Garnet's Gone For Good GG

Fire was sitting on his mattress in team RWBY's dorm and was reading a magazine while Blake was watching the news on Fire's mini TV. He had been deep in thought earlier though. Fire had been gone for four days, but he only remembered two of them. He remembered beating Cinder and sitting around a whole day, letting his wounds heal. After that he only remembered waking up in the hospital. The news started talking about strange fire's being started around the city and he started to listen in on what they were saying. "Strange fire's had been happening all over Vale these past few days, at all of them White Fang members have been found, none of which were alive. All of the bodies that were found so far have been torn apart. Some are missing heads, some have holes through their chests, and others are... more gruesome." Fire's head started pounding and flashes of fire and White Fang members appeared in his head. His mind started to fog as a memory appeared in his head. Fire collapsed as he was forced to watch the memory.

Fire climbed up the crate and looked around. He saw a sort of balcony on the other side of the room and it had a control panel on it. It must have been the crane controls, he also noticed a door behind it. He jumped from crate to crate and made it to the door and kicked it off it's hinges and it skidded across the floor, shooting sparks out fro under it and it stopped in front of three White Fang soldiers. He walked towards the guards as they pointed their guns at him. "Hey! Who are you!?" Fire lit a cigarette and continued to walk towards them. "Stop or I'll shoot!" Fire shot three fireballs, melting the guns they were holding on too and he continued to walk towards them. One of the guards took out a blade and ran towards him, leaping into the air. He raised his sword as he came down on Fire, while he stood their, expressionless. Suddenly the guard stopped in mid air. He looked down to see what had stopped him and saw Fire's arm had gone right through him. The guard's eyes rolled into the back of his head and Fire tossed him to the side. The other guards backed away. "Y-You killed Frank! B-But Beacon students d-don't kill!"

"Well this one does." Fire suddenly appeared in front of the next one and ripped his head off like it was nothing. He tossed it over his shoulder and looked towards the last guard and he fell to his hands and knees. "P-Please! Don't hurt me! I have a wife and three kids! I'm only here because I owned Roman money! T-They have my family, p-please!" Fire puffed out some smoke as he saw tears falling from the guard's face. He raised his hand and shot a fireball. The guard let out a cry and fell to the ground as the smell of burnt flesh filled the hallway. "I'm done playing games." Fire could only think of how everyone hated him, constantly fighting psychopaths, not getting any thanks, being blamed for his best friends death, being called a monster, and worst of all... the person he cared about most hated him. The White Fang was going to burn along with every last member. They had taken almost everything from him in an instant. He continued to walk down random hallways, kicking down every door he passed. Fire tortured any guards he found and killed them after he got all the info he could. He felt nothing right now, he had endured so much pain he couldn't feel anymore. He kept walking and eventually found a guard who was able to show him were the lab was. He slid a key card through a slot in the door and looked back towards Fire. "T-There. Now please don't hurt me."

"Of course not." Then Fire smashed his head into the wall next to him, killing the guard. "There, a painless death." Fire looked through the room and didn't find anything worth wild. It had been stupid of him to even think for a second that the White Fang would put a cloning machine in a base as small and unsecured as this one. Fire punched the wall and fell to his knees. He was going to have to keep looking, but were? This was one of many bases the White Fang had hidden and if he went to another one he might find Adam and if he did it was almost certain that he would get killed. What a waste of time. At least he managed to take out a base, even if it was only for storage purposes. Fire had continued searching for bases for the next few days, not finding anything. He had gotten careless at one of the five he had managed to find and a guard got lucky and stabbed him a few times. Fire took out the base and dragged himself to a hospital and collapsed in front of it. The dream started to fade and the last thing he saw was blurry images of people running towards him.

Fire woke up to Blake calling his name and he sat up. "Ugh, how long was I out?"

"A few minutes. You had me worried, you just suddenly collapsed onto the floor."

"You say that a little too calmly."

