Ch 5: Who Needs Protection?
"Hey wake up, we are here. We are at the Vale City Airship station." I shake Weiss awake slowly, not wanting to unleash her sassy attitude.
"Okay, that's great. Now grab my bags and let's go." She mutters sarcastically.
"Sure thing." I reach in the overhead compartment and grab her two bags, along with my backpack, which held my few belongings. "Right this way Weiss. There should be a car from Beacon waiting outside the station."
"Well take me there you dunce; we don't have all day." This is going to be a long trip.
We make our way out of the ship, towards the car. I take note of all of our surrounding, making sure we weren't followed on the flight. Yet everything seemed normal, maybe my protection isn't needed. Regardless, I remained vigilant as the driver of the car opened the door for Weiss and the trunk for me. Taking one last look at the airship station, I begin to already countdown the 2 days until we return here, for our flight back.
With a long sigh I step into the car next to Weiss as the driver explains to us that we will take the scenic route to Beacon, per her father's request. Great, a detour. Just what I need, more driving and sitting.
"How nice it was for my father to be thinking about me, it's honestly kind of surprising. Now we get to see the beautiful parts of Vale." Weiss said, for once, looking happy. Their relationship probably isn't on the best terms for her to be this excited about a slight detour.
"I guess it is nice of him. Driver, how long will it take to arrive at the school?" I ask him as he begins to speed down a winding road.
"I believe we will arrive at Beacon in about 30 minutes. It's not a far drive. Mind I ask who you are? From what I was told, Ms. Schnee was coming to Beacon alone." He seemed a little flustered or at least confused when he explained this to me.
"Just a friend of Weiss's, I myself might want to attend Beacon as well." I lie to him. "Not to mention she might need someone to watch over her while she is away from home."
"We are in the city of Vale, who needs protection? The police, as well as hunters and huntresses, keep everyone here quite safe." He laughs at my reasoning. "We are in a time of peace, there has been no large amounts of bloodshed her since the Great War." The car continues to speed along the road as Weiss gazes in awe at the city and the surrounding forest.
"You never know, danger can sometimes only be a turn away." I respond to him and look out the window as well. I can't blame Weiss for gazing in awe at the city, it was truly a beautiful sight. The tall towers and colorful skyline made the city seem very flashy and inviting.
My trance is broken as the driver speaks up. "Well what do we have here?" The car comes to a stop as I look forward, through the windshield. Noticing a van pulled to the side of the two lane road with someone attempting to wave us down. Looks like their van is broken.
"If you don't mind Miss Schnee, I'm going to pull to the side of the road and figure out what's wrong with their vehicle. I just deem this as the right thing to do." He pulls the car to the side of the road and begins to step out.
"I completely understand sir, it's that kind of hospitality that keeps the peace in our world." She smiles, surprisingly not upset with the brief stop.
Our driver walks over to the person waving, a young women with a red hat on her head. Not being able to hear what she is saying I pay little attention to the conversation that they are having. Weiss continues to gaze out the window until our driver returns to his driver's seat.
"That young women wants to know if I can jump start their van. Are you okay with this Miss Schnee? It might take a little bit." He asks as he shifts the car into drive.
"Sure, I'm fine with it; I'm in no hurry as long as we get to Beacon." She responds without looking.
"That's wonderful, I promise I will try my best to do it as fast as possible." He grins as he pulls our car in front of the van and pops the hood. Stepping out of the car he walks in front of the hood out of our sight. This shouldn't take too long, just a simple jumpstart.
I hear him and the young women discuss the issue with her van. This suddenly stops as I hear a loud noise, a gunshot. What just happened!
"Quickly get the girl!" a masculine voice orders as the hood of the car slams down, revealing 4 armed men, brandishing WF insignias on their chests. "Wait she is not alone!" He yells, obviously realizing Weiss wasn't the only person in the car.
"GET DOWN!" I yell at Weiss as I un holster my handgun and push the car door open, taking cover behind it as the hit squad begins to fire in my direction. Fuck, fuck, fuck! There are 4 of them and one of me!
The shots ping off and around the door as I continue to wait for my attackers to reload, which would give me an opportunity to attack. The sound of glass shattering begins to drown out the noise from the gunfire until the sound of bullets stops. Here is my chance.
Vaulting over the car door, which now had countless bullet holes in it, I take aim at the 4 attackers. Pulling the trigger on my handgun, each pull releasing a full metal jacket round at them. I continue to fire until I myself run out of rounds in my magazine, yet a reload wasn't necessary. They were all now on the ground, either half dead or straight up dead. Blood begins to pool around their bodies as I call out to Weiss.
"Are you okay Weiss? I think it's safe now." I wait for a response.
"Yes, I'm fine. Are you hurt?" She yells back at me from the car.
