I have nothing to say about the delays of this story and others, for I have no cares of yall...
Jk.
Anyways, life kinda found me and decided to put me back onto the f**king river and row the f**king boat and reach my f**king destination with hard work, but meh.
No, I am not stopping my stories, f**k that.
I aint abandoning them
Please review, not in just those simple "nice chapter", "good work, please continue", bullshts. I want real comments to be tuned up, I will not push this work of mine away, ive worked too much mental sht on my stories.
Enjoy, and dont get killed. Last thing I know is someone died by a stray bullet...
It happened... Literally...
Btw, some more info at the end below of this chapter too... (Its a request if you permit it)
"-So you scared that asshole?" Lordez said with a wide smile of satisfaction on his face. Listening on what happened to the mission his friend decided to do.
"Me? Nah, Misha scared that dumb old man and the kid to death! They passed out, looking like skeletons."
"Heh, worth it?" Orm nodded with a small smile.
Lordez laughed, while Orm chuckled, in satisfaction.
"Hahaha, at least you went out with a good scare on that one."
Orm snorted. "Oh please, I dont think that was a good scare."
Lordez shrugged. "You and I got different opinions on that one."
They were currently on Beacon's cafeteria. It was the day after some 'work' the two had done, wasnt really work just chores. They were eating some breakfast, with a little bit of snacks in addition.
Orm has apparently returned back to Beacon as the town was now reinforced with several Huntsmen and some militia to boost the defenses. Qrow had other 'business' to take care of so he was dropped at the outskirts near Vale.
"So, what about yours?" Orm grabbed and chewed on a fry.
Lordez made a smug smile. "Nothing concerning. Just training a bunch of kids, helping them out a bit, making an army of undead for the 'Breach' event, discovered some unknown materials in the Badlands, used that material in making a stronger undead."
Orm perked up a bit. "Oh? What about these 'unknown materials'?"
"Figured that the Grimm tar, which I decided to call it [Soulless Tar], makes my undead workers to get stronger. Hold on, Ill give you an example." He pulled out his scroll, send a file consisting of pictures to his friend.
A 'beep' sound came out from Orm's scroll, he checked it out and was a bit surprised by the Skeleton Worker's appearance. "Did it just went black?" He jokingly said.
Lordez stifled a laugh. "Racist joke m8? Really? Anyways, according to your question; yes it did. Though it's level went from 12 to 24, and you wanna know whats the weirdest thing?"
"It got a black di-"
Lordez immediately interjected him. "-F**k off, and no, it has a soul."
Orm's eyes widen before slowly going to normal. "...You serious?"
Lordez nodded. "I got a theory that this [Soulless Tar], no idea how it works really, when mixing it with one that produces negative energy, it emits something that I maybe guess; that it turned sentient."
"..."
"Its a theory." He deadpanned. "Its not a bloody fact, just a guess from the back of my mind with no damn concrete evidence."
Lordez then checked his time and it was nearing 10 o'clock and almost for the class session, he'd be seeing how the students he have trained a bit might probably improved...
Of course he had seen the results, even if only by a bit, from team RWBY. But that doesnt mean that goes to the ones he'd trained.
"Anyways, I'll be leaving now." Lordez stood up before sipping the last of his iced tea. "Got class."
"Alright man, see ya." Orm made a lazy two-fingered salute. Lordez waved back once in return.
As Lordez walked out of the building and heading back to the classroom, something made a 'beep' sound in his mind.
[My lord, I apologize if I have disturbed you] A voice said suddenly in a dark, creepy tone. He then walked slowly enough to have enough time to converse a bit with the caller.
He chuckled slightly. [Not to be worried about that, I am not doing anything busy at the moment. What made you call me?]
[Yes, regarding to the scouting team in Vale, they have reported of a dragon-type Grimm in the mountains. What do you wish for us to do, creator?]
'They managed to find it? Huh, but killing it would only draw out attention...' He went quiet for a moment.
[Leave it as it is, waking it would cause attention and panic towards the people]
[Understood my creator] He could picture that the Forsaken One is bowing at nothing but air. Heh.
He sighed mentally before going on a usual walking pace.
Arriving on the Amphitheater, no one was there. So he began waiting until some minutes later students began to fill in.
Starting the class after the students began to settle, with few students barely making on time, he began his usual teachings to the students. Though only some moments he had given them and focused on training them literally.
Some hour later, he set up some matches, until going onto team CRDL vs Pyrrha Nikos.
(Im not gonna write the fight in detail, we all know whats gonna happen)
Even he had trained the idiotic boys a bit, it still ended with Pyrrha that won.
" *Sigh* You boys still are not good enough. Too arrogant in your strength and don't rely on teamwork..." He received a groan response from one of boys in a team CRDL.
"And likewise, Miss Nikos," He turned to her. "You've done excellent job on beating these fools out of their lousy skills." He smiled.
Some students gulped on how blunt their professor is, while there are a few who chuckled on their professor's comment.
"I'm... Not sure whether to take that as a compliment or not, professor."
"You can think of it as a bit of both. Anyways, you will have no problems on qualifying for the tournament." He pointed at her. "Now that, you can take that as a compliment."
"And as for you." He looked back down at the incapacitated team members of CRDL. "...I dont think you'd last few minutes longer in the tournament. If thats how you act all the time."
"Now!" He clapped his hands. "Strength, of course, is important. But if that gets covered with arrogance, then you wont make a good huntsman or huntress... Dont get blinded by victory, only focus on defeating your opponent. All of you have trained to face against Grimm, and ya'll are capable enough to fight... But what if you're up against people?" He smirked as he looked around.
