Reuniting Remnant

As I walked with, Argint and Luna with Cinder not far behind, I reminisced on how I met these two girls in my life. Argint is a vampire bat faunus girl with bat fangs as her animal trait. She had pale silver-gray hair, blood-red eyes, and almost translucent pale white skin with a petite build at 5'8". I picked her up during my stay at the Kingdom of Atlas when I went there to use Soul Archive on its scientific community for my plans for the future. I found out about an illegal auction taking place and didn't ignore it.

It took place at an abandoned town outside of Mantle, and when I saw Atlas's so-called high society bidding for a little rabbit faunus girl no older than 10, I made my choice. Using some sleeping gas, I had on hand, I knocked them out, then promptly executed them after seeing what they did with Soul Archive; this later became known as the Red Auction Incident. I then helped the faunus being sold off reach their homes as best I could, except Argint.

The vampire bat girl only had memories of being trained into a toy to be broken, then tossed aside. I took her in and did my best to turn her into a functioning person rather than a broken doll and succeeded somewhat, but she chose to be my maid for some odd reason, and I could not convince her otherwise. I then taught her what I know about combat and healing since her Semblance is blood manipulation. She is currently wearing a black maid-like uniform with a large white handbag filled with canisters of blood, and her weapon of choice is a simple heavy spear.

Next is Luna. A white gold faunus girl with wolf ears as her animal trait. She had pale gray hair that was almost white in color and pearly white irises that nearly faded to her scleras with a pale skin tone. Her slender body was far stronger than it looked without Aura enhancement at 5'11". I picked her up from Atlas's Ice Box prison when I went looking for subjects to perform human experimentation on reversing Grimm-cation for Summer's sake, where they held dangerous international criminals and special VIPs that needed to be out of the public eye for a bit. Her only crimes were seeking out revenge against some high-profile people that caused her family's death.

Her family's death broke her, and she lost her mind. She was kept at the prison as a plaything for VIPs to torture and abuse. She earned a lot of scars there. The most notable were the ones over her left eye that crossed the one that went across her face over her nose at a near-perfect 90-degree angle. I spent a lot of time mending her mind with Magic, and as an unintended side effect, she views me as a god and holds great reverence for me. She is still quite violent, and I have to keep an eye on her so she does not go off the handle in dealing with whatever idiot decides to antagonize her for whatever reason.

Currently, she has on knee-high black combat boots, tight black hot pants, and a white tank top with a black leather duster. Luna's weapons of choice were a pair of dual swords-pistols that were hybrid weapons with no complicated mech-shifts. I am of that simplicity is the best faction when it comes to weapon design, as mech-shift weapons are harder to maintain and perform maintenance on, with durability issues included on the more fragile parts involved with mech-shift weaponry.

As I walked with the girls, I started to hum Path to Isolation by Jeff Williams and Casey Lee Williams as the fatigue I had built up over the years in trying to reach Remnant faded away. Aside from dealing with the Brother Gods, I should have nothing to worry about too much in this world. Thinking about those two in my travels, I have come across a few universes that would enable me to deal with them by gaining strength. The reason I had not immediately dived into several systems of power is that I am not compatible with every single one, and taking one could lock out several others if I am not careful, but I do have a plan.

A Grimm, specifically an Ursa Major, appeared and charged at me, but I kept humming as Grimm were little more than punching bags for me. As the monster swiped a claw at me, I raised my arm to block, then struck at its throat with my free claw, and it fell to the side. Things were not done as a giant... Chicken Grimm appeared? That was a first for me, and it crowed as it charged at me, but I quickly realized what was going on. I held my ground as the girls called out.

" My Lord!"

" Master!"

" Move, you idiot!"

I swatted the giant chicken, and it broke down like fragile glass. I wryly smiled as I called out.

" Nice try, Neo, but you're going to have to do better than that!"

Neopolitan appeared with a frown at failing to get me to fall for her illusion, and Ilia trailed behind her. Not a combination I was expecting, but interesting overall in terms of team-ups. As the tri-colored girl got closer to me, she eyed me up and down before conjuring a sign that said.

" You seem different?"

" We can talk about it later, but for now, we have an initiation to deal with and teams to make."

Neopolitan nodded in agreement, then hopped on my back and hung off my shoulders. I greeted Ilia next.

" Hello, Ilia. How much has Neo been tormenting you?"

" Is she always like this?"

The chameleon girl gave me a pleading look, but I told her the truth.

" Unfortunately, you are paired up with an unrepented prankster, but she can be quite nice if you earn her trust and friendship. Hey, at least she is easy on the eyes, right?"

" I suppose..."

Ilia's face scales turned pink from embarrassment at answering my question, and I was not surprised in the slightest as there is no shortage of guys and girls trying to hit on the tri-colored girl when I am not around and even when I am. Neopolitan can thankfully take care of herself easily and send some poor fools on a wild goose chase. Now I wonder where Emerald has gotten off to now.