Greetings, Hunters and Huntresses from across the Verse and welcome to the next chapter of Team ARCG: Wrath Of A Knight.
Sorry for the delay but I was lacking inspiration on where to go with this story. But hey, at least I didn't Reboot it.
I hope you enjoy it and now on to the reviews.
girani4: Yes, all the murder and death is hilarious in chibi form... Though I guess some scene's actually work in RWBY Chibi, mainly the scene's were Ciaran is being... Ciaran.
12GageKing: Not really the place to ask that, it would have been better to send a PM. But since your here, if you mean KLK: MWI: Episode You, no it's not dead. I'm just a bit scared to write it.
Now story time.
It was night over the island of Magarine, Blake was standing on the porch outside of her house, overlooking the night covered town.
"Blake? Your out there?"
Moment's later Gabriel stepped outside and saw her, "There you are. I need to tell you something."
"What Gabriel?" she said annoyed.
"I was talking to your mom and she said something weird about the White Fang." Gabriel began to explain.
"I'm stopping you right there." Blake said, raising her finger, "I told you, I'm not here to fight the White Fang, I'm not here to fight anyone. I'm here to rest, to figure things out, and to see my family."
"...If you let me finish, that would be great." Gabriel said irritated, "Your mother said White Fang members don't wear masks in Menagerie. But I saw one at the market yesterday." he pulls his Scroll out of his pocket.
Blake pulls his Scroll out of his hands and tosses it out into the trees, "I don't want your help!" she said.
Gabriel stares at his Scroll and turns to Blake, "You owe me a new Scroll." he growled but he was interrupted when his ears picked up a feminine, gasping sound from the trees where Blake had just tossed the device.
Both Gabriel and Blake's eyes go wide for a second and they slowly turn, eyes narrowing as a dark humanoid shape with a white mask can just be made out, perched atop a palm tree.
A female Faunus with thin, curved, dark gray horns and black, spotty skin. She is wearing a black, sleeveless stealth suit with a gold zipper and slightly lighter-black straps with gold buckles on it. On her face is a large, white Grimm Mask with elegant, curvy red markings.
On the porch, Blake steps forward with a determined look in her eye as she jumps onto the railing and then off into the trees as Kali comes out from around the corner.
"What's happened?" she asked.
"We have an White Fang Spy, Blake has gone after it." Gabriel said, "I'm going to help your daughter."
He leaps down off the second story deck. Kali's mouth drops open for a moment before she brings up her hand, worried.
In the practice area of the Drayce Mansion, Weiss holds Myrtenaster at the ready. She steps back, twirls, a stream of blue-white light coming from the tip of her sword. On the close of her twirl, Weiss hold it aloft before striking the tip to the floor.
A Summoning glyph appears, the Arma Gigas' sword slowly but surely beginning to emerge. Weiss' eyes are shut as she concentrates, the power of her Summoning causing a small wind to blow the hair around her face.
"Excuse me miss Schnee." Avaro's butler, Soroi said, breaking her concentration, "But young master Avaro has requested your presence in his office."
Thanking the butler, she followed him out of the training room and through the hall and into the double door were in the center of the office a troubled Avaro was standing.
"We found him." he said turning around, "We found Ciaran or Malgeist or whatever he calls himself now now."
"How?" Weiss said, "And where is he?"
"Ironwood's people have spotted him heading towards the island of Menagerie." Avaro told her, gesturing his hand to show her a screen, "He's bringing an army's worth of Atlas soldiers and mech's to kill him... It won't end well."
"Then we need to go." Weiss said immediately.
"I had hopped I had more time..." Avaro said, "But we might not get another chance to get Ciaran back."
But the two turned around when they heard a sarcastic chuckle, which didn't belong to Avaro, Weiss or his butler.
"Yes, let's go fight the humanoid abomination with a half cooked plan and a army of walking scrap. Great idea."
The voice echoed through the office as Avaro and Weiss looked around for the source of the voice.
"Avaro, is that A.I. you were programming taking over the house."
