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Somehow I survived the wave of angry fans after what I wrote in the last chapter and my beta reader Reddlotus ditched me.
ReddLotus: Hey, I'm a sadist leave me be, plus it's pretty boring being in the void
Yeah, sure (¬_¬)
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Chapter 37: Re-gear up!
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Oh, Oum.
I only had been 1 minute in the elevator leading to professor Ozpin's office and I already hated the music. Couldn't it play something much better like Metallica or Led Zeppelin? Damn, even Nickelback would be fine if it could stop the annoying tune I was listening the whole trip.
Maybe you're wondering why I was heading to the headmaster's office. I was in middle of breakfast when Goodwitch asked me to head over there after I was done eating, so I finished my cereal, gave a kiss to Ruby and said goodbye to the guys.
All the way I was thinking about the reason to be called. I've already told everything I knew about what happened in the ware house during the interrogation so it wouldn't be for it. Maybe he just wanted to be sure I was fine.
Yesterday, after returning to the room, I had to tell everyone about the information I had and the shady business that my former father has had and the reason I had been forbidden from going home. Everyone looked angry for what he had done and I didn't blame them, even Nora offered herself to break his legs. They also knew my reason why I hadn't gave the research to any authority to perform the arrest. Some prostested against it but they undestood I care about the wellbeing of my mother and sisters. But still they gave me their support if something happened and that was enough for me.
With a simple ding, the metallic doors opened letting me access to the office.
Gears. Gears everywhere. From the walls to the ceiling, the latter with huge ones rotating slowly. Only the floor and the window in front of me were normal. Guess what does the desk had below its transparent surface: MORE GEARS! Behind it and sitting on (dick shaped?) chair was professor Ozpin with General Ironwod and Goodwitch standing at his sides.
"Good morning, Kaiden," the headmaster greeted me. "I apologize for interrupting your Saturday."
"Don't worry, professor. I had no big plans for today," I assured.
"Besides spending time with your girlfriend?" he said with a sly grin.
"Besides that," I replied shyly.
"Then we won't take much of your time. How are you feeling today?"
So, was that the reason I was there after all?
"I feel good. My memories are back, I had a good fight yesterday and it's good spend time with my friends."
"That sounds great," Ozpin said smiling. "I'm glad you're doing it fine after what you've been through lately."
Something in that sentence caught my attention. It didn't sound like if he only was talking about my memories or my fight in the warehouse, but something else. That only could mean something.
I sighed deeply and asked "You know what happened yesterday, don't you? About my father and me?"
Their looks grimaced as the headmaster's smile vanished.
"Sadly, yes. Just what we could see and hear through the surveillance cameras in the hallway."
"I'm sorry you had to see that," I apologized.
"You don't have to," Ozpin declared. "The three of us consider you as a good student and person for your performance in your classes and the feats you've accomplished. Moreover, you have been called by the latter."
"What do you mean?" I asked confused.
"Let's remember some weeks ago," the headmaster started explaining. "You woke up in the infirmary after the Soul Reaper's mark began to burn on your chest. After realizing miss Rose wasn't there and maybe in danger, you decided to rush on her aid, even if you were forced to stay. Do you remember how did you manage to get away?"
"Of course," I afirmed. "What I did was- ooooooooooh."
Glynda had me trapped using her jedi-like telekinesis and the General was trying to reason with me. I tossed them dark blades, distracting the pair, and getting away. I was in deep shit.
"Even if I admire your courage to go against two huntsmen to help a friend (or loved one), it's still frowned upon to attack a professor and a general," the headmaster declared as the two mentioned huntsmen nodded in agreement. "Don't worry. We won't expell you or getting you in detention, but you have to remember that each action has its consequence."
A chill ran down my back.
"We've come to an deal with professor Ozpin," Glynda said with a satisfied smile. "During the next week, you'll be assisting me in several tasks after classes."
Great. Back to the paperwork.
"And after you're done with it," Ironwood spoke "you'll be assisting Atlas with a project the Research and Development department is working on. But we'll talk about it the next week when you're done helping Glynda."
"Well, looks like I'll be busy," I said in defeat.
"Relax," the general comforted me, smiling kindly. "I'm sure you'll find it quite interesting."
