Yes, this is real. It has been a long time, huh? Over a year.
I decided that I wanted to continue writing for this story. A lot has happened since I made that decision a while ago, and I am still as busy as I was back then. Regardless I still kept tabs on this story. Reading the good reviews and the bad, and the ones that just say they're happy I stopped writing Lol. Many of the reviews are spot on if I'm being completely honest. The effect of hindsight really does come in handy. I am well aware that this isn't a perfect story, far from it.
Even then, this was really my first story that I really loved writing. Through all the cringe and the bad writing/plot I remember putting into this story, it was still the first passion project I put a lot of effort into. I can't say how many hours I've put into this story alone, and I don't want that all to go to waste. I may not enjoy RWBY anymore, but I realized I do enjoy writing this story.
So, I'll make a final few gifts to the almost 1,000 of you that followed this story for one reason or another. I won't be making another 60 chapters or so to conclude the story in the way that I originally planned to over a year ago, but I can give another 10, maybe. More like a collection of one shots of all the main things I really wanted to write for everyone so long ago, and perhaps give this passion project of mine a proper send off.
With that said, let's give this another shot.
The Blind Huntsman, Final Chapters
Lies Without Mercy
Time Period: Volume 6, Episode 3, "The Lost Fable"
Silver eyes flashed a divine white as vision was forced onto him by the relic of knowledge. Power he'd never understood flooded into his brain, through the stems of his eyes, and he could see energy, for but a brief moment. Before everything flashed from white to an impossible amount of colors.
Kai Matsuoka, saw the truth for the first time. He remembered forcing the Relic of Knowledge out of Oscar's hand after the train had crashed. There were too many holes in his story - too many lies. He had come to realize that the one person he couldn't trust completely around him was Ozpin, and after he refused to answer his questions and just begged them all to trust him, because everything would be okay if they did? No, Kai needed answers, the full truth, no more lies, no more mercy.
Visions played across his gaze like a movie - a very real, very animated fairy tale. Like one of so many that he remembered listening to his own mother tell him back when he was a small child. This was the story of the princess who was trapped in a tower by a tyrannical king with no regards for his subjects or even his own daughter, who saw them all as tools and puppets for his own beneficial gain. The story of how she was saved by a powerful Spellblade Knight, Ozma, The Gracious. It was a love story, of course. Kai watched as this Ozma character saved the princess Salem from her lonely tower, cast down her criminal father, and took her to his own keep upon her request. From then on, they were inseparable. The love they had for one another was contagious, even. For a moment, Kai was even happy for them.
Then tragedy struck.
Ozma fell ill, and in that ancient time period even with all their magic, none was like Jaune's semblance today. Ozma died from sickness at an unfortunately young age. And Kai watched as Salem slowly went mad with Grief. First, seeking the God of Light himself for aid, and when he rejected her in the name of keeping a balance, Salem sought refuge in the God of Darkness, the creator of the Grimm.
Caught in her lies after the torturous and repeated resurrections and erasures of Ozma in front of her, Salem was then cast away with a curse of immortality in the hopes of teaching the grieving woman a lesson about the importance of keeping the balance. A cruel punishment, and Kai even thought it odd how Gods could even be manipulated into nearly fighting each other by a mortal being. Nevertheless, Salem walked the lands of what is known today as Remnant for years before riling up a large portion of the world's forces to betray and attempt to kill the Brother Gods.
Of course, it did not work. The moon was shattered and humanity was nearly wiped out entirely. Then Salem became what she was today after subjecting herself to the pools of darkness left behind by the God of Darkness.
Kai then learned how Ozpin was brought back to life with a curse of his own, reincarnation, in what he thought was a careless attempt by the Gods to amend their mistake. After watching Ozpin come back to his senses and battle against Salem, Kai felt pity for the old man. He had been through a lot, and had a lot of reasons to hold secrets back against them. He even started feeling a little guilty for not trusting him now, and forcing these secrets out into the open.
That changed quickly.
Ozpin and Salem had four daughters when Ozpin first came back to life. Daughters named after the Seasons. Autumn, Spring, Winter, and Summer. They all inherited their parents to cast magic - not utilize aura and semblances like the modern people could today, but true and complete magic. Three of those daughters he saw died during the battle, he saw them die. Jinn, the spirit within the Relic of Knowledge, then took him aside, away from everyone else.