"Are you questioning my scripting skills?" the wolf Faunus said insulted.
"She is." the voice said coming from behind them, "And I can tell you, dearie, I'm no A.I."
Turning around they they saw a man leaning in Avaro's chair, arms folded behind his head and his dark brown boots resting on the desk.
The man had neatly combed platinum blonde hair and amber eyes. His outfit consists of a white ankle-length tailcoat, a black dress shirt and purple waistcoat with gold accents and black pants.
"Hello there." he said with a grin, a strong air of confidence coming off him..
On the island of Menagerie were Blake is in pursuit of the other Faunus leap from tree to tree. With a burst of speed, Gabriel threw himself towards the masked Faunus knocking her off the tree and onto a roof.
Recovering, the Faunus continues to run across the buildings, Blake right behind her. Sliding under some arching pipes, she finally turns and stops.
Using her weapon in whip form, she slices the pipe, releasing steam to block Blake. It doesn't work; Blake moves right under the pipes through the steam.
The girl smiles and lowers her weapon, "Why are you watching me?" Blake demanded to know.
The Faunus turned around only to come face to face with Gabriel wielding his sword. "Give it up!..." Gabriel told her but she attacks him with her whip, which he avoids by striding to the side.
Blake takes advantage of the distraction to kick the Scroll out of the spy's hand. The girl is surprised, avoids Blake's next attack, responds with a kick of her own and attempts to retrieve the Scroll.
But Gabriel pulls it towards his hand with his Semblance, blocking a strike from her whip which wrapped around the blade. With a strong motion from his arm, he pulled the Faunus towards him and headbutts her, cracking off the part of the mask covering her left eye.
The broken Grimm mask crumble from the spy's face as she pulled back her whip.
"Ilia." Blake said finally recognized her.
"You know her?" Gabriel said surprised but he was cut off guard when a color-changing Ilia strikes an electric hit near his shoulder with her weapon.
With a painful groan, Gabriel dropped to his knees holding the spot where he was struck.
"Give it to me." Ilia told him.
"Go fuck yourself." Gabriel growled, dropping his weapon as he used his Semblance to throw Ilia back a few feet.
Landing back on her feet, Ilia changes color again as she watched Blake, "You shouldn't have come back." she told her, using her weapon to create a rush of dust, which allows her to escape.
Blake briefly acknowledges that Ilia has disappeared before rushing over to Gabriel, who was now sitting on the ground.
"Blake..." Gabriel said as he felt forward into Blake's arms, bleeding from the wound Ilia caused, "I-I don't feel so good..."
"No, no, no, not again, please!" Blake said covering the wound with her hands as the young man in her arms went limb, "Help! Somebody! Hold on, Gabby, just hold on."
Meanwhile over at the Drayce mansion where Avaro and Weiss took a fighting stance against the man in white.
"Who are you." Avaro demanded to know, "And what are you doing in my house?"
"Pardon me! Where are my manners?" the man said, standing up, "I go by many names, The Deal Maker, Traveler of Realm's, The Fucker of Mother's only to name a few, but my true name is Lucifer Lux." he added with a dramatic bow.
"Well... Mr. Lux..." Weiss began but was cut off.
"Please my dearie, call me Luci." he said jovially as he walked around the offices, arms crossed behind his back.
"Okay... Luci." Weiss said uncomfortable by this strange man, "If you came to kill..."
"Oh, my dear. If I wanted to kill anyone here... I would have done so already." Luci chuckled, walking towards them, his hand resting on top of a ornate cane, "No! I'm here to offer my services!"
"Services?" the wolf Faunus said surprised, "What do you mean?"
"Does my title of Deal Maker not ring a bell?" Luci said, tapping his cane on the ground, "As it stands now, you won't be able to realize your ambitions. Going up against Malgeist is like a ant fighting a dragon. That is where my services come in."
The two watched as the stranger in white twisted his left hand and out of nowhere a dark blue envelope appeared between his fingers, "What you need is a weapon that can actually kill the dragon."
