Zade and Weiss stared up at the turbine as it prepared to bathe them in an inferno. Zade suddenly coughed up blood and fell down on his back.
"Zade!" Weiss called out.
"C'mon Zade I need you. You need to teleport us out of here now." Zade responded by coughing up more blood.
"Can't… stop… pain… any… longer… can't… think… straight." Zade meekly said. Weiss finally looked down at Zade's chest and gasped at the horrific scene. Zade's entire abdomen was covered in 2nd degree burns, a large strip directly over his chest was sheer 3rd degree burns, and in some places, the skin was burned so badly that the bone underneath it could be seen.
"Hold on Zade. I have an idea." Weiss stated. Weiss sat on her knees to Zade's side and held her hands out over his chest. One of weiss glyphs appeared over Zade's chest. Weiss then proceed to use the glyph to cover and fill in Zade's skin with a tough layer of ice. Zade roared in agony as Weiss's operation agitated all of the burnt skin on his body.
"I know this must hurt but I just need you to stay awake." Weiss sympathized as she continued to cover his chest. Zade's hands scoured the ground for something they could grab on to, but they couldn't find anything. Zade's decided for actually using his hands to crack the ground and make his own holds. All of Zade's pain immediately began to flood away the minute Weiss had finished. At the same time the turbine activated flooding the room with intense fire. At the last second Zade sat up, wrapped his arms around Weiss, and pooled the last of his energy into one final teleportation. The couple landed gracefully just outside the room. Thankfully, a blast door had automatically activated preventing the heat of the eruption from reaching them.
"Weiss that was amazing. You're on fire." Zade praised.
"I do the best I can for you." Weiss smirked.
"No. Weiss you are really on fire." Zade warned.
"What no english accent? You know it makes me happy, especially after such an ordeal." Weiss responded, mocking hurt.
"Goddamit, Weiss you are legit on fire right now!" Zade yelled.
"What?" Weiss questioned, until she looked down and realized her skirt was actually on fire.
"AHHHH!" Weiss screamed as she hurriedly smothered the flames. "Awe! I liked this skirt." Weiss complained as soon as she was flame free. Zade and Weiss stared at each other for a moment before bursting into laughter. Weiss laid down next to Zade and cautiously hugged him as so not to aggravate his condition. The two laid, enjoying each others company waiting for the return of their comrades.
"Allister watch out!" Yang yelled as Allister dropped her in response to the buzzer.
"Cover yourself." Allister ordered. Yang curled up into a ball, covering her head, not sure what was going on. Yang heard a loud slam but didn't feel nearly the pain she had expected to. Yang opened her eyes and gasped at what she saw. Allister remained standing, arms outstretched, holding back a
two the walls of the room that had suddenly slammed together. Part of the metal in the walls had crumbled beneath Allister's had from the force of the impact.
"Al are you ok?" Yang asked worriedly as she jumped to her feet.
"Yeah mostly. Pretty sure that both ulna and radius are fractured though." Allister responded. Yang reached up and wrapped her arms around Allister's neck.
"Thank you. Now, how do we get out of here." Yang said.
"We could just use that hole that was created when I smashed the window in." Allister suggested. Yang looked across the room at the hole that was created in the room.
"Oh." Yang said.
"Anyway, How are we going to get you out of this room anyway?" Yang asked.
"That's the million dollar question now isn't it." Allister responded. The two fighters stood, staring at each other, attempting to brainstorm one way they would be able to get Allister out of the room. Suddenly, Yang's eyes lit up.
"I have an Idea." Yang announced. Yang placed her hands against one of the walls and began to push as hard as possible. Allister raised an eyebrow at Yang's unusual actions.
"Look, Once I've pushed the wall enough you can step forward on that side while keeping you power on the other side. This way we can slowly get you towards the wall." Yang explained.
"Not bad." Allister complimented as he stepped forward and felt the weight of the wall on his hand again. Yang then went to the other wall and repeated the same action. The couple continued this pattern until Allister was standing right in front of the hole in the wall.
"Yang, go through, I have it handled from here." Allister instructed. Yang nodded and hopped over to the other side. Once she was clear Allister lifted his leg and began kicking the concrete wall. Over time the wall began to crack and eventually crumbled down. Yang starred on, impressed at Allister's level of strength, despite his injuries. Allister took a couple of deep breaths before throwing himself forward.
"FFFFFFFFFFFFUCK!" Allister exclaimed as he just barely managed to avoid the smashing of the walls into one another.
"That… sucked." Allister stated. Yang giggled but motioned for the two of them to head to the main room. In the main room the pair looked over and saw Weiss and Zade laying together on the ground.
"Hey!" Yang called out. The pair on the ground rolled their heads to look at the new arrivals.
"I see you got pretty fucked up too huh." Zade commented.
"Yeah, I got some internal shit, and my arms are pretty damaged, but at least I'm not the cold hearted bastard you are." Allister responded, pointing to the layer of ice that was on Zade's chest.
"Fuck you. I'm tired." Zade responded before laying his head back down and closing his eyes. Yang and Allister sat next to the other pair and continued to wait for the rest of their comrades. Max rushed to the glass as quickly as possible when he heard the siren go off. Max reared his fist back and planted it on the window, which shattered under the force. Max jumped through the window and rushed to go untie Ruby.
"MAX! What was that! You just killed him without even blinking." Ruby said, horrified.
"It was him or me and you. There wasn't even a choice to be made, just a person to protect." Max calmly replied as he finished untying Ruby.
"I-i understand that you killed him to protect me and I do thank you for that, but did you really need to do it so gruesomely." Ruby said as she pointed to the heavily impaled body of Nox. Max shrugged.
"Probably but that was faster, first of all though we really should get outta here." Max suggested.
"Yeah, I'm surprised that whatever trap thing he set up hasn't gone off yet though." Ruby agreed. As soon as Ruby said that, however, a large steel gate descended, locking the two inside the room.
"Oops." Ruby chirped as Max facepalmed himself. The look on Ruby's face grew continuously more worried as miniscule holes began to appear all over the room. A thick green smoke soon began billowing in from the holes.
"Well, Today is my fucking lucky day isn't it. Poison smoke, Quick cover your mouth and nose."
Max instructed as he tossed Ruby's cloak to her. Ruby quickly wrapped her cloak around her face numerous times for protection.
"OK! So now how do we get out of here?" Ruby asked. "I'm not sure yet. Titan ran a scan for any potential points of escape." Max answered. "Searching." Titan's metallic voice ringed in compliance. The
pair stared helpless as the green gas further filled the room.
"No exit's detected." Titan concluded.
"Shit. No fuck this we're going out the front door." Max responded angrily.
"Titan, Protocol: full body protect. Target: Ruby Rose." Max instructed his armor. Titan immediately ejected Max and picked up Ruby, placing her inside himself.
