Here we go again boys, and girls! Yet another fighting chapter… You guys know how many fights I need to cover, so expect like 1-2k parts of the fights each, so in total that might make this an 8k word chapter, maybe less, maybe more. Wish me luck.
Ended up being 10.7k words by the way, so that was fun.
A lot of you are wondering where Orchid, Ruby Yang, etc are. But mostly Orchid. In one of the earlier chapters, I think it was two chapters ago or something. Taiyang and her mom took her, Ruby, Yang, and I think Two and maybe one more person, and got them out of the stadium right as the first explosion happened. They are currently not in the stadium at the moment. They are safe and sound. Do not worry, Orchid is not dead or anything, she's just not in the fight right now. Trust me though, she wants to be.
Arctech: I get it man, I am always tired. But no matter, we must push on! And of course only I can leave a cliffhanger for like three different fights, why wouldn't I? It's just something I think is a great idea.
Oblivious Ninja IJ: Not gonna lie, if I do get killed. I would want it to be done at least by a cute girl. Neo seems perfect for the job.
SuperKaiokenGoku: They're about to get even better, just wait and see ;).
Bolticronic: As I explained up above, Orchid is currently not in the fight. Poor Rick will be missed, the blue Violet brother is MIA.
Thank you all for the reviews!
Beta: CrowSkull
This is an unedited chapter, more details on why that is in the lower AN. Sorry for the inconvenience, please enjoy what I have down for now.
The Blind Huntsman
Chapter 31- Volume 0, Episode 29
Survival
Winter winced under the immense pressure that was Adams long red sword that nearly cleaved her in half if it weren't for her blocking it. It turned out that the faunus captain of the White Fang was very dangerous in one on one combat. Much more than Winter could have ever predicted. She knew that one day she would have to face this man, and at the time she wished to defeat him and bring him in. But now, she might have no choice but to kill him.
The bull faunus roared as he used his semblance again, jumping up in the air and stabbing into the ground, launching out a wave of black and red flames at full strength. Wisely, Winter didn't try to block it this time, it would have meant getting cut in half. Instead she jumped and rolled to the side, since she wasn't in front of Weiss and Whitley that time, she could afford to dodge.
Weiss was told not to interfere with the fight, it would have been much too dangerous for the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company. If Adam noticed her trying to help, he would go after her right away, and Winter didn't like the odds of closing the distance before he could bypass her aura with another one of his moonslices.
As Winter landed on her feet, she used her offhand to summon a few white, and blue Beowolves. These summoned Grimm followed her command, and lunged at Adam with snarling beastality. They were quickly taken down by two of Adam's own shadow clones, but that distraction in his moment of concentration earned him a kick to the side. He blocked the next hit with his sheathe. He tried to unsheathe his sword to fight back and absorb more kinetic force to add to the reserve power of his semblance, but Winter kicked the hilt of his sword back into his sheathe, forcing him to use his sheathe and his machine pistol as a way of defense.
He took his pistol out of his back pocket, and fired a clip out. The fire rate came out so fast it was like a literal hose of bullets coming Winters way right as she used ice dust to create a small wall of ice to block most of the bullets. She used her one sabre to block and deflect the rest, but two or three were able to hit her.
Before she could try and force Adam to keep his sword in its sheath, it fired out like a javelin her way. It clocked her in the head and forced her back in a stagger. Adam smirked and jumped up into the air to catch the hilt of his blade and bring it down on Winter's position. Slashing down at her in an angled arc that sliced off about fifteen percent of her aura.
In return she grabbed onto the blade that was pressed into her shoulder with her hand, allowing it to cut through her hand as she did so. It would have been a waste of aura to try and protect her hand. Adam widened his eyes at the unexpected action, and tried to pull his sword back to cut through her fingers, but the Atlesian paladin behind Winter forced him to let go of his beloved sword. Leaving him disarmed.
Winter threw his sword to the side, and flicked off the blood that spilled onto her hand before lunging at him with the tip of her sword. The White Fang behind Adam which were still busy fighting against the Atlesian soldiers began to get worried for him as he ducked and weaved through the Schnees attacks, getting caught here and there but mostly being on the defensive.
He backflipped through the air when Winter tried to slash at him from the side, and while in mid air he unclipped his sheath from his hip and when he landed, he held it like a rifle. Taking aim at Winter Schnee.
She widened her eyes right as a bright flash blinded her temporarily. Winter clawed at her own eyes as she tried to regain her vision. But as she was now, she was unable to defend herself.
Adam enjoyed walking up slowly but with haste up to her, and delivered the hardest kick he has even sent out in his life. Before sauntering over to his sword as he watched as his target continued to try rubbing her eyes so she could see again, while also holding her stomach in pain. He reached Wilt and picked it up, putting back into its home and getting into position for one last moonslice.
As soon as his blade entered its sheath and his hair glowed. The point of a rapier stabbed into the back of his shoulder, bouncing off only because of his strong aura reserves. He grunted in pain and slashed his sword out behind him, hitting nothing but air as Weiss disengaged just as fast as she engaged. But the fear was clear in her eyes when Adam glared at her with such hatred with his exposed blue eye.
"Fine… you first." Adam seethed as he turned his attention to the heiress. "I wonder how you father is going to feel about learning that all three of his children were murdered… I can't wait to see his face when he hears the news." He taunted as his clothing glowed again, intent on ending this fight in one blow.
Weiss panicked and summoned up a wall of ice, and behind that she spun the dial on Myrtenaster and selected stone dust, summoning a wall of stone behind the ice to reinforce it. Her small sword is not meant to block such intense attacks, and it moved to fast for her to dodge. Her only hope was to go on the full defensive, and hope that the ice and stone is strong enough to block the attack.
