Sangokuden x RWBY: Hunt of the Armored War Gods

Written By: GKoh

Chapter 4: Cross

World of Remnant

Minutes later, Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Penny arrived at the docks. However when they arrived, they saw no one there. What they saw was only the destruction.

The girls looked around. They stared at the wreckage of the Bullheads still burning, buildings that had several marks and holes on them and the once stacked cargo was now scattered all over. Weiss inspected the cargo containers and gasped as she saw it had the logo of her family's company.

Weiss sadly lowered her head. "She did this."

Yang noticed this and realized what Weiss was thinking right now. Yang walked up to the heiress. "Weiss, I don't believe Blake would-"

"How much proof do you need?" Weiss snapped at Yang before pointing at the cargo. "Look at all this. Most of these cargo belonged to the Schnee Dust Company and Blake and her friend just happened to come here where they were all stored."

"We should hear Blake's side of the story before we jump to any conclusions."

"I've seen enough." Weiss turned away. Weiss was fed up. The White Fang had gotten away for far too long. Her only goal in her mind right now was to find the White Fang and bring them to justice.

While Yang tried to get Weiss to listen to reason, Ruby and Penny continued to look around. Ruby heard the conversation but she doesn't believe Blake would do this. Ruby halted as she noticed a piece of metal belonging to the Bullhead. Curious, she along with Penny turned it over and to Ruby's shock, the metal showed the symbol of the White Fang.

However even after seeing this, Ruby refused to believe it. The hooded girl remembered the times she spent with Blake. They played games together, talked about their favorite books and more. They bonded and Ruby understood what kind of person Blake was. While Blake may kept things to herself, she was overall a good and gentle young girl. There was no way Blake would do this after everything they went through together.

Ruby muttered, "This doesn't make any sense."

"What doesn't make sense?" Penny asked.

"Well," Ruby explained, "According to the detectives, they believed the White Fang was stealing Dust from all the shops."

Ruby then pointed at the cargo. "Let's say the White Fang came to the docks because they heard about the large quantities of Dust being here and were gonna take them all away but look, all the cargo is still here. At least I think that's all the cargo."

"Okay," Penny understood.

"And what's with that explosion? The White Fang have been stealing Dust right under people's noses for a while now. So why would there be an explosion?"

"Maybe someone stopped them?" Penny deduced.

"Exactly," Ruby agreed. "Maybe Blake was trying to stop the White Fang. Penny?"

Ruby looked at Penny who was now staring at something. The freckled girl pointed at one of the crates.

"Look," Penny said. She then headed towards the crates.

Ruby followed the girl. When they were near, Ruby saw what Penny had noticed at the wooden boxes. The two saw something lodged onto one of them. Ruby curiously grabbed it and pulled it out.

"Weiss! Yang! Come here, we found something!" Ruby's shout attracted the two and they went to her.

Yang approached Ruby and asked, "What did you find?"

"We found a claw." Ruby showed the claw and Weiss and Yang looked at it. The claw was white in color and very sharp. Seeing it, Weiss narrowed her eyes.

"See, a claw. A Faunus claw. Proof that the White Fang were here," Weiss angrily accused.

Before the heiress continued further, objection came. Not from Ruby or Yang but from Penny who spoke, "I don't think that claw belonged to a Faunus."

Getting the girls' attention, Penny continued, "Based on the shape and texture, the claw looks like it belongs to a Beowolf."

"A Beowolf?" the three girls spoke simultaneously.

"That's not all, see the footprints." Penny crouched down and motioned her hand around the concrete, "While many of them wore shoes, some of them were barefooted. Looking closer while smaller, the prints definitely resembled the footprints of several species of Grimm."

"Footprints? I don't see any footprints." Yang searched around and couldn't find these footprints Penny claimed were there.

Weiss countered, "Not trying to discredit your theory but the authorities had assured everyone that no Grimm has entered Vale."

Everyone in Beacon had heard about the hole and the train tracks that led back to Mountain Glenn but days passed. No attacks were reported in the kingdom and the team that were sent to Mountain Glenn returned and confirmed nothing out of the ordinary. Although, a couple of students managed to see the team and the adults' faces suggested otherwise when they entered and exited out of Ozpin's office.

"But the claw?" Penny pointed that out again.

"Must be some kind of White Fang trick?" Weiss guessed.

While everyone discussed, Ruby remained silent as she contemplate what was going on. All of a sudden, her vision started to blur. Ruby rubbed her eyes but still the blur was there. Then, she started to move unsteadily. She hold herself by holding onto the building's wall. As the others continued to be unaware, Ruby's eyes started to glow and she gasped.

Yang stopped talking and finally noticed her sister's condition. "Ruby, are you okay?"

When the blonde teenager was near to her sister, Ruby grabbed Yang's shoulders all of a sudden and shouted, "I KNOW WHERE BLAKE IS!"

XXX

Located at some part of Vale stood an abandoned factory. It was abandoned but not anymore as cracked glasses and crashing sounds were heard inside.

Inside, machinery remained out of commission, empty boxes were scattered across the factory floor and slime were seen on the walls. However as of now, there were two kinds of slime. The green variant that were formed over the years while the other, the black slime were fresh and people were cocooned in them.

Among those trapped in the slime were Sun and Blake with the latter remaining unconscious.

"Blake? Blake?" Sun shouted to the girl, trying to wake her up.

The Faunus finally succeeded as his voice reached through Blake who groaned and slowly opened her eyes.

