Dragons in Remnant-48
"Ruby, hey Ruby wake up." Qrow's voice echoed in the black abyss that surrounded her. "C'mon shrimp, wake up. Summer would kill me if she saw the state you were in."
"Be calm Qrow, I'm doing the best I can under the circumstances." Shiro's voice echoed.
"What circumstances?" Qrow questioned as Ruby began to open her eyes.
"I'm not very skilled in healing when it comes to my Sky/Godslayer magic." Shiro responded. "Be patient, her vitals are returning to normal, and her injuries are healing faster than normal, which in my opinion is a good sign."
"Mmm, Uncle Qrow, dad?" Ruby questioned, gaining the attention of both her uncle and future father-in-law.
"Hey munchkin, how you feeling?" Qrow asked, his voice calmer than before.
"I'm sore. But nothing I haven't been through before." Ruby sighed sitting up.
"Can you tell us what happened?" Shiro asked. "The security cameras went dead when Grey and Juvia attacked."
"We were attacked again. They were after Miia, whoever was after her took Scythe instead." Ruby explained.
"Why and how did they take the big guy?" Qrow asked.
"Most likely, it was for his Slayer Magic's." Shiro exclaimed. "As for the how, I'd wager it was in return for no further harm coming to both Miia and Ruby."
"Both those are correct. Before I blacked out I heard the conversation Scythe had with the android. They went after Miia because they thought she would be easier to capture, and contain. But when it aimed it's turret at us, Scythe gave himself up leaving his armor and everything else behind before he was taken away." Ruby explained holding her side a bit. "How long have I been out?"
"Nearly all night. Our meeting with Lionheart is in six hours." Qrow exclaimed. "If you're feeling up to it, than you can come along, but if not I understand."
"No, I'll come along, I just need a bit more sleep." Ruby chuckled. "What about Miia?"
"She's in a worse condition than you, and that's putting it lightly." Shiro sighed as he stopped the flow of magic. "She's in the actual hospital. She had to get her right arm amputated at the shoulder, because of how damaged it was. We took you there to, and they said it would be alright to monitor you here, since your injuries weren't as serious as Miia's."
Ruby looked at Shiro's hands and saw they were shaking, in the same anger she first saw in Scythe, the night he returned to Remnant, the night he saved Wendy from Roman's grasp.
"We'll get him back, and we'll make whoever did this pay." Ruby stated. "Does the name Merlot mean anything?"
Shiro and Qrow looked at one another with shocked expressions, before turning back to her.
"He was a scientist, the head scientist in charge of Mt. Glenn's defences." Shiro explained. "I studied under him for some time before I left his side, to continue pursuing my life as a Huntsman, alongside Glynda."
"He was also crazy. The whack-job voluntarily let Grimm into the city past its defences, allowing a few or more innocence to be slaughtered before he rounded up those Grimm for his experiments. Eventually, he became power hungry, and failed to maintain the city's defence protocols, allowing the Fall of Mt. Glenn to happen. He died in the catacombs just like all the others who had been sealed there."
"Apparently not. It was his androids that came and attacked the house." Ruby sighed as her Aura healed the rest of her wounds, slowly but surely.
"That's not possible… unless…" Shiro exclaimed. "Oum Damnit." He shouted.
"What?" Qrow asked as Shiro paced to the wall of the bedroom.
"Dr. Merlot had a theory that he could harness the healing properties that the Grimm have that allow them to heal quickly after they won in a fight against any Huntsmen of Huntress. He theorized that it would not only allow humans to heal faster, but to live among the Grimm without having to worry about them attacking…"
"Because the Grimm would think the human was one of them." Ruby finished. "I remember reading something about that in an old journal I found in the Beacon library while I was studying with Scythe one time. There was no library identification on it, so I kept it just in case I needed the info in it."
"Where's the journal now?" Qrow asked.
"In my bag." Ruby sighed. "But we don't need to read it to know that Merlot was on to something with that healing factor serum of his."
"Indeed. The old coot must have finished it before the Fall of Mt. Glenn and used it on himself." Shiro sighed. "I know where his private lab is, he always had one that Ozpin never knew about, and he entrusted me with its location a long time ago. Eventually I became an unofficial member of Ozpin's inner circle."
