Day 7: Lord and Lady Death
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And so this was the end of the story, the Kishin had been locked away, Lord Death was dead, Kid was a full Shinigami, and a truce with the witches had been working well.
But Liz couldn’t understand why she felt more alone than ever.
And so, on the night prior to a large scale siege of at least a hundred rebellious witches, she approached her Meister. They had been dating for a little more than a year, but even though there was the species difference wedged between them, Liz had always felt right there beside him.
But that all changed the moment when those stupid lines connected. It hadn’t hit her until Kid’s coronation as the next Shinigami that Death the Kid wasn’t a kid anymore, he was an actual adult.
And where did that leave her?
A human girl with a fleeting lifespan that was hopelessly in love with Death itself.
“Kid?” Liz called from behind him, he turned when he heard her voice and she found those golden eyes on her. “Can I ask you something?”
“What are we? I know we’re together, but…I don’t know what ‘together’ means in your book.”
Kid gave a soft smile and ran a pale hand through his striped hair. She frowned, it was always something he did when he was reminiscing. “We’re together. We’re a couple.”
“But I feel you’re not being, well,” she paused, trying to find the right word to use, but she said what had come to mind, “in it. Ever since you became Lord Death, you’ve become distant. And I wanted to know if something is wrong. With you? With everything that has happened? With me?”
She didn’t even have time to react before his arms had encircled her and his head rested on her’s, just as she had done so many years prior. “No Liz, there’s nothing wrong with you. And don’t ever think there is. It’s just, there’s something dad never told me.”
“I can see the dates people die.”
Liz only hugged him tighter.
The mission had been a success in one term, that being they had crushed the rebellious witches. But casualties had been massive. The witches managed to create such a magic wavelength that forced all of the weapons into human form, and that left nearly everyone without a way to fight. The only reason they had won because of Kid and the witches.
But Maka didn’t know what to do when she saw Kid-now, Lord Death-collapse to his knees in front of the corpses of both of his weapons.
No one knew what to do. No one knew what to say. Unlike most of the Meisters, Kid had used his influence as Death to fight off the wavelength for a long period of time, so he had continued to wield both Liz and Patty in perfect resonance. They fought, like, well, death, until a witch managed to get in a lucky shot before the resonance shattered and the two Demon Pistols were human. Their deaths had been quick, a witch had managed to run both of them through with two swords made of pure magic.
“Kid?” Spirit had asked slowly, stepping past his daughter as he stepped up next to the Death God. “It’s getting late and we should move their bodies.”
Maka and Soul shared an equal look of worry. Spirit had become Kid’s one last lifeline to his father, and they had become the best of friends after Lord Death’s demise. And if the reaper wasn’t hearing him, then it was bad.
“They would want you to help the others.” Tsubaki called from the back as she helped along a limping Black*Star. “There are still more witches out there.”
And then Kid did something strange, he laughed. Everyone froze in shock, had he snapped? But then the reaper sighed, “I never saw their death dates. They weren’t supposed to die today.”
No one said anything. And the night was silent.
Until Liz took a gasping breath.
“It’s a miracle.” Stein had said as he finished looking at both of the Demon Pistols, who were both, injured horribly, but still alive nonetheless. “I’ve never seen anything like it and I’ve seen some stuff in my many years. Consider, yourselves very lucky.”
And just like that, the Demon Pistols were alone with their Meister, who, strange enough, hadn’t looked at them.
“I’m sorry.” Was the only thing he said.
Patty blinked and rubbed her eyes, she was trying not to fall asleep due to all of the pain medication that had been administered to her. “For wha? Ya didn’t do nothin’ wrong. It was all of those damn witches!”
“No, not that.” Kid replied flatly. Liz narrowed her eyes as she continued. “I’ve figured out the reason you two didn’t, well, pass on. You died in perfect resonance with me, so your souls didn’t leave mine.”
“What are you talking about?” Liz asked suddenly, despite the fact she was just as drugged up as her sister, she was managing to talk normally. “What does that have to do with anything?”
Kid blinked, his golden eyes landing on her. “Your souls, due to the fact they left your physical bodies but not my soul, they became extensions of my own.”
