Episode 2: Chapter 8: ComplicationsA Chapter by Miles W.Chapter 8 of Episode 2 of Order of SeasonsChristy was just standing there on the airship not sure what
to do. Ty and Vergil were catching up by themselves in the back, Jacob was
brooding, and the maiden Zimara was just standing there, not saying anything. “Man, this
is just boring.” Brooklyn said sitting down next to where Christy was standing. “You’re
telling me? I’ve been pretty much stuck here in the background for who knows
how long.” “At least
people pay attention to you. I’ve honestly been just bored out of my mind for
weeks. I mean, I think Jacob has all but forgotten about our rivalry. Also,
he’s just become so obsessed with his family recently I’ve kind of dropped off
into the background.” “Yeah. I
mean outside of just being around Evan and doing some fighting, I really
haven’t had a lot happen to me recently.” “What do
you guys even do as a couple to begin with?” “Well, we
started out doing some of the traditional stereotypical things. We kissed a
lot, we hugged a lot, heck I even convinced Evan to skip through a field of
tall grass with me. Granted I almost got lost in the tall grass but still.” “Wow. That
seems kind of dumb and pointless.” “But we did
it together. That’s what made it special.” “I guess.
But don’t you ever feel like you’ve just been left behind for no good reason?” “How do you
mean?” “The thing
is, all the problems we’ve had to deal with this past year have revolved around
either the Grover siblings, Miles, or Jacob. We’ve kind of just been standing
there like we should just take this all in stride.” “Are you
saying we shouldn’t be there for our friends?” “I didn’t
say that, but….” As Brooklyn said this, something impacted the airship, causing
the lights to go out, then start flashing like a traffic accident. Alarms
started going off as the ship began wobbling. “The ship’s
going down!” The pilot yelled from the cockpit. “I’m going to try and put her
down in that gorge over there!” “Are you
kidding me?” Vergil yelled. “We’ll be sitting ducks down there!” “No choice
sir! It’s either land in the gorge or crash into the mountains to our right.”
Vergil slammed his hand against the wall in anger at the pilot’s explanation. “Get us
into the gorge safely pilot. If something goes wrong, let us know. I’m not
risking the Winter Maiden’s life just because of some freak accident.” “Yes sir.”
With that said, the pilot pushed a few buttons and began shutting down several
engines and adjusting the wings to allow the airship to glide down into the
gorge below. As the airship continued downwards, everybody in the back pulled
down the emergency seats and strapped themselves in. Since there were no
windows, nobody could see what was happening out the sides. But they could
certainly feel it. As the airship got lower and lower to the ground, it began
hitting some of the stray boulders on the sides of the gorge. Then the entire
airship shook and rattled as it finally began sliding along the rocks of the
riverbed at the very bottom of the gorge. Christy clasped the safety straps
like she was riding a roller coaster, only this time she was actually trying
not to die. Finally, the airship reached the end of its skid, and the pilot
opened up the door that wasn’t trapped against the ground. As everybody climbed
out, they realized that not only were they trapped inside this gorge, but the
airship was damaged beyond repair. One of the engines had been crushed and the
left wing was sitting in the river about seventy yards away from the rest of
the airship. Collecting themselves, Vergil pulled out his Scroll and started
walking around. “No good.”
He said in frustration. “We’re too far out from civilization. I can’t get a
signal.” “What about
the airship’s on board radio? Couldn’t that get a message out?” Jacob asked as
he helped Brooklyn out of the airship. “Not
likely.” The pilot said as he inspected the internal damage. “Pretty much
everything and anything electrical has been completely fried. I’m afraid we’re
going to have to walk to find help.” “Well
that’s fantastic.” Brooklyn said slamming her fist against a nearby rock. “Any
idea where to find civilization around here?” “I might be
able to find somebody.” Zimara said as she floated out of the airship. “If I
can get high enough into the sky, I might be able to see if there is a town
either inhabited or otherwise where we might find shelter at least for the
night. Besides, it’s not like we would have any problems fighting Grimm. After
all…” before she could finish, a sudden flash of light came flying down and
struck her right in the chest, causing her to fall forward and start floating
slightly above ground as an electric field floated around her torso. As soon as
this happened, everybody drew their weapons and started looking around to try
and see where the flash came from. “What the
heck was that?” Christy yelled more scared than confused. “Not sure.
