Alright, hey guys, in case you didn't notice when I updated the story's description, I'm am now experimenting with doing "Dandelion" and "Black Rose" shipping/yachting pairs. =P SC characters are all taken. Plus they're all older and that would just be… no. If the yachting doesn't work out too well, I may just scrape this and restart from wherever it was still doing good. But hopefully it'll work. :D Anyways, here's Chapter 4 of The Relic of Remnant.
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Ruby's POV
As we readied our weapons, the strange feeling of confidence swept over me, to the point that every nerve in my body screamed for me to unleash havoc. Selendis pulled up a see-through screen with what I assumed was a diagram of wherever we were. Several areas on the map pinged red. "Amon's forces are scattered across this station. They're making their ways towards the generators and our ships. They have already reached your Leviathan, Kerrigan. It is keeping them at bay, but it cannot hold forever." Zeratul stood up surprisingly quickly. "I will go, and use the shadows to hide my path."
I understood that Zeratul was the stealthy one around here. I nudged Blake. "You and I should go with him. You've always been the stealthy one among us. I can use my speed to not get caught," I whispered. She hesitated for a second, then slowly nodded. "We'll go with you!" I declared. Zeratul looked behind him towards Artanis. He didn't seem to move, but some silent communication must have gone between them. "Very well…" I noticed Selendis press a few buttons into a console.
Suddenly, Blake, Zeratul, and I were wrapped in little blue squares. Everything below our chests had become the same translucent hue of the squares. As they quickly shifted up and down along us, floating from our heads to our ankles, I felt myself start to turn into glass shards again. I just had time to think, Oh no, not this again… before I completely broke apart.
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Yang's POV
As Ruby, Blake, and the old guy vanished, Raynor suddenly turned to me and Weiss. "We're going to go get some back-up and prepare our ships. You two girls come with us," He said, inserting a magazine into the giant rifle that I had almost immediately fallen in love with. Looking behind me, I saw Pyrhha stepping towards Selendis, and Nora and Ren were already standing by Artanis. Poor Jaune got stuck with Kerrigan. (Err… not like that's a bad thing… *glances at ridiculously sharp bone wing pointed at me*) The door behind Raynor opened up, and I, Weiss, Raynor, and Valerian sprinted through it. I hadn't noticed the little prince's sword until he pulled it out. It looked like a giant golden toothpick and I doubted it would be much help. I had already turned on Ember Cercila, and Weiss had pulled out Myrtenaster. We charged.
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Jaune's POV
O.K., so I got stuck teaming up with a creepy, mutated purple woman to go help fight off some evil shadow monsters. No seriously, they looked like they were actually made of shadow. Anyways, the way we got to the weird shadow-creeps was even more disturbing. Kerrigan basically held both of my shoulders, wrapped me in her wings, and then we burrowed underground in seconds. Less than a minute later we popped up in a room full of weird slimy things fighting off balls made of shadow with really evil red eyes.
Some of them spat acid, others exploded into acid. Some of them shot needles, and one huge bug-like giant just stomped on whatever got in its way, slashing at them with one of its four ridiculously large curved blades that seemed to take the place of arms. Suddenly, a really nasty snake-like shadow-thing seemed to notice us. "Kerrigan… Amon will be pleased to hear of your downfall. But who is this little boy? No matter. You shall both fall."
An image flashed into my mind of Pyrhha. Here smile was so warm, and so sweet… The thought had an instantaneous effect on me. I would do anything to see her warm, glowing smile again. One moment, I was standing there, dazed, the next, I was charging towards a 30 foot tall shadow snake, Crocea Mors unfolded and unsheathed. Brave? Yes. Reckless? Yes. Successful? Surprisingly, yes. The snake regarded me with burning, blood-red eyes. "This is too amusing for words… You charge to an early grave…" The serpent would've kept talking, but since I was within striking range, the nasty serpent attacked me. As it lunged towards me, jaws open, I tried to ready my shield in time, but I knew I was too slow. Here comes the end… I thought.
As the shadowy snake's fangs made contact with my skin, my whole body suddenly flared blinding white. My eyes had been jammed shut, but on realizing I didn't feel like I had been chewed up, I opened my eyes and looked down. The snake was struggling to bit e into me. At first I thought it was my aura, but in the few times I'd used it, I had always felt some sort of drain. Now it felt as if I had some sort of infinite power supply and that I was invincible. Suddenly, I realized I was. Since I had an exposed target sitting there as if saying, "Please cut me Jaune, I beg you!" I simply lifted up Crocea Mors and decapitated the ugly shadow-monster.
As the white glow faded from my body, I charged to go fight some more bad guys, not even caring that my invincibility was down. (Horrible action-ending is horrible…)
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Aaand that's gonna do it for Chapter 4 of The Relic of Remnant. For improved results, please listen to "I Burn" while reading anything in this story. I think this is a good way to start off the yachting, as Yang and Weiss will be together, as will Ruby and Blake. I think I may start building up towards the pairs in the next chapter. Thanks, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASSSSSEEE review! I really want to hear from the people that are reading this. Over 350 people have viewed this story, yet I don't even have 5 reviews! Alright, see ya guys soon, bye!
