"This match is over." Crimson said and the magic circle exploded.
"No it isn't" Ruby said looking at the gun dead in the eye. Weiss was struggling from under Crimson's hand. Blake and Yang were on the ground unconscious from the blast that had hit them. Crimson loosened his grasp and took out his cartage from his gun. "The suns already down and I immobilized all of you guys. You make your dinner for a week. By the way, try not to burn the house down." He cocked the gun making the remaining bullet fly out of it. Ruby found it strange that the bullet was black inside the golden casing. Crimson caught it and stuffed them both into his pocket. He put the now empty gun back in his inside pocket and walked back into the house. Ruby helped Weiss up from the ground and immediately went to Yang's side, who was just snoring her at the moment. Blake groaned as she got up from the ground wondering what had happened.
Crimson looked himself in the mirror and thought in his head that they just needed 1 more hit to win. He wiped the blood away from the grazed wounds from the bullets he ran into. He closed his eyes and waited for a minute and when he opened them they were all as good as new but something didn't feel right. He fingered the newly repaired necklace and took it off. He said "CRACK" but the mirror didn't crack. He felt no weighted words come out of him. When he realized that he touched his neck hoping to Lucifer that Cathy didn't use it. He put the necklace back on and just washed his face. He walked to the other teams room watching but staying out of sight. He was lucky that he didn't witness their fighting style but he was annoyed on how they were just playing tag with the robots. He pushed some buttons and the robots went back inside the wall. He clicked the mic on and said.
"You guys, there is food I think if you want some. That will be all for today and also find another practice room to use from tomorrow on please. I need this for testings." They all looked around to see where he was but he was already gone. He was in Cathy's room which still wasn't back yet. He would remember the times he came in and Cathy would be sleeping on the balcony with headphones on as if they were the most naturalist thing in the world. He would wake her up and she would smile when she saw his face before going back to bed but in her bed this time. Crimson walked over to the balcony and sat on the ground wondering why would she fall asleep at such a place. He listened to the quietness as the cool breeze went through the railings. It felt relaxing in the mind somehow something he could feel at ease with. Making his tiredness completely over take him and just went to sleep right then and there.
Weiss kept rubbing her neck which still felt like Crimson's hand was still on her which didn't sit well with her. Yang was already awake and bursting with energy while Blake was just reading away with one of her usual books. Ruby was swamped with home work since she didn't get the stuff they taught at the DWMA. Weiss crossed her arms hoping to eat something but she knew none of them could cook. She waited for the others when Maka and Soul came bursting in with food. They all ate with Team JNPR as they discussed somethings about their schedule or something like that. Pyrrha looked around trying to look for something but when she didn't find it she was a little bit saddened.
"What's wrong, Pyrrha? Are you not hungry?" Jaune said with a concerned look on his face. Pyrrha shook her head and just smiled at him. "Oh, it's nothing really. I'll eat see." She took a little bit of food and shoved it into her mouth. When everyone was done Ruby and the others said goodbye to Jaune and his team. Maka and Soul stayed behind to look for Crimson to ask him something. Pyrrha was wondering the same thing but her questions were somehow difficult to explain. Maka and Soul looked at the room's one by one while Pyrrha didn't know where to look so she went to look into Cathy's room first since she felt like Crimson would be there. Her intuition was right, when she opened the door a gust of wind hit her before suddenly stopping. She looked beyond that and found Crimson just laying on the balcony sleeping. She walked up to him cautiously knowing that he may hurt her if she did a sudden movement. She squatted down to look at him and she could hear his even breathing. She looked at his clothes which were nice and brand new giving her the idea that he had changed. She noticed something sparkling from the moon's light and leaned in for a closer look. She saw a ring around a chain which she thought it was interesting so she decided to touch it. When she did she felt like she couldn't breathe and when she tried to gasp for air it felt like her throat was tightening in an instant. Crimson grabbed her hand which removed her finger off the necklace letting her get the feeling of breathing once again.
"What are you doing?" Pyrrha looked into his eyes which were the color of Crimson. She thought it kind of sounded weird that his name was also Crimson as she was gasping for air. She realized that she could breathe normally again and that Crimson was fine with such a thing around his neck.
"I thought the necklace you had was nice so I thought..." Pyrrha stopped talking at that moment when Soul and Maka came crashing into the room.
"Oh sorry, were we bothering you with something good?" Soul said after putting his leg down from kicking the door. Maka looked at the busted door and back at Soul who was smiling at his great deed. Maka bowed and said.
