Chapter 26: Ruina v.s. Everyone( )/ Ultima Kai?
Bella ran up the stairs to where the Death Scythes, the professors, and Lord Death were viewing the battle and trying to come up with tactical plans along with Scitus and Carta that were sharing their wealth of knowledge through their soul resonance. Bella watched in awe as Scitus scanned through the pages of the Grimoire that was Carta in weapon form. It took amount for Mifune to look up and notice Bella standing at the edge of the courtyard.
"What is it?" her partners master asked in his normal tone, not concerned with the chaos that was going on down below.
"Stein sent me up here to say "it's time." What ever that means?" Bella relayed the message while questioning what it meant at the same time. Everyone looked around and nodded at each other in agreement over Stein's choice.
"Very well, who's going to deliver the serum?" Azusa asked as she scanned the group for anyone suitable. It wasn't long before Justin stepped in front of the group, volunteering himself. "Are you sure about this Justin?" Azusa questioned as she reached into a black case that was on the table they had gathered around. She pulled out a vile of what looked like black liquid and an injector that was designed to go off when the tip touched skin with force.
"I will do this for my Lord Death, to protect his righteous school! And someon-" Justin yelled proudly, until he started to mumble to himself about something.
"What was that?" Spirit asked as he looked at Justin a little cautious of his secrecy.
"Nothing, just let me go and serve you, my lord." Justin countered as he bowed before the shinigami. Azusa presented him with the injector and vial and he made his way down to the battle. Bella looked around at the group he became very solemn over what they had just done.
"Are you guys that worried about Justin?" She asked, completely oblivious to the situation. Marie looked at the young sword meister she had brought to the academy.
"No, listen Bella, you're going to need to stop soul resonating with Kai now..." The kind death scythe spoke in a calming, motherly voice. Bella looked around confused once again.
"Why, does this have anything to do with what Stein said? What was that vial filled with?" She asked, almost angry from the secrets that were being kept from her. She looked around everyone, including Lord Death was silent.
"A weapon..." Scitus spoke up, "A weapon that only Kai can use." Scitus as he began sharing his knowledge again with the group.
"What will this weapon do, what is it?" Bella continued to pester without catching on.
"If only Kai can use it what do you think it is?" Azusa asked her in a cold manner, "It's blood, of everyone you know, that way he can blood resonance and use all of your friends abilities." She finished explaining. Bella was speechless.
Down on the battlefield
Petra and Lyra were surrounded by clowns, with nobody left in site. The two of them against the ten of them. Petra simply prepared to play Lyra to attack once again, she wasn't worried, which was off putting to the clowns.
"So..." Lyra asked from her weapon form, "You know Numb by Linkin Park?" Lyra asked, she was amused with the question.
"Yup!" Petra yelled as she began to play the guitar parts of the song. As she played, her wavelength danced in the form of the notes she was playing around the clowns, the notes of her wavelength were as powerful as the song was. The biggest smile was on Petra's face as she finished the song, and destroyed the clowns. "Damn I love that song!" Petra yelled out, drawing more clowns towards her and away from a nearby group of NOT students.
"See look what you do when you yell." Lyra said in a sarcastic tone.
"What yelling worked when you made me play, and sing, Bodies." Petra joked, they both began to laugh, however a clown caught them off guard and jumped at them. The girls prepared for a close quarters combat until the clown burst into it's soul, as did the others, the small explosions from their deaths knocked Petra off her balance. As she fell back, she dropped Lyra.
She prepared herself for a quick escape for when she hit the ground as she knew that any clowns that saw her would swarm her instantly. However the ground never came, she had been caught, when she looked up to see who it was, she was greeted with Justin's smiling face.
"Hey need some help for a bit?" He asked her as she helped her to regain her balance, she held on until she was able to stand on her own.
"Thanks, sure, know any good songs?" Petra asked, completely forgetting Lyra on the ground, much to her partners annoyance.
"What do you mean?" Justin asked, very confused by what she meant. Petra giggled at him for his reaction to her question.
"It's a game me and Lyra play when we fight." She explained, as she finally realized she hadn't had retrieved Lyra yet.
"Hey I got one!" the guitar yelled as her meister walked over to pick her up. "How about...Can you feel the love tonight?" Lyra chuckled to herself. Justin and Petra's faces began to turn red with embarrassment. Their attentions were quickly drawn when they saw Kid flying over head with Ruina on his tail.
