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After waking up from their rest after the team assignments, all of the first-year students had been summoned by Glynda Goodwitch who was now giving them the orientation of Beacon Academy. Right now they were in the locker room, listening to her lecture.
"Each of you will be assigned one rocket-propelled locker to store your weapons and extra armour. Additionally, your locker can be sent to a custom location based on a six-digit code."
Seeing that no one was watching Cardin Winchester quickly grabbed onto Jaune who began pleading and shoved him into one of the lockers, he promptly entered a random code and sent it flying with his victim inside. Luckily for him, it seemed Professor Goodwitch didn't notice, or if she did she ignored it.
"What was the point of that?" A deep voice echoed from behind Cardin causing him and his team to jump and whirl around, only to see a huge Boar, easily the size of a truck with eerie orange coloured eyes and dark fur with orange and dark blue patterned lines going across the fur.
"Grimm!" Sky Lark shrieked causing the rest of the students to all panic and whirl around to see the large boar simply staring at them.
"Silence!" Glynda cutting off the panic before it could get out of hand. "It is not a Grimm, Mister Lark, note the lack of a bone mask. This is an intelligent construct, one brought forth by Professor Narukami's semblance, which requires frequent use to maintain efficiency, so expect to see more like them around the school. What are you here for?"
"I was exploring with Fenrir when I wandered in here and saw this one." The boar motioned to Cardin "Shove the blond one into a locker and launch it. I was curious as to what purpose such needless cruelty serves. You mortals cannot cease fighting for even a few minutes, even when surrounded on all sides by monsters that wish you dead, it is perplexing."
Cardin gulped as Professor Goodwitch glared at him. Luckily, however, he was temporarily saved as Ruby questioned the boar.
"So, do you have a name?" Ruby asked curiously.
"I do, though it was given to me by my current master." the boar responded.
"What does that mean?" Blake inquired.
"It means, that though I did the duty that the goddess Artemis bid me, I was not given a name, I was not honoured for punishing the city of Calydon as she wished, for the king forget to offer a sacrifice to her one year." The boar explained "As such I trampled fields, killed farmers destroyed vineyards and crops, forcing people to take refuge inside the city walls where they began to starve. I felt no malice towards those people, I was just doing as I was asked."
"So this goddess sent you to torment people just because they forget to make an offering to her one year?" Yang asked with exasperation "That's so petty."
"Indeed, the Olympians were rather famous for being petty, they brought much suffering onto the children of man for even such minor offences." The boar replied seeming to shrug. "Eventually I was slain by Meleager after Atalante wounded me and my pelt was taken. But even though I did my duty and brought suffering to the mortals I was given no honour, no constellation among the stars, I wasn't even given a name!" The boar sounded rather indignant. "Even that crab got a name and an image in the stars and all he did was pinch a heel and get stepped on."
"Well, you said you have a name now, so what is it?" Ruby asked.
"Calydon, after the very city I tormented, rather fitting do you not agree, short one?" the now named Calydon asked approaching Ruby who gained a rather angry look on her face.
"I'm not short I drink milk!" Ruby yelled indignantly.
"Clearly not enough of it," Calydon responded causing Ruby to puff her cheeks out angrily.
"Calydon!" Another voice yelled with annoyance causing everyone to jump.
Squeezing through the doorway was a large wolf with dark icy blue fur.
"Ah, there you are Fenrir." Calydon acknowledged.
"Is that a dog?" Blake asked suddenly backing off, as did a portion of the crowd.
"I am a wolf, not a dog!" Fenrir yelled indignantly "Why did you leave me behind you walking pile of bacon?"
"We were supposed to stick to together, I assumed you were still following me," Calydon replied
"I was distracted, the cafeteria is cooking meat, beef if I'm not mistaken," Fenrir stated licking his chops.
"You cannot eat any of it." Calydon pointed out.
"I know, but the smell was so good," Fenrir replied clearly still thinking about meat before shaking his head. "Anyway, you should stop boring people by talking about stories like an old man."
"At least I am not famous for 'eating' an old man."
"That 'old man' was king of Asgard!" Fenrir growled. "At least I was given a name!"
"Do wish to fight Fenrir?!" Calydon snorted his face into Fenrir's personal space.
