That last chapter had a lot of mistakes! Sorry!

Anywho, let the horror continue!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except my imagination!

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Alfred paced back and forth at the edge of the pond. He wanted to save Kiku and stop anyone else Kiku would try to kill, but he had no idea where Kiku was or how to get there.

He didn't even know where he was!

Feeling his frustration rising he took out his scythe and slashed at the air.

He didn't expect a black slash to appear in the air.

It was a black slash, it floated in the air, not attached to anything and the blackness seemed to move. Alfred reached out to touch it when the slash sucked him in. As the world around him blurred Alfred thought, 'I should really stop touching things, it somehow keeps making this worse and worse.'

When the world came to a standstill and focused again Alfred realized he was in the temple he had seen Kiku kill the helpless man. It also looked like he had arrived right before the man died, but he saw the man die slowly, how could he be here in person watching it happen again?

Kiku dealt the final blow, the man let out a gargled noise as blood leaked out the side of his mouth and his mangled body fell to the floor. Kiku smiled mercilessly and let the body drop.

Alfred saw a small, blue ball of energy float from the body, attached to the body by numerous strands of strings. Against his will Alfred took a step forward, and another, another. He walked right up to where the mangled corpse was. Completely ignoring Kiku, Alfred rook out his scythe and, like this was natural, slashed all the strings connecting the ball of fire to the corpse. The strings disappeared and the ball of flame floated into his hand. Where he promptly brought it to his lips and swallowed it. It tasted warm and like life.

Wait. Life?

"Why are you here shinigami? That was my soul!" Kiku crouched ready to strike. Alfred took a step forward to try and talk some sense when Kiku lunged. Alfred threw his hands up to protect himself.

Nothing happened.

Looking up he saw Kiku wasn't there, instead he was behind him growling. Kiku's tail seemed to be larger, his ears were back and he was baring his fangs at Alfred.

"Dude, it's me!"

Kiku paused.

"What? I-I don't know you! Give back my soul shinigami!"

When Kiku lunged Alfred felt his scythe appear in his hand and used the staff end to poke Kiku in the chest to hold him back. Kiku's fangs were only an inch from his face and when Alfred looked into his dark eyes he realized Kiku couldn't see him.

He only saw a skeleton in a black robe.

Throwing Kiku off, Alfred reached up and tore the mask off his face. He looked Kiku straight in the eyes.

"You should really chill dude."

Kiku froze and his eyes seemed to dilate slightly, although it was really hard to tell with the night sky and Kiku's eyes were naturally dark.

"A-Al-chan?"

Alfred gave him a bright smile.

"That's what I've been trying to tell you!"

Kiku collapsed on the ground.

"N-No…I was with the others…Matthew-san said you were eaten by a book…it sucked us in…I woke up as a demon fox and could only think of eating…then I saw you and when you s-said to chill I regained my memories." Kiku looked up at him, then gripped his head with a cry.

:Kiku? Dude are you ok?"

Kiku reached out with a pleading look in his eyes when his eyes glowed silver for a second and then all traces of Kiku were gone, replaced by the demon. He lunged forward. Kiku kept lunging and trying to attack. Alfred kept dodging.

Alfred realized Kiku was herding him away from the screen door on the other side of the room. Deciding to test his theory Alfred dodged the next attack and jumped over Kiku to the other side of the room. Kiku scrambled after him desperately.

"Is there something important behind this screen door Kiku?" Kiku only growled in response. Alfred looked at the screen door for a second. Kiku took the chance to attack, but Alfred was waiting for it. As Kiku was in the air Alfred brought end of his staff up and planted it in the center of Kiku's forehead. It sent the fox-eared nation across the room with a thud where he slumped. Alfred watched as he struggled to get up, hissing in pain.

Alfred turned and throwing open the screen door froze.

In the center of the room was a ball of silver light, floating in the air above a pedestal. The light glowed bright briefly and Alfred heard Kiku running across the room towards him.

'So this ball of light is controlling Kiku…it looks like a soul but it doesn't feel like one…' Alfred thought to himself.

Hitting Kiku in the side, with blade turned away, Rn towards the light and when he touched it, felt his hand go briefly numb. This ball of light wasn't warm like the soul he had before but it seemed similar somehow. He brought it to his lips and coughed, feeling a strange numbness take over his mind. As quickly as it appeared the numbness disappeared. Turning to his best friend Alfred bent to meet his eyes with the kneeling demon.

"You alright?"

Kiku looked up and smiled briefly, then collapsed.

"Should I wait for you to wake up?"

The ony response he got was from furious shouting that got closer and closer, until eventually there were torches illuminating tons of figures with weapons outside of the temple.

"Guess that means yes."

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FLASH MOB!

The whole soul thing will be explained later, as will most of the questions you guys have.

Thanks for reading!