"So you know…"
"I've known about the Maidens and the Two Brothers long before you knew." Shiro exclaimed. "I eventually confronted Ozpin about this, and he made me an official member, only I was kept secret from the rest of you for specific reasons."
"Such as?" Qrow asked.
"Being a Khan, I have the resources and other such necessities that would allow me to find any specific person, and keep an eye on them. Such as the Spring Maiden, she was taken into the Brawnwen Tribe, by your sister, and the rest I have a hazy memory of. My priorities changed a bit when Sienna became High Leader." Shiro exclaimed.
"Alright, then get to Merlot's secret lab, let us know how it goes." Qrow sighed. "Contact us as soon as you have Scythe, and be sure you get him out of there in one piece, or you know what Glynda is going to do to both of us."
"Oh, I have no doubt about it. But Merlot's going to pay for what he's done to my son, daughter, and future daughter-in-law."
…
"You doing okay Ruby?" Jaune asked as he and the rest of Team RNJR traveled with Qrow to Haven Academy.
"Yeah, I'm fine, I'm just a bit sore still." Ruby sighed as she flexed her shoulder, wearing her armor was not doing much in terms of helping with the pain.
"We're almost to Lionheart's office. You can sit and relax a bit after we get there." Qrow stated.
"So, why aren't Levi, Laxus, and Shiro coming with us?" Ren asked.
"Yeah, Laxus is fun, especially when he's a sparring partner." Nora smiled.
"Laxus, Levi, and Shiro are out trying to find Scythe." Ruby explained.
"What about Miia?" Jaune asked.
"She's still in the hospital. Losing an arm is not something someone easily bounces back from. Yang can testify to that next time we see her." Qrow sighed.
The group made their way up to Haven Academy, walking through the courtyard. The lack of Huntsmen and Huntresses being a concern for Qrow.
"Hello?" Ruby called walking through the halls to Lionheart's office. "Hello?"
"Maybe try… louder?" Nora asked.
"There doesn't seem to be, anyone here." Ren stated.
"Well, I guess school isn't really in session right now." Jaune exclaimed. "Maybe that's it?"
"No, this isn't right…" Qrow pointed out. "C'mon."
"Wait for us." Ruby called as the five of them ran down the hall to Lionheart's office.
Qrow stopped in front of the door, with Team RNJR behind him.
"Get ready. It could be trouble." Qrow stated taking out his weapon.
Team RNJR took out their weapons, and stood at the ready in case there was a fight. Alpha, appeared on Ruby's shoulder holding a holographic Crescent Rose.
"That's not gonna do a thing." Ruby told her.
"I wanted to feel included." Alpha stated.
Qrow kicked in the door, revealing a middle aged Lion Faunus looking like he was just about to open the door, who screamed in surprise, causing the four students to scream in surprise as well. Lionheart fainted and fell flat on his back after the shock, just as Qrow lost his balance and fell on his back.
"Uh… Professor… Lionheart?" Ruby asked.
"Qrow, for crying out-loud; you nearly scared me half to death." Lionheart exclaimed waking up and sitting upright.
"Me? Why weren't you waiting for us at the entrance?" Qrow asked.
"Huh?" Lionheart asked before pulling out his pocket-watch. "OH, right. Apologies. I guess time slipped away from me."
"You're joking." Qrow exclaimed hanging his arms down.
"Where is everybody?" Nora asked as they all put their weapons away.
"Ah, you must be the students Qrow mentioned." Lionheart stated.
"Yes sir. Heh. Ruby Rose. Soon to be Ruby Rose Khan." Ruby smiled saluting playfully. "Guardians second in command, secondary Heavy Hitter, and weapons specialist."
"Jaune Arc." Jaune stated. "Guardians Secondary Strategist."
"Nora Valkyrie." Nora smiled doing her signature happy-go-lucky pose. "Guardians Third Heavy Hitter."
"Lie Ren." Ren stated, his arms crossed behind his back. "Guardians Secondary Stealth Operative."
