Hello, readers! WaterDragonMaverick here with the next chapter of "Sideline: Another Story". After focusing a little more on "Go Go RWBY Rangers", I'm at a good point where I want to focus more on my OCs and their version of what happens at Beacon Academy. Especially with a few things I have in store for the Fall of Beacon itself and a couple of new characters in the works for this story.
Last time, Sunset and Vinyl of Team SAFR fought against Sun and Neptune of Team SSSN. It was a tough battle for both sides, but Sun Wukong was victorious in the end. With all of Fragment Hunter eliminated from the tournament, they're going to enjoy the finals and cheer on their friends. But will things go the way they expect them? How will they handle what happens if things go wrong? Let's find out.
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After the Doubles Rounds were finished, the finals of the tournament were approaching. While the members of Fragment Hunter were a little upset that none of them were advancing, they were happy to know several of their friends were among the 40th Vytal Festival Tournament's Top 8. Yang Xiao Long, Pyrrha Nikos, Sun Wukong, and even Penny Polendina were ready to fight for their school, leaving Fragment Hunter conflicted about who to root for as they gathered in the courtyard. "After everything they've done, Yang or Pyrrha deserve to win it for Beacon," Silver said as he voiced his opinion about the finals.
"Yeah, but you can't count Sun out. He did well in his battles," Layla mentioned.
"Same with Penny. She was able to handle Russel and Sky with ease," Azalea remarked as she thought back to Penny and Ciel's match against the members of Team CRDL.
"I bet that if we talk with any of them, they'd say that they would win the whole thing," Rua voiced. "Well, maybe not Pyrrha. She went to talk with Professor Ozpin."
"What would he have to talk to her about," Slate questioned as he let Azalea slide closer to him.
"Who knows? I'd try reading his mind again, but that was something I don't want to do again," Sunset stated as she remembered testing her Semblance on the headmaster of Beacon Academy.
"You were just tired from reading all of our minds that one time," Celadon said. "I'm sure that if you tried again, it could work."
"That's not it," Sunset said as she started to remember what she saw in Ozpin's head. "It's like there was more stuff to look through than I've ever seen before. He's probably had a lot to see over his life."
"So has my grandfather," Rebecca commented. "I think that's just how it is for Huntsmen."
"Either way, I believe we should head back inside," Cereza suggested. "There's no use in focusing on details that we can't understand immediately. Best to come back to it later." Everyone agreed with the leader of Team FCSA and headed back into the school for their next meal.
The one-on-one finals of the Vytal Festival Tournament started off with Yang Xiao Long fighting against Mercury Black in the first match. Everyone was excited about the two martial artists battling each other with everything they had. The intense battle kept the audience on the edge of their seats as Yang and Mercury kept getting an advantage over each other. By the end of the fight, Yang was bombarded with a large number of Wind Dust bullets that Mercury had struck her all at once. Mercury looked satisfied with his win and was about to walk out of the arena when Yang was revealed to be standing with her Semblance activated. Fragment Hunter cheered as the powerhouse of Team RWBY delivered a beating to Mercury that broke his Aura and won the battle for her. But after she did, she suddenly attacked Mercury and broke his leg unprovoked, shocking everyone. When she did, soldiers from Atlas and Atlesian Knights surrounded Yang while Mercury cried out on pain. "Yang Xiao Long, stand down," one of the soldiers ordered as weapons were aimed at the girl.
Emerald Sustrai ran to Mercury's side while Yang was confused by everything that was happening. Hearing the replay from the event on the screens, the footage showed her attack and Mercury screaming in pain when it happened. As Yang looked at the faces of her friends, her own was full of frightened shock and confusion. As she looked horrified as a stretcher was brought for Mercury, she spoke to the guards. "You don't understand! He attacked me, I swear," Yang said pointing at Mercury.
While the guards raised their weapons higher to keep Yang from doing anything, Sunset's head was throbbing from the intense storm of thoughts and emotions of the stadium. While she held her head, she tried to focus on Yang and her Semblance allowed her to tell that the blonde wasn't lying. Sunset could sense that Yang was scared about not understanding what was happening, so she turned to the rest of Fragment Hunter. "We need to help her," she told the others.
Immediately, Rua teleported next to Yang with Azalea and Rebecca by her side. "Hey, back off," Rua exclaimed as she and Rebecca stood in front of the guards. At the same time, Azalea ran off to find the paramedics that took Mercury away. "She's trying to explain herself, so let her."