"Think we should go help him out?" Petra asked the other two in a worried tone for Kid's well being.
"Yeah, let's go!" Lyra replied immediately. Justin nodded in agreement as he pulled out the vial.
"Come on, I'm sure that Kai will regroup with Kid to fight the kishin, and he'll need this." Justin explained, both Petra and Lyra nodded in understanding and the three made their way to distract the kishin.
In The Air
"She really doesn't give up does she?" Liz complained as Kid kept dodging the incoming blasts of her wavelength.
"You should beat her up sis!" Patty yelled as enthusiastic as ever, barely having any clue as to what was going on around her.
"Thanks Patty, but I would like to live." Liz responded without much joy in her voice. "Hey Kid why isn't your dad helping?" Liz asked out of curiosity as to why Lord Death hadn't joined the fight yet.
"Um..." Kid began to think back to the conversation he had before he departed to Maka and Soul's before the battle.
"Ah thanks for coming kiddo!" Lord Death said as cheery as ever to his son as he approached him.
"Hello father, what did you want to see me about?" Kid asked out of curiosity, he looked around the room to find that they were completely alone. "And where are your Death Scythes?"
"I told them to leave and get some rest, are Liz and Patty hear?" Lord Death asked as he began looking around for the twin sisters.
"No, they left for Maka and Soul's already." Kid responded neutrally.
"Excellent, you see Kid, I'm put in kind of a situation here..." Lord Death began as he began to move to look into his mirror. Kid looked at his father with concern.
"What do you mean?" The young shinigami asked in curiosity.
"You see Kid, the kishin is a girl...and I can't bring myself to hit a girl, kishin or not..." Lord Death admitted as he turned around to face his son with his mirror to his side.
"You're not serious are you? You reaper chop lots of girls." Kid responded to his father. Lord Death tilted his head down slightly.
"Yea only for punishment, and even then I hold back on girls...I just can't bring myself to fight one, it's not very gentlemanly." Lord Death countered his son. Without a moments notice Kid began to ramble on and on about how a grim reaper shouldn't bend the rules just because someones a boy or a girl.
Lord Death listened for five minutes before coming to the conclusion that Kid wasn't going to let it go. Lord Death could only think of one way to stop Kid from his lecture. He placed his large hand to the side of the mirror and began to push it out of centre. Kids eyes shot open as he watched in horror at what his father was doing.
"There we go, don't you think the mirror looks better seven inches to left of center." Lord Death teased as he made his way past a paralysed Kid that had fallen to the ground in a mental break down."Don't stay at your friends house to late Kiddo, you'll need your rest, and please keep my secret." The reaper said joyfully as he made his way down the hall to head back to Gallows manor.
"Kid?...Kid!?" Liz yelled, breaking Kid from his traumatic memory. "Well, why isn't Lord Death gonna help?" She asked one more time, her voice sounded very annoyed.
"He...said that I had to do this on my own since he dealt with Asura on his own!" Kid quickly answered Liz, who seemed to buy into the lie.
"Whatever..." Liz relented and went back to being terrified of the wavelength blasts that were whizzing by Kid's head.
"Don't worry guys, beside it looks like we have some back up." Kid smiled gratefully as he looked to the ground all around him to see Maka, Soul, Justin, Petra, Lyra, and Kai approaching his position quickly.
As each team arrived Kid turned around and began blasting Ruina. She just barely dodged the Law abiding silver gun attack that Justin sent at her, and the music notes that Petra had sent with Lyra. The kishin couldn't keep up with the attacks that were being dealt to her from all sides. They were actually hurting her.
"Keep it up guys!" Kid yelled as he looked down towards the ground party. He turned his head to see Maka and Soul coming up quickly, with Kai still a little ways away.
"You DWMA pests!" Ruina yelled as she began to turn and attack the ground group who was keeping her from being able to counter any of Kid's attacks. She sent a huge sphere of condensed wavelength to the ground that sent the death scythe and the guitar meister off their feet. Petra got up swiftly and began playing Lyra once more, as Kid moved back into range. Justin struggled getting up since the force of the blow had knocked him into a sharp piece of metal that had impaled his left arm when he landed.
"Come on, play me a song music girl!" Ruina yelled wickedly as she made point blank distance to Petra in a matter of a second. She grasped the guitar meister by the neck and began to choke her. All she could do is gasp for air as Lyra screamed in horror, unable to do anything to help her meister.