"A pleasure to meet you all, Leonardo Lionheart at your service. I'm honestly quiet surprised the Guardians are a handful of capable young Beacon students like yourselves. Qrow called me last night and explained to me what had happened with your leader, I'm sure he'll be back safe and sound as soon as possible. I actually just got finished with placing an order for a get well soon gift for the young Ms. Khan." Lionheart smiled sympathetically. "I'm afraid most of my staff is currently away until classes resume but…"
"What?" Qrow asked. "Leo, you can't be serious. Who's guarding the relic?"
"Qrow the children…"
"Already know. I filled them in." Qrow stated. "Their leader Scythe and his school Team KNHT, have been part of this inner circle since before the school year at Beacon originally began." Qrow explained. "What do you mean your staff is away?"
"You… filled them in?" Leo asked in disbelief.
"So… is this not going at all like anyone thought it would?" Nora asked.
…
Deep in the recesses of Merlot's hidden lab, Scythe was meditating, his eyes glowing a violet hue as he began looking through all the locations in Fiore he knew that could possibly have what he needed to extract his slayer magic's.
"Nope, not there, nothing there either. Guess I'll be checking the caves of the Fiore Mountains." Scythe sighed as a portal opened up to his destination.
Scythe stuck his head through the portal, and found what he was looking for instantly. The Fiore Mountains were famous for their different types of lacrimas. Though no one besides, Master Makarov, his son Ivan, and Laxus, knew about the hidden caves that contained the slayer lacrima's, Scythe however, knew about one cave that contained a special lacrima, that held, similar properties as the Face Bombs Fairy Tail and the dragons destroyed, thanks to his adopted fathers insistence on studying different types of lacrimas.
"Now, I only need two of them." Scythe exclaimed, reaching in and grabbing two lacrimas the size and shape of giant marbles. (The one largest marble in a pack of marbles you would buy from the dollar store.)
The portal closed as Scythe retracted his arm and opened his eyes looking at the two snow white orbs in his hand.
"I gotta keep my end of the bargain." Scythe exclaimed putting one on the ground, and holding the other one in his hand directly across from his face.
With some concentration, Scythe began focusing on powering up his Etherion Dragonslayer magic, as the orb began to glow, Scythe began to feel like something was being pulled from his body by force, and the feeling wasn't pleasant.
'I have to give it willingly, otherwise my sage magic will act on its own to try and keep me from harm.' Scythe mentally groaned, trying to keep his focus, grunting in pain every now and then.
After what felt like hours of concentration, Scythe lowered his hand with the lacrima in it, having felt the last of his Dragonslayer magic leave his body, and enter the lacrima orb, causing it to glow Etherion-blue.
"One slayer magic down…" Scythe exclaimed stashing the orb under the pillow of his bed, before grabbing the other one. "One to go."
… … … … … …
"I have to say Qrow, this all seems very reckless, even for you." Leo exclaimed sitting at his desk.
"No, reckless is leaving one of the relics completely unguarded." Qrow exclaimed. "It's not checking in with Oz for ages."
"There was nothing to check in about before the Fall of Beacon." Leo defended. "But since that day, Mistral has been in chaos! Vale wasn't the only kingdom to suffer that night. Everyone was watching, every house, in every kingdom, saw that poor girl ripped to pieces, everyone saw Scythe Khan's message, saw monsters crawling over the city, Atlesian Knights Attacking citizens… and then nothing. You could feel the dread in the air. With all that negativity, you can imagine what it was like when the Grimm came for us. Mistral's controlled territory is the widest reaching in the world, y'know, and that makes it infinitely harder to protect. We lost so many great Huntsmen, teachers from this very institution, and it's only gotten worse."
"W-What do you mean?" Ruby asked.
"We may have dealt with the Grimm, but the Mistral council's still at odds with the representatives from Atlas. Especially since their newest council member, Natsu Dragneel, has gone missing." Leo exclaimed.
"Wait, Natsu is a member of the Atlas council?" Nora asked. "He's got to be the youngest one to take a seat there in history."
"Indeed." Ren stated in shock.
"First it was the Dust embargo. Now it's the closing of borders. I'm not sure what happened to James in Vale, but it seems to have only worsened some of his more… unfortunate tendencies, and on top of everything, we still don't know where the Spring Maiden is." Leo continued.
"All the more reason we need the Huntsmen and Huntresses here." Qrow argued.
