Smoke Pt. 2

Fire landed inside the freighter and started looking around an saw Roman run around a corner. "Hey get back here!" All that came in response was a laugh from Roman. Fire kept chasing him. It was really quiet inside the freighter, al that Fire could hear was his own foot steps and Roman's mocking laughs. Fire was starting to get annoyed, the constant laughing and the silence was going to drive him insane. Roman ran into a huge open area in the freighter. He could make out faint voices. He hid behind a crate and listened.

"Where is he Roman? You promised I would finally get to meet him." Fire didn't recognize the voice, but it sounded sinister.

"I don't know, he was right behind me a second ago! Besides, why do you want to meet him anyways? He's just a cheap knock-off of you. He doesn't even act like you. In fact he's the complete opposite!"

"Cheap knock-off? What does Roman mean by that?" This was starting to get interesting. Maybe Fire would finally remember his past.

"I don't care. I just want to play with my new toy. Hopefully he won't break as easily as the other clones of me. They could barely use their elemental powers."

"I don't know why you wanted us to dump him in that forest during Beacon's initiation, he just became conscious and didn't even know who he was."

"Because, I wanted to see how he would act in combat. He would have either killed the students or stuck with them and gone to Beacon. Either way it would prepare him. He would either train at Beacon, or gain experience from the students. I want this fight to actually be worth my time."

Fire couldn't believe what he just heard. He was a clone that was either going to kill his friends or train to fight the original. What was his purpose? Did he even have one? Was he just created to fight this guy? No, he was more than that. Fire's confusion quickly turned to anger and his feet, hands, and eyes caught on fire. His pupils disappeared from his eyes. He stood up from behind the crate and walked towards the person Roman was talking too and saw something he'd never seen before. The "thing" had black eyes with red pupils, long sharp nails, and sharp, almost animal like teeth. He was wearing a grey torn up hoodie, black shoes, and faded jeans with holes in the knees. Other than that he looked just like Fire. He looked up at Fire and shot him a toothy grin. "Oh look! It's the guest of honor! It's a pleasure to meet you! So, my name is Adam and I'll be your killer today!"

"Wait did he say his name was... Adam? Oh my god. What did they do to him!? He looks like something straight out of a horror movie!"

"Well, what are you waiting for? Hit me!"

Fire ran at him and went to punch him, but Adam simply dodged it. Fire spun around and threw a fireball at him. "Oooh, I haven't seen fire yet, interesting." Fire created a sword of fire and ran at Adam. He swung to his right, but Adam simply jumped up so Fire grabbed him by the leg and threw him into the ground. He went to stab Adam while he was down, but Adam simply grabbed the sword and slowly got up. His hands were covered in smoke. "You would hit a man when he's down? How cruel!" Adam said sarcastically. Fire ignored him and punched him in the face as hard as he could. Adam slowly looked back up at Fire with a huge bruise on his face. "That tickled." Meanwhile Ruby was walking through the freighter with Blake, Sun, and Penny and were looking for Fire. "He's gotta be around here somewhere!" Ruby was starting to get tired of searching. "Shhh, listen." Blake said and everyone could hear faint clangs and someone talking. "This way!" Blake said as she ran towards the noise. Everyone else followed.

Meanwhile, Fire was dangling in the air with smoke wrapped around his neck that was coming from Adam's hand. They were both hurt, but Fire just couldn't match Adam's strength and speed. Eventually Adam managed to get him in the situation he was in Adam turned toward the sound of faint voices that were getting closer. "Oh, you brought guests. How nice, I'll be sure to greet them." Adam turned around as Ruby and the others walked in. "I know how this looks, but it was self defense! He came at me!" Adam made it look like he was about to cry as Fire was being chocked to death in the background. Without any warning Sun jumped at Adam with his staff and Adam merely sighed and grabbed his staff and broke through it with his knee. He kept bringing his knee up and hit Sun in the face and then Adam grabbed him while he was in midair and started repeatedly smacking him into the ground. Fire couldn't sit by and watch this massacre He knew Adam would kill all of them. He needed to get free and finish him off. He needed to think of something fast! He ad just finished off Sun and was fighting Blake.

Blake was extremely fast and could dodge almost all of Adam's hits, but then Adam started shooting smoke out of his hands and formed tentacles that were trying to grab Blake. Blake was cutting the tentacles whenever they got to close, but they were forming faster then she could cut them. Meanwhile Ruby and Penny were busy trying to get Fire free. "Penny do something!"

