Author's note: just this chapter and two more until I'm finished with Volume 4. Also possible lemony chapter up ahead. Remember you all asked for it, or someone asked it. Hopefully this won't be reported, please tell me after I make the chapter. Also future notice: don't let your perverted friend come up with code names, here's why.
The team of RWBYCT was about to stop a warehouse full of illegal dust shipping. Church started to think of a strategy with Ruby when Tucker got in front of the group. He put a finger in the air, "Alright before we go in, we'll be using code names. You will call me Eagle 1." He said as he listed off the names.
He started with Weiss, "Weiss will be: Been there done that." He said receiving a disgusted look from Weiss.
Then moved on to Yang, "Yang is: currently doing that." He smiled as Yang gave Tucker a wink.
He then looked at Blake, "Blake is: If I had to choose a furry." He said as he made Blake put her head down to avoid blushing.
He then looked at Church, "Church is: it happened once in a dream." He said.
Church replied with a confused, "Wait, What!?" asking with anger in the last part.
Tucker lastly turned his attention towards Ruby, "And Ruby is Eagle 2." He finished.
That's why, anyway, back to the story.
The group was getting back to their adventure, just another day, "Another day, another adventure!" Nora said.
Ruby shared a similar enthusiasm, "What's on the agenda today?" She asked in her usually cheerful voice.
Jaune replied with a normal tone, "Walking." He said.
Nora wanted a better answer, "With a side of...?" She asked waiting for someone to finish her sentence.
Ren finished in his normal tone, "Walking." He said they stayed on Agenda.
Ruby sighed as they followed the same routine, "Haven is a lot farther away than I thought." Ruby said as they continued to walk towards the next village.
Ren sped up to Ruby, "Ruby...How long did you think this journey was going to take?" He asked.
Ruby attempted to avoid eye contact, "I don't know. I grew up in a small area; I've never been this far away from home." She let out.
Jaune who was still staring at the map joined the conversation, "Right, but...how long?" Jaune asked.
Ruby slightly whispered the answer, "Maybe like uh...two weeks." She said her estimation.
Jaune was shocked, "What?!" He shouted.
"Okay fine, three or something. Look whatever." Ruby said trying to avoid the argument, "Hey, what's that?" She asked seeing something up ahead.
Nora hopped onto a wooden post, Jaune continued looking at the map, "That's strange, I didn't think we'd be hitting another village for few days." He said as he viewed the map.
Nora noticed something about the town, "Are those buildings...damaged?" She asked the team.
Locus took action as a secondary leader, "Move out, and look for survivors." He ordered as Jaune dropped the map to rush to anyone's aid.
When the team arrived in the center of the town, the buildings were not destroyed, just unfinished. The group split up, "Anything?" Ruby asked.
Nora, who was up on a building responded, "Nothing over here." She yelled down.
Jaune who was only on the right side of the street responded, "No one over here either." He said.
Ren was viewing the ground, "It almost seems like the town was abandoned." He mentioned.
Pyrrah found something in the center of town, "Hey, I think I found something." She shouted. She found a sign in the town's center, "Oniyuri..." She read. "Haven't heard of it." She noted.
Locus messed with the device on his wrist, "Doesn't show up on any database I know of." He said
Ren looked at the ground, "I have...You might think of it as Anima's Mountain Glenn." He started, "had it never been completed. Years ago, the richest members of Mistral were unhappy with how the kingdom was being run. Frustrated with the council, they pooled their resources together to build their own city. With their own laws, they hoped that one day, it could maybe even become it's own kingdom. Many thought it would be the future. I know my parents did." He said as he walked away from the team.
Ruby became curious, "What happened?" She asked.
Ren wiped part of some cement, "What always happens..." He said not needing to finish off.
Jaune finished Ren's thought, "The Grimm." He said.
Ren clenched his fist as he continued, "Not just any one." He said.
Ruby was now confused, "One?" She asked.
Jaune noticed birds move in the distance, "Come on, let's just get through here. This place gives me the creeps." he added. With that they all began to walk off, away from the city.
[Timeskip]
The group was nearing the end of the city, and moving somewhere else, but Locus lifted his fist in the air. He was picking up something strange on his motion tracker, something fast, he pulled out his sword and prepared for a fight.
Out of nowhere, a man in a black overcoat came leaping over the building next to them. He aimed in front of the team as he pulled out axes on his wrist revealing his weapons. He aimed at Ruby but Ren intercepted and fought him with his knives both attempted to slash the other. Ren blocked his axes with his knives while attempting to shoot him, however before he landed a shot the man kicked him away.
