The Hero of Life: RWBY

by Justaaverageman

A Boy turned Savior is sent to Another World to Save His Own and on Every Step of his Adventure a new problem appears. He will do Whatever it Takes, even When He has to Bring Out a Part of Him that Every Human tries to Delete From Themselves. Some say Talent Beats Hardwork and Others say Hardwork Beats Talent. Who's to say that Both Aren't the Same.

9. Fears Come to Life

For The Record

So For the Record, this is going to be my journal. All of my darkest deepest secrets will go in here, Nah not really. So how do I start out? Let's see, if you're seeing this either it means you're someone close to me and you got this after my death, or I went missing because something happened to me or you're some creep looking at a 15 year old's diary, bad creep, go away.

So let's rewind and let's start from the beginning.

The name is Andres Mondragon. I'm just some average kid you would walk by every day to school or work, there nothing really special about me no crazy hair color or some weird talent for science or incredibly strong body, no I'm none of that, I'm just average. Enough about me.

So one beautiful day I went to school with my best friend Aron. The day was rally day so we headed to the indoor gym because our school was too poor to have an actual stadium.

Guess what happens next, the fucking worst thing happens during the rally, no terrorists don't attack or a school shooter, No Fucking Dragons attack (Yeah I thought I was high or something too), and this giant green one crashed into the indoor gyms ceiling killing some people, crazy right well it's definitely not the end of it.

Everyone ran, even me. I was fucking scared, but I saw it going after the cheerleaders and one of them was the one I loved, her name was Selina, so as brainless as I was I intercepted it before anything happened to her.

The fight was hard and tiresome, but I fought valiantly (AKA I just dodged) and while I did I lost an arm I somehow by sheer stupid amount of luck I killed it, I didn't do most of the damage, the ceiling of the gym did most of the work

It seemed all good until I looked around, it was just burnt corpses of the people I once knew, it was heart wrenching and the worst part was the woman that I fought for Selina, she was dead too. She was in a pile of rubble, being delirious I thought she could still be alive so I started yanking on her arm trying to pull her out of the rubble. It was horrible, her arm severed leaving me with a piece of her, this moment will haunt me for the rest of my days.

I left the gym and while running away I saw a Ginormous Red and Black Dragon about to kill a group of people, I was going to just find my family leaving the people to die, yes I do regret even thinking about doing that, but my soul told me to help. The Dragon the whole time was looking for me because I killed the green one, Dovoca, but before I arrived at my best friend Aron was almost killed pretending to be me, really he's a better person than me.

The Dragon's name is Paarthurnax King of the Dragons. He gave me a deal because I killed the weakest Dragon in his army. The reason why was because he saw potential in me. Now that I think about it Paarthurnax's name is a Skyrim reference seriously what's with the references. Oh yeah the deal is that I need to hit a Witch once, sounds easy right not really turns out this Witch is the Queen of Grimm on Remnant the planet I'm now on, so you know the head honcho here.

He threw me here(Literally) and healed me completely, yes my arm did come back somehow and he left me with one of his Scales and one Scale from the green Dragon I killed and a bit of advice, he told me to go to Mount Helios to forge my Scales into weapons. He left me the Scales to forge them into weapons which will help me on my quest.

Paarthurnax left me here and I walked away to clear my head from the amount of stress my brain was going through, but an Asshole named Ozpin stops me. He knocked me out and when I woke up he wanted me to meet him. He took the Scales that would help me so I did what he said. We had a little chat. For some reason he was incredibly arrogant, he made the biggest dumbest decision which was incredibly good for me. He gave me the Scales back because he thought I was going to accept his deal of going to his school Beacon which my whole body told me was the wrong move so I didn't, I'm a teenager who's rebellious and he thought I was just going to listen to him.

I left Beacon robbing a couple of weapons, armor, books, and food. There were people who helped me. Their names were Weiss, Ruby, and mostly Blake. I need to thank them one day, especially Blake. She's the reason I got away. So I left after being chased by friends of someone I stole from to this world's airplane, what I steal for the greater good. Well, they didn't think so and they almost crashed the plane to get to me, seriously do they really just give kids powers and weapons and expect them to solve problems the civil way.

I get in and leave the city, I land outside the walls and after a nap, I wake up to gunfire. Running to it I fought a couple of Grimm and then I met a woman named Clover. She was a lieutenant of the White Fang, but I didn't know that yet. Some shit happened and I stayed behind to fend off the attackers, but I got captured by Clover.

While was in captivity I got tortured by one of the people I fought against Coal, let me tell you the torture in the moves doesn't do justice to how much pain you feel when going through it. Through blind rage, determination, and help from the people I care about, I rip out of my restraints and kill my torturer. I might hate killing, but this one time it actually felt good. I gathered my things and left the compound. Going to the emergency shelter I fight against multiple Grimm. Along the way, a Beringel gets in my way and he fucks me up almost to the point of death, but before I do my Aura unlocks.

Man after my power up I get back up and I just fuck it up and go to the mayor to protect him. I get there and rest a bit, but the wall explodes and a man that goes by the name Adam Taurus comes in, God I hate this condescending asshole. He kicked me eleven different ways and almost chopped me in half. I lost badly but my friend Clover betrayed the White fang and saved me from being killed by Adam.

I was saved but a huge scar is left on my bottom right side of the torso reminding me of how strong people can be here. I healed up and as a reward for helping save the village a Smith which I didn't get the name from, he made me an Amazing Longsword just for me. I left the village as soon as possible because the council would imprison me because I fought the Grimm, yeah I know stupid I hate rules.

I left with Clover to Silverkeep, over time on our journey she trained me hard and we both got closer to one another, we have something special, one day maybe if I survive this maybe she'll be the one… no have to keep focus. Paarthanaux and a lot of people have told me about how special I am and I can see why I'm progressing incredibly fast, to the point of Goku. Maybe I'm kinda like Goku, sorry my bad I mean Saiyans because every time I get to the brink of death I just get stronger, come on Zen Kia boost.

We got to Silverkeep then me and Clover separated, but before she left she kissed me, yes the plot thickens. In Silverkeep a depression was happening (I'm talking about people depressed as fuck, not an economic depression) I meet up with students from Beacon and followed tracks to find the Grimm responsible for the depression that's been happening. We entered the cave that the Grimm we thought that's responsible for the depression at Silverkeep, while we were in the cave. Coco and I were having an intense argument, but we were trapped in by a Villain, probably the green haired bitch. Turns out the cave had a Grimm Nest inside it so we had to fight through hordes of Grimm.

During the fighting Coco was knocked out and while I was protecting her a Deathstalker went after us. I was knocked away from her at some point, but as the Deathstalker was about to kill Coco my Semblance activated and I trapped it in Threads. My Semblance name is called Thread of Destruction, awesome right. Coco and I patch up and we get a little too close physically.

Also while we're resting the Apathy we were looking for was in the wall and it wasn't just one of them there were dozens. We fought and fought, but the Grimm's ability was to take your Will. My group fell one by one from their ability leaving only me standing. Through desperation and determination I kept on fighting and while this was happening the floor started to collapse. Finally, after minutes of fighting, it was only me and the final Apathy, but the floor underneath us collapsed and I and the final Apathy fell in. I woke up after the fall and the Apathy was about to rip out my throat, but before it could I summoned thousands of Threads to destroy it. The attack knocked me out from mental exhaustion.

In the hole I fell there was a building inside and there was a mural that Paarthurnax saw and got angry just by looking at it. I questioned him, but he gave me almost nothing, but later he did. It turns out that when we were in the cave Silverkeep was being attacked by hordes of Grimm.

climbed out of the hole and caught up with Team CFVY and we headed to the town.

When we got there it was total chaos and we entered it and fought alongside the guards. While we were fighting we were suddenly getting shot from behind. I and fox went after the shooter. While we were going after the shooter we found out that Apathies were buried in the ground. We split up and I got to fight the shooter by myself while he took out the Apathies. Turns out the shooter I met her a couple of hours before and we started fighting, she stole my thing but I caught her.

I was on the losing side until I dropped a building on her, if you can't win a battle by force then win it with wit. After the shooter, the Mayor of Silverkeep, Ebony attacked me, I don't know her reasons entirely, but I could already tell you they were shit. I lost almost immediately, but as she was about to kill me Fox saves me, really the nicest thing he's done for me. He kept up with Ebony, but he was losing until Yatsuhashi came from behind and cut off her arm, like a badass.

I let them capture Ebony while I walked back to the wall to keep defending. I kept fighting and at one point I was so desperate that I ate Dust, yeah not my finest moment, but it turns out it's a power up. It also hurts like a massive bitch. I slaughtered so many Grimm with my new powered up Thread, but it ran out eventually. Finally, after a while, the fighting was over and I fell asleep at the emergency shelter.

