Back on the Battlefield
"AACCHOOO!" Yato sneezed as he ran for his life. After the shaking stopped, the ground burst open which caused several sharp pillars of ice to start sprouting from it. At first it was few, and in one place, but soon more and more started sprouting. The pillars freeze anything within a yard of them, and as more appeared more of the forest was left completely frozen. Seeing as they had no way to stop the forest's freezing. After attempting to destroy a few, they discovered if the broken pieces of ice touched the ground, more pillars would appear.
The group managed to come up with a plan to keep the ice from reaching the city. Bishamon planted three of her shinki, which consisted of Kuraha, Yugiha, and Kinuha at three points in the forest. She instructed them to form borderlines, which they did. The plan was to connect four borderlines together, which will form a box, and theoretically trap the freezing air. For Kinuha, Kuraha, and Yugiha the borderlines worked, and stopped the ice from continuing. The last borderline was to be put up by Kazuma, but Bishamon along with everyone else were having trouble in getting to the point where the last borderland would be placed.
Bishamon and Yato know the forest well, so in collaboration (which is something that they never thought would happen), they thought of where to put all the borderlines, and so far it was working.
"Yato, you okay?" Stein ran beside Yato as they jumped over several pillars, and continued running.
"It was nothing…let us focus on getting the hell away from that ice!" Yato shouted as he continued running, Stein managing to keep up. Maka flew overhead noticing Kuraha far ahead. Kinuha and Yugiha riding on the lion's back.
"Kuraha is almost there!" Maka shouted towards Bishamon and Kid who flew beside her.
"Everyone come on, we are almost there!" Kid encouraged. Everyone ran faster as they tried to outrun the wave of freezing air.
Bishamon and Yato jumped through the tree, not noticing their irregular movement.
Yato went to jump high into the air, but something kept him down.
"Yato?!" Yuki shouted.
Yato looked down to see a branch of a tree wrapping around his leg.
"Oh shit!" He shouted as the tree's branch sent him crashing into the ground.
"Yato!" Maka shouted as she stopped flying.
"Keep going, I've got him!" Kid ordered giving Maka a nod.
That is when they heard another crash, and Kid noticed Bishamon was the one to be brought down. He also saw Stein struggling with the overly active trees as the Professor sliced through several branches.
Time seemed to slow down, as Kid assessed the situation.
He saw the ice freezing the ground and trees, nearing his friends. Even with his power and speed, he wouldn't manage to help them all.
"Stein is capable, especially with Spirit. He is also the furthest away from the blizzard. Now it is between Bishamon and Yato. Yato seems to be recovered, the same for Bishamoten." Kid's eyes widened as he noticed roots appear from the ground and trap all three.
Maka flew next to Kid, waiting for instructions. "Maka, help Stein. After you are done with him, help Bishamon and Yato. I'll buy you time!" Kid shouted as he flew full speed to land in front of the oncoming ice. He stood a little more than a yard away.
"I'll put all my power into this!" Kid shouted as he clapped his hands then extended them, and brought forth a giant skull shield, which held most of his power. The pillars collided with the shield, the force pushing Kid back slightly. His feet being pushed into the ground, due to the force.
The pillars were stopped, but the freezing it was only slowed a bit. The ground under his feet froze slowly, and made it to Kid's leg.
"That witch! She froze all the water in the grass and plants! She was trying to get to me specifically." Kid thought as he felt his left leg begin freezing.
"Damn, if only she froze the right leg as well." He thought as he attempted to move.
Both his legs became numb, and started losing all feeling in everything below the waist.
"This is just ice and freezing temperatures. My body shouldn't be affected by this. It must be her magic." Kid mind filled with thoughts.
"I have no choice!" Kid loosened his control on the shield, which weakened it. As soon as he did this cracks appeared his shield. "It won't hold for much longer. Girls, this magic is much more powerful than I thought. It's like it own wavelength." Kid spoke
"Kid?" Liz asked confused
"What are you doing?!" Patty and Liz felt Kid's changing wavelength.
"Sorry, for this!" With one motion Kid removed Liz and Patty from their holsters, and threw them as far as he could behind him.
"Kid!" Patty and Liz shouted as they were disconnected from their meister's wavelength.
The two weapons spun through the air before they transformed back to their human form.
They landed several feet away from him. Maka saw what happened as she made her way next to them.
"What happened?" Maka asked.
"Damn him!" Liz shouted as she look at Kid who was almost completely frozen.
"Kid!" Patty shouted.
Kid continued focusing on what remained of the shield. Without turning Kid shouted,
"All of you get to the meeting point, and set up the borderline! I'll be fine!"
Bishamon and Yato now stood next to Maka.
"What the hell is he doing?!" Yato exclaimed
"Does he have a death wish?!" Bishamon followed.
"I can hear you! Just go and do as planned! Besides, if she wanted to kill me, it probably would be done already!" Kid shouted. The five looked at each other, wondering what he meant.
"It seems she simply wants to separate me from my weapons! I'll be kind, and accept her offer! But I need all of you to get out of here!" The skull shield was completely cracked.
Liz and Patty knew they couldn't reason with him. More so now wasn't the time.
"Kid, make sure to stay safe, and kick her ass for us!" Liz shouted
"Yeah! Snap her neck!" Patty added, gaining sweat drops from the others.
Kid smiled, "Alright! Go on then! I can't hold this forever!"
The five listening to the reaper, looked at each other and nodded, before continuing towards the designated point.
Kid sensed their souls moving away from him. "Fine…you want to fight me one on one, very well." He thought as the shield broke, and his entire body froze over. When this happened more ice appeared, but this time the pillars formed a wall, surrounding the frozen reaper. The others caught up with Kinuha, Kuraha, and Yugiha.
"Bishamon-sama." Kuraha bowed his head as the god arrived.
"Kazu…" Bishamon called for her oldest shinki. Her earring turned back to his human form. "Right." Kazuma positioned his arm across his chest, before he moved his swiped his arm sideways, creating the borderline. With the final line the giant box was complete.
"It is done." Kazuma informed. As he said this everyone relaxed, some more than others. Yato sat down on a log. Fallowed by Stein
"That was….that was pretty chaotic." Yato stated breaking the silence.
"I don't think I've ever been so frightened of the cold." Soul spoke now back in his human form as he sat on another fallen log. Maka took a seat next to her weapon, catching her breath.
"This is a first for me too." Maka added.
"I don't think any of us have dealt with something like this." Spirit sat next to Stein.
"All that matters is our plan worked. Maka, Soul thank you for the assistance." Stein looked at his former students.
"It was thanks to Lord Death's quick thinking that we all came out of there alive." Maka told her former teacher.
"You are all rather relaxed… it is as if your friend didn't just enter a battle to the death. Though I cannot really say much since that friend of yours is Death himself." A new voice spoke startling some. Everyone turned to see Tenjin, the god of knowledge, and learning. Instead of wearing his usual traditional wear, he wore his modern red suit and yellow scarf.
"So there is one of your shrines in this area." Yato talked to the deity with familiarity.
"Well there was, but it was destroyed during Bishamon's fit of rage." Tenjin slightly chuckled as he looked over at the god of war.
"I apologize… I didn't realize what I did." Bishamon slightly bowed.
