Chapter 10:
Medusa woke up laying in one of the medical beds with Doctor Mordin above her scanning her head. "Ah, greetings!" He said as Medusa frowned slapping the device away but struggled to sit up. "Damn it..." She said to herself. "Have to wait before moving. You are coming out of a control type power right now. You will be able to move possibly in an hour." He told her and helped her sit up. "Remember anything?" Mordin asked her. "I was in some tube waking up and I was forced down on a medical bed like this one and they put me to sleep. That's all I can remember. Odd enough I thought I died." She said. "Remember being dead?" Mordin asked. "Not really but I know I was after the fall I took." She said.
"So mom can't remember heaven or... hell." Qrow smirked walking in. Medusa gave him a mean look. "Wheres my favorite boy." She asked. "Mom look, we need to talk about some things okay?" He said to her. "I don't want to speak to you, I want to speak to Dray right now!" She shouted at him. "What is going on! Where are we and why are we here!" She yelled. Qrow took a breath. "Dray's dead!" He shouted making her lean back in shock. "Let me explain." Qrow said now in a softer tone.
Serenity was looking through the med bay windows at Medusa and Qrow talking seeing Medusa's reactions. "She seriously is telling the truth." Serenity said looking to Tomoko and Mangle. "Okay fine I'll let it go." Mangle said walking off as Tomoko turned to look at Serenity. "I bet she's taking the news of Dad's death pretty bad." She said. "Yeah... but who could blame her?" Serenity said. "Hey, I can feel your essence pretty clear right now." Tomoko said to her. "Good or bad thing?" Serenity asked. "Good as long as it stays good." Tomoko said walking off.
Medusa hearing everything that has happened the short version from Qrow she just sighed looking at the ceiling. "How are you alive?" Qrow asked her. "I said I don't know." She said as Qrow thought about this. "You still got black blood powers I know that." He said looking to Mordin. "He did a DNA test on you. But he see's somethings a bit off how your blood is in perfect shape even with your black blood. He says something like this shouldn't be, its like you was created recently." Qrow told her as Medusa didn't know what to say. "I thought I heard voices and I cannot remember who's." She said to him.
Medusa then tilted her head noticing Serenity outside of the window with two of her other sisters beside her. "What happened to her?" Medusa asked breathing a little faster. "I can smell her." Medusa said as Qrow looked back. "I did too. She's gotten a lot stronger through the years and now even stronger. It can lead to problems down the road if she isn't careful." Qrow said to his mother. "So I guess its just you and me." Qrow told her as Medusa sighed. "Fuck." She said.
"Wait for whats wrong with just you and me!?" Qrow asked getting mad. "Because of your a fucking idiot! A damned drunk!" She yelled at him. Qrow getting mad walked out of the med bay looking at Mordin. "You handle her!" he said and went up to Serenity. "Let's go, let her rest." Qrow said as Serenity was curious as to what the fight was about inside.
"Uncle we got a message from the planet, Hoth. The Hutetsuu Clan have taken the planet after Earths fall as a temporary base for themselves." Weavile said approaching them. "I wonder if anything of value is there to steal too." Weavile then remarked. "No stealing please, I had a word about that with your sister." He told her. "Yeah but I'm a better thief than her." Weavile said as Qrow kept walking and thinking to himself. "Serenity, whats the plan?" He asked. "We go to hoth and see what they want." Serenity said to him. "Go to the cockpit and let Mangle know. We did all we could for Kashyyyk. Now we got to head to Hoth." He told her. "You know after the Hutetsuu we have to go to the Momochi clan next."
Qrow turned around rubbing his face. "The Hutetsuu and Momochi hate one another." He said. "Desolate is a Hutetsuu maybe she can convince there leader?" She asked. "Hah! Yeah right!" Qrow said walking off. Serenity headed to the cockpit next and as she did Mangle already was in hyperspeed. "Already on it dude, I was listening to you guys talking through the security footage I can access here." Mangle told her as Serenity shook her head. "Don't you ever stop spying?" She asked. "Don't you ever stop being a bitch?" Mangle replied. "We will be at Hoth in just a few minutes." She said as Serenity sat down in the chair beside her.
Serenity was at the armory as Jacob was refixing her robotic right hand for her with a new one and a better upgrade. "How many times you lost this?" He asked. "This once and by mistake." She huffed. "Old man was teaching me and well yeah." She said. "Hahaha!" Jacob laughed as she hit his head softly. "Sorry leader." He said still laughing.
The Olympus Mons orbited Earth and another gateway portal opened in front of it as its super weapon began to charge yet again. General Hux and Ardyn stood on the bridge.
"Ah, another sector to wipe out?" Ardyn asked as Hux glanced at him. "We are making a point to the entire galaxy to bow before us. We are targeting the Ryloth System." He told him as Ardyn just grinned. "Wiping out the Twi'lek homeworld, are we? I wonder if those weak species will grow weaker after this." He said.
