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Laughter. It was all Shaula could hear as she was drained of everything she was. All she could see a dark expanse around her, death and misery given physical traits and scattered out in all direction.
She stared up into the face of a monster, the monster that she had created. Its blue skin and flaming white hair gave off the only light that she could see in the world of destruction.
She was inside of the boy's soul, the pure boy who had only wished to save lives and protect his loved ones. The boy who hadn't even wanted to kill her. How could she have twisted his soul into something so disgusting.
In the back of her mind, the words of Fate ringed loud and clear as she was slowly drained of her consciousness. '...you will lose your mind, body, and soul before you see your sister witches free...' She should have known that Fate would be cruel.
Phantom stood in front of them in the new form laughing like a psychopath as his friends watched in stunned horror. "No..." Sam said, it was close to a whimper. But it caught Phantom's attention. He paused and slowly turned to face her. "Danny, you promised... you promised you would never turn into him."
"I promised?" He said grinning, an unnatural grin that seemed completely misplaced on his face. His words made it sounded like a question. "I promised!?" He shouted a wave of power pulsating out from him, cracking the road and blowing dust into everyone's faces. A look of pure rage crossed his face sending chills through the gathered children. But then he started laughing again. "Yes, yes I promised. I promised." He was laughing.
"He's lost it." Estelle said scared.
"Phantom get a hold of yourself!" Black Star shouted, he was the only one not trembling. "The witch is gone! We won!"
Phantom grinned at the boy. "Ah yes, Shaula is gone. That she is. The woman who tried to enslave me to fulfill her hearts desires. The one who named me her Guardian." The smile slide off of his face and he flew up into the air above them. "But that is not my name. Nor is it Phantom, or Danny! Those are names given to me by people who only wished to bind me to there will. But I am beyond them now. So I need a new name."
He tapped a finger against his chin. "In the days of old, their were eight beings, each an embodiment of an idea, a fact of reality, that could drive someone to madness. The eight gods were rightfully named after the forms of madness they represented; Rage, Power, Order, Fear, Fate, etc. So why should I not take such a name myself? It seems fitting for a newly born Kishin. So call me..." The Kishin that had once been Danny grinned wide. "Pain..."
He broke into a fit of mad laughter again. But then he stopped again. "Now to the first order of business. I must kill everyone who has ever caused me pain." He looked down at them and his blood red eyes locked onto Sam. "Starting with the one who has caused me the most pain of all." He lifted one hand and pointed it a the girl. "Die Sam Manson!"
A red magic circle appeared around his outstretched hand and a stream of red energy flew towards Sam who was to shocked to move. The resulting explosion left a giant crater were the girl had been standing.
"Sam!" Estelle shouted in horror believed that the Kishin had just killed her.
"What the hell do you think your doing, Phantom!" Black Star shouted getting some attention. He had used Speed Star to grab Sam and pull her out of the way of the attack. But that didn't stop Sam from earning a horrified and hopeless look at her friends words. "You can't just kill your partner like that!"
"Partner? We weren't partners." Pain spat glaring at the boy as another magic circle began to appear, one twice as big as the previous one. "I was nothing but a tool to her!"
The second attack was launched at the entire group. A giant sphere of crimson energy that came down at them. They all froze up, believing that they were all dead. "My goodness, it looks like I am a little late." A goofy voice said and the attack was blocked by a giant bright yellow shield that was in the shape of Death's mask. Flouting in the sky between Pain and the children was the black robed goofy masked figure of Lord Death himself.
"Lord Death..." Jackie gasped in a mixture of relief and horror.
"Well well. I was starting to wonder if you were going to be a no show." Pain said mockingly. "How about you leave me to my business, Order. I can't say that I really care to fight you. All Pain wants is to kill those who have caused him pain." But then a huge grin crossed his face. "Though I suppose Order wishes to kill me. After all, you can't stand Kishins to exist. How does it feel to have a Kishin appear right under your nose?"
