Forgot to mention it last time but more than 300 followers!? Are your guys standards really low or are RWBY fanfics just that bad in general? Anyway this chapter will be the conclusion of Volume 4 and now it'll be on to Volume 5…..yay(sarcasm).
"What the hell is that?" Nathan said still pointing his rifle towards the monster.
"A Grimm, a very strong one." Replied Ren readying his weapons.
The Grimm twitched before letting out a roar that made the group cover their eyes from the audio blast. The Grimm then turns its attention to Qrow who was in no shape to fight and began to approach him for an easy kill. Jaune sees this and makes a move to save Qrow before the monster can get to him which the Grimm tried to stop the boy by swiping at him with is long appendages that Jaune barely managed to dodge. Jaune starts getting Qrow up who was still propped against a tree but the Grimm was closing in. Ren used his semblance to hide Jaune and Qrow just as the Grimm almost got them, Jaune just stared at the beast that was nearly on top of them.
"Just get him to safety!" Ren yelled, exerting himself to keep his semblance up. Jaune moves Qrow out of sight behind one of the nearby buildings.
Denied its target the Grimm moved to attack the rest of the group, flailing and slashing with its tentacle-like limbs. It would alternate by grabbing one of them but before it could deliver an attack the rest of the group would attack the Grimm. It was on Nathan's turn to get attacked that instead of being simply let go to free up the Grimm's "hand" he was tossed into a building with enough force to make him bounce off the wall and roll several meters.
"Nate!" Ruby yelled out but couldn't stop fighting the Grimm to check on him as the Grimm slashed at her.
He was on the ground facedown trying to get air back into his lungs from getting the wind knocked out of him. Nathan didn't move because he thought he might've broke some bones from the impact but he did feel a burning in his chest, a similar feeling to that time he stuck a paperclip in an electrical outlet. He shifted his head to looking up at the fight to see in almost slow motion the monster about to grab Ruby again. He moved his arm to reach out for her but when he did blue lightning shot from his right hand and briefly stunned the Grimm interrupting its attack allowing Ren and Nora to draw its attention away.
Ruby rose petaled to Nathan and rolled him over. "You alright Nate?"
"My left arm feels like it's broken and I might've fractured some ribs so I'm not up to serious fighting for a little while, also I think I discovered my semblance. I don't know where I got the aura from though." Nathan answered as he slowly sat up and then got up from a kneeling position. His left arm hung limply and his pulse rifle dangled on its sling across his chest.
Ruby noticed an indent in the chest plate of Nathan's armor. "I think you might need a new one." She pointed.
He felt it before sighing. "Yeah, go help out the others. I can't really use my pulse rifle but maybe a can try out this whole lightning thing." He said looking at his arm.
Ruby gave him a quick peck on the cheek before jumping back in slashing with Crescent Rose. Nathan intermittingly fired bolts of electricity out of his hand at the Grimm leaving small openings for the others to attack. The sight of the lightning gave Nora an idea. "Nate, charge my batteries!"
He was confused on why the redhead wanted him to zap her but against his better judgement Nathan shot a stream of lightning into Nora. Her eyes had a slight glow along with some of her veins giving out a blue glow to them. Nora jumped high into the air before bringing down her hammer on the Grimm causing it to sink into the ground then swung Magnhild destroying the Grimm's horse-like head followed by Ren removing the Grimm's arms finishing it off by beheading the "human" Grimm part of the beast.
Ruby sprints off to go check on Qrow still behind the ruined structures. Jaune came over to Nathan to check his arm by feeling along it for the break which shot pain down his arm from the blonde's less than gentle attentions. Once he found the break Jaune wrapped a small piece of wood against Nathan's forearm and place it in a crude sling.
He just finished this as two wooden airships arrived with one touching down and several men disembarking with one carrying a stretcher by his side. Ren talked to them and the men said they were from Mistral and Ren informed them of Qrow's condition and where he was with two of them breaking off with the stretcher to retrieve him. The group started to board when they saw the two Mistrali men carrying Qrow along with Ruby walking next to them. Once they got Qrow settled in the airship lifted off and joined the other aircraft that was making slow circles overhead and both headed off for Mistral.
One of the crewmembers had a quick onceover with Nathan, checking his arms and felt his chest where he thought he broke some ribs. Ruby stood nearby tapping her foot impatiently waiting for her turn with Nathan. The man told him as long as he took it easy for a couple days his aura should fix him up.
Once the man went away to continue seeing to Qrow Ruby wrapped Nathan in a hug though she tried not to squeeze too hard. "Don't worry Nate, when we get to Mistral I'll be your nurse."
"But it'll only be a few days." He said.
