Disclaimer - I do not own RWBY, RWBY is property of Rooster Teeth
A/N - this characters theme is Two Worlds by Disturbed
Birds. We see them all the time, they fly above us so free it appears as if even gravity cannot hold them. Above the ground, they fly with courage and fiery spirits that burn with determination to defend themselves and their flocks.
The mountains outside the kingdom of Mistral were as isolated as any place could be, even the loudest airships could fly a mile around and not be found by any military group, and that was the reason for the meeting right then.
Two figures were positioned in front of a stack of large crates. One was a woman, and there was no mistaking her for anything else with curves that her teal long coat and mostly loose fitting clothes couldn't cover up. This girl had bright blue hair and ember eyes. At her hips were a pair of dual handguns and just below that, on her right hip was a silver bladed cutlass with a golden coloured hilt.
Beside her a man, though some might wonder if he was truly a man with the youthful look to his face. Not to be mistaken for childish, no there was a look that suggested he hadn't truly been tested and embraced into adulthood, close but not yet. He wore white and yellow adorned clothing with a few streaks of black along the chest of the shirt. Attached to the boy's back was a large claymore almost the size of him at four feet in length. The sword was dark silver, almost gray and several mechanisms in the hilt of varying colours mostly yellow and assorted shades.
In front of these two figures were a round dozen men each one wearing a white mask that resembled the creatures of Grimm as well as white clothing with red symbols somewhere. Symbols of a wolfish like creature with claw marks through it. The symbol of the White Fang.
At the front was a single woman, much lither than her companions and black highlights to her armour that proved she was, in fact, a lieutenant and the blood red hair that went down her shoulders did nothing to sway the feeling of dangerous authority she oh so clearly commanded.
"We got it all as requested, ahead of schedule might I add." The woman named Skyler Topez said, grinning, inspecting the leather of her fingerless gloves with a cocky grin on her face.
One of the White Fang huffed at that as he gestured for the men to begin inspecting the gear. "It better be worth it, humans! You're charging us enough to make us believe your upselling us."
'We charge the same when getting this to villages who actually need it to defend themselves!" The boy, Daff Aryle said indignantly only to be stopped by a hand from his companion outstretched along his chest.
"Cool it Aryle." She said angrily, "You don't want to pick fights with your best customers!"
Daff just scowled at this and caught sight of something going on up in the mountain of crates. Those Faunus were up to something.
"Yes well... See that's where this gets complicated, new leaderships cracking down on the idea of working with humans." The lead woman said, a sadistic grin under her mask "So perhaps you can help us test the equipment you brought for us."
Once the woman who was clearly leading the White Fang said this, the five men who had been inspecting gear came out standing on top of the crates holding several of the rifles they had been bringing to them.
Skyler shook her head.
"Shame." She said, "I actually thought I respected you!" As she said this Skyler dropped some kind of canister she had pulled from her coat onto the ground, "surely you'll reconsider; we've gotten a hold of some of Atlas' new technology."
"No, we're done working with humans, now say goodbye!" She said raising her own weapon, a small black and white coloured submachine gun.
Skyler kicked the cylinder she had dropped a second ago and just as bullets began shooting at them a large dome six feet in diameter surrounded her and Daff. This dome consisted of light yellow hexagons and reflected all the bullets and the red lasers.
"Told you!" Daff said
"You want to talk about this now?" Skyler asked as she drew her handguns and held them at the ready.
Daff shook his head swiftly as he pulled Solar Justice from his back and flicked his hands so it took the form of a large assault rifle. The gun was a similar colour scheme as the sword and the size was also quite similar the size of Daffs chest and just as heavy, though the weight did nothing to deter its use in the hands of its wielder.
The shield went down but this time both Skyler and Daff were already shooting when it did, Daff unleashing a full-auto barrage at those that were on the ground forcing them to scatter while. Skyler shot upwards at the Faunus shooting at them from the mountain of crates.
With finesse to match her lithe form, the blue haired smuggler jumped into the air with several rounds seamlessly missing her as she shot so accurately she landed her own rounds inside their guns making them explode.
Landing back on her feet with a grin she holstered her handguns and drew her Cutlass, Diamondheart, from her side. The weapon curved down the bladed side creating a semi-circle out of the clean metal. A boomerang that the smuggler threw with extreme accuracy towards several stunned and disoriented Faunus.
A few meters away Daff had brought his sword down from an overhead swing completely forced his way past the short saber of the Faunus who had made the mistake of trying to parry his attack. He was crunched into the ground with the stone beneath them cracking. Though his aura protected him from most the lethality you didn't need a scroll to know the meager Aura of this nameless soldier was at best in the red.
Flicking his wrist he met another blade from one of them and with his strength made the man lose grip on his blade before following up with one powerful hit to the head from the hilt of his sword.
"Enough!" The lead woman yelled at her companions.
Daff turned his attention to this woman and realized she was now holding an SMG in one hand and a sawed-off shotgun in the other.
"He's mine!" She said flicking her two black coloured weapons together revealing a large axe with the hilt being no less than four feet.
