Chapter 3: unexpected aid
Several days had passed since Kuuga and Yang's battle turned into a miniature war, but Kuuga got his personalities under control now and had since then been at total ease. Even team CRDL wasn't bugging him, but that could be because they heard about Blaze's ability to hurl fire like a friggin' baseball. So earlier today when Ozpin called Kuuga and Ruby into his office telling them it was important they were obviously nervous.
"Why'd you call us up here Oz?" Kuuga asked a little annoyed. "Yeah I'll admit I'm a little worried." Ruby added. "Because I have a mission for you two… there's a rather large concentration of Grimm around a village called "The village of the black sun." and they need you two to deal with it." Ozpin explained. "MY HOME VILLIAGE?!" Kuuga exclaimed clearly distraught. "I'm afraid so Kuuga." Ozpin replied.
Kuuga was unintentionally grinding his teeth which scared Ruby a little bit. "Kuuga… please calm down." Ruby squeaked. Kuuga looked to see he was unintentionally scaring Ruby and stopped. "Sorry Ruby." Kuuga apologized. "Anyway, you two are expected at the village within the hour… I'd suggest you went and got your necessary equipment ready." Ozpin advised.
The two bowed and went to do just that. Soon the two were on a bullhead and headin' for Kuuga's home village needless to say Kuuga was on edge and Ruby could understand that, after all his home was in danger, she'd be on edge too if patch was in the same spot.
"Hey Kuuga… what's so special about the village, I mean I know it's your home but…" Ruby started but was cut off by kuuga. "There's a rare metal in the village called 'Dragon's scale' it's what my armor and sword are made of, it's molecularly stable making it indestructible but despite that it's incredibly light meaning you could use it on a person's skeleton and their weight wouldn't change that much, if the Grimm destroy the village than the metal will fall into the wrong hands." Kuuga explained.
Ruby had a look of both shock and horror on her face, if what Kuuga said is true than if Roman got ahold of it he would be unstoppable. "Luckily though those who know where the village is are either dead or just faunus refugees." Kuuga explained.
That made Ruby a little easier about the issue of the metal. "Very few people in my village can actually use it as a smithing material including me and my dad." Kuuga continued. "I don't know why but when I think of my mom or dad I get this splitting headache like I'm supposed to remember something but I can't." kuuga said as the bullhead landed in the village.
The two warriors in training disembarked from the bullhead and made their way to the village leader. "Kuuga, it's good to see you again." The elder said in a kind and gentle voice. "Wish I could say the same thing." Kuuga replied. "What's the situation?" Ruby asked. "The girmm have surrounded the entire village, the only saving grace is they only come out at night." The elder replied as he hung his head in fear. "Don't worry, we'll deal with them you just stay here." Kuuga advised. "Yes of course." The elder replied.
Kuuga and Ruby soon made their way to forest that surrounded the village. The trees were blood red with leaves as black as ash while the grass was purest white. "This is a rather odd forest." Ruby remarked taken aback by the odd colors. "Well the forests always been like this a lot of our inhabitants theorize it's a metaphor for life and death, but me… eh I just think it's cause of all the smithing we do." Kuuga explained.
Ruby didn't realize it till now, but she was unintentionally looking at kuuga, to her he was like one of the heroes in the stories her mom read her, selfless, caring, noble, and downright good looking to boot. "What am I thinking?! He's my teammate I can't be falling in love with him… that's just askin' for trouble from both his team and yang." Ruby thought to herself.
Kuuga didn't notice luckily for her, he DID however notice a rather large skeleton just up ahead. "What in the name of oum was this thing?" Ruby asked as she finally noticed it as well. "No clue, I'd say a nevermore but its bone structure is all off… looks more like a dinosaur." Kuuga replied placing a hand on one of its ribs but shortly after, he started seeing things and getting a splitting headache, he retracted his hand and stumbled to the ground.