"A shrine is just a shrine…are all of you alright?" Tenjin eyed both Yato and Bishamon.
"Tenjin…the Shinto god of scholarship." Stein stated, the others from his world looked at him in curiosity on how he knew that.
"After we discovered Lord Death's whereabouts, I studied in Shinto religion. I felt it was necessary to know something about the gods which Lord Death met." Stein explained.
"I assume you are friends of the Shinigami?" Tenjin asked.
"Yes, and we apologize for intruding in this world." Maka walked up and bowed apologetically. She knew a bit of Japanese religion, but did study it like Stein, but from what he said the god in front of her, is very important.
"It is alright, as long as you aren't doing anything that would harm this world and the beings who live here."
"We aren't, but an enemy from our world aims to do so. For that we apologize." Stein added.
"So this box is meant to trap that enemy. It is a clever plan, but will the borderlines last?" Tenjin asked as he looked at the barrier before him.
"They are meant to, but we hope Shinigami-sama, will defeat the witch before they are destroyed." Kazuma chose to spoke.
"Witch?"
"Yes, according to Shinigami-sama, the person we are fighting is a witch. Apparently she has power of a Kishin." Tenjin's eye slightly widened.
"Yato told me something about humans, describing them as pre-Kishin. He said the Shinigami told him about the creatures you fight." Tenjin looked at Stein and Spirit.
"That sounds right. We did explain that to Yato." Soul added.
"So what is the plan? To simply wait here?" Tenjin asked.
"As of now we do not have any other. Lord Death told us he would fight with her, so all we can do is wait." Stein confirmed.
"Even before becoming Lord Death, Kid knew what he was doing. All we can do is trust him as both his friends, and subordinates." Spirit added.
"We'll have to wait for Kid…that is all we can do right now. Might as well use this time to rest." Liz spoke as she now sat on a fallen tree, Patty at her side. Tenjin looked at everyone seeing they made up their minds. "Then I hope you don't mind if I wait with you." Tenjin took a seat, on a log.
With that everyone went into a silent rest.
Soul Eater World
The battle in Death City was nearly over. For two hours the fight raged on, but in the end it was a loss for the witches. Several witches attempted to flee, and managed to do so, but were captured by witches in the Witch Realm. Not all the witches had infused their soul, and magic with madness, so they were captured. The others who had madness magic, were either killed, or the madness destroyed their souls.
"Alright keep moving! The Witch Judge wants the traitors in the Witch Realm dungeons." Sid shouted to several DWMA agents, who were leading shackled witches through the portal, which led to the Witch Realm. Ox walked up to the zombie.
"Sid we captured several witches in the east part of the city. Though there can still be several witches using soul protect." Ox informed.
"We'll have to deal with them later. As long as they don't have any madness in them, they aren't the main threat." Sid instructed.
Ox nodded and headed towards another location which held captured witches. Another agent walked up to Sid.
"Captain Sid, we have the casualty rates." The agent informed. Sid motioned for him to continue. "Well as for the enemy, there have been 82 deaths, 67 of those deaths were witches who used madness magic. 62 witches have been found, and captured. These did not possess madness magic. On our side we have 173 injured, and 24 dead…among the dead, there are 6 students." The agent said
"Their ranks?"
"The 6 consisted of 4 two-star meisters, 1 three-star meister, and a three-star weapon. The other weapons are among the injured." The agent finished.
Sid looked up at the sky, his expression turning grim, "May Death bring them peace."
Death Room
"The west and south, have been searched. We captured any witches we could find. Over all we won." Black Star spoke through one of the many mirrors which stood in the center of the room. Marie listened to the assassin's report. Eruka listened as well. Excalibur decided to take a nap on a chair he spawned from nowhere. Both Free and Mabaa were in a sleeping state, as they kept the portal, which linked both worlds, open.
"Thank you, Black Star." With that the connection was cut off.
Marie sighed, looking back at the portal. "I wonder what is going on over there." Marie said. Marci ran up and held onto her mother's leg, smiling brightly.
"Mommy, are you sad?" The little girl asked.
"No…just tired." Marie smiled back.
"Any thought on how they are doing?" Eruka spoke.
"Knowing them, they are probably trying their best. I hope they are alright." Marie stated concerned.
"I hope they hurry. Even with the combined power of both eyes, Free will come out of this very tired. I bet he'll sleep for days." Eruka slightly giggled as she looked at the sleeping immortal. Free sat in a cross legged position next to Mabaa who floated.
"They both are using a lot of magic to keep this link open."
Noragami World
Death the Kid opened his eye only to find himself in utter darkness. He used his soul perception, but failed to locate the witch's soul. "Helpless and in complete darkness…is this how you attempt to kill me?" Kid asked the darkness, hoping to get a response. His voice echoed.
"Nothing…you have lots of power, don't you? I doubt blinding me with darkness is the proper way to kill me." He continued. "Alright then. Silence is one way to answer, but speaking is another."
"You separated me from my Death Scythes, freeze me, defrost me, and blind me. I thought you were more confident with your own power. Are you doubtful?" Kid mocked. He was going to speak again, but was interrupted by a ray of fire pushing him backward. In the second the fire hit him, he took in his surroundings. Though it was hard to do so, when his skin was on fire. His shirt burnt to a crisp leaving him with a naked torso. The pain was fading, but it was still present. From what he felt, a wall stopped his body. He fell on the floor, and the fire stopped which left him in darkness once again. Smoke appeared from his healing body. His normally cold body was boiling.
"Elemental magic… I've never had my skin burned off. I will…say, it …isn't pleasant." Kid spoke through a pained voice. Fire usually didn't have much of an effect on his body. It usually left his skin red, like a sun burn. But this… was something he never experienced. Burning alive was not fun.
"Though…my biggest worry is the asymmetrical burn marks you've caused. Hopefully your fire won't leave scars, because that will drive me crazy." Kid joked through his pain. His healing was much slower, due to the fire being magical and madness infused.
"That is how we felt!" A sinister voice boomed, as fire appear from under Kid, and suddenly lit him up. Kid restrained from shouting, his entire body burned, but it quickly ended as a tidal wave of water stopped the fire. The water pushed him back further. The cold water stopping his pain slightly.
"I won't let you die so early!"
"Shit." Kid thought as he realized water was also her weapon. His body froze once again, the cold burning as much as fire. A pillar of earth freed him from his frozen state. Kid was now on his hands and knees, his entire body soaked from the melted ice. His body healed most his torso's skin. He continued to be attacked in darkness. What felt like a boulder fell on him next, crushing his entire body. Several bones broke.
"Is this all?! Fight back! Are you a god or not?! Are you perhaps scared of my power…MY MADNESS?!" The boulder lifted up and down, crushing him more and more. Kid activated a reaper jet, escaping the witch's attack. As he flew at high speed, only a few inches above the ground, he crashed through a wall, which appeared from the ground.
The wall stopped his flight, and he was sent tumbling across the field. His body badly bruised, and scraped, bleeding from the many wounds caused by the boulder and him skidding across the ground. He came to a stop, and struggled to push himself up.
"I am not afraid of your madness…I actually think you are afraid of mine."
"You want me to fight back…then be fair…hehehe…fighting me in an environment where everything is your weapon isn't really fair. Is it?" Kid expected more attacks, but nothing came.