"Sorry, Crimson, Soul didn't mean to break down the door I swear." Crimson let go of Pyrrha's hand and walked up to them.
"No it;s not what it looks like? Pyrrha here was doing something which I was about to get my answer until you guys came barging in. So what do you need?"
"Hey, that's not cool at all, you know." Soul narrowed his eyes after saying that. Crimson remained neutral and Pyrrha was still sitting on the ground wondering why couldn't she tell Crimson the truth.
Maka responded. "Look, Crimson, we only came here to talk to you about Cathy." Crimson flinched at the name. He didn't think that Cathy would tell people that she was alive but maybe she didn't. He couldn't wrap his brain around it until he knew he had to respond to Maka's question.
"What about Cathy?" Crimson trying to hold back his surprise.
"We saw you kill her with your own hands and yet she is alive and kicking just about 2 days ago. Lord Death even said that she won't be allowed to come to the DWMA anymore." Crimson got the general picture on how things happened and replied to them.
"Yes, she is alive but I'm afraid she isn't here right now." Maka tried to hit Crimson but he only got out of the way. She twisted her foot towards Crimson's direction and grabbed a fist full Crimson's shirt and pushed him against the door.
"If you knew that she was alive why didn't you say anything about it?" Crimson could feel Maka's hand's tremble as she tried to keep Crimson on the door. Crimson thought about the idea of telling people how she was alive but something in him told him that it wouldn't work out so well. Like the time Ruby chased Pyrrha in the house thinking she was a fake. Wondering if Cathy was plagued with the emptiness in her heart that cannot be filled. Wondering why she can remember everything even those who he revives cannot remember the ones they love the most in the world.
"I felt like she needed time to recover that's all and sometimes having people around her that are familiar might stress her out into getting an explanation." That was all Crimson could muster when Maka wasn't too happy with his response. He saw her raise up her hand that was formed as a fist and was about to hit him. He waited for the connection from that fist to his face but he never felt it. He saw that Soul grabbed her from behind in a tight embrace with his face buried in her neck. Maka was struggling with either anger or embarrassment in Soul's arms. After a while she calmed down and grabbed Soul's arms to return the embrace.
"Stupid, Soul." Maka said as she looked down at the ground. Soul not saying anything and Crimson just left the room as Pyrrha followed not wanting to interrupt anything. Pyrrha was right behind Crimson as he was walking down the stairs to the practice room which the people that were using it never cleaned up after themselves. As Crimson was cleaning up he say flashes of fire from another place and sometimes injured people in a much safer area. He held the bridge of his nose and concentrated what it was. When there was nothing he knew that Cathy put herself in danger once again but he cannot tell where she went this time. All he could do was wait at home and not do anything rash.
"We carry a bond. Crimson so I am you and you are me. Even though we maybe in separate bodies I can feel my very being going towards you." Cathy says as she swings her feet over the cliff dangling them in front of the gaping hole to the edge of the city.
"What do you mean, Cathy? I don't understand." Crimson standing behind her at a safe distance. Cathy plops herself onto the ground looking at the sky.
"You know the time where I first saw you right?"
"Yeah?" Crimson replying not knowing where this was going.
"Well, every since that time I can feel something like the poison in my body going away." Crimson not knowing what to say but Cathy still continued on as if she gave him a vague answer.
"Take it like this. When I was down there getting all sorts of things done to me I gained powers but they come with a price. Inside our brains there is a mechanism that let's us hold a limited amount of powers. So let's say people wanted to break through that barrier and I don't know create soldiers in case of a war. They might need recovery when they get hit, Fortifying muscles or body to get them something tough do get through I have no idea, agility to safely dodge the bullets or whatever the other side throws at them. That's already three right there and yet Academy city the students only carry one ability. Sure the level 5's have more than one but it's been a more enhanced version using their abilities don't you think."
"I don't know what you are going with this." Cathy sighed before saying more.
"So as I the success to their experiments hold a bunch of powers but because you told me that you are my blood that means my soul is split in half."
"That's crazy, we are nothing alike I am quick-tempered, cold, merciless and madness. You... you i can't begin with you. You are kind, you shed tears towards those you hurt or killed, you put people first than yourself and you never give up hope." Cathy was silent for a while before saying anything.
"Do you honestly believe I am that kind, why I don't get angry maybe there is a reason why you think that I am someone who deserved better in this world." Crimson fell onto all fours from shock looking at the ground. Cathy still didn't move from her spot.
