A/N: And here it is! The start of Aurea Mors: Alter Zwei, the second to my Alter series of Aurea Mors. I hope you'll all enjoy this fic, and give me some good positive feedback. Remember, these Alter stories are just that, alternate scenarios.
However, Trolling and flaming are not permitted, and that goes double for 'anonymous' reviewers, whose Troll Flaming reviews I will just erase.
Now then, on with the reading.
Prologue: Party Crashing
October
Kingdom of Vale
Vytal Festival
Amity Coliseum
"There ain't gonna be a next time, Blondie...,"
A blonde haired, lilac eyed 17 year old woman blinked in confusion, before she turned around, and saw a boy the same age as her, with gunmetal grey hair, and black eyes, leaping toward her in a jump kick.
However, unknown to her, he was actually calmly walking towards her, all the while smirking internally at how easy this party bitch was to fool, not to mention all the unaware, and most definitely stupid, people watching.
The young girl, took a combat stance as the bracelets on her wrists turned into golden gauntlets, which covered her hands and forearms. As she prepared to fight the apparent sore loser.
But then, something happened that she, the young man, and the whole crowd in the stadium had not expected.
He stopped about two feet away from her, before suddenly his legs jerked back and he landed on his stomach, before being pulled back by an unseen force.
The girl watched, confusion on her face, as the young man is pulled back toward the edge of the platform, before he is suspended in the air. She then takes notice of the black glow around his legs, as the boy flailed around in both confusion and anger.
"H-Hey! What the hell's going on!?" Shouted the currently suspended young man, one Mercury Black, the son of former assassin Marcus Black, as he tried to find a way to get himself loose.
"Bad day to be having metal legs, Black," a cold feminine spoke out, before being violently turned around. Then, to the surprise of everyone in the stadium, like a dissipating mirage, appeared a person, dressed in what looked to be a combination of a Western Style combat dress, with pieces of armor, including a breastplate, gauntlets, and cuisses pieces on the skirt of the dress, while holding what looked to be a longsword in one of her hands, while her free hand was outstretched and glowing black, and a golden round shield on her back, like a certain Invincible Girl's shield.
Another thing they noticed was the strange mask on her face which concealed her eyes and nose, and was colored a scarlet red with a golden trim, with the only thing visible being her mouth.
The other features on the person included her blonde hair with red highlights, which was drawn up into a bun at the back of her head, and her slight pale skin complexion.
Mercury, still upside down, could only glare at the woman who was holding him up, seeing she was messing up the whole plan they had for framing the blonde bimbo, not to mention what they have planned for the champion and robot girl.
"Who the hell are you!?" he shouted, as he felt the glare behind her mask increase as she looked at him.
And it was in that moment, she responded...and in a way that will send shockwaves throughout Remnant.
In a flash of steel, both of the metallic-haired teens legs were cut off, just below the knees.
Everyone in the stands now looked horrified at what just happened, while in her side of the arena, Yang's own eyes were wide and her mouth was agape in shock at what her fellow blonde just did, true what Black tried to do was a dick move, but still...
The sound of a loud thud was heard as Mercury slammed to the ground unceremoniously, while the severed legs floated in the air, the black glow still surrounding them...while, strangely, instead of leaking blood, they were leaking a oil like fluid.
The masked woman then turned the legs right side up, and the lower pant legs dropped down, revealing to the crowd that instead of flesh and bone legs, they were instead metal prosthetics. Something that nobody knew about the boy, including Yang.
She then casually threw the limbs away before kneeling down, and grabbed the now legless Mercury by the front of his shirt, and pulling him toward her so that their faces were an inch apart and he was looking straight at her masked face.
"Be lucky I didn't cut your head off, Black," she said lowly, so only Mercury could hear, while the said cyborg only flinched at the ice cold tone she was using, "Though you make a very tempting target to erase from this world, there's someone else who is at the top of my shit-list to kill...and that is your boss,"
Mercury's eyes widened, before the girl roughly shoved him away before he could say anything.
Just as the sound of VTOL engines were heard, as Atlesian Gunships entered the arena, hovering in place as the rear hatches opened, and the pride of the Atlas Army, about over a dozen AK-200 androids, as well as a dozen Atlas Troopers exited the gunships and immediately proceeded to surround the girl who stood back up on her feet, as they all aimed their rifles at her, as she returned her own weapon to her back.
She looked around the soldiers and robots surrounding before she sighed in annoyance.
"Really?" she asked, in a rather sarcastic tone, as she shook her head in disappointment "Don't you arrogant Atlesians ever learn?"
With that statement, both of her hands began glowing black again, and before the Atlesian security could act, quick as a Deathstalker's tailstrike, she snapped her arms up. The result was the Atlas troopers losing their guns and having them pointed at them, while the androids spread eagled and were lifted into the air, the same black glow surrounding them.
