A/N Slight retcon on Ray, his hair is black not grey, that is my bad, forgot my mate told me this.
Chapter 10
Destruction.
"I'm the assassin known as 'The White Stalker' and formally wanted from the Red List." Ray revealed.
Lwaxanna and Scarlett stood in awe and fear, not wanting to hear what was just revealed to them, especially when Gray was unconscious, they stood defiant, weapons held out and ready, making sure that Gray would survive, even if they died. Their eyes were drawn to the Ursa that were standing up, roaring out a challenge, seemingly angry for being thrown back they way they were.
"I'm not here to hurt you," Ray told the two faunas. His back to them, "I'm here for redemption and to become a hunter." Holding his assault rifle out in one hand, he flicked a switch on the side of the gun.
"Protect him if any come past."
The Ursa Major roared at his underlings, the four slightly smaller Ursa ran at Ray, expecting him to run in fear, but all they saw through their unblinking red eyes was anger, not fear, and if they could feel fear, then the look that Ray wore on his face, could kill monsters.
Keeping calm, Ray fired his gun, the barrel exploded in fire, the rounds hit the first Ursa with unerring accuracy, just like before when firing his pistols, all the shots hit the head of the Ursa, small explosions went along the face, and hitting the Ursa in the eyes, blinding and roaring the Ursa didn't last much longer, stumbling then falling it fell with a crash and skidded along the dirt till it started to evaporate.
Slinging the gun onto his back, Ray raised his sword, taking into a two handed grip to increase his attack power, for that is what was needed when fighting Grimm, and especially Ursa, though keeping a calm head and thinking out a plan were essential too, realising that three on one would be hard, keeping the attention on him and not the fallen mattered most. Ray decided that dodging their attacks and trying to get them to attack themselves were probably the best option. The lead Ursa swiped low with a massive paw, jumping up over the paw Ray slashed down hoping to chop the paw off, his blade dug into the paw, but he failed to notice the second Ursa slam both paws in an overhead attack on him, smashing him to the ground. Groaning Ray rolled over and avoided more paws slamming around him, rolling backwards he got to his feet and jumped on the back of the third Ursa, running out of time, he spun his word into a reverse grip, pointing the blade at the beasts neck, stabbing downwards hard the tip of the dark red blade pierced the back and front of the neck, black ooze splattered on the ground. The Ursa fell forwards, dissolving, an Ursa lunged forwards, and trying to avenge his fallen comrade Ray jumped from the back of the dead one and front flipped, bringing his sword down in a vicious slash, cutting off a few spikes on the Ursa, landing in a kneeling position. Rising quickly, he stabbed the Ursa in the head, the Grimm's eyes turning dull, as it dissolved. Taking a breath and turning to the last smaller Ursa, he saw a paw enter his vision and not having time to dodge or defend he took the attack to the chest and was sent flying, getting up and looking even angrier he was about to attack the Ursa, but before he took a step a red and orange blur charged forward. Lox spun her giant axe upwards, slicing the left paw off, and Scarlett smashed down with her mace on the right paw, smashing the bone armour open, the beast roared in apparent pain. The roar was short lived as it got beheaded by Vulcan Gore.
Turning around to Ray, both Lox and Scarlett had death and hatred in their eyes, not wanting to trust this assassin but also conflicted as well, here was a friend who has opened up to them, they wanted to ignore he was an assassin, but how can you trust someone who killed for a living?
"You have a lot of explaining to do to us and to Gray when we get back!" Lox thundered to Gray, "But right now we have an Ursa Major to deal with."
"He will be easy to take care of," Ray countered, bringing his gun back around, "Just stay back and watch."
The Ursa Major watched what happened, and his small amount of intelligence knew he should be cautious, but the inner rage overcame the little thought process he had, roaring a challenge to the black haired human, he charged him. Ray turned to see the Ursa run at him, a clear challenge on the Ursa's part. Sighing, Ray prepared his legs, arms hung loosely; he decided to show his strength here and now. Just before the Ursa made contact and surely knocked Ray out or possibly killed, Ray jumped up, clearing the charging Ursa with ease, the Ursa skidded to a halt and standing on its hind legs, he saw the human land before it. Ray stood defiantly before this killing machine, swinging his sword in a under arc, he sliced the Ursa major from groin to neck, revealing black insides, not giving the Grimm anytime to attack, Ray jammed the assault rifle deep into the Grimm, and pulling the secondary trigger large explosion ruptured through the Ursa, resulting in the beast exploding outwards with ooze and spikes scattering everywhere.
"Well that was fun." Ray grinned.
Turning around he walked towards Lox, Scarlett and the still down Gray. The two girls stood protectively in front of Gray, lightly pushing past, he knelt past Gray. Picking him up, he slung and arm around his shoulder.
"You crazy bastard, giving yourself up like that? And you barely know me." Ray told the unconscious faunas.