Some students began to murmur quietly and looked at each other uncomfortably. And on some certain students just narrowed their eyes ever so slightly on the professor, while the minority felt nothing.
He smirked. "Ya'll gotta dirty your hands someday, and you're going to live through it..." He said darkly. It caused some students to flinch at his words.
"Alright now," His scroll slowly floated up to his side. "Now we can have time for one more sparring match, so volunteers?" He looked around before setting his eyes on a certain student. "Miss Belladonna?"
Blake suddenly closed her book and straighten herself. "You seemed to be... Docile the past few classes..." She looked away with a troubled look.
'Blake, I know why your like that, but you gotta calm down...' Lordez frowned at her condition.
"So, why dont you-"
"I'll do it!" A boy raised his hand.
Lordez glanced at the boy, Mercury. "...Alright, we'll find you an opponent." As he pretend to tap around on his scroll.
"Actually," He stopped. "I wanna fight... her." He slowly pointed at Pyrrha.
"Me?" Pyrrha replied in confusion.
"...Trying to get an advantage on a exhausted opponent huh? Dirty move there boy." He said in fake disappointed tone. He knew very well what he is trying to do.
"No! Its fine." She quickly said. "I'd be happy to oblige." She smiled.
Lordez seemed to look at her in a calculating manner. "If that is what you wish, Miss Nikos. Very well."
As Mercury gets on the arena, Lordez went onto the sidelines with arms crossed.
Some certain students glanced at their combat trainer in curiosity. He was frowning, though they could not take a concrete hint and can only guess that Mercury was just taking on advantage on Pyrrha as she may be exhausted.
'I wonder what was their reaction when they reported on the 'message'. Damn, should have spied on them that time...' He rubbed his temple ever slowly.
After some time, the match ended quite briefly.
Mercury held that smug smile on his face, which kinda pissed off Lordez a bit, even though it wasnt for him.
Pyrrha was quite disappointed that her opponent forfeit after some exchanges, calling out on her with the title.
Little did she know that it was to learn her semblance...
But, that didnt go unnoticed. F**king obviously.
"...Pyrrha Nikos is the victor of this match, again." He announced. He looked at him. "Next time you gotta think before you take action on choosing your opponent, black legs."
Mercury tilted his head a bit on the nickname given by the trainer. "Meh, Ill make sure to do that." He said before leaving the Amphitheater.
As the match ended, and the buzzer ringed, students began to leave the room.
"You all are dismissed! And I dont need to remind you all about what is going to happen in this weekend!" He exclaimed. Which the dance would happen, and it will happen on Saturday about 2 days later.
Now he may not seem quite excited for the dance night this weekend, but he didnt show it.
He has dozens of songs to pick out for the dance, make it more lively.
After fixing up some stuff in the Amphitheater, he made sure that no one is around anymore and only him alone.
He would try to practice against the dummy bots, though they wont prove much fight on him. And summoning a monster to fight him would prove to be difficult in trying to convince it...
"Hmmm, what to do... Ah!" He snapped his fingers. He materialized his chains on his left arm and [Soul Eater] holding onto it.
(Yes I know, the weapon's name confuses with the undead horse name Soul Eater. But just dont mind it)
He tapped some buttons on his scroll, and a dummy bot was placed on the arena.
"{Summon Middle Tier: Black Blob}" A black substance suddenly appeared from his shadow. It slowly grew into a pile of black, shiny gooey bile. Its liquid moving, alive as it is.
One could make a simple mistake on thinking this as a mere Black Ooze, its similarity is with its color is shiny, not dark. And of acid, its ability can take control on object or a living being (Only if its some levels below it), changing it into its self image of nightmare.
It is only easy to kill if it has not yet possessed any humanoid object, or taken possession on a person which is a bit unlikely. As its ability could affect NPCs only, but this is the new world and some rules may have changed...
Lordez pointed at the dummy bot, which was not activated yet. "Take possession of that golem."
The Black Blob 'nodded' its head before pouncing itself onto the dummy bot, engulfing it whole. After a while the gooey substance was slowly being absorbed into the dummy bot.
Changing its color aligned with its theme, black. Its eye sockets and systems turned from blue to crimson red. Its appearance making itself more slim and few feet taller. Almost a same height as a Death Knight it would seem.
Its hands turning into black, gooey metallic talons, and spikes on its arms.
With the dummy bot now in possession by the Black Blob, its strength, power, speed and endurance would now be increased by a dozen levels. It can probably take on a Grimm Horde with ease.
He can assume that it may not be high enough level to possibly accidentally kill him, it would only wound him by chance.
He hummed. "Attack me."
The Black Blob immediately responded by recoiling its arm before stretching it towards him.
Lordez crouched down before leaping towards it. He threw his chains and wrapped it around the bot-possessed head. He pulled it, adding some speed as he was planning to punch the thing.
The bot, if it havent had a sentimental creature possessing it it would have been over in some seconds later. It used its other arm, grabbed the chain and smashed Lordez off the line, onto the ground.
Lordez huffed and quickly retracted the chain. "Finally, some hits on me." He muttered.
He may not have been damaged much, but he did felt the force. Despite its just being smashed onto the ground with motion and all...
The bot leaped to Lordez like a hunter from L4D. It opened its 'hand', making a swipe to Lordez.
Lordez jumped back, with the bot landing in front of him, its managed to take a swipe on Lordez who just blocked it.
He once again used his chains, wrapping around the bot, pulled it hard and launching himself towards it.
He grinned as he slashed the bot-possessed at its left arm, before jumping on a safe distance.
