Hello Fanfiction readers! Ashbel Longhart here today to give you my very first movie special story: RWBY X Wizard of Zero: Dark Beliefs and Sisterly Dreams! If you're all wondering where Seth is, he's getting ready for the chapter.
Now here's the deal. Have you guys ever wondered what Team RWBY(S) and Haru and the others were doing before their story's second season? If you thought they did nothing besides train and go to classes, then you are so wrong! This movie here will tell you guys what happened during the time in between. This idea has been in my mind for so long and I think it's about time I get it out for the world to read. I know this might be kind of late considering Volume 4 is coming, but it's because of that reason that I've decided to finally publish this. And as the saying goes, better late than never. Cue disclaimer!
(Disclaimer: I do not own Familiar of Zero, Kamen Rider Wizard, RWBY, Bleach, any songs, any anime elements, or anything else that may appear familiar to you. They all belong to their respective owners. I just own this story and my OC's)
Now, like a Kamen Rider X Kamen Rider movies, I will have both my stories show their own problems and in the end, both worlds will work together to take down the huge conflict that threatens both worlds.
Four shows, two worlds, two conflicts, one incredible team up. Readers, you better have some popcorn popped and a can of soda next to you cause it's go time. Ladies and gentlereaders, I present to you, the movie.
RWBY: Dark Beliefs
The swinging of a sword. The burst of Aura. The smell of blood. Overwhelming power. Possession on one's body. The light of healing. The frustration of losing. The sirens of police cars. The understanding of one person to another. This is what made up the night at the docks and what Seth Aberrant, student of Beacon, fifth and only male member of Team RWBY(S), and amnesiac experienced. He experienced loss against the one known as Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, the worry and relief of Ruby's condition, and faced the problem of Shiro taking over his body.
He still bore wounds from his fight against the unknown enemy, but he shrugged them off as Ruby was OK and Blake was back with the team.
Unknown to him or anyone else, this night at the docks had spectators watching. Three cloaked and hooded figures, all smiling evilly.
"Finally, at last, our search is over!" The first figure said.
"At last, we have found a power strong enough to revive our god!" The second figure said.
"Although, those people might pose a threat to us." The third and calm of the three said.
"Do not worry your head Arson." The first figure said. "Those little pests will not be a threat to us. The real worry should be that boy."
"Yes. That boy might pose a threat to our plans." The now named Arson said. "Master Thomas, Master Albert, how should we deal with him?"
"Easy." The second figure, Albert, said. "We take away his powers. After we do that, then nothing can stop us!"
"But what about those girls." Arson asked. "Please excuse me for speaking against you, but it is unwise to underestimate those girls. I feel very strong Auras coming from those three."
"Oh, just leave that to me." The first figure, Thomas, said as he took out some sort of glowing purple orbs. "Those three will make perfect additions to the organization." Thomas then raised his arms up towards the moon. "Soon, our god, soon! The time for you to be reborn is close at hand!"
While Thomas was busy doing whatever he was doing, Arson looked down towards Team RWBY(S), his focus stuck on one thing. Scarlet's Heart Jewel that hung around Ruby's neck.
(Insert Maiden's Errand by Faylan)
(Instrumental) The song begins as the screen rises up to give a quick look at Seth's Grimm Mask. Scene then changes to snowy area as we see a cloaked, hooded figure walking through the snow as the cold winds blew against his cloak. Upon a closer look, we see that it was one other than Seth, wearing his Grimm Mask with a look of determination on his eyes as he carried some sort of black square box behind him.
(Itetsuita me ga kataru) Seth continues to walk through the snow, not minding the winds hitting his masked face as it looked like he was searching for something.
(Nani o nakushite kita no?) Then suddenly, the winds let up as we see Seth arriving at some kind of midevil castle.
(Shinjitai kyoufu ni wa ganbou no kakera) Once arriving at his destination, Seth removed his hood to get a better look at the castle when he noticed something as the winds died down.
(Motomezu ni ikiteru to) Once the winds died, from the fog were hundreds of cloaked, robed figures as they all surrounded Seth.
(Se o mukeru yowasa koso) Seth looked left and right, but didn't seem bothered by the overwhelming numbers. He then looked up as three figures appeared from above the castle floor.
(Itsuka daiji na hito tsukiotosu) And the ones that appeared were none other than Weiss, Blake, and Yang, but something was wrong. They were all wearing black robes and their eyes were blank with no emotion in them what so ever as they wore pieces of a Grimm Mask on them.
(Hajimaru yo owarinaki yume no oku ni kegare o) Then, from the top of the castle were Thomas, Albert, and Arson, all of them looking down on Seth as a shadowy figure appeared and towered over the castle.
(Umeta bakari sa) But despite all this, Seth's eyes showed no sign of fear as he grabbed the box behind him and pulled it out as it unfolded into a scythe, Ruby's scythe to be exact.
(Akaku somare to kirisaku tamashii) Seth then dashed forward as the robed people all came at him. With ferocity, Seth swung the black Crescent Rose, dispatching many of the robed men.
(Areru kaze no hate ni shinjitsu o) Seeing as they were no good, WBY all jumped and headed towards Seth. Seth saw them coming and prepared Crescent Rose to fight.
(Tada sasage tamae) With a battle cry, Seth charged towards the girls as they all charged towards Seth.
(Ochiru hayasa ga ando ni naru made) The scene then changes to Ruby in a red dress, trapped in some kind of containment holder with Scarlet's Heart Jewel glowing. Panning out, it revealed that the containment holder Ruby was in was actually inside the shadowy creatures as said creature roared at Seth.
(Yokubou no hohemi o ukabeta unmei ni dakare) Not backing down, Seth held his ground and twirled Crescent Rose around and fired, using the recoil to get in close. The creature met his challenge as it went to devour Seth whole. With another roar, Seth swung Crescent with speed and power, slashing all over the place.
(Madien's Errand) Seth continued to slash an random places as his expression was one of complete determination. With one last slash, Seth attacked the screen as it finally showed the title just as the song came to an end.
(Beacon Academy)
The sound of metal could be heard in the training room. The training room was for any students that wanted to sharpen their skills, test out any new battle techniques or ideas, or just to make sure they don't fall behind. Currently, the training room had only one person using the room and that person was none other than Seth Aberrant and surrounding him were the Beacon Training Bots. The bots all had adjustable difficulty levels and right now, they were all set to high.
Taking a deep breath, Seth waited, Zangetsu in hand as the bots circled him with their bladed hands at the ready. Finally, after seconds had passed, one bot went and charged towards the amnesiac. It went for a swipe, but found that it hit nothing but air. Looking up, it was met with Zangetsu's blade, the sword slicing the bot into two, nice and clean. As the pieces fell, all the other bots charged forth. One went to slash Seth's back, but he quickly turned and blocked the attack before lifting and pointing a finger at it's face.
"Hadō #4: Byakurai."
And as if it were magic, a bolt of lightning was fired from his fingertip, making a small hole in the head of the robot, but Seth pushed it away as the machine fell to the ground. Two bots went and jumped, going for an air attack, but Seth was faster than they were and spinning around, he sliced forth as the two robots were sliced from the waist. The remaining bots then fought at a distance, switching their hands to machine guns and fired at the amnesiac, but Seth wasn't scared as he simply spun his sword, deflecting all the bullets before he stopped and touched the ground with his sword, swiping away to reveal the bullets he had caught. As the robots were trying to process what Seth had done, Seth swiped upward, sending all the bullets back to their owners as they bullets made new holes into the robots before they all fell down.
Seth sighed before he sheathed Zangetsu as he heard the slapping of the spirits inside of him.
"That was great Seth!" Magnhild complimented.
Seth looked at his hand before closing it into a fist. "No. This isn't enough. Compared to Grimmjow, these things were nothing."
"You're still thinking about that guy?" Ember asked. "Will you let it go, Seth? You've had you fair share of losses from time to time."
"Ember is right, Seth." Kuro said. "You must let go of what happened at the docks. It's been a week since then."
"How can I just forget what happened!" Seth shouted. "You all saw what happened back there. I lost horribly and Ruby almost died." Seth's grip on Zangetsu's sheath tightened. "If I don't get stronger, the people I care about will get hurt. After what happened with Scarlet, I refuse to lose anyone else important to me."
All the spirits chose to stay silent after what Seth had just said which Seth was grateful for. Whenever he thought of his late daughter, Scarlet, he would like a moment of silence to himself to recollect his thoughts.
"I thought you be here." Turning, Seth saw the leader of the team he was in, Ruby Rose, walking in with her Beacon Uniform on. "Still training I see."
"Yeah." Seth said. "How are you doing?"
"I'm good." Ruby said, placing a hand on the spot where Grimmjow had pierced a week ago back at the docks. "I really need to thank Scarlet for saving me."
At the mention of their late daughter, both looked towards Scarlet's Heart Jewel, the jeweled necklace hanging from Ruby's neck.
"To think she left behind her power of healing with her heart." Seth said. "I guess our kid didn't want us to get hurt whenever we go and fight against things like Grimm."
"Yeah, I guess." Ruby said as both of them took a moment of silence to themselves to let the memories of their late daughter pass by.
"So, did you need me for something?" Seth asked.
"I came to tell you that it's about time for class to start soon." Ruby said.
"Shit! Is it time already!? I thought I had one more hour left!?" Seth asked as he checked the time on his Scroll.
"I think the time on your Scroll is one hour late." Ruby said.
"It is?" Seth asked as he tapped random bottoms. "It's almost the second semester and yet, I still have no idea how to use this damn thing."
Ruby hid a giggle as Seth was looking at the Scroll as if it were his greatest enemy. "Come on. You can complain about that later. You need to get ready for class."
"Right." Seth said as he put away his Scroll and Shunpoed away.
"Hey! Wait up!" Ruby cried as she gave chase.
(Outside of Beacon)
Up on a vantage point, looking down with a pair of binoculars in hand was a robed figure, spying on none other than Ruby Rose as she finally caught up with the speeding amnesiac.
"So, that's the one we need." the robed figure said as he shifted his gaze to Seth. "Hmm, judging from his Aura, he does seem like a threat. Better deal with him first." Getting up, the robed figure turned to meet about fifty more robed figures. "Listen up! The key to reviving our god is almost within our grasp! Do not falter men as with this key, our true ruler shall be reborn! For our God!"
"FOR OUR GOD!" They all yelled. It was a miracle that no one heard them.
"Hey! Who are you people!?" Never mind.
With a quick whip of his arm, a knife soon found itself in the guards head, curtsy of the leading robed man.
"Ready your weapons men. It's time to attack!"
(With RWBYS)
Yang let out a long yawn before rubbing her eyes. "Man, somehow, that man still knows how to put us to sleep."
"You all should be ashamed of yourself, falling asleep in class." Weiss said.
"Weren't you about to fall asleep yourself?" Blake asked, making the heiress blush in embarrassment.
"I-I was not!" Weiss denied, but the whole team knew better.
"Whatever you say Weiss. Whatever you say." Ruby said.
"And what do you mean by that?" Weiss asked.
While the team was talking, Seth was having a conversation with the spirits within him while eating a chocolate muffin.
"Hey."
'Hm?'
"You ever wonder why we're here?"
'It's one of life's greatest mysterious.' Seth thought. 'Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and everything. I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night.'
"...You two have been watching Red Vs. Blue, haven't you?"
'Yep.' Both Seth and Shiro said/thought, popping the P.
"I don't understand how you can watch such...rubbish." Myrtenster said.
"You call it rubbish, we call it comedy."
If they could, Seth and Shiro would have shared a fist bump, even though the two don't like each other.
Suddenly, Seth's eyes widen as he stopped walking. The others noticed this of course.
"Seth? Is something the ma-?"
"Shh!" Seth quieted his leader as he concentrated. The feeling in the air, he knew it anywhere after facing one of the most blood thirsty people he's ever fought.
'Killing intent?'
"But where is it coming from?" Gambol wondered.
Then, from the corner of his eye, Seth saw something shining. Said something was heading for his team leader!
"Ruby! Look out!" Acting fast, Seth pushed Ruby to the ground as a knife embedded itself into the wall.
Now cautious, the girls looked around to find who attacked as Seth checked Ruby.
"Ruby, you OK?"
Ruby nodded. "I'm alright."
Seth smiled before he switched to serious expression, getting off of Ruby as he went to draw Zangetsu. "Who's there!? Come out, you cowards!"
"Your reaction speed is impressive." A voice suddenly called out, making everyone go on high alert. "But speed can only get you so far."
"Where is he?" Yang asked as everyone got back to back.
"His voice is coming from every direction. I can't pinpoint him." Blake said. Whoever was hiding was skilled enough to slip past her Faunus' senses.
"Alright, since you want to know where I am so badly, I'll come out."
Appearing from behind a pillar was the same robed leader, hood still masking his appearance.
"Who are you!?" Weiss asked, Myrtenaster ready and poised to strike at any moment.
"Who I am is none of your concern." The robed leader said before he pointed...at Ruby. "I would be more concerned for your leader if I were you."
"What do you want with me sister!?" Yang asked.
"Oh, don't misunderstand, it's not her we want, it's what she has that we want."
"What I have?" Ruby repeated in confusion until she realized something. "Wait, we?"
"Yes..." The robed man said before he snapped his fingers. "We."
Suddenly, as if appearing like magic, all fifty robed men appeared, weapons out and ready.
"What the!? Where did these guys come from!?" Weiss asked.