Adam smirked at her pitiful display, flimsy ice and stone will never be enough to block his attack. He was able to cut through tanks with his semblance. Once the heiress is down, the other Schnee girl will be distraught, angry, and most likely fight with more brute force then skill. Perfect for slicing off a limb or two, he was going to make it hurt before he ended her life. It was less than what she deserved in reality to him.
"Now!" He heard the heiress scream out from behind the wall. Adam halted his attack out of confusion, right before taking about six bullets to the side as some of the Atlesian soldiers turned their attention on him. Firing at him with pistols. Adam groaned his frustrations as he blocked and dodged the rest of the bullets, and charged at them.
He was only able to cut one down when he noticed the much larger Atlesian Knight, with its long thick blue sword already closing in on his face. Adam was just able to widen his eyes before it clashed with the left side of his face. Destroying the rest of his mask in the process. His aura flared as it got low, and flared again with each time he bounced off the ground before slamming into the wall. That attack did a great deal of damage to his aura, and the air was blasted out of his lungs as he struggled to catch his breath.
Winter stood with one recovered eye, also low on aura and stamina. She had a fully grown fifteen foot knight standing behind her. Her last stand was just enough to hurt Adam enough so that he couldn't stand up against this one like he was easily able to do before.
And he knew that. Adam growled as he glared at her. Growling even louder when he saw her eyes widen at the sight of his exposed left eye. Branded with the letters SDC on that side of his face, while also revealing that blind bloodshot eye.
"I see why you despise my kind so much now." Winter said to him, feeling pity for the scarred man, but it wasn't enough to stop her from arresting him at all.
"You don't understand anything about me!" Adam shouted back, cutting his hand through the air before him as he placed his hand back on the hilt of his sword, glowing an angry red as he stared at the Schnee Huntress. "You humans didn't do this to just me, you did this to countless other innocent faunus! My family, my friends, all DEAD! Just because we have something that you don't." He seethed, but continued nonetheless. "I will stop at nothing, to make sure that humans will understand the same pain that they put me through."
"You shan't accuse all humans for the actions of a few!" Winter shouted back, deflecting the stray bullets that the White Fang fired at her. "I do not hold all faunus for the actions of a few. Believe it or not Adam Taurus, but not all humans are bigots against your kind. I still remember when the White Fang allowed humans to join them as well, even protested for your rights as well. Until there was a change of leadership and now your organization have turned to terrorism for results."
"I don't need you to lecture me Schnee. Not from some privileged human who got everything handed to her on a silver platter!" Adam replied, wrapping his fingers around his sheath once more. "I see what you are trying to do. Make me feel guilt about what I've done. I have chosen my path, and nothing will lead me astray from my goal."
"Then you are lost!" Winter exclaimed, preparing herself for combat once more.
They both made to clash with each other again. For them it felt like slow motion as they grew closer and closer with the other. Adam's blade was slowly taken out of its sheath as he went to slash at her side, while Winter went for a stab attack that would go straight through his heart. If they both landed their attacks, they would both die. They both knew that. However, one felt that he would become a martyr, the man who managed to kill Winter Schnee. While the other felt that her sacrifice was necessary to get her other siblings out of that mess, not matter the cost.
Their blades nearly hit their target, but a bright spotlight shining on the two of them made them clench their eyes shut and made Adam cut too high, and Winter miss her mark completely from the surprise.
Rappel ropes were thrown down into the area they were fighting. Winter recovered first, and went straight for her sister who was still hiding behind the wall of defense she created herself. Adam tried to go after her, but the bullets fired upon him from above and from the front made him grit his teeth as he realized he wouldn't be able to take a Schnee life today.
"The General is here, what do we do?" One of his subordinates asked him.
Adam wanted to keep going, wanted to keep fighting in order to kill the weakened Huntress and her siblings. But he couldn't deny that he himself was also hurt, his face was shown to the world already, and his semblance didn't have the power needed to get through the small army that just landed in front of him.
Not only that, but he overheard news of Malikai Matsuoka also making his way back into the colosseum, and if he made his way there. All would surely be lost.
He made the call for retreat when he saw the last nail in the coffin. General Ironwood himself start rappelling down one of the ropes. The White Fang in that area all retreated, with Adam defending those who were injured, and those not as experienced as the rest.
Before Adam could fully retreat himself, he met eyes with Winter Schnee just one last time. Her eyes were narrowed at him, and his in turn at her. A silent promise was made between the two as Adam jumped out of the building, using his sword to stab into the wall and slow his descent as he got away from the fight.
Minutes later, Winter finally allowed the medics to treat her after making sure that Weiss and Whitley were okay. She had multiple wounds on her body, and was bleeding out of some of them. The hand she used to grab Adam's blade was also bleeding profusely, but after a few quick stitches and thick bandage, the wound stopped bleeding.
"Are you going to be okay?" Weiss asked her from the side. All three of the Schnees were now being heavily guarded by several guards. Not taking any risks with the White Fang still around.
"I'll be fine, neither of you need to worry about me." Winter said with the best smile she can let appear on her face. She felt satisfied for keeping them safe and relatively unhurt, but also scolded herself for now being able to defeat Adam Taurus, even when she did have help from time to time. If it weren't for her sister interfering when she was blinded by Adam's sheath, she would probably be dead. "Though, I am going to have to start training harder just in case I have to fight someone that dangerous again."
"Did you see his face?" Whitley asked next. "He was branded with the name of the SDC on his face. That must be why he hates us so much."
"Among many other reasons, I'm sure." Winter replied.
"Specialist." General Ironwood spoke up as he pushed his way through the guards. Making her sit up straighter and wish she could stand and salute.
"General, what is it you need from me?" Winter asked, more automatically than anything else.
"There is nothing else I could wish from you Specialist Schnee." The General said with a small smile. "Instead, I am ordering you to take yourself and your siblings back to Atlas at once. I am giving you a two month leave to recover, and spend time with your family."
