Alright boys Dragon Ball OT is almost finished. It's last chapter should come between before next month's chapter and the one after that.
Once DBOT's final chapter comes I'll be coming back to One's Own Path and hopefully post weekly again.
Thank you all for your understanding why I had to settle for monthly this time around.
Anyway hope you enjoy the chapter.
Fall into the ABYS
Kron crossed his arms over the railing in front of the bar where the spiders hang around.
"Y'know kid, you should find a hobby."
Roman was playing cards with one of the Spiders, Neo was standing by his side with her umbrella over her shoulder.
"Shove it, you hired me for protection don't annoy me." The Saiyan responded.
"Was only saying." He shuffled some cards. "Trust me Lil Miss'll come through she always has so just relax, have a few drinks, we're basically untouchable here." He looked to the people he was playing cards with and dealt their hands. "Right fellas."
The spiders nodded their heads quickly as though they were afraid angering Roman means angering Kron.
The thief could get used to this, it's a shame it'll have to end after this.
"I already am." Kron said annoyed, for better or worse he was the strongest on Remnant. Huntsman don't bother trying to capture him anymore, especially after he had given up on killing when he was nine. Or at least was more selective when it came to kills.
He can only dream of worthy opponents these days. That monster was the first opponent that managed to make him fight all out and keep up.
Maybe he'll take a look at Yang in a year or two, maybe she'll be entertaining by then despite how strong he's gotten, after all with her Semblance she can increase her Ki so maybe she'll be able to make him bleed. Hopefully.
"Excuse me."
Kron turned his mask covered face.
A young man with purple hair shaped at the sides in a pony tail behind his head with a spider tattoo on his left cheek.
"My name is Jell, I… I am a huge fan of you!" He yelled holding out a paper with a pen. "May I please have your autograph?"
Kron couldn't remember the last time anyone had the balls to ask for that, people in the underground arenas usually feared the combatants especially the champions since most were prone to violence, especially Mull from Vacuo, he always had a temper on him he saw him knock out someone who tried to ask for his advice on how to become a champion.
The Saiyan took the pen and paper and wrote it down before handing back to him.
Jell looked at the paper and smiled. It was signed 'Scourge' as expected given how Kron's name isn't known to the public.
"Oh thank you Mr. Scourge, I- I hope to see you fight in the arena again! And um, I'll make sure the boss gets you the info soon, leave it to me!" He said before running along.
Kron didn't even have time to say a thing and rose an eyebrow.
"Aw look that, you found a fan." Roman said. "Having fun yet."
Kron did enjoy the attention but he did not show it.
"Tch, just don't do anything stupid, keep this up and that lady might try to have you gutted when I'm not looking."
Roman chuckled as he kept playing, shouldn't be long now before they have what they need to deal with Kron's problem.
Then they can focus on that witch.
XXX
Blake and the rest of Team RWBY were brought into Ozpin's office after what had happened with Adam.
Ozpin was at his desk with a welcoming smile.
"First I would like to say I am happy to see you used your new abilities to save lives, because of your efforts everyone had made it out of the building with minimal injuries."
Ruby sighed thinking they were in trouble.
"However" Glynda interjected. "You lot have exposed your abilities on camera, now people are asking questions how four students wield the same Semblance, or Semblances."
That made them flinch hearing that.
"I mean, we kinda didn't have a choice." Yang replied. "If we hadn't done that people would've been hurt."
"True" Ozpin responded. "However, Miss Belladonna, what was your response when you found White Fang agents?"
Blake looked guilty to the side. "I went after them, I knew where I'd find him and wanted to stop him."
"But he escaped." Glynda said. "He had used his surroundings against you to run, something like this may have been corrected if you had called the authorities."
The Cat Faunus looked away though she did glare at Glynda still harboring resentment for what she tried against Kron after he saved them.
"With all due respect." Weiss interrupted. "There was a lot to process, I think she only reacted the best she knew how she did capture four members of the Fang leaving Adam with no support now. If Blake hadn't acted he would've gotten away with others to."
Blake was grateful to Weiss for standing for her though she couldn't help but admit Glynda was right.
"I did not say that she should not have acted." Glynda replied. "I only say that she could've called the authorities before she intervened, had she done that Adam would have far less chance to escape."
"That's… um" Ruby tried to come up with something but she sadly didn't know what to say to that.
And Blake understood that, she was right.
"That will do Glynda." Ozpin said to her before turning to Blake. "You felt it was your responsibility to stop him on your own, but now you know never to underestimate him again, correct?"
Blake nodded her head acknowledging her mistake, she blamed herself that he had gotten out.
"I am proud of the progress you all have made with Ki, however please remember you are still students, you have much to learn and that power alone cannot always achieve victory. Remember that you have support from the authorities as well as your teachers, all have more expense in the field than you."
"Yes, I won't make that mistake again headmaster."
Ozpin looked at his tablet to see reports on witnesses of Team RWBY using Ki.
"Now, the world knows of your abilities, people will ask questions, I had hoped to keep this quiet for some time." He said to them. "But now we may not have a choice."
"I'm sorry." Blake said sadly.
"It is fine, I ask that you and the rest of Team RWBY maintain a low profile until we find a solution."
"Um" Yang interjected. "Does this mean we're…. out of the Vytal Festival?" Despite not being allowed to use her Ki she was looking forward to the tournament.
"Give me some time Miss Xiao Long, I will let you all know soon, I promise I will do what I can to ensure you all can still compete."
Yang was a bit disappointed hearing that she may have lost her chance to compete, it was only in a few days.
Blake looked to her wanting to apologize for what she did.
But the sun dragon still had a smile showing that she wasn't mad.
As Team RWBY left Ozpin and Glynda were alone.
"It might be best to keep them out of sight." She offered. "At least until they are no longer in the spotlight."
"They already are, and no doubt She is targeting them." Ozpin said sadly while looking in the news.
Perhaps hiding wasn't the answer not now that it was out there.
They may have to allow them to show what they can do.
First he will need to talk to Tai and Qrow, both of them must know that the sisters are now well known.
He can only hope that she will never find a way to gain these abilities.
It won't be long before the start of the Vytal Festival, he'll need to decide soon.
XXX
Anima
A few days had passed and Kron was called in with Roman to Lil Miss.
Kron tossed his arms with Roman and Neo by his sides.
"Here's what I got." Lil Miss handed some papers. "My guys got these buildings that are officially focused on chemical research, but they got good authority that the experiments they do ain't willing, officially they are only doing 'animal testing' but I think we all know what group would call it that, right?"
The Saiyan kept quiet while looking at the photos.
"All of them?" Ironwood keeps a tight leash I doubt he'd allow it if he could." Kron remembered something Daim told him. "He even forced the Ice Spear Arena in Solitas to shut down." And that was years before Kron became Daim's champion, he was robbed of a place to fight in.
"Before he could" Lil Miss replied. "But after dropping that bomb on the Unmasked Beringel he doesn't have the pull he used to."
