But this time, "Ladies and Gentlemen, hold onto your souls, for we are here." I growled as I ran to the edge of the airship and leaped off, I placed my mask on as I plummeted to the ground.
This time, I would not fail.
"You jumped as well?" Monoma asked. I looked over at the 1-B student.
"So long as you have a landing strategy." I said.
"Yeah, it's you." He grabbed onto my torn cape as we crashed through the roof of Haven.
Chapter 67: Demon sister
I closed dads scroll as we entered Haven Academy, "Well at least the dunce is alive." Weiss said. "What happened to her?" She asked.
"She didn't say, said she'll explain in person." I said, I spotted Leo Lionheart standing in the middle of the entrance hall, looking even more nervous the last time we met.
"Welcome Huntsmen." Cinder stepped out from behind him, "Leo has been oh so helpful." She wore a long red and gold dress, and part of her face was covered in a grey mask. Her one eye flared with power.
"Oh yes kiddos, I just bet you were expecting good news." Torchwick and his ice-cream themed henchmen said from the balcony. Three others stood with him, a man in a orange and black suit with a mask and top hat, a man with skin patched over burn scars. but the third one was made of some sort of purple mist. "I'm sorry Taiyang, your oldman couldn't be here." He swung over the wood railing and dropped down.
Emerald, Mercury, and a massive man with tanned skin and brown hair stepped out of the air behind us. "I'm sorry it has be this way." The man said.
"But we need the relic." Raven and Vernal stepped out of a swirling red portal. We were surrounded.
"Damn it Leo, you led us into a trap!" Qrow growled.
"I'm sorry, but there is no beating Salem, she promised to spare me and my family. I had no other choice." He raised his shield and looked at us.
"Damn it." Dad snarled. "If their really working with All for One... I don't want to know what quirks they could have. At least they don't have any Nomu." I gave dad a sideways glance.
'What is All for One?' I thought to myself. 'The hell is a Nomu?'
"Oh my I forgot, we do have a Nomu, and not just that, a grimm Nomu, Tai, Mr. Compress, if you would be so kind?" Torchwick smiled up at the man in the mask. He threw down at us a small blue marble and snapped his fingers, a woman landed in a knelling pose, black and red hair covering her face, but the white cloak... No, no, no.
Mom, not Raven, but mom looked at me with a single red eye filled with hatred, her face twitching as if she was fighting some primal urge.
An urge to kill.
"Summer..." Dad and Qrow to a few steps back.
"What is that?" Nora asked, fear creeping deep into her voice.
"It's my... mother." I took a few steps back as she stood up, this was so wrong. This had to be some sort of trick.
"I'm sorry but your mother is repulsive." Weiss said as she readied her blade, the normally still blade quivering as her hand shook.
"Black Huntress, kill." The mobster ordered.
She took one step towards us when the ceiling was punched through by something, no by two people.
Between us and mom stood two people. One was a blond boy in black over the top formal clothes. He let go of a girls torn up red cloak, she wore bronze armor over slick black clothes and wrist cross bows over the gauntlets, but in her had was a large red scythe, Ruby wore a silver segment crown and a grimm mask with a red slash over one cheek, ornamental horns pushed up her hair and curled down under her ears. "CINDER!" She roared as her gaze focused on the woman.
"Well if it isn't the Reaper. I'm so scared." Cinder mocked as she formed twin blades out the air. "Let's dance Maiden of Destruction." And the two charged each other golden flames burning off of Cinder, but a purple inferno raged around my sister. They crashed together, their blades sparking as their blows threw flames around them in a horrible cage of power.
The blonde boy ducked under my mothers lunging attack, barely tapping her before he attacked her, sending her sprawling on the ground, yellow petals filling the air around him as he dashed over to her. The two kept up a flurry of blows, but they never seemed to get advantage over the other.
Mercury attacked me, but I grabbed his leg and swung him around before blasting him with my artificial arm. He dodged the round and kicked me in the jaw, I stumbled back from the blow, a second one followed, then another and another. He beat me back a few steps before I caught his leg and planted my fist in his chest, his silver aura flaring around my blow as he landed on his feet. "Just like in the tournament?" He asked.
"Shut up." I charged him, flames cloaking my hair before he vanished in a pink flash and I got kicked in the gut by nothing. I tried looked around for him, only to be kicked once again, only this time in the head. I grabbed the invisible leg and swung him over my shoulder and into the wood floor, splinters flying up into the air. The illusion around him broke as I fired a round into his chest. The gun in his boot fired as he twisted out of my grip but Dad grabed him and smashed him into the ground again before black lighting filled the air around them.
"This one doesn't have any." He mumbled to himself. He stood up from Mercury who had a blank look in his eyes. He turned to Summer, "Damn it All for One. How could you do this?"
"Who is All for One?" I asked.
"A villain, just as if not worse then Salem. I have a complicated history with him." He marched towards the battle. "I should have killed him when I had the chance 24 years ago."
He made it a few steps before a wall of blue flames cut him off. "I'm sorry, but we can't let you destroy those quirks." The patch work man said. "Your dear old dad worked hard on this one."
