Ch 30: Requiem

In life your Destiny, your purpose, may not be so easy to find. Sometimes loss can cloud our judgment and make this purpose harder to find. We feel as though everything has been taken from us, yet it's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything, to embrace our destiny…

I shook my head attempting to gather myself after being flung through a wall. "Don't die on me yet Scatterfall!" Yells White as he marches towards me.

"Wait White, you aren't done with me!" yells Ozpin as he brushes some rubble off of him. How is he still alive?

"I still have some fight left in me." Ozpin eggs the commander on drawing him away from me.

"You can hardly stand old man. How do you expect to defeat me?" White chuckles as he drags his hammer behind him as he gets closer and closer to Ozpin. The two once again engage in their duel, this time however Ozpin at a disadvantage. I try to stand up, to help Ozpin but can't.

"Mako, don't worry!" Yells a voice I haven't heard in a while, a blonde haired knight comes sprinting towards me with his shield and sword in hand. Jaune? I thought he was captured? "Mako don't worry I got you covered." He puts his hands on my chest as they begin to glow. He is using is aura to heal me.
I feel the pain begin to leave me as Jaune smiles, knowing it is working. "Where is Blake, Jaune? I need to know." I ask begging to know where my girlfriend was.

"She wasn't able to get away when White turned on us. Don't worry the rest of Team RWBY is already on their way over to free her." He takes his hands off my chest, realizing that I was healed.

"Be careful now Jaune, you just used a lot of your aura to heal me." I remind him as we stand up and begin to head towards Ozpin and White. Shit, we are too late.

As we get closer we realize that White is choking Ozpin with both hands, smiling as he does so. White notices that we are getting closer and twists his hands. CRACK! The sound echoes through the courtyard as Ozpin's body ceases struggling. Both of our mouths drop open, stunned that our role model, the person we strived to be has just been brutally killed in front of us.

"You are going to pay for this." mutters Jaune in a dark tone, a part of him I had never even knew existed. Jaune drops his shield and runs at White wielding his sword with both hands he begins to strike at White's chest, actually caving in his armor.

"Looks like the joke of a hunter finally decided to show up!" Laughs White as he grabs at Jaune's sword with his armored gauntlets. "I would say this sword has seen better days, wouldn't you?" White smiles as he snaps the sword in two, shocking Jaune.

"I can't believe you just did that" Mutters Jaune as White drives his fist into the blonde's chest piece sending him into the fountain. NOBODY ELSE IS GOING TO DIE! This is the only thing on my mind as I holster my revolver and sheath my sword.

"Oh, what are you going to do, punch me to death?" White says, mocking me.
"Far worse..." I reply igniting my right hand in fire. White stares at me in fear as he notices the fire in my eyes as I sprint as fast as I felt my legs could take me as I reach down towards the ground grabbing one of the halves of Jaune's sword, igniting it with my touch into an inflamed piece of metal. Before White can even react to what was coming for him, I drive the piece of metal into his neck and then into the side of his head.

He begins to scream in pain as he realizes his head is being melted from the inside out. I continue to force the piece of metal farther in, the pain and emotion of losing Ozpin fueled my anger as White's eyes began to tear up in agony. "Make it stop. Make it stop goddammit!" Yells White as he thrashes around, the flames melting the inside of his skull. "For the love of god make it stop! Make it stop..." His yells of pain slowly ceases as his body begins to stop thrashing around and finally stops moving.

I let go of the piece of metal and turn around looking for Jaune. However instead I find a crying Pyrrha and a weakened broken Jaune in her arms. I run over to them to see what has happened. Pyrrha is holding Jaune in her lap in the fountain which's water was known slightly tainted red. "Jaune don't leave me! Don't do it" Cries Pyrrha as Jaune attempts to keep his eyes open.

"Pyrrha don't worry I'm coming!" Yells a shaken up Ren who apparently just now got up after being knocked down during the beginning of the fight.

"Here let me use my aura to try to heal him!" Ren yells as Pyrrha and I hold Jaune flat in the fountain as Ren begins to hover his hands above Jaune.

Jaune begins to cough up blood and attempts to speak "It's no use Ren, I used up all of my aura to heal Mako. All the damage dealt to me was real, raw force, it's too late."

