"Make a canon character OP and no one bats an eye, make an OC OP and everyone loses their minds." –ProAJ13.
I couldn't help but notice that this is normally the case and just thought I'd put it here… cause I can…
This chapter… not my finest work, but I couldn't find a way to do it any other way. I really don't like it, but I can't see it doing what I need it to do if I do it any other way.
So this won't be the last chapter. I suddenly had a last minute idea and it's going to require another chapter or two… maybe three… I'm just gonna stop giving you guys early warnings, since I keep ending up being wrong with them. I'll just tell you what the last chapter is when we get to the last chapter, k?
So I know this is a weird time to do this, but I want to try this. I'm going to respond to two reviews real quick.
First we have "n2000nick".
Yes, the bipod knife is glorious isn't it? XD About time somebody mentioned that reference!
And last we have "Master thief Gray Shadow".
POINT AND LAUGH!
Seriously though, immature (What is this? The Youtube comments section?), pointless, no effort what so ever. I mean, I've never seen someone do so badly at being a stupid and pointless flamer! XD Even if I was allowed to remove reviews (which I still want to be able to do), I don't think I would remove this one! Instead, I would laugh at the lack of effort that went into it every time I look at it! Yur bad, kid. Git gud.
Alright, now that my rant is out of the way…
I hope you all have been enjoying this story! I'll leave anything else I have to say for the end AN.
Except this: GORE WARNING.
The song is 'Niwakaame Nimo Makezu' by 'NICO Touches the Walls'. I do not own or claim to own the song please don't sue me. Listen to the minute and thirty second version and not the full version.
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 the second stage, with their eyes closed, and 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, and Aiden went into his second state and charged to meet them as the song came to an end.
Team SPWM Volume 2
A RWBY Fanfiction
Something was keeping Raymond from passing out, despite how he felt. He had passed out from less Aura exhaustion than this, and yet he was still conscious. He wished he wasn't. He didn't want to be forced to watch his best friend die in front of him. He hated whatever was keeping him awake right now.
At first he could see tears fall from AJ's face because of the pain, and this was the first time he had seen AJ cry in the years he had known him. Then, AJ started sobbing and shaking as he started really crying, like he was sad about something, and Raymond could guess what it was.
AJ's hands were around the sword as his head was down, staring at the sword and at his own blood. Or at least he would be staring at it if his eyes weren't tightly shut.
AJ stood in a clearing in a forest. It was silent, no sound whatsoever coming from the surrounding forest, and there was a strange mist inside of the forest that wasn't in the clearing. He was staring at the ground while he was facing towards the forest, away from the center of the clearing.
"Well, I guess I didn't die a virgin, so there's that." He said to himself depressingly. "Not that I would have cared if I did, but still…"
He knew that he was inside his own mind, though he didn't know why he knew that.
"Damn it!" He shouted angrily and looked up, but the mist blocked his view of the sky, if there was one in here. "Why me!? Seriously! I figured with my luck that something nice like love was something I was doomed to lose, but come the fuck on! Did you have to kill me too!? WHO THE FUCK AM I EVEN TALKING TO AT THIS POINT!?" He stomped the ground angrily until he was just panting angrily. "I guess with my luck it was only a matter of time… Of course it was me! I seem to be cursed or something!" He yelled upwards again. "Well! I guess I have all the time in the world to question why the hell I kept living when I'm doomed to HAVE EVERYTHING TAKEN AWAY FROM ME!" He screamed, then stopped talking because his throat was hurting. With nothing else to do he began venting by angrily swinging at the air around him, which eventually made him turn around and look at the middle of the clearing.
That was when he saw a strange floating mirror.
He walked up to it and looked at himself in the mirror, and what he saw was something he hadn't seen in what felt like years.
He saw himself, his old self. The AJ that he was used to seeing, the one that lived on Earth.
The hair was still light brown, but he had no cat ears. He saw that his tail was missing at well. He had a plain green shirt on and camo pajama pants on. He was still just as tall and just as thin, since that didn't change when he was forced onto Remnant. He was barefoot, letting him feel the grass beneath his feet. His face remained the same, but his eyes were back to the color he was familiar with. Such a dull green they were almost grey.
