Chapter 4: memories
Author's note: I'm so glad for those who stayed with me and those who continue to read it and support me. I would have gotten this written sooner but I had almost no motivation and was busy.
"Ok Zack so we are going to go through with plan?" Fikana asks Zack while clasping her hands under her chin.
"Yes that is what you wanted to do for them" Zack replies calmly.
"You are right I got their transcripts ready for them to go to beacon" Fikana replies shakily.
"There's only three of them though what are we going to do about a fourth member?" Zack asks out of concern.
"I have already supplied the fourth member your brother he will meet them there" Fikana says amiably.
"You mean Aiden?" Zack reply's questioningly "isn't he too old to be a student."
"I mean your other brother" Fikana says as she lies down on the bed "now if you don't mind I'm going to sleep also locking mechanism one activate." This abruptly ends the
conversation.
"Yes mother sleep well" Zack says as he gets up going towards the door "we'll tell them tomorrow."
As the morning sun rises into the sky Fikana gets out of bed and pulls her gloves on hiding her hands and making them appear bigger then puts on the hoodie throwing the
hood up to hide her golden hair then puts her long cape on before putting the mask on to hide her face and make her voice gruffer. She starts toward the door but as Fikana
gets close to the door she hears a light knocking sound "Abulm can I come it" A muffled voice says on the other side of the door. As Abulm unlocks the door opening to admit
Neria into the room where she then goes over and sits in the chair by the desk "Abulm do you think you could tell me how my sister died?"
"Why do you want to know all of a sudden?" Abulm asks questioningly.
"Felicia told me that you were talking about her and I was wondering if you could… maybe tell me how she died." Neria asks a little shyly.
"Hmmmm I guess I could tell you about the mission that she died on" Abulm says thinking.
"Oh really thank you so much" Neria says squealing in excitement.
"Ok so Fikana and I were sent on a mission to take out a den of Grimm by which we were ordered to destroy it. But it was just me and her who were sent out to destroy it"
Abulm says before getting lost in memories as he continues to tell the story. They come in on their airship as close as they can get without alerting the Grimm to their
presence.
"Abulm you ready to go" Fikana says tersely.
"Yes I'm ready when you are" Abulm replies curtly.
"Ok let's go" Fikana says steadily as she gets out of the airship as Abulm follows suit. They sneak through the jungle as Fikana pulls out her weapon which is a hammer that
looks like a sniper rifle while Abulm pulls out a knife with a heart that is pitch black on it as they creep through the forest in front of them trying to make their way towards
the place where the Grimm are located. "You ready? We should be getting close?"
"Yes I think we're only a couple of meters away from them" Abulm says bemusedly.
"Want me to take a peek?" Fikana says switching her hammer into the sniper and clipping a scope on.
"Fine but be careful though if you get spotted it will make this job a lot harder" Abulm says out of concern for her well-being.
"I know I won't get us caught" Fikana reply's cheerily as she stands up a little looking through her scope "I see the den it's close get ready let's take them out." She then
stands up and aims at the nearest Grimm "things are about to get loud" then she pulls the trigger.
'BANG' as the round tears through the Beowolf's skull, Abulm stands up replacing the dagger for a ranged weapon and pulling out a BMR from one of his pouches. The BMR is
pulsating as an angry red color as he sights towards a boarbatusk aiming straight for its eyes so it cannot charge them.
'BANG BANG' as his gun clatters out the repeat from him pulling the trigger blinding the boarbatusk and enabling him to close in to take out an ursa charging towards them.
"Fikana we have to finish this quickly" he yells as his DMR changes into a short sword as he swipes it towards the ursa's head unaware of the beowolf closing in on his side.
"Watch out" Fikana yells as the beowolf hits Abulm in the side knocking him down. She runs over changing her sniper into a hammer and swinging it at the beowolf crushing
its skull before swinging at the ursa "Abulm are you ok please be ok!" She says frantically running over to him seeing his shirt is ripped where he was hit "oh no you're
bleeding, get up" she says getting more frantic as he lies there.
"Ow my head I think I hit it on the ground when I went flying ha-ha" Abulm says opening one eye "god that hurt I think I broke a rib from that." He tries to get up before
activating his aura to seal his wound. "Not a fan of pain, ok let's hurry up and finish this before our wounds can become fatal."
"Yea you're right we should continue, I love you so don't you dare die on me alright" Fikana says kissing his check "we shouldn't be messing around we need to destroy this
den."