Jaune coughs up some more blood onto his chest. Tears from Pyrrha land on his chest plate as she realizes she was going to lose the one she loves. "At least you got him Mako, you got him for Ozpin." Jaune raises his right arm and puts his hand over Pyrrha's. "Don't worry Pyrrha, I had a good run, most importantly I met you..." His eyes begin to tear up.

"Don't die, please don't die Jaune, I love you. You can't die on us!" Pyrrha is now essentially yelling and crying at the same time as she looks down at Jaune.

"And I love you as well, but you already knew that." Jaune attempts to smile as he says this.

"We are a team, we are supposed to protect each other!" Pyrrha sobs as she continues to hold Jaune.

"And we did... Just be safe Pyrrha. Ren promise me you will watch over her?" Jaune says as he gazes at Ren who is attempting to not cry as well.

"Absolutely Jaune, I will watch over her with my life." Ren nods at his dying friend.

"Mako... Go save Blake, I know she means a lot to you and you don't want anything to happen to her." Jaune begins to tear up, "One last thing Mako".

"Yes Jaune?" I reply, now I was fighting back the tears.

"Earn this, earn this..." Jaune begins to cough up more blood as Pyrrha leans down over him and wipes his mouth and this kisses him on his cheek. "It hurts, it hurts so, so-." His body becomes limp in Pyrrha's arms as she breaks down completely, full of grief and tears. I better leave her alone. I can't imagine what she is going through.

"Ren stay here with Pyrrha, I'm going to go find the rest of Team RWBY and hopefully Blake." Ren merely nods after I say this. Guess I will have to go deeper into Beacon.

-Short Time Later, Near the Old Team Dorms-

I sneaked around, slowly, in the corridors near our old dorms, looking for the rest of Team RWBY or Blake. I got to a staircase when I began to hear a conversation. "You stay in there you pussycat bitch! Trust me you don't want us to come in there and teach you a lesson. " A WF soldier yelled from the second floor. BLAKE! I unsheathed my sword and crept my way up the staircase to the second floor.

Peering around the corner I saw two WF Guards in front of a door yelling at someone behind it. Without hesitation I dashed towards the two, impaling one with my sword and bashing the other ones skull against the wall, through the dry wall. I kicked down the door to find Blake, tied to a chair, with bruises on her neck and wrists. "Blake are you okay?" I ask worrying about her safety and health.

"Mako, you never should have come, they knew you would come." Blake said as she attempted to rock her chair.

"Don't worry, White won't be a problem anymore." I say as I cut her free from her bindings.

"They anticipated that, they knew you would kill him" She says as she grabs Gambol Shroud from a table in the room.

"Who is they Blake?" Before she can respond I feel somebody hit me with a ridiculous amount of speed, and before I knew it my tackler and I crashed through the window of the room down into a small courtyard below. Man that hurt.

I stand up ready to engage my attacker, his black trench coat now stained with blood from both of us. Adam prepares to draw his sword. "Took you long enough." Adam mutters as he pulls the trigger on his gun and blade, Wilt and Blush, sending the hilt of the blade into my chest knocking the wind out of me.

"Fuck, should have seen that coming!" I yelled with a slight bit of pain as I draw my sword and ignite it.

"Come on Mako, let's fight, just this one last time!" He charges at me as I block his first blow, our swords locked against each other, neither one of us gaining the upper hand.

"You're on." I knee him in the gut which stuns him briefly, as he adjusts to the blow I notice that Blake has made her way down here. "Stay out of this Blake, it's just me and him." She acknowledges my wish and remains back towards the edge of the courtyard as we continue our duel.

Sparks fly as we continue slashing at each other, eventually one strike scrapes against my prosthetic hand/arm, sending off different colored sparks, surprising both of us. I take this brief moment to try to reach for my revolver with my left hand. "No you don't!" Yells Adam as he knees the holstered revolver out of my hand. It falls to the floor firing off a shot. "Looks like we will have some company if they didn't already hear the commotion from earlier." Great, just what I needed.

Sure enough as our duel drew out in length a circle of WF soldiers began to form a circle around Adam and I, they however didn't seem to care about Blake, only the duel in front of them. Our blades get stuck again, rubbing up against each other, "You know I can't lose with my men watching." Adam smiles, "It would make me look bad."

