Authors Note- Hey readers! the next chapters out... finally. I really apologize for the extremely long wait but I've been very very sick, Bronchitis to be exact. This chapter isn't too long sadly but i wanted to get something out there. So I'd like to thank those who posted reviews and messaged me with criticisms to help me get better at writing, you know who you are, so thank you for that. So without any more delays ill hope to finish up this story soon! The final chapter is coming soon! (Hopefully).
-Chapter 9-
-The Defense of Vale-
-2 hours after I am New old wise and foolish-
Kai
We landed an hour ago in the industrial district of Vale. We were to stay here, at this power plant that supplied electricity to all the strong points left in Vale until a new group of soldiers were relocated here we'd have to defend it at all costs, if this went down, we would all go down. After that I guess we would go to our assigned strong point and defend that. But for now I was more concerned about Sky, whom I was talking to in the halls. We had picked up right where we left off. I knew I should be doing something more productive but I honestly didn't really care. As long as we were together.
Suddenly there was a huge vibration, followed by a loud thud. And i mean LOUD. It happened again
and again,
and again.
"We should go check it out" Sky said, quickly grabbing her cloak and sword from a coat hanger.
"Fine. Always at the worst times huh?" I say, donning my cloak and sheathing my glaive.
"Yeah. well catch up later" Sky whispered in my ear and giving a light kiss on the cheek.
She said scoldingly
Thankfully Romeo turned the corner to end this odd topic.
"Hey you guy's know what that is?" He asked.
"We're on our way to go figure that out." I explained.
"Cool, lets go." He replies, walking next to me.
We continued down the halls until we reached the doors that lead outside, where telephone poles with electric wires lined the sky. With a quick look to the right I see the problem. I don't know what to call it but whatever it was called, it was huge. A gigantic grimm creature with what looked like cracked leathery skin with the signature bone white armor on its face and two tusks rammed the side of the building, right next to the reactor room that supplied the power to Vale.
"Oh shit..." I say. Romeo had already began running at the beast, his swords drawn.
"What is that?" I say as me and sky began making our way to the grimm, drawing our weapons.
"It's called a Bone Crusher. It's got a tough hide so be careful with your strikes because it may break your weapon instead of its skin." She replied.
"Wonderful..." I mumble, I am faintly aware of some footsteps behind us, hearing the feet hit the dirt between the thuds.
Romeo was already at the scene, trying to get the beasts attention so it would stop breaking the wall that was just held together by a thin strand of good luck. He pelted its hind leg with his pistols, barely showing any effect.
"Sky you can phase through things right? Like semblance wise." I asked vaguely aware of her abilities.
"Yeah, im surprised you remember." She replied.
"Of course I do... listen we need to focus. Now we need to kill this thing, you think you can pierce its armor?" I say firmly.
"I'm sure I can." She replies confidently.
We stopped right in front of the elephant like grimm which continued ramming the side of the wall.
"Ok lets see what we can do t..." I was cut off.
"Hey fatty!" Chen yelled, holding a white and dark green rocket launcher in his hands. "Try to ignore this!" He yells. He pulled the trigger and a huge stream of red dust comes after that. It made its mark right on the neck of the Bone Crusher. Realizing it has to get rid of this threat before proceeding to ram the wall, it turned, a bit phased by the dust propelled rocket but ultimately was far from finished. It began charging at Chen who was right behind us.
"Oh crap" I think before rolling out of the way of the Bone Crusher. It was a wide creature and I almost got crushed under foot even after rolling.
Standing up I draw my glaive, purple gusts swirling around it. "Well that's new..." I think.
Now team JNPR and RWBY come storming out. The Bone Crusher stopped its charge after Chen dodged it's attacks. They released a hail merry of shots and bullets, only Ruby's actually piercing through the rock hard hide. Romeo jumped in, swords spinning around him in a whirl, the wind under his feet, but his swords didn't have any effect. I dove under the beast that was revving up for another charge, slicing upwards causing a small gash. Weiss jumped around with her glyphs, slashing the back or hind legs until her rapier became a white color, she dashed through the giant beast causing an immense amount of pain for the grimm creature. Sky responded to this and phased through its armor and body, using her sword to pierce the Grimm like a bullet. But it still stood and then charged at the majority if us, most of the group dodged
except for Jaune.
