Sorry for my bad English.
-You want to go back to Paradiso? –Rodin asked. Glynda was able to reach him in middle way to The Gates of Hell.
-Please. One of my students is trapped there alone, and those angels may go after him. –Glynda began to explain. -Every second I waste the chances of something bad happen to him just increase.
-Just go there in the same way you went before.
-I can't. Last time, was not my doing. –Glynda did not know how, but somehow that woman she fought in the temple send her to Paradiso after drown her in her bathtub. –So I want to know if you have some way to send me back there.
-The only way I know is through a portal. –Rodin said while lighting a cigar.
-A portal?
-I did not know that someone could reach Paradiso in other ways. That was the only way I knew so far.
-Did you know where to find a portal?
-I have the information baby, but different from last time, will not be free.
-Excuse me?
-You heard baby. –Rodin said and then blew some smoke. –I offer help only after the payment. That's how I work.
-Need I remind you that someone's life is in danger?
-They always are in danger with those sons of bitch around. If I have to help each one of them for free, I would be working in one of those damn fast foods right now.
Glynda wanted to argue, but found little reason to do it. Jaune was trapped in Paradiso and the only who knew a way to reach there were the Umbra Witch and Rodin, and the bartender was her best option right now. With a defeated sigh, she spoke.
-How much will cost?
-Be sure that will not be cheap. -Rodin smoked the cigar, then blew more smoke. –This academy is pretty big, so money is not problem, right? You must thinking, but will be problem. I not want money.
-If not money is not what you want, then what?
-You can pay me after you done with those angels, just remember to bring me something from their carcass.
-Bring what exactly?
-What you can. Wings. Arms. Legs. Their faces. Organs. Just bring to me, and I will offer some limited assistance.
-What a bartender plan to do with those things?
-I have a hobby, that's all you need to know for now.
Glynda raised an eyebrow at the statement, but if all she need to do is take parts of angels to Rodin, she found little reason to refuse. As if was reading her mind, Rodin tossed a bag to her.
-What is this for?
-It is a bag, so it is for you carry things, don't you think? –Glynda frowned at his sarcastic statement. –You can put all you get it inside of it. It was made to be bigger inside than outside.
Glynda raised her eyebrow for the second time. She knew magic exist in Remnant but this sounded like something from a fairy tale book. Not even Ozpin could do something like that, so how come a bartender could? She would ponder about that question when she opened the bag and found a deep darkness inside, as if she was looking inside of a portable abyss.
-But how… -She was about to ask but the big black man just disappeared. She look around for him but found no trace of the bartender anywhere. –How come someone that big can disappear like that? Not to mention that he still need to tell me where the portal is!
As if he heard, a piece of paper left the bag and floated in front of her face. She checked the paper and found to be a map of Vale. Right in the middle of the Emerald Forest was a big X marked. She found hard to believe. She worked in Beacon for a long time, and if a portal were in the Emerald Forest, she along the staff would know about it.
But of course, whatever is happening to her is not something normal, so she should not believe in everything she heard or see. The angels are a proof of that. She closed the map and went to the forest.
Headmaster Tower
With Glynda going to her destination, the black knight decide to wait until the teacher reached Paradiso before make his next move. Suddenly he heard the sound of a motorcycle and from the walls of the tower, a female figure riding a motorcycle was rising towards him. The motorcycle jumped inches from his helmet before land behind him. The knight did moved a muscle as the woman removed her helmet.
Her blonde hair fell free and biker glasses were covering her eyes. Her yellow turtleneck blouse was tight in her ample chest which the leather jacket failing to cover while opened. While her leather pants also were very tight in her legs, she had no difficult in walk.
-Why did you left him there? –The woman asked.
-He need to learn.
-She is not a combat teacher?
-Please, she could not even teach a rock how to fell down, the only reason she is here as a teacher is because Ozpin wanted her around.
-Can't say you are wrong but you know what will happen if he be killed.
-He will survive.
-How you are so sure?
-Because I know him more than anyone else.
Emerald Forest
Glynda never thought in her life that she would be thankful to find Grimms. While looking for the portal in the Emerald Forest, she meet some of the monsters she used to face in her daily bases. Ursas and Beowulfs were pretty much common in the forest, and she actually smiled when found a Deathstalker.
-This felt surprisingly good. –She said to herself. –Now where is this portal?
She walked for sometime looking for the portal, going deep in the forest to where no student ever went while doing the initiation. She never liked the idea of throwing students in the forest and always wonder why did Ozpin decide to use this method.