"Blake?" Sun shouted once more attracting Blake's attention.

"Sun?" whispered the cat Faunus.

Sun was relieved. "Thank god you're alright."

"Yes, it is a great day to be happy. Now she can witness her own death."

Blake soon noticed the one who made that sarcastic remark; Roman Torchwick. He was also trapped in the black slime. Not only him, all of the White Fang members who were with him at the time were also stuck.

Blake attempted to move but she couldn't. She looked at the goo that she was trapped in. She was disgusted but also surprised how strong it was to hold her and the people.

Unable to break out of the slime, Blake looked to Sun. "Where are we?"

"Some kind of factory," the monkey Faunus explained. "Apparently, this is one of Mr. Cane's hideouts."

"Hey," Roman snarled. "Try finding a decent hideout while on the run."

CRASH!

The noise attracted the cocooned people. The captives looked down and saw the strange people in robes that attacked them ransacking the factory. They saw the ones with Grimm masks pushing boxes down while the ones with wolf ornaments tore every single piece out of the factory equipment.

"Where is the precious?" mumbled one of the attackers who was rummaging through the pile of boxes. He wore robes just like the wolf wearers but his shoulder armor and the ornament on his head were modeled after an aardvark. "Where is the precious?"

"Keep searching! Tear the thief's home if you have to!" At the upper section of the factory, one of these robed individuals who had a female voice was barking orders at those on the ground. Her ornament and armor was that of a piranha.

Another loud noise was heard as a conveyer equipment collapsed to the ground thanks to one who has a koala as an ornament. He looked inside and found nothing which made him grumbled angrily.

The Piranha wearer turned to the Aardvark wearer. "Did you find it?"

"No." the Aardvark wearer showed stacks of papers. "All I found is paper, paper, and more paper!"

At another part of the factory, one of the Grimm masks found a radio. It curiously touched the gadget and it activated, playing Tejano music for some reason. The Grimm mask try to smack the radio to turn it off but was unable to.

Soon, the Koala wearer appeared beside the Grimm mask. Pushing the Grimm mask aside, the Koala wearer smashed the radio to bits with his fist. He snarled. "This is music? What crap!"

The Piranha wearer just shook her head and pinched where the nose would be.

"This is it!" the Aardvark wearer panicked. "He'll punish us! Punish us I tell you! Punish us!"

As the Aardvark wearer began to curl himself and rolled back and forth, the Piranha wearer facepalmed at seeing this. "Alako, could you be so kind."

The Koala wearer, Alako complied. He approached the Aardvark wearer. He grabbed and shook him violently for a few minutes before putting him down.

"Better?" Alako inquired his comrade.

"Yes," said the Aardvark wearer who has swirls around his eyes.

The captives continued watching with befuddlement. Blake stared at the ones who attacked her and Sun. While they looked human, their appearances made them looked like Grimm. Also from what she had gathered, these Grimm-like individuals were trying to find something. Something that Roman had.

One White Fang member murmured to his comrade who was stuck beside him, "I knew working with this human was going to lead to trouble."

"Excuse me," Roman snapped. "I can hear you."

"That's the idea, dumbass," The White Fang mook deadpanned.

"I have to agree with Putty Patroller, this really looks like your fault," Sun mocked the criminal.

Roman gritted his teeth. "And how do all of you know?"

Another White Fang mook filled in, "They seemed to know you."

Then another, "Your face was an indication."

A third mook continued, "Plus, you said 'uh oh!'. Unless you were looking at the Officer Hotpants Billboard, that means you were referring to these guys which means you know them."

"Three strikes and you're out," Sun giggled to himself.

Before Roman was about to talk back, Blake voiced out, "I have questions Torchwick."

The criminal looked at the female Faunus who resumed talking, "Who or what are they? Where did they come from? And why do they look like Grimm?"

Roman was about to say that she has no right to ask but given the situation he had no choice. For once, he complied, "I can't answer questions one and three because I have no idea what they are but I can answer question two. It all started a year ago, a friend of mine contacted me. He said that he found something outside the walls and that whatever it was will make him rich. Naturally as an opportunistic businessman, I couldn't resist."

As they listened, Roman continued, "I arrived and my friend led me to a mountain. What was weird about it was that lodged on to it was a fortress."

"A fortress?" Blake repeated.

"Yes, a fortress kitty cat." After receiving a glare from the girl, Roman continued, "Anyway, we entered the damn thing and encountered these guys. They picked us off one by one until I was left. I managed to get out of there and blasted the place to the ground with explosives. After that, it came down along with the entire mountain and a large portion of the land. I thought that was it until...you know."

"You drop a mountain on them," Sun whistled. "No wonder they're pissed."

"What did you take?"

"What?" Roman turned to Blake.

Blake said, "I overheard one of their conversations and based on what I'm hearing, they're trying to find something which belonged to them. Something which you STOLE from them. That's why they are keeping us alive because they think you or one of us know where it is. So let me repeat, what did you take?"

After Blake, soon Sun and even Roman's White Fang allies glared at Roman as well. Their suspicions were correct. It was Torchwick's fault that they were in this mess. Roman shifted his eyes in response. Meanwhile back to the robed ones, they were having a discussion.

"What are we going to do, Ranha?" said the Aardvark wearer to the Piranha wearer named Ranha.

Ranha tried to calm her comrade. "Look Varkaad, there are many places we haven't search yet. The piece might be there."

