Chapter 13: The First Soul Resonance
Kai and Bella were walking through the forest were their mission was. It looked like it had seen better days with destroyed trees and fallen burnt logs. The air was heavy for some reason, and the madness wavelength in the air here was powerful.
"So what are we doing here anyway?" Kai asked his new meister, he turned to see her eyeing up the place with great caution.
"We are looking for a clown that had made an appearance here, it was large and powerful, and we are to eliminate it as quickly as possible." Bella responded as she ran here hand over a burnt tree trunk that had fallen. She eyed it suspiciously, not evening a clown could have caused this much damage.
"Yea, let's just take caution ok." Kai responded, he analyzed the surroundings for anywhere the clown could be hiding, after the last time he had let his guard down, him and Kid were ambushed, and that wasn't going to happen again.
"hmm, the madness here is strong, this clown must be really powerful..." Bella began as they reached the beginning of a giant mountain that had looked as if it had collapsed. She ran her hand across more of the burnt ground and discovered something, a dried liquid that was left on the stone under the ash in the form of a streak.
"Kai, what's this?" Bella asked not knowing what the strange streak was. Kai stopped analyzing the area, if the clown was around here, it would have attacked them by now if it was near. He walked over to the liquid and recognized it immediately.
"It's dried blood..." Kai answered without needing to think about it.
"Dried blood? Could it be from one of the villagers from that small village we passed on the way in?" Bell asked, her face filled with concern at the thought of someone other than the DWMA dealing with a clown, and failing.
"Only one way to find out..." Kai stated as he pulled his katana from his sheath. He slid the blade across his hand creating a small cut to appear, a small amount of blood rushed to the opening in order to fill the crack. Kai put his hand on top of the dried blood. Bella couldn't believe her eyes when she saw the dried blood begin to glow at the touch of Kai's blood.
"What are you doing?" Bella asked, worried that this was going to end in Kai going insane.
"Don't worry, this won't put us in danger, remember I'm a blood meister, I can react with my blood. If my blood holds my family legacy what else can it do." Kai responded, his answer being very cryptic and confusing his partner.
"Ok, so that means?" Bella urged him to finish explaining.
"It means that if I can connect with the memories and experiences in my blood, so if i mix my blood with this dried blood, maybe I can see what the experience was." Kai finished explaining as he increased his focus on connection of his blood to his wavelength.
"You think that will work? Bella asked, wondering if that could work.
"I dunno, maybe, but it definitely won't work if you keep on talking to me and letting me concentrate." Kai responded in a somewhat harsh tone. Bella was shocked by Kai's tone, normally he was so kind and friendly with people when he wasn't trying to shut the world out. This must've been the way he was trained to treat missions by Mifune.
Bella and Kai remained quiet s the dried blood glowed, resonating with the blood on Kai's palm. It wasn't long before Kai's theory was proven right. His eyes started glowing a bright violet colour as he saw the memories inside the blood flash in front of his eyes. He saw Black*Star in front of him and he was in the body of another. "so what will it be, the path of the warrior, or the path of the demon?" is all Kai heard before he was flown back into Bella's arms.
"What the hell?" Kai yelled, he couldn't believe his eyes. He heard the voice of his master in his confrontation with Black*Star before he joined the DWMA. Sweat started to roll down his forehead and he was gasping for breath as if a python had just released his grip on his neck. He looked up at his partner and saw her face was pale with fright.
"Are you ok!?" She asked worried about her partners health and sanity.
"Yeah that was exhilarating and frightening at the same time!" Kai yelled again in complete joy as he began to laugh about it afterwards.
" You think that was funny, your eyes turned a different colour because of that!" Bella yelled at Kai, she stood up and let him fall to hit the back of his head on the ground.
"Owww!" Kai yelled as he stood up and began wiping the dust off his sweater, "In all seriousness though..." Kai began, Bella looked at Kai intently waiting for what he had to say. "...HOLY SHIT I CAN"T BELIEVE THAT WORKED!" Kai began screaming and jumping up and down like Patty or Angela on a sugar rush.
"Mifune's apprentice ladies and gentlemen." Bella joked to herself, as she laughed at the all to serious Kai bounce up and down like a child. She couldn't blame him though for being excited about a new ability. After Kai calmed himself down they turned back to the village since it was starting to get dark. They rented a room and went to lay down for the night.
Bella awoke to hearing screaming outside the window and Kai missing from his bed. She ran to see what the commotion was. She peered out the window to see a giant snake like being with a clown mask on it's face attacking people in the town square, people were screaming and running for their lives. She saw the glint of something out of the corner of her eye and saw Kai slash at the giant snake.
Bella grabbed her gear and rushed as fast as she could to join her partner. He wasn't going to have all the fun. She made it outside as Kai landed beside her, not taking his eyes off the clown.
"Good morning sunshine." Kai said sarcastically, surprised she had woken up.
"How long have you been out here!" Bella demanded, mad at Kai for forgetting to get her out to fight.
"Um, about an hour now..." Kai said, knowing Bella was mad at him.