He was powerless, he had nothing, he had no Semblance, he had no strength. He was so weak compared to how he is on Remnant. This is just how he was on Earth, and he was normal back then.
He would rather go back to that time when he was nothing then be here now.
"I had some theories about the afterlife…" He deadpanned at his reflection. "None of them were being trapped in your own mind… How boring…"
He suddenly heard a growl behind him and turned around slowly.
"Well, less boring now." He said as he looked at himself.
Only, it was his Remnant self. The one with actual strength, cat ears and a tail, yellow eyes, hair, clothes, and armor. The one with sharp teeth and claws. The one that is currently crouched in front of him and growling at him, clearly about to kill him.
"This didn't happen last time." He noted, confused. He didn't really fear his feral variant of himself, since he was already dead.
"Not… dead… yet." The feral AJ growled out.
"Oh! You can talk! Huh…" AJ exclaimed, then assumed a thinking position as information was seemingly given to him.
"Soooo… you are the manifestation of my Semblance… you are going to kill me and take over my body, and then kill Aiden?" The feral AJ did not answer him. "You can take over my body if you want, but we're going to bleed out in awhile." He said casually as he sat down on a rock that wasn't there before. "You don't have to kill me, go ahead! Take it! I'll just sit here and wait while you fail."
Apparently that was the wrong thing to say as the feral AJ lunged at him, and he just barely rolled out of the way. The roll was a failure and he had to get up after it, only he couldn't because his opponent had cut his left arm open with his claws.
'Great. I'm useless little me from Earth, so I can't fight this thing.' AJ thought as he tried to get up from his other self, which was slowly stalking towards him as he crawled away.
"What? You gonna kill me!?" AJ yelled at it. "As far as I'm concerned, I'm dead already!"
The other him clawed his leg open.
"AH! Just… take my body!.. You don't have to kill me for it!" AJ cried out.
The feral AJ stopped before it could strike the fatal blow as it looked off into the distance, like it realized or heard something. "Kill… you… later…" It suddenly ran into the mist and left the clearing.
AJ stopped moving as rested his head against the ground, looking towards where the other him disappeared off to. "Just do whatever you want…" He said depressingly. "I won't be able to keep my promise to Blake, and I won't be able to see her again, so it doesn't matter anymore…"
As Raymond watched his friend helplessly, he looked at AJ's teeth, which were grinding together because of the pain he was in. What he saw scared him, AJ's teeth were getting sharper, even the canine teeth that got sharper when he became a Faunus got sharper and longer. AJ stopped crying, and stopped sobbing and whimpering, but he kept shaking, but not because of crying, but because of pure rage.
To everyone's surprise, AJ somehow had the Aura to go into stage two again. But he didn't just go into stage two, he went as far into it as you could go.
"GrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
AJ's sobbing turned to growling as electricity started shooting out of his body in every direction at full power.
"GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
Aiden's didn't even try to hide the terror etched all over his face as he came to the conclusion that AJ had a lot more Aura than he did. He had enough Aura to use his Semblance, so he let go of the sword in AJ's chest to teleport away.
Without even looking up from the sword, AJ's hands moved almost at the speed of light and his claws stabbed deep into Aiden's shoulders, so deep that AJ's hands were inside him and the claws were just barely sticking out the other side.
Aiden cried out in pain, then froze in terror as AJ finally tilted his head up at him and saw the pure rage in his yellow eyes.
"GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
Aiden cried out in pain and his whole body convulsed as the electricity finally broke through his Aura and he started being electrocuted.
Once AJ had electrocuted him to the point of almost death, he kept going, but he also opened his mouth, stood up, bit down, and with a jerk of his head, tore out Aiden's throat.
Electricity finally stopped flowing out of him as he watched Aiden's body fall, the blood quickly forming a pool around him.
AJ spin out the flesh and blood that was in his mouth onto Aiden's corpse before letting out a victory scream, at the top of his lungs, into the sky, another massive burst of lighting shooting out of him as he did so. He pulled the sword out of his chest with a grunt of pain, then used his claws to tear at Aiden's chest until he was covered in his opponent's blood. He then let out another scream and burst of Aura, before he stopped moving, his eyes rolled back, and he collapsed unconscious. The overuse of Aura and his own wound had finally caught up with him.
