-Jaune-
Jaune and Pyrrha sat together on top of the hill In the shade of a small tree for hours watching the sun progressively go down. They talked about what happened to Kai, comforting eachother if one of them became degected with kind words and soothing tones. Finally the sun was setting and they began walkimg back tom camp.
As the pair walked through the camp entrance Ruby was on watch, prerched up on the crate of supplies, unopened.
"Hey Ruby" Jaune greated.
"Hey..." Ruby replied in a sullen tone, eye's puffy and cheeks slightly shinning with moisture. She had been crying
"How's it goin?" Jaune asked wondering why she was so sad, he thought she had no ties to kai and Shouldn't be so sad.
"Not so good" Ruby replied.
"Is there anything we can do to help?" Pyrrha asked
"Well not really, I just can't stand seeing Yang so... broken." Ruby said pointing towards Yangs tent. "She's wasn't even crying after she broke up with her old boyfriend she had been with for 2 years. And she's only known Kai for a week or so, maybe not even. It's kind of scary." Ruby finished
"Yeah... it is a little odd." Pyrrha said.
"Yeah... anyway... can we take a look at the crate?"
"Sure..." Ruby said as she hopped off the crate of supplies.
Ruby went over to the entrance to get a better view of the surrounding Unsheathed his sword and jabbed it into the gap between the lid and the rest of the crate, using the leveredge he wedged the top off which made a popping sound, peering in he saw lots of ammo, rations, water, some wall building materials and a note. Picking it up he read it in his head and then called the group over with a excited voice saying "Guys! Everyone! Something great is happening!"
Everyone came over except Yang.
"Yang its about Kai." Jaune said to her which perked her interest and she walked over, covering her face with a blanket.
Having everyones atention he read aloud "Ok guys its from Ozpin. Hello students I have seen that your comrade has been killed, or rather sacraficed for the greater good. Your friend is lost but i have found a way you can get him back. If you choose to you must travel to the waterfall you and Pyrrha and Nora found before midnight tomarrow. What you must do to get your friend back is the following: enter the waterfall you've discovere, their should be a portal the color of your comrades aura, this is when you enter limbo and take your friend out with the container I've provided in the crate, you open the hatch and it takes his soul into it so you can carry his being into the physical world. A word of warning, watch for the visions of those who've already been lossed by those who enter the portal, no matter how much you want them back don't open the jar for them it would ruin the device. Best of luck -Ozpin." Jaune said as he gained volume with every word, excitment building in the group with every phrase.
"Lets go then! Come on!" Yang screamed, determination In her eyes.
"Wait... what does he mean by entering limbo?" Jaune asked
"Its What many speculate as a time before real death but after living." Pyrrha explained.
"But how'd we do that without dieing ourselves?" Jaune still not convinced
"The waterfall Ozpin talked about must have some kind of portal" Blake chimed in
Thoughts raced through Jaune's mind. He felt guilty for not being able to save his friends. He felt respinsible for Kai's death and for letting his friends down. He was ashamed of the fake transcripts, of the weakness, of his dought. He had to save Kai or he would go insane with guilt.
"Lets move...now" Jaune ordered although it was nearly dark this had to be done and fast.
"But its almost dark, we should go in the morning, were all very tired." Weiss complained
"I'm going with or without any of your help, its my fault he's dead, none of you have to come." Jaune explained, a hint of dread in his voice.
"Yeah he saved us. So we should repay the favor. He's really important to the team... and me" Yang said, whispering the last part.
"I can't leave my sister out there alone. so if she goes I go" Ruby stated
"I can go too, your going to need me for my sight at the very least since it will be night soon." Velvet said
"It would be best if two or three people stayed back to protect the camp just in case any grimm come around" Pyrrha said "but I'd prefer going also" she added
"I'd like to go also... Kais important..." Blake nearly whispered
Yang gave a confused look, a jealous look.
"Me, Nora, and Weiss can stay back. We don't really have any ties to him." Ren offered
"Good... now can we please move?" Yang protested
"Alright guys we need to go if we want to have time to spare" Jaune said
The group walked their way to the forest, guided by Pyrrhas recolection of how to get to those damned falls. They walked for hours feet sore and heads hung low. They finally began hearing water.
"We're almost there!" Pyrrha yelled from the front of the group
Jaune let out an audable sigh, soon their would be no guilt, no regret, no thoughts plauging his mind.
