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Chapter 6- Face of a Demon
Ruby's POV
It's been two weeks since Jaune told us his story and we haven't seen him since. Neo disappeared a day after and while Sans told us she was still in the Underground he hasn't given any more details. Alphys, a dinosaur-like monster, fitted Yang with a new arm and she fell in love instantly, so did I. It's a work of art, if not for seeing it be attached myself I would never know it's fake. We've all been moved to a new house that can fit all of us. Klein has been a Oum-send, without him I doubt we could keep the house running. We also spent the last two weeks discussing what Jaune told us. We all agreed we didn't care in the end, that he was still Jaune and we didn't care. However, Ren said that we should see Jaune at what he called his worst, to prove we didn't care. Uncle Qrow also wants to talk with Jaune about something so there is that as well. First, we have to find him though.
"You want to know where the kid is?" I glare at Sans as he grins at me.
"Yes, we do. Why won't you tell us where he is?"
"Because I don't trust you." That shocks the seven of us, we've been around the Underground a few times and no one actually seems to have a problem with us. "I've heard your chats about Jaune. You say that you won't judge him but believe me I've seen him at his worst. It's a hard thing to forget, the cat-girl has seen just a small fraction of what he's capable of. Don't forget he doesn't actually like humans or Faunus, he's just not genocidal anymore. I don't want the kid hurt any more than he has been."
"Then why can't we talk to him." I'm trying to remember how I was elected spokesperson of the group.
"Because he can't stand the thought of you all rejecting him anymore than you already have. Look I get your initial reactions to his story, us monsters weren't much better, but it's worse since it's you all. Somehow you all made him lose the suicidal part of himself that we couldn't. And now that part is back, hell he's been ignoring safety conditions in the lab. Probably doing it right now."
"He's in the lab let's go!" We immediately rush off towards the labs Alphys works at. I look back for a second and see Sans grinning at us. I wonder why? It takes a while to reach the labs, lots of monsters giving us directions, and a lot of wrong turns. We really need to learn how to get around this place more. As we walk into the labs Alphys is in the lobby signing for some packages.
"Ooh, he-hello you all. What can I do for you?" I shove Weiss forward, let her be the spokesperson this time. After glaring at me Weiss speaks up.
"We were told Jaune was here. Could you tell us where he is?" Alphys looks us over for a second before sighing.
"He's not going to like this. But I suppose it might be a good thing. Just press the button with a J on it in the elevator, also don't freak out when you get there." We thank Alphys for her help and head to the elevator. Once there we find the button she mentioned and press it. The elevator starts moving up and eventually stops after about a minute. The doors open to reveal a lab. We barely walk out the door before we're forced to duck as a knife comes flying at us.
"What the hell! What are you guys doing here!?" We look back up to see Jaune looking down at us wearing a lab coat instead of his usual hoodie and glasses on his face. "Look sorry about the knife, I was so wrapped up in my work I just reacted automatically. Now what are you doing here?" Pyrrha is the first of us to talk.
"We wanted to see you again. We're your friends, I'm your partner. We want you back in our lives." Jaune starts to open his mouth when an alarm starts ringing.
"SHIT!" With that Jaune runs to the back of the lab. We follow him and I gasp at seeing what he's working on. Resting on the table is Penny, her chest is opened up and wires are hooked into her that lead into a cylindrical machine and a computer. Jaune is doing something with the cylindrical machine.
"Shitty Atlas tech, what the hell were they thinking? The alarm finally goes off and Jaune collapses into a chair.
"Jaune, what is Penny's body doing here?" Jaune looks up at us and then shrugs.
"Side project." He holds up his hand and a glowing, orange heart. "This is the soul I ripped out of Cinder. It's taking forever to try and get all the data put together for the new body Alphys built and since I had time I went and grabbed Penny. Tch, the Atlas idiots had no idea what they were doing."
"But why are you working on her? And what's with the glasses?" I think Weiss didn't like that remark about Atlas. Jaune rubs a hand through his hair and takes his glasses off before sticking them in his lab coat's breast pocket.
