The original chapter was too large! Haha I have near 16k words and yet haven't finished. I will update this part now and tomorrow the other one. So don't worry and enjoy :D
"Ruby!" Weiss called to her partner. The red hooded girl reluctantly opened her eyes. "I told you this was a terrible idea!" Weiss screamed.
"We're fine! Stop! Worrying!" Ruby screamed.
"I'm so far beyond worrying!"
Ruby gave her a quizzically look "In a good way?!"
"In a bad way! In a very very bad way!" she chided.
"Well why don't we just jump?!" she suggested.
"What are you insane?!"
No response. Ruby had jumped. "Oh you insufferable little red-!"
"HEADS UP!"
"Chill the fuck out, I got this!" Nyx said confidently. He teleported in midair and grabbed ruby "'Sup Ru-" he stooped talking when he saw something getting closer from afar "What the fu-" it was then when Jaune crashed with them in a tree.
"Ugh. What was that?" Ruby asked dazed.
"A Jaune" the muffled voice of Nyx tried to say. Ruby saw legs hanging at her sides, looking upwards she saw Nyx buried in the trunk with his butt lifted.
"Ahem" some voice called "Hey Ruby, hey Nyx" Jaune greeted.
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake wondered.
"I…" Yang trailed off but the smashing of trees and roars interrupted her. A pair of ursas appeared in frenzy.
"Yeeewwwaaahhh!" A pair of voices could be heard from the ursas and Yang quickly identified one. The pair of ursas were killed, one with a pink explosion on his back and the other cut in chunks. From one side a red head with turquoise eyes with a tired fella with a magenta streak on his side. On the other side a boy with heterochromia and a blue haired girl.
"Awww is broken" Nora said as she looked to her fubar toy.
"That was awesome!" Janice exclaimed from their chopped ursa.
"Yeah, I'm stupor, let's never do it-" Ren said trying to catch his breath.
"AGAIN! Let's do it again!" Janice exclaimed. The mortified expression of Ren deepened when Nora chimed. "Yeah!"
"No, please, no, Nairod, help please" Ren almost begged.
"I think I came dry" he bluntly said.
"Eww man, what the he- Nora?" Ren looked around trying to find her childhood friend, he spotted her at the distance at a temple, grabbing something from a pedestal and dancing around with what he though she was a childish music playing in her head. "NORA!" he called her.
She giggled "Coming Ren!" she saluted with a sing song voice.
"Did those guys came here riding on ursas?" Blake wondered again.
"I uh" Yang started but newly the sound of smashing trees took their attention.
Again.
This time they saw another red head running away from a giant grimm scorpion, barely avoiding the claws of the animal.
"JAUNE!" she screamed.
"PYRRHA!" Jaune called for her despite that he couldn't be heard.
"What's happening!?" Nyx asked at the hearing of names and mayhem and roars.
"Wow!" Ruby said standing up; she jumped off the tree, leaving the stuck boys. "Ruby!" both of them called for her.
"Ruby?" it was Yang seeing her sister.
"YANG!" the red hood girl tried to hug her sister.
"NORA!" the red head from the ursa got between the sisters.
"Did that girl ran all the way here with a Death Stalker in their tail?" Blake said outloud.
"What is this? A contest of flashy entries?" Hazel huffed.
"Um" Yang said in trepidation.
"OH CRAP OH CRAP OH CRAP OH CRAP OH CRAP" This time it was the voice of Fiver, the group turned to see from a near slope hill similar from where Yang, Blake and Hazel arrived earlier and saw Fiver running along with Ronan and other blindfolded guy they haven't seen and they seemed to be in hurry.
The group wondering inwardly from what they were running obtained their answer when a Big lion grimm A.K.A. Nemenian emerged from the shadows and roared, the lion saw his prey and jumped.
Hazel that in the moment saw the grimm started to drew her weapon but was held by Janice who put a hand on her shoulder "Leave it to me" Janice said, the military girl didn't know why but the voice if the blue haired girl sooth her.
Hazel complainant and Janice grabbed Diana. The weapon being in the three section staff seemed slack, she then pressed a button from the middle rod and the chains of the triple nunchaku shrink and connected forming a staff; the parts where the chains connected bended at the same direction transforming the staff in a bow.
She pressed two fingers on the arrow rest and stretched her arm making a dust arrow imbued with fire, lightning and wind. "Cover your eyes" she warned and shot the arrow hitting the Nemenian in midair.
A flash appeared suddenly blinding everyone momentarily; the white explosion sent the grimm into the forest. Unfortunately the shock wave of the attack also sent the runners to the air into the feet of the group. Noire using the momentum did a frontflip and landed slickly in the stone floor. Ronan not using the momentum but managing to control his fall, hit with his back what remained of the upper circle stone and landed without any major injury and Fiver being Fiver not being able to do neither hit his face with the circle stone making a backflip against his will and landing in the most comical way with his back.
Again.
Hazel muttered a 'thanks' only hearable for Janice and kneeled next to his brother. Ronan stood up and meet some familiar cyan eyes. "Janice?"
"RONAN~!" Janice exclaimed trying to hug Ronan.
"NORA!" she got between them.
Meanwhile Nyx managed to free himself, he then grabbed the struggling Jaune and both of them were teleported in the ground. Jaune who was hanging upside-down hit the floor.
"Ouch" he grumbled.
"Oops, sorry Jaune" Nyx apologized as he picked up Jaune and patted him in the shoulder.
"Did those guys ran all the way here with a Nemenian chasing them?" Blake wondered.
"It's not funny anymore…" Yang trailed off.
In the moment Yang stopped talking an earthquake occurred or at least that's what they though at first; vibrations passed below their feet, a few yards ahead a grimm salamander like-creature emerged from the ground. The reptile was a bit bigger than the Death Stalker, it had a partial mask with spikes and red patterns along with white dots through his body, his claws and fangs just as white as the mask. The new grimm growled and fell at side sticking out his tongue. From it a young man wearing bandages and a quirky armor came from the mouth of the grimm. He took a few steps and just as the grimm , he hit the ground.
