["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 10: Point Where It Tips
Yuki was on edge having not exactly slept well after hearing that Adam's corpse was taken. He covered bases, flat out portaling to Sienna Khan asking if she had any ties with the Church. Ironically, she was in the middle of being welcomed to the job of being headmistress of Haven when this happened. Of course, she saw fit to honestly deny. Yuki returned and sat in the dorms trying to figure things out. He did not even bother to go to the Vytal Festival…mostly because he knew that Team RWBY would mop the floor with most of their canon opponents, even easier given their training.
He meditated to connect with Chronoa, who was not any help given she was recovering from a few injuries. The brothers had finally discovered Chronoa had messed with time to spite them. Despite them both beating her up, she booted them both out her realm. Sure, her arm was broken, and her ribs were on fire, but she was determined not to budge for them.
"Yuki, I can't really be of any help to you at the moment. My head is still ringing from the God of Darkness's foot upside it. All I can see now is…the engine room at the Stadium?" Chronoa said feeling woozy.
"I'll deal with it. Please rest yourself." Yuki said before breaking the connection.
Serena texted Ironwood to have someone check out the engine room. James would have seen this as strange, but he did not want to take changes. He had two of the Ace Ops go check it out. Clover and Harriet both went down to engine room both wondering what got Ironwood so spooked.
"Honestly, he's been a lot more careful and double checking after since he met that Azure brat." Harriet said with a groan.
[Cues: Metroid Fusion OST – Tension Before a Confrontation]
"To be fair, Yuki has been on point. Without his help, General Ironwood would have had to dealt with Hill who now has less of a leg to stand on now." Clover said as they entered the engine room of the arena.
As they looked around, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at first. Harriet was ready to go only for Clover to see something red.
"Here lie the fools who walked into a trap." Clover said reading the words on the wall. "Wait…that's blood!"
Harriet found a dead maintenance worker and the two got out their weapons. They looked around trying to see if the killer was still in the room only to hear the door slam shut. Harriet ran over to the door to open it leaving Clover on his own.
"A fishing rod for a weapon….wow Atlas must really suck if you're their elite." A voice said as Clover turned to find the source. "Looking for little ol' me? You should really run instead."
"Why?" Clover said only to hit his foot on something.
He took it up to see it was fire dust, and the room was lit up to reveal tons of fire dust all over the room and on the engine. Lazuli leaned on a railing smoking a cigar before blowing a ring of smoke. With a mad grin, she flicked it as everything slowed for Clover. He could hear his heart pounding as he whirled his fishing rod checking the cigar.
"Miss, you're not going to blow this up. Surrender and I won't have to use lethal force." Clover said firmly.
"For someone who has good luck, it seemed to screw you over." Lazuli joked.
"What are you talking about? I caught your cigar!" Clover said as Lazuli laughed.
"Exactly." Lazuli said as the cigar began to glow. "You were just lucky enough to catch it."
Lazuli started laughing like as she dropped a smoke bomb vanishing into the fumes.
"Harriet! We need you to run!" Clover said rushing out the door before using his fishing rod to hurl the cigar into the air.
[Music Ends]
The cigar exploded revealing confetti and a slip of paper that fluttered down slapping Clover in the face. Harriet took it up to read it with it having a simple message.
"You flinched."
BLAM! The engine room exploded lit ablaze due to all that dust as the arena was shaking interrupting the fight in the arena as the marquee was hijacked showing the mug of Brother Blood.
"We interrupt this broadcast to announce joyous news! You're all going to witness the grand return of our Queen! We're going to sacrifice about…half the Kingdom!" Brother Blood said gleefully. "Cue the explosions and panic!"
The marquee blew up as people were screaming in terror as Ironwood's eye twitched. Out came Lazuli flying on wings of fire.
"Burn, babes, burn!" Lazuli said breathing out fire like a dragon on the crowd.
People burned and out came a hoard of Nevermore attacking the crowd as the arena was falling for the ground. As much as Lapis wanted to tear the skin of Lazuli's face, she got orders from Yuki. Evacuate the innocents and get out of there.
-o-
Yuki was gathering the students and staff preparing for the worst-case scenario as most were fearful.