Winter looked like she wanted to protest. To say that she could still fight. But she still had her siblings in the danger zone with her. It was also an order, to refuse it would been a court martial and possibly a dishonorable discharge, and wouldn't her father just love that.
"I… I understand." Winter said with a nod. "Are you two ready to go."
"As ready as I'll ever be." Weiss said as Whitley nodded in agreement.
Winter made a note to look after them as she stayed back home, if she were even allowed too. Whitley and Weiss have seen things that they shouldn't have seen for years to come. There was almost no way that they would not have any kind of mental trauma after this day was over.
And so, she took them to the already prepared Bullhead, and as she rose from the ground. Winter looked out of one of the windows.
She knew she was going to face Adam Taurus again sometime in the future… and she would need to prepare for it.
Pyrrha used her semblance to redirect the thin blade that was just about to stab her through the neck. She tried to counter the multi colored girl, but the second her blade made contact with the girls body, she would break away into glass and appear at a different angle. She has never fought against someone with this style of fighting before, this girl was just so flexible, able to dodge all of her attacks while also attacking at the same time.
As Pyrrha thought about this. Neo jumped through the air with a flip, and landed behind her. The diminutive girl smirked as she bent backwards until her head nearly hit the floor, then slammed her hands into the ground to kick her legs up and slam her toes into Pyrrha's chin.
She staggered back and held her chin in pain. She kept trying to use her semblance on the other girl, but the only thing that was metal on her body was her sword. Not even her parasol was metal. She assumes that her opponent must have prepared for this fight, and must have learned from her fight against Kai and is now using that knowledge to push Pyrrha back.
To make things worse, Pyrrha didn't have her shield with her. She left it back in the arena where the headmaster of Beacon was still fighting against those two men who threatened to steal Kai away. So she was essentially half disarmed at the beginning of this fight.
However, she wasn't about to give up. This girl with the multicolored eyes was very skilled, and stronger than any person her side ought to be. But she was Pyrrha Nikos, the Invincible Girl. She had her own fair share of skill and strength, she would just need to bring that out just one more time in order to win this battle.
Pyrrha would also need to change up her style. She was making the mistake of fighting Neo as she would anyone else. Pyrrha could tell that there was a specific way as to how to fight this girl. She was extremely flexible, and so could dodge in unnatural angles. Which meant that she must be double or even triple jointed in certain parts of her body. Pyrrha was flexible herself, but nowhere near as much as this woman was.
Instead of blocking the next strike, she dodged it. Mildly surprising Neo as the tip of her sword missed it's mark by a good few inches. Pyrrha tried to counter with her fist rather then her sword, but Neo was still able to dodge it quite easily. However, Pyrrha noted that she didn't use her semblance this time to dodge. It must only activate when physical contact is made with her, either that or she just decided not to use it that time. Pyrrha hoped that it was the former.
Neo used her athleticity to flip backward, land on her feet again. Then blew out her parasol in front of Pyrrha's face, disorienting her for the time being as she smirked and kneed her in the stomach. Her targets face scrunched up in pain as she sank her knee deeper into her stomach, but frowned when she watched as Pyrrha wrapped her arms around that leg.
She was about to use her semblance to get away from Pyrrha, but before she could fully activate it Pyrrha slammed her into the wall beside them. Even then, Neo still managed to weaken the force of the blow by kicking her other leg out the the wall. But winced as she felt her knee strain painfully as her aura flared up to protect that part of her body.
The next thing she did was jump off of the wall with all her strength, and flipped again to slip her trapped leg out of the champions grip. Once her foot got out of her arms she slashed her sword at her to dissuade her from going to grab her again.
Pyrrha jumped back and held her sword out in a defensive posture yet again. She couldn't use the javelin shift of her weapon because of how tight the corridor they were fighting in was, and she couldn't use her rifle shift because of how quick and agile her opponent was. If they were an open space like the arena, she would have been able to fight at her full potential.
Neo sensed her internal struggle and smirked at her, flourishing her parasol and sword as to taunt her as she did a little dance to tick her off. Pyrrha recognized what she was doing right away, it wasn't the first time someone tried that trick on her. It only worked once, and her father made sure that she would never fall for it again with brutal training. She was lucky it was only when she was in a spar against one of her more mouthy trainers.
Neo pouted when she saw that Pyrrha was unaffected by her taunting, and even stomped the ground out of her anger. As she did so, she once again shattered away into many pieces of glass. It was only by instincts and a lucky guess did Pyrrha managed to block and redirect the tip of Neo's thin pointy sword. She also waved her hand and used her semblance to try and disarm the girl. But Neo simply spun with the sudden momentum given to her, and twirled away a few feet, stopping elegantly in a bow as if she just put on a show for her entertainment.
Pyrrha narrowed her eyes, and went on the offensive. Being completely defensive against an opponent would only lead to her defeat. Pyrrha swung Milo over her shoulder in a wide downward arc in front of her, which of course was dodged easily. But she didn't let up there. She picked up the speed of her swings and decreased the intervals she swung her sword in. Trying her best to fight in an unpredictable pattern as she slashes her sword from multiple angles with varying degrees of strength behind them.
Neo's smile disappeared as she started putting more effort into this fight. She didn't need to kill the girl, even though she desperately wanted too. She could have a dozen different times, but she was specifically told not too. Roman insisted that killing her would only bring them more attention. So begrudgingly, instead of killing the redhead Neo was given the task of distracting her, injure her, or whatever she needed to do in order to keep her away from her allies.
Throwing all of that to the wind for a moment. Neo stabbed her sword out with a much quicker motion than what she was fighting with before. It caught Pyrrha in the shoulder and she cried out as her already weak aura couldn't full protect her body, allowing her blade to pierce right into her shoulder. It got pulled out just as fast, dripping with her blood.
