Hello readers! Ok. I really just cannot sugar coat this anymore withkut me feeling pretty guilty about uhh.. this I really haven't feeling the mood to write at all for quite a while since school has been draining the ever living life out of me and may e just a bit of procrastination has been barring me for a quite a while so unfortunately I don't know if I can even write this at an even reasonable rate. (I have not forgotten about this work I have but, I honestly don't know if I could spare enough time.)
Blood and his team were conversing in their room. The room was fairly dark still caught in the early morning shade."Who should go to the doubles?" Blood brought the topic of discussion to the group.
"Well in the finals there will be no biomes and ringouts will be much easier to do. So I suggest anyone but Damson can go to the finals." Onyx bluntly suggested.
"Good thinking but Damson's semblance can nulify his immobility and threat of ring out. But judging from our first fight. I think the opponents will be more cautious when fighting him" Luna countered.
"Nice initiative, Although we could still use some muscle in the doubles." Blood stated. Damson shrugged giving a sense of neutrality whether he would advance or not.
"well if we do let Damson go into the doubles...who will we send for the finals since we probably won't have Damson go into the finals." Blood continued the arguement of letting Damson advance into the doubles.
"why don't we ask Damson?" Onyx brought the attention of the discussion to Damson who he decided would ask his opinion.
"Well." Damson began to think."Onyx's semblanc is very useful in the doubles although not so much in the singles. But Blood and Luna's are better in a one-on-one situation so either one of them." Damson finished.
"Great thinking. So who will it be?" Onyx and Damson looked at Blood and Luna.
"Wait. First questions first. Who wants to do it?" Damson calmly asked.
"I would." Blood answered. Luna raised her hand in response.
"not looking good." Onyx thought."how will we pick?"
"Wait." Damson stood up." I always had a special way to deal with these kinds of situations!" Luna began to give off a sense of annoyance.
"What is it?" Onyx asked.
"it is very simple. We play a short game of..." Onyx would come to regret listening to what Damson suggested.
After unanimously agreeing to never have Damson suggest a tie breaker."I don't get it. What wrong with..." Damson sulked.
"No talking in solitary!" Onyx shut down Damson as he sat in the corner, really annoyed at what had transpired.
"so we agree on rock paper scissors?" Onyx asked Blod and Luna. They both sat infornt of eachother clenched fist on tense palms.
"best of 5 guys." Onyx called the game to begin. Blood layed down a paper which lost to a scissor Luna decided to choose. The score became 1-0. Next Luna threw a rock which lost to Blood who threw a paper again, 1-1 . After the next to it ended up in a tiebreaker."wow you guys looks tense." Onyx said.
"no more games." Blood cracked both knuckles."this is serious."
"As to me." Luna stretched both her hands
Blood and Luna both ended throwing the same sign."Again." Onyx witnessed the next round end uo the same way."Again." Ended the same way. "Again." Onyx seemed suspicious."Again."
About ten minutes passed and Onyx is clearly reaching his limit."How do you make best of 5 rock,paper,scissors match last 10 minutes?" Onyx began to get pins and needles. About another minute passed and not one of them scored.
"You guys want me to get takeout? Our doubles is in two days." Damson asked.
"get me barbecue." Onyx told Damson.
"Noodles." Blood and Luna said.
"Sure." Damson went out.
"Is there any way we can get this done quickly? It's taking too long to decide a single person." The both of them stopped.
"I dunno. Well maybe if one of us has a reason to not go into the seconds we could." Blood's scroll suddenly rang. Blood suddenly gave a shady look around the room."how convenient." Blood begrudgingly said.
"and way to jinx it." Blood closed his scroll.
"Viper?" Blood nodded."Do I need to come too?" Blood nodded again."alright Luna you and Damson are going to the seconds."
Luna nodded and grabbed her sheathed sword and went to the desk. Pulling out a small box which carried her maintenance equipment.
"what's it about?" Onyx went to Blood. Blood handed his scroll to Onyx."Viper needs us to inspect a target area while he is on a mission?" Onyx looked at the email.
