Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Soul Eater or Blue exorcist, I only own my OCs and the story idea.
Chapter 20:
"Kid?" Liz gasped.
Kid stared blankly at them, his blood red eyes emotionless. Liz took a step forward, moving towards her meister. She knew she had to do whatever it took to bring her meister back from the depths of madness. As Liz went to take another step, the smirk dropped from Kid's face. Liz froze as cracks appeared in the ground at her meister's feet moving towards their group.
"Shadow Fire." Kid said darkly.
Black and purple fire erupted from the cracks in the ground and surrounded the DWMA students and Death creatures, who all cried out in agony. The fire disappeared and the group dropped to the ground. When they looked up again Kid's hair was styled into the increasingly familiar flame-like spikes.
"Damn! Kid's still under Daemon's control." Amaimon said, slamming his fist into the ground.
"Liz, if we're going to try and bring Kid back from the madness... we need to restrain him first." Sally called out.
"Alright! Patty!" Liz held out her hand and her sister landed in her palm in a flash of pink light as a pistol.
"Soul!"
"Tsubaki!"
Soul and Tsubaki both transformed in a flash of white light landing in their meisters' hands as a black and red scythe and a chain scythe. Maka, Liz, and Black*Star all stood up and prepared to restrain Kid by weakening him. Mephisto, Amaimon, and Sally followed their example and charged up their powers.
Black*Star rushed Kid, Maka following directly behind him. Both meisters tried to hit Kid with their blades while Liz shot soul bullets at the Reaper. Kid moved quickly, dodging between the blades and bullets, not taking a single blow. Kid then drove his elbow into Black*Star's face sending the assassin into the ground ten feet away. Kid then drove his foot into Maka's stomach sending the scythe meister flying into Liz and knocking them both to the ground.
"Water Slicer!"
Kid jumped over the water attack, which sliced through a tree behind him, and raised a hand above his head and summoned his shadows into the shape of a shuriken.
"Shadow Shuriken!" Kid threw the attack at Sally, who just barely managed to avoid the attack and becoming a part of the new crater in the ground.
"Fire Volcano!" Kid yelled as he landed on the other side of the crater from Sally, fixing his red eyes on his cousin.
Dark red flames burst from the crater in the ground and surrounded Sally. She cried out as the flames burned her skin and seared her blood. The flames disappeared and Sally dropped to the ground. An aura of dark red flames different from their natural light-blue color surrounded Kid's body.
"Earth Wave!"
"Ice Spear!"
Kid turned and saw a wall of rocks approaching him. He jumped over the rocks and summoned a large ball of fire in his hands and threw it towards Amaimon.
"Fire Blaze!"
Kid then felt something stab through his stomach. He looked down and saw five spears made of pure ice sticking out of his body.
"Black*Star's Big Wave!" Black*Star yelled. flying through the air and sending his soul wavelength through the Reaper from behind.
The ice spears shattered and Kid was sent through a tree and to the ground. Black*Star landed next to Mephisto and both faced the area where Kid had landed. A large cloud of dust had appeared from Kid's crash landing and none of the fighters could see the Reaper. Liz, Maka, and Amaimon all stood up after recovering from the attacks they had taken before. Sally was still on the ground trying to heal.
The dust began to clear and the others could see Kid standing surrounded by the dark red flames as if nothing had happened.
"What?!" Black*Star yelled, surprised.
"How is that possible?" Amaimon and Mephisto said at the same time.
Kid looked at the five figures standing, his red eyes unblinking. Then he looked down at his stomach and pressed his hand against it. When he pulled his hand away he saw his own blood on his palm. Kid once again looked at his former friends, murder in his eyes.
"I'm impressed... you managed to wound me." Kid said, smirking. "Allow me to return the favor. Dragon's Breath!"
Fire erupted from Kid's mouth, still in that ominous red color, heading straight for Mephisto and the others. Maka and Liz jumped out of the way while the others tried to defend themselves.
