Alright everybody, I'm thinking just three more chapters before we bring down the curtain on season 1 of Soul Eater Fury. And, I'm sure you'll all be happy to know that I will be making a second movie to send us into Season 2. Two things first: I won't put up the trailer until the last chapter and I'm pretty sure Alduin or anything else from his series will not be making an appearance, in case you ask later.
Alright! And…action!
End of malice, start of terror. The wild beast's dilemma
Sniff! Sniff!
The ragged beast in human form stalked warily through the body strewn streets of Death City, ever searching for its next feast. It had already gorged itself for hours from the flesh of hundreds of dead chimera and unlucky Shibusen meisters, and still it desired more.
Thus was the fate of the Outiko, "The yellow eyed cannibal", the Wendigo. To forever desire the meat of its former kin and to forever go unsated by that most heinous crime.
The beast licked the blood from its dirty finger nails as it dug through the corpse of one pitiful straggler. He had most likely been among civilians being led out of the city. For whatever reason he felt the need to break off from his group and the security of the Shibusen weapons and meisters. Unfortunately for him, stragglers would only meet with piercing yellow eyes that stalked them from the darkness and the bite of rusted metallic blades.
The man's death had not been pleasant.
Now reveling over another feast that would leave it as famished as the last, the Wendigo howled with… what was it? Triumph? The concept was confusing to the beast. Why would it revel over a feast?
Images flashed suddenly through its head. It… remembered a part of its life it possessed before. Its ridiculous quest for glory through combat. All the boast it had foolishly proclaimed.
"Greetings Devil Buster! We are the elite soldiers trained by the Great Mori-sama himself. The Bios!" He said, stamping his foot down in sumo fashion. "I am the mighty Sho Ryuusei!"
It had comrades at one point too.
"Come! Let us celebrate another great victory!" Sho proclaimed.
"That's alright! I-I don't feel like celebrating, also I need to take my meds!" Beltza continuously tried to pry himself from the boy's grasp.
"We'll grab your meds on the way. You can't survive on 10 pills a day and no human interaction. If you want to kick this sick state of yours you need fun and root beer!" Akira declared.
"That was amazing Sho-Kun! You shattered ten bricks in one hit!" Hikari Mori congratulated him. Sho wiped the brick dust from his fist and flexed his tired muscles. He then jumped when a water bottle suddenly floated in front of his face. He grabbed the bottle and shot a thumbs up to Beltza, as thanks for the drink.
It…He had someone precious to him.
"How dare you touch her!" Gabe jumped out of the way as the angered Sho rushed straight toward him. He held his injured comrade in his arms while he glared daggers at Gabriel. He looked ready to attack again when suddenly a pool of inky blackness appeared under him.
The Wendigo grasped its head in agony. The image of watching a girl tuck her medium length red hair into a leather cowboy hat and the warmth of her smile burning into his brain when she caught him watching.
"Grrraaauuurrr!"
"What pitiful screams you make beast."
The Wendigo wrenched its head around to meet the eyes of the intruder to its feasting grounds. It appeared to be an abnormally large human wrapped in the black and white robes of a priest with the exception of his robe being without sleeves. The sight of the priest's muscularly plump arms made the beast's mouth water.
Giving a snarl of challenge, the Wendigo pounced straight for the unmoving priest. The beast wrapped its arms and legs about its prey's arms and chest and bit down into the thick meat of Duncan's shoulder.
The wendigo became intoxicated by the taste of warm blood pouring into its mouth, it prepared to dig its teeth into its next victim, however…
"Though it is not written, you stand accused of violating a most heinous sin. And for that you will know purgatory, fiend!"
The Wendigo whined in pain as it felt the priest's wave length being blasted into its body. It released its hold on his shoulders and arms and leaped away, landing lightly on all fours.
The priest cracked his shoulder, sending another spurt of blood to pour from the holes in his shoulder. He brought his fists up as white energy laced spikes shot up from his knuckles. "Come, gluttony. Allow me to send you back to god's busom."
The wendigo snarled, summoning its rusted red chain saws to its wrist.
