["Bloody Stream" - JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE (English Cover by Y. Chang)]

From the darkness…

Strong and silent

Like pillars in the night they break the dawn

Hungry and violent

Scarlet rain falls

Hot and heavy

Show me that you've got the strength to fight

Boy, are you ready?

And so, may love guide your way through every last endless trial

Always tempt your fate with luck and a smile

Watch out for danger left and right it's just like dancing in the dark

You slip through like a knife and cut your way right to the heart

Let your path unfurl and the world will always sing your story

Like a bloody storm

It surges like a bloody storm

When destiny runs through your veins so wild and wet and warm

Fate may pull the strings and who knows what tomorrow brings

But, tonight we stand together!


残り:四の影/ Remnant's Four Shadows

Volume 3, Episode 3: Tears at the Timeline


(Tuesday – Day 23)

Winter had walked down the corridors in search of her sister apparently having missed her narrowly. As she opened the doors to combat class, what she found was a bit strange. While most of the students were having traditional fights, a few others were being trained. She found her sister in midst of doing push-ups next to Jaune. Ivory was sitting on Jaune's back while having a tray on Weiss's that sandwiches. If not for the fact, that she had one of instructors do this to her in the academy, she would be offended. Yuki sat in meditation in circle with Yang and Nora in complete silence.

Ren was in still shock that Nora was capable of doing that. Kelly was in the midst of having a swordfight with Blake. Lapis was in the midst of sparring with Ruby in unarmed combat.

"Not bad, squirt. We don't expect you to be a master, but you can at least further enhance your limbs to land a punch." Lapis said catching Ruby's punch. "You are a bit predictable, though."

"Weiss." Winter said coming up.

"Hey Winter." Weiss said panting as she did another push up. "Just getting some training in the morning."

"A good body is an important thing to have." Winter remarked. "But I…"

Qrow come in through the doors asking for Yuki and was about to rouse him only for Lapis to grab his head.

"Don't. He, Yang, or Nora in a meditative state with their minds connected. To shake him would be bad." Lapis said in a warning tone. "And you don't want to get zapped. Nora's been being taught how to naturally bring out her semblance and…"

She cut off by a spark of electricity surging out of Nora's body. Lapis dragged Qrow to the ground to dodge only for it to electrocute Ilia who was on the sidelines.

"Thanks." Qrow said breathing out a bit of relief.

Before Lapis could speak, Yuki's eyes snapped open and he was panting like he ran across the seas to Patch. Yang and Nora opened their eyes both looking at Yuki with concern.

"Yuki, you all right? You just froze and wigged out." Nora said worriedly.

"I'm here, just a bit of a vision. I need…a second." Yuki said getting up.

"Wait, Oz wanted to ask you for any information you have on the Church of Salem." Qrow remarked.

"I'll send it to them in a while. Just please excuse me." Yuki said rushing out of the room.

Back in the Dragon's Den, he got the bar pouring himself a drink before using a spark of fire from Yang's semblance to make it a flaming drink. He downed it and slumped into the couch.

"I swear the stupidity scale is broken in seeing this future. I want nothing more than to choke the daylights out of everyone. These future powers suck sometimes." Yuki said bitterly.

"Yuki, you all right?" Lapis asked coming in.

She came up on the couch next to him with her head on his shoulder. Yuki relaxed as he always felt he could breathe a little easier when Lapis did that.

"Future vision?" Lapis asked as he nodded. "What happened?"

Yuki relayed what he had seen, and Lapis shook her hand.

"So, what we do now?" Lapis asked.

"Well for one, I'm going to tell Ironwood that Watts is alive. That snake is getting away literally because of plot stupidity. Atlas not updating their tech is unacceptable. Hell, I predict in that "canon" timeline that Penny's going to hacked. And we'll move on Lionheart. He needs to die early. That cowardly fuck needs to die." Yuki said darkly.

"But there's the matter of Ozpin. He won't let you harm Lionheart." Lapis remarked. "Unless you can prove it."

