OPERATION: ENDWAR
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"You hurt my feelings, why are you looking at me like that Crona?" Medusa said with false innocence.
"He's here to kill you, Bruja." Marx said with a cold and serious tone. "Sorry to steal your thunder little brother but, I have a little something I need to say to her."
"Oh, and just what is that?" Medusa said curiously.
"Cut the innocent mother B.S. for one. Do you read the bible? It wouldn't surprise me if you didn't." Marx asked coolly.
"No, but go on." Medusa replied curtly in an unamused tone, with her eyes narrowed.
"Well there's this certain passage I've memorized that fits the occasion. Ezekiel 25:17, The path of the righteous man, is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil." Marx said gesturing to himself, the witch and mad professor.
"Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds others through the valley of darkness." Marx paused to take a breath, while gesturing to his compatriots.
"For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children, and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance, and furious anger, those who attempt to poison, and destroy my brothers! And you will know my name is the lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee!" Marx said his voice rising in anger each word, never breaking eye contact with medusa, not for even a second.
For the briefest moment, the mighty and terrible witch Medusa Gorgon, was intimidated. She felt fear at the back of her mind, normally she rarely ever, felt fear whatsoever, unless in the Reaper's presence. Her eyes flickered briefly in fear, before return to their narrowed state.
"I made a deal with the academy, you can't touch me!" she said grinning evilly.
"EH, Wrong! You see she quit (gesturing to Marie), he's in exile (gestures to Crona), and technically I was never here. So that means…." Marx replied
"That's right medusa, so that little deal you made, doesn't apply to us!" Marie said angrily.
"I will stop you Medusa." Crona said with fierce determination.
"So, what's it going to be? Will you give back stein, or does this get messy? Personally, I don't care how you die. If Stein comes back to world of sanity and to us, it won't be by my hand. Despite how much I want you dead, I came here to cheer on my adopted brother Crona, and rescue my 2nd favorite teacher." Marx said coolly while medusa glared at him seething with anger.
"How are you going to do that? I'm using this little girl's body, if you try to kill me, she goes with me. And besides, Stein doesn't want to come back. He came here of his own free will." She said coolly while snuggling next to Professor Stein.
"Oh, about that first and second part, yeah we thought it through. Don't want to spoil the surprise now. Or do you already know? I take it you don't, otherwise you'd be slightly more careful with your words." Marx stated matter-of-factly. "Besides, who said we can't give you a good spanking. We can't hurt you, doesn't mean we can't punish you."
"Then let's begin, shall we."
Marx let out a war-cry as he charged forward dodging medusa's vector arrows. Medusa avoided all of Marx's rapid strikes and grab attempts. The professor jumped in, and began his mad assault on Marx babbling all the while. Marx and Stein were evenly matched, due to Marx holding back to not kill the man he came to rescue.
Marie went after medusa swinging her weapon fists at the witch all the while. Crona was deciding who to help, his brother battling the mad man, or the teacher trying to kill the witch. Ragnarok was annoyed by Crona's indecisiveness, he groaned at Crona to hurry up and choose.
Crona decided to help Marx first in subduing Stein. Marx was grateful to have Crona's aid as the two of them slashed and shot at stein. The mad professor dodged each shot and slash with grace and lunacy. Crona used his scream attack on the professor stunning him Marx seized the opportunity and moved in to hold down and handcuff the professor.
But it was a deception, as Stein swung around and hit Marx in chest, faking being dazed the whole time. Stein's hit was followed up by a soul wave attack, that sent Marx into a wall. The wall was badly cracked by Marx's impact. Stein charged in madly for the kill. Marx narrowly avoided stein's punch and countered with his own heavy uppercut.
Marx continued his retaliation on stein with a series of core jabs, finishing up with a strong roundhouse to the gut. The professor was knocked back a few feet by the hit and began erratically dodging Marx's continued assault.
"Crona, I've got this, help Marie!" Marx shouted.
"But brother!" Crona shouted back.
"No buts, I'll take care of Stein." Marx said while blocking a palm strike from Stein.
"Less work for us!" said Ragnarok.
With that said Crona went to help out Marie, while Stein and Marx, brawled like there was no tomorrow. Crona began distracting Medusa, and Marie disappeared for a short time. Crona was losing to medusa, she ensnared him with her vector arrows. The two of them debated their personal history and Crona's loyalty.
