Natsu, Lisanna, Gajeel and Happy were unable to move. They were still in shock at what had happened. A second ago, their friend had been standing, smiling away, talking about celebrating their victory at having managed to bring in a dangerous criminal. However, he was now lying on the ground, a burning hole in his chest barely breathing.
And the person responsible was standing over him, staring at the rest of the group.
"Vanitas. I believed that you had great potential. Instead, you prove to me that you were not worth creating." The figure said.
He looked to the rest of the group. He focused more on Natsu who, unlike the rest of the group, was recovered from his shock, and showing his rage at the cloaked figure.
"You… you… YOU MONSTER!" Natsu roared as suddenly became covered in raging flames. "When I'm done with you, there won't be anything to bury!"
Filled with pure rage, Natsu rushed forward, pouring as much of his flames as he could into his right fist, ready to turn his opponent into ash. He roared before yelling at the top of his voice "FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!". When his fist hit figure, the built-up fire in his fist flew forward, engulfing Natsu's target. As the flames managed to singe a number of areas on the figure's coat, the enemy made a swift move. He covered himself in a sphere of unfamiliar energy, rendering him invulnerable to Natsu's attack and helping him move at a blinding speed away from the attack. The sphere faded soon after.
The figure shook his head. "While true, in more ways than you know… I'm afraid I have no time to deal with you pests at the moment." He said. He lowered his hood, revealing his face to the group.
Natsu immediately recognised that there was something familiar about this person. Not so much his appearance though; it was his power. He could tell that it was a similar power he had seen the corrupt museum owner use, but this was much stronger. Also, it didn't feel like any kind of magic he had seen before.
"What the heck are you?" Natsu asked.
"You may have heard of me. My name is Xemnas." The figure said.
Natsu recognised the name, Demy having told him, Vanitas and Makarov about him briefly.
"Xehanort's lackey, right?" Natsu said.
Xemnas didn't appear amused. He raised his arms up slightly and summoned red-orange beams of energy, reaching the length of a sword's blade. He readied himself, speeding forward and started spinning, creating a trail of energy from the blades of energy. Natsu rolled to his right side, just managing to avoid the attack. He was about to attack with another iron fist when Xemnas deactivated his blades, speeding backwards as he quickly lowered himself, sticking his right leg out as he spun around. This attack managed to strike Natsu, sending him flying.
Xemnas returned to his normal stance, watching as the salamander flew high into the air. He noticed too late when he heard a strong gust of wind come his way. He looked to the source only to see a whirlwind of iron shards come his way.
"IRON DRAGON ROAR!" Gajeel roared as his attack made its way towards his target.
Xemnas raised his hands up towards Gajeel. "GUARD!" he yelled, creating a perfectly square barrier of energy, projecting him from the attack. As the cloud faded, he saw Gajeel rush towards him with a raised fist. He landed the attack on the barrier; whatever power formed it proved to be harmful as it shocked Gajeel the moment his fist made contact. As he was pushed back, the barrier faded. Xemnas used that time to zoom forward, twirling backwards with his blades sticking out, striking Gajeel like a buzz-saw. Gajeel was also sent flying, but this time Xemnas quickly vanished, reappearing underneath an air born Gajeel, striking him from underneath with his blades outstretched as he spun in the air.
Xemnas vanished again, reappearing over Gajeel, stomping a foot onto his foot, causing to rocket back to the ground. The resulting impact created a shockwave that sent Lisanna, Happy and Vanitas flying backwards. Lisanna tried to help Vanitas, but was unable to fight the shockwave.
Xemnas reappeared on the ground. He took a moment to look at Vanitas, soon deciding to make his way over to him.
"OH, NO YOU DON'T!" came Natsu's voice from above.
Xemnas looked up, seeing Natsu with his arms outstretched. He spoke as his arms were soon ignited.
"The flames of my right hand. The flames of my left. Put them together-" he let out a deafening roar as he combined the flames, creating an enormous sphere of flames.
"FIRE DRAGON BRILLIANT FLAME!" he threw the sphere directly at Xemnas. He was briefly blinded by the light from the attack, preventing him from manoeuvring in time and he ended up taking the full force of the attack. As it hit him, it created a more powerful impact that force Xemnas into the ground.
When the attack had faded, Xemnas rose back up. He was clearly injured, but he disregarded the wounds, thinking of them as mild inconveniences. He gave Natsu a glare of steel.
