Happy New Years! Time for me to upload this and go laugh my butt off at work while everyone else complains about headaches.
WARNING: IMPLIED MATURE CONTENT. LOTS OF BLOOD AND DEATH. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
I do not own RWBY or anything else that happens to be in this story.
"Speaking"
'Reading'
Flashback
'Thinking'
News Report
"Sign Language"
Licensed to Kill
Evan
Evan woke to a weight on his chest and the sound of his scroll going off. Ignoring the scroll he looked down to see Neo's head on his chest while trying to wrap him in a hug.
"Neo, time to get up." he said in a soft voice not many would even think he could pull off. But all it did was make her snuggle against him more.
"Neo, if you get off you can have ice cream for breakfast." he continued, and that got her attention as she stiffened, most likely debating on if it was worth it, before lifting herself off Evan along with the covers and walking tiredly to get dressed for the day as Evan chuckled.
"Well someone's eager for breakfast." he said before looking at his scroll, showing the text from Shura asking where he was.
"Who wouldn't be happy when they have ice cream for breakfast" she signed back after settling on wearing Evan's vest. "I was going to wear that."
"Not anymore, besides you look better without the vest"
"Your just saying that because you enjoy the view."
"I enjoy more than the view, now I believe I was promised ice cream." came her response before walking out teasingly.
"Oum damnit, I love that woman." came the intelligent words from his fried brain.
After Ice Cream
"So Neo, you still have a foot in the underground. Have you heard anything weird going on lately?" Evan Asked, only to get a frown and a thinking pose from her before she started signing away.
"Well to start off, Torchwick has recently hired me until the end of the festival. The fighting ring has finally taken back its former glory amongst the other businesses and gangs after what happened a few years ago. Raven's bandits have moved to Mistral. And the biggest shocker is that Mistral's Jeff the Reaper and Vacuo's Nina the Reaper have came to Vale for some reason."
"I'm not going to bug you about Torchwick, just please be careful about him, but there is one question I feel must be asked. Are you ready for round two?" he asked only to be dragged back into the bedroom to continue were they ended last night.
Next Day
It was surprisingly easy to sneak back into Beacon early before classes except for the fact that he was being glared at by someone that looked a lot like him.
From the angle Evan could see the guy was about his height with red hair spiked in every direction and tanned skin, but the imitation started with the clothes. He wear no shirt with only a Yin-Yang necklace around his neck, red cargo pants, black combat boots, and a tattered green cloak around himself.
Evan had about had enough of the glaring when the guys teammates came into view. The leader of the new crew stood only at five foot seven, and was a little crazy about the color red as he was wearing red trousers, a red shirt, and he topped it off with black; shoes, belt, vest, and gloves. As he walked towards his teammate he raked his hand through his short, brown hair before lighting a cigar.
The person after his looked like he hasn't seen much outdoors due to his pale skin and silver hair. He was just taller than the red guy with hair styled back and to his shoulders. As he walked his high collared trench coat opened to show a blue shirt underneath, along with silver pants with a black belt holding two shortswords, and black hiking boots. He turned back while flipping a coin while yelling out "Hey Mavve hurry up will ya, Eran's about to start something if he's alone any longer!"
"I'm coming! Give me a minute." came a response as the newly named Mavve came around the corner messing with machinery. He was by far the tallest of the four standing a good three inches taller than Eran, and with his blonde hair greased up and with the grey mechanic's jumpsuit on with the upper part down showing his white undershirt while also making his black utility belt barely visible from the upper part of the suit while his eyes were covered by grey goggles, and his hands protected from the sparks coming from the device by black gloves while also wearing heavy worker boots.
After a short little talk amongst themselves Evan had already gotten up from his seat and walked over.
"So, I couldn't help but notice you lot being new here."
"Ahhh, that's because we are late arrivals Mr?" asked the red man while blowing a puff of smoke.
"Thorn, Evan Thorn."
"Cassy Weed, nice to meet you." came his response before puffing another smoke, "Please don't mind the name, however unfortunate it is. Oh where's our manners, as you now know my name is Cassy Weed, I am the leader of team CMEL from Vacuo. The silver swordsman here is Lapis Silver, our resident mechanic is Mavve Gras, and our green giant is Eran Yin.
"Well it's nice to meet you," Evan said as he extended his hand and the Airship landed. "I hope you have a nice time here, but I will advise you to keep your own green giant on a lease. That is if you want him to survive the tournament."
