Red Roses, White Scales
I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now.
Darynda Jones
Chapter 14
The Evil Within
"Hmm…..I can slowly use my magic in a better way." Mikhail was currently outside in the Emerald Forest, of course without permission "Mmmh Fire." On his palm was a fireball in the size of his head "Water." Now a waterball "Thunder." Lighting was sparkling around his entire arm "Light." Then light engulfed his entire body. "Mmmh, my mana became larger and I can form my dragon magic better." Even though he had some of his power back, he couldn't cast them the same way before…..with his true dragon magic he could destroy the entire city of Vale. Naturally he would never do that. Between his ability to cast magic now and before were worlds.
"I see you can perform your magic better than I expected."
Mikhail turned around and chuckled "Yeah Accord."
"But it isn't enough." She drew a pistol out and shot Mikhail.
He reacted and around him was a barrier made from white runes "Barrier."
"I see," She put her pistol back and walked towards him "Yet you have only a fraction of your former power."
"I know…but right now I am only a human….." Mikhail was frustrated. His magic is gone, yet he is regaining it back…..slowly….Combined with his Aura, Semblance, Life Force and Magic he could become strong…..but the goal was far away. He had the experience and with it, he could use Dust similar to spells….but Dust isn't as powerful as magic….
"Then what about this?" The boy turned around and saw that the android had more syringes with Maso-Particle. He scowled…would one of them break; a great calamity would overcome this world. Accord noticed his concern "Don't worry, this glass is unbreakable…" Mikhail sighed.
He walked towards Accord and held his hand out "Can I see them?"
She nodded and handed them over.
Mikhail took them and narrowed his eyes 'Even now….I hear the whispers…..' He looked back at the android "Is that….Zero?"
She nodded "We secured them….They react to you?"
"Yeah….I can hear the whispers…..my soul is hungering for it…."
"I understand," She opened her back and took two other syringes out "I will give you one every month, with these your Semblance will become stronger and your magic will slowly regain its former power.
Mikhail took them, too and just stared at them.
"Hey everything alright?" The brunette tilted her head…..then….
*STAB*
Accord's eyes widened as she saw…..that Mikhail suddenly injected all three syringes, full with probably the most dangerous tissue for all living being, into his heart.
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"Where am I?" The former dragon was suddenly from one second to another in another landscape….."Is that Midgard….the earth?" The land was destroyed, the earth burned and polluted and the sky black and yellow. He looked around, corpses; the land was full of corpses.
"Look who is finally here?" He turned around and gasped. Before him was…he…himself. "What's the matter big guy?" But this Mikhail was different. He had silver hair with blue tint and tanned skin….his eyes were turquoise blue and golden. From the appearance, that boy was the complete counterpart of him.
"Who are you?" He took a stance and extended his claws.
"HahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" The other Mikhail vanished and appeared before the original. Before Mikhail could reacted, the other one punched him in the face and sent him flying with a roundhouse kick.
"Ugh!" *BOOM* He crashed into an old building.
Meanwhile the other Mikhail still laughed "WHO AM I? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!" He facepalmed in amusement "I am your inner Daemon your beast!"
"Guh!" He shoved the debris away and stood up "My inner beast?"
"Yes," The other Mikhail dashed forwards but Mikhail reacted and crossed his arms in an x-position and the punch of his beast sent him still flying "I am your wrath, lust, greed and pride!"
*CRASH* Mikhail was rolling and crashing several times on the ground. He stabbed his claws on it and could finally thwart the force.
"It's over!" He looked up and saw that the beast was coming from above, on his back…were wings. The wings were black and the insides of them were white, with silver claws with blue tints.
"It is not!" On Mikhail's back appeared his wings and he jumped up, surprising his beast with a punch in the stomach.
"Guah!" The beast vomited saliva and mucus, yet he smiled and gripped Mikhail's arm.
"Take this!" He head-butted the original directly in his face.
*BAAM* CRUSH*
Mikhail was now lying in a made-shaped hole. He groaned….he felt pain….everything hurt.
"Huh, is it already over?" The beast landed on the ground "Come on, stand up." He was now standing over Mikhail and stomped at him "Come on!"
"Guh….why?"
The beast tilted his head "Why, what?"
"Why are you here…..why are fighting me?"
The beast tilted his head "You don't get it, do ya?" He stomped again "You have so much power, so much potential!" He raised his hand, lighting formed on it and he fired it directly at Mikhail."
"GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" When the large lighting hit him…Mikhail couldn't feel his limbs anymore…..