"We may not need to search further my comrades." Alako's voice attracted the two. "Because our guests have woken up."

Alako pointed at the awakened captives. With that, the three grinned. As this happened, all of a sudden, a torn metal safe was smashed through a window of an office and crashed to the floor below.

Everyone then looked at the one at the office who threw the safe. Blake noticed that many of them were silent when they saw him. Blake deduced he must be the leader. He wore robes and has markings on his face like the others before him. However, the armor on his shoulders and ornament on his head were that of a deer.

The Deer wearer have a look at those below. He turned to the Aardvark wearer who panicked. The Deer user asked, "Have you found it?"

"Nothing yet, my Lord," whimpered the Aardvark wearer.

The Deer wearer growled ferally frightening Varkaad.

Ranha intervened. "However we do have one good news my Lord. Our guests have awakened."

The leader turned to the ones that were cocooned in his black ooze and saw they have awakened. Growling once more, the figure with the deer ornament leapt off the office and landed to the ground floor leaving a crater as a result.

He walked over to the captives, focusing on Roman who was chuckling nervously. "Hello fine sir, it is an honor seeing you again. Still wearing black I see. Of course you are, black brings out your charm."

Before Roman could try to say more to save his own skin, the leader suddenly grabbed ahold of the criminal's neck. The monster snarled. "Quiet you pest."

"Okay...okay...shutting up."

"You will only speak when I order you to do so and that time is now." the leader neared his face to Roman's. Then, the Deer wearer's eyes glowed bright red. "Where is the Forge? And I'm not talking about that workshop not far from here."

"Alright!" Roman choked. "I'll talk my Lord...what was your name again?"

"My name?" the leader stopped before giving a dark chuckle. "I once go by the name, Reedolph, member of the illustrious martial arts order, the RinJyuKen Akugata and master of the RinJyu Deer-Ken. However after abandoning my former school, I go by a new name."

The Deer user let go of Roman and boastfully shouted, "You may call me, Wendigo, Lord and Master of the splinter faction, the Grim Claw!"

"What's a Wendigo?" asked one White Fang member.

Wendigo heard and looked at the Faunus. During that brief moment, the goo that cocooned Roman started to light up with orange-yellow. Then, it exploded blinding many with its dust.

Roman landed on the floor and quickly fled to the exit. After blasting away Rinshi and Rinrinshi that got in his way, he succeeded to the door and got out.

Roman looked at his right hand which now had a mechanical gauntlet which allowed him to escape. He always carry this in case of situations like this.

Before he could flee more and cheer on at his victory, he suddenly stopped. Roman was left motionless with his left foot nearly stepping on the ground. Roman was barely able to move his mouth or move his eyes. "What - is - happening?"

And then, he started floating above the ground before returning back to the factory. Once inside, he saw the many kaijin looking very rageful right now. Then, he suddenly turned and Roman saw it was Wendigo who was responsible for him coming back.

"Telepathy," Wendigo grinned. "A useful Semblance I say. It was very fortunate that I found one Huntsman possessing this ability."

Sun and Blake heard what Wendigo had just said and were disturbed. It almost sounded like that he took someone's Semblance. They wanted to know but at the same time they don't.

After that, Roman fell to the ground hard. Wendigo went to the criminal and slammed his foot against his chest. It must have been painful as Roman began coughing blood upon being hit.

"For a criminal who is the scourge of the four kingdoms, you are incredibly easy to bring down to your knees or the back as the case may be," Wendigo mocked. Roman couldn't answer as he was gasping for air. Wendigo gave a dark grin. "Your lackey queried why I took on the name, Wendigo. An excellent question. What is a Wendigo? Well, let me show you."

Everyone watched Wendigo giving off a dark aura.

"Jujin," Wendigo sinisterly whispered, "Jashin Hen."

Wendigo's body started bulging and slowly peeling before exploding in a cloud of dark red. The captives opened their eyes and their eyes went wide. Wendigo has changed. No longer having a human shaped head. Instead, Wendigo now has a head of a deer with pointed ears. Atop his head were the antlers that were stained in blood. On his black clothed body were plates of white armor with red marks like a Grimm's body. Over his blood red eyes was a Grimm mask. His feet were hooves and he had bracers and his hands ended in sharp claws.

Wendigo had some fresh air before looking at the downed Roman. He removed his leg, grabbed Roman by the shoulder and pulled the man towards him. "RinJyu Deer-Ken! Ringi! Shōka Dōka!"

All of a sudden, the criminal started to shake. His body was moving uncontrollably. He began to scream in pain for some reason. The captives watched and then gasped in horror as Roman's skin began to...peel off.

Blake, along with a few others turned their heads away from the sight. After the skin, muscles and organs began to liquefy. Then came the bones. All of them were pulled by a mysterious force and entered into Wendigo's mouth.

After it entered, Wendigo closed his mouth. "Mmmm. That hit the spot."

Wendigo then spoke to the Koala Rinrinshi, "There is a hidden safe inside the wall behind you. Break it open Alako."

Alako complied. He walked to the wall and smashed his fist into it. Wendigo was correct as there was a safe. Alako forcefully pulled it out and threw it towards the group.

When it landed near him, Wendigo kneeled down and turned the safe's lock. Blake watched what the Deer Rinrinshi was doing and was then astonished to see that he gave the correct combination as the safe opened soon after. Blake didn't understand. How did this Wendigo now found the hidden safe and succeeded in opening it in the first try? Only Torchwick knew where the safe was and knew the combination.