"There are many secrets kept from you especially, Little Kai." Jinn said with her usual saccharine smile. "These secrets are for your eyes only, as was your intent."
"My intent?" Kai asked. "My intent was to learn the truth behind Ozpin's lies and tricks, not to single myself out with specific truths. Have everyone else see it too."
"That may have been what you wish now, but not as it was in that moment." Jinn replayed his own memory for him, it was almost painful to watch.
Kai stood over Oscar, his green aura breaking under his fist, a large bruise over Oscar's left eye. He clenched the Relic of Knowledge in his left hand. "Give me the password, Ozpin!" He saw himself scream. Badly enough for Oscar, the others were just watching, some disturbed by Kai's actions, others indifferent, and one even encouraging it. "Give me the password so I can finally expose your lies!"
"I-It's Jinn," Oscar muttered, frightened. He had managed to force himself back in control of his own body.
He watched himself back away from Oscar as Qrow held Ozpin back once he regained control. Kai listened to himself call the spirit of knowledge out of the lamp, and as Jinn took form, he heard himself
"What has Ozpin been hiding from us, and show me why I can't trust him!"
Those exact words, Kai finally understood.
"Good. You understand." Jinn said, reading his mind. "Do not worry, the others are all learning the secrets Ozma kept from them, and you will get your question answered as specified."
Just as she said, he became isolated - or rather already was isolated as this particular memory took form before his eyes. Three of Ozpin and Salem's daughters died in the first few seconds of their battle. But one, the girl known as Autumn, did not. She was just barely able to mimic her fathers proficiency with a shield, and amidst all the chaos, she was able to survive. Her mother didn't realize it at the time, assuming her dead as well once she found her scorched stuffed animal after burning Ozpin to death, and flew away. He felt Autumn's initial excitement when she saw her mother, only for it to die brutally as it transformed into fear upon seeing the purple-black veins and Grimm-like eyes in Salem's face. He watched through her eyes as Salem flew away in a fog of black.
"D-Daddy?" Autumn called out to the pile of scorched rubble that was once her home. "M-Mommy? Summer? S-Spring? W-Win- WINTER!" She pushed her little legs into a sprint, but her head was fuzzy, her vision danced with stars. She was injured, but alive. Her sister Winter, was trapped underneath a pile of rocks, only recognizable by the shoes she was wearing as Autumn tried to fruitlessly save her. She pulled and pulled, only for just the shoe to come off. Autumn hurt herself in the fall, and he felt her terror and sadness as she sobbed.
"No… Everyone can't be gone… they can't!"
Kai found himself standing beside her. He looked around, pale in the face. What he saw through her eyes was terrible, especially for a child, and she resembled Malienna. His brotherly instincts made him step forward to try and comfort her, but someone else beat him to it.
"Are you okay?" A young boy, slightly older than the girl asked as he climbed over some of the rubble. Kai didn't know who he was - and then he did, thanks to Jinn. He was apparently the son of the household guard, a man called-
"M-Matsuoka!?" Kai heard himself exclaim. The Child's name was Maverick Matsuoka, a common playmate for the girls, and a boy who was being raised to take his father's place as Ozpin's captain of the household guard. Suddenly, it all started to make sense. Kai watched blankly as the boy with brown eyes helped the young princess up to her feet. He watched and was forced to follow how the two of them were able to escape into the woods, and watched throughout the years how they became dependent on each other for security and survival.
Autumn never tried to find her mother, or her father again. She just disappeared with this boy, his ancient ancestor. They fell in love, got married, and she took his name. When they had children, her magic gave birth to some of the first of the Silver Eyed Warriors.
What Salem said to him when Beacon fell replayed in his head, over and over again.
"... My dear, dear, Grandson…"
That was why she let him live, that was why Tyrian was sent to look after him when he was traveling with Neo. That was why he was able to enhance himself and his semblance so easily with his silver eyes. That was why the Matsuoka's and all the other former silver eyed clans were subjugated by Salem and Ozpin for so many years.
If that were all true, then that would mean Ruby was related to him as well in some distant way. Though Salem and Ozpin magic had been heavily diluted through the generations, it was also probably why they were so special.
When he asked Ozpin in Oscar's body what Salem meant when she said that to him, he just told him that it was possible but very unlikely, and that she was a grief stricken woman with hardly any sanity left in her. That she convinced herself that he was somehow her long lost daughter's ancient descendent.
He wished that was the end of Ozpin's lies.
