AN: Hey everyone I'm back! This chapter is the 3rd part of the 'Rough Meeting's' Arc. Maybe I should have put it in the last or the first chapter that I'll be doing arcs around the points the need it like the initiation and some other stuff but anyway's many thanks once again or reading this.
Chapter 3 Everything looks so little from up here
A chandelier? Really? A fucking chandelier? How comically sadistic can you be God, seriously? Rose thought as he started the the steadily increasing size of the chandelier came closer and closer. He was brought out of his little hate rant towards the Almighty by the sound of Yang, Gold, Weiss, Diamond, Blake, and Embers yelling at them to move. He was about to do just that when he heard a small voice dizzily say something about cookies flying around her head, he looked to see Ruby still dazed from Embers idea of a spin cycle. He looked up at the chandelier then to a still dizzy Ruby and chuckled "Well I played hero once tonight..." he grabbed her with his left hand and in a flash escaped, with Ruby in hand, the area under the chandelier.
A collective sigh of relief washed over the six girls as they now knew their cloak loving allies were safe. "Phew, and I thought they were going to die for a second." Embers said as she wanted to break the silence that followed their relief. Gold nodded and walked over to the chandelier with Weiss to inspect how it fell from the top of the building. Yang had decided to walk over to Rose and Ruby to see if she was okay and thank him for saving her. While Diamond stood there with Blake and Embers all not talking to each other but just taking in what happened in the last 5-10 minutes. Meanwhile Rose was trying to holding Ruby still, to stop her from becoming even more dizzy. Ruby had finally lost the swirls in her eyes a few minuets later, only to scream when she saw Rose standing in front of her holding her shoulders and she screamed "Who are you!? Why did you attack my team!? Why are you dressed like me!? Answer me!".
"Easy there Rubes, I don't think interrogating him is any way of thanking him for saving you." Yang said as she neared the red duo and that caused Ruby to look up at Rose and him to just smile at her. Before she could thank him however, Yang was behind them and said with a smile "Thanks for saving my little sister." and patted him on the back and causing him to yelp in pain letting go of Ruby's shoulders and both her and Yang to step back and everyone else to look their way.
"Hey are you..." Yang started with worry in her voice but then saw something red on her hand that made her stop and ask "I-is this blood?" she then looked at Rose's back and saw darkened spots on his cloak then back to her hand.
"Yeah, I had to save Raven from Angel Face's attack." Rose answered while trying to rub the area Yang had patted "It not too bad though, I just think my back's more rigged for now."
"Raven? Angel Face?" Ruby asked not understanding who those names were meant for.
"Raven's the girl with the bow on her head and Angel Face is the bitch with the offset ponytail." Rose answered and Ruby simply nodded in understanding while Weiss yelled at him "I heard that!" "Didn't want to keep it a secret Angel Face." Rose shot back and having everyone laughing as the heiress was clearly not pleased with him.
"So how did you get blood stains all over that cloak of yours?" Yang asked with a mix of curiosity and concern for the reaper boy.
"Well after I dropped you to the ground, sorry about that by the way, I rammed Angel Face and sent her back with several cartridges spilling everywhere, then Raven used my back as a springboard and while she was in the air she fired her gun around me, causing an explosion. She then tried to get the drop on me but I heard her coming and backed off so she could land on the floor, then I spun and had my scythe a couple of inches from her neck and her gun pointed at my face, we just stared at each other as the cloud around us began to fade. I don't know when during Raven's and my little fight but Angel Face sent icicles at us. I knew she was aiming for me but it surprised both of us that she'd risk hitting one of her own teammates in the process, so I decided to save her, and that's how I got blood on my cloak." Rose explained and everyone looked at Blake first who nodded then glared at Weiss.
"It was a calculated risk, I had to take it" Weiss said trying and failing to convince anyone especially Embers, who pulled out her revolver and aimed it at Weiss' head, Diamond who summoned forth a single energy claymore into the air and pointed at Weiss as well, and Gold who flicked her wrist furthest from Weiss and out came out the hidden blade.
"What the fuck is your problem yew idjit!?" Embers shouted with pure anger in her voice "We didn't hurt your red reaper, what right did you have to hurt ours!?"
"He attacked us, we had to defend ourselves! Besides Yang attacked him first!"