Then, it hit her.

Only Torchwick knew. The horrifying spell that Wendigo had inflicted upon him was more than just consuming. When Wendigo consumed, he took everything from his victim. Memories, secrets and even obtaining one's Semblance.

Blake was horrified and thought to herself, 'What are they?'

Wendigo reached inside the safe. Lien poured out until Wendigo pulled out the item he sought.

Wendigo and his cohorts stared at the item in awe. Blake was able to have a look at it. On the palm of Wendigo's hand, it was a jewel. It was beautiful. One could say it could rivaled any gems or treasures in Remnant. It was small and egg shaped that it can work as a necklace. And the color was an ominous dark violet.

"My Lord, what do we do with the rest?" inquired Ranha.

"Have these Faunus to be added to our army," Wendigo calmly replied.

"Army?" Blake whispered.

Before she could think about this further, Wendigo approached her. He leaned towards the Faunus' face and began sniffing at her that looked perverse followed by brushing his hand across the face much to the girl's mixed of shock and disgust. "So young, so beautiful. You'll make a fine general."

Wendigo took another sniff and Blake struggled. Sun after seeing what Wendigo was doing to Blake was angered and shouted, "Get your hands off her you son of a-"

Sun couldn't finish as Wendigo in an instant had used his other arm to grip on Sun's throat tightly.

"SUN!" Blake cried out.

"Your soul will be harvested first," Wendigo snarled before seconds later, he let go of the Faunus. Wendigo stepped back and nodded his minions to do their thing. Just as they were about to…

CRASH!

...help has arrived. Windows were smashed upon and fireballs and swords entered the factory. Rinshi and Rinrinshi were blown back or stabbed. Next to enter was a red blur that sped towards the surprised Grim Claw. The undead martial artists didn't had time to respond as the red blur cut several of them down with her big red scythe.

After blasting away several more Rinshi, the figure twirled her red scythe around, blowing away the smoke revealing herself to be...

"Ruby?" gasped Blake.

The surprised Ruby Rose turned and saw her comrade. "Blake, are you okay?"

Next thing to occur was the main doors of the factory exploding and collapsed to the ground. With it, three girls entered. One had smoke coming out of her gauntlets while another has swords floating around her.

Yang spotted the monsters of Grim Claw. The blonde gave a cheeky smile while pounding her Ember Celica together. "So boys and girls, who wants to go first?"

The Grim Claw growled before several undergo their transformations. "Jujin Jashin Hen!"

The Wolf Rinrinshi turned into their lycan-like forms. Their faces had metal plates over their mouths with glowing red eyes and lupine ears. Their bodies were black while the armor were white with the chest armor looked like Beowolves.

Ranha developed a more feminine figure with dark, scale-covered skin. She wore what looked like a silver bikini armor and had fins on the back of her calves and on her forearms. Her face resembled a fish with gills and a fin on top. Her mouth was filled with sharp teeth and she had red markings on her body like a Grimm.

Alako had a more portly looking form known by its fat. But it was not just fat, it was also muscle. He had on what appeared to be a pair of shorts and he had red and white tape wrapped around his forearms and his feet. He wore shoulder pads and a chestplate that were white with red markings and his Grimm mask covered everything except for his ears.

With that, the two forces headed to confront one another.

Yang made the first hit sending a Rinshi crashing to the ground. She then dived into a group of them. Ducking under their swipes, Yang blasted them in the guts.

Yang then used both of her hands to grab two Rinshi by the heads and smacked them together. After punching a few more Rinshi into the air, she rammed through and started shooting firebolts at either Rinshi or Rinrinshi.

One bolt exploded beside Ranha who snarled in anger before materializing a bone like sword that have teeth on the edges and assaulted the blonde. Yang spotted her and jumped away from being hit.

"Hey lady, don't bring a sword in a fist fight," Yang joked before firing firebolts.

Seeing the firebolts, the Piranha Rinrinshi spun her blade in front of herself like a spinning fan. The bolts made contact and in a flash they suddenly went past the fish woman and exploded behind her.

Ranha brushed her fingers on her sword. "If this is a fist fight, why bring bullets?"

"Touché." Yang rushed towards Ranha. Yang threw a few punches with Ranha stepping back and blocking the blonde's attacks with her sword. Ranha thrusted her sword causing Yang to step to the side.

Ranha moved forward as she swung her blade. As she did this, the fish woman chanted, "RinJyu Piranha-Ken! Ringi! Tēru Henkan!"

After blocking the attacks, Yang step to the left and when the blade went past her, Yang grabbed the arm holding it. She readied another punch but got slapped in the face.

Yang stumbled back. She shook it off, looked up and to her shock saw Ranha's legs were gone and replacing them was a fish tail. Despite this, the blonde girl fight on. Yang charged and threw a punch at the fish woman.

Just as Yang's fist was near the face, the fish woman suddenly jumped up, avoiding the punch.

Yang blinked in confusion only to receive a smack in the face by a tail fin. Yang recoiled back. She then stared at Ranha who was actually flying through the air. The way she flew looked as if she was swimming in water. Ranha spun around and slapped Yang again sending her back.

"You're looking bright red Blondie. Let me fin you," mocked Ranha who swung her tail once more.

Weiss used her glyphs to launch herself into the undead horde and hit a couple of them before landing. Dodging several swipes, Weiss slashed them across the chests or arms.