"I will make pork chops out of you, you overgrown pig," Fenrir growled pushing his face against Calydons.
The air near Calydon began to heat up, while the ground near Fenrir began to frost over as the two glared into each other's eyes. However before a fight could break out a voice cut in.
"That's enough you two." Professor Narukami entered the door with an unamused look on his face. "Fenrir, enough."
"Aww." The wolf groaned before vanishing in a burst of blue flames leaving only Calydon.
"Care to explain Calydon?"
"We were walking about the school together when he got distracted by the smell of meat from the cafeteria, I did not notice and assumed he was still with when I walked in here and saw this one." Calydon motioned to Cardin "Shove the blonde one into a locker and send it flying."
"Professor Goodwitch, please go and retrieve Mr Arc, we will discuss this at the end of the day," Yu ordered her with a stern tone, causing her to nod go after the locker. "As for you, Team CRDL all you with have a weeks detention."
"What why all of us?!" Russel Thrush asked loudly.
"Because you failed to stop your leader from doing something stupid." Yu replied dismissively before looking at Pyrrha "And Ms Nikos, keep a better eye on your partner in the future."
"Ah, yes sir," Pyrrha replied quietly.
"Good, Team's RWBY and JNPR don't forget you have my remedial class last period." Yu snapped his fingers and Calydon also vanished before turning to leave again before pausing and turning to look at the whole crowd of students. "Oh, one last and if even one person leaves this room before Professor Goodwitch returns consider your whole team expelled, think I'm kidding? Test me and find out."
With that Yu left the room, his jacket billowing behind him as he did so.
"Sheesh, what a hardass," Yang grumbled.
"Give him a break Yang." Blake said, "He's not exactly in an easy position."
"Indeed," Weiss spoke up agreeing with Blake "He's our age and he's supposed to be Ozpin's successor, even having done something like killing the King of the Emerald Forest doesn't guarantee that he will have everyone's respect and if he can't even control a bunch of first years then why should the older years respect or listen to him or anyone else for that matter?"
"I see your point but still…."
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After having the conclusion of the Orientation given by Professor Goodwitch, the first years had their first classes at Beacon. Grimm Studies with Professor Port, then history with Doctor Oobleck and finally Combat Class with professor Goodwitch. While the school day had ended for other students teams RWBY and JNPR made their way to the classroom indicated to them on their scrolls for their remedial classes, much to the silent amusement of other students. They now stood outside the door waiting to enter.
"This sucks," Yang complained having shaken her fist at Team CRDL who had snickered at both teams upon being reminded by Professor Goodwitch to go to their remedial class.
"We know Xiao Long." Weiss sighed "Let's just hurry up and get this over with, remedial, Winter will be so disappointed." Weiss mumbled the last part to herself.
A pair of buzzing noises caused Jaune and Ruby to withdraw their scrolls and open them.
"It's from Professor Narukami." Ruby said, "He says he's going to be late and to just go in and sit down."
"Only team leaders scrolls can unlock the door." Jaune continued reading off the message.
Ruby took a deep breath and moved forward, she waved her scroll in front of the electronic lock. The screen turned green and the slid open. Entering the room, the eight found it to be similar to Doctor Ooblecks classroom, except while most desks were empty there eight spots in the front row clearly marked by a piece of white paper on the desk before each seat. The room itself was rather sparse with no decorations of any sort making it look rather plain.
"I guess that's where we're meant to sit," Blake said cutting through the silence.
"Ooooh, what's that?" Nora Valkyrie's yelled curiously zipping over to the teacher's desk upon which sat a square base with four prongs holding up a white sphere about the size of a baseball.
"Nora no," Ren yelled at his friend and partner.
"I'm not gonna touch it, just see what it is," Nora reassured him leaning on the desk to get a closer look at the shining white sphere.
"It's just dust." Weiss scoffed folding her arms.
"I don't know," Ruby disagreed "This doesn't seem like any dust I've ever seen."
"She's right. It doesn't have the same shimmering sound that dust crystals usually give off." Pyrrha said joining them at the desk "It's also smaller than it looks, about the size of a marble, the bigger size is because of this shining light it's giving off."
