Atlas Knights aimed and fired their rifles at the colossal snake above them in an effort to shoot the man on top of it, though the giant weapon retaliated by swinging itself down to smash each drone into pieces. "Hahahahaha!" Holding on the top of its head, Terumi laughed as metal chunks flew all around. "Is that all this world has to offer? I'm NOT impressed!"
"Huaaaaaaah!" Sprinting towards his nemesis, Ragna unfolded Blood-Scythe into its namesake and hurled himself in the air, taking a slash at the serpent. "Bastard!" He yelled, cutting off its head as it burst into many Ouroboros chains.
Grabbing a hold of a pair, Terumi grinned and flung them to wrap around the Grim Reaper. "Don't get cocky, Rags!" He taunted and made them tighten, to which his grin widened. "It's time I get a little payback for humiliating me!" Black and green energy covered him, creating another snake that flew up and tossed Ragna several buildings away.
Noel's eyes went wide as she ran down the direction the two went. "Big brother!" She yelled loudly.
"Huh?" Makoto froze for a moment then chased her friend. "What did you just call him?"
Seeing the power the green-haired attacker had, Glynda turned around to face her fellow Huntsmen. "Take everyone back to the academy and warn Ozpin and Ironwood." Oobleck and Port nodded, heading back into the airships with Team CFVY following suit.
With his teammates next to him, Jaune blinked and held up a finger. "Umm, Miss Goodwitch?"
"I said to retreat to the academy, Mr. Arc."
"Y-Yeah, but uh…RWBY." He pointed behind her.
Turning to face the other first year team, the Huntress simply saw outlines of the four girls. Glynda slowly shook her head. "Children…"
Running after the strangers, Team RWBY ran down the now empty streets. They had just turned over Roman Torchwick to the authorities. There was no way they would let another criminal come out of nowhere and cause havoc. Especially before the Vytal Festival.
"I knew something was wrong with him!" Weiss shouted, her heels rapidly clicking against the ground. "Him and that masked weirdo!"
"I thought he said he didn't like to fight!" Ruby quickly defended herself. "He sure didn't look the type at the dance!"
Blake's ears twitched as her eyebrow went up. "How'd he get in the dance?" She asked, looking at Yang.
"I don't know," She shrugged, "he was on the list as "Hazama Honoka"."
"Just how in Dust he get on the list!?" Weiss asked even louder.
On the other side of the buildings, Noel and Makoto took a turn through some alleys to get to Ragna and Terumi quicker. "You think he has something to do with us being here?" The former looked to the latter.
"I have a feeling you're right, Noel." Makoto replied. "But is he alone?" Her question was soon answered as ethereal blades flew from above, stabbing in front of the alleyway exit to stop the two girls. They turned around, only to see silver puppet hands reach out of the ground to form another barrier. "How the-?"
"What peculiar timing…" Muttered a voice the pair were all too familiar with as the hands moved down, revealing none other than Relius Clover. "The Eye of the Azure and her pet friend."
"C-Colonel Relius…" Makoto stepped back with shaky knees. "H-How in the world did you…"
Noel gulped, pulling out Bolverk from their holsters. "S-Stand back, P-Professor…" She hesitantly ordered as the blades behind her floated up.
"Scanning identity…" A robotic monotone variant of her voice mumbled. "Target known. Obsolete Prime Field Device, number 12. Designation: Mu."
Slowly turning around, Noel gasped as her weapons shook in her hands. "N…Nu-13…"
Smiling at the two surrounded, Relius snapped his fingers to summon Ignis. "And so, all of the pieces fall into place. The perfect improv on our stage." He chuckled and adjusted the mask on his face. "Wonderful."
At the castle of Alucard, Celica sat on a velvet couch inside of a lavish bedroom with lit candles and windows with moonlight shining through, illuminating the already dim room to give it a cool blue mood. "I can't believe so much has happened after the War…" She mumbled with a frown, "I even have a grave… It's…so surreal."
Next to her was a girl much younger than herself, though the two spoke like they had known each other more than it seemed. The child wore a white sleeveless shirt with baby blue trimming and matching skirt, gloves, and boots to go with the outfit, giving her a typical Magical Girl appearance. Down her sides were very long and poofy blonde pigtails that faded into pink. Her eyes were a solid dark green, and she seemed to speak with a voice far too mature for her age. "I'm so sorry. You have no idea, Celica." She replied with a similar disappointment in her tone. "The world has changed, and I fear for the worse unless we act." They both looked in the same direction as a door slowly opened.
