One heart beat for courage.
Another one for strength.
And the last for luck.
Neo turned her head in Alessandro´s direction as she heard this, just in time to see him take a step off the cliff. She clenched her teeth, spinning and violently using her parasol to bash a beowolfs head into the floor. She ran and jumped of the cliff. She put her arms to her side and sped down, damn he had climbed high up before getting cornered, and he had gotten pretty damn far as well. Neo saw him falling spread eagle, wait, he seemed perfectly calm but serious. He had a smile on his face, was this part of some plan he had made? She went spread eagle to stay above him and frowned as she heard him yell, but not with fear,with excitement. He put his arms against himself and shot down, she frowned, he had nothing to slow his fall and below (and rising pretty damn fast) was nothing but solid ground. Not even trees which could help with a landing strategy. She saw him go spread eagle once again and spin, back shining strongly with aura.
"Oh no, hes going to fall on his back with aura. It could work, but it probably won´t." Neo thought, she saw him close his eyes and he still had a wide smile on his face. She growled and teleported to him, grabbing his arms and teleporting back to the cliff, because in the one second she had to teleport she could only think of that. She stood up a little dizzy, the fall leaving her like this and much to her surprise was pushed to the ground by Alessandro who went in front with his spear (how the hell did he hold onto that?!) and stabbed a Beowolf in the head, who had been about to kill Neo. She took out her sword and dashed in front of him, stabbing another ones stomach and pushing it to to the floor. She jumped back to avoid another before grabbing the boys arm again and teleporting away, back to Cinder.
Cinder nodded at Neo, not a hint of anger on her face now.
"Have fun, did we?" She said to the boy.
"I... can´t believe you freaking did that to me!" He yelled, turning to Neo, who crossed her arms and glared at him.
"Oh don´t give me that! You brought me here and acted all nice then left me to die!" He took a step closer to Neo and it was a little comical due to Neo´s height. She was about a head smaller than him.
Neo rolled her eyes and her nose twitched slightly.
"Oh come on! What was I suppose to do? Stay here and die?" He said to her.
Interesting. Cinder thought. He understands Neo´s "language". Neo pushed him back and, much to both Cinder and Neo´s surprise, got her hand grabbed and was flipped over his back, unfortunately for Alessandro being as flexible as she was she landed on her feet, kicked his face and pulled her hand away.
"Enough!" Cinder said, making both of them flinch. "Alessandro," She said turned to him as he got up, holding his forehead. "It was an accident, remember what I said when we first met? She can´t do anything without my permission and she knows what consequences await her." Neo huffed, but looked away. Alessandro stared at Cinder for a few moments before sighing.
"Alright...well i´m going to sleep. Hopefully I won´t wake up in the forest." He said before storming off. Neo´s fists were clenched and she seemed about to follow him, but Cinder held her back.
"You shouldn't be that upset...do you want the boy to see you in a better way?" She gave Neo a smirk as she blushed slightly, but quickly hid it. Did Neo have feelings for the boy? This is what happened when she let her be in charge of the boy.
Stupid Neo, stupid Grimm, stupid Remnant. I thought as a walked into my room. The first say we met...it was only a month ago but it feels like forever. I thought back, I was at school with Violet then Neo appeared, kicked my butt, took me. Cinder convinced me she was good and that as it. I was living here...did I make the right choice? They hadn't done much to make me feel like they were bad, Neo was psychotic sometimes, Roman stole dust for a good cause, Merc and Em...what did they do? Lets see when we saw them in the show...they...they...
"I can´t remember...? Why can´t I remember?!" This shouldn't be happening, lets see. Characters. Ruby, Blake, Yang, Weiss, Adam, Tukson...wait, Tukson. He...he was at a bookstore. His business, then...Emerald and Mercury went to kill him. I was living with criminals and murderers and hadn't noticed. But why hadn't I remembered this? Lets see, what else happened in the show...Ironwood, he...ok moving on. Glynda! Shes a teacher! She teaches...crud, can´t remember either. I jumped up as Emerald and Mercury walked into my room.
"Woah, we scare you kid?" Emerald said, smiling at me.
"Heh, not a chance. Though it would be nice of you to knock." I rubbed my head nervously, standing up.
"Whats wrong? You look like you´ve seen a ghost." Mercury said, raising an eyebrow at me.
"What? Nothings wrong. I´m fine, well, mostly. After Neo´s stunt and finally seeing some Grimm i´m a little...shaken. But i´ll be fine."
"Yeah Cinder told us, so we decided to finally give you these." Emerald said, handing me to small...hilts? They were sword hilts, but just the hilts. I frowned and turned them around. Ah, here we go. A couple of buttons, I pressed them and went wide eyed as a saw two blades pop out, one on each one.
