Chapter 12: The Loner's Secret

"Calm down, Michelle."- the Death Lord said. He was sitting on his room, accompanied by Michelle, Tsubaki, Black Star, Soul Eater, Maka Albarn, Death the Kid and the Thompson twins. All there for the same purpose.

"Calm down? He's been missing for a damn week!"- she replied, frustrated. Ren hadn't been seen for a week. He disappeared in the night of the day when they fought. Tsubaki placed her hand on her friend's shoulder.

"Michelle, yelling won't solve a thing. Calm down."- Tsubaki whispered, successfully calming her.

"But, but, what am I supposed to do?"- she muttered, tears falling from her eyes. Everyone in the room bowed their head in pity.

"Nothing. Just wait. You know Ren. Fighting is his life and the only thing he knows how to do. His goal is to become a Death Scythe. Sooner or later he is going to appear on our radar."- Shinigami explained, taking a sip of tea.

"This is all my fault! If I wasn't so weak... I could have..."- she began to cry.

"This is not your fault at all. Just try to put yourself in his shoes. He has a mission right now. To become powerful so that he can kill his biggest enemy. He needs power desperately. He is cutting his ties with you in order to only rely on himself. He intends to gain strength that way. He hasn't left you because you are weak. He has left you because he doesn't want you to be in danger. If he really didn't care about you, he would never have taken Moon with him. It's his way of keeping in contact with you."- Shinigami took another sip of tea as if nothing was going on. He always was an odd one. Maybe because he was so old that nothing surprised him, or maybe because he was too cold to be worried. Or maybe because he really liked tea. Michelle would never know, and the words that she just heard had shocked her.

"M-Mission? Kill his biggest enemy? W-Who is he?"- she asked, sobbing. Everyone had narrowed their eyes at this last piece of information. Was someone out there so strong that Ren wanted to kill so much that he went through such a painful path to gain strength?

"He never told you? I guess he wanted to protect you. Ren's father didn't disappear and he wasn't sent here because he fought some three year old and cutted him. Ren's mother was constantly beat up by his father. Every year, the father would fight one of their five children to see if they were strong enough, and every year one of them died. His father is the first Weapon ever made. He has been known to trade memories with his strongest sons for over twenty generations. Ren's mother knew what was coming, he was the last son he had in this generation. She came into contact with me, begged for me to save him. She said he was a Weapon. When I got there, the father was about to fight Ren. The mother was already dead. When he saw me, he told me that he would kill me too some day, and ran away. I brought Ren in, and tried to make him forget everything. But he never did. His goal is to end his father's life, and that is what he is going to do right now."- Shinigami took two more sips of tea, memories flooding him. A house filled with blood, a woman cut to pieces, a spiky haired man with a chainsaw leg, ready to kill his son. A child, crying and crying and asking father why he hurt mother.

"So, what do we do?"- Kid asked. He was quite cold when it came to these situations. But what could you expect from a Death God. Shinigami's son couldn't afford to be disturbed by something like that if he really expected to live up to everyone's expectations.

"As I said, nothing. This is his battle, we must let him fight it. If we don't, he will either hate us forever or hate himself. He wants vengeance, he wants to see his father kneeling before him and begging for death. And if any of us know how he is, that is what he is going to do."- Shinigami finished his tea and ate a cookie before smiling.

"I see."- Kid had a thoughtful look.

"He won't die, he wants to see me again!"- Black Star proclaimed before laughing.

"He is too good to lose!"- Liz said and Patty laughed.

"That guy is cool."- Soul joined in.

"Powerful."- Maka commented.

"The first Weapon I have seen that can fight alone."- Tsubaki smiled. Michelle was convinced.