For The Record
Escapism is a thing most people want. It's a haven to a person when stressed out by life. In my case I got it and I completely regret it and I never want to be in it again, but this fantasy is now reality. So many times I've been around people who say if they die or something happens to them they hope to go to a different world and become a Hero or a completely different person. It's so stupid, but I understand it. Life sucks, but you have to push through and let me tell you what I'm going through right now is not worth clinging to that idea. keep what you have and keep it close because someday it might not be there. I'm the prime example. I want to see my family again So bad even my father, but I can't and yes I wanted to escape my boring life and be away from my family, but now that I see what I got instead of boring I want my normal life back so bad.
So off that rant it's been 6 wee…...no 2 weeks since I went into the Chamber of time which by the way is just the ripped off version of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber from DBZ. It's so ripped off and cheap it slows down time by 3 times, not a day for a year. It had a lot of problems. It turns out that because your body doesn't age so don't you muscles. So working out in the Chamber did me no good so I did the next best thing. I started to perfect my Aura manipulation through my body, make my Aura stronger, remember my new techniques that can change the tides of battle, and I started to use Dust more efficiently and effectively. When Gyatso said it was going to be hard he wasn't kidding. The training almost killed me twice both from Dust mishandling, my bad I didn't know I wasn't supposed to shake the Dust vials. While I was there they taught me all about Dust and Aura.
Aura is the Excess energy that our Soul gives off, which makes sense if our Aura isn't our soul then, why put our most vulnerable part of ourselves in danger. Also Dust, the miracle powder or crystal that changed this world for the better and the worse. you know where they came from. I'm going to let you guess. Space, Nature, no fucking Us. No not us us the ancient us. We didn't intend to make it, but we believe it was when magic was still around… yes I said magic. Every single Dust crystal is a person's magic not going anywhere and just staying in one spot and it starts to crystallize which is why Dust is a crystal in its most basic form. The reason why we believe this is because Dust wasn't in the age of the Twin Gs it started appearing after. So the great purge happened which for short is when the twin Gs annihilated the world Human population and we believe when the world's Wizards died they left behind their magic and that became Dust. Fucking mindblowing. And we think that when there is a massive Dust deposit that meant that it used to be a place where powered up magic users went or there were just a lot of them in one place when the Great Purge happened, you know like a school like Beacon. The Monks have a lot more evidence after all they studied Dust in this chamber for years on end, but I won't bore you with it whoever you are.
Magic existed and we were using it through Dust, irony because we say Dust isn't magic, but really it is, but it isn't ours. Oh shit and I'm eating it. That can't be good. Well whatever so all of that was very interesting.
It's Day 55 of 720. The time in the chamber was well spent. I learned so much and they taught me how to make a concentrated Dust I can eat that lasts longer than just normal Dust.
Started perfecting my new techniques and they taught me a little hand to hand combat which I was garbage at.
So I left the monetary because they told me that if I wanted to get better I needed to do it by trial by fire. So you know real life shit no kiddy gloves.
Right now I'm heading straight for Konoha and because there's no trails I had to go through the forest, damn secluded monks and their antisocial ways. I did thank them for all of their help even Zenkou seemed happy I was leaving, I don't know why he hates me.
So to sum up my improvements I haven't gotten stronger physically, but my Aura is stronger so it can do more damage, my Semblance also gotten much stronger, the technique they taught me are incredibly useful mostly True Aura which I couldn't get the hang of, it's a weird concept it isn't powered by willing it, but by being yourself. which I guess I am often and now I can use Dust in a practical sense I can't over do it, but I can take at least 3 Dust cubes before the stomach pains kick in. I'd say I got a massive upgrade. Let's go universe throw another situation at me, I can take it. Uh oh I feel I'm going to regret that.
Day 55 of 720 Before Earth's Death
A large pack of Grimm all walked toward wherever they were going. A dozen Beowolves with an Alpha at the head, 3 Ursa Majors, 18 Creeps, 5 Boarbatusk and a large blurry figure at least a kilometer away trying to catch up. They walked in a rhythm, one foot after another seemingly lifeless until their ears perked up. They turned around from a sound that was getting louder by the second, the sound was as if you grabbed a chainsaw and put it into the ground. One of the curious Beowolves walked towards the sound and as it got closer a bush that hid the noise from view.
Suddenly a large red circle came out of the Bush hitting the Beowolf and ripped off its head killing it. a man in a red wheel that had spikes on the outside lands on the other side and turns the wheel in the rest of the Grimms direction, terrifying to see if you were his opponent, but he was me.
I learned a new trick instead of running my way to Konoha. I went with my Semblance. I created a wheel of Thread big enough to fit me inside and I put spikes on the outside of it so when it goes forward it has friction and so if any enemy is in front of me I could eviscerate them, and it seems I found my new targets. I kept running over Grimm after Grimm, mostly the Beowolves and creeps; they were the squishiest. 8 of the Grimm I killed with the wheel of death and in a fluid motion I turned the wheel into three arms. As if they all had a mind of their own they unclicked a weapon on my body for each arm.
My Longsword in my right and none in my left with the other three arms had my Shortsword and my two Daggers. Prepared I ran into the horde of Grimm with improved speed. In a second I closed the 30ft space and started my attack.
I cut through one Beowolf's throat and the arms killed 2 others before the Grimm started to react. All of the Beowolves ran at me at once except for the alpha. Seeing they surrounded me I poured Aura into my 3 Thread arms and spun them around me in a circle in a lawnmower effect and unleashed my AOE attack, the Beowolves turned into pieces of their former selves as they got chopped in half from the waist or decapitated. It killed most of the Beowolves and left one, quickly I ran up to it and in a single motion I cut off its head, finishing the Beowolves, the easiest Grimm out there, but could have been the hardest Grimm if I kept them around. The Alpha stayed back while all the other Grimm charged me. Well it's time I brought out an object that had 10 numbers on it going to 1 to 10. With a slide on the number part and an opening like it was a dispenser. Quickly I put it on 5 and put one end in my mouth and pressed a button. With this a light blue cube of Dust enters my mouth.
The feeling of being cold entered my body and the feeling would have frozen me solid if I didn't train with the monks. I unraveled my Thread and sent the individual Threads at the Grimm. The ice Threads once they hit the Grimm they left chunks of ice. Slowly the Grimm stopped in their tracks frozen in place unable to move from the thousands of Threads hitting them over and over again.
Time to finish this I bring back all of my Thread and I combine it into a massive spear. With force I sent it into the Grimm. Quickly it went straight through the Grimm one by one they shattered into pieces with almost no resistance except for the Ursas Majors, they took a little extra force.
That was easy, why fight while you can just kill them. Putting up my Thread Radar I see that the Alpha was in the tree above me. With a plan I just stand there and slowly amass my Thread beneath me. Thinking I was distracted it jumped at me with teeth ready to tear my head off. As it was in the air I sidestepped it and my ice Thread expanded into a spike. It impaled itself through the throat and it started to be covered by ice. While on the spike it didn't disappear, no it started swinging at me with its claws, damn these things are resilient sometimes I think as I decapitate it in a single slash. Putting all of my equipment back into their place I dispelled my Semblance.
Good work out, that's the third pack I saw today, what I kill every Grimm I see. Now that I say it, it seems like I'm a bit loony for killing every single Grimm I come across, but I have a good reason if there's less Grimm in the world the safer the people are and I need the experience. Well I'm kinda tired from the fight, time set up cam…..
My train of thought was disrupted when I was slammed from behind by what seemed like a fucking freight train. I was getting pushed hard and with an instinctive reflex I grabbed whatever was hitting me and lifted myself up. Looking where I was going, the massive Grimm I was on was going straight for a rock wall. Oh fuck I think as I jump off. The massive mammoth of a Grimm hits the wall and bounces off with a large crack on the rock mountain side. Seeing the grim. in its entirety it was a Goliath, one of the strongest Grimm out there.
Shiiiiit. I go for my Dust dispenser, but I was bash to the side sending me into a tree. Ow that hurts.
I got up and saw the Goliath charging at me. I thought about tripping it with my Thread, but it would probably do nothing to the massive beast. So I jump up and grab onto its tusk.
Remember your training Andres. Quickly I make a Sword of Ice Thread and stab it in its eye. It screams in pain as it starts going faster. With a shove I push the Thread Sword further into its skull and wanting to get this over with already. I untangle the Thread Sword that was still inside the Grimm and send each ice Thread a different way to destroy its brain to kill it. After a couple of seconds it's head gets covered in ice and I held on pushing it further in hoping it dies soon. The Thread finally pushes its way far enough to hit its brain. As it ran still screaming it fell over with me under it. It sent me into the ground, its dead body was laying on top of me crushing me. Knowing it was dead I waited it out until it evaporated. After a good minute I was free.
That wasn't that hard, but damn did that thing take out a huge chunk of Aura. The Grimm are getting easier to fight, back them I could barely take on 3 Beowolves and now I'm taking on fucking hordes of them. It may be because instead of fighting them and slowly cutting away at them, while now I just upright kill it without remorse that's why Grimm's are getting easier.
Looking at the sky I see that it's going to be dark in an hour or two so I start to set up camp to prepare for My day. I grabbed wood to start a fire and while I was walking and grabbing tinder I saw a black bird with red eyes, I've seen that bird so many times now I think it's following me.
Whatever it's a bird I went back to camp and grabbed a pan and a bottle of a special liquid I've been saving. After a half hour I cook my food and start to munch down on it, I might not think about it often, but eating out here in the wild really does make you miss good food. You know the disgustingly delicious food that literally kills you from the inside.
I opened the bottle and the scent of whiskey hit my nose, what is my birthday I need this anyway. I just turned into something I can appreciate right now. I'm 16 now, not drinking age on Earth, but here it's the wild, there is no laws.
I put the bottle to my lips and chug. These world's have been getting to me, all of those Shonen characters have all the stamina they need, training is hard sometimes because of the feeling of uselessness. Those shonen protagonists make it look easy, but it's hard to keep it up everyday with the same or more effort, but hey effort is the reason Humanity became the powerhouse it is today.
I'm so stressed out, learning about the world, Gods, and the mental exhaustion of Dust consumption has been hitting hard and now on my birthday seems like a perfect moment to relieve myself. So Cheers.
Flying through the sky towards Konoha in my Crow form I see a light in the forest down below. Another traveler damn. Might as well see if it's Andres. As I get closer I hear singing, it's a caravan then, only those assholes sing on the road. I get into view of the campers and I only see one person singing at the top of his lungs.
It was my target, Andres. As I looked at him he was crying, but still singing a somber song that had a burp or hiccups like he's been drinking and he sang with a happy face.
"Hurry up before you go and get old, hurry up before your blood runs cold. None of us were ever meant to stay. We're all going to find love one day!" Andres sang with tears falling down his face.
Damn this is kinda sad to see, but hey don't worry kid you're not the only one to do this for God sake I did it a couple of times back then. Seeing a bottle in his hand I see the problem: he was drunk. Out here in the wild the idiot, don't get me wrong I get a little tipsy out here to bare with the boredom, but full on getting hammered that's just stupid.
As he was singing he grabbed a glass cup out of nowhere and poured himself another cup. Damn did it look good, it's been a week since my liquor ran out.
No I shouldn't, but he's drunk he won't know. With a stupid plan in place I flew down on the grass. Andres noticed me and just stared, I looked straight at the liquor in his hands and the kids saw where I was looking.
