[/)eathKiller]

"Do you think death is really going to ever see us again?"

"I think you need to shut up and forget about that guy!"

"aww leave kimagure alone, flare, I think she's just got a thing for him that's all..."

"THAT'D BE HE DAY!"

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when we saw the city we couldn't belive our eyes, our mage, NineSpearRunninBobCat... had an absolute feild day. He said that one could spend a good 500 years in the city and still not know everything there was to know in it. The wealth of knowledge was incredible, the fountains poured with water said to prolong life... but no mortal men were allowed to drink from them... our party ventured down the streets which seemed to be paved of pool and fusia... then then saw the mayor who had his usuall bitter news... though it was a paradise, it was very prone to dark infiltration...

-chapter 4 The City of Falis

"JUST LOOK AT IT!"

"ITS BEAUTIFULL!"

"wow.. I didn't think we'd get here in less than 2 days!"

"MY GOD MY GOD MY GOD LOOK AT ALL THE ARCHITEXTURE!"

"I so wanna take a dip in that onsen mmm I bet its unisex..." Flare got whacked in the head by a vein-popping Kimagure...

"I bet if Death was here he'd have something to say too..."

"Would you shut up about him arleady!"

"shut up about who?"

everyone turned and saw death standing behind them...

"how did you get here?"

"I jumped" he said smiling...

"This guy is really starting to creep me out..."

Kimagure ran up to death and wrapped her arms aorund him, suprising him, she then stepped back a good few feet and said.. "i'm sorryI just though that we'd never see you again.. I wanted to thank you for saving us from those spiders... hee..."

"well you were the one who cast the spell!"

"but you knew just which spell i should cast... "she placed her hands on her face to only highlight the fact that she was blushing... "ehe well it's almost like you knew me from childhood up..."

Death forced a smile... "well ya know what they said..."

"what do THEY say..." Flare said rudely... Alice tried calming him down...

"umm When in Rome do as the Roman's do !"

"Which is what? Steal all the ladie's hearts?"

"Shuddup flare!"

"make me!"

"YEAAH!"

The three started running toward the city...

death looked straight up at the small black triangle in the sky...

"Silent running mode... meet me outside of the city at 4 in the morning, got it?"

The small aircraft nodded and shot out of sight...

Death started walking down the streets... he was getting alot of odd looks from the mages passing by... one policemage materialzed in front of him with his hand extended... "excuse me young man but you bare the look of a dark warlord... we don't want any trouble now... please state your name and occupation...

"Deathkiller... killing death..."

... "pro- proceed..."

the police mage stepped out of his way... death just kept on walking... he caught up with alice who was staring into the window of a magical candy shop, here eyes were glased and her transfixed look only went along with her salivating jaws...

"umm hi alice..."

"OH HEY" she snapped from her hypnotic trance and looked at death...

"so you want something in that store?"

"YEAH YEAH..."

"heh why don't you go on in..."

"they say the candy is too expensive..."

"we'll see about that..."

Death walked up to the counter with alice hiding behind him from the shop owners gaze... "oh no... shes back... and she's luered you into getting her some sweets ehehe...

"Oh don't mind me sir"
death quickly put on a set of dark glasses and looked at the mage smiling

"I would'nt mind wondering just what this jar could get me?"

he placed a jar filled to the brim of spider mabrosia on the counter... the shope keep examined the jaw and waved a wand at it, the wand turned green and he jumped back...

"Umm! WELL that's quite a find you've got there sonney.. umm where did you get such a thing?"

"you don't wanna know..."

"I suppose I don't... so umm.. Well It could get you one of everything in the store really!"

"ok, do you have any candy made from ambrosia?"

The shopkeeps eyes narrowed and looked at death peculiarly... "lad... I dont carry such fine deserts..."

"well if you had such a jar of ambrosia woul dyou be able to make a treat or rather a series of treats from it?"

"yes... yes I would..."

"Then I'll raise you this second bottle" deaht put another full jar of spider juice on the counter and then pulled out some platinum shillings.. "and raise you these if you can take this second jar and turn it into something small and sweet, about 40-50 peices of such candy would be desired by me...."

"son, for that much I could make you 500!"

"well then do it!"

The shop keep stored the seond bottle in a secret safe, he took the other bottle and cast a spell on it, he then added some better tasting ingrediants and hadned death the jar in a bag which was now harened and turned into a series of soft gummi treats...

"Thank you kind sir... oh and remember to give her" death pointed his thumb at the girl "one of everything..." he smield and wakled out of the store...

Alice's glazed eyes shone with delight as she went wild picking everyitng off of the shelves and walking up to the register with an armload-full...

"jeeez!"

Meanwhile at the onsen Flare had stepped up to the counter...

"Im curiouse, is it all still in one room like before..."

"not anymore, a few months back this big burley armored guy came in and tried to get a peek at all of the girls, he caused such a rucuss that the old person who ran this place commited the act of Sepuku and left it to me, his grandson to take care of... I've rearanged it completlley into two seperate baths..."

Flare thoguht back to the incident a few months back... "ehe well then that's all right, Ill be seeing you later ehe... heh..."

