It is a cloudy day and Team SRRNJ, along with Sapyhra, was following a mossy stone tile path through the wilderness. While walking, Nora stretched her arms up wide. "Another day, another adventure!" She said.
Beside her, Jaune read the map while Ruby and Ren continued alongside them. Meanwhile, I was telling Saphyra a story as she rode on my shoulders. "And then daddy threw all of his swords into the air and mommy used her semblance to make all the swords spin in a giant circle of death around us, killing all of the Lancers as they flew at us like idiots while we stayed perfectly safe in the middle of all the swords. Just like, to my knowledge, the eye of the cyclone or tornado is the safest place to be." I explained the story of how Pyrrha and I once took a mission together to take down a Lancer hive.
"Yay for mommy and daddy!" Saphyra cheered, giggling.
Ruby smiled at this, before looking at Jaune. "What's on the agenda today?" She asked.
"Walking!" He answered.
"With a side of...?" Nora asked.
"Walking." Ren answered.
Ruby sighed at this. "Haven is a lot farther away than I thought." She said, slightly discouraged.
"Ruby? How long did you think this journey was going to take?" Ren asked, all of us looking at her.
"I don't know! I grew up in a small area; I've never been this far away from home!" Ruby said, pouting a bit.
"Right but… how long?" Jaune asked.
"Maybe like, uh… two weeks?" She said unsurely.
"What?!" He asked in disbelief, looking up from the map to glare at her.
"Okay, fine! Three or something!" Ruby snapped, not making eye contact.
"Auntie Ruby, Mistral is the largest controlled territory in all of Remnant. And Haven is the capital in the middle of all of it. Considering our current pace and position, it will take us at least two months to get there. Not to be rude, Auntie Ruby, but assuming we'd reach it is an overly-optimistic dream bordering on delusional." Saphyra said.
The sound of a record scratching could be heard as we all stopped and looked at her in shock and disbelief. Ruby started fuming a bit, but I almost shed a tear in pride. "Holy cow, Saphy! That was amazing! I wish I had like a tiny little mic for you to drop!" I said proudly.
"OH MY GOD, THAT WOULD BE SO ADORABLE!" Nora squealed.
Roby pouted again at this, looking away. "Look, whatever." She sighed. She then looked up again after a beat and noticed something ahead. "Hey, what's that?" She asked.
Nora jumped onto a slightly fallen post of a fence to get a closer look at a wall and building ahead. "That's… strange." Jaune said, checking his map. "I didn't think we'd be hitting another village for a few days." He said, looking back up at the village.
"Are those buildings… damaged?" Nora asked.
"We should search for survivors!" Jaune ordered.
Jaune dropped the map and all five of us go running into the village while I still carried Saphyra on my shoulders, with Nora leaping onto the wall and to a rooftop from there. We discovered the town to be empty. Ruby lifted a fallen plank of wood to find only plant outgrowth underneath. "Anything?" She asked.
"Nothing over here!" Nora called.
"No one over here, either!" Jaune confirmed.
"We got nothing." I said as I walked back to the group.
"It's as if no one was ever here." Saphyra said.
"It almost seems like... the town was abandoned." Jaune said.
Ruby looked around while the rest of us went offscreen, feeling unease in the wind. "Hey, I think I found something!" Nora called. Ruby turned and rushed over. The rest of us were looking at a town sign. Nora moved the ivy growing over it to the side to read what it said. "Oniyuri? Never heard of it." She said.
"Me neither." Jaune said.
"I'm drawing blanks." I agreed.
"I have." Ren said, the rest of us looking at him, surprise on Nora and Ruby's faces. "You might think of it as Anima's Mountain Glenn, had it never been completed. Years ago, the richest members of Mistral were unhappy with how the Kingdom was being run." He explained. As he spoke, there were wide shots showing the various unfinished buildings, disrepair and neglect of the village. "Frustrated with the council, they pooled their resources together to build their own city, with their own laws. They hoped that one day, it could maybe even become its own Kingdom. Many thought it would be the future." He explained, walking away. "I know my parents did." He said.
"I'm sorry, man." I told him.
"What happened?" Ruby asked.
