When it Fails...

:Story Piece:
~The Redacted Guillotine's Enrollment.~

*Sitting in the tree's, his attention grabbed by the scenery, the red trees that blanket the area in red fluttering leaves were enough to make Yu forget that he needed to make the landing posts time in under 12 minutes.*

*Sighs and sluggishly climbs out of the trees using his claws which made the task seemingly effortless being that as it may Yu is an Owl faunus with contrast fur of black and white, though having a weird genetic defect that gave him 2 sets of wings that Yu used to slowly descend, having to rarely show off this trick, Yu keeps it hidden.*

*Yu chuckles to himself as he dashes to the launch post using his aura to propel his body forward, dashing past rocks and streams, you never known how beautiful the select few parts of the are was, even if a full scale war was brewing, the single thought made Yu have a flashback of how he was came to be a possible graduate of Beacon . . .*


 [During the early works of the faunus period after the new leader was appointed, the leigenma family was the potential to either help the cause or destroy it. With their frightening "Eraser" abilities they were used and expendable pawns on every mission until the elders spoke out against the negligence, they too were executed on spot sending the place into a complete rally. Rogan, the next head of the leigenma family, was given a dire option, have the younger generation live in camps to serve as elite warriors, or to be slaughtered where they are. Being the man that he is, Rogan gave up his sons for the sake of the others. Living in the harsh conditions of this fragile era, the kids were kept under intensive watch as well as grueling training protocols. One day on a mission the siblings were sent to investigate a missing shipment of dust, the missing soon spiraled out of control being as it seemed as if their own comrades were waiting for them, to eradicate them. The Leigenma brothers tapped into their bestial nature slaughtering their comrades 3 by 100's until the numbers and fatigue was too much, the twin Alistar was struck down by a Faunus with red hair, something that Yu will forever remember. Macidon was lost in the commotion while they were escaping through the woods. Stumbling all over the country never seeing his family and friends again, his home . . One day while walking through the slums of the streets Yu stumbled onto a Mixed martial arts tournament where he bested almost everyone there except a well dressed man in white hair. After getting knocked down time after time the well dressed man decided to use an aura move, unseen by the untrained, to stop the leg movements of Yu but upon applying the Aura to the right and left leg while Yu was in mid motion to drop kick the man the Aura was absorbed  and reflected knocking both of them into the far opposite walls.. . ]


*Interrupted by distance yelling Yu snaps out of his stupid daze. flying in at speeds approximately 7 miles an hour Yu closes in on a group of guards on the launch post,the one yelling was long gone behind Yu cause of Yu's absent minded strides he didn't even notice the guards. Yu chuckled as he manifested his aura to become denser causing Yu to become more and more heavier but just narrowly slowing down enough to come to a complete stop*

Guard: "Geez! . . Control yourself, what are you? and anima- . . ."

*The guard tries to cover what he was trying to say while looking up from his clipboard, locked in Yu's glare of odium his eye's that screamed anger but he remains quiet not trying to causes a scene. The guard clears his throat and continues his work*

Guard: "Name, boy?"

"Lei, Yu Lei."

 * Enticed to cause trouble with the guard and figures not to, Yu lei steps up to the ships platform with the rest of the students there waiting for our shuttle., Feeling sleepy Yu takes it upon himself to lie on the floor and catch his long awaited nap. Upon waking Yu and the other Beacon candidates are told to wait at the cliffside for further instructions, while there they are told simply to ‘Survive’ by finding a piece and getting back to the academy, failure wasn’t an option, and for Yu’s reality, he knew that it was his time to resort back to his old ‘Animistic’ ways. Yu and the other candidates were then launched off of the platforms they stood on.*



*While strolling through the woods after being debriefed of his mission, Yu and the other cadets were told to simply survive long enough to find a piece, retrieve that item, and be rewarded. . . . Upon landing, Yu sensed some movement in the brush below and behind him in the dense forest. He trudged on grasping the hilt of Guillotine making sure that the pacing in his steps can match the reaction of the attack to be.*

*While he thinks to himself*

“What am I supposed to be doing right now?“

*After walking through the forest for a while, seemingly for hours on end, Yu decides he'd get places faster if he'd just start scanning the area for any sign of people. Immediately Yu jumps onto the branches above and climbs farther into the tree tops, and by using his keen sense of


sight Yu barely sight the rustling of branches every so often but he pays no attention to it until he scans the area back to the direction and see's that the rustling continues in a somewhat linear fashion, Yu takes this opportunity to check his weaponry and the condition of his gear. After a thorough investigation and a few triple double checks Yu then dashes in the direction of the rustling, hoping it's a person and not . . anything else . .*

*While Yu catches up with the object of interest he sniffs the air, finding out there is something sweet nearby and the scent is somewhat distraction. Not noticing that he's terribly close in detection parameters of the pursued target, Yu decides to just advance and confront whatever it may be.*

*While Yu approaches the target he trips, losing his balance, causing him to fall from the tree to the ground below, ultimately Yu notices the distance gap has increased exponentially.*
I got to catch up . .that didn't seem like something out of the ordinary, but the target is fast, I'll give it that much credit.*