How many processes the academy received from furious parents she lost account.
After a while walking, she reached the location to where the portal supposed to be but found nothing. She look to left and right only to found trees. She was about to complain when notices a butterfly floating not far from where she was, then it disappeared. Her eyes widened in surprise and even more after see the butterfly reaper.
She walked a little ahead and notices something strange in the atmosphere. It was like the space itself was distorted. She walked around and found what she was looking for. The portal was transparent from behind but in the front, was clearly visible.
The old arc suddenly start to pulse energy and from the middle, the portal opened.
-It seems that Rodin was telling the truth. –She said and with a deep sigh, she decide to enter in the portal, but of course would not be that easy.
After she took the first step, her senses kicked and she jumped back dodge something what came from the portal followed by more two.
It were circular wheel-shaped angels. She could see the halo in front of the face located in the middle of the wheel, and was like arms were holding the wheels so the face would not fall while rolling.
Third Sphere Angels
Enchant
-Why I am surprise? –Glynda asked as she took her riding crop to fight.
To her surprise the three Enchants were quite fast. So fast that she found difficult to accompany their moves with her eyes. They moved around her like a pack of wolves surrounding a threat but Glynda would not fall for that trick. She unleashed a shockwave with her aura knocking two of them but one jumped in the air. She jumped back to not be crushed by him and sidestepped when the same who crashed on the floor went in her direction in high speed. It was when she felt the heat Glynda notices, the angel was on fire.
Glynda jumped on him and stomped him, sending the angel to the grass. Glynda used her purple shots to make some damage against the angels and again, she hit two of them but one dodging the purple projectile. He come running in Glynda's direction and the teacher prepared shield with her aura.
Something she did not expected was for the angel to split, leaving the head in the middle separated from the wheels. The head raised to be able to pass over the barrier and the wheels passing the sides. Once the wheels were in each side of Glynda, she screamed as she felt a electric discharge run through her body. Another who has recovered run straight at Glynda, who due the electric discharge, was not able to defend herself as the angel come and ran over her.
She groaned and smack with her back against a tree. She opened her eyes and gasped when saw another one coming to her direction. She rolled to her side and the Enchant crashed against the tree. While being able to crash the tree, the angel was not strong enough to handle the impact and was now on the floor.
Glynda saw another coming to her direction, so she used her aura whip to grab the one in the floor and send him against the one coming to her. They both crashed in each other and flew on the air. She prepared another attack but had to dodge the Enchant who split himself. She jumped in the air to not be electrocuted again and using her semblance, she put his wheels back together with force enough to make the angel dizzy.
The three of the recovered and surrounded her again. She decide to use a old trick and suddenly, the sky was covered in clouds. Different from the time she helped Ruby to fight against Roman and the mysterious woman, she made fire balls fall from the sky.
Now, why would her do this if the angels clearly use fire and may be resistant to this element? The answer come when the three of the start to have difficult to run around with the floor all deformed and full of mounts of sand. One of the was high in the air when a invisible force hold him and send him down in high speed, he crashed with force enough to make a hole on the floor.
The second one tried to avoid the mounts of sand, but was caught by surprise by a ice pillar, hitting straight and losing control. Another ice pillar came from the diagonal and pierced him right on the mouth of the face.
The third one tried to split again but was hold by Glynda. Using her telekinesis she threw him in the nearest three, then on the floor and finally high in the sky. Once high in the air, she used her telekinesis and this time, she was the one who split him and half, with the head falling far from the wheels.
With the three angels defeated, she look at the portal and notices something different. Right on the top of the arc was some small apparatus with a times. Did not need to be a genius to know that was a bomb.
With no time to think, Glynda raised her crop to remove the bomb, but a green whip wrapped on her wrist and pushed her back. She fell on the floor and instinctively rolled up to face whoever hold her arm.
She expected to be the Umbra Witch again but instead of a witch, she was greeted by a woman. She reminded Glynda of the Umbra Witch but something was different about her. No, she knew, she did not know yet how but she knew, the woman was an angel, she also knew that if she try go easy on that woman, she will have problems.
First Sphere Seraphim
Joy
Joy radiated her guns and shot at Glynda who raised her barrier to block the shots. Joy start to walk in her direction while Glynda keep blocking the shots with her barrier, Joy chaged her weapon to a whip what bypassed Glynda's barrier and wrapped around her left ankle. Before the blonde could do something she was dragged with her back back grating against the ground, then she felt a heeled leg step with force on her stomach.
