Chapter 4
Eric van Genus' Audio Journal #4: An Individual, a Parasite and a Slave
What is the difference between an individual, a parasite and a slave? What separate these three things? Money? Power? Status? No. An individual chooses, a parasite tries to unite the rabble under their servitude and a slave obeys! The individual stands on their own judgement. The parasite follow the opinions to others and the slaves get roped in by the parasite. The individual creates. The parasite demands a share of everything or everything while leaving the individual with nothing. The slave is unable to create anything. The individual thinks and forms new ideas. The parasite either copies or warp the ideas of the individual. The slave is unable to form ideas of their own. The individual produces while the parasite loots and the slave cannot produce. The individual is more interested in the conquest of nature and the understanding of the universe. The parasite wants to conquer all individuals and make them into slaves. The individual is free. Independent while never serving nor rules. They deal with others by making free exchanges along with voluntary choices. The parasite desire power as they bind all people together in common action and common slavery while seeing their fellow sentience as only a tool for the use of others. They must think and act what they think and act and live in joyless, selfless servitude to any need but their own. And a slave is just that. A joyless, selfless servant to any form of collectivism that must act like sheep or programmed robots. But of course, a slave is dedicated to their own ideals and views to altruism.
On Remnant, people do value individualism by giving themselves the names of art itself, color. Yet there are parasites here that want to make slaves. These come in the form of the White Fang, who want to unite all Faunus to kill humans rather than finding peaceful resolutions. The Atlesian Military is another form of parasite. The Atlas Academy maybe a Huntsmen school, but Ironwood scrutinize everyone to join him in "protecting the world" as there are no other military forces to oppose him. Even worse when he adds robots that can easily be reprogram. Salem and Ozma almost try to conquer individuals through a false religion by force with them at the top. Ozma did have a change of heart, but lost everything. But here in this valley, we do not force people. We don't scrutinize, we let them choose. We don't use force, we make deals. We don't copy or steal, we produce and make our own original works. Well...except for some of the stuff that I got from my memories that are being used as shows. So I maybe a bit of a hypocrite on that part. Yet thanks to those memories, I brought some new ideals into this world. These even include inspiration.
Back on topic, we don't see others as a tool. We see them as a potential for change. Revolutionary, no, evolutionary idealist that will change this world forever.
End of recording.
Vale, Start of The Stray (Volume 1, Episode 15)
In Vale, people are getting set up for the Vytal Festival coming soon. Red, yellow, and green streamers and balloons are proudly on display, and Team RWBY is strolling through it all with an awed Weiss Schnee in the front. A sign is being put up by the elderly shopkeep that reads in bright red letters "WELCOME TO VALE!" for all the foreign newcomers from their respective kingdoms of Remnant.
Weiss stops and raise her arms in amazement, "The Vytal Festival! Oh, this is absolutely wonderful!"
Ruby says, "I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much, Weiss." She gets a little creeped out by Weiss' smile, "It's kinda weirding me out..."
Weiss turns to face Ruby, ""How could you not smile? A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances! Parades! A tournament! Oh, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking!"
They all continue to walk with Yang whispering, "We should let her have this. Because of all the stuff that's happening back in Atlas. Especially with her family's company limping along to get by."
They stop near the docks with the sound of foghorns being heard.
Yang asks, "Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks?"
Ruby cover her nose in disgust, "Ugh, they smell like fish!"
Weiss says to the sisters, "I've heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today. And, as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom!"
They continue to walk as Blake says, "She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament."
Weiss scoffs at Blake, "You can't prove that!"
Ruby turns her head and noticed something strange, "Whoa."
The four walk towards the Dust shop guarded by the police. Instead of a robbed store, they see giant crystals sticking out of the building. Some are blue that glow faintly. Some are green that looked like some got chipped off. And there are some that don't glow that come in a variety of colors.
"What happened here?" Ruby asks.
One of the detectives walk towards his partner, "Any idea what this crap is? This stuff isn't Dust."
"Yeah." says the other detective, "I try to touch one of those blue crystals and my hand got shocked. Now I can't feel it."
Yang is puzzled by what she sees, "Any idea what this stuff is?"
