"Brew rests on an island called lost island north of Alaska in the past witches had a construction facility for demon tools here run by Morrigan Lafey, she was one of the founders of the witch's council until running off into her purist of magic. That facility was her research laboratory where she took on many witches wishing to learn more on magic but an accident annihilated the facility. The accident created a magnetic filed especially rich in demonic power in the centre of the island into which humans can't venture. The demon tool tempest nicknamed brew is in there anyone who stays in there for too long will have their bodies destroyed but the same goes for our enemies. The longest anyone can stay in there is 20 minutes it's a battle to obtain Brew it's a race against time as well!" Sternly, Stein retells the plan to the group of students before him on the same boat as he and Maire heading towards the island.
"You guys remember the plan?" Marie asks them brow furrowed.
"Yes while Sid's squad supresses arachnophobia we'll head towards the magnetic field where the demon tool is." Maka recites.
"However only Marie and I will go into the field itself your mission is to standby outside of the filed and wait for our return. This is going to be a huge battle but you're the elite weapons ad technicians picked out from all one star students so fight with confidence. Listen up if we're not back in 20 minutes use Jacqueline to send out a signal for Shibusen to retreat then rendezvous with Sid's squad and leave this island." Seriously, Stein cuts Maka off as they get off the boat heating to the snowy island where they stand before the tornado of sorts, a barrier, gales of wind come crashing out of the torrents.
"If we do that what about you and Marie professor? Enemies will come into the filed too we'll go into the field and help you." Worried, Maka questions clearly concerned.
"If we enter the filed with a lot of people, the battle will only get bigger if the battle becomes protected both sides will be overwhelmed. The enemy doesn't want that either and you're at the top of our class?" Coldly, Ox adjusts his lenses.
"Don't worry if we use Marie's ability we can be back in 5 minutes regardless of how many enemies there are, we're off." Stein assures his students.
"Wish us luck." Marie smiles sweetly at the group of kids as they head inside, ready to accomplish their mission leaving the kids to defend themselves.
"Sir Mosquito Shibusen has landed on the eastern part of the island." One of arachnophobia rush over to Mosquito's side.
"Just in time…let's take brew for Lady Arachne." Proudly, Mosquito proclaims with the others swiftly joining in cheering for their lady.
"Captain Barrett what's this?" One of Shibusen soldiers question the head leader as they roam through the snow.
"Ah it's the wreckage of the demon tool construction facility must've been a huge accident this whole area's in ruins. Don't lose your focus because of the influence of the magnetic field we won't be able to sense souls or use our radios." Sid reveals to the group only then to gaps when what comes out from the snowy sheet are soldiers firing wildly at a few soldiers taking them aback.
"Get 'em!" One of the arachnophobia screams at a soldier falling flat to the ground ruby red staining the snowy sheer below.
"An ambush huh…stand your ground." Sid tells them.
"Sid look at the group in the ruins below!" Azusa in her weapon form tells Sid who holds her.
"What is it?" Sid looks through her scouter.
"That samurai is here! He's on the verge of annihilating the unit!" Azusa points out as Sid sees a familiar swordsman striking down the unit all by himself.
"Thanks Azusa good eye. Naigus I'm hitting some big game head to the designated point after you've given instructions to the squad." Sid takes out a familiar knife forming into Naigus.
"Understood." Naigus nods her head and heads off.
"Let's go Azusa." Sid rushes to the fight.
"Roger!" Azusa nods her head ready for the fight ahead.
"So it's begun…I came brimming with bloodlust but this shitty cold weather is really annoying, my balls are freezing too…are your balls freezing you bastards!?" Bellowing, Giriko roars alongside his men.
"YEAH!" The arachnophobia men roar with some golems lingering behind them as they stand their ground, waiting for the signal.
"Pair of aces." One of the arachnophobia soldiers says sat down on the snow playing cards with another.
"Wha!? You bastard you cheated didn't you?!" Angrily, the loser snaps.
"Would I cheat and give myself one pair?" Fuming, the winner disputes.
"You did it didn't you!?" The two dive at one another getting into a brawl.
"Ahhh I'm sleepy the bass is making me sleepy." Groggily, Giriko grumbles wiping at his eyes just as a tremor courses through the land.
"Whoa Giriko sir!" Alarmed, the male calls out pointing towards the mountains where an avalanche comes crashing down.
"Bass!? It's an avalanche!" Horrified, Giriko gawks at the sight of the avalanche but more importantly at the boombox like figure that seems to be leading the wave of snow.
"Sorry I was talking in a loud voice so the vibrations set this thing off!" Jushtin calls out.
"That guy!?" Giriko growls at the sight of the blonde.
"Oh look it's an enemy squad." Unfazed, Jushtin says.
"Saw leg…3rd gear!" Giriko snarls swiping at the snow with his foot, his chains slashing at the snow creating a pathway for him but not for his allies.
"Oh god my specialty tuned snowmobile got swept away." Solemnly, Jushtin wails at the loss dangling down from a branch, swaying from side to side.
