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'Thoughts'
"emphasis and scroll"
"Talking"
"Deep Emotion"
General POV with Team DRPN & RWBY
(Red VS Blue: Intro theme)
3 & 1/2 Months Later
(Red VS Blue: Intro theme) END
As the two teams sit down for lunch Pyrrha could be seen talking with Dusty with smiles on their faces. "Gotta hand it to your dad, he's a good cook. How have things been going with him?"
Pyrrha chuckles and nods, "Yes, the eggplant was quite nice. As for how thing are progressing, they've been doing grand. Although, from what I've heard from Blake, that he's been shopping for presents to make up for lost time. I really just hope that he doesn't go too over the top..." Pyrrha begins to blush a bit before asking, "Dusty, if you aren't doing anything later tonight, I was hoping the two us could go out later? If that's alright with you of course."
Dusty freezes as his mind goes towards the blue screen of death, but after a few seconds of silence he blushes lightly and says, "Okay."
When she heard what he responded with, she blushed harder and said, "That's great... So, what now?"
The elder Rose was stuck when he couldn't think of anything to say, fortunately for him, that was when Summer came to his rescue as she jumped between the two. "Hey guys, what what have you been up to?"
'Oh thank god.' "Hey um, Summer, nothing much. Pyrrha and I were just making plans for what to do later. How's it going with you? You getting along with your team?", says the awkward son.
Summer's eyes begin to sparkle, though whether it was a hallucination or the magic of silver eyes was completely up for debate, when she heard that her baby boy was going on a date. "That's amazing! What are you gonna do!? Catch a movie!? Go out for dinner!? TELL ME! TELL ME! TELL ME!" Summer hounded her son at a speed that would put her daughter's semblance to shame.
RWBYS's Table
As this was happening, Blake was glaring holes of sketches of the Red Maw insignia and one of Adam Taurus's likeness facing away. As she does, she can't help but wonder how she could've been so blind in the beginning that she couldn't realize the beast her former friend and partner was becoming. But now that she knows his true nature, all she can do is prepare herself for their inevitable reunion, where only one will walk away.
Yang looks at her partner as she won't take her eyes of her notebook and figures that she needs some cheering up. Suddenly, she slides up next to her partner.
"Whatcha doing?" Yang asks.
"Nothing." Blake closes her book. "Just going over notes from last semester." It is revealed that they are sitting in the cafeteria with Weiss sitting the other side of Blake and Ruby nowhere to be seen. A grape suddenly comes flying at Yang, that she catches in her mouth and eats. She then turns to Blake and responds to the previous statement. "Lame." From the other side of the table, Nora giggles as she about to toss another grapes at Yang with her spoon she gets lightly smacked on the back of the head by Summer as tells her not to play with her food. The grapes were still launched but landed on Weiss's head, which only served to annoy her.
Suddenly, Ruby appears with an enormous binder that she places onto the table with a large thud, catching everyone off guard.
DRPN's Table
The sound also attracts the attention of Dusty as he knew what was going happen the moment he saw the over-sized binder. He coughs into his hand as he grabs the attention of his mother and soon-to-be date. "Ahem, hey Pyrrha, I think now would be a good time to leave. M-Summer, would you like to have a look at my weapons, if you're anything like Ruby, I know you'll like it."
Contrary to what he was expecting, Summer does not fawn at the thought of seeing a new weapon, but instead she gives her son a flat look and tells him in a slightly disappointed tone, "Dusty, I think you're confusing me with Qrow. I'll admit that I may lack self control sometimes-"
"All the time." Dusty interrupts her.
She groans and admits, "Fine, MOST of the time! I'm not the one that loses it whenever a new weapon shows up, Qrow was the one had an obsession with weapons. He just happens to have -despite most people's thought- has an incredible amount of self control when it comes to that. He had to learn it after a certain incident in Atlas."
Pyrrha be came curious and asked, "I'm sorry, but who are you talking about?
