*(A/N): Waz ap everyone!? It's just little ole me! Anyway, here is chapter 10! WOOWHOO! There will be an announcement about the game at the end of this chapter. Hope you enjoy!*
Crossed Lines
~ Okami ~
It was such a simple plan; they just had to trick Mr. Schnee, save his life from a "beowolf attack", then walk away with Weiss and live happily ever after. But no, Okami charged in head first and blew herself up (literally) and exposed herself. Now instead of acting like a fearsome beowolf she was surrounded by guards as a mere charred wolf faunus… But it wasn't just her in trouble; she dragged Ruby down as well.
"So, what's the plan now?" Ruby asked as she stood back to back with Okami.
"I'm trying to think of one!" Okami responded as her weapons activated and blocked an attack from a sword. Okami looked up and saw Mr. Schnee holding back Weiss from getting to them when an idea hit her.
"WAIT!" Okami shouted causing then guards to stop attacking and faced Mr. Schnee. "You are a business man, aren't you?"
"Indeed I am." Mr. Schnee responded in a distasteful tone. "Why would an animal like you care to know?"
"Then how about we make a deal?" Okami said with a smile.
"Okami, what are you doing?" Ruby asked with slight concern.
"Trust me on this." Okami whispered to her before turning back to Mr. Schnee. "If my friend Ruby can defeat you, and only you without any guards, you have to hand Weiss over to us!"
"I would normally accept," Mr. Schnee said with great interest. "but what would I gain if you lose?"
Okami stood there for a while before responding. She knew he would ask this and she promised Ruby she would help her get Weiss back and blew the plan, it was only fitting that she made up for it in a way.
"If Ruby loses…" Okami said as she got down on her knees. "You may keep me as a prisoner and do whatever you wish."
"Okami, no!" Weiss shouted knowing what Okami got herself into.
"Okami, you can't be serious!" Ruby said worried about her friend.
"And why would that be of any use to me?" Mr. Schnee said pretending to lose interest.
"My name is Okami Kiba," Okami said without any hesitation in her voice. "my father created an organization called the 'White Fang' used to make peace between humans and faunuses. You can use me as a hostage and get money, or simply use me as a slave."
"YOU ARE THE HEIR OF THAT GROUP OF TERRORISTS!?" Mr. Schnee shouted in complete outrage. "I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU WERE PART OF THAT GROUP OF THIEVES AND MURDERERS!"
"Thieves and murderers!? Terrorists!? What is he talking about!?"
Now it was Okami's turn to be outraged. "How dare you insult my father's organization! The White Fang have been trying to make peace!"
"That organization has done nothing but cause trouble for everyone!" Mr. Schnee shouted. "Where have you been the past five years!?"
Okami quickly turned towards Ruby. "Is it true?"
"Sadly, yes." Ruby said in Okami's ear. "Blake says that the leader stepped down almost five years ago but things didn't drastically change until about four years ago."
"Wait a second…"
"Two weeks from now is the five year anniversary of my father's death and the week after is the four year anniversary of when I was banished…" Okami said to Ruby. "Something about this just isn't right, we need to look into this when we get back."
"You mean 'if' you get back." Mr. Schnee said as he released Weiss. "In the Schnee name, I accept your challenge!"
Ruby made an audible gulp and you were able to visibly see sweat drip down Weiss' face; but Okami remained calm; in fact, there was a small smile on her lips.
"I waved some bait in his face and he gladly took it…now we just need to reel him in."
~ Weiss ~
"What the hell does she think she's doing!? They couldn't stand against my father the last time, what makes her think she can now!?"
Weiss walked over to Okami's side as everyone cleared a wide area for Ruby and Mr. Schnee. While they were preparing to fight, Weiss leaned over and spoke in Okami's ear. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Trust me on this ice princess," Okami said back to her in a calmer tone. "I have a plan, but I'm going to need your help."
"What do you need me to do?"
"First, I need you to hold my hand and not make it obvious. Got it?"
"What! Why?" Weiss asked.
