Ugh, I am terrible with characters and I recognize this fact… but hey! Double digits with the chapters of this story, so that's cool!
In case anyone was wondering, I will still be posting once a week. However, if I post shorter chapters, then I may easily post more than once a week. Basically, I'm going to post each chapter whenever it's ready, and make sure that means at least once a week. There are of course those times where I post on another fic instead of this one.
On with the story! I hope you are enjoying! The next main event will be the dance scene (not in this chapter though, and possibly not in the one after that either), and after that, the finale that I really want to get too already! Unfortunately, it's going to take a few more chapters to get to it…
Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or any other official thing that I use or reference in this fic.
Jyu yoku go wo seishimashite.
At the flat, rocky top of a mountain, at night, during a lighting storm.
Go yoku jyu mo tatsu.
AJ is sitting and gazing up at the clouds, watching the lighting that is striking around the mountain.
Muchu de kakko tsuketara.
Halfway down the mountain, during the day, a wildfire rages in the forest.
Hijyoberu ga naru.
Isaac casually walks through the flames, completely unaffected by them.
Gojyuppo ijyo mo saki aruite.
Further down the mountain, during the day, there is a small reservoir filled with water.
Chototsuoshin na sutairu.
Sam is sitting at the edge of the water and staring at his reflection in the calm waters.
Jiyu de kibunya no, Kimi ha doyattatte mushi.
At the bottom of the mountain, at night. Raymond is spread out on the ground, staring up with a depressed look as rain falls on him, and he doesn't even blink.
Dare ni mo tokenai nazo ga aru
Scene change as AJ suddenly finds himself standing in a clearing in the middle of a forest.
Fukidashita kaze ni furueteru
He looks around, trying to figure out where he is, when he sees a glowing white flower at his feet.
Kono meiro wo hodoite, yaru!
He leans forward and reaches for the flower, about to pick it up.
Kimi
But just before he does…
Ga waratta,
Aiden teleports in front of him, wielding both his blades, and AJ is just able to get both his blades out in time to block, creating sparks.
Ashita ha ame kai.
More sparks fly as both of them stand in place as they both swing their blades at each other, with every attack colliding with another.
Somei na hikari ga,
Through the flurry of blades AJ could see that Aiden was smirking at him, and he glared back as menacingly as he could.
Chika-
Aiden suddenly kicked to his right, hitting Raymond in the gut as he came to assist.
Chika,
He kicked to his left and hit Isaac in the gut as he finally got there.
Hikaru.
Without even looking, Aiden kicked behind him and hit Sam as he snuck up behind him.
Aiden kept smiling confidently as they all glared at him.
Me wo korasanakucha,
Then they all charged at once. He managed to spin around and counter all of their blades, with sparks flying everywhere.
Mirai ga kawatte shimau.
Aiden jumped over Sam, and now stood at the other end of the clearing.
Mae ni, kitto,
The four all turned to charge him, blades ready.
Kitto, ima wo,
Aiden simply sheathed his blades on his back and raised both his hands towards them as they approached him.
Saratte iku.
Dark tendrils came out of the ground and covered the four, deleting them from existence from his perspective, while everything went dark from their perspective.
Kimi to jyanakucha,
They all slowly got up onto their hands and knees. Looking around they saw only darkness.
Mirai ha, kawaite shimau.
They suddenly saw a very bright light amidst the darkness.
No kamo,
Something was inside the light.
Isoge,
A hand? They all reached out towards the hand.
Kitto,
No, it wasn't a hand… It was… a large white paw?
Ima wo,
They all touched the paw and suddenly they all glowed brightly with white light.
Waratte iku.
The white light grew and enveloped them.
They were now standing in the clearing again and in their second state, with their eyes closed, and with Aiden looking uncharacteristically shocked. Now their side of the field was filled with glowing white flowers.
All but AJ opened their eyes, now colored by their Semblances, and smiled confidently at Aiden with their weapons ready. A tear leaked out of both of AJ's eyes, despite them being closed. He opened his teary eyes and glared at Aiden before they charged again as the song came to an end.
Team SPWM Volume 2
A RWBY Fanfiction
"Guys, come on." Raymond started. "It's just some stupid prophesy kind of thing. Do you even believe in that kind of stuff?"
"It's not really about rather we believe it or not." Isaac said depressingly. "It's about if it comes true or not."
"I don't really believe in it." Sam said, but even they could tell that he was still trying to convince himself that it wasn't true.
"I wouldn't normally believe in stuff like that," AJ started, turning to Raymond. "But that was a real freaking Angel! We are on Remnant! Since apparently shit like this is possible, it's hard to say that prophecy won't come true!" He said angrily.
