Children of Death

"A sound soul resides in a sound mind, and a sound body" But, what if you were the body and mind for two other souls? Death the Girl assists The Balance Meister in her ambitions of helping the Blade Twins achieve becoming death scythes, with toils, secrets, and a large mission ahead of them both.

Chapter 2: Remedial Lessons From a Shinigami

"Ah, Athena" Death made a cheery tone as she walked in the death room, the young weapon of hers walking next to her. "Thank you for coming" He made a bounce as he spoke.

"Well, you didn't exactly give me much choice, now did you?" Athena frowned.

"Don't be rude." Fyre frowned at her.

"Only if you think of it that way" Death said. "There is a kishin egg in London, a very dangerous one, I don't think any other Meisters are up to the task of collecting it" If he had visible eyes, there would be a glint in them. "Would you go grab it?"

"Hmph. You called me all the way her to tell me this? You do realize I have a cellphone right? You literally could've texted me that." She sighed and flipped her hair.

"He probably can't text with those hands..." Fyre mumbled.

"Isn't that why he has Spirit? It's not like they're ever fighting together..." She mumbled back. "Whatever." She spoke up. "What's done is done. We're heading out now, okay?"

"Thank you, Athena" Death sounded as if he was giving a smile. "Don't loose the soul~"

"When's the last time I lost a soul?" She raised her eyebrows at him. "Not since I was what, fifteen? I got this. Don't eat too much on the plane, Fyre, because you're going to be eating a soul for dinner."

XOXOXO

"I sense him up ahead!" Athena called, her arms tightly wrapped around Fyre's waist as he drove them through the streets of London on his motorcycle. At the same time, she heard additional noises too, as if someone was... already fighting him?

"What the hell?" She asked as he stopped the motorcycle and they climbed off. He transformed into a semi-automatic rifle and she took off running towards the noise

Once at the scene, she saw Kinkou, Hikari in her right hand and Kira in her left, the young 16 year old fighting fiercely against a monstrous, wolfic like beast that was three times the size of Kinkou. The dark grey haired young tech panted lightly, bringing the twins together... "Half Resonance... Dark Ballad" She muttered under her breath, and the twins became one, it turning black with a white stripe through the middle. Some sparks came off of the hilt, but nothing tragic, and Kinkou gave it a large swing that sent a black shockwave at the wolfic kishin egg. IT seemed strong, but not strong enough to completely reap it.

"Good job, Kira!" Hikari exclaimed. "You didn't make it strong enough!"

"Excuse me for trying not to kill you!" Kira yelled in reply, and their arguing forced them apart. "Both of you stop it" Kinkou murmured, blocking some claws from the kishin egg using Kira

"They're taking my soul~!" Fyre whined,

"I know. I'm on it." She fired a warning shot at Kinkou. "Stand back. This one is mine."

The younger Meister took a step back in shock, and Kira shook in her hand. "Back off! We were here first!"

Hikari changed back to human form, and took Kira from Kinkou, knowing that she wasn't going to stand up to Athena. "This isn't yours, it's ours!" Hikari ran up, and made a spinning slash at the wolfric beast, which nearly missed

"Actually," she fired a compressed soul bullet directly in the middle of the wolfric beast's chest. "It is. By order of Lord Death."

"Death told us to get it too!" Hikari said, though Kira was growling.

"S-Stop... its not worth it..." Kinkou murmured

"I'm sorry, maybe you're not aware of who I am? I'm Lord Death's oldest daughter."

"Athena... The kishin..." Fyre said nervously.

"He's fine. He's subdued with a fatal wound. I'll take care of him later."

"But I'm hungry~!" He whined. "You ate all my snacks on the plane."

"Hush. Listen up, kid- He wouldn't send someone else- I'm a two star Meister. Someone like me doesn't need reinforcements- unless, of course you received this task a while ago and he thought you weren't going to do it?"

"We got it this yesterday morning" Kira changed back to her human form. "I asked him about this one because somebody decided it was 'too tough for Kinkou' "

"Why would he lie and send another Meister? Probably because we didn't get right on it," Hikari sighed.

"Maybe he realized I would need the second half resonance to do it and didn't want me hurt?" Kinkou offered up quietly, but wasn't heard.

"We need to speak to him." She sighed and pulled out a makeup compact with a mirror. She breathed on it and called her father as Kinkou walked nervously next to her and looked into the mirror as well.

