Becoming Mortal's Slave

Black felt like chains were wrapping around him, but he couldn't sense who was chaining him. All he could hear was the sound of his heart beating and the sound of moving water? "I'm I…underwater?" He thought to himself. He tried opening his eyes but just could get them to open. It felt like his whole body was shut down. All he could do was wait and listen, as time passed by Black slowly lost consciousness again.

His body floated in the empty dark pool of blackness till finally, Black's body began to resurface from the black pool. Some octopus creature lifted him up and laid him down on a table. A man walked in wearing doctor clothes. He began inspecting Black's body from head to toe. Taking blood and hair samples, he listed something's on a clipboard he had. The man finished his inspection and headed out the door.

After a couple of minutes Black started to slowly wake up. Slowly opening his eyes and pushing himself up, a sudden sense of dizziness hit him forcing him to hold his head. When he regained his senses Black looked around, no longer was he in a forest but in a room, an empty one with just a table he was on, a door, and a light above him. He then looked at his body and noticed that he was fully healed and his clothes were restored to normal.

Footsteps could be heard from behind the door. Black narrowed his eyes when the door opened. A women came inside, she had deathly white skin that matched her bund hair, black sclera, and glowing red irises. She wore a long black dress with the inside red and black high heels. "Ah, you're awake." Her voice was calm and it sent chills down his spine. "Who are you?" Black asked in a hostile tone.

"Me? I'm the one who stopped my children from devouring you." She walked up to him and caressed his cheek. "The one who you should be thankful for." Black grabbed her wrist and pulled it away from his face. The action made the woman chuckle.

She took a step back from him, looking at him from head to toe. Black was beginning to get annoyed, he wanted answers, now. "My name is Salem. And you?"

"Black," He answered.

"No last name?"

Black thought for a bit, he never had a last name, so he quickly said the first one that came to mind, "Son, Son Black."

The response made her eyes widen a bit, but a slight smirk appeared on her face. The reaction confused him. "Well Black, it seems like you've caught my attention with the fight you had against my children. I was very impressed by your power." She said while walking around him. Black made no movements and just glared at her. "Really? And I care why?"

She stopped behind him and leaned in. "Because now, you can be part of something wonderful." She whispered in his ear. Black was about to fling this woman off of him, but stopped himself since she could provide information of where he is. She walked back in front. "It seems like it worked." She said handing him a mirror.

Black looked at the mirror and his eyes widened a bit. "What?" What he saw was himself but, younger. "If you're wondering how old you might look it would be sixteen." Black gazed at his hands tightening and then untightening his hands. Though he looked younger he didn't feel that different from before, except for one thing. He was weaker than when he fought Trunks for the first time. Did she do something to him!? His glare hardened.

"I also had one of my servants unlock your Aura since yours was still locked." This caught his attention. "Aura? What is that?" Salem smiled and gestured him to follow. As they walked out the room Black noticed that the place he was in was a giant castle. "Aura is the manifestation of one's soul. Think of it as a sword and shield, it protects and heals you. It can also be used as a weapon. Everyone that has a soul has Aura, from plants to animals, everything except for my children." Black was paying close attention. "This Aura sounds very similar to ki."

"Within time of training your Aura some are able to discover their semblance," This earned her another questioning look from Black. "Semblance is a personal ability unique for any person. Every person's semblance abilities are different than others. Some semblances are more powerful than others in terms of offensive uses while others are useful for other purposes."

They stopped by a window and Black looked out of it, the sky was violet red, dead trees here and there. It was a wasteland and the sight of it displeased Black. "Beautiful isn't," Salem said. Black looked at her from the side. "Only thing that stops this scenery from spreading are those humans and faunas."

Black's eyes widen. "Humans live on this planet too?! The thought of more humans roaming around made him shiver in disgust. "To think that there were more of those pests still alive in other planets."

"So what do you say Son Black do you accept my offer?" She asked.

"No, I work for no one. Especially for some mortal like you," Black said making his way down the hall. "I had a feeling you might say that." All of a sudden he felt something around his neck. He reached up and touched it. It felt like a collar and when he went up to the window to see, it was indeed a collar. He turned to Salem and shouted. "The hell is this?!