“Meanin’?” Patty had asked
“You’ll live as long as I do. You won’t die, you won’t age.” Kid had said, his voice uncomfortably hollow. “And you’ll have to watch everyone die before you. We’ll die at the same time, as my soul would dissipate, taking your’s with it.”
It was silent for a minutes before Liz finally said, “You’re saying it like it’s a bad thing. We’ll get to stay with you.”
And Kid smiled that small, sad smile only he could manage. “You two should get some sleep.”
And with that, he was gone.
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It was strange going back to Death City because the news of their new life spans had reached the ears of everyone. The Meisters and Weapons of first year had looked up at them in terror while the remaining Death Scythes had clapped them on the back and had flashed uncomfortably wide smiles.
“Have you heard what they’re calling you guys now?” Maka had asked on their next Girl’s Night Out when they were sitting in a small pizzeria on the edge of Death City. “Everyone is calling you guys ‘The Angels of Death’.”
“That sounds awesome~!” Patty giggled, clapping her hands together, but frowning when a wave of pain washed through her when her broken hand had been touched too hard. “But come on, that’s an awesome name. Right, sis?”
“Yep.” Liz nodded, putting on a smile. “A long way from The Brooklyn Devils.”
Tsubaki smiled. “You seem happier, Liz. Kid finally stop being thicker than a wall?”
The Pistol nodded. “It’s weird. He apologized for being so distant, but he said that he knew he wasn’t going to get any older and he didn’t want to watch me turn to dust.”
“I keep forgetting Kid is now immortal.” Maka admitted. “He got so tall. He’s like, 6′2? Soul is still taller than me, but I don’t have to crane my neck to look at his face.”
“But you can still wear heels on your dates.” Tsubaki frowned. Soul and Maka had gotten together a little after the Battle on The Moon, while Tsubaki and Black*Star had taken a few months later. “Black*Star is the one who has to wear heels. Don’t tell him I said that, I’d never hear the end of it.”
It was two years before Patty marched into the Death Room, head held high as she practically slapped a certificate in Kid’s and her sister’s face. She was laughing and glowing with joy.
“You got a full ride to a college?” Liz gaped with wide eyes. Her sister nodded. “And it’s Harvard? Patty, THAT’S AMAZING!” She screeched and engulfed her sister in a bear hug.
Kid stood back and laughed, waiting for his moment to congratulate his other weapon. After the Battle on The Moon, Patty had decided to finish High School. She did amazingly well, and it turns out her IQ had been 160, at least. She was named Valedictorian and received offers from almost a hundred colleges that were begging to take her.
“So, what are you going to do?”
“I want to study animal medicine and everything like it! And then I want to get an internship working the Safari.” Patty declared. “I will save the giraffes! And the elephants!”
Kid ruffled her hair and grinned. “Good for you!”
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It was three months after Patty had left for college that Liz had been attacked by a rogue Kishin egg while walking home from the Library. She had remembered having the monster’s jaws a few inches from her face as she kept the jaws from closing with one of her arms.
And when blood had splashed against the bricks, she had been shocked.
It wasn’t her own, and her entire arm had become a scythe blade. After collecting the soul and running to the Death Room in a panic, Kid had said that as extensions of a reaper’s soul, she had become a reaper’s natural weapon.
When she asked if Patty would do the same, he had shook his head and explained that he was closest to her, so she would forever have the ability to become a pistol and a scythe.
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A few years after that, Maka and Soul were married. Black*Star was the best man, while Tsubaki was the Maid of Honor. Liz and Patty had been the bride’s maids. Funny enough, Kid had served as the priest. While Stein was forced to comfort a crying Spirit as Marie bounced their daughter on her knee.
And as the happy couple danced their first slow dance as Husband and Wife, both Liz and Kid downed a large glass of cold whiskey.
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Tsubaki and Black*Star were next to wed. They had already done a ceremony in Japan with Tsubaki’s family, but they wanted to do another in Death City, especially with Kid officiating.
Maka looked good in her dress despite her now showing stomach. Kid had offered to tell her the gender of their baby, she refused. He had to force himself not to tell her it was twins.
Patty had swung an unsuspecting Kilik around the ballroom, laughing all the while. And side by side, the newly married couple and the long dating couple, danced slowly.