Neo smiled giddily at the blood, and even pretended that she was going to lick it off of her blade. After enjoying the look of surprised shock on Pyrrha's face, she flicked it away from her tongue and down at the ground, winking at Pyrrha as if to say 'I gotcha!'.
She was playing with her, Pyrrha realized that. Even though she was weakened and lacked the ability to use all of the weapons in her arsenal, she didn't know if she could beat this girl even if she was at full strength. Pushing through her pain, she stood up and faced off against Neo anyway. Even as her right shoulder leaked a worrying amount of blood. Her aura was already getting to work on it.
"You are very skilled… why are you doing this?" Pyrrha asked, trying to stall for time.
Neo simply tilted her head in response, rocking back and forth on her heels as if she was thinking about how to respond. Before opening her mouth to speak and pretending to speak words. It was only gibberish to Pyrrha, she couldn't tell what she was mouthing to her.
Upon seeing her face, Neo giggled silently. Then took her sword back out and pointed it at her.
Pyrrha was looking around with her eyes quickly to see if there was anything else she could use to help her in this battle. When her eyes landed on the ceiling she got an idea.
But when she tried to look at Neo again, she was much closer than she originally thought. She was just a few feet away, and her sword was just about to pierce into her body again.
Out of desperation, Pyrrha swung her hand down and used her semblance at full strength. Forcing Neo to stab her sword into the ground at an angle. She pouted and tried to pull it out, but Pyrrha saw her opportunity, jumped back, sheathed her sword, and slammed her hands down at her sides.
Everything in the ceiling that was metal came crashing down on top of Neo. Genuine shock and surprise was on her face as she was buried in rubble. Pyrrha fell to her knees straight after. Feeling guilt as she thought that she killed the girl, but also relieved that she got out of that alive. Qrow and Raven were still fighting behind those three women behind her, but they look to be handling themselves good enough.
She was about to sit down and relax, but still felt an unsettling feeling. Like nothing was truly over yet. Pyrrha looked back to the rubble and cave in she created. She thought that a puddle of blood would have leaked out from underneath by now. But right now, there was nothing.
When she looked to her other side, Neo was right there. Sitting right next to her with a blank look on her face. There was no smile this time, and that was enough to strike a good amount of fear in the champion.
Pyrrha screamed as Neo seemingly teleported back in front of her. Then striked down at her with her blade. Intent on stabbing her through the skull.
The blade of a halberd pushed away Neos sword before it could kill Pyrrha. The redhead cracked her eye open to see an unfamiliar boy with cyan colored hair, and felt a pair of striped arms wrap around her and pull her away from the fight. She looked over her shoulder and looked into orange.
"Jeez, never thought I'd be saving you of all people." The tiger faunus said as she dragged her away. Pyrrha could see the limp in her leg, and stopped her from dragging her any further.
"Get back!" The cyan haired boy shouted at them as he blocked Neo's blade, struggling against her strength. "I'll handle this, go help Kai or something Shae!"
"You sure you can handle her on your own Cyan?" Shae asked as she let go of Pyrrha, and stood up on her own two feet. Luckily, her leg wasn't actually broken as she originally thought. It hurts a lot to stand on it, but it isn't broken. Which meant she was able to fight.
"I'll do what I can, but right now I think Kai needs more help than I do." Cyan said as he used his semblance to nullify Neo's strength, and pushed her back with the staff of his weapons. "I got this, once the invincible girl gets better I'll have someone to help me out. Right? Please say yes." Cyan pleaded as he backed off from the multicolored girl who was now looking at him with a curious expression on her face.
"I just need a few minutes…" Pyrrha admitted honestly, nodding toward her new blue haired ally.
"Great! I can do that." Cyan cheered and gave her a thumbs up.
"Alright… you better not die on me then Cyan!" Shae exclaimed as she backed up, and broke into a run in the opposite direction to go help Kai. She doesn't know where they are, but for some reason she thinks the flashes of black and orange are a good place to start looking.
"She is very fast, and strong. She is also very flexible. Be careful with her." Pyrrha said as she stayed down on one knee. Focusing on recovering whatever aura she can as well as her stamina.
"Yeah… I figured." Cyan sighed. "Why do I always get to be the one to stand up for others? How come I can't be the one to stand back and watch someone fight for me?" He asked himself sarcastically as he stood off against Neo.
Qrow and Raven made a silent agreement. Qrow was fighting off against the two other younger girls, while Raven fought Sienna Khan herself. The supreme leader of the White Fang was a lot better than Raven expected. They were practically even in strength and speed with a very small difference in skill. Raven being just barely slightly better than her, but that small of a difference was not enough to determine the outcome of their fight.
Unlike the rest of her White Fang grunts, Sienna does not wear a Grimm mask. Letting the world see her feline yellow eyes to the world, as well as her tiger stripes. When their fight started she threw the red robe she had around her body, distracting Raven long enough for her to be the one to initiate the first attack against the Branwen woman.
The second that happened, Ilia and Blake lunged at Qrow. But they vastly underestimated just how skilled that this man was going to be. Ilia engaged by shooting her electric whip at the man only for it to be easily deflect by his abnormally large sword. Blake clashed Gambol Shroud into his weapon, only to realize just how much stronger the older man was as she was thrown back with ease despite her low stance.
"You're having kids fight for you now!?" Qrow yelled at the tiger faunus as she fought his sister, earning a scowl from the woman before she was forced to defend against Raven's relentless assault.
"We're not just fighting for her!" The chameleon faunus shouted passionately. "We are fighting for the rights of faunus kind!"