"You have your Semblance!" He stomped Mikhail again "You have your Life Force!" Again "Your soul!" *Stomp* "You have even magic and Aura!" *STOMP* "And yet instead living a life like king, you waste your time with weaklings!"
"No!" Mikhail stabbed his claws in the beast's leg and shocked him with lighting, too. He stood up, still holding on the leg and spun his beast around. He let go of it, the beast couldn't regain his balance, and crushed into a pile of corpses. The beast opened its eyes only to see that Mikhail shoot a fireball at him, a real one, without dust.
*Boom*
Mikhail also dived down and with full force, while ignoring the flames, he rammed his claws in the beast.
"Garhg!" The beast spat blood out, yet he gripped the arm and with a haymaker he sent his other flying back.
"Bastard!"
"Why don't you get it!?" The beast stood up, being slightly burned by the fire and yet it was already starting to heal together with the stab wound.
"What!?" Mikhail was also on his legs, his claws were ready.
Both Mikhail's dashed forward and slashes and punches were exchanged.
"You could have been stronger!"
*Slash* *Clang*
Their silver and golden claws clashed together. Both of them fight in an immense speed, claw vs. claw, monster vs. monster.
"I am strong!"
"You are weak!" The beast evaded a kick, and countered with a spinning one. It hit Mikhail directly on the side, breaking some ribs.
"Grah!" He yelped out in pain, even more, when he felt claws burying themselves in his shoulder "Gruah!" The beast stabbed his stomach and twirled him around.
"You could have been already stronger; we could have been already stronger!" He threw Mikhail and jumped up, diving down and crushed into him "Yet you play useless games!" The beast punched him in his face "Protecting the weak!" He slashed several Mikhail times with his claws "And to the point, seeking love and peace instead of death and destruction!" The beast jerked his wings up and stabbed the claws which were attached on them, in his shoulders."
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!" Mikhail screamed in pain as the beast raised him.
"You are weak!" The beast opened his mouth and shot a fireball at Mikhail.
*BOOM*
Mikhail was rolling and crashing, several times, on the ground.
"I….want to…protect…..them….." He panted; on his body were heavy wounds, he was also losing a great amount of blood.
"Again!?" The beast raised his, on his hand appeared a white magic seal and a beam of light shot out.
"Guh!" Mikhail used his wings to protect himself…yet he could feel the hot light burning through them "Grah!" The beast strengthened the beam of light and the force pushed him backwards.
"Look at you, so pathetic!" The beast was slowly walking towards him and when he was close to Mikhail he stomped again on him "Again and again you do the same thing, protecting, even those who are against you!" *STOMP*
"GRah…..I will never stop…"
*STOMP*
"Then you are foolish!" *STOMP* "They don't deserve us, they don't deserve our affection, all of them will betray you!" *STOMP*
"No…" Mikhail smiled, still defying his inner beast.
"Then why!?"
"Because of Rose and Summer!"
The other was taken back….even though he was the beast of Mikhail…..a part of him….every dragon has a beast in himself…..
But the beast became angrier "FUCK THEM!" *STOMP* "Fuck of all of them!" *STOMP* "They will hurt us again, and again and then they will let us alone!" *STOMP*
"No…never….I will never stop…they are my….our mothers….!"
*STOMP* "You piece of fucking shit, don't you get it!? They make us weak!"
"No…..they gave me a new reason to go on!"
The beast became angrier and angrier and then he smiled "I will not kill you….I am a part of you…..When I take over…I will make sure that you can watch them, when I kill and destroy everything you love and cherish"
Mikhail growled "You will not!" And punched his beast….in the balls….hey it was an effective move.
"GRAH!" The beast, feeling immense pain in his crotch stumbled back, he looked with wrathful eyes at Mikhail who shot…..Water Torrents at him "WHAT, WATER TORRENTS!?"
The force of the torrents was so immense that he was shot back and crashed in another ruin. The beast groaned and suddenly heard a sparkling sound.
"EAT THIS!" Mikhail was up in the air and shot lighting at the wet beast.
"Oh you gotta be kidding me….!"
*BOOM*
"RAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Through the water, the lighting was even more effective and the beast was twitching on the ground…..
"This is my life!" He punched and slashed the other several times, *Slash* *Punch* *Punch* "My everything!"
"Yet you only live for others!" The beast evaded a kick, and tried to tackle Mikhail.
Mikhail smirked and tackled him, too.
Both of them crashed together and then they transformed their head. From Mikhail's head sprouted his golden and red horns, yet now they were complete and from the beast's head emerged silver and blue horns.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"RAAAAAAAAAH!"
