So I know I'm late on uploading. I think? Anyways, work has been a pain in the ass and messed up my schedule so I've been so busy, I knock out as soon as I get home. But enough excuses and enjoy this chapter!
Aero was on his way to the Infirmary to check on Jaune when something bowled him over from the side, catching by surprise as a metal weapon smashed into his jaw, the attacker's Aura infused in the attack, causing Aero's unprotected face to crack and splinter and sent him flying through the wall outside of the 5 story building and falling before smashing into the ground, leaving a huge crater. The person looked over the edge and saw Aero's body broken and crumpled in the middle of the crater, blood pooling around his body. Cardin smirked at his win as he swaggered away. Not even 3 minutes went by before someone saw him and screamed, alerting others and a rush of doctors coming to get him. A medic checked his pulse and dropped his arm. He looked up stunned, as the headmaster walked up to see one of his employees laid dead in front of him. The medic ran over. "He's dead sir. All of his bones are broken and he's lost too much blood." Ozpin took a sip of his coffee. "Clear everyone out of this area and within a 5 mile radius, put 4 Aura deflectors. then at 7 miles put 4 more." He instructed calmly. The medic tried to speak, but Ozpin gave him a cold stare that sent the medic straight to work. Ozpin stared at Aero's broken body before calling Glynda, who answered immediately. "Glynda, sound code White." He said calmly. Glynda was silent, then spoke. "Cardin didn't actually?" Ozpin confirmed, having seen the mace indent on the back of Aero's head. Less then 10 seconds went by before an alarm go off and over the P.A. system, Glynda's voice boomed. "All students are to leave the building and stay in the front. Mr. Winchester, please come to the Arena."
Unbeknownst to everyone there, a small woman with an umbrella calmly walked over to the Arena and climbed to the top, and sat, waiting to see what will happen, a sadistic grin spreading across her face. In the distance, exactly where Aero's dead body was, a loud crack was heard and the screaming. Neo covered her ears, wincing in pain at the agony in the scream. It was inhuman, the way it scratched at her eardrums. She glanced at the poor boy who was called to the Arena, he was knelt over double in pain. "He must be the target of the pain." Neo thought to herself. The screaming stopped but shortly after the wall was busted open. Aero walked through, but it didn't look normal. In fact, he didn't even look like himself. His shirt was ripped off, showing off the toned muscle in his adomen and arms from years of training and surviving. But it looked strange, more like solid stone with the scars pulsing like veins and ridges from unhealed wounds. his pupils were pure white, looking almost dead. His teeth were unnaturally sharp and pointed. His hands were clawed. But the most disturbing part were the wings protruding from his shoulderblades. They looked so out of place, nothing like an animal. Made of what looked like blood, the wings extending a 20 foot width span across. He growled as he curled in pain. "You did this Winchester." His voice, laced with pain, was extremely gravelly, almost like sandpaper, but at the same time was smooth. Neo blinked and he was already in front of the boy, staring directly into his. "I can read your mind. I know how you feel. I know what you have done." The anger and hatred radiated from his entire body, Cardin was so scared he couldn't move away. All he could do was whimper. "You will not live after I'm done. I gave you every chance to redeem yourself as both a person and as a student. Instead you throw it away and try to murder me." He spat in his face, His Aura now raging around the Arena in strikes of bolts, breaking various parts of the wall and causing it to fall. Neo silently watched in awe as the power continued to increasing as he got more and more angry. "You raped her so many times and didn't feel anything from it. You cheated on her even as she stayed with you. You murdered their boyfriends when they refused you. You don't deserve to live. There is nothing that will save you from dying slowly and painfully." Aero grabbed Cardin by the throat and with a sweep of the bloodwings, flew directly up into the air. Aero held out his other hand and what looked like a chain flowed out of his hand. He chained Cardin's hand to it and let go, dropping Cardin, who was now suspended by just the chain. He screamed in pain as the chain dug into his skin, drawing out blood as his other limbs were chained, leaving him there in the air, screaming for mercy. Aero's white eyes stared coldly at him. "You should have thought about that when Yang screamed for you to stop, you made her bleed. you broke that poor girl. I fixed her and I will make sure she won't ever see you again. You have hurt too many people, and are evil. As by my code as a Frostmane... I will exterminate all of the evil that your family has wrought. Now suffer as your victims have suffered." Cardin went limp as Aero finished, and the chains dissipated, dropping his corpse down, and a hole opened underneath his body, dropping him into the ground and the ground swallowed him before smoothing over.
Aero turned and looked directly at Neo, who froze, having been spotted. Aero floated down to her, landing in front of her, before the stone looked disappeared and the wings were sucked back into his body, and his eyes were closed. When they opened, they were azure blue again. "Hello, intruder. I daresay you have seen something that you can't comprehend. Yeah?" She nodded, still shocked at the brutal display. "Good. Now then, I have a couple of questions for you. Who do you spy for?" She couldn't speak. But he didn't know that. So with shaky hands, she started to sign "I was curious" Aero tilted his head, staring straight at her. She thought he was going to kill her and her whole body started to shake before he spoke again. "You heard that someone was being summoned to here while everyone else was evacuating and thought 'Oh that sounds interesting I'm gonna go see what happened'? That was your first thought?" She nodded. He stared at her eyes, his own flashing with color. One eye flashed gold before going back to white, they his left one turned red before switching back. "Very well, I believe you. Now you look familiar. You were the girl who spoke to me before leaving." She was surprised he saw past her disguise. "How did you know?" She signed. "Because not only did I read your mind, the figure is the same, as well as the smell." She was confused. "But what to do about the intruder. Shall I kill you? Or make a deal? Hmm..." She shook even harder as he deliberately stalled about making his decision known. "While I decide, I will ask you. Are you a criminal? If you answer it will impact what I will decide." She quickly signed "Not anymore. I use to work for Roman Torchwick since he cared for me when i was little but then he abused me and I left. I work for no one." Aero pondered this, he slowly walked around her, examining her and sizing up her Aura. "For a criminal, its surprising to see that your Aura is unlocked. Well Neo I have one more question for you then." He stopped in front of her, knelt on one knee to be eye level to her. Would you like to attend Beacon Academy?"