The black haired girl also shouted her supports, but Qrow could tell that she wasn't entirely on board with them. But it was pointless to pounce on that weakness of hers because she was clearly still more than willing to fight him, perhaps even kill him if she had too. Qrow hates it, but these teenage girls have probably already taken lives. He can't say he hasn't at that age, but it does things to the mind that Qrow wouldn't put on his worst enemy.
A problem of his was that he despised killing when it wasn't necessary. He swore that to himself, and his former team leader. So he wasn't about to kill these two misguided girls playing at terrorism. He was going to hurt them for sure, he has no choice but to with how ferocious they are being with the way they fight.
So the next time that the cat girl swung her short sword at him, he made sure to let her now just how wide the gap was between them by completely overpowering her and slamming the flat side of his sword into her face. Cracking her White Fang mask and cracking something underneath. The other darker skinned girl yelled out her name with a great amount of concern. Big mistake.
As she rushed to go see if her partner was okay, Qrow dove in and clotheslined the faunus. Making her flip twice in the air before landing on her stomach. He was about to slash down at her, but a blade was fired at him. He only narrowly dodge the dust infused blade, and it stabbed into the wall beside him. He regarded the thing for a moment, before diving for cover when he noticed the red dust crystal in the center of it.
It exploded in a straight horizontal line, catching him on the shoulder with most of the blast. The fire burned the sleeve off of that arm, and he had to shake and pat down that arm to snuff out the flames that was glued to his skin. After a few seconds, the fire was put out. But now he was injured and couldn't fight the same way he was going to before. He was a righty, and now he had to fight with his offhand. It wasn't that he couldn't fight as a lefty, it was just awkward and uncomfortable for him.
The two girls managed to recover as he held his arm in pain, and switched the grip on his sword into his left hand. They stood off against him once again with determined expressions on their face. They knew how dangerous he was now, and wouldn't take him as lightly as they did before.
"Heh," Qrow snorted and rubbed his nose. "Let's see if you can make me try now."
He charged at them first, meeting them in the middle as sparks began to fly.
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Raven pushed back the tiger faunus, and forced her further down the hallway. Away from Qrow and the fight that Nikos girl was having with that multicolored girl. It was her way of working with them. She thought about helping Qrow, but even injured the way he is he should be able to take those two girls down. His strength and skill were admittedly equal to hers, if he fell here. Then would be… disappointing.
She pushed such thoughts back to the ends of her mind as Sienna wrapped her hain whip around her ankle, pulling hard and getting her off balance. Raven turned into a bird and the chain fell the the ground with a loud clunk. The White Fang leader widened her eyes at the unexpected ability that her enemy had.
Raven didn't give her much time to process what she has just witnessed as she transformed back into a human and slashed down at the faunus. With the weapon that Sienna uses, she isn't able to block properly. So she jumped to the side to avoid the very sharp blade that Raven wields.
She winced as it still managed to cut off strands of her hair and nearly cut her ear off as it whifs past her face. She spun on one foot and whipped her chain at the woman, her ears rung as metal clashed with metal but she continued nonetheless.
It was Raven's turn to be pushed back as Sienna divulged into cycle of agile movements and offensive maneuvers as she whipped her chained whip at her. Using a variety of dust types to catch the Branwen off guard. It worked to a degree, but with Raven's vast experience and combat prowess it didn't work too well against her.
Her push didn't last much longer as Raven slices into the air beside her, creating a portal. Sienna already fired the blade part of her whip at her and couldn't redirect it in mid air. Raven smirked and created another portal above Sienna, letting the blade fly right back out and stabbing right into the round behind Sienna. She only had enough time to widen her eyes as she was caught in her own electrical explosion, and sent straight toward Raven.
Raven's sword nearly decapitated her, but out of pure reflex. The White Fang leader used her chain to block the force of the blow. Her aura did the rest of the work. But it felt like a bat was swung right into the base of her neck. She coughed up air and spit for a few seconds, but was able to counter Raven and send her staggering away as she tried to recover fully.
"You are a pesky little cat aren't you?" Raven asked in a frustrated tone as she changed the color of her blade from red to blue, a different dust type in which she could do ice damage to her enemy to slow her down.
"Quiet human, our battle isn't finished yet." Sienna barked back as she got back into her combat stance.
Raven smirked at her, and entered a stance of her own.
"It will be soon."
Brick used his sudden burst of electrical power to catch Emerald and Mercury off guard. Their battle started off one sided, but now it was dead even. With this new overclock ability that Brick had, he was casting his lightning ability as much as he could. Completely uncaring of how fast his aura was draining.
Mercury felt his bionic legs flick on and off as red lightning coursed through them. Luckily, he made his own upgrades to his legs throughout his life so that problems such as shorting out won't occur. But that didn't mean that it didn't hurt like hell every time he got electrocuted.
"Em, now would be a good time to use your semblance!" Mercury cried out as another lightning bolt struck him in the shoulder.
"Don't you think I'm trying- AGH!" Emerald cried out in pain as a lightning slash hit her across the stomach.
Brick wasn't even calling out the names of his attacks, and he could barely control them as it is. He isn't used to this much electrical power running through his body on his own, it was why he and his brother always fought together whenever they could. They both shared the burden of the self destructive nature of their semblance. It didn't do much to them when they fought together, or when they used their lightning attacks to a much smaller degree. But when one would use it's full power without the help of their brother, it would deal damage internally.
Right now, Brick was taking a risk he didn't care about at the moment. At any second he could vomit, paralyze himself temporarily, among with much more potentially permanent amount of consequences using this level of power by himself.
"ARRRGGH!" Brick screamed as he slashed away at his two targets. Landing lightning slash after lightning slash. For a time he was overwhelming them, the speed of his lightning was too fast for them to dodge. But as their battle roared on, he began to get increasingly slower, and his attacks grew weaker. The toll of his overclock was taking hold of him.