"Okay! Okay." Ruby stated seeing how things were escalating quickly. "Things are bad. They're bad. But we can figure this out. Why is the Spring Maiden so important?"
"I thought you filled them in?" Leo asked raising his hand.
"Mostly, filled in." Qrow exclaimed. "Look, there's a lot to cover okay? I quit teaching for a reason." Qrow took out his flask and began guzzling the contents of the metal container.
"The Spring Maiden is important, because she's the only one who can retrieve the relic in Haven, from its hiding place."
Ruby turned around to see Miia standing there, her left hand holding the nub of her right shoulder, with one of the doors closing on its own behind her, a backpack over her shoulder.
"Miia, what are you doing up?" Jaune asked as he and Nora went to see how she was doing.
"I was discharged from the hospital, because I had what it took to pull through in record time. But as I was saying, the four maidens each have the power to perform feats of magic, just like the Guardians, and they are the only ones capable of reaching the relics."
"What?" Jaune asked as he and Nora helped her sit down.
"The relics are each locked inside a chamber that can only be opened by a specific Maiden." Qrow added.
"Winter for the gift of creation, Summer for destruction, Fall for choice, and Spring for knowledge." Miia continued.
"Spring is the problem." Qrow sighed after drinking from his flask again.
"What happened to her?" Ren asked.
"She ran away." Miia stated. "She was taken in by the Brawnwen Tribe, and the rest, is unknown." Miia lied on that last bit, as she knew full well Raven murdered the previous Maiden and gained her powers, she just didn't have the heart to say it in front of Ruby or Qrow.
"She was determined at first, when she inherited her powers, but the weight of responsibility proved to be too much for the child." Leo sighed as he filled in what had happened before the Spring Maiden ran away. "Young lady if what you said about the Spring Maiden is true, then this is pretty bad news."
"She's serious." Qrow sighed. "She was the one who destroyed Shion village when the Brawnwen Tribe invaded it. Lauxus and I spent the whole evening digging graves and giving those dead a proper burial."
"Raven." Leo sighed.
Ruby gasped lightly hearing that, not expecting her the name of her half-sister's mother to be mentioned.
"Yang's mom?" Jaune asked.
"That's right." Qrow sighed. The Venom Demonslayer pulled out his scroll and put it down on Leo's desk, bringing up a map and showing where the Tribe's latest campsite was. "That's about where they've set up their main camp. It's where they fall back to after raids and scouting missions. Raven's managed to gain a lot of followers since she returned to the tribe, and I'm sure when the Spring Maiden showed up, it only made thing easier."
"Well, Qrow, I've got to hand it to you. With these coordinates, we can mount a retrieval force and head out in a few weeks." Leo stated.
"A few weeks?" Qrow questioned.
"That's right." Leo said copying the coordinates from Qrow's scroll to his main computer. "Leo, maybe you didn't hear me. My sister has the Spring Maiden and I know where she is."
'More like she is the Spring Maiden.' Miia sighed mentally.
"We need to go, as soon as possible!" Qrow continued knocking over several of Leo's books.
"And perhaps you didn't hear me. This kingdom is in shambles. As soon as possible does not mean tomorrow, it means as soon as I can convince the rest of the council that I need Huntsmen more than they do." Leo glared. "Unfortunately bandit tribes aren't very high on their list of 'priorities' when the threat of war is just on the horizon."
"Then damn the council, we'll do it ourselves." Qrow stated. "You and I are trained Huntsmen, and these kids aren't exactly pushovers. Hell, Miia could take you on right now in her current state, and still win without breaking a sweat."
"Hey, be a little sensitive for someone who just lost their arm not twelve hours ago." Miia growled.
"Sorry." Qrow stated, sounding genuine.
"Perhaps there's a more, peaceful way to approach this?" Ren asked.
"We need to get Spring as far away from here as possible, but Raven isn't going to give up her most prized possession without a fight." Qrow stated.
"Unfortunately, you and your sister are evenly matched…"
'Now that he's a Demonslayer yeah.' Miia mentally smirked.
"That, and I'm not the fighter I used to be." Leo exclaimed. "No offense, but these students and I can't take on an entire bandit tribe and a Maiden that no doubt had years to hone her skills."
