The screen began to bubble and boil as the familiar silver door rose from it's depths, the thick purple chains corroding and breaking apart as the door opened up and bathed everything in dark purple.
From the tainted light, came a single red eye that glared at the screen before the door slammed shut and everything became static, a crumbling rose symbol appearing every so often as the title began to form.
The Ruinverse: Chapter Fifty Seven, Adel Supreme.
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-Remnant, Sanus, Vale, Beacon Academy, CVFY's Room-
"Got any twos?" asked Velvet while currently playing a game of 'Go Sulfur Fish' with Yatsuhashi, the taller teen looking a little smugly at his hand.
"Go Sulfur Fish."
"Gah!" she cried out while throwing her cards on the ground. "How do you always win!?"
"Luck, and because your ear twitches when you have a bad card." he said with a chuckle, making the faunus huff in embarrassment.
"I can't believe that happened." she muttered while looking away.
"Want to play another round?"
"Later, when I'm not wanting to kick you in the face." she huffed before realizing something. "Say, when will Fox get back from the bathroom?"
"Knowing him, it might be a while."
"Still, it feels like….how many hours have we been doing this again?"
"Four."
"Four hours!? Just how badly does he even NEED the bathroom!?" Velvet yelled in disbelief.
"No idea, but maybe he's just lost?"
"With his semblance? The day it doesn't work is the day Boarbatusks fly."
"...wait? They fly?"
"It's a figure of speech." she sighed while shaking her head. "We've been over this."
"Sorry sorry, still trying to get used to figure of speeches. I mean I have lived in a very quiet village, not many 'young-ins' as my mother calls them."
"Please don't call our generation that, it sounds so…..uncool."
He chuckled at that while noticing the door slowly opening as a tall fair skinned girl with short dark-brown hair sporting long wavy locks on her right side that gradually changed to a caramel brown near the tips, dark-brown eyes, a E cup chest and large ass, wearing a long sleeved cocoa brown shirt with an upturned layered frill collar, a black single strapped waist cincher, a black scarf tied around her collar, three black beaded necklaces, black wire-rimmed aviator sunglasses, a black cocoa brown trimmed beret, black gloves, a black bracelet with black roses on her right wrist, a black golden studded belt, a large cocoa-colored belt with a large golden crosshair buckle and several gun cartridges on her left hip, a large piece of black fabric attached to the right side of her belt, tight black leather trousers with golden lining around the pocket, black ribbons tied to the back of two golden zipper seams around her knees, dark black leather calf-high high-heeled boots sporting golden buckles on the sides, and had a black gold studded shoulder bag held around her right shoulder by a bandolier strap, walked into the room with a smile.
"Hey guys, missed me?"
"Coco! You came back from your solo mission." Velvet smiled while the 'C' of Team CFVY walked towards them and sat on the ground.
"Yep and man, it was so boring." she sighed while placing her bag on the ground. "Rain, rain, rain everywhere. And it was in a Dust mine as well…ugh. I'm happy to be in Vale again."
"I see." Yatsuhashi said with a nod while Coco lowered her shades a little.
"Bun bun, I need you to check up on Fox." she said while shrugging. "I saw him heading into the west wing but afterwards didn't see him."
"Eh? But he was heading to the east wing." Velvet said in confusion.
"Which is why I want you to go looking for him, I would go but I'm very tired and slightly jetlagged."
"What about Yatsu?"
"I need to talk to him about something, go on bun bun, find Fox please." Coco said while pointing to the door, causing Velvet to sigh.
"Fine, but afterwards we are going to talk about the trip, ok?" she said while getting up and walking to the door.
"Yeah yeah, love you too bun bun."
"Coco!"
(Later)
'Damn it, why does she have to be so….forward sometimes?' the faunus thought to herself while looking for Coco's partner, feeling a little nervous as it was currently the middle of the night, on a moonless night to be exact. 'It's like I'm the only girl she hits on sometimes, why not hit on someone else? Heck, even Professor Goodwitch would be better than me.'
As the girl moved down the darkened hallway, she felt the hair on the back of her neck standing up for some reason, her night vision seemingly picking up nothing visually….yet everything else was….creepy in her opinion.
Creak.
Creak.
'Gods, I hate being up around this time, it's so…creepy. And it doesn't help that my ears are super sensitive to everything.' She thought while her ears twitched with every sound.
'H…h…h...'
Her head quickly turned around in confusion, having heard something….in the wind, no, something else carried it into her mind. "Hello?"
'H….h…he….l…p…'
"Is anyone there?"
'Hel…p…me….'
"Wait a second, that's….Fox? Is this another joke?" Velvet frowned, recalling how much of a prankster he was, especially with disturbing pranks made to his team. "Because it's not funny."
'Help….me…..pl..e…ase….'
"Fox, this isn't-"
'Help…me!'
