Outcasts and Outlaws
Volume 2, Chapter 12
A Deal With A Diety
Okay, I keep saying this, but this is one of my favourite chapters. This one introduces a character named Kalos, an ancient God Connor will have to strike a deal with to achieve his full power. Enjoy!
Opening Music: http/youtu.be/iOsN2FP3-l4
[FMA Brotherhood OP 2]
(Shows Connor with his back to the camera)
Masshiro na keshiki
(He raises his arm into the air)
ni ima
(He clenches his metal hand into a fist)
saso
(Shows Kane)
warete!
(Shows Connor in front of beacon with his arm reaching up)
Boku wa yuku yo mada minu sekai e!
OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS. (Shows the silver bear pendant around Connor's neck swinging) Maigo no mama
(Shows Connor's eyepatch in his hand)
tabi shiteta!
(Shows Connor and Kane sitting back to back in the ruins of Connor's hometown)
Nezumi iro no sora no shita! (Connor and Kane stand up as light hits the ruins)
Hikariwari ohizu ikutsumo no yume ga nijinde ita!
(Shows Ruby smiling with her hands held together)
Itsuka wa sa!
(Shows Jim stood on the Beacon Balcony)
Chippoke na boku no kono hohaba demo!
(Shows Yang)
Ano
(Shows Ren)
Kumo
(Shows Nora) no mukou
(Shows Pyrhaa)
made
(Shows Doctor Brian)
yukeru (Shows Ozpin)
ka na!
(Shows Connor)
Tsugyotte
(Shows Mars)
kizu tsu ita!
(Shows Connor and Mars outside Beacon)
Kokoro sukashita you ni!
(Shows Connor getting dragged away by Murlough's dark clouds) Furidashita
(Shows Ruby sitting next to Connor's hospital bed)
amastu
(Shows Murlough in front of the bodies of Connor's parents) butachi ga!
(Shows Brook and Damien holding the Kalos Crystal)
Ranh
(Shows Murlough covered in dark clouds)
ansha
(Shows Damien pull out his guns) kurikaesu!
(Shows Connor hit the ground with light on his hands and cause a tremor)
Massugu na
(Brook runs across the tremor) hikari
(Connor starts fighting Brook)
ga kousashite!
(Shows Kane fire off a barrage of dark clouds)
Yukusaki mo
(Shows Murlough run through the clouds)
tsugenu mama!
(Shows Jim fighting off Grimm with his boomerang)
Doko made mo tsukinukeru! (Shows Mars in a sword fight with Damien)
Awai zanzou ryoume ni yakitsukete! (Shows Murlough lunging forward with his blade covered in black clouds)
Kono sora no shita
(Shows Connor lunging forward with his metal hand glowing with light)
donna toko ni ite mo!
(Connor and Murlough hit each other, creating a flash of light) (Connor puts his eyepatch on) Toduku hazu nan
(Shows Connor and Ruby walking into Beacon)
da minu sekai e!
OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS V2
Connor stood on Beacon Balcony, the spot on which many of his important life events occurred, and where another was about to. He held his hand out in front of him and in the palm of it, the Kalos Crystal. Ruby stood next to him, having wanted to come with him and help if anything went wrong. Both of them stared at the crystal, Ruby concerned about what side affects it might have, and Connor taking in that he's finally got his hands on it. The object that he and Mars and searched for for so long, that they'd been tricked for ad gone through dangerous battles for, was sitting in the palm of his hand.
Ruby noticed Connor had started to sweat. Concerned, she asked, "It'll be ok right? You'll be fine?"
Connor didn't answer for a minute, distracted by the thoughts racing through his head. He then realised Ruby had spoken to him and replied, "Oh, uh...yeah, it should be fine."
Connor gulped nervously however, he really had no idea what would happen when he activated the crystal. For all he knew it could simply be the death of him. Regardless, Mars had said that he should only need to will the Kalos Crystal to activate and it would, so what was he waiting for? "Here goes nothing." Connor said, still extremely nervous about what might happen to him.
Connor then clenched his hand around the Crystal and pumped his aura into it, willing it to activate. He felt the crystal sapping his power, his legs getting weak and his thoughts becoming hazy. Just as he thought he was going to pass out, the crystal started to glow purple in his hand. The glow emanated around his hand, illuminating the darkness of the balcony. For a moment Connor and Ruby stared in awe and wonderment, but their awe quickly turned to shock.