"AND YOU DIDN'T THINK TO WAKE ME!" Bella screamed at him as he jumped and slashed at the snakes face again. Kai could visibly see smoke coming from her face over how hot headed she was being.
"Sorry, but your new to the DWMA and then there is time changes to consider, I thought it'd be best to let you sleep." Kai responded trying to calm her down, which was failing miserably.
"Next time, don't do that..." Bella responded and held out her hand to Kai.
"What..." Kai looked at her hand confused by what she meant.
"Weapon form, transform into it!" Bella demanded annoyed with Kai's need to do this solo. Kai rolled his eyes hating to go into weapon form. He transformed into his Katana form. His blade shined in the moon light, his hilt had the design of half a Kishin egg soul and half a regular soul. His handle was a black with grey fabric wrapped around it to allow for comfort and grip, at the end of the handle was a dark red circular clip that kept the grey fabric from shifting out of place.
"Alright let's do this!" Bella yelled as she rushed towards the clown and began striking it with precision and technique. The clown staggered backward a little bit, but shook off the attacks as if they were nothing.
"Congratulations, I think you made it angrier!" Kai yelled at Bella for not slaying the snake. Bella was getting really annoyed with Kai's attitude, surely he wasn't like this when he was with Kid.
"You know you could be a little more helpful!" Bella yelled at the weapon. She charged the snake once again before it could recover ground.
"Ok how about this!" Kai yelled as his blade struck the snake. A flash of dark red energy burst from the blade as it made contact with the clown. The snake was covered in Kai's blood from attack he allowed to seep onto his blade from his own small cut he made earlier. The clown went flying into the forest from the attack.
"Holy hell, that was awesome!" Bella yelled amazed at the power her strikes had if Kai used his blood to transmit his wavelength attacks onto his blade. Bella looked down at her hand, "But I would appreciate it if you didn't get blood on my hand..." She said to Kai, his eyes appeared inside the blade of his sword.
"Sorry but I can only charge my blood and let it out on the blade, anything else it all you." Kai said, she couldn't see it but she new Kai was grinning.
They watched the forest with caution and sure enough the serpentine snake burst through the trees. Bella raised Kai into a defensive stance ready to take any hit from the snake.
"Ready for round two?" Kai asked his meister who looked like she was starting to get tired.
"Of course but can we try to do a soul resonance, you know to make things easier?" Bella complained, clearly wanting to wrap this up.
"Ok fine, how do we do this?" Kai asked, Bella thought this was a stupid question but remembered that Kai had went his whole life only using blood resonance. Soul resonance was a completely different thing for him.
" Well we just match our soul wavelengths together and make them connect I think." Bella responded, not entirely sure on how it's done herself.
"Ok let's try i, but If all else fails you keep me sane and I kick it's ass, deal?" Kai responded wanting to get the attempt over with.
"Deal, one, two three..." Bella began, "SOUL RESONANCE!" they both screamed at the same time as the snake started to make it's way toward them. Both of their souls swelled up reacting to each others power perfectly. Kai's blade began to glow blue with the effects of the soul resonance.
"Holy Shit!" Kai yelled, Bella looked down towards Kai puzzled by his sudden yell.
"What is it!?" Bella yelled back to him, worried something was wrong.
"Bella..." Kai began, "I'm blue..." Bella looked at him in shock, was that really warranted she thought, she got worried Kai was hurt or about to go crazy.
She shook off his childish response and began to relentlessly attack the clown with great speed, and the hits were definitely doing more damage now. She kept this up for a good five minutes before she caught on to Kai singing I'm Blue by Eiffel 65. She back flipped away from the wounded snake so that way she could speak with her childish partner.
"Could you not sing that, thanks." She said clearly sarcastic about it.
"What I just have to keep my wavelength the same as yours for the resonance to hold, besides I'm bored, other than the wavelength I'm not doing much." Kai complained. Bella looked down at him clearly annoyed by his antics.
"We're fighting a giant snake...and your bored..." Bella had to repeat, "Can't you be serious about this." Bella asked, frustrated with his attitude towards the situation.
"Hey, in weapon form I don't have to do a lot, so I mess around, If I was actually fighting myself I'd be serious about this entire thing." Kai explained, Bella understood now. He was only acting like this because he wasn't used to being used as a weapon like this, normally he was fighting by himself.
"Well I'm sorry to inconvenience you but, we need to do it this way until Joe makes us those gauntlets." Bella explained. Kai simply groaned and allowed Bella to continue with her assault on the clowns face, it was slowly starting to die, but it wasn't dying fast enough.
"Bella I have an idea!" Kai yelled as she kept swinging him, not letting their target have anytime to recover.
"What. Is. It?" She yelled while she struck the snake.
"What if I used Blood resonance with Soul resonance, my blood would react to the blade and we could use some legacy attacks, super charged with our soul resonance." Kai explained, this caught Bella's attention, anything would be easier than what she was doing. As she thought about the plan the snake made a desperate counter attack and slammed Bella into the side of a stable in the town. She looked up and saw a white Andalusian horse in the stable, and it was already saddled up ready to go.