"Jaune! Move!" We all yelled.
But instead of that he jumped, landing on the grimm's tusks, it stopped and thrust its head upwards, sending him onto its back, he stood before the thing could buck him off and with all his power, sliced at it's unprotected neck, cleanly cutting it off. The rest fell to the ground. And he fell off.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha said, rushing to his side. "That was amazing!" She said, holding him. "But don't ever scare me like that again!" She said, giving him a light smack across the face.
"That was clever though." Ren said.
"I agree" I said.
"Wait hold on! Ren! You're bleeding..." Romeo said astoundedly.
Looking over I saw what he was so surprised by. Ren was bleeding black blood.
"Why is your blood black?" I asked.
"I don't know! This hasn't happened before!" He said frantically back, soon more gashes appeared through his skin. all bleeding out black blood.
"He didn't have black blood before we left." Nora said nervously.
"Then it must have been from the temple when some of it broke the dark forces had nowhere to go so they
got inside you." Ruby said dismally.
"We don't know that." Blake said.
"It would make sense" Weiss said.
Suddenly Ren cried out in pain, clutching his head. His face full of agony. "No, no, no, no, no" he said before screaming, howling In pain as his body went from himself to something... that I couldn't explain.
He stood before us a beowolve, but instead of heartless white or red eyes he had pink, he also had a pink glow to him. He still had a soul. He lunged forward, but hesitantly he did so. He was still inside of that mind.
"He's in there. And we need to get him out." I said. Seeing Nora's terrified face relax a little, turning into a scowl.
He kept slashing at us. But held back just enough to miss every time. How long he was able to do that for was unknown to me. Suddenly he hit Nora. A long scratch going down her arm. His eyes looked terrified but his body did against his will, it growled. Ren was in there but this thing. Whatever it is. Kept his body in its control. I could see his strength waning, his eyes looked tired and sad. It must be taking him over, that couldn't happen. Ren was quiet and I knew next to nothing about him but that didn't mean I didn't care for him. So I did what only my brother Heath would do.
I tapped my glaive on the beowolves chest. And the blade became dark again. Instead of my purple aura swirling around it, it was now black. I had just siphoned the dark energies inside him. That was surprising.
This time the beowolve yelped and collapsed, dark plumes of black erupted off of its body until Ren was there. Panting and... with no clothes. He then blacked out.
"So for the record I have no idea what happened. I was going to kill him." I say over the long silence.
-3 Hours Later-
It was now late in the evening, Ren was now clothed and we were making dinner for ourselves. And by we. I mean me. Prior to cooking on a rusty hot plate with limited supplies that we found in the electric plant, I asked what everyone's favorite food was. Ruby had said cookies, Blake liked tuna, Romeo like pizza, and Ren wanted soup. No one else had a preference. So that's why I made soup, because I really only said that so I could see what Ren wanted, he probably felt horrible and out of place for what happened to him and what he technically did. And that was actually all I had to make. It was a soup with noodles, meats, and various vegetables. Not the best I could do but good enough. I then brewed some tea. Like earlier on the airship. Although not everyone got to try it so hey. Why not now?
I brew the best tea in Vytal.
So I walk out to a makeshift dining area we just made with a platter of bowls and cups. The table consisted of empty crates and boxes with smaller crates and boxes for chairs. What a fancy gathering.
"Alright, so if you don't like it go shove it up your ass because you forced me to cook." I said, it was
supposed to be a joke but I think I was truthful in that statement. Luckily I got a few laughs.
I passed out bowls and we ate with utensils we found in the crappy "kitchen" and after I finished I went back to get my tea. Grabbing my bag on the way back to the table. When I got back most of my teammates were done. I set the tea on the table and a lot of cups next to it. I saw eagerness in my friends eyes, which included Sky, Chen, and Blake mainly. The others looked a little uneasy about trying another one of my dishes. I didn't really care if they liked the soup, I did care that everyone liked my tea, if they didn't I'd probably be depressed for a little while.