As the fast paced battle took place. The ranged fight turned close range as Brick charged blindly at his brothers attackers, swing his shortsword with more brute force and strength than with the skill he was known to have.
He attacked Mercury first, who narrowly dodged the edge of his sword with a duck before jumping back up and spin kicking Brick in the chest. Pushing him further away. Instead, Brick used the momentum to spin around and create a static electric lightning bolt,firing it off toward Mercury as he ended his last spin.
This time, Mercury was able to block it without taking too much damage, and Brick was seen holding on to his chest in pain. His heart was straining to beat fast enough to accomodate Brick's growing strength, but it was so painful that he fell down to one knee.
His few minutes of overwhelming strength was over, and now he was tired and weakend. But his will was strong enough to keep him going. Brick nodded to himself, cursed him within his mind as a way to hype himself up, and stood back.
He narrowed his eyes as he saw multiple Mercury's, and multiple Emerald's. He didn't know which was the real one and which wasn't. He figured out which one was real when one of them kicked him in the place, staggering him enough so that he practically walked right into the gunblades of Emerald.
Brick coughed up blood when he was comboed into a devastating kick front straight into his gut. He felt his eyes almost pop out of his skull as he fell back down to his knees. Holding onto his stomach as tears stung the corners of his eyes as he struggled to breathe.
"Damn you… I gotta say, you definitely put up a better fight than your brother." Mercury said as he wiped the corner of his lips, ridding it of the blood that leaked out from his mouth. "Actually managed to cut me up a bit."
Brick spit at his chest in response, then swung his fist weakly into the older teens stomach.
"Fighter to the end. Heh, little punk." Mercury said as he wiped his face. "You wanna do the honors Em? Or shall I? Please let me."
"You got the blue idiot, let me get this one." Emerald said as she loaded her gun, and aimed it at Brick's head.
"Damn, now I won't be able to say that I was the one who ended the Violet bloodline." Mercury said with a disappointed sigh.
"Cry about it." Emerald aimed her gun toward Bricks head, who looked up at her with sad eyes. "Don't look at me like we used to be friends, if anything you were just a means to helping us keep our cover."
"But why?" Brick asked raspily. "Why do all this? Why help kill so many people? Are you just that heartless?"
"Oh, she is the most heartless bitch there is." Mercury quipped. "Well… third heartless now that I think about it."
"Shut up asshole." Emerald hissed at him, before looking back into the other red eyed boy. "I'm doing this for no other reason then that I am loyal to the one who orchestrated this. Whatever she asks me, I'll do without question."
"Whipped."
"Shut. Up."
Brick used their moment of distraction and bickering to fall back and scamper on all fours until he was behind the closest cover he could find, which was a piece of rock and metal that fell out of the ceiling during their fight.. Mercury laughed at his antics while Emerald growled her frustrations and ran up to find him. Brick was still injured, and couldn't move nearly as fast as he could before, but he tried anyway.
Swinging his sword with as much grace as he could muster with the limited strength he had left at his disposal. His sword came up from below and grazed Emeralds leg as she made to dodge, cutting through her low aura and skill and creating a medium sized gash in her leg.
He tried to bring his sword back up to stab her through the stomach, but Mercury came in and kicked him across the face. Brick coughed up blood and bounced off the ground several times before hitting his back against the wall, feeling something crack in his back as he slammed against it with a cry of pain.
"Tch, you little shit." Emerald seethed as she limped her way toward him, her leg now bleeding and wounded. "I'm not letting you pull off any more surprises, I'll be taking you out from a distance."
Mercury didn't bother to turn that into a joke, he was actually concerned for his partner in crime. So he would let her have this without any more of his bitching, he could always brag about getting rid of one of the brothers anyway.
Brick slumped his head back against the wall, unable to fight back any more than he already has. He just shut his eyes tight, resisted the urge to cry, and waited for death.
"I'm sorry Rick… they're just too strong." He whispered to himself as he heard Emerald raise her gun and aim at his head. "I'll be with you soon bro… besides, we're not Violet's unless we're together."
A loud bang was heard, and Brick clenched his eyes tighter as he waited for a death that never came. He didn't feel any pain. For a moment he wondered if this was what being dead felt like, but when her heard cries of pain, he opened his eyes back open with much more hope than before.
In front of him was an aura of blue lightning, and a bullet crushed against a short sword identical to his. The figure was banged up, clothes ruined, and blotches of blood leaked out of some of his wounds. But Brick felt his semblance com to life once more as it mixed in with the blue. Red and blue mixed together to create a Violet color, and a hand was extended down toward him.
"You're not fighting at full strength without me are you?" A familiar voice asked him.
He looked up into the blue eyes of his brother. Rick had one eye bleeding so much above the orbital that he was forced to keep that eye shut. But he had a smile on his face, the same one he always wore.
"You're alive!" Brick shouted as he jumped up and hugged his twin brother, ignoring the blood they were now leaking on each other.
"How!?" Mercury asked as he picked Emerald up from the ground. "How are you still alive!? I watched you die! I killed you!" He shouted, and pointed a finger at him.
"Damn near almost killed me you dick!" Rick exclaimed as he hugged his brother back. They held each other with one arm as their lightning merged together. The tears evaporated off of Bricks face, and his smile returned as he stood beside his brother. "I only survived because my semblance absorbed most of that final hit to my head! Still cut me though, you're going to pay dearly for giving me this scar!" He huffed and pointed to the thick gash he had above his right eye.
"Tch, of course someone as annoying as you would have an ability like that." Mercury groaned. "Em, you ready for another round? I won't blame you if you say no but I will definitely make fun of you if you don't help me out here."
