Uhhh got nothing to say here - but enjoy the chapter and feel free to spot some errors or things you don't like XD
CHAPTER 9: A MONTAGE (PART 1)
TEAM RWBY DORM - BEACON ACADEMY
As the birds chirp with glee in Beacon Academy, the cliched sound of Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt - Morning Mood". The three girls are sleeping soundly as the bright sun rises on the horizon, and the blue skies roam the continent of Vale.
Weiss is the first one to open her eyes and listening to the sounds of the birds chirping as they are perched on a single branch. The ice queen smiles as she rests her chin on her palm, admiring the beauty of nature and the city of Vale in the distance. "Ahhh ~ it's the weekend, you know what this means, Weiss ~ "
But as she turns around she sees Ruby's crazed smile, just the sheer face of it is enough to stop the music humming in the ice queen's mind. Weiss sighs, "Uh oh. - "
Ruby starts blowing the entire room with an airhorn and yells at her sleeping teammates with enthusiasm "WAKE UP, EVERYONE! IT'S TIME FOR OUR WEEKEND TRAINING!"
"BUMBLEBEE, NO! - Oh, wait - we're training? But it's the weekend! Who'll be training with us at this time of the day? - ", Yang sighs as she gets up and stretches her body, still in her pajamas.
" - Oh my sweet dear sister, Yang, why question, when it's your luckiest day! BECAUSE WE ALL GET TO TRAIN AND SPAR WITH OUR ALIEN FRIENDS! OZPIN TOLD ME TO MEET WITH HIM AND THE VAULT HUNTERS AT THE COURTYARD!", Ruby squeals with glee as she starts running around the room.
Blake rubs the back of her head and gets up on her bed, "Well, I was supposed to read uhm - at the library, but training with them? Hmmm - ", she looks down and cups her chin. " - That'll be interesting, I wonder what they could teach us?"
Weiss frowns at her team, "Honestly, I expect them to teach us nothing but telling stories about how they fought with a foe with a silly name. And that experience is just useless! We are Huntresses, we belong here in Remnant, those aliens can't teach us anything! I could spent this entire weekend doing my own time such as enjoying tea on my own or go around shopping around Vale."
Ruby, already wrapped a towel around her, grabbing her clothes one one hand, while gently patting her head, "Awww come on, Weiss! - It'll be MORE FUN TOGETHER! - I mean, I get to be with be with Mr. Zane and his weird yet awesome team!"
Yang raises an eyebrow as she is already done bathing and is changing clothes, however she raises an eyebrow, a bit confused at Ruby. "You're going for the old man? - Ruby, that's kind of . . . weird for your choice."
Ruby stops as she is now holding Crescent Rose, and dressed in her signature outfit, "What? Why not? He's super fast like me! And he may let me borrow his cool looking weapons . . . they don't transform, but imagine holding one of those babies! LET ALONE FIRING IT!", she starts salivating from the guns the Vault Hunters use. "The Shredifier, Nemesis, I wonder if there are more!"
Blake is already changed, casually adjusting her bow. "Hmmm - well I can learn from Flak. He, or they, may be a sentient robot with a chance of killing tendencies but he can be a good teacher.", she then looks down with a frown. "As long as he can keep those things away from me . . . ", she shudders as she pictures Mr. Chew, Broodless and Meat-Thief.
Ruby checks her Scroll and immediately gasps in shock, "Well we all have one thing in common . . . WE'RE ALL LATE! IT'S ALREADY 9:20 AM, YOU DOLTS! - CATCH YA AT THE COURTYARD!", Ruby giggles before speeding out of the room. Both Yang and Blake look at each other for a moment and head out of the room.
"WAIT FOR - uuugggh - ", Weiss is about to change, but then stops in realization. "HEY! RUBY, YOU JUST COPIED MY LINE!"
Meanwhile at the hallway, Team JNPR is busy bringing their books from the Library, learning for their next lesson. Nora keeps talking to Pyrrha and Ren about she had this dream about riding a pony made out of diamonds, like REAL REAAAAL DIAMONDS. Oh and it craps guns, when fed with something shiny and purple.
Ever since Zane threatened Cardin and the rest of Team CRDL, things have been quite simple and easy for Jaune, the young knight just smiles as he carries his books, but his attention is cut short when a high-pitched voice calls upon him. "JAAAAAAAAUUUUUUNNNNNNNEEEEEEE! - LOOOOK OUUUT!"
Jaune looks to the source of the voice, only to be slammed by a red streak with a trail of roses, knocking both of them down, letting the books fall down on the floor.
Nora, Ren and Pyrrha are both shocked and immediately rushes to their friend's aid, except for one member. "RUUUBYYY! ~ ", Nora yells as she happily picks her up and immediately wraps her arms around her tightly, not noticing Ruby's dazed condition. "WHAT'S THE RUSH, FRIENDO!?"
Yang, Blake and Weiss arrive too, with Weiss trying to catch her breath, tired of catching up to her team hallway after hallway. Yang smiles at Team JNPR, with Jaune being helped up by Ren and Pyrrha, with Pyrrha soothing Jaune's bruise while the young knight is picking up his books. "We're just going to the Courtyard to train with the Vault Hunters. - "
" - YEAH, AND WE THOUGHT YOU'D COME WITH US!", Ruby perks up with a big smile.
Pyrrha's widen her eyes and feels genuinely curious, wanting to see how Amara can take on Yang or any of them. "That's . . . honestly amazing - Although we appreciate the offer but - "
" - We need to uhh, study, for the quizzes next week, you know how Professor Oobleck is very strict when it comes to scores.", Jaune chuckles nervously as he tries to lift the books again.
Ruby then slumps and pouts. "Awwww - we could've been training buddies! - Oh well, at least Ozpin says we get to do this every weekend so we might be together with the Vault Hunters! - "
"Or it could be just an alternation between us and Team JNPR. Who knows what Ozpin is thinking about us and them.", Blake chimes in as she crosses her arms. "Anyways, we gotta go to the Courtyard, see you guys around.", Ruby bids them goodbye before leaving another trail of roses for her teammates to catch up, the rest of Team RWBY follow suit.
Jaune smiles at them and lets out another sigh, Pyrrha then stands beside him. "What's the matter, Jaune?"
"Oh! - Uh - nothing, I just feel like it's just any ordinary day. And I kinda' like it.", Jaune turns to Pyrrha and genuinely feels happy.
COURTYARD - BEACON ACADEMY
Ozpin is standing in the middle of the Courtyard with his cane, suddenly he hears footsteps behind him, but these footsteps sounds like someone is wearing heels. The headmaster merely doesn't look back, "Is my coffee ready?"
