Okay so last chapter went well(despite what my editor/best pal/spell checker who we shall simply refer to as "Q" to protect his/her identity(haven't gotten permission to use his/her name yet)). Regardless this story seems to be taking off by my standards, what with 3 followers and two favorites in just(at the time of writing) two days. Shout out to the following people: Nqisitor, SmoothedBeast36, and TENO2001 for agreeing to follow this story. Now I saw that we had four reviews, let's see if this chapter gets us to seven?;), so I'm gonna respond to them.
Guest 1: Dark times indeed, and thanks for your support, fair warning though if swears and detailed gore are not your thing this will be messy(may bump up from T to M after the Slaaneshi Carnival arc…..).
Guest 2: The Chaos Gods friendly? Nonono my, in hindsight fairly reasonably given my wording, misguided friend, they're just patient and slightly hampered as the Grimm keep cutting down their followers camps. Makes sense as the Grimm are attracted to negativity and there's a particular god who loves experiencing agony for the simple pleasure of it(rhymes with Naamesh). As for the brothers, they are simply two uppity warp entities who tried to boost their power by creating a new world of worshippers(for now).
Guest 3: hoo boy….. I take it you are not all that familiar with Warhammer(not trying to be hurtful, it's just an honest question)? Chaos is the natural decay of the universe, and in Warhammer 40k and AOS, the home of the Dark Gods. these four(or five depending on who you ask and what setting your in) gods are constantly vying for supremacy in both the mortal and immaterial realm, this leads to them corrupting and elevating mortals based on their primary area of focus. On top of their mortal worshippers they have their daemonic legions to call upon as well, and each chaos god represents both a good and bad trait(ex: Nurgle is the god of Plague and Decay as well as Life and Rebirth). The big four are Khorne(war and bloodshed), Tzeentch(Magic and Trickery),Nurgle(see above), and Slaanesh(Sex,Drugs and Rock n Roll), though I'll also show some of the "minor" gods as well(Hashut, The Great Horned Rat, Nuffle).
To Someone: don't apologize for your rant man(woman?), there needed to clear stuff up in my opinion. I had never intended this to be a simple "Send "X" character to Beacon to become a hunter" story, in all honesty it doesn't make sense with warhammer as is. However I can say that war is coming, and the gods are known for their insidious whispers…. Or tl;dr: there's going to be chaos cults and side stories filled with warmongers, this ain't naruto or some kind of friendship anime, this is WARHAMMER!.
Alright enough Authors Notes let's get this show on the road!
AN: I am a sixteen year old dude, forgive me if I don't have fashion sense
I do not own RWBY or Warhammer(40k or AOS), they are owned by their creators.
2:Dance to the Wizards Tune….
Ruby Rose was not having a good day at the moment. Her sister Yang had just abandoned her after getting off the Bullhead to Beacon, leaving the poor red reaper to go talk to her friends from Signal(she was lucky to have them). Ruby was left unbalanced by Yang's unnatural burst of speed, and it was for this reason she did not see the two girls with rather large amounts of luggage until she tripped over them! "What are you doing?!" one of the girls screamed as her rather excessive amount of baggage was knocked over by Ruby, the other girl who only had one rather tall locker, simply began began muttering "Please don't be broken!" to herself seemingly on repeat. "I'm so sorry!" Ruby managed to mumble before getting yelled at again by the girl in white continued to yell at her "Sorry?! Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?" Ruby shook her head, meanwhile the other girl had finished making sure that whatever was in her case was intact, and was now trying to lift it back up. "Here let me help with that." a suddenly familiar voice made himself present, Ruby let out a small "eep!" as the warrior from her uncle's call a few weeks ago appeared, towering over all of the girls present, some kind of staff behind his back. "Stay away Rotbringer!" The girl with the large briefcase hissed, shocking Ruby and the other girl were completely shocked at how quickly the girl's posture and demeanor changed.