The two leaped to one another, but the wendigo was the faster as it smashed its feet into the priest's guard with a wild drop kick. The beast growled as it flipped up and brought its twin chain blades down in twin vertical slashes. Duncan had only enough time change up his guard, and catch the two blades on one arm and bring the other back. "Perish!"
The punch smashed into the wendigo's torso, causing it to hack in pain as the oxygen left it lungs. But Duncan wasn't through with it yet as he encircled its waist with his powerful trunk like arms and squeezed with all his might. "Final Affections!"
The wendigo struggled and snarled with all its might, but this doomed it further as it was unable to recover any of the oxygen it had already lost. Its claws dug into its captor's in its final moments of retaliation, but slowly, it was beginning to black out.
"Let go of him!"
Bang!
"AIR!" That was the first thought that entered the wendigo's mind as it felt its captor's arms suddenly release him. Relief and confusion came in at once as the creature pondered over its luck. It turned to where the voice had come from.
"Sho, are you alright?" Wrapped in leather attire made up of jeans, a poncho, a long sleeved vest and a hat, the wendigo's savior held out her hand in assistance.
The wendigo took it and immediately wrenched her towards him and pulling her into his arms.
"Sho?!" She gasped in surprise; it could feel warmth flood her cheeks. It breathed in her scent and became immediately intoxicated. The warmth, the smell. Of blood and flesh.
Crunch!
"Aaaaaauuuuuhhhhhh!"
She pushed against him as his teeth bit deeper into the soft skin of her shoulder. The sound of her voice brought a vague memory back but the creature shoved it aside. The taste was simply too all consuming. The beast pushed her down onto the cold concrete. The wendigo bit harder and harder, but now it heard no screams, but it felt something cold and wet slide down its prey's cheeks to his own and something had begun to tickle his face.
The wendigo opened one eye, finding itself blinded by red. It pulled away and for a split second its heart stopped.
"Sho."
The tears continued to flow from her eyes as the blood flowed from the wound on her shoulder and mixed and matted into bright red hair.
"Jo-Joa-JOANNA!" Sho back pedaled as fast and as far as he could until his bare back hit the cold brick of a nearby wall. Joe pulled herself up, gripping the bloody portion of her arm to stem the blood flow. The two just stared at each other in silence for what felt like hours.
Sho soon became aware of the spittle of blood covering the lower portion of his mouth. He immediately wiped it away with the back of his hand and soon realized that his hands were covered in blood, not just Joanna's but of many people. People he'd slaughtered, and devoured.
"Oh god!" He gripped his head in shame, smearing the foreign blood across his cheeks.
"Sho-!" Joe attempted to reach out a comforting hand to him, but he backed away, completely out of her reach.
"Stay away Joanna, you all need to stay away!" He sped off down the alley, he had no sense of where he was going, probably not even where he was; he just had to get as far away from his friends as possible. It wasn't long before he was leaping off on all fours reaching a speed Joe had no hope to catch up with, even without an injury.
"Sho! Come back!" Joe used her one good arm to pull herself back to her feet and attempted to give chase for her disturbed comrade unfortunately the lack of blood had left her woozy, forcing her to hug the wall to stay lateral.
"Going so soon?"
Joe stopped in her tracks, a bead of sweat running down her brow.
She was sure she had knocked him out. A non-lethal shot to the side of the temple would knock even the Devil Buster out. It was clear that Joe had definetly not missed, since a very painful looking bruise could still be seen on Duncan's brow.
"Do you wish to share the beast's fate? You should've allowed me to finish my duty. It would have saved him from suffering and me the time to have to hunt him down." Crackling white energy filled his fist as he pulled back. "Beauty and the beast. I'll bury you both together!"
The blast of shimmering white energy exploded from the priest's fist racing straight for Joe. She was too weak to run, and dodging to the side would just leave her open for another blast. She had no escape options.
"Avenger Fury!"
Suddenly, the blast bisected, both halves flying off harmlessly into the side walls away from Joe and her Black Clad savior.
Duncan gritted his teeth in frustration for having been thwarted.