Kron thought of that, he supposed that's a fitting name for his Oozaru since no one knew that it wasn't a grimm, it had the red eyes, plus night hid its brown fur.
He wondered what Ozpin thought of it considering he saw him do it.
"What does that have to do with these factories experimenting?" He was confused. "He's still their general so he's in charge."
"Not unless the council don't have his back, Ironwood used to order patrols in those areas but now he has to ask permission from the council or various land owners to send escorts, all he can do is send help on their request." Lil Miss explained. "All because ole one arm lost his cool at the sight of some giant monkey."
Kron got annoyed hearing that but kept it to himself.
"So you expect me to search all of these?" He asked with an annoyed tone.
"No, I narrowed it down to one building." Lil Miss replied. "The top scientist there should know plenty about the Silver Bullets, just rough him up a bit or hand it to your lady friend I've seen her work."
He turned to Neo who only waved with a sadistic smirk.
She did interrogate the White Fangs he found during his search in Vale.
Kron drummed his fingers on his arm but he didn't who knows what their doing to his pod.
Roman tapped his shoulder and smiled. "I think Lil Miss has done all she can for us, I think we can take it from here."
The Saiyan wanted to argue but saw no reason to.
The thief then brought up a suit case and placed it on Lil Miss's desk. "Alright here's the usual fee, triple for any past grievances."
Lil Miss glared at the thief.
"You throwing pity money Torchwich?"
"No, just consider it the price of letting me go scott free." He said with a smug smile and walked off. "Alrighty, come on Scourge, let's get you fitted for a coat."
The Saiyan walked beside him as they walked out.
"I don't need a coat, I've been in Solitas before."
"We got some searching to do, I think you're gonna be there for a while." He noted. "Trust me I know a great tailor."
He only growled in response while Neo just grinned.
As they left Lil Miss waited a few minutes before knowing they were long gone.
"It's done." Lil Miss spoke on her scroll. "I expect an extra payment for the hassle that boy put me through."
"The money should be in your account by now." Amaranth spoke. "Thank you for your service."
He hung up leaving Lil Miss to grin looking forward to the Scourge's demise and that smug brat to be gutted.
XXX
Vale
Blake sighed as she walked through Vale Correctional Facility, she was too used to this place given how she kept trying to visit Adam.
Now on the otherwise of the window was another old friend.
Ilia was without her mask, she glared through the glass.
The Cat used the planted scroll to speak to her.
"Ilia, tell me where is Adam going to?"
Ilia said nothing. "So you can stop him from saving our brothers and sisters?"
Again she was saying that again.
"Is that why you sent this?" She asked lifting up a picture.
It was of a cage of Faunus with Grimm masks surrounded by Atleasean Soldiers.
Blake went on to speak. "They look like they were captured by Atlas to me."
Ilia chuckled. "You've been to plenty of Atlas prisons, don't you think if the Silver Bullets are real then they might have some of Atlas's military at their disposal?"
The Cat Faunus said nothing in response.
"That's why I'll never help you find Adam, as long as he's out there we have a chance to save our people."
Blake squeezed the scroll in her hand.
"You and Adam haven't been about helping our people in a long time. I promise you saving them isn't on his mind, he's all about power now."
"Shut up!" Ilia yelled. "All this is your fault, you worked with that boy that got him captured, whatever the Silver Bullets are doing is your fault!"
Blake was silent for a moment.
"My fault?"
She had been feeling guilty for what had happened, if she had stayed in the White Fang could she have changed them for the better.
"Did you know what Adam was planning to do?" Blake asked. "He would've blown up mountain Glenn, brought Grimm into the city during the Viral Festival, do you have any idea how many people would've died!"
Ilia flinched from that statement but she glared. "T-there was no choice, the humans need to learn that we can't be pushed around! The fall of Beacon woud've put an end to their oppression."
"No!" Blake yelled. "It would've proven them right about us! You would've started a war! If Adam got his way humans wouldn't' have suffered alone, there's plenty of Faunus leaving here! What about them! Would you have been ok with their deaths?!"
That made Ilia pause for a moment she tried to speak but she couldn't counter that. "That, it would've-"
"No! Whatever you say just no!" Blake yelled. "There's no excuse for what Adam is doing, he would've killed thousands, nothing would've been good for our people! He's not thinking clearly anymore, he doesn't want justice, he only wants power over humans, and you do to."
"That's not true!" Ilia yelled. "I only want to stop their power over us, I don't want anyone else to lose their families." She looked sad even though she was angry.
Blake sighed, whenever she was confronted with something like this she would either say sorry or leave. But seeing how devoted they were to Adam despite knowing what he was planning made her realized how wrong they were and that she needed to stand her ground more.
Also having to force Adam of all people to run might've given her a confidence boost.
"Ilia I am sorry for what happened to your parents, and what happened to Adam." Blake continued. "But you can't take your anger out on innocents, what happened to our friends was because of Adam, he brought them here, roped him in to his plan not me! And you, you're no better when you try to help him, you would've been gotten someone else's parents killed, either human or Faunus, all because you lost your own."
Ilia looked saddened hearing that and looked down.
It was clear that there was nothing she could say to counter that. She knew of Adam's plan and only cared that White Fangs were captured.
"I'm still looking for our brothers and sisters." Blake continued. "If you have any idea on what happened to Adam please let someone know, I'll…. come see you when I can, goodbye Ilia."
She placed the scroll on the side and gave Ilia one last look.
The Chameleon was silent but only looked down.
Blake walked away without turning back.
She was outside the correctional facility and saw three people.
Ruby, Weiss, and Yang were sitting on the bench outside.
"Hey" Yang smiled as she walked towards Blake. "You ok?"
Blake nodded as she accepted a hug from her friend.
"Blake" Weiss walked to her. "If you want any help I'll try to find out where they took your friends I can try to find information."
"And we'll do all we can as a team." Ruby said with a smile.
Blake smiled, she may not have Ilia or Adam on her side anymore but these three will stay with her through thick and thin.
"I can't thank you enough for all of this." Blake said as they got together for a group hug.
"By the way." Yang gestured behind her. "We aren't the only ones looking out for ya."
Sun was standing in front of a pole waving to Blake.
Blake blushed seeing him.
"Come on girls, let's leave the love birds alone." Yang said to Team RWBY.
"Ask him about strategies for his team." Weiss said as they walked away. "Make sure he tells you their strengths and weaknesses."
"Wow Weiss really?" Ruby gave her a disappointed look.
"What? The Vytal festival starts in three days, excuse me for wanting to do well."
The three girls would argue as they left Blake alone with Sun.
"So" Sun walked in front of Blake. "Everything ok? I'm sure it's rough having a friend in jail."
"I'll be fine." Blake replied. "Sorry that we got interrupted."
"Eh it's fine, maybe next time."
Blake was going through quite a bit, her mentor escaped and is doing wrong. Her ex comrades in prison and others are who knows where.