Kimagure was looking through some spell books in a shop... the librarian there was giving her funny looks... "No Memorizing those without PAYING for them!"

"i'm just checking the titles I promise!"

"then why are you taking 20 minutes to READ A TITLE!"

"um uh.."

"PAY FOR THAT BOOK! NOW!"

"here's payment for the book" death stepped in and flung a gold coin onto the counter, he then took the book from Kimagure and ran through it so rapidly there was no way he could have read a thing in it...

"Oh please this thing's a load of crap, let me show you something Kima..."

He grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the store..

"But I was going to learn the Labarytnth Map Spell so we could find our way through catacombs and stuff!"

"LIsten carefull, I'm going to give you something that no one on this earth is supposed to read except me... take this book..."

Kima was slipped a brown covered book that looked exceptionally moldy and all of the pages had turned yellow...

"What am I supposed to do with this?"

"I recomend you find a nice quiet place where you can be alone with good shade and lighting... READ every page of it... then burn it to smitherines..."

"but I-..."

"just do it..."

Death walked out of the store... Flare shot into the store and walked right up to Kimagure... "ah good you found a spell book, just listen to me... I need to borrow your makeup!"

"...you WHAT?!"

"JUST LET ME HAVE IT FOR A SECOND!"

She pulled out a vanity case and he looked intot he mirror with his back turned, he started furriously padding and scripling and then he handed it back to her... "PERFECT!"

he then took off the top part of his armor and stuffed it up his shirt...

"YES!"

then he added eyeshadow and turned back toward kimagure...

"WHADAYATHINK!!"

"...i think you look like a clown..."

"A girley clown?"

"urr yeah..."

"PURRFECT!"

He ran off to the onsent... he tried making up the most girley voice he could...

"ehem *cough cough* OH HELLO there Darrrlink!"

The onsen guy at the boothe stared at him for a minute or two...

"and you are?"

"I was wunderin if I could use your baath see I need to freshun up ya know?"

"...uh... ok... ma'am..."

Flare walked in laughing to himself past the entrance... he heard some gigling beyond the curtain in front of him.. he burst through and ... there were 4 men sitting around all dressed in the same gittup as him... one had a long scragley beard and said "OOHOO IT'S ABOUT TIME SOME... oh.. it's just another one... well JOIN TH' PARTEEHEHEHE!"

He turned around and walked back out...

"well that was fast" said the guy at the counter...

"I think im going to be sick" he said in a low male voice, the guy at the stand jumped back but then saw two coins land on the contertop, he quickly gathered them up and just let the guy in makeup walk RIGHT on out of his establishment..

a policemage appeared in front of Flare...

"EHEM... excuse me... MISS..."

"eehheA I can explain!"

"ah don't worry sugga, you dont have to need no explainin' to talk to me... What'say we go and get a couple of drinks then you can come see my place,.."

Flare narrowed his eyes.... then did the last thing he'd ever expect to say... "i'm a male clown you idiot..."

The Cop Reared his head back with an "EERRRR!!!" and dematerialized without a second thought...

Kimagure rolled over laughing and pointing at Flare... Alice walked up and saw kimagure laughitn, she then turned to where she was pointing, she dropped all of her goodies to just roll around laughing with her...

Death snickered passing him by... "better luck with a date next time eh.. hehe.."

He walked into the bath house...

"I'm here for information..."

"yes sonney?"

"I was curiouse as to whether or not I could collect some water from those fountains..."

"you part of the mage sociotey here?"

"umm not exactly, im kind of out of town..."

"Well those fountains aren't for toursits! and don't try no invisibility tricks either cuz our police can see all spells that go on in this town!"

"hmm, all right, sorry for wasting your time..."

death turned and looked at the fountains...

"hmmm"
he pulled out an ambrosia-M&M and bit it in half... he let it slowly melt in his mouth and then he swallowed the rest...

A dark wave of kai swept over his body but nobody took any notice of it...

Death dissapeared and then reappeared at the other side of town, his empty jar was now filled with a blue, translucent liquid... "this isn't just water..."

he stored it in a pocket on his coat which was proteted from impact... he then walked slowly over to kimagure... he saw her under a tree now... alone... flipping through the pages of the book...

An introduction to the magery of Geromancy, Temporalmancy, Nekromancy, Judomancy, and Tae-bo with bilbo blanks... see pages 1-6000...

AS she flipped each page of the book, she noticed that the page numebrs grew while the number of pages actually being turned didnt... she flipped though 7000 pages of what appeared to be 20 or so... shen then closed the book and re-opened it to one...

"book marks work wonders with this book" death said to kimagure...

She sat up and stared at him... "you read every page of this book and memorized it?"

"read it? oh no, I just wrote it, as if there ever was a bilbo banks.. the tae bo thing was an In-joke..."

"uh...huh..."

"go on check out Judo Mancy, makes anyone proficient in 20 forms of martial arts... You can also contorll which Dan Level you want the person to be, I once made a rubber ducky a yokozuna in sumo wrestling, you shoulda' see that ducky fight!"

Kima chuckled at the thought, then she began transfixed on one page...

"reanimation of the dead made easy?"