Summer turns to Pyrrha, completely forgetting she was there and coughed in embarrassment, "Oh yeah, sorry about that. Qrow is his da-druncle." She quickly corrects herself.
The red head blinks in confusion, "What's a 'Druncle'?"
Dusty cuts back in, "It's short for drunk uncle and don't worry, he's not an angry drunk."
Summer lets out a breath of relief as she realizes that she needs to learn how to keep her trap shut, "Anyway, I won't bore you guys to much on the details. The short version is that the last and only time he let a weapon get the better of him, he stole a tank with Oobleck and accidentally shot uncle Pitch with it."
The pair widened their eyes and shout, "What!?"
Summer laughs nervously while rubbing the back of her head, "But in Qrow's defense, it was Oobleck's turn controlling." 'And he did later say -after the special brownie wore off- that he was aiming for Tia for some reason before chasing him with it. He never did explain it though, but I don't have to tell them that.'
RWBYS's Table
Ruby clears her throat and gestures to everyone at the table. "Sisters... friends... Weiss." (Weiss: Hey!) "Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream." Ruby continues her speech.
"This ought to be good." Yang says as she humors her sister... Hard to believe that "Yang" and "Humor" was used in the same without an insult somewhere in between.
"A dream that one day, the four of us will come together, as a team, and have the most fun anyone has ever had... ever!" Ruby says.
"Did you steal my binder?" Weiss accuses her partner.
"I am not a crook." Ruby denies the accusation no matter how true it is.
"What are you talking about?" Blake asks.
(Classical Music: In the Hall of the Mountain King)
"I'm talking about kicking off the semester with a bang!" Ruby points her finger at Blake.
It then that Yang decided to o"I always kick my semesters off with a Yang! Eh? Guys? Am I right?" Nora rolls her eyes as she hurls an apple is at Yang's head. "Boo~!" Nora yells. Yang glares at her for this.
Dusty was about to take his mother and Pyrrha away from the approaching chaos when he noticed a familiar figure entering the cafeteria. When he saw him he decides to sit back down, hoping that his friend's presence would prevent any messes... Only for it to abandon him as he watches Pitch leaving immediately after grabbing a tray of food but hears him say something as he passes them, "You have a semblance, use it."
"Look guys, it's been a good two weeks and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester is going to be great!" Ruby tells her team, "But, classes start back up tomorrow! Which is why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today."
"I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store." Weiss says.
Yang, still glaring in Nora's direction, picks up an apple and tosses it across the room and hits Jaune as he shouts, "Oh come on~!" and Nora can be heard giggling.
"I don't know. I think I might sit this one out." Blake says with a slightly tired voice.
"Sit out or not, I think that however we spend this last day, we should do it as a team!" Weiss declares.
"I for one think that..." Weiss is interrupted by a cherry pie hits her in the face face.
Nora is shown to be the one who threw the pie, she sits down and points at Dusty who facepalms as Ren apologizes for his girlfriend's actions. Pyrrha's hand is over her mouth and tries to hide her high pitched laughter as Jaune thinks, 'Huh, she really does sound kind of like a Hyena.'
Meanwhile just outside
"I know, we were fighting side by side." Sun talks in a quick and excited tone. "She was super-fast, and I threw a banana at the guy, which sounds gross, but it was awesome... Until the guy got away and made look like a bunch of kids."
"Sun, we're 17, we are still technically kids." Neptune raises an eyebrow at his friend while sporting a mocking grin.
"Not the point, we've got skill and the guy still had a small edge against us. Anyway, she's a Faunus-shit." Sun says, then suddenly covers his mouth.
"But that's a secret, okay?" Sun stresses this point to his friend.
Neptune agrees "Got it."
"Oh yeah, one more thing, I call dibs."
Sun leans in close in order to stress the importance of this secret. "And not a, I'm gonna go tell Scarlet the second Sun turns his back secret, I'm talking secret secret."
