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Death is a part of life as life is part of death. As an assassin this is something I learned young, but then one thing changed my views. It all started at a company that I was to kill the CEO of. I walked in with my gun pressed against my side. I looked around, not surprised no one noticed me. With my business suit most people would think I was just another of the boss' many business partners. As I walk up to his private elevator a body guard stopped me, checked my papers, and demanded a body search. I agreed and as I expected he found my gun and held it up curiously, "A guy can never be too careful," he said as he pressed a button opening the elevator and I went inside. As I rode up I smirked at the fact I still had my throwing knives hidden in various parts of my suit. The elevator came to a stop and the doors opened. "Ah, welcome Mr. uh Mr," the CEO looked at me for a name. "I go by Mr. Death, because I deal in weaponry." "Ah, yes, Mr. Death you had a proposition for me?" He's eyes twinkled the way greedy men's eyes do when money is involved. Making money. "Yes, there is a plot of land I am selling." I smirked, "Now your plant's security is severely lacking so you rent this land, build a facility on it, and I will train your men to be better at security." His nose wrinkled as he did some math. For the next few hours we discussed my plan. We had finally settled on a deal when I noticed two rings in a case and looked at them. "Ah, I see you are noticing my collection ,Mr. Death," he smiled excitedly. "Those are the mythical rings of Life and Death, which are said to grant their powers to whomever is worthy." The rings of Life and Death huh, I thought. "I see, well thank you Mr. Arisok." I had my knife out and thrown by the time I finished his name. The knife landed perfectly in his throat splattering blood all over and his eyes seemed to be asking why. I explained "just business you know." Just as he fell down I turned to the rings. One was black as a starless night sky. The other was lively and seemed rainbow colored but changed colors. I took the black one and looked at it. "Must be the ring of Death." I took both rings and slipped them on to better hide them. No one ever checks the fingers. No sooner did I put them on than some guys busted in, took stock of the room, looked at me, and started firing. I dodged easily killing two with throwing knives. No sooner did I land than the shooting stopped. A second later I heard a noise, and moved from my cover, as a huge claymore came crashing down cutting the desk in half. I looked at the guy holding the swords and swore I was looking at Heracules. He took another swing I couldn't avoid so threw up my arms bracing myself for the blow. It never came. As if by some invisible force the giant of a man couldn't bring his sword farther than an inch from my arms. I lowered my right hand , waved my hand in front of the sword ,and it turned into molten metal. Then I punched the guy and sent him flying and some how set him on fire. As I was standing there as shocked as the guards, I heard a helicopter outside the glass window wall. When I looked I realized I wasn't in shock and hearing things. Then a woman's voice boomed through a speaker, "jump onto the helicopter now!!!" Without hesitation I did so ,barely catching the feet. Then a woman helped me up into the helicopter as it flew off. "Names Crystal, and you?" The woman looked at me. "Death, who are you guys, not my extraction?" I looked at the pilot only to see there was no pilot "Just me, and I'm with Cerberus." She laughed. "I thought you guys were like a death worshiping group." "Most people do, but we're honestly just a group of people who know more then most. For instance those rings of yours. We go after objects like those to prevent them from getting into the wrong hands." She smiled. "Ya know, when you stopped that blade, that was the life ring creating a barrier to protect you. The life ring can protect its wearer from harm, heal wounds, and raise the dead. It's the rainbow colored one. The black one is the death ring. It has control of fire, ice, and lightning and allows the wearer to kill someone with a wave of their hand. Now ,I'm sure your wondering how I know you wanted to know this and it's because of the bracelet of Knowledge." "So, these rings kinda work like white and black magic?" She shakes her head. "No because these are much more powerful. These contain the souls of their previous owner. In your rings' case, Death and Life." "You make it sound like they were gods." "Oi boy, I am a god, not were, I ain't dead." "Oh, hush brother you technically are." I look at Crystal confused. She just laughs. "Besides brother most people do not remember us so it is irrelevant." "Wait ,are my rings talking?" I look even more confused.

