Jay pov
As I closed the door behind me I could see my teammates hugging it out. In time, I could persuade you to join us, Selina Vitora.
I opened my black scroll and dialed my boss. Her voice came trough with a slight edge of static. "Kobalt, have you infiltrated Beacon?" Cinder's voice buzzed in my ear.
"The old wizard never suspected a thing, you should be clear for the Haven exchange. Our Queen will be most pleased." I smiled as I thought of what was coming in our little organization.
"Yes, she will be, anything else to report, my little leaguer." I always hated that nick name.
"Yes, my leader has a power ring, a weapon from beyond our world which gives her powers beyond what should be feasibly possible. and there are different types. I'll have to learn more." I needed to learn more about these, and where to get them? Were there any that were more powerful then others? What powered them?
"Interesting... learn more as you plan to, if you are unable to find any by the time the plan is fully in motion, take hers." The fire maiden ordered.
"Actually, I think I can turn her to our side... if that fails, I will claim her ring with all the pleasure in the world." My smile twisted my check painfully wide.
"Next time, my love." She hung up with a resounding click. my face returned to normal as I returned to the room.
Fero had fallen asleep in the same bed as Vulpina, or rather Fero had fallen asleep holding Vulpina like a teddy bear. The faunus was content to tinker with something till she fell asleep. They hadn't even changed.
"What was that about?" Argentum asked.
"Called my girlfriend." I answered simply with nothing but the truth
Chapter three: The grind
Fero Pov
Wake up.
Get breakfast.
Go to class.
Get lunch.
Go to more classes.
Eat supper.
Get back to the room and homework.
And go to bed.
Repeated day in and day out.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT!" I yelled, my entire team jumped out of their skins. "EVERYDAY THE SAME BLOODY THING! FIRST IS THAT CREEP PORT! THEN SNAPPING MY NECK T KEEP UP WITH OOBLECK! AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON PEACH!"
"It's been two days of classes." Argentum patted me on the back.
"Besides we have sparring all day today." Jay looked over the schedule. He kept us on time and made sure we got to class... I got to class.
"Besides after today we have the weekend... I need more materials." She was by far the most productive of us all, finishing all of her stuff and tutoring the rest of us. And on top of all that she built all of her 'inventions'.
They were mostly bombs on wheels. And drones that carry bombs.
And the screaming Roomba.
"HOLY MOTHER FUCKER OF GOD! WHY DO I EXIST IN THIS WORLD OF PAIN!?" it screamed from under my bed.
"Sparring huh?" I looked to Jay. "How's that going to work?"
"I know as much as you." he shrugged.
I took my seat in the class and looked over all the other students. They sheer amount of weapon variety.
"Okay students, we have to set some ground rules." Glynda stepped onto the arena floor below us.
So this was Glynda's class.
"You are only here to spar, I will not tolerate any deliberate actions to harm other students. You win once your opponent's aura drops into the red. All tactics are allowed."
"Really..." I looked over to my right, a group of boys seemed all t happy about that rule.
"Now who will be first?"
A girl in black and red hand shot up. "I do!"
"Very well Miss. Ruby Rose." Glynda tapped on her scroll and a portrait of the girl came up on a screen. "And for your opponent...?"
I stood up. "I would like to kick things off." I grabbed my power lantern and hopped down to the stage.
"And Miss Onyx." My photo came up with a bar... that was empty.
"Is your Aura not activated?" The teacher asked.
"That word again... what is Aura?" The entire class shifted.
"She got here without an Aura?"
"She won't have a semblance..."
I couldn't catch any more whispers.
"You'll activate it later... for now please take a seat..."
I felt angry and cheated about not being able spar.
In a flash I was in my red lantern outfit and the bar filled up.
"Oh... seems that you simply didn't know what it was." her voice was full of condensation.
"So her semblance is changing outfits... lame!"
Similar comments were thrown my way. Oh you'll see.
"On my mark... Fight!"
Ruby vanished in a storm of petals.
Next thing I knew I felt a shallow cut on my arm.
I slowly turned to see her with a massive scythe. my blood dripping from the edge.
"Miss Onyx I recommend you activate your aura to heal that cut."
"I don't think I will... I mean why nullify a major advantage?" I pointed to the smoking edge of the small girls weapon.
"What? Is that acid?" Ruby freaked out as the edge of her weapon was quickly turned into slag.
I formed a full arm gauntlet from my ring, the fingers tipped with serrated blades hooked like claws.
In a flash of red light I blasted over to Ruby and with a upward swing sent her flying, with a bang she shot off.