She gasped as felt the air escaping her lungs. The angel keep stepping in her stomach for more five times until Glynda radiated another barrier right below Joy's feet. She threw the angel away only to her land in her feet, but was hit straight in the stomach by a big icicle. She kicked away the icicle and and start to whip Glynda, who blocked the attacks with her barrier or dodged.
Her time was running out with that bomb and she needed to end this battle as fast as possible.
She threw various shots with her aura around, covering the air with purple lines with had one destination, the angel. To Glynda's surprise Joy was able to dodge every of her purple shots, ducking, jumping, spinning, just like the Umbra Witch.
After dodge all shots, she made a diva pose while the shots exploded behind her, as if she was showing herself to some audience. She then radiated her whip and tried to strike Glynda, who used her aura whip to repel her attack. Both Glynda and Joy started to trade blows with their whips, causing small shockwaves around the forest, some leafs falling from the trees and flying away, and making the ground rumble.
At some point, both whips wrapped around each other. Joy start to push Glynda closer, making her get away from the portal, she tried to push herself back, only to her feel the ground move below her heels. She unmake the whip and Joy quickly wrapped her whip into Glynda's waist.
The teacher lost the ground below her when the angel pushed her with force and kicked her in the stomach. With Glynda right in front of her, Joy slapped both her cheeks, and to make sure she would not move, kneeled both her thighs, finally she threw Glynda more far from the portal.
Glynda tried to stand in her feet but was hard with the pain she was feeling in both her thighs, and fell on her knees. Joy jumped and like a comet, fell down in Glynda's direction with her feet aiming to her chest. Glynda quickly rolled to the ground and the angel landed on her feet. Her whip now a sword.
She tried to decapitate Glynda who used her crop covered in aura to block the swing. She held her crop as much she could but the angel was strong, so much that she found herself losing. That superhuman strength from when she fought against Grace and Glory really could come in hand.
She rolled around Joy and used her crop to hit the angel on the ankle, then used her telekinesis to throw her away. Once Joy's feet were in the floor, Glynda used her telekinesis to hold her in the place. The angel was strong, so Glynda was having difficult to make her stay in the place. She notices her gun from the beginning was back and that the sword seemed smaller. The hand holding the gun slowly pointing to her. She hold as much she could but in the end, she had to release Joy to roll to the side to not be hit by the shots. She raised her barrier and blocked the shots, seeing Glynda would hide behind her barrier Joy took back the sword and run against her.
Glynda put her crop on the floor as Joy jumped to split her body in half, then tree roots came from the floor and wrapped around Joy, trapping her arms. Glynda then raised her crop and and shot against Joy once again with full force.
Each shot hit the angel, sending her higher in the sky until the rest of the shots send her back to the ground, crashing her on the floor. Joy raised from the floor, some of her skin was missing like with the Affinties.
The bomb was in the last thirty seconds, she needed to end Joy now.
Seeing that she was heavily damaged by her attack, Glynda used one last time her aura whip and wrapped around the angel's neck. She raised her off the ground and threw her in the direction of a tree, Joy crashed on the tree bark dizzy and then, Glynda used her telekinesis to move the trees between Joy and crashed her between it.
Glynda was able to stand in her feet, the pain in her thighs long gone thanks to her aura. She looked back at the bomb and saw that she had still only five seconds left!
Knowing that she had little time left, and the bomb was out of the reach of her semblance, all Glynda could do is try run, even if she have no chance of reach in time, she had to try.
Suddenly, she felt something. The same thing from when she summoned that angel in the temple. But instead of summon another angel, she jumped in the air and from nothing, she felt her body just transform into a gold fox. She did not have time to be surprised with the transformation because was surprised with how fast she was running. With only two seconds left, Glynda was able reach the portal and enter inside of it. She heard a explosion behind her back as her body was shaping back to normal.
She was able to enter in the Paradiso, but stood some seconds looking to her own hands.
-How… how I… when did I… -She did not know what to think. She knew that magic exist but was different from what Ozpin did to Qrown and Raven. The transformation felt so natural to her and something new at the same time, not to mention the speed she run at the portal. She would make even Ruby eat dirty with the speed she run while in that fox form. –No Glynda, focus. You are in a mission here.
She said to herself. She could worry about herself later, first she need to find Jaune.
End of the chapter.
From all the animals I thought to Glynda transform, a yellow fox seemed to combine more with her, it just what I think. Yes, she will have more transformations like Bayonetta and I have some ideas about what those transformations will be, although I willing to listen for suggestions about what should be her other transformations.
That's all folks. See you next time.
