I don't own RWBY or For Honor or any of the other works. Did a little bit of editing here and edited the fight scene.
The Snowstorm Viking Part Two
(Third P.O.V.)
After the close call with death by the Benrigel, the man that was dressed up like a Highlander took Barbara back to his campsite, which happened to be nearby.
Right now Barbara is sitting up against a tree as she looked around the small campsite. Barbara saw that the Highlander didn't seem to have a sleeping bag anywhere, but he did have to be what looked like pouches that seem to be full of supplies, but that wasn't the only thing she saw, Barbara also saw that the Highlander had a wide variety of weapons. Barbara saw a big one-bladed axe, a spear, two shields but both of them were of different design, a sword, and two small hatchets. As Barbara saw these weapons, she saw that theses weapons looked familiar, and that was when it came to her.
'These weapons…there all the weapons used by the Viking faction of For Honor…but wait…why does the Highlander have all these weapons? Does he have the other warrior classes from the Viking faction with him?' Barbara question mentally as she was unknown to the Highlander walking towards her.
When the Highlander got to her that was when Barbara finally acknowledge his presence in front of her. He check to see if there were any visible wounds on her, but the physical examination from an older to a young teenage girl made Barbara uncomfortable. He first checked her arms and legs and saw that there were only some bruises, cuts, and scratches, then moved on to her body, but when he tried lifting up her shirt, that was when Barbara decided to end it.
"Hey stop that!" Barbara yelled at the man as she hit his hands away, but winced in pain, as her body is still damage by the Benrigel.
The Highlander looked at Barbara confusingly too see if there was anything wrong, but just shrugged it off in the end and tried to lift her shirt again, but it ended with the same thing that happen the first time.
"Hey, I just said stop!" Barbara said as she tried to swat the man's hands away, but instead of the same results, the Highlander grabbed them.
"QUIET!" The Highlander growled loudly as he spoke for the first time since their encounter with each other.
Barbara was a bit surprise to hear the voice of the Highlander for the first time. The Highlander's voice sounded really gruff, very frightening and intimidating as hell, and pretty deep too. The voice of the veteran warrior almost scared her and at the same time made her nervous at what the old warrior would do to her later.
The Highlander lifted up her shirt so that it only revealed her stomach area and fortunately for Barbara, he didn't go up any further to Barbara pronounced chest.
He looked at it for a bit before he went and touched her stomach and once he did, it sent a chill up Barbara's spine as the Highlander slowly pressed his hand in one spot to another on her belly. During that time, Barbara would wince in pain due to the Highlander pressing his fingers on specific spots on her stomach.
After a few more pressure points, the Highlander stopped and went to his bags as if he has found what he was looking for after his examination of Barbara's current physical state.
The Highlander rummages through his bags for a few minutes before he went back to Barbara.
Barbara saw the things he was carrying towards her. The things that he was carrying were bandages, a small bottle with a brown label on it, cotton balls, and another bottle with a green label on it.
Barbara immediately knew that this stuff must be from the Highlanders first aid kit and she was pretty sure that the bottle with the brown label was somehow hydrogen peroxide.
When he got to Barbara, Barbara just let the man do his thing as she thought that the Highlander knew what he was doing.
The Highlander wrapped bandages around her arms, legs and abdomen after using the green label bottle which turned out to be rubbing alcohol on her, but when it came to the various bruises and cuts on her, the Highlander used the brown label bottle of them and like what Barbara guessed, the brown label bottle was hydrogen peroxide, so when the Highlander poured the contents of the bottle on her cuts and bruises, they immediately stung her.
After the Highlander finished bandaging her up, he then got up and went back to his bags on the other side of the campfire and looked through the various bags for something.
Eventually the Highlander took out two turkey legs from one of his bags and took out some seasoning as well.
He then laid down two small leaf wrappings on the ground and placed a turkey leg on each of them. He then started spreading the seasoning on the turkey legs, Once the he was done seasoning the turkey legs, the Highlander went back to his bag and brought out a couple strips of raw bacon and started wrapping them around the turkey legs. Once they were wrapped in bacon, the Highlander then started wrapping the leaf around the turkey legs until they were both completely wrapped in a layer of bacon and leaf. Then the Highlander got two sticks and tied the turkey legs to them and set them at the fire.
As the turkey legs cooked at the fire, the two people just sat at the their respective spots.
The two of them stayed like that for a couple of minutes before the silence was broken by one of them.
"What is your name?" Asked the Highlander.
Barbara was a bit taken back by the question, but she stilled herself strong despite the minor trauma she still going through with the Benrigel.
"B-Barbara…Barbara Stormur." Barbara answered.
When Barbara answered the Highlander only gave out a small grunt, then went back to watching the turkey legs cook.
After a while the turkey legs were done cooking. The Highlander took both turkey legs and unwrapped them, then handed one of them to Barbara.
At first Barbara was hesitant about taking the leg, but after hours of walking the cold night when she first got here, so she became a bit puckish from walking her barefooted journey in the forest. So in the end she took the turkey leg and started chowing down on it, the same can be said for the Highlander for he went back to his spot on his little campsite and started eating his turkey leg.
But after a couple of minutes, Barbara uttered a question.
"Umm…what's your name?" Barbara said a bit weakly.
