Chapter 14

Rage embodied

Standing beside what could be described as a young Loki, Alex and John were at a crossroads as they stared at the wild uncontrolled form of Loki's rage.

With the inexperienced teen and his old allies from Remnant, Alex and John shared a look as Alex suddenly rushed forward, his blade dragging behind him he was given cover fire from Blake, Weiss and Nora while John turned straight to Loki, grabbing the hand that held the Gem.

Rushing to the beast as Weiss froze it's right arm up to its elbow Nora fired a volley of her grenades the ice that held the arm shattered with the limb, causing the being to roar in anger as its arm was already rebuilding itself from the ash that made the frozen arm.

Looking to Nora and Weiss the being failed to block Alex's swipe on its right ankle, making it fall to one knee that Alex took advantage of, running up its back with his blade switching to his hammer-fists he leaped into the air with both hands raised, until the being sent him flying with an elbow from its right arm, allowing it to glare at Nora and Weiss who paled as it stood up, seeing ash swirling around its arms and legs the beast leaped into the air with its arms raised.

Seeing this the two moved out of the attack radius, but with Nora close enough to be sent flying, landing on the ground with a groan Nora looked to the beast to see it tearing its arms free from the attack.

Turning to her the beast went to finish her off until Odin threw his spear at it, making it grunt as it was electrified.

Looking to the fight with a look of worry for his friends Loki clenched the Gem as John spoke of what to do.

"Kid pay attention to what I'm saying!" John yelled with Loki's attention returning to the cowboy as he held the gem in hand.

"Alright, this little Gem here holds a small portion of your future selves power, helping kickstart your currently dormant ones, once yours is up and awake when that thing is beaten, you will absorb the other Gem Alex left at the altar, now hurry up so we can take down rage induced Hormones over there" John said as he turned to the fight going down a few feet away from the two, seeing Nora keeping pace with Alex and his attacks the beast was being held at bay by Blake and Weiss' attacks.

Allowing him to approach with his hands gripping scorched 9mm handguns, aiming at the beasts eyes he fired at them to blind it temporarily, making it thrash wildly away from the fighters who gave chase.

Leaving Loki to his focus before he looked to the alter where he saw the second Gem, looking to the fight he saw Nora and Blake backhanded away with Alex catching them before they continued their assault.

Looking to the Gem in his hand he looked to the alter once more before his eyes shined with an idea, running to the other Gem John spotted him.

"What the hell is he doing?" John questioned as he ducked under a kick that hit Odin's spear which nailed it to the spot for now, looking to Loki, John saw him pick up both gems with them breaking down into ashes.

"LOKI DON'T, YOU'LL EXPLODE!" Alex yelled with Nora turning to said teen with a look of worry as she saw Loki pulse with ashes gathering around him, making all stare at his being as he let out a yell of agony while falling to his knees, making the beast stare in silence as it felt power from Loki.

"LOKI!"

Opening his eyes to a pure white Void, Loki blinked for his eyes to adjust he sat up with a groan, seeing his surroundings empty he went to stand up until he heard footsteps, confusing him before he turned and stared in shock.

Standing before him, was basically an adult form of him, wearing a black coat over a matching shirt with jeans, black shoes with black gauze wrapped around his hands, seeing him staring at himself the adult Loki knelt to grab the teen to help him up.

"Judging by how I'm here… you did what I did when I was in that cavern" the adult Loki said with a smile of mischief and wisdom.

"Yeah, I didn't think of the consequences" Loki said with a sheepish look with the adult Loki smiling knowingly.

"Great minds think alike I guess, but anyway, since we're here, this allows me to give a few hints of what you should do" Adult Loki said as Loki frowned before his older counter part grabbed his head, making his eyes glow as his mind was restored, seeing his human family on earth, his childhood, adolescent, his teens and than to the point where he was sucked into Remnant, but that didn't end their, seeing more images he gasped as he saw Cinder standing in Beacons Tower, destroyed and burning, Pyrrah at her mercy, than to one where Cinder was at his mercy, a bone armored hand gripping her neck.

Gasping as he fell down to the floor, the adult Loki walked around him as Loki's younger mind sorted through the images being fed into his mind.

"We are not from Remnant young wolf, we're from a world where all come to creation through ones imagination, we were chosen to safe guard these worlds of created to keep them safe, we stepped into the shoes of both hero and villain, we have endured hardships that would shatter a man's psych" the adult Loki said with Loki's eyes glowing as he was shown worlds from movies, books, Television shows to comics, letting it all sink in he blinked as he stared to his older counterpart who stood up.

Holding two gems he looked down to Loki with a smile as he placed them both on his younger selves chest, willing them to sink into the younger teens body the two stared at each other in understanding.

"It may not show you this, but what your about to face is as a part of you as it is of me, don't let it's anger control you though once you claim its power, that will only cause a downfall for us if left alone" the adult Loki said as he looked to the right where a being of shadows kneeled down, looking up he saw a grin spreading from its form, looking back down to his younger counterpart, he smiled sadly.

"Your powers may not be one hundred percent after this… but they will fully awaken in the future" turning away Loki spoke once more to his younger self.

