Hello viewers!
I hope you liked the last chapter because here's the next one!
Here we have Penny's discovery of Ruby!
This is set as many days later as it says below
So without further ado
Let us begin!
Ruby POV
One Week Later
"Hyah!" I shouted as I sped at Benedict, Crescent Rose in hand, the blade gleaming in the sunlight. He dodged, jumping back from my swing and narrowly missing the Hard Mythrium blade as Valance had dubbed the the metal.
Just as the blade passed him I pulled the trigger and fired Crescent Rose's rifle barrel. The bullet headed for my mentor, but he raised his heavy repeating cannon up to fire. The dust shots he sent at me incinerated my billet and headed straight for me. I dodged quickly and sped at him, slashing again. This time he was to slow and the blade sliced through the metal chest plate he wore. He gripped the chest plate with his hand and pulled it back to show a small amount of blood on it.
While he was distracted I shot at him and the high impact shot forced him back. I slashed again, this time he blocked my attack with his weapon, now in its morning start form. The cut on his chest was shallow so he didn't seem to be bleeding out. He swung his morning star down at me and I jumped out of the way.
I collapsed my sweetheart and started shooting at him. The bullets pounced him and he stumbled back some more before I put the edge of Crescent Rose next to his neck, just about ready to Nick his skin.
I smiled and so did he as I removed Crescent Rose. Setting the morning star on his shoulder he laughed and patted me on the head. I rubbed his hand off with a pout that just made him laugh some more.
"Very good Ruby, you are excelling well in physical training," Benedict stated with a an approving voice. "However, your academic skills seem to be lacking."
"Sorry," I apologized while turning red and he put an arm on my shoulder.
"I never asked for an apology Ruby, just an answer to why you seem to sleep through my lessons."
"Well they're kinda long and I get really tired because I'm not doing something physical plus I-"
He put a finger on my moving lips, silencing me so I would stop rambling on.
"Sorry," I apologized again as we moved to return to the manor.
About halfway there from the training grounds and Metastract Manor, Mr. Smith collapsed, holding a bleeding chest.
"it would seem I have reopened the wound," my mentor painful groaned and I cupped my hands around my mouth.
"AEREN!"
The android appeared behind us almost instantly, making me drop my mentor's arm.
"Yes?"
"Could you get Mr. Smith patched up?" I asked and she nodded.
"I shall heal him. Also Ms. Rose, your friend, Ms. O'Dehern wishes to see you."
"Valance is here?" I asked and the platinum blonde nodded.
I smiled widely and sped past her with the use of my semblance. The doors were open so I stopped inside the foyer, a rush of air and dust trailing behind me and hitting Valance in the face making her cough a bit.
"Bleh, dust in my mouth," she spit as she tried to clean her mouth. I giggled and she glared at me before smiling. "So what do you want to do today? Or are you training with Mr. Smith still?"
"Oh, he's not training me for the rest of the day, probably because of that cut I gave him across his chest."
"You slashed his chest?"
"Well, it wasn't that deep, but it still bled. Aeren's healing him right now so I guess I'm free for today."
"Ooh, let's go get some cookies from Henry's bakery and then let's go shopping!"
"Well I'd like to go get the cookies, but I'm don't really wear much clothes except for my blouse, my combat skirt, and my cloak."
"Then you need some fashion tips!" she squealed in joy while I stared at her curiously.
"You? With fashion tips?" I asked and she huffed in anger.
"Well I can be a girl sometimes!"
"So can I," I replied, but she laughed.
"Your a tomboy, Ruby!" she laughed loudly making me turn red in embarrassment.
"Excuse me?"
We turned our heads to see Mr. Smith on the platform where the two staircases met on the second floor.
"We may not be able to do actual combat training, but you must still improve your academic skills."
"But-"
He cut me off immediately with a hard glare making me shiver a bit.
"Great, now I'm stuck in the library," I grumbled as I followed him to the library. Valance went with us too, interested in what I was going to learn today. We entered and I plopped down on a chair, the same thing with my wolf faunas pal who plopped down next to me.
Benedict seemed to have a hard time walking around with the bandage on his chest. Aeren used healing dust in patching people up, but it didn't fully heal the cut as I could tell. He probably still felt pain which was most likely why he was squirmimg around and stuff.
"It seems you lack in your historical skills as well as mathematics."
"Ugh," I groaned as he put a history book in front of me. "Do I have too?"