Raymond had to admit that he had a point.
"Well, which one of us is supposed to die then?" Isaac asked Sam and AJ.
"Well…" AJ said as they all tried to come up with an answer.
"Guys, just forget about it." Raymond said, trying to distract them. "None of you are going to die, let's just call for someone to come pick us up, okay?"
They hesitantly nodded.
"Alright, I'll get on that." Slate said and pulled out his scroll to call for someone to extract them from the clearing. "I agree with Ray, you guys are gonna be fine."
And so they stood and waited, making sure to keep an eye open for any Grimm while they did.
"Um… since when have you guys had that symbol on your backs?" Slate asked suddenly.
They all looked at each other and noticed that they all had a symbol on them. On the back of Isaac and Raymond's trench coats, on the back of Sam's armor, and on the back of AJ's shirt, under his cloak, there was the outline of a circle with angel wings inside the circle, the tip of the wings just reaching the edge of the circle.
The symbols had been burned in when they first reached the second stage, but they hadn't noticed it till now.
"That is really weird." AJ commented and they all had to agree with him on that one. It was cool that they all had a symbol like everyone else did, but they all shared the symbol! The only thing different was that the color of the symbol was the same as their Aura's color.
As the Bullhead landed, Raymond could tell that his teammates were still depressed, and he wanted a way to distract them. 'None of you are going to die.' He thought as they got in the ship. He then turned to Slate.
"Excuse me? Slate?" He asked the man standing next to him.
"Yeah?"
"Can you tell us more about your weapons?" Raymond asked.
"Yeah, they're pretty damn cool." AJ said as he smiled a little.
"Well, there isn't really much to say." Slate started. "I have my two knifes attached to nearly indestructible string. I didn't give both of them names though, so I just call them Pechschwarz, which means 'pitch black'. I use them for close combat, or I throw them out and pull on the strings to direct them at enemies that are out of my reach. But, I can also use my gauntlets, which shoot small nails out of them. I… haven't really given them a name. I honestly never was much for names. Others find that odd, but I see no real reason to name the weapon. It doesn't change the fact that they do what they were meant to do, kill Grimm."
"Well they certainly do their job good." AJ said with a chuckle.
"Yeah, I'm really no good at fighting other people, but I can certainly take out Grimm." Slate said with a chuckle. "Also, my Semblance is polarity. Yes, just like the great Pyrrha Nikos, but, mine has a ridiculous limit!"
"What?" Raymond asked.
"I can only use it on small things!" Slate answered, clearly annoyed with that fact. "Like, really small things! The object can be maybe twice the size of the nails I use before I can't affect it! I quickly figured out the limit of my Semblance and had no choice but to think small, and so I made these Gauntlets!" His mood shifted and he was now happy and proud. "And I'm actually really glad I made them! I fire the nails out with a mechanism inside the gauntlets, and then use my Semblance during combat to bring them back to me!"
"So you can do that in the middle of combat!?" AJ asked, shocked. "That's pretty incredible! Like, that's badass!"
"Yeah, you looked pretty cool when you were using those." Isaac commented. He was smiling as well, at least a little.
Slate rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Yeah well, my wife said I show off too much when fighting."
"If you don't mind me asking, is your wife a Huntress?" Raymond asked politely.
He regretted asking the moment he did.
"No… um… my wife… passed away… last year…" Slate said depressingly.
"Oh, I'm really sorry!" Raymond apologized.
"Yeah, sorry." AJ apologized as well.
"It's alright." Slate said with a smile. "You didn't know, really, it's fine. To answer your question, she never became a Huntress."
Despite Raymond's best efforts, his teammates soon grew quiet again for the rest of the trip back to Beacon. However, while they anticipated coming back and finding team RWBY waiting for them, the girls weren't even in the school when they got there.
"Oh! Right! They're still going to be on their mission!" AJ realized.
"Soooo do we go find them and join them? Or what?" Sam asked.
Raymond and AJ looked at each other and both shook their heads, so that meant they were both against it.
"No, we should just let that happen, they'll be fine." AJ said. "We can be here when they get back!"
"Alright." Isaac said.
"Fine." Sam conceded. "I'd rather rest anyway."
"It's not like we did that much." AJ pointed out.
"We did walk quite a lot." Raymond pointed out.
"Oh boo hoo, we walked." AJ said.
"You mean you're not tired?" Isaac asked.
"Oh no! I never said I wasn't tired! That was definitely a lot of walking!" AJ admitted. "I was just joking with you guys, I want to rest too."
And so they did just that until Team RWBY came back.
When RWBY finally came back it was late at night and Yang was still complaining about "Some chick with an umbrella."
"Parasol!" Raymond corrected, and laughed when she glared at him.
