Hi everyone! Sorry to leave you all off with a cliffy but what can I say I'm evil X9 Anywhoosle here's the new chapter and may I just say don't kill me please! You'll see why and well the title kinda gives it away. ^^; On with the story!
A/N To really set the mood of the ending of this chapter listen to Soundless Voice by Len Kagamine (but the version by Valshe is better, at least that's what I think) and Proof of Life by Rin Kagamine.
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater
Death Long Awaited
Kid' POV
"Kat!" I screamed and desperately shook my sister who was bleeding heavily on her chest. "Kat!" I called more forcefully, she twitched and clenched her teeth and eyes shut then open her golden orbs and staggered to her feet, breathing heavily.
"You bastard." She snarled with her head bowed, her bangs hiding her face. Then she lifted her head and a massive wind kicked up around her whipping her hair in all directions; her eyes were wide and her teeth looked like fangs. "I have dealt with you torturing me and my friends and family for long freaking enough!" She shouted as she advanced forward slowly. "And I have had just enough of it!" She screamed angrily, her voice seemed to have an edge of a monster's roar to it and I trembled a little. Her soul's true potential was being unleashed. I then recalled Mother's dying moments when she told me to protect Kat with my life as her soul, just like Father's and mine, was immensely powerful. And I vowed that I would protect her with my very life and I have fulfilled that to this very day. Then I saw it and my eyes widened as the wind stirred the battlefield: Kat's two stripes were connecting. If she had still had her third one I'm sure the amount of power and damage she could create would be utterly devastating.
Neko's eyes widened in fear and she began to run away like a bat out of hell. Then the earth began to shift and rise up. Patty, Liz and the others rushed over to me, "K-Kid, K-Kat-chan's going to kill us if she keeps this up!" Patty cried as she clung to my arm,
"No she won't." I assured her without removing my eyes from my sister. "She won't harm any of those she is trying to protect." Then enormous jet black wings burst from Kat's back and she took to the sky, she held out her arm and shadowy lightening cracked around her hand before turning into a scythe with a blade that looked like a bat's wing. She pointed the weapon at the kishin with utter disgust burning in her soul. Maka gasped and I knew why: she had taken a good look at my littler sister's soul which was now almost bigger than my own.
"That can't be her soul! Before i-it was so much smaller!"
"Well now that her lines have connected and her anger is raging, her soul has strengthened greatly."
We all watched as she flew toward Neko like a rocket, she raised her scythe and struck down but was unfortunately blocked by Neko who held up a sole playing card. The magician leapt back and took out a deck of cards then shuffled them out causing them to surround her and transform into a swarm of daggers and knives. I felt so helpless but with Kat now in this mode this was her fight and her fight alone, "Look out, Kat!" She narrowed her eyes and swung her scythe, deflecting every weapon that rocketed towards her, all but one which slashed her shoulder. My sister snarled, pressed her wings to her sides and rocketed upward then spread her wings out as she slowed to a stop in a high position some hundred feet in the dark red and black sky. Neko narrowed her eyes and snarled, "Ok I have had enough of this!" Right then and there chains burst from the ground around her and darted towards Kat, their razor sharp knife points aiming right at her, luckily she dodged them and glowered at her opponent, however she didn't expect one remaining chain which sliced straight through both of her wings and a moment later they dispersed, black feathers showered everywhere and I watched as my sister fell, her eyes wide with fear yet she did not scream as she looked around frantically. Just as she was nearing the earth I tensed up and jumped, catching her in my arms and landing perfectly, one knee bent so she could be supported.
"O-Onii-chan." She stammered,
"Are you ok?"
"Yes, we're Shinigami; it takes more than this to kill us." She smiled and I returned it after a moment,
"Yeah." I released her so she could stand and she staggered a moment before gaining her balance. We were all so weak and I was incredibly surprised her small frail body was able to withstand all of this. I stood up behind her and watched as Neko glared daggers at us. Then she narrowed her eyes, raised her blood-stained glove and snapped her fingers then a pulse surged through Kat causing her eyes to widen her teeth to clench and her arms to wrap around herself. "Kat!" Then a black figure took her place and whirled around, raking its long black claws on my face. I staggered and removed my hand to see my palm covered in my crimson blood. "Darkness." I said with pure venom.
