"So that's it when I watch you…I understand how there could be a kid who grew up to be like Blackstar." Mifune exclaims as his blade clashes against Sid's own weapon, the two fighting within the snowy sheet of the battlefield.
"You're a professional I don't hate you it'd be a shame to kill you. Can't you think of any other way for that arm to thrive besides with an evil organisation like that. It's too bad." Disappointed, Sid sighs at the swordsman brow furrowed.
"All unit retreat! Retreat!" Sid perks up at the signal flare from Kim's bell.
"That's…the retreat signal. Our side has no reason to fight you anymore does that cool your blade down? Do as you wish but if you let me leave this place, I might target you from the darkness again." Sid warns him.
"Interesting…go." Mifune lets him go as Sid and his troops retreat.
"Heh…heh…" Snickering, Stein smirks cradling his chest as Marie holds him, trying to help him deal with the waves upon waves of madness washing over Stein unaware of the hidden snake slithering within.
"Stein what in the…what happened? Franken get a hold of yourself!" Mad, Marie orders him but…
"If we can't get to brew…" Struggling, Stein seethes wincing, wheezing.
"Stein…is something happening inside you?" Worriedly, Marie questions clearly concerned for the mad scientist.
"Why now…the…the insanity…I'm losing focus unethical things are coming to mind." Stein grimaces, glaring to the side seeing the three eyes stare down at him.
"Oh they're here." Blackstar points out as Kid, Blackstar and Maka turn towards the two.
"Thank goodness professor Marie are you alright?" Worriedly, Maka questions her.
"What are you all doing here!?" Horrified, Marie gawks, gaping at the children within the magnetic field.
"It's been nearly 20 minutes since you've entered the magnetic field you should leave quickly. Your bodies will start to break down." Sternly, Kid tells the two.
"What about the demon tool?" Marie furrows her brow.
"We still have more than 10 minutes left we'll look for the tool." Maka tells them.
"Let's go." Blackstar tells the two.
"You should leave quickly." Maka advises them before brushing them aside.
"Just a minute wait…with my body in this state if I chase them I'll just die in vain. I'm going to kill those brats later!" Marie curses under her breath bitterly before guiding Stein away out of the field.
"At any rate if we're going to disregard our orders we might as well do it all the way." Kid sighs.
"The more I spend time with you the worse behaved I become." Maka smiles softly at Blackstar.
"Where's the demon tool? In the pyramid?" Blackstar questions curious.
"Let's go through that door. Wait someone's there!?" Maka says shocked.
"He's looking this way now that I think about it. I've met him before that old man." Blackstar's eyes narrow at the figure that is Mosquito.
"What's he holding?" Kid questions noting his briefcase.
"I thought I'd find some people from Shibusen but you're really small agents." Mosquito points out adjusting his top hat.
"Give us the demon tool you're holding if you do that we'll let you go." Kid orders Mosquito.
"Let me go? You're looking down on me." Mosquito chuckles amused.
"Forget about whether we're looking down on you or not take a look at your own body. From the looks of it you're at the limit for the time spent in this field. We still have 10 minutes left there's no need for us to attack if because if you don't leave your body will be destroyed." Kid explains to Mosquito.
"I see this old body has a limit of only 20 minutes same as an ordinary human, I see…fine guess I'll revert to my younger age, 400? No 100 should be fine…now we're even." Mosquito dictates as his body changes, transforms, beginning to shift into a bulkier, muscular form.
"Professor Stein, Marie!" Ox and the other Shibusen students rush over to the blonde.
"Kilik, Ox watch over the professor." Sternly, Marie orders the two passing Stein over to them.
"Just what are you doing Marie just because you come out of the filed the effects won't just disappear. You'd just die…in vain." Scowling, Stein reminds Marie.
"Then what about those kids?" Marie counters scowling.
"Are the others still inside?" Oz questions.
"Leave it to us!" Kilik slams his gauntlets together, smashing them.
"Absolutely not. I'm not letting anymore students go in there! If you won't obey orders. I'll give you failing marks in every subject, you'll be expelled." Seriously, Marie scolds warning them.
"What do we do Ox? For you a failing grade is…" Oz's weapon calls out but…
"What a silly question." Oz chuckles shaking his head at his weapon.
"There's no need to hesitate to protect your comrades that's what it is to be a Shibusen student." Kilik tells him as the other kids head into the magnetic field leaving Marie and Stein alone helplessly watching their students enter the magnetic field.
"Wait…wait a minute! How silly expulsion as if a junior instructor like me has that authority…on top of that it's not like the threat of expulsion would stop them. What should I do? What if those kids don't come back?" Whimpering, Marie cries out but it falls to deaf ears as she tries to reach out to them but fails faltering from the field swiftly engulfing her students.
"Don't cry Marie the plan's failure everything…I'm responsible for it all. All of it. I'M REPSIBILE FOR IT ALL AHAHAHAHAH ALL OF IT!" Cackling, Stein boisterously bellows to the high heavens, heckling. He spams, squirms, flails about in the soft snowy ground below. Marie bows her head, sombrely, sadly, the tears freely falling helpless as her partner spams within the soft snow.
"Madam Arachne the flow of the battle for brew is back and forth." Earnestly, the agent reports to Arachne seated sat upon her cobweb throne as the agency rushes in reporting the fact.