"I'm not in the mood, Ray!" Yang said angrily.
"Alright, alright. Sorry." Raymond said with a chuckle.
"Hey, Yang." Blake motioned for her partner to walk over to her, then whispered to her. "Can you and the others go and give me and AJ some privacy?"
Yang knew where this was going, since she had been asked this many times since they came back from the two week break. "You know it's late, right? The others aren't going to stay and talk for long, they're going to want to get to sleep, and we are going to want our dorm to smell relatively normal when we get back." Yang said teasingly.
Blake sighed. "Yang, we aren't going to do anything, just make out a bit, or something." Yang raised an eyebrow at her with an amused smile. She could just hear her partner saying 'Can you two even control yourselves?' "I promise."
Yang chuckled. "Alright, fine. We'll leave you two alone."
Raymond then turned and saw his teammates walking away with their girlfriends, and before he knew it, it was just him and Yang left in the halls.
"So, wanna go out sometime?" Yang suddenly asked.
"No, Yang." Raymond answered without hesitation. "I'm taken."
"What!? No way! You are so screwing with me right now!" Yang exclaimed.
"What makes you think I'm not?" Raymond asked, confused.
"Because I haven't seen you with any other girl!" She answered.
"That's because she's not here… she's… waiting for me to get out of Beacon." He answered, sounding depressed, not that she noticed.
"Oh! Really!? If you say so. But really, is she going to wait for you that long? And you know… not get with another guy?" Yang asked, and he turned and glared strongly at her. "I'msorrydon'thurtme! Wait, where did you get that necklace?"
"Uhhhh oh this? We were given them by the Huntsman we met while we were on mission." He lied.
"Really? That's cool." She commented as she took a closer look at it before growing bored soon after and started walking down the hall. "Blake had told us you guys went on a secret mission as well. Though I think you guys could have trusted us and told us about it."
"Well Ozpin wouldn't let us tell anyone." He said as he started walking with her.
"Hey, Ruby?"
"Yes Isaac?" Ruby asked with a happy smile on her face as she rested her head on his shoulder.
Her and Isaac, along with Sam and Weiss, had left the dorm to AJ and Blake while the other two couples took their own tables in the library, away from others.
"There's something I want to ask you..." Isaac said hesitantly.
Ruby blushed lightly from what she thought he might ask. "W-What?"
"What would you… what would you do if I… died?"
Ruby froze for a moment before smiling and hugging him and burying her face in his chest.
"That won't happen, so don't ever ask me that again."
Despite the cheery tone, he knew that she was being threatening, and probably trying not to cry, so as much as he wanted to push the question, he knew there was no point, and simply hugged her until she felt better.
She felt something on his upper chest through his shirt and pulled away slightly to look at it.
"A necklace?" She asked, glad there was something to distract her. "When did you get this?"
"Ummm… while we were on mission. We were given these by the Huntsman we met." He lied.
"Oh yeah! Blake told us you guys had gone on a mission." Ruby said. "Though she didn't tell us that till a long time later, and she also said not to tell anyone…" *Gasp* "What were his weapons like!?"
He sighed in relief. 'Well, at least I didn't have to lie any more than that.'
Over at another table.
"Hey, Weiss?"
"Yes?"
"What would you do if I… died?"
Weiss starred at him for a moment, shocked by the question, but she tried to compose herself.
"Well, I don't see how that would happen." She started. "You have incredible teammates, Sam. All of them are very powerful with their Semblances. Raymond takes care of his friends, Isaac is incredibly strong, and… as much as you don't get along with him… AJ is also incredibly powerful, maybe even more so than Isaac. Knowing him, he wouldn't hesitate to put himself in danger to make sure you're safe. Your teammates would take care of you, without a doubt. You and your teammates are far too powerful for any of you to die! There's no way that you could… die!" She found it difficult to think about the topic and wanted to move on.
"Weiss, you didn't answer the question." Sam pointed out.
"Yes I did!"
He sighed. "Weiss, what would you do if I were killed? Just answer the question."
Weiss closed her eyes and thought.
"Well, I would find whoever did it and make them pay!" She answered, quickly closing her eyes again and looking away from him.
He blinked in surprise. "Weiss… are you crying?"
"Of course not! Why would I ever cry you stubborn dolt!?" She yelled as she held back her tears and refused to look at him.
He reached over and put an arm around her, and she moved closer to him, trying to banish the thoughts she was having. She was able to calm down because of this before any tears came out.
"I'm sorry, Weiss." He said as he took hold of her hand.
"You should be sorry!" She yelled into his shoulder. "Stupid… stubborn dolt… The only reason I almost cried was because of the bad thoughts I had! I need you around so I have someone to open up too!"