There was more.
Hundreds, if not thousands of years later, Kai found himself seeing through the eyes of Ozpin himself. Back when he was younger, back when he was in his earlier years as the headmaster of Beacon. He was staring at the reflection of himself in the window, and he heard the faint beeping of a hospital heartbeat monitor. He turned around, and Kai wanted to scream when he saw the younger versions of his mother and father. Malikai had fallen asleep at a chair, adjacent to his mother's sleeping from as she clutched a baby at her side. He heard through Ozpin's ears Qrow and Raven arguing outside the hospital room, and another baby's cries. Probably Yang. The baby in his mothers arms opened his eyes early while the parents were asleep and the doctors were out of the room, and was confusedly looking at Ozpin as he slowly stepped closer to him.
"Kai," Ozpin said with a tired sigh and a smile as he bent his knee to lean over the child. His presence is silent and muffled by his two exhausted parents. "So small now… so little… though I am sure you will have just as much potential if not more than your father here."
Almost as if he was that baby now, he felt Ozpin stroke the thin soft strands of his hair. The baby looked at him, the stranger that he was, and began to whimper.
"I am sorry, child." Ozpin said, green light beginning to manifest at his fingertips. "I cannot trust your father to keep his loyalties, he used to work for a woman that is very dangerous. I do not expect you to ever understand, but thankfully you will never have too."
Burning! Hot! Pain!
Kai gripped his skull and screamed just as the past version of himself wailed. His father and mother did not wake, all too telling on its own to what Ozpin has done.
"I will grant you the ability to live your life however you like, but I'm afraid I can no longer trust your blood." Ozpin explained. Kai felt tears fall down his face, and his vision began to darken as the younger Kai's once seeing eyes started turning milky white. "Like this, you can live a normal life, away from all this madness, and never interfere in these affairs again."
Desperately, Kai tried to swipe at Ozpin, to try and stop this sin from happening. But he couldn't change the past. The ink was already dry. He helplessly watched as Ozpin took away his sight, blocking it with magic so that he could never see again.
"NOOOO! STOOOP!" Kai screamed as he fell to his knees, crunching the snow beneath him. He threw a punch through the air and gripped his face with his other hand, still feeling the burning pain he had felt so long ago. The memory that he had, one that was created while he was still a baby, was now something he could never forget again. His vision blinded again, Kai struck the ground with that hand.
He turned to Oscar, who was still Ozpin now. He was on his hands and knees, tears flowing down his face, doubtlessly having to recount everything that everyone else had just done now. Kai felt a second surge of memories flow through him - the depressing life that Ozpin had led up to this point now. But he didn't care. Kai stopped caring. Something had long since snapped within him, and before he knew it, he was grabbing his new sword by the hilt.
"You took away my eyes." Kai boiled with anger, drawing his sword with a loud sound. Ruby and the others were still disoriented, but they mostly were conscious and aware. Qrow was closest to Ozpin and saw him coming with his sword drawn. Kai felt his eyes train on him, as if asking what he was thinking he was about to do.
Then Qrow said nothing, doubtlessly seeing his own fair share of revealed secrets, and just stood up and walked away.
"Q-Qrow?" Ozpin's pathetically childish voice called out. "K-Kai, please, I'm sorry. Just give me time to-"
"NO!" Kai shouted. "No more! You've talked enough! Every single word that comes out of your mouth is nothing but lies!" He bunched up Oscar's collar in his hand and slammed him up against a tree. "I've had enough! You're the reason all of this is happening, my father's death, this endless war! My mother would still be alive if I had just stopped listening to you!"
"Kai!" Ruby called out, the first to speak up. "What are you doing? Stop!" She picked up her scythe and ran to Oscar's aid, but stopped, and turned to everyone else. "What are you guys doing, we need to help him!"
"Why should we?" Qrow asked as he walked past him. "Doesn't matter if he dies, he'll just come back."
"U-uncle Qrow?"
"He's right, Ruby," Yang shocked Ruby with her cold, callous words. When she looked at her older sister, she was sitting down in the snow. A hand in her hair and the other draped over her knee. "We just can't trust him. He lied to everyone. He doesn't just get a free pass to get away with it all." Yang sighed heavily, talking to herself. "I finally know why you left, Mom…"
Ruby looked to everyone else. The ones that stayed on the empty half of the train, Malienna, Orchid, Weiss, Qrow, and Blake. Qrow had already made his stance known, choosing to lean against a tree drinking from his flask more hungrily than he has ever done before. Weiss just stayed silent, looking away like nothing was happening at all. Blake was next to Yang, looking just about done with everything. Malienna was just shellshocked, holding her head and hugging Qrow's leg desperate for comfort. Finally, Orchid, her own partner, had angry flaming eyes. She looked at her, then to Kai and Oscar, then turned and walked away.
