Been having issues lately, sorry about the low updates. Next chapter will be better and something different.
"Stay down!" The cloaked man yelled slamming his fist down into the blonde's face knocking him out. He stood up taking a few breaths before finally reaching down and grabbing his shirt from the back of his neck and dragging him towards the seats and tossing him into one next to the woman. He reached up and pulled off the mask, blood covered the inside around the nose and mouth area while he pulled out a cloth cleaning his mouth soaking it in blood. He felt something moving around in his mouth before spitting it out and saw a few teeth. He then reached inside and pulled out one that was hanging on my nerves, he flung the tooth away as the machines began cleaning the mess up getting rid of everything that had happened and replacing all the broken seats.
"Knocked out a few damn teeth, gonna take forever to fix that." He put the mask back on deciding to clean the blood out later while pulling out his phone. He opened it and pressed the first contact he needed right now while the dial tone went off until finally, they answered.
"I'm finally done with these two." He said as the other end began talking as he could hear the background noise.
"Yes, bring them back." He scratched his neck while listening to them on the line complaining a bit.
"I don't care, don't use that attitude on me. If you wanna make such a big deal about it go ask one of your other sisters to come watch them then. You know I'm busy with," They started saying something that made him put done the phone and rub his eyes under the mask. "This kid is gonna make me put a bullet in my head." he put the phone back to his ear.
"Just bring them back and I'll deal with the other shit, yes I don't care just do it or else you're gonna be sorry." He hung up and tossed the phone into his cloak while heading for the door which he went out before it disappeared and everyone fell back into their seats.
"Whoa...that was awesome!" Yang yelled as they had spent literally two weeks at some amusement resort. They got to do so much stuff they couldn't even tell it all at once.
"Hey! The crazy blondes!" Nora yelled poking the guy in his cheek as he gave little to no response to it. They were alive but wouldn't be waking up any time soon, not waiting the screen unpaused and continued from where they left off.
Jaune kept walking out of the museum hading outside while he kept getting questions forming in his head. "Who are you? I don't even know anything about you. Are you...some kind of Grimm?" He asked while stepping over fallen pillars and statues that were very old. Now nothing more than rubble.
"I saved you, you help me. Simple as that." The mask stated as jaune reached the front entrance which was busted in. "Doesn't make you sound very trusting," Jaune stated as he was skeptical of this being on his face,
"And I don't care," The mask stated simply with a slightly mocking tone as jaune tried pushing the door open but it wouldn't budge. "Try breaking it," The mask called out making Jaune raise his foot and kicking open the door knocking away all the rubble that was blocking the way. As he did it caught the attention of robotic soldiers who were gunning down civilians. They turned their guns to him and began to fire littering his body with bullets but they were just like little mosquito bites that closed up as they passed through his body. "Why are you standing there like some limp dick moron!? Go rip them apart!" The mask yelled at him, he then didn't have control as his eyes went dark again losing their glow.
"I'll do it my fucking self!" The mask growled as he clenched his fists now in control of the body. The knuckles and joints popping as he looked at the buckets of bolts.
He ran towards them before holding his arm and ramming them all out of the way with his shoulder as they went flying and skidding across the ground. "Damn it, like I have to do everything myself." The mask growled as he reached down grabbing one of the bots head and gripping crushing the glass and metal as it twitched before shutting down.
'What are you doing!?' Jaune yelled in his head while the mask began to swing around the broken machine like a club breaking more bots.
"Shut the fuck up!" He let go sending the broken parts smashing into a wall cracking it as wires and bits hanging out, the gigantic fists smashing into more as the rampage kept going with all the machines. He picked one up and grabbed the legs along with the head before pulling and ripping it in half. "I'm working! Haha!" He laughed dropping the broken machine and grabbing a street sign and pulling it from the ground.
They watched as the being controlled the body and used it to destroy the robots with such ease like they weren't made of metal and wires. It was like they were nothing but sticks and styrofoam. It was like the body and the being controlling them were born and made to fight and kill, a deadly combination to face when in combat.
"I forgot what we were watching when we left," Weiss pointed out from the scene before them.
"Yes, the obscene mask." Winter watched as it destroyed the high tech Atlas property like they were cheap toys.
"What's it doing? Nora stop poking him," Pyrrha was pulled from her worried thought as Nora was poking the man who had arrived.
"It can take over when it wants. Not a good sign." Oobleck stated adding that down to his notes.
"This is kinda fun," Mercury tossed his can which landed into the bin an arm was carrying before going back up out of sight. "That mask is entertaining." He chuckled as the mask hit his sense of humor.