He brushed some dirt off of the stone border of a low wall to reveal claw marks. "What always happens." He explained.
"The Grimm." Jaune said.
Ren tightened his hands into fists. "Not just any, one." He explained.
Ruby briefly faced Nora in confusion, but Nora didn't move her concerned gaze away from Ren. Ruby turned back to him. "One?" She asked.
"What kind of single Grimm could do this?" I asked.
"Even large species such as Deathstalkers, Nevermores or Beringel should not have been able to take large towns all on their own, assuming enough people were armed in any fashion." Saphyra added.
Several small black birds took off from a tree outside Oniyuri's wall. They flew over the village and the six travelers.
"Come on. Let's just get through here. This place gives me the creeps." Jaune said.
He turned and left, soon followed by Nora, then Sapyhra and I. Ren lingered for a few moments, seemingly in thought, then followed. Ruby was the last to move as she looked over the empty village. Leaves blew through behind her after she followed her friends.
Dramatic, feminine vocalizing was heard.
The broken moon shined brightly to the sound of Weiss Schnee singing. She stood alone on a large, empty stage, singing a wordless aria, her arms outstretched. She was perfectly positioned below the center of the painted emblem of Atlas that dominated the stage. The song changed to emphatic lyrics.
"I'm not your pawn, not another thing you own. I was not born guilty of your crimes. The riches and your influence can't hold me anymore. I won't be possessed, burdened by your royal test. I will not surrender. This life is mine." She sang beautifully.
Weiss concluded her song and bowed while the audience applauded. She looked up to the balcony above stage left where her father and brother were watching. Jacques remained seated, not applauding, while Whitley was standing, giving a slower paced, sarcastic clap. Weiss looked back at the audience, all clapping still in their seats. She smiled a bit when she noticed Nightshade, Katana, Ryu and Shizune were in the crowd, smiling and genuinely enjoying her performance. She had once hated the Blades, but after spending so much time with Sai and Serena and becoming less snooty, she had grown to accept them. She turned and walks backstage, her feigned smile replaced with a frown.
A waiter carrying martini glasses on a tray opened up a door and entered the ballroom where people milled about to soft piano notes. He held the tray next to a young man, who took a glass before walking off. A blonde woman in a dark green halter dress stopped to look at the waiter before moving on. Background conversation was audible. "Need anything else?" Another waiter asked.
"No." A blonde said, walking up to a man.
"Hey. Nice dress." He said.
"What, this old thing?" She asked.
"Heh. Didn't you enjoy the performance?" The man asked.
"Yes, she has a lovely voice." She agreed.
The camera panned the room, showing a number of dressed up people as the waiter moved across the room. On the far opposite end of the room was a display area with three large paintings and two abstract statues. To one side Jacques was conversing with a man in glasses and a gray-haired woman in a green dress. They were laughing. Weiss was behind her father, looking at the floor with her hands held primly behind her back. Whitley stood similar further behind their father, only his gaze was directly on him.
Ryu then walked up to the group, catching Jacques' attention. "Ryu Blade." He said with obvious disdain.
"Jacques, a pleasure as always." My father said, hiding his own disdain for the businessman, looking to Weiss. "Miss Schnee, that was truly a beautiful performance you graced us with onstage." He said with a respectful bow.
"Thank you very much, Mr. Blade." She said with a respectful nod.
Jacques smirked, using this as an opportunity to rib his rival CEO. "Yes, truly you have to admire the talents of other people's children when your own have none." He said with a grin.
Ryu sighed at this, growing his own smirk. "I suppose, if you don't count several daughters that also are accomplished singers, numerous children with revolutionary artistic skills, a genius son who designs groundbreaking new technology that has been proven to surpass anything the Schnee Dust Company has manufactured and two accomplished lawyers. Speaking of, how are you recovering from those lawsuits my daughter helped several families of faunus win after your company's negligence led to the deaths or life-threatening injuries of those families' fathers and sons?" He asked. (OOOOOOOHHHHHH! FUCKING ROASTED!)
Jacques and Whitley scowled at this, Weiss struggling not to giggle at her father's anger before he calmed himself down. "We're doing quite well, thank you. That's the advantage of working with such new, diverse technologies with so many different uses such as Dust while other competitors use outdated methods of power like electricity." He said, smirking again.
