Hello everyone. This chapter starts the reason this is rated M, so be warned. There WILL be some blood and gore this chapter. Also I should have either more time or less time to write chapters after this week, but either way we are nearing the end of volume 1, which also marks the beginning of my first rest period. So without further ado, let's begin
I do not own RWBY or anything else that happens to be in the story.
BTW I still have no Beta reader, but I will be looking for one after the next chapter, and I will happily accept someone if they want to beta this.
"Talking"
'Reading'
Flashback
'Thinking'
Dreaming
Teams Meet, First Day, and the Killer
Evan
He had just won the title of king, and was heading home to tell his group. As he passed the rich part of Vale that the ring was currently located, he noticed a family of five. Each of them with white hair and pale skin. It looked like the husband and wife where having an argument while the kids went inside.
Finding this interesting he stopped to watch, and as soon as the door to the house was closed and all the kids' things were out of the vehicle, insuring that neither the kids nor the butler would come out, the man raised his hand…. Only to instantly freeze up as pure terrifying killing intent rushed over him. Seeing that her husband was frozen in place, the wife turned and marched into the house.
Without his wife there to block his view the man quickly saw Evan, his fist still covered in wet and dry blood from both his fights and, more importantly, the place where the intent was coming from. The threat was a silent, but simple one. And both parties knew what it was. Soon after being spotted Evan walked on into the slums.
As he walked deeper into the slums, all the buildings started getting worse, and the amount of homeless people increased. This part of town was controlled by multiple gangs, but all gangs knew that they were only in control because the bigger predators of the criminal world let them be, and so when one comes through they bend the knee.
When he finally got to his groups building he took another good look at it. Half of the roof had fallen, and most of the paint was in the process of peeling. "Good thing my title comes with a good paycheck. Soon we will leave this place, no matter what."
With these words he walled inside to see a note on the kitchen table. He walks to the table and picks up the letter so he can read it…only to awake.
Evan looked at his clock to see that he had waked up at 3:30, and so he decided to stay in bed. 'You know I never got the chance to find out that families name, although that Weiss girl looks like the younger of the two girls. All I know it that soon after that day the parents got into another argument and they left toward home a week earlier.'
Rolling over to see four o'clock coming closer, he went down stairs to start on breakfast, and the morning coffee.
After breakfast
"Hey guys," said Shura as he poked his head from around the corner, "Ruby just text me, and she wants to know if we will be willing to meet her and teams JNPR and TYDY for some, and I quote 'freshman bonding', so who votes to go?" No sooner had he finished Kevin's and Evan's hand raised while Nico just shrugged. "Alright then! ROLL OUT!"
*SLAP*
9:00
Soon after Team SNKE got to the auditorium, both teams RWBY and JNPR steeped in. While Team JNPR looked about normal, for them anyways. Team RWBY was all sorts of messed up, Yang's normally well cared for hair was slightly messy, and her eyes were half closed. Blake looked fine except for the dark rings around her eyes and the fact that her shirt was inside out without her or her team noticing. Weiss's ponytail was done poorly and her outfit looked a bit off. And Ruby was the only member not looking like she just got out of bed.
Right before it looked like the WBY in RWBY where about to fall asleep standing up, the doors to the auditorium crash open with a shout of, "COLA-FUCKEN-BUGA BITCHES!" as an UFP (unidentified flying person(s)) landed face first onto the hard concrete floor.
Only for them to jump up into a 'good-guy' pose, showing that it was the crazy member of team TYDY. Ignoring Ruby's mumblings of, "Why him. Why him" as she got into the fetal position, Evan asked, "Hey Yale, where's the rest of your Motley Crew?"
"YALE METALLICA! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!" shouted a red faced Taupe as he walked through the open doorway. Behind him was an indifferent Yeller and a blushing Dustin and all of them looked like they wouldn't be out of place in a ball hosted by the Schnee's.
Meanwhile while no one was looking Kevin was asking Yale a question. "So, do you dye your hair and wear contacts?" "Do you?" Came his answer. "Well no, I was born this way." Kevin said a little confused. "Well there's your answer, BYE!" Yale said as he ran away from a still pissed Taupe.
5 minutes later
After Taupe finally calmed down, and Pyrrha left because she got a call from her sponsors, they finally all sat around in a circle.