Yuki had an idea and took Lapis up to Ozpin's office. Yuki asked for a meeting and Ozpin's circle all gathered.

"What's this about, Yuki?" Ozpin asked dryly.

"Oh, so me telling you that we have a traitor isn't worth your time. Ok, I'll just go." Yuki said walking for the door.

"Wait." Glynda said. "This is a heavy accusation. Can you prove it?"

"Yes, but I need you to call Lionheart. Right now." Yuki said sternly.

Ozpin found this strange but complied. The video screen showed Lionheart in his office to which Yuki grinned.

"Lionheart, here. What's with the call?" Lionheart said.

"Well, you see. I know that there is a traitor in Ozpin's circle." Yuki remarked. "This traitor's gotten plenty huntsman killed so far, but my team has unintentionally intervened in some in the past. I was not able to pin a name on the killers until now, Tyrian Callows and Hazel Reinhart. But either way, turns out he's been getting orders. Locations of where these huntsmen were going to be."

Lionheart tried to remain stoic as Ironwood looked on concerned.

"And who is this traitor?" Ironwood asked. "Don't keep us in suspense."

"I'll just show you. Lapis, we have a house call to make." Yuki said tearing open a portal.

The two went in and were in Lionheart's office.

"You see, the traitorous piece of shit has a hidden Seer Grimm in his office. Isn't that right, Lionheart?" Lapis said paralyzing him to make him unable to move.

"Please…I.." Lionheart said only for Yuki to say, "Shut it, coward."

Yuki went to the right of the front despite Lionheart's begging and dragged out the Seer Grimm.

"So, want to explain this?" Yuki said throwing it into the desk.

Ozpin dropped his mug in absolute horror.

"I…I…" Leo said only for Yuki to slam on a knife on a tendril. "It's complicated."

CLICK! Yuki's pistol was aimed at the faunus's head as he glared him down. The anger on his face gave off a heat that got Leonardo to sweat and shiver under the gaze. Lapis squeezed her fist getting Leo's body to strain.

"Look please, Salem had me dead to rights, you can't kill the likes of her! Ozpin's…." Leonardo blubbered out as Yuki pistol whipped him.

"I am aware, but instead of telling the mass to unite Mistral against, you bend over and let her fuck you and this kingdom. I saved some of those lives that you sent to the slaughter! You fuck!" Yuki said repeatedly pistol whipping him over and over. "Not to mention, the multitude of fake transcripts you made while fucking me and my team over!"

The seer began to glow, and Yuki slammed his palm into it electrocuting the Grimm as Salem's voice was filled with static asking for what was going on before the seer popped leaving the room to be silent.

"Any last words, Leo?" Yuki said darkly putting the gun to his arm.

He wordlessly triggered Armis as the gun grew coated in a metallic blue along with his hand. Leo knew this technique well, and he could not reach his weapon in it. He was done for.

"Please, look. I understand that you're mad but killing me isn't going to fix what I did to you!" Leo pleaded before Glynda raised her voice.

"As angry as you are, you can't murder him, Yuki. Even if this coward deserves it. You'll cause an upset that rain Grimm on the kingdom." Glynda remarked. "You destroyed the Seer…he can't talk to Salem."

"And I would prefer if you let him go and open a portal for me to talk to him." Ozpin said eerily calm once again. "Face to face."

The surprise in Ozpin's shift in demeanor caused Lapis's control to lapse enough for Leonardo to get his weapon, Stalwart, to pop a shot of ice dust.

"Yuki, Lapis!" Qrow warned.

Yuki dropped his pistol and used Glynda's semblance to telekinetically stop the bullet in its track freezing Stalwart and Lionheart's arm. Lapis used her control to force Leo against the wall before freezing him against it.

"Yuki, that's enough. If you can, I'd like to be taken to Lionheart please." Ozpin asked.

Yuki complied as Yuki and Lapis went through as Ozpin come out.