My father chuckled a bit. "Maybe so, but I find it much easier to sleep at night knowing I don't have thousands of employees, mostly underpaid and underprivileged Faunus workers slaving away in mines where they constantly risk death from unstable dust or disease from all the unhealthy fumes in the air." My father said, gold necklaces and chains appearing around his neck and a bandana appearing on top of his head, shades covering his eyes and a joint appearing in his mouth. (BUUUUUUUUURN!)
Jacques sighed at this. "That's precisely my point. We offer Faunus the exact same wages given to the rest of our mining staff. Their argument's completely invalid right out of the gate." He explained.
A businessman he'd been talking to before pitched in at this. "Well, I think the bigger issue here..."
"Ugh." Weiss sighed to herself.
"...is our society as a whole." He continued.
"Why, you mean Atlas?" Jacques scoffed.
As they conversed, Weiss looked over to the largest painting on the end of the ballroom, depicting Beacon Academy with its Cross Continental Transmit tower still standing and noticed Nightshade standing in front of it as well.
"Atlas, Mantle... You can't deny the economic disparity between the two." The businessman said.
"Times are hard all around after the fall of Beacon, it's up to everyone to do anything they can to help the kingdoms recover." My father said.
"I mean, what exactly are you suggesting?" The businesswoman said.
Weiss started to step away, only to have her forearm grabbed by her father, who didn't even turn around. Weiss halted, startled.
"I'm just saying I don't think it's necessarily an issue of compensation as much as it is one of opportunity…" The businessman went on.
Jacques pulled Weiss back and turned to face her. "Where are you going?" He asked.
"I'm… just a little thirsty." She said meekly.
"Sweetheart, we have people for that." He said, letting go of Weiss and began to raise his arm to call over a waiter. Weiss stopped him by grabbing his forearm, prompting a sideways glance from Whitley.
"What? No, I can get it. I'll be right back, I promise." She said. The two locked gazes as the conversation next to them continues.
"Look, no one asked them to move here." The businesswoman said.
"But companies like the SDC promised jobs." The businessman countered.
"Agreed. It's important for jobs to be readily available to anyone that needs one in these hard times. Exactly why BladeCorp works in so many different fields, to have more fields of work available for those with different skill sets, knowledge or abilities." My father agreed, although it was evident he really didn't want to talk to these people anymore.
Jacques decided to let Weiss go and turned back to his companions and my father. "I'm sorry, I tuned out for a second, but sounds like I'm the good guy again?" He asked, sharing a laugh with the businesswoman.
My father chuckled a bit as well. "I'm afraid I wasn't paying much attention the the conversation, either. I can't seem to recall any point in time where you WERE the good guy." He said, earning a laugh from the businessman.
Weiss moved across the room to look at the painting of Beacon Academy. "Hello, Nightshade." She said as she reached the painting.
"Weiss, good to see you. I hope you've been well since, well..." He said, looking at the painting.
"Yes, thank you. It's been difficult readjusting with my family, but I'm recovering." She said, before thinking. "Speaking of recovering, how are Serena and Sai?" She asked.
"Serena's been doing quite well. She's been visiting Yang every so often and she's at least in the process of recovery as well. Sai, however... I truly don't know. We haven't heard from him since he left with Ruby and the remains of team JNPR." He explained.
"Oh..." She said with slight sadness. Suddenly, some rich douche walked up to Weiss' right side.
"It's beautiful." He said, pausing for a moment. "You two match." He said.
Weiss stood with her arms crossed, maintaining a cold expression throughout most of the conversation. "Yes, it's a lovely painting." She said.
"Yes. As well as one of significant importance and meaning." Nightshade added. "Also, we were in the middle of a conversation, if you don't mind." He said with a glare.
"I heard WERE, meaning it's over, so now it's my turn." He said with a smirk, turning back to Weiss. "So, that was my attempt at breaking the ice. How am I doing so far?" He asked.
Weiss sighed at this. "You are leaving a lot to be desired." She said, annoyed.
"Well, I've always appreciated honesty." He said, offering his hand. "Henry. Marigold." He said.