"You know how to kill Malgeist?" Weiss said suspicious, eyeing the envelope, "I doubt you would give that information for free."
"Very perceptive, dearie." Luci said as he continued his stride around the room. Cane tapping on the ground with each step as he wave the envelope around as if offering them something they truly desired, "Nothing in life is free."
"How much would it be?" Avaro said, his eyes not leaving this strange man, "I can pay you any amount of money..."
"Money? I have no need of money, dearie. I take my payment in other ways. Think about a favor I can cash in on when I have need of it, trinkets of interest to me, someone's souls..." Luci said, suddenly stopping on the spot as he raised his arms dramatically, "But this time I want something different. Something I will get anyway, but this will spice things up."
"And that would be..." the wolf Faunus said annoyed at this man's insistence on being so annoyingly vague.
"It's entertainment, dearie!" Luci declared, "All I want is to see how events will unfold in this Remnant."
"Entertainment?" Weiss said, horrified at what this man meant, "You get your entertainment out of watching people kill each other!?"
"That's life my dear. Some people get their kicks, stomping on a dream. I get them from watching what people in the World do." Luci said with a grin, "Because after all, the World is a stage. And the Stage is a world of entertainment."
"Just... What are you?" Avaro said.
"Wouldn't you like to know." Luci said, turning around to a navy blue door which hadden't been there before, "I will leave this here in case you change your mind. Though I have to warn you, it will only work once. Any replica's you make will be useless heaps of junk."
He threw the envelope over his shoulder, where it landed on Avaro's desk against the group photo of Team ARCG, on the other side of the room.
"You should feel honored. This is only the second time I offer my services to someone on this planet." Luci said the door opened for him, revealing a white void, "We will meet again, it is inevitable. Bye Bye."
Waving at them without turning around, the door closed with a bang. Before either Avaro or Weiss could react, the door disappeared into dust, drifted off into nothingness.
The morning had come over the island of Menagerie. Birds tweet in the trees around the balcony outside the Belladonna's guest room. Inside, a shirtless Gabriel lies on the bed, a bloodied bandage on his left shoulder where he had been struck. His head resting the pillow and his hands folded over his abdomen.
He slowly awoke from his slumber, "Am I dead?" he groaned as he raised his head to find Blake sitting in a chair across the room, her body facing him.
"This... is why, Gabriel." Blake said, her head is bowed and her hands are folded in her lap, "This is why I left them all behind."
"What?" Gabriel said confused, "I'm not dead, right?"
Blake gets up and walks over to the bed as Gabriel swung his legs over the side, sitting next to him on it.
"I am done seeing my friends hurt because of me." Blake said looking down, "Do you think I like being alone? Every day... Every day I think about them! Ruby, Weiss, Yang, Ciaran, Avaro, Remus... They were my friends! I loved them like I never thought I could love anybody. And I hope they hate me for leaving."
"You don't mean that..." he said softly, reaching out to her.
"Yes, I do!" she shouted, forcefully enough that Gabriel pulls back, "Everyone thinks they can help me, but they can't. You saw Ilia last night and she's not even the worst! No. No more. They're better off without me. I made my choices and I'll deal with the consequences because they belong to me."
"You think you're being selfless, but you're not. That Ilia girl got me pretty good." Gabriel told her, "But I'd do it all again if it meant protecting you."
Blake turns to face him, a look of surprise in her amber eyes. "It's what we all would do... As Ciaran once said, 'We are more than friends! We are a family!... Except nothing is stopping us from sleeping with each other!'."
The cat Faunus turns away, looking down as she tried her best to force her smile down.
"You can make your own choices, sure. But you don't get to make ours." Gabriel said, placing a hand on her back, "When your friends fight for you, it's because we want to. So stop pushing us out! It hurts more than anything Malgeist and his cronies could ever do to us."
Blake, who had turned to face him, turns away again.
"If it makes you feel better, next time I go up against her, it won't be for you." Gabriel said, resting his hand on the bed, "It'll be to get even."
