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Disclaimer: This chapter will contain heavily mature content. Mentions of abuse, neglect, drugs, attempted rape, mentions of sex and nudity, stealing, violence, language, non-consensual surgery, attempted murder, and discussion of statutory rape. Viewer discretion advised.
AN: *This means Someone is texting in Aurebesh.*
AN: This means someone is using Sign Language.
The next day.
The group had woken up and made breakfast before they went to the lake.
"Heads up!" Gale yelled running at Scott.
Scott turned around and cupped his hands before Gale jumped and landed his foot in Scott's hands and was thrown into the air where he spun in midair and dove down into the lake.
"I give it a 10." José said.
They ran into the lake and started swimming.
Gale was swimming in the lake when a flash caught his eye. He looked around and saw the flash again and swam down towards the lakebed. He got to the bottom and found the hilt of a cutlass in the muck. He grabbed it and pulled. The cutlass wouldn't budge. He grabbed it and put his feet on the lakebed and pushed with all of his leg strength and was able to pull it free with a squelch. When he looked at the sword, he jumped off the floor and swam to the surface. When he broke the surface, he looked around to see Scott and José looking worried.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"You were gone for five minutes. We weren't sure what happened to you."
"What are you talking about?" Gale asked. "I was down there maybe thirty seconds."
"No Irmano." José said. "You were gone for five minutes."
"I literally went down there to pull this out." He said holding up the Cutlass.
"Irmano." José said. "You were down there for five minutes. "
"How?"
"I don't know."
"Maybe it's the Cutlass." Scott suggested.
"What do you mean?"
"When I accepted the Shotel and Khopesh the guy who gave me them turned to dust after I took them. Maybe the weapons are cursed to let the wielders live longer?"
"Maybe."
They went back to the shore and Gale put the Cutlass next to his gear.
"What's that?" Hel asked walking up to them.
"I found this in the lake." Gale said pulling the Cutlas from the sheath.
"What's that writing?" José asked pointing at markings along the blade.
The markings said: ᛃᛟᛚᛚᛃ ᚱᛟᚷᛖᚱ.
"It says: 'Jolly Roger'." Hel said.
"Wait. You can read Ancient Runes?" Scott asked.
"No. That is the Common Tongue. I'm not sure how I know it. I just do."
"Hold on a second." Scott said running to his and Yang's tent and grabbing the Khopesh and Shotel before running back. "So, you can translate these?" He asked showing her the markings.
"Yes. The Shotel is called 'Death', and the Khopesh is called 'Rebirth'.
"Well, that's not ominous." Gale said.
"Tell me about it."
"That's not fair!" José yelled. "You guys get kick ass weapons, but I don't get one!"
Hel sneezed at that. "Whoa. Bless me."
"Excuse you." The trio said in unison.
"Let's go back and swim some more before we have to call it a day." Gale said putting the 'Jolly Roger' next to his gear. Scott put 'Death' and 'Rebirth' with his gear and ran back to the lake. They played and swam in the lake until it was time to call it quits for the day. Scott caught more fish for dinner, and as it was cooking, he went to change in his and Yang's tent.
Yang came in while he was putting on a new pair of boxers. "Ooh." She purred. "I like what I see. How about a quickie before dinner?"
"Yang." He spoke. "You know how loud we are. Let's wait until we have an actual room with actual walls."
"You're no fun."
"Just for that I won't try and break my record."
"What! No fair! Please! I'll be good." She stammered out.
"Wow. You really want to break that record, don't you?"
"Ten times!" She yelled. "Is ten times that much to ask for?"
"Going nine rounds with you is a record in and of itself."
"But ten times! Could you imagine it we would finally be able to go an entire day of one hundred and ten percent pure lovemaking! We can only get to nine so far!"
"The last time was on you. If you had gone to bed the night before like I told you to then we might have been able to hit ten."
"Oh Gods!" Gale gagged from outside their tent. "I think I'm going to be sick. Your stamina is insane."
"No." Yang said. "What's insane is how fast my fist is going to collide with your head!" She yelled running out of the tent while Scott finished getting changed. When he walked out, he saw Yang with Gale over her head.
"Yang!" He called out. "Put that thing down you don't know where it's been."
Yang complied and threw Gale into the lake before walking back up to Scott and took his hand as they walked to the fire pit.
They ate dinner and looked around at Loki.
"I suppose that you want me to tell my backstory?" She asked.
"Uh huh." Hel said.
"Fine. I came into this world a very long time ago. It all started on the night my parents conceived me. I was born, and six years later I was kidnapped."
Loki looked up and saw bright lights. She tried to speak, but she couldn't.
"I am ready to proceed with the operation sir." A voice said to the left of her.
"Do it." Another voice to the right said.
She felt pain as something moved across her stomach, but she couldn't cry out. She couldn't move. She couldn't do anything but cry silent tears as the owner of the voice put stuff inside her stomach. Eventually the pain became so intense that she passed out. When she woke up she was lying on a bed wearing a cloth over her legs and across her chest.
"Her vitals look good. It doesn't look like any of the packages have torn." He ran his fingers across her stomach causing her to whimper in pain as he touched her. "The incisions are healing nicely. I think she'll be ready to move in two to three days."
"See that she gets to the processing plant unharmed. I want her alive as long as we can use her."
"Of course, sir."
A few days later Loki was dressed in nice clothes and given to a large man in a sharp business suit who took her hand gently and led her out of the building she was in.
They walked through the streets of Vale until they came to a large building, and the large man took her inside. She looked around before he handed her off to a man in a long white coat.
"Thank you, Char.," The man said.
"Do you think that you could knock this one out this time?" Char asked. "She's just so small."
"No." Was all the man said before he turned on his heel dragging Loki with him.
Loki was taken to a room where the man undressed her and laid her on a cold metal table that made her shiver. He squeezed her arm for a few seconds before she felt a poke in her arm and her body froze within a minute of being injected. She could feel something cold touch her before the pain started, and fresh hot tears flowed from her eyes, and she eventually passed out.
