Hello my friends! I'm back with another chapter of Black Roses. Just a heads up this chapter time skips 3 months later since Black joined Cinder's team. So during that time skip Black has learned a good amount of remnant, like dust, dust crystals, basic knowledge of Grimm and some of the planet's history. So yea, with nothing else to say let get go!

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Black was currently walking down the street. He came to a stop in front of a weapons store and walked in. "Welcome, can I help you with anything?" A middle-aged old shopkeeper asked.

"…I need information about various types of weapons." The shopkeeper nodded and went to the back. He later came out with a large book which he struggled to hold. "Careful it's heavy," Black lifted the book from underneath with one hand and headed to a nearby table to read it. The shopkeeper had a surprised look before it changed into a smile. "I miss being young."

Black read the book, flipping through pages and looking at various types of weapons. Why was he looking at weapons? It wasn't because he wanted one. No, it was because during one of his missions he saw a human male attacking some Grimm with a large sword that changed into a gun and fired dust rounds which surprised him a bit. The display of skill this human had was quite impressive for mortal standards. Black wanted to fight the human to test their skills for himself but Cinder ordered him not to engage since his face needs to be kept hidden from the enemy for some reason.

It annoyed him a bit to not get to fight this human but oh well; there are lots of other mortals out there that could probably entertain him a bit.

After some time reading the book, he was quite amazed by the many types of melee and gun combinations these mortals came up with. Compared to the mortals back on earth, the ones here are more advanced and creative in terms of weaponry. But then again that's pretty much the only way these mortals can fight, with the use of weapons, without them, they're nothing.

A cough broke his thoughts. Looking back he saw the shopkeeper giving him a sad smile. "Sorry kid, store's closing." Black sighed and got up and walked up to the window. Shutting the blinds of all windows, causing the shopkeeper to looked at him with a confused look. "Umm, son, what are you doing?" Black went up to the door that lead to the storage room and locked it. Now the shopkeeper was getting a bit nervous.

"Stealing is a very bad thing to do faunas," Black turned around with a serious face. "Especially, stealing from the very people whom helped you in your time of need," The shopkeeper's eyes widen in fear. He took some steps backwards before making a dash towards the front door but stopped when he saw Black standing in front of the door. "H-How-."

Black shot a small beam from his finger at the shopkeepers left leg. He fell in pain and clutched his bleeding leg. Black walked forward making the man crawl backwards. "P-Please I have a family!" Black's face showed no change.

"Why should I care?" He lifted his arm and blasted the man out of existence. Why do his targets think he'll care if they have a family or not. When Black walked out he flew up in the air and headed back to his partner's hideout.

On his way there his thoughts returned to someone he's been trying to sense while spending his time on this planet. Zamasu, if he was transported to this planet then maybe Zamasu might've been transported here as well or at least any neighboring planets. If he was, maybe he could help with this collar around his neck. Black reached up and touched the tattoo; the collar appeared with a black and red mist. His anger rose a bit when he remembered what Cinder explained to him how Salem is able to hurt him.

Flashback…

Black was in the living room trying to remove the collar around his neck with his hands but no matter how hard he pulled or pressure he applied the damn collar would not break. He once used his ki blade to cut through it but it also proved no results. "The hell is this thing made of?!" Black said to himself.

"It's made from your Aura," Cinder said walking in." And Salem's magic as well." Black glared at her. The more you increase your power so will the spell."

"What are you talking about?" She walked up to him and touched the collar.

"I'm guessing one of Salem's subordinates was the one who unlocked your Aura." Black didn't respond which gave her the answer that she was right. "Well my guess is during the unlocking of your Aura she probably infected her dark magic in you, thus being able to give you those painful punishments when you don't listen." It kinda cleared some question for him but still how can someone so weak hurt him? Unless she's suppressing her real power,

"She's attacking your very soul, and if you need a more simple explanation think of it as your heart she's attacking."

Black looked away. "She probably planned this from the very moment she saw me kill her children with ease." But she was a mortal, how could she cause harm to a god like himself? In the end, there was no escaping this, at least not right now but maybe later he'll find a way to rid this collar off.

It hurt like hell when she used her magic on him but one good thing did come out from it. He could feel himself getting slightly stronger after one of Salem's tortures, thanks to this Saiyan body.

