"Oi, boy. Get up."
Ekiyo Tokugawa slowly got up from his ged. Being fifteen and in foster care wasn't easy for him. He looked over. His foster father was a big burly wolf Faunus of about thirty-two years of age.
"I said, get up."
"I heard you the first time, geez."
"Don't you disrespect me, boy. I took you out of that damned orphanage, I can throw you right back in."
Not wanting to start a fight, Ekiyo just got up and got dresses, then headed downstairs. His foster mother was cooking breakfast. She was human, and the polar opposite of her husband. She was the most kind and caring person he had ever met, and though she wasn't his mother, he loved her like she was.
"Hey, Ekiyo. I made your favorite. Chocolate pancakes, bacon, and hash-browns."
"Thanks, Mom."
He always called her Mom. After his own mother had lost him and his siblings due to alcoholism, he had given up all hope on her. So, when kind Mrs. Akigawa took him into her home, he immediately loved her.
Mr. Akigawa sat down at the table with him, glaring at him.
"So, boy, you make your weapon yet?"
"No, I haven't yet."
"Better step up the hustle, can't let you use the dummy weapons forever. Though, you probably do as much damage with them as a real one, probably as good as your deadbeat da…"
Immediately, Ekiyo jumped across the table and started strangling Mr. Akigawa .
"Don't speak about my father like that! You have no right to say that!"
"Ekiyo, get off of him!"
Slowly losing his rage, he heard Mrs. Akigawa's voice. He got off of Mr. Akigawa, and offered his hand out to him apologetically. He swatted his hand away. He stood up and starting wiping the blood away from where Ekiyo's nails had broken the skin.
"You're lucky I'm not going to press charges, boy. Now, get off to school before I change my mind."
"But, breakfast…"
"I said, go!"
With that, Ekiyo quickly grabbed his bag and made him way to combat school. During design class, he was looking through a weapon book. As he was doing this, he heard a voice.
You should've killed him.
"Who said that?" Ekiyo said very loudly.
"Ekiyo, is there something you would like to share with the class?" The teacher asked.
"Umm, no. Sorry, won't happen again."
He quickly ducked his head back into his book trying to avoid embarrassment. He heard the voice again. I'm part of you. I am you.
What do you mean? He thought.
I mean, I'm the part of you that has no control, that wants to rid the world of the people you hate, including insolent Mr. Akigawa.
I have no idea what you mean.
Then, there was no response. He thought to himself that he must be crazy. Suddenly, when he got to a certain page in the book, the voice said, That one.
He looked closely at the weapons. On one page were nothing but staffs. On the other, nunchucks.
Which one?
Why not have both?
Over the course of the next week, Ekiyo designed his weapon. When he finally brought it home at the end of the week, Mr. Akigawa asked him what it was.
"It's a staff," he replied.
"That's it? A puny staff was the best you could do?" Mr. Akigawa was soon on the floor laughing.
Suddenly, Ekiyo swung his staff upwards. Mr. Akigawa went flying into the air, then slammed on the floor.
"It also has air Dust crystals on the ends. And," he separated the staff at the middle. "They're also nunchucks. How's that for puny?"
There was no response.
"Mr. Akigawa?"
There was still no response. Ekiyo knelt down next to his body. His veins were thick and purple. He stood up, scared.
"Mom? Mom?!"
He started to panic. What did he do? Did he kill his foster father?
Mrs. Akigawa ran into the room. She gasped. "What happened?"
"I don't know. I… don't know…"
She quickly called the paramedics. They rushed in and examined the body, then they put it in the ambulance.
"We'll give you two a ride if you'd like," the driver said. Ekiyo declined, but Mrs. Akigawa got into the ambulance. He sat in the middle of his room, eyes closed, thinking. Eventually, he fell asleep.
While he was asleep, he started to dream. He was standing in a dark void. He could hear whispers all around him. Suddenly, a faceless person walked towards him.
"Who are you?"
No response.
"I asked, who are you?"
Again, no response.
Eventually, he was standing face to face with the person. Well, face to darkness, as even this close, he still couldn't see the person's face. Suddenly, as scorpion tail came out from behind the figure.
"I… am your… salvation."
He was stabbed with the tail.
Suddenly, he woke up. He looked around. It was still dark out. He sighed. It was all a dream.
Was it? Said the voice in his head. Look in the mirror.
Confused, he got up and looked at his wall mirror. He yelled really loudly.
Sticking out from behind him was a black scorpion tail. It hadn't been there before. Ekiyo began pacing his room, worried, wondering how he would explain this to Mrs. Akigawa.
"Ekiyo, I'm home!"
Crap. What am I going to do?
"Ekiyo? Are you home?"
"Yeah, yeah I am Mom. I'm bout to come down."
Slowly, he walked downstairs. He heard a gasp.
"Ekiyo, what is that?!"
"Look, Mom, I can explain. The tail…"
"I'm not worried about the tail, I was talking about the drool around your mouth." She suddenly burst into laughter.
"Wait, you're not worried about my tail?"
"No silly. Why would I be? It's been there the whole time."
Then it hit him. It had been, he had just never noticed it…
He pushed that out of his mind. "Anyway," he said. "How's Mr. Akigawa?"
Mrs. Akigawa's face suddenly dropped. "Well… they found poison in his bloodstream. They say it originated at the two puncture wounds on his neck…"
A moment of realization hit Ekiyo. "I… I… I killed him…" he muttered to himself.
Mrs. Akigawa hugged him tightly. "No, no, dear. I'm sure it's all a coincidence…"
"No!" He yelled. "I killed him, and I should be punished for it!"
With that, he ran out of the house. Mrs. Akigawa tried to stop him, failed, then fell to her knees crying.
It was weird. All around him were burning building, Beowulves and Ursai were running amok. Around him, he could hear Nevermores and Griffons squawking around him. Newyn Rees did not understand the situation going on around him.
"Hey, you, stop."
Newyn looked in the direction of the voice. He saw a girl with glowing yellow hair, another girl who suddenly appeared from a bunch of rose petals, a cat faunus, and girl with a misty suit of armour behind her.
"We're here to take you in for your crimes."
"But…"
Suddenly, ropes impaled his chest, shooting electricity through his body, him to spasm. As he lay on the ground, slowly going unconscious, he saw a man walk up to him. He had a full head helmet on.
"You messed with the wrong huntsmen."
Then he kicked him in the head.
Newyn suddenly woke up. He looked around the alley where he slept.
"Weird," he said to himself. Then he went back to sleep.
As he slept, a hooded figure looked over him on a building. The figure then pulled out a scroll.
"Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, he's here. Yes ma'am, will do. Thank you."
The figure rushed off, ready to do their mistress's bidding...
Hello all. Qrow again. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. As usual, let me know what you guys think.
