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VALE, RURAL REGIONS
Two men walked across a dirt pathway as the light from above was blocked the thick leaves from above.
"And your sure that the kids had arrived through here?" Hazel had to ask. The giant stared at the silent assassin in front of him as his nose was face deep in the ground, taking in deep breaths with it.
Hazel was no fool however, he understood the man in front of was a skilled assassin, one whose's struck fear into the people of mantle's heart.
"Yeeesss, I know they followed this path. Clever children they are, and no less they should be. They are the goddess own progeny and naturally share her traits" said Tyrian. Grabbing some he dirt he brought to his mouth as he licked a few times before giggling.
"Oh they were here, oh yes they were. To escape through Mt. Glenn very clever of them indeed. But so many mistakes too, I can taste the leather and rubber, oh yes very recent indeed. Dare I say ... two to three days ago ... yes, two days ago it was" the mad man exclaimed.
"Already, I'd expected them to be more slower then that" Hazel wondered, surprised they made it so far already.
"The goddess's magic runs strong in them indeed. Ozpin may have taught them many spells to escape our glorious dark lady" Tyrian hissed out.
"... Good point" he admitted. Knowing that man it should have been obvious he would teach the kids about magic and if needed to, how to flee with it. Look at the Branwen siblings for instance.
Tyrian didn't respond and opted to plant his nose back close to the ground as they continued along the path. Right up till they meet a crossroad.
"Mm ... smell is gone, two different smells know and they are very similar" the assassin growled out.
"Then we split up, you take the left fork I will take the right. Use the seer grim to inform the queen if we can't get them" Hazel ordered as he took his path. Tyrian himself nodded before doing the same.
xxx Some Time Later xxx
Almost five hours passed before Hazel stopped himself. His eyes darted around as he felt his instincts flared up. He pushed his aura into his muscles as he waited for the any sign of worrying.
And once again his battle owned instincts paid off as a tall lanky male with a chipped tooth eyed him. Greed was very clear within his eyes, it almost sad with how much the man the telegraphing.
"You seem a bit loss there old man" the bandit called out "You ok there?"
"Fine, odd to see a young a man standing around the middle of nowhere for no reason" he replied.
"Well this road was once known for elderly people to walk through, and I figured that I'll help them along the place. For a fair price of course."
"And what about those who don't need your help?"
"Well you still have the pay the toll, keeping these roads is hard work for honest citizens like us" the bandit explained "You look like you have lien, say ... 100 lien and we'll let you pass. Sounds like a deal?"
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"Very well" Hazel pulled out his wallet. The bandit had a grin on his face as he walked over the giant.
"Smart move old man, now fork over th- ACK" Hazel grabbed the bandit's neck before throwing him into a nearby tree. A sickening crack went out as the body slumped down dead.
From the forest and shrubbery bullets flew into him as his aura absorbed the attack. Bringing up an arm to block a strike from a blade. He kneed the foolish bandit in the gut before grabbing the mans head and threw into the ground, putting his foot on the neck he pressed down.
*CRACK*
Four more bandits appeared from the shrubbery as they tried to avenge their dead allies. The man sighed as he brushed passed their feeble attacks.
To the bandits the man almost danced through their attacks, weaving through them as if they were not there. One of them fired his handgun at the man who blocked them easily, a dark brown energy field flashed as it crackled and disappeared. The moment the bandits saw it there faces Pale.
They were fighting a hunter
Immediately they started run from the man but did not get very far. A wall of dirt shot up from the ground, throwing two of them back as they others gasp. In Hazel's hand was a single earth dust crystal. He pointed the gem straight at the men as it glowed from the aura channeling into it.
Dozens of rock spikes spilled out and impaled all of them, their last moments seeing the bored look on his face.
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"Fools, banditry is a fools task. Shame they wasted their lives away for this" the man pitied the now dead bodies. The giant never saw why others would take such a path, they should know it will lead to a short live and one filled with pain at the end.
But he digressed
He used the crystals to force the earth to sallow up the dead corpses, one last kindness he could give them before he left. Placing the now smaller crystal he continued along his way through the dirt path.
The journey went on for two more days for the large man until he found his first sign of civilization. It was a small town from the looks of it but looked rather busy in all thing, perhaps. Still, a nice warm bed would do good for him and no doubt for the children.
He walked the dirt path into the village, hoping that they had more info on his Queen's children.
