Chapter 34
Cinder
Reese and Cinder were now staring at each other like they were long lost friends but at this moment they were combatants and both of them were waiting for who will make the first move.
Reese decided he was making the first move.
BOOM!
Reese fired a shot from his handgun.
KAPWING! Cinder then deflected the shot.
"You honestly think it was going to be that easy?" Cinder asks while mocking him.
Reese then holsters his handgun and now he drew his sword it was still drenched with blood.
"What did you do Reese?" Pyrrha asks.
"Tell you later." Reese says.
"Now that's the fight I'm looking for." Cinder says as she draws her dual swords.
Cinder then started to walk slowly to Reese's right and he moved to the left.
For Pyrrha it was painful to watch them move this slowly, she was used to fast paced action, but she knows that Reese has a plan.
"Patty options." Reese says quietly.
"Working on it." Patty says.
Then Cinder stops and Reese did the same.
Then the air got still it was silent.
All Reese could hear was his pulse.
Then Cinder shot forward and Reese ran right at her then their swords meet each other.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! WOSH! CLANG!
They were moving so fast that sparks were constantly coming off from their strikes.
Then they locked swords.
While Reese was worried that he might lose, Cinder, on the other hand was smiling.
"You know after I heard that after you beat Pyrrha in a mock battle I was going to ask you to join me." Cinder says.
"Why?" Reese asks while pushing against Cinder.
"Because you are an excellent fighter the best of the best, and I could give you what you want." Cinder says.
"Oh and would that be?" Reese says.
"You could have anything you want." Cinder says.
Reese then remembered everything that happened to him starting with the military then the training, his team, coming to beacon, then Yang to Reese that was the best thing for him.
"I could even give you the world." Cinder says.
"I ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING! AND YOU DECIDED TO RUIN IT!" Reese says as he pushed Cinder away and at the same time he got a strike in on her.
Then Cinder turned hostile.
"Well then your done." Cinder says as she conjured a fireball.
"What the hell!?" Reese says.
Then at the same time the armor did something new.
Activating Dragon program.
Cinder then launched the fireball and Reese got ready for the impact.
Then the fireball hit Reese and he was enveloped in it.
For Pyrrha she was in absolute horror, the best fighter is taken down by the fall maidens power.
"Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! He wasn't much ether he just as easily went down as anyone else." Cinder said.
"Is this what you find to be funny? Causing mayhem and hurting innocent people?" Pyrrha asks.
"Need you ask." Cinder says as she draws her bow back and takes aim at Pyrrha.
"You need to learn to confirm the kill before you call victory." Reese says.
"No it can't be." Cinder says with shock.
Out from the smoke came Reese unharmed but his armor looked different. For starters the strike plates that were normally were flat are now all spikes on the ends of them, next the armor had a faint glow to it and it was an orange glow indicating the armor was rated to fight the fall madden.
"Let's continue." Reese says as he starts to run forward giving Cinder little time to react.
WHAM! Reese pushed Cinder away from Pyrrha so that she is out of harm's way.
"Your starting to get annoying." Cinder says as she powers up.
Both Reese and Cinder then engaged in sword combat again but this time it was going a little bit faster.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! STRIKE! CLANG! CLANG! STRIKE!
Cinder then noticed she was bleeding.
Then she kicked him away and Reese then landed in a pile of rubble then Cinder hit it with a flame attack.
"Cloak engaged." Patty says.
Reese then crawled out just before Cinder launched her attack.
"Got him." Cinder said after she walked to the rubble and confirmed he was gone.
But she got two steps in before she was being choked hold from behind with the katana on her throat.
Cinder then grabbed on not noticing the tingling feeling on her hands.
SLICE!
"AHHHHHH! How did you do that?" Cinder asks while looking at her hands now finger less.
"It's an anti aura blade. It cancels out your aura. But we are done here." Reese says.
"No wait!" Cinder says with panic.
But for Reese she gave up her chance to surrender, she instead chose to fight.
SLICE! SLICE! SLICE! KICK!
Reese hit her in the lungs and then removed arms and then kicked her off the CCT where she got to enjoy a long fall.
