WTF? A chapter in 3 months? What happened to soon? I know you guys are probably upset and everything and I would like to apologize. TBH i had plent of time to write, but i just did not feel like it. Even though I love writing. I promise this will never happen again. I'm getting a new computer soon, so that will definitely speed up my writing process. I really hope this chapter is worth it. Please review. Everytime we get any, it motivates us to write more often. Even if you're enjoying it just a little, it would help out a lot. Thank you for making it this far, and i hope you enjoy the new installment of a hopefully long and prosperous fanfiction!
Disgusting. All of this happiness and arrogance. I can't fathom the idea. Who could live in this world run by thieves and liars? Not me. I'm here… to snuff it out. Finish these wretches off and live in a world in how it should have always been. I clench my fists, wanting to slice everyone around me. But that's not what I'm here for. I'm here for recon. Ruin relationships to further our goal, pick out weak points. Anything you can think of that will bring ruin to this Beacon of hope. And once this falls and you look to your smaller guardians, know that they too will meet the same pitiful demise. This is the beginning of the end, and it all starts with me.
"Cinder, you alright?" I hear my trusty sidekick Emerald call out to me.
"Yes. I was lost in thought."
I was half lying. To be completely honest, I was of course watching the battle in front of me. Team RWBY was quite the fanatical bunch. They may seem… proving in later years, if I don't take them out soon. But that's why today is such a lovely day… I was instructed only to instill fear into the young ones however. Not to kill them. They could make use to the growing army we are creating.
"Then how about we blow this joint. Get our little set up going? That sounds like a fun plan to me." Mercury throws his hands behind his head and slaps on the iconic smug grin of his.
"You idiot. We have all day to do this. Plus, our guest won't be arriving until late in the afternoon. Do you really want to just go wait in the woods for hours upon hours with nothing to do?" Emerald gives a death glare to Mercury, as to which he just shrugs at.
"Now, now children. Remember, today is about happiness and competition. Let's wait for after the excitement to start bickering, shall we?" My words ooze out of my mouth and send shivers down both of my henchmen's backs.
"Yes mam," they quickly shoot back.
"Good… good. I think it's almost time for our shenanigans in this worthless competition. Shall we go have some fun?" I wink and turn around, licking my lips at the fresh meat I'm about to pummel. It's been too long since I've had the taste of sparring.
With no delay, my associates follow me to our side of the arena. With a quick flash of white, the fourth member of our team comes to play.
"Well, aren't you looking cute today?"
Neo gives a quick smile but fades away as quickly as it came. Poor Neo. I really do wish she could talk, but at the same time, I have enough talking to worry about. So maybe not listening to her is music to my ears right now. Neo can be quite the bitch, however. I remember one particular event when Mercury started to make fun of Neo, but she was just not having it. She walked over while Mercury was maniacally laughing and knocked him out like cold turkey. As of which that was the first time we saw her smile for more than ten seconds.
"Fighters, please enter the arena!" That tub of lard shouts out.
"Let's give them a show they will remember." I wink and strut out into the open with the group that will change the world.
I notice the team on the other side and we quickly make it to the center of the arena. No words are exchanged as the sets of the demolished city and the mountains pop up from the ground.
My team looks over to the countdown and smirks.
"Three, two, one! Fight!"
"Well, that was easy," Mercury brags.
"Just because it was easy means nothing. Emerald. Time." I bark my orders and within seconds, she has her scroll out.
"It's two thirty-seven, mam."
"Shall we go eat before the grand finale?" I glance over my shoulder and both nod in agreement.
"It's too bad Neo couldn't come with us. She never stays with us anywhere." It seems like Emerald might have a crush on her. Who knows…
"You know she can't. She takes on hours upon hours of makeup and costume transition, not to mention disposing bodies after getting said costumes."
We're walking through the fairgrounds at this point. So many people laughing, eating, having fun. Also… happiness. I cringe at the word. No wonder that I joined the cause so wrong, it would go down in Remnant history. IF Remnant isn't destroyed. I see kids walking around with their mothers and… mom.