The Highlander stopped eating his meal and looked at her for a moment before giving his answer.
"My name is Gunther." He said plainly.
Barbara looked at him confusingly. "Is that it? No last name?" She asked.
"Gunther is fine for now, so DON"T ASKED ANYMORE QUESTIONS!" He shouted at her making Barbara stop asking about him.
'Okay but you didn't have to yell.' She thought.
After a while the two of them finish their turkey legs. The Highlander now known as Gunther just threw his meatless turkey leg into the campfire, while Barbara didn't know what to do with it at first, so she decided to throw it into the woods. But after the meal, Barbara began to feel tired. Barbara started to lose energy seeing as she stayed late at night, got transported to an unknown land, walked for hours wearing little clothing, and the fact that she was almost killed drain a lot of energy out of her, so she ended up drifting into slumber.
When Barbara went to sleep a few minutes passed and after a few minutes, a mysterious figure landed in the campsite and turned to face Gunther. Gunther was still awake after Barbara went to sleep and show no surprise at the mysterious figures arrival for Gunther had expected this.
"You know what to do…so get to it." Gunther commanded the mysterious figure.
The mysterious figure nodded and went down to Barbara's side and took out a box that contains many needles inside of it. The mysterious figure started puncturing those needles into various places to help heal Barbara, but before it did the figure quickly did pressure points on three specific locations. The reason for doing that was to cut off the nerves to the brain so as to when the mysterious figure started applying the needles into Barbara, the nerves won't be able to respond to it making the mysterious figure job easier so that Barbara won't suddenly wake after having the first needle on her.
Gunther looked at the sleeping form of Barbara for a couple of minutes before he decided to get up and walk over to her. When Gunther got to her, he took off his fur cape and draped over Barbara providing the young girl with warmth. After that, Gunther went back to the tree he was sitting at.
When Gunther sat down, he looked over at Barbara watching ever second as she slept while the mysterious figure went to work on mending her ribs.
'So…my time has finally come.' Gunther thought as he slowly drifted into slumber.
(Next Morning)
When morning came, Barbara slowly opened her eyes as she saw sunlight coming through the trees, but as she was waking up she felt something on her. Barbara looked down and saw a fur cape was draped over her.
Barbara looked at the cape and knew who it belonged too as there was only one person that was with her in the campsite that could've done this.
Barbara looked around and saw Gunther rummaging through his bags for something. Barbara got up while holding onto the fur cape and went over to Gunther
"Here" Gunther said as he handed Barbara an article of clothes.
Barbara looked at the clothes Gunther had given her. The clothes were a pair of winter boots, which seemed unnecessary for the current climate they were in, a beige fur vest, a pair of brown pants, a belt with a gold color buckle, a pair of leather pauldrens and leather arm guards.
"Um…thanks." She said.
"You're welcome, now get changed, you need to ready for what's next."
"Wait, what's next?"
"I'll tell you after you get change, SO NOW GO CHANGE!" Gunther commanded loudly making Barbara become scared of him.
"Alright, alright I'm going, I'm going." She said as she quickly walked off into the forest.
After walking for a few minutes, Barbara able to find a nice spot for her to change. Once she set everything down, that was when she started to change. But as Barbara changed, she just couldn't help but think about Gunther.
'Seriously what is up with that guy? He basically yells at me whenever he wants me to do something. I just met him last night and he was decent then, even though he yelled at me to just sleep but now he's making it sound like I'm some sort of soldier of his.' Barbara thought as she remember what few moments she had with Gunther even though their meeting with each other was not to long ago. 'But still…I feel strange…I should still be in pain, but my body feels better somehow…I don't know what happen but it feels like my ribs are put together…okay now that's just ridiculous there's no way my ribs can be healed after last night.'
After a few minutes, Barbara got back to the campsite with her new attire, but when she got back she saw that Gunther was looking over the weapons he had with him.
Gunther turned and saw Barbara standing there in her new look, but only gave a grunt as a response to the girl and went back to looking at the weapons.
"Ummm…what are you doing?" Barbara asked as she was curious why he was looking over the weapons.
"What does it look like I'm doing girl? I'm looking for a proper weapon for you." He answered indigently as Barbara took up a surprised face.
"W-why?" She asked.
"Because today is the day we begin your training."
'Training…wait what training? We only met each other last night and now he suddenly wants to train me? What's with this guy?' These were the question currently running through Barbara's head when Gunther said she would be beginning her training.
"Um…what training are you talking about?"
"By the irons of my sword! Are you that stupid or you take me for a senile old man!" Gunther roared at her making her take a step back.
"The way I see it girl, you're currently stuck with me, and I have somewhere I need to be, but I ain't gonna waste my time babysitting a weak and scared shitless girl like you." He said turning to look at Barbara as she gave him an angry glare, but Gunther just brushed it off.
"Hey I have a name you know and you don't have to say that!"
"Oh…does it look like I give a damn girl, if not then shut your mouth while I find you a weapon." He said as he went back to
After a few minutes of looking over the weapons, Gunther finally came back and handed a sword and shield to Barbara.
Barbara took the weapons presented to her and looked at them.
'The sword and shield combination?' Barbara thought. 'Isn't this the weapon set of the Warlord?'
Barbara gave the sword in her hand a few practice swings to test it out a bit.