Their heads hammered together, and through the force, their upper bodies jerked back.
"RAH!" The beast growled and shot a heat beam directly at him.
"REEEEEEGH!" Mikhail's also fired a heat beam from his mouth, surprising his beasts and himself that he also could to that again.
Both beams collided and a large explosion was caused by them.
The beast looked away, and protected himself from the heat, debris and splitters…Yet this was a mistake, because Mikhail dashed forward, full of cuts, burns and bruises. He didn't guard himself and stormed forwards….
"TAKE THIS!" Mikhail dashed forward and touched with his palms, the chest area of the beast….
"You wouldn't!?" The beast felt only the hot and burning feeling and smelled his burning flesh, as the light beam pierced through his entire torso.
"GRah!" Mikhail jumped back, he looked at his palms. The skin was burned away, showing the flesh, muscles and even the white of the bones…He looked back at his inner beast and saw, that it was still alive….but laying on the ground.
"Ah…..it seems you won…" The beast smiled…"Congratulations…
Mikhail looked at him…..at himself….."You never wanted to win against me?"
The beast snorted…"Of course not….*Cough*…..I am you….yet the part of yourself that only comes in despair and madness…..like in all dragons….
"I was in despair…."
"You took three syringes of Maso-Particles!"
"Oh right…."
"You are an idiot, Mikhail…."
"We are both idiots…..Michael….."
"So you knew…"
"The entire time…."
"Ha….that makes it easier….*Cough*….this is my advice…. ….never lose them….you have magnificent friends and a family."
"Got it."
"But try accepting yourself….and try to make your own happiness."
"What?"
Michael shook his head "You don't get it do you….you are insufferable….but yet you are loved…you have so much to go on…."
Mikhail finally understood it….."Does this mean….I should value myself? How!" He couldn't understand it "How can I!?"
Michael pointed his finger at "Find it out alone you fool….." He sighed and looked around yet he smiled "My time is almost up…I was only here to help you….I am what is left….."
"Hnh…can I ask you something?"
"You should….
"Why I am…..What am I?"
Michael chuckled "A good person, who suffered too much; you are used being hurt….."
"Is that so…" Mikhail's eyes narrowed….
"Don't you understand," Michael spat blood out "You are broken….your heart his ….shattered….."
"….Then what should I do? WHAT!?"
He shouted at his former life….despair, hope and salvation…he was used to it….
"Sometimes, being strong is not good…..what makes us weak is also significant, sadness isn't a weakness, but you think it is and don't care anymore when it happens to you….but isn't it sad when you get hurt so much you can finally say I am used to it?"
Mikhail…..eyes widened and then he closed them, while sighing "…..Any last words?"
He sighed and smiled "Yes…..If you don't use Zero's….no Rose's gift…I will come back…..and burn your ass…."
"You speak crass as her…"
"Curse you."
"Then where is it?"
"What do mean?"
"Where is my true beast, you can't be it?"
"Hehe…it's waiting….for a chance….now that I will be gone, it will try anything to take over you, since you are just a human."
Mikhail scowled "It may try."
He chuckled and both of them noticed that the dark sky opened itself…revealing a light….."I guess that's it. Any last words for me?"
"Yes," He breathed in "Tell Rose that I will always love her."
"Idiot," He chuckled "She already knows…." Then Michael dissolved into light particles, which moved to Mikhail and absorbed them. He noticed a singly ball of orb…."Mikhail protected them and yourself…." The orb was flying up, right towards the sky…."Aahhhh…Zero….no Rose…..finally…I am free from this circle…..that bound me to the world….."
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Emerald Forest.
"Gah!" Mikhail woke up, next to him a distressed Accord.
"Mikhail are you alright?"
The boy cracked his neck and held his head….."I'm fine…."
"What in the name of god is wrong with you," She shouted "You could have died!?"
"I could have…..But I am not…" He smiled causing Accord to sigh…..
"You are….sometimes….." She pinched her nose and sighed, too.
'I….will still carry my burden alone…I am sorry Michael.'
Then suddenly he heard a voice 'Beware of the Grimm….they will seek it out….she….bzzzzzzzzzzzttttttttttt.'
"Agh! What?"
"What's the matter Mikhail?"
"N…nothing…I thought that I heard a voice…"
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Room of Team RWBY
"Where is Mike?" Yang asked her sister and teammates, who also didn't know the answer.
"After school ended, Mikhail said that he needed to go somewhere." Ruby shrugged her shoulders. She pouted a bit. Since they attended Beacon, her brother didn't spend much time, as before, with her.
