Winter
The older Schnee Girl is sat down beside Weiss. Weiss holds Myrtenaster in her hands, thinking to herself as she remains there. They both turn when they see Sun and Blake walking in after their talk that they had. Finally able to be more comfortable with their feelings, they are holding hands as they walk in. Weiss smiles when she sees Blake being able to have more emotions than just regret or fear in her life. She can finally feel love. "About time those two decided to do something about their tension." Weiss scoffs as she sits there. Winter smiles as she sees her little sister there, since she is also one who has become more open after meeting Neptune.
"What about you, sister?" Winter asks her with an arched eyebrow, a smirk on her face. Weiss looks at her sister with a tense face.
"What do you mean?" She sharply rebuts, acting all proper again, opposed to the previous position that she was in. Winter laughs a little at how she answered that way, it was all she needed.
"Have you and Neptune decided that you want to be together-together?" Winter asks her curiously. Weiss starts to stutter when she attempts to form a correctly structured answer to that question.
"Well – I – I don't really know if we should – um, you know." She stammers, looking up at her sister. Winter looks at Neptune who is looking over some maps with Yang and Ren, trying to triangulate any clues to find out where Ruby could have been taken. Despite everything he used to do to make himself look cool, when the chips are down he will do whatever it takes to help his friends. As all of Team S.S.S.N would. Winter smiles and she admits something that even Weiss doesn't see coming.
"I like him." She tells her, stopping Weiss in her tracks, and she looks at her sister.
"Wait...what?" She asks.
"I didn't think he was good enough for you, at first...but when I saw how hard he fought even though he was crippled. How he would literally do anything for your happiness?" Winter explains to her. "That is what love really is." Winter promises with a warming smile. Weiss smiles back and she gently hits the side of her head as she always does. "I say go for it...with everything that has been going on lately? I think you've earned a distraction." Winter says with a laugh, clearly referencing when Death stabbed her.
"You really think so?" Weiss asks curiously.
"Of course I do." Winter responds.
But before she can continue, she hears the strange sound of her scroll vibrating. Scrolls have not been working for years since the Fall of Beacon, and now with Mistral's down as well. This is making the situation even worse for the whole Remnant. And yet, despite all of these factors, her scroll has just received a message. Weiss looks at her sister quizzically, since she knows that it shouldn't be possible for that to happen either. Winter reaches over to it on the table and she grabs it, picking it up and opening the message that she has received.
It's short but informed.
Winter,
Ironwood has been imprisoned by your father,
Whitley is working on something called Project: Deimos,
Jacques is working a coup on the council.
Something is happening at Atlas.
Watch yourself out there.
The Maestro
And that is it, the message ends there. Winter gasps when she reads this information, from an unknown user but the information is quite chilling. That Jacques Schnee is attempting a coup against the Council. Winter looks at Weiss and she gasps, reading the message as well. "Who sent it?" Weiss asks.
"I don't know." Winter answers, searching for anything else on the message, but there is nothing to find a real name. Weiss clenches her hand into a fist, scowling at the message when she looks at the name of her cruel father.
"I knew he was planning something..." Weiss snarls. "He was always so mad of Ironwoods plans and ideals...I guess it was only a matter of time before he did something about it." Weiss huffs, crossing her arms as she looks away from the Scroll. Winter glares at the message and she slams her Scroll down on the table.
"My instincts kept on telling me not to trust Atlas..." Winter hisses.
"What do you mean?" Weiss asks her.
"I think I might know what Whitley has been planning." Winter begins. "He has always had the idea that he could be the best descendant of the Schnees, that he could run both the business and become a symbol of strength. So he wanted to make a suit, like the Giant Armour your faced but one that he could wear. One that could be unstoppable and none would get in their way." Winter explains to her and Weiss clenches her hand into a fist from anger, she has always hated the little brat, but now she sees his true colours.
"So he was jealous..." Weiss realises, remembering when she asked him if he was jealous of his sisters' abilities.
"He was always the different one in the family, more like his father." Winter sighs, touching her forehead with her hand.