'Okay a bit heavy, but I can manage and the shield seems to have good balance from what I can tell, but why would Gunther give me this instead of the other weapons?'
"Ummmmm…"
"What?" Gunther growled as he saw that Barbara looked unsure of something.
"Why?" that was Barbara's answer.
"Why what?"
"Why did you give me this instead of the other weapons?" Barbara asked, as she wanted to know that out of all the other weapons, Gunther just gave her the old fashion sword and shield combo instead.
When Barbara asked the question, Gunther looked at her blankly before saying.
"The reason is simple girl, YOU ARE WEAK!" He said as if the answer was obvious in the first place.
"WHAT!?"
You don't posses the strength to hold the 'Thane Axe' or the Claymore. I would've given you the hatchets, but I get the feeling that you would just be swinging them around like a baby in a tantrum, and as for me not giving you the spear…well you seem like the type of girl that would rather get close to your enemies to hit them then hitting them from far away." He explained.
"Oh…okay then." Barbara said agreeing with the reason even though he didn't have to say the part of her being weak.
"And not only that, but also I can see that just by looking at you that you have some combat skills, but I don't know the full extent of that, so I figure that it would be best that I give you a simple sword and shield, something that can be used for a weakling like you." Gunther continued his explanation, which brought more hate to him from Barbara.
Gunther walked a few feet away from Barbara and got himself into a battle stance.
"Alright then, READY YOURSELF GIRL!" Gunther shouted at her and then rushed at her.
Barbara barely had anytime to react as Gunther was literally charging right at her, so Barbara quickly lifted the shield in front of her to block the incoming attack.
'CRASH!'
Barbara's was slammed to the ground due to the force of Gunther's swing. Even though Barbara blocked the strike with the shield, the force of the attack still pushed her down.
Barbara got herself back up, with pain rushing through her whole body, also it didn't help with the fact that she was attack by a Benrigel last night, so her body was still in recovery.
"Grrr…WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Barbara shouted at the man.
When Barbara looked at him, she saw that he was still wearing the face he made when this so called training of hers started.
"I told you to 'ready yourself, so now lets try that again girl…PREPARE YOURSELF!" Gunther roared again and charge at Barbara.
'Oh fuck he's trying to kill me.' Barbara mentally thought as Gunther charged at her, but this Barbara was ready, so instead of blocking the strike like earlier, she instead just dodges the attacks every time they came at her.
And that was how Barbara's training by the Highlander known as Gunther began.
So after that, the next few days have been about Gunther training Barbara on how to use a sword and her shield proficiently, but it always ended with Barbara getting badly beaten in the end. The training that Barbara was given was harsh to say at least. Every strike that Gunther dealt to her held a lot of strength and power behind it, so much power that she was pushed down no matter how hard she stood her ground when she blocked it.
The two of them trained when they took a break in their travel to who knows where. Barbara has been attempting to get the information on where they are going but Gunther just yelled at her to just shut up or got her to stop by stomping on her foot. Barbara found Gunther to be a terrible companion which was not a hard guess, but couldn't argue about it because right now Gunther is her best bet at survival and she didn't want to take her chances on her own since that didn't go well the first time.
But during her journey with the man, she found that he had some books on him, so at night or after their training sessions, Barbara would read a book to expand her knowledge of the world. Barbara figured that this place was Remnant from the popular show 'RWBY' but still Barbara at least wanted something to do than besides thinking on how much she hated Gunther for her rough treatment of her and some sort of confirmation that this place is Remnant.
At first Gunther didn't want her going through his stuff, but after a short argument in which Barbara mange to win at, Gunther relented to Barbara's wish allowing Barbara to read the books he had on him.
Unfortunately for Barbara, the books she had read were all about battle tactics and strategies. But there was one book that held some valuable knowledge that Barbara could use. But the book that Barbara found looked worn out, but when she opened it she found that this book held information on different types of Grimm.
Barbara read through the book soaking in the information held in it. As she read she saw information on Grimm she knew of already when she watched the show.
But even though she knew some of the Grimm, there were some that were unknown to her.
"Whiplash" Barbara said as she read a page on some sort deformed Grimm with tentacle like appendages, small feet, a round faced skull mask making it look like a mix of a octopus and a frog though Barbara couldn't really tell what to make of it.
"Whiplashes" Barbara read again before continuing. "5ft tall when standing on their legs. They use their whip like appendages to grab on to their prey and drag them away to be killed. They move around by curling in a ball and roll around for they appear to only use their legs for standing."
"They have been shown to use some form of battle tactic in lessening the numbers of their prey, for when they fight a group of enemies they constantly move around until they find an opening in their opponents blind spot and when they do, they immediately latch onto them and drag them away." Barbara said as she kept on reading about the Whiplash Grimm.
Barbara already started to have scary thoughts about this new Grimm that she had never heard of before. She wonder on what would happen if she were to encounter such a thing and what might happen to her if she got dragged away by them. The though of it send chills down her spine of the possibilities.
But after she read for a few more minutes of the Grimm biography as she began to call it, she closed the book for the day as she heard Gunther yelled out to her meaning to Barbara that he was either going to continue her training or he was just going to insult her more on how weak and pathetic she is.