Cassy just looked at his hand before taking another puff of smoke and turning to walk away, "I'll keep that in mind, come now time to find our dorm." The rest of his team followed shortly but not before Eran gave Evan another glare.
'That Erin character looks too much like me to not know me, and that would explain the glaring. Oh well, I better get to the house if the text from Shura is real'
As he walked off the airship he pulled out his scroll to look at the message.
'Come back. Ozpin has finally held up his end of the deal.'
Ozpin's Office
Team SNKE
After Evan got back and multiple questions on where he had been, they finally made it to his office to find Ozpin in his normal place drinking from the ever present coffee cup, and Dr. Pence standing next to him in his normal attire.
"What are the mission parameters?" asked Shura asked after a few sips of coffee went through their headmasters lips.
"Ah yes, well Dr. Pence will be the one accompanying you on this mission. Now as for the parameters, this is a search and destroy mission. You are to hunt down the killer known as Laughing Jack, and kill him and all his allies." and there goes the coffee again.
"So let me get this straight," said Evan as he crossed his arms, "From now until the end of this mission we are licensed to kill any and everyone that allied themselves with Jack, and Laughing Jack himself?"
"Yes, that would do quite nicely." was the response, and another go at the mug.
While Ozpin was drinking his coffee, Evan was rubbing his hands together before Kevin slapped him upside the head.
"Now as I said Dr. Pence shall be with you on this mission. Now if you are fast enough you might make it back for the other freshman's' first missions tomorrow." another gulp, does this man ever run out of coffee? Answer: no, because he's Ozpin.
"You are dismissed, meet up at the docks in one hour." and with that everyone except Ozpin and Dr. Pence left the room.
"Have you read the files I have given you?" Ozpin asked looking at said files on his scroll.
"Of course, but I still can't believe that they tamed that grimm. I mean the chances of one even existing are almost impossible." he answered before looking at a picture of a humanoid grimm.
"Not impossible, improbable yes, but not impossible."
"Well, I better go get the kiddies ready for a road trip, wonder how long it would take them to realize that this is more dangerous than they think." and with that Dr. Pence walked out the door.
Docks
The doctor was waiting for them at the docks and took notice of the new accessories each member had added to their normal outfits.
Shura had several fire dust crystals on the inside of his duster that was only visible due to the obvious weighing down of the cloth. Nico had changed the most now sporting a black headband with his symbol etched in red holding back his longer hair, and a pouch strapped to his right leg with the medic cross on the front. Kevin had added a simple gun belt running diagonally across his torso filled with shotgun shells. And Evan had only strapped a combat knife to his belt and wrapped his hands up with white medical tape.
"Well, if I was anyone else I would ask why you have all this artillery, but I would say the forest accident." where the words out of his mouth, although he too had pulled out the stops if the sword on his own belt said anything.
"Yes sir." they all said while snapping into a salute.
"Very well, as you know the serial killer known to the masses as Laughing Jack has kept his killing spree even after death, so either the one you all killed the first time was a fake, survived the unsurvivable, or had an accomplice. We can easily rule out the survival part, and due to your first hand experience he had the same semblance so he couldn't have been a fake. That leaves there being another killer. Do any of you have anything else to report? And for Oum's sake stop with those salutes before I slap them off."
Evan quickly got out of the salute before thinking about that morning, "Sir, this morning I got word that Mistral's Jeff the Reaper and Vacuo's Nina the Reaper have moved to town for some reason unknown to my informant."
All Sam did at this information was nod his head and pulled out a folder from his satchel and flipping through it until he stopped at a specific page.
"We have reason to believe that the original Laughing Jack was a man by the name of Adam Nickleson, and the most recent killer is his younger brother Jack Nickleson, married to Jane Nickleson, who is a suspect in the Jane the Reaper murders five years ago, brother of Jeffrey and Nina Nickleson, also suspected to be Jeff the Reaper and Nina the Reaper respectively. None of them are expected to have aura but that is a possibility, Nina and Jeff have been stated to have no eyelids, a slit mouth, and extremely pale skin, with Jeff being an alcoholic."
At the end of the info dump halve of team SNKE had gaping mouths and wide eyes while Evan took a swig and Nico raised an eyebrow, "So you mean to say the one person that seemed the most suspicious since the beginning is the killer who has three others with him each of them being a hit or miss on if they have aura or not?"
