The Messenger

Trouble was always a present situation for the students of the DWMA. They were always worried about the idea of invasion, after all there were plenty of non-meisters and non-weapons living within the walls of the city trying to make some money off of the students that attended the school. And as reassuring as it was that Lord Death was present in the city was only a hollow reassurance. He was only one Shikigami and as a result he could only be in one place. That meant that the rest of the city's defense was up to the teachers and students.

A loud piercing siren rang through the streets. The store keepers all ran to their windows slamming their doors shut along with bringing large metal fences down the window to further the protection that the city had. The loud siren continued. All of the students in the DWMA perked up. Every so often an unauthorized intruder will enter Death City and due to the many, many steps leading up to it, very rarely was that a normal person. All of the students rushed from the school's wall. All of them were charging towards the probably Kishin or witch, determined to get the soul that it would provide them.

A young boy dressed in a black suit and trousers looked up from the book he was reading. He was alerted and interested by the loud siren. The boy had tanned skin and was around 6' 2". He got up from his seat and put his book down. He had a large gray scarf on that covered his mouth. He tugged it loose and spoke, "are you ready, Bridget?"

In the same room was another teenager. She was about half a foot shorter then him. She had light teal hair with bangs that swung widely in front of her orange eyes. She had on a purple midriff T-shirt and tanned cargo capris shorts. As opposed to her partner's classy appearance she was wearing brown engineer boots. She smirked as she took a bandanna out of her pocket and wrapped it around her head. She gave him a thumbs-up as she said, "You betcha, Zeek!"

The two of them raced off, not wasting a second as they were both etermined to get the soul of whoever was stupid enough to invade their city. As soon as their feet hit the pavement they were off racing through the streets and the back alleyways. They didn't know who it was, but they knew both Kishins and witches were smart enough to avoid the main streets filled with prying eyes to alert teachers and Death Scythes the instant they saw something wrong. They had to be out in the back streets hiding from the Death Scythes. That was still no reason to take it easy though, other students and the teachers probably all had this idea. They would have to work fast in order to do the job.

They saw absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. They charged through ignoring all of the problems around them. They leapt over overturned trashcans and ducked underneath low archways. The moved through the streets at an impressive pace. Bridget was moving at a pace that was slightly faster then Zeek's, a feat that would've embarrassed most males, that he was being beaten at a footrace by a female, but Zeek didn't mind. He understood the difference between them, after all he was a weapon and she was a meister. It was just natural that she was faster than him.

Finally they saw it. Or heard it. A low grumbling that could be heard through the back streets. Bridget's eyes opened up and she looked at Zeek. They shared a moment of understanding. Zeek reached out and grabbed a hold of Bridget's hand. Zeek began to glow a light gray color and soon the form of his body disappeared and he swirled around her hand and became a long black sleek pole. At the tip of the pole was a sharp spike and a large gray ax. This was a halberd.

Bridget charged bringing her large halberd around with very little difficulty. The ax of the halberd swung straight at the Kishin's neck. The Kishin brought his arm forward and grabbed a hold of the pole and held it there, forcing the ax to stop inches away from its neck. It smiled a disgusting smile. This was the first time they saw the beast's entire body, before they were so enraptured with just killing the thing, they had decided a quick blow to neck to kill it and then they'd get a look at it, but now that they were frozen in place due to the Kishin's monstrous strength they stopped and got a good look at it.

It was wearing a black robe, intending to hide all of its monstrous features and blend into the modern and everyday life around it. If it wasn't for its inconceivable mutterings and growls it emitted its plan might have worked. At this close range they could tell it was wearing a mask over the top half of its face, letting only its toothy smile show. The hand that it had reached out with and stopped their halberd with was disgusting. It didn't have claws like most Kishins had it was a green and ill-formed human-like hand. Aside from its normal human appearance, it had numerous lumps and warts coating it. On top of that was its yellow and gnarly nails that stretched half an inch off of its fingers.

Bridget pulled back on the halberd letting it slide through the Kishin's fingers and brought the ax sliding through and into the Kishin's fingers. The ax slid right through as it the Kishin's fingers were like butter, letting each and every individual finger fall to the ground. Zeek let out an involuntary 'yuck' sound, Bridget however remained quiet. The Kishin didn't let out a scream, but its mouth remained in its twisted smile. Finally something happened that even made Bridget feel disgusted at.

The warts on the Kishin's finger slid forward onto the newly formed cuts. They began to build up into a gross culmination of warts and bumps. The newly formed bulky fingers began to sizzle and steam as the excess bulk melted down his arm, to form new warts. When the steam dispersed and allowed a new look at the Kishin's hand, they saw his hand with five new fingers present, just as disgusting and green as the last with the same yellowish nails on it.

