Chapter 2: The First Night

Paul was walking with his partner Mara in the city that Lord Death wanted them to go to find their first Kishin. Maka had decided that they should split up to cover more ground and the first person to find it, gets its soul. This was what she told Paul, but in reality, she was watching over Paul to make sure he didn't mess up on his first mission.

"Let's play a game." Mara said.

"What is it?" Paul said.

"You play video games right?" Paul nodded.
"Well I say a video game title and you say another that starts with the last word of the title I said If you can't find one then I win and vice versa. I'll start Left 4 Dead."

"That's easy, Dark Souls." Paul said

"Silent Hill." Mara said.

"Legend Of Zelda." Paul said.

"Assassin's Creed ." Mara said.
"And we're back to D, Darksiders." Paul said.
Before Mara could answer they found some freak covered in blood and had a machete on him, it seems like this was the Kishin.

"Looks like we found our client. Oh and Saints Row." Mara said.
"World Of Warcraft, are you ready Mara? Paul said.
"You act like I'm not." Mara said.
"So a Meister and his Weapon finally decided to capture my soul, I hope you're for your inevitable death!" The Kishin screamed.

"Hmph, my thoughts exactly." Paul said

Mara had transformed into a great sword for Paul to wield. It felt weird for him to carry such a blade as big as this on one hand without any weight to it but he would most likely get used to it.

Soundtrack: Shaman's Harvest - Dangerous

Paul immediately starts swinging his blade right at the Kishin with both of his arm, the Kishin had managed to evade but not before Paul stepped one foot forward and slashed the torso of the Kishin, it wasn't thick enough to kill it but it was at least the first strike directly at the Kishin.

"Rule number one always double tap your attacks." Paul reminded himself.

The Kishin dashed toward him and was about to slash through Paul with his machete but Paul blocked it with Mara. The two swung at each other with each slash creating some distances between the two, sparks flew from each swing connecting. Paul's swings were faster but the Kishin's machete had more impact causing Paul to shift backwards.
Paul soon went in for the offensive as he started swinging even harder, trying to break the Kishin's defense. Unfortunately the Kishin had too much strength within it to break, so Paul had to find another strategy. But before Paul could think of anything else, the Kishin started swinging his machete towards him. Paul was now in the defensive. Paul and Kishin's blades clashed for a minute until Paul just went and headbutted the Kishin out of the way. Regaining his breath, Paul had to think of something.

"How about we resonate? We aren't going anywhere in this pace." Mara said

"Right, but I have to keep calm." Paul breathed in and closed his eyes. He felt a surge of energy start going through him, like he was given a shot of adrenaline. Soon there was an almost hellfire like aura around him creating a burning ascense. Soon his Weapon partner had the same fiery aura to her and his blade was now infused with flames.

"Soul Resonance, Hell Razor!" Both of them cried out.

All that aura vanished but retracted back to Paul making his pupils turn into glowing red and giving the great sword even more power. Paul ran toward the Kishin and swung his now fire linked blade at the Kishin, it's machete melted right off and Paul went in for the kill as he stabbed the Kishin right in the stomach and finished it off by decapitating it's head off, dissipating it's body and showing only it's soul.

Paul was breathing heavily after the fight, while Mara had went ahead and retrieved the Kishin's soul.

"Something doesn't feel right." Paul said.

"Why, we kicked it's ass and you say something's wrong?" Mara asked.

"No it feels like something different should have happened when we resonated. It probably must be the-"

"Tatoo." Mara finished for Paul.

"You knew how about it, How?" Paul asked.

"When you told me where your apartment was and I asked if I could wait while you changed I saw a black tattoo on your right arm because your door wasn't full closed." Mara said.

"Wait, why were you peeking-"

Paul sighed and was about to ask why she was looking at his branding but suddenly a figure dash toward and tried to nearly cut his head off. Paul dodged it and grabbed Mara instantly. Paul had Mara readied as the figure revealed itself. He had black hair similar to Paul's but was slicked back whereas Paul's was combed. He had a black trench coat and undershirt. He was looking straight on at him.

"Ravana" The figure said.

"What."

"My name, the last name you will remember when I kill you!"