"Then I'll destroy yours first." dad lunged at the man. But he was blasted back by more flames.
"We are aware about None for All, the quirk destroying quirk. A power unlike any other that has been seen before or since." Torchwick spun his cane on his finger as he came up besides the man. "Dabi here was chosen to kill you. His quirk is quite powerful after all." He leveled the cane at my father. "I do so wish you a good night." He fired the round into my fathers chest and he was blasted back. He stood in place, smoke rising from his chest, but his aura held.
"I escaped that monster, now he has turned my wife into a demon." He growled.
"Not just your wife." 'Mr. Compress said. "You daughter spent a couple nights with him."
I looked at Ruby... those horns... they weren't decorations.
I fought the wheel as I dodged more and more rockets. My ship was down one engine and we were listing to the port side. "All Might, we need you on the ground." Aizawa said as he fought for balance. The massive man nodded and leaped off of the ship.
"May as well check and see if we have ammo." I said. I activated a button marked 'Main Canon' and the deck opened up and a large artillery piece expanded, but the screen flashed on ammo.
"Damn it." I yanked the wheel again as a rocket sailed past us exploding on the cliff side. I looked at the gun with frustration until I saw that it was a rear breach loaded gun. and the hole was large enough for a arm to fit in it.
"Explosion boy, your the ammo!" I flipped a switch and the breach opened. He looked between it and me, his devious smile splitting his face. He pulled off his gauntlet and placed his hand in to his shoulder.
"DIE!" He yelled as a orange explosion shot out of the barrel of the gun, punching a hole clean through attackers ship. The other scattered.
"Hard Boy! Aizawa! Spider guy! You aim!" I ordered. The artillery piece sat on a rotating platform with handles for a team of men to push the gun into position. as the three turned the gun around. They lined up another shot. and blasted another ship out of the night sky. We got hit again, not anywhere important, but we were rocked by the blast. Corinthia stumbled back and broke through the railing falling to the ground.
I spun in the air as the ground sped towards me, I took a deep breath as I called on the winds to slow my fall. I landed in a court yard knelling, my bronze swords in my hands as I stood up. I spun Glaive, my right hand blade in a slow circle, the smooth wood scales feeling right at home in my grip. Chillrend felt a lot colder in my left hand. I looked at these White Fang soldiers. Animai, or faunas as they called themselves now. One barked something in the modern tongue as they leveled their gun at me. I slashed Glaive through the air and the mans chest opened up from the compressed wind. He fell to the ground holding his chest, a shallow cut, but it had forced air into his veins.
I turned to the rest. "If you die, you die." I said as I readied myself. 'Should I hold back?' I asked my self as I dodged the gun fire. I looped through the weapons with ease. Chillrend froze them in place as I danced from foe to foe. 'I won't use magic at least.'
I dodged Cinders blades and planted a kick in her gut, her aura flaring around my boot. She skidded back from the blow. "You are annoying you little Rose. Tell me how was it to watch your friend die again?" She taunted. I remained silent as I glared at her. "What do you expect to get out of this? You can't...!" Jaune slashed at herm his blade cutting through the mask that covered part of her face. I lashed out at that same time hooking her by the waist and swing her around and throwing her into a wall. She hit it with enough force to shatter the wood.
"YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT PYRRHA!" Me and Jaune yelled as we charged her. She blasted us with fire but we dodged around it.
"Struck a nerve? Let's see if I can hit a few more?" Lightning danced from her hand towards Weiss, I dashed in front of her and took the blast to my chest. I fell to the ground as my body spasmed with pain.
"RUBY!" Weiss turned her attention to Cinder for just a second, and that was all the opening Emerald needed to strike her down.
"NO!" Jaune went into a fury as his great sword smashed into cinder aura, forcing her back a step.
I ripped off my mask as I struggled for air. I stood to my feet, all the emotions were over whelming my senses. I had to fight. I had to kill.
I had to feed.
I stood up as my head swam with to much going through it. Fear, anger, sadness, the entire city's population every emotion assaulted me. I was losing control.
And I liked it. My head snapped up to Cinder, a soft laugh escaping my lips as I used Thorns to make twin ice wrist blades. I took one step toward her, then another. Someone grabbed my sleeve and I turned to Wiess. "Ruby, snap out of it!"
I blinked a few times, as I looked at my teammate. "I... I lost control..." I said as she let go.
"What happened to you? Your gone for a year... now your a grimm?" I looked around. Emerald and been trapped in ice, Weiss probably.
"It's complicated." I said as the ice melted from my wrists. The battle raged around us.
"She called you... the Maiden of Destruction?" I looked at her with my purple eyes, flames dying down around them. "I'm just glad you're okay." She hugged me. "I thought I had lost my best friend."
"You can never lose me Ice Queen." I hugged her back, "Back to kicking ass?"
"Will you stay you?" She asked with concern.
"Why do you think I have you?" I asked.
I held onto the ship for dear life with one hand, my other hand held onto Zwei as we flew and blasted our way through every other ship. The airship groaned as Bakugo blasted another White fang ship. The barrel of the gun was smoking and starting to glow at the end.
