A/N- So here is chapter 2 I guess. Hope you guys like the story. I always liked Mard Geer as a villain and so I decided to make a crossover with him. My original plan was to make it a crossover with Bleach with him as an Arrancar, but I went with RWBY instead. Be sure to R&R.
Disclaimer- I OWN NOTHING!
Chapter 2
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Adam quickly sheathed Wilt in preparation of the battle that was about to unfold.
"Everyone stand back! He's mine." Adam warned the White Fang grunts who remained conscious.
"You presume to take on Mard Geer by yourself? That is awfully arrogant of you. It is worth mentioning that Mard Geer will not be using his full strength against you."
"God would you just SHUT UP!" Adam roared as he charged forward and fired Wilt from Blush.
The sword flew through the air and slammed into Mard Geer's chest were it hung in the air for a moment, allowing Adam to grab the blades hilt and swing it across Mard Geer's torso. But Mard Geer foresaw the attack and jumped backwards out of range. As he landed he raised his fingers again and a massive rose shaped explosion erupted in front of Adam.
Adam was knocked back several meters from the force of the explosion but quickly righted himself.
"Are you okay boss?!" one of the grunts asked.
"I'm fine. Just get out of here before he goes after you. You're no match for him."
"How kind of you to worry about the safety of your own men despite the danger you currently face. Are they a distraction to you? Allow me to remove them from the equation." Mard Geer said as he knelt down to touch the ground.
Seconds later dozens of thorny vines erupted from the ground beneath the soldiers feet and impaled them all. They were dead, just like that.
"YOU BASTARD!" Adam roared out in rage. A rage so pure you could feel it radiating off of his very being.
But Mard Geer looked like he couldn't care less.
"I am going to KILL YOU!" Adam shouted as he charged Mard Geer. Once he got within a few feet he fired Wilt out and proceeded to slash at Mard Geer several times. Downward, horizontal, diagonal, upward, he attacked in all manner of ways, but none of the attacks hit home as Mard Geer kept dodging them.
"Human rage is such a humorous emotion. I find it hard to resist laughing at your predicament. The angrier you got the sloppier your attacks become. All that you are doing is making this fight easier for me." Mard Geer gloated as he continued to dodge.
Adam quickly backed off from his assault. Damn, he's right. I need to get my emotions under control otherwise I won't be able to beat him.
Adam took a few deep breaths before assuming a combat stance.
"Ah, I see that you have resolved to calm down. Maybe now you will put up a good fight for Mard Geer."
"I won't just give you a good fight, I will utterly destroy you." Adam bit back.
A smile worked its way across Mard Geer's lips. "I welcome you to try."
Mard Geer swiped his hands across and several vines erupted from the ground to Adam's right. he quickly drew Wilt from its sheath and cut down the attack before it could hit him. Mard Geer then grew a flower in his hand and threw it at the ground in front of Adam. An explosion occurred not moments later which Adam back-stepped to avoid. Suddenly he felt pain as a vine slammed into his side and sent him skyward. His Aura took the brunt of the attack but it still hurt like hell.
As he tumbled through the air, Adam looked down to see a grinning Mard Geer raise his hand towards him. Adam instinctively gripped at Wilt as more vines came forth from the ground. The first one he cut in half, the second one he stabbed into in order to gain a foothold, then he jumped off of it and proceeded to land on and run down the third one. He returned Wilt to Blush and ran downwards on the vine towards Mard Geer.
Mard Geer prepared to launch another attack, but Adam was to fast. Using all of his strength he performed a quick-draw attack and slashed at Mard Geer. He heard the sound of cloth being shredded followed by the satisfying feeling of Wilt biting into flesh. blood splattered across the ground as Adam landed behind Mard Geer and re-sheathed Wilt.
But...
"Impressive."
Adam jumped away out of pure instinct just in time to avoid another flower explosion. He then turned to see Mard Geer still standing, with a small cut on his shoulder.
"You actually managed to wound Mard Geer. I will have you know that's quite a feat. But still not enough to defeat me."
"Just what the hell are you? I put everything into that attack. I have taken down Atlas mechs with that move like they were nothing, and yet you escape with only a mere scratch!" Adam shouted in frustration. "And just what the hell is your Semblance?!"
"I am not familiar with this 'semblance' of which you speak. But if you are referring to my powers, they are a type of curse." Mard Geer elaborated.
"A... curse?"
"Yes. Similar to magic yet at the same time different, curses are what are utilized by the Demon's of the Book of Zeref. My particular curse is the Thorn curse. It allows me to grow an infinite number of thorns from where ever I wish, among other things as I have demonstrated."
"Impossible! You're just talking out your ass."
"Believe me or not I do not care. All that matters is that you will be dead soon." Mard Geer said as he readied himself. "Now, shall we continue?"
Adam chardged Mard Geer again and drew Wilt as fast as lightning to slash at the mans head. Mard Geer ducked underneath and Adam followed up by aiming Blush at Mard Geer's face. He fired, but Mard Geer turned his head to the side to avoid the attack. Adam then brought Wilt down to try again at decapitating Mard Geer. His attack hit nothing but air as Mard Geer sidestepped it.
Then he punched Adam in the center of the chest, causing him to recoil in pain. He followed up with a kick to the leg which brought Adam to his knees. Mard Geer thrust his hand forward in an attempt to pierce Adam's chest, but before he could, Adam rolled backwards and fired several shots at Mard Geer from Blush. Mard Geer called up a wall of thorns to protect himself before sending the wall forward like a wave of thorny death. Adam began rapidly slashing at the approaching vines and cut open a whole in the middle through which he escaped. Right on the other side of the hole, waiting for him, was Mard Geer. In his hand were several roses which he threw at Adam. He dodged the first, deflected the second and third with Wilt, but the final one hit him in the chest.
