Chapter 10: Accidents
Annnnnnnd we're back, I don't really have anything witty to say soooooo, story time.
"Easy! This isn't chilly powder, you drop the case you're likely to blow yourself up." Carmine snorted "Would hardly be the first time." he muttered, Cinder gave him a weird look then decided to get back to the task at hand. The pair stood on top of the school roof in the middle of the day, Carmine held a small metal chest with the Schnee Dust Company logo printed on the side, he set the case down and opened the lid revealing rows of vials fitted into individual slots each one containing a type of powdered Dust.
Cinder kneeled down and carefully lifted a vial full of bright Dust, uncorking the top she placed two fingers over the top and moved it swiftly upward, seemingly of it's own accord the Dust flowed outward in a stream of gleaming particles and floated around the girl's hand weaving in between her fingers in a beautiful display. Carmine fixed his glowing eyes on the material completely mesmerised "The most basic principle in the raw usage of Dust." Cinder said looking curiously at the man, he acted as though he'd never even seen the stuff before "Is being able to exert your will over it, through your aura you alter its state make it do what you want to do. Now, try to take it from me using only your will."
The Dragonborn's face was blank, a well practiced, very effective, unbreaking blank, too bad his brain was screaming. YOU DON'T HAVE AN AURA, DON'T GET YOURSELF KILLED! QUIET!. He silenced his own thoughts; I need to know, there's always a way to find out what I want to know.
He stretched out his left hand and cast a telekinesis spell, the fortunate thing about this was he had trained himself to cast many spells without the telltale flash of light. The very very very unfortunate thing was in his infinite wisdom he forgot how violent the pull was on that particular spell, the dust ripped away from his instructor's hand mashing into a ball in front of him, his eyes widened in terror when he saw the fire start and he just had time enough for a single thought to cross his mind, you're a vampire you imbecile.
The Dust ignited exploding outwards and engulfing the man while throwing Cinder to the ground, Cinder's ears split when he screamed, not just a scream though, it was the most horrible nightmare inducing, discombobulating, inhuman screech she had ever heard. It cut off abruptly and her eyes opened to reveal a green light zooming towards her, the spell washed over the briefly one time instructor and she stiffened as if frozen then subsequently passed out on the ground.
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Ozpin almost jumped into the ceiling when he heard the scream, he was walking along one of the hallways near the dorms when that noise made every door in the school open revealing terrified and heavily armed students. He took off like a bolt of lightning with several of the huntsmen in training scrambling along behind, he navigated the corridors and doorways with an expert purpose already knowing where exactly in his school the noise had come from, he rushed up a flight of stairs heading for the correct rooftop. He sprinted up the stairs the footsteps of the group behind him fading as they bottlenecked into the narrow entryway, he clambered up and arrived at the roof entry drawing a blade out of his cane he kicked the door open and held it ready in front of him.
The situation on the roof was….delicate, a massive star shaped line of soot spread from the center of the rooftop along with what appeared to be the remains of some sort of box, a few feet away to his right lay a student, not one of his, she wore the now dirty uniform of Haven academy, she lay seemingly paralyzed on her side completely unmoving. Ozpin recognised Carmine, but only because it couldn't have been anyone else, nobody he knew could have looked like that, as for the "elf" himself he squatted off to the left of the carnage quivering. His wings hung limply from his back and touched the ground, wings he did indeed have due to his change, the moment the Dust had detonated he had shifted into the form of the Vampire Lord entirely by age old reflex.
He growled and twitched with his back to the door, he cradled his left arm, the normally green skin was blackened and charred, his weakened blood boiled in the sunlight, bubbling and steaming as it leaked from his arm, his fingers had a bony look to them with middle one little more than bone and a raw red muscle holding it together, he couldn't see out of his left eye. He'd only experienced pain like this once before in his punished and bloody life and that had involved a dragon's maw wrapped around his leg and leaking corrosive dragon's blood.
"Carmine?" He whipped around growling furiously at the voice, Ozpin took a step back gripping his sword tightly, his cane sheath in his other hand. Carmine stood shakily, his wings folding up into his back still clutching his arm, he turned away slowly started walking towards the edge of the roof, a black smog engulfed his body as his already impaired vision blurred. "Carmine? What are you-?" his form shrank into his elven form he stepped to the very edge "Carmine? Be caref- Carmine!" Ozpin gaped as the man tumbled off the roof, he ran to the edge and leaned over trying desperately to see, to know. He looked over just in time to notice the tentacle at the bottom of the drop disappear into a black void, a limp figure wrapped in it's embrace.
"Uh, Oz? What happened?" Ozpin didn't even bother to turn around to see Glynda, he just waved his hand in the unconscious girl's direction "Take her to her dorm….I need to have a chat with someone." not a single one of the students who came streaming out the door took notice of the massive arena floating into the sky….
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"Oh my boy….what has the universe done to you now?" Hermaeus wrapped his appendages around his son and dipped him into the inky pool in a lying position, the liquid crawled over the man in thin streams perfectly outlining his veins and musculature. A fluid shell formed over his arm and the side of his face, a relieved groan escaped from his mouth as slowly the water did it's work.
The daedric prince's godly hearing took notice of the hallucinogenic mutterings the injured man emitted "I need to keep looking….I need her back….I need to have…...must keep looking." The lord of fate's many eyes widened and he spoke quietly to himself "You stopped, you told me you stopped looking….oh Carmine my champion….my brave Little Seeker….haven't you learned yet? Nothing in the universe, can bring back the dead….."
Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it, I find myself eager to finish this for some reason, I have an idea for a more conventional RWBY fanfic so keep an I out for the finish, the days of Consumed are numbered now and the chapters are going to be longer from here on out, ROCK ON!