Author's Notes: Happy Holidays and glad to know people still love this story, now if I can hit the 100 mark in favorites. I would also like to say that the polls are now open for you to vote for who you would like to see Vergil get with. With that said the polls won't be closed until I actually write Winter in the story. As you can tell from the last chapter, we've reached the part where the stories diverge completely from cannon.

So you know stuff from volume 3 probably won't happen, hell I don't even think the Vytal festival will be happening but you never know. I have the overall premise mapped in my head but truthfully I'm just making this up as I go along but in a way which makes sense.

Also to the one guest reviewer Ralex who asked me about that one piece crossover, I can't write that for two reasons. First I have a lot of stories I'm trying to write enough chapters of before I publish them and adding one more is just going to be a pain. Second I'll admit that so far all of my current stories were written on a whim because I liked an idea that had an appeal and I said 'why not' and just went with it (ironically the reason why I have so many unpublished stories with potential sitting on my hard drive). One Piece just doesn't appeal to me, so sorry I can't do it.

Now that my rant is finished enjoy!

Chapter 6: Painting The Town

Sun was getting a little frustrated and that is a feat in and of itself as he rarely ever loses his smile outside of a combat situation and the reason was currently walking beside him with a permanent frown on her face.

He sighed.

He wasn't angry, no, far from it and he wasn't blaming her for his mood, he is blaming himself. So far he hasn't made any significant headway with Blake and it was eating at him, not noticeable but it grew with every curt answer to his question, subtle glare and any attempt at small conversation she shot down. That last one really bummed him out since he's not the quiet type.

The sad part of his debacle was despite her clear intentions that she wasn't interested in him romantically he still liked her. Heck he even respected her more for it, her being as committed as she is to stop the White Fang is cool in his opinion and her passion for creating equal rights for the Faunus is endearing. It still sucks that she doesn't like him back and at the moment finds his company annoying but hey, what can a guy do?

He isn't the type to change himself to suite people's need, whether it is because he's a Faunus or that's just him doesn't matter. He's Sun Wukong and everyone gets the full package, either accept it or buzz off. Doesn't mean he won't try to be subtle about it since he really wants to win favor with Blake.

So here we go, a brand new smart Sun coming at ya!

Blake looked around the corner then turned to him "this is it."

Ask a question so you don't look like some mindless moron

"Are you sure?"

Blake gave him a deadpan expression and he raised his hands in surrender while glancing away "you know, I'm just gonna take your word for it."

Stupid, stupid!

They rounded the corner with Sun buttoning his shirt and Blake taking off her bow. He reached in to take out a mask when another question popped into his head, this one he actually often wondered.

"I don't get it, if you believe what they're doing is right then why hide who you are?" he often wondered that.

'And why Grimm masks?' They could have easily used ski masks or something, they should be a lot easier to get.

"The mask is our symbol" she began "humanity wanted to make monsters out of us so we chose to put on the faces of monsters" she concluded looking at the mask in his hand.

"Seriously, then why Grimm masks? It seems so dark."

"So is the guy who started it" she answered putting on her mask.

"Always sunshine and rainbows with you" he muttered sarcastically.

Both Faunus entered the building just in time to witness a White Fang member introduce Roman Torchwick unto the stage. Blake bit back the hiss which threatened to leave her mouth once he showed himself and stood quietly amongst the crowd as Roman began his speech.

"A robot" Nero mumbled absentmindedly.

"Huh?" Ruby looked at him confused.

"Nothing" he shook his head.

The two had just finished speaking to Penny or more like Ruby did all the talking while Nero just tailed them, no way was he going into a conversation with those two. Not that he was particularly phased when she dropped the ball.

That is, she being a robot!

Don't get him wrong, it was weird but he's been fighting weird all his life so a robot girl who surprisingly has emotions and artificial Aura is manageable. Ruby on the other hand didn't take it as calmly as he did and was literally bouncing around Penny while spilling two hundred words a minute. Now he's curious how she's going to take seeing a demon for the first time.

Somehow her saying that Ironwood was involved didn't really surprise him. In Nero's opinion Ironwood is a complete tool that would definitely resort to making a kid instead of dating and Penny fit the role perfectly.

Nero smirked 'sugar, spice and everything nice' he thought wistfully but frowned in thought 'or is it Pinocchio?'

"Why are you smiling?" Ruby asked with eyes narrowed in suspicion.

None of your business!

Was the knee jerk reply he almost uttered.

Instead, he said "just something funny I thought of" he replied nonchalantly. He would soon regret what he said.

"Really, what is it? You can tell me" she stepped in front of him "I love jokes"

He cringed internally at her proximity but shook it off "you wouldn't get the reference unless you're from earth" he spoke truthfully and walked ahead.

"Aw~" she deflated but caught up with him in the blink of an eye.

The two of them walked in uncomfortable silence or at least Ruby saw it that way. They'd exhausted all she knew about weaponry so they didn't have anything to talk about. That is until she saw a banner overhead giving her a new topic for conversation.

"So, are you guys going to participate in the Vytal Festival?" she ask to hopefully start a conversation, she did not like awkward silences.

"The what festival?" he asked confused.

