I was sitting on a building and watching a girl called Ruby Rose. No I'm not a
stalker. I was following some robbers. I was about to attack when she came out and started kicking their butts. Then she was talking to the Torchwick guy. He threw a crystal at her. I jumped at him and kicked his cane so that he would miss when he fired. Then I threw spears of shadow at him. He jabbed his cane into my gut and fired. I tumbled out of the ship we were on. As I fell my boots, my gloves and my breastplate expanded and fused into a suit of armor. When I hit the ground I created a crater. I jumped at the ship and a woman walked out. She shot a blast of fire at me and it knocked me back. Ruby flew past me and swung her scythe. The woman shot her back with a blast of fire too. A woman walked up to us and yelled "LEAVE!" to the woman. She brought us to an underground cell where a man joined us.
"Hello, who are you?" I asked.
"You don't know who he is!" Ruby yelled.
"No. Should I?"
"Yes! He is just the headmaster of the best hunter and huntress school ever,
Beacon!"
"You flatter me Ruby, but yes I am the headmaster of Beacon. Now Ruby, I
have only seen scythe work like that from a dusty old crow."
"Yes my uncle Qrow took me under his wing. Before he took me in I was
terrible, he really helped me out."
"Well, how would you like to come to beacon?"
"YES YES YES YES YES." I flinched as she yelled in my ear.
"Okay I will see you when you arrive at Beacon."
"Stop him." I thought.
"Why can't I move?" Ozpin asked.
"You forgetting someone." I said.
"Ah, yes Kai. I assume that my paralysis is your doing, but no need to worry you and your friends have already been enrolled."
"Yeah I know just didn't want you to forget me. Release him." he then walked out of the room.
When I got onto the the ship that was supposed to take us to Beacon my
friends ran up to greet me.
"Heard you had some fun last night Kai." Airen said.
"Ahhhh Kai!" Elisabeth said running up to hugs me. "We were so worried."
"It's fine I'm fine."I said laughing. "Got anything about Torchwick?" I
whispered in her ear.
"No, and I don't get why we have to keep this secret they know to." she
whispered back.
"Well, our team does but not the rest of the people on this ship." I said
pointing at Ruby and a girl with waist length blond hair.
"Are they having a conversation about knees?" Katherine said right behind
me.
"You can't scare me like that anymore and I think they are." I replied.
A program came on about Torchwick, but I knew everything they said so I
didn't pay attention. Then Goodwitch came on.
"Who's that?" said the girl who had been talking to Ruby earlier about knees.
"She's Glenda Goodwitch." Airen said.
"I'm Glenda Goodwitch."
"Oh." The girl said.
Goodwitch talked about Beacon and some stuff and then we landed. We all
got off. The girl Ruby was talking to ran off and Ruby fell into some girl's luggage. She had white hair. Wait, I know her. I ran over to help Ruby. The girl was yelling at Ruby and was shaking around a bottle of dust. She is going to blow herself up. I was flying through the air and was about to tackle the white hair girl when Ruby sneezed and the dust exploded. I took the brunt of the blast and crashed into the girl.
"I am Weiss Schnee heiress to the Schnee dust company! Do you know you
just did." she said.
"Yes I know who you are Weiss, your company has tried to invade my home
country many times killing thousands." I got up radiating shadows with my eyes glowing black. My voice became warbled and demonic. "I hereby pass judgment on your life and destroy it!" I made a sword out of shadows and swung it at her head. I then felt a stinging in my neck. I growled and turned. Airen was holding an empty syringe and I felt sleepy. "What?" I said in my normal voice before passing out on the path up to Beacon.
I woke up in a big room with all the new students wandering around.
"Are you okay?" Elisabeth asked staring at me.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Haven't lost control in a while, I should probably explain to
Ruby and Weiss what happened."
"That's not the best…"
"I don't care they have the right to know." I walked over to them. Weiss was
yelling at Ruby for something.
"I was always on your side!" Ruby yelled back.
"Hello." I said cheerfully.
"Ahhh!" she yelled, "Oh hi Kai." she said nervously.
I smiled, "I'm not going to hurt you."
"You were going to kill me. You would have if your friend hadn't sedated you!"
Weiss yelled
"That wasn't me."
"How was that not you?"
"I wasn't in control." I took off my shirt and my breastplate. There was the
usual black star of crystal embedded in my skin. "I was infused with a black dust crystal. When there is power added and my emotions aren't in check I lose control."