They both sit there, after reading that message; they feel like they should be back there at Atlas, stopping their father. But they can't, they need to put Ruby first at all times. She would do it for them.
Raven
Raven and Qrow both walk through a set of double doors. Before them is a woman in a bed, she has aged since two people here have seen her, but her serpent-like eyes open when the doors open. She is still hooked up to life support and there is a bandage across her side, recently replaced for her health. She still looks pretty battered from whatever she survived, from what has been said, it is probably the Knights of Grimm. She groans in pain, sitting upright slowly to look at them. "Never thought a human would rescue me." Sienna laughs when she sits upright. She presses her hand to her side, wincing in pain as she moves, looking at the two Branwens that have come here to speak with her.
"You owe us some answers." Raven states as she crosses her arms, looking down at them.
"To what questions?" Sienna groans, gritting her teeth.
"What changed? You were all gunning to take down the Schools with Cinder, now you are been hunted down like flies." Qrow questions as he walks over to her side. Her hair is now a reddish brown, most likely has changed the colour over the years. She leans against the back of the bed, exhaling as she looks back.
"I don't exactly know why they have started hunting us, I feel Adam might know more than me." Sienna states.
"Adam is currently unconscious after the beating one of our friends made him suffer through, after what he did to my niece." Qrow snarls, tightening his clenched fist. Things are still quite rocky with the relationship with the White Fang. But Raven stops him from doing anything rash, ironic considering the roles has been reversed. But with his baby girl's life on the line, he needs to have some answers. To any question that could possibly give a hint to where they are holding her. They cannot wait for the Architect to return forever.
"Look..." Sienna sighs as she sits up. "...I'm sorry for what happened, but I never sanctioned the attack on Beacon. Adam did that on his own accord, I only found out about the attack when it happened. I never wanted war, hell I never wanted the White Fang to be as aggressive as it has become. Adam's lust for revenge for what happened to his parents...and to him...it made him become a monster." Sienna clarifies to the twins.
"You haven't answered the question, Khan." Raven sharply points out with her arms crossed. Sienna stares at her and then rolls her serpentine eyes.
"I don't know what changed." Sienna repeats. "A man called Hazel Rainart came to meet me, he was making sure if I was still loyal to the cause that Adam dragged us into. I told him that I would think about it. Move a few weeks later, there was chaos, something lead an attack on my people. I could hear tonnes of brothers and sisters either crying or screaming in the town below my home. They were babbling on about worst memories, worst fears and tragic moments in their lives appearing before them." Sienna Khan explains.
Qrow looks at Raven. "Fear and Loss." He states, recognising the diagnosis of the attack. Raven nods, remembering some of the abilities that they have.
"One with a Tonfa slashed me, she nearly killed me but she left me to bleed out. That's when Raven and her people found us and took the survivors in." Sienna concludes, looking at the bandage on her side, gasping from the razor sharp pain that came from the slash wound.
"Sounds like you gave Salem the wrong answer." Raven scoffs.
"Salem? Who the hell is that" Sienna probes, revealing that she did not even know about Salem at first. She only heard of the cause.
"She is our real enemy right now. We don't know what she is or who she is, for that matter, but whoever the hell she is; she's dangerous and wants the Relics to change the world forever." Qrow tells her in a shortened version.
"And what do the Knights of Grimm have to do with it?" Sienna asks them both. Qrow looks at his sister, and now they are the ones who a lacking an answer.
"We're still trying to figure that part out." Qrow sighs, scratching the back of his neck.
"All we know about them is that they have been returning slowly, we don't know exactly of when they started to return and to be honest we don't have a certain idea of where they came from. We can only rely on myths." Raven explains to Sienna. Sienna looks at something on the table for a second and then back at them.
"Look, if what you say is true, then it feels like I am inclined to help you stop her. For the betterment of all life on Remnant." Sienna states. She then reaches over to the piece of paper on the table which has been folded up. "But I should warn you, not everyone is feeling the same way, because they have a new leader." Sienna states, handing the piece of paper to Qrow.