Ruby smacked her head of course he wouldn't know about it, they'd been here for what, three days now?

"The Vytal Festival" she corrected "it's like this tournament where schools from the four kingdoms compete."

This had his attention; sure he'd heard of it but didn't really pay attention. What kind of place would name a battle royale a 'festival'? Probably the same place who sold a long sword that doubled as an assault rifle.

Nero face palmed 'should've known.'

Now that he thought about it "not sure we're gonna compete" he said and Ruby could pick up the disappointment "we just got here so we don't have any background information" he added.

Ozpin could only do so much, not to mention they didn't necessarily have Aura to display despite being just as invulnerable to attacks as most proficient Aura users.

"Oh" she managed to say just as disappointed as him, then her scroll went off.

Weiss had been enjoying her time with Neptune so far and was glad to know that he held something deeper than just being a pretty face. He was charming, knew his place and didn't over step his boundaries. He was also clever if the conversation she was having were any proof.

As Heiress to the world's leading producer and refiner of Dust she had been approached to be courted many times. She knew her way around a conversation and would usually get bored at this point since it was usually obvious what they wanted. It was either her father's wealth or to get into her panties, as crude a description it was its true.

So far Neptune's managed to keep her interested all throughout the conversation for a while now as his intentions aren't clear to her. He had refined manners she would find in people belonging to the upper class but he wasn't, that much she could tell. He wasn't like the wealthy uptight people she had to deal with; he can cut loose and have fun.

She would indulge herself in having fun for once.

Then her scroll went off and the moment shattered. Biting back her growl with a dignified sigh she opened her scroll to hear a cacophony of noises in the background and Blake's voice was at the forefront

"Everyone, if you can hear me we need-"

"HEEEEELLLLLLPP!" Sun's voice rang through before the line was cut off.

Weiss rolled her eyes and she heard Neptune groan across from her in what must be embarrassment at Sun's outburst.

"Let's go save my idiot partner" he stood and placed a few Lien on the table before he and Weiss left the Café.

Nero and Ruby listened as Sun continued "we've got a giant robot big, really big"

The teens looked at each other a smirk forming on their lips.

"Oh I am not missing this" Ruby commented.

An explosion sounded off in the distance, followed by the screams of civilians then Sun's voice exclaimed

"That Torchwick guys is in it. It's like he's *grunt* ah, controlling it or something!"

Nero saw the smoke and pointed "that way, come on" he yelled already sprinting towards the long awaited action.

Meanwhile back in the club, pandemonium would readily describe what was going on right now. The moment Dante shot at Junior, who dodged by the way, all his goons attacked him, Yang and surprisingly the twins as well. What was even more surprising though were the goons themselves.

As she dodged their bullets and delivered hard punches and kicks, she found herself having to actually try rather than just barreling through them like she did the first time around. Not that it actually made a difference since they were all going down anyways but it was enough for her to notice.

Another thing she noticed was that they were trying their damned hardest to hurt her and it's not just from guns either. They were literally trying to maul her with punches, kicks, bashing, biting, and clawing. Oh yeah, they have fangs and claws now and don't even get her started on their breath and that black tar crap coming from their mouths.

"So Dante" she started clocking a goon in the face before delivering a front kick which sent him across the room.

"These *punch* the demons *duck, reverse elbow to the back of the head* you were talking about?"

Dante was in the middle of fighting Junior who had a giant, metal…baseball bat? Yep, not gonna comment.

He easily parried and dodged the massive swing with Rebellion before sword and bat clashed raining sparks.

"Yeah, no" he answered before overpowering the huge man and with a spin transformed Rebellion to Arbiter and smashed it onto his chest. The bar owner coughed up blood as he was sent crashing through the counter bar. Dante rested Rebellion on his shoulder watching Yang fight with a pensive expression.

"What's *cross punch, uppercut* that supposed to *roundhouse kick to the face* mean?" she held her hands out.

Behind her the goon she put down for the seventh time rose to charge her with reckless abandon causing the blonde to sigh in irritation. Rearing her fist back she prepared a knockout punch when the unthinkable happened

*Bang* a shot tore through his chest *Bang* then another at his neck, blood poured from it *Bang* then another dead center between his eyes.

Yang stood there frozen in disbelief, Dante had just killed someone.

Militia was afraid; she would admit that much while fighting off her former co-workers. She and her sister Melanie may have worked for a criminal and know there way around some of the underworld but they weren't criminals, at least not like Junior or Roman. They were just two kids from the slums who knew how to fight and got lucky when Junior found out during their tenor as dancers.

He was so impressed with their skills that he promoted them to full time bodyguards on the spot and until blondie they did a pretty good job of keeping the patrons in place where the goons failed. Despite her training Militia didn't deal with anything past the client or gangbangers that come with the territory. She's never even fought a Grimm before, not that she wouldn't be able to kill one.

But this - she dodged the bullets from the gun while running towards the goon before doing an uppercut under the chin. He fell down but to her surprise he got up again, how!? She infused enough Aura in that to knock him. His(?) red tint glasses fell off to reveal black hollowed eyes with a beady red center.

