Remnant's Defender

by Dusk - BlackWarGreymon X

Our world was once a safe and happy place until evil aliens arrived with one plan:to destroy Remnant. Zuko,the original Magna Defender, have brought by a young man who has legendary power like no other. He gave his powers to the teenager in his legacy, giving birth the new Magna Defender to fight off this new threat. Gawain Avalon will make his stand to defend his people from evil.

1. Prologue and Chapter I

REMNANT'S DEFENDER

PROLOGUE: The Sword in Stone has found its wielder's successor

"Whew, this area does have a lot of Dust," A male teenager mused with a young Hispanic-like accent that are cool, fluent and naturally seductive, which can make teenage girls and even adult women giggle, squeal, or any positive reactions for the said sexy accent. After he wiped his head from the sweat of labor, the human slung a large bag over his shoulder and put the head of the pickaxe on his other one carefully when he heard no reply, "This pit chasm sure is dangerous to the miners who once came down here…But they didn't realize this place has a jackpot of Dust in them. If they stay here a little longer and go further, it will be worth it in the end."

The young man walked on his feet to the next spot for more Dust that are possibly buried in the rocks. The pit chasm he mentioned is indeed a pit chasm. He was surrounded by large formations of rock walls in this long and gargantuan hole. He looked up and saw a clear blue sky with a sun shines over the gap of the pit. He may never gotten deep in this hole before, but least he can still see a way out from here, much for his relief. He might be 100 ft. down from the surface by the looks of it. It is a good thing the old stone stairs are still much stable to hold all these years without him worry about climbing down this pit with ropes. There were elevators yes but he rather not take that chance, pretty sure they didn't last long than the old fashion way of stair steps.

He is an employee of the Dust market that is near at one of the villages of Vacuo. He was helping his very friendly boss by going into caves to mine and supply more Dust crystals. His boss is actually very nice and caring elderly man the teen have ever met. Though he can take care of himself but before the teen went to the mining caves, the worry elder always stated him to be careful of Grimm that lurks in the environments and not get hurt in the caves. That brought a warm smile on the boy's face. The teen fond of his elder boss like his own grandfather he never had. The teen eagerly helps his boss to get more crystals from the caves while the owner has to run the market. Despite the elder's protests and others, the teen always want to help people who can't do it themselves alone. In fact, the teen always help without being asked because he cares the people of Remnant, humans and Faunus alike. He wants to show people that to do pure actions will bring positive things of all their lives and keeping the hope of better future living.

As he was once an orphan, the teen didn't want the children at the orphanage to have difficult lives. So, he helped his pseudo grandfather's work in the Dust market and earned his liens before sent the most of them to the orphanage, to help the children's future lives and their dreams. Helping others in need are enough rewards for him.

The teen's muses broke when he began to focus his next task as he looked straight at the large rock which is twenty feet distance from him. He proceeded his walk until he's in front of the boulder. He dropped the items carefully on the dirt ground, causing the bag to open a little and showed bunch of colorful crystals inside. The teen put his hands on the surface of the glittering rock before patting, to find a weak spot to crack. He repeated this action couple times until he felt something a little dense on the palm of his right hand, which means he found it.

He then bend down to pick up his pickaxe before straightening his body up. He took one step back before lifting the tool over his head.

"Let see what I got." The young man said as he striking down the same weak spot of the rock with the pickaxe's sharp edge.

*Ting*

The pickaxe stabbed on the surface of the rock, made a small hole. The teen moved his tool a little until he pulled the pickaxe out from the rock. He lifted the mining tool again and just before he strike the boulder again…

*Crack*

The teen blinked before lowered the tool in front of his chest and looked at the hole of the rock he made. The hole was surrounded by many cracks but what got his attention was the cracks continue to spread on the rocky surface.

"Huh…Must be weaker than I thought…" He noted.

*CRACK*

His eyes widen when the cracks suddenly grew quickly all over the glittering boulder and continue to spread all over the rocky wall behind it, realizing that the said boulder is connected to it. Once he took couple of steps back, he felt a lot shaking not just the bottom of his feet but all of his surroundings. After dropping his tool, he covered his head (which wears a hard hat) with his arms when many pebbles and small rocks fell down from all sides above him while trying to keep himself balance from this quake. While still protecting his head, his eyes stared at the rock walls before widened when the cracks are still growing and starting to get bigger. As he was planning to go under something to take cover, the breaking wall finally gives in when the said wall collapsed, taking the large rock with it and caused a lot dust fly everywhere in the air. Coughing, the teen flapped his hand to blow the dust away from him. When all the dusty cloud finally went away, the boy opened eyes to see if this quaking event is over. His eyes widen what he's really seeing.

In front of him were once the boulder and part of the wall stood, there was a large opening taken their place. He dropped his arms and he examined the size of this new tunnel, it is large enough for a giant grimm serpent called King Taijitu to slither through this hidden entrance. Thought of a grimm alerted the teen's instincts when he picked up his pickaxe fast and looked around his surroundings, wary for the monsters of darkness hiding in the shadows. Not hearing the sounds and seeing red glowing eyes, the teen calmly lowered his tool/ weapon a little. There may be no Grimm near him but that won't be enough reason to drop his guard. He looked at the new hidden opening again, wondering what lies within at the end of the tunnel. There was one word suddenly came inside his mind.

Investigate.

The young teen went to the new entrance, ignoring the spilled bag of Dust crystals he just walked past. As he entered, the boy continued to walk on the straight path of the tunnel. While walking, he looked all sides of the tunnel and noted that the walls has thousands of Dust crystals almost buried in them. He assumed that he found a lost massive amount of Dust, hidden away from plain sight and never been touch like thousands of years…until now. It will take months or probably years to dig these thousands crystals out all by himself. But picking those valuable and useful objects does not concern him, he's not a greedy person like almost all rich people in Remnant. He's not sure about the Schnees though, their company may be a powerful and helpful to most citizen's lives and most businesses at few Kingdoms but there have been shady rumors about questioning business partners and Faunus labor he keeps hearing about.

THAT brought a frown on his face. The Faunus are NOT working animals for the name of Oum. They have freedom rights like everyone else and they don't deserve harsh treatments like being judge and receive discrimination just because their different. Despite their animal features, they are much like us humans. To him, the Faunus are the superior evolution of humanoids that can survive many world's environments than Humanity.

For examples: 1) People who have traits of fishes like gills that helped them to breathe underwater. And 2) Having improved animal senses like people with canine traits who can smell any odors (while the odor trail is still fresh or very faint) from faraway places, helpful to track their targets when needed or alert them when dangerous predators like Grimm were near their location.

The Faunus are awesome and cool race and yet they don't brag about their heritage, but most of his kind don't see it. A lot of humans both hate or jealous of the Faunus for just having a lot of advantages that his kind don't have, but mostly humans have cruel reasons and opinions which involves Faunus' animal feats. For example: they called the Faunus "freaks of nature" and etc. Their words, not his. His frown deepen. We all are not perfect and the Faunus sees it too-AND THEY ARE DEFINITELY NOT FREAKS. The Faunus were gifted and blessed by Oum, The Brothers or other gods who existed in Remnant, but it does not satisfy most of the humans. Sometimes, the teen felt disappointed yet angry at most of his fellow humans who continue their shallow and shameful acts towards Faunus.

If he's rich, he will not hesitate to make a huge campaign that supports equal and respectful rights of Faunus and their freedom. For that historic and political event, he will definitely use an awesome quote he got it from one of his random dreams.

"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." A deep, grave metallic voice with bass said the words with much wisdom and gentle-fatherly nature.

Despite being a dream, the young man is very interest and curious about the owner of a male voice who quoted the decent words. He wished he could meet him.

-Earth from Milky Way Galaxy-

*Vented Sneeze*

"Bless you."

"Thank you Max."

"Are you all right Optimus?" The second male's voice sounded concern.

"Let reassure Maximus, I am quite fine." The same grave voice assured.

"Can't you blame me for asking? You did recovered from Megatron's incurable plague virus which almost killed you. We made our luck in time when we gave you cure from that evil helm of his. By literally went inside his messed up CPU."

"No need to worry Max, it just came out of nowhere. We both certain that Cybertronians don't have allergies like organics do. Though the sneezes were not necessary for us since we don't acquire breathing, but I can only fathom that something or someone has been…thinking or talking about me."

"You may have a point there, Optimus." The second commented.

"Aside of this mysterious theory, were you planning to ride with Arcee for your first date today?"

"Actually yes. I just waiting for her when she's done waxing her frame's chrome."

"And I did, Dawny." A cool female voice informed with a hint of flirting.

The two occupants of the massive room turned to the owner of a female voice.

It was a female. Actually… a 23 ft. tall, very pretty blue female robot with pink and white highlights for better description. She has few parts of a motorcycle and her electric azure optics with a hint of violent color suddenly brightened when she stared at her courted.

The said courted is actually a handsome, male 'human' who is dressed in normal yet nice attire. His wild platinum/ white hair goes well for his strong masculine features of his tanned face and his sapphire eyes. His eyes too brightened when he analyzed the shiny chrome body of his courted.

"*Whistle* Dang, you look more stunning as ever, Azul." The 'human' called Max complimented.

The said female robot made a small yet warm smile on her faceplate.

"Why thank you, Smooth Operator. You ain't look bad yourself, handsome." The one called Arcee returned.

"Thank Sebastian. He bought this for me." He stated.

"For a human butler who retired from his spy agency career, he still has a quite taste in style. I will thank him when we went back at Rain's house," She noted as the femme then put her servo on her curve, metal hip, "Ready to roll out, Dawnstrike?"

The smiling 'human' gave her the thumbs up.

"Ready to transform and get wild!" Max proclaimed just as Arcee quickly shifted her frame into unknown make of a blue motorcycle with pink and white highlights. He ran and mounted on her vehicle form. After putting his black helmet with wild red-golden flames, the 'human' turned to the third occupant, "See you later, Optimus!" He saluted before Arcee revved her engine, quickly turned and drove fast through the exit with her date in tow.