Sounds of electronics and wires going crazy, the bot looked at its robotic arm, before its substance quickly covered it, replacing it with a liquid which reshaped it like a deformed claw.
'Ill have take some time enjoying this.' He grin like mad before charging back towards the robotic abomination.
. . .
Almost 30 minutes later, the arena floor was littered with mechanical parts from the dummy bot, and some floors were destroyed with small crater shaped on them.
Markings of a battle. But it will be fixed sooner or later anyways.
The damage isnt quite... Hard to fix on.
Seriously, leaving it alone in its current condition would make people question "what the hell happened here?".
Lordez was sitting with his back against the wall. Bloodied and bruised, scratches and tears on his clothes, some shards on his face, stab wounds around his body, bits of scaled flesh torn out, and a heavily damaged arm that you could even see the bones.
Lordez let out a painful sigh. "Should have up my game and used the damn [Gauntlet], fucking hell it hurts everywhere..."
He grunts as he lifted up his head a little, seeing the Black Blob gathering every debris on the floor and piling them up on a fixed place.
The said creature is a mindless one and doesn't worry for its master's condition. A mindless monster in a fucking summarized version.
"Okie, nap time's over. {Harm}." He cast the spell on himself, healing only half of his critical wounds, while letting his racial passive skill do the rest.
He stood up and stretched his limbs. Making satisfying cracking sounds of bones being fixed into place.
"Argh f**king hell that felt good!" He finishes off with cracking his head. Giving off a big cracking sound. (Not intentional here people)
He grabbed several scrolls from his void inventory, specifically [Scroll of Mending]. Its already self explanatory...
He then used them onto the damaged floors, which got fixed upon the use of the scrolls.
"Now," He turned to the Black Blob, which seem to be looking at him like a puppy... I dont know how but its looking at him like that. Just bloody imagine it!
"what to do with you?"
After thinking for a good moment, he decided to make the Black Blob possess his chains.
The Blob engulfed his entire left arm, before possessing the chains, giving it a more dreaded aura, making the chains more tougher, and giving a more spiky look.
"Not... Quite bad looking, heh." He said, checking the new look of his chains.
He threw his chains, and as if he thought of it to go up, it did so. "Oh? Thats new." He recoiled back the chains, wrapping it onto his arm again. "Must be the Blob possessing it..." 'At least I might have some new tricks to make with this.'
And for no reason at all, he checked the time and several hours have been past. Its almost 3 PM now.
"Time to move." Putting the scroll away and walking out of the Amphitheater.
Some hours later. . .
Lordez immediately went back to his room and has been goofing around for about an hour checking on with his list of songs saved in his [Music Box], trying to find a decent, or a perfect song for the dance party's theme.
That, if he decides to do it. Since it's going to be a temporary time for him to relax for a while.
And knowing Orm, his probably going to continue on playing some game in his scroll. Grimm Legends as it appeared, it was similar to Dragon Town but only with grimm and some hybrids of them.
He and Orm didnt really need to worry about anything, except for Cinder going into the CCT tower and hack into their systems. He is going to let that happen as stopping the hack would make them notice of something is wrong and a third party is joining in the play.
"Would this be, nah, nope not good enough for the theme." He shook his head mentally before scrolling down for any good songs. "Ahh! Why is this so stressful!?"
"It's just choosing only one bloody song!" He grunted. 'This isnt even rocket science!'
He gripped his head tightly for a moment before sighing. "Why am I really here?"
He looked down at the floor, deep in thought. Thinking on what was the real reason of him and Orm being here? What has fate given them for? Was it his wish for it? He had thought many reasons, guesses and theories some time now, but he doesnt know why...
The thought of his mother came into mind. 'Mom, I wonder how you are doing without me. Hope you are doing ok...' He closed his eyes out of sorrow.
Though he felt his emotions slowly go down, his passive emotion-blocker on work, preventing him from going on a burst of emotions.
He sighed. "Why am I really here...?" He said quietly...
He shook his head. 'No, I mustn't think that way. Being stuck in the past wont help you, I must move on...'
He unconsciously gripped his hand tightly. He dispelled his illusion on his arm, smoke surrounding it before the usual pale, dead skin in his sight.
"Life aint easy..." He muttered as he clenched his fist several times. "Heh, why must I think like this all the damn time? Lordez, you better get your shit together and face it. Destiny has given you this choice and you better btch it up..." He sighed. "Your a grown man now, so keep your shit together... Clear your mind..."
Some moments later of silence, he looked back again onto the [Music Box] list of songs before his eyes slowly went wide upon seeing a certain song that definitely fit into the dance party's theme... Just maybe.
"Huh. This... might work."
Change scene. . .
"-add her to the list." Cinder said.
They were discussing on a list of names of the students in Beacon, targeting who would be deemed a threat and needed to be deal with or possibly capable to be recruited. Highly unlikely for the latter to happen though.
"Oh, forgot to mention, there is one person that might be troublesome to the plan." Mercury said.
Cinder raised a brow in interest. "Oh? Who is this person?"
"The professor in combat class, he seem to radiate this aura of... Deadliness. He also fought the Headmaster along with someone that has a pet bear."
"Hmm... Anything else?"
Mercury paused trying to think for a moment before shaking his head in negative. "Nope, cant think of any. But my hunch tells me he's suspicious."
"I've checked his background," Emerald finally spoke. "there is somehow unusual in it though. There is suspicious on his records, stating he came from the mountains from Mistral along with his friend 'Orm Hakonarsson'. Weird name." She commented before continuing. "No birth records, medical, career, history, nothing. As if they just appeared out of nowhere."
