A/N Probably contains spelling and typing errors. Please point them out if you see any. Enjoy!
Mato summoned her cannon and fired three blue, flamming rocks.
Yuu dodge the first two and then destroyed the third one by punching it with her ogre arm. Yuu then charged forward.
"Sword!" Stella called from within Mato's mind.
"H-hai." Mato panicked as she drew out her sword almost dropping it.
Mato was about to block but it too late. Yuu knocked out Mato's sword with her arm and threw her other fist right at Mato's face.
But, Yuu stopped her attack just when her fist was about an inch close to Mato's face.
Yuu grinned, "I win."
Mato fell backwards and sighed in defeat, "Again? Man you're really good at this."
"Of course I am." Yuu said proudly, "I did switch places with Strength once. But you're getting much better in fighting as well, have you been training?"
Mato laughed and nervously scratched her head, "Well something like that. Stella has been training me but during battles, she usually tells me what to do."
"You can't rely on Stella too much you know." Yuu scolded.
"Yeah I know but then again, I am using her body." Mato pointed.
"Are you guys done?!" Kagari yelled from the sidelines.
Mato and Yuu looked. Black, Dead Master, Strength, Chariot, Miku, Yomi and Kagari were watching from the sidelines, sitting in the shade of the trees.
"Hey Kagari! Wanna verse me?!" Mato asked still sitting on the ground.
"No thank you. I'm still getting used to this fighting thing." Kagari said waving her hands defensively, "Violence was never our thing. We were middle school children a couple of months ago remember?"
She wasn't wrong. None of these girls never thought that they would ever touch a weapon in their life yet here they were. But thanks to training in Beacon, the help from the people from other words and most importantly, their otherselves. They're fighting skills improved...a little bit. At least they know how to defend themselves.
"Yeah but that's why we need to train if were going to stay here." Yuu pointed out, "and i've seen you fight before, Kagari."
"Yeah, that's because I didn't want to die." Kagari countered sarcastically, "Is this really the time to be talking about this? Aren't we on a mission right now?"
"We know but the mission itself isn't going to be that hard." Mato replied, "and we should've might as well used the space around us to train."
"Actually, she's got a point." Yuu unsummoned her ogre arms before offering her hand to Mato who was still sitting on the ground, "we can always do more afterwards."
"True that," Mato said with a smile as she took Yuu's hand.
Yomi received a nagging feeling when she saw Mato and Yuu joining hands. Dead Master clutched her chest as a jolt of pain rush through her heart.
"So..." Mato said nervously as the two teams began to walk towards their destination, "what are we doing again?"
Yuu sighed annoyed, "were you not listening? We went over this before we left remember?"
"I know but Stelle kept pestering me about food." Mato complained.
"Our mission is to obtain two rare items." Strength explained, "Yomi's team is suppose to retrieve a rare crystal while Mato's team is suppose to obtain a rare flower. Coincidently, the location of the rare crystal is buried right below the mountain where the flower is located."
"Well what are we waiting for!" Mato said running ahead, "Let's get going!"
"Says the girl who literally forgot what we were doing."
Team MHYA
Location: The Moutains
Objective: Obtain the Alleviating Flower.
Team YMKE
Location: The Abandoned Mines
Objective: Obtain the Colourless Crystal.
"So what makes these items so important anyway?" Mato asked, "Stella wants to know."
"There's a rumor that the Alleviating Flower has the ability to heal any disease and automatically unlocks anyone's semblance." Strength explained before Yuu was bout to, "As for the Colourless Crystal, apparently it contains a bit of every single element: Fire, ice, etc. It's even rumored that it can be used to counter any type of attack. But thanks to it's usefulness, it was used wastefully and now only one remains of each. They're going to put it in a museum once we find it."
"Oh, o-kay then." Mato replied.
"You didn't get a single word she just said didn't you?" Yuu predicted.
"Yep- but that doesn't matter. I can still fight, I learned a lot from Beacon Academy and so have you guys." Mato countered.
"I'm pretty sure you've slept through most of the lessons though." Yuu shot down Mato's argument instantly.
Yuu laughed while Mato pouted. As Yuu and Mato continued to laugh and talk about learning how to fight, Dead Master noticed the pain in her heart was getting worst.
Dead Master gritted her teeth as she knew what this meant. She glared at Rock who simply ignored her.
Throughout this entire conversation...Both Yuu and Mato have failed to realize that Yomi...hasn't spoken one word since they got here.
Kagari on the other hand, noticed Yomi's sudden silence but Chariot had already warn her that it wasn't their problem and let them solve it for themselves.
"Oh! Looks like were here!" Mato called to the team.
The team had approach a tall mountain with a cave entrance at the bottom of it.
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Mato said leading the two teams inside the mountain.
Inside was dark.
It was light enough to see where they were going but still very dark.
The only source of light was from Black's eye which was burning a dark purple flame.
The teams were silent for they were wary of grimm. But surprisingly, despite their loud footsteps and Chariot's wheels that echoed through the cave, the cave seemed completely deserted.
They walked and walked listening for the smallest sounds and ready to jump at anything.
Kagari stayed close to Chariot while Dead Master stayed close to Yomi.
Mato and Yuu were at the front with Black and Strength walking behind them.
The silence was really unsettling for all of them. They didn't hear any drips of water, bats or any insects on the ground.
All they could see was the rocks on the ground and the walls of the pathway.
Then, just when Mato was about to ask how big was this mountain, they encountered a much wider space.
They were still inside the mountain buried in darkness but the opening was certainly relieving for some.
The opening led to four different paths. One went down while two went upwards and one that went straight forward.
"I guess this is where we split huh?" Yuu said finally.
"Which one do we take though?" Kagari asked.
"Check," Strength suggested, "check if you see anything."
Everyone agreeded and check all four pathways.
Strength, Black, Dead and Chariot checked the one that went down.
Yomi and Kagari looked in another that went straight forward.
Mato and Miku ducked their heads in the one that went up and Yuu checked the last one that went downwards.
Overall, all four pathways lead to a void of darkness.
Suddenly, Yuu screamed.
Everyone instantly turned their heads to look.
"What's wrong?!"
Yuu pointed at Miku, "Why is she here- no...How long has she been here?"
Everyone instantly calmed down and sighed.
"She's been with us the whole time, you didn't notice?" Mato asked while Miku just smiled nervously, "Miku wanted to come with us and I didn't see any harm in bringing her. We couldn't leave her in the academy after all, what if Jack came back and kidnapped her."
"I know but in this situation, the more people, the most likely hood at getting lost." Yuu pointed out.
"Oh true that." Mato said now that she thought about it.
Miku suddenly had a light-bulb moment, a bright light engulfed Miku and she transformed into her tiny chibi-version. Hachune Miku.
Miku then climbed up Mato's leg and sat down on Mato's shoulder with a bright smile.
"Oh, I guess that can work." Mato shrugged.
"Mato!" Stella called from within Mato's mind.
"Yes Stella? What's wrong?"
"Miku's here!"
"You just realised that?!"
All of a sudden, Black, Dead, Chariot and Strength sensed something.
"MATO!/YOMI!/KAGARI!/YUU!" They all yelled at the same time as they proceeded to run towards their otherselves.
But before they could take a single step, a large dark purple wave of energy cut the cave in half.
A large explosion occurred followed by the ceiling collapsing on the Teams.
As the enormous amounts of rocks fell down towards them, the instincts of everyone was to run into the path that they were closest to.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Did you see that! The cave went boom! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The woman laughed hysterically.
"Would you please be quiet. It's going to make my boredom even worse."
"Enough. Both of you are acting immature."
"Relax. You saw them didn't you? They're just children."
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Children! What can they do?! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Don't get too cocky-" The man stopped and sniffed the air, "seems like they're moving."
"You two, stay here and kill anyone who tried to escape. We can't afford to let anyone know we were here. You'll go after the crystal, eliminate anyone that gets in your way...I'll get the flower."
She opened her eyes and saw she was laying down head facing the ground.
The yellow leather gloves were still on her hands keeping it warm. But any skin exposed like her neck was freezing cold.