The first detective says, "The money is still there and nothing else is stolen. Well except for a few of those green crystals."
"Huh?" Ruby turns her head when she hears this.
"Some experiment gone wrong?" the second detective asks.
"Not sure." the first detective answers, "But I heard that these strange crystals have been appearing all over Remnant lately. Mostly in mines that used to be abandoned."
"What is happening in the world lately?" the second detective sighs while trying to figure things out. "Brilliant people disappearing from Atlas, the Schnee Dust Company is loosing everything to riots, new stuff like this keep on cropping everywhere, and etc., etc."
"Could be the sign of the times. Like big changes coming soon."
"Well we're not getting paid enough to deal with this crap. Plus I doubt the White Fang has anything to do with this. They normally steal Dust, not create weird nature artwork."
Somewhere Close By...
Fumeiyo, the Huntsmen Slayer, killed ten Huntsmen in an alleyway along with eighteen gangsters with their bodies and body parts spread everywhere along with blood splattered as far as five floors. Fumeiyo has her left foot on one of the gangsters as he tries to struggle to break free yet unable to move.
'I can't move.' the gangster thinks as he is terrified. Fumeiyo is about to deliver the killing blow but shouts, "WAIT! I have some information you might be interested in! I learned that the White Fang and Roman Torchwick are planning a huge heist at the docks!"
Fumeiyo stops her katana from stabbing into his head. "Go on."
"Word is that a large shipment of Dust from the Schnee Dust Company is being sent to the docks. A huge shipment and they plan to steal it!"
"Is that so?" Fumeiyo raises her katana a little.
"Yes! So are you gonna let me live! I don't want to die! Please?!" A small glimmer of hope can be seen in his eyes among all the fear.
"Yeeeaahh- No."
SHANK! She stabbed him in the head.
Vale, Around Black & White (Volume 1, Episode 16)
It is nighttime at the docks where Blake is laying flat on her stomach on the rooftop of a warehouse. She is overlooking a shipment of Dust because Sun overheard about a large shipment when he was on the boat. A prime target for the White Fang. Yet unbeknownst to her, Fumeiyo is watching over Blake from a corner of one of the shipping cranes up top with a pair of binoculars to watch her.
Fumeiyo smirks, "So that's the daughter of Ghira Belladonna. Glad to see that she wishes to make amends for your mistakes. At least someone seeks redemption among all the phonies." She lowers her binoculars and just smiles, "But Roman Torchwick is my kill." However, she sees movement on the same rooftop. She sees Sun holding onto some apples in his arm and tries to give one to Blake but Blake gives an angry glare at him. "Hmm? Another Huntsmen-in-training?"
Yet the wind blows all around as a bullhead VTOL with searchlights flashes for a landing spot. Fumeiyo hid as it descends in the middle of all the cargo containers. It lands as it opens its ramp to reveal members of the White Fang and Roman Torchwick.
"Time to work." Fumeiyo says as she targets her prey. "Time to path the streets of Vale with blood." She jumps down from her hiding spot and heads straight towards her target form the shadows. Yet she runs into complications.
Blake has Roman Torchwick hostage as the White Fang point there guns at her. But Blake removes her ribbon to show her cat ears for all to see.
"Brothers of the White Fang!" Blake speaks to the other Faunus, "Why are you aiding this scum?"
Fumeiyo bites the left side of her lower lip to draw some blood. She uses her left thumb to get some of the blood and smear it on some of her knives. She takes aim as she holds on to one of the knives by the tip and throws it at one of the White Fang members. She hit his right leg and grunts in pain, but then is frozen in place.
"Hey." he grunts, "I can't move."
Then another knife hits one of them on the left shoulder and is frozen.
"What the-?" Roman went as he is confuse on what is going on.
Fumeiyo makes her move as she draws her sword and comes charging in.
"Oh crap!" Roman says in horror. "It's her!"
Fumeiyo chops off the head of one of the White Fang members she struck and proceeds to slice off half a torso diagonally on the next one. As Blake watches, she notices the look in Fumeiyo's eyes behind her mask. They are the eyes of a fanatic. Similar to a very specific person that Blake knows and it scares her. Roman quickly uses his crane to fire at Fumeiyo but misses and hits some explosive Dust.