"oh let me show you this one.. stand up... c'mon stan up..."

he place his arms over her arms...

"anyone can do it, if they have enough mana... now watch... watch and mimick the movements of me as I move your hands... can you do this..." he then pressed her hands together... then bring them back like this... slowly... slowly now.. concentrate your energy on this point here... that's it.. now bring them apart... and together... and apart and together... but do that about 5 times as fast...

"I... I can't do it..."

"why?"

"I just... cant... it's giving me a headache...."

"ah... you gene pool isnt fit for it... Im sorry I didn't mean to do that... here..."

Death pulled out a glass of water and dropped one of his ambrosia pills in it...

"just drink... drink..."

she swallowed the candied thing along with the glass.. "What was that?"

"you're mana is completley restored... just relax... relax..."

"can you demonstate it for me? then maybe I can understand it better..."

"i... I'd rather not..."

"you can't do it either can you..."

"i... i..."

"it's allright, i won't tell anyone..."

Death looked at her...

"why are you so caring?"

"what do you mean?"

"you look at me like a new toy or something, but you seem incredibly interested because I seem to show affection back... what is it about you that..."

"that what?"

"I've never felt the way about you as I have others..."

"what do you mean..."

"It's not physical, don't get me wrong, it's your personality... it really... corresponds with mine in such a way that... I can't put it in words..."

"Death... you're scaring me..."

"I'm scaring me..."

"do... you..."

"what matter of magic is this..."

Their lips were about to meet... when all of a sudden there was a deep voice that shouted "AH-HAH!"

Death swung away from her gaze and she looked at the still-slightly make-up covered face of Flare... who was narrowly gazing with an "I DID IT I DID IT" kind of expression on his face...

"You'RE NOT A NEKROMANCER YOU'RE A ROMANCER! HAHAH!"

"I beg your pardon?" death said...

"HAH I should've seen it coming, the way she just RAVES about you on end for hours, the way she secretly FLASHED you two nights ago in the APARTMENT! All the clues are starting to come together and make since! YOU TWO ARE HEAD OVER HEELS! well Don't trust this guy Kima! he wanted to leave us Permanently! he told me himself earlier..."

"is that... true?" she said sniffeling and upset....

"it was you're thoguhts abotu me that drew me back.. i'm sorry... I... I cant expalin what's come over me..."

"well I..."

"HAR HAR how about that... he's been paying us with gold and platinum, giving alice candies and sweets to satisfy her needs and its all for himself!!"

"that's not true... I am doing this for the FATE of.. MAN... err... NEKO Kind!!"

"Yeah yeah... go on with your make-belive nonsense.. you're no hero!"

"THAT'S NOT TRUE FLARE!"

Alice spoke up...

"He's Been ten THOUSAND times more kind to US than You've ever BEEN!"

Flare looked around...

"I can't belive you're actually going along with this guy..."

Death's eyes dissapeared behind a black shade created by his hair falling infront of his face as the wind blew from behind..

"He's nothing but a perverted sweet talking BASTARD!!"

"FLARE SHUT UP! YOU'LL PISS OFF ALICE!!"

Alice began snarling... a big of saliva dripped from her mouth... she snorted and red glowing eyes caught everyones attention but Death's who was just sitting there witht he wind blowing, his eyes still invisible from sight...

Alice leapt onto flare and began trying to tear him apart, they were equally matched, flare piner her to the ground then she flipped him over and pined him...

"A.... lice... YOu don't want to Kill me!! I'm your FREIND remember YOUR FRREIND!! remember the time's we had together!! REMEMBER!! THINK"

"RRAAAAAARR"

Kimagure tried to intervine... but death held a firm hand out that held her back...

"WHAT? DO YOU WANT HIM KILLED?"

"no... he has to fight this battle on his own..."

a tear ran down his cheek...

Kima's eyes were begging to well up too...

The female berseker began ripping at Flare's clothing...

"I WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD!" she shreiked...

"ALL THE GOOD TIMES!! REMEMBER THAT TIME I BOUGHT YOU THAT CANDIED SALAMANDER AFTER YOU BEGGED FOR HOURS! REMEMEBR THE KISS YOU GAVE ME ON HE CHEEK AFTERWORD!!!"

He grabbd her arms and held her as close to him as he could... "think back.. calm... down..."

"I.. I'm so sorry Flare..." He lost all of her strenghte and gently hugged him...

"whew...." they both passed out in eachother's arms...

Death started walking outward toward a stream...

"death?... Death where are you going?"

He stood by the waters edge and dipped a hand into the cool water...

"do you feel it..."

"do I feel what?"

"he is here..."

"Who is?"

"The darkness... it has come here and will overwhelm this town..."

"what kind of power are we looking at..."

Death's eyes reappeared...

"It's a Dragon..." (note, if a dragon is being summoned then waters will flow from left to right in quick sucsession on this world)

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"not just any dragon my freind, but you will learn that soon enough MUWHAHAHAHA" a bony hand holding the globe with the image of death reflecting on it shone brightly, darkening everything else in the liche's room...

"Today is the greatest day of my life! when I shall seee not just ONE but two of my brothers SMITTEN simultaneously!