Death Walks Again

I do not own Rosario+Vampire or Darksiders or any of the characters. I own only Nyxaros/Death II. The original Death Character from the games is owned by THQ and Vigil games

Author's Note: Sorry for the delay guys, I've been working my ass off on the first half of my Sekirei story and I just recently finished it. But fear not, I intend to finish this and two or three other stories before I resume it. I've been tossing around some ideas for this story and I think you're gonna like them. Also, you might wanna check out the poll on my profile, as I've decided to leave the choice of Nyx's Destined One up to all of you. It includes all of the Shuzen sisters, as well as all of the main girls except for Yukari. It also includes their mothers. I will honor whatever you vote for, so choose carefully. Though please, try to think who you think will go best with Death's character, not just who your favorite character is. But alas, the choice is ultimately up to you. Also, any who have not read the book, the Abomination Vault should know that the Harvester can shift into any form of weapon Death wishes not just two small scythes.

Chapter 3-New Friends and Old Companions

"Nyx has acquired the Harvester. This is good news, though he still has much left to acquire." said the Second in a satisfied manner.

"That was a month ago! He hasn't made any additional gains since then. He will never be a match for the Red Wanderer or the Prince Of Lies at his current level! With Strife dead and somehow beyond our reach, it will fall to Fury or War to deal with any confrontation. While they are both capable fighters, neither of them is strong enough to defeat Samael or the Prince Of Darkness. And to make it worse, the artificial reapers have begun to rebel. Soon we will have no one to escort or reap the souls of the dead. We must hurry his development!" said the First in his usual angry tone.

"Worry not, my comrades. Soon he will grow in power. Surely it hasn't escaped your notice that the Yuki-Onna named Mizore has taken an interest in him. I am positive that she will force him into a confrontation like the Succubus did. He will have no choice then but to release more power or lose his friends." said the Third with certainty. The others were silent after that, though one could hardly confuse their silence with complacency...

Back at Youkai Academy...

Nyx stood alone on a battlefield, his black hair blowing in the breeze with his scythe in one hand. His skin was drawn tight over his emaciated form. His armor was scratched and rent from the previous battle. The once pristine city had been reduced to rubble during their battle against the Angels. The Angels hadn't stood a chance against him and his soldiers. Now, thanks to him, they were one step closer to Eden. But he recently had been doubting their cause. Was what they were doing the right thing to do? After all, it was the Creator who had given Eden to Humanity...

A month had passed since the demons had destroyed the library and Nyx had acquired the shape-shifting scythe known as the Harvester after saving Kurumu. In that month, relations between Nyx and Moka had grown strained. Moka had started to accuse Nyx of having feelings for Kurumu, which Nyx told her was incorrect, that the only one he had romantic feelings for was her. But this was not enough to convince the other Vampire, so she had continued to push the issue; which was not helped by the fact that he had been assigned a group project for history and had been partnered with Kurumu for the project. While in return, Nyx had accused her of having romantic feelings for the human, Tsukune. He pointed out that, when Tsukune had tried to leave the academy that she had attempted to stop him because she harbored romantic feelings for him, this had inevitably led to a series of increasingly loud fights.

Nyx eventually grew tired of the fighting and had elected to spend most of his free time in solitude. So in the past few weeks, Nyx had taken to avoiding Moka in his off hours. He was not eager to engage in the shouting matches that their proximity inevitably led to. Our story continues in Kurumu's dorm room...

"Nyx come on, Nyx wake up. We've gotta finish this project by Friday or we'll have to take remedial classes next semester." Kurumu said as she gently shook the sleeping Vampire's shoulder. Apparently he had dozed off while she had been in the bathroom. Nyx's eyelids fluttered open as she shook him gently. He sat up with a yawn as he sat up and stretched. As he did, Kurumu gently brushed some of his long silver silver hair away from his eyes with one hand.

"Hey Nyx, is everything alright? It's not like you to doze off." Kurumu said concernedly, as she sat down next to him on the bed. Nyx rubbed his eyes tiredly.

"Sorry Kurumu, I was up all night. Moka and I had yet another fight last night." he said with a yawn.

"Geez, you two sure are fighting an awful lot lately. Are you two okay?" she said from beside him.

"Yeah, we're just going through a rough patch." he said as he grabbed his history book from the floor.

"Well, it seems like it's more than that. You two have been fighting for the last 2 weeks now. That's a big rough patch." she said. Outer Moka and Tsukune had told her some of the details of their fighting and while she hoped Nyx did like her that way, she didn't wanna be the reason he and Moka broke up.