Weiss turned her head to look at him. "Weiss Schnee." She introduced herself, lightly placing her fingers across his in a very loose handshake.
"I know, I saw your performance." He said, cringing at himself. "Obviously." He said, clearing his throat. "You were wonderful. And I promise I'm not just saying that 'cause you're pretty." He said.
(This guy's just wasting his breath. Though I suppose all these snobs just love the sound of their own voice.) Nightshade thought.
Weiss turned her attention back to the painting, and there was brief silence between the two. "Honesty, remember? So, you thinking about buying it?" Henry asked, beginning to rattle the railing as he spoke.
"No. I don't think so." She said.
"I just might. As I said, it has great meaning behind it." Nightshade said, pulling out a checkbook and writing down the price. Weiss smiled a bit, knowing what the money goes to.
"Good on you, kinda pricey for a painting." Henry said, looking at it.
"It's to raise money." Weiss said, annoyed.
"Oh really? For what?" He asked.
"For what?" Weiss demanded, throwing him a disgusted look.
"Exactly for what the picture is of." Nightshade said with a small growl.
"Heheh, I'll admit, I only come to these things for the food and drinks." He said, reaching out and taking a champagne flute as a waiter walked by. "And the extraordinary company. Of course." He said as he sipped his drink, Weiss shifted her stance to face him.
"So what, is it another Mantle fundraiser or something?" He said about to take another drink, before Nightshade was suddenly in front of him, smacking his face and the drink out of his hand, using his darkness powers to disintegrate the glass before it hit the floor and attracted attention, grabbing Henry by the tie and lifting him to his toes.
"Listen here, you miserable puke stain. Beacon was once the most respected of the combat schools that train huntresses so you can live your cozy life of luxury and not get torn apart by the Grimm and now its gone, despite the best efforts several huntsmen, huntresses and students put in to save it, my little brother and sister, as well as Weiss here, being among those people. So you show some gods-damned respect for what we lost on that day or I will personally throw you to a pack of beowulves, or maybe even a Beringel so it can rip you apart and juggle those parts around a bit." Nightshade said, pushing him back. He stumbled a bit, before running away. "Waste of space. I should've followed through on that threat." He said.
"I'm TEMPTED to agree with you on that." Weiss said as she watched him walk away, and once he was gone, she turned back to the painting, crossing her arms and closing her eyes.
"No, no, no! I asked for a double sundae! This is completely…" Some angry business man bitched but was drowned out by chatter.
"I'm so sorry. Sir." The waiter apologized.
The camera panned up the Beacon Academy painting, then showed the sign in front of the display, which read:
SHOW THE WORLD
WE CARE
All proceeds go to the Kingdom of Vale.
Weiss' eyes opened again as if she had just been observing the painting, and she once again closed her eyes. The chatter of the party guests grew louder, but one voice stood out among the rest.
"But really, does it come as any surprise, what happened to Vale?" Some trophy wife bitch blurted out.
Weiss opened her eyes and turned slightly, peering over her shoulder at the woman.
"It was a long time coming, if you ask me." The sleezy bitch whore laughed out. If I was there, I'd have punched her in the face, thrown her to the ground and stomped her vaginal/ovarian area until I was 1000% positive this bitch couldn't have kids and foul Remnant with another piece of shit like her. Then I'd do the same to her husband for what she says in a second.
"Honey..." The trophy whore's husband said, placing his hand on her shoulder, trying to shush her, but she shook it off, leaving him to glance around the room with a forced, nervous grin.
"What?" She asked, laughing. "You said the same thing last night." She said. And that's why I'd stomp her husband's balls, too. "If they're so arrogant to think they can get by without proper kingdom defense, then I say good riddance." She laughed. While she talked, her Husband dropped the act and heaved a silent sigh. At this point, my mother, father and Katana all reached for their weapons they brought in with them and Weiss was about to scream at her, but before she could.
"That's enough!" Nightshade shouted at her. "You're talking about hundreds of innocent lives, human and faunus! Men, women and children! How dare you talk about them like they deserved to die! From where I'm standing, the only one that deserves that is you, you smug bitch!" He snapped at her.