"Listen up! Vale is under attack by a dangerous enemy that is going probably completely wreck Vale. I can not risk your necks to join me to defend it. If you feel you cannot help in the fight, I completely understand. This isn't something the lot of you are ready for. But if you wish to back up and join the fight, I warn you that the Church of Salem…are lack of a better word, will fight until their bodies are broken. You will have to kill them before they can kill you. This is a war, but one we can win!" Yuki said making a rallying cry.
Yuki left to get out of his motorcycle only to see that Team CFVY and CDRL wanting to join him. He sighed as he was going to have to break out his new tool. Getting out a microcube, he threw it to reveal a personal cruiser. He owed Ironwood thanks for giving him the junker that he rebuilt over to create Team YUKI's personal cruiser, the Blue Bull. They flew for Vale as Yuki gripped the steering praying his team can hold out.
-o-
The arena was falling, people were scrambling to flee the Grimm and Lazuli. Lazuli went at random roasting anyone she left like. Lapis basically grabbed Jaune dragging him to escape ship despite his protest.
"Jaune! There's no time to argue!" Lapis said smashing a kiss on him. "I…I can't lose you…and I fear this is only a diversion. Take the pod and go!"
"Just…don't die on me." Lapis said only to hear a chilling voice.
[Cues: Undertale OST – You Idiot]
"So, the emotionless twit has a weakness." Lazuli said as Lapis whirled around. "I'd peg you more for someone like Yuki, but this blonde puke. I guess he's cute…I wonder what'd he tastes like."
Lapis did not speak, but Lazuli grinned maliciously. Before Lazuli could get another word out, she was slammed with a wall of ice. Jaune took this as his chance to get himself, his team, and the civilians out of there. Lazuli was slammed into the marquee.
"Yeesh, can't you take a…OH SHIT!" Lazuli said flying away as ice spikes slammed into where she was. "Ok, so maybe I touched a…GYARK!"
CRUNCH! Lapis had flown up on her water wings headbutting Lazuli's face breaking her nose which began to heal slowly with her aura.
"Hot damn! Lapis is pissed!" Ivory said shocked.
"Well, all considering, it's not surprising." Kelly remarked. "Did we all get the civilians?"
[Cues: Cowboy Bebop OST 3 Blue – Road to the West]
"Well besides the ones the Grimm and Firecrotch over there murdered, yes. Ironwood's racing for the Vale. We need to get off this…WHAAA!" Ivory said as another explosion rocked the arena. "We need to go now!"
"Lapis! We need to go!" Kelly screamed as she sprouted draconic wings to fly.
Lapis wanted to tear the flesh off Lazuli's body, but she knew better turning to fly away with her teammates before freezing Lazuli to the doomed arena.
"Lapis, you can't just leave your twin to possibly die now, can you?" Lazuli said trying to melt the ice.
Lapis had tears falling but turned to catch up with her teammates only hear screams as the final explosion consuming the whole arena.
[Cues: Final Fantasy VI OST – The Unforgiven]
"We stop Cinder, and Vale's still going to shit!" Ivory said angrily. "I really bet Salem's laughing at us now! Fuckin' pasty skinned cunt!"
"Crass, but I agree!" Kelly said as they all raced for Vale.
What they came to see in was absolute madness. Cultists rode on Grimm attacking the shops, tearing the streets, or straight up massacring civilians left and right. Buildings lit ablaze. UKI found their leader helping a few civilians out from under a burning car.
"Yuki, duck!" Lapis screamed as Yuki complied dodging a spear that impaled another civilian through the throat. "…shit!"
"Light Grenade!" Ivory said blasting the cultist off his mount.
Yuki portaled who he could to safety before rejoining his team.
"What's the status?" Yuki asked.
"We did what we could, and Lazuli might be dead. But she's probably still alive." Lapis said dryly. "What about the others?"
"We got the civs out, right now…everyone who can is fighting. Come on, we need to find Brother Blood. No doubt, he's…" Yuki said before sensing something. "Oh no…NO NO…NO!"
"What is it?" Kelly said panicked.
"Serena, patch me into the communication feed! Right now!" Yuki said nearly screamed.