The kid figured what I wanted and shrugged as he laid the liquor on the ground so I could drink it. Wow he went with it that easy, what a gulabi…
In thought I didn't see the hand that came to grab me. As I was about to put my beck into the sweet sweet liquor I was grabbed and held into place. Oh shit what's happening.
"You, we meet again my old enemy. I know who you are!" Andres said with a drunk tone stumbling over words. Holy shit how did he figure me out. "your-a-a-a crow, but not likely your a spy you've been following me. Your Ozpin's puppet aren't you. That sneaky fuck he trained Crows as spys, genius no one would suspect that!" so he's been suspecting me, no I can't talk to him yet, not right now I'll contact Ozpin before I talk to him. Also Ozpin training birds is this kid psycho, then again it kinda does sound like Ozpin. "No that would be too easy…..or would it,...no it's too easy. I know you're a Grimm, one that attracts Grimm when people are asleep, monster bird." What the fuck, is this kid for real. I'm not scared if he tries to kill me I'll just turn Human and knock his light out and leave.
Andres puts a hand to his head and massages it seeming like he got himself out of his drunken spiel "Seriously what the fucks wrong with me. Take a sip and go away, bird I want to be alone and not talk to an animal." He said realizing how crazy he was acting, being drunk does that to you sometimes. Going with the crow act I took a sip or some would say a chug and flew away. Holy shit was he so right with me being a spy. I land a kilometer away just in case he tries to follow me. I revert to Human form and pull out my scroll and contact Ozpin.
With a couple of rings he picks up. "Oz I found the kid and he's… intoxicated." I say as delicately as possible.
"He's drunk, did you give him alcohol?" Ozpin says confused while accusing me.
"No, I found him drunk singing." I said giving Oz all of the info.
"Weird anything else unusually?" He asks like he expected something else.
"Well I did something stupid." I said I was a little embarrassed about what I did, just because I'm embarrassed by it doesn't mean I shouldn't speak about it.
"What did you do?" Oz says he is getting more and more annoyed.
"I ran out of liquor a week ago so I went up to him in bird form and kinda tried to get it that way." I said waiting for the ear lashing Oz was about to hit me with.
"Oh God what else?" Said knowing I hadn't finished telling it all.
"He grabbed me and started spouting nonsense." I said
"What kind of nonsense?" He said he was getting more annoyed with me.
"Like how Ozpin trains birds to be spies and I'm one of them or I'm a Grimm that signals other Grimm to attack him." I said holding in a laugh, Ozpin training birds to be spies is hilarious.
"Spy birds, that's genius, if I can I'll do that." Oz says actually surprised and it seemed he would actually make it happen if he can.
"God you and him are almost the same." I say out of nowhere, weird.
"None are like me." Oz says knowing no ones like him.
"True that, so what are my orders?" I say getting back into work mode. I made a stupid mistake time to take this seriously.
"Keep an eye on him and gauge how much he's grown and if you can try to introduce yourself in Human form and try to become friends with him." Ok so all easy, but the friendship part that seems a little fishy.
"Damn kinda messed up Oz. Aren't we taking him back to Beacon." I ask why not. We found the little shit why not take him back.
"No, he's grown much stronger out there than he ever would in Beacon. Make sure he stays alive." Oz says with a serious tone. Of course I'll keep him alive. He supposedly has a chance at beating her. Also I want to see him fight because when we first saw him he couldn't even dodge right and now he's living out here in the wild by himself that's a massive growth in almost two months.
"Easy orders, Qrow out." I say bye. God why do I feel like this is going to be a stressful month. I need to go find a bar tomorrow.
"Our first mission, yay!" Someone screams into the bullhead she's in. The metal the bullheads were made of, made the sound reverberate and the rest of her team covered their ears especially Blake from the atrocious sound that hit their ears.
"Calm down Ruby were here to track down the criminals, so be inconspicuous!" Weiss says annoyed and wanting Ruby not to blow it if the White Fang is here.
"Oh yeah secret mission." Ruby said with her eyes wide and she covers her mouth to silence herself a little.
"Where do we look first? '' Yang says specifically to Blake. She knows the White Fang so she might be able to predict them.
Blake stopped covering her ears and looked at Yang and responded with. "We need to look.…." So from that moment forward they activated the plan Catch The Bad Guys.
Day 57 of 720 Before Earths Death
Finally I found a road and it went in the direction of Konoha, a small victory for the win. As I walk down the road I think of what I did on my birthday. Not the Grimm killing, I do thateveryday, no the me accusing a bird. I know I'm dumb sometimes, but that was just insane. It's ok, just make it into a funny story that'll make it better.
It did feel good to just get drunk and I'm pretty sure when I was singing I sounded like an "Angel". The song Special (from Shinedown).
As I was thinking I saw a bush in front of me shake like how in Pokemon when it indicated that a pokemon was in there, but this time it's a Grimm. I unsheath my Longsword and get ready to start killing, Grimm not people.
What popped out of the tiny bush was a Beringel the size of the tree next to it, with armor that looked thick enough to take tank shells and still be alive. It was so big that it's hand could grab onto my whole head like it was a tennis ball. What. How. Why so big!
It roared and charged me. Uh oh. I jumped to the side letting him miss me entirely. For it's size it was fast, it closed 40 feet in 2 seconds. This is going to be a doozy. As a small test I quickly ran up to it as it's starts turning to face me. I attack between its armor. The blade sliced just below the knee armor, but it was a shallow cut. I retreat to gauge and estimate how much it'll take to take it down. Well a shallow cut with just normal strength so with Aura's buffs and Aura strike it should be able to do some damage, no this isn't a time to train and I should definitely not with this guy.
I open my newly named Dust Capacitor and set it to 1 and put it into my mouth. Gyatso and the monks created this for me, it holds two of each Dust I have experienced in
1 Fire, 2 Water, 3 Earth, 4 Air, 5 Ice, 6 Lightning, 7 Combustion, 8 Hardlight, 9 Healing Dust, 10 Gravity. Most of the Dust I know how to use effectively and 1, 7, 9, 10 are my big guns. I put the open end in my mouth and a Red Dust cube exited it and entered my mouth.
The Fire Dust's power enveloped my entire body. God does the power feel good, but the pain is uncomfortable.
As I'm powering up the Beringel got into a stance. Had his head wide open, but each arm spead out on its respected side like he was going to do a jumping jack. Oh shit. In a second both massive hands slammed into each other with the force of a train and a shockwave was produced. The wave of power hit the road and started to destroy it. The shockwave pushed me back a couple of feet, but I was fine until I looked at the road. The debris of the broken road came at me with incredible speed. I activated my Semblance and made a Zelda looking shield. With it I also activated the Dust in me in the shield making the debris either melt from the heat the shield was giving off and the one that did hit me just felt like hot water because of my Aura.
As I distangle my Thread from the shield I see the Grimm going for another charge. Huh, Toro toro I think as I twist my flaming Thread around my Longsword extending its length and firepower. Since I've gotten my Semblance I've been getting my Thread smaller and smaller and now my new edge of my Thread blade was razor sharp. As the Beringel got to me I rushed it, shoving my Longsword into its armored chest. It didn't go in for a moment, but after a second the armor melted and the blade entered.
The beast roared and hit me in the side with its massive fist. I didn't let go, instead I summoned more Thread. Quickly I surrounded him in Thread that looked like a bodysuit. It started hitting itself trying to get free from the swarm of Thread squeezing its body. I backed up leaving my Longsword inside the Grimm and activated the Fire Dust inside the Thread. As if it was the Human torch it caught on fire with a shriek it kicked and started rolling on the floor. It lasted minutes and it still wasn't dead. Yeah Beringel aren't fast, but they are strong and could take some hits and this one was probably a papa bear.
Feeling the power of Dust leaves my body. I get tired of the whole song and dance and put a massive amount of Aura into my legs and launch myself to the Grimm. I deactivated my Semblance and the Grimm just getting up. I got to it and grabbed my Longsword. Concentrating I feel the Aura in my hand explode into power, my power.
And with a mighty force upward my blade travels through its chest and keeps going until it comes out at the top of the Grimms head. With a red energy surrounding my arm and where I attacked I put my Longword away and finished seeing the almost split in half Grimm die. I look at my hand and see the cracking red energy fade, did I just activate True Aura.
I've been trying to turn it on, but it won't all the time, but that power that I felt was so much. Damn that was a bit of a tight situation. I quickly checked my Aura (He can check his Aura without a Scroll) and quarter of my Aura was gone from the shockwave and I'm pretty sure me activating my True Aura did take a fraction. Well I do learn the best in fight or flight situations.
As I start on my walk back to Konoha I hear footsteps behind me, it sounded like dress shoes from the clackling. I turn around ready for a fight because this world just loves to fuck with me.
I turn around and see a man with pale red eyes with one hand in his pocket and the other on his Massive Sword, ops I mean Broadsword on his shoulder. Dammit an enemy I think as I get into my stance.
Seeing he was about to start fighting I say "Wow, wow, wow kid I'm not here to fight. I just heard a commotion over here so I came to check!" I said lying a bit I saw the fight and was impressed the kid was probably already as good as Ruby when she was at signal and she was a prodigy, but his last attack was way more powerful than it should have been.
With a face of surprise, sheepish Andres sheaths his Longsword and says. "Oh sorry my bad….well uh bye." He waved and tried to walk away awkwardly like he didn't want to talk to me.
Before he could I say. "Hey kid, why are you out here?" Damn not a good way to start a conversation, damn you anti-socialness.
He turns around and looks at me annoyed and says. "None of your business, now bye." Jesus I just tried to start a conversation no need to get your panties in a bunch, teenagers.
"Kid I'm a Huntsmen, I'm trying to be nice here, work with me." I say wanting him to speak to me a little, after all Huntsmen are pretty much Heros to the people, as far as they know.
Still with an annoying expression he says "Fine I'm Andres Mondragon I'm heading to Konoha to find a friend." Then he walks off.
Shit "Ok, you uh need an escort?" I say a little embarrassed that I had to say that. God Oz better give me a raise after this.
"Dude, seriously, you're coming off as a child predator, back off." The little shit says with an annoyed expression. Seriously what the fuck, I'm just trying to help.
"Jesus kid, I'm just trying to help." I say getting really annoyed.
The kid looked down and shook his head and said with a sigh "Sorry I've been a little cranky, but thank you for your offer, goodbye." He said canceling my attempt to be his friend. For God sake that was annoying. Guess just follow him in bird form.
Looking around on the rooftops searching around looking for anything suspicious in the night. I grab my scroll and dial our Team chat "Hey Ruby, where are you?" I say while not seeing Ruby at her stakeout location.
I heard a squeal and she said "Uhh Definitely not in a candy store." goddammit Ruby why.
"Dammit Ruby you were supposed to be looking around." I am annoyed with how little effort Ruby is putting into this.
"Sorry it just the cookies look so good." Ruby said as if cookies were an actual excuse.
"Guys I see no one. Let's go back." Yang said tiredly.
No I know they are here and with my paranoia induced mind I say. "No we need to...:'', but before I could finish Weiss spoke up.
"Blake we've been looking for days, just admit it they're not here anymore.'' Weiss said with a tired voice.
I let my logic take over again. For the last 3 days we've been asking around and scouting during the night looking for anything suspicious, but nothing, not even a single crime has happened. Maybe they're not here after all. With a sigh I say. "...Fine let's head back." Both Yang and Ruby celebrate and Weiss sighs with relief. We all met up with Ruby in the candy store and got some snacks to cheer us up. We started to walk back. As we turned the corner to where our sleeping quarters were, at the Mayor's building a green haired woman walked out. I recognized the person. With fear I grabbed my team with my ribbon and pulled them around the corner.