"Excuse me?!" She demanded furiously while everyone else was shocked he used THAT particular curse.
"All of you thought it was Vale's fault they were attacked because they aren't up on a mountain where the Grimm can't reach them. They were fine where they were. The Grimm didn't just GET IN to Vale, they were dropped in by the White Fang. No one could've seen it coming... Kind of like this." He said, snapping his fingers. Suddenly, darkness began swirling around the room beside every person in the room except the Blades, General Ironwood and Weiss, as well as the doors. The swirling darkness then took form into several different Grimm: Alpha Beowulves, Ursa, both minor and major, Creeps and a King Taijitu blocking the door. The people panicked and ran desperate to get away from the Grimm, the trophy whore falling to the ground and raising a hand in defense as a Beowulf reached her.
"Please, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just leave me alone." She pleaded, closing her eyes as the beowulf swiped. However, the pain and blood she expected never came. Opening her eyes, she saw that the beowulf had stopped inches from her face. Looking around, each of the other Grimm had also found a target and started to attack, but never finished it, claws or fangs inches from their targets, but none connecting.
"Right now, I bet you're all feeling fear, panic and you're afraid for your lives. That's a mere FRACTION of what the people of Vale felt. There was also pain when they did get slashed by a Grimm or shot by the White Fang or an Atlesian Paladin, IF they were lucky enough to escape and not die instantly. Not to mention the crushing depression and sense of loss that came with their homes being destroyed or seeing a family member die before their eyes, something no one should ever have to deal with. Again, this is a mere fraction of all the things that happened to the people of Vale. This cannot even BEGIN to compare to the tragedy at Vale. Most of all, because my Grimm stopped." He said, snapping his fingers and making all of them disappear into thing air.
Everyone was shocked at this, the trophy slut most of all, before getting up and pointing at Nightshade."Arrest him! What are you waiting for? He's insane, she should be locked up." The trophy bitch snapped, turning to General Ironwood.
"I agree! Security, restrain him!" Jacques ordered.
"No, ignore that order!" Weiss counter ordered, security stopping in shock and confusion.
"Weiss..." Jacques growled.
Ironwood looked at the trophy whore, than at Nightshade. "He's the only one making sense around here. Thanks for the party, Jacques." Ironwood said, casually making his exit.
As the five members of Team SRRNJ continued out of Oniyuri, Ren suddenly sensed something. He put out his hand to stop the rest of us, eyes closing as he focused. Somewhere close by Tyrian could be seen running. Ren drew his weapon. Ruby, Nora and Jaune immediately followed suit. I set Saphyra down and put a portable Bladenium bunker over her and nailed it to the ground. "You'll be safe in here, sweetie. Daddy needs to annihilate an imminent threat." I told her, heading to the front of the group.
Tyrian soon leapt high over the wall to engage us in combat. He immediately takes out his weapons in a seamless motion and, laughing eagerly, moves to attack me. Jaune stepped in at that moment and Tyrian climbed onto his shield and grinned at him. I launched Kraken's tentacles at him, but Tyrian just leaps from Jaune's shield and up through the top story of a narrow, rectangular building. Holding himself up with his feet on wooden frames to either side of him, Tyrian looked down at us.
"We're not looking for a fight!" Jaune called out.
"Who are you?" Ren demanded.
Tyrian leaned forward, dropping from the tower, did a front flip, and landed on his feet in front of them.
"Who I am matters not to you." He said, pointing to Ren. "Or you." He added, pointing to Nora. "Or—" He started, but cut himself off and paused as he looked at Jaune. "Well... you do interest me." He said, pointing to the blond, to which Jaune gasped nervously. "Or even you, Silver-eyed warrior." He said, looking at Ruby. "No, I only matter to you." He said, pointing at me.
"I'll only tell you this once, buddy. Picking a fight with me is a bad idea. I can tell by that look in your eyes you're no stranger to taking lives, which mean, according to the teachings of my clan, I should already kill you, anyway. BUT, these guy's don't approve of that and my daughter's here, so I'd like to TRY to avoid that. So, you back off and leave me, my daughter and my friends alone and we can all be on our way. If you still want to keep going, then you're going to die." I told him.
