Shane and his teammates were standing near Nobody, but facing Cinder and Kage, "We'll give you one chance to come with us, or else."
"Or else what?" Kage said as he formed his scythe.
Shane then went into the ground, leaving any trace of him gone, he then arouse behind Kage, "Or else we'll make you!" Shane said, but then he couldn't move. "What the?!"
Kage started to laugh, "You do realize that I can control darkness AND shadows." Then Shane went flying in the opposite direction of Kage and Cinder. "Mother, you take care of these faunus, I'll take care of this shadow."
Cinder started to walk towards the other three faunus, "So, which of you want's to die first?" Cinder asked.
The wolf faunus then pulled out his weapon, "Haru, Natsu, you guys cover me." He then charged at Cinder.
"Jak wait!" Natsu said.
"Idiot!" Haru said as he went after him.
CInder then started to shot her fire at Jak and Haru, but they were able to dodge them easily. Jak then flipped his weapon to where the blade was facing Cinder and started to swing at her. Cinder was able to backflip and cartwheel away from him to not get hit. Then Haru flew behind her and tried to slice at her with his claws. The two then charged at Cinder from opposite directions, but she jumped in the air at the last minute which caused Haru and Jak to collide with each other. When Cinder was in the air, Natsu was behind her and tried to slice at her with his blade. She did a quick frontflip in the air and kicked Natsu in the face which made him crash into the ground.
"What do we do guys?" Haru asked.
"I don't know, I never hit a girl in my life." Jak said.
"Yeah, I noticed, try harder." Natsu said as he picked up his weapon from the ground. The group then saw she was doing some hand motions. "What is she doing?" Then the ground started to glow. "Move!" Natsu yelled and was able to dodge her explosion from the ground.
Cinder then landed on the ground, "Is that the best you can do?" she asked.
"Damn it, if we get close, she just kicks our ass, if we're far away, she uses her magic." Haru said.
Natsu then said, "Then we have to make her come to us then."
"What do you mean?" Jak asked.
"I got an idea." Natsu said and the group started to talk about the plan.
'What's taking them?' Cinder thought, she then shot fire at the group, which was able to hit them and leave a giant cloud of dust and smoke. When the dust cleared, Jak and them were on the ground and looked like they were hurt badly. Cinder then started to walk towards the group. She then kicked Jak so that he was facing up, "Any last words wolf?" Cinder asked him.
"I can't believe it worked." Jak said, then were Haru and Natsu were started to fade.
"Illusions?!" Cinder said, she then looked behind her and saw that Haru and Natsu were inches away from her face and were able to hit her with their attack.
Jak then got up and dusted himself off, "I can't believe your illusion semblance worked Haru."
"That's what you get for doubting me." Haru said as he retracted his claws.
"Alright, that should take care of her for a bit, why don't we go and-" Natsu was then cut off when a giant fireball was sent towards the three.
"What the fuck?!" Haru exclaimed.
Cinder then got up and said, "I'm not that easy to defeat." She then summoned her dual blades.
"Damn it." Jak said. "We need to help Shane."
Kage was just throwing Shane around with ease, "You really expected to try to challenge someone that can control darkness, when you are made of it." Kage then flung Shane into a tree. "This has got to be the easiest fight I have done, of all time."
Shane then thought to himself, 'I really should have thought about this first.' He then tried to get away from Kage.
"How about this, I do want a little challenge, I won't control your body, but know this, you will not win." Kage said as he summoned his scythe.
"And why should I believe you?" Shane asked.
"Cause I never fought anyone like you before." Kage said.
Shane didn't know what to do, he then pulled out his twin swords from his back. "How about no darkness at all?"
"Oh, I like a challenge." Kage said as his scythe disappeared. The two then just looked at each other and started to slowly approach each other. Shane then charged at Kage and swung his sword, but Kage was able to block it with his gauntlet hand. Shane looked at Kage, "We are called the Tsume brothers for a reason." Kage then pushed the sword away and swiped his hand at Shane and was able to scratch his stomach with his claws. Kage looked at the wound that he caused but was a little surprised that instead of blood, it was just black mass.
Shane was able to get back out of his reach, 'Come on Shane, you can do this, I got range over him.' He then got a little bit farther away from Kage.
"What are you?"
"What?" Shane asked.
"I said, "What are you?" because you're not human, but something else." Kage said as he looked at the black sludge on his claws.