Then right at that moment a lightning bolt hit somewhere in town and anyone who was looking at the tower could see Reese silhouetted against the night sky.
"Cinder confirmed kia." Reese says as he turns around.
Pyrrha at this point was at a loss for words.
Reese then deactivated his armor and took off the helmet.
"That was close. Not going to lie she had me on the ropes for a moment there." Reese says as he helped Pyrrha up.
"How did you do that?" Pyrrha asks.
"Do what?" Reese asks.
"How did you feel comfortable killing her?" Pyrrha asks.
"Oh that well it's a simple thought process. First was she causing harm? Yes she was. Second was she about to cause harm? Yes to you. So cinder filled all the requirements for someone who needs to be taken down." Reese says.
"Was she your first?" Pyrrha asks.
"No she was one of many, but I'm not in the mood to talk about my record, and besides there is someone you really need to talk to." Reese says.
They both then went down to the ground floor and were now making their way to the evacuation area but they got a new surprise when they arrived.
Reese saw that Cinder was on the ground still breathing but she was broken in several areas.
Reese then walked up to her with Pyrrha on his back.
"And here I thought after falling for a bit you be dead." Reese says.
"Y y you still lost beacon has fallen one down three more to go." Cinder says while spitting blood.
"Shouldn't you ask her questions." Pyrrha says.
"Nope even if I had time she won't talk." Reese says.
"So what are you going to do?" Pyrrha asks.
"This." Reese says as he raised his handgun.
BOOM! That was the last shot that echoed throughout out beacon.
But then Cinders body started to glow and all of the sudden a ball of energy came out of Cinders body and went straight to Pyrrha where she felt energized.
Reese didn't want to know but instead he started to run.
Five minutes later.
Jaune was standing on the platform looking out at the school yard where it's now damaged beyond repair.
"Jaune she is not coming back." Nora says.
"But why did she run off? I feel like I didn't notice it until it was too late." Jaune says as he starts walking away.
Just then jaune heard something.
"Hey I got someone who has issues and she needs someone to talk to." Reese says.
Jaune then turns around and sees Reese carrying Pyrrha on his back.
"PYRRHA! YOUR ALIVE!" Jaune says with tears in his eyes.
"Yes I am thanks to Reese here." Pyrrha says.
"We really need to talk about our feelings for each other." Jaune says.
"Thanks Reese for getting her." Jaune says but Reese is gone.
"He's gone." Ren says.
"Where did he go?" Nora asks.
"Don't know he's somewhere." Pyrrha says.
Reese didn't stick around he was now on the run. Why? Because on the Atlas military was moving in.
"Where are you going to run?" Patty asks.
"First I'm going to my room to grab what I can, then I'll do the same to team rwby's room, then I'm going to hide in the garage with my bike." Reese says.
Reese then made it to his room he found it untouched he then grabbed his bug out bag that held the rest of his gear, then when he got to team rwby's room he had some trouble opening the door.
"Breach." Reese thought as he kicked the door down.
Now where his room was clean and untouched, rwby's room was the complete opposite it looked like it was hit with a shell from Atlas artillery guns.
For starters the window was blown out, next the beds were in a pile and it was just dirty.
Reese then got to work first he secured the dust crystals that Weiss uses, next he got Blake's books, then Ruby's spare cloak, for Yang he couldn't find anything from her but then he saw it her formal dress she wore to the dance.
Reese then picked it up then after looking it over he then stuffed it into the bug out bag then he also grabbed her infinitely scarf that she had on.
"Reese Atlas military is entering the building." Patty says.
"Got it." Reese says as he started running to the garage, on the way there he saw Yang's weapon on the ground.
Reese then stuffed that into the bag.
When he made it to the garage he now had to find a place to hide. He then got an idea and not to soon the military busted the door down and started a sweep.
After a few minutes they left and Reese got out from his cover.
"I was worried that wouldn't work." Patty says.
"Yeah I never thought that hiding under a cardboard box would work." Reese says as he strapped his bags to his bike.
"So what do we do now?" Patty asks.
"Now we wait." Reese says.
END
A/N next is the last chapter.