The red clad twin only had time to gasp in shock and horror before something collided with the side of her head and she was sent sprawling to the ground. Seeing that her Aura took the brunt of his attack the goon growled lowly while stalking to her recovering form.

"Militia!" Melanie yelled in horror.

She witnessed the goon going towards her with the blade poised to chop her and she saw red. Angrily pushing off a goon she ran straight towards the one who dare hurt her sister.

"Get away from her!" the goon turned just in time to see the irate twin upon him.

With a yell Melanie performed a devastating roundhouse kick to his head, not holding back. The hit would have been able to shatter concrete and would have resulted in cerebral hemorrhaging. Considering her weapons however, the result was the clean decapitation of the top of its head.

Melanie did a 180 spin with the kick, landing in a slight crouch with blood splattered heels scraping the ground. The body stood for a moment before it landed in front of Militia with blood and chunks of brain matter spilling fort. The entire club was deathly silent, Yang and Militia stared at her sister in horror. Melanie herself was petrified as her actions suddenly clicked to mind, she began trembling.

Dante on the other hand looked at the grizzly scene apathetically however a slight frown crept upon his face. Years of being subjected to fighting these demons have desensitized him to seeing certain things. To him they weren't humans but abominations who deserved what was coming to them and considering the class they were, what Melanie did was no skin off his bones.

His eyes shifted to the camera in the corner 'that's going to be a problem' he thought before shooting it.

That shot seemed to bring everyone back to reality but it wasn't the same as Yang didn't seem as confident as she was before. Melanie was still reeling with what she had done while Militia bravely yet fruitlessly tried to get through to her sister. Both of them were oblivious to the previous goon raising his rifle.

He never got the chance to fire as bullets started tearing through him, startling Militia and snapping Melanie from her trance. Both sisters looked to see Dante walking up to Yang and forcibly turned the girl to face him.

Frightened Lilac eyes met fierce grey-blue eyes "listen to me, whatever morals you have about killing people don't apply here!" his voice was firm and reassuring "'cause those things aren't human" he pointed to the corpse.

Yang fought back the bile to hesitantly look at the body, her eyes immediately widened. The body Dante shot was, giving off some kind of black smoke which looked all too familiar. It was almost as if they were

"Grimm" she whispered

"That's right" her eyes regarded him and he continued "they may look human, act human but trust me they aren't, so" he looked at the twins "pull yourself together 'cause they aren't stopping until we're all dead!" he shouted before pulling Yang and himself away from a rocket.

The twins moved out of the away before the projectile exploded near their corner. They all looked where it came from to see Junior stand up with his weapon and for once Dante's jaw dropped.

"Are you kidding me!?" he yelled watching Junior snarl "a baseball bat-bazooka, the fuck!?"

The man reared up to fire another rocket and Dante whipped out Ivory and they both fired one shot each. The bullet hit dead center in the rocket resulting in a fiery explosion which enveloped Junior but never made it past where the bullet impacted the rocket.

Amazingly the demonized bar owner stood patting down the fire "what the hell are you all standing around for!?" he yelled at his goons "KILL THEM!"

Yang saw them charging and stood with a determined expression, activating Ember Celica she smashed her fist together in a small blaze of fire and delivered three quick jabs to a goon's chest and finished off with a buckshot punch that tore a hole through it's chest. Pausing for a moment she watched as the body begin to smoke as the tell tale signs of evaporation and let out a breath she hadn't realized she held.

She turned around and cocked back her gauntlet "so who's next?" she smirked and they charged.

Militia was helping up her dazed sister when a bullet nicked Melanie on the shoulder. Militia yelled and turned to see the perpetrator still firing and a uncharacteristic snarl escaped her lips.

No one hurt her family, not again!

The bracelet on each wrist extended into three wolverine-esque red claws. Militia used the claws to deflect all the bullets before she swiped at his chest. The wound was shallow but it allowed for three blood red lines to soak through the white shirt.

The goon didn't even flinch and attempted to bash her head in; she easily avoided it and continued to claw at him while dodging his retaliations with practiced ease. It wasn't until she kicked his leg from under him and aimed at his head did she stop. That moment of hesitation was all it needed as a blade was produced from in its sleeve..

*BANG*

Before it could attack a chunk of its head was blown off getting some blood on her. Militia looked to see Yang who glared at her with hardened lilac eyes.

"Get your head in the game" she yelled before dodging some bullets and delivered a deathly uppercut with a resounding fire form her gauntlet followed by a spinning back kick before the body landed. The corpse started to give off smoke before it even crashed through one of the club's speakers.

"Ah!" she heard behind and turned to see Melanie fighting off three guys, not holding back or hesitating to give the final blow.

Tilting her head to the side she dodged a bullet literally then blocked another with her claws. She was still hesitant and he saw it and smirked firing some more, Militia deflected every shot with ease still unsure. The goon getting frustrated, took out a red bladed machete and charged at her, with a gulp she engaged him.

Like before she danced around his fierce but clumsy attacks, getting in hits at every turn but the goon never seemed to acknowledge the blows it received even though each drew blood. With a slight pause Militia kicked him the gut before giving him an uppercut, the claws going through its chin, past the mouth and into the brain. Militia paused until she saw smoke starting to encompass the body

'He's not human, he's not human, he's not human…' she repeated this mantra the entire time as she tossed the slowly dissolving corpse away to engage another.

