RWBY: Revenant

By Endbeats

Chapter 28: After – Prison Break

Nothing has worked out. I've waited and watched for months, trying to help Liu and saying I'll always take his side, but all he's done is gone further down a path of destruction, both towards himself and towards others.

I can only hope the same tragedy as before won't replay. I don't have the heart for that.


"General Kang," Josephine said, "Sagino is currently guarding Liu's quarters. Are you sure I should be aiding him as well and leave you unguarded?"

Kang tapped his foot. "Josephine, we're hundreds of feet in the air in an airship with at least fifty troops besides you and Sagino. What assassin could get me now? Besides, the greatest danger on this ship is Liu himself."

"Your son?"

Kang nodded. "That kid's strength has grown at an insane rate. Along that, reports say he's somehow gained a second semblance. Either that, or his original semblance allows him to heal injuries on the spot."

"A second semblance? How?"

"I don't know, but there's something that's happened to him that made him stronger beyond just simple training. It's best to be careful."

Josephine froze for a second, but bowed and walked out, leaving Kang alone to his thoughts. Specifically, about how he was going to explain Liu's current situation to the family.

How do you go about telling your wife that her son is a murderer?


Sagino heard the knock of the door behind him accompanying a muffled "Sagino?" However, he was under orders to never open the door, even if Liu was unarmed.

Again, he heard the knock. "Sagino," Liu's voice behind the door said, "I'm really thirsty. Could I get some water?"

Sagino tried to stay his ground, and it proved strong enough for ten seconds, but it was his pseudo-nephew. It felt wrong to treat him like this. With a sigh, Sagino turned around and took the canteen out of his pocket. "Stay a few steps back," he said, "I'm coming in."

Sagino took a few glances around, then unlocked the door. It was risky, but Sagino had trained for years to deal with things like this. He walked into the door to find the remnants of Liu standing there. His black hair, grown beyond belief and almost touching his back. His body, far muscular than the same Liu just a year ago. And most disturbingly, his new, blue eyes that looked as if they came from someone else. It was Liu, Sagino had to keep reminding himself. The same Liu he watched grow him. The same Liu that got accepted to Beacon. It was Liu, even if it called itself Soul.

Sagino pulled out his canteen and handed it over to Liu. He quickly grabbed the canteen and started drinking as if he hadn't had anything in a few days.

"You like as if you've been in the desert," Sagino said.

Liu nodded and stopped to take a break from drinking. He wiped the remaining water droplets off his mouth. "I haven't had a drink for a while, and you guys forgot to put some in here!"

"Sorry, kid, but it was your dad's orders. He was probably worried you'd use it as a weapon."

"I can't use a weapon like that. My semblance can't do that."

He then handed it back to Sagino, whose guard slowly fell down as he saw the original Liu show himself. That was until he gripped onto Sagino's arm.

"My semblance can do this, though."


Soul released his semblance into Sagino's body, shocking him violently. He couldn't stop the man's screams from reaching the halls even with a closed door, but it would have to do in order for him to escape. All he had to do was shock him into unconsciousness.

Unfortunately, this was Sagino.

Still screaming, Sagino grabbed Soul's arm with his other hand and pulled it off with his crazy strength.

Through fast breathing, he muttered, "Is that all you've got?"

Soul could hardly fight his grip, and eventually, Sagino threw him into the side of the room. Pain spread throughout his back as he fell onto the ground. Luckily, the Voice's semblance took that pain away in a fraction of a second, and he was able to get back up and look towards Sagino.

"So it's true," Sagino grumbled, "You've somehow got another semblance in that body of yours. That's not possible."

Soul popped his neck. "It can do more than heal. Watch this!"

Immediately, Sagino got into a defensive stance as Soul charged towards him, just like he wanted. He held his hand in a fist, coming closer and closer towards his father's bodyguard. Just before reaching him, however, Soul jumped into the air and flipped over the top of Sagino, behind where the door was. Not intending to get caught, he immediately dashed forward out into the hall, and closed the door, where the security system automatically locked the door.

Loud thumping came from the room. "Hey!" Sagino yelled from inside, "Hey! Let me out!"