The next three days were filled with work, drinking, emotions resurfacing, and resolving some of those emotions. During this Paarthurnax contacted me and told me the truth of everything. There are Gods, yes I did say Gods. Paarthanaux's and all of the strong Dragons families are being held captive and they have to destroy the whole universe to have their families realized, also Paarthurnax said something about his Four Generals also are being held captive.

After our little spat Paarthurnax and I made up and made the deal to take them on together, I have my doubts because these are Gods, but I must have faith and hope that we could I need to protect my planet and my family future and present. There's also the chance Paarthurnax is lying, I'll keep my eyes open.

As I left the town I gave Coco the message that is for Ozpin. Hopefully, everything in my plan works out, but you can only hope. The people as gratitude got me a thigh pouch for my valuables, no not my balls my Scales, and Elixir the new Mayor of Silverkeep got me this journal. The final thing is that an old man stopped me before I left completely. He gave me a map and a yellow gemmed amulet and said to follow the map it would lead to a Monastery where the Aura Monks live and with the amulet I would have a chance to learn from them. Yes, It will take some time, but if I learn new moves like Aura Plan or Eating Dust without any side effects then it's decently worth it. Right now I'm stronger than I have ever been before, but it still doesn't compare to people like Adam and Ebony who have years of experience. I have to close that power gap with something either power from the Monks or the Scale Paarthurnax gave me, but I can't do this by myself. I will need help along the way. That's where the message comes into play.

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Day 40 of 720 Before Earth's Death

So it's been five days since the day I left silverkeep and I'd say I'm about 229 miles away from Konoha and I'm really close to the Monastery now, Yeah for the days I have been traveling for three hours straight I ran to get more into shape and increase my stamina, because of my Aura I when three times my normal running speed or a more than that. Since I left I've been using my Semblance all the time at every opportunity, when I first used my Semblance after my recovery of Semblance Exhaustion my Thread could only barely hold my Longsword now my Semblance is just strong enough to hold all of my weapons at once, I can't have that. Good improvement, but I need it to go faster. The way I've been training them is whenever I pass by a tree I'd hit it with a Thread whip. It'll go ¼ the way through, sure strong by normal standards, but not to superhumans that can kill you with their minds.

While I have been using my Thread on trees when a Grimm comes out of nowhere normally I would train with it. Not the I tame it way, but I let the Grimm mostly it's a Beowolf or an Ursa try to hit me while I dodge, block, Aura Palm, or try my new shield made of Thread, let me tell you it pretty far from it being actually useful so yeah I put myself into dangerous situations to get stronger.

I'd always killed the Grimm I pass by no matter how strong, yeah I know it may be a waste of time, but if there's a chance that I pass by a Grimm that one day kills a kid who decided to leave their village. That'll be on me and I don't want that, also I've been getting better at killing Grimm more effectively and learning their patterns.

The strongest Grimm I went up against was Alpha Beowolf, but this Grimm he didn't grow like the rest instead of being big and incredibly strong it was small and incredibly fast, scary I thought I was going to die, but after a couple of minutes of fighting with it, slowly I started keeping up. Yes, I did train with this guy to make me react faster. I spent two good hours evading its attacks and using my Thread to redirect or block its attacks with Aura Palm. To people they would think I'm crazy, maybe I am, but I need to get strong fast. I can't just go fight the Witch how I am right now. It's like a video game like Sekiro or Bloodborne. You need to get strong to have a chance at beating the bosses, sure if you are good enough you can still win, but this is my first time fighting. I need all the strength I can get to even have a chance. Having enough of the Alpha Beowolf I killed it with my Thread. I made my Thread wrap around its legs stopping it from moving and with a flimsy spear as it glared at me and roared I launched my spear into its mouth killing it, that was some good experience.

At least one hour of the day I jump into the trees and jump tree to tree going to the Monastery, I need to be faster and I need to get better at my hand eye coordination, yes I'm turning everything about traveling into training. Just so you know jumping through trees is nothing like Naruto, there're so many branches that hit you in the face as you jump and I've been caught by some vines two times. It is annoying, but good training. The training is intense most of the time and because of it my body looks and feels amazing. Most of the fat on my body was gone and I felt healthier than ever before, yeah I finally got some good looking muscles.

Right now it's the middle of the evening and it was barely starting to get dark and I was fighting against five Boarbatusk I came across. One started rolling at me, seeing an opportunity I made a Thread ramp. It hit the ramp and went over me. It stopped rolling midair and it had its belly exposed. With this opening I shot two bullets into its exposed belly killing it, wow they go down easy when you know where to hit. Two others side by side came at me at the same time. I did an Aura slash and cut straight through both killing them. The other two started to circle me, ohh shit it's a Mexican standoff.

Going on the offense I shot one of them in the head, it didn't kill it, I just damaged its bone mask. It in a blind rage came at me rolling, using my Thread I made what looked like a rickety hot wheel track for the Boarbatusk, the track went around me and led to the other Boarbatusk. Going at the speed of 30 miles per hour it hit his friend with a thunderous crack. Looking over to both of them, the one I threw it's damaged mask broke apart and it started freaking out like it's having a midlife crisis. Suddenly it started to evaporate like when you kill a Grimm, ok I get why it was freaking out now.

The fuck they die when you destroy their mask good to know. The other one was still alive but was dazed. Feeling that my Semblance was strong enough now I summoned hundreds of Threads creating a spear and made it go under it and impaled its exposed stomach, well wasn't impaled just stabbed. Feeling a little annoyed by not killing it I retract it and slam it back into it. Still not dead I kept slamming it back in. Finally, after three more stabs, it died. Dammit, Semblance gets stronger already. Well, battle complete, time to keep walking.

The road slowly became more haggard like it hasn't been used in a while. I really hope Konoha is still standing when I get there.

Also, I've been thinking about the last two towns I've been to had a settlement destroying events and I was there. Sure two is a coincidence and if it happens a third time it's a pattern and that means someone after me or an organization trying to destroy Vale's outer structures. I'm not enough of a narcissist to believe the reason these towns have been attacked is because of me, the most reasonable answer is there is an organization behind the scene puppeteering people like Ebony and Lie, if this is the case this journey is just going to get harder.

Looking at the Monastery map it seems I'm just 30 more miles to the place, if they are really that powerful they can teach me so many things to help me out. I look up as a black bird flies by, seriously I'm pretty sure I've seen that bird a lot. I haven't got a good look at it, but I think it's following me. Well, who cares? It was starting to get really dark already, time to climb a tree and hope nothing sees me.

I get into the tree and get onto one of the biggest branches and put my backpack behind me and lay down my sore body with my head on my stolen bag, I still feel bad for whoever it belongs to. Closing my eyes I try to sleep, but hasn't come to put me to sleep yet.

Getting restless I summon my Semblance to get me tried faster. Using my Thread is becoming more and more of an unconscious effort the more I use it. I've also learned so many things about my Semblance like my hypothesis of it only hurting creatures with an Aura is true, I hit a rabbit with a Thread spear and it actually hit, yup I got some good eats that night. Also, my Thread as it turns out weighs nothing unless I tell it to, it's also incredibly strong, but it can be destroyed. An Ursa Major taught me that.

Finally getting sleepy I close my eyes and take the first step to sleep. After five minutes I started to dream, but it wasn't like a normal dream, well my normal no nightmares so far. I was in a white void thinking how good it feels to not have a nightmare. Suddenly the sound of my nephews laughing rang through the air. I jolted up looking around for my nephew, but there was no sign of him, where he was.

I've been forgetting how my family looks even though it's been only been a month and if this is a chance to see one of their faces again I would do almost anything. Looking in the white void for minutes I started getting frustrated, I felt the heat of my anger rising through my body. With my anger I accidentally jolted myself awake, dammit I just wanted to see my nephew's face again, the hell was with that dream. About to go to sleep again I close my eyes, but a laugh rings through the air of the newly foggy forest suddenly, what, that sounds like my nephew.

What, Ezikial here. In a hurry, I grabbed my backpack and I put it on, and dropped down the tree. I looked around trying to get a direction where the sound was coming from. While this was happening I tried to contact Paarthurnax, but he didn't pick up. If he brought Ezikial into this world I'm going to kill him. Goddammit, where is he, stupid forest fog go away!

I was about to guess a direction, but as I was about to run Ezikial came out from behind a tree and started laughing while pointing at me.

I immediately ran to him to give him a hug, but as I grabbed him my arms went through him, what happened. I look at the intangible image of my nephew starting to fade away.

Suddenly I get a massive headache, what the fuck. I fall to the floor holding my head trying to relieve the pain.

