A/N: So I'm less late than I have been, mostly cuz this chapter was a bitch to write.
I know you guys enjoy my fight scenes, but there is a reason there's so few of them. I stress over them and have to plan and choreograph them perfectly.
And this whole chapter is a bunch of fight scenes.
So yeah, sorry for taking so long again.
Back to important matters, I'm going to RTX!
Or trying to at least, tickets and travel are expensive. But I should be making it work.
I'll probably have my username on my person somewhere. So if anyone is there and finds me, call me out. I love meeting people.
Second piece of news: GR has officially broke 800 followersI Guys, I love you and I can't thank you enough for supporting me while I write!
Anyway, on to the chapter!
Please enjoy!
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edited (6/6/2019) I forgot to add the name of my other buddy Psychostoys, gotta give credit where credit is due.
Guilty Rose Chapter 42
Summer could only stare dumbly at the broken rafter where her daughter had been walking. She wasn't quite sure why she had expected the rafters to be entirely sturdy given the outside of this abandoned warehouse. She had however expected it to hold a ninety pound wolf faunus, mostly because it held her.
Her added weight from childbirth aside, she peered down at her daughter who had managed to land perfectly, in the middle of the crowd.
Summer huffed and looked to where Raven was supposed to be. She found her red-eyed wife, who was as stunned as everyone else.
Summer huffed and looked back at her daughter, who began to slowly stand up. A new plan seemed to be in affect, which Summer prepared for by pulling two more concussive arrows from her quiver.
"Let's get this party started then."
….
Rose was still reeling. One moment, she was in the rafters. Next, she was on the warehouse floor. To top all of that off, she was now surrounded.
This was not the plan, and she had no idea what she was supposed to do.
So her instincts kicked in.
She stood slowly, in case she had landed wrong. Once she stood to her full height, she pulled Blossoming Rose apart with a flourish. She continued to twirl her kamas in preparation of the inevitable attack.
"YOU!"
Rose's head snapped up to see a furious Adam Taurus baring his teeth at her. Again, she didn't nknow what to do, so she let her instincts guide her. She took a fighting stance, and waited for the reckless charge.
Adam roared and made to charge, but was stopped when two more concussive arrows struck him center mass, sending him sailing through the air once again. That was when Summer landed on the makeshift stage with another arrow notched.
"I got him sweetie, you worry about the grunts!"
When the older Rose called that out, the rest of the White Fang members regained their senses.
"TRAITORS DIE!"
That was their battle cry as they charged the young faunus. Unfortunately for them, Rose was more than ready for them.
Once the first grunt came within reach, Rose hooked and pulled their legs from under them. But she could not deal a knock out blow quite yet, as another grunt came close to tackling her. Using the momentum from her before, she spun on her right foot to deliver a devastating kick to the temple of the encroaching grunt.
As that grunt crumpled, Rose brought her left foot down. Pivoting on the now grounded foot, Rose sent a roundhouse kick straight to a new grunt's solar plexus. This drove the air out of their lungs and sent them sprawling backwards.
A fourth grunt had the time and sense to draw their weapon before attacking. Rose saw the machete-like blade coming though and shifted her right kama into its knife form. The blade then found itself in a catch rather than embedded in flesh. Rose then locked the blade in the catch with a twist of her wrist before hooking her free kama on the grunts neck.
She pulled her weapons in opposite directions to force the grunt to overextend. But once again, another grunt came up behind her. Rose released her knife and jabbed the new grunt in the throat. Then she turned back to the previous grunt and drilled three semblance-enhanced punches into his face.
"That's my baby! Kick their asses!"
….
Raven had watched the plan go to hell in a handbasket. She dutifully took a moment to roll her eyes and sigh. How typical of the women in her life.
Before Raven could rue any further, she noticed a scorpion faunus at the back of the stage. The creep, which was the only possible way she could describe him, was decidedly not dressed like a White Fang member. But the worst part about him was that he was taking an interest in Raven's girls, and that would not stand with her.
Raven sprinted to intercept him.
"Not on my watch, asshole!"
The man turned just in time to block the incoming burn dust odachi with his wrist blades. The man then cackled in her face.
"Well, that wasn't very nice."
Raven gave the faunus a swift front kick to put some distance between them and take a proper stance.
"I don't give a fuck, those are my girls and I'm not letting some sleazy creep anywhere near them."
The man balked in mock offense.
"So hurtful, whatever will I do?"
Before Raven could give a retort, Adam Taurus let out a roar that was cut short by the crack of two more concussive arrows. Raven turned her head and watched as Rose began to dish out wholesale punishment. And in just a few seconds, her chest filled with pride
"My little baby, off destroying people."
She then cupped her free hand around her mouth.
"That's my baby! Kick their asses!"
She turned back to her opponent and pointed at her daughter with a childish grin plastered on her face.
