Chapter 15: Come With Us? Meeting Of The Death Scythes!
Maka and Bella were sitting on the leather couch in Kai, Bella, and Angela's dorm. A movie played on the screen of the tv with Angela right up at the front laughing at something that happened on the screen. Kai was asleep, Maka had guided his head to rest on her lap while she played with his hair. She couldn't stop thinking about his look when he saw her father today, what happened during his report to Lord Death that got him and everyone else so worried.
"Hey Maka, is something bugging you?" Bella asked, noticing the worried and upset look she had on her face.
"Oh,um, it's noting..." Maka quickly responded, her voice dropped to a whisper so Angela couldn't hear her.
"Is it the way he's been acting ever since our mission?" Bella asked, Maka was shocked how she could guess that well.
"Yes, it is..." Maka began. She looked down at Kai who was still sound asleep, "Have you noticed it to?" She finished. Bella nodded to reply to her.
"I felt it in his wavelength, ever since we got back." Bella replied, Maka's face turned into one of worry. If it was in his wavelength it must not have been something big.
"I'm worried about him, Bella..." Maka could barely get out, a tear escaped her eye and rolled down her cheek and directly onto Kai's face. He stirred slightly but didn't awake to Maka's relief.
"I know, I was going to ask if all of you would come on our missions with us, just in case whatever is bugging him shows up again." Bella asked, the thought that whatever was bugging Kai could return made Maka lose another tear, she made sure to catch this one before it hit Kai.
"I'll definitely come to help him if he needs it." Maka responded, a smile managed to creep onto her face knowing that she would be able to help him get through what ever it was that was bugging him. "I'll do anything to keep him from falling to madness." Maka finished, she looked down at Kai and let out a big sigh of happiness. The air she exhaled from her sigh woke Kai up. He simply looked up at her smiling face.
"Hey, why you so smiley darling? Something funny happen?" Kai asked, Maka just looked at him and leaned her head over his as he put a hand on the side her cheek.
"Just you when your sleeping is all." Maka giggled, Bella joined in with a half hearted chuckle. They weren't going to tell him about the nature of their conversation, it'd be best if he didn't know for now.
"Well if that's all then." Kai smiled back up at her.
"Kai, Maka and Soul are going to go on a mission with us soon to help us take out the clowns faster." Bella said. Kai's face twisted into one of sadness, but then he quickly recovered his happy demeanour when he looked back up at Maka.
"Awesome, I can't wait sweetheart." Kai said as he slowly drifted back to sleep. Maka just laughed quietly at his inability to stay awake long.
The movie was playing and everyone had returned to the movie, with the exception of Kai. Angela had begone to fall asleep and occasionally passed out with her head in her bowl of candy, only to shoot back up with peppermints, gummi bears, jelly beans, and jub jubs stuck to her face. After the fifth time she stayed asleep. Bella picked her up and carried her to bed while Maka guided Kai to his room. Maka yawned tired from the days busy events, without a word, Bella set up s pillow and blanket on the couch for her to stay the night.
"Oh thanks Bella, but I should get home, Soul is probably wondering why I'm not back yet, and he'll start teasing me." Maka said her face turning red at the thoughts of sleeping over and the things Soul would say.
"Oh quiet Maka, it's late, your tired, and you can always Maka chop Soul for his comments." Bella joked. Maka laughed knowing that was all very true. She crawled into the make shift bed and fell asleep quickly. She slept happy knowing that she was going to be able to go with Kai in order to protect him on the dangerous clown missions.
The Next Day
Lord Death stood in the death room, with Spirit by his side. They waited for their guests to arrive. As each moment passed more would fill the room. At first it was Mifune, Sid, Nygus, and Stein who had joined, followed by Marie and Azusa, and then finally Justin Law with Joe Buttaki. They all crowded around Lord Death.
"Hey how's it going everyone?" Lord Death asked, trying to lighten the mood and delay his explanation of why they had been summoned.
"We are all fine Lord Death, could you please explain to us on why we are all called here, it can't simply be to catch up." Azusa replied, wanting to get right done to business. Everyone agreed except for Justin who didn't hear a word she said because of the loud rock music blasting through his headphones.
"Right well then..." Lord Death began, "I've summoned you hear because the world is in trouble." Lord Death said plainly. Everyone looked shocked except for Spirit who knew of what was to come, and Justin cause who couldn't hear anybody, Azusa ripped the headphones out of his ear to force him to listen, much to his discontent.
"What do you mean in trouble?" Marie asked, "Does it have something to do with the left over madness from Asura?" She questioned.
"Yes and no." Lord Death replied, "You see through our business with Asura, we weren't focused on the rest of the world. This allowed the remaining clowns, find a new master." Lord Death finished. Nobody could believe what they were hearing, it was as if somebody had taken all their hard work to stop the madness and then incinerated it without a second thought.