Keep your guard up though. It may be that we are being hunted.” As soon as
Vergil said this, another flash of light hit Ty straight in the chest, but it
did little to nothing as he just stood there. “I see
them. Looks like a user of lightning dust. And he’s not alone.” Ty said as he
pointed to the top of the cliff on the opposite side of the river. Everybody
looked up to see four people each with their own weapons suddenly jump down to
the gorge below. The giant cracked his whip in the air and all of a sudden he
had rocks sticking out of the cliff face to slide on and slow his decent. The
woman with the chakrams pointed her weapons down towards the ground creating a
blast of air slowly letting herself down to the riverbed. Then a woman wearing
a kabuki mask leapt off the side and stuck her sword into the side of the cliff
and simply slid down that way. Finally, the person who shot the lightning did a
perfect double flip, sent a charge of electricity to the ground and slowed his
decent until he landed next to his comrades. Nothing was said for a few seconds
until Vergil finally spoke up. “Who are
you idiots?” They all sort of chuckled at this. “Yeesh. I
thought the great Demon Slayer Vergil would have a few more manners than that,
but what can you expect with a name like that?” The woman laughed with a sick
smile on her face. “Calm
yourself my friend.” The man who controlled the lightning said. “Let us at
least be polite. I am Lord Fulgur. These are my comrades Lords Aeris and
Hibernis.” “Who’s the
weirdo in the mask?” Ty asked pointing his sword towards the stranger. “An
assassin. Nothing more, nothing less.” Fulgur said taking a few steps forward.
“Now seeing as you’re all about to die, could you please make this easy for
us?” “Wow, did
he really just say that?” Brooklyn said morphing her weapon into scimitar form.
With that said, Lord Fulgur smiled, and created another lightning arrow out of
thin air, almost catching everybody off guard. Launching it straight towards
Christy, she had to jump out of the way to avoid getting electrocuted. Fulgur
pulled back again and launched another bolt, this time towards Jacob, who
deflected it with his sword into the cliffside, causing a small amount of rocks
to fall down the side of the mountain. Wasting no time, Vergil leapt across the
river and started fighting Hibernis, knocking him back a few paces. Meanwhile,
Ty and Christy ran out across a shallow ford towards Lord Fulgur, and swung
their weapons down onto his bow. Instead of trying to block their attacks, he
simply pulled his weapon down and out of lock with his opponents, and took a
few steps back while he made his weapon more of a quarterstaff with electric
power flowing through the entire weapon. As soon as he accomplished this he
leapt forward and took his opponents head on. Meanwhile, Brooklyn and Jacob
were about to cross as well, but Aeris leapt across first and started fighting
Jacob. Before Brooklyn could try and flank Aeris, the assassin appeared right
in front of her as if out of nowhere and began fighting her using twin blades
that extended from her bracelets. “Where did
you get that technology?” Brooklyn asked as she parried a few blows. The
assassin said nothing, and continued to push forward on the attack. “Fine. Be a
jerk.” Brooklyn said as she started getting more and more angry. Vergil continued to clash with Hibernis, trying to use his
sword to catch his opponent’s whip and disarm him. However, despite Vergil
having the weapon advantage, it was clear that Hibernis was not trying to go
for close quarters combat. Instead, he kept striking the cliff behind him with
his whip causing several more rocks to fall. Before Vergil could launch another
attack at Hibernis, he picked up a rock and punched it, causing it to become
several smaller stones. Then, by simply raising his hand, Hibernis caused all
the rocks to begin floating in a way similar to Pyrrha’s use of magnetism.
Vergil stopped his attack and raised his weapon in defense as Hiberins sent the
rocks flying at crazy speeds. While he was able to defend himself from most of
them, there were plenty more that hit him and knocked him back onto his back
and into the riverbank. Vergil tried to get up quickly, but Hibernis landed a
devastating knee attack on him before he could do so. “That’s
it.” Vergil said short of breath. “Time to go ham.” With that said, Vergil
pulled back his right arm and hit Hibernis with a punch that sent him flying
into the cliff wall. As he got up, he noticed that Hibernis wasn’t going to be
getting up anytime soon, so he turned his attention to Fulgur. He rushed
forward looking for a chance to punch him with his back turned, but as he swung
his fist, a giant gust of air knocked his hand off target, causing Vergil to
lose balance. As he stumbled towards the cliffside, he noticed that Aeris had
taken a quick second out of fighting Jacob and sent a gust of air across the
river to knock him off balance. The force of the gust knocked Vergil into the
wall, which caught the attention of Fulgur, who quickly turned around and
zapped Vergil with his staff until he was unconscious. Before he could turn
back around however, Christy and Ty both managed to land huge hits on him and
sent him flying up the riverbank, knocking him out in the process. Realizing
they now had the advantage, they quickly ran over to where their teammates were
fighting across the river. Brooklyn couldn’t believe it. She was being outclassed by
some weirdo in a kabuki mask. It wasn’t like she was having an off day or
something; this person was just completely reading her. Trying to get a quick
turnaround, she jumped back towards the airship wreckage and morphed her weapon
to rifle form to try and go for more of a ranged fight than close quarters. As
she landed on the airship, she tried to take a shot at her opponent, but then
the pilot appeared out of nowhere and ran into her line of sight. Having to
quickly adjust her shot, she ended up knocking herself back with the recoil, causing
her to hit her head against a rock and almost lose consciousness. Meanwhile,
the pilot continued to try and escape as he ran past Aeris and Jacob who were
still sparring. “Ah. Pardon
me for a second.” As soon as Aeris said this, she sent out two massive blasts
of air. One to send Jacob flying across the river, and the other to knock the
pilot to his knees. Walking over to where the pilot now lay dazed, Aeris raised
up one of her chakrams and didn’t say a word as she sent the weapon straight
clean through his head. As the limp body of the pilot fell to the ground, Aeris
started laughing manically. “First kill is mine losers!” She turned to see that
not only was nobody paying attention, but two of her teammates had been
completely knocked out. “Ugh, they can never get the job done right can they?”
