With A Snap
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Chapter 14: Madness of Balance
Death the Kid was the new Lord Death; he stood in front of his late father's mirror. The mirror stood in the middle of his father's office, even now it didn't feel like his own office. Kid half expected his father to step out of the mirror and say something with his goofy voice. That wasn't going to happen, in the mirror, all that Kid saw was himself the three white stripes circling his hair. He wore the black cloak that was his father's.
Kid was silent with countless thoughts filled his mind. Could he fill in for his father? What kind of reaper would he be? What kind of man would he be? Could he be one his father would have been proud of him?
"You okay, Kiddo?" Patty chirped up next to him.
Patty was a young woman with short blonde hair, a red top with a white tie, and jean shorts. With a pair of boots and a small hat to finish the cowboy style she had going.
"Yeah, you've been a bit silent," Liz stood on his opposite side.
Liz was Patty's older sister; she was tall and had long dark blonde hair. They had a similar outfit, but the top was a bit different, and she wore long jeans.
Kid gave them a weak smile; they were his partners and often kept his quirks in check. They were his support structure and best friends.
"I'm fine," he reassured them.
"You sure?" Patty poked him in the side in her playful fashion.
"I am, thank you for asking it's just been a bit busy lately and I got distracted."
Liz just stared at him, not buying it for a moment, "… We miss him too, Kid."
Kid sighed, he knew he had to be strong they had worked to do, and people were coming.
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"No, I want to be the car!" The small witch Angel pulled on the board game piece.
"No, I'm going to be the car!" Black Star argued, pulling back the piece, "It's the coolest piece so it should go to the coolest person!" The loud blue-haired ninja shouted.
Tsubaki nearby shook her head and sighed; they had pretty much adopted Angela after her last guardian died.
Tonight they were having a sort of board game night, and things were going better than Tsubaki expected. She looked back at Black Star holding out the car piece to keep it away from the young witch as Angela continuously smacked his head with her tiny fist.
Tsubaki smiled to herself as she went into the kitchen to gather some snacks for the game night.
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Maka Albarn walked down the street with her weapon partner Soul sticking close. They both had hands filled with bags.
Maka juggled her bags as she looked at a sheet of paper in her hand, she hummed a tuneless song to herself as she checked off more of the shopping list.
Soul smiled to himself, the sharp toothy grin of his. Maka was a good mood; her mother was coming in for a visit soon, so the book worm was in a tizzy trying to get everything ready with plenty of time to spare.
"Come on Soul we have a lot left to pick up," Maka said in an overly chipper tone.
Soul knew there was no sense in arguing her with this so he just slumped his shoulders, "Okay, but I'm not sure how much more we can carry."
They made their way to the people that filled the streets of Death City. Maka paused and looked up; something caught her sight.
The black moon that hung overhead, the moon hadn't always been that bit the once yellow laughing crescent moon was covered in black blood. Their friend Crona sacrificed themselves to help trap the god of madness within that black blood. They were trapped there together, and every time Maka looked up to that moon, she thought of them and the promise she made to one day save them.
Soul knew this, "Don't worry, we will get Crona out of there."
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Stein was by every definition, a mad scientist. He even had his very own laboratory, though he didn't work in it all that much.
In the kitchen, Marie, the one-eyed blonde placed their baby Shelly into the high seat as she finished seating dinner ready.
Making sure the baby was safe and sucking on her pacifier Marie huffed. She stomped her way into the lab.
"I'm not having dinner alone with the baby! Again!"
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Spirit Albarn drank his glass until all that was left was half-melted ice. He sat in his favorite spot in Chupa Cabras.
The witches that ran the place busied themselves sat close by and prepared him another drink. Blair the cat who would use her magic to turn into an attractive purple-haired woman, beat them to the empty glass. Blair, with a flick of her wrist, levitated another bottle close to them and poured it into Spirit's glass.
Blair hummed, "Spirit, are you still upset."
"My wife is coming back into town."
"Ex-wife." The witches and Blair told him in unison.
"Ex-wife," Spirit correct himself.
"Remember," The witch Lisa told him, "You played and around and cheated,"
Risa added, "So you shouldn't be surprised she got a divorce."
Spirit winced at the reminders.
