[U]Chapter 12
To Haven
Gunshots and Loud Crashes were heard through the land as Team RNJRS was knocked back by the Grimm.
(Screw its name its a pain to type every time and ive delayed this too long)
It began to walk around them slowly, the hooves were heard echoing.
It stops.
The arms began to twitch and its body leaned back and screamed, then its body cracked and it stared at the group creepily.
"Ok this is somehow worse than the dragon from Beacon"
Shade said holding his two blades.
"Agreed"
Ruby nods looking scared.
Jaune quickly sheathed his sword and ran to Qrow.
The Grimm stretched its arm to Jaune who quickly rolled but didn't notice the second arm about to hit him.
Shade quickly got in front of the attack and used his gauntlet shields to block the damage but he was flung into a wall.
"Shade are you ok?"
Ruby shouts
"Yeah"
He runs back to them quickly as the Grimm ran towards Qrow and Jaune.
Shade shoots at the Grimm as Ren used his Semblance to hide Jaune and Qrow from the Grimm allowing them to get away.
Nora and Shade began to shoot constant fire at the Grimm.
It charges straight for the rest of them.
They were all moving and shooting trying to dodge its fast arms.
It hits Nora away and smashes Ruby into the ground.
Shade runs to the arm that smacked Ruby and tried to cut the arm off but it quickly let Ruby go and smacked Shade away.
He quickly recovered and took a stance.
"If this thing hits me one more time i'm gonna lose it"
He shoots at hit several times as the Grimm's focus was on Ren who was running around and shooting at it.
The Grimm grabbed both of Ren's weapons.
"Guys keep running in a circle!"
Jaune shouted.
Nora shot at it so it let Ren go and they all began to run and shoot at the grimm.
Jaune got in close and slices its leg, it then kicked jaune with its back legs.
"Jaune!"
Ruby shouted distracted.
"Ruby look out!"
Shade shouted as the Grimm pinned her into a tree.
Shade ran towards her as the Grimm launched its second arm at Ruby.
He looks at his gauntlet and tried to use his shields but they weren't working.
"Damn it."
He moves in front of Ruby and stabs the first arm to let her go so she was free.
The second arm was inches away from Shade and he had no time to flee.
Shade closed his eyes and waited to be attacked but when he opened his eyes he saw something else.
A shadow arm that came from his normal arm was holding a shadow shield that was protecting him.
"This is new."
He moved out of the way and his shadow arm and shield vanished.
Ruby and Shade ran to where Jaune was.
"Any ideas?"
Shade asks as Jaune sheathed his blade.
"What are you doing?"
Ruby shouts at Jaune.
Jaune redrew his blade which was now combined with his shield to make a much stronger sharper blade.
Shade and Ruby nodded at Jaune and began to shoot at the Grimm as Jaune ran and slashed at the Grimm's legs.
The Grimm changed tactics and rapidly spinned around rapidly smacking everyone with its arms.
It cracks its body again and screeched.
Ren attempts to attack it but ends up pinned to a building.
The Grimm attempts to finish Ren off, but Nora redirected the attack so she was pinned to the wall.
But it began to smack Nora into the ground before dropping her onto the ground.
Ren began to stab and shoot at the arm while Jaune and Shade slice the creature's legs.
When Ren was freed he charged full on and attacked the Grimm recklessly
"Ren knock it off"
Jaune yelled at him.
"Stop it your gonna die."
The grimm began to smack Ren around similar to what it did to Nora before slamming him into the ground near Nora.
They both got up and the Grimm prepared to charge at them, but before it could Nora pushed Ren under a building.
The Grimm charged at Jaune who used his shield to avoid being stomped on, Ruby shot at it from the creature's left and Shade stabbed its side from its right.
It stretched its arms at the two.
Ruby used her scythe to dodge as well as her semblance while still shooting at it.
Shade used his blades to hold the arm back.
"Grrrr"
He jumped and stabbed the arm with his first blade and shoots lasers at the grimm with the second.
Ren and Nora came out and they all grouped up.
Ren was holding a dagger.
"Ren"
Ruby called out.
Ren looked at RJR
"Jaune and I can take care of the arms."
"I'll take care of the horse."
Nora said.
"I'll keep it distracted."
Shade held his blades.
"When i lure the arms over you two know what to do"
He turned to Jaune and Ruby.
They both nodded and they all looked at Ren.
"And ill handle the rest."
Nora ran towards a building.
Ruby and Shade began running around the grimm getting its attention.
Shade running on land distracting one arm while Ruby shot at it from the air.
The Grimm slammed its arm into the ground causing to be stuck for a few seconds.
Before the arm could move back Shade quickly stabbed the arm into the ground.
He left the blade in the ground and distracted the other arm while ruby stabbed the first arm as well causing it the arm to be stuck further.
Ren threw a weapon at the horse part of grimm the grimm then launched its arm at Jaune.