"Drink it, I swear on my life that that is actually edible contrary to the soup." I tried to sound convincing.
Luckily everyone picked up a cup, some chugged it, instantly regretting that they did. Warm faces surrounded me now, I still got it. The rest of the relatively large pot was gone by the end of dinner.
"So the soup sucked but... the tea. I don't even like tea. But that was amazing." Romeo said.
"Good. It's a hobby of mine." I reply nonchalantly. "So we're staying the night here?"
"I believe so." Pyrrha said.
"Probably leaving tomorrow, that's my guess." Jaune said after that.
"Ugh... why can't we just get this over with. I wanna get a good nights rest for once." I say, half to myself.
"I'll take first watch." I added as I walked outside into the night sky.
Chen
God this was awkward. I knew next to no one here... and even if I tried to make friends Sky gets more of the conversation pieces. Whatever.
At this point I was the only one sitting at the table except Ren. Oh fuck it ought to try my luck.
"So Ren..." I say awkwardly. Great start.
He looked up, a quizzing look on his face.
"How ya feeling?" I asked, his expression went a bit sour, he did his best to hide it.
"Fine..." he said, you could literally feel the awkward hanging over us.
"Good, glad to see you're alright."
"Thanks."
"So for the sake of conversation, what's your place in this world?" I asked, jeez I was bad at socializing.
"Well I just don't like seeing people sad and helpless so I guess that's why I became a hunter."
"How about your girlfriend? You guys meet this year?"
"Girlfriend!? What? Nora!? No she's not my girlfriend!" He said in an uncharacteristic outburst.
"Woah woah, my bad sorry. So wait..." I paused before saying the next thought, hating the words coming
out of my mouth." You do know she's VERY interested in you right?"
"What!? Nora's not interested in me. Why does everyone always think that. We're best friends, why is that such a big deal?"
"Come on dude. Seriously? She may be a little ADD but that shouldn't affect how many signals she sets off around you.
"Mmm..." he grumbles, ending the conversation instantly.
"Ok... sorry, I didn't realize I was intruding apon a soft spot, but I gotta know this" I begin, making up my question now. "Why the coat?"
"Oh my coat? It was a gift, I've worn it ever since." He said, sounding proud of it. "Why do you ask?"
"Well I used to have a coat like it, I still have it but I don't want it to get dirty." I explained.
"Ah, so if I may ask, what exactly is the "guild" you all were in, I know it's about balence and Kai's the prince, but where was it, how big was it, and why has no one here heard of it?"
"Well, the guild was huge and it was hidden in a valley that was full of flowers and a river, it was like a paradise there, thats why my parents lived there, but now its probably ashes and dust." I answered. "And we were a guild of ninjas basically... we're not supposed to be widely known."
We talked well into the evening, even though we should have gotten some sleep. The biggest battle of the century was about to happen. Finally I made a friend on my own.
-Romeo-
-20 Hours Later-
Was it wrong to sleep with someone after only knowing each other for a month or so? Not anything intimate or gross but just sleeping together? I hope not because I actually got a good sleep for once. But now, laying in a pile of broken bricks and tiles thinking about that moment, wishing that I could go back to that, was all I had left. I jumped up, away from the bricks and tiles that I had been knocked into, and used all my remaining aura to blast the sundowner down to the ground. Kai ran for the kill.
Authors Note- So we see some problems arise and fall, this was more of a filler chapter because the next chapters are going to be super action packed and hopefully emotional, we'll see how well I do.
-Important-
Since this story is about over, I'm going to be doing a sequel to it and I will also be starting another story that will be based more on beacon and the school instead of outside events. So I need some OC's for the beacon focused story. If you have one PM me ASAP, Just put their info in this sort of format and whatever extra stuff you have for them. I'm probably going to take a maximum of 8.
Name:
Nickname:
Relations: (I.e. Yang=Sister to Ruby, Friends, Etc.)
Semblance:
Aura Color/Appearance:
Appearance:
Personality/History:
Weapon Description:(I.e Name, Color, Type of weapon)
Extra's:(I.e. Pets, Hobbies, Love interests)