"Attack! Get the girl!" The robed leader commanded and the others quickly followed.
"If you think I'll let lay your ugly hands on my sister, then you got another thing coming!" Yang shouted before she charged and socked the nearest one in the face followed by a shotgun blast that sent the robed man flying. She loaded in another one before she charged headfirst towards the mini-army.
"Let's go too!" Seth said before the entire team followed after the blond.
"Ignore the others! Just get the girl!" The leader said before he brought out his knives, one in between each finger before joining the battle himself.
"Like we'll let you lay your hands on Ruby!" Weiss said as she stabbed one robed man, but to her surprise, she drew blood. Quickly, she pulled her weapon back and knocked out the man with a quick kick to the head. "These men have no Aura!"
"What!? Well, that's just great." Seth said as the fighting just gotten harder before it even started. With their opponents having no Aura, they'll have to be very careful.
"Knock them out, but don't kill them!" Ruby said as she batted a man away.
Turning the dial of her weapon to switch Dust, Weiss twirled before stabbing her sword into the ground, summoning fire which surrounded some men, making them pull back. Turning her dial again, Weiss casted ice, freezing the men before removing her sword to block an attack from behind. She managed to push back the attacker before jumping back and used the blunt side of her weapon to knock out the attacker. Weiss didn't relax yet as the yells of more robed men were heard from behind her. Turning, she saw ten jumping for her. With no other choice, Weiss prepared to engage.
Quickly as possible was the plan in Blake's plan of attack. She shot five bullets, each one finding its own target as men fell from having bullets in their legs. Seeing more getting closer, she changed her Gambol Shroud to its chain sickle like mode and threw it past one robed man. The man thought he was lucky that the attack missed, but how wrong he was when Blake pulled back and the Gambol came back, knocking the man's feet. A shadow clone materialized and stomped on the man's face before running up to meet many more of the attacking men.
Rampage was the vocab of the day for Yang. If it's one thing she believed in, it's that a big sister must always protect their younger siblings and right now, since these bastards wanted her sister, she wasn't holding back on sending shotgun blasts through their asses or punching the things that made them men. She punched one in the face before elbow striking another one from behind. Turning quickly, she uppercutted one, sending said man flying before spinning around to kick another one away. After that, she jumped back to gain some distance so she could unleash the all of her ammo onto those that wanted her sister, each shot causing a small explosion that sent men flying.
Hit and run was something Ruby had never done a lot in her combat experience, but she wasn't a stranger to it. Since these men had no Aurta protecting them. Ruby had to be extra careful when she used her beloved Crescent Rose, using her speed to stay as far away from the men as possible cause the last thing she need was to be grabbed by a creepy robed man. Some tried to sneak attack her from behind, but with a fire of her precious baby, the recoil sent her behind them, hitting one in the gut with the end of her scythe before she spun and struck multiple men with the back side of Crescent Rose, sending men flying.
The word protect had always held a special place in Seth's heart and it only grew when he failed to save Scarlet. With no signs of mercy, Seth went to take the head of the leader, but said leader blocked Seth's attack with his knives and used his free handed knives to slash at Seth, but he moved his head back in time and pulled back. Seth let out a roar, going to turn the man into two, but with both knifed hands, he blocked Seth's attack, both entering a struggle.
"What do you guys want with Ruby!?" Seth demanded, trying to overpower the man.
"Like I said, it's not the girl we want. What we want is what the girl has." Said the man, pushing back Seth. He then removed his hood, revealing his face.
The man had long, black hair that reached the middle of his back as purple streaks ran down. Like those purple streaks, his eyes were the same purple color.
"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Arson, head commander of the Battle Force belonging to the Church of the Grimm."
That caught the attention of Seth. "Church...of the Grimm?"
"Wait. There's a church for Grimm?" Mors asked. "Since when!?"
"The Grimm are the enemy of mankind. Why would there be a church for them?" Gambol said, confused like every spirit inside Seth.
"That's right, the Church of the Grimm." The now named Arson said. "Allow me to explain. The Church of the Grimm is an organization dedicated to the worship of Grimm."
"You worship the Grimm?" Seth asked, surprised and confused.
"That's right. Like me, we members have one belief. That the very place we call home, Remnant, belongs to the Grimm. The Grimm were here long before us humans ever set foot on the soil of Remnant and so we believe that Grimm should take back what was theirs in the beginning."
"You guys are mad!" Seth said. "The Grimm are soulless beings that want nothing more than the destruction of mankind! Why would you worship something like that!?"
"Cause it's what we believe!" Arson said. "So what if the creatures of Grimm want to destruction of mankind? So be it. This planet was theirs in the first place so there should be nothing wrong in trying to take it back. Wouldn't you do the same if someone just took away your home and made it their own?"
"But that doesn't explain why you people want with whatever Ruby has." Seth pointed out. "What the hell is your goal?"
"Do you really think I'd just tell you? This isn't a TV show or one of those stupid comics." Arson said before he took out what looked like a Beowolf mask and put in on. "Now, prepare yourself young one! It matters not how powerful you are, you will not get in the way of my mission!"
And with that, they both clashed once again.
'Think Seth!' Seth thought while blocking an attack. 'What in the world does Ruby have that these guys could possibly want!' Then, a realization came to him. There was only one thing that came to mind that these guys could possibly want from Ruby.
Scarlet's Heart Jewel.
Upon realizing that, Seth's Aura seemed to have increase as his expression was one of anger. "If you think I'll let your dirty hands be placed on Scarlet's Heart Jewel, then you've got another thing coming, you bastard!"
"So you've figured it out!" Arson said as he slashed with his knives before pushing Seth back with a kick. "That's right. What we are after is the jewel that girl carries. We will have it. No matter the cost."
"Like hell you will!" The voice of Ruby shouted as Arson jumped in time to avoid a swipe from Ruby's scythe.
Landing back on his feet, Arson turned to see the rest of Team RWBY joining Seth and Ruby.
"Give it up!" Ruby said. "All your men have been dealt with!" And true to Ruby's word, the bodies of Arson's men were all laid out on the ground, knocked out.
"So it seems." Arson said. "I'm impressed. I underestimated you girls. Then again, those men were just a bunch of street rats anyway. They're easily replaceable. As for you five, my masters were not wrong. You are strong. You'll make nice editions to the organization."
"And what the hell does that mean?" Yang asked, the ammo in her Ember Celica already replaced and loaded.
"It means this!" With surprising speed, Arson pushed back Seth and Ruby as an orb of some sort of purple energy was left behind with WBY. Pushing away Seth and Ruby, Arson turned and without even aiming, threw a knife that pierced the orb, making the energy inside exploded before it wrapped and trapped Weiss, Blake, and Yang in an orb of energy.
"W-What's going on!?" Weiss said as the girls tried to break free from their prison. "What is this!?"
If it wasn't for the mask, one would have saw Arson smile as the orb trapping the girls exploded in a bright light of purple energy.
"W-What is this!?" Seth yelled as he and Ruby covered their eyes to avoid getting blind.
Once the light died down, Seth and Ruby removed their eyes and saw the girls on the floor, unconscious.
"Girls!" Ruby cried out in worry.
"You bastard!" Seth yelled in anger before attacking Arson, but he was stopped...by Weiss!? "Weiss!?"
Suddenly, the bodies of Blake and Yang got up and dashed for Ruby. Before she realized what happen, Crescent Rose was batted out of her hands as she found herself restrained to the floor by Blake and Yang.
"Blake! Sis! W-What're you doing!?" Ruby asked. "Let me go!"
"Let her go!" Seth said, attempting to go save Ruby, but was forced to dodge a stab from Weiss. "Weiss! What the hell are you doing!?"
"It's no use." Arson said as he walked calmly next to Weiss. "She and the others are now under my control."
"What!?" Seth's eyes widen in shock. Then he realized something. If Weiss, Blake, and Yang were being controlled...
'Myrtenaster! Gambol! Ember!' Seth called out to the weapon spirits in worry.
"It's no use, Seth! We've lost contact with them!"
That's something Seth was afraid of. On the bright side, they're not controlled or worse.
"And now, for you." Arson said, taking out another orb of energy before seemingly appearing right in front of Seth.
'What the!?' Seth thought, surprised at the man's speed.
Then, before Seth could react, Arson slammed the orb into Seth's chest and flashed back to Weiss' side as the orb stuck to Seth's chest.
"What is this?" Seth wondered as he tried to get the orb off of him.
Then, right before his eyes, the orb glowed and then, pain surged throughout his body.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Seth!" Ruby cried out in worry, but was pushed back down by Blake before she could do anything.
Seth wasn't the only one feeling pain.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"W-What...is this!?"
"What's wrong with everyone!?"
Then, the pain stopped, but the energy in Seth was nearly gone as he fell to his knees and collapsed.
"Seth!" Ruby was now struggling at this point, but Blake's hold on her was stronger than she thought. Plus, Yang was also holding her down and she was obviously weaker to her in strength,
"Now that he's out of the way, let us be off." Arson said as he snapped his fingers and in an instant, he and the girls were gone.
"Ruby...Everyone..." Seth muttered before darkness took him and he knew no more.
(The Next Day)
"Hmm..." Seth stirred and the first thing he saw was the white ceiling of the Infirmary Room.
"I see you've finally awake." Turning, Seth was met with none other than Prof. Ozpin, the Headmaster of Beacon Academy.
"Prof. Ozpin?" Seth muttered before he remembered what happened and sat straight up. "Prof. Ozpin! The girls-!"
"Hold, Seth. Calm down for a sec." Ozpin said. "We heard commotion and came as soon as we could. By the time we arrived, there were bodies everywhere and you were on the ground, unconscious. Tell me, Seth, what happened?"
Seth took a deep breath to calm himself before he explained what had happened from the robed men attacking, to the Church of Grimm, and to Arson controlling Weiss, Blake, and Yang and kidnapping Ruby.
"The Church of the Grimm." Ozpin said, processing the information Seth had told him. "True, there are some who believe that, but to think some have gathered together and made an organization."
"I have to go save them." Seth said, getting out from the bed.
"Wait a minute, Seth." Ozpin said, stopping the amnesiac from running off. "I can't allow you to leave."
"Why not!? My team was just kidnapped! You can't expect me to just sit my ass around here doing nothing!"
"I understand how you feel, but first, take a look at this." Ozpin said, taking out his Scroll and showing Seth some sort of results.
"What are these?" Seth asked.
"These, Mr. Aberrant, are your Aura Levels." Ozpin said.
"My Aura levels?" Seth said before looking back at the results. "But, this can't be right. These levels are too low."
"It must have been whatever that orb did to you."
Seth mentally nodded before giving the Scroll back to Ozpin. "Be that as it may, I am still going to save my team-no, my friends and you can't stop me."
With that said, Seth made his way to the door, but Ozpin had other plans in mind.
"Oh really now?"
Before Seth knew what hit him, he found himself on the ground with the end of a cane at his face. Getting his bearings back together, Seth saw that the one holding the cane was none other than Ozpin himself, drinking his coffee as usual.
"Let me give you a piece of advice, Mr. Aberrant. Do not just go rushing in blindly." Ozpin said, moving his cane away from Seth so he could get up. "You're not the first I've known to just go rushing in and do you know what happened to those people? They've all died. It's one thing to try and save loved ones, but it's another trying to make it out alive."
"...Then what the hell am I supposed to do?" Seth said, tightening his fist so hard that it was at the point of drawing blood.
"The answer is simple, Mr. Aberrant." Ozpin said before turning to the amnesiac. "What you must do is gather info. After all, a Hunter is not only skilled, but he his knowledgeable. Tactics and strategy has made it easier for Hunters to save many more people than those without. I never said I would exclude you from the search for your team, I meant that you can't leave until you've completely healed." Ozpin then made his way to the door, handing Seth his Scroll again. "While you were unconscious, this is all the info we've managed to gather on the intruders. Study and form a strategy before you attempt a rescue mission. It'll increase the chances of saving your friends."
"...Yes sir."
Ozpin nodded in satisfaction before leaving the room.
"I've never seen you so serious before, Ozpin." Turning, Ozpin was met with none other than Kisuke Urahara.
"I'm just worried, Kisuke." Ozpin said. "Seth's Aura levels are usually greater than what the results showed. It's almost if his strength is-"
"Being sealed?" Kisuke finished for Ozpin. "Yeah, I had the same idea. I've checked Aberrant-san's body and it seems some sort of Gentei Reiin was placed on him, however instead of sealing a portion of the user's strength; this one completely seals away a person's Aura. This isn't a seal, Ozpin, this was something used to kill. Aura is linked to the soul of a person so if this was meant to seal all of Aberrant-san's Aura, he would have died."
"Yet the results show that he still has Aura in him and is growing by the minute." Ozpin said. "An unknown factor maybe?"
"Unknown or not, Aberrant-san's lucky to still be alive. However, if he doesn't find a way to get rid of that seal, he won't return to his original strength."
"Then it's time we start investigating." Ozpin said, heading for his office.
"You're just gonna leave this to Aberrant-san?" Kisuke asked, following.
"The police and Hunters already have their hands full concerning the Grimm and White Fang, Qrow's still off the grid, and even we staff members have our hands full at the moment." Ozpin said. "We can only hope that Seth will be successful in saving Miss Ruby and the rest of the team."
