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Train Wreck
Fox lay on his bed in silence. Above him, Wulfe was sharpening his claws. To the left, Ava was reading a book. He hated the sleeping arrangements. He understood them, but he hated them. Ruby had all but ordered everyone to sleep with their teams, which meant she had gotten everyone rooms with bunk beds. Which meant he was away from Blake. He definitely hated being away from Blake. Ever since he had started remembering things, being around Blake had made it easier to keep a sense of who he was, and which life he was in. Aside from that, he had started having nightmares about a week back every night, but they tended to be worse whenever he fell asleep away from Blake. Like now.
Of course, he understood why Ruby had wanted it that way. It had been months since everyone was able to relax with their teams in Beacon, and she wanted the teams, mainly Team RWBY to be back to normal as soon as possible. He still didn't like it.
"Could you please stop sharpening those?" Fox finally asked, the constant grinding sound finally grating on his nerves too much. "You've been sharpening them ever since we got on the train, I think they're sharp."
"Sorry," Wulfe said. "Just wanted to be ready for the inevitable."
Yeah," Fox sighed. "I know. We've got Qrow's bad luck semblance, and we've got a Relic. We're going to fight. I just hope it's nothing too annoying."
"You haven't been sleeping well have you?" Ava asked.
"No," Fox said. "Ever since I started remembering I keep having nightmares. Go figure."
"Far cry from not wanting to forget," Wulfe said.
"I don't want to forget," Fox said. "But right now, most of what I'm remembering is the pain, and the fighting. I want to remember the happiness, and the friends. Not the death and despair."
"That's fair," Wulfe said, dropping to the ground. "I'm going to grab a bite to eat."
"It is getting to be dinner time, isn't it?" Ava asked. "I'll go too."
Fox sighed, walking out of the room and heading for the one Qrow and Oscar would be staying in. He knocked and Qrow opened the door, letting him in.
"What's up?" Qrow asked.
"Oscar, do you mind playing telephone for a minute?" Fox asked. "I need to ask Ozpin something."
"Sure," Oscar nodded.
"Can you seal away my memories?" Fox asked.
"He can," Oscar nodded.
"Can you do specific parts?" Fox asked.
"No," Oscar said after a moment. "It's all or nothing. Either you completely forget your past before this life, or you continue as it is now."
"I thought so," Fox nodded. "So, how long do you figure before we end up fighting some belligerently annoying grimm?"
"Probably not too long," Oscar said. "We've got a Relic with us. Plus, Ozpin says Salem's not overly pleased with you. You defeated Cinder, stopped Adam, and kept the Relic out of her hands."
"I did very little of any of that," Fox said. "Yang got the Relic, Raven did most of the work against Cinder, and Blake stopped Adam."
"But you played a hand in all of it," Qrow said. "I just hope we find the next Fall Maiden before Salem does."
"Honestly, I'm not sure there is a next Fall Maiden yet," Fox said. "I mean, there's no way Cinder survived, but...I didn't see her die. So..."
"Ozpin agrees," Oscar said. "Better to assume the worst."
Fox nodded. "How long until we reach Argus, assuming no complications arise?"
"A few days," Qrow said. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to check on my nieces."
Fox stepped out of the way and Qrow left before Ozpin took control of Oscar. "Ozpin, is Salem what I think she is?"
"She is," Ozpin nodded. "Salem is the first grimm. Created by the god of destruction to wipe out humanity, and all that the god of creation has made."
"So if she dies..." Fox trailed off.
"All other grimm should die as well," Ozpin nodded. "However, the god of destruction was careful in her creation. I'm not certain, but I believe that her true power is that of the god of destruction himself."
"Oz, that would mean we're fighting a god," Fox said. "How do we beat that?"
"I don't know," Ozpin said. "I wish I did."
Fox sighed, nodding, before looking up at Ozpin. "I didn't fight her alone. Please tell me they're all dead."
Ozpin was silent for a long moment before speaking. "In a manner of speaking, yes."
Fox groaned. "Please tell me you're joking. All of them?"
"Not all, no," Ozpin said. "Only the strongest four. And then one failure, which she already set loose, and which was defeated by Team JNPR and Ruby."
"Nuckelavee," Fox said.
