Hello once again everyone!
Okay, as you may have noticed, i have revised this chapter once again as i have to be honest:
When i first posted this, some of it was rushed, i was half asleep and this isn't what i wanted to do. First and foremost, i played Resident Evil 5 that night so i had zombies in the mind. So naturally i screwed up and i admit that, so now i'm going to fix it. Piece of advice to all writers out there:
Don't write you're final drafts, while half asleep.
Anyway, i just went with it and since i have worked today, i couldn't revise this chapter till today. Oh well, better late then never, eh? To be clear, THIS version is what should have been written but a sudden bout of inspiration and well, you already seen what happened. So here is the final version of it, do please enjoy.
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So please read, review and "What the fuc-BOOM"
Prologue: The Exiled Master
Xero's POV:
Everything that lives, is designed to end. All livings beings are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death. However, life is all about the struggle within this cycle. That is what many believe and i myself have seen it. Felt it. Witnessed it. Done it. I often wonder why god, goddess or whatever higher deity decide this should be the core of all living beings. Be they human, animal, it doesn't matter.
If it lives, it must have an end.
I wonder why god, gods or goddess left us with such a cryptic puzzle and to this day i wonder...if i'll ever get the chance to kill them.
After all, if we are all made in gods image are we not? If so, then why did he/they make us, humans to have such a capability to kill each other in such a grotesque and inhuman manner. Why does god or the gods desires humans to worship them in many ways but they in turn, barely if ever interact with us mere mortals?
Why give a select few people unique and extraordinary abilities, while many others suffer a fate worse then death, simply because they were born less fortunate?
Why do things not last forever, save for the gods and goddess's themselves?
Why does humanity, if given a chance, destroy each other and the world itself?
What makes a person become good and kind, while another becomes evil and selfish?
What makes some people fear death and run from it, despite knowing full well it is a hopeless endeavor, while others willingly embrace it with open arms?
What makes some people hate the unknown and people of another color, while others view the unknown with sparkling eyes and welcome those of another color of skin?
What makes one person, want to save the world and another, to simply watch it burn?
Just why?
Despite everything i have learned, the history i have watched go by and the people i've met, human nature is still a thing of mystery to me. I think i've gotten a lot better at reading and understanding people. Goddess knows i need to, in order to deal with the people i lead every day.
Ah, where are my manners, i am Xero Schnee the (Only/last) Master of the Chaldea Security Organization and now, the last human of the planet Earth and the last Magus. I wasn't there first choice, not because of my magical ability.
Goddess knowns i have that in spades and i am proudly skillful in using that said magic, thank you very much.
I believe, in Olga's own words:
"It's you're mental stability that concerns us. What happened to you, while it was indeed harrowing event it has effected you mentally and emotionally. After all, you said it yourself, this is what pushed you back into our world Schnee. I can't help but wonder if you did it for those you lost, you're family, yourself or just wanting to grow powerful enough to make everyone else suffer you're pain. It's only because of you're high potential to became a master, we're you allowed to come here. Remember that Schnee, one wrong move and i don't care what my boss's say, i'll kick you out myself."
To be fair she had every right to distrust and be wary of me.
Ah, you wouldn't know what i'm talking about and that's understandable. It was an isolated incident and despite what happened, those idiots decide it would be better to cover it all up, while vaguely giving bullshit reasons why they should stay away from the unexplored caverns in the Appalachian Mountains in the North Carolina mountains.
It all started out as a really good day, it truly did. The birds were singing, the weather as pretty as can be, not a cloud in sight and the temperature was prefect. Not too hot, nor too cold either with a gentle breeze in the air. Me and my friends, Sarah, Juno, Sam Jessica, Holly, Rebecca and Beth decide to go cave exploring for my seventeenth birthday.
I had been born into a Magus family and while i learned to control it, i didn't really care to learn how to use. Needless to say, me and my family didn't see eye to eye on many things and one day, it just boiled over. Goddess feels like a thousands years ago, can't even remember what that stupid fight was even about and now that i think about it, i have the feeling it was something really stupid.
Pointless even.
Fighting just for the sake of fighting.
Sigh...
Ya know, the last thing i said to my mother was,"I wish you were dead."
I didn't mean it, of course not, i was simply young, reckless and a kid saying things out of anger. Heh, guess you need to be careful what you wish for, otherwise it just might come true.
Mine did.
I never really liked how a Magus family worked, nor how they devote themselves entirely to their craft, to the point where if two children were born, one would gain everything while the other got next to nothing. There can't be two heir's after all. Even if their was, the oldest would gain the states as heir and in the Magus world, blood is everything.
