Hey guys! I've been thinking of renaming Shadow Reaper since in case you didn't knew, their was another character who is named Shadow in another Blazblue related thing. However his real name is Hayate and Shadow is his nickname, while my Shadow is his technical real name. Also the name I believe fits him because he is the clone of Ragna, and he was basically compared to Ragna a lot and it annoyed him to no end. He is basically a literal shadow of Ragna The Bloodedge, and I thought it stuck. I was unaware of this other Shadow before first making this fic. However, if you believe he should have another name, I might think of something. But in the meantime, here's your next chapter!

In Kokonoe's Lab...

Kokonoe is looking at her monitors, pondering. "I felt like I've have wasted a total week, and yet the days still hasn't changed. Kagura didn't even returned my calls." She felt like this is another anomaly, but she couldn't think about it. "Damn it! I can't stop thinking about that!" Days ago, Lambda-11 managed to disobey her orders and defected to the Shadow Knights. "I'm even survived for this long!" But something doesn't seem to add up. "How the hell did she able to resist? Heck, how did she turn her armor into that form? That doesn't even make any sense! Unless..." Then something came to her. "Unless someone somehow sabotaged her. But that's impossible, the only ones who built it was me. I had no outside help." Then memories begin to appear. "But come to think of it, I was finished with Lambda pretty quickly down the line. Some Old Man came out of nowhere and helped Tager find he-" Then she fully remembers. "That son of a bitch!" She presses a button. "Tager get over here!"

Meta Stories II-Killer

I see flames again...This time its not the same house. Buildings...bodies are burning...Black flames engulf everything...It's as dark as the night itself. Then I see the faces of the burned. The wench...Squirrel girl...Fake hero...Shadow's sister...and Noel...This is a dream, I know it...but then I see someone standing unto the flames...I wake up.

Meta sits up like a machine. "hmm..."

I seem to forget that I dream about black fire a lot...then all of the sudden I forget my dream. I'll worry of that later. My siblings are waiting for me. I feel that things haven't changed. I don't know what to think of it. But then again, I still yet to get used to Shadow's sister. He keeps on saying that she is my sister too, but I'm not sure that I am comfortable of that. I also miss Noel dearly. I also wish to meet Squirrel girl too. So much events has accured and yet I feel that it always ends up with me, my brother. But yet, there's no Noel, and no Lambda...Only us...and her.

"Uh...Meta?"

"Hm?" Meta see's that he is in the table with Shadow and Masha, eating the usual Chinese Food.

Shadow shows his concern. "You've been acting weird Meta."

"Weirder than usual." Masha corrects him.

"You alright? You haven't attempted to eat breakfast."

"Not that he can anyways." Masha corrects him again.

Meta just sits there. Then answers, "I'm ok brother."

"That is literally the exact words someone says when they are not alright."

Meta then looks down to think. Then faces Shadow. "I've been wondering..."

Shadow raises his brow. "Wondering what? Come on Meta, spill."

"That thing I have been wondering ever since she first came." Meta responds, "I want to know more about you and Lambda."

Shadow drops his chop-sticks. "I-uh...I got to check the town for a minute...I'll be right back." Shadow rushes out of the house. He jumps up a building and thinks for a minute.

"You can't run away this time brother." Meta is in the same building with Shadow.

"What the?!" Shadow almost trips. "Damn it! You know its too soon to ask stuff like that! Now leave me to my guard duty!" Shadow jumps away to another building. Parkouring his way more farther to the city. Than he see's the busy streets of Orient Town, and decides this is a good spot to sit and relax.

"I want answers brother..." Meta is in the same building again.

Shadow is flabbergasted. "Wh-What?! How di- What th- Ugggh! Fine! Ok...I'll tell you a little bit of Lambda..." Shadow sits back down sighing. "You know...you know how to sneak better."

"I've learned from the best."

"Just don't overuse it...seriously."

Meanwhile...

A blue haired swordsman walks around the city. He still has Noel on her mind. But he now focuses on finding his creator. Despite trying to kill one of the only person I consider a friend, I still want to do right. I am aware that I am only a copy, but that man is still out there, and determined to destroy everything. My sense of justice won't allow it. But even then, is this sense of justice genuine and not artificial? I shouldn't think too much about. Now that I think about it, this is a world where Jin Kisaragi is still alive, and if my creator is here, perhaps my brother is alive here. But if that is true, either I'm dead in this world, or I'm the same here. This could complicate things. He bumps into a very scruffy man.

"Please excuse me sir."

"No, its fine."

"Hm...Don't I know you from somewhere?"

The blue haired man gets nervous. "Not him!" Um...I get that a lot."

The man walks away faster. "Wait a minute! Your Jin Kisaragi! I never forget that demented face and dark voice!"

"Damn it! I forgot my mask!" He runs faster.

"Don't you dare run from your mortal enemy, fiend!" The scruffy hero Bang Shishigami jumps into action and dashes up top of the buildings. He leaps towards him. "Hoooo!"

The blue haired man then see's him coming. "Damn it!" He brings out his Yukianesa and creates a big ice pillar.

Bang blocks it and lands on top of the rooftop. "Damn you!" Bang then see's smoke. He jumps down and see's a smoke ball. "He got away!" He looks around to see more closely on the smoke ball as the smoke fades off. "I never thought he would resort to using smoke balls to retreat."

