Pain

Garnet and Fire were staring each other down. Fire knew that if he fought Garnet he would lose because of his injuries that he received from fighting Yang earlier, but if Garnet was going to try and kill him he would have to use his white flames. Garnet was clenching his katana's hilt, deciding what he should do. Garnet made his choice and jumped over the table, kicking Fire in the chest. Garnet pushed his sword forward and Fire tried to move his arm to block it, but felt a sudden pain as his wound reopened. Fire's eyes widened as the katanna's blade came out of his back. He tried to look up at Garnet. There eyes met for a short moment and FIre said only one word. "Why." His eyes rolled into the back of his head as he fell to the ground. Garnet took his katanna out of his stomach and turned to leave. Everyone was shocked and tried to wrap there heads around what just happened. Jaune was the first to react. He grabbed Garnet by the shirt collar. "He was your comrade, a human, a fellow hunter! You struck him down, there's no way of getting him back! Why!?"

Garnet looked at him with a bored expression. "He wasn't a comrade, a human or even a hunter. He was a monster." Jaune reeled his fist back and punched Garnet. As everyone started to realize what had just happened they failed to notice Fire slowly getting up. His hair slowly turned red as well as his eyes and his teeth became sharper. Fire looked own at the hilt of the katanna he melted and the small blade that was still attached. He picked it up and as he did his shorts became black pants with a chain coming out of the pocket, connected to a belt loop. His shirt became black with a red smiling skull and he grew claws from his hands. He slowly staggered over to Garnet, coming up behind him as his eyes slowly became black while his pupils remained red. He stabbed Garnet in the back and kicked the back of his knee, causing him to fall to the ground. Fire was grinning now as he stomped on Garnet repeatedly. Jaune and Ren grabbed him and tried to pull him away from Garnet. "What are you doing Fire!? Get a hold of yourself!" Fire slowly turned his head towards Jaune. "Oh, Fire's gone. You're dealing with me now. I don't believe we've met. My name is Adam." Adam shot purple flames at Jaune and picked Ren up, holding him above his head as he repeatedly stabbed him with his claws. He threw Ren to the side and turned to Garnet, who was reaching for his sword. He was about to grab it until Adam stepped on his hand. "Ah, ah, ah. That's not a toy, someone could get hurt. I think I should explain myself while I have your attention." Everyone turned towards Adam. "When me and Fire last fought, I managed to get enough smoke into him that I could control his body. I'll only have control for three hours and then the smoke will dissipate. Originally I was waiting for the tournament to start so I could kill everyone Fire loved and all the pesky hunters that have been giving the White Fang a hard time, but then this little punk tried to break MY toy. So if you'll excuse me." Adam picked up Garnet and threw him through a wall and into the front of Beacon. Pyrrha grabbed her spear and threw it at Adam. It went right through him. He smiled and slowly pulled it out. "Okay, you have my attention." Adam turned to Pyrrha. "I don't have my smoke powers since I'm just a smoke duplicate of Adam, but I can use Fire's powers. Oh and you can have this back." Adam reached inside of himself and slowly pulled Fire out. "I'm afraid that his injuries from sparring with Yang, being stabbed, and all the trauma he just received combined has caused him to pass out. I would just kill him, but I want him to suffer first. To feel what I felt before I became this." Adam lifted up his hand and shout out a stream of purple flames at Pyrrha. She blocked with her shield, but it had melted in the process. She charged Adam and tried to kick him, but he grabbed her leg. He smiled and bent her leg the wrong way. She screamed out in pain. "Oh, shut up!" Adam stomped on her face and she went unconscious He stepped on one of her arms and heard a snapping noise. He turned toward everyone else. "Anyone else want to interrupt me?" Yang and Nora ran towards him. Adam simply sidestepped Yang and kicked the back of her knee. He placed a foot on her head and grabbed her hair and yanked out a ton of it. Yang's eyes turned red and she started to become surrounded by flames. "YOU SON OF A-" Adam smashed her head to the ground and repeatedly stomped on her head. "Hey, swearing is inappropriate, this is a school! There are children everywhere!" Nora started coming down with her hammer and Adam caught it in mid air. He yanked it out of Nora's hands and smashed her in the face with it, sending her into the air. He threw the hammer into the air as well. Nora landed and groaned as she tried to to get up, but her hammer fell on top of her and she went out like a light.

Adam turned towards Ruby. "You know, I wonder ow Fire will react to waking up next to your corpse? Let's find out! FOR SCIENCE!" Adam ran towards Ruby and she swung her scythe, only for him to catch the blade. "Wow, you use a farming tool as a weapon?" Adam slowly melted it until Crescent Rose was nothing but a puddle on the ground. "There you go! Good as new. Now you won't get made fun of for using a farming tool as a weapon!" Tears started to stream down Ruby's cheeks. Her sweetheart was gone for good. Adam smiled and turned to walk away. He wanted her to suffer and she would most likely blame Fire after all this was over. Two birds, one stone. He finally made it over to were Garnet was. He wasn't there but a trail of blood was left. Adam started to whistle as he followed the trail.