Serena did as Yuki cleared his throat.
"This is Yuki Azure, everyone stop what you're doing and converge towards the graveyeard RIGHT NOW! If Brother Blood succeeds in what he's going to do, we'll all…" Yuki said as an explosion rocked the ground. "NO!"
Yuki flew with this team racing for the graveyard.
[Cues: Final Fantasy VI OST – The Fanatics]
Team RWBY had got there first to see the worst of it. A platform was built where Brother Blood sat as his cultists all sat on the ground chanting, pray, and preparing for the grand show. Red blood painted the walls, the graves to form runic markings that they could not understand. On poles, the bodies of Cinder and Adam hung limply.
"Ok, I'm ending this now!" Yang said.
"Not unless you want me to do this." Brother Blood said as one cultist dragged a child out with a knife at its throat. "You will wait for the rest to gather."
Group by group, they all did before Yuki showed up.
"Brother Blood, you piece of shit! I don't know what you're thinking, but you can't do this." Yuki roared.
"It is too late, Yuki. Our queen will rise again!" Brother Blood said as out from the shadows came a 'priestess'.
"You fucking fool, Salem's not in the…." Yuki said as black tendrils covered his mouth.
Tendrils restrained all of them as Yuki was fighting to overpower them.
"Silence." The priestess said. "It is time!"
The priestess slashed the child's throat open using it blood smear a ghastly circle on the ground before throwing the child on the center.
"By blackest night, by darkest day, darkness falls upon Remnant! Out from the bounds of the Quibuscaligo, rise true heir to the Grimm. Lord of our shadows!" The 'priestess' declared as Yuki got off the gag to scream, "Brother Blood, Salem's not in the void!"
Before Brother Blood could comment, Lazuli flew in with the biggest grin saying she was just in time. The mirror Brother Blood shattered as out from the circle, a blackish portal tore open sucking in the child before he was blended and spat out in bloody chunks.
[Dragon Ball Super Soundtrack OST - Beerus Madness]
The tendrils faded as a blackened mist came out dragging Adam's body to float over the portal. The corpse's eyes open as it began screaming as the demented song and chanting kicked in. All the crowd could see is blood seeping out from its eyes and mouth as the body spasmed. Blake and Jaune promptly hurled whatever they ate on the ground as Brother Blood step back in horror…the realization evident on his face. The power it was giving off…was…unholy to another level. With Salem, there was still a human essence to her dark energy. This…was alien to him! Then the corpse began to laugh as it began to morph. Skin darkened to a dark shade of gray as black tribal markings formed on the arms. What was Adam's horns grew and spiraled out. Fangs grew before the black mist concerned him completing the transformation. What came down on his feet was a rather tall well-built man. His eyes were still hidden by the bloodstained blindfold. Even the clothing had changed to a light grey vest, a short-sleeved black undershirt with a turtleneck, a blood red sash, black pants and pointy white boots.
"We could take him." Yang said fearfully.
"No…he's not done yet." Cologne said fearfully. "He's taunting us, just wanting to show off his 'good looks' before he puts on the armor."
Shiny, black metallic plate armor formed on his chest, shoulders, arms and lower legs. Red spikes shot out of the shoulder armor as a red tatter cape come on him. Finally, he snapped his fingers and the chanting and music stopped.
[Music Ends]
"What are you?!" Brother Blood said. "Are you even Lord Pyrite?"
"You fool. I was never Pyrite…I was something greater." He said as he snapped his fingers again.
A blackish portal formed in the air as Salem, Watts, Tyrian, and Hazel all fell out of it in front of him. Salem took a look up and went pale as the being gave a dark and tainted aura that was practically choking her.
"I bring you, your big threat. Your "Queen of Grimm". You fear her…but she knows her place. Bow, you lowlife."
Salem complied as she knew exactly who this "being" was. The thing that haunted her nightmares ever since she crawled from out the Grimm Pool. She had hoped that she was just dreaming him up…but he was more than real.
"Lower, you useless swamp whore!"
Salem was practically flat on the ground as Tyrian charged the figure wanting to kill him for upset his queen. The Grimm King manifested a massive sledgehammer before smashing it into Tyrian's face sending tumbling into the ground before it vanished.
