Team GRAS- Chapter 9
The Reveal?
"Now. It's your turn... To... Survive." Each word barely audible as Gray crashed to the floor.
Ray was in shock, he saw Gray collapse in a heap, in his mind he couldn't understand why someone who never knew him had done so much. Scarlett and Lwaxanna screamed, rushing to Gray's fallen body, weapons held out, protecting their boyfriend and brother respectively. Seeing this, Ray suddenly remembered a memory from before Beacon, a memory he never wanted back. His vision shifted as he saw the recollection and time slowed to a crawl.
He jumped down from the roof of the warehouse he entered. There was a small fire burning and a figure laying down next it, shivering and moaning.
"I'm back, we weren't followed, and thankfully the rain has made it impossible to track us down." Ray said to the figure.
The figure moaned in pain, Ray walked to the figure and crouched down, putting his hand to the person's forehead, he could feel them burning up, and the pulse wasn't much better.
"Take it easy, you'll just make yourself worse, you took a nasty shot when we escaped," Ray said caringly, "I still can't believe that he did that to us! We were best friends! WHY?! We were the best of our tribe!"
The figure moaned, but weakly responded,
"That's why, you two were always rivals, and he was jealous of you, you were the best of all of us, and you the next in line to be chief too." The speech was interrupted by a coughing fit and moans of pain, "But I can't believe that even he would go that far. Listen I don't have much time left, this wound is draining me, I'm fighting as much as I can, but I can feel that I'm dying. I have two things to tell you.
One, I have always loved you, my love, and I think he was jealous of us and couldn't stand it, I think he was in love with me. And he went mad and betrayed us and took leadership. Killing our master and leader. *coughing and moaning*
Two, you must live on and survive, don't forget me but also move on. I know you, so I know you'll have problems with people again, but you'll find someone. Someone to trust and be friends with, don't push them away, tell them you are. But most importantly, survive and live, the tribe lives with you now, you are the leader and master now. Now I take the greatest journey now. Goodbye, my love, and know I'm always with you." Pushing a golden ring into Ray's hand, the figure closed their eyes a look of content on their face and they released their last breath.
Ray stared at the figure, crying now, tears falling freely clutching at the ring and the handed he vowed.
"Amara my love, my betrothed, I'll miss you, I'll never forget you.
Forgive my sins, for what I have done
I must atone, for what I have done
For what I have done, there is no forgiveness
Amara guide my path, upon my redemption
We shall meet again."
Roaring into the sky Ray screamed his rage and pain out. Gathering his equipment and some personal mementos he walked to the fire, picking a stick that was alight he left the warehouse, he whispered a prayer for what he was about to do, he set the warehouse on fire, burning the building and the resting place for Amara to ashes, so no one will discover where they were heading.
Turning from the building, hiding his weapons under his coat, he made his way towards the kingdom and city of Vale. Hoping to undo a lifetime of mistakes, and make a new life for himself.
Coming back to his senses he saw both Lox and Scarlett battling the Beowulf's again, cutting them in half or smashing them apart neither moving away from the fallen Gray protecting him. Ray saw that the Ursa which were knocked down and disoriented were standing up, making his mind up he sighed and pushed two buttons on his watch, the first called a rocket propelled locker to his location, deciding he will need heavier firepower and also to show who he was to his new friends and team, the second activated a radio.
"Professor Ozpin, I need a gunship and medical ship on my position in five minutes, we have a student possibly in a coma, very severe Aura depletion and are surrounded by Grimm, we will hold as long as we can, but we are low on ammo and everyone's Aura is low and nearly depleted."
A reply came almost immediately,
"Understood, they are being dispatched now, hold your position. I'm assuming it's him in a possible coma?"
"Yes."
"Understood, does this mean that you are accepting yourself and them?"
"Yes."
An explosion distracted him, as he was covered in debris and dirt, his locker landed and opened up, the door obscured him as he reached inside. When he closed the door, he had a very custom assault rifle, the barrel was extended and it had two sights, a scope and a red dot sight and an under barrel rotary grenade launcher, it had scratches all along the stock but they were too precise to be from damage, in his other hand he had a short sword, the hilt was longer than usual and was black the pommel was a white grinning skull, like the gun the hilt had white scratches on it. The guard was a snarling jade dragon, ruby eyes, and gold fangs resting on the blade, with the claws going to the side the blade extended to 75 centimetres and was a dark ruby read, almost blood red in colour.
All the Beowulf's were dead now, and the Ursi were gearing for attack, catching their breathes they turned to Ray, about to shout at him to help, but when they turned looked at him, their eyes were wide in shock, Ray had taken his hat off, and revealed two grey cat ears.
"Ray?" Lox asked, stunned, "You're a faunas? Like us?"
Ray looked at his partner, looked in her eyes and solemnly nodded.
"Yes, but that is not all." Ray spoke calmly but with weight too, pushing a button on his swords hilt, the dragons eyes burned with light and the blade extended to 110 centimetres. And his eyes became cat slits and his face became angry.
"I'm the assassin known as 'The White Stalker' and formally wanted from the Red List."
A/N
Disclaimer I do not own RWBY or its characters.
Sorry for those who are reading my story, I've just recently spilt up with my partner of nearly six years and it's not a happy and clean breakup, so sorry that it has taken far longer for this chapter to come out, I simply haven't been in the story telling mood. But I'm alive and should be back to a chapter every two weeks, work allowing of course.
In this chapter I have used an idea from another, I can't remember his pen name but he is the author of another RWBY story, Emerald rose. The red list is a list of Remnants worst people, and I will go more into why Ray was one the list, and why he isn't on it anymore.