Heyo everyone just wanted to let you know I decided to scrap the side plot of Fenrir being experimented on by an unknown organization and made some changes, but overall shouldn't affect the chapter too much.
I also wanted to let ya'll know once I hit the fifteenth chapter, I'll be revisiting the previous chapters and doing some more editing.
But other than that, thanks for supporting the story so far. I know im not the best nor the worst when it comes to writing, but I want to let you guys know I appreciate it and hope you continue to stick around.
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It's been several days since the experiential Stalker was tested against the three Champions in training. The results were more than pleasing; however, Ryzorin and Salem agree there could be more improvements, such as increasing the density and hardness of the Stalker's body and increasing the difficulty of damaging and defeating it in battle. They needed to improve their adaptivity speed, improve their shapeshifting capabilities, add protection around their neck, increase their intelligence, and give them ranged attacks.
"So, what do you think?" Ryzorin asked, showing some of the ideas to Salem.
She inspected the designs and went over the details of what should be added. After a few minutes, a smile crept upon her face. "It's promising," she looked at the giant void walker, "how long will it take you to complete it?"
He frowned, thinking for a moment. "Probably a day or two if I don't have distractions, and it will take a substantial amount of chaos energy. Nothing im used to, though," he smirked.
Salem faintly smiled but returned to her usual coldness. "We also have other things to discuss?"
"Oh, and what's that?" He asked, looking Salem's way.
"Your relationship with Cinder," Salem stated bluntly, seeing no use in sugar-coating it with the Singularity Inheritor.
He quirked an eyebrow and looked back at his design. "If you think im trying to claim Cinders loyalty, ill ensure you that im not; our souls may be compatible with one another, but im not interested in being her master," he said honestly.
"Then what do you want with her?" Salem asked suspiciously.
"Im uncertain I don't usually overthink about emotional connections due to never needing them back in my dimension. All I ever did was destroy, fight, kill and repeat."
Salem looked skeptical about this due to his odd relationship with the other pale woman. "Thats rather strange, considering your relationship with Yender," Salem pointed out.
"I am still a man with certain urges. Whenever I got the time to release my urges, Yender was more than willing to assist me, so I took advantage of her obsession with me for my purposes. Nothing more, nothing less," he said bluntly, looking at her.
Salem nodded in understanding.
"Anything else?" He asked, knowing his relationship with Cinder wasn't the reason why she was still her bothering him.
"I need you to train three more individuals. Im sure you know of them."
He sighed, looking away. "Unfortunately, I do. I'll have Forty-Four begin their training but a word of caution for the faunus. Forty-Four doesn't have my patience for his antics, so if he wants to keep his soul, he better not irritate the Champion of Death," he said, giving Salem a head up.
"I'll be sure to warn him."
With Elridian and Neo
"Well, I can see why you wanted to see that movie. It was pretty violent," said Elridian while walking out of the movie theaters with Neo.
(I KNOW IT WAS AMAZING!! MY FAVORITE PART IS WHEN THAT ONE GUY STABBED THE OTHER DUDE WITH A SPOON!!) She jumped around in excitement (A FUCKING SPOON!!!) She stopped moving around and huffed (Why didn't I think of that? Am I going soft?) She asked her lover.
He grabbed her hand. "You are many fantastic things but soft? Isn't one of them," he smiled at her.
She smiled back and pulled him down for a deep kiss.
After a moment, they stopped, and the void walker looked into her eyes, smirking. "Unless we're talking about those lips of yours, then you are indeed soft," he wrapped his arms around her waist.
She smirked back. (Not the only thing of mine thats soft.) She slowly leaned closer to Elridian's body, pressing her impressive bust against his body.
He leaned toward her ear. "Yeah? Why don't you show me?" He said hotly, then softly blew into her ear.
This action caused Neo to shiver in delight. ( My place now.)
Both grinned at one another and made their way toward her place.
Usually, he would've just used his portals to get to her place, but he felt like torturing Neo a bit for his amusement, plus the night was young.
