["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 9: The Festival Cometh
The next semester finally came, and students returned to a new session of learning. However, for some, this was the return from constant training. Yuki had reluctantly agreed to help Lapis train Jaune, Ren, and Nora. Pyrrha refused and continued to be a sad sack much to Lapis' annoyance and Ivory's inward joy. Thus, came the return to Beacon for all of them.
Team YUKI's armored wear still remained mostly the same only with minor changes here and there, except for Ivory. Yuki wore a black hoodie under his armor to raise a hood over his head when needed, Lapis took to wearing a yellow scarf around her neck which was a gift from Jaune while also beginning to carry sets of knives like Yuki did, and Kelly improved her bodysuit which showed lines of white circuity as well as blue.
Ivory had a complete outfit overhaul. She wore a sleeveless, blue thong leotard that tight fit to show off her abdominal muscles under a dark gray colored kimono with the sleeves torn off. The kimono is tied around her waist with a white haramaki to hold her swords, where its length reaches just above her knees. The kimono holds plenty of hidden compartments and pockets to hide various things. She also wore black fingerless gloves under her new gauntlets, hi-top ninja boots, blackish-red lipstick, nails painted yellowish white, a helix piercing in both ears, and a hooded off-white cloak which was a gift from Yuki.
"Thanks again for the cloak, Yuki." Ivory said sweetly. "I still don't understand why you didn't want to change your look."
"It's tactical." Yuki said firmly attached to his armor. "But I did have fun to redesigning new outfits for the others."
Ruby's outfit had not changed. Yang's jumpsuit merely swapped colors with it being mostly yellow with the stripes down black. Blake got a white tailcoat in addition to her outfit. Weiss wore her coat open now given the weather and swapped the sweater for a mesh undershirt. Along with them were Jaune, Nora, and Ren in their new outfits.
Jaune got similar armor to Yuki's except with colors of white and gold. His emblem was on the chest where Yuki's skull mark was. He wore black cargo pants, dark brown boots lined with aura metal, blue fingerless gloves, and an aquamarine sash around his waist as a gift from Lapis, and he retained his hoodie. Jaune felt a lot more confident in his looks feeling like a real huntsman. He still had his family sword and shield; both were given a few upgrades thanks to Toriel and Yuki. Yuki had went to give Jaune his V4-V7 upgrades and add a gun to the shield….along with giving Jaune a hand canon Dust pistol.
Ren's new gear was all designed by Yuki, who took his V4 design and gave it a few tweaks. Mostly, armor plating similar to what he did for Blake. As for Nora, thanks to her awakening of her powers due to training, she asked for a drastic costume change…from Ivory.
It certainly turned heads as Nora confidentially strode in a sleeveless crop top showing her muscled midriff only covered in mesh-fishnet, a stem stalk mini-skirt with white lining, and thigh-high boots all in pink with her stockings being white. She had sliver gauntlets lined with pink circuity patterns, wearing white fingerless gloves, a metallic belt with a heart buckle, yellow lipstick, and armor on the shoulders to hold her new white cape with her emblem emblazoned on the back.
Peach had only let her hair down. The group were walking into Beacon's halls as Ozpin and Amber were there to greet them.
"Welcome to Beacon…I see you all took the time to improve. But you'll still have to wear Beacon's uniforms." Ozpin said as Yuki rolled his eyes.
"Good to see you too, Oz." Yuki said with a teasing hint of sarcasm. "Anything on the Church?"
"Little. From what I got…someone stole a pair of corpses. Ilia and Cinder." Ozpin said as Kelly scowled.
"You don't think…" Kelly asked Yuki only for him to say, "I swear if the Church brings them back, I'm tearing Cinder's spine out."
"And I will help." Peach said darkly.
"It's my fault for not being proper about ensuring their disposal. I had to rush it to ensure no panic." Ozpin said with a sigh.
"It's not your fault. I should have portaled the corpses out, but I was being blinded by being one-track minded." Yuki admitted. "I came prepared for Salem and her goons, not her cult of madmen."
"It's fine. Mr. Azure, you at least dealt Salem a severe blow to her numbers and give us ample time to up our defenses." Ozpin said assuring him. "By the way, Ironwood wishes to send regards. They got that hole in Mistral fixed and their moving to fix security up there."
"I'm aware." Yuki remarked not telling Ozpin that he had been keeping in touch with Ironwood.
The groups broke up to return to their rooms. Resettling in the Dragon's Den was something Yuki wanted to celebrate with a glass of cider for everyone. As for JPNR's reunion, it was well rather awkward. On the outside, Pyrrha seemed all smiles. Inwardly, she was a still a bit of mess.
"Welcome back…but what's with the new outfits?" Pyrrha asked.
"New armor thanks to Team YUKI. It's not too bad." Ren said as Jaune stated he was excitedly ready to train with Pyrrha.
"I can fly now!" Nora said excitedly. "I even learned how to better use my semblance. You can call me the Lightning McQueen! Ka-blam!"
By tomorrows, classes were back and the continued preparation for the Vytal Festival. Despite this, Team YUKI continued preparations as if which to others came off being paranoid. However, it all came to a head when Shampoo called the team before the day of the Festival.
"I managed to get the drop on one of those cultists. I couldn't get her to spill much…poor thing was trying to escape the cult. All I got was whatever they're up to…they managed to convince what's left of the Fang to join them." Shampoo said worriedly. "And somehow…they got to Adam's corpse."
Yuki's anger that day was so potent that everyone had to evacuate the Dragon's Den.
(A/N: I'm not going to really go into too much detail about the Festival because let's be honest, it would be filler. There's no focus for it to be focused on considering we have bigger issues to take on. Next chapter, we finally deal with the Church.)
Cue the Ending Theme