"Well…you don't see that every day" Noire stated. Few persons nodded.
"Did that guy crawled out of the mouth of a Girdled Taricha?" Blake wondered again.
In the cliffs Ozpin was looking at the screen of his scrolls along with Miss Goodwitch. "Glynda…is this a fad?" he asked to her.
"Honestly I don't know sir"
Yang had couldn't take it anymore. "I can't take it anymore!" see? "Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!" she yelled, her eyes turning red and her hair literally exploding.
1…
2!
"Um, Yang?" Ruby tapped her sister. She simply looked at the floor in defeat not wanting to look wherever everyone was looking.
"What. Is. That?" Fiver quoted narrowing his eyes, thinking he'd saw wrong. In the sky he saw a big black bird with a hanging Weiss on his/her talon.
"How could you leave me?!" Weiss exclaimed in betrayal.
"What the actual hell, Ruby?" Nairod said scolding her.
"You leave your partner there young lady? That isn't very friendly of you" Noire chimed.
"I said jump!" Ruby tried to excuse herself.
"She's gonna fall" Both Ronan and Blake said.
"She'll be fine~" Ruby tried to reassure both the group and herself.
"She's falling" Hazel and Ren said at unison.
Seeing how a screaming Weiss was close to a certain death Hazel, Blake and Ruby looked at Nyx, the former looked at him with puppy and pleading eyes.
He sighed "Fine. Just because I've a weakness to cute girls" he stated missing a blush from the girls.
He teleported himself in the air and caught Weiss in bridal style "Hey! You're cuter when you're quiet!" he jaunty said, looking at the blush that appeared in her face was priceless. So she could've another color besides white and blue. He teleported himself to the floor next to the group and put her in the floor, she muttered a grumble that he took as a thanks.
"Jaune, could you take a step to your right?" Nyx requested.
"Come again?"
"Just do it" He gave him a quizzically look but compliant. A red blur tackled him and somehow Jaune ended in the same position as Fiver, looking at the sky and having difficulties to breath, moving his head his blue sapphire eyes meet a bright emerald orbs. It was her partner, Pyrrha who apparently the Death Stalker launched and somehow ended on top Jaune.
Both of them got blushed at the closeness and on the position they were. Both of them muttered apology with the hope that it was eligible.
"Great, the gang's all here, now we can die together!" Yang said with a fake cheerful tone.
"Not if I can help it" Ruby said as she charged towards the Death Stalker.
Everyone had different reactions but the ones who looked more shaken were Yang and Fiver "Ruby! Wait!" Both of them called her in trepidation.
The grimm scorpion deflected the attack of Ruby effortlessly, pushing Ruby back. "Don-Don't worry totally fine!"
"Don't turn your back, Ruby!" Fiver practically yelled.
Ruby heard a grumble to her side and saw the Taricha getting up; apparently it wasn't death, just unconscious. The red orbs of the reptile fell on Ruby instead of the fallen body that crawled out of his mouth. Ruby started to walk backwards but stopped when a shadow fell on her, she'd forgotten the Death Stalker. Both the Salamander and the Scorpoin hissed and launched to Ruby as it was a price, she shot a few rounds to the Death Stalker and started to run to the group.
"Ruby!" Fiver and Yang said in distraught.
Yang run to her sister aid with a clearly visible face of fear. Fiver tried to do the same he stood up nearly without any injuries, good thing he did listened her sister yesterday. At the first steps Fiver suddenly found himself in the floor again. Feeling a sting on his right leg he grabbed his jeans and pulled them up to see what was the problem.
Lifting the fabric he saw that a bone sprouted from his shin. A lot of questions went through his head like 'When did that happen?' 'In the whirlwind?' 'When he fell on the nemenian?' 'In the shockwave?' 'Just now when he landed?'
But the only one shut all the other ones was:
'Why now?'
Suddenly the pain from his wound went through his body, whatever the placebo was, it went off. He did his best to not scream. Not now, he couldn't afford that luxury. Not after what he'd saw.
Fiver was on a field.
There was a little girl with a red hood, he couldn't see her face but her mouth was visible despite the cloth covering her head. She looked scared.
A lizard.
A lion.
A scorpion.
Two crows.
Two dragons.
Red petals.
Blood.
He saw the girl on her knees, clutching her head.
A yellow and white blades fell.
And then darkness covered him.
Fiver woke up, gasping for air, covered by cold sweat. He was panting and shaking. He looked around, he saw her sister sleeping standing. He was in the ballroom, it took a time before he could calm down.
He checked his Schnellphone, it was 4:49 a.m. too early. He couldn't go to sleep again, not after that. He stood up and headed to the bathroom, making sure he didn't wake anyone.
He selected the cold water and took an icy shower. He was used to them, plus he'd to make sure to be here. In the water he tried to decipher the omen.
He knew the differences between a dream and what he saw.
After all it wasn't the first one.
Nor it would be the last.
That hasn't been a dream. Neither a nightmare, even if he wanted.
It was a warning.
Fiver could partially see the future.
One of the side effects of his semblance and this premonition didn't boded nothing good.
With that in mind he tried to stand up, ignoring the sound of bones breaking and the words of her sister who was trying to help him. He pushed her at side and stood up, breaking his leg completely. The gory sounds of cracks and the small puddle of blood make everyone flinch and look in aghast to new crippled boy.
Fiver took a few steps but newly he fell again, but this time it wasn't his fault. Noting that he couldn't move his hands nor his good leg he saw that Nyx had hammerlock on him. The pain of his leg and the focus on tried to ignore the pain had nullified his senses momentarily, a thing that Nyx used to incapacitate him.