Weiss became intrigued and approached the desk also, now all eight students stood in a semi-circle around the desk staring the oddity upon it. She got a closer look and raised an eyebrow.
"You're right, it's not dust, at least no any kind of dust I've ever seen." Weiss conceded. "So what is it?"
Before anyone could answer Ruby reached out to touch it.
"Ruby wait!" Yang's worried call came too late as Ruby's fingers made contact with it. As this happened the glow began to intensify forcing all of them to shield their eyes. Ren grabbed Nora and dragged her away. Waves of light began to emanate from the sphere before it became a single blinding light which forced everyone to shield their eyes.
When it died down, Nora and Ren were the first to open their eyes. Their teammates and friends who were closest to the sphere when it activated were now still like statues.
"Guys?" Nora called out to them causing them to unfreeze, lower their arms and open their eyes.
"So….that was a thing," Yang commented with a nervous laugh.
"It was just a lot of light," Weiss said without her normal confidence.
"Blake?" Yang looked to her partner who looked rather shaken.
"Don't you hear that?" Blake asked her partner with wide eyes.
"Hear what?"
"The whispering?" It was Jaune who spoke up looking as shaken as Blake.
"Jaune?" Pyrrha put her hand on her partners should a concerned look adorning her face.
Nora and Ren watched it happen, as if a wave had swept over the others they all suddenly had fearful expressions on their faces too, both looked at each other then back to the friends and teammates.
Blake gulped, a whispering was coming from inside her own head, at first it was tiny, imperceptible but it steadily got louder and louder until she realised it was her own voice talking to her.
'The White Fang, you left them but still, you think about them. About Him.' It whispered maliciously 'They make themselves look like monsters, they act like monsters, they can never go back to the way they were, Just like you!'
"Stop it." She whispered.
'Liar, fraud, faker.' Jaune heard his own voice whisper to him. 'You're nothing but a lazy good for nothing thief, you bought fake transcripts all so you could try to accomplish your dream.' The word was spat like it was something disgusting 'You can't ever tell them the truth' It was referring to his team, Ren, Nora, his partner Pyrrha 'You know they'd never forgive you, never trust you and why should they? LIAR!'
"Shut up," Jaune mumbled covering his ears in a futile attempt to block the voice out.
'How pathetic.' Weiss shivered, her own was speaking to her disdainfully. 'Winter would be so disappointed at your incompetence. You looked up to her, she was confident, strong, willful, everything you're not' Her voice pointed out spitefully 'She joined the military to get away from Father's grasp and succeeded, but what did you do? You ran to the other side of the world to feel like you were free from him and how did it go? You came, you got in and you're not even your team's leader. Instead, your leader is a child. If you've studied and trained so hard Why weren't you chosen? Winter will be so disappointed that you weren't good enough!'
Weiss didn't speak up, instead choosing to wrap her arms herself, refusing to reply to the voice.
'Selfish' Yang shivered at the tone of her own voice which scoffed into her ear. 'You don't care about anyone but yourself. When Summer died the first thing you tried to do was replace her and with who? A mother who abandoned you as soon as you were born? A mother who was never there, never baked cookies, never read you bedtime stories was never there when you had nightmares? And Why? All to make yourself feel better.'
"Stop it, just shut up!" Yang yelled trying to block it out by covering her ears.
'It wasn't about trying to make your family whole again, it was all about you and what you wanted, you wanted your mother and you were even willing to sacrifice your younger sister for it. You will always be nothing but an ungrateful kid!'
'Invincible Girl.' Pyrrha gasped at the sound of her own voice speaking those hated words. 'You've never had real friends. Anyone who talked to you always wanted something, your fame, your money, your power. Face it, when Jaune finally gets a clue he'll just be an adoring fan like all the others and it's on that pedestal you'll stay. For-EVER!'
Pyrrha began breathing heavier and heavier keeping any outbursts from breaking free.
'You're just a child.' Ruby heard her own voice taunt her. 'Ozpin let you in because he felt sorry for you. You can't make it as a huntress, you're not even ready to be a team leader. Face it Ozpin made a mistake putting you in charge of three others who are older than you, just like he made a mistake bringing letting you come to Beacon, Weiss doesn't even listen to you, why would she, she's clearly the better choice. You never be the leader this team needs!'