Meaning first generation Magus are treated like leapers, while the ones from an older family is treated like royalty...until the other Magus get what they wanted and just simply kill you off.
If you get lucky that is.
Magus aren't good people, never have been and possible, never will be. Even myself, i am not a good person. Sure i can be kind, show compassion, sympathize and even empathize with others, no matter who or what they are. On the other hand, i can be very ruthless, cunning and uncaring of who or what i have to hurt and or kill to get what i want.
It's just the way Magus are, even myself.
I'm just a lot nicer then most Magus and while that attitude did me no favors in my life earlier, it's done wonders for me now.
Part of being a master is ensuring you are compatible with you're Servant. Able to get along, as the deeper the bond, the better you fight and more power the Servant can gain by ascending them. To do so, you need to deepen you're bond with them. Ah, i'm getting off track aren't i?
Anyway, you could call it fate, destiny or just plain dumb luck that i left the house that day. You see, that was the day my house was raided by Magus hunters, they killed my entire family and burned the house down. But before he died my father swore on magic to make me the new head of the family and as they all burned, i was forcefully made the new head.
I didn't want it.
After finding out what happened, i basically swore off using magic, not wanting anything to do with it or caring to learn how to use it. I only learned enough on how to hide it and nothing more.
A choice i believed would never come back to bite me on the ass.
Sigh...
But it did and it did it, HARD.
To this day, i wish the hell i did learn before hand.
That day, what SHOULD have been a great day, full of fun and memoires to look back on fondly, turned into a living nightmare that ended with six deaths and one very traumatized moron aka your's truly.
The first hour or so, when we entered the caves was filled with excitement but in the back of my mind, i couldn't shake the feeling we we're being watched. It would be later i would learn that this feeling would be one i'd come to relay on, as it's normally almost always right. As it turned out, we we're being followed by a subterranean humanoid creatures that i have come to call:
Crawlers.
Not only did these fuckers adapted to living in pure darkness, to the point we we're completely defenseless against them. Quick, able to see blind as bats but with hearing that could out rank a German Shepard and while that fact helped me survive, it only damned the rest. Long story short, i had to watch my friends get picked off one by one, each death more brutal and bloodier then the last.
At one point, i had to sit quietly as i watched Holly get gutted, ripped and eaten alive and all the while, all i could do was watch it.
That's a scene most people can't handle very well and to be honest, i still have nightmares about that day. Despite all that has happened to me, i can still count that as one of my most hellish days and that's simply because i was weak back then.
Powerless.
Unable to help in any shape or form.
I barely escaped the caves, as Sarah and i left Juno behind after learning she left Beth behind to die after mortally wounding her. While i understand why she left her behind, as there was no way Juno could possible carry her out without getting them both killed, that damn bitch could have at the very least put Beth out of her misery.
Instead of letting her be eaten alive.
Beth was my first time at killing someone. I couldn't do anything, not after she begged me to not leave her behind. Beth knew she nothing could be done but she didn't want those things to get her either, so i did what i had to do.
Kill her, so she could die without suffering too much.
The day ended, with Sarah sacrificing herself for me, with more then twenty crawlers came for us both. I could do nothing but run and to this day, i hated myself for that more then anything. I hated that i couldn't do anything, even though i had magic.
I hated that i had to watch my friends die one by one.
I hated that i couldn't save them, even though i had the power to do so but i didn't known how to use said power. One wrong move and the entire cavern would come crashing down on all our heads.
I hated that i was too weak to do anything, other then watch as those fuckers butchered six innocent woman, who's only crimes were being at the wrong place at the wrong time. After the death of my family, Sarah and her husband, Paul, had taken me in and raised me as their own. Even though the trip was on my birthday as a gift for a thrill seeker like me and the rest of our friends, it was for Sarah as well.
You see, her husband and daughter had died in an accident, a car crash.
Sarah was not only depressed, i'm pretty sure she had psychosis. I never really asked, but more then once did i have to snap Sarah out of an episode and back to reality. Thankful, it only happened when she slept and or was unconscious, that is when she would start to see the hallucinations. Though i suppose none of that matters now, as Sarah died saving my ass and no one will ever known it otherwise.
Fucks sake.
This world truly is a cruel place.
After that, i spent the next ten months studying and training in every magical art i could get my hands on. I knew at that point, i was pretty fucked up mentally and one of those mental fuck ups, was me becoming a bit claustrophobia and some fear of cramped, dark places like surprise, surprise caves. Yeah i have traveled down the dark caverns but god fucking damn, i most certainly didn't like it!