"Just shut up and fight." Emerald said as she stood on her own. Her leg hurt, and was bleeding. But she had no time to worry about that. Cinder told her, and Mercury to deal with these two and than help her with that blind kid. They are already behind schedule since Ozpin joined the fray sooner than what was foresaw, and apparently the blue Violet twin was still alive. There was no more time to play around, they needed to win, and fast.
Brick and Rick Violet, no reunited, were both also on low auras. Bleeding, and the outcome of this fight might not end up the way they wanted it too. But now that they were fighting together, their chances have skyrocketed. There was a reason headmaster Albedo accepted the two brothers into Signal earlier than normal. They were prodigies in their own right.
Now it was time to show Emerald, and Mercury why they were accepted earlier than anyone else.
Kai could barely sense what was going on. It was so hot, and cold at the same time. He has never used so much of his flames like he is now. It is taking everything out of him just to match the heat of what he can only assume to be another maiden. Only this one was not holding back in the slightest, much unlike Vernal was when she sparred against him.
Marron was doing her best to help, but in a fight as intense as this she could admit that she would be more of a burden than actual help if she were to fight Cinder up in close quarters. So whenever she could, she used her air manipulation to pull Kai out of bad situations.
Cinder was getting frustrated with this child. He was able to match her in flame power, even if it took a lot out of him. But she believed that the power to control the powers of nature should be exclusive to her, and her only. Which was why she tried to steal them from the Spring Maiden earlier. She was better than Kai in almost every way, but every time she thinks that she finally has him, that monkey faunus wench kept pulling or pushing him out of situations.
Obviously, fighting with purely her flames weren't going to get her anywhere anytime soon. Cinder blew away Kai's next attempt to burn her with wind, and summoned two swords in each of her hands. Kai heard the swords as they carved through the ground, and swung Silver Ebony in a downward arc to clash with her weapons. They pushed against each other for a moment, the blind silver eyed warrior straining underneath the strength of the Fall Maiden as she slowly began to push him back.
With a grunt, he pushed to the side instead of straight ahead of him. Redirecting Cinder's attack and going for a knee to her midsection. He hit nothing but air and cried out as his enemy drove her elbow into his back. Before she could hit him any more however, a stone pillar came out of the ground and nearly hit her in the face. Cinder sneered at Marron who simply flipped her off, and in that moment of distraction Kai managed to knock Cinder away from him with a blind swing of his fist, just barely grazing her between her nose and cheek with his knuckles. But blasted a wave of aira out of his fist which blew her away from him.
Cinder recovered in mid air, and adjusted herself so that she was skidding against the ground. As she was sliding back however, she melted the ground with her powers, and then rose multiple spears of solidified rock and glass and launched them at Kai.
"Watch out! Projectiles!" Marron shouted quickly in warning, straining to raise a weak stone wall in Kai's defense.
Kai heeded his mothers warning, and sensed where Cinder was standing a few meters away from him. He hastily rose a wall in defense, but it wasn't high or wide enough to protect him completely. Just one of them grazed his shin, and made him fall back to the ground.
While he was down however, he kept his senses working in overdrive. He felt the disturbances in the air, and focused on his own semblance to stop the projectiles made of rock and redirect it back at his attacker.
Cinder grunted as she crossed her arms in defense, halting her assault and lunging at Kai off the back of her foot.
Kai sensed her coming and used the small stone wall to position himself in a way where Cinder's sword clashed against the stone rather than his body. He ducked and weaved around the stone wall and deflected what attacks he could while also throwing his own in the form of slashes, stab attacks, and stone weapons that were pulled from the ground.
Cinder had enough of this scuffle, and with a roar she cut the wall in half and kicked it apart. One of the pieces hit Kai in the side, but he rolled with the momentum and skidded back on his feet. It was like keeping up with a race car while jogging when Cinder dashed for him again, bringing Silver Ebony up just in time to clash against Cinder's weapons.
The shockwave they created nearly knocked the untrained Marron of her feet, and Cinder stared into the top of Kai's head as he kept his head down and pushed back against her. With an amused snort she pushed harder, forcing Kai down lower to the ground as she begins to overpower him.
"We don't need to do this you know. You would be a fine addition to our cause, I would train you myself until you became the most dangerous person in the world." Cinder pushed harder, forcing the blind boy down onto one knee, and his own sword closer to his neck. "Even more so than your father."
"No!" Kai exclaimed his defiance as he pushed back, a bright white light shone from his sword. Cinder widened her eyes and jumped back from the sudden blast that came from the silver ebony sword. Through the dust cloud he created, Kai slashed through the air just as the little feeling in his head told him too, creating arcs of hot white light that forced Cinder to dodge and block.
On the third, and last arc of light. Cinder was forced to block with her forearm. She cried out in pain as it burned through her sleeve and cut through her aura and skin. But with an aura of fire she was able to dispel the light. She sneered at the burn mark she now had on her arm, she glared at Kai with so much hatred that she nearly forgot about her task and almost killed him on the spot. No one burned her, she was the one who did the burning. She was going to make him pay for that.
But she couldn't kill him… she was specifically told to capture her alive.
So she would settle for the monkey woman for now, she was weak enough to kill in one full power blast.
Marron widened her eyes in sudden fear as Cinder turned her attention on her, and held out a palm toward her and formed a fireball. This was a much larger fireball than before, and right now Marron didn't have the aura to tank it or create a big enough wall to block of her attack.
Kai only noticed at the moment Cinder fired it off, and sensed that it wasn't heading toward him. With the precious seconds he had left that felt like were ticking by in slow motion, he rose his hand and clenched his fist. He couldn't create a wall, but perhaps he could lift up some condensed stone to nullify the fireball. But the worst that could have happened, happened.
He missed.
Marron saw flashes of everything that happened throughout her life, ranging from things that happened in her childhood, to meeting Malikai and Team STRQ, to the moment she found out she was pregnant. All the way up to where she was now.
