Chapter 16: Death Scythe Teachers? The Next Mission.
Kai awoke to the smell of pancakes wafting into his room, he was still getting used to this partners idea if he got a good breakfast out of it every morning. He got dressed in his normal attire and walked into the kitchen.
"Good morning Bella..." Kai moaned, he was acting more like a zombie than Sid ever did.
"Bella?" It's me darling." Maka said as she turned around with four pancakes on a plate. She set them down in front of Kai.
"Oh Maka, well then good morning beautiful, I didn't know you stayed over." Kai smiled. The site of Maka greeting him this morning woke him up faster than any of Angela's candy, Mifune's tea, or Bella's coffee.
"Well I wasn't supposed to, but Bella insisted," Maka began, "She said it was late so she let me sleep on the couch and lent me some clothes for the day." Maka finished explaining. She sat down next to Kai and gave him a plate of pancakes.
"Well I'm glad you did, now I don't have to wait to see your face." Kai smiled as he put some pancakes on his fork. They both finished their breakfast and made their way down, Kai gripped Maka's hand tightly with happiness that she was the one he saw when he woke up.
They made their way into the class and took their seats. As the time went by more and more students began to slowly pile into the room. Eventually Kid, Liz, Patty, Soul, Black*Star, and Tsubaki all piled into the room to take their seats.
"Good morning guys." Maka said as they all sat down.
"Morning Maka" Liz responded as her head slammed down onto her desk.
"So where were you last night Maka?" Soul asked he moved over slightly to wink at Kai.
"Shut up Soul, nothing happened and you know it!" Maka yelled at hm, he instantly backed off.
The clock reached seven and everyone had settled down and became quiet. Maka opened a text book and began to study while Soul and Liz talked about Bella, who Kai noticed wasn't their for some reason.
"Hey Kid, where's Bella?" Kai asked, worried about his meister
"I'm not sure, I'm sure she'll turn up soon, probably just running late." Kid reassured him. Everyone's attention turned to the door as the teacher stepped into the door way.
"Hello class, I'll be your teacher today." The teacher yelled loudly. Kid looked in shock, why was Justin Law teaching their class.
"Now you're probably wondering where professor Stein went," Justin began, "But all I can say is...Don't worry about it." Justin finished, not answering any questions as to why he was teaching the class.
Kid needed to speak with his dad now, something was up and he didn't like it. Kai noticed the uneasy feeling Kid had, and he felt that he was somewhat responsible for it since his conversation with Lord Death.
"Now take out your work books and do questions twenty four to forty-two." Justin yelled as he jumped into the chair of the teachers desk. He began to pretend to play the air guitar while his music blasted loudly. Kai, Maka, and Kid worked diligently as the class picked up a low level of talking while they worked. It wasn't long before someone else walked into the door.
"Hello Justin how's the class doing?" Marie asked, her voice brought Kid to instantly eye her. Another death scythe was in the school, he was certain now something was going on.
"Oh Marie hello, they're working just fine, are you here to take over?" Justin asked loudly, unable to hear over the music blasting in his headphones.
"Yes I am, and I brought a late student with me." Marie smiled as she stepped in followed by Bella, she waved and made her way to her seat that was beside Tsubaki. She waved over to Maka, and Soul. Justin got up and left the classroom to go listen to his music else where.
"Um, Marie I have a question." Kid said aloud so she would come over to him.
"Oh and what's your question Kid?" she asked in return.
"Why are the Death Scythes here?" Kid asked, a very serious tone had entered his voice, Marie was shocked that Kid had asked such a thing. She couldn't get the words out of her mouth, she occasionally glanced over to Kai who was working diligently with Maka.
"Um, well, you see..." Marie began, she glanced over at Kai one more time, Kid understood that it had something to do with him, but what happened, Kid was going to find out.
Eventually Marie returned to the front of the classroom and took her seat. Kid did his best to return to work but his thoughts weren't on the assigned work. Eventually class was dismissed and everyone made their way out to the courtyard. After everyone met up and finished seeing the progress on Storm's stable they began to talk.
"So what do you guys think the death scythes are here for?" Kid asked, everyone wondered at the thought.
"Maybe because they just all decided to visit?" Bella asked, hoping to avoid a serious conversation after school.
