I don't really have much to say before the chapter… enjoy I guess.
Chapter 11:
Yoru had been tracking Blake across Vale for the last two days. Usually he would be able to find someone pretty easily but from what he saw, Blake was really good at sneaking away from him. He came close to her multiple times but somehow she was always able to get away. But not now. Now he finally found her. She was with a monkey Faunus at the docks. Three Bullheads arrived near some containers and Yoru saw something which made his blood boil. White Fang. He took out his scroll and called Jaune.
Jaune looked at his scroll and saw Yoru's number calling him so he immediately answered. He was training with Ren and Nora in one of the training rooms.
"Yoru? Where are you?" he said worried, making Ren and Nora get close to him in order to listen.
"Jaune, I'm at the docks, I found Blake" said Yoru "The White Fang is here, send help… Oh god, Blake is attacking one of them."
"Yoru, stay on the line" said Jaune, walking out and running towards the Bullhead docks.
"Blake is losing the fight, the monkey Faunus is unconscious… no. No. NO!"
"Yoru?" asked Jaune. The only thing he could hear in return was a roar of pure fury and the sound of a scroll breaking. The call ended "Dammit!" swore Jaune "Nora, call Team RWBY, tell them to gather at the docks."
Once they arrived at the Bullhead docks they saw Headmaster Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch talking to Team PYRU.
"Professor Ozpin!" said Jaune while running to them "Yoru and Blake are at the dock fighting the White Fang."
"Let's go" said Ozpin and the two teachers ran with the seven teens into one of the Bullheads, the airship closing its doors and taking flight.
'Dammit Yoru, I hope you are okay' thought Jaune worried.
Blake was looking at the black armored being charging towards one White Fang member. The Faunus tried shooting at him but the bullets simply bounced off the armor, not even leaving dents. Yoru grabbed the Faunus by the neck with his free hand and Blake's improved hearing could hear his neck crack. Yoru flung the limo body towards another Faunus before charging. The Faunus grabbed the body before he saw a black blade coming at him. Blake closed her eyes to not see. With her ears it was enough. The sounds of bones crushing, flesh being cut, cries of pain. When she opened her eyes again she saw four White Fang members now dead on the floor.
"Shit!" swore Torchwick while seeing Yoru grab another White Fang member and thrashing him to the ground, breaking his skull "I don't get paid enough for this" and with that Torchwick ran towards one of the Bullhead, only to be interrupted by a body flying to his direction. He shot the ground with his cane, using the explosion to impulse himself to the side, dodging the body.
Blake saw Yoru charging to Torchwick while the thief shot him using fire dust rounds. Even with all the explosions occurring on his body the black armored warrior kept charging at Torchwick. Now close enough Yoru punched the thief in the stomach, launching him flying towards a container, only to be grabbed by Yoru midair and being launched to the ground. Once there Yoru started to stomp him in the stomach quickly.
"Neo" the thief managed to choke out and Yoru dodged to the side, evading the blade that almost hit him on the back of the head. A petite girl appeared out of nowhere behind him. She was wearing pink and cream clothes with brown and pink hair. She looked like an ice cream lady. Neo crouched beside Torchwick and both of them disappeared in breaking glass.
The remaining White Fang members were petrified on the spot. Blake could feel the fear they had for Yoru. Another roar was heard and Yoru charged at them, not caring for the shots they fired. Using his blade he cut one of them in half before grabbing one by the ankle and using him as a club against another. Blake almost jumped to attack when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Blake? What's going on?" said Ruby with a quivering voice.
"Don't look Ruby" said Blake turning around and hugging Ruby so she wouldn't be traumatized further.
"Who is in the black armor?" asked Penny, the girl they met on Friday, her voice had a dangerous edge in it.
Blake hesitated before answering "Yoru" Blake felt Ruby flinch.
"W-what?" said the little girl "It can't be… Yoru would never kill someone" when Blake didn't answer Ruby looked up where Blake was looking at.
Yoru had finished his battle and was looking at them. A roar of distorted fury came from him and he charged at the three girls. Penny blocked his charge with her swords, digging her feet on the ground.