"It doesn't matter." Hux said pushing a button on the console. "Fire!" He shouted. The beam came from the super weapon right into the gateway portal and soon opening in the Ryloth system as the beams burst toward each of the moons of Ryloth and the two other planets in the system. All of the moons and planets and lastly the sun was ultimately destroyed leaving the system lost forever. Hux had a grin on his face watching the galactic map. Ardyn looked at him raising an eyebrow. "You enjoy destruction don't you?" He asked.
Hux glanced over at Ardyn. "Unevolved species must be wiped out to let species like us grow. The Human race is at its finest and we are too become the greatest species in the entire universe." Hux said to Ardyn who just gave a shrug. "Perhaps. Yet one man wants to rule it all. No easy task." Ardyn said smirking as Hux looked away reading some datafiles. "The Illusive Man is the only one we can look up to at this point." Hux told him.
"Ah indeed, indeed." Ardyn said and took a look at a datafile himself. "It seems you lost a fleet over the planet Sayel." He told Hux who walked over to the terminal. "It shows here we also lost Medusa Gorgon... Damn it! What the hell happened on Kashyyyk!" Hux shouted and ran over to another terminal contacting the fleet over Kashyyyk. After a few moments, he then walked back to Ardyn. "There is an alliance fleet in battle with our blockade of the planet." Hux said to Ardyn who gave a slight bow. "I will take it upon myself to let the Illusive Man know then." He said walking off leaving Hux mad and going to another terminal to give orders.
As Serenity was getting her hand fixed she suddenly let out a powerful scream gripping her head. Jacob quickly tried to hold her. "Hey hey! Calm down did I hit a nerve in the system of your hand or what!?" He asked in shock. "My head is hurting me!" She yelled as he quickly ran out to find Doctor Mordin and she fell to the floor.
She woke up later being scanned by Mordin and beside him was Jacob and Qrow looking down at her. "Somethings wrong with you." Qrow said to her frowning as Jacob looked at him. "Hey man, maybe it's just a virus or something?" He asked. "Or it's her new abilities taking its toll on her." He said. "No, something happened to her, brain waves really functioning." Mordin said.
Serenity sat up rubbing her head. "I'll be fine, we got to keep going." She said as Qrow shook his head. "No, you are staying right here." He said and suddenly she glared at him standing up. "I am the leader, not you." She said walking passed him leaving the three of them speechless. "Determined she is, must not get in her way for our sakes. Problem she is having." Mordin said. "I managed to fix her hand up while she was out of it. She has a new robotic hand." Jacob said as Qrow nodded. "Thanks."
Serenity made it to the cockpit where Mangle was sitting along side Hans. "We heard you screaming. Again." Mangle said clipping her toe nails. "I hope I'm not getting crazy." Serenity said. Medusa then walked up behind them and sat on an open chair in the cockpit. "Girls." She said. "Grandma." Serenity replied. "Oh hey! It's my future grandma in law!" Hans said smirking. Medusa gave him a stare and looked back to Serenity. "We need to have a talk about what powers you got inside you. With your black blood, it's going to make them more devastating and it could pose a risk to your life and others lives." She said. "I know what I'm doing." Serenity told her as the two of them had an exchanged glare. Serenity however then hugged Medusa. "I'm glad your back though." She said.
"Me too." Medusa said hugging her back sighing. "There is one thing that you can now use with the power you have with nature elements. I can help you use something called a Kagune. First and foremost, this power is difficult and yet not as powerful as your other powers it can be increased in time." Medusa told her putting her hands together and pushing her hand on Serenity's chest sending an unknown spell into her. "This is going to unlock it. Us with black blood can use this ability, All your sisters have it and with this war, I'm going to have to teach them all." She said to her. "Now I will say not all of your sisters probably can use this. My mother did, yet my children and my sisters did not." Medusa told her.
Serenity felt something weird inside her clutching her back trying too. "Don't, let it happen." Medusa said as Mangle and Hans watched this in amazement. "Do I got this?" Mangle asked. "No, you are half robotic so it wouldn't fully work. Some of your other sisters probably couldn't do this like Serenity can. Since she has these other abilities I can sense in her, she can utilize this with more ease." Medusa said.
"Think of this like a predatory organ, that can function like a weapon. Now you can summon it you won't have it on you twenty-four seven." Medusa said to Serenity. "It's going to be the color of crimson red, like blood." She said. "With this power, you are going to be more resilient and increase in power and speed." She said to Serenity holding her finger up. "Knowing your other abilities this will just add on to it if you activate all your abilities, yet I will warn you, this is going to strain you and your body and powers a lot if you activate all your abilities at once unless- well I can sense the Sage mode in you." Medusa said frowning. "Yet do not let this get in your mind you are invincible, no one is." She told her.