"Scythe took on the entire tribe on our first team mission, and won, rescuing Romeo. I've got the same Magic as him, and I've had both Fiore Military, and Remnant Military training. I'm sure I could take on the Maiden, after all, I am a one woman apocalypse." Ruby smirked.
"We need to be positive we can apprehend Spring, because if we fail, Raven and her tribe will scatter, and we'll be lost. We get ONE shot at this, and it needs to be perfect." Leo continued.
"You know, Oz wouldn't be happy with any of this is he were here." Qrow said, with a sigh of defeat.
"Perhaps you're right. But he's not, and I'm doing the very best I can." Leo exclaimed.
"There has to be something we can do?" Ruby asked.
"What about Cinder? She came with Emerald and Mercury from Haven." Jaune added. "Do you have anything on them?"
"We pulled their files after the Fall of Beacon. Nothing but lies and forgeries." Leo stated.
"Well I can't say this has been a warm reunion, Leo." Qrow sighed.
"I'm sorry." Leo stated simply. "I know you've all traveled a long way. But I will do everything I can to help."
"Sure, we'll stay in the city for the time being. The repairs on the safe-house should be finished by now with Shiro's best man leading the project." Qrow exclaimed. "Local comms are still up. Keep in touch. C'mon kids."
Qrow re-pocketed his scroll, as he turned and left with the five teens following him.
"It was nice meeting you professor." Ruby said turning back for a bit.
"Likewise." Leo smiled softly before Ruby left.
"Thanks for the get well gift, I'll put it to good use." Miia chuckled readjusting her bag as she left.
Once Leo was alone in his office, he hung his head in shame.
"Oh Leo…" Dr. Watts sighed as he made himself known to their little conversation. "We have got to work on your improvisational skills."
Meanwhile out in the hall, Qrow was walking down, passing the trophy case, with the five teens following closely behind him.
"So, what do we do now?" Nora questioned.
"You five head back to the house. I need a drink." Qrow sighed.
… … … … … …
"How are things going in here?" Merlot asked stepping into the room he was keeping Scythe locked up in.
"Fine, I'm almost done. Just give me a few more hours and you'll have what we agreed upon." Scythe explained, eating a tenth pack of Pizza Pops, along with his twelfth can of Dr. Pepper.
"I see your appetite hasn't deterred at all." Merlot exclaimed.
"Oh, I'm just biding my time for the moment, you're bound by my magic, so you can't attack any of my loved ones without dying yourself." Scythe chuckled. "Honestly, I find it kind of stupid you would make a deal, with a magic user without knowing their full strengths. Kind of lacking up in the brains department there doc."
"Oh, I know you're full strength." Merlot said a bit annoyed.
"My autobiography doesn't have every detail on my true strength." Scythe chuckled. "For instance."
In a violet flash, a disk of the same hue appeared under Scythe and floated him up into the air.
"I inherited aspects from both my parent's semblances, making mine a combined alteration of theirs. Well, my semblance is originally a genetic one, from my father. Shiro Khan." Scythe explained lowering himself down.
"Wait, Shiro Khan?" Merlot asked.
"Yeah."
"Damn it, he knows the location of this laboratory." Merlot glared.
"Oh, so he was your assistant at one point in his time during the exchange for the Vytal Festival in his time. Not smart dude, I did mention him in my biography. Did you only pay attention to the parts involving my power?"
Merlot stormed out of there as Scythe finished his quick meal. After the door closed and locked behind Merlot, Scythe got up, dusted himself off, and grabbed both hidden lacrimas from under his pillow. One glowing a neon-blue, and the other glowing an obsidian black.
Scythe sighed as he realized there was no more reason for him to stay. Pocketing the two lacrimas, he walked up to the door, which was locked from the outside, his sage markings appearing and shattering on his arm as he absorbed the nature energy around him, or what little energy there was.
(Que Music… Hurt: Johnny Cash)
Scythe stepped up to the door, and cocked back his fist, before he slammed it into the metal surface, denting it.
"I know I could just teleport out the door, but where's the fun in that?" Scythe smiled as he slammed his fist into the door again, making the dent deeper.