"You saw it for yourself," the lead soldier said as he looked at Rua while keeping his gun aimed at Yang. "It's even repeating up on the screen. She attacked him without warning."
"He attacked me," Yang exclaimed again as Rebecca saw her lilac eyes looked nearly colorless. "He was pissed that I beat him and tried to kick me again. I had to defend myself."
"There are millions of witnesses who saw the attack happen live," one of the other soldiers stated.
"And we have one that can read minds," Rua shouted as she grabbed the soldier by the collar. "She can prove that Yang's telling the truth! And if you don't believe me, I'm going to shove your gun right up your stupid a-," Rua said and was about to threaten the soldier, but Rebecca struck a pressure point on Rua's neck to knock her out.
"My apologies for her behavior," Rebecca said just as Azalea came back. "Where did you go," the ninja asked as the soldiers looked at the Faunus.
"That's what I want to know as well," the lead soldier stated.
"I was looking for the paramedics that took Mercury away," Azalea explained. "I was going to tell them my mom had a healing Semblance and could help him, but he was already taken to a hospital."
Yang turned to Azalea and spoke to the Faunus. "Lea, you believe me when I say I was defending myself, right?"
Azalea didn't know how to answer, but gave one to Yang after some hesitation. "I'm not sure what to think because of what I saw, but I know that you wouldn't do that sort of thing normally," Azalea said.
Before anybody could say anything else, General Ironwood arrived and turned to everyone. "I'm here to escort Miss Xiao Long to her dorm room," he stated. Looking at two Atlesian Knight-200s, the robots obeyed and helped Ironwood escort Yang to Beacon Academy. The jeers and looks Yang got from people as she was taken away made her feel like a prisoner.
Fragment Hunter walked through the halls of the dorms as they spoke about Yang's apparent attack on Mercury and the news reports about it. "I hate these people," Rua exclaimed as she looked at several news posts on social media. "They think they can just come to their own conclusions without getting the other person's side of the story! This just pisses me off! This one is saying that 'Yang Xiao Long is a violent fighter that enjoys beating down helpless opponents' and there are a few others that claim she's a bimbo!" At this point, Rua began to growl like a dog and bare her teeth as she kept expressing her anger. "Not only that, but they're blaming Ozpin for encouraging these actions! What do they get from saying shit like this?! I'm going to rip their skulls out of their heads and beat them to death with them!"
"Okay, first of all, you're kinda proving their point, Rua," Lapis stated. "Second, how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible."
"I'm pretty sure Terracotta could do it and the poor sap would keep screaming that," Slate remarked. Soon, the group saw General Ironwood walking toward their direction with a pair of Atlesian Knights by his sides. "Guess he finished talking to Team RWBY about what happened."
Seeing Ironwood approaching them, Azalea was the first to speak with Atlas Academy's headmaster. "Sir, what going on with Yang," she asked.
"Team RWBY has been disqualified from the tournament because of the attack," Ironwood stated. "Miss Xiao Long claims to have acted in self-defense, but that's not exactly what I believe."
"You think the stress and adrenaline got to her," Sunset said as she used her Semblance to learn what he told Team RWBY. "You didn't want to do it, but the public already made their own conclusions about Mercury getting hurt. You don't want to cause an uproar because of the incident affecting Grimm already. It would just make things worse."
Ironwood was surprised by what Sunset said, but remembered her abilities as he composed himself. "Precisely, Miss Blaze. Judgment can be clouded in an instant on the battlefield. You'll see things that aren't actually there. Even when the battle is past," he replied, grabbing his right shoulder as he did. "If you'll all excuse me, I have to attend to some other matters. You may all speak to Miss Xiao Long if you want to."
As the teenagers watched the general leave, they thought about what to do. Deciding to give Team RWBY space to sort things out at the moment, they went off to find Terracotta and ask what he thought about the incident. As they did, Smoke Shadow walked through a wall when the halls were empty. "Something's fishy about this," the criminal remarked to himself before contacting his team.
Fragment Hunter managed to find Terracotta, Ivy, and Ventus at the courtyard as they were discussing the incident for themselves with Aurora and Nocturne Celeste. "I know Yang. She's a fighter, but not ruthless. Something must have happened to her during that battle," Terracotta said as he finished a drink he had and crushed the can in his bare hands.