The forest became entirely quiet like an alpha just appeared and scared off the wilderness. Hearing massive footsteps I look at up and see a horrific Grimm. It looked like the mind creature of Stranger Things except that it had the white Grimm armor all over it and it had orifices that exhaled black mist every second. It was 10 feet tall and slowly its face started to open up. Like the Demogorgon, it had six flaps that opened to a sea of teeth. Fucking hell it's ugly, slowly I get back onto my feet and grab my Longsword readying myself for a fight also the headache disappeared. What is this Grimm I didn't see in the Grimm encyclopedia?

Steeling my Will I run up to it and swing, it when straight through it. The slashed body of the Grimm started to disappear like the image of my nephew, what Grimm is this it's making those images. With this knowledge my anger goes through the roof, fucker gave me hope and scared the shit out of me. Looking around I see the fog around me getting even thicker.

Getting a little nervous I summon hundreds of Threads in every direction to create a radar field, whatever touches my Thread the feeling that their feeling will transfer to me. My Semblance is like having an additional limb. I can feel whatever the Thread feels except if it's pain, thank the lord for that. Then I feel several things in front of me. What are they… Humans wait what, no that Green haired bitch better not be back. Getting ready to fight again I get ready with all of my weapons. Slowly walking out of the fog wasn't the green haired woman it was Fucking Adam Taurus, no how did he find me I think as my breathing gets erratic. behind him came out Cole and Ebony and the green haired bitch.

Wait what? Cole's dead. I killed him, Ebony's in prison I saw the Huntsmen take her into the prison bullhead with all the other Huntsmen. No this is an illusion they don't exist. The thing probably took the people I fear the worst and made some illusion, so that headache was it digging into my mind. There was a fifth figure though slowly it came out from the fog and revealed himself. He was the exact replica of me, but how I'm not afraid of myself. This makes no sense, dammit my mind stops freaking out. No, their illusions, remember. Thinking that I walk forward tending to go right through them. All of them ready their weapons, it doesn't matter their illusions.

Adam in a blink appeared in front of me causing my fear to skyrocket and I fell backward. The slash completely misses me. I get back up while calming myself down. Again with confidence and a ting of fear I try to walk past them again. Again Adam goes for a slash. It came at me and was going to go through me. Well, that's what I thought, but what really happened was that I was hit in the chest. What happened, their illusions?

No there not illusions I immediately go on the offense. In a second all the others came at me, damn they're real, and that Shadow Adam hit like the real one.

All of them were close enough for my counter, I released dozens of Thread needles to hit the Shadows. As the needles hit the Shadows they start to fade, one hit puts them down good. Hoo thank goodness they go down fast if they took more than one hit they would have fucked me up. I need to get out of here that Grimms are probably going to come back.

I got ten feet then the fog got even worse. I couldn't see three yards in front of me. I hate this Grimm. I am so gonna kill it. I kept walking until I slammed my face on a thick low hanging branch, the fuck ok calm down if I start to freak out in going to attract actual Grimm and I don't want to fight them in this horrible fog.

As I close my eyes to do the breathing exercises I hear more footsteps, dammit should have had my Thread Radar up. I looked around and the fog dispels a bit and I see that I'm surrounded by dozens of Adams, Ebonys, Coles, the green haired girl, and me's.

I have a really bad feeling about this. All of them attack me at once again. I do my Thread needles and start slaughtering them.

They just kept coming, it's a never ending horde of people I really don't like. After 15 minutes of this I was starting to get tired, the Adam were as fast and were just as strong as the original so they got most of the hits on me, they were so fast and my new skills barely kept up and the rest were slower and hit less hard, but they still gave me a good beating. Except for Cole, he was weak as fuck, well what do expect I did kill him without an Aura while he had one.

Distracted by my inner monologue a Shadow Adam appears in front of me and uppercuts me in the face. The force of his punch sent me into the air and while in the middle of the air he grabs my leg and pulls me back down with force slamming my face into the ground, God so this is how Loki felt. With my breath knocked out of me, I was vulnerable. They saw this and again all of them attacked me. They kicked, punched, stomp, stab, and slash. With a slam of both hatchets on my chest by Ebony, my Aura shatters, goddammit, not like this.

I summon thousands of Threads again killing all of the Shadows in a 10 foot diameter. I slowly get back up on my unsteady feet.

The Shadow back up a bit by my determination, but they saw that I was tired and wounded so they kept their assault up. Getting my Sword ready I wait for them to come to me, this will not be my end.

Suddenly I heard footsteps and then out of nowhere a wave of fire so hot that I felt the heat 30 feet away.

What did that, looking at the stream of fire I follow the stream to an old bald man with a long mustache and he was wearing orange and yellow robes with a bead necklace. Yes, I'm saved, plot armor for the win.

The Shadows tried to dodge out of the way, but even they were consumed by the fire. With all of the Shadows gone the man stopped his Fire attack that came from his mouth and looked at me and said "Boy, come hurry before more of them come!" Without question, I follow his order. I run to him as I get five feet from him he turns around and starts running as well.

We kept going as we did more Shadows come out, let me tell you fighting while running was fucking hard. We kept running until I saw a bright green light that went up in a familiar shape, like how Paarthurnax does when he used his Fire Blast.

Holy shit no, I think as my eyes go wide I immediately put an excessive amount of Aura in my legs and I start running at an entirely new speed. The Old man didn't know what the light was so he just put up his guard, yeah that guard thing won't help.

I ran up to the old man and grabbed him and dodged to the side escaping the green inferno coming our way. Oww, I slowly get up and look where the blast came from. Slowly two figures appeared one was a big green Dragon, Dovoca and the other was a massive one that made Dovoca look like a chiwawa to a pitbull it was Paarthurnax, dammit they're going to be as strong as the original.

Seeing both I send two needles to hit them. They get hit and start to disappear, good even they go down with one hit. The old man saw the Dragons and started saying a prayer, the fuck.

I grabbed the Old man and dragged him to where we were headed until he ran on his own. After a minute of running, we got out of the fog, and we were out, wohhh.

Not wanting to have the world shit on me more I say "Let's keep running, I don't want that thing getting close to us again." Seriously that Grimm looked scary and those Shadows are really scary when all of the people you are scared of are incredibly strong. Why couldn't I be scared of like a tiny dog or something because those fucking Shadow hit like the original's and damn do the original's attacks hurt?

The old man looked at me and gave me a nod and said "Wise decision, follow me I know of a safe location." He said leading the way.

Feeling my mother's teachings about talking to strangers come to me I say. "You're not going to take me to your house and diddle me right?" Look, I'm a blunt guy. I don't beat around the bush, that just wastes time.

With a face of disgust, he says. "No of course not I'm a man who has morals and sticks to them!" Yup, he's a good guy, if he would have stayed quiet I would have ran.

Feeling relieved I say "Cool me too." It's always good to see someone who sticks to what they believe in.

With a smile he says. "Hum another strong willed fellow then it's a good quality to have, lets keep going." See mom, being stubborn with your morals is a good quality.

We kept running until we felt we were safe. Damn was that fucking scary and all of the Shadow were people and Dragons that I am scared of except my Shadow I don't know why I was one and I didn't attack, weird. I almost forgot about the old man who is he anyway. "Hey gramps who are you?" I said wanting some information.

He looks at me while brushing his long mustache and says."Gramps, I don't look that old do I?" He said in a joking tone, he has a sense of humor. I like this guy. Never really liked the people who act like they have no emotion their not my type of crowd.

Feeling a little jolly I say. "The bald head kinda makes you look older."

With a smile he says. "Maybe it does, maybe I should get a wig to hide my age like how women do it." I start laughing my ass off by what he just said because it's true."Ah yes, your question my name is Gyatso." Did I just hear that right he has the name of Aang's airbending master from The Last Avatar, seriously why with the references well at least he doesn't have the blue arrows on his body.

Well, the references here normally tell me they're similar in some way so I say. "Are you a Monk?" I'll bet 500 lien that he's a Monk right now.

With a look of surprise he says. "Yes, how did you know?" Yes, I would like my money by Tuesday or I'm going to ask "Where my money" Stewie fashion.

Let's go with the truth this time. "Otherworldly knowledge, are you from the Monastery?" Please say yes because this would save me so much time.

With a look of defense like I just said a bad thing. "Yes, and how do you know we exist?" He said glaring at me.

Not really scared of him I say. "Wait people don't know you exist?" I mean Clover and that old man knew maybe there was a special case and the normal people don't know.

His glare turns into a smile filled with playfulness. "No I'm just playing with you, but only a few people know about us because everyone believes we couldn't survive out here." Well, it's true people won't believe it until they see it.

"So we're going to the Monastery?" Come on, say yes.

Like I just predicted the future Gyatso says. "Yes, why do you ask?"