As a few more days went by, Barbara was getting more better with her weapon even though Gunther told her that she still couldn't do shit with it as she couldn't land a single decent hit on him during training only managing to make a cut on his side. To Gunther that was a terrible strike, but to Barbara that was a sign of improvement as she finally manage to lay a hit on the old man. All the other time she tried landing a hit on him failed as he always blocked it and she ended up getting hit in the gut every single time.
Barbara hated the treatment she was getting of course, but she was a strong girl so she endured the pain of the training and treatment of the old war veteran.
A week has passed since Barbara arrived here on Remnant and the duo continued to walk on their journey, but unfortunately for them their journey would take a different turn for things.
One day during their journey on the dirt road with trees on both sides of it, the duo was walking at a regular pace that a person on a morning walk would take. The two of them kept walking until Gunther stopped in his tracks. Barbara stopped as well and looked at the old warrior.
"Why are we stopping? Is it break time again?" She asked.
Gunther didn't say a thing as he looked toward the sky and narrowed his eyes. Barbara followed his line of sight and saw what he was looking at. What Barbara saw gave her a surprised face as she saw smoke in the air and the smoke was creating a trail in the sky.
So without a second thought, Gunther immediately ran to the source of the smoke trail.
"H-hey wait!" Barbara soon followed the man.
The two of them ran to the source of the smoke and when they finally got to the source, Barbara found herself shock at the sight before her.
What Barbara saw was a near destroyed village with some houses burning and others destroyed completely all along with wreck wagons, barrels, stalls, and of course dead bodies that littered the ground.
But this sight brought no surprise to Gunther as he just walked into the village with a frown and seconds later Barbara followed.
The two of them trudge through the bodies and the debris of destroyed objects. The two of them kept walking through while at the same time looking for any signs of life in the area, but found no such luck. That is until they heard some footsteps.
When the two of them heard the footsteps, they followed to where it was. The two of walked towards the source of it and found people walking towards a big building that surprisingly was still standing with only a little structural damage to it.
'This building…by the looks of this and the others I'll say that this must be the mayors office.' Barbara guessed.
The two walked towards the building and saw that there were two people at the front of it with weapons of different design.
'Huntsmen' Barbara thought as she figured that these people must be Huntsmen and Huntresses as the two people in front stood there at the ready for anything.
The first one was a man who seemed to be in his late forties is wearing rugged jeans and a maroon shirt as well as a dark red jacket holding a lance, he also has red eyes while the other person is a woman who seemed to be in her early thirties was wearing shorts, a brown cloak, light brown shirt, with chocolate colored eyes and was holding a rifle.
Gunther approached the man with the lance.
"What's going on here?" Gunther asked.
The man was taken back by Gunther's commanding voice and giant frame, but when he looked up and saw Gunther's face, the man reeled back in recognition as if he knew whom Gunther was.
"I said WHAT'S GOING ON HERE" Gunther growled at the man.
The man stuttered before answering.
"Uh…um…th-there was a bandit attack just recently." He answered. "B-but because of the attack the Grimm are coming. We can't fight them off, we lost many of our Huntsmen in the bandit raid."
"Then why is everyone going inside the Mayor's office?" Gunther asked.
"T-to evacuate the village." He answered. "When the this village was created, the Mayor saw it fit to have an escape tunnel if the village were ever to be overrun by Grimm."
When the man was finished another man came running towards him.
"Justin! Justin!" The newcomer cried out. "What the? Brass? What are you doing here?" The man now identified as Justin asked the man he called Brass.
"The Grimm." 'Gasped for air' "They're coming." He said.
"What!? But the traps, the traps the scouts have made should've held them back and what about those gun emplacements we have? What happen to them?"
"Destroyed. The Grimm has managed to get through them; they'll be here any minute. We have to leave." Brass said.
"But we can't leave yet, everyone hasn't made it to the escape tunnels yet."
"Well what can we do? We can't fight them off we're out numbered."
"NO" An intimidating voice said making the two men looked towards Gunther. The Man named Brass took a step back when he saw Gunther and immediately recognized the man.
"Y-you…you're him…w-why are you here?" Brass asked hesitantly in fear, but Gunther ignored him and continued on.
"The problem isn't only in numbers, but also the fact that you're AFRAID!" Gunther said with anger in his voice for some reason.
"If you're all to scared, then run away like cowards, I will stay here and stall the Grimm."
"Wait what?" Barbara asked but was ignored.
Gunther turned towards Barbara. "Girl…go with these cowards and make sure they stay safe." He said.
"What?"
"I said GOOO! I DO NOT LIKE TO REPEAT MYSELF!" He said with a loud growl.
"B-but-" Barbara tried to say something, but was immediately grabbed by Gunther and lifted into the air.
"When I say go…YOU GO!" Gunther said as he threw Barbara to the two men, the force of the throw knocked both men down to the ground. The three people on the ground looked up to see Gunther standing over them.
"Take the girl with you, I hold off the Grimm." And with that Gunther turned around and left leaving the three there.
Without another word, Justin and Brass got up and grabbed Barbara by the arms and dragged her towards the Mayor's office.
"Wait what are doing?" She asked.
"Getting you to safety what does it look like?" Brass said.
"But what about Gunther?"
"Trust me kid…you don't want to be associated with him. That man is more of a danger than the Grimm." Justin said.