"I just hope that boy is okay," Ivy voiced. "I could have helped him with my Semblance, but he was already taken to Haven to be with his family."
"Sometimes it's a better decision to be among loved ones after something like this," Nocturne said. "However, I'm sure that they won't be very fond of Yang after that.
As Azalea's parents talked with the Celeste Sisters, Ventus looked like something was troubling him about everything. "Uncle Ven? Is something wrong," Azalea asked.
Ventus looked at his niece as he answered her question. "I'm fine, but something's bugging me about that kid. Ever since that first round, I think I know something about him. His name just... sounds familiar to me," Ventus replied.
"Well, you've been around Remnant a lot, so somethings are bound to seem familiar to you," Aurora suggested.
"Well yeah, but... I just can't stop thinking about it. Who is Mercury Black," Ventus questioned.
"Yeah, that's a good question. Who exactly is he," Silver remarked. "All we know that he, Emerald, Cinder, and that other girl are from Haven. They don't exactly talk to us much."
"Well, we know several people from Mistral already," Celadon said. "I think it would be a good idea to ask them."
"Dibs on interrogating Team JADE," Rua exclaimed as she cracked her knuckles.
"I might ask somebody else," Sunset said as she knew who to question. "Let's split up and go ask them." At her suggestion, Fragment Hunter went off to find any students they knew from Haven Academy or visitors from Mistral.
Searching the fairgrounds, Rua and Celadon looked for Team JADE as they knew Azalea's old bullies were still around for the rest of the Vytal Festival Tournament. After a few minutes of searching, they found who they were looking for and approached them at one of the food stalls. Clearing her throat, Celadon caught Team JADE's attention. "What do you want," Envy Sinn asked as she glared at the girls.
"We're just here to ask a few questions," Celadon said.
"If it's about what we think about that bimbo attacking that guy with bad hair, she deserves getting kicked out," Aoi Lobelia stated.
Hearing their opinion on Yang, Rua glared at the girls of Team JADE before she spoke up. "How about you shut it before I beat you so badly that you can only eat your lunch through a mechanical straw," Rua threatened.
"Make us, shrimp," Envy retorted as she got in Rua's face.
As the two girls started to glare at each other, Celadon interrupted them. "It's not Yang that we wanted to ask you about. It's Mercury," she clarified.
"What about him," Jet Pitch asked.
"I'm just wondering what you know about him since he goes to your school. Have you ever seen him in classes? Has he ever talked to you," Celadon elaborated as she questioned Team JADE. "I'm sure that you've at least met him."
"And why should we tell you," Jet countered. "You and that Dairy Cow friend of yours aren't going to get any information from us."
"That's because we don't have any," Duke Cobalt stated, making his teammates turn to face him. "We've never met Mercury Black before. But then again, Haven's a big school just like Beacon is. I don't even think you've met every student from here for yourself."
After hearing what Duke said, Celadon and Rua realized that asking Team JADE was a dead end. "Well, thank you for your time," Celadon said to the team as she and Rua left.
"That was a bust," Rua remarked as she crossed her arms.
"Indeed. Perhaps the others had better luck than us," Celadon voiced as the two left, leaving the three bullies of Team JADE to glare at them while Duke finished his meal.
Around the school and fairgrounds, the rest of Fragment Hunter spoke to anyone they could about Mercury and didn't find anything useful. Team SSSN and Team ABRN didn't have any information they could give, but Sunset Blaze knew of a different source of information that would possibly have answers for her. "Smoke, where are you? I know you're here," Sunset called out as she searched for the Raccoon Faunus thief. Soon, she saw Smoke Shadow approaching her and the two met up behind a large tree in the courtyard. "Pretty straightforward today, huh," Sunset joked as she looked at the Faunus.
"I know something was up with that 'incident', Spitfire. It just didn't feel right," Smoke told Sunset. "Why would she just attack him like that after winning? Why did he go to Mistral instead of a hospital here in Vale? Plus, his name seemed very familiar to me."
"And why would it," Sunset asked.
"Because some time ago, there was something that happened to a known assassin where his house was burned down and he was found dead a good distance away from it," Smoke explained. "That man's name was Marcus Black."
Hearing the last name surprised Sunset as she started to ask herself questions. "You think that this guy is related to Mercury," Sunset asked Smoke.