"Max, what are you doing?" Ruby asked worriedly.
"Don't worry. I have actually done this before." Max reassured. Max reached for the back of his belt and picked up a revolver, which had a read ring painted around the tip of the barrel. Max pointed the gun at the door and fired a .50 caliber sized burn dust crystal right at the door. The crystal flew forward and embedded itself in the gate.
"Max! Whatever your doing, please do it now." Ruby said as the gas rises ever higher.
"Amplify." Max said and the burn crystal began to glow, as if all the power inside was trying desperately to be set free. Max funneled some of his aura into the crystal, causing it to explode. As intended the resulting massive explosion blew the gate to shreds, however, unintended was that all of the poison gas in the room also caught on fire, creating an even bigger explosion and sending Max and Ruby flying out into the main room. Max stood up he was quickly smacked on the head by Ruby.
"You idiot. That was really dangerous. You could have gotten yourself seriously hurt." Ruby said.
"I'm sorry. But I did say I have done this before." Max countered.
"Yo Max you alive." Allister called out.
"Yes yes. I am fine" Max responded as he lifted his head. Upon doing so Ruby and Allister began laughing uncontrollably.
"What? WHAT?" Max demanded.
"You… you… burnt your… eyebrows off." Ruby managed to get out before the laughing managed to overtake her again. Max reached up for his forehead and sure enough. His eyebrows were missing. Max sighed before laughing himself. The group all circled around Zade and waited for the rest of their group to appear.
Blake's eyes widened in pure terror as a silver, air thin, razor sharp wire ejected from the wall and came hurtling towards her eye at blinding speed. It took Blake a second to realize that the wire had never made contact with her skin. A black tendril stood just millimeters in front of her face blake's breathing hitched as numerous other wires extended from the wall, all intending to do her mortal harm. Yet just as the first a black tendril appeared to stop it. The wires and whips devolved into and endless storm of blows and counter blows. Blake looked through the window to see Darron, hunched over in pain. Darkness seeped off of his hands and moved to become the whips that protected Blake.
"Darron!" Blake called out. "Why are you doing this? I didn't ask you to come here." Darron threw up a significant amount of blood before he responded.
"It doesn't matter why I'm here. I came to settle an old grudge with an old enemy. Saving you was just an added benefit." Darron threw up more blood before falling to his knees.
"Darron! Are you ok?" Blake asked.
"It doesn't matter. It's not like you care." Darron responded harshly. A ridiculously large spear of darkness pierced it's way through the window, shattering it. As well as Blake's confines. Blake's rushed to her feet and followed a preset path formed from Darron's darkness out of the room. Blake hurried to Darron's side and fell to her knees next to him.
"Darron! What's wrong. I'm sorry I got mad I you for punching Sun. I'm sorry I said what I did. You're my best friend, so let me help you. Darron I'm sorry." Tears welled up in Blake's eyes as she wrapped
her arms around Darron.
"Blake." Darron whispered.
"Yes what?" Blake asked worried, yet eager to help.
"I'm the one who should be sorry. I shouldn't have gotten jealous but I… Need you to take this and leave." Darron said, pulling gambol shroud from her back. Blake grabbed the blade and held it in her hands.
"Wait what about you?" Blake asked.
"Just go. I will follow shortly. I just have some unfinished business to attend to. You must trust me." Darron insisted. Blake nodded and wiped the tears from her eyes before standing to run from the room. Darron stood up and walked to the center of the room with the wires. Darron removed his coat
and laid it on the floor.
"Blake." Darron spoke to himself. "I'm sorry I could only be your friend again for so short a time and managed to piss you off in also such short a time, but I would rather die than allow this evil which dwells within my heart from being released to harm you. Tis in my final moments only I can say.
Blake…. I love you." Darron released the darkness from his grasp and allowed the razors to tear into his body. Blood spilled generously as Darron fell to his knees and eventually his stomach, completely defenseless the razors continued to dig into him. As Darron laid there only a single though permeated his consciousness.
"Hahaha! Bitch… We're free." Blake rushed out into the main room with gambol shroud in her hand.
"Blake!" Team RWBY yelled as they ran to surround their teammate.
"You're back this is great." Ruby said from within the group hug.
"It's good to be back guys." Blake responded.
"Yo Blake, where's Darron?" Max asked.
"He said just for us to go on ahead, he'll catch up with us later." Blake answered. Team ENDD looked at her curiously, but shrugged and started standing up.
"Wait Zade." Weiss instructed as she ran over to support him. The group made their way over to the elevator and boarded it. The elevator began its ascent and the two team's minus Darron were
laughing yet again at Max's missing eyebrows. When the Elevator reach the top and opened its door all of team RWBY fell silent. They looked out upon the warehouse and all the carnage with eyes filled with fear.
"Wha...What did you guys do?" Yang asked. Team RWBY looked at Team ENDD who were just standing there with smirks on their faces.
"That." All three of them answered in union as the pointed to the masses of corpses which graced the floor, walls. And ceiling of the warehouse.
"Don't act so casual about it." Yang scolded.
"How the hell could you guys possibly kill this many people and not feel bad about. You're monsters!" Weiss accused.
"Yeah, we know." Zade answered. Team RWBY looked at team ENDD confused.
"Ozpin never did tell you guys exactly what we did before being drafted to Beacon
academy. Did he?" Allister asked.
"No. Why?" Blake countered.
"Here's the reality. For the past 6 years team ENDD has the most prominent team of assassins in all of
remnant. We've killed thousands of people in 600 completed jobs. We've also assassinated some of the most prominent figures in society." Max explained. Team RWBY stared at them.
"I mean you guys seemed so happy and fun back at Beacon, who would have guessed." Yang said.
"Don't get us wrong everything we've said to you is real and we were happy. We've spent most of our lives in combat so every moment where we aren't in combat is a moment we try to cherish the most
because for us, sooner or later it will always revert back to the same life of pain." Zade explained.
"Look it's not exactly work that we were necessarily proud of. But it's what we're good at and it's what we've been doing for years. It was the easiest way for us to survive." Allister stated.
"We never did expect you to understand,"
"It's not that we don't understand it's just. This much death on this scale, It's not exactly like I would have envisioned it would be." Ruby said. Zade chuckled.
"Yeah, We may have gone a little overboard. I mean we were pretty pissed that they took out favorite girls so." Zade conceited.
"It's fine. Besides, we need to get use to this kind of death anyway, if we are to be successful hunters." Yang admitted.
"Lies." Sounded a twisted voice. Teams RWBY and ENDD turned towards the elevator. As
the door slid open Darron emerged.
"Their words are deceitful. The are disgusted with us. And rightly so. For we are the monsters of their nightmares, but worry not. They shall all find peace in their death." Darron continued. Team RWBY looked on scared while team ENDD looked defeated. As Darron slowly stepped forward Allister
noticed Darron's cloak billowing behind him, with a dark liquid running off the bottom of the cloak.