Meanwhile...

Shadow and Meta are sitting up top of a building. "Man, I don't think I talked about Lambda for awhile."

"I don't think I've been thinking about her in awhile..."

"But didn't you just did?"

"...What were we talking about again?"

Shadow sighed. "Alright, lets just get to the beginning." While Shadow explains his story with Lambda throughout his first days in this city. But also the more personal times with her. "...and remember that same day Lambda took home that tarter?"

"Hmmm..."

"That same day when we got our bodies switched."

"Ohhhh..." Meta nods.

"Yeah...Anyways, the more we understood each other, the more I see more humanity in her. She's learning a lot of stuff and I saw it first hand. It was the most accomplishing moments in my life, next to saving the city from Mega Arakune." Shadow closed his eyes, reminiscing being with her. "The strange part is that, I think I seen her in my dreams before even meeting her..."

Meta tilts his head. "What do you mean?"

"Remember back when we were kids? Of course you don't" Meta nods. "I seen a girl with blonde hair and red eyes, and she was very sad. And the last time I saw her, she died in my arms...I guess Lambda reminded me of her..."

Meta then thinks about it. "You think she's the same girl?..."

Shadow then paused and thinks about Meta's theory. "...Naaaaawww!" Meta then nods, automatically agreeing with him. "But still...I was unable to save her and Lambda...The more I remember her...her eyes...her gentle skin...the kick ass armor..."

Meta keeps on staring at his brother. "Are you infected or something?"

"Huh? With what?"

"Love sickness?"

"Huh?!"

Meta stands up. "Have you forgotten your most important teachings? Bros before whores."

"META?! Are you calling Lambda a whore?!"

"No, I am not talking about Lambda. I'm talking about Tsubaki Yayoi..."

"What?!" Shadow freaks out for a second. "I-uh-gah-agh-hm!-hm! Where did that came from?!"

"You saved her while we were fighting Mega Arakune."

"That's what we do anyways, we save people!"

"You make it sound like you want her in our team."

"She is friends with Noel, why wouldn't I?"

"She attacked her from behind. Such sins must not go unpunished!"

"Come on! Tsubaki and Noel are in better terms recently! Also, she seems to have the right heart in the wrong place. She see's things in black and white. I know if we can change her mind about us, we can be allies and setting this world right. You know Meta, you sometimes judge pretty fast and always try to find excuses to kil-"

"Brother..."

"What?"

"What were we talking about again?"

Shadow stares at his brother, unable to find the response. Until he sighs. "I believe we were talking about Lambda."

"Oh yeah..."

Shadow lets out a heavy sigh. "You know...sometimes, you gotta think before you kill Meta..."

Think...before you kill...

Meanwhile...

Old Man continues to check his computer. "I never thought I'd have use for them..." He opens up a screen showing blueprints of a new Murakumo unit. "It's a shame I will have to sacrifice those poor lives, but its a risk that needs to be done to save the rest of us of the pain. "Besides...I have plenty of use for you three." Then he opens up a screen that shows blueprints of three completely different models of Murakumo.

Meanwhile back with Shadow and Meta...

Shadow and Meta jumps above a more higher building with a neon screen. "You know...I never realized how much we never have good luck with the ladies..."

"I don't follow."

"Come on bro, recall last time things went well with a certain girl!" Meta pauses. He froze for 3 minutes. Shadow sighs. "Ok, remember that girl when we were learning how to be assassins?" Meta thinks about it more. "Clo?" Meta thinks more. "The purple haired girl..."

"Oooohhhhh..."

Yes, that girl. She was Shadow's soon to be mate. At least was...After our second home was destroyed, we were picked up by the Lunar Assassins. They are a group that was banned from Ikaruga. Once the city was no more, they found us from the rubble before the NOL dogs took us. They trained us to be killers of the night. We became ultimate nightwalkers. And during our training, my brother met with a fellow nightwalker. Her name was Chloe. She took my brothers interest, and he began to woo her. She was reserved, while Shadow was persistent. They did made an exceptional duo.

Shadow smiles at the thought of Chloe. "Ah...Her short tomboy hair, her sharp eyes, her voice...What a gal."

This vexes me. Once we were defying our superiors because my brother doesn't want to kill anymore, we ran away and Chloe would have killed him, if it wasn't for me.

"Well...sure she tried to kill me, but I would kill to see her again. That would make an interesting day..."

Meta then shook his head and sighs.

Meanwhile, outside of Kagutsuchi...

Day passes by to night. As a woman runs from some ninja's. She dodges their kunai. However once they fall from the ground, they disappear into dark ash. The woman then see's a Heirarchical City. She throws a smoke bomb, and rushes out while the ninja's are distracted. Then they see the Heirarchical City and assume that she went there. Their eyes glow purple.

The next day...

Dead friends and rivals...But then I see the dark one that caused this destruction. It feels hot, yet dark. I wake up. Once I walk down, I see Masha still eating her breakfast, but brother is nowhere to be seen. "Where is brother?"

"He was done eating. So he came up to the rooftop." Masha continues eating.

