Pheeew, well ladies and gentlemen...we've finally reached the conclusion of Remnants Dragon Slayers...But this isn't the end! Since work is basically getting in the way of my ingenious plot to make epic Fanfics, I'll have to pause the story until I'm given with more free time to work on the second Fanfic. So thank you all so much for reading Remnants Dragon Slayers and I'll see ya'll around in the future, because the journey itself is not even over people. Because this is only the beginning of a whole new world for the Dragon Slayers...
Chapter Eleven: Black, White and Blazing Salmon...
"So, you want to know more about me…" Blake stated as she set her cup down.
"Finally she speaks!" Sun exclaimed. "Nearly two days and you gave me nothing but small talk and weird looks!"
Blake gave the blonde monkey an annoyed glare in response.
"Like that!" Sun grinned.
"Sun…" Blake called out, catching Sun's attention. "Are you…familiar with the White Fang?"
"Of course! I don't think there's a Faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them," Sun replied. "Stupid, holier-than-thou creeps that use force to get whatever they want. Bunch of freaks, if you ask me!"
"I was once a member of the White Fang." Blake admitted while showing no signs of emotion on her face.
This caused Sun to cough up the tea he was drinking."Wait a minute, you were a member of the White Fang?!" Sun exclaimed in shock.
"That's right, I was a member for most of my life actual. You could say I was born into it…" Blake spoke up once more, catching Sun's attention. "Back then, things were different. In the ashes of war, the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and unity between Humans and the Faunus. Of course, despite being promised equality, the Faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate. Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. And so, the White Fang rose up as the voice of our people. And I was there. And was there, I was at the front of every rally. I took part in every boycott. And I actually thought we were making a difference. But I was just a youthful optimist. Then, five years ago, our leader stepped down, and a new one took his place. A new leader, with a new way of thinking. Suddenly, our peaceful protests were being replaced with organized attacks. We were setting fire to shops that refused to serve us, hijacking cargo from companies that used Faunus labor. And the worst part was, it was working. We were being treated like equals. But not out of respect... out of fear."
She then placed her empty cup down and stared back at the shocked form of Sun. "So, I left. I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence, and instead, I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress. So here I am: a criminal hiding in plain view, all with the help of a little black bow." She then made her bow twitch to prove her point.
"So…have you told your friends?" Sun asked curiously, only to have Blake look down in shame as a response.
"No, the only one I ever did told were either Natsu, Sting and and others in his their team." She said to herself, catching the attention of Sun's curiosity.
"Natsu, Natsu Dragneel? As in, pink haired dude that shoots fire from his mouth?" The Monkey Faunus inquired Blake, who seem a bit surprised.
"Yeah, which also comes to my curiosity as to how you and the others came across?" Blake wondered as she began to take a sip of her tea.
"Eh, to be honest with ya I didn't find them. They found me after I got jumped by a bunch of scumbags tossing threats about cutting my tail off and using my skin as a rug. Wasn't that much of a fight, that is until they brought a damn Major Ursa into the fight and sent it on me." He stated while taking another sip from his tea, smiling to himself right after continuing his story. "That's when Natsu and Sting came to help me, and boy were those two awesome." The Monkey Faunus grinned in admiration.
The Faunus Cat smiled softly. "And let me guess, they defeated it with no effort?" She assumed.
"Nailed it." Yelled Sun who began taking one last sip from his tea.
"Wouldn't be much of a surprise, after all those two as well as the other three were raised by Dragons." She stated, now ducking after Sun spatted out his tea from hearing that.
"DRAGONS!? AS IN, GIANT FIRE-BREATHING REPTILES!?" Sun exclaimed in utter shock with Blake nodding. This slowly caused him to collapse his head straight to the table with his eyes swirling around comically in disbelief and shock while muttering several words. "Oh my god, my friends parents are Dragons...what are the odds..."
/...Meanwhile...\
"Blaaake!" Shouted Ruby.
"Blaaaaaake!" As did Yang.
"Blaaake! Where are yoooou!"
Wth Ruby and Yang calling her name while Weiss was lost in her thoughts.
"Weiss, you're not helping." Ruby said, turning to her silent partner in annoyance.
"Huh? Oh...sorry." Weiss apologized while shaking her head a little, slowly coming up with an idea. "Hey...why don't we get the police to help? I'm sure they could find Blake."
The scythe user couldn't hold back of facepalming herself at the heiress suggestion, groaning in irritation. "Weiss…"
"What? It was just a suggestion." Weiss questioned innocently.
"Yeah, a bad one..." Ruby muttered as she walked away to continue to find Blake.
"Weiss, I think we should hear her side of the story before we jump to any conclusions." Yang suggested.
"I think you guys should have a bit more faith in me..." Weiss sighed, feeling a little upset that the sisters thought that she wanted to turn their teammate in.
"And I think Weiss's hair looks wonderful today!" A familiar feminine voice occurred just behind the heiress.
"AAAH!" The three girls screamed in surprise before turning around to see the bubbly emerald eyed girl smiling at them.
"Penny, where did you come from?!" Ruby cried out in surprise and shock.
"Hey guys! What are you up to?" Penny asked cheerfully while waving her hand at the group, ignoring her friend's question.
"We're looking for our friend Blake." Yang explained.
"Ooooh, you mean the Faunus girl!" Penny said in realization, causing the girls to stare at her in shock.
"Wait, how did you know that?" Ruby questioned
"Uhh, the cat ears?" Penny explained while pointing at her head.
"What cat ears? She wears a...bow..." Yang laughed a little before realization dawned on her and the rest of the girls. They were so shocked that they didn't notice a tumbleweed blows pass them.
"She does like tuna a lot..." Ruby whispered to her teammates.