"I may act like your guardian, but I am also your teacher. So open the book and search for the first alliance between Humans and Faunas."
I opened up the massive book and looked in the index for the page. Eventually, meaning a couple minutes, I found the page.
" Study that page," he spoke as he sat down in a chair and pulled out his scroll, opening it to look at something.
A half hour later a finger poked me and I looked up groggily to see a disappointed Benedict.
"I fell asleep again didn't I?"
"Not just you," he responded and gestured at the pup faunas snoring silently next to me.
"Valance," I whispered and she growled in her sleep.
"She's not waking up," he stated and I smacked my forehead against the table.
"Isn't there some way that i can learn and not get bored? Like tell me a story just like that time you told me about the Grimm Legends."
"Perhaps," he spoke after pondering on my proposition, "but I still need to remember if I have a tale to tell for the lessons."
"Do you have one for this history lesson?"
"Yeah," we heard and I looked over to see Valance awake now, rubbing the sleepiness out of her eyes.
"I do remember one story, an old legend my father told me about a long time ago."
"Ooh," both Valance and I said in awe as he went over to a shelf to pull out a rather large book.
"Okay, where is it?" he murmured, flipping through the pages.
"Do I have to learn from that?" I nervously asked and thankfully he shook his head.
"It's actually more of a legend than a story, but about the same thing."
"What's it about?" I asked as he took a seat in a chair. I leaned my head to the side as I stared at him with curiosity.
"My father told me this story all the time when I was, but a small child who dreamed of being a Hunter. Long ago, during the time when both Man and Faunas hated each other and prehistoric creatures roamed the face of Remnant. There were those who believed that the Grimm were the true enemy of their people. They struck a deal together and created the warriors we now today call Hunters and Huntresses," he spoke, finger still on his chin as he tried to remember the story.
"So that's how it started?" Valance asked and my mentor just glared at her.
"Let me finish," he growled and she turned red with embarrassment while squirming in her seat. "Both species began working together in co-existence, but as you can probably guess Humans still thought that they were better. However, there were certain groups of hunters made up of both men and Faunas."
"Dino?" I asked, eyes growing wide as I leaned forward in anticipation. "Like dinosaurs?"
"No, DYNO as in dynamic, but DYNO with an 'o' instead of an 'a'," he explained and I mouthed an 'o', ironically.
"So, this team as my father said was an original team of Hunters made up of Men and Faunas. Now this is where the legend starts, it is said that they were the strongest, most powerful team of Hunters in existence because they drank the blood of Grimm. It fused with them and made them stronger, but also more fierce and predatorial."
"You can do that?" Valance asked. "I mean drink the blood of Grimm and not get something bad?"
"No," he laughed, a smirk on his face, "it's impossible. All the idiotic Hunters and Huntresses that do it today are dead or insane because you can't just drink the blood of Grimm. They're evil!"
"Oh, um... so is the legend true?"
"Course not," he said, "They probably got some prehistoric steroids and got buffed up." We cracked smiles at that and started laughing together. It was several minutes before we could stop and when we did I raised my hand like I was in a classroom at Beacon. "Yes Ruby?"
"Do you know what their names were?"
"Well..." he said and trailed off, going into thought. "Let me think for a moment." We waited a while before he sprung up form his seat and ran to a bookshelf, his fingers running across the spines of different books as he read the titles. "No. No. No. No. Yes. No. No. Wait!"
He went back three books and took out the one he had said yes too. He brought it over to our table and set it down, opening it up for us to see. It was an old leather back one and inside there was a bunch of records and stuff. There was a picture of some ancient paintings, an ancient language I remembered as the prehistoric writings that cave men used, and also some records on this stuff.
"Let's see," he murmured as he put a finger on the tainted yellow pages, sliding his finger down some paragraphs of a translation guide. "Here we go, the names of Team DYNO."
"What does it say?" I anxiously asked as he translated.
"The leader was named Demon, no Daemon," he translated as he smiled a bit from learning something new and cool. "He was a human male, tall and strong, a born leader, but also a brute."
"What about the other members?" Valance asked while cocking her head to the side.
"For the Y in the name there was, Yakecen, a hawk Faunas who believed that only the sky was the limit. He was energetic and bold."
"The N in the team name was Nardo, a tough bull Faunas who charged head first into battle, always making himself a battering ram for his allies to use. While not the most intelligent he was a strong one."