She moved her hand to check if it was still functional. It was.
With both arms, she pushed herself up and tried to stand up. Only to stop when Kagari felt something large on her mechanical legs.
She turned her head and saw a huge pile of debris on top of her legs.
Without hesitation, Kagari ripped her legs off: Wires and electric circuits sprang everywhere and Kagari was free but with no legs.
Instead of proceeding, Kagari waited.
No matter how many times she saw it, the sight of her body having no legs almost made her feel sick. It was weird to rip off your legs without even feeling anything.
Ever since Kagari arrived in Remnant, a part of her was no flesh. Mechanical legs had been attached to her torso so she could move.
From a distance, Kagari's mechanical legs looked like snickers and stockings.
Kagari shivered as she waited.
Then, it began. The wires still attacked to Kagari started moving on it's own. Yellow pieces of metal formed themselves out of nothing and added themselves to Kagari.
Gears, axles, brakes, cogs and a bunch of other mechanical parts Kagari didn't bother to think about, appeared and attached themselves to Kagari's leg.
Within a minute, Kagari's mechanical legs were fixed and good as new...and Kagari didn't need to do anything.
Kagari stood up and looked around for anyone. It was hard to see in the darkness but she manage to conclude that she was separated from the others. She was about to panic when a sense of relief slapped Kagari in the face when she spotted her.
Yomi was leaning against the wall, her arms hugging her knees.
The girl didn't look scared, worried or even calm. She just looked really depressed.
Kagari hesitantly approached the horned-girl hesitantly, "Yomi?"
Yomi almost jumped when Kagari spoke. She slowly lifted her head and as soon as Yomi saw that the voice came from Kagari, a look of disappointment took over her face, "yeah?"
Her voice was so soft and brief, Kagari had to lean in to properly hear what she was saying.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah."
Silence. Kagari didn't know what to say. As a girl who spent most of her life on a wheelchair and inside, Kagari never learned how to deal with people like this.
Kagari sighed: Why did it have to be her to be stuck with Yomi. If Yomi got stuck with Mato, they guarantee would've worked things out and be friends again, Mato is always the type to fix these type of things after all. Kagari never understood that girl.
Although, Kagari could've help but facepalm at how oblivious Mato was about Yomi's behaviour. It was either Mato was just really stupid or people like Yuu, Ruby, Yuuki and Miku kept distracting her...especially Yuu and Ruby. Either way, Kagari had noticed Yomi's behaviour. They were roommates after all.
Being the friend she is, Kagari wanted to tell Mato and warn her about Yomi's mental health.
But what Chariot said to Kagari really stuck to her head.
(FLASHBACK)
"but why?" Kagari asked.
Right now, it was only Kagari and Chariot inside Team YMKE's dorm.
"Yomi is mentally unstable right now. At this point, the smallest thing you say is enough to break Yomi's sanity. I'm actually surprised, Dead Master hasn't gone beserk yet."
Kagari was still a bit confused and concerned, "But how?"
"Take this for example," Chariot said, "let's just say you did confront Mato and Mato went to talk to Yomi. How would you think Yomi would would react if Mato said, 'Kagari told me to talk to you' or something like that. You see, it's better not to get involved. Right now, this is only something Mato can fix by herself. Anyone else who tries to get involved will just end up getting hurt...and I don't want that to happen to you."
Kagari was silent. Everything Chariot was saying made sense but she didn't like that it did.
"In a way, I kinda feel sorry for Yomi." Kagari thought in her mind, "Whenever Yomi tried to talk to Mato, Ruby or Yuu would be there talking about subjects that Yomi could never relate to like weapons and basketball."
But at the same time, Kagari was worried for both Yomi and Mato, "I didn't know emotions were this complicated."
"It always has been." Chariot replied. "Remember Kagari. You're only person I care about. I honestly couldn't care less about this school, it's students or even those people from other worlds."
Kagari tensed when she heard that.
"The same thing applies to Dead Master and all the other selves. She'll do anything for Yomi which includes killing Black, Strength or even me."
"Whose side are you- no...whose side are we suppose to be on?" Kagari asked.
"I prefer neither." Chariot answered with honesty, "But if we had to chose then I guess I'll go with Dead Master."
"Why her?" Kagari asked out of curiosity.
"Because...in a way...you 'kinda' feel sorry for Yomi...don't you?" Chariot declared looking directly at Kagari's eyes.
Kagari look at the floor as she couldn't answer that question.
(FLASHBACK ENDS)
Kagari was so focus on that problem that she had completely forgotten the situation Yomi and Kagari were in: They were separated from the others and had no idea where they were.
"Yomi," Kagari called choosing her words carefully, "we need to get out of here and find the others."
"Okay." Yomi replied softly.
A massive pile of boulders and rocks blocked one way in other words there was only one way to go and that was straight.
Saying nothing, Yomi and Kagari proceeded forward.
The silence that came out of Yomi's mouth always bothered Kagari but now that they were alone together, it was kinda creepy.
Kagari didn't dare say anything or even look back at Yomi.
Well...curiosity eventually overwhelmed her and the yellow-haired girl looked back to check if Yomi was still there.
She was. But her eyes weren't looking forward and instead looking at the ground as she walked.
Kagari couldn't help but receive flashbacks to when Yomi started cutting her own hair during class. She wondered if Yomi was going through the same thing as back then...no, this was different.
It was like Yomi was...obsessed.
The look in her face looked similar to that time when...
Kagari's eyes widened...Where has she seen that facial expression before? That obsessed and broken facial expression.
Kagari had a feeling she had seen or...felt that way before.
For some strange reason, Yomi's current behaviour and expression reminded Kagari of...herself. Or at least...her past self.
But why?
Before Kagari could dwell on that thought further, a bright light shined at the end of the dark cave.
With her legs, Kagari sprinted down the cave, almost tripping. She never got used to the feeling of running.
The light was so bright that it blinded Kagari for a moment before her eyes adjusted.
She was outside. Outside the huge mountain that they were inside a moment ago.
Yomi shortly came out of the cave slowly, covering her eyes with her hand.
"Were out." Kagari said.
"Yeah."
Kagari looked around, searching for anything. Then, she saw it.
The entrance. The cave entrance from the beginning.
Kagari ran towards it with Yomi following her from behind and was shocked to find that the entrance had been blocked off by a pile debris.
"It must've happened when that explosion occurred," Kagari concluded, "Yomi, we've got a problem. I think Mato and the others are trapped in there. Any ideas? ..."
"..."
"Yomi?"
Kagari turned her head and saw Yomi standing in front of her, her bangs covering her eyes.
"Yomi?"
Yomi suddenly summoned her scythe and sliced Kagari's chest.
She summoned her Orge arms.
Ignoring the pain, Yuu used her arms and lifted the huge piece of debris that was on top of her.
She succeeded in lifting the object and throwing it to the side.
Yuu then stayed laying on the ground, panting.
After a while, the pain in Yuu's body disappeared meaning her wounds had healed.
"What just happened?" Yuu asked as she clutched her head.
She placed her giant arms away and slowly stood up.
Yuu scanned her surroundings.
It was dark but she could see the faint outline of things. There was no one around and she was completely alone.
There were also two ways to go: A sloop that went downwards or a path that went upwards.
Unfortunately, one of those options were blocked by a huge pill of debris and rocks meaning the only way to go was the steep incline plane that went down.
Yuu sighed. She didn't want to go down there alone but at the same time she didn't want to just stay still while her friends might be trouble. The explosion that caused the cave to collapse certainly wasn't an accident.
Summoning up the courage, Yuu walked down the slope.
"Come on Yuu," Yuu encouraged herself, "The otherworld was much scarier than this...right?"
Yuu suddenly tripped and she slide down the slope that went downwards.
At first she screamed but it was soon replaced with, "Ow! ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!"
Her trip down wasn't smooth like a playground slide, it was an extremely rough one. She bumped her head at least five times, hit the wall seven times and who knows how many times her body involuntarily rolled over like a boulder.
The incline plane that went down finally stopped as she hit a wall.
Yuu slowly fell backwards and laid back on the ground. If she wasn't in this body, she surely would've broken a lot of bones in with that trip and it would've probably hurt way more.