"So, where is she?" Penny asked.
"We don't know. She's been missing since Friday," Ruby answered back to Penny, now casting a sad look.
"That's terrible!" Penny gasped before she approached the uncomfortable leader. "Well, don't you worry Ruby, my friend! I won't rest until we find your teammate!"
"Uh, that's really nice of you, Penny, but we're okay! Really!" Ruby said with a strained smile before turning to her sister and partner "Right, guys?"
She received no response, however, as both Yang and Weiss disappeared on their own during the leader's conversation with the energetic carrot haired girl. The leader swore she saw outlines of her teammates as well, and was so shocked that she didn't notice a second tumbleweed fly pass her, but Penny saw it.
"It sure is windy today!" Penny pointed out.
/...Meanwhile...\
While Team RWBY were searching below the streets and passing by any shops or stores that could have some useful information as to where the Faunus girl would be or if she was last heard from either of the owners or possibly anyone on the street that might have bumped into her by any sort of luck, Natsu and the others remained on the upper tops of buildings as they continued to leap one to another to see if they'd be able to catch the sight of her from higher grounds. Wendy, Gajeel and Rogue went onward to the south of the city while Natsu and Sting remained in the north. Yet no luck was on either sides for the any of the Dragon Slayers on finding Blake, both brothers that were on the roof already gazing around the area in search of her.
"Damn it, just how big is this damn city!? At this rate we'll never find her around here." Groaned Natsu who seemed slightly annoyed until slowly laying himself on the floor of the roof beside his brother.
"No kidding, and to make things worse. We can't even rely on our noses, not with this much bad smell going on around here." The White Dragon agreed, rubbing the back of his head.
"Hmm..." Natsu groaned quietly, eventually lifting his back up from the ground so that he could gaze up at the sky with a solemn look of concern as his mind was slowly cast away of thinking about Blake.
He was eventually broken free of his thoughts after feeling a playful punch hit on his shoulder, knowing that it came from Sting who grinned at his brother.
"Don't worry about it, we'll find her eventually." Sting assured as he slowly got himself off the ground, reaching a hand out for Natsu.
"Heh, yeah..." Natsu chuckled as he gotten hold of Stings hand, allowing his brother to pull him off of the ground as the continued on searching for their lost friend.
/...Meanwhile...\
A sudden shadow loomed within the cements of the walls as it began to slither its way through the crowd while being unseen by any of them, slowly slithering its way back up onto the roof where the Iron Dragon Slayer and the Sky Dragon Slayer had continued onward with their search. Wendy already calling out for her name until slowly tilting her head towards the sudden formation of the shadows now molding into Rogue.
"Any luck up here?" The Shadow Dragon Slayer asked of his companions.
"No." Wendy responded with a sad tone, shaking her head.
"Nothing much from here bro, its kinda hard to even rely on smelling her out in this stinky place, Ugh..." Gajeel snarled in annoyance while wrinkling his nose from the bad smell emanating all around them. "Anyways, did you find her or anything that can lead us to her?" Inquired Gajeel who didn't face his brother.
"Same down there, I couldn't get any sort of luck on finding Blake." Rogue stated while crossing his arms.
"Do you think she's in trouble or anything?" Wendy questioned the other two, slightly worried.
"Dah, I doubt it. That cats got some real nasty claws, so I'm sure she's doing just fine. Only problem is, just where exactly is this kitty?" Gajeel pondered the thought of where Blake would be with his arms also crossing as well.
"One way to find out, we'd better get back to searching. Hopefully there's a slight chance that we'll find her in pure luck." Rogue suggested as they began leaping towards the other buildings, keeping an eye out for the Faunus girl.
/...Meanwhile...\
"So, what's the plan now?" Sun asked as he and Blake were walking down an alley.
"I still don't believe the White Fang is behind these robberies. They've never needed that much Dust before." Blake answered.
"…What if they did?" Sun questioned as he walked a bit faster to be in front of the shadow ninja, "I mean…the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place where they would most likely go to if they were to do it, and not find them there! Right?"
"That might work, but the only thing is, I've no idea where that would be." Blake said as the two paused their strides.
"Well, while I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about offloading a huge shipment of Dust coming in from Atlas." Sun said, recalling what he heard.
"How huge?" Blake questioned.
"Huge. Big Schnee Company freighter." Sun said while he held his arms out wide to emphasize how big the shipment was.
"You sure?" Blake asked while leaning closer to the Monkey Faunus.
"Definitely." Sun nodded, continuing to remain in his stance.
/...Meanwhile...\
"Thanks anyways!" Yang said as she and Weiss walked out of a shop that they entered earlier while looking for Blake. The blonde let off a frustrated sigh, muttering about how hopeless their situation was, when she turned to the heiress, who was lost in thought, just like she has been for most of their searching.
"You really don't care if we find her, do you?" The blonde asked suddenly, causing Weiss to turn to her suddenly with wide eyes.
"Don't be stupid Of course, of course I do! I'm just afraid of what she'll say when we find her..." Weiss replied sadly, already walking away while keeping her focus out for Blake. "The innocent never run, Yang..." She said back to Yang while continued walking, leaving Yang where she stood while thinking of something in her mind.
/...Meanwhile...\
"So, Blake is your friend?" Penny asked as she and Ruby walked around town some more. For a while now the eccentric girl has been following the young leader, asking her all sorts of questions, and it was starting to frustrate the little rose a little.
"Yes, Penny." Ruby sighed while slightly annoyed.
"But you're mad at her?" Penny questioned.
"Yes. Well, I'm not. Weiss is, I think..." The scythe user answered unsurely.
"Is she friends with Blake?" Penny pondered Ruby.
