/Man these episodes go by slow.
We are finally moving along with the plot.
This chapter in particular took a while to write, the episodes are slow, and are only 15 minutes maximum.
Anyway let's get into it.\
Chapter 9: The Reveal
It was currently Grimm Studies, Professor Port was droning on about another one of his stories, then the bell rang.
"Then I- Oh, I timed that one wrong. I guess the conclusion to this story will have to wait until tomorrow."
Colton turned to his team. "I feel like team RWBY is up to something. I'm going to keep an eye on them, make sure they don't get into too much trouble."
"Alright, good luck." Pyrrha replies.
"Stay vigilant." Ren advises.
"Break a leg!" Nora says.
A few minutes later, Colton was waiting outside team RWBY's dorm, as a shadow on the wall.
After some waiting, team RWBY walks out of their dorm with... Sun and his friend Neptune?
' Never mind that. Blake is the one who is most likely to go directly after the White Fang, so I'll follow her.'
Colton decided to act then and moved over to Blake's shadow, attaching himself to it.*
Blake and Sun, with Colton secretly following, head out to perform their task in this mission.
Blake and Sun(and Colton) were in an alleyway, Blake ran her hand across a claw mark, the symbol of the White Fang.
"This is it." Blake stated.
"You sure?" Sun asks.
Blake glares at him.
"Y'know, I'm just gonna take your word for it." Sun quickly says.
Sun and Blake walk down the alleyway, with Blake removing her bow.
Colton was taking in the surroundings while attached to Blake's shadow. Blake was explaining the reason behind the masks.
The two(three) made their way to the crowd, from there a White Fang member started to speak.
Colton wasn't focusing on the details of the speech, but noticed Roman Torchwick start to walk up onstage.
Roman started to speak, but something else got Colton's attention.
The girl from the previous day was walking from behind the cloth covered object.
Furthermore, there was a figure above the stage, observing the crowd.
Roman started to get the attention of the crowd, causing the booing to turn into cheers.
Roman snapped his fingers, and the cloth was removed, revealing an Atleasian Paladin.
'That is not good!' Colton thought to himself.
Roman continued his speech, dropping some interesting information.
'The Southeast? What are they doing there? Isn't that were Mountain Glenn is?'
Once Roman finished his speech, the newcomers were instructed to move forward.
As Blake and Sun got closer, Roman seemed to recognize them.
Thinking quick, Blake shot a fuse box.
"Don't let them get away!" Roman shouts.
"Sun the window!" Blake also shouts.
"Stop them!" Roman shouts again.
The sound of mechanical whirring could be heard as Blake and Sun made a B-line for the window.
As soon as the two broke through the window, Colton detached himself from Blake's shadow, and moved from the wall of the warehouse they were at, to the ground.
Colton, while still in shadow form, watched the paladin break through the wall, chasing after the two fanus.
Colton emerged from the ground, and was about to follow the paladin.
"Hold it right there!" Colton heard a voice.
The figure from earlier jumped down from the rooftop.
It was the same black-cloaked figure from the other day.
Colton summoned his keyblades ready to fight.
"Your not the only one who can do that." The figure stated.
The figure held out his right hand, darkness formed around his hand, and a keyblade was summoned.
The keyblade looked to be made out of red gears with an eye at the end of the guard, but still held the shape of a keyblade.*
Colton was taken aback, no one else ever did that. "Who are you?!" He shouts.
The figure removed his hood, then he pressed a button on his helmet. The helmet moved back, revealing his spikey black hair, and yellow eyes.
"I am Vanitas." The figure introduced himself. "And I am your brother, Necrozma."
Colton took a step back in shock. "T-that's not possible!"
"Oh, but it is. I was created by master Salem to destroy you, traitor. I have free-will, just like you, this makes us brothers."
Colton was silent for a moment, taking in the information. He has a brother, technically.
Colton then took a step forward in anger. "If you have free-will, then why are you throwing it away to serve that witch?!"
"She's our creator, we owe it to her to serve." Vanitas shot back.
"Like hell we do!" Colton retorted.
"We have the ability to do whatever we want. What your doing is throwing away your potential so you can be a pawn. You do realize she probably wouldn't even care if you died. To her, your just an insignificant bug. So why let that be the case?! Why not become your own self!?"
"Shut up!" Vanitas yells. Vanitas then charges forward, prompting Colton to do the same.*
Mid-charge Vanitas summons another keyblade in his other hand. The keyblade was bigger, looking to almost be too big to wield with one hand. The keyblade had a black guard, and silver blade, and an eye on it.*
The two human-Grimm clash with their weapons.
They stare each other down, trying to intimidate the other.
They break off, and start clashing attack after attack.
Vanitas jumped back and pointed a keyblade forward, a fire ball shot out at Colton.
Colton wasn't able to get out of the way in time, so he ended up getting hit.
'That feeling. It is magic!'
Colton then dismissed his weapons, he reached for his inhibitor rings, turning the dial on them to adjust the settings, allowing for the use of low level magic.*
Colton shot a fire ball, Vanitas countered with his own. The fire ball shot by Vanitas overpowered the fire ball shot by Colton.
