Chapter 22: Preparations
Kai and Justin walked up the steps to the DWMA. Justin dragged himself up the final few flights due to the combined attack at the Vesania sanctuary. He looked up at Kai who was silent the entire way home and was a few flights of stairs higher than him. After a few more moments of awkward silence they both reached the top. Kai scanned the area and noticed three people walking towards him and Justin, as they moved closer he recognized them as Scitus, Carta, and Darman.
"Well if it isn't the welcoming." Kai joked as him and Justin approached the three. They were staring Kai down coldly, the rage in they're eyes being waved off as Kai stared at them right back.
"You are coming with us...NOW!" Scitus said, his voice cracked due to the anger he was trying to keep from coming out.
"You have a lot of explaining to do." Darman added as he turned around and began to walk into the academy. The trek to Lord Death's room was long awkward. As they walked in and made their ways through the guillotines, Kai looked up at the raised platform that had Lord Death, Spirit, Stein, Marie, Azusa, Amicus, Sid, and Mifune.
"Hiya Kai, nice of ya to drop in." Lord Death greeted as he waved one of his large hands towards him. His tone pleasantly cheery for the situation at hand.
"Kai Vesania, where did you disappear to?" Azusa asked before Kai could respond. Kai simply looked around the room at everyone that was looking on him. He felt uncomfortable with all the attention but knew he had brought it on himself.
"Tell you what, you get everyone here and I'll explain." Kai responded. Everyone looked around the room puzzled by what he had meant.
"Apprentice..." Mifune began, "What do you mean?" He asked. Justin finally clued into the conversation and understood what Kai had meant.
"Are you sure you want everyone of them?" he asked, Kai didn't bother turning around. He looked at everyone in the room who looked more confused than before.
"Yes , Kid, Black*Star, Maka, Bella, Soul, Petra, Lyra, Tsubaki, Liz, Patty, and get Lamia as well." Kai answered. Everyone glanced around the room, unsure of why they needed so many people. But they were going to find out.
1 1/2 hour later
"Why are we here?" Kid asked, the sound of worry was noticeable in his voice. Never had their been so many people called into the Death Room at once before.
"I was with my brother." Kai responded. Everyone around the room couldn't believe what they had heard.
"You were hanging out with the enemy?" Bella asked, a little hurt that her partner would do such a thing.
"Let me explain, every year the remaining Vesania family members get together in order to discuss upcoming historical events and how we are going to be a part of it." Kai began everyone had they're attention on him, even Patty was paying attention. " After the meeting that Justin was so idiotic enough to try and break into, Gaia explained to me his plans." Everyone around the room was wide eyed with this information.
"So what are they?" Scitus asked, Kai simply nodded and resumed his explanation.
"Alright, Ruina and Gaia will be assaulting Death City on December 23, and we need to evacuate and prepare for a full scale battle." Kai finished. Everyone glanced around not sure if he was serious or if it was just a bad joke.
"Kai, your being truthful with us...right?" Petra asked, terrified at the prospect of the scale of the battle. Kai simply nodded.
"I'm being very serious, all the civilians will need to be evacuated, defences and traps set, and I'm pretty sure that both NOT and EAT classes will need to participate as the DWMA soldiers won't be enough against an army of clowns with a Kishin and Vesania backing it." Kai responded. All of a sudden he felt as if something had just pierced his skull He fell to the ground and cried in pain everyone looked on in fear not knowing what to do, after all of his information and now this, they where helpless. As Kai looked up his pupils were pure white and blood rolled down his cheeks from his eyes.
"Kai? Are you ok?" Maka asked as she ran towards her boyfriend, only to be stopped by Spirit and Amicus.
"I'm not Kai, I'm..." Kai's body began to speak, his voice was more feral sounding and deeper, but very happy at the same time.
"Malus." Lyra and Petra said at the same thing. A devilish grin appeared on Malus's face at the mention of the name.
"That is correct, I wanted to have a say in the matters." Malus laughed, making everyone feel uneasy in the room. "The battle will be glorious, blood and death everywhere, not to mention the souls..." Malus began to day dream.
"Malus!" Justin yelled snapping him back to reality.