Pulling out the yellow amulet I say. "I got this?" I show him and he makes a face of acceptance.

Gyatso says. "An amulet of worthiness, interesting. Yes, you will need to rest and when you recover we will test you." Ok so I'm going to sleep in their place, I really hope I'm not just walking into a trap.

"Cool so what will the test be?" Is it going to be about fighting or how strong my mentality is?

With a mischievous smile, he says. "You'll find out soon." Great more mysterious thing. Seriously why can't people ever just give it out without the dramatic nonsense? Yeah sure I'm guilty of it too, but I have to or people will think I'm crazy.

So let's talk about the benefits of I do pass this test. "So if I do pass your test what will you teach me?" Come on be really cool.

"The basics to having True Aura and how to use your body to manipulate Dust and strengthen your mind and maybe a little martial arts, but if you truly want to become one of us we will teach you some ancient arts." True Aura that sounds like it might be useful and how to control Dust, if I learn these I'll be way more powerful and really versatile.

"What's True Aura?" Please say I go super Saiyan that would be so cool.

With a tone of matter a fact he says. "It's a more evolved version of Aura, which is incredibly useful if you need more strength." Then it really sounds like a super Saiyan.

"An awesome power up and the Dust manipulating, you know I've done that with Fire Dust once." The Fire aspect was awesome, but the amount of pain was almost unbearable.

He looked at me impressed that I was able to handle the pain. "Really then congratulations you've taken the first steps without training. How did it feel?" Wow thanks, what let me shower myself in my compliments. I don't get them often.

I say. "Yeah my whole body felt it was on fire, it hurt like a bitch." Just thinking about that pain makes my body shiver.

He made a face of understanding and said, "Yes when you do it for the first time the pain is almost unbelievable, so why did you consume the Dust." Right to the point, good I'm liking him more.

Really I shouldn't really hide my exploits, there really is no point so I say. "Silverkeep was being attacked by a massive horde of Grimm and like an idiot, I ate some Dust. While it was idiotic it did help me out in the end."

"Protecting the people is an honorable thing you did. Hopefully, you'll pass our test. Good luck, but for some reason, I don't believe you'll need it." He already believes in me, why can't my dad be like him.

No replying we kept walking until we came to a shallow valley with a bridge, the bridge wasn't rickety or almost destroyed. No, it looked pristine like it was just made yesterday, damn who made this, I want to learn from them. Behind the bridge was a mountain with a mansion on top of it. We walked past the bridge and walked upstairs getting closer to the mansion. The mansion was beautiful and well maintained. It had gold on the edges of every corner and blue where there wasn't gold. I love this place already. Before us was a gate between us and the mansion.

Getting a closer look at the gate. It was made of smooth stone and it was big, but not by that much, but it looked mystical, weird. They were carving in the smooth stone and in the middle of it was a blue gem. It looked like what doors have when you have a peephole. Gyatso walked up to the gate and pulled out an amulet with a bright yellow gem in the middle. It looked like the one I had but for some reason, it seemed far superior to mine. He puts the yellow amulet onto the blue gem and slowly the gate's carvings start to shine green, wow. The stone gates opened automatically and showed me what it was hiding.

He says, "Come in…..ahhhh," then he got a look of embarrassment and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't ask your name what is it?" Oh yeah, well I don't need to hide my name anymore I want Ozpin to track me down.

With confidence I say. "It's Andres Mondragon."

He started to stroke his mustache again and said. "Interesting name, come along you need to be well rested to proceed with the test." He walks away and I follow him to wherever he's leading me to. Yes, an actual bed I can sleep in, the branches of trees are definitely not a good place to sleep. My back still hurts from doing it too much.

"Thank God, those Shadows were a pain to deal with," I say happy to get some rest.

Gyatso made a face of understanding and said. "Yes the Shadows are quite tiresome, but if you strike the Reliver the Shadows will disappear." So that Grimm is called a Reliver, cleaved name.

I tried to strike the Grimm, but I just went through it. "But how? They seem to just be intangible."

He says "I'm sorry not with a weapon, but with the mind. You must conquer your fears to defeat it." Wow, better said than done because I have a lot of fears.

I say without thinking. "That's easier said than done." Goddammit, I told myself I'll stop doing that.

"Yes and mostly for you, you had multiple Shadows which are very uncommon and they were all very powerful." Gyatso said, "I'm interested in why do you have so many Shadows?" What are people really not afraid of things. Also when I think about it I keep fighting against people who are way stronger than me.

"Why is that not normal?" I ask.

"No most people have one or two, the Reliver creates Shadows of the people you fear the most." He said with his eyebrows raised giving me the signal to just tell him why.

Not wanting to give info I say. "What can I say, I'm a scary cat." Seriously I've been pampered on Earth and here the world is way tougher and let me tell you I'm a tough guy. I can take a lot, but this world is insane.

With a voice filled with disappointment and wisdom, Gyatso says. "Don't belittle yourself so easily, it leads to believing one's excuses." While I don't like strangers talking like they know me, he is right. My mentality will hold me back if I do it too much and I do kinda believe it.

"Don't..." Again almost saying without thinking I stop myself and have a deep breath and say. "You're right, but I won't stop, I still need it to grow up." Good rules in life, never become complacent. It leads to failing when the next harder trail appears.

"Why do you need to grow up so fast you're young, live life there's no need to rush through it?" He says confused.

I glare at nothing and say with an anger filled tone. "Circumstances"

He stops and turns around waiting, dammit I want even paying attention to the place is the conversation. "Yes, those are the most troublesome. Now here your room rests well. The test tomorrow will tell us if you are truly worthy. I'll go prepare it with the other Monks." He says bowing and leaves without another word.

Oh shit, we walked through the whole mansion and I didn't even notice. With a grateful smile, I say. "Thank you, Gyatso." So time to sleep.

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I walked through our base going to the Cinder's chamber to give the full report. I've been loathing this conversation, Cinder never likes failure. Walking through the hallway I get to the Cinder's door. I took a deep breath calming myself and I knocked and in a second the door opened to a dark room. When I stepped in I felt a heavy weight put on my head making me want to bow down. The room had an almost black mist inside hiding everything from view, where's Cinder? I keep walking until I see a light come alive in the palm of a hand. I stopped and focused on who did it, I couldn't see their face, but as I squinted the small flame erupted and turned into a massive inferno covering their body.

The person was Cinder and she didn't look happy. "Tell me why have you failed?" Cinder said with a threatening voice.

"Cinder, the students...they got in the way," I say nervous that she won't believe me.

"The students of Beacon should have been nothing to you, what happened to Ebony?" She asked, getting angrier with every second.

"The students captured her," I said with fear in my voice.

Cinder grabbed her face out of frustration and said, "Fantastic, it doesn't matter she won't squeal."

Quickly I start defending myself. "It wasn't my fault Cinder for fai.."

With a new fearsome anger, Cinder growls out. "No, there is no excuse. You were ordered to destroy the town and yet it still stands you failed and you'll pay for it." In Cinders hand a flame ignites and slowly gets bigger.

"Please, it wasn't my fault," I say getting on my knees begging Cinder not to do it.

"That does not matter," Cinder says as her flame gets bigger and bigger it was big enough to practically swallow me whole, but before Cinder could unleash her anger on me an elegant voice was heard.

Hearing this I looked around and saw an orb that was black and red with tentacles coming out of its bottom that came out of nowhere, while it floated it started making clicking noises that gave me goosebumps. Is that a Grimm? "Cinder, give this child one more chance. She is still useful." The Grimm speaks with authority, is this Cinder's "Queen.". She never talks about her.

With reluctance to just let me get away without consequences Cinder persists. "Why, so she can fail me again." Cinders anger I felt it from where I was standing, but I looked at her face and one of her eyes was on fire like what the Fall maiden had during our fight.

"And if she does you'll do what you want with her, but give her one more chance. That's an order." This time inside of the elegant voice it turned into an incredible authority tone, it was almost as if the words coming out of her mouth were almost mind control.

With an annoyed huff, Cinder says. "Fine."

Feeling freed from death by Cinders hand I go over to the Grimm that saved me and say. "Thank you..." As I was talking I was grabbed by the throat, one of its tentacles was wrapped around my neck and was slowly squeezing harder.

The Grimm said "Quiet child and listen I gave this chance to you because of your usefulness. Don't make me regret it." The Grimm ended it with a threatening voice and let me go, dropping me to the floor. I know what will happen if I fail again.

The Grimm goes to Cinder and says. "Cinder focuses on our goal. Your goal of destroying these towns isn't a priority. Plan for your attack on Vale thoroughly.

Vale Will Fall." The Grimm said stating Cinders objective.