"What happened?" ruby asked. "No idea, I just touched it's rib bone and all of a sudden I started seein' things, like they were… a past life." Kuuga replied as he picked himself up off the ground. Ruby touched one of the ribs but nothing happened. "You sure? Cause it's not doin' it with me." Ruby exclaimed. "Positive, it felt like my brain was gonna implode or something." Kuuga replied.
Just then a pack of beowolves came outta nowhere and surrounded the two. "This doesn't look good." Ruby said as she loaded crescent rose with one of her clips. "Nope, they shoulda brought more." Kuuga said smiling manically. Kuuga then proceeded to charge the beowolves sword in his hand and a mad grin on his face hidden by his helmet. "KUUGA WAIT!" ruby yelled as she gave chase to help her friend.
The battle was brutal and fierce it went on for three hours and Ruby and Kuuga were starting to feel the stress and exhaustion. "Kuuga… I don't know how much longer I can keep this up." Ruby exclaimed letting out a shaky breath. "I know… but there's just one left Ruby." Kuuga replied.
Just then the afore mentioned beowolf leapt into the air and went to sink its fangs into Kuuga only for Ruby to jump in and take the hit for him. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ruby cried as the wolf sank it fangs into her shoulder making blood leak out of her body. "RUBY!" Kuuga yelled as he kicked the beowolf off of her. "My shoulder… can't use crescent rose." Ruby croaked as she passed out from both the blood loss and the pain.
"RUBY! I hope you enjoyed that little snack you piece of shit… CAUSE IT'S THE LAST ONE YOU'RE EVER GONNA GET!?" Kuuga exclaimed as he drew his sword and one of his high impact pistols. The beowolf just stood there rubys' blood dripping from its fangs with a demonic stare.
Just then a rather powerful gust of wind and white rose pedals blew in getting both the wolf and Kuugas' attention. They looked into the distance to see a person clad in white and red with two twin one handed swords hanging from her hips. "She's dressed like Ruby, but it CAN'T be Ruby… she's passed out." Kuuga thought to himself as the figure drew closer to the two.
As the figure drew closer they drew their swords and took their place by Kuuga's side. "Who are you?" Kuuga asked. "I'll explain later for now just stay back." The figure replied. The beowolf grew tired of waiting and charged the two only for the cloaked figure to out speed it and slice it in half with one of their the beowolf disintegrated the figure made their way towards Ruby to inspect her injury.
"She needs medical attention or else she'll die." The figure said in a grim tone. "Why the hell did she do that anyway?" Kuuga asked. "I haven't a clue." The figure replied as they picked Ruby up so they could head back to the village to get her treatment.
It took the three about two hours to get back to the village, it normally would have taken them half an hour but they couldn't go full pace with Ruby in the shape she was.
"Oh dear, what happened?" the elder asked as he saw Ruby. "She was attacked by a beowolf… I'm taking her to the medical hut for treatment." The figure replied. "Understood." The elder replied as Kuuga and the figure made their way towards the medical hut. "Stay out here 'till I'm done." The figure said. "Not happening… she's my partner and I'm not gonna leave her alone with you." Kuuga argued. "Ugh… fine, but don't touch anything." The figure replied as they took Ruby into the hut.
Apon entering the hut Kuuga saw that the inside was MUCH bigger than the outside led to believe. "This is some weird ass shit." Kuuga muttered. "Tell me about it." The figure replied as they set Ruby on an operating table. "What does she need?" Kuuga asked. "Just a lot of stitches." The figure replied. "Not funny." Kuuga sneered.
Kuuga wasn't sure why he was suddenly showing so much concern for Ruby…. Just the other day Ruby was getting picked on by Cardin and Kuuga just shrugged it off as "Eh… she can deal with him." but now here she was near the brink of death and Kuuga was getting hostile over a smarmy remark made by the person patching her up. "What's with me." Kuuga thought to himself. "Relax I'm just tryin' to lighten the mood." The figure replied as they started stitching up Ruby's wound.