Kei turned to the shocked Joe and looked back down the street where Sho had run off to. "Go after him if you want but this one's mine." The serious tone of the masked man told Joe it was best to do so.
"Thank you." She said and started after her friend at a steady trot.
"One sinner after another." Duncan grumbled as he prepared for another shot.
Kei chuckled. "Its funny how you talk of sinner's considering your own past."
"Do I know you?"
Kei turned his stern emerald gaze to the priest and placed his hand out in a chop formation. "Of course you know me. After all, I am you're shadow." Blue sparks of electricity flashed across his hand. "Sa, koi!"
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"Did you finish him?" Wu asked as he, Daniel, Black Star, Gabe/Allison and Akira slowly crept toward the fallen form of the seemingly fatally wounded Malus. "For real this time?"
"I think he did." Akira stated.
"You'd think wrong." Gabe said pulling Sakuya back from her sheathe as the witch boy instantly sat up. At first, he seemed to look this way and that, as if he was disoriented and did not know where he was. He then turned to the gathering behind him and smiled.
"Brother!" He pulled himself back to his feet and walked toward his unnerved sibling with his one arm open wide. "How long has it been? Mother will be so happy to see you well!"
"He's lost it." Sora commented.
"Are there people with you? I'm having a hard time seeing you, but I can tell you're there!" Malus stumbled over debris and rubble alike, obstacles anyone would have noticed.
"His vision is going." Black Star observed lowering Kengoku. "He doesn't have long."
Splurt!
The group looked on in shock as streams of blue blood squirted from the Ringrose heir's torso. He immediately stopped as if noticing his wounds for the first time. He placed his hand to his chest and brought the blood stained fingers to his face. He squinted as if to get a better look.
"How did this happen? How was I wounded?" Malus then raised his head to look his brother in the eye. He chuckled and his eyes seemed to clear slightly. "Oh now I remember, you killed me didn't you Fury."
Gabriel said nothing as his brother continued his labored giggling.
"What now? Will you take my soul like any other witch?" Still Gabe remained silent. "Doesn't the thought appeal to you? Steal my soul and you will gain a power greater than a death weapon, greater than Death himself, instantly."
"I don't need it." Gabe finally uttered. "That power cannot protect anything. I am not like you." His friends nodded their approval, but Malus instantly broke down in a cackle.
"Oh the hypocrisy! Not like me? Oh contraire, you and I are more alike than they know." Gabriel stiffened instantly as a flash of fear entered his eyes. "Tell me, are they aware?"
"Shut up!" Gabe snarled.
"Do they know what's inside you, waiting to break out?"
Gabriel what is he talking about?
A bead of sweat ran down the Devil Buster's temple.
"They aren't, are they?! Well then…" Malus then raised his hand out beside him as sparks of grey electricity ran across his arm. "Take a look!" He plunged his angelic forearm directly into his chest.
The gathered meister's gasped. They couldn't have known why he was attempting to kill himself, Gabriel did.
"Stop!" Gabe dropped Sakuya and sprinted off, hoping to stop his brother before it was too late. "Don't do it Malus!"
"You may have killed me Fury, but my ambitions live on. Passed on to my true master!" He plunged deeper into his own chest and grinned in triumph, having found his prize. "No matter what…" Gabe was just a step too late as Malus wrenched his prize free, a gold striped gray soul. "I will never regret the life I have lived!"
Boom!"
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"What the hell is that?!" Soul cried as a miniature tornado suddenly appeared within the center of Death City.
"That's where Gabriel and the others are." Hisako commented. Both she and Maka then turned, stunned to find that their earlier vicous foe had sunk to her knees and streams of tears had begun falling down her cheeks.
"Oh Malus. What have you done?" Plaguea's voice had begun to break.
"What do you mean? Explain Plaguea?!" Maka demanded.
"Malus has surrendered his soul and given his body to the host of his great power. The Eternal Archfiend, Ymir."
"Ymir?" Hisako had never heard the name before. She turned to her senior but only got a shrug, Maka was confused as well.
"It is no surprise that you do not know of it." The witch had seemed to regain her composure and picked herself back up. She turned her back to the two women and whistled for a new chimera.