They walked down the streets of the vale, casually flirting with one another in ways that caused others around them to stare and blush at their actions and the words of Elridian as they did not attempt to keep it child friendly.
They were a few blocks away from her place, but when they heard the sobs of a child coming from the alley right beside them, they immediately turned toward the child's direction.
When they got to the sobbing child that was balled up next to a dumpster, their hearts felt like it was being torn apart at the boy's appearance.
"Oh, my Oum.." was all that Summer could say when she took in the boy's appearance.
He was a malnourished wolf faunus who liked to be seven to eight years old. He was covered in filth, and his clothes were torn. He had tiny fluffy black ears, and he had dull oranges eyes.
When the boy saw the two of them, he tensed up but didn't do anything else. He was too scared to move or speak, so the void walker had to start a conversation.
He kneeled, giving the boy a genuine smile. "Hey, it's ok. We're not going to hurt you, ok?" He slowly lends his hand to the boy with his smile never leaving his lips.
The boy didn't know why but he believed the teen. His smile was genuine, and he could detect any lie coming from him, so with a leap of faith, the boy took his hand.
"Good." He smiled as he gently picked the boy up from the ground while still kneeling and was now face to face with the boy.
Neo and Summer inwardly squealed at how adorable the child especially with his tiny ears.
There was no need to ask the boy questions as he already had all the answers he needed to know. The boy's parents were either dead or abandoned him, and due to his heritage, it was doubtful anyone would take him into their care.
"What's your name, little wolf?"
"F-Fenrir," he stammered.
"Well, Fenrir, how would you like it if I took you in?"
Summer Neo and Fenrir's eyes at the void walkers question that their eyes nearly popped out. The boy's lip quivered, and his eyes began to water, unable to believe someone would be so kind to him. "W-Why w-would you want t-to take care of me? Im a faunus..." He looked down at the ground.
Elridian brought the boy into a loving hug. "Faunus. Human. It doesn't make a difference to me; you have no home and no family. I'll give you both just say the word, and you can have it," he stated.
"R-Really?" Tears began to run down the boy's face.
"Yup. Right, Neo?" The boy looked at her, and she gave him a reassuring nod while smiling. (YES!!!) Neo celebrated in her head.
Fenrir hugged back. "Ok." He answered.
"YAY IMMA BE A GRANDMA!!" Summer shouted in glee.
Elridian smiled, picked the boy up, and opened a portal to Neo's place. "Let's go home, little wolf."
As they entered the house and he closed the portal, they immediately bathed Fenrir getting all the filth off of him. Afterward, they feed him and put him to bed soon after.
Once he was asleep, Elridian and Neo took a seat at the table and discussed everything they needed to do to ensure Fenrir would have his needs met. Neo, without hesitation, agreed that Fenrir would live in her place. Whenever either was sent out on a mission, they would watch over Fenrir, and If they couldn't, Elridian would have Wrath watch over him.
Both would cover the cost of food, clothes, and other things needed for the wolf faunus, and Elridian will ask Ozpin for assistance in Fenrir's education.
All they needed to do was officially adopt him, which was the easy part, thankfully.
A day later
While Elridian was having a lengthy discussion with Ozpin and Glynda, who was giving him another infamous ear-shattering rant for adopting a child at such a young age, everyone else was at the training spot doing their stretches before they began the gruesome two-hour training regime, with Atherius training them in close-quarters combat.
Both teams are still incredibly uncomfortable with this due to the super soldier's past actions, especially Team RWBYE.
When Elridian first told them about his partnership with the super-soldier, he received an ear-shattering rant from everyone as they still remember the stories he told them of what Atherius and his former allies did to countless amount of lives.
Even though they could understand why he did what he did, they couldn't get past all the horrific acts he committed.
Weiss, Yang, Blake, and Pyrrha would rather see him in a prison cell than work alongside him.
Jaune and Ren kept their distance from him, scowling at him inwardly.
Despite knowing his history, once he showed them some of his weapons, Ruby and Nora's eyes beamed, practically forgetting who he was but a swift smack to the head by Weiss and Ren quickly reminded them.
Overall they were suspicious of him and were on high alert.