"Hello Athena" Death said cheerily from the other side

"What the hell do you think you're pulling, sending two Meisters on a job like this?" She frowned

"I wanted to introduce the two of you to each other, but I wanted to do it in a fun way" He smiled, and Kinkou deadpanned. "My job was... a set up?" She muttered.

Athena let an upset sigh out. "Is Kid there with you?"

"Nope! But, what do you girls think of each other? "He asked.

Kinkou stepped away sheepishly. 'Much more confident than I'll ever be, that's for sure... and more appreciated...'

"Crap! I wanted to ask him about making pasta for dinner."

"We had pasta last night." Fyre frowned.

"So?"

"That's too often."

"No it isn't."

"Any who, I think she's great." Fyre grinned.

"He doesn't care about your opinion, Fyre- no one does. You're just here to sit and be attractive. And as for her…" Athena gave her a one over. "Someone needs a serious mall trip. "

"Don't knock her clothing style" Kira said, frowning. "Its all she has and all she can get! She doesn't have a family you know!"

"Kira, don't be so loud" Hikari frowned. "... She honestly doesn't have that wide of a clothing choice"

"I guess it doesn't really matter who takes this guy's soul..." Athena shot the wolfric beast in the head and then grabbed the soul and handed it to Kinkou. "Take it. Souls like this mean nothing to us."

"But-"

"Oh hush." Athena told Fyre. "I'll buy you a pizza, okay?"

"Th... Thanks" Kinkou muttered softly, yet both Hikari and Kira grabbed it, then glared.

"This one is mine Kira" Hikari said at a normal volume. "You got the last soul"

"And that made us even, so this will make my 42nd" Kira growled. "I go first, remember!?"

"No you don't, I do!"

"Stop it" Kinkou said, pulling the soul from both of them. "They'll just fight over it... take it" She gave it to Fyre.

"Kinkou!" Both blades shouted at her, and she shrunk.

"If you insist." He shrugged and devoured it.

"How many is that now? I've lost track since we restarted." Athena said.

"Twenty three." He told her

"That's so low..." Kira muttered.

"We've been collecting since we were ten, don't forget that" Hikari said and she frowned.

Kinkou whispered another something, potentially about how they had restarted before too, but frowned as she realized it was not heard.

"Oh no, we restarted by choice. Until a couple of weeks ago, Fyre and I were Witch hunting." She explained. "We stopped making him a death scythe to do that instead."

"I see" Hikari replied. "See? Don't be so rude Kira"

"Whatever" Kira said.

"Let's Go, Fyre, our work here is done- oh man, am I tired." Athena stretched.

He two blades looked at Kinkou, who seemed exhausted as well and helped her back on the way to death city, and to rest before going back to the school

xoxoxo

"Hmph. Did you see that weapon Meister pair? I wonder how they were even able to resonate." Athena jumped on the couch when they got home with a bag of popcorn. "They couldn't stop fighting."

"Yeah..." He hopped on the couch next to her and gave her a look.

"What?" She frowned at him.

"We're perfect for each other."

"Oh, finally, you're realizing it-"

"We resonate really well together. We should help them grow closer and strengthen their bonds."

She groaned. "Why do you have to be so thick skulled?"

"Huh?"

"You never understand the hints I drop!" She pushed the bowl into his lap.

"Athena..."

"I'll think about it. Okay? I'm going to bed." She grumbled.

xoxoxo

"Ah, the DWMA. Filled with young weapons and Meisters trying to make a name for themselves. How I love the sound of ignorance in the morning."

"And why are we here so early again?" Fyre grumbled sleepily. "You do remember we graduated, right?"

"Yes, but Kinkou hasn't. I want to talk to her before class starts."

They caught the trio at the soul boards, examining the souls to take.

"This one will be easier on Kinkou" Hikari said simply. "Therefor, we should take that one"

"But this one has two souls!" Kira pointed to another. "I want a soul!"

Kinkou stood quiet, looking over the options, and then she reached out and grabbed one, the two girls looking at her. "This one" she murmured.

The twins looked at it. "Kinkou, we might need a resonance for it..." Hikari said.

"I know... I want to practice," she said softly.