"I know, but what can I do? It's not like I can say anything to make her believe me." he said as he laid the book down next to him.

"Well I just wanna say, if we were dating. I'd always trust what you told me. I'd never accuse you of being unfaithful. I know you Nyx, and I don't think you're the type of guy to cheat on his girlfriend. If you didn't wanna be with Moka you'd just break up with her. You aren't the type of guy to lead a girl on. You're a great guy Nyx and if Moka can't see that, then she doesn't deserve you." she said quietly from beside him.

In the past few weeks Nyx and her had been spending a lot of time together on projects for school and the newspaper (Gin seemed to enjoy pairing them together on assignments), and in that few weeks they had both gotten to know each other pretty well, and while she hadn't said anything, her feelings for Nyx had only gotten stronger every time they hung out in the past few weeks. She saw how miserable he had been for the past weeks, and it killed her to see the man she cared about so deeply having to put up with a woman who didn't deserve him, accusing him of things she knew for certain weren't true. No matter how much she wished they were...

Nyx looked at her from his seat next to her, his expression unreadable. He had known since the day after he'd saved her from Moka that she had romantic feelings for him. But he had never contemplated dating Kurumu. But as her last sentence had revealed, she appeared to know him better than Moka did. But even so, he still liked Moka. Even if they were fighting a lot lately, he still had to work things out with Moka before he did anything about Kurumu. But if he was honest with himself, it seemed like all they did was fight recently. Every conversation lead to her accusing him of liking Kurumu and in return he always brought up her and Tsukune, which always lead to one of them storming off in anger. After a long silence he finally said,

"Hey, it's getting late. I should be getting back." he said as he gathered up his books and headed for the door.

"No c'mon Nyx, we gotta get this project finished or we're both gonna need remedial classes." Kurumu complained from her bed. Nyx sighed in resignation. She was right, he was gonna have to stomach his discomfort until after the project was done. And so Nyx spent the next 2 hours working on his report with Kurumu before packing up his things and leaving, having successfully completed their history essay. Kurumu walked Nyx out of the female dorms so he wouldn't get in trouble if he was found by a teacher or student. Nyx was especially relieved when he reached his room, it wasn't that he disliked Kurumu. She had become his closest friend in the past few weeks, the only one he could talk to about his problems with Moka who wouldn't run to her and rat him out. But he knew she had feelings for him and that made any interaction with her a potential for disaster. But he had started to care less and less the past few weeks. He liked Kurumu. A lot. And he was really getting tired of Moka starting fights...

Nyx tried to get some sleep, but his mind wouldn't let him. So after laying in bed for almost and hour he got out of bed and dressed in a pair of jeans and a black shirt and went over to his window. It was past curfew but he didn't care. He sneaked out all the time. He opened his window and jumped to the tree branch that sat about 3 feet from his windowsill. He landed silently on the branch and dropped ten feet to the ground, landing without a sound on the hard ground below. He took off toward the gym at a jog. He was about halfway to the gym building when he heard a voice say

"Come on my little snowflake, didn't you say you loved me?" the voice said. Nyx stopped, if he wasn't mistaken the voice belonged to the gym teacher, Okuto Kotsubo.

"Please don't. I'm not ready yet. I do like you but I can't do this." he heard another voice say. It sounded like a girl, if Nyx had to guess he would say it sounded like a student due to the high pitch of the voice.

Nyx turned and quietly walked toward the source of the voices a few seconds later he saw Okuto holding a young girl by the wrists and pressing her against a gnarled tree. The girl looked to be about his age and had long purple hair. She was wearing a light brown pleated checkered skirt like other female students, but she was also wearing a white sweatshirt with long dark blue sleeves with a black singlet underneath, and a yellow pendant over her neck. She was wearing long dark and light purple-striped stockings with white shoes and had a belt tied to her left leg. He was kissing her neck but it was obvious his advances were unwelcome. Nyx's youki swelled with his rising rage at the sight. Okuto turned to face the source of the huge youki aura. He only made it halfway through the turn when Nyx's foot collided with his chest, sending him tumbling into another tree with a thud.

"You punk! How dare you attack a teacher?" Okuto said as he shakily got to his feet.

"You're not a teacher you're a rapist. How dare you use your position of power to force yourself on a student?" Nyx spat angrily.

