Hello! Hope you read the previous chapters!
By the way, Adam Talking Grimm form is called Labyrinth. The name came from Greek mythology where a maze called the Labyrinth was used to hold a Minotaur so it can be killed by a hero named Theseus.
I thought it would've been a cool name since Adam's Faunus features obviously resembles a bull and him being a Faunus/Human Hybrid while being a Talking Grimm is basically being someone being trapped within a monster.
As Ruby and Karla bursted into Haven. They only found Weiss, was laid out on her back in a pool of her blood as she had a stab wound through her abdomen. Luckily, Jaune unlocked his semblance to keep her alive.
Nora dropped face first, having her aura shattered by the squirrel Faunus scythe. Quickly, Ruby came to her defense, using her Petal Burst to zoom over at the squirrel Faunus before knocking her away from Nora with a shoulder charge. "Another scythe wielder? So much for being a rare weapon." Ruby commented on.
Despite the mask, she was visibly angry. She glared outside, seeing the black haired, Faunus Blake outside. "Get outta my way." The squirrel Faunus says, trying to bolt past Ruby but Ruby side-stepped in front of her, not letting her get away. The two went at it with each in a fluid motion with neither getting a hit on each other.
Meanwhile, with Karla, she wanted revenge on Leonardo. Leonardo, eyes widened when seeing Karla heading his way. "W-wait!" He pleaded, aiming his Stalward at her but before he could do anything, a purple, ghoulish figured appeared behind Leonardo, locking the lion Faunus in a full nelson. A loud, "argh!" spit out of Leonardo's mouth as Karla fist rammed into his stomach.
"You depraved motherfucker." Karla shouted, rattling Leonardo's jaw with another punch. "You did it, didn't ya? Had them all killed? My partners? People I grew up with?" She says, taking and tossing aside Leonardo's Stalwart as she shattered his aura with her metal baton that she slammed over his head.
He was quite in a daze from that blow but tried to manage his composure. "I'm s-sorry Miss Willows! I was just following orders...!" Leonardo tried to explain as he was in a panic.
One of Karla's metal baton transformed into its semi-automatic uzi form as she pointed at the temple of Leonardo's dome. He panicked, "Please! Hazel! Help me!"
Even Qrow yelled while holding Hazel off. "Karla, sto-"
But she didn't listen as her uzi went off, shooting rapidly into Leonardo's skull. She kept shooting until the gun clip ran out, blood splattered onto her face as she did and once she finish, it left Leonardo's face bloody and completely unrecognizable. As she had her shadow specter drop the corpse of the Leonardo, dead on the floor.
She breathed heavily, having that being the first adrenaline rush that went so far. Emerald looked in disgust but she stayed prepped, thinking that Cinder would come and recuse them.
Team RNJR and everybody else regrouped back together as their enemies did so as well.
Adam, fully transformed into a Grimm was completely frozen. The black substance slowly oozed off as Adam reverted back to his normal state, even his hair was red again.
He breathed heavily as his body steamed smoke. "Ugh, this has been long shitty, experience." Adam muttered, walking out of the forest.
When coming out the forest, he hid within an alleyway to only see a massive war between the Anti Faunus Operation, the Menagerie Faunus and the White Fang. He look back to see Salem who was smirking. "You manage to break out the Grimm state without dying? Your willpower is very...intriguing." She complimented.
Adam groaned, "it felt terrible."
"Of course it is. That's what happens when you let your emotions get outta line. The Grimm power will destroy your head, causing you become a ghoulish version of yourself, in other words, a Talking Grimm. But unlike the others, you survived it. I'm guessing you are on your way of mastering it." Salem stated.
"Tch," Adam just scratched it off and glanced back onto the battle. So did Salem, with them both sensing two intensive negative force. "Did you summon another Grimm? Or is that the battle, drawing them?"
Salem shook her head, "nope, surprisingly." She replied, pointing out into an open field where Ghira was fighting Glade.
Glade body was completely black as the night sky and body was bulked into a very impressive physique. Adam glared at the child-body Salem and grabbed her by the throat, "what the fuck Salem! You gave that power to my enemies?"
Salem snickered, "no."