Weiss looked up to see a Beowolf Rinrinshi that was about to body slam her only for Penny to jump in and kick it away.

Thanks to Penny, Weiss could impaled her Myrtenaster into the ground turning part of the floor into a sheet of ice. The Rinshi whose feet were on the ice were struggling or fell down. Weiss then skated gracefully on the ice and delivered more damage on the enemy.

Alako looked at this and was not impressed.

"RinJyu Koala-Ken! Ringi! Koara no Tsume Kōgeki!"

The Rinrinshi's short claws turned into 12 inch long claws. With that, Alako jumped into the air.

After slashing a Rinshi, Weiss spotted the monstrous marsupial. The heiress jumped out of the way before Alako slammed his claws into the ice. The ice field exploded after that.

Alako headed to his opponent, trying to claw her. Weiss used her glyphs to go straight up into the air before launching herself to him and thrusted her rapier. She hit him. She repeated this tactic several times before returning to the ground and delivered three more slashes.

Unfortunately, Alako caught the third strike with his claw. He used this chance to swipe at Weiss. Weiss was hit and she then saw another claw attack.

Weiss quickly jumped out of the way and avoided the swipe. Landed, Weiss noticed the sleeve of her dress was shredded. Weiss glared at Alako whose claw held the torn part before he threw it away.

Weiss was shown to be a little displeased at this. She impaled her rapier once more and the ice was headed towards Alako. Then, giant ice crystals burst out of the ground enveloping the Rinrinshi trapping him in an icy prison.

Weiss was relieved for a while until the ice prison started to shake and then exploded. The kaijin, freed from his icy prison, growled. "I hate the cold."

Meanwhile as the battle raged on, Ruby attempted to free Blake and the other captives.

"Eeewww." Ruby had just touched the slime and was grossed out. Seeing this was taking too long, Blake called out.

"Ruby." Blake got her friend's attention. "There's a glove on the floor. Do you see it?"

Ruby looked around and found the glove belonging to the deceased Roman Torchwick. "Yeah."

"Use it. It generates enough heat that can hardened the slime for us to break free."

"Got it." Ruby put it on and activated it. When she touched the slime with the glove, the slime hardened. With that, Blake and the others broke free from their prison.

When Blake landed, Ruby then went to hug her friend. "I'm so happy you're safe."

Blake was about to reply until Yang skidded near the group while grappling with a snarling Beowolf Rinrinshi whose claws were very near her golden locks.

Yang called out to them, "If you guys are finished, perhaps you can help us in fighting these guys."

Ruby, Blake and Sun looked to the White Fang who instead of helping, fled for their lives. So, it was just the three of them to help their friends.

Blake soon noticed one Rinrinshi was not fighting. She found him, Wendigo and he was about to make his leave along with the jewel. She did not know what does the jewel do but she had the feeling something bad will happen if this monster left with it.

"Stop Wendigo!" Blake shouted.

"Wen-who?" Ruby was puzzled until Blake bolted away. "Blake, wait."

Wendigo was completely aware of the fighting that was occurring right now but he did not care and simply let his forces to take care of it. He had what he needed.

As he was about leave, he sensed danger and turned around to block a strike. Wendigo pushed back his attacker and saw it was Blake. However when Wendigo saw her, he did not feel threatened. Instead, he chuckled.

Blake charged right in and try to hit the leader of the Grim Claw with her blade. Wendigo stepped back from it.

It was a one sided battle. Blake swung her katana at the head but Wendigo moved his head back. Blake thrusted her blade but Wendigo sidestepped to the right. The cat Faunus did a flying kick and Wendigo casually ducked under it.

Every time Blake attacked, Wendigo avoided them with surprising speed and he was doing this with his hands behind his back. He was merely toying with her.

Having grown bored of this, Wendigo struck back. After dodging another attack, Wendigo raised his leg and kicked Blake. Blake stumbled back but she shrugged it off and resumed fighting. Wendigo avoided another swipe and sent a palm strike at Blake's back. Blake turned around and received a left hook that sent her skidding across the floor.

Not far, Ruby had swung her Crescent Rose down, taking out a Beowolf Rinrinshi before pressing the trigger and the recoil sent her spinning and hitting many enemies at once.

After halting, she then noticed her friend in trouble. "Blake!"

Ruby used her speed Semblance to dash towards Wendigo. She was near and readied her Crescent Rose. At her speed, the force of the blow would be devastating. With a yell, she brought her Crescent Rose down upon Wendigo's head.

It connected but to Ruby's surprise, the blade did not make a scratch upon Wendigo's head. Wendigo halted and looked at the new attacker. Ruby gasped as Wendigo grabbed hold of her Crescent Rose and dragged her over to him. She tried to pull her weapon free from his grasp but his grip was firm.

"Were you hoping of cutting me in half, little girl?" asked Wendigo.

Ruby's eyes narrowed as she pulled the trigger, hitting Wendigo with a Dust round at full blank. She did this repeatedly until her entire cartridge was emptied. Much to her amazement, no marks were left by her projectiles.

Wendigo scoffed and smacked Ruby with his other hand, knocking her to the ground. He examined her weapon before carrying it over to Ruby as she groaned.

"This didn't cut me, but perhaps it will cut you," Wendigo threatened as he raised it up, only to suddenly be hit by an immense blast of green energy that engulfed him. He was sent flying and tumbling along the ground, dropping the Crescent Rose and his prized jewel along the way.