"Finally, the O was Ohitekah, a man who was known as a warrior monk. He was strong and used blades as his weapons."
"They sound awesome," I gasped in awe while he smiled.
"Yes, but unfortunately it is still a legend," he stated and we groaned.
"Can't you let us dream for once?" Valance asked and he rolled his eyes at us.
"There are no legends, just heroes and villains," he stated, flicking her puppy dog nose making her cringe. "Now, another story... hm..."
"Actually," I said and he tilted his head a bit at my words or actually, word, "I think that's good enough for today."
"Class is over, you guys can go run along now."
"Yeah!" we cheered and rushed out of the library, leaving him to examine the rest of the ancient book.
An Hour Later
"Where do you want to go first?" Valance asked me as we stood in the mall.
"I dunno," I answered and she huffed in annoyance at me, putting her hands on her hips while frowning. Her face turned red and with her curly orange hair it made me have to stifle a giggle.
"Come on, I can't decide either. One of us has to choose!" she stated with red cheeks and a frown.
I sat down on a bench and crossed my legs as I started to think. I leaned my head forward a bit and hunched my shoulders as I got more into thought and she came over, then plopped down next to me. She just stared at me as I thought, then started playing with my cloak.
"Hey," I growled as I pulled the cloak from her.
"Sorry, just bored because you can't decide!"
"Well I'm sorry, but this was your decision to come here!"
We glared at each other for a minute or two before laughing loudly and leaning back on the bench.
"So you wanna go see the weapons shop?" Valance asked and my eyes bulged.
"They have a weapons shop?"
"Sure, that's where dad sends all the parts and weapons he builds," she explained and my smile grew wider.
"Let's go!" I shouted as I grabbed her arm and dragged her along.
With my semblance active I ran through the mall, a red blur with a orange blur as I dragged my friend along with me.
"Take a right!" Valance directed, giving me the directions to the weapons store. "Left!"
I took the left and ended up in front of a large store, the sign above it saying, "Grimm Slayers".
"Nice name," I commented and Valance nodded.
She walked up and opened the door, walking in to see a woman behind the counter, her head in her arm as she snored kinda loudly.
"Lina?"
The woman, a slender woman with an athletic build and brown hair tied in a braid kept snoring. We looked at each other and Valance walked over to the counter and rung the little bell on it. She stopped snoring and snapped to attention, her eyes wide revealing sea green eyes.
"I'm awake!" she stated and looked around frantically before her eyes laid on us. "Oh, it's just you Valance."
"Hi Lina," my orange haired friend greeted with a smile.
"Hey," she greeted back, but then her eyes traveled over to me. "Who's your new friend?"
"Oh, this is Ruby!" she stated proudly and I blushed rosy red.
"Well, she didn't drag you out over here against your will did she? She loves coming here."
"Actually, Ruby took me here," Valance explained and she raised an eyebrow.
"Really?" she asked and I shyly nodded.
"I'm kinda a geek when it comes to weapons," I explained and she laughed not at me, but what I said.
"Well Valance is the same way," she explained and my friend turned red in embarrassment. "Always makes me show her what's new. Speaking of which." She got up and walked over to a door that probably led to the back. She went through it and came back with a large crate. "Here you go, today's shipment of weapons from Vale."
"Alright!" Valance cheered and rushed over to the crate, taking the crowbar from Lina and broke open the top of it.
"You just let her take a look at it?" I asked and the store clerk nodded.
"Yeah, I know she won't steal anything since her dad would probably send her off to some boring boarding school instead of Signal or Beacon."
"Oh," I said, hiding my face a bit when she named the two academies I had gone to.
"Hey Ruby! Check this out!" I heard my friend shout and looked over to see her pull out a large metallic backpack.
"That's a Mark V Booster Pack!" I squealed in joy and Lina laughed, realizing I was a weapons nerd. I blushed rosy red as the store clerk went over and took the weapon from her.
Suddenly, Lina stopped as she stared at me, her eyes widening. The look in her eyes seemed to show that something clicked in her head.
"Ruby Rose... Ruby Rose, my sister goes to Beacon and she said you died!"
"I uh, I..." I trailed off after stuttering and her eyes bore into me.
"I can explain for her," Valance cut in and our eyes moved to look at her. "You can go if you want Ruby."
