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Over a week had gone by and they were reaching the beginning of October. But there hadn't been a sign new incident dealing with the witch Shaula Gorgon. Danny and Sam were not taking the injury of their friend sitting down and were trying to find the witch to stop her themselves, with or without the DWMA, but at every turn they ran into dead ends in the form of an unwilling Intelligence Agency. Denying them access to all forms of evidence and witnesses.
"This is so infuriating!" Sam shouting in the cafeteria as she threw the book she had been reading on the Gorgon sisters against the table. "It is as if they went over everything with a fine tooth coomb to make sure that everything in the one star meisters' section of the library was absolutely useless!"
"Tell me about it." Danny said while looking through a book on the theories of magic. "I have yet to find anything in this book at all. Some religious garble but not any actual theories about how magic works that could help us track it or find the center or fight the mind control. This stuff is worthless."
"Well this isn't getting us anywhere." Sam sighed. "We need a new approach." She looked over at Kim. "Don't suppose you know how to track down Shaula." She asked in a hushed voice.
Kim glanced around to make sure no one was listening in before whispering back. "No, I haven't been back to Witch City in a long time so I don't know what any of them are up to. And I would have to drop my Soul Protect in over to search for her through magic. Not exactly the safest thing for me to do in Death City." Kim admitted.
"Figured as much." Danny said putting down his book. "But we can't quit. She isn't just targeting official miesters and weapons, or even only EAT class students. Shaula is possessing normal people and NOT class students. She wants to destroy Death City from within. Ends justify the means style."
They all looked glumly down at the table. "Well... you could always ask another witch if they know where she is." Kim said almost as a side thought. Sam and Danny were startled by the idea.
"Do you know were we can find one?" Danny asked before adding. "Just to question, nothing else."
Kim chuckled causing Danny to blush. "Like you could kill a fly. But yeah, Angela lives two towns over." Kim said pulling up a map on her phone she showed them the location of the witch's house. "Unless she moved in the last few months, you can find her here. But she is guarded by a pretty powerful samurai. A weak little wisp like you could get hurt." The good witch teased.
Sam plotted the place on her own phone. "Two towns over huh. Tomorrow is the weekend so we'll have enough time." Sam said looking to her partner. "Want to check it out?"
"Don't really have much of a chose do we? It's either this or homework." Danny said praying that the samurai would just let them talk but pretty sure that things would get ugly. "What about you? You coming?" Danny asked Kim.
"No way, if I did that would blow my cover wide open." Kim said waving them off. "You could not pay me enough."
Danny and Sam had to agree with Kim that it was too dangerous for her to be seen, so later that evening they moved out into the back alley behind their dorm. "Ready Sam?" Sam nodded and turned into her hand shovel form. Danny caught her and they started to synchronize their souls. "Lets go! Soul Resonance!" They shouted together. The black aura washed over them before forming the wings. "Phantom Wings!"
They took to the sky and flew towards where they had been told the witch Angela lived. But they didn't notice that they were being watched. "I wonder were my little ghost boy is going at a time like this." Shaula mused as she watched them fly off in her crystal ball. "Perhaps I should follow him. It my prove enlightening."
Danny gave a long yawn. After they had left Death City they had landed so that Danny could just transform into his ghost form and fly the rest of the way to Iguana City. So by the next morning when they finally arrived in town Danny was beat tired. But Sam was still rested and restless.
"Come on, Danny. We need to go see Angela now if we want to get back to the DWMA before Black Star gets back from his mission." Sam said pulling her partner along.
"Sam, I'm too tired for this. What if there is a fight?" Danny tried to reason. He want breakfast at the very least.
"Why would they try to fight us? We are two kids coming to ask a question. It isn't like we are wearing the academy emblem right now." Sam countered. And that was true enough, they had been smart enough not to wear anything that had Death's mark on it.
"Oh yeah, because witches just love girl scout cookies. Sam, when has there ever not been a fight?" Danny said but her was starting to give up on acting like a sack of potato's and was lightly jogging along side her. "If it's not the witch or the samurai, it will be something else."
"What is the mafia going to show up?" Sam joked as they turned the final corner to the dead end alley were they were told to look for Angela's house. Kim had told them that they couldn't miss it, and she was right. The house stook out about as much as Fenton Works.
The building looked like a dusty castle entrance with the door in the center and two large cement wings on either side of them. Right above the door was a giant chameleon like head sticking out its tong and there were several stone pillars randomly scattered around the front entrance.