Maybe she should take Yang's advice and try to slow down a bit.
"How about now?" Blake asked.
"Really?" Sun asked before coughing. "I mean, cool."
She chuckled, he was quite adorkable.
XXX
Solitas
A Bullhead flew down to a town covered in snow.
"Here we are!" Roman said now eating a fur coat along with Neo. "Welcome to Solitas, hope you liked the ride." He looked back at his temporary partner.
Kron walked beside him wearing a black coat with a gray hood and ends of his sleeve.
"Would've been faster if I flown here myself."
"Annnd people would've noticed a flying wingless man sized figure in the sky." Roman countered. "Hmmm, I wonder who they'd think you are."
The Saiyan was getting really annoyed with him correcting him.
They soon arrived at a large hotel and walked inside. It was another safe house used by plenty of the underworld.
"So what now?" Kron asked as they made it to their rooms that were next to each other.
"Now, we get searching." Roman said to him. "Here's the facility with a map, I'll have Neo sneak in and if she finds your stuff, you burn it to the ground."
"I can do that just fine." Kron pointed out. "Why not smash through them all."
"Because, if you go in without knowing where they took your stuff, they might move it out without while your busting heads, come on kid, we've been over this, we do the sleuthing, you do the heavy stuff."
Kron realized they were right and agreed to wait.
Neo smiled while she took the map of one of the warehouse, she gave the Scourge a wink as she walked away.
"Just try to relax, if you're going out, try to keep it low, you don't want to draw attention."
Kron said nothing in response and just waited his room.
Once he was inside he saw some books that peaked his interest.
He took one, the First Faunus.
While he opened the book he read about the history of Faunus.
Long ago after Dust was discovered humans discovered tribes of people with animal features, what we call today are Faunus.
Their behavior was dependent on the animal traits they had.
Rabbit Faunus kept to themselves and left when they encountered humans or other Faunus species in an act of self preservations.
Aquatic Faunus used to stay on small islands where they can thrive in water.
Lion Faunus were predatory, eating Faunus that were lower on the food chain and humans as well.
Thousands of years had to pass for the Faunus to evolve to be more similar to humans, but there are a few cases where Faunus today become vicious as their ancestors depending on the animal they deprive.
Some would say it's be better to keep them in one place away from humanity.
Kron closed the book, he was kinda annoyed. This was Solitas was this book bias against Faunus? Maybe not, Blake had a few cat like tendencies, she hissed at him a lot.
Whatever the case he needed to find who was in charge of the Silver Bullets, someone has his pod and who knows what they are doing to it.
The Saiyan looked ahead to see a T.V. screen. He never bothered having a television in his home, not because he din't want one but because he didn't know how to have a working TV in a cave that doesn't have electricity.
It might be a good idea to find out what's going on the world, he hadn't checked the news since he left Vale.
He picked up a remote and turned it on.
After flipping through channels he finally found something worth his attention.
It was the VNN or Vale News Network channel and there was a video of four individuals using certain abilities to rescue people from a crumbling people.
A woman with the name "Lisa Lavender" on the screen began to speak.
"This video has been trending all over Viewtube, these four brave huntresses in training saved dozens of lives of people with seemingly the same Semblance. Many have been asking what these abilities were and where they learned it from.
Considering how boastful Yang is (like he is) he wasn't surprised that her abilities were shown to the public. But what was suprising was that all of Team RWBY seem to have Ki, including Blake, he never thought of her using Ki.
"And finally now the headmaster himself is ready to explain these abilities, infact he's here in this building. I like to welcome the youngest headmaster in history, Ozpin."
On the screen showed the silver haired man with a green scarf, black suit and a cane.
"Thank you for having me, Miss Lavender."
"And thank you for finally finding time in your busy schedule to give us an interview."
'Busy schedule.' Kron couldn't help but think that he was probably finding a way to explain it or even spin it to be something else as he doubts he will explain the exact nature of Ki to the public.
"So these abilities these students have shown, what exactly are they?"
Ozpin answered right away as if he had rehearsed it.
"They are new applications to Aura that our highest huntsman and huntresses recently discovered, once we knew that is was safe for us use we taught it to our most gifted students."
Figured he would lie, though while Kron disliked lying he didn't blame the old man. He can't just say he learned from the Scourge of Anima, that would not look good on him or Yang and the others.
"And these powers, they look almost identical to the Scourge of Anima, is there any relation?"
"Possibly" Ozpin admitted knowing that he couldn't lie about the undeniable similarities. "Through trial and error we learned how to use these through little footage of his battles across Remnant, it took years and we finally were able to discover identical abilities. These may not be his Semblance but rather just new applications of Aura not everyone is aware of."
Wow, he was lying even better than the old hag could.
More questions came and went such as how many students had it, how long they had it and if there were any side effects.
"Do you intend to share this ability with the other kingdoms?"
An important question as keeping Ki to themselves would give them the upperhand over the others.
"We do, though we want to see the scope of these abilities first and only train the most trusted."
Lisa wrote down everything he had said and asked one final question.
"Will these abilities be allowed in the Vytal Festival?"
Vytal Festival? That's the thing where they celebrate the four kingdoms in one spot. Where they have a tournament between students as a sort of show of their combat prowess.
He imagined that before that video Ozpin was planning to keep these powers hidden from the public. Now that they can't hide it, he might not have a choice.
Ozpin didn't lose his smile as though he was ready.
"That will depend on talks with the council, if they will allow it then these students will use what they've learned. Some in Vale's Council argue that they should be put on display to show our future huntsmen and huntresses abilities." Ozpin explained. "I for one believe these abilities would be unfair on students who have not yet learned these Aura applications."
It wasn't a yes, but it wasn't a no.
That made Kron far more interested.
That could mean this tournament would be worth watching if he could see how far Yang had gotten.
"There you have it everyone, there are only three days left until the Vytal Festival, we hope to see all kingdoms schools to their best, especially if Beacon students are allowed to use these new powers."
Three days.
So soon.
He put a hand under his chin.
He really wanted to get to his pod. But this tournament might be interesting to see now that Ki is up for debate.
Also, Kali, she made him promise to go see Blake. He's been holding off on that and it's been four months and he'd hate not to live up to his word.
Two birds and one stone.
Shouldn't he get his pod first? Who knows how quick he has to be to get it, also Raven's sword that he earned. He couldn't stand Bisque putting his dirty hands all over him.
Neo better hurry with her recon, hopefully she can take care of it before the Vytal Festival.
Though it should be impossible to open his pod without him present, it won't open for races that are not affiliated to the PTO.
And there was no way Bisque would run away from him, not with his creepy obsession.
…
Maybe if there's time to it he'll stop by Vale. Maybe.
XXX
Vale
Ozpin met up with Qrow and Taiyang to discuss what was going to happen.
"I'm sorry that it came to this." Ozpin said to them. "But there's nothing we can do to suppress this, the council insist on showing their abilities."