"Jiro! Hanging in there?" Kirishima asked as the reposition the gun again.
"Barely!" I released another sonic burst, exploding more rockets that raced towards us.
"Damn it." Hatsume said from the helm. "Please tell me the smaller guns have ammo." She punched another button and nothing happened. "No power to those sections?" She yanked on the wheel to avoid another craft. "I'm not going out like this, Kyoka take the wheel, I need to make some repairs." I pulled my self myself over and took the controls as she hopped down a hatch.
"DIE! DIE! DIE!" Bakugo yelled with each shot. The positioning of the shots were perfect, each one blew up their targets, but there was just so many. We got hit again almost throwing us from the ship. "DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" Bakugo just kept on blasting but he was reaching his limits.
"Hatsume! We can't keep this up!" I fought the wheel as we banked portside.
"I just need a few seconds!" She yelled back.
I gunned the throttle and pulled up to avoid more, I turned it and dived them. More blasts rocking the air, but I had spotted something flying over the mountains. More airships, flying Mistral flags. They were fighting off grimm. We were on our own.
"I got it!" I heard something open and drop down. "PLACE YOUR HAND ON THE SCREEN! IT'S AURA POWERED!" I Feed the guns with my aura, and I heard what sounded like miniguns revving then firing. Purple bullets tore through ships, their crews jumping to safety.
I traded blows with Black Huntress, but she was slowly winning the battle. I bleed from cuts on my face, my nose had been broken, and blood dripped from my mouth. I grabbed her and activated my semblance. As she wrenched her arm free a man slashed at her. Her wore a grey and black pants with a red cape that has seen better days. "You're powerful kid," He said as he drank from a flask. "She was my friend I should put her out of her misery."
"Ruby, said that she was able to bring her out for a second." I told him as I held my arm.
"Then let hope she's right."
I decked another White Fang member, his allies in piles around me. I heard a gun shot and turned to a girl in a long white coat, a sword with a gun for a hilt in one hand, and a large cleaver in the other. Her black hair was topped with a pair of cat ears. She had just shot a man who was sneaking up on me. "Thanks for the assistance Miss..."
"I'm Blake Belladonna." She said as more faunas ran onto the battle field, many wearing semi tribal clothes. The entered combat with the white fang.
"Oh your one of Ruby's teammates." I looked down at the young huntress.
"Ruby is alive?!" Her ears perked up at that.
"Indeed, she has missed her team." I smiled down at her.
"Blake!" We looked over at a young man, he wore black and thing grimm mask covering his eyes, his red and black hair glowed.
"Adam, end this." She stepped in front of me. "Your forces are losing ground as we speak."
"No, we were supposed to change the world, put the faunas at the top." He stepped towards her.
"Young man. Do you understand what your..." I started but he cut me off.
"Silence human, once the faunas are in power, all humans will be made to live as we have. In subjection." His hand went for his blade.
"Then you fail to see you have become what you hate." I said under my breath.
"ALL MIGHT! DUCK!" Bakugo yelled. I spun around to see the heavily damaged ship pointed right at us. "DIE!" The barrel of the can lit up like the sun as the massive explosion shot out of it. I grabbed Blake and jumped out of the way. I spun midair to see the attack being absorbed into the half drawn blade, the glow on Adams body becoming frighteningly bright. He sheathed the blade and drew it again with the sound of a gun shot.
Any one who was standing in front of him, including his own troops were cut in half, I watched as men and women disintegrate before my eyes, all cut in half. The air ship wasn't spared. I looked around and saw that Aizawa and Menzro had saved the students and Zwei. "What did you do? What did you DO!" Blake yelled as she got to her feet.
"All that blood is on your hands." He said as he went to draw his blade again.
"GET HERE YOU BASTARD!" Bakugo screamed, the sheath imploded as he used his semblance on it. The boy rocketed at the murderer. He tackled and pinned him down with his gauntleted hand on the back of Adam. "YOU KILLED THOSE PEOPLE! NOT HER! NOT ANYONE ELSE!" he drew back the rod on the gauntlet, and put his finger through the pin. "GIVE ME A REASON NOT TO KILL YOU! YOU JUST MURDERED YOUR OWN PEOPLE!"
"LIKE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND!" Adam shoved him off and kicked the boy in the face, this caused him to pull the pin and the explosion threw Adam across the court yard and trough the wooden doors of the school.
"He killed them all..." I looked at all the blood splatters... yet not a single body.
"Blake! Oh god your... what happened?" A massive man with black hair asked.
"Adam... he has to be stopped." She stood up.
"Wait... where is Corinthia?" Bakugo asked as he stood up. I spotted the girl hidden by a pillar, a large cut in her armor, but she was alive. "Corinthia, Oh that's a relief." He ran over to check on her.
"That monster has to be stopped." The man said as a woman and blonde monkey faunas caught up with them, the remaining White Fang and faunas had stopped fighting.
I was planning on completing this in one chapter but I felt that is enough for today.