Both teams were impressed with his sheer Arsenal as Atherius is armed to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction. Weiss even joked that he has more firepower than Atlas's entire military, which wouldn't surprise them if he did.
They also couldn't believe how massive he was compared to the rest of them.
"So why isn't El here?" Ruby asked, trying not to drool over Atherius's sword.
Atherius was practicing with his sword. "He didn't say but said he'd be here soon." He replied, continuing to practice.
"Of course he did," Weiss sighed, smacking Ruby again for starting at Atherius's weapons. She crossed her arms. "I swear Im going to chew him out for his absence," Weiss claimed.
Yang rolled her eyes. "Oh please, we all know once you see him, you're gonna run up to him and shove your tongue down his throat," yang teased while poking Weiss's face.
Weiss blushed and smacked Yang's hand away, looking at the blood with a scowl. "Ive never done that before. Unlike the three of you, I can control myself," she looked away, huffing.
Everyone looked at her, not believing the bullshit coming out of her mouth. Even Atherius doubted what she claimed.
"I can see why he's taken such a liking to you four," Atherius chuckled, "Is everyone ready to begin," he looked at them, waiting for a response.
They all nodded.
"Alright, so what has he been teaching you guys so far? He didn't exactly go over the details," he rolled his eyes under his helmet.
Weiss was the first to respond. "So far, he's taught our team how to strike in unarmed combat with maximum efficiency. We had marksmanship training and had training in magic, chaos magic, to be exact," she said in the order.
He looked at Team JNPR. "And you guys?"
"Same thing, but we just started recently, but Pyrrha," Jaune pointed at the redhead, "she catching up with them."
Pyrrha smiled.
Atherius nodded and looked at everyone. "Today, you're going to learn joint locks," he points at Nora, "you come here. You're going to be my assistant for this," he said ominously.
Nora paled and reluctantly went up to him.
For the next few hours, everyone would practice basic joint locks on one another, and they managed to get the gist of it.
"Alright, well done every thats-" Atherius stopped mid-sentence as he saw Elridian walking towards them with a child holding his hand.
Everyone turned to see Elridian and Fenrir.
"El Bear!!!"Ruby darted toward Elridian and hugged him.
He chuckled and hugged her with one arm. "Hello, Little Rose," he said lovingly, enjoying her warmth and scent of strawberries.
The others came closer. "So, whos this cutie?" Yang asked, kneeling and waving at Fenrir with a friendly smile.
Fenrir blushed and hid behind Elridian.
"So adorable," all the girls thought.
Elridian broke the hug with Ruby and looked down at Fenrir. "This little guy," he picks up Fenrir and carries him, "is Fenrir," he said happily.
"Hi, Fenrir! Im Ruby!" She said excitedly.
"Hi," Fenrir replied shyly.
"He's so adorable!" Blake said while smiling at the boy.
"I hope Im not being rude, but what's he doing here? And I agree with Blake Fenrir is adorable," Weiss smiled but was curious about the wolf faunus being with Elridian.
"Oh, I adopted him," Elridian answered casually.
Everyone went silent for a moment, processing what he had just said. Then after a few seconds, everyone except Atherius shouted, 'what?!!' collectively and began to bombard him with questions.
Fenrir was visibly frightened by the shouting causing him to shiver. Elridian growled when he felt the boy shivering. Sparks of red and silver emitted from the void walker's body, causing everyone to quiet down and Fenrir to stare in wonder at his power.
"Your only fifteen. How did you even manage to adopt Fenrir?!" Weiss asked incredulously.
"Very carefully," he replied with a grin causing even Ruby and Yang to giggle at his response despite the seriousness of the situation.
"Dear," Weiss's tone was dangerously low as she began to growl.
"I had some help," he answered vaguely, "but that doesn't matter. I came to introduce Fenrir to you guys, so say hi, Fenrir," he encouraged the boy.
"Hi," he said again, shyly hiding his face with Elridian's hair.
"So, where will he be staying? Our dorm is not nearly big enough for the six of us," Weiss commented.
"I already got that situated," he assured her.
