Chapter 35 – The Spectre's Shroud...
(Yes I changed the chapter name, this was a better name than The Spectre Vs. Mr Hyde...Enjoy!)
Hyde
The howls of Hyde echo throughout the Emerald Forest, along with the booms of a body being thrown through the trees themselves. The sound of tonnes of wooden towers collapsing as they smash each other into them is haunting, like thousands of monsters battling at once and suffering endlessly.
A body is launched straight through a tree, blowing shards of timber across the grassy landscape; he bounces and tumbles across the soil. His cybernetic hand transforms into the hook, and he stabs the hook downwards into the soil to decelerate. The Spectre grits his teeth as he scrapes across the soil, standing back up with his other metal hand clenched into a fist. The cannon built into his arm folds out and activates, charging dust through it and into the firing mechanism. The Spectre's aura is now fully recharged as he prepares to battle with the rage-fuelled spirit that controls Kassius.
The Spectre is also wearing the armour that belongs to Kassius, modified to carry the Acolytes of Lien symbol on the chest plate. Which most likely pisses Mr Hyde off even more just by seeing this guy wearing his host's armour.
His eyes focus across the field and the smashed over trees, the birds flutter from the safety of their canopies when hearing the terrifying demonic roar from Hyde. Kassius is stood there across the forest from him, the burning hot scars still splayed out across his torso, arm and face as Hyde has taken over the body. His shirt is ripped open and the coat on the ground with the shirt, and his hat is somewhere else, thrown from his head during the crash.
Nora groans with pain, pressing her hand against her head with distress as she feels the blood leaking from the side of her head where she struck herself in the cash. Her blurry vision can faintly see Kassius stood there, muscles are so tensed up that they could be torn if he moved to quickly. That is how angry Hyde has made Kassius' body become, that the muscular definition in his body can be visible, along with the embers and smoke that leaks from the fissures in his body that glow volcanic orange.
Hyde explodes with fireworks of vehemence, Kassius' once amber eyes burst with flames as he sprints towards the Spectre. The Assassin chuckles menacingly as he stands there, ready to fight him. Hyde charges and jumps in the air, pulling his arm back as he punches towards the Spectre. But the Assassin grabs onto his forearm and pulls him down, then spins round and slams his metal forearm across Kassius' face. Kassius staggers back slightly and the Spectre kicks him in the chest, instantly raising the cannon and firing it at him three times.
Three powerful explosive red dust shells towards him, Hyde's eyes stare at them and he draws Lash Equinox, crossing them before his shirtless body, causing them to explode upon contact. The blades are not harmed from the attack, but the flames seem to wrap around him and his aura. The Spectre slowly lowers his arm cannon and his eyes are focused on the possessed warrior, watching as the flickering cinders leak from the fissures made in his body. The Spectre chuckles when looking at him, never seeing Kassius like this before. "Damn...never seen a semblance quite like that." The Spectre scoffs, staring directly at him as he waits for Hyde to make his attack.
But the Spectre has made a grave mistake in misjudging how Hyde fights. He may fight through rage and even with animalistic intent, but that does not mean that Mr Hyde does not know how to fight tactically. Hyde clenches Kassius' cybernetic hand into a fist and he stands tall, staring right back at the Assassin. "I'm sure Merlot would love to pick away at that cute little ability of yours." The Spectre adds sinisterly, pacing back and forth in the shattered trees that surround him. Hyde growls savagely as he paces with him, moving more like some sort of rabid animal, hunched forward and even using Kassius' hands to stay mobile.
Then Hyde speaks...
"Spectre...you call yourself a warrior...when you hide behind another name?" He scoffs as he slowly moves back and forth, watching every single movement that his foe makes. The Spectre looks rather surprised, and intimidated in a way, because it is not the voice of Kassius at all. The accent is closer to that of a British accent and is far more aggressive sounding than the host's. And the voice is so demonic as well, like multiple voices speaking together under a single tongue. "You're nothing more than a coward..." Hyde snarls aggressively, remembering everything that he has done.
But something really seems to drive Hyde over the edge about the Spectre, because he never forgot what he did to Yang five years ago. When he smashed her face into that tree over again when they last faced him. And he smirked when he tried to kill her – a good thing that Summer showed up when she did. But this time – Hyde is not playing with the Spectre.
He is going to try and kill him this time.
"How can you possibly work for someone who is trying to destroy everything we have built?" Hyde snarls as he stares right back, the entity that haunts Kassius has also come quite a long way as well. He actually seems to give a damn about the World of Remnant and not only his own existence. But saying that actually seems to hit the Spectre in a way nobody expected...he looks at his cybernetic hand, at his own reflection of his face in the metal and he clenches the hand into a fist.
"You wouldn't begin to understand the things I have seen." The Spectre sternly replies as he tightens the fist at his side. But Hyde shows no understanding or any kind of forgiveness for whatever he could have seen.
He hurt Yang.
He hurt his friends.
Now he is gonna pay.
"Fighting's your whole world...but what exactly are you fighting for?" Hyde snarls with anger, and as he speaks, he begins to see the faces of Willow, Klein, Ironwood and Yang...all the people he has had a hand in killing for this evil campaign he has become a part of. "What could possibly have been worth – all this death and destruction?" Hyde bellows with choler, the flames in Kassius' eyes ignite brighter and hotter with more embers pouring from his body. The cracks in his skin glow bright orange with intense heat, actual flames actually ignite within the cracks, and Hyde bursts into a fit of fury.
Hyde lets out a thunderous repercussion of demonic screams at once, swinging his fist towards the Spectre as he does it. The Spectre crosses his arms over and just blocks the punch that he threw, the impact of the fist onto his arms creates a shockwave that blows the leaves from some trees and it echoes from how loud the impact was. The Spectre thrusts forward with his crossed arms, and then slams his head against the face of Kassius, spinning round in order to kick him. But Hyde catches his leg, holding him there before lifting the Assassin off the floor slightly. Hyde builds up more strength, shrieking with anger as he throws Hyde into a Boulder that has been sitting there the whole time.
The Spectre groans from the shock of them impact, then his eyes widen with shock after seeing Kassius charging towards him with his eyes burning with fire as he lunges for him, screeching as he attacks. The Spectre leaps and rolls out of the way at the perfect time, and Hyde goes to smash his fist into the back of his head, but the Spectre spins round and slashes his hook across Kassius' aura. But another factor that Hyde has on Kassius is that he actually fortifies his own aura, therefore making him much stronger.