When she woke up again, she was lying in a bed and her arms and legs were strapped down. She would stay like that whenever she wasn't being hurt by the bad men. She had a tube that went from a bag to her arm, and one that went from a bag to her stomach. A person would come in three times a day to replace the bags and change the diapers she was forced to wear. The only time she was taken off the bed was when she was being hurt by the bad men.
"Hold the fuck up." Scott said. "Are you telling us that they kept you strapped to a bed, left you in diapers, fed you and kept you hydrated intravenously, and put stuff in and out of your stomach like some kind of drug mule?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying." Loki said bitterly.
"What the actual fuck."
"Does Jason know about this?" Gale asked.
"No, and so long as I have any say in the matter. He won't."
"Why not?"
"I spent most of my free life being his bad ass big sister who isn't afraid of anything and can make people tremble with just a look. If I tell him that I was tortured like that for the first six years of my life... He wouldn't see me as me anymore. He would see a broken shell of a woman."
"Does Coral know?" Jose asked.
"Yes, but she figured it out by herself."
"And what makes you think Jason doesn't already know?" Hel asked.
"Because. I would have heard about it."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Pardus asked.
"Jason cares about the people he cares about so deeply that he would level a kingdom if they got hurt. He has two modes Peaceful, and murderous. There is no in between for him."
"He kicked my ass when we fought in the Vytal Festival." Scott added. "He was able to beat me in five minutes, and he nearly killed me."
"Why didn't you use your Semblance?" Pardus asked a little harshly.
"I was."
"What?" San asked.
"He has these boosters in his legs that give him an insane speed boost that was able to counter my Semblance, and he kicked my ass good."
"What did you do to make him so mad?" Ebon asked.
"I... uh... I called him a street rat, and by extension some of our friends and his family members street rats."
"You. Did. What?" San asked harshly.
"It wasn't my finest moment and was said in anger."
"I'd have killed you." San said.
"And I would have deserved it."
"Do you realize how difficult it is to be out on the street?"
"No."
"It's miserable! You don't know when or where your next meal is going to come from! You don't know who you can trust! You don't know where you're going to sleep that night! You only know that you have to fight to survive and that's it! You're lucky that you didn't have to grow up on the streets. I was one of the lucky ones that was given a chance really quick."
"When I lived on the streets." Loki said. "I was lucky to be out on the streets."
"What happened?" Hel asked.
Six years later.
"Sir." The man who always cut her open said. "The incisions are no longer staying closed."
"Well. I guess it's time to say goodbye to the little bitch, isn't it?"
"I would say so sir."
The man walked over to her and looked down at her. "I'm sorry that I have to do this. I appreciate your service over the years. Goodbye." He lifted his cane into the air and hit a button causing the bottom to open up revealing a shard of lightning Dust. He brought it down on Loki's chest and she felt the worst pain she had ever felt before everything went black.
The world slowly went in and out of focus. It started as tunnel vision, and slowly became blurs before becoming fuzzy blocks, and slowly became clearer. She coughed, but it hurt to breathe. She rolled over, but rolled down onto a hard surface, and bounced.
'Ow.' She thought as tears formed in her eyes and she just laid on the ground. She needed to get out of there, but she couldn't move, so she just lay like that until she could move again. She slowly got on her hands and knees and pushed herself into a standing position. When she was on her knees, albeit shakily she looked down to see that she wasn't wearing any clothes and her stomach had dried blood on it. She took her first step but fell to her knees before pushing herself up and walking.
She walked until she found a little cubby that she could hide in. It had a roof, three walls, and a fenced off area were there was a puddle of water on the concrete. She ran into the puddle and began wiping her stomach and rolling in the cool water. When she was done, she just laid in the puddle and looked up as it started raining. The rain felt so fucking good on her sore, aching body.
After she was done laying in the puddle and the rain, she went back into her new cubby hole and laid against the wall massaging her chest which had a layer of burnt muscle and tissue around it.
When she woke up the next morning, she was extremely sore, but she got up and washed in the puddle to wake herself up before she walked outside her shelter, she needed clothes and food, which meant that she would probably have to steal. She walked around until she found a clothesline with a pair of red underwear that had a crotch and two strings on the back, it looked uncomfortable, but beggars couldn't be choosers, a pair of cut off short shorts, a pink tank top and a yellow jacket.
She grabbed the clothes and ran back to her cubby hole where she proceeded to put the clothes on. She pulled on the red underwear, which were just as uncomfortable as she thought they would be, the tank top, short shorts, and jacket. The clothes were a little big, but they were something that would keep her covered so she could move in the city. She would need to find something to eat and could possibly get more clothes, but she also needed some way to defend herself.
That night she went out to get the lay of the land and found more clothes so that she wasn't wearing the same thing every day. She also found a broken knife in a trash can. She could use that. She slowly acquired more clothes and knives until she was satisfied, but she had been forgetting about food. She needed food to survive. So that night she went to a twenty-four-hour store and walked in. The cashier wasn't there so she ran to the fruit basket and grabbed an apple, four bananas and an orange before grabbing the box of beef jerky and a box of donuts.
"Excuse me." The cashier, a kid who couldn't have been much older than her said. "You have to pay for that."
She ran for the exit, but he cut her off.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you leave with that."
She looked at him and cut at him with the knife, cutting his shoulder, and causing him to cower from her.
"Just take it!" He yelled.
She ran from the store and for her cubby hole where she hid until she ran out of food.
"I'm so sorry." Hel said patting Loki's hand.
"I did what I had to, to survive. Once I found Jason, and we moved into Todd manor I went back to the store and paid for all the food I stole over the four years I lived on the streets."
"Four years?" San asked.
"Yeah. I met Jason three years in, but I was on the streets for four years."
"Damn, and here I thought four weeks was bad. I don't know if I could have lasted four years."
"Not everyone does."
"Will you tell us how you met Jason?" Hel asked.
Loki sighed a heavy sigh that didn't belong on a twenty-three-year-old, but she told them the story of how she met Jason and Shira and sobbed when she got to the part where Shira was killed, and her funeral.
"I'm so sorry." Hel said. "I never meant to..."
"No." Loki interrupted. "I knew that I would have to explain it. You just helped me."