"Well, well, well." It snarled victoriously, "Looks like this'll be our final fight, Shinigami." A cry from behind caught our attention, we turned and saw Maka coming down quickly with Soul in Kishin Hunter. She screamed out her attack and aimed the scythe at Darkness when suddenly it retreated into its prey tossing Kat's released body to the floor with a cry. Maka gasped and threw herself off balance causing the lethal attack to strike the ground next to Kat who began to tremble in utter fear. Maka stared at her,
"Wh-what?" Darkness chuckled from within Kat and once again took over her body and appeared as the horrid black shadow.
"See? You can't win. Every attack you aim to hit me with? I will immediately have her take it for me." Crona cried out and swung Ragnorok, Darkness retreated, and if Kat hadn't ducked when she did the blade would have beheaded her. She lay there breathing heavy and eyes wide in fear.
"You bastard!" A scream made me turn to see Toshio, wielding Tomi, racing toward Darkness. They finally took action to the horrible things unfolding in front of their eyes. He swung and once again Kat was left vulnerable, at the last second Tomi transformed and the two embraced their meister.
"We're here, Kat." Tomi said,
"We'll never leave you." His brother added and Kat's eyes pricked with huge tears then she clenched her eyes shut when Darkness came out. The spiky black hairs spiked out slicing the twins' sides, and then the creature lashed out its hand, its claws turned to spiked whips as they scourged the two.
Normal POV
In the realm Kat saw the scene unfold from a small portal in the air, she was trembling as was her voice then she found the courage and screamed at the top of her lungs, "STOP IT!" A white flash pulsed from her, causing Darkness to leap away a few yards then in slow motion, Kat turned and fell onto her back, completely worn out.
"Get up!" A shaky voice called out and she turned her head to see the same black-haired, red-eyed girl in the cage, tears pricking her eyes, "Please get up." She choked, "Seeing you fighting on has given me the strength to not give up and to fight to keep my soul from being completely consumed by her, so please get up." Kat smiled weakly,
"I'm sorry . . . but I've fought long and hard enough. . . There's just no strength left in me anymore." She turned to look at the endless red and black dimension above her, "It's all up to my physical being now." With that she closed her eyes in surrender.
Kid's POV
Kat whirled at Black*Star, "Black*Star! When Darkness comes out again I want you to restrain me with enchanted sword's shadows!"
"What! Are you telling your god what-"
"You've seen me at my full potential you know what I can do to you!" He immediately shut up and I smiled a little inside.
"Ok." He said quietly, his collar covering his mouth. Kat fell to her knees and hugged herself then fought to look at Crona and Maka,
"Crona . . . Maka! I want you to hold Neko back!" The two nodded solemnly,
"Of course." The scythe meister replied and the demon swordsman nodded,
"O-ok, Kat."
"Kat, what do you plan on doing?" Liz asked as I held her and her sister in their weapon forms. Kat narrowed her eyes,
"When Darkness comes out . . . I really won't have the strength to fight back and return . . . so that's why . . . I need Black*Star and Tsubaki to restrain me."
"Kat-chan." Tsubaki said sadly,
"And . . . Neko's weaker than ever so . . . Crona and Maka . . . will have a better chance in defeating her . . ."
"And what about me?" I asked nervously,
"And us." Tomi added, their meister looked at the five of us with a small, weak smile,
"You're role is more significant than the others." Then she cried out and Darkness came out with a roar,
"Enchanted sword mode!" The bluenette immediately cried out and Tsubaki obeyed with no objections, the shadows raced forward and tied around Darkness' black wrists, hauling it down to its knees as it thrashed to free itself,
"Urg! Ugh! Let me go you insolent brat! Let me go this instant!"
"Who are you to tell your god what to do!" Darkness roared out then Kat managed to come back. Neko raced forward but was tossed back by Crona's Scream Resonance. Kat squeezed one eye shut and looked at the five of us remaining,
"K-Kid . . . I want you . . . to shoot me." My world seemed to shatter around me as my eyes widened,
"What did you say?" I asked quietly, praying that I heard her wrong,
"I want you to shoot me, what don't you understand!" She cried out in agony as she fought immensely to keep Darkness from coming out again.
"No! I can't do that!" I shouted back,
"We can't and we won't!" Liz added, "Kat, there has to be another way!"