"Marcus Black was said to have a son," Smoke said. "However, he wasn't exactly a good father. Then again, what kind of assassin is supposed to be one?"
"How bad are we talking about," Sunset questioned.
"Alcoholic, abusive, and very dangerous in battle. People claim that he had the ability to take away somebody's Semblance," Smoke elaborated. "He's somebody you would never want to be around." Sunset recoiled at the description of Marcus Black and the idea of Mercury being raised by the man. "I know. Not a pretty thought," Smoke said. "The reason I know this is because I had Oliver do some digging online after he and Tremor finished some recent projects," he explained as he pulled out a large handgun with a dial on the back of it.
"What's with that," Sunset asked as she inspected the firearm.
Smoke Shadow only grinned before explaining his new weapon. "I called the 'Phantom Magnum'. The dial on the back allows me to mix and match Dust to enhance the shots it fires," he explained. "Thought I needed to have something to help keep up with you and your friends. Especially with everything you were able to do in the tournament."
"Are you sure you should be showing me that thing? Doesn't it ruin the surprise," Sunset asked with a smirk on her face.
"Well, there's a difference between knowing something and experiencing it," Smoke replied. "Anyway, I think you should tell your friends about what I said. It might help you figure something else out."
"Thanks," Sunset said as she left to meet up with the other members of Fragment Hunter. As Smoke watched her leave, he pocketed his Phantom Magnum and went to meet back up with his gang.
Fragment Hunter gathered together in order to share what little they learned about Mercury Black, but they were shocked to hear what Sunset learned from Smoke Shadow. "Mercury's dad was an assassin," Layla exclaimed in surprise.
"That would explain his skills if he was taught by his father," Rebecca noted.
"No wonder he sounded familiar," Ventus said as he slapped his forehead. "I remember hearing about the death of Marcus Black a while ago. They said that his son wasn't seen after their house was set on fire. It could have been Mercury."
"But if that's all true, then why did Mercury go to Mistral? With his dad dead, where would he go with Emerald," Lapis questioned.
"Back when I heard about it myself, the guy who told me about Marcus said that a woman was looking for him as well," Ventus mentioned. "Maybe she took Mercury in?"
"This is all too strange to piece together," Cereza remarked. "Perhaps we should take a break and keep watching the tournament?"
The group decided that it would be better to clear their minds at the moment and continue watching the tournament. With Pyrrha, Sun, and Penny in the finals, Fragment Hunter still had friends to cheer for. Going their separate ways to check out the next match for themselves, Sunset and Silver walked together in silence until they heard something near the dining hall. Rushing over immediately, Sunset could feel the regretful emotions from somebody as they approached and soon saw Jaune on the ground. "Jaune, what happened," asked Silver as he and Sunset saw a damaged column.
"I don't know," Jaune sadly replied as if he thought he was at fault. "I was just talking with Pyrrha and she..."
"I think I can understand it better if I do this," Sunset said as she used her Semblance to check Jaune's recent memories as she helped him to his feet.
"Do you believe in destiny," echoed Pyrrha's voice as Sunset saw what happened before. Listening to Jaune and Pyrrha talk, Sunset noticed how Pyrrha was acting during the conversation and realized something was on her mind. When Jaune tried to reassure her that she shouldn't let anything stand in the way of her final goal, Sunset watched as Pyrrha began to cry and accidentally used her Polarity Semblance to push Jaune into the column. "I'm... I'm sorry," Pyrrha sobbed as she ran away and left Jaune looking at the ground.
"You didn't do anything wrong," Sunset stated as she exited Jaune's mind. "Something's bothering Pyrrha and I think it could do with what happened earlier."
Silver sighed as he thought of everything that's been going on recently. "Things are getting out of hand here," the Wolf Faunus remarked.
When Fragment Hunter separated, several of them stayed at the fairgrounds to watch the match over food and drinks, some went back to the dorm rooms to speak with Yang, and only a few were in the stands of Amity Colosseum. Sunset, Azalea, Slate, and Pinkie were all at their seats with Azalea's family and the Celeste Sisters joining them. After Sunset shared the news about Jaune and Pyrrha with everyone, Azalea wasn't in the best mood. "I thought that the finals would be fun to watch, but now everything's like a bad day when I was at Sanctuary Academy," Azalea said as she put her head in her hands.