"Of course, Port had to use it early because his own coffee machine broke down in his room, so he had to use the one in the Faculty Room.", Glynda gives his mug, while holding her own; which is a tea cup, although she's not a fan of coffee, she can drink it sometimes to keep herself awake in some days.
Ozpin faces her. "Really? Then I'll have to consider those new coffee machines the Atlesian R&D Department is making. I saw the sales by the way, and I saw how it works and it is divine. Works on both Coffee and Tea, let's hope the Lien is worth the machine.", he then drinks his coffee.
She sips her tea cup and turns to Ozpin, "Ozpin, should we te - ", yet before Glynda can complete her sentence, Ozpin raises his hand, telling her to stop - the Headmaster and the Headmistress are hearing loud yelling and footsteps in the distance.
"SEE?! THEY'RE HER - Wait . . . where are they?", Ruby scratches her head, but sees Ozpin and Glynda. "Uhh - Good Morning, Headmaster Ozpin, Headmistress Goodwitch!", she smiles as she salutes at them with a big smile on her face, then slowly shifts into a pout.
Weiss then arrives and breathes heavily, trying to catch her breath again. "So . . . sorry . . . for . . . being . . . late.", she slowly composes herself and clears her throat, standing upright in front of the two, they are then followed by Yang and Blake.
Ozpin smiles at the four girls. "Don't worry, this part of your lesson doesn't involve with the official Beacon Academy's main curriculum, but the reason why I choose your team and Team JNPR is because of your performance during the initiation, and we're merely here to enhance your performance for the next lessons, and of course, your abilities as Huntresses."
Glynda steps up and lets out a reluctant sigh, "While we're here, punctuality isn't necessary, but your presence is a must."
Ruby then raises her hand, "Uhh but the Huntsmen and Huntresses are supposed to be early and punctual in the face of danger."
"You are correct, Ms. Rose . . . however, the Vault Hunters are . . . different.", she frowns as she checks her watch again, and clicks her tongue in irritation. Ruby looks around to see Zane and the rest of his team are nowhere to be found.
So while they are waiting, Yang does some stretches again, this time on her arms - then followed by jabbing and punching in the air, trying to psyche herself up. "SO! - What is our first lesson about? I bet it's gonna be easy as cakewalk! ~ ", Yang smirks, feeling confident.
However, Yang's confidence stagnates as Glynda, the strict Headmistress, also smirks at Yang. "I wouldn't be so sure about that, Ms. Xiao Long. If you want to face the Vault Hunters, specifically, Ms. Amara, then you are gravely mistaken. But, I suppose you can prove me wrong."
Ozpin nods in agreement, "Yes, Glynda and I have seen the spar between Ms. Nikos and Amara and although it was short, it gave us quite the information about Amara. I know you are the toughest on your team, but at least watch yourself, Ms. Xiao Long. As for your first lesson - ", he starts to pace around, looking at them sternly.
" - The lesson is all about basic combat WITHOUT using Semblances or Auras, but you can use their weapons. I was also informed by both Professor Port and Doctor Oobleck that Team JNPR is currently busy with their school work, your four will be assigned to your . . . counselors.", he turns to the Vault Hunters, arriving and with their weapons on their hands.
Ruby gasps and jumps in her place, waving at them. "GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE!"
Zane takes a swig of ale from his trusty flask, and keeps it in his inner jacket pocket. "MORNIN' LASSES! And a good mornin' to ya' , Ozzy boyo!", Ozpin smiles at him and nods.
The old semi-retired hitman grins mischievously as he circles his neck, with Team RWBY hearing loud cracks from it, looks like the Operative is also ready to train them. He then checks his ECHO device to checks his gadgets; the Barrier Dome, the Digi-Clone, and the SNTL Drone.
He then holsters his ECHO device and turns to Glynda and like the usual the handsome bastard that he is, smirks kittenishly at her, "And lookin' good, Ms. Gorgeous! ~ You're glowin' today! Perhaps this is me lucky day? ~ ".
Glynda frowns at the old man, and slaps him in the face. "Don't. Call. Me. GORGEOUS! A-And I'm not glowing! I just wore my make-up before I came here just so - ", she then glances with a furious glare at Ozpin and Team RWBY, the latter holding their laughter. "ENOUGH! - Ozpin, would you mind if I - "
"Pfft - ", Ozpin looks away from Glynda, stifling a chuckle behind her back and almost chokes on his drink. But he remains in his usual stoic character and tries not to smile . . . and failing. "N-No need, Ms. Goodwitch, I'm sure Mr. Flynt d-didn't mean that at all.", he gently smacks his chest with the palm of his
"Ugh . . .", Glynda crosses her arms and looks away, not knowing she has a little bit of red on her face, but that will soon disappear as she sees the second Vault Hunter to arrive.
Moze lets out a loud yawn as she rubs her both of her eyes, "Ah geez, here we go again. I just fucking woke up and I spent all night fixing up Iron Bear after all that jazz last night - ". her outfit is a bit unkept and a bit messy looking, showing a little bit of skin on her upper torso, but then again, she's not part of Beacon and therefore she can just decided whether to fix herself up. Of all the Vault Hunters, she is the least eager to join, since she had some experience as a teacher or a 'Drill Sergeant' back at the Vladof Corporation.
But as the Team RWBY looks at her, they have a bit of mixed reactions; Blake just stared at the Gunner, her jaw opened in shock, Weiss just feels annoyed and mildly frustrated, as for the sisters, Yang slightly moves in front of Ruby, blocking Ruby's vision of Moze, who is trying to greet
Glynda raises an eyebrow at Moze, while Ozpin just looks away, fixing his vision on Team RWBY and his coffee. "Excuse me, but Moze - "
" - That's Ms. Andreyevna to you. And I know my outfit's messy, okay? - Cut me some damn slack.", the Gunner just adjusts her leather jacket, thus she looks appropriate, more or less.
On the other hand, Flak arrives with them, beside him are his little beasts. Mr. Chew rushes to Blake and barks happily at her, to which Blake quickly goes behind Yang with a mildly anxious face, she can feel it's glowing eyes staring at her soul, even though the skag is just looking at her, eager to make a friend, who may or may not be a Faunus.
Ruby immediately grabs Mr. Chew, the skag barks happily at her. "OH MY GOOOOOOSH! - IT LOOKS AND ACTS LIKE A WIDDLE PUPPY! ~ I WUVE HIM!", Mr. Chew opens his mouth and lets her see the inside of his face-mouth and its whip-like tongue. With a sudden change of mind, Ruby turns to her team with a slight fear. "IT'S TERRIFYINGLY ADORABLE! - KYAH!", she yelps as Mr. Chew climbs on Ruby's back.