"And where do you think you're going?" Maka readied her scythe, halting the witch in her tracks.
"Our battle is over. Ymir will level this city and everyone in it."
"We'll deal with that after we deal with you." Maka spat, however, Hisako took her by the shoulder.
"Go."
"But-"
"Gabriel and the others will fare better if you get there as soon as possible. I'll handle this. So go." Hisako said with an assuring grin. Maka however still looked worriedly.
"Maka she's right, we need to go now!" Soul called up to her.
"You're sure you can take her."
"No sweat!" Natsumi assured her.
"Then I leave it to you. Let's go Soul!" Maka threw her scythe into the air, prompting its silvery wicked wings to sprout from the shaft. Maka hopped onto her weapon, broom stick style and flew off in the direction of the swirling super cell.
"Hmph. You're either very brave or very foolish." Plaguea commented bringing her spear to bare.
"No, I just have faith in my allies. As they have faith in me." Hisako raised her shield blade and charged ahead, ready to continue battle.
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Gabriel/Allison grounded her feet into the dirt as the biting winds reached huricane speeds. Spray of icy mist and shards of frozen crystal swirled and danced through the air, being lifted ever higher. And at the storms center, was the immobile Malus.
His limp corpse, still grasping his soul in his one remaining arm, was being lifted ever higher into the storms eye. The ice shards started to gather above him, melding together into a larger and larger icy crystal. The crystal now fully formed, golden lines began to run across its face. The lines twisted and intersected and finally flashed to life as a golden eye with a green iris.
"What the hell is that thing?" Wu gasped as the winds finally died down. Gabriel couldn't answer him; he was completely consumed with fright. No matter how much of an attitude he had given Surtr when they conversed within his subconscious, he knew to respect and fear the power of the arch-fiends. Especially, if one ever got out.
"Look at that! I…I think that thing is crying." Akira pointed out. It was true. Upon close inspection , one could see that streams of blue liquid had began to flow from the green and gold eye as it stared upon the lifeless body of its vessel. The crystal had begun to rumble and quiver in a frightful parody of sobs.
"It's distracted." Gabe observed. "This might be our only chance to take this thing down! You two with me?"
"Hah! You gotta ask?" Wu grinned, Sora threw a thumbs up from her reflection in the metal boot. Wu got down to a knee, sending his white soul flaring up and prompting Sora's wings to flash to life.
"I don't really understand what's happening, but it seems obvious that this fight isn't over yet." His handle grew from Akira's shoulder as a wheel grew from his leg. "Let's end this." Akira revved the engine, sending the wheel on his leg roaring to life.
"Then let's do this!" The three meisters leaped to the air as one.
"Hissatsu: Meteora!"
"Gyro Kick!"
"Lucifer Rising!"
The round-house, flying side and front kick finishers smashed into the side of the occupied crystal monolith at once. Sure enough, cracks began to race across the frozen glass. The three teens sensed victory at hand, until they noticed that the eye was now staring side ways, glaring directly at them.
"What the-!" Gabriel/Allison gasped as a thin, pale arm exploded from the ice at their feet and grasped them about the throat. The remaining ice suddenly shattered to bits, but instead of falling it hung in midair.
"Be gone, insects."
The ice instantaneously flew out in all directions clipping and slicing into Akira and Wu and sending flying back down to the ground. But, that was not all.
Kkkkyyyyyaaaaa!
Gabe heard Allison's scream as grey sparks suddenly exploded from his body. Gabe watched in horror as Allison suddenly fell away from him. He reached out for her but his hand could not reach.
"I've got her!" Sakuya slid into place beneath her falling partner and caught her, using her body to soften the fall. Gabriel would have sighed in relief, had his windpipe not been being crushed in the now fully formed Arch-fiends hand.
"We've never been properly introduced have we? Greetings vessel of Surtr, I am Ymir." The arch-fiends soft and delicate sounding voice matched the appearance it took. Where as Surtr had been a demon with feral, animalistic features, Ymir took the form of an angelic woman with flawless, pure white skin. Her hair was long and colored a silver blue. White wings seemed to grow from her head, in a strange resemblance to ears. She was skadly dressed with thin cloth wrapping about her waist and chest and long, wide sleeves covering her arms. And her eyes were twin pools of gold with iris's colored a poison green.