"Blake, I need you to tell me right now! Did at any time did Darron ever ask Krisse what she feared most in this world while he stared into her eyes?" Allister demanded.
"Y-Yeah why?" Blake asked.
"Oh boy." Allister responded quickly. Team ENDD stared seriously at one another. Without warning Allister sprinted forward and began punching at Darron. Darron fell backwards and began
blocking Allister's assault.
"Guys! Get team RWBY out of here and run. I'll do as much damage as possible before catching up." Zade and Max nodded before grabbing team RWBY and running, leaving Allister to his bout. Max, Zade and team RWBY ran through the streets of attempting to get back to Beacon academy. During the run
Team RWBY had called in their lockers and equipped themselves with their weapons.
"Zade, you need to explain what the fuck is going on right now!" Weiss demanded.
"Sweet heart I'd love to but I don't really know either." Zade called back.
"What do you mean?" Yang asked.
"All we know is that is has something to do with when Darron was very young. Even before he met you Blake. He hates talking about it. We also know it happens whenever he overuses his semblances. It causes the voices in his head to grow stronger and Darron loses all sense of who he really is. Nothing matters to him at this point except for killing everything he can get his hands on." Zade explained.
"If that's true then how do we stop him?" Ruby asked.
"We kill him." Max stated simply.
"Wait wait wait." Blake demanded.
"You can't be serious right?"
"Deadly. We've only seen Darron like this once before and that incident was only maybe 1/10th as bad as this one already seems to be. At least that time he wasn't nearly as strong as he is this time and we were all at full strength. Whatever set him up for this trigger was something that truly hurt him."
Zade answered. Blake looked down guiltily.
"Wait does what happened in the forest yesterday have anything to do with it?" Yang asked.
"Yes, exactly. Whatever happened right before that is what caused a resurgence of voices. It must have been worse than we thought, or Darron did a poor job of suppressing them. Either way, Darron has just become the most bloodthirsty individual on remnant." Max answered. The group stopped suddenly as Allister came crashing through the top of one of the nearby buildings before crashing into the street, leaving a sizable crater.
"Allister!" The group yelled as they ran up to their friends. As Zade approached
Allister managed to get back to his feet.
"Where do they get this power." All of team RWBY though simultaneously.
"Al, What happened?" Zade asked.
"He's definitely much stronger than last time. I've never seen him generate these levels of hatred and sorrow before. We may very well die today." Allister conceded.
"If that's so then we'll do everything we can to bring him to hell with us." Zade agreed.
"Can you do the thing?"
"Not yet. My aura hasn't recharged enough, especially after that last fight. If you can buy me some time then Maybe I could. To use it now would be useless." Allister answered.
"Well, How much time do you need?" Zade demanded.
"Every single fucking second you could possibly get me." Allister said. Zade nodded understandingly.
"Uh, Zade you're going to want to see this." Weiss called. Allister sat cross legged and began meditating, as dull white aura appearing around him. Zade ran over to the group.
"Look we need to buy Al as much time as we possibly can got it?" Zade instructed. The group nodded in agreement.
"But Zade you're going to want to see this." Weiss said again as she pointed down the street. Zade looked to see Darron twirling around in the middle of the street.
"So delectable. You can feel it can't you Zade? All the beautiful beautiful corpses that are about to litter this landscape." Darron said.
"Web of death." Darron said before throwing his arms outwards. Large black tendrils began bursting through the building on either side of the street and crashing into the building on the other side. On each tendrils were the body of the many residents who were unfortunate to be in the spears way. Men, women, children, none were spared the black fate brought upon by Darron's insanity. Zade stepped forward and unhooked and expanded his scythes.
"Zade you can't fight him. You aren't nearly in a well enough condition for something like that." Weiss insisted.
"Sorry Weiss. This fight has nothing to do with strength. This is a fight for a promise, a promise we made to Darron. That we would never allow this evil to roam the planet." Zade stated.
"HA! Well then come show me the strength of your promise vs. the strength of my hatred." Darron challenged as his hands and feet erupted in a dark crimson aura. Darron and Zade continued to stare each other down, until suddenly they both disappeared. Both fighters appeared in the middle of the street, their weapons clashing with one another. Zade and Darron pushed off of each other. The minute Zade touched the street his disappeared. Zade reappeared behind Darron and brought his scythes across Darron's body. Darronanaged to block both scythes with his sword. Zade disappeared again and appeared taking more slashes. As Zade continued to teleport and slash all around Darron, Darron spun his sword all around him, managing to catch each swing of Zade's scythes. Zade teleported in front of Darron and took yet another swing with his scythes. Just as the blade's were about to make contact Darron disappeared. Darron swiftly reappeared behind Zade and delivered a swift roundhouse kick to his rib cage. Zade was sent flying through the wall of one of the building on the side of the street. Darron rested his blade on his shoulder as Zade stepped back out of the rubble. "Is that is?" Zade asked mockingly. Darron's face grew into a disturbed grin.
"Oh, I have much planned for you." Darron clarified before suddenly appearing in front of Zade. Darron swung his blade rapidly at Zade. Zade gracefully managed to dodge each swing, though he could feel the displaced wind rush by his face. Darron swung low hoping to cut Zade in half. Zade merely limboed back and watched the blade pass over his face. Zade teleported into the air
right above Darron and placed a kick right at the point where Darron's neck met his back. Darron stumbled forward and turned around. Darron's turn was only met by a kick to his jaw as Zade flipped away. The kick launched Darron into the air. Zade teleported under Darron and slammed his two scythes into Darron's back, sending Darron higher into the air. Zade teleported into the air next to Darron. Darron lunged out with his sword, but Zade managed to spin out of the air. Zade used his
scythes to hook onto Darron before flipping over himself and sending Darron flying towards the street. As Darron stood up he kicked out, managing to perfectly predict where Zade would reappear. Zade felt the ice that covered and protected his chest began to lightly chip under the impact. Before Zade could even finish flying through the air Darron appeared behind him ready to slash him with his blade. Zade focused his aura into the small of his back. When Darron swung at Zade the blade failed to pierce his flesh but did send Zade rolling across the ground. Zade managed to right himself mid roll and slid across the ground. Zade drew his two Scythes across his chests.
"Omniscience." Zade muttered before disappearing. At the same time Darron placed the flat of his blade against his open palm in a prayer position. "
Typhoon of sorrows." A Large number of Blake tendrils rose from various places on Darron's skin and began whirling around at blinding speeds. Suddenly the typhoon stopped and Zade reappeared. Zade and Darron stared at each other maliciously. A few seconds later the air right where Darron's typhoon was was
suddenly lit up with what appeared to be an infinitely number of sparks. As if some blade were slicing against solid air. Team RWBY stared, confused, until Weiss realized what was happening.
