New cover and summary? Yes and yes.
I'm happy for you too, S! :D :D :D See? You've survived half the year, so I'm sure you can last the second half!
Speaking of school being out, I hope you guys are ready for a human-shinigami biology/history lesson! Seriously, this explains how S got her powers (I don't care if S has no idea about this, it was fun to come up with)!
Go forth and have fun! S and I are celebrating putting up with each other (in a good way) for our second Christmas and nearly New Years!
(P.S. Long-ish chapter and cliff hanger… ish)
Also, my cousin started reading this (it's on my phone) and she started shipping two characters. I told her it wasn't allowed, but she blackmailed me into fan service! I hope she's happy.(It is not, in anyway, serious).
"Susan, what do I do? I'm so worried about Bella. I mean, only two have survived the process of mixing. I've heard what's happened to the failed attempts of mixing, am I don't want that to happen to her," I ranted to Suicide, who I had started calling Susan because Mello had started being called Melody (he's a good singer).
All Keehls are girls now.
"Look, I have this friend, and she'd be able to shed some light on this. She's close to your family anyway, so she'd probably help," Suicide said, trying to help, passing me my phone.
I hugged him, "Thanks Susan, for the info, listening, and the music. I needed this."
Suicide waved me off as I went back to my room in our massive house. Everyone else was sleeping…
Or so I thought.
"Believe?" I heard Matt ask. "Can I sleep in here tonight?"
I blinked, confused. "Why aren't you in your and Mello's room?" I asked.
Matt sat on my bed, sighing, holding is head in his hands. I was worrying. I put too much work into his and Mello's relationship for it to end now. After all, Mattie isn't Melly-cake's mafia bitch yet!
"Mello keeps blaming himself for my kidnapping a few months back. I know he loves me, but whenever he sees the scars from that day, he cringes and looks away. He won't even hug me properly as if he's scared he's going to break me."
"Okay, Mail, listen to me, because I'm going to tell your idiot of a boyfriend exactly this. All of us have a huge target on our backs, and it's not just because of mafia and criminal association, but most of us went to Wammy's. Kira's going to try and kill us because we knew L, we were trained to get rid of Kira, and he won't be happy with us. Even Anastasia has a target because she's related to L, and she's the daughter of two of Wammy's biggest brains.
"We're all targets, but we're also strong. We're the power okay; we're Wammy's dirty little secrets, and it's gonna take a lot more than a kidnapping to get us down."
After my little speech, I shoved Matt into S and Rain's room (since Rainbow liked staying with us every now and then) while I went into M Squared's room yelling, "Some days I cannot believe you're the second oldest out of all of us!"
The next morning, when I had calmed down from yelling at Mello and he had woke up from being hit in the head with some new power that I had no idea that I had (I think it's power season), Ana, Beacon, and Lucy sat down on the couch, looking at me like I was the one who stole the last jar of strawberry jam, or in Lucy's case, cup of chocolate pudding.
"Auntie Blake, would you like to tell us what happened during New Years?" Beacon asked.
"Beacon, you know what happened, I went to a hunting slash engagement party with the CreepyPastas," I answered. EJ proposed three days after Christmas and Evelyn said yes, so we celebrated with killing people.
"Yes, but us three got a phone call from Suicide who said he got a message from Liu with an incrimina- incriman- ugh! A bad picture!" Ana said, getting frustrated over 'incriminating'.
I knew exactly what they were talking about now, and honestly, there were two pictures that could qualify for this, and one was worse than the other. "And what photo would this be?" I asked, surprising myself with how level my voice was.
"I-it was one-one with y-y-you a-and a sis-sister of mi-mine," Lucy answered. She had been getting a little better with her stuttering, but the only 'cure' we had found was hyping her up on sugar, which turns her into a psycho killer.
'Damn… Rain! The girls know about the photo… as does Suicide!'
'You think I don't know this~? I'm getting interrogated by Susan and my mum~!' Rain responded.
'Why couldn't they have gotten the photo of me and Toby?'
'Because that isn't Liu's style~'
"Please understand that Rain and I weren't in our right minds at the time of that photo. We had some of the punch (that was actually blood), that Liu had decided to spike that night. Not many of us were quite right in the brain… more so than normal, anyway," I tried explaining. "Please don't tell S or Mello, they will both try to kill me."
'Rain, your family is full of blabber mouths.'
'I know~ You think you can survive Mello and S?'
'If these three, and your two don't blab, yes.'
'Save yourself… and the bass~'
When Wammy's had found out that Michael had died, it turns out he wanted me to have his bass. Rain fell in love with it, and made sure it was in perfect condition at all times.
"You both seemed really happy in the photo…" Ana said quietly.
