(A/N: Second "Date" Chapter, a bit more story than date.)
[Cues - Far Away (遥か彼方, Haruka Kanata) – Asian Kung-Fu Generation]
残り:四の影/ Remnant's Four Shadows
Volume 2, Episode 5: Twins of Brawls and Melees
(Friday - Day 5)
Friday. They're supposed to be the days to take things easy. Not for certain warriors as Yuki wanted to scream words rather foul. The experiment he was doing with Peach for dust class blew up in their faces when Ilia sneezed over exposure to a bit of lightning dust. As an aside, it did ruin Cinder's hair and watching Ilia get strangled by her made the experiment being ruined almost worth it. Ozpin was on the team's case to learn their secrets, and he swore that the emerald wizard wanted his father's book. All and all, it was the kind of day Yuki needed to be alone. Come nightfall, Yuki was off to Vale dressed out of the usual teacher wear.
Down in a silk black buttoned-down shirt with a blue windbreaker jacket, matching track pants, and his usual hi-tops, he was in the mood for a night out. Of course, he had his weights, knives, and guns hidden, but Frostbite was sheathed and by his side as they walked down the city streets.
"[Yuki, you shouldn't be down about Friday. Progress on the Projection Sphere is coming along rather well.]" Serena chirped in hopes of cheering Yuki's mood up.
"I guess but being under Ozpin is a total pain in the ass. Plus, I did not need to see Ivory getting an upperclassman's pants. Coco's probably not being to be pleased to hear that Ivory was all over Yatsuhashi." Yuki said coming up to Junior's Club.
CRASH!
Out of the doors of Junior's, a rather burly man and woman were thrown out on their behinds with the male having blood drizzling down his lip. Yuki stiffened to see the woman was a White Fang member and the male a Hu Mann Axiom member. Ironic, they were being thrown out at the same time for a similar reason. Miltiades and Melanie strut out both looking completely peeved with them both.
"Even if you're White Fang/Axiom, I'm kicking you out because you cannot take no for an answer!" Melanie/Miltiades said with her arms crossed and face lightly flushed.
The two thugs turned to face each other with scowls evident in their faces as the twins could only sigh. Yuki was not in the mood for either one of them but stepped in for the sake of the twins. He cleared his throat to get the bigots' attention. Before they turned to face him, he bashed their skulls together with Armis to render them unconscious.
"Mel, Milt. Hope you don't mind me coming by." Yuki said kindly.
"Never had an issue with it, Yuki. You can haul those two creeps in the back alley to deal with them." Melanie said kindly. "Then you could come in for a drink, you look like you need one."
"Patch Island Ice Tea." Yuki said hauling the bodies away.
A swift slit of the throats with the other's weapon and taking of the contents of their wallets, Yuki entered the club in strode to the bar only for the tender to point to the bouncer to take him to a private room. In there, he found Junior and the twins with a bottle of the good kind of booze with big smirks.
"Congrats to your first, Professor Azure. How was it?" Junior asked with a smirk.
"Hei, it was ok, but the boss is on my case and I have one student who has a ton of power but is a moron about it." Yuki said as Melanie poured him a glass of Lilith Orchard. "His stupidity and ignorance on the basics really grinded my piss to a boil. How the hell do you not know the basics of aura?!"
"Wait, is he blond and scraggly?" Junior asked.
Yuki glared at Junior and took a swig of his glass. Junior started laughing, and Yuki asked about it. Apparently, Jaune had visited the place to celebrate getting into Beacon and even they could tell he had to pull strings to get in.
"He was rather cute, but a bit too innocent for my tastes." Miltiades said with a wistful look. "But enough about him, you feel like dancing?"
Yuki got up with an idea in mind and took up her hand with a cheeky grin on his face.
"You're planning something." Junior asked.
Yuki merely led Miltiades down to the dance floor with Melanie in tow. Once in the middle, Yuki snaps his fingers having Serena kill the music and replace it with a new track.
[Cues Mood Music: Toni Leys - Dat Egg Tho (Sonic & Knuckles : Death Egg Zone Remix)]
Yuki relaxed himself as he started to dance subtly offering Melanie to join him. For Yuki and Serena, it was a good to unwind and dance the night away with hopes that nothing went wrong. And aside from a split drink, there was a fun night of dancing. Yuki even got to try out a few breakdancing moves he was curious about to varying results. His change in music was something the patrons found rather odd but catchy, but he was certainly the life of the party tonight.
[Mood Music Ends]
It was the moments like this that Yuki wanted to protect his loved ones from forces like the Grimm, Salem, and all that hid in the dark corners. If simply just to let his special people forget their troubles, if not just for a moment. It had taken two hours of dancing, but Yuki was relaxing with the twins in the VIP Room.
"So, you got Yang stuck working under us for a week? Man, Junior's going to bust a gut laughing over that." Melanie said snuggling him on his right.
"I've got to get her a dress and…heels. High heels." Miltiades said deviously.
