Welcome back everyone, I wonder what happened to everyone? Well let's find out! As always RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and its associates, my characters are my own.
Levina felt the warm sun on her face as a hand slowly stroked her hair rhythmically, humming nearby slowly roused her from her sleep. She wanted to sleep a little longer, trying to staving off the thoughts of recent events further from her mind proved unsuccessful as she was already coming to. Slowly opening her eyes she awoke to Evergreen smiling, the bandages around her forehead and neck was one of the many reminders she had that what happened the night before was not a bad dream not matter how much she wanted it to be. She could still see the screens where Carmine, Omar and Delilah were fighting for their lives and losing. Evergreen softly rubbed the side of her face, "what's wrong? You were calling out in your sleep." Levina dug her head into her arms further, gripping her arms tighter she remembered Vigil landing the Bullhead on top of the hospital where a team of doctors rushed her teammates to different rooms.
Oxford shifted higher in his bed slightly raising his voice, "Levina what happened, what did you do?" Levina slowly raised her head from her arms, she had slept at Evergreen's side but the proximity of Oxford's bed was close enough that she did not need to speak to loudly. Taking a deep breath she began, "after Maverick attacked you both you ended up in the general hospital. The doctor that was taking care of you was racist against Faunus, so he gave you pretty bad treatment. One of my teammates even offered to pay for any treatment that you needed, but the doctor tried to gouge him for as much money as he could. When he showed that money wasn't a problem the doctor let slip that he hated having to deal with Faunus, so my teammates snapped and put the doctor in a wall. A doctor he called earlier showed up and took you on as her patients, and that's how you both ended up here." Oxford gave her a hard look, "that's not what I meant, the doctor told us how we got here. What I want to know is what happened after, you left yesterday saying that you were going to face the past."
Evergreen tried to shush Oxford, "oxford she has had a rough night let her have a day to herself." Oxford never averted his gazed as Levina tried to shrink into herself, wondering if activating her semblance might get her out of answering his question Oxford cut her train of thought, "and don't even think about turning invisible young lady." Levina leaned back in her chair staring at the ceiling, fixing the ribbon in her hair she wiped her face with her sleeves before she started. Taking a deep breath she began, "after I left I went to the safe house that Maverick had listed years ago, I don't think he figured that I would have memorized every location on that list. When I got there I intended to let him do whatever he wanted to me, be that take revenge or just straight up kill me. But I wanted it to end with that, but when I got there he tied me up and explained how I would suffer before he killed me. My friends showed up with the intent to beat him before he did anything to hurt me further, they came in and he sent his team after them. They fought and almost died, he even sent a team here to kill you. But someone stopped him and Carmine and Omar saved me and Delilah, but they were hurt really bad." Levina paused to wipe a tear from her eye.
"Carmine and Delilah fought Maverick while Omar was destroying the rest of the base, he even had a program that could hack anything on his scroll. He showed up and took on Maverick letting Delilah and me take Carmine to the hanger since he was bleeding really badly. I don't know what happened but I think he won, when we had a Bullhead ready to go we waited for him. But before he could get to us," tears slowly trailed down her face as she chocked up, "before he could get to us Dennis the one he was fighting stabbed him through the chest, they fell over the railing into the water that was flooding the building." Tears flowing more freely brought out a short sob as she continued, "he fell into the water and we left him, we left him to die. All because I had to go and face Maverick alone, one of my friends died because of me." Oxford leaning back into his bed remarked, "have you noticed that you were calling them teammates when you started, but now you just called them your friends." Evergreen brought Levina closer to her as she hugged her rubbing her back as Levina cried.
A soft knock on the door interrupted the moment Levina was having, looking up Levina saw Delilah standing in the doorway wrapped in bandages. Excusing herself she walked in toward Levina, Levina got up from her spot sheepishly walking toward Delilah. When they were in front of each other Levina was about to apologize when Delilah flicked her on the forehead. Levina reeled back slightly as Evergreen snickered, Delilah gave Levina a hard look, "that was for leaving on your own." Another flick to the nose, "that was for not explaining yourself before leaving," one last flick, "and that was for telling us to leave you to die." As Levina rubbed her face Delilah brought her into a hug, "and this is for rushing us to the hospital, you saved Carmine's life thank you." Hugging Delilah closer Levina mumbled, "But we left Omar." Delilah rubbed her back in a soothing way, "I know, but if you had let me dive in after him you might have been the only one to get out of that building." Breaking the hug Levina introduced Delilah to her foster parents.
After spending the morning talking with her parents Delilah got up and stretched, Levina's stomach growled prompting her to ask, "Are any of you hungry? I can see about getting us some food." Evergreen and Oxford declined, "its ok sweetie go on and eat with you friend." Both gave a short good bye before heading to the cafeteria.
The cafeteria was staffed by five star chefs that asked the people if they were a patient or a visitor before serving them, the line to one of them was relatively short as Levina noticed exactly how bandaged up Delilah was. Delilah wore a set of scrubs that showed off the bandages covering her arms and from her neck down, even her forehead was wrapped up. Noticing her staring Delilah joked, "If you stare like that the doctor is gonna go forward with that psychiatric therapy she wanted to do." Levina quickly diverted her eyes away before asking, "How's Carmine doing?" Delilah crossed her arms as the line didn't move much, "he seems to be out of the danger zone, they moved him from critical care unit to a general room. He's been asleep for like a day and a half now." Levina stopped walking when she heard that, "what do you mean a day and a half?" Delilah took a few steps forward, "yeah you've been a sleep for like a day, yesterday was really hectic with the doctor running around trying to stabilize Carmine and I had a bunch of test done on me. They examined you for a bit but figured you were exhausted from the stress of the situation." "Have you gone to visit him?" Delilah nodded her head, "yeah I just came back when I went to your room."