"Hey I missed and all I did was put a dent in the wall." Yang said and Embers glared at her for a second before turning back to the heiress
"We attacked your reaper as well but we made sure to only disarm and pin her to the ground so we could ask her a few questions." Gold said evenly in hopes of calming the situation as well as herself down
"Could have fooled me with those flying homing swords of glowing white death." Ruby said with her arms folded across her chest unconvinced that they had no ill intent towards her.
"If our intention was to kill you then we would have Little Red, even with your speed you only managed to go at the same speed Rose hits on a daily basis." Diamond answered for Embers, who was about to curse her 10 ways to Sunday. "Besides did you think that I would allow you to run free the way you did?" Ruby didn't even answer that question and was now confused.
"My powers allow me to summon forth as many energy blades as I wish so long as I have the proper amount of energy and believe me I wasn't even using 1/10th of my energy pool when fighting you. If I really wanted to kill you, I would have placed hundreds of swords on the ground and overloaded them to cause a massive explosion, likely destroying about oh 3 blocks worth of the city. By the way Gold, Embers, Rose, and myself would have been perfectly safe since I could have sent my Parallel's to them and encase them in a energy shield." she explained in uncaring emotionless manner, it made team RWBY question whether or not she was even a human being and began to tremble in fear while Rose, Gold, and Embers chuckled slightly while trembling at the same time as they knew she could do that and still have plenty of energy to do it all over again.
"I think you just scared them shitless Diamond..." Rose said noticing the smell of fear coming off of Ruby and Yang
"Well fear is a good factor to have when talking with an enemy." the white angel innocently smiled at the statement
Yep, definitely not human... team RWBY thought with a sweat drop coming down their heads as they simply looked at the white angel before them.
"Anyway's back to the matter at hand." Embers started and everyone looked at her "If you harmed our boy, only seems fair to do equal damage to his equal."
Ruby decided to cower behind Rose as she believed he would keep her safe while Yang snarled "DON'T. EVEN. THINK. ABOUT. DOING. THAT."
"Embers control your impulses, remember what happened back in New Orleans?" Rose said reminding her how her impulses get them into more trouble then their worth.
"What happened there?" Blake asked curious what her impulse did.
"...She set a dock on fire..." Rose sighed
Taken back slightly she then asked "You mean part-"
"The entire dock and I think a gas station or two." Rose interrupted her
"How is that even possible?" Weiss asked still not believing it
"Her nickname is Embers." Rose said as he let that set in for a second before continuing "While we were hunting down someone, we got into a fight with one of his body guards, the lady was a gigantic brute that took a beating from all of us and even then she sent Embers flying into a warehouse, a warehouse full of imported alcohol. Embers told us she would take care of the brute while the rest of use hunted down the man we were originally after. Next thing we knew we heard an explosion and when we went to where it came from we saw a gas station blown up and the dock on fire. We found Embers later sitting next to a large burnt body and drinking a bottle of the alcohol. She told us she used Molotov Cocktails to kill her."
They're jaws dropped at hearing that tale while Gold, Rose, and Diamond sighed remembering the sheer impossibility of it yet it happened all the while Embers simply laughed remembering it as if it was yesterday.
"This women is psychotic." Weiss stated and Ember just laughed more before shooting back "Well what can I say Angel Face, the alcohol just gave me an idea and I just rolled with it."
"Will you stop calling me that!"
"Hey, I don't know your name or any of yours for that matter." Embers said noting Ruby,Blake, and Yang "Besides Rose called you that so that's what we're using until we get your name."
"Oh well I'm Ruby Rose." Ruby said
"Ruby!" Weiss yelled "Don't tell them that, they're our enemies!"
"Calm down Ice Queen. They don't seem that bad now that we've had this talk." Yang said much to the annoyance of the heiress upon hearing another of her nicknames "I'm Yang Xiao Long by the way, Ruby's sister."
"Blake Belladonna, and thank you Rose for saving me earlier." Blake said with a slight smile on her face as she looked over to Rose who merely smiled "Aw it was nothing really hehe."
"But Rose is just my nickname my real names Riku Hyabusa." Riku said
"Tracy Albran, my nicknames Diamond, nice to meet you all." Tracy said with a smile and her head tilted slightly to the left, the others were still a bit scared of her so they backed up a little and Weiss tripped over the chandelier as she backed up, much to her annoyed embarrassment and everyone's amusement.