"Then explain that!" He yelled.
"You seriously don't see it?" She says. "That's his semblance. A very strong one."
"But how? I thought you and I are the only ones who can control the negative forces." Adam said, releasing Salem.
Salem nodded, "If I'm being honest, I'm quite surprised myself. But to give an explanation, everyone could produce negativity. Right now, everyone is doing it. But with us, we're the only ones who can manifest it into physical matter. And with him, he is producing it into his power. It's quite mesmerizing." She admitted.
Adam groaned with Salem giggling very sinisterly. "What? Concern?"
"Yes, I am." Adam admitted as he continued to watch the battle. This guy had forced Ghira to use his Faunus amplifier and even then, it was still a struggle and possibly be even be a lost for the previous leader of the White Fang. "I don't know much about Ghira, hell I don't even like him. But what my master told me was that he and Ghira rivaled each other when it came to base strength. And my master was a strong warrior, stronger than me! So seeing his rival being pushed like this, even while using his Beast amplifier does have me on edge." Adam stated.
"So you do know your limits." Salem replied. She scoped things out with Adam during his time here in Mistral. While he and his semblance are very strong and impressive, he could be pushed by someone who was also skillful with a sword and had a very strong defense, via taking back to the battle he had with Gale.
"I do but that doesn't mean I don't accept them. As you could tell with the battle I had with the elites."
"You know, I'm feeling very unappreciated." Salem replied. "Without the gift I gave you, would you truly have won?"
Adam didn't give an answer. She was right, that power was a big help, even though it could've killed him. "Right." She said, about to walk away. "I'm going to return this body now, I hope you're able to think your way out of this."
Adam sighed, glancing at the carnage that was happening. He remembered that he did sensed two intensive negativity. Only to noticed that Blake, Ilia, Sun and elites of the White Fang were battling against a copy of Glade which who was being more tensed with its Emotional Fuel than the actual one, which had Blake and the others on the ropes, despite the odds being on their side.
Adam loaded his gun with his Wilt sword and aimed it straight at Justice. "I had enough of you, human parasite!" He says, firing his Wilt sword, blade first.
Both Yeoman and Justice heard the gunfire but Justice barely but luckily reacted as he moved and had his shoulder impaled. "U-ugh! Shit!" Justice groaned.
Yeoman glared at him, still frightened when Adam became that Bull looking Grimm. As Adam jumped far and high over as Yeoman tried to intercept him with his Aura Drilling semblance in midair. Adam formed a massive grimm arm to halt and stop Yeoman's rotation.
The grimm arm oozed off as Adam and Yeoman slugged it out in midair with them eventually hitting the ground. Adam grunted but quickly picked himself back up and headed straight over to Justice with Argus Speed semblance.
As Justice pulled the Wilt sword out of his arm and angrily snapped it in half. "Copy Glade, get that red haired Faunus!"
Blake and the Copy Glade stared each other down with Blake looking very exhausted. Sun was down, not unconscious but very sore on the ground. Ilia was unconscious, and the elites...were dead. Fennec and Corsac were only assisting with the Menagerie. When Justice said his command, both the Copy Glade and Blake turnt their attentions over to Adam which who was charging straight toward Justice.
The Copy Glade blazed over to Adam, being incredibly fast just Adam being in his speed semblance. Blake followed in her Faunus Amplifier state. She shot her Gambrol Shroud zip line and locked it around the Copy Glade legs, as she tugged, she manage to drop the Copy Glade onto his knees. Enough for Adam to get straight to Justice.
Justice groaned and was simply about to make a Copy of Adam but before he could, flung another grimm arm straight at Justice. Justice manage to dodge it by side stepping but Adam had already closed the distance.
Justice backed up, shooting a couple of bullets at Adam but Adam with another sword. Actually it was one of Yeoman's, deflected the bullets.
Lunging forward, he swung the blade upward that grazed Justice's eye, causing him to groan in pain. Adam continued with the assault, riddling Justice arms and body with bullets.
Justice stumbled, about to fall off the roof of the building. "Fuck! Dammit, dammit!"