"Your flames will not be enough to save you, wizard." He said.
Natsu gave him a cocky smile. "Well, good thing it's not just flames you're up against." He said, confidence flooding from his voice.
Xemnas was confused at first, up until he heard a scream from behind him. He turned in time to see Lisanna flying towards him with bird wings for arms. She head-butted him the stomach, sending him flying. She then morphed into her cat-form, which she used to rush towards Xemnas, grabbing his legs and pulling him back. She pulled back a paw, which she then used to swipe at Xemnas, cutting him deeply in the chest; it was soon followed by her raising a leg in the air and bringing her foot down onto his face. As he was once again implanted into the ground, she took a step back. The three fighters of the group all looked at their opponent.
"Man, what's up with this guy?" Gajeel asked.
"It's like he's not human." Lisanna stated.
Natsu heaved slightly before giving his input. "You're not too far off, actually."
The other two were confused by this. However, as they were distracted, Xemnas vanished from the ground. They saw this and looked around to where he had gone.
"Can you spare… a heart?" Xemnas asked.
The group looked upwards, seeing Xemnas building up energy around him. When he was finished, he fired three beams of energy, each one striking Natsu, Lisanna and Gajeel respectively. As the energy bound them, they all screamed in pain as the energy shocked them throughout their body. The longer the beam kept them bound, the more they could feel themselves fading away.
"C'mon… guys. We gotta… get free!" Natsu said.
Xemnas heard what he said and shook his head slowly, a small smile appearing on his face.
"If you truly think you can win now, then it seems you are quite disillusioned. Who can save you now, since your friend has fallen and I have trapped you all?"
Natsu gave Xemnas another cocky smile. "Not all of us." He stated.
Xemnas frowned in confusion, unsure of what he meant. Then, all of a sudden, he heard a strong gust of wind, then the sound of a jet-fighter plane coming his way. He looked behind him and managed to see an angry, blue cat slam into his face
"MAX SPEED!" Happy yelled, putting all he had into the collision. While it didn't knock Xemnas out, it caused him to lose concentration, destroying the beams that trapped the other members. Natsu took the opportunity and leapt high into the air, before turning around mid air and coating hids right foot in flames, bringing it down on Xemnas' head.
"FIRE DRAGON CLAW!" he roared as the attack landed. Xemnas was sent flying away from the group. As Natsu landed, he looked to Happy, who was lying on the ground, exhausted from having used so much power. Natsu knelt to him, rubbed his head and gave him a thumbs up.
"Thanks, pal." Natsu said.
"Aye." Happy replied. Exhaustion soon took over and he fell asleep.
Natsu stood back up and turned to Lisanna and Gajeel, both of whom still seemed to still be recovering from Xemnas' last attack.
"How are you still standing?" Gajeel asked.
Natsu shrugged his shoulders in response, which caused Gajeel to become more irritated. Natsu then remembered Vanitas. He turned to where he was lying but, much to everyone's shock-
He was gone.
"WHERE THE HECK DID HE GO!?" Natsu asked out loud, causing Lisanna to jump and Gajeel to cover his ears from the noise.
"That is what I would like to know, as well." Came a voice.
The group turned and saw a familiar sphere of energy speed towards them, stopping twenty feet from them.
"Man, you just don't quit, do you?" Lisanna asked, readying herself for combat again.
"I could say the same for you all." Xemnas replied, building up a ball of blue energy in his hand. "It seems that you are more powerful than I first believed. My apologies. I will be sure not to underestimate you again." He continued before firing the energy from his hand.
The group readied a defensive stance, thinking they could take the hit. However, before the energy struck, someone appeared in front of them and sliced the ball directly down the middle, sending the two halves to either side of him. He didn't even look up as the halves exploded behind them.
When the dust built up from the movement faded, everyone was amazed to see who was standing before them.
A fully recovered Vanitas.
"Vanitas… you're okay." Natsu and Lisanna said simultaneously.
"How ARE you okay?" Gajeel asked.
Vanitas looked behind him, a smile forming on his face as he looked at his jacket. On either side of the unversed symbol on the back, a black circle appeared, as well as an even smaller, red, circle within.
The Fairy Tail group screamed when they realised what it was, with Natsu voicing his thoughts. "YOU'RE WEARING ONE OF THOSE THINGS!?"
Vanitas gave him a small chuckle. "Well, I've gotten better at being able to shape the unversed as I see fit. The blade went through me, but it cracked open a few healing potions I had on me, helping me recover." He explained.