"Don't move, Fiver" Nyx warned him.
"Get off me!" Fiver ordered with a unusual snarl tone. He struggled, his efforts being in vain.
"You can't do a thing" Nyx reminded him.
"You don't understand! She's in danger I saw it!" Fiver said contemptuous.
"Yes, I can see it, I'm no blind!"
"NO! You don't understand I saw it!" Nyx only arched an eyebrow not understanding the words of Fiver, unlike her sister which eyes only make wide in realization.
Hearing a growl they saw how the Taricha lift his toe and slashed the ground, making a slit on the ground, stopping the tracks of Ruby.
"NO! YOU GODDAMN LIZARD! STAY AWAY FROM HER!" Yang yelled in bane.
The Nevermore gloated, feeling the fear and anguish of both siblings and relishing on it. The bird grimm extended his wings and pushed them sending feathers like stakes that pierced the ground. One of the feathers stuck in Ruby's hood stopping her and pulling her.
The remained feathers stopped Yang, making impossible for her to run in time to her sister. She saw how Ruby struggled to release her hood off in futile.
"RUBY! GET OUT OF THERE!" Yang ordered to her sister.
"I'm trying!" Ruby rebutted.
'Goddamn it Ruby! Cut the damn thing!' Fiver though in distress.
He struggled one more time and last time, he saw how the shadows of the Death Stalker and the Taricha got bigger "Please Nyx" Fiver almost begged "Please" he said with a cracking voice.
Not again…
Weiss meanwhile was having a miffed inner argument 'That stupid oafish!' She though. Sure the girl was a nag, a daft and a neophyte but that didn't mean that she wanted her dead!
She was thinking several strategies in her head. She could only deal with one of the grimm, not with two she'd to find a way to-
"Hey! Ice quenn!" Someone called her interrupting her thoughts. It was Nyx, he was still on top of Fiver "Just take care of the Death Stalker, don't worry about the Taricha" he said to her.
"Wha-" instead of answering Nyx simply pointed to his front.
She along with everyone saw how the boy(?) who'd crawled out of the Taricha was standing up holding what it looked like battle axe with a large irregular blades at side and a spearhead in middle. "Just do it!" Nyx ordered her.
She saw how the eyes of Ruby widened, the grimm were preparing their attacks "He better not foil this!" Weiss warned as she took stance.
Everyone held their breath. They saw how the Death Stalker was going to attack Ruby with its sting and how the Taricha claws shone as they fell on Ruby. Ruby simply braced herself for the strike not before hearing the screams of her sister calling for her one last time.
"RUBY!"
Everything happened too fast. The axe of the stranger clashed with the claws of the Taricha. The axe flared with an azure hue and cut through the claws of the salamander chopping the toe in the process and making a big gash right next to the neck of the grimm, killing it instantly.
Weiss instead of attack the grimm went for the safe route and created a wall of ice that froze the sting of the Death Stalker inches before it reached Ruby.
"You're so childish…" the voice of Weiss echoed through her head.
"Weiss…?" Ruby called unsure. Opening her eyes she saw her kneeling on the floor holder her weapon Myrtemaster in the base of the ice wall.
She also saw a person she'd never saw before. He'd dark brown hair and a particular armor and a doubled headed axe. He puts the weapon in his back and snaps his finger and the shaft of the axe retracted at the side of one of other halve, both tips of the blades connected, the spear head shrunk and it's hidden by the blades. A few parts erupt, bended and others retracted and the axe transformed into a guitar to being covered by an automatic case that came out from both bouts and fingerboard and the head of the same guitar.
Ruby would be jumping from one side to another if it wasn't because her hood was stuck with the giant feather and the deadly gaze of Weiss. "And dimwitted, hyperactive and don't even get me started in your fighting style…" she added sternly seeing her mini-fraction of joy at seeing the weapon of the other huntsman.
The unknown guy turned to her, and for both Ruby and Weiss can see his bright azure eyes. He grabs the feather of the Nevermore that was impaling Ruby's coat and remove it with simply sheer force, freeing her.
"Th-thanks" Ruby says in a very quiet yet audible volume. The other guy slightly nods and walks away with the giant feather in his shoulder, leaving her with her partner to more scolding.
The way Ruby answered and the way she hunched, she looked right now in Weiss eyes to kick a puppy. She sighed. "And I suppose I can be a bit…difficult…" Ruby perked her silver eyes "…but if we're going to do this, we're going to have to do this together, so if you stop to trying to show off I'll be…nicer" she says trying to found the correct words.
"I'm not trying to show off, I want you to know that I can do this"
"You're fine" Weiss assures her and leaves.
Ruby exhales and holds her hands in some form of praying "Normal knees…" she whispers to herself.
She stands up and notices the dead Taricha and the Death Staler trapped in the wall of ice.
"Whoa" suddenly she feels a pair familiar arms around her with a lavender, honey and ember essence. It was Yang. Ruby could barely breathe, a grunt escaped from her mouth.
"So happy you're ok" Yand said with slightly watery eyes.
Ruby feels a knot in her throat, Yang isn't like this, she's strong, powerful, seeing like that and knowing is her fault makes her feel bad; guilty. She hugs her sister back feeling the tears in her own eyes.
Fiver significantly relaxed. After checking and double checking that Ruby was ok and more importantly alive he buried his face in the ground. The dam of his emotions started to shatter.
There was relief, humiliation, anger, useless and pain. And the feeling on his leg wasn't helping. He was able to put it at aside for Ruby but now that she was safe he couldn't ignore it anymore it was getting to him and was escalating quickly. Summing that with the mix of emotions he was feelings it was a miracle that he wasn´t making a scene.