"The glasses are for when I read small text, I've had to dig out a lot of stuff to go over what I'm doing. As for the reason I'm working on Penny, well I find it horrifying what they did. Her soul was some creepy hodgepodge of aura samples stuffed and stitched together. I've already made an artificial soul and now I'm transferring Penny into it. The process is tricky since her soul is a patchwork horror but that's the reason Penny is, for lack of a better term, Penny it makes it a challenge to keep her in one piece during the transfer. Also, glad to see the arm is working Yang." My jaw drops and my eyes water. Penny is going to come back. Pyrrha is also excited, Penny's death weighed heavily on her. Jaune takes out a little device and flips it open.
"Huh, I've been in here for 26 hours straight? Well then, since I'm going to need to kill someone if I keep looking at this travesty that is Penny's soul and you can stand to be in my presence I'll head home and take a nap. We can talk about the more serious stuff once eaten and slept. NORA DON'T TOUCH THAT!" Jaune holds his hand out and a red glow surrounds it while his eyes burn bright. We turn around and see Nora hanging upside down in the air. She then starts moving up and down rapidly as Jaune moves past us shaking his arm. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT DOES?!" Nora is flipped right-side up as the glow leaves her and she lands on her butt. She looks up at Jaune with teary eyes and Jaune stops walking towards her right as Ren moves in between the two of them while glaring at Jaune.
"That was unnecessary." Jaune stares both Ren and Nora down.
"Nora could have caused an explosion that would have wiped out the Underground, the resulting shockwaves would have caused earthquakes that would shake the continent and cause immeasurable damage." Nora pales at the picture that paints. "While I only care about the Underground in that scenario the fact would be Nora would have genocide on her soul, that is a stain that never washes out." Jaune takes off his lab coat and throws it over a chair.
"Also, Uncle Qrow wants to talk to you." Jaune looks at me in interest and he turns around and presses a few buttons on the container and then turns and looks at us once more before snapping his fingers. A flash of red and we all suddenly appear in the woods. Uncle Qrow is practicing his swordplay a few feet away. It's oddly comforting and slightly chilling to know that Jaune could find us anytime he wanted. Upon noticing us Uncle Qrow stops and plants his blade in the ground.
"So, they told you I wanted to talk with you." Jaune shrugs and leans against a tree.
"You've avoided me ever since we got here, I figured it must be something special for you to want to meet me. Also stop looking so worried, I'm not reading your soul. I only did that the first time because I was still running on adrenaline and didn't recognize you at first. By the time I did I had already read everything I needed to know." Qrow looks at us and then turns back to Jaune.
"Can this be private?" Jaune raises his hand but Pyrrha grabs his hand.
"No, we are all going to be involved in this. Jaune we're your friends. Trust in us to help you."
"That's nice girlie but this is partially a family matter."
"Well guess what, we are family. So not only do we have a right to listen in then but we'll tell them whatever you say."
"Damn it Yang, this isn't something that should just be talked about so willy nilly."
"Ever since Beacon you've been hiding things. You've had Sans drop you off Oum knows where for days at a time and you never tell us why. Do you not trust us?"
"OUM NO! Of course, I trust you but sometimes it's better you don't know everything." A snort draws our attention and we all look at Jaune.
"As much as I like watching a family drama I have things to do so can we get to the point."
"I know where the bandits that killed your family are." Everyone takes a step back from Jaune as a blood-red aura surrounds him, his crimson red eyes glowing brightly
"You found them."
"Yeah, my sister is their leader. But that's what doesn't make sense, she isn't the type to do something like what happened to your family. Raven lives by the philosophy that the strong live and the weak die but she abhors rape. Even if she attacked your village that wouldn't have happened but the only group actually strong enough to do that is her clan." Jaune smiles but it isn't warm or friendly, it's dark and chilling. I turn to Yang who's shocked at what Uncle Qrow is saying. I can't believe it either, her mom leads a group of bandits that took Jaune's family from him.
"I'll be sure to rip the answers out of her. Now where is this group."
"You have to promise to at least see if she was involved first."