But then she noticed that the assassin was starting to walk towards Brooklyn
with the intent of killing her. “Oh!”
Aeris said in excitement. “This should be fun!” She started walking towards
Brooklyn and the assassin, but before she could take another step forward, she
felt an intense cold around her legs. Looking back, she saw that Jacob had
gotten back up and had thrown an ice dust dagger to immobilize her. “Forget
about me witch?” “Kid, I
wish I could!” Ignoring her last comment, Jacob rushed forward and hit her
square with his sword, knocking her out of the ice and into the side of the
cliff, causing her aura to shatter and knock her out. Wasting no time, Jacob
then started running to where the assassin was about to impale Brooklyn. But
even if he activated his time dilation state, he wasn’t going to reach her in
time. But then, before the assassin could strike, a projectile hit the assassin
right in the back of the head. Turning to see what had hit her, all the
assassin could see was Ty swinging his sword at her, sending her flying to
where Aeris was knocked out as well. They all convened at the airship and
helped Brooklyn get back on her feet. “You okay?”
Jacob asked. “I’ve had
worse.” Brooklyn replied. “Good. Well
we’ve lost our pilot, and I don’t know how long that stasis field is going to
affect Zimara, so I say we grab her and Vergil, get as far upstream as we can
and…” but before he could finish, Jacob was struck square in the chest with
another lightning bolt arrow. Before the other three could react, they too were
struck by lightning arrows. They all fell to the ground, unconscious. An
annoyed Lord Fulgur walked over to help up Lord Hibernis. “Seriously,
how did these kids take so much out of me that I can’t even make a proper
“kill” arrow to subdue them?” After throwing Vergil in amongst the rest of the unconscious
bodies in the crashed airship, they then went to grab Jacob. “So what
now?” Lord Hibernis asked. “We follow
our orders.” Lord Fulgur said. “We replace the body of the Winter Maiden with
the corpse that our scientists prepared, you cause the rockslide that will bury
them all alive, and it will look like a freak accident of nature.” “Very well
then.” “Hey guys?”
Lord Aeris yelled. “Doesn’t this kid look kind of like Dr. Strohl?” As soon as
they heard her mention this, they walked over to where Aeris was inspecting the
face of the unconscious Jacob. Lord Fulgur pulled out his Scroll and held it up
next to Jacob’s face. “It’s an
exact match. Looks like the Strohl kid just happened to land right into our
hands. What fortuitous timing.” With a flick of his wrist, the lightning field
surrounding him caused him to seem more like he resting rather than bound. “We
shall deliver him to Lord Mortem immediatly.” “But
weren’t our orders no survivors?” Lord Aeris asked. “If they don’t find the
kids body amongst the wreckage, won’t they start getting a bit more
suspicious?” “Don’t
worry about it Lord Aeris. I’m sure that Lord Mortem will be more than pleased
that we managed not only to deliver him the Winter Maiden, but also the
potential heir to the power that Ozpin wields.” With that said, Lord Fulgur
pulled out his Scroll and made a quick call. “This is Lord Fulgur. Mission
accomplished, but with one slight complication. Will discuss further when we
have returned to the base. Lord Fulgur out.” He put his Scroll away and started
moving downstream where an airship began making its descent into the gorge.