His eyes darted back and forth. He suddenly felt a hand at his throat, and it lifted him off his feet.
"She is right in front of me?! Yet I can't see her?" Kid thought as the hand around his throat tightened. He attempted to pull of the strangling hand, but failed. A small flame appeared, illuminating the women in front of him.
She wore a wide, sinister smile. Sharp teeth clearly visible. Kid noticed her nails were extended to a deadly length. They dug into his throat.
"You are pathetic…I thought you would put up more of a fight, but I guess I shouldn't expect anything from a reaper." The fire which lit up both their faces, moved and stopped above her extended finger. The flame became narrower, and turned blue.
"I will make you feel the pain of being burned at the stake!" The witch focused the flame on Kid's cheek, gaining a pained grunt from the reaper. Kid clenched his teeth, as his cheek burned (literally.) Having enough he brought up his leg, kneed her in the chin, then proceeded to kick her in the stomach launching her back.
He fell on the ground with a *thud*grabbing on to his healing cheek. "You still fail to harm me symmetrically." Kid barely managed to speak, as any face movement brought pain. Nothing came… Kid waited for a response, an attack, but nothing.
"You are not trying. Have you accepted death?"
"No I have not. I figured you do not have much confidence in your madness. In your eyes madness is the ultimate power, is it not? You possess this "ultimate power", and yet you trap me in your environment. It seems you know that madness will not help you in a battle against, me. Especially not my full power." Kid struggled to stand, but still managed. "You may see me as the ultimate evil, and I will agree that the DWMA has not been kind to witches. That was years ago…and we have made peace. I know this means nothing to you, we both know, in the end, you will not survive this."
"That is something you did not tell your followers. You caused the death of dozens of witches, and you do not care? I thought you were fighting for witches." Kid continued to mock her.
"You know nothing! Your words are only the result of your fear! FEAR ME!"
Strong winds pushed Kid back, and sent him into the air. It continued to increase pushing him up into the ceiling. He crashed into ceiling remembering the cold.
"So this place is the ice we ran from. She must have made some sort of dome, or arena." Kid thought as the wind stopped and he started falling. The wind then picked up again, pushing him speeding towards the ground. He crashed, shaking the earth.
"This is going nowhere. But without any of my Death Scythes, I will not be able to kill her. I have to get out of here." Kid still could not see anything through the darkness. "If this beating continues. I might go mad. I just hope Liz and Patty do not find out about this…they will probably want to rip Cynthia to shreds…even in death." Kid stood most of his wounds completely healed.
"This is the person so many people follow, and respect? Ha! Bugs under my feet deserve more respect!"
"I say the same of you…a leader who sends their subordinates to their death, is no better than a bug."
"So sympathetic. All those humans who respect you truly are pathetic. They should all die, and I will make sure they do" She said this through a chuckle.
"Will you? I hate to disappoint you, but the only way you'll be able to do that is to leave this place, and you will get through me before doing that. As they say…over my dead body." Kid chuckled the hackneyed expression.
"Believe me when I say that will happen." A fire ball was sent Kid's way, but a reaper shield prevented it from hitting Kid. It continued hitting the shield doing nothing. Two shields appeared on each side of Kid, and another behind him. Earth and ice hit two of the three shields. Another barrage of fire hit the third.
"You want me to try, so I will." Another shield appeared above Kid, when a pillar of ice made contact with it.
"The same attacks will not work again." Kid's tone changed from mocking, to a very serious tone. All the attacks stopped, Kid used the glowing from his shields to examine his state.
"This is rather indecent. I am with no shirt. My holsters also fell off, and my pants are barely on me." Kid thought.
"Leaving me in the dark again? You wanted me to fight, then fine, come…attack." Kid closed his eyes. In the dark they are useless, and he focused on his Death Martial Arts skills. He bent his body sideways as Cynthia's claw missed his head by centimeters. Moving quickly Kid grabbed her arm, and smashed her into the ground. He slightly bent backwards as a fireball passed in front of his head. The fire singed his hair. He kept his eyes closed, (not wanting to see the burn marks in his hair).
Cynthia grabbed onto Kid's leg, and impaled it with her claws. Kid realized she wouldn't be easy to shake off to he bent his body backwards, and performed a layout flip, slamming her into the ground… again. She released her grasp on his leg.
"You rely too much on your magic, and this dark."
"How dare you!" Her voice echoed throughout the darkness. Kid figured she had retreated.
"You can insult me all you want, but my friends are off limits."
"Your friends? You claim to have friends? They are nothing to you! You know that. You know their lives will fade in a second!" She mocked.
"Yes I do know. For that reason, I will protect them so they are granted peaceful, and dignified deaths. I will make sure they do not die in some forsaken battle." Kid explained.
"Yet you bring them here!? You say I send my followers to their deaths, yet you bring your "friends" here. Well let me tell you that they will die today."
"Eventually I will die, whomever my successor is will take my power, resulting in my death, but until then I will continue living. I am sorry, but I must end this." Kid suddenly sensed a soul in front of him.
"A human soul?! Is she using soul protect?" Kid thought not moving an inch. "Did she somehow created a fake soul?" The soul suddenly zipped towards him, stopping a few inches in front of him. Hesitantly he reached out for the soul.
"This is real?!" Kid was baffled to see this real human soul appear before him. The soul started glowing brightly, and started vibrated. Kid's eyes widened as five other souls appeared doing the same.
"NOOO!" Kid realized what was happening, but failed as the six souls exploded with atomic power.
Outside
Everyone got up from their rested position, alerted by the sudden explosion which began destroying the ice dome.
"What the hell was that?!" Yato was now on his feet, Yukine standing next to him, ready.
"Is this Shinigami-sama's doing?" Kazuma asked.
"No, it is actually the opposite." Everyone turned and looked at Stein, who already had a transformed Spirit in his hands. Stein looked up at the sky, seeing Kid's soul in disorder. Maka noticed this too.
"The witch did this?" Tenjin asked. "That is too be assumed, Kid's soul seems to be saddened, along with a tint of anger." Stein continued examining the golden soul.
"You can see his soul?" Tenjin asked. He knew very little of the other world, but Yato did mention something about their world having somewhat of a soul theme.
"Yes…though it is slightly hard to do so." Stein continued looking at the sky. Everyone who wasn't from the Soul Eater world was still confused.
"In our world, some have the power to see souls. Professor Stein and I are examples, but Lord Death's soul is slightly difficult to see since it is so large. The more powerful a person, the bigger the soul. For example, you three are gods, so it makes sense your souls are very large and powerful." Maka finished, giving the other gods an idea of what they are talking about.
"So how big is his soul?" Out of curiosity Kazuma asked.
"It is basically a dome over this city. Similar to how it covers Death City." Stein revealed. Kazuma was going to speak, but something crashing into his borderline caused him to turn. What he saw surprised him, along with everyone else.
"Kid!" Liz and Patty shouted as they ran up to the borderline. The explosion burned off most of Kid's skin, leaving it charred black. Most of his face healed, but he neck down was completely black. His skin was healing, but the sight still shocked everyone present
"Kazuma, let me through!" Yato ran up to the borderline and passed through it. He grabbed Kid and dragged him to the other side of the borderline. The heat of Kid's skin burned Yato's hand, but the god continued dragging Kid away from the borderline.