The three boys from Earth that were still awake now wished they could remove the scene from their memory.
"Did AJ seriously just do that!?" Sam asked in total shock.
"Go! Save him!" Raymond heard the voice of the angel that sent them to Remnant speak to him.
"Fuck that! Is he still alive!?" Raymond asked after his head suddenly cleared and he ran up to check on their leader.
"He is, yes, but not for long." A female voice said. The voice seemed to echo out from the forest, the echo making it seem sort of angelic.
Suddenly massive vines shot out from the forest and wrapped up each of the boys from Earth that were still breathing.
Of the four, the three that were conscious began to struggle, but to no avail as they were severely weakened by their fights. The vines lifted them up off the ground.
"It's weird to see your own blood, and yet not see it coming out of you." AJ commented to himself. "Like, seriously, that feral me really cut me up! But I guess since this is my mind I don't actually bleed, I guess? Meh, doesn't matter." 'I'll be dead soon anyway, since I am bleeding out in the real world.' AJ thought as he continued to lie in the grass inside his own mind. Not even that fact surprised him at this point, though it did kind of annoy him just because it was so weird and random.
Yeah, he would much rather go back in time and deal with a world that made sense than the one he was in right now.
Suddenly his eyes widened as more information was seemingly given to him.
Then just as suddenly, the feral him came tumbling back into the clearing from where it left.
"So you are the reason I was able to use my Semblance for so long?" AJ asked the other him.
"Would… have used me… longer…" The feral AJ growled as it stood up and glared at him. "But… you're body… can't handle… the use of me… yet."
"And it won't be able to, since I/we are bleeding out." AJ said casually.
This angered the feral AJ again as it went to lunge at him. Before it could pounce on him however, it suddenly clutched its chest in pain and collapsed onto its back.
AJ chuckled, seeing the other him was lying on its back in pain, just like he was. 'My wound finally caught up with him, huh?'
"Well, I guess I'm back to hating life now." AJ deadpanned as he rested his head and looked up. "Though I won't have to deal with life for much longer."
"Not… done…" The feral AJ fought through the pain and stood up slowly. "YET!" And jumped out of the clearing again, claws out and ready to fight.
"Geez, what's with him?" AJ asked no one with a humorless chuckle. "I'd admire his stubbornness if I gave a shit anymore…"
"Who are you?" Raymond asked weakly.
"That's not really important, is it?" The voice commented from the forest. "But since you are going to die, I'll tell you anyway."
A woman approached from the forest, riding on a moving vine that was large enough to hold her. She had flowing dark brown hair, which had green leaves and twigs inside it. Her dress was made of leaves, intertwined into a flowing dress. The leaves of her dress were the vibrant colors you would expect of leaves during the season of Fall, making for a beautiful sight. Her eyes were as vibrant and full of color as the leaves of her dress.
There was no mistaking she was an Angel, for she had a pair of angel wings. What was interesting was how the wings seemed to be made out of vibrant colored leaves, just like her dress, rather than feathers.
Finishing off the look with her beautiful face, she looked like a beautiful goddess of nature.
Only she currently looked very displeased with them.
"I am the Angel of The Forest." The woman said. "And seeing as you are an Angel's warriors, I am going to get rid of you now."
"Wait! Wait!" Isaac said quickly. "Why!?"
"Why what? Why am I going to help you get on your way to the Angel of Death?" The Angel asked.
"Well if you're going to answer our questions, you could answer why your voice is echoing while our Angel's voice wasn't." Sam deadpanned.
The Angel gave out an exasperated sigh and pinched the bridge of her nose. "So you're Angel ignored the rules for how we're supposed to behave around you?" The boys simply raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Alright! Fine! Great!" She said angrily. "What's the point of rules if we aren't going to follow them!?" She took a moment to calm herself down before turning back to them.
"So, before I kill you, what questions do you have?" The Angel asked them. There was still a hint of annoyance in her tone.
"Why are you going to kill us!?" Sam asked.
"The Angel you work for, did she tell you why you're doing this? Why she sent you here?" The Angel asked.
