Alright, up for another chapter. And I'm gonna be honest with you guys. I'm making a lot of behind the scene changes and adjustments upon my return. Its no longer the case of 'what to write?' its 'what do I want to write?' the story with Ash and his stories has been a very long one, and I admit that in the background the future children team of GDCCE has kind of stolen my heart. They've all been greatly fleshed out and expanded in ways you guys don't know. And I'd like to share that. So, expect more of them. I currently have plans for a few more stories to come out soon, hence my absence for a while, I've been deleting some one off stories, thinking up others. And overall want to make sure I don't lose interest like last time.
I will let you all know when I have some concrete decisions.
For now, its time for you to enjoy the story. And I may devote a lot more time to this one specifically...I wanna show you all what these characters have to offer, and hopefully show you them without cramming it all on you at once. Well, time to get down to it. I own nothing except my ideas and OC's.
Tyrian grinned wildly as he swiftly made his way across Anima, intending on meeting up with Cinder and hopefully bring one of his Queen's 'children' to her. The thought of them made his mood sour, but if it would please her to have them brought to her then he would gratefully obey...and also make sure Cinder and the two kids made it back too. But for now he had to move quickly, they were closing in.
Ember's eyes narrowed as GDCCE ran quickly, they finally had some solid evidence that Cinder, Mercury, and Emerald had been nearby, and after being informed what direction they went, they moved fast. Duran was their scout, warping and dashing ahead to keep an eye out for them. They could tell they were getting close, any moment now...
Cinder's glass heels lightly clinked against the now stone road of the abandoned Oniyuri. Emerald and Mercury cautiously looking around for any possible ambushes, though their senses pale in comparison to hers...which were telling her something was coming. She turned to them with a firm look. "We must move quickly." She demanded, the two blinking as she increased her pace, glass heels now loudly clinking against the road. Her eyes narrowed and glowed just as a shadow briefly blurred over them, the three preparing their weapons.
Duran leaped in front of the three and swung his transformed cane at them, the bladed whip lashing out to keep them from moving forward. Crystal landing behind them with Calida, and the two aiming their guns at the three. Garnet and Ember landing on either side of Duran, Ember having a hand on her sword hilt, while Garnet had his weapon out in bow form, ready to take aim and fire at a moments notice.
"Cinder Fall, you certainly made quite the stride in the short time you got. But that stops now." Ember spoke, eyes glaring at the three.
Cinder's eyes practically seethed with rage upon laying eyes on them. "You, you were the one who warned them, the one who got in the way of my plans...the one who ruined Everything." Her eyes lit up with actual fire as fire circled around her, tapping into her maiden powers in anger.
All of them got ready for a fight, only for Duran's ears to twitch.
"Incoming!" He shouted, turning just as Tyrian leaped down with a laugh and an unsheathing of his weapons.
"Tyrian?!" Cinder exclaimed in shock, Duran turning partially to keep an eye on the man.
"Hello, Cinder. I see you're having trouble with...children?" It took only a brief look at their opponents for Tyrian to start cackling at the scene. "Children?! Cinder Fall is being held from returning by a team of children?!" Tyrian doubled over with laughter.
Cinder glowered in anger. "Now is not the time! Why are you here?!"
Tyrian recovered from his laughing spiel to stand up straight. "I've been sent by the Queen to retrieve you...and him." He answered, pointing to Duran, who looked confused.
"Me?" The confused Faunus asked.
Ember unsheathed her sword and aimed it at Tyrian. "We're not going to let you do that."
Tyrian took a deep breath before grinning. "Gooood..."
Duran suddenly lunged as Tyrian pounced with both weapons out, retracting his cane to clash with him, the two engaging in a wild and rapid battle.
Chaos unfolded immediately after.
Cinder charged at Ember and Garnet, bloodlust clear as she flung fire at the two. Garnet dodging and firing with his arrows as Ember sliced the fireballs apart and intercepted Cinder, who drew her twin swords. Her and Ember clashing.
Emerald opened fire on Calida as Mercury went for Crystal, the blonde headed bounty hunter growling.
"Well, for someone who wanted to destroy Vale entirely, you're awfully supportive of her." Calida snapped.
"I don't care about that, but I owe Cinder everything." Emerald growled as the two had their shoot out, ducking and dodging through the rubble for their shots.
Mercury thought he'd get the easiest one...only to realize how IRRITATING her Semblance was. Closing in only for her to slow him down and dodge out of the way, shooting at him to slow down his legs. "Grrr...stay still!" He snapped in irritation, shooting shots from his boots, which Crystal dodged with a firm look.
"Make me!" The time witch retorted, playing the patient game as the battle raged on all across Oniyuri.
Tyrian giggled in delight as Duran kept up with him, finding delight in acrobatically outmaneuvering the young hunter for an opening, only for him to defensively retort with his cane or pistol. "You do not know your true heritage, is that right? Then tell me, where do you think you got those Grimm powers, your Semblance? Some miracle? No...you STOLE it!" He lashed out with his weapons, loudly clanging against Duran's metal cane for emphasis.
