Red Dragon: We are back and now we present to you another chapter of LAVM. The forces of Darkness converge and new allies are made. Our heroes face a great foe of epic proportions. And their past and truth about themselves are revealed and a new waltz of war begins.

AssassinK: Will they be able to beat back this shadowy force that seeks to swallow them up or will their own darkness consume them. They discover new secrets about themselves and the hidden past of Remnant.

Sage Wolf: Those who begin this dance only face madness and hardship. LAVM and their allies face this head on in a sermon of evil and rage. Will it be all for not.

Father Chapa: A new baptism of lost innocence comes to past.

The Dom: And the world will awake to a storm.

Normal speech: "Hey"

Yelling/special moves: "Die!"

Thought: 'Hmm'

Communication through devices: "What?"

Chapter 7. A Bloody Baptism

Intro: Sorairo days from Gurren Lagann

"So tell me why we are here again?" Lucian asked, wanting to know why they were at the docks on their day off which was rare for Beacon to have. "Yeah Weiss, why exactly are we at the docks?" Yang asked accusingly. "They smell like fish" Ruby said, holding her nose. Lucian just shook his head, asking himself why he and his team decided to join team RWBY and their little excursion. 'It better not be a bullshit reason' he grumbled in his mind. "As a representative of Beacon it is my duty to greet our guest from the other kingdoms" Weiss said pride fully. "You mean spy" Mephisto stated, correcting the heiress.

"Hey what happened over there?" Ruby asked out loud. The two teams turned and saw a crime scene that was being examined by police. Walking up to the scene, Ruby asked the officer investigating the scene, "What happened here?" The officer gave the teams a look and said, "Robbery, second Dust shop be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle." With that the officer went to because info with his partner. "That's terrible" Yang said aloud. 'This is strangely familiar,' Lucian thought to himself. "They left all the money again." A voice said. Turning they saw the officers engaged in a conversation. "Yeah this doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?" The first officer said. "I don't know." The other officer answered. "You thinkin' the White Fang?" the first officer asked. "I'm thinking we don't get paid enough." The partner answered.

"Hmm the White Fang, what an awful bunch of degenerates" Weiss said with disgust. Blake, looking offended, turned towards her white haired teammate and said, "What's your problem?" LAVM shook their heads and knew that this would go nowhere fast. "If you girls don't we have our own plans to take care of currently. We'll meet back up with you for lunch" Mephisto said. With that LAVM left and entered a nearby alleyway. "Damn," Lucian began as soon as they were out of sight. "Well I guess we know who is behind this." Vlade nodded his head and replied, "Yes, it looks like Torchwick, White Fang, and DDG are advancing."

"I believe so, and it appears that we might have to reveal our secrets soon, but first we need to order a book" Mephisto stated. The others gave him a confused look but followed him anyways. After ordering the book they needed, they left to meet up with team RWBY. Coming to a main road they saw the four girls they were looking for and one they never seen before in Ruby's personal space. "Uuuh, Ruby? Who's your friend?" Lucian asked very confused. Team RWBY snapped their heads towards the four hunters and gave them a friendly wave. "Salutation" the strange girl began. For some reason LAVM was disturbed by her aura. 'Her aura is strangely unnatural' Vlade thought to himself. "Umm, yeah. Guys this is Penny. Penny, these are our friends, Lucian, Ashura, Vlade, and Mephisto." Ruby said, introducing them to each other.

"Anyway, Penny you said that came here for the tournament right?" Weiss asked. 'Where is this going?' the four hunters all thought. Penny nodded her head and allowed Weiss to continue. "So you know that monkey tailed rapscallion?!" Weiss added. 'Who the fuck uses rapscallion anymore?' Lucian asked himself mentally. "The who?" Penny asked confused. In response, Weiss held up a very crudely drawn picture of a monkey Faunus. "Weiss, did you flunk art class?" Vlade asked. "Not the point, I'm talking about the Faunus from the boat!" From there the conversation spiraled out of control.

~~Later~~

Lucian, Ashura, and Vlade all felt their eyes twitch as the continued to hear the argument Weiss and Blake had. Mephisto on the other hand was shaking his head and was in deep thought. Deciding he had enough, Mephisto grabbed his coat and said, "I'm going out." Sighing, Lucian said to his partner, "Mephisto, don't do anything stupid." The Demon Shard nodded and left the dorm room. After a few minutes of walking he came upon Blake as she stood before the school's iconic statue. Even from where he stood, he could tell she was on the verge of crying. He wanted to go over there and comfort here, but he was frozen in place. He watched as Blake reached for her bow and removed it, revealing a pair of cat ears resting atop of her head. "I knew you would look better without the bow" a voice said. Mephisto then noticed a monkey Faunus resting above her. Mephisto turned away, seeing that he had wasted his chance. His hand then went into his hair and rested on his long pointed ear. "Blake," Mephisto began sadly, "you're not the only one hiding who they truly are." With that, Mephisto walked away, not noticing that Blake saw him and heard what he said. "Mephisto," she began quietly so her tailed companion wouldn't hear her, "what are you hiding from me?"

