Kid woke up gasping, coughing harshly as he choked on air. Breathing real air hurt his throat and his lungs had a hard tie adjusting back to it. The shinigami finally stopped coughing and looked up, seeing a scared Black-Star. How long was he out?
"Kid, you're alive!" Black-Star exclaimed.
"Black-Star..." Kid said hoarsely. "Where am I?"
"You were thrown out of the building...James shouted 'Enjoy your corpse'...your heart stopped for a minute. For a whole minute I thought I lost you." The star put his hand over the hole in Kid's shirt, where there was now a large scar.
"I healed?" The shinigami asked as he sat up, surprised that there wasn't any pain.
"It was weird, it just closed up right before you woke up." Black-Star chuckled. "It was really creepy."
"Where is James." Kid demanded and stood up quickly, as if he wasn't dead for a minute just a moment ago.
"Still in the academy." Black-Star stated, getting up as well and holding his partner's arm.
Seventy-seven, seventy-six
"I'm going back in." Kid said. The shinigami looked away from the battle, knowing what the counting down in his head was for and he needed to end it now before he lost any more friends.
"What!? No you're not!" Black-Star wrapped his arms around Kid to prevent him from leaving.
"Get off of me Black-Star. I have to kill James." The shinigami said, not in the mood to break free from his partner's hold.
"The last time you were in there, you almost died." Black-Star stated into Kid's back.
"I came back, didn't I?"
"This is the second time I thought you were killed by some asshole Kishin, I'm not risking it a third time."
"Black-Star..." Kid turned himself around to face his husband.
"I'm an idiot, but I'm not stupid enough to allow my husband to get killed because he believes he can kill a powerful kishin on his own."
"Then come with me." Kid offered with a quick kiss. "If we're going to die, let's go die together."
"I thought you would never ask." The star smirked and handed Kid one of his guns.
"Let's go."
Seventy-five
Kid shook his head, wanting that voice to stop right then and there and the two men took off. Kid showed the star where the hole in the fire was and went through the already open door with Black-Star right behind him. Kid continued his running, going down that same hall again and he was going to make the outcome of what happens in that room a lot different than the first time.
"You bastard! Give me back my arm!" Free's demand echoed down the hall. Kid had completely forgotten that Free had been in the building with him, both of the men in the other room probably though that he was dead. Well it was time for a big surprise.
"Fire as soon as you enter the room." Kid ordered as they neared the entrance to the Death Room. "Just go nuts."
"Got'cha." The star smirked. "Let me go in first, let's make your entrance a little more dramatic." Kid grinned at the man and walked over to Black-Star.
"If we make it out of this alive..." The shinigami whispered something into the star's ear. Black-Star chuckled at what he was told and he saluted the shinigami.
"Let's kick some kishin ass!" Black-Star said with a wink right before sprinting into the room. Kid kept his smile on his face until he heard gunfire and the star shouting.
"Father...if you can hear me." Kid said to himself softly. "Please make sure this one doesn't die, I don't know if I could go on without him." He held himself back for another painful moment before running into the room as well.
"Did you really think you cold defeat me by yourself!?" James laughed. Kid slowed down his running and walked, looking at the scene in front of him. Black-Star was standing next to James with his hands at his sides, his gun sitting on the floor and bright red. The star was glaring at the fire kishin and he looked like he had more curses running through his mind than a sailor after dropping an anchor on his foot. Free was being held by the same invisible force on the other side of James with one of his arms not attached to his body anymore. James stood between the two men with his arms up, showing that he's unable to control anyone or anything else.
"James!" Kid's shout made the fire kishin look away from Black-Star.
"You're alive!?" James yelled in shock. "What are you!?" Kid shared a look with Black-Star then put his eyes back on James.
"My name is Death the Kid, you killed my father. Prepare to die." The shinigami grabbed a water balloon and threw it at James' face. The man's face let out a sizzling noise and James screamed in pain. The fire kishin dropped his hands and used them to wipe off the water off of him. Kid grabbed his gun and started to fire rapidly at James, not caring for aim at the moment, just wanting to turn the man into Swiss cheese. Kid felt satisfaction when he watched several bullet holes appear all over James' body, but was shocked to instead of seeing blood coming out of the wounds, there was steam floating out of them.
"You little shit!" James cursed and jerked an arm out towards Kid and a wave of flames followed his gesture. The shinigami jumped over to the side and avoided becoming a reaper barbeque.
"How aren't you dead!?" Kid shouted.
"I'm not that easy to kill, Kiddo." James spat out the nickname, a smirk covering his holey face. Black-Star let out a scream and suddenly ran up to James and stabbed the man in the shoulder with a searing hot knife. James grunted in pain and blasted fire towards the star. Black-Star rolled away and the back of his shirt was singed. Black-Star let out a yelp and quickly threw his shirt off, his back was now covered in a light red that matched the star's burnt hand. James pulled the knife out of his shoulder and a blast of steam came out before slowly down to a steady stream. The fire kishin was too busy dealing with the two men to notice what the third one was doing.