"Whoa, chill out, man, okay? I got it." Neptune says as he and Sun come to a temporary stop. "I got it."
"Seriously man, I swear to god that if you tell anyone, I'm gonna stick you on an inflatable mattress before putting it on the pool!" Sun continues walking, with Neptune widening his eyes and nodding quickly. "Okay, now the people here are the coolest! No offense to you guys." He said this while not noticing that team JRDL crashed through one of the windows piled up and knocked out.
"None taken." Neptune shrugs and tells his leader and best friend.
As he says this, a familiar librarian with long black hair passes them, only to pause he looks at one of the stained windows. When he sees the amount of stains increase, he cringes knowing that he's going to be the one that has to clean it up, "I'll wait a few minutes for them to calm down." Not wanting to dirty his hands or worse, his suit.
"They're just in here. I'm really excited for you to meet them. So be cool, okay? You're gonna be cool, right?" Sun asks his teammate.
"Dude, look who you're talking to." Neptune comments, making it clear that the answer is obvious.
"Okay, that fair." Sun nods his head at this.
Sun and Neptune now enter the cafeteria where students are heard screaming in terror.
"Food fight!" Several students yell as they stampede out the door, leaving the cafeteria in a hurry. Neptune looks around in surprise and worry, meanwhile Sun looks at all this and smiles in excitement.
"Ahahahaha!" Nora gives a maniacal laugh from the top of a makeshift fort made from tables. The with most of team DRPN are shown to be standing around on different levels of the fort while Dusty sit at one of the remaining tables and finishing his food. Sun look on at the image and deadpans, saying "Okay, I was NOT expecting that."
"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" Nora sings.
Ruby stomps her foot on a table and pointing at Team DRPN. "Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" she crushes a carton of milk in her hand. "It will be delicious!" She raises her fist in a battle cry.
""Yeah!"" the rest of team RWBYS raising their fists in support simultaneously.
"Off with their heads!" Nora declares as she jumps down from the top of her tower, and the food fight continues.
Ren jumps the side of a tray holding watermelons, launching them in the air. He then kicks them in the direction of the opposing team. Dusty, having finished his meal, gets up and takes his tray up and walks over to Yang while tapping her shoulder. She turns to him and smirks, "Haha~, I knew I could count on-!" But before she could finish, Dusty had them smashed the tray over his big sister's head and warped over to Pyrrha's side as Yang falls face first on the ground, knocked out. He sighs in mild disappointment as he thinks, 'Yeah, should've kept her aura up.'
"Yang! No! TRAITOR, HOW COULD YOU!?" Ruby shout at her brother.
(Classical Music: In the Hall of the Mountain King) END
He shrugs and yells with a smirk, "What!? All I did was give her a Darwin Award early!" This only causes his little sister to tilt her head in confusion.
(Fairy Tail: Absolute Zero theme)
But before the chaos to proceed any father, the doors behind Sun and Neptune slammed open, revealing Mardy Goodwitch. As he walks slowly to the center of the cafeteria with a polite smile that only gave the feeling annoyance. "Dear children, you really shouldn't make such a mess while my love is away."
Ruby widens her eyes as she turns around and yells, "Uncle Qrow!? What are you-. Wait, you're not my uncle, who're you?" She says as she looks at him in confusion while the other continue to fight.
Mardy rolls his naturally narrow his eyes and point to them with a finger and says, "That is quite enough!" After he utters those words, black vines shoot at them from outside as they constrict and restrain the students that continue their fight. With the vines keeping everyone suspended in midair, several others come in and reset all the tables and clean the floors. He turns to Summer and says, "And you, I expected better from you."
Summer looks down in a bit of shame as she only wanted to be included, meanwhile Dusty got curious and moved to the side to see who Ruby was talking to, "Hey, Ruby what's up? Who's the-?" When Dusty sees the man standing before them, he widens his eyes and turned pale as he yelled, "OH FUCK!"