"Earth Shield!"
"Ice Beam!"
Kid's attack overpowered both attacks from the two Demons and sent them and Black*Star back into the wall of Daemon's base.
Liz began firing at her meister again, but she was holding back some of her power while attacking. Maka and Soul both prepared to go all out against their friend and current enemy.
"Soul Resonance!" Soul and Maka said, "Witch Hunter!"
Soul's scythe blade began to glow and grow in size. Maka swung her partner's weapon form towards the Reaper and the powerful attack began to carve through the ground heading straight for Kid.
"Oh, please. Is that all you've got?" Kid chuckled. "Shadow Sword!"
Shadow energy gathered into Kid's hands and formed the shape of a katana. Kid raised the sword above his head and slashed downwards sending shadow energy to intercept Maka's Witch Hunter attack. The two attacks collided and Kid's shadow attack easily sliced through Maka's and headed towards the blonde meister. Maka raised Soul in order to block the attack headed for her. The dark energy crashed into Soul's handle and pushed Maka back. Soul groaned in pain inside his weapon form.
"Soul!" Maka cried out worriedly, losing focus on blocking the attack. Shadow energy surrounded both meister and weapon once Maka dropped her guard and left deep gashes on Maka's upper arms and chest.
"Maka!" Soul yelled, his image appearing in the scythe blade as his meister dropped to her knees. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah." Maka winced, trying to stand up once again.
Liz and Patty continued to fire their soul wavelengths at their meister, while Amaimon rushed towards the Reaper. Rocks gathered around Amaimon's hand and formed into a shape that resembled his own claws.
"Rock Claws!" Amaimon yelled as he slashed at Kid's face. The Reaper dodged the attack, but one of Amaimon's claws cut through his left eye. Blood poured from the diagonal gash in Kid's eye and down his cheek to the ground. Kid focused his fiercely glowing red eyes on the Demon and gathered more red fire into his palm.
"Fire Fist!" Kid punched Amaimon directly in the jaw, sending him crashing through several trees before he rolled to a stop. As Kid was about to advance on the Demon and strike again, a pink soul bullet collided with his back. Kid hissed in pain and spun on his heels to face his weapon.
Liz... No! Kid thought. He tried to fight the madness off and gain control of himself again. Daemon's power over the madness made it nearly impossible for the young Reaper to break free, so that Kid had been trapped and helpless inside his own mind, forced to watch as he beat his friends.
Liz stared into the red eyes of her meister. Her fears of everything paranormal and creepy usually drove her to tears, but nothing could compare to the mind-numbing fear of losing her meister... her Kid. She stared at him frozen for what felt like years, but was only a few seconds, before his eyes flashed their normal two-toned gold color for a brief moment.
Kid! I knew you were still in there somewhere. Liz thought. Now I just need to figure out how to break the madness.
"Ice Water Combo!" Mephisto and Sally yelled out, shattering the tense air between Liz and Kid. Both turned to see Mephisto and Sally gathering energy in their palms.
"Ice Storm!" Both Death creatures fired blue beams of energy into the sky. Seconds later, sharp shards of ice rained down on their battlefield near Kid and Liz. The ice bit into her skin, cutting her in several places and causing Liz to wince as blood trickled down her arms and face. Kid summoned up his aura of flames and the ice melted before it ever touched the Reaper.
Kid raised an eyebrow at the Demon and the Water Sprite, wondering what they were trying to accomplish with that pathetic attack. Suddenly he heard the sound of rushing water behind him. Kid turned and saw a twenty-foot tidal wave rising above the trees. Liz noticed the massive wave of water and ran to join Maka, who was seeking cover under some trees. The wave crashed into Kid getting rid of the flame-like aura around his body. Sally controlled the water so that it encased Kid in a sort of bubble. Then Mephisto walked to the bubble of water and placed his hands on it.
"Freeze!"
