Chapter 13

Eric van Genus' Audio Journal: Third, Fourth & Fifth Reincarnation

In my third reincarnation, I was reborn in the Star Wars Galaxy. Guess what species I was reincarnated as? Give up? Yoda's species. That's right, I was reincarnated as the same species as Yoda at the end of the Rebellion. Thankfully not during the Disney movies because those sucked in some degree. But back on topic, I was born in a village on the planet Odessen in Wild Space. Unlike the games, it is reduced to a remnant of what it was with only a few spaceships and some tech left over. Thanks to it being a Force nexus, I have learned much of the Force and created a new order known as the Greywalkers. An order for Force-sensitives that don't follow the path of Jedi or Sith, but rather similar to the Aing-Tii, some philosophy of the Voss along with the Green Jedi and Jal Shey and some principals of the Paradox from The Old Republic with a little bit of the Knights of Zakuul along with sorcery and alchemy, some techniques of the Zesion Sha, Matukai, Sith lightsaber fighting, Jedi lightsaber fighting, and Gray Paladins. I created a new order by the time I was 200 (teenage years to Yoda's species) and help create a new galactic power in Wild Space. I spent many centuries governing this new democratic, Force-based society that had flourished in Wild Space for many centuries while I developed new Force abilities and gather power through the Force. I actually died peacefully in that life as I left a legacy that would've expanded throughout the entire galaxy.

In my fourth life, I was reincarnated in the world of Naruto. I really didn't watch that series and didn't have much information of that franchise. But hey, I traveled around the world to learn many styles of ninjutsu, genjutsu and whatever else jutsu while increasing my chakra pools in order to use more jutsus I can even count. I have learned over, like, a million jutsu techniques and arts and I lived for at least a hundred and fifteen years on that world. To be honest, I wasn't impressed about that world. After seeing spaceships, planets, the Force and among other things, it turned out to be not that interesting. I know everyone was a fan of that place but...meh.

But my fifth life was better. That's because I was in the same planet from Knight's and Magic. The place where magical mechs can be made. On the plus side, I get to see the main character, Ernesti Echevalier, aka Ernie, but was also known as Kurata Tsubasa in his past life. Hell, I even asked him directly if his soul was from Earth when we were alone. Let me tell you, that guy won't shut up about mechs. Eventually I managed to get the plans to make the three hearts of my own mech and spent three whole years looking for demon beasts with sufficient hearts for what I had plan. Once I had them, I developed the Berserk Reaper. A mech that looks like a hybrid of a skeletal demon and a reaper with parts of its armor looking like it had skeletons and bones that got infused with it, and let me tell you that was not easy to make. The silhouette knight was meant to strike fear, agony, despair and terror into the hearts of enemies with a special ability that show visions of the enemy's future of their deaths along with visions of betrayal that would cast doubt and suspicion among the enemy's ranks. *sighs* I really do miss that mech. Ashamed that I couldn't take it with me and use it. I loved that mech with all my heart.

*five knocks at the door*

Dammit. That should be all for today. End of recording.


Eric is in his room and puts the voice recorder in the left drawer of his desk before answering the door. Three more knocks can be heard as he gets up.

"Just a sec." Eric approaches the door and opens it to find Gris knocking. "Hey, Gris. What is it?"

Gris smiles, "I believe it is time."

Eric looks at his grandfather clock made of redwood and given an art deco design and sees that it is five o'clock. "It is." He looks back at Gris, "One second." Eric closes the door and looks at a mirror.

The young man straighten his tie, manipulates the flesh of his face around to look like he is fifteen, brush his shoulders and make sure everything is in place and looks neat. He even changed his eye color to crimson instead of silver to avoid suspicion.

Eric reopens the door, "Okay, I'm ready."

"Stop!" Gris raises right hand, "Just go as your eighteen-year-old self. I mean, the majority of the people there are in their late teens anyway. But keep the eye color."

"Fine." Eric vibrates his body to have him revert back to his real age and is ready to go. "Let's go." Yet he places an eye-patch over his right eye.

The two walk down the hallway with Gris saying, "Schwartz is ready and actually looking forward to meet his sister."

