Slayer: Back again! However thanks to real life problems updates were incredibly slow for the last seven weeks.
Shadow: You mean slower than what they were?
Slayer: Shush you! Anyway today we see the aftermath of the fight. Although Neos has gone who knows where.
Zach: Right when we need him to…
Slayer: Oh come on good old righty! You don't need his extra appendages.
Zach: I'm seriously going to kill you.
Blake: I can go along with that plan.
Slayer: Ha! Too bad I control everything! Including what you say right now!
Zach: Well how about Radioactive rubber pants!? …. Curse you!
Slayer: Okay who's next?
Everyone: We're good…
Slayer: Okay then well here's the disclaimer! I don't own anything except OC's and reality building concepts. Everything else belongs to their respective owners. Now without further ado…
Everyone: Here's the story!
"Dark inner voice/Hollow"
'Light inner voice/Zangetsu'
Thinking/talking to inner spirit
"Telepathic communication"
*Special attack*
Beginning of Arc two: The real enemy
Chapter nine: Aftermath
Time a week after the kidnapping
Location Beacon Academy
Dear Journal
Date: XX-XX-XX (A/N Yeah I don't know their Calendar system)
Well hello there once again Journal! It's me Ruby again, but you probably already know that. In truth I can't believe it's been a week since that fight with Haze. I remember what happened after we got back. Yang almost crushed me in a hug; Professor Goodwitch was relieved to see Neos unharmed, well at least physically. However both she and Weiss Panicked at seeing Zach's missing arm. Then both Weiss and Blake then took him to the infirmary. I believe Blake was also checked up on because of her injury. I still shiver a bit at remembering what happened. I can't even imagine losing my own ears.
Having it already healed though she was free to go, that's when all of us met up in the headmaster's office. Well everyone but Zach who was being properly treated. Once there we tried to explain everything we could. The biggest surprise to everyone though was Blake's and Neos's true heritage. Although the shock of them being siblings was a lot greater, Weiss however was mad but seeing that Blake was missing a set of ears… She more or less let it go rather quickly.
It surprisingly didn't take long for Zach to wake up. It was actually a day later. Blake was so relieved to see him up that she almost killed him herself! By the look of his purpled face, her embrace was actually tighter than Yang's. Once he was cleared for release he quickly went to make himself a new arm. I also believe Neos gave him some type of metal, the three of us worked on it. It must admit it was fun to design. However it's not complete, but we're getting close.
As for both mine and Blake's broken weapons… we've been using the time given to us in combat class to fix them. Or at least recreate them, Neos however gave us the same strange metal he gave Zach. He's also promised to help us soul forge them once they're done. For now he gave Blake a regular katana and he's letting me use Clockwork. However yesterday he said he got word from an old acquaintance. One he had back in his old demon hunting days. He left earlier today to go on the job, and I haven't heard from him since. I just hope he's alright…
"Hey Ruby!" Looking up from her writing she saw Yang heading over to her location. Currently they were in the library. Everyone but Zach and Neos was there. Neos for obvious reasons, and Zach because he was still testing out the arm. Even Ichigo and Velvet were there talking to each other quietly, while reading their own books. Blake was sitting on a couch by herself fidgeting every now and then. It seemed as though when apart from Zach she was a lot more nervous than usual. Mostly from worrying about him, and also being by herself; it seemed as though the injuries and knowledge she gained from Haze, had hit her a lot harder than everyone first thought.
Then again she did lose an irreplaceable body part. Zach's arm was already being fixed and would come in handy for many situations. Ruby ended up smiling however as Blake felt the new necklace she had. Zach got an amethyst on a small inch big silver plate. He then attached it to her ribbon, and tied it around her neck as a sort of loose chocker. It was a sentiment that she had greatly appreciated.
"Remnant to Ruby! Hey wake up sis!" Startled out of her thoughts, Ruby turned to see Yang's face directly in hers.
"Wha!" Flailing around in surprise she fell from her chair in a loud thump. Yang stared for a few seconds before bursting out with laughter.
"Ha-ha! Wow Ruby, have a nice fall?" Despite doing their own thing everyone stopped to sigh at her pun. "What again?! Can't any of you ever get a good sense of humor?" Everyone shook their heads, before going back to what they were doing before.
"Geez Yang your jokes are terrible. That's just a fact of life, now what did you want again?" Yang was about to retort, before stopping. Slumping her shoulders she sighed before straightening, and turning back to Ruby.
"I'll ignore that comment about my jokes for now. But anyway the reason I came to talk was because you seemed… uh, kind of bummed out at the moment." Her younger sister was quick to give her a scrutinized gaze.
"Well I assure you dear sister that I am not bummed out. I mean why would I be? It's not like Neos's absence, is affecting me so much that I can't help but worry about him." Yang just stared at her while Ruby realized what she said. "Well um… what I meant was…" She gave a small sigh giving up.