"Petra!" Justin yelled out in a rage as he heard Lyra's screaming. He managed to find the Kishin that was slowly squeezing the life out of her, Justin could make out that she was in a lot of pain, and saw tears rolling down her face. "Law Abiding Silver Gun!" Justin yelled as he sent a random shot from his arm towards the kishin that cut off some of her hair. Petra fell to the ground and gasped for breath and coughed violently.
"You son of a bitch!" Ruina yelled as she threw multiple spheres at Justin who could only brace for the impact. "You never touch my hair!" Ruina screamed as she hurled one more blast towards the death scythe. Justin watched as the sphere hurdled toward him.
"Not today you don't!" a girls voice yelled as she jumped in front of the sphere and batted it away with her Scythe. Maka and Soul had arrived.
"Justin, you ok?" Soul yelled towards the guillotine. Justin did his best to remove the piece steel that was keeping him from helping any further.
"More or less, where's Petra?" Justin yelled back. His tone suggested he was more concerned for her than himself, and he was.
"She's going to be ok, Kid just quickly grabbed her and is bringing her to the medical tent." Maka responded for her partner. Justin smiled and shut his eyes in an attempt to try and regain some strength.
"So you're the Kishin killer aren't you?" Ruina questioned, slightly amused, and in a better mood.
"Yes I am, and I'm gonna add you to my list!" Maka responded as she charged Ruina. Ruina simply side stepped and hit Maka in the side, causing her to fall into a pile of debris. As she rose she ran once again and swung rapidly at the kishin, who merely dodged every single one of her attacks before hitting her in the back and sending her flying into debris again, as her stomach hit the pile she got o her knees and coughed up blood..
"Wow, Asura must've been weaker than I thought if your the one who killed him." Ruina mocked as Maka turned onto her back, already out of breath from girl that stood before her. "And here I thought that he was a good role model, but clearly that's not the case." She said as she drew her hook blades again and aimed them at Maka's heart.
"She is stronger than she looks." a cold voice said from behind Ruina. She turned to see Kai standing their with Nox in hand, and his darkness aura activated.
"Well, if it isn't the love of my life, how are you darling?" Ruina teased the blood meister. He just stood their silent and watched her. "Clearly, you haven't learned good social skills yet." Ruina commented due to Kai's silence.
"No I just choose to be silent now...so are you gonna fight me or not!?" Kai yelled as he raised Nox into a defensive position as he cut his hand and spread the blood on the blade, activating his blood resonance.
"Well someone's in quite the hurry to get his ass kicked." Ruina Responded. Without hesitation, she ran towards Kai and slashed her hookblades at him, as Nox's blade collided with Ruina's blades, he was thrown back by the sheer power she had channelled into the blades.
IT wasn't long before She just began slashing the air and sending her wavelengths towards him. Time and time again, Kai slashed a mixture of blood strikes and shadow slashed to counter the blows. He was getting tire again, with each strike he sent out, he could feel more and more of his energy leaving him from the effects of the blood resonance, and the constant use of his aura.
"What are you doing, dodge you idiot!" Malus yelled at Kai, who immediately began to dodge each slash and get into suitable cover.
"This isn't going as planned!" Kai yelled to himself, "She wasn't supposed to be this strong!" he continued to yell in frustration.
"Dammit, let me out, I'll fight her!" Malus demanded. Kai without hesitation, let his insane self take control of his body.
"Come on why won't you fight!" Ruina yelled as she charged Kai to hit him directly with her blade again, to her surprise he kicked her in the stomach and knocked her to the ground. The kishin looked up at Kai who's eyes were pure white, with blood streaming down his cheeks from his eyes and the corners of his mouth.
"Come here you kishin bitch!" Malus yelled out as he ran towards her. Now Ruina was on the defensive, but was barely breaking a sweat.
"She's not looking like she's about to lose!" Kai yelled at Malus who kept on wildly slashing at the kishin.
"I know, I'm trying my best!" Malus replied out loud, causing Ruina to question who he was talking to now. This was their chance, Malus managed to swipe Ruina across her face with the tip of Nox.
"Ha ha! Got you!" Malus yelled like a child. Ruina lifted her hand to her face and felt the warm crimson liquid that slowly seeped out and fell into her eyes.