"Well, that's kind of up in the air right now I believe..." Ruby shrugged back to Penny.
"But why?" Penny asked, unsure of what to think about the answer she was given.
"Well, you see, Blake might not be who we though she was..." Ruby sighed once more.
"...Is she a man?" Penny gasped in shock.
"No! No, Penny. She's..." Ruby stops and sighs, eventually looking right back at the mysterious young girl. "I don't know what she is, She didn't exactly talk to us before she decided to run off."
"I don't have a lot of friends, but if I did, I would want them to talk to me about things." Penny suggested, walking past Ruby who held her head down slightly.
"Me too..." Ruby sighed sadly.
-Vale Trading Docks-
It was evening in Vale and Blake was seen lying on her stomach on a rooftop near the docks, watching the shipment of Dust in front of her while waiting for Sun. The two of them decided to watch the cargo to confirm if the White Fang was responsible for the recent robberies or not, and Blake was hoping that her former brothers would not show up.
"Hey, did I miss anything?" Sun asked as he landed beside the Faunus Ninja while holding a load of green apples in his arms.
"Not really." Blake shook her head, turning her attention right back to the docking area. "They offloaded the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there..."
"Cool." Sun nodded before handing an apple to Blake. "I stole you some food."
"Do you always break the law without a second thought?" Blake asked in a deadpanned tone.
"Hey? Weren't you in a cult or something?" Sun questioned, only to receive a fierce glare in response from the Cat Faunus "Okay...too soon."
Their little conversation soon afterwards ended when they began to feel the wind blowing from above them. Looking up, the two of them saw a Bullhead flying above them, its searchlights on in order to find a proper landing spot. A short while later the aircraft landed and open its hatch, allowing a hooded man with a fanged mask walk out of it. On the back of the man's white shirt was a symbol that Blake was hoping that she would not see; the red seal of the White Fang.
"Oh no..." Blake muttered.
"Is that them?" Sun asked.
"Yes...it's them," Blake confirmed sadly clenching her eyes with Sun staring at her.
"You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?" Sun questioned as more White Fang soldiers exited the aircraft.
"No. I think deep down I knew. I just didn't want to be right," Blake sighed in despair when suddenly hearing a voice yelling out towards the members of the White Fang.
"Hey! What's the holdup?!" An annoyed voice called out from the aircraft, causing the teens to turn to see the criminal Roman Torchwick, a man with a white suit, black pants, a cane and a black hat over his orange hair walking out towards the soldiers. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don't you animals try to pick up the pace?"
"This isn't right. The White Fang would never work with a human. Especially not one like that." Blake stated as she got up and drew her katana, much to Sun's surprise, and began walking towards the edge of the roof.
"Hey, what are you doing?!" Sun cried out as Blake jumped off the roof.
The two of them rushed towards the loading docks and hid behind a stack of crates, watching as Roman berates one of the White Fang soldiers, who was holding a large cable in his hands.
"No, you idiot, this isn't a leash!" Roman growled out in annoyance when he suddenly felt metal touching his throat. "What the-?" His eyes turned to see Blake behind him and went back from surprised to annoyed. "Oh, for fu-"
"Nobody move!" Blake ordered as the soldiers began surround her and her hostage, pointing guns and blades at her.
"Whoa, take it easy there little lady." Roman suggested in a smug tone.
The soldiers started to close in on the shadow ninja, ready to attack her, when she suddenly removed her bow and revealed her cat ears to the others, much to their surprise.
"Brothers of the White Fang! Why are you aiding this scum?" Blake pleaded to her former allies, causing them to lower their weapons, unsure of what to do.
"Oh, kid, didn't you get the memo?" Roman asked cheerfully, despite his position.
"What are you talking about?" Blake growled.
"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together!" The criminal grinned, causing the shadow ninja to grow in annoyance and press her blade closer to the man's throat.
"Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation." Blake ordered.
Roman simply smirked, causing Blake to glare at him heatedly, when the wind picked up again and the sounds of turbines roaring began filling the area.
"I wouldn't call it a little operation." Roman said smugly as he looked up into the air. Blake followed the man's gaze and her expression turned to shocked horror by what she saw. Several more Bullheads appeared during their confrontation and were now positioned right above them. Taking advantage of his captor's state, Roman pointed his cane, Melodic Cudgel, right below Blake's feet and pulled the trigger, creating a large explosion and blowing Blake away from him.
/...Meanwhile...\
Hearing the sounds of explosions, Ruby and Penny stopped their search through town and turned to see a pillar of smoke from off into the distance.
"Oh no…" Ruby muttered worriedly.
/...Meanwhile...\
The sound of the explosion had eventually caught the attention of the other Dragon Slayers who had already met up with each other before exchanging their news and updates about the whereabouts of Blake Belladonna, already spotting the sudden smoking that was rising upwards as they knew for sure that the occurrence taking place at the docking area would most likely have the Faunus girl over there.
"Lets go! Blake's gotta be there!" Shouted Natsu who was now showing off a face of determination.
Rogue on the other hand was just abou to join them shortly, when suddenly a dark feeling crossed his path that made his entire body stiffened while his eyes seem to have grown wide in shock and confusion. "...What the hell..." He muttered, still feeling that odd aura of pure malice and evil.
"Yo bro!" Gajeel called out to the Shadow Dragon Slayer, breaking Rogue from the feeling that he was feeling. "What the hell ya doin, this ain't the time to be slackin off!"
"R-Right, sorry about that..." Rogue apologized as he leapt beside his brother as the Dragon Slayers made their way, however Rogue seemed somewhat distressed as to what that feeling was. 'What was that just now...'
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Fairy Tail OST: Ice Boy...