"still in vale. Viper's latest raid was real deep into their HQ but all he could find were them herding grimm and just a map with POIs" Onyx opened the closet map and pinned a point inside The world map."Outskirts of Vale. He says it appeared particularly important to them. We will commence this in the day after tommorow."
"yeah not much has been going on lately so things will probably be going on where the eyes are not focused." Blood looked at the pinned area."using the vytal tournament focus as a way to discreetly take , but not a terrible idea." Blood inspected the terrain around the area.
"Don't know what their planning but this will be a simple scout." Onyx stood by Blood.
"What if the situation says otherwise?" Onyx asked.
"then...sabotage?" Blood unsurely asked.
"I guess." Onyx wrote down beside the map on a sort of mission log.
"that aside, did you hear about the commotion yesterday afternoon?" Blood casually closed the closet."the one where two people got caught in a fight?" Onyx thought about it.
"I think I heard a bit of talk about it."an atlas soldier and a random drunk heckler I think. Alhtough they were both extremely skilled." Onyx recalled.
"I think the atlas soldier was Weiss' sister. Rumour has it she was using glyphs aswell. A semblance passed down through the Schnee family." Blood casually cracked his neck as he listened.
"I'm back! Two noodles and a barbecue." Damson placed a cup infront of Luna and handed Blood his cup and hand a plastic bag with a few barbecue sticks poking out.
"did you guys decide yet?" Blood nodded as he pointed to Luna.
"Uhuh. I'll go prep then." Damson went to Luna and decided to talk strategy.
"Is it me or is some serious business gonna go down soon." Blood asked Onyx.
"probably. It's only a matter of when and a matter of what will happen." Onyx pondered.
"stay on our guard until then." Blood said to Onyx.
"yeah, we can't risk being caught off guard." Blood began to put items inside the closet.
"What are you doing?" Onyx asked.
"Leaving supplies for when they do." Blood dropped a pocket knife and left a small pack of chips."did you leave everything in your computer? The notes and all." Onyx's expression immediately changed to a sort of surprised fear.
"Got you covered." Blood pulled up another loose lid."hide it here then." Onyx nodded and went to grab his computer then place it there.
"Thats settled then. What were we going to do now?" Blood asked.
"Lets go tot he town I guess." Onyx replied.
"Not watch the doubles? Their starting this afternoon." Blood questioned his friend.
"fighting, fighting, dude. This is the exact same back in Vacuo. And with the Whitefang. Let's take a break." Onyx sounded concerned.
"Are you trying to say all the violence is getting to me?" Blood jokingly asked.
"Considering everything that happened since that night. Yeah." Onyx pushed Blood.
"..."Blood seemed unfazed by what Onyx said."I get that you're worried I might lose it. But seriously. You know I wouldn't go that low." Damson and Luna were overhearing the conversation and noticed that Blood didn't talk like he normally would.
"Ok, I'm just worried. Let's just go to the town."Onyx attempted to get Blood to calm down.
"yeah, can you go ahead? I just need to dump some more stuff in here." Blood casually remarked.
"sure, see you soon." Onyx waved as he closed the door behind him.
"Luna." Damson whispered into Luna's ear." I think Blood needs some alone time." Luna nodded and they both approached the door."hey Blood me and Luna will go to the coliseum and watch some matches." Blood barely nudged.
"See you later." Luna and Damson walked out.
Blood found himself alone in his team's dorm."losing it because of everything?" Blood thought. "What are they crazy?" Blood continued his thinking in disbelief."I'm better than that." Blood laughed a bit."Ok now that I'm done I should catch up with Onyx."
Later that afternoon Luna and Damson were watching the beggining of the doubles after having some lunch."here are some seats." Luna found one with Damson."
"I haven't been able to relax this much since we got off from Glenn." Luna mentioned to Damson.
"Still shaken from it?" Damson asked.
"Getting stuck in that grimm covered place really scared me. I even doubted we could survive until we survived our first year." Luna dug herself into the chair.