"Yes," Ozpin said. "A complete failure, and yet one of the most dangerous foes a student of my school has ever faced."
"I don't know," Fox said. "Maybe before that dragon, and Cinder, and I fought Salem once, sort of. Plus there was that scorpion faunus assassin Qrow was poisoned by. And Hazel. Adam."
"Alright, alright," Ozpin chuckled. "One of the most dangerous grimm. Happy?"
"Moderately," Fox smiled.
Ozpin smiled, letting Oscar have control back. Fox sighed, walking out of the room and back toward his own room just as the train shook, several people screaming before a roar rang out. Fox swore, sprinting to the nearest exit and climbing on top of the train, finding himself a single car back from Qrow, Team RWBY, and Fox's teammates. Further back along the train, there was a single chimera grimm, which stood double a person's height, and a swarm of manticore grimm, which were as tall as a person, flying around attacking the two huntsmen from the train station.
"Fuckin chimeras!" Fox said. "Qrow, I'm really starting to hate your semblance."
"Me too," Qrow said.
Suddenly, the guy with the club pressed a button on it, the club lighting up with electricity as he charged, only for the chimera to swat him off of the train instantly.
"Dee!" the sniper shouted.
He turned, sprinting away as the Manticores began to spit fireballs at him and Fox drew his bow back, launching an arrow, which split into several dozen, flying at the grimm. Then, a turquoise suit of armor that looked almost identical to Weiss's armor summon but with a rounded helmet and stood about as tall as Fox fell from the cliff off to the side, landing on the train and threw a small red crystal off of the train, all of the arrows streaking that way and colliding with the crystal, which exploded into a massive red sphere of energy a moment later. Fox stared at it.
"The fuck was that!?" Fox demanded.
"That's possible?" Blake asked.
"That's not a good sign," Qrow said. "Can you handle that thing?"
"Shouldn't be too hard," Fox said, switching his bow back to its sword mode.
As he did, the suit of armor pulled a broadsword off of its back just as a dark blue one landed beside it, this one identical to the first but with a two-foot-wide round shield surrounded by sharpened spikes on its left arm. Then, a much, much larger suit of armor crashed down behind the train, sprinting after it. This one Fox recognized. It was grey, rather than the white ice version he had seen, but he recognized it all the same.
"Weiss, what the fuck!?" Fox asked.
"That's impossible!" Weiss shouted. "That's an Arma Gigas! That's the thing my family made me fight! But I don't understand! They only made the one!"
"Weiss, I would like to point out that you just said your family made a grimm-possessed suit of armor," Fox said. "I'm probably going to kill your family when we get there."
"That thing's getting close!" Qrow said just as several turrets rose off the top of the train, opening fire on the grimm and suits of armor, the manticores beginning to fly around the train, blasting the turrets. "What the hell does he think he's doing!"
Fox glanced at the sniper, who had activated the turrets and who was currently shooting his rifle at the manticores. Then, Fox turned back to the suits of armor. "You guys take the grimm! I'll deal with these things!"
"Good luck!" Qrow shouted as he and the others all charged the grimm.
Fox pressed a button on the grip of his sword and the bottom extended into a two-handed grip. Then, he charged. The two smaller suits of armor charged to meet him, the first slashing at him only for Fox to duck under the blade, standing and deflecting the shield upward as the suit of armor tried to stab him with the points. Then, he jumped, doing a back flip as the first suit of armor slashed, hitting the other suit instead. As Fox landed, he darted forward, slashing both of them and hurling them backward along the train before sprinting forward and leaping over them, landing on the very back edge of the train in time to block the Arma Gigas' sword, the train under him crumpling halfway down, Fox hearing people inside screaming.
"Take a hike fucker!" Fox snarled, his aura pulsing as he shoved the sword upward, leaping off of the train and slamming his sword into the suit of armor, making it stagger backward as he leapt back to the train.