"No way. Darron managed to stop Zade's omniscience." Weiss said.
"That's why we need to kill him." Max stated. Back on the battlefield. Zade and Darron traded blows with their weapons. Over time it became apparent that even though Zade was beginning to feel the fatigue, Darron had energy to spare. Darron ducked under one of Zade's scythe's and slammed his blade into Zade's hip. Zade grimaced in pain as he felt the blade dig down to the bone. Darron pulled out the blade and swiftly side kicked Zade in the chest. Zade felt the ice crack even more as he slid backwards across the asphalt. Zade breathed heavily as Darron casually rolled his shoulder.
"Your body will make a fine display for my trophy room." Darron complimented.
"I doubt it." Zade compacted one of his scythe's and held the remaining one perfectly vertical behind his head. In response Darron turned his side and laid his blade behind his back. The blade began to glow with the same deep crimson that coated Darron's hands and feet. Zade also gave off a heavy pressure.
"Reaper stance 3: Skull splitter." Zade said.
"Crescent of Hatred." Darron also said. Both men slashed downwards with their weapons creating two massive shockwaves. Darron's was a deep crimson while Zade's was a dull blue. The two shockwaves met in the middle of the two warriors and continued to grind against one another. The impact of the shockwaves sent out a third shockwave which shattered all of the windows in a large vicinity around the fight. Team RWBY continued to watch in shock and admiration.
"How is Zade able to call upon such power, even after receiving all of those injuries?" Blake asked.
"That's Zade for you." Max answered.
"Wooooow." Ruby said while watching the fight. The two shockwaves continued clashing into each other, canceling each other's energy, until they both dissipated completely. Darron promptly dashed forward, leaving behind a shock wave from his departure point. Darron stopped right in front of Zade and tried to land a punch in his face. Darron growled as his fist hit nothing but open air. Zade reappeared behind Darron and latched onto his shoulders. Zade pulled Darron as far away from the rest of the group as possible. Darron reached behind himself and yanked Zade off. Darron spun and landed a backfist directly on the side of Zade's face, causing the bone to crack. Zade spun around and stopped just in time to feel Darron knee him right in the chest. Zade coughed as he felt the cracks in the ice increase.
"I'm out of energy, Guess I better make this count. It's up to the rest of you." Zade thought to imself. Zade began teleporting back and forth all around Darron. Darron tried repeatedly to reach out and grab at Zade but Zade slipped right through his fingers every time. Suddenly Darron saw Zade as he appeared a number of feet away. Zade slauted Darron.
"Good luck." Zade called out. Darron stood confused until he noticed the thousands of feathers that were lightly floating all around him, and reaching all the way up to the sky. Zade opened his palm to
reveal a rather large lightning dust crystal.
"Grand tower." Zade said.
"FUCK YOU!" Darron yelled out as all of the feather began to glow yellow. All of the feathers
erupted into one gigantic bolt of lighting that slammed down on Darron. The lightning was so bright it convinced people even on the outer reaches of the country that morning had come. Zade breathed in heavily as the lightning continued to furiously pour down on Darron. Eventually the lightning receded leaving a large cloud of dust. Zade cautiously approached the dust cloud.
"Whew, that was scary." Ruby said.
"No." Max warned.
"We're not done yet." Right on cue a crimson covered fist came through the dust hitting Zade directly in the chest.
"Hated impact." Darron's voice said. Zade was slammed backwards, the ice on his chest completely
shattered, towards Yang, who managed to catch him. Team RWBY stared on as Darron emerged from the dust cloud completely unscathed.
"W-what?" Blake asked.
"That's impossible." Weiss stated fear evident in her voice. Darron laughed demonically.
"That's one. Now, Which of you will be my next sacrifice?" Darron asked before laughing again. In Beacon academy Team JNPR was sleeping in their room peacefully until a bright light came filtering through their window. Jaune was the first to be stirred.
"W-wha… What the fuck?" Jaune asked in disbelief as he laid eyes on the large lightning bolt in the middle of Vale's capital.
"Huh?" Pyrrha asked groggily.
"We need to get outside now." Jaune instructed. Immediately the entire team jumped into action. Once they were outside. Team JNPR noticed that a number of the other teams had noticed the bolt as well. Jaune scanned the field until he notice team CFVY a few feet away.
"Coco, Coco." Jaune called out.
"Hey Jaune. What's up." Coco answered.
"Hey what do you know about that thing out there in the city?" Jaune asked.
"Yeah. I wonder if it's a new pancake restaurant. Please tell me it's a new pancake restaurant." Nora asked, her mouth beginning to water.
"I doubt it's pancakes Nora." Ren stated.
"Awwww." Nora complained.
"Nah sorry guys. I'm in the dark here to." Coco explained.
"I wish there was some way we could figure out what was going on though." Pyrrha said. "Well actually There is a way we could get done if we wanted to. As juniors we have full access to the School's airship docks. We could get a flight down if you wanted." Coco suggested.
"Yeah that sounds like a good idea. Let's do it. I can't seem to shake this feeling that our friends are in trouble." Jaune agreed as the two teams began to run towards the air docks. At the top of Beacon tower Professor Ozpin had fallen asleep at in his chair, after doing some paperwork. The headmaster was quietly breathing until a rather concerned Goodwitch and a rather Irate Ironwood.
"Wake up!" Goodwitch commanded. Almost on reflex Ozpin shot straight up in his chair and was awake.
"Goodwitch Wha? Did I fall asleep in my office again?" Ozpin asked.
"Now is not the time for chit chat Ozpin." Ironwood stated sternly.
"Why what's happening?" Ozpin asked now curious about the situation.
"First of all, look." Goodwitch explained pointing outside. Ozpin turned and noticed the giant bolt of thunder coming from the city.
"Oh dear." Ozpin stated.
"Oh wait it gets better." Ironwood stated. Ironwood turned and activated the screen on Ozpin's desk. Ozpin watched intently as images of Darron and Allister's deathmatch throughout a number of the city's streets rolled through.
"Oh, dear" Ozpin stated. Ozpin continued to watch as Darron encountered the rest of the group and still watched the footage of Darron's web of death as it killed nearly all of the nearby residential inhabitants.
"You assured me that everything would go perfectly well with these boys. You said you had everything under control. You said you had a way to stop this exact problem from surfacing." Ironwood accused.
"Something must have happened that I don't know about that would be an additional trigger. I assumed that he would be capable of controlling it." Ozpin admitted.
"Well I guess not. But we need to figure out a solution now." Ironwood said.
"For once I actually agree with him." Goodwitch admitted.
"Unfortunately there's nothing we can do." Ozpin said.
"What do you mean?" Ironwood asked.
"We both know that your military might would do nothing against Darron. Even I only know the basics of it. I have no true Idea how it works or what the extends of Darron's semblance and subsequent "condition" are, but what I do know that the people who already know the most about him are those who are currently facing him in combat, and if teams ENDD and RWBY are unable to stop him,
we may be in some serious trouble." Ozpin explained.