"You bet your wooden nickel we are and what do you mean your rings? Why, I'll have you know this here is my ring not yours. I'm just in it that's all." "Ok, did you somehow drug me, what's going on?" "Ok, guys you're awake, so you should explain." Suddenly both rings start to glow and then melt into a mist which forms two people. One is a guy with a leather jacket, jeans, and black cowboy boots. He also has a black cowboy hat covering his black hair. He wore the black ring. The other was a woman who was dressed in a spring jacket, standard type tee, jeans, and white shoes. Her blonde hair went to her shoulders. She wore the rainbow ring. I looked between them and realize the guy had a black shirt with a wolf on and he had sunglasses on. "Wha-what? Who are these guys?' "Why I am Life," the woman spoke in a gentle sweet voice," and he is my brother" "I'm death , and thanks sis but I can introduce meself." He shakes my hand vigorously. "Thanks for waking us up. By the way most o' my kin including Knowledge here," he points to Crystal's bracelet, "is still a nappin'." "You see, about oh, what has it been a millennium, we have been asleep as a protection." "But you see, to keep things a workin we split our souls, er ,well, the others did, and put it into an item of theirs and hid it. I put myself in my ring but and made it emanate my power. Being Death makes two things impossible, to have your own soul and to die." "That's a given though isn't it? I mean if you're Death, you can't die anyway." "He has a way of stating the obvious," said Life, "but one thing is true young man, we are total opposites. While I create life and am a lady, he takes life away and is more..." Death simply says "country" and scoffs. "Er, yes. Anyway you were worthy enough to use our powers and I for one think you should join and help Cerberus." "Oi, Cerby don't....oh the group," Death scoffs again, "Yea sure, useless group if you ask me. Fighting a god killer isn't exactly what you would call wise." "Usually I disagree with my brother but he is right here. This foe is unbeatable." Death, yet again, scoffs. "Yes dear brother?" "He's killable, everything is, but you gotta take out his power sources. But he has some of the most powerful creatures guarding them and they're all immune to my powers, 'cept Scythe, ain't nothing immune to his blade." "Scythe?" I look at Death confused. "Me scythe. He's a great weapon wouldn't trade him for anything." A scythe appears in his hand. "Ah, old friend how are you?" It seems to resonate. "Hmm good, good." Death sighs "I guess we're in for a heck of a time when we get back home eh, buddy?" "Brother when you are done playing with your toy I believe this young lady wishes to speak." The scythe resonates angrily. "Oh, hush will you." "Well, anyway we're always looking for new recruits, you in?" Crystal looks at me. "What? Me? Why me? I'm just an assassin, what good can I do, especially against a god killer!" Death and Life look at each other. "Well young man, you see, you awoke us," said Life, "so Cerberus, whom I've always supported since their founding, and no not your precious puppy, brother, could use you in waking all the gods." "And what of these monsters, like I'm going to do any good against them!" "Well, Cerberus, again brother the group, could trai..." Before Life can finish, the copter suddenly jolts and next thing I know I'm laying in sand. When I sat up I wished I hadn't. Standing there was a man who looked like a normal guy but his eyes were like cooled embers, and he had a sword that made the claymore look like a toothpick. Then I actually looked at him. Picture Heracules on steroids with a half burnt face. Now multiply that by ten and you got a good idea of what this guy looked like. "The god killer," Death scoffs, "letting yourself go I see." Just then the man changed. Now picture the world's best salesman mixed with the best looking model and you got him. "Ah, now that's better to kill ye in, cause ye look like yer bout to be in a funeral any ways." I will never understand the way Death talks or the way he acts, because after that little talk he attacked this guy with a flurry, his scythe changing into a ton of different weapons. The god killer just stood there grinning. "Ah, Death, how wonderful to see you again," The guy's voice flowed like molten lava, "but you know you cannot defeat me." With that he simply waved his hand like ridding himself of a smell and sent Death flying back, landing at my feet. I stood there in awe. "Ha, mortal, you see your gods how one cowers and one cannot defeat me! None can defeat the great Khilon!" "Ki lawn? What kind of name is that?" "HOW DARE YOU INSULT ME!" he shouted. I moved just as a tower of lava erupted beneath me. "Holy!" I stared at the lava, scared to death of this guy. Well, Death was next to