Death chuckled a little. "I must admit that is it fairly embarrassing, but you say that you are a Kishin. You aren't a Kishin yet." Death said causing Pain to glare. "You're missing something, or else the third eye would have appeared on your forehead and your madness would have already started to infect others. If I had to venture a guess, I would say you haven't finish absorbing that witch's soul." Then Death voice became deadly serious, even scary. "I will kill you before you get the chance!"
A small hole opened up in one of Death's comically over sized hands and a stream of golden yellow energy came out and Pain had to put up a dense red shield against it, causing him to be pushed up into the air far above the city. Two small masks came out behind Death's back and fire pushed out of them, lifting Lord Death up into the air after his prey.
The children could do nothing but watch as Lord Death flew off after their friend turned Kishin. "He's really gone." Kim said tears in her eyes. "Phantom is gone. We couldn't save him."
"No!" They all jumped as Black Star shouted. "He isn't gone! I won't except that!"
"Black Star, you saw how he attacked Sam. Phantom would have never done that." Estelle said and Repede started to whimper.
"Danny's gone." Sam said on her knees.
"Shut up!" Black Star shouted again. "Death said that he hasn't fully became a Kishin yet because he hasn't finished absorbing the witch's soul! Maybe Phantom's soul is still in there too!" Black Star reasoned. "I'm going to go and get my apprentice back! Come on Tsubaki." Black Star said turning his back on everyone else.
"I'm right behind you." Tsubaki said.
"You can't be serious Black Star! He's on the same level as a god! You can't stand up to him!" Kim shouted.
Black Star just laughed. "Who the hell do you think your talking to!? I'm Black Star, something as small as a god doesn't scare me! And I will die before I give up on a friend!" Then Black Star started running towards the battle leaving everyone else behind.
"Black Star... he's right." Kim said getting up. "If it was any of us than Phantom wouldn't stop until he found a way. So I won't stop either."
"Count us in." Estelle said and they looked down at Sam.
Sam looked miserable but she swallowed hard and said. "They're heading for the park. Lets go."
None of them noticed as one of the unconscious bodies stood up and also moved in the same direction.
The sky shook as the two gods began their battle, causing flashes of golden and red light the illuminate the sky like fire works.
Pain used the Phantom's ghost powers to duplicate himself four times. The five Pains were flying in circles around the headmaster, throwing blasts of crimson energy at the elder god. "Come on gramps! Is that everything you got! I guess eight hundred years of just squatting here on your butt has made you weak!" The Pains laughed.
Death growled and lifted both hands out in front on him. Blasts of golden energy came out of both his hands and the two masks that he was using as jet packs, hitting four of the Pains and erasing them from existence. "Don't get cocky brat! I have been fighting Kishins since before you were ever born!" Death shouted before sending a shot a the remaining Pain who put up a shield to block it.
"As much as I would love to here your old war stories grandpa, I think it is about time you took your afternoon nap!" Pain shot his own beams of energy at Death who put up a giant golden shield modeled after his mask. "How about a lullaby to help you to sleep!" Pain took in a deep breath and then let out a powerful wail that rippled through the air as red energy.
Death tried to stand up against it but his shield began to crack and he was knocked backwards as his shield shattered. But as he was being pushed back by the red Ghostly Wail he looked up at Pain and golden beams came out of the eye hole of his mask and hit Pain in the chest.
Pain screamed and put up a shield to block the continues attack. "Cheap shot!" He complained holding up his hands in front of him.
"Stop whining!" Death shouted, he had used the chance to get right up close to Pain. "Reaper Chop!" He shouted and his comically large white hand smashed through the barrier and hit Pain straight on the top of the head sending him rocketing down to earth were he landed in the middle of the playscape in the middle of Death Park, creating a crater that was half the size of a football field.
'Son of a... We just finished building that...' A small voice in the back of Pain's mind said as he pulled himself out of the twisted remains of a jungle gym. Death flew down to see the damage that he had caused to his opponent.
Pain got up and black blood was running down the side of his face from a large wound just underneath his fiery hair. Pain sniffed loudly as he pushed tears out of his eyes. "That... that hurt! Asshole!" He cried.