(Back with Seth)
"The Church of the Grimm..." Seth muttered as he studied the info given to him by Ozpin. "Says here that they've been around longer than anyone has expected, ranging back to the period Dust was just discovered. They're a group of Grimm worshipers and that their goal is to return Remnant back to the Grimm. Any other info is unknown."
"There's not a lot to go by with these guys."
Seth nodded in agreement before he realized something. "Hey, Shiro. What happened to the others? I haven't heard from them."
"Y~eah, see, there's a bit of a problem."
"Problem?"
"Whatever that guy did to you affected the others. They're okay, but as of right now, they're unable to aid you in battle."
"Guess that explains why my Aura levels were so low." Seth said as he continued to look through the info. He scrolled down for a few minutes, reading anything that might me of some use until his eyes caught something. And that something was none other than the location of the Church of Grimm. "...Shiro?"
"Hm?"
"You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"You mean go to the Church of Grimm without a plan and say you'll make up a plan along the way as you blindly charge in to wreck shit?"
"Yep."
"I'll go pack my bags."
Resisting the urge to comment on what the hell could Shiro pack; Seth got up and grabbed his jacket before leaving the infirmary.
"And where do you think you're going?" Seth stopped and turned around to see his other friends, Team JNPR.
"I'm going to save Ruby and the others." Seth said as he turned and walked away. "Don't try to stop me."
"We're not going to stop you. We're going to help you." Pyrrha said.
That got Seth to stop and turn to them. "What?"
"You didn't think we let you go all alone, did you?" Nora said.
"Ruby and the others are our friends too." Jaune said. "If there's anything we can do to help, then let us help."
"Guys…thanks." Seth said with a small smile, grateful for the help. "Just let me grab my weapon from the storage then we can go." Whenever a student or Huntsmen was injured to the point they had to be hospitalized, their belonging, mostly their gear and weapons, were stored in a storage room. Knowing this, Seth already guessed that his weapon was in there.
After some walking, he finally found it and opened the door before stepping in. It was a fairly large room, but since this was an academy where students weren't expected to get hospitalized 24/7, it was pretty much empty except for two things hanging on the wall.
The first was his Zanpakutō, Zangetsu, still sheathed in its scabbard. Next to it was none other than Ruby's personal weapon, Crescent Rose.
Seth stared in surprise at the weapon. Not because it was there, but it was it here without its owner.
'Ruby never goes anywhere without Crescent unless circumstances make her.'
"She probably dropped it when the girls restrained her. Why don't we take it once we save her and the others?"
Seth mentally nodded and grabbed both weapon, strapping his weapon to his side and then grabbing the folded up scythe and carried it in his hands. He looked at it in his hands for a moment, thinking about Ruby before he walked out of the room.
'Ruby and the girls are no damsels in distress. So I better hurry up and save them before they get angry.' Seth thought as he did not have time to deal with this damsel in distress troupe. Nevertheless, nothing was gonna stand in his way in saving his team. 'Ruby, everyone, just wait for me!'
(Unknown Location)
"How are things going?" Arson asked as he and a member of the organization walked next to him with a Scroll in hand.
"The girl has fallen unconscious after we drugged her when she tried to resist us."
"I didn't ask about the girl. I was asking about the jewel."
"That is the thing. When we tried to take it, it would not come off of the girl."
Arson raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean it couldn't come off? It's just a necklace, how hard is it to take one off?"
"P-Please understand, Master Arson," The member replied nervously. "We tried taking it off, cutting it, but nothing works. It's like it has a mind of its own and refuses to let go of the girl."
"Tch." This news displeased Arson, but he wasn't worried. His master, Thomas, actually predicted that something like this would happen and prepared something. "In that case, initiate plan B."
"Yes sir." The member bow before he took his leave.
"How are things coming along?" Arson turned and quickly bowed to his knees.
"Master Albert!" Arson exclaimed, bowing his head. "It seems the jewel refuses to part from the girl so we are initiating plan B, just as Master Thomas had predicted."
"I see. Looks like Thomas' predictions once again came true." Albert said. Albert was a fairly tall man. His well-built figure was hidden behind the robes he wore. His skin was fairly tanned and his hair was red, reached down to the end of his neck. But the most noticeable thing about him was his bright red eyes that were in the same shade as Grimm eyes. "So, how are the new recruits?"
"They are doing just fine." Arson smirked as three figures were seen hidden in the shadows behind him. "Master Thomas' powers worked splendidly."
"That is only because I provided my Aura to him." Albert said. "Arson, make sure you and the others are on the lookout. No doubt the men you left behind back in Vale hed leaked information about this place. Expect some guests to appear at the front door."
"Yes, Master Albert." Arson said before he stood back up and took his leave.
Once gone, Albert looked out the window into the snowy blizzard brewing outside. But even with the blizzard, the broken moon in the night sky was still visible.
"Soon, our god will rise and Grimm shall have their home back." Albert said before taking his leave.
(With Seth and JNPR)
"You're kidding, right?" Jaune said as Seth had told him and his team where the Church of the Grimm was supposedly located.
"No, Jaune, I kid you not." Seth said as he flew the 'borrowed' VTOL. "According to reports, the Church of the Grimm is located on a tiny island between Vale and Atlas. Snow from Atlas covers nearly half of the island and the Church is somewhere within that snow."
"The distance between Beacon and this island is nearly a day's trip. How did those men get Vale and back so fast?" Pyrrha wondered as she looked at the map Seth had sent to her and the rest of JNPR via Scroll.
"One of the guys that attacked me and the girls seemed to somehow bring forth a dozen of men out of nowhere. My guess is that he has some sort of ability akin to teleportation." Seth said. He and the team had been in the air for days and it wouldn't be long until they arrived on the island.
"That certainly would explain how there had been no sightings of these men after they attacked you." Ren said. "By the way, how are you flying this ship?" They were all older than Seth and none of them knew how to pilot a VTOL for a long period of time.
"I don't know. It's just feels natural to me, like I've learned how to fly one in the past." Seth said.
"Oh! Maybe you were a prodigy pilot before you lost your memory!" Nora said.
"I doubt that." Seth said. A weapon that can change for by simply calling out its name, skills and powers that allowed him to keep up with even graduates, yeah he doubt he was some sort of pilot if he had the skills to become a Hunter.
Suddenly, an alarm rang and the warning signal lit up red, signaling trouble.
"What's going on!?" Jaune was the first to ask.
"I think we're about to have some company." Seth said as in the distance, a flock of black specs were heading towards them. As they got closer, Seth and JNPR could finally make out what the flock was and they paled.
"A flock of Griffons." Pyrrha said before Seth jumped out of his seat and went for the hanger. "Seth! Where are you going!?"
"Outside! Take the controls!" Seth said before he pressed a button on the wall which opened up the hanger, allowing him to run out of the VTOL before he jumped and landed on top of the ship.
"Pyrrha, you know how to fly this thing, right?" Jaune asked nervously. Whether the nervousness came from the fear of that they might crash or his motion sickness, no one could tell. Maybe motion sickness because he was looking a bit green right now.
"A bit." Pyrrha said as she was now glad she took those flying lessons before deciding to come to Beacon.
Back with Seth, he was having trouble getting a good foothold as the rushing wind threatened to push him off the ship.
"I can't get a good foothold…" Seth gritted his teeth as he tried to pump Aura into his feet, but instead of doing it like it was second nature to him, he was having trouble.
"Whatever that guy did to your Aura also messed up the flow. It's practically all over the place and quite frankly, I'm starting to feel a little sick right now."
Seth gritted his teeth before relaxing and concentrated. Moments later, he felt his feet stick to the roof of the ship, meaning he had somewhat successfully gotten a foothold. Keyword somewhat as he still felt like he could fall off at any time.
"Okay, now to take care of these…" Seth stopped right before he could finish what he was going to say. The reason for this is because he had went to draw out Zangetsu, but the blade was not coming out. It was stuck like someone had filled his scabbard with superglue. "Why can't I draw out Zangetsu?" He got his answer when he saw that his weapon was surrounded by a purple aura.
"Remember, whatever that guy did to your Aura affected Kuro and the others. Without Kuro, your weapon spirit, then I don't think you'll be drawing your sword."
"That doesn't make any sense!"
"Your sword and Kuro have a connection via your Aura which comes from your soul. Whatever the guy did, it affected your Aura and somehow your very soul as well. Even if you could draw your sword, you couldn't even manage a decent sized Getsuga Tenshō let alone manage Kidō."
"Dammit!" Seth cursed as he let go of his unusable sword. Now what was he supposed to do? He can't use Zangetsu and he can't use Kidō. What was he supposed to-? "Hm?" Seth's thoughts came to a halt when he looked behind him and saw that he was still carrying Ruby's Crescent Rose. He had grabbed an extra belt carrier from Ruby's stuff in order to carry it. Looking back at the approaching flock, Seth muttered, "Hope you don't mind me using this." Before he grabbed Crescent Rose.
*BANG!*
Firing a bullet, Seth took off. He spun around and swung Crescent's blade, taking a head before he fired another shot, sending him up before he landed on the back of one Griffon. It roared for him to get off, but soon found its head disconnected from its body. Seth quickly jumped off and hopped onto another one before he swung Crescent under the Griffon's body. With the pull of a single trigger, Seth was up, taking the Griffon's body with him as it was sliced in two. One Griffon came at him and quickly, he spun before he grabbed onto its beak, holding it closed before he sliced off on of its wings. He jumped away from it as it fell to its death when another Griffon grabbed onto his back. Quickly, he spun Crescent Rose around and aimed the barrel at the Griffon's face before pull the trigger. The head was blasted to bits as Seth fell, but he quickly grabbed onto another Griffon. Seth stabbed the scythe blade right into the mouth before he spun in midair and threw the Griffon at a random one, sending both falling to the sea below. Switching Crescent Rose to Sniper mode. Seth took aim and fired as he fell. The Griffons flew after him, refusing to let a prey get away, but as they drew closer to him, one by one, a bullet found its way into heads before Seth ran out of bullets. Quickly getting rid of the clip, Seth mentally thanked himself for bringing some more clips as he reloaded, switched Crescent Rose to Scythe mode and shot himself up.
'How the fuck am I wielding Crescent Rose so skillfully?' Seth thought as he sliced two more Griffons with skill.
"Maybe you've used a scythe for battle too before you lost your memory. How convenient."
Seth could see the logic in that, but for some reason, he felt that wasn't the case. But he put the thought in the back as he focused on the griffons again. He completely sliced one though the middle before he shot up using recoil and rammed into another Griffon. Seth grabbed its neck and sat down on its back before he aimed Crescent Rose forward and fired bullet after bullet while the Griffon flew around like crazy. After some shooting, Seth ran out of bullets and quickly dispatched of the griffon he was riding on, taking its head before he got rid of the empty clip and replaced with a new one. Landing on top of another Griffon, he was about to take its life when he smelled Dust in the air. Turning, he paled when he saw Nora waving at him…after she just fired all of her grenades at her!
"Shit!" Seth cursed before he took the Griffon's life and jumped off only got Nora's grenades to finally make it over to the flock and as expected, a big explosion occurred which sent Seth spiraling out of control. "She's crazy!"
"I thought we already knew that?"
"Sorry!" Nora shouted as she reloaded while still smiling, making one wonder if she really was sorry.
"Look on the bright side, all the Grimm are almost gone."
"Right, time to wrap this up." Seth said as he concentrated, pumping Aura into his feet before he slid on midair and jumped towards what remained of the flock.
(Some Time Later)
"A little warning before you start shooting would have been nice." Seth said as he landed the ship.
"I said I was sorry." Nora said.
"Well, I can't stay angry you forever. We're here." Seth said as he turned the airship off. "With how commotion we caused in the sky, they're probably expecting us now so it's safer if we land here."
"Looks like we're walking." Ren said as they all exited the airship. The minute they did did a cold wind blow.
"Brrrrr! How is it so cold?" Jaune asked, rubbing his arms.
"Half of the island is covered in snow. It's bound to be cold in places where the snow hasn't touched." Ren said.
"I wish I had brought a jacket then." Pyrrha said, rubbing her arms as she showed the most skin out of everyone here.
"Come on. We better get moving if we wanna get there. Who knows what they could be doing to Ruby and the others." Seth said.
JNPR all nodded and so, JNPR(S) began walking through the woods, heading straight for the snowy side of the island.
"This place sure has seen better days." Jaune commented as all around them were nothing but dead trees. They were all burnt black, no leaves on even a single branch. Said leaves were all on the ground in the same burnt color as the trees themselves.
"I wonder what this place was like in the past." Pyrrha wondered out loud.
"Who knows? Remnant's still a mysterious place." Seth said before he and the entire team heard growling. Turning, they all saw a pack of Beowolves appearing all around them. Quickly, they all drew their weapons. "Tch! We don't have time for this!" Twirling Ruby's scythe, Seth was the first to charge with the others soon following close behind.
(Unknown Location)
"It seems our guests have arrived. Uninvited that is." Albert said as he was what looked to be a chapel. Standing next to him was Thomas. Thomas was a bit taller than Albert and was more built than him. His light blue hair was long, reaching the bottom of his back as his entire form was hidden in the robes he wore. Like Albert, his eyes were bright red, the same shade as a Grimm's eye.
"They can come all they want. Their efforts in trying to save their friend will be futile." Thomas said, sipping a glass of wine as he looked up. There, hanging up at the giant cross of the entire chapel was Ruby encased sine some sort of capsule with Scarlet's Heart Jewel faintly glowing. "So, exactly how long will this take?"