"Are you still angry, that he doesn't spend more time with you?" Yang quirked an eyebrow, she would find it amusing, wouldn't it be the same with her. Ruby and Mikhail were twins and best friends. They were always together and went out on normal sibling dates. Yet Mikhail also spent much time with Yang, both of them went to malls and shopping ….also she needed someone to drive, when she was drunk.
"Mikhail is now in a really difficult age, and he is also a boy. Maybe he wants to have some time alone…." It was Blake, who noted this. She was sitting on her bed, with a book in her hands like ever.
Weiss supported Blake's mention "Boys are still boys. They need their time alone, even someone like Mikhail."
"Yeah….I know….but in last time he is so distant to us….." Yang muttered.
"Maybe he has a girlfriend?" Ruby mentioned and everybody looked strangely at her "I mean, couldn't it be the reason for his behavior?" While she didn't like the thought, that her brother has a girlfriend, she would be happy if he is happy. Mikhail was really nice and talented, there is no question that many girls would be attracted to him, also many people liked him as a good friend. But it made her somehow sad, that she had to share her brother with everyone.
"Oh hell no!" Yang yelled and hit her fists together, her eyes became red "When I found that girl I will punch the shit out of her."
Blake rolled her eyes from her partner's antics "Yang, it doesn't mean that he has a girlfriend….." Yet she felt somehow dull, especially the section of her stomach when the thought about Mikhail, together with another girl, appeared in her mind.
"She is right," Weiss huffed "I don't think that he would have a girlfriend." The heiress felt a little bit irritated….there is no way that Mikhail has a lover….does he?
Before the discussion continued, the door of their room opened and Mikhail came out "Hey guys!" He greeted them….
"MIKE!" Only to be grabbed on his shoulders by Yang "What's her name!?"
"Her name? Wha…?" the younger twin, flabbergasted, tried to understand, why his elder sister was suddenly angry.
The Faunus let, again, a sigh out "They think you met some girl…but did you?"
Weiss also nodded….it isn't like she wasn't curious…only worried….not this is also not right.
"No." He tilted his head "I was just taking a walk, since the doc said I should move more."
Yang furrowed her brow, somehow she didn't believe it but then she was surprised when her brother hugged her.
"Mike?" Not that, she didn't like it being hugged by her brother, it was somehow sudden.
"Nothing. I just didn't do that often in last time."
The blonde brawler shrugged and hugged her brother back, it felt good…it felt really long since she and Mikhail hugged each other…
"Hey!" Both noticed Ruby, who pouted and used her Semblance to sprint to them "What about me?" She pointed at herself.
Mikhail chuckled and put his other arm around her as well and Ruby smiled happily when she felt the warmth of her brother and sister.
'….Am I really that lucky?'
Weiss and Blake looked at each other and shrugged. They already knew that their family was really affectionate with each other and somehow it gave them a warm feeling in their chest, seeing those siblings love for each other.
"So who wants ice cream?" Mikhail asked.
"YEAH!" 2x
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In Mikhail's mindscape
"Finally….hehehehahahahahahahahahah!"
In the manga Utahime Five, it is stated and confirmed, that every dragon can use his Final Wish to summon his inner beast and transform into it. Grabriella used it to fight a being named Barbas who was from the old world. Michael and Barbas knew each other, and even spoke the old language. Michael was enraged, that Barbas, who was a gatekeeper of a seal (Mercurius Gate), which had a Fragment of the Black Flower, and threw his duty away.
The beasts are different from Daemons, since Barbas even said, that the transformed Gabriella used the power of the underworld, possibly meaning, that dragons can transform into true Daemons, or Demons.
Transformed dragons, kill everything, regardless of race, and must be eliminated since. They will never get tired from destroying and slaughtering.
The only way, to bring them back, is to make a pact, which One did, but it transformed her into a Beast/Intoner hybrid and almost cost her life. Only through willpower and their bond, both of them could transform back. But One lost her mature form, since the price of her pact, was her adulthood.
If you want to know more, read the Manga Utahime Five.
It tells the story of the Five sisters of Zero, shortly after they were born.
The spells I used, are from Drakengard 2. Mikhail can't use all of them. The reason, he could in this chapter, was because he was in his mind. But he will slowly relearn them.
If there are question, pm.
I think I also need to say this, he will not have an harem, he will get together with only one girl, but it will take time, since I will write it so, that the relationship will deepen and then it will happen. There will also a bit drama.
Also, this fanfiction, will follow the cannon line, but with several fillers, since I don't want to end this story too quick. Extra missions and etc.
If someone wants to make this into a 'Reading Story', pm me.