" Sun are you sure about this ? " Jaune questioned as he sheathed Crocea Mors on his side.
" I'm sure enough, he's smarter than he looks so we have to out-smart him." Sun answered.
With them, Neptune cleaned his rifle before it collapsed and he placed it on his back.
" So from what we know about him, his flames are what he describes as, ' the flames of hell.' Meaning, if their black, they burn worse than other flames and also damage your aura so we have to avoid getting damaged from them. On top of that, Ozpin said he has Ice dust so that's another thing we have to watch out for." Sun informed the duo, making sure they knew what to expect.
" So we need capture his hellfire without getting hit by them. Easier said than done." Neptune added, tossing Sun the empty dust crystal they were to use.
" The others need our help, so that's the risk we need to take." Sun said, knowing what was happening wasn't going to be easy.
Outside they heard an explosion, and they all rushed towards the disturbance, knowing what was happening.
I created a wall of ice in front of, creating a barrier between me and the new wave of guards that had arrived near the interrogation room.
I used the barrier as a reprieved to and escape from the area and continued running through the hallways until two guards rounded the corner and spotted me, weapons drawn.
" Outta my way ! "
I summoned a pillars of flames, incinerating one guard who let out an intensive pained scream.
I managed to close the distance and knocked the rifle out of the others hand and grabbed his face before freezing him solid. I looked at the other guard and froze him solid before I looked around and tried to find which way to go.
" Screw it."
I decided to head right and that was surprisingly was where no one was. I looked behind me to make sure. I continued along my way until I came to a locker-room.
I formed a sword made of ice and slowly looked around, noticing no one was here.
I was expecting a lot more.
I searched around the locker-room for a functional weapon until I came across a locked room. I just shook my head and heated the lock to the point where it broke open and I was gifted with an un-welcome sight.
Neptune was aiming at me with his gun ready to fire.
" Aw fuck."
I felt the impact as I crashed through the locker-room, through lockers and into the hallway.
I forced myself up and dusted of the debris from my attire as I looked at Neptune who soared threw the hole in the wall, his rifle having changed into a glaive. I ducked his strike and formed a sword ice.
He stabbed out at me but I tried to parry with my ice blade, only for it to shattered and leaving me weaponless as Neptune spun his glaive upward, striking me with the butt of his weapon, knocking me back.
I ignited my fist in black flames and created a wall of fire between us, giving me time to put distance between us.
I retreated to a different area of the school and tried to devise a plan.
" Guys, he set up a wall of fire between me and him. He should be heading to you Sun." Neptune said over his ear-piece.
Else where, Sun and Jaune nodded at each other as they got ready.
I came to a slow jog as I became positive I had put distance between me and Neptune. I hid behind a corner a small team of students rounded the corner, I recognized the head as the leader as the same one I had stabbed in the sides when I first made my presence known here.
I grabbed the last person, a kid with a sword and silently joked him unconscious as I took his weapon , a sword with a gun implemented.
His three team-mates stopped as they realized what was going on. The leader charged head-on so I threw his team-mate into, knocking him over as the last two charged at me.
One had a halberd, and he stabbed outward at me so I side-stepped him and grabbed it's shaft and pulled him towards me. I smacked him across the head with pommel of the blade, striking his temple. knocking him unconscious.
His team-mate was using a pair of twin short dagger so I used the stolen halberd and struck him in the ribs, giving off the familiar sounds of bones breaking. I ran forward and kicked him across the skull, knocking him unconscious as well.
I turned to face the leader who was already up and struck me with his mace, small explosion followed as it crashed me into the wall.
I kicked outward, striking him in face as I forced myself out the wall. He recovered and swung at me again but this time I was ready.
I froze his mace solid and shattered it in one movement. Next I froze him in place, the ice encased up to his waist as he tried to swing at me but to no avail.
" Bastard ! "
" You're in my way."
I grabbed his face and froze him completely solid and left him and his unconscious team on the ground beaten and broken.
After dealing with several more guards I made my way through the scroll and I some how found my way to the cafeteria.