Cinder went silent, thinking for a moment before speaking. "The combat professor, Lordez D Grimm, is it?." She received a nod. "Odd choice of naming, why name someone through a creature that kills them?" Though she did felt a sense of dread and deadliness, as Mercury stated, around the combat professor.
"His parents must have been either too lazy to name their child or just taking that name for no reason." Mercury said.
"Hmm... Keep an eye on them, we may use them for our needs."
"And if they refuse?" Mercury asked.
"Then... We may need to resort on removing them from our way."
Another change scene. . .
Several days have finally passed.
Lordez's combat training exercise made some results. Though, it only upped the students' levels by once or twice. But it was helpful nonetheless.
Again, he had talked and spotted out some flaws among the student trainees. Giving them advice, suggesting some tweaks on their weapons, none to a certain weapon-lover, and need to rely on one's self when situation calls for it.
I should have looked in the previous chapters, I made some mistakes the moment I re-read the story...
"-Alright everyone!" He exclaimed, getting the attention of the students. "I want a volunteer, the whole team or individual if possible, to have a sparring fight... Against me." He smirked widely.
Most of them gulped in fear and nervousness. "I know this is quite a sudden request, but I need to know if you all haven't been going off course and slacking your damn restrictions. So!" This time, his voiced seemed to boomed the entire room that the faunuses cringed on the loudness of his voice. "Who will stand up and beat up your combat trainer just for the sake of doing for the entire class?"
(Not sure what is the plural term of Faunus...)
The students began to look at each other, some shook their heads, some seemed to look away hoping they wont get chosen, few dare to look approvingly among each other.
He decided to put some prize in the match... "I'll pass you all with 100% points in my class, teachings, for a week." They all looked at the trainer wide eyes. "No lies, no tricks on this one, and no bull sh*t. I promise you that." He said in a tone that they wouldn't forget easily.
The students began to murmur.
He did a quick glance on Blake, who still seem to be preoccupied, obviously on Roman Torchwick and needing to know his involvements with the White Fang.
He wont step into that problem as it will be fixed by itself anyway so he doesnt need to... Intervene. Actually he doesn't really know how to the 'talk'.
After awhile, there began on raising hands. But he focused on Ruby hesistantly, Yang, Nora, Pyrrha, and unexpectedly Mercury, who raised their hands.
'Mercury? So they want to test my combat huh?...' He thought suspiciously.
Lordez raised a brow on the certain individuals. "You wanna give it a go, eh?"
"Yup!" Nora made a pop on the end of the word.
"Hmmm... How about this; I will randomly choose to those who raised their hands to fight me. No questions asked." Afterwards he tapped several times on his scroll and the board showed up the faces of those who wish to fight.
"Again, second chance, you can back down from this challenge if you want to. You're not a coward for doing so." He said coldly, which made the students to feel a ghostly cold shiver in their spines.
He paused before nodding to himself. "Very good, I'll start the roll." He tapped on the scroll once. And the roll began.
The board was choosing one of the 7 volunteers (which Im not going to say it out), and as it goes slowly, to which the students' eyes were literally gouging out, it went to... Ruby.
"Well, the board has chosen you to fight me dear Rose." He smiled. "Now, grab your gear."
. . .
Lordez stood firm as he lazily cracked his fingers one by one.
"So, professor-"
"Mr. Grimm," He said suddenly. "I would prefer to be called Mr. Grimm if you may." He said politely.
"Well... Ok, Mr. Grimm, would you be using your staff?" She transformed her scythe as she said it.
"My staff... Nah, that wouldnt be fair now would it?" Ok now that raised some questions to all students present.
"What you mean?" She asked.
Lordez chuckled. "It means..." He held out his hand to his side, and materialized his scythe, [Soul Eater]. "I'll be fighting you with the same weapon, Ms Rose."
It brought some students to lean forward in interest and wonder, a scythe user against another scythe user. It also brought their curious minds back to surface on the topic on what is their combat trainer's semblance.
And as half expected, Ruby just squealed in joy... "The Soul Eater!"
(Just to let you all know, the size of Lordez's scythe is size of a long sword. Not the same size of Ruby or Qrow's scythes. Imagine Warframe scythes but a bit longer)
He nodded. "Yes, it would seem fair to fight you with the same weapon you have." He smiled. "And to win, just simply beat me or knock me out of the arena."
She grinned widely. "Lets do this then!" She said with excitement, probably on going against another scythe user. He aint sure.
"Go get him Ruby!" Her sister cheered.
"Break his legs!" We all know who this is...
Lordez tapped several times onto his scroll, activating the match sequence.
-Match Starting-
-3-
-2-
-1-
-Fight!-
As the match starts, Ruby immediately used her semblance towards Lordez who seemed to be calm as f**k.
Lordez silently turned on his [Music Box], activating the song, he grinned.
SFX - Christian Reindl - Claim Your Weapon
The music began quite lowly, soothing as it appearing out of nowhere, Ruby missed her swing which was aimed at his neck.
"What the?" She said confused.
"Dont mind me, sometimes I like to fight with music on." He twirl around his scythe before going into a stance. "Now, bring it."
He silently cast {Haste} and {Quickening} on himself, getting on a same speed whenever Ruby uses her semblance.
Ruby went for the attack again, this time the combat trainer was mainly dodging and parrying her attacks.
This went on for a couple of moments before Lordez breaking off to have breathing room. However Ruby quickly switched her scythe to gun mode before firing at Lordez.
He easily blocked her shots before leaping towards her. Ruby dodged to the side and tried to knock him off balance, but he easily blocked it.
The two were exchanging their blades, metal and reinforced bone clashing to each other.