Taiyang groaned. "Damn it, maybe we should pull the girls and their team from the tournament, I rather not show everyone what they can do."
Ozpin wasn't comepletley against that, plus they were his daughters the choice should be his.
"I don't know about that Tai." Qrow responded surprisingly. "Everyone has already seen what they can do, keeping them from the public would only make people ask more questions, Oz already had to ensure that there were no side effects, keeping them hidden might make them think he was risking students lives and may even attract Grimm."
The Headmaster thought of that as well, what's done was done, even if they pulled them from the tournament it was already revealed of what they have.
"I am sorry to say but the council are demanding that they are allowed to participate and would like them to use their powers."
"Why?" Tailing asked.
"They believe showing the world these new abilities will ensure a sense of security to all of Vale and show the other kingdoms a reason to lower their prices on imported goods in exchange for one day learning Ki, or as they know Aura applications." Ozpin always disliked the petty squabbles of politics, including during his generation of humanity, even the best in charge like to use something other kingdoms lack to better their position. "They also are questioning my loyalty for keeping this ability to us."
This made the duo worry.
"Oz" Qrow for the first time in a long time was feeling sorry for him. "Their not thinking of removing you from your position are they?"
"No" Ozpin replied. "At first they thought of it, but when I explained to them how further I developed my powers they seemed to be more lenient." All to secure Vale's sudden 'monopoly' over Ki.
"Good, wouldn't' want you to go through Jimmy's situation."
"That's another thing." Ozpin sighed. "After what James had done, they want to have our students, for the lack of a better word flaunt their powers, as a warning should James try that again."
Damn politics.
"Great, damn it Jimmy." Qrow put a hand to his face, if only he hadn't launched that bomb.
"James cannot be completely blamed. I kept my deal with Kron a secret form him as well, he didn't know what the situation was only that he saw a monster that could've destroyed everything, also he was away from any civilians."
Still what he did was problematic, he did not contact Vale's council, likely because he did not know how much time it would take.
"In either case, Taiyang."
The blonde looked to the Headmaster.
"I promised you both that we are equals." Ozpin remembered their new arrangement. "Regardless of the Council's decision I will do everything in my power to do what you believe is best for your daughters. Would you like me to pull them from the tournament? I will do so if you ask. The decision is yours."
Taiyang said nothing for a moment, he took in all that was said. He wanted to protect his girls to keep them out of the fight against Salem, but they already had a target on their backs after those damn bystanders took videos.
Still his fatherly instincts were telling him that keeping them out of the public eye would do some good, but the damage had already been done.
He finally made the decision he believed was for the best.
XXX
Solitas
In a building there were atlas soldiers all over the place, all were bought and paid for by Fort Lee Rockshow, some even shared his view of Faunus.
They were protecting what looked like a normal building, though there were some people in lab coats meaning it was a research facility.
A female scientist was walking while holding a clipboard. She looked in some windows.
There were Faunus screaming, from needles, machinery, or doing manual labor with collars that looked like they were explosives.
The scientist walked through a door and was surprised and disturbed at what she found.
It was of a large man with orange hair, he didn't seem to notice him. He looked as though he was cradling a sword in a gigantic sheathe, one that Kron would recognize.
She had seen a lot of things, but seeing someone hug their weapon this closely made her question reality. She walked away trying to shake away what she saw. Soon as she was out of view she sent a message on her scroll and walked away.
Neo really hoped that Kron would kill that freak, she may never get to unsee the creepy way he held that weapon.
She almost felt sorry for Raven having met him only once.
XXX
Up above a mountain surrounding this base stood a figure in a fur coat and Beringel mask, he was tapping his arm getting impatient.
"Great news kiddo! Neo got back to me, she found your guy." Roman spoke in his earpiece. "There's a big guy with orange hair with that ugly armor, on the forth floor, apparently he's… hugging your trophy."
Kron almost gagged hearing that, great he was going to have to wash that now.
While he was happy to hear of his target there might be an even bigger priority.
"And my pod?"
"She didn't find it, she went as far as she could without looking suspicious." Roman admitted. "It's probably secure somewhere, I say just smash your way through, I'm sure your ride's in there somewhere."
'Greeeat.'
Oh well, at least that oaf is in there somewhere, if the pod isn't here he'll find it elsewhere.
Kron stood from the mountain before jumping he didn't bother to fly he was just falling.
While he couldn't get his pod today at least he'll find that miserable bootlicker! He was going to enjoy ripping him apart!
The guards all looked up and pointed seeing a lone figure falling from the sky.
"Give me back my stuff!" Kron yelled as he landed right in front of the base, his landing forced the soldiers to fall over, some even fell unconscious.
Kron ran forward before knocking out any guards in his way.
He was within the base running at speeds beyond the human eye could track.
One thing was on his mind.
XXX
As Kron ran he can be seen on a computer screen.
He was being watched by four individuals.
One of them with long red hair pressed his ear.
"Get the weapon ready." Amaranth spoke. "He must be hit by it before anything else."
On one of the screens shown what looked like a white circle.
A white light charged in the weapon.
"Um boss" Yosef interjected. "Are you sure this will work on him?"
No, but it would be their best chance.
"We will see." Amaranth never made certainties, first the gun has to hit him.
While this boy is over confident, he also likes to show off his speed whenever possible, so they will need something to divert his attention.
One that the leader of Team ABYS had made.
XXX
Kron had gone through several soldiers, kicking them out, destroying robots that got in his way.
They're definitely aware of him, did Bisque take off already?
He destroyed a door as he entered a large room with many gadgets and robotic parts.
Kron walked through and looked around, he saw some sort of white circle with sharp edges on the inside.
Once he turned he saw something else.
A sphere with a red window. That was it, it was his pod.
Was it? It felt too easy. Either way he couldn't ignore it.
He walked over to his 'pod' and reached out for it.
While he reached for it the circle in the back was forming a white light inside.
As soon as Kron placed his hand on the pod his hand phased through it, he did it again.
"Hologram" He growled, their playing games with him.
Suddenly the circle behind him fired a white light behind Kron.
It struck his back but it didn't explode only made Kron glow white for a moment before stopping.
He turned to what fired at him, he fired an energy bolt turning the metal circle into scrap.
Kron was annoyed, he looked around. "That distraction wasn't worth it, I didn't feel a thing weaklings!"
With that the Saiyan dashed through the room searching for his prey.
XXX
In the Dark Room
Amaranth knew it would work, but he was still surprised it actually did.
"I don't get it." Bisque interrupted his thoughts. "It didn't do anything, why isn't he hurt?"
"Weren't you listening idiot?" Silk demanded with her arms crossed. "That weapon isn't meant to harm him, but to slow him down."
Bisque watched as the Scourge was effortlessly destroying robots and tossing aside guards brave enough to get in his way.
"He still seems active to me."
He wasn't wrong, that weapon was meant to sedate the experiments, Rockshow did explain that some of the hardier subjects take time to feel effected.