"Ruby! Blake!" both of them looked at Yang and Weiss, who came running at them. They looked at Penny trading blows with a black armored person and then they looked around at the massacre that took place there. Weiss recognized the Grimm masks on the ground and put two and two together.
"What happened to the White Fang? Who is in the black armor?" she said before looking at the armor in the arms of the murderer. Realization hit instantly "No… no no no" she fell on her knees.
"He can't control himself" replied Blake "Yoru can't control his Semblance if he uses it fully."
"Shit!" said Yang and she saw Penny put together her swords and shoot a laser beam towards Yoru. He took the full attack and a smokescreen remained in his place. With a single move of his blade he made the smokescreen disappear. His armor was really damaged, with some fractures in places. They could see his skin and pieces of his destroyed yukata.
Penny went back with the group "I don't think I can shoot another beam at him" she said "I will need help friends."
"I'll help" said Weiss getting up and pulling Myrtenaster out of its strap "I refuse to let my best friend keep being a monster."
"Hey!" said Ruby indignantly before getting up and turning Crescent Rose into its Scythe form.
"No offense Ruby" said Weiss mockingly "But he was the first person outside of my sister that saw me as girl instead of a name… You can take second place though" she winked at the R of Team RWBY.
"Fine" said Ruby.
"Don't forget me, I'll have the chance to fight vagabond boy without him holding back" said Yang, getting her gauntlets ready.
"Weiss, after we get to the dorm I'll have to apologize to you" said Blake while she readied Gambol Shroud.
"Likewise, I was unfair to you" said Weiss.
"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA" they heard Yoru laughing. It sounded wrong. It sounded… unnatural. Yoru charged at them and Penny charged at him to counter him. From his right side Ruby and Blake started to shoot him while from his left side Weiss had made Glyph that catapulted Yang towards him. The distraction of Penny, Ruby and Blake paid off when Yang managed to hit Yoru on the ribs and unload her shotgun blast on him, launching him towards a container. He stabbed his hand on the concrete, destroying part of it but stopping him in the floor.
"Freezerburn!" yelled Ruby while Weiss stabbed Myrtenaster in the floor, creating a huge pool of ice that Yang broke with an explosion, courtesy from her shotgun gauntlet. This created a huge field of mist around the battlefield. Yoru looked around until he heard "Checkmate!" He instantly switched his blade to his left hand and parried a strike from Blake's katana while dodging the thrusts from Weiss rapier. Parry, dodge, parry. The two huntresses in training kept attacking him quickly, without giving him room to attack them. "Ladybug!" was screamed and Weiss retreated to give room to Ruby, who charged at him quickly with her Semblance, managing to hit him and going past him before going at it again, with Blake imitating her. Yoru saw this coming and sent a backwards kick to Ruby, who received it square on the head, making him fall backwards before dodging Blake and punching her back with his free hand.
"Ruby! Blake!" yelled Yang before her eyes turned red and she charged against Yoru. She sent two punches his way, on towards his neck and the other towards his stomach. Yoru simply tanked the hits and went inside Yang's guard before grabbing her by the neck and throwing her to the ground with all his strength, making her bounce hard on her back before Yoru dealt an axe kick to her, pinning her to the ground and then kicking her and making and air wave around him which cleared the area of the mist. He then kicked Yang towards Weiss, who used a Glyph towards Yang before seeing Yoru already on them and hitting both of them with the back of his blade, making them drop to the ground.
Penny shot forward towards him and he simply grabbed her by an ankle and started hitting her with his knee before throwing her towards a warehouse. He then went back to Weiss and Yang, the latter not being able to move and the former stuck beneath her. He raised his blade to the air and was about to cut them both in half when he heard her "Yoru…" He looked at Weiss in the eyes and she could see the gold of his eyes turn purple, him lowering his weapon with a regretful and guilty look on his eyes before being shot in the shoulder, action which made his eyes turn back into the furious golden before looking at the source of the attack. Weiss looked and saw Pyrrha with her weapon on rifle form. Beside her were the rest of her team, Team JNRY and Headmaster Ozpin with Professor Goodwitch "No" Weiss said before Yoru charged at them. She saw him twitch, hesitate for a moment before committing to his action.
"Did you see his eyes?" asked Yang.
