"With blood and rage of crimson red... Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead... Together with our hellish Hate... We'll burn you all... THAT IS YOUR FATE!" I kneeled as I finished my oath to the Red Lanterns. I looked up to the leader his imposing form dwarfed my own. I looked to the ring on my hand. The red band glowed with my rage, my desire for vengeance.
"Rise. You have become one of us." He bid me, I slowly stood to my full height, still much shorter then him. "Welcome."
"I will prove myself." I nodded with conviction.
Chapter 1: Red Aura
Fero's pov
Two years later
I ran trough the ruined city looking for cover, the lantern power battery banging on my leg as I ran, an explosion blasted me into a concrete wall. "Ugh..." I coughed up blood, spraying the crimson liquid on the stones, the crimson liquid smoked as it ate at the material.
"Fero!" I looked up and saw the red lanterns closing in. I got back up and flew straight up past the city. The air thinned as I exited the lower atmosphere. There I saw a red lantern spacecraft. I grabbed the door and forced it open to get inside as the pod depressurized. I fell into the pilots seat and powered up the craft, pealing away from the planet, only for the engines to be hit by something. I activated the rear camera and there I saw a dozen or so of my former allies.
"I'm sorry." I fired up the engines went as fast as the small craft could carry me, slowly speeding up to light speed. I fell to the floor, gripping my ribs. "Damn it, finally get away, yet I may die from this," I pulled away my hand to see it was glistening red with my blood. I pulled up my shirt and saw the white bone of my ribs and covered in torn red flesh. "TSSKH!" I hissed as I prodded it. The metal hissed below as it dripped onto the floor.
Then the emergency lights went off, "Engine failure, core breached losing power, depressurisation." came over the Pa in a robotic voice and the shuttle slowed considerably.
"Oh great what next!?" I yelled.
"Anomaly detected, identified as a wormhole." and the situation got worse.
I felt the pod being pulled to the side, I forced my self in the corner and braced myself. Using my ring I encased my self in a red shell. then everything went white.
Ozpin pov
I looked out over the cliffs, in two months time, I would be testing a new years worth of students with the initiation. "Glynda, how are the applications going?" I asked as the blonde teacher came up beside me.
"Most of them are acceptable this year, only two concern me, Jaune Arc, and Blake Belladonna." She went trough her scroll and brought up their profiles and applications.
Just as I was about to look at them when an explosion rocked the school, cliff and the very air. Something soared past us and landed in the Emerald forest below us, fires springing up and smoke rising with the heat.
"What... was that a ship?" Glynda asked.
"Get a team down there." I ordered.
"Only team available is team CFVY, first years." She brought up the team and called them out to the cliffs.
Scarlets pov
I attempted to push the pilots chair off of me, fires had sprung up all around me. I looked to the right side and saw the lantern battery, I grabbed it and hooked it back on my belt, With one final push I hauled the chair off of me. The crash had drained my ring leaving me powerless. I tried to sit up, but the pain was horrendous.
Then I felt even more pain as I looked at my legs, my left leg broken off above the knee, blood spurting into the approaching fire., my right ankle was shattered.
I brought my left fist to the battery and began the chant. "With blood... and rage of crimson red... Ripped from a corpse... so freshly dead... Together... with our hellish Hate... We'll burn you all... THAT IS... YOUR FATE!" I fully charged the ring, and formed prosthetic forcing myself up, blood still leaking out of me. I looked at the inferno in front of me and then to the wall behind me, I blasted the wall only for it to reflect off.
"I'm stuck..." I say to my self, then I heard something outside the pod.
"Hey! Is any one in there!?" it was muffled, yet I could tell it was a girl.
"Help! I'm yaahhhh!" I fell to my knees, the ring would keep me safe from the fumes and smoke, but fire was fire.
The door on the other side began to open up, I slowly got up coughing up more blood.
"Move it the grimm are coming!" the door was then ripped right off the sliders, looked past the flames and saw a massive figure with a red single edged blade to match his stature.
I pointed my fist in his direction and felt the ring tug at me then it pulled me trough a opening in the flames. I flew past his shoulder and landed in a heap, when I got on my knees, I vomited up a large amount of blood. I could smell the acid burning a hole not a foot in front of me.
"Hey be careful! Look out!" I looked up and saw a massive black wolf bearing down on me. I lifted my left arm up and the ring released a blast of power blowing a hole in its chest.
I looked to the group, there were four of them, The guy who opened the door, a girl with bunny ears, another girl in very expensive clothes, and a darker skinned boy in a tank top, and two blades connected to his forearms, all around us were more of those black beasts.
"Nice shot. Come on lets got! Yatsuhashi Grab her!" He picked me up bridle style and ran to a air ship nearby I allowed the ring to power down returning me to my usual outfit. I passed out as he placed me on a stretcher.
