Hello everyone we are back with another chapter in our adventures of the team, it seems that the week is up for our team and the assassins are closing in let's see what happens. As always RWBY is owned by rooster teeth and its associates.
Carmine woke up to the sound of metal scraping metal, looking over the side of his bed cautiously he saw Freya sitting on the windowsill facing the courtyard sharpening one of the flanges on her mace. She turned her head looking toward Carmine's bed, "worry not I am only sharpening weapon." Carmine nodded as he hopped out of bed, seeing Omar's bed undisturbed he figured that he slept over with his cousin. Velvet was sitting at Delilah's desk reading a book, Freya's brother Eir sat by the door half-asleep. Entering the bathroom Carmine washed himself as he got ready for the day.
After a brief argument with Freya and Coco, Carmine managed to convince them on letting them go into the city to look for Blake. Yang sighed, "Carmine I know Ruby asked you guys to come but you don't have to, not if it's going to put your lives in danger." Carmine put his shield on his back as he checked his dust clips, "we're going to have two teams of upper classmen with us, we should be ok." Yang was still not convinced, "I'm serious, me and Ruby can look for Blake while you guys stay here." Delilah put a hand on her shoulder, "Yang I know you're worried but we'll be fine." Levina chuckled, "you sound just like Omar when he's about to do something potentially life-threatening." Delilah rolled her eyes as everyone headed toward the hangers.
When the bullhead pulled into the city hanger Freya and Coco divided the teams to have Coco and Velvet cover Delilah, Yatsuhashi and Fox cover Levina, and for Freya's team to cover Carmine until they ran into Omar where her brothers Rindr and Zisa would cover him. Team RWBY split up and Carmine and the others went their separate ways.
Levina was walking down the street with Fox and Yatsuhashi following close behind, looking around she saw nothing that stood out as a potential spot someone could sleep for the night without some sort of complication. Breathing a light sigh she continued to walk down the street occasionally looking at her scroll, it read 3:40 PM. Stopping at a food stall Yatsuhashi ordered three fried Takoyaki, handing them out they found a bench near a building under construction, sitting down they began eating in silence.
Fox grabbed her used bowl and walked it over to the trash as she got up herself she stretching when her instincts flared up massively, immediately putting her hands on her guns there was a loud crack before the ground three inches from Levina's left foot exploded. Turning invisible Levina ran to the only cover she could see close to her, a large pallet of wood, as she ran the ground mere inches behind her feet exploded. Yatsuhashi drew his sword using it as a shield, Fox quickly got behind him, "can you see who's shooting?" Yatsuhashi cautiously lowered his weapon to which Fox took notice, "what the hell you doin'!" Yatsuhashi scanned the construction building, "we are not the ones being fired at." Fox cursed, "Shit where's the girl?" Yatsuhashi began walking forward, "she has taken cover behind a pallet of wood, but it will not hold forever."
Levina was counting the bullets that were fired at her, "one from the warning shot, eight from running, and five from me taking cover," one more bullet hit her makeshift cover before there was a pause, "clip change." Levina reactivated her semblance running into the construction site, she had seen where the shots were coming from but knew that whoever was shooting would change positions during the reload.
Yatsuhashi rested his sword on his shoulder and angled it in a way that let Fox use it as a boost to leap up several levels into the building, Yatsuhashi saw a set of stairs leading up and walked toward them knowing that Levina was the intended target. Levina climbed up an I-beam, reaching the fourth floor she quickly hid behind a wall as she did not see anyone on her way up. Taking a breath she drew her guns, holding them up to her chest she toke another breath that was cut short as the wall two inches from her head exploded sending bits of burning wall colliding with her face. As she crumpled to her left the wall exploded again forcing her to crawl, as she did the bullets flew dangerously close with every shuffle forward. When she counted fifteen she got up reaching the end of the wall, turning the corner she raised her gun as she desperately tried to scan where the shots were coming from. Seeing a quick move out of the corner of her eye she pointed her gun upwards across her chest, hearing a gunshot she blinked.
Her gun nearly vaporized as she felt the bullet strike her left shoulder spinning her several times causing her to trip over the edge of the floor onto the level below. Her right hand burned as she dragged herself to a support beam, taking a look at her hand she saw pieces of her beloved gun sticking out of her bleeding hand. Clenching her left hand to confirm that she could still use it she began picking out as many pieces as she could, "what I wouldn't give to have Omar's healing right now." Tossing the grip to her now destroyed gun aside she fished out her ribbon and wrapped her hand while her aura tried to heal as much as it could. Hearing footsteps she grabbed her other gun, slowly peeking around she saw green before she heard a voice, "Levina are you around here?" Yatsuhashi had seen when Levina fell over the edge onto the floor beneath him, seeing the remains of her gun and a small trail of blood he followed it until he saw Levina hiding behind a support beam.
Looking around he cautiously made his way to her to which Levina was slightly relived to see him, sliding around she poked her head out waving to him. As she did the spot an inch above her head blew up, Yatsuhashi drew his sword using it as a shield as he stepped in front of Levina. The next two shots that hit his sword slammed his sword into his chest nearly knocking him off his feet, taking a wider stance Yatsuhashi managed to stay standing. Levina's pocket began to vibrate as she hid behind the beam, taking out her scroll she put her ear piece in as Vigil turned the scroll on. Taking a deep breath she unlocked the screen as Vigil spoke, "Miss Levina I have been trying to get your attention, are you alright?" Levina put her scroll back in her pocket as she tried to stand, "a little scratched up but I'm ok, how's everyone else?" "It appears that everyone else has encountered an enemy, they are not faring well. Carmine and Omar seem to be having the most trouble, I can have the bullhead flown to your position to provide air support." Levina shook her head, "if the bullhead goes down we won't have any way of getting everyone to the hospital in time."