Not too far, Penny and Ruby turn around and heard the sound of the explosion at the docks with smoke rising just a few buildings away.
Ruby goes, "Oh no..." as she is worrying that Blake might be there.
Back at the docks, Blake is on the ground and dazed. Unhurt but tries to get off the ground as she sees Roman trying to defend himself against the fast slashes of the Huntsmen Slayer. Roman struggles as some bullheads with more White Fang join the fray. However, Fumeiyo slashes through Roman's cane and slices off Roman's right leg. Roman fell backwards as he bleeds out. Fumeiyo looks at Blake that sends shivers down the poor cat Faunus' spine.
Sun shouts, "BLAAAAKE!" He runs up and uses his weapon in staff mode to attack Fumeiyo.
Fumeiyo blocks the attack but Sun spins and changes his weapon from bostaff to nunchaku form and fires as one of them spins in his right hand. Fumeiyo's blood red aura protected her as she kicks Sun right at his abs and sends him flying. Roman tries to crawl away but Fumeiyo stomps his back and ready to kill him. Blake is still frozen in fear as she has flashes of Adam Taurus in her mind and sees Fumeiyo being the same.
"Hey!" Ruby is on the rooftop of the warehouse as she fires a round at Fumeiyo.
Fumeiyo deflects the shot and nearly hit Blake.
Penny approaches Ruby and is confuse on what is going on, "Ruby, are these people your friends?"
While looking up, Fumeiyo sees Penny on the rooftop. "The synthetic." she mumbled to herself. She then flashes about a picture of Penny when Eric van Genus explains about a synthetic robot Atlas has been developing. "Those cretins at Atlas." her voice is full of rage as she holds her katanas tightly. She ninja runs towards the warehouse as she completely lost interest in Roman. "I will not let heroes be replaced by machines!"
Ruby notices Fumeiyo running on the side of the warehouse on her way up. She tries to get Penny away, "Penny! Run!"
But too late. Fumeiyo has arrived as she kicks Ruby out of the way. Yet Penny's backpack mechanically opens up, and from its dark depths comes a single sword that extends and multiples into several blades deflecting Fumeiyo's attack.
"Not to worry, Ruby!" Penny says with a smile, "I'm combat ready!"
Fumeiyo angrily roars as she unleashes a flurry of attacks on Penny yet keeps on getting parried one by one. The two leap from rooftop to rooftop as they continue to attack. Back on the ground, Blake snaps out of it and helps Sun take on the White Fang goons. In the air, three bullheads come from the skies and open fire on the battle, but Penny merely forms a shield and launches two of her swords into the wall behind her, which in turn pull their wielder back with their strings. When her swords swirl around her again, she commands them to open their points and build up a large glowing ball of green light. With a punching action, several bright lasers crack the pavement when they fire at the transports and slice each one in half, causing several of the White Fang members inside to fall and letting Ruby watch as bullheads fall in pieces in front her. Then Fumeiyo tries to attack yet gets pushed back by the light green lasers from the swords.
Blake and Sun rounded up all the White Fang members yet Roman Torchwick managed to get away from one remaining bullhead. The battle between Fumeiyo and Penny continues to rage on with Ruby trying to provide back-up. Blake uses her Gambol Shroud to get up to one of the crates and tries to attack Fumeiyo. Fumeiyo blocks Blake's attack yet Blake keeps on using her semblance to fool Fumeiyo and crack her mask. Yet Fumieyo kicks Blake off the dangling crate and onto the top of a large stack of shipping crates. With Blake cleared out of the way, Ruby takes her shot and cause the crate to fall. Fumeiyo jumps out of the way but Sun smacks her with his weapon onto the warehouse. She did try to block but her katanas got destroyed. Weiss and Yang finally show.
"WE'RE HERE!" Yang says as she rides on Weiss' glyph. "We finally- Whoa!" Yang sees Fumeiyo trying to get up. She looks at Blake as she points, "Is that the Huntsmen Slayer?!"
Fumeiyo angrily charges at yang and tries to punch her. But Weiss uses her glyphs to yank her away and gets hit against the wall. Actually, she got rammed through it.
"That was close!" Weiss says as she catches her breath.