"Now how this works? Our curse is we have to eat sentient species flesh, especially the liver. It contains cells like all organisms do but when we eat them with our black blood curse, it mixtures in making cells that we use for our own powers and speed. A special ability we can create is of course, the Kagune." Medusa told her. "The spell I used on you is going to determine if you can use it or not and I'm watching your eyes, your eye lids are having red veins appear. You can indeed use this power." Medusa told her. "You are going to focus on summoning your Kagune and how you do this is you concentrate your own blood flow with your blood element ability." She told her.
Serenity stared at Medusa and soon she put her hands together. "What the hell are you doing?" Medusa asked. "Summoning it I think." Serenity said. "Oi girl! You got to focus on your mind!" Medusa yelled. "Sorry, I'm new to this!" Serenity shouted back. "Just concentrate." Medusa told her calmly getting frustrated.
"The cells you got will form into this power. However, in our lineage, everyone's Kagune is different as it depends on how your cells want to work out inside of you. The Kagune will come from your back, the top to the bottom. or the top middle or the bottom middle, it isn't known how or where it will come out. It can be complete or it can be limited." Medusa told her. "Through training it and focusing your new abilities with it, perhaps it can make it already to a higher stage than others." Medusa said to her. "This can act like a weapon but what it does? I have no clue for everyone's are different in our lineage."
"When did this start in our history?" Serenity asked still focusing. "A very long time ago before my mother and her mother was born. My mother is known to have this, but not my sisters and my children. But you girls I'm sure to have it as you are showing signs of it right now. It's a special gift only randomly selected in our family." Medusa told her. "If you over use it, it will disappear as it will need replenishing with sentient flesh. Unless you use your energy power to perhaps gain the nourishment it needs from nature. It is going to depend on how this even comes out." Medusa told her.
Serenity suddenly began to squat over feeling something happening. Suddenly the back of her pants started to push out as from her tail bone of the bottom part of her back began to merge and suddenly a long whip-like tail sprouted out. A lizard-like tail. "And there you have it!" Medusa said smiling. Mangle and Hans both leaped away from Serenity in shock. "Ah!" Mangle yelled. "Dude you got a tail like me!" Hans said as he was a Neko species.
Qrow ran in. "What- what the hell? He yelled looking at his mother. "You didn't! You taught her that!" Qrow shouted. "She is strong enough to use it without stress to her body." Medusa said crossing her arms. "It's up to her now what its abilities can do." She said. Serenity's Kagune tail slowly whipped around slightly as she was learning to control it. It was a long tail at that and thick with crimson like glow to it as the blood with it slowly moved on its own like stuff inside a lava lamp inside of it. "This is freaky." Serenity said. "How do I undo it?" She asked before thinking of it and focusing the power suddenly seeped away back into her body and the veins around her eyes suddenly disappear. "Oh." Serenity said. "Well, that's actually easy!" Serenity said.
"No, it is not." Medusa assured her. "Through time you are going to get annoyed by it until you master it." She said walking off but then Qrow grabbed her shoulder. "You teaching her that could be the worst thing you ever did." Qrow said whispering to her. Medusa then whispered back. "If we are going to win this war? We need advantages." She said to him. "I'm going to see if the rest of Dray's daughters can use this power. When we reach Hoth? Take Serenity and others with her while I talk to the girls on the ship and get them together to test it." She told him walking off as Qrow glared at her.
"You hate me, don't you. You always hated me." Qrow told her as Medusa stopped walking but then suddenly kept walking not saying a word.
Serenity sat back down thinking on what just happened as Mangle sat back on her chair controlling the ship. "Creepy dude." Mangle said. Hans sat back down too. "I think it's cool! A tail like blood like power and all." He said. "Yeah well shame, I can't get it." Mangle said. "Wonder who else in your family can make some odd blood power things on there back." Hans said to her. "It's going to help win this war then we should accept our families true abilities." Serenity said to them both. "So how do you feel that it made you a tail and not wings?" Mangle asked. "I can already fly with six path sage mode." Serenity told her.
"You got wings?" Hans asked. "Uh, think of it like standing on air." She told him. "You're full of air..." Mangle mumbled as Hans just laughed loud.
"Little Mangle." Serenity said making Mangle frown. "Don't call me little Mangle dude, we are the same height. Five foot six." She said. "We are all almost the same height, us and our sisters." Serenity said to her. "True. I'd be surprised if one of our sisters was like fat or tall." Mangle said. "Which won't happen as we are all built the same and black blood will allow us that." She said. "Our uncles are different heights like our dad." Mangle said blinking. "We are just special." Serenity told her. "Your special alright." Hans said smirking. "Was that a put-down?" Mangle asked. "Yup!" He said and soon she laughed with him.