"As I said, you are me and I am you. We share the same memories but we don't share the same personalities. Think like the good and bad in this world. The rich and the poor. The rich get happiness and don't know about the suffers the poor had and the poor have to learn survival skills while knowing that there isn't anybody going to save them but themselves. I personally think I am from the poor side and yet I get treated as if I am from the rich side. The positive things I do people get angered and you are from the poor side always hating and hating not able to trust anyone but me and maybe Lord Death if i say so I don't know but what I do know is that I am slowly dying." The last words gave Crimson a shock, he didn't know that she was dying. He knew he was gaining more power but he thought it was just him training. He looked up at Cathy who was still on the ground looking at the sky with a blank expression.
"What if I find a way for you to live?" Crimson blurted it out out of desperation. Cathy got up and bend over the crouched over person. '
"There isn't a way to keep me alive you know. There are 2 souls who aren't complete and what does both of them want. They want to be whole again and since I have a body that is already dying don't you think it makes sense that you slowly kill me anyways." Cathy smiled as if she accepted her fate as it is.
"No, I'll save you no matter what. I'll kill myself before you die that way you can have a normal life again." Cathy shook her head and a sudden gust of wind hit them. Cathy's hair was in the wind and that's when he noticed that the veins on her neck were already black but it was slowly creeping down to her body. Cathy grabbed Crimson's hand and placed it on top of her breast.
"Can you feel that? There is a faint pulse just a little one. Maybe in a year or two it won't be there and the black blood in this body out go into a frenzy and tear my limbs piece by piece. When that happens I want you to take the other half of the soul and consume it. You are still a baby. I have already lived my life saw things around the world so in these 25 years of my life have been fine. You are 7 years old but look 18. So just live it out help people and trust them. I bet you might fall in love one day."
"But I love you Cathy I always will."
"No you don't your love for me is an admiration. A role model of someone you look up to and that's been me for the past 7 years so this time when I die maybe you can get a better grasp of love.
Pyrrha caught Crimson by the hand and he looked at her as if he was ready to cry. Pyrrha walked him over to a room and hugged his head.
"It's alright. You can cry and no one will see you. I won't look nor will I listen." Crimson grabbed onto her arms and just cried his eyes out. Pyrrha tried to think about what would happen after Crimson finishes crying would he pretend that he didn't cry in front of her or would he tell her why he was crying. Something inside her felt the same familiar feeling though she couldn't remember what it was no matter how many times she tried to remember it. Something about a person doing something to her but she wondered who was this person that kept appearing in her dreams. Her head ached once again but it went away as soon as it came. Crimson lifted himself from Pyrrha's arms and wiped away the tears he shed.
"You're not... going... to ask... me what I... was ...crying ...about?" Crimson trying to maintain his once calm composure but kept sniffling after he said a word or two. Pyrrha shook her head and smiled at him.
"If you want to tell me then it's fine but if you don't you don't have to." Crimson smiled and fiddled with his thumbs for a bit before letting out a sigh.
"It was Cathy." They both stood in silence and Crimson thought that it seemed to vague. "She's the reason I was crying earlier."
"No I know that it's just that I didn't think you would tell me that was all." Crimson gave out an almost silent chuckle and just looked at her.
"I have done something unforgivable to her and she always seem to forgive me because it's in her nature to do it." Pyrrha ddin't understand what he meant. Crimson scatched his head as if he had a hard time explaining it to her.
"How old do you think I look like?" Crimson asked and Pyrrha wondered why he switched topics so suddenly.
"I guess 18 maybe older." Crimson walked over to the window that was closed off by the curtain.
"I guess you might think that I am the same age as you guys right?"
"RRrrriiiiigggghhhhhhttttt." Pyrrha dragged her answer long.
"Well I'm not the same age as you guys. I'm just 7 years old. I may not look like it but in Cathy's eyes I'm just a child acting like a grown up even though I have a soul that had matured way too long." Pyrrha didn't say anything so Crimson turned his back to her and said.
"Would you believe me that 2 bodies could have one soul inhabiting both of them?"
Well I'm going to end the chapter like that because well I think you guys are waiting too long for a new chapter and hey no one said that chapters have to be long. Anywasy how did you like it? Comments and sorry I might have made a few mistakes maybe I'l find some along the way. Lately it's been hard for me to keep on topic as this story progresses so tell me if I'm speeding this up too fast and by the way I think I may or may not gone over a little of their original personalities I'll look into it. Look forward to the next chapter.