"The energy is much more powerful than we ever imagined. If this keeps up, our god will be revived tomorrow morning." Albert said with a sinister smile.
"Excellent!" Thomas suddenly shouted, throwing away his glass as the thing broke once it crashed into the ground as Thomas spreads his arms out. "Our dear god! Soon, the time for you and your kind to take back Remnant is at hand! Please, wait only for a few moments longer!"
As Thomas was 'praying', Albert turned to three figures standing in the shadows. "Keep watch for the intruders. You three are to follow Arson's every word. Understood?"
The three nodded their heads before taking their leave.
(Back with JNPR(S))
"Gah!" A member of the Church of Grimm fell before Seth, knocked out as the cold winds blew his hair.
"Whew! Much better." Jaune said, feeling warmth overcome him as he wore one of the robes the Church of Grimm use. He wasn't the only one as the rest of the team wore robes themselves.
"I can see how they've survived out here. These robes are surprisingly warm." Pyrrha said as she picked one of the members Grimm mask.
"We've come a long way." Ren said as he put on a Taiju Grimm mask over his face. If any of you are now wonder what is happening, the group had quickly dispatched the Grimm that attacked them before moving on. After a while, they finally made it to the other half of the island, the temperature dropping by the second. When they arrived, they were attacked by some men of the Church of Grimm, but they were quickly knocked out before taking their clothes. The plan was to infiltrate the CoG(Church of Grimm) dressed as one of their own.
"We're like undercover spies breaking into an evil mad scientist's headquarters!" Nora said as she put on an Ursa mask.
"Still creepy how these guys can so casually put on Grimm masks." Jaune commented before he put on the taken Nevermore mask.
"What are you going to do, Seth?" Pyrrha asked as she put on a Deathstalker mask. "You broke that guy's mask."
"Don't worry." Seth said, finished putting on the robes before he grabbed something out. "I have one right here."
"Huh?" All of JNPR turned and saw Seth take out his Grimm mask; the only clue had had besides his sword about what his past may have been. Putting it on, JNPR all felt chills run down their spine when Seth turned to them. With the hood of the robes up and with Crescent Rose in hand, he looked like the personification of the Grimm Reaper himself.
"Is something wrong?" Seth asked before quickly realizing what was making his friends nervous. "It's the mask, isn't it?"
"Y-Yeah…" Jaune admitted. "Where did you get something like that?"
"I don't know." Seth said, getting confused looks. "This mask is one of the only things I had on me when I lost my memory. I don't even know why I have this with me when I first woke with no memory."
"So it's one of the few clues you have in figuring out your lost past." Pyrrha said, getting a nod from Seth.
"But my memories aren't important right now." Seth said as he took the first step into the half covered snow land. "We got friends to save."
JNPR all nodded before they followed after Seth. Might winds blew, kicking up snow that would have slapped everyone in the face if it weren't for the masks. Nora once tried to move her mask a little to stick out her tongue for some snow, but quickly regretted it when her lower face felt like it had just been stuffed in the freezer. It was that cold. Jaune was the only one who showed signs of being extremely cold, shivering like scared dog as the others held in their shivering. The only one woo seemed okay was Seth.
"H-H-How are y-you n-not c-c-cold?" Jaune stuttered out.
"I don't know." Seth said. "It's cold, I'll admit, but I feel like I've faced colder."
"W-What could be c-colder than this weather?" Ren asked as he was this close to shivering like Jaune.
Seth shrugged and just kept walking forward. While everyone was silent, Seth was conversing with Shiro.
'So, what's our plan of attack?'
"I thought the plan was to go in and wreck shit."
'As much as I want to do that, Ozpin's right when he said I can't rush things. I need a plan if I want to get everyone out of that place alive.'
"Well, since this is a rescue operation…sort of, I would think the first plan is to gather info and see where they're keeping the girls."
'Info gathering…' Seth remembered Ozpin saying that to him. 'Alright, once we're there, we'll try and see if we can get any info from someone. '
"That's as far as you go!" A voiced stopped JNPR(S) in their tracks. Following the voice, they looked up and saw…
"Arson!" Seth said, his tone filled with anger.
"Uh, is he floating?" Jaune asked as Arson stood above them as if he was floating.
"Hm? That voice…It can't be!" For the first time, Arson showed surprise on his face. "You should be dead!"
"Sorry to break it to you, but I'm alive as anyone here." Seth said, reaching for Crescent Rose. Looks like information gathering was out of the picture. Time to do this the old fashion way. "Where are Ruby and the others?"
Arson calmed himself down before speaking. "I wouldn't worry about your friends. We've been taking good care of them."
"Where! Are! They!" Seth growled as unknown to him, black Aura started to appear from his body.
'Impossible! He should even have an Aura to generate!' Arson thought, starring wide eyed at the amnesiac. He and his masters had expected expert Hunters, hell they expected any friends of RWBY to appear at their door steps, but they did not See Seth coming for he should be dead.
"It seems I've underestimated you, boy." Arson said, identifying Seth as a legitimate threat now. "You will pose a problem if left alone. Men! Deal with this boy and his friends."
Suddenly, as if on command, the winds blew, forcing JNPR(S) to cover their eyes until the winds subsided. Moving their arms, JNPR(S) eyes all widen when surrounding them were hundreds of robed men, all part of the CoG.
"How did we get surrounded by so many men!?" Pyrrha said as the five all grouped up together back to back.
"They must have hidden in the snow storm. Look!" Jaune said as he pointed over to Arson. With the snow storm gone, it showed why Arson seemed to have been floating above the group. It was because right before their eyes, a Church the size of a mansion with a Chapel bigger than the Church itself stood before them as Arson was on the balcony.
"Guess we found their base of operations." Ren said as Nora took a quick selfie of her and the CoG's 'secret base.'
"Yes, you've found it, but you won't be leaving here alive to tell a single soul about it." Arson said before he waved his hands. "Get them! We must buy time for my masters to complete the ritual!"
"Ritual?" Seth muttered on confusion before the robed men attacked them. "Be careful! Some of these guys don't have Aura!"
"Got it!" Nora said before batting away a handful of men. "Just break their legs! Right?"
"You know what? Yeah, sure, go crazy." Seth said.
Nora squealed before look towards Rem as if trying to get an approval.
"…Sigh, do it. We're in a hurry." Ren said before Aura palming a man that had tried to back attack him.
"Yay!" Nora said before pink lighting started to discharge from her. Realizing what she was about to do, JPR(S) all ran, drawing confused looks from the robed men when Nora jumped into the air, hammer raised. "NORA SMASH!"
*BOOM!*
Screams of surprise were everywhere as men were sent flying. Men were scrambling about and it was this confusion that the others took advantage of. Seth rushed in first, wielding his sword while it was still sheathed and knocked out men with quickly strike to the heads. Jaune did the same thing though at a more careful pace, using his scabbard like a club. He had to thank Pyrrha later for increasing his strength as the men were knocked out after one or two hard hits to the head. Pyrrha used her shield and the blunt end of Miló. She flung her shield like a Frisbee as said shield struck and bounced off men after men, knocking down many before it returned to her. Twirling her weapon in javelin mode, she swepted the feet's of men, knocked them down before she stomped on their faces. She muttered a quick, 'Sorry' before continuing the fight. Ren finished men off quickly, using hand to hand combat. He grabbed one by the arm and judo flipped him before quickly knocking him out with a stomp to the head. He spun around and roundhouse kicked one away before he blocked the attack of one robed man wielding a pair of claw gauntlets. He pushed the men back before force palming him, sending him flying .
After a while, the men regained their barring's and attacked the five. Seeing them coming, Seth and the others charged not towards the robed men, but towards the building of the CoG. Their mission was to rescue Ruby and the others. They would be wasting time if they stayed here and fought all these men.
"Out of our way!" Seth said, striking one down with a quick swing to the face before he jumped and jumped over the mass of men, landing and jumping off heads and faces as he went ahead of JNPR. Seeing their friend ahead of them, Jaune quickly came up with the quickest plan to catch up to him.
"Nora! Give them the hammer!" Jaune said.
"You got it!" Nora said, saluting quickly before she jumped ahead, landing right in front of the robed men before she smirked and swung her hammer, firing a grenade from the barrel to increase the striking power. The hammer struck one man down before sending a huge shockwave that sent more men flying. Using the opening Nora gave them, the team quickly went after their amnesiac friend.
With Seth, he had finished getting over the mass of robed men before he turned around and struck out his palm.
"Hadō #33: Sōkatsui!" Seth shouted before a wave of blue flames erupted from his palm, blowing away many man as well as burning them. He had made sure to lower the power as too not kill them, but even with lowered power, Seth felt drained.
"Idiot. Your Aura still isn't in top condition. Using Kidō spells is gonna exhaust you."
"You don't think I figured that out?" Seth said as he turned and looked straight at the oversized door. Without wasting time, he raised his leg and kicked it. The doors swung open without any resistance. That or he had more kicking power than he thought.
*BANG!*
*CRACK!*
"Gh!" Seth quickly slid behind cover, part of his mask broken as he barely dodged a bullet aimed for his head. Quickly, he grabbed Crescent Rose and popped out of his cover, aiming the weapon in Sniper mode only to be greeted with, "Weiss! Blake! Yang!"
Indeed, it was his friends, but judging how their eyes were still blank with no emotion, they were still being controlled. Not only that, but they all wore parts of a Grimm mask on their faces as well as wearing robes of their own. The right upper part of an Ursa mask covered Yang's right eye, half a Griffon mask covered the left side of Weiss's face, hiding her scar, and Blake wore a mask mostly used by the White Fang which covered her eyes, but Seth knew her eyes were probably blank like the FreezerBurn duo. How the CoG got their hands on one, who can say?
"Looks like they're still under whatever control that Arson guy has on them."
'Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Captain Obvious.' Seth thought before Weiss suddenly attacked. Quickly, he switched Crescent Rose to Scythe mode and blocked a stab aimed for his head. "Weiss, snap out of it! It's me, Seth!"
"…" Weiss did not respond as Yang jumped in and fired a shotgun blast. Quickly, Seth kicked Weiss away and jumped back. But when he did, arms were wrapped around him. Surprised, Seth saw Blake behind him, arms wrapped around him to prevent him from escaping.
"How did she-!?" Seth didn't have to finish as a second Blake was rushing towards him, blades ready. "Shadow Clones!" Quickly, Seth let go of one hand on Crescent Rose and elbowed the Blake holding him. Turns out the Blake behind him was a shadow clone as it disappeared after getting hit, giving Seth the time to duck under a swipe to his hair as a few strands of hair flew above his eyes before he jumped back again. However, he didn't get even 2 feet back when yang appeared beside him, throwing a fist.
*BANG!*
The sound of s shotgun went off and Seth was sent back. Smoke came off him as he gritted his teeth, flipped in midair, and landed on one of the many benches here.
"Dammit, I don't have time for this!" Seth said as half of his mask was now gone, leaving him with only the right side of the mask albeit barely as the lower jaw and teeth came off.
Not wanting to give Seth a rest, Weiss zoomed in towards him. He was prepared to block her attack when Jaune suddenly appeared, shield out, and blocked Weiss' stab. He swung his sword, but Weiss jumped back and regrouped with other two as the rest of JNPR appeared weapons ready. Behind them, the door was closed shut, a plank of wood locking the door as well as preventing the men outside from getting inside.
"Sorry we're late! Traffic was a bitch." Nora said before turning to WBY. "What's with them? Their eyes are giving me the creeps."
"They're being controlled somehow." Seth said.
"I see. Looks like this rescue mission will be harder than I thought." Ren said, eyeing the three of them with caution. Team RWBY, not counting Seth, were one of the top teams when it came to combat if first year teams. Even if they were currently under some sort of mind control, they all had to be careful.
"Seth, leave this to us. Go and find Ruby." Pyrrha said. "I fear that something may be happening to her even as we speak."
Seth seemed reluctant to leave, but his worries for Ruby was greater so he nodded and said, "Try not to hurt them too much."
"Yeah, if they don't kill us first." Jaune muttered as Seth took off, but not before giving them something. "Tranquilizers?"
"I don't know how we can change them back so for now; the best course of action is to knock them out. Can you guys do that?" Seth aside, getting nods. "Then I'll leave them to your hands."
And with that, Seth took off. WBY all tried to go after him, but JNPR blocked their way. "Sorry, but you're gonna have to get past us if you want to get to Seth."
"So, what's the plan here, Jaune?" Pyrrha asked.
"We need to split them up. We all know how well they work when together. Pyrrha, since you're the strongest out of all of us, you take Yang. Ren and Nora, you two deal with Blake. With her shadow clones, she'll be difficult to catch."
"Which leaves you with Weiss." Pyrrha said, worried. Even with the training Jaune has received, he still wasn't at the level where he could go up against most of the students in Beacon. Sure, he can take down Grimm, but Grimm didn't have Aura protecting them.
"I'll be fine. If anything, my only chance of winning is if I face Weiss. She's more of a supporter than a front line fighter." Jaune said. "Now, let's go!" That last part was also used to steel himself as he and his team charged towards WBY who met their challenge.
(With Arson and his masters)
"What? The boy is alive!?" Albert said, surprised as Arson was bowing before him.
"It came as a surprise to me as well." Arson said.
"But that's impossible!" Thomas, also surprised, joined in on the conversation. "With me and Albert's Semblance combined, the boy should have died!"