Qrow reads the letter aloud.
"Sienna Khan,
I am writing to you about the White Fang. After the attack on Menagerie and the other attacks across the world, I feel you should know about some developments. Adam has started to have a change of heart, he is realising that Humanity is not the real threat and we should start aiding the humans in stopping the Grimm after what Cinder Fall did. Lieutenant Mazus Grove has turned against Adam Taurus along with Fennec and Corsac Albain...I don't know who to trust and I have decided to go on my own.
I cannot be here, not with Kassius Locke being here as well. I need to stay hidden, but I am still loyal to our cause, no matter what. But Adam is right, I am loyal to him and I always will be. And Blake was right; the mistreatment of the Faunus must end.
But not through war.
The Lieutenant has taken the few White Fang that remain and he is continuing the war-heavy idea that Adam created in the first place.
This Splinter Group could prove dangerous to you, Miss Khan. But this is no longer something that I wish to be a part of.
I wish you well.
Stay safe,
Yours Truly,
Ilia Amitola."
Qrow stops reading the letter aloud and it all seems to make more sense. That is why Adam seemed to come here alone, he has had a change of heart but the Lieutenant and the Albains have not. Qrow sighs as he folds it back up and puts it in his chest pocket in his shirt. "We can't risk Kassius reading that. Any hint of her whereabouts could make him go off again." Raven says to Qrow and he nods immediately.
"My thoughts exactly, we need him to stay focused on helping us find Ruby. We can't let any personal vendettas get in the way." Qrow sighs, even though he understands why he wants to kill her so much. If he sees that...if Mr Hyde sees that...they might not be able to get Kassius back.
"The girl...Ruby Rose." Sienna Khan presumes as she looks at Qrow, he turns and looks at her.
"Do the Knights have her?" Sienna asks.
"Yes, do you know anything?" Qrow asks desperately, but Sienna just shakes her head.
"If Death has her, Qrow...I'm afraid...you really don't stand a chance." Sienna says. Qrow smirks.
"I've cheated him before, so can she." Qrow assures, turning and walking away from Khan, leaving her in the hospital bed, and Raven follows him.
"Do you have a plan to take him down?" Raven asks curiously.
"I have something in the works." He says.
"What?" Raven inquires, causing Qrow to stop.
"When I was fighting him in Mistral, he stumbled under a lamppost that was on. The light made him weaker. Remember when we fought him and we couldn't do a dent? That was because he was in the darkness, the darkness makes him regenerate." Qrow explains, and Raven stops.
"And you think that Summer's light destroyed him?" Raven asks, bringing that moment up again, a moment that none of them can possibly understand.
"Maybe...I still can't wrap my head around that." He sighs. Raven smiles as she gently places her hand against his chest where his heart is, and he looks at her.
"She's still with us, with you, in here." She assures with a gentle smile. Raven has really changed; the realisation that she is no longer the strongest has really put things in perspective for her.
"I know..." He sighs, closing his eyes.
Jaune
His disappearance after Mistral has still left many questions unanswered. But he sits there, holding Crocea Mors in his hand, running his fingers across the metal blade. There are a hundred things on his mind right now.
Where's Ruby?
Why did the Architect bother saving me?
Pyrrha...
But the main thought at this current moment in time is all surrounded around Crocea Mors and his own semblance, for somehow he managed to take out Loss in one swing, doing something that no one has been able to do. He managed to shatter her Tonfa when the blade hit his neck; his aura somehow blocked a Knight's weapon. His semblance is powerful, whatever it is, and he cannot wrap his head around it.
But when he is sat there, he is suddenly tackled to the floor by an elated Nora Valkyrie, and Jaune screams as he is knocked off the chair that he was sat on, Crocea Mors landing on the floor with a metallic clank. Nora giggles with happiness, squeaking like a plushie toy as she kicks her feet around, hugging her friend. Ren is stood there and he sighs, crossing his arms as he looks at the happy Valkyrie that just tackled the Arc boy into the floor. She wraps her arms around him so tight that her strength starts to crack bones and he can't breathe. "Nora – Can't – Breathe." He wheezes under her super-strong arms.