I never noticed her new haircut. Her hair just looks similar to her old hair, except her twin ponytails are gone. She has short hair now. I go outside to see my brother. He is sitting up on the rooftop. He notices me.

"Morning bro!" Shadow waves. Meta jumps up to the roof. "I've been thinking of something...Remember Lambda being a...Murakumo was it? And Old Man made us. So is she like our half sister, or not we're not related at all?"

Meta puts his finger on his mouth part of his helmet. "Hm...What made you think that?"

"I don't know. It just came to mind." He puts his hands on his back head, and lays down, relaxing. "I just...I just think what we both would do if she is still alive. Would she think of me as more than a friend? Would I think of this more earlier? Would she be happy with me?" Meta went silent. "Man...Thinking about her will be the death of me won't it?"

He jokes about death a lot. He also named himself after the reaper. He has no fear, but after all of the things that happened, he seems to be afraid to fail again. I am...But I guess I don't know how to show it. Knowing my brother, he may not either.

"Hm?" Shadow sits up immediately.

Meta notices Shadow's behavior. "What is it brother?"

Shadow then looks at the door and see's someone. "Holy shit!" He jumps down.

"Brother what is it?!" Meta jumps down and see's Shadow carrying a scarred woman, wearing a lavender sleeveless shirt, purple baggy shorts, with dark boots. She has short hair and a tattoo of a flame with demon eyes and two scythes. Shadow's eyes are widened. "Brother...is that..."

Shadow then turns and kicks the door open. "Masha! We have a guest!"

Meanwhile...

The ninja's that were chasing the woman, starts hopping through the buildings. Citizens notice them jumping through. They regroup in one building. One of them jump in the middle of the group. "Master..."

"Have we found the traitor?..."

"She seems to seek refuge in this small city..."

The leader then walks to the edge of the building and see's a picture of a familiar face. He dash towards it and grabs it and jumps back to the building in a matter of two seconds. He see's an image of The Shadow Knights wanted poster. He stares in the eyes of the leader of the group, Shadow Reaper. "Come my students...Today, we will execute two traitors." As he crushes the poster.

Back with the knights...

Chloe is lying on their couch, as Shadow tends her wounds. Then she slowly opens her eyes. "Long time no see Clo."

"Ugh...Sh-Shadow?..." Then her eyes widened and a blade appears on her hand and places it on Shadow's neck. Meta's sword is on her neck as well.

Shadow is unfazed by this development. "As much as I am a fan of the hard way, I think we should cool our heads. You too Meta." Meta paused, then turns down his sword.

So does Chloe. "I never thought I'd see your face again."

"What do you mean? You did came to 'my' door." Shadow smirks.

Chloe groaned in irritation. "I don't have time for your games now. Things are getting out of hand!"

"Well, I did wanted something interesting to happen lately. Which reminds me, how was the rest of the guys after that coming out party me and Meta made for you?"

Chloe went silent. Then stood up and went face to face with Shadow with a serious look on her face. "They're dead." Shadow loses his playful mood. "And now they are evil shells of their former selves."

"What do you mean by that?" Shadow couldn't help but feel a little creeped out.

Chloe's eyes tighten and grits her teeth in anguish. "They went after me...they want me to be one of them."

Shadow then places his hand to her shoulder. "I may not be a fan of their way of life, but I have feeling something is wrong. If some Lunar Assassins are trying to catch you, then let the Shadow Knights protect you!"

Chloe didn't know what to think about Shadow's kindness. She used to call him soft for thinking of protecting lives. She walks more farther away to Shadow "I...I'm not asking for protection! I'm merely asking you to assist me to find out what happened to my comrades." She shows her a wanted poster of the Shadow Knights. "And sources say, you were capable of defeating the Hero of Ikaruga."

Shadow then smirked. "Yeah well...You know. I'm that good."

Chloe rolled eyes. "Tch. Your as hard headed as you were back at training."

"Are you sure she can be trusted brother?" Masha opens her opinion.

"Well we did had our little disagreement. Even so, its not in our nature to leave someone in parole." Shadow then finds his Blood Killer weapon and puts it in his magnet scab on his backside of his jacket. "There's always someone in need, and someone to bust."

Later...

We've split up to see if those ninja mongrels are in the city, while Shadow and Chloe are together searching considering that they are targeted. That leaves me with Masha alone. I never really thought much from her. She claims to be my brother's sister, which in turn makes her my brother. But I honestly think that I don't have a sister. Not for what I remembered anyways. She is looking around the city, she doesn't seem to be interested in talking to me as much as I do.

"Meta, I have a question..."

Now I stand corrected. Or wronged... "What is it?"

Masha paused for a couple of seconds. "We never seem to interact much. What's your opinion on me?" Meta thinks of an answer for one minute. "Meta?"

"What do you think of me?"

Masha felt slightly offended, but just brushes it off, knowing that reasoning with Meta might take a very long. "Well...have you ever felt that you had no purpose?"

"What ever do you mean?" Meta tilts his head. "We all have one purpose anyways. I never forget that."

Masha feels conflicted on what to say now. "He still doesn't understand that he was meant to be a sacrifice to fuel Shadow's anger. Our father would sacrifice his younger son to destroy the world. What would his reaction be if he found out? He would help our brother on killing father anyways, so this might be pointless." "I see..." Then they see one ninja land on the rooftop next to them. "It's one of them." Meta walks to him, until Masha's arm gets in his way. "We should see if he is hostile first."

