Alex walked with RNJR, Qrow, Frost, Velvet and Marty through a dimly lit tunnel. Qrow insisted on taking the kids on the 'scenic route'. Qrow walked ahead of everyone, while RNJR chatted amongst themselves. Alex walked with his hands in his pockets.
Velvet walked up next to him. She smiled and waved. Alex grunted in response.
"How have you been?" She asked.
"Well besides all the people who tried to kill me, I've been good," Alex looked down.
"Are you okay?" Velvet looked concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Alex looked back up.
"Are you sure? If you need someone to talk to I'm always here," Velvet's ears perked up.
"Zip it, we're here," Qrow called back.
Qrow approached a large set of doors. He pushed the doors and threw them open. Sunlight flooded in and the group walked out. They looked around and were in awe by what they saw.
In front of the group was a beautiful mountain, it was covered in houses and markets.
"Wow, it's amazing," Marty said.
"They really made use out of these mountains," Jaune commented.
"Yes they did, vendors here will sell you just about anything, whether they should or not, just remember, the higher up you go the nicer it gets, stay away from the lower levels," Qrow started walking.
"Qrow, we'll meet up with you at Haven," Marty called.
Qrow turned around and saw Marty was taking Alex, Frost and Velvet away.
"Where are you going?" Qrow called back.
"To have a look around," Marty replied.
Qrow rolled his eyes, he turned back around and continued walking.
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Ryden opened the door to the hut. He walked in and walked up to the fire. He stuck his hand out, he held the Elder sword of the sun. His hand was engulfed in white fire as he relit the fire. Midnight and Canary were both sitting down
Midnight looked at him in awe. Canary looked scared. Ryden turned around to face Midnight.
"Good job, I have the location of the Spring Maiden," Midnight stood up.
"Where?" Ryden cocked his eyebrow.
"With Raven Branwen," Midnight's voice was solemn.
"What!" Ryden was taken back by Midnight's answer.
"We're coming with you, that way you can fight Spring and Canary and I will take care of Raven and her bandits," Midnight walked over to Ryden and placed his hand on Ryden's shoulder.
"Alright, when do we leave?" Ryden asked.
"Now, my Sun Elder," Midnight took his hand off Ryden's shoulder and walked away.
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The moon was rising over Pat's campsite. Pat laid in a coffee brown sleeping bag. His navy blue eyes slowly opened. The man slowly sat up and gazed around his campsite. He saw fireballs racing toward him. Pat jumped out of his sleeping bag and grabbed his weapons, he drew Carbon Jäger.
Pat pointed his sword at the origin of the fireballs. He unloaded his gun. The bullets tore through the leaves and bushes. He waited a moment, before lowering his weapon.
Mercury jumped from the trees to his left and high kicked Pat, sending him back. Pat recovered and landed on the ground. He looked up and blitzed toward Mercury. Pat felt a chain wrap around his chest and suddenly he was pulled back. Pat collided with a tree, he looked up and saw Emerald walking out of the bushes. Pat glared at her, Emerald smirked back. He blitzed toward her and slashed at her face, but he was sent flying to his left when a fireball connected with his right side.
Pat slid across the ground and came to a stop, at the edge of the cliff. He struggled to his feet and looked to the origin of the attack. Cinder Fall strolled toward him. He gripped his katana and prepared for another attack. Mercury went to attack, but Cinder put her hand up and stopped him.
"Mercury, I think I can take him, especially with these new powers," She grinned at Pat.
"You became a Maiden?" Pat was shocked.
"Very observant, Yes I did, does that make you scared?" Her grin grew.
"No, it makes me feel this fight will still be easy," Pat smirked, Cinder's grin faded.
"If you're so cocky, why don't you attack?" She asked.
"Done," Pat blitzed around Cinder and appeared behind her.
Pat swung at her back. Cinder summoned a blade and spun around. She caught his blade and smirked at Pat. Pat glared at her. Cinder pushed Pat back and hit him with another fireball. Pat flew back and swung around a tree, stopping himself.
Pat grinned and charged Cinder. He slashed at her chest, Cinder ducked and smashed her hilt into his chest. Pat stumbled forward and Cinder brought her hilt down on his back, sending him to the ground. Pat laid there clutching his stomach.