Yato stopped Liz and Patty, as they attempted to help him. "Stop! He is as hot as fire. You'll burn yourselves." Yato stopped dragging Kid, and sat next to his body eyeing his burned hands. Kid's heat left them red, and blistered. The others ran up to him.
"Is he alive?!" Tenjin joined everyone else standing over Kid. Stein kneeled next to Kid.
"Seeing as his soul is still covering the city, I will say yes, but I have never seen Kid this injured before, especially after he became Lord Death." Kid's sudden awakening startled everyone. Kid looked around panicked, but stopped when the felt the pain. Everyone saw Kid physically cringe, he breathed heavily as both the outside and inside of his body healed.
"Sorry…everyone…it seems…as though I've lost round one." Kid spoke with a raspy, and pained voice. Most of his throat was burned in the explosion, but it managed to heal.
"You shouldn't speak, it seems your throat was burned in the explosion." Stein stated.
Kid cleared his throat a few times, feeling it heal. "That explosion burned more than my throat." Kid's voice was less raspy, but still held pain. "But this is the motivation I needed to finally fight seriously." Kid said as he stood. His stumbled slightly, but stayed standing.
"Are you still going to fight her? You said it yourself she beat you. You shouldn't go in alone." Bishamon spoke.
"Thanks for the concern, Bishamoten, but I wasn't fighting my fullest and I underestimated her; I was a fool." Kid thought about the souls which were lost.
"Lord Death, we all know she is something different. You yourself told us to be cautious." Maka recalled
"Yes, but I never expected her to use innocent souls as weapons." This startled Maka and Stein.
"Innocent souls?" Maka asked
"She found a way to create…bombs from souls. I do not know how, but it disgusts me. She has crossed the line…no she has created a new kind of insanity, and a new kind of anger. Any thoughts of mercy…are gone. I apologize for my anger, but this goes against all my morals, those souls… as a reaper I have failed to assure peaceful and dignified deaths to whomever those souls belonged to." Everyone watched the reaper. In the centuries Tenjin, Yato and Bishamon have been alive they never thought they would meet a Shinigami, even more they never believed they would be watching said Shinigami sulk over destruction of innocent souls.
"I am sorry…look at me in such a disgraceful state." Kid composed himself, as he stood. He dusted off what was left of his pants, (which for some reason managed to stay on.) His body nearly healed only parts of it remained charred.
"This is quite the second meeting isn't it?" Kid jokingly said as he looked at Tenjin.
"Indeed it is, but I thank you for putting so much effort into protecting our world even though it isn't yours." Tenjin said as a smile adorned his ancient face.
"Well I am not done and I am not alone, but thank you." Kid moved his sore limbs. Determined as he looked at the borderline.
"So what is the plan?" Liz and Patty stood on each side of Kid. "The plan is for you to stay out here."
"I will go back in there without any weapons." Kid started explaining.
"Is that a wise choice? That did not really work last time." Bishamon added
"That is true, but last time, I wasn't using my full power, and I wasn't really trying. When I decided to start fighting back is when the explosion happened."
"Full power? You mean like when you opened a portal to your world?" Yato asked for clarification.
"Yes. That is my true reaper form. I have simply decided to stay away from it for now." Kid confirmed.
"Why don't you always stay in this reaper form?" Tenjin asked
"It is a rather long story, which we do not have time to recall."
"Anyways, after I go in there, and enter my reaper form. We will wait, until she appears, because, as you can see, she enjoys hiding. When I first fought her she kept me in complete darkness, and somehow kept her soul completely hidden, but her own pride might cause her to reveal herself. She does believe she can beat me in any form, so if I enter, and start tempting her to fight, then we will have the upper hand. That is when we will attack, and kill her, but only when I have the upper hand, will any of you enter. Though one of you two is going to have to stay outside those barriers, since I will have to use one of the scythes. " Kid finished, looking at both Maka, and Stein.
"I will stay outside. Soul is your current Death Scythe, so it makes sense if you use him." Maka volunteered.
"That is true, but we must also take into account her knowledge. She could very well see through our plan, so it is better if we decide who I will use when the time comes. This applies to Liz and Patty as well." Liz, Maka, Patty, Soul, Spirit, and Stein listened to Kid. The other gods were forgotten for the time being.
"If she starts freezing the area again, we will all be in danger. Lord Death will be the only one who can survive the cold." Stein mentioned.
"That is why I will use you when there is an opening, and only if there is an opening. Try to refrain from going in there at all times." Kid ordered. He received nods from everyone.
"I will be heading in now." Kid told them turning and walking towards Kazuma.
"If you will allow me to pass, this battle will not last long." Kid clarified. Kazuma nodded letting Kid walk through. Kid activated his reaper jets and took to the air. He flew to the center of the box, and waited. All he heard was the noise of ice cracking.
"Witch!" Kid shouted, "You have gained my attention! I simply wished you did not have to use such…an appalling method." Kid's expression turned grim. "You have brought destruction and misfortune, to not only to our world, but to this world as well. It doesn't matter where you are, it can be across several different dimensions, but if you seek to harm any humans or any innocent souls, you will face me and my academy. I really hoped it wouldn't come to this but you have left me with no other choice. You wanted my really strength, then you will get just that." Kid finished closing his eyes as he focused. Wind picked up around him, increasing in velocity every second.
"You wish to fight Death!? Then here I am!" Kid yelled. The Sanzu lines now floated, appearing as three halos around his head. His robe appear around his neck, taking the form of a cape more so than a robe. Jet black clothing materialized on Kid, replacing his torn clothing. His entire clothing was like a single black mass, his skull broach glowing brightly. He then opened his glowing gold eyes. They were no longer round like normal, instead they contain three spikes on the bottom of each eye, resembling his skulls.
"So this is what a god of death looks like? But what is this feeling?" Tenjin along with everyone else felt a sudden wave of something. Those whom reside in the Noragami world couldn't tell what the feeling was, but it felt like…peace and order, yet still contained a sense of insanity. As if this peace and order could get out of hand, and cause a mass wave of madness to take over.
"That would be what is known as the Madness of Order. He is not only the God of Death but he is also the God of Order." Stein pulled out a single cigarette. He usually doesn't smoke, well not anymore, especially after marrying Marie. He stopped smoking but whenever madness was in play, he allowed himself to smoke, it usually kept his own sanity intact.
"Madness of Order? Those two seem to contradict each other." Tenjin mentioned
"And they do, but what if that Order could be used to control the will of those within its range. That is Lord Death's madness, though he chooses not to use it, his madness gives him the power to suppress the emotions of another and turn them into his puppets eventually driving them insane." Stein continued. By now Yato, Yukine and Bishamon listened in on the conversation.
"Observing him, I can tell he would never wish to take away someone's free will. So that is the reason he does not stay in this "true" form, he fears that the power might consume him." Tenjin watched as Stein blew out the cigarette smoke, slightly wishing Mayu was with him.
"It is an understandable fear. All Lord Death wants is peace and balance, so having a power which guarantees the order he seeks, is a temptation Lord Death must ignore. His power is madness after all, so it can still drive someone insane."
