A Harsh Reality Ch. 26: No Rest for the Wicked
So Path to Redemption is off to a kind of slow start, not too surprised because that's what always happens. Go give it a read if you're into that sort of stuff. Also, flaming-ninja remarked that I had Ruby wake Weiss up with a kiss. Haha, yeah, I'm that clever. No I'm not. Complete and total accident, and now I look a lot smarter then I am. Question about the Summer's gift, can it be stored and used for later purposes. Since it takes aura to keep up, yes, but at a cost. So going to try and get something else in that is accidentally smart, because there is very few other kinds of smart for me.
It could tell that it's creations end goal was already well in sight. Another round for man would be sufficient for it's purposes. One more attack, and maybe then man would realize what was legend and what was true.
Attack when you see fit, it commanded. Show them the burning truth of vengeance.
Beacon Academy: Ozpin's Office
He angrily threw down another profile, and just shook his head. Up to that point, all that his last several hours had been were filling out paperwork. Nothing was made of the fact that a Teriphile was able to breach the school's defenses, undetected. Something of that size shouldn't of have even existed,much less be able to sneak around. Something was off, and it might be up to him to figure it out. Oh well, Ozpin thought. It's times like these that I remember why I was the only one to apply for this job.
Team RWBY's Dorm
Yang watched as Weiss made a display of her holding Ruby close to her. Weiss was clearly gloating over her one made basket. Unfortunately, the prize happened to involve her younger sister. She felt a hand on her shoulder, and she looked over to see that Blake was looking at her.
"You okay?" She asked. Yang nodded, trying to conceal her true feelings. "Are you sure?" Another nod. "Because, you're steaming right now."
"Am I really?" Yang realized. Blake nodded, a smile clearly plastered on her face.
"Weiss," Blake called out. "May I politely recommend that you stop kissing Ruby?"
"Why?" Weiss called back.
"Because Yang is plotting your murder right now," Blake added in.
"It's so much worse then that," Yang said in a low voice. Weiss nodded, and gestured for Ruby to get off of her. Ruby quickly complied, suddenly motivated by her sister's desire for revenge.
Yang had almost no issues with Weiss dating Ruby up to that point. Well, there was the fact that she had gotten Ruby shot. And then there was the almost rape that happened on her property as a direct result of an event that she had held. But Yang didn't really hold long term grudges. Plus, since Ruby was able to forgive Weiss so quickly, Yang had to push past it. But parading around her sister after winning an all expenses paid date was not something that she was going to tolerate lightly.
"Apologize," Ruby said, nudging Weiss gently.
"For what?" Weiss asked. "Showing public affection with my girlfriend?"
"Weeeeeeissssss," Ruby whined. "Pleeeeeeaaaaaaasssse." Weiss kept a cold stare for as long as possible. But underneath the pouting gaze of Ruby, that was almost impossible.
"Fine," Weiss broke. "Sorry Yang."
"It's fine," Yang said, breathing out the last of her anger. "Give up your date?"
"No, I won that fair and square."
"Dammit," Yang breathed. "I had to hope."
"So when are we doing that?" Ruby asked. "I mean, we have a few days since the school's going to be shut off."
"Anyone else see anything wrong with it?" Blake asked suddenly.
"What'ya mean Blakey?" Yang asked, wrapping her arm around her girlfriend.
"The whole attack," Blake continued. "Something that large, shouldn't even exist, much less sneak up completely unnoticed. Does anything about this seem strange to any of you?" All of them took a moment to think through the question, and Weiss was the first to formulate an answer.
"Sure it seems strange," Weiss said. "But Grimm have continued to evolve and grow larger. It shouldn't seem to surprising that one of this size surfaces. As far as how it went unnoticed, I guess that our security didn't cover underground." Blake nodded, but was still unconvinced. Her mind was a buzz, but she had to keep a down low. As was always the case.
"So how about tomorrow?" Weiss asked. "I think that I have a nice place picked out." Yang silently cursed under her breath, trying not to kill the heiress.
"Tomorrow sounds good," Ruby said, coming to her girlfriend's rescue. "Right?"
"Sure," Yang agreed. "Tomorrow sounds wonderful. What place?"
"How about the Burning Desire?" Weiss contributed, a smile written plainly on her face.
The Burning Desire is not a place Weiss would visit, unless she was trying too rub something in Yang's face. It was a small restaurant that was famous for attracting couples. It had a... Special room in the back. Of course, Ruby didn't know anything about that place. Nor would she, for that matter. Weiss had absolutely no plans of going back there. Hell, if it wasn't for Yang's previous talk of that place she wouldn't even know about it. But she felt confident that the name would strike a familiar chord with Yang.
"No," Yang said immediately. "No, no, no, and hell no! You are not taking my baby sister there!"
"Why?" Ruby asked innocently. "You said good things about the food."
"I said good things about-," Yang stopped. She had said good things about the food, but it was also relating directly to something else.
"I don't see an issue," Blake added in. "Being the only neutral party here, I say that you should go through with it."
"Blake," Yang said, horror written plainly on her face. "You're betraying me."
"No, I'm neutral. Ruby clearly is only aware of what you directly told her, and nothing more." Yang had to consider Blake's logic. She was 100% right. Yang had only told Ruby that the place had fantastic service, and great food. Her sister would be safe, for now.
"Fine," Yang sighed. "Just try and not run up the charges."