Finishing him off, it went black. Suddenly Justice found his head decapitated by an aura slash. Adam painfully laughed. "Finally, that annoyance is go-" His body winced, as he dropped right onto his knees. "D-damn...I've really been exhausting my aura...and two elite bastards are still alive. Fine..." He muttered, ripping open another aura packet and eating them.
It wasn't going to do much but it was better than nothing.
Blake, looked up to see the Copy Justice disappeared into nothingness.
"Ugh...Adam..." She muttered and stood up, returning back to her base state. But the fights wasn't over, her father was losing against the actual Glade.
Sun and Ilia both regrouped with Blake with Sun saying, "This was a loooot more than I bargained for." He commented in a jokingly manner.
"You can say that again..." Blake says, about to assist her father, despite the current power odds. But before she could do that, she and the others quickly dodged an aura drill attack from Yeoman. "Tch..."
"This guy clothes are different." Sun added in. "Is he another strong guy."
"Glade, assist me." Yeoman commanded.
Ghira who was very beaten up, grunted and said. "No... I'm not done yet..." He said, knowing that Blake and the others wouldn't do anything to Glade.
Glade kicked Ghira across the ground, smirking. "Shut up." He said, going over to Yeoman.
"What should we do? He couldn't even handle a clone version of him." Sun says.
Blake didn't know what to say as she did look visibly nervous. Holding her Gambrol Shroud Blade, she said, "Like you said Sun, this was a lot more than you bargain for. You have people waitin for you back in Vacuo! So go! Same for you Ilia, go back to Jamie in Menagerie. If this is where everything ends for me, then I'm okay with that." She said.
Ilia was speechless as she downcasted when Blake brought up the name Jamie.
"You're a lot more courageous than you were in the White Fang." Adam said, approaching them from behind.
Blake jolted up as she glared at Adam. Adam was quite chipper to see Blake in these circumstances. He glance at Ilia, already knowing she left the White Fang to join Blake. But he didn't care, the White Fang had exiled him.
Adam soon glared at Glade, "I'll let your weak lapdog handle these scrubs. Just me and you, one on one, nobody else involved."
His muscles tensed up as his body went completely to dark and black, only using 50% of his Emotion Fuel Speed. This was the same negative power that the clone was spewing. This had Adam and the others visibly shook which put a smirk on Yeoman face. "Don't call my leader a lapdog..."
Adam was blazed with red electricity as Glade charged at him with immense speed. The others moved out the way with Adam dashing right off as Glade chased him down.
That little distraction gave Yeoman a chance to attack them off guard, using his aura driller to land a fast blow onto Ilia, knocking her out. Blake reacted and swung her Gambrol Shroud blade at him which he deflected with his revolver blade before swinging it at her throat. It only phased through an afterimage as Sun moved in and whacked his bo staff against Yeoman jaw. Yeoman quickly retaliated by launching a firm roundhouse kick to Sun ribcage while parrying a slash from Blake.
Sun stumbled back, groaning as Yeoman tried to send a spin kick to her jaw. Blake used her shadow semblance but this time with ice dust to trap Yeoman leg. She appeared behind him to release an purple aura slash from her Gambrol Shroud.
Yeoman fired the ice clone, freeing himself before using his own aura drill to move himself our the way. "Sun!" Blake shouted.
But Sun manage to side step out the way, fortunately. But unfortunately Yeoman was coming quick with his revolver sword. Sun reacted by summoning his yellow clone with it catching Yeoman by surprise with a backflip kick to the chin which propelled him upward. Yeoman grunted but immediately regained his balance, shooting the clone. Both Blake and Sun charged at Yeoman, flanking him from both directions. While still in midair, he spun and shot a split kick at them both. Sun, taking the hit but Blake actually catching his kick. And for a split second, she went into her Beast powerup before slamming Yeoman right into the ground, to the point that it left a small crater.
Yeoman grunted loudly as Blake pinned him down with her foot, pointing her blade right at him. "So your the leader of the Anti-Faunus Operation? Call your man off."