"Kid is usually not afraid of anything, but when it comes to his own power he can't help but fear his own madness." Liz entered the conversation. "Kid is still trying to accept his position as Lord Death." Patty added.
"So here I am! If you believe you can beat me then come out! Fight!" Kid placed his hand in his pants' pockets floating high in the air, eyeing the ground below. Without a response, a barrage of elements were sent his way. Earth, fire, water and air, all aiming to hurt him, but missing due to Kid dodging. A column of earth raised into the air. Kid easily evaded it by moving backwards. It did not stop as it continued raising into the air. The reaper acted swiftly when another pillar shot out from the other, he raced his hand. As the pillar was arm's length away from him, he chopped the pillar with a furious reaper chop. The earth crumbled away due to the force of his chop. "You will have to try harder than that! Back in the dark, you would not stop attacking me! Where are you now?" Six pillars appeared from the ground, stopping at Kid's height. Kid waited for something, and looked for any sign of movement. His floating form was forcefully pushed to the earth by strong winds. Positioning his jets on his sides, his reaper jets raised in power and countered the wind. The wind stopped, and Kid stabilized. Straightening himself, his golden eyes looked for the witch.
"Her soul is still hidden. She managed to completely hide her soul. Advanced Soul Protect, she is indeed powerful to hide her soul this much." Kid thought. An explosion caught his attention. A dust cloud appear far below, fallow by many more in the area. "A distraction? No she knows this will not work. This cannot be her attack." Kid contemplated on whether he should land or not.
"I will play her game." Kid thought as he landed and dust blew in, and he closed eyes to enhance his senses. He grabbed an incoming claw before it sliced his neck.
"This will not work… if you want to fight me at my full power, you will have to try harder." The witch attempted to claw him again, but couldn't do anything when a devastating kick sent her skidding back. Kid vanished like a blur and appeared behind her. When he went to chop her, his arm was frozen solid.
"Being able to control four elements is helpful. Water vapor will be your death!" She roared as Kid felt pain appear. Looking down he saw a spike of ice going through the center of his chest. Breaking his hand free, he grabbed and broke the shard of ice, but as soon as he broke it, another appeared, followed by several others. Nine shards of ice now pierced his body in several places. Wind sent him through numerous fallen logs and tumbling across the ground. He stopped himself and stood, using his Death Claws he shattered the ice. He then sent the Death Claws speeding towards the witch. The arms reached her before she could react they punctured her shoulders and pulled her down to the ground. Kid appeared in front of her, "SOUL!" He shouted and extended his arm. The Death Scythe transformed and passed through the borderline. Soul's glowing scythe form neared.
Kid could act fast enough as Lady Kuma managed to clamp down her teeth into his leg. She picked him up and slammed his body down. Soul then landed, blade puncturing the ground. His hilt aimed up and was over the witch's head. Soul quickly transformed back into his human form, his hilt nearly bitten by the witch. The madness infused witch turned to look at Soul.
"A Death Scythe's soul?" She stated sending a chill down the Last Death Scythe's back. Unexpectedly she attempted to bite him with her razor sharp teeth, only missing because Soul jumped back.
"Whoa! Calm down! It isn't cool to eat me!" Soul shouted at the witch but was ignored. She went to attack Soul again but Kid grabbed her head and smashed it into the ground. "I respect you trying to reason with her, but she is far too gone." Kid threw her away telling Soul to transform. He twirled the scythe skillfully as he waited for the right moment to strike.
"This is it, ready Soul?" Kid asked
"Will we be able to strike her?" The scythe questioned.
"We must kill her here and now, for she has only a little more to go before her soul is completely destroyed. She may be an enemy, but even she deserves a quick and peaceful death." Kid explained as dust was thrown into the air.
"She is attempting to block our vision?" Soul identified.
"Yes, and it seems she made her soul vanish again. In simplest terms we are sitting ducks out here." Kid said as he scanned the area; wind cleared the dust which allowed Kid to notice a silhouetted figure in the distant. His eyes narrowed when he used his Soul Perception and could not see a soul.
"That could be her." He thought before a witch soul appeared. It wasn't only a witch soul, but one which was flooding with madness, and it increased to a great size as he watched.
"She let her guard down! Let's go!" Kid propelled himself forward at high speeds. He reached the silhouette and now saw it was the witch. He stopped right in front of her and sliced through her torso. Kid's eyes widened when he noticed the soul, "Impossible!" Kid yelled as he flew back barely missing the explosion which erupted from the "witch" soul.
"What the hell just happened?!" Soul shouted in shock.
"She is despicable! She sacrificed her own followers to make these…soul bombs. How evil can one person be?!" Kid shouted with utter disgust and anger.
Several clones erupted from the ground surrounding the god of death. One by one they ran at Kid who attempted to dodge the various explosions. Kid could only watch in horror as the souls before him disintegrated as the clones of Cynthia exploded. Explosions pushed him side to side as he attempted to dodge them, but the clones continued coming.
"They keep coming!" Soul shouted
"I can see that!" Kid jumped over another clone who proceeded with an explosion. Soon the clones dwindled leaving a healing Kid.
"Kid are you alright?" Soul asked.
"Define "alright". Right now I am utterly disgusted."
"You know what I mean."
"Then yes, I am alright. These bombs are not as strong as the others. I assume the madness which tore them apart is at fault." Kid said.
"I didn't think she was such a coward."
"Before I wielded you she was treating me like a punching bag, but she now knows she is dying which probably made her realize this is pointless."
"So what are we going to do now?"
"The only thing we can do; we must kill her, for she has gone too far. She has not only broken DWMA laws but she's broken several Witch laws as well. Even if we wanted to capture her we wouldn't be able because she is too far gone. She ignored all my pleading and allowed madness to fully consume her. Death would be the most merciful way to stop this insanity." Kid's voice was solemn.
"Damn, I tried not to think this. I hoped my blade would kill a witch so soon. If only, our peace lasted." Soul appeared on his scythe's blade. Soul and Kid looked at each other, "I'm sorry, Death Scythe, but you blade must be convinced in witch blood once again."
"Bro, stop being so sappy. I expected this to happen after all I am the cool Last Death Scythe." Soul's reflection gave Kid a toothy grin, and Kid gave a smile and nod in return.
"Indeed you are my Death Scythe."
The moment between meister and weapon was cut short when Kid sensed the oncoming soul.
Soul's smile left his face as soon as he felt Kid's soul wavelength change, "Another attack?" He asked.
"No, her soul appeared. It does not seem to be another decoy, but she is not doing anything." Kid watched the madness-consumed soul idly stand. Fog surrounded Kid as he observed the witch's soul.
"Is she doing anything of interest?" Soul asked.
"I still do not know if this is truly her, it seems like it, but I am having a hard time trusting my skills after what happened. Her advanced soul protect is an annoying obstacle. As I stare at this soul I see the madness completely covering the witch soul. It can hardly be called a witch soul anymore."
"Then she has gained Kishin status. A Kishin-witch…never thought I'd see the day."
"I would not say she is a Kishin because even though she emits her own madness and her soul resembles that of a Kishin, no matter how hard she tries she cannot achieve the level of true Kishin due to her being a witch. That and she hasn't eaten any souls, but instead infused her mind and magic with madness."