"Well, AJ guessed that we were supposed to get rid of the evil relic on this world and find the Angel Relic." Raymond said.
"Well, getting rid of evil would be an Angel's job, if we hadn't been forbidden from interfering with the worlds." The Angel said.
"Can you please explain everything to us?" Raymond requested.
"Everything? No. I'm going to kill you after this and I don't really want to waste that much time on you." The Angel answered. "I'll tell you the simple version: We Angels used to have to find our relics, destroy the Demon Relics, and kill demons. However, there was a massive war between demons and angels, and both sides somehow reached the agreement to just leave all the different worlds alone after the war and the many loses that both sides suffered.
The Angels had simply gone back to doing what they were supposed to do. Many Angels didn't have much to do, while some, like the Angel have Death, had jobs to do. He speaks to all the dead before sending them to Heaven or Hell. I take care of the forests of the worlds, as well as I can at least, before humans come along. At that point, I'm supposed to let them figure things out on their own. If they end up destroying the forests, that's their fault, not mine!
I don't know why I'm telling you this part, but some Angels got tired of sitting around and doing nothing while other angels were still able to be in other worlds as long as they only did their job and didn't interfere with anything. So…" She seemed hesitant to speak any further. "Those angels… got jealous of, and tried to kill, those angels that still had jobs…"
"""What!?""" The guys were understandably shocked.
"Once angels started dying in that war, angels were forbidden from using any more than 20% of their powers, and we absolutely could not fight each other in any way. Now we simply sit and watch the worlds go on their own." The angel continued hesitantly, since it was a difficult thing for her to talk about. "We angels that had jobs were just barely able to get their jobs done. Luckily the worlds balance themselves enough without us… well… at least some of them do…"
"Why would you trust the demons to keep their promise!?" Raymond asked, confused.
"I don't know, honestly." The angel said sadly. "We don't even keep an eye on the worlds to make sure they aren't going anything. Although, if there was any demonic or angelic energy in a world, the two relics on the world would come out of their dormancy. If we were allowed to watch over the worlds, we would be able to watch for active relics to know if anything was going on in any world. Actually, even we angels have a hard time finding the relics, so that wouldn't be helping us that much either."
"Why are you here if you aren't allowed in the worlds?" Isaac asked.
"Like I said, I have a job, a duty, and because of that I am allowed to work here, in the forests of the many worlds." The angel answered. "I simply came across you four while I was working nearby."
"And what does this have to do with killing us?" Sam asked.
"Well, things had been pretty terrible for a long time after that war. However, some angels decided to make things worse for us. Since we can't interfere with the worlds ourselves, some angels made use of a tactic that we used a very long time ago, back when we openly fought demons… Warriors. We picked mortals and gave them some of our powers, and adding them all up together gave us an army to aid us in the fight against the demons. Some angels are trying to learn how to properly do this again, and are using these mortals to get the Angel Relics for themselves, giving them power that they can use to fight angels again."
"Wait… are you seriously saying…" Raymond was shocked, too shocked for words.
"Yes. The angel you work for is using you to get power so he or she can kill angels!" The angel answered.
There was silence for a while as they let that news sink in.
"So, I'm sorry, but once I felt angelic power in a mortal, I knew that I must kill you before any angels could be harmed." The angel said, and three more vines appeared, each of them with a sharp tip and shaped like a spinning drill. "I've wasted enough time talking as it is."
Raymond looked down, depressed. "Alright then, I guess it's better that we die then…"
"Wait!" Isaac yelled and the angel paused. "If you don't kill us, we'll just use our powers to destroy the Demon Relic and then we won't help her find the Angel Relic!"
She smiled sadly at them.
"I admire your willingness to be a good person, mortal. However, even people as good as you can be turned, so I'm afraid I must kill you. If it makes you feel better, I will carry out your wish. Even if I must break the rules, I will get rid of the relic for you."
"Guys, just stop." Raymond said. "It's better that we die than an angel." He mentally noted that AJ was still colored yellow despite no Aura coming out of him since he was unconscious.
The three closed their eyes and braced.
"You are good mortals, I will make your death quick." The angel said.
After those three pairs of eye closed, one pair of eyes opened.