Blake was panting slightly as she lay on the ground, dazed by Roman's assault. The orange haired villain smirked at the girl and fired another explosive round at her. Seeing the incoming round, the shadow ninja jumped towards her feet to evade the shot. Roman continued to fire multiple rounds and Blake was forced to evade them all, even going so far as to use her semblance to escape the onslaught. As soon as she thought it was safe, she rushed into what's left of the cargo to find a safe place to hide.
"Here kitty, kitty, kitty." Roman taunted when he realized his target went into hiding. He did get a response for his taunts, however, in the form of a banana peel landing on his hat. Annoyed, the felon removed the peel off his hat and looked up to see who threw it, only to receive a pair of feet to the face, courtesy of Sun.
"Leave her alone! Otherwise Dragon boy isn't gonna like what ya did to her." Sun demanded after he landed, before he heard the sounds of doors opening. Looking around he saw that other members of the White Fang began coming out of the other Bullheads and began surrounding the Monkey Faunus.
"You're not the brightest banana in the bunch, aren't ya?" Roman taunted as he got up, a smug look on his face.
With that said, the White Fang charge at the Monkey Faunus. Luckily for him, he managed to dodge each slashes from their blades while managing on knocking out some of the soldiers with his fists and kicks until rolling out of the way while pulling out a collapsible red staff. He quickly uses the combat weapon to beat down on each opponent that approached towards him with either blades or fire-arms, falling each one in a single flaming blow when he twirls and even creating a scorching shockwave on the last unfortunate soldier.
Blake peers around the corner of the container to watch Sun jump around and beat more White Fang soldiers, causing one to fly over Roman's head. The crime boss growls in annoyance and aims his cane at Sun, firing a shot that he defends himself from just when Blake leaps into the action. Roman growled as he saw his co-workers being taken down by a Faunus so easily, the crime boss lifted his cane and fired another explosive round at Sun, who managed to block it by spinning his staff into a makeshift shield.
"He's mine!"
As soon as the smoke cleared, Blake appeared and rushed toward Roman, both her swords on hand. The two clashed, with Blake speeding through and using her Shadow Image semblance to try and confuse her opponent. However, while Blake was skilled, so was Roman. He was able to block and counter ever attack the Faunus Ninja made and was able see through the clones with ease. Seeing an opening, the orange haired felon struck the poor girl on the side and proceeded to strike her multiple times before knocking her down. His victory was short lived, however, as Sun showed up as soon as Blake fell, his staff now split in two and became a pair of shotgun nunchucks with incendiary rounds. The two then squared off, with Sun trying to strike the crime lord with either his rounds or his nunchucks themselves in a frenzied assault while Roman manages to block every bit of the onslaught.
Back with Roman and Sun, the two continued to bout, with neither side letting up. While this was happening, Blake was on standby, waiting for the right moment to strike. Her patience paid off, as a split second pause on Roman's part allowed the cat ninja to rush in and slash the crime lord, knocking him back a ways.
Lying on his back, Roman growled in frustration before noticing a container hanging above his two young opponents, being held by a nearby crane. Letting of an annoyed grunt, he fired at the container, causing it to fall on the two teens, who barely managed to avoid it, while getting separated in the process. Sun, unfortunately, ended up rolling right in front of Roman, who was ready to fire his cane at him again. But just when he was about to pull the trigger of his weapon, a sudden flash of white thrust forward and clenched hold of his crane. Causing the crime lord as well as Sun's eyes to grow wide in disbelief.
"Hey torchie, that's my friend your pointing that damn thing at! So lay off!" The individual warned, revealing himself to be none other than Sting Eucliffe who began staring at Roman with a dark look.
Just when Roman was about to pull off a secret attack on the Dragon Slayer, he eventually felt something slam itself on his left cheek that eventually left me flying back a little with his crane skidding back as well. Roman cocked his head up very slightly just to see the other Dragon Slayer, Natsu Dragneel stand beside his brother with their forms taking on defensive combat stance. Emanating a great deal of magic around their bodies that made visible aura's surround their bodies while Natsu cocked his head back to see that Sun looked up at him in shock.
"Sup, Monkey Boy." Natsu grinned playfully at the Faunus Monkey while lending a hand to him with Sting grinning down at Sun.
"Missed us?" Sting grinned while joking slightly.
"Tch, took you guys long enough." Sun joked as well, taking the hand of Natsu as he felt himself being pulled up from the ground.
"Had trouble findin Blake, you wouldn't happen to see where she went now do you?" Natsu asked, ignoring all the events that occurring to him and his brother.
"Blake, she's right over there." Sun pointed towards the position where Blake was.
Fairy Tail OST: Ice Boy Ends...
When the brothers turned their attention towards where Sun was pointing at, they later than saw Blake getting herself off of the ground while scanning around the area for any nearby White Fang soldiers that were going to catch her from behind. Luckily there was none, and by the moment she turned back to see if Sun was alright, her eyes were eventually grown wide after seeing two certain individuals looking right back at her with goofy grins on their lips and arms completely crossed or sometimes hands behind their heads.
"N-Natsu..." Blake whispered quietly with the sound of her voice trembling, completely nervous as to what they were about to say her.
Natsu was the first to approach her while Sting remained by Sun's side, each step sounding very lightly. Moments after that, the two had eventually stared at one another for only a brief and quiet moment.
"Its tough to keep track of ya when your running on your own Blake." Natsu said to her with a blank expression while keeping his arms crossed.
The Faunus girl could only stare at him with regret on her face while holding back the tears that have been wanting to stream down her face, she had no intention of ever wanting to leave Natsu and place him through so much trouble of having to search for her. Her teeth now gritting softly due to feeling so much guilt as visible signs of water had began filling up her eye, her eyebrows now forming into a remorseful frown. But suddenly she felt a hand land itself on her head very gently, causing her eyes to grow wide and tilt up to see Natsu giving her a genuine smile while his eyes were closed.