Fire was moaning. "Ugh, anyone got the license plate of that Bullhead that hit me." Fire slowly got to his feet and looked around. Everyone was in terrible except for Ruby, who was crying in front of strange puddle on the floor. "What happened?"

Ruby turned around with hate in her eyes. "It's all your fault."

"What's all my fault, all I remember is Garnet stabbing me."

"Adam took over your body and went on a rampage! He melted Crescent Rose, beat everyone up, and now he's going to finish off Garnet! If you had left like Garnet told you too none of this would have happened!"

"How is any of this my fault!? I had no control over any of this!"

"I hate you! I never want to see you again you freak!" That last word hurt. It was the one word that hurt Fire more than anything. Fire slowly got up and left to go find Garnet. Fire was alone again.

As Adam walked he started to wonder why the teachers haven't tried to stop him yet. Wasn't that their job? Maybe they were just scared. Either way he could care less. Although he did remember a meeting from a while ago that a White Fang member was in the school. Maybe that was the cause. This was a really nice school though, he could see why Fire liked it so much. He would have to burn it down later. Adam's thoughts were interrupted by Garnet jumping out from behind a corner and swinging his sword down on Adam, cutting his head in two. Adam grabbed the sword and slowly raised it. Garnet saw smoke slowly coming out of Adam's head and it was completely black on the inside. He pushed his head together as it slowly healed. "Now were where we? Oh yeah." Adam punched Garnet and he fell over. He put his foot on his chest. "I can't believe I look like an emo punk after taking over Fire's body. Must be from his multiple personality disorder. Now that I think about it, I look a lot like you used to." Adam slowly raised his hand as purple flames came out. Fire tackled Adam and got him off of Garnet. "Too late." Adam pointed at Garnet and Fire almost threw up. "Now you now what it feels like. What it feels like to be me. Losing everything you care about, seeing your friends corpse and worst of all... being... alone." White flames started coming out of Fire. He felt angrier than he's ever felt and he could feel his flames intensifying. FIre started letting out a barrage of punches. He was screaming out in rage and after a while he stopped screaming and started to smile. All he could think of was killing Adam and with every punch he felt more alive. He started to enjoy Adam's suffering as he tore him apart and black chunks started to spray all over his face. He kept going until his adrenaline slowly subsided and Adam was missing chunks of his body and smoke was slowly coming out of him. "It hurts... doesn't it. I... know ...how it feels. You just... feel sad... em-empty. You w-want... to watch... the world burn." Adam snickered at the irony of his last words. "I wish... I c-could... control myself." A tear came down Adam's cheek. "The... i-insanity... t-too much. Please... help me... t-the real... me." Adam slowly dissipated becoming smoke as the wind carried it away. That was only a duplicate, but if what he said was true he wanted Fire to kill him. Fire sat there though. On his knees in front of were Adam had been. Fire's hands were shaking. He took out a box of cigarettes He bought them a long time ago. The clerk said they calmed the nerves. He smoked one once, but Yang took it from him and beat the crap out of him. She said they could kill them and that they were addictive Fire kept them with him, just in case. He didn't seem to get addicted, he just smoked them in situations like this. He lit it and stuck it in his mouth. His hands stopped shaking and he looked at Garnet's body, or what was left at least. Tears started rolling down his face, but he kept the same expression he had. That was the first time he had cried.

Later that day Fire had attended Garnet's funeral. Jaune, Nora, Blake, and Ren didn't blame him for what happened, but everyone else did. Pyrrha was afraid of him, Weiss said she was right all along and he was a monster, and Ruby and Yang... Fire looked towards them. Ruby looked away and Yang put an arm around her, glaring at Fire. Jaune started becoming angry at the mention of the White Fang and he wanted revenge and Ren wanted Adam's head on a platter. Nora was afraid of losing Ren like she lost Garnet and Blake tried to help Fire. Fire was standing by a tree near the funeral, but far enough so he could avoid everyone. They started lowering Garnet's coffin into the ground. His hands started shaking again so he lit another cigarette. Ruby and the others weren't ready for this. They were still kids in a sense. Ren and Blake could handle this... but everyone else. Their innocence had been ripped right out of them. They realized this isn't a game or a fairy tale, it was real. Fire knew this for a long time, but never told the others. Jaune walked over to Fire. "You know those are bad for you right?" Fire didn't respond. Jaune sighed and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Listen, they'll get over it and everything will go back to normal. We'll get those bastards for what they did, I promise." With that Jaune walked away. Jaune was half right, everyone acted like their old selves again. Unless they were reminded or if the people who blamed Fire saw him or heard his name, everything was normal. Fire had been avoiding everyone though, except for Jaune. Jaune had been treating him like a little brother as well as Blake. Fire would only go in his dorm when no one or only Blake were there. He usually slept in team JNPR's dorm or in his if Blake was the only one there. Sometimes he would disappear and then reappear a few days later. Fire had apologized for the second time in his life to Ruby and the others, but they still hated him.

Fire was sitting outside on a bench one night, regretting everything he had done. If only he could bring Garnet back or clone him... clone... Fire got an idea and headed for the cemetery. A few days later he was on a roof and was staring at a Shnee Co. freighter and waited. A few hours after it arrived, a few Bullheads with White Fang symbols landed nearby... perfect.