Nyx felt how he trembled and saw how he dug his nails in his hands, making a bit blood erupt. He guessed that he was silently crying and biting his lips. He spoke with a seldom trifled voice. "You couldn't have reached her in time and even if you did you couldn't have done a thing with that leg. There things you can do and things you can't do. You'll do good to remember that"
The words sunk deep in Fiver's heart, he could´ve broke his other leg or all the bones of his body and it could've hurt less. He didn't even have the force to rebut that statement for one simple reason.
It was the truth.
Hazel on the other hand scowled at the words, cementing more his loathing towards him. This guy didn't know her brother. He didn't know for what they went through, what he went through, her fists clenched at the memories. It was in her nature being this good, to launch to danger, to help the people despite if he knew them or not.
That was the reason why he wanted to become a hunter. And right now he threw away that; his dream; to help someone whom he barely knew. His leg was devastated, probably fubar, he didn't have a partner, he couldn't fight nor even walk with that leg, he wouldn't be able to finish the initiation and even if he did he couldn't attend class like that and that without say the missions.
All that to try save someone who he called a friend.
But again this guy was right even if he said it brusquely it was saying the truth nonetheless (even if she didn't acknowledge it) This sort of attitude was good but it would kill it one day. This was an example of it. And that worried her greatly.
She kneeled next to his brother. "Don't worry Fiver, there's always a next year" she said with a gentle motherly tone.
Fiver didn't flinch, a thing that worried her. Nyx tried to shake him a bit to see if he'd heard but Hazel smacked his hand away with a sharp glare. He drew his hand but stood his ground next to him, she couldn't see his expression with his hood on.
Fiver couldn't face her sister. Not like this. She gave him a chance to fulfill his dream and he'd throw it away. Neither he could face Ruby, he saw this coming in his dream and yet he couldn't do a thing.
Again.
So many years and he was still useless.
He stood in the soil for a few seconds more without moving and then he suddenly tried to stand up. Hazel and Nyx helped him and sat him in the small stone stairs. Then they proceeded to reveal his leg and examine it properly. He was wearing his akubra lower than usual; hiding his hazel eyes but still mostly of the presents could see his red puffy eyes.
Jaune tried to say something but was stopped by her Amazonian partner. "Jaune, let's choose a relic" she said.
"R-right" the knight spared a quick worried glance at his injured friend before go to the pedestals.
"We should do the same Ronan" Noire suggested, the other one nodded.
"We too Janice" Nairod chimed.
"Ok" she said with a soft voice.
All of them reached the same conclusion that Hazel arrived few moments ago. They knew what that mean and that no matter how sweetened and soft the words were they were they had the same emotion.
Pity.
And Fiver hated it. He hated the eyes on him. He didn't need to put two and two together or be a genius to know that his aspiration as hunter was now impossible to him. After all how do you tell a person that he's not gonna be able to fulfill his dream?
"…Sorry… " he said with a shaky voice.
Hazel didn't hear him but guessed what he'd said "I didn't want to be a huntress anyway" was her answer. If his brother wasn't there what was the purpose of staying in Beacon then?
Those who were accepted by Beacon weren't able to re-enter again. While Fiver was invited taking instead the one the invitation that Ozpin had gave her while she presented her transcripts and everything. An insurance in case something like this happened. If she resigned, which Fiver was certain that she'll do, she wouldn't be able to rejoin Beacon or any other Hunter academy, thus not being able to become a huntress.
The only reason why she wanted to become one was because of the contacts and the freedom to move around Remnant.
But if his brother had another chance then there wasn't any problem.
Fiver clenched his fist in anger and sorrow, doing his best to not cry.
Hazel analyzed the leg and just as she feared the leg was destroyed, she was genuinely surprised that he was able to hold this much pain. The limb was purple, swallowed and she could see the bones in different directions, that without mention the bone that sprouted and his torn muscles, he needed a medic, ASAP, he couldn't walk with that leg so she would've to carry him to the academy.
Ozpin and Glynda watched the live footage of the temple looking the gory scene. "Should I call an airship, sir?" Glynda suggested.
"Wait. Something tells me that we should keep watching…"
"Your leg is devastated Fiver, probably beyond repair, we may as well cut it and search a robotic leg" Nyx said with an snide tone, everyone looked at him in shock and aghast, thinking that they'd had hear wrong.
"If fragments of your bones move around the body and inlay or lodge in any vital part of your body you'll have problems to move or do something in general that if doesn't kill you. The removal of such fragments will be impossible without the risk of nigh painful death without mentioning if you find a medic that is able to do that risky operation" Nyx jeered.
"And even of you do the recovery will take a lot of time and if you miraculously manage to do all this your body would never be the same, for short, the chances for you to pass the physical exam of any hunter academy are slim, you'll never being able to become a hunter" the looks of abhorrent and obnoxious on him didn't seem to stop him.
"And all that for try to save someone who you barely knew and couldn't have helped anyway, pretty stupid if you ask me, you should have let her die-" an uppercut in the chin interrupted his statement.
Nyx fell on the floor dazed and the little senses he recovered his face seemed genuinely stunned and confused, he rubbed his chin and saw his attacker and realized that was in fact a 'she'. Hazel was looking down on him with pure rage in her eyes. Due his disorientation he didn't realize that she was punching him again until he felt his head yanked back suddenly.
He tasted and smelled familiar iron flavor that he didn't felt in long time. Blood.
The disorientation returned with major force and when it returned he was looking at the sky. "Ugghh" he grunted trying to regain his senses and rolled in the floor using his hands to help him stand up. No one tried to help him, probably because he said something dickish, people said that he did that a lot and didn't know when to shut up. He didn't know how many punches she landed on him but she guessed that few but hard due the small stains on blood on the floor and the cloths both him and hers. He stood up and saw that Hazel was trying to help Fiver to stand.
He took off his hood and ruffled his hair. He was hearing a buzz, yep, she'd a good right "As I was saying" Nyx spit some blood with phlegm and a tooth when he heard himself. "You should've let her die, this seem to awfully affect you which I would guess was like mostly of the students in this academy your dream"
Hazel saw herself ready to go and beat him to pulp again until he heard his next question.