"Next time, try not to leave our side alright Blake?" Natsu asked politely of her with his carefree attitude.
She looked at Natsu with eyes slowly beginning to tear up, not out of sadness or regret but out of relief and happiness as she wiped her left eye that was swollen with water. Nodding in response towards Natsu who grinned, now turning back to the oncoming White Fang soldiers.
"So, who the hell are these ameteurs that you and Sun are hanging out with?" Natsu inquired the Faunus girl before cracking his knuckles.
"They're White Fang soldiers, but somethings not right abou them. They'd never allow themselves to be ordered by Humans." She stated, just after seeing a few more showing up.
"Well miss, I could have sworn I've stated that we're on official business." The crime boss sneered with joy while dancing with his crane, slowly raising up his hand with a few White Fang soldiers beside him
"GET THEM!" Shouted a commanding tone.
Soon after, a few Bullheads had eventually began deploying even more White Fang soldiers who rushed forward with guns and blades in their hands as they yelled out while charging towards Natsu, Sting, Blake and Sun. However, none of the soldiers of the White Fang would ever come to know or infact even notice that a small petite girl with blue hair was above them with both of her hands encased with air.
"SKY DRAGON'S WINGBEAT ATTACK!" The little Dragon Slayer shouted, her attack now making a direct hit on the group as they were sent flying from one place to another.
After the young girl landed neatly onto the ground, she eventually caught the sight of Sun as she waved her hand gently at him. "Hello Sun!" She greeted while smiling warmly.
"Wow..." The Monkey Faunus whispered in amazement at young girls skills.
While Wendy was making her way towards the others, a disoriented White Fang soldier slowly started to get up and saw the little girls back facing his range. With a smirk forming on his face, the soldier grabbed a nearby rifle and was about to fire. Than suddenly, the weapon itself was cut in half from a blade made out of pure shadow that left him completely shock. He than saw the shadows around him began to mold themselves together, til finally revealing the Shadow Dragon Slayer staring right back at him with a dark look as he pointed his Shadow Steel very firmly on his neck.
"Dare point your weapons on Wendy, and I will gladly send you into the afterlife to your maker..." Rogue stated to the White Fang soldier venomously, the soldier nodding vigorously as he made a run for it.
Another individual appeared while sending several other White Fang soldiers flying from the sudden force of power from a certain Iron Dragon Slayers. "Heh, what a bunch of pansies...Geehee." Gajeel snickered gleefully at the fears that they've began to reek with, slowly approaching besides Rogue as the two had eventually met up with the others.
"Hey!"
Hearing a young voice, everyone including Roman turned to see Ruby and Penny walking up on a nearby rooftop, with Ruby embedding her active Crescent Rose on the roof.
"Well hello Red! Isn't it past your bedtime?" Roman asked mockingly, remembering the red cloaked girl form an earlier heist months ago.
"Hey buddy, her names Ruby! Get it right!" Natsu snarled while the crime boss simply ignored it.
During the intensity going on between the crime boss and the scythe user as well as the Dragon Slayers and the two Faunus, Penny appeared behind Ruby with her eyes set on the sight in confusion. "Ruby? Are these people your friends?" Penny asked while continuing to approach closer to Ruby.
"Penny get back!" Ruby ordered, turning her head to the emerald eyed girl. Seeing that she was distracted as Roman wasted no time and fired off an explosive round, laughing evilly when it hit its mark.
"RUBY!" Natsu shouted out to the scythe user, slowly turning his attention back to Roman with a sudden snarl.
"You bastard!" Rogue cursed the thief with a sudden growl of his own, readying his katana.
Penny stared at her friend with a worried expression for a short moment before turning back to Roman, glaring at him fiercely and began walking forward, much to Ruby's displeasure.
"Penny, wait! Stop!" Ruby cried to the mysterious girl.
"Don't worry, Rub..." Penny said reassuringly, staring at the people below her with a fierce glare. "I'm combat ready!"
The moment those words left her mouth, a multitude of blades flew out of her backpack and started floating around Penny. The eccentric girl then leapt off the building, a few of her blades striking some incoming soldiers before she landed, and easily took out the ones that were both beside and in front of her with her remaining swords. She then formed her swords into a floating wheel and sent it flying towards a small battalion of enemies, knocking them down with little effort.
"Whoa!" Sun exclaimed as he stared at the sight with impressed eyes before rushing off to safety with Wendy beside him.
"HOHOH! That's freaking awesome! I am definitely asking her out if she wants a-GAH" Natsu said after being interrupted as he felt several hands grip hold of his shoulders while pulling him away.
"Come on!" Rogue, Gajeel and Sting roared while dragging the excited Fire Dragon Slayer away.
As Penny finished off the remaining soldiers, a trio of Bullheads appeared began to open fire at the seemingly defenseless girl. Their assault proved ineffective, however, as Penny created a shield with her swords and managed to block the incoming barrage of bullets while two more swords flew out of her backpack and embedded themselves into the wall behind her.
Smiling to herself, Penny allowed herself to be pulled back by her swords through the strings attached to them and land at the wall they were at. She then made her blades circle in front of her with their points open, causing them to generate a green orb of energy right in the center of the circle. A few seconds later, the girl fired a multitude of lasers right at two of the Bullheads in the air, splitting them in two and causing the passengers to fall off the destroyed aircraft's. The young girl wasn't done, however, as she fired her swords at the last crate, which was carrying a crate of Dust, and began pulling it with her strings.
"Whoa..." Ruby gasped as she stared at Penny's actions in shock and awe. "How is she doing that?"
