Sorry for the delay for some Chapters it's just that there is allot of content that I want to add in and I don't want to leave out of each one so some Chapters after this might take longer due to me just writing so much. Well that's it for now enjoy the chapter Das Vidanya!
Ared and Miria were walking through Emerald forest together trying to find their relic for the initiation so they could join Beacon Academy. They were in a conversation with each other getting to know each other as they walked.
"Ared?" Miria said.
"Yea" Ared said looking in her direction.
"Are…are you a Faunus?"
Ared was surprised "yea."
Miria looked at him with a confused look as if she was trying to understand him by looking at his face. "Why do you hide you Faunus heritage?"
Ared looked at the sky admiring the clouds "hide?" He brings his head down and show her his eyes are wolf like again "I don't hide it people just don't look hard enough"
"You lied to her too didn't you?" a voice came from behind him as he turned he reached for his sword but as he did it disappeared in a black mist. "Miria." he said as he turned about to tell her to run but as he did she as well disappeared in a black mist as did the whole forest around him the mist was so thick that he felt like he was going to choke on it but he realized he could breath. He looked around and saw he was in a rather familiar room before he could figure it out he looked to the ground and saw a man lying there dead blood pooling around the body. Ared realized at that moment and looked to the nearby doorway and saw the small black haired girl wearing a white silk dress she stared at him and he looked at her in fear. "That's what you do isn't it you lie to everyone." she said as she smiled making Ared try to step back but found his body wasn't responding. "And what's worse is that you began to believe them." She began to walk toward him as she did his body began to move now and he stepped back but as he did he tripped on the body and fell on the floor he looked at the small child and she had stopped moving forward and was now right in front of Ared.
"You kept telling yourself that what you were doing was going to help them. But they only ended up dead now you hide within your own head trying to lie once more to yourself." She said as she looked down at the body as Ared looked at the man's body he noticed that the man's face was not his own but it looked like Miria. "Stop…..no…...it can't be IT'S NOT REAL!" Ared shouted as the girl smiled and began to speak. "You're lying you're lying your lying your lying you're..LYING YOUR LYING!" Her voice getting louder each time she repeated it.
"SHUT UP!" Ared said in his head but as his real body was holding Ying by his throat choking him. "What is the real truth?" Ared spoke in a hushed whisper as he tossed Ying to the side and held his head and began to scream. Marcus who looked pretty banged up had charged Ared and tried to slash at him with his axes without the explosives on but as he swung Ared recovered from his screaming as he ducked and punched Marcus in the stomach knocking him back a bit. "Marcus!" Miria shouted as she watched him get countered by Ared but before she had time to think Ared turned to her and began to swing wildly with his sword at her she parried a couple but wasn't able to cover the sheer ferocity in his attacks. As Ared went to stab her in the heart a split second passed as a axe came straight at Ared and he used his sword and gauntlets to block the attack the axe was set on its max setting before it blew up Ying grabbed Miria and jumped away being tossed by the explosion as it blew up the axe with the devastation.
Marcus walked over to Miria and and Ying who were getting back up Miria looked at the black smoke that covered the street. She was about to shout Areds name when Marcus placed his hand on her shoulder. "Trust me this fight is far from over." he said as he got his weapon ready same as everyone else.
Soon the smoke was cut through and Ared was seen standing with a piece of Marcus's axe stuck in his shoulder. Ared reached up and grabbed it and pulled it out throwing it to the floor his wound began to heal up he looked to the wound seeing the blood drip off of his arm in little drops he looked at them and they slowly looked like a red leaf he looked up and saw he was in a red forest as he remembered it was the forever fall forest. He looked around and sure enough he saw the same child he had killed. "Why are you here?" Ared said as he looked at her in anger while she simply smiled and tilted her head. "You still don't get it do you?" she said with a small giggle before Ared grabbed her by her arms and looked her in the eyes with anger. "I just want to leave my past behind just leave me alone." As he said this the girl began to smile and laugh heavily her head looking toward the sky after a minute of laughing Ared stepped back and looked at her As she brought her gaze back onto him but she looked different her small dress was covered in a thick red color of blood coming from the center of her chest her hair was now disheveled and one of her eyes was missing. "You still don't get it this is all in your head I'm just a part of your imagination so the question is…" she said as she grabbed him by his throat with some unknown strength and couldn't pull her off of him. "..Why won't you leave yourself alone." she said as his vision began to blur.