I nodded and left the store as Valance started to speak about my friends' betrayal. I jumped at hearing Benedict's voice and looked up to see the middle aged man staring down at me.
"You okay Ruby?"
"Mr. Smith," I said and he looked at me, my silver eyes starting to water, "what am I going to do?"
I hugged him and he stared down at me in shock before awkwardly putting his arms around my tiny body.
"What happened Ruby?"
"The lady behind the counter, Lina recognized me. What if more people recognize me?"
He stared at me, his steel eyes locking with my silver ones. I buried my head into his chest and he held me there, just held me there.
"Well, here is what I think you should do," he stated and put a hand on my shoulder to move me away a bit. He moved us to a nearby bench and we sat down so he could lecture me. "You asked me to train you to get stronger, so do you still want to get stronger or do you want to go back with what you've already learned."
"Well..." I trailed off as I sat there. I pulled my knees to my chest and rested my chin on them as I thought. I felt his hand on my shoulder and it calmed me down a bit from all the anxiety I was having. I looked up at him and he smiled that childish, fun smile that seemed to warm anybody's heart. "How much more do I need to learn?"
"Dunno," he sighed and sat down next to me. "By the time we're done though you should have enough knowledge to be a fourth year Beacon student while everyone else is a third year. I lived a long life as a Hunter and as Ranulf probably told you I lost everything because of one mission."
"Yeah, he says you lost one of your teammates," I remembered and he nodded.
"Naomi Anderson, that's who she was," he mournfully stated and I looked at him with sympathy as he stared down at the ground. "I became stronger and stronger as I fought as a Hunter and this eventually got to me. I became arrogant, egotistical and this led me to challenge my leader for leadership over our team. I ofcourse lost to him, but my defeat created rage and my rage became fuel for the fire."
"What fire?" I asked, leaning my head a bit to the side in confusion.
"The fire that was my hunger for battle. Then it happened, one day on a mission to exterminate a horde of Grimm near a village I arrogantly charged the horde without a second thought. We were outnumbered and outmatched. The village was saved, but our teammate lost her life because of me."
"What was she like?" I asked and he smiled a bit as he recalled the memories.
"Little tech head, that's what she was like. Anti-social until she became part of the team. We'd force her to look away from her computer long enough for us to have decent conversations until she could look away herself," he explained with a chuckle. "One minute she's typing up a program for something, the next she's upgrading her arsenal with new tech."
"New tech?" I asked and he nodded as he finally looked up.
"I swear she had blackmarket sources. The weapons she made were amazing. Upgraded my light cannon into a heavy one and even built a new kind of tech that used cables to manipulate weapons, kinda like a master controlling a puppet."
"Wow," I said, impressed at all of that. "So, if you don't mind. Which you probably will... what was your wife like?"
He turned his head to look at me, eyes full of sadness and regret as he stared at me.
"A lot like you, that's for sure," he said and my eyes widened. "Loved to be carefree and save lives. She was a born hero, but I never deserved her."
"Don't say that," I stated and lightly punched him in the arm. He faked pain and hissed in fake agony as he glared at me with fake hate. "Your so dramatic."
"I like being dramatic, being dramatic is just so much fun," he stated with a laugh.
"Ruby!"
Both of us turned our head to see Valance running towards us.
"Oh, hi Mr. Smith."
"Hello Valance," he greeted and waved.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, curious and for the first time it popped in my head too.
"Yeah, what are you doing here?" I asked and he chuckled.
"I was going to buy some supplies for your training down at Grimm Slayers."
"Oh yeah," Valance interrupted, "Lina's getting a bit worked up and I'm not sure if she'll call Beacon or not."
"I can handle this," Benedict stated before I could shout in surprise.
He strode over to the shop and entered. A couple minutes later he left and I could see a blushing Lina through the shop's window.
"What'd you do to get her all red?" I asked and he rubbed the back of his neck.
"I am very persuasive," he stated and I raised an eyebrow while Valance giggled.
"Lina has a crush on him, he kinda uses it to his advantage sometimes," she stated and I gasped in shock, my gaping mouth quickly turning into a frown as I glared at my mentor.
"What?" he said, elongating the word in suspense.
"You're taking advantage of her?" I asked and he shrugged.
"I get 10% off everytime I come and I'll drop a hint or two that I-," he stopped himself and raised both hands to make air quotes, "like her."
"That's cruel," I stated and he nervously squirmed under our teenage glares.