In her right hand was a short chain that seemed to fade into nothing. "You can call it insurance. While you were unconscious for the past month I have been placing a spell on you. It took some time and difficulty but it all paid out." Pulling the chain Black neck was pulled forward a bit. "It was a good call I must, in case you refused my offer." He growled and walked up to the woman his fist clenched.

"You dare place a collar on m-!"

Black felt an immense pain on his neck that began to spread throughout his whole body, falling onto his hands and knees Black gritted his teeth in pain. "I was hoping we could've been partners, but having you as my servant can work as well." Black managed to look up and glared at her. She walked up to him and knelt down. "Now I want you to listen carefully. You will listen to every order I give you and will follow through with them," She lifted his chin so their eyes could meet. "And if you decide to disobey," Another surge of pain was shot throughout his body making him fall further onto the floor and shout in pain. "Understood?"

Black lifted his head and gritted his teeth. "Crystal." He growled. Salem's hand stopped glowing and the pain disappeared. Pushing himself up Black glared at her. "This woman will have a slow and painful death."

"I have a task for you do," She walked out into a balcony with Black following behind. "There's a subordinate of mine that has been working with the enemy. His name is Robert and he's currently in an Atlesian military base by Mistral." She touched his forehead and a lime green trail appeared in front of him.

"What do you want me to do, bring your pet back?" Black asked. Salem turned towards the horizon with a serious face. "I want you to destroy the base and kill him. Leave no witnesses alive. I can't afford to have your face be known to the public." Black started walking to the edge of the balcony. "Oh, and one more thing," He stopped and waited for her to finish. "You'll be able to sense where he is with the help of that chain. All my subordinates have a unique mark on them for tracking purposes. When you see that traitor tell him, his family will suffer for his betrayal."

"Tch" Black blasted off into the sky and flew towards his destination at mid speed. Salem looked up. "So he can fly as well, hmmm. He called me a mortal."

Black flew through the sky for the next 3 minutes when finally he reached the base. Stopping above the base and he looked at the soldiers on the ground. None of them noticed him floating in the sky. Black quickly descended down and followed the lime trail which led him to a big building. "I guess I'll have to flush him out."

"Hey who are you?!" A soldier walked up to and gripped his shoulder. "Hey I'm talking to you!" Black slowly turned to face him, he looked at the soldier for a second before grinning. All of sudden an explosion occurred from the left side of the base. Soldiers grabbed their guns, while Atlesian Knights were being activated. They all thought they were being attacked by Grimm. As they went to the source of the explosion they were shocked to see a teenager walking towards them dragging a dead body.

Black saw the soldiers and knights, making his grin to widen. Raising his hand he blasted them all to oblivion. Screams of humans dying brought music to his ears. A couple knights came from his side and fired their weapons at him. Black casually zipped past the bullets and punched each one of them, his punches tore through them.

More soldiers came and began firing their weapons at him. This reminded him of those humans that kept on trying to kill him back on earth. In a blink of an eye he appeared in front of them and quickly disposed of them. One by one they fell, Black snapped one soldier's neck and turned to kick one in the mid-section the kick ripped the soldier's upper half off.

It was a massacre, their resistance was futile. Two Spider droids fired beams and missiles at him. He rushed at the Spider droids knocking the incoming missiles out of his way and grabbed one of the missiles and hammered it down onto one of the droids. The explosion from the missile staggered it and from the smoke leaped out Black and punched one of its legs clean off. He twisted his body to the right dodging an incoming beam. He caught himself with his left hand and flipped back up on to his feet and fired a ki blast which disintegrated the machine.

Black still had a grin on his face but it then changed to one of that of a surprise when he felt something blast him from behind. It did no real damage to him but it did push forward a bit from the lack of attention. Looking back he saw the second Spider droid getting back up again. "Hmph, even machines don't know when to give up." The droid and Black charged at each other, the machine pulled back its cannon and brought it down towards Black. Using his left hand he easily caught the machine.

"Did you really think you could land a hit on me?" Black tore the arm cannon off and reached over and grabbed the center part of the Spider droid and pulled the top and bottom off. He flung the top part at the main building and the bottom at some fleeing soldiers.