Ared stood over Miria who looked to be even more hurt and was bleeding from her leg which looked like it was broken. Ared had lost his sword in the fight and was missing within the rubble around them. Marcus and Ying were fighting off Grimm who had drifted from the others. "Miria run!" Marcus shouted to Miria who was incapable of doing so. Ared raised one of the claw gauntlets and was about to slash Miria as he did he was blocked by Yang and punched in the chest sending him tumbling away Yang looked at Miria. "You alright?" Miria simply looked to Ared who was standing back up blood dripping out of his mouth. "We can't fight him we can't hurt him we can't fight at our fullest against him we don't want to hurt him.
Miria looked down and gripped her leg which was badly injured but was still able to hold a bit of pressure. "I know but if we don't hurt him we can't save him all we need to do is break through his aura then we can win." Yang said as she pumped her gauntlets. Miria looked back at Ared and saw a building behind him which looked like an old abandoned ice cream parlor. Miria stood up putting more pressure on her other leg and spoke. "Get him into that building and I'll lower his aura quickly." Yang nodded as she charged Ared who slashed at her but she blocked easily and punched him in the face making him step back Yang continued with a flurry of punches that made him keep stepping back. Before he was in the building she kicked him in the middle of his chest knocking the air out of him as he crashed into the back of the building. Yang looked back at Miria who was glowing again Yang nodded and and ran as she was going to help Marcus and Ying.
Ared walked forward catching his breath as he charged his gauntlets to fire a fireball as he shot it off Miria shot forward like a bullet cutting the the flame and slashing Ared side she landed on the wall behind him. "This is my semblance Ared Ricochet." She said as she jumped forward bouncing off of each wall each time delivering a slash to Ared who tried to block but was unable. Miria ended her onslaught by slashing his knees bringing him to the floor. Ared tried to get up but was unable he looked across the room and was surprised as in a small glint he could barely make out a couple words written on a chalkboard it was a menu but it was something he remembered when his mother promised him to bring him to one but he ran off. His head began to hurt as he slammed his arms into the ground sending out a large explosion of electrical power Miria was tossed out of the building.
Areds vision began to come back to him as the girl had let go of him he quickly got to his feet and saw that she had changed once again her body was beginning to show many different cuts on her body on her arms back and legs. She looked at him with anger. She was about to speak but was interrupted by Ared. "I get it!" Ared shouted making the girl stop and look at him with confusion. "Got what?" She asked as Ared looked at her and smiled. "I was so confused as to why you were the one I had brought into my head. Its because I felt I deserved some retribution for what I did to you and what I did to my friends so my thoughts manifested into you when I saw them die I thought it should have been me, I should have been in there place but I kept blameing it on myself but by doing so I ran away I ran into the farthest part of my mind." he said as he looked at her who had been staring at him for a few seconds before laughing making Ared confused. "What?" he asked as she finished laughing and sighed looking at the ground her body becoming normal again white dress and all. "You are such an idiot you know that?" she said as Ared nodded. "History is created by idiots."
Ared began to clutch his head and screaming as a pain shot through him as if a knife had just when through his head. Cinder on a rooftop far away saw him being surrounded by teams RWBY and team JNPR as well as the Marcus, Ying, and Miria. "I can't have him be taken so easily sadly Mercury please do the honors." She said as she began walking away and Mercury held out his scroll pointing it at Ared. "He was such a great pawn allowing us to set up the board perfectly." She said as Mercury pressed the button on his scroll.
Everyone looked to Ared as he held his head in agony they didn't approach as they were afraid that he would attack again. Marcus then saw a red light blinking on both claws and some mechanism were drilling into his arm he was confused before realizing. He ran up and quickly grabbed one of Areds arms and began to study it. "Marcus what are you doing?" Jaune said as Marcus tried pulling them off but it looked like it was hurting Ared even more. "The gauntlets their about blow up we got to got to get them off!" he said as everyone was surprised by this Miria and Ying ran up and tried helping with getting them off. "Their...stuck...on him." Miria said as she stopped pulling she looked around at everyone and didn't know what to do.
"Cut them off…...cut them off." Ared said as he looked up at Miria who was surprised that he spoke normally well as normal as he could have been. "Ying….hold my arms out….Marcus cut them off….don't worry I'll be fine." he said looking at them with complete certainty. They all looked at each other and did as instructed and walked up to him. "Everyone else...leave, please." Ared said as Miria began to speak up. "But!" Miria said before Ared spoke once more. "Please." he saw everyone leaving because they understood why he told them to leave.
The light began to blink faster and faster. "Hurry do it." he said as Ying pulled out Areds arms because Ared didn't have the strength to even move a finger. Marcus lifted his axe and spoke. "I'm sorry." Marcus said as his axe came down.
"That's my line." Ared said as everything went red then fading into black.