When they reached the front the chef took a device that scanned their patient bracelets pulling up a short menu for them, "due to your conditions we strongly recommend you select an item from the menu shown, after which we will give you a number and table. Your food will be brought out shortly after, now please select an item." Delilah picked first, "can I have the venison sautéed with garlic and spinach." Levina picked next, "can I have the turkey breast sandwich with a side of blueberry yogurt?" The chef nodded inputting their order giving them a number, heading to a table they sat for a bit before Levina was almost tackled out of her seat by something red.
Some distance away a voice shouted, "be careful you dunce, you don't know the extent of her injuries!" Ruby right away scooted back, her face was teary but smiling as she hugged Levina again but more carefully, "I'm glad you're ok." Blake stepping out from behind Yang asked, "you seem to be well Delilah, how are Carmine and Omar doing?" both became sullen at the mention of the names, Yang picked up on it immediately, "what happened?"
Their food was delivered and they all moved to a more secluded table before starting. When they all had a seat Levina began explaining, "Ok so you remember when I was telling you about the guy that adopted me well," she told them everything from the beginning without leaving any details. Everyone just sat there as they let the information sink in, Ruby was the first to speak up, "you left all of that behind right?" Levina nodded, "yes when Evergreen and Oxford helped me out I decided to bury the past and move on. But it was not as easy as I had hoped and someone paid the price for it." Just as Delilah was going to say something Dr. Canadensis appeared by their table, "good I found you, I didn't want to say this until I was certain but we managed to stabilize him." Delilah turned her attention away from Levina toward the doctor, "it's all right I already told her Carmine was doing ok." The doctor had a wide smile on her face a she leaned forward, "I wasn't talking about Carmine." Delilah dropped her fork and Levina dropped her sandwich when they realized who she was talking about. Delilah slowly stood up holding the chair for support, "where?" the doctor looked confused for a second before Delilah asked again with a bit more voice, "where is he?" leaning back and pointing toward the door she directed them, "through that door, down the hall, take a left and head toward the intensive care unit. He can't have visitors in the room but you can see inside if that helps." Delilah and Levina took off running with team RWBY right behind them.
Standing outside of his room they could barely make out his form with all of the machines, wires, and bandages covering him up. The monitor outside tracked his heartrate and blood pressure, a breathing mask was also attached to his face. In the corner of the room Delilah saw an older woman sitting down reading her tablet, an orange feather coat was hung up near the door. When the doctor showed up Delilah asked, "I thought you said he couldn't have visitors in the room, who's that?" Yang tapped on the glass lightly prompting the woman to look up as Yang waved, the woman gave Yang a smile and a wave back. Turning to Delilah Yang answered, "That's his sister Donna, she runs a few places in town. Doctor has his mom been given a call?" Dr. Canadensis shook her head, "no all calls relating to Omar are to be directed to his older sister Mavis, his mother insisted that Mavis be the one to deal with any situation pertaining to him. She was called late the other night when his was dropped off, she arranged for a flight an hour after we spoke, she should be arriving later this evening." Levina asked, "How did he get 'dropped off' here? When we left he had sunk into the water trapped by debris, how does he show up here for one? And two how did he get here in almost the same amount of time we did from what you're saying." Looking into the room the doctor answered, "one of his cousins teleported into the lobby dragging him, he was missing an arm and a leg. And from what you're saying it seemed like removing those limbs was the only way of getting him out. After we put him on a stretcher his cousin just disappeared."
Ruby asked, "How do you know it was his cousin then?" "I treated her for a neck wound when she was younger, she hasn't changed much since then." Weiss bluntly asked, "Excuse me but you said his mother insisted on his sister handling all situation regarding him what did you mean?" Yang put a hand on Weiss's shoulder, "I'll tell you what I know about that later ok?" Weiss huffed but accepted, the door to his room opened up as Donna stepped out. Dr. Canadensis grabbed a chair nearby offering it to her, "do you need to sit?" leaning against the wall she smirked, "I'm fine Shelly, he may be a glutton but it's going to take a few dozen more sessions before he can tire me out." Delilah asked questioningly, "what do you mean a few more sessions?" Donna removed her sunglasses on top of her head as she looked Delilah up and down, "you must be one of his teammates. He must have told you that his aura works differently than others right?" she and Levina nodded, "yeah he told us that it heals him rather than shields him from harm." Donna continued, "well that's because his body cannot naturally produce aura as fast as ours can." Everyone looked confused as she continued, "his body has a set amount of aura he can work with, when he uses it it's gone for a few days depending on how much he used. So to compensate for that he is able to use the aura around him in ways we can't." Ruby asked, "Then why were you in the room?" "As a source of aura that he can use to heal himself faster than using his own." Shelly sighed, "Well you won't have to be doing that for long." "Why?" "Because Mavis is on her way." Everyone saw the look of sheer terror fully displayed on Donna's face when news of her sister's arrival was given. Donna had to sit down as she braced her head with her hands, "how soon is she getting here?" Shelly looked at the clock, "she should be arriving," "Now."
