Chapter 24

After dinner, over at the library; Team NDGO and Winter head down to the basement of the library in order to gain access to the museum connecting to it.

"Looks like it's just us girls." Nebula says while wielding a torch.

"At least I'm with someone with some refinement." Winter says as she leads the way. "Unlike Ms. Valkyrie of Team JNPR."

"Well, Nora's a tomboy." Octavia says to Winter. "Kinda like Yang except Nora does the cute 'boop' thing while Yang is more of a bimbo."

Back in the vault, Yang sneezes next to Ruby in the arcade.

"Eww! Yang!" Ruby says in disgust. "Sneeze in the opposite direction!"

Yang rubs her nose, "Sorry. *sniff* I think someone's talking about me."

"Looks like you're about to lose! Yeah!"

"Fuck!" Yang shouted as she slams her fist on the desk.

"You get toilet duty!" Ruby reminds her older sister.

"Double fuck!"

"And rinsing your mouth out with soap because you have a potty mouth that needs cleaning."

"Triple fuck!"

Back in the library basement, the five women walk their way past the bookshelves in order to go to the other door on the opposite side.

"Man." Nebula says as she looks at the bookshelves still filled with books. "They've made a lot of spell tomes."

Gwen says to Nebula, "Yeah well, since the books disappear when you read them, they had to make a lot."

"Although..." Dew starts to wonder, "...With all these books, why didn't the people use them in the time of crisis? Like what we've been seeing."

Nebula theorize, "Maybe because they were too terrified on what was going on."

Gwen agrees, "Well, the door was locked according to Jaune. So that could be it."

But Octavia adds her own theory, "Or the military or something like a mages guild only had access."

"True." Dew agrees a little. "But there was that skeleton that died in similar fashion as the other skeletons we saw. And was that guy called again? A witcher?"

"Enough." Winter addresses Team NDGO as they made their way to the other side of the room. She turns around to speak to them. "Ladies, prepare for anything."

Team NDGO got their weapons out and are prepared for anything. Winter unlocks the two locks on the door before pulling the door ring knob. She forced the door open and dozens of skeletons fall down to the ground with many wearing rags and old armor. On the other side of the door, there are scratch marks all over as if they try to get in.

Nebula looks at the horror, "Oh my gods."

Everyone looked at the massacred skeletons in horror as some of the skulls roll down from the big bony pile. Looking at the skulls with holes through them suggest that they were killed while trying to flee to safety in the basement. There are more than just human-like skeletons against the door. Some include reptilian and feline while others look they could be part fish. Yet there are child-size skeletons with beards. But one thing that is hard to swallow is the stench the bodies have on them. Octavia threw up because of the foul odor in the air.

Dew covers her nose, "That's just awful." She feels sympathetic towards the poor people. "Dying like this while left down here is inhuman."

Winter removes the skeletons from the door in order to get through.

"What're you doing?!" Gwen shouts at Winter for disrespecting the dead.

"We'll have time to give them their last rights later." she replies as she removes the skeletons from the stairs. "Right now. We need to know what happened here."

Nebula takes a gulp as she looks at the skeletons. "Yeah, but still."

"Come on and help."

"...Right." she nodded. Nebula takes a deep breath before lending Winter a helping hand.

Over at Blue Base, Tex and Carolina are trying to settle things between them once in for all! ...By doing push-ups. Tucker, being bored just watch the two women being competitive on who is superior.

Washington then walks in, "Hey."

"Sup."

The two men then look at the two of the most dangerous Freelancer, well ex-Freelancer, agents going at it.

"How many have they gotten so far?" Wash asks.

"I lost count around 600."

"Damn!" Wash is impressed. "I bet they did a 1000 by now! I could barely do 300!"

Tucker turn his head at Washington, "Says the guy that got me doing 100 as a warm-up."

"That's in the past now." Washington turns his head at Tucker. "But you did come a long way since the real jungle canyon we crashed land on at Chorus."

"Not really." Tucker has some doubts before looking at Tex & Carol. "Those two scare me shitless still. Even more scarier than Locus and Felix. I know that I've gotten a lot better at being a soldier since Chorus, but those two are the scariest motherfucking bitches in the galaxy. Assuming that we're still in our own galaxy."

