Chapter 10
New chapter! Hooray! This chapter is what happens before Episode 12, but I have a question for my readers. You like this story right? I mean I know I have favorite and followers that read it, but there haven't been any new reviews for 5 whole chapters, 10 months to be precise. It's up to you if you want to review or not, I can write stories without them but I just want to know if you actually like it. Again it's up to you so yeah.
Anyway, now onto this chapter, Chapter 10, double digits. My first story to hit this many chapters, and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon, I'm also thinking of making another RWBY story.
But enough of that, On with the story!
No pov
Flare was many things, an immortal Guardian of Remnant, the Fox Titan of Fire, and as of a few weeks ago a mother once again, well, under very strange circumstances anyway. She knew and could see every Aura on the planet if she wanted to, use any Semblance that ever existed, and is one of the most important people on the planet. But one thing she did not like to be was confused, especially when it came to Aura.
Right now Flare and Shard were looking at someone with an Aura she had never seen before, it was nothing like she had ever seen before either. A black Aura with a golden glow to it, it was as if two Aura's had fused together perfectly, but that was impossible. It belonged to a Faunus girl with two traits surprisingly, she was currently in one of the training rooms watching the girl fight several Atlas combat drones you would find as part of security forces. Her weapons were black gauntlets that exposed her hands, on top of them were two blades each, the curved blades being about 2 feet long, and an 1 inch thick. The edge of each blade was a bright gold with a red pattern in the middle areas.
Shard was intrigued by the fighting style of the girl, it was like a mix of two different styles that fit together perfectly. Shard wanted to fight the girl but was curious as to who she was.
Flare and Shard watched as the girl ripped through the drones with ease, they were watching her because she had trace amounts of Onyx's Aura on her. After a few moments Flare walked over to the girl as she destroyed the last drone while Shard stayed back to watch.
"Man how boring, they barely put up a fight when I'm like this." She said sounding bored. "But that's no fun, I want to see what I can do, you can't say you don't want to either." She said with an excited expression before looking slightly curios, "I guess, but if I'm this strong who could possibly stand up to me?"
"Excuse me?" Flare said gaining the attention of the girl who appeared to be talking to herself.
The girl turned around and her eyes widened slightly when she saw the Titan standing there before smiling. "Hello miss Flare, how can I help you?"
Her eyes narrowed slightly, "When I see someones Aura I know everything about it and what it can do, but yours is different then anything I have ever seen before, and from what I can tell yours is no more than a day old. But you are clearly older, explain."
The girl was silent for a moment, "What do you think?" She asked herself, "I think we have a chance, but we have to ask first."
"Are you talking with yourself miss?" Flare asked concerned for the girls mental state.
The girl shivered slightly when she said miss, "Oh calm down it it could be worse." The girl then grinned and looked at Flare, "I'm fine, but I have a proposition for you."
"Oh?" Flare said raising an eyebrow, "And what would this proposition be?"
"I'll tell you what ever you want to know, if you can beat me in a fight!" She said excitedly.
Flare was surprised to say the least, it's been a long time since anyone challenged her to a fight, "You want to fight me? You know who I am right?" The girl nodded in response, "Very well, but when I win you will keep your word, correct?"
"If you win." Said the girl who ran over to a combat stage and turned it on and activated her weapons again.
Flare moved over to the stage and placed a hand on one of her katana hilts, "Tell me, what's your name child?" Asked the Titan.
"Oh, um, what do I call myself?" She was silent for a few moments before responding, "You can call me Eclipse if you want, now let's do this!"
Her eyes lit up for a moment before Eclipse charged the Titan with surprising speed, Flare moved to the side and Eclipse flew past her. But Eclipse stabbed the ground to stop herself in front of the Titan and tried to kick her. Flare grabbed her foot and stopped it, but Eclipse pulled her blades free and spun to punch her but Flare quickly grabbed that as well. Eclipse smirked and raised her bladed gauntlet before they burst into flames, Flare threw her into the air and jumped after her. Once she was above her, Flare delivered a powerful kick to her stomach and sent her crashing into the ground.
Eclipse landed in the center of the stage and was in a small crater, "Do you give up?" Flare ask the girl, but to her surprise Eclipse stood back up and was grinning before she started to calmly walk towards the Titan of fire. Flare placed a hand on her katana.
"Maybe I'll actually have to get serious here." Eclipse grinned as her body glowed for a brief moment, she rushed forward, her fist ignited with a black flame with a golden outline to it as she tried to punch Flare. The Titan caught her fist but to her surprise Eclipses punch was stronger than before.
"What's wrong?" Eclipse asked, "I thought you were going to start getting serious?" She said smirking.
"And that's exactly what I'll do." Flare replied but Eclipse lit up again and Flare could feel the girls strength increase again.
"Thanks for the boost."