Ruby looked at the person who fired that beam. It was Penny. Before making their grand entrance, Ruby along with Yang and Weiss discovered Penny's true combat potential which was summoning these swords from her backpack. Penny could also configure the swords together into any shape making new attacks. Weiss and Yang just jaw dropped when they saw it while Ruby went hyper upon seeing it and wanted to know how it works once this was over.

"Ruby, are you unharmed?" Penny asked her new friend.

"Just a bit sore, but I'm fine," Ruby answered. Thank goodness for her Aura.

"A lucky shot but still utterly futile."

Relief was cut short when a voice was heard that gained the girls' attention. Penny and Ruby turned to the presumed defeated Wendigo but to their shock, the kaijin picked himself up and dusted off his clothes. After being hit by a beam that size, he remain unharmed. The leader of the Grim Claw cracked his neck before turning to his enemies.

Wendigo noticed Penny was about to fire that green beam but Wendigo was not fazed by this as he knew what to do next. At the Rinrinshi's hand, electricity was forming around his fingers. Just as Penny was about to fire, Wendigo fired first, sending huge lightning bolts to hit Penny.

Lightning flowed into Penny's body as sparks were flying everywhere. Penny began to shake violently. Her eyes were twitching and flailing her arms and legs everywhere. With one final push from Wendigo, Penny was sent flying and she crashed into a pile of boxes.

"PENNY!" Ruby shouted in horror. Penny did not respond. She laid motionless and smoke rose from her body. It wasn't long before horror quickly turned into rage. Ruby gritted her teeth and gave a wrathful glare at Wendigo. This person hurt her friend. Now, she decided she was going to hurt him in return. She grabbed her scythe and roared as she confronted Wendigo once again.

Sun jumped and attacked the Rinshi. He took out his staff and hitting five Rinshi that were going to attack him. Sun performed a bicycle kick on a sixth Rinshi before sending it flying towards two Beowolf Rinrinshi with one smacking the mook away.

Sun swung his staff but the Beowolf Rinrinshi blocked the blow with its claw. Sun then swung at the side but the monster blocked that as well. The Rinrinshi ducked allowing the other to leapt over it and punched Sun in the chest.

The monkey Faunus changed tactics as he turned his staff into its nunchaku form. Sun fired everything he got but surprisingly the two kaijin dodged them with shocking speed. Sun got hit with a dropkick but he managed to dodge a claw swipe.

When they were close, Sun swung his weapons firing at a fast pace. Many shots hit at the Beowolves' hide. It seemed to be pushing them back until the two Beowolves broke through and punched simultaneously sending Sun into the air.

Just after picking herself up, Blake was attacked by Rinshi who fired a barrage of blasts at her. She ran to avoid them. After taking cover in one of the machines, Blake opened fire on them. She converted her katana into its pistol form and swung it around, shooting the undead that appeared from all sides.

Hearing a roar, Blake saw a Beowolf Rinrinshi attempting to strike her down. Blake blocked the attack with her Gambol Shroud. She jumped back avoiding another claw swipe.

Blake threw her pistol and twirled it around, leaving slashes on the beast. The Rinrinshi saw the pistol coming back and avoided it before speeding towards the cat Faunus.

The Rinrinshi delivered a kick but hit Blake's shadow clone instead. Blake swung her sheath up, hitting it at the chin followed by firing bullets into the monster's stomach. The Beowolf Rinrinshi still stand from Blake's bullets and retaliated by headbutting her.

The battle was not in the humans and Faunus' favor. They had faced criminal masterminds and giant monsters but the people they're confronting were on a different level.

Ruby was pushed back by Wendigo's palm strike. Like Blake before, Ruby was totally outmatched by this monstrous stag. Ruby stumbled back and spotted Wendigo who was about to swipe at her. She moved her Crescent Rose in front to defend herself but the swipe hit the weapon instead and it was sent flying from her hands.

Ruby, now without her Crescent Rose, stared at Wendigo who towered menacingly over her. Without her Crescent Rose, Ruby had to go physical. She ran to him and delivered several punches but unfortunately, it had no effect.

With that, Wendigo finally punched the girl in the face and she was sent skidding across the ground.

Fortunately, Ruby was still breathing. Wendigo walked towards the young Huntress who despite being inflicted with these brutal attacks tried her best to get up again. Ruby knew things were getting grim but that won't stop her. Her friends were in danger and when they're in danger, she will not stop fighting until they're safe.

As she continued trying to picked herself up, one of her hands landed on something. Ruby sensed what she touched. She picked it up and looked at what she was holding.

Finally, Wendigo arrived and grabbed Ruby. Wendigo looked at his fallen opponent with sadistic glee. "Your skills are remarkable. You could have been wonderful in my army but I think abilities such as yours would be better off with me."

Ruby tried hard to escape as Wendigo was preparing to devour her. But it was futile.

Wendigo was about to finish it until a light shone on his face. The Deer Rinrinshi stopped what he was doing. The light was so bright that he was nearly blinded by this and used his other hand to block it.

He wondered where did the light came from. He searched and found where it was. The light was coming from Ruby's hand. Narrowing his eyes closer, he discovered what she was holding. It was the jewel.

Just as he realized this, the light began to glow brighter. The light grew stronger as it spread across the battlefield. The combatants saw this and all closed their eyes as the light enveloped them.

The light continued this way for a few minutes before it finally died down. One by one, everyone opened their eyes. When Wendigo opened his, the first thing he saw was an orange blade swung at him.