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“When do you think Kid is going to propose?” Patty was asking as she talked to her sister over Skype. “It’s getting ridiculous. All of our friends are getting married and you two are still dating!”
“I don’t know if he will.”
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It was the 8th day of August almost a year later when Kid finally stood in front of the entirety of the school with Liz. She was trying not to hyperventilate when he dropped down onto one knee, pulling out a black velvet box.
She was nodding, forcing herself not to cry as he slipped the ring on her hand. He picked her up in a hug, spinning her as she kissed him.
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Their wedding was small and perfectly-as well as surprisingly-asymmetrical. And funny enough, while they said their vows, Black*Star (who had decided to get the qualifications to be able to certify someone’s marriage so he could return the favor to his friend) was forcing himself not to cry. Patty just went wild with cheering as the two shared their first kiss as husband and wife.
And when they danced, Liz felt as if nothing had changed at all, while Kid felt as if everything had.
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It took Liz a long time to respond to people calling her ‘Lady Death’, but when she did, she found her own wardrobe slowly becoming monochrome. Not that she care though, black was indeed slimming.
“The first years keep asking if your hair is black with white stripes or white with black stripes.” Liz had laughed. “It’s the biggest debate in the school. Can you please tell me the answer?”
Kid blinked at her if she had just waltzed in with the Kishin on a leash. He gaped. “Why did you do this to me?”
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“You know, I really don’t care that I can’t have children with you.” Liz had said when the two were watching Soul and Maka’s twin girls (both weapons and perfectly symmetrical, much to Kid’s delight) play with Black*Star and Tsubaki’s son (a weapon with the ability to change forms). “It doesn’t matter.”
“Really?” Kid asked, he watched the way his two guy friends played with their children as if they were the most precious thing in the world. “It doesn’t bother you that when we decide to have one, it will be 100% me?”
Death’s Wife shook her head, “Nope, I’m just happy we’ll be able to raise it together.”
Kid smiled, but neither of the two would admit the fact that when their child connected all three of their Sanzu Lines, they would die. Who would?
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Seventy years had passed too quickly and Liz was biting back bitter tears as she stood over Soul’s grave. He was the last member of Spartoi to die while Maka, ironically, was the first. Apparently, due the Kishin running her through had caused her severe heart problems in the future. She passed in her sleep and Kid had laughed as she marched herself to the Gates of the Afterlife, but not crossing through because she had ‘Her Idiot Husband’ to wait for.
Black*Star and Tsubaki went together. They were fighting off a deadly sweep of a virus in Europe and had denied treatment when they had been infected so children could have a better chance of surviving. Patty managed to create a vaccine for it, but ‘died’ four times all the while.
The two had walked to the Gate of The Afterlife and plopped down beside Maka, laughing and catching up with their lost friend. Kid smiled and turned away for the second time.
Soul had died in a battle with an evil witch when he jumped in front of the way to save a child. The witch had been killed, but The Last Death Scythe had died as a result. Soul had walked next to Kid slowly and they talked, knowing this was the last time they’d see one another for a great many years.
And when he turned to leave his friends at the Gate of the Afterlife, they had pulled him into a hug, crying and begging him to take his sweet old time.
And now, the God of Death walked away, with Liz on one arm and Patty on the other.
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It was nearly 2,000 years later when Kid and Liz had decided that they had lived long enough. Their time as rulers had been dubbed ‘The Golden Age’ by, well, everyone. Patty had saved countless animal species from extinction, including humans, hundreds of times and was credited as the best scientist that had ever lived.
And so the three people stood in a silent Death Room, gathering around a small grey bundle in Kid’s skinny arms. The child had been a girl, with Sanzu Lines running horizontal on the opposite side of her head than Kid. She blinked large sky blue eyes up at them and giggled.
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As the child grew, her name came to be Death the Kid, just like her father, but he hadn’t been called ‘Kid’ in at least 2,000 years, so that nickname was no longer his. She didn’t have OCD, instead she had horrible anxiety and Kid had figured it was caused by her being a Fragment of Knowledge, where him being a Fragment of Law had caused his own disorder.
But she was loved anyway.