"What are you talking about?" Flares only response was Eclipse gaining more strength before pushing Flare back slightly to the Titans surprise. Eclipse pushed Flare back, her feet dragging across the ground. "How are you this strong?"
Eclipse lit up one more time, "This rush of power is amazing."
"How are you gaining so much strength, and why can't I identify your semblance?"
"Oh how rude of me, my semblance is a unique one, I call my semblance Conversation, original I know but you see the more someone talks to me the stronger I get, the stronger the speaker the stronger I get!" Flare was taken back by the girls Semblance, the only way to beat her was not to talk at all, "And right now, I've got the power of a Titan flowing through me!" Eclipse punched Flare in the stomach knocking the wind out of Flare who staggered back from the impact. "Come on is that all you got!?" Eclipse shouted as fire lit up on her tail and the tips of her ears, but her confident expression changed once she saw Flare was no longer in any pain and slowly pulling out one of her swords.
"Perhaps I've been to lenient with you, maybe I should use that fire of yours against you and burn you from the inside out?"
"Now that wouldn't be any fun would it?" Eclipse rushed forwards and swung her blade only for Flare to use her blade to block. Her katana was a bright silver and had red vein like patterns all over it, "I guess you're actually taking it serious now." She grinned, "Then so will I." A section of the gauntlet opened to reveal a small cylinder, Flare was confused before her eyes widen and quickly pushes the barrel of the gun away as a shot was fired right in front of her.
Flare managed to dodge the shot and quickly swung her katana at the girl, Eclipse raised her blades to block, as the blades collided, blow after blow sent sparks fly all over the place. Flare then decided to use a semblance, in the blink of an eye she appeared behind Eclipse and tried to cut her back, but to her surprise Eclipse dodged at the last possible second. "Sorry." Eclipse said, "But a speed Semblance won't work on me."
"We will see." Flare mentally cursed when she realized she spoke to Eclipse again causing the girl to glow again and the fire on her glowing brighter than before. She wanted to ask about the fire but couldn't risk increasing the girls strength again.
Eclipse raised a blade to hit Flare but almost immediately she felt heavier, she fell to her knees as Flare used a Gravity semblance to restrain her but she could feel the energy being drained from her body, "What are you-!" She fell on to her hands and knees.
"I can use more than one Semblance at a time, I figured using Gravity and energy absorption would make you easier to deal with, which means your Conversation semblance is no longer effective. Eclipse could feel it, her energy was draining faster than she was gaining it.
"Fine, time to cut loose." The room was enveloped in black and golden fire as Eclipse stood up despite the immense amount of force pulling her down, her eyes were blood red and seemed to have fire coming out of them.
"A maiden?" Flare whispered in shock, but immediately dismissed the idea, there wasn't magic inside her, just power. That brief moment was all Eclipse needed to get in front of flare with her blade ready to strike. In that split second everything stopped, the flames around the room froze in place, the embers in the air were suspended in place, Eclipse was frozen in place with the blade an inch from the Titans face. Flare let out a sigh as she looked around at the frozen area, "I'm surprised you made me have to use this, I usually never need to stop time to fight someone, but I guess I actually underestimated you." Flare moved back and to the girls side, she waved her hand and the fire around the room vanished in an instant. "But you still haven't caused me to draw my second blade, you are a few centuries to young to even try and face me as an equal...but." She stopped and looked at the girl, "You were entertaining." Flare held up her blade and in the blink of an eye Eclipse was covered in cuts all over her body. Time unfroze and each cut exploded with blood as Eclipse fell to the ground with a shocked expression. Her Aura surged and her wounds healed, her Aura was now almost gone as she gasped for breath.
"Crap!" The fire around her disappeared and Flare was surprised by her tone of voice, it sounded concerned, "D-Dammit." She said before her body lit up in a bright yellow light, once it died down Flare could only stare in shock at the two people now in front of her. It was Onyx and Yang, Onyx looked like he was about to vomit while Yang was slightly dizzy.
"W-W-W-Wha-" Flare stuttered trying to form words but was to shocked to say anything. Shard, who had watched the whole thing was also in a state of shock.
"Oh god, I hate that part." Onyx said while trying not to vomit.
"Oh come on it can't be that bad." Yang said looking down at him.
"We literally just separated bodies, it feels weird changing back to a guy and-HURK!" He covered his mouth, "You have the benefit of already being a girl, I have to feel every cell in my body change back to being a guy. Oh god, why is the third time the worst!?
"Third?" Yang asked.
"Not the time!"
"Fine, but we need to get a better control on Eclipse." Yang stated.
"I know." His eyes widen, "Oh God!" He yelled before running towards the nearby bathroom leaving Yang and a VERY confused Flare and Shard alone.
"I wonder if he's going to do that every time we do this?" Yang looked over at the Titans, "Oh, right."
"What just happened?" Flare asked in surprisingly calm tone.
"Yeah I want to know too." Shard stated.