Locus was about to join in, when out the corner of his eye, he saw three knives aiming for him flying out of nowhere. He went up against the knives as he was followed by an attack against a spiked robot, colored orange and black. He lept back as the mechanical monstrosity tried to slash him in the gut. Placing himself out of the fight against the overcoat cloaked man with a ponytail.
The ponytail man with a crazed look in his eyes went after Ruby, who followed Locus's pattern and blocked hits as she backed up. She avoided being hit however the man spun around and dropped her aura as he made contact with her scythe.
He then lept in the air as he landed on Jaune's shield, he looked at Jaune with some weird lunatic look in his eyes. Nora attempted to hit him Jaune's shield, but the man lept off the shield and off of Nora's hammer, and into a building.
He was doing a split between the buildings as he looked down at the team, Locus was kicked into the circle of the team from his enemy. Jaune was the first to respond, "We're not looking for a fight." He shouted.
Ren had a different question, "Who are you?" He asked.
The man basked in the dust for a second before flipping down to the group below, "Who I am matters not to you, or you, or...well you do interest me." He said as he pointed to Ren then Nora and lastly Jaune, "No, I only matter...to you." He said pointing to Ruby.
Everyone looked at Ruby, "Me?" Ruby asked as she was confused as the rest.
The man began to laugh crazily as if she was supposed to know, "You...you haven't the slightest clue do you? Oh how exciting this must be!" He said overjoyed.
Ruby began to grow impatient, "What do you want?" She asked as she clenched her fist.
He put his hand on his chest, as if threatened, "Oh, the rose has thorns, My little flower I'm here to whisk you away with me." He said as he made a flying motion with his hand.
Nora stood in front of Ruby for protection, "Well what if she doesn't want to go with you?" Nora asked, clearly urging to back down.
Here looked at Nora blankly before smiling, "Well I'll take her." He said.
Jaune then stood in front of Nora, "We're not going to let you do that." He said.
It took him a long time to respond with his eyes slowly opening, "Good." He said as his eyes shot open.
Like a bullet he instantly went behind Jaune, "Jaune." Ren warned his friend, he fired at Jaune's shield forcing the man out of the path of the ricocheted bullets. The man lept onto Jaune's shield as he spun around, Ruby got to close and ended up being kicked out of the way. Jaune tried to slice his head, however he missed and ended up being kicked to the floor and then out of the way.
Pyrrah tried to do the move she showed Jaune but couldn't get her moves to go fast enough, she was knocked back but right before throwing her shield at the man. The shield hit his head as he was distracted treating his minor injury by feeling if it was good.
Locus went back to fighting the robot who seemed familiar in a way, by slashing back at the robot, chasing it with each leap. The robot pulled town kitanas from his back, then clicked a button, turning them into bladed whips. Locus tried to block each of the whiplashes as he was getting close to being cut. He kept trying to get close to permanently damage it but to no luck.
Back to the fight against the kidnapper, now being slightly stunned Nora moved up, before getting close to him Nora was shot by Ruby's scythe. The kidnapper laughed as he looked back at Ruby, "Well, if that isn't ironic." He said as he turned his back towards Nora.
However he didn't know the shot wasn't aimed for him, with Nora's hammer sparking so much it way difficult to keep it a secret. Nora sped up so quick, that within a second she was about to launch him backwards with her hammer. Her hammer made contact with something, but it was difficult to see given the huge dust cloud that had formed. When the dust settled, her hammer had hit his tail, his scorpion tail, he was a faunus. The kidnapper joked as he revealed his secret, "Surprise." He said.
He spun around, did a triple kick, and sent Nora flying back, all while doing a back flip losing his overcoat in the process. Ren was the first to reply to this, "He's...a faunus." He said in awe.
Ruby wanted answers, "What is this about? The White Fang? Roman Torchwick?" She asked hoping for an answer.
The scorpion faunus stood tall, "Plastic soldiers and pawns. My heart and body belong only to our goddess." He said as he put his hands out wide.
Ruby wondered who the goddess could be, "Cinder?" She asked.
The faunus laughed maniacally again, "Only in her wildest dreams." He said as he hopped straight towards the group as he was now attacking with his tail now at the group. Aiming for Ruby's body until she lept away, then moved towards Ren, aiming for his head.
Far away in the distance a crow was flying in towards the group, along with something else running through the woods to their position.
Locus was beaten badly as he had bruises now on his face, and cuts across the sides of it. He barely had the strength to stand, but he spoke, "I know who you look like, and I have to say, Hargrove finally made you the perfect mercenary without that mouth, huh?" He said coughing blood. The robot said nothing as it walked to Ruby and the group casually as though not even scratched.
