Crimson was checking his weapons to see if they function well enough without any new adjustments when Ruby popped into the room. Crimson was filling up the bullets to the max for his gun and placing it in back into the gun.
"Hey, Crimson, can I tag along with you in your next mission?" Ruby said she was at the doorway being all nervous. Crimson pulled out one of his swords and looked at it and tested for it's sharpness before answering Ruby.
"Why do you want to come? You're a first year aren't you?"
"Yeah but I'm in the EAT Class so I am fine to go on mission." Crimson put back his sword and grabbed his bag then started walking out the door.
"You can come just don't wander too far from my sight." Crimson could see the happiness in Ruby's eyes as she bolted somewhere and came back with a bag. Ruby smiled as Crimson looked at her with no emotions whatsoever going across his face. He headed out to the entrance where Weiss was standing in the way with her arms crossed. Crimson just stopped walking and Ruby crashed into Crimson. She looked over at what was in the way to make Crimson stop walking and saw Weiss.
"And where do you think you're going Ruby?" Weiss said in agitation. Crimson could defiantly see a vein on her forehead trying to burst open and thought. Wow she's really mad but I don't think I did anything wrong now did I? Ruby just laughed it off and replied.
"I'm joining Crimson with his mission to help keep the world a better place."
"It's not the world I'm keeping safe. I'm just finding my master since Lord Death lost all contact with her." Ruby nodded her head as Crimson explained where the last signal was when she didn't call him back.
"So I believe she was heading west towards Academy City." Crimson finally finished telling Weiss everything. Weiss just puffed out some air.
"If Ruby's going then you have to take all of us with you." Weiss just said as she went to her room to pack. After a moments later everyone was at the entrance all ready to leave. They left to catch a ride while Crimson took one last look at the house before closing the door.
"I'll be back" He said in a whisper and caught up with everyone else. Crimson didn't know what was going to happen when he would find Cathy but what could he expect. He wanted to find her and that was that.
We'll be looking at Team JNPR for a moment...
Pyrrha knocked on the door of Crimson's and yet there was no answer she didn't understand why didn't anyone answer the door. She had been there for almost 10 minutes waiting for someone to open the door for her. This time you can ask Crimson about it. Pyrrha left the doorstep and went back to the dorms where her teammates well just Nora running amok trying to catch the birdie while Jaune wasn't present and Ren was just sighing to himself every time Nora hit a wall or something. Maka and Soul went out to do some shopping since they had to feed a cat like witch. When Jaune saw Pyrrha at the doorway he immediately got up from his seat and greeted her and then he rubbed his neck to tell something to Pyrrha but he never said anything to her. Pyrrha thought. Ah how sweet just like old times. Wait last time when was it that he did this. Why can't I remember anything about him. If he's the leader of the group then I must certainly remember talking to him before. Pain rushed up to her head making the fuzzy black figure a bit more colorful but still blurry. She didn't like the pain all that much so she didn't try to attempt to question it anymore. Pyrrha went outside to get some fresh air when Professor Ozpin came out to join her.
"Lovely evening isn't it?" He took a sip out of his coffee as he stared out into the horizon beyond the gate of Death City.
"Can I ask you a question, Professor Ozpin?"
"Why, of course, if a huntress is in need then I'll be happy to help?"
"Why did you ask Crimson to bring me back?" Ozpin looked at her dead in the eye to create a serious atmosphere and she knew he was taking her seriously.
"I brought you back because there is people who need saving and it wasn't your time not yet." Pyrrha didn't like that kind of vague answer. She got more questions that she wanted answers to but only one question goes to mind.
"Why did you bring us here to Death City?" Ozpin took another sip of his coffee and looked at the exhausted sun.
"I just wanted a place to enhance my students abilities before going to the war with Grimm." Pyrrha looked at the ground not knowing what to do next until Lord Death came in.
"Hello, Pyrrha I have a message for you." Lord Death held out his hand which had a letter addressed to her. She picked it up but didn't immediately open it. She was wary of what it could be since it was suspicious. Ozpin said something after Pyrrha took the l;etter and examined it.
"Lord Death, can I ask you a question on Crimson?" Pyrrha froze in place when she heard his name.
"Hmmmmmmm why do you want to know about him? Has he done something wrong once again?"
"Not like he's done something wrong he just seems interesting."
"Interesting that's a first people usually come to me asking about other things. Oh right, Pyrrha, I sent Crimson to do other things so he's out of town with his teammates in that letter, you have there, contains information on any possible question you have through your head at the moment." Lord Death put away his hand and just went walking away from them. Pyrrha looked at the letter which had something weird inside. She went back to her dorm and opened it. It was a small rectangular device with a button on the side. She pushed the button and there stood Crimson.
"Hello, is this thing working?" Pyrrha froze on the spot looking at Crimson as he sat down in a chair that was in the middle of the screen. "Oh well, I'm going to start now. Pyrrha, by the time you get this it either means I'm out of town or something has happened to me and please there is no pause on the intro not for another minute so before you start questioning it. So I bet you started wondering who that blurry black figure who's in most of your memories when you entered Beacon. Well there's a reason for that and I'll tell you about it later maybe if I have time I think so. Anyways, you should be experiencing some pain right now and no not the physical ones but the ones that hurt in either your heart or your mind." Crimson pointing to the origins of the pain where Pyrrha has experienced. Crimson smiled as though he expected that kind of reaction from her. "Don't try to remember about that person not just yet. You're not ready for the next part well not like it's been attempted before but still just don't do it." After a while, Prryha was sitting on her bed looking at the device, which was no longer playing the recording, frozen to the facts of what Crimson had told her. She didn't think that her memory of the fuzzy person was the reason of all her pain. Jaune knocked on the door and asked what was wrong with her but she just smiled and pretended that everything was fine.
