Chapter 12
Hello everyone, I want to say something to a very special person. Thank you Dramier, for your Favorite and Follow of this story, and I thank you greatly for your pm/review of this. Normally I would reply to your pm, but I wanted to say thank you and give you a nice shout out. You are the first person in over several months to have put a review down, even if it was a pm I still count it as a review. I was debating if I should continue this story because I never got any feedback from anyone, not even my Followers or those that Favorited this story. Your review greatly boosted my desire to continue this story, so thank you. As for the idea with RWBY, there will be no crossover stuff with this story. I plan on keeping this story an original work. Though I plan on doing a RWBY fanfiction story (Work in progress). This chapter is for you Dramier, and it was one of my most favorite chapters I made. ENJOY!
"Alright, let's see what you can do." Gin said as he stood in front the young Rock who held a wooden sword. "Right… here I come!" She shouted as she started running at Gin who pulled out a cigarette and lit it before he breathed in it. Rock tripped on her trench coat and fell on her face, surprising Gin as a bead of sweat went down the back of his head. "That… wasn't expected…" Gin said to himself. "I'm ok…" Rock said as she got up and picked up the wooden katana.
"Alright…" Gin said as he breathed out a puff of smoke. Rock ran up to Gin, watching where she stepped and once she was close enough, she raised the sword high over her head and brought it down with all her might, only for it to slam into a solid wall of steel. That's what Rock thought until she looked up to learn that she hit Gin's stomach. "Well… you got the swing down…" Gin said, wondering exactly how he's going to teach Rock, who's probably not even close to be halfway done as a child, the way of the sword.
"First… let's get rid of that coat…" Gin said as he removed Rocks coat and threw it to the side. "Why don't we start with…" Gin said as he started thinking of what they should do.
But before he could think of anything, a knock was heard on the door. "I'll go answer that; you stay here and… stretch a bit, ok?" Gin said before getting a nod from Rock. "Good…" He said to himself as he left the training room and towards the front door.
He opened the door and saw Pāpuru leaning against his vehicle outside in a full suit of armor minus the helmet. Gin walked towards him and pulled out a cigarette and lit it. "I bet you didn't come out here all the way to just say hello and look the beautiful wasteland." Gin said as he walked to his side and leaned against the vehicle. "I came here because the CTF need you for a mission involving a book." Pāpuru said looking around. "A book? why would the Order need a book?" Gin asked, "We're not retrieving the book for the Order to be exact, they want us to look at it and give them any information we can give them on it. You will be the one to hold onto it and look at it, given your status with everything." Pāpuru told Gin.
"So what's this book about anyways?" Gin asked. "Well, so far we know that the book holds some power, what kind of power we don't know exactly." Pāpuru said before pulling out his own cigarette and lighter before trying to light his smoke. Gin pulled out his zippo and flipped it open with his thumb before flicking the wheel with a flame bursting alive. He then held it out for Pāpuru who was still having trouble with his. "Thanks…" He said after holding his cigarettes end in the flame. He put the cigarette to his lips and breathed a bit in before breathing out a puff of purple smoke.
"No problem…" Gin said as he flicked his wrist and closed the zippo. "So do we have any leads as to where this book may be?" Gin asked. "Now that's the funny thing..." Pāpuru said before he walked towards Gin's house, Gin followed. "Our intel told us that the book was hidden somewhere under your house." Pāpuru said, looking over his shoulder at Gin who had a "You're kidding" look on his face. "Though I think your infamous little get away ride may know more than us." He said looking forward as they went around the house.
They came to the shed where Kurīchā was. They opened the door to see Kurīchā in the form of a German Shepard, curled up in a ball on the floor. Yet she shot up and looked at Gin and Pāpuru, waiting for whatever they were going to do. Pāpuru looked at Gin before waving his arm towards Kurīchā, telling Gin to get moving. Gin sighed while shaking his head as he walked up to Kurīchā and kneeled down.
"Hey listen, I heard from my pal behind me that there might be a book hidden somewhere under the house, is that true?" Gin asked Kurīchā. Kurīchā let out a whine before looking at Gin then Pāpuru. "Hey, he's not going to steal the book or anything. I will keep it inside the mansion and won't let anyone that doesn't live on these grounds touch it." Gin said, placing a hand across his chest.
Kurīchā let out a bark before stepping around Gin and went outside before transforming into the same 6 legged metallic creature the Yellow's control. Kurīchā then walked to the back of the house and started digging a tunnel under the house. "How did you get such a wonderful creation?" Pāpuru asked. "It's kinda hard to explain, but you could say that she came with the house." Gin said as they watched Kurīchā dig.
When Kurīchā was done, a small tunnel led down to double stone doors with worn out inscriptions. The doors opened on their own, letting Gin and Pāpuru in.
Far from the doors stood a pedestal with a big leather book on it. "I guess that's our book…" Pāpuru said as he walked towards the pedestal. He made it about half way before there was a blinding light and Pāpuru was shot back next to Gin by an invisible force. "Looks like there's a barrier…" Gin said as he walked to where Pāpuru was before he was sent back.