"Do whatever it takes but I want it in my hand. Even among Eibon's creations, it pales in comparison to my mentor's work. It's a shame if Eibon had agreed to work with her perhaps he would have gotten farther. Nevertheless, brew is special, everything of Morrigan is packed into it, it is Morrigan. For 800 years I've kept Shinigami's gaze away from brew although no doubt Ava helped in that pursuit whether she realized it or not to think that on that day though…the very first death scythe would have been created." Amused, Arachne smirks softly at the memory, swirling the wineglass raised in her hand.
"Madam?" The agency arches a brow behind their mask at the memory.
"Nevertheless, from the day that explosion that Morrigan made…to hide brew, to use her own daughter's ascension to godhood to hide brew…she wasn't my mentor for nothing I suppose. Nevertheless, after 800 years neither the witches nor Shibusen will obtain brew…I will." Smirking, she proclaims proudly, sipping her ruby red wine.
"She looks…like an angel." Amazed, Maka couldn't help but be impressed, was Ava where angels came from? This form of hers…
"That can't be…can it?" Blackstar looks over at Kid.
"There's no doubt about it." Kid grimaces at the sight of his mother, she looked so different from her normal self, a part of him felt disgusted by her, she was the definition of asymmetrically.
"Kid…" Maka begins clearly concerned for her friend.
"T-That's…my mother? Why…why is she with the witches!?" Baffled, Kid demands stressed scowling at the sight of her mother.
"She did it…she did it!" Ingram beams brightly at the sight of her.
"Kid…are you…?" Maka begins trying to call out to him but…
"Death so good to see you…" Sadistically, the stranger calls out to Death making their eyes widen when hearing her voice, seeing the glint gleaming in her golds.
"Monster…" Death snarls up at the woman as their eyes widen when hearing his word when hearing his deep dark growl, disgust dripping down his tongue, his claws stretched out ready to strike her down.
"Such a shame but last I checked I didn't invite you to my abode." Unfazed, Ava remarks as her sword shifts into a scythe twirling it about boasting almost as she scowls down at him, hands on her hips adjusting the coat cloak draped over her form like a king's cape.
"Step aside whore." Death seethes glaring daggers at the woman.
"And why would I do that?" Teasingly, Ava wiggles a brow bemused.
"Where is she?!" He ignores her, slashing at the open air attempting to scare her but she simply chuckles, a hollow chuckle but a chuckle nevertheless laughing at Death himself.
"I have been an atrocious host, where are my manners would you like a drink? Perhaps the blood of a whore I mean there's one right over there but you probably know that already." Ava remarks placing her hand on her chest, gasping feigning offence as she then gestures towards Arachne, her eyes narrowing.
"I won't repeat myself wench step aside!" Death seethes snarling.
"…Temper, temper Death don't you know who you're talking to?" Tutting, Arachne wiggles a forefinger at him.
"An abomination." He lunges at her reeling his claw back slashing at her but…
"A god. We're two sides of the same coin don't you know? While you present the boring old ways of tradition I am change, I am what you fear, the new era, an era without the guidance of God. I am freedom while you are nothing more than the chains that bind people to the old ways." Coolly, she slams her scythe clashing with his claws batting him back. She shifts her scythe back to its blade form. He comes crashing down to the ground, cracks seeping out from the stone pathway below.
"Where is Morrigan!?" Mad, Death demands from her trying to stand only to grunt when the feathery figure slams down upon Death, slamming her blade into his shoulder making him wince grunting at the blade impaled into his side as she pins him down to the ground below.
"You took everything from me…! You took everyone that I loved! You will pay for this, all of you will! I'll make sure you and that wrench of yours will suffer much worse…you'll wish for death!" Screeching, she seethes snarling intensely, poison dripping down her tongue, her claws coiling around the handle of her blade, seething, snarling, venom oozing out of her.
"And how will you do that!?" Death questions hr as she stands smirking.
"Like this." Smugly, she snaps her fingertips making the witches gasp.
"The witches they're…" Kid's eyes expand at the sight of the witches screaming, shouting, seeing the witches cry out to the heavens as they begin clawing at one another, nails digging deep into their facial features, scraping at their bare skin, crimson currents come dashing down, floods of ruby red descend down their eyes as they come crashing down, dead.
"Oh god!" Maka places her hand over her mouth horrified.
"Oh but you won't die, no, no, no, you'll crave it, wish for it, lust for it but it will never be granted for either of you. I will live on and make sure you suffer that I promise!" Murderously, she tuts, craning her neck to the side hearing the crisp crunch of bones breaking.
"This isn't over…that I promise even if takes me centuries, eons even I'll make sure you'll pay!" Enraged, she snarls standing up sparing him as she flicks a rogue feather swiftly striking freeing the rope.
"Huh? Who the hell is that guy? Why's he got a watering can on his head?" Blackstar questions confused.
"That person…is Eibon." Mosquito gestures to the figure brushing past them. He is depicted as a relatively tall humanoid figure, due to the presence of his ornamental clothing his exact physical proportions and even his facial features remain mostly obscured, making it difficult to discern his actual characteristics. This concealing attire is comprised of a simplistic steel mask, attached to a protruding hat with an additional visor that descends down the entirety of his face, and a full-length robe, which covers the remainder of his body.
Layered over this dark robe are numerous linear patterned panels, accented by metallic plating that is also found on Eibon's shoulders and running down his sides, and protruding from the ends of his sleeves are similarly constructed angular projections. Completing his typical dress is a long triple-wrapped scarf, which terminates in a spherical bead and various tassels at end, and an unusual triangular section that extends forth from his chest, featuring steel panels fashioned into the shape of a capital letter "E"
"Eibon!?" Stunned, the others stare stunned, gawking at the phantom forge that was…Eibon.