"Well, that was uneventful..." Ravage sighed as he walked back into the log cabin with Akiko, Seijitsu, Hanako and Impa behind the little kitsune. It was the dead of night and the group had spent the day out hoping to stumble upon either something that would lead them to the airship Ravage had encountered that morning or more of the special Grimm Hanako had slain the night prior, or even something else entirely. But all that had encountered was regular Grimm and all they got to see was a couple of new sights. Not bad but not what they had been specifically looking for.
"Guess they cleared out of the region." Akiko shrugged.
"Or they were all taken by someone, most definitely by those on that airship Ravage mentioned." Seijitsu suggested.
"Ah well, we had good weather and got to see a few sights, not too bad." Ravage threw his jacket over one of the arm chairs and proceeded to sit down upon it as Impa closed the front door.
"I'm gonna get a drink." Seijitsu smiled and walked over to the kitchen. Hanako and Akiko took off their weapons and laid them down on the table in front of the couch as Impa rested her broadsword up against the wall and went to hang her shroud up on a coat hanger.
"I'll get the place cozy." Hanako used her hellfire to set the logs in the fireplace ablaze before sitting down next to Akiko on the couch and resting up. "Lovely." She smiled briefly.
"So, what's everybody feeling for dinner?" Ravage looked around after taking off his shoes and putting his feet up on the table.
"Good question." Akiko rubbed her chin before sitting back and putting her arms behind her head. Impa took a seat in the arm chair opposite Ravage and took off her fingerless gloves before sitting back.
"I'm not particularly bothered, I'll take anything." She spoke up.
"Hmm... take out anyone?" Hanako looked around and asked.
"That sounds nice." Seijitsu spoke from the kitchen as she pulled a can of cola out of the fridge.
"I can second that." Ravage chuckled.
"I got no problems with take out." Impa nodded.
"Alright then." Akiko nodded to Hanako. "Well, I'll go get it." She smiled and stood up.
"Really? Well, here's the cash then." Ravage pulled a large sum of lien out of his red pouch.
"You want me to buy an entire store's worth?" Akiko smirked.
"I wouldn't object to it." Ravage shrugged after Akiko took the cash.
"Heheh, I'll see what I can do." Akiko disappeared in an instant via teleportation. A second past and then she immediately reappeared in the same spot. "Wait, what does everyone want?"
"Anything." The others answered.
"Got'cha." Akiko nodded and put her right index and middle finger on her forehead before disappearing again.
"Not sure if that was sad or amusing." Hanako muttered, chuckling a little afterwards as she tapped her forehead.
"Ehh, only some fun." Ravage shrugged and sat back again.
Akiko appeared atop the roof of a takeaway in the middle of the city of the vale and flipped over into the alleyway to her left and upon landing on the ground strolled out of the shadows, and saw the city was alive with people and cars passing on by. Akiko smiled and turned to her right, walking forwards a little before turning to enter the takeaway and get everyone's meals.
Later that night as everyone else was fast asleep, the empty packaging of their meals strewn about on the kitchen side, Impa treaded carefully through the living room and grabbed her huge blade and tattered shroud: closing the door on her way out. Out into the dark, into the cold winds, the stars above twinkling as Impa walked alone. She didn't know where she was going, she just walked and walked, she had chosen to go occupy her mind instead of having it wander whilst she lay in bed. Maybe she could do some good whilst she was out. Impa continued to walk, pressing on through the forest until she came to the edge of a cliff and saw the shining lights of the city of Vale in the distance. Impa stood alone, her blood red shroud flowing in the wind as her broadsword rested on her back. The dazzling distant lights reflected in the Oni's eyes. It was a wild new world, stranger sights surrounded her, but the same lights that always were so distant were here as well. But maybe they didn't have to be so distant. Impa turned away and sighed, turning to face the Grimm that had gathered to see who the demon was. Impa did not ready her weapon, she just walked forward with her power on display: her body wreathed in flame and her crimson eyes glowing brighter than the stars that hung above. The Grimm did not move, they did not attack. Impa's flames subsided and her eyes' glow faded, but her boots kept hitting the ground. It was time to do some good. Her right hand grasped the hilt of her broadsword, and the beowolves stepped back. Impa advanced. The Grimm gathered their courage and rushed forward at last. Black beasts poured forth from the forest, their soulless blood red eyes leaving trails in the dark as their teeth were beared and their claws were readied. Impa narrowed her eyes, her spiky red hair waving in the icy breeze with her shroud. The beowolves lunged at her, the pack surrounding her from left to right. With a single swing five of the Grimm were cut clean in half by the demon's huge blade. Impa held her weapon out to the side, having passed it to her left hand mid-swing as the dead Grimm crashed down in front of her and she rose back up with her shroud flowing behind her. Several more Grimm leapt at her. The Fire Oni took hold of her weapon with both hands and dashed forward, her teeth beared and the moonlight reflecting off of the spikes jutting from her shoulders and elbows.