But Flak's other pets arrive from other directions, Meat-Thief arrives via dropping down in front of all of them, grinning and snickering while holding a rocket launcher. Ruby crouches down to meet Meat-Thief, "Awww ~ hey there, little guy!".
The jabber then laughs at Ruby and raises his fist to her, expecting to do a fist-bump. Ruby looks at Yang, of which the blonde brawler just shrugs her shoulders, Ruby then goes back to Meat-Thief and the two fist-bumps, but Meat-Thief opens his fist to reveal an obnoxious scent with green smoke visible in the air.
The four girls doesn't notice it at first, until they smelled it and they instantly cover their nose and mouths. "GROSS!", they all yelled together.
Meat-Thief was just laughing his ass off, before something dragged him under the ground, and Broodless pops up out of nowhere, the spider-ant looks at them all and takes a step back. However Blake sees this as a cautious beast. She takes a step forward, "Uhh hello?".
Broodless lets out a brief screech, before smelling Blake and circles around her, before charging at her full speed only to stop when she smacks her head on Blake's leg, followed by the sound of low growling and Broodless gently brushing her elongated head. Blake is quivering in fear, while her teammates back off from Blake. "What the hell . . . is it doing?"
"It means, she sees you as a friend. Spiderants are believed to have a highly structured society where each individual Spiderant works for the good of the colony. That also means they are disciplined and when to act with a friend or foe.", Flak pats on his waist to call on his beasts, Mr. Chew hopping off from Ruby, Meat-Thief bursting from the ground like a zombie, and Broodless moving away from Blake and curls beside her master.
Ozpin looks at the beasts, "Flak, if I may ask, is there a possibility that more of these . . . species will appear all over Remnant?"
"It depends on the circumstances regarding the environment, climate, and the food source, if one of my beasts decides to find a mate or for Broodless' case, give birth, then there's a chance creatures other than the Grimm will surface, but I know a long shot when I see one."
"Really, that's what you said to Timothy before.", the Siren finally appears, wearing her usual outfit. They all glance at the Siren, wearing her usual outfit.
Yang finally approaches her, confidently placing her hands on her hips, even wearing the Ember Cecilia. "Finally, looks like we're gonna get that brawl between us! This'll be good!"
Amara merely laughs heartily at Yang and casually pats her on the back, but she casually just pats her hard, enough to let Yang almost lose her balance. "Ahh that's the spirit of a Huntress right there! - Hope you won't go easy."
Ozpin steps forward now that the Vault Hunters are now here, "Alright, since we're all together, it's time to start our training which will be held on Emerald Forest, you will take the shortest path marked on your Scrolls. But right now, I will assign your counselor. First off, Blake Belladona, you're with Flak."
Blake turns to Flak, of which the robot walks towards her and stops then does a formal bow. "It is a pleasure working with you, Ms. Belladona.", Mr. Chew pops up from Flak's backpack, panting happily at her.
Blake just smiles to go with the flow. "L-Likewise."
Ozpin turns to Weiss. "Weiss Schnee, you'll be assigned to Moze. And a note for the both of you, please don't cause a ruckus, I know you two are quite the opposite."
"Oh that's an understatement . . . ", Weiss scowls at Moze, chewing gum loudly and not paying attention to her.
The laidback soldier lazily turns her "The feeling's mutual, princess. At least you're not stuck with Mr. Suave over there.", she jerks her thumb to Zane, doing a finger gun expression plus a wink towards Glynda, the latter scoffs and rolls her eyes around.
Weiss shudders to herself but just frowns instead, "Fine, at least you're less than annoying, you're just lazy.",
Moze just gives her a deadpanned before popping another piece of gum to keep herself awake, "Ohohoho - we'll see who's gonna be running their mouth later, ice queen."
Ozpin shakes his head, predicting those two will quite cause destruction within the forest. And to be honest, he's right. Moze has always made excellent use of fire, especially one of her favored weapons to use on Iron Bear is the Salamander Flamethrowers, next to the Vanquisher Rocket Pods and the Miniguns. The Salamanders can also be switched whether to spew acid or fire, either way, both are deadlier when used by Moze, plus her attitude is just simple, she's laidback, calm - but sometimes she can be (no pun intended) hot-headed.
However, Weiss is the . . . (no pun intended again) polar opposite to the Gunner, as her name literally means 'ice' in German, she has her own Semblance which are Glyph that can be used in a variety of ways: create a slippery platform to skate on at high speed, generate midair platforms to manipulate her trajectory in the air and perform limited Time Dilation that can speed up actions, to name a few. She is irritable and confident in her abilities, though also acknowledges her deficiencies and the need to hone her skills further. Her confidence in her skills and intellect often comes off as arrogance to others. But look on the bright side, maybe pairing two girls, both with different elements, and different abilities won't be such a bad idea - and both girls might learn a thing or two.
Yang tweaks her weapon. "So does that mean I get to be with her?!", she grins at Ozpin.
He nods and turns to Amara, "Ms. Amara, will you agree to - "
The Siren brawler raises her hand, stopping him. "Say no more, Headmaster. I will do my best with Yang here. And you can just call me Amara, I'm in my late 20's and I'm nowhere near old nor show my last name like Moze."
Ozpin shrugs his shoulders, "Okay, now that leaves you and - "
Ruby jumps with glee, and holds her scythe close to her. "MR. FLYNT! - HOOORAAAY! ~ DO WE GET TO USE YOUR AWESOME GUNS?!"
Zane is quiet for a second before - "PAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! - ARE YA KIDDING ME?! I GOT SOME TOOLS FOR KILLING BLOOOOooooo - ", he slowly peers his eyes at Moze, Flak and Amara, glaring at him, not letting him spill the secret of killing people.
He snaps back to Ruby with his cheerful demeanor. " - ooooooOOOOKES THAT ARE THE GRIMM! Buuuut we're gonna have to whip ya into shape, the Ol' Flynt way like that one time I helped a young boyo on Gehenna who's down on his luck - I'll tell ya about it on the way there!"
Ruby does a proper salute. "Aye aye, Mr. Flynt!"
That greeting suddenly hits Zane in the back, he remembered the time he and his brothers, the Flynt Brothers, would cause chaos and mischief all over Pandora, Baron Flynt was the one being cold and rational leader making the toughest decisions , Captain Flynt (and yes that's his real name) was the biggest out of the three of them, and he really, REALLY loves fire and also big boats and of course, Zane would be the charming and cunning one of the brothers. Despite distancing himself away from them, he still considering them as his family.