Seeing their departure, the third occupant quietly chuckle in slight amusement while shaking his blue metal head. He described as a 45 ft. tall, warrior-like, red and blue giant robot with parts of a truck. His wise yet amused blue optics turned to the main computer screen which showing an image of a carefree smiling female robot who has codes and numbers of data streaming everywhere on her blue holographic, naked metal body.

"*Sigh dreamingly* A determine Cybertronian-human hybrid fighter-who learned a unique martial arts-is now going on his first date with his first girlfriend-who is a cyber-ninja femme with a personality that warningly said 'tough as nails'?-*Sighing again* This should be written in a love novel, Primo." A hologram cheekily remarked.

The metal titan made a small smile at her.

"Indeed, Aisha. Despite carrying the heavy responsibilities of a Gundam, a guardian of Primus, Maximus has a long and bright future with my sister-in-law." He replied.

"Hey, you Primes, the disciples of Primus, have quirks to have interesting love lives too," The cheeky artificial intelligent called Aisha returned with humor, "If after the war with the Decepticons, you and Elita One will definitely have a happy ending with Max and Arcee one day."

"What are you babbling about, Aisha?" A new male yet gruff voice from distance questioned, almost sounded sarcastic.

"Nothing, Hatchet~"

"FOR THE LOVE OF PRIMUS! IT'S RATCHET, YOU BUBBILY A.I.! RA-TCHET!"

"…Hatchet."

Then a big ol' wrench crashed through the monitor screen where the A.I. once was, breaking it in the process. The speakers came online from the main computer console.

"Oooooh Ratchet, you needed that~"

"RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"*Tired vent sigh* Primus, give me strength."

-Pit chasm, Remnant, back at the Lost Galaxy-

Maybe someday.

The young man brought out of his muses when he noticed a glowing colorful light from the end of the tunnel. He picked up his pace and lifted his pickaxe a little as he prepared what lies ahead. Finally exiting, the teen stopped his tracks when he examined what place he's in. His eyes almost bulge in amazement.

He found himself inside a massive chamber with hundreds of huge colorful crystals, poking out from all over the said chamber. He just found a large amount of Dust which are bigger than an adult bear-like grimm called Ursa. These impressive size of Dust crystals are quite rare to be found in Remnant's terrains.

"…This place has been hiding right under our noses in all this time? Huh, people at the villages should have go out more often." The boy remarked.

Then suddenly, a bright light lit up at the corner of his eye before he turned his head to the source. Not far from him, there was a green flashing light came from an item which is embedded in a rock. Curious, the teen walked, heading towards the objects. Near the positions of the item and a rock, he stopped his feet when he got a good look at them. The teen blinked as he has been surprising got off guard.

There was a mechanized yet advanced-looking sword and its silver blade stabbed the top of the rock's surface. The sword's hilt is colored deep black, its rain guard with lined sides is colored gold, the blade's fuller is golden while its center has zig zag lines, and the blade is perfectly shine in chrome. The sword's hilt has interesting features. The black cross-guards, which they're shaped like a bull's upward horns, and the black grip has golden lines while the pummel, which has a silver hexagon shape at the corner, is almost completely covered in golden material. The center between the cross-guards was a large, silver hexagon with six golden dots near the edge points of the shape. The middle layer of hexagon is colored golden as well. But there is one feat that really got the teen's attention. In the center of the middle layer, there was a small hexagon-shaped emerald gem and the said gem's light keeps glowing on and off.

"Okay…Despite the knowledge of all swords' designs I have, I never seen like this before. But here's a bigger question…what the sword like you doing here deep in this pit?" The teen asked as he dropped his pickaxe and reached his hand to the sword, planning to grab the hilt's grip.

Just before his fingers make contact on the grip's surface by only centimeters away, his eyes immediately caught on sight what is front of him and the sword in stone. In front of the teen and the sword was a large emerald crystal. He was staring his own reflection.

His body's height is at 6'5 feet tall (minus the hard hat). The yellow hardhat almost covered all the strands of his silver hair. He's wearing dirty brown shirt with ripped sleeves as it revealed his free arms with biceps which is not too big and not too small, perfect balance of size. His hands were wearing black fabric gloves. His jeans were dirty like his shirt. His feet were wearing hard leather shoes, protecting them from the hard and slightly sharp small rocks and pebbles. Despite having dirty smudges on his tanned face, he is quite a looker. His cheeks has no trace of baby fat. His lips were near small and he has silver eyebrows above his sharp eyes. Yet his eyes are special because its color trait is very rare that almost all people in Remnant does not have.

Really special.

Why is REALLY SPECIAL you ask?

His eyes' color are…

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…silver.

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...HE HAS SILVER EYES.

Not importantly looking his abnormal eye color traits and the rest of his reflection, the teen squinted his eyes at the blurry and shadow image within the large crystal.

He couldn't make most of it out but he can tell that the thing inside has sort of four limbs and a shape behind it looks similar to a cape.

…

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…

…

…Wait, limbs?

Cape?

He gasped with widen eyes before taking couple of steps back.

The thing inside the crystal was…

A PERSON!

A PERSON IS INSIDE THE CRYSTAL!

After calming himself of this shocking discovery, the teen's shocked face suddenly turned into sympathetic one when he continued to stare at the blurry figure in their crystal tomb. He felt really bad for the person has been trapped inside the crystal with no one else around to help them escape. Trapped like they were froze in ice. Probably they died and trapped inside the crystal more like hundreds or thousands of years.

…

Well, there was at least one positive thing.

At least they didn't die in a painful way.

The young man clapped his hands together and silently prayed for the unfortunate victim who had unpainful demise, Oum bless this person to be happy in heavenly paradise. After done praying, the teen looked down at the sword again.

"Well…I assumed you belong to the person who is inside that crystal over there. But I'm pretty sure your owner didn't want you to stay this place forever and probably didn't want you to be a relic in the museum, collecting dust," He stated before reaching the hilt's grip again, "I will take you with me and we will go to my home so I can polish you good. For badass sword like you, you need to be nice in clean, my friend."

His right hand grasped the sword's grip before he started to a pull. He blinked in confusion when the sword didn't even budge. Narrowing his silver orbs, the boy's other hand grabbed the grip and he went back to pulling. The teen became a little frustrated because the sword still won't budge from the rock, even he's pulling its grip with his both hands. He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth when he's pulling the sword from the rock with all his strength. Few veins appeared on the human's stressed face and his clutching hands when he's trying hard to make the sword's blade move up at least a bit from the rock. And then he suddenly felt the sword slightly moved. Satisfaction and determination came to his face, the boy continued to pull the sword from the rock, never giving up in this moment. With him still pulling and his eyes still closed, the young man didn't notice the gem's light on the center of the sword is now glowing on and off in an alarming rate. The teen couldn't help but roar when he made a final jerk with all his might.

"RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!"

*Metal schwing*

Then the teen's eyes widen for not when he's about to fall backwards, but flashing images suddenly appeared inside his mind.

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On top of a familiar tower, there was a blurry figure who carried the same mechanized sword in their hand while their cape been blown by the wind. Then the figure highly jumped into the air from the tower's roof before they're flying towards him.

He then watched the same blurry figure is now fighting the shadow red-eyed monsters with their sword somewhere in the forest, slashing and cutting these monstrous creatures to bits.

He saw the figure is now standing on one of the stadium's roofs, watching below where many future warriors are fighting each other in such combat and teamwork on the multi-element stage.

While looking from far distance, he's now witnessing once peaceful city is in flames. Its panic citizens were running and screaming in terror on the streets while many strange (large and small) ships in the night sky flying over the said city and few gargantuan-size beings were smashing and crushing buildings like they were child's toys.

He then saw metal and cyber-organic armies led by strange creatures marched on the streets where the screaming citizens were running from the same shadow monsters while the defiant ones who stayed fights back at monsters of darkness. One of the strange creatures signaled the army behind it and all hell break loose when they responded by blasting with their weapons at the citizens, warriors and shadow monsters.

He is now staring at the blurry figure who made their stand while they're looking up at the dark cloudy sky. They were glaring at the red-glowing, visor-like eyed fiend in shadow who's making red lightning bolts that danced around its giant upper body and the black clouds which are surrounding the menace. The cyclops-eye being returned them with a flash of red glare and pointed its right, sharp index finger at the blurry figure. A red lighting from one of the fiend's fingertips suddenly shot towards at the figure before a flashed of light covered everything in his vision.

Then now he's surrounded by pitch black of darkness, felt loneliness and hopelessness in the air around him. It changed when he saw two glowing eyes appeared in front of him. Their elegant amber orbs staring his silver ones, telling him that he's not alone and never lose hope. For some reason, he felt easy and warm when he continued to stare at the amber eyes of the mysterious owner.

Before he could say anything, a bright light flashed everything in his vision, blinding him in his subconscious mind.

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In reality, the boy fell down on his butt. Groaning and straightening his body, the teen opened eyes and looked down the item what is in his hands.

His hands held a now free sword and its full blade shined in satisfaction. And the fully brighten gem is giving out an aura of mysterious power that the boy is not familiar with when he felt it. He couldn't help but curious and confuse about the meanings of strange flashy images he just experienced with many emotions.

"Okay…what the infierno was that ABOUT?" The teen seriously inquired with narrowed eyes.

He suddenly heard a humming sound and felt a bright light lit up in front of him. He looked forward at the sources. The large emerald crystal is actually both humming and glowing green, more bright than the other crystals. The crystal was not the only one glowing. The two cores, one on the chest and second on the forehead, from the blurry figure are glowing bright green as well. His eyes widen as saucers when saw one of their hand's, which he assumed is a hand, fingers lightly twitched.

"Oh mierda…This person's STILL ALIVE!" The teen alarmingly exclaimed in sudden realization.

*CRACK*

His eyes couldn't get more widen when he now saw a crack that was created on the front surface of the large glowing crystal. It suddenly spread in alarming rate till it's all over the crystal and the cracking sounds stopped. There was a moment of silence.