I awoke in a hospital bed stiff from lack of movement, I looked down and saw my arms bandaged up to the shoulders, I then looked around and saw my lantern battery. A door opened up behind me, "You shouldn't be moving, the rescue team were surprised when they saw your leg literally disappear."
"I'll live." I remarked as I turned to face the man, he walked over to my bed wearing a green suit and walking with a silver cane with a trigger system.
"That is certainly true, I have a few questions for you Miss..." He looked at me trough his glasses.
"Jewel, Fero Onyx." I say as I shift back in the bed to better sit up.
"Well Miss Onyx, we have no idea who you are. Who are you?"
"I'm me, a simple school girl." I lied innocently.
"School girls don't fall from space. What dose that ring and lantern do?"
"I'm a former member of the Red lantern corps, this is a power ring, the lantern is a power battery." I explain.
"Red lantern, there are others?" he asked.
"Yes, though I don't know much." I knew a lot about them.
"And a power ring?" he asked.
I tried to summon a blast of power but got nothing, my eyes widened. "How long was I out?"
"A month, you were in a coma for a month. Is it out of power? The students that saved you showed me footage of your power."
"I... a month?" I was shocked.
"Fero, I am professor Ozpin, would you like to join my school?"
"School... but why are you offering me this?" I asked.
"I train the defenders of this world huntsmen and huntresses. I offer you this because I see great potential in you, and as such if you accept, I will pay for your new leg." I looked at him and slowly nodded.
A month later
Fero pov
I stood out side the airship terminal, a small bag of clothes and other supplies slung over my shoulder, and a new outfit. I wore black skinny jeans, left leg cut off mid thigh, to show off the gunmetal grey prosthetic leg. It felt a bit awkward but it worked. For footwear, heavy black army boots did the trick. A black crop top with a silver skull over my right breast showed off my midriff, toned from years of hard training. Hair had been buzzed on the sides and left long down the middle, my hair was kept with spray and miracles. It flowed to the middle of my back, just below my shoulder blades.
I had minimal make up on, really just to hide small scars and give my skin a more even tone.
I looked at the phone... scroll I was given, such technology while impractical if the screen ever cracked, was impressive.
I then looked at the ever filling ships and with a sigh of resignation I knew it would be some what cramped.
Slowly but surely I made my way onboard and sat down, I got a few odd looks but people left me alone. I leaned back in my seat and closed my eyes. and fell asleep for the trip.
When I woke up it was to the sound of the ship docking. I slowly stood up and looked at the other students leaving the ship. Grabbing my bag and throwing it over my shoulder I activated my ring to fly over the heads of the crowd, much to their surprise.
When I activated my power ring my outfit had changed. The boots remained the same except for red highlights. Loose red camo cargos hung low on my waist showing off a lot of my skin, they were tucked into the boots. The black leather belt had a red metal skull over the buckle. I kept the crop top except the skull was now branded with the red Lantern sigil with three gold slashes trough it, and my hair was now a firey red which curved up at the ends giving it the illusion of flames.
One of my eyes had changed color as well, my eyes were normally both a dark brown, now the left was a bright red, and it gave off some of the mist that the constructs from my ring form.
I flew over the school getting a sense of the scale and layout of all the buildings. This school had a very futuristic/medieval castle look to it,
I looked down at my fellow students, all of them armed to the teeth. "A school that encourages kids to bring guns to class..." I mutter under my breath.
I land in a small courtyard sparsely dotted with shrubs and trees, my clothes quickly were returning to my normal punk outfit. I laid down on the soft grass and closed my eyes, before I knew it I was drifting of to sleep again...
And that's when somebody tripped over me.
"Hey!" I half heartedly yelled at the kid.
He looked back at me with a mouthful of grass and dirt, he was clearly a little older then me. "Sorry, just late for the initiation speech... wait shouldn't you be going as well?"
"Speech?" I asked.
"They gave us pamphlets," He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small sheet of folded paper. on it were the words 'A students guide to the first days at Beacon'
"I didn't read that." I admitted.
"Well come on!" He grabbed my wrist and started to run with me flapping like a flag behind him.
What the hell is happening!? I asked myself.
He came to a sudden stop in front of a meeting hall, I did not.
We fell over in a tangled mess of limbs the plowed trough the crowd. With my eyes closed from banging my head a few times touch told what was happening. When we came to a stop I felt that I was laying with my back flat on the concrete. I had one leg hooked around his waist, the other splayed out to the side. There was also a wet pressure on my lips.
It quickly pulled back as I opened my eyes. "Oh gods that was an accident!" he stammered.
"Well, your quite forward," I smirked.
"No! I..." he started but I quickly cut him off.