An hour went by and the figure had finally finished treating Ruby's injury as they started wrapping it in gauss to prevent infection. "You done yet?" Kuuga asked. "Yep." The figure replied. "Good come with me." Kuuga instructed the figure following. "How long will ruby be out?" Kuuga asked. "She should be out for about three hours." The figure replied. "Good, we're goin' out." Kuuga replied. "Where?" the figure asked. "We found a big ass skeleton before those wolves showed up… that's where we're going." Kuuga replied.
The two got to the site of the skeleton in under an hour now that they could open up their speed without worrying about ruby. "This is it." Kuuga announced. "Woah… big bird." The figure joked. "It's not a bird… it's a dragon grimm." Kuuga replied. "When I touched the skeleton I started to get these sudden flashes and my head started feeling like it was on fire, I think it has something to do with my past." Kuuga explained. "How do ya mean?" the figure asked. "I have gaps in my memory… I think this thing may help me remember the gaps." Kuuga replied.
"I don't think it works like that." The figure replied. "It's worth a shot." Kuuga replied. Kuuga placed his hand on the skeleton again and the flashes started up again but this time he did not reel away… this time he stood his ground. The flashes ended with an image of the figure in white with him sparring. "AGH!" Kuuga yelled as he was shot back onto the ground.
"You okay?" the figure asked as they helped kuuga up. "Yeah I'm okay… Summer." Kuuga replied. This got the figures attention. "How'd you know?" Summer asked. "The skeleton… it gave me my memories from when I was little… including my memories of you being my swordsman teacher." Kuuga replied.
"Please… don't tell ruby and yang… it would only make them upset." Summer exclaimed. "Upset about what, that their mom was alive the whole time and didn't bother to let them know?" kuuga replied sarcastically. "It's not like I WANTED to… it's part of my mission." Summer replied. "What mission?" kuuga asked. "I was sent by general ironwood to find and terminate a group of terrorists lead by someone called cinder fall." Summer replied. "Don't worry I won't tell…. But YOU may have to at some point." Kuuga replied.
Just then fang started panicking to kuuga. "Boss quake he's gone Quake's gone!" Fang explained. "What how?" Kuuga asked. "I don't know it's like he just vanished!" fang yelled. "What's wrong?" summer asked. "One of my alternate personalities is gone and we don't know why." Kuuga replied. "Hm, I have a theory… what if when you regained your memories of your youth he disappeared." Summer exclaimed. "Maybe but it doesn't answer WHY." Kuuga replied.
"Well some people believe that when a person gets amnesia and an alternate personality appears… that the personality is related to the memories the person lost." Summer explained. "If that is the case then quake… is never coming back." Kuuga said in a somber tone. Kuuga then vented his rage by punching a nearby boulder only for it to crumble into hundreds of pieces. "What the hell?!" summer exclaimed. "Looks like I still have quakes super strength… but why?!" kuuga said as he made his way back towards the village.
The two made it back to the village within an hour as the two returned kuuga saw a bullhead coming down and landing in the middle of the village. "Did you call for that?" summer asked. "No. did you?" kuuga replied. "I did." The village elder answered. "You and your friend have saved our village and made it safe once again, now it's time for you to go home." The elder said in a kind and soft voice. "What about rubys' injury?" kuuga asked. "I already informed them about it and told them to bring a stretcher for her." The elder replied.
Kuuga got ruby out of the hut and gently placed her on the stretcher and then boarded the bullhead and returned to beacon. Shortly after returning ruby was rushed to the medical wing for her injuries, meanwhile kuuga went hunting for Blake and pulled her aside. "Listen I need your help." Kuuga said sternly. "With what?" Blake asked. "I need you to look up the effects of amnesia on Faunus." Kuuga replied. "Why?" Blake asked. "Because, when ruby and I were on our mission we found a big ass skeleton and when I touched it I got some of my memories back, but I also lost quake to… I need to know why." Kuuga explained. "Okay… you got it." Blake replied. "Thanks, and let's keep this between us… ruby's in bad shape right now and I don't want to cause her any undue stress." Kuuga said. "Sure thing." Blake replied with a small smirk on her face.
Authors' notes: this one took me FOREVER to write… but I honestly think I did a good job I hope you guys enjoy.