One by one team JNPRRL, minus Locus were dropping like flies going up against the faunus. He relentlessly attacked Ruby with his axe gauntlets, he launched her in the air, then ran to her next fall point, and stomped her stomach, depleting her aura. He slowly walked over to her with his yellow eyes now purple, stinger ready to strike at any moment. It looked like the end of Ruby's adventures, but not today.
Just before the stinger made contact with her, a sword came in between her and the stinger. She looked up to see who saved her, to see none other than uncle Qrow, she grew a warm smile seeing his face. Qrow looked down at Ruby with a smile, "Hey." was all he said.
But while he was looking at Ruby the robot from before, launched five knives from his arms aimed directly at Ruby. Qrow couldn't move, because he was holding the faunus's tail with his sword, leaving Ruby open for that attack. All seemed lost until, a swift cobalt blur, wielding a bamboo stick using it as a staff, came out of nowhere and deflected the knives. Ruby looked up at her unknown saviour, "Who are you?" She asked.
The saviour turned around as Ruby saw him wearing long black pants, and a cobalt t-shirt that cut up the middle, showing off his abs. She looked to see a cobalt headband in front of a shaved head, but she knew who the face was thanks to the eyes. The cobalt survivalist lifted his head so he could see Ruby, "Hey Rubes. Guess who's back..." He said.
OMG , the new volume trailer for RWBY came out, who's going to see if I can make 3 chapters before then? And yes I made Church's head shaved, I'll explain it later. Now continue reading.
Church lifted Ruby by her hand, as he did something he wanted to do despite her uncle being there. He spun her off her heels as he kissed her like it has been years, he almost forgot how her lips tasted like cherry. He stopped to say something, "Sorry I took so long to get back." He said.
Qrow was able to shake off the scorpion faunus, "Hey, you want to kiss my niece after the ass-kicking we have to give?" He asked.
Church nodded as he grabbed his bow staff, until Ruby stopped him, "Wait, I have something for you," she said as she pulled out something from her bag, "You need this." She said as she handed him, Alpha, his sword. "I had to melt the other weapons to make it better." She admitted.
Church brushed her short hair out of her face, "Don't worry Rubes, I only need this." He said as he stood by Qrow as the robot and the faunus stood together.
The psychotic faunus smiled, "Oh, As I live and breathe, Qrow Brawnwen and the infamous Leonard Church. True huntsmen have entered the fray." He said as if being thankful.
Qrow and Church looked back at Ruby hoping for an answer on this guy, "I don't know, this guy's weird." She said.
Qrow had his sword ready, "Look, pal, I'm not sure who you are, but you need to leave my niece alone." He said with his rough voice.
The faunus chortled, "Why, friends, my name is Tyrian, the metal mayhem next to me is the F-3-L-1-X. And I'm afraid that is not possible. Our assignment from Her Grace was to retrieve this young girl. So that is what I must do. One does not upset the Queen." He said as his tail kept twirling.
Church looked to Qrow, "Queen?" He asked.
Qrow's stare stayed on Tyrian, "Salem." He said just barely audible.
Ruby and Church were both confused, "Who?" They both asked.
Tyrian was getting bored of the chatter, "Hmm, I think we've had enough talk now, don't you?" He asked as him and his robotic companion got into a battle stance.
Church and Qrow shared a look, "You took the words right out of my-" Qrow didn't get to finish his sentence as he was immediately attacked by Tyrian. Immediately the moves became so fast you could hardly see them, just the slashing sounds mixed with Qrow's powerful slash. Qrow's powerful slash made a building a hundred meters away get partly crumpled. He grinned as Tyrian did the same for a different reason, as he began to fire two barreled machine guns. He aimed them both at Qrow when he freed himself from Qrow, however Qrow blocked every bullet. Ren and Nora attempted to join the fight but were almost instantly kicked back to their previous spot. Tyrian ran like a cheetah towards Ruby again, but was stopped by Qrow.
Church went up against the Felix knockoff robot as he used his longsword against the two kitanas. He slashed the Sideways as the robot backed up from him, he then transformed his kitanas to whips. As he attempted to make hit Church he grabbed onto Church's weapon, big mistake. Church used his force to pull the Felix-bot to him as he laser blasted him in the face knocking him down as Church kicked him away fifty meters. He reassembled himself as he got his parts flipped around, he went on all fours and sprinted straight to Ruby. However, he failed to realize, Church grabbed his leg and spun him over to where Tyrian and Qrow were as he joined him in the standoff.