"Kai, I have an idea."Bella grinned evilly at her clever idea. "Get your blood resonance ready to go..." She began, "And do you know of any knights in your family lineage?" Kai made his eyes appear in the blade and looked up at her, she could tell he was joining in on her evil smile.
In a few moments Bella charged out while riding the horse and Kai still blue with the resonance. They ran circles around the snake. Bella was manoeuvring the horse with such ease and grace, the snake couldn't react quick enough to make the tight turns and began to tie itself up in a knot. After a few moments of Bella laughing about the snake being a ball she looked down at Kai.
"Alright you ready!?" She asked, eager to finish the clown off.
"Ready, let's go, BLOOD RESONANCE!" Kai yelled, his wavelength charged blade not only glowed blue, but had red lightning coming from around the edges of his blade as well. Bella made the horse charge at the helpless clown.
"Legacy Knight's Strike Of Power!" Kai yelled as Bella swung Kai into the throat of the serpent. The snakes head flew to the ground as the body sprayed blood everywhere as if it was a water sprinkler. Bella got off the horse and let Kai transform back into a human.
"That was awesome!" Kai yelled, even though he was bored at the beginning he was now very entertained with the fight.
"I know that was awesome, we make a great team!" Bella yelled jumping up and down with joy over their first victory. Her attention quickly turned to the horse and she began to stroke i. " And thank you, it wouldn't have been done without you" She said to the horse.
"That was cool way to end the clown." A familiar voice said, Bella and Kai looked onto the rooftops to see Soul and Maka standing there, looking impressed by their team work and resourcefulness.
"Yea great job guys." Maka yelled as she jumped from the roof in front of Kai.
"We aim to please..." Kai whispered as he pulled Maka into a kiss, she simply put her finger up to his lips to stop him.
"You can kiss me when you wipe the clown/snake blood off of you." Maka smiled at Kai. Kai simply laughed and nodded.
"Well while those two are busy, I didn't know you could ride." Soul said as he turned to Bella, "It's really cool that you can do that." he finished.
"Thanks, I practised equestrian when I was little and just grew up around horses all the time, I simply applied that knowledge here." Bella smiled at Soul.
Soul blushed at Bell's smile to him. He realized that he must look so uncool adn tried to hide any trace that he did. Maka and Kai saw Soul try to put on his cool face again. Bella and Soul led the horse back into the stable while Maka called Lord Death to fill him in on the mission and report that they had defeated the clown before Soul and Maka got there. Kai was standing in the square watching everyone as they did their jobs they had. He turned to head back to the inn Bella and him were staying at to pay the inn keeper. A voice caught his attention though.
"We can sense the insanity in your blood, and it feels good..." The voice said, Kai turned towards the dead serpent and noticed that it's eye was glowing.
"Who are you?" Kai asked the snakes decapitated head.
"Embrace the insanity, if you don't you will die, for she is coming..." The head responded. It's warning, she is coming, was cryptic to Kai.
"I will never give in to madness, NEVER!" Kai yelled, "And who is she, and why is she coming?" He asked the head.
"The new Kishin...Our master...Under the threat of Asura...She surpassed death...be afraid, Kai Vesania." The head spoke once more, then the light fade from the snakes eye, it's body and head erupted into a bright light and dissipated till only the clown soul was left.
"Hey you got a soul, nice going darling." Maka yelled from behind as she draped her arms over Kai's shoulders. Soul and Bella returned from the stable and rejoined the group. Bella walked up and grabbed the soul, then handed it to Kai.
"What am I supposed to do with this?" He asked, confused as to the concept of how becoming a death scythe works.
"You got it's soul, now eat it and you'll become stronger." Bella responded, happy that they had collected their first soul together as a weapon/meister combo. Kai just shrugged this off and swallowed the soul up.
"Not bad, has a nice texture to it." Kai responded pleased with the way it went down.
"Tell me about it." Soul grinned, "Now let's get outta here."
They all started to return home, but Kai's thoughts weren't with the group. Why could he hear this clowns warning and nobody else. Why did Mifune ask Black*Star to choose a path. This supposed new Kishin that was failed to be detected. All he knew was that needed to return to the DWMA and get some answers immediately.
"Kai, you ok?" Maka asked, she had a worried look on her face.
"I'm fine, just thinking about the mission," Kai began, "I just need to speak with Lord Death immediately when we get home, don't worry ok." Kai smiled, he didn't want to worry anybody and knew it wasn't the right time to tell them what had happened. Hopefully he'd have his answers soon.
Author's Note: Well look's like Kai isn't as serious as you all thought originally now was he haha, anyway I hope you guys are enjoying my story for those of you that have made it this far. But things are gonna get way the hell more interesting from here on out with a new Kishin, Kai can speak to beings of madness(and *Spoiler Alert* possibly be trained by Black*Star in the future), and Bella and Soul's feelings for each other. This is gonna get real good real fast, so keep on reading and please feel free to comment how you think I'm doing in the review section. Seriously guys I'm getting lonely without feed back haha. Hope you like this so far :)