8 MAY 18

More added just like before.

Few Day Later

Star thought it would be best to stay at her place and have Marco relax after everything that has happened. He put on a show to his family that he was getting better, but his eyes kept looking dead inside. He was able to see a new person thought out the day now...

"You remember the first kill you had with our knife?" Asuka looked at him as she played with the boot knife that had their names on it. While she was no longer covered in maggots anymore, the Jinko looked just like the day she died. Blood all over her face, the wound over her heart had the broken arrow still in it and her eyes were the same gray color as he last seen them.

"Why are you following me around?" Marco walked alone along the halls with her beside him.

"If I had to give you an answer to your question, which I don't, I would say it has to do something with you summoning me. This is my first doing all this stuff you know?" She used the knife to pick out the dirt under nails.

"So I'm mentally torturing myself because I'm reasonable for your death… sounds fun." He looks at her from the corner of his eye and keeps his voice in a low tone.

"Something like that Reaper!" She kept playing with the knife.

"I told you, that's not my name anymore, it's Marco..." He had explained this before after settling down now having her back in his life.

"Bla, I told you that name sucks, Reaper is much better and more fitting for you!" She places her hands behind her head and smiles with her eyes closed, still getting a kick out of pissing him off to no end.

"Yes… I do remember my first kill with it!" He smiles at her, a real smile that hasn't been on his face for days.

Flashback

"Come on Reaper, these assholes don't have shit on us!" Asuka stands back to back with him surrounded and heavily outnumbered, what's new?

"That simplifies our problem of getting to these cocksuckers and killing them Major!" They laugh together.

"BIG TALK FUCKFACE, KILL THEM NOW!? ALL OF THEM!?" The enemies charge them not knowing who they were dealing with.

"That was a mistake!" Reaper smiles and they start hacking and slashing their opponents.

"WATCH THIS!?" Asuka stabs the nearest enemies in the throat, then picks him up by hooking her arm between his legs and shoulder. She spins a few time then throws him to his comrades impaling himself on three of their swords.

"Ouch… he's not going to be able to walk that one off!" He was having an adrenaline rush now dropping his foot on an enemy chest that was on the ground. Reaper's foot damn near goes though the man as his sternum is crushed with most of his rips breaking with it.

"DAMN RIGHT!? NOW SHOW ME WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF REAPER!" Asuka was having a battle high from everything going on around them. These were the times she loved so much, just her and Reaper stacking up bodies all around them.

"RIGHT!" Another enemy charges him with his hands tightly gripping the handle of the blade above his head and giving one final battle cry. In one slice, Reaper cuts off the man arms at the elbows. It was such a clean cut, the enemy didn't even know what happened until he saw the other haves on the ground and the blood spares out the stumps.

Marco then shrugs at the enemy then deliver another cut as his head is removed just as fast. "Poor fucker, didn't even know what happen!" He laughs on the top of his lungs.

"Cute, but you're falling behind like always!" He looks up to Asuka with 5 more bodies lying near her feet.

"Show off..." They start running side by side cutting down the enemies on their left and right.

"Oh that fat bitch is mine!" She runs at a speed Marco couldn't match, the beast was huge standing at 15 feet tall and well over 400 pounds. His chest armor did little on covering his belly, she runs between his legs as his battle ax was near hitting her.

Marco kept an eye on her ass now slicing his sword cutting a man from the side of his neck down and stopping in the hip bone. The sword was stuck and he was having a hard time pulling it out from the corpse.

Asuka was on her knees sliding on the ground as she cut the whole length of his stomach as she slides pass him, the guts hits the ground making a disgusting wet plopping noise. The enemy falls on his knees trying desperately on putting the organs back where they belong.

She stands up to look at Marco, but finds an enemy ready to cut her in half before Reaper's boot knife enters the side of his skull all the way to handle. The enemy stops all movement and mumbles something before falling down to the ground.

"Fuck! I've been waiting to use this little bitch!" Marco couldn't stop smiling as she looks up at him in shock.

"You… you just saved my bacon…" She then starts to smile, an enemy runs at her side, she cut his throat before being anywhere near her without looking up.

"That's my job Asuka! I can't have my favorite Major dying on me!" He walks back to his sword that was still left in the body a few feet behind them.

Flashback Over

The memory ends with him smiling even more, he looks over to find Asuka is gone, "Damn, I need to get my head checked out…"

Marco walks in the throne room for a meeting the King and Queen wanted with him. "Marco! How nice to see you again my soon to be son-in-law!"

"Good afternoon Queen Butterfly" He walks up and gives them a bow as he crossed his right arm under his chest, they make their way to meet him at the bottom of the steps.

