Chapter 27: The Day Gods Die
Ruina stared down at the newborn Kishin as his Soul began to settle down and turn back to being translucent, the only peaces of his soul that remained visible where the effects caused by the
Ultima serum which had been made permanent as of his transformation and the sealing of his wounds. She looked down at him terrified that he had crossed the final step in her plan, but on the wrong side. All he did was stare up at her with a wicked smile, his eyes where normal aside from a crimson red ring that now surrounded Kai's iris's, yet they seemed to pierce right through her, the look on his face sent chills crawling up her spine.
"I've got to say, this power does feel pretty good Ruina, I can't wait to see what I can do." Kai laughed as he began to levitate himself slowly up into the air. He could tell she was terrified the closer he got to her, even still the only word that kept repeating through his mind was fear.
"You're...still not as powerful than me!" Ruina finally managed to spit out after being silent. She calmed herself and prepared herself by putting her hook blades in a defensive position.
"Hmm, we'll see." Kai responded as he pointed Nox in her direction, "Let's see how well you do on even ground." And with that Kai flew towards her at an incredible speed, and swung at Ruina. She barely blocked the hit and staggered backwards from the sheer force of the strike.
"Your power, it's incredible..." Ruina said aloud, Kai smiled as if it was a compliment. "But you still can't fight my madness of power!" She yelled as she threw two condensed wavelength spheres towards Kai, he turned around and began to fly around as the attack tracked him, he looked back amused, he turned around and made his wings fold in front of him just before the spheres made contact.
"You're going to have to do better than that!" Kai yelled towards the opposing Kishin. Ruina grinded her teeth in frustration as she sent multiple smaller spheres towards Kai, who batted them away with Nox's blade.
"Dammit, we'll just piss off already!" Ruina yelled as she sent one more massive sphere towards Kai who retaliated with a darkness slash. Both attacks collided and caused a massive explosion that sent a shock-wave through the air that his the DWMA, causing the large school to tremble from the power of the two combatants.
"My turn Ruina!" Kai yelled as he flew higher into the air, he swung Nox through the air sending darkness slashes, and finishing off the remaining amount of his mortal blood towards her, each hit was blocked easily. As the smoke cleared from Ruina's constant blocking of the powerful attacks, Kai had made the distance between him and her in a matter of seconds under the cover of the strikes. In a swift movement Kai cut his hand and black blood flowed out, he placed the cut hand on Ruina's stomach and sent her flying with a blood blast.
"No, he can't be this strong!" Ruina thought to herself, unable to catch her self in the air. She braced herself and crashed into re-risen buildings of Death City. Kai smiled as he saw her slam through an apartment complex and crash into the street.
"I wonder..." Kai began to ponder as his eyes and soul sanzu lines began to glow dark blue. He tossed Nox into the air and watched as the swords angled itself in front of him with it's blade pointed towards it's target. It began to spin around rapidly as a dark blue sphere began to grow at the tip of the spinning sword, a grin made it's way onto Kai's face as the sphere was as large as him.
"Do it!" Malus yelled from within his mind, breaking through the word fear, only to resume when his other self went silent.
"Death Cannon!" Kai yelled as the sphere exploded, sending a large beam of soul energy on a set trajectory toward Ruina who was struggling to get up. She looked up, only to be knocked down by the borrowed death cannon. As she slowly recovered from the attack she saw Kai grab Nox's blade and hold it like a guitar, as he pretended to strum it, musical notes laced with black blood appeared around Ruina keeping her escaping. "Bloody needle!" Was all she heard before being impaled by the black bloods sudden transformation from a lace on the music notes to long and sharp needle points. "Blood Blast!" Kai yelled the next command, in an instant the music notes and the black blood erupted into a black explosion that propelled the kishin back into the air. She managed to finally regain her balance and remained levitating as her wounds quickly began to heal from her wavelengths regeneration.
"You...I will...kill you!" Ruina yelled as she allowed her soul to swell and consume her. In an instant, she had been overtaken by her wavelength. Her eyes were crimson red and had what appeared like red mist coming from then, with larger wings. "You can't stop me at full power!" Ruina yelled angrily towards the new kishin.
"Well that was unexpected..." Kai thought to himself as he looked at the revitalized Ruina. Malus appeared beside him so Kai could see him as they spoke.