"So, what happened next?"
Five years later.
Loki was walking the streets of Vale on a cold and stormy night. She couldn't sleep, and so decided to take a walk and enjoy one of her favorite past times... Monster Hunting. Her and Jason would walk the streets of Vale when they couldn't sleep and would terrorize and kill people who intended to hurt others for pleasure. She was walking past an alley when she heard someone cry out for help. She grabbed her weapon off her back and changed it to her favorite mode. Spear mode.
She walked down the alley and saw a man with his hands around a woman's throat.
"Oh yeah!" She moaned. "Harder daddy!"
The man stopped and looked at her. "What did you just say?" He asked.
"I told you to get your hands off the girl!" Loki snarled before lunging at him and stabbing him through his stomach, severing his spinal cord, and getting a spattering of blood on the woman's face. She lifted the man up and slammed him into the floor hard enough to crack his skull before pulling the spear out of his stomach along with his insides. She shook her weapon clean and shifted it back into sword mode before putting it on her back.
"Are you okay?" She asked the woman.
"Am I okay?" The woman asked incredulously. "You spray me with that guy's blood, and you ask me if I'm okay?"
"Sorry..."
"I am so fucking turned on right now." The woman said silkily.
"Well then." Loki said seductively. "I think that there is only one thing we can do about that then."
"Yes?" The woman purred.
Jason walked into Loki's bar the next morning before he forgot to check the bar with his hearing. He listened to the bar and politely walked out when he heard what was going on upstairs. He instead decided to send her a text.
Jason: hey. We need to talk. Text me when you guys are done.
With that done he walked back home. Sure, he could have just killed his senses, but he would respect his sisters coping mechanisms, namely drinking all the alcohol she could and banging anything that moved. So, he would wait for her text at home.
Loki panted heavily as she came down from her sexual high. That had been some of the best sex she had ever had, and yet something felt off about her life. She could kill all the scum she wanted, drink all the alcohol she wanted, bang anyone who said yes, and yet it all felt like something wasn't right. Like she was going down a path that she wasn't supposed to.
The woman who had just finished her ministrations pulled herself up to Loki's head and kissed her passionately. Loki made sure she returned the kiss with as much vigor.
"You made a mess." The woman said. "You're going to have to clean this up."
"Let's take a shower first." Loki said getting up on wobbly legs.
"Looks like that last round took a lot out of you."
"That just means it was amazing." Loki said. "Too bad that this is the only and last time we will be doing this."
"What do you mean?"
"Well. I don't rescue people to date them. Just a good old fashion one night stand and we call it quits."
"So, you don't love me?"
"No. I don't. The only person I love is my brother, and that's it. He's my brother and I love him. I don't have the capacity to love anyone like that. In fact, the only reason that we fucked our brains out last night was, so I didn't wake up from the nightmares. I don't do relationships and I never will."
"I see. I'm sorry I thought it was something more."
"So am I." Loki said. "Now. If you would still like to take a shower with me and maybe have a little more fun before you have to leave, then that's something we can do."
The woman walked over to Loki and kissed her before they walked into the bathroom.
Loki had just walked the woman out and walked back to her room to clean up. She grabbed her Scroll and saw the notification light blinking and opened it to see a text from Jason.
Jason: Hey. We need to talk. Text me when you guys are done.
"I shouldn't be surprised." She said before replying.
Loki: I'm done.
She only had to wait a few seconds before he replied.
Jason: we need to talk about your afterhours work.
Loki put her earpiece in and called Jason.
"Hello?" Jason asked when he answered.
"Don't you pull this "your afterhours work" bullshit! You do it too." She said pulling the bedding off her bed. She saw a wet spot in the center of her bed and grabbed the chemicals to get bodily fluids out of the bed. 'I should really invest in a mattress protector.' She thought.
"Loki." Jason said. "The only difference between you and I is that I don't bang the witnesses."
"Well, you're missing out then." Loki said feeling her nether regions begin to heat up and moisten. 'Damn it. Now I have to take care of this.' She said taking her clothes off. 'I'm just glad the "Do not disturb!" Sign is up. It would be inconvenient if someone saw me walking around naked.'
"Loki. Pay attention. The last guy you assaulted is taking you to court."
"What! How! I killed him!"
"Not the guy you obviously killed last night, but the one you traumatized with your Semblance."
"In my defense." She spoke. "How was I supposed to know that he was scared of birthing Death Stalkers from his ass?" She asked rubbing her pale flesh in pity of that man. Just the sheer thought of it made her ass hurt.
"I don't know. Personally, I don't see what's so wrong with you traumatizing a guy who was doing fear-based experiments on his family, but apparently the sheep in Vale have something against it."
"Wow. You're going to be protecting those "sheep" one day ya know." She said picking up her laundry and running to the laundry room.
"No. I will be cleaning up the streets of Vale when I become a Hunter. I still have a promise to keep."
"Yes. I know."
"So come to the court hearing. I'll try and get our lawyers to get you off with a slap of the wrist or community service rather than jail or prison time."
"Let them lock me in prison. I'll be running the place within a month."
"You need someone special in your life to curb your anger issues."
"You're one to talk you little shit!" Loki yelled starting her bedding. "You are just as, if not more violent than I am!"
"But I'm twelve."
"You say that like it's a good thing!"
"I also don't get caught."
"Fine! If I try, and I mean try, to get a girlfriend, and stop terrifying people will you stop your bitching?"
"I never said you couldn't still terrify people. I said don't get caught."
"Fine! If I find a girlfriend, will you leave me alone?"
"What happens if you find a boyfriend?"
"Not happening! A guy will just try and control me or change me, or some stupid bullshit like that. Besides. Women know how to be gentle and delicate. A guy will just cram his..."
"I get it."
"Plus. A guy will just use me as a baby maker. Seriously. I don't want to be popping babies out because a guy wants kids. If I want to pop babies out it will be because I want a baby!"
"No one is forcing you."
"Plus. If I want a baby, I'll have one through artificial insemination or cloning."
"Okay, okay. You're heading towards a panic attack so calm down."