The issue with the semblance of course is that he is not the one who decides to make the decisions when it is activated. Hyde is in full control now, and that makes him unbelievably dangerous for both sides. Because there is so much anger in him right now that he could mistake everything as his enemy. Unless he can calm down just enough to recognise who is friend or foe, until then...the others must stay out of his way.
Kassius' volcanic orange aura reconstructs the mark of which the Spectre slashed at him with, becoming invisible once more. Hyde snarls with anger, rushing the Assassin once more, throwing one powerful punch at him, and the Spectre dodges it, ducking down before upper cutting the Huntsman. Kassius grabs onto the brown hair of the Spectre and tightens his grip, pulling him so hard that he rips some hairs from his head. He spins round with the warrior in his grasp and slamming his head towards a shard of wood that sticks up from the ground. The Spectre's eyes widen, he forces his hands downwards to keep his face from the shard of wood, whilst Hyde grits Kassius' teeth with animalistic fury in his burning eyes.
The Spectre swings his head back to knock Hyde off his back and he immediately turns round and fires a powerful explosive shell that detonates against Kassius' chest. The explosion throws him backwards after he did that, and he crashes into the ground, smoke trailing off his aura as he rolls along. He snarls as he lays there, pressing his cybernetic hand into the soil as he gets back up, seeing the Spectre sprinting towards him with the hook blade folded out from his hand.
Hyde lifts his metal arm up and catches the hook in the hand, sparks burst from the impact, and he grips the blade tight, letting out a guttural growl as he rises back up. He instantly smashes his fist into the Spectre's face, knocking him back before Hyde goes and tackles him into the soil, pushing his head into the ground with force as he drags him. Flickers of red aura scrape across the face of the Spectre, he snarls with rage as he feels the stones and flint that are buried in the soil scrape against his face.
Hyde bellows, swinging round with the Spectre still in his grasp and throws him into one the trees that surround them. The Spectre crashes against it, back first and deep cracks spread up the trunk of the tree. He looks forward, seeing Hyde leaping towards him with a deep metallic roar, flicking one of the Lash Equinox Blades upwards to fold it outwards. The many pieces of razor sharp metal fix together as he approaches, slamming the blade against his neck. The Spectre raises his hand and catches the blade, feeling the cold steel pressing against his throat. Hyde grits his teeth hard as he forces against him, saliva drooling from his jaws.
The Spectre stares his foe right in the eyes with a smirk, his blue irises focusing onto the burning hot orange-ish amber ones of Kassius. "Not bad..." The Spectre compliments, suddenly thrusting his boot into Kassius' chest and stepping away from the weakened tree. He spins round and slashes with the hook across their aura, making him stagger back. "You'll have to try harder than that, though." He states, sprinting straight at Hyde.
The Spectre yells with strength, swinging diagonally towards Kassius with the sharp hook hand that he fights with, and Hyde scrapes Lash Equinox across the curved hook, reaching down and pulling the second one out with his spare hand. He flicks it upwards and slashes them inhumanly at the Spectre, and the skilled Assassin backs up, using his hook to parry the attacks. Sparks burst from every impact as Hyde makes contact with the hook with every thrash, scraping and thwacking onto the hook. Hyde spins the swords through his fingers as he battles against his enemy, making multiple hits over and over again against him.
Hyde then engages the same powerful attack that Kassius does at times, one that is lethal against many foes. He activates Vulcan Nox to the fully automatic setting and he spins round with both Lash Equinox Blades stretched outwards. Hyde jumps in the air, spinning round at incredible speeds as the blades clash against his hook and his other arm he uses to block the attacks, and he fires Vulcan Nox at the exact same time. Bullets spray out across the air and even against the Spectre's aura as he makes the attack, gunfire echoes throughout the forest.
Hyde performs a perfect back flip which sends his foot cracking up the Spectre's chin, making him stagger. He immediately spins round and builds up the momentum into a powerful strike with both fists into his face as he fires both Vulcan Nox bracers. The impact creates a shockwave and throws the warrior backwards, across the forest and through another tree.
The Spectre is good...
But he is no match for Mr Hyde's fury by the looks of things.
But...
The Spectre just keeps getting back up...and his aura does not even appear to be getting close to the weakest point yet. The Assassin stares at Hyde as he stands there, he throws his arms back and howls with animosity, he can see the cracks in his pecks and the rest of his body burning hot with smoke and embers pouring out from them. The Spectre smirks...then something in his arm changes. He stands back up and his hook hand suddenly folds outwards and extends into the blade of a sword, scraping through the plates of metal in his arm.
The Spectre holds the blade of his sword near the cannon he has, then he blasts flames from the cannon and ignites the blade. Smoke trails from the ignited blade and he stands tall, scraping the blade across the dry grass from the summer heat. Nora crawls across the ground and her eyes widen when she sees what the Spectre is doing.
The dead grass ignites into flames around him, and it begins to spread through the Emerald Forest. Nora gasps, looking back at the others who are all still unconscious, and she is too weak to lift them all up.
He is making an opportunity from Mr Hyde, he is not going to turn and help them because there is too much blood rage in him. He has only one objective and that is to kill the Spectre, if Kassius was still there he would be able to help...but he cannot get to them.
That is what the Spectre is playing off.
No matter how this ends...
He will make sure that they die as well, that is if nobody can rescue them from their fate. Nora's aura is slowly recovering its strength to repair the damage, but the Spectre dealt some nasty blows to her legs. Deep gashes across her thighs and ankles, one of her legs is indeed broken as well. She cannot even stand up due to the damage that he dealt to her. She crawls towards Ren and shakes him, trying to wake him back up. "Ren! Wake up!" Nora begs, but he is still unconscious.
The Spectre is stood amongst the flames, his aura is completely protecting him from the heat, his aura is unlike anything they have ever seen. The only reasons he has been beaten before is because he was caught by surprise, Jaune cut his arm off when he was not looking, and Summer cut his other arm off because he thought he won. His aura is not even being affected by the flames that surround him, but they will affect Kassius and Hyde. Hyde stares at the flames and snarls like a predator that has seen a threat, he backs up slowly, then focuses his eyes on the Spectre. His Aura is still at full strength, so for now the fire will not hurt him, but if the aura runs out...
