(Alright, last time was fun wasn't it? Now for some more fun involving everyone's hated asshole. You know who.)
A Change of Pace
Dula's POV
The children are staring at me right now, in confusion from seeing me. Wouldn't blame them of course: if I were in their shoes I'd be confused why such a strapping, handsome and utterly beautiful creature such as myself was before them.
"What uh...what are you even?" One Uriah Greene asks
"I'm the one who's going to help you following your last opponent's er...harsh words." I reply to him
"That's an understatement..." One Blake Belladonna mutters
"Still! In such troubling times I'll help you out. Via a bit of...therapy." I say, this causes the children to look at me curiously.
"So! Who wants to go first? Four at a time and then er...three at a time." I ask looking among them, they don't seem none too excited by it as they look at one another. Guess they got a version of therapy from a psychologist straight out of the depths of hell would probably deter them from deciding to get help.
I think so...not like I'm human, to them I'm a weird lavender colored barrel with wings and tree branch arms.
"Me and Nora will go first." One Lie Ren says
"I'll do it." One Weiss Schnee adds in
"I guess..." One Uriah Greene also adds
"Splendid!" I say picking them up, "Now the rest of you, please cover your ears as to not disturb your friends here."
A look of confusion is shared before they cover their ears, good listeners. I set one Lie Ren, one Nora Valkyrie, one Weiss Schnee, and one Uriah Greene down.
"Excuse me as I check through and see what happened to you all. First will be with you Ms. Weiss...and the rest of you cover your ears?"
One Uriah Greene looks at me skeptically, "Why?" He asks suspiciously
"Just. Do. It." I punctuate dully, and with a roll of his eyes he covers them with Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie doing the in Uriah Greene's case it's more like putting a hand at one ear and resting his other one on his shoulder.
"Alright Ms. Weiss...let me do something real quick." I say quietly getting a nod from the girl, I begin to look through her mind of what one Klaus had to say to her. Along with everyone else...why not? Best learn what they had to go through as to speed up the process.
Hmm...things about how she can't change her company for the better and how her friends will abandon her. Well I know what to say to her then.
Let's see the others' own problems now: Uriah Greene is afraid they'll find out how he was a thief, Yang Xiao Long had to hear things involving her mother and how she'll fail her friends eventually, Lie Ren had to hear about how his parents were killed, Silas Silver is afraid they'll know that he killed a number of White Fang due to his lust for revenge and the possibility that something may happen, Ruby Rose believes that she's disgracing her mother's legacy by training to be a Huntress, Jaune Arc having some classic self-doubt, Roy Indigo thinking that he can't change anything for the better, Blake Belladonna going through some self-doubt about how she's ran before, Nora Valkyrie believing she's failed Lie Ren, and Pyrrha Nikos being afraid that her talents are being wasted and are being leeched off of by her friends.
First things first though: have to handle the one I'm talking with right now
"Ms. Weiss, what the man said to you was...more than a little harsh considering what you have been through." I tell her, she shrinks a way in what I can guess is remembering what happened.
I put one tree branch appendage on her shoulder and give a firm squeeze.
"But you should know that people do change. Hate for someone or something eventually diminishes, change is possible, oh and don't worry about losing your friends there: you have some good people watching out for you."
She looks at me with a glint of happiness in her eye, "You think so?"
"I haven't been around them, but you have. So what do you think?" I question her curiously
"Hmm...I think you're right, they won't leave me behind." A small smile creeping up on her face
"That's the spirit. Besides, money doesn't mean much in way of friendship. Now cover your ears." I say to her, she gives a nod and covers her ears
Alright. One down and ten more to go, one at a time but do more in pairs.
I tap Uriah Greene on the head, making about as clear a gesture as I can to make him uncover his ears. "My time for some uplifting words there starfish barrel?" He dully asks
"Zat depends, are you vready for me to talk abouts your mother?" I reply just as dully, but it seems my joke earns a glare from him.
Touchy subject.
"Listen. We all make mistakes: you've made some, I've made some, your friends have made some. For me it's not getting more of my kind to kill off those black tar motherfucking shoggoths." I tell but growl towards the end, goddamn shoggoths deserve nothing but extermination in the most painful way imaginable.
What was I doing? Oh right!