"Me too. But hey, we can leave all that behind. Let's just watch the matches." Luna turned to the arena before realizing exactly who was on it. The match finished. Luna and Damson turned to see who won the match.
"Mercury?!" Luna saw Mercury. Fighting in the tournament."He's participating. That means he has been going to Beacon atleast before us. How did he ignore us? More importantly is whoever he's working with here too?" Damson noticed how tense Luna was grabbing the chair handle.
"What should we do?" Damson looked at Luna who had it written on her face she needed to get serious.
"We have to tell Blood!" Luna said to Damson who nodded in agreement.
Later.
"Luna!" Blood and Onyx barged through their dorm's door." We got your text. Mercury and Emerald are in the tournament?!" Blood slammed the door behind him.
"Yeah. They got that under our noses." Damson answered.
Blood and Onyx shared looks of shock and anger at the news.
"How did we never find them then?" Onyx asked.
"I don't know. But maybe it's a semblance." Damson suggested.
"Do you have a recording of their match?" Blood asked quickly. Damson shrugged Blood off before pulling out his scroll.
Damson skipped forward to a point near the end."See this clip here?" Damson pointed at a tall male wielding a large sword face towards the forest section."the face he made looked like someone if they see a friend. he even failed to notice Mercury."
"Good point. Then they must have done something simmilar to us when they could have been seen by us." Blood said.
"that concludes this emergency meeting. This is real bad. I will have to tell Viper about this but he is on a mission right now." Onyx left the room.
"Damnit!" Blood punched his bed in frustration."Under us the entire time."
"We just need to be on our guard and do the best we can to make sure they can't achieve whatever they are planning." Damson stopped Blood from destroying his bed.
"Yeah. Maybe me and Onyx should try to find them." Blood wondered if they realized they knew of their newfound awareness. Blood ran out of the room and crashed into Rusty.
"Sorry. Hey what you doing here?" Blood asked.
"my dorm is a couple doors down. I just stopped because I heard you shout." Blood wondered how loud he shouted.
"where did Onyx go?" Rusty pointed behind him." You should be able to catch up to him." Blood thanked Rusty as he ran off.
Damson went to close the door Blood left open. "You must be Damson." Rusty greeted Damson.
"Hey." Damson replied."Do you mind? We have to prepare for the doubles." Rusty nodded before Damson quickly shut the door.
"Damn. They got us blind." Damson yawned looking out the dorm window over looking the front of the campus.
"Yeah. Surprised they didn't do anything about us though." Luna loaded a few clips with ammo and prepared a quiver. Then threw herself back on her bed.
"If they know were here. They will definitely have plans." Damson pulled out a couple magazines from a pile he keeps in his bedside table.
"Then why didn't they take any action yet?" Luna inquisitively wondered. Damson stopped and thought about it.
"Either if they would it be probably add more risk to whatever they're doing than remove threats, or they don't need to." Damson continued.
"Why wouldn't they need to?" Luna checked the closet for a spare change of clothes.
"Well they might have a way to avoid us or they are using us." Damson recieved a notification from his scroll. "They must have eavesdropped on a couple of our conversations." Damson checks it. It is from Twilight. "Mom asks if we fine, did she ask viper for our scroll numbers?" Damson seemed surprised from the text.
"Were fine, I guess." Luna nonchalantly said as she pulled out a couple shirts. Damson typed up a reply." Do you think a lot of things will happen?" Luna sounded a hit worried.
"Maybe if we don't act but if they do I'll keep you safe." Damson replied and turned away from Luna just missing her smiling.
Blood quicky ran through the courtyard and caught Onyx." Dude hold up." Onyx seemed a bit surprised at Blood."you left without me."
Onyx shrugged."I was gonna do a solo investigation but now your here I guess I should fill you in." Onyx continued forward. "Lets go to the colosseum.