"Also what you were saying about the Schnee Dust Company was not true."
"Really, have you ever heard of Insulanigrapotestatem?"
"No."
"Not surprised. It is a small island which is the only place where black dust
can be found. It means the island of black power. Your company has been trying to conquer it for years. Even your sister Winter has fought, but you didn't hear anything about it. Guess your parents and your sister just don't trust you enough."
"I, I just, ahhhh!" she yelled storming off.
Ruby was laughing. "This is my sister Yang," she said pointing to the girl she
was talking to on the ship. "and this is Blake, she helped me out after you…"
"I was sedated. Okay, night."
"Good night." Yang and Ruby said at the same time.
"Well that went better than I thought it was going to happen." Katherine said.
"Shut up. I'm going to sleep." I was really tired so I should go to sleep fast. I
did.
The next day, everyone was talking talking about teams. I didn't care about
that. I already had a plan.
"Everyone got your earpieces?"
"Yeah." they all said at the same time.
"Then we should be good, let's go to…"
"You don't know where we're going are you?" Airen asked.
"All first years please report to Beacon cliff immediately for initiation."
"All first years," Airen said mock the speaker's voice, "please report to
Beacon cliff immediately for hazing."
"Whatever." I said. I put on my glasses this time to help. They can do scans
on stuff.
When we got there we were told to stand on these gray platforms. Then
Ozpin addressed us. He said something about teams and partners, whatever. The only thing I picked up on was that the first person we made eye contact with is your partner. Airen was already whispering "Operation Rapier." to everybody. We were launched off the cliff. A guy with blonde hair seemed to be having a bad time. Wait, didn't he throw up on the ship? Poor guy. My armor spread over my body and I obliterated a few trees when I crashed into them. I hit the ground and cracks spread out from where I hit the ground. I pressed my earpiece.
"Elisabeth where are you."
"I'm near your location. Heading your way."
In a few minutes Elisabeth walked out of the bush. We made eye contact
and we were partners. We went and found Airen and Katherine and got them to become partners. We found the temple with the relics. There was a deathstalker and a nevermore. They were really big. I scanned everyone to see their aura levels. They all were pretty good. Wait a minute. Blake is…? I'll deal with that later.
"The gang's all here," Yang said, "Now we can die together."
"Not if I can help it." Ruby said she ran towards the Deathstalker.
My eyes widened. It would kill her. "Stop her!"
"Kai!" she yelled at me.
"Sorry, but it would kill you. Let us take over. Katherine, Airen, take the
Deathstalker, me and Elisabeth will kill the Nevermore." I said
"Okay." Airen said.
I will describe both fights, the fight with the Deathstalker is just from what I
heard. Katherine took out her bow staff. It turned into to a turret with two rails on each side. It hummed and she picked up a few rocks from the ground. She aimed and dropped the rocks in there. They were shot and broke the speed of sound. One shot off the stinger of the Deathstalker, and another took of a claw. Airen took out his battle axe and swung it at the head. He ripped it out, turned it into it's taser rod form and stabbed it into the opened wound. The Deathstalker shook and died. Meanwhile my gear expanded into armor. I made a giant shadow sword. I stabbed the Nevermore in the neck and it started thrashing around. I then saw an arrow whistling on its way to hit the bird. I wreathed it in shadows and expanded it. It cut off the Nevermore's wing and I started falling with the giant bird. I jumped off and the Nevermore fell in a heap along with the Deathstalker. My gear turned back to normal.
"Yeah!" I yelled high fiving my team.
"Ewww!" Elisabeth yelled.
"What's wrong?" Katherine asked.
"Kai's hands are covered in blood!" I looked down at them. They were. Huh.
I pulled Blake aside. "When are you going to tell them that you're a faunus?"
She jumped, "How do you know?"
"Your bow hide ears, it's kind of obvious."
"Well, I was once part of the White Fang."
"Well you aren't anymore, right?" she shook her head, "Okay then." I said walking back to
my team.
"Kai, Airen, Katherine, and Elisabeth Potestatum, you retrieved the black
king pieces. You will now be known as team KAKE (pronounced cake). You will be led by, Kai Potestatum.
"So these are our dorms." Katherine said once we got to our dorms.
"Let's unpack tomorrow." I said passing out on my bed.
I was the last one to get up in the morning. I yawned and stretched. I went
and got my stuff unpacked. There wasn't much and we still had a lot of space. Our first class was pretty boring until…
"A true huntsman must be honorable, dependable, strategic well educated
and wise. Do any of you think that you are the embodyment of these traits?"
