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Chapter: Monster Storm
(Que Story OP – Hello Sleepwalkers "Hyakkiyakou")
(Blake and Yang)
The plan couldn't not have gone worse. Blake was sent to the radar tower to disable the system only to find the whole staff dead and to her horror Adam Taurus himself waiting for her. She instantly felt like throwing up on the spot when she caught his scent. He reeked of blood. Human and Faunas blood.
Questions of why and how he was there were pushed back as Blake focused on her survival instincts. They engaged in a short fight on the radar tower with Blake's agility saving her from fatal blows from Adam. He was focused on her death and at some point had Blake's throat until she shifted her weight to send them both down back to the ground from atop the tower. She managed to outmaneuver Adam through the forest, landing well-placed blows as well. Having nightmares of a former friend that has become a killing psychopath can be a good motivator for training.
Unfortunately, Blake was forced to stop at a clearing near a waterfall and face Adam head on. At first, Blake was able to hold her own and was even able to trap Adam's dreaded blade in her own sheath. However, she couldn't press upon the advantage against Adam's berserk driven battle prowess overpowering Blake to the point she was on the ground. Blake was only able to defend herself one last time before her blade broke.
Believing that Blake was done without her weapon, Adam revealed his face showing a brand mark burned over his left eye with the abbreviations of the Schnee Dust Company.
(When I saw that, I actually felt like killing Weiss' family.)
When Blake's demise seemed inevitable, Yang made her appearance sacrificing her precious motorcycle to crash into Adam. For the time being, Yang fought in Blake's place as the Faunas recovered. It was a much even fight since Adam and Yang had similar Semblances, and Yang was far stronger and level-headed than she was in Beacon. But the blonde only lasted longer than Blake before she was forced near a cliff edge by a waterfall. Having enough, Adam unleashed his Semblance intent on splitting Yang in two but she just stopped herself from going over the edge and blocked the crescent red wave of energy with her prosthetic arm.
"Leave us alone." Yang exclaimed, tired of fighting with Adam. Even she could see no point in this battle. "This is your last chance."
Adam didn't even budge, and smirked seeing Yang's remaining arm shaking. "Do you really believe that? Or are you trying to scare me away so you don't have to die trying to protect her?"
Unexpectantly, Blake walked to Yang's side and took Yang's shaking arm. The shaking stopped and the blonde glanced to the cat Faunas with surprise while she gave back a smile.
"She's not protecting anyone, Adam." Blake stated with steel in her voice, "And I am not protecting her. We're protecting each other."
Adam Taurus chuckled maniacally as his blade charged with massive amounts of energy. "So you are protecting each other? Then you can die together!"
Adam's body turned black with only a red hue coming from his sheath. Blake and Yang prepared themselves for the attack, even though Adam unsheathed the blade faster than they could even see it. There was a blinding flash of red light and a cloud of dust hid the area away.
But there wasn't a destructive wave of red nor did Yang or Blake feel any pain. They blinked the daze from their eyes to see the dust cleared. Though at first they thought they were still dazed when they saw Ren in front of Adam when moments ago he was supposed to be with Ruby on the other side of the forest. Words couldn't even come when they saw it was he who blocked Adam's devastating attack... with one finger!
"What?" Adam gasped out, wide eyes staring at Ren who only gave an unreadable expression. Like blocking his sword with a single finger wasn't even a big deal. The green-clad shinigami didn't say anything but his eyes seemed to harden at Adam. His finger tapped on the red blade, and blood splashed from Adam's right shoulder to his hip.
Yang and Blake could only gasp at the impossibility that just happened. They don't even know what or how it happened. Nothing could track Ren's blade that sliced into Adam then back to his sheath in the amount of time that it seemed all he did was stand there. The wounded Faunas groaned in pain and fell to one knee clutching his bleeding wounds.
"I can't even call you a sentient being." Ren berated, if one could call it that from his neutral tone, "You are a disgrace to Faunas. You are more of a beast trapped in a cage because you attack whatever comes close."
Adam gritted his teeth in rage at the insult at being called a beast, but didn't realize the reason of it. With a roar, he jumped to his feet with his blade raised over his head to cut Ren down. The Kido master wasn't even batting an eye.
Adam's motions stopped entirely when Ren practically disappeared from sight and reappeared with a hand pressed on his chest. The air became thick like he was trying to swim through mud, and Ren's hand crackled with yellow electricity. When Adam looked back to Ren, his breath hitched at the eyes that looked at him with such cold intent. For the first time in a long while, Adam Taurus felt fear.
"Leave my friends alone." Ren said.
