Authoress Note: Okay, so for some reason decided that apparently I had all ready 'made' a Extra Chapter 7…and it was all ready 'updated' into the story summary. Which originally it wasn't so I had to leave the summary the same when I had it updated FOR REAL with the last Chapter Extra. Wow. Guess I got a little carried away with that last chapter eh? Maybe it's just me but I haven't seen a lot of my other reviewers lately. I hope everything is okay with them.
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Well if anything the Chapter Extras may be coming to an end soon as I'll have to eventually stop writing for the story when I run out of ideas. So be prepared for the soon-end of The Life Script. Forever. Well this fiction at least. Maybe after I run out of the ideas for this story I'll have more ideas for Origins.
I also realized reading back into my story I learned I left out rules 13, 18, and 19. So if you see some rules you didn't see in there before I apologize but I certainly didn't remember writing them. So I must not have If I did please let me know so that I can change them back. There has also been some minor rule editing and a full list of the 20 rules of the Life Script included in this chapter just so you all know.
Anyways…on with the tale!
Thanks again to the reviewers and to those who favorite the story.
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Yakurenazea: Rules 6 and 10 are not the same rule actually. Rule 6 states that the Life Script is able to be destroyed but when it is destroyed by whomever destroys it, the Life Script has the ability to reveal the destroyer's name in a Death Note. So Rule 6 is a double-edged sword.
Rule 10 is unspecific whether or not the Life Script WILL be destroyed if it is used to save a shinigamis life. That's the only vague rule of the 20 entire rules.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note. Death Note belongs to Tsugumi Ohba and Takashi Obata.
Disclaimer 2: The idea of the Life Script belongs to me. Please do not steal. Thank you. Any Original characters, Keegan Phelps (no relation to Michael Phelps), belong to me. Thanks.
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1. Any deceased person who has their name written within the Life Script may be brought back to life.
2. The Life Script's ethereal power disrupts the energy used in the Death Note; therefore a Death Note may not kill the human that is brought back to life by the Life Script again.
3. The Life Script may only work on a deceased person after a certain amount of time has passed. The time limit is one week (due to decay factors and decomposition on the bodies of the deceased. Depending on the sorrow or other emotions within the user's heart, some cases are made in exception and a deceased person may return to life even if they are cremated or decayed beyond recognition. They shall be restored to their original selves they had been in life).
4. If a Death Note is currently being used to kill a person, the Life Script may interfere and counteract the Death Note's power. The Death Note's act of killing is immediately ceased after the targeted person's name is written within the Life Script.
5. Should the Life Script and a Death Note page come into contact with each other, the page is immediately destroyed due to the Life Script's ethereal energy levels being higher than a single page from the Death Note. (i.e: a mere fragment of a Death Note page would disintegrate upon any sort of contact upon it. An actual PAGE may last slightly longer but would have the same affects as the page fragment).
6. The Life Script can be destroyed, but upon its destruction by the one who destroys it, the destroyer's name immediately appears in a Death Note and thus they perish in the process (ultimately it's a double-edged sword concept).
7. A Shinigami may save a human's life with the Life Script without being sacrificed, unlike the Death Note (as seen with Gelus and Rem with Misa's life).
8. The Life Script extends the life of the mortal user with or without returning it to its original place of origin (i.e: The Shinigami World and the Shinigami owner)
9: A time and date still apply when bringing one back from the death with the Life Script.
10: A Life Script may be used to save a Shinigami's life, but may result in the Life Script being destroyed in the process.
11: The Life Script user's life span is blocked from being read by a user of a Death Note (excluding a Shinigami) with the ability of Shinigami eyes.
12: If the name of a resurrected person is all ready written within the Life Script, a user trying to kill the same resurrected person may experience strange symptoms of the Death Note they are using begin to happen. Symptoms include ink bleeding from the pages from the name of the resurrected person just written down, rejection of the writing utensil or material substance used to write down said name, the writing utensil being mysteriously destroyed in the process, and crackling red sparks from the name written down.
13. The Life Script may only be used to save someone's life once. The result of it being used to write down the same person's name twice will take no effect.
14: The Life Script has binding contract in it. The shinigami that gives it to the human user is forced to protect the user with or without the shinigami's own consent. In some cases, the shinigami willingly protects the mortal user of the Life Script. In the end, if the mortal user of the Life Script dies the Shinigami must bring that human back to life with the Life Script (failure to do so results in the shinigami perishing with the human user of the Life Script).