"I'm going to attempt to transfer some of my aura to you, that way incase if something bad happens to Ruby you can heal her while I continue through with the plan. I'll give you enough to heal even the worst of injuries." Okami responded still in a calm tone.
"Okami, exactly what is your plan?" Weiss asked.
Okami leaned over and told Weiss her plan and Weiss' smile grew bigger as Okami spoke.
"I never took you for the trickery type Okami." Weiss said.
"Ha! You've never seen me and Urufu fight together yet. Hell, you guys don't even know what her real semblance is yet." Okami said with a smile. "Her growing bigger and healing me is her actually using my own aura that I use to connect us, her own semblance is really neat as well."
Weiss grabbed Okami's hand and Okami worked on transferring a fair amount of aura to Weiss.
"This is going to work, it has too…our lives depend on it."
~ Ruby ~
"God damit Okami, this plan better work this time… But why the hell did you volunteer me to fight a fight that will be sudden death!?"
Ruby took a deep breath to try and calm herself, she looked over and saw Okami and Weiss holding hands and there was a light blue glow around where their skin touched.
"Okami, what are you planning?"
"Are you ready?" Mr. Schnee said snapping Ruby out of her thoughts.
"As I'll ever be." She responded as she raised Crescent Rose.
Mr. Schnee raised his weapon which was practically identical to Weiss' rapier. He took a deep breath and without any warning he summoned a glyph beneath him and zoomed right towards Ruby.
But Ruby was just as fast; she quickly stepped out of the way and swung her weapon at Mr. Schnee. The two of them went in a fast pace battle and no one could keep up with what was happening inside the heated flurry.
At one point they slowed down and Ruby swiped at Mr. Schnee cutting his tie in half and forcing him to move back. He jumped back from her and stabbed his sword in the ground causing ice to form. Ruby jumped out of the way of the ice but she didn't notice a second trail quickly approaching her.
It was too late for Ruby to move out of the way. As soon as she touched the round her feet froze in place and Mr. Schnee charged in full speed. Ruby was doing great defending herself for someone who had their feet mounted in one place. However, it didn't last too long.
Mr. Schnee pulled the trigger of his weapon causing his blade to glow white and quickly flung Crescent Rose out of Ruby's hands and towards Okami and Weiss. Then without any hesitation, he thrusted his sword into Ruby just under her chest plate and just as quickly pulled it out causing her to fall and bleed out.
"RUBY!" Weiss yelled and Okami ran to her side. Okami picked Ruby up and placed her on the ground in front of where Weiss was kneeling.
"Ha! That bitch didn't stand a chance against me!" Mr. Schnee boasted trying to clean off his blade. "That girl is a worthless piece of shit that now knows her place!"
Ruby looked at Okami and Weiss and noticed that they nodded at each other before Okami turned around to speak. "I don't care what you do to me, I don't care what you say about my race, and I don't care that you are a powerful man… BUT NO ONE HURTS OR INSULTS MY FRIENDS IN FRONT OF ME AND LIVES TO TELL THE TALE!"
"Okami, don't do it! He's too strong!" Weiss yelled in a scared voice. "He'll kill you!"
"I don't care! He hurt Ruby!" Okami shouted back at her, then she turned back towards Mr. Schnee and pointed her index finger at him. "I'll take Ruby's place in this battle and I will end you!"
Mr. Schnee didn't respond right away, he was most likely wondering if this was really happening to him at the moment. But soon he gave an evil chuckle and only spoke two words; "…Bring it…"
~ Okami ~
"The plan seems to be working so far, I just have to distract him until the others are ready. Judging by the sounds coming through my ear piece Yang and Blake must have been found by some guards outside as well."
Okami activated her weapons drawing out the claws, she knew she would need more than just her claws to stand a chance against him; she needed her aura, but she didn't want to risk losing control any more, but she would use it if she needs to.
"I just need to buy some time." Okami reminded herself as she got into her fighting stance. She took a deep breath and charged, luckily she was wearing the armor Weiss gave her so she didn't have to worry too much about getting hurt but she refused to let her guard drop in the slightest bit.