"But I gotta ask you...do you really think what you've done is going to make an impact?" I ask, Uriah Greene frowns at me
"Why gee! Thanks for your vote of confidence in that anything I do doesn't mean shit!" He says sarcastically, beaming with fake enthusiasm
"I'm talking about 'you-know-what' you sour lime."
His face turns to that of shame and embarrassment for a moment before letting out a heavy sigh, "Well...I'm not-"
"You have not one, not two, but THREE friends who were once terrorists! Do you really think that your friends will hang you for just stealing to survive?"
He looks at me for a moment, studying me, watching, his expression turns warmer. "I...I-I guess not."
"Good!" I happily say patting his back, "Now cover your ears back up."
And that he does, covering them up same as last. I tap on Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie, and they too uncover their ears.
"Since you both are close I figured that I could kill two birds with one stone by doing something like this." I tell them
"But uh...aren't all of us close, friends and all that?" Lie Ren asks curiously
"Hey, you two are closer than most." I reply with a shrug, "Anyways. Lie Ren, for you I have to say the past is just that. The past. If you ever come across someone who tries to manipulate or taunt you about the past. Just shrug it off, shoot them back with something they don't want to hear, or literally shoot them...preferably in the kneecaps."
He looks slightly afraid, "I...I'll keep the first two in mind. Thanks."
"Excellent! Now Nora Valkyrie, I believe that you have been with Lie Ren long enough to know that any slight against him you think you may have caused would be easily forgiven." I look over to Lie Ren, "Isn't that right?"
The two turn their attention to one another, "Well...you're right actually. And um...I'm sorry for laying into you Nora."
The girl smiles and locks her friend in a tight hug, "I forgot about it already!" She cheers out
Good, now for the next ones
Axel's POV, Two Days after Klaus
I can see ruined buildings across the city, burning as things leap, crawl, fly, swim and rip their way through them. The sky a sickly yellow-brown color as clouds speed through the air.
I hear whispers, sounding close to gibberish. And out of a puddle of black muck comes the forms of...people. Shaking off the gunk like dogs showing who they are:
Silas, Roy, Uriah, Yang, Jaune, Ruby, all of them. All of the people I failed.
Liar...liar...gonna die in a fire...
I try to say something, to tell Roy that I did it for his own good. But nothing comes out, when I tried making a sound it felt like my throat was burning and being cut with daggers.
I wish Uncle Qrow never saved your miserable hide!
I'm sorry, Yang. I'm sorry, Ruby.
Pathetic, liar and coward. You deserve nothing.
Forgive me...Weiss, Blake
YOU USED US AS PAWNS, IS THAT ALL WE WERE TO YOU?
No. Silas. Uriah
And here I thought we were friends, guess you're just some asshole who thinks of people as tools and toys to be used.
Please forgive me. Jaune...Pyrrha
We hope you die alone in a ditch, only noticed when someone trips over your maggot-riden corpse like a stray mutt.
Ren. Nora.
Another shape takes form from the black muck, only it looks like black smoke coiling around a man's body. Red eyes starring right into my soul: judging, deciding punishment, ready to carry it out.
Then the muck clones light on fire in an inferno of orange and red, melting away. I try screaming to stop but I can only feel the pain again.
The one that's left rushes up to me...face to face.
WHERE IS IT? WHERE IS THE BOOK YOU WORTHLESS SCUM?
I say nothing
SINCE YOU WON'T SPEAK, THEN YOU ARE OF NO USE
Then more pain, going through my stomach. Looking down I can see something going through me
A black and violet weapon, looking like a serrated sword made from lightning and fire. Covered in blood.
My blood.
I catapult awake, panting in cold sweat. My eyes wide open like saucers, I can feel my eyes watering up from the lack of blinking...but it's too terrifying a prospect for me, the water becomes a single tear. Running down my cheek, heavy and clear, falling onto the blanket covering me.
I look at the clock and see the time: Five thirty AM, might as well get dressed...Scale is finally letting us duel.
About time.
Scale's Room, after Breakfast
Walking in through the door, I sit somewhere else instead of my usual spot. Instead sitting next to Ahri. Despite my team, RWBY or JNPR not being here well...I'd rather not.