Fumeiyo's aura has been depleted as she can feel the pain on her body. She is covered in cuts and bruises after getting slammed through a wall. As she emerges from the warehouse, she notices that all the Huntsmen-in-training have their weapons pointed at her as police cars with their sirens on and parked behind the young Huntsmen with the police having their guns pointed at Fumeiyo.
"FREEZE!" one of the officers shouted.
"It's over, Huntsmen Slayer!" Ruby says at Fumeiyo.
"You are under arrest!" Weiss says.
Yang then makes an awful pun, "Consider yourself, slain!"
Sun looks at Yang and goes, "Really?"
"Not now!" Blake orders Sun. Then pays attention to Fumeiyo, "It's over!"
"Over?" Fumeiyo says as she tries to get up. "Over!?" she says again in a more threatening voice as her mask finally breaks to reveal her red eyes.
Everyone gets freaked out when they see her bright red eyes. Her eyes are so cold, menacing, and so full of conviction for her beliefs that a maligning aura appears as if her aura has replenished as it fills the area. This cause everyone to become paralyze with fear as she displays her indomitable will.
She screams out, "IT'S NEVER OVER! THIS WORLD IS FULL OF FAKE HEROES THAT DISGRACE THE NAME, HUNTSMEN! HUNTSMEN THESE DAYS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN HYPOCRITES AND PATHETIC EXCUSES AS PROTECTORS! THE KINGDOMS MUST RUN WITH THE BLOOD OF FRAUDS!" She takes one step forward full of rage, "THE ATLESIAN MILITARY AND THE WHITE FANG ARE BIGGER JOKES THAN THE FAKERS I HAD TO PUT DOWN! ONLY A FEW ARE WORTHY TO KILL ME! YOU HEAR THAT?! ONLY THOSE THAT ARE WORTHY OF BEING CALLED HEROES!" And takes another step forward, "THE REST ARE A PATHETIC EXCUSE! A SHADOW OF THE ONES FROM FAIRY TALES! A TRUE HERO SHOULD ALWAYS PUT EVERYONE ELSE'S HAPPINESS BEFORE THEIR OWN! SELF-SACRIFICE! ABLE TO OVERCOME ANY OBSTACLE AND ASK NO REWARD!"
But then she remembers something. Something that Eric van Genus said: 'In this world, altruistic heroes only exist in stories and tales. They have no place in the real world or the new one we hope to create.'
Fumeiyo chuckles after remembering that before laughing manically as she looks up and scratches the left side of her face. Blood started to trickle from the scratch she made. Then she looks at the people in front of her with a huge grin that reach from ear to ear, "THAT PROFESSOR IS RIGHT! HEROES LIKE THAT NO LONGER HAVE A PLACE IN THIS WORLD! FAIRY TALES ARE JUST STUPID CHILDISH NOTIONS THAT TRICK US ALL!" She laughs some more as she then shoves her left middle finger in her eye. Gouging it out with blood dripping from the eye socket that freaks everyone out. "LOOKS LIKE ALL THAT HARD WORK WAS FOR NOTHING! BUT ONCE THE CULLING COMES, THE REST OF YOU PHONIES WILL DIE! " She pulls out a blade she had hidden under her clothes, "IN MANY TALES, THE HERO NEVER GETS TO SEE THE ENDING! WHEN I DIE HERE AND NOW, THAT WOULD MAKE ME A MARTYR TO INSPIRE HUNTSMEN WHO WILL BE ON THE RIGHT PATH OF BEING A HERO!" She manically laughs as she chops off her own head. The head continues to smile as it falls down to the pavement and rolls up to Weiss' feet.
Weiss looks at Fumeiyo's head staring at her with the big grin on its face. She screams in horror after that.
Not long after, the police round up the White Fang members that didn't get away. Weiss is sitting in the police car with a blanket over her and a cup of coffee in her hands. Still shaken after what just happened.
Blake approaches Weiss, "Are you okay?" Blake sounds a little worried.
"No. I'm not." Weiss looks at Blake, "Once all this is done, we have to have a talk."
Ruby looks around and asks, "Has anyone seen Penny?"