Gabe struggled in the woman's grasp but even his strength paled in comparison to the being's he now faced. With but her index finger, Ymir turned Gabe's head from side to side getting a good look at his face. He could offer no resistance; the thought that this being could easily snap his neck with but a twist of her index finger made him sick to his stomach.
"You seem to share your brother's handsome feature's, as unkempt as you keep them." Ymir observed. "But I fear that is the end of your similarities. Truly, my counterpart was given a poor lot when given a vessel. You possess none of Malus's might nor his drive."
Gabe attempted to grin. "Happy…to disappoint." The grip on his throat immediately increased causing him to gasp for air.
"Put. Him. Down!" Black Star was suddenly at the arch-fiend's side, Tsukiyoha about his wrist and filling his crackling yellow fist with its black energy. "Soul Threat!"
Ymir didn't even blink as the crackling palm strike sailed for her face. She didn't even turn her attention from Gabriel. Instantaneously, a sheet of ice formed in Black Star's war path, not only repelling his attack but absorbing the energy from it as well.
"How did-!" The shinobi's question was left unanswered as the sheet of ice began to crackle as yellow electricity blasted from its center, striking the Shibusen veteran in the chest. Black Star gasped in pain as what felt like his own wavelength was shout right back into him, albeit corrupted and amplified in order to hurt him.
"Black…Star." Gabe growled in anger. He removed his hands from the iron grip of the icy woman and summoned Leviathan to his demonic hand. His fist now encased in flames, Gabe repeatedly smashed his fist into Ymir's arm. His constant assault rewarded him with the satisfying sound of ice cracking and finally relief as Ymir's hand broke off from her wrist, freeing him of her grip.
Ymir watched on unconcerned, as Gabriel unfurled his wings, enabling him to safely glide back to the ground. He flung off the now immobile hand, shattering it against the ground like glass.
'She had plenty of opportunities to finish me off in that instant, why didn't she?' Gabe thought himself.
That's her style. She likes to play with her targets, likes to make them suffer before she ends it.
Gabe immediately recognized the grating voice. 'Who asked you to comment?'
Technically you did. Personally, I was never fond of her methods. I believed if you got to work to have fun instead of just getting it over with, well there's not much point in it. The fiery Arch-fiend rambled.
'Swell.'
As the two conversed internally. Gabe watched as Ymir called a gust of icy wind to her severed arm. The ice seemed to fade into the broken limb, forming a new forearm and hand, exactly alike to the one she lost. Ymir then turned her attention to the still hovering, prone form of Malus. Her eyes seemed to soften sadly.
Slowly, she and the corpse descended to the ground, landing several yards opposite Gabriel. The corpse of her deceased vessel then floated directly to her arms as she sat. The sight of Ymir laying Malus's head upon her lap immediately silenced the Devil Buster and his tenet.
"I'm sure this is a surprise to you." She stated as she began to run a hand through the dead witch's hair. "You cannot comprehend the amount of love I had for this boy. I am truly grateful to Plaguea for making him my vessel. His ambition, his power, his cruelty. I felt as if he had been made especially for me." Her face immediately darkened. "And you took him from me."
"He has taken countless people from countless others. I won't say it's a fair trade, but I'm sure as hell not going to feel guilty about it." Gabriel argued back. Gabe grabbed the shoulder of his black blazer and flung his coat away, revealing his scarred, bare upper body. He then removed Thomas's fedora and placed it on the ground at his feet. "Now we finish this."
Ymir chuckled. "If I recall correctly; Malus promised you suffering, for you and your loved ones." Gabe stiffened at her retort. "In honor of my lost lover, I shall fulfill his wish."
"Like hell you will!" Red flames ignited along Gabe's right arm as he slammed his fist into the ground, sending a line of flame racing for the seated Ymir.
