Ruby's P.O.V
"Sora, Wait up!" Ruby ran after Sora as he bolted through the ruins. He still shouted out the same names, his voice the only thing keeping ruby tuned to where he was.
"Donald, Goofy…..Anyone!" to the left, Ruby turned a bend. Smack. Ruby sat up rubbing her head, she felt lightheaded and a little dizzy; she looked forward to see…Yang sitting in front of her, rubbing her head as well.
"Yang"
"Ruby" Ruby looked up to see both Weiss and Blake as well.
"Ruby, what are you doing here?" Weiss asked rather confused.
"Well this is our mission emphasis on the, our part!" Ruby said rather angrily, all three stepped back.
"Oh…um…yeah about that..." Yang struggled to find the right words.
"I think, what Yang meant to say, was that we couldn't wait for you, we had no idea when you'd wake" Blake managed to say what Yang could not. Ruby crossed her arms and stuck her nose up.
"Well I would have waited for you" Weiss went to speak but was interrupted by none other, then Sora.
"Donald, Goofy….Leon, Cid!" Sora spoke sprinting past them.
"Wait was that…." Ruby jumped up.
"Quickly after him!" Ruby ran off after Sora, the rest of the Team followed Ruby, not really questioning why they were chasing Sora.
The soon lost him in the maze of winding streets and dead end alleys.
"Great we lost him!"
"Why the hell are we chasing him anyways?"
"So we don't lose him…"
"Well guess we messed up with that"
"Heh….yeah" Yang then seemed to have a realisation of some kind.
"I think I know where he is, follow me!" Yang ran off.
"Don't you run off now Yang!" the three of them chased after her.
Sometime later
Ruby followed Yang into what seemed to be the town square, Sora knelt down in the centre looking at the ruined clock tower.
"How did you know he'd be here?" Yang smiled.
"I had a hunch" Ruby walked towards Sora.
"Sora…" no response, he just knelt there an empty look on his face.
"Sora…hey Sora" nothing, Ruby extended her hand, touching him on his shoulder, he flinched.
"R…Ruby…." Sora pulled her in for a hug, catching Ruby by surprise.
"U-u-um S-Sora w-what, are you-" Sora sobbed ever so slightly.
"Sora, what's wrong…" he looked up at Ruby his face slightly wet with tears.
"T-T-this is….I've been here before"
"Wait what…"
"Th-this is Traverse Town….I met Donald and Goofy here….w-what happened-" Sora then looked at Yang, who happened to be holding the Card they'd found earlier.
"Y-Yang that card where, did you find that" Yang looked at it.
"Oh this thing, we found it…here" Yang extended her hand to him handing the card. The blinding light came back and they saw this Traverse Town before it was ruined.
"L-Leon!" Sora spoke seeing the tall guy with the scar over his face, he stood weapon drawn. He was panting.
"Sora….what happened" he spoke as several heartless rushed him; he slashed at them resulting in their deaths. Sora then noticed the other two.
"C-cid….A-aerith!" he rushed forward, to the two limp bodies their eyes lifeless and empty.
"No…no-no-no-NO-NO!" he went to grab one of them, but went through them.
"Sora….why did you" Leon spoke falling back onto one knee.
"Leon, no I-I didn't" the heartless swarmed Leon as the vision began to fade, until they were back in the ruins. Sora dropped to his knees.
"H-how did this happen…." Several Soliders appeared, Sora summoned his keyblade.
"Y-you…..I'll kill you all!" Sora screamed out as he ran towards the heartless.
"Oh damn help him out!" Ruby spoke dashing forward into combat, the skirmish was short, brutal and one-sided. Sora punched a nearby wall when all heartless had been defeated.
"No…t-this can't be real, it just can't be" Ruby approached him.
"Sora what's wrong…what happened"
"Those three people you saw before…they, they were my friends….b-but I can't believe that, i-it has to be a lie, something the heartless made to try to drag me into despair" Sora spoke his conviction. He jumped up, no one said anything to him, they knew what he had just witnessed would have been hard on him.
"Come on, we have to put a stop to these heartless-" as Sora spoke a large group of Heartless materialized.
"Well we defiantly know that this is where they're coming from" Yang yelled, Sora charged forwards a war cry on his lips.
Once again Team RWBY had been dragged into a large fight with the heartless, Ruby swung crescent rose with ease cleaving the heatless around her in two, the Shadows may not have been very strong but it was their numbers that made them dangerous.
"Where the hell is JNPR?" Ruby asked.
"Back at the village, they're helping out the villagers with rebuilding" Yang yelled over to her while getting a Novashadow in a headlock. Ruby sighed knowing that she probably went by them without noticing.