Since she was the one that called this meeting, Ruby spoke first. "Well, I called this meeting so that the freshman years can get to know each other. I called all the team leaders, but only three teams answered." At this she looked at the ground with sadness in her eyes before jumping up with a happy look on her face. "And what a better way to get to know each other than by introductions and weapons? I'll go first, my name is Ruby Rose, and this is Crescent Rose." She said as she stood up and unbound her weapon, into its scythe form. "She's also a customizable high-impact sniper rifle." she said before putting it into gun mode, then away. "So who's next?" she asked as she sat down.
"I'll go," said Weiss
skipping the cannon cast
Taupe started talking as he pulled out his revolvers, "My name is Taupe Floyd, and this is Chaos Burst." He then put them away, and brought out a colt revolver, "And this baby is for the armored Bitches that can't take a hit." He said as he showed the chamber to be a .50 cal. Revolver chamber. And put it up.
Yale Jumped as he pulled out a Machete. "MY NAME IS YALE METALLICA! AND THIS LOVELY LADY IS CARNICERO. CARNICERO MEANS BUTCHER IN SPANISH, SO JUST POINT ME IN A DIRECTION AND I'LL MAKE EVEN THE MOST PERFECT BUTCHER JEALOUS!" He spoke as he swung Carnicero around, before getting tackled and knocked out by Taupe.
Seeing that his other teammate was embarrassed and not caring for the K.O. beside him, Yeller pulled out his Bow, "My name is Yeller Seger, and this is Lièrén, which means Hunter in Chinese (traditional)." He said before putting up his bow and steeping away giving Dustin the stage.
"We-Well, my name is Dustin Aerosmith, my walking stick is my weapon, and it doesn't have a name." he said before hiding behind Yeller.
Seeing that his team were the only ones that haven't gone Shura spoke up, "My name is Shura Kong, and this," he pulled out his glaive and put it into battle mode, "is Wukong."
"Question, are you overcompensating for something there Shura?" asked Yang with a smirk on her face.
"Well why don't you come over here and find out Blondie?" said Shura wiggling his eyebrows.
"MOVING ON! My name is Kevin Snakeroot, and this is Lone Star." Said a blushing? Angry? Kevin as he pulled out his bastard sword, and turned it into a shotgun, "and he's also a SPAS-12." Before sheathing it.
"My name is Evan Thorn, and these are Night Burner." Spoke Evan as he brought out his gauntlets, "These are Gauntlets that can take on the properties of Dust." And put them away.
Nico just unsheathed his wakizashi and began, "My name is Nico Bengal, these are my swords the right one is Kakou, and the left is Kemono. They stand for Fall and Beast respectfully." He then Sheathed them and continued, "They are named as to say 'Fall of the Beast."
By this point Yale had woken up but was a little out of it, "HeHe. Are we talking about *hick* semblances? Mine is Hard light constructions *hick*" before passing out again.
If anything Ruby became even more excited and began speaking, "THAT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA, Now I'll go first and we will go in the order from last time…..
Skipping to OC's (ya'll know their semblances)
"Well," began Taupe, "My semblance is basically a danger sense, I can sense danger before it happens and where it is coming from, but I can't tell what it is or how dangerous it is, also it is always active."
"I have Photo-kinesis, and I mainly use it to give myself arrows. My light acts like a fire in the sense that it burns at the touch."
"M-My Semblance it the ability to make wind blades, that is how I mainly fight, they are able to cut through most material that I try out."
Shura decided to give a practical example and set his coat on fire, freaking out all but his team who had already seen this, "My Semblance allows me to absorb fire to increase my strength, speed, stamina, and durability, and it gives me a high-speed healing factor." He said as his coat was still on fire, before absorbing it, "I'm also immune to fire as a result."
Disappointed in the fact that he couldn't show off Kevin started talking, "My semblance allows me to know where everyone is and what they are doing within a range of myself, I can even feel a bullet as it enters my range and can react to it almost instantly." He said with pride, before going sour, "It also can never be turned off."