"Sis? Kat's gonna be ok, right?" Patty whispered worriedly but Liz only glared and gritted her teeth,
"Just do it!" She looked at me with those pleading golden eyes and smiled sadly. "Can't you see I'm suffering here? I've been fighting for so long and I just can't keep it up any longer, please, onii-chan, please shoot." She thrashed again but Black*Star and Tsubaki kept their firm grasp. Neko saw everyone's distraction as her chance and turned a rose into a gun and pointed it at me but Maka noticed and swung Kishin Hunter at her, causing her to fall to her knees before passing out,
"Kat, there's gotta be another way!" She cried in desperation, "We can figure it out together!"
"You don't need to kill yourself to solve this!" Soul protested in frustration. I only stood there and snarled then aimed Liz and Patty at my beloved sister,
"Kid! No, stop!" Liz cried and I predicted her next move and skulls quickly enveloped the pistols before vanishing, "Wh-what's going on? I-I can't change back!"
"Neither can i! Kid-kun, stop!" I heard their cries and clenched my eyes shut,
"I used my power to prevent you from changing back."
"What! Why! We can't do this to Kat! She's not just your sister she's our too! We're all one family here, Kid and if you shoot her you shoot us!"
"Just shut up! You think I don't know that!" Liz fell silent and cried onto her sister's shoulder,
"Kid-kun." Patty said with a trembling voice and she began to cry too. I positioned my fingers on the triggers . . . Kat's begging eyes continued to stare . . . I closed my eyes shut . . . and fired.
Normal POV
Kat's torso jerked this way and that as the blasts struck her, in the realm she smiled with closed eyes then opened them as a trail of blood trickled down from the corner of her mouth, "At last . . . the torture will finally be ended." Darkness shrieked as it was attacked by the shots.
Finally Kid stopped firing and lowered his arms, Kat's head was bowed and she struggled to lift it and when she did only one eye was opened as blood trickled from the side of her mouth. Scratches, gashes, and bruises masked her once flawless, beautiful face that was as pale as the freshly fallen snow. "T-Toshio." The young sai gasped and looked up for he and his brother had to avert their eyes from the painful scene of their meister being shot by her brother. "T-Toshio I want you to transform."
"Y-yes." He replied shakily and did so, Tomi held him in his grip. Kat closed her eyes and a skull appeared around him and disappeared, "Wh-what! What did you do to me!" She opened her eyes and looked at her partners with the same smile on her face and the same gleam in her eyes,
"I did the same as onii-chan: prevented you from changing back."
"What! No, Kat!" She closed her eyes again for a brief moment then opened them and looked at Tomi,
"Tomi . . . run me through." The older brother gasped and his eyes widened,
"No! I can't! I won't!" He raged, "Kat, I will not do it! I love you, Kat, you're one of my bests friends I can't do that to you!"
"So you would rather have me suffer even more? Tomi . . . I've been fighting practically all of my life . . . ever since I met you I've been fighting this burden . . . you would really have me put up with this even more?" In the realm, Kat lay with closed eyes and a peaceful smile on her face while Darkness writhed on the invisible floor, clutching at its wounds.
Tomi stared at her then squeezed his eyes shut, clenched his teeth and grip around Toshio and ran forward, his hair hid his face as he approached his beloved meister . . . and dug Toshio's sai blade deep into her chest and through her soul unseen to all but Kid and Maka. Kat had by now closed her eyes and a peaceful look had come to her face. Toshio's eyes were as wide as they could go as he felt his meister's blood pour onto him.
In the realm, Darkness screamed as loud as ever as blood poured from it. Kat opened her eyes and looked at the endless red and black sky. "Thank you." Then she closed her eyes and her bloody, broken, beaten body burst into black feathers. The red-eyed girl's eyes widened and she gasped while tears poured down her face, the feathers traveled to the sky and she desperately reached out and was successful in grabbing one in her hand; she brought it to herself and opened her palms to see the black feather resting in them, then it vanished. The girl stared at her empty hands and huge tears poured down her face, she closed her hands and began to cry loudly. Darkness whirled around in madness, now needing a soul to consume; it saw the black-haired girl and rocketed towards her in blind rage, confusion, and insanity. The girl gasped when she saw it and straightened up, willing to accept her fate. Darkness rocketed right through her causing her to fly backwards. The black creature then struck the bars of the cage, shrieked and melted away. The red-eyed girl's soul already belonged to someone . . . so it was impossible for the creature to take it as its own. The girl stared vacantly as the cage began to crumble and fall then she closed her eyes and her body burst into red rose petals before rising up to the endless red and black sky of the dimension.