"No, what I'm telling you is he has a whole crime family behind him and other reports state of a strong Grimm being in the building of the family. And before you raise a fuss about Grimm not being able to be contained, this one has been for a while."
Finally getting out of his shock of a seemingly nice and grieving man was a killer and smacking Shura's mind out of some kind of gutter if the droll was anything to go on, Kevin summed up their mission pretty well, "We are royally fucked aren't we?"
Old Vale
As they walked, or rather crept through the Old part of Vale, unlike downtown or uptown Vale, this place was neither falling apart or kept modern and easy on the eyes. Most of the area was covered by houses and closed shops with a factory nearby giving the area a grayish look. All of the folks in the houses where of the older bunch and closed of their houses as they passed.
"You'd think these folks have never seen a hunter before." came out of Kevin's mouth after the tenth house locked their doors and closed the curtains.
"Well for most they haven't because there isn't a reason for on to be this deep in Vale, so they probably think we are a new gang looking for a fight." and another swig from the flask, "Trust me those are more common here then any other part of Vale due to how easy it is to boss older people around compared to say, some big time CO of a successful company. These people have came to terms with this and live according to that fact."
"But Evan," this one came from Shura, "couldn't they move more towards the other parts of vale?"
"JAHAHAHA, you're funny there are three reasons as to why they don't move anywhere else, reason one is this is their livelihood, they have lived here their entire life why change that? Reason two is all the new gangs in this area are weak and soft compared to the gangs in downtown Vale. and the reason they don't go uptown is due to the lien, or rather lack of lien."
"Hush you three, we are here." came the oldest persons voice as they stopped in front of a two story house with bars on the windows and chipping paint. (Imagine the Elm Street House with the above additions)
"So who wants to knock on the door?" and as one they stared at Kevin until Evan stepped forward.
"Well, it's only polite to knock before entering a house." as he went up the steps cracking his knuckles, before getting to the door and punching it in, sending it flying through the air slamming into a pale male's face and shattering on impact.
"Oi that hurt you asshole! By the way what gives you the right to bust into my brothers house like that!" came the man's cries as his face fixed itself at an insane pace with pieces of wood popping out of his skin, and his nose fixing itself within that sentence.
"This one's mine." came the green giant's voice before charging pulling out his knife as duel hunting knives dropped into Jeffs hands from his sleeves, "YES LET'S DANCE!"
"Come on, our objective is Jack." came Sam's voice as he and the others came across the stairs. "Nico you take upstairs, Kevin and Shura with me downstairs."
Nico
Nico made his way up the stairs before dodging a knife swipe from the top of the stairs.
"Come forward my prince, then you can finally go to sleep." came the voice of a deranged girl before his eyes adjusted to the dark lighting to see a stitched up insane smile staring at him with a bloody hunting knife clutched in her hands. Although the most disturbing part of the picture was the moaning body of a man crucified and slashed open. "Come forward my prince, your sleep awaits. TEHEHE"
Kevin
Kevin had the unfortunate short straw of fighting the beautiful serial killer. She like all the others had a hunting in her hand while her unseeing black eyes stared at him.
"So you did figure out our existence, and here I thought you lot where a bunch of idiots and now I have to face the pervert" she said before dodging a bullet from his gun. "Temper, temper young man. Who would dare love such a perverted trigger-happy boy like you?"
"I AIN'T NO PERVERT YOU BITCH!" he yelled before emptying out his ammo, which she danced around, and going full sword and lightning.
Shura
After leaving Kevin behind in the main room of the basement they followed a tunnel until they came across a clearing in which where about fifty random members of the family with knives and other weapons, a cage in the wall with most of the inside shadowing everything in it, and Jack Nickleson with a feather scarf and the mask in his hands.
"Good evening gentleman, I hope you found our welcoming party fruitful. Now if you will excuse me my men have been needing a little fun." and with that being said he put on the mask and the fifty people rushed toward them.
Nico
It had been a few minutes of trying to time his semblance correctly while also attempting to attack his opponent, who was always just slightly off from where he would see her. And the moaning from the man had ceased.
"How are you always slightly off from my sight." he asked himself as he got cut yet again from a mistimed use of his semblance.