With a small yelp of surprise Yang says. "Blake what the f…"
Before she could finish her sentence Blake covers her mouth and quietly whispers. "Shh, it's the White Fang.
All of my team's eyes go wide. "What?" they said together before they peaked around the corner again with faces of confusion. Ruby says "She's just a normal woman."
"No, I remember her. She's one of the Four Lieutenants in the White Fang she's The White Fangs Claws." I say for them to understand the gravity of the situation.
That got their attention then Weiss spoke up. "Then why is she here?"
"I don't know.'' I say immediately.
"Let's follow her.'' Ruby said without pause. That's a terrible plan, follow one of the most dangerous people in the world. That's on the only stupid idiots do this list.
"No we shouldn't, she can kill us with almost no effort, she's almost as strong as Adam." Say with certainty. Adam always went on and on about how he was stronger than almost all of the White Fangs, especially this Lieutenant Clover.
"Blake we need to follow her so she can take us to their hideout if she is going to it." Yang said. It was why we came here and why we just abandoned it. No it's still too dangerous she's a game changer and definitely not for the best.
"It's just I don't want you guys to die if we make a mistake." I said with sadness, I've seen friends die because of my mistakes in mission in the White Fang. When you see that you are always more paranoid and more caution than normal.
"We won't and will have Ozpin's number on speed dial just in case we are found out ok." Ruby said cheerfully like Ozpin could just teleport across hundreds of miles in a second to save us. I got a bad feeling about this, but I'll listen to my leader.
"Fine, but keep quiet and the second they see us we run for it." I say with a serious tone, this is no game they find us we could die.
We followed her from the Mayor's office though the street, the alleyways and the rooftops always keeping our eyes on her. All the way from the center of the Village where the Mayor's office was to the outskirts of Kakariko where a warehouse was located. The White Fang Lieutenant met up with a Faunus halfway to the warehouse and started talking to them all the way there. When we got to the warehouse multiple Faunus and Humans were going inside.
We discussed how far we will go. We will only record them and not interfere with what they are doing. The real Huntsmen will take care of them. With ninja like stealth we got on top of the warehouse and looked through the open windows from above. It was too dark for the people inside to see us from the inside so I felt we were a little more safe. We looked through the window and saw a massive gathering of people in casual clothes and a stage at the back. After a couple of minutes we see the Lieutenant come out in normal clothes and not her uniform, that's not normal. She walked up and the whole crowd stopped talking and put their focus solely on the one on stage.
With a clearing of her throat she speaks to the crowd. "Thank all of you for coming, it's been a harsh two months trying to get back into society. While I advocate that you should go back to who you love and turn away from the path of violence, but right now we need people who will fight back against the ones who want to get rid of us. They are planning an event that will destroy our very lifestyle." as she's saying this she looks at every person and they listen to everything she says.
Then before she spoke her focus on the crowd was lost and she grabbed ahold of her whip. In an instant she jumped through the window we were looking through, we didn't even see her coming. As I looked at her eyes I was wrapped around in something and was pulled to the ground. I looked at Weiss that was supposed to call Ozpin if they were found out and saw her on her stomach with a person stepping on her back and next to her was her broken scroll. No I knew this was going to happen, no I can't let my friends die because of my inability to stay away from the White Fang.
I activated my Semblance and created a shadow of myself in the restraints and I escaped the whip. As I got a good footing I was punched in the face by a massive force sending me flying. As I was mid air something wrapped around my leg and I was pulled back. This time I was on the ground with my back to the ground and the Lieutenant's foot on my chest. Dammit I couldn't do anything I thought as I started crying.
With a confused face, the Lieutenant says."Blake Belladonna is that you?"
"You know me?" I say confused. No, I'm just the daughter of the original White Fang leader. That's why she knows my face.
"Of course you abandoned the White Fang 5 months ago, guess you went back." She said with disdain. What?
"What, no I'm not with the White Fang. What are you asking me this? You're a part of the White Fang." I say getting even more confused every second.
Her face turned from disappointment to confusion and said. "I…..ahhh…..dear God this is a massive misunderstanding. Trish brings them down into the building I'll explain along the way." Misunderstanding, what's the misunderstanding.
With eyes wide I say. "So you're not the White Fang?"
With a nod she says. "We used to, but during the attack on this Village we disobeyed our orders and fought back against the Grimm and abandoned the White Fang." Oh my God that's why none other them were wearing White Fang uniforms and none were chanting before the speech. We were brought down to the warehouse.
"Why." Came from a still tied up Weiss.
With a quick deep breath Clover says. "The White Fang has been getting more and more vicious with their methods. Our attack on the Village was originally planned to attract the Grimm and steal the equipment from the Village without killing anyone, but Adam Taurus faction joined us and changed the plan and instead of leaving the citizens they wanted to kill everyone and take the equipment." Yeah I remember that Clover missions always left the civilians alive, but the Huntsmen and security always were torn to pieces.
Still not convinced I was about to say something, but Yang beat me to the punch. "If you're not with the White Fang why are you having a gathering of people?" I want to hope that what she's saying is true, this could start the deterioration of the White Fang. Clover and the woman named Trish brought them on stage in front of at least hundred people with face of confusion, empathy, but not a single trace of hatred.
"We are the Ex White Fang members. The reason we gather is to recruit people to fight against the White Fang, Trish let them go." Clover said, explaining the situation and commanding the girl Trish.
"If you don't believe me talk to them." Clover says while they're getting untied. I was still suspicious and ready to run for it, but why try to convince us they are not White Fang. The White Fang are a proud bunch; they'll never say they're not a part of the organization if they could help it.
We all looked at the first person in front of us. She was an old lady with a downcast expression. "I've been with the White Fang for years and I thought taking more extreme measures did more good for us, but seeing what we did to society, to my neighbors, and the people I loved. It changed my perspective." She said, giving her experience.
The next person was a man and he said with sadness lacing his tongue. "The anger and hatred did a real number on me. First it was just kill the guards then over time it became kill the whole families, even the children. So I abandoned it when my only opportunity arose." I did the exact same as him, I left at the one chance opportunity I had.
The next was a woman with scars all over her face and she had a face full of resolve and she said. "I hate Humans, but I will never destroy an entire Village for some misguided hate. I know this world has good people and I'm not ignorant enough to believe all Humans are bad."
We heard story after story some heartbreaking, some with a little humor, but all of them ended with them leaving the White Fang. Slowly over this time Ruby started to really believe them, then Yang, and Soon after that Weiss as well and I was starting to believe them as well. After talking to so many people we were taken to the back room with Clover and Trish was left behind to give the speech the Clover was supposed to give. As we entered a room with three couches we sat down and Clover spoke up. "The White Fang is planning something big, in one of the meetings I was in with the High leader of the White Fang, Adam presented an idea for destroying Vale." Destroy Vale, I remember Adam always talking about how Vale was the key to start the revolution.
"Why what's to gain?" Yang asked, getting comfortable on her couch. While we did believe that she did turn her ways we still were on the defensive. Maybe not the youngest that was eating her cookies we got at the store, but the rest of us.
"He went on and on about how we were already at war with Humanity, but we didn't know it. The other White Fang higher ups rejected the idea and sent him here just to steal Dust for our missions, which one of those missions you were on." Clover said knowing what happened that day. The whole White Fang probably knew after all she was the daughter of the original White Fang High Leader.
Naively Ruby says. "So you're the anti-White Fang?" God that sounds horrible.
With a nod she says. "Kinda, we want to stop what we helped create." What she said hit me hard. Stop what you helped create, that's her redemption. Mine is to be a Huntress, is it enough to redeem what I have done.
With a glow in Ruby eyes she says. "I see you're the villain turned Hero. Awesome. The news didn't say anything about Faunus helping the people, only about a Boy defending the people from Adam." Oh yeah, Andres could have been here.
With an annoyed look she said. "The News wouldn't have wanted to give the Faunus credit, but the real reason is because I don't want the Council to find out yet, they'll just jail us before we can show we've changed and did you say a kid who fought Adam Taurus?" She said the final part curiously.
"Yeah, we've been wondering about his name and if you do know who it was, was it Andres?" Weiss says wanting some information.
With a face of defensiveness she said. "Why do you ask?" With a serious tone. Oh God if she attacks us there's no way we would be able to win.
Ruby seeing her seriousness spoke up fast. "Well we are kinda friends of his and we wanted to see if he was ok?" She said with her innocent personality.
With her hand on her chin she says. "Your friends of Andres, so you're the kids who helped him escape the Beacon?" How did she figure…. Never mind Andres could have just told her.
With a smile Ruby says. "Yeah that was us, so it was him then?"
With a massive smile that I was pretty sure that I'd never see again she says. "Yeah it was him. God was he a brain dead idiot to even fight against Adam, thank God Adam got into his cocky ways because Andres was able to get a couple of good hits on him, well enough for me to drive him off." She said the final part was a little angry.
I was in thought the whole time they were talking. Out of nowhere I say. "I'm sorry I just thought… Thank you so much." She could be the one to change life for the Faunus.
Not knowing what I meant she said. "Why I hardly did anything, most of the defending was from Andres."
"That's not what I mean, I'm talking about fighting against what the White Fang is doing. You understood that the White Fang became corrupt and you're willing to help people you don't even know. Thank you, because of you Faunus could choose the right way to get equality." From hearing this Clover got a light blush on her face.
"You should thank Andres he was the reason I even thought about doing this, he had to talk some serious shit for me to do this." She said giving Andres the recognition for this happening.
"Wow that guy literally makes miracles fall out of his ass." Yang says bluntly. I'm starting to believe that too.
With a laugh she says. "You kidding me he says he has terrible luck, but in reality he has the best in the world. At the end of his and Adams fight, Adam almost killed him and he survived it and made a full recovery." She said between the emotions concerned and happy.
"God not just that, but it turns out he was there at Silverkeep too." Weiss said chiming in.
With a smile she says. "I knew that. Seriously the day after I left the place was attacked. He is one massive Trouble magnet." Yeah he's an even bigger one than our team.
We all kept talking about everything from Andres, how the White Fang has been slowly turning genocide, and about how she's looking for the White Fang to launch a counter attack. Even though Clover trusted them she didn't tell them of Andres's circumstances and about Mount Glenn.
Day 60 of 720 Before Earth's Death
It's been three days and I did my normal routine, I ran, killed Grimm, and practiced my Semblance. I would be on the trail, but I was using my Thread Wheel which would destroy it and I'm not going to be an asshat unless I need to. Also it's my final day on the road either tomorrow or today I'll be arriving in Konoha. I really hope there's Naruto, or Minato there. I also really hope Sasuke isn't there because I normally can't take broody doom and gloom types. If they are there, they can help me. Their supposive destiny is to become the best ninjas, AKA amazing fighters.
After a good twenty minutes I deactivated my wheel and rested, I definitely don't want my Semblance in exhaustion mode when I get to Konoha because how much you want to bet that another major event is gonna happen there when I just get there. I climbed a tree and sat down on a big branch to rest a bit. While doing nothing is what teenagers normally do, I don't. I like doing something, being active or working and if I don't and be lazy I get guilt for not doing anything. It's a blessing and a curse. So I started channeling Aura into my legs, then to my chest, then to my arms, and finally to my head. I closed my eyes and channeled a small amount of Aura to my ears to increase their sensitivity. I'll go to sleep, but if I hear something I'll wake up.