Patty had moved from her lab in Africa back to Death City to help raise her sister’s child. She had laughed when the new Kid shared the same look of disgust as her father. And by age two, Kid was able to name every animal by its scientifically correct name. The younger Demon Pistol was proud.
Liz had heard her husband talk about he had practically raised himself in the halls of Gallows Manor, and she promptly decided that her child would not be left alone in such a big house. It wasn’t right. She took pride in teaching her daughter how to wield a scythe properly and a pistol.
Death saw his daughter grow and he taught her everything his father had taught him. There was no doubting this girl was the child of Death himself when his daughter unleashed hell upon an unsuspecting Kishin egg.
And ironically enough, her weapon partner ended up being a scythe who was the descendant of Maka and Soul, while her best friend was the descendant of Stein and Marie, who wielded the descendent of Tsubaki and Black*Star.
Lord Death and his Angels had smiled upon their child as she connected her first Line of Sanzu. It sent shockwaves through Kid’s soul and he tipped over, mask cracking.
When she connected her second, more cracks in Kid’s mask appeared, and at some parts, it began to crumble away.
And with a knowing look, the three knew they didn’t have much longer left.
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It had been a long and strenuous battle against a Kishin egg that had absorbed some of Asura’s abilities from the moon itself. And now, Lord Death was being supported by his wife and his sister-in-law as the hole through his body refused to close, but he had managed to kill it.
His daughter ran in, eyes wide and nearly breathless as she saw the state of her father. “Dad?”
He smiled and that’s when he saw the Lines of Sanzu glow in her black hair before encasing her skull, the third beginning to connect slowly, just as his had, many millennia prior.
“Ah, so it’s time already?” Death had laughed as Liz and Patty shared a knowing look. Death’s own lines encased his head as his daughter’s continued to connect. “Looks like you’ll be Shinigami before you know it, Kid.”
“Dad? Please, don’t.” Kid had begged, tears now streaking her dust covered face. “I still need you. Don’t disappear now. Please!”
Death smiled softly. He had told his daughter of what was to happen when the third line connected, but she had thought it would take years for that to happen. She was wrong, it had taken only a few short weeks.
“Come on, Kid.” Liz laughed, forcing herself not to cry. “You’ll do a lot better than us. And besides, you can still knock on Death’s Gate anytime you want to talk to us!”
“Yeah!” Patty agreed with a large smile. “We’ve always got your back!”
Kid sniffled, her tears refusing to stop, even when the girls left their Meister’s side to hug the child. Kid simply sighed and stepped up to her before delivering a small kiss to her forehead.
“Be brave won’t you? It defeats all fear.” Kid said lowly.
Their daughter looked at her parents and nodded, sniffling as her third line connected. There was a bright flash of light and suddenly, Kid was a full Shinigami.
Lord Death gave a small laugh before giving a small two fingered salute to his daughter. He uttered the words his father had said before he died, “See ya~!”
And just like that, The Scientist Patricia Thompson, Lady Death Elizabeth Thompson, and Lord Death the Kid, turned to dust.
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“TOOK YA LONG ENOUGH!” Black*Star shouted as he hooked an arm around Kid’s neck as he appeared in front of the Gates of the Afterlife. He ruffled Kid’s hair and was grinning like a maniac.“A BIG GOD LIKE ME WAS GETTING LONELY.”
Tsubaki laughed. “He means we’re glad to see you again Kid, Liz, Patty.”
“We are too!” Patty laughed, finally releasing Maka and Soul from her bear hug. “It’s been such a long time! I missed all of you!”
“And we have over 2,000 years of stories to tell.” Liz grinned at them as she released Tsubaki. “So, how was the wait?”
“Boring and uncool.” Soul sighed and after a few moments while he recovered from a vicious Maka Chop, he finally finished with, “But, worth it. We missed you guys.”
“Same here.” Kid laughed as he managed to pry himself free from Black*Star’s clutches. “So, what do you say? Are you guys ready to see what lies ahead of us?”
And then, they all passed through the gate to the Afterlife as if no time had passed at all.
“A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body.”
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KidLiz week was great and I had an amazing time writing for it!
I’d really love some feedback on this piece, it’s the longest one I’ve ever done for SOul Eater, so I’d love to know how it was. :)
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