The Spectre blasts flames from his flamethrower attachment in the cannon, fire dust crystals in powder form being ignited over and over again as he blasts it into the ground. He has an insane smirk on his face as he stands there with a burning blade, then he charges right at Hyde. The Spectre grunts as he swings extremely hard towards Hyde, and he deflects the burning sword with Lash Equinox. But the Spectre just keeps on attacking him over and over again, scraping his blade downwards and across one of the Lash Equinox Blades, then slashing across Kassius' amber aura, then kicking him in the chest.
Hyde grunts through Kassius' vocal chords, but the Spectre sprints towards him as he lies there, and he slams the blade against his neck, pushing him across the ground with that burning blade pushing against his aura. He can feel the aura level dwindling slowly as the fire shaves it down, he slowly pushes him towards the flames by the neck. Hyde grabs onto the burning blade with his metal hand and pushes the other into the ground, accidentally releasing Lash Equinox in the process; both blades sit in the grass as the insane Mercenary pushes him closer.
Hyde stares at the fire that is merely inches from his face now as the Spectre pushes him closer, seeing the fire spreading through the grass and towards his face. "Hush now...little Kas...it'll all be over soon." He whispers sinisterly through a gritted smirk on his face as he pushes him closer and closer. Hyde strains, then his eyes focus onto the blue ones of the Spectre and he roars with rage, releasing the blade and letting it press against his throat. But he takes the chance and grasps him by his brown hair and pulls him over into the flames.
The Spectre grunts as he falls into the fire, but he just gets back up. The fire crackles across his red aura as he stands tall; he cracks his neck and rushes towards Kassius again, swinging towards him with his burning hot blade. He instantly clashes the blade against his cybernetic arm, scraping across the metal plates that comprise it. Hyde uses his arm to deflect the attack, before rolling across the patches of untouched grass to scoop Lash Equinox back into his hands. He turns round and crosses the blades across each other, catching his burning blade-arm; the Spectre is smirking maniacally as he does that.
The weak and wounded Nora reaches out for Kassius, trying to get his attention, or at least for Hyde to hear her. She knows that he cares for them now, but she does not know if the rage he is channelling with makes him a threat to her or blind him from her existence. "Hyde!" She cries out to try and break him away from battling the Spectre.
Hyde bellows with pure anger, slashing across the Spectre's chest which seems to have no affect on him, then turning and kicking him in the chest to make him stagger back slightly. The Spectre instantly turns around and slams the blade of his burning blade into Kassius' chest; the impact is like that of a shotgun, throwing him back. Hyde just gets back up, charging right back, tackling him down into the ground. He wraps both arms around his waist as he lifts him off the ground and smashes his spine into the ground, pounding his fists into his face over and over again. Hyde grabs him by the collar of Kassius' armour, pulling him towards the punch his throws into his face. The Spectre's head smashes into the ground and there is a flicker of red aura that just appears to fortify itself instead of getting weaker. The Spectre chuckles menacingly. "You can do better than that." He scoffs, and Hyde erupts with a roar as he goes to punch him again.
The Spectre thrusts his boot into Kassius' chest to send him into the air, he instantly stands back up and he shifts the sword into the hook form, still burning with flames. He jumps up with Kassius, hooking him by the throat as he falls with him, smashing him down into the ground extremely hard. The impact shatters the soil, but Hyde swipes him off his feet, but the Assassin rolls it off, they continue to fight one another.
Nora's eyes are widen, trembling fearfully as she notices...
"He can't hear me..." She stammers fearfully.
She feels the emotion of terror and dread come upon her, as she hears the sound of crows around her. Nora's cyan eyes rise up as she watches the crows fly overhead, all cawing at once as they congregate not far from her in the flames. Black smoke manifests and her eyes widen, seeing the branches being ripped from the trees as they form the huge seven foot tall body with long clawed arms. The skull of an old Stag forms on its shoulders, missing an antler, staring directly at her with burning eye sockets, snarling faintly.
The Lord of the Wood...
It is here as well...
And it has come to fulfil the curse that binds them both, and Nora looks truly terrified. "I'm not ready..."
Ruby
She sprints as fast as she can through the Emerald Forest to find her friends that are in danger. The echoes of Hyde's roars can be heard from where Kragen's portal opened. For some reason they ended up here, instead of Beacon Academy itself. Something drew them here, perhaps it was the presence of the Lord of the Wood...or maybe he miscalculated the location of where he opened the portal.
But that does not matter; they are here and have to help them.
Ruby wields Crescent Rose in both hands, running as fast as she can with Oscar on her left and Kragen on her right, and the Architect is right behind her. Gray, Serena and Vos are with them as well, weapons at the ready. Opposed for Serena due to the fact that she is not a warrior, just a scientist who came along to help them figure this all out at Beacon. But not in the middle of the Emerald Forest where all manners of Grimm could be lurking in the forest.
Like a powerful Ancient Leshen with a binding to one of Ruby's dearest friends.
Ruby knows Kassius well, and Hyde well too. Considering that she is one of the three people that Hyde trusts the most, it is very possible that she might be able to calm him down to the point of where he will not attack them on sight. "Hyde! Hyde!" Ruby calls out, screaming as loud as she can to try and find him, but the roars seem to echo throughout the entire forest. Oscar looks at Ruby as he sprints with her, holding Traveller's Atrocity.
"Ruby – I've never heard Hyde like this before, something really bad must have happened for Kassius to let him get this angry." Oscar warns, and it is true. Most of them saw Hyde in his pissed off form when he attacked Adam in Raven's Safehouse five years ago, but it was nothing like the sounds they are hearing. The roars that he is creating are like something from a horror movie; all they can hope is that he will not turn on them instantly when they locate him.
"I know – but when he sees me I'm hoping he might calm down a little so then he can focus on his surroundings." Ruby explains, and Oscar looks at her as she runs.
"I hope that still applies here." Oscar states.
"Hyde trusts me, he trusts Yang, me and our dad the most because he's known us for the longest." Ruby explains as she sprints. They move past some trees and Ruby gasps when she spots her limping, pressing her hand against one of the trees. She took some pretty serious surface damage in the crash, pieces of her skin ripped off which reveal the circuitry and metal plates underneath. Her leg is damaged the worst, a piston inside has been pulverised and sparks and leaking from the kneecap. "Penny!" Ruby calls out, Penny gasps when she hears her voice, turning to see her with relief.
"Ruby! Oh thank the gods!" Penny exclaims with relief, limping towards her, and they all approach her.
