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Chapter 69 - The Truth Comes Out 3

{With Logan}

Logan: "Good..." Logan spoke as his anger calmed. "...Then I don't have to hold back now, do I?" Only for cold fury to replace it in an instant.

Logan immediately created a wall of crimson flames around the battle ground as he charged at her faster then even the best Huntsmen. As Logan approached her, he drew his [Hell-sent] (M2 Browning x Broadsword) and slashed down at her head. The woman quickly parried the slash to the side with one set of claws while thrusting the other set at Logan's neck. Logan leaned to the side as the thrust barely passed his neck and retaliated by grabbing her outstretched arm and kicking her in the chest. The he followed it up by stabbing down with his [Hell-sent] at her leg.

The women managed to slide her leg back and get rid of Logan's hold on her arm by executing a roundhouse kick as she slide her leg. Logan was anticipating the kick and caught it in a vice like grip with his hand, then he slugged her across her mask and dislocated her knee faster then she could react. Quickly letting go, Logan then brought up his [Hell-sent] and cleaved down at her arm. The woman tried to move away but the blade was moving too fast and took her arm off at the elbow like a hot knife through butter.

Before the woman could scream or curse Logan, he swung again and again. Cutting her other arm off along with her leg, cauterizing all three places he cut to keep her from bleeding out. Yet she didn't scream, only smiled at Logan. A very creepy and sociopathic smile. Something in that smile made Logan react instinctively and removed her head from her shoulders.

Once Logan finished his swing, he felt something going on with her body and jumped back several times. He watched as her body parts shook the flew back to their respective places. Slowly, all the damage Logan did to her repair itself, including her clothes. Once everything was healed and repaired, the woman stood up with a crazed grin plastered on her face.

Cannibal Woman: "I can't be killed!" She shouted as she charged at Logan.

Logan blocked one of her thrusts with [Hell-sent] and parried the other with his elbow and arm. Logan then kicked out her knee again, but this time a sickening crack could be heard. As she fell to one side, Logan swiped at her chest and sent her flying off to the side with a massive gash across her chest. As she rolled to a stop, she propped herself and slowly stood as her wounds healed. When her knee finally snapped back into place, she charged again. Logan waited until she was close enough before launching her up into the air with a well time high kick to her chin, shattering it in the process. Logan followed up after her and stabbed her in the gut with [Hell-sent]'s blade and unleashing an torrent of aura bullets straight into her stomach. As the Two hit the ground, Logan used the ground as a pivot point to blast and cut her completely in half and didn't stop until she was nothing but a pile of smoking hole-y bits and pieces.

Logan: "Let's see you come back from that, Bitc-." Logan tried to comment before he suddenly was smashed in the side of his head with something round and pointy while something impacted his weapon.

As Logan rolled with the hit, he saw that the woman had appeared next to him with what looked like two human spines in her hands. Logan gave a quick glance at his [Hell-sent] and found that she had bent the barrel and destroyed the blade with that hit. Sighing, Logan throw away the now trashed [Hell-sent] and pulled out his [Heaven-sent] (Tonfa x Smg) from the small of his back.

As the two of them glared at each other, Logan was the one to charge this time. Opening fire as he ran, the woman began to deflect any shots that came near her with ease. Once Logan got within her range, she jabbed with one of spines like it was a rapier at Logan's chest. Logan slipped passed it like a snake and blocked the other spine with his [Heaven-sent]. With his free hand, Logan grabbed her other wrist and twisted with it to he was holding it tight against her back with a loud pop and she had dropped the spine. As Logan held her tight, she flipped the one spine she had left and stabbed herself through her stomach right into Logan's. Logan was forced to let go as his aura had taken a massive blow that could have shattered it if he held on.

Logan watched as she pushed the entire spine through her stomach and out her back before she grabbed it in a reversed grip. With his [Heaven-sent] in his left hand, Logan charged while firing at her hand that held the spine. The woman charged as well, not bothering to dodge or deflect Logan's shots. As Logan blocked an overhead slash with his [Heaven-sent], he watched as the spine elongated and wrapped around his weapon and arm as if it was alive. Before Logan could react, the spine began to tighten around his arm and start to crush it. Acting fast, Logan summoned his ash and cut her hand off at the wrist as he felt his aura shatter. Jumping back, Logan managed to get the spine off his arm after it had just pierced his armored forearms and down to his skin drawing blood. But, his [Heaven-sent] was bent to an odd degree rendering it useless.