"Why did you do it?" the question appeared to not only catch only her off guard but also Fiver and everyone else, he said like a kid, an innocent kid has asked a simply curious question. "You knew that you couldn't do a thing, why did you still try it? Why sacrifice and risk that for one person you barely knew?" What mostly caught the attention was his expression. He seemed confused and devoid of logic, like if the idea of saving someone was eign to him.
Fiver though for a while looking if the question was real. The thought of being desensitized and lethargic to death shocked him and somehow disgusted him. For him, helping people was natural, hell, seeing a person die in front of you shouldn't affect you somehow in the slightest?
He answered his question with another question "You wouldn't have helped her if you'd the chance?"
"You said it yourself" Nyx pointed out "If I've the chance" the statement make the eyes of Fiver wide "I told you there things you can do and can't do, If I see that I can't help, why go myself get killed?"
Fiver seemed to think his words "But you didn't have the chance, yet you tried. Why?" Nyx repeated.
Fiver answered said a bit too fast, the reason was that they didn't past through his head, he answered naturally, from the bottom of his heart, from instinct "….Because…I wouldn't be able to watch myself if I didn't try it" the hunters in training looked at Fiver, especially Nyx. He was scrutinizing him with cold calculating eye, looking for something that only he knew.
"I-I knew that I couldn't do a thing. Really, I knew it, but…but if I didn't try it I knew too, I knew that I'll regret it for the rest of my life…"
"And look when that got you" he said flatly.
Fiver eyes widened and he looked in the floor in shame, he couldn't rebut that. The rest shot a frown, a scowl or a glare at Nyx. He seemed oblivious to it. "There's no need to rub it in his face, mate" Noire interrupted raising an arm in protective way.
"Do you regret it?" Nyx said bluntly.
"Huh?" Fiver knew that the question was for him. He raised his face and yelped when he found Nyx staring few inches in front of him. Apparently he passed Noire or teleported but either way he was watching him closely.
"Do you regret it?" he repeated.
Just like before Fiver answered without second thoughts "No, I don't" he said in resolute.
Nyx looked at him for a while before erupting in laughter, like if he just heard the funniest joke of all time. Everyone else wasn't happy by it. Hazel launched another punch but this time he dodged it very slickly. "Oh monty my sides…" he said between laughs "My god! You are an idiot! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" he pointed with his finger in mock before he fell to the ground rolling with mute breathless laughter.
He was literally laughing at a cripple.
Hazel walked to him in rage, ready to this time left him to a near state death or coma, but was stopped by Noire and Pyrrha "No, don't stoop to his level" Noire said.
"He's right. Your brother needs your help" Pyrrha chimed.
Even if she wanted to beat the life out of Nyx (He was on the floor basically in silver plate) the Amazonian was right. His brother came first. It was more easy said than do it because she'd to take a deep breath to calm herself.
"You are an IDIOT. With capital letters HAHAHAHA" and the laughter in the background wasn't helping. She managed to put together all the patience she needed and walked to his brother. He gave her an emphatic and reassured smile, signaling that this was ok for him, he was used to this kind of treatments; that though make her angrier. She was about to help him to stand when Nyx talked again.
"You're an awfully honest kid Fiver" the laugh of the hooded fella ebbed. He stood up with a grin "A dumb one, but a good one" he knew he'll regret this later, especially with him here but hey, who cares? He raised his hand; from it a grey hue appeared casting steam that looked like a flame "Come on. I'll heal your leg Fiver"
The statement drew curious stares along with incredulity "Come again?" Nyx arched an eyebrow.
But the words formed a meaning in Blake's head 'What he did back there' she though remembering what happened with Hazel's arm. "You're gonna kiss him?" she blurted out.
This made the eyes of the presents wide in shock or surprise; they didn't saw this come, actually; how did the atmosphere changed so suddenly?
"Nah, he isn't my type, I actually I just need to touch the person, the kiss was a payment" he winked at Hazel. The said young girl would have made a frown but she remembered how he healed her arm a while ago.
"Do you want to be a hunter?" Nyx asked again to Fiver.
"Wha- wha-?"
"Clean your ears! You heard me" he said a bit more loud than he intended.
"Ye- yes I want" he answered automatic at the order, her sister fault. He realized what he just did "Wha- what are you gonna do?" he asked not sure if he wanted to know the answer.
"What I just said, I'm going to heal your leg completely, but going to be honest. Is going to hurt, like really, really hurt" he make sure to emphasized the word hurt. "Are you sure you can take it?"
Things were happening too fast for him; he looked at her sister for an opinion and found himself surprised that it wasn't any hostility in her eyes or anything in general. "He's right, he can heal you" she said, that just helped to confusing more, not only he but also the other ones; a while ago she left him near unconscious and seconds ago she was ready to leave him in coma and now she was vouching for him.
But to Fiver, if the person who'd more loathing than anyone towards him was telling him that he could heal him (and more importantly his sister) he didn't saw any problem with it. He realized that he never answered the question of Nyx. "Yeah, I can" it couldn't be that bad, right?
Yeah, it wasn't that bad.
It was worse. Scratch that, it was worse than worst.
Before he could heal him or whatever he was going to do Nyx had to shove the bone that protruded from the leg. And that feeling wasn't a pleased one. Nyx had suggested that her sister grabbed his hand and his shoulder not only in some form of comfort but also in restraint. He asked to Blake do the same but with his other shoulder only. He'd though that shoving the bone was going to be the worst part.
Oh boy, how wrong he was.