"What happened?" Kragen asks her as he looks back up at the smoke trails, the ones where they can see where the missile flew and exploded into the ship. Then the smoke that trailed the wreckage as it crashed into the forest. They've not yet noticed the smoke that pollutes the forest slowly, the fire slowly spreading in the forest that the Spectre had created.
"We escaped Atlas when the Acolytes of Lien attacked, stole one of their ships, the Spectre chased us, shot us down." Penny explains as she presses her hand against her side, a branch lodged into her body. Sparks leak from her wound and she hisses with pain, showing she is really alive despite being a Synthetic.
"Okay...Gray, Vos, Serena – stay with Penny...we'll find the others and stop them." Kragen assures, spinning his staff through his fingers as he takes point. Serena holds her arms out with confusion, still quite lost on what is happening right now.
"What happens if Grimm attack us?" Serena nervously asks, since she does not know how to fight.
Vos and Gray pull their weapons out, Vos holds a War Axe in his hand and Gray holds two cutlasses, looking at her with a wink. She sighs as she presses her hand to her face, Kragen chuckles as he keeps walking with Ruby, Oscar and the Architect. "There's your answer." Kragen responds as he keeps walking.
Hyde
The Spectre performs a powerful roundhouse kick that slams into the side of Kassius' face, launching him across the forest, crashing through one of the trees. He tumbles across the rocks and the soil, dragging his fingers down in the dirt, staring up and towards his enemy. The Spectre extends the curved burning hook blade, back into the straight sword one. He charges towards him and fires his cannon from his other arm as he jumps at him. Hyde sprints around the Spectre as the shells rain from above, exploding into the soil, throwing chunks of burnt soil into the air. The Spectre lands beside him and he slashes his sword through one of the trees, the heated blade cuts through like a knife through butter. Timber shatters inside of the tree from the heat, smoke and burning hot embers burst outwards from the attack, the tree tips over and Hyde leaps out of the way.
Kassius has got dirt and ash stained on his shirtless body, some dirt covers the scars he has collected over the years and from the Terror Bird Grimm that savaged him when he was a child. The Spectre walks towards him and he holds the blade at his side as the flames surround him, his aura deflecting the dancing flames, he rushes towards him again, and Hyde fires Vulcan Nox at him, the bullet scrapes across his aura and he ducks down, just avoiding the horizontal swing from his burning blade. Fire trails from the steel blade built into his cybernetic arm, he punches him in the side with a left hook, then sends three rapid strikes into the Spectre's chest, then a powerful punch right to the head. The impact stumbles him, he the Spectre snarls, staring at Hyde who has Kassius' arms raised up in the fighting position. Guarding his face in case if the Spectre goes for an attack.
The Spectre paces back and forth as the smoke travels between them, the forest is slowly being engulfed with flames. "I must say, Kassius...this buddy of yours is pretty decent in a fight. But I can do this all day and night – what about you?" The Spectre questions as he keeps eye contact with Hyde. The possessed man snarls through gritted teeth, and then he roars with rage.
"Shut up!" Hyde bellows, and the Spectre smirks, then he remembers.
"Ooh...now it makes sense." The Spectre scoffs, reminiscing to the last time that they fought, when he nearly killed Yang in front of him. "I guess what I did to your cute girlfriend really stuck...didn't it?" The Spectre asks him, and Hyde snarls, and so does Kassius inside where he is buried from where Hyde has taken over. "You know, after I kill her...maybe I'll pay her a visit at Beacon. See how she likes it in bed, huh?" He challenges, and Hyde roars with rage, sprinting towards him with anger. That is exactly what the Spectre wants, to push Hyde more and more so then he can beat him down, but Hyde needs to locate his weaknesses to find out what makes him tick.
Surprise attacks are worthless against him now; he has his aura activated at all times. And it just does not seem to go away. Hyde swings his fist at the Spectre, but the Assassin just dodges it, and smashes his fist right into the cheekbone of Kassius, launching him into the air, he crashes down into the soil and dirt covers his torso. He slides and slides across the grass, the blades sit on his skin, he lays there and snarls. The Spectre smirks, walking towards him as he prepares to fight some more, he deactivates his blade and his metal hand forms once again. Steam trails from his body, due to the immense level of heat that fills the forest from all the fire that grows around them. "I've always liked Blonde Girls; maybe I could be her new boyfriend after I carve your head from your shoulders." The Spectre adds, just poking him further and further.
Hyde snarls with anger, rising back up, Nora watches with pain as she tries to get to him. She knows what he is doing, and Nora tries her best to ignore the Lord of the Wood that watches her. It does not approach her yet, it just...watches her for some reason. "Hyde! Don't! He wants you to attack first! Stop!" Nora begs as she screams out to him, but Hyde's anger seems to block everything out that surrounds him.
Hyde rises back up and he swings straight towards the Spectre, but the Assassin smashes his cybernetic fist directly into Kassius' face again, so hard that it has badly damaged his aura. And the Spectre is not even close to the level that they are currently at. Any more hits like that and Kassius' aura will be at zero in no time and he could kill him. The Spectre is smart, he has figured out that Hyde is fuelled with rage...and he cares for Yang just as Kassius does, not in the same way perhaps, but he can still gain the advantage by speaking poorly of her. Kassius crashes back down into the ash covered grass, dust coats his body and he pushes his hand against the floor, slowly getting back up.
"Hyde! Stop! Fall back!" Nora begs, trying to get back up to help him, but her wounded legs are making that plan very difficult. But she is slowly beginning to regain feeling in her legs again as her aura repairs the damage over time.
"Who gives a damn? What's the point in it all? Nothing matters! Not when I feel like this!" Hyde roars as he stands back up, his demonic voice echoing, Nora's eyes widen with horror when she sees him refusing to start defending himself. She can see his aura counter on her scroll and it will be diminished if he does not stop.
"Hyde! Please! You can't beat him in a fist fight! Hyde! Don't be rash!" Nora yells again, then she gasps, seeing a burst of red petals in the distance. Ruby stands there in the treeline with the others and her eye widens when she sees Hyde hollering monstrously at the Spectre who walks towards him like it is too easy. Kassius' once amber eyes erupt with flames and smoke pours from his jaws, eyes and the fissures in his body.
"Hyde! Stop it!" Ruby shouts, trying to stop him. The Spectre scoffs, and he goes to punch him, the metal fist approaches him at great speeds.