"There you are. I want to talk to you." Athena stopped her

Kinkou looked up at her, blushing violently then looking down in embarrassment. "Y-yes?" She asked while Kira grabbed the card she took from the board.

"Come with me. I called my father let night and asked him to excuse you from first period, so don't worry about it."

"W-What? W-Why?" Kinkou asked.

"Sweet" Kira grinned. "What for?"

"I'm going to be your teacher." She said firmly. "It's not like I'm unqualified in anything other than that extra star- I'd have it if Fyre was a death scythe."

"Is this meant to be a form of higher education then?" Hikari asked. "Because Kinkou is excelling in all her classes... Really, Kira doesn't have an A in all of them because she never listens when we try to help her"

"Because I got better things to do!" Kira replied.

"You can't learn resonance from a textbook." She said coolly. "You learn by doing. Come with me"

"Oh, it's about that" Kira muttered and Hikari sighed. "She's right, we need to work on our bickering. If we don't stop we'll never be able to use light ballad, or annihilator"

Kinkou seemed to smile at her weapons getting along, and she nodded at Athena.

"I want you to warm up. Go up and town the stairs to the school twice. Class starts in twenty minutes. Go." Athena said

Confused, they all looked at each other. Believing her upper class men, Kinkou started off first, followed by the twin blades

"And Kinkou, don't let them transform and carry them." She gave her a smile. "Okay?"

"Like we were thinking of it!" The twins grumbled as they chased Kinkou down the stairs

"Alright." She stretched lazily. "Let's go disrupt some classes or something. Maybe we should grab some drinks and wait up top the stairs."

"Sounds great." Fyre grinned.

xoxoxo

"4...3...2...1...0." Athena counted to the final seconds of the twenty minutes

Kinkou popped up from the stairs, and made it to the top nearly ten seconds before her weapons, which were panting and wheezing much harder than Kinkou was, and they gave glares to Athena.

"What the hell was the point of that?!" Kira exclaimed

"I'm sure you're warmed up now, aren't you? Here" Athena tossed Kinkou a cold water bottle. "That, and weapons should be equally as fit as their partners."

Kinkou giggled at her friend's struggles lightly, and drank the water and Hikari sighed. "She's right, we don't do much physical work"

"So? We don't move in our blade forms!" Kira complained

"A strong person makes a strong weapon. You should know this. Just because you sit around half the time in combat doesn't mean you should be slacking! Do you even exercise? You exercise, don't you?" She placed her hands on her hips and leaned forward to inspect them.

"We do, just not a lot. Honestly, Kinkou works out more" Hikari said while Kinkou blushed red.

Kira frowned. "What? I didn't think we needed to..."

"How often?" She raised her eyebrows

Kira chuckled while blushing. "Well, you see~"

"Her exercise is running from classes to the bathroom to her locker then back" Hikari said.

"AND sometimes I actually do go to a gym or something with Kinkou" Kira stuck her tongue out.

"When she's out for more than two hours because you don't want her getting hurt," Hikari replied

"Lockers don't count... My god... They don't exercise... I feel faint..." Athena mumbled.

"Okay, drama queen, take it down a notch. " Fyre rolled his eyes and gave her a friendly push. "Try to make the gym into a more regular thing. Not just a sometimes. All the time. Once a week at the bare minimum. And then slowly start going more often for longer sessions."

"We could both go with Kinkou regularly like she does" Hikari suggested to Kira, and she frowned. "Right..."

"I... I don't go t-that often..." Kinkou muttered

"you go twice a week' Hikari reminded

"That's a nice start." Fyre smiled. "We usually go once a day for a three hour session after dinner."

"Interesting" Hikari, replied

"Its important to have a high endurance. Now come on, lets start training." She picked up water bottles she had not given the girls and started leaving

The two swords looked at one another while their Meister simply followed curiously, and stared at her hands lightly

"Alright!" Athena stopped in the forest. "We'll practice here."

"That's a long walk," Kira muttered. "Where are we anyway? And what are we doing? "

"Practice your resonance. I want to watch for faults in it."

"Which one?" Kira asked, and Hikari hit her. "The one we can do without Kinkou getting hurt, idiot" She said

"Hey." She pressed her pointer fingers against their foreheads and pushed. "Cut it out morons.

"If she wasn't suggesting stupid ideas..." Hikari muttered

"Well maybe if you weren't born being a god damn know it all" Kira growled.

