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All of the DWMA students cried when they say Wade's body. Kat and Orion had been courteous enough to warn the others that, the second they entered the Death Room, his body would appear. Sure enough, it appeared beneath a white blanket, on the bed next to Avalon. The recently turned enemy look on sadly, dealing with the sudden death of Kai. Ruby and Nascha went up to Lord Death with Ammy and told him what had happened.

"That is very concerning," Lord Death said once they had finished. "I will address everyone about what has been happening, and then we can come yup with a plan to take out the witch and Alastor." Nascha and the two others quickly returned to their spots, Nascha sitting on Hanz's bed and Ruby and Ammy sitting next to their friends.

"What happened to Kai?" Rosie asked. "Why did she die like that?"

"I believe that I can answer that," Lord Death said. "You see, when you all were leaving Azuzai, she shouted something after you all. They may have sounded like simple, angry words in a different language, but they actually were not. They were curses directed towards you all."

"I don't understand," Tab said from his hospital bed. He wasn't very happy staying there, but there wasn't much that he could do, especially since Rosie was keeping him there.

"Well, the spell was basically an undo, or reversing spell," Nascha explained. "It was "Ut sanationem feci venire dissolvit" which, in a nutshell, means "Healing I have done, come undone", and that doesn't make any sense to us, since, as far as I have heard, Azuzai does not possess the ability to heal."

"She does," Lucifer said. "She's healed all of us before."

"Oh my," Lord Death said, exchanging glances with several of his students. "That is very bad."

"What's wrong?" Robin demanded.

"Well children, I'm afraid that you are all going to die soon," Lord Death said casually.

This comment was unsurprisingly met by stunned looks and silence.

"I think we should have broken the news a little more carefully," Nascha whispered to Lord Death.

"Oh! Yes, quite. I apologize children, but it is the truth," Lord Death said.

"How do you know this?" Rosie asked.

"Well, it's simple, really," Lord Death said, rubbing his oversized hands together. "It's based on the length that you have been contracted to the witch Azuzai, and the extent of all of those injuries you contracted. The longer you've been there and the greater amount of injuries, the sooner the spell wears off."

"And then what happens?" Tyson inquired.

"Well, then every single injury you've gotten healed by Azuzai will open up simultaneously, probably killing you," Lord Death explained.

"What? That didn't happen to Kai!" Ammy said.

"Yes, because she never received any injuries, however, the massive amount of spells that altered her abilities are what killed her. The regulating spells vanished, leaving her to the mercy of Naresa's remaining spells."

"Why didn't it affect her immediately?" Ruby asked.

"The spell remained in effect for a short period before it was sapped away by the other spells. Your "healed" injuries are also sapping away at the leftover spell that still exists in all of you," Lord Death looked around, as if expecting any one of them to collapse in agony. At once, all of the kids began to yell.

"How long until one of us dies?"

"Why didn't we know about this?"

"Which of us is going first?"

"Can we stop it?"

Lord Death put his hands up. "There is a chance that you can stop this from happening entirely."

Everyone looked at him expectantly.

"Well, tell us," Lucifer demanded.

"Well, you would have to kill Azuzai."

Robin looked at him, now very confused. "Wouldn't that speed it up?"

Lord Death shook his head. "When a witch is killed, the remaining energy inside of her is channeled into any spell that she as cast. With Azuzai's exceptional energy levels, she should be able to sustain all of you until a very old age. You would probably live until the age of 70 before any of you are effected."

"That seems like a good deal to me," Tab said. Tyson nodded in agreement.

"What are we waiting for then?" Ammy asked. "We should go now!"

"We must wait, but only for a while," Lord Death said gently. "Your comrades, Tab, Tyson, and Ruby all need some rest, and everyone else needs time to mourn. More importantly, we need to locate the witch and Alastor and then come up with a plan of attack."

"Can't you just take him out with your super Shinigami powers?" Kat asked.

"I'm afraid not. Our enemies are smart enough to remain outside of Death City, therefore out of my grasp. Besides, I am not yet healed, and Spirit still cannot return to his complete scythe form," Lord Death said regretfully.

"So, all we can do now is plan?" Robin asked.

Lord Death nodded. "Yes, and it had better be a good one."

...

Naresa was on the ground in her room, shaking in pain. The poison had finally reached her heart, and was now slowly taking her life. She could feel it burning through her veins.

Her wolf daemon was there, sniffling at her face. Naresa had grown quite fond of it since she had created it. Over the period of her imprisonment, Naresa had slowly destroyed all of her other daemons in order to preserve her strength and decrease the speed of the poison. It hadn't worked, though. Naresa had destroyed them all for nothing. Well, almost nothing.

All of her excess energy would go into the wolf daemon, probably keeping it alive for several thousand years.

She smiled, imagining all the destruction the dog could cause after she died. That was a morbid thought in her own opinion. She found herself looking forward to death. Who knows?

Maybe it isn't all that bad.

Chapter done.

Short, I know.

And about 2 weeks late.

Sorry.

Thanks,

~CatKkit.