In a spilt second the glowing intensified, and spiked purple lightning shot out of the crystal, like a storm in the palm of his hand. The lightning shot up Connor's arm, he felt the power flowing into his body through his limb, and it was painful. Within a few seconds his arm was glowing purple like the crystal as the forked purple lightning shot out all over his arm. He fell to his knees from the pain and clung onto his arm as blood seeped out of fresh cuts caused by the lightning. As he tried to regain control over his arm, he felt a powerful shock go through his arm straight into his brain. Ruby calling his name was the last thing he heard before he lost consciousness.
He awoke in a large white plain. Everything was white, the floor, the sky, everything. There was nothing in the strange place except an enormous rock and stone wall a ways in front of him. The wall had a supporting pillar on each side and in the centre of it was a glowing green runic circle comprised of many runes Connor couldn't read.
Connor looked around, searching for any other structures and paused as he looked down on his hand. Both of his hands were human, no metal hand, or any sign of injuries. He hastily put a hand up to his left eye socket and found that his eye was there, perfectly intact. He began to grow ever more confused as he noticed he wasn't wearing his cloak. Instead he wore the same attire he had being wearing when he had first arrived at Beacon. In fact, everything was like he was back then. Connor began to panic, thinking the Kalos Crystal had backfired and killed him.
"Hello there, mortal." Boomed a seemingly omnipresent voice from everywhere at once. Connor frantically looked around, searching for the source of the mysterious voice. When he looked back to the altar looking wall, a figure with no face had faded in to existence on top of it. The figures body was black with green lines all over him, like a early computer prototype. On closer inspection the lines were made out of ones and zeroes, making it look like he looked as if he'd just been made in a computer program, and was sitting on top of the altar wall with his legs dangling over nonchalantly. "Do not panic, mortal. You are not dead." He boomed down to Connor. "Anything in this world that is broken will always be fixed, hence your healed injuries."
Connor stared up at the figure, confused by his appearance, and asked, "If I'm not dead, then where am I?"
"You could say it's an alternate dimension, that is what mere mortals would think." The strange figure responded, making the impression that he thought himself higher than a 'mere mortal'. "But in reality, this is simply a world that I created, for my own amusement."
"You created this world?" Connor replied, having trouble believing it to be true. "Who do you think you are to be able to do that?"
"I am more than a mere mortal." He replied. "I have ascended to godhood."
Connor snorted in disbelief. "A god?" He scoffed. "There's no such thing."
The figure looked to be slightly offended, making a movement as if to raise a non existent eyebrow, and then responded, "Turn around, silly mortal."
Connor did as the figure said and slowly turned to look behind himself, but nothing could have prepared him for what he saw. Standing behind him was his mother and father, both alive and looking perfectly well. Connor felt a lump in his throat as he reached out to them, only for them to turn to dust right before his eyes. Realising what the figure was trying to get across, Connor clenched his fist and fronded his jaw, then turned around to face the stranger.
"How dare you!" Connor shouted furiously, never having felt so angry. "You think you can just make and destroy life like that whenever you want?! That's sick! You hear me?!"
Connor was then met with a blast of invisible energy which sent him flying backwards. The figure has amassed that energy and hurled it at Connor without moving an inch. "Mere mortals do not possess the right to question the judgment of gods." It scolded as Connor stood up, finding the wounds he had sustained were quickly healing, just like his eye had upon entering the alternate world.
"It may not look like it, runt, but I was once a mere mortal. I was a human who strived for power just like you." The figure said as Connor gave him an icy stare. "Unlike you, I found the power I was seeking, and ascended to godhood. I called my creation...the Kalos Crystal."
Connor gasped in shock and took a step back, then shakily replied, "You're the one...that made the crystal?"
"Correct, I am Kalos, master of the crystals power." The God, as he called himself, announced. "I created the crystal when I was a mere mortal, on my quest for power, and became a god."
Kalos, as he now called himself, pulled up his legs over the edge of the wall and crossed them. Once comfortable, he continued, "I have been watching you for a long time, pipsqueak, as you have searched for my crystal. I watched you grow up, train and mature, and now you have finally come to possess that which gave me my power. If you want to use that power, you will have to make a deal with me, as I am it's master."
Connor frowned, disliking the idea of contracting with Kalos, but knowing he didn't have a choice if he wanted to use the Kalos crystal to unlock his semblance. "What kind of a deal?" He reluctantly asked.
"A mere mortal can never control the full power of my crystal." Kalos replied. "You will require my express permission to sap on its divine deliciousness, therefore I propose a deal. I'll give you access to the crystals power whenever you want, so long as you let me take a bit of your aura every time."
"How much of my aura?" Connor quickly responded.
"It may differ." Kalos answered. "Depending on how much I desire, it may be a little, or a lot."
"One more question." Connor said, Kalos growing tired of the interrogation. "If you're a god, why can't you just make aura out of thin air?"