"And I need you for the same thing, I need someone I can be myself around." He sighed. 'This could have gone better…'
"Hey, where did you get this necklace?" She asked as she ran a finger along it.
"While we were on our mission we… were given these by the Huntsman we met." Sam lied.
AJ had been the one to come up with the lie, and since they couldn't think of a better one, it's what they went with.
"Why did he give you this?" She asked.
"Not sure really." He answered.
"And why did you go on a mission and not tell us?" She asked as she prodded his chest with her finger.
"Ozpin told us we couldn't tell anyone, we had no choice." Sam answered.
"So, did you have fun on your secret mission?" AJ asked Blake once they stopped making out.
"Well, Torchwich got away again… but we found out quite a bit about their plans… but let's not talk about that right now. It feels like you need this more than me right now, you're really tense." She answered before she pushed him down.
Once they were done and they settled down and were cuddling on the bed, with him lying on his back and her lying on her stomach on top of him, he decided now was the time to ask her.
"Blake?"
"Yeah?"
"Remember when you barged into our dorm because you had a nightmare and thought I had died?" He asked with a chuckle.
She humorlessly chuckled before holding him tighter. "Yeah… I remember. That was really scary for me."
"I know, and I hate to bring it up again but… what would you actually do if I died?" He asked hesitantly, and made sure to hold her tight to help her feel safe, and so she would be able to forget any bad thoughts she had and remember that he is alive right now.
"I… I don't know what I would do without you… I don't know… how I could go on." She tried and failed to stop sobbing. "I… I would find whoever was responsible and kill them! I would make them pay for taking you away from me!" She fully burst into tears so he held her tight and stroked her hair.
"It's okay… it's okay… please don't cry, sweetie…"
"I'm sorry… *Sniffle*" She apologized as she slowly calmed down.
"You don't have to apologize, it's my fault for bringing this up."
"Why did you bring this up anyway?" She asked as she looked up at him. "Did something happen on your mission?"
"Well, it was our first mission, and things went really well, actually… but… It won't always be that way. Our missions won't always be easy, we'll be in danger, we could get seriously hurt, we could die… and going on that mission made me realize that."
She understood what he was talking about. She had just fought a giant robot, and what if she was captured and/or killed instead of being here with him now? They are Huntsman and Huntresses, they are going to be putting their lives on the line, and for her team and his, they already have. Not to say they weren't in danger during the initiation, but they at least had professional Hunters keeping an eye on them and despite what they said, would certainly help them if they were in mortal danger. In the real world, on missions like the ones they were on, they really could die.
"AJ, what would you do if I died?" Blake asked him.
He looked away from her as he spoke. "I would find whoever was responsible and kill them… and then… probably just kill myself…" And he refused to look back at her.
"What? Why would you do that?" She asked, shocked.
"I wouldn't be able to live without you… I wouldn't be able to live with the loss of you… there would be nothing making life worth living anymore… I would have no reason to live anymore…" He never looked at her as he spoke.
She stared at him in shock for awhile longer before she grabbed his chin, forced him to look at her, and kissed him deeply.
"Well, I guess we both just have to not die then." She decided.
"Good, cause I can't lose you…" He held her tighter and took in the scent of her hair. "You're too precious to me."
'That's why he was so tense!' She realized. "Well don't worry about that, you won't lose me, and I won't lose you." *Moment of peaceful silence* "I've been meaning to ask, what's with this necklace?" She asked as she pulled on it lightly. "I've never seen this on you before."
"I could feel you messing with it and was wondering when you were going to mention it." He commented. "For some reason the Huntsman we met decided to give us these necklaces." He lied.
"Huh, weird." She commented. "I wonder why…"
Eventually they heard the others coming back and they kissed before AJ left the dorm and went with his team to their own dorm.
"So, did you all ask them?" AJ asked Sam and Isaac, who both hesitantly nodded. "How did it go?"
"Ruby wouldn't spend one second thinking about me dying." Isaac answered. "But I have to imagine she would go out and kill a lot of Grimm till she felt better."
"Weiss said she would find whoever killed me and kill them." Sam answered.
"Blake said the same thing." The one Faunus in the room said. "But honestly, I think it's going to be me."
"Will you three shut up about it!?" Raymond demanded. "None of you are going to die! I won't let that happen!"
Seeing Raymond angry greatly surprised them, but they ignored him regardless.
"The thing about the story and the page, I think that was pointed towards Blake." AJ said. "I think she's going to go on a rampage. I think I'm the one that's going to die."
"Though that could have just been for the sake of rhyming." Isaac pointed out.