"Oh, you fool. Your 'queen' is a fake, and she's been nothing but a seat warmer." The Grimm King said looking at Cinder's corpse. "Eh. I guess it'll do. Priestess, it's time for your last act. Take this corpse and dive into the portal, it's time I revealed the true queen."
The priestess took the body before breaking into blackened flames merging with the body before diving into the portal. What a came out a new figure to which make to everyone's relief, they did not have a repeat of the Grimm King. Unlike the Grimm King, she appeared similar to Cinder…and human. She had onyx black hair that is red in the back with an angled bob, long ear-tails, with a wolf's tail. She still had Cinder's amber eyes, but the figure was a lot thin and more fit and muscled. Making consisting of red eyeshadow with black winged liner and black lipstick with her upper lip being slightly darker materialized on her face. She wore a long sleeveless red dress that went up to her neck, had a rather large cleavage window, long red fingerless gloves, and heels coming off as the "dragon lady". Armored shoulder pads with a cape materialized on her body.
"Husband, dearest. It is good to finally remake our forms." The Grimm Queen said before looking down at Salem. "You. You have something that belongs to me!"
The Grimm Queen had Salem by her throat as Salem screamed as she could feel herself before drained as white smoke came off Salem's body re-entering the Grimm Queen's. Her white skin regained its human shade, her white hair returned to being blonde, and her eyes returned to being blue. Salem weakly looked up at the Grimm Queen.
[Cues: Berserk OST – Behelit]
"The Grimm King and Queen of the Blackest Void of the Damned." Yuki said fearfully. "Noire and Sayah Moiliênhe are free on Remnant."
Noir faced Yuki.
"And it is good to be acknowledged. Though, it seems you carry eyes of two different shades. Do you know why, child? Because your father escaped my world and slain the Voyden Grimm that went after him. But he did not claim its power…oh no, to my surprise you did. You, child, are one of us. Of course, you were already one of us…just like Ruby, just like Summer, and just like Maria." Noire said taking off her blindfold to open his heterochromia affected eyes.
One gold…and one silver.
"But before I rain hell, I want to make an offer. Join me, be my second in command, and you'll have your heart's desire." Noire said. "I'll even extend it to your team. Your greatest wishes all granted."
"Your parents, the family Lapis wants, the love and respect of the people, and all the acknowledgement and power you could want. A small country for you to rule." Sayah said as Noire extended a hand. "Do have a deal?"
Yuki slowly walked forward with his hair covering his eyes and hands in his pockets before standing in front of him. WHAM!
[Music Abruptly Stops]
Yuki punched him in the gut with all the strength he could muster shocking the cultists and everyone else had Noire coughed up spittle as he glared at Yuki.
"I would never accept the offer from the likes of you. I could never call myself a huntsman, make less a man if I even fancied your fucking offer." Yuki said defiantly.
Noire chuckled before breaking out into laughter.
"Yes, yes! This is what I wanted…a worthy opponent. You defy me unlike the tons of subject in my kingdom. No one is willing to face me." Noire said excitedly. "But humanity proves it's resilience. Survive this day and face me in the future. Of…course, you'll have to ensure the odds are in your favor."
Noire floated into the sky as it darkened.
"And give Chronoa my regards. It seems she made an excellent pick for her…champion." Noire said kindly.
"Champion?! What the hell does that mean?" Ozpin said wanting answers.
"Silence, you reincarnating fool." Sayah said firmly. "It's time for this city to bear witness to the first Eclipse. Our Voyden Grimm will ravage his place running sex and violence through the streets. It will be glorious…"
(A/N: The Grimm King and Queen have emerged! Originally, it was just to be a Grimm King, but I figured I had to do something with Cinder's body. As for Ilia's body, she was the unnamed Priestess. Now, the world of Remnant can dive into being it's Post Vol-3, in complete chaos! As for the last name, it's based off a bit of Vietnamese, "mối liên hệ". I did this as a bit of a shoutout to a certain Vietnamese woman I met who's been nothing but a big help to me along with being a jaded RWBY fan. Cloud, thanks a bunch.)
Cue the Ending Theme