At this finally, Blake broke down and let out a laugh. "My hero." she said, resting her hand on top of his.
"You know... It's a real treat to see you laughing." he said, as the two looked at each other, "You... Have a cute smile."
"Thanks..." she said, a hint of a blush on her pale cheeks, "Your... very shredded."
"I blame it on drinking one of Avaro's pre-workout..." Gabriel said, his eyes widening in traumatic shock, "And then finding Nora in the workout room... Her training regime is insane."
"Doesn't Avaro's pre-workout make you see sounds?" Blake said.
"Only if you mix it with redbull..." he chuckled.
The door into the room crashed down. It was Kali, who looked embarrassed because she had been eavesdropping. Behind her, Ghira looks down at his wife on the ground with his hand on his hip.
Kali pops upward again, "Oh! Oh dear, would you look at that." she said in an affected tone, "He's awake! Thank goodness!"
"Kali, please." Ghira said, covering his face with his hand.
"Hello Mrs. Belladonna." Gabriel said, feeling the eyes of Ghira burn into him as Blake's hand was still resting on his.
"Mom!" Blake shouted, finally letting go of his hand, "What are you doing!?"
"Well, sweetheart..." Kali said, "Your father needed to speak with the two of you."
A Scroll is set down on the night stand. It shows a master folder labeled W. F. with six sub folders inside. The sub folders are labeled: Assignment, E.L., P.R., E.W., S. F., Untitled.
"I'm afraid you were right to be suspicious." Ghira said, "Sienna Khan has teamed up with a man going by the name Ciaran Launfal, they are staging a full-scale attack on Haven Academy."
"It would be the Fall of Beacon all over again." Gabriel said horrified.
"That's not going to happen." Blake said, standing up, finally having made a decision, "We're going to take the White Fang back."
That very same afternoon, inside the Belladonna Family Home. Ghira, wearing glasses, paces back and forth looking at a piece of paper in hands, while his wife, his daughter, and Gabriel, now wearing his upper clothing again, all wait for him to be ready.
"So Blake..." Kali whispered to her daughter, "What is your relationship with Gabriel?"
"N-Nothing." she denied, the hint of a blush creeping onto her cheeks again.
"Oh, that's to bad. I have to warn you though." the mother said with a seductive grin, leaning closer to her daughter as she kept eyeing the male brunette, "Because if you don't claim him, you might be getting a half-brother or sister."
Blake looked shocked at her mother, but before she could say anything, Ghira stops pacing and takes one last look at the speech he has written down.
"Are you ready?" Kali said, placing a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"Yes. It won't be easy for the people to hear, but the truth often isn't." Ghira said, "I know they'll do the right thing."
Blake then comes up and places a hand on her father's arm, giving an affectionate snuggle. Suddenly, the three are taken by surprise when another hand pats on Ghira's back. He looks behind to see Gabriel.
"You got this." he said.
The three give a brief look at Gabriel as he stands back and smiles. Ghira then opens the doors as his family and Gabriel step out of the home to greet the crowd gathering outside.
Some people in the crowd are wearing press badges and holding scrolls up to record the event. Others in attendance include Corsac and Fennec Albain, who are bowing their heads, as well as the Menagerie Guards.
Ghira steps up to the podium and raises his hand to quiet the crowd down. "Thank you all for assembling here. I wanted to take time to address some of the rumors that have been circulating around our island. I believe that it is important for the people of this territory to understand the truth."
"No matter how you feel about the human race, I think we can all agree that the event now known as the Fall of Beacon was a tragedy. A tragedy that will set both man and Faunus-kind back. While the main aggressor is still unknown, we do have official confirmation that Adam Taurus... the leader of a powerful splinter group working inside the White Fang, was partially responsible for these attacks."
"His actions not only tarnished the reputation of an organization originally created to bring peace and equality to all, but to our entire race. With each day that this man remains unpunished, it becomes increasingly difficult to condemn those that look down upon us."
