The Children

Bonus chapter: Resurrection

(Velvet)

Burning buildings, blood curdling screams in the distance, and the occasional corpse scattered in the streets as the shattered moon illuminates the city. This is all that the remaining three members of team CFVY experience as they try to escape after the death of Velvet, one of their more shy teammates. Shot dead from behind by a nameless member of the White Fang. As Yatsuhashi carries their fallen friend, Coco leads the team down the dark streets of Vale.

Fighting off Grimm no longer their main priority, the small team just try to find a means of vacating the city. Possibly a bullhead or even a car that hasn't been torn to pieces with blood coating the inside. Even worse when there's a baby seat in the back.

After several minutes of walking with nothing happening, surprisingly, Coco decides to have her team rest for a moment. Spotting an abandoned dust shop, From Dust Till Dawn, she leads them over to try and bunker down for a moment. Maybe even restock on dust as well. Regardless, as a pack of Griffons fly over head, she signals her team to head to the store.

Following close behind, the blind telepathic known as Fox takes a moment to let his guard down. Just to wrap his head around, well, all of this. The attack on the Vytal Festival, White Fang and Grimm swarming the city... Velvet-

"Roar"

Oh, and that giant Grimm dragon just flying around, spawning more Grimm across the city. Fox is reminded of said beast as he hears it roaring in the distance. How in the hell is anyone going to be able to kill that?

Regardless, although blind, he uses his semblance to try and "look" at Velvet once again. Glancing over to Yatsuhashi, a tall and bulky aura of green, Fox glances down his arms and sees... something that isn't Velvet. Instead of her familiar aura, or nothing in general, he sees a grotesque amalgamation of black and gray in the shape of his dead friend. Some of it seeping out of the bullet wound in the chest. Its fingers twitch as the head slowly turns upward.

Panicking, Fox yells out for the first time in days to his large friend. Turns out he's not mute. Go figure.

Fox: YATSU!

The giant swordsman with the giant sword, man, quickly snaps his attention to his teammate. The sudden outburst from the usually quiet Fox catches Coco's attention as well. Noticing him "looking" at the corpse Yatsuhashi is holding, they witness her head slowly turn. Her head suddenly snaps all the way and just stares at him with pale eyes.

Completely caught off guard, with a slight bit of defecation, Yatsuhashi accidentally drops the now living corpse of Velvet. With a muffled thud, the faunus lies there motionless on her back for several seconds. Appendages twitching every so often. With a sickening snap, one of her arms quickly launch out and slams against the ground. In a grotesque motion, her upper torso twists around as her other arm is planted on the ground as well.

Velvet's hair, now fading from brown to white, falls over her face like a curtain as her rabbit ears remain standing out. The lower half of her body soon follows suit, both legs bending to allow the feet to gain traction. In a somewhat janky motion, she soon stands to her full height. Albeit with a slight slouch. Her face still shrouded by her now snow white hair.

She jolts forward a bit as a stream of crimson is spewed from her gullet and onto the ground. Gurgling is barely heard as the faunus tries to take in air past her fits of blood vomiting. After three or four mouth fulls of blood, it begins to turn from a healthy red to a disturbing black.

Her hands soon begin to form a bone like cover from the tips of her fingers to halfway up her forearms. The tips of each digit ending in a dangerously sharp point.