Blair spoke up, "Besides she probably doesn't even want to see you. Maka told me they were already making a lot of plans to spend time together. They probably won't bother to see you at all during her visit."
Spirit gulped the entire drink at once.
"I thought you guys were going to cheer me up!" Spirit bellowed out.
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In Eastern Europe, there was a man who killed and devoured human souls. It killed and devoured souls in a mad pursuit for power.
As it ate and grew in power, its own body grew wildly more distorted and monstrous in the woods outside of the city that had become its hunting ground.
With its' long claw-like fingers it slashes the two people who fought him.
These were meisters Kim Diehl and Ox Ford both wielding their weapons partners in the fight.
Their weapons were people who could transform into weapons, and by resonating their souls, they could bring out their real powers.
Ox wielded a spear called Harvar as he thrust the spear sparks of thunder shot off it.
Kim flung around a lantern on a long metal chain; the lantern was Jackie, her partner.
Kim opened up the lantern and flames erupted outwards towards the killer, and the fire landed. The creature let out a terrible screech; then it fell apart is so much ash.
"Huh?" Ox remarked, "I've never seen anything turn to ash so fast. What happened to his soul? It's usually here?"
"Kim? Kim, are you okay?" Jackie asked, feeling Kim tremble and a strange reaction in her soul.
Kim felt something, something powerful, her magic reacting to it.
"Ox?" Harvar asked, his usual leveled voice was peppered with worry. "Something is wrong."
The spear dissolved in Ox's hand. "Harvar! Harvar! What just happened?"
"Ox…" Kim called out.
"Kim!" Jackie yelled out.
Ox turned to the pink-haired witch the yelling and her call, pulling him out of his shock.
Kim was crying tears, filling her eyes as her body started to dissolve.
Kim smiled through her tears, she could feel her body dissolving, and everything she was was going away. "Goodbye," Kim managed to whisper as she disappeared.
The lantern fell to the ground, and in a flash of light, it transformed into Jackie. She looked around half expecting Kim to be there.
Jackie cried she felt it, she felt what Ox must have felt, partners resonated their souls, and it connected them in a sense but when Kim vanished it wasn't torn or broken it was just gone. Her soul, everything that she was or could be was just gone.
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Stein looked at a beaker he was preparing as Marie stormed in, "Stein! It's time to go to dinner!"
"Ah-" Stein opened up his mouth to talk but was stopped.
"No butts! Its time to spell sometime with your family!"
Stein knew she was right, and he would never win the fight, "All right, let me just turn off the bunsen burners."
"Good,"
Marie turned her back on Stein and started to walk away when she heard glass shatter.
Marie expected to turn around to see Stein cleaning up a mess, but when she turned around, all she saw was the broken beaker he was holding, the liquid that was in it spilled out and bubbling on the floor.
"Stein?" Marie called out, "Stein?" The lad wasn't all that big, but she didn't see him, "Ah, Stein? Are you playing another prank?"
Before Marie could search, she heard Shelly crying out. She pushed Stein to her side, reasoning it was another joke from him. Marie raced back to the dinner table, following the cries of her child. As she ran into the room, the crying stopped, and she found the tiniest of wisps of dust on the high chair.
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Arisa and Lisa were both leaning against the bar as they felt the pressure. They heard glass shattering and turned to see a broken bottle on the floor, and Spirit tumbled to the ground as he dissolved. The red-haired man hit the floor and burst into ash, leaving nothing of his form.
Blair trembled on the floor, she was feeling the same pressure they had but worse as her animal instincts screamed at her. Blair hissed as her body fell apart bit by bit, she managed to turn to the witches and ask, "What's happening?"
Blair's ear twitched as her body vanished.
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Tsubaki cam into the room with a tray of snacks to her surprise that the other's yelling and shouts had all gone quiet. She soon realized why the room was empty. Tsubaki placed the tray down on the table in the middle of the room, where the board game sat.
"Black Star? Angela? Are we playing hide and seek?" Tsubaki guessed, Black Star was good at hiding when he wanted to.
Black Star had been teaching Angela to hide too, and sometimes they would sneak off to hide from Tsubaki to hide from her. They did expect Tsubaki to find them. Tsubaki smiled, "Ready or not, here I come!"