"You think a witch lives here?" Sam asked sarcastically as they walked up to the front entrance.
"So what's the plan? Just ask nicely where Shaula is and hope they don't try to blast us?" Danny asked Sam.
"Well... when you put it like that, it sounds a lot like we are asking for directions." Sam said crossing her arms.
"Well that ain't good." Danny mumbled looking around. "So where is the universe trying to bite me in the butt?" They heard loud shouts and gun fire coming towards the alley. "There it is!"
Sam turned into a spade and Danny grabbed her, turning invisible he ducked into a corner behind one of the chameleon cheeks. Coming in from around the corn of the street was what appeared to be the Mafia. Each was wearing some kind of metal mask and had shark like teeth. "Oh you have got to be kidding me." Sam whispered in disbelief. "The prekeshin mafia, what are the odds."
"Wow, the universe just loves us today." Danny whispered back. "Stuck between what looks like a hundred monsters and a witch and legendary samurai."
The noise made by the monster mafia must have been heard by the occupants of the chameleon house, the doors opened and out walked a man in a white long sleeve shirt, a heavy brown trench coat and tattered jeans. He had long gray hair and rather tan skin. At his side was a basket of swords. It looked like he had enough to put one in every single one of the mafia monsters.
"What do you want." The gray haired man asked in an agitated voice. He didn't exactly look the part of a samurai, but he sure did give off a weird untouchable vive. One that went completely unnoticed by the monsters.
"We are here for the witch Angela's soul! Bring her out and maybe we will spare you!" A particularly fat mobster said sneering.
"I'm afraid I can't do that." The samurai said pulling his basket of blades forward. "You see, my sword is sworn to protect her. I will not let a single one of you corrupted humans get passed me alive." He jerked the basket and all the blades went flying into the air and landed all over the soon to be battle field. Some caution tape came flying out and wrapped around the pillars boxing everyone in. The samurai grabbed a blade that had landed at his feet out of the ground and brandished it. "If I did... children might get hurt."
"Children? The fuck is this guy talking about?" One of the mobsters said.
"Who cares, kill him. Then when the witch's soul is mine, we will be the most powerful family in the city." The boss said taking a puff on a old fashion saggar. The mobsters all pulled out tommy-guns.
"Sam... should we help him?" Danny asked worriedly. He didn't like were all this was going.
"No... he'll be fine." Sam said as she stared at the samurai's soul. "His soul is bigger than all of theirs combined... he is powerful."
The samurai ran forward in a burst of speed that was beyond anything that Danny had ever imagined from a human. He pulled more swords out off the ground as he went, juggling several at a time, using them to deflect the storm of bullets that were being shot at him. He plunged them into the bodies of the monsters before replacing them as the fallen turned into red orbs. Danny's jaw dropped, the man was good, even better than Black Star.
But what really threw him for a loop was when the door to the castle opened again before the fight was done and a five year old girl's head stook out. "Mifune!?" The little girl said worriedly. Danny and Sam saw the girl and it was clear she was the witch Angela.
"She's just a little kid." Sam said a little shocked. She was hardly up to their knees of you didn't include her chameleon style witch's hat. She had shoulder length pinkish brown hair and large blue eyes.
"Angela go back inside!" The samurai, Mifune, shouted.
"There's the witch!" The leader of the mob shouted. "Get her!" Several of the guns turned in Angela's direction.
"Angela!" Mifune shouted but he was to far away from the girl to save her.
Angela screamed as the guns went off. But Danny and Sam jumped into action. "Soul Resonance! Phantom Guard!" Positioning himself in front of the young witch, Danny plunged the head of Sam's spade into the ground and a black energy barrier appeared with a white phantom emblem in the center off it. The bullets bounced harmlessly off the shield. Angela stumbled back with wide eyes. "Stay back, it's not safe here." Danny said to the little witch. Angela nodded and moved back behind the door but her head was still sticking out.
"We've already shown ourselves. Might as well help." Sam said as Danny pulled her out of the ground and the shield disappeared.
Danny charged up a large soul wave and passed it through Sam as he swung the spade around causing a wind that blasted the prekeshin's off their feet. 'Prekeshins exist only to devour souls and become keshins... I cannot show mercy.' Danny had to tell himself.