"Regardless, You are in for some serious trouble after all of this blows over." Ironwood warned.
"I know… I know." Ozpin admitted, already attempting to plan his own defense. Back on the street Darron waited impatiently for his next challenger.
"Come now, Don't tell me you're too afraid." Darron insulted. Max cocked backed Titan's guns prepping them for a fight until he was interrupted by a pair of blurs rushing forward.
"Iceflower." Ruby yelled as she and Weiss raced towards Darron.
"Wait guys!" Yang tried to call out after them. Blake calmly placed her hand on Yang's shoulder.
"There's nothing we can do. Don't worry, They have full aura reserves and they are trained hunters. They can take care of themselves" Blake reassured Yang.
"If you're sure." Yang responded. Ruby and Weiss quickly rushed towards Darron who simply raised an eyebrow.
"I see, two beautiful lambs to the slaughter huh?. Eh, I'm not picky. Blood is blood." Darron laughed to himself.
"You shouldn't laugh. These lambs have teeth!" Ruby yelled in defiance. Weiss stopped running while Ruby continued on, her trail of petals growing ever longer. Weiss stabbed her rapier into the ground. Numerous circles of glyphs surrounded Darron. As soon as Ruby stepped on one she accelerated exponentially. Darron watched as Ruby was merely a red smear as she dashed along the layers of glyphs.
"Can't follow me can you." Ruby taunted.
"You're even worse than Zade." Darron answered. Darron casually walked towards Weiss's glyphs. As soon as Darron stepped foot on Weiss's glyph he suddenly disappeared. Weiss watched in horror as suddenly Ruby found herself in the center of the glyphs as Darron dashed as a black blur all around her. Black streaks raced over Ruby's body as Darron dashed across the center, slashing at Ruby with every pass. Weiss immediately called off her glyphs, and Darron skidded to a halt. Ruby fell to her knees. Darron started walking towards Ruby, and drew his blade back. Darron stopped walking as he noticed two clock like glyphs appearing on the walls on either side of him.
"Interesting." Darron commented as he dashed jumped backwards. As soon as Darron landed he began swinging his blade, deflecting Weiss's attempts to run him through with Myseranter.
"You're swordplay is well refined." Darron complemented. "But lacks strength." Darron slammed his blade down into a block, causing Weiss to stumble off balance. Darron promptly jammed his knee into the heiress's chest. Weiss felt the air leave her lungs as she went flying down the
street. Weiss landed ungracefully next to Ruby.
"C'mon Weiss this isn't the time for us to be quitting, We can do more than this, we need to." Ruby encouraged. The two partners stood up as Darron began approaching them.
"Watch this." Weiss told Ruby. As Weiss and Ruby readied themselves. Once Darron got close enough the two glyphs Weiss has set on the sides of the building activated and began casing Darron in solid Ice.
"Nice." Ruby complimented as Darron was completely encased. The Two girls stood catching their breath when they noticed the ice that Darron was encased in was starting to vibrate. Crack began to branch out from Darron's location to the edge of the ice. Suddenly the ice burst open freeing Darron.
"Nuisance." Darron muttered. Darron brought his sword over head and down on the charging heiress. Weiss barely managed to raise her rapier in time to block. The force of the blow cause the ground beneath Weiss to crack. While Weiss held up Darron's blade Ruby dashed forward and began swinging at Darron with her scythe. Darron activated the earth dust in his cloak, which hardened to mitigate much of Ruby's damage. Ruby then dashed straight in front of Darron. Ruby took a large upwards swing, cutting into Darron's chest from lower left hip to upper right shoulder. Ruby then flipped her scythe and jammed the spear on the bottom into the center of Darron's chest, leaving a decent sized hole. Ruby finished the combo by flipping her scythe again and using the sniper function to shoot Darron in the face. Darron flopped onto his back and Weiss and Ruby jumped backwards.
"Alright it looks like we hurt him." Weiss congratulated.
"Wait look." Ruby pointed out. The girls watched as Darron stood up. Darron touch looked down at the blood running down his chest.
"Oh, That tickles. Sorrow stitching." The girl's eyes widened as dark liquid began to run off of Darron's fingers. As the liquid dripped it began to move itself towards Darron's wounds. The darkness began weaving itself into the wound's until they were completely sealed. Once Darron's bleeding had stopped he disappeared. Before Weiss and Ruby could even comprehend what was going on Darron reappeared behind them and smashed their skulls together. Both girls cried out in pain.
"You know. I always hated Age before beauty, so I think I'll start with you." Darron said lifting Ruby by her neck. Darron reared back and tossed Ruby down the street. Before Ruby could stand back up Darron appeared in front of her, with his foot on her chest, pinning her down. Ruby tried activating her semblance to get away. Darron grabbed out with his hand and grabbed Ruby's ankles, stopping her escape. Darron pulled Ruby back towards himself and slammed his forearm down. Crushing Ruby into the ground and breaking a few of her ribs. Ruby cried out in pain. Darron grabbed the back of Ruby's head and slammed it twice into the asphalt, drawing more cries of pain from the huntress. Darron drew his sword up and plunged it into Ruby's back. Ruby screamed in pain as Darron began wiggling
the blade inside the wound.
"RUBY!" Yang called out, her eyes a blood red. Darron redrew his sword and prepared to stab Ruby again when her noticed Weiss using her glyphs to rapidly accelerate herself towards her partner. Darron snapped out a kick backwards, snapping her jaw off one of its hinges. Weiss stumbled backwards, as she dropped Myseranter and held her jaw in pain. Because of such Weiss was unprepared for Darron's swift kick to her ribs, snapping a few. Weiss stumbled back and coughed up blood. Darron lifted a leg and stepped down on Weiss's, snapping the bond clean in two and sending one end piercing through her skin. Weiss screamed as she fell to the asphalt. Tears ran from Weiss's eyes from the pain as she tried to crawl away from Darron.
"I guess, If you wish to be first to die then so be it." Darron said as he prepared to decapitate Weiss in one quick stroke. Just as Darron intended to swing his blade he found it connected with the dual blades of gambol shroud. Darron growled down at Blake for a moment before he felt an iron coated fist connect with his cheek. Yang released a shotgun blast from her gauntlet into Darron's face point blank. Darron flipped in the air before managing to land directly on the ground. As Darron stopped himself he immediately felt Yang's fist slam into his stomach. Darron slid backwards. The assault was pressed as Blake dashed forward and began assaulting Darron with Gambol shroud. Darron used his blade to defend against the attack and produce counter blow. Blake rapidly used her semblance to dodge each blow. Darron kicked forward, managing to catch Blake in the chest, sending her backwards. Yang was quick to take her partners place in the fight. As Darron tried to slice at Yang she tried to dodge as many as possible while taking all the damage she could.
