Truth comes out
"Time for a little-Chase?"Black*Star walked into the Dojo ready for training to see Chase hitting a punching bag ruthlessly with four destroyed behind him.
"Hey. Black. Star."Chase punched the bag a few more times until it broke off the chain and began to pour sand like a river.
"Dude you destroyed these. How much did you buy for Mira?"Black*Star walked up to his friend to see three more near Chase and watched as he put one up and began to pound on it.
"I bought these and asked her to let me use them instead of the one they had here."
"How much money did you-HOT DAMN MAN!"Black*Star jumped up hearing the just put on Punching bag break."Since when have you been here? It's six in the morning."
"Since I got back last night around ten."
"Got back?"
'I trust him with my life. Better tell him now.'
"What do you mean?"
"Black*Star I haven't been completely honest with you. I'm...I'm an impossible thing..."
"Impossible thing?"
"I told you part of the truth, my parents were strict and loved Neo more than me. But my dad wasn't a Meister."
"He was a weapon? So you're like Maka then?"
"No...we're friends right? You're my friend because I'm me no matter what?"
"Yeah...what is it?"
"My dad was a Kishin..."
"So he became one after you were born?"
"No...he was one before he met my mom...I'm half Kishin..."Black*Star's expression became pure shock as Chase turned to look at him with his eyes beginning to tear up.
"I wonder what's wrong with Chase?"Tsubaki woke up and yawned remembering what had happened the night before. She turned to see Neo fast asleep with a light snore."Why did I agree to date Neo?"
"You...see...why...I...didn't...want...to...tell...you..."Chase fell back on the wall beginning to have tears stream before he felt a hand on his head and looked up to see Black*Star smiling at him.
"It's alright bro, I get it. But half Kishin or not, you're always Chase."
"So what do we do about my little brother?"Neo looked as Tsubaki changed and smiled at her lovingly.
"Talk to him. What's this big secret he's hiding?"
"Let him tell you cuz I have no clue. Why haven't we had sex yet?"
"Let's just wait for a while until I'm sure, I want my first time to be with the 'one'."
"OH FUCK!"Black*Star winced as Chase hit him in the face with a baton during their training session.
"Anticipation. One more time."He helped him up and they started to do it again. After a few minutes they stopped again when Chase hit Black*Star again making blood go out of his mouth on the floor.
"One more go..."
"Come on man, I don't wanna hurt you."Chase was about to go wipe his face but began to counter his friend's attacks after he charged at him and tried to hit him. He knocked him down after hitting him yet again."You okay man?"
"Yeah...how do you plan on telling the others?"
"I don't know."
"Well you gotta man, or else if they find out and they find out I knew they'd kill both of us. Figuratively, not literally in case those were a bad choice of words."Black*Star realized what he just said and tried to recover from it earning a look from his friend.
"Main one I'm worried about is Tsubaki."
"Chase...there's something you should know..."
"What?"
"Tsubaki is dating someone."
"Who?"Chase felt a sudden pain in his chest surprising himself and gulped ready to hear the truth.
"Neo."
"My...brother?"
"Yeah."Black*Star sighed in relief before hearing the training weapons in Chase's hands drop. He then looked to see him trembling fists clenched and biting his lip.
"T-Thanks for telling me man, you're like a brother to me."
"Where are you going?"Black*Star watched as Chase grabbed his things and began to leave.
"A place to think."
"Want me to come too?"
"No...just...I'll stop by your place later..."Chase left worrying Black*Star seeing a fist was still clenched so tight blood began to drip from his fist.
"Chase? You here? You're not hiding by the window again are you?"Tsubaki and Neo walked into Chase's dorm room looking for him and searched everywhere.
"Where could he be?"Neo looked around before gripping his chest as his eyes became red.
"Are you alright?"
"Tsubaki you looking for Chase too? What's his problem?"Raine walked into the room only to see the eldest brother hunched over with his eyes beginning to glow.
"Ruuuun."Neo looked at her growling before charging with his teeth getting sharper.
