The inside of the warehouse was rather barren. This warehouse was simple, open space, had windows, second floor walkway, and single backdoor.
Roman attempted to run toward the back but Ruby blocked the exit by appearing before him. He quickly pulled up his cane and fired a round toward Ruby, which she side dashed out of harm's way. After the first round shot, Roman quickly turned around to fire behind him at the remaining team, whom just enter the warehouse. The team scattered to avoid the shot. Roman turned back on Ruby, who already dashed toward him to perform a side slash. But he managed to hold his can in order to block it.
"You know that gardening tool is a bit annoying," Roman commented as he held back Ruby's weapon. Ruby simply ignored that comment.
The remaining teammates quickly recovered from the blast and started to sprint toward Ruby and Roman. Weiss quickly held up her weapon, horizontally, and skid across the room towards the two. Roman pushed Ruby's weapon away, enough to break the hold. Roman quickly jumped back a bit in order to dodge Weiss' piercing attack. Roman thought to himself, One, I can handle. Two, well… maybe. Then looked at Blake and Yang. I know for sure that I can't handle all four of them. I can't win at this rate.
Asarirn landed on a ledge, outside on one of the windows of the warehouse. He watched as the battle unfold. Asarirn didn't care for their fight. He knew that the person he was seeking would show up, sooner or later.
Roman watched as everyone dashed toward him. He knew he can't win against them. "Well, I guess luck is not on my side."
Before Yang and Blake were close enough, Blake sensed something was wrong. She turned her attention to Yang. "Yang!" Blake called out to Yang. Yang quickly turned her head toward Blake.
"Disengage!"
Both Yang and Blake quickly stopped and jumped back a few feet, as a giant fireball crashed into the spot, they were at. Everyone froze by the unexpected fire.
Roman quickly thought, Was that Cinder? Boy, I guess luck is on my side after all.
But to Roman surprise, he heard footsteps from the second level walkway and then heard a man's voice.
"I wouldn't expected you two to manage to dodge that. Man, I was wrong," The man said rather disappointed. Everyone turned their attention toward the man on the walkway. The man wore an orange robe with a hood that covered his face. The man simply walked a few more feet and stopped. The man leaned onto the handrail, like he didn't care for their situation.
Asarirn watched as the man made his entrance. Asarirn knew for sure that man was from that night on the rooftop.
The man turned his attention toward Roman. "I thought a man like yourself, could take on four girls at the same time. If you know what I mean," the man said jokingly.
"I can handle many women but not these one though," Roman responded. The whole Team RWBY was confuse on what was going on.
"Is that so," the man responded. The man looked toward Ruby's Team. "Nah, I still believe you could handle them." This caused Yang to fire a round at the mysterious man, out of anger. The man simply held out his palm. An orange magic circle and blocked the incoming attack. "Whoa there, you know you could get burn these, right?" the man said, mocking Yang. Before Yang could unleash a barrage of attacks, Ruby held up her hand to signal her to stop.
"Who are you?" Ruby questioned the man.
"It's rude thing to ask someone who they are without properly introducing yourself first." The man responded. "But, like I would ever tell you if you did."
"Then, why are you here?" Roman questioned the man.
"Well if you must know," The man started to explain. "I kind of waiting for our guest of honor to arrive."
"And, who is that?" Blake questioned. Blake felt unease by this man presence.
"Ah, in good time, young lady," the man replied. "But, in the meantime, I should help you out, friend," he said as he was looking at Roman.
"Why are you helping me?" Roman asked, even though, he didn't want to question this man motives. But, Roman felt relieved for somebody is willing to help him.
"Well, I sort of new around here and I need a place to stay. So, if I would to help you in this little situation you have there, then I could stay at your place." Roman thought hard about the man's words. It would get him out of this mess. "Besides…" the man continued, interrupting Roman's thoughts. "Four on one is sort of unfair. It feels like I should make things fair."
"You should know…" Ruby intervened. "This guy is a bad guy."
"Is that so?" the man replied. The way he said it was like he didn't care. "I guess that makes me the bad guy also." The man quickly summoned a magic circle and fired a fire ball at Blake and Yang. Both girls quickly jumped out of the way, forcing them back.
The man, in one swift movement, took off his robe in order to reveal himself. This man wore an orange opened jacket with yellow trims all over. The man doesn't wore a shirt, so it would reveal his abs. He also wore a long orange baggy pants with orange boots. This man had short red spiky hair with green eyes.
