Chapter 6: Quicksilver
A/N: just wanted to share a few things about the story with you guys that I wanted to talk about and point out because I wanted to and to also explain a few things
So, do you guys wanna know what I had originally planned for this story?
I originally planned on Cinder and Jaune being actual Siblings with Jaune being the oldest while Cinder being the youngest. By having Jaune be the oldest child of both Ozpin and Salem while having cinder be Jaune's younger half-sister, however that wouldn't have worked since Jaune would have been the age to know why Ozpin was leaving Salem (even clearly seeing it himself) and this also would have made Cinder easily manipulated by Salem making her the villain which again is not what I wanted.
I wanted to see what a good Cinder who took the place of Jaune looked like and what an evil Jaune who took the place of Cinder looked like.
Not to mention this is based on a few Theory's between the two and such as the "the indecisive king" theory between the two (there's also a theory that it relates more to Ironwood and while I can see it, the fairytale fits more along of Jaune and Cinder in Canon)
Ok, now for a few explanations:
I get that it's a bit weird for Jaune and Cinder to have certain feelings for each other since they were both raised together like siblings, but ya kind also got to remember that they were each other's only source of emotional support (after all, where else are they gonna get it from in a place like Salem's castle). And while I'm no fucking psychologist, I can assume and somewhat believe that the amount of trust and love shared between the two can possibly lead to certain romantic feelings between the two.
So I get that people are a bit freaked out by the pseudo-incest but hey let's just be thankful that I decided not to go down that route.
Anyway! Let's just get back to the story!
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"GHAAAAAA!" A young Mercury cried as he fell to the floor vomiting out his dinner
His father had just punched him in the stomach. Mercury was recovering from the attack as his mother rushed to protect him but she was slapped out of the way by his father that she had hit her head on the table.
Mercury looked at his mother and saw that she was bleeding from her head. His eyes widened and he ran over to her.
"Mommy!" Mercury cried as he ran over to his mother
However, he couldn't make it over to his mother as his father picked him up and threw him away from his mother.
Marcus Black looked to his son, "Stopp running to your mother you little shit!" Marcus cried, "she can't save you! No one can!"
"L-Leave her alone!" Mercury cried as he tried to run to his mother again
Marcus hit his son again and Mercury fell to the ground, bleeding from his mouth, "Your weak Mercury! And it's all your mother's fault!" Marcus cried as he walked over to his wife and started beating her with his fist and kicking her hard with his feet.
All Mercury could do was watch in horror as his mother was beaten once again...
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Mercury woke up one day to find his mother was gone.
She disappeared.
Gone.
Vanished without a trace.
Not even leaving a note or why she didn't take Mercury with her.
Her disappearance angered Marcus and he began drinking while becoming enraged, causing him to go into a drunken rage.
Mercury was now very scared, he had no idea what had happened to his mother as fear rushed into him and overtook his body.
He rushed to his room to hide from his father's anger. Praying that this was all just a nightmare that he would wake up from and see his mother again.
He heard his father yelling and cursing in anger about his mother's disappearance and he was wreaking the entire house as Mercury quickly hid under his bed, hoping that his father would calm down and drink himself to unconsciousness so that Mercury could also run away.
But the fear was too much for him as he was afraid his mother would never come back and that his father would hurt him.
His breaking became rapid and his heartbeat skyrocketed as he could feel himself going numb... Before he fell unconscious himself.
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Marcus Black fell to the ground with a stab wound in his side, bleeding badly, he looked up to see the Blonde teen that did this to him. His cold piercing blue eyes looked down into Marcus's soul and with him was a brown-skinned girl with green hair.
Marcus glared at the blonde teen, "Y-You bastard! D-D-Do you have any idea who I am!?" Marcus cried
The blond teen smiled, "of course, I know who you are" the blonde teen said with a smile, "You are Marcus Black, one of the best assassins in the business, and you have killed a lot of people both rich and poor,"
Marcus then smiled, "Then if you know who I am, I am better to you alive!" Marcus cried
"No, I don't see your use," he said
Marcus's eyes went wide, for the first time in a long, long, long time, he had felt fear. "Wh-what!?"
"You are much older now, you're a drunk, you don't work well with others, you backstab anyone who even angers you, and worst of all... You abused your son" the blond teen said
"W-Wait! Please don't kill me! Whoever hired you! I can pay you more!" Marcus cried in terror "PLEASE! BY THE GODS! PLEASE! DON'T KILL ME!" Marcus cried in desperation
The blonde teen glared at him, "Die with some dignity, Mr. Black"
The blond teen then stabbed Marcus in the face and Marcus Black took his last breath and he died in the dirt.
Mercury watched as his father was killed as he lied on the ground wounded and beaten worse than he had before.
The blond teen his age had done it. He had done what he had failed to do countless times. The blonde teen then looked over to Mercury and walked over to him and then kneeled down in front of him and Mercury looked up to him but it was strained due to his injuries.
"Your Mecury Black, right?" The blond asked
Mercury groaned in response, he tried to form a sentence but he felt like he could say anything without hurting his body
"Easy there, don't worry, your safe with us," the blonde teen said
Mercury looked up to him and his eyes widened. Screw the pain, he needed to know something, he need to know just who this guy was, just who this person who killed his father was, he needed to know just who... Saved him...
"Wh... Wh-Who are y-you?" Mercury asked while in pain
The blonde smiled at him, not a condescending smile, or one that his malicious intent, it was a genuine smile. One that reminded Mercury of the smile his mother gave him before she disappeared...
With that, he blacked out...