"Hey." I look around and see Ahri with a look of concern on her face, "Are you ok?"
I sigh and nod, "Yeah...I'm fine..."
"Are you sure about that? You look-"
"I. SAID. I'M. FINE." I growl before looking at the circular arena. Scale coming to the center of it.
"Ladies and gentlemen, as you may have heard you are finally going to be dueling one another." He starts up while stretching, "So for this it will be first come first serve: whoever raises their hand first get's to fight first and pick their opponent."
There's a moment of silence before Scale points to someone with his umbrella, "Mr. Winchester." He says dully, "Who do you want your opponent to be?"
Looking over at Cardin, he's starring at me with a murderous gleam in his eye and a dark grin. With the rest or his team looking at him nervously.
"I'll go with Axident." He says calmly, before standing up and coming down to the arena with the mace of his in hand. I only sigh and head down the steps, coming onto the arena. Cardin grinning
"I will tell this: you know the rules, when an opponent's Aura gages red the battle is over. And students must remain silent as to not break the focus of our combatants." Scale explains with his usual calm tone of voice. "Ready?"
"Begin!"
Dula's POV
After finishing up on the last four, time for more of them.
I tap on Blake Belladonna's hand, leading her to remove her hands from both sets of her ears. "I may as well just keep it short and sweet for you: Ms. Blake while you may be a smart girl, you're not a lucky one." I state earning a glare from her
"But you shouldn't blame yourself for harm caused to your friends. The world is random and we have to be given the hand we are dealt with, besides...not as though you're doing anything evil here."
She looks away for a moment, sighing. "Sure. Sure."
"Right, keep well." I say before tapping Silas Silver on the shoulder, his hands uncovering his ears with Blake Belladonna covering hers up.
"For you I have to say, you should be prepared for what may come. If you find yourself in the situation where that...thing takes control? Be prepared to fight back."
He gives a solemn and understanding nod, "Still, not sure how long I'll be able to keep him locked up...I'm worried."
"Pshhhh, if it ever comes down to actual fighting then he must realize you both need your body to survive. But be it the Beast or your old friend, you will have the strength to defend from both."
"I dunno. But...thank you." He says in a quiet voice
"Good boy! You're welcome." I say a bit enthusiastic...oh goddamn it no! I put a hand on his shoulder
"I'm sorry for the awful slightly racist pun." I tell one Silas Silver solemnly, he gives me an odd look and his lupine ears twitch
"Er...it's fine?"
"Yeah." ONTO THE NEXT PEOPLE, and without a word one Silas Silver covers his two sets of ears. And onto the next two, before I tap on the arms of Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos they uncover their ears.
"Well. You both got the hint from seeing what was happening I guess...good on you."
Silence. Stares. Oh why do you haunt me so with them children?
"Anyways time for me to get to work." I say to myself aloud, stretching. "Jaune Arc, for what I must say to you is that while you may be absolutely, completely, utterly weak compared to the people around you-"
But to cut off my speech Pyrrha Nikos stomps her foot forward, well she looks a bit angry. How about that?
"Don't mock Jaune like-"
"Let me finish Pyrrha Nikos." I say with a sigh due to the interruption, she looks at me with a harsh, angry glare while Jaune Arc looks away holding onto his arm. "You will make a fine warrior some day. With your name being one that your family line will look to for inspirations for generations upon generations to come..." I state a bit dramatically before looking between him and Pyrrha Nikos, "And if you were to have kids you'd be a good dad too."
I give the girl a wink, and she darts her eyes away from either myself or Jaune Arc who is looking to me instead. "Are you-"
"I'm sure. And for you Pyrrha Nikos I will simply state that if your friends were to have exploited you...well let us not mention how bad that would be. But they haven't, they've stuck with you well enough so far, you'll graduate from this place and be a whole paragon who protects the weak...yadda yadda yadda." I say a bit dully toward the end
"Well...thank you, Dula? Was it?" She asks
"Yes. That's it."
Axel's POV
I'm laying near face down on the ground, I couldn't care enough to fight against Cardin. Who's mace blow sent me flying back, look at me getting beaten by Cardin...but oh well. I feel him pull me up by the hood of my coat and meet him at eye level, his eyes burning with malice and with a grin on his face.