They were an equal match, but to some, it was quite obvious that their trainer was just holding back. F**king obviously.
The audience cheered, all towards Ruby hoping for her to win. I mean, who wouldnt want to take that chance and pass the test for all of them?
The undead was testing her speed, which was not actually bad. It seemed to have gone up, but only slightly he guessed. She still has flaws; fighting without a weapon is one of the several pointed things.
He had wondered if the rest of the students he had trained, advised, and bloody sparred several times, have gotten similar results as well.
Not in mind, he barely managed to block an attack going up to his face. 'Shit! That was close!'
"Hmm... Not bad, you've actually improved Ms Rose."
Ruby backed off, lowering her weapon. "Really sir?! I dont seemed to look like it." She doubted.
Lordez shook his head, chuckling in amusement. "I know if one has improved or not." Which is... true. Since her level had gone up couple of times, small, but it was good enough. "Now, lets continue."
Lordez brandished his weapon expertly, and brought into a stance that no one has ever seen. He held his scythe high, one hand, crouched low enough lowering her knee almost touching the ground.
"My turn." He said before turning into a blur.
Ruby panicked for a brief moment before getting slashed several times from nowhere. She was thrown few feet to the side.
"Oh? You couldnt... see me?" He said, almost in a tone of disappointment. "Thought your training had improved on that... Oh well, slight improvements."
'What was that!?' She thought, slowly getting up. 'He was moving too fast, I couldnt even see him!'
"|Reaping Leap|" He went blur again, before appearing in front of Ruby again, catching her off guard.
Ruby managed to blocked his attacks, but most of them went through.
Her aura was moving towards the yellow bar quickly.
"I suggest on gathering yourself together, Ms Rose..." He said plainly. "Do not let your opponent get to you closer, as it would mean your end." He said coldly.
Ruby quickly got up, staggered, but managed to regained her footing. Her sight was going up and down, left and right. Drowsy. She quickly shook her head, clearing her sight.
He looked at the board, his aura was still green, barely went down. To Ruby's, her aura was on yellow, few more hits to the red bar and she's out.
"Your skill with the scythe is good, but not enough. Restricting yourself from moving freely would mean skills havent been unlocked and tested... Yet." He said in a calculating tone.
"Simply to say... Not enough..." He said quietly. Only enough for him to hear.
"Anyways, you wish to surrender Ms Rose?"
"N-No! I can still fight!" She said defiantly, holding up her scythe up high, blade pointing at him.
'Determined, blind towards the truth... How innocent.' He sighed before chuckling.
Lordez slowly walked towards the edge of the arena, confusing all students. "Uhh, where are you going Mr Grimm?"
"Where am I going?" He gestured himself. "Im going out of the arena." Before she can speak, Lordez continued. "You've proved your worth as a Huntress, even in the face of defeat, you still went up against your opponent... Foolish, yet brave."
He then stepped off of the arena. He slowly raised his arms to the side, as if showing himself off. "Congratulations." His weapon then dematerialized. "You've won the match."
Silence... *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* The audience applauded with joy, mostly on because they all have gotten a free pass on their test. And partly on the fight was just amazing.
They were screaming in joy, jumping around happily, some were applauding on the fight too, but were mostly overjoyed that they get a free pass on the test he had prepared.
The two certain teams were jumping in delight and joy that their friend won. Which was of course, by default.
Lordez chuckled to the surrounding audience. 'Heh, happy because of I let them all passed...' He smiled.
He saw one of the students crying, in joy? Ok that is quite a drama there...
"Alright!" He clapped his hands, getting attention to all students. "All of you already know what is going on for tonight, but I'm still required to say this; the Dance is tonight, and you all know what to do!" Some students nodded in acknowledgement.
"And now..." He checked the time on his scroll, it is only few minutes before the class ends anyway. "Im gonna give you all an early leave, so class dismissed!"
The students then began to leave, but before a certain team leave, he called out to his attention to another fellow scythe user. "Ms Rose! Come here for a moment." He motioned her to come.
Ruby walked up to the trainer. "Yes, Mr. Grimm?" She said with a bit of uneasiness in her tone.
"Dont be concerned, its not that you did something bad." This made her sigh a bit in relief. "Though, I would like to point out some facts that you have on using the scythe."
"What about it?" She tilted her head, confused.
"Your handling with the scythe is above-average, your uncle has taught you well has he?"
Ruby went her eyes wide a bit. "You know uncle Qrow?" She squeaked.
Lordez chuckled, making Ruby a bit confused. "Personally? No, but I have heard of him. And I suspect that you were taught by him?"
"Yep!" She smiled.
"Hahahah! As expected... Anyways, you and the others still have much to learn." He said. "I also suspect that you dont know how to fight without a weapon?" He raised a brow.
"Umm... W-well, kinda?" She said unsure.
"*Sigh* Of course, of course... Anyways, try to keep your skills up a notch. Even if its quite obvious that all of you are still capable..." He muttered at the last part.
"Uhh, Mr. Grimm?"
"Hm? Oh? What is it?"
"I also have a question to ask."
That made him curious. "Do say so."
"Why did you let me win?"
That made him pause before speaking. "Because you are a capable Huntress, one that seem determine to reach the goal. With the exception of today, it was a volunteered action, but still. It is also why you are a leader, are you not?"
That made her confuse more, but she didnt want to ask what he meant. "Well... I am."
"Good, you can leave now."
She walked away to her friends, them asking what did they talked about.
'The logical reasonings are still impossible to understand for her...'
He stood alone on the arena floor, pondering on the days to come... The future days...
"So, what kind of outfit that your gonna wear?"