She laid there for a couple of minutes until finally, both her aura and her body started regenerating and healing her wounds. Before Yuu knew it, the pain was gone.
The girl stood up and looked around.
More cave and complete darkness. Despite her eyes already adjusting to the darkness, Yuu still needed to use the walls to navigate through the cave.
Then, she saw a bright light and her first instinct was to run towards it.
At first she thought it was the exit to outside but she soon discovered that the light was coming from something else.
Yuu came across an opening and in the very middle was a bright stone sitting on a pedestal made out of stone. The light coming from the crystal was enough to illuminate the entire cave.
"That must be the colourless crystal!" Yuu called as she jog towards it.
The crystal looked like a usual crystal but with one major difference. While crystals like fire crystals were red, the colourless crystal was literally...colourless, yet it emitted so much light.
After admiring it for a few seconds, Yuu hesitantly reached for the crystal while using her other arm to cover her eyes.
However, before her fingers could touch the shiny object, a murderous growl was heard.
Yuu turned around and saw an Ursa emerging from the shadows of the cave.
"Of all times!" Yuu said as she raised her ogre arms.
The ursa roared at Yuu before charging at her like a bull.
Yuu grinned as she pulled back her fist waiting for the Ursa to get close enough.
When the Ursa got close, Yuu sent her fist right at the grimm's head.
However, to Yuu's shock...the Ursa jumped to the side and evaded her attack.
"It dodge!" Yuu placed her ogre arms in front of her to block the Ursa's paw.
The Ursa turned out to be a lot stronger that Yuu thought and she was sent back flying, crashing onto the walls.
Yuu quickly got back up as the Ursa charged at her again.
Yuu sent another one of her giant fist but the Ursa blocked with it's right paw and then used it's left paw to hit Yuu right in the stomach.
The Ursa then smashed Yuu onto the wall and started running Yuu across the wall. The Ursa then reached the corner of the cave and smashed Yuu right into the corner.
The Ursa jumped back but didn't expect Yuu to stay holding onto it.
Ignoring the pain, Yuu pulled the Ursa towards her with her left arm and then used her right arm to punch the Ursa as hard as she could.
The Ursa was sent flying across the opening and crashed into the wall opposite to Yuu.
Yuu panted for breath and she spat out a couple of rocks, "Argh, man that Ursa was strong."
Suddenly, Yuu heard movement.
The girl looked up and saw the Ursa was slowly standing back up.
"It's still alive." Yuu said getting into battle position.
Yuu didn't know what but she knew this Ursa was different. The Ursa managed to deal a lot of damage to after all.
The Ursa stood back up... but didn't move.
It just stayed there frozen.
At first, Yuu thought it died while trying to stand back up but then...
The Ursa did the last thing Yuu expected it to do.
Mato felt someone poke her cheek.
She then heard Stella's voice coming from inside her head, "Mato!"
Once again, Mato felt someone poke her cheek.
"Mato!" Stella's voice called again.
The person the went from poking to softly pinching Mato's cheek.
Mato groaned, 'I'm up. I'm up. Geez mom, you don't have to be so-"
Mato opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was Miku's face right above her.
Her memory then came back to her: Remnant. Mission. Cave. Explosion.
Mato stood up like a rocket almost headbutting Miku's face.
"Where are we? Where are the others? What happened?!"
"Were separated from the others." Stella answered from Mato's head.
"Eh? Well what are we doing? We need to find them." Mato stood up, completely forgetting about her sore head and trip. Fortunately MIku was there to catch her.
"Thanks Miku," Mato said clutching her head as Miku carried her by the shoulder, "Sorry."
Miku gave Mato a small smile telling her she was fine with it.
A pile of rocks and boulders blocked one way so the only way was up.
Steep steps made out of rocks went up and Miku and Mato slowly made their way up.
There were two bodies yet three minds. By now Mati had grown used to having Stella inside her mind...or being inside Stella's body. Since they shared the same body, Mato and Stella have had a lot of time to get to know each other.
Slowly, Mato understood that Stella wasn't the type to invade people's privacy so she didn't really mind. Stella was more of a confused and curious type of person. Whenever Stella saw something that she didn't know, she would ask Mato what it is or explain it's purpose. It was a two way thing as well, Stella would teach Mato about fighting while Mato taught Stella about the world.
A couple of negatives though was that Stella had a tremendous appetite meaning she had to eat twice as much for both Stella and her. Sometimes Mato woke up in the middle of the night because Stella was hungry.
Overall, the two have grown awfully attached to each other. Black could talk to Stella through telepathy although she rarely talked to Stella.
Black always ignored everyone though, she was the type of person who wouldn't care about anyone besides Mato.
According to Stella, from her perspective, it feels like her body was moving on it's own which is hard for her to get used to.
On the other hand, Mato was still kinda getting used to hearing a voice in her head. She sometimes felt a bit uncomfortable Stella was watching what Mato was doing 24/7.
Basically, there were still a lot of things Mato and Stella had to work out.
Both Stella and Mato moved their head and looked at Miku.
Despite being friends, they hardly knew anything about Miku. Miku was always calm and that smile almost never left her face.
Everyday, Miku would be the first ones to wake up early in the morning. There are times where Mato wondered if Miku needed any sleep at all.
She was also mute meaning they couldn't ask her any questions.
Mato didn't know how heavy Stella was because she nerve check but she was amazed how Miku carry her up these steep steps without even sweating. Mato wondered if Miku can sweat.
She's a Vocaloid after all. Not a human.
Her thoughts were interrupted when they saw a bright light that blinded them.
Mato flung her arm in front of her face to block the sudden increase in sunlight so she failed to realise that Miku didn't even blink.
They were on the top.
Mato didn't know how long they were walking but they somehow ended up in the top of the mountain.
There surprisingly was a lot of wide space on the top of the mountain. The wind blew and the view of the forest was clearly visible.
"Wow!" Mato said in awe as she looked at the scenery.
She felt Miku tap her shoulders.
"What is it Miku?" Mato asked.
Miku pointed at the middle of the wide space on top of the mountain.
In the middle, there were no plants, no grass, no signs of nature, it was just rocks...yet a single glowing flower sprouted from the ground in the middle of the wide space.
"That must be the Alleviating Flower!" Mato exclaimed as she ran towards it with Miku walking from behind.
The flower was small yet quite beautiful. The flower wore the colours yellow and silver with it's petals emitting a shiny aura.
Miku showed no reaction while Mato admired it.
After a few seconds, Mato reached for it with her glove when suddenly Stella sensed something coming from behind, "MATO!"
Mato drew out her sword just in time to block the swing of a purple demonic sword.
The girl was sent back flying thanks to the knockback of the purple sword. Mato's leg skated across the ground towards the edge of mountain and almost fell off the mountain.
Mato regained her balance and looked back at who attacked her.
It was a person wearing full demonic purple armour.
"I'll be taking this..." The armoured person pick up the flower, before pointing his sword at Mato, "along with your life."
Strength summoned her third and fourth ogre arms and lifted the boulder that was on top of her.
Dead Master summoned chains to lift the pile of debris.
Chariot summoned her shield and lifted the large boulder, the mechanical wheels she had as a replacement for legs started making cracking noise. Chariot quickly zoomed out of the position and the boulder hit the ground with a loud bang.
Strength, Dead Master and Charito emerged from the debris.
They stretched their necks and place dislocated bones back into place.
The three glared at each other but didn't say anything.
Then, a large lance poked out of the debris. Gun turrets appeared on the lance and purple energy bullets were fired in all directions.
Chariot blocked with her shield, Strength raised her ogre arms to block while Dead Master stood behind the two.
The bullets stopped firing after a couple of seconds and the three otherselves looked to see that the rocks and debris that buried Black was now disintegrated into nothing.
The purple flame remained ignited in Black's eye.
At the sight of Black, the pain Dead Master's chest increased.
The four glared at each other and as usual...they didn't say anything.
They all knew the situation and they all knew what their objectives were: Find their otherselves.
Without a word being spoken, all four of them ran in the only direction possible.
