Hello everyone and welcome to a Fourth of July special. For those wondering why I'm making a Fourth of July special. . .Well why the Fuck not. I love the Fourth of July, being able to spend time with family and friends. . . . And also blowing shit up. Sorry just the American in me wanted to say that *Ahem*
Disclaimer: All property is owned by their rightful owners, I only own the story
Now then with- Fuck it Lets start
"No, no, and a thousand times, NO!" Death said sternly as he slammed his fist onto his table he was sitting behind while Ruby was standing on the other side
"Why no~t" Ruby whined as she stomped her foot down in complaint
"Because I have no reason to participate in these idiotic festivities and plus the most I'll do is stand in the background so what's the point" Death pointed out blandly "There is no point for me to go with you to celebrate today with your friends and their families for such a trivial holiday" Death said dryly with his arms crossed while leaning back in his chair as he looked straight at Ruby
"Oh come on, please would you come with me. I even got Fury, Strife and even uncle War to come" Ruby begged as Death raised a brow behind his mask in shock
"You got War to agree to this" Death said slightly surprised his brother would agree. Fury and Strife coming is understandable as they actually love being around Ruby's bubbly personality but War. Death shook his head at the thought "The answer is still no Ruby" Death said as Ruby gave him a pout
The pout quickly disappeared into an evil smirk as Ruby walked away chuckling leaving a confused Death at what is happening right now. Ruby stopped at the door and looked at her father with the most innocent face he seen Ruby ever had
"Are you sure papa" Ruby said a sweet voice as Death wondered what's going on and since she always calls him father and not papa
"I'm sure Ruby" Death said still wondering what Ruby is planning
"It's a shame because you're still coming anyways" Ruby said softly as her bangs covered her eyes as the a grin appeared on her face as she opened the door slowly
"I'd like to see you try to make me go" Death mocked as the grin on Ruby's face grew to the point it was stretching out ear to ear
"I'm glad you asked" Ruby said as she looked up with her eyes red-orange covered the by the shadow from her hair as she opened the door
". . . . . . Remind me again, how the FUCK did this happen" Death said as he was being dragged by his sister Fury on a cart while he was tied up in thick chains
"That is a good question Ruby, how did this happen" Fury said slightly confused as Ruby was merrily swinging her arms back and forth
"Not telling~" Ruby said cheerfully with a bright smile
"Oi, I'm here" They turn to see Strife pulling a cart with War strapped to it. Strife got up near Fury so War and Death would be next to each other
". . . . So how did they get you?" Death asked dryly which made War sigh heavily
"I really have no idea how it happened. I only remember walking through the entrance to Vale then I heard something about Edgar before I blacked out" War said shamefully
". . . Isn't Edgar that Boarbatusk that Port had?" Death asked his daughter which made War look at him "No, what I remember it was an Ursa Major" War said as Death looked confused as Ruby answered
"No it is Edgar but you don't understand the thing about Edgar. Edgar is the one in the cage" Ruby said in a low chilling voice as her red-orange eyes flared for a split-second before her cheerful personality came back with a giggle
Fury and Strife stopped pulling the cart to look at Ruby who went ahead of them humming a merry tune ". . . . . Dammit Death" Fury hissed out under her breath as she smacked the back of Death's head
"The hell did I do?" Death said glaring at his sister
"It's your fault that a sweet innocent girl could turn into something like that at a moments notice" Fury hissed as Death glared at her
"From what I remember, YOU wanted me to spend more time with her" Death said as Fury glared back
"Yes I did say that, but now I'm saying. Stop spending time with her and give her space before she turns into you. Dust knows we only need one of you" Fury said sardonically as she continued
"Amen" Strife added nonchalantly
"Plus I rather spend time with a niece that acts nice and sweet. Not like you three" Fury said as she got a 'HEY!' from Strife while the other two ignored her
Death was cut off before he was able to retort "It does make since seeing as she is his daughter, so of course she would act like that, his blood does runs through her veins after all" War said as Death glared at him
"You'll be the second to die when I snap" Death said dryly as his siblings looked at him blandly
"Second?" Strife repeated as he and Fury continued pulling the carts ahead as they closed in on Ruby once more
"You're the first" Death said bluntly
Strife just gave him a blank look behind his mask before muttering curses under his breath about a stick and an ass. They finally reached the park where Ruby's adopted family was having their barbecue
"Hey Ruby! I was wondering when you were going to get here" Yang said walking up to Ruby and gave her a hug before the four behind her "How the hell did you actually get them to come. I mean, I know you wanted to spend the day with your family but damn. I didn't think you would actually get them to do it" Yang said in awe as Ruby gave her a pout that she couldn't believe her sister didn't think she could bring her family here
"Trust me, we didn't want to come in the first place" Death said dryly as War grunted in agreement
"We on the other hand would love to spend time with our niece and her adopted family" Fury said kindly with Strife nodding
"Well I'm glad you all came, especially you Death, seeing as you're always tied up with work and all, we never get the chance to talk" Zhao quipped as Death glared at him while Fury and War groan as Strife snickered
". . . . . . . . . War you're now third in my list. Zhao is second and Strife you're still first" Death said as War let out a chuckle from that while Strife grumbled.