"Okay fine, so I am worried sick about my new boyfriend. But wouldn't you be? I mean he's off who knows where, doing who knows what! I mean sure he's probably the strongest person in the school, and seeing his dragon form was awesome. But I just can't help but worry you know?" Yang patted Ruby on the shoulder affectionately. She was also about to say something, when another voice interrupted her.
"I wouldn't worry about Neos too much." Looking behind them they saw a now, two armed Zach approaching them. "You see as much as I'd hate to admit this, Neos is now in a completely different league then us. The rest of us will now only get in his way. Which means it's up to us to train even harder than before." At this point everyone noticed him. Everyone also gave a small smile as Blake quickly hugged him, petting her head Blake's worries seemed to disappear.
Yang gave a large grin at this. "Well it's still nice to see you two get along so well." Both Blake and Zach stopped hugging to shrug at her. Being so used to her teasing's, they didn't affect them anymore. However everyone now looking at him more closely finally noticed his new arm. Ruby gave a short clap at this.
"So I see you finally got it to work right?! Come on what can it do? Please I got to know!" Zach laughed a bit before showing off his new metal arm.
"Well first off yes, this thing now moves with the same amount of precision of my real arm. Secondly it has a hidden blade that pops out of the wrist. And thirdly also has a pistol built into the forearm. Besides that the metal Neos gave me really does do wonders. As far as I can tell it gets stronger as I get stronger. But there's no way of knowing that for sure yet. Anyways what have you lot been up to?" Ichigo shrugged before answering.
"Oh you know nothing much, just doing whatever I suppose. Anyhow I was actually waiting for either you, or Neos to pop back up." Zach raised an eyebrow at this but didn't say anything. "Well like you said the rest of us are quite far behind Neos now. So I was wondering if you'd like to train with me. We need to get stronger just in case more guys like Haze show up." Blake flinched a bit when he said that name. Frowning Zach gave her another rub and she calmed down.
Looking at Ichigo seriously Zach nodded his consent. "You're right about that. So far only Neos could barely keep up, and that was after the three of us fought him together. I'm afraid that if we don't get stronger soon… next time might actually be the end for us. I feel as of right now we were lucky that I just lost an arm. We truly need to be prepared for next time. And there will be a next time." Everyone in the room nodded their heads at this statement.
Folding her arms angrily Yang voiced her own opinion. "True… It seems as though all of us are involved whether we want to be, or not. Personally I don't want a repeat of last time. All of us who fought him basically got creamed. Not exactly my most memorable moment." Everyone grimaced at what she said, but nodded in agreement. Looking around timidly Velvet, who was still in the room, spoke up.
"I'll help to if you'll let me." Everyone turned to her in surprise, making her hide slightly behind Ichigo. "Well… I mean all of you seem to need a lot of help, and I'm sure my team won't mind that much." Ichigo gave a smile and rubbed her head softly. Something he discovered about her, that she really did like. The same way with Blake actually, I guess all faunus have similarities. When he stopped shortly after, he was amused to see the small pout on her face.
Still giving one of his rare smiles he thanked her. "Thanks Velv, will need all the help we can get. In truth based on what Haze said, what's happening is affecting the entirety of Remnant." He ended that last bit with a little scowl at speaking Haze's name. Personally he thought the man was a coward. A coward for not showing enough backbone, to tell his boss no!
To tell Maxos no to breaking the girl's weapons, to tell Maxos no to chopping off Blake's ears, and for not telling him no to now slicing off Zach's arm. Yeah to him who had fought battles against impossible foes, and impossible odds. Such a thing was cowardly and unforgivable.
"You said it king!" His hollows voice speaking in his mind made him smile a bit. It was nice to know that they agreed on a few things. Still his face turned back into his trademark scowl, as the current conversation continued.
This time it was Weiss who was finally speaking. "Yeah I guess you're right, we're not ready to do this by ourselves. And personally I don't think that even if we had more help… I just don't think it'll make that much of a difference." At this Yang narrowed her eyes at her.
"And what do you mean by that snow queen? I'm sure all of us working together can take care of anything." Weiss's eye twitched at Yang's nickname, causing her to snap at her.
"Don't call me that! And what I mean is that, I have been to trying to beat Zach for years. I repeat years Yang! Then all of a sudden here comes someone, who beat him and two others just as strong easily. No offence to any of you of course. I'm sure you tried your best." Ichigo scoffed and folded his arms, but didn't say anything. While Zach just waved her off as if he didn't care.
"Don't worry about it too much. I do agree that we can't win these fights yet. But I do believe that we can, give enough dedication. Our first step will be making you guys, as strong as me and Ichigo are right now. I say right now, because the two of us will be training pretty hard ourselves. And I suspect Neos will be as well. Which means it's up to us to get as strong as he is in dragon form." He gave a small sigh before continuing.