Angered she had to give up destroying towns she reluctantly bowed, Cinder said. "Yes, my Queen."

They stopped talking so I decided to try to make this right. "Cinder I'm sorry please forg..." Cinder gets a look of fury and kicks me in the face stopping my apology.

With a sigh Cinder says. "That no longer matters. Tell me what was the biggest reason for failing me?" Cinder says with interest, she will destroy this reason for getting in the way.

Who was the most troublesome, yeah that kid? "There was this kid. He looked 15 or 16. He was weak, but he's smart. He was able to beat me by collapsing a building on me and he looked like he was making the plans for the people around him." He wasn't strong, but he was just smart.

Cinder started scrunching her face from annoyance and said slowly. "What did this boy look like?"

"He had a red undershirt and black flannel and he had black jeans with brown boots," I say giving her this kids full outfit

Then Cinder made a look like she found out the final piece of a puzzle. "My Queen, is he the one?" She said cryptically

"Possibly, but it's only been a month. He'd be growing too fast." The Grimm says with a hint of confusion.

With a nod finishing her plan Cinder says. "I'll send Mercury after this boy before he becomes a problem."

"No, there's a chance he is the one. He might have already become stronger than your pawn. I'll send Tyrant and Hazel for good measure." The Grimm said, is this kid really that important to send two of the strongest members of their organization.

As if Cinder read my mind she says. "This boy can't be that strong?"

"He may not, but if this is him he's growing too fast and that must stop before he actually becomes a problem. Emerald my dear what is this boy's name." The Grimm said with a sweet tone like it was trying to seduce me.

No wanting to get hit again I tell them. "He told me his name, Andres Mondragon."

With a hum, the Grimm speaks again. "Not a color, yes this is definitely him."

Cinder makes a face of confusion and says. "But how? The boy was weak when he got here. How could he be this strong already?"

"He's the one that Paarthurnax sent to harm me, Paarthurnax would only pick a creature with incredible potential." The Grimm said.

Cinders eyes widen and then she closes and pinches her nose with her fingers. "Another with potential we must kill him."

"Yes and that's why I'm sending two of my Lieutenants. Cinder focuses on Vale, Hazel, and Tyrant to deal with this boy." The Grimm said

Cinder accepted and kneeled down and said. "Yes, my Queen."

I was sleeping and had no nightmares, just nothing. Cool, but as I was relaxing I heard an almost demonic voice say. "Andres Mondragon you will die." hear my life in danger I wake up. The fuc.. No nevermind I get those all the time now, who cares. The voice didn't even affect me.

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Day 41 of 720 before Earth's Death

I look around and see I'm in a room. The room was lit by the morning light of the sun. Most of the room was bare, but there was a cabinet and desk with a chair and a closet. Where am I, oh yeah at the Monastery now. The test, time to get ready then. I looked at myself and saw I fell asleep with all of my equipment on, whoops. Well, I'm already ready time to go find them.

I leave the room and start walking. Wow now that I look at this place it's beautiful, the woodworks were incredible and the paint was pristine, I was too tired to even care about all of this before, but now I was intrailed. I kept walking and soon I came upon two massive doors, big doors usually mean something important. I go and push the door but it doesn't even budge, what why. I look at it more slowly and see a blue gem in the middle and realize it's like the front gate of this place.

I quickly dig through my pockets and find my amulet and pull it out. I align my yellow gemmed amulet to the blue gem and slowly they both turn green and green patterns light up on the doors and slowly they both open on their own, what magic is this. The doors open showing me the other side and all I saw was a massive field with fresh grass with a couple of trees scattered around and a mountain with a waterfall that went into the lake in the middle. Deer, rabbits, and birds roamed the lush green fields. So the mansion surrounded this field.

I walked forward to see closely at how beautiful the whole place looked, how is this place even here in the middle of nowhere.

This is what I want. Peace, hopefully soon I'll get it.

Behind me, I heard footsteps and I turned around. Gyatso was standing there with four others, three of them had the same outfit as Gyatso's but the other one had more flare. The colors were brighter and he had a little more accessories so he looked different than the others so he must be the leader of them.

With a deadpan face, the one in the fancy clothing says. "So you're the boy, unimpressive." oh God he has a personality I hate.

Without restraint I say. "Gee thanks you wanna talk about how horrible of a person I am too because you supposedly got me all figured out already." Like hell, I'm just going to let myself be bad mouthed without him even knowing me. Also, I just noticed I'm way more ballsy than I ever was in my world. The most reasonable reason is power, these people have no power over me, so I won't listen to them if I don't want to, Power to not be controlled.

One of the other Monks with a smile said. "He's got quite a mouth on him."

Gyatso came in with a save and said, "Yes he does, but he has an amulet of worthiness so by our code we have to test him even if we don't like him." Gyatso it kinda sounds like you don't like me too, don't do that to me man.

I appreciate what Gyatso said so I thanked them. "Thanks, Gyatso so let's stop talking and get to the test already." Yeah, I don't like wasting time sue me.

One of the other Monks said, "Yes let's stop wasting time."

The leader spoke up saying. "Come along." As he walked into the beautiful field.

I follow them and we go further into this small paradise. We went straight for the lake. Looking closer I see that there was a platform in front of the lake. The platform had a circle in the middle and had five lines connecting five smaller circles around it. Five Monks and me that's six people and theirs six circles I sense a connection.

"Andres stands in the circle in the center," Gyatso said. Wonder what there is going to do to me because it doesn't look like a physical test.

I do want the power that they can offer so I go along with them. "Ok"

Gyatso walked towards me and handed me a white cube, kinda what a starburst looks like, and said. "Now here, when we tell you to eat this." Oh God, they're going to drug me.

I really don't want to get kidnapped, but I need the power. "What is it?"

Gyatso responded with. "It's Dust, but a certain kind that would show us if you are worthy of training." Ok, let pretend he's telling the truth.

"What will it show you?" Please don't show them what my teenage mind makes up.

"What you want most in life." Oh, that's so easy. A family and a kid.

With a confident smile, I say. "That's it, I so got this."

Gyatso walks to one of the smaller circles and kneels and so did the others. Gyatso looks at the others and nods and looks at me and says. "Now brother let's begin. Now eat the Dust Andres." Well now or never I thought as I swallowed the Dust.

As the Dust disintegrated inside my mouth my vision started to become blurry and I heard the Monk start chanting. It sounded like I was in water so I didn't hear them clearly, but for some reason, I heard them say this clearly. "With both the light and the dark of this world fade as we see this man's deepest desires, let his mind open to us and himself."

They stopped chanting and my vision suddenly went black. The paradise I was once in was gone and the light of the world had vanished. I look around so this is my mind or vast emptiness of it. It's so empty, hey I'm not that dumb.

Then a flash of three bright colors suddenly shined before my eyes dark red that was so dark it looked a couple of shades to black, light blue almost depressing looking, and bright pink, it looked beautiful.

All three colors slowly separate and turn into flames of their own colors, the Pink was the smallest, it was the size of a normal Human and the Blue was bigger by a bit and the Red was the biggest it was the size of a bonfire it made the smaller flames look like candles to a campfire. Slowly I see Human figures inside of them. What are they?

Suddenly I hear all three of them speak at once. "We are what you want, we are not a lie, we are your truth." Great riddles I hate them and it turns out my mind loves them.

Also, did they hear my thoughts? "You read my mind."

All three speak again. "Our mind, we are your greatest desires." So this test is about desires, well I do have a lot of them, but none are that bad, I think.

"Great so where're the teenage thoughts? Those are probably the worst." I said ignorantly not knowing what I truly wanted in life.

With a serious voice, they all said. "No those are nowhere near your greatest desires now come toward us." Wait what I would know what I want in life after all it's my life.

"Why?" I said not wanting to do anything I would regret like being touched by my mindself.

"To show you what you hide from yourself." I wouldn't hide my desire from myself. I would face them and if their horrible I would destroy these desires, that's how I am.

I was about to say something arrogant, but images of Adam, Ebony, and the green haired girl flashed in my mind…..I need to be stronger. I won't survive out here without training. "I… I need to do this."

I was about to walk towards them, but the Pink flame moved first. It walked closer and when the flame was close enough the Pink figure stuck it's Pink hand out of it's flames and pressed its thumb and forefinger on my forehead. Then I see flashed go through my mind and like a video it started showing me something.

A field with lush green grass with a child with a wooden Sword running in it having a good time. The sky was beautiful, a light blue sky with a bit of clouds a perfect day and the sun was shining enough where it just felt warm. Behind the child was a woman with a blank white face with a separate arm wrapped around her back holding her. It was my hand, my desire to have a family, the feeling to support and protect them. A desire I know I have wanted since I was 12 years old.