“Huff Huff . . What the hell is this thing?“

*Obviously frustrated Yu decided to use all fours for his race against this unidentified object he was tailing*

“You have GOT to be kidding me . .“

*Yu says in grunts as he dodged the oncoming volley of branches, some that came way too close for comfort were merely swatted from the sky by Yu's claws, or diced into oblivion through the works of the blade Guillotine.*

“Screw this, that isn't the work of a grimm, that's the cognitive reasoning of a human, a faunus would have sniffed me out eons ago.“

*Yu sheaths Guillotine and catches his breath before looking around in his immediate area and storms up a tree.*

“From here should be a great vantage point . .“

*Yu begins to get silent as white energy, in the physical form of mist or steam start to envelope his body, giving him a faintly bright white glowing outline but his armored plates and apparel seem to have a white glow that was a couple of shades brighter than his outline. Yu opened his eyes, revealing that his grey eyes darkened like a storm cloud*

“Ahhh, this feels amazing-“


*Yu dashed off the tree top onto another, and as quickly as he landed on that tree top he was at another, then another, then another. Yu spread out his plates in an arrangement that could be described to as "wings", though if he chose to Yu would be able to fly along side the pursued target with almost ease but Yu didn't seem to think that was a smart decision and so, yu decided to to this tracking this the "Low-Tech" way, allowing his "wings" to glide him along the tree tops so he would have enough leverage to catch he slip ups. Finally Yu starts to call out to the target that he'd been pursuing so diligently, but, in hindsight, Yu notices that through all of this the target seems to have kept on the same linear fashion as the initial tailing so something must be going on.*

“Oh! that's right . .“

*Flashback to when directions were told*

“We needed to look for something . . and something about something was going to be "put to the test" and "to be measured, appropriately/accordingly". I wonder what it-“

*Yu redistributed his plates back into his clothing/armor and dashed wildly along the tree tops past the pursued target*

“Whatever it is we're after . . I need to get a front row seat to watch it all unfold . . I'm not dying just yet . .“

*Dashing forward among the tree tops Yu smells a certain stench in the distance, but everything goes silent.*

“What the hell? Where'd the presence go?“

*Unable to tell where the feeling originated from Yu stopped on the next tree top and looked around but nothing was out of the ordinary, so he decided to to keep moving. Tree's in front of Yu widened and bobbed back and forth, this puzzled Yu, making his rationality stutter,he didn't know what was going on.*

“That's not anything friendly . . I bet anything on that . . .“

*Smiling with his head bowed, Yu begins to carefully grip the hilt of Guillotine and sticks one foot out in front of him*

“In sickness and in health . . .“




*Yu shifts forward and falls threw the brush below, cutting the foliage around him to create mid-air maneuvering makeshift platforms . Awakening the his semblance allowing Yu to place his aura around the foliage for more aerial support but his concentration is cut short for a brief moment to hear the sound of the target . . .It was a chilling sound, a treble of terror thins a musical fluid motion of"Eww" and "Oh my goodness I'm going to crap my pants". Shifting his thoughts back to the task at hand, while reaching the ground now at an alarming speed, Yu increases his speed to s quickened rate passing into the trees and seeing a silhouetted figure about the size of a large van keeping pace with him. Sliding into the open space the figure bursts from the brush to engage in a stare-down with Yu.*

“Oh you're a fast ugly bastard aren't you? I have no time for you I'm-“

*Immediately the Death Stalker's tail hums toward Yu's face and grazes his cheek, Yu side steps, to the left, narrowly avoiding the fatal miscalculation twirling slightly, arms behind the chest counterclockwise, in the action, assembling an array of plates around his body and drenching them in his aura so much that the resembled flat ice cubes. The plates, as an entirety, Swirled around Yu's body more and more allowing the DeathStalker to stutter its attack onslaught to try and figure out what it was seeing. This gave Yu some room to catch up on some missed breathers and ample time to arrange an appropriate attack pattern to take out this creature. .*

“.. Dammit all . .“

*Biting his finger nail, Yu realized that the Death Stalker was slowly closing in on him*

“Hehe . . .I see now. .“

*The Deaths Stalkers right claw moved in great comparison to lightnings second or third strike, easily anticipated and an broadcast to understand. Using his plates to get away, Yu formed the plates into steps preparing to outreach the Deathstalkers tail, this didn't go well . . . Within seconds of knowing the target got away the Deathstalker scanned the area in the time is takes a newborn to cry after it's born, the stalker honed in on to Yu's position before it sought him too far to pursue.*

*Looking back in shock*

“Damn you're persistent . . . You deserve a day off . .“

*He didn't notice the tail in the opposite direction that collided with the makeshift steps Yu had created, Yu didn't even get passed the first step completely before he was knocked from the air landing back first into a tree trunk . . The Death Stalker, mad with aggression, followed its presumed prey, claws in position to skewer.*

“Move!“

*Throwing his hand to the right of him, Yu makes a plated wall to kick off of avoiding the stinger and racing up a tree halfway, bolting off into the swirling mass of plates applying the plated wings, and armor to both his blade Guillotine and his body.*


