Okay I'm going to release another chapter to explain a little and set up a plot for later. I ended the last chapter too... abruptly. So instead of going back and fixing it, I'm making a new chapter.
Too Many Fires
Fire was dreaming and was in the void again, but something was off. Fire looked to the right of him and saw someone building a house of cards. He was wearing the red hoodie, hockey mask with fire painted on it, and jeans he had wore yesterday. "Um...who are you and why are you here?" The figure looked over at Fire and sighed. "I'm Grim, one of your multiple personalities. I'm here because you created another version of yourself by having extreme emotions or changing your personality and becoming emotionally attached to it." Fire stared at him blankly and Grim sighed. "You went crazy when you were screwing with Yang and now you got another person in your head." "Ohhhh." Grim face palmed. "Well, know that I've answered you're question you need to answer mine." "Sounds fair." "Well, last night you and Ruby weren't going out so why did you say you were?" "Oh, that's because Ruby wanted me to help her prank them. I mean, come on. Does it look like I could get a girlfriend? Ruby just asked me if I wanted to hang out with her when we were in that forest." Grim didn't say anything, but nodded to show he understood. "So, what do you wanna do?" Fire asked. "Well, do you know how to play poker?" A few minutes later Fire was playing poker with Grim and was cheating of course. Fire woke up a few games later. He felt really weird, then he realized he was upside down. "Oh yeah, the tree." "What tree?" Grim asked. "Dude, are you in my head?" "Well yeah, were did you think we were?" "I don't know. I will explain why we're hung upside down from a tree like a pinata though. Last night after we pretended to be going out with Ruby, Yang and Garnet beat the crap out of us, they hung us from a tree so we wouldn't be able to get inside the dorm." "Well, why don't you burn through the rope?" Fire looked up at a pile of rusted nails. "Oh." Ruby walked past them, rubbing her eyes because she had just woken up and was going for a walk. "RUBY HELP US! I mean me forget that last part." Ruby looked over and almost died laughing, but she manage to get Fire down.
A few hours later Fire was sitting in his Combat Training and Aura Control class. Garnet was called for hand to hand combat sparring and was trying to decide who to trust his katannas with. Ruby would probably lose them, Jaune almost stabbed himself with one once, Yang would hide them and or break them, and Nora was... Nora. That only left Fire since everyone else was already fighting. Garnet sighed. "Fire could you make sure nobody takes my katannas while I'm sparring?" "Yeah sure." Garnet had given Fire his katannas, but the second Fire touched them his eyes widened and turned grey instead of being blue. Then fire began to cover his body changing his clothes. A red hoodie appeared over his normal T-Shirt, his shorts became jeans, and finally the fire spread to his face, creating a hokey mask with flames painted on them. "Huh? Were a I?" Fire asked in a slightly deeper, more mature voice. "Whoa! Fire how did you do that!" "Um, I don't know if you noticed, but I'm not Fire. I'm his other personality, Grim." Right when Grim finished talking Yang walked in the room (late as usual) and saw Grim and nearly had a heart attack. "Ahh! Leave me alone! Please!" Everyone was staring at Yang with weird looks and then directed their attention to Grim. "Why is my sister terrified of you?" Ruby asked. "Because I was created when Fire created an alter ego, Grim, to through Yang off balance and to make her scared so she would be easier to beat. It was actually very well thought out for one of Fire's plans." Yang's fear quickly turned to anger. "What do you mean you were created to "throw me off balance"! That was creepy, you were disappearing and reappearing and you beat me like I was a joke!" "Well, that's because since I'm technically a different person I have my own semblance, which is invisibility." "That leaves one more question though, why are you here?" Ren asked. "Well that's actually simple. Different emotions or objects can cause a different personality to take over the person's body. What makes me take over is holding katannas or this hockey mask." "Ahem!" Everyone turned to see Professor Goodwitch. "Well Fire if you're talking through my demonstration that must mean you already know what I'm teaching so why don't you demonstrate to the rest of the class."
Grim was standing on the stage in front of Garnet and both of them weren't really sure who was going to win. Grim was an equivalent to The Dark Knight and Garnet was practically a ninja. "Ready... Begin!" Grim used his semblance to disappear and reappeared to elbow Garnet in the stomach, disappeared again and reappeared and swept out his legs from under him, and he was gone again. Garnet was getting frustrated and started randomly throwing punches randomly. Eventually he hit Grim, causing him to turn visible again. Grim then grabbed Garnet's arm and judo flipped him. Garnet got up again and started blocking Grim's punches. When Garnet went to kick Grim. Grim managed to catch it and use Garnet's own momentum to spin him in mid air and kick him in the face, ending the fight. Grim walked off the platform they were on like nothing had happened and sat back down. Everyone didn't really know what to think. This was extremely different than Fire's fighting style and he didn't say a single word, he didn't even try to help Garnet up afterwards.
