Chapter 22
Hi guys! It's always me! Revenge is sweet! Cinder got what she deserves but I haven't finished with her… I fixed the problem with the twentieth chapter, it's a little bug that happen when I correct my story from my phone so from now on I'll double check when I correct the story. Please enjoy this new chapter
Beacon tower (or what was left)
When the ashes of battle came to rest, everything was quiet, there weren't screams of pain anymore or gunshots, only silence. Cinder opened her left eye, her lower body part was under the debris of the tower , her right eye was bleeding. Cinder heard some footsteps and outstretched her arm
"Emerald…I'm here…help me" Cinder said with a weak tone as she raised her head, but who she saw wasn't emerald. A woman with long blue hair stood in front of her.
"Hello again… Miss Fall. Did you really thought that I have finished with you?" Esdeath said with a sadistic smile to Cinder, who tried to summon her powers but was soon stopped by Esdeath's ice, who wrapped her hands. Tatsumi landed beside Esdeath, who gave him a smile
"So she is who have done everything uh?" Tatsumi said as he sighed
"She can be useful" Esdeath replied
"How?" Tatsumi asked
Esdeath approached Tatsumi and whispered at his ear. Tatsumi made a shocked look but after that he nodded and removed the debris from Cinder. Then Esdeath grabbed her from the hair and began to walk, headed to Vale
"I'll go get the others" Tatsumi said as he flew away
Centre of Vale
All the survivors from the attack were gathered in the main square of Vale. There were the citizens of Vale and many students from all the academies. All of them were scared, angry, confused.
"Ruby! Where are you ?" Qrow yelled as he looked for his nieces in the crowd of people
"Look! Over there!" One man yelled as he pointed at one of the rooftops
The Atlas soldiers pointed their spotlights at the indicated rooftop, revealing a big group op people, such as team TRWB, ELSK, CFVY,SSSN, ABRN and some others. Esdeath stepped forward while she dragged somebody. They had all the cameras on them
"Citizens of Vale!" Esdeath shouted "Tonight our beautiful city was attacked from an enemy that claimed that the government of the Remnant is corrupted and unworthy" she paused "And they are right! The council, the Atlas, have tried to hide the truth! A terrible truth but that needs to be said. There is a bigger anemy than a bunch of terrorist and Grimm, an anemy that can use powers far beyond your imagination. The name of this enemy is Salem!" The civilians began to exchange whispers and shiver in fear. "And Salem is finally arrived and your defenders do nothing but fight each other!" Then Esdeath raised the heavily injuried Cinder "BUT! This she isn't unbeatable! Together we can take on her, but only if YOU fight with us!" she yelled "Join us! And fight for the ones you love in order to grant them an happy future" Esdeath pointed the sky reveling Tatsumi that was hovering above them. "Under his lead! He defeated the Grimm dragon and saved you all!When we'll defeat Salem we are gonna create an empire, where everybody is happy and free, without any inequality!" Esdeath paused and sighed "Or you can hide in your houses and wait for the death" she deadpanned
Silence filled the area, the crowd stared at Esdeath, just then, somebody steppped forward
It was a man, with black hair and tanned skin "Tonight I lost my wife and son because of the Grimm...and now you are telling me that this Salem was behind their death?!" The man said with an angry tone "If I'll find her, I will make her pay for what she have done!"
Esdeath narrowed her eyes "And we shall grant you your revenge" She coldly replied
"I'm in!" The man yelled and placed himself under the building.
"Yeah! They are right! If the government will not protect us then we'll do it by ourselves!" A voice shouted followed by others. Slowly most of the people ,and even some Atlas soldiers, placed themselves under Esdeath.
Qrow looked at the scene and then to Irowood. James made eye contact with Qrow and shook his head, but Qrow sighed
"Sorry Jimmy" He said as he joined the others
"Tonight we declare war to Salem!" Esdeath yelled and everybody exulted
Later that night
Blake looked at the shattered moon
"I'm sorry" She whispered as tears fell into the ground, then she stood up and began to walk in the direction of the sea
"Where are you going?" A familiar voice said
"I have no rights to stay here" Blake replied
"I don't think so" Bulat said as he revealed himself
"Because of me, Yang was nearly killed. I'm just good at making the others suffer"
"And your solution is running away…again" Bulat replied
Blake didn't answred
"the last thing Yang saw, was you getting stabbed with a sword in the belly. If you leave now then you'll make her suffer even more" Bulat stated
"THEN WHAT SHOULD I DO?" Blake cried out
"The thing we do when we lost somebody. Cry together and take care of each other and move on" Bulat said
"And what if she don't want to see me" Blake asked while she lowered her head.