While Barbara was being dragged away, Gunther walked through the destroyed village, but as he walked, he heard a distinct howl in the distance. Gunther knew that the Grimm were as that howl was a sign for it. So Gunther kept walking until he was at the entrance of the village.
During the travel, it was Gunther who basically carried everything even the weapons, so when Gunther got to the entrance of the village, he put his bags down while still only carrying all the weapons he brought with him on his back except the sword and shield that he left with Barbara.
With everything set and done, Gunther waited for the Grimm to come.
After a few minutes the Grimm finally arrived. The Grimm consisted of many different types of them. There were Beowolves, Ursas, Creepers, and Benrigels in the horde of monsters.
Gunther showed no fear in front of the adversary in front of him but only smirked at the sight before him.
"Is this all of you…I am greatly disappointed. Well no matter you're all going to die anyway." And with that said Gunther held his claymore with his right hand while his left hand pulled the axe from his back. Gunther shook both weapons and when that happened both weapons and Gunther's fur cape and metal headband started to glow in a whitish blue light as it turned out that both the weapons and Gunther cape and headband were infused with ice Dust the whole time and at the next moment the cape, headband and weapons had ice sprout from them. With ice all around Gunther, it made the old warrior looked like a menacing ice monster that was born from the harshest of cold weather.
And with that, Gunther charged into battle while giving out a battle cry.
(Escape tunnels)
The people of the village were walking through the escape tunnels. Barbara was amongst them walking along side Brass and Justin. The three said nothing as they kept walking.
But as they kept walking, Barbara suddenly stopped in her tracks. Both Justin and Brass stop as well and looked at Barbara.
"What's the matter?" Justin asked.
Barbara looked down, she looked a few minutes before she gritted her teeth and shook her head before she turned around and walked the other way.
"Whoa whoa…hey where do you think you're going?" Brass asks as he got in front of her.
"I'm going back." She said as Justin and Brass took on a shocked face.
"But you can't it's too dangerous to go back."
"I don't care I'm going back anyway to help Gunther." She said.
"Kid going back is dangerous not with the Grimm back there but that man also is dangerous I mean do you even know who he is?" Brass asked.
"Yeah I know who he is…he's the man that saved my fucking life when I got here and has treated me like crap ever since."
"Okay but if he treated you like crap then why would you want to go back to help him?" Justin asked this time.
Barbara thought about it for a moment. It's true…why should she go back and help a man that has treated her badly for the last week and the half. Gunther treated her terribly, but then again…Barbara felt some sort of connection to the man, but what was the connection she asked herself.
(Flash Back)
"Aaaahhhh!" Barbara screamed as she was hurled towards the ground for like the fifth time during training today.
Barbara looked back up at Gunther who had nothing but an angered look on his face.
"How many times must you fall to learn on how to deal a good hit!? You're worthless, if I left you right now you'll just die as nothing but as the shit you are!" He shouted to her.
This agitated Barbara as she tried her best to throw her best heavy attack on him only for it to be block and her being grabbed again. So Barbara got up to try again.
(Flash Back End, Barbara's thought while Gunther is fighting.)
'Why would I even think of helping him?' She asked herself.
While this was happening, Gunther cleaved another Grimm in half, he then thrusted his claymore forward into an Ursa's chest lifting it up in the process and then pinning it into the ground.
He then held his axe with both hands and did a right swing at an incoming Creeper knocking it away just in time to block an attack from a Beowolf. Gunther then pushed the Beowolf off and hit it with the flat side of his axe forcing the Grimm to spin around, after the spin with the Beowolf's back towards Gunther. Before the Beowolf could move, Gunther put the handle of his axe against the Beowolf's throat and proceeded to choking it until the sound of the Beowolf's spinal cord was heard breaking.
'He may have saved my life, but he treated me like a slave that was being trained for battle.'
Gunther after killing the Beowolf, then proceeded to backhand an incoming Benrigel. The hit disoriented the beast and that gave Gunther enough time to drop his axe and grab the shield on his back with his left hand, he then did an upper-cut the Benrigel's jaw making it go into the air for a bit before falling to the ground. Once it was down on the ground, Gunther got on top of it and proceeded to bash it head with his right fist and the shield on his left hand with both great strength and ferocity until the entire head was caved in.
'He practically broke my bones everyday.'
Gunther was suddenly thrown away from the dead Benrigel as another one attacked him from the side. Gunther ended up on his back as the Benrigel jumped on top of him and started bashing him.
But as the Benrigel was bashing him, Gunther grabbed both hatchets that were at his sides and quickly stuck both of them into the Benrigel's side forcing the beast off of him. Gunther got up with some bad bruises here and there on his body, but that didn't stop him from grabbing the Benrigel's head and did four hard head butts against it as it both broke the Grimm's bone mask and head.
'Anyone in their right mind wouldn't help him if they went through everything I went.'
Gunther then grabbed both of his hatchets from the dead Grimm and quickly threw both of them at two incoming Beowolves. The hatchets struck both Grimms head killing them, but other Grimm were coming in, so Gunther took out the spear and ran right towards the Grimm as he one by one stabbed the spear through each Grimm that came his way as he basically shish cabob them.
