Team CYAN: Grimm Family Matters
Chapter 17: Family
(Note: I do not own RWBY, all rights to RWBY go to Rooster Teeth in honor of its creator, Monty Oum)
Aidan's POV
June 15, 02:01 PM
Cut to Celena still supporting Ly through the corridors of the tree.
Ly: "I'm afraid I have been deceiving all of you regarding Kibishi's origin this whole time. Your aunt is the only one I've told the truth of his origins... as well as my own-Ah!" He trips and falls.
Celena: "Damnit, Ly. You gotta rest." He gets up.
Ly: "Celena... I will tell you... everything. The truth is... Kibishi is not a true Grimm King... only a boy cursed with Grimm power... a separated man from Grimm to become what he is." He looks toward her. "He is your fathers former pupil." Now she looks confused
Celena: "Dads... pupil?"
Ly: "Yes... And his true name is... Zaka Lias... or at least, that's what he goes by now... but his true name... is Lloyd." Cut to me landing in the middle of a peaceful looking grass field with clear skies... what? But I just ignore that and look forward to see Kibishi with back turned to me as he's facing a pitch black dead tree with a Grimm looking apple hanging from one of the branches right by his face.
Aidan: *pant pant*"Lloyd..." I stand up straight and get his attention. "Hey! Is that damn fruit I keep hearing about? Doesn't look so special to me!" He doesn't respond and keeps his eyes on the fruit. I look around and start to recognize what this place is suppose to look like. "Yep. This is where it started to fall apart... on that day you regained your memories, remembered your real name... and your tormented past... and tried to kill me out of a new found thirst for power. Such as finally unlocking the true power of the Salem... that you remember stealing from Raven Croft."
Kibishi: "I have no memory of this tale... or this place. This is all just an illusion, created by this extraordinary fruit. Its power, I'm sure you realize, is all I ever wanted..." As he raises his hand and picks it off the branch. "And with this..." I start running his way to try and stop him. "I will have... EVERYTHING!" He eats the whole thing in one bite to which I stop in my tracks. Then the sky starts cracking as an immense purple light emits from him and the dead tree the fruit grew from starts to vanish.
Aidan: "No, Lloyd... you DON'T have everything. That last shred of humanity you still had...? You just lost it!" As I draw Eclipse.
Kibishi: "That is nothing more than the pitiful cries of one without true strength. Come... allow me to enlighten you... Verde!" The light dims down and his hood has been pushed back, revealing his face and his white hair slicked back. His eyes now glowing purple much like his Evolved Grimm, as well has his showing veins being purple as well. I enter my new God form in order to match his new power. Our power is all over the place as we rapidly clash. He uses a number of projectiles when he gets a distance away but I tend to counter with each weapon. Spin my Scythe above me to block his lightning strikes, use my Broadsword to knock away incoming meteors, either my Twin Blades or Dual Guns to discard incoming spikes that he telepathically sends my way. When I get close, I tend to all my level Artes or any of my aerial Artes such as Heavenly Wheel or Ghost Falcon but I most definitely use Eclipse as I use Cross Slash followed up by Shining Fang.
Aidan: "What's wrong, Lloyd? This is no time to be holding back!"
Kibishi: "It would seem so..." As he released a large burst of energy and rained down giant spikes of dark crystal to which I summon Skeith to destroy them all and go to distract him while I charge up energy. He manages to knock Skeith back as I come straight at him with a charged sword thrust that leads to complete impalement through his chest. Celena and Ly's conversation continue as I keep the hold as he tries to hold on to consciousness.
Celena: "Their master and student? Why are they fighting each other?"
Ly: "Lloyd is a tormented boy who was taken by Raven Croft after birth. He escaped some time later, taking the Salem with him, but not until after being experiment on with the intent of giving people new powers based on having Grimm blood. After a few traumatizing encounters with Grimm after his escape he eventually lost his memory and was found by Verde. He was taken in as a pupil under the name of Zaka Lias during your years of combat school. But one day, he regained his memories and gained a thirst for power after he fully unlocked the power of the Salem, and in order to stop him, Verde vowed to stop him, even if he was his pupil."
Celena: "That's awful..."
Ly: "Lloyd will stop at absolutely nothing to get what he wants... he even used the Salem to separate man from Grimm and to create the Osore... He MUST be stop!" As I jump back, pulling my sword out, and he falls back onto his back in terrible pain, completely unable to move. That's when Celena and Ly show up.
Celena: "Dad!" I rest the Eclipse on my shoulder as I return to my normal form.
Aidan: "You're late... I was just finishing up."
Celena: "Is that really your student?"
Aidan: "Formerly, but yes, I'm afraid so."
Celena: "To think he would stoop so low as to split himself... it makes me wonder whatever happened to his human half."
Aidan: "Right..." Ly slowly gets closer and closer to Kibishi.
Ly: "In the last throes of defeat, I see."
Kibishi: "Ngh! You...!"
Aidan: "Better get back, Ly! Things are about to get ugly." Ly stops and turns his head to me.
Ly: "No, please... I know he is your problem... But I want to finish this... with my own hands..." He gets closer to Kibishi and climbs atop him. He stands of straight atop him, standing just below his chest. "Don't struggle... For if you can't even defeat me, then you have already lost."
Kibishi: "I will not lose... Not to you... not to Verde... I need power... more power!" Ly kneels.
Ly: "I know... We are one and the same, you and I. But you've lost me, and I've lost you. Yet we are connected by that one feeling. 'While thy branches mix with mine..." As he raises his stick as if to stab him in the chest. "...and our roots together join!'" And then it clicks in my head! He's trying to...! No! I start running to try and stop but I was to late, as he stabbed Kibishi and when he does, a large spire of purple energy surrounds them, the resulting shockwave knocking me back, and the illusion disappears, making the room look the same as any other room in this tree. When the spire clear, both Ly and Kibishi are gone, and in their place is a teenage boy, about a year older then Celena, in grey jeans and black leather jacket with a red t-shirt underneath, as well as black shoes and red leather gloves. He has blood red colored eyes and short, messy hair as brown as mine, and has the Salem Sword sheathed on his back. He stands where Ly and Kibishi were with his back turned to us.
Celena: "Argh! What is this?"
Aidan: *sigh*"Lloyd...!" He turns around to face us... this is Zaka Lias, the Second Coming of Salem.
Zaka-equipped weapon:
Shadow of the Younger Brother, Salem
Forged from a crystal from the Domain of Darkness, allowing it dark power comparable to the God of Darkness himself.