"That's enough." A voice yelled as a glass case slammed itself onto the base sealing the sphere away.
As the voices in their heads faded away the six looked to see Professor Narukami standing next to the desk his hand still atop the glass case.
They were shaken and for good reason.
"Professor, what was that?" Ren asked as he and Nora took their seats first, watching their teammates and friends with concern as they too sat down shakily.
"It is called the Orb of Sight, it has the power to repel fabrications of all sorts, dispels lies, and shine upon the truth. It also possesses the power to stimulate one's Shadow, which is what happened now." Yu held up the case which the orb rested on and brought it up to his face examining the orb which shone gently from within. Yu sighed setting the orb back down the desk and moving it behind himself as he sat upon the edge of the desk. "Please go to your seats and take a few moments to compose yourselves."
"Shadow?!" Yang said in a tone demanding an explanation
"They are dark reflections of certain parts of you, they could a hidden past, embarrassing truths or things one tries to forget and not acknowledge but they are essential parts of who people are and what one tries to bury," Yu explained.
"So they're like the Grimm?" Jaune asked,
"Yes and No, they are dark emotions built up and brought into existence, but they aren't soulless beings... they are you or the constructs of the consciousness of others."
He paused and let the information sink in for a moment before continuing.
"In this class, I will be teaching you to use Persona, a power better than Dust, beyond weapons, and greater than your semblances." Yu began explaining "A Persona is a mask used to whether the hardships of everyday life, I will help you awaken yours by having you face your Shadows."
"With respect sir, this all 'Persona' business sounds like nonsense." Weiss scoffed.
'Nonsense are we?' A deep voice echoed inside Yu's mind 'Allow me to burn their scepticism.'
The room suddenly became still, and then became hot, very very hot. The heat caused the air to begin rippling and all of the students began to sweat as a humanoid figure made of fire began to materialize just in front of Yu. He had burning orange eyes like flames. The top part of his head was covered by a strange mask-like crown which had a part of sharp metal horns extending from either side of it.
"My flames created the stars in the heavens, I shattered the Bifrost, My flames incinerated the World Tree and the Nine Realms. I Am thou and Thou Art I, from the Sea of Souls I have come I Am Surtur, King of Muspelheim the Doom of Asgard" Surtur declared proudly towering so high that his head almost reached the high ceiling.
He took a step forward causing the students to all flinch, however, he shrank as he did so. walking closer to them and getting smaller until finally, he was about seven feet tall. He leant close to Weiss and pressed his hand upon the desk in front of her even as she leaned back in the chair trying to keep away from him, even as she looked into his flaming yellow eyes fearfully.
"Tell me, little girl, do I seem like an illusion to you?" Surtur asked with an amused tone which indicated he was taking pleasure in her fear and awe.
He lifted his hand to reveal the small part of the desk have which had grown hot and begun smoking, had partly melted leaving a deep scorched handprint in it.
"Alright, Surtur that's enough." Reluctantly the King of the Fire giants acquiesced and backed off.
"E-even so he's just part of your Semblance," Weiss argued shaking her head.
Yu didn't respond verbally instead opening his scroll, pressing a few buttons then tossing it to her. She caught it and looked over the screen.
"No, that's impossible."
"What is?" Ruby asked as everyone leaned in to see what was on the screen.
On the screen was a single solid green bar.
"So his Aura is full what about it?" Yang asked.
"You dolt, even passive semblances need Aura to fuel them." Weiss snapped "Summoning semblances should take a huge chunk of aura just to summon, the more powerful the more aura it takes but, his aura is completely full."
"Ok, so this Persona thingy isn't your semblance then?" Ruby asked.
"Nope."
"Why all the secrecy?" Blake asked, "Why tell everyone that this is a remedial class?"
"Imagine what happen if I had to help just one kingdom by awakened the Persona's of their soldiers, like say Atlas for example."
"It would mean war," Pyrrha stated factually causing everyone to look at her.
"Correct." Yu nodded "A well-trained Persona user could decimate a small platoon. What would happen if one kingdom had an army of them?"