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"Oh Oum, WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO!?"

If his god just answered his question, the large crystal shattered in thousands of pieces and many shards flies everywhere in the scene.

CHAPTER I: Urban Legend of the Black Knight

-One year later, somewhere in the forest-

Screams and shouts of people in terror rippled into the night along with loud, bestial roars coming from those were causing it.

The people that inhabited a small farm settlement deep in the forests of Vytal had been going about their usual or normal daily routines when they suddenly found themselves under attack by the deadly creatures of Remnant: Grimm.

Setting up what defenses they could, the people fought back, but given that they were a small community of only a couple hundred with little to no combat experience, and they were too far away from the nearest kingdom for help to arrive fast enough. They were on their own against the monster and to make the matters worse, one of the younger Ursi knocked down one of the fire-dust users and made him accidently pulled the trigger and shot at the hay next to one of the farmhouses, igniting them in flames and it spread all over the said house.

"We can't hold them back much longer!" A man shouted with wolf-ears on top of his head, driving a pitchfork into the throat of a Beowolf when it tried to maul him.

"The woman and children are safe! But one of farmhouses continues to burn in flames and most of the water-dust users were holding off some of the Grimm!" The another man shouted as the human swinging his shovel at a boar-like grimm called Boarbatusk, breaking it against the creature's powerful tusks before it rolled in on itself and barreled into a nearby building and taking down a wall, "Where the hell are those Huntsmen we called for?!"

"They still on their way as fast as they can," A large man with two rhino horns on his forehead informed loudly to his friends just as he slammed his sledgehammer at the Ursa's head, making bone shattering sounds, and caused it fly away from the group, "Putting out the fire is the least of our worries right now. Our first priority is to stall these Grimm long enough until the reinforcements arrive and we all end this attack together! Then we all put out the fire! So keep fighting!"

But more Grimm were coming out from the nearby forest and converging on the settlement and its small band of defenders. The situation is looking darker by the second.

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Standing atop a ridge half a mile from the village was a figure, stood tall and looking down on every scene. A long cape billowing in the wind, revealing a familiar hilt in their mechanized sheath on the left side of its belt while some sort of blade on the right side.

Before they were planning to join the battle, they noticed a scene in the middle of the village that got their major attention. They began crouching their legs and…

*Boom*

The strange booming (almost sound like thunder) effect was made when the figure jumped very high in the air and they're flying towards at the scene where the flaming farmhouse is, falling into the farm settlement in a fast rate.

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"MABEL!"

"Mommy!"

"You can't go in there!"

"You enter, you will get burn alive before making it out!"

"I DON'T CARE! MY DAUGHTER'S IN THERE!"

The two struggled men, one human and one moose-antlered Faunus, were holding a horrified yet determined and worried mother with deer ears on her head in their position from the same flaming farmhouse which is ten feet away from them, preventing the deer Faunus to throw her body at the heavy flames that blocked the only entrance and exit of the said house.

It was not entirely true when almost all women and children were sent to safe distance locations. Before the attack, the deer-Faunus mother was worried that her daughter who hasn't come back from her field-playing and she's been looking for her around the farm settlement until she heard familiar roars of monsters echoed in the air and all hell break loose.

But that didn't stop the mother when she determinedly continued to look for her daughter. While she's was searching, an Ursa and a farmer in distance were fighting until the creature made a surprised move on the human and it caused him to fell down and accidently shot his fire dust at the hay next to a farm house, lighting them up in flames in the process.

The deer-Faunus didn't pay attention to the latter scene while she's still looking for her daughter until her white skin paled when her sensitive deer ears jolted up and heard terrified yet familiar scream. She snapped her head at the direction of the source and her eyes widen when she found her daughter's voice came from the flaming house. Realization and reality of horror came to her mind before she bashfully tried to save her daughter. Tried is the word for when two nearest men (who managed to hear the scream and noticed the mother was planning to do) stopped the woman from throwing her life for the girl who's in a situation that is almost impossible for her to be rescued.

Almost.

Right now the mother was trying to get free from the men's gripping arms so she can desperately save her daughter while the men gritted their teeth in struggle to hold her down because her sudden mother-instinct strength came out of nowhere and making it difficult for their task. They can even feel their feet digging in the dirt forward as the deer-Faunus is slowly winning to be free from their grip and run inside the flaming house. If she goes in there, she won't survive because they're aware that her aura reserves were naturally low and it won't protect her from the burning flames and its dangerous heat for long when she tries to get out with her daughter.

The human turned his head, looking at the other farmers behind him who heard the commotion despite the roars and screams echoed in the air.

"Somebody go and get some water-dust users here NOW! We need to put out that-!"

*BOOM*

The human's sudden order came to halt when he, the moose-Faunus and the other farmers confusingly heard a strange noise that sounded awful like thunder from the clear sky. But the crying deer-Faunus didn't pay attention to the sound as she still struggling to get off the men's arms and reaching her arm desperately at the flaming farmhouse where her daughter is trapped inside, her child is still calling for her.

"PLEASE HELP! SOMEONE, ANYONE!? PLEASE HELP AND SAVE MY LITTLE GIRL!" The mother's cried of pleading echoed the whole entire forest as a tear drop fall down from one of her eye sockets and heading to the ground surface.

Time suddenly went to slow motion when the same tear drop continues to fall in a slower rate. The tear keeps falling…

Falling…

Falling…

Falling…

…and still falling until it's getting closer to the ground and…

*Drip splash*

* Thud*

*Yelps*

*Whoosh*

*CRASH*

Time went back to normal when she heard a thudding sound and surprising yelps from her friends behind her and her widen eyes caught a glimpse of black blur rushed right passed her, causing her long blonde hair blown forward in the process, before it crashed through the doors despite it contacting to the dangerous flames that were blocking the said doors.

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A 7-year-old girl with short blonde hair and small deer ears on her head was coughing weakly because she's keeps breathing the toxic smoke in the air while she's surrounded by the red flames that were getting closer to her position.

Mabel didn't know why this is happening. In the beginning, she was almost done playing with the fireflies out the field in nighttime and planning to go back inside her house with her mother waiting. After she chased them near the trees, the girl pouted and got confused when the fireflies she's having fun with suddenly flies away at many directions, leaving the girl alone. Before she could do anything, she froze and her cute deer ears jolted up when her eyes caught many sets of red glowing orbs appeared from the shadows of the night, all of them 'staring' at her.

The child Faunus was sweating in much fear because she now realized something…

She's in a whole lot of trouble.

Her thoughts has been confirmed when she heard low monstrous growls and sounds of dripping drool.

Mabel did one of the lessons which she's been taught by her mother.

RUN AND NEVER LOOK BACK.

She ran…

She didn't look back…

While hearing wolf-like howls and other animals' roars behind her…

…Which are GETTING CLOSER.

After she made into her small civilization, Mabel instantly scream "GRIMM!" many times to her fellow farmers, causing the said farmers immediately went to battle stations to defend their people and their farm settlement from creatures of Grimm. Hearing fighting and roaring sounds behind her, the small deer-Faunus, with her adrenaline and fear still clouded her senses, unconsciously ran inside farmhouse for shelter. After she made it inside, Mabel was already hiding inside one of the empty horse stables, crouching and rocking her shaking form. The scared child's mind was telling her that she will be safe here from the battle, making her hope the fighting outside the walls will soon be over.

That was until her impressive nose suddenly sniffed a burned hay…

Then she felt her body and the air is getting hotter…

Followed by a poison air that is suddenly hurting her lungs…

Her eyes widen…

BURNED HAY…

GETTING HOTTER…

POISON AIR HURTING HER LUNGS…

…Mabel realized that she made a POOR choice to stay hidden in this place which is ENTIRELY MADE OF WOOD.

Panicking, she rushed in front of the stable's door and tried to open it so she can go out and leave this upcoming danger, but the door wouldn't budge. Realizing with alarmed eyes, the Faunus child found out that she accidently locked herself in because earlier she unconsciously slammed the door shut behind her and it caused the lock's hook down through the metal slot which it's attached to the door's front side.

Mabel then decided to jump couple of times while lifting her arms up, trying to reach the top edge of the door. But it proofed futile because the Faunus' child form: 1) Her jumps barely lifted her body from the ground. And 2) her little arms couldn't reach the top edge of the door when it's taller than her short body.

Mabel stopped and her face made a panic expression. It gotten worse when she heard many sizzling sounds and her now widen eyes saw red-yellow lights glowing at the other side of the door, getting closer while she felt burning heat engulfing her body and the smokes floating everywhere in the air above her. The Faunus child with widen eyes took a couple of steps back while staring at the flames which now appeared in front of her, starting to engulf the door and its surroundings.

Suddenly, the little deer-Faunus starting to cough because she accidently breathe the smokes' toxic air and it continues to flow into her mouth and nostrils, leading all the way to her lungs. Mabel held her breath and covered her mouth with both hands to block the toxic smokes from entering her lungs. But she needs to breathe clear air because the atmosphere's oxygen must freely enter and leave her body so her brain and lungs can stay function.

Finally reached her limit, sweating Mabel gasped for air but again coughed when she only received toxic one, continued invading her body and system. Walking backwards before sitting down and lying her back on the corner of the wooden wall, the deer-Faunus child closed her tearful eyes shut while still coughing and sweating.

Her body is starting to get weaker because the heat of the flames and its toxic smoke are slowly killing her. Not only that, her aura was not activated yet to protect her due to her younger age. And her mind starting to lose focus because her brain is lacking of oxygen. How can Mabel think to get out this situation she's in?

That was until she heard her mother's yells of worry from outside of the burning walls that snapped her out of it, causing her eyes opened. Feeling hope of her rescue and planning to do her best in this opportunity, the Faunus child screamed in top of her lungs, hoping her mother can hear loud enough before went back to coughing. She's relieved when she heard mothers responded yells, calling for her while other yells came to her deer ears.