"So this is where you like to think?"Black*Star walked up to Chase who was sitting down on a roof looking over Death City.
"Yeah. The way it lets me look over our home, it shows me what I need to protect."Black*Star then took a seat next to his friend and smiled seeing what he meant.
"When are you planning on telling everyone?"
"When the time is right...not now..."Chase closed his eyes as it began to rain making Black*Star chuckle watching the people underneath them scramble to shield themselves from the rain."What the?"The two stood up hearing a girl scream and nodded at each other realizing who it was."You know where Raine is?"
"She said she was going to look for you."
"Main place that would be is...the dorm."
"Come out come out wherever you are."Neo was looking for the girls in an alleyway while they hid behind a stack of crates.
"What happened to him?"
"It must be his blood."
"What about his blood?"
"...Please don't tell Chase I told you."
"Told me what?"
"He and Neo are half-"Raine was interrupted by Neo finding them but was immediately tackled by his younger brother and Black*Star."Black*Star!"
"Chase?"
"RAINE!"
"TSUBAKI!"The girls shook off their surprise and turned into their weapon forms in their meister's hands while they stared at Neo.
"Chase...are you so jealous that you would actually kill your brother?"Neo chuckled at the younger boy before watching the Soul Resonances activate.
"LET'S GO SOUL RESONANCE! BRIGHT STAR!"
"SHADOW WING!"The two stood ready weapons and all before Neo charged making Chase do it as well.
"Face it, you might be able to use a weapon. But you're not faster and stronger."Neo blocked the attacks from the shadows his younger brother was trying to use against him before putting him in a choke hold.
"Huh?"Tsubaki opened her eyes to see herself in a dark void and began to walk. After walking for what seemed like an eternity, she stopped seeing Chase looking over a saddened younger version of himself."Chase?"
"That's what being Neo's brother made me feel like. Look."She turned to see the younger version of himself rubbing his arm tears streaming while a younger Neo was being celebrated and loved by a man with dark hair an a woman with hair blonde like theirs."All my life, I was treated horrible because he got all the love for being the perfect son. If I screwed up in my sword training my dad would hit me hard on the arm with a wooden sword."
"Why? Why are you like this? Why is he that thing?"
"...I'll explain later just...focus on the fight."
"Hm? Nice weapon."Neo released Chase feeling him stop struggling and picked up Tsubaki as Black*Star tried to attack him. He then slashed at the Assassin making him stop and accidentally let go of Raine to cover the blood beginning to pour from his abdomen."This one too."Neo picked up Raine and began to mix his wavelength with theirs.
"STOP THAT HURTS!"
"Hehe, maybe after I kill them, the pain will kill you as well."The hybrid chuckled at the blades seeing the images of their human forms in pain. Before he could walk toward Black*Star, he was jumped by his younger brother sending them both to the ground and made the elder release Tsubaki and allow him to get her back.
"Hey."
"But you stopped-"
"I can fake that, close my eyes, stop breathing, and let go and pretend to be limp."
"You're getting on my nerves."
"I have a knack for that."
"Not for long."The both of them stood up and began to slash at each other but the eldest had the advantage slashing him in his arms and legs.
"CHASE!"
"Fuck...what did Cade say when he was training me?"Chase closed his eyes and began to think after Neo kicked him onto his back a few feet away making him begin to slowly walk towards him.
"Anticipation is easy when you get the hang of it. You feel the wind and how it moves when it happens. Do that and it'll be easy to block a sword."
"What the?"Neo and Tsubaki had the same reaction as Chase easily blocked Neo's attack and the Shadow Wings reappeared on his back.
"SHADOW WING: DANCE OF THE PUPPET!"Neo tried his hardest to block the attacks being sent by his brother's wings before they stopped.
"Chase you have to hurry up, any longer and his wavelength will destroy Raine."
"I know. SHADOW WING: BLADE CLAW!"Chase's wings became copies of Tsubaki and tried to slash the elder again only to be countered again."Crap...going to have to use that one...SHADOW WING: DARKNESS WHIP!"Shadows rose up from under Neo after the meister stabbed Tsubaki into the ground. The shadows then tied themselves around Neo and held him in the air making him release Raine as Chase walked up to him with the sword in his hand ready.