~~Later~~

"Mephisto? Are you ok?" Ashura asked concerned. Since a few nights their usually calm and level headed friend was in a state of unfamiliar depression. That and he kept looking at Blake with longing. Knowing better then asking further, Vlade followed his gaze and stared at the disguised Faunus. It was easy for them to tell what she actually was. Their senses were on the level or even above those of most Faunus. "Something tells me that this has something to do with Blake" Vlade said with confidence. Mephisto turned his head away and got up. "Come on we are going to be late" Mephisto said. The others nodded and allowed their friend to come to terms with his feelings. They only had one class that day, but Mephisto still needed time to think. And with this a memory of his time as an experiment came up. One that changed his life.

~~Flashback Begins~~

All he knew was pain. The scientist strapped him to a examination table. They wanted to show their 'customers' an almost complete product. Turning his head to the side as much as he could, he saw the head scientist Dr. Bourreau standing next to a few members of the White Fang. He looked a lot different than he did at this time. His hair was cut extremely short, almost military like. His long pointed ears were exposed and his nails were longer and sharp like claws. He was currently wearing only white pants as his top was removed to accurately show the sick experiment. Already his chest and stomach was riddled with healing scars and dried blood. While two out of the three White Fang members looked at him with interest the same way one would look at a new car, the third member looked at him with pity and remorse. The member that looked at him with sympathy was clearly a female and looked like the commanding officer. Before he could gain more of an impression of her, he felt a hard stab into his abdomen. "As you can see this Demon Shard here has the highest healing ability of his batch. Now don't feel sorry for the thing as it doesn't have a thought in its head. All it is is a true beast in human skin unlike us civilized people. As you can see he is healing all damage done to his body at a highly accelerated rate." The good doctor said as he continued his live demonstration. After several more minutes of this, the doctor grew tired and left to show more of his experiments. All that were left in the room was Mephisto and the White Fang commander.

After confirming that they were alone, the female commander walked over to the examination table. Not knowing he was still awake, the commander ran her hand over his body, examining all of his healing scars. The only scar that did not heal was the one on his neck. The quietly, the commander surprised him as she said, "I'm sorry you have to endure this pain. This is not what I ever wanted. Please forgive me."

~~Flashback End~~

With that, Mephisto snapped out of his daydream and knew what he had to do. After finishing their class. After convincing them to suit up and get their weapons, Mephisto had them gather at the front of Beacon. "Hey Mephisto, why did you bring us here?" Lucian asked. "Because, were finding Blake and also taking care of unfinished business." With that he and LAVM went on the hunt, all knowing full well what he ment.

~~Later~~

The docks were in pure chaos. Sun and Blake were in an all out brawl with the White Fang and Torchwick. After being forced back by the two, he reached for and grabbed a small device that fitted perfectly in his hand. "No more games kitty cat" Torchwich said. Out of nowhere large Dust ships appeared and hovered around them. On the sides was the symbol of the DDG. "You're working with Dark Dawn!" Blake yelled. Out of all the people in the world, they had to make a deal with the Devil, and it was not going to end well. Knowing she had to stop this now, Blake rushed the thief and prepared to end his life, but was stopped by a dark blade. For some reason, a dark, hidden part of her mind screamed at her to run. Torchwick smiled at the armored warrior holding the deadly blade and said, "Better late than never Nemesis. Now how to deal with these two?" Nemesis smiled evilly and said darkly, "Dark Dawn could always use new genetic material." But before he could make good on his promise, he was forced to block incoming bullets. "Leave her alone!" Ruby yelled from atop of a crate.

"Good to see you again Red, now where's your boyfriend?" Torchwick asked mockingly. Nemesis stared at the red hooded girl and thought to himself, 'So this is the wolf's mate. What leverage this will provide me.' With that Nemesis snapped his fingers and hordes of DDG soldiers and sentry robots assembled. With that Ruby entered the fray and fought off goons left and right. But she missed a Bladed DDG soldier slipping past her defenses. Before he could strike, flying blades sent him flying. Turning, Ruby stared with amazement at Penny as she was surrounded by blades that hovered in mid air. It was at this time that Weiss and Yang appeared. "Ruby, Blake!" they both yelled. The assembled hunters gathered near each other and prepared for the next wave.

"Enough of this," Nemesis began as black spikes popped out of his body. "Now die you fools!" With that the spikes shot off as long, sharp black spears that headed for the gathered hunters. Knowing they could not escape the racing spires, they closed their eyes and waited for they end. 'Goodbye, Lucian' was Ruby's thought.

