Chapter 5: Thank you
All witches back away behind the table, in fear of Kid. The fires died away leaving black scorch marks in the shape of Lord Death's mask. Maka looked on, with a light gasp.
"What is it?" Soul asked, still in his Scythe form.
"His soul…", Maka tried to finish but she was in total shock. Maka saw with her soul perception that Kid's soul was covering the entire room and still slowly growing.
"Right, I have a Zakuro, Vordemin, Myestra, but who's the other one?" Kid said, his purple eyes looking across the four witches cowering behind the tables.
"…I'm…Felicity…", one witch said.
"Felicity, right. Now witches you are going to be asked some questions, your lives depend on all of them to be answered truthfully. Do you understand?" Kid asked. All the witches nodded quickly.
"Good, you all work for Galorphar right?" Kid asked. Zakuro, Felicity and Vordemin nodded, but Myestra didn't. Kid looked to her.
"I…I don't know what this is about…s…so I…", Myestra started when suddenly a giant skeletal hand appeared from the ground underneath her and all it's fingers stabbed right through her. She screamed in pain as the giant skeletal fingers began to pull and pull until she was ripped into pieces, her blood splattering everywhere, leaving just her soul. The skeletal hand disappeared into the ground.
"As I said, you better answer all question!" Kid roared at the Witches, they shrieked with fright. The others looked shocked at the remains of Myestra. Maka however kept her eyes locked on Kid, not averting her gaze to anything, frozen in fear.
"Question two, where can I find Galorphar?" Kid then asked.
"We don't know", Vordemin said. Then just like before, a skeletal hand appeared and it's fingers pierced right through Vordemin, leaving her to scream in agony, as she like Myestra, is ripped apart.
"No stop please! We really don't know! We don't know anything about where he is, he comes to us and leaves us messages, we really don't know! please don't kill us!" Zakuro screamed in fear to Kid, both her and Felicity's eyes were very watery, close to crying.
"Fine. Question three, is there more fortresses?" Kid asked, his facial expressions not changing at all.
"Please… he'll kill us if we tell you", Felicity said, sharing the same fate as the last two witches.
"No please! There are three more! There's four in total including this one, one fortress for each witch", Zakuro said, bursting into tears.
"Question four, if what you said is true then why we're the other witches here?" Kid questioned sternly, he wanted every single answer he can get from them.
"Because it was a party to celebrate the death of the witches greatest enemy", Zakuro cried even more.
"Who?" Kid roared at her.
"LORD DEATH!" Zakuro yelled back. The skeletal hand came from the floor beneath her and the fingers pierced right through Zakuro.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" she screamed out.
"Final Question, if I let you live, will you disappear and never be heard of again?" Kid asked walking up to Zakuro, the table snapping in half, making a pathway for Kid to walk up to her. Kid stopped right in front of her, his purple eyes looking right into her hazel ones. She was terrified completely of him. She then shut her eyes and started crying in defeat.
"Yes… yes…I promise that you will never hear from me again…", Zakuro whimpered out. Kid just stood there looking right at her and simply said.
"Liar", Zakuro was then swiftly ripped apart, blood soaking Kid as he stood there as if nothing happened. He turned away and began to walk back to the others then suddenly collapsed on the floor. Maka finally snapped out of her fear and ran to his aid, dropping Soul, who turned back into a human.
"Maka wait!" Soul shouted but she ignored him. She dropped to her knees right in front of him and turned him around so he was on his back.
"Kid, wake up Kid! Maka said, shaking him. Finally his eyes slowly opened, they we're golden again. His eyes watered then he look down himself to see blood everywhere.
"Oh… god!" Kid said turning towards Maka burying his face in her coat, unable to look at himself. Maka looked down at Kid in pity and started to stroke his hair. Stein walked over to Maka and Kid and knelt down to take the phone from Kid's ear and put it on his own ear, pressing on it.
"Azusa, it's Stein, do you hear me?" Stein asked.
"Loud and clear", Azusa replied.
"We will need to have a wide spread search, we have three more fortresses owned by Galorphar somewhere and we need to find out where", Stein replied.
"I get to it immediately", she said. Stein lowered his hand.
"Kid you going to be all right", Maka said soothingly.
"I c…I can't take this anymore…this power is…it's tearing me apart…", Kid whimpered. Maka remained there stroking his hair; Soul got up and turned away. Spirit stood there looking at Maka, trying not to look like he's got an issue with his daughter stoking some boy's hair. Crona stood near Spirit.
"Will he…be all right?" Crona asked. Spirit looked down, to Crona and smiled.
"He'll be okay, he's just got these powers and he's finding it hard to get use to them. In time he will have full control over his powers and be back to his normal self", Spirit confirmed to him. Crona looked back to Maka and Kid and nodded.
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After a while Kid was back to normal and was standing near the broken table with Liz and Patty. Maka and Tsubaki we're talking to the side, Stein Spirit and Sid we're talking near the entrance they cam in. Crona was talking to Mila at the other side of the room from Maka and Tsubaki. Black*Star and Soul were talking in the middle of the room.
"All right, we're done here, apart from one last thing", Kid finally said, turning around to see everyone. He took a pause for a moment, as everyone in the room was standing in a symmetrical pattern. After this pause he raised his hands and suddenly from the windows, doors and hole in the roof came lots of soul orbs until they completely covered the room.
"I'd get eating weapons", Kid said with a grin. Tsubaki, Soul, Liz and Patty then charged for all the souls and started eating. They ate nearly every single one until one at a time they all stopped.