I do like my naps. Just a quick 30 minute nap is no big deal. While getting ready for my nap I did a quick hear to see if there was anything around.
All I heard were birds chirping and the wind gently blowing the trees. The sound of my heartbeat was loud, but there was something else. It was rhythmic like footsteps, but heavy then a rustle like when you rub two pieces of cloth together. I heard one word so quiet I thought I was imagining it. "Help!" My eyes go wide and I drop down the tree and secure all of my equipment and go towards the noise, fuck someones in danger.
I went silently, but quickly through the trees. As I got closer I clearly heard a kid's voice. "Someone help!".
A second after I hear a slap or something and another voice. "Will you shut it kid or the next one will break something!" Getting there faster, some kids are in trouble. I get into view of what's happening and I see two adults both looking like tough hobos. One massive not the muscles way, but the fat one, the other skinny and short. I'll call the skinny guy Ernie and the massive one Bert. Bert had a massive Sword on his back, I couldn't exactly tell what it was. With leather armor on him and Ernie I didn't see his weapon and he was bald and shirtless with scars on his back that were tally marks and it went to 21, I have a feeling I know what that means. On the massive guy's shoulders I saw two body looking things, oh shit those are the hostages and they were two kids, one with blonde hair and an orange outfit and the other with black hair with a blue outfit.
I took off my backpack and quickly made a plan. I decide the kids are more important than taking them out, but we're in the wild there's still Grimm so I can't just tell them to run away. I unsheath my Longsword and unlock my weapons to use them all if I need to. I take a deep breath then I run towards them with speed that was compared with one of the fastest cheetahs. I went for Ernie first, he's skinny and probably the fast one and the fast one is always the most dangerous. They both heard me and stopped and were about to turn around, but as they both did my Longsword was already going into Ernie's back. The blade didn't enter, damn he has Aura. With quick thinking I turn the stab into just blunt force throwing him into the forest out of view, I'll deal with him a bit.
Bert looked at me with anger and tried to spartan kick me. I sidestepped it and grabbed his leg and stabbed him in the kneecap. The blade didn't go in either damn another Aura user. Bert fell to his knees and quickly I grabbed the kids with my Thread and ripped them away from the brute and placed them behind me.
With a grunt he slowly got back up and said. "I'm going to kill you kid!" Wow so original.
"Many have tried, none have succeeded." I said getting ready for a fight. Also my line wasn't original, but it was good enough.
With a massive grunt he pulled out his weapon. A ginormous Claymore, with a heave he swung it at me with the force of an elephant. I blocked the attack, but I felt the force vibrate through my body. The ground underneath me started to break form the force, holy shit is this guy strong. After he picked his weapon back up from another hit I went in with 3 Aura strikes. As I reached him he barely got control over his weapon.
With my three hits he was pushed back and I'm pretty sure that took a chunk of Aura, also this guy was not fast at all. As I backed up to get some space to plan I was kicked in the back. The kick knocked me off balance and towards the brute. The brute seeing an opportunity he swung downward trying to split me in half. With a quick grab of my Thread to the floor to the side of me. I twisted myself out of the way making the attack graze me, might as well go with the momentum.
I jumped on the claymore and quickly ran up it and kicked brute upward in the chin, I heard a massive crack as his head looked directly upward. Still on his Claymore I use his face as a springboard and launch off of his towards the skinny prick. Ernie saw this and dodged fast, this guy faster. Ernie backed up to Bert and checked him. They both got up and prepared to fight.
Two vs one that's not fair let's change that. I summoned a massive amount of Thread and made it enter a thick tree next to me. My opponents just looked cautious of what I was doing.
Thousands of Threads dug through the tree and soon the tree turned my ally. It transformed and instead of a tree like appearance it looked like a person with only half of its body the top half. I was making each of my Threads to control this to make it seem like I can summon monsters for objects, just to scare them and keep them on their toes.
Seeing my tree friend I commanded him to attack. It dragged itself closer and swung with its right. The second it swung its arms I ran towards the fast one, the faster one is always the most dangerous. They dodged the trees attack, but Ernie was wide open to an attack. I focused my Aura into the center of my palm. As I got to him I hit him with Aura Disturb.
My Aura flowed into him and attached to his Aura turning his buffs off. I had a good 3 to 5 seconds to do as much damage. I do 3 Aura strikes each going at a different angle that did some damage, then I do two slashes at his legs and at the final second I upper cutted him, time to extend my damage period. As he was looking up from the force of the hit I tripped him.
I got up quick and with a massive force behind it I tried to plunge my Longsword into his body, but his Aura didn't let up, he screamed as I kept pushing hoping I was destroying his Aura. He fought back desperately. He even grabbed my blade with his hands that did some more damage, but none of this stopped me, I need this guy dead.
Behind me I heard a war cry and saw a mammoth of a man running towards me. I didn't have enough time to react so I braced for impact. I was hit and was launched instead of going for me for another hit he grabbed his friend and backed up. I hit the floor hard, but got back up fast and looked around and saw my tree with both its arms gone, well my trees useless now so I retract my Thread that was embedded in the wood. Wow, that big guy's strong.
Enemies far away so I pulled out my revolver and started shooting, what the only reason I didn't start my attack on them like this was because of the kids, but now they don't have that leverage so time for some military second I pulled out my revolver the Bert covered Ernie with his body to protect him from my powerfully storm of bullets. The first bullet missed, but the rest hit. I reloaded quickly and kept shooting until I was out of ammo in my pockets, I'll get some more ammo from my bag after this battle.
Damn can these guys take some hits. Let's end this. I let my Thread grab my weapons discreetly and put them behind my back not letting them see it. I ran up as Bert put his claymore in front of him to defend himself. While the claymore covered most of his body it did show some skin behind it. With a jump I went over him. I accidentally landed on Ernie, oh god I'm about to do something fucked up. I turned around and started attacking Bert's exposed back. He turned around slowly compared to me and as he was about to attack me with his massive claymore, but he saw his friend behind me and stopped and started defending again.
I didn't let that happen. I grabbed the edge of his blade and made it out of the way, keeping him open as I kept my assault up. Grabbing his claymore edge did damage my Aura, but that was just a drop in the bucket. Without Bert knowing I kicked the skinny prick away, what never have a enemy close to your back, Clover's words.
Stab after stab the big guy didn't want to go down, but with the force of my entire body behind it I stabbed him and finally his Aura was shattered. Now it's time. With one single command the big guy was a pin cushion. Every weapon I had was behind my back ready to be unleashed. Both Daggers went in the gut and the chest and the Shortsword went into his right leg, great another kill that'll haunt me.
The big guy fell over dead with most of my weapons in him, must have hit one of his organs. I turn around holding my Longsword readying myself to finish this fight. Ernie got back up and saw his fallen friend. He said something with a contorted face filled with anger I couldn't hear and he got ready to fight and he pulled out a Shortsword, where has that been the whole time. With an angry face he closed the distance between us fast. He went in for a swing and I went for a block it, but at the last second he attacked in a different way, a faint this fuck. I was hit on the side.
I backed up, but he kept going hit after hit. Most were blocked, but a few hit me. Thinking quickly I use one of my Threads to grab onto my Shortsword still inside the big guy and stab Ernie in the back. I waited 5 seconds and the skinny guy's face turned from anger to pain. He was knocked off balance and was heading my way. With a heavy swing of my Longsword I hit him in the neck. His Aura shattered, dammit he should have died from that.
Ernie was dropped to the floor breathing heavily. I walked up getting ready to end his life, but I heard someone yell. "Family is Everything!" I turn around and see Bert alive and charging me, Fuckel a duckle.
He grabbed me by the head and slammed me into the ground flaring my Aura. He didn't end there. He forced me a good 2 inches into the ground and started dragging me through it. Dammit, how is he so strong? Wait his Aura's down, my Thread will work on him. Ow Holy hell does this hurt and most of this is on my head, fuck I'm going to have a headache after this.
I summoned one single Thread and wrapped it around his neck, with a certain knot that's meant to decapitate. He didn't notice it so he kept on fighting. All I had to do was pull the Thread fast and he stopped. Quickly I jumped out of his grip and looked at the man. His head was still there, but the light in his eyes was gone and a light red line was around his neck. Then a second later his head came off, the cut was clean. Oh god, I fucking hate myself. As I see the big guys body fall I hear a comotion near where I put the kids, Fuck.
I frantically turn around and see Ernie holding one of the kids with his Shortsword at his neck, the blond one. Fuck
His angry face wiped off his face long ago instead he had one filled with fear. He started to cry out. "Stay away you monster or I'll kill this kid!"
Feeling the need I summoned hundreds of Threads behind my back without the guy knowing. "Hurt him and I'll make your death slow." I am fully committed to do what I say if he does hurt the kid.
While we kept our standoff the blonde kid with his hand grabbed something out of his pocket and with a grunt the kid stabbed his kidnapper in the leg. Ernie yelped and let go of the kid to grab the stab wound to ease the pain. In a second, figuring to kill the kid he grabbed his Shortsword and went to attack the kid who stabbed him. As he was about to swing his lethal weapon at an innocent kid a spear went through his head killing him instantly. I know it was necessary, but God damn do I hate it. The blonde kid ran away from the body and joined his friend.
I went to the kid and saw he was alright and the other kid looked a little spooked, but was good too, they looked familiar, weird.
With my best friendly voice I say. "Hey you kids, good?"
"Yeah thanks for saving us." The black haired kid says bowing.
"No problem, where's your guys home I'm taking you there." I say immediately. I'm on a mission and it doesn't have babysitting on said mission.
With a smile the blond kid says. "It's Konoha." Creepy that he's like this after I just obliterated that guys head in front of him. Also yup I knew some event would happen at Konoha.
I say. "Good, I'm heading there." Those guys I should check their bodies, maybe I'll find something useful, oh God is this my natural gamer instinct calling to loot my fallen foes. God I hope not. "You guys go over there, I need to grab something." I say pointing away from the bodies because I didn't want them to see what I was about to do.
"But wh…" the blonde kid tried to argue before I interrupted him.
With a serious tone I say. "No buts, go."
With a disheartened "Ok." They did what I said.
I walk over to Ernie and I get a better look at him. He was around his 40s and he had a tattoo on his arm, it said Branwen with a symbol next to it. Guess they're in a club. I searched his body and found a couple of useful things. A pretty good Shortsword and a strap that had 5 grenades that had red paint around it, so incendiaries. I went to Bert, he had the same tattoo and the only things I found were 2 grenades, wait no on the side it said it was an incapacitating agent. Knock out gases, why the fuck would these guys need knock out gases. Then I looked at the kids and then I figured it out. To kidnap kids. good riddance I killed some Human traffickers, filth of the ea...Remnant.
I walk back to the kids and say. "Why were these guys kidnapping you?" Probably to enslave people, but I might get some good information.
"I don't know, but for the last 6 days Bandits have been taking kids from our Village." The black haired kid said without delay. Fuck these fucks have been going after kids. I can help, I'm all in with annihilating some Human traffickers.
I ask, getting a little heated from the new information. "Do you know where they are heading?"
The Blonde kid looked at me like I was an idiot because he pointed the way they were going and said. "Well that way." Of course they were going that way.
"Good" as I said that I made a whip of Thread and carved a massive arrow going the direction the Bandits was going in the ground, sun in the morning position and Remnant sun's is like Earth's so East.
With all of the problems out of the way we start walking. "Lets go."
"That was so cool!" The blonde one says.
"Thanks," I said, a little happy to get some recognition.