Crona refused to return to Medusa and she decided they had talked about long enough. She grinned sadistically preparing to kill Crona. Marie attempted to intervene, but Medusa threw her away. Marx saw this and immediately made a run to save his brother, Stein was mad but not blind.
The mad professor used his opportunity to slam the charging hero into another wall. Stein made his way to Marie and began to battle her while babbling nonsense all the while. Medusa agreed with Stein about their new world order requiring the deaths of their opponents.
Medusa formed a blade with her vector arrows and swung it at Crona sending him flying, Marx was stampeding towards Medusa the second he saw it. she then sent bolts of red electricity at Crona, she then began to explain that she used her soul wavelength to neutralize the black blood's capabilities.
Meaning that Crona was defenseless. Medusa then raised her blade for the killing blow, Crona screamed in fear. Marx gave a war-cry as he charged for Crona to take the hit. As if by a miracle, Maka appeared and used soul to block Medusa's strike. Maka was angry, and that was an understatement.
"Damn, am I glad to see you two!" Marx said relieved to see his partners come to the rescue.
"Same here buddy, we were wondering where you disappeared to." Said Soul happy to see his comrade in arms.
"Less talk, more action!" Maka said, glaring at Medusa as she pushed the witch back with soul's blade.
Medusa then jumped back away from the scythe meister. Marie then warned Maka about the innocent girl that medusa was possessing. If they hurt Medusa they hurt the girl too. Medusa then mentioned the deal between her and the academy. Maka charged at the witch shouting that she didn't give a damn.
The witch avoided Maka's attacks once more and regrouped with professor Stein. Maka and Soul made a plan to resonate with their allies, they synced up their wavelengths and began to resonate with each other Marx swapped out his arms for guns, thirsty for a real fight. Once they were all in sync, Maka charged at Medusa and clashed with Stein.
She tried to reason with stein, but he retaliated and grabbed Maka by the throat and threw her. Crona jumped in and helped to cushion the blow for Maka. The two of them were in a small crater made by the impact. Marx laid down a barrage of fire at the professor shooting to disable him and relying on non-lethal tactics. Marx was getting annoyed at the fact that he couldn't cut loose on the professor, otherwise he'd kill him.
At one point, they managed to corner the professor and attempted to let Marie use her abilities to snap Stein out of his madness. Stein blocked the attack and painfully sent Marie falling back on the ground he then knocked Maka and Crona into a wall stunning them. Marx then clashed with stein.
The two of them were in a grappling match, neither gaining ground on the other. Maka tried to reason with Stein, but he only twisted his bolt, and shrugged off her pleas. Above Maka and Crona stood Medusa, who was preparing to kill Maka. She stabbed her blade into the ground, and it seemed to slither around the pillar on which she stood.
The arrow reached the bottom and left the wall giving it the appearance of a snake, coiling up to kill its prey. Crona saw this and pushed Maka out of the way, taking the stab and bleeding badly. He had been run through, Marx and Maka were shocked to see this. Maka screamed Crona's name and Marx glowed red in anger.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Marx screamed in rage, the discharge of raw power knocked stein away from Marx, into a wall. Marx charged at medusa his mind fading to black. Almost as if he had gone feral, it was like watching an angry lion swipe at a running animal.
"You killed him! You killed my brother! RAAAAAAAARGH!" Maka was in a similar state as the two of them, slashed and swung wildly at the witch. "I'm going to rip you in half! DO YOU HEAR ME!" Marx shouted in blind unrestrained fury.
Medusa smiled wickedly, enjoying the suffering and torment of her foe. Marie struck Marx on his head knocking him down and bringing sense back to him, she then got in between Maka and stein. Marie used her healing wavelength to snap Maka and stein out their madness. After a small touching moment of peace… medusa attacked out of spite. Maka was the first to react and blocked medusa's vector arrows.
Stein was back on the right side of the sanity line, he put on his glasses, Marie transformed and the two of them readied up for a fight. Marx had recovered and was more than glad to see the return of Stein. Marx transformed and took his usual spot on Maka's back.
The professor reassured the students that Crona was still alive, and that their friend won't die on his watch. The teams then linked their resonance, and made their plan for Stein to distract Medusa while Maka prepares to use genie hunter. Stein and Medusa battled it out, putting on a good show for the witch.