Bulat approached her and patted her head "That's not going to happen" He said with a gentle smile
The following day
Yang slowly opened her eyes, she still a little dazed but she felt a weight on her legs. When she looked down, she saw Blake sleeping over her legs. Yangs sighed in relief and looked at her sorroundings, she was in some sort of a tent
'thank goodness she is ok…' Yang thought as she looked back at Blake and rubbed her head with her right hand….wait what?
Yang quickly looked at her arm and found out that it was there
'How?! How can this be possible?' Yang yelled in her mind. Then she poked her arm and found out that it was actually made of some metal. But still, she was shocked because she couldn't tell the difference between her original arm and this one. The movement of it was fluent and she didn't felt any tipy of pain when she moved it
"Do you like it?" A voice said, Yang looked in the direction of the voice and found Seryu
"It's one of my spare arms that I keep inside Koro" Seryu continued with a low voice volume
"Spare arms?" Yang asked
"Yes, I lost both of my arms in battle, so now I use this" Seryu replied, gaving a smile to Yang "We tried to put the old one but it was to late so instead we decided to give you this"
"Wow, thanks" Yang replied as she stared at her new arm then she widened her eyes and began to panic "and that guy that tried to kill us? Ruby and Weiss are alright? Beacon? And Cinder?"
"the guy is dead, we killed him, right after you fainted" Seryu replied "Ruby is okay, Weiss was brought back to Atlas by her father. Unfortunaly Beacon now is closed since Ozpin died and Cinder…" She began to laugh "She is 'talking' with Esdeath"
Yang frowned when she realized what Seryu meant for 'talking' with Esdeath and tried to not imagine what was happening to Cinder
Then Blake began to groan
"I'll leave you two talking" Seryu said as she walked outside the tent
Blake opened her golden eyes and looked at Yang
"Goodmorning, kitten" Yang said with her usual smirk "did ya sleep well?"
Suddenly Blake jumped over her and hugged her tight
"I was so scared, I thought I was not going to see you anymore" Blake said with a weak voice
"Me too…." Yang replied as she hugged back her partner.
Meanwhile in another tent
Pyrrha woke up in an unkown bed, she was dazed and her vision was blurred. She tried to get up from her bed, but she felt an incredible pain at her left leg, making her hiss in pain
"Pyrrha! You shouldn't try to get on your feets already!" A familiar voice sounded and a blonde boy putted her on the bed again
"Jaune" Pyrrha said as she putted her hands on her mouth and tears began to flow down her cheeks
The blond boy sat beside her, he was also crying
"You thought that I would left you die after you kissed me?" Jaune said as he tried to wipe away the tears
"Jaune I'm so so-" Pyrrhe tried to apologize but Jaune stopped her by kissing her
Pyrrha eyes widened a little but she closed them and embraced the warm feeling of Jaune's lips. After five minutes Jaune broke the kiss and leaned his forehead against Pyrrha's.
"Thank you for loving me" He simple said ,making Pyrrha's tears flow even more
Meanwhile
Cinder gasped in pain as she felt ice inside her body, who was cutting through her insides avoiding the vital organs. She was sitting in a chair with both of her hand blocked from ice. Esdeath have tortured Cinder all night in order to gain some information from her
"Where is Salem?" Esdeath asked but Cinder remained silent
"Who work with her?" Esdeath asked again but she got the same result, so she created a block of very cold ice
"You know that ice can also make burns?" Esdeath said with a grin, making Cinder shake. Then Esdeath pressed the ice block against the right side of Cinder's body. After a few seconds Cinder began yelling in pain and asking for mercy but Esdeath looked at her with a sadistic smile
"I want the names" Esdeath coldly said
"Leonardo Lionheart! Arthur Watts and Hazel Rainart! Please make it stop! Our next objective was Haven academy!" Cinder replied as the burns became more and more deep
Back at Tatsumi
Tatsumi was happily surprised when he saw Sheele, Lubbock, Chelsea and Leone, he didn't hide his joy and hugged all of them
"Awww look at my Tatsumi, you quite changed huh?" Leone teased
In fact Tatsumi really changed a lot since the last night when he evolved. Now he had a pair of grey wings on his back even when he was not wearing Incursio
"When we saw you at the television, we came here as fast as possible" Lubbock stated
"Yeah and we saved your dragonic ass" Chelsea added as she laughed
"By the way, where are you been guys?" Tatsumi asked
"oh, we was in Mistral. We worked in Bols's restourant." Lubbock explained
"And Sheele?" Tastumi asked
"Well, since her clumsiness she was the mascotte of the restourant" Chelsea said, making Sheele blush ""Oh I see, and you? Leone onee-chan?" Tatsumi asked to Leone
"Oh, I started working as a masseuse in the Menagerie!" Leone exclaimed
"well, I'm happy now that you are all here" Tatsumi admitted as he hugged again all of four of them
Well guys, this chapter wasn't long like the previous one . I want ask you how I should name this new squad of members of both yeagars and Night raid. Please let me know with the reviews. We'll see ya guys in the next chapter