"That's none of your business!" Shane exclaimed and swung his sword at Kage from a distance. In the middle of his swing, a part of his blade broke off and started to head right for Kage at high speed.
Kage tilted his head left and was able to dodge the broken piece. "Hmm, a sword that can shoot out small parts of it's sword, but it also shortens the blade itself." Kage said as he examined the weapon. Shane then started to swing his sword more and fling more of the shrapnel at Kage, only for him to either dodge or block them with his hand. Shane's weapon was now down to the handle. "Now what will you do with no sword?" Kage asked.
Shane then reached around his back which had a case with little spikes poking out of them, he then inserted one of the spikes in the handle of his sword and pulled it out, with a fresh new blade. "Just get a new blade." Shane said as he charged at Kage. He swung his sword at Kage's head, but he ducked down and swung his legs around and tripped Shane. Kage stood up, looked at Shane, "Alright, I'm starting to get a little bored from playing with you, now it's time to say goodbye." Kage then summoned his scythe, he looked to where Cinder was and noticed that she was able to defeat the other three. "If it's any consolation prize, your teammates lasted longer than I thought they would against mother." He then raised his scythe, and stabbed him in the chest.
Shane started to laugh, "Like you said," his body then started to be surrounded by shadows, "I'm not human." he then faded into the ground and started to get away.
"Clever bastard." Kage said as he put in scythe on his shoulder, he then walked towards Cinder and said, "Looks like this was an easy victory for us. Now, let's get my brothers and take care of Nobody." Cinder nodded and started to head for Nobody.
When they were a few feet away from them, their bodies started to feel heavy and then they were forced to the ground. "What is going on?" Cinder asked.
"You know." a voice said coming from in the forest. "Funny thing about gravity, it helps us stay on this planet, but too much of it can really hurt you."
Cinder face of confusion was replaced with a smirk recognizing the voice. "I remember you, the kid who used to have fire." she said.
"Oh right now all I got to say to you is one word, one very important word." the voice said, as a figure slowly appeared up in the sky, low enough so they could hear him but high enough for them to not recognise his features.
"And that is?" Kage asked, trying to pick himself up off the ground.
"Geronimo!" the figure in the sky began to fall to the ground, pulling out two swords in the process. He landed on one knee in front of Kage and Cinder, scowling at them.
"What are you? 12?" Kage asked as he tried to get up.
"19 actually, and ready to kick some ass" he said, slowly walking towards his two enemies on the floor, "So you recognise me Cinder, because I sure as hell recognise you?"
"I don't know, I killed so many people in my life that it's hard to remember their faces, but not yours." Cinder said as she was moving her hand.
"You killed my team, showing no mercy, no regret, and I'm gonna do the exact same to you" Jok said putting one of his swords to her throat.
The ground then started to glow underneath Jok's feet, he looked down but was too late when the explosion caught Jok. "Should have killed you when I had the chance." Cinder said as she was able to get up.
"Mind telling me what that was all about?" kage said as he grabbed his weapon.
"Just a brat and his team that I killed, the usual." Cinder said.
"Looks like he wasn't all that tough." Kage said looking at the spot Jok was last.
"Bonzai!" Jok shouted running past the two, slicing them both with his swords. Jok looked behind him to see if he killed them, only to see that the two were protected by darkness that surrounded them. "That's just cheating, god my fire would be useful right now, gotta make do." He said as he turned his two swords into their shotgun forms as he opened fire on the two.
Cinder raised her hand and used her aura to block the gunshots while Kage used his scythe and spun it in a circular motion to deflect the bullets. "If that's the best you got kid, you might as well give up." Kage said as he changed his scythe started to take the form of a gun.
"Oh if you call me a kid one more time" Jok said as both of them began opening fire on each other, each bullet hitting another.
Kage then raised his hand and entered a dark corridor that closed on itself. Cinder then started to shot her fire at Jok, "Oh come on, what happened to your fire?" Cinder asked trying to provoke him.
Jok turned his weapons back into their sword and ran at Cinder, "I'm gonna kill you!" he shouted as he sliced at Cinder.
Cinder did a cartwheel to her right, and in her place, Kage appeared and swung a black sword at Jok, which did land, but not deadly. "Give up kid, you're no match for us." Kage said as he kicked him in the stomach. Jok recovered quickly, switching his swords to shotguns as he tried to punch and shoot at Kage at the same time. Kage reacted quickly dodging each attack and reacting with a punch to Jok's stomach. "You got guts, but you're out of your league." Kage then threw the boy onto the ground.