Loki took in a deep breath and calmed down. "When is this stupid court hearing?"
"Next week. Like I said I'll pull some strings or whatever to get you off easy."
"Thanks J."
"You're welcome. I love you Loki."
"I love you too J."
"Are you coming over for dinner?"
"Yeah. I'll be there."
"Are you going to bring your friend?"
"She was just a one-night stand."
"Oh. Okay."
"I'll see you tonight J."
"See you tonight Loki."
With that Loki hung up and went to work out her anxiety.
"So, wait." Gale said. "You just casually slept with any girl you found on the streets?"
"Don't say it like that." Loki said. "That makes it sound worse than it actually was."
"Then what would you call it?"
"I would sleep with consenting women, and we'd have sex until I passed out, then we'd have sex again when we woke up, we'd shower, and they would leave. Simple as that."
"I kind of get it." Pardus said. "Not the sex part but sleeping with someone so you don't get scared. I sleep with San, we don't have sex or anything, just sleep together. It's comforting."
"That's why I did it." Loki said.
"So, what was the hearing like?" José asked.
"It was interesting." Loki said. "But it led into me meeting Coral.
One week later.
"Miss Saki." The Judge said. "You are being accused of..." He looked at his paper. "... threatening to shove Death Stalkers up Mr. Cranes bottom."
"No, your honor."
"Are you denying the charges?"
"No. I'm saying your information is wrong."
"Please enlighten us?"
"Your honor. I was out for a walk one night when I heard screaming. I ran to find out what was wrong, and when I did, I saw a man, Mr. Crane, using his Semblance to terrify his family. So, I stepped in and used my Semblance to stop him."
"What is your Semblance?"
"Panic. Unlike other Semblances that make you feel fear my Semblance lets me see what your greatest fear is."
"And what was Mr. Cranes?"
"Birthing Death Stalkers from his ass your honor."
The courtroom erupted in exclamations of disgust.
"I wouldn't want to do that either." A voice said.
"Order!" The Judge called out. "Order!"
The courtroom quieted down.
"Now. Miss Saki. Why would you do that?"
"The better question is why he isn't on trial for traumatizing his kids?"
The courtroom went quiet when she said that.
"Mr. Crane?" The judge asked.
"Doctor." Mr. Crane said.
"What?"
"Doctor Crane. I'm a psychiatrist. I study the effects fear has on the body to help Hunters get over their fear."
"Objection your Honor." Char Coal, Loki's lawyer said standing up. "Our records indicate that 'Doctor' Crane was suspended from his position a year ago due to inhumane experimentation."
"Is this true Doctor?"
"Well... I uh... what I mean is..."
"Answer the question Doctor Crane."
"Yes."
"Very well. Doctor Crane is to be fined 50,000 Lien, a psychiatric evaluation, and six months in the Psychiatric ward. Miss Saki. You will be given 500 hours of community service at the hospital in the hopes that you will learn how your actions affect others. If you do not, then you could face time in jail or prison. Case dismissed."
"Wow." Gale said. "That seems a little steep."
"There were other factors." Loki said. "I did a lot of stuff, and they couldn't ignore that. I got off easy."
"So, you went and spent 500 hours at a hospital doing community service?" San asked.
"Yup, and that's where I met Coral."
"Tell us that story." Hel pleaded.
Loki told them the story of how she met Coral, and how their relationship started.
"No way." San said. "This Montgomery guy's worst nightmare was that Coral would be happy?"
"Yup."
"Did you guys really have sex in a hospital?" José asked.
"Yeah. Why would I make that up? And it wasn't sex. It was me pleasuring her to her first orgasm."
"Oh. I didn't know there was a difference."
"There is. A slight difference, but there is a difference."
"So did you really break Mahogany's back and throw him into Corals old cell?"
"Yup. Now. One more question before bed."
"What are you going to do when you see Coral again?" Ebon asked.
"Beg for her forgiveness and hope that she forgives me." Loki said with a bowed head.
"And if she doesn't?"
Loki stayed quiet for several minutes. "I don't know what I'll do if she doesn't forgive me."
With that they went to their respective beds and went to sleep.
The next morning.
Scott was the first person to wake up the next morning when he heard rain. He unzipped the tent to see that rain was pouring down in buckets.
"Well. I guess we're not going anywhere today." He spoke.
"Good." Yang said grabbing him and pulling him on top of her. "This means that we can have some fun if we're going to be stuck in our tent all day."
"Yang. What did I tell you about waiting for a more private place?"
"What makes you think I was implying that we should have sex?" She asked.
"I'm sorry for jumping to conclusions Yang. What did you want to do?" He challenged her.
"Well I... I..." she huffed. "You're right."
"How about this. The next time we stop somewhere that has a room, I'll shag your brains out."
"Is that a promise?"
"Yes."
Yang grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him into a long passionate kiss. "I'm keeping you to that." She gasped when they came up for air.
"So, what do you want to do?" Scott asked.
Yang unzipped their sleeping bags and zipped them together. Strip down to your boxers and muscle shirt." She said before stripping down to her bra and panties.
They crawled into the sleeping bags, and Yang snuggled into him pushing her back against his chest. Scott wrapped his arm around her and the two quickly fell asleep.
José and Hel
José woke up when he heard it raining. He looked around and saw Hel was sleeping next to him, looking so peaceful. He ran a finger along her cheek and kissed her forehead before pulling her closer and falling back asleep.
San and Pardus.
Pardus woke up with the rain and listened to it. She had thought about what San had told her the other day and was curious. People used kissing to show how they felt about people. Did this mean that she could kiss him to tell him how much he meant to her?
'NO!' She thought. 'He said that he saw me as a sister, but I don't see him like that. I love him more than a sister, but how do I show it? How do I show him that? I can't kiss him because he said that two people who love each other kiss, but he doesn't love me, at least not the way I love him...'
"Pardus?" San asked. "What's wrong? You're shaking."
"It's nothing." She said feeling emotional agony flood her body, and hot tears start falling from her eyes.
"Pardus?" He said putting a hand on her shoulder causing her to flinch. "Pardus, what's wrong?"