"Tehehe, Oh my sweat sweat prince. Don't you remember my semblance allows me to tweak what you see? All that means is you are in need of a good sleep. Come here my prince!" she call the last part as she lunged at him.
'Alright if she affects sight, then what about my other senses?' While thinking this he made himself go intangible before covering his eyes with his headband.
"Oh my sweet prince. Why do you hide your eyes? Such beautiful hazel eyes." a swoosh of wind and one slice later ended her speech forever, before uncovering his eyes.
"Finally, did you ever shut-up?" he said as he sheathed his blade and walking down the stairs to find a giant hole through the house into the basement.
"Evan's having fun." and with that he jumped down the hole ready to finish the mission.
Kevin
It was several attacks in when Kevin realized what was happening.
"WHAT THE FUCK, WHY DOES EVERYONE ELSE START GAINING SEMBLANCES LIKE MINE?!"
"Oh, you seem to have some form of brain in that head of yours if you have managed to figure out my electric field." and that was when the ceiling collapsed on top of her with a cry of, "YOU GO TO SLEEP!"
When the dust cleared on top of the ruble was Evan with his fist still out, "I was getting real tired of your mouth."
"Damnit Evan, I could have taken her!"
"Hehe, nice punch there green." came the man's voice as he stood up from the rubble with multiple quickly fading bruises, a mostly broken jaw, and a piece of rebar through his stomach.
'How the hell is he still standing?'
"Hehe, I love that look on your face as." and his sentence was stopped with a bang as a slug made its home in his chest.
"You talk too much. Oh and Evan that was for taking out my opponent." he said as they walked away neither noticing as Jane attempted to escape until Nico dropped down. And with a quick stop the issue was solved.
Shura
One of the first things they did was each throw a red dust crystal in the crowd taking out the majority of them, shaking the room, and setting fire to everything.
"Damn, y'all are scary when left alone." came Kevin's voice from the tunnel as the rest of the team walked into the room.
"Well I didn't feel like taking all of them on." Shura said as Sam pulled out a blue dust crystal to put out the fire.
"You think we got em' doc.?"
"If we didn't get all of them, then we got most of them."
"You killed them. You killed my men." came the weak voice of Jack as he stood next to the cage. "Now you can face the secret weapon of the Nickleson Family. BEHOLD SLENDERMAN!"
When the gates opened out walked a tall human like grim with no face and wearing a full business suit. As it walked out it looked at everyone before grabbing Jack by the head and throwing him behind everyone else until he hit the wall.
"Well I will repeat what I said earlier, we are fucked."
End
Slenderman Slenderman
You are fucking overpowered.
Hey everybody, before you decide to go off on me, I do have a disclaimer. Yes Jeff the Killer, Nina the Killer, and Jane the Killer all showed up in this chapter and died. Jack is not dead yet, but he will die next chapter.
Fact Sheet #5
Name- Solomon Steel
Age- 21
Height- 6 feet 6 inches
Eye Color- Metallic Grey
Hair Color- White
Hairstyle- Short and with beard
Body Type- ripped
Skin Tone- Tan
Clothes- a red mantle with white fur and a golden eagle with spread wings on the back, a red tank top, red metal gauntlets and bracers, a pair of red cargo pants, a black belt holding a sword scabbard, and a pair of black combat boots
Aura Color- Crimson
Semblance Name- Time Zone
Semblance- Changing others perception of time
Weapon - falchion with red handle, golden lion head pommel, and gold spread eagle handguard
Weapon abilities- normal sword
Weapon Name- Griffin
Race- human
Team- STEL
position- leader
Favorite Food- Baked Potato
Theme Music- For the Glory- All Good Things
Omake:
"Why are we doing this again?" asked Nico as Vale's giant ball dropped.
If one was to look around the room they'd see Evan taking any excuse to drink, while everyone else watched the tv.
"Because it is tradition to stay awake until after midnight."
"This is going to be a long night" he sighed before looking at the tv again.
'A really long night.'
End
You all have a happy new year. Wanna hear a secret? I literally had focused so much on another story about midway through this, so from the Ozpin mission scene to this has been done on new years eve.
Nickleson Family- What Lies Beneath- Breaking Benjamin
Cassy Weed- Ring of Fire- Krewella
Mavve Gras- Till I Collapse- Eminem
Eran Yin- Memories- One Ok Rock
Lapis Silver- Get Out Alive- Three Days Grace