All the more reason to buy time.
"Release the specimens" He said into his ear piece.
They should be able to put up a fight, so long as they don't just kill each other.
Another monitor showed a few doors opening, vicious beasts walked out of them and they ran in the same direction. No doubt Rockshow's armor was keeping them in line.
Still they are little more than simple beasts now, he only hoped they worked together.
XXX
Kron easily knocked out soldiers until he held one by his neck.
"There's a man named Bisque, here, where is he?"
The scientist looked frightened but he looked up. "Oh god no!"
Kron was about to look up but just as he was about to something that looked like a big snake came down and bit the scientist's skull, it forced Kron to let go and back away wondering what this thing was.
Looking at it, he can see arms and legs like a human, though they were covered in green scales, there was also a long lizard tail.
It turned it's gaze towards Kron.
From the body was a long neck of a snake, it was using it's tongue to red the body heat.
Kron was confused looking a this… thing.
He thought it was a Grimm at first, but it wasn't black nor did it have red eyes, it looked like a humanoid snake.
"Are you supposed to be a Faunus?" Kron was weirded out by this, he thought they only had one animal trait. But he had the tail, neck, and face of a snake, not to mention all the scales.
The snake hissed and ran towards Kron.
"What a joke, do they think- oh he's fast."
Kron side stopped as the snake tried to bite him.
The mutant then slammed his tail across Kron's masked face.
This forced the Saiyan to stumble.
He…. felt that.
That should'nt be possible, clearly this faunus had Aura but the shouldn't be enough.
Kron looked at the snake for a moment before realizing something.
On the Snake creature's chest was a familar looking armor that was green.
"So this is what their experimenting on?" He asked looking at the creature. This thing was once a Faunus, maybe a White Fang, even so he didn't expect this kind of experimenting.
The snake wrapped it's tail around Kron's arms, the snake then bended down to bite the Scourge's head.
But of course the Saiyan was able to break free from the creature's grip and threw an uppercut, he then grabbed the monsters tail and tossed the mutant Faunus aside.
Kron watched as the monster stood up and hissed with it's tongue.
If he holds back for this long he'll never get to Bisque or find his pod.
The saiyan raced forward and axe kicked the snake's head.
This overwhelmed the armor's ability to increase Aura and knocked the creature unconscious.
That was easy once he actually tried, still this thing was strong. Maybe strong enough to have given Raven a fight with that strange power up she had.
In either case he needed to get moving, maybe their using these monsters so they can escape.
"Alright kid, Neo just sent me a map of the place. You're gonna go in the lower floors."
"How do I know Bisque didn't escape?"
"He didn't she's been following him around for a while."
"She wasn't caught?"
"Aww you were worried for her?"
"Yes" Kron responded. "Without her I can't find out where he is."
"Heartwarming" Roman was hoping for an embarrassed reaction, getting attached to Neo would certainly help his position in their deal. "Head three floors down."
Kron followed directions from the thief without any trouble.
At one moment the ceiling shattered and what came were two scythes heading for his shoulders.
The Saiyan grabbed the two scythes wondering what this was, he looked at the head of the creature.
It looked more human than the last one, it had long black hair but its face had huge red eyes and a mouth that split up.
Kron was actually weirded out by this, it was more obvious now, it wasn't just a giant mantis, not with hair like that. Clearly this is, or rather was a mantis Faunus.
The mantis ran its head forward to bite Kron's neck, it managed to but Kron's hard as iron skin couldn't be penetrated.
"Nice try!" He said smashing his fist into the gut of the creature.
Again its aura shattered and the creature fell to the side.
Kron wondered what they think unleashing these things would do, they are nothing compared to him.
Just then he tripped, he was about to fall over but he placed a hand on the wall.
His eyelids started to drop, his body felt heavier.
The Saiyan smacked his face with both hands.
"Something wrong?"
Kron shook his head, did he not get enough sleep or something? Whatever, he was still too strong for these weaklings to stop.
"I'm fine, keep giving me directions."
At least he believed he was fine.
Just then three other mutants would attack from different directions all in the same armor.
"How many do they have?" Not that he minded, more fighting for him.
XXX
Amaranth noticed that, it wasn't a random trip, the Scourge of Anima is clearly effected by the Null Laser, still the effects need to be stronger.
More mutant Faunus with Crusader Armor were unleashed of different shapes and sizes.
Wolf Faunus, Bat Faunus, Lion Faunus, many predatory Faunus from his experiments all in Crusader Armor.
Honestly it was a miracle that Rockshow kept creatures of this magnitude in this building, he wondered if he had any in that island where he keeps most of his experiments.
He was glad that their armors were rigged to explode should they leave the facility, despite his situation he valued Atlas above all else and did not wish to endanger its citizens.
These creatures are strong, but only strong enough to slow him down and let the Null Lasers effects to kick in and make him more vulnerable.
There's only one creature that would be strong enough to destroy them.
He eyed one of the monitors.
It showed a watery habitat, with a large humanoid creature with a fin racing around.
He'll be awake soon, hopefully he will manage to level the playing field.
XXX
Kron smashed a humanoid wolf against the wall forcing the creature's aura to break and knocking it out.
These monsters are strong, strong enough to fight a Maiden, some are even stronger than that.
Before his latest Zenkai Boost after his Oozaru transformation, he would be worried if he could take them all on, this was the eighth mutant he fought so far. Are there more of them?
He was started to feel a little out of breath not much but still he's only felt close to this after a day of training so it was impressive that he felt even this much.
He was about to move on but then he started stumbling before he caught himself.
And there's this strange feeling, what's happening?
"One more staircase kid, you need a breather?"
Not wanting to appear weak he responded harshly.
"I said I'm fine!"
Roman didn't really believe him, this was bad. He expected him to be this unstoppable force that he can manipulate, but he can hear some panting on his end, he was tired.
If this keeps up he'll have to take Neo and lay low somewhere far away if this kid doesn't live up to his hype.
Kron was heading towards another staircase but then he heard voices. He turned to see a door, he looked seeing Test Subjects labeled at the top.
He knew his target should be downstairs but he thought it might do him some good to see if there was anyone that can tell him more about this place.
The Saiyan opened the door and walked through.
Inside was a large room with multiple cages containing many Faunus's.
There dozens of Faunus, all of them normal clearly not have been experimented on yet.
"Help us please!" One of the Faunus yelled.
At first they seemed excited seeing his Beringel mask.
"Brother you're here!" One yelled. "Did Adam send- wait, you! You're the Scourge of Anima!"
He looked at the cage containing them they were wearing clothes similar to what he's seen the White Fang's wear but most without their masks.
"Guess you lot are the White Fang that we're captured in Vale, weren't you?" He asked. "This all of you?"
"All that's left." A horned Faunus said. "They started taking us one by one turning into… monsters."
The Saiyan met those creatures, so that's what their doing.