AJ opened his eyes and found that his head was tilted back and he was staring up at the sky. He leaned his head forward and looked at the angel and the vines that we holding him and his friends. He glared at the angel and growled, causing the guys to open their eyes in surprise.
Electricity began flowing out of him again, and suddenly two blades of lighting formed in his hands, cutting the vines that were holding him. He landed and glared up at the angel and growled again. He jumped and spun in the air, cutting the vines that held his friends off the ground.
"Wait… Is AJ normal now or what?" Sam asked as they stood up after their unexpected landing.
"Well he saved us, so he must be in his right mind." Raymond answered.
"GRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
"Okay maybe not." Raymond added.
AJ suddenly stopped moving and collapsed again.
"You know what? You're coming back in here!" AJ yelled and pulled the feral version of himself back into the clearing.
The feral AJ growled at him and went to jump him, but it was suddenly held back by metal ropes and then trapped in a cage.
AJ walked up to the cage and looked at the other him as it growled at him.
"I just realized something… I may have no physical power in here, but it's my mind, so I still control things in here." He said to the him in the cage with a smirk. "I'm gonna die, sure, but I would rather die with me in control than you. At least I'll have won this last fight before I died."
"GRRRAAGH!" The feral AJ angrily lashed out through the bars of the cage.
"It was either have all that power that you gave me, but lose control over my body, or lose my awesome overpoweredness, but actually have control over my own body. The choice was pretty easy to make, really. And I'm never going to use you to give me an unusual amount of time with my Semblance again, since you'll just try to control me.
Who knows? After all that's happened, I almost believe a miracle could happen. Well, at least if I die, I die in control." He took one last look at the feral version of himself, still lashing out and attacking the cage it was trapped in.
"Could you not make so much noise inside my head?" He complained and rubbed his temples. "I would like to die with peace and quiet, if you don't mind."
*Thrashing about continues*
AJ realized he finally had something to take his anger out on and let all his anger build up inside him as he took a deep breath. He doesn't usually like to yell, but if he simply lets his anger get to him, he'll have something to let out that anger with, yelling.
"SILENCE!"
The feral him whimpered in fear at the loud noise and stopped thrashing.
"Thank you!" AJ said with a smile before sitting down and awaiting either a miracle, or death.
"Darn it!" The angel complained after AJ collapsed. "I am out of time as it is! If I stay any longer, I'm in trouble!" She pointed at the boys from Earth after she calmed down a bit. "I guess fate is on your side, I'll hold you to your promise then. One thing though… Which angel sent you here?"
"Umm… I think she said she was the Angel of The Elements." Raymond answered.
"Really!? Her!?" The Angel exclaimed, surprised. "It's a shame… she seemed so nice too… Thank you, mortals. Goodbye." The Angel said before turning to leave. "Farewell, Demon!" She said to the dark ruins.
"Love you too, sweetie!" The voice said back. "I'll miss you! Send a postcard?"
'The sarcasm is strong with this one.' Raymond mentally commented.
"Can you angels come a little bit closer?" The voice asked. "You know, just a little bit closer? So I can kill you? Come on! Just a little bit closer… move towards me…"
AJ's unconscious form lost the Aura radiating off of it. Everything of his that had turned yellow turned back to its original colors, bringing their attention back to him and away from the rambling demon.
"Alright, um… Sam, wash the… blood off him, will you?" Raymond requested.
Sam did as requested and used a soft stream of water to wash the blood off of him. Once they got past their disgust they moved towards their downed leader.
"Come on! Just move towards me!"
"Okay… I'll carry him, since you're tired, Isaac." Raymond said before picking up their leader.
"Thanks." Isaac said.
"But can you call for an extraction?" Raymond requested.
"Sure."
"Just move towards the sound of my voice!"
"Alright, good. Um… Sam, see if you can wake up Mr. Silber- Silbergru-… Mr. Slate." Raymond requested.
"I'm awake."
"You were awake!? For how long!?" Sam asked the Huntsman as he stood up slowly.
"It's not that difficult you stupid angels! Just move towards me!"
"Since just before the Angel came out. I figured I would play dead and hope she didn't notice me, and she didn't." Slate explained. "Which is weird. I'm surprised she couldn't tell that I was conscious."