Some might wonder how such a weapon seemed practical in any capacity for someone not sprouting muscles with muscles, but the way the weapon spun in her grip proved any dissent wrong.
Gripping Solar Justice in a two handed grip, Daff pursed his lips for just a second before he swung the large blade aimed at his opponent's chest, performing a backward flip to dodge the blade and kick Daff in the face with her movement.
Staggered slightly, but not entirely out, the blonde haired smuggler was able to parry a downward strike from the axe of his opponent. Using what was clearly a superior amount of strength, he pushed her off and continued on the offensive with easily dodged strikes.
That wouldn't be a problem for the mobile fighter who dodged, sidestepped and redirected with tactical parries everything Daff sent her way. Things took a turn for the worse for him when one particular dodge movement allowed her to land a swift strike with her axe to the back of his knee cap. Though Aura prevented it from piercing, the injury sent him onto one knee with no way to get back up as another strike came down.
Another strike came down from another spin and hit him in the chest sent him down onto his back.
Daff was still gripping his sword and as he brought it to his chest one hand on the hilt the other on the flat side of the blade. The blade began to glow a yellow gold and the White Fang Lieutenant found herself unable to see this as she brought the blade down once again, hitting him in the blade.
The yellow glow dispersed the moment the two weapons met and in one small flash of light from the point of impact the axe like weapon was sent flying from the woman's grip, repelled by the flash.
Using the opening to get to his feet, Daff once again gripped his sword in a two-handed grip. A smirk found its way onto his face as his sword once again glowed with the charging of his Semblance.
Behind the two fighters, a loud explosion could be heard as three White Fang members were sent flying from the top of the mountain of crates landing on their backs with minimal signs of life.
"Hey!" Skyler yelled from on top the mountain of boxes.
The Soldiers, who had previously been standing in a circle around their lieutenant and her desired prey, all scattered as they saw just what was pointing at them.
"It's moments like these that make me wish I had infinite pockets," Skyler said smugly as she revealed the large black painted double barrel rocket launcher slung over her shoulder. Bringing the weapon back to the ready two more missiles were fired this time at the lieutenant who was forced to dodge by shooting the shotgun side of her staff to propel herself to her right.
Glaring from under her mask, the White Fang Lieutenant unclipped her weapons so as to hold them in firearm forms, shotgun pointed at Daff and SMG pointed at Skyler.
Both the smugglers had their respective ranged weapons pointed at the woman who was now slowly taking steps backward towards the edge of the mountain.
Her ears twitched momentarily before she let a grin appear under her mask and fall backward off the cliff.
Daff and Skyler both blinked for just a brief second, but that brief second passed as the loud hum of a Bullhead airship met their ears. A second later a large white and black painted ship appeared. The ship itself had two aerial wings protruding and black tinted glass on the front. The lieutenant stood on top of the mighty war machine and had already begun shooting with her SMG. A large gun below however was the true problem, the heavy machine gun spun and began shooting and forced Skyler to dive for cover so as to reload her rocket launcher.
Daff looked at the ship for a quarter of a second before he too had to begin running to dodge the gun below.
Something clicked in the boy's mind as he flipped his sword into its gun form and gripping the second trigger beneath the primary and shot at the ground behind him. A blue coloured grenade was released from the lower barrel in the weapon which propelled Daff into the air intent on landing on the ship.
Shooting a barrage of shots, Daff was able to distract the Lieutenant long enough for him to land on the ship. With the White Fang's attention on her companion, Skyler dived out from beside one of the crates, her dual guns at the ready, with accuracy some would deem inhuman, Skyler shot several bullets directly at the woman's neck. The Aura protected her from the handgun bullets but they sent her off balance long enough for Daff's body to smash into her sending her tumbling off balance and off the airship.
As neutral as ever, the blonde smuggler stabbed his sword into the side of the airship and using it as leverage, swung downwards. Smashing the glass of the airship with a Semblance enhanced kick, Daff swiftly dispatched both the pilot and the person manning the gun.
Skyler ran towards the cliff as she saw the ship begin to go downwards with the pilot removed. She expected to see her companion jump out but when that didn't happen, she found her heart racing.
That is until in the next moment it was revealed the ship flying away in the opposite direction gaining altitude and heading upwards.
Skyler shook her head realizing what had just happened. She blinked several times before pulling from her inside coat a pair of black tinted sunglasses.
"I guess this is goodbye Son!" Skyler mumbled to herself a note of sadness in her voice as she donned the glasses to hide the sorrow in her eyes.
Yet when a flock goes off course and the lone bird must find its own path. To these animals, there is nothing harder than leaving the rest of their kin. So when they are forced to leave it is always a question will they fall to the ground alone to be eaten by predators.
Or do they accept a new flock?
A/N - This is late by almost a week, and for that, I apologize. alas, this chapter is almost twice as long as the other three thanks to the inclusion of a second character. Skyler Topez as well as the person who is the bird, Daff Aryle.
a warm shout out to ShadowLDrago who proofread this chapter for me.
Next Chapter will be out on the 20th of January.