Dante fought Junior off with ease, slashing away at his Aura with Rebellion but careful not to do any mortal wounds, he needed him for interrogation after all. Finally the Nephilm disarmed him and slapped him across the face with the flat of his sword before kicking his legs from under him.

Junior looked up to him, his beady red eyes glaring at the smirking Nephilm who had the tip of the longsword at his throat.

"You three done over there?" he asked not taking his eyes off him.

There was a shotgun blast followed by a body which flew over his head "yeah I'm done" Yang spoke.

Dante noted her tone of voice and cursed mentally, he would have to have a word with her after this and those other girls as well.

Soon all three girls stood by him "what do we do with him?" Yang questioned and Dante took out a scroll

"We call everyone else and we drag his sorry demonic ass back to Beacon for some interrogation?" the way how he said that sent a shiver down the girl's spine and even Junior's fierce glare paled.

"Oh no you don't!" Melanie grabbed him by the collar "what the hell is going on here!?" she shouted.

Yang was taken aback by her outburst a little, she didn't sound like an annoying preppy teen like the last time, she actually sounded normal. The Blonde brawler chanced a look at her sister to see her staring blankly at a dissolving body. She couldn't help but feel sympathy for the poor girl.

"What, you expect me to believe that crap!?" Melanie's outraged yell drew all eyes to her.

"Believe what you want" he said slapping her hands away "it doesn't change the fact that it's true" he promptly shot Junior in the leg.

"Argh" he yelled and it was then that they noticed how far he was from his previous position.

"Tell me something, does that" he pointed to Junior clutching his leg "look human to you?"

Melanie took a long look at her former boss, his skin pale, teeth jagged, black ink ran from glowing blood red eyes. She flinched slightly at his glare.

Dante took out his scroll to call Nero when he paused and looked up to the DJ booth "am I going to have to come up there?" he spoke.

Yang looked in the direction as did the twins as ever so slowly a man dressed in a bear costume rose from behind the DJ booth. By now they all knew he wasn't a man, still, that didn't stop Dante from laughing, hard.

"W-what the hell are you wearing" he gasped between laughs.

The man in the bear costume didn't seem phased by his outburst which Yang had to admit made him look even more out of place and ridiculous. Eventually even she started to laugh at him, the twins having been used to his presence long ago watched on nonplussed that they could both forget the carnage that had happened to laugh at some guy in a bear costume working at…a..nightclub?

…..

On second thought it was really ridiculous and despite everything Militia found herself chuckling if not for the ridiculousness then as a way to distract herself from her conflicting feelings. Melanie joined in shortly afterwards, not as loud as Yang or Dante yet not so quiet like her sister.

"There they are" Weiss shouted

Neptune looked out to see a giant mech chasing Blake and Sun who were hopping onto moving cars. The bluenette dragged down his goggles and took his weapon out, the rifle unfolded slightly with the crackle of electricity as he took aim.

Meanwhile the Faunus duo were jumping vehicles with skill, Blake going for the quick route that took less energy while Sun chose to add some acrobatic flare. It didn't matter either way as the mech was quickly gaining on them.

"Please tell me you have a plan" he shouted.

"Uh, working on it" she said unsure.

Just then several balls of condensed electricity smashed into the mech, slowing it down but not doing much damage otherwise, Roman grunted in exasperation.

Ruby and Nero made it under the overpass where they spotted several cars smashing into the holographic rails.

"We're in position" Ruby sounded on her scroll.

Weiss left Neptune to distract the mech while she headed the underpass below her. Sun and Blake jumped off the car they rode once they pass the heiress and watched the mech fire a rocket at Neptune's position.

"Crap" he yelled before jumping off the bridge

"Neptune!" Weiss and Sun yelled only for him to drop in a roll between them.

"I'm okay" he winced "mostly.

"Weiss focus!" Blake yelled.

With a relieved sigh the heiress spun on her heel and drove the point of Myrtenaster into the ground. A wave of ice enveloped the path of the oncoming mech causing it to slip and crash through the holographic rail onto the underpass where Ruby and Nero awaited. The young half demon untangled his cast arm from the sling upon seeing the mech crash.

'Something tells me I'm going to need both arms for this.'

Soon there friends joined them except for two "where's Yang?" she asked with a hint of worry.

"And Dante" Nero finished, his tone devoid of any worry for the Nephilm.

"Don't know" Sun answered brandishing his staff.

"It doesn't matter right now" Blake spoke Gambol shroud at the ready.

"We're starting this party without them" Nero added revving Red Queen for emphases.

"Does anyone have a plan?" Neptune asked staring at the mech that was beginning to rise.

While the boys stare, the girls looked to each other with uncertainty, they practiced fighting as a team but since Yang wasn't there then they would have to use the boys as substitute.

"Uh we had a whole team attack thing we practiced but.." she trailed off.

The boys stared at her with Neptune and Sun trading looks and both men nodded then turned to Nero who shrugged and nodded out of curiosity. The girls had no idea what just happened when Sun regarded them with a grin

"Cool, we'll follow your lead then" the monkey Faunus spoke.