Suddenly Hyde ducks down and he moves quickly towards the Spectre's torso, wrapping Kassius' muscular arms around him. The Spectre's eyes widen, totally not expecting Hyde to have done that. He hooks one arm around the Spectre's neck and grabs his wrist with the other arm, lifting him off the ground, standing on one foot as he slams him down into the ground. Hyde scrapes the Spectre through the soil, pinning him down, and the Spectre cannot move, he writhes around as he attempts to free himself. Ruby gasps with both disbelief and pride for Hyde in general, because he did not let his rage control him...
He used the rage to trick the Spectre into attacking him.
Hyde pushes his hands against the Spectre to hold him there, the Assassin snarls with anger as his enemy holds him down like that. Hyde chuckles as he stares straight at the Spectre, raising one fist upwards. "I don't know what it is that you fight for, but now that I think about it, it seems that you and your buddies' master plan has a few chinks in its armour!" Hyde roars as he slams his fist towards his head, but the Spectre moves his head out of the way. "Wanna know your problem? You talk way too much!" Hyde roars as he battles him, the Spectre smashes his hand against Kassius' chest to push him off, but Hyde wraps Kassius' legs around his neck, holding him there and he squeezes against him, holding him down like that.
"He's doing it!" Ruby gasps with happiness.
Hyde grits Kassius' teeth and he growls with anger, forcing so much strength onto his neck and aura to hold him there, then they see the weakness. His aura begins to flicker red slightly as he holds him there, until the Spectre stands up, and pulls Hyde off the floor. The Spectre roars, spinning round and throwing Hyde across the area again. Hyde tumbles but rolls back to his feet, sliding back across the ground.
Ruby saw the weakness, and so did Kragen. "His Semblance..." Kragen realises when he watches the Spectre shaking it off, his aura still flickers but then it regenerates. "He generates pain into aura, but applying constant pain will weaken the aura, we just need to hit him enough times constantly to shatter his aura." Kragen explains, and Oscar has to ask the question.
"How do you know that?" Oscar asks, and his answer does surprise them.
"I've seen Semblances like this before; they are thin but regenerate extremely fast." He briefly answers, and with this information, they now know that the Spectre does have a weakness. His aura is technically very thin, but it regenerates extremely quickly through converting pain into aura, but he needs a gap of time between the attacks that delivers the pain for the aura to regenerate. Once broken, they can take him down, it is merely the issue of trying to break the aura in the first place.
His aura has already fully regenerated after Hyde's attack just then.
Hyde stands there, fists clenched as he stares straight into the menacing blue eyes of his enemy, fists raised to battle him. The circle of untouched grass is shrinking by the second as the fire slowly consumes everything around them. The Spectre paces back and forth, like a predator that is waiting to make its next move against its opponent. "Hyde!" Nora calls, and this time he actually hears her. He turns his head and looks at her, listening to her now that he has calmed down enough to be more observant of his surroundings. "The others are unconscious! You need to keep him occupied while the others get us out of here!" Nora tells him, and his eyes widen, noticing she said others.
"What others?" Hyde questions, then seeing the Architect and Oscar carefully sneaking through the treeline, but he is unable to see Ruby at this time. He does not draw attention to their flanking to get to them; he clenches his hands into fists, staring back at the Spectre who glares right back. "You've got it." He assures, so different to how he used to act around them. Nora watches the Spectre as his blade extends out from his arm again, flames bursting from the cannon on the other. He continues to pace back and forth, waiting for Hyde to make his move.
Hyde crouches down, scooping Lash Equinox back into his grip, spinning the blades round so then they are both facing forwards for the fight that is just about to continue. Hyde snarls, and then sprints at him, and the Spectre sprints towards him, jumping in the air and spinning round to build up the velocity in the attack. Fire and smoke trails from the steel blade as he slashes towards him, and Hyde deflects the blade with Lash Equinox, slamming his boot into the Spectre's chest, knocking him onto the ground. Hyde remembers what he did last time that crackled his thin aura, so he tackles him once again into the ground and smashes his head into the dirt with force, roaring as he does so. He wraps his legs around the Spectre's torso and squeezes, slowly crushing his aura downwards into itself to break it.
The Spectre digs his fingers into the soil as he tries to get back up, locked in this attack that Hyde has managed to get him into. The Spectre presses the barrel of his cannon against the ground and fires it, blasting Hyde up into the air. He instantly turns and fires a shell that explodes against Kassius' aura, throwing him back. He tumbles and rolls across the ground, but when he looks at him again. He can see the Spectre's aura was diminishing, but the pain has repaired the damage done to the aura itself.
The tactic works, he just needs to get him in a position where he cannot free himself with the use of his cannon. He needs to either destroy the cannon or wedge it in a way that the Spectre cannon fire it into the floor, and pin his other arm into the floor. Easier said than done, and the Spectre clearly has figured out that Hyde knows his weakness now. The Spectre scrapes his sword that is coated with flames through the soil as he walks towards him, igniting the dry grass, and then accelerating into a sprint as he charges towards him.
The Spectre slams his shoulder against Hyde, jolting him backwards and he grabs him by the arm and the leg, swinging round and smashing him into one of the trees with great force. He instantly spins round and kicks him across the face. Hyde grunts with pain, pressing his hands against the floor as he falls forward. The Spectre pushes his boot onto Kassius' spin, forcing him down onto the dirt and the grass, Hyde snarls with anger and distress. The Spectre slowly lifts the blade up with a snarl. "It's been fun, but the game's over now." The Spectre states, thrusting downwards to impale Kassius.
Suddenly Ruby rushes in from the treeline with Kragen sprinting alongside her with his Isomacium Staff in his hand. The Spectre spins around slowly when Ruby yells, slashing Crescent Rose across his aura, firing it behind her to throw her high in the air and sailing overhead. Hyde's orange eyes focus onto Ruby's silver one with recognition. "Ruby..." Hyde mutters with disbelief, she drops down towards the Spectre and spins Crescent Rose through her hands, slamming it into his chest.
He bellows as he is thrown across the field and crashing against the ground from the impact. Ruby stands there beside Hyde, offering her hand to him and he takes it. She pulls him back to his feet and looks at him, it might be Kassius' body but she knows he is not there right now. "What are you doing here?" Ruby questions.
"Tell you later, in short? This asshole shot us down." Hyde answers through gritted teeth. Kragen paces back and forth with his staff in his hand, and then the Spectre does something that really shocks them with disbelief. His blue eyes focus onto the old Silver Eyed Warrior...and something in him changes. The cunning smirk fades into a...rage fuelled scowl, clenching his hand into a fist as he stands back up.