The ignorance in his voice hurt her more than her master's whip. She wanted to tell him what was wrong, but she couldn't.
"Did you have a nightmare?" He asked.
She shook her head and started crying.
He grabbed her and held her close. "What's the problem?" He asked.
"Y-you a-are." She sobbed.
"What do you mean?" He asked startled.
"Y-you c-can't s-see h-h-how I-I fe-feel a-abou-about you, a-and it h-hurt-hurts s-so m-much."
"What? You've never told me how you feel."
"W-would y-you e-even l-listen?"
"Yes. Tell me how you feel now. I'll listen."
Pardus sobbed into his chest until she could speak again. "You say that you see me as your sister, but I see you as someone I love more than a sibling. You showed me how to trust people again and showed me what love is just by being you. I want you to see me as more than a sister. I want you to love me the way that I love you."
"Pardus. I never knew that's how you felt about me."
"Well, it is, and I hate that you can't see it! I love you!"
'Damn it!' San thought. 'I never meant to hurt her, but I see her as a sister. How do I make this right?'
Loki
Loki grabbed the weapons case that she'd gathered for Jason's birthday present. She unlocked the box and opened it to look inside.
'Good. They're all still here. I hope he likes this. Eh. It's weapons so I'm sure he'll love it.'
She closed the case and locked it back before laying down in her tent and looking up at the ceiling. She thought about Coral and craved for her touch. She moved her hand down but stopped herself not wanting to tarnish Coral's memory. She rolled over and fell asleep to the sound of the rain.
Gale.
Gale was mixing various Dust powders to make more Dust variants. He was working on Fire/Lighting Dust when he realized that was a very bad idea in a nylon mesh tent. He took out his Scroll and opened up his texting app before opening the Aurebesh keyboard and began typing.
Gale: *Hey guys. Should we tell them that we aren't from Remnant?*
He waited for a response. He only had to wait a minute before José responded.
José: *I don't know Irmano. So far Glynda and Ozpin were the only ones who did. How would the others react?*
Scott: *I say that we don't tell them unless we need to.*
Gale: *Eventually someone will put two and two together and it won't equal four. What then?*
Scott: *We should come up with a plan in case things go belly up.*
Jose: *Why can't we assume that they won't hate us? We know them. Why would they hate us for being different?*
Scott: *This is just in case they do.*
José: *Bem(fine).*
Gale: *So. What should we do?*
Ebon
Ebon took out his Scroll and scrolled over to the picture of Hele.
'I miss you.' He thought before getting ready and leaving his tent. He walked out to the lake and stood there in the rain watching the rain beat the water. He thought back to the night Hele died. He could remember her broken, beaten, ravaged body lying on the ground with Bandits standing around her. One of the bandits had her sword, 'Asuna', in his hand. Hele said that 'Asuna' was a family Heirloom that had been passed down from mother to child, and the wielder would infuse their Aura into her, giving her an artificial soul making her a living being.
He took 'Asuna' from the sheath in his back and looked at it. It glowed an ivory color before turning blue and grey.
"I know." He spoke. "I miss her too."
'Asuna' glowed blue then red.
"I know how you feel. We'll kill more monsters."
'Asuna' glowed red, orange, yellow, green, and brown.
"I don't know if I'll settle down again. For the time being it's just us."
'Asuna' glowed green, blue, and brown.
"Who would I settle down with?" He asked pointedly.
'Asuna' glowed grey, black, green, and red.
"I've never loved anyone other than Hele."
'Asuna' glowed red and only increased in shade before glowing green.
"So, you're telling me to find someone else to love."
'Asuna' glowed orange and yellow.
"Who."
'Asuna' glowed black and green.
"Fine. You win."
'Asuna' glowed yellow.
Ebon went back to his tent and took off his wet clothes and looked up at the ceiling before drifting off to sleep.
It rained, and rained, and rained. It was on the third day of rain and the others were getting a little restless being cooped up in their tents. The brothers had started up a new D and D campaign with Yang and Hel, and San joined in with his L and L (Labyrinths and Legends) build, and Pardus had joined in. They decided that Gale would DM the campaign since he was the only one in his tent, and they had made some decent headway... after Yang, Hel, and Pardus got the hang of it. Loki and Ebon stayed in their tents, being used to the solitude. They just relaxed as best they could. They had been eating their trail rations, but they were going a little stir crazy. They had kept busy as best they could, but 72 hours cooped up in a tent was rather boring.
"Damn it to the Gods!" Yang yelled! "I'm so fucking bored! I need something, or better yet someone, to do!"
"Scott!" Gale yelled. "Bang Yang before she starts telling every bad sex joke she knows!"
"Excuse me!?" Scott asked indignantly.
"If you don't..." Loki threatened. "... I will."
"We will wear our headphones to give you guys some privacy." Gale said. "You'll be doing everyone here a favor!"
Scott looked at Yang who was pleading with her eyes and gave in.
"Fine." He spoke.
Before he knew what had happened Yang had tackled him to the floor of their tent and was ripping his clothes off as fast as she could.
The other's headphones did nothing to drown out the noises of the two lovers.
Yang woke up feeling more relaxed than she had since they left the last town. She looked around and saw that Scott was nowhere to be seen along with their sleeping bags. In fact, their tent was empty with the exception of an outfit in the corner. She looked down to see that she was wearing a bra and her panties. She reached for the outfit, and noticed her Scroll had a message on it.
Yang. I had to clean our gear after last night. I left you your spare outfit, and a towel. Get cleaned up and changed. We'll be leaving as soon as you are changed. ~Scott.
She grabbed her spare outfit and left the tent to see the others around the campfire. She noticed that they weren't looking at her... or Scott for that matter and went to the lake. She swam in the lake, rinsing off, before getting out and drying off and heading back to the tent where she proceeded to get dressed in the new outfit.
She stepped out of the tent dressed in her new outfit and walked to the fire. She noticed that no one made eye contact with her.
"What's wrong guys?" She asked.
"Even with our headphones in." Loki said. "We still heard you two."
"We weren't that loud..." Yang defended. "Were we?"