As they ran, the four couldn't help but feel nostalgic as the cave reminded them of their home: Colourless and dark.
They ran at an incredible. Chariot was at the front, having wheels as legs meant she was the fastest but wasn't faster than the other three by that much.
Strength and Black un summoned their large weapons to lose weight in order to increase speed.
Dead Master however was falling a bit behind as the pain in her chest increased. Memories of Yomi's past flashed through her mind.
The four arrived at this wide open area, wide space and high ceiling. On the other side of this wide open space were three paths that lead to three different ways: Up, down or forward.
Black and the others stopped in their tracks and glared at the pathways.
Black froze and closed her eyes for a moment. After a couple of seconds, she sensed Mato's presence coming from the pathway that lead upwards.
Black's eyes flew open and she flat out sprinted towards the pathway that lead upawards that lead to the top of the mountain. But before Black reached it, a metal chain suddenly wrapped itself around her neck.
The chain lifted Black into the air and smashed her onto the walls. More chains appeared and wrapped around her legs and arms and Black was lifted into the air again and smashed into the other wall of the left side.
Before the chains could lift her again, Black broke the chains that were wrapped around one of her arms with pure strength and summoned her blade. Black swung her blade cutting the rest of the chains.
Black stood up... and faced Dead.
The two glared at each other.
No words were spoken. No were words were needed. This routine used to repeated hundreds of time back in the otherworld. This was nothing new nor was it shocking. In fact it was expected.
"So she finally made her move huh?" Chariot commented.
Insane Black Rock Shooter summoned her insane cannon lance.
Dead Master summoned her scythe along with her two giant skulls.
Each started emitting a dangerous aura that shook the ground as they both glared at each other. If looks could kill, then both Dead and Black would've been dead by now.
The ground stopped shaking and a wave of silence flashed by before-
One of Dead Master's giant skulls threw itself at Black. Black reacted by aiming her lance and rapidly firing purple bullets.
The giant skull endured every bullet that came it's way at the cost of half it's head.
As the skull got near, Black pulled back her lance and swung it cutting the skull in half.
Black looked up and saw Dead was now right in front of her. Dead swung her scythe and Black blocked with sword.
The two exchanged a series of blocking and attacking. Each time their weapons clashed, a loud clang echoed through the walls of the cave.
Dead Master then jumped back and her second giant skull came flying from the left side of Black. The skull heabutted Black sending her crashing into the cave walls.
Not giving her a chance to recover, Dead swung her scythe, 10-15 chains appeared and flew towards Black.
With inhuman reflexes, Black got back up and swung her blade twice cutting down 5-6 chains. The rest manage to wrap around Black's lance and lift her into the air.
Dead charged from below, jumped and sliced Black's stomach with her weapon leaving a deep wound. As purple blood sprayed from the wound, Black unexpectedly swung her leg and kicked Dead right in the head breaking one of her horns.
Dead Master was sent crashing to the ground while the chains still wrapped around Black's lance smashed Black into the ceiling.
From a distance, Strength watched with deep concern.
The girl took a step forwards towards the fighting pair with the intent of stopping the fight for she knew this was going nowhere. However Strength didn't get as far as two steps before a large shield blocked her way.
Strength glared at girl holding the shield, "Chariot listen to me. No matter who wins that battle, it's going to affect both Yuu and Kagari."
"Kagari is none of your concern." Chariot pressed a trigger on the handle of the shield and spikes protruded from the face of the shield. Strength jumped back before any of the spikes could stab her.
Strength summoned all four of her ogre arms and got ready as she knew words were going to do nothing at this point.
Chariot's wheels made a dangerous mechanical roar before she charged at Strength with the speed of a racecar.
It wasn't until the pain kicked in that Kagari realised what just happened.
Did Yomi just attack her?
Kagari jumped back and fell to her knees, clutching her chest, "Y-Yomi...w-what did you..."
"T-that...wasn't... me." The girl heard Yomi stutter.
Kagari looked up and saw that Yomi seemed to be just a surprise as her. She also noticed that there was a small glint of dark red in Yomi's eyes.
Then, Kagari and Yomi heard the psychotic and insane laugh they have ever heard.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That never gets old! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The pair looked and saw a woman slowly walking towards them. She had white hair, red eyes and wore rip jeans with a casual t-shirt. The smile on her face was the same smile of a mad man. It was clear from her facial expression that this woman was mentally unstable.
Just when Debra calmed down, she laughed again, this time it was for no reason, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Debra Stalker: Ranked 5th in the Top Most Wanted Criminals.
Kagari noticed that Debra's eyes were glowing. The creepy glow in her eyes was dark red. The same colour that she saw in Yomi's eyes.
"Y-you," Kagari said getting back up, "What did you do to Yomi?"
Debra suddenly stopped laughing making the girls jump, "Oh you mean my new pet? I don't know what you're talking about, I didn't do anything...ahaha...ha... ...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"You crazy lunatic," Kagari summoned her sword and with her mechanical legs, she sprinted at the white-haired woman.
Debra stopped laughing, the creepy smile still on her face. She placed a gentle hand on Yomi's shoulder, "please take care of her for me, my pet."
Yomi's body suddenly moved on it's own again. She swung her scythe but this time Kagari manage to block with her shield.
Kagari gritted her teeth, "Yomi! Snap out of it-"
"It's no use," Debra said with an amused grin, "your friend's body is no longer hers and soon...her mind will be as well."
Yomi's eyes widened in pure fear and horror. She noticed that she couldn't move her body or her mouth. Her body moved on it's own again and she unwilling summoned chains to attack Kagari.
Deciding that Debra was the only to get Yomi back, Kagari used her legs and jumped an incredible height.
Debra watched in amazement, "Sugoi! That's very high."
Kagari jumped over Yomi and sprinted straight at Debra. When her eyes met with Debra's, Kagari raised her sword and...
The smile on the woman face grew creepier as her eyes began to glow again. Kagari stopped moving and she had a good idea why, Debra was trying to take control of her just like what she did with Yomi.
Kagari began hearing laughing from inside her head. The girl jumped back and clutched her head trying to resist.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Debra laughed insanely again, "Finish her my pet."
Yomi tried to resist like Kagari but for some reason Debra's control was much stronger than her. Yomi felt her body slowly walking towards Kagari, her scythe in hand.
In the background, Debra continued, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Suddenly, a spear made out of ice was thrown and it impaled Kagari right through her chest.
"You're too loud, Debra."
With wide-eyes, pain coursing through her body, Kagari sway left and right before falling to the ground landing on her shoulders.
Debra just grinned.
Still not being able to move, Yomi saw out of the corner of her eye: a man with light skin and icy blue eyes was casually walking towards them. He wore dark blue pant with a white lab coat
Debra waved to him like a child, "Oh hello Frosty!"
Frost snickered in annoyance, "Can you please stop calling me that."
Dr Frost: Ranked 4th in the Top Most Wanted Criminals
Kagari twitched. With shaky hands, she pulled out the ice spear out of her chest and slowly stood back up. Her wounds was already healing but the pain was still there.
"You're still alive?" Dr Frost asked, "Looks like your stronger than you look."
"I'm not going to die that easily. Not until I get Yomi back." Kagari said panting heavily, she raised her hand to the sky and yelled, "MARY!"
At the sound of Kagari's call, the tiny spider-like creature that was sitting on Kagari's shoulder all this time, enlargened itself.
(FLASHBACK: Chapter 10)
Suddenly a small creature appeared behind Chariot. At first it looked like a spider but at close inspection, you could see it was a small version of Mary.
"Oh it's Mary. I completely forgot about you. Wait wasn't she destroyed?" Kagari asked.
"When Mary is destroyed, she slowly rebuilds herself." Chariot explained.
Kagari threw another question, "Why is she so small?"
"Mary can choose to grow very big or very small."
"Really?"
Suddenly Mary grew lager and lager. She was now the same size as a dog. Mary opened her mouth and five Macarons out of her mouth.
(FLASHBACK ENDS)
Mary grew larger and larger until she was bigger than 10 army tanks combined.