He points his cannon at Kragen and bellows with rage. "Kragen!" The Spectre howls, getting the old man's attention, he instantly sprints towards him and jumps. The Spectre tackles Kragen and they both tumble down a hill in the Emerald Forest, the Assassin keeps punching him over and over again in the face.
Ruby gasps, running to help him. "Kragen!" She calls out.
Without warning, the black crows with crystal skulls all caw and congregate in black smoke before her, and a huge clawed bark hand slashes across her red aura. The impact throws her back, she grunts as the impact launches her into Hyde's arms. The smoke parts and they stand there with awe as the Lord of the Wood stands before them, eyes burning hot with coals inside. It faintly growls, walking towards them as the crows caw on its shoulders.
"Let's hope Kragen can handle the Spectre on his own." Ruby sighs, and Hyde picks Lash Equinox back up, they both charge towards the Lord of the Wood.
The Spectre
The Spectre hooks Kragen by his arm, the blade folds around his forearm and he launches him across the field, the old man slams into a tree with force. Kragen grunts from the impact, but his silver aura is not even harmed from the impact, he stares right at the Assassin that went for him for no apparent reason. He stands back up slowly, scooping his boot under his Isomacium Staff, kicking it up into his hand. The Spectre snarls as he paces back and forth, his blue eyes are focused on him at all times, they have never seen the Spectre show this much emotion before.
This is...
Real hatred...
What has Kragen done to him?
Kragen stares at him with his calm silver eyes and he points his staff at him. "Who are you? I saw the way you went for me...what have I done to you?" Kragen questions, but that question only seems to enrage him even more. The Spectre screams out with anger, lunging forward at him with his hook blade to attack, but Kragen bats his arm aside with a well placed tap with his staff, barely even moving as he circles the Spectre.
The Spectre paces with him, snarling through gritted teeth. "You don't even remember me...do you?" He questions with anger, Kragen stares at him and he does sense that they have met before...but he cannot place when.
"When did we meet? Under what circumstances was it?" Kragen questions, truly trying to understand whatever it was that he did to wrong the Spectre. And since he has always been seen as a Mercenary that enjoys the hunt, this could be valuable information behind his motives of why he does all this. The Spectre stares at him and he shakes his head, scoffing more and more as he cannot believe what he hears.
Then he stops, glaring at him as the smoke passes through the trees from the spreading fire.
"You really have forgotten me...haven't you?" He softly questions with a pained voice, and Kragen narrows his eyes with confusion. He really does feel like he recognises him...the voice...even his face is familiar. But he still struggles to place it; he has lived for thousands of years and has met many people.
Who are you?
"Look upon my eyes...and tell me if you remember me now." He demands, and he closes his eyes, and Kragen's eyes widen with shock.
Silver energy begins to course through his veins and his armoured cybernetic pieces in his arms...there is Isomacium in his cybernetic arms somehow. Light continues to bleed through the Spectre's closed eyes, then he slowly opens them and he gasps with shock, nearly fainting from disbelief.
His irises are no longer blue...
They were disguised the whole time...
He is a Silver Eyed Warrior.
And Kragen remembers his name now...he cannot believe the name he whispers through aghast lips. "Kannix Volantis?" Kragen gasps, the Silver Eyed Warrior that was dragged off into the grass thousands of years ago on the Volcanic Chain Isles, when the Knights of Grimm tried to rescue him and ended up finding Axzura...but they never found him.
Clearly...
Somebody found him...
And has turned him into a monster.
The Spectre – is Kannix Volantis...
Kannix glares at his former mentor with those Silver Eyes of his, eyes narrowed with resentment of the man that stands before him. "Remember me now, old man?" Kannix asks him, still circling him as he walks around him, pointing the cannon in his metal arm at him constantly. Kragen is lost for words, because he searched for so many years to find him. He promises he would get him back to the girl he had feelings for so then he could tell her.
And this is what he has become...
"Kannix...I..." Kragen stammers with horror and dread, feeling so responsible for what has happened to him.
"What's the matter, old man? Lost for words? I expected more...I'm hurt..." Kannix growls as he walks around him, keeping that cannon raised to his old mentor's head.
"I searched for you...I searched for you for decades across Remnant to find you...How...How can you be here?" He questions with shock as he tries to comprehend all of this. He was given immortality through the relics, the Knights became infinite through a curse that eventually killed them, the Witches used dark magic...how can he still be alive after all these years? After millennia have passed?
"You think you're the only Arkhoni Survivor to have found the secret to immortality?" Kannix scoffs. "Well...I didn't choose this immortality per say." He adds with a scoff, keeping the cannon pointed at him...
Then he tells him what happened...falling into his own memory.
His own nightmares...
"Whilst you lived safely in your shack with Yenna – I was an exile..." Kannix tells him, remembering the pain that formed the Spectre. The sight of the Grimm that dragged him into the grass in the never ending storm. The Grimm threw him into a cave where he was abandoned, but the Grimm never killed him. He did not even see what the Grimm was that attacked him that day. "An outcast...on the verge of oblivion..." Kannix laid on the cold water covered surface of the cave where he was left...for days that passed, starving and dehydrated. Poisoning himself with salt water that crashed into the opening to the sea that was open before him.
The young man was dying, and he knew it. "I was starving in that cave for nearly a week, I could not perceive the Grimm approaching me...curiously watching." Kannix explains to Kragen, creating so much pain to the old man's heart...when he was searching for his apprentice for decades and he was merely on the same island that they fought on. As he suffered, Beowulves and Creeps cautiously approached his cave, growling and licking their lips with excitement to taste his blood. His pain and his negative emotions drew them closer and closer.
"My weapons were taken from me...the Grimm were to devour me alive – but no threat would grip me...no legion could confine me." Kannix narrates his memories, the young man stares at them with gritted teeth with rage in his silver eyes. He stood up before them with only his hands available. "I did not need my blade to slaughter them all, feeling their terror as I ripped their hearts from their ribs." Kannix explains.
Through frozen memories, like images that flash before him in his mind, he can see the moments he fought the Grimm. Grabbing a Creep by its jaws and pulling its bottom jaw from its skull with all his might. Black smoke poured from its wound after he did that, and killed it instantly. It was at that moment that he found his semblance, every slash that they gave him, the pain in his stomach...he was practically invincible against them. He slammed his fist into the face of a Beowulf over and over again until he crushed its head, ripping another's arm off and beating it to death with its own appendage.
