AN: Don't have much to say, just, enjoy the chapter I guess.
Walking in the Twilight
Chapter 4: A Slave Trader? Seriously?
Nora was currently sleeping with her head resting on my lap, while running in my Alpha Beowolf form I noticed with the help of observe a carriage of some merchants that accepted to take us to Vale in exchange of some Lien, the bastard tried to extort me, but fortunately I had Nora explain to me the basics of Lien (well, the basics she knew) and I reached an acceptable price with the bastard.
"By the way…" I ask the merchant while getting up "What are you carrying in those wagons?" I ask pointing to the big metal rectangle behind us.
"Slaves." He answers bluntly.
"Slaves?" I ask not believing what he just said.
"Yes." He answers me, a wicked smile starting to take form in his face "And let me tell you, the little girl there would make an excellent price in the underworld." He says while taking a gun out of his jacket "And if you want to continue living you better do as I… what the fuck?!" he says seeing my arm changing to that of a Grimm while shooting it with little to no effect.
[Claw Strike]
"AAAAAAAAARRRGHHH!" the man screams trying to stop the bleeding coming from the same place his arm was 5 seconds ago.
"Shit, this thing is harder to control than I thought, I aimed for the head damn it." I complain swinging my oversized black Grimm arm.
"Y-You monster, get away from me!" the slaver screams shooting me with the other arm while trying to get away from me.
"HA!" I mock him after he empties the loader and starts to reload (that by the way, thanks to Observer that included Instinct evasion I was able to not be hit one single time, thing that contributed for the fear that the man was already feeling) "You dare call ME a monster when you work as a slave trader?" I ask him, a sick look in my face "It's because of people like you," and like me "that this world is so rotten." The difference between us both, is that I have power to uphold my actions, and he doesn't.
'What are the chances of success if I try to absorb him now?' I ask Great Sage, curious for the response.
[Well, he is still conscient, but he is quickly losing blood because of the arm that you cut off, so… probably around 90%.] Great Sage answers a bit unsure.
'Works for me.' I tell her while approaching the man.
[Predator Skill Activating…]
"And there he goes." I say returning to my normal size after absorbing him.
[Target successfully absorbed]
[Semblance Luck manipulation acquired.]
[Luck Manipulation: You can as the name says influence the luck of anything (including yourself) making things that benefit you (or the one that was the target of your semblance) to happen more often.]
"Ha I knew that my aim was perfect, the bastard must have used his semblance to increase his luck making me fail my hit." I say smiling.
[In reality…] she says trying to hide a laugh [He didn't have his aura unlocked (how would you rip his arm off so easily if he had it?), so it was impossible for him to use his semblance in you.] she finishes with a mocking tone [It's just your aim that really sucks.] she says chuckling.
'On one hand I just had proof that I can acquire semblances of people that don't have them unlocked, on the other hand, I was insulted by a voice that is on my head… I'm having mixed feelings.' I think while massaging my temples.
[Activating Cold Mind…]
'Sigh, better.' I say after the semblance takes effect.
[What do you want to do with the slaves?]
'You know what, I am feeling pretty generous today.' And I still don't have any semblance that can control people minds 'So let's just free them.' Every now and then I must do some good or karma is gonna bite me in the ass later, I just wish that this good action makes up for all my next bad actions.
[It's better if these inferior beings don't see your face or they might tell it to the authorities later.] Great Sage advises me [It would be better if you let me do a mask to hide your face your face
'…it is actually a pretty good idea.' I say enthusiastically 'Hey, do you know how to do that hollow mask that Ichigo had when he fully transformed against Ulquiorra?' I ask with a smile.
[Hmmm that thing that looks like a Grimm Mask with big horns?] she asks sounding amused.
'Yes, exactly that.' I say, feeling the mask take form in my face exactly after I gave her the confirmation.
"Hey Nora, you have to get up." I say while shaking her.
"Just five more minutes." She says grabbing me and pulling me down.
[This little shit, how dare she…] Great Sage starts saying being quickly interrupted by me.
'Calm down.' I order shutting her up immediately.
"NOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAAA!" I scream loudly.
"Kyaaaaaaaaah." She screams back scared "W-What do you want with me monster, i-if you do anything to me my savior is gonna find you a-and he's gonna do bad things to you s-so you better get back." She says, her voice shaking every couple of words.