But snapping away from his thoughts, he sees Ruby clinging on his arm, itching to train with the Operative. Just seeing Ruby's wide smile made Zane smile even more, thus getting a new idea.
Ozpin finally finishes is coffee and steps forward, "Good luck to you eight, I want you all to be report here at 12 PM in the afternoon here in the Courtyard, same spot as before. Clear?"
Both Team RWBY and the Vault Hunters turn to Ozpin and Glynda, the former with smiles and hope on their faces, while the latter are just monotone, except for Zane who is clearly light hearted than his teammates. "Crystal.",
EMERALD FOREST (FL4K VERSUS BLAKE)
Team RWBY and the Vault Hunters split up as they both head to separate directions; but for now, the first training session starts between Blake and Flak.
So far the trip has been uneventful, the two walk through the woods as they remain silent, Blake is rather nervous around the wildlife that Flak is accompanied by, but her attention is completely interrupted by the question Flak asks, "So Blake, why do you hide your Faunus side from everyone else?"
Blake pauses everything in total shock, her skin suddenly becomes pale, her limbs stiffen, an her eyes wide open as soon as she hears Flak's question. Not looking elsewhere but down, she gups nervously. " . . . You . . .You knew?"
The robot just stands there, stopped dead in his tracks and slowly turning towards her. "It's not that hard to identify your feline traits."
Blake leans against a tree, while glaring at him, "Let me guess, some sort of scanner device?"
"I am what you call an 'impartial observer', therefore, I see things most people can't. And because I'm equipped with all sorts of vision upgraded by Moze; Night-Vision, Thermal, Infrared, and X-Ray. But most of it is from your odd habits; Your bow twitches like ears every now and then, your posture alone indicates a feline stature and you are the only Human here that I've met with golden eyes like the average house cat also I saw you scratching the back of your ear . . . with your foot in the library - "
Blake shakes her head frantically, and raises both of her hands to make him stop. " - HOLD UP! - Were you stalking me?! - "
" - I wasn't stalking you, you were at the right place at the wrong time.", the Beastmaster retorted, while watching Meat-Thief climb around the tall trees in the forest, swinging around the branches with glee as it reminded him of his home planet in Eden-6.
The cat Faunus frowns at him, squinting her eyes, "Did you tell anyone about this?"
Not wasting time talking, Flak continues to walk forward to find a proper field where they could train, using his tribal axe to chop the bushes. "Though my colleagues aren't exactly that easy to fool, I do not think they will need the confirmation. But something tells me this frail disguise successfully fools your classmates. Besides, what benefits will I receive if I ever tell your true identity as a Faunus?"
Blake shrugs and frowns whilst following him, and keeping his distance. "I don't know . . . maybe you just like seeing a Faunus suffer, like Velvet. - "
" - You are vehemently wrong. I see no benefit in leaking such a secret, however, I only seek what's functional and what is your advantage as a Huntress. Of course, I have learned about the Faunus War and how the Faunus have been treated badly by the humans, but that won't change if you won't learn and fight your way up and make big changes. "
"Yeah, and people STILL treat Faunus differently then they do regular humans. We're not people to them! - "
" - So you let it dictate your appearance."
"No.", she remained silent for a moment, "just a specific part of me. I'm sure you have tons of secrets."
"I do. But even if I did tell you, the explanation alone would take over an approximation of 200 years."
"You're over 200 years old?!"
At this rate, being asked by a lot of question while trekking in the forest is going to be the end of him. "No, but my story IS."
Blake hops over the medium sized rocks that are in the running stream of clean water, trying not to get herself wet while maintaining her balance. "You don't know what it's like though, to be tre-"
" - Treated differently because of WHAT you are and because of your physicality they don't bother to see WHO you are - I do - and I could go on about how I went through the same thing, about how it ultimately doesn't matter in the end, how Zane was treated even worse than I was.", once they are done passing the stream, they arrive in the field.
Flak goes to the center of it and squats down. "But today's lesson isn't about dealing with bigotry, a simple that thing that can cloud you from your real goals, today's lesson is about something more . . . dangerous." the Beastmaster pats the side of his leg, calling Mr. Chew, Broodless and Meat-Thief, all of three of them gathering around him.
"For now you'll be facing Mr. Chew, come here boy.", he claps his hands twice as the skag rushes to Flak and licks his face with his tongue.
She squints her eyes a bit at Mr. Chew "Hmmm - but how does Mr. Chew fits into this lesson, no offense but, he's pretty small compared to me."
Flak lets out a dark chuckle as he stands up. "Oh - no need to worry, I have just the solution for that.", he raises his robot hand, his palm facing upward, and then a strange orb starts to glow bright yellow, followed by large sparks of electricity coursing through Flak, and at the same time a massive bright yellow vortex mixed with the same violent cackling of electricity shows up in front of them.
And what happened after that is a flash of light engulfing them both, Blake hastily covers her eyes with her arms looking away from the light, but it then slowly dissipates. She sees Flak, kneeling down one knee, as if he's starting to rust or his batteries are slowly depleting, the latter is mostly correct, but that's not the important part.
"What . . . happened?", she then feels the ground shaking around her. Was it the Grimm? No, they are in the safe spot in the Emerald Forest, that doesn't make any sense.
Then a large shadow looms over Blake, only for her to look behind her with a dreadful face, (like every victim in a horror movie) and shrieks while backing off with her eyes widened at the sheer size of the once little Mr. Chew, with her Faunus' enhanced fight-or-flight response, she takes out Gambol Shroud straight away and aims at the Giant Mr. Chew. "H-HOW DID YOU DO THAT?! - WH-WHY IS THAT THING SO BIG!?", if Yang was here, she would've said something inappropriate.
Flak lets out a hard cough, before getting up. "I merely used a little bit of my life energy inside my core, and transfer it to my beasts, turning them bigger and better. It feels taxing sometimes, but I use it when the need arises. However, the duration of this power can only be temporary ranging from several minutes - to a few hours . . . though I can just release the energy away, letting it go to waste. Now . . . ", he extends his hand to Blake. "Ready?"
Giant Mr. Chew starts barking happily and hopping around his master, causing minor earthquakes around them but not too far to disrupt their other friends busy with their own training.
"Easy boy.", Flak chuckles as he gently pets the giant Mr. Chew purrs and stands down on the ground beside him.
"I'm curious as to where did Mr. Chew live and what are his traits? Just to know what I'm dealing with here.", Blake takes several steps back away from Flak and Mr. Chew, she is not supposed to be scared by an alien dog like this, she is able to face Grimm Beowulves and Nevermores without a scratch and have the confidence to hunt them down, but why is she nervous now?