"And we must act with haste." Rachel walked in with her elder butler next to her. "Our next move is now, Trinity."
The young girl nodded, looking at the very cartoony staff on the table. "I wish to make it quick, as I fear for the souls in this body will be strained if we linger."
"Very well." The vampire nodded, taking a seat on a couch across from them. "I will do what I can to enhance your magic. As long as we can force the snakes to switch places, it will leave that miserable cretin exposed to the hazards of mortality."
Trinity took another slow nod, closing her eyes. From her body came a translucent figure that reached out to the staff in front of her. Despite being see-through, this was the true form of Trinity Glassfille. Appearing older than the child her spirit resided in, with a matured figure in a black and blue vest, black skirt, and blue ribbons around her hair, she had herself covered in a pure white cloak with a hood over her two colored hair. "Yuuki Terumi…" She muttered, reaching across worlds with her strongest magic. "I see him…"
Back in Vale down a street with sliced asphalt and cracked concrete, the suited killer had Ragna lying on the ground with his face down, his back repeatedly being stomped on by a steel-toed shoe. "Guah…!" He yelled in pain.
"Who said I'm done, huh? H'ragh!" Terumi snarled and continued stomping. "Dance! Weep! Suffer! Let me hear you sing, you little bitch!" Leaning over his rival, he started grinding the heel of his shoe into his back "The party's just getting started!", he spoke before stomping more and more to his heart's content. Ragna's cries of agony only gave him more satisfaction as he began to laugh maniacally. "Hyahahahaha!"
The torment would have continued, had it not been for the yell from Yang as she flew across the street and punched him with enough force to send him crashing into the trailer of a cargo truck which dumped out crates of refined Dust scattering on the ground. Yang pumped her left gauntlet, smirking as she looked down. "You okay big guy?" She asked, reaching down to help a bloodied Ragna to his feet.
"F-Fine, guh…" He groaned, leaning onto his sword for support as the rest of Team RWBY arrived.
"Are you okay, Mr.?" Ruby asked again, but with a little more concern than her sister had. "Are you hurt?"
"Clearly he is." Weiss mumbled to her leader with a roll of her eyes.
Ragna sighed and stood more straight up, though had his left arm around his body. "Look, I appreciate the help, but I can handle him on my own. He took a step forward, only to wince at the pain in his back. "Dammit!"
Blake helped Yang keep him standing and shook her head, "You sure don't look like it. Let's get you to safety." Her bow twitched and she looked towards the truck. "After we take care of him."
"No, you girls don't- ugh, get it…" He pleaded as Yang helped him lay against a mailbox. "He's too much for you…"
"We can handle anything." Ruby reassured him with a naive smile as she folded out Crescent Rose into rifle form, loading the bolt. "We're Huntresses." The four girls turned to each face the cargo truck as Terumi stepped out, containers of Dust surrounding his feet.
"Took me by surprise there and got my suit all dirty." He grumbled, patting off his clothes. "At least I have a set at dry cleaning." He joked, glancing up at the students with narrowed eyes as his fists clenched. "But that doesn't mean I'm holding back."
"We won't either!" Yang snapped back, holding up her fists in a boxing stance while her teammates each nodded.
[Song cue: Endless Despair II]
"Hmph. Restriction 666 released," He chanted, to which Ragna grimaced in trying to get up, "Dimensional Interference Field Deployed," A crest resembling a caduceus appeared underneath his feet as the ground briefly quaked.
"What's he doing?" Ruby asked, only receiving shrugs from her teammates.
"Code S.O.L.," The Dust surrounding him began to dissolve and turned into vapors that went into his body which made the glow brighter as a green circle of foreign runes and glowing symbols appeared around his body, "BlazBlue… Activate!"
All but Yang took a step back at this, each showing signs of confusion at this unknown power. "What kind of Semblance is that?" Weiss asked, moving her heels into her familiar stance.
"How about you find out?" Terumi snickered, going into his own stance and holding green energy in his palm.