Smoke filled the cave where he was trapped, and he left it, untouched from their attacks, still starving with pain. He felt his way out the island, blinded by the salt water itself to free himself and eventually his sight was regained. "Everything I have become is a reminder of the pain and suffering which forged me...like metal struck over and anvil. I am a sword, forged from suffering itself." Kannix explains as he walks endlessly throughout the island. Kragen's eyes focus onto his cybernetic arms, Jaune cut one off, and Summer cut the other off. But what they do not know, is that he has cybernetic implants in his legs as well. After they were broken from a fall on the Volcanic Chain Isles.
"I found one of our dead comrades, and due to my broken legs...I was forced to take his sword and cut my legs from my body...the agonizing pain...it was unlike anything I have ever witnessed." He continues, remembering the screams he let out, the amount of blood spilled as he severed his own legs. "And I replaced them with the cybernetic legs of the droids we brought with us." He states, remembering as he fused the metal to his own legs from the tools left behind on the Dauntless which was left inoperable after the Lighting Bolt destroyed the Mast.
"We were there for weeks...trying to find you..." Kragen stammers, unable to believe all of this horrible information. He never thought that he was so close at the beginning of his search, he only got further away the more he searched, and the Spectre was slowly being born from his agony.
"I know...I finally found you on those Islands...watched as you sailed away in Axzura's ship." He states, stood there on the island, screaming out to them as he watches the ship disappearing into the fog, abandoning him on that island. They could not hear his wails over the thunder claps, the rain...and the distance they travelled.
Kragen's eyes are wide with horror, he never realised that his apprentice was right there after all this time. Kannix fell to his knees with defeat, screaming out with anguish, finding himself trapped on that island. His wails attracted the Grimm, and they approached him from behind. "I could have fought them...but I didn't...I let the Grimm take me. They dragged me away and took me somewhere...into a doorway." Kannix explains, and the memory shows the Grimm dragging him into the portal that was opened...embers trailing out from it.
"I saw it..." Kannix states, sitting upright in his memories. Charred trees surrounded him, a red sky filled with smoke and embers, a completely shattered moon and destruction stretched out for miles. Extinct oceans with no water filling them at all, just chasms left behind. He turned round and his silver eyes widened as he saw him stood there. "And I met him...my saviour...the one who gave me purpose." He tells Kragen, seeing Vir Nominis Umbra approaching him ominously with his hands held together.
"He gave me a second chance...another chance to improve...gave me the gift of never aging from that point on...if only I served him." Kannix told him.
All the pain swelled into one...
And he made his choice.
"I agreed."
The memory ends, and Kannix stares at him. "I returned to our home, and it was naught but ashes, nothing more than a memory to be forgotten. And from that point on I swore a new oath..." Kannix explains, charging dust into the cannon as he keeps it pointed at Kragen. "To end the Silver Eyed Warriors...once and for all." He snarls, firing the cannon, but Kragen jumps and rolls out of the way, walking around him still. He never realised this...that Kannix is another one of Vir Nominis Umbra's pawns in his cruel game that he plays. Using people and turning them against their best beliefs.
"Kannix...please...you do not have to do this! There is always another choice!" Kragen begs, but Kannix scoffs, shaking his head.
"Cinder Fall and Hazel Rainart may have had a change of heart...but they did not suffer for thousands of years because of you!" The Spectre bellows, firing more shells at him from where he stands, Kragen jumps and rolls behind another tree, taking cover. He is finding it hard to actually attack him now.
"You are better than this! Don't let Vir Nominis Umbra's lies control you!" Kragen begs, but Kannix laughs at that statement.
"For someone who claims to be so wise, you really don't understand how he works, do you?" Kannix snarls as he stands there, staring at the tree where Kragen hides. Kragen listens to his voice from where he takes cover, wide eyed as he still cannot comprehend that he is alive still. "Of all the things that Umbra has done – I have never seen him lie once. Create ideas? Yes. Commit cruel actions? Yes. But lie? No." Kannix states and Kragen thinks to what they saw on that feed, the footage of Blake...
An idea...
But before he can think on this factor, Kannix fires at him again, the explosive shell of dust blows the tree trunk apart, shards of burning wood thrown past him. Kragen walks out, as the tree collapses behind him staring right at his old apprentice with his staff in his hand. Kannix snarls with hatred, extending his hook blade into the sharp sword-like blade and igniting it as well. "So what are you now? Just one of his toys? We swore an oath, an oath of honour." Kragen shouts, which sends him over the edge.
"Honour? Want to know what honour demands?" He bellows, sprinting towards him and slashing the blade at him. Kragen steps back and blocks the attack with his staff, holding him there, staring at the glowing silver eyes of Kannix. "Honour demands death! Nothing more!" He roars, scraping the blade across his staff and kicking him in the chest. Kragen staggers back and Kannix breathes heavily with anger.
Kannix knows that Kragen is not fighting him; he is acting defensively because he does not want to hurt him. Because he still sees the young boy he cared about, the boy he trained for years but thought died ages ago. "What are you waiting for? Fight me!" He yells with anger, and he attacks first once more, firing his cannon at him. Kragen swiftly spins his staff through his fingers to block the explosion from hitting him. He immediately spins the staff round and strikes him in the chest, pushing him back.
Kragen pushes the staff down into the soil, staring at him. "I never wanted this..." Kragen whispers with pain in his heart. Kannix snarls, standing tall.
"You think I did?" He questions, leaping directly at him once more with a bellow.
Ruby
The Lord of the Wood slams its huge wooden hand down into the ground, roots tunnel into the soil beneath them. Hyde and Ruby watch with shock as they can see the dirt rupturing where the roots tunnel closer and closer. Ruby fires Crescent Rose down into the round, riding the recoil as she sails over the massive Leshen, whereas Hyde waits for the Roots to rise up, severing them with well placed attacks with Lash Equinox. Chunks of bark and root matter are thrown everywhere, Hyde dodges one of the sharp roots that rises up and shoots down towards him, just missing him and Kassius' aura.
Ruby flies over the Leshen and then dashes towards it, red petals trailing behind her fluttering red cape as she slashes across its body with her scythe. The Leshen growls with anger, black smoke leaks from her attack but it does not seem overly affected. It instantly swings its claws hand towards her, and she turns round, firing a fire dust charged round at him. The Leshen suddenly bursts into smoke and crows; they all caw as they fly around them. Then it forms behind Ruby, slashing across her aura hard.
