Ah an interrogation room, a room where two people enter, one leaves either satisfied or more enraged while the other stays.
Ozpin made that crystal clear, and well enough he made sure not only to try and be intimidating, but also hold a sense of power.
To bad, because I wasn't somewhere who you could scare easily, and to add insult to injury, he also made sure I was not only being restrained via specialized handcuffs that suppressed my aura but also have guards stationed outside the room, along with a camera inside the room.
He set down a cup of coffee, whether he was being genuine or mocking the fact that I was handcuffed and bandaged heavily, would have to wait.
" Orion Blaze, age 17. Born in Vacuo. You have no record of combat schooling yet you're able to use your aura and a...unique semblance." Ozpin stated as he read off from what was a record of me.
" The only thing we know about you is your semblance, name, the fact that you infiltrated my school and report of your injuries and skills."
I rolled my eyes at Ozpin as I thought of ways to escape and wreak more havoc.
" Answer my question Ozpin. How many students of yours have I killed ? " I asked Ozpin, who though didn't show emotion, a vain popped from head and I noticed his breathing became forced.
" You put several of my students in critical condition. I won't give you the satisfaction of knowing whether their alive or not."
I had to admit, Ozpin was as smart as he looked and even more so.
" You're a smart guy. We both know I'm getting out of here one way or another."
Ozpin smirked and removed his glasses. " Perhaps, but now we know what you're capable of. Your semblance in on a tier few can hope to achieve, that much is true. The dust in your body is another matter."
"...Pardon."
" We had to keep you from dying to learn all that we can of what you and your conspirators are plotting. So as you can see, you're aura in being restrained but on top that, during your examination, we found that you had fused your body with dust."
I chuckled slightly, Ozpin would be an amazing battle, he was smarter than he let on he kept his calm. I could respect it though it made me sick.
" Tell me Orion, was it worth risking your life ? Merging with dust, could have killed you before you learned how to wield it."
" Funny you should mention that, this was first time in a LONG time using that ice dust in my body. It's always been rings that I kept on me."
It looked like Ozpin had seen a ghost or was completely taken back by what I said.
" You merged with dust yet never used it until last night ? Why risk your life and not use it ? "
" Call it a contingency plan. We're done here, you should probably go check on your students, pretty sure a few of them got incinerated by yours truly."
" Your arrogance is outstanding." Ozpin said as he rose to leave. I decided to make one final comment to try and set him over the edge.
" It's funny really, you won't tell me if I killed any but I'm sure enough that at least one of them isn't getting up."
My plan failed completely, Ozpin simply looked and shook his head before leaving.
I sighed in defeat as I downed the rest of my coffee before looking at the camera that was monitoring me.
" Enjoy the show ? Good, cause their is an encore coming it's better than the original."
" Jeez, the kid did a number on the pest." Roman as he put down his cigar as Cinder, Roman and Emerald arrived.
" He blew his cover so we had to leave," Cinder said before smirking, " but not before he received his orders."
" So am I gonna have to mount a rescue mission ? "
" No, Orion can handle anything that Beacon can throw at him. We'll continue with our plans." Cinder said as she walked away, leaving just Mercury, Emerald and Roman.
" 50 Lien says he breaks out through the front door." Emerald said to the remaining two.
" 50 says he escape when they try and transport him."
" Pyrrha...Nora...Ren, I'm so sorry." Jaune spoke somberly, watching all of team-mates, his family, his friends, fight for their lives. A deep sense of loathing and despair sent in as he realized how useless he had been.
Ruby put a hand on Jaune's shoulder, she too was feeling that feeling of failure. She had let her team down, Orion had run Weiss through and subsequently shot her at point blank range.
Blake impaled as well and she was completely burned from the entrance wound and everywhere in between to the exit wound. The doctors said that they would have to, and currently were operating to save them both along with Pyrrha who would have to have the bullet wound removed if she was alive.
" How could someone do this to calmly ? He smiled during everything and then...this."
Jaune clenched his fist tightly, feeling the rage stir inside him. Just like Ruby's teammates were injured, his were just as hurt.
Pyrrha had a rifle round lodged in her chest, more than likely aimed at her heart. Ren and Nora were both suffering the primary and side-effects of Orion's hellfire. If what Yang said was true, then they were in more pain than anyone should have had to endure.
" I..I let them down."
" No Jaune, no you didn't. We tried our hardest. He was just..." Ruby stopped, not knowing what say. She had fought Orion twice and both times people important to her had been harmed.
" He's just a monster. Plain and simple." A voice said, making both Ruby and Jaune turn around to see Sun, carrying an assortment of flowers. With him was Yang, now wearing a cast for her arm, along with Neptune who was also carrying flowers as well.
They set them down between all of their injured friends. Sun had a sheath for a red bladed knife against his leg, the emblem on it being that of crossed flaming swords.