Chuckling Evan activated his semblance, and became all but invisible, "My semblance allows me to Camouflage myself to the point that if you didn't know I was there to begin with you couldn't tell the difference." Everyone followed his voice before he went silent and appeared behind Ruby, which was 10 feet away from his last known position, "Boo!" he said making all of team RWBY, JNPR, and TYDY jump, before taking his seat.
Not one to be outdone, Nico too activated his semblance, and punched the floor…. Only for his hand to go through it without damaging the floor. "My semblance gives me intangibility, I can still feel my body, and can move and interact, but all attacks go through me, and all my attacks go through my opponent."
First day of class
After a week full of getting to know each other, the campus, and other students, it was finally the first day of class. They had just gotten up from the table, and where getting ready when Shura's Scroll went off to "Through the Fire and Flames" by Dragonforce.
"Yes, what is it Uncle?"….. "Really? He'll bring his fleet, as well as specialist Schnee and you?"… "Of course I'm not insulting your fighting capabilities. After all they are just as good as your ability to get a girl pregnant. How many kids do you have now? 7? 8?"…. "See what I mean? You have 10 kids that you know of, that at the very least is a skill not many have and even fewer want." …. "Bye." CLICK
Kevin, being the only one dressed and ready, asked the question on everyone's mind, "Who was that? And what was that about?"
Shura sighed before he too finished and sat down, "That was my Uncle Shu Kong, and he is an Atlas military Specialist. As for what that was about, well his boss decided that in order to bring the Amity Coliseum to Vale he needs to bring the whole damn military and two Specialists."
By this point Nico was done and Evan only had on his shirt, pants, belt, and shoes. "Yes, but what about that last bit?"
"Well my uncle is kind of a womanizer, and I am willing to bet all my money on him having a different girl in his bed every night."
"FUCK IT! KEVIN COME HELP WITH THIS TIE!"
5 minutes later
They got several looks while going to class, the first thing the other students noticed was that Evan didn't bother to get dressed past the tie and that he still wear his green cloak and necklace, and Shura's tail was no longer hidden, so it was swaying behind him as he walked.
Shura looked up to admire the sky when he saw a red curtain be cut horizontally. Paying no mind he continued to Professor Ports class, as he read his schedule he noticed something, 'Why do we have two Doctors as teachers?'
Ports class
It was near the end of class and all of team SNKE had different reactions. Shura was interested and had taken notes all throughout Professor Ports story, Nico was meditating while still listening, Kevin had cracked open the textbook and was reading about different types of Grimm, and Evan was reading a book that he had borrowed from Blake the day before.
"The moral of this story? A true huntsman must be honorable. A true huntsman must be dependable. A true huntsman must be strategic, well-educated, and wise! So who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?"
Instantly Weiss's hand flew into the air as she said, "I do sir!"
"Well then let's find out. Step forward, and face your opponent."
Skip battle
"Now then, seeing as we have enough time for another battle, who else believes in themselves?" Port Said as he looked around the room before his eyes set on someone, "Mr. Snakeroot, why don't you come down here and give it a try?"
Shrugging his shoulders, Kevin walked down to the main floor and called his locker. When his locker got there he grabbed his coat, shield and Lone Star before sending it back. Facing the other cage in the room he nodded towards Port, who opened the gate.
What stepped out of the gate was an Alfa Beowulf. The beast wasted no time rushing the seemingly easy prey, only for Kevin to sidestep it and slice it in half in one swing.
"HO HO. It appears that we are in the presence of a true hunter in training, and perhaps even closer to being a hunter than we think. But I'm afraid that will be all for the day. Be sure to cover the assigned readings and remember, STAY VIGILANT. CLASS DISMISSED."
After they left his class they stopped by the locker room to put Kevin's stuff back before heading to Dr. Oobleck's class. During the class they all started reading from the textbook due to his quick speech.
After his class they went to Dr. Pence's class titled Dust Studies.
When they entered the room they could tell that this teacher would be strict. Along all the walls of the room were pictures of different dust types, what they do, and how they are made. In the actual room itself were 3 seating areas with a walkway between each section, and in the direct center of the front of the room sat the Doctor himself at his desk. Dr. Pence looked to be in his 50's with grey hair in a buzz cut and wearing a grey business suit with a brown satchel bag full of something. His desk held a glass case full of dust crystals with labels telling what they were, it also had 2 stacks of paper, one stack was at the edge of the desk, and while the other was in front of him with a pen in hand it looked like he was grading them.