"It sure could have." AJ agreed. "It could be either of you, and not me. But still, I feel like it's going to be me…" He said, depressed.
Raymond wanted to say what he had been saying the whole time, but they were clearly ignoring him and his frustration made him decide 'Fine! Screw them!' and he fell on his bed to try and sleep. The others eventually did the same.
As AJ lied on his bed and tried to sleep, he noticed how he was feeling about everything right now. 'I'm afraid to die… huh. That's new.' Even after he got past the 'wanting to kill himself' phase in his life, he still didn't really care if he died, but now that he had Blake, that changed, and he didn't want to die anymore. He didn't want to die and lose her.
The next day, after classes, the guys decided to show the new abilities they had unlocked. They weren't going to tell them what happened during the main part of their mission, but that didn't mean they couldn't show them stage two and say that it was the product of secret training sessions.
Although, the full power of all four of them would be a pretty dangerous thing to let out in the training room, so it will have to be just two members of SPWM that fight. Which pair will be sparring this time?
"How about this, Chaos or Control will be fighting." AJ said.
"Sure." Raymond said with a shrug.
"Kay." Sam said uncaringly.
"Sure." Isaac said with a nod.
"Alright, Raymond, Rock, paper, scissors." AJ requested.
""Rock, paper, scissors!""
"YES! Chaos for the win!" AJ cheered. "Let go!" Then he and Isaac excitedly entered the training room.
They got into position in the room and look at each other.
""HAAAAAAAAAAAAH!""
"Whoa! What's that!?" Ruby asked excitedly as their clothes and hair changed color and started glowing.
"As cool as that is, I don't think Isaac looks any good in blue, but that's just me." Yang commented. "Blue hair just looks weird to me."
"What about Neptune?" Raymond asked.
"Well he can pull off blue hair, Isaac can't." Yang answered.
"I've seen him that way before…" Blake mumbled as she looked at AJ and remembered his reaction to her rejection. 'Yeah, he was like that back then too! But… he looks much nicer now, probably because he isn't angry right now.'
"What are they doing!?" Weiss asked, confused and wanting answers.
It was quite a show of power they were giving. Blue flames and yellow electricity flying everywhere. Everyone present could feel the power coming from them.
AJ mecha-shifted Bakeneko and his pistol into dual swords covered in electricity and got in a battle stance. Isaac got out Silent Antagonist, covered in fire, and got in a stance as well. Bright blue eyes stared at bright yellow as they smiled confidently at each other.
Another reason for this fight was because they had yet to see what they could do in this new state, and now was the time for at least two of them to find out.
With a battle cry they both charged at each other and their blades clashed, their elements blasting out behind them and taking up the rest of the large training room. They pushed as hard as they could, but neither of them would give ground, so they both broke away from each other and held a hand out. They both built up Aura and a large blast of electricity met a massive stream of fire before they both faded away, canceling each other out.
They both charged again and Isaac parried both of AJ's blades downwards, with the electricity that flew out the blades being redirected along the floor to his side. He then swung horizontally and AJ ducked under it, the fire that shot out of the weapon flew over his head. AJ snuck in a swing while Isaac was open and sliced his chest. Isaac reeled from the blow but responded with his own powerful swing. AJ held up his blades to block the attack but the power behind it knocked his right blade out of his hand. He swung with his left quickly and knocked Isaac off balance, then Isaac shot out a small fireball that knocked AJ off balance as well. Both of them yelled as they brought their fists up for a punch, and the two fists collided, the force and Aura behind the attacks caused both of them to be sent flying to opposite sides of the arena.
They both stood up and AJ picked up his other blade before he filled his blades with even more electricity and swung vertically. He was surprised to see a vertical wave of electricity shoot out towards Isaac. Isaac spun around the attack when it got to him and tried to copy his opponent. He swung horizontally and a blue wave flew out across the room. AJ jumped over it and began swinging both his blades repeatedly, sending yellow waves of lighting at his opponent. Isaac dodged the attacks while also sending his own back at AJ, and this continued between them for awhile, with neither able to get a hit. Their attacks were either dodged or they collided with each other, and two particular horizontal swings collided directly and the resulting smoke made it hard to see.
AJ used this opportunity to move across the room in an instant and slice Isaac in the back multiple times, knocking him down. Isaac manipulated his Semblance to create winds that blew AJ back before he could continue his attack, and created more winds under him to increase his speed and quickly get distance from him. He took a moment to look at his Aura and found that he hadn't lost all that much Aura, though that was either because of the necklaces giving him more Aura, or the fire around him was making him more resilient. He didn't notice his Aura going back up, so that made him lean more towards the flames protecting him. He took another hit when AJ blinked in front of him and he used his control over wind to help him move his weapon faster and keep up with AJ. A lot of flame and lighting continued to fly out from the deflected attacks.
