A/N: God I love Voodoo Kingdom (Specifically the JoJo remix).
If you guys read the latest chapter to A Semblance of Standing Proud, you know that I have a bit of trouble writing. But still don't worry this period might pass eventually, so now let's get started.
Jaune ducked as a Beowolf jumped towards him then he turned around and decapitated the Grimm as it crashed against the ground. As they neared Haven they had encountered a horde of assorted Grimm, roaming around trying to find new prey in the current state of chaos. Now Team JNPRR was fighting the small army of Grimm and they were slowly thinning the amount of creatures.
Ruby landed next to Jaune, having failed to kill a Nevermore with a jump attack. She took out a bullet from her pouch and raised it toward Jaune. "Jaune! Stray Cat!"
With a nod, Jaune summoned Killer Queen who raised a finger, crackling with pink energy, before it smacked its finger against the bullet Ruby was holding. With one fluid motion, Ruby loaded the bullet into Crescent Rose before firing it at a Nevermore. The bullet hit it in the wing, but was unfazed as it continued to rain feathers down at the group. However with a "click" from Killer Queen's trigger, an explosion consumed the Nevermore and its remains dissolved in the air.
"Incoming~!" With that Nora, riding on an Ursa, charged through several Grimm; swinging her hammer at the numerous creatures of Grimm. "NORA!" the magenta eyed boy cried in exasperation as he chased and occasionally fought the Grimm in his path. He ran after the cheering hammer wielder while Pyrrah was fending off her own group of Grimm.
Slowly but surely, the number of Grimm thinned out until the group was panting from exhaustion and a few minor cuts. 'Hope that was the last of them. I'm all out of ammo and I don't think I can exert any more power in my exhausted state.' Pyrrah became even more skeptical when she saw her other teammates search for ammo to reload but came up with empty pockets.
With a sudden crash, even more Grimm began to charge in their direction. The horde was composed of Beowolves, Ursas, Boarbatusks, Nevermores, and even Deathstalkers. 'This is bad, we're all exhausted and out of ammo.' Pyrrah observed with obvious worry. However her thoughts were interrupted when Jaune roughly grabbed her head.
"Killer Queen!" With that, the mentioned figure appeared over Jaune. With a glare, he added "Bomb #2! (1)" After saying that, Killer Queen reappeared behind Pyrrah and she took action. Instead of running away or fighting, the Mistral champion instead rushed to the horde of Grimm. When she was a fair distance away from the group, the horde suddenly stopped in their tracks. In each one of their eyes, the horde of Grimm's eye was wide open with a familiar figure facing away.
"Bites the Dust!" With that declaration, Killer Queen pressed the trigger and there was an explosion. The Grimm's backs were blown open and Pyrrah watched as she was transported through a mysterious portal…
Pyrrah gasped as she almost tripped on a hidden root, but Jaune managed to catch her just in time. With a smile and a "Thank you", the group continued to move on…
Pyrrah and Jaune paused and blinked a few times. The group looked back, confused at the sudden pause from the duo. Jaune then sighed in relief, with Pyrrah doing the same and leaning against Jaune.
"Something happen?" Ruby decided to ask the pair.
Killer Queen reappeared behind Jaune and he only said "Bites the Dust" in response. Everyone else let out an "Oh" in understanding.
"So, what happened?" Ren decided to ask about the next hour in the future.
Both Jaune and Pyrrah looked at each other "I think we should do a bit of planning…" And with that, Jaune began to formulate a plan with the current tidbits of knowledge he had.
Sighing in relief, the group emerged from the forest just after a huge horde of Grimm stampeded past them. From Jaune's memory, the group managed to take a path in which it would take longer. However, they would avoid the horde and both groups managed to bypass each other without being detected.
Just as they passed through the gates of Haven, they inspected the school. While not as breath taking as Beacon, there was a beauty to it. It looked just like a castle, however this time was smaller and more humble. The bright moonlight reflected off the building and casted a shadow incredibly long for a medium sized building.
"Alright team! Let's move out!" Ruby let out an enthusiastic cheer as they started to go towards the entrance.
"Where do you think the piece of information is?" Pyrrah decided to ask this while they were walking.
"I'm sure if we ask, they might know where it is…" Nora started to reply until she realized something "Ren? You okay…wait, where are you?!"
Everyone stopped and looked around before looking behind seeing Ren's body face down on the ground.
"Ren!" Nora frantically yelled and rushed to him and turned him over. Strangely, his face was peaceful and slightly bruised, as if he just fell asleep on the spot.
"What happened?! Is there someone here!?" Pyrrah yelled in confusion. With that the other team members brought out their weapons and studied their surroundings. "The lights are out, so nobody should be in the school right now!"
"Wait! Guys! Some-" Then suddenly Nora was cut off and when everyone looked at her, she was also face down on the ground.
"Nora!" Both Pyrrah and Ruby rushed to her but Killer Queen emerged and stopped both of them.
"Guys…" Jaune began with a cautious tone "Look what's in Nora's hand…" Pointing to Nora's limp open hand, there was something there. It was a syringe with a little red coating the needle, with a bright green tail at its end.
In other words, a tranquilizer dart and there was a red dot roaming over their teammate's unconscious bodies.
Responding to the sight, the three remaining former students grouped together again looking around their surroundings. "Ruby can you spot the sniper!?" Jaune shouted to the red reaper.