After everyone had arrived and the bell had rung, Dr. Pence finally put down his pen and looked up, staring his cold grey eyes into everyone else's making them feel like he was staring into their soul.
In a strict voice on would expect to hear from a military officer, he spoke. "In this class I will teach you how to use and identify different dust types, from using lightning dust to power your house, to using fire dust to explode a Grimm horde. That is of course hoping at least a quarter of you aren't as stupid as you look." During his speech he had stood up and walked to the front of his desk and finished looking at Jaune and Team CRDL. He then started to call role until he got to Pyrrha's name, "Pyrrha Nikos, our recent….. Celebrity. I hope you don't expect your fame to pass this class for you." And moved on only to raise his eyes at reading who was in Team SNKE.
End of class
It was the end of class and the bell was about to ring for lunch. "RRRIIIINNNNGGGGG!"
"Class dismissed, Mr. Thorn please stay behind."
Telling his team to go on to the cafeteria for lunch, Evan walked up to the desk and stood in front of it waiting for Dr. Pence to speak.
"Now Mr. Thorn, I will be direct and say that I was a good friend of your father, and I believe you were never told how he died am I correct?" he said as he raised his eyebrow at the end.
"No sir, my mother told me she would tell me when I was older, but she never got the chance." Evan spoke with his head bowed.
At this Dr. Pence stood up and walked to the back wall, staring at a picture of a purple crystal titled 'Gravity Dust'. "15 years ago we got sent on a mission to the jungles in the uninhabited part of mistral. We had been getting strange stories of a new Grimm species in the area, and our team had been sent to track it down, and if possible, destroy it.
Dr. Sam Pence
He was dressed in his military camo uniform (think of the U.S Marines) and was in a helicopter, to his left was Jon Thorn, he too was In uniform. Jon's hazel eyes were both focused and excited as his wife had given birth to his daughter a few days earlier, his build, while not overly muscular, was still buff. In front of him was Odin Valkyrie, the man was also in uniform with a small ginger mustache and goatee. His single blue eye full of loneliness since his wife died and his daughter was kidnapped at birth. His left eye was covered by an eye-patch, and his build could put a bodybuilder to same. And finally beside Odin was Alex Pine, his eyes covered by a pair of sunglasses, and his lean build misguiding his strength.
As they landed they each grabbed the standard assault rifle and pistol, plus their own weapons. For Sam this was his collapsible longsword named Riesentöter*. Jon grabbed a pair of missile launching gauntlets, Odin grabbed a spear, and hammer, and Alex put on a belt of throwing knifes infused with burn dust.
They walked through the forest until they came to a lake, deciding to rest they set up camp while Sam stood guard. Then it happened so fast he barely had time to jump out of the way from being swallowed whole as a snake like Grimm with spikes on its mask and back lunged at him, failing to eat him whole, but taking his right leg from the knee down, and getting a face full of explosives from Jon.
Sadly that was not enough as it just turned around and lunged again, Jon, Alex and Odin unloaded rounds onto its thick hide as it drew closer before they jumped out of the attack and threw away their rifles. Jon ran towards Sam and started administering first aid, and activating an emergency S.O.S.
Meanwhile Odin and Alex were both fighting the Grimm, Alex soon learned that all his knifes would bounce off its skin, and Odin's spear was snapped by the beast when it chomped down on it. Seeing his spear was broke Odin charged in with his hammer raised high….. And got eaten whole. Seeing this Alex ran over to help get Sam up to hopefully outrun it. But as he got halfway it lunged and took off his entire upper half.
Seeing he was the last one standing the Grimm stared down Jon before smacking him through the air using its tail that was hidden in the bushes the whole time. It then struck into his torso killing him slowly.
Before it could turn to kill him, the sound of an airship engine drove it to diving into the lake. And all Sam saw after that was black.
"When I woke up, I was the last survivor. Soon after I quit the military and got a doctrine in Dust and became a teacher. I was also to give it a name, I chose 'Ragnarok'."
Hearing this Evan's fist balled up before relaxing. "So why even tell me this? After all you basically just gave me a reason not to like you."