"Well, that's all I wanted to say." Cinder got up and exited the room but not before saying. "Just remember not to mess with that collar anymore; we wouldn't you to die now would we."

End of flashback…

Black landed on the ground and walked towards a warehouse. Upon entering he immediately blocked a kick with his forearm. "Darn, I thought I had you there." A boy with silver-gray hair said with a smirk.

"Mercury he just got back. Leave him alone because I'm not helping you if he decides to break your arm again." A girl with mint color hair said.

Black narrowed his eyes at Mercury. "Alright, I'll stop, for now." He said the last part to himself. Mercury was a guy with silver-gray hair and eyes and white skin. He wore a gray-black jacket that zips up halfway, black pants with a gray line at the sides and black boots. Mercury also wore fingerless gloves along with some type of armor on his shoulder that reaches down half way of his arm and braces on the other half of his arm. He recently discovered that Mercury had some type of robotic legs that are attached half way to his thighs.

His constant annoyance has helped Black learn to control his anger and tolerance for these humans a bit. But there are times where his temper could be pushed so much before he let loose on the human boy.

His next partner was a human as well but a female. Her name is Emerald Sustrai. She had mint color hair that reached down to her neck, red color eyes, and medium brown color skin. She wore a white top with an olive cropped undershirt and an armband on her left arm. She also had white pants with brown chaps and an overlong belt.

Out of all the humans Black's met Emerald is someone he can tolerate. He walked to the couch and sat down. "So, how was it?" Emerald asked.

"He turned to dust when he mentioned having a family." Black answered. Mercury snorted and walked away, probably to get some food or something. "Any word of the woman yet?" He asked which caused Emerald to give him an annoyed look. "No nothing yet," Black laid his head back on the couch and rested his eyes.

Some hours later Black woke up, looking around he didn't see either Emerald or Mercury. Getting up he stretched his limps before walking out the warehouse. He looked up at the night sky. It was one of the things he liked about the earth and this planet. The cool air and quiet atmosphere were relaxing.

As he was admiring the night he sensed three familiar ki's behind him. Turning around he was faced with his two partners and his current boss. "Enjoying the night I see." Cinder said.

"I was, till you three should up." He was earned with an angered look from Emerald. "Oh I'm hurt," Cinder chuckled. Black looked at the three with a serious face.

"We're moving out?" Cinder nodded. "We're going to meet up with the White Fang's main base of operation. There's something I've got to take care over there."

Cinder walked to a Bullhead that was parked nearby. "Mercury and Emerald will be working with them from now on." Black and the other two followed. "And me?" He asked.

"There's someone I want you to meet." Black raised a brow. Who the hell would she want him to meet? "Who?"

Cinder turned to face him. "Adam Taurus." That name, he heard it a couple of time amongst the White Fang. Taking a seat in the left side of the Bullhead Black began his meditation. He never liked riding these machines he preferred flying but had to make an exception of it when Cinder said someone might see him flying.

He started practicing his sensing capabilities on humans and faunas the Bullhead would fly over, and then tried sensing others from other kingdoms. For some odd reason it was difficult for him to sense the ki of these mortals especially the ones with Aura. But there is this one ki that he couldn't sense at all and it belonged to a ridiculous looking mortal.

During the rest of the flight Black continued his meditation, blocking out the annoying voice of Mercury. When he felt the Bullhead land Black opened his eyes and headed out. Before him was a large White Fang camp.

Cinder took the lead and the others followed. Black looked at the faunas readying their guns and swords, while others were organizing dust and dust crystals.

He learned a quite deal about the White Fang. First they started off as an organization that had peaceful protests and speeches for equal rights with humans, but of course, peace can go so far. The original leader of the White Fang stepped downed and a new one took his place that's when their peaceful tactics were changed into more… violent measures.

Cinder stopped in front of a large tent. "Black you'll be going in the forest. That's where Adam is waiting for you. I'll let you both roughhouse a bit, but nothing too extreme understood."

"Hmph," Black turned to the forest and walked off. Emerald again had an annoyed look. "Cinder, why do you keep him around?" She asked.

"Because his usefulness is still of value," Cinder responded. Emerald gaze turned to the ground. "You seemed unsatisfied with my answer." Emerald rubbed her arm.