The images stop and I see the Pink Human figure start to vanish, but before it does it says. "Family, your third strongest desire." That's a relief to hear, I actually want a family.

So what are the other two so I say? "Yeah, what are the rest?"

They both say. "You'll see." Great more mysteries.

I walked over to the Blue flame and a Blue hand left the flame and touched my head like the last one. Images in my head started appearing, but they weren't as appealing as the last one. The images of me on the floor and doing nothing, what no I'm not lazy. I look closer and see I'm crying and looking in a certain direction. I was looking at every person I've faced in battle or might face and there were people I don't even recognize. All I felt was a feeling of helplessness, thoughts invaded my head, how can I one person defeat all of them, I'm one person and I have to fight people who are stronger than me in everything and fight Gods, fucking Gods what chance do I have I'm nothing compared to them. What good would I do anyway I can't do anything anyway. The images stop and the Blue me starts to vanish like the Pink and before it completely finishes it said. "The want to Give up, your second strongest desire."

"That can't be I might want to, but I'll never let myself. I will save my world." No, I will never, even if my body and mind want to, I'll force myself to keep fighting until my world is free.

"I am the final and your strongest desire." The Red flame said.

"Great what are you?" that last desire felt wrong in my head like when you eat like shit and there's that feeling in your stomach. This next one better be a good one or I'm going to have a serious talk with myself.

The Dark Red flame got closer and stuck its huge hand out and instead of a finger and a thumb it like the others it placed its hand on my head. New images in my head appear. It was me on top of a hill with an almost godly Aura around me. Below at the bottom of the hill were people bowing down like they worshiped me and next to them were all of the people and creatures I hate or were stronger than me Adam, Ebony, that green haired girl, Dovoca, and Paarthurnax all of them dead in a pile. I raised my hand and a wave of energy ripple through the air, the atmosphere felt almost as if I was in the presence of a being with tremendous power.

Nothing could stand in his way, nothing could command him and nothing would control him, no he would choose his own destiny. With his power, he will make the world bow to his will. Then he started walking down to the people. He went to a baby in a mother's arms. He reached out with his hand as if he was about to crush the child's head, but as he was about to grab the child the images stopped suddenly.

"This is what you desire most, Power." No, no sure power good and all, but I don't like it that much.

"No that's not true I want to free my people and save my world and to live with the people I love, not control them." No, I'll never control people Never.

"Look closer to your desire for power there's mor…'' the Red me was about to finish his sentence, but he vanished, and the world of Remnant and came into view.

I hear a voice while recuperating from what I just heard. "That's it, I've seen enough you've failed our test, we will not teach scum that would make people bend to their will!" Who said that?

After a couple of seconds, I come to my senses and see the Monk Leader saying things to me. "No I would never do that, please there's a mistake I'm not lusting for power." All of the Monks were standing except Gyatso. He was still in a meditating pose.

One of the other Monks says. "The test has shown us your truth, leave."

No, I need this. "Please I need the strength you can teach me, please I need this."

"So what for you can enslave all those around you!" The Monk Leader says with hatefulness in his voice.

I get on my knees and bow down like a peasant to a king hoping to change their mind. "Please, I beg you I need to save my people and your teachings will give me a chance at doing it."

Gyatso got up from his meditation pose, what took him so long he looked at the Leader of the Monks and said. "Zenkou Maybe we can try the ritual again, if people are in trouble we should try to help," Gyatso said, trying to get me another chance.

"No, he is not worthy," Zenkou said immediately.

"I say let's put it to a vote if we should try again. All for it say yes all who oppose say nay." One of the Monks says.

All of the Monks stopped for a second and said "Agreed" except Zenkou, but he didn't disagree.

"Yes," Gyatso says

"Yes," Yeah one of the Monks that seems to be behind helping people.

"Nay," another Monk says.

"Nay," Zenkou says without hesitation.

The final Monk didn't say either no instead he said this. "I will not vote for either. I propose a different compromise. If he truly wants to learn our ways he must pass a new trial. He must kill the Reliver for us to test him again. It's been lurking too close to our home now it must be vanquished before it attacks us." He wants me to kill that Grimm I came across, fuck.

With an almost sadistic smile, Zenkou says. "Interesting." Great either fight that Grimm or leave, I need their teaching the amount of pow.. No, the people I can help with what they can teach me is priceless.

Gyatso steps up with a frown and says. "That's unreasonable the Reliver normally takes a Veteran Huntsmen to slay." Wait what!?

The Monk that proposed the idea says "It's supposed to be unfair, so child will you take the deal." With a straight face almost like he wanted to test me for his own personal curiosities.

The thought of having my family die because I wasn't willing to face my fears disgusted me. So I told him. "I'll do anything to save my people and if I have to fight against unbeatable odds I will, nothing will stop me." At this moment a Fire was lit in my eyes symbolizing my Will to protect the people I love.

With a genuine smile, he says. "Well said boy. Now leave us, we need to discuss our opinions about you with each other." I think he's on my side, but I'm not sure.

"Andres wait at the front gate for me," Gyatso says

The best option is to listen to them so I leave and go to the front gate I entered from. So I failed that test. Did. Not. Expect. That.

Dammit, this is what happens when you get cocky. Now I gotta kill that Grimm the Reliver, our first fight was. Let's just say bad.

So my desires Family, The Want to Give Up, and Power, one of those was very good while the other two are questionable.

I sat down on the floor right next to the front gate and waited and waited until 30 minutes later I saw Gyatso coming to me with a frown on his face.

I don't like that frown. "So kill that Reliver, guess that's not going to be easy," I say feeling a little disheartened

"No it won't," he said, shaking his head then he looked start into my eyes and said. "Andres while Zenkou and Mutastu don't believe your pleas I do." I smile at what he just said.

"Thanks, Gyatso but why?" Seriously did you see what my strongest desire was, it was a little sickening.

"They didn't finish seeing your desire for power. If they did they would have believed you when you said you want to save your people and someone told me to help you." Finished seeing? well, it did just cut out in the middle of it suddenly.

Dammit, not another person "who?"

"He told me not to tell you." Goddammit, who is it this time a ghost of a Dragon or another fucking god… No, don't be angry at this person they helped, so no angry.

"Great a new challenger appears." Still who else will come into my journey.

"What?" Gyatso says in confusion.

Oops. "Doesn't matter, so the Reliver how do I kill it?" Seriously I need to know what they do and how to kill them.

"That's an issue so let's start off with its abilities. It uses your happiest memories to lure you in and then when you are close enough It'll take your fears and make very breakable Shadows of them there as strong as the real ones, but aren't as smart and can't use their Semblances and can't use ranged attacks unless it a part of them." God this is going to be a real pain in my ass.

"So how do I kill it?" I ask because what he said before I came to the Monastery was kinda cryptic.

With a frown he says. "That's the problem you have to conquer your fears to touch it." I got that, but what exactly does that mean?

"So I have to conquer my fears. What does that mean? So do I have to not be afraid of them anymore?" Because I'm pretty sure that's almost impossible to suddenly not be afraid of your fears anymore.

"No that's impossible, you need to have the courage to stand up to them." Ok, it is not to be fearless, no it's to stand up to this fear.

I got a sudden thought that made no sense. "Wait a second didn't I fight against them though, why didn't it work then."

"No you fought them because they came out of nowhere you defended yourself out of instinct, not standing up to them." Ok, so Courage, time to light up my Crest of Courage. Let's take this mon on.

"Okay so have the courage to face fears, ok got it." Oh God, I'm about to get my ass kicked. Again.

"Be careful Andres with the Reliver if you are in its fog for too long it'll attract other Grimm." Seriously, what else can it do? I think as I grab my face. Gyatso reached into his pocket and pulled out a red looking cube. He handed it to me and looked at it. It's one of those Dust cubes I think it's Fire Dust, this will make fighting much easier. I'll use it if I need to. It's just I don't want to become reliant on a temporary power ups.

"Thanks, Gyatso for the advice and standing up for me back there and this," I say happy to know somebody's on my side.

With a smile he says. "Of course your paths going to be hard, but that doesn't mean we should make it harder." That actually makes me feel better, a hard path ahead of me, the realest words I've ever heard.

I look at myself and see I'm already ready to fight so I look at Gyatso and say. "Later Gyatso and I will be back."

Ending our talk I headed back into the forest I was once in. So conquer your fears. So Adam, why am I afraid of you? Is it because you're stronger than me by leagues or is it because you're creepy as fuck, doesn't matter if it's either. I'll never let my fear of you decide my decisions or any of the other Shadows, any of you.

Then there's the issue of Shadow me, I'm not….no, I am afraid of myself it's just I don't know it yet. I keep walking feeling dread, I really don't like this Grimm. Just to be on the safe side I pulled out my Longsword. And like all the times before my paranoid actually paid off because my entire family was in front of me in a thick fog. Every one of them looked like how I last saw them.