Yang is sitting on a box, "Not really." She then glances over at an ambulance truck taking Fumeiyo's dead body away in a body bag.
Sun asks everyone, "Any idea what she was talking about? Like the professor she mentioned and the 'Culling'?"
Ruby looks down and looks worrisome, "I don't know. But what ever it is, it can't be good." Then she looks at everyone with more confidence, "If it does come, we will be ready."
Over at Beacon, Ozpin watches the live feed at the docks on his scroll. Qrow sent a message that says: 'Queen has pawns. New player lost this pawn.'
"Hmm..." Ozpin went as he looks out the window. "Just who is this new player?"
Over at a large warehouse with a shadowy interior, Roman Torchwick limps his way towards the door with some of his weight being supported by his cane. He enters as he limps over to a table and gives a tired sigh.
"That was unexpected, Roman."
Roman gets scared as he hears the voice of Cinder in the room. "Whoa! Hehe...I wasn't expecting you guys so soon..."
Cinder approaches with Mercury and Emerald behind her. She gives a serious look, "Well, no one ever expected the Huntsmen Slayer to be here so soon. However, we still need more Dust."
Roman argues, "Well it's hard to find some when dealing with those strange crystals. Why not use those instead?"
Cinder smirks as she chuckles darkly, "You maybe right. However," she summons a fireball and her eyes glowing gold, "you must continue working with the White Fang in order to get them. We have big plans for you, Roman. All we ask is... a little cooperation."
The Next Morning, Vale Police Station
One of the doctors at the morgue came down to do a thorough examination on Fumeiyo's corpse. He is looking over on his clipboard to check which cold storage she is in. After checking, he opens the storage yet there is no body.
"What the-?" the doctor says in disbelief. He checks the clipboard and the number of the door and they match.
He checks another one yet no body. He checks another one. Another one. And another one. None of them have Fumeiyo's decapitated corpse. He went up to tell everyone and news that Fumeiyo's body has disappeared has spread.
The Very Next Day After, At the Meeting Room...
In the meeting room, the leader enters the room and is in his John Gulch disguise. This disguise looks like Kristoffer Polaha who played John Galt in Atlas Shrugged Part 3 film yet has two streaks of gray hair on the right side yet he has the voice of Paul Johansson who also played John Galt but in Part 1. In the room, Coco Mint is there with holographic displays as always yet there are two other figures there. The first is Nyx Shade. A woman in her early twenties with long, periwinkle hair that is a little wavy and curly while also having silver eyes yet looks tired. She is also wearing a dark, gothic lolita dress that is black and a few periwinkle-colored frills on her wrist, center of her chest to her waist, and her collar. She is also wearing a blue-colored brooch in the form of a Bowles variety flower with an amber in the center. The second is another woman in her early twenties name, Harriet Flameheart. Like everyone else in this little council, she has silver eyes. However, her hair is sticking up and has three different colors while being in the form of flames. The base is a light red coloring, the one above is fire orange and the last is sunflower blonde along with having a dark complexion. Not to mention that her eyebrows are fashioned in a similar way. She is wearing a red blouse with a crimson cape, similar to a mage, while having a brooch in the form of a crimson fiery heart while also wearing a knee-long orange skirt.
"Sorry I'm late." John apologizes to the three women in the room. "What is this about?"
Harriet speaks in a wonderful voice like that of a singer, "There is a new video on the net."
Nyx then speaks in a southern accent, "It's about the little Huntsmen Slayer. We haven't watch it yet but everyone else has."
Coco is smiling, "Yeah! There's a documentary video online about her but it is being taken down again and again. Luckily I saved it and uploaded it again and again." She flicks one of the screens towards John as it plays.
