Greetings, huntsmen and huntresses and welcome to the next chapter of Team ARCG: Wrath Of A Knight. I hope your all going to enjoy it as much as I had writing it and now on to the review.
kyrogue23: Well they are not together, together yet (Ciaran still is in a relationship with Cinder), but they are a lot closer to it. And yeah, Avaro is going to have a lot of them. Its cool you like Wepsi more than Moka Cola (For me it depends on the situation, like what I am eating or if I mix it with another drink).
Now story time.
Over at Junior's club, said owner was just putting a glass down as Yang and a drunken Ciaran were interrogating him.
"I don't know!", Junior said, picking up their empty glasses, "I haven't talked to him! I haven't even seen him since the night you first came in here. He paid up front, I lent him my men, and none of them ever. Came. Back."
"So where did they go?", Neptune pointed out.
A long pause followed, before the club owner spoke again, "What kind of stupid question is that? They never came back!", he then turned to Yang, "Who is this guy?"
It was then that Ciaran stood up, from his stool, keeping his balance with both hands on the bar. "D-Don't worry about the blue haired pretty boy...", Ciaran said, a small blade dagger, taken from his sword, with its gun mode active, "Worry about the silver haired pretty boy standing in front of you!" aiming it at Junior.
"Uhm... Ciaran...", Neptune said nervously, as every henchmen in the club took aim at the three students.
"What are you crazy? There are easier ways to get yourself killed!", Junior shouted.
The white haired took a deep sigh, before spinning around and just as he completed his spin to face Junior again, every single Henchmen's pistal was shot out of their hands, making them drop to the floor with a satisfying clang.
"Yeah, like shouting at the guy holding a gun to your head.", Ciaran said dryly, began to shoot a bottle behind Junior, gracing his left cheek, "Now tell me why Remus older brother Romulus wanted those mooks?"
"I think his name is Roman...", Neptune corrected him, but stopped when Ciaran aimed another gun at his head, "Or Romulus, what ever you like."
"Those smaller swords are also guns... Damn... Ciaran is scary when he is drunk...", Yang thought.
"I already told you everything! Torchwick hired my boys, and I guess he wasn't happy with them, which is something I can relate to!", Junior shouted at his own men, who grumble and walk away in response.
"Come on, Ciaran, Neptune.", Yang said, turning away from the bar.
"What?", the white haired young man said surprised.
"Yeah, we got everything we needed?", Neptune said, slightly supporting Ciaran, making sure he wasn't falling over.
"Well, we got everything we can.", Yang said, she couldn't help but chuckle at how laid back and silly Ciaran looked with his cheeks flushes and lips stretched into a goofy smile.
"Hopefully the rest of the team is having better luck.", Neptune muttered.
Back over at the warehouse, the White Fang is still cheering loudly as the recruits are marched to the stage, with Avaro, Blake and Sun having no choice but to follow along.
"What are we going to do!?", Sun whispered to Avaro and Blake, just as Roman, who was leaning on the robot smoking his cigar and laughing with the girl beside him, giving the three a frown.
"When the light goes out. Make a run for the window.", Avaro said, holding a small remote in his hand.
Pushing the button, it released an powerful EMP charge, making the lights go out for the whole building and leaving them in the dark.
The three Huntsmen crash through the window and start running as fast as they can, as they leap off a car and manage to land on a roof, the mechanized sound of the Altesian Paladin's chasing after them, and it crashes through the wall of the building in pursuit of the runaways. The Paladin follows beside them on the street as Avaro, Blake and Sun run, jump, and flip from rooftop to rooftop.
"So you wouldn't happen to have a switch off button for your machine?", Sun asked, amidst twirls in the air.
"No. I am not some walking Deus Ex Machina!", Avaro shouted, pressing a button in his glove, "But I have the next best thing.", sending a signal to their friends.
Back over at Ciaran, Yang and Neptune who were leaning against their motorcycle as Avaro contacted them on their Scrolls.
"Oh, group chat from Avaro.", Ciaran said, pushing the accept button as the other two leaned in to watch with him.
"Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back...", Avaro said through the Scroll before being drowned out by Sun shouting for help.
"Big robot! And it's big! Really big!", Sun shouted, "That Torchwick guy is in it!"
"What? Remus got eaten by a robot?", Ciaran asked.
"No, it didn't eat him; he's, like, controlling it or something!", Sun answered, "And its his brother!"
"Yeah that wouldn't make sense. Robots don't even have stomach.", Ciaran muttered.
"Where are you guys?", Yang asked, as right on cue, behind them, Avaro, Blake and Sun are running through the street with the Paladin hot on their heels.