Cinder looked at both her servants. "Let's just say that the power he holds," A smirk formed on her lip. "Is even greater than the power of the four Maidens combined,"

Black was walked through the forest looking for this Adam Taurus. He tried sensing the guy's ki but couldn't. Do some of these mortals actually know how to suppress their ki's?.

A twig snapped which caught his attention. He readied himself for an attack. But when the figure came out it was none other than a fox. Black sighed and rubbed his temples, walking forward he crouched down and petted the fox. Black liked the animals, he found them to be relaxing to watch and be around.

The fox's ears stood up and then it ran away. Black curved his body to the right barely dodging a slash. Using his right hand he pushes himself up and back onto his feet. His attacker sheathed his sword. This guy has to be Adam Taurus.

"So, you're Black, you don't look like much." Adam said.

"I could say the same thing for you, Faunus. Especially after you attack me with my turned," Black crossed his arms. "Only a weakling attacks behind someone's back."

"I only did that to see if you were one of those unaware amateur types, guess I was wrong." Adam took a fight stance with one hand on the hilt and the other on the sheathe. "But no more games, let see if those rumors about you are true or not." With impressive speed, Adam appeared a yard away from him, "He's fast," Black dodged two strikes and jumped back and dodge more strikes from Adam's sword.

Black finally got some distance from him and looked at the Faunus before him. "Is that all you can do? Just run and dodge?" Adam sheathed his sword again and stood up straight.

Black had a slight smirk. "No, just wanted to see how fast you are and I can certainly say I'm impressed." In a blink of an eye Black flew behind Adam which he barely had time to block Black's ki blade. "What?!" Adam thought. Black pushed himself back and pointed his right-hand ki blade at Adam.

"You seem surprised about this." Black said.

"Who wouldn't, it's something I never have seen before." Adam fired his sword out of its sheath, Black tilted his head to left dodging the incoming sword, Adam rushed and grabbed the sword and began a serious of quick slashes with Black blocking and countering them but Adam also doing the same with Black's attacks.

Adam fired a few rounds but Black either dodged or cut through them. Black flew forward and aimed and brought his ki blade downward but Adam jumped to the side causing Black to stab the ground instead.

Adam used this opportunity to bring down his sword onto Black's head. Expecting this Black twisted his body to the right and aimed a kick under Adam's face. Using his forearm Adam blocked the kick. They both jumped back before dashing at each other.

Their blades clashed as they tried pushing each other back. Adam gritted his teeth while Black grinned. Moving to the side Black aimed a kick to Adam's head which he dodged by leaning back and using his right hand to push himself away. Black wasn't done, rushing forward he aimed a punch to Adam's face, But Adam curved his body to the left and then brought his sword down to slice Black in half, expecting him to attack Black quickly turned around blocked and pushed the sword to the side and tried to uppercut Adam. Adam used his forearm to block it but the force of the punch pushed him back.

His feet dug into the ground as he skidded backwards. Coming to a halt Adam shook his arm, feeling the sting from the punch. Black landed on his feet and smirked. He dashed forward too fast for Adam to see and punched him in the gut. Adam coughed up saliva and was sent skidding on his back before coming to a halt. Adam pushed himself up clutching his mid-section. "What's wrong? Was that punch too much for you?" Black taunted. Adam stood back up and with his hand's he taunted Black to come at him.

Black's face turned serious and dashed at him again this time Adam was ready. They began another serious of slashes, stabs and kicks each one of them receiving a cut and punch. Black increased his speed a bit but Adam seemed to able to keep up. At one point it looked like Adam was getting the upper hand but Black was just holding back. Their blades clashed again but this time Black called off his ki blade and grabbed Adam's wrist pulled him to the side and then grabbed him by the back of the head and kneed him in the face.

Adam's mask broke and his body moved back. Black then spun around and kicked him the chest sending the Faunus crashing into a tree. Adam fell to his hands and knees, clutching his chest painfully, panting heavily. Orange-yellow color eyes glared at Black. His coat was tattered and his pants had cuts on them.

Black stood there lightly panting as well. "This is fun, haven't had a good fight for some time." Black lifted his arm. "Let's see what you can do about this." Black fired a ki blast.

Adam saw the incoming blasting, using his sword he blocked the attack and began absorbing the blast, Adam gritted his teeth as he was being pushed back. Black grinned and added more power to the blast. "Come on Adam, is that all you got," With a mighty yell Adam forcefully absorbed the rest of the blast which surprised Black. "What the hell?"