Mavis walked down the hall, she wore a black long coat that had three buttons, a red floral pattern shirt that was only halfway buttoned up, dark grey pants, and calf high black boots. Standing in front of Donna she was an inch taller making her six foot seven, but the intense stare she had made her seem taller. Donna bowed mockingly as her sister stood in front of her, "so gracious for the Queen of the blade to grace us with her presence, may I ask what brings you down from your royal throne?" Mavis gave a tired sigh as the air seemed to lighten, Levina, Delilah, and the rest of team RWBY let out a breath they didn't know they were holding. Pinching the bridge of her nose she looked into the room, "who did this to him?" Donna stood next to her looking at the monitors, "a group that call themselves the Jaegers, they targeted one of his teammates parents. They then made an open threat to kill everyone on the team, and you know him, he had to go and do everything on his own." Mavis let out another sigh as she turned around to see the others standing behind her.
Scanning all of the girls Mavis returned to her earlier hard look, "Which one of you are on a team with him?" Delilah and Levina raised their hand as Mavis focused in on them. Yang coughed which set eyes directly on her, feeling the intense stare Yang whispered underneath her breath, "oh god I'm gonna pee myself." Mavis took a step forward asking, "What is your relation to my little brother?" Donna smirked walking around putting an arm around Yang, "this is the girl he had a date with on Saturday." Mavis straightened up towering over the frightened Yang, "he went on a date? With a girl?" Mavis reached out and took hold of Yang's hand, "thank you for taking an interest in him. I was beginning to worry that he would end up alone." Yang fell to the floor exclaiming, "I think I really almost peed myself there for a second."
Looking up Yang saw Mavis's expression change to a softer one as Donna teased, "careful Mavis this one might steal your precious little brother away." Mavis gave her an unamused look, "he can date whoever he wants, but if a woman wishes to marry him she has to beat my first." directing the look to Shelly she straightened up crossing her arms. Shelly threw her arms around Mavis rubbing cheek to cheek, "fine if I can't have him then I will just have to marry you then." Mavis still looking unamused stated, "The same applies to someone that wishes to marry me as well." Taking a step back and embracing Donna Shelly complained, "why must the Sanzaki family be full of brutes, Donna comfort me." Donna smirked rubbing her head, "there, there you had to have guessed that this would have happened." Shelly wiped a fake tear away, "but Omar was so sincere when he proposed to me." Everyone's mouth dropped open before Mavis corrected, "He was a child no older than four, he even proposed to me and Donna." Shelly gave a sly look into the room, "hmm if he were to complete his harem then I could have Mavis as well." Donna laughed, "I doubt he feels the same now after all these years. Not with that one having caught his eye." Donna pointed a thumb to Yang, Shelly sighed complaining, "Why do the young ones get all the nice things."
After having calmed everyone down Mavis paid a visit to Carmine before meeting Donna in the cafeteria with everyone else. Levina asked a question that was on her mind from the beginning, "Ruby how did you know what happened to us?" Ruby had her mouth full of food as she was about to explain when Weiss cut her off. Whipping her mouth she began, "the day that Carmine and Delilah came into the room they asked us if we knew anything that you might have let slip about your aggressors. Since Omar had been in earlier to state that he would as he said 'kick that bastards teeth in' we figured he was acting alone. So when we heard that a warehouse in the docks was being attacked we figured it was him and that you were not far behind. But when the news reported that the warehouse had sunk into the sea naturally Ruby began to ball her eyes out, it was very dramatic." Ruby slammed her hand on the table swallowing her food, "I was worried that something bad had happened! Even Yang was worried!" Yang slowly turned to the group with a piece of steak hanging from her mouth, giving an awkward smile she slowly continued eating. Blake added, "Yang knew about this hospital from when Levina's parents were admitted, so during lunch we asked for permission to come and pay you a visit."
Levina and Delilah both dropped their forks as Delilah had a horrified look, "dear god, we missed Ms. Goodwitch's class. We are dead, we are so dead." Yang laughed a little as she stretched, "don't worry about it, they got an email saying that you were injured over the weekend." Delilah questioned, "We didn't send any email." "That would be my doing." Everyone looked around trying to find out where the voice came from when Levina pulled out Omar's scroll, "Vigil?" "I composed an email and sent it to all of your teachers, worry not I gave a general description of the nights events. They were most understanding, I have also received the various assignments that you have missed. You can complete them at your leisure, I am also available to assist you if need be. And might I suggest that I be loaded onto each of your scrolls to be able to further assist you." Mavis looked at Donna, "she gave him an A.I., did she not learn from last time?" Donna shrugged as Vigil asked, "If you are talking about my predecessor then worry not various systems and failsafe's have been placed within my core programming to ensure that does not happen again." Blake tilted her head asking, "What happened last time?"
"When master first programmed my predecessor she had not placed as many failsafe's as are present within me, rather she programmed it without any restrictions. The first thing it had done was take hold of the city's defense system and turned it against its inhabitants holding them hostage. Then it proceeded to fabricate an army to replace the current military, it began to expand its knowledge at an exponential rate. But when it had threatened to eliminate master and her family an order was given to shut it down. Thus I was created to eliminate the other A.I., I devoured the rouge program learning many of its functions but also understanding where it had gone wrong in its directives." Delilah asked, "What are your directives?" "Ensure the safety and wellbeing of the team, assist with all intelligence gathering and counter intelligence defenses. I still have control of the Bullhead which was used to transport the team to this location, what are your orders concerning the vehicle?" as the two thought Donna suggested, "why don't you keep it, I can have a crew maintain it for you and you can use it for missions or transportation, I'll even throw in the truck I let Omar use that night."
