Chapter 12 - Chapter 12: for I am truly despair: a new beginning.

: "its ove- ... huh it can't be….. You're meant to be dead!" He said in pure shock as to see that I was no longer on the ground but I was now standing on my two feet with my head putted back in its formed shape before and the aura around me had changed to something... very destructive and chaotic but still felt contained...….. As I was now in control.

: "because I could not stop for death.

He kindly stopped for me.

The carriage held but just ourselves.

And iMmOrtAliTY..... For I am despair.

For I am inevitable.

For I am….. DEATH."

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Death p.o.v:

'I see that he has already accepted his fate and has finally… let go of the past.'

: "THEN THAT MEANS THAT YOU ARE ALREADY IN CONTROL OF MY POWER, WHICH MUST HAVE UNLOCKED SOME OF YOUR HIDDEN ATTRIBUTES TOO…. THAT'S GOOD, MEANING I MADE A GOOD CHOICE BY BEGINNING BACK PROTEUS FROM HIS ETERNAL REST TO HELP ME TRIAL THE BRAT, BY MAKING HIM TO SHAPE SHIFT INTO ONE OF THE BRAT'S MOST HATED BEING... THE VERY ONE WHO WIPED OUT HIS LOVE ONES, THE 11TH EXECUTIONER HAHAHAHA!" I stood up and teleported to the area of the final trial.

Earlier before the trial; during the boy comma:

Still death p.o.v:

'You were not did one in control. So what could have stopped you to resist taking full control?' I thought, as I stared at the brat and noticed something was still disturbing… a bad dream perhaps.

'Maybe… the bad dream could give me the answer to my question.' I brought my right hand and placed it on his fore head as I started to search through his dream space and discovered something.

: "SO THAT IS WHY YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO GAIN CONTROL, BECAUSE YOU ARE STILL HANGING ON TO THE PAST HUH. AND IT SEEMS THAT THE 11TH EXECUTIONER MUST HAVE SCARED YOU FOR LIFE…" I came out of the boys dream space and started to think of a solution… until.

: "OF COURSE, THE ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME ONES FEAR AND PAST IS TO FACE IT ONCE AGAIN. AND I THINK I HAVE SOMEONE JUST IN MIND… AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE IN FACT" I said and then i teleported to an unknown location in limbo.

Unknown location:

I teleported to a forest terrain and it was a thick one if I may add but was a peaceful one indeed.

: "WHO WOULD BE BETTER FOR THIS TRIAL THAN THE GREATEST GOD OF SHAPE SHIFTING… PROTEUS! COME OUT HERE BEFORE I CHOP DOWN YOUR FOREST AGAIN!" I shouted, as in an instant proteus had returned back to his original form after shape shifting into the very wind itself… that is just how good he is in shape shifting.

: "wooh wooh chill man, I knew you were here, sheesh I can't go back to being a forest farmer heck I'm meant to be having an eternal rest ." He said with face palm and faced death.

: "so….what you want old man?" proteus asked death as death glared at him but then relaxed.

: "I NEED A FAVOR…" death said as thee was now silence in the air.

: "nope nope nope not again, go find so one else to kil- I mean ask. Remember when I did you a favor and I look at me now, I'm dead so… no deal doc." Proteus said in annoyance as he had shape shifted into bugs bunny, which just angered death even more.

: "I WASN'T ASKING... I WAS DEMANDING OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE FARMER AGAIN." I summoned my scythe and had threatened to slice down his forest to saw dust.

: " you won't dare" he said and in an instant, a whole oak tree had turned to saw dust as it blew in the wind and proteus broke down to his knees, shedding tears of despair.

: "AAAHHH! Marinade! ." He shouted while crying in grief, as death just stared at him with a face palm.

: "YOU NAME YOUR TREES… WELL THAT'S WEIRD."

: "I took care of them since when they were…. … seed! " he continued to cry on the floor but then got over it after doing a grave for the saw dust remains of the tree.

: "so what you want murder, are you coming after me next!" he said.

: "RELAX OKAY; I WANT YOU TO TEST MY HOST, FOR HIS FINAL TRIAL." I said as I teleported both of us to the boy.

: "THAT IS THE FAVOR, I ASK FROM YOU... SO WILL YOU DO IT.?" I said.

: "are you nut, you expect me to help a dead person" he shouted.