"Right we shouldn't let this stop us ok" Abulm says as his voice gets steadier from his use of aura "here they come."
"Right" Fikana says confirming what he says as she sees a king taijitu and creeps coming towards them "careful more of them."
"Yea be careful now" Abulm says as he aims his DMR at one of the creeps and shooting it in the head "I think this might be the last of them" he aims at another of the creeps
as Fikana stands up switching her hammer into a sniper and shooting at the creeps as well thinning their numbers down as they drew closer till they were within attacking
distance. "They are getting close switch to melee" He yells dropping his DMR and pulling his dagger out stabbing a creep as it lunged at him taking it in the skull causing it to
fall " hope you like fire" as he kicks his DMR on the ground towards a group of creeps. The DMR begins to glow an angrier red as it flies towards the creeps till it combusts in
a pillar of flame taking out a small group of creeps "ha smells like Christmas here" as he stabs another creep.
"Come on leave some for me" Fikana whines as she shoots a few more creeps before changing her weapon into its hammer form and swinging it crushing the skull of a creep.
She looks up to see the king taijitu hovering above Abulm flicking its tongue preparing to strike him unawares "watch out" she begins to yell frantically as Abulm looks up and
attempts to dodge out of the way as it strikes grazing his leg. "Aghh that hurt dammit stupid taijitu let go of me" he groans in pain as he stabs it in an attempt to get it to let
go of his leg. As he stabs it he manages to get in its eye causing it to reflexively open its jaw "oomph" as he lands on the ground he frantically reaches towards one of his
pouches quickly using his gloves and semblance to form a spear made out of blue dust "let's see you take one of these and see how much of a licking you get." He cocks his
arm back before throwing it down the king taijitu's throat before activating the dust lying dormant in the spear "ha perfect strike."
"Nice one" Fikana says walking towards Abulm as he uses his dagger to break the ice causing the taijitu's head to crumble "that should be all of them right."
"yea I think so Fikana" Abulm says turning around to face her as he sees the other half of the king taijitu hovering behind her about to strike "Fikana move" he says in an
attempt to warn her but it was a tad bit too late as the taijitu strikes down catching Fikana unawares leaving only her hammer behind as it swallows her "no you damn
monster. Why couldn't you of eaten me instead" he yells at the taijitu as he activates his semblance causing his bags to burst releasing all of the beads in a frenzy because of
his saddened state. He couldn't form his beads into any kind of state so they flew around uselessly without direction "you shall burn for what you have done" as he says this
he focuses on forcing his beads into a broadsword. He reaches his hand grabbing it before charging "you're going to regret doing that" he says before charging towards the
taijitu as his sword begins to glow an angry red as he begins to swing his sword in an arc effectively striking the taijitu in the head.
"What happened next Abulm" Neria says interrupting the story.
"Well I killed it obviously" Abulm says breaking out of his thoughts.
"So that's how my sister died I see" Neria says downheartedly.
Abulm looks to see she is close to tears so he puts a hand on her shoulder "its ok I miss her to. Now I have an announcement I need to make to you and everyone else" he
says before leading her towards the door and down the stairs "hope you like this surprise I have for you." They reach the bottom of the stairs and he nudges Neria to take a
seat in the chair "I have an announcement to make meet in the living room" he says as they come to see what he wants to talk about "so I've been talking and I managed to
get you transcripts into beacon."
"What" Neria, Fernus and Felicia chorus loudly!
"Yes you three are going to beacon to become hunters and huntresses in training and what's even better is you don't need to take the entrance exams." He says with pride in
his voice at their acceptance.
"But I don't want to leave I want to train with you" Fernus says with clear admiration for Abulm.
"You don't want to go to Beacon where all the good hunters and huntresses of the century have been trained." Abulm says with a slight sense of pride from being among one
of those hunter "ok I hope you guys enjoy your time at beacon your fourth teammate will meet you there."
"Have we met him before?" Fernus asks with curiosity.
"No this person has been busy in Atlas helping Aiden with his work" Abulm says in a businesslike voice "also your lift to beacon will be leaving in a few hours Aiden will you
take them to their lift."
"If I am the only one who can take them I guess I will let's get in the truck" Aiden says before walking towards the door "also pack your bags."
Author's note: I decided to post this chapter today because I will otherwise be unable to write for awhile.