Gin held out a hand and inched his way across, expecting to be shot back like Pāpuru or something, though he made it to the pedestal without any trouble. Gin looked at Pāpuru who signaled him to take it. Gin sighed before grabbing the book, still nothing happened.
"It looks like that book likes you or something." Pāpuru said as he made his way to Gin, passing where he was pushed back. "Don't ask me how, I have no idea how I did it…" Gin said as he handed the book to Pāpuru who tried to open it up, but struggled with it. He handed it back to Gin and he examined it to see a lock on the cover of the book, one that stopped you from opening the book.
Gin pulled out a key and placed it in the lock before turning the key to hear a click. "Where did you get that key from?" Pāpuru asked. "I found it when I found the house…" Gin said he handed the book back to Pāpuru who opened it successfully this time and started flipping through the pages. "All these pages are blank!" Pāpuru shouted as he flipped through the last pages of the book. "That's odd…" Gin said looking as Pāpuru double checked to see if he was right.
"What is all this?" A voice near the door asked. Gin and Pāpuru looked up to see Rock standing at the doorway. "Rock, why don't you go back inside? This place isn't safe for you to be here." Gin told Rock.
But before anyone could do anything, the earth shook and the pages flipped on their own and stopped on the first page of the book. Gin and Pāpuru looked at each other before a giant ghost like skeleton hand shot out from the book and towards Rock who turned around and started to run up the stairs. "Rock! Close that damn book!" Gin shouted as he left Pāpuru sides and ran after Rock and the hand.
Gin ran up the stairs and saw the hand trying to get around Kurīchā in her dog form, which was protecting Rock as she stood behind her. Gin summoned his katana and ran up to the hand before jumping high into the air, intending to stab through the back of its hand when he landed, but the hand slapped him away.
The hand grabbed Kurīchā and threw her to the side before grabbing Rock and started pulling back under the house where Gin and Pāpuru found the book. Gin landed on his feet before charging at the hand and leapt at it, stabbing his katana in its wrist and was dragged along as the hand suddenly sped up.
The hand made its way right back to the book as Pāpuru struggled to close it. The hand shrunk with Rock and Gin as they were sucked into the book. Pāpuru slammed the book after the sudden resist of the book was gone; he reopened it and checked the first few pages of the book to see Rock and Gin drawn into the book. Rock had this look of innocence on her face while also a look of curiosity on it. Gin had both weapons in his hand while he had a foot on the top of a large rock as he looked into the distance; he had a look of seriousness and anger on his face.
"Crap… how do I explain this to the Order and the others?" Pāpuru asked himself.
Before he closed the book, Gin's picture started to ripple like it was the surface of the water. Before long, the book jumped out of Pāpuru's hands and onto the floor where it started to shake on the ground. The pages became bright white and started to glow before an arm shot out of the glowing pages. The arm slammed onto the ground and pulled up a familiar fedora and a familiar face. Gin pulled himself out of the book and with him; he brought an unconscious Rock out of the book too.
Once he and Rock were out of the book, it slammed shut and a faint click was heard as the lock relocked.
"What the hell happened?" Pāpuru asked. "I think it's self-explanatory, me and Rock were pulled, trapped in a book, and escaped, what else is there to explain?" Gin said as he held Rock against him as she was quietly sleeping. "I think you SHOULD keep the book, I only got you and that kid stuck in this book." Pāpuru said, picking up the book and handed it to Gin who held it as he held Rock with the other hand. "You get back to the Order and tell them what happened." Gin said walking towards the stairs.
"Also, don't think that I'm willing to give this book up to them any time soon. I don't care how much they pay me; you tell them that it IS staying with me." Gin told Pāpuru as they made their way back to the front of the house. "I'll tell them all of that, you go ahead and get that girl to bed; she looks like she might not be waking up anytime soon." Pāpuru said as he hopped into his ride and drove off.
Gin sat in an office lit by candle as he wrote down stuff in a book, writing about client payment and stuff. He had the book that he and Pāpuru found next to the book he was writing in on his desk. Gin pulled out a pocket watch from his suit jacket and looked at the time, 11:47 pm.
Gin heard the door open and didn't look as a masked Red Member entered the room. "Remember me?" He asked before he pulled out one large handheld cannon and removed his mask to reveal it covered in scratches claw marks. Gin looked up at the Red Member to see him with a proud smile on his face as he held the cannon at Gin's face.
"I would ask who you are, but I honestly don't care." Gin replied to the man. "Wha?" The man said in confusion.
Suddenly, the book Gin and Pāpuru found opened up and flipped pages on its own before it stopped after a while and the giant hand came out of the book. "What is that?!" The Red Member asked, dropping his weapon. The hand shot towards the man and grabbed him before pulling him straight into the book without any resistance. A picture faded onto the pages before revealing it to be the same Red Member just moments ago.
Gin took a look at the picture before the book slammed shut on its own, filling the room with that sound before silence took over. Gin licked the tip of his pen before he got back to work like nothing happened.