The impact knocks the young woman onto the ground; she groans with pain from the attack, her aura repairs the slashes in her skin swiftly. Her eye widens with shock when the Lord of the Wood stomps towards her and stamps down at here she was. She vanishes in a burst of petals, grabbing her Scythe as well. The colossal ligneous nadir of the monster crashes down into the ground, roots dig into the soil and it looks around, trying to find her.
Hyde roars, spinning round and slashing the Leshen across the skull to cause it to stagger. He pumps Lash Equinox upwards, loading the explosive clip of shells into the chamber and he points both fists at the Leshen. He squeezes the triggers and the explosive shells blast into the chest of the Lord of the Wood. The Leshen flinches from the eruption of flames and shrapnel, clenching its hands into fists from the attack. Hyde smirks but his eyes widen with disbelief as the smoke parts and the monster is still standing, staring directly at him. "Oh come on!" Hyde exclaims with annoyance.
Nora watches with shock, seeing the Lord of the Wood again is always terrifying. But it never comes straight for her; it takes its time about it. But to the Lord of the Wood, it is not about how quickly it claims her; it is just that it kills her. It could kill her when she is ninety years old or in a couple moments. Time is not an issue to something like a Leshen; they can wait for centuries until some foolish soul angers it.
Nora turns when she hears the groaning of Ren, he slowly tries to sit up in pain, Oobleck and Port slowly wake up as well, weak and wounded, but their auras are slowly recharging. Suddenly Oscar zooms over to them, using his time travel speed to get there as quickly as he possibly can, Nora gasps with relief when she sees him, and the Architect is nearly there as well, hoping to not alert the Lord of the Wood. "We're gonna get you out of here...How many of you can walk?" Oscar asks them.
Port raises his hand as he gets back up, cracking his neck despite having some shrapnel in him. He rips some of it out and spits blood out, as if he is ready to fight now. He isn't but that is just in his stubborn nature to be that way. Oscar can tell that Nora cannot walk, and Ren is just able to walk but not quickly. Oobleck seems to be the best off out of all of them. "Okay...Architect, carry Nora, I'll help Ren." Oscar orders, and the Architect immediately obliges. He gently picks the young woman up and holds her, with Magnhild rested on her belly.
"Hello again..." Nora softly and sweetly says with a smile, and the Architect chuckles.
"Looks like you're looking after yourself." He chuckles; Port picks up his Blunderbuss and looks back at the Lord of the Wood.
"We need to help them fight that thing." Port coughs, but Oscar shakes his head.
"No – they can handle it." Oscar assures, and Oobleck appears to be on the same side as Port on this.
"But it's a Leshen..." Oobleck states.
"I know – but they only need to keep it and the Spectre occupied. When you guys are safe, I'll call them to fall back." Oscar explains, and they sigh, knowing that they have to agree. And they are currently in no position to fight, when they return back to Beacon and recover, then they can get back into the action.
Hyde roars as he slams his fist into the side of the Lord of the Wood's face, it hardly even flinches from the contact of Kassius' metal fist. In return, the huge Leshen grabs Hyde by his neck, lifting him off the ground and staring right into his eyes. Hyde scoffs as he stares at the Leshen's burning coals for eyes. "I bet I look better looking than you!" Hyde snarkily comments, the Lord of the Wood does not even respond, just snarling at him. Until Ruby swiftly darts towards the Leshen, slicing Crescent Rose directly through the Lord of the Wood's arm, black smoke billows from the arm and it roars with pain.
The Lord of the Wood staggers back and stares at them, Ruby stands there with glowing silver eyes.
But then...
The Lord of the Wood retreats, transforming into the swarm of crows and black smoke, flying towards where Kannix is fighting Kragen. Kannix is thrown back by Kragen; he is good but not good enough to beat his former mentor. Kannix is too impulsive to outmatch him; Kragen calmly stands across the fighting area from him.
Kragen's eyes widen with shock when he sees the black smoke and cawing crows fall behind Kannix. The Lord of the Wood forms behind him and grabs him, and he clearly does not seem to agree with this. Kannix reaches out for Kragen and yells with rage. "No!" He bellows, trying to kill him with one more shot from his cannon. Kragen just steps out the way, and the shell travels right past him, exploding behind him.
Watching as the smoke leaves.
The way it left so quickly...
Something must have ordered it to leave.
Must have demanded that they both return.
Kragen clenches his hand into a fist and closes his eyes with grief...
He still cannot get over the fact...
Kannix Volantis is alive...
And the Spectre's shroud is now gone.
Jaune
Jaune and Pyrrha both sprint as fast as they can through the Emerald Forest, trying to find where they heard Hyde roaring...
They have missed the battle...
But then Pyrrha hears something...
Jaune stops when he notices her stopping, staring at her. "What is it?" He asks her, and then he hears it, noticing Pyrrha is shaking with pure fear in her body.
The sound...
It is whistling...
And she knows the tune.
"A grin as candid as children, as sweet as bee honey,"
"His voice kind and sharp, as the blade of a razor,"
"Brings you from elder to youth, within the blink of an eye."
"Wishes be granted, be it: love, riches or luck,"
"His face like a mirror, fear shall consume you,"
"Anger through truth, loss through acceptance."
"For the end of your journey, Death will come for you,"
"Charcoal Cities, come waiting for you,"
"The Soothsayer shall wait, for his voice will control you,"
"Torment and Control, till the moon will shatter..."
She stares at Jaune fearfully...
And now he knows.
"He's here..."
Author Note - We know what that song means...
He's here...
What did you think of this chapter? It was awesome to write Mr Hyde fighting again, and did you expect that the Spectre was in fact Kannix Volantis? The missing Silver Eyed Warrior? This was a big chapter for the Spectre, and I hope you enjoyed seeing this much development on his character. As you all have probably realised, I try and make all my characters be grey characters instead of black and white, characters with depth are compelling and fun to write!
Did you enjoy the fight scenes between Hyde and Kannix? They were a joy to write, showing how the Spectre's Semblance works was fun as well, showing the weakness as well was also great fun. Hyde's fighting style is just so much more violent than any other RWBY character I have written, which is why I love his character.
And now Jaune and Pyrrha are being hunted by our common foe...
What do you think will happen next?
Please leave a review and let me know your thoughts!
Stay tuned for the next chapter! The next few ones are big for Arkos Fans! Just so you know :)
- Matt