In the moment the aura of Nyx had made contact with his leg he immediately flinched and screamed. He couldn't help it; he felt every splintered bone, every ripped muscle, every teared tendon, every devastated nerve being slowly manipulated. His initial small grunts were muffled with snaps and the clunk of shears through bone with some squishing of soft tissue along with various 'crack' 'plop' 'pop' 'crunch' 'creak'
There was a point where he couldn't contain his pain anymore "Wait, wait!" he gibbered as he grabbed Nyx trying to stop him. He simply shrugged his hand away with his free hand and signaled to Blake to hold the hand of Fiver. She obeyed and clamped his hand in the step. Hazel grunted, Fiver was tightening his hand too strong, she freed her hand and just like Blake she clamped his hand to the step too.
There weren't any muffled grunts now, they surpassed the sound of the leg a while ago, he was now moving violently similar to a convulsion in his seat, trying to break the hold that both girls had in him. Nyx could see that tears were forming at the corner of his eyes, Fiver was about to scream with his full lungs before Nyx shoved something in his mouth.
It was his hand. "Bite it hard as you can" he ordered and Fiver did as he was told. He drew little blood. He was now crying and didn't bother to hide it.
After agonizing more moments the pain eventually subsided (just like his attempts to break free) to finally become naught. Nyx retired his hand "Move around" Nyx said.
The girls released him and much to surprise of him and everyone else he was healed. Completely healed. "No way…" he gibbered once again. He moved his leg in any direction and stood on his former fubar leg and did a few squats with it. "Oh my dust! I can't believe it!"
"H-how?" Pyrrha inquired.
Nairod kneeled to his leg, he passed his fingers through it "He's right, I think is better than it was before" he analyzed the leg.
"I stil ca- you ok?" Fiver stopped his glee when he saw Nyx. The inquisition of Fiver make the eyes fell on Nyx. Boy he looked like shit. He was panting heavily, his eyes looked bloodshot, he was pale and a drop of blood emerged from his nose and slide to the chin, he cleaned the trail and gave him a weak smile. "Yeah…just…need a second" Hazel and Blake narrowed their eyes to Nyx, he was like that when he healed Hazel, whatever he did it took a toll on him.
Nyx took a depth breath and sighed in resignation, Jaune noted this, it was the same sigh that he did in the breakfast "Well, fuck" Nyx though muttered it was very audible. It was the karma.
Everyone turned to see Weiss and company getting closer. Suddenly the mood changed and everyone noticed, the mood hasn't been pleasant due the recent events but it was an obnoxious one, this new atmosphere was hostile.
Weiss, Yang and Ruby were the most confused of all. From afar they saw Hazel punching Nyx in the ground and later congregate around Fiver to later see him doing one leg stand and right now they all seemed ready to take fight.
The guy that helped to save Ruby it looked to go to the altar, oh how mistake they were "I know what you're thinking" It was the last thing that Nyx said before the azure eyed boy throw a fist that clashed against his cheekbone and nose.
Nyx heard a pop and by the distorted gasps and yelps he managed to hear it wasn't the only one. He took a few steps back and stumbled with the small step were Fiver was sited; he grabbed Ronan from the shoulder trying not to fall and using him as support, his knees threatening to fail. Ronan also grabbed him from the arm to prevent him to fall "Hold on" Nyx said bringing a hand up, unfortunately he was hunched looking at the floor holding his nose with his other hand.
The other didn't wait and brought his knee up hitting directly his face, this time his knees gave up completely and fell in the stone floor, his head bounced against the hard surface making all the world move and seeing double version of everything, he grabbed the spot and rubbed it as he rolled at side and spit some blood.
The other one walked towards the hooded man in the floor but was grabbed in the shoulder from Jaune "What are you-" the bandaged man shove his hand at side and pushed him throwing in the floor rather easily, Ronan grabbed him from his shirt "Hey!" the guy launched an elbow straight to his throat stopping his breathing momentarily an making him cough violently, the sudden stop of air brought Ronan to his knees and making Janice run to him.
The azure eyed man keep walking towards Nyx, he grumbled and raised a finger to him "Wait, just wait!" he requested, the aggressor took his finger and wrench it to the opposite direction either breaking it or dislocating it. Nyx suppressed a grumble. Then he lifted him slightly from the same finger to reach and grab his collar and launched a headbutt directly to the face that it'll make Zidane proud, sending him to the floor again. Blood started to fall from his face and splattered the stone floor and both the aggressor and victim.
He didn't finish there, he grabbed again his collar and sent a right hook to the ribs making him slouch and launched his knee up again hitting the other side of the ribs and used the former movement but this time to the solar plexus. Exploiting that Nyx was bended he sent an elbow the back and later to where the cerebellum would be.
He then kicked one his left knee making the leg bend in the opposite direction, Nyx would've fell but the azure eyed young man had predicted this, he'd grabbed his face inserting one of his fingers in his shattered nose splintered more in the process and putting his middle finger right under the left eye of Nyx, he then punched hard twice, his hand fist it as a hammer and taking his eye out of orbit with his middle finger.
Ruby brought his hands to her mouth and Yang covered the eyes of her sister as she tried to cover her ears with her body. Fiver wanted to help (even though he was scared) but was hold by her own sister. The others gasped in horror and disgust.
Nyx flew back as he received a kick in the chest, he didn't fall though, his back hit one of the pillars and used as a support. Honestly he didn't felt pain, it gave away at numbness when he received the headbutt, if you're gonna beat someone you better left the head to the last part if you want the person feel pain. He only felt exhausted.
He was wondering why he wasn't on the floor now, he didn't have that much energy left, then he realized that Song was keeping him in place because the hooks he was receiving in his already broken ribs. The azure eyed man sent a powerful right cross to his jaw before he took a step back breathing heavily.
'Song. What a funny name' it was his amused though looking at the face of the tiger. He took a glance around him and saw that everyone was looking in horror, shock or disgust at the grisly scene or the bloodied loitering Nyx. The big sisters of the group were protecting their siblings, Weiss was covering her mouth, Jaune looked ready to puke again and the rest simply had ordeals expressions. There was blood and in no modicum, in the floor, in the grass, on the clothes of both his assailant and himself and in his own face and the fists of Song.
