How are you all? I'm fine. I bought Tales of Vesperia today for the Switch. It's fine, not great, not bad. It'll be a good time sinker once I'm on the way to Edmonton this weekend. Fucking eleven hours… fuck. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this chapter. Also, this chapter may be bloodier than most so you have been warned.
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Chapter 25:
A claw ripped through flesh as Yoru continued his charge towards the enemy ship. Not too far ahead of him were Fennec and Ghira and, from the way they tore through the members of the Red Hand, Yoru sensed they were beyond angry.
As Yoru shoved a red clothed racist with his arm he could feel his bones cracking. These people didn't have any Aura. These people decided to attack what can be considered as a Kingdom without Aura. Just with weapons and a ship.
These people were idiots. Yoru didn't feel any regrets as he tore his way to the ship. If the soldiers that tried to get in his way were not dead then they most likely weren't able to move. Yoru was fine with that. These people had attacked civilians. Even if Yoru didn't like these Faunus at least he could understand them for not liking him. To them he was a human that felt unnatural. Most of them didn't even know why their instincts were telling them to hate him. The rest attributed it to their hatred for humans.
The Red Hand? These people were just scum. They had come to Menagerie with the purpose of killing every Faunus on sight. Not even the White Fang stood so low as to kill children. The Red Hand did. Yoru had seen it before.
Yoru saw as Ghira and Fennec arrived at the ship, their clothes covered in red, and he saw them jump in. Yoru ran forward and jumped to the ship, managing to grab to a rope and climbing up. When he got on the deck of the ship he saw Fennec fighting red clothed humans using two spiral daggers and he saw Ghira fighting with a red armored human with a red sword using his bare hands.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" roared Ghira as the red armored human blocked his punch.
"I guess I should tell my biggest prey my name" the red armored human said as he lunged at Ghira with his sword. Ghira sidestepped to the side quickly, managing to dodge the attack "My name is Rubrum Minus, it'll be good for you to remember it, it'll be the last name you'll hear" as he said this he reached into his armor and threw down some wooden sticks to the floor. These sticks quickly started shining and from the light red clothed humans appeared.
'Kill them.' This time Yoru gladly followed the voice's instuctions.
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A sword cut through flesh as Jaune's eyes widened. These people didn't have Aura. He had just killed someone. He fell to his knees as his body started shaking. He wasn't prepared for this. Who could be prepared to just kill a person like this?
"Jaune!" he was brought back to reality as Pyrrha started shaking him "Come on, we have to regroup with the rest."
Jaune nodded and quickly got up to follow Pyrrha. He noticed her weapons were covered in blood. Her face calm, her body ready to strike down any attacker "How can you be so calm?" he asked.
"What?" Pyrrha asked as she blocked a gunshot.
"How can you be so calm after killing someone?" Jaune asked.
"I was prepared for it… all of us. In our last year of training school we are prepared to kill people" she replied.
"Ah… right" Jaune said and they arrived with the rest of the group, who were protecting the civilians. He saw most of his friends with their weapons bloodied and their faces determined. The only one who was different was Ruby. She was pale. Her body was shaking and she hugged Crescent Rose tightly. Jaune saw that on the edge of the blade was blood. He knew now why she was like that. With her like this it was either him or Pyrrha who were in charge. He took a deep breath in and his face set on a serious expression. He had to take charge "Where are Yoru, Mister Belladona and the White Fang guy?"
"On the ship" replied Blake as she shot some Red Hand members "I saw them running towards it."
"Okay" said Jaune and he closed his eyes "Pyrrha, Ren, Weiss and I will go to the ship to provide assistance. Blake, Sun, you two are in charge of calming the civilians and evacuate them. The rest is in charge of protecting the civilians. Understood?" he saw his friends nod "Okay, let's go."
He ran with Pyrrha, Ren and Weiss towards the ship with the help of Weiss' Glyphs. Red clothed men kept getting in their way but they charged through them anyways. Even Jaune. Inside he was feeling awful at having to kill people who didn't even have Aura. But he had to keep going. He was the leader for now. A leader doesn't show his fear. A leader has to keep fighting to protect the people. And the Red Hand was a menace.
They managed to get close to the boat and they used Weiss' Glyphs to get onto the ship. There they saw Yoru and Fennec fighting with Red Hand mooks while Ghira was fighting with a red armored person with a sword. Weiss made repulsion Glyphs for the four of them and they charged into the fight.
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Some would say Rubrum Minos was an idiot for taking Auraless people and bringing them to the battlefield. Some people would say he was an idiot for attacking Menagerie with a wooden ship with cannons. Those people didn't know how his Semblance worked. Rubrum Minos was no idiot. So when he saw more Huntsman level kids join the animals' side he was already planning the retreat.
While thinking he got hit by the leader of these animals, Ghira Belladona, and collided with the mast of his ship, destroying it and making it fall towards the rudder, destroying it. There went the escape plan. Rubrum put his hands inside his armor and grabbed all of the pieces of wood he had still hidden and threw them onto the wooden floor. They shone brightly before making more of his men appear.
"Attack!" he shouted and his men charged at the kids and the animals. This proved not as useless as some might think. Due to their high numbers they managed to somehow overwhelm some of them, more specifically they ganged up on the blonde kid while keeping his allies away from him.
As Rubrum blocked a punch coming from Ghira he saw the kid's friends trying to reach him but being blocked by his men, who were using even their dead brothers in arms' bodies as a weapon to slow the hunters down. Rubrum grinned as he saw his men gun down the blonde kid and his Aura shattering. Rubrum kicked Ghira to the side and pulled out a gun from under his armor, quickly seizing the opportunity and shooting the kid on the shoulder.