"Your little doggy is too sad to save you now buddy." He whispers, venom laced in his words. He gives me a head but to knock me to the ground, smashing the head of his mace onto my back.
I can see his feet pacing from left to right. Or is it right to left? But in any case he's laughing his ass off.
"Mr. Winchester." Scale says calmly but I can sense the anger in his voice, "Mr. Lind is defeated. Return to your seat."
Cardin just keeps on laughing, leaning down to me. "Glad ya didn't put up a fight, gives me good credit with ladies who like tough guys...unlike you."
"Cardin. Winchester." Scale growls, I watch Cardin look to Scale who has his sunglasses off with a glare of pure disgust on his face. "He's had quite enough. Return to your seat or I shall give a proper punishment for you." He growls again
Cardin merely gives a smug grin and holds a hand to his ear, "What was that? 'Cave-in Axident's head?' Well gee! Let me think about it." He says in a mocking tone, looking down at me with a sinister grin.
He takes his mace into both hands and holds it over his head.
"Yessss."
And he swings down, time seems to slow down as the swing arcs downward. Before the hit connects however: an old familiar canesword blocks the mace. Scale with a hand behind his back starring down a confused Cardin with a mix of contempt and disgust.
Twisting the mace right out of his hand Gray points the end of his umbrella weapon, shoving in the handle which produces a trigger. The umbrella opens up and a cracking shot of a gun blasts Cardin away. A good ten or so feet onto his ass.
With the barrel of the umbrella gun smoking, Scale sticks it near to his face and blows away the smoke before casually putting it to his hip.
"Cardin Winchester. I will say something that I have been wanting to say the moment I laid my eyes on your wretched hide." This little comment cause's Cardin's face to flare up in anger
"You are a mean-spirited, annoying, smug little bastard. Do you know what that means?" Scale asks in a 'talking-to-a-toddler' tone of voice, "It means you are a bully who's ego needs stunted down to the size of a dwarf, a vicious egomaniac with all the subtlety of a Dust powered bomb: you're too hateful to learn, too spiteful to prosper." He adds with a pause "Further more, you have a whiny voice and a terrible sense of fashion." He adds dully
"Get out of my classroom."
And with it Cardin can only scream in rage before grabbing his mace and leaving, growling and huffing. With his three cronies following behind, but surprisingly they look at me with...concern? What?
"Go to lunch children." Professor Scale sighs, with the whole class murmuring and leaving out in pairs, one by one, but they all get out of the room. Scale picks me up to my feet and dusts me off the moment everyone has left the room.
"Why didn't you fight back?" He asks
I shrug
"Axel. Give me an answer: Why didn't you fight back?"
"I'm too tired." I say with no emotion, I turn around and saunter off to lunch.
Dula's POV
Eight done. Three left.
First up: Roy Indigo, I head over to the boy who slowly uncovers his ears. And put a hand on his shoulder.
"My boy, change is always in nature. And what that man who said you can't change anything? Does he even know who you are? I...looked into your mind I must admit, and I just so happened to glimpse what you have in your mind. You can change parts of the world, you know?"
He keeps silent, then a few tears stream down his cheeks. Before giving a...hug to me.
"Thank you..." He whispers
I pat him, and he lets go. "No need to thank me child."
So I head over to the sisters, who uncover their ears.
"Well. Last patients of the day! Let's begin." I start
"Well Ruby Rose, allow me to tell you that if your mother was here today she would be proud of what you are doing. Training to protect those who can't protect themselves...a hero. Besides, your sister here enjoys the idea of you doing a Huntsperson's job of killing monsters that feed on negative emotion. Along with your friend Axel."
I turn to the elder of the two, "And you? Well seeing how your friend's and friend-come-love enjoy your company, I can say they trust you well enough. But should you not trust my word well...give it a few days, alright?"
The two of them sigh in harmony, looking to one another. "You got it." Yang Xiao Long speaks
"Oh and uh...Mr. Tree Jellyfish?" The young one innocently asks, and I resist the urge to scream in rage.
"Yes?"
"What about Axel? Is...what that guy saying true?"
I let out a sigh, "My sweet child: There are somethings that are not meant to be learned, he just so happened to do so in order to protect you and your friends. He will explain it too you all. Soon."
Hopefully soon.