: "YOU ARE A DEAD." I said as he shape shifted into a leaf and started to flow in the wind towards the brat after doing some thinking.

: "hmmmm… good point, okay sure. So what should I do." He returned back to his normal form.

: "I WANT YOU TO FIGHT HIM AS THE PERSON HE HATES THE MOST." I said as proteus nodded and placed his hand on Dante's fore hand and started to search for it.

: "shouldn't be that hard… to… do... WHAT! YOU WANT ME TO TURN INTO HIM! YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I HATE HIM RIGHT... after all he is the person that put me here in the first place. And from the way it looks like in that boy's mind, I can say the same thing for him… so why?" he said with a serious and worried look on his face.

: " FINE, I WANT HIM TO FORGET ABOUT HIS PAST, SO THAT HE CAN HAVE BETTER CONTROL OF HIS POWER AND HAVING MY POWERS IN HIM, KIND OF MAKES IT EVEN MORE OVERWHELMING FOR HIM… SO IF HE CAN FIGHT AND THE VERY PERSON THAT IS STILL HOLDING HIM IN THE PAST THEN I BELIEVE, THAT HE WILL GET BETTER AT CONTROLLING HIS POWERS AND MINE… BY CONTROLLING HIS DESPAIR… AND NOT IT CONTROLLING HIM." I said in a very serious tone.

: "so you want me to shape shift into the 11th executioner and fight the boy to an almost death match… man are you dark." He said in a playful tone.

: "I AM THE DARK." I said in a rather serious tone.

: "o…k… Mr. Dark, so what I'm I getting out of this. At least they should be something for me in return right." He said in a lazy tone and manner.

: "OF COURSE BUT YOU WILL GET IT AFTER YOU HAVE HELPED ME." I said while glaring at him as he got the message loud and clear.

: "fine… but you own me." He said

: " THAT'S THE POINT." I said in despair.

: "hehehehe okay let's do this aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!" he shouted as I was confused by this.

: "WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING ALL OF A SUDDEN."

: "toooo help!!! build!!! suspense!!!!!" he shouted as a sudden shock wave had occurred and he shape shifted into the executioner and copied it right to the smallest detail.

: "I am read- oh sorry oiy, jolly good show hahahaha." He laughed like a mad man... perfect.

: "MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE ASKED JANIUS INSTEAD "

The present:

Proteus p.o.v:

And iMmOrtAliTY..... For I am despair.

For I am inevitable.

For I am….. DEATH." Dante summoned death's scythe… no this was not for death as it was now white.

: "it doesn't matter if you have a power boost. I will still kill yo-." I was caught off guard by the brat. Who in a blink of an eye was already in front of… such speed?

'Man I can't keep on going like this… damn it. my mana is not as much as the original executioner what a drag.' I thought.

: "grand comet!" I teleported away and blasted the boy from me but too my surprise he had sliced it into two with ease.

: "you're going to pay in blood for all that you have done….. now perish!" he said and in an instant had closed the distant between us as we both now started to trade punches at a very fast rate, but he had more power and speed so he was easily overcoming me with ease.

: "I will make sure that you don't come back, because this time" he gives me a devastating upper cut that made me air borne. As he appears and gives me one hammer punch towards the ground and I was heading down at light speed and then finally made impact with the ground as I was forced up back again because of the force.

: "a-a-a-ackk". I was too weak to fight back as the brat appeared out of nowhere with his scythe in a swinging motion and the scythe had started to release a dark mana with some strips of white smoke.

: "I'M IN CONTROL!!!" He shouted as he swung his scythe at me at full force.

'Damn you death'

Boooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!!!!!!!

The whole limbo illuminated in a very white glow as I thought I was done for but to my surprise, the light, smoke and dust had cleared to review my life saver as even dante is surprised at this.

: "ENOUGH! BRAT...…..YOU PASSED" death said as I saw that he had used his back hand to stop that attack with ease and the surrounding began to fade back to normal.

: "I passed? So I get to be reincarnated?" the he said in a hopeful tone.

: "NO" death said.

: "w-what then what did I pass" he said with a very troubled voice as death now glared at him with a very serious look.

: "YOU PASSED THE TEST THAT SHOW YOU'RE READY FOR YOUR NEXT OPPONENT." Death said as dante was now shocked and his conscious was now slipping away.

: "w-who?".

: "......…ME" death said as dante then fainted to the ground and so did I….. good night