Chapter 15
Colin
He had been working for about an hour, when Blake left. Another hour of work and he got a knock on the door. He got turned his torch off and got up to see who it was. He opened the door and was knocked unconscious. He was getting dragged away when ruby turned into the hall and saw him. "Colin!" she yelled before she was also knocked unconscious and dragged away. About an hour and a half later Colin woke up. He was hanging from a tree branch by his arms. He looked around and found Ruby across the small clearing they were in, maybe 50 feet away. "Hey there Colin. How are you today?" Cardin said smiling. It wasn't only Cardin, there were 7 others sitting around a fire. "I'm good, what's up?" he responded smirking. Cardin only smiled and walked to the fire. "You ruined my reputation, and made me look like an idiot in front of the entire school." He said picking up a stick from the fire.
"If I am perfectly honest, you do it well enough yourself. I couldn't help myself." Colin responded smirking. Cardin laughed and walked up to him and stabbed him right in the chest. Luckily enough he didn't hit Colin's prosthetic's. But the stick was still on fire and you could hear his flesh burning. He clenched his teeth and muffled his screaming. "Ooh that hurts? Well we should fix that shouldn't we?" Cardin said sarcastically. "I am going to fucking kill you." Colin said in an angry whisper. "Ooh you are? Well we need to fix that as well don't we?" he said smiling. He left the stick in Colin's chest. "Stop it, why are you doing this!" Ruby shouted. She had been gagged earlier but had been able to remove it.
"Shut her up!" Cardin shouted at one of the people sitting at the fire. He got up and stuffed the gag back in ruby's mouth. "If you touch her again, I will burn you in hell." Colin said slowly, his right lung having been punctured by the stick. Cardin laughed and grabbed one of his friend's weapons, a curved sword. Walked over and slashed Colin right in the chest. Again Cardin missed the prosthetic but Colin started bleeding profusely. "One chance for everyone else to leave, and not die." Colin said struggling for breath. Most of them laughed, one got up and walked over to ruby's side.
"What are you going to do about it?" the guy asked putting his hand on ruby's leg. She started shouting but it was muffled by the gag, and his hand. "If you don't take your hands off her, I will teach you what the meaning of pain." Colin shouted. The guy just smiled and his hands started moving up. Colin saw the absolute fear in ruby's eyes. And he went ballistic. For Colin time slowed to a millionth of its speed. "Sheila remove the 10 and 15% power restrictions. " "Done" came the response. Time went back to normal and that's when all hell broke loose. Colin's rope's burned off and he fell to the ground his wings unfolding. His eyes glowing white as his wounds started glowing as the stick disintegrated and the slash healed up. He held his hand up and the man who was touching ruby froze. As did everyone else in the clearing. He pulled the potential rapist towards him. He walked past him to ruby and cut her down. She hugged him crying. "Ssshh, don't worry, it will be ok. They won't ever touch you ever again. Now hang on and don't let go." He said opening his wings to their full extent and rocketing into the air. They hit the apex of their jump and he turned towards the school and flapped his wings once and rocketed towards the school.
He landed her about 500 feet from the school. "Go find Ozpin or Glynda. And tell them what happened." She had tears in her eyes but she nodded and started running. Colin took off again in the direction
He came from. When he landed everyone was still frozen in place. Colin walked over to Cardin and picked him up by his neck and slammed him into the tree. "What was the end game on that one? Were you trying to kill me? Cause bringing Ruby into this was the worst idea ever. I might have let you live if you hadn't brought ruby but you did. So time for some fun. He said holding Cardin to the tree with the force, and walking over to the fire. He took 4 medium sized sticks and carved them into stakes. Then left the tips of them in the fire. He grabbed them and walked over to Cardin, who was in t pose against the tree. Then he pounded the stakes into his hands and feet while Cardin was screaming. He did the same with the man who had dared touch ruby.
The 6 others watched in horror as one by one, he crucified every single one of them. When the screaming finally stopped, he walked over to Cardin and the rapist. His arm opened up revealing a small syringe with a black liquid in it. He held it up in front of the two. "You don't know what this is so I'll explain it. First it will heighten your senses, all of them. Then it will stimulate every single nerve you have. You will feel the most pain it is possible to feel, it won't let you pass out either. It will last for about 2-5 hours. "He finished the fear growing in their eyes as they understood. He grabbed Cardin's arm and injected half of it into his arm. Then walking over to the Rapist and emptying the rest of the serum into his arm. It wasn't even 2 minutes before the screaming started. It was so primal and loud that he had Sheila put nanites in his ears. He started building fires under all of the trees.
About an hour later he had finished. The screaming still going, he could still maybe hear them, maybe it was his imagination. He went about lighting the fires, except for the two who were still screaming and writhing. He let the 6 burn out, but didn't let the fire spread. About 2 hours later he had calmed down enough to put his wings back and stopped glowing. His shirt had been burned to a crisp, so he threw it into the fire at the center of the clearing. He looked himself over, he had 3 new scars, the slash and the scars from the stick and the fire following. But other than that nothing. He walked over to a tree at the farthest end of the clearing and grabbed the camera in the branches. His nanites had formed it when he woke up. He opened it up and pocketed the chip. The rest of the nanites swarmed around his body like liquid checking for other injuries, before being absorbed into his bloodstream to do internal work.
He pulled the ear plugs out and heard the screaming die down. "So you are done. Time to die." He said looking straight into Cardin's eyes as he bent down to light the fire. "No no don't." Cardin begged breathlessly. "What was that? You don't want me to kill you?" Colin asked pulling the lighter away. "No please don't." He asked quietly. "But you were going to kill me? Why don't I get a chance to kill you? It only seems fair." Colin said lifting the lighter up to his face. The look on Colin's face changed and he whipped around raising his hand in a grabbing motion, a Choking professor Glynda emerged from the trees, about 6 feet off the ground. He slowly put her down. "What are you doing here professor?" Colin asked, she caught her breath and stood up. "You are a monster. And you need to pay for what you did to these kids" She said raising her wand to eye level. "I don't think you have the full story, you might want to rethink your position." Colin said turning back to Cardin.
She threw a spike of ice at his back the second he turned around. He whipped around in a millisecond and grabbed the spike. "Professor, I won't ask again. Stop what you are doing and leave. I have a very good reason for doing what I'm doing." He said crushing the spike into dust. He turned back around and light the fire under Cardin. She put it out. He held his hand out and Cardin started choking, violently. She threw every bit of magic and power into a spell, and threw it straight into his back. A huge explosion occurred and smoke obscured everyone's vision.