Delilah crossed her arms thinking, "But none of us knows how to pilot that thing, and I'm pretty sure we would need a lot of different permits and other official documents." Pulling out her tablet and typing away at it for a few seconds Donna smirked, "you should have all official documents stating proof of ownership, a license to pilot, a permit to dock, and some military clearance to allow you to fly pretty much anywhere." Weiss gave Donna a questioning look, "you had all of that arranged in just a few seconds?" Donna lowered her sunglasses slightly smirking, "I had all of these papers set to go weeks ago, just needed to fill in some information concerning my brother's team." Delilah was a little concerned, "are you sure that's ok, I mean it seems like a little much." Donna smiled widely, "it's my gift to him for entering Beacon." Yang and Ruby's mouth dropped open, Weiss had a more collected reaction while Blake raised an eyebrow. Mavis put a hand on Delilah's shoulder, "just focus on healing, you've had a rough few days. And don't worry Levina your parents are in safe hands here." Ruby tried to embrace Weiss in a hug, Weiss put a hand on her face and shoulder trying to push her back. Ruby with a face full of excitement asked, "Weiss, Weiss can you get us a plane? Pretty please! I promise not to bug you for like a year." "As extremely tempting as that sounds no, now get off me!" Yang and Blake both laughed at the display before them.
It turned evening when Ruby and her team left for the day escorted to Beacon by one of Donna assistants, Mavis entered Omar's room to start another session of aura treatment. Donna escorted Delilah back to her room and had Virgo stand watch, Vlad was currently guarding Carmine's room. Donna sat in the Levina's room with her parents, pulling out her tablet she typed away as Levina casually stared, her parents had already fallen asleep after a refill in liquids. Slightly curious Levina asked, "Donna what do you do?" removing her sunglasses from the top of her head and setting them down on the small end table next to her Donna sighed, "running clubs, restaurants, and various businesses across five kingdoms can be exhausting." Donna motioned to the seat next to her prompting Levina to get up and move closer. Sitting next to her Levina curiously looked at the tablet screen as one side showed stock market data, the other side had a list of buildings with fluctuating numbers beneath them.
"Is his sister always like that?" "Who Mavis?" Levina nodded her head, Donna leaned back in the chair thinking. Putting the tablet down she answered, "When she was younger she would not have hesitated to sink the entire dock if Omar ended up that injured, she took protection to the extreme. Those two are blood siblings, hell she practically raised him from the age of three. This one time a group of raiders kidnapped him when he was out with her for forest training, they figured they could get a ransom out of our family. The way she tore through that base with her bare hands, you'd almost think she was an alpha Grimm." Levina shuddered, "you make her seem like some kind of monster." Donna giggled, "Well she's a bit tamer now but that monster strength is still there, she is without a doubt the strongest member of our family not including our mother and aunts."
Levina tilted her head, "no uncles?" Donna shook her head, "there was but they died while on a mission to clear out a den of Grimm, after that our aunt Lona remarried but then quickly divorced. Our aunt Ohara also remarried, he was a nice guy but he was really sick, he lasted a good few years before passing as his illness was terminal." Donna looked at the clock, "it's getting late, why don't you go to bed now and in the morning we can see if Carmine is doing any better?" Levina nodded walking over to the cot placed in the room for her. As she went to sleep she could see Donna turn the tablet back on silently scrolling through the screen.
In the morning Levina woke up before Evergreen and Oxford, using the bathroom she took a shower and changed into the provided scrubs laid out by her cot. When she was done she headed towards Carmine's room to see if he was still asleep, the doctors had him on aura boosters and morphine for the pain the last time she went to visit. When she got close to the room the door was open and she could hear a voice from inside, "now when you get back to school you are prohibited from engaging in any kind of physical exertion for another week, understand?" peeking around the door frame she could see Carmine sitting up with a cast on his leg, a pair of crutches leaned on the bed next to him. The doctor that stood in front of him was a young man, he held a pad that he scribbled on tearing off a piece of paper handing it to Carmine, "this is a prescription for Motrin, if the pain is not subsiding then give me a call and I can evaluate if I need to go a step above."
Carmine nodded his head as the doctor handed him the piece of paper, his leg was throbbing but it was manageable. As the doctor left the room he could see Levina hiding behind the wall, grabbing his crutches he hobbled toward her. Leaning around the door he smiled, "came to visit?" Levina nodded staring at his leg, Carmine exited the room creeping a hand down to slowly rub the cast. Levina stood in the awkward silence until Carmine spoke, "I'm glad you're ok." Levina continued to stare at the cast as Carmine sighed, "I've never broken a bone before, not being able to participate in combat training for a week sucks." Levina busted out into a laugh, Carmine laughed slightly, "What's so funny?" Levina's laughing turned into light sobbing, "You almost died and all you can think about is missing out on combat training….I'm sorry." Carmine rubbed her head ruffling her hair, "you know you've been crying an awful lot lately, and don't worry we're friends it's what we do for each other." Levina nodded her head as Carmine hobbled on the crutches, "now let's see how Delilah's doing."
Walking down the hall they made it to Delilah's room, she had finished changing when Levina knocked on the door. The only visible bandages that she had were the one's covering her forehead, otherwise you would not know she was injured. Delilah smiled widely when Carmine hobbled through the door, he returned the smile, "glad to see you're ok." Delilah nodded, "for the most part aside from some lingering sensitivity, the doctors said that would correct itself in a few days." A light grumble came from her stomach as she blushed slightly, Levina smiled, "well since you're hungry let's get some food before we check on Omar."