"Reminds me of someone I used to know," Roman commented as he remembered someone from a long time go who acted just like that mask.
"This'll do," The mask began to swing the sign like a bat smacking more of the machines away breaking and utterly destroying them. But soon the enthusiasm began to slowly leave the mask as he finished off the last one crushing it beneath his foot. He lifted the appendage and saw the flatten machine as the head was flattened from the weight and strength in this body. He growled stepping away and looking around the street.
'Give me control! Give me back my body!' Jaune yelled within his mind while the mask just blew some breath in irritation as the light came back to Jaune's eyes and he stumbled a bit finally having control after struggling so much. He looked down at his hands moving them a bit breathing heavy.
"What did you," Jaune was furious that this thing had taken over his body and used him to do all of this. He felt wrong when it happens, like something deep inside growing, something that he didn't like. But the mask spoke cutting him off.
"Let me cut you off there, I saved your sorry ass. Again. I wasn't just gonna sit there and let your ass get shot up and die with your thumb up your ass. Get moving or else I'm gonna take over again and start walking myself." The mask threatens Jaune making him stay silent as he looked at all the broken robots littering the street, one hanging from the wall stuck from the sheer force of his fist slamming into it and keeping it there. The head slowly leaned forward until snapping off and rolling across the ground. Jaune was silent before he began running through the street heading for Beacon.
They sat stunned from how the mask was able to just keep jaune in line from a short scolding like he was some kind of kid. Was this just how Jaune was, or was because of some kind of hold the mask held over him.
"How strong is that thing supposed to be?" Weiss asked expecting no such answer to come for her from the group within the room.
As Jaune was running through the streets past the many bodies that lay in the streets from poor civilians that couldn't be saved. Their blood soaked the streets making a mess staining the ground, but as Jaune ran through them the blood began to move following him and travel up his leg without him noticing.
"It always had the most control over the host, but they were hungry for violence and the misery of those facing it." The biggest thing about the mask was its hunger, a hunger that was stronger than any of her Grimm that could even be created. The hunger was even stronger than any of the ancient Grimm that lay slumbering. "But the biggest hunger of all, blood."
"Oh, wait, stop!" The mask called making Jaune stop as he saw the blood traveling all over him. It traveled up slithering around him like snakes before going into the mask underneath it. A red glow coming from the mask as it finally had a taste of fresh blood giving a satisfied sigh. Jaune realized what happened and he placed a hand over the mask where his mouth would be.
"Oh, gods!" He gagged a bit from the thought of the mask feeding on blood.
"Oh C'mon! You've eaten plenty buckets of chicken wings in your time, and you didn't get all touchy-feely about the chickens, did ya? It's just a different flavor of meat." The mask stated to Jaune who kept gagging a bit before finally stopping. "Happy thought," Jaune repeated to himself as he tried not to gag again.
"Listen; I have a thirst Jaune. Call it a passion." The mask spoke up as Jaune was calming down. "See, when it comes to blood I'm something if a connoisseur, you know?"
"I-I guess?" Jaune wasn't sure himself of what that meant besides that he wanted blood. The thought made a chill run down Jaune's spine as he was processing the information.
"Look let me put it this way. You give me blood, I give you power; I make you stronger. Simple as that." The mask explained as he couldn't do anything himself and didn't feel like taking over his body to make him move every time.
"I-It feeds off blood?" Pyrrha stuttered a bit as the image of Jaune covered in blood, this time red instead of the black blood of Grimm when he first changed. It was a nightmarish image.
"A dangerous being," Ozpin softly spoke as he watched the 'god' which was in Arc. He had no such knowledge from anything through his lives. Not a single thing was known to him about this mask and the being within.
"Why do you need blood to make me stronger?" Jaune was curious as to why feeding it blood would make him stronger. It made him think of Grimm feeding off misery and negative emotions, he heard that they ate people but most of the time they left more of a mauled mess than anything else.
"Cause I was trapped for hundreds of years and I'm hungry, a bit weak you can say. Blood will help feed me and get me back up to my old self again and in return, I make you stronger. Understand?" The mask asked Jaune in its insulting tone.
"U-uh,"
"Good! Now let's get going!" The mask yelled making Jaune continue to move through Vale. A scream rang out as Jaune stopped skidding a bit, he turned to look at the source of the scream which let him see a family trapped by more Atlassian bots. They were behind a flipped truck as they were coming in closer to killing them, Jaune watched frozen as he could see the bodies that lay filled with holes.
"No, we have to help them!" Jaune yelled as the mask groaned a bit.