"Welcome home, sweetheart!" my mom calls out from the kitchen. I had just gotten back to school. It was a cool Autumn day. I had so much homework from school, so I went into the kitchen in hopes for my mother to help me out.
"Mommy, can you please help me? I have a lot of homework to do and it's so confusing." I slump down in the kitchen stool, sniffing the air. My mom is grilling a cheese sandwich, a routine she always does when I get home. I'm currently nine years old.
"Of course, dear. Let me get finished with this and I'll be right over there." My mother turns around and I look up at her face, noticing her features like it's my first time. She has black hair with miniscule amounts of amber highlights. She's around five foot four and has curvy features. Her face is soft and gives off a soft glow when the natural light hits her. When she smiles, her dimples begin to show, but quickly recede. She only smiles when she sees me. I guess I'm her fire in the darkness… the darkness being my dad cheating on her and leaving my mother to raise me all on her own. I never knew much about my dad, only that he was a man in high ranking power who had a seat on this place called "The Council". I would soon learn what kind of a man he actually was.
Suddenly the door bursts open and army men fill the house quickly.
"Get on the ground!" Men are yelling everywhere. I drop to the floor like a sack of potatoes, while my mother is still making the grilled cheese.
My mother turns around with tears in her eyes and has the grilled cheese on a plate now. Soon, the man known as my father walks in.
"Christina."
"Brandon."
"Do you know why I'm here?" I can only hear voices. My face is to the ground, sobbing.
"Yes, I do. You know all well the people must have the relic. It's the only way we can defeat the Grimm!"
"That's not how this works. And you're going to give it back to us. Or else…" I hear weapons being charged.
"Over my dead body." My mom's voice is quivering.
"That can be arranged."
Suddenly I hear weapons being shot and a lump hitting the floor. I look over to see my mom's eyes, staring into mine, tears running down her face. All I could do was… stare. I didn't cry, feel remorse. It was strange. However, when the men picked me up off the ground, that's when my emotions overflowed. I lost view of my mom. My anchor. My happiness.
"Cinder, we found team RWBY." Shall we go and say hello?"
I snap back to reality. "Yes. Yes that's fine.."
We take our seats next to team RWBY after we reluctantly decided to pay for their meal.
"Are you sure we should pay for them? We would want them to be as weak as possible," Mercury whispers.
I shoot a look at him which he knows as, "shut the fuck up".
"So Cinder, how did your team do?" The leader asks. I think her name is Ruby.
"We did fairly decent. Your teammates put up quite a fight. I think they made me break a sweat."
"Where's your fourth team member?" The obvious cat faunus asks.
"She had to leave. Family business I suppose."
The bowed one starts to look at me funny, to which I flare my eyes and she curls away.
"Well that was useful information." Emerald nudges me.
"Do not nudge me like I'm your 'pal'." I shoot back.
"Yes mam." Her green hair swiftly moves down.
Ruby and Weiss together. I knew it from the start. Ever since I started spying on them, going to that place with the tiny island, I knew something was up. That's why I waited for our guest to arrive. I know all too well about the Schnee company. Especially how the father is an extreme homophobe. And the way it seems from the Ruby girl, it may be that she does not know this yet. Her mother died, and many people leave her after a while, from what my spies in the city have told me. Most dip in and out of alleyways and are faunus, so not a lot of people will talk to them.
"Come. It is almost time to start the scheme." I tap on Emerald's shoulder and motion her to the woods.
She nods, knowing that people's lives are about to be turned around.
After the fight I encounter team RWBY. I was hoping team SSSN would perform at about this time so we can get Miss Winter Schnee in on the action. I kept talking to them as much as possible until the airship passed behind their heads, and then went down to cause jealousy from Blake. I've seen the way she stares at Sun Wukong most of the time. She is torn between two loves, to which is why she isn't in a relationship right now. After causing a small scene and saying I would like to "practice" with the monkey boy, I quickly head over to where the airship had landed.
