Yeah, I've been busy with lots of things. Take this as just a part one and then the next part will be the rest along with two new viewers. These should be the last two I will add and if you want me to make up what happens to the whole group until the mess is resolved and they come back to finish it let me know. Later I have lost to get done.
Oh yeah, meet one of my kids.
"Well wasn't that fun?" A new voice spoke out making many looks to see a girl who looked younger than Ruby with raven hair that had blonde streaks sitting on what looked like a ball. She wore normal clothes consisting of a blue tee and jeans, sneakers covered her feet while also holding a plate of some kind of biscuit.
"Who are you?" Winter questioned the girl as she had half a biscuit in her mouth before bitting it and swallowing.
"Oh, I'm just here to watch you while my pops go and handle some stuff." She ate the rest before she grabbed a bottle from one of the robotic arms, she opened it and began drinking it as they kept watching her.
"Your father?" Ironwood questioned as she tossed the now empty bottle down into a hole that opened up before closing just as fast.
"Yeah my dad, you know big guy." She held her hand over her head showing an example. "Wearing an old mask and old cloak." She explained nonchalantly.
"What!? That guy actually had kids!?" Mercury said in disbelief just before the plate that she had been holding flew and crashed right into his face shattering and making him hold his face. The girl had thrown it like a frisbee.
"Yeah, he has kids. Simple as that, no i ain't gonna go and talk about it," She pointed at Nora who pouted after putting her hand down.
"May we know your name?" Glynda interjected as the girl got up and walking down grabbing the dice.
"Sure, it's Tina." She put them down instead of throwing them, they flashed before disappearing.
"Wouldn't wanna eat anything. This one's gonna be bloody." She sang as she skipped back to her seat and plopped down grabbing a new plate that held some candy.
"Hey what did you do?" Emerald asked as Tina was eating small ring candies that looked like gummies. She saw the girl just put them down after turning them specifically instead of turning them.
"I can read the dice so I put the one I wanted to show,"
The screen turned on showing Vale being destroyed by Grimm and robots as they ran rampant, soldiers fighting on and falling to the Grimm and machines that once fought with them. As the fight continued on there was a lone building that had been destroyed long ago but there was a large hole in the roof.
"No," Oobleck had flashed back to when he witnessed the same scene so long ago, the Grimm tearing everything apart until nothing was left.
"This cannot be the fate of Vale," Port spoke out as he had less of his usual enthusiasm.
Salem sat quietly as she watched her creations ravaging the city, she almost felt a sense of joy in what she was seeing. She once relished in watching humans be slaughtered and fall to her creations, but that had begun to slowly dilute itself until she felt nothing when she saw them be destroyed. So many of the smaller villages all falling just as fast as they were built until there were so few. The only ones that were much more difficult to make fall were the kingdoms.
When they fell she almost felt something, a sense of joy if you could call it such a thing. The best part about it was how the humans and faunus all just scrambled for themselves in fear. It was entertaining.
Within the museum, there were corpses of Grimm that were slowly disintegrating. Deep wounds from a blade covered their body while some even missed limbs or were decapitated. But in the fight, there was blood on some claws as a trail leading deeper into the building where it leads to a large circular room filled with paintings and slabs of stone that had ancient writing carved into them along with images that meant something of an old civilization worshiping some type of being that stood towering. At the center of the room was a gold coffin that was covered in symbols and images could be seen.
That was until a body came and collided with the coffin and knocked it over opening the lid and exposing an old mummified corpse that wore a white mask carved from what looked to be bone. As it tipped over the body seemed to just disintegrate as the mask fell down clattering against the floor and sliding across the floor and landing near a pool of blood that was coming from the body which had collided with the gold coffin.
"Damn...it…" Jaune coughed out as he bled covered in claw marks and dents in his armor. He looked up at the beast that was going to kill him. He looked at the large Ursa as it stood looking down at him with its red glowing eyes. Just like the ones that he saw when he saved Cardin, then the one he decapitated when the train had breached the streets. Jaune almost chuckled as he realized that this was the third Ursa he faced and it would be the one to kill him.
The irony.
"Heh, I guess it's true. Third lucks a charm." Roman quipped as many watched in horror of what was happening. Pyrrha especially as she remembered when she moved his shield to stop the claws and allow him to kill it.