Flak opens his gigantic face-mouth and checks his sharp teeth. "Mr. Chew and his species called 'Skags', live in the desolate world of Pandora, a barren planet that is well known for crazed cannibalistic psychos and ravenous monsters. They are large, dog-like creatures, hungry and they 'breed like rabbits' as the humans say. They are easily identified and known by their strong bony armor plates, aggressive behavior, and distinctive three-jawed mouths. Which is why it is perfect for your training today which is all about Direct Confrontation. Your task is simple - "
Flak turn to Blake with Mr. Chew ready to fight, growling and barking at the Faunus Huntress. " - Survive until my Gamma Burst expires, then Mr. Chew will reduce back to his original size. Ready?"
Since she is going to face a bigger version of Mr. Chew, she's doesn't even have the necessary equipment to fight a 'skag' let alone THIS BIG. But as a Huntress, it is her duty to face whatever adversity she's facing.
Flak squints his eyes and swipes his hand forward, commanding the giant Mr. Chew to jump at Blake, trying to pounce down her.
Blake is ready to dodge but she can't move, "What the?! - ", she looks down to see her legs already wrapped up with some sort of silk webbing.
Broodless burrows behind Flak, the one responsible for causing it. "Surprising how your Faunus senses didn't detect that.", he scoffs while he sits down and observe.
She immediately cuts herself free and narrowly dodges Mr. Chew's pounce. "Ugh - at least it's doable. The attack pattern is exactly akin to Beowulves.".
Mr. Chew growls again and leaps at her at great heights, using its claws to grab her, but Blake's supreme agility is capable of dodging every single swipe and slash from the giant skag.
Blake goes up close to Mr. Chew's belly, and stabs it with Gambol Shroud's blade, successfully penetrating the armor below. She smirks continues to stab Mr. Chew's belly, but her attacks can only go so far as Mr. Chew uses his whip-like tongue to swat Blake away with heavy force.
"Heh, I know the weakness now, it's the belly. He has less armor below, just gotta get close to him.", Blake readies herself again.
"Hmmm - I wouldn't be so sure about that.", the robot confidently snaps his fingers, ordering Mr. Chew to growl at Blake and starts spitting corrosive balls at her in quick succession.
"WAIT - IT SPITS!?", she narrowly dodges a corrosive spitball, burning her leg a bit. "ARGH! - Damn it!", she tries to rip some of her clothing to cover the pain up, yet there's no to rest, she looks up to see the incoming corrosive balls and pulls herself together.
She begins dodging the balls and open fires at Mr. Chew, shooting Gambol Shroud, while using the grapple and hook a solid tree to maneuver her way out of harm, similar to a kusarigama.
"Interesting. You know what to do, boy.", Flak merely says to himself, before noticing the wire through Mr. Chew's eyes. Mr. Chew also sees the wire and bites right off the tree, then tugs the ribbon to random opposite direction, swinging Blake around and losing her control
"HEY, THAT'S NOT! - ", sending Blake flying across the trees, and eventually crashing against a large boulder on her back. She lets out a pained groan, and falls down on the ground. She grits her teeth, trying to force herself in getting up, but suddenly, she hears the distant growl of Mr. Chew, trying to hunt her down.
"Crap . . ", The Faunus Huntress gets up on her feet frantically, and drops Gambol Shroud since she doesn't have enough time to reel it back in. around the trees, circling around Mr. Chew as he starts searching and smelling for her scent.
"Using the environment . . . how typical.", Flak, who is far away from them, squatting down and closes his eyes, knowing where Blake is and raises his right hand, ordering another beast besides Broodless to make it interesting.
Blake then hops around the trees to escape from Mr. Chew to gain a height advantage quietly as a cat. But for some reason, Blake is using her two feet instead of hopping branch after branch with on all fours.
Even though she left her weapon on the ground earlier, thankfully she has the sheath on her waist. "Good thing I still got this.", she takes out her secondary weapon and keeps her eyes on the skag.
Unfortunately her Faunus senses are unable to sense Meat-Thief, hanging upside-down and staying quiet. The mischievous jabber, digistructs its trusty baseball bat striking her on the back of her head, knocking her down on the ground without hesitation. "AGH! - "
Mr. Chew hears the sound of leaves rustling followed by a loud thud from Blake's body landing on the ground.
Blake's vision is all hazy and blurry as she raises her face from the ground, the impact from that baseball bat has given her quite the daze, but within her blurred senses, she can hear the sounds of distant footsteps approaching her location, clearly she can feel it due to the vibrations on the ground. " - For Oum's sake . . . aggh - it hurts."
While struggling to get herself up, she then sees Mr. Chew at a distance, but in front of her. The giant skag growls lowly before roaring and charging at her like a raging Grimm.
With her pistol not in her person, she frowns at the impending beast, "Tch - FINE! - COME GET ME THEN!", Blake yells as she charges with her sheath transforming into a katana and leaps at Mr. Chew, the giant skag opening its mouth. Blake doesn't care if she gets eaten by this thing, she can just kill this thing from the inside.
Yet again, she remembered Flak said that the he can control the Gamma Burst and turn it off by himself. Right now in slow motion, she can see Mr. Chew getting smaller and smaller, reverting back to his original form.
But what it's in front of her is Broodless once again, making an appearance from the ground, jumping up to Blake's height, and then does a clean headbutt against the Huntress using its elongated (BUT ARMORED) head, sending her flying back towards Flak.
Blake eventually lands on the ground, face-first, and stops just in front of the Beastmaster, who is all calm and slowly opens his eye seeing her battered face and body. "Hmm, took you long enough . . . "
Blake lets out a pained groan while sitting on the ground, placing her hand on the back of her head, she can feel the wound and finds blood on her hands, her blood. "Wha - What am I doing wrong? Your beasts are all over the damn place."
Flak pats his waist, calling all of his beasts to him, while squatting on the ground, placing his hand on her shoulder. "You fight your instincts, its evolutionary advantage gives you luxuries your opponents lack, even when Sparring you must give as much as you can afford. If there's anything I learned from the constant wars you lifeforms go on about - ".
He brings an ANSHIN Med-Hypo from his ECHO device, digistructing in front of them. Flak then gently injects her shoulder, letting the artificial blood makes its way inside her body and heals her systems overall. Blake isn't a fan of needles, but since " - Is that there ARE no rules. If you can see in the dark, block out the light. If you can hear things others can't, act on those sounds . . . I can tell you're holding back and resisting your urges, maybe because of your emotional problems regarding your - "
" - Enough! - I get it!", Blake looks down and sighs, feeling much better, but she takes Flak's words to heart. She does need to fight dirty, and if that means becoming a Huntress together with team, then that works for her. Blake immediately glances at Flak, "Uhhm - I'm sorry I lashed out."