"Would you like me to quote you." Loki asked. "I can give you the abridged version if you'd like."
"I can give you the teaser trailer." Pardus said clearing her throat. *Gasp* "Oh fuck."
"What are you talking about?" Yang asked. "I don't remember any of that."
Everyone looked at Scott in shock.
"What?" Scott asked.
"Come on Scott." Gale said. "Even though I give you crap for being muscle for brains I know that you aren't that stupid. You know exactly what you did."
Yang looked at Scott in admiration. "Did you seriously do what I think you did?"
"Yes, no, I don't know. What do you think I did?"
"In Blake's Erotic novels 'Ninja's of Love' there is a scene in it that every girl who reads it wants to happen to them. Do you know what that is?"
"I have a feeling that you're going to tell me."
"It's to be shagged so fast, so hard, so deep... that you pass out."
"Oh." Scott said. "I was just trying to exhaust you to the point that you would pass out. I figured that if you passed out then you wouldn't be bored anymore."
"Well, it worked. I'm surprised the condom didn't break."
"Same." Pardus said. "Though if you start experiencing morning sickness then you know that it did break."
"I hope not." Yang said. "I don't know if I could put my life on hold to raise a kid right now."
"Well." Loki said. "We need to haul ass to Haven before another three-day storm hits. Let's pack it up and move out."
They packed up what was left and began walking. They walked five hours before stopping for lunch, took an hour for lunch, and walked another five hours before stopping for the night.
The next morning, they packed up and walked for an hour before they crested a hill.
"You have got to be kidding me." Gale said disbelieving. "We were literally a day's walk from Mistral?"
"No way." San said walking up not noticing Pardus reaching for his hand before he started walking.
"Look."
"So, we are like what... an hour away from Haven?"
"If that." Ebon said. "We're probably looking at half hour, forty-five minutes."
"Then let's go." Gale said. "Hot showers and beds!"
The group walked through Mistral and were eventually at the road leading up to Haven Academy. They were walking when Scott took off after someone. He ran at them and blipped out of existence before the wall on the side of the road to keep people from falling off shattered, and Scott walked out.
"JASON!" He yelled punching the guy into a tree.
"SCOTT!" The figure yelled kicking Scott back down the road.
Scott rolled to his feet before hitting the ground with his hands and stopping, and Yang had to catch him.
The figure walked down the road and became two figures.
"Yang? A girl with grey hair asked.
"Weiss?" Yang asked.
The two teammates ran and hugged each other before Yang looked over at the male figure.
"Jason!" Yang yelled hugging him.
Jason returned the hug and looked behind Yang to see Loki. He pushed Yang aside and hugged Loki.
"Oh Gods!" Loki said. "Jason. You've changed."
"Is that a bad thing?" He asked.
"No, no. What happened?"
"We should get back to the Academy. The headmaster can assign rooms when we get there. You can shower, bathe, sleep, eat, whatever you want."
"Finally." Gale said. "A shower."
"So, who is the headmaster?" Ebon asked. "Is Lionheart still in charge?"
"No. Lionheart had to quit because of the stress. We have a new Headmaster and Deputy Headmistress."
"Really? Who?"
"Neo." Roman Torchwick said. "How are the remodeling for the school coming?"
"*Meh. Could be better, could be worse. Jason was really generous with his offer.* Neo signed.
"I know. We become the Headmaster and Headmistress of Haven Academy so long as we train the next generations of Hunters to be the best they can be."
"*Don't forget that we need to protect the innocent, help people get legitimate jobs, keep kids off the streets and find them good families, and inform Jason if Cinder comes around.*
"Yes, yes, and we have to help both human's and Faunus."
"*Yup.*
There was a knock on the door and Jason and Weiss walked in with a group of nine.
"Good afternoon ladies and Gentlemen."
"TORCHWICK!" Team SHAY yelled dropping into fighting stances.
"Hold on." Jason said stepping in front of them. "Torchwick works for me now."
"It's true." Torchwick said. "Jason here let me and Neo go after the Fall of Beacon and now we work for him."
"Really?" Yang asked.
"Yes." Weiss said. "Neo has been training my younger brother Whitley in the ways of an assassin."
"WHAT!" The four yelled in unison.
"It's true." A figure said appearing from thin air. He wore a dark blue three-piece suit with black dress shoes, and a dark blue trench coat. He had pale skin with white hair and strong features. There was barely a trace of who he had been six months ago. He had strong, lean muscle, and held himself with confidence in his abilities rather than confidence in his family's influence.
"Who are you?" Yang asked.
"My name is Whitley Schnee. I am Weiss's brother, future Huntsman, and Assassin."
"*You still suck.* Neo signed.
"Suck my dick." Whitley countered.
"*Okay.* Neo signed walking towards him seductively. She wrapped herself around him before dropping to her knees and reaching for his pants.
Whitley disappeared and ran off.
Neo grinned but also looked disappointed. *Even though I won, I lost.*
"Neo." Roman said. "He's like sixteen. Do you want to go to prison for statutory?"
"*He lost, but he would have won.*
"Sta-tu-to-ry rape." Roman repeated. "He's a minor."
"*Fine.* Neo signed before getting up and looking around before homing in on Ebon. *He looks old enough.*
"If he accepts your advances then fine, but we are supposed to be paragons of virtue or something now."
Neo laughed a silent laugh and signed. *We are the farthest thing from Virtuous there is.*
"You're better than some." Jason said. "Now. Can you please assign the rooms? You kicked us out of the houses so you could: "Keep an eye on us"."
"That I did. You guys are just too immature to be left alone. Why, you and the Ice Queen are rocking the bed every other day."
"As if." Jason defended. "We do it once a week. You're just jealous because the only thing you've got is Mrs. palm and her five daughters."
"Shot's fired." Gale said.
Yang burst into laughter that boomed throughout the office. She was laughing so hard that she fell to her knees before she began rolling on the floor laughing. When she finally stopped laughing, she was crying tears of mirth and couldn't breathe.
"I-I'm sorry." She gasped out. "I-I'm so so-sorry, but that was the funniest thing I've ever heard come out of Jason's mouth."