"Will do!" Yang shouted, leaping forward with her fist high in the air to punch the new enemy. He just smirked, moving towards her to faze in and out of thin air to avoid the hit and counter with an upward kick with an energy serpent trailing behind his foot. He followed up by jumping and sending Yang down with an axe-kick. He turned over, seeing Blake fling the katana blade of Gambol Shroud while holding onto the attached ribbon like a chain-scythe. Ducking underneath, Terumi reached into his pockets to fling three silver knives towards the Faunus. She quickly used her bladed sheath to deflect two of three as the last almost cut through her bow. Yang recovered quickly and ran over to send a right hook, only to be dodged. She started punching left and right as Terumi kept dodging and ducking under each strike.
He avoided a left jab and smacked her arm up when a silver butterfly knife came from his sleeve and folded out. Spinning the curled blade, he used it to slash her knee then sent his in her face, knocking her backwards. Weiss and Ruby charged in, swinging their weapons in an attempt to slash or stab his aura, though were met with deflects by two shiny curved knives despite the speed of their attacks. Sliding under a scythe slash, Terumi spun the knife in his left hand and formed energy to flip Weiss up into a backflip. Spinning both knives in his hands, he parried each of Ruby's attacks and eventually locked blades with her. To her surprise, he effortlessly held back her heavy blade with his small knives. Stunned by his odd strength, Ruby left herself open as Terumi came up and elbowed her head down. "Whoops!" He taunted as she stumbled.
Blake and Yang stood back, both taking shots at him with their weapons. Dashing left and right to avoid getting hit, Terumi swiped the air in front of him to summon Ouroboros. The metal snake head flew towards Blake, who jumped as her shadow clone took the blow. It then redirected itself to jab Yang in the side and clamp onto her jacket. Flinging himself after it, Terumi sent his foot in the direction of her face and kicked her into the window of a closed shop. "Yang!" Jumping back to him, the former White Fang member swung both of her blades after one another, clashing with his several times over. Terumi eventually countered the fast slashes by twirling himself and right kicking her left ankle. As she went to one knee, he grabbed her by the shirt and sent his knee hard into her stomach, causing her to cough loudly and groan. Smirking at her pain, he then roundhouse kicked her away.
Both of them panting, Weiss stood and looked at her partner. "I'm not…ready to lose yet…" She gasped for some air. "But…my aura's running low already…"
"Same here…" Ruby nodded, clenching her scythe tight. "It's like it didn't even recharge already…"
"Or we lost more than we thought…"
Noel and Makoto did not fair as well against their opponents, even with knowing who they were. Dodging blades left and right, the blonde gunner darted around while shooting Bolverk at the ones that she could not avoid. Nu had no expression, especially with the visor hiding the upper-half of her face. She simply calculated which direction to summon her swords from while hovering higher in the air to prevent Noel from getting any closer. Makoto jumped over a puppet fist that came from the ground and used her tonfas to block slashes from Ignis' bladed hands. "Stop this!" The Beastkin yelled, pushing her weapons back against the large doll.
"As you wish." The Professor chuckled, holding up both hands together as giant puppet hands formed to mimic his gesture, causing Makoto to yell as she was trapped between them.
Hearing the sounds of pain from her friend, Noel turned around. "Let her go!" She went to fire at the Professor just as she was grabbed by Nu from behind, both hovering up in the air.
"Go ahead." He teased as Ignis backed away from Makoto. "Unleash your power, Eye of the Azure, as I torment your closest friend." He brought his arm around, backhanding the trapped girl, who felt a metal smacking her across the face. Much to Noel's cries, the hands pulled back as one grabbed Makoto by the sides and held her upward. Relius clenched his own left hand, the puppet mirroring the same motion, crushing Makoto by the chest. She let out a pained grunt before the fingers gave way, allowing Relius to summon a puppet arm from behind his cape with the hand replaced with a giant scalpel blade that jabbed into her stomach. Makoto's eyes widened, though no sound escaped her mouth as she was dropped on the ground.
This was not the case for Noel, screaming "NO!" as her eyes turned blue, though she felt incapable of movement with her limbs restricted.
"Synchronizing initiated…" Nu muttered, the single eye of her visor lighting up along with the azure eyes.
"And now, we shall have the key to the Nemesis Horizon…" Relius grinned while Makoto whined in pain underneath him.
[Song swap: Silent Scream]
"Hyyaaaah!" Ruby yelled, charging in to start swinging Crescent Rose side to side while Terumi jumped back, dodging each slash when he brought his foot up to stop the tip of the blade with the steel toe on his shoe. Kicking it away left her chest expose to him as his raised foot shot right into her chest, sending her rolling backwards and grunting each time she struck the ground. Upon stopping, Ruby pushed herself up to one knee. She coughed a bit of blood and rubbed her chest. "O-Ow…" She muttered.
