Chapter 8 – Gwen's Revenge
The end of Ches's weapon form slammed into Asura's dealing a hammer blow into his face forcing him into the ground causing his eyes to bulge. Gwen did a backflip off of his face landing beside Maka. Maka glanced at the girl with concern in her eyes. But all worry was washed away when she saw the look in Gwen's eyes. There wasn't one ounce of madness or confusion, just pure willpower. Maka gripped Soul tighter and faced Asura.
Asura was busy pulling himself out of the ground, his hands moving rocks ever so slightly before phasing through them. He was confused when he had been forced to leave the girl she was a sniveling mess, she shouldn't be fighting; she should be huddling in a corner hiding from the world. He didn't understand
Maka, while Asura was trying to figure out why and how Gwen was up and about, realized something. Asura was beginning to effect physical objects. He would soon be back to full strength they had to end this fight and soon. Maka's pigtails were pulled forward by the tailwind Gwen left behind as she charged Asura.
"I'm going to make you pay!" Gwen hammered Asura with a front flip slam, forcing him down on one knee. She tried for a quick backhand but Asura backhanded her and floated above them scratching his head still trying to figure out Gwen. Gwen quickly jumped using the railing for the church steps to get higher taking another swing at Asura using Ches like bronze knuckles, but yet again missed Asura as he fled the scene quickly chased after by Maka and Soul.
"Gwen!" Ches shouted from the inside of the shoulder guard of the shield causing her to jump.
She turned to see his face reflected in the metal. "Oh hey. You startled me."
"Good I got your attention. You need to remember I'm not just a giant hunk of metal for you to swing." Ches replied
"I know." Gwen said rolling her eyes. "You're a shield to, but that doesn't really help me with attacking him."
"No that's not what I mean." Ches sharply retorted. "What I mean is I'm not just your weapon, I'm your partner. You have to trust me, we need to be working together. We need to be two fighting as one. "
Gwen stood there and stared at the boy reflected in the metal thinking for a minute. She sighed
"Change back." She commanded.
Ches did as told and found as he changed shape Gwen was following suit changing into her reverse bladed scythe. It was a beautiful thing. The blade was as dark as her hair except with now bright deep purple swirls running along it, where the blade connected with the shaft was a large rectangular black lock with a giant skeleton-key keyhole in it, on the back was a smaller blade that connected with the main blade along the top of the lock. A chain hung from a small hoop at the base of the lock and connected with the bottom of the shaft.
Ches caught the girl. The shaft of the scythe fit snuggly in his hands. He stared transfixed into the swirls of the blade until Gwen's reflection showed up in it.
"Hurry up. We got a monster to kill." She snapped at him.
Ches gulped nodding at his new partner and took off running in the direction of the sounds of crashes and fighting.
Maka was fighting Asura at the mall now. He seemed to be weakening, ever since Gwen showed up Asura seemed riled, unfocused. His center eye was constantly moving never stopping for more than one second.
"Why" Asura whispered "Why, why didn't she run in fear she should have been scared of me. I had completely dominated her body." He sent a few three fingered cloth hands towards Maka. She used Soul to cut the few of them and jumped over the rest.
Maka was dodging ghost Asura's attacks vaguely familiar with the way he worked. It helped, but not much the main factor was that he still hasn't collected the rest of his soul back together. This caused him to be even more unbalanced and made his attacks slightly weaker and slower. She was able to chop his legs off and sometimes his arms. They were growing back slower now.
Maka jumped over Asura's newest attack landing on the cloth appendage using it as a path and took a swipe at Asura. The attack hit cutting the demon clean in half from shoulder to waist.
Asura let out a blood curdling scream, which slowly turned into a laugh.
"Do you truly think a puny attack like that would kill me?" Asura chuckled as his two halves drifted together.
"Then how about this!" Ches jumped from the roof of the mall. Swinging Gwen high above his head, he was holding the scythe backwards the blade facing away from Asura.
"You idiot that's not how you hold a scythe." Asura yelled after he turned around, mouth agape laughing at them.
His laugh was cut short as he was split down the middle. "Ow" Asura's two halves said together. "Pretty good but not good enough." He spoke smiling. At the end of his sentence Ches brought the scythe back up spearing Asura's right half on the blade, the deep purple swirls on the blade glowed, and purple flame spouted out of the key holes of the scythe. The right half of Asura's ghost body burst into flames.
Asura's left half screamed in pain. The right was destroyed. "You jerk that actually hurt." The right half of his body started to grow out of what remained of the left.
"Oh no you don't." Maka said jumping up to meet Asura in midair; she cut him in half again across his waist. Before he had a chance to reconnect his two halves Ches and Gwen switched roles.
"I'm going, to make, sure you, never hurt, anyone again!" With every two words she nailed with a punch using Ches. The silver and midnight blue shield was crackling as Gwen's purple soul wavelength danced across it like electricity. With the last two spinning hits she sent Asura flipping into the air and followed him up. She pulled back and brought the shield plowing down creating a giant pillar of deep purple soul wavelength as Asura's upper left torso hit the ground.
Asura's body imploded, the few moments before Gwen hit him with the last attack he had finished collecting what was left of his soul and had become solid.
A tiny red sphere was left floating in the middle of the cloud of dust. Gwen straightened and walked toward it. Gripping it in her left hand, she caused it to burst into purple flames.
"Die dipshit." Gwen whispered as the flames licked around her hand.
Asura's soul was dead.