Roman looked embarrassed.
Loki looked at Jason and Weiss. "Are you guys really involved?"
"Yes." Jason said.
Weiss had a faint dusting of pink on her cheeks.
"Are you guys using protection?" She asked.
"Yes." Jason said a little annoyed. "We always use protection."
"Okay. Im sorry. It's just, I want you to be safe. Im just looking out for you."
"I know. It just feels like everyone is asking us that."
"Sorry. I just way you guys to be careful."
"We are. Every time." He looked at Scott and Yang. "What about you two? It smells like you two have been getting to know each other a little better."
"Because we have." Yang said. "And we are using protection."
"Okay." He looked around and saw José and Hel. "You too huh?"
"Yeah." José said.
He looked at Pardus and San. He could smell that Pardus wanted to start a relationship with San, but San didn't see Pardus the way that she saw him. There was something else about Pardus. She had an old scent on her. There was a second smell that smelled like a cat.
"What?" She demanded.
"Which of the Heralds are you?" He asked.
Pardus went quiet before the Speedster took over.
"Alpha." The Speedster said in a sickly voice. "I am the Speedster. I am waiting to access my power."
"What do you need to access your power."
"I need to kill and steal a speedsters Speed Semblance."
Team SHAY, Loki, Jason, and Weiss looked at each other.
"We have a speedster with us." Jason said. "You are not to hurt her. It you see a speedster ask me if you can take their Semblance."
"Fine. I don't like it, but I am loyal to the Alpha."
"Thank you."
"How many Heralds do you know of?"
"They should all be active, but I have met the Rider, the Thunderer, the Purifier, the Champion, and you."
"The Abomination is still out there."
"Yes. I'm sure they will show up eventually."
"I see."
"I don't mean to interrupt." Gale said. "But we were promised beds, food, and showers."
"Ah yes." Roman said. "Of course. Allow me to give you your rooms. What are your Team names?"
"Team SHAY." Scott said.
"Very well. Team SHAY will take room number 236, and what about you?" He asked the other group.
"Team SPHE(Sapphire)." San said.
"Excellent! Team SPHE will be given room 300. I hope you guys like privacy because you'll be getting a lot of it."
"Give us the codes." Gale said.
Roman slid his hand across his Scroll sending Team SHAY their access codes. He did so a second time and sent Team SPHE their access codes.
"Thanks, bye." Gale said before running.
The others walked leaving Loki standing there alone.
"What about me?" She asked.
"Oh. How could I ever forget about you my dear?" Roman asked. "You can have room 210." He said sliding her the access codes.
"Thanks." She turned to Jason. "I'll talk to you later."
"Yeah. We need to catch up."
Loki nodded before walking to her room.
Later
The friends met in the cafeteria. Everyone talked with friends, teammates, family members. Yang and Scott were talking with Tai, Summer, Qrow, and Ruby.
"What do you mean that you knew I was Ruby's dad?" Qrow asked Yang.
"Uncle Qrow. I remember you trying to get Ruby to call you 'dada'. Why the hell would I not think you were her dad?"
"Language Yang!" Summer scolded.
"Sorry mom." She apologized
"I guess you have a point." Qrow admitted.
"Hey dad." Yang said to Tai. "I met mom."
"And?"
"I hate her. I wish she would get eaten by a Grimm. She tried saying that Jason was a monster and that he needed to die. Then she tried getting me to become the next leader of the Branwen tribe. I told her to shove it."
"Yeah. Sorry about that."
Meanwhile
Jason and Loki were sitting at another table.
"It's good to see you again Jason." Loki said. "You've grown so much since I last saw you."
"Yeah. I know. I got rid of my Mindscape, built a new one, and told Weiss, Pyrrha, and Geoff everything. Then Weiss and I became official."
"Did you propose?"
"Yeah."
"Aww. I wish I were there to see it."
"Thank Geoff." Jason said swiping his finger across his Scroll and sending the video to Loki's.
"I will." She spoke. "I'll also watch this later seeing as I have something for you too."
"Really? What is it?"
Loki put the box she'd been lugging around since they left Patch on the table. It was 8' X 4' long. "Happy late birthday kid brother." She spoke.
Jason looked at the box in awe and went to open it.
"Oh." Loki said putting her thumb on the fingerprint Scanner. "You need a fingerprint to unlock it." She said as the box unlocked.
Jason opened it and saw the interior was layered with five different foam layers to carry the weapons. The first layer had the smallest weapons with a bracelet that he recognized but had been painted in his colors.
"Is this 'Ember Celica'?" He asked.
"Yang donated it." Loki said. "It's the one for the arm she lost."
"I see. I'll have to thank her for that."
The first layer had 'Ember Celica'; a gauntlet similar to Yang's but it was larger. He took it out and saw that it was a Machine Gun gauntlet. He'd have to get the ammunition for it though. The next one was also a gauntlet and had a button on the side. He pressed it and a thick cable shot out and into the wall.
"Grappling Gauntlet. Good to know."
The next weapon was a Kris Dagger with strange markings on it. It said: ᛃᛖᚾᚾᛖᚱ (Jenner).
'This is a dangerous weapon.' The Alpha said. 'I am not sure what it does, but it is very dangerous. I wouldn't use it if I were you.'
'What do you mean?'
'Can't you feel the unnatural aura coming off the blade. There is something very wrong with it.'
'Okay, okay.'
The next weapon was a foot long pack of tiny buzz saw blades.
'Buzz saw throwing stars. They could come in handy.'
Next was a Magnum with a button on the side. He picked up the Magnum and looked it over before hitting the button and the Magnum folded out into a combat knife.
"Okay, now that's cool." He spoke.
"I thought that you would like that." Loki said.
Next was twin Kama that had a button on the back. He hit the button and the blades flipped up making twin Iklwa. He nodded and looked at the next one. It was a pistol, but it was different. There was a switch next to the safety that seemed to control the rate of fire. There was a button that mecha-shifted the pistol. He hit the button and the pistol mecha-shifted into a boomerang.
'Very nice.' He thought before continuing.