SLASH!

To Wendigo's surprise, the blade cut through him as spark burst out of his body. Wendigo stumbled back in pain which resulted in him to let go of Ruby. Ruby dropped to the floor and coughed for air.

Everyone in the factory stopped fighting to stare at Wendigo and the one who successfully managed in landing a blow on him.

Ruby, having taken some deep breaths, finally looked at what was going on. What she saw blew her mind away. Standing in front of the Huntress in training was a warrior.

He wore a blue bodysuit with gold bracers and greaves on his arms and legs. He wore a belt that had a black belt buckle and a gold strap with a sword attached to the left side of his waist. The armor that covered the suit made him looked like a samurai. Lastly on the warrior's hand was an orange slice-like blade. Ruby couldn't believe it. This was the warrior from her dreams; the masked rider.

"Where am I?" Gaim wondered as he saw the abandoned factory. As Gaim tried to understand the situation he was in, Wendigo while touching the place where the Daidaimaru hit him stared at Gaim almost at disbelief. The other members of the Grim Claw panicked at the sight of this new arrival.

"An Armored War God!" shouted the Piranha Rinrinshi.

"A what?" Yang voiced, having heard Ranha's yell.

"Take him down! Take him down now!" Varkaad barked non-stop at the Rinshi and Rinrinshi to attack the new individual.

Hearing the yells, Gaim saw the Rinshi coming at him and he narrowed his eyes. While he had questions of where he was, there was absolutely no question of what he must do.

"You wanna fight? Well, then you're getting one! I am Armored War God Gaim!" Gaim drew his Musou Saber and shouldered it, "The Ultimate Sword, Arriving on Stage!"

He dashed forward and slashed at the Rinshi in his path. He spun around and shot them with the Musou Saber as well before swiftly taking them down. Connecting his swords together, he ducked under a Rinshi's swing and locked his Orange Lockseed into the Musou Saber.

"LOCK ON!"

"1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000!"

"Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!" Gaim shouted as he spun in a circle and swung his sword repeatedly.

"ORANGE CHARGE!"

The resulting energy release took on the shape of an energy slice which bisected the Rinshi around him.

A Beowolf Rinrinshi tackled into Gaim and knocked him down. The Rinshi followed their comrade's lead and started to dogpile on Gaim, burying him under a pile made out of their bodies. The idea was to wear him out so it would be much easier to take him down.

The idea didn't work out, however, when a loud announcement was heard.

"SOIYA! PINE ARMS!"

The Rinshi screamed as an energy shockwave threw them into the air as a pineapple-shaped Armor Part landed on Gaim's head before disassembling to form his armor.

"FUNSAI DESTROY!"

Gaim twirled the Pine Iron above his head and began to hurl it at the Rinshi, knocking them down painfully. He used it like a club to bludgeon his opponents before hitting his belt's Cutting Blade twice.

"SOIYA! PINE AU LAIT!"

He threw the Pine Iron, tying up the Rinshi together with the chain before he jumped and performed a flying kick, destroying them with a violent explosion.

"Now it's time for some precision," Gaim uttered.

"BLUEBERRY! LOCK ON! SOIYA! BLUEBERRY ARMS! ALLONS-Y, EN GARDE!"

Gaim entered a fencer's stance, brandishing the Berrapier and Blue Gauche before he swiftly glided towards his opponents. He wasted no movements as he used his weapons to perform precise and lethal strikes upon the Rinshi. They fell by his blades as he systematically took them down with ease.

Still, their numbers were huge and it seemed like there was no end to them.

"Gotta wipe them all out now," Gaim said to himself before activating his Ichigo Lockseed.

"ICHIGO! LOCK ON! SOIYA! ICHIGO ARMS! SHUSHUTTO SPARK!"

He drew his Musou Saber and quickly transferred his Ichigo Lockseed from his Sengoku Driver to the Musou Saber's Drive Launch.

"1, 10, 100! ICHIGO CHARGE!"

With a loud yell, Gaim swung and shot out a large collection of explosive Ichigo Kunai which swarmed the Rinshi and Beowolf Rinrinshi, destroying them instantly. He repeated this several more times, destroying more and more of them.

After destroying a large majority, Gaim took notice of Wendigo and concluded, 'That must be the leader.'

Gaim finally analyzed the RinJyuKen. While they wore the robes of the undead school, their appearance were completely different. Looking further, they had an uncanny resemblance to the monsters that attacked Shoku during the Blossom Festival.

Gaim quickly rushed towards Wendigo who snarled, "I don't have time for this, Varkaad!"

As commanded, Varkaad attacked Gaim. Gaim saw this and blocked the attack. The two clashed with each other until the Aardvark Rinrinshi pushed his opponent and himself into the wall. The wall collapsed and both combatants were out of the factory.

After seeing that, Wendigo swatted away a pair of swords that were about to hit him.

Ruby, still on the floor recognized those swords. Hearing footsteps, Ruby looked to her left and saw…Penny. The surprised Ruby stared. She thought Penny died. Looking at the freckled girl. Other than a few burn marks, Penny was unharmed.

Penny having noticed Ruby, gave a helping hand to her. Ruby took it and she got off the ground. After that, the girl in the red hood teared up a bit before embracing Penny in a hug. "Penny, you're alright."

She thought Penny was dead. She couldn't be even more happier that she was wrong.