(Chracter theme M: Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz begins)

"WHAT!" hear that exclaimation and also feeling that they were alive, the six teens opened their eyes and saw that they were protected by a large green glyph. "Is this a private party, or can anyone join!?" yelled a familiar voice. With that everyone turned and their gaze landed on four figures atop a stack of shipping crates. Without a reply, the four figures leapt off their perch and landed between the two groups. Now it was revealed that the four heroes were team LAVM all geared up for battle. "Lucian!" Ruby yelled happily. The Grimmborn smirked at her and said, "Just like how we met, me saving you ass. Now let's see how good these bastards really are!" With that the four warriors charged into battle. Lucian made a wild dash, looking for an opening so he could behead Torchwick and the obvious DDG leader. Moving quickly and slashing his blade left and right cutting them done to size.

Vlade was like a shadow. He moved quickly and bisected every DDG soldier, sentry and White Fang grunt he past by. To those that met his blade and pistol, his was truly the spirit of death. Even with him being in the middle of this carnage, he still remained blood stain free. One thought passed through his mind, 'I shall protect you, even with my last breath.' With that he slashed a soldier in half. Mephisto was doing what he did best, long range cover. Quickly switching between sniping and his attack glyphs, Mephisto was over whelming his adversaries. He stood in front of team Ruby, Sun, and Penny as their shield. 'Blake, let me show you that there is true hope in the world.'

Ashura swung his ax in a fast succession of parries and counters. His were preflexes working overtime to perceive and counter every sword, blade and bullet that came his way. Quickly switching to the offensive, Ashura slashed and hacked many of his opponents apart, leaving them unable to continue the fight. He then quickly loaded his ax's grenade launcher and fired off the round, blowing apart the sentry that tried to get behind him. But soon dread filled him, because from the corner of his eye, he saw Nemesis charge forward with the sword outstretched, ready to impale an unsuspecting Yang. Reacting on pure instinct, Ashura quickly placed himself between Nemesis and Yang. Steeling himself, he caught the sword with his bare hands, his life blood dripping down the black metal. "Not today asshole" Ashura said through gritted teeth. Yang, who had heard the sickening slice, turned and saw Ashura had used his own body as a shield for her. "Ashura!" she cried with fear and concern.

(Character theme M ends)

The others turned when they heard the scream and gazed in shock at what Ashura had done. The first to break their stupor was Mephisto as he created another glyph. "Mystic Star Fall!" with that several spheres of green light shot out at high speeds towards the living demon. They collided and kicked up a large dust cloud. But it was still too soon to celebrate as when the debris cleared, they saw a large shell made of a bone like substance protecting Nemesis. "Pathetic, now" said Nemesis as his shield retreated into his body and his left hand turned into a black nest of spikes. "DIE!" With this, the spikes shot out and ripped into Mephisto's body. After the assault ended, Mephisto's jacket, hat and shirt were ripped to shreds and his body was bleeding all over. Mephisto fell to knee and cough up blood, fortunately his body was all ready healing. "Damn, that hurt" the Demon Shard said quietly, letting a curse slip. In seconds, Blake was at his side, coming to help him to his feet. As she helped him to his feet, she saw something that made her freeze up. It was a scar on his neck, a scar she sworn she never would forget. 'It can't be! That's impossible! Is he, is he really!? Please, Mephisto, if you are really him you can't die here!' Blake mentally pleaded. Rising to his feet, Mephisto extended his hand forward and turned it upside down. As his did this gesture, his spilt blood turned bright green and started to congregate onto itself and float in the air. "Blood seal" Mephisto said emotionlessly as the floating blood drew itself into a complex glyph. "Now," he began as his hand slowly closed, "be vanquished! Hellfire Cannon!" With a roar he closed his fist and unleashed a torrent of hellish green flames from the glyph.

Nemesis stood calm as the flames raced towards him. "Umm, not to tell you how to do your job but," Torchwick began as he looked fearfully at the inferno coming at them. "DO SOMETHING!" Nemesis simply raised the sword he possessed and swung it, releasing a dark purple energy slash that cancelled the hellish fire. The young hunters stared in awe at the blade's power. Lucian was the most shock at the sword. Since he first saw it, it caused voices to scream in his head that it should be his, almost driving him insane. "Hey asshole!" Lucian yelled. "Where the fuck did you get that sword!?" Nemesis replied with a smirk and said lowly, "So you recognize it mutt, now to help you realize your true nature." With that the fiendish warrior held the blade high as it pulsed dark purple. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Lucian screamed as the voices in his head screamed at him to kill everything around him. 'Kill, kill, show power. Kill!' was the constant order in his head. With this his aura exploded and turned pitch black. His claws and fangs lengthening to deadly forms ready to tear others apart. Dark red marks, like those on a Grimm's face plates, appeared on his face. A White Fang grunt, seeing a chance for a victory, prepared to behead the transformed Grimmborn. But fate had other ideas as a clawed hand burst through his chest and out his back.