Everyone looked confused especially Zhao but decided to ignore it "Well come on lets have some fun, we'll be setting off the fireworks in a couple of hours. . . . Someone did bring the fireworks right?" Zhao said uncertainty as Ping stopped what she was doing in the background and cursed loudly "O~Kay, well as my wife goes to get the fireworks lets go enjoy ourselves with the other families that came" Zhao said as he pointed to Ruby's teammates and her friends families all mingling and having fun
From the split second they looked away they soon noticed Zhao was tiptoeing away before his wife pulled his ear earning a loud yelp "Oh no you don't, you're coming with me to get those damn fireworks YOU forgot to get" Ping growled out as she began dragging him by the ear out of the park with Zhao begging her to let go of his ear
Yang, Ruby and her family stared silently at the scene in front of them ". . . Well all stupid things aside" Death said taking everyone's attention as he took a deep breath "WOULD ONE OF YOU GET ME OUT OF THIS THING!" Death shouted violently as the chains holding him rattled
". . . . Where did you get these chains anyway, they're too strong to be regular chains" War asked looking at the chains holding him
"I found them actually" Strife said getting everyone attentions "I was walking around the edge of Vale and decided to walk into a random warehouse where I found these chains shining in the darkness of the warehouse. When I saw I took it as sign I must take these chains for greatness will come when I use these chains" Strife said proudly as everyone sweat dropped at his explanation
"O~kay" Yang said speaking for everyone not knowing what to say in this situation
"When was this?" Fury asked dryly still not use to his brothers actions
"This morning actually" Strife said happily
"But was it okay for you to take those chains. I mean they could've belong to someone or some company worker" Ruby said slightly worried as Strife softly pat her head
"Now, Now Ruby these chains probably meant nothing to anyone"
"You've been a thorn in my side for ages Weapon X, but now you'll won't survive. Especially since I have you chain in those adamantium chains we have constructed to hold you down to the very end" The mad scientist said maniacally cackling while the man chained up gave out a loud sniff
"Hey bub, these aren't adamantium chains" the man said dryly as the scientist stopped cackling and looked at the man
"Of course it's adamantium, I looked over the procedure of melting down the ore and pouring the metal into the chain link molds" The scientist raged at the man
"Well either you got crappy adamantium ore, or this isn't adamantium, I would know" The man said nonchalantly and before the scientist could retort a henchman came up to him
"Uh sir" The henchman said nervously
"What!" The scientist said viciously
"We couldn't find the adamantium chains you had so we had to use high carbonated titanium alloy chains to restrain him instead" the henchman said nervously
"YOU FOOL DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT HE'LL BE ABLE TO ESC-" The scientist stopped talking when he heard the sound of metal being cut by razor sharp knives or from his point of view. Claws
Nervously the scientist tried to placate the man "Now, Now weapon X, let's be reasonab-AHHHHH" The scientist was cut off when the man lunged forward with his metal claws
"Besides what's the worst that could've happened because I took those chains" Strife said with his arms crossed while tilting his head at them "It's not like people are dying because of it" Strife joked as everyone gave out a weak laugh while the four siblings turned to the direction of the docks where they swore they heard a scream of pain and agony
"What's wrong?" Ruby asked noticing their attention was drawn somewhere else
"Hmm? Oh nothing, just seems people are celebrating early is all" Strife said nonchalantly as the siblings ignored the screams of pain while sending Strife a dry look
"So are you going to let us go or are you going to be a prick and leave us like this" War said as Fury was about to let them go only for Strife to hold her back
"Hold on, there's something I've been wanting to do for a long time" Strife said as he walked over to War and pulled his hood back as they saw his eyes turn from blinding white to vibrant red the second they were exposed to light
"Okay, what's that supposed to accomplish" War asked dully
"Nothing, it's just that it has been a long ass time since I've seen you without your hood off" Strife said as War rolled his eyes
"Now for you Death" Strife said maniacally as he had his hands in groping motion as he got closer to his mask
"You do realize that these chains just restrains us from moving and not our aura, right?" Death questioned as an aura hand appeared and grabbed Strife by his leg. The hand then began to slam him repeatedly against the ground "Will one of you let me go, I'm starting to lose feeling in my legs" Death asked blandly as the sounds of Strife being violently slammed against the ground was in the background