"Get down here you noisy priest I'll turn you into sawdust." Snarling, Giriko glares at his rival of sorts.
"So we meet again…" Justin remarks unfazed by the bloodthirsty chainsaw that is Giriko.
"Hey Father take 'em off haven't you noticed? Because of the sound coming from your earphones the rhythm of your attacks is monotonous it's easy to read." Smugly, Giriko points out as both weapons trade blows with one another, the blade of a guillotine deflecting the swift strike of the chain.
"Hah nonsense there's no evidence for that. I'm sorry I haven't felt the need to ready your lips because your thinking is so monotonous come now it's written all over your face. You just want to take these earphones from me don't you? Am I wrong?" Arrogantly, Justin taunts Giriko making him seethe.
"We-Wrong!" Giriko stutters stammering it out.
"3rd gear wave of genocide! Here you go!" Giriko slams his blade down.
"Law abiding silver gun radiant!" Jushtin counters firing a boisterous blast of silver shining down upon Giriko.
"Bastard…" Giriko seethes cradling his arm.
"How long do you plan on staying in there? It's not time for you to be interred…yet. A snow golem, that guy is a golem engineer after all these imposters…too bad…I wanted to take him down. It looks like he escaped." Jushtin ponders to himself seeing snow globes arise from the snowy sheet as above a single fleeting feather comes crashing down to the ground.
"This brings back memories…heh, she'll be pleased." Pleasantly, Ingram says smirking as he sits perched on top of the hill, staring at the storm ahead before forming back into his bird form heading inside the magnetic field….
"Jacqueline you're warm…" Lovingly, Ox beams brightly at the girl as the others wait outside the field for their teacher.
"I should be charging you for this." Kim grumbles as the others surround the bell providing heat for them.
"Hey Kilik give me a candy bar too." Blackstar orders Kilik.
"This one's my last." Kilik hides the other tow bar behinds him.
"I see the one you're hiding in your right hand." Blackstar disputes.
"Snow is edible too you know." Kilik grumbles.
"They're late they said they'd be back in 5 minutes." Maka points out worried.
"There's still 15 minutes left." Kid offers looking down at his watch.
"What's wrong Maka?" Soul asks him from his scythe form.
"The professor and Marie's soul signals have disappeared. Something's happening inside." Maka closes her eyes brow furrowed focusing.
"Would you be able to sense their soul signals in a magnetic field like that?" Kid questions brow furrowed.
"There's a lot of noise so I can just barely make it out but…" Maka describes unsure brow furrowed.
"Alright I'll go see what's going on." Kid steps forward.
"Wait! It's dangerous to go alone!" Maka argues.
"Because I'm a Shinigami the magnetic field probably won't affect me Liz Patty you stay here." Sternly, Kid orders them.
"H-Hey! You still have your human side!" Annoyed, Liz argues.
"We'll go too!" Maka insists.
"But…" Kid furrows his brow.
"What about Professor Stein's orders?" Ox argues.
"If I go too I can't give the retreat signal in five minutes." Kim adds only then for them to gasp as Oz perks up at the slight movement taking out his lightning blade blasting a soldier striking out from the snow.
"It seems we've been detected by the enemy, perfect. We'll take care of this." Ox tells them.
"You guys head into the field!" Kim adds her bell blazing with flames.
"You shouldn't look down on the lighting king outdoors. Indoors we're bookworms outdoors the lighting king is a beast! And with that I offer my love to you Kim." Ox proclaims proudly.
"Maybe if you get rich or something." Kim huffs.
"I can't just leave the rest of the team. Hey Blackstar eat this to keep up your stamina." Kilik passes Blackstar the candy bar.
"Nice I'll hang onto it till we get back." Blackstar promises.
"Eat it." Kilik tells him as the three head inside the field.
"Well then…let's shove it down their throat, fire…thunder…soul resonance!" Kilik roars raising both his thunder and fire gauntlets striking at the golems in his way.
"Huh? From the outside it looked like all the buildings were destroyed they're fixed…I still can't feel professor Stein or Marie's soul signal. Maybe they're in that pyramid." Maka ponders out loud as she, Kid and Blackstar with their weapons enter the field furrowing their brow being greeted by the blazing shining sun no snow in sight.
"Oi look up in the sky." Blackstar bellows.
"Huh?" Kid looks up at the sky.
"What is it?" Maka's eyes furrow.
"That's…He shouldn't be able to come out here…Dad!?" Stunned, Kid gawks gaping up at the sight of his father, of lord death flying above high in the sky.
"Lord Death…doesn't something feel different about him?" Confused, Maka furrows her brow, her greens narrowing at the strangely detailed, at the more realistic dark grim grave mask upon him. He looks more feral, more grim, more animalistic than his cartoonish goofy goofball form.
"I've heard about it in stories, my father in the grim times that was his appearance before Shibusen was built." Kid whispers stepping forward furrowing his brow at the past form of his father, so many questions filtering through his head, a part of him pondering where his mother was. His gold glance around the area, from side to side seeing no sight of the woman by his side, he isn't even holding a death scythe at that.
