Chapter 24: The Battle Of The DWMA/ When Brothers Clash
Maka, Kid, Black*Star, and Petra stood together side by side with their respective partners in weapon form, they looked around at all the other students who had done the same and where set up in a military style fashion. The sound of a approaching down the centre of the group caught their attention. As they turned they saw Bella riding her horse Storm to the front to join the group with two katana's, she unsheathed the one and dropped it. As the sword fell it shifted in an armoured Kai, with Nox sheathed on his back.
"Nice armour." Soul complimented from his Scythe form as he admired the grey steel with dark blue trim, three small spikes that curved upward where on the left outside shoulder plating with a Death mask sigil surrounded by a light blue ring on the shoulder plate right beside where his heart would be, and the same symbol on both his gauntlets. The armour was sleek and clean and fit well.
"Hm, thanks..." Kai said as he looked at the battlefield, he could already feel the army of clowns moving in with Ruina and Gaia. "Soul, you take care of her." Kai said as he turned to look at his girlfriend and her weapon.
"Will do." Soul replied
On The Courtyard Of The DWMA
"So are you two ready?" Azusa asked Darman and Amicus who were approaching the side of Lord Death. Spirit, Justin, Azusa, Marie, Stein, Scitus, Carta, Lamia, Mifune, and Sid watched the demon deck pair with somber eyes.
"Yes, were ready, we took all the precautionary measures." Darman responded as Amicus shifted into his card form.
"I hope you two are prepared, only a select few have been able to resonate with me." Lord Death warned the two boys as they prepared themselves.
"Let's do it!" Amicus yelled from Darman's hand, Lamia shed a tear and wanted to speak up and stop them, but knew that they hhad to do this.
"CHAIN RESONANCE!" Darman, Amicus, and Lord Death yelled. Darman and Amicus began to glow with a yellow light that they were getting from Lord Death's soul indicating the resonance was working. As their power began to surge Darman dropped to the ground and both yelled out in excruciating pain.
"Somebody stop this!" Lamia yelled out as she heard the two continue to scream in agony, as the meisters body wanted to contort into an unnatural position.
"No!" Darman yelled out as he began to get used to sensation. It took ten minutes till he was able to stand from the sheer force of the power they were receiving from Lord Death.
"Are you ready?" Scitus asked the two who had just gotten back to their feet. Darman nodded and jumped in the air, and remained to levitate with the help of Lord Death's soul. Amicus began to glow with a brilliant light as Darman began setting his cards around the battlefield and town. Everyone watched and felt the earth tremor as with each card that touched a large group of buildings, they sunk down into the ground until the only building was the DWMA itself.
"How long can they stay like that?" Spirit asked to nobody in particular. Stein stepped forward to get a better look.
"As long as they can." Stein answered grimly, his response sent shivers down every bodies spines. Lamia peered out and and adopted a worried look on her face. She pointed out to the distance. everyone followed her finger to were she was pointing, and sure enough, the kishin's army was now in site.
Back On The Field
Everyone looked out to the army of clowns with it's kishin leader hovering above it with black skeletal wings she chose to sport, 200 yards away from the the DWMA's army. A lone armoured figure began to walk to the centre of the armours, a figure that Kai knew all to well.
"Oh look, if it isn't our dear brother." Malus joked sadistically inside Kai's head. He turned up towards Darman who had found the blood meister, and nodded indicating it was time to put their plan in action.
"Kid, Maka, Black*Star, and Petra follow me, but be don't do anything until you get the signal." Kai ordered as if he was a military general, "Bella, keep me sane as best you can, I don't need Malus losing control until later." Kai finished, Bella nodded sadly.
"I'll find you as soon as shit starts going down ok." Bella stated, Kai agreed to her statement and began to walk forward. "Soul, please be careful..." She pleaded as Maka and the others began to follow.
"I will..." Soul responded.
Kai looked up at Darman and made a motion with his hand as if he was telling him to follow. Darman threw one of Amicus's soul cards onto the group and everyone but Kai turned invisible. As Kai walked he began to soul resonate with Bella through the gauntlet that Joe had made them, much to Malus's disapproval. It wasn't long before the two brothers were looking each other face to face. Kai scanned his brothers black armour with red trimming and glowing red kishin eyes on his chest plate, with Whirlwind sheathed on his side.
"Hello Gaia..." Kai greeted in a hostile tone, Gaia grinned at his brother.
