Battle of New York Part 10

The world around Peter turned gray and time froze. Black miasma bled into reality as that same sweet soothing melodic voice that greeted Peter in his dreams every time, he died spoke to him.

"Hello Peter." Death smiled down at Peter, her appeared out of a plum of black miasma, her appearance caused Peter to hesitate for a moment.

It came as a surprise to him as he wasn't entirely sure it was even going to work when he attempted the call. There were restrictions against this the last time he tried.

She looked different, felt different too; her wore a black fitting suit that left her cleavage exposed, two horns protrude from her head and a pulsating purple shard glowing form the center of her chest. From behind her back came numerous spider like limbs that picked her up a foot above the ground.

She didn't feel like the death he met before but calmer, more demure, affectionate even, and her face didn't take the form of any one of his loved ones, her completion was pale, but she was beautiful all the same.

The black miasma behind that shrouded her form didn't dissipate but remained, hiding something else within but Peter could care less about that.

It was strange but he could feel death through the bonds he shared with his false Ajin, but his one was different, more pronounce, pure, almost like a missing piece of himself, no it was even more than that, if Peter had to describe it, it was like he was meeting his own soul as strange at that sounds.

"You're not…" Peter trailed of as she took a step closer.

"Death" She continued his train of thought. " No, but I am your death, and I can help you all the same."

"I see." Peter breathed out.

'Ah, so she's my Ajin' Peter thought before the reason of his plea came back to him. He looked down at the bleeding from of the bunny girl. His had pushing against the fist sized hole in her chest trying desperately to stop the bleeding. "Please, I ah.…I don't what happened. I don't know who she is, I don't know what's going on, I did this, somehow. Can you, can help me save her?"

Death glanced at the kid and then back at Peter. She tilted her head as if she found something funny.

"Why?" She asked Peter. "Aren't you the one who killed her?"

Deaths words struck Peter like a slap to the face and reluctantly he was forced to face the reality of his situation.

"I did…" He admitted with guilt. "But it was an accident, Dammit! Look, I don't know what the hell is going on, I just know I made a terrible mistake alright and I called you hear to help me fix it. Can you help me fix it?"

"Hmm…So you can't differentiate between your own kind and a denizen of this world yet." Death mused in a whisper under her breath. "How can one be so blind to their own nature?"

"What?" Peter looked at her, his confusion returning full force, but Death chose to answer his previous question instead.

" Never mind that, I suppose I can try." She sounded lightly annoyed, her spider limbs vanished into black mist as she knelt next to Peter and placed her palm on the dead girl's head, the girls head glowed briefly before fading. " Her soul is fractured, your luck she's no longer of this world, the rules are a little lacking on beings like her but whatever possessed her before took a large chuck of her soul with it."

"So does that mean you can help?" Peter asked and his death smiled back at him.

" Yes, Peter, I can help you." The teen breathed out a sigh of relief as she continued. "I can give back the remnants that remain of her soul, but the rest is up to you. I'll need your help for that."

" What can I do?" Peter asked eager to help in any way he could.

" You did crush her heart so she's going to need a new one. One of your Sin shards should do the trick, I'll imbue it with whats left of her soul."

"OK" Peter bit into his thumb to draw blood eager to help but death held his griped his wrist before he could continue.

" Are you sure you want to save her?" she asked Peter.

"What kind of question is that? She's a kid of course I want to save her." Peter bit back harsher than he intended to.

 Death held Peters palm with both hand in an act of comfort as she spoke.

" You know that this child isn't going to be human when she wakes up, her mind would be fractured- her personality and memories gone, she would be an empty husk if you will, the piece's that are left of her fractured soul won't be able to make up for the parts that were taken, she would be stuck in a perpetual state between life and death, living but never truly alive, dead but never truly dead. She will be bound to you as the holder of the original sin shard forever. Can you live with that? Can you live with her knowing what you did to her to save her?"

The longer she spoke the more it began to dawn on Peter, was she really saving the kid because it was the right thing to do or was it his attempt to correct his mistake.

 'This is aunt may all over again' he realized, just like when he almost turning Aunt May into a shard holder to save her. He took a moment to think things over, to consider things before something she said struck him.

"You said it was taken, that a large piece of her soul was taken, is it possible for me to take it back if I ever meet the one who took it?" Peter asked death.

Death blinked in surprise. " I guess, it is possible."

"Then I can keep her alive until then and return the peace of that's stolen right. That could return her too normal right?"

"It could." Death confirmed.

"Then that's what we'll do." Peter said firmly. " I think, I think I can live with that. Now help me save this kid, knowing my luck I'm sure I'll bump into the one that took her soul sooner or later."

"Fine, if that's what you want." Death replied as the let of Peters and placed it on the little girl's chest. The child's chest emitted an ethereal glow before a glowing stream of energy was extracted from the kid and gathered into a small glowing orb in her hands.

Peter on the other willed his blood from his thump into his palm to form a new sin shard, it flowed from his thump and compressed itself into a glowing red crystal shard. It had to be altered slightly to meet the special conditions to revive her, he needed a specialized shard like the one he made for Garfield and his Aunt May, with deaths help they could bring her back to life. He considered a few options before he came to a solution, the powers he granted her would facilitate and excel her mental growth and help her defend if self if it came to it.