Ymir placed her vessel upon the ground and stood to face the incoming attack. Gripping her left forearm and pointing her hand up, she called multiple gust of frozen wind to her palm. The ice gathered into the shape of a multi-pointed crystal. Ymir pointed her new projectile toward the incoming fire and launched, sending it soaring at high speeds. "Diamond Dust!" (D: Get over it, Shiva fans)
The crystal met Ifrit Grenade head on, but instead of colliding, the flames sputtered and instantly extinguished themselves. Gabe blinked in shock and braced his arms to block the oncoming attack.
"No no no. That would be too easy."
The crystal suddenly redirected its course, now heading to the right and away from Gabriel. Unfortunately, it was now on a collision course with Gabriel's gathered friends.
"No!" Gabe attempted to run after the escaping crystal. Hoping to deflect it, repel it, take the blow, anything beyond what he could not bare to see. And what envitably did happen.
The affect was instantaneous. The crystal exploded in a whirl of white mist and frozen shards. Gabe heard no screams. And he saw no movement. But this only added weight to his heavy heart. As the mist faded, Gabe could make out the prone forms of his comrades lying unconscious in the snow and ice. All of them, even the sturdy Wu Tian, lay bloodied, scratched and covered in a light layer of frost. The last thing Gabriel saw, before a red light seemed to explode in his skull, was the sight of Sakuya covering an equally wounded Allison, both of them appeared completely lifeless.
"As promised, you shall watch the suffering of your friends before you die." Ymir stated with a pleased pitch to her voice.
Gabe turned on the chuckling woman with a piercing glare in his eyes and a snarl on his face.
"DAMN YOU!" His wings unfurled and his arm ablaze, Gabriel charged the calm Arch-fiend with his fist pulled back. His hand had come within inches of the sneering woman's face, until…
Slice!
"Gaah!" Gabriel fell painfully at the cruel woman's feet. His left wing falling some feet away from him; having been severed from him, the fiery membrane sputtered out and the wing dissolved into ash.
"H-how…?" Gabe grunted through the pain. "How do you have Fenrir?"
Sure enough, the Arch-fiend wielded the crystal great sword that Malus always favored. Ymir, grinned and pointed the blade back toward Malus's body. Gabe's eye's widened in shock. Malus's body was fading! His lower body had already disappeared , having become snow and forged the Fenrir that Ymir now wielded. Soon Malus's upper body had become to fade as well, the ice it created beginning to swirl around the end of Ymir's great sword.
"Even in death, he serves my needs." Soon a horned guard and long triangular blade grew from the Fenrir's pommel, reforging Malus's glaive. Ymir marveled at the weapon her dead vessel created for her and rested her head against the colossal blade, a serene smile crossing her face. "I believe I shall call it Malus; in honor of my dead lover."
"Don't get to close to that toy. I'll just break it again." Gabriel growled attempting to rise to his knees. But an impact across his back immediately floored him once again, Ymir's foot planted firmly into the center of his spine.
"A devil, if that is what you call yourself, should not speak so highly. He should remain beneath god's feet…" She raised the Hrunting end of the Malus glaive over Gabe, poised to stab. "And stripped of his wings!"
Stab!
"Grrraaaaahhhhh! Hurk!" The blade plunged deep into his shoulder blade, directly beneath his remaining wing. Blood filled Gabriel's throat as the Arch-fiend took hold of his wing and pulled. Gabriel cried out in pain as he struggled to remove the slender woman from his back. And still the sound of tearing flesh could be heard as the bat like wing was ripped away, sinew by sinew.
Rip!
Now Gabriel did not cry out in pain. The pain was too great and so much blood was filling his lungs that he had to cough and wheeze for breath. Ymir tossed the lifeless wing aside as it joined its twin and became ash on the wind. Blood oozed from the scar across Gabriel shoulder blade. Ymir, sneered and flung the blood from her blade.
"Still not enough you must suffer more." Ymir grabbed a handful of Gabriel's hair, lifting him from the ground and off of his feet as the Arch-fiend ascended, uninfluenced into the air.
As the cruel woman flew away with Gabriel in tow, a single form attempted to pick her self up from the snow. The brown haired girl panted in pain, but still tried to rise to her feet, her hand futilely reaching out toward the retreating duo.