Nora peeps, releasing him and he gasps vigorously, inhaling air at the strength of a vacuum cleaner. "Sorry, Jaune." She apologises with enthusiasm still in her voice. Ren offers his hand to Jaune, and Jaune takes the help, Ren pulls him up to his feet. Ren immediately hugs him as well, but not as crushingly as Nora did.
"We thought we lost you too." Ren says to him. Jaune hugs him as well, as this is probably the first time they could actually talk to each other this way since the Fall of Mistral.
"I didn't know if I would see you again." He says quietly, trying not to cry like a baby and Ren smiles back. Jaune turns to the shorter Nora and he hugs her as well, she hugs him less aggressively this time. "You can thank the Architect for that." He says.
"I think I'll thank you...you saved Nora's life. All of our lives." Ren says to him, putting his hand on his shoulder.
"When I realised they were yelling at you guys, I couldn't follow the Architect's plan any longer." Jaune explains.
"What were you doing there?" Nora asks him curiously. Jaune doesn't answer, but he knows that there is something. He turns and his eyes widen when he sees someone stood there. He regains his composure when he looks back at them.
"The Architect can brief you on that." Jaune says.
They all look past him.
And the Architect is stood there, still wearing the Poncho as the portal closes behind him. His metal plates still got some sand staining the grey steel skin and the cogs inside are still rotating round as he moves. Like he's breathing. His glowing blue optics look straight at them, and Nora calls the rest. "Guys! It's the Architect!" Nora calls.
The Architect is patient, he waits for everyone to arrive, and pretty quickly everyone meets him in the room where they were having their moment with Jaune. The Architect stands tall, his optics looking at them all. "Are we all ready?" He asks them all. Raven walks over and she nods to one of her men.
"Call us if Adam wakes up." Raven tells him.
"Yes, ma'am." He says.
"We're ready." Yang enthusiastically promises. Kassius walks out and he already looks much better, fewer bags under his eyes now than there were before. Seems like Mr Hyde actually cut him some slack and let him have some good night's sleep for once. The Architect waves his hand behind him and the air cracks and ripples as it creates a doorway. Inside is the next side, Yang looks into it and she can see something inside. It looks like a large table.
She takes the first few steps inside and she looks around, feeling the air becoming warmer when she enters the room. She looks around, her long blonde hair blowing in a sight draft that comes through the damaged ceiling where sunlight is breaking through. It is not entirely clear of where they are, but there are a series of huge statues stood inside. Blake and Weiss walk with her, the three members of team R.W.B.Y.
The Statues all wield swords, some wield Scythes and Hammers, all are different to each other but they all have the same style of armour and are stood in the same position, honourable knights. Yang's eyes then look to the table in the centre of the huge room, there are some skeletons sat in the thrones, left where they died after all these years. Except for one person, who has his hands clasped together on the table.
He has a grey beard, wrinkles across his face and a head of grey hair. He is an old man who has a staff right beside him, one that is made from oak and metal by the looks of it. It is a lethal looking weapon but unlike theirs, it is simple and does not transform into anything. He remains still, and the rest of the heroic Huntsmen and Huntresses enter the room, the Architect walking in last. He closes the portal behind him, the portal collapses and vanishes behind Neptune and he looks back, seeing one statue behind him, on its knee with a sword pressed to the floor. "Hello?" Yang cautiously greets to the mysterious elder.
He looks up, looking straight at Yang, and he stands up. When he stands up, she immediately realises something about him that makes him important.
He has Silver Eyes.
He walks away from where he was sat and stands behind the chair, placing his hands upon it. "And so we meet at last...Miss Xiao Long." He begins; he has a very powerful, wise and commanding voice. One that has seen many things in his years, and if he is a Silver Eyed Warrior, then it could make more sense to why he has taken an interest in her Sister. But why now?
"You know who I am?" Yang asks with a confused tone.