"I will. Now tell me where they are!" Jaune's eyes and mouth turn pitch black and a tar like substance begins to drip out of them. Is this what Blake told us about? "I have waited years for this. Every night I see my sisters begging for death as they're violated. I see my father cut into pieces and my mother forced to watch. I WILL CONSIGN THEM ALL TO NOTHINGNESS! So, if you don't want me to just tear their location from your soul you will tell me what I want to know." Uncle Qrow gives Jaune a piece of paper and Jaune looks over it with glee as the black fluid leaks out faster. "HAHAHAHAHAHA! OH HOW I'VE DREAMED OF THIS MOMENT. This, this will be so fun. A nice and proper massacre." With another flash of red light Jaune is gone. The last thing we see is the insane, dripping grin on his face.
Raven's POV
Strong live, weak die. Those are the undeniable rules of life. My mother was weak so she died giving birth to my brother and I, my father grew weak and died fighting Grimm, my daughter will be strong but for now she is weak. Yet even with those words watching my entire clan be utterly slaughtered by this monstrosity is too much.
He just appeared in a flash of light, right in the middle of camp. His eyes and mouth dripping a black fluid, his mouth stretched out in a grotesque grin, and a glowing red knife twirling in his hand all while he is wearing a lab coat of all things. He said only one thing before he attacked.
"You should have ended the Arc line." Before I could jump in a red glow surrounded me and pinned me to a tree. No matter how much a struggle I can't move even a muscle. My men fight but each are taken down, never killed but they won't be fighting or moving anytime soon. Some try to move back, whether to put distance between them to attack or to flee I don't know but red knifes made of energy erupt from the ground and cage my clan in.
Ten minutes.
That is how long it takes this monster to disable everyone in camp, the few children and pre-teens are trapped in a red ball in the corner. The creature walks towards me with the smile growing.
"You should thank Oum Qrow gives a damn about you, that and Yang wants to talk to you for some reason. It's the only reason you won't join your clan today." I glare at the creature in front of me, it may look similar to a human but it is definitely not human or Faunus.
"Why did you attack my clan?"
"Oh countless moral reasons… could apply but let's be honest here, this was purely for my satisfaction and revenge. Now did you lead the raid on the town where the Arc family lived?"
"No, that was an idiotic fool that believed he could take my place. He learned his lesson after that." I glare at the fallen form of said fool. I learned what happened to the women of the Arc family, rape is something I despise and many of the participators lost the ability to do so again, and the … son." I focus back on the creature in front of me. I knew that the boy had escaped slavery and gone to Beacon, I found out when checking on Yang's progress. I heard rumors of what he did but didn't place much stock in them. Clearly, I should have.
"I see you've figured it out. My name is Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, ladies love it. At least that's what my mom once told me. So that's the one that was in charge of that little attack huh." The creature that was once the heir to the Arc family walks over and slams his foot down on the man's back. His grin growing with every stomp. "You have no idea just what your greed brought about. You set in motion the end of the world. I gained power you wouldn't believe, I can manipulate the time on a whim, I brought about the complete and utter genocide of Remnant. Now then, for what you did to my family, my town, and Oum knows how many others, I consign you to Oblivion. I'll be taking that soul of yours now." I swear I hear him mutter something about being a hypocrite but I can't be sure.
The creature holds out his hand and from his victims back a grey heart emerges. Something inside me screams at me to run, to cower, to prostrate myself and beg for mercy. Red energy dances between his fingers and the heart, I believe him when he says it's a soul, and cracks form. An ethereal screaming fills the air as with a sound of glass breaking the heart shatters. I stare at the Arc, words can't leave my mouth. I know that I am powerful, definitely in the top ten percent of Hunters and Huntresses on Remnant, but this creature can clearly destroy all. I then notice someone in the trees, sitting on a branch and swinging her legs while watching the Arc.