Hearing this made Dr. Pence smirk, "Because I'm hoping that when you cross this Grimm, you kill it for all the lives it has taken and destroyed. And to answer your second statement, you're too much like your father to hate someone for events out of their control. Now if that is all I believe you have the rest of the day to enjoy." And like that Evan walked out of class, and for the first time in years felt a sense of purpose.
A few weeks later
It had been a few weeks and all of team SNKE had settled in, but they had noticed something off with Jaune. Lately he had stopped going to the weekly "Freshman Get-togethers" held by team RWBY, and he had begun hanging out with team CRDL even though just a few days before they had been at each other's throats.
"Well, we have the field trip to Forever Falls tomorrow; we can always corner Cardin and force him to tell us what he's done to make Jaune his bitch. Then if he has done something we kick his ass." Stated Evan above the shouting match between Kevin and Shura over what the best food in the world is. "Those fools, everyone knows the food of Oum is Neapolitan Ice-Cream."
"Well anyways seeing as we have a long day tomorrow, we better get some sleep." Said Nico as he walked up the stairs, not caring for the fight below him. "Those baka's, the true food of Oum is brownies." And soon after they all fell asleep.
Evan
It was the day after he had become King, and true to his word in front of him where three fresh graves. The one on the left read simply 'Balrog Bison, a worthy opponent'. The one in the middle read, 'Forest, a truly loyal friend'. And the last one to the right read, 'Sarah Thorn, the greatest little sister in the world'.
As he was on his knees crying for the loss of his last living family, he failed to notice a figure walking up to him. He stopped crying as he felt a hand touch his shoulder and he looked up to see his teacher with a sad smile on his face, and a thousand yard stare in his eyes.
"You know kid, it does get better with time, and many people have their own coping mechanisms. But I have to ask, what will you do now? After all the only reason you wanted to be king is now buried." He asked with concern in his voice and hope in his eyes.
Evan just faced his sisters grave and spoke with determination, "I'll leave, and take my title with me. And one day, when I'm strong enough, I will rip this organization apart and leave no survivors." After saying his fist clenched.
His teacher just sighed before walking to tree and picking up a suitcase and a nodachi sword. The sword was in a green sheath and had a handle wrapped in green cloth and a Black Hand Guard in the shape of a 4 leaf clover. Evan knew that sword very well as it had been his friends before he died, and thus he knew that if one was to unsheathe the blade they would see a green wind dust infused blade.
"As you can see your friend left you his sword, your sister however put your gift in the suitcase." Automatically taking the suitcase from his hands the opened it to show Sarah's necklace*, a green cloak, and two bracelets. He automatically put the necklace and cloak on, but looked confused on why their where bracelets.
His teacher cleared his throat before speaking, "From what I understand the cloak has metal strands woven into the fabric, and the reason behind this was two-fold. Reason one is the simple fact that it is a good defense against blades and other non-bludgeoning weapons. And two is that you can activate a metal lock on your bracelets making so you can potently glide long distances."
Nodding his head Evan put on the bracelets, and faced his teacher. "If I am to defeat this organization I need to be strong, so please train me harder than ever, and don't stop until you feel I am ready."
He just laughs and made a come with motion. "From this day until I'm finished with you, you will call me Tedd-Sensei."
Evan for the first time since coming to beacon wake up without a cold sweat. "This calls for a drink."
Soon after if on was to look in his room they would question how he keep downing a bottle of whisky as fast as he was, and why he was drinking at 3:00 in the morning anyways.
Jaune
After the whole class was in the airship, Jaune noticed Evan had a faraway look in his eyes and went to see why….. Only to be blocked by Kevin who had a hunted look on his face. "Don't, we found him this morning with bottles all over his room and crying for someone named Sarah. I think it's best to leave him be for now." He said before walking away.
Shrugging Jaune walked away as well and sat down next to Cardin earning him a look from teams RWBY and TYDY, a worried look from team JNPR, and a stoney look from the aware members of SNKE.
Team SNKE
Shura was currently looking at Jaune setting next to Cardin who was holding a box of something and glaring at Pyrrha. But before his curiosity got ahold of him Ms. Goodwitch gave them the speech about the what, where, and how to do their mission, and soon after they landed.