Onyx and Blood entered the team prep area. There are only a few teams inside, since it is fairly late and the day should finish quickly."Just wait here for a while." Onyx and Blood sat down. Blood didnt care to check the hours until the arena closed. The entire time Blood focused on listening to the sounds outside to keep him awake."we need to hide right now." Onyx jumped into a locker. Blood jumped into the adjacent one. Soon a guard entered the room with a flashlight.
The guard, visibly tired lazily scanned the room then picked up his radio."the room is clear we can close it." The guard left and locked the entrance. A few minutes passed then Blood and Onyx jumped out.
"Now you must be wondereing what were doing here at the arena late at night." Blood gave a very annoyed expression at Onyx."were checking if they sabotaged the arena." Blood rolled his eyes but seems to have agreed to the idea. "Come on." Onyx and Blood walked into the arena.
"Onyx. Use your semblance and check the bottom and sides of the arena. I'll check theur surface." Onyx nodded and Blood started walking around.
"Nothing stands out. Onyx. Anything?" Blood walked back to Onyx after ten minutes.
"Nothing. The arena itself is fine. Although we could check the control hub. See if they hacked into it." Onyx pulls out his scroll and a drive. Onyx puts in a couple inputs then a layered plan of the colosseum shows on it." Just follow this map." Onyx and Blood walk throught he empty halls of the colloseum. "Here." Onyx walks up some stairs and enters a door at the top. Blood follows behind.
"How do we check this?" Blood stood by the door slightly opened enough space to see anyone below, and enought to ensure it didn't look open to anyone not paying attention.
"I practiced with Viper. He gave my scroll this program the data corps uses when they orchestrate data attacks." Onyx plugs in his scroll then his drive. A few minutes pass. "Judging form the coding. They were no alterations. That means it's not tampered at all. That Doesn't really say much. This defence is fairly lacking, any competent hacker can hack this stuff." Onyx scoffed at the programming. "I'll just add some anti hacking stuff and done." Onyx plugs out his drive and phone."we should get out. And we should check later early in the morning to see if anyone shows up early." Blood nodded and they head back.
Wait, how do we get out?" Blood asked. The sound of a transport can be heard in the distant. The transport docks nearby and Blood and Onyx aprroached it. The door opens and the driver walk out to help them up." Weren't you the one who dropped us in glenn?" The driver chuckled a bit.
"Yeah, name's Cael Flos. Me and your friend switched numbers during the flight. said he would appreciate it if I could give a lift whenever he needed it." Blood gave an approving look at Onyx."So when do I pick you guys up again?" Cael looked at Onyx who was busy looking at his phone.
"About in three hours." Onyx put his phone back."We'll need to do a little more work." Blood looked a Cael and then his ship which looked different.
"So you like the new ship? This is a top of the line brand new stealth transport." Cael read Blood's interest like a book. "I'll need to go now." Cael walked back into the ship then flew away.
"Now we wait." Onyx walked back imside the coloseum. Blood followed and soon entered a guradhouse overlooking the entrance."stay and watch the hallway, knock on the floor if you hear or see anything." Onyx clrouched down, barely peeking over the edge looking out the window. An hour or two passed before Blood began to wonder.
"Where are all the guards? Shouldn't we have seen a patrolman eventually?" Onyx wondered similar ehcich became the reasoning for waiting inside the coloseum. Onyx continued thinking a watching until Blood knocked on the floor. Onyx surveyed the hallway only to find no one is there although he could easily hear the footsteps sounding from inside the empty hall.
"I can't see anyone." Onyx threw a rushed whisper to Blood before arming his weapons. Following suit Blood unfolded his blades and stood up and stacked behind Onyx. They both walked out weapons drawn they both decided to look left as the sound came from there. The hall infornt of them was clear until suddenly Onyx was struck from behind sending him down.
Blood turned around to luckily block a strike whoch felt like a kick. Before he could retaliate, Blood was stabbed through his stomach. Blood fell to his knees and felt the blade piercing him pull out causing him to fall forward. The last thing Blood could hear were footsteps, a wire being drawn and the sound of steel grinding on the floor.