"It's part of your training to feel anger. I understand, for now though, you must rest and after that - we go for Round Two.", Mr. Chew slowly makes his way in front of Blake, bringing her Gambol Shroud. The skag then places the weapon in front of her, and letting out a whimper. "And it seems he's asking you for forgiveness."
She picks up her Gambol Shroud, covered in skag saliva. "Euuugh - ", she stares at the sad skag for a brief moment, before smiling sheepishly at Mr. Chew.
(MOZE VERSUS WEISS)
But one pair aren't exactly motivated to focus on training. On the rocky landscape just yards away from their friends, Weiss is pacing around, "Ughh! - Can you please stop playing that game?! - I can't focus at all and I can't find anything else to properly sit on! - ALL OF THIS ARE JUST ROUGH ROCKS!", she yells while flailing her arms in the air.
Her counterpart isn't as hot-headed as the princess, in any case, she's just having a good time despite sitting on an uneven rock that can break her back in several hours. "Hmmm - maybe if I can put another block here, it'll match everything in one move . . . ", Moze speaks to herself, and ignores Weiss, and just plays her game on her ECHO device.
"You're supposed to be the one training me! Not using this time to slack off! - ", Weiss continues to yell at her.
Moze fists bumps in the air, then goes back to playing her game. " - Nice, finally got the BFG. That Cyber Demon's TOAST! - I'll fucking beat that old man's high score with this kind of gun ~ ", she licks her lips as she kills the demons in her device.
"Are you SERIOUSLY playing a game during training?"
"Yeah, it's called having fun-try it sometime.", she takes out a piece of neatly wrapped gum while playing with her other hand. She removes the wrapper and tosses the gum in the air, and flawlessly catches it with her mouth without looking at the gum.
"ARGH! - THAT'S IT!", Weiss just leans and sneers at the Soldier, she eventually approaches her and attempts to swat the clunky device from her hand. But just as she reach for it, Moze placed her hand on Weiss's forehead and kept her at arms length, she continued playing while Weiss swung her arms willy-nilly at her.
"Ugggh, fucking kids.", she groans and spoke like pissed off grandma, and eventually Moze wanted to use both of her hands again and gave a huge shove against her, knocking her to the ground on her back. "Can you not? I'm kind of busy here.", Moze looks at her with a lazy look.
Weiss gets up and dusted her dress as she exclaimed her frustration. "Do you take ANYTHING Seriously!? You are THE worst teacher I've ever had."
Moze clicks her tongue in frustration, then turns off her ECHO device, turning to Weiss, getting the proper attention she deserves. "Sorry Elsa, I didn't join the Ursa Corps to be a teacher, - well that used to be my job with the greenies, but I joined to kill a bunch of dudes with a giant ass mech."
"You also need to keep your profanities in check! - "
Moze does a mockery of Ruby's puppy eyes, trying to act all adorable, complete with a high-pitched adorable voice. "Or what, I'm gonna hurt someone's feewings? ~ ", then shifts to her original tone. "Tch, tell ya what, next time I shoot a guy's kneecaps like they're beer cans, I'll try not to call him a dumb fuck afterwards. Deal? Deal."
Weiss growls at her and tries to intimidate her, only for her to be shoved back again by the Gunner despite slightly shorter than her. "OW! - HEY, OZPIN TOLD YOU TO TRAIN ME! - CAN YOU AT LEAST TAKE EVERYTHING SERIOUSLY?!"
"Fuck off, princess. You love running your mouth, don't you?", she then gets up from the rock and stands in front of her. At first, Weiss frowns at her, still pissed off.
But the Ice Princess still presses on, " - Oh, I WILL run my mouth if you keep slac - AAAAH! - ", But without a warning, Moze slaps her in the face, knocking her down on the ground. Just one hard slap and now she's fallen over.
On the ground, Weiss snaps at her, "WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!?"
Moze points at her lazily, with a bored look on her face. "You. You are the problem.", she then waves her hands around. "I get that you're a heir to some company and crap - "
Then stands over, looking down at her. " - But you literally fight like someone's supposed to save you rather than you win it on your own. You need to change your stance and realize that you don't need to look good in front of your enemy, you need to actually take 'em down. When was the last fight you won like that?"
Weiss does a scowl at Moze, feeling viscerally pissed at her, she stands up and brushes off the dirt on her dress. "I - . . . erm.", but she can't place a finger what she meant.
Moze nods and smirks smugly at her. "Exactly. Honestly this is gonna be waaay worse than my other students that were under me - AND THEY CAN TAKE FAR WORSE SLAPS THAN YOUR PRISSY ASS!"
"You know, you are a sorry excuse of a teacher. Honestly, what do I gain from learning from you?"
Moze crosses her arms, "Well, you can learn how not to be a b*** and take everything like a real woman. Or do what you do best: Be a rich b*** forever. Because here's the truth; you don't last long. Period. I've seen girls more richer and more bitchier - than you!"
Weiss gets up swings her hand to slap her back, but the Gunner blocks it without even looking and outright slaps her again, putting her down. "We won't train properly if you get up and stay a cool head.", she clenches the ground, already pissed and gets back up again, this time, throwing a punch.
Moze casually dodges it and slaps her again, three times in a row, she can see the redness on Weiss' cheek, swelling from the pain. "Ooohh ~ looks like you're about to cry - Are you gonna cry? ~ Here let me help you, 'princess'. ". she offers her hand.
Weiss just swats it away, stands as she dusts herself off again and walks away. She turns her back on Moze, "Hmph - I'm going to ask Ozpin to find me a better teacher." and then mutters to herself, "I don't know why you just can't train me.", but her self comment was heard and replied to by the Gunner.
Moze just looks elsewhere, chewing her cherry-flavored gum. "Because you don't WANT to train. - "
Weiss turns around straight away. "I beg your pardon? I'm not the one - "
She digistructs Iron Bear, and takes a seat in the cockpit, while keeping the cover open, letting the fresh air of the planet flow inside the mech. " - Willing to listen? Yeah, I know the type . . . I had a little runt like you before, guy's name was Tony, except he was from the Bronx of Eden-4 and had a habit of stealing, Vladof caught him and he was entrusted to me to be trained when he accepted the offer to join the Ursa Corps. He was a good kid, fought like hell and was quirky as you could get, but he's also a klutz, sound familiar?"