"Miss Schnee!" I call out in my most fangirly way. This is absolutely disgusting.
"Yes. What is it?" Winter calls out from behind her bodyguards.
"You're, like, so cool and everything! Being a woman in the Atlas army is such a great thing to see! Can I please get your autograph?" I'm literally about to throw up.
"You act like I'm famous or something. I will not give you an autograph because that is ridiculous. However, I will shake your hand." She steps out from behind her guards and walks up to me, eyeing for any suspicion or threat. She won't find any, since my acting is up to par.
After shaking hands with her, I mention that her sister is walking down here right now.
"Well, why didn't you tell me earlier? Thank you for this information."
Nailed her weak spot.
After a couple seconds, I hear Winter start to yell.
"Watch it, you bafoon!"
I'm now waiting in the woods where I hope to find Ruby. I've seen her come here plenty of times after big arguments, or just to cry. What a pitiful existence. Sure enough however, I can hear crying and rustling of leaves. After she comes into view, I walk up to Ruby.
"Hey, why are you crying?" I ask sincerely, even though I know the answer.
"Everyone I get close to either leaves me or dies! And now I think I finally found someone who would never do that, but how will Weiss fight her father? It's just not fair! If my mom was still alive…" She breaks into sobs again.
Mom…
"It'll be alright. I bet you'll find someone that will never leave you." I hug her, and see Emerald in the trees. I quickly let go and Emerald flings her weapons at Ruby, wrapping around her waist and pulling her to a tree. Ruby has no time to react before she's slammed against a tree, knocking her unconscious. I pull out my scroll and call the "pickup service". Neo is in and out with two small flashes of light and no Ruby to be found. Soon after, I get a text from Mercury telling me the deed is done. Neo works fast…
Weiss is soon seen coming up after she saw the rose petals at the foot of the forest.
"What a pitiful shame. It looks like you lost her." I smugly say and come out of the tree Ruby was just at.
"How did you find this place? Where's Ruby?"
Emerald hops down and smacks Weiss unconscious. And with that, our deed is finally finished.
I'm at a small warehouse now. A place where no one will possibly find it. We confiscated scrolls and weapons for the fun of it. I walk into the room and wait for everyone to wake from their stupid sleep. Maybe we killed one… Nope. Never mind.
"So everyone's awake now. Good. Very good. Then we can begin." I started walking towards them, menacingly and with purpose. "You were all chosen. You can take pride in that. You have… "interfered" with Mr. Torchwhick more times than I would like to admit. You have skill, and you are very, very nosey. And that, ladies, is a problem. It is something I do not like to deal with, so I don't. Being in the way of our goal is a road block that is simply intolerable, and on the road to achieve our goal, there are many, many road blocks. And we get rid of road blocks by putting a certain… handicap… on them, so that they can never, ever, get in our way again."
I looked at the red head first. Her eyes… They reminded me of my mother when she was laying on the damned floor… dead…DEAD! I start screaming in my head. "Stop looking at me like that! Stop it now! STOP DAMNIT DON"T FUCKING LOOK AT ME!" I walk quickly over to her, tears welling in my eyes.
I bring up my hand and places it on Ruby's eye, heating it up to its maximum. Ruby starts to scream and tries to get away from my hand, but she's tied down too securely.
"STOP LOOKING AT ME!" I scream out, put are quickly put out by the other screaming voice. Tears start to roll down my face and finally I take away my hand after she goes unconscious from pain. I turn around and storm out, leaving Mercury, Emerald, and Neo to do the dirty work. As for me… well… I guess we will find out soon, won't we?
And that's the chapter! "But that was pretty short for being away for 3 months!" I know. However, I do promise another chapter coming out in exactly 1 week. You read that right. 1. I'm planning on using Cinder chapters to reveal everything from the past 3 or 4 chapters, when needed. If you guys think that's a good idea, comment, follow, whatever you want! Thank you for bearing with me though. It means a lot. I'll see you in one week :3!