Free had finally gotten off of the ground after grabbing his arm and holding it against the stump it used to be at until it healed back together. Free gritted his teeth and snarled as his soul and his body changed. His face grew out into a muzzle and his fingers stretched out and the nails sharpened to a point. Free's teeth grew even sharper than they already were and a tail grew out of his backside while fur sprouted out all over his body. He let out a roar as he became the wolf that he is.
"What the hell is that!?" James turned around and was greeted by an even taller Free. "I didn't see that coming." The fire kishin said to himself before Free clawed his face, throwing the man several feet away.
"Took you long enough!" Kid snapped and pulled several water balloons off of the belt around his chest.
"You three are getting very, very annoying!" James exclaimed. The fire kishin had four long holes in his face where Free's claws had sliced into his cheek. Steam poured out of the room and the three men could feel the temperature going up even more in the room as the hole in the wall was soon covered in flames.
"How is this guy not dead!?" Black-Star demanded, the burn on his back getting worse from the increasing heat.
"We must be hitting a shell of some sort." Free stated before the three dove to the side to avoid a fire ball.
"There has to be a body in there somewhere!" Kid shouted and threw a water balloon towards James.
"We'll find it!" Black-Star said before the two had to go separate ways to dodge another fire ball. Kid gasped in shock when he felt the water balloons burst under his chest and soak him. Black-Star let out a cry when he landed on his back.
"Black-Star!" Kid started to run over to the man when a wall of fire separated them.
"Get James!" Black-Star shouted through the flames. "Get-" The star screamed out in pain.
"Black-Star!" Kid went over to the flames.
"Go! I'm fine!" The star cried. Kid watched Black-Star trying his best to avoid the flames attacking him. The shinigami grabbed his last balloon, the only one that hadn't popped underneath of him. He hated the debate he had to make in his head about whether to try and kill James, or save the man he loves.
At that moment something surged through him, a power. A strong, uncontrollable power. Kid stepped back and felt anger build up in his chest. Everything that has been upsetting him ran through his mind. He dropped the balloon and the thing managed to not break when it landed on the ground from it's short distance. Kid slammed his eyes and pressed his hands to the side of his head. Trying to sooth the pain that was burning inside of him. What was this? What was happening? Free was too busy wrestling with James to see what was happening to Kid, but Black-Star had a front row show through the flames.
Kid was now getting his full shinigami strength and boy, did it hurt. Kid jerked his head down and was forced to his knees. He had no control and soon tears streamed down his cheeks without any mercy. Kid yanked his body back and forth and eventually leaned back, wanting to scram, but his vocal cords were tightened from the pain coursing through his body. The bottom stripe of his hair crawled around his head and connected together. Kid let out a soft cry, curling back up into a tight ball again. The shinigami was unable to hear Black-Star shouting his name and the middle stripe crawled it's way around the man's head as well. Kid suddenly slammed his hands on the ground and he breathed heavily. It wasn't over, but it was over enough for him to have control of his body.
"James..." Kid said in a growl before getting up on his feet, water balloon in his hand. The wolf and fire-kishin had felt the shift in the air, but weren't paying attention to that since they were still fighting each other. "James. You killed Bre." The DWMA shook. "You killed Max." Free and James fell over from the building shaking even harder. "You killed Jose and Ryver and Joey." Kid started walking towards the stunned men. "You killed Miriah. You killed Kenna. You killed Cylas and Lexi and Spirit and Stein and Ox and Kilik...You killed Liz and Patty!" The shinigami screamed the last two names, chunks of ceiling started to rain down.
"So what if I did!?" James shouted, not seeing the true danger he was in. Free was smart enough to move out of the way, going over to Black-Star and seeing if he could help the man stuck behind flames.
"You're a murderer." Kid stated, getting closer and closer to a clueless James.
"Yes, yes I am and there is nothing you can do about it." James held his hand up, ready to use the magic he stole to control Kid's body. "All you've done is make everything worse. Don't forget Kid, you cause all of this!" The fire kishin began to scream. "It's all your fault because of you and Black-Star." James fired his invisible hold towards Kid and waited for the shinigami to stop. "It's all your faul-" James stopped yelling, he stopped moving as well.
Kid's hand rested inside of his chest with a water balloon in his hand and he squeezed it until it had popped inside of the fire kishin. There was no terrible scream of agony from James. The man was frozen and silent. He stood there with wide eyes and the flames died within a second of Kid popping the balloon.
"Karma's a bitch." Kid stated.
"Kid!" The shinigami's hand was still inside of James' chest when he felt a very warm Black-Star hug him from behind. Kid finally yanked his hand out as hard as he could out of James.
"Is it over?" Free asked. Kid was unable to answer the wolf's question.
James' body burst into flames and soon everything surrounding them caught on fire again. The flames were more intense than before. Free yelled at the other men to get out as he ran off, not in the mood to deal with a building falling on his head.
"Kid!" Black-Star cried. "We have to go!" He hugged the shinigami tighter and tried to pull him away, but Kid's body was frozen in place. "Kid! Kid! I'm not leaving you Kid!"
Kid's third and final stripe connected itself as the flames engulfed the two men.
The DWMA building fell into itself a few moments later.