"We would be wasting time here, and if you didn't notice there are lots of Atlas soldiers and huntsmen around." The mask warned him as he was incredibly weak and they could get overpowered by how many of them were. 'This kid is too weak for killing anything other than Grimm, gonna get his dumb ass killed,' The mask thought to itself.
"We can't just leave them to die!" Jaune stated while the mask was getting annoyed by this kid. "Fine, but on one condition," The mask stated as Jaune began to run listening to him as he ran.
Many of Jaune's friends sighed in relief as he was still himself willing to save any that were in danger. The mask hadn't changed him of who he was and what kind of person he was.
"So the mask is more powerful than we originally thought," Raven spoke as she watched the beast that he had become. He was weak still and could be killed easily enough if posing a threat that Salem could control.
"Why does an ominous feeling come from the mask?" Oobleck held his chin as he looked over his notes and scroll remembering that his old friend had sent him some of the images of stone tablets and art that was made. As he looked he zoomed in looking at one of the tablets that had the image of the mask and its host attacking Grimm, but the most interesting thing in the image was something that seemed to come from the corpses of the Grimm. It seemed to travel into the mask. Could it feed off Grimm?
As the family hid the truck the father held his wife and son using himself as a shield when one of the bots came around the corner about to pull the trigger. The man hugged his family tight waiting for death, but it never came. He opened his eyes and turned around to see the robot being lifted by its head limp while a walking behemoth crushed the part. Glass shattering while the metal whined from being crushed by the sheer grip it had. It tossed the machine like it weight nothing crashing into a car.
It walked towards him and his family as he kept them behind him. "Are you okay?" The beast spoke to him making him look into the cold yellow eyes that stared down at him. The aura coming off it was bloodlust and death, while something else much darker radiated off its being. "I'm here to help you," It spoke again as he almost couldn't breathe from it just being near him.
'Did you forget you're new look blondie?' The mask asked Jaune as it clicked in his mind, he was a monster now and the mask only made it worse probably making people think he was a monster. He was pulled from the thought as bullets began hitting him, he covered the family taking the bullets as he looked reaching for the side of the truck and ripping off the back door moving it as a shield as the bullets began bouncing off. "Go!" Jaune yelled at them as he began to lead them away from the bots until they were at a safe distance away so he could let them run to the safe zone he was hearing about.
Suddenly a pain rocked through his left arm as he dropped the door, he looked down seeing his arm lying down on the ground as blood spewed from his stump.
"He can't feel pain?" Velvet asked as she had come back from the shock of seeing his arm cut off clean.
"AAAAAAH! Oh, oh my arm!" He yelled clutching the stump that was once his arm.
"Nope, he can still feel pain," Coco stated as she held her own shoulder.
"Qrow!" Ruby yelled as she saw her uncle on screen.
'Son of a, get it together. I asked you to trust me; first sign of blood and you're crying like a schoolgirl. For a dick, you are such a pussy.' The mask insulted Jaune who was still holding the stump feeling as if the pain was quickly going away.
"Well, what do we got here? Ain't ever seen something like you." Qrow ripped his scythe from the ground swinging it over his shoulder. He watched the large behemoth crying out from taking its arm. 'What the hell is it? A geist take over a corpse or something?' Qrow wondered looking at the mask and the blood pouring from the wound. He's seen some messed up things those Grimm can do when they get corpses, they are bad when they make bodies from nonliving material. But when they took over corpses strange things happen.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Ruby asked her uncle who was sipping a glass of scotch. He grimaces a little remembering it himself.
"It's hard to explain, just hope you never have to see it for yourself," Qrow told his niece before pulling her hood over her head.
"Hey!"
"Ugh!" Jaune let go of his shoulder and watched as the bone began to grow back quickly followed by all the veins, muscles and tendons before the flesh covered it all and he was perfectly fine. 'There, all better now?' The mask talked to Jaune like he was a small child. 'Come on, time to go. If we stay any longer we'll end up dead. And by we I mean you.' The mask informed Jaune as Qrow quickly cut down the Grimm that was in the area.
"But he's Ruby's uncle is a Huntsmen and could help!" Jaune explained before suddenly a bullet tore through his side leaving a gaping hole in his side exposing his ribs and guts. 'They aren't gonna listen right now while the place is filled with Grimm, they think you're probably one because of me and the way you look. Up there!' The mask made Jaune look up at a building and focus on the fire escape. 'Hope you were good at jungle gym,'
Jaune ran and jumped off the ground grabbing the metal fire escape as it creaked from his weight while the rivets and bolts tore from the building. 'Keep climbing!' The mask yelled as Jaune looked back at the person firing at him to see the general firing at him with dust rounds which explodes on contact. "We're too slow!" Jaune yelled as he climbed making it to the roof and started running. He looked back for a second already seeing Qrow in the air and landing not so far behind him.
