Chapter 6
Orion
"Come on Mychael you know I don't celebrate my birthday." I complained as Mychael dragged me towards the center of the town, which is still in ruins.
"So you don't want the gift I made for you, and I worked so hard to make them for my little bro." He said in mock sadness.
"I guess I have no choice since you made me something, so lets gets this thing over. I want to go back to my training." I said while catching up to him.
"It's always training with you. You seriously need to get a girlfriend or some kind of hobby." He said back. I just gave him a dry look.
"You do remember we are the only ones here and your girlfriend 'Beth' isn't here either." I said with finger quotes because I have never seen her so I'm beginning to doubt she even exist. Mychael sheepishly scratched the back of his head.
"Oh… yeah, and Beth isn't here because she is busy."
"That what you always say." I replied. Mychael was about to say something but we had reached the town center. Their was a table set up with a small box on it and a note. I ignored the note and went straight for the box. I opened it up and pulled out a pair of black fingerless gloves with silver metal on the back of the hand and first digit of each finger.
"The fabric is infused with dust and and the metal is silver with silver dust infused into it. It allows you to channel your aura into them so you can use your semblance for close quarters combat." Mychael said when I pulled out the gloves. I put them on to find that they fit perfectly. I hugged Mychael and thanked him repeatedly.
"Woah there, calm down, it's just a gift." He said surprised that I was hugging and thanking him.
"Yeah but it's the only gift that I've gotten from anybody other that my necklace from my mother." I said while letting him go.
"Well in that case you can expect more in the future." I was about to reach for the note when I smelt several different people and faunus enter the town. I was about to tell Mychael when I heard a gunshot.
I turned around to block the bullet.
Mychael jumped in front of me.
I heard the bullet tearing through flesh.
Mychael fell back and hit the ground, unmoving.
I saw the glint of metal from a gun in the distance.
Then the world went red.
I woke up gasping for breathe while clutching my chest. I was covering in a cold sweat and my bed was soaked. I calmed myself down and looked at the clock on my bed stand. It read 4:30am. I got out of bed and walked into my bathroom. I looked into the mirror and stared at my reflection. I still looked the same, pale skin, larger than normal canine that sticks out when I close my mouth, sliver left eye with a slit pupil, black eye patch that covers my right eye, black hair with silver ends that covers my right eye, and the scar that goes through my right eye. The only difference is that my skin looks even paler than normal and I have bags under my eye. I let out a sigh and proceeded to wash my face and jump into the shower.
After I finished washing up and eating a small breakfast that I made, I walked over to the corner of my living room and pulled up a loose floorboard. Under the board was a small wooden box with my initials carved into it, 'OKF', Orion Knox Forsythe, but when I go into Vale its Xero. I walked over to my couch and sat on it. I opened the box and pulled out a note, the note that Mychael gave me on my birthday.
Dear Orion,
Hey little bro it's me Mychael and I know you don't celebrate your birthday but I went ahead and gave you a gift anyway. You've probably already opened the box and left the note. I know I've already told you this but you are the little brother I've always wanted and if I did have a brother I'd want him to be like you. It doesn't matter if we aren't related by blood I'll always consider you my brother. Happy birthday.
From your badass big bro,
Mychael
I wiped away the lone tear that slid down my face and put the note back in the box and put the box away. I walked into my room and put on my hoodie and grabbed my mask. I scribbled down a quick note, walked outside, and stuck the note to my front door. I put on my mask, threw down my hoverboard, hopped on, and started riding towards Vale.
It took about three days going at full speed to get to Vale. When I got to the outskirts of Vale I got off of my board and put it away in my hoodie. I flipped up my hood and started walking towards my objective. I arrived at the shop after about an hour of walking. The store was called "Sterin and Sons" and as you can guess is owned by a man named Sterin and his two sons, he also has a daughter named Cathy who is incharge of the cash register and handling orders. I walked into the store and walked over towards the cash register. Their was a woman who was in her mid-twenties. She was wearing some dirty jeans, a dirty checkered button up shirt, and a pair of goggles around her neck. She has bright green eyes and short messy blonde hair that reaches the back of her neck. She recognized me when she saw me.
"Hey Xero been awhile since you were here last. I thought you forgot about me." She said pouting at the end. I rolled my eyes at her.