"Yet he is still standing." Albert said. "What do we do? The ritual still needs time."
"If he gets anywhere near here, Arson here will deal with him. And if he somehow manages to get past him, then you'll deal with him." Thomas said, speaking to both Albert and Arson.
"Please, my masters, I shall not allow that boy to even set one foot past me." Arson said before he stood and left. Once he left, Albert began talking to Thomas.
"How is it possible the boy has an Aura left? My Semblance should have drained it all with your Semblance dealing the finishing touch." Albert said.
"I do not know how the boy is still alive, but he will pose a problem. Deal with him if he gets passed Arson." Thomas said.
"Whatever you say, brother." Albert said before he took his leave. Once gone, Thomas looked back at the cross that held Ruby still in the capsule except the cross seemed to be pulsing. No, it wasn't the cross that was pulsing; rather it was something attached to the cross that pulsed like the beating of a heart.
"Soon, soon you will be revived and you will finally take back Remnant."
(With Seth)
"Out of my way!" Seth shouted as he jumped and kicked a robed man in the face, knocking him back before he landed and spun around, kicking another man away. Another man suddenly grabbed him from behind, but Seth quickly used his head literally and back headed the man in the face, making him let go of the amnesiac as Seth grabbed the man and threw him towards more men, all of them going down like a bowling ball knocking down pins.
"Dammit! There's no end to these guys!" Seth gritted his teeth in frustration as he knocked back another robed man in his way. Judging by how many men were appearing before him, Seth guessed he was getting closer to where Ruby was being held.
Suddenly, Seth sensed something heading his way and jumped back in time to avoid three knives embedding themselves into the ground. Seth recognized those knives. Those knives were used by…
"Arson!" Seth growled as said man appeared as his men stepped aside.
"I'll admit, I'm surprised that you've made it this far with no Aura." Arson said before he grabbed his robes and removed them, revealing a black tailored suit with white and red shins guards, protective gauntlets and a chest plate. "But this is as far as you go. I'll make sure you stay down for good."
"Not if I have anything to say about it." Seth said, twirling Crescent Rose around before he stabbed the scythe into the ground like Ruby always does. "I won't quit until I save Ruby! Judging how many men are here and with you showing up, that means I'm getting close. So move it!"
Dragging the Scythe behind him as sparks flew from being dragged while still being in the ground, Seth sped towards the knife user who had put on his Beowolf mask. Seth jumped, removing the scythe from the ground as he swung the deadly weapon at Arson in an overhead swing, but Arson dodged the weapon, the blade stabbing itself into the ground again. Arson moved in fast and struck Seth with a palm strike, throwing Seth back, but he kept his grip on Crescent Rose tightly, dragging the scythe with him as he flew back, but thanks to Crescent still being stabbing into the ground, Seth didn't fly far. Coming to a stop, Seth glared at Arson and removed Crescent from the ground before twirling Crescent behind him, firing a bullet to boost him forward. Seeing him coming, Arson simply smirked before suddenly, he disappeared.
"What!?" Seth came to a stop and looked left and right to where the man had disappeared only to have a foot appeared, slamming into his face as Seth flew back and crashed into a sculpture of a Grimm. Shaking his head, Seth looked and saw Arson lowering his foot. Seth quickly got up only to see Arson closer to him than he was previously. Before he could do anything, Seth's face was grabbed and was flung across the room. He spun in midair before crashing into another sculpture.
"Give it up. Without your original powers, you're no match for me." Arson said.
"Says the guy who keeps teleporting." Seth said, getting up. His Scroll in his pocket beeped, meaning his Aura had just gone into the Yellow Zone.
"Looks like you're nearing your limit." Arson said.
"Why don't you stop talking and fight me like a man." Seth said, holding up Crescent Rose. "I bet you can't even keep up with me without your teleporting ability."
"Hmph. You think so?" Arson said before with the flick of his hand, a pair of three knives appeared in each of his hands. "In that case, I'll humor you and won't use my Semblance in order to show you just how outmatched you are."
"Then come at me." Seth said, doing a 'bring it' gesture to the man.
Arson scoffed again and charged towards Seth.
'Hmph! What a foolish boy. He is, but a Huntsman-in-training. He can never hope to defeat me. I'll show him that he can never defeat me even if I'm not using my-!' Arson's thoughts were put on hold when suddenly; Seth zoomed in and practically appeared right in front of Arson! "What-Guh!"
Seth threw a hard punch to Arson's gut so hard that the man spat out some saliva. He stumbled back, holding his stomach, but Seth was not going to let him recover. Drawing his feet back, Seth kicked Arson right in the face, sending him up into the air where Seth quickly followed after him by simply jumping. He flipped in midair and swung Crescent Rose. Quickly, Arson crossed his arms and was thrown back to the ground, his Aura protecting him. He gritted his teeth as he got up, but the sound of something being sliced and falling off caught his attention and he turned to see what it was. To his surprise, it was his gauntlets. They had been sliced clean and fell from his arms. Before he could even a mutter a 'What!?' Seth dropped down right next to him and delivered a roundhouse kick to his face, sending him flying again as Seth gave chase, easily catching up as he spin in midair and struck with Crescent, slamming the man down to the ground hard again, making a crater as Seth jumped into the air and aimed Crescent's barrel at the crater. Not wasting even a second, Seth unloaded all the bullets the clip had left before they were all gone. Only then did Seth stop his assault and waited for Arson to appear.
"Behind you!"
Seth got Shiro's warning in time and turned just in time, raising Crescent to block a stab before he was kicked back. Seth skidded across the ground before coming to a stop. Looking up, he couldn't help, but smirk at the sight right in front of him.
It was Arson, but his suit was ruined, patches of blood here and there as blood ran down from the man's head. He was breathing heavily as he clenched the three knives in his right hand while his left hand held a bleeding wound, a slash to his chest as Arson glared at Seth with anger.
"What's wrong? I thought you said you could beat me without your Semblance?" Seth said, smirking as he gazed at the wound on Arson's chest. "Looks like your Aura's done protecting you."
"Shut up! How!?" Arson growled. "How can you be so powerful when you have no powers!?"
"Just because most of my powers are gone doesn't mean you've taken away my skills." Seth said, resting Crescent Rose on his shoulder. "Now then. Let's end this right now. I'm in a hurry."
"Just because you've managed to wound me doesn't mean you've won! You have no idea what I have been through to live right now at this very moment!" Arson said as he began to rant. "My parents abandoned me at an orphanage! No one wanted to be my friend! They kicked me out when they said I was a freak for liking Grimm! I've slept through cold winters starving, stolen food in order to stay alive, get beaten up when I was caught, but I continued to strive to live! But that's when I met Master Thomas and Master Albert. Like me, they two believe the Grimm are the supreme rulers of this world! With the powers that girl has, we will finally-!"
"You talk too much." Arson's eyes widen in surprise when standing right in front of him was Seth.
"What!?" Arson quickly teleported back, appearing a good distance away when he found a blade from behind him appearing around his neck. Without even having to look, he knew that Seth was behind him. "How!?"
"I've noticed that when you teleport, you appear a set distance away, probably about 10 to 40 yards. It's how you got all those men to appear at Beacon. You simply kept them close to Beacon until you summoned them. So I predicted where you'll might appearing since this hall is pretty limited." Seth explained as he placed one finger on the trigger. "But I also noticed that your teleportation ability is greater when you're all calm and cool. Since you were so surprised and angry at me, it was easy for me to predict where you would land."
"Y-You…!"
"Anyways, I've talked for long enough. There's someone very important to me that I need to save so I can't waste any more time on you." Seth said as he was about to pull the trigger.
Quickly, Arson went to teleport, but found out he couldn't.
'I-I can't teleport!' Arson thought, his head too hot with anger at the amnesiac. "You-!"
*BANG!*
With the recoil of Crescent Rose, its blade was stained red as Arson's head fell to the ground long with his body. Seth didn't bother looking down at him as he rushed off down the hall.
"Good thing you managed to do a Shunpo, huh."
"Yeah, it really made things easier for me." Seth said as he ran down the hall, encountering more men. "But at least I now know who else I need to beat. Don't worry, Ruby. Just hang on for a little longer!"
(With JNPR)
The entire room was filled with a storm of chaos. Benches were thrown everywhere as candles fell to the floor. Sparks flew as metal met metal and bodies flew back. All of JNPR fought at their best, but WBY were all tough opponents.
Pyrrha and Yang met up face to face. The blond brawler threw a fist which struck Pyrrha's shield as Pyrrha moved the fist away from her and thrusted her spear forward, but a quick shot from Yang's other gauntlet made the blond fly back. Skidding to a stop, Yang unloaded all of her ammo upon Pyrrha, forcing the girl to move and dodge, ducking and rolling around as tiny explosions occurred whenever Yang's shotgun shells struck anything. Running out, Yang got rid of her empty shells and quickly replaced them with new ones. Pyrrha stopped running and turned her spear into its rifle mode and opened fired. Yang charged at Pyrrha, using her gauntlets to deflect any bullets aimed at her while ignoring the ones that missed her as she drew closer to the red head. Seeing that shooting was useless, Pyrrha turned Miló back into its javelin form and flung it towards the blond, firing a bullet which caused the recoil to increase the spear's speed and force. Yang swung her arm outward, batting the spear as it flipped into the air, but that's what Pyrrha had been planning as she run up and kicked Yang right in the face, sending the blond flying back as the red head caught her weapon and slipped before landing on her feet. The controlled Yang recovered before her eyes turned red and fire sprouted from her body, activating her Semblance. Fists raised in front of her face, Yang rushed in and threw a quick jab which Pyrrha blocked with Akoúo̱, but was pushed back, surprising the red head as Yang kept up her assault, throwing rapid punches onto Pyrrha's shied which forced the red head to stay on the defensive.
'Her attacks have gotten stronger!' Pyrrha thought as Yang continued to hammer down.
Suddenly, Yang did something different and threw a kick, kicking under Pyrrha's shield and hitting her face, making her head snap up which gave Yang the chance to land a devastating blow. With a quick stomp her foot, Yang threw a right straight, hitting Pyrrha right in the gut which sent her flying back, crashing the wall and slid down. Yang walked towards her, stopping just right in front of her before she raised her fist and brought it down. But just when it was about to connect with Pyrrha's face, it was stopped. While Yang didn't show it, she was confused as slowly, her fist was pulled back. Quickly, she used her other fist, but that too was stopped and pulled back.
"Sorry to do this to you, Yang." Pyrrha with a bit of blood coming from her forehead said as she aimed her rifle at Yang and fired. But instead of a bullet, the tranquilizer Seth gave her shot out and struck Yang in the stomach. In about a minute, it did its work and Yang fell unconscious with Pyrrha's magnetism being the only thing that held the blond up. Releasing her magnetism on Yang's gauntlets, Pyrrha allowed herself to rest as Yang fell to the floor. That punch really did a number on her.
"Hold still!" Nora cried out as she slammed her hammer down upon Blake, but it was nothing more than a shadow clone as the shockwave of Nora's attack blew away benches and candles and anything else nearby. Suddenly, Gambol Shroud appeared and wrapped itself around Nora's neck, choking her as she was pulled back and thrown into a pile of benches, curtsy of Blake. Coming quickly, Ren jumped and struck with an axe kick, but the Blake he hit was another shadow clone as the real Blake appeared from behind and attacked, but Ren spun around quickly and blocked both of Blake's blades but he wasn't able to block a sudden kick, hitting his chin as he was sent back a bit before Blake spun and kicked him in the stomach, sending him and meeting up with Nora.
"Ren!" Seeing her cru-friend get hurt, Nora roared and charged at Blake. But as always, she wasn't able to land a real hit as her shadow clones made the cat Faunus as slippery as a buzzing fly. Now Nora was no slowpoke even when wielding something like Magnhild, but she just couldn't land a good hit.
'This isn't working.' Ren thought as he gazed at the battle of whack-a-mole with Nora and Blake. With Blake using her clones so much, they'll never catch her at this rate. They needed a plan. Luckily, Ren had one in mind.
"Nora!" Said hyper girl stopped her pounding and turned towards him. "Use your grenades to fill this place with smoke!"
"You got it!" Nora said, saluting as she switched Magnhild to its grenade launcher mode and began to fire all over the room, quickly filling the place up with pink smoke.
Blake came to a stop and looked around. Even while controlled, she saw what they were trying to do. They were trying to trick her vision, but a Faunus relies more than on her eyes. Using her enhanced smell and cat ears, she checked her surrounding until she finally picked up something. Syrup. Nora always smelled like syrup. Changing Gambol into its gun mode, she fired into the direction where the smell was coming from and heard her bullets hit something. She walked towards it, expecting to see the orange haired girl on the ground, but to her surprise, all she found was a syrup covered bench with bullet holes.
"Sneak Attack!" Nora, appearing from the smoke, announced as she brought down her hammer. Quickly, Blake replaced herself with a shadow clone. Once the clone was struck, Blake reappeared and gave Nora a quick slash to her sides before she turned and slid on the ground, swords raised.
"I've got you!" Suddenly, before Blake could react, Ren appeared and wrapped his arms from under arms and held onto her, refusing to let her escape. "I knew you'd use your Faunus traits to see through this smoke, I counted on it." In the same fashion as if summon is StormFlower, the tranquilizer that Seth gave him appeared in his hands and quickly before Blake had a chance to replace herself with a shadow clone, she stabbed the tranquilizer into her neck. Within a minute, Blake fell unconscious.