Now she wasn't there. No one was and Jaune was going to be killed and eaten all alone. That was the worst part for many of them who was his friends, he was gonna be killed and no one would know where get was.
"I guess not all versions are let to live," Raven compared this to the ones she saw and was not impressed.
"Ooh, I like this part," Tina spoke out smiling a but as she watched the scene like a movie.
Jaune only closed his eyes as his blood pooled out under him. He failed everyone, his friends, the woman in that machine. Most of all he faced his partner as she went to fight that woman.
The main reason he began doing this. The trial all Arcs with a belief of honor did when they failed those important and wanted some type of redemption. Fight until you drop dead or are killed. But death never came as the Ursa kept standing still, but it seemed to be limp as Jaune looked up to see that it was dead. What he didn't see was the large bone spike coming out from his pool of blood and right I to the back of the Ursa killing it. Jaune passed out as his head fell to the floor, the Ursa fell back as the spike ripped out and slowly sank back into the pool of blood as the blood had been moving to the mask making a pool under it as it was sitting up sideways as if looking at Jaune.
"What the?" Yang suddenly heard a glass break as they looked back to see Oobleck having dropped his mug.
"I remember a colleague, that was discovered by him." Oobleck had seen some of the images he was sent. Whatever this mask was it was not something good.
"They took your friends, Jaune." A voice suddenly spoke out deep and hollow as he began to wake up again opening his eyes and looked at the mask. He was confused about what was happening, who was speaking?
"They took your dreams. They took your partner," Jaune looked at the mask more as he could hear the voice coming from it. He looked at the plain bone mask as if it was drawing him in while it kept speaking to him.
"Only thing you got left is your soul, and that belongs to me." The mask spoke to him as his blood was still polling around it as he began to push himself up off the floor. He couldn't get up to his feet but he used his hands to look up.
"Who am I? Let's just say I'm god. Your god…least the only god that's listening right now." The mask spoke as Jaune began to crawl towards the mask as he was on the brink of death.
"That thing calls itself a god?" Cinder questioned as such a pathetic looking item was so simple. If it was left on a corpse inside of a coffin for anyone to steal then it must be all that powerful.
Ozpin tensed as he heard that word again. He never once could relax when get heard something involving gods. But he did not know that a certain individual in the room knew what the mask was. And she certainly had a worry of what it can do.
'Watch me, you just got on my shit list. But I got some bigger fish to fry.' That was the memory she had of the being harbored within the mask. It was not to be taken lightly. She watched what it did with its host ripping apart Grimm and any living being without care.
"I don't like it,' Nora began hugging her knees watching as Tina was just eating as she watched this all happening.
"What do I want? Ah, same as any god; little faith. For without faith I am nothing." Jaune kept crawling towards the mask as the blood kept pooling around it.
"And without me, you're fucked." Jaune slipped on his blood falling back into his own blood before getting back up and crawling. "No more of them have to die." That was the final straw that broke through to Jaune as everyone he cared about flashed through his mind. His team, friends, everyone. He could save them. He began to reach for the mask as it seemed to glow a bit while his fingers brushed over the bone.
"I can help you, I can heal your wounds." Jaune grabbed the mask and turned over feeling the pool of blood underneath him soak the entire back of his hoodie. The mask laid on his chest as he was slowly dying, vision becoming even more blurry as the screams and gunfire outside continued.
"We can save them, keep them alive and not end up dead like your partner. If you show me some faith. If you trust me." The mask spoke as Jaune lifted the mask up while his arms shook, he looked at the inside seeing that it was nothing, a simple white bone mask with no wires or tech. "If you put me on…" The mask finished as Jaune lowered it down onto his face and placed it gently. Once he did his arms went limp as he laid there in his own blood no longer moving.
"Is he dead?" Cinder tilted looking at him just laying there, all of the blood that he lost would be evidence of that. If the mask really could do as it said, what would happen?
"Jaune?" Ruby quietly spoke as it was silent in the room as they all waited for something, anything to happen.