Roman growled in frustration as he watched the little red haired girl pull one of his last bullheads into the ground with unnatural ease, causing it to explode. His plan was foiled and he knew it. While the other Bullheads where just about to reign some bullet barrages behind the girls back, the underbellies of the aircraft's were eventually slashed through by Gajeel and Rogue who slashed their way through the machinery that eventually caused it to explode. The Dragon Slayers now landing on a crate with broken parts that were set on fire falling around them, the brothers now fist pumping one another while Sting, Wendy and Natsu destroyed the other Bullheads with a triple unison raid with their breath attacks.
Not having any other choice, he boarded the Bullhead he entered in and proceeded to escape, but not before making one last comment about the ones that ruined his heist.
"Man...these kids just keep getting weirder." Roman mutters annoyingly, just after using his crane to close the door to the Bullhead.
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RWBY OST: Wings...
It wasn't long before the police themselves had finally arrived at the docks, where most of the students including Natsu and the Dragon Slayers were sitting on some boxes while the police investigated the scene. The White Fang soldiers that didn't managed to escape were all arrested and the police were now making sure that none of the Dust was stolen. Blake had explained to Ruby and Penny about her past and what had transpired in the past two days. And eventually it didn't take a moment for almost everyone to turn their attention towards the sight of Yang grinning as she began walking up Ruby and the others while having a stoic Weiss following close by. Everything became silent as soon as the heiress stared at the cat ninja with a blank expression, and Blake couldn't help but lower her head in shame.
"Look Weiss, it's not what you think, she explained the whole thing. See, she doesn't actually have a bow, she has kitty ears and they're actually kind of cute..." Ruby explained quickly as her partner walked up to their wayward teammate, but was ignored.
"Weiss, I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with the-"
"Stop!" Weiss pulled up her hand and interrupted Blake's explanation. "Do you have any idea of how long we've been searching for you?"
Blake said nothing back.
"Twelve hours! We've been searching for you for at least twelve hours." Weiss confirmed, approaching very close to Blake. "That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelve hours, I've decided..."
Blake, Ruby, Sun as well as Nats, Sting, Rogue, Gajeel and Wendy stared at Weiss in worry when she paused with the sisters looking at one another.
"I don't care!"
"Huh?" Blake, Sun and the Dragon Slayers stared at the heiress, shocked with her answer. "You don't care?"
"You're not with them anymore, right?" Weiss asked.
"No, I-I haven't been since I was younger-" Blake was eventually interrupted by the heiress yet again.
"Ah-bah-bah-bah-bah! I don't want to hear it! Not yet anyways," Weiss interrupted once more, "All I want to know is that the next time something this big comes up... you'll come to your friends and teammates. And not some…someone else." She finished while giving Sun a brief glance.
Blake's eyes began to well up, touched by her friend's words. She turned to Ruby and Yang, who were grinning back at her. Even Natsu himself was giving her a grin at her words, despite the fact that the two of them did get along with each other at all. Wiping away her tears, she turned back to Weiss and gave her a firm nod. "Of course."
"Yay! Team RWBY is back together!" Ruby cheered, causing Yang to chuckle at her enthusiasm.
"This calls for a party!" Sting shouted, being the first to throw his fist up in the air with a bright grin.
"Oh yeah! I'm all fired up now! Yelled Natsu who had also thrusted his fists in the air as well, standing beside his brother with Wendy tossing her hands in the air with a few soft laughs.
"I'll take a piece of that action! How bout you bro?" Gajeel grinned while his fist was high up in the air before he turned his attention towards Rogue.
"I wouldn't mind participating, so long as their are some worthy opponents..." Rogue smirked in delight as he too rose his fist high in the air.
"Hell yeah!" Yang yelled while agreeing with the brothers, raising her fist in the air as well.
"I'm still not sure how to feel about you, though." Weiss said sternly at Sun, who had the decency to laugh sheepishly at the short heiress.
"Ah come on Weiss, give the guy a chance." Sting encouraged before he and Natsu wrapped their arms on Sun's neck.
"Yeah, he's a pretty nice guy once you get to know him heheh." Natsu chuckled playfully.
Ruby giggled as she watched the scene in front of her before she noticed something was off. She looked around for a bit and began to frown.
"Hey guys...where's Penny?" The young leader asked.
Unbeknownst to the scythe user, the girl in question was inside a black limo while the the windows were rolled up, looking out through one of the tinted windows while a man spoke beside her. "You should know better than to go running around in a strange city."
The car's engines came to life, and Penny looked away from the windows. "I know, sir." She couldn't keep her teal eyes away from the girl who unconditionally called her a friend.
The car drove off, leaving Penny to her thoughts. "Penny, your time will come..." The man beside her said reassuringly, til the vehicle itself was no longer on sight.
Moments later, Blake had already managed to bring Natsu to a more private area where no one would ever happen to bother them while they had begun to have several small chats. Seeing as the both of them had eventually finished talking to one another as both the Dragon Slayer and the Faunus girl were now looking at one another with Blake twiddling her fingers secretly while Natsu held his hands behind his head while baring a calm look on his face as silence was around them. But it didn't take long for Natsu to finally break free of the silence that the two of them held on each other.
"Oh yeah, that reminds me!" He remembered, suddenly digging something out of his pocket.
"What is it?" She wondered curiously with the bow above her head twitching.
In an instant, Natsu had slowly pulled out to what appears to be a hand-made pendant with a amber gem dangling on it while showing off a Dragon-like appearance in the center of the amber-like gem that seem to have similar resemblance towards that of his father, Igneel himself. His hand slowly making it towards the Faunus with his head slightly turned away, the pendant now close for Blake to grab hold.