"So which ones are your girlfriends, dad?" Fenrir asked as Elridian told him about the others.
"Dad?!" Everyone except Atherius shouted.
It didn't take long for the kid to begin to call the void walker his father and Neo, his mother, which caught them off guard, but they decided to roll with it. Elridian went with it because he usually just goes with anything as long as it doesn't affect him negatively, and Neo always wanted to be a mother, so it was a win-win situation.
"Yup," Elridian chirped, "he's started calling me that after a while ago, so I just went with it. Not that I mind, though I have everything to ensure he has a happy life." He said, ruffling Fenrir's hair, causing the boy to giggle.
The void walker had enough funds to last him several lifetimes, not that anyone needed to know that. Glynda agreed to help in Fenrir's education, and he has several people to watch over Fenrir whenever he has to go on or spend time with the girls. Plus, he's adaptable to last-minute changes, not that the void walker implies this will be an easy task Elridian would have to be idiotic to believe that, but Elridian always did like a challenge.
"And to answer your question, Little Wolf, it's Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang," he pointed at each of them
"Woah, they're so pretty, dad," he looked at Elridian, "does that also make them my moms?" He asked with a curious tone.
The girl went wide-eyed at his question. "I mean-" he was interrupted by Ruby.
"Id love to be your mom!!" Ruby said, taking the boy away from Elridian and hugging him.
"You don't even need to ask," replied Blake, smiling.
Yang chuckled evilly. "Imma teach him the way of the puns!"
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Well, I certainly don't mind," Weiss said, looking at Fenrir with a smile.
"Well, that settles things," he smiled, looking at everyone surrounding Fenrir.
"YAY, THAT MEANS WE GET TO BE AUNTIES, PYRRHA," Nora shouted while crushing the redhead in a hug, and Ren groaned in the background.
Elridian chuckled at the orange-haired girl's antics.
While everyone focused on Fenrir, Atherius decided to walk toward the void walker. "Five women and a child already? You work fast," the eldest of the group said jokingly.
"I saw a bit of myself in him," he looked at the ground in thought, "I see a lot of potential in him," Elridian looked back at the others.
"Care to share?" The super-soldier asked, arching an eyebrow under his helmet.
"I can't say myself, but I just have a feeling thats all," the Singularity Inheritor replied.
"Well, whatever it is, I'll help however I can," he rests his hand on Elridian shoulder and gives him a reassuring nod.
Elridian nodded back.
After spending time with his girls and his friend for several hours, it's safe to say that everyone adores Fenrir, and he couldn't blame them. The boy was adorable and undoubtedly would be a ladies' man when he got older, but sadly for everyone, he had to take the boy home due to the time but promised to come back quickly.
A few minutes later, Elridian reappeared back, and everyone went back to Beacon.
Neo place
After a few hours, Elridian returned to Neo's place. Once he got there, he found Neo watching cartoons with Fenrir, who was in awe of the show and technology in front of him, which got a chuckle out of the void walker.
Both turned around to see Elridian walking toward them, which made both ecstatic. "Dad!!" Fenrir shouted as he ran up to hug the Singularity Inheritor.
"Hey, Little wolf," he hugged back, "enjoying the show?"
Fenrir had sparkles in his eyes. "Yeah, it's so cool!! These guys were fighting a huge monster," Fenrir then made fighting motions which caused them to laugh. "Also, when can I see my other moms, aunts, and uncles? I already miss them!!"
"Tomorrow, I promise. Now go back to watching your show. I have to talk to your mother for a minute."
"Ok!!" He rushed back to the Tv.
Elridian was then pulled into a deep kiss by Neo and wrapped his arms around her while she had both of her hands on his face pulling him deeper into the intense lip-lock.
Once the kiss was broken, he looked at Fenrir and then back at Neo. "How's he been?" He asked in a whisper.
Neo smiled. (Pretty good considering all that he's been through) she looked at Fenrir (he's a tough kid.) She said happily.
"Good," he kissed Neo on the forehead, "he's gonna need to be if Im going to train him," he looked at Fenrir as he held Neo closer.