He walked for the last 10 minutes trying to think of ways to enter this "portal" maybe it was the waterfall itself, maybe the water had special properties. He bumped into Pyrrha.
"Aaaah!" Pyrrha screached alarmingly, waving her arms for balance.
"Oh fuck!" Jaune cursed as they lost their footing and fell head over heals down the steep cliff side.
Their limbs entwined awkwardly as they fell down the incline. Getting nauseas Jaune almost threw up but finally they stopped rolling. It had to be a mirical thay they didn't get hurt. Finally he was able to open his eyes and was looking at bare skin. Pyrrhas hand was on his back as she recoveres from their fall.
"Uhhh... Jaune... could you please... get off my chest" Pyrrha said somewhat playfully but out of breath
"Wait... what!" Jaune lifted his head quickly with a giant blush on his face
The movement made a huge amount of pain go up Pyrrha's spine.
"AUGH" Pyrrha gasped out in pain.
"Pyrrha! What's wrong!" Jaune said distressingly
"My stomach! *AUHG* get off!" She yelled
"Oh jeez... what's wrong?! What's wrong!" Jaune said as he got of Pyrrhas body. A large piece of wood stuck through her abdomen. Seeing this he instantly blurted out. "Oh no"
"What! what is it!" Pyrrha demanded
"Uhhh... just don't look down... listen I want you to look up at the stars okay? Do it for me" Jaune tried to sound strong but was sounding more like a whimpering child.
He quickly tried remembering what Kai did to heal people. He remembered that he had ordered him to force his aura into a ball. Jaune decised to do that but first he had to get the branch out of his girlfriend s abdomen.
"Pyrrha... i need you to brace yourself" Jaune told her "This is going to hurt a lot."
Jaune heard the calls of his teammates as they scaled down the cliffside.
After a pause Pyrrha replied "ok I'm ready"
Jaune began pulling the skewer through. He subconsiosly used his aura to comfort the girl as he did the painful procedure.
"AHG...OWWWW... PLEASE STOP...STOP!" Pyrrha begged
Jaune kept pulling, finally he pulled the stake through and instantly projected his healing aura into a ball and plunged it into Pyrrha, he swept it back and fourth bringing relief of the pain to Pyrrha, sealing the puncture, reconnecting arteries, and completly healing the muscle and tissue. Out of breath Jaune fell onto his back, Pyrrha simply layed as she was.
"Are you guys ok!" Jaune heard someone yell.
"Oh my..." He heard Velvet gasp
"That's a lot of blood..." she said
"She's ok guys...I...I healed her" Jaune said in a tired voice.
"Whay happened exactly?" Blake asked
"We fell down the cliff and a branch punctured her abdoman, tI ook it out and formed a ball with my aura, healed her." Jaune sputtered out.
"Are you sure she's ok?" Ruby questioned
"No. How can we tell" Jaune replied
"I'm ok... I feel... a lot better." Pyrrha nearly whimpered
She slowly sat up, then began testing her flexability. She checked her wounded area, covered in blood. A small scar took the place of the gapping wound.
"Jaune... thank you... thank you so much." Pyrrha said in Appreciation
"Huh.. anytime" Jaune replied
"We should be moving guys." Jaune said
"Jaune you need to rest. You'll be no help to Kai if your exhausted, after that much aura use you should be passed out." Pyrrha tisked regaining her composer
"No, its my fault he's dead I want to do it now" Jaune said trying to sound assertive but nearly falling over while doing so.
"No... you'll take a nap and like it." Pyrrha said playfully pushing Jaune to the ground.
"Hey!" Jaune complained
"Jaune... Its over 24 hours until the deadline. Dont push yourself to death, then what happens? We lose you instead of Kai. Now take a few hours atleast" Pyrrha said with not a budge in her tone.
"Fine" Jaune said defeatedly
"Alright you two rest, we'll go find this portal for now." Ruby said
"Come on guys" Ruby ordered without consent of Jaune or Pyrrha.
The rest of the group left.
"Oh Jaune" Pyrrha tisked after the group left
"What?" he replied
"Your laying in a pool of blood! My blood! Get off it!" She said annoyed
"Oh jeez... I'm covered in it... lets go find something to wash off in atleast to get a bit of this off, you could use it too." Jaune offered.
"Yeah that's probably a good idea, some beowolves might show up if we don't." Pyrrha agreed.
