Chapter 7: My Way
I'm alive! I want to apologize for the long wait this was way overdue for an update, so with the apology over I have to announcement to you all; that several new fics are coming your way very soon a handle full of them involving Naruko, so keep your eyes peeled kay! Also to those who are tired of watching our protagonist getting her ass kicked, then this chapter is for you.
Disclaimer can be found in the first chapter
Her breathes were even as she looked down the scope of the rifle in her hands, in her sights were a brunette and a strawberry blond. Shifting slightly she lined up her reticule with the fleeing blonde, the small red dot locking on to the girls shoulder. With a shutter breathe the woman squeezed the trigger an ever so gentle movement. And with a loud crack the fire dust round exploded from the barrel as the copper colored bullet screamed through the air. Traveling the distance ever so quickly, ever so accurately and like a flower in spring a plume of fire bloomed from the fox faunus's shoulder sending blood splattering, and flesh burning as the faunus was sent to the ground screaming out curses.
With a satisfied sigh the shooter pushed herself from up from her crouched position, gathering the rifle that now lies prone on the lip of the roof. As she stood to full height she dusted off the pebbles clinging to her blood red armor and black boots, a with a flick of her wrist a scroll seemingly out of thin air appeared in her hands.
"Hello, I would like to report a terrorist attack." She walked as she spoke moving with a dangerous grace only stopping for a moment to gather a fiendish white mask, its shape and structure similar to that a Nevermore, "Yes, in Kuchinashi."
Winter was slightly stunned by the strawberry blonde faunus, who was struggling to rise to her feet. The girl's knees shook and wobbled as she stood up on unsteady legs, her right arm hung limply to her side as rivers of blood dripped from her fingers, her left hand firmly grasping her shoulder as she glared daggers at Winter. Her eyes fading black and blue, her whiskers thickening and ripping open with rage, nails sharpening into claws and teeth pointing into fangs, all the while a low growl slipped past her lips. Winter took in all these subtle change with an even curious gaze, 'This must be her semblance activating, but I wonder what took her so long to activate it.'
Yet Winter was unprepared for what happened next, before the snow-haired commander could react the fox – faunus was upon her, with her foot rocketing towards her face, yet Winter was no slouch with one fluid movement she not only dodged the kick but was able to spawn forth a fire glyph under the kicking blonde. Yet with an extreme show of flexibility Naturo twisted her body in almost unnatural angles. As she quickly applied the remaining fire dust in her system into her hands as she landed which then launched her into a spinning helicopter kick, doing considerable damage to Winter as she was hit several times in the stomach and chest throwing her away from the fiery top that was Naruto, Winter soon found herself skidding across the ground but that was the least of her worries as she was able to catch a glimpse of Naruto rushing towards her. Righting herself Winter was able quickly stand on her feet as she used her rapier to guard against a fire-covered fist of Naruto but she soon needed to go on the defensive as several flaming punches and kicks were thrown her way. After several minutes of forced defense Winter successful acted out her counterattack, slipping her slender arm through Naruto's guard bringing it around her neck as her other arm forced the shorter saber through Naruto's left arm forcing a pained whimper from her lips. And with single an elegant move she hooked her leg behind the knee of Naruto tripping the girl, landing her into a half-nelson hold.
"You are far too young and inexperienced to be challenging me." Hissed Winter into Naruto's fox ears, twisting the blade slightly as she felt Naruto jerk underneath her.
"That's what you think" choked out Naruto as her cheek was firmly pressed into the ground, and left arm skewered by the white maiden above, twisting the blade painfully every time Naruto struggle to rise. After several minutes of twisting an attempted wrestling, Winter shifted her position bringing her knee to rest on the small of Naruto's back and free arm to wrap under the faunus's neck as well as pushing the rapier deeper into her tan arm, inciting a cry from the girl.
"This is the end, surrender."
Gritting her teeth, Naruto looked past Winter gazing out to the destroyed village gate peering into the red eyes that circled the forest line past the village gate. Taking a deep breath she filled her lungs with the soot bathed air and before the Winter could realize what was happening, the girl let lose a mighty roar, so powerful that it distorted the air and sent Winter reeling as she pulled away from Naruto to protect her now ringing an bleeding ears completely discarding her raiper in the process as the sheering sound torn through the village, shattering windows, causing the remaining soldiers and villagers to hit the ground in pain as the furiously scratched to protect their ears.