"They'd try and conquer the world," Weiss stated sadly knowing full well what her father and the elite of Atlas would do with such power.
"Precisely which is why what happens here must be kept a secret," Yu told them. "I won't be awakening your Persona's right away, first I'll teach you what you need to know about Shadows and Persona's when you're ready that's when we'll begin in earnest. I chose you eight because I believe you can be trusted to use this power for the right reasons."
The students all nodded and focused, ready to keep learning about this new subject.
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"Good Evening everyone I am Lisa Lavender." The news anchor introduced herself. "For those of you who aren't away the King of the Emerald Forest has been slain, this notorious Grimm has remained in the Emerald Forest for several decades proving a deadly challenge to any huntsman for dared to try their luck. But now after a successful S-class exam, it has been slain, a feat which has not been done since Professor Ozpin and his team years ago."
Lisa paused as footage of the battle with the legendary Grimm played on just next to Lisa's head, showing the battle between Albion and the King.
Watching this on TV a scruffy looking man with red eyes took a drink of the whiskey which sat on the bar in front of him.
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"I bring you today an exclusive interview with the young man who slew the king and thus passed the S-class exam." Meanwhile, in the forests of Anima far from the city of Mistral, a pair of bandits were sitting in their camp watching this on a scroll.
A spotlight shone on a grey-haired young man had a relaxed yet serious expression on his face sitting a chair directly to Lisa's right.
"It's just some kid."
"He doesn't look so tough."
"He's from a nomadic town called Inaba far outside the cities walls. His name is Yu Narukami."
"Give me that!" A voice demanded snatching the scroll from them. They turned to object remained silent when they saw it was their boss Raven Branwen. Her eyes in a hard scowl as she looked at the screen.
"Hey boss," Vernal spoke up when she too looked at the screen with wide eyes. "Isn't that-"
"It can't be…" Raven growled clutching the scroll tightly "He's dead! I killed him myself." After a few moments, Raven shoved the scroll into Vernal's hands and put on her Grimm mask, walking away from them.
"Where are you going?" Vernal inquired nervously of her leader's bad mood.
"To the ruins, I have to see for myself, take care of things while I'm gone."
"Got it." Vernal nodded as a literal Raven took the place of her boss and flew off into the sky at high speeds.
'Ozpin, what the hell have you been up to?' Raven thought to herself as she sped towards her destination
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"Hello Lisa, it's a pleasure to be here," Yu said politely, bridging his hands as he settled into the chair.
"I hope you don't mind me asking but, your name, it doesn't correspond to any colour I'm aware of, why is that?" Lisa asked,
"Well, you see Inaba, the town I'm from is a nomadic town, we wandered from place to place for centuries, when the Great War came along we did our best to stay out of it," Yu replied, shifting as he did so. "We never took the colour naming rule because we knew Mantle's ideas were doomed from the start and as such never felt a need to name our children after colours, we felt this made us more unique than the rest of the world."
"I see, well next question what happened to Inaba?" Lisa inquired carefully.
Yu let out as sad a breath as he could manage.
"Well…. It was destroyed, as far as I am aware Margret and I are the only survivors."
"And who is Margret?"
"She was our villages archivist." Yu said "Her duty was to record and save, all our towns lore, myths, legends, stories, history as well as guard old relics. It's not an easy job, she not only had to preserve old books but transcribe those which were nearly unsalvageable, in addition, she had to memorise it all and be able to recall it all perfectly from memory. As you can imagine it is a truly monumental undertaking and not just anyone can do it."
"I see and you say she survived?"
"Yes, I was very surprised to see her when Ozpin announced that she was taking over Beacon's infirmary as the nurse."
"You say she was an archivist before, so now she's a nurse at Beacon?"
"Yes, she's got many talents, medical training is just one."
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"Ok, so moving on" Lisa cleared her throat and shifted in her seat. "That sword is your weapon I presume, what is its name?"
"Totsuka-no-Tsurugi," Yu answered picking up said weapon and drawing it fully from its sheath and holding it up for the camera to see, the blade gleaming in the light. "It roughly translates as Sword of Length of Ten Fists."
"It looks amazing, even someone like myself can tell that its very well taken care of," Lisa stated with awe.