Soul went in to reply but Kid's sudden burst of speed stopped him, "Kid, what happened?!" Soul shouted.
"I do not care if this is a trap, doing nothing will result in the destruction of this soul, and if it is her we can finally stop this. Her soul is at its limit, and is dissipating. If I am to collect her soul, I must do it now." Kid eyes held determination as he neared the witch turned Kishin. With Soul raised, Kid planned to finish this with one swing, so he did not expect his arm being sliced clean through.
Time slowed down as Kid watched his forearms, still holding onto Soul, detach from the rest of his body and disappear into the fog. Then he felt something pass through his legs, and the next thing Kid knew he was skidding across the ground; tumbling and flipping as his momentum stopped.
It took Kid a second to realize what happen before he attempted to push himself up only to remember his no longer had arms. Blood seeped from both his upper arms as he assessed the situation. It was painful, obviously, but he then sense a worse pain in his legs. When he looked down his eyes widened, instead of his normal, symmetrical legs he knew, Kid stared at bloody stumps. His legs were severed a little bit above the knees. It hit him like a boss…he no longer had arms and legs. Due to the sudden blood loss, and weakened state, Kid reverted back to his normal form with the Sanzu Line returning to their original position.
"When made…right, ice can be as sharp and deadly as a guillotine blade." The witch, Cynthia, spoke.
Kid managed to lift his head to look at her. She held the soul he sensed, in her hand. Her physical appearance was nothing short of monstrous. She bleed from nearly every orifice of her body, and she was in between her bear transformation, giving her a frightening appearance.
"So what now? Will you kill me? There's no point you know, you'll be dead soon." Kid looked up at her from his fallen position without fear.
"Trying to bargain? Pathetic." She said as she raised the soul to her mouth. Kid did not know if what he was witnessing was real, but all he could manage was a "No! Don't do it!", but his pleas fell on deaf ears and Cynthia swallowed the soul.
"Im-impossible…you- you are a demon weapon?!" Kid exclaimed more for himself than anything.
"It took centuries for me to perfect Arachne's notes, but after so long I discovered the recipe to create demon weapons. With a little modifications I managed to do what Medusa did. It was not hard to capture a human with the ability to change into a weapon, and it was even easier to blend their weapon form and infuse it with my own blood. Arachne and Medusa were the biggest bitches, but they were geniuses." Cynthia walked up to the helpless Kid and kicked him. This caused Kid's body to face upwards, putting his bare torso on display.
Kid couldn't feel more helpless as Cynthia's arm took the form of a lance. By now Kid knew what she was going to do.
"If I am going to do die then I might as well take you with me." Cynthia procced by stabbing Kid's chest straight in the center. More pain erupted in Kid's body as the lance pierced his body and the ground beneath him. Kid ignored the pain as he tried to think of a plan. Soon enough his plan presented itself in the form of the Death Scythe, Soul Eater. He sensed the shark-toothed teen nearing, "You really are…disgusting."
Cynthia pleasure stopped when she heard this. "What?" She asked.
"You witches…have always… annoyed me. With your *cough* need for destruction…you disrupt order." Kid struggled to speak with the lance through his chest. He sensed Soul sneaking up to the witch so continued his ranting, "I am the God of Order…so when you come and attack this order…I have no need for you creatures like you in either world."
"Shut up." Cynthia's voice was calm but held so much hatred. She raced her arm-lance and began repeatedly stabbing Kid.
Concentrating on her own pain and her attack on the figure she utmost despised, she did not notice Soul ready himself by transforming his entire arm into a scythe blade.
"Enough you crazy bitch! Get away from Lord Death!" Soul shouted as he plunged his scythe arm through Cynthia's back.
"Cynthia Karhu your time is up…I will guarantee your soul receives a peaceful sleep." Kid spoke as a small smile adorned his face. Cynthia coughed blood all over Kid, slightly disgusting the reaper.
"No…I will not be killed by you!" Cynthia completely ignored the blade in his chest and transformed her arm. Her arm gained fur and bear-like when she twisted her body. Her paw made contact with Soul's face and sent his crashing into whatever trees remained in the forest turned battlefield.
"Soul!" Kid watched horrified as Soul's body came to a halt. "Death Scythe! Are you alright!" Kid shouted. With his Soul Perception he could see Soul was still alive, but that did not mean he was uninjured.
"Damn human. If you are so eager to die then so be it." Cynthia removed the lance from Kid's torso and headed towards Soul.
"Witch! I am your enemy. Leave him be!" Kid shouted.
Cynthia ignored Kid and headed for Soul.
Meanwhile Soul sat up, and clutched his aching eye, "Damn…my eye….it's gone." Soul said in disbelief. Blood seeped through Soul's fingers as he attempted to stop his bleeding eye socket. With his useful eye (which was the left one) Soul realized Cynthia was limping towards him. He stood, ignoring the pain he felt.
"Is this where I die?" He thought, "If only I told Maka how much I love her before I died. Damn this sucks." Soul spoke out loud this time. He attempted to race his left arm but pain stopped him, "Broken…great, I guess I'll fight with one." A blade replaced Soul's right arm.
"If I am quick I can land the killing blow. With her new wound she cannot be as powerful, yet she'll probably be fast enough to kill me. An eye for an eye? Not a bad way to go." Soul gave his famous toothy-grin which was now stained with blood.
"You think you can kill me….human? Ha!" Cynthia mocked.
Soul looked over at Kid's body, seeing the pleading his boss' eyes.
Kid knew what Soul was going to do and hated himself for it, "No, I cannot let my friend die, damn it!"
"Accept."
Kid heard a deep voice say.
"Accept the madness." It continued.
"Accept the Madness of Order."
Kid realized what it was telling him.
"With Order he will be saved."
With that final comment, Kid's power exploded, "I ACCEPT YOU MADNESS OF ORDER!"
Meanwhile Outside the Battlefield
Everyone watched as a bright light erupted from within the destroyed forest.
"What's going on?!" Yato shouted
"Lord Death's soul…it's expanding!" Maka shouted as she noticed the golden, dome like soul increase in side.
"But I thought you said he already has full power?" Tenjin asked Stein.
"That is what we thought, but the only thing I can think of which caused this increase is Lord Death has finally accepted the Madness of Order."
Everyone looked towards Stein with fear and shock in their eyes, "Professor you're not saying what I think you are." Maka stated.
"Are you implying Shinigami-sama has accepted the power to control a human's will?" Kazuma answered the question.
"Stein don't be crazy, Kid is smarter than that." Spirit said.
Stein did not speak as Bishamoten mounted Kuraha's lion form.
"Bishamon what are doing?" Yato asked.
"If what you say is right then he will use his power to bring "order" to this world. As a god of fortune I cannot allow some Shinigami from another world to take away the will of humans. Everyone remove the borders. I am going inside." Her shinki did as they were told. As soon as the four borders were down, Bishamon sped towards Kid, quickly followed by everyone else.
Back With Kid
Soul opened his eyes and saw Cynthia in front of him. Something punctured her body, Soul could only describe them as claws. This is when his eyes focused and he saw what was behind Cynthia.
"Lord Death?"
