Chapter 28 – Wave

Only one group is remaining to intercept the enemy. Pyrrha, Nora, Jaune, and Tatsumi continue to walking the middle of a street in Vale. Nora matches in front of the other three a few feet ahead with a smile on her face. Tatsumi turns to the other two members of team JNPR.

"She seems very happy for going into a fight against an unknown enemy. Is she always this high spirits?" Tatsumi says in annoyed tone.

"Nora acts this way whenever we are on a mission." Pyrrha explains while Jaune nods his head, "She likes to keep moral and enjoys fighting Grimm with Ren."

"Are they seeing each other?" Tatsumi asks.

"Yes. No. It is hard to tell sometimes." Jaune says as he shrugs. He looks down the road to that Nora had stopped matching. She puts on a fighting stance and equips her hammer. The rest of her team looks down the road to see a man with dark blue hair. He wielded a short blue sword in one hand and aims it at the light orange hair girl. In the other hand was Neptune's weapon.

"Remember me?" The man says as Nora smiles, "You thought that would keep me down for good?" He says as he tries to stand straight. Tatsumi recognizes the sound of the voice from the time he was held captive.

He calls out the man, "Wave?"The man looks at who called his name and recognizes the man who his master was in love with.

"Tatsumi? How did you get here?" He says as he stares to piece together the facts he knew. Only members of his team and Night Raid were sent to this world. "I get it, you followed us on our mission to intersect Night Raid to be with Esdeath. She will be incredibly happy if I bring you to her."

Tatsumi's expression changes to worry over the thought of seeing Esdeath again. He draws his sword and aims it a Wave. Jaune and Pyrrha ready there weapon as Jaune address Tatsumi.

"Who is Esdeath?" Nora changes the question before Tatsumi could answerer, "Is she your girlfriend?" Tatsumi looks at Nora with offence in that statement.

"NO! No. Not even close." Tatsumi says as Wave actives his imperial arm. He now dawns on the armor of the Grand Chariot. Tatsumi as gets ready to show everyone his own armor. When suddenly, a blast of wind from an alley across form him, hits the sword and knocks it out of his hand. A man then walks out of the alley with gray hair and heavy black boots.

"I do not know what you were planning, but I know it was not good for us." The man say as Pyrrha recognize her past opponent.

"Mercury? Why are you here?" Pyrrha says in confusion.

"I wanted to have some fun." Mercury says as he rushes Pyrrha. As he approaches, the delivers a powerful sidekick. Pyrrha blocks the attack with her shield but is pushed away from Jaune and Tatsumi. He then kicks Jaune across the head, sending the blonde haired leader into the wall. His head dents into the stone, rendering him unconscious.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha and Tatsumi yell before they focus their anger on Mercury. He laughs as looks at Jaune.

"What a wimp! One kick and he is down for the count!" He says as Tatsumi runs to him in a rage.

Mercury focus his attention only on Tatsumi and kicks him into the alley. He is sent flying into the shadows before rolling on the ground. Mercury runs to follow up on his assault. While doing so, the gray haired assassin looks back at Wave, "I will leave the girls to you, try not to lose like last time. Remember the red head has the power of polarity." Wave nods as Mercury runs into the alley. Pyrrha looks over a Nora with worry, "We have to back him up." She says as Nora and Wave rush and collide against each other.

"Nora wait!" Pyrrha screams as tries to catch up to her friend. Nora's hammer clashes with Neptune's weapon. Wave struggle to hold back her weapon, realizing he is in the same position as last night.

"How about I see if I can break my new record." Nora says with a smile as a blast of energy erupts from the head of the hammer. Wave is sent flying again into the air by the force of the impact. She raises her hand over her eyes to shield them from the sunlight as she sees Wave turn into a glimmer of light in the distance.

Pyrrha slow down as they approach they there friend. Nora turns around, "That was easy. I do not think that was as far as the last time but still I do not think he will come back." She walks towards her friend as Pyrrha looks into the sky to see the small glimmer return. At Mach speed, Wave dive kicks towards the unaware light orange haired girl. Before she can tell her friend to look out, the man connects with his attack.

"GRAND FALL!" Wave screams as his kick sends Nora skidding across the street. The road breaks apart as she slide for over a block before coming to a painful stop. Her teammate look back in concern over the thought that there friend could be dead. The red haired warrior look back at the foe as he stands ready to continue the conflict.

"Did she really think that same trick would work on me again?" Wave says gets ready to charge at the new opponent, "I may have taken a lot of damage, but I will not rest until I get Kurome back."