The ninja then see's Meta and Masha. Then his eyes glow purple and then jumped straight to them. "HOSTILE!" Meta shouts and jumps straight to the ninja. Then Meta slices the ninja in half in mid-air. The upper body of the ninja lands in front of Masha.

"DIEEEEE..."

Then Masha stomps on the ninjas face, with blood spilling. "Should have done the chest." Masha wipes her face in slight disgust. Then she see's the blood with purple accents. "The blood...it's not normal." Then she turns to see multiple ninja's are on the move. "Their after Shadow!"

"Then lets race to their finish!" Meta jumps ahead, as Masha follows.

Shadow and Chloe notices that they are surrounded. But they stand unfazed. "Well, looks like our old friends found us."

"Damn!. Looks like we have no choice!" She brings out her kunai. "I sure hope you mastered Blood Killer.

"Oh I have." Shadow then notice the ninja's glowing purple eyes. "Is it me, or do they look off?"

"They've been possessed by some demon or something!" Chloe then throws her kunai to an incoming ninja. But as soon as it falls on his back, he pulls all of the kunai stuck on his chest.

Shadow notices the aura on them. He automatically recognizes the power of the azure, yet it looks unstable. Similar to Lambda's overload when he first met her. But with these guys, it looks unnatural. They already look dead. "..."

Chloe then notices Shadow being uncharacteristically silent. "Shadow?"

"Clo, I might need you to get out of this building."

"What? Why would you ask th-"

"Just do it!" Shadow shouts as Chloe flinched. Then she reluctantly jumps out.

Shadow then focused his fist. "Level 3..." Then he jumps up. The ninja's then jumps straight at him and grab him. Then he drops down, with his fist flaming. Then he punches the ground, causing the entire roof to blow up with black flames. And purple essence splatter everywhere as the ninja's burn.

Masha and Meta notices the explosion wave. "That was..." They land to where Shadow and Chloe are. "You already beaten them?"

Shadow places his blade back to the magnet on his back. "Yep. That's why I'm the leader."

Masha gets suspicious. "You wouldn't end a battle this easily only when its necessary. And they don't seem strong when compared to us."

"Well uh...I just want to show Clo off my fire moves. I can one-shot anyone if I want to!"

Chloe groaned. "That ego is just as strong as ever. I think it's even worse then before..."

Shadow chuckled. "Heh. Ok then, lets find more of these guys." His foot hit a hand of one of the zombies and then he flinched. "EEP!"

"Brother?!" Masha turns to see Shadow's eyes wide and his body frozen in fear.

"Oh! Uh...I thought one of them were alive, and was going to attack you. But its only my imagination!" Shadow shrugs and laughs. As he walks forward he kicks the hand as hard as he can without looking forced. Masha notices the strange behavior of Shadow and feels that she must investigate. But she knows Shadow will only brush her off on the subject, so she decides to see how this turns out. "So uh...Clo?"

"What is it?"

"How were you doing for the past two years?"

"Why ask now?"

Shadow hesitates. "Well...You were running away from the Lunar Assassins, did that mean you ran away too before they..."

Chloe scoffed. "I didn't! Unlike you, I actually stayed loyal to them! That was until they acted strange and tried to attack me! Make me...one of those...monsters..."

"But what if we can't save them? You think there's any Lunar Assassins left? If all of them are like that, then what will you do after all of this is set and done?"

Chloe stops and thinks about it. Everyone she worked with is most likely dead or worse. She is basically alone.

Meanwhile...

"Master, we found many of our men slain by the traitors." They look at the crater that was their comrades. Only small parts of a limb can be found, plus lots of black ashes.

The Master notices the air having less seither. He could tell by how the air seems unnatural to him. "So...he still has the flames. Very well...you two! I want you to break into the NOL military armory. Our revenge will be quick but decisive!" They hop straight to a bunker that belongs to the NOL. Two guards are seen guarding. Two ninjas then slit their throats in a split second. They enter, as more guards notice them.

"Stop right there!" "You dare defy the NOL?! Die!" One of them brings out a giant sword. When he swings it, it hits one of the ninja's. But the ninja just stands there, not flinching. "What the?!" Then one of the ninja's throws a kunai and hits one of the guards eyes. "AAAAAAGH!" "Monsters! Save us!" The other one gets a shower full of kunai. With the master of the group landing on top of the corpses of the unexpected guards.

The ninjas enter to the room filled with many weapons and tanks of the NOL. Most of them are old fashioned mostly used from the ones who doesn't have an Ars Magus. Those ninjas seen these before. They remembered those from the Ikarugan War. They weren't a part of it, instead they refused to help since they were banished by the same Ikarugan residence. However, they believe that the NOL needs to be taken down, but not for justice but because they believe it would help them go to the top of the food chain. "With these weapons of mass destruction, we will take away, THEIR homes. All of it..."

Meanwhile with the Shadow Knights...

Tedious is tedious. We've been searching for half an hour. If I don't slice some undead ninja's with my samurai sword, I will end up seeing dead NOL dogs.

"What the?!" Shadow see's dead guards that were killed.