The blades clashed, sword against claws, and sparks flew everywhere. Mr. Schnee pushed Okami back and she flipped landing safely on her feet but she also had her hands on the ground and her legs slightly crouched. She used her legs as a spring and launched herself at Mr. Schnee's chest. He ducked, but while she has still in the air, Okami flipped herself and swiped at his back cutting his nice suit.
He glared at Okami as she landed in the same position as before and charged at her. His sword was glowing red and fire spilled out as he swung it at Okami, she quickly got out of the way to be greeted by a sword swinging at her face. Okami blocked and this time she pushed Mr. Schnee back.
It was clear that Mr. Schnee was getting frustrated; you were able to see it in his eyes, the way he glared at his opponent. Okami knew he was close to his breaking point, but she didn't know how must longer she would be able to keep this up without using her aura.
Both Okami and Mr. Schnee were panting. Mr. Schnee out of anger, and Okami out of exhaustion, she never needed to fight this long without using her aura but if she tries to transform then she might lose control. Mr. Schnee smiled and Okami instantly knew she was fucked.
Mr. Schnee raised his hand and four glyphs appeared, two glyphs held Okami's arms out to each side and two more held her legs shoulder length apart. The worst part? Okami couldn't move.
"Guys? Any second now!"
Mr. Schnee laughed before he spoke. "Light's out mutt! Looks like I won't be holding you hostage after all…"
Another glyph appeared, but this time around Okami's throat. Mr. Schnee slowly started to close his hand and when he did the glyph grew tighter cutting of Okami's air. As soon as Okami thought she was going to die, the glyph suddenly disappeared.
Okami opened her eyes and noticed the glyphs were gone from her limbs and instead Mr. Schnee was held down by four glyphs. While Weiss held him down Ruby slashed and stabbed, none of them were fatal but they were enough so that he was unable to fight anymore.
"You!" Mr. Schnee yelled at Okami. "You cheated!"
"No father, you're wrong." Weiss said in a confident tone.
"The deal was that you couldn't use your guards, I never once said that Ruby and I had to fight alone. And guess what? We won." Okami continued.
"That means Weiss is mi- I mean ours." Ruby said completely healed with the help of Okami's aura.
Mr. Schnee hung his head in defeat. "Fine, do as you wish."
"Oh, and do you mind calling the guards off of my two friends outside?" Okami asked.
Mr. Schnee turned to a guard near by. "You heard what the mutt said, tell them to stop."
"Father, don't call her a mutt!" Weiss snapped.
"Weiss, it's okay. Really…" Okami said as she walked over to where Mr. Schnee laid and knelt down. "Let me see your wounds."
"Why, you gonna pour salt in it too?" He spat. But Okami didn't answer; she simply focused her aura and started to heal him. "What are you doing that for?"
"I believe that the strong should help the weak, not take advantage of them. We got what we came here for; there is no need to make you suffer anymore." Okami replied with a small smile.
"You know, if you weren't a faunus and the heir to the White Fang I might actually like you." He said with a tiny smile that was barely noticeable.
"Yeah, about that…I'm actually half faunus and half human, so we aren't really that different physically. And as for the White Fang, I'm not the heir, at least not anymore. I was banished from my clan four years ago; I have no connection to them at all, so even if you did win I would have been useless to you anyway. This is the least I can do." Okami said with a nervous laugh.
After a short while Mr. Schnee was completely healed and before they left he spoke to Weiss.
"Weiss, I'm so sorry about the way I treated you before." He said in a genuine voice. "You have the right to do what ever makes you happy and I was wrong to try and take that from you. Will you ever forgive me?"
Weiss didn't say anything, she didn't have to. She shed tears of joy and hugged her father, she was finally free.
Mr. Schnee pulled her out of the hug and firmly held his hands on her shoulders and looked her strait in the eyes. "I can't tell you how to live your life, that's only up to you…but I hope you choose a happy one."
"Thank you father." Weiss said before kissing his cheek and leaving with her friends.