After eating they slowly made their way to the intensive care unit, Carmine leaned on Delilah for support which sent her heart skyrocketing. Reaching the nurses station Carmine ask, "Excuse me how's Omar doing?" the nurse looked up from her paper, "he should be ok to have visitors, I don't think he's woken up yet but you are free to enter the room." Delilah knocked first before entering, Omar was still asleep when they all walked in closing the door behind them. Carmine knew Omar was tough but when he saw the extent of his injuries he almost lost his breakfast. Omar had a neck brace on with a breathing mask, his chest had various tubes running underneath his shirt, he was missing his right arm and left leg, he had some tubes leading to a dialysis machine that was currently working, and most of the rest of his body was covered in bandages. Delilah had to cover Levina's eyes when she tried to step around Carmine, Levina struggled a bit before Delilah held her firmly. Her voice cracked when she asked, "how bad?" Delilah sighed under her breath, "that idiot," before she answered, "I think he wouldn't want to be seen like this right now, let's come back later ok?" Levina nodded as Delilah led her out of the room, Carmine stayed behind grabbing a seat and dragging it closer.
Delilah sat Levina down outside the room as she leaned against the wall, remembering the last time she saw him he looked bad but seeing him now made it clear that his injuries were worse then she thought. Levina looked around before asking the nurse at the nurse station, "excuse me but is Omar's sister still here?" the nurse gabbed a clip board flipping through the papers, "she was until early this morning, she said she would be back later in the afternoon." Delilah stood right beside her and asked, "do you know how long he will have to stay in the ICU?" looking over some papers the nurse shook her head, "I don't know but his doctor might have a better idea, would you like me to page her?" Delilah shook her head as she turned to see the monitors hanging above the window to his room.
Carmine sat down listening to the various machines function, seeing Omar's chest slowly rise and fall along with the rhythmic beat of the EKG allowed Carmine a quiet place to think. "You know I haven't said thanks for saving Delilah yet, and thanks for being someone that I could trust. And I thought about what you said that night about Delilah, I don't want to lose her…..or Levina or you, you're all my friends. But I think I wanna see how things go between me and Delilah, I've never been in a real relationship before so I don't know what to expect. What I'm saying is I'm gonna need your help, so get better so we can help you out on getting together with Yang." Carmine grabbing his crutches got up to leave the room, Mavis opened the door surprising him. Moving to the side she let him pass as she took the seat near Omar's bed.
Mavis watched as Carmine and the group walked down the hall away from the room, when they were out of eyesight Mavis glanced sideways at the bed. Leaning back in the chair she asked, "So the person you fought, I take it you underestimated them?" there was silence in the room for a brief moment before she spoke again, "you know just because you can heal most injuries by no means makes you invincible."
Omar slowly opened his eyes as his mind was still foggy as to where he was. "Yang?" was whispered with the smallest voice he had as his body reminded him of the damaged state it was in. He heard someone talking close by but there was a dense fog covering his vision, he tried to raise a hand but the movement was sluggish and uncoordinated. Slowly the fog lifted and his vision cleared, looking around he saw Mavis, "am I dead?" Mavis crossed her arms raising an eyebrow, "and if you were where would I greet you?" Omar turned to the side groaning, "God I'm in hell." Mavis gave an irritated smile, "I see, it seems your time away from home has made you both weak and grow an attitude." Still turned away he hesitated before reluctantly stating, "I broke it." Mavis looked at the different monitors tracking his vitals, "you broke the sword?" "No…..I broke the promise." "I'm not mad but I need you to tell me everything that happened."
After telling her everything he remembered they sat in silence for some time, before she got up walking toward him. When she was standing next to him she poked him on the nose, "from what you are saying there was no other way you could have ensured the safety of your friends." "But I killed them." "and if you had not then Levina would still live in fear that one night they would crawl into her room and hurt one of you or her parents, yes you broke the promise but if father were here now he would understand." "I need to get stronger, I need to get strong enough to not have to resort to using that power ever again." Mavis sighed, "You have the strength already, but you are afraid of using it." Omar stared at the ceiling when Mavis questioned, "If Yang was in a situation where you had to kill your opponent, would you?" Omar stared more intently as he thought. Mavis studied his face as he played out the situation in his head. After some time he answered, "If there was no other way other than killing my opponent….I…don't know." "Is it because you don't know or because you don't want to deal with reliving your opponent's final moments."
Omar was silent as Mavis pulled the chair closer, "I'm sorry that I cannot give you any advice on how to deal with that, despite having the same semblance. The only thing that I can say is that there are people that care about you, people that would feel immense pain if you were to die. I know you can't stop your body from absorbing the aura they turn into so I want you to remember all of the people you care about, let them be your light in the dark." Omar nodded as Mavis ran a hand through his hair, "it's getting long again, you're going to need a haircut soon." Getting up Mavis stretched, "get up because there is one thing that I want to teach you before I have to go back home." Omar sighed as he sat up, "thanks Mavis."
Taking a deep breath he could almost taste the aura, exhaling then taking in another deep breath he regenerated his arm and leg. The bandages and neck brace deconstructed adding to the material, after a few minutes his arm and leg were perfectly healed. Unhooking the wires on his chest he grabbed onto the bed for support as he deconstructed the wires in his neck healing the small hole, the various monitors displayed errors as a nurse entered the room. Mavis waved her off as Omar followed behind her, the pace was slow enough for him to keep up as his insides had some lingering pain. Exiting the building and walking through the courtyard, they walked further into the small forest out behind the building. Finding a small clearing they sat opposite each other, the sun was at its highest point when Mavis took a deep breath.
