Chapter IX – The Greek and Roman
"What do you think that was?" I asked Iris as we ran to where the explosion occurred. "I don't know. We'll find out when we get there, though." She answered, hair flying behind her.
We quickly got to where we saw the explosion. "That's not good." Ruby said. "What is it?" I asked, drawing the Bowmerang in its Bow Form and putting an arrow to the string. "You see the guy pointing his cane at the boy tied up in the center? That's Roman Torchwick, a very heavily wanted criminal in our world." Blake said. "And he's working with the White Fang by the looks of it." I said, scanning the circle of grunts surrounding them. "How did they even get here?" Weiss asked. "More than likely how you guys got here. This really shows just how badly we need to get this problem fixed up." Bob said.
"What's Jack doing here? He shouldn't even be here." Iris said, her eye color changing to blood red. "What happened here?" I asked her. "Let's just say we had a really bad experience here. It's best to avoid the area entirely, but first we need to get him out of there." The girl said, drawing a sword and shield out of nowhere. "Alright. Bob, Iris, Blake, and Yang, come with me. Ruby and Weiss will cover us." I said, getting nods of agreement from everybody.
With that plan in my, we moved out. "Let's split up, that way we could surprise them from all sides." I whispered. "What will the signal be?" Yang asked. "Let's just say it'll be a really big explosion." I answered, lighting my arrow on fire. "Alright. Now let's get going." Bob said and we went in our separate directions.
I found a good hiding spot on one of the higher stacks of storage containers. To keep from being noticed by the White Fang grunts, I had put on my hood crouched as I slowly made my way to the end of the large metal box. Suddenly, I jumped out of hiding and as I was falling, I shot my fire arrow right at Torchwick, surprising all of the enemy with my sudden appearance. When the arrow hit my target, he was sent flying back pretty darn far due to the explosion. Their surprise gave me enough to cut Jack loose as everbody else I had with me came in, most of them attacking the grunts with the exception of Iris.
"Are you alright, Jack?" Iris asked, checking him over for any injuries. "Yeah. I'm fine." He answered, shrugging her off. Then what was the explosion?" I asked. "Oh. That was that guy over there firing a warning shot. It nearly hit me, but I was still surprised by what that cane does." The boy answered. "Yeah. That is kind of surprising. By the way, here are your claws. We found them while we were looking for you." I said, handing him his weapons. "Thanks. Now it's time to put these guys down." Jack said, his eyes changing from the normal red to a dark red as charged.
A multi-colored flare suddenly flew past where Jack had been and I heard a scream and an explosion as it hit either Ruby or Weiss. I was pretty sure it was the latter. I looked at where the flare came and was not too terribly surprised to see Roman back up on his feet, dusting off his jacket. "Go take care of the grunts, Iris. I'll take care of this guy." I said, changing the Bowmerang to its Edge Form and drawing my sword.
"Alright. But be careful." Iris said before charging at a female grunt with her shield up front. "So, Roman, ready to meet the Greek? Cause here I come!" I said, charging right at him in a fiery haze. I slashed both of my blades at him and he just blocked my attack, countering with swing of his cane.
I immediately backed away, leaving behind a fiery afterimage of myself in the process. As his weapon hit it, it exploded, staggering him and leaving him open to an attack. As I charged forward again, Blake suddenly appeared from behind him. After a swift series of blows to the back, she kicked him in my direction. I stopped my charge and right as he was about to hit me, I put the momentum from my charge into a flip kick that sent him skyward.
I launched myself right at him, hitting him with one attack after another and then sending him back to the ground with a powerful kick to the chest. Roman ended up in a crater that was several feet deep. "Had enough?" I asked him as he got up when I landed lightly on my feet. "The party's not over yet, kid." Roman responded, pointing his cane at me. I felt time slow down as he fired a flare at me.
I switched to the Bowmerang's Bow Form again and fired a fire arrow as time regained its normal speed. The explosive projectiles met right in the middle, creating a large dust cloud. "We need to get out of here. There's too much White Fang coming out of nowhere." Bob said, running up to me after he banged a couple of grunts' heads together. "Alright. Let's gather everybody and get out of here." I said as I countered another flare with another fire arrow. With that, we got everybody else's attention and fled the area.
"Now that was crazy. And you really need to get some weapons, Bob. Fists alone aren't going to do everything." I said as he wrapped his hands in bandages. "You're just saying that because you can't even make a fist." My cousin said back. "I might not be able to, but I make up for that with my weapons and kicks." I said, finishing counting my arrows. I had luckily only used three tonight.
"Okay. You two can settle your combat differences later. Right now, it's just been a long night and we all need our sleep." Weiss said, yawning. "Alright." Bob and I said simultaneously. We had run to the house after we escaped mostly unscathed, making it as all the lights in the houses except for Iris and Jack's went out for the night. With that, we all said our good nights and settled in for the night. "Thanks for letting us stay. And thanks for coming, you two. We could use the help." I said, nodding to Iris and Jack's parents and then Iris and Jack as we left the house. "We should probably look for any signs as to where those guys went after we had left." Blake suggested.
"Yeah. That way, we could get everything back to normal faster. I responded.
When we got to the area where we saved Jack, we saw somebody else there as well. And it wasn't a White Fang grunt.