Tyrian: broke down into laughter at this. "You, you haven't the slightest clue, do you? Oh, how exciting this must be." He laughed.
"What do you want with Sai?" Ruby demanded.
Tyrian began acting dramatically in response to her tone of voice. "Oh, the rose has thorns! My little flower, I'm here to whisk him away with me!" He explained.
"Well, what if he doesn't want to go with you?" Nora demanded.
He stared for a moment with his lips scrunched up before answering. "Well, I'll take him." He answered.
Jaune walked over and stood between Tyrian and I, his shield held in front of him. "We're not going to let you do that." Jaune said.
"You cannot have Daddy!" Saphyra shouted.
I looked in shock at this, quickly putting myself between my daughter and the psychopath. "Saphy, sweetie! That's really brave, standing up to the bad guy, but this is REALLY adult business." I told her.
"Ooh, a pretty little darling girl. If it makes you feel any better, I can take her when I take you." Tyrian offered.
I cracked my neck at this, before glaring at him. "Guys, you can hang back for this one. Just stay with Saphy in case this creep tries something dirty. This is my fight." I told them.
"Sai, we're not going to let you-" Ren started.
I glared back at him, my eyes glowing a piercing red. "Interfere and I'll kill you." I warned them, before turning back to Tyrian as they nervously complied, creating a protective circle around their young niece. "Before I unleash the full, unbridled wrath of hell upon you, let me ask: why are you after me? And who are you? I like knowing the names of the people I kill." I asked.
Tyrian cackled at this. "Why, friend, my name is Tyrian. And my assignment from Her Grace was to retrieve you for poor little Cinder to deal with. You've caused her quite a bit of pain, you know. Even cost her an eye. So, that is what I must do. One does not upset the Queen." He explained.
"Queen?" Ruby asked.
I ignored this however. "So, let me get this straight, you're working with my most hated enemy, who killed my beloved fiancee and left my daughter without a mother, trying to bring me back to her so she can torture and kill me and you expect me to comply to this and let you march me to my death?" I asked.
"You've summarized it excellently. Now, if we're done talking?" He started.
"Just about, but first let me say this. I don't really see why you need me for anything. You've already got something of your own. Something very special..." I told him.
"And what might that be?" He asked as I suddenly disappeared and reappeared in front of him, brimming with demonic energy.
Background Music: "Bleed it out" by Linkin Park
"SOME FUCKIN' BALLS!" I roared punching him in the face and sending him flying into a building, immediately rushing in after him. The team looked forward, struggling to see through the dust and debris, but managed to see me knocking away his claws, as well as another appendage they couldn't see at the moment. I blocked both of his claws and used Kraken's tentacles to stop the appendage, before boxing his ears and kicking him in the chin, sending him flying into the roof, which then collapsed with the entire building.
"SAI!" Everyone shouted. There was a moment of silence, before Tyrian was suddenly blasted out from the debris, bouncing across the ground and crashing into tower-like building. With his coat gone, they could now see he had a long scorpion tail complete with a stinger. "He's a faunus!" Ren said.
"Faunus, human, demon, it doesn't matter to me. You work with Cinder, that's all the motivation I need to beat you to a bloody paste." I said, stepping out from the debris of the house. I rushed at him and threw a punch, but he jumped up into the air and used his tail to pull himself into the upper support beams of the unfinished tower, firing down at me in the process. I held my gauntlets in front of my face to block the bullets and used tentacles up to smash the building and work their way up to them, taking a few bullets as well. All the tentacles from one gauntlet swung down at him while the ones from the other gauntlet tore apart the building, forcing him to jump away, landing on his feet and firing at me while running circles around me.
"Oh, come now! Surely this isn't the fight you gave little Cinder! She'd still have both eyes if you were this easy!" He taunted.
"You're lucky I'm not using half the power I did against her!" I shouted, rushing in, equipping Doomspore. I fired as I rushed in at him, throwing punch after punch as the xenomorph mouths of the weapons bit furiously at him, but he managed to dodge them and get a slash to my chest, but I threw a side kick, knocking him away, before I rushed in again, throwing a powerful punch to his stomach, loading it with bullets his aura barely managed to defend him against before bringing my other fist down in a hammerfist to his face, knocking him back to the ground, at which point I kicked him further away.