"Are you alright after what Aiden did to you?" Raymond asked.
"Yeah, I'll live." Slate answered. Although he was telling the truth, he wasn't exactly standing up straight.
"You are so close! You would just have to take like, two steps towards me and then I'd be able to reach you!"
"Well let's head back to that clearing where we camped at so we can get out of here." Raymond said before they started walking.
"Would you all quit ignoring me!?" The voice cried out as they walked away.
"You know, you make a good leader, Raymond." Slate commented during their walk.
"Yeah, but AJ was made leader mainly because he's more willing to yell orders." Raymond responded. "I don't really like yelling, while he hesitates much less since his annoyance gets to him. Also, despite how angry he gets, he's surprisingly analytical in combat."
"I understand." Slate said. "When he feels orders need to be made, he won't hesitate to make them. I can see the importance in that."
Raymond kept a small purple energy wall right on top of AJ's wounds to try and block the blood from flowing out.
They eventually made it back to the clearing that they had slept at last night.
"Alright, now that we're far away from that place, we really need to stop the bleeding." Raymond said in a bit of a panic.
"I got this." Slate said before doing the best first aid he could perform on AJ's wounds. "How long till evac!?" Slate asked.
"I called for emergency medevac so they should be here in just a few minutes." Isaac answered.
"They better!" Slate said strongly. "He needs to get back to Beacon's medics as soon as possible! He doesn't have enough Aura to fix the wound right now!"
The flight back was stressful to say the least. They could only hope that they would make it in time.
"Is it wrong that I'm a bit glad it was him and not me?" Isaac asked sadly.
"No." Was Raymond's immediate response. "If he was awake right now, he would say it's only natural." He chuckled. "He probably wouldn't even be mad at you for it."
Blake was in tears when they came back and she saw him with a hole in his chest and his back.
The doctors were able to calm her once they gave him some blood and stitched up the wound before saying that his Aura is regenerating already and should be able to heal him soon. As far as they could tell, any vital organs were spared, and if they weren't, his Aura must have healed them earlier.
AJ opened his eyes a few hours later, and regretted it, cause it hurt like hell.
'Ow! Does that mean I'm still alive and a miracle happened?' He wondered.
His eyes eventually stopped hurting him and he opened them enough to see someone to his left, and he turned his head and saw Blake smiling at him with teary eyes.
"You're finally awake." She said happily.
He simply kept staring at her with his mouth partially open. He held his right hand out for her and she walked closer and took a hold of his hand. They stayed that way for a few moments before he let go of her hand and brushed his hand against her cheek. She looked at him strangely, wondering what he was doing. He ran his fingers through her hair, and then she realized what he was doing and smiled at him. He pressed two of his fingers against her lips for a moment before slowly pulling his hand away.
"Yes, AJ, I'm real." Blake said softly. "You're really here, you're not dead, I'm not dead, no one is dead." She said as she pressed her forehead against his and stared into his eyes.
There was a pause after she said this before he wrapped his arms around her suddenly and hugged her tightly, even though the motion hurt his chest. She smiled and hugged him back for a bit before he hesitantly pulled his head away to look up at her, and she saw that he was tearing up.
"I need you to stay for awhile." He requested.
"I will, I promise." Blake responded.
"I hate to interrupt this, but you two aren't the only ones in the room." Yang pointed out.
AJ looked past Blake and saw that his team, Blake's team, and the JP of Team JNPR all nearby.
"I said this was too many visitors, but they wouldn't listen. Sorry." The female nurse in the room said from behind the group of people.
"Nora got bored of sitting in this room and Ren has to keep an eye on her as usual, in case you were wondering." Raymond said.
"So… I'm okay?" AJ asked them, unable to think of anything else to say. Also, his shyness was coming out from being the center of so many people's attention as he just lied there.
Raymond nodded. "Yep! Good old medical technology and your powerful Aura saved you!" He said with a smile.
"We were all really worried about you." Blake said. "But I'm glad you got to keep your promise."
"Me too." AJ said.
"I thought we went through some pretty crazy stuff when all the Grimm came into the city, but none of us were injured like you were." Jaune commented.