"No I'm fine, not a scratch on me. If you give me a couple minutes, I'm going to inspect the bodies; call Beacon, tell them to send a security team or the police over here." I causally reload my pistol as I bend down next to one of the bodies. Just a bunch of amateurs, hell these guys look just as old as me, kids.
I make my way to the van, looking for anything that might have some information relevant to where these guys came from. Wait, what about the girl, in the red hat. Where did she go?
After the sudden realization I ready my handgun as I prepare to open the back of the van. "Weiss, wait after you call I want you to stay in the car." I exclaim to her as I put my left hand on the handle of the back door of the van, my other hand training my sights on the back of the door. Before I can open the door it slams open, the force flinging me into the front of our car. What the hell?
I look up to see the young woman from earlier, yet now she had revealed her pair of fox ears and held a dagger in each hand. "Guess a girl can't always depend on men to do things for her." She mutters as she steps out of the back of the van. I take aim with handgun, training it on her figure. Yet before I could pull the trigger, with a flick of her wrist a dagger sails at me, lodging itself into my left shoulder.
"Fuck!" I yell in pain. I attempt to move my shoulder, yet I soon realize it had pinned me to the front of the car. I'm pinned to the front of this car like a fucking deer.
The faunus casually walks over towards my direction, her hips rocking side to side with each strut. She finally bends down in front of me. "You are a fighter, I like that." She mutters as she grasps the dagger and pulls it out of my shoulder. I grit my teeth in pain as she begins to smile. "You are kind of cute actually, I'm a sucker for guys with white hair. If I hadn't been ordered to kill anyone protecting the girl, I could imagine myself dating you." She puts the bloody dagger's edge to my neck, barely touching it and begins to drag it up to my chin. To be honest she was kind of cute as well.
"I promise it will be quick, you won't feel a thing." She holsters the bloody dagger and gets closer to my face. "One last thing, since you are cute." She forcefully grabs my face and plants a surprisingly gentle kiss on my lips. She isn't that bad, but I have to do something.
While she is busy attempting to get some tongue from me, before she in turn kills me, I slowly reach for my hand gun with my right hand. I comply with her lust to give myself a little more time and finally grab my gun.
"Get back!" I yell as I press the barrel against her lower abdomen.
Surprised by my actions she dives to the left, out of the line of fire of my weapon. I roll to the right side of the off of pure instinct and finally stand up. "Men always end up ruining my fun." She mutters as she draws both of her daggers in a readied stance.
"Well, sometimes women are bad shit crazy." I reply as I throw my handgun aside and sling my bladed staff from my back. I spring in a sudden attack, sliding over the hood of the car as I swing my staff in her direction. The blow cleaves her chest, shredding some of the cloth on her abdomen.
"Wow, feisty too!" She yells as she begins to slash her blades towards my body. The blades leaving shallow cuts on my arms, but I shake them off and prepare to strike again. This time I twirl my blade around and shove the non-bladed end into her chest, knocking her onto her back.
"Damn you are good, guess we will finish this another time sweetie!" The hell is she talking about?
All of a sudden, I hear the roar of a bike as it pulls in between myself and the female faunus. The driver points a SMG at me and pulls the trigger. A volley of rounds are unleashed at my body, yet I twirl my staff in front of me, using my semblance through my staff to form a shield of raw aura which soaks up the bullets. The driver, yells something as the girl jumps on the back of the bike. And before you could blink, they were already on their way back towards the city. Damn, that was close. Better check on Weiss.
I make my way back to the car to find the Heiress just sitting there, staring at me. Oh great, she must me in shock.
"Weiss, are you okay, are you injured?" I yell in distress at the girl. Her eyes begin to tear up. Oh shit, I was too rough on her.
"I'm sorry for yelling Weiss, no need to cry!"
"It's not me that's hurt Devin, it's you." She points at me tears rolling down her cheeks.
I holster my staff and put my right hand on my chest. Feeling the soaked fabric with my hand I look down at my chest. Not only did I have a gaping wound in my left shoulder, I now had several bullet holes in my chest, which now were streaming blood from them.
"Guess my semblance didn't block all of the rounds." I chuckle as I fall to my knees.
Weiss runs to my side, tears still flowing from her eyes. And grabs a hold of me. "Don't die like Corey, or the countless others. I will be alone. I don't want to be alone. People still want to hurt me!"
"And they won't Weiss, that's why I'm here." I reassure her as I hear a truck come to a stop behind me.
"We found her and her guard sir, we will bring them back as fast as possible. One appears to be injured." A voice yells from behind me. Thank god for phone calls.
This chapter was fun to write, got to finally do another fight scene. Now that Weiss is safely at Beacon I can flush out her overall feelings and character. If you have any idea's PM, they are always welcome. As for Devin he will still be watching her, it will take a lot more than that to kill him.