Hybrid heart
"TSUBAKI!"Chase was beaten and bloodied seeing Mars take Tsubaki in her sword form and break her by the blade. When he tried to get up Masamune, White*Star, Kuro, and Neo stabbed him before Giriko used his Chain to decapitate him.
"The hell?"Chase snapped up sweating to see Tsubaki worried next to him rubbing her eyes worried.
"Are you okay? You were mumbling in your sleep and you were saying no a lot."
"Yeah, bad dream. You should get some rest."
"You sure you're okay?"
"Definitely, I promise no more secrets."Chase gave Tsubaki a small hug before lying back down. What surprised him was feeling something on his chest and opened his eyes to see his partner lying down next to him with her head on his chest."Why are you?"
"I had a bad dream too, and it could help you with your sleep problems too."
"Well well lovebirds time to get up."The two opened their eyes to see a snickering Maka and Black*Star over them.
"It's not what you think!"Tsubaki sat up waving her hands defensively while Chase got up slowly rubbing the back of his head.
"Sure it isn't."
"What's up?"
"Professor Stein said that he has a contact near here that may have an idea on what we could do."
"Who?"
"No clue. But he said we should get moving now."
"Here we are."The group walked into a swamp while Stein looked around.
"If his contact is going to drag us down to the bottom of the lake I'm gone."Chase looked at the murky water before he was lifted up by a giant tadpole.
"Wait isn't that?"
"Hello there. Ribbit."The group looked to see Eruka Frog waiting for them while the tadpole under Chsae threw him off and went to her.
"Creepy frog girl. I think a swamp monster is better."Chase felt a cold chill up his spine looking at all the frogs around them.
"We need your help Eruka."
"I know, Mars correct?"
"Yes, how did you know?"
"Lady Medusa studied his techniques but never got the hang of it."
"So do you know how we need your help?"
"Mars won't be easy to defeat. But I know his secret."Eruka sat down while the others found seats on logs or rocks."Mars is invicible, but only at the moment. Magic is wonderful in so many ways but it can't play god. It needs some type of conduit for spells like immortality to kick in."
"Like what?"
"Usually they choose an object that they won't expect anyone else to know it. The trick is to split your soul at a certain age and put half of it in the object so that the soul plays Tug-O-War with the youth that's in the soul."
"And if we find it, what do we do?"
"You try to disrupt the connection. Don't break it, if you do Mars will be mortal again but he will stay the same age with his strength from that age and his current one, so he'll still be impossible to fight. Disrupt it like with a hit from a Soul Wavelength, if you do the connection will be unstable and he will age rapidly to the age he's supposed to be. At that moment Mars will be defenseless, use that moment before the connection is stable again to kill him."Eruka's explanation made the group nod before an Alligator tried to bite Soul and Black*Star making them fall face first in mud.
"Mars isn't stupid, he has to have the object close to him at all times. Other wise it'll be too easy to kill him."The group sat on a train discussing what to do while Stein smoked a cigarette outside.
"MAN! I CAN'T TAKE THIS HEADACHE!"Black*Star held his head making the others sigh.
"Well we can't trust Black*Star to get it can we?"
"I'll do it."Everybody else looked at Chase as if he was talking pure insanity."If it's hard to get, I'm the only one who can take that type of beating and get out okay...ish."
"You never told us, why did Mars want you so much until he got your brother?"Liz and everybody else who didn't know his secret looked at Chase with the same face as her.
"...now or never...I'm half Kishin."The Meister closed his eyes while everybody had a shocked look on their faces making him chuckle a little.
"What's so funny? Tell me why I shouldn't kill you now so you don't turn into a new Asura."Kid looked ready to kill his friend while he opened his eyes giving him and the others a serious look.
"You've known me for a while now, I would never hurt you guys or anyone else, I promise. My blood may have a monster's but not my soul and my heart. If it came down to it, I promise...I will fight with you guys and Lord Death even if it means I have to die to kill Mars."
"Where is this thing going anyway?"
"I have a friend who can help us, I got in contact with him before we left to see Eruka, we should be there by daybreak."
"Thank god it's a him."Tsubaki lowered her head and whispered not knowing she said it loud enough for her meister to hear.
"And what's so bad if he was a she?"
"What?"
"When will we get there?"Patty was whining as the group walked towards a Dojo/House in the middle of a plain.