"HURRYYYY!", Sun shouted in the distance.
"I think that was them.", Neptune said.
"Yeah, I got it.", Yang said, the three getting to the bikes, Neptune seating behind Yang. They quickly circles her ride around, much to Neptune's alarm, and drives off to follow them.
Avaro, Blake and Sun somehow make it to the highways, jumping down into the busy street and continuing their escape by hopping on cars while the Paladin follows them by pushing vehicles out of the way. Sun pauses to look at their pursuer's path of destruction and offer a quick, "Whoa!", before leaping onto more cars, much to the anger of Roman inside the robot.
Ciaran, Yang and Neptune are able to follow the mech suit on their ride, coming up next to it as it runs.
"We have gotta slow it down!", Yang shouted.
"Got it!... Which Semblance had a copied again?", Ciaran muttered.
Neptune reaches for his gun, but Roman notices the trio on his sensors and crashes into a multitude of cars with the Paladin's strong bulk, sending them flying towards his chasers.
"Keep driving!", Ciaran shouted, holding up his hand using his Semblance to throw the incoming cars to the side. Catching one and throwing one back to Roman, sending the Paladin crashing into the ground, "Huh, I guess I still have Gabriel's Semblance..."
Neptune unslings his weapon, aims as sparks start flying, and fires several bolts of blue electricity at the Paladin.
Switching strategies, Neptune flips the gun and it grows a shaft and an energy blade at the end, then jumps from Yang's bike as the spear's head splits in three and drives it into the top of the Paladin.
Avaro, Sun and Blake pause in their car-hopping to look back.
"Neptune, hang on!", Neptune is trying his best, but the mech keeps bucking and threatens to make him fall. Closing his eyes, Sun smashes his palms together, and from the golden Aura around him, his Semblance creates two glowing outlines that copy their creator, leaping off and going back over the tops of vehicles to collide into the Paladin's front.
They explode into blinding light upon contact to let Sun leap forward with Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang held high, but Roman finally turns enough to send Neptune flying off and knocking into his leader, sending both of them off the highway.
Gabriel and Weiss jump over a highway, landing in the middle of the road, holding Myrtenaster at the approaching Roman. The robot continues to charge, but Gabriel held out his hands, countering with a telekinetic force, nearly bringing to robot to a stop as they began to struggle for control.
Weiss spins and plunges her blade into the ground, summoning a circle of ice across the pavement that causes the Paladin to slip and crash once Gabriel let it go, actually flying over the duo and falling off the ramp, landing further down before Ruby and Remus.
The Paladin stands back up, and the rest of Team RWBY and Team ARCG land behind the two.
"Well... The gang of misfits are all here.", Roman said, moving the robot slowly towards the girls.
"Freezer Burn!", Ruby shouted.
"Are we shouting random pairing names now!?", Ciaran shouted as Weiss performs her same ice-circle trick, but backs out of Yang's way when she jumps into the air and hits the epicenter with her Ember Celica, creating a wave of mist that surrounds Roman.
Immediately, the Paladin activates its laser sensors to make up for the lost sight, but almost immediately, two small white beam shot said sensor's, blinding it even further.
In frustration, a gun manages to fire at the area between Blake and Yang, but out from the blast comes Ruby and Ciaran, who slashes the metal with their weapons, causing it to falter.
"Yeah! Rose Knight!", Ciaran shouted, holding up Ruby's free hand.
"C-Ciaran, not now!", Ruby said with a slight blush, earning him a glare from Remus, before turning back to her team, "Monochrome!"
"Dragon Thief!", Ciaran said.
Avaro, Remus, Blake and Weiss charge forward, Remus and Weiss jumping unto the Palandin, each stabbing another sensor as Avaro and Blake attacked the legs.
Roman lifts the Paladin's foot to crush Blake, but Avaro activates his boots, dashing him forward, pulling her away before the crushing blow can land. Roman growls and fires off the missiles, but Avaro continued to dash backwards as the explosions merely hit where they were.
Finally, Weiss jumps up too high, and Roman fires a double energy blast at her. Myrtenaster absorbs the damage, but Weiss is thrown back as Roman follows it up with another energy blast.
But before it could hit, Ciaran and Gabriel ripped two columns from the high way and throwing it in front of the blast, intercepting it.
Using the debris from the destroyed columns, Avaro scaled them to catch up to Weiss, catching the girl before flipping backwards and landing next to Gabriel.
"How did you do that?", Gabriel said surprised as his teammate sat Weiss down.
"I am rich. The laws of physics don't apply to me.", Avaro said simply.