"Well you know we're shit outta luck if you can't figure out how the hell to use your own wavelength right?" Malus asked sarcastically. Kai nodded to answer as his eyes never left Ruina. "Honestly, if we can do that, we should do that." Malus continued.
"Yeah I know, I think I can hold her off for now though, but damn, I hate transformations!" Kai yelled out loud towards Malus.
"Hey, I'm a transformation!" Malus returned annoyed, Kai shook it off and began to analyze his surroundings for a way to end Ruina once and for all. "And please, can you stop that word, fear, from playing in your head any longer, it's annoying the hell outta me."
"I'll get on that as soon as I can stop her." Kai returned, half listening to Malus's complaints. "For now, I'm gonna just engage her head on, cause I doubt my blood resonance attacks, will do much anymore." Kai said as he began charging the powered up kishin, Ruina returned the favour and charged him as well. The two clashed their swords, with Ruina once again having the upper hand.
At The Courtyard
"Those two are going to destroy the city!" Kid yelled in frustration from only being able to watch the battle between the two demons.
""I'm sorry kiddo, but we can only watch and hope that Kai can stop Ruina for us." Lord Death said in an attempt to comfort his son, he placed one of his large hands on Kid's shoulder, only to be brushed off.
"Look Kid, you did your best, but you weren't ready to fight her." Liz added, in her own attempt to get him to calm him down.
"Yeah their isn't much any of us can do now." Soul jumped in, " Besides, he does have your power all we can do is wait."
"But I'm a grim reaper, I should be able to do more than watch as someone else fights my battles!" Kid yelled in frustration. Mifune stepped beside him, everyone present look towards the samurai and waited for his words.
"That's were your wrong, young shinigami, this fight is no longer any of ours." Mifune said in a matter of fact voice. Everyone looked at him puzzled but quiet, and awaited for his explanation. "This fight has been between those two since Ruina's parents introduced Kai's parents and brother to one of Asura's clowns. Since then Ruina had tried to push Kai to become what his parents wanted him to be through, bullying, logic, and even seduction, but all her attempts failed, thus resulting in the deaths of her parents, the clown, and Kai killing his own parents. This fight is one that started long before they were even born." Everyone looked at the wise samurai wide eyed, but his explanation made sense.
"So these two were always destined to have this fight?" Azusa asked, trying to understand the situation more.
"Yes, even if we succeeded in pushing her off, the fight between Kai and Ruina would've been inevitable, one of them will be destroyed." Mifune answered her question to Azusa's satisfaction, Kid was still upset over feeling useless.
"OK, but I should at least be out their to help him..." Kid mumbled to himself, Lord Death watched the battle with everyone else, as Kai was thrown down into buildings, only to come charging back at the powered up Ruina. Their blades clashing caused more shock waves to appear in the air, with a few hitting the school.
"Look kiddo their was once a time when I myself was put into a situation like this, so I know how you feel." Lord Death stated as he watched the battle, everyone turned towards him in awe over the thought of him not being strong enough to join a battle. "I know what you're all thinking, but it was when I was as young as Kid, the fight between those that put me in charge of keeping order in the world, my creators. The only survivors sure were powerful." Everyone was stunned to hear such words from Lord Death, beings of equal and greater strength of the Grim Reaper bewildered them.
"Can I know about this battle father?" Kid asked as he continued watching his friend get hammered through more buildings.
"I think we'd all like to hear about this battle." Lyra spoke up, her interest peaked by the battle.
"Perhaps another time, right now, we need to watch and support our friend." Lord Death finished, everyone excepted his answer as Kai was once again knocked out of the air.
Back At The Battle
"Get it together dammit!" Malus yelled from within Kai's head, breaking through the word fear once again.
"I'm trying!" Kai yelled as he stood up from the rubble, he looked up at Ruina who was laughing at him.
"Well try harder, I'm not gonna die because of you!" Malus yelled again as Kai charged towards Ruina again, only to be back handed away again.
"I'm doing my best, she's to strong!" Kai yelled at himself.
"Can't you weaken her some how, blood bomb, legacy strike, make her feel something to wipe that irritating smile off her face like pain, or fear!" Malus yelled out again in a rage. Just then Kai's eyes went wide with realization.