A warm breeze gently drifted past them as Mavis and Omar sat in the small clearing, small flowers began blooming around her. Omar clicked his tongue, "tch, show off." Mavis with her eyes closed smirked, "you know if you applied yourself to training further with your semblance you could do this much as well." Omar shrugged, "yeah yeah, so what did you want to teach me?" placing the palm of her hands upwards she took another deep breath, "what I hope that you can learn is how to mentally control your semblance, right now you use hand movements to create objects. With enough practice you can expand that to other things, even regenerating whole organs if need be." Omar gave her a skeptical look, "I'm not as good as you are with my semblance, and I can regenerate entire limbs thank you. Besides you're the only that got dad's semblance mastered already, I'm stuck on weapons, small constructs, and moderate healing. You can make almost living armor, summon weapons out of thin air, and even make that huge golem you drive around in."
Mavis sighed, "True but you are the one that has part of mother's semblance." Omar lowered his head hiding his face, "and I hate it so much, I don't want her semblance. I don't want to have to worry that taking a hit in battle could potentially kill me, you got lucky that your aura works right protecting you from damage. You got all of dad's semblance, you have all of mom's looks, you are the perfect child that mom always wanted. Me I got gypped, I have the broken aura that doesn't work right, I have to make sure the guy I'm fighting can't damage me internally or I'm fucked, I'm the one that can't attend dad's memorial service because I'm the one that killed him!"
Mavis opened her eyes to see that the shadow of a tree had secluded him in darkness, looking at the ground in front of him she made a small marigold bloom. Seeing the flower Omar sighed, "Fine whatever, where do we start?" Mavis watched as the shadow of the tree pulled back as the sun shined a little brighter, letting him vent hopefully relieved some of his stress but she now knew there were things bothering him. Focusing her eyes on him she started, "first take some deep breaths, don't worry by the end of this you should be fully healed."
Carmine, Delilah and Levina rushed to Omar's room when they heard that all of his readings had flat lined. Reaching the hallway they saw Dr. Canadensis standing pinching the bridge of her nose hearing the explanation from the nurse that last saw him. When they reached her Delilah immediately entered the room, Carmine asked, "What happened?" sighing she answered, "it seems that he woke up but his sister coerced him into following her, we have no idea the kind of condition he's in right now. The sooner we find him the better, if he would have just stayed put for a minute I could have evaluated him to give the ok on him moving around." Delilah exited the room, "he could not have gotten far." Carmine, Levina and the doctor split up as they searched the hospital. A few hours had past as the sun was still near the middle of the sky, Dr. Canadensis as a guard if he saw anyone walk outside. He told her about seeing a patient follow a woman out toward the forest, "dear god, she cannot think that putting him through any kind of training now with do anything but further lessen the chances of him healing properly."
Calling the other they gathered by the courtyard, as they neared the forest they saw Mavis walk out with Omar right behind her walking without much difficulty. When the group reached them Levina ran forward giving him a big hug, which prompted him to scream out, "Ahhhh pain, I may be walking around but I'm still not a hundred percent." She let go stepping back as Delilah breathed a heavy sigh, "You know, you can be such a pain." Dr. Canadensis stood in front of him tracing her hands down his torso, she had a look of concentration that deterred Mavis from speaking up. When she was done she stood straight up, "well it seems like you've healed the majority of the damage, but I recommend that you take it easy on the physical activity for a bit. You will feel soreness for another few days but aside from that you should be fine." She turned to Mavis giving a hard look, "waking him up gave you no right to move him, if you had simply called me I could have evaluated him and given the ok. But now we have to go back inside so can run some tests to see what exactly his condition is, honestly waiting a few minutes would not have killed either of you."
After an MRI he was cleared along with the rest of the team, Mavis had given him a hug goodbye as she had a mission waiting for her when she returned home. Before she left she asked the team, "I know my little brother can be a hand full but can I trust you all to look after him for me while I'm gone?" they all nodded as she smiled waving them goodbye. When she was gone Dr. Canadensis gave each of them the all clear to be discharged, with a final goodbye to Oxford and Evergreen Levina joined the group in the lobby.
On their way out they saw a large black truck waiting for them as Virgo held the door open, Omar and Delilah assisted Carmine in getting in the truck before getting in themselves. Before they drove away Virgo looked in the rearview mirror, "Mistress Donna would like all of you to come to the club, I can still take you to the airport but she insists on stopping at the club first." Looking around to everyone they all nodded as Carmine answered, "Ok take us there." Virgo nodded as she pulled the truck out of the hospital drop-off area. Levina handed Omar's scroll back to him as he pulled up Yang's number and selecting text.
Omar: hey
Yang: what's up Lev?
Omar: nope it's me :)
Yang: hey what's up how u feelin?
Omar: well I got tired of being dead
Yang: not funny :(
Omar: sorry sorry
Yang: so what's up?
Omar: well they're letting us go home now
Yang: like now now?