At Academy City...
"Wow, look at all those people with the same uniform. Oh look look robots are cleaning up the city." Ruby was fascinated by everything that was moving within the city. Everyone else was also amazed at the high tech within the city but Crimson hated ever part of it. He scanned the building but all was for nothing since he couldn't feel where Cathy was. He called her cell multiple times but they ended up in voicemail. He probably left over 20 messages by now and there wasn't a call back from her. Crimson checked the letter that Lord Death gave him and it was the last known address where Cathy was staying. He walked over to that place while he ditched Ruby and the others since they were looking through the city once again. When he got to the room he knocked on the door there was no answer nor were there any shuffling in the room. He tried opening the door and it opened that's when he knew something was wrong. The door was unlocked which means something happened. He went inside the room and he saw the whole scene as one bloody mess literally. There was traces of black and red blood all over some maps with some writing indicating who knows what. There was more than 10 bottles of frebreeze on the desk which some were also in the trash can. Clothing that was lying all over the ground which had gunshots, burns, black smudges, cuts and traces of dried up blood on it. Crimson's mind went blank to the whole scene even the bed was filled with dried up blood but there was no struggle in this whole room so what exactly happened. Ruby came barging in the room and her eyes were on the whole scene. Her mouth dropped to the ground while the rest of the group couldn't believe their eyes.
"Who ever lived in here needs to know how to clean up after themselves." Weiss trying to make a joke but everyone looked at her. "What Yang does it all the time?" They still glared at her. "Was it a bad moment to say it?"
"Yes!" They all said at the same time. Crimson was looming over Cathy's bag which he hadn't opened it yet. Yang decided to open it since it seems like the only thing that hasn't been toughed by blood. When she opened it there was a piece of paper that Yang read out loud.
It's been 7 years since I last left this city. Seven years that I left you alone in here. Seven years of abandonment from you. Seven years of running away from all my problems. Is this how it ends, Chris? Will I be able to say my last goodbye to you face to face or will you still not remember me. I enjoyed my time here but for some reason I feel so tired. Tired of protecting and tired of not fulfilling your order. I'll do it some day just until I clean up my mess in this city. Academy City the place where Crimson was born and the place that needs to burn for trying to hunt him down. Without them here Crimson can live a normal life a home to go back to without having me to worry about people trying to use him as a tool for war. When all this is over I hope I meet you once again and hopefully remain the same old Cathy you once knew.
"What in the name of Vale is this?" Yang throwing the letter onto the bed and started rummaging through the bag. She dumped the contents onto the bed which contained the human anatomy of Cathy and what they had done to her. With some disks that were labelled with dates. There were some papers that were labelled The level 6 project. The last thing that fell out was a picture of Cathy with someone else who were smiling in front of a building with folders that said Music. Crimson picked it up and flipped it to the back it read. July 07 Happy Birthday Chris. Let's play the piano. Crimson smiled a little bit at the photo which Ruby looked over his shoulders and interrupted his thoughts.
"Hey, who's Chris?" Crimson flinched almost dropping the photo and looked over at Ruby who was waiting for his answer.
"Chris, is my master's cousin who is the same age as her?"
"Where is she now? They seem close and it also say let's play piano. Did they play together a lot?"
"You ask too many questions." Crimson tucked the photo away into his jacket and started searching the maps too see if he could find a lead to where Cathy was. There was nothing but X's and O's. Some of them had numbers but they looked irrelevant. Nothing in the room was pointing his anywhere until he heard a crash. He looked over at the doorway and there was Cathy on the ground once again with more tattered clothing on her. He rushed to her side and it looked like she was just sleeping but he could hear the black blood tearing through her veins. Cathy opened her eyes to look at Crimson for just a little but and she said.
"I'm all done, Crimson. Loose ends are all tied." She smiled but blood came spilling out the corner of her mouth and she put her hand up and formed a thumbs up but it didn't last long. Her eyes closed again and her hand dropped to the ground in one fail swoop. Crimson started panicking of what to do with her. He noticed the blade he tried to hide wasn't on her which means it was out there on the streets. He carried her and the rest of the group looked up at the almost dead Cathy.
"What are you going to do with her?" Blake said.
"I'm going to bring her home." Crimson said as he packed all the papers up on whatever she had in the bag and started getting out of the city.
I wonder what's going to happen to Cathy. She finished her task but I don't think she'll get out of the city as fast as Crimson thinks. Who knows how many labs she destroyed. What about Chris? Will she end up meeting Cathy with or without her memories? Guys what do you think is going to happen and sorry for the short chapter. School's almost ending in 4 days and after that is my exams so I finished this up before that happens. Look forward to the next chapter in like what 2 weeks maybe more I don't know I'll figure it out soon enough.