"I helped make that."
The psycho faltered at her antics.
"Is that really what you should be concerned with right now?"
Raven recoiled and pressed a hand to her chest as if she had been struck.
"That is my daughter! I have the Oum-given right to be proud of and gush about her every single second of the day! You, sir, can fuck right off."
The man gave her a deadpan look before rolling his eyes.
"Well then, after I deal with you, I'll make sure to give her special attentio-"
Raven cut the man off by bashing him in the face with the hilt of her sword.
"You must have forgotten earlier when I said you're not getting anywhere near her. I guess I'll have to beat that fact into your skull."
Tyrian skidded backwards and snarled as he grabbed his nose.
"You'll pay for that!"
it was Raven's turn to give a deadpan look.
"Could you go back to cackling psychotically? That was just too much cheesy cartoon bad guy for me."
Tyrian growled and charged again. Raven responded by taking a defensive stance.
As soon as the two met, their fight became almost one-sided as Raven batted away the wrist blades with some ease. Raven thanked Oum briefly that Vernal decided to learn a similar weapon to this man's. Because even though he was far better and faster than vernal, the attack patterns were familiar.
Tyrian progressively got angrier as the fight went on. Though, this was only shown as he snarled and growled as much as he cackled. Part of him was also wishing he had added some wrist-mounted pistols or something.
He would just have to use his tried and true method of whittling her down and hitting her with his stinger.
….
Summer waited for Adam to get back to his feet before letting loose her next arrow, hitting him in the chest again. Unfortunately, he had braced himself for this one and only got pushed back several feet.
Summer just huffed and pulled her bow apart so she had her two short swords. She then dashed up to Adam and began ruthlessly attacking him.
Adam, to his credit, managed to somewhat withstand the onslaught by dodging, blocking, and occasionally countering. He grinned inwardly as he could feel his semblance charging. It would be the tide turner in this fight as it always was.
He blocked another flurry of slashes with his blade before kicking the woman away. Adam then sheathed his chokuto and braced himself to unleash his semblance.
Summer saw the stance Adam was getting into, which tripped her huntress' instincts. With speed only matched by her daughter, she shifted her weapon back into a bow and notched a concussive arrow. She aimed the arrow straight for Adam's face and let it fly. The arrow hit true and forced Adam's whole upper body back. This made him unleash his semblance into the rafters rather than at Summer.
Once Adam recovered, he bared his teeth at the woman.
"WOULD YOU STOP THAT!"
His roar was answered by another concussive arrow to the chest.
….
Blake and Ilia watched on in mild horror as the plan devolved into a complete brawl. The only sources of comfort being able to see Rose's feats of martial prowess and acrobatics.
Ilia, feeling heat rise in her body, had to ask the question on her mind.
"Is she really that flexible?"
Blake briefly chuckled in response.
"You have no idea."
Ilia couldn't help the delightful shiver that crawled up her spine when she heard that.
It took Blake and Ilia several moments to remember that they had more important things to be concerned about than Rose's incredible physique and martial prowess.
Like the fact that were currently in a warehouse full of homicidal terrorists.
The pair looked about the warehouse to see the full situation. They immediately noticed that all the terrorists were not, in fact, homicidal. They saw that at least a third of the grunts had ran for the exits or were running for them. The rest were either fighting Rose, knocked out, or frozen in fear.
Blake silently thanked that there were runners as it would cover her leaving. Unfortunately, that still left the issue of Ilia. The original plan was just to rile Adam up to make him attack sooner, but now they needed to take things up a notch. A second later, an idea hit her. An idea she hoped Rose would forgive her for. The faunus gave her former friend a squeeze on the shoulder to get her attention again.
"Go in and get yourself knocked out by Rose to keep up appearances… And make sure you don't use your whip."
"Wha-"
Unfortunately, Blake had bolted before the question was voiced.
Ilia sighed, figuring this was probably a part of the original plan, went charging off into the fray.
….
Weiss and Cinder stood outside the warehouse, knowing something had gone horribly wrong.
They had heard the screaming, and then watched as faunus ran out of the building as if a grimm was inches behind them. They wanted to go in and see what was happening, but the plan required them to be outside the whole time.
"Weiss, we need to get in there."
Cinder called out as she moved to go into the warehouse, but Weiss got in front of her.
"We can't, we have to be out here for the plan."
"The plan has gone wrong! I mean look at them!"
"I know, Cin! I know, but what if we go in there now and they need us out here when we do?"
Cinder grit her teeth, not noticing how Weiss called her by her nickname.
"I hate how logical you're being about this."
Weiss huffed and turned back to the warehouse.
"That makes two of us."
Weiss nearly missed Blake running out, which really made her bristle.
"What the hell is going on in there?"
….