"Ninty-nine!" Liz and Patty both yelled.
"Ninty-nine!" Tsubaki yelled.
"Got them all!" Soul yelled.
"All you guys need now are…" Maka started but then everyone looked to kid.
"You are my soul resonance team, if I'm the Lord then I can't have my team mere students", Kid then said.
"This is why you brought them…" Sid then said. Kid nodded.
"Four weapons, four witch souls", Kid said, raising his hands, the witch souls float to him.
"Tsubaki, this belongs to you", Kid said tossing the soul towards her.
"Kid I…I…", Tsubaki started.
"Eat up, here's your's Soul", Kid said, tossing another towards him. Soul catches it, holding his witch soul.
"Cool", Soul said. Tsubaki held her witch soul and looked to Black*Star, who looked a bit miffed. He then looked surprised as Tsubaki ran towards him and hugged him tightly.
"You the one that's got me here Black*Star, thank you so much", she said, and even gave him a kiss on the cheek, which made Black*Star very red.
"Aww heck… it's no problem, I could have taken out that witch myself you know, now eat that soul so you can become my Death Scythe!" Black*Star said, getting Tsubaki off him. Tsubaki then ate her soul and then a bright eruption came from Tsubaki as her hands changed into a Kusarigama (Chain-sickle).
"All right Tsubaki!" Black*Star cheered.
"Congratulations Tsubaki! Hurry up Soul, eat yours!" Maka excitedly asked.
"All right, here goes", Soul said, giving her his shark-tooth grin and ate his soul. He also erupts brightly to have both his arms changed each into three scythe blades.
"Finally, you two", Kid said, looking to Liz and Patty holding two witch souls. They both looked happily towards kid.
"You two are the reason I have survived for a long time. The thought of you being given to different meisters… I could never let that happen. So by giving you these souls I'll turn you into Death Scythes, so you won't need to be weapons for other students", Kid said. The girl's eyes began to water.
"Kid…" Liz started.
"Please, this is hard enough as it…" Kid began but was interrupted when both of them hugged him tightly, both landing kisses on both his cheeks.
"Please…your… disrupting my symmetry…" Kid lied, he didn't want to start crying over this. Both the girls let him go and he handed them the witch souls.
"Ready sis!" Patty yelled cheerfully.
"Yeah!" Liz answered and both at the same time ate the souls. They both erupted brightly and they're hands turned into big pistol barrels, but then suddenly from the top of they're barrels a metal pole grew out and stopped a few feet away from them. Suddenly a scythe blade sprung from the each pole.
"What the…?" Liz said.
"We have spikey things hahaha!" Patty laughed cheerfully.
"Can this be? Girls, transform!" Kid ordered. They obeyed and transformed into slightly bigger silver colt pistols but from the top of the barrel there were the pole and from the poles came the scythe blades. Since Kid holds the guns upside down, the blades point towards the ground and away from the bullet hole.
"Spirit! You said I need a Scythe?" Kid yelled. Spirit and the others turned to see.
"I have two!" Kid said, turning towards them, crossing his arms and pointing past each shoulder, keeping a perfect symmetrical stance. Maka looked to Kid with a smile. Kid looked to Crona.
"As promised Crona, your exile is lifted and your welcomed back to the academy as a student. I'm sure Maka would be a good mentor for you", Kid said. Maka then looked to Crona then back to Kid.
"Unless she doesn't want to?" Kid asked.
"No, I'll be proud to mentor him", Maka said with a smile. Crona looked to Maka and then back to kid and started to cry.
"Thank you, thank you so much", Crona said. Mila then hugged Crona. Kid lowers his arms and his gun-scythes touch the ground. Patty's head emerged from the blade and saw a red button on the table.
"Ooooooh", Patty stared in awe at the button and her hand emerged from the blade and pushed the button.
"All right, let's g…", Kid began but then a rattling is heard and then a cage drops from the ceiling and jolts to a halt six feet from the ground, hanging from a chain.
"What the…" Stein said but then the phone on his ear makes noises and he presses his fingers on it.
"What is it Azusa?" Stein asked.
"Stein, you've got incoming, you have a hundred souls coming your way and…wait…but…that's impossible…that's one soul!" Azusa said over the phone.
"Right, we're leaving now", Stein said then lowered his hands. Kid and the others walked up to the cage then suddenly found a ginger girl tied up and gagged in the cage, unconscious.
"Those damn witches…", Kid said, looking at the poor girl, she then opened her brown eyes and saw everyone around her. She tried to move or make a noise but fell unconscious again.
"Someone cut her free, we're bringing her with us", Kid ordered and Soul cut through the chains with his scythe arm and Tsubaki opened the cage. Stein went over to Spirit, while Kid was distracted.
"Galorphar is coming, we got to leave now", Stein said taking off his glasses and clean them with his coat. Spirit then looked very worried.
"Stein, I think I remember who he is…", Spirit said and then whispered into Stein's ears. Stein then broke the lens of his glasses when Spirit whispered to him.
"That's him, we need to leave, NOW!" Stein said, then turning to the others.
"Come on, we're going now!" Stein shouted.
"Sid, carry the girl, let's go then people, this girl may know where Galorphar is" Kid said. With that everyone left the room and left the fortress.
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Someone then entered the room. He looked around and saw the place in a mess just like outside. He sniffed the room.
"My witches are dead", he simply said. He slowly walked to the middle of the room and saw the cage on the floor broken into. A grin grew on his face from ear to ear.
"Perfect, everything is falling to place", he said, then began to laugh evilly in the room.