I kept at least two Caster's and Berserkers with me, whenever i went through those tunnels.
Fuck getting screwed like that again!
That was of course, AFTER i joined Chaldea. During the time before then, i just simply destroyed the carven systems or lured the monsters out of their hiding holes and put a bullet in them all.
Anyway after that event, i spent the next six months hunting down other monstrous creatures, as a way to cope with what happened down in those tunnels. It was shocking at how quickly i found more and more of these creatures, running around and have been killing people for YEARS.
Well, right or wrong, i made sure to wipe out each tribe i found and hoped i made the world a little bit safer.
This of course caught a lot of attention. From the normal humans, the Church, the Mages Association, the Untied Nations and of finally, Chaldea. That is what lead me to be recruited by Chaldea and by this point, i think you all known the story.
Chaldea was betrayed by one of it's own, that had been taken over by a Demon God named Flauros. The result was all the would be master's were either killed or put into coma's. None of them ever work up and to make matters worse, Director Olga was killed during the first battle in Singularity F. After that, Dr. Romani Archaman was made as acting director of Chaldea.
But you all known this already, don't you?
Then you already known the rest.
We learned that humanity had basically been burned to a crispy crisp, Chaldea was all that was left and in order to fix it, i had to correct the seven Singularities, mirror ones and any other breaks in time. To do so, i had to summon Heroic Spirits otherwise known as Servants, to help me combat the Demon God Pillars and all those who helping him.
Again, many of you known this but there are a few things that you don't known, is that some Servants...aren't quite what you'd expect to them to be. For one, two Servants the King of Heroes Gilgamesh and the Magus Killer Kiritsugu Emiya.
By history's timeline both are male. The three versions of Gilgamesh are all recorded to BE male but the three versions i summoned, along with Kiritsugu are, well shocking enough, female.
Yeah, i can't explain it other then the summoning system fucking with me. Even more so, when Gil decide i was her most "precious treasure" as i have learned, the "King" of Heroes is a very possessive person. It's not all bad, as under all her arrogance, demanding and at times, a bit creepy attitude, she is a good person under all that.
Her Caster and kid Version more so, then her Archer version.
So, at this point you're probably wondering why i am telling you all this. I mean, why should i, since you already known how this story begins and ends. Mash and I had to correct seven deadly Singularities in time, which were basically Holy Grail wars in different time periods. I had to summon legendary heroes from the past in order to fight for me, while i grew very close to many of them.
Many from enemies, to friends and many to even lovers as well.
Anyway, as expected, i went through what could be considered a war, which it was and came out as the victor.
But not before nearly dying SERVERAL times, got A LOT of scars to prove that(Along with some new mental ones but my healing Berserker has helped me over come them) and now, iv'e gone beyond the abilities of a normal Magus. I mastered many weapons, firearms, CQC(Close Quarters Combat) and prefected my Magecraft.
Hey if you've got access to several legendary heroes, many who are more then willingly to teach you anything you want to known, you'd take it.
Anyway, i finally fixed all the singularities, defeated the Demon God Pillars, confronted Solomon and saved the world. In these kinds of stories, the hero would get the girl(Or girls/women in my case. Servants are different from humans and even Magus, so yeah they approach relationships VERY differently) and ride off into the sun set.
Ya know, happily ever after.
But like everything else, reality smacked THAT idea right out of the sky.
It was shortly after gaining a new director in Chaldea, did the Mage's Association came to a realization about me:
I was powerful.
Very powerful and with a bloody damn army of Servants, all at full power and loyal to me and me alone, not them.
That made me dangerous to them. I could not, would not be controlled by anyone. Due to me using Class Cards and reliving my Servants memories influence me and my own experiences during, what was the biggest and longest Holy Grail war in history, i wasn't the type to just do as others told me without question. I was already a little rebellious before and after i joined Chaldea, doing what i believe is right and let my moral code dictate my actions.
I will admit, i see things in a very gray way but that's beside the point.
Long story short, the Mage Association saw me as a threat, simply because i got too powerful for any of them to challenge. Humans have no chance at beating a Servant, even the weakest Assassin class Servant can slaughter several humans before they are either, killed by a Magus or simply vanish after running out of mana. So the fact i contracted over a hundred Servants and one of them is the God Of Destruction, they had every right to be afraid of me.
Knowing i would forever be hunted by Magus and possible normal humans when, not if, when they discovered i had magic and could summon the dead back to life as what could be considered war machines, i knew there was only one thing i could do:
Go into exile.
