In the Death Room...

"Ahh...Stein, Sprit...you are here..." Death turned to greet the duo as they passed under the long trail of red tori gates. "Greetings, Death..." Stein said coolly as Spirit went to take his side beside Death. The sky-like dome ceiling encompassed the Death room as its desert-like look hid the large soul energy it emanated. Stein's calm eyes regarded the Kishin Egg soul that Death was just about to bury under another cross. "I'm surprised. The room is still big enough..." Stein whispered to himself. "Hey! Big D!" Spirit got Death's attention from his digging job.

"I know. I know, Spirit-kun..." Death sighed as he finally patted the ground down. "A man's got to get his exercise, right?" Death smiled as he arched his back backwards in a stretch. If he even has a backbone in the first place.

"I'm really getting old..." Death lamented as he somehow sailed up the steps onto the large round platform that is the center of the Death Room. Stein smiled as he watched the Grim Reaper moved about just on that one little foot. Makes him want to dissect him sometimes. Of course, he has never tried.

"So what has happened?"

"The big bad dragonoid fell and he somehow turned into dust. No soul left, it seems."

"Interesting..." Death scratched his what-looked-like-a-chin with his giant cubey fingers. "Not a soul in sight?"

Spirit shrugged as he laid back on the mirror. "Yeah...it was like it had disintergrated...whatever that dragon-person thing was, it definitely wasn't from our realm..."

Stein also stated, "When I tried to look at its soul, all I saw was a string, a literal DNA of souls, souls one after another forming a large double helix. It was like the dragonoid had been the culmination of a gathering of souls. Like someone bonded the souls together and stuffed them into a dead dragon, thus reviving it."

"And the Shout?"

"Odahving's shout literally caused the entire soul-chain to lose its stability and the chain collapsed. Yet the dragon was still able to hold on to its original soul and it survived. But that didn't last long thanks to us. But..." Stein showed a grim face, much to Spirit's surprise. "What's wrong?"

"The souls, not just the original, are all dark and tainted. They all possess enough madness to form a Kishin each. It's like they've been from a very dark world. A world full of conflicts, betrayal and all sorts of madness. I've been experimenting on a lot of souls and I have never seen such hatred and turmoil solidified into one souls. And there were so many of them. Even Asura couldn't match the insanity of each soul."

"You mean, the souls come from somewhere else?"

"Yes, somewhere where war and destruction was an everyday thing. And that stench, the cries within them was so unforgettable. It was like the very souls wanted to disintegrate, begging for us to destroy each of them. Just listening to one is enough to make me feel my own dissection madness was nothing more than a mosquito compared to theirs."

Spirit then snapped his fingers, as if he had remembered something. "Oh yes, when we finished the guy off and he sort of melted, we heard a voice. It was speaking in a very alien language."

"And Odahving?"

"The boy? Why he just stood there for a while and then walked off. He seemed kind of shaken by what he heard."

"Hmmm interesting..." Death looked up again. He could see his own yellow soul over the building but the black soul in the atmosphere had disappeared.

"How is Alduin?" Death turned the subject to the other boy.

"It seems like he has awakened and he's coping well."

"I still can't believe it..." Death replied. "A boy who could use Soul Focus...Even now I can't do that anymore. Soul Focus strains your soul such that it constantly shrinks over time. But that boy's soul seems to be expanding instead."

"Huh?" Stein and Spirit gasped. "Isn't the black astronomical soul gone?" Stein showed his doubts.

"No it's just gone beyond our soul perception sight range. I've checked everywhere and I haven't seen any black winged soul around...And the boy is still here. The only logical conclusion is that the creation of his weapons had expanded his soul."

"So how big is it?"

"It should be covering both the Earth and the moon now." Stein and Spirit quickly swerved around to see the voice's source. "Joe!" Spirit exclaimed as the relatively tall and rather well physically built man approached from the entrance. The man had a light chin curtain beard and close-cut hair, which contains four signature darker stripes running from front to back, with one located directly on top of his head and the other three present on the right side. His clothes comprise of a simple white shirt, that has rolled up sleeves and is left open at the top, worn under a black waistcoat with black shorts. "Joe Buttaki... Oceania Technology Development Adviser AND Internal Affairs Investigator..." Stein muttered under his breath as he waved a friendly hello to the man known for having the strongest Soul Perception in the world. In other words, he's a living Hubble Space Telescope right now.

"Coffee?" JB offered his whole jug of what he deems as the best coffee to Stein, who refused it by putting a cigarette in his mouth. Spirit quickly raised his hand to decline before JB got the chance to ask him too.

"I most certainly appreciate it" Death smiled as he produced a coffee cup and willingly allowed JB to fill it.

"So are we certain that the soul is from Alduin?"

"I can't triangulate the actual source due to the soul's huge size but if Stein's report was right, then it is indeed safe to say that Alduin is the owner of the Soul. But we have a bigger problem." JB pointed towards the ground. "Just right under our noses."

Stein and Death's eyes-widened as they looked down. "What? What's wrong?" Spirit, who couldn't see Souls, demanded an explanation.

"There is..." Stein's eye twitched as he begun to nervously turn his screw-in-the-head.

"Indeed.. There is a Soul right in the core of the Earth..."

JB nodded at Death's concerned comment as his eyebrows furrowed. Right under their feet, they could see what seemed to be a Soul deep within the earth. It was exceedingly large, not as large as Alduin's but it was still .on its growth path. The Soul's epicentre was too deep to tell but it was sure that no human could go so deep into the ground. And not only that, the soul possessed angelic properties, its shroud and aura bright white with even feathery angel wings, with sharp ends.

"And it doesn't stop there..." JB pointed up again. "There is a second soul up there deep in space. You can't see it but I can...And it possesses the exact opposite of that other soul's wavelength." JB's strained his eyes as he focused up into the sky, into the great beyond of space. And hidden among the stars, was another soul. It had a chaotic appearance as its maelstrom of rock and metal covered its dark black center. And judging from the distance, it was exactly the same size as the underground soul. And its own wings were that of the devil's, with sharp spikey demonic flaps.

And both seemed to be heading straight for Earth.

Somewhere far away...

Music Starts: Numb by Linken Park

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface

"Damn how many attacks can this thing take?"

"Hold on! We can still fight!"

Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)

"Don't give up!"

"No! Retreat! We won't last!"

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
Become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you

"Argh!"

"Take this, you beast!"

Can't you see that you're smothering me,
Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control?
'Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you.
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you.
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
And every second I waste is more than I can take.

"It's too strong!"

BANG!

"Watch that black hole!"

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there,
Become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you.

"I need help!"

"TOO MUCH TAINT...MUST...PURGE...MUST CREATE CHAOS...TO CURE TAINT..."

"Shut up you ugly monstrosity!"

And I know
I may end up failing too.
But I know
You were just like me with someone disappointed in you.

"In the name of the Universe, we will stop you!"

"Idiots! I said we need to retreat! Nirn is in danger!"

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there,
Become so tired, so much more aware.
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you.

"Akatosh! Get away from it!"

"No, I must stop it for as long as possible..."

"GET BACK!"

"Don't be stupid, Akatosh!"

"Hold on, Akatosh!"

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there,
Become so tired, so much more aware.

"I'm sorry son...I hope you will understand..."

"..."

I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you.

Hope you like the last bit and if you do, please do review and tell me so that I will continue with these sort of things. And I chose Numb because I think that it fits both Alduin and Akatosh, especially when you keep in mind on Alduin's reasons to rebel against his dad. So I hope you like it! And Lucifer will be coming out soon!