"Well, anyways, I also got those supplies," he stated and held up a bag of stuff in it.
I peered in, but he quickly took it out of my sight, not that I could see much in the shadowy depths of it.
"No peeking till tomorrow. That's when the fun starts," he stated and I grumbled angrily under my breath.
He just laughed heartily at that and gestured for us to follow him.
"Come on, it's getting late. I'm sure your dad won't mind you eating dinner at the manor," Benedict stated, speaking to Valance.
Several Hours Later
Dinner had been finished and now Benedict and I were strolling around the front porch. Valance had gone home so now I was spending quality time with my mentor. The front porch was pretty cool, there was a rocking chair out front he apparently sat in, a little table with some old chairs, and a little rose garden he had, kinda ironic.
Anyways, I was asking him somemore questions about his old life. He didn't seemed bothered that much, but I could tell that some of the questions were making him reach in pretty deep to give me a small answer.
"So Mr. O'Dehern said that your wife took your son with her when she left, what was he like?" I asked, putting emphasis on he to get him to answer a bit more.
"Wasn't much to say about her," he stated and watching with a smile as I turned red realizing he had a daughter, not a son. "From the three years I knew her she was a little ball of blonde untamable energy."
"Wow," I said and he smiled. "Wait, three years? You had a three-year-old daughter with your wife and she just left with her."
"No, the daughter wasn't mine. She was in a relationship with another guy a couple years before we started dating. They broke up, I comforted her, she fell for me, I fall for her, we date, get married, I take care of her and that guy's daughter, then my teammate dies, and she leaves."
"Wow," I said again, still astonished at his story. "Must be a pretty sucky life."
"Yes, sometimes it feels as if my destiny is to live in regret and self pity. However, you came here and I finally have a new purpose," he laughed and I sheepishly laughed along with him.
Suddenly, there was a ringing sound and I realized it was Benedict's scroll ringing, meaning he was getting a call. He pulled it out and answered, then Aeren's face appeared.
"Yes Aeren?" Mr. Smith asked as the android stared at us.
"Sir, the scanners detected a fast moving individual earlier today in the forest. It entered the town and is now heading for the manor as we speak."
"Heading for the manor?" I asked and that's when we heard the rustling.
Immediately, I pulled out Crescent Rose and expanded it into it's scythe form. Benedict thrust his hand behind him and grabbed the handle on his weapon, quickly pulling it out of its compact form in which it became a sort of armored backpack on him. It transformed into his heavy cannon and he held it at the ready.
We waited for several moments, wondering if the intruder would make the move first. We were answered immediately when a blur of orange, black, and green tackled me in a bone crushing hug.
"I've found you Ruby!" Penny cried out in joy and my eyes just went wide in shock.
"PENNY!" I screamed in horror as Benedict stared down at the ginger haired girl hugging me to death while I tried to crawl away.
He let out a chuckle and transformed Dust Knight into its morning star form so he could put it on his shoulder and still be ready for battle, in case Penny attacked.
"I'm guessing you know each other?" he asked and I nodded, my face completely red. By now I was sure that with my cloak's hood on I'd be mistaken as part of the cloak.
"This is Penny," I explained as I managed to untangle her from me. "She saved me and my friends when we fought the White Fang."
"Salutations!" the awkward girl greeted, standing up and saluting.
"Salutations back, so you saved Ruby and her friends?" Benedict asked, loosening his grip on Dust Knight.
"Yes, I saved Ruby and her friends," Penny stated, smiling widely.
"That's good then, so how'd you find her here?" he asked, transforming his weapon back into its compact form now.
"I followed Ruby's tracks out of Vale and into the forest, then here in this town. Everyone said that Mr. Smith had a little girl with a red cloak and now I've found you friend!"
She was about to crush me in a hug again, but I backed up, shoving my arms forward in a gesture that I was fine with no hugs.
"Ruby, who is this?" she asked, confused as she stated at my mentor.
"Oh, that's right. You haven't met him," I said and went to stand behind her. I put an arm around her shoulder and my other arm pointed at Benedict as I introduced him. "This is Benedict Smith, he's training me to be stronger."
"Stronger?" she asked and I nodded.
"Everyone I knew tried to kill me so I'm trying to get stronger so I can back and show them I'm stronger," I explained and she tilted her head in confusion.
"But what about Jaune? He is very depressed."
"John? Wait, Jaune!"