Speaking of the girl, Ruby's frazzled brain only now began to take in the other girl's appearance. The girl was around Ruby's height if not a little taller(5' 4"), pale brown skin, and light blue eyes. Her outfit began with a hood that lay pooled around her neck, which flowed smoothly into a white sleeveless top that left her mid-rift exposed. To complete the look, she wore a white tabard that overlaid her blue sweatpants that barely allowed her outfit to be called acceptable. Her arms lay limp by her sides but the tattoos that ran up and down her arms seemed to capture the eyes as the patterns ran together and formed words from a language that had been thought dead. Septis took all this in and simply said "Come now Arcanite, though all of the Pantheon fight each other, our patrons have often found cause to work together." The white themed girl screamed when she heard how they addressed each other "YOU'RE CULTISTS!" while dropping a bottle of dust she was carrying, releasing a small cloud of the substance.
"Hey now there's nothing wrong with having differing religi- Achoo!" Ruby sneezed as the released dust somehow found its way into her nose, causing a small scale explosion. The four students were now covered in a small layer of soot, "Well now….. That was a pretty explosive sneeze eh?" Septis punned, causing all three of the girls present to stare at him. "Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!" the girl in white screeched at Ruby, who looked like she would keel over in embarrassment. "Back off Icccceee queen, can't you ssssseee that this poor girl is having a rough day!" the girl in blue hissed, as in literally, the group was shocked as her "hood" flared out, revealing a cobra faunus amongst them. "Ice Queen?! Do you know who I am?!" the now nicknamed Ice Queen screamed, a new voice suddenly made itself known "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world." A young woman with amber eyes and a black bow started walking towards the group, carrying the dust bottle that caused the aforementioned explosion. The now named Weiss's smug look vanished after the stranger's next sentenced "The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."
Weiss left in a huff as Ruby desperately tried to apologize, before giving up and falling to her knees and somewhat muttering to herself "Welcome to Beacon…" Septis noticed the girl's plight and offered her his hand "Come now, tis not the end of the world. I believe our last introduction to each other wasn't exactly proper, my name is Septis the Harvester, what is yours?" somewhat smiling at the attempt the red reaper responded in kind, though she hesitantly grabbed the offered hand "Ruby, Ruby Rose." then she remember the other girl "Oh I'm sorry! I forgot to ask your name?" The faunus hesitated for a moment, as if deciding whether or not to tell the truth, then shrugged as if to say "why not", "I am Alshuelat Alzirqa, a pleasure to meet you both." suddenly all of them heard a cough, and saw a blonde boy in some pieces of knight armor standing behind them "...I'm Jaune." he said. Silence last a good second before anyone spoke again "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?" Ruby asked, to the amusement of Septis and the embarrassment of Jaune.
The quartet began to stroll around the campus, with Jaune desperately trying to save face, "All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!" Ruby and Septis kept on laughing, while Alshuelat tried to keep her composure, but still snickered at the thought. "Ha ha ha, look I'm sorry! Vomit Boy was the first thing that came to mind." This caused Septis to laugh even harder, and Jaune desperately thinking of a come back "Oh, yeah? What if I called you Crater Face?" Alshuelat chose this time to speak "To be fair, that explosion was caused by the Architect of Fate. You on the other hand, have a weak stomach." Septis's laugh had now devolved into a hacking cough causing the two non chaos worshippers to stop in their tracks. "Are you alright?" Ruby asked, concern filling her silver eyes. " *Wheeze* pass the *cough* mask." Ruby was confused at first until she noticed the small tank strapped around his back, connected to a modified gas mask, which she quickly handed to Septis. After a few breaths he was back to normal "Sorry about that, I simply laughed to hard at Vomit Boy" finally Jaune had had enough, "Okay you know what? The names Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue-ladies love it!" Septis burst out laughing, while Alshuelat rolled her eyes and said "Not this lady." Ruby followed this up by asking "Do they?"