The crowd starts murmuring among themselves. Ghira raises his hand again to quiet the crowd down.
"Recently, a spy from the same splinter group set their sights on this very home. My own daughter, Blake, and her friend did their very best to apprehend this individual. While they were unsuccessful after being physically assaulted and seriously injured, they were successful in obtaining the assailant's Scroll." he continued to speak as he takes out the Scroll from inside his coat, "The documents on this scroll proclaim the next target to be Haven Academy and its attached CCT Tower. Their plan is to strike on the last full moon before the beginning of the Fall semester, roughly two months from today. I have sent my swiftest messenger to the government of Mistral, but I believe we have a greater responsibility..."
"My relationship with the White Fang has been... interesting. Sienna Khan, my successor, It's true that I do not fully condone many of her methods. What I do condone is what Sienna fights for: the idea that the Faunus and humans are, and should be, equal. Adam Taurus does not seem to have that goal in mind. What he has done benefits no one but himself. I think it's time that the Faunus showed the world that we are equals! Time that we snuff out this splinter group, and restore the White Fang to what it once was!"
The crowd begins to cheer at this remark.
"To do this, I think the answer is clear, we must go to Haven and protect it at all costs!"
At this, the crowd suddenly stops cheering, showing some hesitance. Ghira sees this and clears his throat. But suddenly, a familiar voice yells out from the crowd, "Traitors!"
It came from Ilia, who uncloaks herself, wearing her Grimm mask and clenching her teeth angrily. Blake gives a surprised look before glaring back at her.
"Ilia." Gabriel said, glaring at her.
"Cowards..." Ilia said, stepping forward, "After everything the humans have done to us, everything they've put us through, you're asking us to help them!?"
"I know we haven't been treated fairly..." Ghira began but he went silence when the feeling of cold dread swept over the town.
The a shocked crowd moved to the side as someone familiar walked towards them, wearing all black and arms folded behind his back. Blake and Gabriel looked on in fear as striding towards the podium was the monster wearing their friend's face.
"Answer me this, Mr. Belladonna." Malgeist said, his eye contact not breaking with the glare Ghira was shooting him, "Where was the help from the humans when the Kingdom hunted Faunus just for existing? When the Faunus were being used as slaves in the Dust mines, where was humanity then?"
"You..." Ghira said, standing on guard just like Blake and Gabriel.
A Faunus with dog ears point at Malgeist from her place in the crowd, "What's a human doing here!?"
"My brothers, my sisters. I came here to deliver a speech." Malgeist said as he stood between the crowd and the podium containing the Belladonna's and Gabriel, "To ease the worries your facing."
"Now, I'll be the first to admit, humans can be the worst. I understand why you would like to see them all locked away, enslaved or killed!" Malgeist continued addressing the crowd, "Before the claws come out, I'd like to mention the fact that I, all of Faunus-kind and even humanity have a common enemy: the ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the humans that run our kingdoms!"
The crowd changes their tune and starts agreeing with him, "Government, military, CEO's of the Mega-corps, even the schools: they're all to blame for your lot in life!" Malgeist continued as he let the crowd cheer, as disguised Atlas soldiers sneak through the crowd, surrounding him.
"You shouldn't work for the same people that are trying to hold you down! If you truly wish to help your people... To break down the tyranny of the old ways. Then give your support to Sienna Khan, and work with your great leader and my faction to bring about a new world order, to create the future we all deserve."
"And if you are unwilling to fight." Malgeist continued, placing a hand over his chest, "Know that I will do it for you."
To the horror of the Belladonnas and Gabriel, the citizens of Kuo Kuana all cheered for Malgeist.
But the cheers turned into screams of shock and fear when the moment arrived that the Atlas soldiers threw off their disguised, aiming their weapons at Malgeist as through the crowd that had moved to the side to create a path for him, came General James Ironwood, flanked by an army of his metal soldiers.
"General Ironwood." Malgeist thought, a smirk creeping on his face, "Just as planned."
That's the chapter, hope you enjoyed.
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