Soundtrack: Open Wounds-Skillet

A sword was instantly constructed out of Ravana's right hand as he went ahead charged right at the Meister but Paul blocked him with Mara. As they were clashing blades, Paul could barely keep up. This Ravana kept swinging harder and faster while Paul could only use his energy to defend himself from another slash. Soon, another sword appeared on Ravana's other hand and swung toward Paul. He side stepped out of the way, but was caught in the other sword's radius, and was slashed on the upper chest by Ravana. Paul began holding the open wound on his free hand.

"Who the hell is this guy, he's fighting like somebody in my school, fighting like me. But I haven't seen someone like him on the alumni listings for my school." Paul thought.

"Whoever he is, we can't let him live. He looks like another Kishin hiding as a human." Mara replied.

Paul was about to reply but was forced to block his great sword toward Ravana as he had both his swords swinging straight at him. Paul was just trying to get on even ground but Ravana was assaulting him with swings. He had to either block or dodge out of it's direction.

"Damn it! Looks I have no choice, I have to use my branding." Paul thought.

As Paul says this he put his right hand out and starts to conjure up a long dark orange sword with an angry demon face on the hand guard of the blade. Paul put the blade on his shoulder and Mara on his other hand. This was Paul's most observed blade, which was stronger than the original version.

"Alright you son of a bitch, round 2!" Paul yelled.

Paul was now on the offense with Ravana now swinging through his blades. Both swords clashed but Paul knew even if they did have the same brand, Ravana had weaker copies then him and they'd eventually break then he can go and take him down. Eventually Ravana had gotten angry with the fact he was being pushed back.

"Enough! This is going on for too long, it's time for to you die." Ravana said.

Ravana created two new blades out of his brand which preceded to slice through Paul's own blade and disarm Paul from Mara. Ravana slashed through Paul's shoulder and immediately tackled him to the ground and grab Mara by it's grip, he managed to lock her soul into her weapon form and cuffed Paul's hands and legs into orbs of pure energy, bounding him so that Ravana can finish Paul off.

Suddenly a loud noise can be heard behind Ravana.

"Genie Hunter Slash!" Maka yelled.
Ravana felt a painful cut through his body, he looked behind him and saw Maka readied with her Scythe in hand.

"Dammit, I'm too late." Ravana said.

"Who are you? Your not a Kishin, I can feel your soul, it's something stronger. But what are you?" Maka asked.

Ravana gritted his teeth and put his hand on the floor and in a flash, teleported out of the area. Maka started looking around to see where he went but soon gave, and lowered her scythe for Soul to come out and started running towards Paul, who was now free of his cuffs.

"Paul! Are you okay?"

Paul revealed the cut inflicted on his upper left shoulder as he showed Maka, as soon she saw it Mara then immediately ran to Paul and nearly tackled him to the ground, now in her human form.

"Mara it's okay I'm fine." Paul said trying to push his good arm away from her massive embrace.

"Shut up okay! I almost lost you, here I was finally getting my first Meister and he was almost taken away from me." Mara said with tears in her eyes.

"It's my fault I should have arrived faster so that you wouldn't get hurt on your first mission." Maka said.

Paul started to blush as she said that, he felt embarrassed that he needed to be rescued but was relieved that Maka came on time to save him.

"Look I hate to ruin our emotional breakdown but we need to heal up Paul's shoulder." Soul said.

"Your right Soul, let's get out of here and report this to Lord Death." Maka said.

"Hey Paul." Mara said releasing her hug from Paul.

"Yeah" Paul replied weakly.

"Tales of Vesparia." Mara said grinning at Paul.

"What are you guys talking about?" Soul said confused about what they were talking about.

"Oh it's nothing me and Paul made a game to ease up stress." Mara replied.

"Mara..." Paul said.

"Yeah?"

"Animal Crossing." Paul replied with a weak smile...

Meanwhile far away from the city, Ravana had teleported out of the area, he was wounded on his back from the slash that was inflicted on him. As he started healing himself a voice was heard.

"So you want the Hunter too."

"Who's there!" Ravana started to look around and saw nothing.

"Relax, I'm only a voice and I have an offer. I will show you where to find the Hunter and you can kill and I can extract his growing Demon soul."

"Why would I need your help?"

Ravana questioned.

"Paul knows about you, and the next time you face him he'll be prepared for you. I can find him at his most vulnerable and you can take the finishing blow."

"Fine I accept but only for Paul and after this we are never speaking to each other again." Ravana said.
As soon as he said that a portal opened right in front of him. He realized this was probably the source of the voice in his head and entered in.