me, so technically it's literal. Death got up, started an attack, then threw his scythe which had turned into a knife, at me. "I got an idea, try it!" Death shouted. I threw the knife, missing my target, but still hit the guy in the arm. "You cannot hurt me!" He laughed, which slowly stopped as he became puzzled and looked at his arm. "This feeling....pain." He tore the knife out and threw it at me but Death called it back and when I looked the guy was gone. "Two things, one how did that knife not hit me, two what just happened." Crystal answered, "Death's scythe can be recalled to its owner after it leaves their hands and you just found a way to defeat him." "We did, did we? Guess we did. It was Scythe's idea. I guess Dad's crazy prediction we would have to combine with the mortals wasn't crazy at all." Death pulls a candy cane out of his jacket and sticks it in his mouth. "Still be a good idea to take out his power. It'll be easier then. 'Course that would mean destroying seven heavily guarded items, four of which are in my realm." "Well, lets get to CHQ and figure this out," Crystal limped over from the wreckage of the helicopter. "Don't know how we're going to get there." "You forget dear, you have gods here." Life then snaps her fingers and we are in a hall black as Death's ring and some guards are bowing. "Bout time I'm recognized." Death says, then leads us to his leader somehow knowing exactly where to go. "Yo, Bill long time no see." An older man is sitting in a chair looking at some artifacts. "Ah, Death I see you are awake finally." He looks over all of us. "Life, I would bow but my body prevents that as you know. Crystal, you did well, go see the first aid tech." Crystal leaves, "Now, young man I don't know you but I know of you." "Hey, old man can this wait we kinda almost got killed by the god killer." Death groans, "and seriously can't a guy get some food around here I'm starving. Being asleep for at least a thousand years will do that to ya." The old man chuckles and leads us to the cafeteria at the facility. We get food and I start to eat, not having realizing how hungry I was. "Hey Bill we got some news for you," Death says with food in his mouth, "the god killer isn't invincible, this kid here hurt him using Scythe of course." "Brother, do clear your mouth before speaking." Life sighs, "I'm terribly sorry Bill but you know how brother can be but he is right. It seems when gods and mortals work together they can hurt the god killer." "Yeah," Death swallows his food, "but what gods would want to work with a mortal?" "Why, you and Life of course." "No way! I ain't spending no more time in this ring!" "And what if I say so son?" I look at the new speaker. Old guy in new clothes but it looked mix matched yet good. "Then you will." "Dad! Gah, come on be reasonable." Scythe resonates, "you agree?" Death bangs his head on the table groaning. "Give me a break!" "You could just be in the ring and give the wearer access to its abilities and do what you want without hurting them?" "Fine, I'll do it but I pick the wearer!" Death glances at me, "well, Scythe too. He'll be upset if he doesn't have a say." Death melts into mist and turns back into the ring on my hand. "This kid is the only one I'll work with. Course he is Death the Kidd." Everyone laughed at that. "Yea, I know who you are Kidd." "What?" I sigh. Great, dragged into another thing. "Oh, don't worry dear, we'll help. Besides the god killer is why you're as family less as you are. He also killed your fiancée." Right then I snapped. "I'm in. He will pay for everything he's done." "Good, I was hoping you would say that. Now if we end up in a fight you just have to stick your hand out and Scythe will appear." Death re-forms in front of me but I still have the ring on. "Come on follow me." He leads me to a fighting area. "What weapons are you good with?" "Any blade in the sword or knife family and every gun. I'm decent with nun chucks though not really, why?" "Scythe can change his shape to fit the users wants and preferred fighting style. Now try summoning him." I try and nothing happens. Death then shows me how to do it and after a while I manage to summon a sword. "That's him?" "Yep, it is. When you summon him he'll be in your preferred form in most situations. Now if you're summoning him to spook people he'll be in scythe form." Scythe resonates. "Uh, did he just say hi?" "Eeyup, Scythe can commune with those he wants. You, obviously, he likes. Now onto training you to use the abilities." For the next few hours we trained in everything from magic I could use to controlling Scythe's shape. "Now life has a similar weapon to Scythe but she's a staff. You'll have access to both and Life will Teach you the abilities you get from her but my training will help. Oh, and one last thing kid, if you ever need help in