"Maybe something sweet will cheer you up," Pinkie suggested. "I'll go get snacks for us! Be right back," the energetic girl said as she jumped out of her seat and rushed for the closest route to the snack bar, avoiding people as she ran and jumped around the stands. "Watch out! Coming through! Excuse me, sir!"
After Pinkie was out of sight, Azalea only just looked at the floor until Slate caught her attention by putting his arm around her shoulders. "I think that something else could take your mind off of everything," he whispered as he brushed some of Azalea's hair aside. The Faunus girl blushed and smiled as the two stood up. "We should go make sure Pinkie doesn't eat everything on her way back," Slate said to the others as he and Azalea walked away.
"Just be back for the match," Ivy told them with a smile on her lips and shared a knowing look with Terracotta.
Pinkie made her way through the crowd and reached the snack bar to get some cotton candy. Before she could take a bite of it, her whole body shook and she shuddered violently for a brief moment. When she stopped, a feeling of dread washed over her as her eyes widened. "Oh no," she whispered to herself and ran off, leaving the cotton candy behind in her haste. "No. No no no," Pinkie kept saying to herself. Making her way back to the stands, she saw that Slate and Azalea were missing just as the opponents were being chosen for the next match. Running back to where she came and pulling out her Scroll, Pinkie started to call her brother. With no answer, the girl only kept running as she went looking around one of the exit tunnels and soon found Slate and Azalea... making out each other. As Azalea unzipped her jacket, Slate slid his hand up her tank top to feel her breasts until Pinkie split the two apart. "Slate, this is no time to be petting sweater puppies," Pinkie exclaimed in an urgent tone.
"Agh! Pinkie! What's with you? I thought you were getting snacks," Slate questioned as he was annoyed by his sister's actions.
"I was, but then when I got them, I felt something b-b-b-b-b-b-b..." Pinkie explained as Azalea fixed her clothes, but the younger girl shuddered again as she did.
When he saw Pinkie shake like she did, Slate's face immediately changed from annoyed to alarmed. "What did that one feel like," he asked as he grabbed his sister's shoulders. "Was it as bad as the one from last year?"
"Worse," Pinkie answered with a scared voice.
As Slate started to curse under his breath, Azalea was confused. "Slate, what's going on? Why are you concerned with your sister shivering?"
"She's not shivering, Azalea. It's her Semblance," Slate told his girlfriend. "Pinkie has the power to sense things that can happen in the immediate future. But it's also the kind of Semblance that's always active and has uncontrollable surges. When her body twitches or shakes in the right way, she can tell if something is going to fall or a storm is coming. The last time she felt something like this, there was a sandstorm that was hiding a big pack of Grimm inside," Slate explained.
"And that's just a small tingling compared to this," Pinkie added. "Something huge is going to happen in this next fight."
"Who is in the match," Azalea asked. When she looked to see the battle, it was revealed to be between Penny Polendina and Pyrrha Nikos. "Something's going to happen with them?"
"This is serious," Slate said. "We have to tell the others." As the three ran back toward their seats, the battle went on and Penny was giving Pyrrha a hard time. "Sunset," Slate called out as he and the girls reach the stands.
"What's going on? Why are you all panicking," Sunset questioned as she saw the looks on her friends' faces. "Is something wrong?"
Before any of the three could answer, they saw that Pyrrha used her Semblance to knock away Penny's swords. But as they did, something was wrong with Penny as the blades flew by her. "What's wrong with Penny!? Why does it look like she's having a heart attack," Azalea asked as she saw her friend from Atlas looked hurt. Suddenly, Penny's arms and midsection were tangled by the wires attached to her weapons and they began to tear away at her body to reveal something nobody expected. As Penny's body began to rip apart, everyone watched in horror as the girl was sliced apart and her insides were shown to be robotic. "PENNY!" Azalea screamed out the girl's name in terror with tears falling from her eyes.
As Penny's weapons fell to the ground, the audience could only look on with horrified expressions while Port and Oobleck were speaking to the broadcast crew over an earpiece. When the teachers learned that something was wrong, the video feed on the screen gained an ominously bright red tint and an image of a black queen chess piece. Everyone who was watching the Vytal Festival Tournament saw the image and heard a woman's voice.