"I agree," Ozpin said taking a sip of his coffee. "It's a great honor to work in the development of such amazing project."
"Got it," I replied having the comment on mind. I looked at the huntress "Then I'll start with my tasks on Monday, right?"
"Correct," she answered. "I'll meet you at my office after classes."
I nodded "Then I'm leaving if there's nothing more to talk about."
"Very well," Ozpin said. "For now enjoy the weekend."
"Thank you, professor," I said before heading to the elevator.
"And, Kaiden," Ozpin called me and I turned around "if you need something, need help or just want to talk, do not hesistate to let us know. The wellbeing of our students is our priority."
"Got it." I was about to leave when I stoppped on my tracks and looked at the headmaster "Now that you mention it..."
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In the distance, Forever Fall raised the red crown of its trees letting us know how far it was as the red spot stretched beyond in the horizon.
The day was sunny with some clouds slowly traversing the blue sky as the weather was telling us the summer was coming to its end, autumn was next and winter... ehem, winter is coming.
"How far are we?" Ruby asked.
"10 minutes tops," I answered.
I got permission from Goodwitch to go to the red forest and retrieve the remainings of my former weapon and give it a proper farewell, and I thought it'd be nice to spend time with Ruby.
"We still have a long way ahead," Blake commented.
Yeah, Blake is our... chaperone.
Yang's orders.
We couldn't go by ourselves if someone wasn't watching over her sister in case I 'tried' something, so Blake was our best choice, because taking Weiss would mean non-stop whinning about being tired all the way to the woods. Yang said she couldn't tag along because she had some business to attend, but that was bullshit as we all knew she only wanted to be a lazy ass watching movies in the room using my Netflix account (after forcing me to create her profile).
Luckily, Blake was cool.
After some minutes, we finally went into the forest and kelp walking until we got until certain cliff. The place where I reunited with RWBY during the fight against the grimm and unleash the true nature of my semblance.
After descending to the bottom, I took a little detour to retrieve something stuck in a trunk.
My hunting knife was still in the same place where it got stuck after I threw it charged with my aura against the Reaper to harm it. The handle was getting covered in moss but the blade was almost the same, only being necessary a good cleaning. I open the backpack I was carrying to get the cover of the hunting knife before I hang it on my left.
Then we followed the track of destruction I had created weeks ago with every tree damaged until we got to the clearing where everything began.
At seeing the place, my mind went back to that day: my chest in pain with the mark burning with intensity, my ragged breath, Ruby laying unconscious in middle of the clearing.
"Kaiden!"
I went back to the present with someone shaking my shoulder. Ruby and Blake were looking at me worried for taking a walk in memory lane.
"Oh, sorry," I apologized. "I think I spaced out."
My girl looked at me worried.
"Remembering that day?" she asked.
I didn't answer and my stare went back at the open space.
Blake looked at us awkwardly in that silence "I think I'll be reading over there."
Then she headed to the closest tree, jumped to a branch, and took out a book (*cough* smut *cough*) from Oum knows where, but still giving us curious looks peeking over it. I didn't pay attention to the girl and kept observing to the clearing.
I didn't realize I walk to center of the place. My mind was filled of images and sensations I'd like to forget like claws slashing my flesh, the rotten breath of the Reaper, the arrowhead tail stabbing me, my hand slapping Ruby.
I flinched when a hand grabbed my left one. Ruby looked worried before I caressed her forearm, where there was mark... a Soul Reaper's mark.
"I'm sorry," I whispered. "Because of me, you were hurt and almost had the same burden as mine because the Reaper knew how so precious you're for me and used you against me. And now you were almost hurt defending me from Nathaniel."
"Kai, we already talked about this," she answered me placing her hand on mine. "It wasn't your fault. I got caught easily and I was marked because I was scared, and I defended you because I love you and couldn't see you being hurt. You need to stop punishing yourself like this."
I sighed "You're right. I'll just need some time to leave all of it in the past."
"Well," Ruby wrapped her arm around my neck and smiled me tenderly "I'm more than willing to help you with it."
She pressed sweet her lips on mine as I hugged her and got her closer to me. Ruby knew what to do to cheer me up before she finally let me go.