(Back with Barbara)
After thinking, Barbara couldn't find any answer to her question, but she knew that she needed to out there helping Gunther, so she tried to go back but was stopped by Brass and Justin again. Feeling that she wasted enough time here, Barbara did the next thing that came to mind. Barbara immediately punched both Justin and Brass as hard as she could and ended up knocking both men to the ground.
When both of them recovered from Barbara's unexpected action, the two of them looked to Barbara's retreating figure.
But before she vanish in the darkness of the tunnel, Barbara looked back and said something that sent a chill down their spines despite them being experience warriors.
"When I said that I'm leaving, then I'M LEAVING!" She shouted at the two men before turning around and walking away.
(Back with Gunther)
As the more Grimm started to come, Gunther stood on one knee as he was becoming exhausted from the fight. The man right now was holding on to his claymore and axe after he went to retrieve them from earlier, but even with his weapons the veteran wasn't going to last much longer in this fight, but that was okay, for the old warhorse didn't plan on coming out of this battle alive for he knew that he wasn't going come out of this alive to begin, but still even if he died then he'll at least die knowing that the people would have made it to safety through the tunnels along with the girl he brought and that this will be his last great battle in the world.
Gunther knew that his treatment of her was harsh and unforgiving, but still it made her strong in the end and that at least he'll know that she won't die anytime because of his treatment to her. And because of that, it brought a small smile to his face.
But the Grimm kept advancing forward; ready to finish off the old warrior, but once they got close something rolled right in front of them. The Grimm looked down to see what the object was and what they saw should've made any persons eyes widen, but for the Grimm…they didn't understand until it was too late.
What rolled in front of the Grimm was one of Gunther's incendiary grenades, when the grenade rolled right in front of the Grimm it exploded killing the ones closes to it and burning the ones near the blast radius. The Grimm was forced to scatter because of the grenade.
Meanwhile Gunther looked at the scene before him mildly surprised at what just happen before he felt a hand on his shoulder. Gunther turned to see who it was and saw that it was Barbara.
"I told you TO LEAVE!" Gunther yelled at her, but what he got in return surprised him.
"Ooohhh SHUT THE FUCK UP OLD MAN!" Barbara yelled at him at the top of her lungs surprising the old veteran.
"I don't give a DAMN on what you want me to do…all I know is that you're a retarded old man who thinks he's able to take on an entire horde of monsters!"
"Well let me tell you this Gunther, you're not fighting this battle alone and if you want me to leave then you'll have to FUCKING MAKE ME!"
Gunther looked at her in surprise before revealing to her a smile.
"Well… it's about time to stood up for yourself girl. But just so you know we may not make it out of this alive." He said.
"Humph…that's okay I didn't have anything planned for tomorrow, so why the hell not." Barbara said as she got herself into a combat stance.
After that, the Grimm began to regain their focus and now turned their attention back to their prey along with the new one that decided to join in.
"Remember girl, a great warrior never rushes into battle recklessly."
"Well that's pretty hypocritical for you to say as you rushed into battle after I left."
"True…but that only counts for warriors with hard heads…and I say that the both of us have pretty strong heads." And with that said the Grimm charged right at them while the duo did the same.
Too many, this battle would be one-sided, but to the shock of many if they were any present at all, the side that is winning will have the mouths of a hundred people hanging open.
When the duo came into contact with the Grimm, Gunther activated the dust embedded inside of his axe and claymore and unleashed another deadly series of heavy blows of his ice infused weaponry. He slashed the first Beowolf that came into range of his attack, cutting it in half; he then raised his axe in his left hand above his head and brought it down on an Ursa Major. The axe became stuck in place in the Usra Major's right shoulder, but at the same time the ice dust in the axe began to freeze the shoulder of the Ursa Major. Before the Ursa Major could do anything, Gunther swung his claymore at the Ursa's body getting it stuck in place as well, but when that happened, Gunther gripped both handles tight and tugged the Ursa Major towards him and the next thing that happen was that Gunther performed a hard kick to the Grimm's chest, breaking the bone armor that was covering it and the force of the attack cause both weapons to get free of their little prison in the Grimm's flesh.
With both weapons free, Gunther then spun around and used both weapons to bisect the Grimm in two. With the Grimm dead, Gunther then proceeded to spinning around, hitting every Grimm that came into his spin radius. The Grimm were foolish into thinking that they could kill the old warrior veteran and were soon proven that the old warrior's strength was not something to joke about.
Gunther in his spin attack cut down Grimm all around him. The Grimm couldn't fully deal with the powerful blows the old man has with him despite his old age.
Gunther grinned like a battle crazy maniac as he enjoyed the thrill of the battle that he was in. At one point a Benrigel threw a huge chuck of debris at Gunther. Gunther manage to take on the attack, but it made him stagger back a bit, so Gunther threw his axe at the Benrigel. The axe landed right at the ape Grimm's head killing it instantly.
But as Gunther was killing at a fast rate, the same cannot be said for Barbara. Right now Barbara was surrounded with Beowolves and Ursas completely cutting off any chance of escape.
(Play 'It Has To Be This Way' Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Soundtrack)
'Okay Barbara just remember what the old man taught you.' She thought. Even though Barbara is still lacking in swordplay, she at least manage to get the hang of it to be deem a decent fighter at the level of an experience trainee.