Later that day
"How's it like being a Huntsmen?" The blonde kid asks excited. Damn does this kid remind me of someone also fucking hell does he love talking, he's been askimg me question the whole day.
Shit I've been figured out...wait he doesn't know time to go with the lies. "Huh…..I mean it's totally cool." God that was terrible. I need to get better at lies, but I hate them so much they make the world hate itself and I already do that to myself.
With a shine in his eyes he says excitedly. "Awesome I want to be one too when I'm older too." Good for this kid, but this life isn't as glamorous as what the history book says. Huntsmen are Heros, sure, but they do the dirty stuff people don't want to hear about.
I say. "That's co…" I cut myself off because we exited the brush and saw Konoha. The Village was surrounded with a wooden wall with steel bars helping keep the wall up. All I saw from over the wall was a couple buildings that looked modern, but a hint of Naruto style in it. I looked for a gate to get these kids home and start my search for the other kids. As I looked closer I saw the massive gate that was almost camouflaged with the wall open and a red haired woman outside looking worried. "I think we arrived." I said as the two kids walked through the brush behind me.
With a speed the blond ran past me and jumped at the woman and said. "Mommy!"
Focusing on the blonde I didn't see the black haired kid run past me to run at the woman as well. "Auntie!" the kid shouted as tears ran down his face. Shit guess the drama got to that kid.
I walk over to the gate where there's a woman holding the blonde kid with a grip only a worried mother could have, as she was hugging him the other kid ran up next to her and started hugging and she returned it. She was hugging both of them. Ok this is nice and all, but there are still other kids out there that need some help.
As I got closer the woman spoke. I guessed this kid's name because I didn't hear it, but what I did hear was. "...I'm so glad you're safe!" She said with a tear running down her face
With a bright smile he points at me and says. "Yeah I'm good because of him!" Seriously, this kid is fearless or he doesn't know the ramifications that fight I was in had.
"Hi," I said awkwardly because I was thinking what I needed to say so I could start my plan to save the kids.
She released the kids and grabbed my hand and started shaking it frantically. "Oh my God thank you Huntsmen if you need…." She was about to keep talking, but I interrupted, I have more important things to do right now.
With a serious tone I say. "Yeah I'm in a hurry. how many kids have been kidnapped and do you have any available warriors that can come with me to get them back."
With a shake of her head she said. "Not all of the strong people including our Mayor of the Village went after the Bandits over to the West. They'll be back with our kids soon and six 9 year olds and one adult that took care of them have been taken." So 6 kids and one adult ok got that and all of the warriors are going after them, but something was off like it was at the tip of my tongue.
With a realization I looked the way she was pointing and it was the opposite way. If they're going west that's the opposite way the Bandits I killed were going, the warrior we're going the wrong way! "That way, they're going West, that's the wrong way! Once they get back tell them to set up a defensive perimeter or go East the Bandit probably has a headquarters over there! I need to go before they do anything to the kids. I'll be back take care of my stuff." I say giving her my bag, but grabbing a couple of things. Her eyes went wide from shock and she listened to every word I said and nodded her head. I was about to head East with speed, but I heard her speak
"Thank you and please save the children, they don't deserve this."
I call on all of my Heroic persona and say with a confident voice. "I will save them, don't worry." With that I ran into the woods going East. Fuck, fuck so no back up. I could just wait, but I know how much that can happen in a day and these are Human traffickers the scum of Remnant.
Ok so I'm sneaking in. I can't do a frontal assault, Jesus after all there might be dozens of them and I only fought two and they took half of my Aura so no fighting if possible. Ok I'm going to infiltrate and release the prisoners they have and I'll put an explosive at the other side of their headquarters that'll distract them enough for me to sneak out with the prisoner and when those warriors get back they'll go after the Bandits, boom plan.
God I know the universe is going to screw with me I just know it so I'll make a contingency just in case. I ran back to where I fought the two Bandits and found them there with flies all around them, God that's disgusting. Dismissing the scene I walk to the arrow I put in the ground and follow in the direction it pointed in.
Hour after hour I ran at a good pace not to tire me out, but it seemed like they didn't have a headquarters over here. As I get to a wall of trees I get past them and see a massive opening with a log wall around a camp, yes I found it.
The question is do I go in alone or do I wait. Pros: pros of waiting, we can take on these fucks and kill them all, I have a chance at not being in a life or death situation again and the Cons: the prisoners could be killed, raped, or tortured. What this worlds dangerous and that's how I'm going to view it for the rest of my life.
Dammit guess I'm going in alone. I lay down in the brush to conceal me and I looked up. It was about to be dark out here unless they have some construction lights or a Faunus among them they won't be able to see me.
Ok lets go over the plan again. Sneak in find the prisoners release them and get the fuck out of there. Backup plan is if I'm found out I start some distraction and let the prisoners out with my Thread, and I stay to keep them busy.
I waited and waited until the sunset was gone and all I could see was pitch black. I let my eyes adjust and look at the wall. The guards are not good at their jobs either they were awake and drinking or asleep, which I'm not complaining about I'm just saying. I quietly sneaked to the right side of the wall and activated my Semblance. I summoned a shovel and slowly started to dig. Surprisingly it didn't make any noise except for the slight movement of the dirt. I thought about going over the wall because of my beaner heritage, but I just feel that that will just get me caught.
Finally after a stressful 5 minutes the hole was dug and I slipped in. Getting out of the small hole I looked around. There were dozens tents in front of me and I saw behind them was a massive fire pit with a bunch of Bandits around it drinking and laughing, I can't wait to kill you assholes. With an idea I got next to one of the tents and placed a present next to it, after that I did it to three of their tents. As I put the final present next to the tent I heard footsteps to my left. I took cover and saw a woman with cat ears on her head and light armor on, Faunus Bandit dammit. I look around and see that I'll get caught if I move away.
All of the sudden I hear water pouring, oh God she's taking a leak. Wait I can kill her right now, Aura only is activated if you feel you're in danger and you have to train to have it on all the time. It's a gamble, but this is her camp and from what that big guy that I killed he said "Family is Everything" kinda signifies that they believe in family, so they feel safe around each other. Ok if she doesn't move in 3 minutes I'll kill her. I waited and nothing I peeked over and saw her just laying down asleep. Ok let's do this. I unsheath my right Dagger and summon some Thread and make it go above and around her to the opposite side that I am on. With a command I made a knocking sound near the tent so it seemed like it was coming from there. She got up with a Bobby head, yes she's drunk.
She started to mutter something as I sneaked behind her. I creeped closer and with a grab I wrapped my left hand around her mouth and plunged my Dagger into her neck in one fell swoop, God I feel like it's getting too easy to just kill now. I felt a struggle at first and then her Aura flared, but it didn't do anything the blade was already inside her. Her muffled screams faded in a second and all that was left was a corpse of a Bandit. One down, Banditville to go.
I rolled her body to the edge of the wall around some bushes and hid her. I searched her body and found a Longsword and took it with me. The prisoner will need a weapon if I expect them to survive the trip back to Konoha. After that I left the body and went to the right of the tents, as I got out of the tent area I got to a massive tent. Big places normally means the boss lives in there so I walk past it, but leave a present behind because fuck it.
Sticking to the shadow and waiting for the Bandits to pass by I got to a garage section of Banditville. There were bikes all the way to big trucks. Oh my god salvation, actual cars.
….Nope not the place, but I will do something here. I summoned Threads and started poking holes and tearing the inside of the engines of the vehicles up, I would love one of these. The inside were being absolutely destroyed without even touching the outside so it looked fine. The gas tanks poked holes in. The battery unplugged, the engine destroyed from the inside. There was one truck that I couldn't get to so I left it. I went around the massive tent to get to the other side to see what was over there.
As I turned the corner I saw a sleeping Bandit on a crate with a beer bottle in his hand. Dammit, here I go killing again. I plumb my Dagger into the unsuspected Bandit while covering his mouth so no noise will alert the others. The fuck didn't even struggle he just died. I dropped his body next to the crate so he won't be so obvious.
I keep going and around the corner I see cages with people in them, wohhh no guard. As if I summoned her a guard appeared from around a wall waving a knife in hand while pointing it at the cage. Torturing prisoner, guess I was right. I start to sneak up in the shadows and see the Bandit with crazed eyes going for her keys.
As I got closer with my bloody Dagger out I see her shove his keys into a cage with a little boy in it, this fuck. As the cage opened the Bandit stepped in and said. "Don't worry you'll go back to mommy, but in little pie…" She was cut off by a Dagger in his Adams apple. I dropped the body and saw the scared kid and I said. "Shhhh….Don't worry I'm getting you guys out, so be quiet."
I search the Bandit and find a set of keys and after that I go to every cage and start setting prisoners free. There were more than just 7 there were like 25, some old, some young. As the hopeless prisoner saw me they got up out of fear, but once I told them I was here to free them they got happy and excited. The toughest looking one I gave the Longsword that I took from that Bandit. The Shortsword I took from that skinny prick and both of my Dagger and my bow and arrows, I gave them to the young adults that were willing to fight. There were too many of them to sneak out of here and if I make a hole like last time the prisoner would take too long and the Bandits will notice and kill them, so that out.
I thought and thought, but no good plan came to mind. If I go with them the Bandit will just follow us and kill us in the woods with almost no difficulty, they will have the cover of night. If I stay and distract the Bandit while they make their escape they will live and make it back to Konoha if they don't pass any Grimm. Dammit I hate being the Heroic asshole sometimes.
I told the small crowd my plan and some of the younger prisoners told me to not do that and come with them and the older ones understood and told me I was brave and I was choosing the right choice and thanked me for my sacrifice.
They did as I said and I prepared mentally and then I unsheathed my Longsword. I closed my eyes and put a small precise amount of Aura into it and with a red hew I unleashed 3 slashes. A door cutout was seen on the wall and I pushed it a little and the piece of wood fell showing them freedom. As soon as the hole was opened they started to run through it. I stayed and helped the elderly and kids.
As I grabbed the last kid I hears a slow clap behind me, Fuck!
In a second I threw the kid to the other side where a man was there to grab him and said "Run Get Out of Here Now!" I turn around and see a female wearing a Grimm helmet, the fuck. Her outfit consisted of a shallow cut black and red dress with black shorts underneath, with a beaded necklace and a belt that wraps around her waist and carries her weapon's sheath. Attached also is a long black object that is either fur or feathers. Her forearms had red armored gauntlets that protrude outwards and solid black gloves. She wore black mid thigh high leggings and black heels. Lastly, she had long hair that looked like feathers behind her mask and bright red eyes that were seeable through the mask, eyes filled with arrogance.
I drew my Longsword and readied myself for a fight, Without even looking affected by me pulling out my Longsword she says. "Quite selfless to go at this alone. You deserve some praise. You almost got out here without anyone noticing, but I knew you were coming." What, that's almost impossible unless she can see the future.
"What, how?" I said backing up a bit. As we had this little standoff I summoned my incredibly tiny Threads and sent them on a mission.
"I've been following you since Kakariko, your strong willed and you just keep getting stronger. At every challenge you face it and overcome it all. You learned so much in just two months far more than someone who's been training for years." She's been following me how. There's no way she followed me with this group of people because that would be just ludicrous right or am I that bad at spotting people.
With an angry tone I say. "Yeah I'm a bit special and you're a stalker good to know." She's praising me and, buttering me up, she wants something.
With a disdain in her voice she says. "You know you don't have to follow what Ozpin says."
The fuck I haven't followed Ozpins rules since day one. "Ozpin, that fuck. I don't do anything he says."