"I do!" I yelled a few seconds before Weiss did.
"Well, step forward and face your opponent."
The teacher took and axe and cut off the lock of a cage. A pig-like grimm
came out of the cage. I made the shadows below it turn into spikes and spear him through the stomach. I then made them spread apart and rip the grimm to shreds. I went back to my seat.
"Well that's all the time for today, class dismissed." the teacher said.
A few weeks later Cardin was pulling on a faunus' ears during lunch. I felt
Elisabeth trembling beside me. I knew she hated bullies so I put my hand on her clenched fist.
"Let me take care of this." I said. "Hey! Let her go!" I yelled at him walking
over.
"What, you got a problem? She's just an animal, she's not human." Cardin
said.
My fists broke out in black flames. I put it in his face. "I can make you not
look human." I growled, "Now, let her go."
He let her go and backed away. I put out the flames and punched him
straight in the nose, knocking him out. "Hmm," I said to myself,"Your head doesn't sound hollow." I walked over to Nora. "Sorry, I only broke his nose, not his legs."
"That's okay." she replied.
The next year went by easily. I was best in sparring class. There was a
bunch of grimm, but they were easy. Then came the Vytal festival. The first two rounds we completely destroyed the other teams. The seemed pretty sad but kept their heads up. Then came the final round. I was chosen out of me and Katherine to go to the last round. They went through all the rules and then decided the first round randomly.
"And the first round is Yang Xiao Long vs Kai Potestatum!" Yeah first round!
We went into the middle of the arena and the outside sunk into the floor of
the arena and a ring with lights on it rose up.
"You better not go easy on me." Yang said.
"Would I?" I replied.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Fight!"
She ran at me and punched while shooting and I dodged. I clapped my hands and my
breastplate. They fused into a staff. I spun it smiling.
"Just a little thing I fiddled with, it can be outfitted with crystals of dust." I slammed it into the ground. A shockwave spread out from where my staff hit the stadium. Yang jumped and punched through my attack. She shot some blasts at me. I blocked most but a few got through and they hurt enough to make me really mad. Emotions not in control, check. Then one hit me right above my heart. Added energy, check. Crap.
I started radiating shadows. My senses were heightened. I heard Elisabeth whispering, "We can't interfere, we can't interfere." I smiled. I put my hands together with my palms out and flat. A concentrated beam of black shot at Yang. She got hit in the face and her aura level quickly dropped. When the buzzer sounded I ignored it and just kept attacking. Katherine jumped in front of Yang and her bow staff absorbed my attack. "Why are you helping her Katherine? She is friends with that scum!" my voice had turned demonic again.
"We both know you don't think that way. Stay back!" the last comment was to the soldiers who had started to surround us. I stopped my attack to grab Airen's hand from behind. He activated his semblance and turned his fingers to water. The syringe fell through his fingers but I made a ramp out of shadows so it wouldn't inject the sedative it contained into me. I flipped to dodge Katherine coming from behind and twisted in midair to dodge an arrow shot by Elisabeth. My teammates surrounded me. "How can you help her? Her family... they… they killed." I fell to my knees tears streaming down my face.
"I know, I know." Katherine said walking up and hugging me.
"NO!" I blew her back. "I must kill her and bring her family the pain they brought ours! I will do the thing I was created for!" I created a dagger and wings out of shadows and flew at Weiss getting ready to stab her in the heart. She used her glyphs to knock me back and when I fell into the arena all of team RWBY joined in except Yang who was still out cold. Ruby used her semblance to close the space between us. She swung her scythe up, but I grabbed it. She shot me in the chest. I was blown back and was hit by a swarm of ice birds. I fell to the ground. I smiled as I turned around. There was another Schnee. "How nice of you to..." I stopped as I felt a needle punch into my back. Katherine had used her rail gun to shoot a syringe at me. "It was her. She..." I managed to mumble before I fell to the ground.
"Ahhhhh!" I yelled. I was in the infirmary. The rest of my team was sitting
around my bed.
"You're awake!" Elizabeth yelled.
"You in control?" Airen asked.
"Yeah, that was my longest episode. I hope it won't have side effects."
"What did you say about the reason you were made?" Airen asked again.
"Bring team RWBY in. They should hear this too." My team brought them in.