Weiss frowns as she thinks of Ruby, and merely stares at her. Moze assuming she already got the picture, goes on.
"I trained him but he just wouldn't listen, I thought maybe I was too hard on him, that it was just one more mission with my OG Ursa Corps squad and that all I had to do was just watch out for him until it was over . . . I thought we'd could just blaze through Darzaran Bay if I did the effort."
"And? What happened to him? Did his training paid off?"
"A body already half crushed by a burning building and being burned alive by the enemy in front of your friends doesn't really count as 'paid off', WOULDN'T IT?!", Weiss suddenly steps back as she was about to retort to her, however, knowing that boy was young as her and Ruby, died helplessly in battle. She just couldn't shake off how terrifying it must be.
Moze sighs as she opens a small compartment filled with cans of root beers. She takes one and starts chugging it, drowning the dying screams of her squad and the recruits they brought with them, and what worse, she was the leader of their group, and she completely blames herself for it. "I had to watch him burn as he cried for help, and along were the others, after that . . . I was the only one left."
Weiss was shocked at first, but kept a straight face as she tried to defend her reasoning for being the way she was, she didn't know why, she just felt like she needed to defend herself to this person. "Look, I'm sorry about whatever happened in your past, but I didn't mean to insult you, I just wanted to train so I can be a better Huntress - but I can't learn anything if you're gonna be this way! Bring back your old self."
However the Gunner just looks down, "You know I can't do that . . . "
She only glances at her shoulder, "Then we have nothing to talk about. Good day.", then leaves the scene.
Moze hops out of the mech. " HEY! We're not done here, you wanna get this over with or what!?"
The princess turns to the Mech with a frustrated expression. "Make me!", then continues to walk away.
Animosity fills the Gunner's eyes under her military helmet, "Shouldn't have said that, princess.", the soldier hops back on Iron Bear, then closing the cockpit door on her, and presses a button, letting Iron Bear digistruct a Bear Claw and launches the pneumatic fist towards Weiss, grabbing the back collar of her dress and instantly pulling her back towards the mech.
Weiss is struggling to free herself from the giant metal hand. "ARGH! - LET GO OF ME!".
"See? - You just keep yappin' and yappin' without using your weapon! Honestly, it's common fucking sense already!", Moze uses the microphone within Iron Bear to respond to Weiss.
Weiss brings out Myrtenaster and slices off a small piece of her collar to free herself and leaps back from the Iron Bear and readies herself, aiming the rapier at the mech, "You'll pay for that, you dolt! - "
Inside the cockpit, the Gunner smirks as she switches both of her weapons to Vanquisher Rocket Pods, "Oooo ~ she looks pissed.", the mech then locks on Weiss and fires all rockets from it's disposal, then starts chambering rockets to ready for another salvo.
Weiss uses her Myrtenaster to rotate and select the Dust fitting for this situation, in this case, she uses the Hard-Light Dust to create an invisible barrier around her. "Wait for it . . . "
Once one of the rocket hit the barrier, suddenly the barrier bursts into a big bright blue shockwave, striking all the rockets incoming towards her in one go.
"WOAH! - That was a weird one.", Moze whistles at Weiss power, knowing it's coming from her weapon specifically those glowing crystals in a revolving-like chamber. "Hmm, let's see how long you can handle me and Iron Bear ~ ", she locks on Weiss again and fires all of the rockets again, while charging straight at her.
Weiss groans and rolls her eyes around, reloads her weapon to a Yellow Dust then casts a glyph, creating a time dilation to slow down the rocket's trajectory.
And showing off her Yellow Dust's power, Moze is flabbergasted by the time dilation power she has, but then again. Time hasn't stopped for her and Iron Bear yet, and continues to charge at the princess.
"Too easy.", she reloads it again to a Blue Dust, and shoots large ice crystal at the rockets with accuracy, exploding every single rocket in front of her, but the sheer size of the rockets are enough to cause a large field of black smoke around her.
But amidst the smoke, Iron Bear's Bear Fist appears in a surprise attack, "SURPRISE!", with Moze yelling in the mech, and straight up punches Weiss.
The princess felt the sharp pain from the mech's punch, but she crashes against a large wall, letting pain coursing around her body.
While Weiss is getting up, Moze inside the cockpit is taking notes: Weiss utilizes raw Dust in combat. Her preferred method is to insert vials of powdered Dust into Myrtenaster's revolving chamber. With a pull of the trigger, she can release Dust onto Myrtenaster blade, or even combine Dust with her Semblance.
Myrtenaster is shown to contain yellow, blue, red, cyan, purple, and white Dust. So far, she only knows the Yellow Dust, which can result in a time dilation glyph, thus she saw those up its target's movements. Cyan Dust, which can create an invisible barrier that gives off light blue shockwaves upon being struck. and Blue Dust she can mainly use the element Ice to her advantage such as ice crystals as projectiles, perhaps she can use it to create barriers or passageways to maneuver out of harm's way, that leaves 3 more undiscovered crystal thingies (Dust) for Moze to know, luckily she got herself a plan to counter all of that.
Weiss growls at the giant mech and her power needs to be on par with Moze's mech. So she reloads to her Red Dust and summons large fiery glyphs which Moze can already hint it's gonna be fire, if the mech is capable of resisting massive physical damage perhaps she can melt some of it's armor too. "I'LL MELT YOUR MECH DOWN IF I HAVE TO!", she then points her rapier AT THE MECH, firing equally large fireballs at Iron Bear.
"Using fire against fire, huh? Bad idea ~ ", she then changes the weapons to Miniguns, ready and fully armed with cryogenic rounds on all four of these killing machines. She then starts shooting down the fireballs as much as she can, but some of the fireballs are too hot too extinguish thus burning some of Iron Bear's limbs.
Unexpectedly for Moze, Iron Bear took quite the damage despite fire doesn't usually work for metal, corrosion does. "Ah crap - ", to make matters worse, her Miniguns fired so much, that both guns have already temporarily powered down due to being overheated.
"NOW'S MY CHANCE!", she smirks as she reloads her Red Dust to slice off the medium-sized rocks behind her, then loads up one of the Dusts that Moze hasn't been able to figure out yet: Purple Dust and Weiss is finally using Gravity against her opponent.
The disjointed pointed rocks slowly float in the air behind her and aims at Iron Bear. With a focused mind, Weiss aims points her rapier at Iron Bear again, shooting her massive projectiles towards them.