"Can you guys do stuff like this!?" Ruby asked enthusiastically.
"Yeah, but I'm not sure it would be as much of a show as it is with them." Raymond answered.
"Yeah, I just have water and ice." Sam added. "It wouldn't be as ridiculous as it is with them."
"I could probably make things look pretty cool, but they're the ones with showy Semblances." Raymond said and pointed at the ensuing chaos happening in the training room.
And that was how they got their combo name, Chaos. They didn't even have power like this back when they made that name, so now they're real chaos!
"Hey AJ!?" Isaac yelled as their blades and elements kept clashing.
"Yeah!?"
"I'm getting kind of tired! Can we stop now!?"
"Hell no! We gotta push this new ability to the limit!" AJ yelled excitedly.
"You want the limit!? Alright!"
Isaac deflected another attack before placing his palm against AJ's chest and shooting out a stream of fire to send his opponent away and give himself space. He began to build a large amount of Aura and his flames started circling him as he stood in the center of the room. AJ stood up weakly and saw what Isaac was doing and began building up Aura in his hand so he could break through the swirling wall of blue flame. AJ finally built up enough energy and charged. Just before he reached his target, Isaac spun around and the walls of flame reached the roof and then rapidly expanded till they engulfed the room before fading away…`
… And leaving Ruby's symbol perfectly burned into the floor.
"Quite the romantic you got there, Ruby." Yang teasingly commented, but saw that her sister wasn't listening to her and was instead entranced by what Isaac had done.
"Wow… that was amazing!" Ruby cheered. "Thank you Isaaaaaac!"
"Anything for my rose!" Isaac said lovingly before turning back to AJ, who had been blown against a wall and was just starting to get up. While Isaac was breathing heavily from using so much power, AJ was somehow not breathing as heavily as he was.
AJ yelled and began sending out more waves of electricity with a few waves of his swords, which Isaac dodged. He then mecha-shifted Bakeneko into its rifle form and fired out blasts of lighting from it, with Isaac taking multiple hits and losing the ability to be in stage two any longer. His Aura was barely above the red. AJ once again let out an angry yell and charged at Isaac with Bakeneko in longsword form.
"AJ! You can stop now!" Raymond pointed out.
Isaac realized AJ wasn't going to stop and quickly spun around Silent Antagonist and built up just a bit of his Semblance into the blade before it hit AJ in the side as he jumped at him, sending him far away and causing him to lose his grip.
AJ landed on his side but rolled and stopped on all fours. "Grrrrrrr…" He growled angrily and glared at Isaac before blinking next to him and clawing him across his face as well as sending him into the wall, and I mean into the wall.
"Isaac!" Ruby cried out and rushed into the training room.
"AJ what are you doing!?" Blake asked as she and the others followed after Ruby.
Good thing the guys were in combat gear.
"GRRRRAAAAAAH!" AJ suddenly flashed past them all and knocked them down, landed on all fours on the wall, then pushed off the wall and launched himself at Isaac again. Isaac felt blood running down his face and was barely able to stand up and raise his weapon before AJ reached him, and the force behind the attack pinned him against the wall. AJ was glaring at him and baring his teeth. All he saw in his leader's eyes was rage.
"AJ! Dude! Calm down!" Isaac pleaded weakly as AJ pushed hard on the pole of Silent Antagonist and tried to get to him, apparently unaffected by the spikes. Isaac's eyes grew wide as he saw AJ try to bite his face, but suddenly AJ was trapped in a purple coffin.
Raymond stared worryingly at AJ, but he grew even more worried when AJ simply roared as he let out a pulse of his Aura and shattered the hold Raymond had on him.
"Get out of here! Now!" Raymond demanded as he looked at Team RWBY, then turned to Sam. "Use ice on him!"
Sam trapped AJ's feet and hands with ice, he figured it would give them about five seconds, maybe six.
"Grrrrrrrrrrrr!"
"No!" Yang yelled.
"Let us help!" Blake demanded.
"You need our help!" Weiss added.
Ruby tried to run past Raymond but was met by a purple wall.
"Don't argue with me!" Raymond yelled angrily "You don't even have your weapons! GO! NOW!" He didn't even wait for their response because he had to stop AJ.
Raymond and Sam went into their second state before AJ slammed into Raymond and sent him across the room.
While AJ roared angrily at Raymond, Sam took the chance to build up Aura and then trap AJ completely in ice. Another burst of electricity destroyed the ice, but just as AJ jumped at Sam, Raymond created a wall and launched it at AJ. He didn't even care that he was crushing AJ against the opposite wall, because his angry thrashing and roaring showed that he wasn't effected anyway.