Ruby felt aghast. She saw her own share of disturbing secrets as well, and maybe Ozpin did deserve to be punished somehow, but death by execution!? She looked back at Kai and Oscar, and saw just how scared Oscar was, even if it was Ozpin in his body.
She'd decided Oscar couldn't die, not for this, and not as an act of revenge. She took a deep breath, preparing herself.
"Put him down, Kai." She called out just as Kai was about to thrust his sword through Oscar's chest.
"Why? Give me one good reason why I should let this lying traitor go?" Kai growled. "You may not have seen it, but I did, Ruby. The reason why I'm blind is because of him. The reason why my family has been forced to serve him and Salem for so many years is because of him. The only family I have left is my sister, is because of him!" He exclaimed as he drew back and then slammed Oscar against the tree a second time. Kai finally turned to face her, and Ruby gasped.
The whites of Kai's eyes were black, his eyes were glowing silver, but the veins in his face were beginning to darken.
Still, Ruby steeled herself against the fear she felt. "Malienna is not your only family left, Kai." She said, holstering Crescent Rose as she extended a hand out. She stared into his eyes, knowing that he could sense and see her. She willed her eyes to enlighten as well, and that familiar sensation every time she and Kai used their eyes at the same time while training came back to her, only this time it felt more familial than ever.
"We're cousins, isn't that funny?" She said, laughing, as tears started to happily fall from her cheeks. "I saw it in one of Jinn's visions, did you know that once upon a time some of our ancestors messed around almost a hundred years ago? The blood we share isn't a lot, but it's there, that means we are family too."
"I'm upset too, and angry at him." She continued. "But that doesn't mean we should outright murder him. Ozpin has done terrible things, I know, and I can't even begin to imagine what sort of things you saw and just found out. But please, Kai, don't do this, this isn't you. You're a good person. You're not someone who kills people who don't deserve it."
Kai looked at her for a long time. Seconds. Seconds that ticked by and she held her breath, desperately hoping that she got through to him. Her heart dropped when Kai let out a soft sigh, and shook his head.
"Oscar doesn't deserve it, that's true." Kai replied. "But Ozpin?" His hands clenched, Oscar choked. "I can't trust him."
Kai raised his sword and stabbed through petals, and into the tree he had slammed Oscar against. A few meters away from him, close to the train, Ruby stood, Oscar behind her. Rose petals fluttered around her body, and her eyes glowed.
"I can't let you do this, Kai." Ruby said, drawing Crescent Rose. "I'm sorry."
Kai turned to her, his sword held in his right hand. "You can't beat me, Ruby. Step aside."
"You said it yourself," Ruby snapped back, entering a stance. "My speed is your greatest weakness. You can't sense something that doesn't touch the ground."
"Don't try it." Kai warned, strengthening his stance as he threw off his jacket. He wore just a tank top underneath, his shoulders and arms were bare, scars running up and down his body. Ruby felt sad looking at him. Though there was a noticeable bump underneath his clothes, a bandage wrapped around his torso, the wound Cinder left on him had not fully healed yet. "The things I've done and the power I've gained in Beacon are too much for you. Back. Off."
Ruby's eyes narrowed. She cocked Crescent Rose.
"Wanna bet?"
Ruby shot across the snow like a bullet with her semblance, she struck Kai's sword before the shell she left behind even started to fall. Kai had great reflexes, even blind, and was able to block just in time. The sound of their blades smashing against each other was so loud it made everyone else jump. The group stared at the impossible scene, Kai fighting Ruby, outside of training, it was something they never thought they'd see.
Ruby was faster than she has ever been before. Darting left and right, up and down, doing her best to stay off the ground. Kai stayed stationary, knowing he could never outpace her speed, he decided to become a fortress instead. Fire wouldn't reach, and it was hard to create fire out of nothing while in the snow like this. Hard rock was too far beneath the snow underground to rely on, which left him only two options. Snow was made of water, and there was plenty of air. He made the air dance around him, and pushed his aura out so that he could sense every direction around him in a small sphere. Every time Ruby got close, he knew, and was able to defend. Though he could never get the air intense enough to actually force Ruby away. She was just too fast. Ironically enough, even pushing small amounts of his magic into his eyes wasn't enough for him to magically perceive her movements, and so he cut his own vision off to rely on his other senses.
