Seeking Help

Onyx and Ruby enter the Chaos Zone outside of Onyx's tent.

"Guess it worked." Onyx says to himself.

He had created a portal that brought them to a different location than where they had entered. Onyx goes inside the tent and lays Ruby on the bed.

Ruby wakes and feels her cheek. The wound burns on touch, and she quickly removes her hand. Ruby gets out the bed and stumbles. She catches herself and limps out the tent. Once outside Ruby realizes she's in the Chaos Zone. Outside Onyx is meditating. He is sitting in the half-lotus position with the back of his fists resting on his knees. Onyx's body is outline with a crimson aura similar to the one that covered Night, but more fiery and much smaller. The aura fades and Onyx gets ups. He turns towards Ruby.

"Open a portal." Ruby demands.

"No." Onyx says.

"Now, Onyx!" Ruby retorts.

"You won't make it." Onyx states.

"Why not?" Ruby asks.

"Everytime you go through a portal a small portion of your Aura is drained. Your's is too low to not be completely depleted. I don't know what an unprotected transportation will do." Onyx explains.

"How would you know where my Aura level is?" Ruby asks.

Onyx takes Ruby's scroll out of his pocket. Ruby grabs it from Onyx hands. She opens it to find her aura levels. It was at 9. Ruby puts her scroll away.

"How long was I out?" Ruby asks.

"Almost a full day." Onyx answers.

"My aura should have regenerated by now." Ruby states

"The Chaos Zone drastically slows down your aura's regeneration." Onyx states.

Onyx looks at Ruby's injured cheek. She covers it with her hand.

"What did you hit me with?" Ruby asks.

"I don't know." Onyx says.

"What do you mean?" Ruby asks.

The two's conversation is interrupted by two Chaos Ursa Majors that charges through the trees. Due to being in the Chaos Zone the trees are unaffected.

"What are those?" Ruby asks.

"Chaos Ursai." Onyx answers.

Onyx draws White Wolf. Ruby tries to grab her weapon, but she realizes that she had left it in the tent. Ruby runs towards the tent but is blocked by one of the Chaos Ursai.

"What's special about these." Ruby asks.

The Chaos Ursa swings at Ruby. She ducks and is barely spared by the attack.

"They don't feel pain." Onyx states.

Onyx jumps onto the Shadow Ursa's back. The Grimm rolls over crushing Onyx under it's weight. Onyx gets off the ground and looks at Ruby. She is trying to run from the Chaos Ursa, but it keeps up. The Grimm swings it's claws at Ruby's legs. She jumps over it. Onyx slides under the Chaos Ursa, jumps above it, and impales the creature's head. The second Chaos Ursa lunges at Ruby. She jumps to the side, but the Chaos Ursa's shoulder bumps against Ruby and she falls to the ground. The Grimm walks towards Ruby. She tries to kicks the Chaos Ursa in the head, but it opens it's mouth and catches Ruby's foot in it's mouth. The creature bites down causing Ruby to scream in pain. The Chaos Ursa then swings it's head, throwing Ruby towards the tent. Onyx decapitates the Chaos Ursa and runs towards Ruby. Her ankle was covered with wounds caused by the Chaos Ursa's teeth.

"How bad?" Onyx asks.

"Pretty bad." Ruby answers.

Onyx picks her up and lays Ruby on the bed in the tent. He kneels down next to her. Onyx removes her boot and looks at the wound. Her cleans and bandages it.

"Why do you continue to help me? You've made it clear you don't want my help." Ruby asks, her voice filled with pain.

"I made a promise a old friend of mine, your mother, Summer Rose." Onyx says.

"How did you meet her?" Ruby asks.

"Beacon. Not just your mother, I was friends with your father, uncle, and you can never be sure with Raven." Onyx states.

"Was?" Ruby repeats.

"Can't be sure if your still friends after disappearing for fifteen years." Onyx says, "And you know what happened to Summer and Raven."

Ruby sits up and stares at Onyx in confusion. He was too informed to have been disconnected from civilization for fifteen years. Ruby tries to stand and instantly falls onto the ground. Onyx helps her up and back into the bed.

"You should rest, we may be here a while." Onyx states.

"Okay. But first, I have some more questions." Ruby says.

"About the fight." Onyx says.

"How could Night use our semblances?" Ruby asks.

"His semblance is the ability to copy other's." Onyx says.

"Why was he better at using yours?" Ruby asks.

"Night has found aspects of my Semblance that I haven't even begun to explore." Onyx answers, "In those fifteen years we were gone, Night was training as much or even more than myself."

"When I came outside, were you trying to use some of those abilities?" Ruby asks.

"Yes, I think my semblance isn't just immunity to the Chaos Zone's aura suppression and the ability to create portals between planes. I think it's to control the Chaos Zone altogether." Onyx explains.

Onyx gets up and leaves the tent. Ruby closes her eyes and goes to sleep.

Onyx meditates outside the tent for hours. A fiery crimson aura surrounds his body. Onyx stands up. He can feel the Chaos Aura flowing through him. Onyx waves his hand, leaving behind a fiery crimson trail where his hand was. Onyx punches the air. He is faster and stronger. Ruby wakes up and limps out the tent. She watches as Onyx channels his Aura into his right hand. Onyx stretches his arm in front of himself with his hand open. The gathered Aura shoots out of Onyx's hand, creating a beam of crimson fire that obliterates everything in it's path, including the trees that would normally be unaffected. Onyx begins to float above the ground. He turns in Ruby's direction. Each of Onyx's irises are covered with a crimson flame. His fiery aura decreases intensity until it is just an outline and becomes even more flame like. His hair stands straight up and is also covered in the same flames as his eyes. Onyx looks at Ruby with his eyes locked with murderous intentions.

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Random Trivia:

Onyx's Overpoweredness

Onyx is intentionally made overpowered, he is a titan facing stronger and more experienced titans. Thus, I needed a way to somehow make Onyx not influence the actions of the characters in Canon, and thus I made all the fanfics take place in between volumes. I also gave Onyx some other long term mission that prevented him from engaging Salem. That is why in the end I killed Onyx off, I also split the Ghosts up and gave each their own agendas.

Onyx is being trained by the Riders, Camo is trying to destroy Eclipse, Light is trying to right his past, Anna and Silicon are helping Camo, and Night is finding a purpose in life. We will get to see what the Ghosts are doing in Canon during the next few fanfics written in the World of Riders.