Onyx was stunned from the blow when he tried to get up. He was only able to kneel down before he tried to see his assailants before suddenly losing vision and a sharp pain going straight across his eyes. Onyx would have screamed in pain but he was subsequently knocked out by a kick to the face
When Blood and Onyx came to, Onyx was suddenly met with a hug from a warmth that reminded him of Luna."Onyx! What were you thinking!?" A female voice that sounded like Luna shouted at him. Onyx was sent back as he could only see black before the events of last night had came back to him.
"It seems that I have lost my vision." Onyx slouched over. He assumed he was on a hospital bed so he took a precaution not to rush.
"Huh? Really? Onyx your okay right?" Blood weekly sat up before coming face to face with Viper. Cael and Damson were behind him.
"Who's idea was this?" Viper was calm but knowing him this was nothing but a farce.
"It was mine sir." Onyx spoke up looking at the direction he heard Viper's voice." We had suspicions- no we know that the enmy has infiltrated the school." Viper gave a dissapointed sigh.
"I have realized as seeing that the both of you were attacked after school at the colloseum suggest you were doing something and someone there didn't want you snooping." Viper quickly shot a look at Onyx, he looked as if he wanted to say something but couldn't. "Forget it. For know thank you for your work, but from now on you will be relieved from service." Blood and Onyx mouths opened in shock. Luna and Damson seemed to be dejected at the arguement not wanting to butt in. Cael seemed disheartened at the announcement.
"Injuries like that cannot be seen at school to so you must stay here for the time being. Luna and Damson on the other hand may still attend." Viper gave a pained expression to the both of them." You are both dismissed." Onyx and Blood saluted as Viper walked out.
"So Onyx, your blind for good?" Luna asked. Onyx didnt notice but everyone else noticed Luna was tightly clutching her sword sheathe.
"I can try using my semblance...not really but it hurts now." Onyx grabbed his head in pain as he attempted to use his semblance.
"Doc. How can a person kind of lose the ability to use their semblance? Is that even possible?" Cael talked to the doctor who patienly waited at the door.
The doctor seemed shaken at the prospect of this idea." Well, the semblance is directly linked to the persons aura so physical damage shouldn't affect it but certain requirements can also be required. The loss of eyesight can correlate to dificulties in utilizing his uhh clairvoyance." The doctor fumbled his notes as he attempted to explain the situation.
"Emotional and stress related problems have been known to affect use of semblances but never have I seen a physical malady have an adverse affect on one's semblance." Cael looked at Onyx who was attempting to get off his bed.
"Hey careful, here let me help you." Damson grabbed Onyx by the shoulder and helped him up."if you want to walk around fine but you need rest." Onyx ignored Damson's complaints and continued to walk out with his assisstance.
"I will need to know where this place is." Onyx looked at Blood - or atleast his genral doctor soon helped him aswell before he tripped on a step. Blood held a look of despair on his face.
"It wasn't your fault you know." Cael looked at Blood who he knew started to blame himself.
"I don't know why." Blood muttered to himself."how he couldn't..." the rest was inaudible to him.
"What?" Cael walked up to Blood. "What couldn't he do?" Cael seemed surprised.
"See the attack coming." Blood looked up at Cael. Luna also seemed intrigued by the conversation. "His semblance has two parts. Vision of somewhere he cannot see and visions of events that will happen." Cael and Luna gave faces of shock.
"He can see into the future?!" Cael took Blood by surprise by that sudden response." Then why? Why couldn't he predict anything before this mess hapened?" Cael calmed down and attempted to make sense of the revlation.
"He keeps saying knowledge brings two things- power and despair. The power to prevent any outcomes or the despair of what is to come. The predictions are also vague to him a small minute at most. Not too far either an in a few days up to a week?" Blood seemed unsure of that last part.
"Oh. Not too major huh?" Cael gave a sigh of relief and slight dissapointment. "He would have been the most important person in the workd if so." Cael let out a small chuckle.