"I'm messing with you, next time, I won't hold back." I still had a smile on my face. I finally got a good look at him; his silver hair was braided over his shoulder, a few stray strands tickled my nose. He wore a full three part suit. And those golden eyes... "You gonna get up?" I asked.
"Oh yeah sorry..." he pushed off of me, before pulling me up.
"Name's Fero Onyx." I shook his hand.
"Argentum Aurum." he still had a blush on his cheeks. I leaned in and pecked him on the cheek.
"Think of that as an apology for tripping you." I walked away as steam rolled off his cheeks.
I moved to the corner of the room and half listened to the speech. Something about wasted energy, bringing out potential, sleeping in the ballroom... I just wanted to go get food.
Later that night
I found a corner apart from everyone else and hunkered down for the night. I watched the other students go about their night time routine, until I spotted a group of four girls, it was to far to hear their conversation, but it was clear one of them was livid.
"Hey move over." I more or less jumped when another girl tossed her self on the ground next to me. All I heard was a loud thwack as the back of her head hit the floor. Then a low hiss as a inflatable pillow filled with air. "Got to work on the timing."
She wore a unicorn onesie that was covered in grease stains and copper wires used as stitching to patch holes. Her hood was down so I saw that she had fox ears. She's a Faunus…
"You okay?" I ask her.
"Ow ow, my head feels like an egg in a vice grip." she whined.
"Who are you?" I didn't mind her. In fact she seemed pretty nice. Even if it looked like she just head butted a leaky oil pan.
"Vulpina Cudere." she then fell asleep from a mixture of head trauma and exhaustion. I simply shook my head as I looked down at her diminutive form.
I quickly fell asleep after that.
I woke up early the next morning and went to shower. I shook from the freezing deluge that came out of the shower head. It felt so nice and refreshing waking me up fully. I spent nearly two hours in the shower, much to the lineup's displeasure.
After I dressed myself I went for breakfast. Then I retrieved my power battery from the rocket lockers.
"My dear sister are you saying you don't want to be on the same as me?" I looked behind me and saw two of the girls from last night. So those two are sisters...
"What? No! I was hoping it would help you break out of your shell." the blonde sister tried to defend herself, She must have a lot of confidence to wear that...
Before I heard anymore of this sisterly squabble I made my way outside.
My ring flashed twice. "Oh come on." I brought my fist to the battery and began the oath.
"With blood and rage of crimson red... Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead... Together with our hellish Hate... We'll burn you all... THAT IS YOUR FATE!" I pulled a good long charge from the battery. Since I arrived here I've had to do that twice a week, whats draining it so quickly?
I made my way to the cliffs and waited for the rest of the students.
"Now that your all here we can begin." Prof. Ozpin began. after that I zoned out. Catching snippets about grimm. Destroying everything in our path, relics, first person we see is our partner... wait what?
"Now take your positions." Me being the first one in line was the last to catch on.
Thunk click
"Oh no." I was flung was off kilter.
"I hate you Ozpin." I pushed my self out of the tree.
When I hit the tree I had bit the inside of my lip filling my mouth with the taste of copper. I spat it out and it hiss as the blood burned the ground.
I looked at my surroundings, trees in all directions. "Where do I go? North right?"
"You really don't pay attention do you?" I spun around and leaning against a tree was a... baseball player?
"You were easy to find partner." he walked over to me his cleats tearing up the dirt.
"How so?" I stood up a little straighter.
"Followed the cursing." he spun his bat in his grip. "Yes we have to go north. So whats your name?"
"Fero Onyx. And you?" I offered him a hand.
"Kobalt, Jay Kobalt." not even acknowledging my had he turned north and I followed him.
This guy is a ray of sunshine... I thought to my self.
We made our wat trough the brush until we found what looked like a old stone road.
"Was there a city here?" I asked.
"Yeah an old one to, historians don't know the name of it. come on it probably leads to where were going." he conformed my suspicions.
Another hour of walking spat us out in a clearing. At the far end was a ruin,
"Whats your opinion? This it?" Jay asked.
"Well maybe it's one of the other ruins we've seen." I remarked with my tongue planted so far in my cheek I was licking his.
If looks could kill I would have dropped dead.
"Fine, I'll cut the sarcasm." We cut across the field to the temple.
There were clear sings of combat in the area, a pile of melting ice, giant feathers and a trail of rose petals. We arrive at the temple to find the 'relics' are... "Chess pieces?" I ask.
"Well pick one." Jay leaned against a pillar.
"Why me?" I asked.
"More likely you'll be team leader." he tapped his bat against the stones.
"Oh yeah push all that responsibility on me." I turned back to the pieces and grabbed a white bishop.
"We should wait for another pair." He suggested as he went trough the motions of hitting a homerun.
"Yeah fair enough." I laid down in the grass and closed my eyes.
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