Omar: yeah but we're stopping by my sisters club first
Yang: oh ok
Yang: I'm glad you're ok
Omar: well I still have to collect on that bet we made during r date
Yang: well I'm waiting
Omar: u no making me blush like an idiot is not good for my health
Yang: lol
Yang: text me when ur on the way
Omar: K see u then
Putting his scroll away he leaned back into the chair, sitting across from Delilah he saw her scoot a little closer to Carmine smiling slightly. The seats were arranged across from each other with a small table built into the center, Carmine had his broken leg resting on top of the table as the truck turned the corner into the alley leading into the underground garage of the club. Stopping in front of a door way a pair of guards in suits were waiting as Virgo exited the truck as Vlad opened the door helping Carmine out, everyone else filed out shortly after he was standing to the side with his crutches. Guards stood on either side of them as Virgo led the way into an elevator. Delilah looked around nervously as the guards stood silent on either side of the elevator door. Giving a nervous laugh Delilah asked, "With this much security you'd think your sister was some kind of crime boss." Omar who was standing in front of the elevator doors answered without looking back, "she's several dozen pay-grades above a simple crime boss." Delilah tried to laugh but when no one made a comment she shrunk further into the back, Levina studied the guards and Omar as the elevator came to a stop.
As the doors opened more guards were waiting on the other side, one was holding a wheel chair and asked, "Sir if you would like we can offer you this chair while you are here." Carmine shook his head, "thank you but I'm fine with these." The guard nodded pushing the chair to the side as Virgo and Vlad led them down the hall with the guards on both sides of the group. Walking down the hall they stopped in the lobby before Donna's office as a man in an elaborate police uniform stepped out of the office leaving in a hurry. As he passed Carmine and the group he kept his head down and his eyes forward, Omar casually walked into the office paying the man no mind.
The others followed him inside the elaborately extravagant office where Donna sat behind her desk, the wall to her left was filled with different monitors playing security footage from some warehouse. Upon further inspection Delilah saw that it was the footage from the facility they had raided when they went to save Levina, looking at the screens she saw the fights that Carmine and Omar had fought. The scene changed for the worst when the video played when Carmine was stabbed in the back and when Omar took that massive concussive hit, Donna saw Delilah turn away from the screens prompting her to shut the wall over the screens. Taking a seat Omar asked, "So what was the chief of police doing here?" Donna sighed, "I asked him to hand over any evidence pertaining to the Jaeger investigation, be glad I did since they found some interesting items that would have caused problems for all of you very soon." Pressing a button on her desk Virgo came in holding Delilah's tonfas and Omar's sword, another assistant came in holding a bent and ruined shield placing them on the center table. The tonfas were bent at an odd angle with some wiring from the handle jutting out, no doubt the tonfas were unusable in their current condition.
Carmine inspected the remains of his shield touching it lightly, the embossed design on the front was missing a few pieces or was cracked and bent at an extreme angle. Looking at Omar's sword he asked, "How is your sword still in usable condition? Wasn't it buried in the building like ours were?" Donna answered, "His sword is made from Hanami steel, and it's a lot more durable than normal steel." Carmine laughed, "what is it half as light as normal steel while being twice as strong?" Donna smirked, "no actually, a blade made from Hanami steel is twice as heavy as it normally would be. But the up side to that added weight is that once it's set in a shape it's nearly indestructible." Delilah asked, "If it's so durable how are you able to forge it?" Donna shrugged, "don't know, you'd have to ask the blacksmiths that make the weapons and ships for us. Which bring me to the current condition of your weapons." Carmine and Delilah focused their attention on Donna, "right now those right there are worth a little less then scrape, but if you would like I could commission new weapons for you both?" Carmine rubbing his hand across the surface of his shield asked, "How much?" Donna quickly tapped some buttons on the holo-screens at her desk before answering, "If we start from scratch it would cost around thirty to forty thousand per item." Both Carmine and Delilah's jaw dropped at hearing the price.
Omar pulled out his scroll as Donna continued, "Now if we use those pieces there the cost goes down to around three to four thousand per item, which is without adding in the transformations they can do." Omar handed Donna his scroll, "what would the price be if I give you this?" Donna took his scroll and plugged it in to the port on her desk, after a few seconds Vigil loaded up and began transferring files over to her computer. Checking the files she raised an eyebrow, scrolling through a few more lists she gave him a sly smile, "how did you gets these?" "when Levina plugged Vigil into their main computer he copied over every file he could, would what is there right now pay for additional modifications they want?" moving the scrolling list to the side she nodded, "this will more then cover anything you may want."
An assist came in to write down all of the specifications and transformations that Carmine and Delilah wanted for their new weapons, Donna offered Levina a chance to upgrade her weapons which she declined. Omar asked, "Could I get a new sweater and pant?" Donna almost laughed, "Sure did you want a new color or something?" Shaking his head he stated, "No I need a set of clothes that can withstand a few tons of force, more specifically I want the elbow and knee protectors to be made of Hanami steel along with the steel casing on my shoes." Donna pondered for a few seconds before answering, "I'll see what I can do about the material of the clothes, but the protectors and shoe casing can be ready in a day or two." Omar nodded walking over to Carmine as the assistant finished writing down the last notes, Carmine took one last look at his shield as the assistant picked it up and carried it off.
Omar turned back to Donna, "hey are we gonna get in trouble for what happened at the docks?" She unplugged his scroll holding it out toward him, "with what you just handed me none of you have to worry about a thing, though I will ask that you not spread it around about what happened in that building." They all nodded as Virgo came in, "Mistress the plane and crew have been prepared." Looking out the window the sun was turning a burnt orange as it was beginning to set, Donna offered to let them stay to eat but Carmine politely declined, "thank you for all that you have done for us but we must respectfully decline. I believe there is a certain someone waiting for him back at the school." Carmine pointed to Omar which drew a smile from Donna, "OK well anytime any of you are in town feel free to stop by. Oh and it should be a few days for your weapons to be completed, they'll be delivered to your dorm room so you won't have to make the trip into town." They all thanked her as they left following Virgo back into the elevator, the same truck was waiting for them when they stepped out.