"It was one of the relics that Margaret guarded and kept maintained." Yu explained sheathing the sword "For the relics which are weapons they can be given out if you pass a test, in my case, it was a combat test, and that was before I even unlocked my semblance. Margaret was no pushover that was for sure."
"So it obviously doesn't transform?"
"No, Ozpin keeps telling me I need a ranged option, I've just never got round to it." Yu chuckled good-naturedly.
In his office in Atlas Academy, in the kingdom and city of its namesake, James Ironwood sat at his desk watching the interview, with Specialist Winter Schnee standing off to his side. She was Jacques Schnee's eldest child. Her position as heiress to the SDC was revoked when she decided to join the military.
"Schnee." He called to her thoughtfully. "What was the report on the prototype from R&D?"
"They said it was nearly ready for field testing, it just needs an appropriate melee form." Winter replied dutifully.
"Well then, go and give tell them of that one." General Ironwood motioned to the sword which sat in its sheath leaning against Narukami's chair.
"That prototype sir?" Winter asked incredulously. "But giving to a foreign huntsman with no affiliation to Atlas, the council-"
"Will go for my idea, because as they so often like to remind me we are in a time of peace." Ironwood told her with scoff "Besides they will want a way for Atlas to toady up to him, what better way than giving him a weapon that he needs? Besides the ammunition is specialised and only Atlas can produce it, so the risk is minimized which should assuage any naysayers."
"Very well sir, I'll get right on it." Winter gave a firm salute and marched out of the room to carry out her orders.
When she was gone the general let out a sigh and bridged his hands. "Oz, just what are you planning?" He wondered, trying to discern his old friends' intentions on training a replacement.
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"Ok," Lisa cleared her throat again. "So how did you meet Professor Ozpin?"
"Well, after the town was destroyed I just sort of... wandered" Yu stated taking on a melancholy tone. "My aura had been awakened by my uncle a few years earlier and my semblance emerged during the Grimm attack."
Yu paused for a moment.
"I went from village to village, town to town trying to survive, using my semblance to ward off Grimm when one day I found myself surrounded by Beringels, I killed a lot of them but they just kept coming. Eventually, when I became exhausted I thought I was done for, that's when he came and saved me. He said I had potential and offered to train me properly."
Lisa sensed the mood and decided to change the subject.
"Well, how about your semblance, what is it exactly?" Lisa inquired "It has been compared the Schnee Family's own hereditary summoning Semblance. What can you tell us?"
"Well, my semblance is much more…. Animated." Yu said after finding the correct word he was looking for. "Than theirs. And unlike the Schnee's summons mine are based on myths and legends rather than defeated foes. The myths and legends in question are the Inaba archives, which is why outsi- I mean other people haven't heard about them before." Yu put the false slip up in for good measure and it seemed to work if Lisa's face when he made it was any indication.
"I see, what kind of myths and legends?" Lisa pushed.
"Well, they take the form of things like gods, demons, angels, devil, heroes, monsters and fairies to name a few."
"C-can you summon one?" Lisa asked after seeing a nod from the producer. "Not too big though."
"Of course." Yu considered summoning a human, most of the heroes volunteered, all wishing to proudly display themselves, gods and monsters were instantly out, he did not need one of them to create negativity on live TV for being offended, and monsters only knew how to destroy no matter how intelligent they may seem to be. Then he got the perfect volunteer, one that tended to be thought of as adorable by women and fortunately not big or really intimidating at all.
Yu concentrated and snapped his fingers. Out of a swirl of blue flames appeared a short pudgy snowman wearing a blue cap, blue boots and short nearly unnoticeable tail.
"Hee, nice to meet you Ho." Jack Frost greeted Lisa with a wave which she returned with a gobsmacked expression on her face.
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In her lair also watching the broadcast of the interview Salem rubbed her chin thoughtfully before contacting Watts through her scroll. He answered promptly.
"How can I be of service your grace?" he asked with a bow.
"Arthur, I want you to get into contact with your old associate Dr Merlot." She ordered, "I have a deal for him which I think he'll find most agreeable."
"As you wish."
"Before you go, persuade Mr Adachi to provoke Adam Taurus." Salem commanded, "He could serve useful as a test for Mr Narukami's powers."