"I'm just getting started" Jok said with a bit of arrogance as he put his guns away and began to attack Kage.
Kage brushed off the kick, "Is there a breeze in here?" he then formed a spike and then shot it towards Jok. Jok jumped into the air and clicked his fingers causing the spike to crash to the floor. He then raised his hands into the air, the spike that was on the ground then shot upwards at Jok and was able to pierce his arm.
'Out of the 3 years without me being an elemental it wouldn't be more useful than now.' Jok thought as he pulled out his weapons and was able to cut the spike to break off and pull it out.
Kage then vanished and appeared behind him, "Too slow." Then two gashed wounds appeared on Jok's chest. Jok then crashed to the ground. Kage then walked towards Jok and said, "Like I said before kid, you're out of your league." He then raised his scythe and was about to hit Jok when Jok reacted faster and swung his sword and cut at Kage's neck.
Kage didn't even flinch, then his body started to wither away, until the dark mass started to hit the floor, "You really think you could hurt me that easily?" Kage voice echoed through the forest.
"Come out and face me coward!" Jok shouted, surveying the forest for any movement.
"As much as I would love to finish you off, my family has to go now, and besides, you have my brother, Nobody, to deal with." Kage said.
"Oh no you don't!" Jok shouted as he jumped into the tree he heard the voice come from, "Damn it" Jok said stabbing his swords into the tree and falling to his knees just balancing, "I promise Sally, Alex, Xavier I'll kill her, no matter what happens, I will."
Shane then came out of the forest and approached Jok, "Who are you, and what are you doing here?" Shane asked.
Jok grabbed his swords and put them on his back as he jumped down, "Who's asking?" he asked turning to look at Shane.
Shane then raised his hand, it started to turn black and then changed into a blade that he held at Jok's neck, "Don't get an attitude with me, if anything, I should be pissed at you, my team lost our target because of you." Shane said
Jok grabbed the blade ignoring the pain and lowered it down from his neck, "Don't threaten me, next time you need to avenge your team, tell me." Jok said pushing Shane. Jok then felt a barrel of a gun pressed against his head. "And you are?" Jok said.
"Jak." He then pulled his other tonfa and held his blade at him, "And don't start anything, we already had enough done to us today, besides, we need to help Ruby and Nobody."
"Put the tonfa down before it ends up on that tree right over there." Jok said pointing to a nearby tree.
Jak holstered his weapon, "We have no business with you, even though you made us lose our target, but like I said, we need to help Ruby and Nobody."
"Look, you have your targets, I have mine, why should I help you instead of going and killing Cinder? It better be a good reason because I have lost too much for someone to waste my time." Jok said, walking up to Jak.
"Honestly," Haru said as he landed near them, "We really don't care about your target, least you could do is help us out you piece of shit."
Jok eyes shot open as he glared at Haru, "What did you say?" Jok asked with eyes full of rage.
Haru, standing a few meters away from Jok said, "Like I said, we don't care, you could at least help us or-" Haru was cut off when Natsu jumped in.
"Haru, calm down, we all have somewhat of a common enemy. If you help us, we can try and help you." Natsu said.
"I don't need your help but as long as that jackass keeps his mouth shut I could help just this once." Jok then stopped because he was in pain.
Natsu walked over to Jok and placed his hand on his shoulder, then it started to glow. "I'm low on aura, but this is all I can do." Natsu said as he healed some of Jok's wounds.
Shane then walked up to them, "So, just help us get Ruby and Nobody back to the hospital, and then we can-" Before he could finish, the atmosphere grew dark. The group turned around and saw Nobody standing there.
"Ok then, Nobody I presume." Jok said slowly stepping forward as he cracked his knuckles.
"Hold on asshole!" Haru said, "We can't hurt him!"
Jok then pulled out his smaller sword and threw it past Haru just skimming his cheek, "I told you to keep your mouth shut." Jok said as he flipped back, grabbed his sword and ran at Nobody.
"Wait!" Shane yelled, but Jok just ignored him and swung his sword at Nobody's neck and landed the attack, but the blade did not even phase him, it didn't even cut the coat.