Ren sighed in relief and placed Blake down on the ground gently. "Glad that's over."
"Looks like you carrying that syrup bottle saved us in the end!" Nora said, giving Ren a smile and a thumbs up.
"I only had that because you keep eating pancakes at random times." Ren said as to prove his point, Nora took out a piece of pancake out of nowhere and started eating it.
"Gh!" Jaune barely got his shield up in time to block a stab aimed for his eye. Weiss attacked with quick stabs while throwing in some slashes that forced the blond on the defensive. In fact, he's been on the defensive since he started fighting Weiss. "Dammit I can't stay like this!" Jaune blocked another attack before he quickly went on the offensive, swinging his sword at Weiss, but she dodged and went for a quick slash, slashing across Jaune's chest armor. Jaune gritted his teeth as Weiss went for another slash, but Jaune blocked her slash, moved the sword aside and gave her a slash across the chest, making the heiress stumble back.
"Don't underestimate me!" Jaune said as his confidence grew and charged towards Weiss, but before he could swing his sword, Weiss turned the dial of Myrtenaster and used wind Dust to summon a small tornado, blowing away Jaune as he spun in the air and crashed into some benches. Jaune shook his head and looked to see Weiss summon a Glyph to jump off from, sending her speed towards Jaune. Jaune quickly got up and took a stance, shield first. A good stance was what supported a good defense so when Weiss' stab struck Jaune's shield, he skidded back instead of flying back. Jaune held his ground as he skid back before he came to a stop, used his shield to move Weiss' blade away and throw a quick slash. Weiss barely dodged the blade before jumping back.
Jaune pressed on, following after Weiss and was finally on the offensive and forcing Weiss on the defensive, throwing out quick and crazy slashes as Weiss blocked them, but Jaune had improved more than Weiss expected as his slashes carried more power and skill. But Jaune knew that if was ever going to get a chance to use the tranquilizer, he'll have to play dirty. So when the two entered a dead lock, Jaune raised his foot and delivered a good kick, sending Weiss back before he swung his sword and disarmed her. Quickly, Jaune threw away his sword and drew out the tranquilizer before tackling the controlled heiress to the ground. If Weiss was her regular self, she would have been screaming right now, but all she did was struggle, but after a while, Jaune managed to stab the tranquilizer into her, knocking her out in a minute.
Jaune breathed a sigh of relief before getting off of Weiss. Looking, he saw that his other friends were successful as well.
"Looks like we managed to knock them out without hurting them too much." Pyrrha said as the team regrouped. "Now what?"
Just as she said that…
*RUMBLE-RUMBLE-RUMBLE!*
A sudden rumbling shook the entire building.
"An earthquake!?" Jaune said, trying to keep his balance.
"I don't think that's the case." Ren said as he picked up Blake. "For now, let's regroup with Seth."
The others nodded and picked up the girls before running after Seth.
(With Seth, Few Hours Ago)
"Something's' not right." Seth said as he ran down the halls.
"What's wrong?"
"There aren't any more men trying to stop me." Seth said. He had been running for half an hour yet robed men didn't appear trying to stop him. He wasn't complaining, but something wasn't right with it.
"Impressive." Seth came to a stop. Standing before was none other than Albert. "You actually managed to make it past Arson. Not only that, but you took his life despite being so young."
"And who are you?" Seth asked.
"I am Albert, Arson's master. Well, one of his masters, but that's beside the point." Albert said. "So, may I ask your-"
*BANG!*
A gun shot was fired and Seth sped up towards Albert. Wasting no time, Seth swung Crescent in an overhead slash, but Albert quickly raised his arms with was governed by a steel gauntlet and blocked the attack.
"My name is Seth Aberrant! And I'm the one who's gonna kick your ass!" Seth said, remembering from Arson that Albert was another one who was holding Ruby captured. That was enough for him to raise his blade.
"Aren't we hotheaded?" Albert said before he pushed Seth back who flipped and landed on his feet.
"Sorry, but I don't have to talk with you." Seth said. "I'm gonna finish this quickly and rescue Ruby."
"Oh? But don't you want to know more about me? Why I have faith in the Grimm?" Albert asked.
"As of right now, no." Seth said. "Now, either move out of the way, or get taken down."
"That's kind of a disappointment. It's like one of those movies where a good guy fights a bad guy without knowing the reason. It's like they're just there to beat the shit out of each other."
'Shiro?
"Yeah?"
'Shut up.'
"Fuck you."
"How about…" Albert then grabbed a Beringel Grimm mask from his robes before he threw said robes away; revealing that he only wore pants as his muscles were displayed for all to see before Albert charged at the amnesiac. "Neither!"
Seeing the man coming, Seth too charged with Crescent Rose ready to be swung behind him. The two met in a matter of seconds and attacked, Albert swinging a fist while Seth swung Crescent. Both attacks met and caused a shockwave that forced both fighters back. Seth, having placed a new clip into Crescent, fired bullets as he flew back but Albert who skidded to a stop stabbed his hands into the ground and with little effort, lifted a slab of earth which blocked all the bullets Seth fired. Seth looked surprised before he skidded to a stop. He then boosted himself by firing behind him, using the recoil to speed himself up as he closed the distance quickly and sliced the slab of earth but found Albert had ducked under the blade and before Seth could block, Albert delivered an uppercut, connected with Seth's jaw which him flying upward and crashing through the ceiling. Albert looked through the hole Seth made and knew something wasn't right when the amnesic did not appear seconds later. His suspicions were correct when Seth bursted through the window to his left, scythe raised to kill, but Albert was prepared for him. Raising his arm, his gauntlet stopped the deadly blade before he swung his right leg for a deadly roundhouse kick, but Seth Shunpoed out of the way and appeared a few yards away from him. He shunpoed again and sped towards the man, but before he could blink, he was forced into a stop as his neck was caught in Albert's hand. Seth cursed himself. His shunpo wasn't fast enough.
"Hmm…" Albert hummed to himself as he looked at Seth. "I sense Aura from you, but for some reason, I cannot drain it."
"Drain…it…?" Seth managed to breathe out.
"My Semblance. I have the ability to drain someone's Aura and add it to my own, but for some reason, I cannot not take yours. How peculiar."
"He can drain normal Aura, but let's see this guy try and drain Grimm Aura."
Ignoring Shiro's voice like he does most of the time, Seth raised Crescent Rose just enough and fired at Albert's chest at point blank range, surprising the man as his grip went loose and he pulled back, allowing Seth to get free and jump back while also breathing in some air.
"Not bad. That one actually kind of hurt." Albert said before his eyes seemed to glow brighter as his slammed his fists together. "But playtime's over!" Suddenly, Aura started to appear around the man and his muscles seemed to bulge, getting bigger and stronger.
"What are you doing?" Seth said, his mind telling him to stay cautious.
"I told you. I have the ability to drain Aura and add it to my strength." Albert said. "Just because I couldn't drain yours doesn't mean I can't drain others."
"So that's why there wasn't anyone around when I got here." Seth said to himself as he gripped Crescent harder. "Well, just because your muscles got bigger, doesn't mean-"
"Who said my strength was all that increased?" Seth's eyes widen when Albert suddenly appeared right behind him. Before he could react, Albert kicked him so hard that when Seth flew, he almost broke the sound barrier. Before he crashed into the wall, his leg was grabbed by Albert who then proceeded to slam him down on the ground multiple times, swinging him around as if he were a mere ragdoll.
*SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM-SLAM!*
Finally getting board of slamming Seth around like a ragdoll, Albert threw him up and caught him by the neck. Seth's mask was no more, having been broken when he was slammed around as blood flowed from his head, showing that his Aura was done protecting him. But his grip on Crescent did not break as Seth struggled to keep his eyes open.
"I'm surprised you're still conscious." Albert said. "You did well in making it this far, but this is where it ends here, boy. Goodbye."
'No…is this the end?' Seth thought as Albert started to add pressure around his neck, attempting to snap his neck. 'I…I can't die…here. I still…need to save…Ruby! I…I need…I need to move! I need to fight! I need to win! I can't afford…TO DIE HERE!'
"Sigh…you really are hopeless, you know that?"
*BANG!*
"Argh!" Albert released his hold on Seth and held his face. A bullet did not hit his face rather it was a blast of Aura, black in color with a hint of red surrounding it.
"I can't believe you actually almost died against this sack of muscles here. This is why you're hopeless."
Albert looked up and was met with a sight he did not expect to see. Right in front of his eyes, 'Seth' was up, cracking his neck as a Grimm Mask covered the right upper side of his face. The sclera of his eyes have turned black and his irises have turned yellowish-golden. Shiro was now in control.
"A Grimm Mask?" Albert was beyond confused. But his sense of confusion was outweighed by his sense of danger as the feeling around Shiro set him alert. "You're not that boy. Who are you?"
(BGM: Undertale: Megalovania-Metal Cover by RichaadEB)
"Heh. Sorry, but I don't give my name to those who are about to die." Shiro gave off his signature sadistic smiled before he charged, Crescent Rose in hand.
Albert raised his arms, his gauntlet stopping the blade, but the power behind Shiro's swing sent him flying. He flipped in midair and skid to a stop, but saw that Shiro was nowhere to be seen. He looked left and right, but failed to look behind him when Shiro appeared and kicked him up into the air. He then jumped and swing Crescent with so much force that when Albert went to block it, the blade sliced through the gauntlets, surprising Albert as the blade continued and was stabbed into his right arm before he was pushed down to the ground, creating a small crater. Shiro landed not far from the crater as something was happened to Crescent Rose. The color of the weapon slowly went from rose red to black. Twirling the scythe so fast that the wind around the Grimm started to before he stabbed the scythe into the ground and started firing. But instead of shooting bullets, he shot out burst of Aura, black and red in color. Albert got up from the crater, but was soon assaulted by the Aura shots. He raised his arms to block the shots, but each one carried the power of a cannonball, throwing him back before Shiro stopped shoot and appeared behind Albert again, swing Crescent like a mad man which wasn't actually far off.
"Gh…"
As the battle continued, Crescent's color slowly became more black. Albert was thrown back again as Shiro followed close behind. He laughed like a mad man as he jumped into the air and dropped down right on top of Albert, making another crater. Albert roared as he attempted to grab the Grimm, but Shiro shunpoed out of the way before Albert could lay even one finger on him. He appeared not too far from him and started shooting more Aura shots, forcing Albert to move and dodge the best he could. Seeing as shooting was getting him nowhere, Shiro stopped shoot and disappeared with a shunpo, appearing right in front of Albert faster than he could blink. And then…
*SLICE!*
"Aaah…"
"GRAGH!" Albert cried out in pain with his left arm was sliced off. The arm fell as Shiro was behind the man. With the scythe still getting blacker and blacker, Shiro twirled Crescent around until the barrel was aimed behind him, at Albert. With one pull of the trigger, a shot of Aura sent Albert flying back as Shiro turned around and smiled. Albert struggling to get up as he held the stump that was once his left arm while Shiro slowly walked towards the man, twirling Crescent Rose around like a skilled user.
"Well, I guess this is where it ends." Shiro said as he aimed the barrel at Albert's head. "It's been fun…Ah, who am I kidding. I totally kicked your ass. Sayonara, dirt bag!" But then, just as Shiro was about to the pull the trigger…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
The voice of Crescent Rose stopped him as he looked down and finally saw the condition the scythe was in.
(BGM End)
"Crescent! What's wrong!?" Shiro asked without thinking.
Albert didn't know why the Grimm was 'talking' to himself, but the moment of distraction was all he needed as he put power into his legs, leaped up, and punched Shiro's masked face, breaking the mask as well as sending the guy flying back. Albert watched as the body slid to a stop on the ground and didn't move. Only then did Albert relax and laid down as his muscles returned to normal.
"What the hell…was that?" Albert wheezed as he collected his energy. "Well, it doesn't matter. The boy is done. I should hurry and reunite with bro-!"
*STAB!*
Albert gasped as he felt pain appear from his chest. Blood started to fill his mouth as he looked to see what was causing him pain. To his surprise, it was none other Crescent Rose's blade stabbed right into his chest, the scythe slowly turning back into its original red color. Holding onto the scythe was none other than Seth, back up and looking down at the man.
'Don't butt into my battles, Shiro.' Seth thought as he kept his stare on Albert.
"Not my fault you were losing. Sigh, and I was so close to killing him myself too. Well, I'll let you handle the rest, King."
'And where do you think you're going?'
"I'm going to check up on Crescent. You heard that scream too. My guess is she couldn't handle my powers. Knowing you, you'd tell me to go check up on her so I'm saving you the trouble by doing it now. Now, I believe you've got a guy to kill."
The conversation ended there. Now putting all of his attention on the man on the ground, he placed one finger on the trigger as the barrel of the Sniper-Scythe was aimed right at Albert's head. But before he blew his brains out, he had to ask…
"Why do you want Scarlet's Heart Jewel so much? And why take the girls when that was all you needed?" Seth asked. He had been thinking about this since yesterday. If all they needed was Scarlet's Heart Jewel, then there be no reason to take the girls. They could have just stolen the necklace and left the girls with him. So why?
"Heh. I'm going to…die any second…now. I might as well…tell you." Albert said as he gathered whatever energy he had left, knowing he was beaten. "We saw you that night, at the docks."
"The docks?" That was when he fought Grimmjow.