Out of the corner of my eye I could see certain incognito faunus girl peeking at us blushing behind her book (*cough* more smut *cough*) and her concealed cat hears twitching like crazy under her dark bow.
A wicked grin grew on my face.
"You know, maybe we can add someone else to our relationship," I told my girl winking hoping she understand what I planning to do.
Ruby seemed confused some seconds before the same wicked grin appeared on her face. Luckily, the mischief was strong in her as her sister.
"Ooooh! I like the idea. Who do you have in mind?" She asked feigning innocence.
"I don't know... maybe... Blake."
The girl's amber eyes fluttered open when her name was said with her body stiffening. Her nails clutched hard on her books and I could her face getting redder.
"I was thinking the same," Ruby agreed still playing along. Who would knew that the girl was so malevolent? "I've never kissed a girl and less a faunus, but I feel curious about it."
I could see Blake barely could handle all the info she was getting as steam was coming out of her ears (four of them) and her face was like a tomato.
It's time for the final touch.
"There's a way to find it out," then I looked to the peeper. "What do you think, Blake?"
Blake yelped startled when I directed to her, causing her to briefly lose the balance on the branch she was sitting and fall to the ground. Heh, the cats really land on their feet.
Ruby and me totally lost it and bursted in laughs seeing the flusttered girl squating after the landing with the book clutched in her hand. We couldn't defend ourselves from the attack of an angry cat, who left us matching bumps on our heads.
As Ruby kept apologizing and calming down Blake, something caught my attention in the distance. When I got closer I found the handle of a weapon and next to it the rest. The metal was already rusty after all those weeks forgotten outdoors, the mecanism which enabled its transformation was jammed and the barrel was totally bent. Slayer was beyond repair.
I carefully placed it inside the backpack I was carrying. This weapon had been with me all those years and it needed a well-deserved rest.
Before that, I needed to save my girlfriend from Blake.
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The trip back to Beacon was filled with chat, jokes (some teasing Blake about the fake menage a trois) and a long walk until we reached the academy. Once we were on the grounds, we crossed the whole campus before heading to the piers. The passage was next to the landing plataforms with a long staircase leading us to our destination.
When we arrived to the last step, a voice greeted us tenderly.
"About time you finally arrived!" Weiss was standing next to a bench facing the lake.
"Sorry, we had a little break in the cafeteria," Ruby explained holding her bag of cookies. Then she took out a frapuccino from the another plastic bag she was carrying "We got something for you too."
The heiress hesistated some seconds before giving up and snatching the drink from her hands "You're forgiven... for now."
If you don't speak Schnee, she meant 'Thank you'.
"So, where is it?" Blake asked.
"Oh, yeah," Weiss exclaimed after a long sip to her drink. "Miss Goodwitch showed me the one that will be used. It's over here."
We followed Weiss, but, instead of going over the docks, we went along the rocky shore on our left. We kept walking until something made me stop in my tracks.
I remembered that place. The rain over me. My life fading away. Ruby begging me to stay with her. The place where I died.
I shook my head from those thoughts. What's going on that day with those flashbacks? I needed to leave it in the past and enjoy the second chance I got. Now I had reasons to live.
"I still remember that day," I didn't realize Ruby was next to me staring at the same spot as I was holding my hand. "When I was unconscious after being branded by the Reaper, I could see the fight through your eyes and almost could feel your pain. Weiss had launched you when I managed to wake up and rush where you were heading. I saw you using your gauntlet to get closer to the grimm, cut in half and then fall to the lake. I barely made it to the docks when you hit the water and jumped into the water to get you. Once I got on the shore, I sent a distress call and tried to wake you up. When you did..." I could see her eyes were getting wet "Sorry. I told you I'd help you to leave it behind but looks like I still have deal with it."
"It's ok," I squezeed her hand "After all, I'm more than willing to help you with it."
Ruby gave a warm smile as she whipped her forming tears before pulling me towards where Weiss and Blake were waiting for us "Let's go."
The girls waited for us next to a small boat, not bigger than a desk, enough for one person. The wood seemed old and almost ready to sink, which was perfect for what I was going to do. From the backpack took out a plastic bag with dry leaves we recollected at Forever Fall and emptied it inside the small boat until almost covering the floor with everyone's help. Once it was done, I retrieved Slayer's remainings and placed them carefully inside.