"No buts, you need proper rest and I'll make sure you get it." The reaper said seriously.
"Fine, you better help me with my semblance when I heal up."
"Of course, congratulations on unlocking it by the way." Ruby says giving him a light squeeze.
"I'm still not sure if it's just me zapping things or if there's more to it, I guess we'll find out later."
"Well at least Nora has a support to power her up." Ruby chuckled.
"I suppose, hold still I wanna try something." He said putting a hand on Ruby's arm then let a small current of electricity into her making her hair standup.
"Nate! Don't do that! It feels weird and makes my skin all tingly." She said trying to pull her hair back down with the slight snaps of static as she did so, Nathan just laughed.
They made it to Mistral without incident and the crew gave Qrow some anti-venom for the poison that Tyrian stung him with. They said it should leave his system pretty quick but he'll still be feverish for about a week. The Mistrali also provided transportation to a hotel that was close by however the group had to pay for the rooms themselves.
After Qrow was settled into bed Ruby went with Nathan to their room so she could help him out of his gear. First undoing the sling holding his arm and letting it down gently, them carefully sliding off his rifle and rucksack. The chest plate was a bit difficult because some of the latches were damaged but they managed after Nathan cut the nylon straps some of the steel latches were attached to. The rest of the armor was easy enough to remove and Ruby helped him remove the camo jacket top along with his shirt. Nathan removed the rest of the gear himself and hung his belt off the bed next to him so he could still reach the dust pistol. Ruby removed some of her gear as well and placed her scythe next to his rifle by the wall and put her pistol under one of the bed's pillows.
"You hungry?" Ruby asked him as she took off her boots.
"Yeah, especially since we skipped lunch because of that Grimm."
"Well I'm gonna ask what the others want and order some food delivered here. Anything in particular you want?"
"Maybe some spicy Vacuo chicken?" Nathan said turning on the television.
"Alright. I'll go see everyone else." Ruby said standing up from the bed, turned and gave Nathan a kiss. "I'll be back."
Nathan watched her leave, he thought maybe Ruby should consider going back to leggings. Sometimes the way her skirt shifts he could almost see her panties. Those lewd thoughts didn't help when he was surfing through channels and found out the hotel had a porn channel. The scene it was on was a human guy with two girls that were cat faunus' getting it on next to a pool. Nathan was watching it for a bit until Ruby walked into the room and he scrambled to change the channel but she saw enough to know what he was watching. "Nate!" She said turning dark red.
"Oh….h-hey Ruby. A-apparently we have porn." Nathan said with a blush settling on a cooking show where an Atlesian guy was yelling at the chiefs for their poor performance.
"W-well the food is on its way." Ruby said trying to steer away from porn and "bad" thoughts.
She climbed into bed with him and the two watched the show together until the food arrived. When it arrived they were even more hungry thanks to the cooking program, seeing all that food made their hunger worse. Ruby came back with the food and set her meal down on the bed but instead of handing the bag of chicken to Nathan to eat she pulled out the provided plastic fork and skewered a piece of chicken and proceeded to make airplane noises. "Open wide for the plane Nate."
"Ruby I'm not two and I'm not crippled, I can feed myself."
Unperturbed the reaper continued to "fly" the chicken around with airplane sounds until Nathan sighed and opened his mouth and she fed him the poultry.
"I told you, as Nurse Ruby Rose I will take care of ya." She said forking another chicken and starting up the airplane routine again.
"You have a nurse outfit?" Nathan asked with a grin.
"No, but maybe Nora does." Ruby answered not catching what he was getting at, he thought Ruby was too pure.
After Ruby finished feeding him she started on her fairly simple meal of noodles. Ruby was still a messy eater and left some remnants of her meal near the corners of her mouth and cheeks. She got most of it with a napkin but missed a few spots. "Hey Rubes."
"Hmm?"
"You missed a spot." Nathan said before licking up the little bit of sauce left by the corner of her mouth which made her blush.
"Nate stop." Ruby giggled.
"Someone has to clean you up." Nathan said as he poked her belly.
"Oh, speaking of cleaning I should take a shower. I would say you should too but you should wait until that's mostly healed." She said pointing at his arm.
He sighed and said "Ok." as he gave her a light zap making her hair stick up again.
"This better not be a regular thing now." She said with false anger as she fixed her hair before she started to get undressed. Ruby was just starting to remove her skirt when she noticed Nathan was watching her. "Stop staring you perv."
"Can't help it with a cute girl in the room."
"Fine. I'll get undressed in the bathroom." She replied moving to said room.
"No fair."
Ruby stuck her tongue out at him before closing the bathroom door.
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