"Fascinating." Dr Frost examined Mary, "Doesn't look like a creature of Grimm."
"Oh I love spider!" Debra exclaimed with a creepy smile.
The large spider like creature named Mary stood behind Kagari. Kagari jumped and sat it the drivers seat of Mary, Kagari never learned how to drive this thing but now was certainly not the time to be thinking about that.
Like a bull, Kagari pushed forward and Mary charged towards Debra and Dr Frost.
Chariot blocked Strength's arm with her shield before lunging her sword forward stabbing Strength in the chest.
Ignoring the pain, Strength grabbed the sword Chariot was still holding and lifted it. She then used her other arm to punch Chariot right in the stomach sending her crashing into the walls, knocking dust everywhere.
"I don't want to fight you Chariot!" Strength exclaimed getting into a defence positions.
"Then why are you fighting?"
Chariot zoomed out of the dust this time two times faster than a race car and charged at Strength with her spiky shield in front of her.
The Ursa stood back up... but didn't move.
It just stayed there frozen.
At first, Yuu thought it died while trying to stand back up but then...
The Ursa did the last thing Yuu expected it to do.
It started twitching and making disgusting bone cracking sounds. It began to grow smaller and it's skin changed colour.
Yuu stared in complete shock when the transformation was done.
What used to be a creature of grimm...was now a human. An old man stood where the Ursa used to be, he wore grey clothes and looked calm.
Yuu had no idea what to say about what she just witness, "Okay, who are you and WHAT WAS THAT!"
"Those skills of yours sure are impressive for a child like you," The old man spoke calmly.
"HEY! ANSWER MY QUESTION!"
"Unfortunately it won't be enough to defeat me."
"STOP IGNORING-"
"Silence you fool!" The old man unexpected man exclaimed before taking a few breaths to calm himself down, he cleared his throat, "I'm not one who would kill youngsters but in this case I have no choice. You must live under a rock if you don't know who I am though,"
"Sorry, I'm not from around these parts." Yuu said still on alert mode.
"A foreigner?" The old man repeated calmly, "Hmm...I guess that does make sense. Then allow me to introduce myself, since I'll probally be the last person you'll ever meet."
Wolfheim Hernandez: Ranked 3rd in the Top Most Wanted Criminals
"Ranked 3rd huh?" Yuu's suspicions about this old man were confirmed, "You must mean business huh?"
"Oh you have no idea," Wolfheim replied as his skin began to turn red, "enough talk, I'll be taking your life now."
"About time," Yuu said with a challenged grin as she punched her orge arms together, "winner gets the crystal."
"Agreed."
Black feathers grew from Wolfheim's body and within seconds what used to be an old man was now a Nevermore.
The nevermore was much smaller than usual nevermores, probally because a real size nevermore wouldn't fit in this cave, but this time Yuu was careful not to underestimate it. She was a facing a Grimm that had the brain of a human.
"A semblance that allows you to shapeshift into different types of Grimm?" Yuu concluded, "It must feel really uncomfortable when you transform."
"You get used to it" Wolfheim flew towards Yuu, pointing his beak at Yuu. Yuu jumped to the side and Wolfheim quickly swoop back up before he hit the ground.
Yuu raised her ogre arms and they both turned into machine guns. She aimed and opened fire, releasing a barrage of bullets at the bird.
Wolfheim flew around the walls of the cave evading Yuu's bullets. The cave shook as Yuu's bullet demolished the cave walls. Wolfheim then flew right above Yuu, did a backflip before swooping down on Yuu.
Yuu raised her ogre arms to block as the large bird crashed into her. Yuu was pushed back across the cave by Wolfheim and crashed into the wall.
Yuu spitted out a splatter of blood before she pushed the bird back with all her might.
She manage to free one of her arms, she pulled it back and hit Wolfheim right in the face. Wolfheim reverted back into his human form as he was sent flying across the cave.
Wolfheim stood back up as Yuu smiled triumphantly, "I thought you were ranked 3rd. I guess the top most wanted crinimals aren't that much of a big deal."
The old man clenched her fist, "Remember child, Grimm are driven by negative emotions..."
The grimm shape shifter's skin turned red and black. His bones once again created a disgusting bone cracking noise and he grew skinnier and skinnier. Within seconds, Wolfheim was now a geist.
The rocks and debris around Yuu suddenly started levitating. Wolfheim used his geist powers to absorbed all the rocks until he was a huge rock giant.
Yuu prepared for the worst.
"YOU DO NOT WANT TO ANGER ME!"
The giant skull charged at Black while at the same time, Dead Master sent 5 more chains her way.
This time Black charged straight at her opponent. Despite holding an extremely heavy weapon, Black jumped over the skull and swung her blade cutting down the chains as she ran. She then detached her giant lance from here body and threw it at Dead Master with only a chain connecting her lance to her body.
Dead Master jumped an inhuman height to evaded the lance and the giant weapon stabbed itself into the ground. While Dead Master was still in mid-air, gun turrets appeared on the lance and released a merciless barrage of bullets at Dead hitting her in the legs, arms and chest.
Dead fell to the ground, green blood oozing from the bullet holes in her body. As Dead's body was slowly regenerating, Black slowly made her way towards her with her lance attached back to her body.
But before Black could reach Dead Master, the second giant skull head swooped in from the right and headbutted Black from the side sending her crashing into the cave wall.
Still struggling to move, Dead shakily stood back up, using her scythe as support.
She raised her arm and from the ground, an army of skeletons armed with swords, axes and spears appeared. Dead pointed and the skeletons and the giant skull all charged at Black.
Black stood back and stared unemotionally at the skeletons that was running towards her. In a way, she almost looked unimpressed.
She raised her lance and aimed.
Miku watched from a distance.
"Mato block!" Stella yelled.
The armoured man charged at Mato was no warning swinging his demonic sword. His armour was dark purple and his armour covered every part of his body including his face. There was a skull at the handle of his sword. The sword itself was very long yet very heavy and seemed to suit the armoured man.
Mato blocked as the armoured man swung his sword. The two began to exchange clashes between swords. Mato felt like dropping to the ground each time the man's sword clashed with his and she didn't know why.
"Cannon!" Stella suddenly exclaimed from Mato's head.
The blue eyed girl jumped back and summoned her rock cannon much to the man's surprise. She quickly aimed and fired one blue flamming rock at the man.
The man simply swung his demonic sword and chopped the flamming rock in two. To Mato's shock, there was no explosion and the flamming blue rocks turned into normal rocks as it was chopped into two.
"Who are you?!" Mato asked as she aimed her cannon at the armoured man. Both Mato and Stella noticed that their body felt weaker for some reason.
"The fact that you don't know who I am just shows you don't bother to do your reasearch, kids can be so ignorant these days." The man replied as he looked at the Alleviating Flower he stole from Mato, "Although I have to admit, summoning that cannon was certainly unexpected. I didn't think a child like you would actually have a trick up their sleeve. For that, I'll introduce myself as a reward for surprising me...you're going to die anyway."
August Serena: Ranked 2nd in the Top Most Wanted Criminals
"And what is your name child?" August asked.
"Mato! Mato Kuroi!" the girl replied.
"Such a strange name," August commented as he examined the flower he stole, "no matter, I got what I came for."
"Give that flower back! That isn't-" Mato suddenly fell to her knees as both Stella and Mato felt their body grow weaker, she coughed, "W-what is...t-this?"
Mato suddenly notice that the atmosphere of the top of the mountain had turned dark purple. Some sort of dark mist had taken over somehow.
"It's about time you notice." August spoke who was still standing, "My semblance: Draining Mist. As the name suggest, it drains your power, energy and aura. As long as you're in my sight, my semblance will keep draining your power until your death."
Mato eyes widened in horror.
"You see child, you lost this battle before it even began." August declared as he charged at Mato with his sword in hand.
"Mato cannon!" Stella yelled.
Mato lifted her cannon, it felt much heavier now because she was a lot weaker. She fired three flamming rocks right at August.
August stopped running and decided to take the attack. The three flamming rocks hit the man in the chest and head creating a large explosion.
The explosion created a tone of smoke causing Mato to wait.