"That's good to hear." They both head downstairs, "How is he doing with Fria?"

"They're both getting along very well." they head towards the front door, "Pretty soon, Fria will make the decision to join us and we will claim the Staff of Creation."

The front door opens with Schwartz waiting as he straighten himself up. Gris snaps his fingers and the portal to Beacon Academy opens up.


Beacon Academy, Beacon Dance, During the Last Bit of Burning the Candle and Dance Dance Infiltration...

It is nighttime now over at Beacon Academy and the Beacon Dance has started with some slow music that is classical to set the mood (which I can't seem to find the name of the song) with the ballroom having streamers hung through glass chandeliers, pink and blue balloons are everywhere, and students in dark suits and bright dresses are stepping with each other to the music between the white-clothed tables. Blake is spun around by Yang before they curtsey to one another, and Sun comes up and takes his date's hands as Yang gestures for him to do so. She goes to hang with Ruby and Weiss (in a similar white dress as Yang's) in the back of the room, watching Blake laugh and enjoy herself before smiling at her team.

Eric enters the room along with Schwartz as they look around and see the dances, the decorations and some important figures such as Ironwood and the professors of the school...and certain Huntresses.

"I'll ask my sister for a dance." Schwartz whispered to Eric's right side. "But I'll stay quiet about the truth...about the Evolutionaries, I mean. I'll tell her once things are clear."

Eric whispers back, "Make sure you have fun as well."

Schwartz left and wait for the right time to ask Weiss for a dance. Eric waits for the conversation between Ruby and Ozpin to finish with their conversation with Ozpin passing some words of wisdom. She smiles as Ozpin leaves her to meet up with Glynda Goodwitch. Once he left, he approaches Ruby.

"Excuse me?" Eric extends his right hand.

Ruby turns and faces him. She sees Eric and starts to take a liking to him despite the fact he is wearing an eye-patch.

"Would you like to dance? I noticed that you don't have a dance partner."

Ruby is being shy, "Um...sure. But what happened to your eye?"

"A surprise attack from a small Nevermore."

"That must've hurt. Are you gonna get a prosthetic?"

"I'm proud of my scars...miss...?"

"Ruby. Ruby Rose." she gives an awkward giggle.

"Darwin von Diorite." he introduces himself with a false name.

Ruby takes his hand but stumbles clumsily onto him. She lands on his chest and looks up and says, "Sorry."

Eric (or Darwin) giggles, "It's okay. I'm no good with formal dances either."

Over where Weiss is at, she sits there trying desperately to coax life out of a wilting white rose. When she fails, she looks visibly upset. However, a left hand is extended to her.

"Excuse me, ma'am?"

Weiss looks up and sees Schwartz extending his hand to her and is smiling at her. When she looks at him, she seems some sort of familiarity to him. As if she has seen him before but can't place where.

"I notice that you don't have a dance partner and you seem upset."

Weiss just smiles, "Yes, I would like to." and takes his hand.

Over where Ruby and Darwin are dancing, the two try to dance the best that they can with Ruby looking at her feet and trying not to trip, stumble or step on Eric's toes...or his foot.

"Relax." Darwin says to Ruby with a smile, "You're doing great."

Ruby looks up, "You think so? Because, I never wore shoes like these and I feel a bit uncomfortable. I have no idea on how Weiss-" She trips and falls on him again. Her face turns red out of embarrassment and tries not to look at Darwin. "Sorry, again."

"It's alright. Like I said, I'm no good with formal dances."

Both of them look at each other and Ruby is drawn in by Darwin's smile her face turns bright red again and even more nervous. However, her adorable moment was broken by some laughter from some of the dancers.

"What's going on?" Ruby looks at the direction of the laughter.

Darwin try to see past the people, "It looks like some guy in drag."

That's right, Jaune is wearing a dress and is in front of Pyrrha. In other words, it is time for synchronized dancing! After Jaune and Pyrrha talked, Team JNPR do their synchronized dance when the music, Shine, plays as they dance. While everyone is having fun, Mercury and Emerald observe from the next tier.