The frenzy of bodies and limbs had long since got to her, but Rose kept holding on to reality admirably. Her instincts had fully control of her movements, but she held her strength back enough to only knock out her assailants. Though after taking on over a dozen angry faunus with more, her mental and physical health were beginning to wane significantly.
Rose caught another bladed, then wrenched it to the side and kicked the grunt away. This gave her a moment reprieve, which she gladly took. Panting, she surveyed the faunus that were still standing, waiting for the next one to charge.
She soon saw a brief glimpse of crimson, accompanied by a feminine warcry. She immediately spun to deliver a kick. But as her foot traveled to the air, she realized who it was that had charged her. Time began to slow at that moment.
She could not out a halt her momentum, so her boot kept drifting until it made contact with Ilia's skull. The chameleon faunus' head then violently snapped to the side.
Time returned to normal as Ilia's body crumpled to the ground.
Rose's breath caught in her throat. Panic was rising in her chest as her mind wrapped around the fact that she just hurt the very person she came to help.
The world began to warp and there was nothing Rose could do about it. To make matters worse, another grunt charged her to avenge her fallen comrades.
She never saw the punch coming, and it hit her square in the jaw.
The jostling of her skull, combined with her existing panic, broke her hold on reality. Her vision warped, the faces and masks of the White Fang members around became the visages of the members of the Oni Tribe. All of them glaring at her accusingly.
"Traitor!"
"Bitch!"
"Little Monster!"
The disembodied voices kept screaming at her until she finally had to drown them out with her own scream.
"STOP IT!"
But it wasn't enough.
They kept screaming louder.
She knew there would be only one way she could get them to stop.
She'd have to kill them all, again.
….
Summer and Adam were both panting from their arduous battle. It had drug on far longer than either of them would have liked. It had been a clash between Summer's grace and vast experience and Adam's blind rage and power. So while Summer was definitely winning and had all but taken down Adam's aura, the fighting had taken a steep toll on her as well.
The Tracker Huntress would have end this soon, or she'd actually be in trouble.
Summer ripped Silent Blossom apart to its kama form again. She swiped and hooked Adam's sword aside to get a free shot at him.
"STOP IT!"
Her daughter's scream pulled her attention away from her opponent instantly and her head snapped to the direction of it. However, she forgot to stop her attack.
The kama hit with enough force to break through the last of Adam's aura.
And his mask.
And his flesh.
And into his skull.
The red headed faunus screamed as he clutched the side of his face.
"RAAAAGGH!"
Summer turned back to see what she had done. Blood was dripping from under Adam's hand. She caught a glimpse when he pulled his hand away for the briefest of moments.
There was a six inch gouge and the eye was all but destroyed.
She wanted to gag, but her training was kicking in. So she swiftly roundhouse kicked him in the chest, sending the faunus flying once again.
She turned back to her daughter, and once again, she found herself wanting to vomit.
There was just so much blood.
"Honey, Grab Ruby and run!"
….
Raven heard her daughter cry out, but she couldn't take her eyes off the scorpion faunus for even a second since his little game had changed. He was being far more vicious, yet somehow just as calculating.
She still held her ground against him, but she couldn't relax and maintain said ground.
So she kept her focus firmly on her opponent.
"Oh ho ho ho, it sounds like things are getting fun over there. Wanna go take a little looksy and see if we can join?"
Raven scoffed and swatted the man away again.
"Not on your life."
Raven grit her teeth as she clashed with the deranged faunus again.
Once the brutal clash came to enough of a lull, Raven kicked the faunus back to gain space.
The man snarled, but then saw something behind her that he must have found incredibly interesting. His face went from shocked to giddy again.
"I heard the stories and read the reports, but they do your daughter absolutely no justice. The Guilty Rose truly is an artist of blood and death. If only she didn't have those annoying silver eyes that my Queen hates so much, I'd make her to join us."
That made Raven freeze, and finally listen to the commotion going on behind her and heard the unmistakable sounds of steel cutting flesh and people dying.
Then she heard Adam Taurus, followed by the sound of him getting kicked again. Raven thanked Oum for that. Whatever was going on behind her needed to be stopped and they all needed to leave, immediately.
"Summer must have finished her fight."
"Honey, grab Ruby and run!"
She didn't hear footsteps after she heard that, which made her blood boil.
"Summer! Pull yourself together. She needs you!"
That must have gotten to her as she heard the footsteps this time. Raven sighed in relief, while Tyrian seemed to almost pout.
"Now why did you have to do that?"
Raven fixed him with a look.
"I'm not gonna let my daughter be leered at by a sleazy piece of shit. So fuck off, and shove that tail up your ass while you're at it."
"Well that wasn't very nice."
Raven sheathed her odachi and cycled to the ice dust blade.
"Yeah, well, neither is this."
Raven opened a portal to the tribe behind Tyrian and tried to kick him into it. Only problem was she didn't put enough strength into the blow. Tyrian skidded back towards the portal halting where half his tail was in the portal.