Yeoman chuckled despite being pinned down, "What's the point? Our army is losing, thanks to your degenerate runner boy," he says, referring to Adam. "Our last hope is Glade and Jacques, like a phoenix, we will raise from the ash-"
Blake just stomped on his chest again, just to shut him up. "Enough of your poetic bullshit, call them off if you want them alive." She threatened. She didn't actually want anyone to die but the hatred that both the Menagerie and White Fang Faunus had ignored any mercy. Especially after having dozen of them being killed by that Copy Justice.
Yeoman noticed that and smirked. "I remember you..."
"What?" Blake said, confusingly.
"You were the little girl that was hanging out around that black haired Faunus boy years back." Yeoman explained. "what was his name...Aarave?
Suddenly Blake expression went dark, "Aarave.....?" the memories started to flood back into her head. Sun, who was helping a now conscious Ilia back up both look at Blake.
"Blake, you good?" Sun asked.
Her eyes started to widened as she begin to hyperventilate. Yeoman used this opportunity to grab his revolver sword and shoot Blake right between the eyes. "BLAKE!" Both Sun and Ilia yelled as Blake dropped motionlessly onto the floor.
Quickly Yeoman tried to get up and flee but Ilia used her Lightning Whip to grab a hold of his arm, later activating the built in electricity shocker to send many volts through his body. "You bastard...!"
Sun ran up close, about to beat Yeoman into a senseless bloody pulp, until he saw Blake raise up, very creepy like as if she wasn't shot in the head, point-blank. The bullet, rolling down her face, she was in her Beast amplifier. She got up slowly, pulling her blade away as she approached the Yeoman, "you killed my brother?"
Ilia and Sun eyes slightly widened as the chameleon Faunus released Yeoman, seeing that this really became personal. She never met Aarave but back when she and Blake were in the White Fang together, Blake always talked about him. Yeoman tried to get away but Blake suddenly grabbed the man by his long hair and pulled him into the ground. Started with no emotion at all, fists rained against Yeoman skull to the point that that blood was being drawn. "YOU SON OF A BITCH! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU DISGUSTING HUMAN!"
"Blake!" Sun ran, trying to pull Blake off the now unconscious Yeoman. "Stop! He's already out cold!"
He manage to do so but Blake eventually shrugged him off, pulling her blade out again. Sun, grabbed the blade by its handle. "Blake, stop! Remember why you left the White Fang in the first place!" He said, causing Blake to halt with tears filling up within her eyes. "Its because of the hatred. The hatred is the reason why your best friend became a monster. The hatred is the reason why you and Ilia fought. Do you want this hatred to change you?"
Blake was with frozen tears streaming down her face. Sun took the chance to hug his closest friends, "I'm sorry that you went through so much Blake, your brother didn't deserve that. You didn't deserve the pain of losing him nor what you suffered through."
Blake sniveled. "S-sun..."
"Y-yeah?"
"I...I'm sorry..."
Sun look a little bewildered, only to find out that he was hugging a shadow clone of
Blake. Blake immediately pounced onto Yeoman with her blade, stabbing into his chest. Yeoman eyes, faintly opened as he gasped for air. Repeatedly Blake stabbed wherever her blade landed onto Yeoman. Ilia look a bit disgusted and quite scared of Blake mental breakdown as she looked away. Sun look a bit disappointed as he glance away.
Ghira, holding his stomach, walked upon them, seeing that Blake, only pushing her blade deep into the now dead Yeoman's chest. The war had subsided with the remaining members of the Anti Faunus Operation surrendering.
But the battle wasn't over yet. Everything started to shake now.
Meanwhile
Both Adam and Glade ran into a different area apart of the forest that the A.F.O resided at. "You ready?!" Adam shouted with Glade immediately going onto the offensive, charging at Adam in immense speed, launching a fierce punch straight at him.
Adam manage to side step it with the help of his speed semblance. But when he did, the air pressure behind Glade punch was enough to blow off trees from its roots.
Adam attacked back, slashing his sword across Glade's arm. It didn't even leave a scratch as Glade sent another punch that Adam blocked it Yeoman's revolver sword. Doing that sent Adam flying back but he did collected a lot of kinetic aura from that one punch as he soon slash down a massive red aura wave toward Glade's direction.