Seeing the blood spill on the ground, Yang glared at the strange man and launched herself past her sister with her fist raised and her eyes locked on Terumi.
Taking a step back, said man summoned a pair of chains that crossed in front of him and absorbed most of the impact. "Not a chance." He teased.
"Shut UP, grass head!" She snapped, pulling back her other fist and pumped a new shell in before punching the chain again, the collision forcing his feet to slide against the street.
Swiping his hair back, he raised up his left hand. "All right, noodle hair. Let me show you…" Rings formed around his hands then shot up to surround her. From the enlarged rings came out spikes as sharp as needles that restricted her from moving.
"Yang!" Ruby called out, eyes wide then she glanced back at her teammates. "Monochrome!"
Upon hearing the order, Blake spun her sword around and hurled it up at a building and grabbed onto Weiss's hand. "Here we go…" She gritted her teeth, pulling them forward with the assistance of Glyphs that boosted their speed to the enemy. Twirling his knives between his fingers, Terumi brought them up and crossed them together. He stopped Myrtenaster between them, the blade inches away from his neck. Weiss titled her head and grinned, watching the rotating cylinder stop at the color blue. Frost shot out, forcing him to back away and hold up his arms to defend himself.
"Don't get cocky…" He glared and built up energy inside of him, using it to burst through the icy assault and knocking the girls off balance. Backflipping away, Blake yanked Gambol Shroud away while Weiss easily recovered on her heels.
"What's your deal, anyway?" She glared at him, regaining her posture. "Were you behind this attack on the city?"
Blake stepped up, unsheathing the katana blade to dual wield. "Is Roman Torchwick working for you?"
"Wouldn't you kids like to know?" He smirked and pulled his foot back while his body seemingly vanished and reappeared in front of Weiss as he kicked her high enough that her back struck a street lamp, bending the metal as she fell limp to the ground. Blake gasped then glared, swinging the cleaver sheath followed by her katana in a twirling slash attack which he easily parried multiple times then put away a knife that he replaced with what resembled the tail of Ouroboros turned into a usable blade. "Serpent's…" He swung once, breaking her defense of blades then slashed a second time across her chest. "Cursed Sting!" The blade vanished as two transparent snakes came out of his arms and wrapped around her while pushing her against a green glowing glyph. The snakes seemingly absorbed the Faunus' Aura just before he dropped her to the ground and kicked her away into the length of the street lamp Weiss had crashed into.
Fearing this would bring about her team's defeat, Ruby dashed to the trapped Yang, who struggled to move due to the spikes slowly digging into her body at each movement. "Don't worry, Yang! I'll get you out-" She was cut off as her sister burst out of the trap with flames around her body, yelling at the top of her lungs with hair practically white.
Turning around, Terumi watched a burning fist hurtling towards him and he swiped his hands around the sides, summoning multiple Ouroboros that wrapped around her body and holding her in place. Spinning himself around, he kicked her in the air as the chains released her, then he sent another one to latch onto her shirt, pulling himself up in the air towards her. As fast as he sent her up, he swung his knives around, slashing at whatever was left of her aura before rising above her and forming a serpent around his body. The conjured creature let out a roar as it went straight down and made Yang crash right into the roof of a car as Terumi jumped away, landing on his feet. His gaze slowly turned towards Ruby, followed by his vicious wide smile. "Well? You done yet?"
The Huntress-to-be's feet trembled as she hesitantly brought up her weapon, firing quick rounds as she could, though the bolt-action held her back while he jumped side to side from each shot. Taking a deep breath, she pulled it behind her and fired another shot to send herself to him. Stopping in place, she found her scythe blocked by his pair of knives crossing together. Gritting her teeth, she pushed down as hard as she could, though was caught off guard when he backed up and released the scythe from his hold. The blade dug deep into the ground from the pressure she forced onto it. "Oh no…" She gasped and grabbed on to try and get it out, but was met with a foot to the face, pulling her off of the weapon.
Slowly striding towards her with one hand in his pocket, Terumi looked down at her. "Weaksauce. Hyahaha!" He leaned over, narrowing his gold snake eyes as the circle around his body disappeared.