"Seems like your cannon wasn't as powerful as I thought."
The smoke cleared and August was standing there completely unharmed. Without giving a Mato a chance to react, August charged forwards and landed a vertical cut from Mato's shoulder to the hips drawing blood.
"AWK!"
"MATO!" Stella cried.
August swung his sword again. Mato forced herself to stand back up and she managed to block with her blade. As Mato blocked, she could feel her energy slowly draining away.
Mato was now much slower and felt a lot weaker and her consciousness was slowly slipping away. It was then she knew that August was joking when he spoke about his semblance. If Mato doesn't finish this, the dark purple mist will kill her before August does.
August swung his sword again slicing Mato's stomach. He attacked two more times but Mato blocked. He swung again landing a critical hit on Mato's shoulder.
As Mato cried in pain, August used this opportunity to swing his sword knocking Mato's sword out of her hand.
Mato jumped back to avoid another attack from August, but while she was in mid-air, her legs suddenly went limp and felt numb. She fell on her back hard.
It seems August's Draining Mist had already taken over Mato's legs and now she could no longer stand or more her legs.
"Shame," August said with a tone of disappointment in his voice, "Most people usually survive much longer. I was really expecting more from you."
Dark energy began to gather in August's sword as he pointed it upwards. All Mato could do was lay there and watch in fear as her legs had given up on her.
When enough energy was gathered, August swung his sword firing a large dark wave of energy right at Mato.
It was pitch black in the cave. But all four of them were already used to fighting in dark places. Besides they didn't need sight to sense each other's presence.
With her 3rd and 4th arm, Strength picked up Chariot and smashed her on the ground, picked her up again and smashed her on the wall. She repeated this process twice before Chariot kicked her sharp wheel into the Ogre arm that was holding her and chopped it off.
As soon as Chariot landed on the ground, she zoomed forward and sliced Strength's shoulder with her sword as she zoom past. Not giving the girl a chance, Chariot made a swift u-turn and repeated the process, this time slicing her chest. With her speed, Chariot managed to repeat the process three times slicing Strength's leg, stomach and cheek.
"She's fast," Strength thought. The girl was a major disadvantage here. Strength was stronger but Chariot was much faster. Not to mention if Strength went too hard, she might cause the cave to collapse.
Chariot stopped right in front of Strength and ran her wheels into the ground, shooting rocks and pebbles into Strength's eyes. Chariot then got behind Strength while she was distracted. She then used her spiky shield to backstab Strength.
Ignoring the pain, Strength grabbed Chariot with her fourth arm and threw her to the ceiling.
After crashing into the ceiling, Chariot from the ceiling with her sword pointed right at Strength's head.
Instead of evading, Strength jumped up towards the falling Chariot pulling back her giant fist while at the same time, Chariot aimed her sword.
At the same time.
Black fired one more barrage of bullets killing one the rest of the skeletons and then swung her sword at Dead. Dead jumped to the side evading her blade and then swung her scythe stabbing her weapon deep into Black's shoulder.
Dead then sent two chains that wrapped around Black's legs but Black swiftly chopped the chains with her sword before they could do anything. Black then kicked Dead right in the stomach before swinging her giant lance leaving a deep cut across Dead's chest.
The giant skull came flying from the side. Black jumped over the skull before it could hit her, but while she was in the air, multiple chains appeared and wrapped around Black's neck, legs, arms and torso. The chains then smashed her into the cave wall.
Dead Master pulled on the chains and increased the pressure of the chains to a point where she started squeezing out purple blood out of Black's body.
Before Dead could go further, Black used her lance to fire a barrage of purple bullets in all directions.
The giant skull stood in front of Dead protecting her from the merciless barage of bullets.
Bullets flew everywhere causing explosions, shaking and smoke to go everywhere.
The bullets stopped and after a short deadly moment of silence. Dead could hear the screeching sound of someone dragging a giant lance.
Dead Master looked and saw Insane Black Rock slowly walking towards her, all of her wounds gone and her purple flame ignited more than ever.
With her giant skull and endless amounts of chains by her side, Dead raised her scythe and sprinted at her opponent.
At the same moment, Black broke into a sprint and once again...
The two other selves clashed.
Like a bull, Kagari pushed forward and Mary charged towards Debra and Dr Frost.
Debra and Dr Frost jumped to the sides.
Dr Frost multiple icicles and fired them at the giant spider's legs.
"Please slow that down, my pet." Debra ordered and Yomi, who had already lost half of her mind, summoned chains at the Mary's legs.
However, Mary was running so fast that the icicles and chains just smashed into pieces when they reached the legs.
Mary stopped, turned around and opened it's mouth. A barrage of giant macaroons were fired at the pair.
"Oh I love sweets!" Debra exclaimed.
Dr Frost placed his hand of the ground and a huge wall purely made of ice appeared in front of them blocking every giant macaroon that Mary sent their way.
Frost clicked his fingers and 10 flying ice soldiers appeared.
The soldiers flew over and charged right at the driver. While Mary was still shooting, Kagari summoned her sword and shield. An ice soldier swung its sword but Kagari blocked with her shield then attacked with her sword.
She turned around and chopped down two more ice soilders.
One ice soldier manage to stab Kagari in the shoulder. Gritting her teeth, Kagari swung her shield knocking the soldier off Mary.
Like a frisby, Kagari threw her shield destroying three more ice soldiers, she turned and swung her sword killing another ice soldier before her shield returned to her like a boomerang.
She glared at the last two ice soldiers but they suddenly dispersed into many particles.
Suddenly, the biggest ball of ice that Kagari had ever seen appeared out of nothing right above Mary.
The ball of ice fell on top of Mary crushing the poor spider into many pieces.
Dr Frost looked up and saw Kagari had jumped before the impact of the giant ice ball and now was falling towards him with her sword in hand.
20 floating arrows made completely out of ice appeared out of nothing around Dr Frost and they opened fired at the falling Kagari.
Kagari placed her shield right in front of her blocking every arrow that came her way. Just when she had reached Frost and was about to stab him with her sword, a chain wrapped around Kagari's neck and she pulled back.
With the chain attached to a high tree branch, Kagari was now on the verge of being hanged to death...by Yomi.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Debra laughed hysterically.
Kagari tried to remove the chain that was wrapped around her neck but found it hard as now she couldn't breath and was slowly suffocating to death.
Frost just sighed at the sight of Kagari struggling, "I was actually hoping you would put more of a fight but I guess I was asking too much from someone like you."
Five icles appeared out of nowehere and Dr Frost fired them straight at Kagari.
Two impaled Kagari's arms, two impaled her legs and one impaled Kagari right through the chest.
Yomi stared in complete horror as she watched her friend's body become limp.
"You can put her down now." Debra said with a creepy smile.
Her body once again moving on it's own, Yomi unsummoned the chains that was tied around Kagari's neck.
The girl fell towards the ground. Yomi wanted to catch her but her body didn't move. All she could do was watch as Kagari's body landed hard on the ground.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Debra laughed again pointing at Kagari, "Her body looks weird now, don't you agree pet...ha...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Yomi's head unwilling nodded even though she tried really hard not to.
"She would've been a very good pet though...oh well then, I still have you." Debra smiled at Yomi, "Although I must say. It was very easy to take control of you, I wonder why...hmm..."
Debra suddenly gasped in excitement, "Could it be that you're having emotional problems? Oh goody, emotional people are always so easy to control. Let's see what emotion you're dealing with."
The crazy lunatic placed both of her hands on Yomi's head and her red eyes began to glow again.
All the poor girl do was stand there as Debra invaded her mind.
"Oh you're feeling jealous." Debra giggled with a wider grin as Yomi's eyes widened in shock and fear, Debra's giggles turned into laughing, "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The crazy girl stopped laughing and creepily moaned in pleasure, "Ah, Jealousy. One of my favourites. Don't worry my pet, both Yuu and Mato will be dead very soon."
Yomi stared in pure terror and alarm. With all the power she could muster, Yomi barely managed to say, "H-h-how...do y...you k-now...h-h-her... name."