With a tilt of her head in confusion then she says. "Huh guess I was wrong. I'll give you a choice either I kill you or you join my family." Fucking knew she wanted something.
Like hell I ever will. "What the fuck why would I ever do th…." I said until I was interrupted.
With a boom of her voice she said "Because we represent free will and family." She's a psycho.
"Like hell you do." I say immediately. This whole time I've been stalling for time, but now that she's just going on and on I really want to fight.
"Why do you struggle so much for nothing at the end of your road there will only be agony. The people you're trying to save will die no matter what. Join us a family that takes care of itself and I could promise you power." She said in her most convincing voice, which just made me angrier. I felt my Aura flare a bit from my rage that flowed through me. She wants me to let my world burn because I could be free from this deal and have power, how low does she think I am. I took this deal to save them so I made my choice. Also power, she must have been there at the Monestary, fuck how maybe she has invisibility or something like spirt walking. Also if she was observing me at the Monestary she knows of what I learned, fuck I have no trump cards. The question arises in my head.
"Why do you want the kids?" I say a little confused. She let the prisoners go without any resistance, she did it on purpose.
With a snort she says. "I never wanted the kids, they were just bait."
Wait to what the Villagers, Huntsmen. "Too what?" I said as an instinct feeling went through my body like how you get goosebumps.
She pointed her finger at me and said "You'' wait why. "Every event you help at Kakariko you fought against the White Fang and Grimm, at Silverkeep you fought the terrorist off and the Grimm horde, and at the Monastery I'm pretty sure you were going to kill that Reliver even if they didn't tell you. And here you are the second someone needs help you dive head first into it. The most predictable catch I every hunted." This bitch she's been tracking everything I've been doing. The question is does she know about my world.
With an annoyed tone I say l. "Why do you want me?"
"Because I can see you as one of the family. You don't obey society, you do what you feel, you don't obey the heads of the government especially Ozpin, and you have the killer instinct. I see it every time you kill. You can just knock out or incapacitate them, but no you go for the kill. The only time I saw you control yourself was when you were about to slit that White Fang child's throat." Fuck she knows everything. I-I-I go for the kill only because it is necessary no other reason.
"I'll never join a group of scum that kill people." I say with so much venom in my word I'm surprised she didn't even flinch.
"We kill for the family, we take care of our own." She said it like a mantra.
I snorted and said. "Takes care of itself. I killed 5 of your members and you still haven't even drawn your weapon to the one who murdered them." With a feeling my Semblance gave off I knew that they were in place.
With an absolutely serious tone she says. "The weak die and the strong live, so is the way of life. Those family members weren't strong enough for this world, but you, you just get stronger and I feel that won't stop for a while. You're a perfect fit for our family." This bitch, I hate people like her, the ones who want the world to burn and the ones who live get to keep the world or the remains of it.
"That's backwards logic, the strong protect the weak now." I say with full conviction.
"Only naive children say that. Will you pick enslavement to your cause instead of true freedom? The freedom to do what you want when you want." I already want to knock her teeth in. I made my choice I'll save this universe even if it takes my soul
"No, I'll never stop trying to save my people. Either I'll succeed or die trying." I said while getting in a stance to start fighting. I start pumping Aura through my body from my feet to my head and keep doing it faster and faster. My body started to glow a dark red.
"A fool's errand." She replied as she finally saw that I was a threat. She drew her weapon a red bladed Sword that looked japanese, and it was single edged.
Time to go super saiyan. "Scum like you are going to die!" I say. I hate these Bandits, since the day I've been transported here I've been balling up my anger and my rage and now seems like the time to unleash them on the person I fucking hate just for existing. This asshole just expects me to just bow down to her and do as she says.
Fuck that, Nothing will control me. The air around me starts to pick up as the air surrounding my body starts to shine dark red like how super saiyan look. My hair started to lift up a bit. I pour a massive amount of Aura into my whole body at once, this is going to hurt like hell, the feeling of intense strain on my body appeared, but I ignored it. The one thing that went through my mind was "Protect" the trigger to activate True Aura. As my transformation was happening I pulled my Semblance and then several explosives went off.
The Bandit in front of me eyes widened in surprise as she looked at her home, guessing she wasn't omnipresent. The scene behind her was that more than half of her Village was burning. I used my Semblance to trigger my incendiaries and knock out gas that I planted, I pulled the knock out gas a while ago and I just now pulled the pin on the incendiaries. All we heard was people screaming in pain and people shouting words frantically.
She was about to go help her "Family", but in a second I appeared in front of her and Aura slashed. I hit her in the stomach, she was launched back and behind her because of the force of my attack a massive line in the ground behind her appeared, wow that's what I call firepower. This bitch is the leader so that means she's the strongest, I'll use everything right now.
As the Bandit recovered I popped number 10 in my mouth, my trump card Gravity. The purple Dust was swallowed and I felt my body get heavy, but the feeling was ignored. I summoned my whips of Thread and prepared to fight. I fucking hate these Bandits they kill and thrive off of the weak. The people I'm trying so hard to protect. I knew what I was doing. I was getting myself a power up through the rage. When I combine Dust with my Thread it turns out I can touch people's Aura with my Thread without it disappearing, good thing for me.
I was about to go after the Bandit, but she closed the hundred foot distance in an instant and went for my head. I blocked the attack, but I felt my blade radiate with heat, the hell. I look at her blade and I see at its edges a bright red like fire Dust, fuck a Dust infused weapon that's going to be a pain in the ass.
She followed up another attack trying to get through my block. In a second I cover my blade with my gravity Thread and let her Sword hit it. Her Sword grew as heavy as a brick of metal suddenly, but she didn't notice the difference until she picked her Sword back up, she lost focus on the fight for a millisecond and I reveled in it. I slammed a whip of gravity Thread into her stomach pushing her back. I didn't let up, I kept going instead of my Thread. I used my Longsword. She kept up, but she wasn't nearly as fast, seriously is this Bandit fucking strong I'm using my full strength and she's keeping up.
I need to finish this soon or I'll run out of Aura. As I swang I overdid it and she took the opportunity to kick me to make some space to breathe, dammit I can't let her wait off the Dust need to keep the pressure up. With a pump of Aura in my legs I elbow tackled her in the face and with the force of my momentum I hit her with my True Aura's strength. She was pushed back a bit as her Aura flared with a deep red.
She dug her blade into the ground to stop her from flying and in a second she came at me with her old speed, fuck the gravity Dust wore off already. She sheathed her Sword and drew it again instead of a red blade it was light blue. She didn't reach me, but was still a few feet away when she slashed the air and it looked like she was aiming towards my feet. The air freezes then my feet froze to the ground, dammit. I jumped to get out and as I was in the air. She sheathed her weapons and drew a yellow blade.
She jumped up to me and kicked me in the stomach sending me higher. Before I went flying she grabbed my shirt and pulled herself on top of me and dug her blade in my back. Suddenly my whole body started to contract and freak out, fuck lighting Dust. I fell all the way down with the blade in my back and when I hit the ground I felt the blade break on impact, my Aura flared like it was about to shatter, but I didn't notice.
I turned around and I saw the bitch left a grenade on my ass. In a second I grabbed the grenade and threw in the direction I heard the most screams, hopefully that got some asshole. I got back up and saw the Bandit draw another blade and come at me with incredible speed, she's so fast dammit I don't think I can win this. this a stupid idea, but it could work.
As she got to me blocking, she attacked with precision. She kept on attacking going from slashed to stabs trying to get through my defense to me. Then I saw her going for a downward slash and as the blade came down I dropped my blade. Her eyes followed the blade as I tackled her and held her.
She was surprised, but not stunned. She started to hit me with her hilt trying to get me off. As I was holding her with a bear-like grip I summoned my gravity Thread to surround her. Slowly her body started to slow down significantly. I used my Thread to bring back my Longsword and as it got back into my hand I went in for a stab. She was about to block it, but was too slow. She was hard in the chest, her Aura flared with intensity again.
I kept up the assault, but instead of going for another stab I went for a trip and trip she did. She fell down and I tried to plunge my Longsword into her, but before I could have she slashed the air in front of her with her Sword and a red portal formed, the inside looked like the bedding area that was on fire. My blade and hand went in because of momentum, but before I could get my hand and Longsword out the portal started to close, fuck.
In a split millisecond decision I dropped the blade and backed up. As my hand left the portal it closed, fuck my main weapon. Dammit she's adapting to everything I do, she's experienced and I'm pretty sure way more than me.
She got back up as I got out of my funk. I pull out my revolver and start shooting. As the bullets flew towards her She just cut them all in half, you've got to be kidding me she can do this while my gravity Dust is still on her. She didn't race to get to me. She just stood there doing nothing and just waited for me, she was mocking me!
I'm going to kill this Bitch. With my True Aura still activated I dashed up to her and poured Aura into my left palm. I sent my palm with the force of a train and as it was an inch close to her mask suddenly my hand stopped. She grabbed my wrist almost without effort, a second later she started to twist. My Aura tried to help, but I felt my left wrist snap. my Aura flared then suddenly shattered signaling my True Aura mode deactivated, fuck I forgot my Aura's increblie fagiled in True Aura mode.
The glow around me disappeared along with the strength and speed it gave, fuck I'm shieldless, now I'm killable. She didn't let go, she then started to punch my face in, over and over while she kept twisting, my face became one of pain as blood came out of my nose and a large cut on my forehead. With a yell of rage and desperation I summoned a massive tail of Thread to hit her, but she just slashes through it without even looking. Fuck, I'm losing bad.
She then hit me with her open palm and I felt my strength leave, Aura palm fuck. This bitch used my own attack against me. I grabbed my chest from the pain and as I did I left my face defenseless. She spinned and the roundhouse kicked me in the face sending me into the massive tent that was still on fire.
I coughed up blood, this can't be it. I was about to get up, but I saw the Bitch come inside walking like I wasn't an immediate threat, mocking bitch. As she got closer I unsheathed my Shortsword and got ready to fight again, I'm not going to die here, I'll just pull some bullshit out of my ass, like always. She sheathed her weapon again and pulled out the red blade and slashed at me, but before she could do it a blade stopped her.
A big Broadsword stopped her wave of fire from consuming me. I look at the person and see that Huntsmen from two days ago, what's he doing here.
"Hey sis, why are you beating up a weak little kid?" The Huntsmen says nonchalantly to the Bandit chief. Sister, this guy's family with this bitch.
"That little kid killed my family and refused my offer!" She said in an angry tone that would strike fear into me, but it didn't.
"The kid has a Heroic spirit, that's why now I'm going to take the kid and leave before the actual bad stuff happens, anyways your family needs you." He says trying to reason with her.
Her face of anger turned into annoyance. "No he's going to die, brother." Like hell I was.
"No can do, Ozpin wants him alive." He says. So he's Ozpin's spy, oh thank the lord my bullshit wins the day.
"Ozpin why can't you ever think for yourself, brother." The woman's voice was more disappointed than angry.
"Sorry I'm a doer not a thinker." Huh that's my thing.
"Then it's a battle." She said pushing more against his blade.
"A battle, kid you've got company." He says while backing up from the chief and getting in a stance.
I turn around and see another Bandit run inside with his spear in the air, did this guy know how to hold a spear? He saw me and came charging with his spear near his hips, I saw an opportunity to be a badass. I got up and ran up to him and ducked to the left of him and the second the blade of the spear got to me I ducked even more evading it, but I used my right leg to go over the shaft of the spear and pin it to the ground. With a crash his spear head was in the ground and my right foot stopped him from moving, the guy was stunned. This I don't feel good about doing, but I do what needs to be done, I grab the Bandit by the throat and summon Thread from my wrist and it went straight into the Bandit's throat.