Ruby beamed then they all turned serious "alright" she looked to Weiss and they nodded then to Neptune "help Weiss create some cover, Arctic Ocean!" she yelled before disappearing in a flurry of roses.

Blake disappeared in shadow and a moment later Nero and Sun leapt away leaving a mildly confused Neptune and Weiss.

"Follow my lead" she spoke and struck Myrtenaster in the ground creating a large circle of ice.

Neptune did an Aura infused leap into the sky to avoid it and Weiss shouted "hit the ice with your weapon!"

Realization struck him and before he hit the ground he unfolded the gun into a trident with high voltage surging at the tip. He struck the ice with a surge of electrical energy instantly destroying the ice and causing a mist to envelope the surrounding area. The mech instantly deployed sensors all around it while Roman looked around warily.

Movement tripped one of the sensors and it fired catching Blake and Sun off guard but just as they were blown back Nero and Ruby shot through the blast fire. Both teens hit and while Ruby's attack barely phased it, the resounding explosion from Red Queen managed to dent it. He landed behind while Ruby was pushed back in front of it.

Weiss and Blake were right beside her "Checkmate!" both girls were upon the mech and she saw Sun and Neptune behind it and yelled "Sea monkey!"

"That's our cue" the Faunus got out before he and his partner engaged it from behind.

Weiss managed to take out its revolving minigun before using a Glyph to leap away. The mech opened both shoulder hatch to reveal rocket launch pads. Neptune was on top of it immediately, he stuck his trident on one shoulder launch pad. There was a crackle of static discharge before the entire arm was blown off along with the bluenette. He didn't get up back.

Sun let out a growl and split his staff in its gun-chuck form and jumped on its head to unleash shot after shot into the dent Nero made earlier determined to pry it open.

Roman shook his head inside the mech disoriented from the blast and threw the pesky Faunus off him. Sun landed next to Blake and the undamaged shoulder pad released a wave of rocket, both Faunus found themselves enveloped in a Glyph courtesy of Weiss.

Blake did a slash and her purple Aura came out of Gambol shroud splitting the missile. She continued the onslaught while Sun combined his weapon in its staff form to block incoming fire from the hand cannon Roman fired. Sun twirled the staff vertically on either side of him like a spinning fan blade, releasing balls of yellow Aura amplified shots that slammed into the mech.

Ruby ran past them when all the rockets were destroyed "Nero!" she yelled attacking low

"About damn time" he grumbled attacking high.

They slashed the robot landing one opposite sides with a flip. With a *bang* Ruby shot off in a trail of roses, while with a *rev* Nero shot forward in a trail of fire. Both of them shot back and fort parallel of each other in a dance of flaming roses, weakening the legs with each strike.

Finally getting frustrated Roman fired upon the duo with the hand cannon which Nero avoided but Ruby was nowhere in sight. By the time his sensors picked up movement it was too late, Blake and Ruby descended upon it and slashed off the remaining arm. That didn't stop the criminal though as the missile pads on its shoulder opened right as two yellow clones slammed into it and exploded on impact. The explosion following after made it stumble backwards.

"Dammit" Roman snarled, the cracked visor now red with warnings, he's running out of options.

Its chest opened to reveal mounted machine guns which fired upon them, the teens all ran for cover behind a pillar.

"How many weapons does that thing have!?" Sun shouted in frustration and everyone had to admit that thing was really persistent.

An electrical explosion sounded behind it stopping the dust bullet barrage and Sun grinned "Neptune!"

"We need to slow it down" Ruby spoke watching as the mech charged the bluenette who dodged before firing some more.

"And how do you suggest we do that?" Weiss raised an eyebrow.

"White Rose" she responded and lowered Crescent Rose on the pavement while Weiss had a Glyph made at the muzzle.

Every shot Ruby made impact the mech while covering parts of it in chunks of ice until its feet were frozen.

While all this was going on Nero looked to his arm then the mech before putting Red Queen on his back "ah screw it" he spoke before sprinting towards it while unclipping his cast.

"Nero!" Ruby yelled in alarm.

"What does he think he's doing!?" Weiss yelled incredulously.

Nero ignored them and rolled up his sleeve before rearing back the demonic appendage where a giant glowing purple image of it was seen.

Roman saw this through his visor and managed to say "what the.." *CRASH*

With one punch Nero managed to slam the mech through three pillars, a huge chunk of it ripping off with each impact until Roman slammed into a fourth pillar and dropped to the ground.

"Ugh" he released an annoyed growl and stood up shakily "great" he wobbled before shaking it off "I just had this thing dry cleaned" he regarded his now dirty clothes then Nero with a withering glare.

Nero regarded him with shot from Blue Rose which was promptly blocked by a new arrival. Nero actually raised an eyebrow at the newcomer's appearance, he had now idea what to make of her.

The strange tri-hair colored girl looked at Nero with a smile, her mismatched eyes trailed to his arm and the smile dropped and for a moment she looked at him confused. Nero could have sworn her eyes changed color but dismissed it.

"Ladies, gentlemen, Ice Queen" Roman spoke ignoring Weiss' indignant yell he tipped his hat "always a pleasure, Neo if you would."