As Barbara stood in the middle of the circle, one Beowolf charged at her. It tried swiping its claws down at her, but Barbara blocked it with her shield and swung her sword upward cutting off the left arm of the beast.
The Beowolf staggered back a bit for having its arm suddenly cut off, the moment didn't last long as Barbara then suddenly thrusted her sword into the Beowolf's chest killing it instantly.
With one of the monsters dead a Ursa came in after her and swiping at her from the side, but Barbara side stepped the attack before it hit her and quickly brought her sword down Ursa's head. The attack didn't go through all the way as it became stuck in the head killing the beast, but because of this the other Grimm took advantage of Barbara sudden predicament and charged at her.
When Barbara saw this, she knew she had to find a way to get her sword free, so she used her shield and bashed the head of the Ursa away and quickly turned around and raised her shield to defend herself against a Beowolf.
The force of the attack made Barbara go down a bit, but it didn't make go to the point of her knees touching the ground. Barbara then pushed back up at the monster making it stagger a bit, but before it could recover Barbara then hit it with her shield forcing it back more before she cut it left leg off making the Beowolf fall to the ground, she then finish it off by stabbing her sword to its chest.
So for the next few minutes Barbara did the same thing that she became pretty good at when she trained with Gunther which was basically dodging and blocking and only striking when she found an opening. But the things was that the Grimm were more agile and their attacks were much faster than Gunther's when he trained her, but their attack carried little force in them as even though they were fast in their attacks the strength behind them pale in comparison to Gunther's.
The two of them fought the entire horde of Grimm with adrenaline filled bodies, as when they took an attack, they both felt no pain only more determination and Barbara's newfound excitement in battle. The two of them didn't stop as wound after wound laced their bodies all over as they were both beginning to be covered in not only their blood, but also the blood of the Grimm.
"A hah hahahah…hahahahhahaha!" Barbara started to laugh like crazy as her body was complete filled with the adrenaline, she would have been afraid to fight the Grimm before, but her determination to help the old man that has treat her badly gave the strength to do so, but now…now that Barbara finally got a taste of battle she could help but love every moment of it.
(End Song)
After what felt like hour to the two warriors, they had somehow manage to kill all the Grimm that came with Gunther mostly taking on the more powerful Grimm like the Benrigels and the Majors while Barbara took on the more common low standing Grimm that didn't even reach the level of a major yet.
Once all the Grimm were dead, the adrenaline inside both of them finally wore off and the two started to feel the pain from the wounds arise, but it felt worse to Barbara as she never felt this much pain before in her life, but to Gunther the pain was nothing new.
But even though the pain was nothing new to Gunther, he was extremely weaken and exhausted from the battle as he fell to his knees breathing heavily, but he force himself to stand, but when he tried to walk, he suddenly fell over only to be caught in Barbara's arms as she struggled to keep the giant man from falling to the ground with what little energy she had left.
With the help of Barbara, Gunther was able to stand and the two said nothing to each other as they just walked away from the village with nothing more but the weapons on them and what little pouches Gunther had left on him.
(Mt. Gorman)
After a few hours of walking after the battle with the Grimm horde, the two bloody warriors finally arrived at the summit of the mountain, which turned out to be the destination of the two all along. The journey for both of the warriors were relative easy for them as they two of them encountered no Grimm on the way there, most likely due to the two of them killing most if not all the Grimm in the surrounding area.
Barbara was still holding Gunther up as he leaned against her shoulder.
"Okay…this is good…just let me down here." Gunther said as he told Barbara to set him against the wall of the mountain. When she did that, she sat herself right next to him.
The two of them looked off into the distance as the sun was setting over the horizon. The two of them didn't utter a single word as they watched the sun set, but as they watched the sun Gunther reached behind him and pulled out a water sack only the difference is that this water sack was filled with ale instead of water.
Gunther took a couple of gulps from it before he passed it to Barbara who took it and started gulping down the rest of the contents. Although that this is the first time Barbara had ever tasted alcohol, she didn't choke on the taste of it as her mind was too focused on the scenery and the event that had just taken pace earlier.
As the two just sat there in their silence, that was when Gunther decided to end it.
"Barbara." Gunther called out to her. Barbara turned her head towards him in surprise, as this was the first time he had called her by her actual name instead of girl.
"I didn't plan on telling you this… but I'll tell you anyway." He said as he stared off at the sunset. "The reason why I've an ass to you is that I had to prepare you for the world."
"We both know that the world is a great place to live in, but at the same time it also houses many dangers. Dangers that will no doubt eat people alive. So that was why I've been so hard on you since we met."
"But then again I probably treated you like that because of the way I've been treated in the past." He said, as Barbara did nothing but listen to the old warrior despite the pain she was still in after the battle.
"Ever since I was born, I had to deal with the shit my family and I had to face because of some humans who did nothing more but walk over us like we were nothing."
'Sign'
"I've spent my whole life taking shit from humans and it wasn't easy for me or my family or even my own kind. Like many of my kind I had to learn things the hard way in order to get by in life, and it was easy as I was always picked on because of my size either…after so many years of struggle under the foot of humans who did nothing more but treat me and my family like slaves and I got tired of it."