Right now, Mabel still coughing and sweating fast while the flames are getting closer to her. She saw this and starting to squirm to get away from the flame's embers that were landing near her feet. Her sense of hope starting to drop and her fear increased when this happening. She screamed again when she heard her mother's muffled voice.

"Mabel!"

"MOMMY!"

"You can't go in there!"

"You enter, you will get burn alive before making it out!"

"I don't care! My daughter's in there!"

Mabel closed her eyes and started to whimper, she suddenly felt that she's never going to be save. She's has been ignoring the next yells and the flames that were still getting close to her.

"Somebody go and get some water-dust users here now! We need to put out that-"

*Boom*

That sound made Mabel flinched while she's hiding behind her legs, continued to whimper with much louder tone.

"Mommy. Mommy. Mommy! MOMMY! HELP ME MOMMY!" She loudly cried out, feeling scared because she will never see her mother again.

"PLEASE HELP! SOMEONE, ANYONE!? PLEASE HELP AND SAVE MY LITTLE GIRL!"

*CRASH*

Mabel suddenly heard wood crashing sounds that were close to her. Despite the flames' loud sizzles, she then heard footsteps that were coming near her and her deer ears perked up when she heard a male, grave, distorted voice that sounded like an old veteran huntsman.

"Is someone in here!?"

Her eyes widen, feeling hope came to her mind. Mabel responded without hesitation.

"I'm right here! *Coughing*"

She closed her tearful eyes when she allowed more toxic air enter her body. She then heard footsteps that are getting close to her position until they stopped. Opening her tearful eyes and looked up, Mabel's eyes widen in horror.

She saw some sort of scary, two-horned figure in shadow who is standing behind the stable door's, which still in flames, front side. And the flames behind the figure doesn't help at all when she's imagining a scene image of a devil making his entrance while he's not been harmed by hell fire, engulfing him right in front of her. She closed her eyes again to make it go away. She heard the same voice again.

"Hold on!"

*CRASH*

Mabel flinched when she heard a crashing sound that was awfully close next to her. She opened her teary eyes before turning her right at the source. Her eyes widen when she spotted a ruin door, which is still burning, is now in pieces and were lying on the ground, near at the other corner of the stable. She turned her attention back at the figure who's now right in front of her, more scared of him because his strength while he was towering and staring at her behind his helmet.

"P-Please don't hurt me?" She stuttered in fear.

She then closed her eyes shut when she noticed the figure started crouching his legs and moving his arm, for her not realizing it started to reach her. As she waited for a moment, the Faunus felt a palm of his heavy yet comfort hand landed on top of her head.

"I won't."

Mabel opened her eyes and looked up at her savior in confusion for his voice sounded gentle in caring tone despite being grave.

She got surprised when he gave her a small request.

"Hold on unto me, keep your eyes shut and never let go…"

---

Everyone outside the flaming farmhouse was tensed, mostly the worried deer-Faunus adult. There were waiting some sort of rescuer who's saving the little Faunus and both of them to come out from the danger of fire before the entire place burns down above them. Despite hearing the battle sounds of farmer defenders and grimms, everyone in presence were trying to focus to hear anything since earlier the girl and rescuer's yells came to stop. There was a moment of silence besides them hearing loud sounds of sizzling-

*Rumble*

The audience froze when they felt a rumble on the bottom of their feet and shaking sensation was coming from the flaming farmhouse.

Without warning, huge amounts of water gushed throughout the front door entrance and new openings (which were created when the flood's pressure of water breaks through the wooden walls) of the farmhouse, soaking everywhere in said house as it extinguishing all the flames and stopped creating more smoke in the process. The flood almost knocked most people (while few weren't lucky like the others) off their feet when the huge streams of water rushed at them, soaking their lower bodies in the process as well. After the amount of water from now cooled farmhouse came to stop and the rest of it in the said house's radius slowly soaked on the ground, the farmers (ones with soaked lower bodies while others were completely wet) stared at the broken and wet doors, hoping to see two people alive to come out...

...while incredulously thinking where all those water came from.

All of their eyes widen when they heard slow, splashing footsteps that echoed from the farmhouse's entrance. The two men who were holding the mother let go of her just as she rushed at the front entrance frantically. She stopped her tracks when she's near at the front doors, her anxiety increased when she continued to hear footsteps which were getting closer to her. The deer-Faunus woman and people behind her widen their eyes for those who exited out.

Slowly, an unknown man and unharmed child, who cuddled safe in his arms, were walking towards the people in front of them while both their bodies engulfed by glowing blue aura. Many farmers were shocked for the unknown figure's presence and appearance while others surprised that both man and the little Faunus have no trace of water or wet spots on their bodies. But for a certain mother, the deer-Faunus woman didn't care either of them when her eyes immediately leaking out of tears in much relief and joy, looking at her daughter's alive form in her savior's arms. Instantly, the Faunus adult ran to her daughter and the unknown man, who both noticed her coming.

Crying and squirming her savior's arms, the little deer-Faunus reached her arms forward at her mother.

"MOMMY!" Mabel sobbed before she coughed, causing the man to notice it.

"MABEL!" The Faunus mother returned as the unknown man gently passed the child, who's aura slowly disappeared because she's been separated from her savior, to the woman's arms before she and her daughter were now hugging each other, crying hard while their tears dripping from their eye sockets and not caring her daughter's smoke smudges rubbing on her body and attire. The mother sniffed a little before looking at her daughter's savior, her very grateful red-vein eyes meeting their reflection from the man's black visor, "Thank you…Thank you so much…" Her voice was hoarse and trembled when she whispered.

The unknown man responded with a nod of "You're Welcome" just as his blue aura turned into pink, which the audience witnessed it in surprise. He bend down to the two Faunus before he reach palm of his hand in front of the little girl's chest. Ignoring the weird looks from the farmers, the man's palm glows in pink with pink-flower image appeared on his said palm. He moved his palm closer to the little Faunus' chest, almost touching her. Then the girl's hurting lungs suddenly heals when she starting to breathe easily. After he saw the girl is now breathing normal and the palm's glow vanished along with the pink-flower image, the man removed his said palm from the little Faunus' chest before standing on his legs. Then his pink aura turned into silver color before the silver aura slowly disappeared, completely vanished off his body. He noticed when the two deer-Faunus giving him their confuse expressions.

"…I removed the smoke's toxin particles from the girl's lungs. She can breathe just fine now. But I recommend she needs medical attention. So they can check out her health just in case…" The unknown man informed and stated, causing the mother to give him a very grateful nod while her daughter star-gazed at her savior. He then turned his head at the same two men, who were still dumbfounded and gawking at him in the beginning, behind the two deer-Faunus "…You two…" The human and the moose-Faunus' bodies went rigid when the unknown man's grave and distorted voice snapped out of their stupor, "…Take them both back with the others who are in safe locations. And be sure this Faunus receives medical help when she gets there…" He firmly ordered as he referred to the two deer-Faunus in front of him.

As their brains finally processed his words, two men nodded to the unknown man before they walked and grabbed the two deer-Faunus with them, taking them into safe location where other women and children are.

While ignoring other farmers' awe stares, the unknown man turned to the sight of battle between the farm defenders and the Grimm attackers.

Now it is time to join in the fight.

---

"Who put out the fire? And where all those water came from!?" One of the farmers asked in confusion to his fellow farmers, the one who managed to see the whole scene just before it's been blocked by heat mists of water steam and smoke.

"I don't know but figured it out later and keep on fighting!" The same rhino-Faunus ordered as he rammed his horns at a young Beowolf's abdomen, tearing its blackness flesh just before he threw the dead corpse in the air as it slowly dissipates like in ashes.

The farmers backed away as the Grimm closed in, claws and teeth ready to end their lives where they stood their ground. One of the young Ursi, the same one surprised the farmer earlier, is leading them as it stood and roared on its hind legs, preparing to swipe its massive paw at the same rhino-Faunus' back side without him noticing it.

Just as the Ursa's paw raised in the air-

*LOUD mechanize sound*

*Several MONSTER PEWS*

*Several small explosions*

No one could register this event when the bear-grimm's head and several other grimms' vital spots exploded in green blast lights, mixed with shower of black and bone-mask fragments before the corpses of Grimm collapsed to the ground, starting to dissolve into black mist.

…

The rhino-Faunus and other farmers turned their heads at the corpse of Ursa who tried to kill the large man from behind, their widen eyes staring it's almost, completely black-ash particles while the active grimms stared at the their dead in small confusion.

"…WHAT. WAS. THAT!?" The one of the farmers exclaimed in question, a burly bear-Faunus shakenly holding a machete in his hand while the other one grasped his head in protective manner as he disturbingly watched the Ursa corpse's ashes are now completely gone.

Can you blame him?

A grimm has descriptions of a bear…

…The man has bear feats…

…It's like open season all over again…

…Which he unfortunately and accidently got involve in…

…The man wished for having fur paws instead of bear ears…

…There were sirens, one firetruck and one ambulance…

…He went to his therapist couple of times…

…After done visiting his barber shop…

…He got a lot of SORRY letters from his friends…

…Including HAIR conditioner and HUG coupons inside…

…He also received a bunch of HONEY in deliveries…

…But still…

…He can still feel and smell the singe of his hair burning…

Fortunately for him, the bear-Faunus thoughts were not confirmed, much for his relief, and his question has been answered.

"Behind us!" The same surprised farmer from earlier called when all farmers, including the Grimm, heard footsteps and turned their heads at the sources, where the green blast shots came from the cloudy heat mists of water steam and smoke.

*Step*

*Step*

*Step*

*Step*

*Step*

[The Main Protagonist's Theme Music 1*]

A shadow form of humanoid with a cape appeared inside the mists, slowly walking towards the battlefield while it's holding a shadow form of a gun.

The farmers raised their weapons/ tools a little to prepare for anything, being caution for the new arrival who entered the battle.

The Grimm did the same thing by baring their drooling teeth at the newcomer, but to them in the inside, they (even the younger ones) suddenly felt tensed for its upcoming presence.

When the mystery figure finally emerged as it cleared out of the mists, every farmer including few grimm widen their eyes for its appearance.