"I'm sorry. That was the worst time I ever lost control. Last year, the year before we got here, there was a raid on our island by the Schnee dust company again." Katherine was crying and my voice was starting to get choked up too. "Winter killed my, our, parents. They also..." I paused, lost in a painful memory. "They also killed me." Everyone's eyes widened and team RWBY jumped back.
"Then how are you here?" Ruby asked quietly.
"The people who run our island… Well most of the damage was done to my
heart. I literally don't have a heart anymore. They brought me to life to destroy the Schnee family."
"I'm sorry Kai. I didn't know." Weiss said sadly.
"It's okay, I think I'll go kill some Grimm."
"Why?" Elizabeth spoke up.
"There was lots of fear, the Grimm will be attracted. They'll swarm. We need
to keep it under control."
"Are you going alone?" Elizabeth asked. Look at that big sister coming out.
"Yeah, why?"
"I'm just not sure you are ready to fight yet."
"She's lying. She wants to hold you back."
"No, I need to go." I then added in my head. "Go away."
"No, You need to rest for a few days." "I'm part of you now. You released me."
"I can't concentrate!" I yelled. "I'm going to take a walk."
"You can't run from me." "Okay, I'm fine with that."
I walked out and had an argument with my voices. I had my eyes closed
concentrating, and bumped into someone. When I fell to the ground I looked up and saw team CRDL. "Hey freak." One guy behind me pulled me up and held me as the others hit me and didn't stop.
"Kill them, kill them all."
"Fine."
"What did you say freak?" Cardin asked.
I said nothing. I pulled my head up from where it had been hanging down. I
had a big smile on that could chill the heart and send shivers down the spine. My eyes, which were usually a bright blue, were pure black with no whites. I used my shadow to slice the one behind me's legs. He fell down and I slowly walked up to Cardin. "Remember what I said about not looking human?" I made two clubs with spikes and started beating him with them. I stopped and moved on to something else. I sat on his chest and grabbed an arm in each hand. I started squeezing until I heard a few cracks. "What shall I do next?" I heard people running behind me. Someone pulled me off of him. I looked up and saw Ozpin. I shook my head and my mind cleared. I looked at Cardin with broken arms, bruises, and deep cuts. Then there was the one guy who held me with cuts down to the bone. I had to quickly make a bucket and threw up the bile in my stomach and fell down to the ground. "No, no. No I didn't. I didn't lose control, what was it?" I turned to Ozpin. "What did I do?"
"I don't know. I need to get these guys to the hospital."
"Should I help."
"Get them bandaged."
"Okay." I bandaged them with shadows. I also made stretchers with wheels
and wheeled them out. There was an ambulance waiting and they were rushed away to the hospital.
"I gave you power. How did it feel?"
"It felt, good."
"What's wrong?" Katherine asked.
"Kai just put two members of team CRDL in ICU."
"What? Did you lose control?" Airen was surprised.
"I didn't lose control, I need the dust sedative to regain control after that.
This was different."
"Maybe you should lie down."
I lied down and took a nap. "Ahhhhh!" I yelled. I was in the infirmary. "Sorry I
lost control guys."
"But, you said it was different." Katherine said confused
"No, that was me losing control, I almost killed Winter and Weiss."
"What?"
"He must have some memory loss." Airen whispered.
"You almost killed Cardin. And you loved it."
"Who was that?"
"That was me."
"No, not you. It was someone else."
"No one else was here. Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine."
"I could give you almost limitless power."
"SHUT UP!"
"I'm part of you. You can't get rid of me."
"I need to relax. I'm going down to the cliff."
"Should I…"
"No, I need to be alone."
"Okay."
I walked out to a cliff. I sat with my legs hanging off the cliff. I felt a hand on
my shoulder. I jumped out of surprise and fell off the cliff. What surprised me the most was when I looked at the person who startled me. I looked at the face of my mom. On the way down I hit my head many times and passed out halfway down.
Where am I?
Who am I?
"Hello."
Who is that?
"I'm your friend."
Friend? Do you know who I am?
"You are Maras."
I'm, Maras?
"Yes."
Okay, where am I? How did I get here?
"You fell, you are in a forest."
What are those?
"Those are Grimm. Kill them."
Okay.
They seemed to be giant black bears with white plates and spikes. There
were 5 of them. I waited for one to get close. I ripped the plate off of his head and punched the exposed brain. I pulled the spikes off of his back. I threw them at the other Grimm and killed three more. The last Grimm lumbered towards me. He swiped at me and I blocked it with one hand. I punched him in the chest and there was a huge hole. I sat down and picked at my fingernails. They had Grimm blood on then.
