Week 5, Day 2

**POV Sal**

It's surprisingly cold today and it looks like it wants to rain as thundered echo'd in the distance across a bruised sky. I hear the door of the bunkhouse open and quietly close as someone starts climbing the ladder. Must be Kairon no one else is up this early. "Yo, how you doing bro." The demonic swordsmen greats me with a friendly wave and a warm smile. His wavelength feels calm and steady, it never gets old seeing that smile.

"I'm good dude, I'd ask how you are but it's written all over your face." We chuckle as Kairon pulls out a cigerette from behind his ear. "Did you sleep okay?"

Snapping his fingers to spark his smoke as he sits back. "Yeah sound mate, you?"

"Good and yeah I slept pretty good." I pause to take a sip of my tea. "I've been meaning to ask Kairon, is everything okay?" He looks at me with some confussion. "It's just these past coupld of days you've been quite happy but, i've noticed that every so often you'll seem really tense and on edge, like someone's stalking you or something."

"Oh yeah, that." His voice is a little cold, almost saddened. "My demons are getting stronger, and they're starting to manifest themselves." A slight look of worry comes over me as he explains. "Only I can see or hear them but once, while Tsubaki was speaking to me, her voice went demonic and then went back to normal." He pauses for a quick moment. "But there is good news, I found my sister. I don't know how it happened but my sister's soul is a part of mine and I can resonate with her, primarily to help keep my mood up but also to control my wavelength better in combat by having a more stable power up." He pauses and takes a drag. "Conveniently, The second demon I discovered is her demon so thats lightened the load a little. However, that still leaves me with Diablo to deal with and that isn't a problem I can just take head on. I'm gunna have to get smart if I'm gunna beat him." He pauses once more for another drag. "But what if my sister isnt strong enough to face her demon, or if I buckle under the weight of mine? I'm surprised i've made it this far." Kairon's plight is a serious one, better think of something helpful and empathetic.

"You'll find a way Kairon, I know it." I give him a fist bump. "But if you need battle smarts, Frost is your guy. Just don't forget that we're all here for you okay?" Thats the best I had!?

He gives me an asuring nod. "Thanks man, I'll never forget."... Roll with it.

We stare at the clouds for a few moments. "So, when can we meet your sister?"

A look of surprise settles on Karion's face. "Well, I'm still trying to figure that out. However, the day I figure it out, I'll just walk in with her and you can look all stoic like you saw it coming." We start laughing imagining the look on the other team members faces.

"That'll be a laugh. What kind of person is she?" I'm curious to hear the similarities and differences between them.

"Well, I know she is a witch of some variety. If I had to sum her up in three words, she is kind, compasionate and patient. Unlike me, who is proud, passionate and impatient to a fault in comparison. We are similar in almost every way but the reasons behind what we like and dislike, set us apart. For example, we both love to fight. I love the thrill of the battle. The exilleration of the back and fourth between opponents. However Karina, loves the strength and knowlege gained from a fight, learning their weaknesses as quickly as possible and exploiting them. The one thing that sets us apart is our temper. I have a short fuse and tend to explode in stages, each one bigger than the last. My sister on the other hand has a long fuse and will explode all at once but her bang is bigger than all of mine put together.

"Wow." A look of surprise strikes both of us as Alix climbs the ladder to join us. "That's a pretty big boom! The fireworks must be incredible."

"Yeah, it must be. I never seen it, but I know that her fury runs deep." Kairon seemed worried, as if the thought alone terryfied him.

I shoot him a reasuring look and place my hand on his shoulder. "Don't sweat it Kai, your on DWMA's best team. We always got your back no matter what, you got that?"

"Yeah!" Alix exclaims and places her hand on his other shoulder. "And if anything or anyone hurts my family, we fuck 'em up!" Her words are sharp but said from a place of care, I can tell. Her face is stern but theres a caring look behind her amber eyes.

"Thanks guys. This means so much to us." Kairon's happiness couldnt be contained as a single tear passed down his cheek. He looks up with a determined smile. "I won't let you down!"

**Later That Day**

AN: Doom's soundtrack felt pretty cool to write and proof read this to. Hears a link to a mix with just the juicy bits /watch?v=UwvT28EFyus - copy this and paste it on the end of youtube if you wanna listen and you'll find it, it wont save as a hyper link for some reason.

"Alright, Sal, Kairon, Alix. Today is random scenario training as you know." Blackstar stared at us intensly as he spoke. "You have been split into two teams, The other half of your squad is at the sparing hill and will be holding off waves of digistructed Kishin. Your mission is the fight your way through the infested bootcamp, regroup with your squad and evac through the gauntlet. Remeber that your on the clock, your allies are stranded behind enemy lines, they're hoplessly outmatched and they will die if you don't save them. Any questions?" His words are clear and precise as he paces before us, occasionally reffering to the white board beside him. His face was deadly serious.

"No, Sir!" We all say together.

"Then what are you waiting for? Are you simply going to just stand there?" An evil look sits in his eyes as the sky darkens. "By the way." Tsubaki steps from a nearby shadow as Blackstar catches out attention once more. "I'm one of the threats!" Tsubaki becomes the enchanted sword and lunges for us.

A huge clang and the sound of granding metal thickened the air "Go!" Kairon shouts back. "I'll hold him find a path and get cutting!"