"I'll get on it right away," Watts said before Salem ended the call.
She heard a creaking of wood and looked to Hazel as its source. His hands gripping the arms of his chair as he looked at the screen which showed the snowman freezing solid the water in a glass before setting it free as a glass shaped block of ice.
'Look, Hazel, his name's Jack Frost. Isn't he cute?' The memory of his sister's voice echoed through Hazel's mind igniting feelings of fury and anguish within him before Salem's voice brought him back to reality.
"Hazel, is something wrong?" She asked silencing any remark that Tyrian might have made with a glare.
"Nothing your grace," Hazel answered submissively. She clearly didn't believe him but chose not to press the matter turning her attention back to the interview.
"This is the power of the Wild Card, the power that can defeat even the gods. I must have it." Salem stated watching Jack Frost perform tricks with his power over ice. "This will require delicate planning, I will not tolerate failure in this matter, it takes priority even over the relics are we clear?"
"Yes My Queen" "Yes Your Grace." Both men replied obediently.
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As the interview continued the subjects changed, from information about Jack Frost and his other personas to Yu's feelings about being the youngest headmaster ever, a bit about his training with Ozpin. Until finally the subject was about Yu's duties at Beacon.
"Well, now that I officially have my licence, the council plans to slowly delegate more responsibility to me, to help me get acclimated to that they've delegated a budget to me so I can hire a secretary slash personal assistant to help me with my duties." Yu stated, "I'll be conducting the interview personally so that I can get used to any interviews with new staff members in the future."
Adam Taurus who sat watching it in a White Fang hideout muted the interview and began making a call on his scroll.
"What is it?" The voice on the other end sounded frustrated.
"Is something wrong High Leader Khan?" Adam asked with concern.
"Our Atlas Chapter is gone!" She yelled through the scroll angrily.
"Gone? But How?!"
Sienna Khan took a deep breath before explaining. "We sent an assassin to the Schnee manor, in hopes of killing the youngest, but instead of accomplishing his mission, the assassin went back to the Brotherhoods headquarters, and somehow managed to get the leader of the Atlas chapter to turn himself into General Ironwood!" She growled furiously. "He gave up everything. Names, Faces, associates, both legitimate and otherwise. everyone was arrested before we even knew what hit us. The only reason I know is because one of our brothers got off a warning before he got captured in one of the raids."
"That doesn't make any sense, brother Tenne was one of the most dedicated to the cause!" Adam pounded his fist on a coffee table in front of him causing the wood to crack. "His parents were murdered by Atlesian humans, so why?!"
"Brainwashing," Sienna said after a few moments.
"What?" Adam sounded incredulous, despite Tenne's loyalty brainwashing sounded rather far-fetched.
"The SDC must have employed someone with a brainwashing or mind control Semblance." She said with frustration "It's the only thing I can think of to explain this."
Adam cursed, it certainly explained it but did such semblances really exist?
"They are extremely rare, but they do exist," Sienna stated as if reading his mind. "I want you to start moving, find new safehouses and hideouts, abandon all of the current ones as a precaution get it done as soon as possible. I've already begun moving our mistral headquarters to a new location, it won't take long for the kingdom to begin moving on what little information Ironwood can provide them from the Atlas Chapter based on our patterns and methods."
"Understood, I'll get started right away."
"Good, now what was it you called for?"
"I need an operative for a sensitive infiltration mission."
Sienna Khan sighed and massaged the temples on her forehead.
"I can only spare Ilia from Menagerie, our more experienced operatives are tied up at the moment," Sienna told him looked down from the screen.
"Ilia will be fine, in fact, she's probably perfect," Adam replied.
"When Atlas goes public, morale across the entire brotherhood will take a severe hit. Not to mention it will take us years to rebuild in Atlas, Faunus there will be doing their best to keep their heads down regardless of their conditions." Sienna looked back at the screen. "Keep your head down and don't take any unnecessary risks."
"Very well High Leader."
"By the way, what's the nature of this mission?" She asked narrowing her eyes,
"I need a pair of eyes and ears in Beacon Academy, and an opportunity just opened up," Adam replied glancing at the interview still playing on the screen.
