Chapter five: Time for action. Am I a weapon or a meister?
Mello gives the final blow not having to use Harmony cannon to finish off the kishins. He then stands as they now have two kishin eggs. "There we go. Good work." He makes sure Matt gets one and Near gets one since he wants to make them both into death scythes which will mean making sure his weapons have an equal amount of souls.
Some commotion is going on and Mello turns to it.
"What is it?" Near asks.
"I hear something." Mello responds and moves towards the sound. He presses himself against a wall so he can peer around the corner instead of going around it without knowing what's going on.
"Be careful." Matt says as Mello starts to peer around the corner.
With Matt and Near in weapon form they can't see what's going on.
Mello moves back into hiding behind the wall.
"What is it Mello? What'd you see?" Matt questions.
"Witches." Mello explains. "There has to be at least eight of them."
"Do they look like they are maybe doing some sort of ritual?" Near questions.
"Not likely. It definitely didn't look like it." Mello says.
"Wait! Guys shush! I think I can hear what they are saying." Matt says.
The other two go silent as all three listen.
"Well then I guess we'll see you then and don't forget. Ribbit." One witch says.
"Chi. Chi. Chi." One of the other witches says.
After that there is the sounds of the witches leaving.
"What are they planning?" Mello wonders out loud.
"We should report this to Lord Death." Near suggests.
Mello nods and lets his weapons turn to human form.
Near makes sure the witches are gone while Mello and Matt go to contact Lord Death.
Mello breaths on the window. "Forty two forty five sixty four. Whenever you want to knock on Deaths door."
The window ripples as they wait for Lord Death to answer.
Lord Death answers. "Ah hello hello. What's up? How's the mission?"
"We've completed our mission but we have a problem." Mello says.
"Oh? And what seems to be the problem?" Lord Death asks interested.
Matt takes a small step forward. "We spotted a group of witches. They should be gone by now but there was about eight of them."
"Oh dear. That is troubling." Lord Death says.
"If there is witches hanging in this city then should we take up an investigation?" Mello asks. "We can look into it."
"Witches are extremely dangerous. You can look a little into it but do not try hunting them down yourselves. I will send a Death scythe to help finish the job. Eight witches is much too dangerous." Lord Death says. "Come back as soon as possible and leave it to the Death scythe."
Before Mello or Matt can reply there is something else that happens.
"Ah!" Near is suddenly picked up off the ground by a rope being controlled by witches magic.
Mello and Matt turn to see this as a witch is seen on the roof controlling the rope that has a grip on Near's ankle holding him upside down.
Near is high up in the air right by the witch.
"Sorry Lord Death but we got to go." Mello says quickly then dashes off with Matt following. "Matt! Weapon form!" He commands.
Matt quickly transforms into weapon form and Mello catches him.
Mello aims Matt at the rope and fires at it, careful to not hit Near, until it drops him. "Near! Weapon form!"
Near nods and transforms as he is falling towards the ground.
Mello jumps catching Near in his weapon form and skids to a stop on the ground landing on his feet only to look to the witch.
"Ribbit. I knew it. You are from the DWMA." The witch makes bombs then sends them at Mello.
Mello dodges and uses the walls of buildings to climb up onto a roof across from the witch. "At least it's only one now."
"Mello! Watch out! It's coming from behind." Near warns suddenly and quickly.
Mello turns and sees a bomb headed for him. He jumps out of the way doing a partial back flip and lands still on the roof on his hands as well as his weapons only to use the follow through as a spring to make him move back farther and lands on his feet.
"More witches! The sky!" Matt suddenly shouts in warning.
Mello looks up and spots the witches flying. "Damn it." He curses as the whiskers seem to grow only to head for him. He jumps away from the attack that slashes part of the building. He lands on the same roof as the other witch.
The witch attacks again making Mello have to move again to dodge.
Back at the DWMA…
The team are eating breakfast that morning and they over hear something worrying.
"Where do you think they are?" One girl questions her friend.
"I don't know but shouldn't they be back by now if they finished the mission?" The girls friend responds. "They've never been late before."
The team are now interested and as Tsubaki passes by their table they ask her if they can ask her about something.
Tsubaki stops walking and turns to them. "Yeah sure what is it?" She asks.
"What's the commotion about?" Matsuda asks her.
"Oh that. Well you see Mello, Near and Matt went on a mission and it was completed." Tsubaki explains remembering the job board with the one the trio took that now has 'completed' on it. "However they should have been back by now and yet they still haven't arrived. They've never been late returning from a mission before. There's some saying that they heard the three ran into a group witches but there's no way to confirm anything. All we know so far is that it looks like they have gone missing. But if they really did run into a group of witches then I hope that they'll be alright since even with one witch it is very easy to lose your life. Countless pairs of meisters and weapons have lost their lives to witches." She explains. "Lord Death called Stein and Death scythe who is the death scythe here in Death city last night most likely to discuss this."
The team share worried looks but Tsubaki's voice makes them look back to her.
"I'm sure they are fine. They are pretty strong after all. So I don't think you should worry. Just put some faith into them." She says. "Well I need to be going." She then leaves.
"I do hope they are alright." Halle says.
"Yeah." The rest of the team agree.
They continue with their breakfast though their worry is also getting to them but they still manage to eat their breakfast.
The classes they have is just dancing so after school they go for a walk to try to get their minds off of the worrisome topic.
Unexpectedly they run into a kishin, that has cone looking hands and feet that look like drills, with no one else around and boy does this kishin look hungry.