~ Outside Schnee Manor ~
As soon as they got outside Okami pulled Ruby to the side to speak to her.
"My dear Ridding Hood, I think it's about time you woke up Snow White from this nightmare." Okami whispered in Ruby's ear.
"A-are you sure? We just got her back!" The young leader responded.
"Which is what makes this the perfect time!" Okami replied. "I'll go ahead and let you two talk.
Ruby did what Okami suggested and the wolf faunus smiled when she saw Weiss hug Ruby and passionately kissed Ruby on the lips. Ruby and Weiss joined back up with Okami while holding hands and shortly they met up with Blake and Yang.
"Um, what happened to Okami?" Yang asked looking at the charred faunus.
"Oh, there was left over fire dust on my hands and I exploded." Okami said casually.
"God, Okami! I didn't know you hated fire that much to have a meltdown over it!" Yang said with a slight look of pitty.
"No, she literally blew a hole in the ground." Ruby replied dead serious.
There was a moment of silence before Yang started busting um laughing. "OH MY GOD YOU REALLY EXPLODED!"
"Yang, please stop." Blake asked politely.
"You might as well have swung in on a chain and sing at the top of your lungs, 'I CAME IN LIKE A WREAKING BALL'!"
"I swear to God, I hate you so much right now…"
"Yang, cut it out!" Weiss said sensing Okami's irritation.
"No, it's okay." Okami said. "Let's just head home, I'm tired as fuck."
~ Back at Beacon (dorm hallway) ~
When they got back they were all in high spirits. They got back Weiss, no one died, and things were back to normal…or so they thought.
Okami was saying good night to team RWBY and was about to open her door when she decided to look at her name plate, and what she saw stopped her in her tracks.
"Hey, Blake?" Okami called and asked the cat faunus while pointing at the sign. "Please tell me I'm misreading this."
Blake looked at what Okami was talking about and her eyes widened. "I'm afraid not…"
The rest of team RWBY came to see what the big commotion was about and saw what the big deal was.
It now had Okami's full name on it reading "Okami Kiba", but what really caught their attention was the name underneath Okami's, a name which was familiar to them all.
"…No, it can't be…" Okami reached for the handle and slowly opened the door.
Inside was an average sized wolf with soft silky white fur and beautiful amber eyes with a tinge of green. But the wolf wasn't the only thing in there…
Standing on the other side of the table was a girl wearing a sleeveless top of a karate gi that was a darker purple, black leggings that cut off just below the knee, some open toed black shoes, and a light blue infinity scarf around her neck (for those who don't know what an infinity scarf is it's like the one Yang wears).
Her height was between Blake and Weiss (with her heels on) and was thin. She had white hair tied back in a loose braid with two white wolf ears on top and beautiful amber eyes with a tinge of green. The girl smiled when she saw who opened the door, and it was a very beautiful smile.
"Okami." The white wolf faunus said. "It's been so long…"
Okami knew who this girl was but she didn't believe it. After almost four years she got to see her again, she should have been happy, but she wasn't. The feelings she had towards this girl started to mix with hatred and pain. Okami would have stayed like that forever if Ruby hadn't snapped her out of her thoughts.
"Okami, is that…" Ruby didn't need to finish the question, half way threw it Okami already started nodding.
"…Ai…"
*(A/N): What will Okami do now that her first love has shown up out of the blue? Will the "love councilor" need some counseling herself? Will Okami ever confess her love to Ai, or will she bottle them up? And what is the meaning of Ai's sudden appearance? FIND OUT IN THE NEXT CHAPTER! XD Now, about that game a posted. I am actually disappointed that none of you guys have gotten it yet, so I'm gonna help you guys out. 1) Okami is actually a mix of two characters from two different stories, so if one of you gets at least one of the characters correct I will give you the prize. 2) The stories are from Grimm Fairy Tales so don't be giving me characters from games and all. And 3) The two characters that Okami is based on are from the stories of two other characters from RWBY! Now hopefully you guys can guess it. Now, until next time, see ya!