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Darkness Comes to Play
Normal POV
"Cut the damn crap, Kat! Don't play dumb with me!" Kid screamed and his sister flinched, "You used your power to revive Toshio didn't you." Kat simply stared down at the pavement and rain started to come down, Kat bowed her head so that her bangs hid her face, the droplets clinging to her jet black and white hair.
"I did." She murmured,
"What did you say?"
"I said I did damn it!" She cried out, her eyes clenched shut tight then Kid lunged forward, took a hold under her collar and hoisted her into the air, his eyes blazing and his teeth clenched in anger,
"Why! Why did you, Kat! Don't you know sacrificing one of your stripes weakens you and will make you more likely to die! Damn it, Kat! Damn it!" He bowed his head, tears slipping from his eyes as his body trembled, "Why, Kat? . . . I don't want to lose you again." His voice quivered with sadness. Kat swallowed the lump in her throat,
"Onii-chan." She choked out and Kid let her down then sank to his knees in front of her,
"Kat . . . I just don't want to lose you again . . . not after losing you for eight years . . ." He continued to cry quietly as the rain poured down his little sister stared painfully at him,
"Onii-chan." Her voice quivered as well and she feel to her knees and brought her brother into a tight hug, the older Shinigami child cried on her shoulder and Kat closed her eyes as she comforted him, "I had to do it, onii-chan . . . I couldn't bear to fight without him and I know Tomi couldn't go on without him." After a moment Kid pulled away and stared into his beloved sisters melancholy eyes as she smiled, "You'd do the same for me, wouldn't you?"
"Of course!" Kid replied harshly with determined, blazing golden orbs as he took her by the sides of her shoulders, Kat smiled,
"Good, I'm glad." The two embraced again and knelt there in the rain, then Kat's eyes snapped open as a pulse surged through her. Kid couldn't see but the shadow of the two revealed Kat's shadow's arm raise up as it held a knife and its smile from ear to ear as it revealed its long lethal teeth. Just before the knife could plunge into the older Shinigami sibling, a shot sounded in the rain Kid jumped, wide-eyed to see Kat panting heavily in a heap and when he whipped his head around he saw Liz pointing Patty at the two, her glaze hard and smoke rising from her sister's weapon form.
"Liz! What the hell!" Kid cried as he sprang to his feet,
"No!" Kat panted as she staggered to her own, holding her brother's arm for support, "It . . . it was Darkness, Kid. It was coming out again, -pant, pant- and if Liz didn't shoot it would have killed you." Kid wrapped an arm around his sister as she caught her breath."
"Why did you drag Kat-chan out, Kid-kun~?" Patty asked when she transformed; Kid looked at his sister who looked down, her grip on his shirt tightened.
"Kat . . ." He murmured and she bowed her head so that her bangs shadowed her eyes,
"What's up?" Liz asked as she put her hands on her hips when Kid was silent for a moment, waiting for his sister to reply but instead he opened his mouth to answer n her place, however, Kat's grip stopped him. She stepped in front of them, arms clasped in front of her,
"I, uh."
"Hey!" Everyone turned to see Tomi, Toshio, Soul, Maka, Black*Star, Tsubaki, and Crona approaching them.
"What's up, guys?" Soul asked, "Why'd you run off?" Kat moaned quietly,
"Kat?" Maka asked worriedly,
"I, uh." Kat replied quietly then mustered up her courage, "I revived Toshio!" Everyone was dead silent,
"What?" Tsubaki gaped with wide eyes,
"That's impossible!" Black*Star said,
"How can you do that?!" Maka cried, "No one has the power to bring people back from the dead!"
"Well onii-chan and I can." Kat replied looking at the ground, "As you know we have these three stripes-"
"Ah!" Kid cried as he crouched on the wet pavement and pounded it, "Don't remind me of the asymmetrical garbage that lies on my head, Kat!" She sighed and continued,
"Anyway, they are the keys to unlock immense amount of power and one of them is to enable us to resurrect people , however," She narrowed her eyes slightly, "We try to refrain from that as much as possible as it disturbs the smooth flow of the circle of life." It was silent as the Thompsons comforted Kid who eventually calmed down and sat with them. "But also . . . with my sacrifice . . ." She closed her eyes, brought her fingertips to her fake stripe and made it vanish, "I am more vulnerable to be taken over by Darkness and my death is more immediate."
"Why did you do it?" Kat looked up to see Toshio glaring at her, "Why damn it!" He shouted as he held her by the shoulder firmly, "If you knew this would happen to you, why did you do it? Damn it, Kat!"
"I did it because I can't live without you, Toshio!" Everyone was silent and she began to cry again, "You and Tomi are so very dear to me and the thought of never being able to be with you again pained me too much!" Toshio stared at her and brought her into a hug,
"I understand." She hugged him back tightly and everyone remained in their place in the rainstorm.
"Damn." Soul said after a while, rubbing the back of his head, "Too much drama this year."
"Y-yeah." Crona replied, "I-I don't know how to deal with this."
"Join the club." Tomi said. Then another pulse ran through Kat's frail body and she pushed away from Toshio as she screamed at the top of her lungs to the dark sky, she bowed her head and clutched the sides of it then lifted her head. Her face mad-written and she laughed insanely,
"Oh how very touching this all is."