"Fire!" He heard someone say. Looking up he saw 10 ships fire a dozen missiles at him. The missile hit their mark and caused a giant explosion. "Did we get him?" One of the Atlesain pilots asked. "Hell yea we got that bastard." Another pilot said.

One of the pilots heard a tapping noise above him, when he looked up he saw Black crouched down tapping the glass of the cod pit with an emotionless face which soon turned into a grin when he saw the feared look in the pilot's face. Black rested his palm onto the glass and blasted the front part of it, killing the pilot as well.

"What the hell was that?!" Out from the smoke Black flew and punched through one of the ships and ripped a wing off the other one. Using the wing he stabbed it into another ship before jumping off and blasting two others. The remaining ships tried firing again but Black was too fast for them to have a clear shot.

He kicked one out of the air. Then grabbed one from the back of the wings and spun around, he let go and had it crash into another ship causing an explosion. The last remaining flew away. "I gotta tell the General about this gu-." Black appeared in front of the ship and stopped it from moving forward with one hand. Black was still grinning. "Where do you think you're going?" Black charged a ki blast and destroyed the ship. Looking to his left he saw the lime green trail leading him to the forest.

A jeep was going full speed through the forest. "What happened back there?!" Robert asked in a panic voice. "I don't know!" The soldier driving shouted. "We just gotta get you the hell out o-."

"Watch out!" The second soldier shouted. Black landed in front of the jeep. The driver tried to swerve around but the back side of the jeep bumped into Black making the jeep spin around till it ended up crashing into a tree. Black stood there for a second then walked up the car. The driver exited out of the jeep and pulled out a pistol and fired multiple bullets at him. Black swiftly caught all the bullets and quickly glided forward and grabbed the driver by the neck slamming him on to the jeep's door. Black pulled back his fist and plunged it through the driver's chest and door. From inside he pointed his index finger at the soldier still inside. A scream of pain was heard inside before it was overcome with silence.

Black pulled his arm out and dropped the lifeless body. He looked towards the forest sensing Salem's follower running away. An idea popped in his head. He mimicked his hand like a pistol. With one eye closed he aimed, "Bang," A ki beam was fired and it zipped through trees before tearing through Robert's left leg. A cry of pain was heard deep within the forest. Black smirked and walked into the forest.

Robert crawled forward to get away from the monster Salem probably sent. He heard footsteps stop behind him. Turning his body and saw who it was, his eyes widen in shock. It was someone who was barely a young adult, he might as well still be a teenager!

Black lifted his hand. "Wait! I know Salem is forcing you to do this! Let me help you!" Robert offered. Black's face remained expressionless, "I don't need help from a lowly human to deal with her." With that Black blasted Robert's body into nothing.

He flew up and headed back to the base. When he got there he saw several soldiers still alive helping others from the destroyed buildings. "No witnesses," Lifting his arm in the air he created a tennis sized ki ball and threw it at the base. The explosion was big creating an after fire. Black smiled at his handy work, it reminded him how he would snuff out those humans back on earth.

"My, my you certainly did a fine work." A familiar voice said behind him. When he turned around he didn't expect to see a floating orb thing with tentacles to be there, facing the burning base. "You killed the traitor and destroyed the base in less than 5 minutes. I am very impressed." When Black looked closer to the orb it was none other than Salem talking through it.

Narrowing his eyes at the floating orb he asked. "What do you want?" The orb turned towards him, "I don't have any further use for you right now, so in the meantime, you'll be under the watch of one of my subordinates," Black's fists tightened. He was going to be taking orders from another mortal, the mere thought of it made his blood boil. He was too much in thought that he didn't even notice the orb use one of its tentacles to touch his forehead. "Follow the trail and you'll find her—now go." She ordered. The orb floated away into the distance. Black took deep breaths; as long as he had this collar around his neck he's going to have to endure this humiliation from these mortals. But when he finds a way to remove this collar, he's going to make them all suffer. He looked at the direction of the orange trail and blasted off.

Unknown to Black a woman in the trees witnessed the whole thing. She had long black hair and wore a white mask with red markings and red armor pieces with black clothing underneath. Black detachable leggings and black boots. This woman felt fear but also admiration for the person she saw destroy the Atlesian base. She had to know how this person got so powerful and if she can become that powerful as well.