Jok's eyes widen as Nobody grabbed him by the throat and threw him back, "Oh he is so getting stabbed." Jok said flipping back up and grabbing his other sword.
"Jok, we need to work together on this, but we can't hurt him, well, at least we can't kill him cause he's one of us." Shane said as he had his body covered in darkness.
"One of you and yet you have to fight him, your morals are fucked up." Jok said cracking his neck and spinning one of his swords above his head.
"No dipshit," Haru said, "Kage, the asshole you lost against, did something to him, but now we have to try and help him."
"Lost? He pussied out jackass." Jok replied, getting ready to charge again. He charged at Nobody but just got sent flying back towards the others again.
"Wanna work together now?" Natsu asked.
"Ok then." Jok said, getting flashbacks of Sally healing her team like Natsu did to him.
Nobody just looked at them, he then charged at the group, he slashed his claws towards Jak and Jok, but they were able to dodge it, while Natsu and Haru were able to counter-attack and push him back a bit. "Nobody! You gotta wake up, we're on your side!" Shane yelled but failed to reach him
Nobody then drew out his sword and started to swing at everyone, until it was blocked by Jok's sword, "Nobody, stop this before you lose your friends, it hurts more than you can imagine." Jok said before he was pushed back slightly.
Nobody couldn't understand what they were saying, he then jumped into the air and lowered his hand, then he shot black electricity all around the group. Haru and Natsu were able to fly out of reach, Shane went into the ground in shadow form, Jak was able to dodge the electricity, and Jok was barely able to dodge a few of the lightning bolts. Nobody then slammed to the ground and made a wave of electricity that surrounded the entire area, which was able to hit Jak and Jok. He then approached Jok and just looked at him.
Jok tried to get up not noticing Nobody's staring, but he was too battered so he fell back to the floor. Nobody then picked him up by the throat and held his sword at his stomach. Before he could finish him, he heard a familiar voice call out to him.
"Nobody stop!"
Nobody turned around and saw Ruby a few feet away from him. He dropped Jok and started to walk towards Ruby. Nobody stopped when he was about an inch away from her. He just stood and stared at her for a few moments, he then raised his hand and touched her cheek, "Ru...by…" Nobody muttered out.
Jok looked up and saw that Nobody was near a girl in a red hood, he got up and slashed Nobody in the back. Nobody then pushed Ruby down and swung his sword at Jok, nearly cutting his arm off. "Nobody!" Ruby yelled out as she ran towards Nobody. He then turned around and held his sword to her face. "Nobody, please listen!" Ruby yelled out. Nobody then started to lower his sword and just stared at her. She then started to get closer to her.
"Get away from him! He has lost it!" Jok exclaimed.
Nobody turned around and swung his sword near Jok, but missed. He was started to grab his head from what looked like pain. The electricity around him started to change color. "Nobody, please, listen, I know you love me, and I know you would never hurt me." Ruby said as she got closer to Nobody. Nobody tried to push her away, but he was in too much pain. "Nobody…" She then hugged and kissed him, "I love you." After she said this, Nobody then fell to the ground, his hair started to return to silver and so did his coat.
Jok got up and ran to Nobody checking his pulse, "He's fine, just worn out, might need some healing though, don't worry." Jok said getting back up and turning to Ruby.
Ruby then ran to Nobody's side and hugged him, "Oh thank dust!" She started to cry, "Thank you." She said to Jok.
Jok smiled until he felt a few tears roll down his eye as flashbacks of Alex, Xavier and Sally popped into his head. He was then met with a roundhouse kick to the face and sent flying to a nearby tree. "What the hell?!" Jok said.
Haru then walked towards Jok, "That's for being an ass." Haru said as he held a hand out to help Jok up. He then pulled him up and said, "But you did good."
Jok's eyes widened as he looked at the others, that's when he lost it, he fell to his knees as tears ran down his face. Floods of memories of his Team and him fighting, talking and hanging out. He missed them more than anyone in the world.
"What's wrong?" Ruby asked.
Jok regained his composure, trying to stop the tears. "My team, Team JAXS, Alex, Xavier, Sally and me, we fought so well together until we were sent on a mission, Cinder was there, she killed the others, I just made it out but i never forgave myself, I left Beacon and I've been hunting her down since, I won't rest until she has left the land of the living by my hand, no one else's." Jok said, his tone going from sadness to anger.
"I'm so sorry to hear that." Ruby replied.