As expected, it was empty during mid-night but that mean that I was close to the exit.
I stopped in my tracks as I thought all about what had happened. The guards had arrived in my room to transport me. One un-cuffed me and I took the chance to murder them both with my semblance before escaping.
Since then, I've been relying on my semblance less to conserve aura so I opted to use my ice dust, which resulted in less deaths sadly but I was able to put more distance between me and the guards.
Then Neptune ambushed me in the locker-room, by himself. It was if I was I was being...They set it from the beginning.
I laughed at the irony and slowly clapped as I looked around, seeing a familiar Faunus drop from the disabled light fixtures.
" I admit, I got played. But it takes two play a game Sun, and I'm just getting started."
" Well it looks like the game is in my favor, I'm the one with the night-vision." Sun added, brandishing his staff and we began circling each other.
" There's enough light for me to know where to stab you in."
" FIRE ! "
I looked at in confusion until I heard the sound of a trigger, taking a blast to my ribs and crashing through the wall, and outside to the front of Beacon.
Neptune...
I forced myself up and dusted off some debris from my coat and pants as Neptune and Sun stepped through the hole they created.
I cracked my knuckles as they circled me. " I'd ask for a fair fight but you'll need every advantage you can get."
Sun charged at me with his staff so I charged back. I didn't have my knife so I formed a blade from ice and this time it didn't shatter on impact.
I stabbed outward as his chest but he spun outward and spun me with his the butt of his staff in my stomach. I punched him across the face as I put distance between us.
Neptune leaped over him, his weapon an electrified glaive. He was proficient at wielding it and I was forced on the defensive as he Neptune and Sun struck at me in unison.
I caught Neptune's glaive by the blade, my aura stopping it from cutting me. I gripped it tightly. I turned my attention back to Sun who struck me in the chest, forcing me back until I felt one of them drop-kick me in the chest.
I was on one knee but smiling, and this unnerved them both for good reason. I shattered my ice blade and rose to my feet.
" I'll deal with you two and then be on my way."
I focused a swathed of black flames in the space between my hands as the flames grew more intense. Sun and Neptune looked at each other in shock as they slowly moved back. The black flames suddenly vanished before I smirked evilly and they re-appeared, even more intense and darker in a spherical vortex.
" It was fun while it lasted. Lucifer's Rage ! "
I released my hellfire, unleashing a massive fury of black flames that put midnight to shame and made a volcano seem like an iced shower. When it ended, there's was only a massive wall of fire where they should have been. I shrugged them off and turned to leave but stopped as I heard what sounded like a vacuum.
I swear if they did what I think they did...
I turned around to see the flames being absorbed into a midnight dust crystal in Sun's palm, which he dropped from the intense heat but never the less, they had survived.
" That went about as expected." Sun said to Neptune, who smirked in response.
" What...the...hell ! "
" We just needed your hellfire to find a way to reverse the damage that you did to our friends."
I charged at Sun and Neptune who rolled to the side as I smashed the ground between them.
" NEPTUNE LOOK OUT ! "
Sun was a second too late as I shot an icicle at Neptune, only for it to be blocked by a shield with 2 crescent arcs.
" Thanks Jaune ! "
WHEN THE HELL DID HE GET HERE !
I stopped my assault and began to laugh, and not one that I usually did when I was in a fight but this laugh was un-intentional. It was slow, menacing and low but underlined with a clear pitch of rage and malice, which described how I was feeling now.
" Guys, be careful..." Sun warned Neptune and Jaune who circled me.
" First I'll make sure Pyrrha is dead, then I'll make sure to slaughter everyone you three hold dear...That's the price for truly angering me..."
I slowly turned to Jaune and then to Sun. " Who's first, Pyrrha, Weiss or Blake..."
I managed to anger Jaune but he didn't take the bait and charge at me. They all were too busy eyeing me and the black dust crystal near me.
I picked it up and I understood why Sun had let it go, the heat was intense but that my fire so it didn't bother me too much.
" I'm not even going to figure out what you had in mind but it doesn't matter now. I'm going to enjoy your deaths far more than I should."
