Rescue Team
"You did what?!" Ruby asked angrily when she questioned Weiss about what was up with Odell.
"I kicked him out, told him to come back until he's done with his fits and constant apologizing. I couldn't stand it anymore." Weiss quickly said back, not even disgruntled by the anger in Ruby's voice.
"That wasn't your call, and besides he went into the forest!"
"What's your point?"
"The Grimm have been getting strangely more cooperative with each other, and a lot stronger as well as smarter. Something's different about them and the woods are much more dangerous than they were before." Ruby's voice had a hint of worry for her friend.
"Odell is more than capable of taking care of himself, I'm sure he'll be fine and back in a couple of days."
"No, you don't understand! The Grimm...they're different than what they usually are. It's hard to explain but I'm telling you, Odell is in danger if he stays out there!"
"Ruby, you're being ridiculous! Odell will be fine!"
"And if he's not?" Blake asked from the doorway of her and Yang's bedroom, they had both gone to see what the yelling was about, and they found the topic at hand, rather interesting.
"He will be, you've all seen him fight. He will be fine, I know he will." Weiss's voice became less authoritative as she carried on that sentence.
"See? You are worried that something's going to happen." Yang said, walking over to the heiress and putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Of course I'm worried, it's pouring rain out there, the Grimm apparently are a huge threat now, and Odell is out living in the woods somewhere. How could I not be worried?" Weiss felt a few tears trickle down her face, but quickly wiped them away.
"Everyone get some rest, We're finding Odell in the morning." Ruby ordered, and everyone nodded and listened to their team leader, before Weiss went to her room, Ruby gave her a comforting hug. "Don't worry, we'll find him, we always do."
"Thank you, Ruby." Weiss smiled and gave her leader a kiss on the cheek, as she was accustomed to doing whenever Ruby made her feel better.
They both headed to bed, but only Weiss had trouble sleeping that night, practically praying that they would find Odell and he would be alive. She thought about the past four years they had spent together, their first meeting, when he started to grow on her, their first kiss, everything. She realized just how much they had been through together, this argument should not have affected her as much as it did, they had been through hell and back several times and she got upset because he felt that he could've protected her? She vowed to herself that she would never get upset over anything so stupid ever again, they were going to find him tomorrow and she was going to apologize. With this new mindset, she closed her eyes and finally got some sleep.
Odell awoke the next morning and looked outside the cave entrance, it was still dark. He guessed it was about 3 in the morning, he tried going back to sleep, but failed at doing so. After a few more minutes he left his cave and went for a walk, it was still raining, but it was letting up.
On his walk he thought about things, he thought about why Weiss was angry and why she kicked him out of the apartment, he thought about how he just wanted to hug her and beg to be let back in. The forest wasn't a terrible place to live, but after living in Vale for a while, he wasn't sure he wanted to sleep on the unforgiving cave floor again.
He also wasn't sure it was safe to live there for long periods of time anymore, the Grimm he had fought seemed to be more strategic with their attacks, and he had never seen different species work to together like that before, then he remembered the attack on Vale by the Grimm. There were so many, and they all worked together. That's when it hit him, both literally and metaphorically.
He was kicked in the head and it sent him stumbling to the side, when he looked over, there were two men, in White Fang getups and they were both faunus as well. Odell knew this would be difficult to win, they could see much better than he could with the moon still being his only source of light.
He pulled out Crescent Ballista and smirked "You want to go? I've killed plenty of you before."
"Oh, I don't think you quite understand, we're not some wannabe White Fang members, we are White Fang. We aren't as dead as you thought." The one on the right said, pulling out a broadsword that seemed to be combined with a shotgun. The other one drew an axe that looked to be combined with a sniper, special weapons for a flunkies? Something wasn't right here.
"Bullshit, I finished off the White Fang years ago, you're just a couple of punks who got their hands on some weapons you probably can't even use."
"You're going to be in for a surprise then aren't cha?"
The two men jumped into the air and began firing at Odell. Odell responded by spinning his scythe, blocking the incoming shots as fast as he could. He had definitely not been expecting them to know how to use the weapons they carried.
He teleported behind the men and swung, hitting both of them and sending them into a nearby tree and a further away tree. The man with the broadsword stood up and charged Odell, his sword collided with Odell's scythe and they both struggled for control of the engagement, but Odell had a surprise for this one, he switched Crescent Ballista to dagger mode and rolled, slicing the man's leg in doing so. The man dropped to a knee in agony, and as Odell went to finish him off, there was a shot heard and a bullet going through Odell's knee.
How did something penetrate his aura so easily? He fell to his knee that didn't have a bullet hole in it and dropped Crescent Ballista.
The other man walked up and helped his partner up "Aura piercing bullets, special made by a friend of yours. Next time we meet, you're dead." The two men walked off, leaving Odell struggling to stand, he grabbed Crescent Ballista and used it to help him stand.
"I think, they destroyed my knee cap, fuck." He used his weapon as more of a cane and tried making his way back to the cave, hoping no Grimm would meet him on the way there.
Team RWBY awoke and immediately got everything ready and headed out, the rain had become just a small drizzle as they headed off to the forest with haste. They were determined to find their friend and they knew the first place to look, his cave he had lived in up until they got the apartment.
They were surprised to see no Grimm as they made their way to Odell's cave, had he been doing a house cleaning last night? It was a possibility. Further into the forest however, they spotted two blood trails.
"Which one do you think it is?" Weiss asked as she knelt down and examined the two different trails.
"My guess is the one that leads in the direction of his cave, is his." Blake said, following the trail with her eyes.
"Then who could this one's belong too?" Weiss asked following the other trail.
"Probably another thug, and then while Odell was fighting him a Grimm attacked?" Yang suggested, thinking of what could injure Odell and cause him to let someone get away.
"That makes the most sense." Ruby was already heading down the path Blake suggested "Let's go, we have a friend to find." The team followed her, her enthusiasm and determination for everything is what made her such a good leader, and despite being the youngest, she was the most respected by not just her team, but all of Vale.
After walking a little longer, they saw a body crawling, and the person's weapon being pulled with them, the weapon was Crescent Ballista, the person was Odell.
"Odell!" Weiss yelled and immediately ran over to him, trying her best to help him up "What happened to you?!"
"Thugs, claim to be White Fang, special weapons, Aura piercing bullets, friend of mine, knee cap." He passed out from the loss of blood, and the rest of the team rushed over to help.
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