Maka charged in declaring she would show no mercy, and hit medusa with the genie hunter. And after a brief moment the witch was forced out of her host and began to disintegrate. Stein mockingly asked the witch how it felt to lose, and she had no response other than an angry scream at her demise.
"Well I can do my victory dance now." Marx transformed, then did a victory dance he saw in a movie that he liked while singing the marine corps cadence 'Everywhere we go'.
"Ha, that's a good one!" Soul chuckled hysterically.
Maka smiled at both of her partners' antics. After all the victory dance was over, Stein examined Crona, and gave the group good news that he would live. Maka showed stein the postcard from her mother and he told her its meaning, bravery.
After that, Stein and Marie told the trio that they'd be heading back to the academy, to get Crona and the little girl proper medical attention, and file their reports. Stein asked Maka what she and her weapons were going to do next. Maka replied that they were going after the kishin, Stein expected that and informed them that Maka's anti-madness wavelength is the only chance they all have for victory as long as Lord death is bound to Death City. The trio showed their fierce determination and were ready to finish the fight.
A SHORT TIME LATER
After exiting Medusa's now abandoned lair, the trio found themselves standing on a cliff overlooking the battlefield and what arachnophobia was doing to its own forces, as well as the DWMA's. They were using their super weapon indiscriminately; a laser of compressed madness being fired in a 360-degree arc.
At first all three students were disgusted by this, watching their hated enemy do whatever it took to win, including killing their own people. Then out of nowhere, a shot rang out from the distance and the madness laser exploded in a great ball of fire. Then the sound of giant footsteps began to grow louder and a large shadow appeared on the horizon. A giant robot in the shape of Death City.
All three students sweat dropped at the sight of it, and Maka was the first ask what the hell it was, to no one in particular. Then as if in response to Death City's new giant war machine, the enemy spider shaped fortress ripped loose from its support towers and began moving on its own.
The two titanic war machines began a mechanized battle of epic proportions. Death city's giant stature gave it the edge in size towering over its smaller, nimbler opponent. The spider fort dodged the giant mechanical hands with ease, irritating the Reaper to no end. The walking city the chopped at the ground where the spider fort stood, it was a miss. The spider fort dodged to the right attempting to avoid the chop.
After the chop missed its intended target the reaper made the city's arm swing right across the ground plowing through the dense forest in its wake. Then the spider fort stopped short of being hit by a reversal from the reaper's other arm, and retaliated with burning the giant hand using hot steam from the spider fort's legs. The reaper felt the pain from that attack, and recovered grabbing the spider fort's legs.
The spider fort fired lasers from the eye ports on its head and tried to burn the Reaper into letting go. Instead, the Reaper retaliated with an eye gouge using his giant mechanical fingers. The laser eyes were destroyed in a matter of seconds. The spider fort lost power and an explosion erupted from its head module.
Then the reaper got his hands under the spider fort and flipped over on its back, immobilizing it. After a brief moment, the spider fort recovered and attacked using spider it shot from the head module. The web then let loose an electric discharge shocking the city's systems. In response, the Reaper sliced the webbing and grabbed it like a rope, and swung a giant finger into the spider fort, the finger reached Aracnhe's chamber and grabbed asura.
After capturing the HVT, a mouth of sorts formed on the city's exterior and ate asura. The Reaper sent asura hurtling into the death room. Outside, the trio kept moving towards the spider fort focusing on their other target, Arachne.
IN THE DEATH ROOM
The two extremely powerful beings battled in a struggle of good vs evil, order vs chaos, The Grim Reaper wielding a death scythe vs the kishin Asura. Both fighters were even matched at the start of their fight with the reaper absorbing asura's energy blast. The reaper retaliated by slashing at asura with Death Scythe.
It appeared that victory was assured with Death having the home field advantage and slicing Asura in half. But it was only a ruse, the real Asura attacked from above with a directed force shield intending to literally crush the reaper. The grim responded with his own shield, attempting to push back Asura.
The two of them struggled with neither side backing down, Asura then attacked preemptively using an energy blast. Death was still standing unfazed by blast, and continued to slash at Asura. Asura decided to talk for a moment revealing what went through his mind during his stay in the catacombs. Death didn't care and grabbed his opponent by the neck and slammed him into the ground. Asura rose up from the crater, and continued to share his demented view, death was tired of talking and prepared to use the kishin hunter on Asura.
He attacked and swung at the man shaped monster with all his might. The two of them struggled for dominance in the battle of power, death won the battle of strength and the kishin was propelled backwards. Death had sliced off one of Asura's arms and in a few seconds, it had grown back.
