[ON HIATUS] We're Not Dreaming (Mercury x OC)

Fix a Crook

So for this story, I made up Ozpin's semblance and made it time dilation. So yeap.

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Blanche's POV

"We'll get the other two first. Cinder is more dangerous than all the criminals in Vale combined, so she's last," Ozpin murmured,"Bart, please get Miss Sustrai. Peter, you'll get Mr. Black." The two teachers nodded, and walked out of the office, the elevator's doors sliding together behind them. I held my palm up, swirling crystals of snow forming above my hand in a slow vortex. "You're the Winter Maiden," Glynda and Ironwood looked at me in awe. I nodded, and Ozpin spoke up again,"Blanche, there will be no doubt that Cinder will put up a fight, however if two maidens fight, Vale would be destroyed by the time you two were done. I have an experimental device that the general has helped me create, and if you can keep her occupied for a few moments, that will give us a long enough window to slip it on her." I gave him a look,"You do realize that those few moments will most likely result in the destruction of your office and the surrounding school buildings?" "Which is precisely why we're going to ambush her outside of my office."

Muffled yells reached our ears, just as the elevator doors opened again and Emerald and Mercury's cursing reached a much higher volume. Both had their hands cuffed behind their backs with the teachers' weapons trained on them. I looked at the two of them coldly as they struggled. Mercury was the first to stop thrashing, and in his glancing sweep of the room he caught my stony gaze before he looked away in shame. Emerald had stopped as well and was only glaring holes at Ozpin. Strangely, as the two approached the middle of the room, I saw her turn and sneak around Professor Port, without him or any of the room's occupants seeing it. Perplexed, I stared at her back for a moment before it dawned on me, and I sped towards her, jumping up to slam my heel into her head. She went down with a thump, and her illusion broke as well.

The professors grabbed her again, and hauled her in front of Ozpin, this time making sure to tie her legs together. Mercury was placed next to her roughly as well. Ozpin stared at them over his glasses,"Did you really think that you could sneak into my school without me noticing?" Both of them grit their teeth together, refusing to answer Ozpin. He shook his head at them before turning to the professors and me. "Bart, Peter, please watch over these two. James, do you have the device?" Ironwood held up a small metal bracelet and Ozpin nodded in satisfaction. "Glynda, Blanche. It's time we put an end to this nonsense."

The two professors, the general, and I made our way down through the elevator. As the doors opened, Ozpin quickly outlined his plan. He would confront Cinder about her plans to take down Remnant, and when she attempts to attack him, I would intervene. He would use his semblance to dilate the time and attach the device to her wrist, rendering her stolen Maiden powers useless, and limiting her aura and semblance to the bare minimum. Professor Goodwitch will create an energy barrier around us to keep the damage to a minimum.

"She's in a nearby courtyard. Presumably waiting for the two who are in my office right now," he murmured as he looked at his scroll. The four of us walked quietly towards the courtyard, Ozpin still sipping calmly at his ever present mug of coffee. When we were a few yards away, I threw up an illusion to mask everyone except Ozpin. Professor Goodwitch and the general went to hide in the nearby bushes, and I walked right behind Ozpin. "Miss Fall?" he called out to the woman sitting on one of the benches. "Yes professor?" she answered calmly, voice as smooth as silk.

"Do you take me for an idiot? I know you were planning to take over Vale, but did you really think that you would succeed? I see everything Miss Fall," his voice turned colder than a blizzard. She stood up slowly, backing away. "You can't stop me," she smirked, before a firey glow surrounded her eyes. As she rose up into the air, I let my own power surge up, a white ice-like mask appearing across the top of my face. I dropped my illusion, floating up to meet Cinder in battle.

Seeing me, Cinder let out an enraged shriek and storm clouds formed around her. As she lifted her hand to throw lightening at me, freezing cold wind blasted from my hands towards her, freezing her body solid temporarily. A moment later, the amplifying heat from her Maiden powers melted the ice, and a fireball came sailing my direction. Sheets of freezing rain came down, snuffing out the fire and leaving both of us drenched. I was fine but Cinder had started to shiver, and I lowered the temperature even farther until the nearby grass and trees had frozen solid, leaves still attached.