"We saw how…that jewel around the girl's…neck…healed her. The power of…that jewel accelerates…the Aura of a person…causing that instant…healing. With a power like that…we could revive…our God sleeping here."
"And just what is this god?"
"A Grimm from old times…a Grimm as old as Remnant itself." Albert smirked as he saw the surprise on Seth's face,
"Impossible. That would make it-!"
"A Primal Grimm." If he could, Albert would laugh right now. "With the power of…that jewel, that Grimm will…awaken. You will…not win when it does. The only reason why…we took those girls…was because the jewel…would not deattach from the girl. But that doesn't matter now. Soon, our god will-!"
*BANG!*
"You talk too much." Seth said, the barrel of Crescent Rose smoking as he removed the blade out of Albert's dead body before continuing forward.
Seth started running as soon as he bursted through the door Albert was blocking, taking off the robes he had stolen earlier. He won't be needing those anymore. As he ran, he saw a door at the end of the hall. He wasted no time shunpoing towards it and when he was close enough, he kicked down the door and found himself in the chapel. But that didn't matter to him. At the top of his lungs, he shouted: "RUBY!"
"Ah, so you managed to somehow get past my brother." Greeting Seth was Thomas, still in front of the cross as whatever behind it pulsed like crazy. Up on the cross, Ruby still huddled in a fetal position in the capsule as Scarlet's Heart Jewel glowed around her neck.
The second Seth saw Ruby he shouted the first thing in his mind. "Let her go!"
Thomas laughed. "Do you really think I'd just let you have the girl now that I've come so far?"
"I wasn't asking!" Seth said as he gripped Crescent Rose with both hands and charge towards the blue haired man, but before he could even get close to him, a stone hand suddenly appeared and grabbed him. Seth let out a noise of surprise before he was thrown, crashing through benches as he stopped when he crashed into the wall. With no Aura left to protect him, Seth felt all of that as he looked to see what had grabbed and thrown him. He didn't expect to see some sort of moving stone statue followed by two more behind it.
"I saw you entire battle with Albert and saw how he was losing." Thomas said. "I won't ask what that mysterious transformation was, but I started preparing for you. These statues now have the properties of moving if they sense an intruder."
"Property?" Seth caught the word.
"It's my Semblance. I have the ability to give anything I touch a new property. Think of it as giving something an ability. It's how I sealed your Aura. I constructed a special ball, poured Albert's Aura into which contained his Semblance, and added a new property. Instead of draining your Aura, it would have sealed it completely, killing the soul and thus killing you. But here you are, still alive."
"You'll find that I'm full of surprises." Seth said as he got up, wiping blood from his mouth.
"Indeed. But even though you managed to make it this far, you are too late!" Thomas said as an aura of darkness filled the room, surprising Seth.
"What's going on?" Seth said until he saw eyes from whatever was pulsing. "Is that-!"
"The Primal Grimm Albert told you about. Our God." Thomas said as the cross and the capsule containing Ruby started to sink into the Grimm hidden in the shadows.
"No!" Seth went to shunpo, but found the stone statues in his way. They posed no threat to him and failed to slow him down as one swing of Crescent Rose dispatched all of them. As he moved forward, things started to happen. Pillars emerged from the ground, trapping him in a cage, but he easily broke free. Spikes of earth erupted, but Seth batted them away with his bare hands, nearby candles became tiny missiles which Seth easily shot down, but the one thing that got him to slow down was when the ground breathe him became quick sand.
"Just how much did this guy do to the room!?"
"Using tricks like these, are you afraid of me or something?" Seth taunted as he tried to break free.
"Please, I'm not afraid of you, boy." Thomas said as the roof of the chapel suddenly opened up, surprising Seth. "Unlike Arson and my brother Albert, I'm not a fighter, but that doesn't matter. Now, witness as our god will finally rise and take back what rightfully belongs to him!"
"Ruby!" Seth cried out as the capsule finally sank completely into whatever was pulsing before the thing that pulsed became to squirm.
It twitched here and there and random shapes and blobs formed until something happened. Arms and legs were grown. A stinger appeared from behind. Wings sprouted from the top. The upper body grew as the arms were strengthened. Bone plates appeared on the chest, legs, around the stinger and finally over the three dog heads that just sprouted with each head having six eyes that glowed sinister red.
"What…is…that?" Seth stared at the thing in front of him.
"Holy shit, it's a Chimera Grimm! I thought those kinds of Grimm went extinct!"
"Chimera…" Now that Seth looked closely, he could see what kind of Grimm made this Chimera. The stinger came from a Deathstalker, the main body, arms and legs came from a Beringel, the wings came from a Nevermore, and the heads were all Beowolves. He couldn't help, but wonder what kind of sick twisted god made this thing.
"Aah! My god! You are more divine than I thought!" Thomas looked like he had found the meaning of life as he kneeled before the Grimm. "Please, my god, let this loyal follower offer my services to you."
*CHOMP!*
Seth stared wide eyes as the top half of Thomas was chomped off, the other half entering the center head's mouth as the lower half just fell to the ground.
"He got killed by his own 'god.' Talk about sad…and anticlimactic."
"We got bigger things to deal with than worrying about how anticlimactic that guy's death was." Seth said as the quicksand underneath him turned back to normal, leaving his feet stuck in the pavement. With strength, he removed his feet from the ground and looked up at the Grimm. Finally noticing Seth, it looked at the amnesiac with all three of its heads with curiosity.
"Hey, big guy." Seth twirled Crescent Rose and pointed it at the Grimm. "You have someone important to me inside of you. Mind spitting her out?"
The Grimm of course did not understand Seth, but at the sight of the scythe did they Grimm identify the amnesiac as a threat and it roared at him.
"Looks like we're gonna have to do this the hard way." Seth said before he charged at the Grimm. He spun in midair to gain momentum, but when the blade of the scythe struck the Grimm, it barely went into the skin. "What!?"
The Chimera Grimm roared before it grabbed Seth's whole body in its hands before throwing him aside, sending the amnesiac crashing through a wall. Seth rolled on the snowy ground before sliding to a stop. Shaking his head, Seth looked up and saw the Primal Grimm flying out though the open roof and roared as if crying to the heavens themselves. Nearby members of the CoG saw the Grimm and began to bow towards it while Seth got up. If Crescent Rose's blade couldn't slice through the Grimm so easily like it down against so many other Grimm, then this will be tougher than Seth thought. But that wasn't going to stop him one bit.
With any Aura he could gather, Seth shunpoed in front of the Grimm. Since attacking the body wouldn't work, Seth went for one of the many eyes the Grimm had. The blade successfully stabbed through the eye and the Grimm roared. Seth saw the Grimm trying to grab him, but he quickly removed Crescent from the eye and jumped back only to be struck by the pincer, swatting him like a fly as he fly back. Seth gritted his teeth as he spun uncontrollably in the air before he met the ground, rolling and bouncing here and there until Seth stopped himself by stabbed Crescent into the ground. Removing the blade, Seth converted Crescent Rose into Sniper mode and began to fire at the Grimm while making sure to be on the move. The bullets hit, but they failed to do any damage and instead annoyed the Grimm as all three of its heads roared at the amnesiac and flew towards him. And it was coming in fast.
'Oh boy.' Seth thought as he gathered Aura into his feet and shunpoed just in time to avoid a tackle from the Grimm. Seth reappeared yards away from the Grimm as it got up to its feet. Seth went to shoot it again, aiming for the eyes when the sound of clicking instead of gunshots told Seth that he was out of bullets. "Dammit."
Raising its wings, the Grimm sent razor sharp feathers at Seth. With no ammo, Seth converted Crescent back into scythe mode and started running, just barely dodging the feathers as they rained down upon him like a rain of swords. The Grimm took the air, fired more razor feathers before flying down towards Seth. Seth dodged the feathers, but could not move fast enough for the Grimm to swoop down and grab him. The amnesiac struggled to break free, but the Grimm's strength and grip was strong and Seth could feel one of his ribs breaking under the Grimm's strength.
'I'll be crushed at this rate!' Seth thought as he tried to think of a plan, but nothing came to mind on how to get free. But then…
"Nora Smash!" A strong slam struck one of the Grimm's head, causing it to release Seth as the amnesiac fell out of the grip and dropped into the snow. Getting up, he saw all of JNPR arriving along with WBY who were still unconscious.
"We're here to help, Seth!" Pyrrha said as Nora jumped off the Grimm and saluted to him.
"What took you guys so long?" Seth asked as he got up.
"Well sorry if we were too busy carrying these girls." Jaune said. "Anyway…" Jaune then pointed dramatically at the Chimera Grimm. "What on Remnant is that!?"
"It's a Primal Chimera Grimm." Seth said.
"A Chimera? But I thought those types of Grimm were extinct." Ren said.
"Well, it appears we're meeting the last of its kind." Seth said, wiping a bit of blood from his mouth before turning to the Grimm in the air. "Ruby's in there."
"You mean she's in that thing?" Jaune asked and Seth nodded.
"I need your help in getting her out of that thing. Can you give me an opening?" Seth asked, raising Crescent Rose.
Pyrrha and the others placed WBY down before saying, "We'll see what we can do."
"Thanks." Seth smiled before JNPR all ran ahead of him.
"So, what's the plan, fearless leader?" Ren asked the blond.
"We need to get its attention away from Seth." Jaune said as he looked up at the Grimm in the air. He could tell it wouldn't be easy damaging the thing, but they had to try. "Nora, use your grenades to get its attention. Pyrrha, back her up. Ren, you're with me. We need a way to get on that thing."
Jaune's team nodded before they separated. Nora fired her grenades at the Grimm. None did any real damage, but they got its attention as it turned towards her and growled. Pyrrha backed her up with Miló in rifle mode, but the bullet either did nothing or bounced off the Grimm's bone armor as it roared at them and soared towards them. With the boys, they had entered the chapel through the hole Seth made and made their way up as the girls battled the black beast outside. Both girls flipped back as the Grimm landed right in front of them. Pyrrha took it head on while Nora reloaded. Switching Miló to javelin mode, she hurled the weapon towards the Grimm, but the Primal Grimm swatted it away with its bare hand before sending its stinger towards her. Pyrhha moved out of the way and ran forward, hurling her shield towards it. The shield struck the left head and bounced off before Pyrrha quickly jumped, jumped off her shield and retrieved her other weapon before he fell back and grabbed Akoúo̱ in the snow before jumping back. Nora then came in, finished reloading as she flew through the air before flipping and striking the right head, the force of the attack making it dizzy while the other heads went to bite her, but she jumped away in time and landed right next to the red head.
Up above, Jaune and Ren finished their climb to the top and quickly jumped off, landing on top of the Primal Grimm. Quickly, before the Grimm could react, both Jaune and Ren stabbed one of the Grimm's many eyes and it roared in pain. Both male Huntsmen-in-training held on for dear life before they were flung off, but they had done enough as Seth jumped in, scythe raised. The amnesiac roared as he came down upon the Grimm and swung the scythe down. The Grimm merely raised its hand to stop Seth, knowing that scythe was unable to pierce through its skin. But then, something happened.
The second the blade of Crescent Rose and the hand of the Grimm met, a burst of power appeared from the scythe, surprising the Grimm as the two found themselves in a deadlock. Misty white Aura seemed to come from the scythe as Seth continued to push the blade forward when something happened. The Aura that was coming from Crescent suddenly wrapped itself all around the weapon. The shaft became just that with no sniper trigger in sight as the blade grew to the size of the Primal Grimm's hand, extending forward and back as both end curved and made it look like the blade was a crescent moon itself. The others were surprised by this, but Seth didn't pay much attention to it as he could fell it. He was pushing through. With another roar, Seth took off the hand that was in his way, surprising the Grimm as it roared in pain before Seth spun and slashed sideways before slashing downward across the Grimm's chest. The attacks sliced through the skin like a hot knife through butter unlike before where it was like slashing a cold knife across a stone brick. The scythe reverted back to its normal form as Seth stabbed the bottom end into the slash wounds he inflicted and with his free hand, trusted his hands into the wounds and with great strength, pulled them away, peeling it away like a banana. He then saw it. The capsule that held Ruby. Grabbing Crescent, he stabbed the sharp end of it at the capsule, easily making a crack as he kicked it and broke it completely.
Wasting no time, Seth grabbed Ruby, yanking out some wires before jumping away before the Grimm could grab either of them. The minute Ruby was out; the Grimm roared and fell to its knees as if having lost a vast majority of power. Seth didn't bother with his landing as he landed on his back in the snow with Ruby on top of him.
Seth breathed in and out, exhausted before he looked at Ruby who was still unconscious as the glow that came from Scarlet's Heart Jewel died down.
"Hey, Ruby?" Seth shook the girl on top of him "It's time to wake up now."
To the amnesiac relief, Ruby began to sit before she opened her eyes and saw Seth. "Seth…?"
Seth smiled. "Sorry I took so long to get here."
Ruby gave him a confused look, still not fully awake until the shilling cold of the snow made her wake up completely.
"Wait, snow? Where are we!?" Ruby pushed herself up and looked around frantically before shivering as all she was wearing a white dress instead of her combat clothes. "Brrrr! And what am I wearing this?"
"Can you get off me now?" Seth asked as Ruby finally realized where she was.
"Oh! Sorry!" Ruby said, blushing a little as she quickly got off of Seth, shivering when her feet entered the snow. Where was her cloak when she needed it the most? "What are you doing here?"
"I came to rescue you and the girls." Seth said, getting up.