"We're all glad you're okay now though." Pyrrha said.
"Yeah!" Ruby agreed. "And thank you for keeping Isaac safe!"
"Yes. Thank you for keeping Sam safe." Weiss said as well.
"Hey! I helped too!" Raymond whined jokingly, getting a laugh from everyone.
"Alright! That's enough! He needs time to rest!" The nurse said. "Everyone please leave!"
"We'll talk later then, AJ!" Raymond said as he and the others left.
Once everyone left, the two Faunus looked each other in eyes before breathing a sigh of relief as everything finally started to calm down for both of them.
"This didn't turn out how I expected it to." AJ said suddenly and chuckled a little bit, even though it hurt. 'Thank you, whoever decided to let this miracle happen. Thank you so so much.'
"Did you really think you weren't going to make it?" She asked sadly.
"Not only was I dying, but I met the physical manifestation of my Semblance and it tried to kill me while I was inside my mind. So yeah, I was pretty sure I would die in there, or out here. Apparently it's a good thing I locked him up, otherwise when I woke up you would have been dealing with the feral version of me." He explained.
"You locked him up?" She asked as she gently rested her head on his chest and held his hand.
"Yeah. I realized I had control over him inside my mind, so I caged him, and I'm never going back in there." He answered. "I should still have my Semblance, but I won't be doing as much with it as I was in that fight."
"I guess you won both your battles then."
"Yeah. It was mind over matter against that feral version of me." He said, making her chuckle.
"You know, I actually am really tired. I'd like to go to sleep now." He said.
"Aww… I was hoping I could tell you what happened during our mission." Blake said sadly.
"You can do that in the morning, now come here." He said and motioned for her to join him.
She crawled into bed with him and snuggled up to him.
"Goodnight." She said sweetly.
"Goodnight." He responded. "Oh, and just because we're alone, and in a bed, doesn't mean you should get any ideas. I would like to sleep, so behave, okay?"
"Oh don't worry, I'll behave." She said.
*Grope*
"Hey! That's not behaving!" He exclaimed and blushed.
She giggled at his response. "Sorry, couldn't help it." Then finally calmed down and they both fell asleep.
The next morning she woke up, saw he was asleep, and slipped out of bed… only to feel his arms wrap around her waist and pull her back into bed, as well as feeling his tail wrap around her legs.
"Please, don't go yet." He pleaded.
He was still afraid after being so certain that he was going to lose her.
"Alright. Alright. I will, don't worry. Nothing is going to happen to me AJ, or you." She said comfortingly. "We're fine, we're safe here."
"I know. I'm sorry." He said as he held her tightly.
"Don't be, your behavior is totally normal. I would do the same if I were in your position." She said.
"Just a little bit longer and I'll let go, okay?"
"No, take as long as you need. I was pretty shaken up after seeing you yesterday, so I want to stay close to you too." She said softly and kissed him.
He was so happy to be able to kiss her again.
Aura being as awesome as it is, the Faunus team leader was well enough to leave later that day…
…only for his entire team to be called up to Ozpin's office.
"So, now that your team is together and has gotten a bit of rest, what happened?" Ozpin asked the team from Earth that was standing in his office.
"Well… that's quite a lot to explain, sir…" Raymond started.
"I already know that Aiden attacked one of his teammates before fleeing." Ozpin said.
'Cinder's team probably claimed that Aiden just attacked without reason, so us telling what Aiden told us won't mean anything since he's dead by my hands.' AJ thought.
"Raymond also told me what happened to Aiden." Ozpin added as he looked at AJ, who showed no real reaction to what was said.
"Then you know that Aiden tried to kill AJ." Raymond said, getting a nod from the Professor. "Did Slate tell you what the angel said?" Another nod. "Then what exactly do you need to know?"
"Everything, from your point of view." Ozpin answered. "Just to confirm everything."
They went on to explain everything that had happened, everything the angel and demon had said to them, what Aiden had done, everything they understood about anything at this point.
"So," Ozpin started. "What we understand from the angels is that long ago, who knows how long that really was, they used to fight with the demons across every world in the universe."
"I'm starting to think it might by multiverse." AJ cut it.