15: The shinigami whose bound to the mortal user of the Life Script may take a human form if he or she so chooses depending on the books dependency on the owner. Should said shinigami take a human form, the shinigami may witness unfavorable symptoms. Those include: vomiting, twitching, OCD, and occasional dependency for adrenaline rushes.
16: The user of the Life Script may trade half the life span added on by the Life Script to them for Shinigami eyes without risking their normal life span. The use of Shinigami eyes is not just limited to Death Notes.
17: The Life Script's use of shinigami eyes is limited, use with caution. Excessive use will cause the use of the original life span not added on by the Life Script to be added to the power of shinigami eyes and the individual's life span will be cut by a third instead of a half. However the life span will not be added to the shinigami's and instead may be put forward into the power of the notebook in the case of mass resurrections.
18. The Life Script's use may be null-and-void if an individual is willing to die and ready to pass on into the next life. The exception to this rule is suicides(i.e #1 if an elderly man is ready to die the Life Script's power will not take effect because the person has accepted their death. i.e #2 a person whom commits suicide will allowed be brought back to life by the Life Script).
19. Possession of the Life Script is, like a Death Note, limited to one person at a time. The difference between the possession factors is that The Life Script can only have one owner at a time. Regardless of whether the notebook is stolen or 'repossessed' by the shinigami owner, the notebook cannot change hands until the designated owner of the notebook gives up ownership of it or dies.
20: All humans eventually die however; should the mortal user and the shinigami in possession of the Life Script share more in the binding contract, the mortal user will die when the shinigami dies.
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The trial wasn't for a few days, but even so Keegan was bored with being in Japan long enough and Ryuk could tell. Despite the fact that he himself was a Japanese creature of 'lore' as they called it, he still understood that Japan wasn't home to Keegan and she could never really live here if she wanted to.
It wasn't like Ryuk wasn't allowed to go off on his own every once in a while, he just found it hard to after meeting Keegan and decided for once he should try it out again. So one day he changed back into his shinigami self and took off, Keegan of course wasn't worried. Hey, he had to stretch his wings at some point didn't he?
That day though…
Keegan's cellphone rang. Ryuk of course was out wandering Japan to visit his old stomping grounds for the hell of it. He had told her he would though.
She picked it up and answered. "Hello?"
"Hey."
Matt's tone was unfamiliar to her over the phone but Keegan's brow rose.
"Um…who is this?"
"The kid with the gaming system." Matt replied. "I was over the other day."
"Oh. Hey. Matt…right?"
"You busy? I'm bored. I need new batteries in my game again…nobody's here."
Keegan's brow rose. "Are you…at the hotel where the other members are staying at?" She sat up on the bed she was laying down on.
"Mmm…yeah." He had taken a long drag on a cigarette.
"Oh…um. Kay." She said awkwardly. "You're basically asking to come over here?" Keegan asked him, not too pleased with the idea but she didn't want to be entirely rude to the poor guy. Light probably tried to kill him. It was like Ryuk had said, Matt had narrowly escaped death. IT wasn't because of The Life Script. It was because of sheer dumb luck and the decisions EMTs made while messing around with his dead body. That must have been awful to find out about that.
Apparently that was what Miss Lidner had told Keegan about the ordeal Matt had been though.
She was silent until Matt's voice broke her out of her daze. "Hey…you still there?"
"Huh? What? Oh. Yeah. Sorry. wanted to come over, right?" She scratched the top of his head. "Okay. Yeah. Just…don't do anything to piss off my boyfriend okay?"
"'Kay…Can we not play that dumb cooking game of yours on the DS?"
Keegan's brow twitched in annoyance.
'He is SO not fun to play videogames with. How do you HATE Cooking Mama?!'
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"That kid was over again today." Ryuk said, it was long after Matt had left though and he and Keegan were alone again.
"Which 'kid'?" Keegan asked. "Near or the weird one?"
"The one that smokes…and focuses on nothing but his game."
"Matt. Yeah. That's what he called himself. He said he was bored. " Keegan explained flipping through a fashion magazine. "Why?"
"Just curious. I mean, he's a weird one. All of those kids that lived in that house were weird." He said.
"So was it a boarding school or was it an orphanage?" Keegan asked.
"Eh? Wammy's House?"
"Yeah."
"Kinda both I think."