"I highly doubt that Bella, something is off, and it might have something to do with a certain blood meister that might be hiding something." Kid responded as he turned his gaze to Kai, suspicion was written all over his face as he stared at Kai.
"Well clearly you guys have some investigating to do, I'm gonna go find Mifune, I'm due for a training session." Kai responded he bid the group farewell and kissed Maka on the cheek and left them alone.
"He got outta here a bit quickly don't ya think?" Liz asked, catching on to Kid's suspicion after Kai's hasty retreat when the subject was brought up.
"Guys you can't keep questioning Kai over every little thing." Tsubaki spoke up, like Maka she was tired of the constant questioning of the blood meister.
"Yea, he's not evil guys, if he was evil I wouldn't be with him. He'll tell us eventually," Maka began, her voice holding a strong resilience to the reapers comment. "At least I hope so." Maka finished, her voice to a barely audible tone, the sorrow over her boyfriends troubles.
"I hope so, cause whatever it is, it's clearly bothering him." Soul finished, "Come on, let's get something to eat, I'm starved." Soul finished as he turned to walk away, everyone slowly began to follow, they wouldn't admit it, but they all were very worried for Kai.
In The DWMA Dojo
Kai walked into the centre of the dojo, he drew his sword from it's sheath and then tossed the Blue scabbard aside. The blade shone under the lights that hung from the sealing. Kai knelt down and laid the katana down in front of him. He admired the freshly polished tamehagne steel that composed the blade and the temper line from the cooling process. His gaze turned to the Tsuba, the memory of him with his parents on a trip to Japan to make his Katana played in his head.
"Mommy when do I get my special sword?" A little boy asked, his face smiled up at his parents, the mother looked down on him, the third eye of Asura present on her forehead.
"Soon my tiny warrior, soon you will become as powerful as us, all you need to do is eat a soul," the mother began, a wicked smile struck her face, "Then you will be on the path of becoming the strongest Kishin ever, whose madness will bring chaos to the world!" she laughed, the little boys face twisted with fear, he hated seeing his parents like this, but they couldn't help it.
"Son, your ready to choose your own Tsuba that will become the symbol of your sword." A man stepped in front of them. He looked like the boy except with shorter blond hair and the third eye of Asura on his forehead as well.
"Oh boy, can I get it like this, I already drew how I wanted it to look!" The little boy bounced up and down excitedly while holding out a piece of paper for them to see. On it was a ring that had enclosed half of a regular human soul, and half of a kishin egg soul. The bottom halves of the souls meeting in the centre of the Tsuba.
"A fine design little one." The father took the drawing into the hut. The young boy could feel the heat emanating from the raging furnace as his father opened the door. He was hald way through when he stopped, he turned around and looked at the mother with a devilish grin. Without saying a word she grabbed the boy and lifted up his shirt.
"Mommy stop, what are you doing!" the boy cried as his mothers grip tightened, the father folded the paper and placed it in his pocket and replaced the free space in his hand with a knife. He walked over to his son and looked him in his hazel, he swept his blond spiky hair out of his eyes.
"Stay still for daddy!" The father said as he laughed, without any remorse he sliced the child from the right side of his chest all the way down and curved it into his side. The young boy cried out in pain, he didn't understand what was going on, in retaliation he turned his arm into a blade and slashed at his father, effectively scraping his left eye.
Without any thought to the wound the father ran to the hut without any thought of his mutilated and bleeding son. It wasn't long before he returned with the half finished blade of the katana and held it under the wound. All three watched as the blood fell onto the blade and rested in it's centre. The father took the blade back inside and the mother released her grip and the young child fell to the ground unconscious.
"Sweetie wake up it's time." The voice of the mother drifted into the child's ears. He awoke to the sight of his parents holding a Katana in a blue scabbard, the handle wrapped with thin strips of fine grey fabric which left a diamond pattern running up the newly finished handle to the blade.
"Is that mine?" The boy asked as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes, almost completely oblivious to the fact that his parents had almost bled him dry.
"Yes it is son, your katana." The father said as he gave him the sword that was almost as big as he was. The little boy looked over the katana, he noticed his family crest had been branded onto the Habaki, eventually after taking in the beautiful workmanship of the sword, his eyes finally were drawn to the tsuba, and it was his design he had made.