Pat slowly started to get up, but Cinder placed her foot on his back and pushed him to the ground. She smirked and kicked him in the ribs, she kicked him again in the ribs. Pat let out of scream of pain. Cinder kicked again, even harder. Pat coughed up blood.
Cinder knelt down next to Pat and began whispering into his ear.
"Let me show you true power before you die, again," She activated her Maiden abilities and her eyes were set ablaze.
Pat looked up and grinned at the sight.
"Don't act tough," She glared down at Pat.
"Go to hell," Pat weakly said.
Cinder kicked him again. She turned to Emerald and Mercury and called them over. Mercury grabbed on off Pat's arms, Emerald grabbed the other and together they lifted him to his knees. They held him there as Cinder prepared an arrow. Cinder summoned her bow and summoned an arrow. She grinned and drew the bow.
"This is similar to how I killed your one friend, what was her name? Oh yeah Pyrrha, the untouchable girl," Cinder smiled.
Pat weakly began laughing. Pat began to smirk. Cinder's smile quickly faded.
"I told you not to act tough," She barked.
"I'm not acting," Pat looked up at the woman, his smirk was growing.
"I killed your friend," Cinder taunted.
"I know, that's all I needed to hear," Pat put one foot forward and began to stand.
He sent lightning down his arms and sent Mercury and Emerald flying away. Cinder, in a panic shot the arrow. Pat blitzed his hand up and caught it, inches away from his chest.
Pat broke the arrow into two and it shattered. He drew Thundercloud. Cinder watched as lightning covered his body and storm clouds formed in the sky above him. Pat raised the sword into the air and lightning flew down and struck it. Pat had blue lightning blitzing around his body, it cloaked him. Suddenly it all left, the lightning and the clouds.
Cinder began to smirk again.
"That was an impressing show, but that's all it was, a show, I'm suppose to be scared of a parlor trick?" She rolled her eye.
"No, you should be scared of the untamed power of a goddess," Pat blitzed behind Cinder and struck her back.
Cinder flew forward toward the cliff and Pat blitzed in front of her and knocked her the other way. Pat blitzed back the other way and knocked her into the air. He blitzed into the air and knocked her to the ground. Pat blitzed down and caught her by the collar.
Cinder weakly looked at Pat's cocky face. He stabbed the sword into the ground and threw her off the cliff. Pat wiped his hands off on his pants and grabbed his sword. He turned to meet Mercury and Emerald, both had a look of pure fear on their faces. The fear slowly slipped away and was replaced by shock, then they grinned at Pat.
Pat turned around to see Cinder was floating above the cliff. Pat shrugged and threw a lightning bolt at her. Cinder dodged it. Cinder torched the spot Pat was standing at. The ground Pat was standing at was set ablaze. Cinder smirked and was relieved that she had killed him.
Once the fire and smoke had cleared, Cinder's face displayed her rage. Pat was knelt down with Thundercloud stabbed into the ground, he had a lightning dome covering him. He took Thundercloud out of the ground and gazed up at Cinder, his cocky face enraged the Maiden.
Pat blitzed into the air and struck her to the ground. Cinder skipped across the ground, before sliding to a stop. Cinder got to her knees and glared at Pat, she was panting heavily.
Pat prepared to finish the fight with a lightning bolt, but a tall man with a well groomed mustache walked out of the trees. He looked over at Cinder and rolled his eyes.
"Cinder dear, we had orders to recruit the boy, not kill him," The man scolded Cinder.
Pat looked at the man with a confused expression.
"My sincerest apologies, I'm Arthur Watts, pleasure to meet with you, mister?" Watts asked.
"Brewner, Pat Brewner," Pat growled back.
"Making sure we have the right man, I'm here to offer you a chance of a lifetime," Pat noticed Watts had a very refined accent.
"Which is?" Pat deactivated his aura and sheathed his blade.
"My master wishes to meet with you," Watts smirked.
Pat looked uninterested, which made Watts uneasy.
"No," Pat bluntly said.
"You are making a mistake," Watts said.
"Well maybe, but it's my decision to make, you see unlike you I can still make those," Pat grinned.
"Why you little," Watts stopped himself before he said anything to rash.
Cinder looked over to Mercury and Emerald, she caught their eye. She nodded at the them and mouthed the words 'do it'.