"That is something that perhaps someone born as a god would be able to do..." Kalos replied. "But as for a deity such as myself who was once a human, creating aura out of nothingness is impossible. In fact, it's one of very few things I cannot procure."
Connor thought for a moment. He needed to uncover his semblance to defeat his enemies and protect Ruby, but it was a shady deal. There was a chance that Kalos would just slightly pick at his aura reserves, but there was an equal chance he would completely drain him, resulting in death. But then he thought otherwise, Kalos wouldn't wish to cut off his supply of aura.
"All right, you pompous prat!" Connor yelled up at Kalos, having come to a decision. "If you give me your power any time I should need it, then it's a dealt!"
"Very well, the contract is set!" Kalos boomed down to Connor, who started to feel woozy. "Take your leave now, weakling, you have people waiting for you on the other side."
Connor's wooziness quickly intensified, preventing him from replying coherently. He soon toppled over and lay on the ground staring up at Kalos as he began to drift towards unconsciousness.
Just as Connor closed his eyes, Kalos muttered to himself, "It's all coming together now..."
When Connor awoke, he was lying on the Beacon Balcony where he had first lost consciousness. He immediately noticed his injuries had returned, one eye being scarred and one gone, and his hand metal instead of flesh. Looking to his left, he saw Ruby sitting next to him, looking concerned. Sitting up, Connor asked her, "How long was I out?"
Ruby held Connor up as his balance wavered and replied, "Only a few seconds." Once Connor had gotten his balance back, Ruby let go and let him sit up straight. He then slowly raised his right arm to look at the metal hand that he had been holding the Kalos crystal in, and saw that the crystal had embedded itself in the metal, which now curved around it perfectly. If the crystal was taken out, it would've left a small hole in the palm of the metal.
As Ruby and Connor stared, crystal in Connor's hand began to glow bright gold. The light intensified until Connor's hand was covered in a sheet of golden light, which illuminated the dark balcony. Connor didn't know what to make of the light but he at least knew what it was. It was his semblance, he's finally unlocked it.
Soon the the light died down and flickered out of existence, leaving Connor feeling suddenly tired. He guessed that Kalos had taken some of his aura, so now he knew what it would feel like. "What happened to you?" Ruby asked.
Connor stared as his hand as the the light faded before answering. "We should go find Mars first." He said, and off they went.
Ending Music: http/youtu.be/XHy8bnVVpo4
[Beyond The Boundary ED]
(Shows a cherry blossom tree)
(Flickers between Ruby raising her arm, and cherry blossom leaves falling)
Seijaku wa
(Shows Ruby with her hand held out in front of herself)
kirisaku you!
(Zooms in on Ruby's face) Otuzuretta no wa!
(Shows Yang walking across) Hitsuzen to shite no kaikou!
(Shows Jim walking behind her) Bokura no tame ni!
(Zooms in on a tear falling from Ruby's eye)
Koukai wa nagaku me
(Shows Connor walking from behind)
ni utsuru kimi no soul!
(Shows Ruby's skirt flapping in the wind)
Rainbow
(Shows Ruby clenching her hand) wo tootte!
(Back to Ruby standing with her arm out in front of her)
Utsukushika saita!
(Shows Connor's silhouette walking across)
Dareka no seimei ni tokeru hana. (Shows Ruby holding a branch of the cherry blossom tree)
Nee
(Zooms in on Ruby's face again) kimi ni mo mieru darou!
(Shows Ruby shed another tear) Kitto!
(Ruby lets go of the branch)
(Back to Ruby with her arm held out)
Kasaneta
(Zooms in on Ruby's face again) ayamachi
(Shows Ruby from behind) nurikaeyou!
(Shows everyone's silhouette walking across)
Nando
(Shows someone's feet in the crowd)
demo ii sa
(Shows Kane in the crowd)
Kurikae
(Shows Mars in the crowd)
shiteku
(Shows Ruby from behind as cherry blossom leaves fly past her on the wind)
sa try!
(Shows Ruby from side view as the leaves fly past her)
Kako to wa chigau asu wo!
(Shows one side of Connor's body as he walks)
Fubari
(Shows Ruby's hand reaching out) dake no
(Shows the cherry blossom branch flinging back)
kibou
(Shows Ruby looking up at the tree) egaku sa try!
(Ruby looks back down and sees someone, then smiles)
I never say goodbye!
(Shows Ruby standing with Connor opposite her, both looking at each other)
Itsudatte sou sa!
(Shows Connor looking at Ruby as the sunlight shines on him)
(Shows Ruby looking at Connor as the sunlight shines on her)
(Connor smiles and raises his hand, then holds Ruby's hand)
END