After escaping the Mage's and Church's enforces, me and the Casters pooled our knowledge together to come up with a plan. We already knew we couldn't stay in this world, not after everything that has happened and knowing the Mages would never give up the hunt, we decide to find a place, a new world or even an alternate world to call home.
Thankful, we had experience of traveling to both new worlds and alternate ones as well.
So it was no real problem creating a portal to either one and that the time has come, i can only hope things will go smoothly.
But then again, knowing my luck, it probably won't.
Devil's luck indeed.
Done.
So because of how this is the THIRD try at trying to make this version of the story, i decide to add both the trailer AND a preview. We'll start with the trailer. Also, did anyone notice the quote? Cause it's there once again, you just have to look and find it.
Here's we go boys and girls!
Song: Champion by Neoni Burna Boy
Trailer: Xero Is The Champion Of Humanity
The battle's coming now
The fury shakes the ground
I've come to take my crown
I'm rising up my heart is pounding
Ready or not the clock is counting down
[Pre Chorus]
This is my moment
This is my moment
This is my moment
[Chorus]
Whoa
I was born for greatness
Whoa
A legend in the making
Deep in my bones
Oh yeah I know
I am
I am the champion
Whoa
Come on try and take it
Whoa
It all comes down to this and
Deep in my bones
Oh yeah I know
I am
I am the champion
[Verse]
You know I'm out for blood
I'm feeling dangerous
I just can't get enough
I'm rising up my heart is pounding
Ready or not the clock is counting down
[Pre Chorus]
This is my moment
This is my moment
This is my moment yeah
[Chorus]
Whoa
I was born for greatness
Whoa
A legend in the making
Deep in my bones
Oh yeah I know
I am
I am the champion
Whoa
Come on try to take it
Whoa
It all comes down to this and
Deep in my bones
Oh yeah I know
I am
I am the champion
I am the
I am the
I am
I am the champion
[Bridge]
I know where I'm going
I have been chosen
I'll never be broken
I am the champion
A clashing of titans
A battle of giants
Take a moment of silence
I am the champion
[Chorus]
Whoa
I was born for greatness
Whoa
A legend in the making
Deep in my bones
Oh yeah I know
I am
I am the champion
Whoa
Come on try to take it
Whoa
It all comes down to this and
Deep in my bones
Oh yeah I know
I am
I am the champion
I am the
I am the
I am
I am the champion
Now for the Preview but due note that this may or may not come to be, as i tend to change my stories up on the fly, so it may or may not change. Just warning you ahead of time, as this, like life, tends to change real fucking fast.
So here we go yet again:
Preview: Don't Cross A Magus
"Did we get them?"
The air was still, no one dared to say a word, no one, not even the Grimm themselves dared to move a muscle. All Faunus for miles, be they White Fang or not, all felt the urge, no the desperate need to run as far away as possible, while the Huntsman all felt the hairs on the back of their necks stand up. That man, XERO! he just did something.
But what?
THUMP
Everyone felt the ground shake, as they all nearly fell over. What in the world was that?
"Ozpin?"
James looked at the headmaster of Beacon, who looked at his old friend and for the first time(In a very, VERY long time) didn't know what was going on.
THUMP
Suddenly, the large smoke cloud shifted, as a MASSIVE figure slowly stepped out of the smoke, making everyone's jaws drop and quite a few feel pure, unrestrained terror fill their hearts.
"W-what the hell is that?"
Illa said mouth gaping, as Adam gripped Blush and Wilt so tightly, his knuckles turned white,"Why didn't Cinder say anything about this?!"
"No..."
Said woman could only stare in both shock, awe and horror at what she was seeing. No, this couldn't be happening! Her well crafted plan, one that took years to make and set into motion, was about to go up in flames. No, this couldn't be, this can't be happening!
THUMP
"By the gods! Are you guys seeing this?!"
Sun asked all the huntsman in training, as his head looked at Ruby and said,"Did you known he could summon THAT?!"
Ruby could only shake her head, as she stared at the GIANT before her. She, for it was most certainly a female giant, looked at all the Grimm and White Fang before with one eye and an innocent look on her pretty face. She honestly looked so cute and sweet but the words she spoke, were anything but!
"Hello everyone! I'm sorry to suddenly appear like this but umm, master just order me to destroy any White Fang or Grimm i see, so if you could be so kind as to-"
The she raised her giant foot, the innocent look never leaving her pretty face, even as she smiled,"Please die for me."
SMASH
Done.
Devil out BITCH!