Logan: 'Damn, what is her semblance?!' Logan cursed inside his mind as he watched her roll her hand he had just cut off.

Cannibal Woman: "I told you, you can't kill me!" The woman shouted at Logan before going on a tirade about how she was invincible.

As she talked and walked around him, Logan took this time to observe the battleground hoping to find an answer to her supposed 'invincibility.' As he did, Logan noticed that the amount of blood that coated the ground had lessened quite a bit. And the bodies were less numerous the before along with the pieces that were cut off and scattered. What made Logan surprised though was a nearby corpse that had it's hand cut off exactly the same way he had just cut hers off. That's when he figured out what her semblance was.

Logan: 'So, her semblance has to do with those she killed.' Logan thought as he focused on her. 'Most likely it's the ability to regenerate from any injury as long as she's close to the recently dead." Logan finished his thoughts as he slowly stood up.

Cannibal Woman: "You hear me?!" The woman continued her tirade. "I can't be killed! So why don't you just-"

Logan: "Just shut up you second rate, sociopathic villain wannabe." Logan said cutting her off. "Your just another piece of filth that needs to be cleaned up." Logan said as he stood to his full height as he drew his [Crescent Moons] (Pistols x Daggers).

Ash slowly crawled out from his pouches and wrapped around Logan protectively. Soon more and more ash came flowing faster then before and wrapped around his weapons, coating them grey. Logan the took a deep breath that could be heard throughout the battlefield. Then, without warning, Logan seemingly disappeared and reappeared in front of the woman. One of his weapons in dagger form held in a reverse grip posed to stab the woman in the chest while the other in gun form. Several blindingly fast stabs followed by Logan firing numerous rounds into the woman's chest and head sent her tumbling back.

The woman was momentary surprised at Logan speed before she got up and grabbed a severed leg from nearby to use as a club. She charged soon after her wounds heal themselves and struck at Logan with the severed leg in an overhead smash then followed it up with a thrust from the spine she still had in hand. Logan blocked the spine with his dagger when he could and dodged around the leg as to not have his dagger get trapped in it. Soon, none of those watching could keep up with the two of them as they were moving too fast to track even for experienced Hunters/Huntresses.

After a while of back and forth between them, Logan slipped in a puddle of blood and had to block the leg with his dagger. The Woman felt the blade bite deep in the bone and ripped the dagger out of Logan's hand and threw the leg away. With the spine in one hand, she cut one off Logan's arm that had his pistol and used her other to pierce his chest. Everyone watching sucked in their breaths as they saw the woman's arm go through Logan's chest.

Cannibal Woman: "So, how does it feel to die?" The woman asked as her elbow to just inside Logan's chest, piercing his lung and out the back. "Do you feel the Reaper's cold dead hands around your neck?"

Logan: "Me and the Reaper go way back..." Logan said as some blood dripped from his mouth. "This isn't the first time we've meet. But I got a question for you. What's your name?"

Attila: "So, you wish to know the name of the one who killed you?" She spoke with a smirk. "Very well, my old name died with my village that you razed to the ground along with all the women and children. Only the high priest may wear this mask and as an offering to the Gods must cast away their old name, which you did for me. So now you may call me... Attila!"

Logan: "Well then, Attila. Do you know how many volts are in a lightening bolt?" Logan asked as a smile crept onto his face. "Because I do..."

A look of pure horror appeared on Attila's face, but before she could move Logan grabbed her throat and unleashed his emerald green flames. The flames acted as lightening and repeatedly shocked her as her body convulsed. Once she was paralyzed, Logan pulled her arm out from his chest and used his sapphire blue flames to clean the hole where her arm was and his new stump. Logan then stood up, with one hand covered in pure white flames and the stump was over the hole, both covered in golden flames that seemed to slowly restore the damage done to him to a degree. With the pure white flames, Logan grabbed Attila by her face and let the flames travel across her body. In seconds Attila's entire body was engulfed in white fire, and soon after it condensed into a flaming white collar around her neck, hands, and legs.

Logan: "You know..." Logan began to say but was cut off by a bloody cough. "I can understand why you would go so far for revenge. In a way, I could say we're the same. But there is one major difference between us... I do NOT involve those who aren't related."

Attila: "The Same?!?!" Attila shouted with hatred and anger when she got her body under control. "We're nothing alike. You hear me? NOTHING! Your nothing but a monster that destroyed my town, my home, simply because we were different!"