The video shows the silhouette of Fumeiyo with the title, 'Huntsmen Slayer: Fumeiyo' with a narration followed by a few pictures, "Sangre San Viento. Also known as Fumeiyo which means disgrace and more commonly as the Huntsmen Slayer. As a child, she greatly admired storybooks about heroes saving the lives and the day. This inspired her to enroll at Shade Academy to train as a Huntress. But what she saw as a flawed educational system that lacks the true understanding of being a hero." Then shows a crimson figure in the middle of a city and trying to get black shadows to listen. "After dropping out, she advocated for the return of the early days of Huntsmen when they were actually heroes. But her words have fallen onto deaf ears." Then shows a picture of her in her costume, "After her three year disappearance, she came back and brutally kill any Huntsmen that did not follow her principals, soldiers of the Atlesian Military who she sees as government puppets, members of the White Fang who she sees as misguided innocents who were tricked into committing crime and any criminals she sees." Shows a picture of Vacuo City, "This became her one woman crusade on the return to the old days. She believed heroes should never seek compensation and one should epitomize the ideas of self-sacrifice. She believes that present day Huntsmen were frauds. When action speaks louder than words along with violent purges, she hopes society would join her side." Then switches over to Fumeiyo's last stand against Team RWBY and Sun as she makes her speech and before she died.
Harriet and Nyx are freaked out by Fumeiyo in the video before she decapitated herself.
"Holy shit." Harriet is frighten by what she saw.
Nyx looks at John, "Almost reminds me of you. Back when you killed the caretakers. The look in her eyes."
Coco shivers yet smiles, "Woo-hoo-hoo. That girl gives me the shivers!" Yet looks down, "Too bad she's dead."
John just stoically flicks the hologram screen back at Coco, "That's because she has conviction and she is dedicated to her work. Just like I do." John gives a very serious face that scares the other girls. Not just that, his eyes are similar yet more focus and less angry.
Coco gets excited shivers again, "Yeah! Just like that!"
Nyx shivers in fear, "Can you please stop? You're scaring us."
John smiles and blinks, "Sorry." he chuckles a little, "Just to give a demonstration." Then he looks at Coco, "By the way, how are things going?"
Coco checks the net, "Things are progressing smoothly. The last of our satellites are up and the new network is complete. The last of the nanomachines are finished and ready for dispersal. As for Daisy Taggart, looks like her win will be a landslide once the polls are open. Plus, Jacques Schnee sold his wife's animals to us and now we are gonna do the Sandstar experiment real soon. Guessing he must be desperate for cash if he's pulling a dick move like that."
"Good." John smiles as he place his hands behind him. Then he looks at Nyx, "And you, Nyx? How are your sewing classes going?"
Nyx clears her throat, "They're going well. A lot of my students have created such beautiful quilts and now we're making teddy bears and dolls."
Harriet then speaks, "My magic classes," Harriet was being sarcastic with the word 'magic', "are going well. We got some amazing wizards that can use nanomachines with their brains very well. Although some prefer Kuro's ki class and Yuki's ninjutsu class over magic. Either way, they're using their thought impulses very well."
"Good." John nods.
There is a knock on the door.
"Come in!" John says.
The door opens to reveal a boy around sixteen years old that looks similar to Whitley Schnee yet has black hair. His attire consists of a short-sleeved black dress shirt, the sleeves fastened just above his elbows by dark blue cuffs, each with twin blue diamond buttons. Over his tucked shirt, he wears a blue vest, with a black handkerchief in his left breast pocket. He also wears a blue necktie, back trousers and black dress shoes.
"Ah, Schwarz! Come in, come in." John greets him.
Coco, Harriet and Nyx give Schwarz a very friendly and flirty greeting, "Hello, Schwarz."
Schwarz gives a smile and waves, "Hello, ladies." Then looks at John, "Forgive my intrusion, but I would like to speak to the council."
"What is it?" John asks out of curiosity.
"I would like to make a few changes to the plan for Atlas. In particular, the Winter Maiden, Fria."
"Ooo!" Coco takes an interest.
"I think, instead of killing her, why not have her join our side? Willingly."
Mary von Frankincense's Secret Lab...
Mary hums a tune as she sows and stitch Fumeiyo back together on a dissection table. Stitching her head back on for her own purposes. "Now then..." she says while finishing her stitching, "Should you be an undead or be part of one of the Vampire Clans up north? What to do, what to do. You're lucky that you have such uses. Although..." Mary licks her lips, "Perhaps you and me should have some fun?"
AN: Okay, just to give you guys the heads up. Instead of posting chapters every two weeks, it will be completely random. It could come out in a few days or come out in a month. Blame my crazy work schedule. Anyway, just to let you guys know.