“Join us once you’ve finished your work here Lord Hibernis.” “I won’t be
long Fulgur.” As he said this, Lord Aeris also left with Lord Fulgur towards
the airship, but the assassin still stood there next to Lord Hibernis. “There is
no need for you to be here assassin. Join your lords on the airship.” However,
the assassin didn’t even budge an inch at Lord Hibernis’ command. Simply
shrugging it off, Lord Hibernis leapt up above the airship and cracked his whip
on the cliffside several times, causing a huge rockslide to bury and crush the
airship below. As he landed, the assassin still didn’t move an inch. “Lord
Hibernis!” Lord Fulgur yelled from the airship. “What’s the holdup?” “The
assassin is just standing here doing nothing. Any suggestions?” “Assassin!”
Lord Fulgur yelled. “Wheels up in two minutes! Do what you need to and then
join us. Otherwise, we shall leave you to your own devices.” As soon as he said
this, Lord Hibernis turned and headed back to the airship. As soon as he was
out of earshot, the assassin walked in front of the rock pile, and placed a
silver necklace on the ground. “If you are
who I think you are and you are indeed alive, I know you will seek me out and
bring this to me.” After saying her piece, the assassin walked over to the
airship, got on board and they all took off heading west towards Vacuo. “Say, any
new info on the Restoration Tournament?” Lord Aeris asked. “We missed the rest
of the fights after that weird blonde girl beat the kid from Shade Academy.” “I’ll
check.” Lord Fulgur said pulling out his Scroll. “It looks like all three Vale
teams made it through, which includes the blond, and there’s one more team from
Haven still alive in the tournament.” “Ugh. At
this rate it’s going to be a Vale VS Vale fight. That seems boring.” “It isn’t
about entertainment Lord Aeris. It’s about knowing who the strongest of each
kingdom is so we can better prepare our troops for when we launch our invasion
in three years.” “Well I
want some entertainment!” Lord Aeris said as she sat down pouting in a corner. The rocks continued to sit there in silence. Ten minutes
passed. Twenty minutes passed. Then, all of a sudden, a large explosion blasted
all the rocks away at the top, and Brooklyn emerged from the wreckage, having
used her shield as a way to keep the rocks from falling on top of them, and
then created an aura explosion large enough to free her friends. As soon as she
was out of the airship, she collapsed from exhaustion since she had just spent
up the last of her energy to save her friends. Christy managed to catch her before
she fell to the ground. “You okay
there champ?” She asked Brooklyn. “I feel
like a rainbow.” Brooklyn said as she dropped to her knees. As soon as she did,
she noticed that there was a necklace sitting on the ground in front of the
wreckage. As she went over to examine it, Vergil made his way out of the
airship. “Well, that
could have gone better. But I guess I really do have to give it to your team
leader, he does know how to pick his friends. Hey, by the way, where is he?”
Everybody started looking around and realized that he wasn’t among their
number. “Why would
they take Jacob?” Christy asked. “I thought the Maiden was their target?” “Maybe they
got new orders while we were unconscious?” Ty suggested. “Perhaps.”
Vergil said. “But then again, there isn’t that great of a signal down here in
this gorge. I mean, unless they had their own personal mini tower available to
them, I don’t know how this could have been accomplished.” “I think
the bigger question right now is where the heck is Jacob and where can we find
him?” Christy yelled starting to get worried. “I can’t
say for sure Ms. Curtiss. They could have taken him anywhere and we don’t have
any way of knowing where that may be.” “Actually,
I think we do.” All eyes turned to Brooklyn as she held up a piece of paper
that was attached to the back of the necklace she had picked up off the ground.
“I think these are coordinates for where we need to go.” Vergil walked over to
her and looked at the paper himself. “Well, I
don’t know pin point exactly where this is, but this looks like these
coordinates are directly in the middle of Vacuo.” “Vacuo” Ty
said in surprise. “What could possibly be in Vacuo related to this?” “Perhaps
answers my son. But I believe that our answer and our mission lie at these
coordinates. For now, we shall begin walking out of this gorge and towards the
general direction of Vacuo. As soon as we get better reception, I will figure
out exactly where we are and where we need to be going, and what we shall do
from there. Now, until we find your friend, I am the leader of this team. Is
that understood?” “Of
course.” Christy said with confidence. “Absolutely.”
Ty said with determination. However, Brooklyn remained silent. “Is
something wrong Ms. McPhearson?” Vergil asked. “Look, for
starters, just call us by our real names. And second, yes I heard you and let’s
go before we waste even more time.” “Well said.
Let’s get going.” With that said, everybody started walking downstream to try
and get out of the gorge. Brooklyn took an extra second to get up and took
another look at the necklace she found.
“How did
she get this?” © 2018 Miles W.Author's Note
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