Fuzzy: Fuzzy here and I'm pleased to announce the creation of chapter two of Soul Struck. The witch Eclipse is now in the Death room ready to receive judgment along with her weapons Azoth and Cyrus. Want to know the verdict? Well I guess you will just have to keep reading! ^_^
Last time~
Crest then transforms looking over at the witch who had spent the entire time watching them fight in awe. BIG*Star approaches and points at the witch as his sister transforms to her normal form and the brown haired twins are huddled close to their meister protectively, "What are we going to do with them?"
Junior looks them over and finally says removing his foot from Hyde, "We take them to my grandfather for judgment… he tends to make the best decisions in these matters."
The white haired witch has now been brought to Lord Death for the judgment and considering this guys name… things aren't looking good for her and her weapons.
Before they bring her in Hyde goes ahead to explain the situation so that Lord Death will not be caught off guard by the trick of a witch. After a few minutes he comes out grumbling angrily to himself and waves for them to enter as he turns around walking back in down the hall of guillotines.
Once they arrive, Lord Death pipes in immediately in his happy-go-lucky impossible to take serious voice. "Hello! Welcome! I am Lord Death and if I'm not mistaken you are the Witch I heard about from my son Kidd." She nods slowly not sure what they have planned for her. "Anyways!" At the large black cloaked mans outburst she flinches slightly, "I am not going to have you killed… according to reports as well as what I can read from your own soul you are not a threat to us or our cause. So instead I will have my grandson and Crest keep an eye on you to be sure this does not change. You will be showed around by our former student and very first witch meister Kim and will receive training from Hyde on resonating and weapon use… He is our best after all!" The shinigami then turns around waving them off. "That is all… Crest she will be staying with you… the dungeons are oh so cold and unfit for a woman after all."
Nearly everyone in the room jaws' drop in surprise at this notion and Hyde continues to lean on the wall and grumble to himself in rage.
~TIME SKIP~
A few hours later he takes the witch and her weapons to his house in downtown DeathCity, It is an average sized two story three bedroom house with a single bathroom a kitchen with a table and a living room with a couch, chair, and a T.V. set. The walls are painted white and his furniture is black. There are a few dirty dishes in the sink from his breakfast and the extra bedrooms are furnished but unused incase of guests. On a small desk in the living room there is a small black laptop with a shinigami logo printed on the top of it.
The silver haired woman followed Crest inside quietly as he showed her around the house telling her and the twin weapons behind her to go ahead and make themselves at home. The boys turned to each other grinning high-fiveing.
"Crest… why did you defend me?"
The albino teen turns to her shrugging his shoulders, "Because you didn't seem like you would do anything bad… No sense in punishing someone for something they might do… I mean if that was the law every one in the world would be locked up right?"
The woman looks at him for awhile deep in thought and finally answers, "I suppose so… my name is Eclipse by the way." She offers her hand to shake to Crest who gladly accepts smiling, "Pleasure to finally meet you formally."
There conversation is interrupted at the knock of the door for which Crest answers it letting Kim a tall pink haired and green eyed girl dressed in a white knee length skirt and dress-shirt. She also has a green cloth tied around the collar.
"Ah you must be here to meet Eclipse." The boy steps aside letting the woman in before shutting the door and heading to his room to change for bed.
The woman offers her hand to Eclipse, "My name is Kim, I'm and old student at the DWMA and a witch just like you. Lord Death sent me so you know that we are not going to have you killed just because of your heritage. After all you haven't done anything wrong have you?"
Eclipse shakes her hand smiling, "Thank you… my name is Eclipse… those boys over there…" She motions her hand to the floor in front of the T.V. where the twins sit watching it and eating popcorn they took from the kitchen. "…are Azoth and Cyrus. They are my weapons and the closest thing to a family I have."
The hot pink haired girl smiles sweetly, "well I'm sure they are quite loyal and protective of you. My own weapon is Jacqueline and transforms into a lantern, what do they become?"
Eclipse sits back giggling lightly, "well it's kind of tricky… they tell me they can turn into a few weapons but all they will ever turn into are the ninja swords… they say that until we resonate successfully they aren't comfortable with showing me their other forms."
They lay back simultaneously saying together with a mouth full of popcorn but still audible, "We told you Eclipse if it turns out our souls can't resonate right you could end up hurting yourself trying to wield our other forms… all of them need constant resonating to hold anyways."
She sighs and looks at Kim, "So I hear you're going to be showing me around…"
The pink haired witch beams at her happily clasping her hands together, "I want you ready bright and early tomorrow and I'll be here to pick ya up!" With that she stands up and walks out and Crest walks out of his room dressed in his pajama bottoms and no shirt yawning, "pick your rooms… I'm just gonna crash on the couch tonight… I got some stuff to do anyways out here so I would prefer you all went to bed now."