Later at lunch Grim sat down at the edge of the table, away from everyone else. He had taken off his mask and hood and revealed he had black messy hair, unlike Fire's long, dark brown hair. Nora dragged Ren over to the end of the table and sat down next to Grim and talked his ear off. Grim looked like he was going to kill himself. He took a swig off Cherry Cola, causing fire to cover his body. When it dissipated Fire was sitting there happily chugging down the Cherry Cola. After Fire finished he looked around, making sure he wasn't still in that void. After he was sure he wasn't there anymore he threw his arms up in the air and let out a loud "WOO HOO!". "Wow, were where you?" Ren asked, he had been very intrigued by Fire and how his multiple personalities worked. "I was in the place I'm in when I'm dreaming, which is were Grim probably is. It's a black void that goes on forever with nothing anywhere, but anything Grim and I think of will appear as long as it isn't to complex. For example I could have a deck a cards appear but not a building or person." "Hmmm. Interesting." Ren thought.
It had been a few days since Fire and Grim accidentally switched places. Fire was in the library with Blake and was looking for a book to help him get information for a report he had to do. Fire really didn't see the point in reading and didn't really like them. Why waste time reading about a guy climbing a mountain when you could go do it yourself? (Wow he hates reading, yet he's in a fan fiction) Fire was trying to make Blake laugh by doing a nerd impersonation and was wearing a pair of glasses he stole from the librarian. He then picked up a random book and began to read it out loud in the most ridiculous tone he could think of. As he read his eyes started to adjust to the glasses and his tone changed and become more like an actual voice. Fire covered his body changing his clothes and appearance when Blake wasn't looking. His shirt became a wrinkled, white, button up work shirt, his shorts became black pants, and his eyes turned purple. Finally his hair turned black. When Blake came back she saw a pile of books. She walked over to see who it was and saw a boy that was reading four books at once. She walked over to the librarian to check out her book and she turned to leave when she bumped into the boy with the glasses she saw earlier. "Oh, sorry. I can be so scatter brained sometimes, let me help you pick those up." The boy said shyly. "Um, thanks." Blake and the boy, who's name was apparently Dan, were having a very enthralling conversation. Blake didn't even realize they were standing in front of her dorm. "Oh were already here." Blake said as she moved her hair out of her eyes. "Would you like to continue our conversation inside and have some Cherry Cola?" "Yeah sure, that sounds nice." Dan replied. "This is my roommate's Cherry Cola, but I don't think he would mind if we had some." Dan took a swig of the Cola and was covered with flames, and after they disappeared Fire was sitting there. "You're right Blake, I don't mind!" Blake had almost spit out the Cola she was drinking. Was she really just... with Fire?! No, she refused to except that, it must've been one of his personalities. "Hey Blake, your blushing." Fire said with a sly grin.
It had been a week since "the Dan incident" and Weiss had invited everyone to a fancy restaurant celebrate the upcoming festival. No matter how hard she hinted at Fire not coming he came anyway. He was determined to show he could be mature, and fancy, and have good manners. He had read books, had Blake and Ren teach him proper edict, and even went to go buy a tuxedo. He was trying them on and found one he liked, but he needed a tie for it. He found a red one he liked and tried it on and became enveloped in fire again. Fire was really starting to get sick of this. His clothes didn't change beside adding a ring for each finger on his right hand. His hair turned grey and his eyes became hazel. "DARN IT! Give me my body back!" "Don't worry Fire I'm going to help you impress everyone at dinner and then I'll give you your body back. Promise." "...Fine, but if you don't I will murder you in your sleep. Anyways what's your name" "Call me... Arthur." "Really, that's what your going with? Well whatever it's better then Dan." "HEY!" "Oh my God he looked up from his book! Even more impressive he knows how to communicate with other people!" Arthur ignored Fire and Dan bickering and focused on looking more like Fire. He put on contacts that turned his eyes blue and dyed his hair dark brown. He also practiced his teasing and witty remarks. Last he practiced copying Fire's trademark grin.
When Fire ad arrived at the restaurant he was like a different person. He was polite, used the right utensils, and even had amazing manners. By the end of the night he had made even Weiss laugh and blush a few times. "Remember our deal Arthur. Once you get back take a swig of Cherry Cola so I can watch a movie or something." "Don't worry, a promise is a promise." Once they got back Arthur took a swig of Cherry Cola and reverted control back to Fire. It was fun, even if it was only one night. Arthur decided to play chess with Dan in the void while Grim continued to work on his house of cards. Arthur sighed as him and Dan continued to play as Arthur wondered what it was like to be free and have his own body. He didn't wish to steal Fire's though. He looked into the distance and continued to day dream.