Death continued to beatdown Asura and the banter only drawled on. Asura launched another stream of energy blasts, wearing down Death. Asura then threatened the life of death's son, and attacked them with a large energy blast. The grim reaper had barely any time to react and took the full force of the attack, saving Azusa, Kid, and his partner's lives.
The reaper laid there, motionless on the floor, Asura had seemingly defeated Death. Kid mourned his father, Asura explained the reasoning for his victory and Excalibur countered with his own opinion. Asura fell victim to his own twisted logic and suffered a large amount of pain, remembering Arachne's care for him.
Asura fled from the death room, back to the spider fortress, and he killed Arachne in cold blood, consuming her soul shortly afterwards. The terrifying power asura already possessed, increased exponentially with his devouring of the soul of Arachne. The central tower of the spider-fortress exploded from asura's discharge of raw mad power.
A large barrier began to form around the central, spire and time was running short to defeat the ultimate evil before he would enter dormancy, using his madness to conquer the world, without lifting a finger. Kid took his chance to charge into the barrier with his faithful weapons, taking his wounded father's place on the battlefield.
Black-Star charged into the dome from below as fast as his legs could carry, his entrance successful. Maka and her partners dove in from above into what would be the hardest battle they've ever fought. Maka's partners were ready for war, and Maka herself was ready to end it. victory is the only option.
The three teams were all together again, united they stood, proud and calm. They all readied themselves, kid transformed his arm into death cannons, Black-Star engaged Tsubaki's enchanted sword mode, and Maka prepared her genie hunter. Together they were near unstoppable, friends until the end.
They were all a little surprised by their enemy's new form, the massive increase in size making him appear menacing. But nonetheless, they were all focused on the goal they shared unflinching at the power of asura, the embodiment of pure madness itself. The giant monster taunted his adversaries.
The three of them synchronized their souls and bravely charged at the kishin. Attacking form three directions at once, they delivered heavy amounts of damage. The attacks they used had some small effect on him from thee thinning appearance of the barrier above them.
Soul continued playing his song and boosting the abilities of his comrades, it was beginning to reach its end. As they fought and fought, strike after strike, the worst possible of all circumstances had come into play at that moment, soul was stricken with madness. Just as Maka was about to use her genie hunter it failed and she dropped to the floor.
Soul lay on the ground unconscious, Marx transformed and leapt from his meister's back. Maka tried to wake up soul, while the others wondered as to how he ended up unconscious. The kishin cackled and began to taunt them wildly, showing them horrific visions and nightmarish visages as he explained their plight.
Black-Star had enough, and shattered the illusion with nothing but a swift soul strike. Marx and kid were impressed by their compatriot's display of will power in the face of uncertainty. Kid, Black-Star and Marx resumed their assault, all of them at a disadvantage without Soul to synchronize them.
Marx was avoiding unleashing his full might in order to save his strength for when Maka and soul would need him most. The kishin simply toyed with them not even considering them a threat. Her friends all promised Maka that they'd hold off the monster as long they can until she retrieved soul.
The brave team of heroes all stood their ground, not giving an inch of it to their mighty maniacal foe. Kid unleashed a barrage of death cannon blasts, only seeming to slightly bother the kishin, the monster lazily yawned as the young heroes keep fighting. Then suddenly, their foe stuck his palm and let loose a massive concussive blast that sent all of the heroes falling backwards and tumbling to ground.
Kid stood up and resonated with his weapons, he then asked his compatriots for support, to buy him as time as they could until his death cannon was at max charge. Marx was more than happy to lend his support to young reaper, he gave a thumbs-up of pride. Black-Star was eager to help after wording the request slightly differently.
As kid charged his full power Death Cannon, the kishin saw the lines of Sanzu connecting across Kid's head, he remembered Kid's Identity and planned dealing with Kid the same way he dealt with kid's father, a powerful energy blast. Black-Star and Marx gave the kishin a mighty double-uppercut knocking out a few teeth.
The monster tried to swat them away but they simply dodged their enemy's slow movements with ease. Black-Star struck with his soul wave attack, and continued to deal as large amount of attacks with after images. Marx let loose his own energy blasts through the use his hands realizing he didn't even have to transform his arms anymore to use his power.