"He's always been like that," Lox said, "Always standing up and protecting the victims and the helpless, often getting hurt in the process, we worry about him but are proud too, after a few incidents, there were few bullies at school, as they knew Gray would come. And we often weren't too far behind."
"Always fighting for justice and protecting people he never knew or met before? Sounds like the ideals of a huntsman to me." Ray noted.
"Yes but he is too protective sometimes, what happened was an example. Plus he has lost quite a few matches because of it, always wanting to win fairly, whereas his opponents often fought dirty." Scarlett added her observations too.
Ray was about to ask something but they were interrupted by the engines of two air ships, an small attack ships, with chin mounted machine guns, and a bullhead transport with medical staff already on board.
Ray's radio buzzed. Pressing a button he answered the radio.
"Someone called for a ride?" the pilot asked.
"Yeah and we have one wounded too." Ray replied back.
Another buzz on the radio.
"Where's the Grimm?" the fighter pilot asked, "We heard there was a lot of Grimm, where'd they go?"
"Dead"
"Boo!" Was all the fighter pilot said.
The bullhead landed and the rear hatch opened revealing a doctor in white uniform. Pointing to both Ray and Gray
"Get him aboard now! He'll need medical attention!"
When everyone was aboard the ship set off quickly heading to Beacon. The ship passed over the cliff where all the students had gathered. Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang saw the ship go into the forest just a few minutes ago and wondered why it headed to Beacon so quickly.
Walking over to Miss Goodwitch the young reaper asked what happened.
"Some students got surrounded by Grimm, leading to one being in a possible coma." Glynda replied quickly, looking at her tablet.
"But I thought that the teachers weren't going to interfere?" Yang asked a slight worried look on her face.
"We say that so you perform better, but we won't let you die." Glynda said.
"So how did they get surrounded so badly? Shouldn't they have run?" The reaper asked, obviously worried, now hearing that they could've been seriously hurt and that a student was in a very big problem.
Glynda frowned, not liking all these questions.
"The students in question were just behind your group, and your fighting brought a lot of Grimm to the temple, they handled the first wave very well, but the more they fought the more Grimm came, deciding that they couldn't win, they did run. But they got caught and surrounded, leading to a student falling into unconsciousness."
The four young huntresses looked at each other with looks of worry and horror, realising that they had inadvertently caused this.
"But are they ok?" Ruby blurted out.
"Yes, but the conclusion to initiation will be waiting till this afternoon now." Was all Glynda said, showing that the conversation was over, "Please embark on the bullhead, and we are going back."
Back at Beacon Gray woke up, aching all over, and headache to kill a Goliath. His vision was blurry and he couldn't sit up properly, his memory was still a bit fuzzy, but he remembered a lot of Grimm and some Ursa.
"Doc! He's awake!" Someone shouted, but he couldn't tell who
"Ugh let me sleep please? Wait...Doc?! Am I in hospital?" Gray thought to himself
Trying to get up, he heard a familiar voice, but couldn't quite recall who it was as they pushed him back down.
"Easy there, you need to rest, you took a very large beating earlier, and I'm surprised you actually alive." The voice had a certain authority to it, opening his eyes and blinking he saw a face with grey hair and small black glasses.
"Ozpin! Sir!" Gray said shocked. Trying harder to sit up, but a firm hand on his other side kept him down, looking to his left he saw, Lox, Scarlett and Ray next to him, thanking Monty they were safe, but wondering why Lox and Scarlett were so nervous around Ray.
"Gray Aryl, a good name, you were very fortunate to have friends like these. And they are fortunate to have a friend like you. Ray has something to say to you all, but it can wait till after the team initiation. Good day." And with that Ozpin left them there and went to the main hall.
Two loud smacks were heard next, and two handprints on Gray's face, from Lox and Scarlett.
"You idiot! What were you thinking! You could've died!" Scarlett was screaming at her injured boyfriend.
"Hey, could you stop shouting please? My head hurts a lot, and can you tell me what happened?" Gray asked.
It was Lox who answered, not shouting she told him how he saved them all, and that they took out the remaining Ursa, but leaving out how it was Ray who took them out and Ray's reveal.
"Wow, well I don't want to do that again. Especially if I almost died. I feel better, so let's go to the main hall." Gray said thoughtfully, not realising what his actions would do.
The doctor came over and discharged Gray, but advising not to fight for a few days, slightly unsteady on his legs; it was Gray who set the pace to the main hall. Surprisingly, Ray followed close by, but was being watched closely by Lox and Scarlett.
"I still don't trust him yet." Scarlett whispered.
"Me neither, but I will reserve my judgment when we here the full story." Lox whispered back.
"What you whispering about?" Gray called back.
"Nothing!" The girls said in unison.
The four entered the main hall, with the field test over. It was time to see who the teams will be. The journey now starts here.
A/N
Hi, sorry its taken too long for an update. Been busy with work, and also the split with my ex has taken a lot of energy out of me. But its nice to know that my story has been read over a 100 times now. You are the best. Again I do not own rwby. And please review as well. I'm still new to writing stories so any help will be appreciated