-Ruby-
Ruby looked back as her group went exploring. She saw Pyrrha crouching down next to Jaune.
"God their so cute together. I wish I could do that with someone." Ruby thought. She nearly tripped on a root which caught her attention back to the mission. They reached the large lake in front of the water fall. The never ending roar almost hurt. Ruby leaned over to Blake.
"Can you start grappling around the walls and see if you find anything?" Ruby hollered. Her voice nearly drowned out. Blake nodded and flung Gambol Shroud to a near wall dispite it being very dark.
Walking over to Weiss, Ruby told her "Hey can you use your glyphs to go through the waterfall?!"
"Sure!" Weiss yelled back
Ruby now walked over to the other two girls.
"Hey can you two look around the shore and see if you find anything?!" Ruby told Velvet and Yang.
"Alright!" They replied.
Now all of the team was covering ground. Ruby unsheathed her scythe and shot off a few rounds to project her to the very top of the falls.
The search had begun.
-Kai-
Kai floated in the pitch black space of limbo.
"So there is life after death huh?" Kai thought.
He continued contemplating his existence until he saw a large purple tinted portal open up. He moved towards it and saw that a figure standed behind the purple tint. Getting closer he saw Weiss, Ruby, Blake, a new face, and Yang... oh how he missed her with her sarcasm, her voice, her passion. Then behind them he noticed Jaune and Pyrrha. Jaune stepped forward and took out a container looking device and extended it into the portal.
-Jaune-
Jaune had been woken up abruptly by Ruby and was forced to run after her with Pyrrha right behind them. Ruby had found the portal after jumping up to the top of the waterfall, a temple stood in the middle of the rover flowing towards the edge of the waterfall. The time it took to scale down the mountainous cliffside was a while, although easier because dawn was just breaking giving a slight light.
Jaune walked up to the steps of the temple towards the rest of the group. Finally reaching the portal he receved nods of approval as he reached for the portal and extended the device Ozpin had given them. He had his finger on the opening hatch and waited for what he guessed was Kai's spirit. Jaune learned how to opperate the jar machanism while they were heading for the falls and was fairly certaint that he could get it to work. What he didn't expect was the images that he saw through the portal. He saw his mother, she had died giving birth to him but he knew her from pictures and strories he was told. Jaune almost oppened the device because of her pleading blue eyes. Thumb on the hatch he applied a light pressure.
"Jaune! Its a vision! Its not real!" He heard Ruby call out
He stopped and let his mothers face disperse into the black abyss. He saw horrid things after that, wounded soilders fresh from battle, people having been gorred, people mauled to death by the grimm. He saw aganizingly slow deaths by illness, he hated not helping all these poor people. Finally he saw a very tan hand extend from the blackness and grab ahold of the device. Soon a face amerged and another arm, then a torso and then a pair of legs. Kai floated before him. In shock Jaune held his movements.
"Jaune... open it." Someone said behind him eagerly
Shaking out of shock he pressed the hatch. It burst open with a furious light and sucked Kai into it. It closed. Taking his hand out of the portal with the device in tow he turned to his group.
"What now" he asked.
"I guess you open it again." Ruby said
"Well what else could we do." Jaune asked
"We could smash it." Yang offered
"That may not be the best idea." Blake replied
"Is their any other butttons?" Pyrrha asked.
"No... just the hatch." Jaune said
"Well I think we reopen it. Nothing else to do really." Yang said eager to try something.
"I guess so." Jaune said "well... here goes nothing."
He pressed the hatch and a brilliant light emitted from it, almost blinding, everyone turned to shield their eyes. He heard a yell. The ground shaked underneath him and he felt things fly past him. With a final yell the noise silenced and the bright light diminished and finally he was able to see what was before him. Kai knealed in front of him, his hand in a fist punching the ground. He heard him pant and then lifting his head up Kai said in a shaky voice "Thank you" before he collapsed onto the ground.
Hey guys! Sorry for the wait but I was sick but anyway how'd you readers like the chapter? Am I going to fast? To slow? Tell me what you think, any ideas?
Anyway the next chapter will be out on in the next 2-3 days. Also thanks for reading until this point! And just to tell you guys since I'm having a lot of fun doing this the stories far from over, I already jave some ideas for some chapters. Well ill see you guys in the next chapter!
(If you have an ideas message me and if its to my liking ill put it in) -Symph out!