"Now why are you here? To gloat after what you did to Adam?"
Kron ignored their anger and began forcing the doors opened.
All of them were confused as who they thought was their enemy was freeing them.
"What is this? Why are you freeing us?" One of them asked as they slowly left the cage.
Kron stared at the group. "Your new high leader, Ghira was the one who asked me to free you."
"Ghira? Why?"
"Ask him yourself." Kron replied, before going over to open the other cages.
Dozen's of Faunus were now free, some were officiated with the White Fang others were just innocents that gone missing.
"I'll get you idiots out, anyone who can fight grab any weapons you can find and keep an eye on the ones who couldn't fight."
All Faunus were surprised to see that the feared Scourge of Anima was actually helping them, especially the White Fang.
"Kid, you might not wanna escort them out, you might be on a time crunch, just go down the stairs."
Kron ignored them and escorted them out so they can avoid the creatures that were roaming the place for him.
Once they were all out and safe from the monsters, Kron went back in the building.
"Where are you going?" A tailed Faunus asked. "We just escaped, you don't want to go in there to be their next experiment!"
"I only rescued you because Ghira asked me to, I'm actually here for something else, now get lost. Go back to Menagerie, go to him, whatever just don't do anything stupid like you did with Adam, and maybe get the ones who weren't in the White Fang somewhere safe."
He turned and started to go through the doors.
"Wait!"
He turned to see a Faunus with a rattlesnake tail. "Thank you so much!"
"Thank Ghira, not me." He replied before going back in side.
"There's more."
Kron stopped and turned to a Faunus with a lizard tail.
"I saw that you tried to spare the mutated Faunus." He stopped. "I… I was looking into these experiments, trying to find proof that they exist, they captured me before I could… these experiments are permanent, no one can undo it."
That made Kron pause for a moment before turning to the other Faunus, all seemed sad, a few even broke down in tears.
"The best you can do for them is putting them out of their misery."
Kron was wearing a mask, though even without it there would be no visible reaction.
So whatever their doing is permanent, and they likely intend to continue this.
They may one day plot to take this to Menagerie.
"I'll do what I have to." No one is denying this Faunus's claim so it must be true. "Now remember what I said, and know this, I intend on wiping the Silver Bullet Brotherhood off of the face of Remnant."
He went back inside as the other Faunus watched in awe.
This supposed monster actually cared for their kind? Even after what happened with Sienna? Maybe he wasn't the demon they all thought he was.
The White Fang outside were about to escort the innocents away from the building to somewhere safe.
Though some looked at the hideout with worry for the Scourge of Anima.
Even the White Fang looked like they were concerned for his well being after all regardless of Ghira or what he did to them in Vale he did rescue them from being experimented on.
Adam didn't save them, Ghira couldn't have saved them, but this boy did.
Maybe he was more than they thought.
XXX
Team ABYS
"Hah softie." Bisque grinned.
"For once we agree." Silk smiled seeing the Scourge of Anima going out of his way to save the weaklings, she looked at Amaranth. "This was part of your plan to?"
After all the more time the Scourge wastes, the more the effects of the Null Laser would kick in.
"It was, though I wasn't sure if he would waste time saving them." Amaranth admitted. "If he ignored them the plan would still have a chance to succeed, if he saved them he would grow more exhausted."
Yosef couldn't help but admire how the former soldier's plan had worked. Maybe they can do this, they can bring down the Scourge of Anima.
"Alright let's go! I'm tired of these freaks having all the fun!" Bisque yelled. "He should be weakened enough!"
"Not yet."
There was still one more obstacle that should be able to bring him down further.
XXX
Kron proceeded to come through where he came from, suddenly the mutant Faunus that he spared rose up, likely their armor recharged their Aura, meaning they will not go down easy.
He could remove the armor but after what he was told he decided to do what was asked.
With swift movements he gave quick deaths to the mutant Faunus, it was no problem for him, still he would've liked it to be reversible. But if even the White Fang he wronged couldn't argue then it must be true.
He made it to what should be the floor his target is.
Eventually he made it to a lone scientist who waved at him.
She was disguised but he knew it was her.
"Ok, kid Neo followed Bisque going through this door, he hasn't come out, I'm sure the others are in there."
Kron looked at Neo who was going to leave and waved as she made her way out.
Good she can stay out of his way.
He forced the door open.
Once it was he was in a large room with nothing inside.
He came in and then he tripped, falling on one knee.
Panting he couldn't deny it, he was exhausted, he shouldn't be but he is.
Something is wrong, what happened to him? He hasn't even been wounded by these mutants. Was he poisoned? When?
Before he could think of anything else he felt a strange scent.
Smelt like salt water like he was on a beach.
The floor split open, the Saiyan floated above the ground as it opened, it showed a huge body of water.
Kron was about to dash across to find another door but then something jumped from the water with widened jaws.
The Saiyan flew to the side as the creature missed.
It was a large creature with a large fin that stretched from the creatures head to its back, and gills on the side of its neck, along with a tail that belonged to a great white.
"A Shark Faunus now?"
As he said that the shark jumped and tried to bite him.
But the Saiyan threw a fist into his stomach forcing the creature to be pushed back.
Though attacking it felt strange, he panted even more than before.
"What the, I'm getting worse?" Now his eyes kept involuntarily closing, he had to force his eyes open.
The shark swam across the water towards him and tried to bite him once again.
"Go down already!" The Saiyan axe kicked the mutated Shark Faunus's head, forcing it to dunk in the water.
Again though the Shark Faunus wouldn't relent, even though he meant to put enough force to at least knock it out.
Something isn't right, he should be winning this easy. The other creatures had Aura and that armor but this thing isn't going down as easily.
On top of it, every hit he feels more tired than before, every time he touched the Shark it would make him pant even more.
Again the shark jumped and landed on what little ground there was in the room.
The mutated Shark Faunus jumped back in the water and jumped right into Kron again.
"Ugh, you're strong but not very smart, I'd love to play with you but I got smaller fish to fry!" He yelled as he grab the shark Faunus by the neck.
He hesitated wondering if this was once a warrior that could've given him a decent fight.
Kron chopped at the neck, he then dropped the monster back on the ground, killing it instantly.
He was panting, somehow he was a little winded from fighting this thing.
Wait.
Is that this thing's Semblance? Was it ruining his stamina?
Suddenly he heard something from behind.
A door opened leading to a dark room.
The Saiyan flew in though he was struggling to, no doubt that monster had a Semblance that drained his stamina he was going to have a problem.
XXX
Kron made it to another large room and was surprised to see who it was.
"Finally" A man with orange hair and armor was standing with a large sheathe. "I thought the shark was actually going to eat you, congrats."
"Bisque" He looked at the weapon at his waist. "That weapon" He stopped as he fought to stay awake. "give it back, do it and" He grunted. "I'll kill you quick."
Bisque lifted Omen from its sheath showing a Fire Dust red blade.