With a final punch, the door was sent flying through to the other wall, destroying the frame, and alerting the androids.
"Subject-A, please return to your chambers." One of them said as several appeared in front of him.
"Ten against one. I like those odds." Scythe smiled cracking his knuckles.
Meanwhile, at the entrance to the base, Laxus, Shiro, and Levi destroyed the last of the security detail, before they entered the lab through one of Shiro's portals.
"Alright, everyone, keep your guard up. Merlot is unpredictable, he's got dozens of dangerous mutant Grimm lurking around." Laxus exclaimed.
"Good job on the recon big guy. Let's go." Shiro stated.
Running down the hall, they ran into several androids.
"Solid Script: FIRE." Levi called as she used her magic.
Shiro devoured the flames before pulling out his blades, and covering them in flames and wind.
"Flaming Wind God: HOLY GALE STORM." He shouted slicing through all of them in one go.
Laxus and Levi jumped over the destroyed piles of robotic parts, before Shiro turned around and sliced the hall, causing it to collapse, preventing any more androids from coming and delaying them.
"Hold on Scythe, we're coming." Shiro exclaimed as they ran down the hall.
"I'm right here."
All of them stopped in their tracks, turning around to see Scythe standing in the entrance to an intercepting hallway. His shirt was torn and tattered, barely hanging on to him, with his expression showing he was exhausted.
"Took you guys long enough." Scythe smiled.
"You big lug come here." Laxus chuckled putting him in a headlock.
Scythe got out of the headlock before looking down the hall he came from, memories of moments ago still fresh in his mind.
"We need to leave. Merlot is coming, and he's not happy." Scythe exclaimed.
(End Song…)
Shiro nodded racing down the hall, heading for a control room.
"What are you doing Shiro?" Laxus asked.
"Merlot still is dangerous, I'm going to set a self-destruction sequence on the core of his lab, and forcefully destroy his work." Shiro explained as he led the way. "If that happens, he's dead in the water, or dead in general if he gets caught in the explosion."
As they rounded the corner and turned to the core room, the group of four stopped seeing Merlot standing there with several androids behind him, blocking their path to the controls.
"Sorry to disappoint you Shiro." Merlot smiled. "But I can't let you go, not while Scythe still needs to keep his end of the deal."
"Deal?" Laxus asked.
Scythe stepped forward, blocking his father's vision of Merlot, and reached into his pocket, pulling out the two lacrimas.
"This is what you wanted right?" Scythe asked showing him the two marbles of neon blue and obsidian black. "Both my Dragonslayer and Godslayer magic's are in these two marbles. I've kept my end of the bargain of getting them out of my body."
"Very good now bring them over." Merlot smiled.
"However, I never agreed to actually give them to you when I did it." Scythe growled pocketing them again. "If you want these so badly, you're gonna have to come and take them."
"Why you little…"
"I may no longer be the slayer I was when I gained the title Hero of Vale, so I have no right to say that I can keep my promises." Scythe glared. "So come and get me."
"Attack him." Merlot shouted.
The androids charged at Scythe, aiming to kill him and retrieve the lacrimas in his pocket.
"Scythe, move." Laxus exclaimed charging up an attack.
"I got this." Scythe smiled.
Swerving his right foot behind him, Scythe cocked his fist back, as his sage markings circled his eyes, turning the sclera black. The force of power emitting from his arm tearing at what was left of his shirt.
Scythe threw his punch forward, the gust of wind following sent the androids flying, and hitting the core.
"No, what have you done?" Merlot questioned. "Where did this immense power come from?"
"I found a hidden lab, one I doubt you were aware still existed. It was my dad's from all those years ago, it was filled with not only scientific equipment, but also a Manga, My Hero Academia." Scythe smiled turning to look at his dad over his shoulder. "As well as a very interesting experiment."
…Flashback…
"Let's see here. What could be behind this door?" Scythe asked opening the locked door forcefully.
After the dust settled, Scythe stepped into the lab, finding it covered in dust covered tarps. Scythe threw one of those tarps off the table, finding several papers and journals on the experimenting tables.
"This is my dad's handwriting." Scythe exclaimed examining the notes and writing. "What was he working on?" He questioned looking around.