The next weapon was a pocketknife. He took it out and flipped it open. It looked sharp, but he wanted a second opinion. He stabbed his hand sending the blade through his flesh, muscle, bone, and out the other side.
Loki took in a deep breath before letting it out. "Are you satisfied?" She asked.
"Very." He said wiping the blood on his pant leg, closing the knife, and putting it in his pocket.
He took that foam layer off and sat it to the side before looking at the next layer. In that layer was a pair of gauntlets that had spikes on the palms. It was probably meant for a Hunter who fought with their hands, specifically an open palm fighting style. The next set of weapons was a pair of brass knuckles that had a blade on the end of it. They were probably meant for a fighter who used a lot of arcing punches unlike someone who threw quick punches meant to deal a ton of damage really quick or lightning-fast punches that deal damage that adds up over time. He'd need to find someone who could use them.
He looked down at the next weapon and looked up at Loki. "Is that what I think it is?"
"What do you think it is?" She asked.
"It looks like and oversized cleaver."
"It's called a battle cleaver, though some people call it a war cleaver. Coral found it and thought you'd like it."
"I do. I can't wait to use it."
The Battle Cleaver was 15" long from the front edge of the blade to the pommel. The blade was 8" in height a quarter inch in width going down to a razor edge.
He had to look away from the cleaver at the other weapons. The next one was a baseball bat that had a seam down the middle. He picked it up and twisted the bat to see it fold out into a cannon.
"Okay." Loki said. "I didn't know it could do that."
"It's so cool." Jason said.
"Is it heavy?" Loki asked.
"You tell me." He said handing her the baseball bat.
"Kinda." She spoke. "But not bad."
The next weapon was a ball and chain mace. He looked it over and his finger brushed over a button that dropped the heavy metal orb. He pressed the button again and the orb connected magnetically.
"Dangerous." Loki said.
"Yeah. I'd hate to get hit by this thing."
"Right. I can think of a few places that would be even worse to get hit."
"Yeah."
He took out that layer and put it to the side to see a 6' tall shield that had seams along the edge of the shield. He hit the button and the edge folded into a square gun barrel.
"Impressive." Loki said.
"I'll have to use it some time." I wonder what kind of ammo it uses."
"You'll have to take most of this to the Leprechaun to find out."
"You know that he hates that nickname, right?"
"What's the worst he can do to me? Bite my ankles?"
"For starters."
"Challenge accepted."
Jason just shook his head hoping that he wouldn't have to break up a fight between his sister and uncle. He took that layer out and put it to the side before looking back in the box and saw a 7' double bladed naginata. He took it out and saw a hole in the front end and a trigger halfway down the shaft.
"I'm going to say speargun." He said putting it back and looked at the next weapon. It looked like a lance, but it had a gun barrel and a bayonet. Near the handle there was a bolt for the ammo and a trigger. He looked over to it to see a rocket launcher with what looked like a mortar launcher on the underside. He looked at the next set of weapons which was a pair of heated blade Halberds. He took them out and gave them a few experimental swings to test them out and was satisfied with their weight and feel. He put them to the side with the Magnum/knife and the boomerang/pistol before taking out that layer and looking at the final one. Inside was the chainsaw sword he'd used during the fall of Beacon, and an Assault rifle with a second, under barrel that was a flamethrower. He also set that aside before looking through once more and planning his new armory.
He took out the mini buzz saw blades, Yang's gauntlet, the grappling hook gauntlet, and the kris dagger before setting them next to the assault rifle/flamethrower, heated blade halberds, Magnum/knife, and boomerang/pistol.
"You look like you're getting ready for war." Loki said.
"I am."
"What happened?"
"Weiss was kidnapped, drugged, beaten, and assaulted."
"What? Did you kill the guy?"
Jason just looked at her with sad, enraged eyes.
"What? Why not?"
"He beat me."
"HE WHAT!" She yelled getting the others attention.
"Yeah. He beat me without even trying. We've been training our asses off ever since, but I need an edge that will give me an advantage against him. These weapons should be that advantage..." He created a dozen Shadow Clones. "...and these should help out a lot too."
"You're scared of him... aren't you?"
"Terrified. He toyed around with me as if I were Jaune."
"Harsh, but point made."
"He also told Weiss that if I don't kill him the next time we meet that he would kill Weiss before killing me."
"That's one hell of a motivator."
"Ya think?"
Ruby came up to them. "Hi Jason." She spoke. "Can I look at your new weapons?"
"Sure Ruby." He said switching back to his normal tone. "Knock yourself out."
Ruby squealed so loud that it got the others attention too. She began looking at them and spent the next several hours looking at them. Eventually the others came over, and they spent some time admiring Jason's birthday present.
"Ya know." Tai said. "Most people get a book or movie for their birthday."
"Yeah." Jason said. "But I'm not normal."
"What say you we have a combined birthday party when we gather everyone together?" Scott asked.
"I like that idea." Nora said. "Everyone byes everyone a gift and we do one giant gift exchange. I love it."
"It does sound like a good idea." Summer said.
"Then it's decided." Sun chimed in. "When we reunite in Atlas, we'll throw a huge party for everyone."
Everyone agreed, and Jason put his new armory back together before they went back to their rooms.
That night most everyone was asleep except for one couple.
"Hey Scott." Yang said.
"Yeah?" Scott asked tiredly.
"Want to try something?"
"What?"
Yang whispered something in Scott's ear.
"Are you serious?"
"Yup."
"Are you even that flexible?"
"I may not look it, but I am very flexible."
"But you're talking about doing a split vertically."
"Are you saying that I can't do it?"
"No, no. If you say that you can do it then I believe you, but..."
"We'll try it tomorrow then."
"Fine. We'll try it tomorrow."
"Good night." She spoke.
"Night." Scott yawned before drifting off to sleep.
AN: Loki's backstory is based on the movie Lucy with the exception that Loki doesn't become a super computer or whatever Lucy became in the end. Scott and Yang "going for ten" was inspired by Dragon Ball Z Abridged during the Cell Saga. With that I'll see you all next week when we check in on Coral. Until then, enjoy.