Emerald says in her ear-bud, " It appears all the dancers have partners."

Cinder says through the ear-bud, "How long do I have?"

Mercury states, "You should probably be home by midnight, to be safe."


Cinder is outside and dressed as a cat burglar as she is on the rooftops, "I'll keep my eye on the clock."

Ruby and Darwin made their way to the exit as they laugh after having fun as they head outside into the night air. However, they noticed Cinder running along the rooftops and then move to pursue.

Darwin says through telepathic call, 'The flaming bitch is on her way to the light of the lighthouse. The flaming bitch is on her way to the light of the lighthouse.'


Two guards are in the elevator with one asking, "Hey, man, do you know the Wi-Fi password?"

The other answers, "It's Beacon, but replace the E with a 3 and add a pound symbol to the end."

The elevator door opens to show Cinder waiting. One of the guards notices the fallen men outside. Both guards grow apprehensive as Cinder casually walks onto the elevator, the doors closing as she turns around. Thrashing sounds can be heard from outside the elevator.


Back outside, Darwin and Ruby approach the CCT Tower and see the unconscious guard. Ruby gasps and pulls out her scroll, dialing for her weapon locker which crashes into the courtyard and opens to reveal Crescent Rose. Darwin reach into his pocket and pulls out a katana.

Ruby notices as she has her weapon and asks, "How do you do that?"

"Semblance. Infinite storage." Darwin gives a thumbs-up, "Pretty handy for any situation."


Back inside the tower, the elevator doors open to show Cinder examining a scroll with the two guards are knocked out.

"Oh! That's handy." She pockets the scroll and walks out of the elevator and toward the control consoles nearby.

As she approaches, an axe was flung out of nowhere and destroys the console as Cinder stumbles backward.

"Ahahahaha-HAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" A psychotic, maniacal and disturbing laugh of a girl is heard throughout the room as it echoes.


On the elevator, Ruby and Darwin try to get to the top, but the elevator abruptly stops and the lights flicker.

"That can't be good." Ruby states.

"Hang on, I'll try to override." Darwin opens a panel and tries to get the elevator working again.


Back in the ballroom, Emerald tries to contact with Cinder but all she is getting is static. She tries to tell Cinder that Ironwood is on his way to the CCTT.

"Something's wrong." Emerald looks worried. "I just lost contact."

"That can't be good." Mercury states.


Cinder looks around to see where the laugh is coming from, "Where are you?!" she shouts in anger.

"Allow me to introduce myself..."

Cinder looks at the window and sees a figure emerging from the glass. This new figure approaching from the glass has messy black hair, skin pale and white as bleached bone, eyes red as freshly spilled blood with many bags under them, an evil looking grin like something out of a nightmare, wearing a dress that is all white that is even whiter than her pale skin, and holding a battleaxe that has some Viking design with rune crudely carved in yet a symbol of a broken mirror on the center. Cinder finds this new figure disgusting and disturbing at the same time.

"My name is Mary. Bloody Mary." she evilly chuckles at Cinder. "I assume you have half the soul of the Autumn Maiden, correct?"

Cinder's eyes widen and does a sharp gasp through her teeth. She produces a container of dust from her belt expelling a cloud that glows. Condensing into glass shards that go flying at Bloody Mary. However, the glass shards go right through her as if she's a ghost. Bloody Mary charges at Cinder with a swing of her axe. Cinder dodges the attack by jumping backwards as she forms her weapon, Midnight. She has it in bow form and fires a few glass arrows at Bloody Mary. But her arrows just go right through her.

"What the hell?!"

Bloody Mary looks up at the sprinkler system and fires from the tip of the dague at the sprinklers. She fires a few more at the sprinklers as water is sprayed all over the room. Cinder is confuse on what is Mary planning as she looks up at the sprinklers with pools of water forming. Yet when she turns her attention back at Mary, but she has disappeared. She looks around as Mary reappears from the ground up from one of the puddles and tries to chop her head off. Cinder sensed danger and dodges by bowing down forward as Mary swipes with her axe. Cinder kicks her in the gut and Mary, still smiling, falls into the water and disappears. Cinder is staying on guard as she jumps on one of the consoles to stay away from the water. She eyes on the floor to make sure that Bloody Mary doesn't strike out of nowhere. Bloody Mary sneaks up from behind again and Cinder sensed her presence as she kicks Bloody Mary in the face put it was a flase image of Bloody Mary made of water.