a fight just take either ring off and throw it on the ground. We'll be there with our weapons and you'll get a weapon from my arsenal." "Brother, who said I was going?" Life walks down. "You know sis, you volunteered me, so you are coming too. Complete the package if you will." "Fine, but only because I'm the protection part of it." And with that I trained with Life on all my protection and healing abilities. With some nagging on my grooming as a side note. "Now one last thing." The hip old guy walks in. "I'm Chaos by the way, the father of these two. Do your weapon summoning now." I did so and looked at him confused. "Now put them away and do it holding your hands near each other." I did so and a katana with its sheath appears. "Draw it and slice at the dummy quickly from your spot and sheath it again." I took a deep breath holding the sword next to my side, then drew it slicing multiple times in a slight show-off way and resheathed the sword exhaling my breath. I watched the dummy as I heard it click in the sheath. The dummy then fell apart by lines I had cut. "Whoa!" "the daemon katana cuts anything." Chaos crosses his arms. "While wielding this you'll strike faster but it strains you. Use it in extreme situations only. My son's scythe has a similar form but doesn't use the same style of fighting." I make the sword disappear. "Now then, the first temple we know of is in an old Aztec ruin. You'll be looking for the crown of the king. Destroy it with the sword I just taught you how to summon." "Thank you Chaos, but what about the other gods asleep? Wouldn't they be useful as well in helping us gain the ability to get to the artifacts?" "You've resigned to this fairly quickly. Why?" "Better than my old job, honestly." "But yes, we will wake other gods as you come across them." With that I left to go get a ticket to Mexico. "Dear, shouldn't you be wearing sunscreen?" Life asks once arriving in Mexico. "No, I've got a good enough hat." I said aloud "My hat at that!" Death interrupted. "Also just direct your thoughts to us. Don't need to attract unwanted mortal attention, eh?" "Didn't think of that but I have a Bluetooth headset in so it's fine." "Good planning Kidd. Do you know what we're looking for exactly?" I walk up to a vendor and ask about any Aztec ruins, having death ask through me. The vendor points to a big temple. Death thanks him and I start walking that way. "How do you know so much Spanish?" "Simple, these people love me, I used to spend a good amount of time here." We get bumped by someone. "Hey! Get that kid he stole something." I checked my pockets and sure enough they did. I ran after them through the streets eventually cornering him. "Give me back the money you stole." The boy didn't give it back. Then something Death said sparked an idea. "Hey, death can u make me look like I have a black cloak and put black smoke around me?" Death chuckles and does so and I summon Scythe to my hand and the boy cowers and leaves my money, running away. "Ha ha, good job Kidd. I couldn't...well I coulda done a better job, but either way good job. Now lets go to the temple." I start heading back to the temple. "Heh, oh how ironic it's a temple to me. Shoulda figured he'd put one here." "So you know what to expect in there?" "Yep, mummies, traps of all kinds, poison pits, acid pits, snake bites. You name it and if it kills you its most likely in here." I summon the weapons both in a katana form and then I go into the temple. After no more than two steps a plate pressed down, lighting all torches and started up the poison arrow hallway trap. "So clichéd. Wave your hand and melt them all. So simple." I do as Death suggested and it worked. As we venture deeper into the temple we come across everything Death mentioned except mummies. Then I heard stone breaking and looked behind me seeing a mummy coming out of a coffin. "Spoke too soon." I said. I swung Scythe decapitating it . The farther we got the more mummies and traps we ran into. "More traps than I expected" I cut a mummy down. "We should be nearing the creatures lair. Wonder what it is?" All of a sudden we heard a growl. We entered the next room only to be met with a huge dog head blocking our way growling at us. Then it reared its head back and I thought I was seeing things. It wasn't just a big dog it was a huge three headed dog. "Cerb! I haven't seen you in ages!" Death came out and the dog lowered its head and Death hugged him. "That's a good boy. That's my puppy." "Oh, please brother. Cerberus is not a puppy anymore. He hasn't been for almost eight thousand years." "I know that, but he will always be my little puppy." Death then begins to play with Cerberus after he shrank to the size of a German Sheppard. "So Cerberus is Death's dog?" I watched totally confused. "Yes, indeed he is. My brother has had that dog for