"S-Stole it?!" Duran exclaimed, putting his cane away and biting into his pill, arms shifting to their Grimm claws and lunging in, now keeping up with the maniac.
"There! There it is! That sacrilegious technique!" Tyrian cackled, nimbly dodging Duran's slashes, the two in a fierce game of cat and mouse all over Oniyuri, Duran managing to corner him and shift his arms to one resembling a Beringel before slamming them both at Tyrian, kicking up dust as the reinforcement behind Tyrian broke. The dust clearing a moment later to see them stopped by a scorpion tail. Tyrian cackling.
"Seems we have more in common than you think." He taunted before ripping his coat off and renewing the fight, his tail now giving Duran something more to worry about.
Garnet's arrows filled the space between Ember and Cinder as their deadly dance of blades filled the middle of Oniyuri. Any opening Cinder saw was closed by the timely intervention of Garnet's arrows, and any attempts to remove him were stamped out with Ember's blade, the two siblings keeping Cinder on her toes while limiting her untrained Maiden Powers.
"You two have gotten in my way for the last time!" She hissed, locking blades with Ember momentarily before forcing to break as Garnet's arrow came a moment after.
"You're right, because you die today." Ember coldly retorted, muffler hiding the lower half of her face as she fought.
Cinder swiftly leaped up to the buildings, Ember following as the two dashed between the construction, hopefully avoiding Garnet's distracting arrows.
Garnet smirked a bit and summoned a blindfold with a red sigil on it over his eyes, drawing his bow back and focusing intently, the world around him constructing and the fights clear in his eyes, shooting his arrow, it entered an open portal, then exited into another, like magical ricochet the arrow bounced between portals and landed behind Cinder's foot once more, to her shock.
"What?! How can he possibly aim up here?!"
Ember smirked under her scarf. "You underestimate my brother."
Garnet shot arrows rapid fire, the arrows building momentum in the portal ricochet, portals opening from all sides to keep Cinder off guard from the renewed and now nigh unpredictable barrage.
Duran growled as he and Tyrian tumbled into a broken building, the two pouncing and slashing like wild beasts. Duran's mind slightly clouded by Tyrian's words, opening him to a kick from the Faunus into the wall. Tyrian pinning Duran by his neck by wrapping his tail around it, stinger pointed to it for any sudden movements.
"So, you still don't know...then allow me to enlighten you, to the truth." Tyrian began with a grin. "I know not what you think this gift is. Destiny, luck, or hard work. Your bloodline STOLE it."
"From who?!" Duran demanded, teeth bared.
"Why, from the Queen herself. The Mother of all Grimm!" Tyrian began.
"Salem..." Duran muttered, eyes wide in shock.
Tyrian looked down at him with a grin. "That's right...you, boy...are a Child of Salem. By stolen blood."
Duran's entire world seemed to break apart at that very moment, the Grimm parts growing to the rest of his body, Tyrian releasing him and stepping back with a sinister smirk.
The entirety of Oniyuri shook as the building was shattered apart, all of the fights coming to a screeching halt. Out of the rubble came Tyrian as Duran, now transformed into a large Grimm Wendigo creature, let out an unholy shriek that made everyone flinch.
Cinder took her advantage from the shock and kicked Ember into a broken building, the construction falling under her weight. "Emerald! Mercury! We're leaving!" She ordered as she dodged a shot from Garnet and shot a fireball at him.
Emerald let loose an illusion upon Calida, the transformed Duran lunging at her, making her shriek and duck behind cover, giving Emerald her escape.
Mercury managed to knock Crystal's shield out of her hand and kneed her in the gut, knocking the breath out of her in her shocked state, running while the going is good. The three escaping alongside Tyrian, leaving the remaining members to clean up.
"Ember!" Garnet shouted, rushing over to the rubble of where Ember collapsed into, only for Ember to slice her way out.
"I'm fine. Where's Cinder?!" She demanded, Garnet looking away.
"They got away...and Duran..." He muttered, looking at the transformed Duran who was wrecking the buildings, having not noticed them yet.
"...Alright, let's calm Duran down. And then we'll figure out what to do next." Ember ordered, Crystal and Calida making their way over.
"Let's hurry...I can't stand to see him like this." Calida said sadly, looking slightly tearfully at the sight before her.
Crystal gave a slightly nervous gulp and got herself ready to support them. "She's right."
Ember nodded and unsheathed her sword. "Let's go!"
To be continued.
And there it is. I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Sorry again for the absence from my return, its nothing bad. My last semester in College is wrapping up and I'm a bit lazy to add on top of it. So its no actual issue, just me not getting around to things. So don't worry. And obviously they wouldn't apprehend Cinder and her team in the first fight, something would have had to go wrong, obviously. And the "Child of Salem" bit will be explained later along the line, don't you worry. R&R This is Oathkeeper0317 signing out.