"Right, point is I can't wait." Malus began to speak again, "I've waited so long to stab that Kishin bitch, I'm trembling with anticipation." Malus said as he held out his trembling hand for all to see. Everyone looked around nervously. Just then Malus dropped back down to the ground and began screaming in pain once again. Once he was finished he stood back up revealing his hazel eyes with no trace of blood on his face anymore.
"Sorry guys, I wasn't expecting him to make an appearance." Kai apologized. Everyone seemed to realized a bit now that the real Kai had returned.
"That's ok, but for right now I think we should all go and begin our preparations." Lord Death stated, everyone nodded in agreement.
"Lord Death," Azusa spoke up, "I'll take Scitus, Carta, Darman, and Amicus with me and Stein to research battle strategies and figure out away to set traps in the city.
"That sounds fine, go now and report to me with whatever you find." Lord Death responded, Lamia stepped up in front of him.
"Um, Lord Death, I would like to help to, because of what they did to me." She stared at the Grim Reaper with anticipation. The fire in her eyes pierced through Lord Death.
"Of course Lamia, you may help me and Kid evacuate the citizens of Death City and when the battle comes, if you know how to, you can heal any injured." Lamia nodded overjoyed at the fact she'd be able to help. Amicus approached her and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Be careful..." He said before he ran off to the rest of his group, she blushed over his words, nobody had ever told her that.
"Black*Star, Tsubaki," Kai spoke up, they turned towards Kai, "Me, and Bella are going to need a strong sparring partner, care for some practice." Kai grinned. Black*Star smiled and walked towards Kai and shot him a devilish grin.
" You better be ready to face a big star like me." He responded, Kai and Bella looked at each other amused over the challenge of training with Black*Star. It wasn't long before Joe Buttaki and Mifune approached the four students.
"Here or you two, these gauntlets will allow you to Soul resonate even when you aren't in weapon form. Joe explained as the two slipped the steel plate gauntlet on one of their hands, the design on the top was of Lord Death's mask surrounded by three souls. Kai couldn't help but think this was appropriate since he'd be going into battle with Bella and Malus.
"I'll expect you four in the courtyard tomorrow morning." Mifune spoke up. All of them nodded and proceeded to leave the death room.
"Lord Death what about us?" Maka asked.
"Yea it wouldn't be very cool if we didn't do anything too." Soul joined.
"Yes, you two will help Sid and Marie in training the NOT classes in basic and advanced combat." Maka and Soul nodded in understanding and walked away.
"Well Lyra, I guess we better go get training by ourselves in case we meet Gaia again." She stated to her partner.
"Yea, I'd hate to lose to him one again." Lyra stated as they proceeded to leave the death room.
"WAIT!" a voice called out to the two girls.
"huh?" Petra got out before turning around to see Justin running after them. They waited for him to catch up.
"Hey Justin whats up?"Lyra asked, puzzled on why he went a full sprint all the way to catch them.
"I wanted to know, if you and Petra would like to help me train and maybe work with me on the battle field?" Justin asked, as he tried to regain his breath.
"We'd love too." Petra answered as she smiled at him. Her response made Justin jump right up in excitement.
"Awesome, I'll see you tomorrow then." Justin said as he turned around to run back to Lord Death.
"Well someone was quick to answer that question." Lyra teased her meister who was turning red.
"What we worked good as a team!" Petra yelled at her weapon frantically who was now quietly laughing to herself.
"Yea that's the reason." Lyra said as she continued walking.
""Either way this battle will be a tough one." Petra said as she followed behind her weapon. The thought of the upcoming fight hung heavily on everyone's mind. And they all needed to be prepared.
A/N: Hi guys sorry this took so long but I've had a lot of stuff happen that's kept me unable to write. One of them being a surgery me grandfather had and is now recovering from. But now that all that is put behind me and I've fallen back into my daily school routine, you can look forward to new chapters on a much faster scale, and I mean that, seriously I'm almost at a giant ass battle I had planned from the very beginning(with one thing changed thanks to a suggestion from shadowrider89) but enough of my rambling I need to get started on the next chapter so until next time, see ya