With that in mind he began making her shard.

Death watched Peter construct the shard until it was completed. When it was done Death touched it lightly allowing the ball of light in her palm to stream into the shard, the hard pulsed lightly before the red glow transformed into a purple hue.

Information streamed into Peter mind. 

{Sin Shard Created_Shard Altered}

{

Sin shard, Branch Created

Holder: Kelly McGrath

Abnormal Specialized Sin Shard - Curse of Virtue

Branch: Temperance

Branch Power: Bloodhound Techno-vore

Her ability is an extension of Peter's Blue Cypher, the shard contains a blank version of one of Peter's virtual AI clone's that will adapt and evolve to form a personality of its own with the shard holder. It is no different than a newborn AI that evolves with its shard holder.

- that shards makes the holder capable of interacting with technology like Blue Cypher but to a lesser degree in terms of range. It also grants her an innate understanding of all forms of technology that is greater than that of Blue Cypher.

- the shard grants the use the ability to infuse the holder's blood with technology to make their own form of biotech, this allows the hard holder to breakdown, improve upon, and alter all forms of technology she comes in physical contact with. This also applies to both organic and inorganic objects.

Special Ability Granted by her cursed virtue: Total Command

Much like Peter's Fools Mask and Fools Gambit, the sin shard holder Kelly McGrath has total command over her physical and mental faculties, this control extends even to her atoms and the atomic structure of objects she comes in contact physical contact with.

Trait: Soul Shard Cradled

- This trait granted to her by deaths influence, it makes her pseudo immortal since she lacks a complete souls and therefore isn't truly alive. If her shard remains intact, she cannot truly die. This trait allows the shard to hold what remains of Kelly's Souls and it allows the rest of Kelly McGrath's soul to return to her body when it is returned to her to complete itself.

}

"It's done." Peter said softly.

Death hummed in affirmation as she took the shard from Peter's palm and placed into the dead girl's chest. She pressed her palm over it and after another brief glow her chest mended itself, the hole healed, and the little girl's bunny suit mended itself over with her flesh.

"Almost." Death replied. "We'll need a little bit of magic for the last part to complete it and as luck would have it, we both know certain ancient wizard don't we Peter."

"We do?" Peter asked, then he remembered the ancient one. " Oh, right we do."

" You must be quick. My time here is limited to less than seconds, slowing it down allows me to extend it. When I go time will resume." she urged Peter as she broke a piece of cloth attacked to her arm sleeve and gave it to Peter. " The old wizard will know what to do with this, she has done it once before."

She then brought her palm and touched Peter's cheek causing Peter to briefly pause. "How nice it is to finally meet you, Peter. I've given myself the name Moira, it means Fate. Next time call me by that name, now hurry."

"Rr-right." Peter quickly picked up the Kelly into his arms as he stood and turned to leave. "Thank you for this, de-Moira" 

"Think nothing it, there's nothing I wouldn't do for you Peter." She chuckled as she spoke again laughing to an inside joke only, she knew. " Well, until next time Peter.

With the girl in her arms, Peter took off into the sky in a sonic boom. Color bled into the world behind as time was slowly resuming.

Death, now Moira watched him go with a soft expression that quickly turned solemn. Spider like limbs protruded from her back and pulled her off the ground. She turned to the black miasma that remained from the point of her entry into the world.

It dissipated slowly to reveal a person inside.

"Well May Parker, I think you've watched him enough. Have you come to a decision?" Death asked Peter's Aunt.

"Why?" May voice was low and strained, her eyes puffy with ha face filled with dried tears but she looked at Moira with an expression of anger. " Why are you showing me all of this? Why are you doing this?"

Moira smiled softly at her as she spoke. "Because even now, after witnessing everything your nephew has been through, everything he's done you cannot bring yourself to hate or resent him, you aren't even angry with him but at yourself. You've already forgiven him, haven't you?"

"He's my son" May spoke with conviction that even surprise Moira.

"And that's why he'll need someone like you. Someone who will not judge him for his sins or follow him for the power he will grow to possess. Someone who will except him and simply be there for him and help him make the right choices and in time become the pillar of humanity he will lose." Death walked forward and put a comforting palm on May's shoulder. "You cannot change what he is, but you can help shape what he becomes."

"Why him? Why did it have to choose him? It's too much, why can't this universe just pick someone else…Why can't that thing just fuck off and leave him alone. Peter, he doesn't deserve any of this, my Peter, his just a child." May pleaded with Moira, the anger in her eyes fading, it filled with tears again.

" hahaha." death chuckled lightly as she spoke. "Oh May, if you knew what the person Peter Parker did for this world, what countless versions of him sacrificed to keep the world safe in every world, you would not call him a child. In fact, I think you'd Pity him for his destiny."

"At least this time, this version gets to write his own destiny"

…

A few blocks away a clueless Peter rushed forward to meet an ancient wizard.

A wizard who was long overdue for visit from the one named Peter Parker.

-Chapter End-

Reference image of Death Aka Amora here, Hope you enjoyed the chapter.