"I like when people see this part," Tina chuckled as she kicked her feet up using some of the arms to hold them up for her. She mostly watched their reactions as it was entertaining to her, she mostly wondered how long her dad would be taking. She did remember something about him having to go fetch two more, but he was taking a long time. He usually got them pretty quick.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Jaune suddenly screamed out in horrific pain as the mask began to grow latching onto his face while he sat up holding his head feeling the mask tighten. The pool of blood underneath him began to move back to his body and sucking back into every major wound on his body before closing up. He let go and his arms began to make horrible sounds as if every bone in his body was breaking and being put back together, the armor on his body began to break off as the straps broke from the muscle mass that began growing all over him.
He fell over slamming the ground as he kept yelling from the excruciating pain. He rolled over grabbing the mask. He began clawing at it as his hoodie began to rip apart becoming nothing but rags as his arms grew into muscular tree trunks as the veins bulge growing the new muscle that he was gaining. The same happened as the entire hoodie began to rip as his chest cage snapped apart and grew larger.
His legs then snapped in opposite directions before fixing themselves again after growing and changing from what the mask was doing to him. Meanwhile, the mask was getting annoyed.
"Quit your whining. Did I say this was gonna be fun? You're gonna have to learn to love the pain, there's a lot more of it to come." The mask warned Jaune as the transformation had completed and he stood up growling and breathing heavy, he was clenching his fists as the pain was finally dying down and he looked down at his body. The eye holes of the mask no longer held his once blue eyes, they now held nothing more than two yellow orbs glowing.
"What the fuck," Yang said not caring if Ruby heard her, she just watched her friend suddenly change into a gigantic walking behemoth
"Damn, he's bigger that Yatsu!" Coco yelled as she saw the gigantic beast on screen. He was taller than Yatsuhashi and even larger muscles than him. Made her head look like a grape.
"What did that mask do?" Oobleck was curious more than he was worried, a simple mask that seemed to possess some type of being was able to change the Arc's entire physical appearance through forced change. The bones breaking and muscles tearing all just to be put back together along with the newly build body. It was even able to manipulate his blood to return to his body and heal every laceration and gash from his fight with the Grimm. The major question within his mind was what more could it do?
"This is much different," Salem remembered the last host she witnessed was covered in bone armor and spikes similar to her Grimm. Blades made from bone as it laughed with a tone that made her Grimm fear it.
"I'm so torn…" Nora said looking at what she saw. She was scared of Jaune getting hurt but now he looked so cool as a giant walking mountain of muscle.
"I have no words," Ren agreed with Nora even if he did not say it out loud.
"W-what? What happened to me?" Jaune asked as he looked at his gigantic hands while his armor laid around him on the floor broken at the straps while his gloves had torn apart. He felt his chest then the mask as he looked up at the shattered moon.
"What am I!? What am I!?" He panicked. His body. His body changed into some freakish monster!
"You're mine, Jaune." The mask spoke correcting Jaune and making him panic more. Thoughts racing a million miles an hour was he dead? Was all this some kind of dream he's having due to blood loss and blacking out?
"Until all your friends are safe and you help me get what I want; you're mine."
"Such a disgusting scene," Winter had her hand over her mouth during the transformation as the sound of repeated bones breaking has begun to churn her stomach.
"What did that thing even do?" Weiss wondered.
"She made him stronger, can't do much when you're weak and dying. Like some kind of dog," Tina spoke out as she was just pressing buttons at this point. She saw the bow twitch from Blake cause of the dog comment.
"It's dangerous," Salem quietly spoke looking at what it had done. She realized that it wasn't even using all of its power on him.
"What happened to me!?" Jaune was scared and confused as his head was spinning. "To us," The mask corrected as jaune felt the mask again this time feeling more and finding that the mask had stretched all the way around like fingers grabbing his head as his blonde locks stuck out a bit. "You're wearing me, I'm inhabiting you. We're a team now. You help me get what I want and I help you save your friends," The last of Jaune's blood slithered up his leg from the ground and traveled up his leg and into his jeans that had been ripped up all the way to his knees.
"What the fuck is going on!?" Jaune yelled to the mask having had enough, but after he yelled that he suddenly twitched before his arms began to bleed heavily as something was moving. His body began growing again this time the flesh ripped from the amount if muscle growing as his blood leaked out. Spikes made from bone began to form out of his back ripping through the flesh and muscle while on both his arms right above his wrists more bone came out sharp as blades.