"I'll call Glynda to let you know when to pick me up." Ozpin said with a sigh. "And as much I don't the fact that we have a traitor, thank you for alerting us. I owe you my thanks."

"You're welcome." Yuki said in near whisper.

"Now, Leonardo." Ozpin said glaring at the disgraced traitor. "We need to talk."

-o-

"Weren't you going to tell them about…" Lapis asked before only for Yuki to say, "I know, but I need evidence. Lionheart was a bit easy to prove because of the seer. I need hard stuff for him, and thankfully…I."

"YOU BITCH!"

The two turned to see Emerald fuming storming out of her dorm room furious. Mercury following behind her to which Lapis stopped him.

"What happened?" Lapis asked.

"Cinder burned her prom dress." Mercury said shaking her head. "Emerald looks ready to…"

Yuki shoved several lien cards in his hands.

"Take her out and get her a new one. Let me deal with Cinder." Yuki said as he walked off for Team FAME's dorm. "And keep the change."

Yuki walked in with Cinder asking what he wanted, and Yuki simply gave her a detention before leaving her before she could protest. Elsewhere, Kelly was in the midst of teaching a class.

"So, while faunus do have a period in which it's better to produce children. It is not a heat cycle…that's a cruel stereotype that has sadly stuck around like a bad smell." Kelly said marking on the board. "Any questions?"

"I got one. If a human and faunus have a child, what do we call them?" Sky asked.

"Well, a good question to ask. I've gone research for my book, and there's not a lot said about them. I've actually coined a term for them, Kemos. Its world coming from a Mistrialian word for animal ears. Kemos sometimes even tend to look completely like regular humans and have their faunus trait be internal. In fact, I do theorize that a good chunk of humans could have thinned out traces of Kemo blood. But that's all the time we have. Make sure to e-mail or hand in your reports, and I will email your grades accordingly. Have a good day." Kelly said kindly as the bell rang.

Now long after, Kelly was back in the Dragon's Den grading papers with Ivory. Ivory looked over the papers with a frown.

"Uh…Kelly, I think Dove plagiarized a good chunk of your book for this report." Ivory said showing it to her.

"This fucking dumbass." Kelly said under her breath before marking it a zero.

"So Kel, who are you taking to the dance?" Ivory asked.

"I think I'll pass on it in favor of a quiet night alone with Cinnabon." Kelly said without looking up from the papers.

"Kel, Lapis is going to the dance. And we both know that girl has every reason to be anti-social as hell. I won't let you miss a chance like this. Didn't Atlas Academy hold dances?" Ivory asked.

"I…didn't really go to them. I used those nights to read…" Kelly said awkwardly.

"I'm guessing you can't dance either." Ivory said dryly.

"We can't all have worked in strip clubs." Kelly sniped.

"Was that needed?" Ivory said not taking the bait.

Kelly sighed in defeat.

"Well then, that's settled. I'm going to pass on getting a date to take you to the dance." Ivory said firmly. "Look, my friend clearly needs a night of fun. That's more important than a hook up."

"If that's all you'll do." Kelly said eyeing her.

Lapis and Yuki returned as they both turned their hands.

"Something up?" Ivory asked.

"New shit in the future, and we just took a big step in screwing with canon. Took care of Lionheart." Yuki remarked.

"Good, that cowardly dickhead had it coming. Fill us in on this "Volume 7"…it's focused on Atlas, right?" Ivory remarked.

"Yes, the events are just headache inducing. Watts and Jaccques have ties. So, I guess we'll need to work to destroy Jaccques sooner, so he can't run for councilman and win." Yuki said sitting down next to Ivory.

"We may not have to do anything. My case left a pretty nasty blow against him even if Whitley was not charged. Weiss and Winter speaking out against Jaccques doesn't help. Whitley's little stunt is another nail in his coffin." Ivory said confidently.

"What incident?" YUK asked.

"You didn't hear. Whitley collapsed at a church in Mantle after slicing his wrists. He's been the hospital on suicide watch. Weiss didn't tell you?" Ivory said as Kelly looked horrified.