The girl regained her composure and with a smile bowed but none made a move afterwards. There was the distinct sound of Blue Rose going off and both criminals had a hole in their heads before shattering like glass revealing the duo in the cargo hull of a Dust plane flying away.

Nero sighed in frustration before rolling up his sleeves right as the others stood beside him

"Guess he got himself a new henchman?" Sun spoke.

"Yeah" Weiss began "I guess you can say his plans, fell apart?" she quipped.

Everyone just stared at her with varying degrees of 'really' expression or bordering on annoyance and Neptune raised his hand.

Blake only shook her head in disappointment "no, just no" she walked away making Weiss stunned.

"Uh, snow angel" she turned to him "too soon"

"What?"

"Yeah" Sun scratched the back of his head not knowing what to say.

"But, Yang does it all the time" she was getting kind of miffed now.

She turned to her partner for support but the reaper could only give her an apologetic smile "sorry Weiss"

The heiress huffed until Neptune stood by her side "was it really that bad?" she looked to the taller teen.

Neptune was panicked on the inside, she put him on the spot, how is he supposed to let her know that her joke sucked worse than anything Sun ever did? Luckily Nero bailed him out

"I never thought there would be a day that I'd hear a joke even worst than what Dante makes" he began while recasting his arm "but here it is" he concluded.

"Dude" Neptune defended.

"You telling me it was good?" Nero raised an eyebrow.

Neptune had nothing to say to that and Nero didn't care as his scroll went off. He picked it out to see Dante's number he answered and Dante's face came on screen.

"I swear if you took her on a date-" his words were halted when he saw the shit eating grin Dante sported.

"We got one" he said triumphantly but paused "actually we got two"

….

"You're bluffing" Nero countered.

"He's not" Yang said coming into view with a serious expression.

"Where are you?" he asked.

"Just track my scroll"

"Okay and how do I do that?" Nero didn't really bother figuring out how to work his scroll beyond making calls and that was just common sense.

Dante rolled his eyes then smiled slyly "ask Ruby to help or something" the call was disconnected after the words were said.

He sighed when Weiss spoke "what was that all about?"

Nero looked to the heiress "you know where the scroll tracker is on this thing?" he waved the scroll around.

Weiss rolled her eyes but went to show him the app for scroll tracking "can I at least know why you would want to track his location"

"He and Yang found a demon" he answered just as a grid map with three dots came up.

Weiss froze for a moment, she didn't even notice Nero take the scroll and started walking off.

"Seriously!?" Neptune said in surprise watching him walk off.

"Did I stutter?" he rebutted not stopping.

"Hey wait!" Weiss snapped storming off to his position with Neptune in tow.

They were heading in a different direction from where Beacon is and the others noticed but it was Sun who spoke up.

"Dude, where're you going!?" he shouted.

"Dante and Yang found a Demon!" he shouted back.

Three simultaneous "WHAT!" were heard before they ran after them.

Ruby caught up to Nero "really?" she asked with obvious anticipation in her voice.

Nero spared her a glance "that's what I'm going to find out" he replied.

"It would explain why they never showed up" Weiss mused.

"Yeah" Ruby agreed "sis isn't one to miss a fight"

"Unless it's for another fight" Blake added, her disgruntlement at Torchwick getting away temporarily pushed aside for something that may even be bigger than the White Fang.

Meanwhile At Beacon

If someone were to tell Jaune that he would be having a conversation with a demon/angel hybrid last week he would've laughed at them. But here he is, against all odds having an honest to Oum conversation with one. If he were to be honest he would've thought that Vergil would spend more of his time with Team RWBY like the rest of his team has.

That made a lot more sense when you think about it, things just seem to happen more around RWBY than JNPR and he is perfectly fine with that. If he could Jaune would like to go through the entire four years at Beacon without the life threatening drama. Though with his luck that won't be happening anytime soon, the universe likes to mess with him too much.

What was he talking about again? Oh yes Vergil's sudden interest in him- wait that didn't come out right, not him but his family history.

Still though, why?

Sure the Arcs are a family of heroes and powerful Hunters, him being a work-in-progress, but why is he so interested. Jaune would ask him just that after he finish telling him another of the many stories he memorized to heart.

"That was an interesting Story Jaune" Vergil commented with a pensive expression.

Jaune scratched the back of his head, a nervous habit "uh thanks" he looked at the clock "sorry but I have to go meet Pyrrha" he said apologetically.

Vergil waved him off "don't worry about it" he stood and followed Jaune to the dorm rooms.

There was a bout of silence as they walked "so" Jaune began awkwardly

"You want to know why I'm interested in your ancestral history" Vergil stated.

At least he made it easier, Jaune nodded.

"To be honest I was curious" he admitted.

"Curious?" he repeated.

Vergil nodded "I thought I saw something familiar about your Aura so I thought that if I knew about your family then I'd get the answers I was looking for."

"Did you get them?"

"No" Vergil sighed.

"Sorry" Jaune apologized

"Why?" Vergil began "I was the one who spied on you when you were training with Pyrrha" he said "even if it was an accident" he added.

Suddenly the tables were shifted and Jaune found himself the one who is to be forgiving and that's what he did.