Suddenly Mercury and Emerald opened fire on Pat. Pat didn't expect this and a bullet entered his side. Pat formed a lightning shield and blocked the bullets. Cinder shot a massive fireball at Pat, knocking him off the cliff. Pat's body hurtled to the water down below.
Cinder approached the cliff and fired at the edges, causing massive chunks of rock to fall into the river. One of the chunks pinned Pat's leg to the bottom of the river. Pat struggled to pick up the chunk. He used all his strength and threw the chunk off and quickly moved his leg away. He swam away as chunks of earth fell next to him.
Pat let the rushing river guide him. He summoned a bolt of lightning from the skies. The bolt flew down and struck Cinder, sending her flying back. Pat resurfaced and blitzed up the wall of cliff. He reached the top and was gasping for air. His clothes were soaked and water dripped off his body.
Pat stood up and glared over at Cinder and Watts.
"That was a dirty trick," Pat called.
Cinder stood up and gave Pat a look of rage.
"Cinder, what are you doing," Watts asked.
"You heard him, he said no," Cinder summoned a sword.
"What part of 'convince the boy at all costs' do you not understand," Watts questioned.
Cinder didn't answer, instead she launched at Pat. She swung at his chest, Pat blocked the attack. Their blades clashed and the shock wave shook the forest. Pat pushed his blade against Cinder's. He met her eye and grinned as he forced her down. She summoned a blade to her other arm and swung at Pat.
Pat pushed her back and ducked. He looked at Cinder and saw her arm was part grimm. He began laughing.
"You think laughing will make you look tough?" Cinder sneered.
"No, I think it's funny Ruby did more damage than I'm about to do," He smirked back at Cinder.
Cinder was enraged and charged Pat again. Pat sidestepped and lightning punched Cinder in the back, she let a scream of pain and flew forward. Cinder crashed through a tree and landed in the forest. She struggled to her feet. Pat blitzed after her, he was slowly leading her away from her allies.
Pat swung underhand at her left side. Cinder's left sword came down and blocked the attack, she used her other sword to slash at Pat's head. Pat stepped back and high kicked Cinder. She stumbled back and Pat stabbed at her face.
She barely dodged the attack and Pat's blade chipped her black mask, which covered her left eye. Cinder rolled to her right. Pat didn't waste anytime and quickly slashed at her. Pat's blade slammed into her chest and sent her flying toward the cliff.
Cinder flew over the cliff and landed on the other side. Pat walked out of the trees and to the cliff's edge. Mercury and Emerald raced over and opened fire on the young Sky Elder. Pat easily blocked every bullet, as this time he had his sword drawn.
Pat threw a bolt at the two, both fighters jumped out of the way. Pat blitzed over the cliff and landed on the other side. Emerald frantically stood up and fired without aiming. None of the bullets came close to their target. Pat raised his hand and shot a bolt of lightning. It struck Emerald, incapacitating her.
Pat turned his attention to Cinder, who was flying toward him. Pat shot lightning at her, Cinder flew into the air. She smirked down at him.
"I'm safe in the air," She gloated.
"Hey did Ruby knock out some brain cells when she took your eye?" Pat smirked.
"What?" Cinder asked.
"Well you seem to have forgotten what I'm the Elder of," Pat raised his hands.
Lightning surrounded Pat and his feet slowly left the ground. He picked up speed and began ascending to Cinder's level. Pat flew to the altitude she was at and grinned at her. Cinder shot fireballs at Pat. The Sky Elder flew past them and with lightning fast speed struck Cinder from the sky.
Cinder hurtled to the ground. Pat blitzed down to her and knocked her while she was still falling, causing her to fall faster. Pat blitzed down to her again and allowed himself to fall. He matched speed and slammed his blade into her stomach. He blitzed down to the ground, carrying Cinder with him.
He slammed Cinder into the earth. Cinder caused a crater. Pat leapt out of the crater and looked down into it. A cloud of dirt and dust clouded Pat's vision. Suddenly a grimm arm shot out and slammed into Pat's chest, it carried him backwards and slammed Pat into a tree.
"This isn't good, time for plan B," Watts examined the fight from a distance.
Pat was being pushed into the tree by the grimm arm, which had it's fingers wrapped around his arms. Pat had dropped his sword and was slowly losing his Elder powers. Pat heard the tree crack, suddenly the tree shattered and Pat flew through it.