"Yes… I did… He recognized me" replied Weiss, too tired to even try to move Yang.
Ozpin saw the creature charge at them. It was interesting to say the least. In all his lifetimes, the only demons he saw had red eyes. Not golden. There were some cracks in his armor, revealing exposed skin and torn clothing. By the look of his arms he concluded something. This is Yoru. But what caused him to be so violent?
"Ozpin. What should we do?" said Glynda, while dodging an attack from Mister Ogami. They had gotten closer to get his attention so he wouldn't attack the students.
"Well… When was the last time we performed 'The Witch and the Warlock'?" said Ozpin before grabbing his cane. He saw Glynda smirk before flicking her riding crop in the air and stopping Yoru dead in his track. Ozpin charged forward and delivered a series of attacks into the exposed skin and clothing from the cracks of his armor. Quickly, and with accuracy only formed after years of fighting, he delivered each strike with the help of his Semblance. After five seconds of continued assault the armor disappeared and Yoru fell unconscious on the floor. The rest of Team JNRY quickly went to look after the Y of their team. He had a lot of bruises and was bleeding in some places, but nothing too damaging to his career. After some days in the infirmary he would be fine. Team PYRU sent to collect the members of Team RWBY and brought them to him alongside a ginger girl with green eyes. He recognized her immediately. Penny Polendina. The gynoid with Aura. They brought the teens to the Bullhead and made them sit while it took flight.
"Okay children. Would one of you be so kind as to tell me what happened?" said Glynda. He noticed, after multiple years of working with her, she was quite angry.
Blake Belladona stepped towards her and started recounting her story the short way. After finishing it she looked away with guilt. Glynda looked at Ozpin in order to see what he would do. He sighed.
"Miss Belladona… Why didn't you come to us for advice?" asked Ozpin. Blake kept her silence while still looking away. Ozpin sighed again "You'll have detention for the next month. Now, moving to Mister Ogami's situation."
"He wasn't in control of himself" defended Blake. She gained a couple of weird looks from everyone except Pyrrha, Jaune and Headmaster Ozpin so she continued "What you saw was his Semblance, he can gain that armor but using it for more than his limit makes him lose his mind in the bloodlust. It makes him much more dangerous. I saw him killing all of the White Fang members before wiping the floor with Roman Torchwick. After that he started to fight Penny."
"He took a full blast from my laser beam, before that he was able to keep going with me like it was nothing, part of me using my strongest attack was because of that" answered the ginger girl.
"After he took the blast he just looked at us while we got ready to fight" said Ruby "then he laughed and we attacked him…"
"He beat us" said Yang, clenching her fists in frustration "He took everything we threw at him and beat us."
"When he was about to… kill Yang and I… he…" Weiss took a moment to breath. She had Yoru's head on her lap and took a moment to stroke his hair "He stopped once I called out his name… His eyes changed back to his normal purple and he lowered his weapon… then Pyrrha shot him."
"Sorry" said Pyrrha sheepishly. She was sitting beside Jaune.
"After I spoke again he hesitated for a moment before resuming his charge" said Weiss before looking at Ozpin "Will he get in trouble?"
"Actually, I have to put my two lien here" said Jaune before looking at Ozpin "Before he… transformed… he told me about seeing Blake fighting against the White Fang. Then he started repeating the word 'No' and he roared, his scroll broke and the call ended."
"That would be the moment where I was about to be shot by them…" said Blake and realization hit her like a truck "Do you think he transformed to protect me?"
"That would be part of my theory" said Ozpin finally speaking "Have you heard of the term 'Mixed Blood' students of mine?"
"It's what children of Faunus and Humans are called" said Weiss, earning a surprised look from Blake "He told me about it" Weiss replied to the implicit question.