'Damn you humans are much faster than I remember, are faunus the same way?' The mask commented as it noticed how they all seemed almost as strong as Jaune was after turning him and much faster. 'Oh, so this is why.' The mask suddenly spoke as Jaune had a familiar feeling once again as his eyes glowed brightly for a second as he suddenly had a boost of speed and began to jump across the city leaving Qrow in the dust as he flew through the air jumping once after another.
'I never knew you humans could do this with your soul, so I'm guessing this is what 'aura' is.'
"Wait you didn't know?"Jaune asked as he had no control currently letting the mask make way through the city heading farther out towards the forest and jumping through it at incredible speed and distance easily clearing the distance. 'I only know as much as you do Jaune. That's why i know lots of current things, but if you don't know it then I don't."
"Whoa, he's clearing that like nothing!" Yang watched as they just flew through the air before hitting the ground and jumping right off clearing more than before.
"So the being learns all the information from the host," Penny noted as she made her own notes and recording of what the mask could do.
The duo kept jumping before suddenly slamming into a ship that was flying through, Jaune's head smashed through the glass from the hit and made him look at a terrified pilot that was trying to get the ship back under control. 'Pitstop!' The mask yelled as it punched the glass freeing itself and Jaune before pushing off the ship free falling through the air and slamming down into the arena of the battlefield. "Nice landing…" Jaune held his head as he stood up feeling his knees popping from taking the sudden force.
'Hey, you're balls aren't in your throat are they?' The mask snapped back as Jaune regained control now that they were back on the ground. 'You know, I could do a lot with that aura. If I could make us do something like that I wonder what else I could do,' The mask wondered as all its hosts before never had aura, or to be corrected they never had it unlocked and had no idea of what it was. The main reason to why he had no clue of what it was or what it could do until bonding with Jaune.
"Ugh, my knees feel like broken sticks," Jaune muttered before suddenly he could hear screeching. 'Heads up!' The mask yelled making jaune roll out of the way to see just as a griffin swooped down, the large Grimm got up as it looked dead at him with its red eyes.
'Oh; PRACTICE!' The mask yelled as Jaune rolled around as the griffin swiped at him. 'Climb on!' The mask pointed out to Jaune as it was low to the ground as it swiped at him. He took the chance and jumped grabbing into the wings as it began to try and knock him off jumping around to try and throw him off its back. 'Squeeze the jelly out!' The mask yelled as Jaune jumped wrapping his arms around the large Grimm's neck. He grabbed his wrist and began to squeeze hugging the beast's neck. It made choking sounds as he kept crushing its neck before suddenly the eyes popped out of its head while the black blood leaked down its bone mask.
"Awesome!" Nora yelled as she saw jaune basically put that Grimm in a killer bear hug around its neck.
Jaune let go as it fell over and he suddenly heard the mask smelling the air.
'I smell ash...with hints of lavender.'
"That could be Yang!" Jaune looked around as the mask called out a direction.
'Over there!' Jaune turned to see the cafeteria and quickly ran over as the fires raged inside, smoke rose up as more parts began falling apart making him worried before he stopped and carefully stepped inside the building worried if it would fall apart at any moment. As he entered the building he suddenly saw blood moving across the ground and traveling up to the mouth of the mask drinking the blood. Jaune followed the trail and saw that it was coming from an arm. A severed arm that had a yellow gauntlet on it making him freeze before suddenly he felt his leg get sliced off and fall to the ground. He then felt a blade go through his neck and come out his throat. He looked up to see a faunus with red hair and a mask. Horns atop his head as Jaune looked at the blood splattered on his face and mask.
Blake covered her mouth as she imagined what Adam had done to Yang, he hated humans so her arm could be that she's dead. He never was one to leave anyone alive if they were to die.
Everything began to go dark as Jaune woke up in darkness, he was normal as he looked around to see nothing but himself as he slowly stood up.
"So is that it?" The mask spoke to Jaune making him look around. He couldn't see anything except the darkness all around him.
"What happened? Where am I!?" Jaune yelled as he heard something move.
"You're dead Jaune; again." The mask stated as he felt his blood freeze. "What do you mean I'm dead!?" Jaune yelled out as he felt his head buzzing.
"I should have told you that if you take enough damage to your body then its game over, you're dead." The mask informed Jaune as he felt the buzzing in his head growing more.