He let loose his sturm blast beam, the attack made a direct hit on the kishin. The beast was angered and unleashed a flurry of strikes with his extra limbs of cloth. He destroyed of Black-Star's afterimages, thinking he'd eliminated one pest, but Black-Star seized the opportunity and surprised the kishin with a powerful slash.
The monster was knocked down and bleeding black blood, Marx and Black-Star gave kid the signal to cut loose. With that said, kid finished his charge and unleashed his full power at the kishin all in one shot. The blast was massive, doing the damage equivalent to a low yield nuclear blast, and a small plume that followed.
Kid was drained and fell to the ground, the others wondered what happened except for Marx who explained that kid as just tired out from using that much power in one shot. The kishin began to regenerate, and took a smaller nimbler form, resembling that of a human.
The two remaining warriors readied themselves to make their last-ditch effort for victory. The kishin smiled wickedly at the show of defiance, he was enjoying the display of bravado in the face of terror. In a matter of moments, he took down Black-Star, leaving the young assassin severely bruised and beaten.
The blue haired hyper-active hero dropped to his knees before falling unconscious on to the floor. Liz and patty put up a decent struggle, firing a small barrage at asura and trying to dodge his strikes and energy blasts, but it was still in vain. They were defeated when he actually put effort into his attack. Marx was the last man standing, the one pillar between life and doom, the wall between order and chaos, the lone survivor.
"So here we are, you and me, one on one for now." Said Marx.
"It appears that way doesn't it, you know you can't win. Why continue fighting, it's pointless." Asura said in a malevolent tone.
(Play the Song: Human by Rag 'n' bone man)
"That's where you're wrong. My friends are down but not out, they won't quit as long as they can still draw breath, but I have a different problem. Lately I've been feeling like I live in a world of plywood and sheet-metal, having to take care not to break something or someone. What we have here is an opportunity for me to cut loose, and show you just how powerful I really am." Marx said proudly.
"Show me then, what you've been holding back, it won't save you."
"First I'll show you a little trick I've been saving up." Marx said as he began to power up. "This is rage." Marx charged his power again to the next level. "This Is Rage 2, but you can call it fury. And this is to go even further!" Marx let out a long loud scream as he began to let his power rise to its new heights.
The ground began to crack and rumble from the sheer amount of power Marx was discharging with each passing moment. The barrier around the arena began to crack and sway, the force of Marx's might, shining through the haze of madness.
His scream intensified as he slowed to breathe, his power continuing to rise as he surged on with another large burst of energy. He began to glow blue, his aura letting off small flurries of electrical discharges. His scream grew louder still not even slowing down for a moment, rocks and pebbles had even started floating into the air around him.
The debris had begun to orbit around the being of righteous power, his strength rising to a level that he'd only hoped for. Asura twitched his eye to the unflinching courage of his opponent, he couldn't comprehend where the strength or willpower had come from. He wondered why was his opponent not be afraid, why was he getting stronger, and why was he not stricken with madness.
The power finally hit the new limit, and Marx was now glowing with a blue aura, and blue sparks of electricity magnificently blanketed the area around him. His friends regained their consciousness for a brief moment baring witness to the godlike power of their friend.
"You can come at me, but you still don't stand a chance."
"This great planet no matter how vast, will never be large enough for us to coexist. One shall stand, one shall fall."
"Why throw away your life so recklessly hero?"
"That's a question you should ask yourself Asura."
(Play the song: Remember the Name by Fort Minor)
Marx charged at Asura letting loose a war-cry. Asura grabbed Marx's fist, he struggled to hold back the punch. Marx used his other arm to slug Asura in the gut. Asura vomited up black blood from the sheer force of Marx's punch. Marx threw Asura over his shoulder and hammer tossed Asura in the opposite direction. Asura recovered in mid-air, he flew towards Marx at his top speed. Marx braced himself for the impact, crossing his forearms one over the other. Asura made contact sending Marx skidding backwards, and leaving small trenches in ground.
"Is that the best you can do? Here's mine." Marx shouted as he stuck his arm out in front him and fired a blue beam of energy at Asura. Asura countered Marx's blast with his own beam, he opened his mouth and a bright red beam of energy surged out towards his opponent.
Marx held his ground against Asura. The two warriors battled, their beams of energy colliding and constantly pushing back and forth between the two of them. Marx put another ounce of might in to his blast pushing back asura's own beam. Asura was caught in the overwhelming force of Marx's blast, he flew backwards screaming in pain.