A crack of thunder and a flash of light, Adam was blasted into the forest by a wordless Raikohou. Unimaginable pain erupted from his chest before blacking out, his Aura instantly shattered. He crashed into multiple trees before the Kido blast settled into an explosion that picked up a cloud of dust and uprooted some of the trees from pure force alone.
A long silence descended on the area with the exception of fallen debris. Blake and Yang just stared at Ren at shock and bewilderment. What they saw couldn't be human.
"Blake?" Yang said.
"Yeah." Blake replied.
"Remind to never try to piss off Ren." Yang said.
Suddenly, gravity decided to increase and the two girls were floored to the ground. The pressure came with an intense feeling of killing intent and bloodlust, like a predator was bearing its eyes upon them while they could do nothing. Only Ren was unaffected, but his eyes were shot wide.
"Ren - what - is - that?!" Yang struggled to groan out while in danger of falling unconscious.
Ren didn't give an answer but suddenly grabbed Yang and Blake, and shunpoed to the source of the spiritual pressure.
(Ruby and Ichigo vs. Shao Kin)
"Getsuga Tensho."
Ichigo was high above in the air, his black sword brimming with red-laced dark reiatsu. With an overhead swing, he let off a black crescent wave of reiatsu that rocketed to the Vasto Lorde below. Cuurently, Shao Kin was dueling Ruby as a distraction for Ichigo's setup. However, it took the most precise control of her spiritual pressure to cut the Vasto Lorde and those blows didn't even last long. Yet, Ruby felt that Shao was merely playing with them.
As Ruby saw the crescent wave of Getsuga Tensho coming down, she used an overhead swing with her glaive. The glaive was caught between the bone bokken in an X formation, but Ruby planned for that. She turned into a red twirl with her Semblance to travel along the length of her glaive to deliver a kick to his face. It was successful in making Shao stagger, allowing Ruby to duck underneath to knock Shao into the air. What she didn't expect was for a charged cero at the center of Shao's chest.
Ruby braced herself using her Semblance to escape the cero. At the same time, Shao pointed two fingers at the oncoming Getsuga Tensho and fired a cero that canceled it out in a temendous explosion of reiatsu washing over Argus.
The sound of static alerted Ichigo. His body moved on instinct blocking a slash behind him. Ichigo put more pressure on Tensa Zangetsu to try and break the lock.
"A little thing to remember, ningen." Shao said, easily overpowering the lock. "Never try to win in a contest of strength."
A kick hit Ichigo in his midsection, knocking the out of his lungs. He quickly righted himself in midair. He looked up in time to see Shao fire a volley of bone darts protuding out of his arms.
'What is with this guy and bones?' Ichigo thought creeped out.
He swung Tensa Zangetsu on a blur deflecting every shot his way then suddenly launching a wordless Getsuga Tensho. Shao braced with his Hierro hardening his skin. The blast died down hut all the damage he had was a burn on his arm.
Ruby flanked behind Shao. The Vasto Lorde gave her a glance but didn't move. His spine suddenly shot out a pike of bone that impaled the Huntress. Shao quirked an eyebrow under his mask when Ruby faded out of his existence. A gleam of silver and Shao was dealt a blow to his right cheek where Ruby reappeared.
'Thank you, afterimages.' Ruby thought.
She followed up with a swing to Shao's gut, shifting back at the other end of her glaive to hit the back of his neck. Shao moved quickly ducking under the blow while blocking it with his bokken. He thrusted his free bokken forward, but Ruby successfully parried the stab.
Ichigo reappeared swinging down his blade. Shao easily blocked the attack until Ruby snuck underneath with her glaive glowing silver.
"Howaitososa."
The glaive hit its mark at the exact moment the reiatsu was released in an explosion. Ichigo and Ruby are forced back from the shockwave and stared at the blood of dust that was left.
"Bala Fiesta."
Before they knew it, the shinigami duo was bombarded by a wave of bala. Even as they cut them down, they exploded on contact and soon they disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Shao narrowed his eyes where Ruby was, knowing full well that wouldn't be enough to kill her. But from behind the Vasto Lorde had to dodge a Getsuga Tensho that leveled a block below.
'That's just annoyingly distracting.' Shao thought.
A battle cry was all the warning he had before pain erupted on his left cheek as Ruby drop kicked him from above. He hurled back to the ground and crashed into a street in a large crater. Shao picked himself up with a snarl. Ichigo soared forward in bursts of shunpo swinging his blade dripping with black reiatsu. Shao gritted his teeth using more effort to parry away each blow.
Shao went for a slash with his right bokken. Ichigo blocked the blow and twisted to the left to avoid the other bokken and punish by cutting underneath Shao's right arm.