Right up until he bumped into with someone.
"Oh, uh sorry there sir" a female voice said. Looking down it was a women, but most of her features were covered by large brown traveled coat.
"My apologies" he said as he moved out of way and back towards the village.
xxx With Team RWBY/JNPR xxx
"Oh thank god, civilization!" Yang thanked, finally happy to enter the village. The rest of her friends nodded in agreement.
Yang turned to guard station on the front gate "Hey, you know where we can find a place to stay, like an Inn or something?"
"Oh yeah, you keep going stay and you'll find the inn. It's close to the center of the village, just take a right when you reach the center and you will see it. Just mind you it's the only inn here, sorry about that."
"Thanks" she turned back to her friends "Come on, I want to get a hot meal and a warm shower, ASAP."
None of the argued with the blonde, after two days of bland food a warm meal was a godsend. It took the eight of them a few minutes before they finally arrived to the center of the village, and as the guard said, they turned right to see the large flagon symbol.
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"Well hello, large crowd you got there" the bartender welcomed them.
"Eight rooms, now please" said Yang as she shoved Weiss's credit card, ignoring said heiress's cries."
"We don't have that here. But I got two rooms that hold four people" the man offered.
"Deal!"
"For how long?"
"Um ... let's say a day, yeah a day is good"
"Alright ... here you go ma'am. Your rooms are at the end on the second floor" he handed him the keys.
"Thank you" Yang pocketed her room key as she gave everyone theirs. "Say, have you heard anything recent by any chance? Like Kingdom stuff?"
"Kingdom stuff? Hm ... Well I did here the kingdom was almost attacked by a butt load of grimm, I heard there was over a million grimm or something, crazy huh?"
"Yeah ... crazy" said Nora "Um, what do mean by almost attacked?"
"I heard that right before the grimm attacked they just stopped and just left" said the bartender.
"I'm sorry?" Ruby asked.
"You heard me, one second they were ready to storm Vale and next, poof, all of them stopped and went away. Pretty crazy if you asked me, I never heard of grimm doing that before" the man explained.
"Anything else besides that?" Ruby asked again. The bartender cupped his chin and after a few seconds shook his head.
Ruby thanked the man before she and rest headed off to their rooms. The moment they entered one of the rooms Ruby closed the door before addressing everyone.
"Alright gang, we need a plan" she said.
"We're going to need a map" Blake stated. "We need to find the closest village that can take us safely to Mistral or maybe even Atlas."
"Right, me and Jaune can do that. What about food and other supplies? I know we have you know what and all ..." said Ruby.
"Nora and I can get the supplies, Yang and Pyrrha can help as well. I think Blake and Ren should try to find anymore about where we are and what's been happening" Weiss offered to her partner.
"Yeah, I think that's a good idea" Ruby agreed. "Do any of you have any problems?"
"What if we run into Cinder or one of friends" Nora asked.
"... Use your magic" she said "I know Ozpin said you shouldn't but if they are anything like Cinder then use it. It may be our best bet."
xxx Ruby & Jaune xxx
"Here you go, the latest map we have here" said the shopkeeper as he handed it to Ruby.
"Thanks, so um where is the nearest village from here?" Ruby asked.
"Nearest one ... well outside of Vale, you can go further west. There should be a village there that you can stay at, heard it's pretty popular with folks traveling. But with the grimm running all around now, I'd advised you to stay put and wait till the Vale gives the clear" the man said.
"Sorry but that's not much of options, so how much for the map?" said Jaune. Once they had paid for the map both begun walking around the village, hoping to waste time till the rest could finish their part.
"So Ruby, you think the path will be difficult? I mean with all the grimm running around and all" Jaune began.
"Nah I sure we do it, it'll be breeze" Ruby assured.
"Heh, you really are confident are you? Wish I could be so as well."
"Well of course you can be silly, you just gotta stop mopping that's all"
"Hey! I don't mop, I have no idea what your talking about" the blonde pouted.
Ruby giggled at that "Come on Jaune, even your sisters told us you mop all the time."
"... I don't mop all the time ... only sometimes" he whispered, growling at the snickering Ruby was giving him "Hahah laugh it up chuckles. I bet you have something your embarrassed about as well."
"Pfft, Me? No way, I'm an awesome huntress and I'm way too cool to be embarrassed by anything" she boosted.
"Oh really? Then I guess if I were to call your sister right now-" he pulled up his scroll and was about to call Yang before Ruby tackled him.