Jaune was hunched over as he was breathing heavily. His body completely altered again into some gigantic killing machine. He slowly stood back up and the mask had changed growing larger and covering more of his head. Bone moving down to his neck. But a subtle difference was that his eyes were no longer glowing. They were pitch black and hollow.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Jaune yelled up at the shattered moon before leaning back down.
"Oh, it is good to finally be free," The mask spoke out as 'Jaune' was looking around now.
"Oh gods," Glynda looked at the body with horror. It ripped itself apart and destroyed flesh and muscle turning into some monster. More than before.
"How is he not suffering?" Pyrrha questioned in fear as all the bones were ripping through his muscle and flesh which was used for major motor control..
"I believe the mask has a part to do with it." Ironwood did not understand what was happening. Could something like that really be in the heart if Vale in a museum?
The pen on Oobleck's pad danced away as it copied everything it saw as records.
"Come on, let's go kill something. It's been way too long. I'm way out of practice." The mask growled as he looked around the room and heard growling. He saw Beowolfs slowly coming in as they all looked at him with hunger. Jaune only clenched his fists as he ran towards the first one and pulled back his arm and punched impaling the Grimm with the bone before ripping it way and slicing the skull in half. Black blood sprayed all over him as he just began to tear them to shreds as they continued coming into the large exhibit.
"Thatta boy, rip em to pieces!" The mask yelled as jaune pulled back both his arms and the bones extended to the length of the room before he swung his arms together in a scissor motion and cut right through them. Their bodies slumping across the ground while the black blood began to cover the floor in a gory mess. Jaune grabbed two by their masks and lifted them up from the ground. Claws digging into his ripped and damaged flesh as he crushed them both in his hands, he then slammed them both down into the floor masking the bones impale their heads ensuring they were dead.
"Yeah, now you're getting it!" The mask praised Jaune for the gore and killing he was doing. Jaune's body moved like a killing machine; hunger for blood and murder channeling through him as he ripped the Grimm apart like they were nothing.
When the last Beowulf fell he stood covered in black blood from the beasts as he was dripping his own blood. "Ah, you never forget your first kill." The mask commented as the bodies of the Grimm were slowly evaporating until suddenly more blood began leaking from jaune as he fell to his hands and knees.
"Aaah!" He grunted in pain as he felt like he couldn't breathe, it was like his body was ripping apart as the mask sighed.
"Aw, too much for you Jaune? Shit, you humans are too fragile." The mask began changing him back as the bones began to pull back into his body and he was healing. He began to feel better as he looked just like he did before after he transformed the first time. "We'll have to take it slow, build your strength up." Jaune began to stand up as he saw his weapon reaching for it. "Ah ah," The mask spoke up stopping Jaune. "Leave it, fucking things too small and it will just slow us down,"
"B-but,"
"B-B-But what?" The mask snapped back as the eyes began glowing yellow again as Jaune took a step back from the blade and shield. "Good, let's get going. Your friends don't look so good when you last saw them."
"What? H-how did you,"
"I'm apart of you now Jaune. You think it I see it. I know your favorite cereal, I know your favorite comic book. I even know what you like to think about when your,"
"Okay, okay! I get it!" Jaune panicked as he began to walk out of the museum. The screen suddenly posed as the lights came back on.
"Hey!" Nora yelled as she hated when whatever she was watching stopped.
"Uh oh," Tina looked up as she heard a noise and they all soon looked up to hear the sound coming closer. Then the roof opened up as a group came slamming down right at the front of the room as the hooded man who brought them here was currently in a situation.
"Tina!" He yelled at his daughter who jumped up from her seat to see her dad trying to get some blonde woman off his neck while a man was currently under him with his boot on his face.
"Yeah?" Tina called as he grabbed the woman off from his neck holding her over his head.
"Take them out for a bit while I deal with these two!" He yelled throwing the woman and reaching down grabbing the man and picking him up. When he did the blonde woman came back tackling him as they flew smashing into a wall.
"Alright!" Tina yelled as she grabbed one of the metal arms and pressing a button on the wrist.
"What's going ON!" Ruby yelled at the end as the floor beneath them all opened up and they fell through suddenly not getting a chance to get what was happening. "Showers then some fun," Tin said as she jumped into her own hole going with them all as her father was busy trying to get a handle on the two blondes.