Hollow eyes narrowed dangerously in frustration. He turned around to keep Ichigo in his sights, only to see Ruby's glaive stabbing into his right shoulder, but his Hierro kept it from going too deep. Ignoring the pain, Shao slammed his right hand into the ground while holding Ruby off with his left bokken. His plan worked when a spire of bone sprouted in front of Ichigo, making him back up as more chased down. With one opponent left and his shoulder healed, Shao focused on Ruby by first flanking her with sonido. He was surprised when the Huntress reacted instantly to avoid a fatal blow but in turn receiving a bleeding cut from her shoulder towards her forearm.
Ichigo returned to the fray but his attack was already countered thanks to Shao's honed instincts. He expected to run Ichigo through with a stab, but Ichigo made an almost unexpected motion stabbing his blade forward just long enough to swat the stabbing bokken away. He disappeared with a shunpo in the same second, making Shao widen his eyes at such reaction speed. Instincts flared again his right bokken blocking both Ruby and Ichigo.
The pair were stained with a bit of blood and dirty from dust and some bruises on their hands and face. Shao looked unharmed thanks to his rapid healing but he could feel the strain on his reiryoku reserves. It became a two-on-one duel yet again as the three godly entities engaged in a blur movement coupled with the clash of steel against steel. The Vasto Lorde was growing increasingly frustrated with the fight that at first he was dominating until the pair before him were suddenly catching up to him in speed and reflex. He has faced many captains of the Gotei 13, some even faster and stronger but none of them had this strange tenacity to suddenly become stronger in the middle of a fight.
It almost felt like he was fighting two Hollows.
Then using his Perquisa as he defended himself, Shao saw it. Deep under the reiatsu of the shinigami lay the all-too familiar feel of a Hollow. He couldn't believe his luck: living proof of Hollow and shinigami hybrids. Not only that, it matched the massive spiritual pressure that attracted him all the way from Hueco Mundo. A grin stretched behind his mask at his fortune. Their dormant power would help Shao ascend new heights once he devoured them. Now, there was no need to hold back now that his prey was in sight.
Shao quickly disappeared in sonido and reappeared at the base of the tree. Ruby and Ichigo chased after him only to find the Vasto Lorde pushing his hand into the giant bone tree.
"You're not normal shinigami, are you?" Shao said, "I can taste the Hollows off of you. Such delicious power in such pathetic ningen."
"What do you from us?" Ruby exclaimed.
"I want your power." Shao announced with a predatory snarl, "More accurately, I want to consume you. Never in my long centuries have I ever encountered such power standing right before me on a silver platter. To celebrate my ascension, allow me to host a feast."
Massive amounts of spiritual pressure flowed into the bone tree. All around them, plants and trees shriveled and died and Ruby could feel that the very air died. The tips of the branches started to grow buds but they didn't bloom flowers. When the buds opened, it was nothing but a hole in space and time.
First came the wailing and screeches. Ruby's shot wide, her features paled, and her grip on her scythe was shaking. Each and every bloom was a Garganta pouring out an endless horde of Hollows.
"Do you wish for power?!" Shao bellowed, his voice booming over all of Argus, "Then swear your loyalty to the Grave God, Shao Kin. Now feast, my loyal subjects!"
(Outside the Battlezone)
Ren dropped Blake and Yang off where he felt the abundance of his comrade's signatures. What he found was Qrow, Oscar, Jaune, Nora, and a healed Senna with the Argus militia fending off a horde of Grimm trying to get through the gates while people fled to the bunkers. In the distance, Ren could see ripples of shockwaves and blasts of spiritual energy of Ruby and Ichigo's battle with the Vasto Lorde. He had a small sweatdrop at the level of destruction they were causing by accident.
A growl snapped his attention to an Ursa about to swipe a claw. On reflex, Ren pointed a finger and fired a wordless Sokatsui intantly burning the Grimm to ashes. Blake and Yang snapped out of their vertigo from being carried via shunpoed to join the fight against the horde. Ren was a bit torn between going to help Ichigo and Ruby or staying here to keep back the Grimm. In the end, he put his faith in his two friends.
(Cue "Number One
Ren entered the fray in a green blur, his twin bayonets cutting through the horde of Grimm as he passed. To him, everything moved in slow-motion, the result of his training as a shinigami. Some of the soldiers and Ren's friends paused to stare at Ren in awe as he mowed down through the Grimm. He slowed down in a slide his right hand going through strange motions.
"Hado 63: Raikohou."
A gigantic bolt of lightning tore through the Grimm horde that covered the landscape and dug a deep trench into the land. The Remnanties just stared in shock at Ren literally chucking out a lightning bolt out of his hands like it was nothing. The creatures of Grimm had no will to run, but were now aware of the immediate danger. Red eyes trained on the lone shinigami, abandoning their chase for the other humans.