'Heh, looks like the mask is scarier that I thinked' I think smiling 'Still, my savior? Looks like I really made a big impact on her.'
"D-Didn't you hear me? G-Get back!" she says trying to get up.
"Hahahaha. Calm down Nora, it's me." I say taking of the mask and placing a warm smile in my face.
"O-Oh, sorry about that Master Twilight." She says ashamed.
"Wait, Master Twilight?" I ask incredulous, I mean we are talking about Nora here, the girl that mounted a freaking Ursa, and then broke it! How the fuck is she calling ME Master?!
"Of course, you're the one that saved me so it would be impolite to just call you by the name." she explains me.
"I mean, I admit that it has its ring to it, but it would be very strange for other people to hear you calling me that…" But god damn if I didn't like being called Master.
[Who would have thought that right Master?] she says sarcastically.
'Ha. Ha. Ha. You're so funny.' I say rolling my eyes "So just call me that when we are just the two of us ok?" I ask while patting her head
"Of course, Master Twilight." She answers me smiling while rubbing her head on my hand that continued on the top of her head.
"Now let's free those slaves." I say smiling proudly, what? Since I'm doing a good deed, I'll at least brag about it.
" Slaves?" she asks confused, oh yeah, forgot about that.
"Yeaaah, turns out the merchant that was helping us was in fact a slave trader and he wanted to sell you to bad people." I try to explain to her while not (completely) corrupting her innocence.
"And you killed him?" she asks smiling proudly.
"Yeah I… what?" I mean I killed him, but should she really be talking about someone's death so easily?
"Please, I lived on the streets, I am not that innocent." She says scoffing before remembering who she was talking to "I-I mean, I am not saying that you are wrong, b-but I am not saying that you are right either, w-what I am trying to say is, is…"
"Pffffffff…" I try to hide a laugh failing miserably.
"This is not funny, you, you're just so mysterious that I don't even know how I should talk to you, you come out of nowhere and then save me, ME, a little street girl out of all the people on that village, saying that I do not needed to worry and making me feel calmer at the same time, then you carry me while telling me to sleep, I then wake up just to see that you decided to use your coat to cover me instead of yourself, giving me the first warm night that I ever had, then I see you transforming to one of the monsters that burned down my village and after that we are catching a hitch-hitching by a merchant that turns out was a slave trader that you killed and now want to free the slaves that he was carrying, and all of this happened in the last 24 hours!" she rants till she almost loses her voice.
"Are you feeling better now?" I ask trying to hide a smile, ah this was the Nora I remembered, sincerely it was refreshing to see her like this, just talking and talking, not caring about what anyone think about her.
"What's so funny about this?!" she asks angry.
"It's just that you are finally acting like you." I say and see her widening her eyes "But do not mistake my amusement, you, little girl are not irreplaceable, I chose you because I think you can be… better, I can make you better, I can transform you into my perfect partner…"
[AHAM.]
"My perfect human partner." I correct myself "I will be honest with you," yeah… not gonna happen "When I looked at you, I saw potential, potential to become something greater, with the right training of course, that's why of all the people, I chose you, besides, I didn't liked seeing a girl as little and cute as you being alone in the streets" At least this part was true, I mean she is just so cute, probably not in the same level as Ruby, but even then…
"I, I want to become stronger." She says after some seconds of silence "I want to be able to protect you instead of it being me that is always the one being protected." She says, her voice not showing any hint of doubt, unfortunately, it was not enough.
"I am not a good person, I am greedy, I don't care about killing and I am probably the most power-hungry guy that you will ever know." I say to her finally being a bit honest "But, if there is one thing that I can guarantee to you, is that if you chose to stay with me, I will do everything that I can to make you happy, you will never be cold at night, you will never be hungry again, and most importantly, nobody, is gonna make fun or bully you again." I say to her remembering that the scene where she was being made fun of by the three boys was most certainly not the first time that that happened "So do you accept?" I ask holding out my hand to her.
"After saying all those things…" she says trying to wipe the tears out of her face "You make it very difficult to refuse you," She says while reaching to hold my hand "partner." She finishes with a smile.
"Hm." Ah the good old Uchiha answer for everything "I am still above you thought." I say just in case she did not understood that.