"Stop crying, you big baby." Death said glaring down at the monster.
"Shut up!" Pain whined as he wiped the tears out of his eyes. The wound on his head disappeared and the blood disappeared from sight. "And die!" His fiery hair grew and the edges turned crimson before breaking off and taking the shape of vultures that dive bombed Death.
Death merely swung his massive hand and the wind blew them away. "I will destroy you now, Pain the Kishin." Death said coldly. But then someone stumbled into the clearing. "It is about time you got here, Spirit!" Death scolded his Deathscythe. "Now hurry up and turn into your weapon form so that we can finish this."
Spirit walked towards Death but it wasn't until the last moment that Death noticed that something was wrong. He shifted to the side as Spirit's arm turned into a scythe and took a swing at him.
"What is the matter with you Spirit!?" Death shouted as the red haired weapon looked up at him. His eyes had changed to a mixture of pink and blue with a tattoo like an 'm' in the middle of his right eye.
Pain started to laugh again. "What's the matter Deathy? Don't tell me you can't finish me off without your scythe?" Pain said as he got up and flouted over to Spirit. "I suppose that one of us is going to have to die here though, what a pain." He said as he reached out and put a hand on Spirit's shoulder. "But since the hypnotoxin that the stupid witch placed in all the students and faculty is still there, I have full control over your Deathscythe." He gloated as Spirit transformed into a pitch black scythe in his hand.
"Oh... well this isn't good." Lord Death said as the tables had turned. "Spirit, snap out of it at once, or I will reassign you to Antarctica and you will never see Maka again!" Death tried but the Weapon didn't react. "It is an impressive mind control."
Pain began to laugh once more as he rushed the God of Order, swinging the scythe around in one hand like a maniac slashing down half the trees in Death Park as he went. 'Oh man, Sam is going to be pissed about this.' The small voice said in the back of Pain's mind as Death was left dodging the rapid slashes that rained down on him.
"All this moving around must be bad for your back, you old fart!" Pain shouted before swinging the scythe horizontally, cutting straight through Death. "Let me help you with that!" He laughed as the two halves of Death fell backwards. But the body vanished into a puff of black smoke and Pain barely managed to guard against a Reaper Chop.
"I am going to skin you alive! Make a bag out of you, and then stuff your end trails into it!" Death shouted angrily as red and gold sparks jumped from the point in which Death's hand connected with Spirit.
Pain winced. "Dude, that's sounds like it would hurt... a lot." Pain then pushed back and threw Death back with a wave of dark red soul waves. "You know, I really didn't care for killing you earlier. It was the witch that wanted that. But now... now I know that you would try to hurt me." Pain said gripping the scythe hard. "So I'm going to kill you now. And then I'm going to go after the others who could hurt me. Power, Wise, Fate, Rage..." Pain sneered exposing several pointed teeth. "On second thought I will kill Rage first. That damned holy sword..." He then shook his head. "The point is... DIE!"
Pain lifted up the scythe behind him. "Madness Resonance!" Pain and Spirit's screams filled the park as their bodies exploded into dark red madness soul waves. The energy coated Spirit's blade and took on a twisted form that seemed like the cross between a blade and a beating heart. "God Hunter!"
Lord Death tried to put up a shield against the horrible dark energy with he couldn't stand against the combined power of the boarder-line-Kishin and the Deathscythe. His golden shield cracked and shattered and he was crushed into the ground
"Well well, I can't believe he is still in one piece after that." Pain laughed as he reached the crater that the latest attack had made. Death lay at the bottom of the hole, his cloak was badly torn, a crack ran through his mask, and he wasn't moving. "But I'll fix that soon." He said lifting Spirit above his head. "Don't worry old man, this will be painless."
But before he could bring down the scythe a chain and sickle wrapped itself around his arm. He turned to see Black Star trying to pull him away from the defeated Lord Death. "You're kidding right?" Pain chuckled at seeing the boy there. "I just took out Order, the most powerful of the Eight Powerful Warriors that were considered gods. And you think you can stop me?"