Ice spread out from the Demon's hands, freezing the water straight through and trapping the Reaper inside a ball of ice.
Mephisto took his hands off the ice, breathing heavily. He turned and saw Sally, who had blood staining through the right leg of her jeans, breathing just as heavily as him. Then he looked to Amaimon and Black*Star who each had a few bruises and scrapes. Then to Maka, who was bleeding badly from her arms and chest, and Liz, who had a few minor cuts on her body.
"Alright, he's restrained for now. Let's try to break him free of Daemon's contr-." Mephisto said before he was cut off by a loud cracking sound behind him.
Mephisto turned to face the large ball of ice just as a large crack appeared in its surface turning a section of it pure white. More cracks spread throughout the ice. Mephisto began to back away as steam hissed through the cracks and a red eye appeared through the largest crack. With a scream, Kid shattered the ice around him sending large chunks of it into trees, the walls of the base and at his friends. Fog hung around the ground and a chill went through the air around them as they stared at the fiery Reaper, who was surrounded by the red flames once again.
"Shadow Bonds."
Shadows bound everyone's hands and feet, wrapping around their wrists and ankles tightly. Everyone began to struggle as Kid began slowly advancing on them. Soul, Tsubaki, and Patty all transformed back into their human forms to help, but were soon trapped in the same shadow bonds.
"Fire Ball!" Kid said, gathering fire into his palms, "Barrage!"
Kid began to shoot his friends with fire balls, burning their skin and making them all cry out in complete agony. Liz transformed into her weapon form to escape the shadows she was trapped in. She transformed back into her human form and dodged the shadows that tried to recapture her. Kid stopped his attack with the fire balls and smirked at his trapped 'enemies'. Kid then raised his right hand to his mouth, which he opened the sunlight glinting off of his fangs.
"Oh, no! He's summoning his familiar."
Kid bit down hard on the skin between his thumb and index finger, breaking the skin. Blood dripped from the self-inflicted wound and some ran out the corner of Kid's mouth. Kid then dropped to a crouch on the ground, slamming the palm of his right hand against the earth. Glowing red symbols spread out from the Reaper's palm and the ground began to shake, throwing the unrestrained Liz off balance and to the ground.
"Cerberus, Summoning." Kid muttered before standing up.
The Death creatures looked on in fear, while the humans were wondering what would happen next. The ground around the red symbols began to crack and the sound of several dogs howling pierced the air followed by growls and barks. The ground split and something rose up from beneath Kid raising him fifteen feet in the air. From the ground, a massive black three-headed Rottweiler with red eyes and large teeth rose. Kid stood on the middle head of the Demon Dog and jumped down, performing a backflip and landing in front of his familiar.
Liz got back on her feet and, before Kid could send the three-headed dog to attack anyone. she tackled him to the ground. Cerberus turned towards Liz and his fallen master growling, but staying put for the moment.
"Kid, you have to snap out of it. You need to fight the madness, please!" Liz begged, struggling to pin the Reaper to the ground.
"But, I don't want to fight the madness, it would be impossible to anyway." Kid said, a crazed look in his red eyes.
"Please, Kid! This isn't you!" Liz began crying, "You would never give in to the madness. The Kid I know wouldn't lose himself or let himself be controlled like you! The Kid I know would fight back and protect his friends. The Kid I know would always come back, which is why... why I love him! So, please, Kid, come back to me!"
Liz buried her face into the shocked Reaper's chest. Liz's confession of her feelings for him gave Kid the extra power he needed, more determination to fight Daemon's control. The Reaper struggled inside his own mind, breaking Daemon's control and regaining control of the madness.
"Liz... Liz, I..." Kid broke off. Liz looked up, her eyes slightly red and tears running down her cheeks. The weapon girl stared into the two-toned gold eyes of her meister. "I love you, too."
A/N: Cliché ending brought to you by my hopeless romantic cousin. Keep voting on whether or not we should make a sequel there are only a few more chapters left in this story.