Pat formed lightning arm blades on his forearms and cut the fingers off the grimm arm. He fell to the ground and the arm returned to it's master. Pat blitzed to Thundercloud. He grabbed it and blitzed back to the cliff.
Pat approached the cliff, but balls of fire raced toward him. Pat slid under one and leapt over the other, the third he blocked with a lightning shield. Pat threw a bolt in response to Cinder's attack. He blitzed to the cliff.
Cinder met him there. She held her two fire swords. Pat gripped Thundercloud. The two entities glared at each other.
"This ends here and now, I'm going to obliterate you," Cinder called.
Pat just rolled his eyes. Cinder was steaming with rage. She charged him and attempted to run him through. Pat knocked her blade out of the way and roundhouse kicked Cinder to the ground. Pat placed his foot on her chest, pinning her.
Her eye pleaded with his for mercy, Pat didn't show any. Both fighters were panting and held injuries. Pat held his side, trying to clot the wound. Pat twirled his sword over his head until it was pointed downwards. He held it above Cinder and brought it down.
Pat was knocked back by a spear of stone. The spear dug into Pat's shoulder, his red aura shimmered across his body, trying to protect him. Pat looked up and saw a big guy carrying a large ebony black warhammer.
"Rook?" Pat quietly asked.
"Brewner?" Rook's tone was surprised.
"Rook!" Pat said with delight and ran over to meet his friend.
"Pat!" Rook bear hugged Pat.
"It's been too long," Pat broke the hug.
"Yes, my old friend it has," Rook gazed at Pat.
"Rook!" Pat recognize that voice.
Suddenly a blade of wind flew towards them. Both fighters jumped back and looked over to the origin of the attack. Autumn walked toward them, her Elder blade was drawn. She walked over and stood next to Rook. Autumn glared at Pat.
"We are supposed to be capturing him, not hugging," She scolded Rook.
"Hey you can't blame him, not everyone is a cold heartless blood sucking vampire like you," Pat smirked.
"Shut it, traitor," She snarled.
"How about you shut your legs when Timo's around?" Pat slyly said.
She launched another blade of air.
"I wouldn't talk so big, you are tired and you haven't used your elder powers in over a year, while we have been practicing," She stated.
Pat knew she was right, he used all of his energy in his fight with Cinder and he was also wounded, taking on two skilled Elder Guardians would be impossible.
"Just come quietly Pat, Timo doesn't know you're alive and Salem just wants to talk," Rook pleaded.
"Sorry Rook, we may have been friends, but I wouldn't invite trouble on myself just cause a friend asked me to," Pat sheathed his blade.
"I know, that's what makes this hard," Rook waved his hands and Pat was engulfed in a rock cube.
Pat looked around the cube, but he couldn't see anything. Rook walked over to the cube.
"You won't be getting out of that, it's walls are 6 feet wide and made of granite," Rook called.
Rook expected a wise crack from inside, but he was taken back when he heard nothing.
"Pat?" He called.
Rook waved open one of the walls.
"Autumn, I think he broke out," Rook called.
"Impossible, check the inside," Autumn ordered.
"He isn't responding and I don't see him," Rook got closer to the cube to get a better look.
Rook saw a blue light and was thrown back. Pat blitzed out.
"Oh gee, good thing you're not the brightest Rook," Pat continued holding his side.
"You weasel," Autumn called.
"I could call you much worse," Pat replied.
"Rook trap him again," Autumn commanded.
Pat saw the earth around him started to transform. He leapt away and landed next to Cinder. Pat looked down and smiled at her. She glared back at him.
"Well, Ladies. Gentlemen, Autumn, it's been fun, but I must go," Pat blitzed away.
Autumn cussed Pat out and Rook sat down.
"Rook, we had the one shot and you blew it," She began pacing back and forth.
"Sorry," Rook rubbed the back of his neck.
Pat raced away and didn't stop until he felt like he was a good distance that the others wouldn't find him. He collapsed at a fork in a road with a sign. Pat looked up and read a town left of where he was named Kuroyuri.
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Sorry that this chapter was just one giant fight. I got carried away writing it and really took off with the whole Cinder and Pat fight. I had a great time writing this chapter, but Pat won't be in the next one as I feel I over used him in this one.