"This is not a tragedy. This was not an accident. This is what happens when you hand over your trust, your safety, your children, to men who claim to be our guardians, but are, in reality, nothing more than men," the voice stated as she spoke to the viewing audience. "Our Academies' Headmasters wield more power than most armies, and one was audacious enough to control both," she remarked as she referred to General James Ironwood of Atlas. "They cling to this power in the name of peace, and yet, what do we have here? One nation's attempt at a synthetic army, mercilessly torn apart by another's star pupil. What need would Atlas have for a soldier disguised as an innocent little girl? I don't think the Grimm can tell the difference," the woman said as she talked about Penny's robotic nature.
As Pyrrha could only hold up a hand in dread and start crying over what she did, Azalea's eyes changed from green to red as she got mad at the woman claiming the fight was caused by the Headmasters. "And what, I ask you, is Ozpin teaching his students? First a dismemberment, now this? Huntsmen and Huntresses should carry themselves with honor and mercy, yet I have witnessed neither," the woman remarked, making Sunset suspicious about the details of Mercury's damage.
"How does she know if his leg was taken off," Sunset thought to herself before listening more.
At the same time, the woman's comment about the training Huntsmen and Huntresses not having honor or mercy made Terracotta mad. Ventus, Aurora, and Nocturne felt the same way as they glared at the chess piece on the screens, especially when the woman continued speaking. "Perhaps Ozpin felt as though defeating Atlas in the Tournament would help people forget his colossal failure to protect Vale when the Grimm invaded its streets. Or perhaps this was his message to the tyrannical dictator that has occupied an unsuspecting kingdom with armed forces. Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue as to who is right and who is wrong. But I know the existence of peace is fragile, and the leaders of our kingdoms conduct business with iron gloves."
The members of Fragment Hunter outside of the stadium were shocked or angry at what they were listening to. Rua teleported to the stands in order to meet up with Sunset and the others just as the woman spoke more. "As someone who hails from Mistral, I can assure you that the situation there is... equally undesirable. Our Kingdoms are on the brink of war, yet we, the citizens, are left in the dark. So I ask you: When the first shots are fired... who do you think you can trust?" After that final question, the screens changed to static and everyone was still shocked by everything that happened.
"Who does that bitch think she is for saying those things," Rua growled as she looked at her friends.
"I think that she's the reason Pinkie felt this coming," Slate replied.
"What," Rua asked.
Before anyone could answer, an alarm went off and the screens became orange with the word 'CAUTION' on them. "Alert. Incoming Grimm attack. Threat level: Nine. Please seek shelter in a calm and orderly fashion," an announcement declared as it warned everyone in Amity Colosseum. Hearing that a Grimm attack was happening after everything, the crowds began to run for their lives in a panic.
"Why do they never listen when that happens," Ivy asked with a hint of fear in her dry tone.
As people tried to flee to the exit tunnels, General Ironwood made his way up to Port and Oobleck in order to speak to everyone with a microphone. "Ladies and gentlemen, please. There is no need for panic," he said in order to try and calm down the crowd, but he was proven wrong when a giant Nevermore landed on the top of the arena's forcefield and screeched loudly as it tried to break the defenses.
"Where'd that Nevermore come from," Azalea asked in alarm.
"The Grimm outside the city were already been riled up from before, so this whole thing must have lured them here," Aurora surmised.
"We need to evacuate and prepare for battle," Nocturne stated.
Sunset and Rua looked at each other before getting ready to teleport everyone. As they did, Sunset saw that Azalea was looking at the battlefield where Pyrrha and Penny's body still were. Sunset placed a hand on Azalea's shoulder and got the Faunus girl to turn around. "We'll come back to help them. We just have to regroup with the others," Sunset told Azalea. Azalea only nodded before the group left the stadium in a flash of light.
And with all of this, we've now gotten to the Battle/Fall of Beacon. I'll admit that it was painful to get to this point because of Penny's death, mostly because I wanted to have some of my characters actually become friends with Penny herself and it hurts them just as much as it does me. But we've also gotten to whyPinkie was said to be important when she first showed up. Her Semblance (which was hinted back during her main focus chapter) was something I came up with for her character and thought would make sense for KNOWING the attack would happen. But she's still only a 14-year-old girl, so she couldn't really do anything to stop it.
With these next few chapters, I'm going to be doing quite a few MAJORLY IMPORTANT things for my characters. Especially since we're soon approaching Chapter 50 and I want to do something special for that milestone. Because of what I have planned, I really hope that you stick around to see what happens and meet new characters that will be introduced as both allies and villains.
Until next time, WaterDragonMaverick signing out.