"He would have been, but he never uses it. I guess paranoia of seeing what will happen drive him insane." Blood pondered to himself."he's been quite the cruel realist." Blood. Calmly sat up on his hospital bed. The stab wound bandages tightening around his waist.
After a short wait Onyx and Damson returned." You two should return for the tournament." Cael looked at Damson and Luna. "I'll drive you there. As a favor for Onyx." Damson and Luna nodded as they followed Cael out.
"We really screwed up big didn't we?" Onyx scratched his eyes wraps." Thought we could be heroes and now? Were in a hospital bed." Onyx laughed to himself a bit.
"What do you think this is? A fairytale? Aren't you supposed to be the realist following the ambitious leader?" Blood tried to cheer up Onyx.
"Well it was going pretty well." Blood seemed to unsure about that response. It took a while of conversing for the fatigue of their injuries to hit them.
Viper looked at the doctor who seemed astonished."Do you know why this DNA test seems a bit off? And his aura is remarkably low. How did you come to recruit him?. Viper didn't sem interested. "But his recent records show his aura has a major correlation to how poor his mental condition is. Has he experienced any trauma?" Viper nodded lightly. "Interesting. The only sightings of these correlations is in-" the doctor immediately staggered as Viper caught his file.
"I see this might be a case that a trained expert should do." Viper opened the file for himself." I have a friend that should be able to hypothesize why it is such." Viper immediately left, concealing the file in his jacket.
Meanwhile
"Damn, damn, damn, damn!" Damson stressfully walked nervously around the room. Luna hugged a pillow for comfort."If Cael didn't find them before the colosseum opened this morning! What would 'Two students found half-dead in colosseum' sound on todays news?" Damson dramatically stated.
"Atleast their not dead but now we have less people to fight inside." Luna nervously mentioned.
"And they should know were with them too so were not safe either." Damson's face looked at Luna with fear and concern. "Who knows when they will go after us." Damson stopped frantically pacing himself to exhaustion.
"What do we do then? Run away? What if we have already endangered everyone we know? What do we do then?" Luna asked Worriedly.
"Hope for the best. I don't what we can do except set the field straight. For everyone we know." Damson turned to Luna. "I think we should leave." Luna looked up at Damson with shock. "If anything they will do everything to give them an advantage. They might even pull in more people if they tell them a famous killer is associated here - even if she isn't there, any way to get back at mother they would gladly take." Damson sounded vulnerable even with his armor on.
"Tommorow night. That means we have to drop out of the tournament. But I think we can get Viper to cover our trail for us." Damson looked at Luna.
Luna didn't want to face the reality, but she knew it was the only way it could be. Luna looked up at Damson teary eyed and sniffling. She gave weak nod to Damson.
"I'm sorry it had to come to this, I guess those men from before... you know, the ones that kidnapped us before. They are definitely still out there." Damson found himself in a tight spot. "All our work is sinking down the drain. This is not a good sign." Damson bit his thumb in frustrated thought the horrid taste of blood only barely giving him any care to stop."now I jeed to nurse this wound. Great." Damson had retreated to himself cleaning his bite.
Luna felt a cold sting up her spine. A fear she had not felt in a while reminding her back in the time she was barely scraping by back at . It felt fresh to her though the cold was always a welcome feeling to her before many a night she spent outside stargazing with her mother and father and Damson on the occasion. It was a pleasant sort of threat to her. Luna quickly realized what she just wondered."Why did that feel so thrilling? Having people go after my friends and my classmates is horrible!" Luna still held this thrill of the cold and went out to clear her head.
Luna couldn't concentrate well as she walked down the hallway. The threat of the school being atracked is ever growing more persistent and the revelation that she herself is a threat to her friends only made it any worse. Before she knew it she had bumped into Weiss."oh! I am so sorry Weiss!" Luna hastily apologized.
"It's ok. You looked very... off today." Weiss sounded of the nature of both their families Luna decided to divulge her a question.
"Did you ever feel guilt for what your family does?" Luna swallowed her heart when she asked it and she felt like freezing all over again.