It's a man.

But not an ordinary man.

The new arrival is 6'8 FEET TALL KNIGHT ARMORED man.

The man's legs has metal sabatons, greaves and cuisses in black with silver metal outlines while his knees are protected under his silver metal poleyns.

His metal pelvis plate is colored black with silver metal outlines while a black strap belt (holster attached the left side of the said belt) with silver lines strapped around the said plate. There was some small-yet-normal blade (with a glimpse of yellow) on the right side of his strap belt.

His waist is protected under a large golden metal band with black zig zag lines in the center and around the said band (while the band has silver edges).

The man's hands and arms has metal gauntlets, vambraces, faulds and rerebraces in black with silver metal outlines while his elbows are protected under his silver metal couters.

His shoulders are protected under his round metal spaulders in black. And the bottom of them has the same size of golden metal bands with black zig zag lines in the center and around the said bands (while the bands has silver edges as well).

The man's chestplate has 3 merged, long silver metal lames (which are shaped of 'M's) below the chest's core and above the waist golden band. On the center, the core of his chestplate is a large angled-hexagon-shaped emerald gem with its edges are made of silver metal.

The man's has a long black cape (that goes all the way above his heels while its flies because the cue of blowing wind) with its other side is pure red. The cape is attached both top backsides of the chestplate's clavicles. He's also wearing a black skin-tight clothing under his armor, completely covered his hidden skin (feet to his neck).

Holdings his weapon, it was a mechanized yet advanced-looking rifle. The body of the rifle is mostly black while it has few colors. The muzzle is colored black. Behind the muzzle, a small part of the rifle's body is colored in golden material. Way in the front and near the muzzle, there's a black front sight on top of the rifle. At the bottom of the rifle and behind the small golden material, there's a gray charging grip (which his left hand's palm is grasping the said grip). The two long, straight golden lines (one each side of the rifle) are plastered in the middle of the rifle. Behind the straight golden lines, they're six shapes (three each side of the rifle and the said shapes' centers are black while the edges are highlighted in white) in row: a large rhombus, two small parallelograms before the golden line. The rifle has two silver metal pieces (one each side of the rifle) below the shapes with white edges. Behind the shapes and silver pieces, *Note: Only to you viewers, this features are quite familiar* the two sides of the rifle's butt are both hexagon (outer silver layer and middle golden layer) shapes while their cores are emerald-hexagon gems. Above them, there's a black rear sight (with golden lines) that resembles a bull-like horn. At the bottom of rifle's butt, there's a black grip (which his right hand is holding the said grip) with golden lines while its bottom is almost completely in golden. In front of the grip is a trigger (which his right index finger is still touching the said trigger). In front of the trigger is a black trigger guard (with golden lines) that resembles a twisted or backward version of a bull-like horn. And finally *Note: Now this you're not familiar with* there's a piece of silver metal (near in front of the rear sight) attached on top of the rifle.

And reaching the final part of the armor, the man's metal helmet is colored black and it has two golden bull-like horns attached on both sides of the said helmet. His mouth guard is silver while a thin golden metal edges surrounded the said mouth guard (like a small golden beard). Above the mouth guard and between the golden horns, he has a black visor with silver metal edges which one of them is a straight horizontal line that ran across the middle of the said visor *Note: imagined the visor looks like large black lips*. Above his visor, there's a large golden U-like vertical line (while its center is silver) plastered all the way to the back side of his helmet. On the surface of the U line and above his visor, the final feat of the helmet is a small angled-hexagon-shaped emerald gem on the center of the forehead.

Every farmer were staring at the newcomer and his appearance in shock and awe while the Grimm growls at the said newcomer.

Still walking, the unknown man in knight armor made the weapon's charging grip slide before returning its position as it made a satisfying sound effect that is music to his ears inside his helmet.

*Loud mechanize sound*

Starting to walk past the farmers, the unknown man spoke to one certain farmer with rhino horns just as he walk passed him.

"You all stay behind me…"

It isn't an order.

It's a serious request.

Which made the awed large Faunus happily complied like the others as the knight armored man stopped at the center of the battlefield, in front of Grimm who were predatory growling and soullessly glaring at the said man.

The unknown man returned them with a glare of his own, his visor of black void reflected the red glowing eyes of darkness monsters.

The shattered moon's light shined the man's armor in majestic and intimidating fashion.

The grimms' legs starting to crouch while continuing growl at their new enemy.

A small current of wind has arrived in cue to blow the man's long cape, making it fly in the air.

The grimm opened their predatory mouths to let their disgusting drool out while scratching their claws to the ground menacingly, trying to make the man show any negative emotion, which his determined, calm and confident composure are doing well for him not to be afraid and nervous at all.

The man's trigger finger slightly moved, ready to pull his weapon's trigger.

There was moment of silence besides the animal growls and the cricket chirps in the air.

…

…

…

…

Then all hell break loose.

[Theme music ended]

[Heroic Battle Ost started 2*]

Just before the several younger Grimm charge at their new/main threat to kill him, the armored knight immediately aimed, faster before anyone could react, and fired several green blasts all at once into the dark creatures, killing the younger ones as the perfect precision shots contacted and exploded their vital spots (which of them has no bone armor) in a burst of green light before their dead corpses collapsed and starting to wisp. Running to his left, the man slide his weapon's charging grip again, made the same sound in the process, before rapidly fired several shots once more at the Grimm who all now attacking the said man. Again several of Grimm are killed in the same results when their vulnerable spots exploded in mix of green light and black fresh.

The armored man noticed the Grimm are now getting closer to his position, too close for his firing range. Already decided, the man stopped his run, faced the charging grimm and he put his weapon into the strap of his belt's holster, left side of the said belt, while still holding the said weapon's grip. Suddenly with shifting sounds, the man's right hand pulled the grip upward and made the horn-shape trigger guard twist as it now facing the right way like the horn-shape rear sight. The man 'pulled' the grip forward-

*Schwing*

-and it was followed by a long, familiar blade from the inside of the rifle as he lifted his now free sword in the air, revealing the body of the rifle is actually a sheath.

Then the armored knight charged with his sword forward, heading towards at the nearest grimm creature. A young-charging Beowolf lifted its arm to strike the new enemy with its sharp claws, but the said enemy was faster to react when he swung his sword. Whatever the sword is made of, its metal is stronger than it looks when the said sword's blade perfectly decapitated the grimm (cutting its black fresh and fracturing bones), making its head flying in air as the armored knight continued to attack forward, ignoring the collapsed dead body and the head's landing behind him.

The remaining grimm creatures mobilized on their attacker when they got close, but instead found themselves the receiving end of a futuristic sword assault with very impressive swordsmanship and the long blade was cutting them into pieces. Ignoring many new corpses of dead Grimm behind him, the man slashed another Beowolf to his right. Turning, he saw a Boarbatusk in distance jumped, curled itself, rolling its body before brought itself to the ground, immediately charging at him. The man's left hand grabbed the exposed part of the grip before he moved his body and his sword into an back right stance, waiting for a right moment while the rolling grimm-tusk boar still charging at him.

Finally the rolling grimm got in his close range as time went slow motion…

…The Grimm's rolling body just exposed its belly side…

The man instantly rolled his arms up and dropped them with his gripping sword. The sword's vertical swipe completely sliced the rolling grimm in half, cutting its black fresh and bone armor as time returned to normal when the two halves splitting passed the man's sides.

After the halves of Boarbatusk landed behind him and starting to dissolve, the armored knight noticed and ducked under a claw-swipe from an Ursa before he turned and diagonally slashed the bear-grimm's chest. He cut another grimm in half as its upper body flies in the air before it landed just as its lower one collapsed. Then the armored knight backwardly flip jumped as the two more Ursi slammed their massive claw-paws at the same spot where he once stood, missing their target. After landing perfectly and him wasting no time, the knight charged forward and swiped horizontally at the Ursi' waists, splitting their bodies into halves.

After the body halves of two dead Grimm fell down behind him, the man blocked the Beowolf's claws with his sword's blade, making sparks on contact. He then pushed the grimm's claws away before he quickly left elbowed to its white canine skull with red markings, cracking it because the man's dense armor's couter. When his close target left stunned from the impact, the armored knight made a downward vertical slash at the grimm's head, splitting all the way its body like tearing a tissue paper.

The man flip jumped over the two Beowolves who just swiped their claws forward, missing his chest as the man landed behind them before he twisted his body and slashed their chests in horizontal fashion.

When his targets' dead bodies disappeared, the armored knight turned and faced the last Grimm, an adult Ursa which has been leading the horde against the settlement. The hulking bear-shadow creature is easily twice as big as a normal Ursa with harder bone armor and array of large spikes on its armor's back.

Rearing on its back legs, the adult Ursa roared loud enough to shake the nearby trees, silently challenging its prey to make a move.

Standing his ground and planning his final strike, the armored knight used his left hand to wave in front of the sword's emerald gem. After his wave, the two small hexagon gems on their hilt's centers suddenly turned bright red, glowing as they're burning fire.

And something amazing just happened.

The sword's full blade engulfed rapidly in red-orange flames, its lights glows very bright in the dark night of Vytal.

The knight armored man moved his body and his now blazing sword into an inside right stance, not bothering from the fire's dangerous heat close to him as his entire body is standing still and his hidden eyes deadly glared, which has better effect because his black visor reflected the flames' form, light and glow, at the Grimm's red soulless eyes, who returned with a glare of its own.

The wind current picked up as it blowing the trees' attached leaves, the green grass of the big field, remains of smoke and steam mists, the farm defenders' hairs including Faunus with animal furs and finally the knight's flying cape.

The patient knight continued to glare at the adult Ursa who still predatory glaring at him as their bodies remained standing on the blowing grass.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"…"

*Loud Roar*

The large adult grimm finally reacted as it roared and crouched his limbs on all fours before its body barreling forward. As the same time as the Ursa acted, the knight armored man charged forward with his running legs, pointing the tip of his fire-blazing sword at the direction of the large barreling grimm's chest center.