He didn't know why but he did something stupid.
"Who taught you to punch? Your husband?" he taunted with a sneer tone and a smile. The eyes of everyone widened in aghast. One would've been surprised that he could said something coherent with his face in such devastated state if it wasn't for the shit he just said.
The so called Song charged at him and smashed the column (and the spine of Nyx probably) and started to pound Nyx again in the floor. Nyx himself didn't know what he said but he guessed that it was something stupid, he honestly didn't had much energy, healing both Hazel and Fiver and the both beating that he received from the first had left him exhausted so he simply limited himself to cover his face with his soon to be broken arms.
The first words that came out of the bandaged man identified as Song weren't polite ones "You! Twat! Limp dick! Son of a! Gomorrah! Shit! Bimbo!" Song swore as he landed every blow on Nyx.
He threw a last punch and Nyx saw that this was powerful enough to kill him, his head moved at side on his own evading the hit, a small crater formed when he touched the land, and everyone who couldn't see the that he evade freaked out thinking that he'd killed him. Yang clutched harder Ruby. Hazel moved the view of Fiver. Janice screamed hugged Ronan and the rest gasped in horror.
"What's happening?!" Ruby asked obviously shaken realizing the grip of her sister to meet a grisly scene.
Nairod grabbed him and tackled him to the floor and grabbed both of his arms and relocated them in his back as he used his threads to restrain him in a similar way to handcuffs. Song felt the thin thread against his skin and immediately knew that if he moved he'll lost his hands, so he opted for do the seconds best thing that was not moving his hands and instead the body but was screeching halt by Pyrrha whom put her blade in his throat.
"Don't move" she said with a dangerous tone.
"Ugggg" Nyx moaned signaling to much relief of everyone that he was alive, he said something incoherent and tried to stand up to end up falling in the floor. It's hard to stand up dizzy with one hand and one leg as you held half of your face with the other hand, apparently he'd broke his jaw at some point back there. (A/N: Guess where it was!)
Fiver went to his side and gasped at see his face, to put simply he looked like someone who was killed by bare hands. Noire ignored his face and helped him to sit. Nyx was tired but if he wanted to apologize he'd to heal his face, he mustered the same aura with which he healed the Watership siblings. A serial sounds of gory sounds similar to which could be heard from Fiver were now heard from Nyx. He limited himself to heal his mouth and jaw so he could speak but covered his left eye, that wasn't needed right now. He grabbed his bended dislocated leg and pushed it upwards rearranging it. Both Noire and Fiver helped him to stand; he was still holding his loose eye.
"Release him please" Nyx said with a hoarse voice. Everyone looked at him the same way when he taunted the azure eye man. "Release him, he'd a hard day I know him" he vouched for his aggressor.
Everyone still had the same look that before. The guy almost killed him and he just asked the persons from saving him release him? However Nyx seemed to have a reason to let him go but again Nyx mocked Fiver before healed him and the other guy saved helped save Ruby. The guy was weird that was for sure. Plus they didn't know the reasons of why he beat him.
Nairod and Pyrrha exchanged a concerned look and nodded. "If you launch to him again I'm cutting your leg" Nairod said with a cold tone.
"We're going to release you now" Pyrrha informed with a normal tone but still having her edgy warning.
"Whatever" Song said. So they did, he stood a few seconds in the floor to reassuring them before slowly getting up. He was angry. A lot but he'd given scared and given a bad first impression to the first persons he just knew, no need to get them more nervous.
As he got up he started to undo his armor and walk up to Nyx. Everyone had a hovered hand over their weapon.
"Adrenaline" he commanded with a cold eerie calm voice.
Nyx acquiesced reached something in his back and stretched a small cylindrical pipe. The other one grabbed it and laid his armor at side, he pressed a small button from the tube and a needle stretched, he swiftly thrust the needle in his heart.
Mostly of the presents gasped but other still were cautious.
"Water" he ordered again and Nyx compliant. When Song snatched the canteen he shoved a small crystal to Nyx, it was healing dust. Nyx sighed in relief, he could heal himself now, as he started to drain the uncut Song used the water to wash his bloody hands; he then took off his shirt and everyone noted that not only his was bandaged from his but also his whole torso and arms.
He also had several white stakes on his left torso with big stains of blood. "Oh Dust" Janice muttered for everyone, Ruby covered her mouth along with Janice, Fiver seeing his wounds tried to help him, tried because her sister stop him at the first step she took and shook her head.
The boy ignored all this and started to pull out each stake, a grumble escaping his lips each while. Nyx used his aura to heal all his concussions and broken bones and more importantly his loose eye, when he healed his wounds he cleared his throat.
"Umm...I should introduce you…" he signaled to the boy "This is Song Bai Hu, my best pal, Song these are…" Nyx named each one of the presents.
"Pleasure…ugh" he'd removed the last stake. He put his shirt and started to put his armor again.
"Um, shouldn't you stop the bleeding?" Nairod pointed out the red stain that was forming on his side.
"It will heal by itself" Song stated as matter of fact. Nairod was about to rebut with something but decided to shut up when he saw Nyx shook his finger.
Song grabbed something from his pouch, it was a small soaked hamburger, he undid the wrapping and started to eat it squeezing water from it, that didn't look tasty.
"You're eating a wet hamburger?" Nyx summarized from everyone.
"Yeah, is there a problem?" Song retorted.
"Just wondering why"
"Because I haven't eat, sleep or shit nothing in the last 107 hours that's why" Song said dryly.
"Um…" Someone called them; it was Jaune he was raising his hand as if he was in class "Why were you trying to…um…?" he didn't finish the sentence, he felt rattled.
"Trying to kill him? Oh by dust I was not trying to kill him!" He answered a little offended. That was too good for him.