"I don't have to explain myself to you. It looks like you need to learn some respect!" Okuto exclaimed as eight tendrils extended from his back. Apparently the gym teacher was a kraken.

"Bring it douchebag." Nyx said defiantly as the Harvester appeared in his hands with a flash of light. Okuto launched two of his tentacles at Nyx. In response Nyx shifted the Harvester into a form resembling a spear. He jumped out of the way of one of Okuto's tentacles. As the other turned towards him, he launched himself toward the other an impaled it against the tree with the spear. Okuto roared in pain and launched the rest of his tentacles at Nyx as he attempted to capture his opponent.

"Run!" Nyx called to the girl who was still slumped against the tree. She seemed not to hear him as she she continued to lay against the tree. While Nyx was looking at her though, one of the tentacles manage to snatch the Harvester from his grasp. While two others wrapped around him and began to squeeze him tightly. Nyx felt a familiar burning sensation on his back and roared in pain.

"Looks like the Vampire is just a little wuss." Okuto said with a fiendish grin as he continued to squeeze Nyx tighter.

"That's not what hurts. You squeeze like a bitch." Nyx grunted. When suddenly, to both Okuto's and Nyx's surprise, several coffins rose the ground and released several ghouls that proceeded to attack Okuto. Okuto recoiled in surprise, dropping Nyx as he did. Without stopping to watch as more ghouls dragged themselves out of the ground, Nyx extended his arm and called the Harvester back to his hand. As he did he noticed that the ghouls that had risen from the ground were attacking Okuto, causing him to lose his focus on Nyx as he used his tendrils to fend off their attacks. While he was preoccupied, Nyx decided to take advantage of his lack of focus and launched himself at Okuto, shifting the Harvester back to it's scythe form. As he moved he noticed that his speed was equal to that of teleportation spell. As he rushed toward Okuto he swung the great scythe in a circle, the Harvester cut through all eight of Okuto's tentacles like a hot knife through butter.

All eight tentacles fell to the ground with a wet squelch. Okuto shrieked in pain as Nyx came to a stop. But before Okuto could do anything other than shriek, Nyx swung the scythe directly over his head and brought it down on and through Okuto's head. Nyx bifurcated the teacher, causing his two halves to fall to the ground as his blood began to pool on the ground. Nyx turned to face the ghouls that risen out of the ground, who seemed to be waiting for his orders. He wondered if he could dismiss the ghouls the same way he did the Harvester. As soon as he willed the ghouls away, the ghouls fell to the ground and collapsed into the dirt. Nyx turned to face the girl, who was still slumped against the tree. Nyx walked over to her and offered her his hand.

"Are you alright? Did he hurt you?" Nyx asked to the girl on the ground. She gazed at him with a blank expression. Now that he was closer, Nyx could see she had extraordinarily blue eyes, the pupils of which were blue as well.

"Why did you save me?" she asked without inflection.

"Would you have preferred I let him continue?" Nyx asked dryly. He didn't get even a thank you for risking his life to save her, this girl was rude.

"No. I apologize. I didn't think anyone cared enough about me to risk their life for me. Thank you. Is he dead?" she asked, he nodded in response as she took his hand and he pulled her to her feet but apparently he pulled to hard. Because when he pulled her to her feet, she stumbled forward until she collided with his chest with a soft thump. He caught her with ease, wrapping his arms around her as he did so.

"Thank you, I'm sorry. I must still be in shock from it. Thanks for catching me." she said as she looked up into his blood-red eyes.

"Um.. You're welcome but I was just doing what anyone else wouldn't do." he said as his face flushed and he looked away. Now that they were so close together, Nyx noted that she was really cute. She had flawless pale alabaster skin, she a slight frame that was still trembling visibly, her skin was cold to the touch, and her eyes were purple at the top of the irises. He let her go and took a step back, he was a little uncomfortable being too close to her.

"No, no one else would've done that for me. I don't have any friends." she said as he eyes dropped to the ground.

"I'm sure you have some friends Miss..." Nyx's voice trailed off as he realized he didn't know her name.

"Shirayuki. My name is Mizore Shirayuki." She said as she gave him a small bow. Nyx bowed in response as he began to say

"Nice to meet you Mizore. I'm -" he began to say when Mizore cut him off as she said

"I know who you are. You're first year transfer student, Nyxaros Yami. You go by Nyx and are friends with Kurumu Kurono. You are dating Moka Akashiya, but recently you two have been fighting an awful lot lately. You're a member of the martial arts and newspaper club. But despite your relative popularity I think you're just as lonely as I am. I know all of this because I'm kind of your biggest fan." she said as she blushed and hid her hands behind her back. She said fan, but Nyx couldn't help but feel that she meant stalker.