"You believe in the multiverse theory?" Ozpin asked.
"I'm starting to." AJ answered. "Though apparently the angels guarded the entire multiverse from the demons from what we've been told."
"Yes. It seems that when that war ended, both sides agreed to leave the universe alone." Ozpin continued. "Despite that angel you met recently saying that it was from loses on both sides, I theorize that it's also because the war was destroying the entire battlefield that they fought on. We don't know how powerful these beings are, but if they can travel across the universe, or multiverse, then I wouldn't be surprised if they destroyed entire worlds in their war.
What we do know is that they both stopped fighting each other, or at least they stopped using the worlds as battlegrounds. With both sides agreeing to stay off the worlds, with a few exceptions apparently, some angels had no purpose. Apparently the angels are prone to jealously and a need of purpose, because they started killing each other.
That war eventually ended, but they couldn't make the fighting stop by giving them their freedom. That would have broken the treaty and the multiverse would have been a battleground again. No, they had to do it the hard way, by apparently taking away the angels' abilities to fight each other in any way. The angels are only going to grow more frustrated, but at least now the fighting will have stopped.
However, all of these events seem to be ancient history compared to what is happening right now. An apparently ancient practice of giving mortals angelic power and making them their warriors is being used to find the Angel Relics. These relics will give the angel power, though how that power will help them kill angels again, we don't know. I assume the power of the relic must bypass their lock on their powers and let them fight again."
"That's the only reason I could think of at least." AJ added.
"I don't understand what else the relics could do either." Ozpin said to him. "Although, we hardly know what the relics do at all. We are messing with forces that we simply do not understand." He paused for a moment in thought before looking at them. "The school staff will not be hearing about any of this. No one but the five of us present in this room, and Mr. Silbergrau, will know about any of this angel business."
"Where is Slate anyway?" AJ asked.
"He never sticks around at the academy." Ozpin answered. "Though as far as I know he is not on a mission right now, so if he is needed I will call on him."
"Alright then." AJ said.
"You may leave now. Be safe." Ozpin said and dismissed them.
As they stepped out of the elevator AJ felt someone grab his hand and he turned to see Blake had been waiting for them by the elevator door. She looked at him with concern as she felt that his hand was shaking slightly, but as he stared into her eyes and felt the softness of her hand he stopped shaking and smiled at her to calm her worries.
Alright this chapter has gone on long enough so I'm just gonna end it there. Actually the chapter was another 3000 words longer but then I realized that there was even more to go after that so I'm gonna cut the chapter here.
This is another one of those chapters that I just don't like, I certainly didn't like writing all of it. Though it's hard to like this when I'm finally starting to think ahead with my stories, and… well… I'm thinking far into the future of the story that all my fics are taking place in. Too bad it's going to take forever to get to the points I'm thinking of right now. I will continue to put as much effort as I can into all of this, of course. I certainly won't be running out of things to write for… dare I say a year? Yes, I dare say a year. (I might be pushing it a bit by saying a year, but I honestly am not too sure about that) And of course there are all the minor points I'll have to write between the events that I'm thinking of right now. I'll stop rambling now…
If you bothered to read this far… you are awesome and let no one tell you otherwise.
I don't like this fic's name very much anymore and want to change it. Suggestions?
So… that thing I did with Aiden? A little brutal, I'll admit. I had never killed off a character before, so that was interesting for me. (And then we still have the prophecy, which means I'm going to have to kill someone else as well… I guess this was just me testing myself and getting ready for when I have to do it with a main character) I see at least two ways of killing off a character: Dramatic, long winded, and emotional… Or quick, sometimes brutal, and without warning. Now I guess it was kind of easy to do with Aiden since we don't know him all that well, but still, I could have had him say his last words and we could have learned a bit about him before he died. Nope! I decided the without warning and brutal death was the way I wanted it to go with him, though I don't know why.
Hope you all or enjoying! And review or no review (you don't have to tell me, this chapter is shit, I know), have a great week everyone!
Also, totally random and not at all important question, do you guys like COD Zombies? Do you listen to the easter egg songs that you can find in many of the maps? No?
YOU SHOULD, BECAUSE DEATH IS MAGIC!