"Yeah." Washington agrees with that last part. "I keep wondering if we're still in the Milky Way."

"Bow-chika- Wait. The chocolate bar?"

"No. The name of our galaxy."

"Oh yeah. I totally knew that."

"Dumbass."

Carolina collapse on the ground with Tex still going for a few more.

Tex gets up, "Looks like I win again, Carolina."

Carolina tries catching her breath, "Not *pant, pant* over yet." Even though she's tired from exhaustion, she still wants to go on as she addresses Tex with an aggressive attitude. With her stubbornness or determination, she got up. "One more *pant* challenge!"

"Sorry, Carolina. You know I'm always the best." Tex says in an arrogant tone.

"How about one of Caboose's challenges?"

"Whoa!" Tucker runs up between the two. "I think that's far enough! Don't you girls think that-" SMACK! "AAAAAAHH!" DONG! "...fuck." he whimpered

Both Tex and Carolina punched Tucker in the face that sends him flying.

Wash looks at Tucker's messed up body. "That's what you get for getting in their way again."

Carolina points at Tex, "New challenge! Tonight! Right now! Find Caboose!"

"Hello!" Caboose appeared right out of nowhere.

Tex backs away, "How the fuck are you doing that?"

"Invisible magic."

Carolina goes, "...Riiight."

Caboose looks at Carolina, "You need a challenge?"

"Yes!" both of the fiercest female soldiers say in unison.

"I got one! But first, I need Church. I need his help for something."

Epsilon pops up, "Yeah what?"

"I need your help with my computer. It's been acting weird lately and I have no idea how to fix it."

"Done." Epsilon goes inside Caboose as Caboose shows the new challenge.

Both Tex and Carolina are outside as they try to stand their ground against the stormy winds that are threatening them. They try to hold their ground against such a strong gale.

Carolina starts shouting, "ME AND MY BIG MOUTH!"

Tex shouts back, "WELL...YOU WANTED A CHALLENGE FROM CABOOSE! YOU GOT IT! YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT WAS A STUPID IDEA!"

"I SHOULD'VE KNOWN CABOOSE'S CHALLENGES WOULD BE STUPID!"

"GEE! YOU THINK!"

One of the blue zealots got blown away as he screams and gets blown right past the two.

Back at the basement, the five young women finally removed all the skeletons that were blocking the way.

"Ugh." Nebula says in disgust. "I can't stand that smell anymore."

"How is it that something that has been here for centuries smell so bad?" Dew says as she removed the last piece of bone.

"Not exactly vacuum packed." Winter explains as she make sure all the bones are in perfect order. "Must've rotted with some air still inside before something sealed the airways. That might explain the decaying smell that has been build up over the years."

Octavia takes the torch to look at the floor and stairs, "Glad bones and rags are the only things we can find. I don't see anything...gooey."

"Well that's reassuring." Dew says as she picks up the torches.

"Right." Nebula says as she rubs her hands. "Lets go."

The five head upstairs with Nebula, unfortunately for her, has to go first while using a torch with Winter behind her. They reached up to the door at last but the door is locked yet the locks on their side are undone. Which means the doors have locks on both sides.

"How the hell does this work?!" Nebula asks. "Locks on both sides. This side is unlocked yet the other side isn't?"

"Want me to get Nora to break it down?" Gwen suggested.

"Allow me." Winter says.

The door broke down by a white arm of a summoned Beringel that Winter summoned before disappearing. Winter then walks through.

"Do you summon Grimm to help you with your hair, too?" Gwen asks as Team NDGO follow

Winter turns to face Gwen, "Only in an emergency."

"Now I'm a little jealous." Octavia admits that Winter's summoning glyphs are cool.

"What's your semblance?" Winter asks.

But Winter's question is negated by Gwen going, "Whoa." She says as she sees a large wooden ship in a giant room.

Everyone looked at the old wooden ship that is remarkably preserved with red sails and a golden lion on it.

"Wow..." the other three girls says as they're taken in by the entirely of the ship.

There was a moment of silence as they see the giant ship from whatever their torch light up.

