A/N
Real quick, I just wanted to say thank you to all the people that hoped for the best for me and my family, I'm hoping that we are able to work things out, now back to the story.
Nobody was at the entrance of the hotel until he heard something. 'What was that?' Nobody thought. He then looked in the direction and remember it was the same area Ruby was heading. 'It might be nothing...but I better go check.' Nobody then made his way to the forest and started to look around. He walked farther in until he saw Ruby on the ground bleeding from the side. He rushed to her side in a panic. "Ruby! What happened?!"
Ruby started to slowly open her eyes and saw Nobody, "N-nobody…" Ruby said weakly.
"What happened?!" Nobody exclaimed. Ruby then pointed behind him. He looked in the direction and saw his brother's, "Meta? Sown? What are you doing here?" Nobody asked.
"We're here on a mission, more or less." Meta said laughingly.
Nobody recognized his laugh, "What's going on?" Nobody said, he then stood up.
"Brother, we have found someone that can finally care for us." Sown said.
"What the fuck are you talking about?!" Nobody exclaimed.
"We were ordered to kill her and to talk to you." Meta said.
Nobody then pulled out his sword, "What are you talking about!" Nobody said.
"You really want to fight us?" Sown asked. Nobody said nothing.
"Suit yourself." Meta said. He then pulled out two chains while Sown formed a staff made out of ice. Nobody vanished and appeared behind Meta, he went to swing at him only for his coat to block the attack. "You're getting slow Nobody." Meta said as his coat grew spikes out of it, trying to hit Nobody. "I guess you forgot about my coat being made of metal."
Nobody was able to dodge the needles with ease. He then used his semblance and shot his electricity at Meta, only for Sown to use his ice to block it. Nobody then shot out his claw tips at Sown. He was able to deflect them with ease and charged him. Nobody quickly reeled in his claws and grabbed Sown's staff. Sown then used this opportunity to freeze Nobody's hand. "Don't you know that ice can freeze electricity?" Sown said.
Nobody then slammed his hand to the ground to get rid of the ice. "Don't you know i'm the fastest out of us?" Once he said this, he vanished. Sown slammed his staff into the ground, shattering it. The ice shards then started to evaporate into mist. Sown then concentrated around him. He then created an ice pillar to block Nobody's attack. "What the?!" Nobody said surprised.
"Even though I can't see you when you vanish, I can still sense you with my mist." Sown said, then an ice spike came out of the pillar to hit Nobody. He then leapt back to get away from the spike, only to bump into Meta.
"My turn!" Meta said, he then wrapped Nobody in his chains and then swung him around, hitting all of the nearby trees. He then released him and sent him flying into a bolder. Nobody laid there against the rock, hurt pretty badly. Before Meta and Sown could do anything else, someone arose from the ground.
"That's enough you two." The man said. The two then back away from the man.
"Kage!" Nobody exclaimed.
"Well done boys." A female voice said from behind them. Nobody looked into the direction where the voice came from.
"What are you doing here Cinder…" Kage asked the woman.
"Now now, is that anyway to talk to your mother?" Cinder said.
"M-mother?!" Nobody yelled.
"That's right Nobody, don't you remember me, or should I use the name I gave you." Cinder said.
Then a blast of aura hit everyone, Nobody was standing up, his coat was was now gold colored. "You're not my mother, she died in my heart the minute you LEFT!" Nobody then flash stepped, causing the area he was at to crumble to pieces. He charged at Cinder, his sword was just about to hit her, until he felt something grab his leg.
Meta had his chain wrapped around Nobody's leg, Meta then said, "Get over here!" and then he pulled his chain and sent Nobody flying in the other direction. Nobody vanished and appeared behind Meta. He barely had enough time to react and had his coat take most of the damage.
Sown then used his staff and hit the ground with it, ice started to freeze around Nobody, trying to trap him in ice. Nobody swung his sword and destroyed all of the ice. "Damn it, he's getting too strong." Sown said. He then got kicked in the face by Nobody, which sent him flying towards Meta and hit him too.