"I have Kinkou's best interest at heart!" Hikari said sharply

"Yeah well so do I!"

"Not when you're acting like a moron-"

Kinkou grabbed both of their hands, and they stopped immediately. "... She'll want to see all three" Kinkou said. "So stop arguing... So I can resonate..."

The two frowned at her, then transformed to their blade forms. "... Which resonance do you want to see...?" She asked.

"Which?" Fyre inquired.

"What do you mean, which? There's only one way to resonate." Athena frowned at them

"... Hikari and Kira are special... They are two different blades... But, they can't work without each other... There are three different resonances that we have... Dark ballad... Light ballad... Annihilator ballad..." Kinkou explained

"The three of you don't resonate together?" Athena's head snapped to look at them. "You're joking, aren't you? That's not funny!"

"T-That's not what I meant!" Kinkou explained, bright red. "W- we do we do! But... but... they have different energies... so we resonate to energy and. annihilator ballad... its evenly both..." She said.

Her face fell when she said it, and both swords looked at their mister. "Kinkou" Kira frowned.

"Kinkou doesn't like explaining our resonances too deeply" Hikari said softly. "She doesn't... well, to put it simply, she doesn't have a family, she-"

"Stop it" Kira frowned. "You know it's not our place to say anything. If Kinkou doesn't want to say anything, she wont"

Hikari frowned. "But if Athena doesn't know, she'll get mad at Kinkou for something she cant fix"

"That's up to Kinkou to deal, not us" Kira replied.

Hikari frowned more. "I suppose your right... well, do you want to say anything Kinkou?"

She shook her head. "Dark ballad" She said quietly, and simply.

She took a step back and brought them together, taking their Dark form with Kinkou's eyes going black. "Half Soul Resonance... Dark Ballad" She swung it up, then back, and two large waves of dark soul energy launched into the air.

Athena's expression changed. "Do you feel that?" She mumbled.

"Their resonance..." He mumbled back.

After a few moments, the hilt started to spark, likely from Hikari.

Kinkou split them up, and was a little short on breath. "That was the best so far in my opinion..." Kira said

Kinkou nodded some.

"If you forget me being in pain- ow!" Hikari grumbled

Athena frowned. "Do all of your resonances hurt?"

"They hur-..." Hikari stopped talking as Kinkou squeezed her hilt, knowing what she was going to say.

"They're uncomfortable. Because I have to let Kira take me body and soul" Hikari said instead.

"Then for light ballad bits he same but it's the opposite " Kira replied

Athena frowned. "Hikari, what were you saying?" She narrowed her eyes with suspicion.

"It was about Kinkou, and she doesn't want me to share" Hikari said softly, and Kinkou nodded in confirmation.

"No, I don't mean the personal matters. I don't like getting personal. I meant what you started to say and got cut off."

"I was telling the truth" Hikari frowned.

Kira, who had more of a mouth to disobey her mister, shook a little. "It hurts and is strainfull on Kinkou! She has to balance out our energies so we don't consume each other whole!" Kira exclaimed.

Kinkou dropped Kira from shock, and she changed back to normal form. "While I'm at it, yeah, she doesn't have a family! She doesn't have a home! We don't know where she came from; we found her waiting outside of our school one-day asking if she could help us. She doesn't have anything. As far as files go, she almost literally doesn't exist and we only attend that annoying school because that's the only place she can get an education at!" Kira seemed too angry to hold anything back, and what she said caused Kinkou to drop Hikari as well.

"Way to go, idiot" Hikari hit her sister again. "You just said not to because its her shit to tell, now you've upset her!"

"Well you're right, she needed to know, but I'm not going to have her pressure her because Kinkou didn't want to say anything, then make us look like where the assholes!" Kira exclaimed.

"Kinkou could have dealt with it her own way like you said" Hikari defended.

"I'm not goanna let some random ass Meister who stole my soul from me yesterday tear up my Meister from the inside out! Its bitches like her that make Kinkou think so low of herself!"

"You cant just switch sides like that! What if that hurts her more than Athena does? And further more She... wait... Kinkou?" They both turned to where their Meister should have been, but she had run off.

"You two." Athena said firmly. "Stay here. The both of you. I will collect you later." Summoning her skateboard Kalphozan, Fyre transformed and she rushed off in the direction Kinkou had gone.