Debra answered Yomi's question with a soft giggle. That giggle sooned turned into a crazy, lunatic and psychotic laugh, "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-"
Dr Frost summoned a long ice spear and threw it straight at Debra's pet, piecing Yomi's heart.
It happened so fast that Yomi didn't even have a chance to make a sound of pain. She simply fell over and her body hit the ground nearby Kagari's body.
Debra turned to look at Dr Frost...and she pouted, "Aww, Frosy! Why did you kill my pet. She was going to be my favourite."
"Our orders was to kill anyone who tries to escape," Dr Frost reminded the lunatic, "Besides...you've got plenty of 'pets' back at our base."
"YOU DO NOT WANT TO ANGER ME!"
The geist/giant rock golem charged at Yuu.
Yuu responded by charging straight at the Wolfheim. The two both sent their giant fist at the same time. Their fist clashed creating a loud boom casuing the cave to shake.
The geist's rock arm started cracking into pieces as Yuu's ogre arm was much stronger.
Wolfheim jumped back and possessed more rock from the cave to replace his hand and once again charged at Yuu.
Yuu grinned. She jumped evading the geist's attack and aimed her fist.
She remembered reading about Geist in the library. The only way to defeat them was to destroy their mask.
She aimed her fist and threw her fist right at the face of the geist but instead was hit with shock as she had somehow missed despite her target being right in front of her. Seconds later, Yuu knew why.
Wolfheim was no longer a geist, he was now a beowolf, "Let me show you my true potential."
Before Yuu could react, the beowolf swipe it's claw landing two hits on the girl.
Wolfheim changed into a Ursa and smashed Yuu to the ground.
He changed into a Nevermore and violently pecked Yuu with his beck.
He changed into a Lancer and stung Yuu with his harpoon-like stingers.
He changed into a King Taijitu, bit Yuu and flung her to the ceiling.
He changed into a Creep and heabutted Yuu when she fell from the ceiling, sending her crashing into the walls.
He changed into a Boarbatusk and charged at Yuu before she could get back up.
He changed into a Nuckelavee and used his sonic roar to make Yuu deaf for a moment before violently hitting her with his extendable arms.
He changed into a Griffon and bite Yuu's shoulder...hard.
Wolfheim rapidly changed Grimm from species to species, each time Wolfheim made sure that species used it's attacks on the girl to their full potential. The poor girl couldn't do anything but take in every single attack he threw at her.
Turns out it takes Wolfheim less than a second to transform.
To finish it all off, Wolfheim changed into a death stalker and impaled his large stinger through Yuu's chest.
The girl screamed in pain before finally going dead silent.
"My apologies, foreigner." Wolfheim's anger that Yuu encouraged earlier calmed down slowly, "But you never stood a chance."
"MATO BLOCK WITH YOUR CANNON!"
Stella's voice snapped Mato out of her frozen state and instantly brought her cannon up to block the massive attack coming her way.
The dark energy wave hit her and it hit her extremely hard. Her cannon was disintegrated instantly and a force of unbearable pain coursed through Mato's body
Both Stella and Mato screamed in agony as the August's attack mercilessly engulfed her.
There was a massive explosion and Mato was in the center of it.
The smoke from the explosion cleared and Mato was left laying on the ground...completely motionless. At this point, Mato couldn't feel anything and from the sounds of it, even Stella, who is known to have endured a lot of painful things in her past, had passed out from the pain or even...
"I'm surprise that attack didn't chop you in half." August said casually as he looked at Mato, "hmm? Still alive? Seems like your body is more durable than I thought it was...no matter, I will end you here and now."
Mato slowly opened her eyes. Even opening her eyes brought pain to her body.
Her vision was extremely blurry so she relied on sound. She heard August's footsteps one. By. One.
Never before in her life had Mato thought that she would die like this: In a different world, killed by the hands of an absolute stranger.
"Sorry Yomi," Mato thought as she awaited her coming death, "never got the chance to apologize."
Suddenly, August stopped walking bringing a silence of suspense into the atmosphere.
"Bold move," August acknowledge, "I was wondering when you would interfere. For a moment I thought you were just going to stand there as your friend gets killed."
Mato vision suddenly became clear and she looked up. She couldn't feel her body anymore yet when she look, she felt horror.
It was Miku.
She was standing in front of Mato with her arms out, her smile replaced with determination.
"M-Miku?! N-no. What are you doing? Run!" Mato wanted to warn her but every part of her body including her mouth had already given up on her at this point.
"Although it seems you possess no special abilities," August noticed before something else caught his attention. Despite August's Draining Mist being active in full force, Miku didn't seemed fazed by it, "Strange, my semblance is suppose to affect all living things."
Miku didn't say anything.
"Miku please. Just leave me!" Mato begged but not a single sound escaped her mouth.
"Not much of a talker I see." August said before shrugging and raising his sword, "Oh well then, I was going to kill your either way. Any last words?"
The girl didn't say anything.
"Miku no!"
"I thought so." With no hesitation, August swung his sword.
The four of them froze.
Silence was dormant yet feelings flowed everywhere.
A brand new emotions stirred up in all four of their stomachs.
No words were spoke. They all wanted to kill each other for letting this happen. Despite the silence, they instantly blamed each other for distracting them from what they were meant to protect. Never before have they wanted to hurt each other so badly...but right now, there was only one thing that mattered to them.
Chariot broke into a full out dash faster than she had ever gone before. As she zoomed towards one of the pathways, she grabbed Dead Master's arm with her claw and together they zoomed into the pathway that lead outside the mountain faster than the speed of a racecar and a flying jet combined.
Strength lifted her ogre arms and smashed the ground causing the ground to collapse and Strength fell towards the underground mines.
At that point, Black was already on her way running faster than she had ever ran before. Ten times faster than a cheetah, Black dashed to the top of the mountain.
Debra poked Yomi's cheek.
Dr Frost sighed in annoyance, "Debra, how many times have I told: stop playing with the dead bodies of your victims."
"She's still alive."
"Impossible, I made sure to pierce her heart." Dr Frost looked and sure enough, Yomi was still breathing. In fact, it almost looked as though her wounds were slowly getting better...slowly.
Debra and Dr Frost heard the sound of mechanical legs.
They turned around and saw Kagari was also still alive. Barely.
"AHAHAHAHA!" Debra laughed, "Yay! I guess I'll be adding two more pets to my collection! AHAHAHA!"
Frost noticed sometime in Kagari's face, "Why are you smiling? Have you gone insane like Debra?"
Despite the pain and the icicles still impaled through her body, Kagari chuckled softly, "She's coming."
A loud boom was heard and something or someone came crashing out of the mountain at full speed like a rocket.
Debra and Frost looked up and saw Chariot holding Dead Master in the sky.
Multiple chains appeared and wrapped around Kagari and Yomi pulling them out of range. While still in the air, Chariot pulled back her arm and threw Dead Master straight at the Doctor and the lunatic.
Dead Master twirled her scythe and aimed as she fell.
The two criminals jumped back barely in time to avoid Dead Master's landing. Her landing was so great, a massive crater appeared below her feet.
Chariot landed right next to her.
A sense of relief rushed through both Kagari and Yomi as they looked up to see their other selves standing in front of them. Dead and Chariot bent down to comfort their otherselves.
The icicles in Kagari's body dispersed and Yomi's mind returned to her.
Kagari smiled gently at Chariot, "I'm counting on you."
"I'm sorry Dead, I...I..." Yomi couldn't find the right words.
"Hush, don't stress yourself." Dead assured, "Leave it to me."
With that, Kagari and Yomi passed out.
After gently laying them down in a safe place in the side of the battlefield,
Dead Master and Chariot stood up and glared at Debra and Frost with their glowing circular eyes. Furry clearly in their eyes.
The two criminals had never seen anything like them.
A sense of...adrenaline rushed through Dr Frost's body, "Looks like this mission isn't going to be so boring after all."
"AHAHAHAHAHA! AMAZING! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Debra laughed for no reason, "FINALLY! I get to 'play' with someone!"
Dead Master raised her arm and two brand new giant skulls with flaming green eyes appeared by her sides.