He hurries as fast as he can to the others before warping away faster than Ruby and Nora after drinking a DynaPep along with the rest of his partner and his mother back to their room. With that, Ruby can only wonder why her brother was so scared. He's never responded like that to anyone before and just now he looked down right terrified. Ruby thought as she looked at Mardy, 'I'm sure he can't be all that bad.'
Mardy blinks in confusion as to why the young man would be so frightened, "Hm, I wonder what his deal was. Where was I?" When the vines finished cleaning, they set what remained of the students down. "Ah yes, now I remember. As much as I can understand the need to cause a bit of chaos, that does not mean that I can just allow you to do as you wish without facing some form of consequence." Every word that passed his lips made them feel a bit pressed, unintentionally believe it or not. With the exception of Blake, all of Team RWBY try and fail to compose themselves as a pie, that had somehow gotten stuck to the ceiling, had fallen directly onto Mardy's head. As his eye began to twitch and started to make a fist, he stopped himself from losing it. He then began to chuckle quietly and sadistically to himself as he thought, 'No matter, I'm sure that sending them to Port's class for a few weeks of detention will straighten them out.'
As the others continue to laugh their asses off, every fiber of Blake's being was ORDERING her to stay still and don't talk back as the man was aiming murderous intent at the students. She was the only one one that could hear the man's laugh. All of her instincts told her that the person in front of her should not be messed with, it truly made it hard for her to believe that this was the same man that she would visit so often to check out books or that she met at the cafe. Fortunately for her, Professor Ozpin's presence made a the tension and unease leave her as she sinks to her knees and thinks, 'Yeah, note to self: Never piss off Mardy, if this what he's like when he's annoyed, what is he like when he's truly mad.' That vary thought made her shudder.
(Fairy Tail: Absolute Zero theme) END
Sensing the wizard, Mardy merely huffs as a sign that he acknowledges his presence. Ozpin let out a sigh as he approached his colleague and places a hand on his shoulder. "Don't you think you were a little harsh, just look at what you did to young miss Belladonna."
Mardy sighs. "Perhaps, but then again it was for the best. If you cannot confront fear to save another, then you are no more than fodder. If you freeze, you die. That is the reality we live in, one of bloody evolution."
"As true as that may be we must have patience for they will be ready when the time come, but right now they're still children." Ozpin tells the librarian. Team RWBY are shown laughing together and Yang even gives a thumbs up to the teachers. "So why not let them play the part?" Ozpin then walks away from Mardy and towards the cafeteria doors. "After all, it isn't a role they'll have forever." Ozpin groans as he says, "You know, you sound more and more like Pitchender by the day, it baffles me sometimes."
He chuckles to himself, "Indeed, though they are going to be the ones cleaning the wall." Mardy leans his head down as he leave and thinks, 'Despite it being meant as an insult, I'll take that as a compliment, if only because it is such an honor.' Mardy suddenly remembers something, "Ah yes, before you leave you may want to know that Glynda will be returning next week, be sure to take it easy on her." Whether Ozpin heard him or not was unknown.
With team DRPN
As the trio fall through a portal made by their son/partner falling on top of one another, Dusty begin pacing back and forth as he wonders why he himself . Granted the show didn't cover much in terms of the staff at Beacon academy, much less their personal life. He came to a halt when Pyrrha gripped him by the shoulder and asked, "Dusty, what was that back there?"
He makes a sour expression as he tries to wave it off, "Oh, nothing. Nothing is wrong, it's just that um..." He chuckles nervously, "Well, since that is professor Goodwitch's husband and how annoyed, I'd rather not be anywhere near him when he goes off."
She sighs in disappointment. "You looked like you just saw a ghost. Aside from when you were launched off the cliff, I've never seen you so scared... You don't have to tell me right away, just know that I'm here."