Fox reached the top level of the building when he 'saw' a tall man wearing a long coat, listening for any movement the man made Fox tried to get closer. Leaping forward Fox threw a spinning axe kick, when his foot connected to the ground he heard the flutter of the man's coat next to him. The click of a large gun resonated in his ear, the next moment there was a thunderous crack and what felt like a massive sledgehammer slamming into the right side of his skull. Yatsuhashi saw Fox on the upper level fall lifelessly down several levels, running he slid catching him before he injured himself. Using the distraction Levina ran to the stairs that she saw on the far end of the level, as she ran she could hear the click of two guns. Managing to make it to the stairs she took a quick breath that was interrupted as a large hole was opened through the ceiling and the staircase, ducking the bullet she ran up the stairs with her gun drawn.
Reaching the top of the stairs she didn't see anyone, turning her semblance on she slowly crept through the level cautiously sweeping her gun from side to side looking for any threats. As she walked past one of the many pallets that were littered throughout the entire sight she heard someone take a step before she felt the barrel of a gun press against her right temple. Hearing the click of the gun she ducked while aiming her gun at the unknown assailant, the loud crack along with the equally loud boom from the bullet passing through almost every material in its path nearly deafened Levina. Turing to the right she saw something puzzling, the person standing next to her was covered in bandages on every square inch of what would be exposed skin. They wore a cowboy hat that was tipped over the bridge of their eyebrows, and a long dark brown duster jacket. Aiming at their head Levina fired off three rounds, the person dodged each round with little movement while re-aiming their guns at her. Seeing the hammers to the guns pull back she felt a wave of fear wash over her as she remembered what just one bullet did to her. As the hammers clicked forward Levina caught something moving in the corner of her eye, Yatsuhashi swung his sword down at the guns.
Fox leapt from the other side swinging his arm blades, the person took a step back while aiming a gun at each of them. Fox took the shot to his stomach while Yatsuhashi took the shot to his unarmored shoulder, Levina using the opening fired off another two rounds. One knocked the hat off the persons head while the other struck the forehead directly, but there was a metal clang as the persons head jerked back. Fox writhed in pain as Yatsuhashi fell to his knee, Fox's aura flickered briefly before stabilizing. Levina still aimed her gun at the person who was just standing in place frozen, a moment passed when their arms went limp before a small twirl of their guns causing Levina to fire off the remaining rounds in her clip. Each bullet missed as the person dodged the bullets with ease, they holstered their guns and turned walking away from her. Bending down they picked up their hat inspecting it, dusting it off they placed the hat back on their head.
Turning back to her they held up a finger in front of their mouth, "Hush." Levina still had her gun aimed at him, squeezing the trigger the slide clicked back showing she had no more bullets. Hush drew one of his guns, the way that the lighting bounced off the gun showed an engraving, 'AGL Arms .45 Long Colt'. The gun was a massive revolver that was pointed directly at her, Levine turned invisible when she saw he made no move she tried to roll away. What shocked and terrified her was that he continued to aim at her despite not being able to see her, he was even looking directly at her. Yatsuhashi took another swing at him causing Hush to sidestep lining up the gun with the back of Yatsuhashi's head, Yatsuhashi's aura flickered and broke as the bullet collided with the back of his head. Levina got up and started running, she ran to the edge of the level as she heard several empty shell casings hit the ground. Just as she made it to the edge she heard a loud crack. Her entire back felt like it was on fire as her aura flickered then broke.
She fell four stories landing on a wood pallet, she could barely move as her vision grew dark on the sides. Feeling a sharp pain in her hand brought her back to consciousness, slowly rolling over she saw Hush standing on the edge leveling his gun at her. Tears welled up as she spoke softly, "Vigil can you tell my parents that I love them and that I'm sorry." Vigil spoke in a somber tone, "Of course Miss Levina, it has been an honor working with you." As she waited for Hush to take the shot Fox came up from behind and swung his arm blade, Hush blocked with his gun and took the other striking his across the face. Fox's aura flickered then broke as she felt a pair of hands grab onto her, Yatsuhashi huffed as he dragged her off the pallet and carried her in his arms as he ran away from the building site. Levina saw over his shoulder how Fox was trying to fight Hush, she began to protest when she saw Hush use the butt of his gun to slam Fox's knee sending him to the ground. "Yatsuhashi we can't leave Fox!" Yatsuhashi had a dark look on his face, "Fox knows the mission," she felt his grip on her tighten as he continued running. Looking back she saw that Fox was on his knees in front of Hush who had a gun leveled to his chest, Hush pulled the trigger as Levina could see the ground below Fox explode downward.
As Yatsuhashi continued running she saw Hush holster both guns before reaching behind in his coat and brought out a long rifle. She saw him take a crouching position as he leveled his sights, Levina sucked in a sharp breath, "YATSUHASHI RIFLE!" Yatsuhashi turned his head just as Hush took the shot, the bullet passed through Yatsuhashi's chest and struck her. The ground puffed out dust as the bullet passed through the both of them, Yatsuhashi lost his footing dropping Levina. She fell to the ground only a few feet from the sidewalk as she stared up at the evening sky, using her left hand she found the entry wound was just below her left breast. Taking shallow breaths she saw her hand covered in blood, a shadow loomed above her looking down. Seeing the shadow bend down she waited for the final shot but when she felt a pair of hands lift her up in to a cradling position in their arms she passed out.