"What's a ship doing in a museum?" Nebula asks.

"Don't know." Winter says as she looks at the dimly lit ship. "But must've been important for it to be in a museum."

"Hey." Octavia points at the sails. "I've seen that insignia! I saw it on a few banners on the way over to the library!"

Winter casts candlelight as she approaches a plaque below the bow of the ship to see what it is.

"Lets light up the torches." Dew suggests.

Winter reads the plaque:

Here is the *name of the ship eroded*. The ship that lead Tommen Lannister, second of his name,

King of the Rock & Lord of Casterly Rock and the Westernlands, here to this land along with many others.

Tommen Lannister II was about to explore some place called Valyria in search of Valyrian Steel, a steel far superior than any steel,

for his own personal gain along with his "Golden Fleet". But he disappeared from some strange world known as, Westeros,

then ended up here on this stranger world where he became a king of his own lands after The Founding along with his sword, Brightroar.

"Hmm." Winter went as she rubs her chin with her right index finger.

"What does it say?" Gwen asks as she walked up behind Winter.

"Apparently some king of another world appeared her on this ship. It also mentions something about, 'The Founding'."

"The Founding?" Gwen asks as Nebula finishes lighting the last torch in the room. "As in the founding of this place?"

"It seems so."

"Hey girls!" Octavia shouted. "I found something!"

The three gather around Octavia as she is looking at a very shiny sword in a pristine glass case. The sword has a rippled pattern to it and so bright that it looks like new.

Nebula reads the plaque:

Brightroar

Valyrian Steel Sword of Tommen II Lannister

Donated to the *museum name eroded* by Leo III Lannister

"So this is Brightroar." Winter says as she place her left hand on the glass. She developed an interest in the sword. "I've never seen metal such as this."

"It says Valyrian steel." Nebula pointed out. "Never heard of such an alloy. Although, it does look pretty."

"Hey! Everyone!" Dew shouted from a doorway to their right. "Check this out!"

Everyone went over to see what Dew found. When they enter the next room, they found a room dedicated to weapons, armor, and warfare with the center of the room having a sword with a blue hilt and three golden triangles on it that is between three triangles on the floor on some sort of platform. Over to the end of the room, they see a catapult, a trebuchet, a siege tower, and all sorts of weapons used during a siege. However, strangely, there are no cobwebs or dust anywhere in this room.

Gwen says as she looks at the entirety of the room, "If Ruby was here, she'll have a field day with all of these."

Everyone checks out the weapons that are strangely still intact along with the glass they're in. Winter and Nebula check out a few weapons where there is a hammer made of amethyst, an ornate katana with some gold on it, and a strange rifle that looks similar to the MA5B assault rifles found at the crash site. As they look at the weapons, Nebula starts to get an uneasy feeling. She felt that something was wrong.

"Hey, Winter?" Nebula turned her head to face Winter.

Winter looks at Nebula, "Yes, Ms. Violette?"

"There is something bothering me."

"With all the destruction and deaths to this city, why are valuable museum pieces still here and intact?" Winter guessed what Nebula was going to say. "Am I right?"

"Yeah." Nebula was surprised to hear Winter thinking the same thing. "Why raid a city filled with all these goodies if you're not gonna take them?"

"Same I would ask on why there are spaceships that crashed land here." Winter looks back at the weapons. "I think we're starting to get a bigger picture on what is going on."

Nebula takes a gulp with a look of worried on her face on what she's thinking. "You don't think-"

"I'm afraid so. Genocide." Winter says bluntly while Nebula starts to cringe.

Nebula isn't feeling well, "I don't feel so good."

"But why genocide?" Winter asked. "However, I'm starting to believe that we are part of some experiment. Whoever these people were-" Winter turns around to look at the room, "-they must've done something wrong."

Dew whistles from the next room. "Hey! I actually found something that might be useful!"

Everyone went to the next room where Dew is standing. In front of her, is an extremely large tapestry that shows the city at the top. But it is showing layers upon layers of different civilizations stacked on top of each other.

"The hell?" Gwen says as she looked at it. "Is this part of some experiment?"