Ruby and the others were shocked at what Lucian just did. Without thinking, she ran towards his as he ripped his hand from the dead Faunus' body. Turning towards Ruby with pure red eyes, the now feral warrior growled at her seeing only another opponent. "Lucian" Ruby began, but only to receive a growl. "Lucian please, stop this. You not an animal you're a person!" She continued. The feral youth did not response, but stalked closer to the girl. Ruby was now scared, her friend was acting like a wild animal almost like a Grimm! Nemesis upon seeing this laughed loudly, "Ahahaha! Foolish girl, he can't hear you now. All he is now is a mindless beast that craves blood." Ruby shook her head and yelled, "You're wrong! Lucian please, come back us! Come back to me!" With that she threw her arms around him and hugged him tight. She kept her hold strong and was surprised when he grabbed he shoulders. But it became frightening as his lengthened claws dug into her shoulders. "Ruby!" Yang, Weiss, and Blake yelled in fear. She stared up into his blood red eyes and did the first thing that came to mind, she kissed him. She continued this as she felt his arms relax and wrap around her protectively. Opening her eyes she saw that his eyes were normal but his facial markings remained. "Ruby?" Lucian asked in surprise. The girl only nodded and hugged him tighter while burying her head into his chest.

The others relaxed seeing that their friend/leader/ally was back to normal turned their attention to the ringleaders of the heist. The two groups prepared to engage again but were interrupted by an arrow flying between them and exploding. With that sirens could be heard in the distance. The young hunters looked around for the one that fired the arrow and found him standing on a stack of crates. To most of their surprise, they saw it was Professor Longbow holding his prized bow in his hand. Upon hearing the sirens, the White Fang, DDG and the two ringleaders left. 'Again four fouls and their mates stop my plans' Nemesis thought to himself.

~~Later~~

After giving the authorities a modified story of what happened, team LAVM and RWBY returned to Beacon. Sun and Penny fled the scene as soon as the sirens were heard. After arriving the teams split up. Vlade and Weiss returned to the dorms for rest while the others went to find places to talk. The first to find one was Ashura and Yang. The sat next to eachother under a tree, trying to absorb what happened earlier. Yang was the first to break the silence. "Ashura, thank you for saving me tonight. I can't thank you enough." Ashura simply smiled and grabbed her hand, "My dear Yang, I would do anything for you because you are the one I want to spend my life with." Yang could only blush as she leaned her head onto his shoulder. They turned to face each other as a new emotion over took them. In seconds they were in a deep kiss, not parting until they needed air. "So are we dating now my dear?" Ashura asked. "Does this answer your question?" Yang said as she kissed him again.

The next two find a spot to talk was Mephisto and Blake as the stood in front of the academy's statue. After a minute of silence, Blake finally asked, "Was it really you? Was it you that a saw on that day?" Mephisto turned towards her and gently pecked her forehead. He then looked her in the eye and said, "Yes, I guess we have to tell you everything now." Blake nodded and said, "We can do that later, I just want to enjoy this moment." With that she hugged him tightly and rested her head under his as her uncovered ears tickled his cheeks. Mephisto lightly chuckled and hugged her back. The last group to find a spot was Lucian and Ruby who chosed the roof. Lucian sighed and turned towards the young girl. He shook his head and said, "I guess I have to come clean. Ruby, I'm not human." "Well duh," Ruby began, "You're a Faunus." Lucian shook his head and said, "I'm not that either, I'm just a monster wearing human skin. I'm the same as those beasts we hunt." Ruby, now confused asked, "What are you trying to say?" Lucian turned away from her as tears formed in his eyes. "I'm half Grimm Ruby," He began. "I was created to be a weapon, an attack dog for Dark Dawn to be used as they please. I'm just a soulless monster at heart. I will understand that you hate me now. No one cares for a beast like me." But before he could leave, he felt a weight collide with his back and a pair of arms wrap around him. "I don't care!" Ruby yelled. "I'm never leaving you!" Lucian turned and looked at her with shock. "But I don't understand, you should hate me!" he yelled with disbelieve. Ruby shook her head and said as she tightened he grip, "I could never hate you Lucian. I love you!" With that declaration, the girl smashed her lips onto his in a deep loving kiss. He was hesitant at first but finally gave in and returned it with the same amount of love. The voices in his mind calmed and a new, softer one whispered, 'Protect mate, protect.' After a minute, they brook apart and smiled at each other. "I love you my little red rose" Lucian said softly. "I love you too my strong wolf" Ruby replied as she leaned into another kiss.

Outro: I Wanna Be from Soul Eater

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