The three of them nod to him and respectfully enter their own rooms, Eclipse in one the twins in another as Crest sits on the couch pulling something small, round, and gleaming black out of his pocket.
~TIME SKIP~
The next day her and Kim wander the streets of DeathCity looking at all the shops and restaurants, after awhile Kim gets a call on her cell.
"Oh, hold on Eclipse I gotta take this… Hello? Oh ya…sure I can do that. We are just about to get a bite to eat first so we will be there right after ok? Ok."
Eclipse looks at her curiously, "What was that all about?"
She smiles, "Oh, I'm just supposed to take you to the park after lunch for your training with Hyde… So, where do you wanna eat?"
The two of them walk around till they find a nice café ((you guess it it's the same one from the last chapter and is BIG*Star's and Crest's Favorite place XD)) The two of them step inside and are greeted by a young man with long blue hair, "Welcome my name is Riki would you like a table or would you like a stool seat?"
The two girls think for a moment and then finally decide on the stool, "I think we will just find some empty stools, thank you though."
At the counter with the girls an old woman with her gray hair done up in a bun asks them what they would like to order, "Umm I'll just have a hotdog and a coke please…" Kim pipes in after her, "I'll have a plain cheese burger and an orange cream soda."
The two talks quietly about what Eclipse thinks of the city so far as the old woman goes to make their food and the man with the blue hair comes by and gives them their drinks smiling kindly at them."
They sip their drinks idly waiting for their food still talking for the next few minutes. When it arrives they eat quietly until Kim finally blurts out, "What do you think of Crest? He's like you knight in shining armor right?"
The white haired woman nearly chokes on her hotdog and looks at the other woman wide eyed, "WHAT?! NO… He was just doing what he thought was right. We just met each other, there is no way I could think of him like that. Besides he's like what? Five years younger than me?!"
She simply shrugs taking another sip of her drink, "hey no need to get so defensive it was just a question…"
After a few minutes they finish their meal and Kim hands them a slip of paper with a note from Lord Death explaining that he will be paying for the meal himself. Once the person at the desk gives them the okay they leave and begin to walk to the park where Hyde Azoth and Cyrus are waiting.
Once she arrives to Hyde Kim immediately leaves saying she has other business to attend to. Hyde stares at her arms crossed and approaches slowly her weapons by her side nodding to each other while they transfer to their weapon forms, "First we will spar… just you with your weapons… and me unarmed."
Hyde charges her with an open palm blow without his soul wave length that she ducks under and sweep kicks and her leg hits against his leg not swaying him even a little and he reaches down smiling grabbing her by the hair and hoists her up while he takes his other hand and pushes his wavelength through her chest launching her across the park into a tree. "Pathetic…" The damaged and bruised Eclipse struggles her way out of the debris that was at one time a tree, Azoth and Cyrus reverts to their human forms with matching worried expressions. "Eclipse, we can't go on like this… YOU can't go on like this…" Hyde approaches them eyes hidden behind the gleam of his glasses, "You can take a hit I'll give you that… so let's see your resonance rate…" She nods grasping her weapons hands ignoring their calls of concern while they sigh and transforms back into their ninja sword modes. "Okay… Azoth, Cyrus soul resonance…" They oblige starting to bounce her wavelength back and forth with her despite their worry of her taking things to far. Hyde simply watches her soul as it swells from the resonance rate being created. As they keep up the rate the blades begin to glow a faint purple and extend outward about three feet. Soon he begins to notice her soul start to tremble and shake, "Well that isn't good…"
That night she returns burned and bruised from the heavy training administered by Hyde, "What happened back there… you guys just like blew up in my hands or something…"
Cyrus nods in agreement his passed out brother on his back as the approach the door of Crest's home. "Shit! Azoth has the keys. What are we going to do?" Just then Crest opens the door allowing them in. "You guys look exhausted. Please come on in I made dinner."
After eating the meal, she and the twins retire to their rooms falling asleep the instant they hit the bed. Crest in the mean time speaks with Junior, who had just arrived, about the situation of the witch and what he had managed to find out about her watching her all day.
Fuzzy: Alright my wonderful readers I apologize for the extended update time I've had a lot going on. Aaaanyways, I bring tidings from my partner in crime Kidd101!
He has decided to make cosplays for any OC in this story you like. So if you really like one of these characters and you would like to cosplays as them either PM me or him about it and we will talk business ^_^