"You clearly don't remember me very well, huh Phantom. I can do anything. I'm Black Star." Black Star said smugly.
Pain laughed before grabbing onto Tsubaki's chain and pulling on it. Black Star came flying towards him and he gave the little ninja a finger flick that sent him flying away into one of the few standing trees. Black Star gasped in pain as he fell to the ground.
"Now where was I?" Pain said but Black Star pushed himself back up. "Why do you get up? Doesn't it hurt enough to make you stop?" He said angrily. Black Star was indeed covered in cuts and bruises, not just from that last attack, but from back during his fight while Phantom was still under Shaula's control.
"No... it doesn't!" Black Star shouted straightening up as best he could. "Sure it hurts, but I already decided that I'm going to be bringing the real Phantom back home with me. So it doesn't matter how much pain I'm in. I'll keep going." He picked Tsubaki back up again. "My resolve helps me fight through the pain."
Pain stared at the ninja with wide eyes. Then he started to shake. "I... I... Die!" He lifted his hand and a blast of magical power came out. Black Star was still not ready to dodge but Repede ran through and grabbed onto his scarf, dragging him out of the way.
"Black Star, are you alright!" Kim shouted as she came down from the sky on Jackie with Sam riding on the back.
"Of course... a man as big as me is alright." Black Star said grinning. "I almost thought you guys weren't coming."
"I won't give up on Phantom. He was the first one to make me feel like I really belong. I won't give him up without a fight." Kim said as they lit down next to Black Star.
"I don't know what I can do, but I won't leave my friends." Estelle said and Repede nodded his agreement.
Sam walked out in front of them and up next to Black Star. "Thanks for what you said... we need that." She whispered.
"You..." Pain hissed looking at Sam. "I will kill you for all you have done to me!" Sam flinched under the piercing red eyes.
"What the hell are you talking about. Sam is your partner!" Tsubaki said confused.
"You all ready don't know do you?" Pain said scowling. "Let me spell it out for you. Danny Fenton was a ghost, he didn't die from natural causes, so who do you think kill him?" The group of children's eyes widened.
"You... you can't mean..." Estelle murmured but couldn't finish.
A silence fell over the group. "It was an accident." Sam whispered.
"An accident!" Pain screamed. "I was force to experience pain beyond words because of you in that contraption, just because you were curious!" His voice boomed out over the group pushing them back. "And if it was simply an accident, then why!? Why was it that after I regained my humanity from your wish that we had never met, why is it that you did it again!?"
Sam was starting to shake tears forming in her eyes. "The world needed you, Danny..."
"Did the world need me, or did you!? You took my life again because you wanted my power!? I was happy without you in my life, and you killed me so that I could fight your battle and endure pain!?" Pain shouted his power flaring up. "You are the reason that I am like this now!"
"Shut up!" Black Star shouted shocking the whole group. "Stop pretending your Phantom! You aren't him! The Phantom I knew never blamed his problems on others! The Phantom I knew had real resolve. The Phantom I knew would never let something like pain stop him from protecting his friends! So stop pretending that your him!"
"Black... Star..." Pain said surprised. Then he shouted in pain and his free hand jumped up to his face. "Ah, no! How can you... stop it!" He shouted to no one.
"What's going on?" Tsubaki asked confused.
"I don't know?" Kim responded. "What... I see something." A small green orb began to grow out in the middle of Pain's chest. His hand dropped and they all saw that one of his red eyes had turned green. Phantom was still fighting.
I may redo this chapter later and updata it. But this will do for now.
Kishin Danny is not really Dan, it is just a convent model that everyone would understand and would freak out Sam. Plus if I am going to go into season one of Soul Eater, I kind of need Death not to realize it was Danny that almost killed him.
The name of the Kishin is Pain, for reasons I explained. And just like how Asura was a scaredy cat and desired to kill everything that made him afraid. Pain is a crybaby and tries to kill anything that hurts him.
And for everyone that doesn't know, Rage was Excalibur's name. And everyone wants to kill Excalibur.
Final chapter, "The War Within, a promise on my soul?"