Chapter 10: The Early Years: Part 2
Ruby stand over the dead and evaporizing body of one the famous and dreaded beowolves Cuttermen. The leader then quickly gave orders to his soldiers. "Cuttermen has been killed! Now! All units forward! Kill the grimms! Kill them all!"
The soldiers and guard quickly did as they were told as they kill every grimms in their sights as they run by pass Ruby as she watch them kill all of the grimms. A creep suddenly burst from the ground and attempt to attack Ruby from behind, only for her to cheerfully backslash and kill the poor creep with Cresent Rose without missing a beat before she decide to help the soldiers to get rid of the remaining grimm around the castle.
Unknown to her, she was watched by someone wearing an eagle-like armor with a couple of guys on a observation deck of the castle as speak to himself. "Hmm, she's a decent hunter even if she's not a official one herself due to the fall of Beacon."
One of them spoke to him. "Compared to you, I wonder who's better? I'm placing my bet on her."
"Are you nuts?" One of them ask the other. "She's still a hunter. Bloody of course she's on a totally different level when it come to power, right Stultus?"
Stultus was silent for a moment before he spoke and order his soldiers. "Let's get going. Is already defended, so we don't need to be here anymore."
With that order from their leader, his group immobilize from the castle as he said before, it was already defended against the grimms, so they don't to be here any longer.
Later that afternoon...
The leader of the castle give the bag full of the reward money, along with the bounty money on Cuttermen to Ruby. "Here you go, $1250 pounds, with rest being the $750 pound on Cuttermen due to you killing him."
Ruby grab the bag full of money and put it in the bag that was behind her. That was when the leader spoke to her.
"You are pretty good... a hunter like you could beat Cuttermen despite being so young and the grimm taking down so many hunters... pretty impressive." The leader spoke to her before he ask her of something. "How about you come work with me? It's pretty good, you'll get triple the salary. A hunter like you won't have a chance like this again. What do you say?"
Ruby start walking away from him... before she turn her head at him and smile as she decline that. "No thank. Even I wish for that, there still a bigger world out there. So... bye~!"
And with that, Ruby start skipping away to another place while the leader just scratch his head of just wondering how a cheerful little girl like her could such a hunter with many skills for her age.
Later... in the field of Vytal...
As Ruby was humming and skipping along the road that goes through the field with couple of some rock erupting from the ground, she was saw by someone, a platypus faunus, from the hill as he saw her coming up the road to near where he and other members of the group, both humans and faunus, were resting at before he told to his other friends to see this. "Hey guys! There's someone coming!"
"Huh?"
They, few of them human and the one of the other is a faunus, quickly got up to where the guy saw Ruby and they saw her walking along the road as she hum to herself. One of them immediately recongize her. "Hey, isn't that's the hunter girl who killed Cuttermen?"
"She's an cutie!"
"It's none of our business." One of them, Douglas, said to them before he continue to speak to them. "She probably got a decent pay... with the money for killing Cuttermen. What we want dreamed for just walked our way."
Douglas then turn his head and ask Stultus, the leader of the group, laying and resting on the fine grass of the field with his armor beside him. "What shoud we do, Stultus?"
"... Do whatever you want..." Stultus told him as he was resting, which Douglas grin and chuckle at this chance as he told the other guys. "Good. You guys follow me."
"Ah? Are gonna kill her?" One of them asked.
"Yeah, now let's go." Douglas said his answer to them as they walk to their motorcycles, that was when they heard someone giggle and saw it was the second in command, a shark faunus by the name of Cask when he ask the second in command. "What? Cask, what's so funny?"
"With your ability, Douglas, you won't able to kill her, she'll just make a fool out of you."
"... Well, let me tell you." Douglas said to the second in command. "I was gonna kill that grimm, Cuttermen, for fame anyhow... but that stupid little girl stole the moment from me and killed Cuttermen first."
"You might died, you know." Cask warned him, which cause him to be a little nervious, but he just scoff at it. "Well, let's see about that."
"Stupid Douglas." One of them, a blonde human from a circus show named Edward, said while he watch them get on their motorcycle as he sharpen his daggers with a sharping stone (or a steeling, I don't know) before he spoke to Stultus. "Can't we leave this way, Stultus?"
Stultus was silent as he resting against the grass.
Ruby was walking along the road before she stop she stop when she heard a somekind of sound, like a motorcycle starting before it begun to run, before Douglas and his guys, as they were on the motercycle, appear from the hills and going around her with their motorcycles and their weapons out as Douglas shotued. "Let's attack, Dan!"
Ruby then throw her bag against the ground before one of them, Dan, turn his motorcycle toward her and charged at her before he attempt to swing his sword at Ruby, only for her to cheerfully jump over him and kick his back, causing him to fall from his motorcycle and on to the ground. Ruby then look at before she smile as she made a wanking gesture to one of them to come and get her.
Then one of them, bigger than the last guy, charge at her while swinging his triple-head flail weapon before he swung it at her, but Ruby easily dodge it and she kick his shoulder, throwing him off of his motorcycle before she look at them with a cocky smirk before she spoke to them. "I'm too fast for you guys to hit~!"
Then Ruby made a akanbe, loser, and sticking her tongue out gesture at them, which made Douglas incredible pissed at her as she was making a fool out of him as he shouted at her out of pure rage. "YOU MOTHERFUCKING SON OF A BITCH!"