"But here's something that I've noticed while digging through your head and memories. Plus from what I've seen you do when you have the wheel, you're getting kinda good at this now, Jauney boy." The mask sounded impressed as it spoke to him. "I saw how you had a rush of euphoria when you first killed a Grimm by yourself in the forest to save that bully of yours. The way that you felt the blade just fly through its hide and bone like butter, you felt powerful. Then when we were inside the museum and the Grimm flooded inside after you put me on you loved the sound of bodies bursting, the feel of flesh tearing in your hands. Admit it; the power, the strength - You like it, don't ya?" The mask asked Jaune as it had been reading through his mind and deepest recesses. It was learning everything.
"Yeah- no! You're confusing me - I can't think." Jaune yelled as he grabbed his head digging his nails deep into his scalp. The buzzing noise grew louder as he was having trouble focusing.
"You don't need to think Jaune; that's what you got me for; buddy."
"No! You're wrong I'm not like that! You don't know a single thing about me!" Jaune yelled as he kept trying to focus not noticing the large figure behind him, the large being moving to stand behind Jaune as the mask appeared on it showing it was Jaune in the monstrous form.
"No, I know you; I know what you really are. I can see the real you..." The mask stated as Jaune felt fear rising up in his chest. The feeling spreading all over his body as the noise became worse.
"What is it you think I 'really am?" Jaune asked through the static as he focused a bit trying to get through it all.
"Ooh, you're a killer..." The mask stated in a matter of fact tone making Jaune's eyes widen as he held his head.
"No; I'm doing this for my friends!" He screamed out at the mask hidden out in the darkness.
"Oh, come on; it's not just what you do, it's who you are. You've always been a killer - In another life, in another game and show. You've always known it, felt that urge; you just tried to bury it. You've been wearing a mask your whole life. It's time to embrace it; this is who you really are..." The mask held out its arms as Jaune looked at the hulking beast he had turned into. "This is why I'm helping you Jaune, this is why you ain't going to die," The mask spoke as it pulled off the fake version and floated to Jaune who looked at it still holding his head.
"What the hell is going on!?" Yang yelled as she had been trying to get a grip on what had been happening but everything was going crazy.
"Jaune isn't a killer!" Ruby yelled out in anger from what the mask said. He was the nicest person she knew and even after some versions she saw she knew that most versions of Jaune would not hurt anyone if he could help it.
"Interesting," Salem was interested in everything she was hearing, it almost reminded her of Tyrion.
Jaune looked at the mask as dark red energy began to form around his head and his eyes began to glow, he slowly let go of his head and began reaching out for the mask. He was hesitant but he couldn't do this without it. He couldn't help his friends; wouldn't be able to save them from being hurt. The mask leaned in closer looking at Jaune getting in his hands as it wormed his way deep into his mind.
"Still wondering what I am, Jaune? I'm just a mask, waiting for the right actor to bring it to life. And you Jaune, you are the actor that I am going to bring to life and let the true self free," When those words were spoken Jaune gripped the sides of the mask and turned it around before slamming it to his face, the mask began chuckling as it grew to clamp on to his skull.
"No, Jaune!" Ruby yelled as she watched Jaune be broken down and turned into a monster. He wasn't any of those things the mask was saying.
"Lies!" Nora yelled as her leader wasn't some killer. That was what many of his friends thought but many of the adults and those who didn't know him personally believed what that mask had said.
Outside of his mind, Jaune's body twitched on the ground as Adam pulled the blade from the neck letting the body fall. He swiped the blade across the ground splattering the blood and cleaning his blade as before he began to walk away. As Adam walked away Jaune's body twitched as red aura came off the mask and his legs began regrowing instantly. He growled and grunted as he moves his arms slowly pushing himself up. Flesh and muscle tore apart while bone blades and spikes began tearing through the muscle and his entire body grew in size. Adam turned slowly looking at his current kill getting up, but when he did he saw Jaune was the size of an Ursa Major and the mask had black hollow eyes as it had almost covered his entire head in more white bone. Jaune turned his neck having control for this moment as it slowly began to pop and crack as his hands were dripping blood from the bone tearing through him.
'Let's show him why we call it Splatterfest," The mask chuckled as Jaune looked down at the faunus with bloody murder as he saw Yang's severed arm. He took one step before lunging and making one of the blades on his arm longer ready to strike as he swiped and the screen shut off, ending the clip.
"H-hey, hey what happened to Jaune! What did the mask do to him!?" Nora yelled as she was so confused but worried about what had happened. The same question flooded most of the viewer's minds as they wondered what the mask had meant by everything it said about jaune.
Everyone wore a mask no matter who they were but was their jaune back home hiding something buried deep inside. A mask crafted to hide such a thing from ever coming out?