Blake shrugged. "You've been through worse, I was worried that you had finally snapped though."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well you have been gone through a lot these last couple of weeks."

"Whatever." Fire reached for a cigarette and his pockets were empty. He looked at Blake and held out his hand with a fireball in the other. Blake sighed and handed him the box she had taken from him. "You really should stop smoking. It's not good for you and you're only 15... well technically. You probably only four months old since you were cloned and all."

"Don't care. I' a hunter and that means I count as a twenty one year old by law so I can drink and smoke as much as I want." Fire let out a puff of smoke and looked at Blake's pleading eyes. He sighed and put out his cigarette. "Fine, but only for today." Blake smiled and gave him a hug, hoping Fire didn't notice she had just stolen his cigarettes again. Fire decided to ignore her stealing his cigarettes and returned the hug. He enjoyed Blake treating him like a little brother, even if it was annoying sometimes.

Fire had fallen asleep in class again and it was starting to get in Goodwitch's nerves. He seemed to only fall asleep in her class when she mentioned it around his other teachers. The worst part was that he was her best student! He never worked hard, he was always slacking off, didn't turn in anything on time, but because he could easily beat most the students he spared with and since he passed all his test he had an A in her class. It drove her insane! Discipline and hard work was the only way to become a proper hunter, yet here the laziest person ever is and he can easily beat anyone! Their were a few exceptions though. Yang, Blake, Pyrrha and Ren could beat him, but everyone else seemed to either get thrown off by his tricks, or completely overwhelmed by his brute strength. The only students he hadn't fought yet were Ruby and Weiss. Goodwitch knew that if Fire and Weiss fought someone would get hurt and because of Ruby's feelings about Fire at the moment she might try to kill him. She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose with two fingers. She mumbled something under her breath and decided to risk it. "Firestarter, you will be fighting Miss Shnee today." Fire opened one eye and looked at Goodwitch. "Usual wager?" Fire and Goodwitch had the same usual wager as every other teacher Fire had. If he could best them he didn't have to were the school uniform. He always bested all his teachers so he had never once worn his uniform. He had a knack for history and seemed to enjoy it so Oobleck lost many wagers, Fire new a lot about Grimm from pure experience and could easily best any of Port's stories, and he always beat any student Goodwitch put her wager on except a few. Even when Fire lost he would trick the educators or just black mail them so he would end up winning by default. Goodwitch sighed. "Fine, just don't burn down the stage this time." Fire smiled and walked up the stage. He saw Weiss and his expression changed. All the pain he had been hiding rushed to the surface. He had no expression on his face and his eyes looked weary and were half opened, but if Weiss looked closely she could see a deep pain. He stuck a cigarette in his mouth and stood there, staring at Weiss, waiting for her to attack.

Fire got bored of waiting after a few minutes and decided to provoke her. "Hey Weiss! Five ancient sages of b****dom all gathered one day on the peaks of Mount B**** to proclaim your birth and a hundred years later, when all the b**** stars were aligned, you were born and made everyone's life a living hell because YOU ARE A B****!" (can you believe that this was a RWBY meme on the internet talking about Weiss?). Weiss' face turned red as some student's started laughing and she charged Fire. He sighed and stood there as a small blue flame appeared in front of him as he waited for Weiss to attack. Weiss jumped from glyph to glyph and was right above him, upside down on another glyph. It shot her at Fire like a cannon ball and Weiss stuck out her rapier and prepared to strike him. Right when she was about to hit him the blue flame expanded and took the blow, sending Weiss went flying backwards. She looked back at Fire and the blue flame was small again and Fire was tapping his foot impatiently Weiss got frustrated and she got up and ran towards him again. As she ran tentacles of blue flame burst from the ground around her, trying to hit her. She cut through them one by one and made it to Fire. She swung in every direction but his blue flames easily blocked every attack. Sparks flew everywhere as she continued her attack. She was about to swing again until a blue flame wrapped around her weapon and slowly got her arm until the tip was right in front of her as it began to morph, forming a snake. It hissed and Weiss panicked. How did Fire know about her fear of snakes!? The flames let her go and all of them slowly moved under Fire and began to push him up into the air as it began forming into a gigantic snake. The snake slowly lowered him in front of Weiss until they were face to face. Blue snakes started racing across him as they came out of his hands and slowly covered Weiss. Fire looked at her in the eyes and frowned. "Boo." Weiss lost it and ran off the stage, screaming and trying to get the snakes of her. Good thing his blue flames didn't burn her or he would've been in a lot of trouble. Fire was actually surprised that they didn't seem to burn anything unless he wanted them too, it was cool but didn't make any sense. Goodwitch sighed. "Fire wins by forfeit... as usual. " Fire walked off the stage as his flames disappeared, what a waste of his time. That wasn't even a fight, it was a joke. As Fire walked past Weiss' desk he opened his mouth as a blue snake came out and she nearly threw up as Fire tried to hold back a laugh. He sat back down next to Blake as she glared at him. "What?"