Chuckling, the knight waved it off "hey like you said, it was an accident" he smiled.

Vergil smiled, at that moment he felt the slight tension the blonde had from the moment he started asking him questions dissipate.

"Yes it was" they both shared a small laugh as they turned the corner.

After calming down though Vergil sighed, well the Jaune investigation has hit a dead end or at least where his family is concerned; then again he didn't really care for Jaune's family. This could only mean that he might be wrong, no he knew what he sensed. Even now he could feel it radiating off of him, it is so small that if he wasn't searching for it specifically then he would have missed it.

Think, what else could he use to determine? Wait. Vergil turned to his companion just as they reached the JNPR dorm.

"Jaune" he began getting his attention "that ancient sword you said you great grandfather used in the wars, does your family still have it?" he questioned.

"You mean Crocea Mors?" he nodded "yeah, actually I have it."

"You do?" he asked in mild surprise.

"Yeah it's in my room" he thumbed his dorm room door.

"Do you mind if I have a look at it" he asked in all seriousness.

Jaune blinked "uh sure just let me get it" he fished out his scroll and held it up to the scanner, it beeped and Jaune went inside but stopped when Vergil didn't follow "aren't you coming?"

Vergil nodded and entered, the room was much like his own except for less space with four of them. There were four beds on the four corners, a desk and a bathroom. The room was currently empty save for the both of them. Vergil watched as Jaune headed for what must have been his bed but paused to scratch his head.

Jaune looked around confusedly then under the bed "where'd I put that thing?" he mumbled standing up to look around the room.

"Maybe I left it in the bathroom" he figured "hold on, be right back" he entered the bathroom.

Vergil was left alone in the empty room, he turned his to his left to come upon a blue wrapped hilt stuck behind the desk. He stared at it for a while

'Didn't he just search the desk?' he shook his head and approached it.

He reached for the handle "Jaune I think I found it" his voice caught in his throat the moment he touched it. His eyes widened as he pulled the sword from the confines of the desk.

"Hey thanks, where did you find it?" he paused at seeing Vergil examining the sword with the sheath in hand.

"It was behind the desk" he said absentmindedly his eyes never leaving the sword. He turned to Jaune "how long did you say this sword has been in your family."

Jaune flinched a little "I-I don't really know, since like forever I guess" he scratched behind his neck.

Vergil nodded then held up the sheathe to inspect it when his eyes caught a button which he went to press

Jaune saw this and his eyes widened "wait don't press"

*Sprong* the sheath expanded into a shield, surprising the Nephilm for a split second but he caught it nevertheless.

"Sorry, should've told you about that"

"The sheath's a collapsible kite shield" he commented inspecting it only stopping to stare at the twin crescents.

"Yeah" he admitted then caught him staring at the emblem on the shield "that's the family crest" he informed.

Vergil looked to him then the crest in what Jaune thought was shock "you don't say" he said slowly before his brow furrowed.

With skill that he'll never be able to do for a long while Jaune watched as Vergil flipped the shield in the air while twirling the sword once. The shield flipped and collapsed into a sheath just as Vergil shoved the sword inside it in mid air.

"Here" the Nephilm held it to him horizontally in open palms.

Okay if Jaune wasn't suspicious before he was now "uh, you can just put it on-" he was cut off mid speech by Vergil who sighed

"Jaune" he began "come and take the sword" he fixed him with a stern look which reminded the blonde a little of Glynda Goodwitch.

"Oh, okay" he hesitantly made his way towards Vergil and grasped the weapon "uh thanks?" he really didn't know what that was all about but chose not to question it as he gently lifted Crocea Mors only to be halted when the Nephilm's clamped it in place.

Jaune looked from his weapon to Vergil who fixed him with an almost apologetic smile "don't thank me yet" he said simply.

"Wha-" before Jaune could het a word out Vergil closed his eyes and to Jaune's astonishment started glowing blue.

A white-blue heavenly flame enveloped Crocea Mors and after a moment Vergil let go and backed away yet the flame did not dissipate instead it stayed for a few seconds before it was drowned out by an even brighter iridescent white light. Jaune stood unmoving with glazed over eyes even as his own Aura activated, it seemed to fuse with it.

The light was so bright that Vergil had to shield his eyes from it for a few seconds until a thump was heard. Looking onto the now unconscious form of Jaune lying on the ground Vergil noted how he clung to his weapon.

"It's just as I thought" he mumbled.

Not one to leave a friend in the lurch, and yes he considers him a friend, Vergil placed him on his bed and leaned Crocea Mors against the nightstand.

*Beep*

The silence allowed his sensitive ears to pick up the familiar sounds of the scroll scanner and thinking fast Vergil spied a window and dived through just the door opened revealing Ren and Nora covered from head to toe in flour. They're conversation halted midway when they saw Jaune asleep on the bed.

Nora scratched her head "isn't Jaune-Jaune supposed to be with Pyrrha Renny?" she looked to him confusedly.

Ren nodded "yes" then the draft from the window caught his eyes, heading towards the window and closed it.

Ren turned to see Nora poking Jaune's face, hard "nope, he's out of it Renny" she stroked her chin like a professional until a wide almost feral grin came on.