"Of course." She answers rolling her eyes and jumping out of the wagon making it impossible for me to see the smile that formed on the little girl lips "By the way…" she says not turning back "I honestly think you should change your mask if you don't want those slaves pissing themselves." She advises me chuckling.
'Sigh, you heard her, let's change the mask.' I say disappointed, while the mask in my face disappeared and was replaced by another, this completely white, except for the red lightning in the right eye and the black mouth (for more details go see Hei's mask from Darker than Black and put the colors I said).
"Better." She says after seeing me "So, how are we gonna open this…" she starts asking before being interrupted by the loud noise of bullets impacting a metal locker.
Bang
Bang
Bang
Three bullets and the locker was on the ground completely destroyed.
"Nora." I say tossing her Hiyori hollow mask "Use this." I order her and see her putting the mask on before entering the wagon.
When I enter, I notice that most of the slaves were faunus (how surprising) and they were all chained to the wood walls of the wagon.
"I don't have bullets for all of this…" I say inspecting the pistol 'Did the slaver had any keys with him?' I ask Great Sage that answers almost immediately.
"Yes, I am lending them to you right now." She says and I feel the keys beginning to take form in my hand.
Bang
"Free all the slaves that are here I order the faunus that I released tossing him the keys.
"Y-Yes sir!" he says quickly freeing all the other slaves.
"Our work here is done." I say to Nora who nods and starts preparing to travel again.
2 minutes later I was ready to start travelling to Vale again when I see all the slaves eyeing Nora in a strange way, if they look like that to her I can't imagine what they would do if they saw my initial mask.
"What?" I ask the slaves that look immediately at me "Never saw someone using a mask before?"
"I-It's not that sir!" …I look like a fucking child, how are these guys calling me sir?! "It's just that…"
"It resembles a Grimm." A kid says gaining disapproving looks from the others "What? I am just telling the truth." The kid says crossing his arms
"Hm, then it is serving his propose." A.K.A scaring the shit out of anyone.
The slaves all look at me like I am crazy but I just turn away and start walking away from there, don't want to stay in the same place for too much time.
"W-Wait." One of the slaves say and I turn around annoyed.
"What do you want now?" I ask losing my patience, if they were gonna be this annoying I would have ended their lives as soon as I entered the wagon.
"W-We just wanted to thank you for what you did for us, I don't know what would have happened to us if you didn't show up." The man says bowing together with all the other slaves.
"Yeah yeah, just do me a favor and don't join the White Fang for fucks sake." I advise them, in the end it would be to counter productive saving them now just to kill them later.
"Of course. Oh just one more thing, what's your name?" the man asks curious to know the name of the two kids that saved all of them.
"Hmmm…" I wouldn't tell them my real name obviously so I just came with the first thing that came to my mind "I am Dawn, and she is Albedo." (I don't think that's a color but fuck it).
"Ok, thanks again for saving us." The man says with a smile while i and Nora just walked away from there.
Some seconds later I see Nora looking at me like she was trying to hide a laugh.
"What?" I ask her while taking my mask off.
"You act all though but deep down you are a big softie Master Twilight." She says giving me a mischievous smile.
"Shut up, I never really liked when innocent people are enslaved." when they are not innocent it's their damn fault for underestimating karma.
"Yeah yeah you big softie." She says starting to run in front of me.
"I swear one of these days you will find yourself replaced and then you will crawl back to me crying and asking to be my partner again." I tell her, while trying to prevent the smile that was forming on my face to appear.
[Activating Skill Grimm Form, transformation into Alpha Beowolf starting…]
"Let's go." I say launching Nora to my back and starting to run.
'I wonder how old Roman and Neo are right now, well only one way to know.' I think while accelerating in direction to Vale.
Vale you better be prepared, because when I am done nobody will be capable of recognizing you.
AN: Now let's answer those reviews
DankAnon: Yeah, i was already planning to give him a semblace A.K.A Qrow's that did the exact contrary. But the idea of the phone is pretty good, i think i will add it to the story. About Neo, i put her in the pairings but then remembered Roman and still don't know what to do with her, well let's see, they will probably have their moments but... meh i don't know.
Overtale: Just have one question for you... What is Pinkie?
Next chapter (probably): Pumpkins with ice cream