He raises a hand as if he was about to signify a point before he just slouched and blew out a deep breath in defeat, "Okay, fine. But to be completely honest I don't know why I panicked, there's just something about his voice and appearance that makes me want to run like hell. I feel like I know him from somewhere, but it was so long ago that the memory has fade. It's kind of like when you wake up from a nightmare, it sticks with you for a minute or two before you can't remember anything. So now what?"
Pyrrha widen her eyes an blushes, "Oh right! About that date, do you what do you wanna do? Movie, dinner, or a walk just? I've never gone on or even planned one in my life."
Dusty grimaces, "Yeah, same..." A moment of silence passes before he comes up with an idea. "Wanna cuddle while watching Flubber and eat pizza?"
Pyrrha smiles, "Alright, but only if I choose the toppings."
He chuckles to himself before nodding and telling her, "As long as it doesn't have Alfredo sauce, sardines and/or olives; I'm good."
"Great, let's get one with ham and pineapple. And if you can, please get Ren to get Nora to give us some us time." She says to him before going to the bathroom to clean herself off what was supposed to be her dinner.
'Yeah, her Pitch is showing again. Hm, I'll have them add some extra crispy bacon to it.' Dusty was suddenly taken out of his thoughts when he heard giggling coming from his left and saw that his mother was recording the whole thing on her scroll. He looks at her flatly and tells her, "You can show that anyone BUT Yang."
She suddenly tackles him with a hug, "Oh~, I'm so proud of you, you're all grown up. Oh, best advice I can give you is never borrow condom from Qrow cause they will always break, trust me when I say that Tia knows this better than anyone... Well maybe Pitch, but I'm not too sure."
With Roman's side
(Evil Minds theme)
Meanwhile away from the school, members of the Red Maw are moving crates around the inside of an old warehouse when Emerald and Mercury enter the building.
The Red Maw pause only for a moment to glare at the humans that they're forced to work with before getting back to offloading the crates off a Bullhead from their latest heist and store them with the rest.
"Oh, look! She sent the kids again!" Torchwick notices the teens. "This is turning out just like the divorce!" He approaches the two from behind and wraps his arms around them in a group hug.
Emerald shivers in disgust. "Spare us the thought of you procreating." She and Mercury then force there way out of Torchwick's grasp.
"That was a joke, besides that woman is one of the last people ever consider sleeping with." Roman says with a shudder before he reveals the piece of paper Emerald. "Oh~ what's this... Now, just might you tell me where you two have been all day?" He says with a smug tone before reading the card with a smirk.
"What!? Agh..." Emerald checks her pockets, wondering how she lost it.
"Oh please, I'm a professional, Klondike bar. Pay attention, maybe you'll learn something." Torchwick holds up the piece of paper to look at it as his face becomes increasingly bitter the further he reads. "Where did you have this address? And what did you idiots do to the guy running the place?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Emerald gives a snarky response.
"Cut the shit and answer the damn question already." Torchwick says in a dead serious tone without an ounce of snark added. "Now where have you been all day and what did you DO?" When he asks the to, one could feel the anger leaking off of him.
Mercury just rolls his eye and asks, clearly not understanding the gravity of the situation, "Relax drama queen, what's big deal? We just cleaned up after your mess, you're welcome by the way." Mercury says with a tone that only precedes to piss the man off.
"Do you idiots have any idea what you've done? I already had everything under control." Torchwick say as he tightens his fist and tries to calm down.
"Two packed bags and a ticket out of Vale said otherwise. So I killed Tukson, big deal, not like he was much of a threat to begin with." Mercury says as Roman marches over to him and picks him up by his collar.
"Listen, you little punk." Torchwick points at Mercury accusingly. "If it were up to me, then I would have you beaten so badly that it would make you're daddy jealous after what you did."
"And what would it be that he did, Roman?" Cinder's voice interrupts.
Cinder appears on a platform above them. She steps onto an automated lift, riding it down to their level.
"Cinder!" Emerald says excitedly as she desires praise from her latest 'job well done'.