After Weiss got up and brushes her self off they continued with the introductions "Stella Stevens, but I'm usually called Gold by the three maniacs on my team." then she went over parts of the chandelier in search of something
"Embers the nickname, but I'm actually Kate McCarthy." Kate said and that left one person left who simply huffed in defiance
"Come on Ice Queen, your turn." Yang said
"Unlike you, I refuse to reveal information like that to thieves." Weiss said with her arms crossed around her chest
"Just so we're clear we aren't thieves. We only went here to 'acquire' some Dust for Diamond because she was suffering from energy loss and needed an alternate energy source and all the other Dust shops were either out of business or had security protecting it, unless your perfectly fine with her slaughtering innocent people so she can regain her energy that way." Stella said as she got back up with both Riku and Ruby's scythes in hand and glared at her with a annoyed look, that statement may have scared them but what scared them more was fact she said that in such a casual manner "And we wouldn't mind if you were first, given that you actually harmed Rose, Diamond will savor your blood up until the last drop leaves your pretty little body. So by all means keep the 'snotty rich bitch' act going because we aren't going to stop you and we are sure as hell not stopping Diamond from ripping you piece by piece."
Weiss didn't even respond initially as she was weighing her options very carefully then just out and said "Weiss Schnee."
"There see, was that really so hard?" Kate asked sarcastically and Weiss didn't even entertain the question in her head
"Is she always like this?" Riku asked Yang
"Usually." Yang answered nonchalantly "Stella was kidding about Tracy's need for blood being an energy source right?"
"Now why would I kid about something as serious as that?" Stella asked as she neared Riku, Ruby, and Yang "Blood for her is a immediate power refresh, but since the energy in her leaves her body continually we've had to find alternate energy sources for her, hence why we're here." then handed Ruby and Riku their scythes
"Rose we finally got a signal, a relatively weak one but still, looks like things are finally looking up for us." Stella said
"Signal? Signal to what?" Ruby asked just as Blake's bow and Riku's hood twitched ever so slightly and Riku loudly said "Heads up." and everyone looked up to see what both of them heard.
On the 4th floor balcony was the same gentleman from before standing there there "Now wasn't that a truly dramatic yet heartfelt moment." he said in a amused sarcastic tone.
"Hey your that asshole we were supposed to hunt down!" Kate yelled
"Embers..." Tracy said with disappointment in her voice "But who is he anyway's?"
"Roman Torchwick!" Weiss yelled
"Glad to see someone knows my name." he smiled an evil smile as Weiss readied Myrtenaster, Tracy summoning at least 12 energy blades behind her, Rose opening the palms of his hands and a a white light appeared then just as quickly disappeared leaving in his hands a pair of M1911 handguns pointed at him with Ruby, Yang, Kate, Stella, and Blake following suite with their own weapons and in their own battle ready stances.
"Alright Torchwick, you got to the count of three to give yourself up." Riku threatened in a complete professional tone
"And if I don't?" Roman asked while maintaining the evil smile
"Three." Riku yelled and everyone opened fire on him while Weiss sent icicles and Tracy her 12 energy blades and then summoning more to replace them before sending them towards him as well and repeating it. This lasted a good 5 minuets before they even thought about stopping. Once they actually stopped the ground was littered with empty shell casings of both lead and Dust rounds, magazines and three dust cartridges.
"Think that got him?" Yang asked as they all stared at the smoke where they saw Torchwick prior. Then they all heard a male voice chuckle "What made you ever think that?"
"I'll take that as a no." Tracy said as the smoke cleared revealing Torchwick still where he was but in front of him was a Neapolitan colored umbrella. The umbrella moved slightly then rose up revealing a rather short girl wearing white jacket with a pink interior, black corset, brown pants, and gray high heeled boots, who bowed with a smile on her face to them.
"What the hell is that umbrella made of?" Kate asked surprised and angry none of their attacks worked while Stella mumbled "I know one way of finding out." as Roman laughed a evil laugh with his eyes closed, Stella teleported to where they were.
"Wouldn't you love to know." he said and opened his eye's to realize that there was a certain yellow assassin not there, before he could ask where she went a shot rang through the air and the Neapolitan dressed girl was clutching her now bloody left shoulder. He looked to where the shot came from and it was none other than said assassin standing there with her right hand pointed towards them and the barrel slightly visible then she said "You know what they say about opening an umbrella indoors and yes we would love to know what that umbrella is made of, care to explain for you ice cream themed friend here?"