Suddenly, every background turned into completely pitch black when the horizontal trail of large flames ignited behind the charging knight, giving him and his final strike a thrilling effect.

Finally they both got close enough to end each other's lives when the adult Ursa moved its upper body up and raised its massive paw with dangerous sharp claws in the air, the man reacted by (with flames and black background behind him) blazingly slashed in horizontal fashion at the grimm's chest.

*Swoosh with loud wisps and sizzles*

Both attackers right passed each other as their bodies going to halt by digging their feet into the ground forward, stopping their bodies' kinetic motion. After their moving bodies finally stopped and every black background disappeared along with large flames, the two battlers' (their back forms were in distance from each other) bodies remained still while they're standing on their feet.

Every farm defenders sweated in anxiety for which one will fall while the other one stands.

Who's the winner?

Then every farmers' bodies went rigid when they saw the crouching unknown man twisted his sword, which all the flames burn out quickly just now and the gems went back into emerald color, with his right hand few times in professional manner, then his gripping hand put the tip of his said sword's blade inside his mechanize sheath before halted.

Every audience is anxiously waiting what is about to happen.

…

Then it happened.

But which they completely not expected.

The same time as the knight armored man pushed his sword's blade inside the sheath completely, the standing large adult Ursa, instead any slice body parts fly or fall, finally reacted when its body jolted up and shaking crazy like it is having a seizure as sparks popping out of nowhere from the Grimm's said body while blue static of electricity dancing around the dark creature, the ground and in the air.

Then the Grimm's body froze as the sparks and blue static of electricity stopped.

The Grimm's smoking body starting to fall forward.

It let out its last, dying gurgle of breath just before its body impacted on the ground.

Instead of starting its dissolve process, just as its belly contacted on the ground, the large adult Ursa's entire body suddenly-

*BOOM*

-detonated in a big fiery explosion that reaches high in the night sky with stars and shining shattered moon before the man straightened his body up while still holding his sword's grip, simply ignoring the said explosion behind him.

[Heroic Battle Ost ended]

After the explosion and all smoke in the farm settlement finally cleared, the armored knight turned around and saw a large black scorch mark where the Grimm's deceased body once laid. He then looked further. He then saw the settlement and the awed people that lived there after seeing him dispatch the Grimm single handedly. The people who had taken refuge from the attack had also come out and witnessed the takedown, all of them stunned as the rest.

Well…almost all of them were stunned.

One of the farmers with bear heritage was staring at him with big eye saucers as if he was a boogeyman.

His small worry thoughts for the bear-Faunus lifted away when a voice finally speak in the air.

"It's…It's him…" One of the townspeople said, unable to blink as they looked at their savior, "The wandering armored huntsman…The Black Knight…he's REAL!"

The wind picked up, sending leaves across the ground and blowing the man's long cape in the direction it was going. In the next moment, he turned around and-

*Boom*

-jumped very high, with a thunder booming effect followed, in the air to the night sky, in front of the shined shattered moon. Then his form got too far away when he slowly vanished. Leaving no evidence behind, save for what those he had saved witnessed.

'He was holding back…' The rhino-Faunus thought after he calmed down from his stupor '…He didn't use his Semblance, he only used a fire dust attack on the adult Ursa in one move, and he killed all the Grimm more than a minute without breaking a sweat. Is this Black Knight a true veteran huntsman? And when he just walked past me…what's that power I felt besides his Aura?' His curious thoughts were gone when he noticed his fellow Faunus friend with bear heritage was staring strangely at the large scorch mark, his body completely still.

"Bob? Something wrong?" The rhino-Faunus asked, confused.

"…"

"Bob?" The man with rhinoceros heritage ventured, his eyebrows furrowed before they suddenly jumped up when he saw the Bear Faunus leaning back as he was-

*Thud*

-falling backwards.

"BOB!? Wake up, Bob! Wake up!"

Just like that, the bear-Faunus fainted and fell.

Bob was traumatized once again.

---

By the time the Huntsmen that has been called in from Vale, they were greeted with the sight of everyone being alive and well. When asked about what has happened, they were told that a recent urban legend has saved them from their fate.

One of those Huntsmen on arrival, was Qrow Branwen.

After hearing the accounts from the townspeople, he left the other two huntsmen he had arrived with to handle the people while he looked where the battle had taken place. He found a large black scorch mark on the ground, which confirmed what he heard right from people who were saying that their savior made the adult Ursa's entire body EXPLODED just after it been defeated by ONE strike move…Unsurprisingly for Qrow, this is not the first time he heard about it in this time of year. His red, sharp eyes now scanning the trees before settling on the ridge where the unknown huntsman had been when it all began.

Ever since he has first seen this 'wandering armored huntsman' a year prior on his way back from an assignment, Qrow been keeping tabs on anything that resembled this Black Knight and his abilities. Qrow has seen many, many things in his time as a huntsman…but MULTIPLE semblance abilities this individual wielded isn't like anything ever recorded in history.

The Black Knight dispatched the Grimm with the precision of a veteran. Though there was one thing that got Qrow's main attention, is that this man possessed another power. The informative sources, whom were few witnesses of The Black Knight's victories, had felt their savior's presence when he got close enough. Aside they felt his aura, the sources said that The Black Knight has another power. They described it which is…completely unknown to them, only it seemed…alien, almost as if this power is not from this world and yet it triumphed against the creatures of darkness.

The strange sword The Black Knight wielded also seemed to possess the same power. On top of that, his weapon was more advanced that anything forged on Remnant and, which Qrow's sources also explained, the unknown huntsman never carry ammo for his said weapon. He also heard that The Black Knight's weapon in rifle mode shoots unknown energy blasts. Qrow assumed that The Black Knight's weapon must have unlimited energy, coming from the sword's unknown power source. Not even the Atlas military had such effective hardware in their armories, which had also raised Qrow's eyebrow more than once.

When Qrow informed Ozpin of this development, he too has taken a great interest and was using his own contacts to try and figure out more about this sudden arrival. But The Black Knight was illusive, staying out of the more populated areas and sticking outside the kingdoms. Many would consider this foolish, but with how this person operated it was easy to see how they could thrive so well in the dangerous environment beyond the borders.

Qrow looked out along the ridge one last time, the wind billowing his cloak as he turned and headed back into the small town. He's to give his friend a call about this recent event, then he head out on his own.

He needed to get going as quickly as possible while the trail was still fresh.

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In the middle of a small forest with dead trees, there was an old shack that has been better days, but inside was very much lived in and has been so for over a month now.

The door opened and a dark figure stepped inside before closing the said door behind him. He looked around for a moment.

"…Home sweet home…" The unknown man behind his armor mused as he (despite of him not seeing in the dark) walked to the dust-powered lanterns he has set up around.

After he turned each one on, the lanterns' lights revealed his full form is a two-horned black knight with colors of gold, silver, emerald and red. The lanterns also revealed the inside of the shack. The place was just big enough for one person with just an old bed and a long shelf-like table set up against the wall with a lone stool below a single window that was thankfully intact with only a small crack in it. And next to the window, there was an old mirror with a crack at the bottom left corner.

After he walked to his bed and sit down the top of his mattress, the man's both hands grabbed bottom sides of his helmet. He slowly removed his helmet up with hiss sounds. While putting his helmet on his right side, he looked at his face's reflection from the old mirror.

It was actually a same male teenager back from one of the villages of Vacuo. But instead wearing a hardhat and have smudges, his whole silver hair is free and his tanned-face has no said smudges. His silver hair is cut short around the back and sides blending into the top which is jagged cut to create texture and add height *Imagine John Stamos' cool and casual hairstyle*.

Well…there is one new feat on his face.

Ran across his right eye downward, there was a scar-like mark which it is shaped like a lightning bolt.

An actual lightning bolt.

With his short-cool-casual hair, clear tanned face and a lightning bolt mark ran across his eye…This young man is definitely quite a looker.

When he continued stared at his reflection, the teen's thoughts went to the events that happened earlier.

It has been a good thing he was in the area when his string's pendant was glowing and he smelled the fire's smoke from the farming town while he was not wearing his armor before he 'suit up quickly'. He got there just in time.

"…Kai, Kendrix, thank you for your semblances again my friends." The teen spoke in his normal voice with his accent.

He didn't earn all the credit to save the girl and put all the fire out before healing her. Those semblances belongs two of his closest friends. Kai and Kendrix willingly allowed him to 'copy' their semblances so the silver-haired teen can use his friends' said semblances to help not just himself, also people who are in need. Well…Kai and Kendrix were not the only ones who willingly allowed him to 'copy' his friends' semblances to be honest. There are others, which all of them are his closest friends too, allowed him to copy their semblances with same intention. There was a list.

Leo Corbett: His Semblance is called The Coat of Fire. His semblance's ability can upgrade his aura force-field by creating real fire and spreading them on his said aura force-field, shielding himself completely in burning flames for increasing his aura's defense. His semblance also can give his body and his aura their fire immunity. His Semblance's firepower increase when his control emotions like love, determination or strong will appears and they can boost his said semblance, burning his enemies in twice the power or more (depends how strong his emotions are) when they contacted his flaming aura.

And add notes from Kendrix who is scientific expert of semblances, aura and etc. The Semblance's flames are actually a security-like entity in fire-elemental form. It has two methods.

1) The cautious method activates when Leo's semblance began to active. The fire-entity can 'sense' people or things who has hostile intentions, has killing intent, has corrupted hearts and soul or made of malicious darkness (Grimm). After it 'sensed' them, the entity's second method activates. 2) The entity's defensive method is that the semblance's flames 'will react' to protect its user from danger. Any danger who contact Leo's flaming aura will get burn when they're in entity's both close range and mid-range.

And here's surprising note…The entity also has a safety mechanism. The mechanism is the semblance's flames 'allows' the person (human, Faunus or animal) to touch its user and its fire form 'will' not harm them in the process after it 'sensed' their hearts and souls are pure, don't have any hostility or not leaking killing intent at all.