“Such a quickened death you're asking for . . This might cost me a great bargain, so be it . .“

*Rushing up to the Death Striker, Yu's instincts kick in, exposing his animistic nature, claws, fangs, and tail in a manner that reveres him the name that compliments not only his blade but him too "Guillotine"*

“let's see now . .how should we handle this  . I may need assistance  . . . .SIKE ! ! !“

*The two engage in a stare down and by doing so . . Yu rushes to the front of the DeathStalker then races to the left side*

*With the approach of Yu, clocking speeds not necessarily easy for a human to contend against, the DeathStalker, however, saw little to no threat to Yu. Raising its pincers a considerable distance above it's head, Yu saw this as an opportunity to begin his Telekinetic breakdown by dispatching a volley of plates toward the shoulder area of the DeathStalker's other armored appendage, layering the plates to the outermost layer of the DeathStalkers armored skin.*

“I'm not sure if you have vocal chords to speak  . .let alone communicate . .“

*The DeathStalker's ground level claw races around from the right side, Yu dodges by pushing off of the ground twirling in the most uncomfortable position, he could feel the rough surface of the DeathStalkers claws grazing below him. Yu lands on his side, rolling about until his feet are once again.*

*Huff Huff,*
“Dammit . .that was  . .“
*Huff Huff*

“Huh! !“

*Spotting out of the corner of his eyes Yu spots a black mass expanding around him . . . No! Under him! With only mere seconds to comprehend what is said to be done, Yu, in the heartbeat of instincts, envelops his body in a distinct misty coating and in that fluid motion, reaches for Guillotine. Looking up at the approaching bottom side of the DeathStalker's claw Yu dashes to the right hand side as the claw approaches closer and closer. Yu, knowing that his chances are slim to none realizes he's not going to make the escape in whole form. Activating more of his semblance the increasing size of the shadow ceases and yu's trajectory sends him into the ground shoulder first, feeling an unforgiving pain in his shoulders Yu grabs for the injured shoulder and knows the problem.*

*Violent inhales accompanied by violent Exhales*

“Arrgh! Mmm! Mmmm! Okay okay . . Grrrr Here we go . . One!“

*The Deathstalker scatters around trying to get it's arm to obey its commands, only making it more and more angrier, the DeathStalker seems to give up and scan the area again for it's potential prey and finding it as if it was below elementary level grunt work.*

*Breathing becomes regulated and controlled, despite the immense pain Yu is under.*

“Two!“

*Grips his shoulder harder, holding back a wince that violently claws a path out of Yu's throat. positioning his shoulder closer and closer to its original placement. The DeathStalker draws near, practically able to smell the death on Yu's very soul, Yu looks into the DeathStalkers unforgiving scarlet eyes disabling his immediate movements to carefully anticipate the DeathStalker's movements for a correct counterattack, but this only hinders Yu's movements for the brief seconds left that he has and knowing the pain he'll endure . . . Yu finally plunges the dislocated shoulder into its socket and upon doing so, Yu releases a roar of anger and pain that forces the DeathStalker to stop and hesitate trying to figure out what beast was capable of making that sound. With it's eyes working on four different directions for more than a couple of seconds it, once again, begins to advance. He feels his body shrugging off the pain even when he thinks about the pain he's in, moving his arm around in a windmill formation once or twice and flexing fist exercises, finally stopping. Yu's body begins to rival that of a smoke machine by giving off a blanket aura around himself big enough to hide an average sized lawn chair and completely concealing his entire being inside the aura haze, The color dramatically shifts from a cloudy water color to that of grey storm clouds and from the dead center emerges two radiating pale illuminating spots, much like the area eyes are located. The DeathStalker raises its tail and strikes down into the mist with sheer force for a sure kill shot.*

*Humble growls trickle from beyond the dark grey abyss*

“Over YOUR dead body  . . .“

*Seemingly rivaling the speed of refracting light itself, four tendrils extend from the grey abyss, which seems to decompress into the center comparing to the ratio in size to the tendrils to the grey mass, the tendrils, which are made up of Yu's specialty plates, break apart, extending in the air around the grey mass like leaves caught in a storm speeding into a hurricane of leaves, soon to be blizzard, the DeathStalker's tail gets within the final two to three meter distance gap in which the plates intercept. Forming, once again, four large tendrils that two tendrils clash with the force of the DeathStalker's tail creating an omni directional outward force, a force so shocking in tremor that it grabs the attention of nature through blowing the tree's back so much it's as if they're doing split second yoga. The other two tendrils wrap around the DeathStalker's tail and proceed to advance towards the tails base.*

*The grey misty mass growls more cold words towards, what it seems to be, IT'S prey*

“Now  . . . You'll see . . You will see why . .”

*At the base the plates expand a long ways then stopping . . . From the grey mass Yu's hand extends, open palm facing the DeathStalker who lashes and struggles to get free. Yu closes his hand and the tendrils loose posture, due to the spaces between the plates, are reformed into stiff objects, while at the base the plates form a discus shape, Yu's plates proceed to rotate around all sections of the DeathStalker's body, grinding it up into mere shreds *

“They call me . . the Guillotine . . .”