"Thank you for the bow, but that's is not needed, a very nice gesture nevertheless!" The Queen didn't realize how formal he was.

"Marco my boy, please have a seat over here with us." King Butterfly places his hand on Marco's back leading him to a small table with three chairs.

"Here you go my darling!" River pulls out the chair for his wife.

"Thank you, dear. Marco, we would like to have a talk about your time when you were part of that war and how you're taking it..." Moon goes right into the heart of the conversation.

"Okay…" The lation was not going to enjoy this… not one bit.

"Son… the feeling of losing men in battle, it's a horrible feeling we know it all too well..." River looks into Marco's eyes seeing nothing, but sadness and pain.

"Your majesty… losing Asuka wasn't like losing my other men. Those two years of fighting… our enemy and each other… she wasn't just another Soldier to me… I never knew how important she was to me until she was no longer standing at my side..." He hasn't opened up to his family like this about her yet.

"We can see the way it's affecting you Marco, the guards told us what happened to lead up on the episode you had..." She wished to never see that side of him again.

"I want to apologize for that… I should have been able to keep myself under control… that painting of the Jinko… it pushed me over the edge." His hands starts to shake looking back on that day.

Moon places her hands over his, "Marco, there's no need to apologize!" She gives him a warming smile.

"The men you lost in battle are never truly gone until you forget about them. The best way to move on with your life is by having closure!" River was a foot Soldier before becoming King and fought in battles against the Monster Army. He has felt the same pain and carried the same weight everyday.

"I've never realize how much this was affecting me… I would never hurt Star or the girls!" His eyes start to swallow up with tears.

"No Marco, we know you love our daughter very much and your family just as much. We also love our little Ember and her sisters ever so much. You're a very lucky man to have a family like yours" Moon keeps smiling at him, the Butterfly family received a fantastic addition to their family with his help.

"They're so wonderful… I want to keep them happy…. I want to move on with my life your majesty… I'm scared this pain is going to push them away..." Marco never really thought about how this would affect his family until now.

Asuka walks up from behind him and sits on the table staring at him with those grey lifeless eyes.

"That's good to hear my boy! I know you can put this behind you and move on with your life. You'll be King yourself very soon leading this Kingdom to a new future with Star!" River was proud of Marco and knew he would make an excellent leader again.

Asuka rolls her eyes and leans her face next to River, "Let's just hope he doesn't let them all die like I did, you wouldn't believe how much this kills!" She pokes at the arrow with blood spilling over at Marco's hands.

He pulls them away and from the Queen's hands, "I… I hope you right King Butterfly…"

Moon was put off by the way he pulled his hands away, "Marco… do you see anything that other don't see?"

He looks up to Asuka who is now placing both her hands under her chin and tilting her head to the side pouting. "No your majesty… I don't see anyone… may I be excused?"

Before they could answer him, "DADDDDDYYYYY, Ember keeps pulling at my horns, pleases tell her to stop!"

Gidget found her father and ran up to him, Maria waited at the door for them.

"But they are so cool! Mama Hekapoo would let me play with hers… well, until she burned my hands that one time… and then there was this time she ran at me like a bull… also-" Marco puts his hand up to stop her.

"Sugar bunch, why don't we go outside and I'll give you guys a shot at taking me down again? I still need to get you guys back on the last one!" He gives them a small smile.

"Who would've ever thought that Reaper would be such a pushover with his kids… you need to return back to that battlefield and leave this horrible place! They're making you weak!" Asuka was laying her back on the table looking over at him with the corner of her eyes.

He looks back at the woman and then stands up while the girls pulling him to leave. The door closed behind them and River looks to his wife ,"I think he'll be just fine!"

"No River… he said he doesn't see 'anyone'… something is deeply wrong" The Queen didn't like what she just saw. Nothing good can come about all of this...

So Marco has a guardian demon now, I wonder how that will play out for him. This idea is from a doujin manga of Evangelion titled Re-take. Asuka is dead and haunting the shit out of Shinji, she pretty much makes him feel even worse than he did before and tries to have him kill himself to be with her again.

It's pretty sick and I love it so much lol. I couldn't just have Asuka die and leave her at that so here she is now going to kick Marco's ass everyday until he's able to get over her death. The flashback about the boot knife came from beasty12321 and I thought it was a nice touch that had to be used.

Remember guys and gals, he did say "I rather she keep it… maybe one day I can come back for it" So keep an eye out for that day to come soon. This will be my last update so be ready for more very soon and please send me your thoughts and idea.

beasty12321, OneClickGod, bloody dragon fan, and ADdude have been PMing me left and right with great ideas that are really going to push this story to the next level.