Axel's POV
"Axel I have to say: you're depressed." Ahri tells me with the rest of team VOLT looking at me. I sigh and stab my fork into the chicken
"Guys. I'm fine, trust me." I say shaking my head, Oreno grabs my shoulder, squeezing it and looks at me with furrowed eyebrows
"Dude! You got tossed around by Cardin. That's like dying from getting stung by a bee." Oreno says a bit loudly
"There is such a thing as bee allergies you know Oreno." Tulip adds
"I know that! Point is that it's something that shouldn't have happened!"
I groan and clutch the bridge of my news, "Guys just...stop. Please."
I look over to one of the tables. ASUR, RWBY, and JNPR sitting there and just eating. An empty spot where I would be but, maybe it's for the best.
"Cardin! Come on man! This ain't right!" A voice says, wait...isn't that the Russel guy? A Winchester goon? I look back around and see Cardin stomping his way over here with his quote unquote 'teammates' following him
"You beat him once! Isn't that-" the one with blue hair, Sky Lark starts before Cardin turns around.
"Can it Sky." He hisses, "Or else I'll go after you next." He adds, turning his look over with a smile on his face. Looking at me as he comes over to the table.
"Buddy! You and I should talk!"
"Fuck. Off. Winchester." Ahri growls, Cardin snaps his gaze over at her. "I just want to apologize for what I did later, gonna whisper it to him though. Get me?"
"Like you can come up with any more creative insults. Go ahead and flingm'" Lily speaks up sarcastically, she's not wrong. Not like anything he's going to say is something creative enough to hurt my precious little feelings
And Cardin leans in, his breath going against my skin:
"I realize you've been evading your usual friends along with your girlfriend for the past two days." He chuckles before taking a sharp breath, "You humiliated me back in that asshole Scale's class. So here's what I'm gonna do: I'm gonna take your team, and don't worry! You can have mine...they're too soft for me. I also think that the hottie Yang deserves a real man, dontcha think?"
What is this little asshole talking about?
"Well...I think she'd be more of a toy for me, ya know? And I'm hard on toys, I'd probably break her easily. And then maybe I'll hurt dear 'ol Jauney boy by doing the same to that Schnee bitch or know-it-all red-head. Whichever one that idiot blonde likes the most." He says sardonically, I can practically feel the sick little grin coming up on his face.
"That fine with you? 'Why yes Cardin! Do me a favor and take my place!', that what I heard?...Good boy, now stay out of my way." He then starts to slowly walk away...toward my friends.
I only clench my hand into a fist, tight enough for my knuckles to be snow white with pain coming as my fingernails dig into my palm and draw blood. The warm, wet, crimson liquid oozing out and forming stains on the lunch table.
I can feel the anger slowly and surely coming in, gnawing holes in me and filling the holes with itself. It's not like how I expected it to be: fiery, passion-filled, raging, roaring like a bear or dragon, explosive. No. It's much different than that.
It's icy, coldly vicious, pure resignation mixed with black hatred, utter and complete loathing for the bastard Cardin, while the first may have lead me to getting my ass handed to me...this hatred is giving me a focus I whole-heartedly agree with.
I'm going to murder him.
Er...Lindo? Y-Y-You alright there, buddy?
Cthugha, it's time that I actually put fear into that smug prick's mind. No...I'm going to have him feel terror.
If he acts like a pig, than Cardin Winchester get's the fate a pig can get. Butchered, squealing, and it's high time he also sees that I have a few buttons that when pressed send me into 'unreasonably fuck-all angry' mode: Downgrading my friends, planning to hurt and humiliate them, suggesting I can't do shit about the first two, laughing at other's pain.
All of them just got pushed.
I stand up and grab my tray, turning around to see Cardin still striding along. And I run behind him and smash the tray right into the back of his head hard enough to knock him to the ground.
He looks right at me, eyes full of fear and his expression panicked. And he begins to crawl away, with me just slowly walking forward to him "A-Axel? L-L-Listen buddy! What I said was a-was a-was a joke! Believe me! I'd never-" he cuts himself off the moment he backs up into the wall, squeaking like a mouse.
I smile, time for you to get what your dad should've done to you.
