Chapter 26
All the King's men
In an age long forgotten, the world almost ended. Darkness swept across the land and humanity was on it's last legs. But then came hope, Dust. With this new power mankind pushed back the darkness, but it was not enough. Even with this new found power mankind was hopelessly out matched. This lead to... Extreme measures. Dust was applied in new ways, most often ending in death or horrible mutilation. But eventually, four people were fused successfully.
Each wielded one of the four main types of dust; fire, water, electricity, and energy. With these four champions mankind pushed the darkness back to unthinkable places, setting up what would eventually become the four kingdoms.
But mankind has a habit of being their own worst enemy.
Generations passed, and new people stepped up to fight the grim. But eventually, a group of four got tired and wished to end the darkness one and for all. They went to it's heart, intending to finish it all.
But once there the darkness tempted them. It offered power, wealth, fame, everything they could possibly want. The allure was too great and each fell. That was when they were taken. The darkness corrupted their power. Changing them. Fire darkened, water froze, lightning meshed with the storm, and energy morphed into power. They were monsters. No longer human.
It took a great power, but eventually these four were sealed away. Their master defeated. Or so we thought...
Damien I
"So, wait. We are actually a part of some long forgotten fairytale?" I ask as Ozpin finished explaining everything to the four of us. "That seems kind of pointless. After all, we already know that the four monsters are awake."
"That is exactly the problem. The four cursed, what mankind calls them, were sealed away using an enormous amount of power. No one should have been able to break through." Ozpin said before sighing. "The Vytal festival is coming up. We can't let whoever planned you being here to know where you are. So you won't be participating in the festival openly, but there are a few teams willing to face you off screen." And with that we left.
"Man, what a bummer. Can't go and participate at all?" Nathan asked aloud as we walked out.
"Well he has a point, we need to be careful." Andrea explained as we walked out. "Now if you need me, I need to go and work out some last minute kinks in crescent rose." And she went away.
The rest of us soon split up, going and relaxing, but I stayed and looked out at the stadium. "Nice, isn't it." A voice said out of nowhere. I turned to see who it is and saw it was Will. "That is a symbol of our world's unity. It took the four kingdoms to build it and only one to destroy it." He then stops and turns to look at me. "I'm close with Ironwood, I mean the general. He's a good man. I know that most of you at Beacon don't think so because he took power but he is." With that he turned to look at me and smiled. "I hope you'll keep that in mind when we whoop your team's ass tomorrow." I was confused for a second before remembering the professor's words back in his office.
"Wait, so our team will be fighting us?" I ask shocked. He just smiles and walks away. Well... This will be great.
And here we go! The beginning of volume 3! I can't wait for what I have in store.
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