"Lord Death, what are you telling us?" Justin asked, "You can't possibly be suggesting what your suggesting." He finished, he turned to see that everyone in the room was uneasy, but they were doing their best to hide that fact.
"Yes I am Justin..." Lord Death began, "A new Kishin has risen, it managed to stay hidden until now." He finished.
"Lord Death might I ask how you came by this information?" Azusa asked, she took out a notebook she had on her to take notes for later research.
"One of our students, who may be the target in the Kishin's plot, has discovered that clowns can speak to him." He sated, nobody could believe what they were hearing anymore, they knew that clowns could speak if they had a human like appearance. But the only clowns that did that hadn't made an appearance since Asura's downfall.
"Ok, and who is this student?" Justin asked.
"The student is Kai Vesania, the blood meister and demon katana, Mifune's apprentice that he is in charge of training." Lord Death responded, Everyone's jaws dropped, Stein, Sid, and Mifune all looked at one another, wondering why they weren't made aware of this sooner.
"Lord Death, Kai is my apprentice, why would you keep something like this from me." Mifune had to ask, he was worried about his apprentice's sake.
"Look everyone calm down, Mifune, I should have told you earlier but thought it best to tell everyone at once, I'm sure Kai would have told you tomorrow anyway when you train with him." Lord Death stated, Mifune excepted his answer and waited for him to finish speaking. "Now then here's our plan, Azusa, your in charge of observing Kai at the DWMA and on missions, as well as hunting down the kishin, but be discreet about it. Justin you will be in charge of providing back up to the team of Kai and Bella on their missions, you're only to interfere if needed, and to cover that up, you will become a teacher and be heading Stein's class. Marie, I want you to teach Bella privately on how to control her wavelength better so that she can stop him if he goes insane, you'll also be rotating out with Justin as a teacher. Stein, Sid, Mifune, you are to continue training Kai as you have been, even if you stopped him in something, your to tell him it's to strengthen him. And finally Joe, you need to hurry up and finish those gauntlets for Kai and Bella, and Bella's own Katana so they can resonate Souls even while in human form." Lord Death finally finished, everyone nodded in agreement over the plan.
"Alright everyone, we'll begin first thing tomorrow morning during the school hours." Azusa said taking charge of the situation. Everyone nodded and left the death room, they were going to be busy and needed to get started right away.
"So you think they'll approve of you using Kai as bait for Azusa to find the Kishin?" Spirit asked, Lord Death turned away from him, ashamed of putting someone that trusted him in harm's way for the safety of the world.
"I think they know that's the plan already, they won't tell me, but they don't like one bit." Lord Death responded after a few moments, "I'm just glad none of them talked me out of i..." He finally finished, Spirit took the answer and left the Death Room. He made his way out the door whe he bumped into someone.
"Oh excuse me..." Spirit began, he turned to see who he had bumped into, "KID!?" the death scythe exclaimed.
"Hello, death scythe, I was hoping I could see father about something I find odd." Kid said to the death scythe.
"Oh and what would that be?" Spirit asked, hoping to be able to answer Kid's question without needing to see his father.
"It's about Kai and Bella's missions, I was just at Maka and Soul's and they had their missions assigned to them already, and they all seem to be against clowns that are considerably powerful, is their a reason for this." Kid asked, Spirit just looked down and started to shift his weight, trying to find a good excuse for to give him.
"Well you see, um..." Spirit began, the words still couldn't come to his mouth. "I wanted to see the blood meister in action." A voice rang out from behind Spirit and Kid, they both turned to see Azusa standing in the hallway.
" , didn't know you were here." Kid responded, this just made him suspicious as to why the death scythe was here, they never came unless they were absolutely needed.
"I heard about the powers of and that he is a blood meister, I came to do some research into his abilities and see how strong he is." She finished, she wasn't entirely lying to Kid, Spirit looked at her and mouthed thanks to her.
"I see, well I guess that answers my questions..." Kid started, Azusa and Spirit walked away from Kid and Kid decided to return back to the apartment with his friends. "For now anyway..." Kid whisped to himself. A death scythe wouldn't come to the DWMA just to research a single student, and Kid was going to find out as to why she was here.
"I'll speak to father about this tomorrow after class, he'll give me answers, hopefully." Kid whispered to himself as he walked outside of the DWMA
Author's note: Ok so the death scythes are at the school and are now all keeping an eye on Kai, and Kid is now gonna need to know why. How do you think he's gonna take finding out the they're all there, and to spy on Kai. I think it's gonna get real interesting now, especially since everyone is gonna accompany Kai and Bella on missions now. Anyway so thought I'm gonna let you guys know I'm probable not gonna have anymore chapters for this in the next 10 days because I'm going on vacation, so if you like it be patient and if you hoped for some action before I left, well your gonna get even more in the next chapter when I return. Anyway while I'm gone feel free to PM me or write in the comments on how you think the story is going or if you have an idea that you think would make the story better. As always hope your enjoying it so far, and don't be shy on reviewing :)