"Is he going to be okay?" A militia guard asked.
"For some reason, I think so." Nora muttered, seeing the absolute calm image Ren had. In her opinion, it made him look cool.
Ren took a moment to assess his surroundings, but all he could see was the multiple forms of Grimm. He should be frightened, his heart should be pumping, and his arms should be shaking. But yet Ren was calm was an untouched pond.
"What does Ruby wanted to say as a slogan for Team SIRR?" Ren mused, a smirk playing on his face, "Shall we dance?"
A whisper of wind and Ren was gone in action, unable to stop. Every movement he made, every step he took was pure perfection. His swords swung at speeds the human eye could never track, and each Grimm he passed ended up in disintegrating. Ren sidestepped, his left bayonet cleaving through the chest of a Beowulf like soft butter. He purposefully anchored the bayonet into the ground to pivot off to lunge his right bayonet into the neck of an Ursa. Using his right bayonet as an anchor, his left bayonet came out of the ground as he pivoted off to land a devastating kick to another Ursa enough to shatter bone.
His body twisted in the air slicing off heads as he went. His feet landed on top of a giant scorpion. Ren's hands went through quick motions before blue fire gathered at his hands.
"Hado 73: Soren Sokatsui."
Ren aimed his hands down engulfing the scorpion before the blue inferno spread out on the ground to all the Grimm present for a 70-meter radius. In the midst of such destructive flames, the Huntsmen stood there without care.
As for the members of Team (R)WBY and JN(PR) present, they were basically left in Ren's literal dust of slaughter through Grimm, their jaws wiping the floor.
"Am I - am I high or something?" Yang said.
Weiss shook her head. "Can't be a dream. Only Nora would think of this."
"But why is he awesome!?" Yang exclaimed. Sure, having exchanged fists with the Huntsmen he was a decent fighter, but how did he turn into this?!
Senna added her piece, but she was the only one unaffected by Ren's display. "Are you going to keep on gawking or get to work?"
She went through some hand motions and reiatsu gathered in her hands.
"Hado 38: Mundorippu."
A silver and green circle as wide as Senna's body came to life in front of her and began firing short bursts of energy at the Grimm. Yang snapped out of her shock replaced by the adrenaline of battle while Blake provided fire support via the lack of her katanna. Ever so surely, the Grimm horde was dimming down to size from Ren's onslaught.
Suddenly, shrill screaming sent a chill down all present and turning all heads toward the city. While the Grimm was taken care of, now they were met upon a new wave in the form of new creatures of varying sizes and shapes with white masks and a hole running through them.
"H-Hollows!" Senna none but shouted.
Ren looked wide-eyed at the sudden storm of Hollows that appeared out of nowhere. He instantly sped off with shunpo to get there in time as the militia and his friends were immediately attacked. The rain of gunfire could only slow them down from the literal pouring. It was only a matter of time before they were overrun, and not even Senna could protect everybody with her body still recovering. Just as Ren was about to risk with a very high level Hado spell...
"Scream, Benihime."
A wave of red instantly killed the wave of Hollows before they clamped down on them. Ren was suddenly hit with a sense of deja vu upon the first time he heard that voice and saw that bright red light.
"What was that?" Yang asked intelligently but Ren could only smirk.
"My, my, Ren-san, doesn't this take us back to how we met?"
All eyes turned to a man of blonde hear wearing a green coat, bucket hat, and wooden sandals. While on first look he seemed like a regular civilian, his air of complete calm was alarming to say the least in this instance. Ren spared the blonde man a glance with a smile.
"What took you so long, Urahara-san?" Ren said in a berating tone, obviously fake.
Urahara faked a hurt heart. "You wound me, Ren-san. As a friend and sensei, I tried my hardest to find when you were flung into the Dangai, and the repeated death threats. I finally get here and find a horde of Hollows, so as the neighborhood's resident owner shopkeeper I couldn't stay back and not help."
Senna coughed. "Whipped."
"More like cracked over a post." Spoke a new voice. Behind Kisuke was an odd bunch all brandishing swords and radiating the same power as Ren and Senna. A tall lean man with blonde hair glanced at the oncoming army of Hollows going through the city and after them.
"What impeccable timing, don't you think so?" Said the man with a cheshire smile, "I see Ruby-san and Ichigo-san have their hands full. So... what can the Vizards do for you?"
Ren could only smile in reply and steel flashed into the air. The Remnanties could only look up Hollows were slain and blood spray in the air. That day a little less than ten sprang into the air upon an army, yet the was no chance of defeat.
That day shinigami arrived to defend Remnant.
Yay, Kisuke's back and the Vizards jump into action fighting a whole army of Hollows and stop the destruction of Argus.
Up next is Chapter 38: Unmasked
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