"We're here. Cade? Cade!"Chase opened the door and when he did, he looked to see Neo holding Cade on the wall by his neck."Tsubaki!"
"What is it? GOT IT!"Tsubaki saw why he called her and went into her weapon form in her meister's hand.
"I'll deal with you later. Bring it little brother! You two think you're the only two from our families that can use each other?"The two watched in pure horror as Masamune appeared and turned into his weapon form in Neo's hand.
"Fine then. You ready?"
"Always."
"SHADOW WING!"In a black blur, Chase went into his Shadow Wing form and tackled Neo outside and began to punch him repeatedly until he kicked him off."DANCE OF THE PUPPET!"Chase's wings tried to attack his older brother but it seemed useless as he was pushed back by a colossal gust of wind.
"They think that same thing scares us."
"Yeah, let's show them ours. LET'S GO SOUL RESONANCE!"Neo began to roar as similar shadow tattoos began to cover him as multiple shadows appeared from his."Puppet Hunt."Chase began to yell in pain as the shadows began to attack him repeatedly slashing him in every part of his body before holding him up."Well well, how does it feel? Time to show you the worse pain I ever felt."The elder slowly walked up before raising Masamune ready to attack.
"Chase!"Tsubaki was in Chase's soul and even him there was being slashed and cut every second.
"Tsu...ba...ki..."He slowly walked towards her and slowly grabbed his weapon's hand before falling down from a slash on his back.
"Come on...I know you can get up please. Neo's going to kill you please get up!"
"He's even managing to hurt me down here...heh..."
"Heh? Heh nothing, I believe in you, you have to get up."
"No it's not that. I just realized we may need something new."
"New how?"
"Let's see what this does."Tsubaki gasped as Chase smashed his lips on hers making the area around them glow white.
"Uh uh uh."Masamune was stopped inches away from the Meister's stomach as the shadows released him.
"Let's go Soul Resonance."The shadows suddenly merged with Chase and his clothing and closed up all his wounds and cleaned the blood while the tattoos on Chase went inside them. Then from it, a cloak appeared on Chase as Tsubaki's blade began to glow black with a gold outline."Shadow Cloak."
"What the hell?"Neo and Masamune tried to send more shadows but when they reached the meister, they would be absorbed by Tsubaki making the gold outline vanish with each until it was gone and in its place was a purple one.
"Shadow Blade."Neo was then met with a diagonal slash on his chest sending him back and made blood come from there and his mouth. He looked up to see his brother directly in front of him and was punched repeatedly again but this time until his nose looked worse than a broken branch."Tell Mars that we're coming for him soon."Chase looked at his elder as he disappeared before walking into the House to see the others checking on Cade.
"How was the fi-Oh my fucking god. Someone's gotten way too close to their weapon haven't they?"Maka looked to see Chase walk in and slowly go back to normal with Tsubaki.
"Thanks bud, you literally saved my life."
"Yeah well you calmed mine."
"Chase told me about your situation, let me assess your skills and let's see what we can do to enhance them to fight Mars."
"You've had a run in with him before?"
"He's the reason we met. He kidnapped me at my Niece's wedding after I put up a pretty good fight."
"Pretty good?"
"I kicked his Revenants' asses until he threatened to blow up the wedding."
"Whose place is this?"
"My father's. He left in to me in his will and never had a use for it until now. Choose who you'll be sleeping with, examination starts at Five tomorrow."
"Chase?"Tsubaki walked up to her meister as he sat outside drinking from a bottle of water and looking at the moon.
"Hey..."
"What was up with that kiss in your soul?"
"I have a better question. Why my brother? Why date him?"
"The fake you said you should because he was better than you in every way. I wanted to see it and when I was about to believe that lie, you showed me the pure truth."
"What's the truth?"
"That you are the better one. So about that kiss."
"Yeah...I figure that if I told you as fast as possible I would stay alive."
"Told me what?"
"When the guys talked to me about your crush on me, they asked if I did and when I said no it made me think. Then when I met Cade and said I had someone I love to go back to, I thought even more. Finally there was when I saw you looked happy with my brother and I became jealous."
"Jealous...wait Chase are you saying?"
"Yeah...I guess so."Tsubaki closed her eyes and began to blush before feeling something move her head and a pair of lips press on hers. She returned the kiss to Chase and neither noticed the watching Black*Star as his jaw dropped.