Welcome back to the next chapter of Shattered Eclipse. Thank you, Shadow Warden and FreakPrime, upon seeing both of your reviews it brought a smile to my face. It made my day to see that someone enjoys my shitty writing.

AlienPenguine no own RWBY. Monty does. (Poor imitation of Nopon ;P)

Chapter 2: A New Enemy Has Emerged

~Erik's POV~

Weeks have passed since arriving in this new world. We have made the tree we initially trained at our home. Caleb liked having the higher branches, while I had the lower branches. Even though we don't have to pay for rent , electricity, etc. We still have food and weapon expenses, which add up after time.

To deal with the bills, we've taken up mercenary work for the city sheriff, since god forbid he actually does his job. He likes to keep us as vigilantes so if anything goes wrong, he is not to blame. The bright side is we don't have to worry about the police, unless the media gets involved. Another up is we aren't in the system, so our contacts don't even know we exist. His jobs are usually pretty easy, steal this, kidnap this person, scare that person, and if we are truly unlucky, we will have a target to assassinate.

The thieving and kidnapping are pretty easy. Caleb goes in through the shadows and is out before anyone even knows otherwise. I usually take up overwatch with Rolling Thunder. The scaring and assassinations are the tricky parts. When there is someone to intimidate, they tend to not scare easily. The assassinations are the hardest though; it is against my morals to kill someone who has done nothing to harm me. Now if they try to cause harm to friends or family, then they have every right to die.

Today was a good day; we just had to kidnap some guy named Torchwick. He was held up in a warehouse on the docks. The warehouse was surrounded by grunts in black suits with red ties, red sunglasses, and fedoras. They were carrying scimitars and assault rifles.

I set up shop on the roof of a neighboring building to the warehouse. The warehouse had a big bay window that allowed me to see the inside of the building. There were grunts patrolling inside the building as well. There were rows of light fixtures, but only one was on. There were crates that looked to be containing lots of crystals. Dust maybe.

One thing caught my eye though. It was the target. He had long orange hair with bangs that cover his right eye. His eyes are dark green. He has a black bowler hat with a red band around it. He is wearing a red-collared white suit with a gray scarf. He has black gloves that cover his hands. He is wearing black pants and black shoes. He is carrying a black walking cane.

After my quick inspection of him I noticed he was holding someone. Upon further examination, I realized that the person was Caleb.

~Caleb's POV~ (Few minutes earlier)

Erik's voice rang through my ear, "Remember! Don't kill anyone! We are here to get Torchwick then leave!" Erik commanded.

"Yes mom," I sighed.

"I just don't want to go through what happened last time."

"Yeah, that sucked. All that trouble and we get a pay-cut."

"Of course that is what you're worried about. Not us getting chased out of the area by a wall of bullets."

"Hey that's in the past, let's worry just about this job right now." I looked over to see Erik face filled with skepticism, "Don't worry, we won't get caught again."

"Alright," Erik finally gave in, "I'm gonna go get in position. You find a way in the warehouse and get ready for the signal." With that he started for a building to the rear of the warehouse.

I walked around the structure until I found an area with a little amount of guards and an open window. Well that's convenient. There were two guards stationed under the window and two next to some shipment crates right beside the warehouse. These two were facing away from the two by the window.

I acted quick and jumped the pair under the window. I disappeared into my shadow to reappear under the two goons. I grabbed each of their feet and brought them into the dark area I've dubbed the 'Shadow Realm'. While they were disoriented from the sudden teleportation, I grabbed ones head and smashed it against my knee. This brought the other to attention. As I let go of the ones head, the other came at me with his scimitar drawn. The goon slashed vertically as I stepped to the side. "Nice try kid." With that I grabbed the back of his head and smashed it into the ground, knocking him out cold.

I brought these two goons back to the real world and placed them up high on a few shipping crates. The other two goons were still oblivious to their friends disappearance. I took this as an advantage and jumped on the guy to the left of the crate. My feet landed on his head, bringing it hard to the ground, knocking the poor fellow out cold. Sorry bro, but I have a job to do as well. I grabbed the unconscious goon and jumped to the top of the crate, and gently placed him on the metal.

I jumped over to the other side of the crate and did the same to the other goon. After his face hit the ground, he started to get back, but I planted my foot on his back and leaned down. "Looky here, we have a struggler. Wanna see what happens to strugglers?" As I finished I gave a swift punch to the back of his head and threw him up to the top of the crates. The *thunk* it caused brought a smile to my face.

I walked up to the wall with the open window and jumped through. I landed with a soft *thump* on a girder under the window. I took in my surroundings, there were girders that held up rows of light fixtures. Only one of these light fixtures was on though. There were several crates sprawled across the floor. The goons were in here also. They all looked to be on guard duty as our target walked into the middle of the room with some goon, with a blue tie instead of a red tie, at his heels. Torchwick handed the blue tied goon some money and the blue tied goon left in a haste.

I wonder if we can get a raise if I get the target to the Sheriff before his normal pick up time. I thought.

I was about to shadowstep to Torchwick when I felt an electric pulse flow through my body. My body became unresponsive as the orange haired man slowly walked towards me.

"Why can't I move!" I cried out.

"That little shock you felt there sapped all your energy and locked up your body." Torchwick responded, crouching down to me.

Torchwick grabbed me and brought me over to the lighted area of the warehouse.

~3rd Person~

Torchwick held Caleb up, who was looking through a window. "I know you're not alone. Where is your friend?" A shot rang through the air as Torchwick dropped Caleb and clutched his right arm.

"UP HERE DOUCHEBAG!" Erik was up on a girder near one of the walls. He jumped down and turned Rolling Thunder into its staff form. "Caleb get out of here! I'll cover you!" With that, Erik charged at a group of assembling goons.