"Pfftt…Yang's going to kill me." Yuki said with a giggle.
The door to the private room opened to show a grim looking Junior killing the mood.
"Hei, what's wrong?" Melanie asked.
"It's…some news I heard from an old friend. It's bad…really bad." Junior said shaken up.
He took up the bottle of Lilith Orchard and downed a good chug of it before putting the bottle down.
"I heard that there was a prison breakout in Atlas." Junior said quietly.
"And…so…what does this have to do with us?" Melanie asked.
Miltiades' face hardened as fear dawned on her face.
"The Oxgate Prison." Miltiades said as Yuki snapped to seriousness straight away.
Yuki knew of the prison as one of the darkest secrets of Atlas being the place as it kept only two prisoners there, a human and a faunus too dangerous for regular prison. The fact there was a breakout was nothing short of the worst possible scenario considering the amount of the security there as there were three floors of it. He also knew about the prison because his father was responsible for putting the only two prisoners in there.
Jase Rustblade and Elsa Haban. Two names that struck fear in those who knew them. Jase was a seasoned warrior who rose from the slums of Mantle and after learning from the best simply went on a killing spree via an old woman's wish card. He tore up Atlas determined to prove himself the strongest being of all time…until Mao had defeated him. Even Yuki knew it was that he barely won because he had come home banged up bad. It had scared him…
And then there was Elsa Haban. Frankly, he had not remembered that one as his father did not return home injured after the fight with her. It was only after a check in his father's journal (the online version Serena kept as he had left the original at home) that he realized that she was the former leader of the White Fang's Atlas Brotherhood. Yuki facepalmed that by his team axing one of the Haban family members that Elsa was most likely going to be dead set on coming for him.
"Hei, please tell me they haven't completely escaped." Yuki asked.
"Well, I got the call from my buddy who guards the first floor. Apparently, Ozpin sent a messenger to request more security…she happened to be a bird faunus…and two of her feathers fell off her body. Head guard thought it was wise to drag her down there and show her the restrained duo. Somehow that Haban bitch used her tail to use the feathers as lockpicks. Last I heard of my guy, he was screaming for them to have mercy…they didn't have any on him." Junior said sadly.
"Fuck!" Yuki spat. "Damn it, Ozpin! Why the hell all your actions keep fucking everyone over?!"
Yuki calmed down.
"What's worse is the people who run the prison aren't regulated by Atlas Military which means it could weeks or months before they realize something's wrong. I won't be surprised if the head guard was dumb enough not to call for backup. And the messenger? Probably dead if she's stupid or if she's smart, hiding. Simply put, everyone who has a tie to me, and the team is put in the crossfire." Yuki said with a heavy sigh.
"I do have some good news…maybe should have told you earlier, but there's apparently a big scandal with the SDC involving that Kelly girl's family." Junior said with a look of sympathy.
"Ok, I'll look into that later. For now, I need you to pass all of this to Roman and Neo. I know Cinder's probably the scariest thing to them, but these two make Cinder look tame." Yuki said getting up. "I need to make a team meeting. I hate to cut this short."
"But duty calls." Melanie said bitterly. "Promise, you'll celebrate here when it's over."
Yuki nodded and Melanie lightly pecked him on the cheek before he bid his goodbyes. Those people…his precious people, he'd do all he could protect them as they did for him and Lapis.
-Y-U-K-I-
(Outside Oxford Prison – Deep Atlas)
Snow, snow, and more snow all the eyes could see. To Jase and Elsa, it was paradise under the endless sky. Twenty years hadn't changed the sight of it. Now at 37, Jase was a lot bigger than the lanky tanned teen terror as the time spent restrained without his aura had hardened his mind and body. Now he stood as a paler, tougher man with an intimidating stature of seven feet two looking as if he could bulldoze anyone foolish to face him. Like Yuki, he had heterochromia baring a red eye on his left and a golden eye on his right. His golden eye had returned to its color once freed of that aura restraining shell. Jase could only sigh at the fact that only the bottom parts of his old gear fit him leaving in a pair of dark black pants, a brown sash around the waists, and stolen boots from one of the guards. He desired to replace his old hockey mask as it was broken with age.
Elsa, on the other hand, had appeared mostly unchanged aside from some more muscle definition. She had a tall and slender build, blue cold eyes, rosy cheeks, thin pink lips, a small nose, long platinum blonde hair brands with blue ends, very pale skin with a light dusting of freckles, and similarly patterned fins on the tip of her tail. Black ring-like symbols run across the length of her arms which were clawed. She had two long, flat, horn-like structures on her head, with two shorter horns along its jawline which were all retractable. She had a fanged grin relishing in the freedom she had gotten. Unlike Jase, she was able to get into her old clothes with better success.