"I will never give up the weapon of my love." He said with a smile. "Much less to the brat who betrayed her!"
"Good! Then I get to kill you slow!" Kron yelled before racing forward towards the Raven wanna be.
Bisque lifted an arm showing one of his tonfas and fired a flurry of Fire Dust bullets.
Of course Kron was able to force his way through at speeds faster than most can see.
But the brute can see, he was slower, still faster than him but slow enough for him to avoid.
Bisque turned his body avoiding a punch by the slightest of margins, he then threw a kick for his body.
Kron was struck and noticeably was effected though not by much.
Bisque then slashed his blade aiming for his neck.
But the Saiyan slammed his masked face into the brute's.
The brute hit the ground, but he can feel his Aura levels, they weren't as depleted as the last time he fought him. It was working he was tired.
Bisque chuckled as he got up.
"The hell you laughing at?" Kron asked as he tried to hide that he was out of breath.
"That wasn't as hard as last time, are you holding back or are you actually tired."
Kron grunted as he fired an energy blast at him.
Bisque was struck and slid across the room, those blasts were still painful and took a good bit of his Aura.
The Saiyan fired multiple energy blasts, planning to blow him to bits.
But then his shoulder was grabbed.
He glowed pale yellow and stopped.
Again?
"Wow" A timid voice said. "Boss was right you did fall for it again."
That annoyed Kron, he was too focused on Bisque to think of the teammates that rescued him.
Now his body wasn't responding the way it should. He tried to turn his body, but instead he looked up, he tried to move but all he did was make strange movements as he tried to figure out how his body moved now.
This fucking Semblance! He couldn't figure out how it worked? Did it work the same way as last time? Or does it randomly move how his body worked when this Semblance is used.
"Aww, look at that Yosef." Bisque said as he walked over to now out of control Kron. "He doesn't seem all there."
Kron growled as he tried to figure out how his body moved.
Bisque pressed the blue button on Omen's sheath before pulling the sword out with an Ice Dust blade. He slashed the ground next to Kron making an ice wall.
The Saiyan was still trying to move before his head was grabbed.
Bisque then smashed kron's head through the ice wall he created.
"Hope this'll knock sense into you!"
Kron slid across the ground after he was tossed, he stopped just before too violet covered boots.
A woman's voice spoke. "So we meet again, did you miss me?"
The Saiyan gritted his teeth as he can see who it was, a woman with long silky purple hair, now wearing the same armor as Bisque only purple.
"You, I knew you were working with that idiot." He said as he tried to stand up, but instead he rose only his head. "Made sense you would, considering you're too stupid to be a waitress."
Silk frowned remembering how he resisted her charm but then she grinned.
"Y'know seeing your pretty face behind that ugly mask, I might've been willing to let you have a taste." She then placed a hand on Kron, he now glowed purple, she was using her Semblance to change his center of gravity. "But now I know, you don't know beauty when you see it!"
Kron was falling not down but towards one of the walls.
Bisque took advantage of his confusion and short circuiting body and slammed his tonfas into his stomach.
The Saiyan slammed into the wall making a huge dent from the wall.
Silk couldn't help but chuckle, she was going to enjoy this after that humiliation she suffered from the restaurant.
Kron groaned, he felt that to, he can feel a bruise at his stomach where Bisque had struck him.
He got a good look at the three now, the idiot Bisque, the woman that hassled him while putting tracking devices on him, and an short man with pale blonde hair.
So that woman can change the direction of his gravity, he feels like he's on the floor, that means that short man is the one with that annoying Semblance that consuses his body.
Good he knew who to target.
He started to move his hand normally, it wore off.
Kron got out of his crater and stood on the wall as if he were on the ground. Guess that woman's Semblance was still in play.
Whatever it was fine, he jumped off the wall at high speeds.
Yosef screamed as the target was headed to him.
"Come here you little shit!" Kron yelled as he reached for him.
Just then he felt multiple shots across his back that coated him in electricity and forced him to stop, he glanced to the side.
There was one more an older man with short red hair aiming a rifle at him.
"One more?" Kron asked annoyed.
Behind him Bisque tried to slam his tonfas into his back.
But the Saiyan saw it coming and spun before slamming a kick across the brute's face.
As he did that Amaranth jumped down before pressing his rifle, it turned into a pole a javelin and was going to pierce his back.
Kron moved out of the way before throwing a quick punch.
Amaranth remained unflinching, he was slower than Kron but he can see the fist coming and was barely able to duck underneath it, then he placed his hand on the face of the 'Faunus'.
Kron grabbed the wrist as he was going to break it.
But Amaranth's hand glowed dark red.
The Saiyan stopped moving for a bit, something was happening his head was in intense pain.
"Rahhhhh!" Krona actually screamed in pain and grabbed his head.
Amaranth knew it from his movements, he was exhausted and was able to attack his brain.
A second later and his wrist would've broken.
"Amaranth's Semblance- Internal Strife: By touching his opponent he can use his Aura to cause pain on the insides of his target, depending on where he touches them. By placing his hand on a person's head he can cause a feeling of pain to their brain rather than their skull."
As Kron was going to strike Amaranth Yosef touched their target's shoulder.
He glowed pale yellow once again forcing his body to short circuit again.
"D-Damn it!"
Amaranth stared down at the Scourge of Anima with a blank face.
"It is an honor to meet someone of your prowess, I am Amaranth Hyas." He explained to him.
Kron grunted as he glared at him and the others.
"I respect your strength, but someone of your power can only be challenged through careful planning, had we fought you at full power you would have overwhelmed us."
Amaranth explained as he walked forward.
"Cowards!" Kron yelled as he tried to figure out how to move his body, it was working differently than last time so it did change every time it was used. "You planned this, but how did, wait.. that light that hit me." He remembered where he found a hologram of his pod and he was struck by a laser.
"The Null Laser, it's used to sedate the experiments you encountered." Amaranth explained. "The moment you were struck by it, it began to slowly fatigue your entire body."
Bisque was laughing ecstatic to see the enemy of his self proclaimed soulmate unable to move his body.
Yosef smiled seeing that he managed to help bring down the Scourge of Anima.
Silk was enjoying the sight of the boy who ignored her advances to fall to their teamwork.
Kron looked around so this is what their doing, they played him. Lured him here and now he was tired, he felt exhausted, he was on the verge of collapsing.
His body wasn't listening to him, he kept making movements that didn't benefit him.
Now he felt a pain in his brain that he could only tolerate and was only making him want to give in to exhaustion further.
Amaranth looked at his teammates and at the 'Faunus'.
"He is vulnerable now, finish him before he regains his motor functions."
They got closer to him planning to either knock him out or kill him.
Kron couldn't believe this, he might actually lose, to these nobodies.
He had to figure something out, or he might…pass out… right… now.
His eyes felt heavier and heavier as they got closer.
Through trial and error he realized how the short one's Semblance worked.
His body can still move, he just had to figure out what moved what.