"Chase...is being treated badly by your parents worth killing your brother?"
"..."
"CHASE!"Tsubaki tried to stop her meister as he was about to stab Neo.
"...You think this is about that?"He stopped only centimeters away from Neo's chest and looked at her image in the blade."He tried to hurt you, he constantly pushed my buttons knowing how I'd react. And did he ever tell you what he did and the reason I came here?"
"No..."
"If you tell her...you'd be giving up your secret too."Neo tried to stop his younger brother only for him to have the sword raised to his neck.
"I know. I came here to be different and Lord Death knows that. I have my mother's ability to be a good meister mixed with years of sword training but why my father forced us to learn it, was to use us to collect human souls. My father was a Kishin and was even before we were born."
"Then that makes you..."
"Half-Kishin. Neo and my Dad killed twenty people while I watched in pure horror. My mom had the idea for me to come here to avoid me becoming the monster they are."
"Did he eat the souls?"
"Yes...your boyfriend is a pure Kishin. Bye brother, wait for Dad because when I'm done here with what we're doing, he'll meet you there."The shadows left and the soul resonance ended as Chase stabbed Neo through the chest shocking him.
"...bye brother..."Neo coughed up blood before turning into a Kishin soul. Just as Chase was about to get it, an explosion suddenly sent him and Tsubaki flying back into the getting up Black*Star and Raine sending them all to the ground.
"Ow..."
"What the fucking hell?"They looked up to see Mars grabbing Neo's soul angering the younger brother."MARS!"
"Thank you, now I don't meed to perfect YOU when I can perfect your BROTHER."Mars vanished again as Chase tried to get up to stop him only to stagger and fall.
"What do we do? He has Neo."
"GUYS!"Kid, Liz, Soul, Maka, and Patty ran up to the four and helped them up especially Black*Star.
"What's going on?"The nine looked to see a column of smoke and hear another explosion making them run towards the DWMA. When they reached it, they all looked in shock seeing the school destroyed and on fire.
"KIDS! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"Sid and Stein saw the group and ran up to them as Kid began to tear up.
"Where's my father?"
"..."
"TELL ME!"
"Lord Death is missing, he wasn't in the Death Room and didn't pick up when we tried to contact him. So is Spirit and the other Death Scythes except Marie, she's safe and trying to help anybody who was still in out."Stein explained the situation making Kid try to run inside only for his friends to hold him back as tears began to stream down.
"Who would do this?"Liz's question was answered immediately by Mars and his Revenants appearing from the fire.
"Hello children."
"Told ya we'd tear this shit hole down."Giriko laughed maniacally kicking a wall down making Neo appear from it.
"Hello little brother."
"MARS! I'LL KILL YOU!"Chase tried to charge only for Stein to hold him back."PROFESSOR LET ME GO!"
"Chase it's not worth it, main thing we can do now is retreat and figure out a strategy."The group looked at each other with doubt before leaving. While they did they began to run seeing Mars unleash a bright orange light.
"Huh? HEY WAIT UP GUYS!"Blair opened her eyes in her cat form and began to run with them unaware of the light behind them. They managed to reach the outside of the city in time to see the light completely change Death City and Wraiths flying around the top.
"He won...Mars won."Maka fell on her knees before being helped up by Chase while he walked in front of them and turned to look at them.
"He hasn't won. Our friend are Wraiths and the DWMA are gone I know that. But we're still here aren't we? We may not be the best of the best, but we're the best of what Lord Death has left. He might be missing along with his Death Scythes, but we're here and now we have to do what he wanted us to do."
"But Mars has Revenants who can kill us. What can we do?"
"We have each other, we have our Soul Resonances and our bonds. No matter what he tries to do, we're always going to get back up stronger. But this doesn't mean we're going back in there right now. We go and practice for a little while and get as much help as we can. And when we're ready...we're going to make Mars feel something worse than Death itself."