He landed lightly and spun, knocking the turquoise armor's sword aside, slashing it across the chest and making it stagger backward before flipping over the shield. He switched to a bow in midair, and when he landed he sent an arrow blasting into the dark blue armor's chest, sending it blasting backward into the other. Then, he jumped, flipping as the Arma Gigas' sword passed under him, and fired another arrow into its chest. Both arrows had failed to break through the armor, instead dispersing in a shower of sparks, but as Fox landed, his aura pulsed again, this time not by his own choosing. His head snapped to the side and he grinned widely, holding out his hand. His hand glowed bright green suddenly, the light spreading before he gripped his sword with both hands, streaking backward and planting his sword hilt-deep in the Arma Gigas's chest. Then, he sprinted up it, splitting it up the front before splitting its helmet too and flipping backward, sending an arrow into the opening in its helmet. Green light shone out through the breaks in the armor as the grimm possessing it were destroyed and Fox landed on the train, switching to his sword in time to spin, knocking the shield upward, then slashing the armor, hurling it backward.
The other slashed at him several times, Fox deflecting the blow each time before he jumped, slamming a kick into it and hurling it away. It caught the armor with the shield's hand and swung around, landing beside it as Fox held his hand out again, grinning as his aura resonated with his target. Then, he swore, diving forward as yet another suit of armor, this one black with a skull-shaped helmet and pair of longswords with short, wide spikes near the tip, crashed down where he had been. He rolled to his feet just as the front of the train passed into a tunnel, everyone else diving between the cars.
"Oh for fuck's sake!" Fox grumbled, leaping into the air.
He landed on the side of the mountain, above the tunnel and instantly held his hand out, his aura lighting up before he swung his hand back. The side of the mountain nearest him but beside the track exploded, the debris killing a couple of the manticores that had left the train at the tunnel, and which he was currently surrounded by. Then, he caught a massive chunk of emerald slightly bigger around than his torso and grinned as green energy flared to life over his entire body.
"I love this mountain," Fox grinned, turning and slashing in a circle, sending out a wave of green energy that killed numerous manticores, then sprinted up the cliff to the top.
As he reached the top of the cliff, he found the three remaining suits of armor waiting. He had lost patience, however. He shot forward, stepping past the turquoise armor's sword and splitting it across the torso, then stabbed directly through the blue one's shield. Then, he stepped past it, gripping his sword in reverse grip and ripping it out of that armor and spinning, slashing at the last, only for the last to block the sword. It shoved it back and Fox flipped backward, landing on his feet, his sword arm toward the armor, sword held vertically in front of him.
"You're getting on my nerves," Fox growled. "That's a bad idea." He glanced down at the turquoise armor and froze, seeing the Schnee Dust Company logo on the back of the helmet. "That bitch!"
The black armor shot forward, slashing at Fox rapidly, Fox deflecting the strikes again and again before flipping, channeling his semblance into his sword and splitting the armor up the back, taking the helmet completely off. He stabbed his sword into the ground, catching the helmet and staring at the logo. Then, he put his sword away, sprinting to the edge of the cliff and leaping off, dropping a hundred feet to the top of the train and landing hard, rolling to a stop before standing and walking toward where Team RWBY, Qrow, Oscar, and Fox's team were fighting the remaining Manticores and the Chimera. Several Manticores shot down toward Fox but he batted them aside with the helmet, killing them, his aura shining dangerously over his body as he did, both from his anger, and from the massive emerald still under his arm.
He stopped in front of Weiss and shoved the helmet into her hand, grabbing his sword handle and extending the blade before holding it out to the side, a Manticore splitting itself in half on it. Weiss stared at the helmet's logo, eyes wide with shock before anger began to fill them.
"Oh, I am going to have so many words with my father over this," Weiss growled.
"I'm probably just going to end him," Fox said. "But first," he turned, slashing and sending out an arc of energy that blasted the remaining Manticores.
Just as he did, Yang and Blake used Blake's sword's cloth to hold the chimera down as Qrow and Ruby used their scythes to split it in half. Just as they did, it launched one last fireball, this one blasting the track ahead of them. Instantly, Weiss drove her sword into the top of the train, several black glyphs appearing, one under each and one under the train, which Fox realized was only about half of it. However, it did nothing to slow them down. Fox knelt, placing his free hand on the train, green energy encasing both it and everyone on it. Then, the train skipped the rails and plummeted down the cliff beside it.
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I'm accepting applications for any OCs to have either cameo or maybe join the group for a while, depending on how detailed the description of them and how the story progresses. Don't forget, Fox's team still has an open spot. I'll keep the best one as a replacement. Oh, also, any original Grimm you want to appear in the story, feel free to leave that in a review as well.