"Huh. Oh neat. Guess it was for kids deemed with 'genius' quality eh? Wonder if Mr. Yagami should have been sent there at an early age." Keegan said, the last part was bitter and sarcastic. "He's gonna get what's really coming to him. Do you think Mikami will be there?" She asked, putting the magazine down.
"Teru, Mikami?" Ryuk snickered. "Well…it's funny you should say that because Mikami is a prosecutor. The irony of it don't you think?"
Keegan shrugged. "I guess. I heard the guy didn't have a stable home environment." She explained. "He became one of those guys 'obsessed' with the end justifying the means?"
"Yeah. Something like that." Ryuk said, floating upside down in front of her. "So what did that kid come over here for exactly?" He asked, getting back on subject.
"Everyone was out. That's what he said, the guy didn't feel like looking for them I guess. So he came here. I mean, he seems like the type that wants to be left alone but if that was the case I guess he wants to be alone in his mindset but still wants people around him to make it seem normal." Keegan chuckled. "You know?"
"Nope. You humans are weird and strange like that. So I don't know really." Ryuk peered over at what she was reading and his teeth clicked together. "Don't they ever have articles about apples and stuff?" He asked, somewhat annoyed with the idea. How could nobody not make fashion out of apples?
"Well…think about it Ryuk. Apples are fruit, fruit eventually becomes rotten. Would you want to walk around in an apple shell that was rotten?" Keegan asked him.
"I guess not."
"Exactly."
"So, what did you guys do while I was gone that day?" He asked, curious.
"Well, Matt just sat here and played his game. He smoked a cigarette or two also."
She pondered on it for a moment. "Then I got out my Nintendo D.S and asked if he wanted to play a tag-team game."
"And how did he react to that?"
Keegan grew quiet. "He muttered something about someone named Mello and he agreed. Reluctantly…Sure do feel bad for him though. Something must have put him off because after we finished he left quickly."
"Well, you humans tend to be boring and strange anyways sometimes. So I wouldn't doubt that something would be on his mind."
"I wonder who Mello was…"
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The day of the trial came. When it was the designated day, Keegan referred to it, a bit sardonically, as 'Judgment Day'.
Outside the doors of the private courtroom, Keegan paced back and forth, "I'm not sure if I want go through with this…I mean I've had to do something like this before when I was a little kid."
"Why what happened when you were younger?" Ryuk asked and she shot him a glare and he immediately remembered.
"Oh yeah. The crash."
"Yeah and the guy's claims that he SWORE he didn't know they were there." She said, the whole idea left a sour taste in the back of her mind and she eventually wound up trying to step away from the door.
"I can't do this…" Keegan said, stepping away from the door.
"Hey!" Ryuk snarled suddenly. "You're not gonna back down now just because of some remnant memory of a bad experience. That's not the Keegan I know and that's certainly not KURO-like behavior." He reminded her. "Get back here Keegan…get back here and put Light in his place. I didn't come down here to watch you rip him a new one again for nothin'!"
She glanced back at him and sighed, rubbing her temples. "Look, I know that this is a very, VERY, important thing but I'm really not feeling this right now."
"Miss Phelps? Are you coming?" The door creaked open and Gevanni stood there looking out at her and Ryuk sitting on the bench as she stood away from the door.
"Well-"
"In a minute." Came a familiar, curt tone.
When Keegan and Ryuk turned to look Matt was walking down the hallway with his game system in hand. "I need a minute with her."
Gevanni looked at him funny for a moment before he nodded. "Of course.
When the door closed again, Matt stood there, goggles hiding his expression and Keegan stared at him in silence.
"So?" Ryuk said with a grunt.
"You running?" He asked Keegan.
"Pfft. No." She lied.
"I don't pay much attention to a lot of people." Matt said, lifting his goggles up. "But you're running. And if you run, I'll hunt you down."
Keegan's brow rose. "Excuse me?"
"I'm not here because of you, or them, or anyone else." Matt said, flicking his game system off. "I'm here because Mello deserves justice."
Mello…
There was that name again and spoken with such…anger and almost regret.
"If I go in there…" Keegan began. "Will you tell me who Mello was?"
Matt only glanced at her for a moment before he put his goggles back on.
"Someone I knew…"
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"Where is she? She said she needed a minute and I gave her one." Gevanni said to Halle as they waited for the doors to open again.
"You said Matt was out there."
"Yes."
"Well, he must have something important to say."