"I know what our, or my, madness is! At least I think..." Kai said excitedly, Malus materialized in-front of him again.
"Great what is it?" Malus said finally relieved that Kai had an idea.
"Fear, I went Kishin when I was afraid of losing anybody else, kinda the same way that Asura had madness of paranoia because he went kishin because he was paranoid!" Kai explained to his other self.
"Ok well, let's try it, besides then maybe that word will shut the hell up." Malus finished as he dissipated into Kai.
Kai got up and looked at Ruina who was smiling as if she had already won, Kai began to charge her. She prepared too hit him away again only to be confused when he stopped a few feet away from her with his eyes shut.
"What are you doing?" Ruina asked, wanting to know what he was up to.
"Fear..." was all Kai said in response as he opened his eyes, the crimson rings in his eyes seemed to expand outward towards Ruina. In a matter of seconds, Kai shifted from himself to Asura, to Lord Death, to Gaia, to Malus. Ruina began to panic and back away from Kai as he continued to change into the things she feared.
"Kai are you seeing this?" Malus said pleased as he saw the images of Ruina's fears play through their mind.
"Hey Ruina, you look scared of something?" Kai joked as he began to fly towards her slowly.
"Stay back, stay back dammit! You can't be them, they can't hurt me or threaten me anymore!" Ruina cried as her transformation began to fade away back into her previous form.
"Really because I can make that happen!" Kai grinned as he stopped his physical appearance to Ruina stop at Asura. He reached his hand out and sent a katana blade shooting off the top of his fore arm that stopped a centimetre away from Ruina's face that now had tears streaming down it.
"NO!" Ruina yelled as she sent multiple wavelength spheres towards Kai who took all the blasts but was sent farther away from Ruina, as Kai went farther away from her, the more she could calm down and regain her cool.
"I think we need a change of arena...so she can't do that..." Kai thought to himself only for Malus to jump in.
"What are you thinking?" Malus questioned with a devilish grin that was identical to Kai's.
"You'll see, now that I know how to somewhat use my wavelength properly, I wonder at the possibilities, so I'm gonna try something new, and you're going to help." Kai explained to his other self who started to chuckle at the thought.
Kai looked towards Ruina smiling as the illusion he put on her with his wavelength wore off. In one quick swipe, Kai used Nox to slit his own wrists. Ruina looked at him as if he had completely lost it. As Kai sheathed Nox he charged Ruina, who only floated their watching. In a quick movement Kai swung his black blood soaked wrists towards Ruina, the two globs collided with each other and formed a black blood sphere around Ruina, the size of a high school gym. Without any hesitation Kai dove into his own blood, the spectators could no longer see what was happening.
"What the hell?" Ruina said as she looked around, only to see black. In a moment Kai had joined her inside the black sphere.
"Like the new arena, I decided to take a page from our predecessor Asura." Kai smiled as his wavelength kicked in and wrists stopped flowing with the black blood, the whole situation made Ruina feel uneasy. Kai raised his right hand and had his eyes shut.
"Nightmare." Was all he said as his eyes shot open and where pitch black, Ruina began to slowly curl up into a ball out of fear at the things that she was seeing. All that kept playing was a nightmare she had with Kai killing her multiple ways.
"So that's what scares you at night..." Kai thought out loud, allowing the move to finish and leave Ruina weakened.
"Yeah, but it won't happen I'll still beat you, you can't fight me alone!" Ruina yelled towards the other kishin.
"Ah but you see Ruina..." Kai began, as something from behind Ruina began to emerge from the black blood, it took the form of Kai, matching him in both appearance and Ultima serum qualities that he had active. The only differences were the wicked smile, silver hair, grey t-shirt, and pure white eyes that appeared as if they were crying black blood. "Their is not one of me."
"Their is two!" A voice that sounded like Kai's but more sharp and insane sounding said from behind her. She turned to see almost perfect clone of Kai, aside from the notable differences.
"M-Malus?" Ruina asked, even more terrified than she already was.
"In the flesh, or blood, I guess." He bowed to her as if to greet and mock her.
"You ready Malus?" Kai said with his own wicked smile.