"Woah..." They were two wakizashi swords, about fifty centimeters each one, so almost the size of a katana sword. Black hilts and silver blades in perfect condition. I frowned as I saw another set of buttons now.
"Those are to fire the bullets." Mercury said.
"Wait...bullets? These things can actually fire bullets?!" He nodded and Emerald laughed at me.
"You look like a five year old on Christmas." She said.
"Can you blame me? This is so cool! Why didn't you guys give this to me before?"
"We...um, we didn't think you were ready for a weapon like this yet. But seeing what happened today we´ve decided that its about time you learn to use these, for future occasions." She smiled at me again. "Like them?"
"Hell yeah! Lets go practice!" I pressed the buttons and the blades folded and retracted into the hilts. "Cool...wait, where do the bullets go? How do I reload?"
"The bottom parts of the hilts are where you fire from, they open up so the empty clip slides out and for you to put to more. It´ll take some practice but soon you´ll be able to do fast reloading. And use the sword correctly." Mercury said, walking out with Emerald following, I smiled widely. Little did they know , I remembered what they did, they can teach me how to fight but if I use it, it will be to fight them.
When I make my escape.
I raised my swords, blocking Emeralds own blades and kicked her back, she blocked and kicked me into the air.
"Thats the match!" Mercury called without much enthusiasm. We had been doing this for a few hours now and though I made improvement I lost every single match. Sure, first day with the swords, but it still infuriated me.
"Well, you are already getting better. Mixing Merc´s fighting style with the swords was a good touch. Wasn't expecting it." She sheathed her weapons.
"Come on! One more guys, i´m just getting warmed up." I smiled at them.
"You look half dead kid. One more match you´ll be in the morgue." I turned to see Roman and Neo.
"How much did you see?" I asked.
"We just saw you get defeated, again, the weapons are nice touches but your still not much yourself." He smirked at me, Neo was behind him shaking her head at me. She knew what I was planning, by the look on my face.
"Well then, dear Roman, care to fight and prove yourself right?" I smiled at him, staring. Mercury and Emerald remained quiet and Neo face palmed.
"Felling confident, kiddo? Fine i´ll fight, but if I win your joining me on my next heist. Got it?" He walked opposite of me, cane ready.
"If I win your providing me with dust rounds. Wind and fire, my clips are special, so you better make them right."
He shrugged. "Deal, but you won´t win anyway."He raised his cane and fire. I flipped backwards and over it, the raised one blade to block his cane, I lowered the other to my side as he tried to hit there. He was fast, I parried another blow and countered, making him back up. He growled but before he could attack again I began slashing with both blades, he was blocking every single blow though. I smiled and kicked him backwards, spinning my swords so the hilts were aimed at him and fired my wind dust rounds. This sent me flying back and Roman as well, I landed on my feet and he hit a try, falling to the ground. He got up dazed, the shook his head rapidly and glared at me.
"Something wrong? Maybe you under estimated me. I might suck against Merc, Em, and Grimm. But looks like you and most of the fang are easy now." I laughed and charged. I jumped on spun, falling down in a deadly arc but he jumped back and as I landed he dashed forward, his cane hitting the side of my head and knocking me down. I rolled backwards to avoid his second blow and, now on my feet, resumed my flurry of stabs. Up, down, right left, down, up, he blocked them all and this time his cane rose and hit my chin, then my leg, making me go to a knee. I raised my sight just in time to get his cane to the side of my face again, knocking me down.
"Ugh..." I spat to the side.
"Something wrong? Maybe you under estimated me." He said, mocking me. I rolled my eyes as he swung his cane again I focused my aura on my side, he yelped and pain and dropped the cane. "What the heck?!" I laughed and got up, kicking his chin and therefore sending him upwards, as he fell I jumped and kicked his stomach, sending him into a tree. He fell and before he could get up I put the tip of my sword to his chest.
"Looks like I win."A smiled widely. Emerald looked at Mercury confused.
"Did he really just win a match? Torchwick should be way tougher than him..." She said.
"Looks like he had more in him than we noticed." Mercury replied, sounding as casual as ever. "You can put the sword away now."
I gave Roman one last smirk before sheathing my swords and putting them on my sides, the fit perfectly in my pockets. I turned as I felt a hand on my shoulders. Neo. My smile melted.
"What do you want?" I made sure I sounded hateful. She stared at me intently, a smirk on her face.
"Oh...maybe some other time. I´m beat. I´m not skilled enough nor have the energy to fight you Neo." She pouted, then turned away. Roman had gotten up and retrieved his cane, storming off.
"I can´t believe I just won. Even if it was against Roman. Looks like I really am improving." I said to myself as I followed Merc and Em inside the place again. Now it was time for some good nights sleep.