"They said they'd get here as soon as they could" Weiss managed to get her word in before being rushed by several soldiers and a knight.
"Which probably won't be soon enough" Blake spoke while fending off a small group of Bandits. A loud explosion was heard as Sora shouted Firaga.
"Keep fighting we need to stop these things!" Ruby yelled following Sora's lead once again and charging forward. He was just about to strike a Shadow, when it disappeared; Sora stepped back as all the heartless around them simply, disappeared.
"What the…." Sora looked around as all the Heartless seemed to have disappeared, it was then he heard a voice, one that seemed familiar, yet nothing like a voice he'd heard before.
"Glorious….isn't it?" Sora turned to see a figure standing nearby in a long black coat, and a hood covering his face.
"You, Who are you!" They turned their head slightly.
"My name….My name is of no Importance…You should be more worried about what it is I'm doing" The hooded figure gave a slight wave of their hand, causing several Knights to appear. Sora took a step back as the Heartless appeared seemingly at this figures command.
"So, it's you who's responsible for the attacks on that village" Yang spoke as Team RWBY got into a battle formation with Sora.
"Oh….that little experiment…yes, that was my doing" Blake was visibly angry.
"What have you done with the people you took?" The figure chuckled at Blake's query.
"You're looking at them" he motioned towards the Lumbering knights. Sora seemed to understand.
"You made them nobodies….You bastard, we will stop you!" The figure gave a grunt.
"You know nothing of what we plan to do child…such arrogance, it was to be expected though" the figure clicked his fingers and the Knights charged, RWBY sprang into action, Sora by their side, the fight lasted for close to half an hour before the knights were killed, the figure sighed.
"It seems as if I underestimated you…team RWBY" he leapt off the roof he was standing on, gracefully landing with a light *Pat*. "It seems as if I must deal with you personally!" He drew a long singled edged blade, and rushed them, he was quick ridiculously so, the group had difficulties fighting him, even with their numbers; Ruby however soon shouted something.
"Freezer Burn!" Yang and Weiss both nodded and initiated a combo attack, Weiss stabbed the ground making a large patch of ice, Yang then struck it causing a large fog to fall on them, Sora then rushed the figure *Clang* he parried they traded blows neither able to strike even with team RWBY's help Sora seemed to be at a disadvantage, it was a this time two words formed in Sora's mind he had no real Idea why, but he knew what he had to do, he leapt back to Ruby's side.
"Ruby I have an Idea"
"I'm all ears!"
Yang's P.O.V
This guy was fast, it was difficult to hit him, and difficult to block, Blake seemed to have locked him into a form of swordplay as Weiss tried to attack with Glyphs, Ruby and Sora where nowhere to be seen, However soon Yang heard Ruby's voice.
"Checkmate!" Weiss rushed in to aid Blake; just what was she planning to do, Weiss was unable to change the fight and was sent flying. "Bumblebee!" Yang quickly rushed forwards to aid Blake, but yet again they both failed.
"Ha, is this seriously the best you have, Pathetic!"
"Kingdom Rose" Yang looked up at the joined voices of Sora and Ruby who were hurtling down towards the hooded guy, Sora cast a constant Firaga behind as they were back to back, they then began to spin, creating tornado of fire, they landed, dead smack on the hooded guy and dust and smoke filled the air, it took a few seconds for the air to settle, when it did they had realised something…they'd missed. The hooded figure stood back on the roof, manically laughing.
"Oh, Children this was most enjoyable…but I can no longer afford to play these frivolous games with you, tell your village that they shall be safe, I have all I need from here" The figure then disappeared as he did it seemed as if a weight had been lifted, there was a change in the atmosphere and things seemed…lighter.
"Well….that was fun" Yang joked as she panted.
"Yeah…let's do this again sometime, I'll bring chips and dip" Sora joked seemingly having regained his usual demeanour. Yang followed up but made things incredibly awkward.
"You know Sora, when I pictured us panting together, I had a different Idea entirely" Sora raised his hands and walked away.
"Whelp, I'm out!" Yang burst into laughter.
Ruby's P.O.V
Ruby smiled as she saw that Sora had returned to his usual self, the way he was before was…a little scary.
"So what do we do now Ruby?" Weiss asked as she limped over gripping her arm, she had taken quite the beating, they all had.
"We go back to the village…"
"And do what, exactly?'
"Tell them what he told us…that there safe" Blake spoke up.
"But he's still out there!" Ruby sighed.
"I know…but they don't need to know that" Sora then entered the conversation.