"So I made it so that I will not let others stand above me…for I will stand above them and show them they aren't great, that they aren't the best in the world, for they needed to be shown how weak they are when they are pulled down from their pedestal. And if someone wanted me to respect them, then they must earn it because I don't give respect to people who don't deserve, I already done that for the arrogant rich ass of humans in my life."
"In this world you need guts, blood, and will to survive and hardly anyone has that these days, in order to live people must rise to the challenge in order to continue on living to see the next day." Gunther said as he turned his head to look at Barbara for the first time.
"But now the people no longer have such will to fight, the world is dangerous so people like us must be strong where everyone else has gotten weak. We must be their muscle and strength when they are afraid to stand. Of course there are warriors out there, but those warriors are cowards…they fight Grimm and end their lives, but they refused to do the same to others."
"I've seen it first hand on how dangerous a person can be than a Grimm, for they can cause more death and destruction than the Grimm can any day, so in order to maintain this peace that the people live in, people like us must be willing to get our hands dirty to get the job done. People may not agree with this method, but it brings results that can last for years instead of months."
"These Huntsmen and Huntresses…they truly believe that they are this world's protector, they truly believe that they are strong but the truth is that they aren't. For they didn't face true struggle in battle, for this peace has made them forget what it met to have strength, it made them forget the glory of victory of battle it has brought them and more importantly-"
As Gunther talked, Barbara was still listening intently but his next words brought surprise to her.
"They have forgot what it meant…to truly FEAR DEATH."
When he said that last part it brought a great deal of silence to them, but Gunther soon broke silence again.
"So Barbara…my time may be at its end, but yours isn't. Walked this world with unchallenged strength, let no one walk over or stand above you in life. Show this world what it truly means to have strength and remind them what it takes to have it by facing death and conquering it."
Gunther then reached behind him and took something out of one of his pouches. When Barbara saw it, she saw that the object that Gunther took out was a circular metal object with some rough edges on it along with some of it pieces chipped off. But what was at the center of the object was what drew Barbara's attention.
What was at the center of the object was a strange arrow like shaped symbol that was above two birds that were faced away from each other and looked as if they were on top of some sort of branch.
Barbara seemed to recognize this and after a moment did it hit her.
'The symbol of the Warborn Barbara thought as she saw the symbol of the Viking faction of For Honor on the small metal object.
Gunther grabbed Barbara's hand and clasps the metal circle into her hand.
"This talisman will help you on your journey Barbara. Make your mark on this world as a symbol of strength, like I have made my mark and for that no ones challenges me, so do the same for yourself." Gunther said as he let go of Barbara's hand. "Live your life with Honor Barbara and when your time comes... die with Glory."
Barbara looked at the metal circle in her hand inspecting it before she looked back at Gunther giving him a nod of confirmation to his words.
Gunther too nodded before closing his eyes.
"Make sure she gets to the fortress Shadow."
"What?" Barbara said confused by his, but before she could ask any further she was immediately knocked out by a hit to the head.
When Gunther opened his eyes, he saw the same figure covered in dark clothing from top to bottom with only a visor covering the figures eyes from the other night in front of him again.
Gunther looked at the figure for a moment before saying. "Make sure she gets there safely Shadow for she has many great battles to fight." The mysterious figure nodded to Gunther's words then picked up Barbara and threw her over its shoulder. After that, Gunther slowly got up, grabbed his sword and slowly walked towards the edge of the cliff. When he got to the edge, Gunther raised his sword up high and then stabbed it into the ground as he let out a massive war cry that echoed throughout out the land.
"Rrrrrrwwwwoooooaaaarrrrr!"
With his last war cry out into the world, the man known as Gunther the Warmonger the man known as the most strongest faunas known to Remnant slowly went down to his knees as he kept his hold on his sword, but the moment his knees touched the ground, his eyes started to close and when they finally closed what remained on the veteran's face was a satisfied smile as he finally succumbed to his wounds from the battle earlier, but even though he is be gone from this world, at least he left someone worthy to carry on his mantle.
A/N
Hello everybody to the fourth installment of For Honor: We Stand United.
Well we got to see how Barbara interacted with the Highlander, but it was sad to see him go, but still Gunther went out after facing his last great battle.
Also if anyone can guess where I got those words that Gunther said to Barbara before he let go of the talisman than they'll get a shout out in my next chapter.
Now all that is left is Miki Kokuren, as she will meet a warrior from the Samurai faction…okay you know what screw it.
All right everyone due to popular demand from the reviews, Miki Kokuren will meet the Nobushi in her showcase in her arrival in Remnant.
And after Miki's installment with the Nobushi, the story will finally take place on the video gamers from Earth as they go from the best gamers of a warrior game to the best warrior of a monster infested world known as Remnant when they become the Wolves of Remnant. (Which honestly sounds like a better title for the story)
Also on another note, the reviews I'm been getting were suggestions on who you wanted my OCs to meet as I said to you all in my last chapters, but I never said on what warrior class my OCs will be trained in.
So basically next up is Miki coming to Remnant, but how will she end up in Remnant? Will she accidentally press a button like what Darren did or will she accept a challenge request from a rival of hers that she receives out of the blue like Barbara?
Also people I won't be updating for a while since I have to study for the SAT's soon.
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I want you guys to leave suggestion on what kind of semblance do you guys want my OCs to have.
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