"Kai, it's been so long, are you ready to join us now?" Gaia joked, however his younger brother was not amused.
"No, but I'm ready to stop you and Ruina." Kai responded, Gaia simply scoffed at his brothers remark.
"Oh please, nobody has to get hurt if you join us, at least today that is." Gaia offered one more time, Kai shook his head no as he drew Nox from it's sheath.
"I will never join you and that power obsessed bitch." Kai stated as he readied himself.
"Very well, have it your way brother!" Gaia yelled as he drew Whirlwind, however instead of attacking Gaia snapped with his free hand and four clowns jumped into the air and began to dive towards Kai. Gaia laughed but was silent the moment he realized that the clowns never reached their destination. He slowly turned to see three floating kishin eggs.
"But how..." Was all Gaia could let out before he heard Kai snap with one of his hands. On cue Darman, retracted his card, and Kid, Maka, Black*Star, and Petra were surrounding Gaia on all sides. They proceeded to attack him but he jumped out of the way avoiding the attack, only to be followed by a darkness charged Kai. The wind began to quicken as Gaia went to try and strike his brother, as the two swords connected their blades, a large wave of darkness and wind swept the armies, sending them into a frenzy. Both sides began to charge each other with meisters taking out clowns, and clowns overwhelming meisters.
Kai and Gaia continued their flurry of strikes with their elements charged through their blades. Both unfazed the chaos around them. Gaia's ferocity increased as Kai began to cause him to lose ground. Gaia swung wildly at Kai who began to parry and dodge as best he could, desperate to turn the situation, Kai allowed Gaia to cut his hand and proceeded to spread the blood on Nox's blade.
"Am I allowed to come out now, this battle looks like so much fun!"" Malus asked, wanting his turn in the battle.
"Not yet!" Kai yelled out, Kai swiped his sword through the air sending droplets of charged blood towards Gaia he did his best to evade, but the effort was pointless as the droplets exploded with Kai's soul force.
"Those fucking blood bombs!" Gaia complained as he got back up, Kai smiled and began to strike at his brother who was now suspended in the air thanks to his wind aura,
"Legacy Blood Strike!" Kai yelled as his blade began to glow red with the blood resonance, after the strike was thrown the blood on the blade reverted back to the normal red lightning that it donned during the resonance. Gaia threw an air slash towards Kai in order to break the oncoming strike.
"Gale Force!" Gaia yelled as he jumped in the air and dived towards Kai, who was thrown from the impact. As he tried his best to stand up he noticed that him and his brother had fought so intensely, he hadn't realized that they were no longer surrounded by the armies, and were completely cut off from support, and he was getting very fatigued.
"Give up Kai, you can't defeat me!" Gaia gloated as Kai tried to regain his balance.
"No...I...Won't...Give up!" Kai yelled as he ran towards his brother, his energy being worn down by his blood resonance. Gaia laughed and stepped aside and hit Kai on the back sending the worn out combatant to the ground.
"I guess Alexis should have taught you how to manage that energy draining blood resonance." Gaia said as he kicked his brother in the side as he tried to get up. Kai couldn't help but feel weak, he felt guilty he didn't pace himself and drove his resonance to the point where he was exhausted already.
"Kai, let me loose, I can end this and you know it!" Malus yelled, Kai shook his head.
"No, he's my brother, I'm going to stop him!" Kai yelled back, not wanting to give in to Malus's offer, as tempting as it was.
Perhaps, I'll leave your soul for Ruina to devour since you left our parents souls for the DWMA." Gaia taunted as he sent a whirlwind blast towards his brother sending him a couple feet into the air before crashing back down. Kai simply laid on his back, with his eyes shut, trying to gasp for air and find enough energy to get back up.
"You...wouldn't..." Kai barely mumbled, to his vile brother as he approached him.
"True, after all, I did want you alive," Gaia stated, he though to himself for a minute and smiled wickedly, "Perhaps I'll give Ruina your friends souls, especially that girl your so fond of...Maka." Gaia laughed.
With that threat Kai's eyes flew open and were pure white but aside from his greyed out irises with blood running down his cheeks as if he was crying blood, he stood up and sent Gaia flying into the air. The kishin's assassin made himself levitate once again as he looked down at his brother with fear in his eyes.
"No, not Malus!" Gaia yelled, scared that his brothers insane personality came out.