Kevin then grabbed a mostly unresponsive Evan and drug him toward a tree with Nico and Shura behind him and started to gather the sap. "So, Shura do we go after Cardin before or after we turn in our jars?"
"After." Shura said with a look of indifference on his face, "This way we will have finished our mission and nothing will interfere to the point that we have to start over." "Fair enough."
At the airship
They had just put up the jars of sap when they heard a roar from a Grimm and a member of team CRDL yelling about an Ursa. Instantly they all ran towards the sound, even the until then unresponsive Evan who had snapped out of it with the roar, and was now looking for a fight.
When they got there it was to see Jaune start walking away and an Ursa Major on the ground missing a head. But as he got to the tree line and Cardin started to move, a group of 10 Ursa Minors walked into the clearing, and Evan suddenly disappeared in a burst of speed, appearing before the group of Grimm and slamming his bare fist into the first one's head making it go flying backwards so hard it was desentigrading before it hit the ground. "WHO'S NEXT?!" Evan yelled as he charged the small group and proceeded to kill them all as his team, Cardin, and Jaune all watched in Shock of how quick he was to go from unresponsive to an unstoppable killing machine.
The first Grimm Evan engaged died by a headshot, beheading it. The second and third ones died by having their heads slammed together with enough force to crush the other upon impact. The fourth and fifth Ursa charged him, both swigging their claws to cut down this new threat. Only for them to notice they no longer had the arms they swung with connected to them, and instead they had their own arms through their torsos. the sixth through eighth ones also charged directly behind the last group only for Evan to grab number six by its neck and use it as a shield from the other two's attacks, killing it. He then used the reminder of the ursa as a club to beat them to death before it disappeared. The last one seemed to be a little on the heavy side and more plaiting and size then a normal Ursa, but not enough to be called and Major. It seemed to study Evan and its pack before charging. When it got within striking distance it stood up on its hind legs and prepared to strike, only for Evan's Bare hand to go through its chest were its heart would be and killed it instantly.
After the show Jaune was in too much awe to say anything and Cardin just said, "Remind me never to piss him off, ever."
Without looking his way Jaune replied, "I think it's too late for that"
*GULP*
A few weeks later
We tune in to see most of team SNKE in their usual dress except for Shura who, for a reason not even he knew of, was wearing a red and black suit.
It was the Friday before fall break and the team was going to the port to board a ship to vale for the rest of the day when they ran into team RWBY.
Shura, seeing his fellow team leader, spoke first, "So little red, why are you going to vale?"
"Well Weiss wants to look at the Vytal Festival preparations, and something else she hasn't told us. What about you." She asked with her cocked to the side and her eyes wide. (AN: aawwwwww. Wait, you weren't supposed to see this.)
Shura chuckled before answering the question from the adorable girl. "Well, seeing as we have a week off, and almost none of us have been in the main city of Vale, we have decided to go sightseeing. And no we will not go with you as we would like to find our own way around."
Ruby pouted but nodded her head and waved goodbye while walking away before freezing and looking behind Shura.
When Shura turn around he saw a sight that would make all other men in the school jealous because of what he was seeing. Standing there with a blush on her face was Velvet dressed in a (please put color of choose here Sam) party dress with matching heels and her hair (put style here as well Sam).
As a blush entered his face Evan walked over. "I hope you don't mind but I set you up with a date with 'that cute upperclassman' you like. So what do you think?"
"I think I owe you three tubs of Neapolitan Ice-cream. Thank-you Evan."
"No problem boss, now go on that date we can find our way around ourselves. Now go get em' monkey."
"Right after you, you overgrown ape."
They just laughed before they went different directions, one with a beautiful bunny faunas to an airship to the nicer part of Vale. And the other becoming the temporary leader of the team leading them toward a more sight-seeing part of vale.
When they landed none of them were impressed as it was the port they had entered to go to beacon. "Well how are we going to do this?" asked Kevin as he raised his eyebrow. Evan just chuckled, "Well I was thinking of letting you piss-poor direction skills to get lost and then start our sightseeing."
Kevin just frowned, "That's not nice, but," He said before smiling, "how much you want to bet the boss-man will be doing a different kind of sightseeing after his date?" Only to get double slapped on the head
"HEY, IT COULD HAPPEN!"
"BAKA! / PERVERT!"