Jaune charged at me along with Neptune and Sun. This time I smirked and without needing to move, a wall of flames separated me from them. The fire froze into a wall of ice suddenly before it suddenly exploded into black ice shards, some cutting Jaune and Neptune while Sun avoided the others.
Jaune and Neptune staggered back in pain as the ice struck them. Jaune recovered first before he charged at me. I side-stepped several of his swings, the ice having impaired his movements enough to give me an edge.
I caught his sword easily before disarming him and throwing him into Neptune, who had taken even more damage from the ice.
I quickly turned my attention to Sun and caught his staff in mid-swing. He looked at me in surprise as he broke it in half and swung one the now nunchucks and tried to strike my head.
I blocked the strike with my wrist as the chain connecting them wrapped around my wrist. I used my semblance and heated the chain to the point where Sun let go, and I took the chance to strike him in the stomach before gripping his throat and lifting him into the air.
" YOU actually pushed me past my breaking point.", I said to Sun ask I aimed the blackened dust crystal at Sun's chest as the flames appeared and started to wrap around my arm holding the crystal.
" Your...ego..and you lost..." Sun managed to say despite struggling for breath.
" Is that so ? Fire Demons Secret Art: Flame Demons-"
I stopped as I felt my body go slack and replaced with a steel pain. Sun took this chance to kick out of my grip as I looked down as saw Jaune's blade piercing through my stomach, a white aura wisping around the blade.
I fell to one knee and looked at Jaune, black ice was piercing through his arms and legs but he was forcing himself to stand, a white aura began healing his wounds as he tried to remove the shards.
" For Pyrrha..."
I pulled the blade from my back and tossed it aside, my blood coating the sword, a sight I wasn't used to but not foreign to as well. Then something happened, something broke inside of me and I began to remember what Ironwood had asked me.
Why do you fight ?
I forced myself to my feet, my own blood dripping from the wound in my stomach.
" I haven't felt like this in ages." I placed a hand on my stomach, on it was the warm feeling of my blood. I looked at my blood soaked hand and I realized, I was trembling. From blood lose and shock or fear, I didn't know but I did know for certain that it was trembling.
I couldn't keep standing and fell to one knee, and I inadvertently dropped the crystal landed out of my reach. Sun rolled across the ground and picked up the crystal, this time he tucked it away into a pouch on his side.
I coughed up blood onto the ground in front of me as I felt myself growing colder, something that hadn't happened to me before in a long time. Sun began helping Jaune remove the ice that had struck him and Neptune, who writhing on the ground in pain but alive sadly.
I forced myself to my feet again and this time I managed to stay upright. Sun and Jaune looked at me in shock as Sun stood in front of Jaune, aiming his staff at me.
" You just won't quit."
I smirked as I placed my hands together and intense flames appeared between them. They weren't my black flames but they were just as intense.
" That's enough out of you."
A feminine voice, one that I recognized as a dark storm cloud formed overhead. A sharp icicle shot out from the cloud with blinding speed as it pierced through me chest.
Goodwitch appeared along with two Atlas soldiers and other medics as they took Jaune and Neptune away. The icicle that pierced me broke into a mist and I fell to my knees, running on pure force of will to continue fighting.
" You've caused enough damage." She aimed her crop at me as it glowed a deep purple and shot a blast of pure energy at me.
It was powerful enough to keep me down on my hands and knees while I fought with everything to remain conscious.
I had walked right into their trap, they had set it up from the beginning, or rather they had a plan thought out but I forced them to improvise it. Either way, I was on the losing end but I wasn't about to quit if I had a choice.
Turns out I didn't have a choice, the wound Jaune had caused on me were taking their full effect as I grew weaker to the point where I lay on the floor, defeated.
I managed to move my head slightly as I spied Jaune, who made eye contact with. I was losing consciousness quickly so I had to make this quick.
" This...is just...the beginning."
With that, I slipped into the emptiness of my mind and I realized that I had beaten an played, a fact that made my want to take vengeance even more.