And I drag him by his legs, mount over him, and start to hit him right in his goddamn face over, and over, and over, and over again. And I only laugh at this, yes! Yes! Yesssss! Cry more you son of a bitch! Cry until the tears turn into blood!
But two pair of arms grab me from behind, dragging me off of him and stand me up. "Mr. Lind calm down!" One voice says, Scale
"As much as I hate the fucker you can't kill him!" Another one says, Peach. Not kill him Peach...just hurt him.
And I'm ready to teleport right to him the moment the fucker says a word. Cardin coughs and sits himself up: his face bloody, beaten, already swelling and bruised.
"Heh...well Axident, I think you should know that I get to walk away from this. With you taking all the blame." He says smugly, his voice sounding like a hiss.
"Oh...you'll get to walk away alright Cardin Winchester." I growl, he gives a smug little grin.
"Glad to see even an idiot like-" I teleport right in front of him
"WITH! A! LIMP!" I roar and grab him by one of his legs, and begin to twist it as hard as I can. Right until there's a beautiful pop, and Cardin lets out a high-pitched crying noise. I keep twisting until there's a pain in my neck.
Everything starts getting more fuzzy, I'm getting tired, I close my eyes with the last thing I see being myself falling.
You lost control Axel.
Sometime Later
I groan and slowly open up my eyes, light hurting my eyes enough for me to squint for ten seconds. Opening them up fully I see that I'm in a white room with a door and a glass window that only shows my reflection, I look so tired with baggy and bloodshot eyes. I try moving but I can't. My arms and legs tied to the chair I'm sitting in.
"Alright! You got me Scale! Peach! Now let me out of here!" I call out, laughing
No response
"Where am I?" I ask
No response
I clench my teeth together, "GIVE ME AN ANSWER! TELL ME!" I scream out
Nothing.
I can only scream, and curse and froth at the mouth in rage. Screaming until my throat goes hoarse, and panting to get breath into my lungs.
"I don't believe this is a sound idea. He caused Mr. Winchester a good amount of harm...he may still try and harm others."
"Glynda. I trust the boy would not attack someone without reason, and he's been through a lot this week. We'll talk with him."
Wait a minute, Oz? We?
The door opens up to show Ozpin, cane in hand with the usual stoic expression plastered on his face. Once he comes inside the door closes shut.
"Mr. Lind, I'm sorry that we had to sedate you...but I know you don't wish to be a murderer." He says
"I hope that he dies."
His expression sours, "You don't surely mean that?"
I glare at him, "I. Hope. He. Dies. There something so wrong about an asshole seeing punishment? You ever felt that before?" I ask, his expression changes again. A sad one to be sure.
"I can't deny it...even I have caved in to more ugly emotions: hate, envy, greed, at least once." He says sadly, looking away. I must've hit a bad subject, he looks back and lets out a sigh. "But another reason you're here, is that there is someone who wishes to apologize."
When he says that the door opens up, guy with a bald head, goatee, coat. Cain. He has no expression on his face. And the anger in side me bubbles up
"Axel." He says calmly, "I know you're angry with me-"
"That's an understatement and you know it you bald fuck." I spit at him, he frowns
"I know you and your friends went through an attack by the Cabal. But you still need to fight." He says, is he serious?
"Hey, it's your war. Why don't you get up off your ass and fight it instead?" I scoff, he furrows his eyebrows in annoyance still frowning.
"That's your response?" He asks in an annoyed tone before turning to Ozpin, "It's like I told you the first time. It's like dealing with a child." Cain looks back to me, "What is wrong with you Axel Lind?" He asks
Oh? Now he wants to know? What a joke.
I laugh for a solid five seconds before sighing, letting out a growl. "You wanna know what's wrong? I'm sick of being treated like I'm a tool!" I snap into him, "'Axel do what I say', 'Axel come here', 'Axel go there', 'Axel you better not tell your friends about this whole war we're fighting nobody knows about that if we lose will be the end of the world!'. You know I was actually starting to actually like you, but I guess I'm just a part of another plot twist involving a group you've told me jack shit about! And this'll all lead up to where I get possessed by some insanity inducing alien super-monster, so that you can kill me 'for the Greater Good'!"