Everyone looked on with bated breath, fearing what the masked woman would do next.
Then, the woman squeezed her hands shut, causing the Atlesian Knights and rifles to be crushed into cubes, but not before the magazine clips of the said rifles were ejected to avoid them exploding, and accidentally killing someone.
She then threw the now useless garbage away, which a few of the troopers ducked to avoid getting hit by the flying debris, which some hit the barrier shield, thankfully preventing casualties among the audience.
She then looked around her as the Troopers got their bearings back in order as they instead drew their stun batons, causing her to sigh in irritation at them.
Knowing it was unavoidable, he slammed her right fist into the palm of her left hand, and proceeded to crack her knuckles, while twisting her neck.
"Okay, so who's first?"
One of the soldiers obliged and rushed forward to swing his stun weapon at the woman, only for her to catch him by the wrist and began to deliver a series of strong, ruthless, but non-lethal, jabs to his torso, legs, and arms, before finally kicking him away sending him flying back and crashing along the arena floor before he stopped, out cold, much to the surprise of his comrades, and the crowd.
The stunned soldiers then looked back at the girl as she crossed her arms in front of her, a golden brow arched slightly above her mask.
"Who's next?"
With that invitation, the Atlas soldiers all charged in, deciding to use numbers to their advantage...
...not that it will help them.
In the stands, everyone watched with dropped jaws as the mystery girl proceeded to give the Atlesian troopers a humiliating beating.
Among those were a certain two teams who one member from each team is part of the finals tournament: RWB and JNR.
"Whoa! What the heck is going on here!?" said Jaune Arc, the team leader of Team JNPR as he watched the spectacle happening on the arena floor.
"I'm not sure myself, Jaune!," said his fellow Team Leader, Ruby Rose as she looked at the beatdown the unknown blonde was giving the Atlas troops.
Apparently the poor guys can't get a break these days. Especially after the break-in at the CCTS tower, and the Breach incident.
"Well whatever is going on...," Spoke up Weiss Schnee, Ruby's partner, "...that girl is going to be in even bigger trouble if she doesn't stop!"
What the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company said was true, aside from the fact that she just assaulted Mercury, she also destroyed Atlas military property, and is now assaulting Atlas military personnel.
"I don't think she plans to stop, Weiss..." Blake Belladonna commented, before wincing at the sight of one poor Atlas Trooper getting his balls caved in, via punch from the said girl, which caused the men in the stands to take it more personally as their hands hovered protectively over their own privates. "...If that's any indication,"
The leader of Team RWBY then looked at her two teammates, who looked at her, and upon seeing the glint in her eyes, both of them knew what she had on her mind.
"You can't be serious...," Weiss said with a raised eyebrow.
"We're the only ones capable of stopping her Weiss," Ruby countered, "If we don't, someone else is going to get hurt."
"Uh, Ruby, I think your sister is thinking two steps ahead of you," said Jaune as he motioned to the arena, and the said Rose turned her head in the said direction and saw her older sister, running towards the rampaging huntress.
Ruby could only sigh.
"Well, guess that makes our decision easier," she said, before she and the rest of her team took out their scrolls to call in their weapon lockers.
Jaune looked to his other teammates and they also nodded before bringing out their own scrolls.
They were not the only ones thinking this, as other Hunter-in-training teams all brought out their scrolls as well.
In the Arena
The final Atlesian trooper went flying after being delivered a devastating kick to his chin, sending him backwards and out of the fighting ring. The young girl stood tall, as she looked around her, seeing all the now either out cold, or groaning soldiers around her.
'Tft! How these idiots fought on for as long as they did, I'll never know,' she thought, before she picked up the sound of running footsteps heading towards her.
She turned her head slightly managing to catch sight of the incoming gold clad fist heading straight for her face.
She moved her head just slightly to avoid a direct hit, as the fist flew past her face. Taking advantage of the overextended limb, she quickly grabbed the arm, pulling the culprit forward into her back, before driving her free elbow into the attacker's stomach.
"OOMPH!"
The grunt of the attacker made her confirm that she caught the would-be assailant by surprise, before she delivered a mule kick to send them backward.
The would-be attacker was none other than Yang Xiao Long, as she staggered slightly before straightening herself, all the while nursing her stomach which received the elbow strike.
"Dang! You hit good!" Yang said, playful smile on her face, as she entered back into her boxing stance, "Though, you DO know that you're causing a bit of trouble for yourself, don't you?"
If the daughter of Taiyang could see the girl's face, she would've seen the annoyed frown that was in place.
"For the latter, I don't give two shits about how the world views me," she said, making Yang and everyone else's eyes widen in surprise.