"MOM!" Kai cried out as he realized he missed, and tried and failed to use his semblance to push her away from the fireball.
Marron shut her eyes and held her stomach around her belly to protect her unborn child, and turned her back to the flames. A desperate attempt to save her next child, and there was no reason for it.
The fireball exploded against someone else instead, someone who threw herself in the way of the Fireball and did her best to block it with her already damaged weapons. Shae cried out as her aura literally melted away from her body, and she inhaled superheated air into her burning lungs. She flew back into a wall, her hair was almost all burned off, and she had severe burns all over the front of her body.
"My God…" Marron gasped as the tiger faunus began to whimper in pain.
"What happened? Are you okay!?" Kai asked desperately, not knowing fully what just happened.
"I-I'm okay." Marron stuttered, and then came back to her senses and ran up to the dying girl to try and bandage her wounds. "Your friend, Shae…"
"Shae? She's here!?" Kai asked, widening his eyes underneath his blindfold as he finally sensed the faint heartbeat of someone slumped against a wall. "What did you do to her!?" He screamed at Cinder, even angrier than he was before.
Cinder humored him, curious as to see his reaction. "That foolish girl came out of nowhere and blocked my attack with her body. She is probably going to die now." She said with a chuckle, watching as Marron tried to keep her alive. But it did not take a fool to understand that someone with most of their skin melted off their body was most likely not going to make it for much longer.
"Shae…" Kai uttered her name with sorrow, he sensed her heart still beating, but true to his attackers words. It was slowly fading away.
"K...ai." Shae whispered. She had enough strength to open one of her eyes, but no more than that. She looked to Kai who looked like he was looking straight in her attention. "Not… your… fault-" She coughed wildly, Marron tried to help, but her fate was clear. Shae was going to die. "I… lo…" She passed out before she could say anything else.
Kai heard her final words, and the sobs of her mother who repeatedly thanked Shae for saving her life at the cost of her own. Kai didn't know how he felt. Angry, sad, livid, depressed, and all at the same time.
He knew how she felt about him… he figured it out on his own after the kiss on the cheek she gave him. It was hard not too, he wasn't that dense. He sadly couldn't return her feelings, too many things were going on in his life for him to consider pursuing a relationship with someone else. But if things weren't so complicated in his life… he might have gone for it.
He hyperventilated, breathing in and out faster than what was necessary. Cinder raised an eyebrow at him, as he fell to his knees and clutched his blindfold. She started making her way toward him, if he wanted to wallow in his guilt, than he could do it on the way to Salem.
Kai felt like his eyes were burning, or melting. He couldn't tell which. Tears were already coming out, but as strange streams of glowing white light. He also felt a strange sensation came across his vision, seeing folds of some kinds, random lines in his vision as his eyes darted all across his blindfold.
Cinder widened her eyes when Kai's eyes bursted with a white light for but a second. Feeling nothing but agony across her left side. His blindfold was burned off his face because of the sheer heat coming from his eyes. More a split second, he thought he could see… colors that he never seen before, something at the bottom of his vision, something flowing through the air but before he could try to process anything his vision went dark again.
Kai fell face first on the ground, utterly spent and writhing in pain.
"It hurts… my eyes!" He whimpered as he clawed at his own face. Tears dimming down to clear liquid instead of the white light he had before.
Cinder got up from the ground. She fell to one knee in pain when the white light burst through Kai's eyes. She felt half of her body burning with pain, but nothing else. She was still relatively okay physically. But mentally… she had a murderous intent.
"Kai! Move!" Marron cried out as she watched as Cinder summoned up another sword and aimed down to the side of Kai's skull as he writhed in pain.
"You are much too dangerous to keep alive… I am sure she'd understand." Cinder said as she stabbed her sword down.
Marron screamed out in horror.
Cinder stopped just before her sword could connect with the side of Kai's head. She tried to push it down further, but her body betrayed her. She couldn't move her body at all. She felt a presence to her right, and it took a great deal of strength to turn her head to see what it was.
They widened in sudden fear as Malikai Matsuoka stood in her vision. One hand extended forward, manipulating her blood to stop her body. His sword was dripping in blood, as was some parts of his armour. He had to cut through dozens of White Fang to get here no doubt. He had some signs of injuries, but he acted like it didn't affect him at all.
His silver eyes bore into hers, and Cinder felt her body get thrown off her feet and through a nearby wall.
MORE CLIFFHANGERS! YAY! You guys must seriously hate me for this one. How many fights were in this chapter? Five? I honestly lost count and I am too lazy to go and count them.
So… Shae is dying, not dead yet, but honestly. She will be. Rick is still alive and kicking, and yes he will tell the story of what happened to him in future chapters. Cyan is now fighting Neo on his own while Pyrrha recovers. Kai and Marron lost to Cinder, for as good as Kai is. He is still blind, and his semblance has limits.
Also… Kai used his silver eyes! For like a second… Yeah, he almost was able to use them to kill Cinder. (BTW, She has a Grimm parasite in her. That is how he was able to use them in the first place.) So yeah, Kai can use his silver eyes! Hooray!
I'll leave it off here, because now it's time for a much more serious talk…
A family member of mine has gotten into trouble with drugs, she overdosed and is now in the hospital. She is going to be going to a rehab center to get better. But the news was hard to handle. I still managed to get out this chapter, but seriously guys… don't expect another chapter for at least a week.
I have to take a breather for a moment. Everything was a so sudden and I am sure most of you will understand.
So no chapters at all next week, I am sorry those of you who also read Detective Grimm, Tale of Two Heroes, and An Unlikely Hero. But I really need this break to focus entirely on my family. I don't want to write half-assed chapters like the last thirty percent of this one is.
So with that said, please review and let me know what you think of the story so far.
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