Colton realized that he wouldn't be able to match Vanitas in magic with the inhibitor rings on, but he didn't want to have to resort to taking them off.
Going on a whim, Colton sank into the ground, spreading out his shadow. Then he released a dozen shadow replicas, all charging at Vanitas.
Vanitas smirked. "Sorry, but when it comes to darkness, I'll always win."
Vanitas shot a dark blast at the replicas, destroying them all.
Keyblade in hand, Colton rose out of the ground behind Vanitas, swinging at him.
Colton hits true, noticing a dark aura surrounding him.
'He really is like me, he even has aura.'
"Grr! That was a good hit, I'll give you that. But this is far from over."
As the two keyblade wielders got ready to clash again, a bullhead suddenly appeared overhead.
Inside the bullhead was Roman.
"Alright, the jig is up! We need to leave!" Roman shouts down to Vanitas.
Vanitas pressed the button on his helmet causing it to close around his head, then he pulled the hood up. "Until next time, brother."
Vanitas made a dark portal, and was about to walk through, until Colton spoke up. "Wait!"
Vanitas turned. "What?"
"Are you really sure you want to be a tool? We're brothers, come with me, we can live out lives happily."
Vanitas said nothing, walking into the portal.
Colton looked up at the bullhead, seeing Vanitas looking down at him, as it flew away.
Colton re-adjusted the settings on his inhibitor rings, setting them back to default, then he noticed something on the ground. "Isn't that Blake's bow?"
Colton walked weakly over to the bow, aura may heal wounds, but that fight drained him of his energy, plus being hit by high powered magic tends to leave you with a lot of soreness for a while.
Colton picked up the bow, it was indeed Blake's. She must've dropped it while escaping.
Colton heard footsteps, looking over he saw team RWBY walking towards him.
Once they got close, Colton held out the hand holding the bow. "This yours?"
Blake took the bow back. "Thanks."
Weiss spoke up as Blake was putting the bow back on. "What are you doing here?"
Colton smirked. "I followed Blake and Sun."
Blake went wide eyed. "How!?" She asked.
Colton never lost the smirk. "As a shadow I can attach to other shadows. I attached to yours as you were leaving the dorms."
"If that's the case, what are you doing here? And why do you look exhausted?" Yang asks.
"I was fighting my brother."
"You have a brother?!" Ruby asks surprised.
"Apparently, I just found out myself. To think, I've had a brother all this time, and I didn't know it." Colton looked down, in thought.
Colton looked back up. "He seems to be working with Torchwick and the White Fang, I'll have to confront him sometime."
"You don't look like you can walk on your own, I'll help you back. Ruby, carry his equipment." Yang says.
Ruby unhooks Colton's pouch, and takes BorrelSword and Mistsplitter. Yang places Colton's left arm around her shoulders.
Not wanting to leave the scene without brightening the mood, Colton spoke up. "Weiss you have dirt on your dress."
Weiss looked down at her skirt, there was indeed dirt there. "First, it's a combat skirt. Second, you dolts! Why didn't you say anything about this?!"
Everyone else laughed at Weiss' reaction, as they walked back in the direction of Beacon.
Vanitas was leaning against the wall in one of the many hideouts of Roman Torchwick, ever since the fight against his brother, his words have been on his mind, was he really okay with being a pawn to Salem? Was he really giving up his ability to be himself?
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury approach.
"I heard you engaged in a fight against the Golden Grimm. Is that true?" Cinder asked.
"Yes." Vanitas said without turning to look at them.
"And did you kill him?" Cinder presses.
"No. I didn't get enough time, Torchwick interrupted the fight."
"A shame, a tool such as yourself failing to complete a task given to you. Make sure you don't fail again."
Vanitas grit his teeth inside his helmet. "Yes ma'am."
Maybe rebelling wouldn't be so bad after all, he hates that woman, she thinks just because she has half of the fall maiden's power, that she was top of the food chain. Vanitas has much more power when it comes to magic, he's just ordered to not use it unless told to.
'I'll have to wait, come to a decision next time I fight him.'
Vanitas looked out the window. 'Let's just wait and see. Maybe you will convince me, brother.'
1: In shadow form, he can attach himself to another shadow. This can be used as a way to move around without actually moving, like riding on a bike, or in a car.
2: Yes, this is Void Gear.
3: Just as an FYI, Vanitas is wearing both his body suit armor thing, and the overcoat.
4: The No Name keyblade.
5: changing the settings on the rings was made as an emergency situation kind of thing.
Vanitas: Vanitas is a humanoid like Grimm, with the ability to talk, and has free will. The free will was given by Salem, in hopes of creating the ultimate tool, making sure to try and keep him loyal, as to not repeat the last time. His semblance is known as True Darkness, it's basically Colton's dark half of his semblance, but better, being able to summon weapons too. His aura is colored black, and is pretty tough.
/So the reveal has happened, our hero knows he has a brother.
I don't really have anything to say, so see you next chapter I guess.\