"Oh please, how could I forget about you, especially after that… incident." I said while shivering at the end.
"Oh yeah… well are you here for the usual or is it something particular?" She asked. I pulled out a piece of paper and the one that Nix gave to me, 'I might as well get what she wants so she'll shut up.' I thought.
"Can you get me everything that's on those papers?" I asked. Cathy looked at the papers and typed some stuff on her computer.
"I can get you everything on these papers. Are you going to pay now or will you add them to your tab?"
"I pay now so how much will it be?" I asked while pulling out my wallet.
"That'll be 350 Lien plus tax so 371 Lien total." She said while handing me a check. I handed her the Lien, she put it in the register and walked towards the back.
"Hold on while I go get the parts." I nodded and started to hum a little song in my head while I waited. After about 3 minutes of waiting I was about to go and look around the store when I felt a gun get pushed up against my head.
"I want to live to see tomorrow then give my all of your lien." Said a voice behind me. I let out a sigh and got ready to react.
"You really want to do this?" I asked.
"Just hurry up before I put a bullet through you head."
"You asked for this." The man didn't have to replied because I spun around and kicked him in the gut launching him into the wall behind me, unconscious. Cathy walking the store from the back just as the guy slid down the wall.
"Do I even want to know what happened?" She asked while handing me a small bag. I put the parts in the pockets that I have inside my hoodie.
"Probably not. Well it was good seeing you again Cathy, later." I said while walking outside, waving.
"Later Xero." Was all I heard before the door closed.
I continued to walk towards the edge of Vale that's near Beacon cause it closer to the forest. I pulled out the parts for my board and my board itself, in its folded up form. First I took the battery that was synced to my aura, then I opened up the board so the core was visible. There were two different parts in the core; the one for the small board option, and the one for the long board option. I put the parts that I bought into the core and watched as the the two different parts for options fixed themselves to the new part. After they linked together I closed up the board and put the battery back in. I flipped the board over and looked at it loading bar, 1%. I let out a sigh, 'This is going to take a while.' I thought to myself.
I continued to walk towards the edge of Vale while holding my board in my left hand. I was about to start humming a song in my head when I felt someone grab my shoulder. I turned around and found myself staring into a pair of silver eyes. The pair of eyes belonged to a girl how looked around the age of 15 with pale skin and black hair with red highlights.
"Uh… can I help you?" I asked her.
"Uh oh yeah I wanted to ask you something?" She said while taking a step back so she wasn't in my face.
"Sure go ahead."
"I wanted to ask you if you were a hunter. I was in the store you were in a couple of minutes ago and saw you kick that guy that had the gun to your head. I go to Beacon, but I've never seen you before. I wanted to know if you're a hunter."
"No, I'm not a hunter I just know how to defend myself when someone attacks. If that's all then I gotta go." I said while turning around only to find myself staring into a pair of amber eyes. Really, again?
"Um… hello. Can I help you with something?" I asked while backing up. While I was backing up my mask almost fell out off my hoodie. I grabbed it hopefully before anybody saw it.
"What was that?" asked someone from behind the amber eyed girl. I looked towards them to find a group of people behind her. The only problem was that they were all girls. This day is just turning into my nightmare, isn't it. 'At least it can't get worse… I just jinxed myself didn't I?' I thought to myself. There were five of them in total, six if you count the girl behind me. Their was the amber eyed girl with black hair, a white haired girl with ice blue eyes, a red haired girl with green eyes, a blonde girl with lavender eyes, and a orange haired girl with turquoise eyes, she also looked like she was on a sugar high. 'What is up with these girls and hair colors. Black with red highlights, black, white, yellow, red, and orange. I bet the one with white hair is called Weiss and the one with black hair is Blake.' I thought to myself.
"That thing you just grabbed from your hoodie." Said White.
"You mean this?" I said and pulled out one of the parts that Nix wanted.
"No not that."
"Maybe this?" I pulled out another one.
"Not that either."
"Okay how about this?" Pulled out another.
"Not that either" She was starting to get mad.
"How about this?" I pulled yet another one while holding back a smirk.
"No, the white one!"
"Oh okay you mean this?" I said while pulling out a white part that Nix conveniently wanted.