"Yes, but you can't blame yourself for things you haven't done. Even if you are related." Weiss answered back. Luna didn't feel any better even if what Weiss said was true.
"And even if you're not responsible, do people hate you just for what your father does?" Luna started feeling unable to move her legs.
"I can't say no, Some people hate me just because I am a Schnee." Luna had already expected such an answer.
"So even if you are a good person, Your just stuck living in the shadow of your families blackened name?" Luna couldn't even hear whatever she was thinking at the time. Luna could see herself in the same position; Just another criminal in a line of criminals."That...sounds...horrib-" Luna suddenly felt her stomach burn and her head spin. She stumbled around then quickly passed out.
Luna awoke and found herself in the medical ward. Weiss was talking to the nurse."what happened?" Luna felt chained tot he bed. She assumed it was fatigue from shock.
"You had a bad case of food poisoning earlier miss, don't worry though, I already gave you an antivenom to prevent further harm." Luna read the nurses tag. Ivy dahlia,
"Luna! You had me worried when you passed out infront of me. What have you been eating?" Weiss was very worried.
"All I had was take out this morning." Luna plookked around the room to see the clock. Only an hour passed by to twelve.
"Well tell whoever bought you take out to take care. Street food is poorly regulated here." The nurse pulled out a needle."this is another antivenom, you will have to take another one to ensure that you don't succumb to poisoning again." The nurse tunred to Weiss.
"I suggest you carry on with your plans today, I am certain the patient will not need any other visitor for now." Lunalooked at the syringe of th nurse. A light green wuth traces of a yellow fluid.
"I do not have any other concerns for now, I insist I wait here." Weiss asked to stay.
"Very well, I see you are very concerned for your friend. I assure you that not ansingle thing will happen under my care." The nurse retreated to her desk for a moment.
"Luna what did your teammates do to get bad street food?" The nurse returned back, the fluid inside her syringe now laced with a sizeable amount of red. The nurse took hold of Luna's wrist as she stuck the needle in."This one will only need one dose, but the effects will be a bit exhausting." Luna started to slip into unconsciousness and just barely seeing the same needle go into Weiss.
Later.
"What do you mean disappeared?" Damson was holding Onyx by the throat in his hospital bed. Damson quickly let go off Onyx before he would have passed out of lack of oxygen.
"I just found out ok? My visions are more unclear the further they are! I can't see that far ahead without being unable to see some parts!" Onyx was grabbing his neck in exhaustion.
"Knock it off kids!" Viper stood between the both of them." the only way we are going to crack what just happened is to find out what the perpetrator would want with kidnapping Luna." The tension in the room was clear; any other occurrence would have made either Onyx or Damson snap.
"Well she is the low profile daughter of a wanted serial killer. who wouldn't want revenge?" Damson pointed out.
"yes but as far as we know she is undocumented in any database regarding her existence except in atlas databases. except Luna's mother is already a trusted agent of Atlas." Onyx retorted.
"So are you saying this is a family problem?" Viper lit up at the suggestion.
"Actually, that might be it.' Viper pulled out his scroll and typed in a code."Ah yes of course. the silver dawn." Onyx and Damson stopped their raging hostility towards each other at the name drop.
"The silver dawn? why would a group based in haven work in vale? an assassin's league as well." Onyx inquired Viper of his theory.
"For one. a group of assassins wanted killers and bandits the like who murder for sport, business or personal recreation hold the Violets in high esteem. but many too hold a blood sworn revenge against such a high-profile target. and second the league is headed by her grandmother, Stella Violet." Viper closed his scroll and let the information seep in
"The midnight scar? and on of the most wanted killers in the world." Onyx seemed shocked in awe and fear at hearing it.
"Mother always said that grandmother wasn't the best person but for that to be her?" Damson felt a sudden burden on his chest.
"yes the last silver blade too. it's been fifteen years since the last known kill of a silver blade." Viper looked out the window eyeing the people outside incase there might be a spy outside.