"It's something that I've been working on for sometimes before you left." Natsu murmured softly, handing it towards her with head head cocked away while slightly embarrassed.
The Faunus reaches out and holds the pendant in her hand, mouth opening slightly. "Natsu... This is... I can't... This amazing..." Blake says and shakes her head, smiling softly.
"I uhhh...hope that its not much of a disappointment to you." Natsu said nervously, now rubbing the back of his head gently.
"Disappoint- No! God, no!" She shook her head gently. "This is...It's beautiful! I had no idea you could make this. I love it." Blake said, laughing softly.
Blake then goes to place the pendant around her neck and examined it before looking back over at him. "Thank you, Natsu."
"Eh-heh, no problem." The Dragon Slayer grinned playfully, rubbing the back of his head with his eyes shut.
The Faunus in disguised slowly settles the pendant down for a brief moment, casting her gaze on Natsu as she slowly approached towards him very softly. And in an instant that caused Natsu's eyes to grow wide in surprise and shock, she felt the pairs of soft lips press themselves against the left side of his cheek. Her lips remaining on his cheek for only a brief seconds until slowly retracting back from Natsu and stared at him with a soft smile on her face with both of her cheeks colored pink, actually enjoying the sight before her of Natsu's face becoming red.
"You still there?" She asked politely with her arms behind her back, leaning against the Dragon Slayer up front with a playful smirk. "Don't tell me I fried your brain."
The Dragon Slayer said nothing, completely silence as a stone.
"H-Hey come on Natsu, at least say something! Hello! Earth to pyromaniac!" She pleaded to the Dragon Slayer, yet no response was heard from him at all.
While the group had continued to cheer on for the return of Blake while seemingly shrugging off the idea as to where Penny would be, Rogue seemed almost lost within his mind. As though he was still focused on a certain matter, a matter that involved as to what that strange feeling that he alone felt during their rush hour to find Blake.
"Rogue, are you okay?" The Shadow Dragon was eventually brought out of his mind, looking down just to see Wendy who looked concern.
Rogue smiled softly, resting his hand on her head. "I'm alright, thanks for asking..." He assured, but silently pondered into the thought once more. 'That feeling, surely it couldn't be...no, I must be imagining it...still...'
-Beacon Academy-
Ozpin stared at the video recording in is Scroll with a small frown on his face. The recording showed Ruby with Natsu and the others back at the docks after the confrontation between a few of his students and the White Fang and Roman earlier in the evening. As he watched the recording, a message popped up and caught his attention. Focusing on the message now, he opened it and quirked an eyebrow when he saw that it was from Professor Qrow from Signal Academy. The message from the enigmatic instructor was short, but it definitely had the silver haired headmaster's attention.
"Hmm...The Queen haves the Pawns huh, interesting..." He muttered calmly, once more taking another sip of his coffee.
/...Meanwhile...\
As the night became much more vast with no signs of any activity going on, the crime boss Roman Torchwick was eventually spotted walking towards a nearby large warehouse with a shadowy interior while holding onto a crate. He approaches near a table, lazily placing the case mysterious crate onto the table with an tired and frustrated sigh escaping his lips.
'Damn brats...' He thought to himself. 'They just had to turn up and ruin the entire operation did they!?'
Roman shook his head while waving his orange fringe across his face, his black bowler hat unmoving as though it was completely glued to his head. Unexpectedly, a voice spoke from behind him.
"How very disappointing, Roman." A sensual yet malice like voice muttered behind the crime boss who jumped in surprise.
Whoa! Hehe... I wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon..." He chuckled, rubbing the back of his head while facing the three individuals while the middle bared golden burning eyes.
"We were expecting... more from you." The woman in the dark said curtly.
Roman laughed a little, til slowly his expression became much more stern and serious. "Hey! You were the ones who suggested working with those stupid mutts from the White Fang."
The woman in the dark soon chuckled darkly. "And you will continue to do so." She than lifted her hand up, suddenly conjuring a fireball within her grasp as she slowly began to remove herself from the dark. Roman gulped as the woman's eyes began to glow a bright orange with her associates revealing themselves as well.
"We have big plans for you, Roman. All we ask is... a little cooperation." She smirked deviously, slowly before everything began to darken.
/...Meanwhile...\
In the midst of the Emerald Forest, where another Harbinger whose wings were folded neatly while its massive tail had begun moving sideways slowly had begun to seep its fangs on rotten flesh as the creature had already began feasting on the corpse of another Harbinger that seems to be almost identical to the one that Natsu and the other Dragon Slayers have slain during their test to prove themselves as Huntsmens. The sound of flesh being torn from the dead corpse of the Harbinger was truly a sickening sound to beseech upon, but the creatures senses were suddenly on high alert after feeling the presence of something rather darker than itself. Causing it to tilt its attention towards the source of that dark feeling.
Upon its discovery, it eventually caught the sight of the shadows under the emerald like trees had slowly began to gather themselves for odd reasons. The shadows continued onward of building itself til finally a man took shape and effortlessly approached from the shadows and made his way through the woods while the beast stared down at the new arrival with new hunger filled within its eyes. The man remained in his spot, suddenly snapping his fingers that made an echo. And out of nowhere, with the earth shaking uncontrollably.
"Gorelogia...deal with this vermin..." The man commanded.
And suddenly, out of nowhere a massive beast with large wings whose body was made out of rock suddenly burst itself out of the ground while knocking the Harbinger back.