"Despite this, it's apparent that I need to move Tyrian, Watts, Hazel, and even Jaccques up on our shit list." Yuki said sternly.

"What about Cinder?" Kelly asked.

Lapis snorted mockingly saying, "What about, Cinder? She's not exactly much a threat to us anymore."

"She's right. I can basically walk into her room and shoot her and Ilia, and Emerald and Mercury would let me. Hell, if Cinder keeps shitting on them, Emerald may just shoot her herself. At this point, we know Cinder's plan in full and prove her easily. It's Watts, that's the problem." Yuki remarked.

Ivory changed the subject ask if Yuki found a date to which he left the room to avoid answering only to run into Coco.

"Hey, Azure. Ivory in?" Coco asked.

"Yes, go on ahead." Yuki said rushing off.

Yuki was about to tear a portal when he got a call from Ozpin to bring him back to which he did immediately.

"Thank you for making this easy, Mr. Azure. Frankly, it infuriates me that Miss Branwen could easily make such good use out of her semblance." Ozpin said walking away.

Yuki needed to get away moving for the garages unaware he was being followed. Yang was working on her bike when Yuki walked in wordlessly releasing Inferno out of its Microcube.

"Yuki, wait."

He turned to see Velvet there looking concerned asking if he was all right.

"I'll explain la….now, if you can afford to join me at Nekohaten. I need a meal. It'll be on me." Yuki said revving his bike up.

"So blue boy, you already asking another girl out on a date? What would Ozpin say to dating your students?" Yang teased.

"Not like you'd tell. I have to say you seduced me into giving you better mark." Yuki shot back as the garage door opened. "Later, blondie. And you got a shift at Junior's to do."

He took off leaving a cloud of dust and Yang groaning having hoped he would have forgotten about that.

-o-

As Yuki sought to vent, the likes of the cult were active in the afternoon in hiding in Mountain Glenn preparing for their day to strike.

"Brother Blood, we have a problem. Our church members in Mistral are under attack. It seems the government is stepping in its effort to follow Atlas' example of keeping us out of the kingdoms. They're blaming us for the headmaster being…dirty. A bounty for one of our old members has surfaced as well."

Brother Blood twitched but calmed down quick enough to tell the squire to make a call to them to tell them to take what they can for a retreat.

"Don't worry. The building can be replaced…because soon enough, we will rise the Goddess from beyond." Brother Blood said as he down upon a glowing hand mirror. "The day of the dark is upon us…in due time."

Elsewhere, the White Fang was getting a plan put together now that Elsa had arrived. Elsa, however, looked upon what was left with disdain.

"This is our army? Clearly, any full-scale attack is out of the window. We'll only have one shot if we are to deal with Azure bastard. The Beacon Dance. After all, they're not expected a party crasher." Elsa said with a grin.

"And we'll ensure Blake's demise. Not just for betraying the White Fang, but from what little I gathered, she shares a team with a Schnee." Adam snarled.

"That so? Well then, she dies a slow painful death." Elsa said darkly. "Right alongside Cinder and her cronies."

-o-

"They didn't deserve that kind of death." Yuki said bitterly.

"I'm sorry for your loss, Miss Cologne." Velvet said as Rei poured her a drink.

"The wound is still fresh, but it will heal in time." Cologne said tiredly.

"So, Yuki? Are you thinking of taking anyone to the dance?" Velvet asked as Yuki downed his drink.

"At this point, I have a few in mind. Neo, Yang, the Twins…or maybe I should take Shampoo." Yuki asked only for Cologne to sigh.

"I hate to say it, but she's not here. She's off to Mistral to meet up with a contact. One of our own had involved themselves with that church. Thankfully, nothing major, but she called wanting out and was willing to exchange information. Shampoo's getting her to ensure that." Cologne remarked.

"And I can't Neo because of Cin…Unless, she got really sick." Yuki thought deviously as Serena made plans.