The man held up his robe, he had on, and let the robe to catch on fire. Once the robe turned into ashes, the man swung his arm in one motion, as a line of magic circles appeared in between Blake and Yang, and Ruby and Weiss. The magic circles disappeared, after a moment.
"Watch out!" Ruby warned. "This man uses long range attacks, so be careful." The man simply smiled by Ruby's observation. Ruby charged at Roman and does an overhead swing at him. Roman noticed it and jumped back before she planted the blade into the ground. But, the man saw this and smiled. He held up his hand toward Ruby but Yang saw this and fired a couple of rounds at the man. The man simply held out his other hand and a magic circle appeared, once more, to block the incoming attacks.
As Ruby was about to plant her scythe into the ground from her attack earlier, a small magic circle appeared at where Ruby planted her scythe in the ground. Ruby attempted to pull Crescent Rose from the ground but the scythe won't budge. "What?" Ruby questioned.
Roman stood next to Ruby and held his cane at her to fire but he noticed Weiss was about to lunge at him. So, he quickly held up his cane to block the incoming attack.
As Weiss was about to lunged, she noticed the man was right next to her. "How?" She questioned, couldn't comprehend what just happen. The man already had his leg out and was about to kick. Weiss quickly brought up her glyph to block the kick. The man kicked through her defense, causing the glyph to shatter, and knocked her back towards Blake and Yang. The man reappeared, once more, on the walkway with a big grin on his face.
Blake was angry and tried to charge at the man. But as she came close to them. A magic circle appeared, right under her feet. She reacted by jumping back as a pillar of fire burst from the magic circle. She heard the man laughed by her attempt. They all knew the man had planned to keep them from Roman.
Roman found this pleasing. He held up his cane, once more, at Ruby. Ruby still was trying to pull her scythe out. Ruby froze as she saw Roman was about to shoot.
Asarirn noticed from the distance, the style of fighting that the man used. He was not going to waste any time on that. He knew how dangerous this man can be. Asarirn summoned Ice Weaver and grabbed three of his knives. He chanted some words to the knives and the blades glowed blue.
"My eyes open to the new world," Asarirn said as he jumped back and landed on the side of the warehouse, next door. Asarirn stoop low as he landed and jumped at the window. The jumped was powerful enough to cause Asarirn to fly across.
The window shattered which caused everyone to look towards it as Asarirn was flying in. Weiss recognized Asarirn's blade as he flew across toward the man. That is the mystical blade: Ice Weaver! How he get that?
"There is the guest of honor!" The man stated. The man summoned a magic circle and fired a fireball at Asarirn. Then he follow it by summoning three more magic circles, horizontally, and fired three more at Asarirn. Asarirn responded by swinging his sword as he sent out a shockwave at the first fireball, which caused it to explode. Asarirn quickly flip over the three incoming fireballs, and he threw his knives at them which also caused them to explode. The knives landed on the ground where the man had laid his magic circles. The three of the magic circles appeared and then shattered.
Roman quickly refocused on Ruby and readied to fire. He was not going to lose the chance on killing her. Ruby realized Roman action and couldn't do anything, knowing it was too late. As Roman fired a round at Ruby, Asarirn landed on gracefully on Ruby's scythe and deflected the blast using the side of the blade. Ruby was surprise on what just happened.
"What?!" Roman questioned but Asarirn responded by jumping onto Roman's face. Asarirn used Roman's face as a small step to jump. Roman flew down to the ground as Asarirn planted his foot to his face.
Asarirn jumped high into the air and held his left hand. He summoned his second Ice Weaver. Weiss watched as he does this and thought, Two?! How did he get two Ice Weaver, I thought there was only one.
Asarirn's right blade transformed into an ice lance. He held his lance back and threw it at the man. The man simply side step out of the way as the lance impaled into the wall. Asarirn teleported to the lance and slashed at the man with his left blade. The man quickly summoned a yellow and orange blade to block the attack. Both Asarirn and Weiss were surprised by the man's weapon. Weiss thought to herself, That the fire mystical blade: Inferno! Who are these two?
"Where did you get that blade?" Asarirn questioned the man as he was pushing against his blade.
"I thought you should know by now," The man replied. "But, I guess you don't."
Asarirn quickly pulled the lance out of the wall and tried to impale the man's head. But, the man quickly moved his head just in time. That caused Asarirn to free his weapon. Asarirn quickly flipped his left blade and tried to preform a upper slash. The man jumped back before the blade could connect.
