Chapter Nine
Into The Ground
Fourteen days later after Weiss and Karasu 'make up'...
'What would be the plan for Jaundice?' Karasu thought as he looked at the calendar, would it be possible to convince Jaune to try and train with me? I stood inside my own dorm looking at the free time I have, for the rest of the week, I spent my time with classes and friends, I recently had a conversation with Blake about books, it was a short talk nothing spectacular.
Before that, I explained to Weiss about my Hero Relic and Avalon, she seemed pretty certain she asked me if we could hunt for a creature of her choosing, I had the idea for a Barioth, maybe in two weeks? Yeah, two should be enough. Future plans aside, I wondered what I should be doing…
I noticed something of a change with my appearance, it came with the price of drinking the blood of a dragon. I had purple eyes, purple slitted eyes! I'm turning into a fucking dragon! Well now that I think about it it took awhile for it to activate… 'Uh… King, That's not the only thing that changed.' Shiro said as I looked at the mirror in the bathroom. 'It seems like it merged the draconic blood altered the hollow mask… your training gotten thousands of times worse.' I groaned, for the life of me, I cannot understand draconic lineage. Nor do I want to understand it.
I left those thoughts for another day and started to head to the bathroom. Nature calls my dudes and dudettes. Aside from that, I took the time to examine my crest. Usually I know that Crests are called the crest of flames or the crest of Charon. Wouldn't mine be called Crest of Karasu, what about Crest of Night? Yeah [Crest of Night] sounds better. The shower was nice and long, just the way I like it.
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After two classes we were released for lunch and I saw Blake looming over a book. I smiled and adjusted my steps to make them soundless, by coating aura around them. I looked at her quietly before reaching my hands over her head and quickly placed them over her bow at which she instinctively bitch slapped me with a book as I flew across the floor. 'Fuuuuck, I didn't know books could hurt…' 'King got pounded… ' Shiro stated the fact. "Owww…" I moaned as Blake was startled.
"K-Karasu! Why'd you do that?!" She stuttered my name as I looked at her from my knocked down position. "My- Ugh!" She tried to form words but she couldn't, now I had a good reason to do that, it's so I could have reason I knew she was a Faunus.
"I thought it would be a funny way to scare you, but." I thought to myself for a bit before looking at my hands. "Sorry." I added as I started to get up from my position and looked at her with a small grin.
Blake on the other hand was a bit pouty after that as we walked to the Cafeteria. We talked about how she was too caught up in reading the book to know she was ditched. I merely laughed as I could. Could I explain that I was comfortable around her as the only person I loved in a sense of romanticness? No. I'm me. And I've been turned into a fucking SUMANAI well, somewhat I just have purple slitted eyes nothing else.
"What… happened to your eyes?" I heard a voice as I found myself sitting right next to Team RWBY and JNPR. Ruby was the one to point it out.
"Uh… remember about that wyvern I killed?" I asked Weiss and she nodded. "I sorta drank blood when I removed it's head from the body."
Nearly all of them gagged at that. Yang spoke up. "So… you accidentally drank blood?" I nodded. "Gained Purple eyes." I nodded again. "And a sword that only reacts to you." I looked at Weiss who looked away from my stare and I nodded, again. "You are one lucky fucker I hope you know that." Yang said as I smiled only for her to frown.
"Anyways, Jaune. The hell are you looking depressed?" I decided to swiftly change subjects as I looked at the blond with a foreboding sense of curiosity.
"Wh- what? I'm not, just… thinking." Jaune responded as I looked at him with a dead eye face.
Pyrrha decided to add in as well. "It's true, you have been getting bullied by Cardin." She stated as she looked at Jaune, the entire party of nine started to look at him.
"I-it's not like that. Name one time Cardin picked on me." I looked at Jaune with a blank face as he started to pale once he said those words.
"Locker Rocket." I said.
"It must have been by accident." Jaune replied.
"He activated your shield when you went through the exit for Doctor Oobleck." Pyrrha pointed out.
"I'm sure that was an accident too." Jaune retorted.
I had one card for this denial. "Bathro-" I was suddenly cut off.
"PLEASE NOT THAT!" Jaune shouted as he covered his hands over his head as he looked down.
"Jaune, you can't just think everything is fine with Cardin. You are being bullied, something no one wants." Pyrrha started as I heard a cry, coming from behind me.
"I told you these were real." I heard Cardin say as I twisted my head to look at the situation. My eyes narrowed, I grabbed the nearest fork as I looked at Yang and Ruby. Yang nodded with her red eyes activated, Ruby had a much more pissed look, and begrudgingly nodded as she didn't want trouble.
I threw the fork, activating my semblance at that exact moment as the fork vanished and— "AHH!" Cardin yelled as the fork was stuck in his hand, freeing Velvet involuntarily. As he looked over to see who threw it only to see me, with the most disgusted face I had on my personnel. He grunted ready to walk over there and fight however.
"I dare you." I mouthed as I looked at his cronies as they looked at my aura leaking from my body, they could see my hollow mask forming at the inch of my mouth, they became frightened as they started to hurry their way out and into the nurse to get the fork removed.
"Don't fuck with the Dragon." I muttered under my breath as everyone nodded to my statement. "Ah. Shit that ruined my meal." I said aloud as everyone seemed to be surprised, except for Pyrrha, Yang and Ruby. "What?" I asked.
"Uh, Kars." Ruby said as she circled around her mouth, as I started to touch my face until I felt a piece overlap my left side of the lip. I paled immediately. "Aha… shit" I laughed a bit before uttering the curse word.
"Huh, haven't seen that in a while." Pyrrha said as I looked at her with a pleading face to tell her to stop. However it was futile.
"What is that?" Nora asked as she started to poke my partial formed hollow mask as I was stressed enough as it is. I have to tell the truth for one part, but on a side note how the fuck did she get here so fast!?