"Sorry Uncle Sagino, but I have to get out of here," Liu whispered, more for himself than for the one he trapped. He activated his semblance once more, double-checking both his location and the location of his weapons. Closing his eyes, he focused in on the whole airship until he found what he was looking for. Then, he felt the presence of five soldiers coming towards him.

Soul opened his eyes and saw the group of Mistral guards stopping dead in their tracks. Perhaps it was because of Soul's track record so far, or the fact he was Kang's son, but the five seemed hesitant to attack.

"I guess I'll come to you, then."

Soul had little time. He sprinted forward down the narrow hall, where the five were. He made his way to the closest one, who tried to block the incoming attack by covering his face. Soul instead threw a punch under his guard and directly into his gut, making the soldier fall. He then grabbed the fallen soldier by the back of the neck and threw him into the others. Not wanting to wait for the chaos to end, Soul dashed through the group. He was so close, with the room he needed in sight. He pushed his body even further, reaching out towards the door handle. Just a few more steps, and-

A flying dagger found its way into Soul's arm, and pinned it against the wall despite the short length. Soul yelped a bit in pain and struggled to pull the dagger off, but to no avail.

"They said you could heal fast," a new voice said from behind Soul, "So I don't think General Kang would be too angry of me to stab you."

Unexpectedly, a woman came around. "You're making a lot of trouble for me, you know. I should be doing nothing, just like a real body-guard would. Instead, I was forced to g on a wild goose chase across the world. Got anything to say to that?"

Soul didn't care. He just had to get out. "You shouldn't use something as short as daggers," he muttered. Then, Soul pushed his arm against the aim of the dagger. The woman's eyes widened and even got a little sickly as he pushed his entire arm through the dagger, breaking it free in a bloody mess. Not wanting him to escape, the woman snapped her fingers and the dagger returned to her hand as she came forward. Soul could barely dodge as he held his damaged arm in his other hand.

The woman was strong, but he couldn't give up yet. Soul dodged under a slash from her, then kicked her a few meters away. Even angrier and seemingly undamaged, the woman held her hand up and snapped, signaling for three daggers to come out from her back and fly forward. Soul barely had enough time to open the door on the weapons, causing them to deeply embed in the steel which he used as he escape.

Soul had little time. He jumped into the room and closed the door, then grabbed a random weapon and jammed it into the door handle. He could hear a muffled snap, followed by the daggers returning back into the hallway. "Not good," he muttered, "Where are they?"

The room was filled to the brim with weapons. It was good news, then, for him to find his two swords, scarf, and sweater still in a bag in the middle of the room. He unfurled his sweater and put it on, then his armor, followed by his scarf in his sleeves, and finally his two swords on his hips. That was better, he thought. "Now to escape."

Without any signal, the door was blasted open from its hinges, and two figures stood there: Sagino and the woman. Sagino was looking rather peeved.

"You'd do best to go back to the quarters, Liu," Sagino grumbled with a red face. He was carrying his giant, man-sized sword.

Soul said nothing and put his hand on his hilt. Then, using his other arm, he shot his scarf out, wrapping around Sagino's sword and pulling. Sagino barely moved and his immense physical strength made Soul launch forward. This was expected. Soul pulled his swords out of their sheathes and slashed downwards on Sagino's swords. The force behind his attack actually made Sagino step backwards, but not even Soul expected the man to break his guard. Instead, Soul aimed his body upwards and pushed against Sagino's blade, launching him again onto the ceiling of the hallway. With one more push off the top of the room, Soul just barely dodged a flying dagger, and landed past the two.

He was in the homestretch. Soul sprinted as fast as he could down the hall while flying daggers came all around him. Doors lined down the wall moved like a blur as he ran. He ran faster and faster. The hall seemed like it went on forever. He managed to keep dodging the daggers, even throwing some back every now and then, but he felt his luck was about to change as he grew tired.

Finally, however, the hallway came to an end when it reached one large door. With nowhere else to go and two powerful fighters on his tail, Soul broke into the door, revealing the largest cargo room of the airship. There were crates on top of crates, all tied down for stability. The center of the room, however, was empty, and the end of the room was slanted upwards, which Liu assumed was the ramp that could open and close.

He had no more options. This was a dead end.

Soul turned back around as not just Sagino and the woman showed up, but so did a large group of soldiers.