Running forward, he joined Mifune in cleaning up what was left of the monsters and making sure that none of them got away. Remembering what Tsubaki said about observing potential enemies techniques and forming plans Danny and Sam both kept an eye on Mifune throughout the fight. They found out two things; in style they were completely out classed, and that Mifune was observing them too.
But it didn't take long before all of the mafia members were dead and they were standing in a sea of keshin eggs. Mifune turned to them not putting away his swords. "I thank you for your assistance, but I am afraid I must ask who you children are, and why you are here?" His sword was not at the ready so Sam and Danny took that as a good sign.
"We just came here to talk." Danny said putting Sam down so he would not seem a threat. Sam returned to her human form. "We never had any intention of fighting you, or hurting Angela."
Mifune looked at the two before starting to walked around the clearing picking up his swords and putting them away. "I believe you. My name is Mifune, I am the bodyguard of the witch Angela." Danny and Sam each gave a small sigh of relief.
Danny felt a small tug on his sleeve and looked down to see Angela smiling up at him. "Thank you for helping Mifune." She said with a wide smile. Then she started skipping back to her castle. Before going in through the door she turned back to them. "Come on, don't just stand around outside sillies."
The two DWMA students looked to Mifune who nodded, giving his permission and followed Angela into her house. Angela lead them to a large play room and insisted that they play with her so Sam ended up playing with large multicolored blocks with her. Sam's motherly nature started to come to the surface as she babied the little witch. Danny actually wondered if she even remembered what they came for. Despite her dark and badass attitude, Sam loved small children.
Mifune soon joined them and placed his basket of swords on the nearby wall. Gesturing towards a table he sat down to start the talking. "You said you came here to ask for something? It is odd that students from the DWMA would come to a place like this to ask a question instead of simply attacking a witch."
"Oh... you noticed we were from the DWMA." Danny said nervously rubbing the back of his neck. "I suppose that was pretty obvious since we are weapon and meister. I'm Danny Fenton, and my partner is Sam Manson. It's nice to meet you."
"Students have come in the past hoping to steal Angela's soul, but none have been to seriously hurt. I am against hurting children when I can help it." Mifune said watching Sam play with Angela.
"I would rather avoid fighting altogether when I can help it. I don't feel like killing solves our problems." Danny said also watching. "Why would anyone want to hurt someone like Angela. She's just a little girl; completely innocent." Mifune nodded.
"We are getting side tracked, what is your question?" Mifune asked.
Danny nodded. "We came to ask Angela if she could help us find a certain witch; Shaula Gorgon." Angela's head shot up upon hearing Shaula's name.
"You know big sister Shaula?" Angela asked with a wide smile.
"Um... we're acquainted." Sam said not really sure how to put it.
"Shaula is always really really nice." Angela said jumping around. "She always give me new toys and plays with me at those boring ceremonies." That kicked a few heart strings for the meister and weapon.
"Why is it that you are searching for her?" Mifune asked, not crossly, just curious. "I assume you are not on a mission from the academy, so what are you doing?"
"Well... Shaula is causing a lot of trouble back in Death City. A few random civilians and NOT class students have been seriously hurt by her actions. One man is dead." Danny said hoping that Mifune would see things his way. "I think she is planning to use mass hypnosis to cause a riot that will destroy all of Death City. If she succeeds, a lot of innocent people could die... our friends had already been hurt, more than once."
Mifune's face soured a little. "What would you do about it?" Mifune asked after a short pause. "Are you planning on killing her?"
"You're not going to hurt big sister, are you?" Angela asked Sam looking up at the weapon with her huge blue eyes.
Danny didn't answer for a while so Sam did. "I don't know. I'm hoping we can stop her without it going that far. She... I understand where she is coming from, her reasons for hating the DWMA." Sam said looking down at Angela. "She just wants to protect the other witches. But the way she is going about it is all wrong."
"It is unlikely that you would be able to change Shaula's mind. Her actions are built upon eight hundred years of watching her people hunted." Mifune said shaking his head.
"Doesn't mean we shouldn't try." Danny mumbled. "And even if we can't convince her to stop, we might be able to stop her plan without anyone getting hurt." After a moments pause he continued. "Shaula want's to protect the witches, the DWMA want's to protect the humans... so why is everyone getting hurt?" Danny said. "Why can't we all just simply stop fighting?"
"Because adults are stupid." Angela said running over and sitting in Mifune's lap. "Except for Mifune."
"There is simply too much hatred." Mifune said patting the young witch on the head. "Pain breeds more pain and death breeds more death."