Onyx walked back into the room still looking a bit dizzy, "It wasn't as bad as the first time I fused."
Meanwhile
Neo pov
I put the magazine in my hands down, why do I feel like I should find Onyx and punch him? Or do what we did before?
Back at Beacon
Onyx pov
I felt a shiver up my spine and the strange sense I would be getting a visit from Neo soon. "Onyx?" I look over and see Flare and Shard.
"Right, I suppose you want an explanation?"
"I would appreciate it." Flare said.
"Same." Shard added.
"Well, as you know my real semblance isn't sound, it's Unity. The ability to fuse any two things I want in any way I want, as long as I'm touching them I can fuse them. I used Unity to fuse Yang and myself to kill the ancient Deathstalker and save my partner."
"So Eclipse was a mix of Yang and yourself?" Shard asked.
"Yeah but it isn't perfect yet, as you could probably tell by how we acted. When we are Eclipse, Yang has more control since it's more her body than mine. Still creepy."
"I was the one talking to you during the fight, but I also had Onyx's memories which made me think a bit differently." Yang said before looking at me with a sad look, "Hey Onyx."
"Yeah?"
"If, you need someone to talk to, I'm here for you, okay?"
I gave a small smile, I guess she did look through my memories. "Thanks Yang." Both Titans looked at one another for a brief moment, dangit, now they're going to ask something later.
"Yeah, anyway, I also got his fighting style mixed with mine so we fused our weapons and semblances to make us stronger. We pretty much know everything about each other now, for the next few hours at least."
"Why is that?" Flare asked me.
"The memories will only stay for a few hours before they start to fade away, thankfully though, I'd probably end up calling people by other names. Hell I'd probably end up calling Ruby sister."
"And I'd probably end up calling the Titans mom." Yang said. "Speaking of which, you're the son of the Titans!?" She shouted in shock.
"Yes he is." Flare said pulling me into a hug
"He's our darling little boy." Shard added joining in the group hug.
"I'm 17." I say to my parents.
"And we're older than Humanity itself, your all babies to us." Shard said calmly.
"That's kinda weird, and how old will I have to be before I'm even 1 in your eyes?" I ask them.
Flare thinks for a moment, "Well, considering us Titans are immortal, you wouldn't be able to catch up to us as we age, so you will always be a baby to us."
"Great." I say sarcastically.
"Now onto other matters." Flare said before my parents look at Yang narrowing their eyes, "You are not to reveal that Onyx is our son, unless one of the Titans tell you otherwise." She said in a voice that reminded me how terrifying my creators could be, and Yang now knew why as well. "Are we clear?"
"Yes!" Yang replied nervously.
Shard gave a sweet smile, "Good, now, since you know about this and you and Onyx have merged more than once you are now required to attend Onyx's training sessions!" She said excitedly. Yang an I both give a nervous laugh, this is gonna be hell.
Later
Yang and I collapse onto the floor of my dorm, "I can't...feel...my arms." I say in between gasps of air, the training was hell, like I predicted.
"At least...you can...feel your legs." Yang replies.
"I had to carry you, I wish I couldn't feel my legs right now." I say to the blond brawler, after about 15 minutes we started feeling better, slightly. Yang was able to make in back to her room and I was left on my own. Well, technically Penny was still here but she was still in the box, I crawled onto my bed just as I lost feeling in my arms and legs. I felt my three Auras start to work on healing me, "I don't think today can get any worse."
Tap tap
I look to my right and I see Neo standing there with a smile on her face, "(I hope you don't consider me bad, do you cutie?)" She said with her unique way of talking.
"Neo? What are you doing here?"
"(Aren't you happy to see me?"
"Of course I'm happy, just wondering why you're here?"
"(At first I had the urge to knock you upside the head, but considering you can't move I have something different in mind.)" Neo crawls onto the bed and sat on my stomach, "(If I remember correctly, this is how we first met isn't it? You waking up with a beautiful girl on your stomach?)"
"Yup, but I'm still curious why you just took in a stranger off the street and let me stay at your place, it better not be because of your Ice Cream addiction." *Pinch* "Ow! What was that for!?"
"(I do NOT have an addiction to Ice Cream!)" She said puffing out her cheeks, she looked adorable...wait what did I just think?
"I was joking!" I let out a sigh, "Since I can't really stop you from staying here, or get you off my chest, would you like to stay the night?"
"(Oh?)" Her tone sent a small shiver up my spine, "(Asking a girl to spend a night in bed with you, how forward.)"
"No wait that's not-" She put a finger to my lips to make me stop.
"(You are comfy to sleep on anyway, so I guess I can't turn your offer down.)" She let out a yawn before resting her head on my chest, "(Besides, how can I say no to such an offer?)" I couldn't really stop her so I had to go with it. I didn't have anything to worry about though, I mean, she's not gonna do anything to me while I'm asleep. Right?