It was almost time for the dance, and the two players were at Lordez's room, since it has a comfortable spacious feeling to which the two had.
They had been discussing about the dance, again which is happening tonight, and what to wear.
Lordez was quite lazy and would decide on going on his normal, casual wear, but Orm convinced him that its a formal party for the students to enjoy. Plus, its a relaxation for the staff as well, so kinda a win-win in a situation.
"Heh, you'll see." He mentally thought of how will it look like and the design it will be.
"{Create Item}" His clothes then materialized into something normal... A suit with dark red trimmings, and obviously a red tie. He also wore a necklace, a spider emblem with its eyes colored red.
"Huh, looking good." Orm complimented. "Though what about me?"
"What about you? Arent you just a guard?"
"Well-"
"-Just joking, here hold on, {Create Item}." Orm's clothes flashed, before a new set appeared on him. He wore deep brown suit, going with the same color theme he had originally, though the secondary color would be light brown.
"Damn, looks good on you man." Lordez whistled at the sight of his friend's size. The suit perfectly matched him quite alot.
Orm went onto a nearby mirror, examining himself. "I kinda look big on this..."
"You're fault on making your avatar fricking muscular..." He deadpanned.
"Its not my fault that its the lore of it!" He countered. "So be quite dead man, I like how my avatar looks like."
"...Ok fine, I'll shut up about it." He said, ending the conversation of the topic.
Orm snorted in amusement. "So we going to the dance or what?"
. . .
They went to the ballroom, stood outside. They could hear music inside the room, but muffled. Indicating that the party was starting.
"..." Lordez staring at the door, having second thoughts on whether to go in and join the dance party, or just sit on a roof somewhere and stare at the nightly sky.
"So... We going in?" Orm said firmly as he looked at his friend and comrade. "Look, this is just going to happen once for in our time ok?"
Lordez sighed, nodding slowly, unsure about it and having doubts, before pushing the doors.
The two players entered the ballroom, being greeted by Yang. "Well hello there professors. You two look good in a suit." She said in a flirty tone.
Lordez noticed that his friend frowned only slightly from her greeting. "Yang, you do remember were older than you right?"
"Why yes." She straighten herself up, although her smug smile is still there. "I do, professor."
"Like I said before little dragon, just simply call me Mr Grimm." He teased before walking towards the tables filled with snacks and drinks. His friend kinda looked at him weirdly.
Without noticing, Yang just smirked in return. She noticed that the doors opened again. "Ah, you guys are just in time."
It was Mercury and Emerald in their formal attire. "Wouldn't miss it for the world."
Lordez grabbed a cup filled with punch then drank it. "Ahh, fresh and good."
"Wait, I thought you cant drink any other but blood or alcohol?" He raised a brow.
"Well there is something you didnt know about..." He smiled.
"...What?" He had a feeling that he wouldnt be liking this for a bit...
"'Magik'" He smiled ear to ear.
Orm pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance. "*Sigh* Why did I even ask?..."
Lordez made a soft laugh before noticing Ozpin coming up to them. "Ah, hello Headmaster." He bowed his head as he greeted.
"Good evening sir." Orm followed the suit.
"Good evening gentlemen, are you two enjoying yourselves at this night?"
"Yeah we are." Orm shouldered his friend playfully, who just chuckled in response.
"Also," Lordez spoke up. "I've noticed that the little red girl want to go back into her hood?" He jerked his head to where Ruby is at, which the other two followed his gaze.
'Why is Ruby holding two cups? Oh right, Jaune is about to converse with Pyrrha.'
"Yes," Ozpin nodded as he smiled. "Though, I've assured her that she will enjoy the night." He thought humbly.
"But there is something in those words you've told her resides a secret... One you seem to held on to your memories?"
"Yes..." Ozpin looked down in slight sorrow. Not wanting to show his emotions to all. "But we must learn from our mistakes and move forward along, shouldn't we? After all, one day you will leave this place and in your last moments, you might regret on not spending them quite enough..."
The two players nodded in those wise words.
It was truth, blunt, cold and unnerving, but it is the truth.
Orm was scanning the room before spotting a certain pair of bunny ears. She was sitting near the tables with a drink in hand, by herself alone...
He hummed. "Hey Lord."
"Yeah? And did you just call me Lord?" He snorted. "Thats a new one?"
"Yes I did, much faster than saying your full name." He deadpanned. "Anyways, see that girl over there?" Lordez looked to where Orm was looking at.
"Ah, Jame's companion? Her name is Penny." Ozpin answered for Lordez, which he nodded.
"Thats her name? Well, I find it weird and suspicious with two guards beside her..."
"Dude, I've already told you about like the cast right?" He nodded. "Well, I dont need to explain it and neither can I say it here..." He glanced around, indicating his guess.
"Yeah but still..." He said, not entirely convinced, but a little bit enough... "And do you really need to..."
"Need to do what?" He raised a brow. "What are you talking about?" He said confused.
"*Sigh*. Do you really need to sing?" He stressed his voice.
If Ozpin would be surprised at this statement, he didnt show it. Although, he is actually surprised that the a being of death, can sing? He had doubts, but this one is in between believable and disbelief. "Sing? You know how to sing, Mr. Grimm?"
He nodded. "Yes. Not quite good at it... Not that you'd expect it to be good."
Orm chuckled. "He is good than the rest of us."
"I... see." Ozpin said. "Forgive me if may I ask this but, whos this 'us'?" He inquired.
"Ah, our comrades-in-arms. Friends if you may think it like that." Orm answered. "Not really sure what happened to them after the gam- transportation to this world."
"Ah, I see then..."