Suddenly Ren using Jaune's Shield held the arm down.
"Now!"
Shade quickly ran over and he and Jaune stabbed the arm into the ground.
"Nora Now!"
Ren shouted.
Nora fell from the building and smashed the horse into the ground.
The Grimm screamed in pain.
Ren walked over to the front of the Grimm after pulling the dagger out of its body.
The Grimm screamed at Ren.
He uses the dagger to slice its right arm, he then held the creature by its horn and sliced off its left arm.
It screams loudly before he sliced its chest.
"For myself"
He said before slicing its head off.
A large amount of smoke formed from its remains.
He dropped the dagger and was breathing heavily right before Nora tackled him.
Shade picked up his two blades and retracted them into his gauntlets.
He turned to see Ruby running off, he quickly followed,
The two see Qrow still in bad condition, they walk to him.
"Its quiet, good job."
Ruby smiled at Qrow.
"I hope that's the last big fight we have for a while."
Shade said with a small smile.
They heard Jaune shout something.
"Guys i think i hear something."
They look up to see several airships landing near them.
"It's about time."
All of them were soon on the airships and were flying to Mistral.
Shade began working on fixing up his Shields as they fly.
"They weren't strong enough, no i wasn't strong enough"
Shade said to himself as he remembered the shadow that appeared from his body.
"What was that power though?"
He was snapped out of his thoughts when he saw the city.
"Whoa"
Soon they were all in rooms resting after their long journey.
Shade put his stuff down and unequiped his gauntlets putting them on the nightstand.
He noticed a paper and pen.
"Eh why not."
He sits down and began writing.
"To be honest im not sure why im writing this, but after everything we've been through, I have a lot of thoughts going through my head, all the stuff about these maidens and salem its so much worse than what I first thought, Team RWBY Team SHDE, i know me and Ruby miss being with our teams, its nice that were with friends but its just not the same, i know Dawn went after Weiss but i don't even know if she was successful."
At Atlas...
A pilot was holding some lien leaning against an airship
"Ok you two can hideout back in the cargo hold,i'll take you both as far as I can but if we get caught your two are on your own, understand?"
Weiss and Dawn stepped on the Airship
"Mission Accomplished."
Dawn said to herself with a smile.
Back at Shade…
"I have a feeling she was but for all i know she could be back at Vale trying to help fix everything, or maybe she's at atlas i don't know, and Erika went after Blake but knowing their experience in the white fang who knows if they are safe."
At Menagerie…
Blake is looking through a chest of white fang stuff as Erika walks in.
"I heard you were gonna take back the White Fang."
She walks in front of Blake.
"Yeah i am"
"Alright what's the first step?"
"You don't have to do this you know you can go back to your team."
"I can't actually"
She looks down.
"Why?"
"Shin is in the White Fang"
Blake looked surprised.
"I thought he was dead"
"So did i but clearly not."
Blake placed her hand on Erika's shoulder.
"We'll get him back"
Erika looked at Blake.
"I know we will."
Back at Shade…
"Erika was always the most cheerful of us all i have no idea how all this affected her, i can only hope she remained the same, Hiroki though in his letter he sent he told me he had to find himself, i have no idea what he meant by this."
Somewhere in the Forest…
Raven walked into Hiroki's tent but there was no Hiroki only the patch for his eye.
"That little punk."
Raven said with a smile.
Back at Shade…
"I dont know whats going to happen next but one thing i know is, were not sitting around doing nothing, we can't not after what we've seen, i know this maybe not tomorrow maybe not the day after but i know one day we will reunite and when we do all these people Yuki,Tyrian,Salem"
He squeezed the pen tightly
"Cinder, all of these people will fall"
Shape put the pen down and looks out the window.
A shine of sunlight hit him.
"Huh, well look at that."
He turns to look at his shadow.
"How much will it take to master you?"
He smiles as he closed the curtains turning everything dark
End of Volume 4
Credits:
SHDE Volume 4
Shade
Erika
Dawn
Yuki
Shin
Belong to me
Hiroki Belongs to Hiroki Darque.
RWBY is owned by the late Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth.
Epilogue.
We see behind Hiroki as he walks through the forest until he reaches a fork in the road.
One is basically back the way he came in another direction and the other is continuing down the way before he stopped.
He heard something and readied his weapon.
A motorcycle was heard going down the second path.
It stops near him and the woman got off it and took off her goggles.
"Well i didn't expect to see you here,Yang."
She smiled at Hiroki.
"Well do you need a ride somewhere?"
We zoom in on Hiroki's smile and then we see the rest of his face.
Hiroki has both eyes open except now he has a slash scar over his left eye.
Cut to black.
AN:And thus we conclude another volume, it was fun i guess but it did drain a lot of my energy half way through but it's difficult with four storylines in one volume, anyway thanks for reading and ill see you all next time.