"YOU DID WHAT?!" The whole table nearly broke under the weight of 4 pairs of hands slamming down on it as Ruby, Weiss, Yang, and Nora reacted to the news that Aero delivered as Neo shrank behind him. "Settle down, she's a new student. No need to get hostile. She's in my care and under my protection." Yang glared at him, and Aero was surprised at the rage she was showing. But before he could say another word she stomped away, punching the door out of her way. "Uhhh what did I do?" Aero looked to Ruby, who was just as surprised. "She probably took it the wrong way. You may want to explain to her?" Ruby said, uncertainly. Aero sighed and signed to Neo "I'll be right back. Stay with Kyomi and Dana." She nodded and sat next to Dana, shyly. Dana smiled and signed "Hello." and the two animated started talking via signing while Aero followed the path of destruction that Yang had left. "She probably thinks that I'm unofficially cheating on her." He thought, as he failed to notice a pair of flaming eyes turn to look at him. He knew soon enough as he felt cold steel smash against his face and break ever part of it. Slowly he turned to see Yang's eyes not only flaming but in tears. He hugged her tight as she punched into his stomach again and again, not only leaving scars, but breaking his spine over and and over as she cried into him until she finally fell from exhaustion and he waited for his body to be repaired. "Why would you leave me like that?" She cried into his shoulder. "I didn't." He whispered into her ear. "Yes you did! For that midget! I saw you making those stupid hand signs! I saw that heart!" "Wait... What? What heart?" Aero asked confused. He thought back, and realized that while he was talking to Neo, explaining to her that she was now under his care and watch, Yang had been behind Neo, watching him. and he messed up on one of the words, it ended up looking like a heart. "Oh Yang. You silly stubborn girl." He whispered into her hair before started laughing. She glared at him. "This isn't funny! You broke my heart!." Aero was shaking his head. "No no no I messed up while I was explaining to Neo that she was accepted but that I have to keep an eye on her since she isn't fully trusted due to the circumstances of where I found her. I was signing too fast." Yang looked at him in confusion and disbelief. "You? Mess up on sign language? I don't believe it." Aero sighed happily and kissed her hair. "You may not, but I'm not perfect. Humans make mistakes all the time." Yang snorted.
"You guys done fighting?" Ruby popped from around the corner and peeked at the two. "I'd say so. Now I'm going to have an ache in my back every time I see Ember Celicia." Aero joked and Yang pushed his chest playfully. "Anyways, What's up Rubes?" He asked, content to not move. Ruby ducked her head momentarily at the name, before looking at them. "Ozpin showed up and asked why you weren't keeping an eye on Neo. He sent me to go get you as soon as he heard you had ran after Yang." Aero sighed before getting up, not even realizing he picked Yang up as well until she squealed. "Hmm? Oh sorry." He helped her down. "Lead the way Ruby." She nodded and started walking, the other two following her, back to the cafeteria where Ozpin awaited them. "So, Mr. Frostmane. I hear you ran into a little bit of a miscommunication between Ms. Xiao Long." He said, amused. "Yeah, I have it fixed, I instructed Neo to stay with Kyomi and Dana until I come back." Ozpin took a sip of his coffee. "Then you have some trouble. She is not with Dana." Aero looked up and smirked. "Nope she's not. But she's not missing either." Ozpin looked up and saw the ice cream girl hanging from the ceiling, leaning against one of the beams and kicking her leg out lazily. "I'm back Neo." Aero said, loud enoug for her to hear. Neo looked down and saw him, before jumping up excitedly and poked someone behind her and pointed down. Dana showed up next to her and grabbed on while Neo took out her parasol and drifted down safely. Once they landed, Neo let go of Dana and curtsied to Aero. In turn he bowed. They met eyes and both started laughing. Neo grabbed her throat and eyes grew wide with shock at her voice actually coming through. She tried to say a word, but nothing came out, and she was downcast. "I'll figure something out." Aero promised, taking a knee to be eye level. Neo shrugged and hugged Aero, then she pulled away and signed "I'm glad that i get to hear what my voice sounds like." Aero nodded. "Now, what were you two doing up there? I wasn't gone that long." Aero said, all business. Neo looked away nervously. "An adventure?" She signed. "How does that look like a question anyways? Never mind. What kind of adventure? You aren't in trouble." Aero reassured her, and Yang walked up and sat down and pat her lap. Neo took that as an invitation and sat down, fully trusting her. Yang began brushing her hair. "I don't know sign language unfortunately, but I'll have Aero translate." Yang grinned at Aero, who rolled his eyes. "Yes I will, since you go on a temper tantrum." He teased. Yang glared at him with red eyes and he held his hands up. "Fine fine too soon I get it." Yang and Neo laughed at his expression, and Neo was delighted to hear her voice again. She committed it to memory and wondered if she could get her voice. She had been born mute and dismissed any possibility of getting it. Now there was hope. She was snapped back to reality by Aero asking her to tell the story of the adventure. She began signing to him about a game they made up...
So that's it for this chapter. A little short I know, but next chapter we get to find out what kind of "adventure" Kyomi, Dana, and Neo go on! It'll be nice, relaxing, and fun... sike! It's gonna be a secret until the next chapter! I hope you guys had a great Halloween and getting ready for Christmas! I mean Turkey Day... Yeah. Love y'all and have a great day :D