"Okay, what would you like me to do?"

"ANYTHING!" Ruby tried cutting through the smoke, but it would just reform and if she touched it, it would try to grab her too.

Blake went to stab Adam with her blade, but he merely smacked it out of her hand. She tried to punch him and he grabbed her arm and brought his elbow down on her arm and received a loud snapping sound. Blake fell to the floor and Adam stomped on her knee and heard another snapping noise. "Ah, music to my ears, now it's your turns." Penny ran at Adam and he grinned. Ruby looked at Fire and then back at Penny. "How is he keeping up with us?! He's only using one arm! Maybe if me and Penny rushed him he would have to use both and Fire would be able to get freed!"

"Will you be okay Fire?"

He nodded. "Go for his left side, he can't use his arm since it's holding me here." Fire chocked, it was getting hard to breath. Ruby nodded and slashed at his arm with her scythe. Adam sighed, "You guys are persistent I'll give you that, but I'm sorry to say but I've been going easy on you. It's time to start taking this fight a little more seriously." Penny had started having her swords spin, creating a green energy ball that shot a laser at Adam. He simply put his arm out and blocked it. "Okay, my turn." Adam put his hand out and shot out a huge pillar of smoke at Penny. She knew she could't dodge it so she put her swords in front of her to block the attack. When the smoke reached her it turned into small, long spikes, fitting through her swords and going right through her. Sparks and electricity started coming out of her. "Aw, what she's just an android!? Lame. Well that just leaves you and me then." Adam turned around and ran at Ruby at blinding speeds. Ruby readied Crescent Rose, but Adam smashed through it like a tooth pick. It snapped in half and he grabbed Ruby. "DON'T YOU DARE!" Fire punched Adam in the face and Adam lost a good amount of his teeth. "Ruby, grab everyone and run. NOW!" Ruby nodded and ran.

"Oh, someone got serious fast." Adam let out a small chuckle and wiped away the blood from his face.

"Your going to pay for what you did!"

"Yeah, I'm sure I will." Adam said nonchalantly as he dusted off his shoulder. "So are we doing this or what?"

Fire ran at Adam and punched him in the stomach and Adam staggered back. "Okay then." Adam tried to kick Fire, but he ducked and punched Adam in the knee. Adam jumped back and let out a barrage of smoke blasts. Fire easily dodged all of them but noticed he was know surrounded by a wall of smoke. The smoke formed waves and crashed into him, throwing him all over the place. He let out a burst of fire and pushed the smoke away. Fire looked around and didn't see Adam anywhere. Adam was slowly walking up behind him and grabbed him by the neck and started to stab him repeatedly with his claws. "DIE!" After a few minutes of this Adam stopped and saw Fire was still breathing.

"Wow, your the first person to ever be able to survive this long and still be able to get off a few good hits." Adam laughed. "But seriously, I still wasn't giving you everything I had, and look, not even a scratch." Adam showed that all of his wounds have healed.

"W-what?" Fire gasped.

"Yeah, comes with the smoke, but I'm going to let you live for now. I was supposed to deliver you to the White Fang, but I like you. You can actually keep up with me somewhat and I think it's funny that you think you can actually stop me, so remember," Adam lifted up Fire into the air and was creating a ball of smoke. "you will NEVER beat me, oh and here, hold this." Adam stuk the ball of smoke on Fire and it started carrying him away, slowly getting smaller. Fire was carried pretty far away and the smoke ball was slowly getting smaller and was leaving a trail of smoke in it's wake. It eventually shrank down to nothing and Fire fell towards the ground.

It had been three days since the Fire was last seen fighting Adam and everyone was expecting the worst. Some speculated he had died, others thought the White Fang abducted him, a few thought he won and got amnesia again, and a small group thought he had been brainwashed and was helping the White Fang. Whenever someone from Team RWBY or JNPR heard these accusations they just felt worst. Ruby blamed herself for not staying and helping and was just over all depressed. It was also pretty boring without Fire constantly causing trouble. Ozpin even decided to cancel classes for the week to let everyone get over it. The Tournament was in a few days and it only reminded everyone of Fire. He wasn't picked to go, but he bought tickets and a Tee-Shirt and was really excited about going. Which raised the question, what ever happened to Fire and Adam?

HURRAH! I was finally able to explain what happened to Adam! Now that that's out of the way. Next chapter will be up at some point probably. So until then, Camp Fire out!