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 Seventy Two, The Flames of Hate.
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-Remnant, Sanus, Vale, Beacon Academy, JNPR's Room-
SLAM!
The door slamed with efficient force, causing the wood to splinter as two figures walked into the room, slightly singed by an unknown explosive force, pink gum-like puddles falling upon the floor with every step made by the second figure.
The first figure was a tall fair skinned young man with long black hair that went to his shoulder blades and was tied into a low ponytail, a magenta streak on the left side of his hair, magenta eyes, wearing a dark green diagonally-buttoned long sleeved tailcoat with a red interior sporting black and gold trimming that went down the right side of his torso, a black collar, pink cuffs, a long sleeved black shirt, light tan pants and black shoes, whose expression was filled to the brim with malice and anger, his teeth gritting with frustration.
The second figure was a short fair skinned young woman with short wavy orange hair, turquoise eyes, a E cup chest and wide ass, wearing a long sleeved maroon blazer with golden brown lining and twin buttons, a black lined collar, a brown button-up vest, white pleated neckline blouse, a red ribbon, pink fingerless gloves, a red and black plaid skirt with golden brown and white tulle, dark brown calf length socks, brown lace-up wedged sole boots, and covered from head to toe in pink sticky gum-like slime that dripped to the ground and coagulating into pellet shaped bubbles on the floor, who seemed to be slightly sheepish but tried to remain optimistic as she pulled some of the pink substance out of her hair.
"Nora, what the hell did you DO!?"
"Well….I just um…used a grenade to get revenge on Cardin, nothing wrong really." Nora said with a half chuckle, only to stop when she saw her partner's angry face. "Oh come on Ren, he deserves it for calling me fat assed. I-"
"Nora! You. Destroyed. HALF OF BEACON!" Ren interrupted with a scowl. "And you caused our TEAM to become hospitalized!"
"Well…they were in the way-"
"They were trying to stop you from throwing the grenade!"
"I know but I-"
"And you literally did this right after I returned from a MONTH LONG mission to Vauco!" Ren snapped in anger, causing Nora to flitch. "I trusted you to behave but yet again, you disappointed me, no, you failed me!"
"Wait a second!" Nora yelled in disbelief. "How can I fail YOU? I'm always there for you!"
"Yet you keep pushing buttons! Breaking personal space and making my life a living hell every single hour!"
"That's my stick! I'm hyperactive and the queen of the castle!" Nora growled. "And I've been trying to be close to you!"
"By trying to wake me up at one in the morning for PANCAKES!?"
"I love pancakes!"
"But I don't!" he yelled in frustration. "I have grown to hate the stuff because I KEEP cooking them for you! It's always 'more pancakes', 'more pancakes Ren', 'Give me pancakes!'. It's never YOU cooking them for me, scratch that, YOU never do anything for ME!"
"That's not true and you know it!"
"Well, you don't know anything about me then! We have been living together for years yet you didn't THINK of asking me MY preferences, my needs and desires!? How selfish of you!" Ren snapped while poking Nora's chest with his right index finger, rather hard as the ginger was pushed a little. "You always do this Nora! You always forcibly put YOURSELF into the limelight at the expense of everyone around you!"
Nora's eyes narrowed as she pushed Ren back, a little harder than usual as he nearly tripped on his own feet. "At least I'm trying something! You, Lie Ren, haven't even attempted to open up! It's always 'I'm too angsty' or 'I'm so depressed and I must close off my emotions'. I get it, you are traumatized but so was I! I was there when Kuroyuki fell, I was the one that made sure you were safe during our travels!"
"You wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for me! My semblance saved your life! You cost me my parents!"
"The Grimm were the ones that caused it, NOT me!"
Ren's eyes twitched as he felt his anger affecting his mind, yet didn't care, his fingers clenching inwards with animalistic fury. "You! YOU STARTED ALL OF THIS!"
Nora flinched as Ren moved closer and closer to her, grabbing her shoulders tightly, bruises forming underneath the gum covered shirt. "Ren, you're hurting me-"
"Me hurting you!? YOU HURT ME!" he snapped while digging her nails deeper into Nora's shoulders, drawing blood in the process. "IF you hadn't appeared in my life, none of the deaths of Kuroyuki would have occurred. If it wasn't for you! Jaune and Pyrrha wouldn't BE hurt! And if it wasn't for you and your fucking antics, I would be able to live a NORMAL life instead of playing babysitter to a brat like you!"
Wooosh.
Nora's nose scrunched a little as she smelled something burning in the air, only to realize that Ren's entire body was glowing bright orange, flames forming from every part of his body as his hair, clothes and skin began igniting like tinder fire.
"You, Nora no name Valkyrie, have single handedly made my life a living hell! You are a Grimm spawn, a freak! An insane NUT!" he growled as his face was consumed by fire, leaving deep red eyes that stared at the now terrified girl's face with utter hate. "AND YOU SHOULD JUST DIE!"
WOOOOOOSH!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Nora screamed in pain as her body ignited into flames, the room becoming an oven of heat and burning wood.