A story is whispered in my ears from my subconscious, a bit of history from only a little over a century ago. Of a girl who lived in a remote settlement that had survived for generations without the Kingdoms. She was believed to be the container of all evil, her family was killed and she was thrown into a pit on a mountain, supposedly people believed she would one day return, through an avatar or herself is unknown. Qrow and I believed this was a load of crap, the area that claimed this also claimed that a goat-monster showed up carrying the girl's corpse and that it was her harbinger. More likely a hairy goat Faunus found the girl and the villagers killed him and made up the story to sound less crazy paranoid. The girl in the trees is a grown-up version of the description given in the story. The girl then looks straight at me, her glowing red eyes looking at me knowingly and she nods at me as though she knows what she's thinking.
Screams fill the air soon, souls are ripped out of everyone and swirling above the Arc's head. The lightning hitting all of them.
"Hey Chara, fireworks." All the souls are sent into the air and there they explode creating something eerily similar to fireworks. Both of these people watch with a smile, the black substance disappearing from the boy's face revealing red eyes similar to the girls. He walks over to the children and stares at them, their eyes glow red for a second and in a flash, they disappear. "I didn't kill them, I simply erased the specifics of this event from them. As far as they remember everyone died to a Grimm and you got them all out of here. I sent them to a good orphanage, they'll be well taken care of." He turns and stare back at me with sorrow. "I just can't get why you would throw away family. I read your soul, you viewed those people as your family when all they cared about was your strength or your looks. You had a loving husband, a wonderful daughter, a brother that looked up to you even if he wouldn't say it, and a girl that treated you like a sister. You have a daughter and a niece that have never even met you. It's just sad… I would give nearly anything for one more minute with my family." With those words whatever force holds me releases me and I fall to the ground. When I look up he and the girl are gone, I'm alone.
Alone in the field of corpses.
Chara's POV
That was a beautiful sight, seeing Jaune in action always pumps me up. Now it's just him and me sitting on the couch in our apartment, well his but I moved in once we arrived, just relaxing. His head is in my lap and I'm playing with his hair. A nice relaxing night, no Muffet, no red-hooded baby, no pint-sized, long lost cell-mate from a slave housing facility, and wasn't that a shock. Just me and Jaune. Of course I spoke to soon, Neo walks in with Muffet, Red, and Monster Kid following her in. Their arms, tail in Kid's case, loaded with sweets and beverages.
"What's all this for?" Jaune is staring at them in amusement and confusion. Muffet sets down her load and throws her arms up in the air
"Well it's time we all had a movie night. Come on let's have some fun." Jaune smiles and agrees. Soon we're all watching a movie about a magic Jungle-themed board game. I want to complain but Jaune is having so much fun with them all. The night drags on and more movies are watched, the one about the man crossdressing to see his kids is my favorite, while all the snacks are slowly consumed. Soon it turns into a sleepover with everyone collapsing in the living room. Neo is hugging a nice-cream plushy to her chest, Red has burrowed into her hood while drooling on the pillow under her head from her spot on the floor, Kid is curled up in a circle next to the chair Neo is in, and Muffet made herself a hammock to sleep in. Jaune is laid out on the couch, taking this golden opportunity I lay down on top of him and pull a blanket over us. I stare at Jaune for a second before pressing my lips to his.
Today took care of a major demon from his past, one that haunted him nearly as much as the Genocide did. Maybe with the people that took his family gone he'll be more open to a relationship now. I nearly jump when Jaune warps his arms around me and pulls me in close, tucking my head under his chin. I relish the warmth this gives me, the feeling of belonging. Mom and Dad accepted me back, they forgave me for all I did but I still don't feel like I belong with them. Jaune is the more integrated of the two of us, he can stand being with monsters now while he's learning that his human and Faunus friends don't hate him. And with that more competition will arrive, so for now I'll enjoy these moments that I can have for I don't know when he will come to his senses. I can act tough, play the confident girl that knows she'll get the guy but that's all it is, an act. Why would he want to be with the girl that led him astray, the girl that was responsible for showing him the path of Genocide. I blink away tears that build up, I won't cry. I lean up and steal one more kiss.
"I love you Jaune." There is no answer and I settle back onto his chest when he does reply, his words sleepy and I doubt he is conscious but they still make me feel so warm.
"Love you Chara." I hold Jaune closer. I will never leave him, no matter what. I will fight for him and even if I lose I will never leave him. I refuse to lose anyone ever again.
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