"RAAAAAAAAAH!"
"That won't hold him!" Raymond realized as he felt AJ breaking through his wall. "Sam! Try that ice lance thing!" 'I guess we'll finally get to see what the point of giving us those lances was.'
"Alright!" Sam built up his Aura and created a lance out of red ice. "This thing will explode if I throw it! I can feel it!"
"Then throw it!" Raymond demanded as he felt and saw that the wall was cracking.
Sam pulled his arm back before throwing the lance forward, and a red glyph of their symbol appeared in front of him right when he released the lance. The lance went through the glyph that he hadn't created and suddenly gained power and speed as it flew at AJ just as the wall Raymond had created shattered. That entire side of the room was covered in red ice, and AJ was sealed inside of it. They could see through the ice and they saw AJ lose his second stage while his frozen body remained motionless.
Sam collapsed onto his hands and knees. "Okay… that lance thing… takes too much Aura to throw… never again…"
"Huh." Raymond said. 'So that lance she gave us is actually really powerful. Creating it had been no problem, but it looks like its full power comes out when you throw it, and we should only use it as a last resort. Noted, but what was that glyph?' "You'll be okay though, right?"
"Yeah… just give me… a bit…" Sam answered weakly.
"You can use ice!?" Weiss asked him as Team RWBY came back into the room.
"What just happened!?" Yang asked.
"Are you okay, Isaac!?" Ruby asked as she ran to his side.
Blake ran up to the massive structure of ice and looked at AJ with worry. "Can you get him out of there!? Is he going to be okay!?"
"Yeah… he'll live…" Sam answered, before waving his hand, causing the ice to melt.
When the ice completely melted AJ fell over unconscious and Blake quickly picked him up and checked him for a pulse. "He's okay! Oh thank god!" She hugged him tightly.
"Get him and Isaac to the medical room!" Weiss ordered.
"Right!" Raymond agreed.
When AJ came too he was able to tell he was in the medical room because of the white ceiling, and walls, and floor, and beds. He heard talking and looked over to see the rest of his team, minus Isaac, and team RWBY were all present and standing around or sitting in one of the chairs. He saw them all look at him, then suddenly images of everything that had happened flooded through and he looked away from them all in shame.
"AJ?" Blake asked cautiously. "Are you okay now?"
"Why did you attack us like that!?"
"Weiss! We went over this already!" Yang scolded.
"You didn't do that on purpose… right AJ?" Ruby asked with sad eyes.
"Of course not." AJ answered without looking at them.
Blake tried to turn his head to face them but he refused to look at her.
"Do you even know what you did?" Raymond asked.
"I blacked out for awhile, but when I woke up just now I saw what I did playing back in my head." AJ answered. "Is Isaac okay?"
"Yeah, he'll be fine." Yang answered. "Ruby, the doc told you not to be on Isaac's bed."
"Sorry…"
"He passed out from losing too much blood from his head wound, but the doctor took care of that and his Aura is recharging and fixing him up, so he'll wake up eventually." Raymond explained to AJ.
AJ's only response was a sigh at first. "Wait, where's JNPR?"
"They were already in their dorm and didn't hear anything that happened." Blake answered.
"Are you guys going to tell them what happened?" AJ asked.
"I think they should know so they aren't surprised when you-"
"Weiss!" Raymond angrily yelled, scaring everyone, especially her, into silence. He turned back to AJ. "What would you like us to do?"
"I wish this never happened at all." He said emotionlessly. "So please don't tell them."
"We won't." Blake promised. "Right guys?"
Seeing as that was more of a threatening demand then a question, they all nodded.
"Alright, seriously though, what happened!?" Sam asked.
"I remember getting really angry before blacking out." AJ said, but still wouldn't turn to them.
"I think I might know." Blake started. "It has to do with what you told me, Ray." The boy looked at her confused. "About his Semblance." His eyes widened in realization.
"Oh!" Raymond said.
"What? What are you talking about?" Yang asked, confused.
"Well, it isn't really much of a secret, just something we decided not to tell you." Raymond started hesitantly. "Basically, when he uses his Semblance, it has the side effect of making him angry. He doesn't know why it makes him angry, it doesn't make him angry at anything in particular, he just feels angry."
"And you have no idea why?" Weiss asked.
"Nope! No clue!" Raymond answered.
"And I think that using so much of his Semblance's power might have made him so angry his Faunus side took over and went wild." Blake said as she looked back at AJ.
"That would make sense." AJ commented.
"Could that happen to you?" Yang asked, concerned for her partner.
"I don't think so, no." Blake answered. "It's supposed to take an incredible amount of anger to cause that, and even if that happened to me, I wouldn't be as dangerous."