She switches back to her Vanquisher Rocket Pods and locks on the projectiles quickly and fires half of the amount, saving the rest for later. "This is gonna fucking hurt! - NGH!", like playing Darts, Iron Bear is damaged by multiple pointy rocks, at the front armor. Some of it bounced off but made big dents, while a good few managed to pierce through but not even close to Moze who is unfazed by it's breach. Sparks fly inside the cockpit, but Moze has already been in this situation before and she knows what to do at times like this. "Hoooo ~ guess it's to fight dirty."
On the outside, Weiss stands down and walks to the Iron Bear mech, assuming Moze is already given up and stands down. "Looks like I already won, honestly I wasn't expecting to win ~ ", she smirks at the downed mech.
But Weiss hears Moze's chuckling from the inside. "I don't know - it seems I'm on the winning side here - and you haven't met Iron Bear's secret weapon yet ~ "
She puts her hands on her waist, raising an eyebrow at the mech, "Oh really? And what is it? A giant laser beam? A swarm of robots? - "
Eventually the mech's cockpit letting out a burst of thick smoke from the inside opens revealing Moze aiming at Weiss with a Torgue Rocket Launcher, but an ordinary one, not a Legendary Rocket Launcher because none of her team wishes to bring that kind of overpowered firepower . . . yet.
Moze grins widely as she pulls the trigger, " - Me. - ", then fires a high-explosive rocket on the ground between Weiss feet, knocking her away a few feet and crashing down in a pile of rocks. " - Ahhh ~ when will that girl ever learn; Never check your enemies up close.", the Gunner spoke to herself as she hops out of Iron Bear, and sighs and chuckle. "Looks like I'll have to really fix you up, big gu - ", but she suddenly hears rumbling around her, it couldn't be Flak's pet, they are way too far from their position.
She looks up in the mountains far from them and spots massive boulders rolling down in the distance, heading towards the princess unconscious body. " - SHIT! WEISS!", she then hops in her mech again. "Come on Iron Bear! - MOVE!", she uses Iron Bear's main thruster to kick it into Overdrive, and launches itself towards her at high speed.
Weiss slowly wakes by a large crash above her and opens her eyes to see Moze opening the cockpit and quickly grabbing her and taking her inside the cockpit, afterwards her vision starts to go black followed by her senses.
SEVERAL MINUTES LATER . . .
"Ughh - what happened?", Weiss slowly wakes up as she finds herself inside Iron Bear's cockpit, already opened to find themselves in a pile of destroyed rocks, beside her is the Gunner, playing video games again like nothing happened.
"You fainted after I blew you up. Then a rockslide came in and almost buried you alive, but I got some Fuel from Iron Bear to shove you in the cockpit with me. Had to play on my ECHO while Iron Bear covered both of us. It was neat.", the Gunner casually summed the entire thing while staring at her screen.
Weiss frowns as she is lost the battle and was even rescued by a young woman not only she did it without using some sort of Semblance nor Aura, but by using just a massive mech with an insurmountable amount of weapons to counter every attack she has which is also a variety of elemental Dust.
"Your moves back there, they remind me of another rich bitch, Aurelia Hammerlock, a heiress who saw herself as mightier than others and she even had the same powers as you, princess.", She smirks at Weiss, as she tosses her a can of root beer, Weiss reads the can and sees the word 'Root Beer', she purses her lips and frowns but Moze sees her face. "Relax, it's not alcohol."
Weiss opens a the can through the Easy Open label, "You mean like my Semblance and my weapon?"
Moze shakes her head. "A bit close. Looked into her bio a bit, she used to be an 'exorbitantly wealthy socialite', she has taken up the hobby of hunting, traveling the galaxy to seek dangerous creatures to kill as well as making her brother's life even more miserable. That bitch actually won more fights and was FOUR times your age and experienced, almost killed Zane, but he was cocky as horseshit. . . Wanna know how she died?"
As much as Weiss doesn't want to know more of this, this Aurelia Hammerlock is just like her, and wonders what happened to her. "How?"
She digistructs a shotgun on the palm of her hands. Then tosses it to Weiss, of the princess caught it with one hand, "I shot her in her face with that, it's call 'The Hellwalker,' manufactured by the family-oriented Jakobs Corporation, after she tried to kill her brother's fiancé. She put up quite a fight, just like you did."
Weiss takes a sip of the root beer and immediately recoils from the weird taste. She then places the can down and examines the double-barreled shotgun. In spite of this simple looking weapon, she is surprisingly interested at the ornate and intricate designs etched onto the gun, and how pristine it is.
Moze continues on while drinking her root beer, then crushes it with her bare hand, then throws it elsewhere out of the mech, then grabs another can and opens it. "I don't know WHAT you were taught, but here's what I was taught: War is like the rest of the Universe. It. Doesn't. Fucking. Care about you, your story, your money, your title, your passion, or your innocence.", Weiss looks at her with a frown, but in her mind, she makes a good point. Weiss has always been the first one to put down, somehow it's in her nature, but her arrogance has just led her astray.
But the Gunner stares sternly at her, because inside of that laidback, nonchalant attitude is a young brave, reckless girl who survived Death's Door with her sheer will and high tolerance for pain but had to live so she can suffer her past over and over again, enduring the trauma every day and night so she doesn't go insane like those psychos back on Pandora.
"If you don't knuckle down, fight back and show some goddamn humility and effort, then you'll end up just like them. So before you pick up a gun, grab a knife or ANYTHING - you're going to give me your undivided attention and full devotion to being better than ever because I'm not having another Darzaran Bay, I can't lose anyone - if I have anything to say about it . . . you get me?"
Weiss pinches the bridge of her nose and then empties the entire can, then crushes it with her rapier. The princess slowly turns to her, "You got another one of those horrendous drink?"
"One finely aged cask of Whoop-Ass comin' right up ~ ", Moze smiles mischievously as she tosses a fresh can of root beer at Weiss.
Aaaaand that was it! Honestly it took longer than I thought it'd be, maybe because we (yes, I had help from TheWubbzler, hell of a creator, big ambitions with big brains, and I am damn grateful to him) had to put it some background of the Vault Hunters (of course a little bit of fanmade backstory from Moze about Tony on Eden-4 even though it wasn't in the game, but still, gets the job done.)
So - uhh - here's the thing, I may take a 2-Day break, since it's gonna be New Year, heh, I feel like 2021's gonna be worse than 2020, but who knows? Anyway I gotta spend some time off this whole break I kept churning out chapter after chapter and I can safely say that I'm spent (That's what she said)
Anywaaaays ~ to all my fellow readers, followers, and strangers; Happy New Year! XD Hope all of you are enjoying in your homes safe and sound with your friends and families and hopefully, maybe, probably, 2021 won't start with a big disaster or another celebrity death.