Upon lying my eyes on this beast of a man, I could tell only one thing about him: He was carrying a heavy burden. Sivir and I weren't that far away from him, in fact, I could make out facial features. He appeared to be heavily breathing, as his mouth was wide open and his chest was rapidly rising and lowering, each heavy breath allowing the escape of an exhausted sounding snarl. He had a mixed look of anger and violence resting in his brown bloodshot eyes. His clothes were shredded and stained with a red substance ... as was his horn.
He appeared to be armed with nothing more than the rather large handgun that was gripped in his lone arm.
I know knew, without a doubt, that this was the man the left this town in smoking ruins. He somehow managed to, seemingly, single handedly destroy this town. And while his reasons my were unknown, I still had a good feeling about this one.
"What is this! More Huntsmen come to try to stop Rhino!?" He yelled out, his speech very broken and incorrect, yet loud and powerful. "Well Huntsmen do not work against Rhino! They have tried, but they cannot beat me!" He boasted, gesturing over to a charred, lifeless body that must have been the protector of this town.
Sivir lightly glanced over at me. "What do you plan on doing about this one?" She questioned.
"Hmm ... I say we entertain him for a bit. See what we can learn." I responded as I checked to make sure Life Bender was loaded.
"You sure about this? I've never even seen a rhino faunus before, let alone fought one. I'm not exactly sure what were up against here." She said, a hint of doubt in her voice.
"Exactly the reason I have for wanting to see how he fights." I grinned.
"Why does huntsmen wait so long! Rhino want a fight now!" He exploded, taking a heavy step towards us.
Our heads turned to face him once more.
"Alright then. You want a fight, I suppose we don't exactly have a-" I was cut off by a greeting of buckshot. "Ah ... so that's how it's gonna be!"
Just like that Sivir and I went in our separate directions so we could engage the enraged faunus from different angles.
The rhino charged towards me with heavy footsteps that sounded as if he was wearing iron-clad boots. I allowed him to close the gap as I positioned myself to prepare for a counter attack. However, I seemed to have more time than I thought, as he didn't approach me with the speed I was expecting. Instead, his charge seemed to have more of a force behind it rather than speed. This gave me far more time to prepare as the yelling faunus grew closer.
Once he was withing touching distance, I quickly side stepped the brute right before he would have been able to make contact. Now that I had the drop on him, I attempted to use his momentum against him by trying to take his legs out from under him with the axe end of Life Bender. However, the attempt was quickly put to rest as the blade simply bounced off of his shins.
I was confused at first, but then it quickly hit me that he was very obviously wearing very thick metal armor underneath of his large, baggy clothes.
He let out a bellowed chuckle as he turned to face me, his size alone allowing him to tower over me.
"Ha! Your weapon cannot harm-" He was interrupted by a flurry of knifes striking his back.
This attack from Sivir caused the faunus's aura to flash with a dark green energy. Judging from the brief look I got at his aura, it appeared is if his was extremely strong. This was rather impressive considering that his aura was still at this level of strength even though he had spent his past few hours single handedly plundering this town. In fact, it seemed as if this attack didn't even harm him, however it definitely got his attention as he turned to face the direction the blades came from.
"Try harder puny huntsman!" He laughed as he repeatedly took heavy strikes from Sivir's blades without a single reaction.
He must not have been very intelligent, is it seemed as if he had already completely forgotten that I was here as well. I took this chance and crept up behind him, landing a swift attack to his back with the axe end of my weapon. He slightly bounced forward, then turned to face me with anger in his eyes.
"Huntsmen attacks are weak!" He screamed as he attempted to fire at me with his hand held shotgun.
However, my speed was to fast for him to properly hit. The only damage I took was the occasional pellet or two from the buckshot bouncing off of my aura.
"Sivir! Come join me by my side!" I yelled out.
"Understood sir!" She rapidly responded, dodging a powerful punching attack from the faunus in the process.
"You talk to much! Shut up and fight Rhino!" He complained.
Once Sivir was by my side, we then ran off to take cover behind a large jersey barrier. I then began to think of a plan.
"Come out from hiding and fight Rhino face to face!" He yelled as he pelted the barrier with round after round. I could tell he was slowly making his way towards by the sounds of his heavy footsteps.
"Okay, I know I didn't want him harmed, but I have a feeling that this guy is going to be perfectly fine if we use excessive force." I said.
"So what exactly are you telling me to do?" She questioned.
"I think you know exactly what." I smirked as I placed a full cylinder of explosive tipped rounds into Life Bender.
Sivir then just responded with a simple nod. She then vaulted over the barrier and pulled out her special throwing knives. I peeked the corner of the barrier and took aim at the faunus, but held my fire so I could witness the damage Sivir's attack did.
I watched as Sivir dodged the faunus's attacks until she had a clear shot. It wasn't long until she let once of the blades fly. Just like I had witnessed earlier, the blade began glowing with a dark purple energy as Sivir charged it with her Semblance. This was the same devastating attack she used on the Grimm not to long ago, and I knew all to well that if it could bring down a Grimm at full health in a single hit, then this would at least severely harm this mere faunus.