Impa walked through the streets of Vale, occasionally making quick glances left and right. The streets were mostly empty now, though the odd car drove on past now and again. As Impa continued on and she turned around the next corner, several cop cars speeded on past her and her attention was caught by the blasting noise and the flashing red and blue of their sirens. Impa stopped dead in her tracks and watched them speed away. Seemed like something serious was going on.
"Aww crap..." One rookie White Fang member bitterly remarked as more cop cars showed up outside the building. "Why does everything keep on going wrong for us these days?"
"I told you, we shouldn't have chosen a place that had already been hit, of course they'd add extra security precautions." Another new recruit shouted from across the room.
"I'm not the one who let him sound the alarm. Take the old man to the back, somebody set up some defences... should've took the out of city work..."
"Everybody, get back! We have this under contr..." A warning shot from the White Fang broke a part of one of the front windows of From Dust Till Dawn and cut the policeman off, scaring the gathered crowd of onlookers and disturbed local residents. Impa pushed her way through the crowd and saw the stand-off. "Uhh... Ma'am..." The cut-off cop rose back up from his crouched position. "Please get back. Wait..." He noticed her weapon but Impa had already begun walking past him. "Wait!"
"What... is that a Huntress? Oh for..." A White Fang member shuck his head. "Get something big." He turned his head around.
"What are you doing?!" The cop exclaimed as Impa walked out into the open.
"Mommy, who is that?" A little girl in her pyjamas asked her mother from the crowd.
"I don't know... I think she's a Faunus." The girl's mother replied, holding her child closer.
"Humph." Impa stopped a few feet in front of the barricade of cop cars. Both the White Fang and police stared at the mysterious women in confusion. Impa saw the White Fang quickly set up a machinegun turret. Her eyes narrowed.
"Everyone! Get down!" The police and civilians took to cover. Impa put her first foot forward and quickly picked up speed, running forward.
"Shoot her! Shoot her!" One White Fang member screamed out from the store. Impa backhanded away the first bullet before blocking the rest with her the side of her broadsword whilst she advanced. "Shoot her!" Impa pushed on, blocking each shot. "Argh, take this!" A dust crystal was tossed Impa's way and the Oni punched it away, the crystal exploding off to her left. "Keep firing!" Impa ran with her sword out in front of herself, continuing to block each bullet as she charged along. Impa jumped forward and White Fang dived away from the window. Impa landed where the gunner had stood and looked up to see the Faunus in the room taking aim at her. She kicked a table in front of her and it smashed into the two White Fang members in front of her and knocked them out as they crashed back into a shelf. Impa spun around and blocked shots from her left and right, and then as she stopped spinning elbowed one Faunus in the gut and sent him flying across the room before rushing over to the next and punching away a 3rd that had jumped at her with a tonfa and then roundhousing the 2nd into the wall. She spun back around and blocked some more bullets with her blade before running and then sliding forward on her knees and tripping a 4th Faunus up by hitting his legs with the blunt side of her sword: smacking him down into the ground as she launched herself back up onto her feet and then twirled forward and pulled a 5th Faunus' gun from him: breaking it in half against her back with her arms against both ends of the weapon whilst she headbutted the White Fang member and knocked him out cold. The last Faunus ran to take the old man, the owner of the shop, hostage but Impa vaulted over the counter and then moved so fast she disappeared from sight. Impa reappeared inbetween the old man and the White Fang member and the Faunus made a quick u-turn, running to the front of the store. Impa dashed after him and as he turned around to open fire she jumped up and kneed him in the chest: sending them both smashing through the unbroken front window of From Dust Till Dawn, glass shattering everywhere. Impa stood up as silence rushed through the street, the last White Fang member now unconscious beneath her. Impa looked forward and saw the police and people of the city staring at her. The silence was swiftly broken by thunderous applause and cheering. They weren't afraid of her, they were cheering for her. Impa couldn't hold back her smile, she'd waited so long for this.