"GOT IT!" Alix and I start running through the gate into the barracks and fog, the sound of blades ringing behinds us drawing closer. "Alix duck!" She rolls as my Lucifer pendant summons my angel slayer battleaxe in a safire blaze. I swing and pin a kishin to the wall by its neck, Decapitating it as I rip the blade from the wall and keep moving.

"Take a left!" She stops and charges something as I follow her direction. Kairon grabs her before she finishes charging and dive rolls to follow me. A black shadow flew past them, an explosion of blood jetting back from its direction. "The fuck was that!"

"That was Blackstar, he is fucking serious we are gunna die here if we don't move." Kairon was determined as he spoke, like nothing has fazed him. "Come on."

We begin moving again with pace and caution. We turn a corner and are met with a small group of four kishin. Alix fires an explosive shot at the center two from her arm cannon. The two she aiming at are turned to paste and staggers the other two. Kairon and I, in synch, punch through the skulls of the dazed monsters. Alix pulls out her combat shotgun as a few drop in on us. She shoots one and decapitates another with her machete. I throw my axe at one, teleport to it using my pedant and rip it in two as Kairon turn three more into a pile of limbs in a flurry of sword attacks. Alix is laying waste to a few more coming in over a nearby roof top while Kairon is watching her flank. I drop in behind and what our backs while we advance, changing my axe into a spear and shield. "Shit." Alix's shotgun ran dry as two more closed in from the front. She holsters her shotgun on her back and jumps, readying a left cross. The Kishin's head exploded as the Demo Girl's fist slammed into it cranium while she readied a right upercut for it's friend. Her fist connects and its body is torn apart from the blast. She pulls out her shotgun and begins reloading. Two more come round the corner ahead. She stops dead, in this moment Kairon fired a pistol that I didn't notice him manifest. The bullets travel around Alix as they find their targets. The Kishin collapse as Alix catches her breath. "Who taught you how to shoot like that? Was it Frost? For that matter since when can you make guns!" Alix's question is deffinitly a good one, I never knew.

"First, my sister is a Bullet Witch." The Demon Swordman Pauses to cut a Kishin in two. "Second, just now I guess." I notice his lilac eyes has a red ring around the edge. He gazes at Tac 45. pistol in his hand. "It lighter than I thought. Suppose i'm just used to heavier." He takes three more shots at some Kishin coming over a roof to our left scoring three neat bullseyes. "It fucking works though!"

"Well your sister and Frost are gunna get along when they meet!" I shout over the Kairon as I shield bash a Kishin, setiing it ablaze as I launch him from my site. Cutting my way through a few more as I combine my spear and shield to form my battleaxe once more. We take a left round a bunk house are a greated with a larger than average Kishin. I throw my axe toward its bulky frame while Alix and Kairon work together charging something. Alix's realeases an almighty battle cry as an unstable ball of purple and yellow energy rockets past me. As the connon blast reached the Kishin, my battleaxe cleaved the energy wave in two, causing it to explode while simultaniously burrying itself in the skull of the beast. As it falls to its knees, I grab the haft of my axe and with a powerful scream I tear the blade through its flesh. Blood and viscera leaped from the corpse as we charge on through the barracks. "Just two one hundred and seventy-five meters to go guys." Let's just hope the rest of the squad can keep moving when we regroup. However, a new threat appeared.

Crona stepped out from behing a wall with obsidion black greatsword. "What will you do now?"

In that moment fifty meters back, Blackstar slide to a halt. "There you are!"

"Charge Crona." Kairon's words are clear and calm as we start following his direction. "We can dodge Balckstar and hopefully use his momentum to clear the way." Kairon closed his eyes and focussed his soul perception as he ran. Our boots pounded the dirt while close on our target. Blackstar's killer revolve thickened the air once more as he closed us down. "Ready, now!" We dive through a window into a bunk house and dive out the otherside. "Keep moving, no matter what!"

"Roger!" Alix and I say in unison.

"Screach Gamma!" Crona's voice is loud and clear as she releases her ability.

Kairon smashes his boots to the dirt and readies a defensive stance. He slams his blade against the energy wave, the metalic grinding filling the air with noise. pieces of Kairons blade begin to break away as he struggles to hold it back. With a loud scream, he hurls the energy wave back to Crona. "Fuck!" Is all I hear Kairon exclaim before he is launched from his feet and past us, impacting into a nearby wall.

"Kairon! You okay?" I shout ahead as I begin changing my axe into a shield and spear.

"I'm fine!" Anger and pain plagued his voice. "Just keep moving!" The enraged Kairon pulled himself out the wall. "That was a strong punch cousin!"

"You won't beat me with raw strength. Your going to have to control that power." She stops by Kairon's fallen sword.

I tap Kairon on the sholder as we run past. "Give her hell bro!"

Thanks for reading guys, In case you didnt already notice im trying to give everyone in "Final Echo" their own episode for character development purposes. I hope your still enjoying it but we are almost through the boot camp. As a side not I might end up doing a second story that runs along side this one so you can read the other side of the operation E.G. what Hanah, Nathan and Frost were up to this episode. If your deffinitely wanting it let me know and ill begin work on it either straight away or when I finish this story. Have a nice day guys hope everyone is doing well ^_^