Logan: "Wrong, I destroyed that town because those that live there were kidnappers, molesters, cannibals, and monsters that hunted innocents for sport. Hell, the only reason I even went to that place was to find a missing merchant's daughter. Their pregnant daughter." Logan told her and the world that was still watching. "I found her. I fund her strung up in one of the house's basements like a skinned deer, and her unborn child floating in a massive jar filled with preserving fluid. The person who did it was eating her liver with fava beans and some chianti like it was a five star meal."

Attila: "One person does not give you the right to wipe out an entire town!" She spat.

Logan: "I couldn't save a soul in that nightmare of a place. There was nothing I could do." Logan spoke with some regret in his voice. "The only regret I have about that place was being unable to save the little girl they roasted alive. I took too long to get to her, and that is something that haunts me. Being too late to save an innocent soul." Logan said, mainly to himself. "Now then, you can't use your semblance with those white flames around, and I don't need to tell you what's coming next, do I?

Attila: "You're still a monster..." Attila said as she realized she wasn't making it out of the coliseum alive anymore.

Logan: "Are those your last words?" Logan asked as he used his ash to pull his severed arm and his [Crescent Moons] back to him, storing one away and strapping his severed arm to his lower back.

Attila: "Final words? Your generous." Attila said. "Here's some. The one who saved me will come for you, and when he does... He's gonna send you straight to hell!"

Logan didn't speak any more as he was doing his best not to pass out from his wounds. So, with a single shot, he ended the person responsible for all the death at the coliseum. And with out waiting for any medical help, he left the battlegrounds and headed to a bullhead docking pot. Still with his arm severed and hole in his chest, those that were blocking his way parted like the red sea. Each having different thoughts when they laid eyes on him. Fear, anger, hatred being the main ones. However, there were more then a few who wondered what it took for Logan to be able to still stand with wounds like those and why he was still conscious.

{RWBY: Fireborn}

{With RWBY and Glynda}

The girls of Team RWBY managed to make it through the crowd and caught a glimpse of Logan as he flew away towards Vale's massive wall. As they watched from a window as he flew, Glynda came running up to them out of breath. The girls were surprised when they saw the fear in her eyes as her eyes immediately locked on to Logan's shrinking form.

Yang: "Professor, you okay?" Yang asked as she's never seen that look on Glynda's face as it usually is stoic.

Glynda: "Yes, I'm fine Miss Xiao Long." Glynda said after she caught her breath.

Ruby: "Is it true?" Ruby asked, knowing that Glynda knew what she was asking about.

Glynda: "Mostly, yes." Glynda said, trying to avoid the subject.

Blake: "How much of what she, Attila, said was true? How much of what Logan said was true?" Blake asked in a low tone as her eyes glowed a little.

Glynda: "Other then some minor details, everything." Glynda answered both questions at once.

Weiss: "Is he the same person we've always known? Or was that just a mask?" Weiss asked as she glared at where Logan's figure disappear at.

Glynda: "The Mr Scarlett you know is the real person. Not a mask, and certainly not what that woman made him out too be." Glynda answered firmly. "I'm positive."

{With Ozpin, Salem, Qrow, and Ironwood}

Qrow: "Oz, what do we do now?" Qrow asked, now sporting several bandages across his entire body. "The kid's heavily injured and he's heading towards the wall as we speak."

Ironwood: "Right now our primary concern is the safety of Vale's people and security of the wall." Ironwood spoke up as he left a holographic map of Vale. "I'm sure he'll be fine. Right now we can't take a chance in case the wall breaks."

Qrow: "You can't be serious James!" Qrow shouted.

Ozpin: "I'm afraid he is." Ozpin said as he stared at the holographic map. "Logan understands his limits very well. I trust him."

Qrow: "HE'S MISSING AN ARM AND HAS A HOLE IN HIS CHEST!!!!" Qrow screamed and slammed his hands down on Ozpin's desk, shattering it. "He needs medical attention now or he'll be forced to use his rebirth thing to save himself!"

Salem: "I'm afraid that's not the worst of it." Salem spoke up after a long silence.

Qrow: "What do you mean?" Qrow asked worried.

Salem: "That fight broke him in more ways then one." Salem explained. "And there is only one person who can help him now..."

Qrow: "Who?... WHO DAMN IT?!" Qrow asked then demanded.

Salem: "Himself..." Salem spoke softly. 'I'm not even sure Glynda would be able to help him.' Salem thought to herself.