The nightmarish figure was of Lord Death, but not the cartoonish Death everyone knew, but Lord Death from 800 years ago.
"My death will not be in vein…I am sure…Death City is in ruins…" Cynthia's body began fading, "I thought I would not be afraid of Death, yet I cannot stop shaking. This is the end…I'll be joining you soon my fallen sisters. Hopefully Hell has a special…place for me."
With that Cynthia Karhu the creator of madness magic, the first near Kishin witch, and the first witch to be a demon weapon died.
"Order"
"Humans are frail, weak creatures. They need protecting."
"They injure themselves, so they must be protected."
"Ultimate authority is the only way."
"No."
"Order is needed!"
"No. It is not my job to rule over them."
"You are the God of Order. You must bring Order!"
"I am their protector!"
"You must be their ruler!"
"NO!"
"Order is needed! The Madness of Order!"
"I accept you Madness of Order, for I am the God of Death ergo the God of Order, but you do not control me…I control you!"
"Ugh...what happened?" Kid held his head as he said this. "What is going on?" He spoke again this time noticing how his voice was not his own. He focused his vision and looked around noticing how different he was in size. He then look at his hand, and his eyes widened when a he saw a claw instead of a hand.
"What is this?" He asked with a voice which was not his. His voice was much deeper and sounded somewhat demonic. The only way describe it would be it resembled his Father's aggressive voice.
"Kid!"
the God of Death looked over to see his friends, noticing their looks of fear and confusing as they spotted him.
"Who is that?!" Kazuma asked from within his shinki form.
Bishamon ignored his question as she called for her pistols Karuha and Kazuha.
"Gaiki, Suuki." She spoke their vessel names.
"So this is the form he has taken after accepting the Madness of Order?" Stein thought as he looked at Kid's frightening form.
"Kid!" Liz and Patty shouted as they ran passed everyone.
Kid watched run up to him only to stop a few feet away, "It is you, right?" Patty asked hesitantly.
Kid towered over them with his asymmetrical form. His jagged body making him menacing.
"Yes, it is"
"So, how did you end up like this?" Liz asked.
Kid thought about her question, and his eyed widened when he remembered everything that happened.
"Death Scythe! Are you alright?" Kid turned to look for his weapon, and found Stein kneeling next to Soul who was sitting against a tree.
"He is alive, but unconscious. The biggest wound would be his eye. Whatever that witch did she managed to completely destroy his eye. If we do not remove what bits of his eyeball he still has, it will get infected." Stein gave his report before he faced Kid.
"So Lord Death, you have finally accepted the Madness of Order, and by the looks of it you have complete control over it." Stein stated as a matter-of-fact.
"Yes, it tempted me. Telling me lies, attempting to take over me. It did not take me because I know the human's will is stronger than any power I can muster. I apologize for frightening you, but do not worry I do not wish to stay in this form." When Kid said this his body began shifting. The giant form of Lord Death began shrinking and Kid clad in a jet black suit emerged from it. His previous form position itself around his neck and shoulders, acting as a cape. A skull broach kept the cape around his neck. His Sanzu Lines glowed, but stayed on his head before dimming. Kid stretched his limps getting a feel for the newly regenerated arms and legs. After that, he turned to face everyone, looking at them with his skull shaped eyes, "I have accepted the madness, but it will not control me."
"This battle is also over so we must now return to our world. There is still much to do." Kid stated as he looked at the inhabitants from the Soul Eater world.
"The battle in Death City is probably over by now, and considering no other witches came through the portal we probably won."
"Very well all of you head toward the portal, I'll carry Soul."
Soul Eater World: Death Room
"Damn it, I want to go." Black Star angrily said.
"You know our orders, we helped in the battle, and now we have to wait until they come back." Tsubaki tried calming her meister down.
"Tsubaki is right, Lord Death will handle the situation." Marie stated with a sleeping Marci in her arms.
Daikoku and Kofuku watched the portal. After Daikoku's awakening, the two were led to the Death Room where they remained.
"Daikoku, do you think it's alright, on the other side?" Kofuku asked.
"Honestly, I do not know. It is all up them." Daikoku said.
Their eyes widened when a hand emerged from the swirling portal followed by the rest of its owner.
"Lord Death!" Sid who stood further from the portal shouted as he watch Kid walked through the portal. On Kid's back was an unconscious Soul, "Sid, hurry take Soul and take him to Nygus' office!" Kid ordered. The blue zombie stood frozen, questions filling his mind, but he pushed them back before he ran up and took Soul, and quickly ran toward the guillotine hallway. Stein emerged after that.
"Franken." Marie called her husband's name. Stein continued walking, "Sorry, but I have to hurry and perform surgery. I'll explain later!" He shouted back as continued walking after Sid. After him Spirit, Maka, Liz, Patty, Yato and Yukine.
"Yatty!" Kofuku glomped the minor god.
"Good to see you too Kofuku." Yato saw Daikoku towering form behind Kofuku, and let out a small shriek, but what he didn't expect what Daikoku hugging him and Yukine.
"Yukine, I am so glad you are unhurt." Daikoku said through sobs.
"Oi, what about me?! Yato shouted.
"It was probably Yukine's strength which kept you alive." Daikoku retorted.
Kid watched them before walking up to Marie, "Marie, I am sure your orders and the efforts of every meister and weapon won this battle." Kid said.
"Thank you, and yes we won this battle." Marie said.
Kid's happy tone turned darker, "Casualties?"
"Sid has the full report on that." Marie answered. Kid answered in understanding before heading back to the group visitors. Liz and Patty spoke with Kofuku and Daikoku, Patty retelling the story of their fight.
"Good to see you awake, Daikoku." Kid stated with a smile.
"It was thanks to Mrs. Marie that I am awake." Daikoku said as he glanced over to Marie.
"Yes her healing wavelength is the best, but we'll have to cut this reunion short because it is now time for all of you to return home. We have kept this portal open for hours, and Free and Mabaa's magic is nearly depleted." Kid informed them.
"We understand." Yato stated with a saddened tone.
"Thank you, and I guess this is where we part. I will say that it was an honor to meet the four of you. Kofuku, Yato, Daikoku, Yukine; thank you for all you've done for Elizabeth, Patty, Soul and I." Kid extended his hand which Daikoku ignored. Daikoku straightened and bowed a deep, respectful bow, "Thank you, Shinigami-sama for saving me. It is because of your efforts that I am able to serve milady again."
"Raise your head Daikoku, if it wasn't for my enemies you would not have gotten hurt."
They traded saddened farewells before the Noragami cast headed towards the portal.
"Yato wait." The stray god turned only to catch a 5 yen coin which Kid threw, "This is for helping. I wouldn't feel right if I left you without your payment."
Yato looked at the coin in his hand and smiled, "Not a problem, I am the delivery god Yato."
With that they went through the portal. After they left Kid shoot awake Mabaa and Free. The released a tired sigh before laying down and instantly falling asleep. Mabaa looked over at Kid who gave her a nod.
"I am sorry I took so long Grand Witch, but now we can continue to the future without worry."
Soul Eater World: Two Years Later.
"Alright everyone, are we ready?" Lord Death the Kid looked at the group of witches that gathered in the Death Room.
"Enough with the stalling, Kid. We've all been ready for 30 minutes." Kim stated.