The bull faunus sheathed his sword and fell to his knees, using his sheathed sword he kept himself from falling completely. Black narrowed his eyes and readied his ki blade. He flew forward to end the faunus. What Black didn't notice was that Adam's hair and remaining symbols on his coat began glowing red. Standing back up in his fighting stance Adam waited till he was close enough for a strike. "One chance," He said to himself.

Black was a yard away and thrusted his ki blade towards the faunus. As quickly as he could Adam unsheathed his sword which emanated a bright red light, he slashed in front of him, the power behind the attack was greater than any of the two expected.

Black's eyes widened when he felt something cut deep in his chest, he coughed up blood and was sent back flying crashing into the trees behind him. Adam was also sent back flying into a couple of trees from the power of the attack. A very wide bright red light was shined towards the direction where Black sent crashing.

After a few seconds Adam slowly pushed himself up. "I-I was not prepared for that." He managed to say. Using his sword he propped himself up and limped back, when he reached where he last saw Black he was shocked to see the amount trees that were sliced off, the grass was also torn off of the ground leaving only the remains of dirt. Adam couldn't believe his eyes. "I-I did this? No, the power I absorbed from that blast did this." Adam thought.

Black pushed himself up clutching his bleeding chest. The right side of his gi was cut off diagonally revealing his muscled chest. His pants had holes in them and the bottom half of the left side was torn off. Black stood up and looked at his blood covered hand and clenched it in slight anger, a mortal made him bleed! "So, that's where my blast went. He absorbed it into his sword and then released it with that attack, but it was more powerful than when I blasted him…" Black glided back to Adam with a smirk. Finally, someone he could use as a sparring partner.

Black landed a couple of yards away from the faunus. Adam smirked when he saw the condition Black was in. "So you can bleed." He said and removed his coat now wearing a red T-shirt. He readied himself for another fight.

Black spit blood to the side and grinned. "A mistake I made for thinking that you were just some weakling. Guess I was wrong," Black created his ki blade once again. "Now, shall we continue?" Adam tensed a bit, since his Aura was pretty much completely gone. Any more fighting with him would result with his death.

But before Black could attack a voice interrupted. "I thought I told you both can rough house a bit, but not take things too extreme." They both looked at the source of the voice to see Cinder walking towards them with Emerald and Mercury following behind. Both Black and Adam glared at her.

Emerald was speechless at the destruction that lay before her. "They did all this!?" Mercury whistled. "Wow, liked what you guys did to the place." He joked.

Adam grabbed his tattered coat and slowly made his way back to the camp, limping a bit along the way. Black still stood there, "You did quite a number on him," Cinder commented, she looked at his ruined gi and a long cut on his chest. "But it also seems like he did a number on you as well."

"Hmph, I was taken by surprise. I didn't expect his semblance to absorb my blast then use it against me." Black touched the cut again. It was defiantly his fault that he ended up like this, he underestimated the bull faunus and charged forward like an idiot. A mistake that a god cannot make again,

But at least he knows now that these semblances might be a problem. Black walked past the three and headed to the camp. "He doesn't even look tired." Emerald said.

"Black was just testing Adam's abilities," Mercury gave her a confused look. "He hasn't had the chance to fight someone that are on par with a seasoned huntsmen."

Cinder viewed the sliced off trees. Where did Salem find someone like this? "So, what now?" Emerald asked.

Cinder walked away now heading back to the camp. "I want you to patch up Black and meet me by the armory, I have somethings I want you both to do for me."

"What about Black?" Mercury asked.

"He'll be doing some tasks with the White Fang and be Adam's new partner." Emerald had a slight surprised look. "Wait, Adam used to have a partner?"

"From what I've heard, yes he did, but she abandoned him." Mercury sarcastically winced. "Ouch, dumped by his girlfriend while on a mission." He couldn't help but laugh a bit.

Black sat by one of the med beds the camp had and tore the remaining top part of his gi. Emerald walked in with some bandages and alcohol, she began patching him up. She had to admit for a 16 year old this guy is totally ripped. Black looked at her with a serious expression while she wrapped the bandages. Emerald noticed this and rolled her eyes. "What? It's not like I'm going stab you or anything. I rather do that when you're asleep." She finished up and walked out.