Scythe spotted a pile of manga in the corner and read the cover.
"These were published four years ago. But they seem twenty years old… how did they get here?" Scythe questioned before something came to him. "Grandpa must have used his extension of the gift to somehow open a portal through time and space. I knew the gift could go to other worlds, but different periods in time? I'll do more research on it later, right now, let's see what dad was working on."
(10-10-1994: I received a strange set of Manga about a different world entirely from my father in the mail today, and it fascinates me, with the different abilities known as Quirks, but one in particular. A Quirk known as One-for-All. The immense strength and speed that comes with that Quirk, both traits are similar in the strength of a Beringel, and the speed of a whole pack of Alpha Beowolves. If I can harness these qualities from these two Grimm, I can save my family with the power that is immeasurable.)
Scythe looked up from the notes and turned to the other table, removing the tarp over it, revealing vials, beakers, bunsen-burners, and other scientific equipment.
(03-23-1995: I owe Dr. Merlot a great deal of gratitude, he managed to convince Professor Ozpin to let me transfer as a full time student here, and continue studying under him. He has also given me the DNA samples of Grimm I requested, though their still attached to their living hosts, I can take the samples from the sedated Grimm if needed. I am so close to creating a synthesised One-for-All from the abilities of Grimm and regular animals.)
One of the vials Scythe began to examine, contained a green solution with a red solution beside it in a beaker. It looked like the green solution was meant to be poured into the beaker with the red solution.
(06-06-1995: I have come across a disturbing sight. After Dr. Merlot confided in me the secret about the Maidens and the Two Brothers, I went and confronted Professor Ozpin about it, and he told me everything that had happened to him centuries ago, as well as creating the first Maidens. When I returned, I found Dr. Merlot, experimenting on Syphon, his former assistant before me, who just so happened to be a wolf Faunus. I have told Dr. Merlot my experiments yielded no results, though that was not true. The strength portion of the synthetic One-for-All came out as a green compound when it successfully stabilized, and the speed of the power came out as a red compound, I had also stolen a sample of his healing factor serum, and used it to create both the compounds. I had blamed the missing sample on one of the androids that kept destroying things. If I were to combine, the two, then I would have what I've been working so hard to create. But I fear it will fall into the wrong hands if Merlot finds out I succeeded. So this is my last journal entry. I know little on if Dr. Merlot succeeded in creating a fully working healing factor serum, but I don't need the healing factor for the power. The serum, should someone take it, would enhance physical capabilities, including bone density and flesh durability and toughness, creating the perfect vessel for the synthetic One-for-All instantly, no matter how weak they may start out as. Something that the Manga never had. This is Shiro Khan, signing out for good.)
Scythe dropped the journal and looked at the two vials of compound.
"Let's see if your formula really works dad."
…End Flashback…
"I combined the two compounds that had fermented for over twenty years, and mixed them with the centrifuge on its highest setting." Scythe smiled, a toothy grin forming. "I drank part of the mixture, and disposed of the rest." Scythe exclaimed.
Scythe cocked his fist back and slammed it into the ground, knocking Merlot over, allowing Shiro go over to the controls and set the self-destruction sequence.
"Alright we've got five seconds to get out of here, let's move." Shiro stated running up next to them. "Scythe, you know what to do."
Scythe raised his hand, and opened the portal to the safe house, allowing everyone to go through it before jumping in himself.
"See yeah in hell Merlot." Scythe smiled jumping through the portal, right before the explosion occurred.
"NOOOOOOOO." Merlot shouted as he was engulfed by the flames.
… … … … … …
"Do you think we'll be seeing Scythe again soon?" Miia asked as she, along with RNJR, walked up to the door.
"I'm sure we'll see him again soon. We just have to have faith." Ren smiled as he opened the door.
"Hey guys." Scythe smiled.
Scythe was sitting on the sofa directly across from the door, with a young brown haired boy sitting beside him, Shiro was standing by the sofa with his arms crossed and a grin on his face; Laxus and Levi were nowhere to be seen, most likely taking care of diner, while Qrow was lying on the other sofa with an icepack on his head and a goofy drunken grin on his face, all while Scythe and the boy were drinking from coffee mugs.
"Miss me?"