"Alright, I'm sorry. I guess my nerves got the best of me," Kid said, "Grand Witch it seems that we are ready. You can activate your dimensional magic."
The Grand Witch Mabaa nodded before her eye started glowing, "NYAMU!"
Noragami World.
The moon shined in the sky. The delivery god Yato lay next to his shinki Yukine as they looked at the night sky, "Worst part of the modern era is all the lights. It blocks the beauty that is the night sky." Yato stated
"I guess so." Yukine answered.
They lay on the roof of some sky scraper. The city was still being repaired after the battle between the mysterious and powerful beings.
"I wonder how long the seven gods will meet in Takamagahara." Yuki said.
"Who knows? What happened is something no god has seen, they are as confused as the humans are. Hell, even I still can't believe it and I was there." Yato replied.
"Do you think Bishamon-sama is putting in a good word for Kid?" Yuki asked as he sat up.
Yato did the same as Yukine before putting on a thinking face, "I never really thought about that. She seemed to dislike Kid, so probably not." Yato answered.
"That won't be right, Kid is the one who saved us." Yukine argued.
"He is also the one who caused that witch to show up. I agree in Kid being our savior but they were the reason for all this." Yato stated seriously "Besides, even if they brand him as a villain, he'll never have to deal with it. No one in this world can come close to travelling dimensions, and I doubt Kid would travel into this world after what happened."
"You're probably right." Yuki said.
They returned to their laying positions.
"Yato." Yuki broke the silence.
"What's on your mind?" Yato asked.
"Well…I
"You?" Yato turned to see Yukine sitting up with a slight blush on his face.
"I-I m…
Yato grew serious, what was his regalia going to say? And why was he so serious. Could he be resigning? No, Yuki wouldn't do that.
"I made a friend!"
Yato faulted when he heard that, "That's it! Why the hell were you so serious!?" Yato yelled causing Yuki to look back at him with a confused look, "Wait you aren't mad?!" Yuki yelled back.
"Why the hell would I be mad?! You making a friend isn't that much of a deal." Yato said finally calming down, "It's normal for regalia to befriend other regalia."
"That's the thing, my friend is one of Bishamon-sama's shinki."
Silence came after Yuki spoke. Yuki grew uncomfortable as the seconds went by, "What's their name?"
"Suzuha."
"I see. I don't think that is one of Bishamon's main regalia, so as long as you are careful it's fine." Yato nonchalantly said as he stood, "Anyways it's late, we should probably sleep. Who knows what jobs we might have? Tenjin will probably have us kill phantoms again."
Yuki stood, stretching his limbs as he did so. Yato was began walking but quickly stopped when he felt a very familiar presence, "Hey Yuki, Yato it has been a while."
Both god and shinki turned to see Death the Kid standing across from them. He wore his jet-black suit and reaper cape. The signature skull broach keeping the cape around his neck.
"Kid? What are you doing here?" Yato was the first to speak.
Kid smiled, "I came back to fix a few things. I did leave your city in complete destruction."
"I wouldn't really say complete destruction." Yato said.
"Please, don't try to make it sound better. The forest was completely leveled, Hiyori's school was nearly destroyed, and several skyscrapers were in shambles when I left."
"It was pretty bad, now that you say it like that." Yukine commented.
"Grand Witch Mabaa improved her dimensional magic, and by improved I mean she created a simpler spell. One that allows us to travel from one world to another almost instantaneously." Kid explained. Yukine brightened when he heard this, "So does that mean you'll be visiting our world more?"
Kid heard this and turned serious, "I am sorry Yukine, but no. When she was creating this magic Mabaa discovered that this world is not the only world which is parallel to ours. In fact she stated there are an infinite amount of dimensions which reside next to each other. We were fortunate enough to discover a world somewhat similar to ours, but if we found one which wasn't who knows what could have happened. We also found kind beings like you which helped us; that might have not been the case with other dimensions. What I am saying is this is our last visit to your dimension."
"But if you know how to get to this dimension, it shouldn't be a problem." Yuki argued.
Kid walked up to him and placed his hand on the shinki's head, "I understand how much you enjoyed the DWMA, and you would make a great student, but this is your dimension. Just by being here I am breaking the natural order of existence. This world has its own gods, its own protectors, so by treading in it, we'll eventually bring more chaos than we already have."
"It makes sense, by coming into a universe that isn't yours, you can destroy that world's balance. Each dimension is its own world with its own history even if that history isn't always good." Yato said with a sagely tone.
"Yuki, Yato; you two will do great things in this world and only in this world. Whatever this world throws at you I am sure you will overcome it. Yato with your determination, you'll be a major god soon, and Yuki you'll be one of the greatest shinki I know it." Kid looked at both of them before pressing a finger to his ear, "Are the preparations ready?" Kid said.
He stood there for a few seconds before smiling, "Right, then commence with the restoration."
"Restoration?" Yuki asked.
"Yes, I have returned to restore this city's former image. I wouldn't be able to do it alone, so I brought some witches from the MWA. The Grand Witch's has the strongest restoration magic so it only made sense to bring her as well." Kid explained.
Yato was going to question further, but stopped when he looked down at the city. From a top the building he could see some of the destroyed buildings which now looked more like construction zones than anything else, were glowing. Yato and Yuki's eyes widened when they saw the s return to their former selves.
"Restoration magic has the ability to return anything to its former self. Depending on its power, it can even work on living beings. It basically resets time for the specific object, turning back the clock to the point before it was destroyed." The god of death explained.
"You're turning back time on a specific place. So Hiyori's school, the city, and the forest will all be like they were before you arrived?" Yato asked for clarification.
"That is the basic concept. The only problem with it would be anything which tells time such as clocks or even computers will be a few weeks younger, but I think that is simple price to pay." Kid spoke jokingly as he looked at Yuki and Yato.
"Are you sure this is a smart thing to do?" Yato asked.
"I know it disrupts the logic in this world, but I felt guilty in leaving the destruction how it was. I guess I was being selfish in using the time difference between our worlds as a way to plan out this mission."
"That's right. It's only been nearly a month here; how long has it been for you?" Yuki asked.
"Give or take a few days, it's been about 14 years since I left this world. We actually celebrated the new year about a week ago." Kid answered.
"14 years…how are the others doing? Liz, Patty, and Soul, how are they?" Yato asked.
"Well, they are alright. They are obviously 14 years older. Liz and Patty are still themselves, caring for each other as always. Soul finally gained the courage to ask Maka to marry him. They now have two kids. I believe the eldest will be turning 7 soon." Kid told them.
"Then the 14 years were prosperous." Yato commented.
Kid put a finger to his ear, "Alright then teleport to me." As soon as Kid said this a dozen witches appeared above them. Kid put on his hood and his skull mask. He then activated his reaper jets and flew into the sky, "Well this is goodbye, Yatogami, Yukine. Oh, and tell Hiyori, Kofuku, Daikoku and Bishamon that I'm sorry what I caused and that I thank them for their help." Kid said.
"I'll pass along the message!" Yato shouted happily.
"Thank you and goodbye, my friends."
With that The Grim Reaper, Lord Death the Kid vanished from the Noragami universe forever, and he along with the witches accompanying him returned to their own dimension.
The End.