Zeek's reflection in the axe of the halberd looked disgusted. "I can't believe I just touched that..." his reflection shivered as he thought that if the Kishin's fingers were made out of warts and lumps and other skin deformities, then that just means that he sliced through five long sticks of warts...he knew that Kishins were disgusting and pretty primal beings, but this was a whole new level for him to witness.

"Well, you touched it once you can touch it again!" shouted Bridget as she thrust the halberd forward with all of her might. The spear at the very tip of the halberd pierced the skin of the Kishin. Once more the skin of the Kishin offered no resistance as the halberd just slid into it, creating a moderate sized puncture hole straight in his chest. Bridget pulled Zeek back out of the monster's chest, only to watch in horror as the warts began to once more slowly progress back to the new hole and fill it in.

"We need a new strategy!" shouted Zeek as Bridget backed off just in time to avoid the Kishin's weak slashing attack with its gross yellow fingernails. Bridget stumbled for a moment as she looked at the Kishin's gross body that kept reforming after every blow.

"Fine, then!" shouted Bridget as she brought Zeek up and back down into the Kishin's soft body, "I'll just keep hacking away it until there is nothing left!" She continued with the momentum from the first swing to bring the halberd back around and into the Kishin's body slicing it up once more, sending another chunk of the Kishin flying across the ground. She didn't miss a beat as she kept bringing her long halberd around time and time again without any sight of remorse, just keeping up the swinging motion of the halberd. The skillfully placed attacks that she had been practicing just moments ago vanished into a rapid flailing. Gross green slabs of Kishin landed among the ground.

Bridget huffed and puffed as she looked at the green blobs on the ground. She was about to declare their victory when the green blobs started to move. They began to come together in one pile beneath the large black robe. Soon the pile was complete. It was one big pile of green Kishin sludge. The pile slowly began to reform stretching its body out and changing the position of the blobs until the Kishin was once more a completed form, complete with the dumb smile on its face.

"It just keeps reforming," stated Zeek watching as the Kishin reformed after each swing of his halberd form.

"I know," barked Bridget back at him, "we need to figure out a way to keep it from regenerating." The Kishin lashed out at her once more, bringing its dirty finger nails down at her head. She brought Zeek around once more slashing the fingers clean off of its body. Once more they had to stand back and watch as the Kishin's fingers crawled back onto its body and reattached themselves.

"Its not technically regenerating," stated Zeek with another glance over at the Kishin's body. "The body parts just keep coming back together." Bridget just gave him a look that told him she didn't quite get what he was getting at. "If we can prevent the body parts from getting together, we can technically stop it from coming back together...in theory."

The wheels in Bridget's head slowly began to clink and fall into place. Finally, she lit up as she put everything together. "Okay!" she shouted as she began to look around. Her eyes locked onto a trash can. She swooped the halberd around and slammed the blunt end of the halberd into the trash can, sending it flying at the Kishin. The Kishin slashed it away, but in doing so left its arm wide open. Bridget didn't waste a second. She charged in swinging the halberd at it, separating the arm from the beast's body. The Kishin groaned in pain, but looked back at is arm. The arm twitched and began to move forward, but Bridget didn't let it, with one finely tuned swing of the ax, she brought the trash can tumbling back and set it so perfectly onto the hand capturing it in the middle of the trash can. The arm was stuck within the trash can.

The Kishin remain strained for a second as it continued to look at the trash can waiting for it to move, but it didn't. Its eyes widened as the facts slowly began to form. It was going to get beaten up. Bridget lifted the halberd up and split the Kishin in half with a powerful swing. The Kishin's body fell limp and it slowly tried to come back together. Bridget brought the broad side of the action around and slammed it into the body, sending it flying like a hockey puck.

The Kishin's remaining right eye widened. Bridget brought the halberd down next to what part of its neck was remaining. "Any last words?" asked Bridget as she wiggled the ax around in front of his face.

The Kishin's mouth opened at first, just barely into a smile and then all the way as it spoke, "There is a war coming. I was just a messenger...the real warriors are coming soon. Tell Lord Death that Marburg was just the first...the second is coming."

Buh...buh...buh! The grand finale! The final group of the competitors! Bridget by Selena M. and Zeek by Draco Oblivion. The poll is now up! (I hope, I have had trouble with polls in past). Please remember to vote. This chapter was designed as the first chapter of the the next Arc which is going to center around the next Horsemen, War! The spot for Famine is still open so keep submitting that Horsemen, but sadly War has hence forth been occupied.

Also for the poll it will be up for the next couple of chapters (I plan to keep it up for about 4 to 5 chapters and then make the big unveiling seven chapters in, but you never know!) Please do not vote for the character just because you didn't like the chapters (base it off of the characters), do not just vote for your character simply because it is your character (don't be an egomaniac), and finally do not just vote for Bridget and Zeek JUST because theirs was the most recent chapter...vote for them if you think that they are the best group, but not just because theirs was the last.