Now it was the present, and Mercury was currently in the training room fighting some of the training bots. He looked to one that charged at him and he quickly jumped over it and landed on the ground, before he spun and high kicked the bots head clean off. And he smiled, and he turned to the other bots but before he could kick, he felt a sharp pain in his legs and a hard creaking sound he fell to the ground and quickly stopped the training bots and he hopped his way to the side of the arena and then sat down on the ground.
Mercury pulled his pant leg up, and he saw his leg. Well, his prosthetic leg to be exact. After the thing with his father, his legs were too damaged, and so he was given prosthetic legs by the doctor that Jaune knew. When Mercury looked at the leg that was causing him trouble, he saw that one of the screws was loose and one of the wires was loose.
It was a smile fic but when he tried to put the wire back in, he noticed that it wouldn't stick, he looked closer and saw that part of the end of the tube was ripped off.
Mercury groaned, 'Stupid leg! Now I have to get it repaired and that's gonna cost me!' Mercury thought
He hated his legs but he needed them. he needed them in order to be useful to Jaune. They were his tools and he was Jaune's tool.
that's all he ever was, a tool to Jaune, but he didn't care. He would willingly be a tool for the man who saved his life. Whatever it was the Jaune needed to be done, he would do it. Mercury was a tool and he was a dog, but he didn't mind that. After all, he didn't really consider himself to be someone worth being human. For Mercury, Humans had dreams, felt love, were able to do things on their own. Mercury wasn't one of those people, Emerald called him lazy, and others called him a parasite to the world, but Mercury was fine as he was, he wasn't someone who could lead, he was someone that would follow. After all, it was the fate of tools to be used only to eventually be thrown away.
And he was just fine with that.
"Oh! Are you ok?" came a voice
Mercury turned to the door and that's when he saw the Red-cloaked reaper, Ruby Rose. She looked at him and saw that he was looking at what was clearly his prosthetic leg. She walked over to him with that still cheerful smile on her face, "Do you need help?" she asked him
Mercury looked at her, "Yeah, you know how to fix some Prosthetics?"
Ruby just kept smiling, "As a matter of fact, I do!" Ruby said, "Mind if I have a look?"
"Go ahead," Mercury said
Ruby got closer to him and crouched down to look at his legs, and noticed the wire lose as well as the screw. she moved her hand to a pouch on her belt that was clipped to the back of the belt, she unclipped it and brought it around her, and opened it up. Inside were some small tools and a few tied-up wires. She grabbed a crosshead screwdriver and a new wire and began fixing it, by opening up a panel in his leg where the wires connected to other wires.
Mercury looked at how calm and happy she seemed to be while fixing his legs and found it odd how she wasn't at all creeped out or disgusted with the prosthetics legs. "How are you not weirded out by this?" Mercury asked
Ruby looked at him, "Huh? Weirded out by what?" She asked
"My leg's," Mercury said bluntly "Don't they creep you out?" She asked
Ruby shook her head as she still smiled, "Nope!" She said "I've seen a lot of Porstetics back home and I even fixed a few," Ruby said
"Still don't they freak you out?" Mercury said
"I mean they use to, but after I understood why people had them, why they needed them, I looked at them differently," Ruby said
Mercury nodded, it answered his question, but for some reason, it still stunned him that she didn't find them disgusting. he looked at how she seemed happy to help him and he also couldn't help but look at her eyes. Her Silver eyes were actually really amazing, he never knew anyone with Silver eyes.
"Is something wrong?" Ruby asked
Mercury was taken out of his thoughts as he heard her voice, "Huh?"
"You uh... were staring pretty hard at me just now," Ruby said
For some reason, he felt really embarrassed that he caught starring at her, "O-Oh... sorry about that" Mercury said "I got lost in my thoughts" he said
"No worries, it happens to the best of us," Ruby said, she then closed the panel and put in the screws, and tightened them enough to hold the panel, "Done! You should be able to move it now" She told him
Mercury tried to move it and he didn't feel any pain or feel anything creek or stop moving. He was surprised it worked so well that he smiled and looked at her, "Thanks," He said
Ruby looked at him with a bit of a surprised face but smiled at him, "Your welcome" She replied "I'm Ruby Rose, your... Mercury right? A student from Haven Academy?" Ruby asked
Mercury nodded, "Yeah," he replied "Mercury Black," He said
Mercury got up and Ruby did the same. Mercury looked at Ruby and gave her a smile "Again, thank for fixing my leg," He said "I should get going" he said
Ruby nodded, "Alright, It was nice seeing you again Mercury," Ruby said
Mercury nodded, "Same here," Mercury told her
"Oh, if you need help again, don't be afraid to ask," Ruby said with a smile
Mercury looked at her and nodded, "Sure thing" He said "See you around Red" he said
"Bye!" Ruby said as she waved her hand up high
As Mercury left the arena and then the classroom, he couldn't help but smile. He then remembered that Jaune said to watch out for her due to her eyes, and while Mercury did have to be cautious around her as he knew why she was here, he still couldn't help but think she wasn't all that dangerous, she was still more like a kid if anything else.
'She is kind of cute too' He thought to himself '... where the hell did that come from?' He asked himself
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Ah! It feels good writing for this story again! I don't know why I haven't been updating my RWBY stories as much but I hope to update them more often.
Also another important announcement!
At 2:34 in the morning and I had nothing better to do than to make myself a Twitter account!
Why?
For the sole purpose of letting some of you guys, who really enjoy my stories, get updates a bit faster, know when I possibly plan on releasing a chapter for a certain story, Vote on new stories, share some of the art I created for my story (mostly just edited Photos), and to even share a few small details about some stories that may or may not be important for a story.
So... if you are interested, go look for me on Twitter at: ArcofUA and I should also let you guys know that the pf pic is of Rei and Juice Wrld (don't know why I didn't make it an MHA or RWBY pf pic but who cares!)