However, I didn't notice until the very last moment he'd wrapped his tail around my right ankle, causing me to fall to the ground after kicking him away. He then unwrapped his tail around my ankle, only to wrap it around both legs, restraining them as he jumped in and began repeatedly stabbing me in the chest, laughing maniacally all the while. "They told me to bring you in alive and I shall! But in the meantime, it's a good thing you demons can take a lot of punishment!" He laughed.
He raised up as if to stab me with both weapons, but I caught his arms before the blades reached their targets. "And we can give it just as good!" I snapped, shooting a fireball from my mouth into his face, launching him back. He skidded to a stop as I got back up and rushed in. I drew my Ghostshade assassin swords, which I always wield backhand and punched at him with the guard blades, but he was too fast and slashed across my right pec, turning me slightly as he came to a stop in the direction I turned to, flipping over me, wrapping his tail around my neck, flinging me over him and smashing me into the ground.
I immediately lifted my head up and breathed a stream of fire at him, driving him back. I got up, disappearing and reappearing behind him and slamming both fists into the side of his head, knocking him away through the supports of an unfinished building. He used this to wrap his tail around one of the support beams to stop himself from flying any further and used the momentum to fling himself right back at me, but was shocked to see me ready for this, awaiting him with my Minotaur axe, smashing it down on him, before blasting him away with a Gravity Impact, eliminating his aura.
End Music
"Wow, I beat Cinder and took out one of her eyes and this is the best your boss throws at me? She really must not have a good handle of my abilities. She will when I mail her back your head." I said, readying Last Regrets.
He merely snickered as he got up. "Oh, no, my friend. My Queen is QUITE aware of your abilities, dare I say concerned, even. That's why she sent me off with a gift, straight from her 'don't fuck with this' armory." He said, pulling out what appeared to be a large, evil-looking syringe with purple rocks around the body of the syringe, about as long as a normal one, but twice as wide, completely full of a red liquid, almost like blood.
"Ooh, you got me a present!" I said eagerly.
"Yes, blood of an old friend of yours! Tell me, do you recall the being known as... Jubileus?" He asked.
I was honestly surprised at this. "Well, well, know there's a blast from the past." I said.
"What's Jubileus?" Jaune asked.
"Basically a god for the angels." I explained, before turning back to Tyrian. "So, that looks like a good dose. Might actually make me a little sick if you inject me with it, but you have to get me first." I said.
"Inject YOU? I'm afraid you're VERY mistaken." He said, bringing the syringe to his own neck.
I instantly darkened at this. "No, no, no...!" I said angrily, moving towards him.
"My Queen DID always call me an angel. Now I get to be one." He said, putting the tip right up to his neck and applying only the tiniest bit of pressure to push in on his neck with the syringe, but not penetrate the skin.
"No-no-no-no-no-no no no NO!" I said as I rushed in. He injected himself right as I put my gun in his face and stabbed me in the stomach slicing upward, splitting my right shoulder from the rest of my body, but I still managed to get the shot off blast him in the face, both of us falling to the ground, me on my back and him on his face. But where there should have been a massive blood pool forming where the remains of his head leaked it, there was none. I rose up from the ground without my hands or feet while he put his hands on the ground. My shoulder pulled itself back to my body and the wound sealed as he turned around to reveal a pure white bullet hole in the middle of his head.
"This sensation... It's incredible! I feel DIVINE!" He shouted, the glow spreading over his body. When it was done, his skin was now white stone with golden veins flowing all throughout his body, dove wings on his back and a white swirl made its way around his tail, where a second white stinger had emerged next to the original one. "And the first thing I shall do with my new power is deliver you to my queen." He said.
"Impressive. Then I guess it's time for me to stop holding back!" I said, activating my Devil Trigger. An angelic monster now stared down a demon, the two of us eyeing each other, before looking at the other's tail, then back to face each other. "Mine's longer." I said.
"Mine is better equipped." He countered.
"A battle of monsters... This will be interesting." I said, the two of us rushing in at each other.