He looked down at his own shirt, seeing a hole where the Ethereal Blade penetrated. He then looked up at Xemnas with a steely frown.
"I liked that shirt." He said plainly.
Xemnas' face immediately morphed into anger, dark energy building up around him.
"You fool. Do you really think you can defeat me with that pathetic creature?" he asked.
Vanitas clicked his fingers and the jacket unversed disappeared, reverting him to his previous look.
"Well, maybe not… but I know what creature can help me." He said. He lifted his weapon into the air before plunging the tip into the ground. He then focused as a dark aura began to build up around him. After a few seconds, a split-second image of Vanitas in his mask and body suit appeared. It appeared a few more times before the image remained. It then moved to Vanitas' right side in the same pose as Vanitas. As it began to properly materialise, the colour scheme of the suit changed. All that was either navy or black began a raven coloured, while everything red soon turned pure white. The mask had part of the aura surrounding it before the symbol of the unversed appeared.
As soon as it was completely summoned, Vanitas collapsed.
"Vanitas!" Lisanna cried. They ran to him, afraid that he was hurt again. Vanitas assured them that he was fine, informing them that he tired himself out creating their new ally. They all stared at the figure, unsure of what to make of it.
"Idiot." Xemnas said. "How much of your being did you put into creating that Spector of yourself? If you leave out for too long, you will vanish."
Vanitas grinned while everyone else formed looks of grave concern.
"Better not leave it out too long, then." He said. He looked at his dark shadow. "Take him down."
The copy summoned the Void Gear Keyblade, following the same colour scheme as the suit. The clone then zoomed around Xemnas, stopping after making a full 360 degrees, and jumped into the air as dark spikes emerged from the trail of dark energy it left behind, coming together like jaws snapping their mouth shut, while chewing on Xemnas. Feeling a great amount of pain from the attack, he collapsed. The clone then rose his Keyblade into the sky and summoned a massive ray of energy, striking him and turning his weapon into a giant sword. He swung it once, striking Xemnas with full force, before teleporting behind him and spinning vertically through the air, bringing the enlarged blade on his opponents head. To finish him off, he leapt backwards, converted the energy in the blade into a giant "X" into the sky and let it fly towards Xemnas, going straight through him. While it didn't show, he had been severely injured from the attack.
As he struggled to get up, he looked upon the clone again before looking over at Vanitas, giving him a hateful stare.
"What… are… you?" Xemnas asked.
The clone quickly became covered in dark energy, fading away into nothing and causing a similar aura to appear briefly around Vanitas, signalling that his power has returned to him. He stood up on his feet and grinned slightly before replying.
"I'm a guy that's just that good." He said.
Natsu and Lisanna laughed a bit at his reply while Gajeel shook his head. Vanitas brought back his Keyblade, which the clone had loaned, and pointed it towards Xemnas. He then built up an orb of silver energy before shooting it towards their fallen adversary.
"Stopaga." Vanitas simply said.
The energy flew towards Xemnas. Had it hit, Xemnas would've been frozen in time and would make it easier to bring him in for questioning. However, just before the spell hit, a familiar shard of energy, shaped like an arrow, flew by and destroyed the spell.
The Fairy Tail group were alarmed by this and turned to where the arrow came from. Standing before them was another figure in the black coat of Organization XIII. Natsu and Vanitas recognised him as the guy from the museum that shot Demy while he was Demyx. They all readied themselves, Lisanna, Natsu and Gajeel all hoping to take him down themselves since Vanitas managed to defeat, not one, but two of them now.
"You leave this guy to us." Lisanna said.
"Don't think for a second we're going to let you beat them all yourself." Natsu said.
Vanitas was about to reply when the figure in question suddenly vanished, reappearing behind the group. He leaned over and said "You'll need to be quick."
He vanished again as the group turned around, just about to strike as they heard him. He then reappeared beside Xemnas. The latter looked up at his savior with a hateful expression.
"I told you to stay out of this, Xigbar." Xemnas said.
The hidden figure, now known as Xigbar, lowered his hood, revealing him to be the man in the eye-patch who was observing Vanitas from before.
Xigbar grinned. "Well, I don't answer to you anymore. The boss said you just had to get the target and leave, what's keeping you?"
Xemnas turned his glare back to the group, focusing his attention on one of them in particular.