"Really? Could 've fooled me!" Yang spoke with ominous.
"Then…what were you trying to do?" Weiss asked haughty but wary.
"I was simply trying to maim, cripple or left him in a comatose state" he asked as if the answer was somehow reassuring.
"Same question" Ronan practically snarled.
"Because is a cunt" he answered.
"Forgive him; he's in that time of the month" he said dryly.
"Oh, so I gouge your eye out, did you die?" Song said belligerently.
"You were basically torturing me back there" Nyx deadpanned.
"But did you die?" Song repeated prickly.
"Ok sorry, don't get angry" the hooded fella tried to excuse.
"Angry?" the other boy repeated with a mirthless laugh. He undid the bandages of his faces and revealed a young face but a bit older than them, he'd a scar slightly above his right cheek and a two small ring earrings in his left ear other than that it was handsome. Everyone was surprised (specially the girls) that his face seemed so gentle and honest under the bandages while with the bandages he looked intimidating. "You're goddamn right I'm angry, you ignorantfuck!" he said.
"Few weeks ago I was happily sulking in a park in Vacuo, eating a pizza by myself before a smoky airship passes through the sky and crashes in the ocean to later see my facetious best friend skydiving and tackle me to the floor and coax me to come to Beacon with him to later be captured and tortured by the White Fang in the way because he forgot to tell me that he stole information from them and after two days of torture we escaped and had the great idea of stole dust from a warehouse of goons and cutthroats and left me in that warehouse to take the airship to Beacon without me! I had to swim all my way to Beacon and got attacked by Tarichas. I have been cut, stabbed, shocked, drowned, burnt, shot and eaten, eaten Nyx! So yeah, forgive my colorful language fucktard! I am angry!"
Yang covered the ears of her sister to prevent her innocence from been shattered. Ruby couldn't hear a thing but seeing how the veins on the throat of the guy pop she guessed that he wasn't saying nice things.
Song inhaled and exhaled, calming himself, he looked over the rest of the new comers "I count fifteen, who's the one who doesn't have partner?"
The group stiffened at the question, they knew the answer but didn't want to say it. The guy almost killed one guy and was in bad mood, if the so called Song didn't have his answer who knew what he could do in that state. Fiver started to raise his hand reluctantly at the thought of someone being hurt by his fault, but was stopped by her sister who again shook her head, she subtly tried to cover her brother with her body; he'd to be the only one without partner.
Nairod and Ren had showed up together along with the hyperactive red head and Janice. The Mistral champion was calling for Jaune and Ruby was with Weiss in the Nevermore talon. She herself had her partner so Yang and Blake and Ronan and the blindfolded man seemed to be partners that left Fiver alone. There was no way she was going to allow him go with a guy who almost killed his so called 'friend'.
Unfortunately for her, Song saw how Fiver was rising his hand, the azure eyed man walked to him as he covered his head with bandages "Is it you?"
"Y-yes" he replied mousy.
Song slightly nodded "Sorry if I gave you a bad first impression" he said as he scratched his nape "As he said, I'm Song" he said bitter the first part but soften at the end, he'd stretched his hand for a handshake.
"Fiver…" the akubra boy answered mildly relieved that he'd a civilized part, he was about to shake it but once again was stopped by her sister; she was looking at Song edgy with a hand stopping his brother and the other grabbing the hilt of Guardian Thorn. Song was wise to not insist on it.
A growl stopped anything bad from happening again, looking over it the group saw the Nemenian recovering over the attack but still somehow dizzy, he would give them chase in no time. "Umm guys…?" it was Jaune again.
He pointed to the sky or more accurately to the Nevermore "That thing is circling back, what are we gonna do?" Jaune asked in distress.
"Look there's no point in more delaying, our objective is right in front of us" Weiss answered motioning with her head to the pedestals with the relics on it.
"She's right, our mission is to grab an artifact and making back to the cliffs" Ruby chimed making Weiss smile in approval "There's no point in fighting this things" she added.
"Run and live. That is an idea I can get behind"
"So if anyone doesn't try to kill anyone anymore could we go now?" Ronan quipped.
"Have you chosen a relic yet?" Song asked to Fiver.
"Um, no I haven't" the akubra boy replied.
"Well, take a pick" Fiver nodded in response and went to the pedestals along with Ruby and Jaune.
Fiver grabbed a white queen, Ruby a white knight and Jaune a white rook. They smiled at each other.
"Hey, you scoundrel" Weiss asked marching towards Nyx halting few inches from him invading his personal space in an intimidating manner. Nyx unfortunately didn't have any concept of 'personal space' floor "I want my lien back you didn't mention any salamander here!"
"That's because it isn't from here" he answered pretty chummy. "The Taricha is a amphibian grimm who can reside in the oceans, underground and volcanos, not in forests" he answered motioning his head to Song "And this ones were kids they never go far from her mother"
"I killed the tadpoles and managed to lose the mother. At least for a while" Song answered the innuendo of Nyx.
"We're going to have company" Noire summarized, he was kneeling with a finger on the floor, he could feel the vibrations escalating slowly but quickly.
"More than one" Janice added seeing the Death Stalker starting to crack the ice.
A giant scorpion, a big lion, a large salamander and a gargantuan bird all of them deadly.
"Things keep getting better and better" Hazel snarky remarked.
"Time we left!" Ren said looking at the imminent danger.
"I support this posit" Nairod said witty as he raised his armored hand.
"Right!" Ruby chimed. "Lest go"
Everyone started to run, heading towards the cliffs with the exception of Yang who seemed proud; Blake went to her side "What is it?"
Yang simply smiled "Nothing" she answered with the same eerie smile and started to run.
Probably need edition but NAH. Too tired, I'll update next part later because now is tomorrow :)
BTW the reason why this chapter is called 'The white tiger' is due the surname of Song. Bai Hu means 'White Tiger'