I'm pretty sure that I didn't do that this time...

Shadow and the group lands to see the dead victims. "Don't need to be a genius to tell that those Lunar Assassins did this."

Masha see's the gruesome display of the un-expected guards. "Those ninja's were fast. They never seen it coming."

Meta looks at the blood. Then he remembers the blood of the soldiers he killed one time. He couldn't remember how many he did killed. But that moment when he seen that one soldier trying to kill him once he was at his weakest. In a war he had no part off, in a time where he was afraid. Until that time, he lost everything that made him normal. He lost sight on what's right or wrong. The only thing that dictates his path is his older brother, the one who protected him from many things, including destiny. "You think they are fast enough against us though?"

Shadow smirks. "I doubt that. Come on!" They enter the bunker. Once they walk in, they sense something. They all look around to see multiple ninja's surrounding them.

"Seems like a disadvantage." Masha said.

Meta nods. "Indeed."

Shadow chuckled. "You could say that. But they are brave. You'll have to give them that."

"Do you ever be quiet and just execute?" Chloe shares her opinion as all four go back to back to face all the undead ninjas. Then they all jump at once as the Shadow Knights prepare for all of them.

Meanwhile...

The blue haired Jin is out of breath and looks around to see if he is followed. Then he puts on his mask to make sure the same mistake doesn't happen again. "I can't believe I forgot to put this one! Ugh...sometimes I curse my existence. Why must I be made to look like Jin...It's like he specially made me to suffer. That fire...the same flames that killed my brother...And then my father used my rage to kill this worlds hero. To think I believed him. Now I am stuck with this existence, walking in worlds that I don't belong."

"Um, excuse me..."

"Huh?"

Makoto walks up to him with her coat. "Are you lost Mister? I could escort you to the nearest city."

His eyes widen and remembers. "It can't be..."

"Uh...hello? You alright?"

"Oh! Uh...Sorry. But you look like someone I knew..." He calmed down.

"Oh. I see. You have a nice looking mask though. If you don't mind me asking, is it a family thing or are you a vigilante?" Makoto asks.

"Uh...well. Lets just say I feel like having a unique image." He grips his sword.

Makoto then looks at his two scabs. "Nice looking swords."

He then turns around to hide them. "Thank you..." Then he remembers her in his world.

"You know, you remind me of a certain guy I know. He's pretty reserved like you, but also has some aura in him that you can trust. You know what I mean?" Makoto acts in her usual positive manner.

"..." Then he begins to remember something. Something painful.

Makoto notices a slight noise coming out of him. "Huh? what are you...Uh!" She see's a tear coming out of his mask. "Ar-Are you crying?" He then jumps away. "Wait!" He is already long gone. Makoto stands there as the wind blows harder.

Back with the Shadow Knights...

We have disposed of all of them. They were no match for us Shadow Knights...

Chloe looks to see her former partners and friends. "I'm sorry..." Then she notices Shadow just staring at them too. "Shadow?"

"I'M NOT AFRAID!" Then he just looks around his area. "Uh...I'm fine. How about you?"

"...Your fine...So what now?"

Shadow shakes his head. "Ok. As far as I can see it, this is an armory."

Chloe is puzzled by this fact. "But...why would they be here?"

Masha is finished scanning. "This bunker holds old weapons during the start of the Ikaruga War."

Shadow raises a brow. "But why would they want those old junk though?"

Masha then notices something in her scans. "They must want to prove a point. Or perhaps..." Then a huge clank can be heard. The knights then turn to see something moving. Red dots appear, and a large figure rises up. "...they just want to destroy everything..."

"Well shit..." Once Shadow lets that out, the giant walking tank punches through the bunkers walls and walks out.

"Hmhmhmhmmm...Shadow...Chloe...we finally meet again." Then the master is seen atop of the 2 legged tank.

"Master!" Chloe yelled out. "What's happened to you?! You've been corrupted! You need to snap out of it!"

"Oh, Chloe...I've always thought you were weak. You couldn't even kill Shadow when he was escaping!"

"If it wasn't for that metal armored fool, I would have succeed!"

Shadow butts in. "You know I'm still here."

"No matter. I was a fool to have faith in you. But now that I have been reborn, you too will be a strong assassin that will kill anyone in a matter of seconds. If you sacrifice your mortal life, and become more than an assassin, but a reaper. It's what you wanted..."

Shadow then heard enough. "Alright, hold on. You seem to forgot that I'm here. And you think I'll let you do whatever you want?"

"Ah...Shadow...You had so much potential...But you prefer to look for unrealistic goals. You even stolen our precious prized weapon. The Blood Killer. With your skills I've given you, and the weapon handed to us Lunar Assassins for many generations, you could have possibly killed the NOL and brought the world in darkness, if you let your mind set straight.

"Oh...you can take your own mind set and shove it! I will straighten out the NOL. But I won't resort to your ambitions. My ambitions will sky rocket me to the top!"

"Such a shame. I will have to bring in chaos. Starting with your death's!" Then the tank loads up and shoots a missile and the bunker blows up. "HAHAHAHAHAHA! The reign of darkness has begun! Go! The carnage begins in this city!" The tank then turns to the city and then its legs turns into 4 legs and rushes towards the nearest city of Kagutsuchi.