But was I wrong.
I watched as the faunus quickly nabbed the knife out of the air. He grabbed it directly by the blade, the immense weight of the knife pulling him downwards ... but not knocking him down. With Sivir's still charged blade in hand, the faunus turned and laughed as he violently threw the blade back at Sivir. She quickly reversed the weight of the blade and let it fall to the ground almost like that of a feather.
Judging by my thoughts and the look on Sivir's face, we were both in shock that this had just occurred. However, I know had one final idea in mind ... and if it didn't work ... then I was going to have to take extreme measures.
"Huntsmen are weak! Huntsmen cannot hurt rhino!" He boasted as he fired off more shotgun rounds at Sivir.
However, this time he managed to land a few shots on her, and I could tell that her aura was getting low. I needed to step in and quick. However, before I could manage to get a good shot on him, he took a sprinting, horn first charge at Sivir. His speed was quicker than before. It seemed as if he was giving this attack his all. I wasn't able to get the shot, so he landed a very heavy hitting strike on Sivir. This stunned her ... her aura was almost depleted. I stood up from the Jersey barrier and took aim. However, as I went to pull the trigger, he turned his head and made direct eye contact with me. His eyes then flashed, turning from a dark brown to a demonic blood red.
I was then unable to move.
I could only watch, I was frozen in place like that of a statue. It seemed as if I could now only think, blink, and breath.
I wasn't sure what he did to me ... but I could only assume that it was simply his semblance.
It was as if he wanted me to witness what he was about to do.
He then trudged over to Sivir. She had to have been extremely low on aura, as she attempted to throw another knife at the tank of a man but was unable to get the same force into it as usual. Sivir attempted to turn and run off, but she was interrupted by a single round of buckshot hitting her directly in the spine. Her aura was not yet depleted ... but she only had a sliver left.
She fell to her knees as the shot made impact. She was unable to stand now ... and I was unable to save her from whatever was about to happen.
As the tower of a man approached Sivir, I could feel my sanity begin to slip away. I knew that it was only a matter of time before this would happen. My blood began to boil as the faunus grabbed Sivir by the throat and lifted her up to his demonic eyes. She struggled to escape, but his grasp was victorious as she fell unconscious within his hands. He then glanced over at me, let out a small smirk, and then reeled his head back.
He then headbutted Sivir directly with his horn. Her neck snapped back as her last sliver of aura exited her body with a purple flash. She was then thrown to the ground with a thud. Her forehead then began bleeding as she laid hopefully unconscious on the charred concrete.
It was then when I felt my sanity leave ... and my fingers twitch.
The faunus approached me with a sort of brutish swagger. I was still fairly frozen, but I could feel my muscles begin to slowly retake control as my blood grew in heat.
The faunus was now face to face with me. His blood red eyes rapidly blinking as he began to violently speak.
"You see! Puny huntsmen cannot harm the rhino! The rhino is stronger! He is always stronger! That is why rhino can beat huntsmen! Rhino always beats the huntsmen!" He began ranting on and on about how he could always win.
Little did he know that the longer he ranted, the looser my muscles began to get. So I allowed him to keep ranting ... I had a plan.
"Little man thinks he can beat Rhino!? Ha! Rhino will always be victorious!" He then struck me in the side with his iron fist. I wanted to react, but was still unable even though the pain was there.
"Rhino never loses!" He then struck me again, this time in the stomach.
This repeated several times. Each time the pain grew, but my muscles loosened. In fact, I could tell I was able to move now ... but I wasn't going to let him know that just yet. Instead, I just held my frozen stance until I saw a good opening.
And that opening came.
"I can sense your fear huntsmen." He then unsheathed his handheld shotgun and pointed it at my forehead. "So, does the huntsmen want to tell rhino his last words?"
I let out a small chuckle ... which rapidly evolved into my maniacal laughter.
The bad side of Cabron had officially taken over.
"What is so funny to huntsmen! Why is huntsmen no longer scared!" He yelled with massive amounts of anger.
"You see ..." I paused. "I'm not a huntsmen!"
With that said, I quickly pulled the trigger. The shot was point blank, impacting directly in the center of the faunus's stomach. He lightly heeled over with a loud grunt. I then lifted Life Bender into the air, pulling the trigger to fire a round into the air. I used the recoil to firmly plant the stock of the weapon into the back of the faunus's skull. He then fell to the ground, finally letting out a sound of pain.
I stood over him as he rolled over to face me. He attempted to point the gun at me again, but i quickly batted it away before he could get a shot off. I then pointed the barrel of Life Bender directly up against his horn.
"You have two fucking seconds to tell me who you are you arm-less freak of nature!" I yelled out, the insane side of Cabron still fresh and present.
However, I was surprised to not get a response.
"You better start talking damn soon before I end you right here!"
He looked at me with confusion ... and fear.
"H-How did you do this! How did you beat rhino?" He questioned, his eyes reverting back to there original brown color.
"I told you, I'm not a huntsmen." I snarled, applying more pressure to his horn with the barrel of my weapon.
"Then what are you?" He said.