After he learned about his semblance's fire-entity, Leo calls it Niran or 'Ni' for short since the flames are sentient-like.

Very unusual semblance, but still cool though. You know what is cooler? Leo learned how to box well and he can use his active semblance to add his boxing skills as his own advantage. Him using his martial arts with parts of Niran on his fists? Very impressive and smart how Leo defend himself when he fights up close and personal, with a help of Ni of course -Leo's words, not his-.

It is a good thing for the silver-haired teen knows how to use close combat when he uses Leo's semblance at the same time.

Damon Henderson: His Semblance is called Cyclone of Wind. Damon's semblance ability can generate winds of varying intensity from his arms and legs which the latter can give him an ability to hover by using a cyclone that engulfed his said legs to ascend in far heights. His Semblance also gives him abilities of Air Breath and Lung Adaptation.

The teen considered to use Kai's semblance as a better option because using Cyclone of Wind at near fire-based environments may increase the heat.

Kai Chen: His semblance is called The Aqua Maker. His Semblance ability can create and manipulate water out of thin air. The Water-type Semblance can upgrade the user's aura force-field which giving him an ability to breathe underwater while any drop of water can't contact the said user's body skin, hair and his whole attire too. He can also share that upgraded aura force-field to anyone on contact.

Using Kai's semblance earlier back at the farmhouse, the silver-haired teen made a huge amount of water (thanks to his monstrous aura reserve he has) out thin air before controlling them all to put out the whole fire. Before he do that objective, he shared his upgraded aura force-shield to the little deer-Faunus, not allowing her to drown in the water while he held her tight so she cannot be taken by the flood's strong currents.

Kendrix Morgan: Her Semblance is called The Supporter of Pink Petals -her words, not his-. Her semblance's ability can heal people (who has injuries or sicknesses) by using her hands as they can glow in pink while pink-flower image effects appeared on each palms. Her glowing hands must get close to the person in order to heal them. But the downside is that healing someone can cost some of her aura energy while she has to sustain mental effort for long before she weakens.

With her semblance is active, she also has aura transfer ability by shooting pink-energy beams (from palm of her hands) at her aura-user opponents which the beams' effects can drain aura-energy from them before she transfers the stolen aura energy to charge up her own aura's reserve. After she drained her opponents and have much aura than she normally has, she also can make another option by reversing the effect of her pink-beams before shooting them at her comrades, sharing the extra/stolen aura energy to charge up their aura reserves, when her said comrades got tired by using their semblances against their opponents or their aura force-field received damages.

The silver-haired teen used her semblance to heal the deer-Faunus girl from the smoke's toxins. Unlike Kendrix's normal stamina and her medium-size aura reserve, for him it only cost a tiny bit of his monstrous aura reserve when he used the healing powers of The Supporter of Pink Petals. While healing that acquires focus, the young man didn't feel weaken at all because his own impressive stamina, which thanks to his hard trainings from his master.

The silver-haired teen shivered in thought of that.

His master-while he's not holding back-is a slave driver.

Mike Corbett (Leo's older brother): His semblance is called The Mental Shield. Mike's semblance might be simpler than others but his still more effective in battle. His semblance allows him to create force-fields of psychic energy, either around himself or to wide radius around an area to protect not just himself, also his comrades. The strengthen force-fields can only protect Mike and his comrades long enough depends how strong his mental strength and the limits of his stamina. His semblance also gives him an ability called Aura Radar, allowing him to sense someone's aura from far distance.

The silver-haired teen 'copied' all of his friends' unique semblances all because of his OWN semblance. A very unorthodox semblance that even can make Leo's The Coat of Fire seem normal.

That story is for another time. He needs to go back on topic for what have transpired today.

The people back at the farm settlement wouldn't have stand a chance against those many Grimm with such little combat training. By the time help from Vale arrived, there would have been nothing but dead corpses to greet them. The Grimm were ferocious and relied on numbers to overwhelm instead of using actual tactics, which made easier for the silver-haired teen to dispatch them.

The teen had lost count of the number of the dark creatures he killed since he received from his predecessor's legacy almost a year ago. Thought of that day brought the somber mood to the teen's mind. Reaching the side of his pelvis plate, he grabbed an item from his strap belt's right side before he moved it in front of his face.

The item is a black, kunai-like weapon. Its blade's shape is spear point while yellow cloth strapped around on the bottom of the grip. There two yellows ropes (with each has black kite-shape metal at their ends) attached to the pommel's ring as both are anchors.

Thinking himself, the teen knows this weapon had been through a lot for many years. It experienced many things from its two previous owners before the silver-haired teen.

The 1 Owner:

Love and Belief

The 2 Owner:

Joy and Gratitude

Joy and Gratitude leads to Love and Cherish

Fear

Fear leads to Worry

Worry leads to Love and Determination

Love and Determination strengthen their Will

Sudden Pain

Sudden Pain leads to Cold

The 1 Owner:

Powerless Guilt

Powerless Guilt leads to Grief

Grief leads to Anger

Anger leads to Hatred

Hatred leads to Passion of Revenge

Passion of Revenge leads to Denial

Denial leads to Suffering

Suffering leads to Confusion

Confusion leads to Guilt

Guilt leads to Determine Redemption

Determine Redemption leads to Peace and Dignity

Peace and Dignity leads to Pride Love and Pure Joy

Then…

The 1 and 2 Owners:

Pride Love and Pure Joy leads to Belief

Belief leads to New Birth

And right now…

…Him as the 3 Owner:

New Birth will lead to Good Cause

Good Cause will lead to New Hope

When there's New Hope…

NEW HOPE

WILL

LEAD

TO

TRUE

PEACE

AND

HARMONY

OF

ALL

LIFE.

After he processed those thoughts in his mind, the silver-haired teen unconsciously tighten his hand on the precious item's grip. Then he looked down at the left side of his belt, where his sword in its sheath is. Sudden male words echoed in his head.

"…You will be the Magna Defender…It is your Destiny…"

"…I'm still feel unworthy to have this power you have given me, my friend. But…" The teen solemnly said before he trailed as he is turned and looked at bright shattered Moon outside the window.

Then suddenly, his silver eyes narrowed in unimaginable determination and seriousness. He stand up from his bed's mattress. He then walked on the floor before he stopped in front of window, the shattered Moon's light beamed at his form. After putting the precious weapon item back on his belt, the teen's right hand grabbed the sword's grip before he pulled it till the whole blade comes out its sheath. After it is now free, the young man lifted his sword straight up and moved it in front of his face, un-flinched for silver blade's edge close to his nose. He stared at the white, shining shattered Moon of Remnant as he began to say his own oath he made almost a year ago.

"I will use this power when I fight with my Heart, Honor and Courage."

"I will use this power to fight against all evil in the name of Truth and Justice."

"I will be merciful to my enemies when they cannot stand. But if my enemies won't stop continuing their misguided paths and they still resists by their own choices, then I will use this power to defeat them for the sake of innocent lives."

"I will use this power to fight alongside my fellow Huntsmen and Huntresses and we will slay the Grimm till every bit of their Darkness cease to exist."

"I will use this power to protect my comrades and allies in our battles."

"I will use this power to bring Peace and Harmony to all people of Remnant."

"Oh Mighty Oum, be on my side when I face my toughest challenges as I, Gawain Avalon, will use this power to protect and defend my people-both Humans and Faunus-, their future and freedom in the name of Good until my last, dying breath."

"FOR THE FUTURE KINGDOM OF NEW CAMELOT."

After he let out his emotions with a help of his oath, the silver-haired teen twisted his sword few times in professional fashion before he returned his said sword to its sheath. He continued to stare at the shattered moon for a moment before sighing.

"Now that got out of my system…" Gawain commented before he walked to the shelf-like table. He picked up his sword in its sheath from their belt's holster before putting them on the surface of the table.

Then he walked back to his old bed before sitting on it. His right hand reached under his left vambrance before he took out his silver-colored scroll (with a red rose plastered on the back) from the said vambrance. The silver-haired teen turned it on as the scroll's screen came to life, its app showing a map of Vytal. Without warning, a poof of smoke appeared above his right shoulder. After the smoke cleared, its form is so…preposterous.

It was Gawain. But only…chibi version of him. The chibi's head is so big than his ridiculously small body, he's wearing silver jacket with red color inside his down hoodie, his jeans has ripped sleeves, he has little feet in black sneakers and his big eyes has silver yet impish orbs within them.

The teen's chibi looked down as his face was curious as a puppy.

"Are we still planning on moving to another location?" The chibi (his squeaky voice has no accent and almost sounded as if he's kid in candy store) asked his bigger version as the said bigger version turned to him.

The teen nodded to the short, floating being above his shoulder.

"I don't like staying in one place for too long, Wan." Gawain stated.

"Well-" The chibi called Wan halted before he just shouted out loud while he's pulling his hair in frustration, "-WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR THEN!? Pick one already! I had no problem when we keep moving to place to place, but I had enough living in this BORING SHACK! Did I already mentioned that I'm claustrophobic in tight spaces like this? I mean look at them?" He gestured to the old wooden walls around them, "Is so small that we cannot even invite ONE party guest!" He complained.

"There was no one live here in this area since it is far from any civilization," Gawain drawled with deadpan voice, "Remember we don't want unwanted attention to follow us when our tracks are still fresh? They are probably looking for us right now and we need to keep moving to avoid them. And besides…" He gave his chibi an eyebrow, "Who even want to party in a place when it is surrounded by creepy, dead trees at night?"

Surprisingly, the chibi has answers for that by listing with his little fingers.

"Well there are Faunus who had heritages like bats, owls, crows, snakes, scorpions, spiders and the list keeps on going that involves creatures in their active nighttime. What else? Oh! Goth people who screams "I will drink your blood" when they had those weird piercings on their faces and a lot of tattoos all over their bodies. And…" Wan went to his thinking pose and hummed, "probably people who has messed up heads…" He blinked when he heard a tired sigh. The chibi being glared at his bigger version, though his chibi cuteness is not helping his glare at all, "Hey!? You did ask!"