"Gah! No please don't call her, I don't want to be crater face again!?"
"Oh ho, crater face, eh?"
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"Please don't tell anyone, I barely have a social life as it is" the young girl begged.
"Hm ... very well, but you owe me one" he said after thinking on it for a few moments. Ruby sighed in relief at that.
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"Still, I really do mean when I wish I was confident as you girls. I mean look you, you guys can move at superhuman speeds and fight grimm effortlessly while all I have is plain old magic" he said.
"Hey magic is pretty cool Jaune, don't go dissing on it" said Ruby "I mean look what you all can do with it, summon monsters, shoot fireballs like willy nilly, and create actual life itself. Man I wish I could have magic myself."
"I mean yeah your not wrong ... but I can't move fast as you or even react that fast. Doesn't matter how good I am at magic if the grimm are just going to maul me faster" he explained "Besides you've trained your whole lives to be hero's, I've been stuck in my dad's library learning spells."
Ruby didn't reply that time. On top of that she understood what Jaune was trying to say.
A child wanted to peruse his/her own dream while their parent refused, knowing the danger their dream entailed. Hadn't her own father acted the same way many years ago, the only difference was that he eventually understood and allowed her to become what she wanted.
Ozpin on the other never did
For brief moment she couldn't help but wonder if they lives were flipped and if how different they would be.
"You know, if you want to ... I can teach you a bit how to defend yourself?"
"... I'm sorry?"
"You know what I said Jaune. I can teach how to fight and if you want to, I can unlock your aura for you" she offered "I mean I don't know how long it will take to get to Atlas, so maybe it will be safe to teach you guys a thing or two."
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"I ... You would, really do that?" He wondered.
"Yep, I mean with everything going on I should at least offer you the chance" she replied.
"I accept! I-I mean need to think it about first" he said quickly before back tracking. Ruby smiled and allowed the blonde to think over it.
After all, not everyone get's to be trained by Ruby Rose herself.
xxx Weiss, Nora, Yang, & Pyrrha xxx
"Nora, stop" Pyrrha ordered.
"Aw, put Pyrrha, I wanna get it so badly" she whined.
"Later, we can buy a chocolate mountain later" her sister ordered, glaring the salesmen who even offered the item to Nora to begin with. The ginger haired girl huffed but resigned and placed it back.
"So Weiss, how are we only supplies?"
"Well we combining the lien I have on hand and my Schnee card, I we can definitely buy enough supplies to last around a few weeks of food. Unless you have money on you too" the heiress explained.
"I have a bit and I still have my credit card with me so I can help as well" Pyrrha offered.
"Good, well I'm going to buy some stuff for at least a week for each of us. You two can do what you need to. Come on Nora" said Weiss as the two of them began buying.
"What do you want to do know?" asked Pyrrha. Yang shrugged her shoulders "We can go look around I guess."
The champion agreed and the two of them spent the rest of the time looking over the wares in the shop.
"Say Pyrrha, I was wondering, your father you think he knows what is even happening? I mean the attack at him and all the grimm acting so weird, plus Cinder?"
"I'm sure he does Yang, I mean dad is one of the greatest huntsmen out there. I'm sure he know's what is happening, he's pretty knowledgeable about grimm then most people" supported Pyrrha.
"Yeah, with that magic he has-"
"He doesn't, I mean the magic. Dad's ... Dad's magic is not what it once was. He lost a lot of it during his youth Yang, there's not much left" she said solemnly.
"Lost it? How does that even happen" Yang demanded to know. Now even more worried then before.
"I don't know, dad never talks about and always deflect the question whenever we asked."
"Seesh, he lost it in an alimony or someth-Sorry" wincing at the pained look Pyrrha was giving her.
"That was a low blow there Yang, you know I never knew my mother" she softy said "and I hope you will not ruin her image, there's lot riding on it."
"A lot riding on it?" Yang deflected while making a small apology.
"Father ... father always said I look so close to her, he always said that I was almost like a carbon copy save for my hair and eyes. Not only that but dad did say I took after her personalty wise too" Pyrrha explained.
"Hmph, really, well dad used to say that about me too, not the personality part. Yang Xiao-long was all original baby. So anything else your father told you about your mom?" she asked.