"I know all of you. From Blake Belladonna, the girl who was born into a Rebellion, to Weiss Schnee, the girl born into Wealth." The man explains, and then he looks at Jaune who is stood behind the three girls. "And I know you as well, Jaune Arc. The boy who lied to become a hero and could not see the love of someone else until she passed." He explains, like he can see who they are before him, like it is being read out to him. "Good to finally meet you, son...you have been helping my friend here well with his mission to find them." The man says as he walks around the huge circular table, sliding his fingers across the metal, wiping the dust off it.
"What do you want with us?" Weiss asks him sharply, getting straight to the point. The man smiles as he walks closer.
"I seek the very same thing that you all seek." He states. "Ruby Rose." He says.
"Why?" Yang asks, sounding more and more like the protective older sister that she is.
"Because there has not been an opportunity like there is now since a time before Kingdoms..." He says, which makes them realise how important she truly is. "I'm sure you have noticed the colour of my eyes?" He presumes, pointing at them.
"You're a Silver Eyed Warrior?" Qrow says.
"Indeed, Mr Branwen...indeed." He says, walking around more, using his staff like a walking cane.
"What do you mean? That my sister is an opportunity?" Yang asks.
"The Silver Eyed Warriors have been a symbol of defiance against the Grimm for millennia, before we ever had Kingdoms. But since the downfall of our people, there has never been a powerful Silver Eyed One ever since. Even my powers are beginning to fade; when you have lived as long as I have it tends to. She is the youngest Silver Eyed Warrior in the history of Warriors to have ever unlocked their abilities as quickly as she did." He explains to them all, making the point more and more clear.
Yang gasps when she realises, that when Pyrrha died that is when she managed to use the abilities. That means that it was at that moment that she became a Warrior, perhaps that is when this old man figured out that she exists. "What do you propose?" Raven asks him.
"I propose: an alliance." He says to them, hitting his staff to the floor. "We both have similar goals, to find Ruby Rose. She is in the clutches of Salem but I know her very well, she will not kill Ruby. She sees her as a weapon, if she can have a Silver Eyed Warrior that young on her side, it will make her easier to corrupt." He explains. "We must find her and I must teach her how to use her powers, it is not something that can be learned easily, she must learn to control her body and her emotions effectively." He explains.
"Do you have any leads?" Yang asks eagerly.
The man smiles. "I do, come...follow me." He encourages. But Yang stops him.
"Wait!" She calls. He stops and turns as the mechanical Architect walks with him. "Who are you?" Yang asks. He sighs, looking up at the cracked ceiling.
"I have had many titles over millennia..." He states. "The Old Wizard, the Silver Eyed Warrior...but you can call me Kragen Nox." He answers.
Ruby
Ruby does not fully grasp the concept of how important she truly is to the world right now. But she is too weak to even think about it, recovering from the torment that Tyrian has been putting her through. She has a deep gash along her cheek that is slowly healing thanks to her aura, but it does not push away the horrific memory of how much pain she was in when he did it to her. She is curled up in a corner, hiding in the shadows, but she still has her bravery in her She does not cower, she remains in there, planning how to fight back when he comes back. She looks around and she can still use her semblance in here. She could use that against him when he returns.
Ruby is carving some things into the floor with a chipped piece of stone that came off from when Tyrian smashed her head into the wall when he hurt her. That hurt a lot, but not as much as losing her eye. That still hurts even now, with the bandage covering it. But she is not letting that get to her head. She is drawing out ways to escape. Oscar looks at her and he crawls up to the bars, clutching onto them. "Ruby." He whispers to get her attention, but she ignores him, continuing to carve out a plan. "What are you doing?" He whispers.
"I'm gonna get some payback." Ruby snarls.
"He'll kill you." He warns.
"He can try." Ruby hisses. Ruby draws a stick figure of him walking into her cell and then she draws directions of where she could go, darting around him and then tackling him into the floor. She then starts to draw herself bashing his head into the wall over and over, her eyes flaring with anger and her teeth gritted. But the more she does the drawing, the more her hate begins to become apparent, and Oscar can see it.