Caleb capitalized on this chance and ran into the shadows disappearing.

A goon ran at Erik, scimitar raised. Erik whipped his pole into the goon's side, sending him flying into another pair. One started to shoot at Erik, the bullets barely grazed him. Erik took out Dawn and threw it into the barrel of the gun, rendering it useless. He ran up to his shooter, hit him with his staff, grabbed Dawn out of the gun and slashed at an approaching goon. The goons still kept their approach even as more of them fell.

As one with a scimitar was knocked unconscious, the scimitar flew out of their hands and landed near Torchwick's feet. Torchwick grabbed the scimitar and entered the fray. As he approached the group, the goons slowly backed off. "I normally don't use weapons like these, but you have extremely pissed me off." Torchwick swung his weapon, but was blocked by Erik's staff. Torchwick kicked Erik in the gut, causing him to stumble back. He swung his scimitar at Erik's weapon, knocking it out of his hands and away from him.

Erik crouched and brought out Dusk and Dawn. The man in the bowler hat swung once again at the knife wielder. His blow was blocked by both knives held in a x-shape. They locked blades before Torchwick finally gave in and pulled back. Erik took a chance and rushed towards the red head. Torchwick saw this coming and slashed at Erik's left eye, cutting the eyebrow and upper lip. Erik stumbled back as his vision in his left eye turned red from blood. He holstered his two knives and ran towards his staff on the floor.

Erik picked up the staff, but was rammed by Torchwick into a nearby crate. He stood back up as the man in white grabbed his cane and pointed it at the brown haired teen. A crosshair popped out of the bottom of the cane. Shit! Why does everything have to be a gun!? Erik screamed in his head. "We are done here." Erik jumped out of the way as a flare bounded towards the crate he was standing in front of. The flare exploded upon impact with the crate, sending Erik forward.

"Looks like the pest still has some fight in him." Torchwick walked over to Erik, who was laying on his back. The man in white put a foot on Erik's chest and raised his cane so the brown haired teen was looking down the barrel of the gun. "Such a shame too, it looks like I have to put it down." Erik tried to knock the red head off with his staff, but his arm was held down by the red head's other shoe. Erik closed his eyes and awaited the blast but it never came.

The bardiche wielder opened his eyes to see Torchwick with the cane near his head and a chain wrapped around his neck. "Now step away from the boy." The man in white was hesitant to Caleb's command.

A shadow version of Caleb stepped into the light, holding a sword comprised of shadows as well. The shadow Caleb put his sword along Torchwick's face. "Now, do as I say and this pretty face won't be broke." The shadow's voice was a distortion to Caleb's real voice. The shadow slowly brought his sword down the red head's face, drawing a little bit of blood. This caused Torchwick to finally step away from Erik. Shadow Caleb smiled and brought his sword into the man in white's foot, pinning him to the ground.

The chain around Torchwick's throat dissolved as the shadow picked up Erik. "Let's go home bro." The pinned man aimed his cane and launched a flare at the duo. They disappeared as the flare drew near to the pair.

~Erik's POV~

The last thing I heard before the darkness enveloped me was the screeching sound of a flare. The light invaded as the environment around me changed to a rooftop on the edge of the docks. "We took quite the beating today. On the bright side we weren't chased by bullets this time." Caleb said.

"Thanks for saving my ass back there." I sat on the edge of the roof.

"You saved me first, I should be thanking you. But you're welcome." Caleb joined me on the edge.

"That was a nice trick you did back there. That shadow clone of you was cool."

"That wasn't a clone. He just appeared when I noticed you never came out of the warehouse. He told me he was going in there and disappeared. I was able to see what he did and suggest plans of action, but that was all I could do."

We never noticed the Shadow was standing behind us until it spoke up. "I saw Caleb was distraught so I took action." Our attention was drawn to him.

"Who are you?" Caleb questioned.

"I'm you. I'm your compassion. The will to protect those you care for. Your friends and family." As the shadow explained this his color changed from gray to purple.

"What should we call you?" I asked.

"Call me Aegis." He stepped to the roof and set his hand on Caleb's shoulder. He dissolved in to Caleb, taking form of his shadow.

"Well... That's new."

"Yeah. We should head back home. Hopefully we still get paid for our troubles."

We arrived back to our tree after patching up my eye to find the boss waiting for us at the trunk. "You two look like shit. What happened to your eye?" He said gesturing to the gauze tapped to my left eye.

"What do you think. I got cut." I responded, anger apparent in my voice.

"So, where is Torchwick?"

"He was expecting us..." Caleb replied, head down.

"What do mean expecting you?"

"He was prepared for us, like he studied our tactics. I got tased, so Erik saved me. Erik got their attention long enough for me to get out of there. He fought Torchwick, but he proved to be too much for him. So I went back for Erik and got us out of there before anything else could go down." the black haired teen explained.

"So Torchwick caused that?" he gestured to my eye. I nodded. "Well I'm going to need you two alive and kicking so I will pay for your hospital expenses. And don't worry, I will make sure any files they create on you are burned and/or deleted."

"Thank you, sir."

A/N: So I was planning on writing this chapter earlier, but I forgot I had some classes I needed to take care of over this past week. That was my first time writing a fight scene, I hope it wasn't too cringe worthy. Thursday is the new volume of RWBY, HYPE! Oh yeah, one more thing, I might not update this weekend, I will probably be playing Xenoblade Chronicles once it arrives in the mail. So yeah... Well anyways, do the usual and if you have anything you want to say or think I could do to improve the story, review or PM me. BYE!

EDIT: Oh one more thing! If I enjoy Xenoblade Chronicles enough, I may write a Xenoblade FF. Maybe.