"Darkness." Kid snarled,
"Hello, Shinigami, children." Darkness replied as it rested a hand on its hip, "Long time no see, but now our confrontations shall be much more frequent."
"Damn you!" Toshio shouted as he charged for the creature that had taken over his beloved meister's body, his arm turned into a silver blade, but as he slashed, Darkness leaped up and onto the roof of a nearby building,
"Ah, ah, ah, must be careful, Toshio, after all this is still your beloved meister's body." The creature snickered and the teenagers below gritted their teeth in frustration,
"Got you you bastard!" A battle cry from above made Darkness turn in time to catch Black*Star, who was about to land a blow with Tsubaki on it, by the throat. The creature narrowed it golden eyes and its smile widened as and dark and light purple flames engulfed her and around the bluenette causing him to scream in pain,
"Admit to the face that you can't beat me!" Darkness boasted as its face brightened more nauseatingly, "You can't and never will!" It broke into more manically laughter as its grip around Black*Star's throat tightened and just before he could be knocked out Darkness screamed at the top of its lungs in agony and released the assassin causing him to fall, luckily Tsubaki transformed and caught him. A fierce electric blow engulfed Darkness and made the possessed body go limp before falling into the arm of Stein.
"Professor Stein!" Maka cried and the scientist landed in front of them, his smoking cigarette clenched in his mouth,
"My, my, my, I see Kat's surely in a more dangerous position than ever before."
"Yeah, no kidding." Black*Star retorted as his weapon helped him to his feet,
"Let's go to my laboratory shall we?" The gang followed him as he carried the unconscious girl in his arms.
. . .
Kat remained a prisoner in the dark dimension, this time, black chains confined her wrists and ankles and her head was bowed in exhaustion and defeat. The mammoth sized Darkness laughed behind her, "Aw, what's wrong, Kat? Too weak to fight back?" It laughed some more, "Next time you should think before you act, oh wait there won't be a next time for you!"
"I didn't need to think before acting." Kat replied after a moment then she raised her head, fire burning in her eyes, "I knew what I was getting myself into but I just had to bring him back." Her torturer laughed again,
"Aw how touching, but you should really learn some manners, allow me to teach you some!" Then it clamped its fangs onto her arm making Kat scream out in pure agony. The black creature then hauled off Kat's arm, blood spewing uncontrollably from her fresh wound as she shrieked from the pain. As she did so, Darkness laughed at its prey.
. . .
Kat's eyes snapped open as she screamed and writhed about in the chair Stein strapped her in. Everyone surrounded her and tried to comfort her but Stein stopped them as it was too dangerous. "What's happened to her damn it!" Kid cried then everyone gasped when they saw the blood that was splattered on her arm that was tore from her in the black world. Stein pushed his glasses up, the light striking the lenses,
"It would appear Darkness is torturing her in the dimension her conscious, if you will, exists."
"And you're positive there's nothing we can do for her?" Tomi asked with an edge to his voice,
"Yes, unfortunately, the most we can do is put her in isolation until Darkness consumes her. If we don't, the risk of innocent lives being killed by Darkness will increase uncontrollably." Everyone was silent then Kid stepped up,
"Do it."
"What? How can you do that to your own sister, Kid?!" Liz yelled,
"And put me with her." Kid finished, everyone's eyes widened,
"What?" Maka gaped,
"Why would you do that to yourself, Kid?" Tsubaki asked,
"I can't bear the sight of seeing my baby sister suffer." Kid gently took Kat's weak, sweaty hand in his, though she was completely unaware as she was still wide-eyed, panting, and trembling in horror, "I would rather suffer with you than be torn from her again." Everyone was silent once again until Stein broke it,
"Very well, Kid."
. . .
Darkness appeared before Neko and Kono who stood in a dead tree by Medusa's collapsed lair. "Darkness," Neko said lifting the rim of her hat, "What brings you here?" The creature smirked and placed the severed arm before her and Neko,
"What's this? Surely it isn't the arm of the Kat in this world." Kono said,
"Huh, do you really think I'd do that? That's my future body I'd be harming! No, this is the other Kat's arm." It smirked, "This is part of her soul." Neko smiled,
"I see, well done, Darkness you earned it." The black creature bowed,
"Thank you, Neko." Then it swallowed the arm whole before growing in size, "With every piece of her soul I consume, the more powerful I get and the less time she has until I consume her entire entity." With that it returned to its prey.
. . .
Kat opened her eyes and looked up slowly at the person who held her in their lap, "Onii-chan . . ."
"Hey, Kat." Kid replied with a smile,
"Where are we?" She asked tiredly and he hugged her closely,
"Away from everyone else my dear sister and I am not leaving your side no matter what."
"It's because of me isn't it that we're in here?" She replied with half-closed eyes.
"Yes, Kat, and I will never leave your side no matter what, even when Darkness comes to play." With that, Kat closed her eyes and allowed her frail, weak body to be hugged by her beloved brother, this was a sign that she had practically given up.
And end! Hope you all liked it! Poor Kat! Why must she be tortured so! DX Because I'm the author and I allow it! XD God I am so mean. Well anyways please Review and I'll see you guys next time! :D