"You ass-hole! No what, screw it!" Ruina yelled as she began to charge up a large sphere, both Kai and Malus looked at her in fear of what she was doing.
"Kishin Hunter!" Maka yelled as she jumped into the air and slashed through her attack. Ruina was surprised to see her back up.
"Maka get out of here!" Malus and Kai both yelled at the same time. Instead of heeding their advice she tried to follow through with the attack, only for Ruina to punch her in the gut and send both her and Soul flying into a debris pile close to Justin's who was still incapacitated. But now so was Maka. Kai regained control and rushed over to Maka, he held her in his arms with tears in his eyes. "Why didn't you listen...she was to strong..." Kai said regretting that he wasn't able to stop her.
"Oh no did I hurt the kishin killer?" Ruina mocked Kai, as she watched him gaze into her unconscious face. Soul shifted back into his human form and joined his meister on her other side, trying to think of a way to wake her up. "You know you can still join me, and be happy with me." Ruina offered once more, however she was met with silence. "Fine stay with her and die!" Ruina yelled out as she jumped into the air and sent a slash towards the three.
"I don't think so!" A male's voice yelled out. Just before the slash hit the group someone had stopped it, they all turned to see who their saviour was, all their faces turned to one of shock.
"Gaia..." Kai responded, amazed at what his brother had done.
"Ruina, you said, you'd keep him alive, yet you tried to kill him! Our deal is off!" Gaia yelled towards his former employer.
"Go help your brother, I'll bring Maka to the infirmary and send someone for Justin, she'll need critical care immediately." Soul told Kai, he simply nodded and pulled himself together,
"Here take this, I took it off the priest." Gaia told his little brother as he handed him the vial and injector that Justin was originally supposed to give him. Without hesitation, Kai put the vile in the injector and stabbed himself in the wrist on a vein with it. Immediately Kai's soul expanded around him as he began to use his soul resonance once more. As he reached into the serum inside his blood, his soul began to change into various traits of the people who allowed him to use their blood. Light blue sanzu lines appeared and hovered an a half-inch away from his hair, his white eyes now had light blue stars as irises, his blood changed from red to black, and one thousand swords appeared around the blood meister. He waved his hand and called the swords behind him to form a pair of wings made out of the soul swords. His soul went back to being translucent except for the parts that had defined themselves do to their power.
"Well, that's a drastic change." Gaia responded as he glanced at Kai. Kai simply grinned.
"I don't care it feels good!" Kai responded as he began to make himself levitate from the wings.
"Can I have a try?" Malus asked, very excited to try out this new body.
"How about we share, you add your power to mine, and then we both get to use it." Kai suggested.
"That was a one time thing though." Malus reminded Kai, who simply shrugged off his answer, "But I guess just this one more time couldn't hurt." Malus grinned wickedly. The black blood began to fall from Kai's star clan eyes indicating that he was now fully powered.
Without hesitation, Kai and Gaia jumped towards Ruina and began to strike her as a team. Strike after strike, Ruina couldn't keep up with both Gaia and Kai. Whenever Kai slashed, Gaia tried stabbing, whenever Gaia sent a whirlwind, Kai through soul swords at her. She couldn't keep up.
"Will you two piss off!" Ruina yelled in frustration as she blocked another one of Kai and Gaia's joint attacks.
"Nope!" They they both responded at the same time. Gaia and Kai charged Ruina and Locked their blades into hers, the brothers had a hard time trying to fight the power wavelength Ruina was channelling, but Ruina couldn't take their powers together. AS they broke free Kai and Gaia returned to the ground while Ruina remained floating.
"Kai you think you can use any of your friends abilities?" Gaia turned to ask. Kai shook his head regretfully.
"I can't my soul isn't strong enough to try a dig through the serum for an attack, not yet anyways, all I can do is borrow their strength. " Kai explained, Gaia understood and they both jumped back towards Ruina again. More slashing and stabbing, and aura/blood attacks kept Ruina on guard constantly, and she was getting tired. She had to kill one of them, then the other wouldn't be so difficult. As another whirlwind hit Ruina Kai blasted her down with a legacy blood blast, as she fell she opened her eyes to see Soul running with Maka to the infirmary.
"Hey Kai, say good bye to your girlfriend!" Rina laughed as she launched a power sphere towards Soul, instinctively Kai dived after the ball in order to stop the attack. Leaving Gaia on his own. Gaia continued to clash with Ruina on his own but without his brother, he had no chance.