"So I guess he can't use stage two anymore, huh?" Sam asked Raymond.
"Probably not, but maybe he could just use it for a short time?" Raymond suggested.
"If he uses his Semblance to that extent again, just don't do it when any of us are around!" Weiss demanded.
Yang groaned. "Sam! Do something about your girlfriend!"
"What do you want me to do about it!?" Sam asked in response.
Yang looked at Ruby as she was looking over Isaac and saw her yawn. "Guys, it's really late. We should all get to bed soon."
"Can I stay here with Isaac?" Ruby pleaded.
"No Ruby, you need to sleep in your own bed." Yang said and decided to grab Ruby and carry her away.
"No! Yang! Put me down! I'm not a little kid anymore!"
"You're still my little sis!" Yang said teasingly.
"Yaaaaang!" Ruby whined.
Weiss sighed. "She's right. Well, goodnight everyone. Goodnight Sam."
"Goodnight Weiss."
Everyone knew by now to turn away and let them kiss, which Yang kept saying was something they needed to get over but that so far had made no progress.
"I'll catch up later!" Blake said to her teammates as they left.
"Well, goodnight Blake." Raymond said as he left as well.
A note had been left on Isaac's bed to just stay and sleep in case he wakes up in the middle of the night.
"AJ, can you please look at me?" Blake pleaded as she took hold of his hand.
Rather than turn, he simply spoke. "How am I ever going to be able to use my Semblance again?"
"What?"
"How will I be able to do that without thinking about how I almost killed my teammate? My partner. My friend…"
"You never let stuff like that get in your way during combat before." She pointed out.
"Well that's different now! I seriously hurt him, and now Ruby probably hates me…"
"You know Ruby isn't like that! She knows you didn't mean it and she will forgive you, without a doubt! She isn't the kind of person to hold a grudge against a friend." She argued.
"Maybe, but what if you were the one I had hurt badly? I couldn't be near you anymore."
She grabbed him and forcefully turned his face towards her.
"No! I would have to be near you to help you feel better! To convince you that it wasn't your fault and that you aren't endangering me just by being near me! I promised to help you smile, and make you feel warm and safe. I promised you that I would make sure you were happy, so let me help you so you can stop feeling bad about something that isn't your fault!"
She waited for a response from him, but he just kept staring at her. She looked closer and looked at his eyes and saw that he was slowly becoming less depressed, and more happy, with every second.
"Just by being here, trying to do something like that for me, is enough to make me happy." He said before smiling. "Just getting to see your beautiful face is enough to make me smile. Just knowing that you are here and you truly care about me makes me feel warm and safe. Thank you for helping me, thank you so, so much."
She smiled. "You're welcome."
He hugged her tightly, and as he thought about how he might be losing her, it took all his power not to cry and let her know that something was wrong. There was no way he could lie about that. She would keep asking till he told the truth, and that they had met an Angel and that there was some spreading darkness in her world, and that he may die at some point soon.
"I'm still not sure how I'll do with using my Semblance, but I'll try to use it again." He said. "But I'm definitely not going that far again, since nothing good comes out of it."
"I understand."
"I still feel really bad about it all though…"
"That's understandable."
"I hope the others can forgive me."
"They're our friends, they'll forgive you. It might seem like they don't trust you after this, but it will pass after awhile, I'm sure of it."
They kissed for a moment.
"We've made quite a few promises to each other." He noted after they broke the kiss.
"Well those promises are one of the things keeping us together, don't you think?" She asked.
"Yeah, I guess they are." He agreed. "Hey, you need to get to sleep too, you know."
"Oh, right! Well, goodnight then. Love you."
"Love you too. Hey Blake?" She stopped at the doorway and turned to him. "Seriously, make sure you get enough sleep, okay?"
She chuckled. "Alright, I will. What's with the sudden concern?"
"It's because I care." While that was true, that wasn't the reason.
She chuckled again. "Alright then, I promise that I will get enough sleep." And then closed the door.
As he lied there in silence, he looked over at Isaac and saw that he was still asleep, then let his head fall back against the pillow and he sighed. "Damn it… of course my cool power has a drawback." His eyes widened as he realized another possible problem. He had been thinking about the others not trusting him for what happened, but he was forgetting one person. '…I hope Isaac is understandable when he wakes up.'
I am getting worse with this story, no doubt about it. I just wish I could get to the end of this season and make use of my cool ideas already. At least then I won't be making things up as I go and will actually feel like I did a decent job.
Oh well, for any of you that I haven't scared away ( XD ), there's usual end AN jazz, don't flame or be rude in general, and, have a great week everyone!