"Aren't you Ruby Rose? I remember hearing stories about you and your team, I'm impressed." Jok admitted.
"Thanks, I guess…" Ruby said, not sure what to say next.
"So, Jok, you were able to track Cinder here and that was why you intercepted." Shane said.
"Yep, it wasn't easy, she's good at covering her tracks but as you can tell, I found her." Jok said, leaning against a tree.
"Is there any information you know about her that we don't know about, except for the fact that she had kids." Shane said looking at Nobody.
"Well she had two lackies, other than the one I fought, Mercury and Emerald I think but I don't know where they are now. Other than that I've been too busy trying to find her to find out some info." Jok replied.
"I see, well, we will take it from here, if you still want to continue and chase after her, be my guest, but I can tell that it will not be an easy thing for you to do." Shane said as he helped up Ruby.
"It would be easy if I was still an elemental." Jok muttered under his breath.
"Alright, Natsu, try to heal Nobody as best as you can, Jak and Haru, you guys try to carry him until we make it to a hospital." Shane said, he then looked at Ruby, "And I do believe I have to explain a few things to you."
Jok slowly walked up to Nobody and put him over his shoulder, "I got this, it's the least I can do." He said, making sure Nobody would fall off his shoulder, he then looked at Ruby and gave her a quick wink. This caused Ruby to blush.
"She's mine asshole." Everyone then looked at Jok and Nobody and saw that Nobody was awake.
"Oh god!" Jok shouted as he dropped Nobody to the floor.
"Nobody!" Ruby exclaimed as she ran to him. "Why did you drop him?!"
"It was a reaction, sorry!" Jok said, kneeling down and going to help Nobody up.
"Nobody, are you ok?" Ruby asked.
"...ouch…" Nobody said as Ruby and Jok helped him up. "Who's this guy?"
"Sorry dude, you scared the shit out of me." Jok said "I'm Jok, hunter of grimm and Cinder."
After Jok said this, "Wait a minute! Where's Cinder, and Kage and-" Nobody stopped as he grabbed his side in pain.
"Don't move, your hurt, Natsu if there was any time to heal him it's now." Jok said standing up and crossing his arms.
"First off Jok," Shane said, "You don't tell him what to do." He then looked at Natsu, "Natsu heal him."
"And second off?" Jok asked, scowling at Shane.
Then a sword was held at Jok's neck, "Second, don't talk to my best friend like that." Nobody said as he held up his sword weakly.
Jok pulled out his own sword and put it against Nobody's, "Remember when I said you scare me? I lied."
Ruby then slapped Jok in the face, "How can you even try to hurt him when he is already weak. We need to get him to a hospital." Ruby yelled at Jok.
Jok held the place where he was slapped as he stared at Ruby, normally by now he would have a sword to her neck but he couldn't bring himself to do it, he knew she was right. Nobody then fell to his knees and started to cough up blood, he then passed out. "Not good, we need to get him to the hospital NOW!" Shane yelled as he his body was covered in darkness and picked up Nobody and Ruby, "Hold on." He then jumped high in the air and started to make their way back in town.
"We'll meet you at the hospital." Natsu said as Haru and him flew into the sky.
Jak and Jok were just left in the forest for a few seconds, "Is it odd that our names are almost the same?" Jak asked.
Jok clicked his fingers decreasing both his and Jak's gravity, "Nope, It'll be a pain in the ass though." Jok said as he jumped into the air and began to use his weapons in their shotgun forms to move forward.
Shane was able to get Nobody and Ruby to the hospital in a few minutes, he ran through the ER when a nurse confronted Nobody, "Please help him, he has lost a lot of blood and needs medical attention." Shane said.
The nurses then took Nobody and put him on a stroll bed and started to push him away leaving Shane and Ruby their in the entrance. "So, what were you doing here in Haven?" Ruby asked.
A/N
Hello readers, how's it going, I'm doing fine.
Thanks to Browniej126 for letting me use Jok in this chapter, check out his story, "Team JAXS" tell him I sent you.
Also, since you guys know that Kage is a bad guy, I have a question for you guys, it probably won't happen any time soon until we find out more about this character, but what do you guys think of KagexNeo? I was talking to a friend about it and I like the idea, but we don't know much about her, so tell me what you guys think below, and like I said, I won't act on it until we at least know more about her.
Until next time, Kibar out!