Yet humans and faunus were not the only creatures to hear the shrill cry, as blood stained grimm rose their heads in attention their ears rotating like satellite dish as flicking and pivoting in a multitude of directions before finally settling towards the center of the village, and like a call to arms they charged running and galloping towards Naruto and Winter, quickly swarming the howling Naruto surrounding her in a protective fashion; two towering Ursas, a battalion Beowolves and a single large hissing Creep circled the pinned girl as they shouted at Winter, whose ears were still ringing from the explosive cry, quickly righting herself Winter found herself stunned by the small pack of grimm that seemingly protected her target. 'I heard rumors that a rare few could control grimm, but this is far more than simple control this is…cooperation.' Mused Winter as she harden her stance for hand to hand combat, frowning Winter began to true evaluate the situation in front of her 'I need to get my weapon but with them surrounding her like that I will not be getti-' her thought interrupted by two lunging beowolves their maws open and arms spread open with the intent to crush, yet with undeterred poise Winter stepped forward into the strike latching the white gloved hands onto the closer's arm and before the creature could retaliate it was slammed into its sibling, they crash tangled their bodies somewhat locking them in place long enough to for the captain to cast a fire glyph under them as they were burned alive eventually turning into nothing more than black smoke,
Yet, Winter was stunned by what happen next, instead of evaporating the cloud of blackened smoke darted towards the downed Uzumaki rushing into her open jaws as she took a deep breath the vapor soon began to pour out her wounds stitching them closed, and removing any scaring that might have been created.
Winter was stunned by this revolation, this girl could not only call on the aid of grimm but could also use their deaths to heal her wounds, gritting her teeth Winter pulled her arms in front of her placing her in a more aggressive stance she need to end this quickly or run the risk of this becoming a battle of attrition.
"You left her!" Shouted out Emerald as scowled at Cinder, "How could you, you said she was your sister!"
Whirling around Cinder stared back at the mocha colored girl, "Why do you care moments ago you were nothing more than a petty thief!"
"I at least have a sense of loyalty; I would not abandon those in need!"
"What do you know of loyalty, you were nothing more than a street rat someone who had no purpose in the world, nothing to stand for until I came along, why I am I even arguing with you, you know nothing of Naruto or me for that matter."
"Your right, I don't know anything, but I do know trust when I see it." And with that said she spun on her heel making her way back towards the village.
"Where are you going?"
"To save your sister"
"You'll die if you go back there."
"I'm willing to take my chances."
"You can't be-" A ear splitting sound soon tore through the air shaking the trees that surrounded the two arguing girls, but they were more shocked by the black and red blurs rocketed past them barely catching their white masks as they darted towards the source of the scream.
"What was that?" Shouted Emerald her weapon drawn and pointed at the grimm running past her.
"That was my sister." Hissed out Cinder as she looked on at the grimm that were rushing towards the now burning village, 'Naruto, why now, what are you hoping to achieve?'
Winter's breathes were uneven, as she huffed from minor exhaustion her once steady stance now had several openings, and looked to be slightly sloppy, her scroll buzzing in her breast pocket indicting she was running low on aura, but that currently the least of her worries as her right forearm had a nasty bite mark in it, her aura prevented the teeth from puncturing her skin but didn't stop the bone from shattering from the pressure, as the arm began to fade from white to hideous blues, purples and greens.
Her attire had also seen better days, both sleeves of her uniform were missing, the tail of her coat was eaten, away her boots had several claw marks within them, her left glove was missing, the gem in her broach was cracked, her face and arms covered in dirt and her hair long since fell from its once proper bun.
Her opponent on the other hand, once bested now stood tall, Naruto who was no longer pinned down by the rapier now stood to her full height, having long since abandoned her clothing now wore nothing more than a pair of black shorts and a slew of bandages around her chest and legs, in a faux attempt to have modesty, her tan arms crossed under her bust as her shatter pipe hung from her lips as the seemly invincible grimm mask sat upon her head off to the side still unmoved. Her wounds closed and healed by the black vapor that now orbits her person.
"I'm impressed." She spoke spitting out the shattered pipe having now inhaled all the dust that was left within it. "You not only survived this long but have killed 13 beowolves, an Ursa all at the same time." Only four beowolves remained, as well as the remaining Ursa and the Creep that has yet leave her side, "Most people would have died by now, but here you are still kicking." Sighed out Naruto as she shook her head in mock disappoint, the black vapor somewhat mocking her movement as it floated around her. "But you did teach a few things, for one I need to get myself a set of weapons, two I need to stop smoking dust because you almost got me with that last move."
Prior to this discussion Winter launched a lightning based glyph at the strawberry blonde, striking her pipe causing the fire dust inside to detonate and explode in her face, the only saving grace was the black grimm vapor circulating around her, as it took the blow instead of her face.
"And finally" a predatory grin seeped its way on her face as she continued to speak, "to always go for the kill." And with that Naruto fists combusted into flames as she focused the residual amounts of dust into her system into her hands, rushing to towards the injured captain with a flurry of blows, land punch after fiery punch into the woman's gut and face quickly eating away at what every aura remained in Winter's system, yet the like a true huntsman Winter still had a few aces up her sleeves, with a stomp of her heel a wide glowing blue glyph appeared underneath them shocking the faunus girl as several beowolves and a single Ursa rose up from the glowing symbol.