An atlesian funeral, but, instead of a king or knight, I was giving a honorable farewell to the sword that I had used to fight many times during the last 7 years.
I pushed the boat sending it inside the lake, floating peacefully on the clear water reflecting the blue sky.
We stayed silent watching Slayer floating away until Blake talked.
"Now, who's firing the arrow?"
"The what?" I asked confused.
"The arrow on fire that it's supposed to burn the boat, you dunce," Weiss explained.
The gears in my head started working until I understood what she meant.
Crap.
I knew I was forgetting something.
I didn't know someone who could lend me a bow with arrows, and when I could find one the boat would be almost in Vale.
Then I had an idea.
"Anyone has Fire Dust?" I asked.
"What for?" Ruby asked.
"I came up with a new trick."
"I have," Weiss told me opening her puch and giving the red crystal. "What do you have in mind?"
"Just check this out," I told them standing next the water.
I put my hands together with the Dust between them, and focused my aura around it. I could feel a warmth coming from the crystal as black flames sorrounded my hands. I pulled back my right hand while a fine blazing black arrow appeared in the space that was generated with the left one, which remained straight holding the Dust. I aimed the boat in the distance, took a deep breath and let it go flying towards its objective. The arrow made a perfect arc before landing in middle of the boat and the flames started engulfing it all.
"Wow!" my girl exclaimed amazed "Nice shot!"
"Thanks," I didn't have the courage to explain that, since the arrow was made of my aura, I could control its trajectory easily.
For the moment, we just sat down on the ground and looked how the little boat was slowly consumed by the fire and my former weapon was getting its final rest until...
BAM!
I remembered that there was live ammunition inside and I forgot to retrieve it.
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After walking around Vale looking around for a place where I could get my armor fixed and get some material for my gauntlets, Ruby leaded me to a shop that she assured me had everything I needed. Luckily the owner knew Ruby and gave us a good discount (and some teasing to her about finally getting a nice boy to marry instead of her scythe), besides taking care of my armor and my hunting knife.
We didn't stayed around the city too long before going back to Vale because Ruby was so anxious to get started working. By the time the shuttle landed and the doors opened, she grabbed my hand and used her semblance to get us to the forge at full speed with all the material in my backpack. Before I knew it, we were already there in less than a minute.
"Be right back," she told me. "I'll bring the gauntlets."
"I'm gonna need my laptop..."
"No say more!"
Then she disappeared leaving the usual trail of roses behind. I just chuckled at my girl's excitement and headed to one of the vacant tables to get the material ready.
It didn't took long before Ruby returned with everything in her arms before she placed them on the table. I gave her a kiss in the forehead as reward and started with the job.
I started dismantling the gauntlets on by one until I had the most importnat part of all.
"What's that?" Ruby asked looking at the green circuit board in my hand.
"This a special kind of motherboard, Ruby," I explained connecting the piece to my laptop. "It's programmed with every command to operate Faith and Force with resistance to shock and heat over 100°C."
The data was displayed on the screen and the diagnostic of each motherboard indicated that everything was alright and source code intact. I let go a sigh of relief "Thankfully both are fine. If any of them were damaged, it wouldn't be good".
"Why?" Ruby asked. "Are they expensive?"
"These motherboards only could be found inside the head of a discontinued version of Atlesian Knight. Alice arrived at the cabin with two robots after a mission in Atlas. The plate was used for her armor and some parts were used for the training dummy we used during our practices. Actually, she used one of the helmets as the vase in the living room."
"Oh! I knew there was something curious about it."
"Yeah. When I had the inspiration design the gauntlets, I looked a way to program the commands until I found the motherboards among the junk. I spent some time checking online tutorials to learn how to configurate it until I had the basic. After that, it was just experimenting."
And by experimenting I mean slamming my face against the wall and fall on my ass a lot of times.
We spent the next hours molding the new cover with carbon fiber sheets we bought and making some modifications to the original design. The cable used before was replaced with a thin galvanized wire, more resistant and light. The fingerless gloves were replaced for another ones more durable. Dust slots were installed so I could use them with my aura. The arrowhead in the end of the cables were changed for a small magnetic cylinder that also had claws in case of hitting something the magnet didn't recognized as metal.