"Yes," Lordez hummed. "Though, I kinda suspect that the others may have gotten transported too, just not here..."
"What makes you say that?" Orm rose a brow.
"Well if they are here, my {Message} would have gotten to them. But no relay. Or the range is very far or something is blocking the link, either of the two..." Lordez said. "Though there are many possibilities to think of..."
He snapped out of his train of thought. "Anyways, lets leave those thoughts out of the way for tonight. Its a time for these younglings to enjoy..."
Ozpin made a small smile. "Yes... Let us enjoy the night."
Almost by an instant, they heard a loud noise mixed with hilarious laughter. They all looked towards the source where students were horded at.
"Whats going on-"
They all saw Jaune wearing a dress.
"Oh... That..." Orm said, before chuckling then to full blown laughter.
"Im not gonna watch this." Lordez said before turning around, looking at the other direction. "From a different perspective, its alright, but personally? Hell no, its gonna burn into my brain that one for a long time."
"Aww come mon dude, you're not gonna enjoy this sighting?"
"If you think you can make me turn and look around to see him wearing that." He said in a tone of seriousness. "You cant."
Orm shook his head in amusement before turning to the hilarious scene. "And it looks like the time to get your 'attention' aint now huh?"
"Its not for attention damn it." He growled.
"Then what is it for? Unless you want to express your inner emotions inside, than you could have done it in your room."
"I... I have my reasons. Just shut up and enjoy what your seeing."
Orm chuckled before doing so. "This... Kinda relieves the stress out a bit, doesn it?"
"Yes, it does... And the sight seems to be... quite amusing." Ozpin said plainly, though if one could observe closely, he is smirking.
As this was happening, Lordez glanced towards the doors, seeing Ruby walking out of the ballroom. 'Looks like its show time.'
He then contacted the Dark Wraith that was waiting for his commands. [This is Lordez, the act has started. Do what your told]
[Yes master] The Dark Wraith replied quickly and in a monotone.
As Ruby walked out of his sights, he slowly made a smile. 'Hopefully, this would make an entrance...'
"Hey man, team JNPR are dancing-"
"Shut up, I dont wanna see it!" 'ITS MORE EMBARRASSING TO SEE FOR ME PERSONALLY!'
Cinder was able to infiltrate the CCT tower without any problems at all, knocking out the guards were too easy.
She even managed to get the wifi password to Beacon, which would prove no doubt useful to her...
Reaching to the top floor, she went to the command console.
Feeling confident, she accessed through the admin system of the CTT terminal and planted a virus.
As she hacked through the systems, Emerald suddenly notified her. "A party guest is leaving."
She sighed annoyingly. "Which one?"
"Ironwood."
"Im guessing the General had enough fun for one night." Mercury spoke through the comms. "Should we intervene?"
She focused on planting the virus onto the CCT systems, which has been confirmed by a chess piece symbol. Indicating it has been planted. (Bomb has been planted)
"No..." She finally answered. Inside her mind is satisfied with the success on putting the virus, all she needs now is to wait for 3rd phase. "We're done here."
She stood up and made her way to the elevator, but she heard the elevator moving. She narrowed her eyes at the door before hiding behind the console. 'Someone's here? Who is it?'
Once the doors opened, Ruby slowly went in, her scythe at ready. "Hello...?" She said. She suddenly stumbled due to her stilts.
'Stupid stilts.' She thought before focusing back to what is on present at hand.
"Is anyone there?" She said again.
Cinder felt quite a bit confident and knew to herself that this girl wouldnt be able to catch her. Feeling confident, she stood up, making her seen noticed.
"Excuse me." Ruby said. Examining the unknown female in front of her. "You know, its not a masquerade party. So why dont you take off that-!"
Cinder then drew out her powdered canister, summoning glass spikes, before flying towards Ruby.
Ruby widen her eyes in surprise before quickly blocking the attacks. She aimed and returned fire.
Cinder simply blocked her shots with her palm, aura based technique. She spun around, her clothes suddenly lit up before summoning her weapons.
Ruby quickly rushed towards her, downing her blade at her, though missed and almost tripped. 'STUPID STILTS!' She thought angrily.
The assailant then combined her weapons, making a bow, turning the arrows into explosive using the Fall Maiden's powers and took aim. And thus fire.
Ruby was sluggish with her stilts, not being able to dodge in time and may take some minimal damage, and allowing Cinder a chance to escape.
Out of nowhere, the Dark Wraith then appeared from the ground, taking the arrows. The wraith grunted from the explosion, irritated from it. (From Dark Souls)
Two huntresses were surprised and looked at the new figure in disbelief.
Before anyone could move, the wraith suddenly lunged its blade forward onto the surprised assailant.
The wraith didnt give Cinder any much time to react, it rushed itself forward. Slashing its blade onto her.
Cinder managed to regain her composure and kept on blocking. 'I dont have time for this!' She thought.
She quickly broke down a window, jumping out.
The wraith would give chase, but its master only ordered it to surprise and attack the unknown assailant, and to protect the crimson haired girl.
"U-umm... Thanks for the help?" She said slowly, lowering her weapon, but enough to attack if needed.
The wraith looked at her, which made her look at in some fear and awe.
The two stopped and turned to look at the elevator, which indicated that someone is here.
James Ironwood had decided to investigate when he noticed several unconscious guards outside.
The general narrowed his eyes at Ruby in suspicion before widening them at the wraith. He'd guessed that Ruby was trying to stop this figure, so he pulled out his pistol at ready.
The unknown figure gave a dangerous growl, which made two be tense and gotten ready, before it jumping out of the window and vanishing into smoke.