Glade merely walked forward as he took the powerful aura wave head on with Adam eyes widened. Glade soon bursted forward. Adam didn't have time to dodge as he shield himself with the sword again, this time being knocked through a couple of trees. "Screw it!" He cursed, dragging himself back onto his feet. "If I gotta waste the last of my aura just to kill you! Then so be it!" He says, standing his ground as his body was being circled by red lightning.
Glade stood there with a smirk, "is this your dying breath, Adam Taurus?! Fine then! At least you can know that you tried! You killed the elites but now you die by me!"
Adam fueled his weapon with the last of his aura as Glade was getting into his stances, about to charge. They both changed simultaneously with Adam speed being almost instantaneously to the point not even Glade couldn't even see him, which was his surprise. But even then, it didn't matter. The force that Glade shoulder charge was bring in was tremendous.
As they crossed paths, Adam flung past and was floored across the ground by the air pressure. The sword snapped...right before an onslaught of aura slashes, glazed and pierce Glade body. But unlike Gale, he was still standing, only with a long scar on his chest. "Wow...that actually had me startled..."
"Heh..." He chuckled, with his body being strained. He was completely defenseless and battered. He slowly stood up as Glade charged at him. Opening his hand, he immediately changed it into a large grimm hand to grab and push Glade back.
Glade eyes widened a bit, wondering how many semblances that Adam has but it didn't matter. He was still pushing forward and had Adam onto the ropes, later increasing his Emotional Fuel to 75 percent. "Even out of aura, somehow, you manage to bring out more power. How far are you willing to go just to defeat me, my crew? My family? An entire organization? Are you that loyal to yours that you have to cause this destruction?" He curiously asked.
While Adam was being pushed back, he spoke. "Hell yeah I am! And I can ask the same. Are you really that sick in the head to fight for a group that main purpose to victimized innocent Faunus?!"
Various of Grimm was surrounding the two, feeding off the intense negative emotions that they they were spewing. They attacked Glade, obviously with his semblance producing the most negativity and Adam, having his Grimm power almost compatible with his body. The Beowolves bit and crawled onto Glade, not having any effect on him but one Beowolf clutch onto Adam. Adam cocked an eyebrow with the Beowolf physical form was dissolving into Adam, actually healing his body and restoring his aura.
It didn't heal him completely but he felt a lot better ever since he started his fight with the A.F.O elites. Glade noticed that Adam was having a better footing now and very annoyed by the Grimm as he shoved Adam far back away from him as he disposed the Beowolves easily. Adam feeling quite refreshed, called off the Grimm as he wanted to fight Glade by himself.
Glade decided to stay in 75 percent as he and Adam glared at each other intensely as they started to circle around each other. "We're all victimized by this, Adam. This fight right now is caused because we're a product to our own environment. You think that I was born and decided that I wanted to hate Faunus? No, I was hated by everyone. Faunus and Humans, hell even my own family didn't love me because the power I possessed could kill them or get them killed. I had nobody until they A.F.O found me and given me a home and partially raised me. Then sooner and later, I knew I was pawn to them because I had no choice, it was all I knew and told by the people who loved me!"
Adam stayed silent, this conversation...reminded him of the talk he and Weiss had.
"I thought it was okay because of my father..."
"That's so unfair for you to think that way."
"You think living in luxury means I must've been happy?" Weiss asked. "No. Imagine having parents that neglected you. One is an alcoholic drug-addicted and the other one is the reason why I'm in this mess in the first place and only takes his anger out at us because of his mess. And...it doesn't help that I, my sister, brother, hell even my mother are sighed with targets on our backs because what my father and others did."
It echoed in his head, and suddenly...tears started to form up into his eyes and steam down his face. He look at his hands that killed so many people...some even innocent...one even being his own kind.
"I don't hate you Adam." Glade said, speaking in a much calmer tone, "at least...not anymore...but it has to be this way. You killed my family, I killed yours. This is the only way to settle the score."
Adam wiped away the tears as he coated his arms, hands and legs within the black substances. Keeping his emotions in check, exactly like Salem told him. He knew that his base form wasn't going to cut it so he allowed the Grimm power to take over him. Glade charged at him with tremendous speed.
