"No..." Black Star muttered, seeing Weiss impaled with the spear made by Cinder. Jaune ran over to her, and Black Star felt a rush of energy swelling inside him. "NO!" He screamed in rage as a faint blue aura pulsed on him before exploding into a flame of energy. All attention focused on Black Star, Cinder backing up when Black Star homed in on her, charging forward. He was cut off when a blade slashed in front of him. His explosive aura field blocked the brunt of the damage, but he was still flung away as he crashed into a pillar, causing the wood to fall on top of him.

Raven looked back. "Leo, open the path to the relic!" She yelled, Lionheart putting his pocketwatch in a statue which opened a path below.

Black Star's fist exploded from under the wreckage, the boy jumping up slightly and shook his head to see Cinder, Raven, and Vernal head down towards the Relic. "You won't get away from me!" He screamed, running for them when a chain wrapped around his waist and ranked him. He turned to see Emerald holding one of her weapons with both hands. Black Star grabbed the chain, ripping it towards him and out of Emeralds hands. He ran at her, fury in his veins when his eyes started to form a dark static in them.

Emerald focused, channeling an illusion but Black Star ran right through it. Before Emerald could react, Black Star planted his fist into Emeralds face sending her skidding back. She looked at him charging towards her with violent blue energy pulsing from his palms.

Black Star had an electric blast hit him to the side, turning to see Hazel hulked up. The two charged each other, Black Star jumping up to punch Hazel, but Hazel caught Black Star mid-air and slammed the boy down impacting the ground. Hazel turned to see Qrow running at him, sword at the ready when he threw Black Star into the Huntsman.

Black Star got back up and took a step when he wailed in fear, feeling himself slipping away as he went down to his knees.

"KID!" Qrow responded.

Black Star looked up at Qrow, his eyes black with red irisis, but showed fear and terror. "Go! Protect...OZ!" He said, waving Qrow away as small stones started floating around him as his energy spiked. "I'll...handle...this!" He said, black ooze coming from his eyes. Qrow nodded, knowing not to get involved.

Black Star grabbed his head, his head shaking when he heard a familiar voice in the dark corners of his mind as a cocoon of black and blue energy swirled around him.

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"Boy..." The deep voice stated. "Your soul...is MINE to consume."

"No..." Black Star replied, looking around at the bloody world he would see. "It's...It's not. I never asked for you our bond. This soul is MINE...and I want the rest of it back."

"Hmph." The voice stated. "Come find me. Come take it."

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The cocoon of energy died out, Black Star softly put his feet on the ground as he went down to his hands and knees as he felt himself burning. Opening his eyes, he saw his clothes actually were burning. He slapped the smolders on his clothes, putting the small fires out. He looked down, seeing a pool of black goo. His eyes widened, feeling his nose and feeling something. He pulled his hand away, seeing red blood on his hand. He sighed that it was normal blood...the bad part was how much blood there was. He got up, his muscles sore but working. He looked on to see Jaune with Weiss, pumping an odd energy into her through his hands. He also saw Hazel still fighting against Qrow and Ozpin, not Oscar. But he could also see how low their aura was.

"I'll find you...But not right now." Black Star muttered. "Got bigger things to worry about than some boogy man." He finished, grabbing is weapons. He limped over to Nora, Jaune, and Weiss. "Jaune...what's the plan?"

Jaune looked down at Weiss, then back at the battle at hand. "W-We need to take Hazel down, that's our first priority. Then we can worry about the...the relic." He said, then took another look at Hazel. "Nora, he's using electricity. Use it." He said, Nora nodding. "And Black Star...are you-?"

"I'm good." He said, a smirk on his face as he wiped the remaining blood away. He and Nora nodded at each other.

Black Star took out a red pellet, tossing it towards Hazel and getting the brutes attention.

Nora ran in, bringing her hammer down. Hazel side stepped, grabbing the girl by the leg and slamming her down and pumping her full of electricity. "How many more children must die for you, Oz?" Before he truly knew what was happening, Nora lifted his arm off her head, throwing Hazel away.

"His Semblance..." Ozpin stated. "He can block out pain, that's how he can inject himself with so much dust!"

Nora looked at Hazel already getting back up. "I don't need him to hurt. I just need him to GO DOWN!"

Black Star had an idea form in his head. "Remember Ruby during initiation?" Nora's response was a big grin.

Hazel looked back at Nora, seeing Black Star riding the side of her hammer. Nora fired, shooting the hammer forward and launching Black Star towards him.

Black Star planted both his palms into Hazel's face, crushing the fire and wind dust in hand during the process as Hazel was blown back and out the building.

"ADAM!" The group heard the familiar voice of Blake. Adam started rambling on like a madman, pulling out a detonator when the police arrived on the scene. But nothing happened.

Cracking his knuckles, Black Star decided to make the man's day worse. He ran forward, already knowing what to do. "HEY ADAM!" He roared, Adam turning just in time to see Black Star's fist connect with his face. "Miss me?" he asked, hearing Blake call his name surprised.

"Y-you..." Adam looked up to see the boy. "Your supposed to be DEAD. I KILLED YOU!"

Black Star huffed, looking at himself. "Really now? Cause I look and feel pretty damn alive." He said, bringing his fist into his hand.

Adam charged at Black Star, but he felt something wrap around his arm and turned to see Blake holding him in place. "KILL THEM ALL!"

Hazel nearly grabbed Black Star, when something went through his torso and yanked him back. Black Star felt the ground shake, but didn't think to hard on it at the moment. He and Blake shared a nod before Black Star ran into the crowd and putting down White Fang that dared raise their guns. But he was slowing down, getting weaker. His aura was already depleted, and pretty soon he was going to be down and out. But he kept going, fighting until the last remnants surrendered. He couldn't tell what had happened, or how long he had his injuries, but as he looked down, he saw himself riddled with slashes along his arms and legs, including bullet wounds when he fell back, hitting the ground in a thud as he felt the embrace of unconscious take over.

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Black Star woke up, opening his eyes slowly and looking around seeing everyone hunched over tired, beaten down, but victorious. He checked himself, seeing new bandages on him when he sat up and clenched his head. "Oh man...What were they feeding that guy?" He said, everyone turning around when Blake rushed up and embraced him. "Gah! Blake...my ribs..."

"I..." Blake said, teary eyed. "I thought he had..."

Black Star chuckled a little, pushing her off slightly. "It's like I told you, I always make it." He said, getting help standing. He turned slightly pale, stumbling when Team RWBY helped him stand. "So...you four are back together...where to?"

Weiss looked a bit nervous. "We're...heading back to Atlas." She said.

Black Star nodded. "After all the trouble we had...getting out?" He said sarcastically. But something bugged him in the back of his mind. His sword was last seen in Atlas, with the rest of his soul. The odds of it still being there were...well, about the same as Weiss finding it in the first place. "Well, my schedule is clear. So I just got one question. When do we leave?"