"I need to minimize damage. But I need it for my semblance. I need to remember what Al told me." Yang coached herself as she continued her round against Darron. Darron drew back his sword in an attempt to run Yang through, however, Darron's eyes widened in surprise when her couldn't
move the blade forward. Darron looked back to reveal that Blake had used an ice clone to hold his hand in place.
"Well, Shit." Darron said. Darron turned back around to see Yang running at him at full speed.
"Sorrow drill." Darron said. Darron's free hand became cloaked in darkness. The darkness began to spin itself until it formed a drill like object around Darron's hand. Darron and Yang's punch collided with one another releasing large amounts of energy. Both fighters were knocked back the
blow. Darron yanked hard with his hand, freeing himself from Blake's ice clone.
"Jaws of sorrow." Darron said. A number of black tendril shaped like jaws began emerging up through the ground. Blake and Yang began jumping around, hoping to avoid the set of jaws. In their distraction Darron managed to sneak up behind Blake. Darron began slashing and hacking away at Blake, who tried feebly to block using Gambol shroud. Darron managed to get inside Blake's defenses and chopped down on her collarbone. Darron then lift Blake by her neck, choking her, Darron calmly re sheathed his blade and jumped out of the way of one of Yang's punches.
"I feel that a more personal approach is better suited for your demise." Darron said as he began relentlessly punching Blake. Blake desperately tried to prevent herself from crying out.
"AH! I just had a wonderful idea." Darron mused. Darron pulled Blake in real close to his face.
"Darron, please." Blake whimpered.
"Tsk,Tsk. How pitiful? Nonetheless, I have a question. What is your greatest fear?" Darron asked. Blake watched as Darron's eyes began to fill completely black. Blake watched as an entire playthrough of her life flashed across Darron's eyes.
"I see." Darron said as he threw Blake. Blake soared across the air until she felt herself be caught by a set of strong arms. Blake was about to start running back at Darron until she felt those same strong arms pull her in close. One of the hands began to lightly stroke her cheek and Blake's eyes widened in absolute terror.
"Hello my, darling." Blake heard that voice softly whispered in her ear. Blake attempted to struggle against her captor, but couldn't break free.
"No, Adam." Blake Whispered to herself.
"I'm so glad you remembered me, my dear." Adam spoke in her ear. Adam slowly licked the
side of Blake's face, causing her to shiver.
"Just like I remember." Adam mused. "Now that we're together again… We can finished where we started, before you so rudely left me." Blake continued to struggle futilely as she felt Adam's hand begin to caress her. Tears rolled down Blake's eyes as Adam's wandering hands traveled
further down her body. Just as Adam's hand were about to grasp Blake's womanhood, his hand stopped suddenly. Blake pulled away from Adam's grip and turned around. Adam's body was twitching as Darron's blade had pierced through his skull. Blake saw Darron grasping his forehead with one hand.
"That's enough of that." Darron said. Blake sighed in relief. Her relief was short lived though as Darron promptly began punching Blake's face. Completely shattering the two sides of her skull.
Blake cried out as she fell backwards in defeat.
"Blake!" Darron heard Yang yell. Darron swiftly spun around, slicing out with his blade. Yang reacted by turning and ducking. Yang hadn't accounted for the fact that the sudden downward duck would cause her hair to fly up, and Darron's blade sliced right through it, cutting it to even less than shoulder length. Yang righted herself facing Darron. The entire rest of the group, despite their condition, stared at Darron.
"What has he done?" Zade asked.
"Unless all of hell upon Vale." Ruby answered. Yang looked down at the mounds of hair on the ground around her. Yang's hand immediately shot to her head. The second realization set in Yang's entire body began to tremble in fearsome rage. Yang's Rage caused the entire street to rumble.
"You you you… I WILL KILL YOU!" Yang screamed as her irises screamed blood red, and her hair ignited in furious fire.
"OH! This will be excellent." Darron laughed. Darron's laughter was cut short as Yang sucker punched Darron directly in the stomach. The force of the punch knocked Darron up into the air. Yang jumped up in front of Darron and began littering Darron's entire body with punches. Yang landed one super heavy punch on Darron's face, sending him crashing to the ground. Yang landed above Darron and again
began relentlessly punching him. Darron coughed up blood as he felt his ribs taking intense damage. Yang landed a blow across Darron's face and he felt the bone beneath begin to crack. Darron pulled his legs in and kicked Yang off of him. Yang rolled across the ground and lunged at Darron again. Darron and Yang became locked in a martial arts showdown. Throughout the match Yang was steadily gaining the upper hand as her punches kept growing stronger and stronger due to her semblance. Darron managed to get a hit into Yang's chest giving him some breathing room.
"What the fuck is with this woman? No no no, fuck that, I'm done messing with this shit." Darron said to himself while preparing for Yang's next rage fueled onslaught. Yang raced towards Darron at full speed. Darron waited for Yang's first punch before spinning and kicking Yang's hand aside, causing Yang to do a full 180.
"Cage of Sorrows." Darron said. Darkness flowed from Darron's cloak and wrapped itself around Yang. Yang struggled against the shadows but the darkness held stout. "You've pissed me the fuck off." Darron informed, his whole body being enveloped by the crimson fire. Darron drew his hands back and began concentrated the crimson hatred between his hands. "Apocalypse of Hate." Darron said
as he slammed his palms into Yang's back. Yang screamed as she felt all the vertebrae in her back break, and the skin on her back being torn apart. Yang rocketed down the street and was lucky to have been caught by Max. At the same moment Zade managed to harness just enough energy to teleport the rest of team RWBY in front of Allister. Darron stepped forward.
"I'm see of those second rate bitches wasting my time. I think it's time to finish of the main course." Darron announced. Max walked towards Darron, cocking the barrels on Titan. Max crouched low before launching himself up in the air and raining fire down upon Darron. Darron began sweeping his sword all around himself, deflecting the bullets as they came. Darron used his wind boots to jump into the air and began slashing at Titan's armor. Max simply reared back and slammed his fist on Darron's jaw. Darron spiraled down to earth. Darron landed and promptly launched himself back into the air. Darron rammed his shoulder into Titan. Max grabbed Darron's ankle and tossed him higher into the sky. Max opened his shoulder pauldrons and fired two napalm grenades at Darron. The night sky brightened in a flash of fire. Darron fell from the resulting smoke and slammed his foot down on Titan's head. The two plummeted down to earth. The dust that was kicked up from the impact, Darron's vision was severely impaired. Suddenly two shadows appeared in the dust. Darron's eyes widened when he heard the two shadows crackle with electricity. Darron grunted in pain as the electricity began to coarse through his body. Titan's fist came through the the dust and launched Darron off. As Darron righted himself Titan came charging out of the dust with his two chainsaws extended. Max brought both chainsaws across at Darron. Darron swiftly jammed his sword at the meeting point of the two chainsaws. Sparks flew as the chainsaws grinded against Darron's blades. Darron dropped down and slid forward, under the chainsaws. Darron brought his blade up and across Titan's neck. Titan flew backwards. Titan landed on his feet and spun,landing a kick straight to Darron's jaw. Darron barely budged. Darron reached up and grabbed titan's leg. Darron tossed Titan in the air.