Was that good.
"Yes."
Ozpin walked into team KAKE's dorms. "Hello." he said sadly.
"What's wrong?" Airen asked. "Who died?" he added jokingly.
"5 minutes ago Cardin Winchester died in the hospital of severe internal
bleeding and two collapsed lungs. Kai Potestatum has also gone missing."
"No. No no no no."
Who are they?
"They are the White Fang."
Should I kill them?
"No, we should wait."
Wait? Why?
"They could be a valuable ally."
Ok. I started talking out loud. "Hello."
"Adam! He looks like a hunter." One said.
"A hunter? I've only killed Grimm. I think. Have I killed other things?"
"You think?" asked the one who must me Adam.
"All I remember is waking up in this forest, talking with my friend, and killing the Grimm."
"Your friend?"
"Yeah, my voice here." I said tapping my temple.
"Ok, what Grimm did you kill?"
"Well there were five of these big black bears with spikes on them."
"Adam, those sound like Ursa Major. We should use him in the upcoming attack."
"Attack? Try to join. You could kill many."
Okay. "Hey if you're going on an attack, can I come with you. I want to kill."
"Yes." Adam said.
Adam took me with him to the White Fang Hideout in the forest near where they found
me. They had been scouting for an upcoming attack on a place called Beacon. They gave me a change of clothes as mine were in shreds. As I took off my shirt I found a black crystal in the shape of a star with black veins spreading out from it.
What is that?
"That is me. I have been further fusing with your body. You have gained much power from that."
Oh, okay. What powers do I have?
"You can manipulate shadows into tangible objects and you can copy semblances by touch."
What are semblances?
"They are special powers."
Okay.
I finished getting my new clothes on. I had a black T-shirt with black pants and a black hoodie. I was told to mingle into the crowd and wait for a right moment to strike. I was told to target a girl in a red hood. I watched the fight. One girl killed the other relatively quick. I saw the girl I was supposed to kill, but I decided to wait for the right time to strike. I wanted to try out my new powers. A person who I had been introduced to, Cinder, came over the mike and said some things I didn't pay attention to. A bird Grimm started attacking the force field. It eventually got through and a gust of wind blew through the arena. It knocked of my hood, but I quickly put it back on. I quickly looked around but no one had noticed. The Nevermore was killed by kids with weapons that had fallen from the sky that had hit the Grimm. I slowly walked out into the crowd clapping.
"Good job on taking out that Grimm, but you will find me a greater, challenge. I want to fight, you, the red one."
"I am Ruby Rose, who are you?" The red girl asked.
"My name is Maras." I said, "Time to die." I got into battle stance. She flew at me in a flurry of red rose petals. I barely dodged her attack and grabbed a petal out of the air. "So pretty, these petals are, but like everything they are susceptible to darkness." From my fingers, darkness spread through the pet
al until it was pure black. I made a scythe out of shadow. A metal box fell from the sky. It opened up and there was a red box inside it. I flew at the girl with a trail of black petals behind me. I swung my scythe but she blocked it with her own. So that's what the red box was. I felt ice blossom on my back and a ribbon wrap around my neck. My hood fell from my face.
"Stop! Let him go!" a female voice yelled. A person pulled the ribbon of my
neck. I looked up into the face of a girl a few years older than me. I clasped one of her hands in mine. I smiled. "Gotcha." I let out a blast of black fire from my hands. I ran to where I was behind her while she was still in mid air. I jumped with my speed and punched her in the back and blasted her with my flames. Everyone else stared at me. One guy pulled out an ax. I blocked it with a wall of shadows and stabbed him with a spear. It went right through him because his body turned into water. A drop of water hit my hand. It quickly turned black and I turned my whole body into water. I flowed over to a girl and filled her lungs with my black water body. She collapsed to her knees and choked. I stayed in until I felt her heart stop. I flowed out of her lungs and reformed.
"Who's next?" I made a sword out of shadows. Well, I tried. I couldn't make anything out of shadows anymore. I heard something behind me. I looked around and saw another girl with a weird looking gun. I saw her put a red crystal in it. I flew through the air towards me. When it hit the black crystal on my chest a explosion immediately vaporized my body.
3rd person
Katherine fell to her knees. Her railgun turned back to her bow staff. tears fell from her eyes. "I-I killed my own brother."
"No, that wasn't him anymore, come on, we still have some grimm to kill."
"You're right, let's go."