"So why can't kindness breed more kindness." Danny reasoned.
"If only it was that easy." Mifune said then he got back to the real topic. "I'm afraid that we cannot help you find Shaula Gorgon. She is one of the few witches who assist me in protecting Angela. We cannot afford to betray her. I'm sorry. I wish you luck in protecting your friends."
"Oh... well thank you for your time." Danny said a little sadly.
Angela seemed to be getting bored. "Come on, lets play!" She shouted and ran up to Danny. "Tag, your it!" She shouted before running from the room. So Danny and Sam played with Angela for two more hours before they decided that it was time to go.
"Bye! Come back again sometime! Then we can play again!" Angela shouted as Danny and Sam finally left.
"What interesting children." Mifune said as they left. Then he added a little louder. "I know you're there. Come out."
Angela was confused until Shaula walked out off the shadows. "Oh, I was starting to worry that you had lost your touch, samurai." Shaula teased putting a finger to her cheek. "After all, you didn't notice the boy until he jump in to rescue Angela."
"I will admit that I over looked him." Mifune said bowing his head a little. "And I have a name, and it isn't samurai."
"Big sister Shaula!" Angela cheered and ran up to the older witch who patted her on the head lovingly. "Danny and Sam were looking for you." She said happily. "You should have come sooner, then we could have all played together."
"Maybe another time, Angela. But tell me, what did you think of Danny?" She asked gently.
Angela grinned. "He was really nice, like Mifune. But he did say a lot of things that I didn't understand, like Mifune." Said samurai coughed a little embarrassed.
Shaula giggled, the sound seemed rather hollow, but they new that it was just how Shaula was. "And what was your take on the boy, samurai?" Shaula asked Mifune. She never had anything against Mifune, in fact she was fond of the man that placed an ideal above all other things, including logic. But she had found that he refused to show that he was upset by the fact that she only called him samurai, so she continued hoping that he would one day snap and make a funny scene.
Mifune sighed at the fact that the witch had refused to use his name yet again. "His fighting style is underdevelop, but he does have a good deal of strength. He hesitates though, even against the prekeshin he was hesitant to land a finish blow. The boy is too kind hearted for his own good."
"Sounds like a certain samurai I know." Shaula teased causing Angela to giggle. "I'm glad he has gained your approval. After all, that boy is going to be the savior of the witches. The one who will free us from under Death's thumb."
"Do you really think that he would join you?" Mifune asked.
Shaula smiled at the bodyguard. "He was right about my plan. I was going to destroy all of Death City in over to stop the DWMA from hunting our sisters." Shaula said lifting up Angela in her arms. "But I know that even such extreme measures would only be a temporary solution. This war is not between the witches and man, or even the witches and the DWMA. Death himself is our true enemy, the one who labeled us the enemy of peace and uses his pawns to hunt us to steal our souls. But that boy..." Shaula whispered as she started to tickle Angela. "He has power... power beyond even the grand witch herself. Enough power to stand up to Death."
Angela and Mifune's eyes widened. "Big brother is really that strong?" Angela asked in awe.
Shaula smiled as she looked up at the sun above them. "Yes Angela. Your big brother is going to help me change the world, so you can play wherever you wish." She said there was hope inside of her still rather frightening voice.
Shaula stayed with Angela for a short period of time before leaving to go back to Death City herself. Right before a certain loud mouthed ninja showed up.
The following day Black Star handed over all the keshin eggs that came from the mobsters. He decided that since he didn't kill them he shouldn't take them. And he was still feeling to out of it from the moral decision of letting the witch Angela live to want the souls as a constant reminder of how close he had been to making Tsubaki a Deathscythe.
"Alright, I will put them away then." Death said just before Black Star left the room with Tsubaki. The weapon was proud of him for his decision and knew that Black Star would still one day turn her into a Deathscythe.
"Strange kid. He should have taken the souls." Spirit said as he watched the kids leave.
"Hm... that's odd." Death said looking through the bag of soul eggs.
"What is it?" Spirit asked his boss.
"There were supposed to be ninety nine prekeshin's in that mafia family... but there are only ninety eight eggs here." Death said scratching his chin. "Oh well. I'm sure nothing bad can come from just one little egg."
But in her hiding place inside of Death City Shaula held the Keshin egg in her hand. "And with this, I will have all I need to make you mine, my little ghost boy." She giggled darkly before getting to work on the final stages of her plan.