"Velvet, yes. I have decided on who I want to take. In fact, I need to go see her now. You can make your way back to Beacon, right?" Yuki said getting up as she nodded. "Well then, later."

Yuki sped over to Neo's apartment, leaving Velvet to sigh in disappointment. She wanted to ask him, and she couldn't speak up! Yuki got out the key he had for it before entering.

"Neo, I…" Yuki said walking into Neo walking out of the shower in just a towel. "Oh…"

Yuki sighed sitting on her couch waiting for her to dressed, and Neo came back dressed and with ice cream sandwiches. Yuki took one and they ate in silence before Yuki looked over.

"Neo, I wanted to ask…if you could be my date to the Beacon Dance?" Yuki asked sheepishly.

Neo raised an eyebrow with a teasing grin. Yuki nervously sweat a bit as Neo's grin grew. Neo had known him really well as she was the one who trained him. She silently slinked into his lap looking up her into his eyes.

"Neo, it's not like that. I can't really ask a student, Shampoo's not around, and I don't know if I could ask the twins to go with me." Yuki said as Neo was about to gesture something.

Her scroll rang and Neo crawled off annoyed at the fact they were interrupted. She answered to hear Roman's tired voice.

"Neo, I got a job for you from Cinder…she wants you to…break into Beacon's CCT tower to inflict a virus." Roman said annoyed. "Considering they increased security at the tower with Atlas military, you're going to need to do your best. I suggest getting Yuki and his friends to help."

Neo sighed and hung up.

"Guess, I'm asking the twins. Don't worry, I'll have a decoy for you. But listen, I need that virus. So, keep me posted." Yuki said as Neo nodded.

Not before long, he was on his bike heading back to Beacon and Serena had called up the twins allowing him to be a walking phone.

"Miltia, hey. I got something to ask you. Would you and your sister like me to be my dates for the Beacon Dance? What? Ok, I did ask Neo first, but she got screwed into a shitty job from Cinder. Shampoo's on mission. And I just can't ask a student…" Yuki remarked. "All right, I'll make it up to you."

As Yuki raced through the road to get to Beacon, he drifted to a stop looking rather spooked. He looked into the distance.

"Serena…do you feel that?" Yuki said warily.

"[Yes, I do. Energy from the Quibuscaligo….I can sense it, but I…I don't know why.]" Serena said concerned.

"And this energy feels heavy…concentrated…like pure chaos." Yuki said breathing nervously. "We should go."

"[Wait. Maybe your father has another book on stuff concerning the Quibuscaligo. I don't know if it's there at Crossroad, but…]"

She did not even finish her words as Yuki turned around racing for his hometown. If there was a silver of a chance, he was going to take it. Unbeknownst to Yuki, Brother Blood was not too far away from him.

"My liege, are you sure?" Brother Blood said talking to what appeared to be a gothic hand mirror.

A deep foreboding voice came out of its reflection saying, "Yes. No doubt about it. I sense a human baring a part of a Voyden Grimm."

"What does that mean?" Brother Blood asked. "Must we delay our plans?"

"No. We all go on because this…is most interesting. It feels similar to a man who ended up in my realm and escaped. If he is related to him…a worthy opponent is in the works. So no, leave him and focus on the task ahead. The dawn of the dark must rise to bring the Queen into his world!"

"Yes, Lord Pyrite. May our Queen rise again!" Brother Blood said jubilantly as 'Lord Pyrite's' image faded off the mirror.

Within the nightmarish void, 'Lord Pyrite' facepalmed at this.

"Blithering fool thinks that selfish whore is Queen of the Grimm." 'Lord Pyrite' said with disgust. "No matter, she will be dealt with personally alongside Ozpin. Because I believe they're in due…for a reunion. Isn't that right, Dr. Merlot?"


(A/N: A tornado of turds is going to hit the fans, but in others news, Yuki's got a date (or dates) for the dance. With the White Fang planning something, it's all coming to a boiling point. But what of Merlot? What about 'Lord Pyrite'? All in due time.)

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