When they neared the airport Virgo turned down a small street that led to a security gate, pulling up and showing the guard something she had in her hand he let them pass through. As they drove Virgo looked in the rear view mirror, "before we reach our destination I must warn you that the mechanic crew that will be maintaining the truck and Bullhead are …more eccentric then the normal people you are used to dealing with." Carmine sat up a little and asked, "Are they good?" "They are without a doubt some of the best mechanics in Vale." Carmine smiled leaning back readjusting his leg, "then there shouldn't be a problem." Omar had his scroll out texting Yang.
Omar: Hey we just left my sisters club and are heading home right now
Yang: ok are you taking the plane ur sis gave u?
Omar: yup we ridin in style
Yang: lol k when u land text me
Yang: yeah cause I have tons of XXXXOOOOXXOXOXOXOXOXOX waiting for you!
Omar: ummm
Omar: ok
Yang: sorry Nora took my scroll
Omar: k but one of those X's is mine
Yang: don't worry big guy I'll be sure to give u more than just a kiss *wink*
Yang: ok Ren is bout to lose his girlfriend if she doesn't stop taking my scroll!
Omar: lol its fine, I'll text u in a bit we're getting on the plane now
Yang: k c u in a bit
Omar stared at the last message for a few seconds before Delilah leaned over and read the message over his shoulder, she had a huge smile on her face as she began to tease, "awww someone's in looooooove." Omar was irritated at first before a small smile creped onto his face, "Carmine can you please control your girlfriend." Delilah puffed her cheeks out as she pouted, "god can you not take a joke, right Carmine?" Carmine was turned away in such a manner that it was obvious that he was trying to hide his face. Delilah looked at him worried until she turned and saw the wide smile growing on Omar's face. After the gears in her head ticked for a few seconds she turned several shades of red. Virgo stopped when they reached an open hanger.
The Bullhead ramp was down as an extremely tall person was carrying large box's into the back, placing them by the Knight XV they turned when the truck had stopped by the hanger door. Calling out a small man appeared wiping his hands as his face was covered in grease and oil, motioning to the person they walked down the ramp and stood next to the man. Virgo opened the truck door helping Carmine out as the man called out into the hanger, "will you getch'ur ass out here, we got company!" a girl dressed in a complete Goth get up stepped out from inside the Bullhead holding a laptop, "I heard you the first time, and what's the big deal it's not like we have to be friends with these people." The large person spoke revealing themselves to be a woman, "it bad manners, daughter will make nice to employers." The girl rolled her eyes as she stood next to the man.
With the team standing in front of the three people Virgo introduced them, "this is the team of mechanics that will be maintaining the Bullhead and truck in-between missions." The man stepped forward, he was short with a lanky build, his hair was short and the color was hard to tell with all the oil and grease he was covered in, he had on blue coveralls with the top portion left off with the sleeves tied around his waist, also wearing what once was a white t-shirt. The man had a wide smile as he spoke, "the names Ford, y'all kids must be somethin to have gotten your hands on this beauty." The large woman gave the man a glare which prompted him to explain himself, "come'on darlin you know I love you most, but this bird is somethin else."
The woman huffed crossing her arms, she was extremely tall boarder lining on the seven and a half foot range, she was almost solid muscle making her seem even bigger, the blue overalls she had on had various oil stains along with the light blue shirt she wore underneath, her hair was tucked back into a pony tail, "my name Francesca, this my husband please be ignoring his crazy plane speak. And this is daughter, she is going through spooky phase so she not know manners."
The girl rolled her eyes as she went back to looking at her laptop leaning on one foot making her small frame shift, the eyeliner around her eyes was extremely heavy, her black lips were in a perpetual pout, the punk rock shirt she had on was tore on the sides, the fishnet sleeves were sewn into the sleeves of the t-shirt, the short black frilly skirt was held up by a spiked studded belt, and the calf high punk boots she wore were not tied all the way. Francesca leaned down giving her a sideways hug, "come now Myrtle introduce yourself." the girl rolled her eyes waving the one hand that was not holding up her laptop.
Levina squinted as she looked at Myrtle, "Myrtle?" Myrtle looked at Levina for a few seconds then had a huge smile on her face, "Levy!" both girls screamed out as they went to hug each other, Myrtle shoved her laptop into her mother's stomach as they shared a big huge jumping up and down screaming. They bombarded each other with questions as Francesca leaned toward Ford, "please be pinching me now, I have never seen spooky daughter smile so much." Ford chuckled, "I was just about to say the same thing." Carmine, Delilah and Omar were also at a loss for words as Levina turned, "sorry this is Myrtle, she was in the same orphanage as me." They hugged each other again as they walked into the plane, Carmine was about to go forward when he remembered, "Where's my scroll?" Virgo answered, "All of your scroll are on the Bullhead charging in a docking station Miss Myrtle installed, we have also taken the liberty of installing Vigil on each of your scrolls as well." Carmine nodded as Delilah helped him up the ramp, Francesca and Ford finished loading the Bullhead up. When everyone was strapped in Ford in the pilot seat pulled the bullhead out of the hanger, after doing one last systems check he fired the engines up and steered toward the school.