Kid's POV
A scream caught all of our attention and we looked at Neko who had stiffened up, staring at the red and black sky, then her body from her boots up turned into red rose petals and rose to the sky. We all watched in relief as that was finally the end of Neko. Finally our long, hard finally was over. Black*Star called of the shadows and Tsubaki changed back as did Liz, Patty, and Toshio. The others surrounded Kat who now lay peacefully on the ground. Storm clouds formed and a distant rumble sounded. I fell to my knees and held Kat in my lap, "Kat?" My sister slowly opened her eyes half-way with a weak smile,
"Onii-chan? . . . Is that you? . . . I can't see you." I gasped and swallowed the massive lump in my throat as I placed a gentle hand on her cheek,
"Yes, it's me, Kat. I'm here, we all are." I sniffled and noticed how empty her golden eyes were and how dim the fire in them had become. Then rain started to lightly fall,
"I'm getting wet . . . are you crying onii-chan?"
"No, that's just the rain." I replied though I was fighting hard to keep back my tears,
"Rain . . . it was raining on the day Mommy died wasn't it, onii-chan?" I sniffled as I remember the awful day that we had lost her . . . and that awful day that I made Kat run away. My lip quivered even more and I fought even harder to keep back my tears. It was my fault I had lost her for those long eight years . . . it was all my fault . . . and now . . . I was gonna lose her again . . . this time forever. I was going to lose her . . . my beloved sister and my best friend.
"Yes it was, Kat. Yes it was." I hugged her close she continued to stare absently through her half-closed eyes. Then, suddenly the rain turned to snow.
"Onii-chan . . . why is it cold?" I took in a ragged breath,
"It's snowing, Kat, it's snowing." She managed a quick huff of laughter,
"Snowing? It's not the time for snow." I managed a chuckle in reply,
"You're right, Kat. You're so smart." She giggled and it was the type of giggle she used to give me when we were little kids. This was breaking my heart more and more and I knew it was the same for the others because, like Liz said, "we're all one family". I hugged her closer and rocked her like Mother use to do when she was scared or crying. Then I began to hum the lullaby Mother use to sing to us as kids.
"Onii-chan?" She said after a few moments, "What are you humming? I can't hear . . . but I feel the vibration from inside you . . . is it the lullaby Mommy use to sing to us before bedtime?" Tears began to pour down my face and I sniffled,
"Mhm." Was all I could reply since it would be easy for her to know what I said by the vibrations of my voice. Her eyes were closed and she was silent for a moment as was I then I took a breath, "Deep in the meadow, under the willow" She quietly joined in with me,
"A bed of grass, a soft preen pillow, lay down your head and"
"Close your sleepy eyes," she stopped singing and I continued, "and when again they open, the sun will rise (1)." She was silent as she lay in my arms, "Kat?" I asked trying to keep my voice from shaking; she opened her eyes and looked up at me without seeing,
"Sorry, onii-chan, I'm just a little sleepy that's all." She answered quietly, I smiled and moved a strand of hair away from her eyes,
"Alright then." She turned her head to look at everyone but they all knew she couldn't see them or hear their voices telling her that they were still there at her side.
"In my very last moment I want to tell you . . . Thank you." (A/N quote from Rin's Proof of Life). A genuine smile brightened her face as she said her final words and tears brimmed her golden eyes, then she closed her eyes and smiled still . . . then I felt her leave me . . . her soul was gone . . . I stared at her and my lip quivered as I hugged her tightly to me. The snow continued to fall around us as we cried; we cried to replace the rain that had fallen.
(1) I do not own the Hunger Games
Oh my freaking god I was crying while writing the end of this! Stupid feels! DX –passes out tissues- I really have nothing else to say but this fanfic is not over just yet! Please review and here's a cookie to make you all feel better! –hands out cookies- I'll be in a corner crying now. See you all next time, (hopefully)!