The blue beowolves lunged at the girl, yet not missing a beat Naruto threw a fist at the closest beowolf shattering its mask upon contact, as her own beowolves grappled with Winter's as Naruto's Ursa charged Winter's, soon becoming a battle of beast, yet the Creep still stood off to the side observing the combat before it.
Yet instead of reengaging Winter, Naruto jumped back to stand besides the Creep, "are you ready?" spoke Naruto her voice taking a kinder more gentle tone. For the first time since this battle the Creep looked down towards Naruto, as blue stared into red and Winter for a moment believed the two were silently communicating and to prove her thoughts Naruto reached up pulling the Creep's head slightly down and place a kiss on the beast muzzle.
Winter watched in both horror and curiosity, as the grimm's eyes bled black and blue, and it body began to change.
The Creep grew in size, becoming large enough to hover over, its body losing much of its girth sliming to become aerodynamic, gaining substantial length from head to tail easily hitting the fifteen to twenty foot range. Its skull changed substantially its blue eyes sinking into its skull as they shrank in size, gaining a shorter snout, but larger jaws creating a head focused on crushing instead of biting. White plating appeared on both upper and lower jaws creating an armored helmet of sorts, as two upward curved horns appeared along its head, down the length of it spine all the way down to the middle of the tail large horns could be found along the base of the tail, neck and middle of the back these horns easily being the size of Naruto. Its legs grew and longed becoming powerful as plates upon plates of bone armor appeared to protect them from damage. Its feet had four bladed toes for ripping through flesh, it soon developed forelimbs long enough and strong to slash and hold down prey, as four claws sprouted from the hands. Yet what disturbed Winter was this monster's tail, it was curved upward coming to a point, forming what looked like a sword or blade for a tail. And if to emphasize the point the reprilain beast swung its bladed tail forward to its jaw, latching its armored fangs onto the hardened tail, roughly dragging it across its maw producing a grinding metal sound as sparks jumped off the tail and teeth as it sharpened the blade, producing a satisfied ping after completion.
"Tanuru" the bladed grimm leaning its head ever so slightly towards Naruto patiently awaiting her command, "get her, girl." With a mighty roar Tanuru took off her powerful legs moving her across the distance quickly and effectively her bladed tail swinging behind her dangerously. Winter could dash out of the way as she witnessed Tanuru rip up the embed cobble with the stomping of her feet, yet Winter was forced to move again as Tanuru slammed her tail where she once was launching dirt and stone in the air. After several seconds Tanuru removed her tail from the ground leaving behind a crater deep enough to be a makeshift river in the eyes of Winter.
'This monster is strong, unbelievably strong if it hits me once I'm as good as dead.' Quickly surveying her surroundings she saw her rapiers off in the distance directly behind Tanuru. The creature having repositioned herself growled at Winter, then moved at speeds that was astonishing for its size almost metalizing before Winter, yet with cat like reflexes Winter pushed herself off the ground jumping over Tanuru's snapping jaws and began to run along her back, only to be thrown off as she reached the base of Tanuru's tail, yet it was enough to toss her next to her weapons.
Grabbing them she only had enough time to block another tail slam from Tanuru, from an 'X' with her blades as it took all her strength to avoid being smash or slashed by the sword-esque tail that was savagely cutting into her raipers blasting sparks as it grinded into Winter, the pressure soon began to sit-in as the ground began to weaken and crack underneath her. Sweat pooled from Winters brow as she tried to fight back spawning glyph and glyph yet the beast was unaffected by any of it, soon dark spot began to consume the woman's vision as laughing filled her ears.
"Weiss" Whisphered of Winter as she felt the last bits of strength fading, "I'm sorry" and soon the once powerful Special Forces Captain of Atlas was nothing more than a smashed cut up piece of flesh that was soon to be the meal of Tanuru.
"That's, that" spoke Naruto as she watched her new grimm devour the carcass of Winter Schnee "I think it's time to find Cinder and teach her, why we should do things my way.
Well, are you entertained! I am back and better than ever!
So moving forward this fic can only get crazier also the prologue will be over in the estimated next four chapters because when I hit main Canon a lot of shit will go down, so be ready.
Also did you like Tanuru, hate her tell me below also here some numbers on her:
Height: 11ft 6in (3 feet of that is spines and spikes)
Length: 19ft 8in
Weight: 997.903kg (2200 lbs)
Name meaning: Furnace in Swahili
Number of teeth: 24 not counting the teeth created by the bone plating
Coloration: Spines, Plating are white, claws, teeth and tail blade are black and skin tone is red
Tail cost: 4
Her design is based off the Glavenus from Monster Hunter Generations
So tell me what you guys think till then I will catch you on the flip side.