"She won't listen, Oscar." Ozpin says to him.
"She has to." Oscar replies. "Ruby, that guy is fast. You didn't stand a chance against him when you faced him in Oniyuri, you said so yourself." Oscar says.
"He caught us by surprise, this time I've got the upper hand." She says to him.
"You want to risk that?" Oscar asks.
"Will you just shut up?" She suddenly erupts angrily, standing up and grabbing the bars, showing herself in the light. She fully shows the damage that Tyrian dealt to her in that recording. Her other eye has swollen up from the black bruise he gave her from the horrible punches that could be heard at the end of the recording. Bits of her black and red hair have been torn out and her lip is still bleeding a little. Who knows what bruises are under her blouse that she wears? "You have been able to walk away unscathed." Ruby snarls, turning and walking away from the bars once more. Oscar looks away and he sighs, sitting against the wall.
She's right, but seeing her crack like that is horrible.
It means that Tyrian's torture is working because he is breaking her slowly. But her shout has alerted something, and they both hear the mad giggling as he approaches the two cells. The Scorpion Faunus emerges from the hallway and he looks at them both. "Ooh...are we having a fight?" He asks with curiosity. Ruby glares at the Faunus with furious hatred in her silver eye and he glares right back with a gritted smirk.
"When I get out of here...I promise you...I will kill you." She promises. Tyrian gasps and then laughs, arching his back as he laughs to the sky, wiping a tear from his eye as he laughs. He walks up to the bars to hear her.
"Come closer, I don't think I heard that." He taunts with a giggle, his ear against the opening. Ruby glares at him. She stands up and walks towards him, her hand clenched into a fist. She approaches the bars, staring straight at him.
"I said: I am going to kill you." She promises.
"How will you do it?" He asks her, taking his hand from his ear and holding the bars, staring right at her. Ruby glares right into those yellow eyes.
"I'm gonna let you think that I will save you, then I'll cut off your hand and watch you scream as you fall to your death." Ruby promises coldly, and her new personality that Tyrian is seeing makes him laugh with amazement, even feeling slightly threatened, but he would admit that.
"Wow..." He whispers as he looks at her. "Incredible." He chuckles. But when he is there, he fails to notice Ruby getting closer to his finger wrapped around the bar.
"Yeah, it is." She snarls, grabbing his finger and twisting it with force, creating a loud pop and he screams in agony, grabbing it. But he swiftly grabs Ruby by her wrist and slams her head into the bars three times forcibly. She yelps and he pushes her on the floor, grabbing his finger. Ruby has more bruises on her face now and her nose starts to bleed. She moans in pain but she does not regret doing that. He growls in pain and glares at her.
"You bitch!" He shouts, forcing his finger back in the correct place. "You've just made your day much, much worse!" He promises.
"Yeah...go ahead." Ruby scoffs, and that catches Tyrian off guard from how quickly she said it. "Go ahead, and then run along to Salem and tell her that you got your finger broken by a little girl!" She shouts to rub salt in the wound. Tyrian glares at her and then a scowl of anger appears on his face.
"That's it." He snarls, extending his wrist blades to torture her further, but before he opens the door.
"Leave her alone!" Oscar bellows from behind him. Tyrian pauses and he looks over his shoulder at Oscar, staring straight at him.
"I've had it with our lip, boy!" He suddenly erupts as he storms towards his cell instead of Ruby's. He opens the door and he lunges straight at him. Oscar closes his eyes and he shields his face with his hands, looking away. He expects the blades to hit at any moment.
But they never do.
There is a loud, unusual crack around them all and the blade never hits. He slowly opens his eyes and he looks at Tyrian. The blade has stopped right at his face and he can hear the scream of Tyrian paused in time. The ground is fractured around him, like the waves on an ocean passing through them. The shards bounce in the air and the body of Tyrian twitches in this frozen moment in time.