eons. I honestly do not see the appeal, or understand why he insists on calling Cerberus a puppy." "So Cerb, ready to go adventuring again?" Cerb's heads all bark in agreement. "So where is this artifact anyway?" Cerberus then begins running off in one direction. "Cerb wait!" Death runs after him. "Oh dear." Life and I both run after them. When we finally catch up to them they are in a room with a portal. "What's that?" "Why, that Kidd is our ticket to find that artifact. Through here lies the fox band, a great friend he was. Lets go!" And with that Death and Life go back into the rings and I walk through. On the other side was a massive ice cavern that was shining and quite beautiful. Out of paranoia I drew Scythe and Life's staff. Then I heard a deep growl. Deeper than Cerb's. As I looked for the source I saw a pair of yellow eyes and a column of fire flying toward me. Life's staff turned into a shield and protected me from it. "Whoa! What the!" "Fire dragon kid, watch out, stick Scythe in an eye, that oughta do it." "Easier said than done." And with that I went closer blocking all fire blasts holding Scythe in its original form. Once I got closer the dragon showed itself. A huge red scaled dragon with a very dangerous looking spiked tail. I braced myself, ready to move when needed. It suddenly whipped out at me with its tail which I blocked but then it's claw came down too and I moved barely dodging the tail and claw. This type of block and dodge ballet went on for sometime. Finally the dragon got me in the leg by faining with two claws then it's tail got me in the leg. As the dragon prepared to finish me with its claws some ice smacked it in the head and it turned to see Cerb's full form growling "That a boy Cerb!" The dragon then turned it's attention to him. "Now while it's distracted run up the back and stab its eyes." I struggled to get up but when I did I felt wobbly. Just then I heard Cerb yelp and I looked. The dragon had gotten Cerb in the side with the tail Upon seeing that, I felt a strange rage in me. Time seemed to slow down as the dragon turned to me beginning in its mouth. "How dare you hurt Cerberus!" I yelled feeling extremely angry. He had led us here and only for my lack of action did he get hurt. Scythe and Staff changed into glaives as I threw them hitting the dragon dead center in both eyes killing it instantly. I held my hands out and the weapons returned to me. Cerb whimpered and I ran over. Life and Death cameout of their rings. "Cerb!" Death ran over and hugged one of the necks. "Shh ,shh its ok boy, it's ok. Let ol' Death fix you right up." With that he made a first aid kit and began treating the wound. "Oh really Death, I am alright it was just a graze." "He can talk?!" I stood astonished at the fact the middle head of Cerberus just opened its mouth and spoke. "Of course young man, how else am I to enforce Death's will?" "Cerb have you been hanging around Life again?" He just whimpers and looks innocent. "Oh, alright." Death gives him a treat. "Well, this is all fine and dandy but shouldn't we wake your fox god friend?" "Hey I'm already awake. I mean really how could a guy sleep through all that noise?" A guy with fox ears and tail is sitting on an ice pillar. "And I was having a nice nap too." I looked him over and was a bit amazed. Slightly muscled with a kind of gi outfit with no sleeves and the head band that was on the pedestal. "And hello to you too Fox," Death scoffs, "you always nap." "Death!" Fox flew from the pillar tackle hugging him. "Long time no see buddy!" "Fox off NOW!" Fox whimpered as he got off. "Time to go guys." He snapped he's fingers and the portal started turning the other way. As we went through I was lost in thought. Life had healed my leg so I was fine for walking. "Kidd got any family?" I looked up after stepping through and we were back at the base. "No, never had any." Just then a bunch of people I had seen earlier jumped out and yelled surprise. "What?" "Why Kidd it's your birthday how could you forget that?" My birthday. I haven't thought about that since I became an assassin. I smiled for the first time in forever. So for the next few hours we had fun with the party, people congratulating me, fox nomming endlessly on treats, everyone just having fun. Halfway through I was laughing and talking to Chaos and Death when suddenly, just like in cartoons, we heard the scratch and wavering of the song before it stopped after a squish. We all looked at the source of the sound. Cerberus had hopped on the cake crushing it. "Cerberus!" Death yelled. "That was good cake." Cerberus didn't respond, happily licking cake off his faces. We then heard a creaking and the table broke. When Cerberus popped back up we all laughed as we had three Santas right there. I smiled and thought, so this is what it's like to have a family.