Asarirn flipped his left blade back and transformed his right blade back to his sword. Asarirn readied his stance for the next assault. The man simply looked at Asarirn and could see a bit of his eyes; his red eyes.
The man smiled as he held up his blade before speaking, "Show me, that power of yours."
Ruby quickly looked at the whole situation. She was glad, not only the same guy came back but he was helping them out.
"Blake, on Roman," Ruby commanded. Blake started to sprint toward Roman. "Yang, help the guy from a distance. Weiss, you're on support."
Yang watched the two guys readied themselves. Asarirn dashed at the man. As soon as Asarirn was close enough, he unleashed a barrage of powerful attacks at the man. The attacks were fast, is like you could barely see Asarirn's blades. The man managed to block and parried all of his attacks. Yang watched, in amazement, as sparks flew between them.
Roman stood up from the ground while holding his head. He looked at Blake as she was charging at him. "I know for sure, I can take you on," he said as he readied himself. As Blake was close, she tried to use her blades on Roman. But, Roman blocked all of her attacks with his cane. Roman counterattacked by using quick jab at Blake. She could barely dodged all of his attacks. Roman managed to punch her at the face. That caused her to stagger a bit. Roman used this opportunity to fire a round at her. Blake quickly used her shadow to dash to the side. Blake jumped back in and continued on her assault.
Asarirn continued on with his attacks. Asarirn could not understand why this man could know his attack pattern. He felt he was reaching his limits. He needed to end this soon. Asarirn ended his assault with a powerful cross slash. The man blocked with ease but the attack managed to push him back quite a bit. Asarirn quickly charged his blades with his energy. The blades started to glow. The man also held up his blade and the blade glowed also.
The two dashed at each other with great speed. As the two were close, they both swung the weapons as they passed each other. The loud sound of swords clashing caused everyone to stop and looked at the walkway. The two stood there from a distance, looking from opposite direction of each other. Everyone waited for one to fall and declared a winner. But nothing happened.
Roman used this chance to punch Blake when she was distracted. The punch caused her to fall to the ground. Weiss quickly lunged at Roman and started her assault.
Asarirn turned around and lunged at the man. The man quickly side stepped and grabbed Asarirn's arm. He swung him around and slammed him into the handrail. The handrail was dented by the impact. The man followed up the attack with a powerful kick into Asarirn's chest. Asarirn burst through the handrail into the air. Asarirn quickly recovered in midair and held his weapons back. The glowed a bit which the man to held up his hand. Asarirn delivered two powerful shockwaves at the man. The impact caused the whole walkway to be covered by spikes of ice.
Weiss heard the impact of the walkway and stopped attacking Roman. Weiss quickly grabbed Blake off the ground and jumped to Yang into safety, using one of her glyphs. Yang saw an opening and fired multiple rounds at Roman. Roman braced for impact but the blast were blocked by a magic circle in front of him. Yang gave an angry look due to her attacks, all ended in failure.
Asarirn landed next to Ruby and she flinched by the unexpected from Asarirn. Asarirn made his two Ice Weavers disappeared. Asarirn grabbed a hold of Ruby's scythe with one hand and placed his other hand on the ground. He started to chant some words.
"Darkness can corrupt anything, even can corrupt magic," he said as the magic circle that held Ruby's scythe, shattered. Roman saw them and quickly fired multiple rounds at them. Asarirn pulled up Crescent Rose and quickly spun it around, blocking all of Roman attacks. Asarirn quickly wrapped one arm around Ruby's waist.
"Hey! What are you…" Ruby attempted to say as Asarirn jumped with Ruby under his arm. A couple of fireballs crashed into the spot which Asarirn and Ruby were at. They both landed next to the rest of Team RWBY.
"Well, I think that's enough for one night," the man declared. The man simply walked off the edge and landed next to Roman. Roman looked tried and breathed slightly heavy. The man helped Roman up by wrapping Roman's arm around his shoulder.
"I thought you could handle the guy in black," Roman commented.
"Trust me, the longer we would have fought, the more likely I could lose," the man stated. "Is it that, right?" Everyone knew that was referred to Asarirn. But, he didn't let out a respond.
"That's doesn't matter," Roman stated. "The airship is behind that backdoor. We can leave in that."
The two started to leave for the airship. Blake was not going to let them that easily. The man stopped when he noticed Blake started to run toward them. Blake's path was blocked when Asarirn held up Crescent Rose, in order for her to stop.