"Why you!" he yelled enraged that the girl just shot his guard, he pointed his cane at Stella but Riku's scythe made contact with his arm enough to render it useless at the moment.
Down below the others were watching Stella shoot the umbrella girl and Torchwick aim his cane at Stella before Riku holstered his pistols into his pockets, pulled his scythe out and threw it at Torchwick's arm just below the elbow. "Nice throw." Yang said and Riku just said "Now now, no pointing cane guns at people."
Rage was filling Roman as he saw the situation quite hopeless and he simply said to the girl "Time to go." the girl nodded as Stella yelled at them to stop and fired another shot towards them but when it did make contact with the girls head, both Torchwick and the girl shattered as if they were made of glass.
"The hell?" Yang asked
"An illusion?" Riku asked
"By the look of it, yes." Blake answered then they all heard multiple explosions and felt the entire building shake.
"That didn't sound good." Kate yelled as they heard another explosion
"Cali the hell just happened?" Riku yelled and the speakers crackled to life once more "Multiple explosions in several Dust storage rooms! Get out of here now!" Cali yelled
"You heard the lady lets go!" Kate yelled as Tracy sent a Parallel into the storage room they were in before to retrieve some of the Dust she was using to restore her energy. "Gold lets go!"
Stella was still staring at the shattered glass where Roman and the girl were and said "Interesting." before hearing Kate yelling at her, she grabbed Riku's scythe and jumped back down and tossing it back to Riku as they neared the elevators only for it to be blocked off due to a large tree growing in front of it.
"The hell?" Yang, Riku, and Kate yelled when they all saw it.
"I think one of the storage rooms was next to a room that was researching the possibility of Terra Forming dust!" Weiss yelled
"So what now!?" Ruby yelled in a fit of panic.
"Get to the balcony we're jumping down to the first floor and getting the hell out of here!" Stella yelled and they ran back into the plaza and towards the balcony as Tracy's Parallel came back from the storage room with a white handbag with a silver snowflake on it and tossing it to Tracy who caught it. As they ran Kate yelled a prayer "Please oh please let us actually make it!"
"Embers shut up every time you say please you jinx us!" Riku yelled "Cali get the hell back to Tango 0-1 you hear me!"
"Got it! See you guys then!" Cali yelled and the speakers died once again and for the last time.
Once they made it over to the balcony, they vaulted over the railing thinking they'd land on the 2nd floor but Kate's jinxing prayer was heard and they landed not on tile but on stone and they were still the 3rd floor.
"KATE!" everyone yelled
"Sorry!" she yelled
"New plan!" Riku yelled as he pulled his 1911 pistols out "Shoot out the windows and hope we land on the ground then hightail it out!"
Voicing their agreement they all pulled out their weapons and attacked the windows. When It broke they jumped hoping for the ground 3 floors down, but sadly when Kate's prayer was heard the first time some divine being decided to bump it up to the next notch for once they looked they screamed as they were at least 300,000 ft in the air with one side the city of Vale underneath and in front of them and a massive rock pillar that lifted the building this high into the air on the other.
"Oh well this is just great!" Weiss yelled sarcastically "Now we get to plummet to our deaths!."
Tracy who was looking at the building saw something barreling towards them "Not if that has anything to say about it!"
They all turned to see the stone they ran on was actually a gigantic boulder
"Scratch that now we either plummet to our deaths or let that boulder crush us!"
"Quit being so pessimistic already Weiss!" Riku yelled "I got this! Gold we still have that signal!?"
"Yeah, but it's getting weaker why!?" Stella answered/questioned
His answer was Riku holstering his pistols once more and opening his right hand and in it the white light came and disappeared leaving in his hands a dark blood red hilted katana with a equally dark blood red sheath.
"That's your plan!?" Weiss screamed "What are you going to do cut the damn thing!?"
"Weiss just shut up and trust him already!" Blake yelled
"What? No cutting it would be the fun way, I doing this the practical way!" he said and unsheathed the katana, the blade was just as dark blood red as the hilt, he placed the sheath on his belt and bit his right thumb then coated the blade in a single line of his blood.