Groaning softly, she slowly dragged herself away with her right arm, hoping to create some space the two of them. "G-Get away…!" She stuttered but maintained a glare.
"Aww, did I hurt your feelings?" He mocked in a childish voice while Ouroboros spun around him and formed energy around it the faster they spun. "How about you go cry to mommy?" He grinned wider as the chain shot right towards her.
With tearful eyes, Ruby quickly shielded herself with her arms, only to hear metal against metal. Shakily, she peeked up from her arms, only seeing red in front of her.
Shaking from the immense blood loss, Ragna gritted his teeth while holding up his sword in a defensive stance. "Never…again…Terumi…"
Scoffing from the will of his nemesis, the green-haired psycho pulled back his chains. "Even after I beat your ass, you still stand? This is just like that time with that pathetic doll."
"Tch…" Grimacing at that comment, Ragna held his sword higher. "You shut the Hell up… I'm putting a stop to you, once and for all, dammit!"
"Come and try it, Rags! You'll be screaming for me to kill you!" Terumi raised up his arm, prepared to summon his weapon once again only to have his body entangled in a purple aura. "What the-?!" He jerked his body around, feeling himself being lifted up. He glanced back, glaring at the source.
[Song end]
With her eyes narrowed and her right arm holding up her riding crop, Glynda pushed her glasses up with her fingers. "That's enough damage you've caused. Now, I suggest you surrender and explain yourself at once." Behind her, Team JNPR rushed in to help their fallen peers. Ren and Pyrrha tended to Blake and Weiss while Nora went and lifted Yang out of the ruined car.
"Ha, like I'd give in to some lowly bitch like you!" He snapped with a grin, despite being the one restrained. "What are you, some BDSM mistress or something?" She glared harder and made the purple energy start to crush his body. "OH, I see! Touchy subject I'm guessing?"
Rushing over to Ruby, Jaune knelt down and glanced up at Ragna as he helped Ruby stand up. "What the heck is happening, who are you?"
"Not…now." He grunted, using his sword to support himself as he glared at the blonde Huntress. "Hey! I was in the middle of something!"
"There! I'm sensing his presence…" Muttered Trinity's spirit. "Miss Rachel, he's restrained. Now's the perfect chance!"
Nodding slowly, the blonde vampire focused her powers as the spirit slowly faded away.
"Shut the Hell up, Raggy!" Terumi snapped, glaring down below. "Once I've dispatched Four-Eyes here, We'll get to finish this little reunion of ours." While the two bickered at each other, Trinity materialized behind Glynda and took a deep breath, diving into her body. Blinking rapidly as her green eyes saturated a bit, she glanced back up at Terumi and focused with her riding crop. "Hey, what are you…" The man in black trailed off, slowly gazing in the woman's eyes. "No friggin' way…" He gritted his teeth and struggled around. Breathing in slowly, the possessed Goodwitch thrusted her riding crop at him as a glow came from his chest. 'AH! The shit are you…! GUAAAHH!" He yelled as the glow became brighter, consuming his body.
In the middle of this, Trinity felt herself losing control of the body as Glynda stumbled and blinked, her eyes returning to their normal color. Confusingly staring at the glow above, she moved her riding crop in an effort to see what was happening. Just as she did, the glow flared and created an explosion, causing everyone to move back. As smoke consumed the area where Terumi once was, she stared at it when Pyrrha approached her with an unconscious Weiss in her arms.
"Miss…Goodwitch…?" She asked quietly.
Rubbing her eyes under her glasses, the Huntress shook her head. "What… What happened? It was as if I blacked out for a moment…"
"I-Is he…dead?" Muttered Jaune nervously as a silent Ruby squinted her eyes at the smoke.
"Oh lord… My head hurts…" Muttered Hazama as the smoke began to clear. He rubbed his eyes with his bowl cut hair hanging low. "It feels like my brain was pulled in half…"
"Oh, no…" Trinity gasped, now back at the Alucard Manor, "I didn't…"
"That's because it was, dumbass…" Snapped...Terumi, who stood up with a hand over his head. Strangely enough, he stood hunched over while a similar outfit to Hazama, only with an undone dress shirt and tie, and an orange coat with a hood and black markings decorating the back.
"Oh, you're bullshitting me…" Ragna groaned and stood up more. "Now there's two of them?! How!?"
"Uh, Miss Goodwitch!" Jaune called out. "What should we do?!"