How much kick back do those rounds have? She the stayed just out of my reach, she kept on disappearing in those petals.
She got behind me and hooked my artificial leg she fired a shot and sent me face first into the cement. I wiped the blood off, the floor steaming as it was eaten away.
She fired two rounds to get away from me one hit beside my hand and the other...
My mechanical leg shook from the impact. The round was wedged in the knee joint. "Damn it!" I yelled turning onto my back. I couldn't pry the bullet out.
Two more shots rang out and as one grazed my inner thigh the other struck my shoulder.
"You cheeky little Reaper... now you made me mad." the rage rolled off me in shockwaves. I floated above ground, my leg bent in a strange position. Blood steaming in a puddle below me.
The red light hardened into bestial limbs over my own, slow creeping over me until I was encased in a red werewolf. I swung at her faster then she could move out of the way, but her scythe pierced the clawed hand, sending waves of pain back trough me.
"GRAH!" I stepped back. Where is she? she had vanished again.
"HEY!" two gun shots rang out and the constructs head fell to the ground, a thin line of blood formed on my throat as I fell to the ground. I looked up at the aura bars, mine was nearly in the red. My ring let out a low energy warning.
I locked my eyes with those silver orbs, aimed my ring at her and poured all my rage into it and fired off a massive beam of energy, but my aim was off and I missed by inches.
"That's the match, Ruby take the victory. Can any one figure out what was Miss Onyx's mistake?" Glynda asked.
"Several, she refuses to use her aura because of her acidic blood, not focusing on defense at all, and she clearly fights angry, allowing her bloodlust and adrenalin guide her strikes." A girl with long red hair answered.
"Correct, but there is one more thing. Miss Onyx... do you know what it is?" The blonde professor turned to me.
"I didn't properly look over my opponent, she's younger the every other student so I assumed inexperience." I wrenched the bullet out of my leg. "I underestimated my foe."
"Indeed. You have the potential, fight calmer and you may win your next bout." I rolled my eyes, Ruby offered my a hand up.
"Here, You'll need to get that bullet out." She helped me up.
"It'll already have melted away." I nearly pat her on the back with my bloody hand.
"Miss Onyx please go clean up." I looked down at my self.
"I am a FACKing mess."
After I showered up I was forced to got to the nurse by... Ruby?
"I DON'T CARE THAT YOU CAN"T GET INFECTED! YOUR STILL BLEEDING!" the dressings I had applied were smoking.
"You do realize I have no control over the acidity of my blood... I can't get stiches." the red reaper dragged me along.
"YOU HAVE A HOLE IN YOUR SHOULDER!" her face bright red.
"I'll live."
"THATS NOT THE POINT!" she more or less hauled me into the office.
"Why are you here?" the nurse asked.
"I have a few cuts from sparring." My blood had burned trough the cloth and dripped down splattering on the ground.
"And her blood is acid so no stiches." Ruby added.
"Very well... I'll get the dust patches."
"Dust patches?" I asked Ruby.
All she did was hand me a leather strap from her outfit, "You'll want to bite this?"
"What do you mean?" At that moment the nurse wrapped my arm with a cloth and the cut burned brightly underneath.
"FUCKING HELLLLL!" I quickly grew to hate dust patches even more then needles.
We stood outside the nurse's office with my hands wrapped around the young team leaders throat.
"YOU COULD'VE GIVEN ME MORE WARNING!" smoke erupted from my throat as that was the injury that was 'patched up'.
"It was the only option..." her grew bluer and bluer.
"THAT HURT YOU DAMN REAPER!" I let go and stepped back.
"Your mean," She had pout on almost the same level as Vulpina
"No I have a short fuse." I started to walk away.
"Okay fine, hey I have question?" she followed me.
"What is it?"
"So what is your weapon? You made hard light constructs but you don't seem to have anything to form them?" She asked.
"My ring allows me to mould my rage in a solid form." I answered.
"Oh so the angrier you get the stronger you are." she had a jovial bounce in her step despite I was fully prepared to kill her.
"In a rough sense yes." we turned the corner and ran into the rest of our teams, who were chatting up a storm, or rather Vulpina and a blonde girl were bouncing puns off of each other, Argentum was discussing something intently with a in so much white she looked like a blank canvas. Jay and a raven haired girl with a bow in her hair kept silent.
"Oh Fero this is my team; my sister Yang." She pointed to the blonde brawler.
"Yo, you were terrifying." I decided to take that as compliment.
"Weiss, the Ice Queen." she pointed to the special little snowflake.