"As for the former. That's because you're very obvious to figure out, daughter of Raven Branwen," she said making Yang's eyes widen at the mention of her birth mother, "It was no wonder you were an easy target to manipulate,"
Her fellow blonde looked at her with a look of suspicion on her face.
"What the heck do you mean by that?" she demanded.
The masked girl only looked at her, expression unreadable, due to the said object covering half her face.
"You believed you saw Mercury Black about to attack you, correct?" she asked, and Yang blinked at that before nodding, "What you saw was nothing but a hallucination caused by a rather rare illusory-type semblance. You're welcome by the way,"
Yang's eyes widen in shock at that.
"W...What?" she said in astonishment.
"You were being set up, and the culprits behind it all, are here in this stadium. Right now," she said, before turning to look at the now legless Mercury who was attempting to crawl away from the foray. "And Black is one of them,"
Yang looked at the crawling form of the young man, who she thought attacked her out of being a sore loser, but in truth was nothing more than bait to set her up.
"And now, time to deal with the rest of them," she said, and attempted to turn and run off, before hearing the cocking of a shotgun and turned and saw Yang getting into her boxing position.
"Hold on there, sister," Yang said, "I'm not sure what's going on, but I think you've caused enough problems today. Not to mention you owe me some answers,"
The brawler girl could feel the frown as she saw the masked girl's lips twitch slightly.
"I just saved your reputation from being tarnished by these anarchistic loving trash," the girl said, as she reached for the handle of her sword, "As for your mother, I don't know where she is, and even if I did, I advise you to stay away from her, since she is a selfish thieving bitch."
That actually made Yang bristle a bit as her eyes glowed red slightly.
The masked woman tensed slightly, having sensed the spike of aura behind her, as the fingers of her hand just barely touched the handle.
"Please, don't make me do something I will regret...," she said, and if Yang was crazy, it sounded almost pleadingly, "...like removing an arm,"
For some unknown reason, Yang felt a phantom pain in her right arm, and began to instinctively rub it to alleviate the feeling.
'W...What the hell...?'
Before Yang could comprehend what was going on, the sound of rocket engines could be heard as a large number of rocket lockers began to land all around them in the arena.
Once they impacted with the ground, the locker doors snapped open, revealing various weapons.
"So, I have to get pass all of you, eh?" the masked huntress asked no one in particular, as she looked at the gathering students who were beginning to surround her after they retrieved their respective weapons. "...so be it,"
She then drew her sword and the shield on her back as she looked at the group of hunters in training. She spotted one Trainee Huntress in particular, wielding a red and black scythe-sniper rifle and wearing a red hooded cloak, with her other features being black-red tipped hair, and silver eyes.
Her masked gaze focused on the ravenette who blinked curiously at the way the masked huntress was looking at her.
However, before she could ask why, the woman impassively kept moving her head and body around, looking at all the other members of Team RWBY, more specifically, Weiss and Blake, before onto Team CFVY, who joined them, along with Team SSSN, looking at each member of the respective teams like she was sizing them up, but then when she came to Team JNPR, she suddenly stopped still like a statue.
Everyone blinked, confused by her behavior, as they followed her gaze toward the said team...two people in particular.
With said people
Jaune, along with his partner, the famed Pyrrha Nikos (though she doesn't like the fame so much) both blinked in confusion as the girl looked straight at them.
The champion herself could see the masked woman's lips move, as if she wanted to say something, garnering the curious interest of the redheaded Mistralian who had watched the mysterious young woman fight off the Atlesian troops, not too long ago.
She had seen her use her semblance, much like hers, to snatch away their weapons before destroying them, along with dismantling the AK-200s as if they were nothing but ordinary tin toy soldiers.
But, what had also interested Pyrrha about her, was her fighting style, which was eerily similar to her own.
Usually she would chalk it up as an obsessed fan trying to be her. But as she continued watching, she noticed the movements were executed too perfectly, to be just an ordinary imitator. Not to mention, she (Pyrrha) was the only known person with a polarity semblance.
The masked woman then shook her head vigorously.
"No...I need to focus," was what the redhead was able to hear, but what she said next, surprised Pyrrha, "I need to stop them,"
"What do you mean?" the champion said, "Stop who?"
The woman looked at her, for a few moments, before entering a combat stance.
"I have no time for this!" she snapped, surprising everyone. "I won't be stopped til I completed what I came here to do!"
A/N: And there's the chapter to the of my Aurea Mors: Alter Series. I know you guys are expecting another chapter for A Broken Man's Last chance. Well let me me inform you all that I'm still working out the kinks in it, as I've been hit by a serious case of Writer's Block, and thus had some trouble writing. That, and also, I've been busting my butt off doing weedeating, as well as my gramps' crazy projects, and the man is in his 70's for crying out loud!
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this, and I'll try to deliver the next chapter quickly, but no promises.
Until then, Later!