"Very well but be careful, we're going to be more cautious for now until the heat dies down, so it will take a couple of weeks to get Ilia into Vale safely."
"Understood, that's all."
"Very well, out." With that, the transmission ended.
A few seconds ticked by, Adams breathing getting heavier and heavier before he let out a furious roar and lifted up the coffee table, smashing it against the wall which he proceeded to punch causing cracks with every blow.
"Man, what a drag huh? All your buddies locked up in cages like animals up in Atlas." The voice snapped him out of his fury, he whirled around to see Adachi, the human Cinder Fall had introduced sitting on the sofa next to where he had previously sat. Adam hadn't even heard him come in. "Animals do belong in cages but even I wouldn't put 'em in freezing cold cages, but hey that's what they get for being a bunch of dumbasses who-who make noises at their betters."
Adam's rage took hold and he lunged at Adachi, only to be stopped by a large blood red and black figure. Magastu Izanagi gripped Adams' arm and twisted it behind him before slamming him to the floor and pinning him at Adachi's feet.
"Idiots like you are so annoying." Adachi sighed putting the barrel of his gun to Adam's forehead, he was forced to look at Adachi by Magatsu Izanagi. "Face it, either you need to be a man and take control of things or you should just be a good little animal and accept your place in the world. It would be so much easier that way."
"Never!" Adam yelled struggling to break free only to have his head slammed into the ground by Magatsu Izanagi"I'll take what I deserve and I'll kill any human who tries to stop me!"
"Take what you deserve?" Adachi cackled gripping his head as he did so, eventually, he stopped laughing and continued to speak down to Adam who kept struggling to no avail "You're already on Cinder's chain, a humans chain. I'd call you her pet but you aren't even that. You. Are. Her. Bitch" Adam roared and tried to break free, only for the Persona flip him over and drive a fist into his gut with such force that Adam coughed up blood.
Adachi simply watched the pathetic sight and sighed before finally, Adam recovered enough to pay attention again. He was forced by Magatsu Izanagi, blood dribbling from his mouth.
"Sienna Khan keeps you in a cage where you belong and Cinder keeps you on a nice little chain to be tugged at her leisure." Adachi got closer to Adam until his lips were next to his ear. "And as long as you're in that cage, as long as you're on that chain, you can't do anything, you can't change anything. Face it, you're doomed to watch the same thing that happened to you repeat itself on your animal pals over and over and over again until the day you die."
Adam trembled with fury for a few moments before letting out a primal roar, he tried desperately to break free but could not, The Persona was simply too strong. Adachi stood up and walked towards the door which suddenly burst open with a group of White Fang grunts who had heard the commotion and had come to see the problem.
"Adam, what's wrong?" That was all one of them as able to say as Adachi pointed his revolver at the group.
"Maragidyne," Adachi whispered just loud enough for Adam to hear as he pulled the trigger.
When it happened a large fireball erupted out of the barrel, burning them all alive, their screams of fear and pain echoing in Adams' ears, causing him to freeze up in horror as their charred bodies all hit the floor. The smell of burnt flesh filling his nostrils.
"Uggh, and here was me thinking cooked animals smelt better," Adachi complained waving his hand around his nose trying to waft away the smell. "Maybe they need seasoning, welp, see ya next time moron."
Adam watch helplessly as the vile human walked out of the room, the door had been blown off its hinges by the attack and sent flying, scorch marks burnt into the walls around the door frame. Adachi leapt down the from the railing and out of sight. Eventually, Adam felt himself be released as the creature holding him simply vanished. Adam ran to give chase, but his prey was nowhere to be found. His fury simply grew more and more as the human's words echoed in his mind. He looked at his dead and flash fried subordinates and his fury erupted he began throwing and destroying anything in range, one of the things destroyed while throwing things about was a solid screen TV below which was smashed to pieces by a crate of dust which had been tossed around in his rage.
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AN: Ok so I need help, I have no idea what Yu's Semblance should be, but I have a few ideas, so can you please go to my profile, read my ideas and vote on the Poll? It would be a massive help. It will close January 1st. If you guys have some better Semblance suggestions then please PM them to me, you'll have to be specific though, thank you.