"Yeah, I never said you could go Snow Dragon or Animal Pack.", Ciaran shouted as he slices through each launched missile with ease in a flurry of slashes, "Come on, you fight like your drunk! Black Ocean!"
"Ladybug!", Ruby shouted as she, Gabriel and Blake joined the fray.
The four dash forward and attack at the same time, circling each other around the Paladin with each strike until they launch themselves into the air and come down together on the shoulder, cutting off the left arm entirely.
"You shouldn't be boasting so much.", Ruby told the white haired young man.
"Oh, come on, it's Roman Torchwick! What's the worst he can do?", Ciaran said, with a cocky grin.
Yang doesn't waste a second, jumping onto the Paladin's back and punching the top with fiery shotgun blasts.
The Paladin runs backwards through two columns and leaves her embedded in a third before backing away and turning towards her. Just as she is falling down, the remaining arm extends a closed fist, and when it punches her, she flies through the column and doesn't get up.
"Oh, that is the worst he can do...", Ciaran said slowly, as his black flaming Aura began to surround his entire body
"Don't worry! With each hit she gets stronger, and she uses that energy to fight back! That's what makes her special!", Ruby said.
"Good to know...", Ciaran said in a low growl tone, a black Aura surrounding him, drawing his blade slowly walking towards the Paladin.
Sensing victory, Roman throws a punch, but inches in front of Ciaran, the entire Paladin was thrown backwards, the ground under Ciaran cracking by the sheer pressure of his power.
Extending his hand, the Paladin was lifted in the air and began to cave in when he applied pressure.
Yang slowly gets back on her feet, as she sees what Ciaran is doing.
Getting desperate with robot, Roman immediately activates its missile barrage, but to his horror, some invisible force held them back, causing them to explode from within.
Out of the fiery wrackages that was once the Paladin, was Roman, his clothes blacken and some burn wound over his body.
"I just got this thing cleaned...", Roman said, slightly dazed but unharmed.
Looking up, he saw Ciaran looking over him, "I have one request, elder Torchwick.", the white haired young man said, "Die."
"That doesn't sound like a request...", Roman began but when Ciaran raised his sword only to bring it down above his head, the thief slightly flinched.
But he's saved at the last instant when Remus shot his team leader in his upper arm, just in time as Neo drops in front of him and merely opens her pink umbrella, intending to use it to intercept the attack but was nos slightly splattered with Ciaran's blood.
"Neo, get us out of here!", Roman said, but Yang will have none of it, charging forth with fists raised to strike the outlaws only to break their image as if made out of a mirror and turn just in time to see them escape in a Bullhead.
The rest of team RWBY and team ARCG runs up to Yang's side, who was looking over Ciaran's wound as she cooled down with the end of the fight.
"Ciaran, I am sorry...", Remus said slowly, but he was shut up when Yang's hair burned white, her lilac eyes red as she punched Remus straight in the jaw, sending him to the ground.
"You dirty little...", Yang said, reaching out and intending to grab him by the front of his shirt, but was held back by Ruby and Gabriel, "Let me go! I have to fuck up his face."
The busty blonde only calmed down when she felt Ciaran's hand on her shoulder, "Yang, it's fine..."
"No, it's not! He just took a shot at you!", she protested.
"I know...", Ciaran said gently, dark red spot leaking on his black coat, as the group turned to look at Remus, who looked ashamed to the ground.
"If you think I am going to apologize for saving by brother from your alcohol induced madness then...", Remus began but stopped when it was Avaro this time who grabbed his him by the collar and lifted him up.
"Speaking of your waste of a brother. Mind telling me how he got his hands on one of my robots?", Avaro nearly growled.
"I-I have no idea.", Remus said, but the look on the wolf Faunus showed he didn't believe him as he dropped him back on the floor as the group began to walk away.
"Oh, and by the way, Ciaran, your hair is more white than silver.", Yang pointed out, as Ruby went over to help Remus back to his feet.
At this, his red eyes grew wide, "Whaaaaa!?", he said, before mumbling incoherent nonsense.
"Rose! Xiao Long! Torchwick! Gabriel! Will you pay attention?", Professor Goodwitch's irritated voice cracked like a whip through combat class on Monday, and Ruby, Yang, Remus and Gabriel jumped and looked up.
It was the end of the lesson, they had finished their work, they had copied down their homework from the blackboard. The bell was due to ring at any moment, Ruby, Yang, Remus and Gabriel had been having a sword fight with a couple of pencils at the back of the class while Ciaran was taking a nap, sitting next to Avaro, Weiss and Blake, who continued to try to pay attention.