"Hey, that's not nice!" Ruby said.
The other members and parts of the group was laughing at them for trying and failing fight a girl who is not even official hunter. "DOUGLAS IS GETTING HIS ASS KICKED BY A LITTLE GIRL!"
"Douglas, you started to this fight with this woman and now it's your problem now. So good luck getting your balls destroyed by her."
"Man, they're getting destroyed by her without her even bother to use her weapon!"
Cask just sighed at this predicament before Stultus spoke to his second in command. "Cask... Go handle this."
"What? Douglas is the one who caused this trouble." Cask said, attempt to reason with the leader, only for him to give a glare to his second in command before his second did he told his second in command to do. "Alright, fine."
"NOW COME AT ME YOU BITCH!" Douglas yelled at Ruby, who then give him a death glare as she has a enough of him and he realized his mistake. 'Oh crap.'
Ruby then dashed at Douglas, only for her to heard a gun and dodge the bullet. Ruby turn her head to the right and see a motorcycle, being ridden by the second in command, coming down from the hill, which Douglas notice. "Cask! Finally come?"
"Can't help it, Stultus' orders." Cask told them before the second in command look at and turn the motorcycle around to face her. "You guys still back."
Cask then pull out a sword from the sheath attached to the motorcycle and charged at Ruby before Ruby step aside and Cask then attempted strike to her, only for Ruby to dodge Cask's every strikes on her before she kicked Cask in the face, causing the second in command to be knock of her motorcycle and her helmet, revealing that Cask was actually a woman no older than in her early 20s, with brown eyes and skin and black short, refine hair like a noble. Ruby was suprised by that revelation. 'Woah.'
Cask growled in anger of not able to hit and yet she was able to kick her off of her motorcycle before she yelled at her as she tried to kill her with her sword. "DAMN YOU!"
It was enough for Ruby to knock back into reality and dodge every sword strike from Cask while not fighting her back. The members of the groups were amazed and impressed. "She's second only to Stultus in terms of fighting ability, but yet not even Cask could lead a hit on her!"
'So good...!' Cask thought as she tried and fail to land even a hit on Ruby. 'She can dodge so fast.'
Cask unfortunately strike her sword so hard that it got stuck in the ground, that was when Ruby got close to her... and spoke to her. "Your face is quite pretty for a mercenaries, even are you pretty."
It cause Cask to blush at that statement, but the other just laugh at her, which she shouted at them. "OH SHUT UP!"
A spear then flew in between their faces and struck one of the rocks in the field, which shock both Ruby and Cask before they turn their head to see who thrown it. Who is reveal to be none other than Stultus in his eagle-like armor while riding his favorite motorcycle as he look at Ruby. Ruby look at him in wonderment of who he is before Cask spoke out his name. "STULTUS!"
'Stultus? That a pretty interest name.' Ruby thought to herself.
Douglas laugh at her while she wasn't paying attention to him. "Now you're dead now!"
Cask then warned him about Ruby. "Be careful, she is pretty dangerous even without killing someone!"
"... You're that good wihout even killing someone, are you?" Stultus asked Ruby, which she remain silent to him before he spoke to her as he pull out his rapier out of one of his two shealth attach to his belt. "Let's see your skills."
Stultus then drove his motorcycle toward Ruby at full speed before he stopped his bike as he swung his rapier at her, but she easily dodged it by arching backward before arching back where her body position was. Stultues was impressed by that to able predict his strike. 'She's good... but a little bit more training would have help her.'
Stultus then swing his rapier and struck the pressure point of the back of her neck, causing to fall to the ground. The group cheered at their leader winning.
"Bravo!"
"Just one strike!"
"Stultus is so great!"
Stultus look at the unconscious body of Ruby before Cask congratulated her leader. "That was great! With just one move!"
"That hunter was weak anyways." Douglas said, before Cask pointed at her blade at his neck, which cause to freeze in fear, as she spoke to him. "You have you and the other 3 own asses whoop by her, so your the weak one. Why do you think Stultus has to fight? If you can't fight, don't create trouble! Understand?"
"I understand now... I was wrong." Douglas said. "Stultus talk to her for me."
"That's enough, Cask." Stultus told her. And with that, Cask put away her blade, much to Douglas to relief as he breath it.
Ruby then got up, surprising and shocking everyone, as she limp toward Stultus. Cask was prepare to kill her, but Stultus gesture her to stop it. When Ruby made it to Stultus, she said only one sentence. "You're good."
She then faith and fall to the ground. Stultus then grab his helmet and took it off, revealing he has long and beautiful white hair and red eyes, before he look down at the ground where Ruby is currently unconscious.
A/N: I've manage to completed this chapter in a single day. Okay, time for infromation i'm gonna give you, guys.
All the motorcycle that the group use are all are a combination of Streetfighters and Power Crusiers.
Stultus Est, his first and last name, mean "The Fool" in Latin. He carry two swords, a rapier for peaceful combats and a long sparta-type sword for more violent and more serious combat, and he also use a FN P90.
Douglas look like the Nostalgia Critic and his sword look like Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda and his gun are two Uzi.
Also.. why Ruby was acting nice to them and their leader? because she's a nice girl in case if one of you forget about it.
Now... I will reveal the other characters of the group and the name of them as well as the group's name. But for now... i'm gonna work on the next chapter of The Girl and the Wolfgirl.