Silk was about to try to pierce his neck again hoping for it to see blood.
But Kron's left arm managed to backhand her.
Silk almost crashed to the wall but caught herself. "What was that Yosef?"
"It wasn't my fault, he must've figured out how to move his left arm."
The Saiyan was panting, he can at least move one limb, right now it felt like he was moving his neck, but that's what controlled his arm.
Good so he can figure out what moves what. But if the short one touches him again then it will change how his body functions again.
He'll either have to avoid getting touched, or find a way to fight without relying on moving his body.
He can feel himself slowing down, he wanted to pass out, also the pain in his head by Amaranth wasn't helping.
Kron grinned.
"Thank you… for making this fair." He chuckled though he was trying to stay awake.
Amaranth realized that his plan may not work, though he anticipated that. It was good he had a few more, who knows how many plans it takes to bring down the famed Scourge of Anima.
Kron hated to admit he was close to being knocked out, for the first time in a while.
He'll make sure these four don't live to tell the tale.
Team ABYS has made the mighty Scourge of Anima struggle. What other plans does Amaranth have?
Find out next time in One's Own Path!
Before we go on I feel I must correct a misunderstanding.
I had no possible plans of bringing the actual mythological Sun Wukong to the story. But an OC that is the ancestor of Sun Wukong in RWBY, his ancestor would live in the Ever After it is not the original mythological figure. While I am not 100% sold on this idea yet it will not be the actual Sun Waking in real life mythology just an OC, if I choose to do it.
With that said I worded it wrong and I apologize for that. Hope everyone understands it was all a misunderstanding.
Ok glad that's done. Anyway my other story DBOT is in it's final battle so it's not far from finishing. After that I will devote my time to One's Own Path again, hope everyone looks forward to it.
Also I was going to make it longer to find Team ABYS but it felt too draggy even for my taste so decided to head right for it.
Fun fact I was going to name this chapter 'Team ABYS Kill The Scourge' based on Rocksteady's latest game that everyone loved….. to hate.
But the name didn't roll off the tongue plus shitting on that game is old news anyway. I miss uploading weekly.
Hope everyone enjoys Kron's fight against Team ABYS as well as the mutated Faunus, it won't even be the last we see of them.
Review Responses.
triscythe59: Yep, at this point the only way to stand a chance is to nerf him like Abys has done here. As for Ilia hope your satisfied, you'll see Sienna soon as for Bisque, here he is, as deluded as ever.
Lelouch of zero: Since she has a weapon that restrains people I thought that would make sense. Thank of her clones as an upgrade of Kron's Scourge Grimm. Yep, all of RWBY would overwhelm most of RWBY canon so far, Volume 3 would not have happened if they got this strong, and the funny thing is their still growing. May not be too long before they'd surpass Canon Salem. Adam's world view really has been shattered, he had to run from Blake of all people, now he's determined to make it so he's the monster he was seen as to get Blake back on the run.
Yep, Vernal now is after Yang and she's willing to die just to gut her. Yep Amaranth knew he couldn't play fair so he made sure to make plenty of contingency plans.
After upgrading her minions Salem had to get powered up herself. Things might get worse lol all I'm gonna say is, we're getting closer to having Kron no longer be top of the food chain. Kron can be smart when someone asks him the right questions.
Jay: Thank you.
Kron isn't the best at everything even he needs help.
Your guess right, it was a weakening device now Kron is close to passing out. So good guess.
Arthur's Android will be revealed soon, gotta get past ABYS first.
Oraki is the name I'm thinking of so far, it's the best one that Shrine has come up with in my opinon. I'm still working out the kinks but I imagine body swapping would change the Semblance, unless maybe if you have the Schnee Glyphs since it's hereditary. Humans will keep up with Saiyans in this fic. As for half Saiyans, their gonna be a different breed than the ones from dragon ball. Maybe not stronger than Gohan cause his potential is meant to be broken.
That's how I view it to, Saiyans may make good gains in training but they get stronger the most during battle. And ya that to.
Maybe, I mean the reason Kron is so cocky is because he has a constant win streak, at some point he may need a slice of humble pie.
Reunion: Possibly, that'd be scary as a low class warrior would decimate Remnant including Kron at this point, let's hope Kron gets to it before they could or that this threat would take it's time.
lurker45: As I said in the Authors note above, we didn't mean the OG Myrhological Sun Wukong, another OC that would be the ancestor of the Sun Wukong in RWBY.
Shrine: No thank you, I always look into reviews for ideas in case their better then my own.
Ok I can work with that, I think now given how Short Circuit is giving Kron trouble he at least has motivation to try to make this bastirdized version of Spirit Cotontrol to avoid Semblances that effect him. A buddy recommend we change his name to Kong. I think we should do that since we just caused a misunderstanding that people thought I was actually going to do the real Mythos Sun Wukong lol. I say Guardian of Ever After as that blends dragon ball with it. Now a question is, is his fairy tail known throughout Remnant and where was he when RWBY met the Blacksmith in canon. I am interested, let's talk more see how this goes and if I think it can fit I'll do it. So far I'm willing. Lol, that sounds fair lots of time on your hands for kids. I will admit my theory on Aura not being a thing in the first generation isn't perfect, the reason I decided to do that is because I wanted Remnant humans to have something that makes them special since every other race in dragon ball has some biological advantage. Plus we don't know if Salem has one or not, she might have one and it doesn't protect her like how Cinder's grimm arm isn't protected. I have read that theory it's possible, maybe one day Viz Media will make it clear. I think that's a good thing to point out. Plus Semblances seem to evolve along with the person's mind, so with Ki they should gain a huge boost.
Whew, that's a long read but I see what you mean, ok I'll definitely keep all these in mind as usual thank you for the long read. Hope u enjoyed this chapter!
camillonavas: Thank of Kron as someone who showed cavemen fire, it may get out of hand later lol.
Their gonna be together for awhile lol, so hope you look forward to that.
Ruby and Weiss will get their own at some point I think you'll like it.
A lot was happening with Eclipse so they weren't sure what to make of it, but they'll discuss it at some point.
James is bored: Yep.
Keybladelight: The Grimm Hybrids will be something ferocious. Amaranth has backup plans for his backup plans, for his backup plans, you'll see.
Lubmin: I haven't watched all of it yet, I'm trying to stall for a dub version. But I think I can do that it'd be a fun way of connecting both lores.
ZamasuAutonomous: We are here so we may get it lol.
Glad you enjoyed the fight and Adam's despair.
Vernal's kind of a mess, we'll see how it goes.
Ok, take your time.
Happy Holidays!
Monster King: Thank you!
Guest: I'm guessing you mean like the classic non canon dbz movies? I guess maybe I can do that one day, but not sure, I like to have everything I write apart of the story. The closest thing i have to do that is One's Many Paths if u wanna try that.
Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta is who I use the most in Sparking Zero.
Alright guys not much else to say except I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
Happy Holidays!
Have an Awesome day! :)