"Oh for the love of Monty. Do you know who I am?!" She yelled and I swear one of her veins was bulging on her forehead.
"No."
"I am Weiss Schnee." She said while putting her hands on her hips. 'Hah I called it.'
"You mean The Weiss Schnee!?" I said while faking surprise. She smiled while puffing out her chest.
"Yes the heiress to the Schnee du-" She didn't get to finish because I cut her off.
"Never heard of you before and I don't care." I deadpanned. She face planted while everyone else started laughing.
"Why you." She said while reaching for a rapier on her waist. The Black haired one grabbed her shoulder.
"Calm down Weiss."
"But Blake…" Complained Weiss. 'Again, I called it.' I was about to start walking away when I forgot about my mask and it fell out of my hoodie. 'Shit!' I started to sweat when all of them turned towards me and glared, except the orange haired one, her's looked more like a pout.
"So you are part of the White Fang." They started to walk towards me while reaching for their weapons. I was too scared to move. 'Damn gynophobia, why now?!' I yelled to myself. I did the only thing my body allowed me to. Run…
I sent a surge of electricity out through the ground and it caused the street lamps to burst from too much power. The sudden flash distracted the girls giving me enough time to grab my mask, throw down a smoke bomb, and run.
"Hey! Get back here!" Yelled Ruby. I ignored her and kept running. I glanced down at my board to check it progress, 25%. 'Damn, it's taking longer that I thought and I don't really have time. Guess I'll have to keep running.' I thought while sidestepped a person in front of me. I yelled a quick sorry but kept running. I risked a look back to see how close they were only to have to jump to the left when I saw a red blur rush at me. The rest were right behind me. I looked forward again to find that the red blur was the girl with black hair and red highlights. She held out her arms to catch me. I crouched down on all fours while digging my claws into the ground to slow myself down. I skidded to a stop on all fours like a wolf ready to lunge. I heard the rest of them stop behind me and surround me.
"If you drop your weapon and come quietly then we won't have to hurt you." Demanded Weiss behind me. They couldn't see my face because I still had my hood up.
"Sorry I'm not a White Fang member." I said while tensing my leg and arm muscles.
"Even if you aren't a member of the White Fang you still need to come with us to confirm it." I heard Blake say. I slowly looked to my left to find an alley near us right behind the girl with red hair. I let out a smirk and saw the girl with red hair tense up and raise her shield and ready her sword.
"Sorry but I have people to see and places to be." I said while tensing my arm and leg muscles. I slowly activated my semblance causing silver electricity to run down my legs and arms. I rushed at the red head and jumped at her. She raised her shield to block but I landed on it and jumped off of it into the alley. I heard the girls start to follow me. I ran towards the end of the alley and let my smirk turn into a full blown grin when I found it was a dead end.
"You've got nowhere else to go. Just give up Sparky." Shouted one of the girls. I ignored them while jumping at the wall and latching in with my claws. I started to claw my way up the building at a fast rate because of my semblance increasing my speed. I heard a couple of them gasp. I quickly grabbed on to the edge of the roof and pulled myself up onto the roof. I didn't slow down and kept running towards the edge of the roof. I looked around to find that I was on one of the tallest building around this area. The only other building this size was several blocks ahead of me, but there was still a large gap. I heard the girls land on the roof behind me. I started to run on all fours to increase my speed and I jumped when I got to the edge of the building. I sailed through the air towards the other building. My instinct kicked in telling me to dodge so I spun around and watched as a black ribbon missed me by an inch. I continued to fly towards the building, but I wasn't going to land on the roof. I held my arms and smashed through the window. I rolled to land safely and skidded to a stop. I looked around and saw a couple of people in the room. One was an old guy with grey hair, round glasses, and he was holding a cane. The other person was a middle aged woman with blonde hair and green eyes, she looked familiar for some reason. Everyone else were generic business people. We all stood their in an uncomfortable silence until the blonde lady's face went red with anger.
"YOU!" She shouted while pulling out a riding crop. She apparently has telekinesis because one of the desks suddenly launched at me. I didn't have time to react so it smashed into my face and launched me back.