"Yes," she answered and I felt my mouth drop.
"Jaune's sad? About me being gone?" I asked, some kind of warm feeling stirring in me.
"Who's John?" Benedict asked and I lightly struck his arm with my fist.
"His name's Jaune, Jaune," I repeated again, elongating and pronunciating it so he could understand. "Jaune Arc, he was my first friend at Beacon."
"Is he now?" Mr. Smith asked, crossing his arms. "I'm starting to wonder if he was something more."
"More?" I asked and he smiled as it dawned on me. "No no no no no, we're just friends sir."
"I dunno, that's what my wife and I said when we first met."
"Yeah, but you guys split up," I said and his childish smile dropped. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean too."
"No, no, it's fine," he said as he turned around. "You should explain your situation to Penny here. I'll be inside."
He left me in an awkward silence with Penny, which just made it even more awkward.
"So Penny, did Jaune tell you to look for me?" I asked and she nodded. "But aren't you participating in the Vytal Tournament? You can't just come out here to look for me."
"I know," she stated, "I asked my team leader if I could look for you."
"And they said yes?"
"No," she said, looking down in what I assumed was shame. "I wanted to look for you, but they said if I left, then I am no longer a student at my academy."
"You gave up your training as a huntress to be find me?" I asked and she nodded furiously, a smile on her face.
"You are my first friend, Ruby," she stated with a wide smile and I smiled back, my heart warmed by her statement.
"Are you going to tell Jaune I'm here?" I asked, worried if they'll find me here and take me back to Beacon before I can get stronger.
"Not if you want to stay here," she said, her eyes full of that friendly compassion I knew them for.
"But where are you going to stay now? What are you going to do now?" I asked, concerned about her well being now.
"I believe I have a solution," we heard and turned to see Aeren behind us, her hands in front of her, one cupping the other in a respectful manner.
"Oh, Penny, this is Aeren. She's an android," I explained and Penny's mouth made a small 'o' making me stifle a giggle. "So Aeren, what did you mean you have a solution?"
"There are many rooms in the manor and I believe Master Smith could be persuaded to mentor Ms. Penny as well."
"Yeah, he'd never say no to this adorable face," I laughed, but then I remembered what I had just said to him before he went back to the manor. "Hey Aeren? Where's Mr. Smith right now?"
"He is currently in his library, searching through old books. I believe he is searching for an old scrapbook."
"Oh," I said and followed her inside with Penny behind me.
"This place is amazing!" Penny exclaimed in awe as we walked in.
Her emerald green eyes were wide and her mouth was open wide as she twirled around slowly and took in the view. I smiled and laughed a bit before moving again to find Benedict. Penny noticed me leaving so she followed me down the candle lit corridors and into the library where I found the middle aged man bent over the table, flipping over pages in the old leather book we saw earlier.
"Did you know that the first hunters came from a prehistorice time?" I heard him say and I looked around for anybody, seeing if there was somebody he was talking too.
"Um, are you talking to me?" I asked and he nodded. "Um, well... no?"
"They were, dinosaurs roamed the land and prehistoric Grimm hunted them to near extinction until they discovered Dust. Technology quickly advanced with the new discovery of power. With the discovery of how to turn Dust into power came the discovery of how to create machines powered by Dust and with the discovery of machines came weapons of great power. With this series of discoveries, Hunters became deadlier and much more advanced then they were years prior to the discovery of this miraculous power."
"Why're you telling me this?" I asked, worried if he'd snapped or something.
"Because that was today's lesson," he stated as he turned around, his mouth a line that slightly bent down to make a barely visible frown. "Unfortunately, I was sidetracked earlier by the story of Team DYNO."
"Oh, well, nice lesson," I nervously replied, but he rolled his eyes and took the book up in his hands.
"Team DYNO and co., one of the first group of Hunters to ever exist. To stupid to believe that they could drink the blood of Grimm and survive. Disappearing from history forever, most likely to hide their probably gruesome fate."
"Um, Benedict?" I asked, gaining his attention by saying his first name. "I wanted to know if Penny could-"
"Stay here and train with you?" he asked and my eyes widened a bit at what he just said. Then I realized I was talking to an ex-Hunter, he probably could already tell what I was going to ask. "Perhaps, if she's ready for how much training she'll do."
Instantly, Penny stepped up and saluted again, her flat hand coming up to her forehead as she stood tall with pride.