"She'll come." Near interrupted the conversation suddenly. He was holding the Kuro-Cat chess piece and the Kira chess piece in his hands. "She wouldn't give up after coming this far."
The doors opened and Ryuk had shoved it open, causing Gevanni to jump back. "Jesus."
"Don't curse, Mr. Gevanni." Keegan said as she came through the door. "My mother wouldn't have approved."
Matt was following behind. "Ah. You're here." Said Near as he looked up at Matt. "Welcome. Good to see you again."
"Let's get this over with. I got a new game."
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As they were all seated in the designated places, Matt had to reluctantly turn off his game because those sorts of things were not allowed in a courtroom.
Keegan had turned off her cellphone and Ryuk was…well…doing what he did best. Hang around…literally. Upside down and on the ceiling.
There is always a calm before a storm happens and there was a brief silence and serenity before tension filled the room and Light was escorted into the room, in an orange jumpsuit, and shackled like he was some mad-man. Oh wait. Scratch that, he was a mad-man in a sense.
He looked, battered, tired, and had some desire to kill someone. It must have been hard for him to think about it because when it came to killing people he hadn't thought about it recently until he looked up and saw Keegan and Near in the room. To his surprise Ryuk was there also.
'Kuro…' He thought bitterly, glancing at Ryuk and then to Keegan.
His gaze turned to Near. "So you decided to have her go through it after all?"
"If you know any better, you'll shut up and just get it over with if you know what's good for you." Keegan warned him, standing up.
"Yeah Light, I mean can't be much worse than dying. Unless you wanna tell everyone what the realm of the dead was like?" Ryuk gave a sick and twisted grin.
Light scowled, looking down at his feet in silence, not wanting to really have to indulge them. It had been…leeching before Keegan had brought him back to life.
"Sit down, Mr. Yagami…" Keegan advised.
"Ma'am, I will have to ask you to remain seated at this time…" A private judge had been appointed and he had been paid an accurately large amount of money in order keep the whole trial under wraps.
As far as the world knew…Kira was dead.
As Light was seated adjacent from Keegan and Near, Matt raised his hand, lazily from the pew behind them. "Hey."
"Yes?" The judge asked him.
"Can I smoke in here?"
Ryuk snickered and Keegan turned to shake her head at Matt, almost apologetically.
"No. I'm sorry but that is prohibited." The judge answered him.
"Fuck my life…" Matt swore, leaning back against his seat. "I really just wanna play my game…"
"Try to bear with it." Keegan said and then looked up at Ryuk hanging upside down from the ceiling.
"Will you come down from there? The Judge knows you're there whether he can see you or not." Keegan said, tapping her foot in annoyance as she sat there.
Ryuk, though against it, came down and plopped in the chair next to her before he was in his human persona again and stuck his tongue out at her, making faces. She kicked him and he grunted in anger. "What the hell was that for?"
"Sit still…behave, and shut up until they call you up there."
"Miss. When the shinigami is called up to the bench I do expect to be able to see him…regardless of the situation."
"You will. I promise."
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Light was cross examined. First by a prosecutor (that wasn't Mikami, thank goodness), then by Gevanni. Whom was a bit more organized than the prosecutor was in his questions.
"When you first discovered the Death Note, how old were you would you say, in an estimation?"
Light shrugged. "I was in High School. I was probably about 17 or 18-years old. I was in my English class."
It figured Light would remember it clearly. Since he never relinquished ownership of the notebook, he still had the memories of when he first discovered it and when he used it. Ryuk wasn't surprised by it.
"What did you do when you found it?"
"I thought it was a joke at first, that it was a gag gift someone had dropped. So I took it home with me. For laughs. At first."
"And what did you do when you arrived home with the notebook?"
"I sat down, did some homework and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning I tried working on some more homework when the news came on."
"What was on the news that morning?"
"There was some psychopath holding a bunch of kindergarteners hostage with several teachers. I didn't think it would work so for the hell of it I wrote down the criminal's name in the notebook. Minutes later he was dead."
"And what did you do after that?"
"I left the house…thinking I needed to clear my mind. I thought it was all maybe just a coincidence and that it wasn't real. So I wandered for a bit."
"Did you take the notebook with you?"
"Yes. But it was on a whim. I was going to test and see if it could really work, again. I didn't believe it the first time-"
Keegan raised her hand and the judge paused Gevanni momentarily. "If I may, would it be possible to cross-examine Mr. Yagami myself?" She asked.