"Tch," He looked at his clothes. "Great, now I'm going to have to get myself another pair of clothes." He wished that he could repair his clothes with just a mere thought.

Just then a black substance leaked from the collar and spread itself throughout Black's body. After a while the black substance went back to the collar. Looking at himself and Black saw that his clothes were all fixed. "I had a feeling your fights are going to be somewhat intense, so I had that collar of yours repair your damaged clothes whenever you wished it too." Black looked around the tent when he heard the voice. "Up here." Looking up he saw a small Grimm spider just looking at him. didn't say anything and just looked at his fixed up gi, slightly amazed by the collars found usefulness. "Aren't you going to thank me?"

"Why would I?" Black said causing Salem to sigh. "Such a disrespectful little servant you are," With that Salem disrupted the connection.

Black turned around when he heard someone come in. Adam stood there glaring at him. "What, you want another beating?" Black taunted with a smirk making the faunus's glare to harden. A chuckle emanated from Black, "I was quite impressed by your skills, enough that I might have you as my sparring partner."

Adam crossed his arms. "And what makes you think I want to be your sparring partner?"

"I'll let you think about it." Black walked out and headed to a nearby hill he saw on his way back here. Adam stood there clenching his fists tightly. Twice he was brought to his knees, one by that witch and the other by this guy. He thought he was strong and skilled enough after his training with his master, guess he was wrong.

Morning came, Adam waited by a bullhead for his new partner that Cinder appointed. "The hell is taking so long?" He suddenly heard someone land on top of the bullhead. Looking up he saw Black staring at him. A moment passed as they processed who Cinder just assigned as their partner. "You gotta be kidding me." Adam thought.

"The hell took you so long?" Adam asked in an annoyed tone. Black stood up looked at the direction of where they're headed to. "I could tell you, but then we'll miss that dust cargo convoy." Black hopped down and made his way inside the Bullhead. Adam stood there for a while before following inside. The flight to their destination was quiet neither of them talked. Black was meditating and Adam rested his eyes.

When the Bullhead landed Adam was the first to exit. They stood by a cliff with a good view of where the dust convoy will pass through. "Alright, they should be here in a bit." Black was stretching his limbs and then sat by the edge of the cliff with one leg hanging and the other folded.

"Tell me something," Adam's attention turned to the black haired teen. "How much do you hate the human race?"

The question was a surprising one, for a human to ask him that. Was he going to try to lessen his hate for mankind? "Enough that I want them erased from the planet." He answered. A dark smile formed on Black's lips.

There was nothing but silence for a few seconds before that silence was disturbed by the sounds of incoming trucks and jeeps. Adam stood by the edge with Black next to him. They both started sliding down the cliff and when they reached the bottom Black rushed at the jeep in front and delivered a powerful kick sending the jeep into a boulder.

Adam fired Blush at the soldiers who were still inside their vehicles killing them, then slicing the front part of a jeep. The soldiers came out and fired their weapons at the attackers. Adam blocked them with Wilt while Black dodged them with ease.

Black appeared behind two soldiers and punched through one and grabbed the other by the back of the neck and snapped his neck. Adam went from one soldier to another doing quick but deadly strikes, firing Blush time to time, but mostly cutting his way through his enemy.

Black saw a soldier get on one of the jeeps heavy guns and fired it at them. With a grin he appeared before the soldier and grabbed the barrel of the gun and bended it to the side. The soldier was shocked and couldn't move out of fear. Placing a hand on the soldier's chest Black fired a small ki blast killing the human. Looking back at Adam he saw a couple of soldiers trying to sneak up on him. Grabbing the jeep he threw it at the soldiers, crushing them.

For the next 30 seconds they killed all the remaining soldiers. "Agggh!" Adam pulled his sword out of the last human. Black walked around to see if they missed one. He sensed someone hiding under one of the trucks, reaching under he grabbed someone and pulled them out, a scream was heard. It was a woman, probably in her mid-20s.

She had brown hair that was tied in a ponytail, green color eyes, and white creamy skin. She was wearing a uniform, quite possibly from the truck delivery company she works for.