Pyrrha cupped her chin at that one "Father always said mother was, passionate, very passionate and deeply cherished those that she loved. Dad said mom would go to the ends of the world to save them, no matter the cost. He also said that mom had a toughed childhood and she never wanted that for her children. Plus she always dreamed of having a family for herself."
"Man, that seems like one cool mom you got there, anything else about here?"
"Well, she was really strong in magic, supposedly she's a last member of another family who could use magic. Dad said that the color of our magic is really similar too."
"Magic color?"
"Oh it's nothing, like aura our magic can have different colors to" Pyrrha waved.
"Ahhh, well, you seem to be a lot like your mom already. At least your mom is a lot better then my mom or well the biological one" said Yang. "Yeah mom abandoned me at birth, left me and Ruby's dad to, so not exactly winning any mom of year awards there."
"Wow, I'm sorry for you" unsure what else to say to the blonde. Yang just shrugged her shoulders.
"Hey it's ok, I never really knew my mom that much so I don't really care. Ruby's mom was, and still is, my real mom to me" Yang explained.
Before either of them could go on Nora found them and dragged both of them to help carry all the supplies back home.
xxx Inn xxx
The doors opened as Hazel entered in, there were few people in the building besides the bartender.
"Oh hello, you need something?"
"Light beer, here" tossing a few lien over to the man as he sat down. A few minutes later the bartender handed the bottle.
"Excuse me, have you seen four young adults here?" Hazel asked.
"Can you be a bit more specific?"
Hazel showed the man pictures of JNPR "Where they here by any chance?"
"Hmm ... Oh yeah, they were here just a few minutes here. You actually just missed them in fact" he answered.
"What, here!?" the man demanded to know.
"Well they here a few minutes ago, all of them were packing enough stuff to last for weeks to and ... Oh yeah, they where all wearing traveling cloaks too."
"Where they wearing brown cloaks?"
"Yep, you a psychic something?" before Hazel shot out of his seat and sprinted out of the the room.
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"Huh, Weird guy. Oh whoops, I think I forgot to add the part about the huntresses."
xxx Later with JNPR/RWBY xxx
The sun had already set and all eight of them had settled in a nice spot just outside the main path. There was already a small fire starting as they huddled together for warmth. They had encountered very few grimm during the day.
"So, how long till the next village" Ren asked.
"About a week from here, but the roads should be safe enough" said Jaune.
"You think they'll have a airship? I've seen a few villages with airships" Blake added. Remembering her time in the Fang when they were forced to stay in villages.
"Maybe, I mean the village is fairly wealthy but I don't expect there ship to take us all the way to Atlas. Maybe all the way to a coastal village, and from there we can get a ship to Mistral or even Argus" Weiss explained.
Blake nodded in understanding, it was a solid plan. Before the girl opened her mouth her ears twitched. There was someone coming close to them and they were coming quickly.
"Hey Blake you okay?" her partner asked, seeing her body tensed up suddenly.
"Someone is coming" she said.
"Coming? Who is coming he-" a force of wind blew everyone out of there of their seats as the fire died down.
The huntress barely got up as a large burly man walked into their camp. He wore a two-tone olive green coat over a black 3/4 sleeve shirt, and a large belt. His pants were black, with a pouch strapped to each pants leg, and his boots are brown with white fronts. And in his hand was a large green dust crystal.
The man ignored the huntress as his attention was focused on the still downed siblings.
"Your four are holding onto the most valuable people in the world" said Hazel. "I will give you one chance, leave right know and I assure nothing bad will happen."
"Listen to you? Like I'll listen to what some crazy ass lonely has to say" Yang spat as she readied her weapon. The rest of her team reading with her.
The giant shook his head "Please be reasonable, their lineage is not something you should tangle yourself with. If you keep following this path you will end up in pain, their lineage is one pain and suffering. Do not throw your lives away" he urged.
Yang replied via a punch to the jaw. Only for Hazel to grab her hand and use the momentum to throw her away. He quickly jumped to the side as Weiss fired off four large icicles at him.
Both Ruby and Blake ran up to him unleashing a barrage of blades as the man dodged all their strikes with honed skill. Yang let out a fearsome roar as she charged back in the fray, Hazel brought his arms up as the brawler let a strong kick and threw him back a meter.
Blake used the time to fire off a few rounds at the downed man as his aura absorbed the damage. Rolling to side he avoided the Ruby's attempt at cutting him in two. Yang herself tried to fire at the man but the shrubbery blocked her view of the man, only for her to say screw it and fires indiscriminately causing a fire to start.