Now Jaune looked embarrassed, "They will! Well, I-I hope they will. My mom always says that... Never mind." Jaune finished looking dejected,getting a giggle from Ruby and a snort from Alshuelat. Septis wrapped one of his arms around Jaune, not noticing(or simply not caring) that the blonde was trying not to gag from the smell of pure plague emanating from the harbinger. "Take it from someone who has six older brothers, you never, never, mention one's mother when flirting." Septis said sagely, not long after this bit of age old wisdom was dispensed did an awkward silence descend upon the group. For Ruby it was almost to much, 'Come on Rose think! This is your chance to make some friends but now you've all gone quiet!, what do you have that impress people…..eye's no….speed….Cresce- Thats it!" Smiling the red reaper grabbed her precious weapon "so~ I got this thing." she said as she unfolded her pride and joy into it's full form. "Whoa is that a scythe?!" Jaune asked, Septis suddenly found himself set up for a reference, "It's also a customizable high-impact sniper rifle!" the young reaper said with pride. Jaune looked confused, so Ruby then translated herself "It's also a gun." Jaune was about to try and save face when Septis said "That's not a scythe." all three of the other students look confused, then Septis took his rather gnarled staff(with ruby noticing a rather large bell hanging from the end) from his back as well as an object covered in cloth. The nurglite quickly tossed his staff into the air! While his staff was flying Septis unwrapped the cloth object to revealed a rusty, but still rather dangerous curved blade, the tall boy grabbed his staff mid air and brought it down onto the blade! Standing up Septis now revealed his weapon "This is a scythe!" he joyously cried, Jaune was awestruck, Alshuealt noticed the bell and took a few steps back, "Ohmygodohmoygodthatwassocool!"chibi Ruby said, rushing towards Septis "What'syourweaponsname?whydoyouhaveabell?whyisthebladesodirty?andwhatdoesittransforminto?!" To the other's, it sounded like the red reaper was spitting out gibberish, but somehow the tall boy understood the chibi. "It's name is Flies Feast, the blade is dirty because it is covered in various diseases, including the bane of metal Ferric Blight, as well as some more…. daemonic ones, it does not transform into anything, it is a part of my position's traditional wargear, the bell is a Tocsin of Misery, an artifact blessed by Grandfather Nurgle, this one in particular belonged to my father." That sentence was filled with sadness, so it was surprising to hear it from such a seemingly jolly fellow. "...well then, since we're all just showing off our weaponry, I'll go next." Alshuelat said, and then walked towards her large travel locker, she opened it to reveal a rather ornate set of armour. The plates were a pale light blue, with gold trim around the edges of the armour and had a large backpack with two vents shaped to look like ravens, beaks open to steal the secrets of men, and a black tabard hanging between its legs. It's helmet had a large crest on top, with blue and yellow horizontal stripes going up towards an unidentified red gem, on the armour's pauldrons had two strange symbols, a serpent eating its own tail on the right, and what appeared to be an a flame with an eye staring outwards from it's center. The armour had its arms crossed across its chest, a khopesh in each hand, and a large and equally ornate gatling gun in its own specially molded container besides the locker(or perhaps sarcophagus was more accurate?). "Meet Alshuelat Ifrit, Rubricae of the Grand Order of Hermetic Blades, thrall band of the Thousand Sons." Alshuelat said, bitterness filling her voice, Septis was the only one who made sense of the title, "who was he?" the cobra faunus took a few moments to answer "my older brother." this got the two hunters in training's attention "How can you be related to a suit of armour?" Jaune asked, "Why don't you show us your weapon instead Jaune." Septis suggested, not wanting to be on the receiving end of the rather large gun. "Oh! I, uh..." Jaune then remembered his blade "I got this sword!" pride oozing through his voice. Septis nodded his head, happy to see that someone had packed a practical weapon compared to some of the crazy designs he had seen throughout his life, Alshuelat was inspecting her brother to make sure there was no damage done to his armour during the explosion, Ruby let out a long oh, Jaune's confidence soared "And I got a shield too!" and then