The force of the point blank explosion was massive and sent Adam tumbling. He quickly recovered into a fighting stance, and just in time to counter the strike Mard Geer had prepared. Using Blush, Adam batted aside Mard Geer's fist and he followed up by slashing at Mard Geer's chest again. But unfortunately, aside from the damage to his outer clothing, he escaped relatively unharmed.
Mard Geer raised his hand again and more vines erupted from the ground and sent Adam skyward again. As he looked down he could see Mard Geer smirking as he prepared his next attack. Adam righted himself in the air and prepared himself for an all or nothing gamble. He pulled his blade back into the precursor for a thrust attack as he fell through the air. Then he saw the vines erupt from the ground. He held still, allowing the vines to just barely miss him as they grazed past him. He got closer and closer to Mard Geer until he was right on top of him, an then... he stabbed Wilt forward.
The attack was aimed right for Mard Geer's heart. Adam could feel as his blade sunk into flesh, but alas just like his earlier attacks, it only scratched the surface.
Mard Geer grabbed Adam by the throat and threw him across the destroyed campsite.
"Mard Geer must admit that he underestimated you. Had you been stronger then that last attack would have possibly killed me. And here I thought only Devil Slayers could do such harm."
Adam coughed as he gripped his throat and began to stand up. "Bastard..."
"Although I need not use it, I feel like I should show you just how great the difference in our power is, so that you may know that you never stood a chance."
As he said this a mysterious and malevolent energy began to enshroud Mard Geer. His body began to give off smoke as his form changed. His body became more muscular as his cothing disappeared in favor of an armored form. His skin darkened and took on the ragged pattern of his coat. He grew dark horns on his forehead and jagged teeth. His finger were replaced with claws and his ears became elongated and elf-like. Sprouting from his back were large bat-like wings and feathers grew from his wrists and collar.
Adam was frozen in fear as the very definition of a demon stood before him.
"This is my true form." Mard Geer spoke in a much darker voice as he outstretched his wings and faced the sky. "My Etherious form. I am the definitive demon, Mard Geer Tartaros." he finished as he returned his attention to Adam who was sweating bullets just from being in his presence.
"Now do you understand just how far apart our power levels are? Now do you see just how pointless your endeavor was? This is despair." Mard Geer stated as he began to step towards Adam.
Adam did his best to remain standing, but with every step he could feel the immense pressure exerted by Mard Geer push him down. It was like standing underneath a raging waterfall.
Soon Mard Geer stood mere feet away from him. "I will not kill you this day." Mard Geer stated coldly, which confused Adam. "No, you will serve as a messenger to all your kind. Tell all of human and faunus kind that their days are numbered. That Mard Geer is coming for them. This will be no war, no quarrel, no natural disaster. This will be an extinction. A dying of the light."
Mard Geer reached his hand down to grasp Adam's face, but in a last desperate attempt at victory, Adam fired Wilt out of Blush at maximum speed and slashed at Mard Geer.
Mard Geer did not dodge the attack. Rather, he caught it. He caught Adam's sword. His most powerful draw attack was caught by Mard Geer's bare hand.
"It seems this one still has some fight left in him." Mard Geer said loathingly as he gripped down on Wilt. "Allow me to rectify that problem." he said as he gripped the blade with all his might, breaking it into dozens of shards.
Adam could just stare in horror as his blade shattered along with any hope he had of victory. The world died before him, and he knew, in that moment, that he stood before a true monster. He then felt a pain as Mard Geer grasped his left shoulder with one hand and his left hand with the other.
"Suffer." Mard Geer stated as he began to pull.
Adam was in immense pain as he felt his bones dislocate and his muscles begin to tear. Mard Geer was by far not making this easy or quick.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" he cried out in pain as his arm was stretched to its limits, and then...
*snap*
Mard Geer ripped his arm right out of its socket, the muscle and skin hanging off of the stump like wet paper. Blood began pouring out rapidly as it stained the ground.
"AAAARRRGGGHHH!" Adam shouted as he grasped at the stump that was once his left arm before turning his attention back to Mard Geer who was holding his arm like it was some kind of trophy.
"You humans are such fragile creatures." he said as he began to examine the arm. "So weak, so susceptible to pain..." his eyes adopted a look of disdain.
"So why is it that I was felled by such insignificant creatures?" he said as he tossed Adam's arm into the woods.
"Why do you dare stand against those that are your betters?!" he roared to the sky in anger as he remembered his last fight. Mard Geer wiped his hand downward across his face as he calmed himself down.
"What drives you?" Mard Geer asked as he kicked Adam across the camp.
"What pushes you forward?" he questioned as he jumped over to Adam and stomped on his leg, breaking it in the process.
Adam was just barely conscious at this point, his mask had flown off revealing his face, and he was beginning to cough up blood. Knowing that the abuse would not stop, he attempted to crawl away with his good arm. but he was stopped when he felt a familiar claw grasp him by the neck.
Mard Geer turned him around so he was facing him and used his other hand hand to grasp his head and force him into eye contact.
"Why is it that even when all seems lost... you still try to fight it?" he asked. "Answer me."
"B-be... because... *cough*... because I can't be stopped... until I... achieve my goal." Adam barely managed to rasp out.
"Hmm... I can't believe I even expected a halfway decent answer from you." Mard Geer said as he let go of Adam's body and let it fall to the ground.
"I suppose I should look elsewhere for my answer." Mard Geer said as he reverted back to his human form and left.
Soon after Adam's world went dark.