"There's your answer you bastard. I am sick of being treated, like a goddamn pawn! I thought I could trust you, figuring you and Dula were the only ones who knew about this shit besides apparently Ozpin! But I guess it turns out your no better than the fucking Cabal!" I say in utter rage, Cain's expression turns to something I thought wasn't even possible.
Anger.
And he punches me right in the jaw, knocking me to the floor. "Cain! Control yourself!" Ozpin commands with his voice seethed in frustration. Guess it's like seeing two kids fight for him
"Don't you ever compare me to those bastards, monsters and psychopaths again...you understand?!" Cain asks angrily, "Everything that I do. EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE! Has been for the sake of protecting mankind!"
"Was killing your brother one of those things too?" I ask sarcastically
"Axel that is quite enough." Ozpin says in a low tone of voice, "You both should realize this: Cain, the idea of not letting him tell his friends was destined to fail. Axel, you're training to be a Huntsman: you should realize that fighting amongst ourselves will end up splitting us apart for our enemies to pick us off."
I feel my heart sink down into my stomach, there's truth in those words. And I had to be a smart ass about something involving what may be Cain's past.
"Now. You both reconcile your differences, I will be listening." Ozpin states much more calmly, the door opens up and he leaves. Just me and Cain now.
Cain let's out a heavy sigh, "I know you want answers to questions...well? Ask them." He says sourly. What to ask first?
"How long has this been going on? This whole...war thing?"
"It's been happening for too long." He sighs wearily, "I've done too much...seen too much: men and women getting killed, driven to madness, suffering fates that make death seem pleasant. It takes it's toll, but with you? Well...I hope this war is finished." He finishes
"Are you...you know. THE Cain?" I ask curiously
"Yes. I am. The first person who was born, the first..." He pauses as though he's too ashamed to actually say the next word, "Murderer. The one who's cursed to wander, and cannot be killed unless the person will see something worse."
"How've you been able to talk with me in my mind?"
"Well, Dula's helpful with that for the most part. And at times Cthugha will let me take his place."
We'll talk about this later
Would it help for me to say sorry?
No.
Well fiddlefucks.
Well, that's three questions done. But there's one that's important to me, time to ask it now.
"Would you help me help me...explain to my friends about all of this? At the least they'll understand." Cain gives a tired smile to me, walking over and finally standing me back up. Going behind and untying the restraints
"Certainly, Ozpin? Come in here a moment?" Cain asks, the door opens up again and Ozpin comes back in smiling warmly.
"I heard every word. I'll gather them together and you'll meet with them." Ozpin says, turning around
"Thank you both...and one final question. Who was the guy that attacked us?" When I ask this, Ozpin freezes into place.
"His name...his name is Klaus Schwarz." He says, "He was once a huntsman here once upon a time. One of my closest friends...unfortunately there was a mission he and I went along together personally where I had to leave him behind." The door opens up again, Ozpin stepping out.
"I wish I didn't have to." He says, his voice cracking before the door closes.
"I should...go and speak with him about gathering your friends together." Cain says, following behind Ozpin.
"Cain?"
"Hm?"
"I'm...I'm sorry for what I said, about your brother."
"...I know you are. There's not a moment that I look back on it and I hate myself for it. And for what it's worth: I'm sorry for having you keep this secret from your friends."
"Thanks."
Cain finishes with a nod before leaving, once he's gone I sigh and stand up.
Hey, Lindo. If you're going to have your friends find out about me, I should tell you that I invited a few I know to see your team.
Why the hell would you do that?
Well it always helps to have more along you know. But anyways, I think I should tell you something.
You love farts? I knew that already
Smartass. Not that, just a way to summon me for for a short while.
Really?
Yeah...but be. Careful. Fuck it up and you'll end up summoning up something pretty bad.
Pffft, what's the worst that could-
Does the name Feaster-From-Beyond-The-Stars sound like a guy you'd want to deal with?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhh no.
Exactly, since it'll be short and quick for summoning me for a few moments. All you have to do is say a phrase three times.
Alright, what is it?
Iä Cthugha! Iä Cthugha! Iä Cthugha! I'll show up and I'll try not to burn your room to ash.
Why gee, thank you so kindly.
Welcome...so, good luck pal.
(Well that took longer that I expected, then again I got repeatedly busy with things of all kinds. But I got it done, and das is good.)