Fury gave out a heavy sigh as she unchained the two. War and Death got up and stretched a bit before Death looked over his shoulder to Strife who was now being held up as the aura hand that stopped slamming him mercilessly against the ground. Death gave him a bland look before he made a few gestures with his hands and the aura hand wind back and threw him a good distance into the park's lake
Death clapped his hands in satisfaction before looking at the others who were giving him a bland look, his brother gave him an appreciative grin while his sister face palmed muttering something about 'why can't her family be normal for once'
"What?" Death said looking at Fury
"Forget it, let's just go enjoy ourselves. And that means both of you have to participate" Fury said sternly to her siblings
". . . . The most you'll get from us is sitting at the same table" Death said as War grunted in agreement as Fury sighed
"I guess that's the most we'll get out of you two" Fury said tiredly as Ruby laughed meekly while Yang shook her head at their family interaction. Strife now walked back to them soaking wet from being thrown into the lake, everyone let out a small chuckle when they heard the sloshing coming from his boots
"Not. Funny" Strife said bitterly as he took his cowl off and wringed it to get rid of some water
The rest of the day was spent having fun with the other families, Fury spent time with Ruby her friends, and the Schnee family that came because this time of year they had few business to attend so they were free at the time. Strife on the other hand had fun with Valkyries and even got into a drinking contest with Nora's father Gunnar. Everyone, excluding Strife's siblings was surprised when he took his mask off and quickly said
"Unlike my antisocial brother I don't care if people see my face" Strife said mockingly as Death glared
"I don't care about it either it's just that I made a code of conduct to never take this mask till the day I die" Death said bluntly making Ruby frown until he reached over and ruffled her hair before telling her it's going to be a long time until then
Death and War both sat down at the table with the Belladonna family plus Taurus, and the Nocturne family as they sat in peace. It was until late in the evening when the sun was setting when Ping and Zhao returned "You have no idea how many places we had to go to get at least a decent amount of fireworks" Zhao said tiredly as he dropped a giant crate of fireworks onto the table
". . . . . You think you got enough dad" Yang said sarcastically as her father put on a thinking a gesture before snapping his
"You're right! I need to go get more and something bigger" Zhao said about to run off before his wife pulled on his ear and pulled him back
"I don't think so. Besides we already have enough for everyone, and that includes and Death and his brother if he wants to join" Ping said pointing to Death and War
"Nope"
"Not going to happen"
Both responses were ignored as the fathers began handing out an assortment of fireworks from firecrackers, ground spinners, small rockets, roman candles, fire wheels, and of course sparklers. Everyone excluding Death and War was having fun with fireworks, after the sun set and was getting late in the evening the group soon noticed people dragging a giant rocket the size of an Ursa on top of the hill near them
"Who ever bought that is compensating for something" Yang joked only for her to be pistol whipped by Death "THE HELL!" Yang shouted as she held her head in pain while Death holstered Redemption when a man came up to him with a clipboard. Death signed it before the man and the other that came with him went on their way
"Um, dad what's going on?" Ruby asked confused
"I knew this was going to happen so I planned ahead and pre-ordered a specially made firework" Death said as he walked up to the giant rocket and began making a trail of gunpowder to the fuse and stopped when he saw their stares "Just because I don't like participating with you lot doesn't mean I don't like blowing stuff up" Death said simply as most of the males nodded while the woman gave him a blank look before muttering 'men'
"Still, never thought you would ever participate brother" War said slightly surprised Death was joining in the festivities
"Meh, I was bored and I decided to have fun when I ordered this firework" Death said with a smirk as he finished making the trail of gunpowder and pulled out a match. He lit it by pulling Zhao to him and scraped it hard against his cheek as Zhao yelp in surprise and pain
"He lit a match using a person's skin, didn't think that was possible" Ping said as she looked at the scrape mark on her husband's face. Death walked up to the gunpowder trail and held it above where it starts
"Just so you know" Death starts as he dropped the match on the gunpowder as it sizzles up the hill "It's going to be loud" Death said as the spark trailed up the hill and up the fuse into the large rocket