"Ruby's right, they don't need to know, Heartless live off the fear people have, their doubt and uncertainty, their anger and their hare, much like the Grim of this world, if we remove this fear, these emotions, they should go away or at the very least the attacks will only occer after a great amount of time and even then the heartless would be in a weakened state" All of them looked at one another, Blake and Wiess seemed a little unsure about lying to the people about this threat, but what choice did they have.
Sometime later
"Th-This is incredible news!" Rote spoke with glee. "Although it is a shame you were unable to bring our people back, we are thankful that you have stopped the heartless, this calls for a celebration!" the villagers around them began to cheer. Ruby rubbed the back of her neck and blushed; she didn't expect this kind of reaction. "Please we ask that you and your friends stay, as guests of honour" Team JNPR stood nearby, Jaune had a slight smile on his face, Phyra was also smiling, Ren had a smirk on his face a rare occurrence, and Nora was literally jumping for joy.
"Well I see we missed out on all the fun" Jaune spoke walking towards the Batter Team RWBY. Yang stretched resulting in a loud crack sound from her arms and back.
"Trust me Jaune…that was in no way fun, ugh I think I'm going to have to sleep through the rest of the holidays!"
"You won't be sleeping for very long; School starts up again in a few days" Yang Groaned.
"Don't remind me!" Ruby then noticed Sora he stood away from the group and was looking off into the forest tree tops. She walked towards him.
"Hey Sora…you okay?" Sora flinched not expecting to have been interrupted from his ponderings.
"Oh-Yeah I'm fine, it's just…"
"Just what? If something is the matter feel free to tell me about it" Sora gave Ruby a strange look due to her choice of words. "US I-I meant, us any of us in the team"
"Well…it was that guy, the hooded one…I can't help but feel as if I know him, his voice was familiar yet…it was like I'd never heard it before…"
"Strange…Well if you want my opinion; try not to worry about it!" Sora turned towards Ruby.
"Why not?"
"It's something Yang once said to me…There's no use in worrying about what has been, or what has yet to happen, all we can do is smile and walk forward" Sora seemed surpised.
"Yang said that…Wow I'd no idea she could be so deep" Both of them looked towards the Blonde Bombshell as she was playing with a couple of kids.
"Now come on, it's time to celebrate!" Ruby grabbed his wrist and began to pull him towards everyone. Sora went to protest but decided not to, no use in trying to stop Ruby once she was set on something.
Meanwhile
"OH Come on, it's not that hard to move this stuff without causing such a damned mess!" Roman yelled at the White Fang members moving crates of Dust.
"Oh look the ape's grunting again…" Roman turned.
"Well if it isn't my two favourite Lay about" Roman addressed Emerald and Mercery as they approached him. "And to what do I owe this suffering?"
"Now-Now Roman, that's hardly anyway to speak to your colleagues" Cinder stepped out from the shadows.
"Sorry, sorry…you know how I am though, nothing I like more than rifling feathers…No Offence intended Jerry!" Roman turned and shouted to one of the White Fang lieutenants.
"Of course…it's one of the many reasons I picked you for this job…be grateful for it"
"I-I am it's just…well I don't like being in the dark, especially when you bring new people into the fold"
"I'm standing right here you know" Roman nearly jumped at the voice from behind him.
"When the hell did you get there shorty?" The hooded figure didn't speak; he walked forward for a bit and stopped next to Cinder.
"My agent done his job, he reported back a few minutes ago, the test run was successful" Cinder smiled.
"Good" she turned to Roman again "You said you disliked being in the dark…well then, I wish to ask you something" Roman took a step back as a pool of darkness began to form in front of him and a tall Shadowy being arose from it. "Do you know what this is?"
"Yes…it's a Heartless, I remember the briefing on the things" Cinder smiled again this time a bit more sinister.
"Then you know what it is we wish to do with them…right" Roman's eyes widened.
"I-I had my suspicions but…I didn't actually think" the hooded figure spoke.
"Not thinking seems to be something you specialize in" Resulting in a giggle from Emerald and a chuckle from Mercery.
"Now-Now, all of you play nice…okay" All nodded and spoke in unison.
"Yes Ma'am!" Cinder smirked as the hooded figure began to walk into the shadows again.
"May I inquire as to where you're going?" the figure paused.
"I'll be back soon…you know what I'm going to do"
"I had no intention of stopping you" The figure disappeared into the shadows leaving the group to discuss their plans.
Boop! Chapter end! Yes-yes hello there again, bet you thought I was dead or in a coma or something like that but nope, Real life has been a bit of trouble lately for me, but I've cleaned up that mess, so I'm back and will hopfully be able to get shit done now. Anywho the usual Jazz here, A review is always welcome, if you wish to criticize make it classy and if you know someone who might like this by all mean share it with'em, until then Ta-ta!
