Remnants of a soul Vol. 1 Series Discontinued/Up for adoption PM _Chrisco_

The Fire

3rd POV: The docks, Roman

Roman looked on as the figure clad in warped armour walked forward from the blaze that had torn apart the entrance to the docks. The two glowing red eyes shined through the night and Roman felt as if every time he looked into the red beacons his very soul became visible to the man before him. Roman took a slight step back before catching himself and berating his actions, he was the Roman Torchwick and so what if some random guy in some wacky armour came in through fire, besides, he had Neo at his side. 

Roman stepped forward in defiance and pointed his cane towards the armour-clad figure and yelling to all the white fang grunts, "GO AND GET 'EM!" The grunts hesitated but a stern look from Roman forced them into action. A group of white vested white fang came surging forward with guns and cleavers drawn. The armoured figure tilted his head slightly as they approached.

The first three grunts got close to him and raised clever to strike him down, but, they were not prepared. The three figures with cleavers raised were suddenly in two. The tops halves of their bodies flew to the side as their legs slumped to the ground. Everyone stopped and looked at the sword held straight out by the red-eyed figure before them. Roman's eyes widened slightly and he yelled, "OPEN FIRE IDIOTS! SHOOT HIM!" 

The grunts wit cleavers near the figure dropped their cleavers and ran as the grunts with machine guns raised them and opened fire upon the metal figure. The bullets flew through the sky but all that was heard was metal colliding with metal as the bullets bounced from the figure's armour. The sword held out from their form was pulled back and the metal-clad figure lowered themselves into a slight crouch, their knees bending as they tilted forward slightly. The ground under the man's feet cracked and he suddenly lurched forward with incredible speed.

The sword held in his right hand shot forward and an unfortunate white fang soldier was impaled with the blade. The impaled grunt's head raised just slightly and weakly, blood spurting from their mouth. The head of the armour-clad figure raised slightly before a fire erupted along their blade and the entire body of the white fang grunt's body was gone, reduced to cinders. Roman's eyes were wide at the brutality, this man was no simple huntsman, no, he was much worse. 

Roman backed up more as the figure turned to him and he felt an incredible killing intent slam into him. Roman's eyes widened as fear truly slipped into him for the first time in a long while. Roman grit his teeth as the figure walked forward and he managed to gasp out, "W-who are y-you?" 

The figure looked down at him as he stood before Roman and he felt sweat run down his forehead and back as those gleaming eyes studied him and the reply came, "I am the one who burns those that stand against me, I am the guardian who protects those that stand behind me, I am fire." Roman fell onto his back before the monster before him. Roman couldn't bear to look up at the burning red eyes of the monster before him and felt his breath rushing from him.

Roman felt his grip on his cane loosen and let it roll from his grip and managed to look up, seeing only the coil blade poised to tab downwards into his heart. Roman resisted the urge to close his eyes, if he was to die then he would meet it with his eyes open and with as much dignity as he could muster, despite being on the ground. Roman looked on at the tip of the coiled blade and time seemed to slow as it descended downwards. 

He felt a heat burn u as he stared at the oncoming blade and could only think of one thing, or one person in his final moments. Roman let the blade continue to fall only for a loud clang to ring out around the docks. Roman looked in shock at what had met the coiled blade of the demon that attacked them. It was a bladed parasol. Roman followed the umbrella-like weapon to see a girl clad int he same white coat as he and recognised Neo.

Neo moved forward to the iron-clad figure and jumped up off the ground after throwing his weapon to the side and kicked forward with both her legs into his chest. The iron-clad figure took a stumble back but regained his bearings only to see Neo twist midair and land with her legs like a runners and dash forward, grabbing Roman as she moved past. 

Neo ran back towards the edge of the docks looking back only once she arrived at the edge of the docks, only too see the ironclad figure right there with his sword poised beside him to stab forwards. The figure stabbed forward and the blade went straight through Neo's face, only for the world around them to shatter like glass. The figure tilted his head in confusion as he suddenly heard the loud swinging of engines and swung his body around to see behind one of the warehouses was a Bullhead that was taking off.

The figure clenched his fist but let his fury subside as he watched the machine flew off into the distance of Vale. The red eyes within the wared helmet of the figure dimmed and they turned to the entrance which still had some flames leftover from his magnificent entrance.  They silently apologized to whoever it was that would have to repair the large dock gate and hoped that Beacon would not penalize him for it. 

3rd POV: Ashen, Docks

Ashen had long since had his flaming red eyes vanish and removed his helmet and was now standing behind Yamamoto sensei as he glared and scolded Blake and Sun. Ashen wasn't too interested in the pairs scolding as his thoughts were on the parasol wielding woman and her strange ability. He couldn't get his head around whether it was teleportation or if it was an illusion, though his thoughts drifted to the latter due to the glass shattering sensation he got as he landed that strike against her.

Ashen was knocked from his thoughts on the parasol fighter as police sirens pulled into the docks and he turned to the cars that had arrived. He also looked into the sky as a humming sound was present and saw that a Bullhead was approaching from the direction, most likely with Prof. Goodwitch or Ozpin... or both. Ashen wasn't too worried about the penalty for himself but he knew that Blake would face harsh punishment. Well, it was her fault.

The Bullhead landed as the police officers rounded up the white fang grunts and placed them all into an armoured van for transport to jail. Needless to say, Ahsen was surprised when instead of Ozpin or Goodwitch coming a red ball of petals flew out and right up to Blake. "ohmygoshwesawwhatwashappenningonthenewswiththeexplosionsblakeareyouokay?" The rapid sentence was shot out as Ruby as she hugged Blake and and said, "We were worriiiieeeed." 

Ashen then took note of Weiss and Yang also hopping out of the Bullhead with Ozpin calmly walking out after them and an irritated Goodwitch behind him. Yep, Ashen definitely felt sorry for Blake. The four friends all hugged and began talking as Ashen noticed Ozpin coming over to him while Goodwitch walked to the girls. "Quite the show you put on, my friend." Ashen stared at Ozpin and said, "I may have gone a little too far and killed a few, I hope that's okay." 

Ozpin took a sip of a steaming mug and said, "It was in defence of your friend and yourself, It will be fine." Ashen looked at the man with curious eyes, he had expected the man to be more harsh with the fact Ashen had killed at least four men. Then again, it wasn't like ashen was going to go chasing punishment and it wasn't as though he felt guilty, he had done quite the amount of killing before.

"Well, it seems that Goodwitch is finished with her scolding, so I suppose we'll be heading back soon." Ashen nodded and their departure was confirmed as a low headed Blake and three friends around her walked to the Bullhead with Prof. Goodwitch behind them and Yamamoto sensei behind her. Ozpin bowed his head in an invitation for Ashen to go first and the armoured warrior walked up to the machine and boarded with Ozpin just behind him.

Ozpin looked back at the police vehicles of the docks and smiled as they flew back to his great academy, this first term had indeed been interesting and he couldn't wait to see how their visitors would go in the second term. 

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A/N: Hello~. Sorry for not updating this story for a while, but it's just been a little hard to get back into the enthusiasm in writing this story after getting my laptop back (After that whole fiasco -_-) and I am probably not going to make a Vol 2 for a while, but it will come!... eventually. Either way, I do hope everyone has been well and are have a good new year and start to their decade. My sincerest good wills to all you readers and see you next Volume :3.