"Gabriel." Allison muttered as fatigue overtook her determination and she inevitably began to fall. Suddenly, strong hands caught her falling form. As her mind fell into blackness she could only make out a head of spiky hair and parting words of assurance.
"Don't worry, this big star isn't about to let that prehistoric bitch win."
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"Open your eyes, failed vessel of Surtr."
Normally, Gabriel would have ignored it when most people tried to tell him what to do, but right now he was in too much pain, he had no strength to disobey.
Squinting his eyes, Gabe could vaguely make out rows of buildings. Opening his eyes wider he could see a vast desert and he could hear a raging battle still going on at the foot of the city.
"Quite a view." Ymir commented. Her face was just inches beside his own. He would have smashed his fist directly into her arrogant grin had he not been able to move his arms, legs or any part of his body besides his head.
The Arch-fiend had taken care in restraining him in a way that would give him the perfect view of the city. His entire lower body had been covered in ice and was interconnected to the concrete ground. His arms had been spread out akimbo and frozen in a cruel parody of a crucifixion.
"From here you will watch and listen as your precious sanctuary is destroyed brick by brick. Right here, at the door of your precious academy."
It was true. Gabe could barely crane his neck and see the first flight of descending stairs. There was another truth he had come to realize, he had been beaten. His friends and loved ones would be slaughtered and he would be helpless to save them.
'Just like Malus promised.'
There is a way out of this you know.
Surtr again.
Just give in. You were so close that one time back in Hokkaido. Let the greater part of your psyche take control and she will be stopped.
'At what cost? No, if anything I want to stay me when I die. I want to stay Gabriel, the boy raised by Shibusen.'
Shibusen is dead kid. There's no hope to stop her now.
'There's always hope, especially when it comes to these idiots.'
Why do you say that?
'Because idiots are invincible.'
Bam!
Ymir tumbled back as the wave length slug slammed into her chest. Gabe could only raise his head as the black and white stripped head came into view from the stairway.
"Sorry were late." Liz called.
"Hahahaha. She fell down!" Patty cackled.
"You have some explaining to do later…" KID said accusingly to the immobile Devil Buster. He then looked awkwardly away and said. "But for what it's worth; good work Gabriel. I'll handle the rest."
Gabriel would have cried if he could. "Tha-thank you boss."
"Hey! I'm here too!" Black Star suddenly came tearing up the stairwell. He didn't watch where he was going and immediately smashed right into a surprised KID.
"What the hell are you doing!" KID demanded angrily
"Oi oi! You're not going to steal all the glory. I was apart of this fight long before you were!"
"We're actually really sorry about that." Tsubaki sweat dropped.
"You two get along as well as ever I see."
Both men looked up as Maka landed lightly between them, smacking them both with a double Maka Chop.
This is a rescue?
'Umm.'
"Ingrates!" A blast of cold wind suddenly got all three adults attention as Ymir had pulled herself back to her feet and glared murderously at the veterans.
"Hmph. Looks like trouble's comin'." Soul commented nervously.
"Ah, married life rob you of your spine Soul?" Black Star asked with a grin, spinning Tsubaki in black Kunai mode on his finger.
"Please!" Soul waved the comment away. "Do you know who I'm married t-." He instinctively closed his mouth when he sensed Maka's death glare.
"Still, it's nice to have you guy's back." KID grinned, crossing Liz and Patty across his chest.
"The trinity's back together. So let's enjoy ourselves." Maka said with a smile as she twirled Soul around her neck until she brought him down resting on her shoulder.
Ymir snarled as she expectantly swiped her blade through the air. She had just passed Gabriel when she heard soft chuckling.
"Laughing at your own funeral boy?"
Gabe's chuckles turned into full laughter as he lifted his head and looked at the startled Arch-fiend with a big grin on his face. "No. I'm laughing at yours."
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Done! It's been a week coming but I've finally commenced the final battle. That's right next update will be the conclusion to the Malus saga and an epilogue following.
I won't reveal too much about what's going to happen but I will give a hint in the form of a question.
Who else liked episode 12 of one of Capcom's latest and greatest projects?
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