Ruby danced around him, searching for the one opening that she knew Kai had. Her eyes glowed, enhancing her body the same way Kai taught her she could. She knew that Kai was sensing her, and those senses had probably only gotten stronger since Beacon. For so long, Kai was the strongest of them, at least those who weren't magically superpowered seasonal maidens or old and powerful wizards and witches. He still was now, but she knew how he fought, and despite so much time passing since they last saw one another before the battle of Haven, he still fought the same way. She knew how he fought, the feints and maneuvers he used, the way he tensed up and prepared a move before he did it. He never realized it because he could never see himself doing it. He knew how she fought too, which would make this all the harder. But somehow Ruby knew that she could win. There was always a chance. Good would always prevail over evil, just how her mother said so many times at the end of the stories that she told them.
Kai wasn't evil, but he was angry, and sometimes anger made good people do bad things. Ruby wanted to save him from that. She held her breath, and closed her eyes. She let her foot touch the ground, dangerously close to Kai so that he could sense her entire body. His body tensed, his muscles clenched, and he perfectly parried her attack just as she knew he would.
He was stronger than her, that much was certain, as she felt her weapon hand get batted aside so easily. He was fast too, and had many tricks up his sleeve. But she had one major trump card. Her semblance, and everything she has ever learned over the years.
She sensed his attack as it came, and her eyes flashed open. Her semblance activated, and Kai's sword flew right through her body. She split into four smaller flurries of petals, utterly disorienting Kai and catching him off guard, and appeared behind him. She smashed the heel of her boot into the back of Kai's neck, and watched as his aura shone in protest. Kai was knocked down to one knee, and she continued her relentless assault.
Nine time she struck in a second. Her attacks were so fast even she could barely see it - but she knew they would land. Kai somehow blocked three of them, and on the last one, he pushed back, forcing Ruby to push off of him and land back on the ground.
Black stars danced in her vision and Ruby coughed. Going that fast was draining, extremely draining, but it worked. But, Kai knew she was tired and couldn't keep that up. Like Jaune, Kai had an unusually large amount of aura, and he charged right at her as soon as she took a moment to breathe.
Ruby struggled to defend herself as Kai instantly bypassed her guard and grabbed the shaft of Crescent Rose. She held on tight, but she was thrown around like a ragdoll. Kai punched her in the face twice and then kicked her leg, forcing her knee to be bent in an awkward angle. Then he kicked her in the chest, throwing her back against a tree. Her aura flared up in protest and she coughed up saliva.
Kai heaved a deep breath, and spit out a blob of blood and spittle. "Stay down." He said through heavy breaths.
"Can she win?" Yang asked Qrow. "I want to help… but I don't know who to help."
"This'll sort out on its own." Qrow said, sounding all too calm with the situation at hand.
"How can you be so sure of that? They may kill each other!" Weiss protested. "I can't stand by and let this happen."
"Neither of them will die." Qrow said, sliding down the tree until he was sat on the ground. He pat Malienna's head, who couldn't bare to watch what was unfolding. "Only one of them is fighting with motivation behind them."
"How can you be so sure of that?" Blake asked.
"Just watch." Qrow said, sighing heavily. "I'm going to take a nap in the meantime."
"You… don't want to do this." Ruby said, forcing herself to stand up and wield Crescent Rose once again.
"Ruby…" Kai warned. He shook his head and turned away from her and started making his way to Oscar. He took one step before Ruby appeared in front of him, petals fluttering.
"Fine," Kai growled. "If this is what you want… then so be it."
Kai attacked, and this time it was Ruby holding her ground. She ducked, jumped, dashed, and dodged his attacks. Every once in a while she nicked him with her scythe, but for ever small strike she landed Kai dealt a heavy blow to her. With a burst of energy, Ruby dashed around Kai and kicked him in the back of the knee. He dropped, and she used her scythe as a pole to twirl and strike him in the chest with both feet. He was pushed back, Ruby darted forward, her scythe swooping down and slicing Kai across his chest - right over the wound Cinder dealt to him.