"Not going to lie that will certainly be tough. But let's just take this one step at a time, alright?" Everyone nodded in agreement. "Alright then, so the only way to go from here is the training room." With that everyone started to leave the library. However Zach held both Blake and Ruby back.
"Okay listen you two, there really isn't anyway to sugarcoat this. But until your weapons are recreated, the most you two can do is learn some hand to hand. Or even do muscle and speed training." The two of them nodded, but became confused as he gained a sad look on his face.
"Look I'm sorry for all of this, if me and Neos were stronger and if we had paid attention more. None of this would have happened. You two are our most precious people respectively. I just don't know if anything we do, can make it up to you." Blake looked at him for a bit before stepping close to him. Now to both Zach's a Ruby's surprise, she kissed him on the lips. This was surprising because so far they haven't done too much, public displays of affection. However despite how surprised he was, Zach returned the kiss. While Ruby had become red in the face, since she had a front row seat to the whole thing.
Sure she wanted to and had kissed Neos. But that was a more on the spur of the moment, and he had been the one to kiss her. Actually watching it however… was more awkward than actually doing it. However even she could tell it was a truly meaningful gesture.
Breaking away from the kiss she spoke. "You and Neos really are alike. You both carry guilt you never should carry. Because you feel guilty about something, you didn't have control of." Zach tried to speak but Blake placed a finger on his lips. "If you don't believe me just remember what Haze told us. He said that I was Maxos' real daughter, even though could never consider him my father. Still by the sounds of it that man would've involved me, and by extension my team… even if you two weren't here. Personally I think it would've been much worse if you weren't here." Sighing while giving a small chuckle, Zach finally gave up.
Deciding that Blake had made her point, he gave her a kiss on the forehead. "Alright then my kitten, I'll stop blaming myself now. Also thank you, truthfully I wouldn't know what to do without you." Blushing because of the pet name he gave her Blake still smiled. Feeling now rather forgotten Ruby coughed into her hand. Jolting a bit they looked at Ruby and became even redder. They had finally realized they had done everything, right in front of the red clothed girl.
Clearing her throat Blake looked at Ruby seriously. "If you ever tell anyone about this, and Oum forbid especially Yang. Well let's say we might have to find a new team leader." Taking the hint Ruby backed up a bit while zipping up her lips.
"Don't worry my lips are sealed. Just try not to display such things in front of me again." She then thought for a moment before continuing. "But at least I now know why he always called you kitten. That is adorable by the way!~" Both looking at her strangely because of the attitude change, they also became redder because of what she said. Pinching the bridge of his nose, Zach was able to snap himself out of his embarrassment.
"Okay then, I think we should go now. I believe we've kept everyone waiting long enough." Both nodding in agreement they left the library. Once no one was around, a slight distortion happened near one of the bookshelves. Then slowly becoming visible, a man wearing a long brown coat with a high collar appeared. He was none other than Jauk, personal servant to the Darkwraith Night.
"Well it seems as though they weren't too hard to find. Still attacking them in the academy would be rather foolish. After all everyone here knows how to fight. Even though I would be able to kill all of them, it won't look good. My pride as an assassin won't be able to take the hit. What do you think Hide?" Another distortion appeared on his shoulder, and then appeared a small creature. It had bat like wings, yet its body was humanoid. Its feet were clawed and it had two arms with clawed hands. The head of the creature was wrinkly and bat like. Yet it somehow held some human facial expressions.
The back of the creature was covered in black fur, while the front was wrinkly pink skin. The creature was also only eighteen inches in height, and had a two foot wing span. Brining a clawed finger to its chin Hide spoke in a raspy, yet high pitched tone.
"Well master, there are times when they're not in the academy. Best to study them more, and then take them all out at once. That includes Bladedancer, after all master's master will be angry if he doesn't die first." Jauk nodded his head in agreement, and they both disappeared in another distortion.
Slayer: Well that's about it for this chapter. Yeah I know a shorter one, but that's just because we're getting back into the game. And this was the introduction to the second story arc.
Shadow: True the next one will be as long as this one don't worry. At least that is what I would say, if we had more fans for this one…
Judan: I told you that you should've put this under a different category. Most people don't know about the divinity series, and that makes them skip over this one.
Slayer: You're right maybe I should change the crossover to something else. But what?
Judan: Try dishonored or something.
Slayer: That actually makes sense! Okay people by the time this chapter comes out the story will be under, RWBY and Dishonored!
Shadow: Hopefully more people will read it.
Zach: Won't be surprised if they didn't…
Judan: All of you guys are depressing…
Shadow: Oh be quiet!
Slayer: Anyway… this has been Dark guard productions signing off!