"Spear of hatred." Darron said as the crimson around his hand intensified. Darron speared Titan in the chest. Max spit up blood and felt his internals take damage. Darron slammed his blade across Titan's
head piece. Max didn't so much as flinch, Titan reached out and grabbed Darron, holding him in place while the fingers on Titan's other hand opened to reveal a set of blowtorches. "Oh." Darron commented while looking at the blue hot flame. Titan moved his hand and pressed it on Darron's side. Darron grunted as he felt the skin begin to burn badly. The worse the burn got the stronger the crimson on Darron's had became. Darron drew his arm back and slammed it on Titan's face. Titan flew
backwards as his face piece shattered, revealing Max inside. Max got back to his feet and growled at Darron.
"Load light rounds." Max instructed Titan. As soon as Titan complied Max also unlocked the two large machine guns mounted on titan's shoulders. "Let's light him up. Literally. Oh btw Amplify." Max said as Darron aced towards him. Max suddenly started unloading into Darron.
"Wall of Shadow." Darron commanded as his darkness surrounded him. Max's bullets however, penetrated straight through the darkness and met their target, leaving a huge flash of light in their wake. Darron stumbled backwards with each consecutive hit. Max continued firing until Titan had informed him that he was completely out of those style rounds.
"Shit, really? Fuck, all or nothing time then. Let's go to overdrive." Max instructed Titan. Guns began to appear all over Titan's armor. When Darron finally managed to refocus himself after being blinded by so many rounds Darron saw Titan's numerous guns.
"Fuck." Is all Darron said.
"Fire." Max instructed. Titan began firing with absolutely no reserves whatsoever. Darron moved his sword in front of his face and used it to block as many incoming rounds as possible. Titan continued to fire it's .50 calibers and grenades at record speeds. As soon as Titan finished it's onslaught Max felt himself being heavy. Darron, managing to survive, lurched forward, before dashing forward and bringing his sword full force down on Titan, damaging a large part of its chest armor. Max was sent flying back when he landed directly next to Allister.
"Hull compromised, aura levels dangerously low, heavy internal bleeding detected, retreat is advised." Titan warned.
"Fuck, I used to much power to quickly. Sorry I couldn't buy you more power Al." Max apologized.
"It's fine. Fighting Darron never was exactly your strong suit was it." Al responded.
"Nah I just thought her was weaker than he was and I thought I could take him." Max explained.
"Don't worry It's my turn now." Allister said. Back out in the road Darron looking at the carnage all around him.
"Is that all you truly have? Is this the best you could possibly do? Please tell me there's someone in this pathetic dump of a city who can actually make me feel a little pain." Darron challenged.
"I can." Allister responded. Darron turned to look at Allster.
"Ah pretty boy. Back for round two I see. I hope this one isn't quite as boring as the last one. " Darron mocked.
"I assure you… it is." Allister answered. Allister stepped forward from the group and held his hands out. "Scales of the dragon!" Allister called. The ornate cross Tattoo on Allister's back began to glow and change shape. The tattoo continued to morph Until it made the image of a dragon. A large beam of light rained down from the sky on Allister. Allister body became encased in large, white, medieval style armor. Once the armor was securely in place Allister reached out with one hand. "Tail of the
dragon." Allister called, and a large white lance shot down from the sky and landed within his hand. Allister picked up the lance and gave it a few test spins.
"That's different. I like different. In the end it's probably useless though." Darron said.
"We'll find out won't we." Allister said. Darron and Allister charged each other weapons at the ready.
"Maiden of sorrow." Darron said and his darkness appeared from every direction shooting to pierce Allister. However, as soon as the darkness got close to the armor, it dissipated.
"What?" Darron said, distracted. In that moment of distraction Allister slammed his lance across Darron's face. Darron was sent flying into the building on the side of the road. As Darron emerged from the rubble, he rubbed his face where the lance hit him.
"Dafuq was in that lance… wait, order of the dragon. Shit." Darron realized. Allister simply nodded.
"That's right." Allister answered. Darron chuckled before taking in a deep breath. Allister followed suit.
"Voice of sorrow." Darron said.
"Voice of the dragon." Allister said. Both released their breaths at the same time. Darron released a large blast of Darkness while Allister released a large blast of light. The two beams collided with one another and began to shoot of in all other directions, destroying the buildings around them. Once the
beams dissipated Allister and Darron rushed at each other eager to continue fighting. The two warriors continued to clashes weapons with each other in what appeared to be a draw of a duel. Darron stepped back and funneled all of his crimson energy into his sword before swinging it at Allister. Allister reached out and caught the blade in mid swing. Darron growled right before feeling Allister's foot slam on his face. Darron yanked his blade away as he was sent flying. Darron righted
himself mid air and landed gracefully.
"Well then. I guess I'm going to need some more power if I plan on defeating you." Darron admitted. Darron reached down and wrapped one hand around the heels of his sword and the other around the blade. Darron began to pull as if he wanted to separate the blade from the hilt. As Darron began to pull harder and harder the glyphs that were on the blades began to glow white. Suddenly, a loud high pitch scream pierced the air. The entire group dropped everything in order to cover their ears from the hideous sound. The scream was audible even as far as Beacon academy. Darron eventually had to drop the blade to cover his ears himself. As soon as Darron had stopped pulling on the blade the screaming stopped and the glyphs lost their light.
"Well, I guess I won't get to call on mistress today. I'll just drink your blood in her honor then." Darron said. Allister stepped into a combat stance.
"Well. I must warn you. My blood isn't all that tasty, Had it myself, needs salt." Allister joke.
"I'm going to fucking kill you." Darron said. Allister just mimicked for Darron to attack. Darron sneered as he raced directly for Allister. Darron ducked under a swing from Allister lance and began slashing at Allister's armor. Allister merely brushed off the attack. Allister punched out, clipping Darron's shoulder. While still having enough power to send Darron rolling down the road. As Darron lifted his head he looked up and saw Allister preparing to land directly on him. Darron rolled out of the way and used his sword to follow the massive onslaught of punches that followed. Each punch hit Darron's sword with enough force that the vibrations rocked up his arms. Darron felt fractures beginning to appear in the bones in his forearm. Darron jumped backwards to give himself some space. Allister followed in hot pursuit. Darron dropped and slid between Allister's legs. Darron shot up with an uppercut to one of Al's kidneys. Allister grunted as he felt the kidney begin to bleed. Allister spun, backfisting Darron. Darron used the momentum to spin, bringing his foot up across Allister's face. Allister fell to his knees
and rapidly kicked out Darron's. Both Allister and Darron scrambled to get their feet under them. Darron managed to get up first and tackled Allister to the ground. The two wrestled for the dominant position which Darron managed to get a hold of. Allister placed a hand against Darron's chest.