Black flew through air for the next 10 minutes almost getting lost as the trail faded time from time, much to his annoyance. The trail started to descend down to the forest. Landing on the ground and he continued forward. Walking a couple yards he found himself in a camp of some sort. People walked around with masks that reminded of those creatures Salem controls. They had a black hoodie, a white buttoned armor with a black shirt underneath and wrist bracers. Long black pants and black shoes. On their backs was red symbol of a wolf head with a claw mark.

Black looked around in hopes he could spot his "new boss" and get this shit over with. As he walked around he noticed that these people had animal tails, ears, antlers and other animal traits. "So these must be the faunas, they look exactly like humans just with animal features" One of the faunas came up to him. "Who are you?"

Black stared at the faunas in front of him with a serious expression. He ignored the Faunas and brushed past him. "Now where the hell is this woman." He said to himself. He continued to walk around till someone grabbed his arm and tried to yank him back. Black remained unfazed from the weak pull and when looked at who it was it was some tall muscular faunas (White Fang Lieutenant). "What are you doing here, human?" The faunas asked in a deep voice.

"Let go," Black said. The faunas chuckled lightly at this human's tough guy act. He was getting sick of this mortal touching him. "Let go before I break that arm of yours." Black said in a threatening voice. The faunas still didn't listen, so Black decided to go through with his promise.

Grabbing the faunas's arm he pulled it off and began tightening his grip. The force he was applying made the faunas fall to his knee as he began grunting in pain. Some of the other faunas came up and aimed their weapons at him. Black still glared at the faunas in front of him and tightened his grip even more. The faunas could feel it, his wrist about to snap in half.

"Alright, that's enough." A voice said with a hint of lust in it. A woman approached him. She had long black hair and amber color eyes. She wore a red dress with and red high heels. Their eyes met. "She has eyes of someone who lusts for power. Hmph, typical human desire," Black let go of the faunas's wrist and stared at the woman in front of him.

"So you're the one my mistress talked about," She walked around him and observed him head to toe. She couldn't help but lick her lips. "She said you're a very interesting person." Cinder traced her hand along Black's arm, making him pull back from the contact from disgust. The woman chuckled at this, "My name is Cinder Fall," She held out her hand but Black didn't accept it.

Realizing that he's probably still angry about being a slave Cinder decided to overlook his attitude and pull her hand back. "Well? Are you going to give me your name at least?" She asked.

"…Son Black." He responded. Cinder smiled and turned around heading towards a big tent, she signaled him to follow which he did. When they entered the tent Cinder sat on a chest. "I'm sure Salem told you why you're here, right? She slowly crossed her legs and smirked. "Mind telling me what she told you?" Black growled lowly.

"Ooo, anger issues I see." Her smirk just made his blood boil. Managing to calm himself down Black told her his orders. "I'm here to serve and assist with whatever you need." He wanted to throw up after saying that. He was a god, but now he's offering his services to a lowly mortal! The humiliation enraged him!

Cinder got up and approached him and she caressed his cheek almost the same way Salem did to him. The action made his fist tighten. With whatever I need huh? Her face moved closer to his. "Get your disgusting face away from me." He thought.

He refused to back away from this and let this mortal get the satisfaction of provoke. She stopped just a mere inch away from his lips and smirked, pulling herself. Black glared at her, "My, I would normally have a guy nervously sweating, but you," She stared into his eyes and saw nothing but anger and rage. "You seem to want to kill me even more."

"Tch," Black looked to the side and crossed his arms. Cinder then walked to a table and with a map on it. He walked up to it and looked at it. "Atlas, Mistral, Vaco, Vale, Vert, Mimar, Lantis, and Menagerie. These must be the names of the cities that the human's and other faunas live in." Black thought.

"You won't be working alone," This made him look at her with a look of annoyance mixed with confusion. "You'll be working with two of my associates for the time being assisting the White Fang with their tasks and other orders they're given." Black gaze harden. "But don't worry; the fun stuff will happen soon enough." She walked to the exit of the tent before stopping. "Welcome to the team."With that, she walked out.