"Oh don't worry," Weiss said wickedly. "I-." She was cut off by a loud roar. The ground shook, and the flame erupted into a flurry of colors. All four of them ran over, and looked out the window. They could all feel their hearts drop down from their chests, to their stomachs.
Standing just outside of the school, was something they had never encountered. It was a large, black, scaled, Grimm. It wasn't a King Taijitu, that much they could tell. It walked on two legs, with a pair of arms to accompany it. It had an slightly elongated face, and a razor sharp row of teeth. It had the normal Grimm mask, with the markings and bones. It had a long pair of claws, and a tail, and wings. Worst of all, fire was billowing out of it's mouth.
"What the hell is that?" Yang asked. Out of everyone in the group, she knew the least about Grimm. She could only hope that Blake, or Weiss, or even Ruby could help her out.
"I don't know," Weiss said quietly. "I've never seen anything like it."
"It's some kind of a dragon," Ruby added in. "A dragon Grimm. I don't think I've heard of anything like that. Blake?" The Faunus just shook her head, and looked down at the ground. "Let's go." Ruby grabbed Crescent Rose off of it's wall mount, and left a determined look in her eyes. This time, she wouldn't let the Grimm win.
Beacon Front Lawn
No one could see it, no one could hear it, but it was there. Within the mind of it's newly formed Taituo Dragon Grimm. Such a wonderful creation, something 15 years in the making. Yes, if man could defeat this then perhaps Grimm would finally accept that man could destroy any one of it's creations. But of course, it had so much more then one monster at it's disposal.
Team RWBY ran up to where the monster was, and skipped to a stop. This was one of the first times that they were left speechless. It stood well over the buildings, not really allowing for them to think of going over it. The flames prevented them from getting close. They could already identify the torched and ripped apart corpses of several of the other students.
Ruby raised up Crescent Rose, and fired off a shot. It hit, no reflected, off it's scales. The bullet angled well away from it, showing that it wasn't going to be effected by any of their ammo.
"Weiss!" Ruby yelled out. "Get a glyph around it. Try and cover me."
"Cover you?" Weiss asked.
"Yang," Ruby continued, ignoring Weiss' comments for now. "Get some fire on it. You have explosive ammo, so you might be able to damage it. Blake, get ready to use myself as a chance to get under it's legs."
"What are you doing?" Yang asked. As apposed to using words, Ruby disappeared in a flurry of rose petals. She got close by the Grimm, and open fired. It turned towards her, feeling nothing more then annoyed at the tiny woman firing upon it. It blew out a column of flames, but Ruby was gone by the time they reached her.
"Dammit Ruby," Weiss muttered. She raised up a glyph nearby the dragon, hoping to keep it's flames away from Ruby.
Yang fired off several rounds from Celica, hoping to maybe break through it's scales. What she didn't know, was that anything tied to fire wasn't effecting it's scales. It was born from flames, and fire couldn't hurt it. The actual explosions were doing some form of damage, but it wasn't enough to divert it's interest away from Ruby.
Blake danced through the occasional fire, trying to get some form of room to work her way to it's legs. At last, that opportunity presented itself. She ran forward, and switched around Shroud to it's ribbon. She threw it forward, and wrapped it around one leg. She started to make a run at it's other leg, but a large claw was swung forward. She couldn't shadow out of the way, nor did she really see too many opportunities to move away. Bye Yang, she thought sadly. It's been a good run.
She closed her eyes in anticipation of the strike, but it never got there. She opened up her eyes, and saw a purple glyph in front of her. Thank you Professor Goodwitch, she thought quietly. She slid underneath the glyph, and wrapped around the other part of her ribbon to it's other leg. She pulled tight, and started to run towards Yang.
"CATCH!" She yelled out. Blake tossed forward the hilt of Gambol Shroud, and Yang caught it. Blake grabbed onto the ribbon, and started to pull. The ribbon was designed specifically not to break. It would be almost impossible for anything to break it.
Luckily, the weight of the Grimm wasn't quite that thing. It tried to take a step forward, but it just fell over. It continued to spew flames and swing it's claws, the only thing still protecting the students being the glyphs that Weiss and Goodwitch had left up. Ozpin timed a toss with it's pattern of flames. A small bundle of volatile dust landed right next to it's face, causing a massive explosion when it's next burst of flames was released.
Ruby regrouped with the rest of her team, exhaustion filling her body.
"What the hell was that?" She asked through her shaky breaths.
"A new Grimm," Ozpin said softly. "The first one discovered since the Teriphile. It appears that new Grimm are appearing every day. Once again, thank you for your assistance team RWBY. I understand that it's already late, and you're all probably exhausted. I will ask you more questions tomorrow. For now, get some rest." No one on team RWBY was willing to argue, and instead chose to retire to their dorms.
Elsewhere
It's connection had been cut off. The ability to control it's new creation had been lost, but it could still pick up what it's deceased body could hear. This, team RWBY. They might pose problems in the future. Maybe it should act upon these concerns now. No matter, either way it would be victorious. No one could ever withstand Grimm at it's full force. Man would fall, and everything it stood for would join it.
End: So I'm going to say this now. Time has become pretty limited for me, so I might not be able to actually read FF's as much as I'd want to. I'll try and get around to any that you might personally send me, and I'll still keep good tabs with my previously followed stories. However, no promises in that way. Questions, comments, follows, favorites, and feedback is appreciated.