"Of course." Malus returned to his other self. At the exact same time they drew their versions of Nox and it began to point towards Ruina and spin once again. Ruina kept shifting her focus from Malus and Kai, unable to figure out who to attack. When the sphere's were at the size Malus and Kai nodded to each other.
"Double Death Cannon!" They yelled at the same time, their attacks both hit Ruina at the same time who cried in pain at the power of both the attacks. When the attacks were finished, she tried to get away by flying to the top of the sphere, only to hit the blood as if it was a brick wall. She turned to see Kai sending soul music notes laced with black blood towards her again, while Malus used Kai's darkness aura to send tendrils in order to hold her in place.
The darkness tendrils held onto her as the music notes hit her and harmed her, The black blood floated in the air were the music notes had been until Kai snapped his fingers and they erupted into a black explosion. Ruina fell to the bottom of the sphere and tried to send her own spheres towards Kai and Malus who simply used their fear wavelength to weaken Ruina and stop the spheres from reaching them. Malus through his Nox into the blood and made a motion with his hand, as if he was flipping a card. When he finished, the blade of his sword shot up from the ground and sent Ruina into the air, only to be brought right back down by Kai sending his thousand sword wings to impale Ruina multiple times.
"You ready to finish this?" Kai asked.
"Sure, it's not as much fun when she's this weak." Malus joked. HE retrieved his Nox and his eyes had black stars appear in his eyes. "Speed Star!" Malus yelled as he hit Ruina at an increased speed. After which he faded back into the blood with a satisfied smile on his face. As Ruina recovered in the air she looked down to see where her attacker had gone.
"Bloody Kishin Hunter!" Kai yelled from behind Ruina, the two combined attacks of his blood strike and Maka and Soul's Kishin Hunter took Ruina by surprise as the Nox's blade that had a solid edge of black blood on it, passed right through her, with Kai having his back to her. "It's done." Kai breathed heavily, relieved that he could rest now. After a moment he cut his hand, allowing the Ultima effects to wear off, and the black blood sphere to dissipate back into him through his cut.
As Ruina turned into her soul, a large explosion of pure power hit Kai in the back, sending the fatigued kishin down into the outskirts of Death City with Ruina's soul. Everyone at the DWMA saw the blood meister/kishin fall from the sphere, Kid and Lamia ran to the edge of the courtyard and both jumped onto Kid's Beelzebub and headed for the impact site without a second thought.
At The Landing Site
Kai breathed heavily as he looked around, he saw that nothing remained of the battle that had just been fought, aside from the few broken buildings. He held up Ruina's soul that had shrunk after the explosion of her wavelength. In one gulp he ate the soul and added her strength to his.
"It's finally...over..." Kai sighed to himself as he shut his eyes to fall asleep. When he opened them he felt rejuvenated for some reason, he looked around to see Kid and Lamia that were tending to his wounds.
"Oh your up, how do you feel, I've never had to use my magic on a kishin before." Lamia asked, concerned that Kai was in pain, or feeling ill.
"I feel fine, thank you." Kai answered as he sat up.
"That was quite a battle you had, what all happened in the black orb that you created? Did the Ultima Serum help you at all" Kid asked, curious as to the final events of the battle. Kai laughed to himself as he figured out a way to answer Kids questions.
"Well Kid thanks to my new power and the serum, I was completely symmetrical, especially with your Death Cannon." Kai chuckled to himself as Kid erupted into a mixture of tears of joy, and random gibberish that was supposed to be words of gratitude. "Listen guys I need two to promise me something." Kai said as he looked at them both seriously.
"Sure Kai, what is it?" Lamia responded as Kid tried to compose himself.
"I can't control my wavelength yet, and I don't want it to get out of control like Ruina's and Asura's, so I'm going away for awhile." Kai explained, both Lamia and Kai looked stunned, "It's better and safer for everyone, so please, just promise to give this to Maka for me." Kai said as he held out a sealed letter.
"What is this?" Kid asked as he looked at the envelope.
"It's something I wrote, just before I went over to Maka and Soul's right before the battle. In case...this happened" Kai explained as he took off his armour and revealed his casual clothes.
"I understand, are you sure you have to go?" Kid asked, hoping that Kai would reconsider.