Bewildered, Oscar stands up and he looks at Tyrian. He has been frozen in time and he cannot move or even see. Oscar walks past him, completely confused of what is happening and he expects to hear Ruby talk to him. But she is frozen as well. "Professor?" Oscar hails, his voice echoes through the halls but Ozpin does not speak back to him. Something has happened; he is the only one who is able to walk around in this frozen landscape. He starts to walk down the hallway, leaving them both that are frozen and he looks in the other cells. There are other prisoners in here that have been captured, from Mistraalian to Valerian. "What – What the hell is this?" Oscar stammers as he walks through the halls.
He follows the halls and he finds himself in Salem's Company, the hall where they all sit. Most of them are missing, only Watts is here. Salem is sat in her chair and she was speaking to Watts before this happened. He looks and he can hear the weird slurred sounds of their voices in this single frozen moment in time that only he can walk in. He shudders as he looks around.
He turns however when he hears someone speak. "So this is the secret you've been hiding from me." Death says, and Oscar gasps when he sees Death stood there. The other Knights are here but they are also frozen in time. Only Death isn't, he still stands there with his sword pressed down into the floor, his red eyes looking right at Oscar's hazel coloured irises. But Oscar has no idea of what he is talking about.
"What...what do you mean?" Oscar stammers.
"Your semblance." Death states, his hand highlighting the odd fractured environment that they stand in. "It seems that you have an ability to manipulate time." Death tells him with legitimate wonderment in his voice. And yet here he is, able to move in this frozen moment with Oscar.
"Then how can you move?" Oscar questions.
"Death is not bound by time; it can happen at any moment." Death answers as he stands there and Oscar looks away from him, looking over at Salem as she speaks.
"So what, then? You're gonna kill me?" Oscar asks him.
"No." Death answers, and that answer truly surprised him.
"Why?" Oscar asks.
"It is not your time." Death states, as he always tends to. But then the Archangel points Ferrum Arctus at Oscar. "But you should return to your cell while you still can." Death assures. "Because I am not the one you would have to fear." He says, looking at Fury who is stood there. He would kill him right then and there. He is like the Prison Warden. Oscar looks at him and he sighs.
"I can't let Tyrian hurt Ruby." Oscar tells him.
"Then frighten him." Death advises.
"Huh?" Oscar stammers in confusion.
"Tyrian is a mad dog, frighten a mad dog and it will back down." Death tells him.
"How?" He asks.
"You can freeze time. You're bright; figure it out on your own. But if you try to run or leave the Sanctum...I will know...and I will find you." He promises. Oscar sighs because he knows that Death is not lying, he is giving him a chance, but he will not offer a second. So Oscar does at the Knight says, walking away from where Salem was and Death looks back at Salem where he was originally stood.
Oscar walks down the hallway and he returns to his cell, still seeing Tyrian stood right where he was, and he still needs to figure out how to actually let time resume again. But he stands right in front of Tyrian so he is glaring into his eyes. The blade is not going to hit him but Tyrian will see him.
Oscar stares at him and he starts to think to himself. Play Time. He thinks this type of thought, and on cue, the bang continues and the scream continues as well. "Boo!" Oscar shouts.
Tyrian screams like a little girl, jumping back in confusion and fear, looking at him in complete and utter bewilderment. "How did..." He stammers.
"Long story." Oscar assures with a smirk. Tyrian staggers from his cell and he closes the door. "Lay a finger on her again, though, and I won't just scare you." Oscar assures. Tyrian glares at him.
"We'll see about that." Tyrian assures as he flees down the hallway from Oscar and Ruby's cells.
The scare tactic got him to leave them alone, but not forever.
Tyrian bolts into the hall and he looks around in confusion, turning to Death. "That boy – he just – I don't know!" He stammers.
Death looks at him and he chuckles. "I didn't see anything." He says. Tyrian looks around, still shaken from Oscar's scaring abilities and he storms off like a kid with a tantrum. Salem looks at Tyrian with confusion and then continues her conversation with Watts.
Death remains where he was stood.
Death kept to his word.