"That was uncalled for and just plain mean. You took advantage of her fears and could have traumatized her!"

"Yeah, but I didn't. Besides, she takes advantage of my fear of snowmen all the time! She uses her Dust crap to make them in the dorm when I'm sleeping! Do you know what it's like to wake up to a room filled with snowmen? It's scary, really really scary."

"You still shouldn't have done it despite what she's done to you! Revenge doesn't solve anything!"

Fire crossed his arms and frowned. "If you woke up to a room filled with spiders you would agree with me."

"Don't even joke about that!"

"Whatever. Who knows, you might wake up and you'll be covered with them one day." Blake shivered. Fire was one of the few people that knew about her fear of spiders. One had gotten in their dorm once and she had a heart attack. Fire simply lit it on fire and turned it to ashes, but couldn't help but tease her about it afterwards. One time he had bought a ton of fake spiders and dumped them on her when she was sleeping. She shuddered at the thought of that memory.

The next day Fire was walking with Blake and Jaune to go to the cafeteria and Jaune noticed he had tipped his hat down so they couldn't see his face. "Um, are you okay Fire?"

"Um, I-I'm fine. Why do you ask?"

"Well you've been pretty quiet and isn't it hard to see with your hat covering your eyes."

"N-No. I'm fine."

Jaune was suspicous now. Fire only studdered when he was lying. "What are you hiding?"

Fire stiffened. "N-Nothing at all, I swear." Jaune reached over and took his hat off and Fire quickly put his hand over his left eye and started to rub it. "Ow, I think I got something in my eye." Jaune narrowed his eyes and Fire sighed and removed his hand, revealing a black eye. "Whoa, what happened?!"

Blake sighed. "It was Marco, wasn't it?"

Fire gulped and shook his head. "No, why would you say that? Marco has't been bullying me, don't be ridiculous! I was fighting a... snowman."

"A snowman?"

"Y-Yeah, a Grimm robot White Fang demon possessed snowman." Blake kept staring at him. Marco was in his fourth year of attending Beacon and was incredibly strong. For some reason he loved to bully Fire and Garnet and ever since Garnet passed away he had been targeting Fire. One time they both had gotten sick of it and Fire and Garnet tried to fight back. Marco easily took down both of them without getting so much of a scratch. Yang saw Garnet and Fire's injuries and tried to fight him but he took her out within seconds. He wasn't even one of the strongest students either! He had left them alone around the time Garnet's funeral, but he seemed to be back to his old tricks though. Jaune knew he was lying and started to get angry. "If Marco's bullying you we can take care of it. I now what it's like to be bullied Fire. I know it sucks to ask your friends for help with this kind of stuff but we can help."

"I told you, Marco isn't bullying me so drop it." Fire walked ahead of them and didn't say anything for the rest of the day... at least until he ran into Marco after dinner on the way back to his dorm.

Woo another chapter :D. Hopefully this clears up some things. As always, Camp Fire out.