" What's the knife for ? " Ruby questioned Sun.
" When we first fought that...murderer, he challenged me to a duel. It was an old tradition in Vacuo to duel someone that you wanted fight. No special tricks, just your own skills with a blade and your semblance. If you accepted, you swore to die by that person's blade, like a warrior. It was a stupid tradition but some people, still follow it even today."
" Oh, but that symbol isn't yours." Ruby said as she eyed the handle of the knife.
" I know, it's his, at least I think so. I was told his under watch, Oobleck managed to cripple him and from their they captured him."
Ruby and Jaune took a small victory in knowing he was detained but at what cost. Jaune sat down beside Pyrrha's bedside and held her hand. A gave a silent prayer for her to recover before letting go reluctantly and getting up.
" They'll be ok Ruby...They have to." Yang said weakly as she tiredly hugged her sister with one useable arm.
Ruby shed tears for her friends and cried into Yang's shoulder. Though Yang said they'd be ok, Ruby herself wasn't positive that they would be.
I woke up sharply as the door to my cozy little room opened to reveal Professor Goodwitch who sat down across from me, eyeing me carefully.
" Well hello Professor."
" I suggest you drop sarcastic remarks. Several of my students are fighting for their lives while you're here making jokes. Sickening."
I looked at her blankly but I couldn't help but laugh at her persistence.
" Tell me Goodwitch, do you know what it's like to kill someone ? To just run them through, watch their blood flow, hear their bones shatter, dance to their screams. Tell me, have you had to end a life ? "
" I have but that does not make me like you if that's what you're implying."
Again, another slight laugh. " No I'm not implying anything. That teacher, Oobleck, the one that cut me down, I assume he's had to kill someone. I assume he's good at it, he cut me down too quickly."
" What are you getting at ? " Goodwitch questioned me impatiently.
" I was just making conversation is all. Besides, you barged into my cozy little room, meaning you wanted something, so how about you talk."
She sighed angrily before adjusted her glasses before taking her riding crop and slapping me across the face with it.
" FUCK ! "
I placed a hand on my cheek and hissed angrily at her before smirking. " Beating a prisoner huh, now that's more like it."
" Do you enjoy the pain you inflict on others ? Do you enjoy killing ? " Goodwitch questioned as she set her riding crop down.
" What do you think ? Killing is an art, and I'd say I'm a master painter."
" You're a monster and a menace to innocent people. Why do you do the things that you do ? You brutalized several students and nearly killed some if not outright hoping they'd suffer. "
" No kidding. I enjoy rending bones, spilling blood, burning flesh and listening to their screams. In all honesty, I was getting tired of my old routine." I told Goodwitch.
She looked at me in a mixture of several emotions but the most potent being disgust.
" How can you say things like that so calmly, and what routine ? "
" Oh easy, I use and wait for it...My words."
I laughed slightly at my joke, something that Goodwitch wasn't taking kindly to. " As for my routine, just go find my target, do what I needed to do then kill them. Simple as that, though things were getting a bit dull."
" Dull ? "
" Yes, ever had one of those times where things get easy and it's like nothing can challenge you ? That's what I was feeling, until I arrived here, you were actually the first challenge that I faced in a long time, you and Ruby both."
" That was you in the airship wasn't it."
" YES ! You and little red, first one's that I felt could give me a fight worth it. Then all pieces began to fall into place and now, I have soooo many new vendetta's."
" Against Beacon and our students ? "
I smirked and nodded at her. " That's right, though it'll be a shame that I'll have to kill you all soon, but it'll be one hell of a fight. But I really want to get even with that green haired bastard, jerk beat me at my worst."
With that Goodwitch got of her seat and left without a word. I shrugged and put my feet up and looked at the camera.
" Wanna know my top 3 people to kill ? First is Sun, next is Yang and last would be Goodwitch or Ruby. Ah hell why not all of Beacon ! "
I began laughing until I heard the sound of gases being seeped into my room. I chuckled lowly as inhaled it happily.
" Sorry, immune to knock out gas and poison, conditioned myself for these kind of reasons." I said as the gas filled the room but had no effect on me.
" Since I know you're there, feel like having someone bring me a glass of water ? Feeling a little parched from decimating your kids."
Luckily, the others had survived. Nora and Ren were under going treatment for their burns but their was the adverse effect of the black flames which would have to run their course.
Blake was confined to bed rest as she was suffering from the flames that had entered her body. Surgery proceeded fine but she wasn't going to moving any time soon. She too was also feeling the adverse effect of the black flames and as such wasn't allowed much in the terms of physical exertion, though like Yang before her, Blake, Ren and Nora all had pain-killers dispensed to counter act the pain of the flames.