"When you next see old man Oz, ask him who Hoshi is, he'll tell you everything… and when you see Nora… stop being naïve and kiss her already, I never got the chance to give her and the others one more before leaving Remnant, You'll also get what I mean by "others" when you experience it yourself" Loki said before he vanished from the void, leaving his younger self to lie on the ground before he gained feeling back to his body as his vision became blurry.

Blinking to see his mind in full focus within the cavern, Loki let out a grunt as he held his chest as the last of the ash gems sunk into his being, making all stare at him in worry as the werewolf Faunus let out a roar as he willed his body to change, taking the form of his lycanthropic body, Loki's fur glistened to pitch black as his head lit aflame, leaving a wolf skull in his heads place as fire took the form of flesh and fur, flexing his hands as they caught aflame like his head he let out a howl as Jaune, Odin, Blake, Weiss and Nora stared at his new form with a mixture of fear and awe.

While Alex and John blinked as his size grew to rival the being of rage.

Leaving the two glare at one another before Loki's wolf skull turned to Alex and John, seeing flashes of memories of himself sitting down with them with others the teen growled with a voice echoing from him.

"Alex, John, get the others out of here… I'll deal with this" Loki ordered with those from remnant moving to Protest as he waved his arm, letting a wave of ash fly to the ground between him and the others a wall of ash rose up.

"Get them to the surface" Loki said as he turned back to the approach berserker before the two lunged forward, with Loki grabbing its wrists while smashing his head against it's own.

"What I plan to do will be really chaotic!" Loki yelled as Alex and John began to guide the others to the cave entrance with Nora refusing until Loki turned to her.

"Nora Go, I'll meet you up top" Loki then turned to the berserker who slugged him in the head, making him growl and spin with an elbow meeting the berserkers face, sending it flying into a wall as Nora hesitantly left after the others, just as Loki charged at his embodied power, shoulder charging it back into the wall he clawed it body with one strike causing a shockwave, which made the cavern shake with a piece of the ceiling falling to the ground, an invisible dome throwing it aside.

Leaving the pedestals untouched as Loki fought his berserker form, forcing it down onto the ground with a series of punches he grabbed its collar bone armor piece and began assaulting its face with strong, unrestrained punches, making its face crack with ash leaking out towards Loki who roared in triumph as he began pummelling the being in a wild frenzy, giving into his instincts Loki's vision began to blur until a stray piece of ceiling hit his head, making him groan at being snapped out of it he looked up to see the ceiling crumbling around him.

"Well shit" Loki said as the berserker opened its eyes.

Allowing Loki to look down with it grabbing his throat weakly, making Loki grab the wrist to pull it away from his throat, leaving him to stare down at its weakened state he held a ball of ash with the beings eyes dimming in its glow before it fell limp, followed by its body breaking down into ash that seeped into Loki's being, leaving Loki in the collapsing cave before he began making his way to the entrance, staggering at as a large section of the ceiling fell down to show a large dust deposit below with a storm raging around it, mesmerising Loki until he was forced to keep moving as another section came down.

"GET OFF ME, WE HAVE TO GO HELP HIM!" Nora yelled as she struggled to get free from Alex's strong grip, elbowing him in the face every so often in an attempt to get free as they rushed out of the shaking cavern.

"And I'll say it again, I do not want to piss him off, even if it's his younger self" Alex groaned as they finally got out of the mine, with Yang running to them, followed closely by those who chose to stay guard they stopped a second in confusion at seeing John and Alex dragging the others out, with Alex having to deal with Nora elbowing him in the face.

"Where's Loki?" Ruby questioned in worry as Alex finally released Nora, allowing her to turn and try to run to the mine before the ground shook, making her stop in worry as the mine collapsed on itself while the mountain behind it erupted with clouds slowly rising up, with Weiss blinking.

So it was a volcano.

Lifting her hands to her mouth in horror of thinking of Loki's demise, Nora fell to her knees as she held her arms before Lie Ren moved to comfort her, with Gabrielle grabbing her head in horror.

"How are we going to explain this to Headmaster Ozpin?" Odin questioned as they watched the volcano erupting before they heard coughing from the mine entrance, making all stare in awe as a boulder flew outward, smashing into the side of a truck they looked back to the mine entrance to see Loki covered in soot while he had a wide smile of excitement as he fell onto his back, with Nora instantly rushing to him.

"Loki, Loki are you okay?" Nora questioned as Odin held a Bucket of water, scooping some up he splashed his own face before looking to Loki, seeing the teen still there he looked to the bucket before splashing it onto Loki, unfortunately getting Nora who was currently hugging him to sit still as the water fell from her now drenched clothing while Loki wiped his face, cleaning him of whatever soot stuck to his face the two glared up to Odin who shrugged.

"Really?" Loki questioned with Odin walking away with Gabrielle dragging him away, leaving Loki in Nora's arms as he sat up, confusing Nora as Loki turned to her with a smile.

"I could go for a break, ANYONE WANT A BREAK!?" Loki said with raising a hand before the team of Huntsmen stationed to keep guard spoke.

"That's all fine and all, but who are these two?" turning to the gestured two, Loki saw the flash of a memory with him sitting with the two of them, sharing drinks before he got up.

"We'll take em to beacon, that sound alright with you guys?" Loki questioned the two who merely shrugged, with John looking to a wrist watch.

"We'll bee leaving in two days anyway" John said with Loki giving a thumbs up before falling unconscious.