"What?!" Cinder says in surprise.


Back on the elevator, Darwin tries to mess with some wires to get the elevator going again, but is actually stalling for time. Ruby is leaning against the wall with her Crescent Rose and is getting impatient.

"Dang it." Darwin says before taking his jacket off. "This elevator is a lot harder than I thought. Different from the elevators I had to fix."

Ruby looks at Darwin, "You used to fix elevators?"

"Yeah, but this one is a real pain in the a-"

The elevator jolted that cause Ruby to fall onto the floor and she yelps and Darwin got startled.

"Okay. Probably avoid what I just did."


Below the CCT Tower, Ironwood slams on the elevator button and is getting more furious.

"What's going on?!" Mercury says as he and Emerald run up to him. "Why are there unconscious soldiers!?"

Ironwood looks at them, "That's what I like to know."


Over at the ball, Weiss and Schwartz stopped dancing.

"Thank you." Weiss smiles at Schwartz.

"Likewise." Schwartz smiles back. "But I have to go. I have some people waiting for me."

Schwartz tries to leave but Weiss grabs his left arm.

"Wait. I would like to have your name."

Schwartz leans in and whispers to her left ear, "My name...is Schwartz Lamb-Schnee. And I do appreciate the dance, big sister."

Weiss is shocked when she heard that as she loosens her grip. Schwartz slips away and leaves her big sister stun as he disappears into the crowd.

Yang approaches, "What happened?" She looks at the crowd, "What happened to the guy you were dancing with?"

"Oh my god." Weiss is still in shock. "I do have an illigetimate brother."

Yang looks back at Weiss, "What?"


Back at the fight, Cinder tries using her fists instead of Midnight as she punches the watery clones of Bloody Mary. About fourteen of them started to charge at her as eighteen more started to appear. Cinder then tries to freeze the area in ice that freeze the water and the clones in place as well as freezing the sprinklers by slamming her left hand on the floor. Cinder tries to catch her breath as everything lies frozen. Once she does, she tries to reach for her scroll but realizes it is missing along with the soldier's scroll. She looks everyone on the floor to see where they are and even check the frozen Bloody Marys to see if she snatched one of them. However, as she looks right at the face of one of the frozen clones, an axe appear from the neck and slice off Cinder's head.

"DID IT!" Bloody Mary cheers and raises her axe.


Back on the elevator, Darwin actually fixes the elevator. "Okay, I got it!"

The elevator moves but is moving down.

"Whoops. Wrong wire." Darwin says in embarrassment.

Yet back below, a window is heard being shattered and something being flopped onto the ground along with shattering glass. Ironwood, Mercury and Emerald turn around as they heard the noise.

"What was that?" Emerald asks.

The elevator opens as Ruby and Darwin look at the three.

"Sorry." Darwin says, "We saw someone on the rooftops and try to investigate."

Ruby adds, "We try to see what is going on up there after noticing the knocked out soldiers. But the elevator got stuck and Darwin tries to fix it."

Darwin says as he looks back at the wires, "I'm doing everything I can but the controls of this elevator is different from the ones I'm used to."

Ironwood points at Emerald and Mercury, "You two go figure out the crash." He looks back at Ruby and Darwin, "You two are taking me up top." He boards the elevator and Darwin tries to get the right wires and circuits to close and go up.

Emerald and Mercury head out to see where the crash was. Yet Emerald spots a headless body that is spilling blood laying on its stomach with 'Bloody Mary' sliced into her back. Her eyes widen in horror as she realizes who it actually is.

"Oh god." Emerald is shaking, "Please no." She runs up to see if it is who it really is. She gets on one knee and flips the body over. Emerald starts crying and screams in horror.

Mercury runs up and sees Cinder's dead, decapitated body and is in shock. But he snaps out it and tries to grab Emerald, "Come on! We have to get out of here!"