Trying to trace the red dot back to the gun, Ruby tried to find the sniper with her own scope. "Sorry Jaune, but it's too dark! I can't really see anything!" Just then she noticed a red dot on Pyrrah's body "Pyrrah!"
Pyrrah turned to look at Ruby but then with a "whoosh", a dart was sticking out of Pyrrah's chest. Pyrrah's eyes rolled back to her head and fell forward, unconscious from the tranquilizer. Then another dart appeared on Ruby's shoulder and she also fell unconscious, leaving Jaune as the only awake person.
"Shit! Ruby! Pyrrah!" Jaune shouted in frustration at the hidden attacker. Suddenly Killer Queen appeared and its hand blurred as it caught a dart with its index finger and thumb. Its hand blurred again but and then came up with another dart. Jaune was shocked at the speed Killer Queen portrayed, but shook it off as KQ caught another dart. As it continued this process, Jaune tried to think of a plan.
'What should I do-?' Then he felt a tiny prick in his thigh, so tiny that he probably wouldn't have noticed. Looking down, he saw Killer Queen with only the tail and a bit of glass from the dart. Looking at his thigh, he saw the broken tranquilizer dart leaking some of the chemical. But the damage was done, as enough tranquilizer managed to enter his system.
"Oh, you gotta be-." Soon Jaune's eyes felt heavy and he collapsed, as the tranquilizer knocked him out.
Once again, Jaune was dreaming again in the perspective of the man he knew as Kira Yoshikage, the possible previous owner of Killer Queen. Through the man's vision, he looked the inside of, what it seemed, a shoe store with three people inside. One of them was a normal citizen, possibly the owner of the store. Another was a giant of a man, 195cm with a getup consisting of a white trench coat and pants adorned with golden chains and buttons portraying a hand and various aquatic symbols. The last individual was tiny, but his getup indicated that he was just another student. Jaune mentally jolted when he heard the voice of Kira echoing in his head.
'Damn… how did they track me!?' Then after a moment of silence, the voice came up again 'Of course… the button! That little shit must have grabbed the button with his Harvest while I was too focused on charging that doorknob!'
Then the three males moved toward something in the back where they were inspecting something. 'I have to hope that the man didn't label my clothes.' Kira thought nervously while Jaune just watched silently.
"Let's see here…ummm…hmmm. How do read this kanji, in a name?" Both men heard the shopkeeper say while the boy kept insisting that he should see it.
'You fool… if you just shooed them away…' With that, Killer Queen appeared and reared back its left hand 'I would have left you here, let you continue your peaceful, normal job. Although your decision is something I respect, your death is something that I need to continue my peaceful life.'
Just as Killer Queen swiped its left hand and something dashed out of it, the entire world began to white out and Jaune felt himself wake up.
With a jolt, Jaune woke up to find himself against the back of a concrete wall and groaned. Just as he regained his bearings, he found several guns pointed at him. Looking around, he saw his friends also tied and being guarded by other members. However, he noted the school in sight nearby and that there were several trucks with a symbol on them. A red claw with a wolf's head (This is the correct symbol, right?), the White Fang. Standing before him was a smirking individual, the White Fang Lieutenant (though the group, except Ruby, wouldn't know.)
"Well, Arc, looks like you finally woke up. You are the first one to wake up. I heard some very wonderful things about you. And you managed to get a hit in without him noticing, which is something." He then turned to the unconscious bodies of his teammates "Unfortunately, now we're going to have to bring you in. You move with a purpose to Haven, and we don't you to find something to bring us down."
Then a grunt ran up to the Lieutenant and proclaimed "Sir, the coast is clear! No one is looking, we can properly escape." The Lieutenant smiled and replied "Good, pack up everything. We're going to transport these kids to Adam."
Noticing that Pyrrah was just within range, Killer Queen was called out and tried to reach for her. 'If I can just reach Pyrrah, I can activate 'Bites the Dust', then we can avoid this.'
However before the hand can reach her, the Lieutenant took a handgun from a grunt and pressed it against Pyrrah's head "Don't even think about it, Arc. Do you really think I'm not prepared for this?" He grinned sadistically as he pressed the muzzle even harder "Our leader remembers how you managed to get a 'lucky' hit in. But when we were assigned to ambush you, he made sure to warn all of us to not let our guard down on all of you. Unfortunately, we only had four aura restraining cuffs, we weren't expecting the red one, so we just had to tie you up."
Jaune hesitated and Killer Queen was so close to touch Pyrrah, trying one more time Killer Queen reared back its hand trying to "arm" Pyrrah. What everyone didn't notice was that when Killer Queen swung its hand, the hand was its left…
And that something flew out as the hand arched toward Pyrrah, thrown into the shadows of the trucks.
The Lieutenant's response was pressing the muzzle closer and his trigger finger tightening, making Jaune hesitated again. Finally after a few moments of tense silence, Killer Queen's hand went limp and he faded back into Jaune.
With a smug smirk, the White Fang Lieutenant gestured to the captured group "Bring them into a truck, I'm sure certain people would be happy to see them." Several soldiers walked toward the group and roughly pulled them the team up. Just when they were about to escort them to one of the trucks, a shrill voice rang out.
"HEY IDIOT! LOOK OVER HERE!"
(1) Since he didn't discover a certain "bomb" yet, he calls BTD "Bomb #2"
A/N: Whelp, that's all. Just like always, if you have any comments or criticism then just say it.