"You can't use Magnhild to wake him Nora" her childhood friend chided placidly.

"Aww" she pouted.

"We should tell Pyrrha Jaune won't make it today"

Upon hearing those words Nora's attitude did a complete 180 and she beamed "okay!"

Downstairs Vergil made his way towards his dorm, again when his scroll went off, he answered and Dante came on screen, his expression serious.

"What happened?" he got straight to the point.

Dante smiled "we got one" he replied simply.

Vergil's expression didn't change though his features did get sharper "I'll be there soon" the transmission was cut off.

"This day just keeps getting better" he sighed but couldn't stop the smirk.

He'll have to worry about Jaune later but for now he headed to dorm room to change his clothes.

The scroll clicked off and Dante looked around "find anything!?" he shouted.

Yang rounded the corner "nope nothing demonic, but a lot of illegal stuff" she added.

They moved into Juniors office and proceeded to tear apart the entire room but aside from drugs and illegal guns and weapons they didn't come up with anything worth their time. Except for the camera footage but the twins were kind enough to destroy them.

Dante sighed and looked to the twins "and he never told you anything about his operation?"

Melanie shook her head "no we were just bodyguards; he didn't involve us in his business"

"Shit" he cursed then turned his head to the two demons tied up back to back. Stomping towards them he grabbed Junior by the shirt and effortlessly lifted both of them "alright asshole talk who're you working for?"

Junior only grinned and Dante punched him the face "I want a name!" he yelled.

Now Junior was fully laughing at him, that is exactly the reason why he didn't do interrogating, he just outright kills them.

"Can you fucking demons even feel pain?" he asked putting a hand on Rebellion's hilt when a hand was placed on his shoulder "Yang?"

The buxom blonde had on a disapproving frown "you really gonna stoop that low?"

"It's in my blood" he grinned wryly.

Yang's eyes narrowed "we should wait until your brother comes with someone who can handle this" she gestured to the demons.

Yang was a thrill seeker but even she could admit that she was out of her depth with all this. Looking at Junior she still couldn't believe it, she didn't know the guy well but Monty he wasn't human and she didn't even notice. Does this mean anyone could be a demon, the teachers, classmates.

"Argh" stomped her foot, hard

*Clank*

'Clank'

Taking a step back she looked down at the ground which was partially caved in with, she looked at Junior who for the first time showed a different kind of emotion. It was one he showed when she got up close and personal with his manhood, fear.

Just like that time Yang sported a grin "found something" activating Ember Celica she punched the ground blowing up debris.

They huddled around the crater to see "a safe"

Not just any safe, a wall safe with a finger print recognition system along with a 4 digit code for unlocking.

"Lets bust it open" Yang grinned.

"Do it" Dante urged.

"WAIT!" Melanie shouted.

Yang's fist was halfway when she did "what's wrong?"

"Are you two stupid? You can't just solve everything by punching it!" she shouted.

"But life would be so much easier if it did" Dante lamented with a nostalgic sigh.

Yang nodded solemnly "besides, what's wrong with me punching the safe open?"

Melanie rolled her eyes "and what if it's booby trapped? What if the minute you punch it, it explodes or whatever is inside gets set on fire?"

At this they shared a look "that" Yang started shaking her head.

"Actually makes sense" Dante finished.

Both turned to the sense "so I guess we wait?" she suggested.

Dante sighed "I'll call Verg"

"No" the voice cut through all conversation.

All eyes were now on the demonic duo "you know too much" surprisingly it was the one in the bear costume who talked "you're not leaving here alive."

Yang's shock subsided rather quickly "yeah" she folded her arms "and how're you gonna do that?"

"Dammit" Dante grimaced.

The demon grinned and a ripple ran through the entire room "what's going on?" it was Militia who spoke her claws activating.

"You ever heard of Murphy's Law?" Dante said rhetorically.

"What?"

"Just stay close" they didn't have to be told twice.

Suddenly the room expanded through a series of cracks, spikes ink black rocks shot up from the ground covering. The furniture folded in on itself and the atmosphere became murky with pitch black ink running up the walls. Both demons disappeared in a sea of murky ripples.

"Great, just had to be stuck in here" he groaned

"What is this place?" Militia asked warily.

Dante looked at them with a wry grin "Ladies, welcome to Limbo"

To Be Continued….

Author's Notes: Dun, Dun, Duuun. It could just be me but I wasn't entirely satisfied with the action portion of this chapter, what do you guys think? With the Roman mech fight, as you can see I have yet to find a suitable name for a Ruby/Nero combo attack, any suggestions would be good and make one for Dante and Yang since I'm the first to ship them separately.

As you also noticed with the fight, it didn't go as smooth as it did in the series since the boys have no idea what the combo attacks signify and after watching the JNPR fight in vol. 3 I'm pretty sure Ruby is the only person to actually do that particular type of team attacks.

Anyway I showed a bit of Vergil's dark side through his interactions with Jaune, well not really dark but more like mercilessness; don't worry no evil Vergil there. We'll be visiting that subplot soon, next chapter in fact so stay tuned for part three of the Night On The Town trilogy, coming January 2016.