"The former apprentice is stronger than you described. His allies are no small feat either." Xemnas admitted.
"Really? Wow, the kids come a long way." Xigbar said. He then summoned his weapons. His arrow-guns were impressive. Where the handle was, was a circular guard on the top, four spikes sticking out like a cross, all of the relatively short, except for one that acted as the barrel for the gun. Underneath it were a collection of spikes shaped like the arrows, gathered together like a small wing, showing where the ammunition would gather for his weapon.
"Well, it's a shame we don't have more time. I'd like to test out the other guys myself." He said. He then raised the gun in his right hand, pointing at one of the members. The member he was pointing at-
Was Lisanna.
"Just hand over the girl and we'll leave you guys alone. Deal?" Xigbar gave the group a sinister smile and merciless eyes.
Natsu was the first to snap in an instant. He rushed towards the two enemies with his fists ignited. Before Xigbar could react, he received a flaming fist to his nose, burning it in the process. He was sent flying and had landed on his back soon after.
Natsu had a calm face, but his eyes were now cold and steel.
"You won't even lay a finger on my friend, bub. You just made the biggest mistake of your life." The flames around Natsu were burning strongly; they became more intense by the second as his anger fuelled his power.
Vanitas smiled. "You ever want to win a fight, just make him angry." He said to himself. He walked forward to the enemies. "Xemnas, why are you guys after Lisanna? Also, the guy that was kidnapping those girls here, did you hire him?"
Xemnas rose to his feet. "Years ago, the "X-Blade" was forged after it had been destroyed an era ago. However, as you know, it was an unstable model. Because there wasn't enough light or darkness to make a stable version, thus, it was destroyed. We need more pure lights and pure darkness's if we wish to succeed."
Xemnas clicked his fingers. A silver energy stared to build up around him. The wounds around him started to heal at a slow rate. The Fairy Tail group were amazed at shocked at this, readying themselves for another potential fight.
"We have our eyes set on specific targets already… but we have opted to creating back-up candidates; a contingency plan is always required in a war." He continued.
Vanitas was confused. They were planning on creating pure lights and darkness's. However, it suddenly clicked when he remembered something. It was a memory of seeing Ventus for the first ime, after Vanitas himself was extracted from Ventus. The process shattered Ventus' heart, turning him into a mindless shell, slowly dying from his heart having suffered incredible damage. If it wasn't for the other heart's intervention, he would've died.
Vanitas bared and gritted his teeth before building up a ball of fire in his hand. "Are you guys out of your minds? That process will do nothing but kill them before you get the chance before you can use them. The only reason Ventus survived was because-"
"Even broken hearts can touch each other." Xemnas interrupted.
Vanitas suddenly felt fear in every part of his body. However, it soon turned into rage. He looked at the ball of flame in his hand. He considered throwing it at the Nobodies, but he came up with another idea. He fired the ball at Natsu's face. When it impacted, Natsu wasted no time in eating up all the flames.
When he was finished, he looked at Vanitas and gave him an appreciative grin. "Thanks man." He said.
Vanitas nodded. He looked back at the enemies. They looked unfazed by what they saw, but Xigbar spoke up. "Nice parlour trick. You learn that in the circus?"
Natsu immediately lost his temper, flames covering his form.
"You've got a reeal short temper, haven't you?" Vanitas asked.
"Heh. Well, as fun as this has been, we're going to need the girl." Xigbar said.
Vanitas looked at them with a side-ways glance. He had a blank expression on his face. He suddenly vanished. He reappeared behind the two organization member, both of whom looked like they were in agonizing pain.
"Too slow." Vanitas said.
The two coated enemies fell to their knees. They slowly looked behind them, seeing a face of pure rage on the dark warrior's face.
"You've made the biggest mistake of your lives. Not only have you made an enemy of me…" suddenly, an aura of dark energy erupted from around Vanitas.
"WHEN YOU TO HURT AND MAKE AN ENEMY OF ONE OF US, YOU MAKE AN ENEMY OF EVERYONE IN FAIRY TAIL! WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU LEAVE HERE ALIVE!" Vanitas finished.
The two organization members looked at the group in front of them, all of whom had the same look of anger on their faces. Getting back onto their feet, a corridor of darkness appeared behind them both.
"We will be sure to keep that in mind. Your former master won't be pleased." Xemnas said.