"What was that?" Ruby said to no one in particular and is in shock, bit of fear had gotten into her.
Lordez smiled when the Dark Wraith had reported back to him on what had happened. His plans seemed to gone on well.
Cinder will be more cautious as there, as confirmed there is a 3rd party that has come to play.
James would be reporting this incident to Ozpin and Glynda, maybe to the others in the inner circle such as Qrow to give warnings if this would happen to their other comrades.
This would also signal Ozpin that he'll be, officially to the others other than Ozpin, partly joining the inner circle.
Its actually simply called 'Organization' though.
He turned to look towards the door, where Cinder would be coming in, followed by couple of guards who lost her.
"The piece of the hidden puzzle has been placed." He said lowly.
"Hey." Orm called out to him. "Shouldnt you go to the stage and you know?" He motioned his hands to the stage. "You know?"
Lordez really had second thoughts on this one, but from the last few years on publicly humiliating a certain guild? Why the f**k not? "F**K it, ill go."
Orm grinned. "Yeah, mah man."
"Dont push your luck..." He gritted his teeth annoyed.
His friend shrugged. "You know that we dont believe in that right?"
"Then dont push... your faith."
"...Smooth."
The undead walked towards the stage, getting a microphone. "Hey guys, can I have the mic for a minute? Just gonna sing a song for them lot."
Daft punk looked at each other before shrugging. "Sure why not?" They then began on turning off the music systems.
With the music off, the students then began to murmur
He smiled. "Thanks." He silently summoned his [Music Box] and held up the microphone. "Mic test, 1 2 3." Satisfied with it, he began on playing the music.
He placed the song on max vol, making all the students to listen and notice this music that they never heard of.
He waited until the part for him to sing, changing his voice into a decent tone to match the song he heard originally.
SFX - Hall of Fame
"Yeah, You could be the greatest
You can be the best
You can be the King Kong banging on your chest"
"You could beat the world
You could beat the war
You could talk to God, go banging on his door"
"You can throw your hands up
You can beat the clock
You can move a mountain
You can break rocks
You can be a master
Don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you can find yourself"
He couldnt help but make a grin. Noticing the students on the dance floor, dancing to the song, some were cheering as he sang. Some certain students were kinda shocked, surprised that he could sing. Even Daft Punks were surprised by this, they even feel into the rhythm.
"Standing in the hall of fame
And the world's gonna know your name
'Cause you burn with the brightest flame
And the world's gonna know your name
And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame"
"You could go the distance
You could run the mile
You could walk straight through hell with a smile"
"You could be the hero
You could get the gold
Breaking all the records that thought, never could be broke"
"Do it for your people
Do it for your pride
How you ever gonna know if you never even try?"
"Do it for your country
Do it for you name
'Cause there's gonna be a day"
"When your, standing in the hall of fame
And the world's gonna know your name
'Cause you burn with the brightest flame
And the world's gonna know your name
And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame"
"Be a champion, be a champion, be a champion, be a champion. . ."
"On the walls of the hall of fame"
"Be students, be teachers
Be politicians, be preachers"
"Be believers, be leaders
Be astronauts Be champions
Be truth seekers"
"Be students, be teachers
Be politicians, be preachers"
"Be believers, be leaders
Be astronauts, be champions"
"Standing in the hall of fame
And the world's gonna know your name
'Cause you burn with the brightest flame
And the world's gonna know your name
And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame"
He breathe in once again, even though he doesnt need to, the beats of the song still is up. Though at this part he began to sang a bit lower.
"You could be the greatest, you can be the best
You can be the King Kong banging on your chest
You could beat the world
You could beat the war
You could talk to God, go banging on his door"
"You can throw your hands up
You can beat the clock
You can move a mountain
You can break rocks"
"You can be a master
Don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you can find yourself
Standing in the hall of fame..."
Once finished, the students clapped their hands and cheered. They were genuinely surprised on this, and didnt even hear of this song like ever. They didnt even thought that his a good singer.
"Hey." He turned to where the voice was at, it was one of the daft punk, one with the golden helmet. "That was quite a show you've put there man."
He smiled. "Thanks."
"Oh and hey, can we... Um..." He spoke hesitantly.
"...Oh, I understand." He grabbed a paper within his coat, and gave it to him. "Its the lyrics of the song that I just sang, you can have it if you want."
He stared at the paper, he'd be guessing that he is unsure, and was surprised about this. "Y-You certain?"
He shrugged. "Meh, just get it."
The gold helmet grabbed the paper gently before bowing his head. "Thank you for this!" Even the silver helmet bowed.
As he went down the stage, everyone still clapping, going back to where he originally stood at, where Orm and Ozpin were at and clapping.
"Wow, didnt know you'd sing that song." Orm said with a smirk.
"Unexpected, I know." He said sarcastically.
"That was quite unexpected!" A familiar, older voice was heard. "Certainly astonishing!" It was professor port.
"Yes, that was quite an encouraging song." Glynda said with a tone of surprise. "I never know you could sing, and quite well too."
Lordez bowed his head. "Thank you. I've been waiting to put that song off my mind for quite a time, and there are also things you dont know about me, Ms Goodwitch. And for singing? Its a hobby."
"Huh, but still... didnt quite took you for a musician."
"Like I said, there are alot things that you dont know about me." He smirked.
Boom, done. Fucking finally.
The continuation will be on the next chap, as I am too fuking lazy to put certain shits into this one.
Plus my head is tired of thinking and analyzing to write and improvise my AU story.
Anyways, an important thing for all of you to know, schools coming now. So yeah...
Prepare the extreme waiting...