Ciaran was awoken by Gabriel poking his ribs, "Pancakes!", he shouted suddenly much to the amusement of the class.
"That's my line!", Nora shouted offended.
"Now that you have been kind enough to act their age." Professor Goodwitch said, with an angry look at the group of students, "I have something to say to you all."
"The dance is this weekend. An opportunity for us to socialize with our foreign guests. Formal wear will be worn, and the ball will start at eight o'clock, finishing at midnight. Now then..." Professor Goodwitch stared deliberately around the class, "The dance is of course a chance for us all to, er, let our hair down. But that does NOT mean, that we will be relaxing the standards of behavior we expect from Beacon students."
The bell rang, and there was the usual scuffle of activity as everyone went to leave the classroom.
As team RWBY and ARCG leave, Remus walks next to Ruby, "Learning is so much fun...", he said sarcastically, much to her amusement.
"I know right, Remus Torchwick."
Turning around, they saw that it was Cinder and her two teammates, Mercury and Emerald.
At this the ginger haired young man smiled, as he and the grey haired young man fist bumped, "Well look what the cat dragged in!", Remus said.
"Well, Cinder wished to participate in the tournament. Can't actually go against the boss.", Emerald explained, "Anyway, we need to go but let's meet up later. Alright, Remus?"
"Sure. But will it be like last time with Neo?", Remus said with a smirk, as Emerald's dark cheeks lighten up.
"Y-You promised to never talk about that!", Emerald managed to get out.
"I did. If we could do it again.", he pointed out as Mercury gave a curios look.
The group continued to walk until they reached the entrance to the courtyard. By the fountain they saw Ciaran and Cinder talking, the white haired young man looking down to the ground as he talked.
They couldn't hear what they were talking about, but it was then that Sun came walking over to them. "Hey, Blake!", Sun said as he came running up to them, "You uh, doing okay?"
"I'm fine.", Blake said quite irritated, as she shuts the book she is reading.
"So I hear that there's this dance going on this weekend. And it sounds pretty lame, but you and me, I'm thinking, not as lame, huh?", Sun continued, a little embarrassed, but Blake didn't get what he was getting at.
"He is asking you to the dance, idiot.", Gabriel simply told her.
"I don't have time for a stupid dance.", Blake told them and walks away past her team, nearly bumping into Ciaran, who had his hands deep in his pockets as he stared at the ground, as Sun sinks from his rejection.
"Ciaran, is something wrong?", Weiss asked.
"Oh, I am fine... I just broke up with Cinder...", he muttered, much to Emerald and Mercury's shock and the others surprise.
"We need to get going. Speak to you later, Remus!", Mercury said as he and his teammate quickly went in the direction Cinder went.
"So where do you know them from?", Ruby asked, a little suspicious.
"Old friends.", Remus simply said, as he remembered the fun night between himself, Neo and Emerald.
A little while later as team RWBY and team ARCG arrived at the RWBY dorm room, Blake is sitting next to the window with her arms crossed.
"Blake? We want you to go to the dance.", Ruby said but Blake write it off as ridiculous, "Blake, we're worried about you. This investigation is starting to mess with your head."
"You can't sleep, you hardly eat, and to be honest, your grades have been suffering.", Gabriel said tentatively.
Quite suddenly the Faunus stood up and walked up to the brunette, "You think I care about grades?", Blake asked, then gestures out the window, "People's lives are at stake!"
"We know, and we are also trying to figure out what Torchwick is up to... and I mean Roman not Remus.", Ciaran quickly said, "But you can't fight back when you can't even keep your eyes open."
"We know that they're operating somewhere outside of southeast Vale.", Yang said as they pointed out what they did know.
"And, the Schnee company records singled out Vale as the primary target for Dust robberies over the last few months.", Weiss added.
"Don't forget about their missing military tech too.", Remus pointed out.
"But there's still unanswered questions!", Blake protested.
"We know.", Ciaran said, getting what is friend was coming from, "All we're asking is that you take it easy for one day. Then your recharged and ready kick ass and take names."
"It will be fun! Yang and I will make sure of it.", Weiss said with a smile.
And Yang chipped in, "Yeah! We're planning the whole event!", pumps her fists which causes the bed to bounce, "Team CFVY's away mission lasted quite longer than expected."
"So, Yang and I decided to pick up where they left off. And now we can make sure you can have the perfect night. And once it's all over, we'll return for our search, rested and ready.", Weiss said.
"I think this is a colossal waste of time.", Blake said as she walks away from the group.
"I say we let the emo wallow in her self pity.", Avaro said coldly, making his fellow Faunus stop in her tracks.
"What did you say?", Blake said.