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"Is starting a fire forest really how far you will go?" Hazel asked. None of them had time to react as Hazel brusted out of the flames and grabbed Yang by the throat easily lifting her off as he slammed head first with Ruby, throwing them both into the growing fire.
Blake herself fired more round into Hazel whose aura brushed them away before the man jabbed his knee into her gut. She gasped for air as he took her hair and threw into a tree trunk.
A mini-cyclone rammed into the man as he turned to see the furious look on Weiss's face as she poured more aura into the attack. The cyclone threw the man off his feet as a fireball followed after the attack, turning the cyclone into a tornado of fire that consumed the man.
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"Ruby!" Weiss gasped as the she tried to find her missing partner.
A strong kick to the temple stopped that. From the fire Hazel emerged, light burned as him and his clothes looked fine still. Though a distant roar coming from the fire showed Yang utilizing her semblance charging at him, ramming her shoulder into his chest as she let out a barrage of attacks at him. His aura flared after every attack.
He tried to get a hold of Yang's arm as a bullet ricochet off his temple, throwing him off and giving Yang the needed time. Concentrating her aura into her fist she could feel them starting to burn of the amount of energy building up, but she endured it as made the attack only stronger.
A bright yellow light glowed from her, visible to everyone. Sweating was just starting to from as she released the attack. A visible burst of aura washed over Hazel as he could feel his own trying to fight the invasive energy, but as they did he could his body wracked with pain as the two fought.
A hail of bullets and dust washed over him in his pain, his back breaking more than one tree.
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"Hey Yang?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah?"
"What was that?"
"Dad's special move, a really pain of the ass move to pull off nad hurts like hell" said Yang.
"Cool"
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"Um, hey guys ... is ... is he ..." Blake trailed off as all the girls widen in shock.
"No no no, you can't from that you can't" Yang almost screamed.
From the burning wood work came out Hazel, though his body was far more damaged and his clothes were ruined. But the look on the man's face was what shocked the girls, gone his normal calm look and in it's place was one of a slighted man.
The man stared at the girls as he pulled out two dust crystals. One was dark yellow and other a bright white, he stabbed each into his arms, there energy trailing his body as his eyes took a different hue. Even his growling was warped.
His disappeared, at least to their view.
Suddenly their entire world went white as they all felt a biting cold settling into their body. They barely had time to even see the ice growing as their whole world went to back.
As their bodies hit the ground Hazel was taking deep breaths. He did not expect them to be skilled, Ozpin indeed had picked the cream of the crop this time. It would be easy, the ice already formed around there limbs, a little force on their heads and pop they'll go.
The only thing stopping him was the burst of magic coming from the siblings.
He turned to gasp for a brief second. Pale skin and red iris that glowed within their black pools glared at him. He could see black veins forming around her eyes, as the girls teeth grind. The black and red magical aura didn't help either.
"M-My lady?" He whispered.
"You ... YOU" Pyrrha raged. A dark howl echoed through the sky as she slammed her right hand into the ground, the magic around her body shot into the sky before falling back to where Pyrrha's hand was.
The ground became hot as cracks formed. A black tarry smoke bellowed out of the cracks, forming a deformed symphony of growls and snarls. The man watched in horrific fascination as the smoke condensed into a massive monster.
Over 17 meters tall Hazel for the first time in long while admitted that what he saw feared him.
The monster's skin was obsidian black, with red veins bright as magma glowed underneath the 'skin'. It's claws and teeth were stained purple/red, nauseous smoke coming out as more threatened to with each twitch. A coat of red bloody fire covered it's front, back, legs, and formed it's mane, dripping from it was a liquid that burned the ground when it fell. It's red eyes locked onto his small form as it's three head growled in unison.
The sheer heat made his lips dry and started to crack as even the ice on RWBY melt, not a piece of their clothing was damp.
And sitting on top of it's head were all four siblings.
"Kill him ... Kill him, kill him, KILL HIM" the pale women roared.
The forest erupted into flame
xxx Later xxx
Ruby groaned in pain as her head started to ring, conscious slowly returning the girl.
"W-Where are we-" hot, her entire body felt real hot, like someone had deiced to set her body next to a heater and left it there for a while.
She tried to open her eyes as the first thing she saw was Pyrrha.
And the giant fire canine looking monster over her.