Tsubaki announced as she got ready to look for them. Her hand swept past the table, and she noticed a thin layer of dust on it.
She put the thought aside and remember she'd have to clean later, but for now, she had a game to play.
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Eruka and Free walked in the prisoner the Owl Witch Pallas. The witch had attacked many people and was now chained up and gagged to be sure she didn't get away,
They lead her to the Death Room; there waited Kid and his weapons along with the newly arrived Head Witch and Witch Judge.
A part of the deal DWMA made with the witches was that the witches that caused chaos and trouble would be caught and brought to them to be tried and punished.
The Head Witch and Free traded dirty looks, they had an unpleasant history, but they were civil enough.
The Witch Judge Maba looked up and down Pallas, "You have caused a great deal of trouble.
"I'm sure you will find her a suitable punishment." Kid remarked.
Then it happened, the unpleasant pressure filling the room, the Thompson sister who weren't adept in magic or could see souls didn't feel it.
Pallas struggled against her chains, thrashing about in a panic. Her body crumbled away even the change around her melting into dust around her. Pallas let out a screech as she vanished.
"What happened?" The Witch Judge demanded an answer.
"I don't know," Kid admitted, he used soul perception trying to find her soul. He searched pass the room as saw countless soul glowing in the distance; he gulped as one by one souls just seemed to vanish.
"What the-"Free groaned, the immortal werewolf felt his body begin to crumble.
"Nyamu!" The Head Witch let out.
"Free!" Eruka let out as she watched two of the most powerful being in the room, one said being unable to be harmed or die, dissolve into nothing.
"Kid please do something!" Liz's voice broke.
Kid then noticed, Liz was crying as Patty began to dissolve.
Patty held out her hands which were slowly dissolving.
"Kid?" Patty squeaked out, "What's happening? This feels weird."
Liz wrapped her arms wrapped around Patty squeezing her.
Liz and Patty were sisters; they had been partners switching between weapon and meister at a drop fo a hat, their souls resonated stronger and more efficiently than most. Even just being to one another they both subtly felt each other, and at that moment Liz felt her sister, her soul, being pulled away and she knew she couldn't do anything.
"Kid," Patty hugged sister back, "I'm scared, what's happening? It feels like…"
Kid hugged them both.
There was a soft sniffle from Patty as she placed a hand around his hand as she held them together. Both Liz and Kid tumbled forward as dust swirled around them.
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A bag fell to the ground as the streets broke into a panic.
Maka wasn't sure what happened, she missed the first one. She looked at her list and then felt a terrible chill tingle down her soul. Suddenly she heard a scream as people began to move away from an empty spot.
Then she saw it just a random person fall apart into so much ash.
She didn't even think she just reacted and searched for their souls with soul perception. Their bodies were gone but with violent of sudden deaths like that the remains popped out a soul. This whole thing was strange; she didn't spot a single soul; when a body vanished, so did their soul. This was impossible; this was impossible for so many reasons.
"Soul, we have to do something," Maka said, she felt his familiar rough hand on her shoulder squeezing her.
Maka heard something; she listened to a familiar tune a song that Soul had written and played for her, she felt it resonate in her very soul. Maka felt the music course through her body and into her heart; it made her feel secure even when she was scared.
The song came to an end, and she felt Soul loosen his grip.
Maka stifled a tear, she forced herself to turn around but found that Soul was no longer there. The world around her went mad as people screamed for friends and loved ones and ran around in fear and desperation to find them.
Tears filled Maka's eyes as she stayed silent, Maka knew the song and knew Soul and understood why he would resonate to play it for her out of the random. She felt Soul being pulled away and knew he was saying his last goodbye to her.
Ash rained down on the city, and it took Maka moment to notice.
Maka turned to head up the source of it, the black goo that covered the moon peeled away raining down as dust on the world beneath.
It took only a few moments before the sky was lit up by the light of a crescent-shaped moon laughing in the might to a world in chaos.
Author's Notes: I've been meaning to write this one for a while and here it is. I hope you like it. Why do you guys keep coming back to this when you know I'm killing half your favorite characters?! Leave a review telling me what you think or answering that question.