Great, here we go. I put up my Thread Radar to find the Reliver. My Thread went in a thirty foot diameter looking for this fucker. I completely ignored the illusion of my family, even if I do want to see them again even if they are just an illusion.

After a minute something stepped into the radar field. Yes, I found it to the right of my position. I charged the Relivers position and I saw it just standing there and I stabbed it. My Sword went through like last time and it disappeared, dammit ok time to fight the Shadows.

I keep my radar up and wait and after thirty seconds Shadows come out of the fog. All of the Shadows come out running at me. Ok so time to stand up to them. Never let them be what controls you so I charged them with dozens of Needles made of Thread at my side. I quickly start killing them.

The Adam Shadow for some reason was not as fast as yesterday or am I just getting faster. I might have gotten faster, but I still couldn't keep up with all of them. I get kicked in the face by "Clover", damn can she just sneak up on you. I didn't like this because of the "Clover" kick. I was off balance and Adam and Ebony came from my side and both hit me with their weapons on both sides of my face making a cracking noise. Fuck, ok back up.

Ok remember what Gyatso said. Have the courage to stand up to them. I look at Ebony and think about how annoying she was when I first met her, how even when she fought me back then I still did some damage to her and how it just took Fox and Yatsuhashi to take her out. She might have been strong to me a week ago when I was tired out by "Clover" and hundreds of other Grimm, but now I'm fresh and ready to battle. She might be stronger than me, but when has that ever stopped me and it never will.

A Shadow Ebony came at me charging. Her hatchet ready to swing with the force of a train, but as her hatchet hit my skin she just vanished. Looking around I see all of the Shadow Ebonys disappear as well, fuck yeah now five more.

Ohh thank God the second most powerful Shadow is gone that makes it so much easier. As I'm thinking this "Clover '' appears in front of me and scares the shit out of me. Quickly with my free left hand, I grab her face and squish and kill the Shadow.

"Clover '' the only reason I feared you was because you could have killed me and my friends and the town without ever being seen, but know your element of surprise is gone. I'm not afraid of you, I'm just afraid of what you can do. And with that thought, all of her Shadows just disappear. Damn is this getting easier.

Yes, I can taste victory, wait why do I smell fire? Oh god. I turn around and see a ball of Fire coming at me and on pure Instinct, I pour an absurd amount of Aura in my legs and I jump. I go flying a hundred feet in the air, that doesn't sound that high, but it is like being on the eighth floor of a hotel. Coming down at terminal velocity I see a green colored Dragon, Dovoca I'll use him. I landed feet first on Dovoca making my landing a bit cushioned and killing it making me fall through it. Landing on the ground I feel my knees quake with pain, ok never do that again. I see another Adam coming at me and I quickly hit it with a needle.

Dovoca, I hate you with my fucking being. You killed my friends and the woman I loved. I should fear you because of your overwhelming strength, but all I feel toward you is hate. Another Shadow Dovoca came out of the fog trampling trees and not wanting to be under the spell of my fear I charged at it. With my enhanced speed, I reach him in a second and drive my Sword through its head killing it. I don't see any other Dovoca so many of them have gone for good. Three remain, hold on why hasn't my Shadow been attacking. No time to think about it because a horde of Adams are closing in.

With the speed of lighting the Adams reach me. I quickly make a sphere of Thread around me with spikes on the outside. Ok, I got like two seconds to make a plan. While I was thinking a Sword breaks through my fragile Thread and goes right past my head. Holy shit so a Storm of Thread got it.

I make the spheres Thread spin and compass and flatten out into blades in a vertical position making a lawnmower blade effect. More than half of the Adams didn't react, killing them by cutting them in half, only if the real one would die that easy. With room, I make a Thread shield in my left hand and prepare. One Adam came at me again with incredible speed. I summoned my Thread needles to help me out to thin the horde so I can think properly. The needles quickly killed the Adams fast while this was happening one of the Adams that got through my storm of Thread came at me ready to attack me.

I blocked it with my Thread shield and it shattered on impact. Good the shattering of the shield made his blade bounce off and gave me an opening and I took it cutting him in half. Most of the Adams were dead now.

Adam my psychotic enemy let me tell you, you've dug your very presence in my thoughts and I am legitly scared of you, but your Human or Faunas you bleed like me you might be so much stronger, but if I can kill you you are not that scary. If I let my fear of you stun me all the time, what will I do when the next worse bad guy comes out, will I quiver in fear or will I keep fighting to save everyone? You will not stop me now and most certainly never.

With my inner monologue over, the Adams started to vanish like the rest, oh thank God he was the worst to deal with. I look around and I don't see anyone else.

Where's Paarthurnax? Then I hear a roar in the sky, please don't tell me. Yup Paarthurnax was coming at me dive bombing. Immediately I make a massive Thread spike to kill him. Paarthurnax flew straight into it, killing itself. Thank you, Jesus.

Paarthurnax you are my greatest ally and my biggest foe. You and I have a good partnership going on, but that doesn't stop me from being scared shitless of you. We might be on good terms, but if I fail on my mission you'll destroy my world and kill the people I love. You're the king of Dragons and I'm just a Human. What can I do to you? Our differences might be in how much stronger you are than me, but if the time comes. I will kill you to save my planet. With that, I think Paarthurnax's Shadows are gone now.

All that's left is my Shadow for whatever reason it never attacked. I see one of them in the brush a little far away and walk over to see me. As I get closer I see my Shadow crying, but how they're made from a Grimm.

Feeling I wouldn't be attacked I walk up to him and ask. "Why are you crying?"

"Fa….." He barely whispered out.

"What?" I ask.

"Failed, I failed, you failed, we failed the whole world. Won't be strong enough!' He said screaming broken English while crying. This is what I could become if I fall into despair.

But I won't. I'll never fall, I'll keep fighting till the end. "I will kill this Witch and kill those so called Gods. I will give my world and every other a chance to live!" I say with complete certainty.

The Shadow me stopped crying and looked at me with its pure black eyes. "But what if we're not strong enough?" It said sadly

My strength isn't the only one that counts. "I won't be fighting alone, as much as I want to I'll never be strong enough to do all of this by myself." To win this it won't be just me it'll take every person to do it.

With broken English, it says "But, what if not enough."

"I'll find some way," I said with sincerity. So the reason for my fear is because I think I'm going to fail. Yeah, I kinda felt that was the reason. I have every reason to fear that I won't make it, but if I'm too busy fearing I'll never do it, like the man with the Nike gear said Just Do It. I look at my Shadow and see that he's smiling at me then starts to vanish. That was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.

So all that's left is you Reliver. I put up my Radar and started looking for this fucker. There he is, he was in front of...oh shit it's charging me. Seeing the massive Grimm stampeding its way to me I quickly made a thick Thread tripwire that would trip it. As it came at me it got to the wire and fell over and started tumbling. I ran over and attacked it with my sword.

I was going to stab it, but out of one of its orifices, it summoned another Shadow. It took the attack for the Grimm and disappeared. Instead of making another Shadow to attack me, it used one of its arms and swung it at me. I dodge very narrowly, it's deceptively fast for its size and after I dodged I slashed at it. My attack made a gash on the right side of its face and it skreicked.

It started stomping on the ground like a child having a tantrum. It created quakes making me fall over. Getting up I saw Its mouth opened and a pure black mist came out. Slowly the mist started to form into a deformed monstrosity. It had all Adams, Ebony, and "Clover" faces combined and it had five arms, two on the right and three on the left it had four legs. It had no clothes and on the torso, it had a Grimm mask with a red gem in the middle of it.

Dammit it, it's the Shadow's second form. The Reliver disappeared again and quickly the new horrific Shadow with Adams, Ebonys, and "Clovers' ' speed combined upper cutted me with all of their strength combined.

My Aura flashes from the massive amount of damage they just inflicted on me. I made dozens of Thread needles and sent them to the horrific Shadow. They all hit with force, but it didn't die, fuck this one won't die in one hit. Time to take the Dust.

I pulled the Dust cube out of my pocket and as I was about to put it in my mouth I was hit on the side sending me into a tree destroying it. Fuck that actually hurt like a fuck ton. Where's the Dust, I got up while looking around, seeing where it was, it was in the worst place possible it was on the floor underneath the Shadow. Come on universe why with the bullying. I quickly made a Thread batterram and charged the Shadow. It was about to get hit by my attack, but it just kicked at my batter ram and shattered it.