"AHHHH" she screamed, ignoring the pain in body as almost shot out of her if it wasn't for Jaune and Ren stopping here.
"Ruby Ruby, clam down your safe" Pyrrha urged.
"G-Giant monster!"
"No no no, Ruby he's not a monster, he's our friend. He's the elemental king of fire, he's the one that saved you" Pyrrha explained. Seeing the fear and shock she began pushing magic into Ruby, using a simple calming spell. Ruby's body began calm down as her body quickly became less and less and tensed.
"He ... He saved us?"
"Indeed I did little human, does that scare you?" the king of fire asked. It let out a dark and loud laugh, seeing it spoke the reaper only made him laugh more. "Do not fret young one, I will not eat your soul ... as long as you not a bad soul. Are you a bad soul?"
Ruby rapidly shook her muttering to herself.
The fire king only laughed at her fear "Fret not, I am not your enemy. You are friends with Ozm-Ozpin's spawn, as long as you are friends you will have my protection from those that will harm you. The man you were fighting, however, had fled before I could end his miserable life."
"Oh, I see" she said. A part of her was worried when she heard that the man had fled and was still alive but more importantly was the giant fire dog ... demon ... thing. "So your a good guy?"
The king nodded.
"Ok, um thank you Mr. Fire king sir" Ruby thanked. The fire king nodded.
"So um, what now?"
"You wake up your teammates" said Nora.
"Wait, why do I have to do it?"
"Because we already all said 'not it' Ruby."
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"Poop"
After getting the rest of teammates awoke, minus the part of losing her head and explaining that the giant Cerberus monster was not the enemy, did start they demand answers.
"So, when were you going to tell us about this?" Yang asked as she jerked her thumb to giant fire Cerberus "This one your other summons."
"Yang, that's the king of the fire elemental's himself, be nice" Pyrrha chided.
"Oh, um didn't know you were the uh big boss" said Yang, tone shifting to respect/fear.
"You humans forget so much and your respect, why I remember the days when you had magic and you had far more respect back then too" Spoke the King of fire.
"You know of the days when human has magic?" Weiss exclaimed. She shoved the blonde out of the way.
"Indeed, but that is a story for another day. Do not test me girl, I see the look on your eye" the king warned. The heiress suddenly felt smaller when the king glared at her.
"Hmph ... what is wrong with her, girl with black hair? You look like you seen the gods of death themselves?" the King demanded to know, seeing the cat faunus cowering behind Yang's body.
"S-Sc-Scary" she whimpered "B-Big Dog."
"Ignore here, she's just being a scaredy cat" Yang waved "But what about the man that kicked out asses?"
"Fled before I could end his miserable life. I was this close to melting his body inside out, before that mortal used a glowing crystal of his. Blasted right into my eye" the Fire Cerberus growled, ignoring the spooked look RWBY was giving him.
"I'm sure you'll get him next time" Pyrrha assured him, scratching the side of his neck. The four huntresses watched as the Cerberus lowered one of it's head close, nuzzling the girl.
"The fire king and Pyrrha have a strong and close relationship, he's practically an uncle to us and to Pyrrha especially" Nora explained.
"I see, well ignoring that I think we need to focus on that man. He had to be working with Cinder" said Ruby.
"No doubt, but what was all that about Pyrrha's family lineage?" Weiss agreed as she whispered the last part to her teammate. "A lineage of pain and suffering?"
"Tch, probably bullshit" said Yang "Don't listen to his words you two, all he's trying to do is fool us. But his strength isn't though, for god's sake how can one man take so much punishment and keep going?"
"Maybe it's his semblance or maybe his aura is unique in some way" offered Weiss "Though I'm more leaning to his semblance, stabbing dust into yourself is extremely dangerous and that man did without hesitation. He didn't even flinch when the energy burned through him."
"So some kind of semblance involving pain?"
"Or something involving energy Ruby"
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"Well it doesn't matter, because we have him over there" Yang pointed to the fire king "If that guy comes again then we just sick him after the guy. Boom, problem solved."
"I wouldn't get used to that Yang" Weiss warned "We have no idea how many allies he has, or even who he works for?"
VALE, UNKNOWN REGION
Hazel fell onto the ground, exhausted and aura fully spent.
His right arm and torso was bitch black as it cracked and you could see pink raw flesh underneath. Heck some of the flesh even looked cooked. His legs fared little better and was more burning red then scorched black.