"Silver blades... the five great assassins." Blood entered the conversation. "my late father mentioned those before, how there is one left and how he said he couldn't bring himself to do something." Blood seemed composed despite bringing up his late father.
"Yes, and that is the problem. they haven't made any headline since that long time ago when he took in the last one fifteen years ago but best bet is haven. they have alot of time to spread too. undoubtedly they would have have people all over remnant."
"Chances are they are still in Vale. but where?" Damson asked as he turned to Onyx. Onyx didn't need to ask what he wanted from him as he began to use his semblance to attempt a search of the city.
"We have to drop out of the tournament then. this will not go unnoticed by the public, so we must keep order as much as we can. the current state of the world is an unstable compound of many factions and clashing ideals. and any fire will cause destruction everywhere." Viper closed the shades."Blood, how is your condition?"
"Recovered. a bit slouching but then it's a full recovery." Viper nodded in thought.
"Good you will be dismissed tomorrow with Damson to go back to the academy. Onyx will stay here and provide intel while he works here in our protection." Viper opened the door then left the room.
"Damson." Onyx said to Damson who also was going to leave. "I'm...sorry I couldn't see it in time." Damson didn't turn around but responded.
"Just get to finding them." Damson left the room. Blood seemed unfazed by the sudden hostility in his voice.
"I thought you would be more sympathetic with him Blood." Onyx sounded a bit mad at Blood who stayed mostly silent and slightly apathetic to the conversation.
"Worrying won't get us anywhere. but we cannot just let the situation get to us. even if this is bad we can only do what we can." Onyx thought if that was horribly hypocritical if Blood to say.
Luna awoke to find herself in a darkened room and single candle poorly hanging from the ceiling lit the room. Luna took a while to adjust to the darkness of the room and found herself restrained to the chair she found herself on. to her side Weiss was also sitting awake but seemingly under heavy sedation."Of course I had to that take that girl too. she wouldn't leave." a voice came from outside.
"Then it better be worth it. you just made this operation a whole margin harder." another voice came into the room, male and has hints of youth in it. A light erupted in front of Luna and entered two people. The nurse from the infirmary and Mercury."You did capture her alive."
"Do professionals lie?" The nurse sported a messy lab coat covered in multiple vials with an arrangement of colours and compositions. he hand holding a clawed glove using multiple syringes as the claws. her hair was disheveled. Luna tried to speak to them but her body wouldn't respond. "Oh?" The nurse walked up to Luna who she could sense was struggling. "Having problems moving? You should be grateful too. normally I would have used a more painful solution. and don't even try to use your semblance while under my toxins child. you will regret being alive at that point." The nurse laughed as she stepped back and allowed Mercury forward."
"Now you might wonder why I am going through such lengths to get you." Mercury almost looked disgusted at the the sight of Luna." You see I myself am a child of an assassin, Marcus Black. don't worry though this has nothing to do with the fact your mother killed my father but what she did to me. That woman who looked down on me as if i'm some insignificant trash who she so happened to know is the child of her target. I fought back for my life and she didn't even consider my life worth taking. She though I was a waste of a clean blade. Do you know how infuriating that is?!" Mercury shouted at Luna directly. "Now I will make you relive that pain on the bridge of death and being denied entrance." Luna couldn't even make sound of how fearful she was at that moment. the pure bloodlust inside the eyes of Mercury inhuman in a way.
"remember what you agreed to for this, Child." Ivy told Mercury. "And what of that other?"
"Oh she actually has been a problem so she will be useful gone too. a lucky catch actually." Mercury almost sounded as if he hadn't tasted victory in a long time.
"Now, Here's your own taste of hell. Pray what you want but no one will hear it."
ONE: OH my god I can't believe I just wrote that I mean **** dude that's dark.
Second: With Volume 5 I'm actually finally getting off my *** and doing work so maybe I would push out a chapter again during Vol 5
So uhh... right Imma pick that up later after getting it outta my nightmares. -some not so lightly scarred writer