Rather than answering him, I simply flashed the White Fang insignia that was hidden under my jacket. He had a brief look of disbelief at first, but it quickly turned into a look of relief.
"Now that you know who I am, I have heard enough questions from you! You tell me your purpose." I grinned, feeling my eye involuntarily twitch.
"I came to this village because they-"
"THAT IS NOT WHAT I ASKED!" I exploded with anger as I rammed the barrel into the side of his head.
"Rhino is confused! What are you asking rhino?" He stuttered.
The hunter had become the hunted. The slave had become the master. I knew I had him under control now, so my sanity slowly began to drift back.
"I want to know why you are here. Why are you on your planet ... what is your purpose?" I questioned.
There was a brief pause as the faunus tried to think, eventually giving me the best response someone of his ... intelligence could.
"Well ... Rhino's purpose is to fight. That is all Rhino know's how to do. Ever since Rhino was little, I had to fight. The kids would tease Rhino about his one arm. So Rhino would hurt the kids until they would stop teasing Rhino. Rhino has always had to fight. That is why Rhino came to this town. The town didn't want Rhino here, so I fought my way into the town. Now that there is nobody left in the town, Rhino is allowed in!" He explained.
"Is that really your purpose? Just to fight?" I asked.
"Yes. Rhino is a good fighter." He said. "But you are a better fighter ..." He trailed off.
"And what does that mean?"
"It means that Rhino respects you. It means that Rhino wants to fight with you!" He smiled.
"Is that so?" I began to ponder, but was then interrupted by the sounds of moaning and grunting off to my side. I glanced over and saw Sivir slowly attempting to rise to her feet, her hand placed firmly on her forehead. I glanced back down at the faunus.
"Don't you move a damn muscle!" I yelled as I got off of him to help Sivir, simply receiving a firm nod of confirmation.
I then ran over to Sivir to help her up, throwing Life Bender over my shoulder as I reached for her. I placed one hand on her back and grabbed her hand with the other.
"Easy Sivir ... How are you feeling?" I asked as she slowly rose to her feet, her large ears slumped backwards.
"Ugh ... The big bastard packs a punch." She moaned.
"How's your head?" I said as I wiped away the still fairly fresh blood from her forehead.
"I'll be okay. I can feel my aura heeling it. Just give me a few-" Her ears then twitched and snapped towards the direction of rhino.
She must have heard him. Her neck snapped towards the brute, and her face turned to anger.
"Wait, you mean to tell me that you didn't kill the bastard?" She yelled out, pulling her knifes from her sheath.
"Whoa! Easy there ... I got him calmed down." I said, attempting to lower her hands.
"You think I give a shit! That one armed brute almost killed me!" She exclaimed.
I noticed rhino take offence to this, as he let out a loud puff from his nostrils.
"Sivir! I'm aware of what he attempted to do ... but what exactly dis you think my plan at the very beginning of this was?" I tilted my head.
This sentence took a minute to resonate with her, but it wasn't long until she got the memo.
"You ... You can't be serious." She sighed.
"Oh yeah ... I am." I smirked.
"You want him?" She questioned with doubt.
"I believe so." I smiled.
"Uh ... Can Rhino stand up now? Rhino wants to hear what you two are talking about." He jumped in.
"Actually, Rhino, yes you can. But I believe Sivir here want's an apology first." I said, crossing my arms.
"Who is Sivir?" He responded, struggling to pronounce her name as he rose to his feet.
"That would be me you hulking idiot." Sivir yelled out with annoyance behind her voice.
"Ah, yes. Rhino is sorry. Rhino is not himself when he is angry. But just think, you may have lost to Rhino, but you last longer than all others rhino fight! So you are strong!" He smiled.
Sivir then glanced up at me. "I take it that's the best apology I'm gonna get, huh?"
"Yep." I grinned.
"And your still wanting to take him with us, don't you?" She continued.
"Uh huh." I chuckled.
"Ugh! Fine then!" She turned and began to walk back towards where we entered the town.
"Wait ... So does this mean you want Rhino to travel with you and big eared girl?" He said in what sounded like disbelief.
"Indeed it does. But first, let me introduce myself. I am Cabron Maximus, and I am inviting you to join me on my travels. This will make you an official member of the White Fang, and since you will be serving under my command as a personal bodyguard, you will instantly be given the rank of lieutenant. Do you accept this offer?" I asked, sticking out my hand to shake his.
"So this means Rhino will get to fight under your name, right?" He questioned.
"Indeed it does." I then slightly extended my hand further.
"Then yes! Rhino will follow you!" He exclaimed with excitement as he rapidly and violently shook my hand, eventually releasing it.
I pulled my hand back and grabbed it. As expected, the faunus had a helluva grip.
"Uh ... So, what is your name?" I asked.
He simply let out a small chuckle.
"What's so funny?" I asked.
"Silly Cabron! Rhino has already told you my name!" He laughed.
"And what exactly is that? I seemed to have not heard you say it." I said.
"Rhino's name is Rhino! Duh!" He laughed as he began to follow Sivir, mumbling to himself.
I simply let out a small giggle. "Of course it is."