And this was after expended all his aura into healing.
"So ... that was ... an elemental king" he wheezed. His mistress had once told him of the elemental kings, beings of immense power that dwarfed anything mankind could rival, there were demigods in all but name, as the legends went.
But seeing their power ... he was inclined to believe them.
All the man wanted to do was lie down and let the pain drown out everything else. He wanted the sweet relief of darkness to finally take him already.
Only the growling from a beowolf stooped that. Looking up a beowolf was looking at his body, examining it as did nothing more. He knew they would not kill him, his ladies gift prevented that.
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"Hazel, report" spoke his mistress's voice, using the grimm as a medium to communicate with others in her council.
"My Queen ... the children ... they are he-" hissing pain he continued "-re ... but they were ... protected by Ozpin's students."
"I see, continue"
"I could not ... retrieve them ... your eldest daughter ... summoned the King of Fire."
"... So Ozma persuaded the kings to offer their power to my children. I wouldn't have it in any other way" the grimm Queen spoke, pride evident in her voice. It was only natural that her children would wield such power, it was their birthright and the only time she agreed with her ex-husbands choice.
"You did well Hazel, not many can claim to survive a fight with an elemental king. Do not see it in shame, to survive is a feat to be proud off" she praised him "And what else did you see, what other skills did my eldest daughter show?"
"She ... she ... She-"
"She what Hazel, what did my daughter do" Salem demanded.
"... She turned ... into you ... she was a ... mirror image of you" he gasped out. Letting out a heavily cough, his wounds acting up again and causing him curl up.
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"I see, that is ... most surprising news" said Salem. Raising the grimm's arm red energy materialized as it drifted over to Hazel's damage body. New skin was formed as it stitched over open wounds and the blackened parts cracked and fell, showing new skin underneath.
The burns on his legs faded as he felt his aura slowly returning.
"Rest my loyal giant, you have earned it. Allow Tyrian to finish where you started" Salem ordered as she put the man to sleep. The grimm that she used began to spasm as it's body was destroyed from the inside out by her magic as the mind returned back to it's body.
GRIMMLANDS, SALEM'S CASTLE
She wiped the blood dripping down her nose as she stood up and started to pace around.
Her daughter had turned into her ... into a grimm hybrid just like her. The dark powers from the pool of destruction had indeed passed down along her family.
And she was conflicted.
For one, she was happy, it was further proof that they where hers. A sign that one of her daughters lived to have children.
But at the same time she was worried to, did her daughter know how handle such power? She remembered the day when she fell into the pool, the rage that followed afterward. So many years did take before she found a way to stop the anger from consuming her mind, those were dark years so very dark.
She shook away the dark memories. No, her daughter may not know how to control it, knowing Ozma he would only hamper her progress. He knew nothing of what was need to control such power and he would never accept the answer either.
But did this power came easily? Did she need to experience intense emotions to bring it out or was it instinct? What about her other children, did they experience the same or did time and genetics made it different for all of them?
The grimm witch sighed, pinching the brow of her nose. No, it was no use trying wonder, she will find out herself once they have been brought to her. Until then she thought of her children's other accomplishments, like summoning an elemental king.
Pride blossomed in her, to know her children could summon and elemental king, a feat that very few could claim. They were here children, such feats should come naturally. But for her daughter to summon one of them in her early twenties, only Ozma in his prime could replicate that.
Was her potential that great, was it even greater then Ozma's?
What about her siblings, could they also summon the kings or where there magic not strong enough?
It did not matter though, with her children at her side she would remake this world into something worthy of her descendants. And she will watch over them all as they ruled over the lesser humans and faunus.
Oh how she cursed Ozma, how dared at the man hide her children from the world. They should bask in their powers, flaunt it and show the world their innate superiority. It was there right to rule over this world.
She quickly calmed herself, stopping her anger from growing, as she opened her eyes. She would fix her husbands foolish mistakes and make this world safe for her kids.
"I promise you my children, I will make this world worthy of you"
Hey everyone, hope you enjoyed this chapter. Now before I say ahything else there is news you should know, one is that I'm goibg back to college soon and that means less time for this story.
Another thing is that I'm starting to work on the Mass Reacts a bit so a new chapter in different fate may take some time, not really sure.
Besides that there isn't much else to say then if you enjoyed the chapter leave a review or like (please)
Also No Omake today, sorry but way too tired right now.