"Oh shi-" I got cut off because apparently I did something to piss her off because she launched the desk so hard that I smashed through the wall behind me and kept going till I crashed into a tree. A tree in the forest that was at least about half a mile away from the building. I black out when I hit the tree.
I woke up a couple of minutes later to the sound of voices near me.
"Come on sparky shouldn't be far. We saw him get launched over here." So it was the group of girls who thought he was with the White Fang. I let out a growl from the pain in my back. I fought through the pain and pulled out my board, hoping it wasn't crushed. 95%, good it wasn't crushed and it was almost done charging. I looked around and hid behind a tree. The voices were getting louder.
"He should be around here somewhere." Said one of them. I was about to get my hopes up when I smelt something familiar. A Faunus, a cat faunus. 'Shit, that means… '
"He's over there behind that tree." Said what sounded like Blake. 'that she can smell me too.' I finished my train of thought when I heard them rushing towards me. I jumped up into the tree and started jumping from limb to limb towards the edge of the forest.
96%
I slipped, fell down and landed on my right arm, dislocating it. I slowly stood up and looked behind me to find that the girls had caught up and where standing behind me with their weapons drawn. I backed up and brought up my left hand because my right one was hanging limply by my side. The redhead shifted her sword into a javelin and threw it at my should to pin my hoodie. I turned my head and caught the handle in my mouth, grabbed my right shoulder, and popped my arm back into place. The javelin in my mouth muffled my scream. I grabbed the javelin in my now working right arm and threw it back at the redhead. While the group was distracted I turned and continued to run
97%
I jumped to the left and kept myself from becoming a wolf faunus shish-ka-bob when the red head threw her javelin again. I sent a small burst of electricity through the ground at them. Not enough to hurt them but enough to paralyze them. I looked back to find that Blake and the girl with red highlights dodge the attack.
"Watch out Ruby, his semblance must be electrokinesis." Warned Blake.
"What does that mean?" Asked the now named Ruby. Blake let out a sigh and continued.
"He can control electricity, most likely that silver electricity of his that he used earlier."
"Oh… thats cool too." Replied Ruby. I was slightly impressed that could have a somewhat casual conversation while still chasing after me.
98%
I reached a clearing at the edge of a cliff. I stopped at the edge and turned around. Ruby and Blake stood next to each other with their weapons drawn. Blake had a what looked like a Variant ballistic chain scythe in its chain scythe form and Ruby had a large scythe that looked like it could fold in itself to make it smaller.
"Just give up and come with us quietly and we won't have to hurt you." Said Blake. I let out a sigh and held up my arms. My board was in my left hand.
"Drop the square, thingy." Said Ruby. I let go of my board allowing it to fall. I caught it with my foot and set it down in front of me to keep it from breaking. I glanced down at it.
99%
It's not full but it'll have to do. I used my foot and pressed the button to change it into its snow board form. It wasn't powered up so it didn't hover. Blake and Ruby were wondering what I was doing but still kept their weapons ready. I slowly put my foot on the end of the board. I looked back at them.
"Remember this day as the day you almost caught Xero." I said while kicking the board behind me off of the cliff. I gave them a two finger salute and allowed myself to fall back off of the cliff. They let out a gasp and ran towards me. Since Ruby was faster she grabbed one half of Blake weapon while blake held the end of the ribbon. Ruby jumped after me while Blake stayed on the edge of the cliff ready to pull up Ruby.
100%
I let out a small laugh and put my feet on the board. I use my aura to stick to the board. The bottom of the board started to glow silver. I used it as a snowboard and slid down the cliff out of Ruby's reach. I reached the end of the cliff and kicked off of the cliff and continued to ride towards home, not bothering to look back.
It took me a about five days to get back because I was exhausted from the chase. I was walking towards the edge of the town ruins when I ran into Nix. She looked at me expectantly. I gave her the parts that she wanted.
"I knew you would get them." I held out my hand
"Those parts cost me 250 Lien. prices went up since last time." I said. Nix reached into her pocket before giving my the Lien.
"Pleasure doing buisness with you." I turned around and started walking towards my house when Nix stopped me.
"What's that on your back?" I reached up and pulled something off of my back. It was a small 1 inch diameter round black machine with a blinking red light. It took me a couple of seconds to realize what it was. A tracking device.
"Oh shit"
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