The reaper for the human age, let's see that humanity save you now."
With a flick of his wrist Shadow tossed Kid to the wall of his school. Kid tried to move, he tried to fight one even as blood escaped his body. His eyes flicked weakly.
Shadow smiled at his work, "There, I can cross off killing a god of my to do list today."
Author's Note: Sorry for the delay I was burned out of writing for a bit there and couldn't get anything done. Anyway, back if you're confused about the order of things you should be now you know how the characters feel being dropped into Kami's life at random points. Various cameos from gathers from the three series and even nods to two others. As always tell me what you think by leaving a review I always appreciate hearing your thoughts.