"I wouldn't count on them being here for that!" Yelled a voice from above, all of a sudden a familiar pair of white haired friends jump down from above. Devin spins his bladed staff around, slashing through multiples soldiers in the ring, as Weiss begins to engage with the remaining ones.

"Do none of you have any sense of honor?" Yells an enraged Adam.

"I guess you could say we aren't the patient type." Replies Weiss as she stabs an un-expecting WF soldier through the chest.

"Yea, it never really was my thing." Adds Devin as he twirls his staff around impaling more WF soldiers, blood splattering onto the surrounding walls. This all continued in the background of our duel until no more WF soldiers were standing. "Come on Mako, finish this. We need to go help the sisters, they are engaging Torchy and that chick who throws fire."

"Yea Mako, let's finish this." mocks Adam as he knees me in the gut this time. Just as he is about to shove his sword through my chest, I quickly knock his blade to the left with my prosthetic limb and in turn impale him on my blade. He moans in pain as I do this. "Guess you are the better swordsman-." Adam adds as I pull the blade out of him. "At least you fought with a hint of honor compared to those two." He points at Weiss and Devin as he then reaches for the puncture wound through his chest.

I stare at him in disbelief, wondering why he didn't seem that mad, being stabbed by me and all. "Well Scatterfall, aren't you going to end it?" He asked as he sat there kneeled with one hand on his chest and the other on the ground. "What are you waiting for? Do it!" He yells at me. "Come on you know you want to." I sheath my sword and turn around. "Don't you walk away from me, you owe me this." I turn around after he says this.

"I don't owe you jack shit." I mutter, he then turns to Blake.

"Come on Blake, do it, I essentially ruined your childhood, I brought you into the WF. Avenge those years you spent killing for us." Blake simply holstered her Gambol Shroud and walked over to my side.

"Time we left to go help the others." She adds as we both turn around.

Finally Adam turns to Weiss, "Come on snowflake, do it for all of those security guards and advisors my men and I killed that worked for your dads company." Now begging for an end, Weiss begins to speak.

"Why would I? Then I would make you a victim. Plus I wouldn't be avenging anyone I knew personally. Also I think it would be better if you suffered and though about what you have done." She finishes this and she too holsters her weapon.

"Oh I guess the ice queen has a heart now how cu-." Adam is cut off by a blade now through his chest.

"That's for all my friends and people you killed that died trying to protect the Schnee family you fuck!" Devin pulls his bladed staff out of Adam and walks in front of him.

"In all of my years of attacking the Schnee Dust Company, you always were a pain in my ass. Lucky for me Mr. Schnee got rid of you. Who would have thought you would be the one to do me in." Adam mutters as he hand Devin his gunblade. "Take it, for all those sad fucks you called your friends." Adam begins to laugh as Devin swings his staff around one more time, slashing Adam's throat as he collapses to the courtyard floor.
"I don't want your damned sword." Yells Devin at Adam's dead body. "I like my staff, works better." He picks up Adam's gunblade and throws it to me. "Here you keep it, think of it as a trophy for killing that sick bastard."

I holster Wilt and Brush to my left side as we walk out of the courtyard. Nice Blade, could get used to it. "Where do you think Yang and Ruby are engaging Torchwick and Cinder?" I ask the group.

"I don't know, thought you would know." Shrugs Devin.

One last chapter remains, the hype is real. Where are Ruby and Yang? What are Cinder and Roman up to? Will Nora and Goodwitch ever show up? I don't know, guess you all will have to wait. Also there will more than likely be an epilogue chapter or at least a footnote after this next one. Message me any questions you still have, or feel I haven't addressed in the story, you all know, plot points I got bored with and didn't answer.
Also be on the lookout for my Prequel to this story, and my new canon story for Volume 2, can't stress the fact enough that I NEED YOU ALL TO SEND ME OCs for the V2 Story.
Also sorry for all of those who hated me killing Ozpin and Jaune, I just felt realistically, not everyone ever lives happily ever after. Keep that in mind when reading this next chapter.
Dust-Redeemer OUT!