Church and Qrow held their ground against the two driven maniacs, "Don't get closer." They both urged themselves.
Ruby hated being useless in this situation, "Fine." she said as she ran up a building. She tried aiming at Tyrian but Qrow was too close, so she checked on Church but he was in the path of the bullet to the Felix-bot. Church was holding his sword between the two kitanas before they were flung to a wall. Qrow was trying to avoid being shot while avoiding being stung, but when he dodged the stinger it wrapped around his hand sending his sword flying to the same wall Church's weapon was on.
A gunshot flew near Tyrian's head and landed on F-3-L-1-X's arm, the two were confused about what happened. As gunshots kept firing, Tyrian's tail kept deflecting the shots from Ruby as the Felix-bot simply scanned where the shot came from. Church cracked his knuckles as Qrow did the same with one hand. The two began to punch the Felix-bot and Tyrian square in the face Church went for gut shots while Qrow aimed for the face. The two of them knocked the two of them back with a heavy kick to the stomach region. The both of them walked towards their weapons stuck on the wall as they scoffed at the enemies. While the enemies growled and began to come up with a plan Qrow and Church made it to their weapons.
Tyrian and F-3-L-1-X then striked, but walked right into a trap, Church turned his sword to a sniper just in ttime to roll out of the way and fire off three bullets at the robot's chest. Qrow turned his sword into a scythe just in time as he avoided Tyrian and landed on the roof of the building above them. Church kept firing off rounds making the bot stun with each shot forcing him to back up. Qrow was trying to maintain balance while fighting Tyrian, on the wooden roof of some type of house. He was able to catch him off guard and forced him to fall into the darkness of the house, but as he tried to leap away, his leg was caught by Tyrian's tail.
Ruby saw Qrow disappear and Church tackle the Felix-bot behind the building and out of sight. She immediately worried for the both of them, she slid down with her scythe then fired, slowing her decent. When she came within a good distance of the building Qrow was seen flying out the building but was somehow able to stand balanced on his sword. Church was next as he came sliding back sword digging into the stone cut ground.
The two readied for more attacks, as the four all charged each other, a red blur came between them.
Locus, who was slowly coming in, knew who the red blur was, "Ruby!" he shouted.
Tyrian was confused what she was doing, "Do you wish to be taken?!" He asked.
Ruby shook her head, "No, but I won't stand by and watch someone get hurt." She said looking back at Church and Qrow.
Ruby, Church and Qrow charged together at the two devilish killers, all blades clashing as Church and Qrow were kicked back. Ruby held F-3-L-1-X and Tyrian back until Church and Qrow reentered the fight as they held each other at point bay. Qrow grew furious, "Ruby! What did I say?! Get back!" He yelled.
Ruby readied her weapon, "This is my fight too!" She shouted as she tried to sweep Tyrian's legs.
Qrow attempted to explain, "No, it's not that, it's-" He was too late, for she had already begun her charge. She swiped at Tyrian but fell back right under a huge piece of lumber falling on top of her. Luckily Qrow sliced the board right down the middle of the length, he was happy to save Ruby.
He failed to see Tyrian's plan, as Qrow cut across the gut by his tail, Church attempted to rush towards Qrow's aid but was put into a choke. He was slowly being lifted off the ground as he couldn't get out of the iron grip of the robot. Light was fading until Locus came out of invisibility and slashed through the robot's arm, cut straight through it's stomach and gashed at it's face. Ruby helped her uncle by using her scythe to cut across Tyrian's tail. He screamed in pain, on the verge of going into shock, "You bitch!" He screamed in anger.
Church who recovered his breathe had aimed his sword at Tyrian, "What did you call her?" He asked, begging he'd say the answer so Church could kill him.
The two, now crippled psychos were beginning to retreat, "She'll forgive you." He said as the two ran off.
the group then turned to Qrow and Locus who were in painful states, "Uncle Qrow are you okay?" Ruby asked.
Qrow panted heavily, "I'll be fine. He just grazed me." He said showing the gash to his stomach.
The group all had questions:
"Who was that guy?" asked Nora.
"How did you get here?" asked Ren.
"Why are people after Ruby?" Pyrrah asked.
Ruby, who asked a question summarizing all of them, "Uncle Qrow? What's going on?" She asked with everyone hoping for an answer.
With a few more breathes he asked, "What's your favorite fairy tale?" and then he nearly passed out.
Author's note: normally I'd give a huge speech but, I want to finish this before Saturday, so til next chapter, hopefully done by Wednesday or Tuesday.