"Come on, Liu, you don't want to fight anymore. You can't fight anymore," Sagino spoke.

Soul walked backwards with his left sword forward until he touched the slanted end of the room.

Then, Kang came in, his claymore on his back and a concerned look on his face. "Liu, please. Please come back home."

Soul sighed, but finally sheathed his blades. "I'm so sorry, dad. Really, I hate what I'm doing to you and Mom."

Soul then slammed his hand on the slanted edge of the room. "I'm sorry, but I have to go."

Upon touching the metal ramp, Soul pushed his semblance inside of it. Now, any sort of electric power on the ramp was redirected, and he was in complete control of it. With a pull, the slanted end of the room started opening.

"Get out!" Kang yelled to the soldiers. No one was disobedient. Everyone, save for him and his body-guards, left the room and shut the door.

Still, the air pressure from the opened ramp kept the three in place, and gave Soul a chance to walk towards the edge of it. He looked down and saw the hundreds of floating rocks that littered the skies of Lake Matsu. Below was the water, far too low for him to land in. Instead, Soul looked around and saw one giant rock that was close enough to the airship for him to safely land.

"Liu," his father said again with an open hand, "Please."

He turned back around and looked. His father, even in this time and all that Soul had done, still wanted him to return. His father really was too good.

Too good for him. Soul would spread the stains on his hands if he were to return home.

Soul shook his head. "I'm sorry."

Taking a deep breath, Soul jumped off the airship and started his long descent onto the floating rocks.


Kang froze as he saw his son jump out of the ship. He pulled himself back together, though, and ran to the opening, where he looked down. Liu was trying to land on the rocks over Lake Matsu. There was still a chance. But Liu had managed to break free from the airship. Even with his two body-guards keeping watch, Liu escaped. There could only be one way to get him back permanently, then.

Complete and utter defeat.

"Hey," he yelled to Sagino, "The reports said he could heal fast, right?"

"I saw so myself!"

Kang nodded and took the claymore off his back. "Tell the pilot to fly as far and as fast as they can from the lake. Keep circling around, and when the storm clouds disappear, come to the largest floating rock he can fiind.

"But general," Josephine tried to correct, "There aren't any storm clouds."

"There will be." And with that, Kang jumped off the airship, claymore in hand.


Soul kept grabbing the smaller rocks with his scarf and pulled slightly to help slow his descent down. Eventually, however, the ground of the larger rock, almost identifiable as a floating island, grew and before he knew it, Soul made physical contact with it. He retracted the scarf back into his sleeve and looked around.

"Now, how do I get down?" he mumbled to himself. He walked towards the edge of the cliff, and saw more floating islands down below. He could just keep swinging from rock to rock, until he eventually made it to the water. After that, getting out of the lake was his next problem.

Soul felt the small touch of water on the back of his hand. Strange, considering how high up he was on such a sunny day. Then he felt another. And another. Soul looked up for the source to find dark clouds starting to form in the sky.

"Oh no."

At the other side of the small island, a heavy force landed, causing the entire rock to shake a bit and spread dust around. Soul didn't have enough time to cover his mouth, and tried to cough out the dust that got into his lungs. With watery eyes, he looked up towards the source of the crash land. He didn't realize, though, that the crash land would come towards him.

Soul barely had enough time to get out of the way of a two-handed sword, and got a small cut on his cheek. He jumped back, pulled his two swords out, and got in a defensive position. In that time, the cut had healed.

"So, the reports are true. Your healing rate is lighting fast."

The dust subsided, and Soul saw who it was. Kang Xiu. His father had followed him down to the rocks, and was wielding his powerful Wind's Thunder blade. Soul tightened his grip on his swords. This was going to be the hardest fight he'd ever face.

"Luckily, that gives me the chance to attack without holding back. I'm sorry, Liu, but I'm going to have to beat you into unconsciousness."


(Author's Note: Hello! Like, Comment, and Sub- That's the wrong website! I mean, please follow, favorite, or review if you enjoy this story! Thanks so much for taking the time to read it! I'm legit excited for the next chapter in the after story. It's a fight I've been imagining since the start of writing this fan fiction. So be sure to read it... if you like these after chapters, haha. Anyways, see you and God bless!)