"Exactly" said Ozpin "Due to their heritage, the Mixed Blood are often abandoned by their parents due to the stigma they represent" Ozpin took a moment before continuing to speak "The Mixed Blood usually have enhanced senses but not to the level of a Faunus. To a normal human they are just humans with better senses, but… Faunus can feel this 'Wrongness' about a Mixed Blood. They instinctually don't trust them and usually close their doors on them. The fact that Faunus refuse to accept them drive the humans to not trust a Mixed Blood either… this causes the Mixed Blood to either die or turn to the Wilds" Ozpin took another moment. He didn't like how the Faunus discriminated against a part of the population. 'And not to mention how the White Fang treats them… like abominations' "Due to their loneliness, the Mixed Blood that survive develop a strong bond and become extremely attached to animals or people who treat them with care. They become extremely protective of them and will fight to the death in order to save them. Does that ring any bells?" The group of teens stared at him wide eyed before looking at Mister Arc, Miss Schnee and Miss Belladona. The three were extremely surprised due to their own realization.
"He said he liked Jaune, Weiss and Blake first" said Ruby "I… I think I know where Headmaster Ozpin is going with this."
"Yoru Ogami will fight to the death with everything he has to protect all of you" said Ozpin "Even if it makes him lose himself… I believe that's the reason he stopped at Miss Schnee" Weiss looked at him confused "From what I've seen he spends the most of his time with either you or Mister Arc. I believe that only you two could stop him once he loses himself in his Semblance."
"Do you really think so?" asked Jaune. From the look of his eyes he was determined to help his friend. 'It was a good choice to leave Mister Arc to Mister Ogami.'
"Weiss was then only one he didn't attack directly" said Ruby "He kicked me in the face, punched Blake in the back and thrashed Yang around… but he wasn't going to attack Weiss until Yang was on top of her…"
"I'll do everything within my power to help him" said Weiss determined.
"I'm sure you will" smiled Ozpin. Mister Ogami had good friends.
The Bullhead landed and Team RWBY was taken with Sun Wukong and Yoru Ogami to the infirmary in order to look at their wounds. Ruby and Blake had already healed their injuries. Yang had some bruises which were being treated with ice packs. Weiss had no injuries. Sun and Yoru were put on top of beds but were relatively without injuries.
"Well, I'll be taking my leave" said Ozpin before leaving with Glynda and Penny, who waved goodbye to her new friends. While walking through the hallways Penny received a message and had to leave to Vale.
After arriving at his office Ozpin sat on his chair and sighed "Yes Glynda?" He didn't even have to be looking her to know she was giving him that look.
"What are your plans to deal with Mister Ogami?" said Glynda.
"I'll have Qrow train him" replied Ozpin.
"Are you sure?"
"Qrow was the one who found him and the one who told me about him. I believe he will be able to train him so he will be able to control his Semblance."
"I understand" said Glynda "Goodnight Ozpin" and she took her leave.
Ozpin took out his scroll and sent a message to Qrow.
Wizard: Scarecrow, I need you to come back to the Emerald Palace.
Scarecrow: Are you sure? Why?
Wizard: I need you to train Mister Ogami so he can control his Semblance.
Scarecrow: …
Scarecrow: What did the kid do?
Wizard: He killed terrorists, frustrated a massive Dust robbery and defeated your nieces' team.
Scarecrow: Are you kidding me?
Wizard: He has a strong Semblance, but he can't control it, that's why I'm assigning you to help him.
Scarecrow: Alright… at least he can drink.
Wizard: Please don't encourage alcoholism on my students.
Weiss was looking at Yoru's sleeping form with her friends. She looked at Blake and she looked back at her and nodded. Both of them got up and went out of Yoru's room.
"I would like to apologize" said Weiss once she closed the door "I treated you unfairly and I didn't hear your side of the story."
"I'm sorry too, I didn't really think about my actions and almost got killed"
"Did you attack my family Blake?"
"I have attacked the trains and stores, but I've never killed someone."
"I see, that's good"
"When did he tell you about his race?"
"In Forever Fall. We talked about a lot of things."
"Glad to hear you two are as close as ever. When is the wedding?" Blake teased.
"I don't see Yoru that way" replied Weiss smiling and both of them went back to Yoru's room.
Well, that ends volume 1's story. I'll probably do a couple of slice of life chapters starting with the next one. Obviously after Yoru and Sun wake up.
Anyways, to the reviews:
HikariSonozaki: Yeah. Curiosity killed the Yang. I mean… I don't like RWBY post Volume 4. I haven't put any of my Ryukendo ideas in this fic… And I don't think it will fit.
Bye everybody.