Adam walked by and saw who Black had found. "Who are you?" Black dropped the woman causing the woman to yelp. "M-M-My name is Emma B-Banks." They saw something move behind the woman, taking a closer look they saw a fluffy tail. "She's a faunus." Black lifted his arm and prepared to blast the woman, but Adam grabbed his arm.

They both glared at each other. "Fine, let's see what he does." Black lowered his arm and Adam kneeled in front of the woman. "Do you know who I am?" he asked. Emma hesitantly nodded her head yes. "Then you probably know that you were working with the enemy, right."

At that moment Emma's eyes held fear. "W-W-Wait, I had no choice!" She shook her hands defensively. Black leaned on the truck and waited for her excuse. "I-I needed the money for my daughter's academy."

"I'm assuming she wants to become a huntress, yes?" Black asked.

"Y-Yes she does. Some of the things she needs are quite expensive, and these men were going to pay a good amount of money to the person to drive the second truck, so I took it." She looked at the dead bodies of her employers and quickly looked away when she felt the sensation of throwing up. Adam stood back up and placed a hand on the hilt of Wilt. Emma saw this and backed away. "P-Please don't kill me!" She shielded herself with her arms. Black grinned when he thought Adam was going to kill this woman. But something else happened which surprised him and Emma. Adam offered her a hand. She looked up and stared at the hand before hesitantly taking it. After pulling her up Adam handed her a Lien card. "Use this and if anyone asks what happened here you tell them that it was a Grimm ambush. Now go, before I change my mind in letting you live."

Emma couldn't believe what she was hearing, she turned around and ran away. Black had a slight disappointing look. "You're letting her go?"

"Is that a problem?" Behind the mask Adam narrowed his eyes at him.

"Thought you were the type not to let traitors live." Black said before walking off. Adam was left standing there as he replayed the word traitor in his head. Someone with black long hair and cat ears came to his mind. He clenched his fist tightly.

Adam's sudden anger disappeared when he heard something crash. It was Black who was easily picking up destroyed jeeps and tossing them to the side. He noticed how brutal Black killed those soldiers, does he hate humans as well? Isn't he one as well?

Black noticed Adam staring at him. "What?" He asked in an annoyed tone. Adam didn't respond instead he pulled his scroll out to call in about the cargo. A human that has enormous strength, speed and abilities similar to that man. What made Black hate humans?

Hours past since the mission and Black was found walking around the streets of Vacuo trying to find a book store where he can get more information about Aura and semblances. When he finally found one he saw the owner throw out a faunus and yell some racial comments. He could care less though just as long as the comments weren't directed to him.

Upon entering the store Black was greeted by a wide selection of books, fiction, non-fiction, historical and many others. He sat on the floor and read a few books about Aura but was told by the owner if he wanted to read the book then he'll have to buy it. Not wanting to cause a scene Black ended up buying the two books on Aura and the last one was something that caught his interest.

It was about ancient warriors that had these special eyes that made the Grimm run in fear. "So there are beings that the Grimm fear, interesting." He exited the store only to bump into someone making him drop his books. Black growled in annoyance.

"Oh sorry, I didn't see you there. I was a bit…" The guy who bumped into him eyes widen a bit and stared at him for a second. Black glared at him, "What?" Snapping the guy out of whatever trance he was in, he rubbed the back of his head and nervously laugh.

"My bad, I kind of uhh… have we met before?" The guy handed Black one of his books back. "No, we haven't."

Black still held his glare. "Next time watch where you're going," He walked away and headed back to the camp. The guy walked away for a bit before turning back and stared at Black's leaving form. He held a shocked and confused expression, and quietly said. "…Dad?"

And cut! Alright that's it for this chapter. I'm going to be honest I felt don't know…weird writing this chapter. Okay, so about this new guy hmm, I wonder who it is? Any guesses? So yea, just want to talk about Black being blown away and cut during his fight with Adam. Remember when Krillin was able to blow a hole in Vegeta's body because he purposely lowered his power enough for Krillin to almost kill him. Yea the same thing pretty much happens here. Black wasn't using his max power or half of it, he was matching it to Adam's level but slowly raising it a bit as time passed, so when Adam absorbed the blast and released it with a slash of his sword the power behind the attack was above Black's power that he lowered himself to which caught him by surprise and rest you guys probably read it.

Okay so is that all I wanted to say? Hmm… Nope, nothing else, well until next time guys. PEACE!