Meanwhile in the city...

The blue haired Jin jumps up to the rooftops. Trying to find a place to be left alone in peace. "Ok...She's alive...So that's all good and dandy. But this still doesn't mean she is safe. This world is in danger. I must focus on the subject in hand...Find the creator...But first I must find out where he is." Then he notices a woman screaming. "Huh?" Then he see's the people running away. He looks to see a giant tank blasting buildings and shooting people in sight. "What the hell?!" He rushes in to stop it, until a group of ninjas attack him. "Out of my way!"

"You want to die?" "We are many. You are but one." "You cannot kill us."

"Watch me." He brings out Yukianesa and freezes all of the ninjas and sliced them in half. "That was easy."

"Wrong!" Then their bodies then reanimated back.

"What?! But how?!"

"Our bodies have succumbed to the power that binds this world!" "We have gone beyond our mortal coils!"

"Tch...This could be difficult."

Back with the bunker...

Shadow punches out of the rumble. "DAH! huff...puff. Hey...Anyone alive?..."

Meta rises up. "I am brother..."

Masha also rises. "So am I brother..."

"Good...But what about..."

"...ugh..."

"CLO!" Shadow rushes to free Chloe from the debris. "You alright? Clo?"

"Ugh..." She is bruised and scarred. "w-What are...y-you doing?...You sho-kuff! Shouldn't... concern yourself with...me..."

"Maybe your right. But you know, I never was keen on taking another persons life. But even so...I still have a certain someone out there I want to kill. So I guess I really am a fool. But then again, as a reaper, I have to choose my victims carefully, and ask myself if it's really the right choice...I guess an assassin like you wouldn't worry about the burden I'm holding...but hey, I accept the burden. I made it myself!"

Chloe is in a loss of words. She doesn't know what to make of that. All she could do is scoff. "Your still a fool to bring yourself that burden."

Shadow helps her up. "Heh. I always like to challenge myself. Plus you weren't the one who kicked the fake hero's ass." He smirks.

"Ugh! Whatever. That tank is already in the city."

"Well shit. Looks like we'll have to stop it."

Masha turns to him. "How do you suppose we do that?"

"We do what we always do Mash. Attack as a unit. If he wants a fight, we'll give him a fight!" Shadow and the others jump to action.

My brother seems to know how to talk to his enemies. To think he will risk his life for someone who is meant kill him. I don't understand that fact. If it was me, I'd kill all my enemies that would hurt my brother and sort of sister. But I guess this is the reason why he's the leader. We go downtown and see that the metal monstrosity destroying this fair city. We shall show him no mercy.

Meanwhile...

Noel gets a phone call. "Hello?"

"Lt. Vermillion! There's a tank attacking the city! Call for so-" "HEEEEEELP! AAA-" The phone hangs up.

"Hello? Hello?!" Noel then calls her friends. "Tsubaki we have a problem!"

Shadow and Meta jumps to building to building, then lands on cars, while Meta accidently destroyed the car he landed and gets left behind. Masha catches up. "We need to get that thing off of the city!"

"How do we do that brother?"

"...hm!" He levels up to 2 and dashes forward. "Hey Maaaaster! I've been an insubordinate trouble maker wasn't I? I need to be punished! Please teach me a lesson oh powerful master! Wheeee!" Shadow runs past the tank.

"Your still alive?! Of course...I'll permanently end your life!" The tank moves faster and starts shooting missiles all over Shadow while he dodges. Masha then jumps to a truck and dashes fast enough to jump high enough to attack the tank. She slashes at its back. "Agh! Wha?!" Then the tank slips and falls. Then Meta dashes at unnatural speed and kicks the tank hard enough to send it flying.

Chloe see's Meta kick. "Whoa...that was am-"

"GOOOOOAAL!" Shadow yells out.

"...right...Lets not waste anytime for games." She rushes off.

"Awww. And I was keeping score..." Shadow follows.

Back with Blue Haired Jin...

"Damn...why won't you die?!" He is becoming tired.

"You can never kill us. We are immortal!" "The Lunar Assassins are forever!"

"SQUIRREL POWER!" Then a fist hits one of them and then ninja hits the other one and both of them goes flying.

"Wha?!" Then Makoto jumps in.

"Man, this has been a weird month for this city huh?"

"Makoto! What are you doing here?!"

"I just saw you in trouble. You really think I'd leave you hanging?" Then something came to her mind. "Wait...How did you know my name? I never told you my name."

"GOD DAMN SHIT!" Then he tries to fix his mask that was falling out. "I-uh...I met you before...like in...school?"

"You mean the military academy? Uh...I don't recall someone with blue hair, sorry."

"Uh...th-The tank! The tank must be stopped!" Then he rushes off.

"Wait! Ugh...Didn't bother thanking me." Then she follows.

"Damn it I forgot to thank her! No! She'll be even more suspicious!

Meanwhile at the park...

The tank then see's a black fog blocking his vision. The Master is scarred after Meta's kick. "Where are you..." Shadow and Chloe are dashing around him in the shadows. "Agh!" Then he points at where they possibly are. "There!" Then the tank shoots its machine guns. Then Shadow and Chloe jumps out of the way.