Vanitas lashed out at them with his weapon, but they were already after passing through the corridor. Vanitas ended up flying through the remains of the corridor, landing on the ground close to his friends. Natsu helped him back onto his feet.
"Thanks." Vanitas said.
"Don't mention it." Natsu said. He then paused for a moment before saying something else. "Hey… Vanitas?"
"Hmm?" Vanitas looked at Natsu, placing his hands in his pocket.
"By any chance… is Xehanort the master you had that taught you how to fight?" he asked.
Vanitas froze. He had hoped to keep that part of his life a secret from the rest of the group, now that they knew that he was the one who was now causing them trouble. Struggling to get the answer out at first, he took in a deep breath he answered "Yes… and I'll never forgive him for it."
"What do you mean?" asked Happy, who had just woken up. Lisanna picked him up and cradled him in her arms.
"The thing is… Xehanort used to be a good man. But he later became so obsessed with studying darkness, how to control and harness it… he became another one of its pawns. Later, when he heard about the "X-blade", the most powerful Keyblade in existence, we tried everything in his power to re-create it." Vanitas explained.
"Re-create?" Gajeel asked.
"A war broke out between Keyblade wielders many years ago for the "X-blade", and in turn, the most powerful light in existence. The end of it resulted in their deaths and the destruction of the weapon. Guess it wasn't as powerful as they believed." He continued, adding a small laugh into the end of it.
"What does that have to do with you?" Lisanna asked.
Vanitas looked down at the ground for a moment before continuing. "Xehanort took in a pupil of his own, before me, and tried to get him to unleash the power of darkness in his heart, which he hoped would create the weapon because he had a strong light in his heart as well. It didn't work. So instead, he extracted the darkness from his heart, severely damaging it… and creating me."
To say that the group were shocked could be an understatement. They looked at him with astonishment for a moment, unsure of what to say.
"What happened then?" Natsu asked, breaking the silence.
"Years later, Ventus managed to recover and trained under an old friend of Xehanort who wasn't aware of his agenda. I continued to train under Xehanort and became a heartless killing machine; I went through with his plan, cutting down anyone who got in my way." Vanitas explained.
A lone tear streamed down her face. She was doing her best to supress the emotions she felt from hearing this.
Vanitas looked to her. "You okay?" he asked.
She was silent for a moment before speaking. "Why… why did you do that? You were willing to kill people for ideals that weren't your own. You didn't care if people got hurt."
Her face suddenly changed into that of pure anger as she was now roaring at him. "WHY DID YOU LET YOUSELF BECOME A MONSTER!?"
Vanitas continued to stare at her, but with a cold, spine chilling glare. "Because I was broken." He answered.
Natsu, Happy and Gajeel were surprised, but Lisanna's expression didn't change.
"One of the many downsides of being made of pure darkness is that it can corrupt you more easily. The more I tried to resist the dark thought s coming into my mind, the more it tried to corrupt me. It went on for so long I actually started to feel true, physical pain from that battle." He looked to one side and summoned one of the flood Unversed.
"It was that negativity that created the Unversed. When they started appearing, I lashed out at them and destroyed them, hoping the effort would lessen my anguish. But it had the opposite effect. Whenever an Unversed is destroyed, I feel their pain as if it were my own. Every time I destroyed one, I felt their pain, and the dark thoughts became stronger. In hindsight, I should've stopped attacking them… but I was younger, vulnerable and didn't know what else to do. So I kept going. It went on forever… until I finally broke from it. It all became too much, the pain was unbearable. I just… I just wanted to die."
This caused everyone in the group to gasp in shock.
Vanitas looked into the sky. "And Xehanort… he just stood by, letting me destroy myself. By the time I was broken, only then did he step in, convincing me that the only wat to feel free from this was to join back with my lighter half."
Natsu curled his fingers of both hands into fists, veins visible on both of them as he tried to supress his anger. He sighed before saying on what was on his mind. "Did you do it… I mean, you know… make the "X-blade"?" he asked.
"Yeah, but I was defeated, and the "X-blade was destroyed it me. I had joined with Ventus again, creating a complete version on the outside, but a broken version within our combined hearts. He defeated me on the inside, while his friends took down the form that had been created on the outside. It turned out the weapon was unstable, and was obliterated when I lost."
"So, now you're free, right? You joined up with him, so-"
"That was a lie." Vanitas interrupted.
Natsu looked at him confused. "What?"