Melted green metal oozed from Ren's arms as he continued to ignite the room around him, ignorant to Nora's scream as he kept on yelling at her in fury.
"YOU ARE NOT MY PARTNER! YOU ARE JUST A PARASITE! A FILTHY ORPHAN!" he roared, the hammer user's clothes and skin burning away as black carbon formed across her quickly exposed bones. "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!"
WOOOOOSH!
Crackle.
Crackle.
As the screams began to fade away, the burning rage in Ren's eyes….began to subside, a small bit of sanity regaining control over his now burning body, as he felt the flames fading away and revealing his horribly burned body to the world.
But as he stared back at his partner….he discovered the now charred body of Nora in his hands, flames licking across her skull and arms, as his eyes widened in realization.
"N…Nora…?" he said softly, a single tear forming down his left eye, as he moved his hands back.
CRASH!
Only for the body to fall to the ground, shattering into tiny pieces of carbon as it hit the still burning floor.
The Mistrali born student fell to his knees, various emotions rising from the depths of his soul as the carbon dust flew away in the wind, leaving nothing remaining of his…former partner.
"No….oh gods….w…what have I done!?" he cried out in anguish, realizing that his actions caused the death of his only childhood friend.
Yet as he tried to process this in his fractured mind, a single line of thought formed from the sea of despair.
He had loved Nora…despite how much she caused him grief.
And he had just killed her, turned her into carbon without ever taking back the hurtful words he told her…the lies and half truths he stored within his heart, never intending for these negative emotions to ever see the light of day.
"Nora…." he said while using his now metal infused hands to scoop up some of the carbon and move it right near his face. "I'm…I'm so sorry…." 'This wasn't my intention, I never meant to be so mad at her…I never intended to kill her.'
Crackle.
Crackle.
Flames licked across the now blazing inferno, the former school dorm wiping away the happier times of Lie Ren's life and replacing it with the cold reality of Remnant itself.
There were no happy endings, no 'Happily Ever Afters'.
Just death and broken promises for the future.
"..."
WOOSH!
Ren's body began to ignite once more, covered in deep blue flames instead of the bright orange hues from before, as he gripped the carbon tightly.
BOOOM!
Igniting it in the process as he gritted his teeth in pain and misery.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed as a blazing burst of fire expelled from his body, hitting the screen as everything burned away, leaving nothing but blue embers that slowly faded to darkness.
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Name/Designation Title: Lie Ren/'Fire' (The Flames of Hate Lie Ren- TFHLRRWBY)
Age: 17
Affiliation: Mega Evil.
Dimension: - 10991277- 10 TFHLRRWBY
Abilities: Enhanced strength, speed, acrobatics, agility and reaction time, limited stamina and endurance, high aura pool, high extrasensory perception, Dust handling and knowledge, hand to hand combat skills, high aura handling and knowledge (limited due to semblance and mental trauma), high martial arts skills and knowledge, pistol handling and knowledge, sickle handling and knowledge, StormFlower handling and knowledge, dagger handling and knowledge, fire manipulation (via semblance), heat manipulation (via semblance), high regeneration (via semblance), degraded sanity (via semblance effects and rage), heightened rage (via semblance).
Semblance(s): Tranquility (Formerly), Ragg (a mutated strain of the semblance, Tranquility, that allows the user to manipulate flames of burning 'hate' and 'rage', but at the cost of mental deterioration and uncontrollable rage. Utilizing aura as a 'fuel' source, the user's own hate and rage, allows the user to rapidly heal from any attack or damage to the body...at the cost of extreme burns and intense pain. The user can grow numb to the negative effects over time.)
Bio: In this timeline, the antics of one Nora Valkyrie become too crazy for even the stoic Lie Ren, having decided to attack Cardin Winchester with an experimental gum grenade that destroyed half of Beacon and injured many students, including her own teammates, due to the former being called fat assed. Pushed to the breaking point, the two childhood friends would come into conflict, the spat between the two caused Ren's emotions to boil to the surface with every hate filled criticism and word spewed from his mouth, until the long dormant stress and anger effectively mutated his own semblance, Tranquility, into a more destructive form, known as Ragg, which allows one to control volcanic fire at the cost of being bound to the user's own rage. Now enveloped by the flames of hate, his entire world shattered around him, for when he activated the semblance for the first time…he burned the Beacon Academy and subsequently killed Nora, turning her into a carbonized corpse within a few minutes. Taken aback by this and coming to the realization that the only girl he truly loved was dead, his grief transformed into hate for the world at large and thus, began to burn everything to the ground, his aura keeping him alive from the intense heat at the expense of his dwindling sanity, as Vale and half of the Sanus continent were burned to the ground. Over time, this campaign of fire caused a miniature ice age that, when combined with Ren's semblance, allowed the climate to fluctuate between extreme cold and extreme heat, killing off the survivors in the process. Yet, for Ren, his mind would deteriorate more and more until, eventually, he began to refer to himself as Fire, believing himself to be the literal manifestation of heat itself. A sad fate for one who lost it all….in a blaze of hate.