"Holy blade." Allister said. A small concentrated beam of light emitted from Allister's hand and ran directly through Darron's chest. Darron actually screamed in pain as he jumped backwards. Darron
clenched his teeth from the pain as his shadows began stitching up his wounds. Allister jumped to his feet and launched himself in the air with his impressive muscle strength. Darron looked up at Allister and smirked. Darron twirled his blade and jammed it upwards, directly into Allister's shoulder. The blade managed to pierce the armor and dig into Al's shoulder. Allister growled before slamming Darron with the butt of his lance. Darron grimaced as his jaw cracked from the force. Darron reached out and grabbed the collar of Allister's armor. Darron pulled Allister in and gave him a hard headbutt. Allister and Darron both stared each other in the eyes as both of their foreheads cracked.
"What do you fear?" Darron asked Allister. The two fighters stared at each other for a moment before Darron jumped off.
"What? How the hell can you have no fear?" Darron asked incredulously.
"I think you know." Allister responded.
"Shit. I must have taught you guys how to hide your fear back when I was not of sound mind. Oh well, what's done is done." Darron conceded. Allister ran at Darron, spear held at the ready. Darron held his sword in a sheathed position and awaited his target. Once Allister was close enough Darron dashed forward slicing with his blade. Allister keeled over as blood dripped from his chest. Allister quickly placed a hand, glowing with a soft white light, over the wound. Allister removed his hand to see that the wound had been mostly healed. Allister and Darron turned to face each other. Though not a word was said the both knew exactly what the other was thinking. Darron and Allister nodded at one another. Both fighters began charging up large amounts of their respective energies.
"Wrath of heaven." Said Allister.
"Oblivion of Sorrow." Said Darron. Once they both had charged their power to max they released all of their energy on one another in massive explosions of energy. The blasts could be seen all across vale, Remnant even. Once the blasts had finally managed to end. Only the smoldering bodies of Allister and Darron stood standing, slowly swaying back and forth. Suddenly, Allister's
armor crumbled off of his body, and he fell backwards.
"I lost." Allister thought as his body hit the ground. Allister trembled, The toll of the armor finally being taken on his body, crushing numerous ribs and fracturing both of his shoulders, even part of his skull. Darron hunched over breathing heavily. Each breath pained by the broken ribs in his chest. Darron tried to move his arms to steady himself but found all the bones in his right arm broken, along with his wrist and a dislocated shoulder. After Darron managed to catch his breath he stretched his back and turned around. As Darron turned he felt a sharp pain erupt within his abdomen. Darron
look down to see Blake, Holding the katana blade Gambol shroud, which she had just ran him through with.
"Darron… I'm sorry." Blake cried as literal tears rolled down her cheeks.
"I am too Blake." Darron said softly. Blake looked up hopeful at Darron. Darron face broke into an evil grin. "Just kidding." Darron pushed Blake backwards and drew Gambol shroud from his own abdomen. Darron swung the blade, embedding it deep inside Blake's shoulder. Blake cried out in unbearable pain
as Darron stated to saw with the blade.
"Fun fun fun. Blood blood blood." Darron sang as Blake continued to scream.
"DARRON. PLEASE. STOP!" Blake cried desperately, laying helpless. Suddenly Darron stopped. A bright white light flooded out of Darron's eyes,nose,and mouth. Darron fell to his knees, revealing Allister,
who had managed to resummon the glove portion of his armor. The armor disappeared and Allister's hand fell limply at his side, all the bones broken, elbow to wrist.
"Hey. Allister." Darron called, in his normal voice.
"What Darron?" Allister asked.
"You're awesome." Darron complemented.
"I know bro, but right now I'm fuckng tired." Allister admitted.
"I feel ya." Darron agreed. Both fighters let out deep breaths before falling to the ground unconscious. Team JNPR and CFVY ran through the streets of Vale, hoping their friends would still be alive. As the teams turned the corner they saw the entire street littered in police and ambulances. The absurd
number of coroners van's caused the team great worry.
"Hey! What happened here?" Jaune asked as they ran up to a nearby officer.
"I'm not sure. Looks like some hunters got into a deathmatch of sorts." The officer answered. The students looked at each other before rushing forward. Team JNPR looked around in horror at all of
the destruction.
"Look." Yatsuhashi called out pointing to one of the ambulances that was being loaded. The teams looked closely and Recognized Max was the one being loaded, next to Titan.
"Max." Pyrrha called as she lead the run over. Max rolled his head and looked at his fellow classmates.
"Max are you ok? What happened?" Velvet asked nervously. Max reached up and took the oxygen mask off his face.
"Do-don't blame Darron. He wasn't himself." Max weakly said.
"Back away!" A medic suddenly yelled. "He's suffering from multiple broken bones, and massive internal bleeding. He needs to be taken to a hospital right away." Teams JNPR and CFVY backed away as they finished loading Max onto the ambulance and drove away.
"Did I hear what I think I heard?" Ren asked.
"Could it be real. Could Darron actually have done this." Fox continued.
"What the hell actually happened to our friends?" Jaune asked. The teams continued to look around, still confused. Even Nora's cheerful demeanor had been swallowed up by a sea of uncertainty. Back at Beacon tower Ozpin, Goodwitch, and Ironwood all let out sighs of relief.
"At least everything ended with a less destructive outcome." Ironwood spun and slammed a fist into Ozpin's cheek. Ozpin stumbled back slamming into his own desk.
"Ironwood!" Goodwitch yelled.
"Pease Glynda, Ozpin how dare you? How dare you try to play off this incident. Hundreds of civilian casualties, and 8 of your best students in highly critical condition. How dare you call this non destructive," Ironwood yelled.
"I said less destructive." Ozpin argued.
"You saw what I saw. When Darron tried to open whatever was inside that blade it rejected him. We were unbelievably fortunate. Had Darron managed to open that blade it would have taken
easily another 1000 hunters/huntresses to stop him. Furthermore, It would have considerably accelerated a chain of events which have already been set into motion."
"I believe it would be in our best interest to calm down." Goodwitch suggested.
"No! I will not calm down. But I do understand the situation. I let the court of Remnant decide. But until then, he remains in my company no questions asked." Ironwood stated before storming off.
"Quite a charming character." Goodwitch said.
"He does make a point, and we will need to face the council for this issue. I just hope that all of our work doesn't waste." Ozpin replied. Ozpin turned to face the windows of his office.
"I just hope we can get a handle on things before it's too late."