Ruby asked "So what do they do?" Jaune lost all composure as he fumbled with his sheathe "The shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just... put it away...". Once again could the sound of Septis laughing be heard throughout Beacon, Ruby still curious asked "But wouldn't it weigh the same…?" The blond knight slumped over once more in defeat "Yeah it does…" Now Ruby could be heard giggling alongside Septis, ""Well, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons, sooo... I guess I did go a little overboard when designing it." once again the group suddenly stopped, "Wait - you made that?!" Jaune half asked half screamed, ignoring the blondes distress, ruby proudly stated "Of course! All students at Signal forge their own weapons! Didn't you make yours?" after grabbing his left arm, Jaune hesitantly answered"It's a hand-me-down. My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war." hearing this Septis asked "Which one?" confusing the two kingdomers once again, "Hey pus for brains, they don't teach or follow our histories here, unless we launch a crusade." an irritated Alshuelat retorted. Deciding to continue with their conversation Ruby said to Jaune "Sounds more like a family heirloom to me!" Septis for once, didn't laugh, only nod his head in understanding, encouraged Ruby continued "Well, I like it! Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days." Jaune clearly thought the same as he sheathed his sword. "Well this was fun and all but we need to get to the auditorium, I was here two days and did some exploring, and we're going the wrong way." Septis said, and with that began to walk in the opposite direction of the group, the others quickly followed him. "Why were you here so early?" Ruby asked, "I was in Vale already* and had some business to attend regarding my enrollment." and with that the one eyed giant continued to guide the group.
*Side Story: Founding of the Choir of Flies
Vale Sewer system: two days ago
Septis was walking through Vale's sewers, "why would anyone want to go into the sewers" you might be asking, the answer was simple. Besides the sewers being a prime breeding ground for many diseases, making it a Maggotkin's paradise, this was also where all of the homeless and downtrodden of Vale were sent. Because the Grimm were attracted to emotions such as misery, and whenever people tend to see the homeless they either feel empathic and begin suffering from sadness and pity, or are indifferent and make said homeless person feel even worse about themselves, the Vale council decided to quitely force all of the "drains" on society "Out of Sight, Out of Mind."
Septis continued walking, following the rusting pipes and the footprints in the sludge until he reached his destination, a vast shanty town made from the refuse of the city above it. There was close to nearly one hundred people that his lone eye could see, all of them ,human and faunus, showing some form of disease or symptom of malnutrition. A group ten were running towards him armed with clubs and swords made from scrap metal. One of them, apparently the leader walked towards the tall and gave him a once over "Not often we see a new face down here, 'specially one so ragged as yourself." The man said. Septis merely stared directly at the man until he looked the away, "I came here seeking the Lost and the Damned, hoping to offer them aid." at this the thugs all broke out laughing, "Aid?!, buddy you don't look like you can stand without that stick of yours, what aid can you offer us?!" instead of answering, Septis grabbed the man by his face and slammed him into the ground! Immediately the crowd backed away at least ten feet away from him.
'Now I got their attention.' the harbinger thought darkly. "So this is the wretched of Vale, I must say I'm surprised." this got their attention "I thought Vale cared about all of its citizens, but no!" he shouted, "No, they abandon you!, left you to the Grimm!" more than a few of the children present began to cry. "But that's alright." septis began to smile now, smog pouring out of his bone growths, "For I know a being who cares not if you be wealthy or poor, man or woman, or even if your human or faunus." now the group was gathered even closer to him, inhaling the plague vapors. "Come brothers and sisters, let us come together for Nurgle."
Okay that's it!, now I have finals tomorrow so I'm not gonna post anything else this week! I also won't bore you with a long after chapter authors note. Please spread the word about this story and leave some reviews!