We could had been working on it all day and night if Yang hadn't dragged us for dinner after I secured the equipment inside one of the lockers in the room. Still we continued talking about new features but we had to stop thinking about it when Ruby insisted on installing a granade launcher, not caring if the recoil could break my arm.
I loved seeing her like that, joyful and full of energy talking about the kinds of metal, configuration of cables and other things. She really loved creating weapons and improving with teh purpouse of protecting people against the grimm and those who want to ham.
That only made me fall in love with her even more.
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Warm blanket.
Soft pillow.
Perfect position of my body.
Total fatigue after a hard day.
Hours ago, these fours elements joined together to let me sleep in harmony... then everything changed when the Ruby Nation attacked
"Kai, it's morning!" she said rolling me back and forth tying to get me up.
I mumbled something like 'one hour please' and wrapped myself with my blanket in a warm coccon. But she still insisted until I had no option and left the protection of my coccon made of blanket, wrapped my arms around her and brought her down with me. She started struggling to get rid of that hold, but she gave up and fell asleep in my arms.
As for me, I slept a little more.
"Alright, that's enough," a pissed off voice exclaimed. "You have 5 seconds to release ny sister."
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After waking up (and before Yang send me to another near-death experience), we got ready and went to get our breakfast and heading to the forge to finish the last details of the gauntlets... this time with Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora and Ren being our chaperons.
After having them well assembled, the gauntlets Faith and Force 2.0 were back in action. Their size were reduced and they were much lighter than the previous version. Feeling my hand sliding inside the gloves was amazing sensation, almost like feeling complete again. This time both gauntlets were painted black and silver with the name of each one engraved on a side: Force being the right and Faith the left.
"How can you know which one goes in each hand?" Jaune asked.
"It's easy," I replied. I raised my righ arm "The Force is right to be used to protect those we love and who needs help." Then I reaised the left one "And when it looks like everything is gone, Faith is what's left."
"That sounds almost poetic," Ren said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Nora exclaimed eager. "Enough chatty chat and more action. Let's see what it can do!"
I decided to fulfill the wishes of the panacake-addicted girl and pointed Force at one of the metal beams on the ceiling. It felt weird not feeling the little recoil that the gauntlet used to produce. The cylinder hit its objetive and the magnetic feature went into action by being firmly fixed on the metal surface. Jerking back the arm activated the command to being pulled towards the beam, several meters from the ground.
"How's the view over there?" Ruby asked from the ground.
"I'm Spiderman, y'all!" I answered before aiming to another beam with Faith, getting the same result. Then I lowered slowly until I felt the floor under my feet. "Now, for the next trick, I'll need a volunteer. Nora, if you don't mind."
The orange haired girl stepped foward as I aimed one of the gauntlets.
When I fired the cable, the end impacted on Nora with the sensor detecting the lack of metal and activating the little claws that clung to her clothes. Pressing another sensor with my thumb, several electric arc traveled from my arm through the cable until the metallic end united to Nora.
What happened next... well... how can I explain it?
"Hmmmmmmm... YEEEEESSSS!" she exclaimed with the most erotic moan I've ever heard in my life.
I suddenly stopped the charge as we werre astonished by that unexpected reaction.
When the electricity stopped flowing, Nora collapsed sitting on the floor, her red face full of pleasure, legs trembling, as her whole body poured out smoke and sweat.
"That felt sooooooo good," she exclaimed with lust in her voice. She took out a pancake from nowhere, rolled it, and put in her mouth like a cigarette. "Now, if you excuse me, I'll take a nice long, shower."
Then she left with her legs still trembling after the wave of pleasure she received seconds ago, leaving Ruby, Jaune, Pyrrha, a flabbergasted Ren and me in the forge still in shock after what happened.
"Did she.." Pyrrha started asking.
"Yes..." I replied.
"Will we talk about this?" Ruby asked.
"No," Jaune deapanned.
Then Ren fell to the ground unconsious.
I don't blame him.
After all, my gauntlet made Nora had an orgasm.
I bet you didn't see it cumming.
ReddLotus- Mental note to self: Never in my god damm love fe shoot Nora with an electric cable... EVER
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