Soul Awakening

Chapter 10 "Death"

-Azusa: I lay her out on the floor, she can't make it to the nurse without losing too much blood. I stand and examine the mirror, a million questions and thoughts running through my mind, and I glance down at Tsubaki. I decide to push these thoughts out until later and continue watching the death of Medusa once and for all, I close my eyes and concentrate, when I open my eyes I'm back in the dark space where Medusa now has lost not only her bottom left arm, but her right foot, and one eye. "Sir, if I may, what exactly do you have to do, I thought taking a witches soul would mean absolute death?"
-Lord Death: "Ahh yes, you see, a witches magic is very powerful, with the right spell, technique, and magical stamina, said witch could easily resurrect herself as long as her soul is in tact. Unfortunately, eaten or not, it's still her soul, but just much more difficult to obtain since her soul now resides in a death scythes existence. A death scythe is almost like a cage, and there is only one key."
-Azusa: "With all due respect sir, why didn't you inform at least your death scythes of this!? This information is crucial to our existence!"
-Lord Death: "Azusa..." I turn and glare down at my scythe, towering over her, she straightens up. "Do not raise your voice at me little one."
-Azusa: For the first time i feel utterly powerless, feeling like if he were to strike me I wouldn't even have the ability to protect myself in the slightest. With this side of Lord Death, I have no right to voice an opinion, that much is clear now. I bow my head in obedience and he goes back to Medusa.
-Lord Death: "Even the witch within you could resurrect if she had the power to do so, you would lose your power as a death scythe and be just a normal weapon again. But I cannot tell you where the 'key' is."
-Azusa: "Y...Yes sir." Despite wanting to press the answer out of him, I'm smart enough to know when I'm about to cross a line with him now. It's safe to eliminate the Elder Witch, there's no way she wouldn't take advantage of this 'key' Lord Death speaks of to bring all her witches back every time one of them were killed. I doubt Lord Death has it, if he could easily trap a witches soul in a person he would've killed them all off from the start, instead of having his students chase them down and collect Kishan and witch souls themsel- "That's it!" I look up at Lord Death and I'm caught off guard by the site of him slowly ripping Medusa's head off. Blood spewing everywhere as her limbs lay everywhere, she screams through her teeth until her head finally separates. I sit there horrified, I've seen quite a lot of gore in my days but I've never witnessed Lord Death do anything of this sort, this is definitely not the Shinigami I want to cross.
-Lord Death: As the severed limbs lay sprawled out around the floor, pooling more and more blood around me.
-Azusa: A massive gaping hole appears in Lord Death, where his chest and stomach would be if he had a regular human body, it's clearly a giant mouth as the teeth become visibl, big and sharp, a lot like Soul's. The mouth grins hard as blood drools from the corner of its mouth.
-Lord Death: "Thank you for the food." And in a split second in devours all pieces of Medusa, including the blood pool.
-Azusa: I retract my thoughts, knowing I was probably wrong, seeing this side of Lord Death makes me realize there is a massive amount of information I have yet to know about him, about myself even as a weapon. As the mouth licks up the blood, a swirling vortex like image appears in its place, and soon Medusa's soul is visible, I watch as its dragged into the vortex being sucked into a black hole. I gulp, "so...you're the key, sir." I asked, voice shaking in fear that I've overstepped again. All he does is chuckle a low raspy laugh as if mocking me a little. I lower my head, wrong again.
-Lord Death: "Curious little weapon aren't you. No I am not the key, I am the lock. My weapons are the cage, I am lock, my soul is the door, but the key, ohoho you want to know the key don't you?"
-Azusa: "Only if you wish to tell me, sir."
-Lord Death: "Would you like to find out for yourself?"
-Azusa: I glance up and jolt when I see his angry eyes glaring at me inches from my face, even bending over to meet my face, he's still three times my size. I shiver, he throws his head back and laughs. "Lord Death I-" Out of nowhere his body slowly spins and shrinks, taking a different form. A moment passes and before me is a tall man, taller than Stein standing elegantly in front of me, a cold stare that blisters into my body as he takes a step towards me, his hair just above his shoulders, pitch black. His eyes yellow with a red tint, his face is almost perfectly shaped. He wears an expensive suit perfectly fitted to him with a necktie shaped like Kid's, his hair parted perfectly to one side but still his bangs draped over his eyes a bit. His steps are long, yet it takes him a few steps to get to me, he places his hand on my shoulder and smiles softly. For a second I am dizzy, what is this? "Lord...Death..."
-Lord Death: I smile gently as I watch the life leave her eyes, I trail my hand to the middle of her chest, between her breasts and gently pull her soul out. "You won't be needing this."