Adam cocked back his fist and made collision with Glade's. The collision was so immense, it created a crater below them. Quickly Adam knocked Glade's arm upward with an uppercut before shooting a kick right at Glade's abdomen, actually knocking him back. Adam stayed on the offensive, repeatedly pounding his fist into Glade's forearms.
After throwing another punch, Glade weaved under it before landing a clean hook punch that rammed into Adam's jaw, only to sent him flying back with a punch to the abdomen.
Now Glade on the offensive, he dashed incredibly fast that he appeared behind and was about to rebound him with another punch. Adam, regained his composure, blocked the punch with his elbow. He responded back with a high back kick that landed right on his chin, following up with a fast backhand that stagger Glade back. He was about to follow it up with a left hook but Glade leapt back and unleash a flurry of air blasts from his fists as his emotional fuel spiked up to 85 percent. Adam grunted as he was being dragged into the ground by the air blasts. He used his speed semblance, being a lot faster than he was in his base form. And quickly dashed out of the forest.
Glade, being a lot faster and stronger when using 85 percent, jumped after Adam. Adam quickly, picked up one of the swords from one of the corpse of an A.F.O members.
Glade charged down at Adam and thrusted his hand into Adam's face, slamming him through a convenient store wall and a few others. Grabbing Glade's arm, he rolled onto his back before shooting both of his feet against Glade's chest, knocking him into the air.
Now back up, Adam almost instantaneously charged a Full Power Moonslice. Jumping up, it went black as usual as he lunge forward, behind Glade with his current sword glistening a crimson red color. Again, it went black as he slashed another Moonslice onto Glade's back. Landing, Glade was trapped in a much longer onslaught of aura slashes. "Don't move."
Still he wasn't finish, charging a maximum aura wave within his sword, launching it straight at Glade while he's in midair. The wave landed and exploded.
Glade dropped onto his feet, charging up his Emotional Fuel to his fullest. "Still not enough..." Adam thought as he gritted his teeth, but even he knows that he wasn't at his fullest with his transformation.
He allowed the substance to take full control over his body, being his Grimm form that he'll call the Labyrinth. Instantly, Adam was knocked away by the full powered Glade, flooring Labyrinth Adam through the dirt.
Adam instantly rised back up, charging back at Glade to launch a punch against Glade jaw. Glade didn't budged as he grabbed Labyrinth Adam its horns before launching blows into Adam's body.
Sun, Ghira and Ilia stood beside Blake. The A.F.O lost, surrendered and killed.
Soon, everybody else came outside with the others members of Team RWBY, and everyone else. "Blake..." Ruby muttered as she and the others noticed the heavy blood on her hands and weapon.
Regardless, they ran over to her so they can embrace her. "Blake! You're back!" Weiss said.
"We really missed you!" Yang says, hugging her tightly before moving away to noticed how physically fit Blake body looks. "Wow, Blake, you're ripped."
Blake, despite how emotionally drained she felt couldn't help to crack a chuckle at that comment. They noticed and later asked, "Blake you okay-" Ruby was about say until they heard a rumble. The fight between Adam and Glade was going on and because of their fights, Grimm were coming but they were suddenly shot down by assault helicopters. The law enforcement were finally coming to take care of the rest.
Oscar sighed. "This has been a long day."
"Tell me about." Nora says, being held up by Ren since she had her aura was shattered but she still held her War Hammer, just in case.
Karla reloaded her guns and started to walk down the streets with the military force. "I'm going to assist the law enforcement, just to make this easier."
"Be careful Karla." Ruby says.
"This fight isn't over, Adam is still here, fighting another A.F.O elite." Blake says.
Everybody looked at her confused with Yang eyes widening, "A-adam?! W-where is he?" She says.
Ren, being the sensory type sensed both negative emotions that Adam and Glade was sending. "Besides the relic now, I sense two high negative emotions coming from over there."
"Should we jump them?" Jaune asked.
Blake sighed, "No, one of them is incredibly strong. Let's just wait until one of them falls."
"You're not as strong as you were Adam!" Glade stated as he stomped onto the Labyrinth Adam's face, squeezing down. "I need to finish this. Goodbye- Adam!" He says, squeezing his foot down hard onto Adam's skull.