Weiss had gotten the worse of Team RWBY. She under surgery having the shattered rifle round removed and she was bed ridden but since Oobleck had retrieved her so quickly, they were able to postpone her bleeding and keep her alive, though barely.
Pyrrha, poor Pyrrha wasn't awake at all. The round had missed her heart but was close enough to send her into cardiac arrest and thus she was residing in a comatose state.
Jaune hadn't left her side in days, neither her or his team-mates. That crippling feeling of helplessness and regret, for not being able to do anything for them. Jaune and Ruby were both feeling it but their friends did all they could to try and keep them out of despair.
" Don't worry, it's what that monster wants. HE WANTS us to feel this way, but we can't give him-"
" Don't give him the satisfaction, NEVER let them know what pain they've caused you, caused us." Sun said abruptly, cutting Ruby off as he put a hand on both Jaune and Ruby's shoulders.
" All we can do is hope, but sometimes that's enough." Neptune added in.
Jaune and Ruby both sighed in regret as they got up and left, leaving their friends to their recovery.
Yang sat down and looked bandaged and casted arm. She had been the one that had fired at Orion's back from the roof but when she called on her aura, she had stoked the black flames that were still present.
It was almost like a parasite, the more you fought the worse it got. Or maybe it was because Yang had actually digested the flames to save her sister and friends during their first battle. Either way, she wasn't their when her friends needed her and because of that she felt like absolute trash, worthless and useless.
" I'm sorry you guys...I let you all down." She said weakly, tears streaming down her face as she gripped where he heart was before putting a massive fracture in the wall.
Sun sat alone in the trees around Beacon, casually flipping the knife that Orion had given him as he inspected it. Two burning swords, the symbol on the knife and more likely than not Orion's symbol.
Sun stopped flipping it and looked at the blade closely. The general design was that it was primarily used for stabbing deep and precise wounds in it's target, Sun frowned, realizing how much that befitted Orion, who wanted to feel the resistance and overcome it when he impaled his victims.
The blade was more than sufficient for slashing wounds, something Sun had tested first hand when he had fought Orion alongside Pyrrha.
Something didn't feel right, the blade was too customized for something that could be purchased locally in either Vale or Vacuo. The grip was too uneven for Sun, who had to improvise to hold it semi-correctly, then that's when it hit.
He may have moved to Mistral but he was from Vacuo first and foremost. He knew more then enough about the workings of his home kingdom. Orion's knife wasn't just a knife, it was a symbol that he was something else. Sun sighed in frustration, and in the smallest bit of fear as he re-sheathed the knife and leaned his head back against the tree's trunk.
" He's just bidding his time."
I gave a tired yawn as a new person entered the interrogation room. I rubbed my eyes tiredly as they sat down across my from me. It took me a second to realize who it was but I soon recognized him as General Ironwood from Atlas.
" General, what can I do for you ? "
" You can start by telling me what you're planning and as to why it requires the harm of innocent students."
" Oh come now General, we both know I'm not telling. Beacon has been rather nice, nice cozy little cell, decent fighters here and to be truthful, I'm gonna regret seeing them dead, really I am, these people were my first challenge. Oh well I'll find something else."
" Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you're to be transferred to Atlas, where you will be our problem, one we'll be sure to fix." Ironwood stated to me. I couldn't but look at him curiously.
" Who's idea is this ? I'm curious because when I break out I want to look the person in the eyes when I kill them." I said Ironwood.
Ironwood looked at me with a deep frown before getting up and adjusting his suit.
" Before I go, let me ask you something."
" Go ahead, won't matter when you're all dead by my blade." I said to Ironwood, again no emotional response from him.
" Why do you fight, and try to refrain from saying because you enjoy it. We're all aware of your sadistic nature but what drives you, what makes you want to fight ? "
I didn't answer his question and for one reason or another I felt like I couldn't.
" I assumed as much, you don't have an answer. Nothing more than a puppet."
" I..AM NO ONES PUPPET ! "
I shot out of my seat but my handcuffs sent off an electric jolt that was potent enough to gain my attention.
" So you say, but I suggest you think about it."
With that Ironwood left with his hands behind his back without a second glance.
I looked up at the camera and flipped them off before I put my feet up and went to sleep.
" Very impressive James." Ozpin stated as he handed Ironwood a cup of coffee, which Ironwood added a little to.
" He's an enigma, this Orion. His semblance alone is threat to anyone and if he's just a lackey I-"
" I wouldn't call him a lackey but you're right. We have to find a way to counter act his semblance and reverse the effects if possible." Ozpin stated, taking a drink from his coffee.
" Well we could anger him, though I don't like the idea of it, it's a risk we must take."
" Ideas ? "
" I have one." A voice said. It belonged to Sun who was leaning against the window sill. " Though I'll need you to set him free for a while."