'What is she up to?' Light thought to himself as Keegan stood.
'What is she doing?' Near pondered.
'Keegan…you're either a mad genius…or you're really stupid.' Ryuk's brow twitched.
'Is she gonna make this quicker so I can play my game?' Matt wondered.
"You're not serious are you?" Gevanni asked her.
"I asked politely." Keegan stated.
"I'll allow it. Said the judge. Proceed. You may sit down Mr. Gevanni."
Once done, Keegan stood and took the file from Gevanni to look it over. "I never liked law very much." She said. "So you'll have to excuse me if I haven't played the role of 'prosecutor' in a while since playing one in a school play called 'The Trial of Brutus' which was actually a parody with a court scene."
The judge cleared his throat and motioned her to move on. Keegan nodded.
"Mr. Yagami…when you took the notebook with you did it ever occur to you that it may have been wrong to take it at the time?"
"No. Because I was skeptical still of its powers." 'That's right. Play it up like I'm the complete bad guy now, Kuro.'
"All right. I'll buy that." She said. "Understandable. However…when you saw it at first that it seemed to work…maybe. Did you ponder on the fact that perhaps what you had done was wrong?"
"I'm aware killing people is a crime-"
"On a moral standard?" Keegan asked.
"You like making me out to be the bad guy don't you, Kuro?" He asked her with a sneer.
"Your honor, strike that from the record as speculation." Halle Lidner commanded.
"So stricken. Miss. Continue…" He looked between Keegan and Light.
"Answer the question Mr. Yagami." Keegan ordered him.
"Yes…in the beginning." He answered, reluctantly.
"Where did you go with the notebook afterwards after you left the house?" Keegan asked.
"A convenient store. I went in to maybe get something and take it home with me. That's when I saw this gang of bikers. They were going to assault this woman right in front of the store."
"Was the owner aware of this?" Keegan asked. "Of the delinquents outside?"
"Well…" Light paused. He tried to recall. Sure the owner was at the counter but he seemed more interested in the sitcom on t.v at the time than on what was going on outside. "No. He wasn't."
"You took an oath under perjury, Mr. Yagami…are you lying?"
"…No." Light answered. "I had to stop the gang leader…otherwise he surely would have-"
"Assaulted her…yes. I understand…but how did you kill him? How did he die, Mr. Yagami? Did you kill him with a heart attack or write down a descriptive way for him to die?"
"Do you write descriptive ways for people to come back to life in your Life Note?" He asked, his tone nasty and condescending.
Ryuk gnashed his teeth in anger and Keegan corrected Light. "It's The Life Script. It's not a Life Note…remember that. " She said. "No further questions at this time."
"The court will reconvene after a 30 minute grace period."
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"…Matt?" The judge said as he read over Matt's original profile and looked over at the young man sitting there fidgeting in his seat.
"Yeah?" He called.
"As one that experienced the Kira…community. I'd like it if you were able to give your statements…if you please."
"Well shit. This should be fun…" He said sarcastically to Keegan as he stood and she shrugged, giving him a short wave to wish him luck as Light sat adjacent at another table from Keegan, Ryuk, and Near.
Matt sat in the 'box' as it was called and Light watched as Halle Lidner came up and began her examination.
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"You were an orphan at Wammy House originally, correct?"
"Yeah."
"I'll make this quick." Miss Lidner began. "What were you ordered to do the day that Kiyomi Takada was kidnapped by Mello?"
Matt shrugged. "Mello told me plain and simple. Distract the cars chasing him. So I did."
"Were you hiding out in one of the unmarked vehicles so when you were called you'd spring into action?"
"Yes."
"And what did you do after that?"
"I was cornered by Kira supporters looking to rescue Takada."
"And?"
"I got out of the car."
"Yes?"
"I don't remember anything after that. I just know that I was being pumped full of lead."
Keegan cringed at the idea and gagged suddenly.
"Anything further?"
"No. That's all I remember."
"No further questions. You may step down."
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As Light watched Matt climb out of the witness box and sit back in his original place, Halle Lidner turned to Ryuk.
"We're down to two other people to question. Which of you two should it be?"
Keegan nodded her head in Ryuk's direction. "I think you should save the real guns for last. Ryuk needs to go. He's the 'verdict' sealer really. He'll tell you everything."
'Why is she waiting to go last to place her verdict against me? Unless it's a trick and she'll try to get Ryuk to kill me again so she can bring me back to life as torture.' Light thought as Ryuk stared up at the ceiling.