The rocket went still for a second until it started rumbling violently with massive amount of smoke coming from the bottom "Is it supposed to do that" Ruby said nervously as she and the others excluding Death and his sibling took a step back until it shot upward high into the sky
"Wow, it's going up really high" Jaune said impressed as the rocket was still going
"Brother, may I ask how far will the rocket go" Fury asked still looking up
"Just up to the edge of the atmosphere. Why do you ask?" Death said nonchalantly as everyone looked back down to Death who was still looking up in shock "What it's not like it's going to penetrate the atmosphere. The worst it could do is cause a greenhouse effect for awhile and cause some heat strokes here and there" Death said uncaringly as Ruby was about shout at him for buying something like that until she heard it explode
The explosion wasn't a simple big explosion. No, it was a MASSIVE explosion that took up the entire night sky and spread out for miles. Everyone gaped in amazement as the sky was filled with explosions of multiple types of explosive outcomes from, stars, bursts, even some symbols. One of the symbols most knew was the hunter's symbol in bright golden fire. As the fireworks lessen everyone turned their gaze back to Death who was still looking up "Did you know that the rocket I got had two tiers of explosives" Death said as he shook Ruby shoulder and pointed up
What happened next was the colorful explosives took the sky once more but the most prominent explosives were three explosions and the symbols they made. Ruby gasp when she saw the symbols, two burning roses one red and the other white and right in the middle in purple was Death's mask. Ruby looked down to look at her father who was looking up with nostalgia
"She always did love this time of year you know" Death said softly as he ruffled Ruby's head affectionately
"Damn you went sof-" Strife didn't finish as Death shot fist right in face while not moving from his spot
"You deserved that and you know it" Fury said leaning down to her brother who was on his back
"Yep" Strife said simply as the fireworks slowed down to a standstill
"Well I must admit brother that was an interesting fireworks display" War said as Strife got up as everyone noticed that Death was counting down
"What are you-?" Fury said confused
"Three. . Two. . One" As soon as Death said that the sky lit up once more in a ominous red as one sole symbol reigned the sky at that moment
War smirked, Fury shook her head with a grin, Strife was laughing maniacally and Ruby instantly knew the symbol with her family while the others looked at it in amazement
"Hahahaha, really brother if you wanted people know about us. . no wait this is pretty much the best way to do it, Hahahahaha" Strife said between laughs as everyone was now looking at the bright lingering red image of Death's family symbol (Darksider symbol)
"Well from what I always learned, the bigger the impression. The better it is to scare people when you meet them with" Death said as he slammed his fist in his open palm as his family smirked and agreed while Ruby sighed
"Why can't you act normal for once" Ruby said weakly as Death let out a chuckle
"Love you too Ruby, love you too" Death said jokingly as he ruffled Ruby's hair as she pouted at him before smiling
the serene scene was ruined when Zhao pulled them into a hug "Isn't this beautiful, father and daughter spending time together brings a tear to my eye-! ACK!" Zhao let go when Death stomped on his foot hard enough to get a small crack out of it
"Ugh, there goes the moment. Come on, lets go home" Death said as he walked away with the others following leaving Zhao who was on one foot jumping around until his wife came up and slapped the back of his head before following the others with Zhao slightly behind
A woman in a white hood was lying on her back looking up at the sky on the hill the rocket was fired from as she watched the last of the lights faded away "He always did know how to make me smile" she said to herself before looking back at the others "And I smile more often when I see you two so happy together" the figure said with a smile as she soon disappeared in a flurry of white rose petals
Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter special. Truthfully I didn't want to put Summer at the end of the chapter but seeing as all my other specials, excluding memorial day, had her I decided to keep it going for all holiday specials until I run out.
Another thing, I learned it was Canada day a few days ago and felt slightly sad that I didn't have a chance to make something for that because as you all know, Barbra who voices Yang is Canadian and I wished I did something, but sadly all my inspiration went to this chapter so we'll have to wait until later when I have time and inspiration or next year if I want to follow the time frame like I do for the other specials
But anyways please leave a comment, review, PM and I'll see you all later, Have a wonderful Fourth of July and a Happy Friday to everyone else :D