1 hour later
True to his word, less than an hour after they had followed Kevin they were lost. However that was 15 minutes ago, and right now they were listening to a skinny, well-dressed man playing a violin in the street with children and adults all round. And the sound of the violin and the man's voice was enough to entrap them in place
After the piece was done and everyone else had left, they approached him. Nico was oddly enough the first to speak, "So what was that last song called?" The man relied in a soft gentleman-like voice, "The last piece I played is titled "Come Little Children" and yes while the song does sound a little creepy, the kids love to hear me play it, and the parents don't mind, as long as I keep the more, disturbing, songs away from them."
Nice just blinked, "I see, thank you for the information. My names Nico Bengal." He said sticking his hand out to shake hands. The stranger took his hand and spoke, "Jack Nickleson, nice to meet you." After releasing his hand he tipped his top-hat and gave a good-bye and headed down the street violin case in hand.
"Well that was a thing."
Later that night
As it turned out Kevin had done his job to well, as the last bulkhead had most likely left the station by now, and they were still stuck in downtown Vale. And despite this Kevin was still trying to lead.
"I'm telling you, this alley will take us to the port."
The other two just looked at him, then at the absolute darkness of the alley. And Evan spoke, "Kevin if we went down there we would most likely be mugged." Then Kevin's face got a puzzled look on it. "Hey, guys, less than five seconds ago this alley was empty, and now two figures just appeared out of no wear.
It was then they heard the sound of a crying child, before a scream and the sound of blood hitting the wall, and if one was to look some of it even made it out of the darkness.
Not wasting any time they ran in to hopefully save a child, but when they got there the child looked horrible. He was badly starved and injured, his clothes wear mere rags, and the five claw marks on his chest was deep enough to show ripped organs and broken bones.
All of a sudden a maniac's laughter filled the alley as an average height man walked out of the shadows. The man wear a white mask with a giant grin on his face and long nose and some questionable dress (think of Laughing Jack's clothing and appearance) and on his gloves were the finger claws still wet with blood.
The maniac kept laughing before starting to melt into a shadow and saying in a harsh high-pitched tone of voice, "Remember my name hunters, remember the name of LAUGHING JACK." "ZAHAHAHAHAHA"
1 hour later
They had finally made it to the port, and were lucky enough to catch one of the last airships of the night.
As soon as they landed they all sprinted towards Ozpin's office, not noticing a certain pare they ran by. When they got to the office and barged in, only to see Ozpin speaking to Ms. Goodwitch, and someone on his scroll.
"My, my. May I ask why three of my best students just barged into my office out of breath, and looking like you saw someone get killed?"
Evan being the least out of breath, spoke for them all, "Sir, that is because we have."
At this Ozpin lost his smirk and the humorous look in his eyes as his face hardened, and Ms. Goodwitch's eyes got wide.
Ozpin then put the other person on hold and spoke in a stony voice, "Tell me everything from start to finish."
And that's a wrap.
Ok so we have finally met the first antagonist of this story. Before anyone asks, yes I know that him being a child killer using claws is based off of Freddy, speaking of Freddy Laughing Jack has a lot in common with him. Also I know that compared to the prologue the Ursa fight wasn't as impressive, I would like to point out that now where did I say he drew Night Burner, so he killed 10 Ursa with his bare hands….. badass. Oh and here's an omake.
Omake: When they got Home
When the remaining members of team SNKE go to their house, all they heard were moans of pleasure coming from the kitchen. They all just decided to ignore whatever was going on in there and just go to bed when they heard a female voice say, "You like that don't you Shura."
They all had different reactions for Evan he swear to never cook in that kitchen again. For Nico he was just surprised that Shura worked so fast, but considering who his uncle was he decided he must have learn from him. Kevin just wished he was in Shura's shoes, only with Yang instead of Velvet.
After unfreezing Evan and Nico go upstairs to sleep while Kevin went to sneak a peek. When he looked in he saw them seating at the table with Shura eating a banana spit, and Velvet eating a piece of carrot cake. Shrugging his shoulders he too went upstairs never noticing that they had smirks on their faces and their clothes were wrinkly.
*- German for "Giant Slayer"
Also here's another theme song
Laughing Jack: Come Little Children- Katethegreat19 (youtube)