God is this thing strong. It charged me again and swung with recklessness. I blocked it barely, but it kept putting force in its attack, and slowly it was crushing me. I was dropped on my knees from the force it was giving out. While it kept its focus on me I sent a Thread to grab the Dust and put it into my mouth. It kept crushing me into the ground until my Thread returned with the Dust. I opened my mouth and swallowed the cube whole.

In an instant, I felt a raging Fire inside my body. The feeling of power was overwhelming, but somewhat calming like I had complete control over the situation. Then the pain hit like a hurricane, it wasn't as bad as last time, but it still hurt like hell.

Now time to end this. I made a giant flaming Claymore in the air and stabbed the Shadow in the side cutting out in half, ok that was way easier than I thought. Also for some reason when I put Dust into my Semblance most of the pain goes away. I looked around for the Reliver so I could just end this seeing it in front of me standing still. Time for some cool shit.

I unravel the Thread Claymore and make it go onto my Longsword. It slowly weaved together and once complete it was my Longsword, but with more length with scorching fire on it.

It backed up from seeing my new strength. With a swing, a wave of fire is thrown at the Grimm concealing me from it. I go around the flame and into a bush. The fire wave hit it, but it barely flinched and it started to look around and after a couple of seconds it turned its back towards me. Now is my chance.

I poured Aura into my legs and launched towards it with incredible speed. Before it could even react I jumped over it and landed on its back and stabbed it in the head, it's not disappearing so I won, yes! It's mouth opened up suddenly scaring the shit out of me and started to pour black mist again, oh fuck its not dead. No, I'm going to end this now I felt the Dust inside of me and I forced it into my Thread blade that's still inside its head and increased its temperature. It stopped moving and the black mist dissipated without anything happening. slowly its body started to melt and evaporated in the black mist Grimm normally gave off.

Finally, it was over, I thought as I was hit in the back sending me into a tree again. The fuck was that. I got up and turned around and see 3 Beringel, 2 young Beringels and the last one was older. It had bone armor and spikes all over its body with its fist out. He hit me. Goddammit, more enemies, so I was in the Relivers fog for too long that's why they're here.

I hate Grimm so much.

Quickly I made two open looking Thread restraining jackets. I sent two at the younger ones and left the older one unrestrained. The two young Beringel were wrestling trying to get out as the Thread started to burn them. I run up to the older Beringel and stop five feet before I get to it and pour Aura into my Thread blade. It was aggravated by me restraining its comrades and ran at me with a cocked fist. With a fully powered Aura strike, I unleashed it on the Beringel. The attack did more than just leave a huge bleeding gash. It set it on fire as if I poured gasoline all over it, holy shit the Dust effect goes with my Aura attacks.

The Beast was enraged and came at me hands first to grab me. I tried to dodge back to not get grabbed, but when I backed up I was kicked in the back by one of the still restrained Beringel. The older Beringel grabbed me and his grip was tight like his hands were vices and it started crushing me slowly, aw fuck this hurts.

I summoned hundreds of Threads and stabbed its hands for it to let me go. It wasn't working. The things hide was too strong. How do I get out of this? Idea, how about Dust maybe instead of using it on my Semblance I use it on my body. Focus, I need to absorb all of the Dust in my Thread to do this.

Slowly, I felt my body start to feel like an inferno. With a new fiery strength, I forced the Beringel hands open and escaped its grasp. I landed on the floor and without pause, I attacked the Grimm. I jumped over it avoiding all attacks and landed on its back by grabbing it's face. I poured half of the Dust into my left hand and a flaming inferno appeared in it.

The Beringel was shrieking in pain from my hand charred its face. It shrieked and grabbed me and threw me at the other two Beringel. As I was flying to them they ripped out of their restraints and saw me flying towards them, oh shit that's not good. I think I got it.

I poured a bit of Fire Dust into my left hand and made it erupt with a force that propelled me away from the two hulk fist coming my way. I look at the lay of the land and see the older Grimm on the floor holding it wounds like it hurts, that's weird. The other two were running at me at 60 MPH with fists cocked. As they both ran at me I made two big Thread spikes that they both ran into. They were impaled from their own force and burning, but not dead. I charged up an Aura strike and ran up to one of the Beringel and released my attack. I aimed for the neck of it and like a badass, I severed it's head. Like so many before it, it's flaming headless body started to evaporate. One down two to g… I thought as my head was punched in the back of the head then grabbed. The older Beringel was holding me and then smashed me into the ground face first.

It kept smashing my face against the floor over and over and then it shattered my Aura.

Getting angrier I unleashed the Fire Dust inside of me and the Beringel hand started to melt. It backed up and started to skreick again from pain. I backed up and started to make a plan. The two Beringels were close enough for one attack, let's make that attack have everything. With my Thread, I covered my Longsword with scorching flames and increased its size until the blade was as big as me. Let's finish this. With a massive swing, a wave of scorching fires came out of my sword, the amount of heat it gave off caught the trees nearby by on fire without the flame even being near it. The Beringels both were caught in it.

I fall to one knee and see two of their figures in the sea of flame I accidentally created, opss might have burned down the forest on accident. are they still not dead. As I think this one of the heads of the Grimm falls off and starts to evaporate, yes! The other one stood still, is it dead or not. Suddenly it came running fully in the tackling position, knew it

It emerged from the fire with melted hide and broken armor. It looked like it was about to die. It charged up and 5 feet to me I side dodged its tackle and time my attack right when its neck was exposed. I stabbed my Sword through its neck and forced it down, ripping through its throat. Its head was hanging from a small Thread of meat on the back of its neck as it evaporated.

Thank God it's over, time to make my way back to the Monastery. I look around and see the once peaceful forest filled with greenery was now a battlefield. Most of the trees were either burning, smashed or just fallen over, that must have been from Shadow Paarthurnax dive bombed. The grass was incinerated and all that was left was ash, damn is Fire Dust something you don't want to mess with.

Ow, my face hurts, then I touch it and feel wet. I probably got a concussion, damn I hate Beringels their so strong! Hey at least I was able to take on three now a month ago I could barely take on one with the help of a bunch of explosives

After a while, I got back to the Monastery and waited for the Monks. The five Monks, are they the only ones here, or is there more because this place is huge. As I walk to them I see Gyatso smile like he just won the lottery. Two other Monks were smiling as well and another one had a stoic expression. Zenkou actually looked pissed that I killed the Grimm.

Dramatically Gyatso starts to say. "Andres Carrillo as for killing the Reliver we will…." He was about to finish, but he was interrupted by Zenkou.

Zenkou starts to say with anger seeping from his voice. "Stop, I will not allow this.. this future tyrant to train in our ways!" Wow, that's a lot of anger he's got there.

"Zenkou it's not your decision alone. We all accepted the deal and he came through and by our word he will be tested again." The Monk that made the deal said with a stern voice. I like this guy. He's fair.

Still angry Zenkou yells. "I did not accept the deal!" Wow, real mature.

Before I could call him out the Monk who created the deal said. "No you didn't, but you stayed quiet and didn't give you word, you better than that Zenkou don't try that." Damn that was better than what I would've said.

With a smile Gyatso said. "Well spoken, now Andres time for the test again, come along." He walks to the Monastery.

We walked back to the place where they tested me except without a furious Zenkou. He stayed put not moving. They gave me another one of those Dust cubes that were used during this test. All was in place and all of the Monks went back to their circles so I put the cube in my mouth and swallowed. Like last time my vision got blurry then pure darkness. In the darkness a dark red appeared in front of me.

"Your back, good you didn't finish seeing your strongest desire." Yeah I know, I was kinda pulled out before I could finish it.

The same images appeared in my head of me on a hill and a pile of my dead enemies next to me and I'm slowly walking down the hill to the people bowing down. I come close to a woman holding her baby and gently go to grab it. With permission I hold the child and with clarity, I heard.

"I will protect everyone. no matter how strong my enemy is, nothing will get through me, nothing will hurt you, any of you. I'll make sure of that." As I say that I put my hand up into the air and a beam of red energy gets sent into the air and creates this semi transparent force field around what looked like the world. Wait, why would I do tha…. Oh my god. Two planet sized hands come down one sickly purple and the other bright yellow. They both came down smashing into the field and are pushed back.

"They'll never hurt you I swear." The other me says as a bright light and a void of darkness filled my vision and I was back in the monetary.

Gyatso stared at me with wide eyes and slowly said. "That was aaa…. eye opening. Well, I think I can speak for all of us that your desires can be destructive for everyone, but if we can bring that future where you protect the people we will train you." Yesss!

"Andres Mondragon we hereby grant you the title of apprentice Monk of the Balance of the Divine Lands. So get ready for some gruesome training." He said with a smile.

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Author's Note

So I'm going to wait a couple of weeks to send out the rest of the chapters. Sorry, but don't worry i am not giving up on this story. I'm just going to write in advance so i just don't write shit.