"You heard me.", Avaro simply told her, "You should slow down or you will burn yourself out. Not that I care."
"We all know you care only about one thing.", Blake said, as she crossed her arms, "I don't have the luxury to slow down. I have to stop Torchwick. I'm the only one who can do this!"
"Oh yes, what is a little Faunus girl going to do against him?", Avaro said, staring down at Blake with his cold eyes.
"Whoa, Whoa. Calm down you two.", Ciaran said, getting between them, "We're going to find the answers your looking for, Blake. But if you destroy yourself in the process, what good are are you? Just please, get some rest. Not just for you, but for the people you care about."
The words seemed to sink in, but it was then that Blake turned around and opens the dorm room, "You are a heartless hypocritical jerkass, Avaro Drayce. I'll be in the library.", then she walked out of the room.
"She can't keep going on like this.", Gabriel said worried.
Their thoughts were interrupted when they heard a loud knock on the door. Weiss approaches and opens it, and when she did it revealing Jaune with a guitar in hand, "Weiss!", the blonde said with his sing voice, but Weiss slams the door in his face, "Oh, come on, open the door! I promise not to sing.", his voice said through the door.
Weiss let out a sigh before she opens the door, "I lied!", Jaune sang as he continued to play on his guitar, "Weiss Schu-nee, will you accompany me, to the dance on... Sunday!"
Letting out a growl, Avaro walked over taking the guitar from Jaune's hand, and with a tight grip on the neck, he began to slam it against the ground, and with three hits it was laying pieces on the ground.
"M-My guitar...", Jaune said.
Avaro threw a stack of Lien bills at Jaune's head before closing the door. Turning around, the rest were looking at the two.
"What?", both Weiss and Avaro said at the same time.
"And that is why they call you the Ice Queen.", Yang said to Weiss.
"All my life, boys have only cared about the perks of my last name.", Weiss explained, crossing her arms.
"Date or no date, none of this will matter if we can't get Blake to go.", Ruby said.
"I gave him money for compensation. IT was much more than the worth of that guitar.", Avaro said.
"Not everything can be solved by spending money.", Remus said.
"That's bull crap!", Avaro shouted.
Girls giggling and whispering in the halls, girls shrieking with laughter as boys passed them, girls excitedly comparing notes on what they were going to wear on Christmas night.
"The girls are acting sneaky.", Remus said as he was hanging out with the rest of team ARCG, at just a random spot.
"They spy to overhear what the boys discuss in secret as they walking off to class, cause they really need to know which girl they plan to ask.", Ciaran added, sitting on the lower wall.
"Why do they have to move in packs?", Gabriel muttered as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Ciaran and Avaro, "How are you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?"
"Lasso one?" Remus suggested.
"Got any idea who you are going to try?", Avaro asked turned to his friends, but none of them gave an answer.
Remus knew perfectly well whom he'd like to ask, but he wasn't used to showing his emotions, he also didn't want to get in a fight with Gabriel.
Avaro seemed to know what was going on inside Remus's head, "Just go ask her, I bet she is just waiting for you to ask her.", he said, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.
"And which girl do you have in mind for the dance?", Ciaran asked to his black haired Faunus friend.
"I have a particular feisty girl in mind.", Avaro said with a confident smirk, "What about you, Ci? Are you going to ask Yang?"
"You bet your sweet wolf ass I am, Av!", Ciaran said with a smirk, "Though there were a lot of girls following me around this morning..." sounding rather puzzled.
"Since when do you to call each other Ci and Av?", Gabriel pondered.
"I don't know, Ga!", Ciaran said.
"Okay... I bet the girls are going to be standing in line to go with you guys.", Remus said, directing it at Ciaran and Avaro, "So who are you going to ask Gabriel?"
Gabriel blushed furiously, mumbling something very quickly that they couldn't hear. "Just tell us.", Ciaran said.
"Well... I was thinking about Blake...", Gabriel whispered, much to his friends surprise.
"Blake? Why?", Remus asked.
"Well we have a lot in common... We both love reading, we both have pretty dark hair, we are both good looking, we are both quite...", Gabriel explained.
"Are you going to ask her?", Ciaran asked, but his brown haired friend shrugged.
"I don't know, what if she doesn't want to go with me?", he asked them looking nervous.
"Just ask her. Maybe she will act less emo after a good pounding.", Avaro said, with a roll of his eyes.
There ya go, another chapter, hope you enjoyed it. Many thanks to everyone who reads, reviews, favorite or follows this story, you beautiful bastards!
For now I wish you all a fantastic day and I hope to see all you ladies and gents next time.