She wore a short, white-colored, cropped halter top, which stops and splits above her naval and has silver trimmings and has an opening in the middle, laced together with crossed strings of steel. She also wears a matching thong of a similar design with a long flowing loincloth at the front and back, with embroidered designs on the center panel similar to the subtle designs on her mask. She also has a coronet, thigh-high boots, silver eardrops, and matching arm gauntlets. The lack of clothing was to show her scales, her faunus pride, and intimidating those who thought could face her. She floated up gleefully glad she was able to fly once again. Despite her lack of wings, she was a dragon faunus through and through, but more based on the Mistralian take on them.
"Free at last, yet the world has changed so much." Elsa said floating down.
"Hard to believe you're fifty." Jase said with a smirk.
"My skin doesn't crack and be lucky I had long tossed aside my bigotry to aid in your escape." Elsa said coldly.
"Whatever, at least I have my weapon back!" Jase said holding up a massive sledgehammer.
"Paltry weapons? Humph, I am a natural weapon." Elsa boasted.
"Didn't help against Mao." Jase snarked as Elsa hissed.
"Speaking of him, I want answers. One of these guards must be breathing." Elsa said sifting through the snow where guards lay motionless before finding one on the edge of death. "You…I want answers to where I can…Damn it….he passed."
"Closest settlement is Argus." Jase said spying the airships. "We need to move as the night's cold will get harsher."
Elsa nodded and as the duo boarded the captain's ship leaving the prison and the bodies behind. Out of the snow came the messenger, Margret, who was breathing heavily and was just glad she was still alive. She lumbered to her untouched bullhead. A vacation away from all this sounded nice…she could always fake her death.
-Y-U-K-I-
"And that's what happened." Yuki explained to his teammates, Rita, and Team RWBY.
"Shouldn't we tell Ozpin about this?" Ruby asked.
"No." Kelly said firmly. "Oxgate Prison is so secret, that most don't know of its existence. If we told Ozpin, he would have to tell Ironwood, and he wants answers to how I got the information. I'd be putting the people who got him that information in danger."
"So, we're screwed." Blake said quietly.
"Sadly, I feel Ozpin would use this to bend us to his will." Lapis said bitterly.
"Let me get this straight. Virtually, we can do nothing!" Weiss said panicked.
"No, we can prepare. My father's book has detailed research on their abilities and skills. It's based on them on their prime, but the information should still be useful. We'll prepare…and we'll be ready." Yuki said determined.
"If they have escaped, they couldn't have gotten far. Closest place near it is Argus." Kelly said rubbing her chin.
"Oh…Kelly, Junior wanted to let you know something went down with SDC and your family. Apparently, it's supposed to be on the news." Yuki remarked with an aside glance.
Kelly flipped on the television to the nearest news channel, and a big wolfish grin grew on her face with a few tears of joy streaming down. The rest turned and had vary levels of shock.
"So…Kelly's bastard father spilled the beans to save his own skin." Yuki thought.
Ivory had a flat look, but internally was a mess looking at Kelly with concern. Weiss was agape. She knew Kelly hated her family, but she had no idea this was why. Weiss felt sick to her stomach and rushed to the bathroom needing to hurl.
"I'd say we celebrate…but the killers out of Oxgate ruined the moment." Yuki said with a sigh. "I'm off to bed."
Ivory had dragged Kelly out of the Dragon's Den and up to the roof. Before Kelly could speak, Kelly had her in a tight crushing hug with tears of her own spilling.
"Ivory…you didn't know." Kelly said trying to ease her teammate's guilt.
"I didn't help, did I?" Ivory said with a sniffle.
Kelly did not want to answer that, but Ivory looked down into Kelly's eyes.
"Look, no one deserves to have their first time ruined like that." Ivory said softly.
"And that's what makes you bearable. You might be a huge pervert…a shameless flirt, and so on, but you know when to stop. You value consent." Kelly said easing Ivory's worries. "At least it didn't get farther than it had."
"Just know if need someone to talk to…I'm here." Ivory said breaking away.
The two would walk back to their dorm with now strengthened bonds and peace between two sides of the coin slowly bringing them together.
(A/N: Uh oh. Looks like you can't ever get a break, Yuki. For those who get the reference for Jase, good for you. But you're wondering, why Elsa? Confession, I didn't really like Frozen, but I did like the villainous concept for Elsa (certainly better than Hans), and I needed a character to expand the Haban family. Boom, new villain. Those two are a bit of a set up for a future plotline, but not for this volume. I will shift back to them once in a while to show what they are up to though. And now for the final date chapter which was a massive tie. Some wanted Blake, some wanted Ruby, and one wanted Goodwitch. So, I did up a wheel and spun it…and our winner is Velvet. Expect a light-hearted chapter, next time.
-[Cue: Dragon Ball Kai OST – Next Episode Preview]-
Velvet: Wait, I won out?!
Yuki: Seems so, well this is going to be awkward.
Velvet: Considering your partner's been sleeping with Yatsuhashi.
Yuki: Crap…well, next time, "Scarlatina Saturday", don't miss it!