The shinigami hadn't been paying attention. "You humans are sooooo boring."
"Ryuk…" Keegan elbowed him.
"Eh?" He said, looking back at her and Halle Lidner standing there.
"You're next, Mr. Shinigami?"
"It been that long all ready? Wow. I'm soooo shocked and entertained."
"Just get up there and quit being an ass…" She said.
Ryuk rose from his spot.
"Will you please produce your Death Note." Halle Lidner ordered and Ryuk removed it from the clip at his belt.
"Here."
She took it and held it up. "Exhibit A. The notebook of Death. Of which if we touch it we will see the shinigami's true self."
She passed it around so everyone could touch it and see.
Ryuk sat in his shinigami form in the witness box, of course the judge was silent, and observant of the shinigami's erratic and…annoying behavior. Ryuk wouldn't sit still for very long. At this moment he was hanging upside down in the air.
"Mr. Shinigami, I suggest that you please refrain from any shenanigans in this courtroom while we're holding trial." The judge said, peering at him through the glasses. "You may be an intimidating being but the least you can do is show some respect."
"Nyehhhh." Ryuk stuck his tongue out and sat back down in the box. Even when sitting Ryuk was still taller than most people and Miss Lidner had to look up at him constantly.
"Mr. Shingami, what is your real name?"
"I'm called Ryuk. But lately everyone seems to like 'Mr. Shinigami' better. Thanks kid…" He said glancing at Near.
Near only smiled over so often. The last time he did so it was when he saw Light face to face in the warehouse. This time was another rare moment and he gave that same smile to Ryuk. "Don't mention it."
"Yeah…yeah."
"Ryuk. How did you first come across Mr. Yagami?"
"Well…" Ryuk leaned back and floated upside down for a moment. "I get bored pretty easily so I thought it'd be a neat idea to drop my notebook for the hell of it. I'd grown bored with my life where I come from and needed some action."
"Understood. But HOW did you meet Mr. Yagami?"
Ryuk grinned. "He found my notebook. Can't you tell?"
"Ryuk, stop behaving that way and just answer the questions." Keegan scolded from where she was sitting.
"Miss, do not make another outburst like that." The judge pointed his gavel at Keegan and she grew silent.
"Yes your honor…"
"Continue. Miss Lidner." The judge ordered.
"Now, Ryuk. Where did you personally meet Light Yagami for the first time?"
"In his room. At his house. Back when Souchiro Yagami was still alive."
'Now he's gonna talk about dad, oh great.' Light glared at him from behind the table he was sitting at.
Ryuk of course stared back at Light with little concern nor admiration.
"I've got a question for Light actually."
Light looked puzzled. What was Ryuk up to? If he had at first thought Keegan had a plan he would have never guessed perhaps Ryuk had a trick or two. 'Ryuk…what are you doing? Why are you here? Helping these people? They're all human. You don't care a thing about humans. Maybe Kuro is anything, but it's all an act. You're just waiting until you can write her name in your Death Note…you did the same thing with me.'
"Is that allowed?" Gevanni asked.
"Does it pertain to the court?" The judge asked.
"Kinda." Ryuk replied.
"Any objections?" The judge asked.
There were none. "Very well. I'll allow it."
"What are you thinking about right now Light?" the shinigami stared at him. Reading his life span as he did so. Well. That was interesting. Ryuk grinned, not in the mischievous way he would normally. His grinning had a more sadistic feel to it this time.
Light only gazed at Ryuk in silence. Only it was that bitter sort of silence where Light refused to answer him.
"Mr. Yagami. Will you answer the question?" The judge asked him, tapping the end of his gavel out of distracting interest.
"No." Light answered. "Because I think Ryuk knows the answer already."
"Do you?" The judge asked.
"He's just getting scared. Though I don't think he was as scared when he was cornered in the warehouse." His grin, a bit more menacing than before. "Right, Light?"
Light rose up to his feet immediately. His dark almond eyes blazing at the shinigami from across the room. "SHUT UP!" He snarled.
"He's only speaking the truth." Keegan scoffed.
"I will not have disorder and chaos in this court room!" The judge roared, banging his gavel.
"Too late for that." Matt muttered, lighting up a cigarette anyways in the courtroom.
"Matt…" Miss Lidner mumbled in some frustration.
Gradually the courtroom settled down and they were able to get on with the previous procedures.