Emerald refuses to leave as Mercury tries to get her out of Beacon. Some of the students heard the scream and head out. With no choice, Mercury knocks Emerald out and carries her out of Beacon.


Salem's Domain...

Salem senses something is wrong as she looks out the window. She felt as if something terrible has happened as she senses it by some mean. Almost similar to Force-users feeling a 'disturbance in the Force' kind of deal.

"It can't be." Salem says to herself. "How did they know?"


Back at Beacon...

In the elevator, Ironwood along with Darwin and Ruby as they head up. When they made it to their floor, the door opens to reveal Cinder's head hanging from her hair with the word's 'Salem's Whore' on her cheeks. Ruby screams in terror and Darwin falls back. Ironwood is take by surprise by not just the decapitated head of Cinder, but what the writing meant on her cheeks scratched on it and bleeds. Beside the elevator door is the writing, 'Bloody Mary' scrolled in blood.

Darwin says, "Nope." and takes the next elevator down.

Ironwood tries to reach out, "Wait!"

But he managed to get to close the elevator and leave. However, Gris' portal opens up and he falls in.


The three boys are on the outskirts of Beacon Academy as Eric removes his disguise after being dropped in. Schwartz walks up to the two.

"Thanks Gris." Eric thanks Gris from getting him out of a sticky situation.

Gris smiles as he asks both of them, "Had a good time?"

Schwartz casually walks with his hands behind his head with a big smile on his face, "I had a wonderful time with my sister tonight. Glad I got to meet her. Hope to meet the rest of them..." Then his smile fades and has a look of disdain, "Except for one in particular."

Eric brushes his shoulders, "I had a good time until Ruby and I spotted Cinder."

Gris opens a portal, "Glad you guys had a good time. Now let's head home." Gris stretches his arms, "I have a long day tomorrow. Bloody Mary and I have a date."

Schwartz shivers as he thinks, 'Guess crazy attracts crazy.' and heads through the portal.


Beacon Vault...

Below Beacon, there is a chamber that is vast and dimly lit by wall-mounted torches that cast a pale green light. In all the corridors, there is one in particular that has Amber hooked up to a life support machine that also doubles as a special machine that is meant to transfer the Soul of the Autumn Maiden to the next hostess. Amber is sleeping and awaits for whatever happens. Yet her sleep is disturbed by a knock on her glass pod. She opens her eyes and sees the terrifying image of Bloody Mary staring at her.

"Nighty-night!" Bloody Mary proclaims and uses her axe to hill her and take the rest of the Autumn Maiden's soul.


Hidden Go Board Room...

Eric approaches the go board that is in the shape of Vale. He picks up Cinder's piece and crushes it with his finger and thumb very easily as it is reduced to powder.

"Two Maidens and Relic down. With Fria, we may have it before they know it. After that, one more. One more and we'll be one step closer to the ultimate goal." Then he turns his attention to the Atlas board, "Few more days until we are ready to take Atlas down from the inside out." But then he turns his attention towards the Mistral board, "But how am I supposed to trick the Queen of the Barbarians?" Eric thinks about it for a few moments but develops an idea. "I think I got it." He picks up Raven's piece, "I have the perfect idea." His grin is reflected off of Raven's piece, "It just might work."


AN: Another chapter finished! I hope you guys enjoyed this one. So what do you guys think so far?

Now for Q&A:

Haxorus Knight: Nope. If you want to resurrect someone, you need some DNA which there is none left of Mama Rose. Then you need the soul of the same person since the brain and the soul are connected in some way if you pay attention to SAO III about fluctlights and stuff like that. Resurrection may seem easy in fiction, but in reality, it is a lot more difficult than it is with a lot of complicated stuff and some of my own philosophy mixed in with it. It could take a few days to explain it all. To the so-called Gods of Remnant, it may seem easy, but lots and lots of other stuff. Like I said, complicated.

Until then, see you guys next time!


Additional: I'm uploading it early because of what I have to do on Sunday. I got to head somewhere away from all the chaos and it will take a while to get everything and head out in hope things will be better.