"I'm Combat Ready!" she stated proudly and he smiled a bit at that, then he laughed heartily making me smile knowing he was over that little incident we had before.
"Well then," he said and all the sudden threw Dust Knight in its morning star form at Penny. I tried to run over and push her out of the way, but I saw the backpack on her back open up to reveal her set of swords fly out and create a protective shield in front of her.
The morning star was deflected and it struck the table behind him. He was stunned, completely stunned at what he saw in front of him.
"Wow," Mr. Smith gasped in shock. "Now that's just... incredible."
"So are you going to teach her?" I asked and he nodded.
"Sensational!" Penny cheered as she returned her swords to the backpack on her back.
Third Person POV
"Well this has been a successful operation," a man with fiery orange hair and a white suit stated, twirling his cane around.
"Roman," he heard and turned to see his partner in crime for the moment, Cinder Fall approach.
The sound of her heels clacking and clicking on the ground resounded around them in the warehouse. She was flanked by her compatriots, a boy and a girl. Their names he didn't know yet, but he wish he wouldn't. He'd heard rumors about this woman before they met. A fiery goddess who loved to turn places into enormous barbecques.
"Ah, Cinder. Nice to see you again!" he shouted with joy as he raised his arms as if to give her a hug.
However, as soon as he moved towards her, she held up a flaming fist. The fire licked her pale skin and the criminal stepped back a bit, frightened for a moment before regaining his composure.
"I didn't come to get a new boyfriend," she sneered and extinguished the flame. "Now tell me, how goes our plans?"
He turned around and opened up his arms as he directed their attention to the map on the wall.
"Well it seems our litle nuisance, Little Red is gone so our operations are going well. Had a little trouble with that monkey kid from the encounter with the ginger kid, you know the one who shot down three of our bullheads?"
"Yes I remember," she groaned, annoyed at his playful attitude. "So how long till we have enough resources to launch our attack?"
"I dunno," he shrugged, crossing his arms on his chest. "We haven't gotten the full details on the stuff we took yet. We're taking inventory right now."
Immediately, Cinder's small hand grabbed him by the collar of his suit and pushed him against the table. Her fist was pulled back, ablaze again. He stared at her for a moment before going back to his playful demeanor.
"I'm not sure I like having a dominant woman in a relationship, but I'll make an exception for you," he flirted and she growled, but her attention was soon taken by a file next to him, a small piece of a report stuck out of the file, one particular part of the report that was visible caught her eye. Noticing her new gaze he smirked, thinking she was looking at something else. "Hey, not here. Don't want to do it in front of the kids do we?"
"Shut up," she spat and threw him away as she grabbed the file. Opening it she read every detail of it. "A man with a large gun who saved a girl in a red cloak wielding an enormous scythe," she stated and looked at Roman who seemed shocked at those words. "Doesn't sound like she's gone, more like moving towns down to Magnus."
"What's so special about that place?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. "What is that place? Never heard of it before."
"Not many people do," she stated, throwing the file at him as she began to walk away. "However, I am not many people."
Unknown POV
Darkness
All he could see was darkness
It had always been darkness
No, not always
He remembered when there was light. Him and his team, his brothers. He remembered them and now they were im-imprisoned here with him. All of them, trapped. Stolen away and cast into the darkness, never to see the light again, but they were warriors.
He remembered those creatures he slaughtered, those creatures who feared him. The black hides and white bone armor, the same creatures who they feasted upon. The creatures that always challenged him for dominance, roaring and screeching. Then they e- evolv- evolved, yes that was the word, they evolved and became better prey.
He and his brethren hunted them, but they were betrayed, betrayed by their people. They were feared by not only their prey, but their families. They were locked away by the knights, the pathetic weaklings who attacked them as they rested.
He would be free one day and he would seek to hunt once more.
"Must hunt," he spoke in a gruff voice, his voice so ancient and powerful it shook the cell around him.
"Must kill..." he growled once more as he shook the shackles holding him in place.
"Must kill Grimm!" he roared and he could hear his fellow brothers roar in response around him.
Done
I hope you liked this chapter
It seems Roman has discovered our little Rose hiding in Magnus
Also, a mysterious force has slumbered for so long, I wonder how long it'll take for it to come out and start hunting again
Anyways, rewrote the chapter for you guys
Hope you've enjoyed this so far
See ya!
Lord Revan Flaming, signing off