"Is there any further questioning for the shinigami?" Near asked.
"None at the moment." Halle Lidner answered.
"Step down Mr. Shinigami." The judge said sternly. "And I don't expect any more trouble caused by you. Paranormal creature or not…"
"The last testimony we need…" The judge read through the files. "From 'Kuro'…?" The judge began. "I am reading this correctly, yes?" He asked Keegan.
"Yes." Keegan answered him, glancing over towards Light.
"Will you please approach the bench?"
Keegan rose from her seat and did as asked before set sat in the 'interrogation seat' as she liked to refer to it as. When Keegan was ready Halle Lidner approached the bench.
"Miss Phelps."
"Miss Lidner."
"Could you please point out to the court what these are?" A Death Note and The Life Script were held up side by side.
"The white notebook on the left with the black pages is The Life Script. The black notebook on the right with the white pages is a Death Note."
"And what is the is the difference between these two notebooks?"
"There are many Death Notes because there are man shinigamis. But there is only one Life Script. As far as I have held the Life Script. I don't fully know its origins."
The notebooks were both placed back down.
"When did you first discover the Life Script? How did you come across it?"
"I was sitting at home one night. It was a little past 1 in the morning and I had gone down to the kitchen for a late night snack."
"What were you doing prior to then?"
"I was trying to work on an article involving the use of the insanity defense in cases involving murders."
"Again, how did you come across the notebook? The Life Script?"
"Ryuk wandered into my house. He actually dropped this notebook by accident. Not intentionally as he had done with the Death Note out of boredom the first time." Keegan answered looking over at Ryuk.
He didn't look up and only ignored his surroundings when everyone looked at him.
"After you learned the meaning of the Life Script, what did you do next?"
"Ryuk and I talked. We talked for a while. I gave him some apples in exchange for the notebook that he dropped. I thought he was a ghost."
"Were you skeptical of the notebook's powers when you used it the first time?"
"A little. I'm not much of a religious person so when miracles come it's a rarity."
"Whom did you first use the notebook on?"
"I went to the hospital. I wanted to try the notebook in a controlled environment. If it worked, it worked. If it didn't, it didn't. No big deal to me." Keegan explained. "I used it on a little girl suffering from leukemia and bone cancer. She wouldn't have lived long if I didn't."
She thought back to little Cameron Simpkins sleeping in bed and how tired and sickly she looked.
"Miss Phelps?"
"Oh. Sorry. Yeah. I used it on Cameron Simpkins. That was the little girl's name."
"Was the shinigami with you?"
"He followed me. To see how everything went on. He didn't believe the notebook worked either at first."
"I thought it was the dumbest idea ever conceived. But I took it anyways." Ryuk grinned and the judge banged his gavel and pointed it at Ryuk.
"Mr. Shingami…"
"…." Ryuk gnashed his teeth in annoyance.
For the next half hour Keegan explained everything from how she had used the notebook on a criminal in order to draw attention to herself, then how she sent out the messages, and finally to how she planned out how to catch Light.
"What was going through your mind when you went to the warehouse with us that day?"
"…I won't lie. I was afraid. Fear is in all of us. It doesn't matter who. You could be the greatest serial killer in the world…and even you would have an inkling of fear. Or you could be like Jesus himself when he prayed in the garden the night before he was to die. Sure. Jesus was scared to."
"I thought you weren't a religious person Miss Phelps…"
"I'm not. I'm using it as an example. The point is…we're all afraid of something. Death especially. But…I wasn't afraid of death. I figured…if I died I'd accomplish something and save a whole lot of people. I was more afraid I would get everyone else in the warehouse killed."
"But you had The Life Script."
"It didn't mean I still wasn't worried something would or could go wrong."
"In the end you chose to bring Mr. Yagami back to life. If he were to be offered the Death Penalty for his crimes Miss Phelps…what would you say to that? Would that make us seem exactly like him? Like Kira?"
"I would say that he doesn't deserve it. He died once. He nearly got the easy way out from being caught. He doesn't deserve to die. He deserves to live out the rest of his life in misery to live with what he has done every day and realize he screwed up in the end."
Keegan explained. "As for the Death Penalty? Well…it's one thing if a jury of people decide your fate. It's not up to just one person…because none of us are God. We shouldn't make these decisions for people…though sometimes there are people whom deserve to die for what they've done it's so disgusting…but it's not always the answer. It won't bring the loved ones back…no matter how hard you cry." Keegan thought back to the driver that killed her parents and her testimony in the courtroom at the time.