Quickly the Thread spread throughout his body, that Bandit leader taught me something when she broke my wrist, Aura only protects you outside not your insides. With a single mental comand the guy dropped to the floor with his inside eviscerated beyond recognition. I deactivate my Thread and feel the Dust inside my body vanish. I feel the pain of my broken wrist and very carefully wrapped it in my Thread, setting the bones right then tightening it so it can heal properly. I also put more Thread on it. I put a spike in the knuckle end of the brace so I can keep fighting with it.
I won't be able to get out of here alive if I don't fight them like their Grimm. I need to do this, I need to get out of here alive and for that to happen I have to become a Monster, time to take the kiddy gloves off. I set the dispenser to 7 and eat the picked Dust. With a massive spike of pain I fell over, this pain was instantaneously and only stayed for a second until it stopped. The memory of the pain remained as I got up. As I got back up three Bandits ran in looking around and saw me.
One of them saw the dead corpse of his "Family" and immediately charged me with brass knuckles looking at things and as she got to me I summoned Thread and sent it 10 feet in front of me and created a shield blocking her from me. As she hit the shield a massive explosion happened. I was pushed back, but got my balance immediately and in the cover of smoke the explosion made, I closed the distance. I ran through the smoke cloud and found no one and on the other side I looked back and saw the woman that attacked on the floor holding her ears, must have damaged her ears from the sound of the explosion. The other two were looking where I last was seen.
With a perfect opportunity I ran up to the one on the left and covered his mouth with my hand, Thread left my open palm over his mouth and I forced the Thread into his body. He freaked out and tried to run away, but I dug the Thread deep into his body until it hit bone, his death was gruesome. I'm going to have real bad PTSD after this. With a command I forceable controlled his body like if he was the puppet and I was the shitty puppeteer to walk towards his friend, on the inside the Bandit was bleeding internally heavily.
His friend grabbed him and quickly started checking him. With a command I activated the combustion Dust inside the Dead Bandit and in an instant the Bandit was turned into pieces, the air was misty with blood and the piece that survived the explosion fell to the ground with a gruesome slap. The Bandit that was checking the now chunks of bloody meat was screaming at the top of his lungs, I just gave myself a nightmare. I can feel it.
The Bandit lady looked up to see the now dead remains of her fellow Bandit. Dammit got to keep this fighting up, I sent hundreds of Threads at the Bandit lady. She quickly started to punch the Thread, for a couple of seconds she repelled the Thread until they started to wrap around her arms flexing them so they stayed straight. Quickly I wrapped around her whole body with my combustion Thread, after a good 15 seconds I made a living mummy.
"I'm going to kill you, you monster!" The Bandit that was covered in the blood of his friend said as he ran at me.
As he said this I threw the explosive mummy at the guy. He was about to catch the mummy from instinct, but remember my Thread exploded, but it was too late, the mummy hit him in the stomach and exploded sending him outside. The woman was on the floor still alive and from the look of it a broken Aura. I walked over while barely holding in vomit from what I just did. The woman saw me and looked afraid like I was the devil himself, from how things were going I might be him. She brought her arms up in a fetal attempt to stop her death. Shortsword in hand I stabbed and went for the kill, the blade went past her broken brass knuckles and went through her hand and forearm then ended in her head, Jesus Christ even if I save my planet I'm pretty sure I'm going to hell.
Wondering if the Huntsmen was still alive I looked over to the otherside of the tent and saw the destruction the Huntsmen and the Bandit chief created. The tent was just rags with pieces scorched with fire and pieces frozen over and it didn't end there their battle was pulled over near the bedding area, hopefully the Huntsmen alright maybe I can help him if we both take on the chief we have a good chance. As I'm looking at their battle of both wit and strength I saw what True Warriors fought like. No hesitation, bodies filled with grace almost like a dance, both of them blocked every attack and counted each other counter almost like they knew what would happen before it happens.
As I was enthralled by the sight I heard a roar behind me. The Bandit that I sent out of the tent came back with 3 friends. He attempted to hit me with his weapons, sickles. I blocked his attack barley and with a new insight of fight from what I saw from the battle outside. I kicked the Bandit in the stomach, but as he flew from the force I covered his stomach with a combustion Thread. As he flew back to his friends behind him I ignited the Thread. As the explosion happened the three that entered were blown back. Seeing a little bit through the smoke I see a bright yellow appear then disappear like when you shatter Aura, guess the Bandit is out of Aura.
I summoned a whip and I sent it to the laying down Bandit leg. After a second of waiting it wrapped around the Bandit and with force I sent the Bandit into his two other friends. He slammed into them, throwing them down again and as they were lying on the floor I covered my Shortsword in my Thread and threw it in their direction. With the help of the Thread attached to the Shortsword it met its mark, the back of the spine of the Auraless Bandit killing him. Both of the Bandits got close to the dead Bandit and went to check for a pulse. With a command the Dust on the Shortsword exploded hitting both of the Bandits.
I ran into the smoke to conceal myself while I created a trap and to grab my thrown Shortsword. Second after second I felt my heartbeat pound like when you're under heavy pressure.
The smoke started to disappear and the Bandit that didn't get hit by his friend saw his enemy's silhouette back and took the opportunity to end the fight once and for all. He swung his heavy mace and as he was inches away from hitting me he noticed it was me it was my decoy. He tried to stop, but the momentum of the weapon didn't stop and the instant the mace hit my decoy it exploded sending the Bandit towards the garage section. As I was ready to keep fighting my Aura flashed signaling me I got my Aura shield back up, good I can take one hit before actually getting hurt.
I looked over to the two now standing Bandits and looked at the horrid scene of their Bandit friend that had a massive hole in the back. One of the Bandits snapped out of it and aimed her bow at me. In an instant I formed a wall of Thread defending me. The arrow kept coming one after the other, but none of them fell; they all stuck to the Thread wall. With an idea I started to cover the arrows with Thread that were stuck in the wall. I take down my wall of Thread and send them in to attack and I see the other Bandit running at me with a staff. With a command I sent the now covered arrows of his ally at him.
He quickly with speed hit two out of the air, dammit he adapted quick. So I switched tactics. I pincer maneuver hitting him from both sides with at least 15 arrows, he wasn't prepared for that and soon his Aura was getting damaged severely and then it shattered and he started to get stabbed. Soon he was a pin cushion. With a command I ignited the arrows inside of him liquidfing him.
I turned to the bitch firing the arrows and she was right in front of me with her glowing purple fist cocked for a blow. She hit me on the chest and I was sent flying, the attack didn't hurt at all, it just pushed me. As I turn around to see where I'm heading I see the Bandit with the mace getting ready to hit me like I'm a baseball, shit.
I created a spear and pointed it in the batter direction and with a good decision he dodged out of the way, oh thank God I thought I was going to be a home run. I roll with the fall and I look behind me and see a pickup truck, the one I did not destroy on the inside. I ran to the back of it on the out in the open side. I open the tailboard that keeps all of the things from flying out while you're driving. I was about to get on, but the mace guy swung as he turned the corner.
I blocked with my Shortsword, but not properly so my Shortsword was hit out of my hand and into the ground. He went for a heavy swing, but before he could finish it I punched him with my left spiked fist and it landed on his liver. He leaned over with pain from the most vulnerable organ, Aura makes some of the pain go away, but some does get through. As his head was in my direction I grabbed his head.
I summoned Thread on the back of my hand and I ignited the Dust propelling my hand with the Bandit head into the open tailboard again and again make his Aura flare, the feeling in my body signaled the Dust in my system was gone after the fifth smash, but I don't stop there I kept going over and over and with a final smash his Aura shattered. Feeling the W.W.E inside of me call out. I wrap my left arm around his head and squeeze while my right picks him up and I lifted him over me and I slamed him behind me on the open tailboard. Oh God I'm going to John Wick this guy, the Bandit daze probably from the councusion I just gave him. I grabbed him and pulled him so his head was not supported by his tailboard and with both hands I slammed his head down snapping his neck.
If I was in a movie I would feel cool, but right now I could not be more disgusted with myself. As I see the dead man, the Bandit that fired the arrows turns the corner and sees me with another dead body of her family. She screams with rage and runs at me with Daggers in hand. I summoned a thick Thread and made it grab my Shortsword on the ground. The blade whipped in the air behind her and with an idea I made the blade go into her back and I dashed forward.
As the blade hit her back it added force to her momentum making her stumble and I dodged to the left with my right leg ready to trip her. She tried to catch herself before she got to my leg, but she couldn't. She fell over with my blade still digging in her back. In one fluent motion the Thread force was intensified by me getting a hold of my Shortsword and adding my physical force. With quick thinking I pour Aura into my left spiked hand and hit the Bandit on the back taking away her strength buffs with Aura Disruptor and making my Thread cast disintegrate. She tried to get out, but I overpowered her and forced her down, over and over I stabbed her. I didn't stop even when I was pretty sure she was dead now. My vision blinded by red like blood got into my eyes, but that's not right. None of the blood got into my eyes. I felt the feelings of rage almost like how I did when I was being tortured by Coal.
No control yourself or you'll actually become a monster. I layed on the floor and started to breathe in and out using the Monk's way of calming down. The feeling was invasive like a disease it filled my body and wanted to control. I layed there for 2 minutes breathing, getting my mental state back into order. Most of the rage disappeared, but I did feel it in the back of my mind like it was lying in wait for it's opportune moment to come out. I got up and grabbed my Shortsword out of the now mutilated body that became my outlet for a good minute. I searched her quickly and found a bow and arrows. I threw away the bow because I didn't need it and I took the arrows. Before I did anything else I made another cast on my left arm, I kinda want it to keep working after today.
I got to the truck door and opened it. I looked inside and found the keys on the driver seat, damn do these guys trust each other. I grabbed the last three incendiaries and planted two on the truck and had one in hand. I reloaded my revolver and turned on the truck, this is a stupid idea, but it can end the whole fight if I hit her. The mechanisms of the truck were almost identical to a truck from Earth so I just turned the key and pressed on the petal flooring the truck.
Quickly I put my dispenser in my mouth and set it to 8 headlights. With a swallow I felt tingles in my body like it was overloaded with energy and little creatures, a very disgusting feeling. Hard Light it's a very good shield if you use it right and if you combine it with your weapons it can increase the amount of damage it does. Driving the truck I went straight through the ripped apart chief tent and went straight to the bedding area where the bitch is. As I got over the tent I heard a scream of pain and then a massive metalbending sound just outside of my door.
As I looked into the rearview mirror a person appeared, a big guy cocking his fist back. On instinct I formed a shield blocking his attack. His fist broke though the window and hit the shield and bounced off. Seeing him a bit off balanced with a punch I went for the liver, my new best friend. My punch did not reach so I just made a Thread pole come out of my fist and punched again, I hit him in the liver and with a gasp of pain the big guy leaned over with his mouth open near the open window. I shoved the incendiary into his mouth and summoned Thread to shove the incendiary as far down his mouth and wrap around his mouth to stop him from spitting it out. He started to freak out trying to get the grenade out of his mouth, but couldn't, not wanting to get hit by the explosion I made a giant Thread gauntlet with a spike on my right hand and punched the guy in the nose.
He flew off with tears in his eyes from the fear of death or from me punching his nose, I didn't know I kinda didn't care.