"Um okay... it's kinda weird you know so much about me. Well anyways, why don't I walk you back to the dorms, Mizore? You don't wanna be around here when campus police show up." he said to her. She nodded and started to follow him as he headed back to the dorms. During the entire walk Mizore stuck weirdly close to him and at several points attempted to hold his hand. Though he always managed to worm his way out of her grasp. They parted ways at the entrance, she went in through the front door while he climbed up the tree that sat next to his window and jumped from the branch into his room he hit the ground and turned his impact to a controlled combat roll. But as he got up to close his window he saw a black crow perched on his windowsill with a piece of paper tied to it's leg and it was holding it's leg out to him. Nyx cautiously reached out and took the paper from it's leg.

You should have known that you couldn't escape me by dying. We had a deal Reaper. The amulet for Dust(that's its name if you don't remember yet). I held up my end, now you have to do the same. I know you don't remember me. But I remember you and you need my help more than you know. I'll be in touch Kinslayer. Or is it Nyx now? Well anyways, talk soon.

Keeper of Secrets

"What the hell?" Nyx asked as he reread the note over and over he had no idea why this Keeper Of Secrets knew him or why he called him Reaper or Kinslayer. Though he couldn't help but feel that he had heard those names before. He shook his head and decided to go to bed rather than waste his night trying to put things together.

On the other side of campus...

Kuyo strode towards the body of the gym teacher. He reached the Kraken's body and knelt down next to it.

"It looks like mister Kotsubo is more useful dead than alive. Lilith will be happy to hear that we finally have a reason to kill Nyx. He killed this man, and with this body as evidence we can kill him or have him expelled. Just imagine what this will do to our standing with the Master." he said gleefully to the Cerberus and Golem who had accompanied. They both began to chuckle with satisfaction when someone from behind them said

"I'm afraid I must take the body of Mr. Kotsubo from you. If the dean were to see this, he would have no choice but to expel my son. While I have no emotional attachment to him the Council would severely punish me if he was allowed to die. Now if you'd be so kind." Kuyo turned to see the source of the voice was what appeared to be a zombie with with a hole in his chest where his heart should be. The hole glowed with an angry red energy. But by far the most interesting things about him were the cane he was holding in one hand while on his head rested a top hat.

"You're crazy if you think I'm handing this body over to you." Kuyo sneered at the newcomer. The zombie sighed,

"Very well... EN GARDE, YOU BOOB!" the zombie exclaimed as it held up its cane and lunged at Kuyo...

Back at Security Committee Headquarters...

Kuyo slumped against the wall, battered and out of breath Wicked K(the name the zombie had given them whilst he was thrashing them) had thoroughly thrashed him and his cohorts before absconding with the body.

"What happened?" a voice asked from across the room. Kuyo turned to face the source of the voice, a mirror hanging on the wall that showed a Fallen Angel. Those who knew her called her the Mad Queen, Demon Queen, and the Bride of Lucifer. Her name was Lilith, creator of the Nephilim.

"Wicked K stole the body from us, my lady. We could not stop him." Kuyo said as he knelt in front of her in a gesture of humility. There weren't many things Kuyo feared, but she was one of them.

"This is to be expected. Wicked K taught Tohou Fuhai the Hougetsu-Jigen-Tou. You are no match for him at your current level. Here Kuyo, take this." Lilith said as a sword appeared next to him. The sword was almost 6 feet long with a narrow blade with a serpentine filigree running up its center.

"This is Affliction, a weapon created by the Nephilim. Any wound inflicted by it instantly turns necrotic and kills soon after. Use it wisely. I will send you additional supplies soon, till then stay away from Wicked K." Lilith said as the mirror went dark.

"Yes, Mistress." Kuyo said as he picked up the sword to examine it. He grinned fiendishly, he had been told to stay away from Wicked K, she had said nothing about Nyx. With this sword, Nyx would trouble Kuyo no longer...

Author's note: Sorry about the delay guys. I know some of the dialogue and behavior doesn't make sense. I will explain the reason behind that in a few chapters. Also, it'll take me a few chapters to get back into the swing of writing this particular story. Anyways don't forget to vote. Whoever wins the poll will be Nyx's Destined One, regardless of what I think of the character, this decision is truly up to you. Anyways this is the 19th Angel, signing off.