The kishin turns to them as they take a step back. "More….Power." The kishin licks what must be his lips but his head looks like it's covered with metal to look almost like a robot head. "Want more power."
"Didn't Sid say that we might be weapons or meisters?" Gevanni speaks up.
"Yeah but if that's true then we have no idea who is a weapon or even understand how to transform." Aizawa points out.
"Then what do we do with this thing?" Ukita says.
The kishin is coming straight for them. "Must have…. More power." The kishin jumps heading straight for them when the rest of the team move out of the way except Matsuda is stuck in place scared.
"Matsuda run!" Soichiro shouts.
Matsuda tries to protect his head as he prepares for impact but the unexpected happens. He starts glowing a magenta color and as the kishin soars past him he transforms.
The kishin almost ends up crashing into the ground but skids to a stop.
Matsuda has transformed into a crowbar. He opens his eyes and he lets go of his head as he realizes he hasn't been hurt. "What?" He looks down at his hands confused as he can be seen in the reflection on the crowbar.
The crowbar is mostly grey with the longer end being red and the shorter end being light brown.
"Now we can fight." Mogi goes over and grabs Matsuda. "Just don't panic." He tells the weapon.
"I'll try." Matsuda says a little shakily.
The kishin comes for them and Mogi uses Matsuda to hold off the kishins attacks.
The rest of the team pull out their guns and fire but their bullets have no effect.
But it makes the kishin distracted so Mogi slams Matsuda into the kishins head knocking it downwards to the ground.
The kishin is about to get up but Mogi reacts quickly and slams the longer end into the kishins neck moving it till the kishin is dead. The kishin vanishes and leaves behind a kishin egg.
Mogi stands normally. "That was something." He says a little quietly.
"No doubt." Matsuda agrees. "That was a little too scary for my tastes."
"But thanks to you transforming we were able to defeat the kishin." Soichiro points out as they go over to the two.
"You two should be partners. You fight so well." Ide points out.
Matsuda glows and Mogi lets go of him as he transforms back to human form. "That was scary but cool." He says with his eyes shining.
"What do we do with this?" Rester looks to the kishin egg.
"That's easy." Misa's voice says. She jumps down from a roof and lands gracefully. She has a scythe that has an orangey yellow handle with a yellowy red main blade and small back blade.
Between the two blades there is a sun looking thing that has the triangles that makes the outer part is yellowy orange with a redish orange circle then a center with yellowy orange top as well as bottom and an orange middle part that looks like a mouth with sharp teeth.
"Weapons of the EAT class eat kishin eggs that is what you have there to become stronger. Weapons from the DWMA have to eat ninety nine kishin eggs and one witches soul to become a death scythe." Misa explains. She is wearing a black and red plaid skirt and a black tank top with netting leggings that only go to her knees.
"So I gotta eat that?" Matsuda looks doubtfully at the kishin egg.
"If you ever want to advance and stay out of the extra classes for those that can't collect a single soul. That is if you are interested in the EAT class in which is when you do that." Misa says.
"How much have you collected with your weapon?" Ukita asks.
"Oh me and Sayu have collected seven." Misa responds.
The scythe glows a color that is a few shades lighter than sky blue.
Misa lets go of it as Sayu transforms beck into human form looking as she does in the Death note world.
"Depending on what kind of missions you take on the kishin can be easy or difficult. Sometimes one that looks easy is actually difficult." Sayu explains. "Oh and by the way." She goes over to Soichiro. "Did you come to visit dad?"
"Sorry but I'm not from this world. In fact all of us aren't." Soichiro says.
"Ah I heard about that. Wow it must feel strange to be in another world." Sayu says.
"A little." Ide agrees.
Sayu grabs the kishin egg then hands it to Matsuda. "Try it. Just eat it whole and act like it's just normal food. It's not bad."
Matsuda looks down to the Kishin egg.
"Don't worry. Just eat it." Sayu encourages.
"Alright but this is still a little strange." Matsuda says then he follows Sayu's instructions. He swallows and blinks. "You're right it's not that bad. Pretty much tasteless but good texture."
"Yup. Now if you and your meister collect ninety eight more then you can go on the hunt for a witches soul to become a death scythe." Sayu says with a smile. She then goes back over to Misa. "We should go. That mission won't finish on its own."
Misa nods. "Right."
Sayu transforms back to the scythe then Misa uses the wall bounce to get onto a roof then disappears from sight.
"Well that was interesting." Ukita says.
"We should probably start heading back." Rester points out as the sun is setting.
"Wow it's that late already?" Gevanni gasps.
"Time flies." Soichiro says and the group heads back to the dorms.
Matsuda plops down onto his bed.
The rest of the team went to go get something to eat but he wasn't hungry.
"Man what a day." He groans. "Who knew souls could taste like that." He rolls over onto his side and uses his arm as a pillow since he didn't plop down where the pillows are. He remembers his transformation. "I thought I was going to die." He whimpers in fear imagining what would have happened had he not transformed. "But we got saved by Misa-Misa and Sayu!" He perks up then sits up. "Well I guess I might as well get a bath in or a shower in. Maybe also get my clothes cleaned. Unless…." He opens one drawer and finds a white t-shirt with black dress pants. "Hm? There's a note." He picks up the piece of paper.
Thought you would need a change of clothes. Have these. I'm sure you'll be able to get your own in time but think of it as a cool welcome present. –Soul.
"I gotta thank Soul later." Matsuda says as he takes the change of clothes then goes to get cleaned.