"Agh!" Kai cried out in pain, he dropped down to one knee, and Ruby felt a sudden dread. She almost dropped Crescent Rose running to him. But when Kai raised his head to meet her, she felt her own chest tense up.
From on his knee, Kai pushed himself toward her, a blast of air slashing behind him as he thrust forward. Ruby tried to disengage, but the ground beneath her turned to ice, and she slipped awkwardly to one knee. Kai dragged his sword through the snow, and all Ruby could do was desperately block it.
Kai's sword smashed into Crescent Rose, right at the base point where the scythe was attached to the mechanical shaft. Metal was sliced through, and electronics sparked. Ruby's eyes widened as she watched the blade of Crescent Rose fall to the ground as Kai sliced her in two, and the thunderous right hook on her cheek did little to help her. Ruby flew and twisted through the air, landing on the ground as her aura flared and threatened to shatter.
Kai looked at her, sensing his victory. He walked to her, his silver eyes flashing with dark light. The silver part of his eyes could barely be seen as black tendrils began sprouting from his face. A red dot of light formed in the center of his eye, and Kai glared down at her as he raised his sword.
"I told you to stop." Kai said with a deeper voice that struck a cord within Ruby's chest. She looked up at him, clenching what remained of Crescent Rose, tears flowing down her face. Ruby closed her eyes as Kai swung his sword.
Kai almost struck her down where she sat, but he stopped, his sword barely moving as he clenched his muscles just before striking. His body shook. Ruby opened her eyes, looking up into the sorrowful eyes of Kai. The red dot disappeared, the black tendrils retracted, his white pupils returned. He was shaken, either with what he was about to do or with what he was about to become.
Ruby took the opportunity to kick at Kai's knees and pick up what remained of Crescent Rose, in a final flurry of rose petals. The other end of Crescent Rose was a spear tip, wide and jagged, and she slammed it against Kai's existing injury. The pain caused Kai to scream and drop his sword. His aura quickly drained and broke. He felt down to his wound, feeling some blood seep through his shirt, but strangely not nearly enough as he thought there would be.
Ruby stopped just before she could stab any deeper into him. Her eyes shone a bright white, and she took out her improvised spear version of Crescent Rose and threw it to the side. With a screech, almost as if he was a Grimm, she used the full power of her silver eyes on him in some attempt to erase the corruption from him. It drained the rest of her energy and aura, and while it did erase the remains of the black energy he had left behind, he felt little else but heat. She dropped to her knees beside Kai and wailed at him with tiny harmless blows.
"Why did you make me do that!?" Ruby cried, thick, hot tears dripping down her face. Her eyes flashed, the white light getting brighter and brighter as she screamed at him. "I didn't want to fight you! I-I c-c-could have… WAAAAHH!" Ruby let herself fall onto him, her arms wrapped around his head and shoulders. Kai felt her tears seep into his shirt, and the freezing frost of the Atlesian cold began to make him shiver. Kai couldn't move, his body exhausted, his mind drained, and his emotions… empty. He just sat there, feeling Ruby tighten her hug on him while the others finally moved toward them.
Kai let his head fall to the side so that his face was pointed at Oscar. He sensed his shock, and awe. He felt Ozpin's depression, his utter sorrow at seeing him and Ruby fight. He was also crying, the old wizard who had lived for thousands of years, crying like the child his body was.
Kai didn't have the energy to hate any more. He barely had the energy for anything. He didn't know what to do anymore. Salem was immortal, and also a living ancestor of his. So was Ozpin. He had nearly killed Ruby, betrayed everything he ever was. Kai didn't hear what the others were arguing about, and barely felt his little sister take his free hand and clench it tightly while just being happy he was okay.
Kai felt lost. He didn't know what to do anymore. Lying there, he just closed his eyes and let himself fall asleep.
There we go. A little bit of a sad start, but it'll pick up as it goes on. This was that chapter idea I'm sure some of you must've read in the chapter I wrote before this. Always wanted to write this out, and it's hard to apply what imaginary scene I had in my head and translate that to writing. I realize that I write my book differently to how I write this fanfiction, but I did try my best to replicate my old style from before.
This won't be the last one, probably, they'll be more. This isn't going to be a fully written story anymore like I said before, just some cool moments I always wanted to write in this story, a lot of lore drops, some cool fight ideas I had in my head.
Hopefully most of you enjoy these final chapters.
Until next time.