Marx charged after Asura to catch him as he recovered. Asura saw the attack coming and retaliated with his own punch. The two fists collided causing a shockwave that sent rocks flying away from them. Marx brought his leg up for a kick, asura caught it, and threw Marx away. Marx did a somersault and landed on his feet skidding backwards.
Marx and asura ran towards each other screaming at the top of their lungs. When they reached each other both of them grappled with their fists, neither of them backing down. Marx was becoming winded and losing strength. Asura saw his opponent's weakness and began to overpower Marx.
Marx held on but was slowly being forced to ground. Maka and soul regained consciousness and witnessed Marx battling Asura with all his true might. The two of them sat there for a moment in awe of the sheer might of Marx. He was a death scythe after all, that was his power at its fullest.
They also saw him losing and began their soul resonance kishin hunter. Maka used Marx's battle as a distraction and sliced Asura across his back. Asura was unfazed by the attack and sent out a concussive wave that threw Maka and soul backwards. Marx was distracted and Asura forced him to the ground.
The kishin relished in his victory, and began to torture the defeated hero. Asura brought his foot down on Marx's left shoulder bones crushing them and causing Marx to scream violently in pain. Asura picked up Marx with one hand and had started to speak.
"Was that your plan? To defeat me using the kishin hunter when I was distracted by your pathetic display of power. Madness isn't evil, it's human nature. I'll admit you kept me entertained for a short time, but all good things must come to an end."
Marx began to smile and chuckled, causing Asura to become puzzled. For it was not, laughter of madness it was something else entirely.
"That may be true, but human nature is more complex than you believe you idiot. Is it that hard for you get through your thick skull? Everyone is more than the sum of their fears, for it is also human nature to have courage in the face of fear and things we don't understand. Bravery isn't the absence of madness or fear, it's the will to act in spite of it, jackass." Marx said full of spite with a smile.
Maka let soul rest, ran up to Asura and slugged him in the back of the head. The punch caused asura to drop Marx and he hit the ground. Asura was lying flat on his face from Maka's punch. Marx got to his feet and transformed, Maka caught and the two spoke for a moment.
"Maka, are you ready?"
"Time to nut up or shut up."
"Atta girl, let's kick his ass."
"Let's go, Soul resonance!" the two fighters said in unison. Marx transformed again into a silver plated Browning M2 .50 caliber Chain-gun. And Maka pulled down on the trigger unleashing a storm of rounds at Asura. The soul rounds impacted Asura and tore through him like tissue paper.
'How is this possible?! I 've beaten them, broken them, crushed their hope. How, is it possible that they can still stand let alone keep fighting?!' Asura thought panicking. "Impossible!"
Asura was getting shredded to pieces by the rapid .50 caliber fire, his regeneration ability wasn't working anymore. With every round that sped through him faster than the speed of sound, a large chunk of blood and flesh flew off in a haze of black blood mist. His power was fading as images flashed through his mind of pure confusion at how he had failed. After the storm subsided, Marx transformed back to his human form and gestured to Maka.
"Would you care to do the honors my friend?" Marx asked Maka with a grin hidden by his balaclava.
Maka nodded and strolled over to the kneeling asura, who bled from all the new holes covering his torso. Maka picked him by the scruff of his neck, and slugged him in the face with her full force.
"Ha, your fist alone isn't enough to destroy me! Wait what's happening?!" Asura screamed as his face and form began to crack like fracturing glass. "How is this possible your fist isn't a weapon, nothing special?!"
"Exactly, bravery isn't anything special. That means everyone has it." Maka said coolly.
"Everybody, huh. Then It's just like madness." Asura said calmly as he exploded in flash of bright light.
When the Kishin exploded, the barrier around the arena faded, and the clouds all receded. the sun shined brightly down on the victors, a flurry of the now free innocent human souls rose into the sky to find their eternal peace.
(Play the Song: Sympathy for the devil by The Rolling Stones)
The group of friends celebrated their victory, black-Star and patty stepped on top some rubble and shouted their pride in victory. Soul sat back and admired his cool friends, especially Maka. Kid, Tsubaki and Liz discussed what was going to happen next. Kid had a grim outlook about the future but Maka assured him and the others that things will be alright, they be there face any new challenge. She followed that up with her faith in humanity. Marx raised his right fist in the air, and made a rock on sign.
-END CHAPTER-