Roman glares at Mercury before dropping him and turning his attention to the woman in front of him, "This little shit just so happened to kill Tukson... You know what that means, right?"
Cinder widens her eyes for a fragment of moment before narrowing them at the gray haired boy. "He's going to send someone after him. I thought that I made it clear to that Roman and I had the situation handled." Cinder walks to Torchwick's side, ignoring Emeralds attempt at approaching her.
Mercury looks at the two with indifference, "I don't get what you're both so worked up about."
"He was going to escape to Vacuo!" Emerald refers to Tukson. "Mercury and I decided to take it upon ourselves to kill the rat."
"I think he was some sort of cat, actually." Mercury points out.
"What? Like a puma?" Emerald asks.
"Yeah, there ya go." Mercury agrees.
"Quiet." Cinder demands as she give them a cold stare. "Did I not specifically instruct you two to keep your hands clean while in Vale?" As Cinder berates the two, Roman walks over to the table while pouring himself a drink to prepare himself for the shit-storm coming their way.
"I just thought..." Emerald tries to explain with a nervous smile before Cinder cuts her off.
"I'm not done." Cinder demands. "Roman was put in charge of assisting him out of Vale, Tukson was going to act as our eyes and ears at Shade Academy because his skills were best used at gathering information and that's not even the worst part. Roman, if you may?"
Roman groaned, catching the attention of the pair, "Yeah, yeah... Since you two are new in Vale, I'm gonna have explain how the criminal underworld works here in Vale. Now, on the surface, it looks pretty much the same, but when it comes to specific crime, that is when things change. You see, in Vale there is a unique pecking order and at the very top of it is someone you don't want to mess with, whenever he saw a group regardless of their affiliation commit one of the three crimes he doesn't like, he wipes them off the map. Murder, drugs, and slavery; those are the three taboo crimes in Vale. He is a huntsman of sorts, the reason he doesn't get involved and kill everyone and be done with is that he knows that crime will never stop no matter how much you try. So, he came up with idea that if he couldn't wipe it out permanently, he could at least put everyone on a leash... It's his way of doing damage control. So, as long as no one commits a taboo, he'll ignore you and leave you alone... And it would have stayed that way if it weren't for your idiot friend." He finishes as he pointed his cane an inch away from Emeralds nose. "And now he's going to coming here any second to take care of this and make an example."
Mercury stands completely unfazed by the explanation while Emerald takes it all in. Cinder then asks, "Now do you understand?"
"Yes ma'am, I think I do. It won't happen again." Emerald apologizes.
Suddenly, a voice interrupts the two and puts Mercury and Emerald on edge. "Oh, it better not, otherwise things are gonna get messy." Lurking in the shadows while lying on the railing of the catwalk on his side is strange man, he piecing amber eyes that glow in the dark, a deathly complexion that looked blue, pointed ears, bright glowing blue hair that was slicked back and a decent build. He wore what looked like black three piece suit with long coattails and a black skull pin on right side of his outermost jacket.
He rolls off the edge and land on his feet in front of the four. He looks up at them and smiles when he sees that Emerald and the entirety of the Red Maw pointing their weapons at his head as he raises his hands in a placating manner, "Whoa, sensing some hostility here. Cinder, do you mind calling them off? I'd not entirely fond of killing kids." Cinder does as the man says as her smile grows a noticeable amount. "Thank you, good to see you both doing so well. Roman, by look of that new battle grade coat, you took my advice."
Mercury was getting annoyed with the new arrival and called him out, "What are you supposed to be, a glow stick? Out of curiosity, is all of you this blue, including your balls?"