"Come on boys, you don't want to let your mother down now would you?" Cinder asked the two. Meta and Sown looked at each other for a few seconds and nodded their heads. The two stood there for a while until Nobody was near them and was about to attack them, before his sword could make contact, two more blasts of aura erupted from the two. Nobody shielded his eyes from the blast, when he looked up, he saw Meta and Sown completely different. Meta body was completely covered with liquid metal, the only openings were where his eyes were. Sown was completely encased in ice and formed a humanoid creature. (Think of the ice titan from hercules, but about 7 feet tall.) After the dust cleared, Nobody charged at the two, he was able to slice off one of Sown's arms, the arm then crashed into the ground, shattering into millions of pieces. Nobody looked back at his successful attack, only to see that he did not react at all to it, Sown then turned around to face Nobody and his arm started to grow back.
'This is not going to be good.' Nobody thought, he then felt a pain in his chest, 'Crap, I can't keep this form up forever...' Meta noticed that Nobody was in pain and took this chance to attack him. His arm took the shape of a sword and swung at him. Nobody was able to dodge the attack from Meta. 'Ok, think, when Meta is like this, he weighs more, so he's slower than normal. Sown, seems like I can't do much damage to him cause he'll just regenerate the damage he takes.' Nobody then used his electricity and fired it at Sown, hoping that it would do something to him. Sown raised his hand up and a giant wall of ice was able to block the lightning before it could hit him. 'Just as I thought, he can take physical damage, but not element damage, otherwise he would have just taken that attack without blocking it.' Nobody thought. Meta then charged him and began swinging crazy. 'Seems like he doesn't have a set fighting style in this form, just swing and hope he hits.' Meta then swung his arm in a downward motion, only for Nobody to dodge it and vanish. He then appeared behind him and swung for his neck, only for it to be stopped by the liquid metal around it.
"Hmm, looks like he is better than I thought." Cinder said to Kage.
"You don't want to underestimate him." Kage said. The two then continued to watch the fight.
Nobody was able to block and dodge most of the attacks that the two were doing. Sown then slammed his hand into the ground, Nobody looked around and saw that ice was starting to form around his feet. He quickly jumped into the air and then a giant ice spike arose from the ground. 'That was too close.' Nobody thought. Meta then had some of the liquid metal separate from him and split into 15 pieces. The orbs then took the form of needles, he then sent the needles flying towards Nobody in the air. Nobody didn't have time to react so he tried to dodge as much as he could until he got hit with a couple, one hit his left shoulder, one on his side, and one in the knee. Nobody came crashing down, he tried to remove the spike, but it was too painful to even move. His coat then started to turn back to it's silver color. 'Damn it, not now!'
Sown and Meta started to walk towards him. Meta extended his arm out, then a blade formed and was held in front of Nobody. Sown formed a fist in his hand and raised it behind him to finish off Nobody. Before the two could finish him off, Cinder said, "Wait." The two then looked at her, "Before you kill him, kill the girl first. I want him to watch as his last light is taken away from him before he dies." The two looked at each other and nodded.
"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!" Nobody screamed.
"And what are you going to do about it?" Cinder asked. Sown and Meta started to walk towards where Ruby was at.
Time then stopped for Nobody, he was alone, by himself, in his mind. "I can't let them kill her. She means everything to me. But what can I do, about out of aura, my left arm is shot, and I can't even move." Nobody said to himself. "No, there has to be a way." Nobody's voice started to change. "I will not...LET THEM TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME!"
Time returned to normal, Meta and Sown were standing in front Ruby, they were about ready to take her life. "It was nice knowing you." The two said at the same time.
All of a sudden, a blast of intense aura filled the area. The shockwave was so strong that it made Sown and Meta lose their balance. "What was that?" Cinder asked.
"Oh no…" Kage said. He looked in the spot where Nobody was. He saw that Nobody was standing up, actually, it looked like he was levitating off of the ground. He then pulled out all of the spike that penetrated him. Then a black aura surrounded Nobody, encasing him in a cocoon. A few seconds pass and then the aura shatters, Nobody's coat, claws, pants, everything was pitch black. He then slowly lowered to the ground, when he did, he grabbed his hood and ripped it off, to show that his hair was completely black, and that there were weird trace marks around his eyes. Nobody then opened his eyes to show that they were blood red.