"Alcohol, Ana, it changes you."
"So… are you can Auntie Rain dating?" Beacon asked.
"No! No, no, nopeity, nope, nope, nope! Bella, we were drunk… well, mostly, seeing as we can both still remember it, but we, as I stated before, were not in our right mind. And I think it was Evelyn's dare, anyway… Evelyn or Jeff."
The best man and the bride were two evil peas in a pod.
And that was when we all heard S scream.
The female blonde bombshell in question came marching into the lounge room, looking like someone just said that Anima getting hurt doesn't hurt her. Annoying thing about spirit animals and their human counterparts, one hurts and the other feels the pain. That's why I have to be careful, otherwise Barium would be screwed with all the activities I participate in.
"WHAT THE FUCK BLAKE?!"
"Hey S."
"What is this?!" she almost screamed in my face, showing me a photo on her phone.
"It is a photo of your twin and I kissing when we were drunk at your cousin – who just so happens to be my second cousin – and our friend's engagement hunt. Admittedly, she wasn't the only one I kissed that night," I answered as calmly as possible.
"You kissed my twin!" she yelled.
"Oh, stop looking at me like I'm Natalie. In fact, Natalie and Rain made out for about ten minutes. But then again, I did get that information from Evelyn…"
"What?! Rain made out with Clockwork? I thought she was dating Toby!" Beacon added.
"Nah, he was… occupied…"
"With whom, may I ask?" S asked; she had that glint in her eye that meant I was in for some teasing.
I hesitated, and was all the information S needed to convict me of being with Toby, which I was… just… I DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT!
"Tim…?"
"If your name is now Tim, I'll believe you," S said in a surprisingly serious tone. S and serious are two things that should never mix.
'Hey, Believe, I think you should head to your MU apartment. You've got a surprise there,' I heard Iniquity said. I hadn't heard from her in a while, but I listened,
"Look, S, I have to go see someone. You can tag along if you feel you must, but this is important," I said, standing and opening a portal to MU.
S looked at the opening and followed me. The two of us walked in complete silence toward my apartment before she decided to open her mouth.
"So, you and Ticci, huh?"
"S, I swear, I can get you and your whole family killed on a whim," I hissed.
"But you wouldn't; just like I love trouble, you love being kept on your toes by us," she laughed as we set foot in the elevator.
"I hate it when you're right."
S just smiled as I opened my door to see a completely normal looking girl sitting on my ottoman. She had long brown hair tied in pig tails, much like Ana usually had. Her eyes were a striking blue with red surrounding her pupils. Her hair was held up by one green and one purple hair tie, with one black and green and one black and purple clip holding a side fringe out of her face.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I think I ought to explain how I am before who I am," the girl said, her voice familiar, but I couldn't quite place where I knew it from.
"You see, the human-shinigami bloodlines are complicated. There are five main tiers in the pyramid, and then one side tier. The top is full shinigamis, then we have eighty percent shinigami, then there are perfect halves, then the twenty percents, and finally, decedents. Obviously the side tier would be the mixtures, the so-called 'stains' on shinigami life."
'She means Beacon…' I heard S's bitter voice in my head.
"When a human-shinigami is pregnant, there are three children – an eighty percent, a half, and a twenty percent. The three will fight. The eighty usually dies off first, feeling too powerful to take nutrients from its mother. Then the other two will fight until one wins, usually this survivor is the half. Of course, there are exceptions…
"You, Believe, are no different, but you are an exception. You are an eighty percent. Even you, Silence, are an exception."
I looked at her confused. I'm an eighty percent, so I'm more shinigami than human, okay. I always knew I was less human than shinigami. How does this have anything to do with who she is? And what has any of this got to do with S? I would know if she was part shinigami.
"You still don't get it. You and Betrayal took what you both needed to survive, meaning your other sister died off. You then devoured Betrayal; not just killed her, like most fights go. You actually ate your sister."
I snapped. "What has this go to do with you or S?!" I screamed.
"Calm down Blake," S said from behind me.
"If the ones like me are born, they still have some power, and this power is sent down through generations, although for some reason it only goes to the females of the bloodline – but the males do still have a higher intelligence than average. These human-shinigamis, the decedents, will have some powers, and when they awaken, their eyes change colour, but they keep the small amount of red, showing what they are."
"'Ones like you'?" I asked.
"The twenty percent embryos," the girl finally explained.
I took everything she said in. Females of shinigami lines have powers and the males are of higher intelligence. They're eyes change, but still show the red of where they get their powers. S and Rain have their powers plus their eyes have red. Mello and Suicide are smarter than average…
"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Iniquity Fable Birthday."
S is part shinigami…
Wait… Iniquity… Iniquity is my sister?!