Velvet clutched her ears tightly as she felt the telepathic thoughts of her teammate getting louder and louder, becoming even clearer with every second.
All saying the same thing.
Help him.
"Ah!" she groaned in pain before deciding to heed the fall of her teammate, if only to find out why he's screaming into her mind like a madman. "Ok ok! I'm going!"
(A few minutes later)
'Fox's thoughts are getting louder down this hallway.' the faunus thought as she raced down the second floor hallway, the 'sound' of Fox's cries for help echoing in the back of her mind like an airship engine. 'By the gods! It's starting to hurt!'
'HELP ME!'
'Damn it Fox! Stop screaming into my head!' she thought in agitation before noticing the 'sound' was coming from one of the boy bathrooms, making her a little hesitant in going into…..a rather taboo place for the opposite gender, especially for those with sensitive noses. "...oh great. That's going to make me gag."
'HELP ME PLEASE!'
"Ok ok! Stop yelling." she yelled before walking inside, groaning as she smelled the rather….unflushed waste from outside the stalls. "Gah!" 'If this turns out to be an elaborate joke, I'm kicking him in the groin, TWICE!'
Clank.
Clank.
'Ugh, disgusting.' she thought before noticing a foot sticking out from below the stall's door. 'There he is, ew. He's laying on the ground!? EW!'
'HELP ME!'
Velvet sighed before walking to the stall and opened it. "Here I am Fox, what do you…ne…ed….help…"
And lo, laying on the ground was Fox Alistair, his body withered and dried like a mummy as his jaw hung open in an expression of fear.
For the faunus….she realized quickly that he had been killed, possibly for hours now….but wait.
If he had been killed…..how was he communicating with her? How could he have used his semblance to call her…..if he was already dead?
"H-How!?" she stuttered out in horror while her ears started picking up footsteps….right behind her.
'Help me, help me, help me. Hehehehehe.'
She quickly turned around, only to get hit with a massive blast of dull green light, causing her to stumble a little, dazed and confused. "Uh…who? Where am I? Why am I here?"
"Hehehe." a voice chuckled as an unknown woman, in Velvet's eyes, walked towards her, dull red energy forming around her hands. "Hook line and."
SIISH!
The faunus screamed in pain, her body beginning to wither into a skeletal form as light blue aura 'flowed' from her body into the mysterious woman's body, glowing faintly for a moment as the woman dropped the now lifeless corpse onto the ground.
"Sinker." she chuckled before looking at a mirror, revealing herself as Coco Adel, as she noticed that her lips were a little chapped, causing her to walk over and place some lip balm on them. "Too easy. Now, a little more and this place will be dry as a Vaucoian desert."
As she looked upon the mirror, her aura flashed a dark red color before fading away, a sickening grin forming across her face as she puckered her lips for a moment and winked at herself.
"Oh yes Adel, I am perfect." she chuckled as the screen faded to black. "I am always perfect, after all. I am the Mistress of Semblances now."
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Name/Designation Title: Coco Adel/Adel Supreme/Mistress of Semblances (Adel Supreme Coco Adel- ASCARWBY)
Age: 18~19
Affiliation: Ultimate Evil.
Dimension: - 1092- 88 ASCARWBY
Abilities: Enhanced strength, durability, agility and endurance, hand to hand combat skills, high aura pool, blunt weapon handling and skills (via Gianduja), Gianduja handling and skills, semblance absorption (via Chaos Dust and semblance), minigun knowledge and skills, firearms skills and knowledge, Dust handling and knowledge, high leadership skills (deceased due to Chaos Dust related insanity), egomaniacal insanity.
Semblance(s): Hype (permanently active due to the use of Chaos Dust), varied (depending on the semblance she had absorbed.)
Bio: In this timeline, during the formation of Team CFVY, the team leader, Coco Adel, was called to Mistral by Leonardo Lionheart for a mission, one that required her to defend an abandoned Mistral Trading Company mine that was recently discovered to have a new and undiscovered Dust vein. This type of Dust is called by locals as Chaos Dust, a strange pure black crystalline material that, while not the hardest or toughest of minerals, had the unique ability to allow anyone that made physical contact with it to steal the semblances of others for a limited amount of time, although the number of Chaos Dust formed naturally is extremely rare due to it's unknown method of creation. While normally harmless, when Coco accidentally broke a massive chunk of Chaos Dust during her mission, her semblance, Hype, amplified the Dust's properties and caused her to permanently gain the power of the Chaos Dust, but at the cost of killing the afflicted individuals along with heightened negative traits such as arrogance and power craving. Viewing herself as the most perfect being in the world, she renamed herself Adel Supreme, the mistress of semblances, and began her take over of the world, absorbing the semblances of others and eventually taking the semblances of her own team, just to keep them from 'reverting her' back to normal. Always hungry for power, she now rules the world with a fashionable fist, a symbol of perfected madness to all…and to think this all started with a little chaos?