The Harbinger had eventually gotten back on its feet while tilting its attention back to the creature that knocked it back, seeing as the monster was somewhat identical to that of a Dragon. Yet its entire body was in literal speaking was made out of hard rock while baring large, jagged stones. While the underbelly on the other hand didn't seem to be as rough as its upper parts. The stones on its face seemed almost arranged in a linear fashion around its dark, circular eyes with its chin jutting out while its large wings were also covered in stones. And it had also been shown to lack claws and teeth for they were flat and had no sign of any nostrils at all, but it did bare a stone-covered tail that showed off a club like fashion.
"Prepare yourself to meet your maker, impostor..." The rock like beast declared with a sudden bellow.
When the Grimm was prepared to fight back against the new creature, another enormous beast with a patterned body and a narrow head. Possibly its most defining feature is that it possessed two huge spines that jut straight from its chin and forehead. Over its scaled body, this creatures scales bared a dark and swirling pattern, which somewhat resembles the pattern found on butterfly wings. Trailing right down its spine from head to tail is a raised section of scales, which are also found its leg while the coloration towards its scales were that of pale red. The pincers on the creatures snout and bottom chin had eventually clenched hold of the Harbingers neck as it struggled to get itself free.
"Such a pitiful excuse...to dare take the form of a Dragon..." The creature snarled in hatred, allowing its pincers to snap into the Harbingers skin and instantly decapitate it with no sort of effort.
With the Harbinger taken cared of as its body suddenly fell onto the ground, the man walked beside it while the creatures had begun to follow him straight to the edge where they caught a clear view of what appears to be a city. The man smirked devilishly at the sight before him with his arms now crossed while the sounds of thunderous wings were heard behind him, slowly revealing themselves to be more giant winged beasts with many different details towards their appearance and size.
The first leading the other the other beasts was an extremely large, adamantine skinned mastodonic creature, whose near-entire body is covered with large, thick, swirl-patterned scales, save for its underbelly, which is instead lined with porous holes, its face, which has smaller, more smooth scales positioned around the eyes (which, themselves, are round and blank), and its snout, which is completely devoid of scales altogether. Around its mouth and climbing up its snout (and on various other parts of its body) features of light, jagged markings. Additionally, the creature's cavernous mouth is filled with razor sharp teeth.
The second to be flying by its left was also an extremely huge beast that gave out a bluish coloration towards its scales and fleshly belly. It possessed four limbs and a pair of wings that allow it to fly. On its chin, it seems to have grown a beard. However, the creatures distinct feature is that its body is covered with protuberances resembling fish's fins, having them on the sides of its head, its back and even limbs. Its body is also covered with scales that look like the skin of fish, further resembling this animal.
And flying beside the creature that bared a fish like appearance was a giant beast with jagged scales that were hued emerald. It had a flat skull with a flat nose and a big jaw while its ears taper off to one side and feature darkened ends. The creature also had two, long strands of hair on his chin with four-fingered claws that are completes with dark, shiny talons. On its back, the beast sports a large pair of wings, and in between said wings lay a row of spikes that travel down his spine. While its stomach, contrary to the rest of his body, is smooth, with no visible scales, and is quite muscular.
And just above the emerald creature flew another beast that seemed almost entirely different than the other ones, it alone held extended digits and a smooth, dark patagium, making its anatomy and method of flight more akin to a bat's than an actual Dragon; additionally, there are spikes running down from the creatures spine and onto its tail, which in itself ends in a rippled, almost torn fashion.
All at once, the creatures had eventually landed besides their other brethrens with several of the creatures now snarling quietly with the exception of the emerald beast who began to cackle maniacally while its maws had begun oozing of its own saliva. The larger one of them all who bared adamantine scales now looming over the man.
"King Reyos, tell me as to what you desire within this world? Shall we lay this land and its inhabitants asunder as we have done before in the other world? Were it not for the interference of the Dragon Slayers." The creature questioned his King, who shook in disapproval.
"No...send forth your hatchling and find us anyone who could be of some use, this world may hold some promises of me becoming its King..." The man with twin colored hair of black and white suggested, the massive beast now obeying him.
"As you wish my King, it shall be done..." And than, to rose up high with a sudden bellow that made the trees around the area to shake uncontrollably. Slowly after, tubes in the shape of eggs had slowly began to fall beneath the ground from the beast who seemed to be laying them as there seem to have sphere-shaped holes under its belly.
And out of the eggs, came forth human-sized and bipedal Draconian entities that showed no sign of fangs within their maws as well as baring no signs of eyes as well. The small beasts now huddling themselves in a line as they stand behind the man who is fancied as a King with the massive beast once more roaring.
"Go forth my children, bring us those who are worthy of becoming part of the Kings new order!" The creature demanded, its hatchlings eventually obeying as they began to jump right off of the cliff and crawl their way through the forest while slaying any Grimms that stood in their way.
"Ahahahaha! I can't wait to seek my fangs into the flesh of virgin woman." The beast with emerald scales sneered in joy, while the creature with pincers slowly formed a wolfish grin on his maw.
"That makes the two of us Zilconis, for my pincers thirst for warm human blood..." The creature said darkly while continuing to grin viciously, much to the fish like creatures disinterest who shook his head in disgust.
"Do as you wish with the Humans you fools, for my interest is only upon the Dragon Slayers alone..." Muttered the creature whose body showed similar relations to that of a fish's own.
"Your not the only one who have's a score to settle with those rodents." Snarled the bat like beast who seem to have stared at the fish like beast.
The the creatures had already began to have conversations on their own accord, the man couldn't help but grin viciously. Now silencing the other beasts who later on listened carefully to what their master was about to say.
"The age of man is coming to an end...now begins..the era of Dragons...and this soon this world...will be mine..." The man declared as the left of his eye flashed with a crimson flare as the creatures above him took the skies and roared loudly for all to hear.
As of now, things in Remnant would never be the same as they were before...
((To Be Continued...))
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