Just as the Huntress was ready to restrain them both, she was taken back by the blades that flew in from above and surrounded the green-haired men in a circle. She looked up, seeing Nu-13 floating down, next to her was Relius standing on a hovering magic circle. "Hmph. It seems we must depart. We have what we need."
"Hell no, Relius!" Terumi glared upward at the masked man. "Why are you always kill-blocking me when I get my chance?"
"Because we have the key to the Nemesis Horizon…"
This seemed to change everything. "Shit, you serious?" He scoffed and looked back, "Sorry, Rags. Looks like we've gotta clean this up some other time." His smile returned. "We've got the big show to hold…"
"And a grand finale at that…" Chuckled Hazama as a glow came from his hand, materializing into his hat.
"Do we have to go now?" Pouted Nu-13 as she gazed at said man in the red. "I wanna play with Ragna!"
"We must go." Relius reinforced. "Phantom…" As he ordered, the unknown purple witch appeared out of thin air.
"HEY! None of you are going NOWHERE!" Ragna yelled and jumped up with his sword. Just as he could swing at Terumi, they group completely vanished into thin air, leaving him to land with his blade in the ground. "Shit…" He grunted, grabbing his side again.
"Magic…?" Glynda mumbled under her breath then shook her head, looking at the other students. "We need to get back to-"
"R-Ragna…" Out from an alleyway, a bruised Noel carried a wounded Makoto with her arm over her shoulder. Both had rips in their clothes and cuts on their skin.
Widening his eyes and ignoring his pain, Ragna rushed over and helped them stand. "Noel?! What happened?"
"Nu… S-She…copied my Azure…" She winced, closing her left eye.
Ragna blinked slowly and groaned. "God dammit…" The three suddenly froze, purple appearing on their clothing which seemed to sow itself back together, followed by gold on their skin as their wounds faded very slowly. Ragna looked back, seeing Glynda holding out her riding crop then taking a deep breath, exhausting her aura.
"You three…are coming with me. We're going to have a word with Ozpin."
"Um…" Clearing her throat, Ruby bashfully stood behind her, holding her left arm. "Can I…come with?"
The Huntress opened her mouth to say no, but looked at the rest of her teammates, leaving her with no choice. "Ozpin puts too much trust into you, Miss Rose…"
With her innocent smile, Ruby glanced back at Jaune and his team. "I'll be at the nurses when I'm done."
"Uhh… Yeah, okay." He nodded, walking away with the others.
Above on a rooftop, Cinder and her apprentices watched the scene wrap up with Adam standing nearby.
"That was…" Emerald started, looking up at her partner, "something…"
Mercury held up his hands. "Okay, I'll admit it: The hipster was definitely better than I thought…"
"Two souls in one body? Hmph." Adam scoffed and shook his head.
Just smirking with a hand on her hip, Cinder turned away. "Quite satisfying to watch… I hope we can see more soon… " She slowly strutted away, her hips swaying side to side.
Inside of the elevator rising up to Ozpin's office, the ride was quiet. Glynda stood in front, her arms crossed. Noel and Makoto stood close to each other and Ruby was glancing between them and Ragna. "So uhhh…" She muttered, looking up at the man. "I guess we didn't finish earlier…" She rubbed the back of her head.
"Uh, I guess?" He raised an eyebrow at her.
She smiled a bit, hands behind her back as she swayed back and forth on her tiptoes. "Sooo…I'm Ruby."
He blinked a little, slowly nodded. "Uh… Yeah, am I still the protagonist, right?"
"Pro-tag-a-what now?" She asked quickly.
"Y'know… The main character?"
She just shrugged. "Dunno what that-" She was cut off by Glynda shushing her as the elevator came to a stop. Once it opened up, they each walked out while she walked in front.
"Professor Ozpin. I'm afraid we have a situation in hand." She rushed up closer, clicking her heels. "We need to-"
"I'm already aware of this, Glynda." He said calmly, turning his chair around with his hands together. When she stopped, she gave a confused look then heard footsteps heading towards them from behind a pillar. Ragna glanced over and widened his eyes.
"M-Major…Kisaragi?" Noel gasped.
There, the blonde man smiled calmly with a hand on his hip. "Hello…Brother."
Ragna stared in silence, shaking his head slowly. "You've gotta be kidding me..."
REBEL 1, FINISH!