"Which I'm regretting it in this moment…" Gawain countered as he pinched his nose's bridge while his eyes closed, feeling stupid when he walked into that. He opened them before he turned his head and his small silver orbs met the large ones, almost he's looking at chibi's eyes in plead, "Why can't you be more patient like Mag?"

Before Wan could say anything-

"Wan has a lack of patience because that childish personality of his. I doubt he can be patient as me."

Gawain and Wan, who looked fume, turned their heads at where the male voice came from before another smoke that just poof itself above the teen's left shoulder. After the smoke cleared, it revealed another chibi.

But this being is a chibi version of the Magna Defender. Like his counterpart, his helmet with slightly wider golden bull-horns is bigger than his ridiculously small black armored body with a cape, which its length can pass his little sabatons. He has no weapons on his belt though. His black visor stared at the fuming eyes of his fellow chibi while the chibi knight is floating above Gawain's left shoulder.

"W-Well yeah, Mag! B-But that's your fault b-because of you're-you're…" Wan stammered a bit before he pointed accusingly at his knight counterpart, "you're patient is stupid!" He shouted without thinking.

"See? This proves my logical point," The chibi knight called Mag stated to his bigger version while ignoring Wan's fuming steams coming from his earholes. Despite being squeaky, his noble voice pitch is slightly sounded low. He turned back to his red-face counterpart, "You should think straight first before your mouth speaks. It will help when you make better comebacks before that mouth of yours opens on its own." He said with a little smug in his voice.

"I show you what your mouth opens before I shove my fist all the way into your throat!" Wan yelled angrily with a raised fist.

But that threat didn't bothered the chibi knight.

"See? Now that's better-But wait? Your threat is meaningless because I'm wearing a helmet. Remember?"

Just before Wan could crash to Mag and planning to choke him to death, the slightly calmed teen quickly stopped them.

"Wan, Mag, as much as I'm amused for you both bickering each other before this lead to a wrestling match, but this is not the time. And Mag…" Gawain turned to the chibi knight with a disappointed look, "You no better when you get in Wan's nerves." He scolded.

The chibi knight stared at his bigger version's look before he hung his head in shame.

"Please forgive me for my bluntness, Sir Gawain?" Mag said in guilt as the silver-haired nodded in acceptance before he used his head to gesture another occupant in this shack. Mag got the message as he turned to pouting silver-haired chibi, "And please forgive me for my unjustly insults, Wan?"

The chibi with crossed arms stared at his counterpart and processed the words in his big head. For a moment before giving it up, the silver-haired chibi sighed before he looked at the chibi knight with annoyed look.

"Okay, I forgive you. But please stop that? I can't take it when you so moody right now." Wan admitted, not wanting to see a noble and serious chibi knight hurting himself like a sad puppy.

Mag nodded in thanks for his fellow chibi accepted his apology, no longer hanging his head. The silver-haired smiled at the two chibis before he looked back to his scroll.

Looking over the map, the huntsman mentally plotted where they should head to next. Every time he set up a kind of base-camp, Gawain made sure they didn't stay there too long. The reason is that he wanted to stay out of the public eye of the locals as much as possible. The sudden and unknown arrival of the Magna Defender (that's him) might have raise a few red flags. And given that Magna Defender's powers, armor and his weapon that Gawain has in his possession was more advanced and powerful than what was being produced by the huntsmen and the local military branches,which they have found out about him as an 'outsider' or 'vigilante'.

"Might I suggest Vale?" Mag offered while he and Wan looking at the map, getting their bigger version's attention, "The kingdom isn't as…strict as Mistral and Atlas. We could blend in much better."

The chibi with a down hoodie agreed to his counterpart as he nodded eagerly.

"Hell Yeah! Vale is not only nice, it's also awesome!" Wan proclaimed with a smile, "And the best part about that kingdom? We already heard that the Vytal Festival is coming to Vale in this time of year! Think about the parties!? Candies!? Games!? Cookies!? And more importantly," His smile widen, causing his face to have a sly look, "The girls?" He said as his eyebrows wiggled few times, causing his bigger version to sigh in tiredness.

"Wan…" Gawain warned slowly.

"For Wan's last possibility, I agreed with him," Mag said with a nod till he noticed his bigger version giving him "Not you too?" look while Wan giving him thumbs up, appreciating for back up. The chibi knight crossed his arms firmly over his armor chestplate and stared at his big friend, "Sir Gawain, Wan and I think it is time for you to court with a woman of your age, either Human or Faunus. You did enough heroic deeds for almost a year and now you deserve to relax. Just only a month?" He asked softly, wanting the silver-haired young man to enjoy his other life as a teenager.

"No. I can't relax now when there's evil still lurks around in Remnant, my friends," Gawain countered in seriousness. He looked at the two with stern look, "And you both know I don't feel ready to have a relationship with a girl yet."

"Come on man," Wan looked at his big friend with uncharacteristic seriousness in his large eyes, "It wouldn't hurt to have pretty girl in your love life. What if we encounter a girl who earns your attention? Then you would feel like to date her?"

"I don't know…" Gawain hesitated as he looked away from them.

Then Mag decided to use more persuasive approach.

"What if she's a Faunus with CAT traits?"

"…"

'Got Ya/Got Ya.' Both Wan and Mag had triumph smirks on their faces, which the latter is smirking behind his helmet, when they saw their bigger version is still in silence.

"…Better to stay outside the walls," The teen finally replied, completely changing the subject, "Less likely to be found and we can do better for the locals out here. It's better that way."

'He didn't deny~/He didn't deny~' The chibis' chesire smirks widen all the way to their ears, again the latter still has a smirk behind his helmet.

The two then decided to accept Gawain changing the subject of their conversation. The chibis looked back at the map.

"True, but eventually we'll need supplies. Hunting game for food and collecting water from natural sources are good and all, but eventually we'll have to venture to the kingdoms again."

Mag wasn't wrong. They'd been thriving rather well almost a year, and the very rare times they went to a populated area (in disguise), Gawain still have emergency liens, which given by all his friends back in Vacuo despite his protests, that is enough to buy a normal apartment and necessary supplies he needs to survive.

The huntsman had also been able to set up anonymous posting on the social net, with help of his scroll, used by locals to get a few jobs here and there which mostly handle bounties involving Grimm control. In time, he has now a rather sizeable amount of funds set aside in case they needed it.

Sighing, the silver-haired teen leaned back against the mattress' surface as he looked over the map again, his silver eyes going over possible locations and scenarios. After another minute or two, he just shook his head and put the scroll back to his vambrance.

"We'll figure things out tomorrow, I could use a bit of sleep right about now." He stated to his chibis.

"Figured you go in that direction. Wake you up at the usual time?" Mag asked as he dropped his arms.

"Do you even have to ask?" Gawain asked back with a smile on his tanned face.

"WAIT!" Wan shouted out of a sudden, causing other two occupants looking at him that said "What's his deal?" Despite of his chibi cuteness, he looked sternly at his bigger version, "Have you forgotten something?" He questioned as pointed at the pillow on its bed.

After looking at the pillow in confusion, a light bulb appeared above his head and lit up as the young man got the message. He looked sheepishly at his chibi with a down hoodie.

"Oops. Thanks reminding me, my friend. I almost forgot about that."

After saying that, Gawain's hand reached and grabbed the pillow before lifting up, revealing a book had been laying under the said pillow. A black book with large red stripe, narrowing eyes imprinted on the center, at the bottom. It's bloody red, fancy letters written on the front cover of the novel that said "Ninjas of Love". He grinned, a grin that is a slightly perverted one, at the black novel before he grabbed the book from the sheets and put the pillow back on the bed. Sitting straight on the old mattress, the silver-haired young man moved the book in front of face before he looked up and saw two chibis floating above his legs.

Wan was grinning mischievously while Mag is simply crossing his armored arms, but behind his helmet he was smiling slyly a little.

"I think it's best for me and Wan to leave now. Well, see you in the morning, Sir Gawain."

"Yeah! Don't forget to tell us the parts in the chapter tomorrow! Good Night, Gawain!"

"Good night, my friends," Smiling silver-haired teen nodded to his chibis who saluted (Wan) and nodded in return (Mag) just as they're bodies POOF into smokes, both disappeared from the said teen's sights. After flapping the smokes away, Gawain looked back his book and opened it as he's reading the page he was on last time, "Now, Chapter 7…" He mused.

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Qrow was walking on the dirt path, surrounded by green trees of the forest. His walk halted when he spotted something below him just in time. Bending his legs, the Ozpin's spy huntsman dragged his finger to the dirt, causing a part image of the sabaton footprint to reveal right in front of him.

'It's still fresh…' Qrow said inwardly in realization and satisfaction. His red eyes looking up at what's in front of him. Miles away from his position, there's a forest of dead trees. Then his eyes slightly narrowed '…He covered his tracks…but mostly. If I was hiding in somewhere from plain sight, I bet my money that he's still in there.'

Qrow Branwen straightened his body up before he ran fast on the dirt road, heading towards the dead forest which is miles away from him.

The Black Knight is within his reach.

[Credits' Theme 3*]

I don't own RWBY and Power Rangers Series.

1* The Magna Defender by GVIIMusic

2* Power Rangers Lost Galaxy – Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (Instrumental) by Becky Stern

3* Magna Defender's theme song by Anon mous

Gawain Avalon - Antonio Banderas / The New Magna Defender - Steve Downes

This inspiration of Veritas Aequitas (BonesBoy15), The Remnant Campaign (SHIPWRECK-5897) and Guardian of Remnant (Wraith002). The stories and their authors deserved the credits for this idea story of mine.

As a writer, I admitted that I copied most of their work, but I need more details for you viewers to read long. Fortunately, I added new paragraphs from my own imagination of creativity so you can enjoy the plot of this story.

I hope guys enjoy reading my story. Please, post reviews what are your opinions and point out the mistakes I made of the grammar and the sense of the plot. I will try to correct them if I can. Thank you n_n