"AAAAH" he cried out in pain as he dropped to his knees and clutched his shoulder. The Nikos girl and the green clothed kid were already going towards him as his men were about to end his life.
"JAAAAAAUUUUUUUNE!" his men stopped, stunned, as everyone heard that primal roar of anger. Rubrum turned to look at the source of the sound only to find a black energy swallow the purple eyed kid, leaving only a black armored demon with yellow eyes and some sort of gauntlet with claws.
This distraction gave the Nikos girl and the green boy the opportunity to get the blonde boy out of the fight as the Schnee girl approached the Belladona man "Quick, we have to go, now!" she told him and the Belladona grabbed the fox fuck by the shoulder before leaving with the Schnee bitch.
"Now, now, I guess those animal fuckers and their pets just left you alone. Now you know never to trust an animal" Rubrum said as he prepared to lunge at his new prey "Attack!" he shouted and his men charged at him.
The black armored demon simply took their attacks like they were nothing. He grabbed one of Rubrum's men by the head and squashing it like a stress ball. Rubrum stopped his charge and saw that… Beast kill his men. Limbs torn like they were paper, men used as clubs until they were nothing more than mushy messes on the floor. He saw him punch a hole through two of his men's chests. The screams for help filled the deck but Rubrum knew nobody would come with reinforcement. He had acted alone when he received that tip off and now he was paying the price.
Soon it was only him and the Beast. He started to shoot at it when started to walk slowly towards him. Soon he ran out of bullets and decided to die like a warrior. He charged to attack it with his sword, only to regret it once he saw the Beast grab the sword and break it like a twig. Rubrum went flying towards the mast before he could even feel the attack, and once he did he could feel how his ribcage was about to burst through his organs, but it didn't. His Aura was shattered and the Beast had punched him with its gauntlet. The Beast had calculated the attack to only leave him feeling the pain from the ribs but not die from it.
Rubrum tried to get up and escape, only for his legs to be pierced to the ground by two sharp shards of his own sword. He looked up and saw the Beast's yellow eyes. They burned with fury and a primal need for murder. The Beast's chest plate turned into the dark energy for a moment while the Beast put its free hand inside of it and withdraw a flare gun out of it, solidifying the dark energy into the chest plate.
The Beast pointed the flare gun to his shoulder point blank. Rubrum noticed it was the same shoulder he had shot the blonde kid at. Before he could say anything the Beast pulled the trigger and his shoulder exploded, making him scream in pain. The Beast then turned to his other arm and it grabbed it with its arm before tightening its grip, effectively destroying the bones inside of it. Rubrum could feel the pain from his four limbs and he was almost passing out.
The Beast apparently had noticed this and decided it was time to end him. It touched his chest and pushed, making his broken ribs pierce into his lungs. Just before dying Rubrum heard the Schnee bitch singing and the Beast turning towards the sound before walking towards it.
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Man, what a nice and cheery chapter. Truly, something to read to preschool kids. Anyways, I'll proceed to explain Rubrum's Semblance. He can teleport Auraless people who are loyal to him by throwing one piece of good by person to the wooden floor of a ship deck. Pretty specific. Also, for those of you who didn't notice, I revealed the three ring combination of Yoru's rings. It's based on Vega's claw. Now, time to guess who gave him the tip off to attack Menagerie that day.
Reviews:
The Ancient Irish King: I see. It's nice to see how you guys see Yoru. You see him as calm, which I get, awesome, which I understand, just look at him fight, the only students from his group who can beat him are Pyrrha and Yang, and they don't really get scoff free from a fight with him, and loving, which I totally understand, I made him like that at the risk of making him seem obsessive over the people he loves.
Merendinoemiliano: I don't remember saying Ghira and Kali didn't have sex anymore, I just said they never had a son. And the Attack on Menagerie is already done so thanks for that I guess hahaha.
TurkeyMob: Look who's back, nice to see you. Yeah, I honestly got the idea from that manga about the househusband Yakuza and applied it to Yoru. Since he lived with wolves for a good part of his life and is a descendant from Wolf Faunus it made sense to give him a few "dog" scenes. He is pretty territorial, which was proven when he was jealous of Zwei.
HikariHoshinoAsakura: Hey, the Yoru fangirl is here, nice. Yeah, I can see why people would like to cuddle Yoru and keep him as a son, considering the shit he went through and whatever happens inside his head. Yeah, I think you were not the only one who understood the repercussions of Yoru's "father" looking almost exactly like Yoru, who looks a lot like Yuki's brother, enough for her father to call him "Yoru". And yeah, Yoru deserves a happy family. We pretty much all know what Pyrrha was dreaming of. If not, well, you are pretty innocent. And the reason for Yoru's voice is because of a psychologic thing. It has to do with his Semblance. I like your description of Yoru :)
What do you guys think of the little changes I've made for the canon characters? It's interesting what people think of my take on them.
And you guys haven't answered how you guys think the teams will go on my fanfic premises so I'll give you a hint.
The Cat and the Wolf: Teams RWBY and JNYP right? Well, this is the twist… Ruby will not be going to Beacon in this fanfic.
Brave: Canon teams, with what I have prepared for it I don't want to change the teams much.
Too Far Back: Jaune's team is Team AMBR and he will be the team leader. The M is the father of two characters which didn't have much screen time in canon. The B has an unhealthy obsession with a beverage in canon. And the R has a strong personality in canon.
That's all I'm willing to disclose for now. Try to guess them this time and leave reviews. Have a good night.