"Looks like someone decide to have many civilizations stacked on each other for something." Dew pointed out. "Maybe to create some sort of-" Before finishing her sentence there was a flash of the gloomy blue light behind them. She quickly turned her head to see what it was. "Did anyone see that?"

"Saw what?" Nebula asked while everyone else was looking at the tapestry.

Dew squints her eyes at the window. "I thought I saw that light again."

Nebula turned her head to see what Dew was seeing. Then lightning flashes outside the windows. Nebula smiles, "Probably just lighting."

"No." says Dew with a serious tone of voice. "The light I saw was blue and it lasted longer than the lighting."

"Really?" Nebula says as she looks back at the window again.

Outside the window, the gloomy blue light appeared again for twenty seconds before the lightning strikes. Then it disappeared again.

Dew fully turns around. "There it is again."

"Yeah." Nebula turns around. "I saw it this time before the lightning."

"What're you talking about?" Octavia asks after looking at the tapestry.

Nebula and Dew pulled out their weapons as they slowly approach the window to see what is outside. Octavia tapped Gwen on the shoulder with the back of her hand before pulling out her weapon. Winter and Gwen do the same as they follow Nebula and Dew.

"What is it?" Gwen asks.

"Don't know." Nebula answered. "But there is something going on out there."

As they approach the window, they see the gloomy light that shined for a full minute before fading out.

Dew pointed at the window while whispering, "Did you see that."

"I did." Winter whispered back as she points her sword. "Best to be careful."

The four nod in agreement before approaching the window. Once at the window, Nebula takes a peak outside to see what that light was.

"Anything?" Octavia whispers.

"Nothing yet." Nebula whispers.

Everything is dark outside with the only visible thing is the light shining out from the windows to illuminate what little ground they reveal. But when the lighting flashes...she sees a face of a decrepit, rotting face with a hood over it outside the window. She screamed when she sees the face with the blue light of a lantern shining next to it to reveal its face.

"What!?" Winter shouted. "What is it!?"

The strange being thrusts its sword through the window as Nebula dodges it which the other members of Team NDGO screamed as they fall back away from the window as the strange creature floats its way through.

Meanwhile, in the library, Pyrrha is looking at the Witcher's Bestiary book that she got from the basement to see what they might go up against in the future.

"Whatcha' reading?" Nora asked.

Pyrrha responds without looking away from the book, "The Witcher's Bestiary we got from the skeleton downstairs. I found a section about specters. Listen to this." She reads from the book. "It says that wraiths carry gloomy lanterns while haunting abandoned homes, crumbling castles, forgotten bridges, or desolated cities." She looks at Nora, "It also says they are created from a person who has suffered endless, indescribable pain or loss a life for no reason. They are very vengeful."

"Yikes!" Nora went as she tensed up. "Hope we don't come across any of them here."

Ren looked around, "Did anyone hear screaming?"

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?" Dew screamed as the wraith tries to attack them.

Nebula switchers her sword to crossbow as she, despite being frightened, tries to fire a shot at the wraith. But it becomes invisible that causes the arrow to go through.

"FUCK!" Nebula screamed as she reloads right before it appeared behind her.

"BEHIND YOU!" Octavia screamed as she charges at the undead creature with her sword which she blocked the creature's attack.

Gwen throws a few knives at it but went right through. "Oh come on!" she shouted even though she's still afraid, "I managed to kill plenty of poltergeist Grimm with my fucking knives! Now they won't affect a ghost!"

The wraith quickly turned its head at Gwen.

"Uh-oh."

Then the wraith charges at Gwen.

AN: Hey guys. I'm writing this part to avoid some sort of confusion that Vic and Deuce come to believe. I think you two misunderstood about what I wrote. There ISN'T gonna be Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V characters in THIS story. I was referencing a NEW STORY yet it got collided with two other stories that I want to write. I set up a poll about which story do you guys find interesting so I can do another story. Everyone decided Minecraft: Story Mode Season 3, and no votes for Yu-Gi-Oh! Dimensionals. Yu-Gi-Oh! Dimensionals is the one WITH THE CHARACTERS I WAS TALKING ABOUT. NOT THIS STORY. Are we clear? I hope so.