"Yay this is so awesome!" The boy jumped up and down with happiness.
"What are you going to call your blade?" the mother asked curious as to the name of the sword her son had been given.
I'm gonna call it...Nox since I'll be using it in darkness to serve who I serve!" The young boy finished I can't wait till-" The memory was cut short by Mifune entering the dojo.
"Hello apprentice." Mifune began as he tossed his swords in the air to form a duelling ring, as was his style. "Are you ready for today's practice?"
"Of course I am ready master." Kai responded as he raised Nox into a defensive position. Mifune smiled at his apprentice's seriousness in this fight, but he could tell by the way his eyes gazed at him that he wasn't entirely focused on the fight.
Mifune charged at Kai and swung his blade to the side to try and cut Kai in the side. He easily blocked and jumped back and cut his hand open, the blood crackling with dark blue as it became charged with his wavelength. Kai charged at his master and immediately put him on the defensive by using both Nox to attack him, but also create openings for Kai to use his blood against Mifune. After a few moments of careful parrying, Kai got his opening and pressed his bloody and charged hand on Mifune's back.
"LEGACY BLOOD BLAST!" Kai yelled as a flash of brilliant blue light had enveloped the combat stage. Mifune flew back ten metres but quickly recovered from the attack. Kai wasn't going to allowed him to get the offensive back and let his hand bleed onto his blade subtly. Mifune began a final charge at Kai to try and knock out his apprentice, but as if out of nowhere Kai swung his sword and sent drops of charged wavelength at Mifune. "Blood Bombs..." Kai muttered and every drop of charged blood sent at Mifune exploded in a dark blue burst of energy. This time Mifune had struggled to get up as the pain from Kai's honed attacks had beaten him. He tried to turn over to his side but cringed in pain, when he finally opened his eyes he saw the tip of Nox in front of his face.
"I yield, you win apprentice..." Mifune responded, Kai smiled and walked to pick up the scabbard. After replacing Nox back on his back he sat on his knees and awaited his master. "So for someone who was so unfocused, you fought with a good intense ferocity, your developing your own fighting style now as I can see your using your blood more often, but your technique was sloppy," Mifune rambled on about how to improve and how to keep honing his abilities. "One more thing what is on your mind?" He asked, the question shocked Kai.
"Well you see...on my mission..." Kai began trying to find the words to follow. But nothing could escape his lips.
"The clown spoke to you..." Mifune responded, "I know hence why we are training in here now for more active combat, it's also why the death scythes are here investigating." Mifune explained, Kai nodded as he told him this. Now he could get Kid off his back about keeping something from him since he now knew what was going on.
"Well yes but...why did you ask Black*Star to choose the path of the demon, or path of the warrior?" Kai asked, Mifune was shocked that Kai had learned about that encounter.
"How'd you know that?" Mifune asked stunned, the shock in his voice was apparent.
"Well I cut my hand and placed it over your dried blood in that forest, when I did I tried to search the history of my blood, and since your blood was in contact with my blood, I saw the memory." Kai explained. Mifune understood how he knew now, and was impressed with this ability.
"Well then I asked because he was going to fall to madness, and after a long inner battle in his head he chose the path of a warrior and beat me." Mifune responded, "It takes someone very strong to control their inner madness the way that Black*Star did that day." Mifune finished. Kai sat for a moment and took all this in.
"I see..." Kai thought to himself, "Master, perhaps next time, I can get half an hour of Black*Star train-" Kai began to say, but something had grabbed his attention.
"Kai wait!" Mifune yelled after his apprentice, but it was to late. He was sprinting outside of academy and into a truck that was parked near the school. "Damn..." Mifune mumbled, he took out an earpiece and activated it. "Mifune to Death Scythes, Kai left abruptly for some reason, Justin go follow him discreetly." Mifune ordered. Hoping that Justin wouldn't be too late.
"I feel it, I need to go to the madness...to the clown..." Kai said as he sped of without a second thought. Whatever he sensed he was dead set on getting to it.