"Why?!" Blake questioned. Asarirn didn't give a respond, he just continued watching the two guys.
"You should listen to him," The man said, to get their attention. "He can keep you alive." The man turned his head toward Roman before speaking, "Oh, by the way, the name's Blaze. Hope we can be friends."
"Roman," Roman replied. "Let's get out of here."
Blaze looked back at Asarirn. "We will meet again and we both know, there have to be a victor."
Team RWBY and Asarirn watched as the two guy left the warehouse, through the back door. They continued to wait until they heard the airship, taking off.
Asarirn let a sigh and held Crescent Rose to Ruby. "Oh, thanks," Ruby thanked Asarirn as she grabbed her weapon and putting it away.
Blake angrily walked up to Asarirn's face. Asarirn quickly turned his face away. "How could you let them get away?!" Blake barked.
"Blake," Yang said in a soft tone.
"Why did you let them go?!" Blake continued on.
Asarirn responded by holding up his hand, a small ice shard formed in his hand. He threw the shard at the spot the two guys were at. An orange magic circle appeared and then exploded. The explosion was big enough to cause a hole in the wall. Everyone watched in shock, especially Blake. She could have died if Asarirn didn't stopped her.
"Why didn't do it when they were there?" Weiss asked.
"Because he would just blew up the whole building, if I were to do that," Asarirn responded as he walked up to the spot the knives were at. He picked them up and placed them with the rest of them.
"How would you know that?" Weiss continued on with her questions.
"Because…" Asarirn paused a bit before answering. "I would have done the same thing."
Ruby was rather happy for Asarirn to, actually, respond to them.
After a bit of silence, everyone heard police sirens headed toward them. Well, that's my queue to leave. Asarirn thought to himself.
"Ok," Ruby started to talk. "We just explain to them, we were trying to capture Roman and the guy, here, was helping us."
"Uh, Ruby?" Yang tried to her attention while she was pointing a direction.
"What?"
Ruby turned toward the spot, Yang was pointing at. She noticed Asarirn started to head out. Ruby quickly ran and blocked Asarirn's path.
"Whoa, where are you going?"
"I don't want to stick around," Asarirn explained as he gently pushed Ruby at of his way.
Ruby stood there as she watched Asarirn headed for the exit. She tried to come up with any ways to make Asarirn stay. Ruby can't let her only chance to ask him about her dreams goes to waste. She only have one option, for her to jump on Asarirn's back.
Ruby jumped onto Asarirn's back. That caught Asarirn off guard. He, immediately, attempted to throw her off, but Ruby held tightly.
"GET OFF OF ME!"
"NO! "
Yang, Blake, and Weiss watched in total confusion. They could not figure out the thing, Ruby was trying to pull.
"Uh…" Yang tried to say something. "Do you think we should do something?"
Weiss took a moment to think about it before answering, "Nah, they're fine."
Asarirn continued to try to get the girl off of him. But, suddenly, he felt light headed. He knew he used quite a bit of energy during the encounter. Not now… He felt his body crashing into the floor.
Asarirn fell onto the ground with Ruby fell on top on him. Ruby was in shock of what just happened. She quickly examined Asarirn and noticed a blood splotch on his left side. She touched with her hand and got some blood on her hand. She looked closely at it and found it be fresh. He got injured during the fight against Blaze.
"Ruby! What did you do?!" Weiss questioned.
"I didn't do anything!"
Ruby let out a sigh of relieve when she saw him struggling to get up.
The warehouse were burst opened by the police force. The policemen quickly drew their guns and pointed at the four girls and Asarirn. "Freeze!" Everyone put their hands up, except for Asarirn. The policeman noticed Asarirn on the ground. The one person they were looking for, was right here.
"That's the murder!" one of the policeman stated.
"Murder?" Ruby questioned.
Asarirn tried to find a way out of this situation. He can't really do anything, he had wasted his energy during that fight. But, since he was surrounded by policemen, Asarirn can only do one thing. Asarirn raised his hands into the air to surrender.
Author's note: well, here's another chapter. Even though, I did say I might have trouble uploading more chapter. But, considered I wrote this on Sunday, I was able to upload this today. Like I said before, I have school work and such. So it might be harder to get some chapter uploaded. I just need to be really motivated to write more chapters. So, thanks for reading. PM me if you have questions or concerns.