"And you said that was a useless attack dumbass?!"

The master then hears Shadow's direction, then Meta and Masha slashes at the tank. "Agh!" Then Shadow dashes straight at the tank and the slashes causes some chips and chunks to get knocked off. "You!" Then he brings out purple fire and throws it at Shadow, which he jumps back to his team. The tank shoots more missiles. Meta then does a large slash and all the missiles blows up. Masha then activates her claws. She slashes at its legs. "AGH! Damn you!" Then the tank kicks her off.

Masha then see's Shadow jumping towards the tank. "Be careful!"

Shadow then begins to fight the Master. He tries to slice him, but his former Master un-expectantly dodges them. "Damn it!"

"Now you fool. You will die by the one who taught you everything you needed to survive!" Then he kicks Shadow in the gut and punches Shadow down to the floor. The tank kicks him up and then a missile hits Shadow sending him straight to a wall and the missile explodes.

Chloe see's this. "Shadow!"

Masha looks in despair. Then she notices something in the fire. "Don't worry. He is stronger than this."

Then the fire slowly turn purple. Then black. "Level 3." Shadow stands up with flames surrounding him. "Alright then, maybe I oughta show you the things you taught me." He disappears.

"Wha?! Where is he?!" Shadow becomes too fast for the naked eye. Shadow then slashes at the tank in many directions.

Chloe looks at how fast Shadow has become. "I can't trace his movements!"

Masha turns to Meta. "We have to disarm it."

Meta nods. He gets into a fighting stance. "I call upon great thunder to strike down upon my enemies." Then he gets charged up. "HAVE SOME!" Meta dashes fast and then slices it's right legs. Then Shadow sprints out of the park.

Noel and Tsubaki runs towards the city to get rid of the ninjas left behind. "Just how many of them are their?

Tsubaki gets even more determined. "We have to protect the city. No matter wh-" Then Shadow dashes past them. "Huh?"

"What was that?!"

"Suddenly I feel angry..."

Shadow see's the tank. "Time to show you the difference between us! HUUUUUAAAGH!" Then he punches the cockpit. It dented, then explodes.

"M-MAAASTERRRRRR!" The pilot then burns in black fire.

The master then drops hard. "Hugh! ugh..." He looks up to see Shadow and his group surrounding him.

"You know Master...or should I say, Tenshi."

"...D-Don't CALL ME THAT!"

"Ok, ok, Master Tenshi. You taught me everything I ever need to kill. Then I turn it to my own fighting style. In a sort of way, I am my own master. But I won't act like you didn't taught me some moves."

Tenshi gets even angrier. "I-I am IMMORTAAAAL! AAAAAAGH!" He runs straight to Shadow blindly.

"And I have to thank you for this move." Shadow then goes level 4 and dashes at him with no problem and grabs him.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaah!"

Noel and Tsubaki hears a scream that can be heard around the city. "What was...that?"

Suddenly the atmosphere feels even more darker. Makoto also feels it. "Why do I feel...cold all the sudden?"

The blue haired Jin also senses the scream of death. "What was..." Then he see's the destroyed tank. He goes there.

Tenshi is lying on the ground with his stomach completely open with his insides turning into dust. Shadow stands up, feeling nothing but emptiness. "1000 deaths in one move, and the Blood Killer. My sincerest thanks, from the Reaper."

"I...am...im...mortaaaaaaa..." Then he turns into dust. The other ninjas see what happened. "Master!" Shadow notices them and then he dashes at them and slices them swiftly.

Chloe looks on in amazement. But also fear. "Wh-what are you?..."

Meta just looks on. "He is my big brother. You already know that."

Masha see's Shadow turning back to level 0. "His power is ambiguous even to him. Even then, he can still use it to his will..."

Shadow is truly strong. Maybe not as strong as me, but he is strong enough to do whatever Masha said. Anyways, we destroyed the enemy before the NOL even showed up. But then...

"Huh?" Shadow notices someone coming. "If your apart of the NOL, your a little late. We took care of the situation for you." Then the blue haired wanderer shows up slowly. "Huh Who are you?"

"..." He couldn't believe his eyes. "B-Br-Brother..." Then he takes off his mask, revealing his face.

"Brother?" Shadow is confused. He doesn't recognize him, and yet there's something about him that he couldn't put his finger over.

"Brother...its me...your brother. Don't you remember?" Then a sword slash almost hits him. "What?"

"You...Stay away from my brother!" Meta is in his battle stance and looking dead on to the blue haired swordsmen.

"And who are you?!"

"A pretty boy such as yourself doesn't deserve my answer."

"Out of my way, you brute!" The blue haired swordsmen gets his normal sword ready.

Shadow gets even more confused. "What the?! Meta, what the hell are you doing?!"

"He is no good brother! He is someone that can't be trusted!"

Blue Jin hears that. "You shut up! I won't stand for your insults!"

"Will you calm down Meta?!" Shadow shouts.

"Meta?!" Then the blue haired wanderer gets smacked by Meta. "Ack! You!" He gets more angrier. "Fine! I'll end this charade!" He brings out his Yukianesa and slashes at Meta. "Huuuagh!" Then he creates ice pillars to uppercut Meta up, then hit Meta's stomach hard. Then he does a vertical rising slash that freezes Meta's body.