Meta and Sown looked at each other and then charged at him. Meta formed a blade and swung it at Nobody. Nobody raised his hand in the air to not only block the blade, but to shatter it in the process. Meta could not believe what just happened, he looked at Nobody only for him to be gone. Then Meta was met with Nobody's palm in his face and then slammed to the ground. Nobody then started to run forwards, while dragging Meta in the ground, he then flung into into a bolder. Nobody looked on at where Meta was until he looked down and saw that his lower half was being frozen. Nobody looked towards Sown. Sown raised his arm and then eight ice pillar formed around Nobody, he just looked around at the ice pillars. Sown then lowered his arm and then spikes came out of the pillars and pierced Nobody. Sown thought that he won, then a blast of black electricity surged out of Nobody's body, which shattered the surrounding ice. Nobody then shot a bolt of black lightning at Sown's lower body, which was able to cut him in half and fall to the ground.
Nobody just looked on at Sown until he raised his hand and caught a chain. He looked behind him and saw that Meta was at the other end trying to pull him closer, but failing. Nobody then did a quick jerk on the chain and pulled Meta closer. When Meta was a few feet away from Nobody, he grabbed his sword, vanished, and appeared a few feet behind Meta, letting go of his sword. Meta's suit then started to fall apart into pieces and left cuts all over his body. "I-Impossible…" Meta said as he hit the ground.
Nobody turned around and saw that Sown was just now getting up from his last attack. Nobody focused his electricity into his right hand, he then charged at him, his right hand in Sown's chest, he then continued charging forward and was able to pull out Sown's actual body from the ice titan body. Sown then looked at Nobody, "H-How are you this strong?!" Nobody then threw Sown into a tree.
Nobody then turned around and face Cinder and Kage. Nobody charged at Kage with his sword drawn. Kage then formed a scythe out of darkness and blocked his attack. Nobody then shot his electricity at him only to be blocked by a wall of darkness. Spikes then came out of the wall and came after Nobody, he was able to dodge them, but the spikes then moved into the direction that Nobody was going. Kage then used the surrounding shadows and darkness to form a big mass that started to take on a shape of a T-rex. (The same creature that he fought in chapter 7.) The creature then ran at Nobody head on. Nobody raised his sword and and swung it horizontally, the creature then got split in half. Kage just looked at Nobody, "This is going to be a problem." Kage said. He then made his scythe take on a form of a pistol and started to shoot at Nobody. Nobody was able to deflect the bullets with his sword. Nobody then vanished. "Nobody…don't you think that trick is getting old?" Kage said, he then did a 180 and started to shoot, only to see nothing. 'What? When he vanishes, he always goes for the opponents back...unless.' Kage thought when he turned around again and saw Nobody in front of him. Nobody swung his sword at him, but Kage was able to block the sword with his forearm. "You may be fast, but i'm just as fast." Kage said as he vanished. Nobody looked around to see if he can find him. "Too slow." Kage said as he appeared behind him and put his hand on Nobody's head. Darkness started to surge out of Kage's hand and then cover Nobody's head. 'This will buy me a few minutes.' Kage thought as Nobody's body hit the ground.
"What was that all about?" Cinder asked as she approached Kage.
"Something I did a long time ago that I know regret…" Kage said as he raised his scythe and held it at Nobody's neck. "Goodbye brother…" Before Kage could kill Nobody, a storm of bullets started to land around the three. Kage looked up in the trees, "We got company." Kage said as he prepared his scythe. Then a dark figure jumped up from the ground and then tried to swing it's sword at Kage. "Another shadow manipulator, interesting." Kage thought as he jumped back.
"Stand down now or else." The dark figure said. After he said this, three more people jumped from the trees next to the dark figure. A guy with brown hair and wolf ears, a man with blonde hair and wings, and a man with black hair with wings.
"So you're the person that has been following Nobody and them, tell me, what's your name?" Kage asked.
The darkness around the man's face started to peel away to show his brown spiky hair, "Name's Shane, and meet team SHNJ!"