Mall Brawl

As I ran towards Echuma, I felt the swords dragging on the ground, sparks jumping from the tiles. As I got closer and closer, I saw him start flailing wildly, not seeing from which direction I was coming from. When he swung left, I knew this was my opportunity. Before he could swing back right, I stopped at his right and swung my right arm across his chest. He somehow managed to block this, but he kept his attention on this sword too much. I then followed up with a left jab, piercing his chest on the right of his sternum. I felt the sword go completely through and withdrew it. Blood splattered out of the now open wound and soon closed, but not without leaving a puddle of black blood on the floor. I was going for another jab when I felt something sharp pierce my chest. When I looked down, there was a spike sticking out of the puddle of blood. I quickly cut this spike with my right arm, but it turned back to liquid.

"I see. You use your blood as a weapon." I said, slicing at him again with my left arm.

"Yes. I can make spikes out of any drop of my blood." He responded, parrying my attack which staggered me.

As I stumbled back, I saw him drag his blade across his wrist.

"What the fuck are you doing?" I yelled at him. He then threw his arm towards me, sending a splatter of blood which quickly turned into what appeared to be a solid black wave. I dodged this, not knowing what it would do, and as I looked back on it, I saw it pierce right through a store wall.

"Good thing I didn't let that touch me." I said aloud. He then repeatedly flailed his cut wrist at me, sending wave after wave in my direction. I dodged all of them, except for the last one. I quickly calculated its trajectory and realized it was heading towards Maka and Crona. I ran in front of it and sliced down with my right arm. The wave split along the slice, turning into a puddle of blood. I then remembered what this could do and dodged as a spike went flying towards my face. Another quickly followed, heading towards Maka. I ran back in front of this one, but I wasn't fast enough to cancel it. It pierced my chest, and was quickly followed by many small spikes. I was crucified in a sense, hanging off of the ground, held up by the spikes. I felt blood dripping out of the corner of my mouth, but I didn't pay any attention to that. My only concern was defeating this black blood. I looked around at the stores around us. There was a clothes store, a beauty store, a general goods stand, and the food court which we were in.

Then an idea struck me.

I sliced the needles in half, causing them to return to its original liquid state, and sprinted towards the beauty store. I dodged wave after wave of the black blood blades, and entered the store. I quickly found what I was looking for and left. After that, I sprinted towards the general goods stand. I kept dodging wave after wave, jumping over the counter to take cover. I looked around and grabbed the lighter and some tape. I lit the lighter and taped down the fuel button, taped it to the hairspray I got from the other store, and jumped back over the counter and ran towards Echuma. I sprayed the hairspray and a blast of fire came out.

"Heh, perfect." I said, sprinting towards him to test my theory. He shot another wall and I fired the flamethrower. The wall quickly evaporated, just like normal blood would.

"What?" Echuma questioned, confused.

"Easy. Blood has plasma. Plasma evaporates under heat. Therefore, your blood evaporates when exposed to heat, which is the flamethrower in this case. It's unconventional warfare, and it's a bitch." I explained, gradually getting closer. He kept trying to get a blood wall through the wall of flames, but to no avail. I kept gradually getting closer, the mall was lighting on fire in the stores and along the walls as I came closer and closer to Echuma. It appeared as if I were the devil himself, bringing fire and destruction where ever I went. Echuma finally became too tired to attack, and that's when I made my move. I threw away the flamethrower and sprinted towards him. As I reached him, I charged my right blade with a high level soul blast. I stabbed him in his chest, electrocuting him as it went deeper. This electrocution would be my demise though. As I withdrew my sword from his chest, I felt my power leaving me.

"It's been too long since you last used this form. It has drained too much of your energy." The madness in my head explained.

"Can I just have a little more?" I thought, wanting only to finish this fight.

"Fine. But you will be incapacitated tomorrow." It explained as I felt new power rush back in. This time though, it wasn't swords on my arms. It was a thin coating of the wall substance, but it made me 10 times stronger. I picked Echuma up and repeatedly punched him in the stomach. After about five punches, I knew he was defeated. I threw him away like an unwanted toy and powered down. As I was walking away though, I heard a familiar slithering. I turned back towards Echuma and saw a black snake, similar to the one inside me at Medusa's, slither out of his mouth and vaporize in the air.

"Wha-Where am I?" he questioned, his pure light-gray eyes letting on a bluish hint around their edges.

"What do you mean, 'Where am I?' Did I beat you so bad you have a concussion?" I questioned, walking over to him.

"Wh-why did you hurt me?" he questioned, becoming scared.

"What do you mean? You were threatening Maka." I said, confused at his sudden loss of memory.

"Who's Maka?" he asked, sitting up.

"What the hell happened to you? Why don't you remember anything?" I asked.

"The last thing I remember is going into Medusa's house looking for Crona." He said, looking around. It then made sense to me.

"I know what happened to you. Medusa put one of her snakes inside of you, causing you to be her slave in sort. Then she boiled down Kuriba, the legendary cleaver, and put him inside of you. Crona is over there." I explained, pointing to the food court.

"Crona!" he yelled, standing up and running towards the food court. I pursued closely, interested by what was happening.

"Crona! Thank god you're ok!" he said, hugging her.

"Wh-who are you? I don't know how to deal with strangers hugging me!" she said, curling into a ball.

"What? You don't remember me?" Echuma said, genuine hurt entering his voice.

"Crona went through a lot of stress during childhood. She most likely developed a memory block when Medusa was doing tests on her." I explained, walking up.

"Crona. This is Echuma, your brother." I said, laying a hand on her shoulder.

"What? I have a brother? Medusa said I was an only child though" she said, deeply confused.

"It appears that you indeed do have a brother. Echuma most definitely has most of your traits." I said, looking back at him.

"Yes. Crona and I were twins, but Medusa only had the demon sword to test with, so she disposed of me. I was forced to live a life of a street urchin, and swore revenge on her when I was able to speak. I then trained like crazy with money I was able to scavenge in order to defeat her. But when I entered her house, everything went black. The next thing I know, I'm here with cuts all over my body and a possible concussion." He explained, holding his head.

"Sorry about that." I said, rubbing the back of my head.

"MAKA-CHOP!" Maka yelled, burying her book in the back of my head.

"OH FUCK!" I yelled, trying to stop the blood flow.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" I yelled at her.

"FOR BEATING POOR ECHUMA WITHIN AN INCH OF HIS LIFE!" she yelled back, pointing at him. "

IF I DIDN'T, YOU'D BOTH WOULD HAVE SLIT THROATS!" I yelled, making a slicing move across my neck with my finger.

"I WOULD HAVE DEFENDED MYSELF!" she yelled, steaming with anger.

"HOW?" I yelled, genuinely pissed at her.

"MAKA-CHOP!" she yelled, bringing the book down even harder, sending me falling on to my ass.

"Oh, that's how…" I trailed off, unconsciousness invading my head.

Chapter 25. Done. Now we see some Echuma back story. Review and PM me with any ideas. Also, I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every second of it.