"Xehanort lied about the darkness ceasing to corrupt me after I re-joined with Ventus. I still feel them trying to gnaw at me, tear me to pieces from the inside. It's a tough battle still, but I think I'm getting better at it. I even managed to supress it for a little bit.
"Seriously?" Happy asked, his face filled with concern. "Then how is it still hurting you now?"
Vanitas nodded, "Because I had to let it. It was this that has been helping me create the Unversed. I'm willing to let myself suffer through the pain again if it means protecting you all stopping that man once. And. For. All." He said.
The whole group, especially Lisanna, all couldn't belief what they heard. He has been fighting a silent war, having to deal with his own darkness trying to destroy him. Now he's letting himself go through it all over again, not just for his revenge, but for them as well.
In that instant, Lisanna immediately regretted yelling at Vanitas, covering her mouth as she remembered her harsh words.
"Didn't know you had that big a burden on your back, kid." Gajeel said.
"Wish you would've told us sooner, we would've tried to help." Natsu said.
"If you're on about the darkness, it can't be helped, it's a part of me and always will be. There's no stopping it. Besides, your already helping me stop Xehanort's plans for here, that's more than enough." Vanitas replied.
"Well it's not enough for us." Natsu then stated, surprising Vanitas.
If you think we're going to let you get away from keeping something like this a secret from us, then you're dead wrong. As punishment, you're going to let us help find a wat to help you get out of this situation of yours." Natsu then ignited his fists again. "And if you say no, I'll fry your ass." He finished.
Vanitas was silent for a moment. Then his cheeks puffed up, seemingly trying to hold back a fit of laughter. He calmed himself down before saying "Like you can hit me." He said.
Natsu launched his flaming fist at Vanitas, who teleported behind him and brought down a fist onto Natsu's head, slamming him into the ground.
"Lu… lucky hit." He said as his eyes were spinning.
Happy flew from Lisanna's arms and landed right beside Natsu. "You know it's not smart to challenge him to a fight, Natsu." Happy stated/
"Yeah… I forgot." Natsu replied.
Vanitas shook his head with a smile on his face. He looked back at Lisanna and Gajeel, the former laughing her head off while Gajeel shook his head like Vanitas.
He turned back to Natsu and helped him back onto his feet. "Well, we didn't get them this time, but at least we know what they're planning. We'll get them next time, right?"
They all nodded. Vanitas looked back towards the city of Magnolia. He was amazed that Lacri-Mack's base was not too far away from the city, it made it easier for them.
"Alright, let's go home, I'm hungry." Natsu said.
"Aye, me too." Came Happy.
"Do you guys ever think of anything other than-" before Gajeel could finish, his stomach rumbled loudly, causing the salamander and the cat to laugh their heads off. He glared at them briefly, but soon let the matter drop.
"I could use some grub too." Lisanna said. She then turned to Vanitas. "What about you?" she asked.
Vanitas wasn't looking at her, but he knew she was talking to him. "Wouldn't mind something. Let's get going." He said. They soon started walking back to the city, all thinking about what they would eat when they get home.
"Hey, guys, do you think we could invite Derek to come eat with us?" Happy asked.
"Not a bad idea." Natsu said. "Any objections?"
"Naw, it's fine." Gajeel said, who was more focused on food at the moment.
"That sound's great!" Lisanna answered.
"No problems here." Vanitas answered. "I can probably get the chance to ask about that demon that's been following him around."
This caused everyone, save for Vanitas, to stop in their tracks. Vanitas looked back at them with confusion as they appeared shocked.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"What do you mean when you say a demon's been following him?" Gajeel asked.
Vanitas smiled. "Oh, right, I forgot to tell you. A fire demon, I think it's the fire demon king, Ifrit, has been following him. I could see him transferring his power into Derek. I would've said something, but it turns out he isn't much of a threat."
Everyone looked at him dead-panned faces and sweat-drops when he said that. Seeing their confusion he explained.
"The guy has been subtly training the guy to be a Demonslayer." He said.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!" they all roared.
[And there you go, another chapter finished. Sorry I'm cutting it here, but I'm planning on switching POV's and I already wrote a lot here in this chapter. Anyway, I thought it was about time Vanitas opened up to his friends about his past a bit more, it'd be better for them to know, after all. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, and if you did or not, please leave a review, and don't be shy about what you say, I won't mind. See you all later]
[Also, if you're interested, I posted a new story based on Rosario + Vampire, in case anyone is interested. If not, then never mind. Bye]