The Blood Moon Killer

Chapter 37: Tale as Old as Time pt. 4

"They were going to sacrifice you?!" Both Aardvark and Whiteout shouted to the couple, "no. They weren't." Souleater hissed, jabbing the ground with his claw. Both of the ancient dragons had begun telling their story to the dragonets, and they could hear one another, but not see each other.

"No, I wasn't going to be the bait, that was for Blackstar to do."

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"Like hell you're using Maka as bait!" The red eyed Nightwing shouted at his friend. "Soul, relax. I'd never put her in danger. I was implying that we have Blackstar pose as her in a believable scenario, have her leave the group, and lure Scarletnight somewhere secluded where we can confront him. Safety in numbers and all that."

"That would be better, but I doubt me getting painted green would make it believable. The wings are a dead giveaway." "Dude. Hello? Animus dragon here!" Soul shouted with a laugh and grabbed a flower bracelet from Tsubaki and held it in his claw "turn into something Maka would like." Slowly, the daisies and tulips shifted into a small copper bracelet with some metal shaped like vines around it. "I enchant it so that the dragon wearing it would look and sound exactly like Makahiya the Leafwing, the dragon shifts back to their normal self once the bracelet is removed."

Once he finished, he showed the bracelet to his friends, then slid it onto his wrist and his snow white scales quickly shifted into an exact copy of his mates, as did the wings, horns, tail... And then there was no more Nightwing, just another Leafwing.

"Ta daa-! Wow. That's different." Soul noted, looking at his new self "I feel so... Small." He then looked at the real one and chuckled "how do I look?" "Terrible. Change back." She ordered, forcefully grabbing his arm and taking off the bracelet. One the metal left his scales, he referred back to his normal self.

"I wanna turn being Maka!" Blackstar shouted, grabbing the bracelet and putting it on his wrist for the same thing to happen. "Leaf powers... GO!" He shouted to the plant that Kid was fixing and stretched his arms out "plant! Grow the leaf that was just plucked!" Blackstar said, arms still outstretched. 

Nothing happened.

"The enchantment only applies to appearances and voice, not actual abilities, Blackstar." Tsubaki said, gently grabbing his arms and placing them on the floor, she had removed the bracelet at the same time "besides," she began, going up to kiss him on the cheek "I like you much better like this." 

Blackstar might've been the strongest assassin back then... But he turned into a muddle of goo once Tsubaki showed him any affection. And as he usually does when something like this happens, his scales go red hot and he flops onto the ground holding his snout.

Tsubaki gave the bracelet to Maka who smiled and placed it on her. "Nothing can beat the original."  Kid looked at his friends "I'll see what I can find on the rumors of some kind of meeting in the woods, if you guys see Scarletnight, don't fight him alone. He'd unpredictable at this point and has nothing to loose." He walked to the door and opened it "good luck."

Kid had some duties at the school to attend to, he was the headmaster's son after all.

"Should we discuss this with Queen Meteora? You do have a meeting with her tomorrow Soul." "Right." He said begrudgingly. It was no secret to him that the Nightwing Queen was in love with the Animus. They were both 19 and grew up with rough families and had unusually pale scales. But the Queen's scales were a lighter shade of grey and she had bright purple eyes.

"I kinda don't wanna go." "It's the Queen." Maka said harshly "if Queen Evergreen summoned me then I'd go." "Even if we were cuddling?" Soul challenged with a smirk. After slight hesitation, Maka nodded. "Yes." "You still hesitated."