As Cinder prepared to attack again, a green blur streaked past me and leapt towards Cinder. Before she could react, the green blur turned into Ozpin attaching the bracelet on to her wrist, and she instantly fell towards the ground, her stolen powers gone like a blown out flame. I took a deep breath, and the temperature gradually returned to normal as I took my power back in. As I floated back down slowly, the air around me shimmered purple before flickering out, and I saw Professor Goodwitch putting away her riding crop. I surveyed the area around us, and there was a perfect rectangular shape of where the shield had been. The inside area was destroyed, dead plants and torn up pavement, while the outside was still pristine and beautiful.

"Let's go back up to my office shall we?" Ozpin said pleasantly, his cup of coffee still in hand. The general and Professor Goodwitch had grabbed Cinder, who was currently glaring at Ozpin's head. No doubt that if her power hadn't been capped, the headmaster would be a burnt corpse. I noticed her glaring at me as well, and I turned back to her,"Don't make me freeze you. This time you won't have your aura to melt your body again, and don't think we'll help you before frostbite happens."

"Now now Blanche, don't be so threatening," Ozpin smirked. Cinder raised her hand behind us, a dark orange-red appearing in her palm before it sputtered out, right before she yelped in pain and her hair stood on end. "I see you've found the side effect of the bracelet," Ozpin called back,"If you attempt to use your abilities, it'll give you a nasty shock. If you get shocked too many times, you'll probably die from a stroke or heart attack, so I don't suggest you try again."

A short elevator ride later, and we stepped into his office. "Cinder!" Emerald cried out upon seeing her superior in between Goodwitch and Ironwood. "What the hell happened to you?" Mercury asked bluntly. Cinder was quiet and merely sat down on a chair next to the other two. "So what's going to happen?" I asked Ozpin. He sat down in his chair and stared at the three miscreants in front of him. He leaned forward on his desk, fixating them with a hard stare,"How about this you three. Instead of being sent to face your deaths in front of a firing squad, the three of you reform? I believe you all can be valuable members of society."

Mercury and Emerald glanced uneasily at Cinder, who looked rather defeated but her eyes still blazed. She stood up, and a dark aura surrounded her. As she spoke, we all noted that a new voice was overlapping her own, and it made the hairs on the back of our neck stand on end. "Do you really think this is the end Ozpin?" "Salem," Ozpin glared at the possessed Cinder,"Do you really think that you will destroy mankind? Light will always triumph over dark." "That's what you think," she hissed venomously, before the darkness disappeared and Cinder swayed before collapsing. Doctor Oobleck caught her before she hit the floor, and Ozpin stood up, shaking his head.

"Bart, please take her to the infirmary. Salem is an old enemy, but I don't think she will try to influence Cinder anymore," Ozpin sighed. He looked weary, and for once his age was showing itself. He turned back to Emerald and Mercury; the two still seemed to be in shock at the fact Cinder had just recently been possessed. Mercury had been the one to shake himself out of his reverie first. "Fine," he grunted,"I've always been in the business of being with people who guaranteed my survival." "Mercury...." Emerald trailed off. "What?" he looked at her,"Cinder got her ass kicked. If you think I'm still going to resist after what happened to her, then you're more crazy than she is." Emerald sighed in defeat,"Very well. I accept as well."

"Good. The two of you will be enrolled in Beacon as students. Mercury, you'll be spending your time in reform with Blanche-" I audibly grit my teeth together at that,"-and Emerald, you will be spending your reform with Miss Nora Valkyrie." "Nora?" I quirked an eyebrow at him,"Are you sure that's a good idea?" "Are you worried about Nora?" he asked amused. "No," I shook my head,"I'm worried about Emerald." The girl gulped next to Mercury. "Oh I'm sure she'll be fine," Ozpin said lightheartedly.