Chapter 8

No Love Undone


AK-130 Androids begin to gather around us with their guns loaded and ready to light us up. Amber splits her bow in half revealing two short bladed katanas.

"Ulysses, switch to melee and get ready to attack." I don't respond, instead I change my bow into two sickles.

"Intruder! Intru-"

"Now!" Amber yells.

We both jump towards the robots and unleash a vicious set of slashes, quickly but carefully moving from Android to Android. Within a few seconds, some of the Ak-130 droids retaliate and start shooting at us; unleashing every bullet they have upon us. While other androids switch to a melee stance; revealing a sword that is contained in their right arm. This proved difficult considering Amber and I are fighting over 30 androids, all in which are shooting or trying to stab us. A barrage of bullets gets sent at me.

I haven't used my aura since I was a thief back in Menagerie but this is an appropriate time to use it.

I activate my aura, my eye colour flushes from grey to a dark red; I feel the incisor teeth inside my mouth begin to lengthen, turning into long and sharp like fangs. My aura is related to my father's wolf faunas blood.

When my Aura activates, my stimulated wolf blood starts to flow; giving me enhanced speed, vision, and unfortunately, a desire to kill, that's why I rarely activate it, but right now, I had to.

"Grrr" I growl and look up at the Android in front of me. I twirl the sickles in my hand and stab one into the body, and another into the head; not using much strength, I rip the robots head off then use the sickle that is still imbedded into the androids body and throw it across the room, smashing it into another droid.

Nimbly and viciously, I jump from Android to android, slashing and ripping each one of them apart. I look over and see Amber deflecting bullets using her katanas; she needs my help.

"Destroy!" I hear a robotic voice say.

I look to my right and notice an Android with its legs removed, starts to fire bullets in my general direction. I roll out of the way and throw my sickles into the robots head, causing it to shut down.

I look back at Amber and see she had killed all her AK-130 Androids. I walk over to my sickles and pry them out of the androids head.

"Ulysses! Are you alright?" Amber asks sounding concerned. "Grr, stay back, my aura is activated!"

I hear Amber slowly walking towards me; the sound of wires and metal being crunched under her boots.

"Ulysses, what do you mean? Are you...-" Amber stops walking, "-Y-y-your hurt Ulysses." Amber start to run towards me but I send a punch to her chest, causing her to be sent backwards a few feet.

"Ahhh, I-I-I'm sorry! I can't... I can't control it." It was never this bad. The Grimm blood that's fused with my blood... it must be causing an alter effect. I always just got enhanced speed and vision; but now every muscle in my body feels hardened and even stronger then my usual aura enhancements.

"Ahhh!" A gruesome pain enters my chest, causing me to collapse.

I could sense Grimm from all around me; the smell flourished through the air. My aura no longer morphed me into a full blooded wolf; it morphed me into a Grimm. My veins are glowing red, while my grey hair turned black.

"Ahh God please! Make it stop!" I wrap my hands around my chest, screaming out in pain.

Amber crawls over to me and grabs my arm, "hold on Ulysses, I'm going to-" I couldn't stop myself; my hand lashes out and grips her neck in a tight clench.

"U-Ulysses..." Amber begins to squirm as I rise to my feet, lifting her into the air. "Grrr... Am... ber, I can't stop!" Amber lifts her hand and slowly caresses my cheek.

"It's okay Ulysses, you can control it."

It's funny, everyone has that moment in life where you can't control what's going on; I am currently experiencing that.

"I-I-I'm sorry Ulysses..." Amber kicks me in the stomach causing me to release my grip. When Amber lands on the ground, she draws an Arrow and stabs it into my leg.

"Ahhh!" After my roar of pain, Amber spins around, tripping me in the process. I land on my back and stomach and hit my head off the ground; instantly blacking out.


My opens open to a blurry image of the ceiling. I hear Amber talking to me... no, talking to someone, "Sir, he's not a threat, he can help us! ... But Sir! ... Okay, I will."

I black out again.


When I wake up, I'm in the White Fang laboratory.

"Uhh, Christ, what happened Amber?" My head ached of pain while my muscles felt like they've been torn in half. I remove the blanket and notice bandages wrapped around my torso and my right leg.

"Amber?" I call out, looking around to see if she's anywhere in the room. The door starts to open and Dr. Liana walks in.

"Oh Ulysses... I have... bad news."

"What's wrong? Did my body get permanently damaged..?" I ask sounding nervous.

"No... Adam, he's dead."

"No... No. What happened!?"

"Shortly after Amber blew up the train, Adam was killed by a student at Beacon..."

Liana removes her glasses and starts to rub her eyes. I'm in complete shock; I can't believe he's dead. I still don't understand why he even tried to attack a school. I'll ask Liana after; I wanted to know more about Amber.

"Wait... you said Amber blew up the train?"

"Yes, according to her report, you were shot in the leg and passed out from blood loss. She's resting right now; something bruised her neck and ribs pretty badly.-" a moment of silence, then Liana starts to talk again, "but enough about Amber, we've gotten a message from Cinder. She's been locked in the Precinct in the residential district of Vale. Do you think you can get her out?" Liana says.

"If Cinder can tell me who murdered Adam, then I'll do anything to get her back."

"Good. You'll be leaving tomorrow morning at 6:00 that should give your body enough time to heal." Liana finishes talking and gets up, leaving the room.

It also gives me enough time to think about how I'm going to kill that student.

I look at my arms and left leg, observing them for a few seconds. My veins had returned to normal; they aren't red anymore. I slowly shift my body into a sitting position. On the far wall, a mirror is facing my general me; I could see my reflection. It appeared my eye colour returned to normal and my hair did too. I let out a sigh of relief.

I needed to see Amber; there are too many questions I need to ask her. Why did she blow up the train? How did she extract me from the train...? Who was she talking to on the train? But at the same time, I want to leave her alone considering I'm the one who gave her those bruises. Maybe it's better if i leave her alone.

I guess the only thing I can do right now, is rest and wait. Tomorrow morning... the Precinct in the residential District of Vale... will burn.