"Rescue me and the girls?" Ruby tilted her head in confusion until she finally remembered. "Seth! Weiss and the others-!"
"Are fine." Ruby turned and saw Pyrrha carrying her sister and a robed of one of the members with the others bringing the girls over. The red head handed Ruby the robes sand said, "Here, you look cold."
"Thanks." Ruby said as she grabbed it and quickly put it on, already feeling warmer. She then turned to Seth and asked, "So what happened? How did you and the others get here and why are you using my Crescent Rose?"
"Well, to sum up everything, we broke into the Church of Grimm's secret base, took down the three big bosses, a Primal Grimm was revived, and I just pulled you out of it." Seth said as he glanced at the scythe in his hands. Just what was that attack from before?
"Oh okay." Ruby said before she realized one thing Seth said. "Wait, you pulled me out of a Grimm?"
Seth nodded and pointed over to the Chimera Grimm who was on the ground. It looked like it was dying.
"Whoa! What is that? I've never seen anything like it." Ruby said, surprised.
"That's a Chimera Grimm who we think is the last of its kind since they're supposed to be extinct." Ren explained.
"It looks like its dying." Jaune pointed out.
"Well, we might as well put it out of its misery." Seth said as he got up with Crescent Rose in hand. With his friends saved, Seth was ready to go home. But first, he had to take care of this Grimm.
But suddenly…
*THOOM!*
Everything shook. Seth and the others struggled to keep their balance as the whole island seemed to shake.
"What's going on!?" Jaune asked.
"An earthquake?" Pyrrha said. "No, this is something different. But what?"
"Oi! King! Look up!"
Seth did and what he saw made his jaws drop. "Uh…guys? Look up."
The others gave Seth a confused look before they too looked up and what they saw surprised them.
Some sort of portal had appeared in the sky. It wasn't like when Menos Grande appears. This one was an actual circular swirling portal.
"Uh…I'm not the only one seeing this, right?" Jaune asked.
"We see it too." Nora said, for the first time speechless.
*SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!*
Everyone covered their ears when something sounding like a beastly roar mixed in with the screeching sounds of metal on metal came from the portal before…something appeared.
"What…is that?" Ruby asked, but no one answered her for they did not have an answer for her.
What appeared from the portal was some sort of…metal monster. Its body was that of a big armored truck, the whole thing being easily bigger than an Atlas warship and those were huge. Mechanical wings rested on the back and rows upon rows of teeth were seen in the monsters mouth as its eyes glowed. But the strange this is that the whole thing was on fire and looked to be falling apart. Whatever it was, it landed right on top of the Grimm.
Suddenly, something landed right next to the group. They turned and saw that it was some kind of stone. Not long after that, more stones rained down from the portal and landed all around the group. And then, right before their eyes, each stone transformed into some sort of creature resembling a man. Its entire body was covered in stone as lava-like veins were all over their bodies. Tiny horns were situated on their heads and each hand was a stone spear.
"What the hell!?" Seth said as the group gathered together back to back. "Since when do stones transforms into…whatever the hell they are?"
"They don't look like Grimm, that's for sure." Ruby said.
"Whatever they are, they don't seem to be friendly." Pyrrha said as the stone creatures slowly advanced towards them, spears at the ready.
"Seth, can I have Crescent back now?" Ruby asked, extending her hand towards Seth.
"Right." Seth said as he was about to hand the scythe over to Ruby when something else happened.
*SHOOM!*
Suddenly, flames suddenly appeared from the portal as two figures were seen falling from the portal. The group can make out the distinctive sounds of screaming and the sounds of…wind blowing? Whoever fell out of the portal soon landed not too far from them.
"Gah!"
"Kya!"
Seth and the others blinked in surprise and confusion as the snow cleared to reveal who had just come though the portal.
The first was pinked haired girl wearing what looked like a school uniform, white shirt and black skirt along with a black cloak over her shoulders with a golden brooch of a pentagram inside of it. Her hair was shoulder length and pink eyes.
The other one was another girl who was younger than the first girl. She had raven black hair that reached the middle of her back and big violent purple eyes. She wore a ruby red shirt and a black skirt with a black trench coat over her.
"Ite…Onee-chan, daijobu?" The blacked haired girl asked the pinkette. For some reason, Seth felt that the language felt familiar to him.
"I don't speak Japanese, Kyoko." The 'Onee-chan' said as she pushed herself up.
"Sorry. Are you alright?" The now named Kyoko asked.
"More or less. If it wasn't for your quick thinking, then I don't think we would have survived that fall." The pinkette said.
"…Did those two just fall from the portal and are somehow still okay?" Ren asked, feeling like Blake when he asked that question.
"Hm?" Hearing Ren, the pinkette and Kyoko turned to the group. "Who are you peop-?" The pinkette stopped talking when she saw the creatures surrounding them and quickly jumped to her feet. "Ghouls!"
"Ghouls?" Ruby repeated in confusion.
"Haru!" The pinkette turned to someone only to see Kyoko.
"I don't think Onii-chan has passed through the portal yet." Kyoko said when all of a sudden…
*SHOOM!*
A burst of flames suddenly appeared from the portal, surprising everyone as coming out of the flames was one lone figure. Flames danced around the figure as it soon landed right between the two groups. Seth and the others were not prepared to see who the figure was.
At first glance, the group could tell the figure was a man. From head to toe the man was clad in a black body suit which concealed his form with a bright red coat over his form. Around his waist was a strange looking belt which depicted a hand that looked like it could turn to either look like a right or left hand as chains of silver rings that were hanging by his sides. His chest armor was silver, resembling a dragon's head as the shoulder armor were silver circular plating with round rubies in the center. His wrists and ankles which sported black bands as he sported two Rings on his hands. But the most eye catching thing was his helmet. His head was concealed by a silver helmet which had a ruby red face plate decorated like the ring I wore, sporting metal lines making it appear as if the helmet had large eyes with an antennae rising from the forehead with a golden head ornament decorating the top.
(BGM: Kamen Rider Wizard Debut Theme)
The man slowly got up and looked at all the so called Ghouls around him. Then, he raised a weapon in his hand. The weapon was mostly completely silver. It was a sword, but a trigger told the group that it was also a gun as a black hand curled into a fist was attached to it.
"Girls, step back." The man said to the girls as he walked forward towards the Ghouls.
"He's gonna take them on by himself?" Jaune said, speaking as if the man was crazy.
"Don't worry." The grouped turned towards the girl named Kyoko. "Onii-chan's got this. Just watch."
And watch they did as the armored man began to amaze them.
Two Ghouls charged towards the man, thrusting their spears, but the man batted aside the first attack before blocking the second one. He pushed the Ghoul back and slashed it before turning around and kicking the other one. More Ghouls charged towards the armor man, but he was ready for them. He moved out of the way of spears easily before flames ignited around the blade and he began to finish any Ghoul that came near him, slashing them once before they exploded. Flames ignited from his feet as well as he spun around and kicked the Ghouls all around him, hitting heads which knocked some down while hitting others in the chest which sent them flying. Four Ghouls from different directions came and attacked him, but he simply jumped as the four spears connected with one another and he landed on them. He then grabbed the handle and pushed it down before flicking the blade up, moving it until the blade rested at the top and a barrel was revealed to all. The man known as Haru spun and fired, the bullets each hitting their target as Haru landed with no problem. He began to move and fire at the same time, making sure to avoid the spears while also shooting the Ghouls right in their faces. He then spun around, firing bullets as he did. Looking closely, the bullets looked like they wouldn't hit anything when the impossible happened. The bullets moved on their own and struck any nearby Ghouls.
"Did those bullets just move in midair?" Ren asked.
"So cool!" Ruby and Nora had stars in their eyes as the armor man continued to fight.
"He fights with no wasted movement. Just who is this man?"Pyrrha said.
"Hey, King. You've noticed it too, right?"
Seth nodded. If one didn't look closely, they would have missed it, but there was a faint glow coming from the armored man's left hand.
"Time to end this." Haru said as he shifted his weapon into his other hand before slipping on a Ring before scanning it in front of his belt.
CHOINE! SPECIAL! SAIKO!
Suddenly, right before everyone's eyes, a fiery form of some sort of dragon appeared from within Haru. It destroyed any Ghouls near him before it circled around Haru and slammed into his back, manifesting a dragon head right in his chest!
"What the hell!?" Jaune said in surprise.
A red magic circle appeared behind Haru before he was lifted into the air by some sort of unknown force. Then, with a battle cry, a stream of flames explodes out of the dragon's mouth, destroying all of the Ghouls around him and everyone else, leaving nothing, but burnt ground around them and melted snow. Once done, the armored man descended back down before the dragon head disappeared.
"And that takes care of that."
(BGM End)
The man known as Haru turned to the group and was met with the surprised faces of Seth and everyone else.
"Flies will fly into your mouths if you don't close those mouths." Haru said, snapping everyone out of their stupor and when they did, Ruby was the first to make a move.
"Ohmygosh!" Faster than a speeding bullet, Ruby dashed up to Haru with stars in her eyes. "Howdidyoudothat!? Whereareyoufrom!? Howdidyourbulletsdothat!?"
"Okay, calm down Ruby." Seth said before he grabbed Ruby and pulled her back.
"Sorry, but I can't help it. Did you see what he just did!? It was amazing!" Ruby said.
"Wow, aibou. Not even an hour and it looks like you've got a fan."
"Who said that?" Jaune asked, looking around.
"Down here." Everyone except Kyoko and the pinkette looked down towards…Haru's sword. The hand moved as if talking. Which it did. "Hello there."
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"Did your weapon just talk?" Ren asked as even Nora was speechless like everyone else.
"Yes, he did." Haru said before a magic circle appeared above him and fell down upon him. His armor was gone, leaving everyone with the armored man himself who was much younger than they expected.
Haru looked to be only slightly older than Seth. He had raven black hair that reached down to his chin as his eyes were a soft baby blue color. His attire consisted of white duster coat over a black shirt with a white symbol in front of it, a regular pair of jeans, and regular sneakers. He wasn't the only one to change as his weapon turned from a gun-sword to just a sword. The sword was two-handed and the single-edge blade was easily longer than his arm as the guard was golden.
Once again, the group blinked in confusion as the teen in front of them went from a cool looking super hero to a someone who would probably fit with them at Beacon.
"What's with those looks? Expected to see someone older?" Haru asked as he sheathed Derf.
"Uh, a bit." Ruby admitted, too surprised to geek and freak out that a sword just talked!
"Who…Who are you?" Seth asked.
"I'm Haru, Haru Yamamoto." Haru introduced himself as he walked over to the girls and introduced themselves. "This here is my sister, Kyoko Yamamoto," Said girl waved at the group. "And this little girl here is Louise."
"Who are you calling little!?" The now named Louise said.
"She kind of reminds me of the Ice Queen." Seth mentally agreed with the Grimm inside of him.
"So, if it's not too much trouble, where in Halkeginia are we?" Haru asked.
Seth blinked. "Hal-what now?"
"Halkeginia. You know, the planet your standing on." Louise said.
"That's not what Remnant's called." Pyrrha said.
"Remnant?" Haru repeated in confusion until his eyes widen and he looked at Pyrrha, then Jaune, then Ren, then Nora, and then at Ruby.
"Um, is there something on our faces?" Ruby asked nervously.
"I thought you people looked familiar." Haru muttered quietly enough so that everyone couldn't hear him before he sighed. "Girls, I don't think we're on Halkeginia anymore."
"What do you mean?" Kyoko asked.
Before Haru could open his mouth, the sound of a beastly roar and metal on metal made everyone jump and turn. There, right where the metal monster had landed on the Grimm, something arose and what appeared almost made Jaune puke out his lunch.
It was the Grimm, but much more different. Metal covered its wings, its missing arm was now replaced with a metal arm, its missing eyes were now replaced with robotic ones, another row of teeth, all metal, had appeared in each mouths of the three heads while everything else that fell on top of the Grimm seemed to be attached to its back.
"It's still alive!?" Seth said in surprise.
"Haru…Yamamoto…!" Suddenly, a voice came from within the Grimm as it glared down at the Rider. "You…Die!"
The mechanical Grimm then raised its metal arm and the whole thing shifted into some sort of buster cannon before it fired a big ball of purple energy.
"Shit! Run!" Haru said as everyone took off.
"What did you do to piss it off so much!?" Seth yelled over the sound of fireballs of death exploding.
"It's a bit of a long story." Seth said as they ran.
"…I've got time." Seth said.
Haru looked at him weirdly. They were currently running away from a mechanical monster and this guy says that he has the time to listen to the long version of what the hell happened to him? …He liked this guy.
"Well, it all started back in Halkeginia, Louise's world."
"Wait, did you say world?"
Haru nodded and Seth knew that this explanation would be longer than he originally thought.
Ashbel: And done! Oh! My! God! I just beat my record of how many words in a single chapter!
Seth: Holy Oum that was long. But what about my powers? I never got them back.
Ashbel: You'll get them back eventually. Anyway, I hope you all loved this chapter and yes, I said chapter for this movie comes in parts just like I said. Next time, we'll see what the heck happened to my other OC, Haru Yamamoto, and the events that led him and the girls falling from a portal.
Seth: Will I get my powers back then?
Ashbel: Yes, you will. For those who have never read my Wizard story, prepare to be introduced to Haru Yamamoto and his friends. Until then, you better start refilling for part 2! See ya!