In An Abandoned Mining Town In British Columbia
"Lyra why are we here?" A girl asked as she walked down the abandoned street with her partner. She turned to face Lyra. As she walked Lyra's dark blonde, short hair flew in the breeze a best it could, she had an Iron maiden T-shirt she wore, with big thick DJ headphones that were sitting around her neck. Her jeans were grey in colour, and went all the way down to her red sneakers. She raised her hand shift the cord of the headphones back into a more comfortable position, she had a thick black and white checkered bracelet on her left wrist.
"I dunno Petra, but that clown has to be here somewhere." Lyra answered as she turned toward her partner with her green eyes. Petra had long brown hair with blonde highlights that fell to her shoulders. Her blue eyes shone brightly in the night. She wore a purple tank top that had a musical bar on it that said "Music is in my Soul" with music being written in musical notes, and an eighth note at the bottom of the S on Soul to the right side. She had a blue sleeveless vest that she kept done up with a small grey belt so that most of the writing on her shirt wasn't visible. Her grey high tops with blue laces walked went half way up her calf while her black socks went just under her knees. Her grey skirt with yellow trim swayed side to side as she walked. Across her waits was a red belt that slanted to the left. Her arms had matching fingerless gloves that ran down her forearm and stopped an inch from her elbows and had a red trim.
"Hey wait a minute?" Petra said as she stopped, Lyra stopped and looked to see why her meister was so worried. "I heard something..." Petra whispered to her weapon.
"Oh come on Petra, your just hearing things, with all that damn music you listen to, it doesn't surprise me." Lyra teased, knowing that Petra would get revenge on her later. She began to laugh but it was cut short as both of their gazes fell upon a boy who nineteen in age.
"Oh no, your friend was right, you aren't alone her." The boy responded, his voice muffled by the cowl he wore over his mouth and nose. "Tell me, are you girls lost?" The boy asked in a menacing tone.
"Look pal I'm a two star meister at Shibusen and my weapon her is very powerful, I'd think you wouldn't want to mess with us!" Petra threatened in response, she wasn't going to let some guy with a death wish stop her and Lyra.
"Well I can tell you the thing your looking for never existed, that clown wavelength was coming off of me." The boy laughed, Petra and Lyra looked at each other, this guy didn't look like a clown. Petra gazed into his soul and was shocked at what she found.
"Lyra..." she whispered, "His soul, it looks like a more advanced kishin egg, we need to take him down, the madness that radiates from him is uneasy." Petra explained, Lyra nodded in acknowledgement.
"Your soul is a that of a kishin egg with strong madness, so your who we are here for. Your soul will be mine." Lyra stated as she jumped. In mid jump she shifted into her weapon form, a grey electric guitar decorated with lord death's mask on the body. Petra caught her and strummed the strings of Lyra and a powerful Soul wavelength shock wave blasted off of the different notes Petra played. Petra held Lyra as if she was ready to begin playing a vicious and loud song.
"Sou you turn your soul wavelength into sound, and she amplifies your sound wavelengths into attacks...impressive." The boy smiled underneath the cowl.
"Hey music is in my soul." Petra responded smiling over the witty remark.
"Well then for those about to rock..." The boy began, "We salute you..." He responded as he unsheathed his rapier, the hilt caught Petra by surprise.
"That hilt it's..." She began to think to herself.
"The eyes of the true god, Asura..." The boy responded.
"Hm, well either way your going down." Lyra said in her weapon form. The boy smiled and charged at the girls with incredible speed, head on into a flurry of compressed wavelength slices and notes, slashing at then causing them to explode and send them backwards.
"Give up, you can't beat these often riffs!" Petra yelled as she played Lyra with ease.
"We'll see about that..." The boy said in a serious and threatening tone, "We shall see..."
Authors Note: Well guys I'm back from vacation, and here is the latest chapter hope you like it, a lot of effort was put into this, and if you don't think it's awesome well then let me know, but remember it's hard to get back on track when you've been home a day(I know, no excuses). Anyway I'd like to say that the two new characters, Petra and Lyra, are based off of really good friends of mine(yes I base my characters off of real people, hence Kai is a version of myself, and I actually know someone as obsessed with horses as Bella who she is based off of) who happen to have some fanfictions, and they are great writers. their names are VioletDawn00, and Geneva38. Seriously check them out, you'll love them. Anyway so that's it for now, as always leave a comment or PM telling me if you liked it or didn't and be sure to favourite, Until the next update guys :P