But suddenly he felt a burning sensation within on his feet. Quickly, he backed to find an aura beam shot from his eye. He raised up onto his feet with a large amount of Grimm substance dripped off of his body.
It started to changed. Labyrinth Adam looks more humanoid as a Grimm mask formed around the left eye of Adam and his mouth while his other eye looks completely red.
The only recognizable thing about his body attire is that his top looks like his original combat blazer. "Is that all Glade? This is your fullest potential?"
Demonic wings sprouted out of Adam's back, as he flew and grabbed Glade by his neck before flying up into the air and hitting him with a downward roundhouse that sent Glade back away from civilization. Charging up his aura, he sent countless of aura slashes down at him that exploded onto him.
Glade wasn't finished through, jumping back at Adam and tackling him down from the sky. The two just slug it out with Adam being seemingly having the upper hand.
Everybody else watched quite confused on what was happen since they were quite a distant away in the sky. The two traded blows with Labyrinth Adam launching Glade back onto the ground where a large crater blew up. Adam now decided wanting to finish this, charging up another Moonslice. "Your aura is running out, Glade! I won this."
Glade groaned, he was running down on aura, "dammit..." Slowly standing as Adam blazed down at him.
Like always, he stood behind Glade with himself lunge forward. Glade...body slowly reverted back to its normal fair skin tone as he dropped onto his back. Adam look back, also returning back to his base state. He fell right onto his knees with his body steaming with smoke. "...argh! Fuck..." He cursed. "Guess I won..."
Glade grunted. "Ugh...yeah...I guess you did..."
Adam fell on the right side of his face, still conscious but his body felt incredibly tired and was in excruciating pain, thanks to that transformation. It was quite silent between the two but later Glade spoken up, "s-still alive...?"
"I w-won...but it feels like I'm dying...I'm in so much pain right now." Adam stated.
Glade eyes were feeling fainted, gripping onto his chest as he coughed up blood. "If you die...it ends in a draw."
"Ya know...I wouldn't mind. Dying in battle like this feels...quite...achieving. The only regret I have is that I don't know what happen to my own leader..." He replied. There was no respond.
Glade was dead.
He snickered quietly as he saw Team RWBY, JNR and Qrow walking upon them.
"Argus?"
"Adam..."
Ruby and Blake said simultaneously with Ruby and everyone else looked at each other confusingly. Except for Yang who instantly became furious at the sight of him.
Blake glance at them with narrow eyes. "You know him...?" Blake said.
"He's..." Ruby sounded a bit reluctant and confused. "Wait...that Adam?"
Yang glared at him, "yes that's Adam! He helped attack Beacon...and was the reason why I lost my arm.."
Everybody else look quite shock. "That's not true right...?" Jaune asked.
Adam sighed. He knew this moment was coming but now that it did, he felt terrible about it. "I'm sorry..." he muttered.
Ruby widened eyes slowly shifted into anger as she clutched her fist tightly. She didn't even ask because she felt like she already knew. But despite that, she felt so much anger boiling inside because, she didn't want to believe this betrayal. All she did was walk away.
Everybody else just look disappointed. Adam finally went blank, exactly like Glade.
But unlike Glade, it wasn't over.
Hope ya have fun read chapter. Also, I gotta go through some explanation on Adam, his techniques, and his Grimm.
Small Usage on Grimm: Slightly boosts melee attack and defense and allows him to transmute.
High Usage: Boosts melee attack and defense highly but makes Adam go insane.
Labyrinth Adam: Makes Adam go completely insane but boosts his all physical capabilities, but not as high as his High Usage.
Controlled High Usage: Boosts his all physical capabilities, including his semblance.
Mastered Labyrinth: Boosts all his physical capabilities even further.
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Moonslice: A incredibly fast and powerful slash that relies on Adam pouring his aura or collecting kinetic aura to perform.
Moonslice Full Power: A combination of both his semblance. Its a much faster Moonslice that traps its opponent in an onslaught of aura slashes.
Final Labyrinth Moonslice: The previous moonslices already look instantaneous. Imagine much stronger one.
Moonslice Wave: A powerful aura wave.
Anyways, see you on the next chapter!