I'll just have to take what I can get right now."
Raven stopped channeling her semblance, taking the faunus' tail to its destination without the rest of him.
Tyrian felt his tail being ripped from his body and screamed in pain as he collapsed.
Raven wanted to finish him off, especially because he was one of Salem's goons, but a quick glance behind her showed her that Summer and Rose needed her more than that.
"Hope to see you never, bastard."
Raven spun on her foot and bolted after her wife and daughter, ignoring the carnage she passed.
….
Vernal was sitting next to Qrow's bed, off in a curtained off section of the tribe's medical tent, and much to the tribe's doctor's protests.
The job had gone to complete shit and the medical tent was full of the injured. Though if it hadn't been for Qrow and his preparations, there wouldn't have been anyone coming back at all.
She sighed, if she didn't know before, she knew now that she had chosen the right man for her life.
Her happy thoughts didn't last long as suddenly one of Raven's portals opened up. This instantly put Vernal jumped to her feet, ready for anything. Raven never showed up unannounced like this, so that either meant she was in trouble or bringing trouble. There was a brief pause and the portal started to close.
Just before the portal shut all the way, a large scorpion tail popped out. A tail far too large to belong to a natural scorpion.
The portal shut fully and Vernal groaned in relief as she slumped back into her seat, nursing her side and praying she didn't tear the stitches. That definitely would get her taken back to her bed.
"What the fuck did you get yourself into over there Raven?"
Unfortunately before Vernal could completely relax, she heard the footsteps of the old crone that the tribe called a doctor.
"What's going on over there Vernal, I told you not to do anything or you're going back to your bed where you belong!"
Vernal glanced down at the tail, then back up.
"Not a damned thing, like I promised."
She kicked it to where it would be hidden from sight under Qrow's bed."
"Good, 'cause I will tranq' your ass again!"
Vernal took the appropriate amount of time to shiver at that threat before turning back to Qrow.
"I swear your sister is going to get us killed one of these days."
A/N: And that's it for this chapter!
Finally, that was a seriously hard chapter to write, but I love the outcome. What do you guys think, was it worth the wait?
Welp, time to move on to Recap Time!
So, Rose fell because the building was decrepit, and Summer begins to worry about her baby weight again. Summer, listen to you're wifey Raven, you're perfect. Anyway, the thing with the concussive arrows. Again, I have set the precedent in this story that aura acts like medieval plate armor. It works really well against light bladed weapons, but blunt force still transfer to the person. Plus Summer repeatedly hitting Adam with concussive arrows was too much fun to not do.
Rose immediately kicking ass and taking names. Not much to say there.
Raven being a proud Mom and Mama bear at the same time. Big thanks to supershot1 for the suggestion to do this. Once I worked out how to add it into the story I had to do it. Onto more serious notes. So why did Raven fair so much better than Qrow did against Tyrian. As I said in the scene, Raven is used to fighting a similar weapon with Vernal. Plus I figure that Qrow had to focus on Ruby and co just as much as he did on Tyrian. So yeah, Raven had much more to her advantage when fighting the psycho than Qrow did.
Nothing more needs to be said about the second Summer vs Adam scene than, why didn't someone do this in canon. Seriously, Adam leaves himself wide open with his Iaijutsu. I also want to give Summer a smartass remark about why would she just wait for her opponent to use their big charge up attack.
Blake and Ilia's scene, again, not much to talk about. They can't help gawking and then immediately have to come up with a hasty retreat plan.
Weiss and Cinder's scene. I'll be honest, that was filler, but I also added it to explain why Weiss and Cinder did not charge in at the first sign of trouble.
Rose's scene where she loses control. Yes, it happened again. Like my buddy told me, less than a year of therapy won't undo more than a decade of conditioning. She is getting better, but too much stress will still trigger her. An additional point, before people get up in arms, Rose was trained to kill people without her special dust weapons. She made Guilty Rose to make her kills easier and as painless as possible. Heh, that mantra hasn't been used in a while. Anyway, yeah, she can kill an aura user with Blossoming Rose, it's just not quite as easy.
Summer carving out Adam's eye. Another suggestion from another buddy, PsychoStorys. I liked it, so I added it.
Raven vs. Tyrian, that was probably the trickiest scene to write. Getting Tyrian's reaction to Rose right, plus Raven's reaction to everything. It was quite the balance. The last part of the scene was another suggestion from Psycho as my original idea didn't seem to work. So, Yeah, I Doctor Strange'd it. Sorry if that felt like a blow off, but I couldn't kill Tyrian yet as I want him for later in the story.
Last scene, that was just to end the chapter on a good note more than anything, plus I wanted to hint at what happened to the tribe on their job. I'll go into detail on it next chapter.
That's the end of Recap Time!
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