The man's hair flares blood red before quickly back to it's normal shade as he turns his attention to the young assassin, while looking more than a little vexed, he chuckled as he walks over to him. "Well, since you're new here I suppose I could tell you that. Hello there, I'm here to send a message, but please call me Hades." Now that he was close enough, only then did he see that this 'mailman' stood a foot and a half taller than the boy, Hades offered the boy a handshake with a off putting grin. Regardless, the boy reluctantly accepted and was assaulted by searing pain when the man squeezed as a black and blue flame-like aura consumed their hands, Hades leaned in to whisper to the boy.
"Now, here's the deal; I don't like you nor do I trust you, but since you're new here, the higher ups will allow you to live for a little while longer. So the way this is is gonna work out is that you are going to follow orders that come from Cinder, Roman, and myself. You will never ever betray us, you will never do anything stupid that would grant us any unwanted attention, you will not divulge any information that is meant to be kept hidden, you are not aloud to take another life unless we allow it, and you are not allowed to reveal my existence to anyone. If you do not follow these conditions, I will personally burn you alive in front of everyone in the Red Maw while mint chip over there either sells popcorn while they point and laugh or steal everyone's wallets, understood?", Mercury nods once. "Do we have a deal?" Hades has a dark look in his eye that contradicts his smile as the boy nods quickly, hoping that the pain would stop only for it to grow worse. "Say it!" He shouts as his hair started to ignite in blue flames.
"Okay! Okay, we have a deal! Now can you let go of my hand!?"
Hades immediately let go as the burning pain left in that instant and he says with a polite smile,"Then we're good." He turns to the girl with red eyes, "Hey, what's you're name?"
Emerald straightens up as she look the man in the eye and said, "My name is Emerald Sustrai, sir."
"Huh, I'm not sure if you were born with that last name or not, but it's funny how it translates to thief... At least you're smarter than daddy issues over there." He says as he turn to Mercury, whom retracts and inspects his arm, but oddly enough there wasn't any sign of a burn mark. The only thing that was left behind was a black mark on his wrist in the shape of a lowercase "D" that he assumed had something to do with the man's semblance and stood for "Deal". Hades smiles and claps his hands, "Alright! With that taken care of, I have a meeting to get to with the wicked witch. Cinder, the next time something happens because of that moron, kill him. Adios." With that he disappears in a plume of black smoke.
Emerald looks and the scared boy as he was gripping his arm while he was in a cold sweat before helping him stand back up, Emerald looked to the woman she admired and asked, "Who was that?"
She looks over to the greenette and says, "That was Hades, he serves as one of our employer's top enforcers, though he normally handles Salem's finances." Cinder approaches the master thief's side.
"Mercury's stupidity aside, I believe we're done with Dust for now. The headmaster and this year's students have been causing more trouble than what was anticipated, especially the boy with silver eyes." Cinder then begins to walk away.
"Yeah, him. So what do we do now?" Torchwick inquires.
"We're moving." Cinder says. "Have the Red Maw clear out this building. I'll be sending you to the caverns beneath Mountain Glenn."
"Oh goody, being sent to work at a failed settlement. If I wanted to do that, I would be a dead farm boy." Roman says as he shudder at thought of the nightmare fuel no doubt still living under Brunswick farms.
Cinder looks back at Roman. "We're proceeding to phase two and if it's any consolation, the location was already thoroughly searched. Ironically, that place had a distinct lack of Apathy."
Roman groans as he grips his head, "Just please stop saying that dam word, I don't those kinds of memories... not now."
Cinder and Emerald begin to walk away with Mercury trailing behind. Roman attempts to light a cigar, but realizes he can't find his lighter. He looks up to see Emerald holding it while sticking out her tongue out defiantly, but was comforted when he remembered about how they kept blowing up in his face. He sighs, "When in doubt, drink till you pass out."
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Chapter 16, DONE! Welcome to the start of volume two, guys. And yeah, that's right, I put a spin-off version of 1997 Hades in this. James Woods did make the character entertaining, especially when the guy blew a fuse. Yes, Mardy is that big of a deal. Regardless, Pitch and Dusty are gonna have a lot of new enemies and even newer allies.