"Nope it's still me Gaia!" Kai yelled as he pointed Nox towards his brother. Gaia was confused as to how Kai had so much power, but hadn't gave in to Malus. "You see Malus and me came to an understanding, even he knows you don't mess with Maka!"
"So he let you have your full power then?!" Gaia asked, his voice trembled with fear.
"I think he's got it, but remember I'm feeling generous cause I want my turn, so this is a one time thing!" Malus spoke through Kai's voice, and with that Kai jumped into the air and grabbed his terrified brother by the throat and threw him down to the ground. Kai began to send wave after wave of blood and darkness attacks to Gaia who was being pushed back from the sheer force.
"What's wrong Gaia, can't fight your little brother when he has a cut!" Kai yelled as he sent even more strikes towards Gaia who was barely parrying and dodging. "Does this form of me scare you!" Kai continued as he fell to the ground and charged his brother. A powerful force of darkness mixed with blood exploded as Nox made contact with Whirlwind. Gaia fell back onto the ground as Kai eventually hit Whirlwind out of his hand. Gaia looked towards his brother who had Nox's blade right in his face as his resonance wore off.
"You've lost." Kai told him, Gaia simply nodded and got to his knees.
"Make it quick..." Gaia told his brother as he shut his eyes and awaited for the finishing blow. Kai smiled as he walked behind his brother. Instead of striking him down, he hit him on the head with Nox's Tsuba, hard enough to knock Gaia out.
"What are you doing!" Malus yelled at Kai for not killing his brother. As Kai began to run towards the clashing armies that have thinned out do to multiple losses on both sides, he wiped the blood of Nox and began looking round for Bella.
"Sorry Malus, but I won't kill my only brother." Kai responded. As Kai ran through the battlefield, he saw Kid flying around on Beezlebub in his soul resonance with Liz and Patty taking out clowns from above, and Darman and Amicus activating their trap cards. Eventually he found Bella riding through the battlefield on Storm taking out clowns and sending NOT class students back to the DWMA to regroup. She saw Kai and rode toward him. Kai jumped up and turned into his Katana form as Bella caught him by his handle.
"So how'd things go with Gaia." Bella asked as she proceeded to use Kai to slice up a clown from the back of Storm.
"Oh you know, you felt like taking a nap afterwards." Kai joked, Bella simply shook her head.
"Of course he did." She responded as she cut up a few more clowns. "So how about I bring you to Lamia so you can be back to 100%, cause you know who is probably going to get involved soon." She suggested.
"Good plan, blood resonance and Gaia wore me out, Malus wanting to come out didn't help either." Kai responded, "Just take the long way so you can still use me though." He finished, Bella smiled as she turned Storm around and began to make her way towards the DWMA.
Above The Battlefield
Ruina watched as her army of clowns numbers were thinning out quicker than the DWMA's. She looked around for Gaia but could not find him anywhere among the two clashing sides.
"Oh well..." Ruina sighed as she took one last look over the the war torn ground. "I guess I will have to get my hands dirty." She said as she made her way down to the DWMA's side. She began ravaging the meisters with her madness of power wavelength. Every meister that approached her, she swatted away like a bug, not even bothering to use the hookblades on her back between her wings.
"This is so bor-" Ruina began before being sliced in the side, the metal of the weapon hitting her skin made a loud clanging sound as if her skin was pure steel. She looked up at her attacked who was far stronger than the others. She looked the boy over who had a star on his shoulder with spiky blue hair, a ninja outfit, and a chain scythe weapon partner.
"You, you're different,." Ruina said as she looked the boy over. She heard him say something to his partner who shifted into a black Katana with shadows creeping onto his face. "Who are you?" She asked in a curious tone.
"I'm your destroyer kishin!" The boy said in a loud and obnoxious voice, "I'm the assassin that will surpass gods, my name...is Black*Star!"
A/N: Hey guys, so we're finally into the battle scene...awesome. I hope you enjoyed Kai and Gaia's little fight, and isn't Malus so considerate to let Kai borrow his power when Maka was threatened. Plus Ruina is now in the equation, that's cool, we'll see how Black*Star handles that. Anyways hope you enjoyed this, please feel free to review or PM me with anything about the story if you'd like. I'll probably have the next chapter up soon, cause I'm really excited to write the next one. So yeah, until next time, see ya later. :)