"Soul look out!" Kai yelled ass he pushed Soul and Maka out of the way of the attack.
"Thanks, I owe you one." Soul stated, Kai nodded and turned back to rejoin his brother. As he got closer he saw that Gaia was struggling. As Kai began to fly as fast as he can, what he saw next shocked him. Ruina hooked her blades onto Gaia's hilt and managed to toss his sword away, then in one swift movement, Gaia's throat met Ruina's blade. Kai could only watch in horror as his brother plummeted to the ground
"GAIA!" Kai yelled as he flew towards his brothers landing site. He knelt beside his brother as he coughed up blood. The large pool of red around them was getting larger by the second. "Gaia I'm sorry I had too..." Kai apologized as tears began to fall from his eyes.
"Don't...be...you've...made...the right...choice..." Gaia smiled despite the pain. The blood was flowing out even quicker now, Kai felt as helpless as he did when he was under his parents care, but this was a lot worse. "I'm...sorry...Kai...I'm...proud of...you" Gaia managed to finish before his body dissipated into his soul. Kai looked at the floating soul in the middle of the blood pile, it wasn't a kishin egg as he thought, but a redeemed soul, Gaia had redeemed himself.
"Wow your friends and family really like to drop like flies, huh?" Ruina taunted him, admiring the fresh red on the edge of her blade.
"Shut up!" Kai yelled back, his voice was loud with rage. Ruina looked at him from the sky and laughed at him. Without thinking Kai grabbed his brothers redeemed soul in his hands.
"Kai, what are you doing?" Malus questioned, even he wasn't sure what was running through his own mind right now.
"You want to fight, I'll give you a fucking fight!" Kai screamed towards the kishin, without any hesitation Kai ate Gaia's soul.
The second he swallowed his soul exploded far beyond anything that he has felt before, a hidden and dangerous power he felt awaken within him clawed at his insides and tried it's best to burst out. Kai's soul changed to one that was just under the size of Death City, but still larger than Ruina's. He heard the word fear play in his head over and over again. His wounds closed up yet the blood resonance stayed intact, the Ultima serum now locked inside Kai's body along with the kishin powers that were waiting to be used for the first time. As his transformation completed an eye of Asura appeared on his forehead, completing his transformation.
"Oh no..." Ruina thought to herself as she gazed upon the new born Kishin who simply looked up towards her. After a moment Kai smiled and slit both his wrists with Nox so black blood that was infused with his new wavelength crept to the surface.
"Now that I levelled the playing ground, we'll see what you do." Kai grinned wickedly.
Back At The DWMA
All the injured that were up and moving watched as the strange orb expanded rapidly, and with it a sense of fear. Kid, Soul with Maka in his arms still, Lyra, Stein, Bella, Mifune, Lord Death and the Death Scythes except for Justin, watched from the courtyard at the great increase and power to the level of a god, much like Lord Death's.
"What the hell is that?" Soul questioned, concerned that whatever he was seeing was bad.
"That's a Kishin soul being born, someone over there has become a full kishin." Lord Death explained, everyone looked around concerned. The silence was uncomfortable, but they had to know.
"Father, who is the new kishin exactly?" Kid asked, fearing the answer.
"Kiddo, you all already know, don't you." Lord Death said as he turned to towards everyone else and stopped his gaze on Mifune, who had his eyes shut in thought.
"Please Lord Death, tell us the name so that we can know for sure..." Lyra asked, Bella nodded in agreement, hoping that one name didn't come from behind his mask.
"Fine the kishin is..." Lord Death began, only to have his attention stolen by Maka who had just barely opened her eyes and looked at the new kishin soul.
"Kai..." Maka barely spoke as she fell back into unconsciousness with a smile on her face. Nygus arrived and took Maka to the infirmary inside the DWMA while the rest stayed and watched the soul. All they could think about was how Kai was going to use his new found power, and horrors it could inflict on the world.
A/N: Hey guys, so that was a fun chapter, had some laughs(I hope), lot's of action, and oh yea, Kai's a Kishin. This'll be fun a fun last two chapters to write after this with his new powers. So thanks to Shadowrider89 for asking me to make Kai a kishin, it was a great addition I thought. But yea almost to the end, so until next time, keep on reading and reviewing, see ya :)