I kept driving when an explosion made the truck shake a bit. As I got to the middle of the bedding area I saw the Huntsmen and the chief fighting it off near the gate of Banditville where Grimm were starting to claw their way in. They both fought with everything using every motion with deliberate attempt to hurt the other. What was weird was the Huntsmen had a smaller Sword than the big ass one he had. With another boost I floored the truck right to the chief.
As she was fighting she pushed the Huntsmen back with a kick and she turned my way as I was about to hit her. In an instant she slashed and the middle of the truck was cut in half right in the middle sending both pieces of the truck off trajectory, she cut through a fucking truck that was fast bullshit.
While the truck didn't hit, my plan and was still in action I quickly covered myself in my hardlight Thread creating a body shield and using some spare Thread to grab the incendiaries from the air and quickly unpinned them and sent them towards the chief. I jumped out of my half of the slices truck and landed on the floor with a crash. I got up and looked at the chief. She was about to cut the incendiaries in half, but a flying random Sword hit her in the side, stopping her.
They exploded right in front of her and she was consumed by the fire. I slowly got up and felt how clunky the hardlight suit was and started to improve it. I put more Thread in more important places and removed the Thread that was in the way of my mobility. I look around and see a massive Broadsword on the floor and I grab it, realizing the Broadsword was the Huntsmen's. I have it over my shoulder and walk over to the Huntsmen and see him getting a breather from the fight and holding my Longsword. Around him were a couple of dead bodies and weapons laying on the floor, he must have thrown that Sword. I walk up to him and he turns to look at me then he see's I'm carrying his Broadsword.
I say while gesturing to the Longsword. "Swap"
In an instant he says. "Swap"
He throws me my Longsword and I toss him his Broadsword, damn this guy must be incredibly strong because I'm pretty sure I can barely use that in a fight effectively. As I got my main weapon back I started to feel the confidence inside of me start to swell.
"Let's take her down." I said getting ready to fight the chief with the Huntsmen.
"No you stay out of it." The Huntsmen say
"Why two against one we can beat her." I said trying to reason with him.
With a shake from his head he points in the distance and says. "No, you take care of her second in command."
"Second in command where is she?" I say while looking in the direction he was pointing and see a young woman with tanned skin, short brown hair and icy blue eyes. She had a tattoo of a bird rising from flowers on her left arm. She wore a brown vest over a torn white shirt, with a collar that appears to spike up behind her neck. She wore brown pants with the right side rolled up to her thigh. She also wore dark brown knee guards that go down to her brown boots. She looks almost important.
"She's here now, be careful, I feel she'll be a handful." He says as he runs to where the chief was emerging from a sea of fire with her clothes charred.
Dammit she's probably as strong as the chief. I quickly check my Aura and feel like it's about 35 percent back, wow that was fast. Ok I can take her on like how I am now or I can use True Aura again, but this time have a hard light armor to take the damage while my Aura stays only to fuel my True Aura mode, Dust my defense and True Aura as my offense the perfect balance. Going with that plan. I started to woven the body suit so the only place that wasn't covered was my eyes so I could see. I made the area around my eyes almost skin tight so I can see normally. With focus I start activating my True Aura. Slowly, but surely I started to glow like last time and I felt my power exceeded my normal standards. I probably look like a blue power ranger going red super saiyan.
With a massive dash I got to the woman. She saw me at the last second as she was about to dodge out of the way, but she wasn't fast enough and was hit on the neck from my Longsword. She stumbled back from the hit as her Aura flared from the massive hit. She looked at me with rage and tried to hit me with her weapons, they looked like the Energy Sword from Halo, but instead of it being straight like it was a circle with sharp edges and the inside of the circle was a double barrel looking gun. She did a vertical slash, I ducked under it at the last second. She went for another hit, but it was a straight jab, I backed up enough to not get hit, but I heard a click and I was shot in the chest. The shot pushed me back, but it didn't stop their my chest caught on fire, fuck she has Dust bullets.
I backed up to get some breathing room and as I did she ran up to me to keep the pressure up. She jumped to get a heavy hit on me, but as her feet left the ground I summoned a whip. I swang the whip and it wrapped around her ankle and I started to spin her around like if I was a cowboy spinning a lasso. I kept this up until I thought of an idea and an idea popped up. I pulled out my revolver and got ready to shoot. I threw her forward and when she was in the air I ran at her while shooting. As I was getting close to her I summoned a hunk of Thread and put it on the edges of the blade to make it sharper. As she landed gracefully I was upon her with a cocked Longsword in hand ready to stab.
With force I stabbed at her. She was able to get a block in, but not properly she had her weapon sideways so I hit the inner contraptions of the weapon. I kept pushing and she was starting to get dug into the ground from the massive force. Suddenly my hardlight Dust ran out, fuck. I kept stabbing hopefully to break her Aura and kill her before my Aura runs out. I got closer because of the vanishing of the Thread so I was a good 2 feet from her.
She saw my blue armor vanish and saw an opening. She sacrifaied some Aura by letting my blade hit her making me get closer and started to shoot me in the stomach with her gun that shot wind bullets, fuck wind bullet are armor piercing.
My Aura flared from the hit and I stopped attacking and backed off before my Aura shattered and left me defenseless. As I was backing up I grabbed my capacitor, but before I could get more Dust in my system she caught up with me and grabbed my hand stopping me and used her other hand with the still working weapon and stabbed me, she hit like a tank and she went for my liver. I hunched forward from the pain and as I did she grabbed my head and kneed me straight in the face.
With a crash on the nose my Aura shattered for the second time today. As I was about to back up again to get some breathing room to think of a plan, she latched my right shoulder with the middle of her weapon and pulled cutting straight through my flesh and almost hitting bone, jesus fucking Christ on a Christmas caral this fucking hurts. I backed up again, but she kept her assault up and she got closer and looked like she was going for a stab. Quickly I make a desperate attempt to defend myself and make a lay of armor underneath my chest piece and clothes. Instead of going for a stab she fired her wind Dust bullets, No.
I should have been shredded cheese, but my armor and Thread stopped most of the pellets, but some got through and whent a little bit in and boy did they hurt like a fucking bitch. I won't go down like this not now not ever. With a reinforced resolve I go on the offense.
She goes for another stab, but I duck fast enough to dodge the shells and with a vice like grip I grab her wrist. I summon Thread behind my hand to help force my grip to become tighter. I focused the pressure to go to the joint part of the wrist and in a second it snapped.
The bitch screamed in pain as she ripped her hand out of my grip. She backed up and checked her wrist and she was about to go back to fighting until a portal appeared next to her and the chef who looked ragged like she was just mauled by a hungry lava bear walked to the bitch, what I'm pretty sure those exist in this world.
"We need to go, the Villagers are coming." I overheard the chief say. Oh thank God saved by the bell.
"But let's kill him before We go. He's killed so many of us." The Bitch says pretty much foaming from the mouth from how angry she was.
With a No nonsense attitude she says "No, I need to save the rest of my family before it's too late and you're coming with me. That's an order Vernal."
"...Yes Raven." The bitch nearly got out as they both started walking to the portal.
"Oh and Andres you will die by my family hand." She says while smiling and a second later they walked into the portal leaving my sight. Then the portal closed leaving me in the remains of Banditville. I looked around and saw the destruction I created almost the whole place was burning or became a charred version of its former self, I could barely see the charred corpses in the tents from the people affected by the knockout gases that didn't wake up as they burned alive. I looked back to the garage area and saw a person then a portal open up underneath most of the vehicles and they fell into the portal then it closed up, heh all of those were destroyed.
The smell of charred flesh along with the Human eating flies hit me like a storm. It's over. I think I won. I look around for the Huntsmen to make sure he's alright. As I go looking for him I see a massive pile of wood that's on fire move a bit, there he is. As I get closer the pile explodes and a Beringel emerges, oh fuck wrong person. As the thing charged at me I got ready to fight, but halfway through something landed on it's back. In a second the thing that landed on its back cleaved its way through the Grimm and landed on the floor. Holy shit he took care of it that fast.
"You good?" I asked, but from how he looked I'd say he was. The Huntsmen didn't looked that beaten to me his hair was messy and his clothes were a bit damaged, but from their nothing no blood on him no cuts, I can't wait until I can go through something like this without being beat silly
"Yeah, where the Bandits?" He said nonchalantly like we didn't just fight for our lives.
"They retreated, they said the Villagers were here." I answer his question while pulling out my first aid supplies to treat my wounds. There still no sign of the Villagers though.
"Oh that's good I feel like an abused punching bag." He said while stretching his muscles. He was a punching bag. Look at me, I'm almost dead.
"No kidding." I am happy that I survived another major event.
As I finished disinfecting my wounds and wrapped them and my huge gash on my right shoulder the gate to Banditville exploded and dozens of people came out of the smoke all looking ready to fight anything. Half of them when looking around searching for any other enemy and the other half surrounded me and the Huntsmen creating a circle with every single one of them pointing their weapon at us, what is this guy's name anyway?
"Put your hands up scum!" One of the people says while aiming an assault rifle at us. Oh shit he shoots that at me I'm dead.
Quickly I say. "Wait, we were fighting the Bandits!" Please believe me.
The man got angrier and said. "Stop lying, Bandit wher…..", but before he could finish he was interrupted.
An old man came out from behind the wall of people surrounding us with guns and yelled. "Stop, don't hurt the child, he freed us!" Freed us. Holy shit it's one of the old people I saved.
The guy pointed the assault rifle at me and was confused by what was happening and said. "Uhhh. I'm sorry, but what about him?" He said gesturing to the Huntsmen while lowering his gun and signaled everyone to do the same. Crisis averted.
"He's with me. He helped me survive the attack." I said clearing the Huntsmen. Hopefully that's good enough.
As the guy with the rifle was about to talk, but before he could a blonde man spoke up. "Well if you vouch for him he's good in my book." I would've gotten a closer look at him, but my vision started to go black, I'll find out who he is later now I need to stay awake. "Men scout the area if you find any Bandit, grab them and keep them alive. I want to know why they came after our Village." He said commanding dozens of people and without a word they complied.
I was about to walk to one of them, but the blonde guy who was in charge came up to me and I said. "Hey you got a doctor or something around here?" Please dear God say yes I'm bleeding heavily now.
"Yeah we do, he's over there, you look like you're half dead, you need help getting there?" He said he was concerned because I was limping.
"No I'm good." I say while dragging my beaten body over to the doctor.
It took awhile for the man to clean me up, disinfect the wound again, carefully take the pellets out of my chest, and he stitched up the chest wounds, stitched my torn shoulder, he also pulled out a brace out of nowhere and set it on my left wrist to heal. Remind me to knock myself out before I get healed up because the fucking treatment was so painful I was given some pain killers and boom I was healed, well not heal completely, but good enough so I don't just fall apart. He told me to not to fight for either it was a day or a week I don't remember.
The blonde guy in charge came to me after I was patched up and told me they found the prisoners when they were coming back to the Village. they were taken back to the Village to get them back to health, but one old man told them he would lead them here to the Banditville. After the warriors checked the Banditville we left. There were 43 confirmed Bandits no civilians dead, fucking hell I've already killed more that half of a hundred.
We got back to the Villages and I was given a room somewhere, I don't remember so well because of the blood loss, so you know I'm going to be surprised when I wake up. Hey just so you know I'm better than every shonen character because I always stay awake after a massive battle. I don't just knock myself out and let others take care of me while I'm out.
Time to Sleep.
Author's Note
Hope you liked the chapter.