"Let's hurry towards the pyramid." Maka shakes his head reminding the others of the task at hand. A part of Maka still shocked to see the ruins intact, a complete contrast to the wrecked ruins of the outside world.
"Shinigami…" Sneering, the whispers catch the attention of the three.
"Witches." Blackstar's eyes expand at the sight of the witches leaving the ruins bowing their head solemnly mourning almost each and every one of them garbed in pitch black.
"It looks like they can't see us." Maka's greens narrow at the fleeting figures walking by.
"Look at them carefully their forms are blurred I'm guessing but it seems that the strong magnetic filed left by the accident at the demon tool construction facility has somehow imprinted what was going on in this area at the time. However…if you consider that my father was over the pyramid earlier and this situation we're seeing…was this really an accident." Kid ponders out loud, his gold glued to his father's flying form, the blue blazes projecting from the skulls providing him flight continue on as he stands before the ruins.
"The facility is done for too I see." Maka perks up at one of the witch's whispers.
"So will Morrigan." Kid jolts up at the voice, his brow furrowed.
"It seems her sins have finally caught up to her." Another adds just as Kid's gold widen when seeing the man pinned to the ground curled into a ball battered beaten.
"That's…" Kid whispers shocked at the sight of a younger Ingram, curling in on himself none of the witches bat an eye at the boy, his feathery wings crooked, broken even, feathers with scarlet smeared upon them are all over the place.
"We never…asked for any of this." Hurt, Ingram whimpers, his voice cracking, breaking, tears threatening to freely fall from his glistening gold, closing his eyes in defeat from the sheer sight of Lord Death hovering above.
"What is it Maka?" Soul takes note of his mister's shock.
"Spider witch Arachne!" Maka gasps at the woman surrounded by other witches noting a file of sorts in her hand.
"You'll pay for this you traitorous bitch!" Seething, the battered beaten boy snarls baring his feral fangs at the woman only to cry out as he is slammed to the ground below, pinned to the floor.
"You know him Kid?" Blackstar raises a brow at Kid noting his stunned stare.
"I'm sure…Shinigami will be pleased to know I helped capture someone of the likes of you. Sure you're not your freak of a sister but you'll do just fine." Pleased, Arachne smirks smugly down at the caged bird before her.
"We wanted to keep the world safe make it independent from the world of gods…" Tearfully, Ingrams sobs, his voice breaking, quivering, quaking bitterness oozing out of his tired tone.
"Is that what that mad woman told you?" Slowly, Shinigami descends down to the pinned bird.
"We were doing you a favour! Or do you fear a world without a god!?" Spitefully, Ingram sneers poison dripping down his tongue.
"Mosquito is waiting in the carriage lady Arachne." One of the witches reports.
"So that's the boss of Arachnophobia." Kid furrows his brow at the sight of the woman.
"We've lured Shinigami here quite nicely. What of Morrigan's blueprints?" Arachne demands once leaving Death's vision who focuses on arresting the bird boy.
"I have them here." A witch reveals the file and book.
"Where is she?" Coldly, Death demands from the boy but…
"Don't you dare touch them!" Ingram snaps sniffling as Shinigami's forces take hold of him.
"I will do what I like. Morrigan will be pleased to know her work will come into good use. Now all that's left is to blow this place up and get rid of that witch's eyesore once and for…" Arachne spreads her fan out looking towards the temple only then to gasp when suddenly, a purplish pillar erupts from the ruins, the ghoulish screeching, screaming echoing throughout the field, shocking the meisters staring stunned at the demonic screech erupting from the temple.
"What was that!?" Blackstar blurts out turning to the top of the ruin, cracks of debris descend down, hitting some of the witches as scarlet splatters on the chiseled stone below.
"So she finally did it." Arachne exclaims, eyes wide lowering her fan impressed almost.
"Huh?" Maka looks up as the figure floats up from the air.
"What the hell is that!?" Blackstar screeches shouting at the figure floating ahead.
"An…angel?" Maka whispers in awe almost at the sight of the figure, her long wild black locks dangle down, she wears a coal clack with fluffy feathers of snow-white sprouting from the robe.
"No way Kid…" Maka whispers when the figure opens her eyes, her sclera coal black with her golden hues shimmering, shining as she flexes her feathers out, releasing an array of wings sprouting out from her back as she glares down, a sadistic smirk upon her lips.
"M-Mum?" Stunned, Kid stares at the woman before him, his mother standing tall and proud, her gold glaring down at the figure that is Lord Death. She stretches her arm out her wings fluttering as she summoned a familiar blade before the eyes of many recognising it. They stare stunned at the figure before them…at the strangers before them of Lord death and Lady Death on the opposing sides of one another.
*So...what do you think of that little reveal? I like to think the idea of angels being from heaven and being like the anti servants of Death came from Ava in a way in the soul eater universe. What do you think about the reveal though of Lord Death and Ava being enemies? Some see them as enemy deities? How do you think Kid feels about it? Would love to know your thoughts on this reveal!*