"Blood Hound Summoning!" he yelled then swung his blade in the air once then the ground once "Aero Hound and Terra Hound!" the area's where he slashed the air began to stir as the ground began to rumble slightly. The air stopped stirring revealing a white gray wolf with parts of its body having the air still swirling around it while out of the ground a brown haired wolf with rocks all over it's body came clawing out of the rock pillar, both howled into the night indicating their summoning was complete. "You boy's know what to do!" RIku yelled and they looked to see the boulder
"You sure they got this!?" Ruby yelled in
"Terra and Aero haven't let me down before, don't see a reason they should now!"
And indeed they didn't let him down, Aero summoned forth more wind and charged directly at the boulder when he did hit it the excess wind slowed the boulder down long enough for Terra to howl, bringing more of the pillar out in a arc catching the boulder and stopping it from chasing the 8 teens.
"See I told you they wouldn't let me down!" RIku laughed as he dismissed both hounds and the sword.
"That's great and all, but look down!" Yang yelled and they saw trees growing at a rapid pace below them.
"Oh for the love of-" Riku yelled as they entered the new and rapidly growing forest. They had to swerve, move and jump through it at practically terminal velocity just so they wouldn't eat bark. Once they cleared another two forests they heard something crack above them and the saw the boulder barreling back down towards them...and the top half of the pillar as well?
"What the fuck!?" Kate yelled
"Think Terra might have weakened the integrity of the pillar when I told them to stop the boulder..." Riku mumbled but Weiss was close enough to him to hear him and yelled "You don't say!"
"Everyone grab a partner, we're flying out of here!" Stella yelled grabbing Yang's shoulder
"You heard her." Kate yelled as grabbed Blake's and put her in a bridal style hold
Tracy grabbed Weiss' hand while Ruby moved towards each other resulting in her hugging him for dear life
"Rose, Embers mech's now!" Stella yelled and the three of them focused and digitized wings formed on their backs like it was part of them to begin with, then the three of them screamed in pain and didn't even move for a second
"Guys!" Tracy and Weiss yelled in unison
"Riku! Wake up Riku please!" Ruby screamed into his ear
"Kate wake up already we're both going to die if you don't!" Blake screamed into her ear
"If you let us die I'm so going to kill you Stella! Stella!" Yang screamed as she caught her and into her face
Once they heard their cry's they slowly opened their eye's to see them still screaming at them, they focused once again, grabbed them and began to fly as Tracy summoned 12 energy blades that placed themselves behind her like they were wings and both her and Weiss flew to catch up to the others
"So any ideas on how were going to escape the this?" Kate yelled then four white light's appeared what looked like a mile and a half underneath them.
"That answer your question?" Stella yelled back
"I don't know about this." Weiss yelled
"Not like we got much of a choice now do we?" Riku yelled and with a regrettable agreement from the others they barreled head long towards the white light not knowing what lied in wait for them.
In the distance 5 white winged figures were in the air, their wings flapping to keep them afloat watching the events unfold.
"My Lord." one of the winged figures spoke with a feminine voice "Was it a wise decision to save the eight of them from this?"
The white winged figure in front of the others replied in a deep male voice "Of course it was, they need to be alive for events to shape up with the type of style only mortals are capable of doing." "Anyway's we must speak with Makarov, so that he may prepare for what happens tonight."
"Is that really necessary?"
"If he is not prepared, then this city will be reduced to nothing more than a desolate shadow of it's former glory with the soulless creatures of this world calling it home for a very long time."
"And if he is prepared?"
"Then the city will burn."
"Lesser of two evil's?"
"I've taught you well my disciple. Now quickly we must head out in order to aid in the fight to come."
"Yes my Lord." the 4 winged figures behind him said in unison before disappearing in a flash o white leaving nothing but white feathers to fall to the ground. Once they were gone the man chuckled as several portal opened in front of him showing several people as they went about their lives "Prepare yourself Remnant, for the years to come will be some of the most interesting times that your history will ever have.
What lies in wait for them when they reach the dark at the end of the light tunnel? You'll have to wait and find out! But here's a little hint and guess which pair gets what. A forest full of Beowolves, a secret White Fang Base, a cold place full of icy bears, and an area with a mix of the first two. Also yes the cast is a bit out of character but that's why it's fanfiction plus I need events to be nonexistent and other to form sorry if your not fine with that. Till next time RxR and have a nice night.