"No matter how much you pray to God…and no matter how much you hope. Revenge isn't the answer. So no. This man does not deserve the Death Penalty. He needs to learn his lesson…and live out the rest of his life in failure and realize that he messed it up."
Light stared at Keegan in some anger but he said nothing and remained silent.
"Nothing further." Miss Lidner said as she went back to her seat.
"I have decided the verdict of the accused." The judge said after reviewing over everything and he looked up at Light. "Light Yagami, I find you are guilty as charged of all crimes. Both as Kira and as the world's most notorious serial killer. The cause of the world's largest mass murder in history and I sentence you to life in prison, without parole, probation, or visitation rights. Be lucky Mr. Yagami. Had the last testimony not been in here…you would have been headed straight to the front of the line at Death Row. The case is closed."
As everyone began to file out Keegan stood and walked off before Light called out to her. "Why did you do it?"
She stopped in her tracks and the room went silent.
"Heh. Do what?" Keegan asked him a small smirk.
"Stop me…" Light asked. "What did I do to you?"
Slowly, Keegan turned to face Light and stare at him. First her gaze was cold and then it was angry. "You dictated who could live and who could die. Something only God can do. I'm not a very religious person Mr. Yagami, but I have a lot more morals than you do. Surely. I'll admit some people I could say deserve to die. But that is not for you or I to declare. You're lucky you're still alive because if it were anybody else…and you were in a room with a full jury…they'd give you the death penalty for sure. Then you'd know what it would be like to be 'judged'."
"Despite everything that has gone on…I feel sorry for you." She said, though her words were bitter.
Light's brow rose. 'Wait…sorry for me? SHE'S sorry for ME?' "Why? I'm a historic legend."
"No. You're a man that destroyed your life. Everyone you loved and everyone you cared about. They're all gone. You will never see them again. You will never know of their fates when their time comes…and you will be damned to a life of solitude and isolation for the rest of your days. I think…even that would be worse than death." She said to him. "And I'm sorry that you screwed up your life…but as I said before. God made all human beings with free will…and you chose to misuse your free will. So I'm sorry for you. But you brought this upon yourself."
With that said she turned while Ryuk put an arm around her shoulder and glared at Light.
"You're lucky I didn't kill you with my bear hands also Light…because I would have done it too."
Keegan pushed him along so that they could leave the courtroom.
"Good bye Mr. Yagami. I hope you realize in the future…what you've done." Keegan said as the exited the courtroom and stepped outside.
When they were finally out in the open Matt stretched and gave an obnoxious yawn. "Well I don't want to fucking do that again."
"Matt." Keegan began, tired of the foul mouth.
"Yeah?"
"Shut up…"
He shrugged and puffed on his cigarette. "Okay."
"So, Miss Phelps. Now that this is all over and done with, what do you think you and Ryuk will do?" Near asked her.
"Don't say going to DisneyWorld…" Gevanni groaned.
"Pfft. Been there. Done that." Keegan said with a laugh. "Actually. I think I promised Ryuk I'd take him to an apple orchard." She turned to Ryuk with a grin.
The shinigami, now back as his "Roy" persona blinked at her several times before he twisted his mouth into a crooked grin and he yanked her closer. "I can think of something better."
"What?" Keegan asked him.
"Guess…" His grin grew wider.
The SPK members looked between each other in confusion and Matt pushed his goggles up, now interested.
"Don't you-"
She didn't get a chance to finish because Ryuk had indeed kissed her and she did slap him before he pulled away and made a run for it. "GAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"RYUK I'LL KILL YOU!!!"
"TOTALLY WORTH ITTTTTT!!!" He yelled out as Keegan dashed after him down a busy side walk.
Near blinked in confusion while Rester and Gevanni looked at each other to try and figure out if what had happened…really happened.
Halle Lidner was beside herself at a loss for words and Matt well…
"Fuckin' idiot…" He chuckled to himself.
That said Matt snuffed out his cigarette and turned on his game. Only this time-
The game system was missing its batteries. Again.
"That son of a bitch…"
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Authoress Note: Whew! Well it took me a while to write this but I finally got it up! HORRAY! Well, the next chapter folks…will in fact be the last Chapter extra I write. So I hope you'll all be prepared and don't cry when The Life Script truly ends. Read and Review!