"I'm sure, I need to learn to control my wavelength so I don't randomly terrify people, or create clowns. I can already tell Lamia is feeling the effects cause her fears are playing right before my eyes." Kai explained as he looked at Lamia who began to shy away from him. As she crawled backwards her hand touched something cool and metallic. As she looked down she saw what her hand had touched
"I see, well I hope you come back, and that I don't have to take your soul." Kid responded, holding out a hand for Kai to shake. The Kishin and Shinigami nodded to each other as a silent good bye, as Kai turned around to begin walking away Lamia ran up to him.
"Put it on till you no longer need it, it'll mask your soul from all of us, and also contain your wavelength." Lamia explained as she placed Ruina's old Kishin eye necklace that had survived the blast into Kai's hand. He smiled and put it on and began to walk away.
"I suppose we should go back now." Kid said as he summoned Beelzebub for both him and Lamia.
Back At The Courtyard
"You think they found him ok?" Soul asked the group who had stuck around. Lord Death and the Death Scythes all left the area to tend to the rebuilding effort. He leaned back onto a wall with Bella in his arms as he looked up towards the sky.
" I don't know, I sure hope so, it's gonna suck being partner-less." Bella joked. The sky slowly became darker and darker.
"You guys think it'll snow for tomorrow, after all, it will be Christmas eve." Lyra asked as she laid on the ground, completely exhausted.
"I think it will, the snow would definitely help lift everyone's spirits." Petra said as she came walking towards the group with her right arm wrapped in bandages.
"Hey look who's up and about." Bella smiled as the guitar meister approached the group.
"Yeah, Black*Star and Tsubaki were still in their tho, don't think they'll be waking up anytime soon."
Petra responded.
"Yeah well, it'll be nice to have some quiet for once." Liz said as she sat against the wall.
"YEA, QUIET WILL BE NICE!" Patty yelled as she jumped up with joy.
"Well it was nice while it lasted." Liz stated after sisters out burst. The group looked to the side to see Darman, Amicus, Scitus, and Carta walking towards them.
"Hey what's up?" Soul asked them as they approached.
"Well we wanted to commend you all on your bravery." Scitus explained as he looked towards the group, stopping at Lyra who smiled towards him. He simply smiled back and let Carta finish.
"It's not everyday you fight a kishin." Carta finished, Soul, Liz, and Patty laughed.
"I guess you could say Kishin is our speciality." Soul joked.
"You guys haven't seen Lamia anywhere have you?" Amicus asked, his body language suggested to everyone that he was worried.
"He's been like this ever since we woke up in the infirmary." Darman added, somewhat annoyed with his partners infatuation with the witch. Almost on cue Kid and Lamia returned with sad expressions on their faces.
"Hey guys how was it? Where is Kai?" Soul asked on behalf of the group. Lamia broke into tears and ran into Amicus's arms. Kid looked around and pulled out the envelope.
"He's gone...when will Maka be waking up?" Kid asked in a somber tone.
"She'll be up tomorrow morning was Stein's best guess." Soul answered, "Why what is it?"
"Kai, won't be coming back for awhile..." Kid gave in and told them.
"Ok, well let her have Christmas Eve, then tell her." Bella suggested, wanting Maka to celebrate.
"Good Idea. We should all probably go make our preparations, it'll be a hard Christmas." Kid stated. Everyone nodded and walked to their homes, a feeling of sadness in their hearts to keep them company on the way.
A/N: Alright, so Kai and Malus working together as separate people was a thing, and then Kai left. All that's left now is the epilogue for me to write and this story is done. It's been fun writing it and I hope for a first fanfic, it was really well written. So yeah, prob later I'm gonna right the epilogue cause it's 3:06am as I'm writing this, but if you think this is the last of the series with Kai and stuff, I will be making a sequel to this in prob a week or two, maybe even a few days cause I'm excited about it, if you read the chapter ? in this, that's a sneak peek, but I do reserve the right to change that as I please. But yea so I'm not gonna bother with an authors note for an epilogue, since there wouldn't be a point. So I hope you enjoyed the story and will read the next one, Soul Eater: Ghosts Of Madness(Again I may change the name, and if I do, you know what author to look for). So let me know what you thought, I would love some feed back on chapters, the story in general, anything. So until next time, I'll see ya later :)