"Hey." Weiss protested.
"And Blake." The Raven simply shook my hand.
"Nice to meet you all, and I see they have already met my team."
"Hey Ruby, I'm Argentum."
They all made their introductions.
Vulpina tossed me my lantern I had just realized I had dropped it during the bout. My ring beeped yet another warning of the low energy level.
We stuck together for the rest of the day. I was unable to escape to refill the ring.
We crashed in our room as team RWBY went to theirs, "So what else can we do today?" I asked. We played games, did homework and tripped over the Roomba. Slowly one by one my teammates fell asleep. As I listened for their snores I placed my battery on the desk and put my hand in the port.
"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 then began to think about the moment my life changed forever.
I had been captured by the blue lanterns, I was nothing but another feral red lantern submitted to the control of Atrocitus, slowly over months they purified me, cleansing me of the monster's control. Yet they could not free me from the ring's dependence.
"Huh... huh... huh... where am I?" I looked around me, and saw the blue lanterns. "All I can remember is the estate..."
"It's okay, calm down, your safe." a strange looking being keeled down to me. "Can you stand?"
"I think," I mostly leaned on him as he moved me to a table. "What happened?" I asked.
"You were controlled by one of the red power rings." He looked inhuman, but his aura was so calming.
"Red power ring?" I looked down at my hands and saw the glowing band. "What happened to me?"
Over the weeks the blue lanterns trained me, but they fund that my quick rage could never be tempered. I couldn't inspire hope, and being a horrendous pessimist who gave up easily I could never wield a blue ring.
I sat in the gardens mediating among the glowing foliage "Selina Vitora." I turned to see a group of Guardians and Green lanterns.
"Hello," I waved.
"You are wanted for your crimes that you committed as a member of the red lantern corps." I was powerless on the blue lanterns world so they cuffed me with ease.
Months later I faced trial on Oa.
"I told you I had no control." I pleaded.
"You murdered innocents. Children." The judge yelled at me.
"I'm not to blame!" I wept, shoulders shaking.
"Even a young child like you must answer for your crimes! I sentence you to death. Remove her ring this instant." The Guardians all looked to the green lanterns on hand.
An explosion rocked the building. Another Green lantern flew into the hall. "The red lanterns are attacking Atrocitus is here!" I was forgotten in the rush, left chained to the desk, ring drained of power.
I stayed like that for hours until I heard foot steps behind me.
"These 'heros' leave a poor young girl chained to a courtroom desk, barely a teen and most defiantly not old enough to face the law alone." I couldn't face who ever was approaching me.
"Please I don't want to die, help me." I cried, I couldn't hold back my tears.
"What was your crime little one?" I massive red hand pulled and shattered my bonds, all I could do was show him the red band on my finger, " I was shaking.
"You wanted justice for those who had wronged you, those who should be punished." he pulled me along, "Come with me you'll be safe with us."
"Yes, sir." I walked with him willingly. as we walked trough the destroyed city all I could see we the dead corpses of lanterns and guardians.
We arrived on the planet Ysmault, home of the red lanterns. In a throne room he sat down and looked at me. "How is t that you have full control of yourself?" he asked like some of my former masters would when they came home and I wasn't finished the dishes.
"The blue lanterns said they freed me from the slavery Atrocitus. Sir." I felt like I should kneel before him.
"Do you know who I am?" His voiced hardened at the mention of the blue corps.
"You are the leader of the Red Lanterns, Atrocitus, the man who I ow my life to twice over. Sir?" his gruesome face contorted with confusion.
"Your ring gave me the power to escape my owner on my home world, and you saved me from the Guardians execution. Sir in order to repay this debt I will dedicate my life to your cause." I kneeled front of him.
"Wholly and truly?" He stood and walked to me, "Would you give your life if it meant to repay me?" his hand caressed my cheek, it burned with unnatural heat.
"Yes Sir." I had to repay him, he saved my life. The blue lanterns were wrong about him, he wasn't a monster. He was the true hero. The blue lanterns had pretened to be my friend, yet when I was taken they did nothing.
I was so wrong about that, and it would take me two years of blood and murder to realize this. But I was happy, happier then ever, using my new found love for a new master, channelling my hatred for everything as his weapon, and eventually his adopted daughter.
I jumped when my ring went off. I brought up the visage of a guardian. "Fero Onyx, report."
"What is there to report, I've been going to classes, and not much else." I wiped a tear from my cheek.
"Very well, good day." the transmission cutout.
I crawled into bed, and fell into a fitful sleep.
Review damnit, that was heart wrenching to write.