"Mary!" At Chariot's call, the broken remains of Mary began to levitate and combine together again into the giant spider it originally was.
The giant spider and two giant skulls stood behind their masters.
A icy whirlwind gathered around Dr Frost's body as he accumulated all the power he could. With a grin, a dark blue aura appeared around him.
Debra laughed as her eyes began to glow dark red. With a smile, a dark red aura appeared around her.
Chariot summoned a new sword and a shield with sharp spikes. With a look of malice, a dark yellow aura appeared around her.
Dead Master raised her scythe and an army of skeletons appeared behind her. With a look of hatred, a dark green aura appeared around her.
The wind that blew by every so often stopped whistling...and then they striked.
Dead Master & Chariot vs Debra Stalker & Dr Frost
"Still alive?" Wolfheim asked in a calm manner, "I have to admit. You've got persistence."
Yuu coughed out blood, "Trust me... I have more than just that."
"Why the sudden increase in confidence?" Wolfheim asked, "Are you not aware that you're about to die? Or maybe you have something else up your sleeve...or maybe someone's... coming to save you?"
The ceiling suddenly made a cracking noise, Wolfheim looked up and sensed something powerful coming from above, "I see...it's seems your older sibling has come to save you."
At the moment of those words, the ceiling burst open and large amounts of rock came falling towards them.
Wolfheim, despite being very old, was really agile and jumped back to avoid the falling boulders.
Someone small yet carrying large objects, landed right in front of Yuu and covered her from the falling debris.
When the boulders stop falling, Yuu coughed out blood viciously and then smiled, 'What took you so long?"
"Sorry, had to deal with something." Strength apologised.
Yuu noticed something, "You're hurt."
"Yeah, I kinda got into a fight." Strength replied.
Yuu's eyes widened as she knew exactly what she meant by that, "Don't tell me you...will you be alright?"
"Get some rest," Strength said in an assuring tone, "I'll explain everything afterwards."
"You better not die. He may be old but his crazy strong." Yuu warned.
"Thanks for the warning."
Wolfheim, who was listening to their conversation, got a bit annoyed, "Those are some confident words for someone-"
He stopped when his eyes met with Strength death glare or more specifically, her glowing, circular orange eyes. One look on Strength's face and Wolfheim instantly knew...The difference in skill between Yuu and Strenght was very different.
"Those are some fascinating eyes you have," Wolfheim complemented, "I've seen that look on many other strong warriors who once stood in my path. Therefore, in honour of your strength, I will show you no mercy."
Wolfheim's skin turned red and his bones, spine and body grew larger and larger. Within less than a second, Wolfheim had transformed into his trump card... a Beringel.
Two brand new giant ogre arms replaced Strength's broken ones on her back. A dark orange aura appeared around Strength.
Wolfheim rapidly punched the chest of his Beringel form before charging at Strength.
With four Ogre arms, Strength charged at Wolfheim.
They both pulled back their massive fist and delivered their strongest punch.
Strength vs Wolfheim Hernandez
Mato looked up in both sadness and horror.
A look of incredulous shock flashed through her face as she saw that Miku's body was in the air...in two pieces.
The sound of Miku's body parts echoed as they fell down the mountain.
She had just witnessed her friend die right in front of her and she couldn't do anything.
Mato wanted to scream. She wanted to yell. She wanted to jump off this mountain and catch her.
But her body was still numb and Mato still couldn't move an inch.
The girl's mouth went wide open, "MIKU!"
A giant lance emerged from the ground like a sword being stabbed through wood right in front of August.
Gun turrets appeared on the lance and a barrage of bullets were fired in August's way.
The armoured man jumped backwards as the bullets rained upon him. Even if the bullet failed to piece his armour, he could feel the immense power radiating from them.
The bullets stopped and Black came bursting through the ground.
Tears began to flow out of Mato's eyes as she looked at Black standing in front of her with her purple flamming eyes, "B-Black...MIku...she's...she's..."
Black didn't say anything, she looked at Mato's injured body and hugged her.
"I was wondering when I was going to meet you." August said raising his demonic sword.
Black gently let go as Mato had finally passed out from the pain with tears still flowing from her eyes. She wiped Mato's tears and gently placed her down.
She then turned around and glared.
"I was disappointed when I met your younger sister, but now you're here I can have a more entertain-" August stopped when he saw the look in Black's purple circular eyes.
For once in Black's life, she felt an emotion. That emotion was anger.
"I see," August slowly got the message, "you are not a woman of words. Your a warrior. Let us skip the formal greetings and settle this once and for all."
A dark purple aura appeared around August as he raised his demonic sword.
A different shade of dark purple aura appeared around Black as her purple flamming eye ignited brighter than ever.
The two glared at each as their auras were so powerful that they shook the mountain.
The shaking stopped and silence took over for a short moment before-
With a demonic sword, August charged forward.
With a giant lance as an arm and a blade in the other hand, Black charged forward.
They both swung their weapons at the same time as their powers clashed.
Insane Black Rock Shooter vs August Serena
Next time:
The Otherselves vs The Four Most Wanted Criminals
Top Most Wanted Criminals
1. ?
2. August Serena
3. Wolfheim Hernandez
4. Dr Frost
5. Debra Stalker
6. James Mordred (Arrested)
7. Blitz Mudlark (Arrested)
8. Broad Gargoyle (Arrested)
9. William Henchmen (Arrested)
10. Dark Runner (Arrested)
A/N End of Chapter! Phew that took much longer than expected. Sorry. Quick reminder that the Top Most Wanted Criminals are OCs created by me. Anyways, thanks for reading this far. I really enjoy your support on this story and I'll try update as fast as possible although I've got lots of assessments and test coming up soon so it might take longer. I want to say thank you to all those who reviewed this story and if you have any problems with this chapter please tell me and I'll try make it right.
Now, to answer a few reviews. Most of you weren't really happy with Team JNPR's lack of screentime or action. To be honest, Team SSSN, CFVY and JNPR weren't meant to have that much action and were there just for a comedic effect. But I guess none of you found it funny. I've never been a big fan of Team JNPR but I totally understand how you feel and I will try give them more attention in future chapters. I'm not going to make a chapter focused on them because I want to focus more on the main characters. Chapter 39 which is the chapter aftre the next chapter is going to be focused on both Team RWBY, YMKE, MHYA and an OC team made by another author because after all, this story is a Black Rock Shooter and RWBy crossover after all, and then it's going to be a relaxed chapter similiar to "Day of Freedom." Anyways, I'm really sorry if you got upset with team JNPR's lack to attention, I will try to make it up to you in the future.
Hank: Answering you questions in Akama Ga save. Well, I've kinda seen a bit of the Persona series, I've seen my cousin play it and I've seen the first 4 episodes of the anime but no I've never played any of the games. Don't worry, you didn't spoil anything, my cousin already told me about the protagonist dying. As for your second question, no, I have never heard of Infinite or sonic forces. I searched it up on google and believe me, the colours might be similar but their powers are very different, Jack's abilities is an idea that just popped up in my mind. One more thing, no offense but please when you're reviewing, make sure your review is related to the chapter that your reviewing. If you have any unrelated question, it's not hard to make an account and PM me.
Anyways, thank you all for reading this far. I hope I haven't disappointed any of you and I hope you all enjoyed.
So yeah...bye
"Hey Jack?"
Jack, who was casually eating a packet of chips, looked at Sing-love, "Yes?"
"You know Miku just got chopped in half." Sing-love replied.
"Yeah, what about it?" Jack asked with his mouth full of chips.
"Don't we need her to power the cannon? I though Miku was essential to your plan, isn't that why you kidnapped her in the first place?" Sing-love asked.
"She is." Jack said as he placed another chip in his mouth.
Sing-love stared blankly at the boy, "Jack, I don't know where you come from, but when I chop humans in half...they usually die afterwards."
"I know, but remember, Miku isn't a human. She's a vocaloid" Jack said with a grin.
Sing-love raised an eyebrow, "What's the difference?"
"Relax Sing-love, it's fine." Jack said with confidence, "Just because Miku's physical body got chopped into two...that doesn't mean she's dead."
This chapter was finished on 30/10/2017.