"It's my… secondary semblance. It's just a mask that manifests when I use Aura to cover my face, usually I need to physically add a second layer so I drag my hand over my face to form it." I said as Nora looked at me with a curious face, I looked at Ren for help.
"Nora, stop it, you are invading his personal space." Ren pointed out as Nora zipped away and ended up back at Ren's side.
"Sorry!" She declares as she happily cheered. Yang nudged me to go on since I've started, Weiss was intrigued and Blake was as well.
"I don't know if I can consider it a secondary semblance? After all, I have this second voice inside my head." 'I TAKE OFFENSE TO THAT YOU FUCK FACE!' Shiro screeched as I held my head in pain. "As you can see, he is hearing everything we say. I don't know if I have a second soul or rather it's just an abnormality with me. But I'm stuck with it, but it's not all that bad. When I bright out the mask it manifests with several available abilities I can use. Sonído is one of them, the capacity to move faster than Ruby." "HEY!" "And hit harder but the mask itself just doubles my strength." I finished.
"No wonder we can't hit you. You've ALWAYS used that ability to cheat your way to evade!" Yang pointed out as she smacked my head which collided with the table, everyone could hear the wood crack under pressure.
'THAT BITCH CHIPPED ME!' Shiro shouted again as I looked at Yang as the upper part of the mask formed on my forehead before getting dissipated. "That was rude." I muttered as Yang glared at me. The bell rang as we started to leave for the next class, I was wrong. They introduced every class separately. Now we have all five everyday. I groaned for my life to get worse, at least it was Combat Class.
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"Cardin Winchester, please come down to the stadium." Professor Goodwitch spoke as the class mumbled about who would be fighting him. Cardin came down with a smug face as he looked around to find a person to beat, unfortunately I met his gaze, his smugness turned into anger in moments.
"I'd like to pick… Him." He said pointing directly at me.
Glynda was surprised and felt pity for the foolish student. "Karasu Branwen, please come down to the stadium, and get ready." She announced as I started to get up and head down there.
Five minutes later we came out wearing our combat attire. I, being the sane one here, looked at Cardin with pity and cake equipped with Enuma. "You sure you want to do this, Cardy boy?" I asked in a taunting manner.
"Just wait, I'll knock your ass on the ground. I'll show how weak you are." He said with a smug grin as I started to dip down into a different stance called the 'Light-blade' Stance, he went more sloppy and unrefined with his stance, his mace is two handed, yet it has no one-handedness, he lacks mobility and his aura is big enough to make him out to be a tank. But he is fighting me.
(Bleach Ost - Ola! Arrancar Remix)
"Oi, Cardin." I asked in a cold voice as I brought my hand over my head. As I held out the katana showing the white blade and red cracks it has, the blade held still as Cardin looked at me with fury.
"What?" He asked incapable of taking his pride down a notch as I looked at him. Dragging my hand across and off my face the hollow mask manifested and Cardin paled to what he looked at, a mask deathly similar to that of the White Fang's except it is more intriguing as two red lines draw from the sides and slide down to where the eye holes are located, while two more lines appear on right side on the mask, the most Prominent features are the small protruding horns on the mask.
"¡Vete a la mierda!" I shouted in my hollowfied voice as I vanished from his sight as he felt the blade of Enuma hit his chest as I blitzed him using Sonído. The impact itself? Cardin was sent flying across the floor, until friction worked its job and slowed him down, took him down by 37%.
"Ruby… what did Karasu say?" Blake asked Ruby which she looked at her and shook her head no. At which Yang smiled and shook her head yes, they both learned he could speak it so they decided to learn from him as he spoke it, surely enough they started to adjust to him saying things in Spanish.
"He said 'Fuck Off', I knew that language was for something!" Yang laughed aloud as she was crying out with such. Enough for Cardin to hear and grunted, he was getting pissed, he yelled in frustration as he got up and ran at me with his Mace, now activated with Fire Dust. I was strengthened by the hollow mask, used Sonído once again and landed where Cardin landed after the initial strike.
"Come on, where's all that confidence gone?" I asked, taunting him again. As I swung Enuma towards his chest which he managed to block using Executioner, his mace. "Gotta say, you really are WEAK!" I shouted as I slammed my foot on his kneecap despite the armor on it, it held no resistance to my strengthened body, as he Yelp and I took the opportunity to push back his mace and perform two slashes across his chest, both strikes taking 15% of his aura.
"Just stand still and let me hit you!" Cardin shouted as he ran forward to me while I stood there and waited. He swung his mace to the right as I moved Enuma, the blade glided off the mace as it got deflected by partying the attack. I slammed on foot down over his as he yelled again in some pain. I pointed my index finger and middle finger at Cardin as I narrowed my eyes.
"You really should've just backed out." I said as black aura started to form a small ball of said color, my yellow hollow eyes looked at Cardin as he showed terror in his eyes. "Remember this Cardin, you're not the strongest person here." I spoke out and aloud, as my final words to this match. "Cero (Hollow Flash)" I spoke aloud as the black ball of aura, drawing out Shiro's Hollow powers. A blast erupted from the ball as Cardin took the full force of my 28% percent power Cero. Taking out the rest of his aura while draining my aura into 75%, being sent away by the sheer force of the aura blast. I went in to grab my mask and swipe my hand up dissipating the object.
"Yep. I blew my cover. Well, I hope no one else knows…" I said as I started to walk off. I'm not sure how to explain this to the professor… or Headmaster. I'm sure Taiyang filled out the form for explaining my semblances… I hope. But I found Teams RWBY and JNPR asking me questions about my mask, except for Pyrrha, Yang and Ruby they just videoed that whole thing, mostly Yang though. Vengeance will be mine….
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