"Ouch...That was annoying..."

"You can't escape this swords icy wrath. You'll pay for getting in my way with my brother."

"Oi!" Shadow then punches the blue haired attacker in the face.

"What was?!" Then he see's Shadow standing before him. "Brother?! What are you do-"

"Shut up! I don't know who you are, but I'm not going to let you beat my brother up!"

Then the man's eye's widen. "What?...That armored oaf...is your...brother...?"

"Uh, yeah. He maybe a weirdo, but I don't give a damn about that. Plus, there's something about your face that I just don't like..." Shadow's face shows nothing but disgust. "Impersonating my brother is also very bad in taste too. If you wanna live, I suggest you get out of here before we mess you up!"

He couldn't believe what he is hearing. His brother is saying those cruel words to him. "B-but..."

"GO! For your sake and my lunch, you will never show your face around me again!" Shadow levels up to 1 to show his flames.

"...I..." He couldn't talk. Then he just hissed and walks away in shame.

Chloe walks in. "Who was that?"

Shadow sighs. "I don't know. But quite frankly, I don't care. I believe that's the same guy who attacked Noel recently. Masha! I need you to keep an eye on him when you stumble across him. I doubt he's any good." Masha merely nods.

"Hey!" Noel and Tsubaki runs in.

Shadow smirks. "Well, looks like the NOL has came in late.

"Laugh now, but don't think you can make fun of the NOL like that!" Tsubaki said in her serious tone.

"Hey now, we can't live without criticism you know. What kind of boring life do you live in?" Shadow remarked.

"Grr..." Tsubaki then notices Chloe. "And who is this?"

"Huh? Oh that's Clo. She's an old friend of mine."

Chloe hissed. Noel then notices Meta frozen. "Huh? Ah! Meta! Is he alright?!"

"Stand back Noel!" Meta shouts.

Noel stops in her tracks. Meta charges his body, then a lighting bolt hits Meta, then the ice shatters. "Ah!"

Meta stands back up. "He took me by surprise. I will finish him off next time I see that pretty boy."

Noel then connects the dots and assumes that its the same person. "You mean that man with blue hair? He's here?!"

Shadow replies, "Yeah. But not anymore. I drove him off!"

"You did?" Noel has mixed feelings. At first she is relived that no one got hurt. But then she remembers that he is a lost soul who lost everything. And judging by Shadow's face, Shadow looked like he beaten him badly. "..."

Shadow then notices Chloe walking away. "Huh? Hey Clo! Where are you going?!"

She stops. "...The Lunar Assassins are all gone...I have nothing else anymore..." She looks on to the ashes of her former master. "I have to find myself a new purpose..."

"Wait! Why not join the Shadow Knights?"

"..." Chloe thinks about his offer. "I can't..."

"You can't? What do you mean you can't?"

"Shadow...You still don't get it. I didn't join the Lunar Assassins the same way you did. We wanted revenge, but we look at things differently...I'll find my new way. You just go on with yours..."

Shadow clenches his fist. "Will we meet again?"

"...heh...To tell you the truth, I never thought I'd ever see you again, even if I came here just to see you." Chloe smiled. "Who knows...maybe, we will see again. Maybe as allies, maybe as enemies. I guess we have no choice but to ride the hands of fate..." She jumps away, with no trace.

Shadow almost shouted her name, but stopped. "Hands of fate huh?..." Shadow just stands there.

Masha then notices Makoto jump in. "Your here too."

"Makoto! Where were you?!"

"Sorry Tsubaki. Had to help lots of people injured. You know those ninja's don't play around." Then Makoto then see's Masha. "Oh! You guys are here!"

Masha then goes to Shadow's side. "We must leave brother."

Shadow snaps out of it. "...Yeah yeah...Lets go..." The three siblings leave.

Noel noticed Shadow's behavior. "..." She looks around to see more NOL soldiers coming in. "Shadow...I don't know what's wrong...but please be well...I may not be by your side...But please take care of yourself...

After finally closing this chapter with the Lunar Assassins...They are all gone now...Once I realize that, I remember all the comrades I had, the ones I had killed to protect my brother. Then I realized something. All of those NOL soldiers, those mobsters, the Assassins, all who fell by my blade. Do I feel regret?...I don't know, I killed them because they were in my way. But my brother left the Lunar Assassins because he is tired of sending his opponents to death. And yet here I am, thinking of how I would end our NOL rivals...The fake hero, the red haired wench, that green snake...But my brother would spare them though...Perhaps I still see that same soldier that almost ended my life. Once I seen his face...I want to kill anyone who had that outfit...Then I saw Noel...wearing that god forsaken uniform. And yet her image was...was...I don't know what to say...she was something I never seen before...She makes me feel...different. Like she is pulling me out of some cocoon I was trapped in...I wonder if I will get out of this cocoon...And will I ascend to bigger heights...I might be stronger than anyone...after that...after that I will see for myself...

Again...I dream of...black fire...

Meta Stories II-Killer End

Hope you enjoyed this installment of Shadow Knights. After finishing Chrono Phantasma, this motivated me more to continue this. I believe you know the reason why. I plan to end this and go straight to the next Blazblue fic. But for now, they are some things that need to be do-

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