Penny realizing she had scared her friend gave a warm smile. "Of course I am, Ruby."

After easing Ruby, Penny then glared at Wendigo who was still amazed at seeing her alive. Penny gently pushed Ruby away. "Ruby, you take a rest. I'll handle this."

Penny summoned more of her blades and was ready to take on the enemy. Then, Ruby's hand touched her shoulder.

"No, we do this together," said Ruby who had just retrieved her Crescent Rose and reloaded it with a new cartridge. She had also put the jewel she found into her pouch.

Smiling, Penny nodded in agreement and with that, they attacked Wendigo.

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Outside the factory, it didn't took long for Gaim and Varkaad to take their battle into the city. Gaim charged at the Rinrinshi. The Rinrinshi performed a backflip and landed on a car. Gaim jumped onto the car and started trading blows with the Rinrinshi. A kick sent the Rinrinshi sprawling to the ground. Gaim then pointed and fired his Musou Saber, forcing the Rinrinshi to roll out of the way.

"Dammit! Jujin Jashin Hen!" the Rinrinshi roared and changed into what appeared to be a demonic warrior modeled after an aardvark. He had a hump on his back and had clawed gauntlets on his forearms. His face had a long, trunk-like nose and had short ears. He also had small eyes but they were hidden by his Grimm mask.

"RinJyu Aardvark-Ken! Varkaad!" the Rinrinshi declared in his Beastman form.

The Aardvark Beastman then made his offensive. "RinJyu Aardvark-Ken! Ringi! Shita Surappu!" The Rinrinshi attacked as a long tongue shot out of the aardvark's face on his chest. Gaim did not see it coming as he was slapped and sent flying off the car. Gaim went tumbling. The tongue then wrapped around his ankle and dragged him over to Varkaad who had energy clenched in his fist.

"RinJyu Aardvark-Ken! Ringi! Ari no Kōgeki!" Varkaad shouted as the energy turned into a swarm of ants that crawled all over Gaim. They bit into his armor and Gaim cried out as each of the ants were trying to cut holes into his armor to get in and bite him to death.

Gaim collapsed to the ground. Varkaad started giggling maniacally, believing he had won until his arrogance blinded him from what was happening in front of him. Gaim pulled out the Musou Saber and fired two shots at Varkaad. The Rinrinshi was thrown backwards from the shot, releasing Gaim, and breaking his concentration. Gaim felt relieved when he didn't feel the ants biting him but he still ached in places.

Gaim returned to his feet and unlocked his Orange Lockseed and Grapefruit Energy Lockseed.

"ORANGE!"

"GRAPEFRUIT ENERGY!"

After replacing the Ichigo Lockseed with the Orange Lockseed and placing the Grapefruit Energy Lockseed into the Genesis Core, he locked them in and hit the Cutting Blade.

"LOCK ON! SOIYA!"

The Orange and Grapefruit Energy Armor Parts fused together to form the Jimber Armor Part before coming down to become his armor.

"MIX! JIMBER GRAPEFRUIT! HA-HA!"

Varkaad got back to his feet only to be assaulted by a barrage of energy bolts fired by Gaim. He was sent backing away by each shot. He tried to dodge the shots but they curved in the air and hit him no matter where he went.

Deciding to go melee, Gaim charged at his opponent and slashed him with his Sonic Arrow. Gaim struck Varkaad repeatedly with the blades of the Sonic Arrow before a swipe from Varkaad sent him flying. Gaim flipped through the air and pulled the Sonic Arrow's shaft before releasing a shot that curved through the air to hit Varkaad in the chest.

Gaim managed to land on his feet and continued to fire on Varkaad. Gaim wasn't going to let him go and decided to finish the fight. He struck his Sengoku Driver's Cutting Blade and prepared his finisher.

"SOIYA! ORANGE SQUASH! JIMBER GRAPEFRUIT SQUASH!"

Gaim fired his Sonic Arrow and a series of alternating orange and grapefruit slices lined up between him and Varkaad. Leaping into the air, Gaim executed a flying kick as he flew through the slices, his body being covered by energy before he smashed his foot into Varkaad who screamed as he exploded.

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Back at the factory, many of the kaijin forces have been destroyed thanks to Gaim leaving only a small number left.

With it, the Huntresses in training and their friends caught their second wind.

Sun had used his Semblance to summoned two energy clones of himself. Both clones rushed towards Alako and exploded upon contact.

Alako was distracted and Blake jumped in and swung her Gambol Shroud in its sheath form down on Alako. Leaping back, Blake swung her Gambol Shroud and delivered additional hits.

Weiss had just cut down a Beowolf Rinrinshi while Yang defended the white haired girl from a strike by another Beowolf Rinrinshi before sending it away in flames.

The two girls jumped away avoiding a swipe from the air by Ranha. Yang and Weiss fired everything they had, leading Ranha to avoid the projectiles.

As for Ruby and Penny, they were dodging crimson blasts from Wendigo. After avoiding another blast, Ruby and Penny fired bolts and swords pushing Wendigo back.

Wendigo fired again. Penny sent her swords and managed to tangle Wendigo's arm with the strings attached to them. She pulled the strings causing Wendigo to stumble.

Ruby took the opportunity to attack and landed a few slashes on him. Wendigo may have taken on Ruby and Penny individually but now that the two teamed up, the odds were almost even.

Releasing Wendigo, Penny barraged the Deer Rinrinshi with more swords. Ruby sped towards Wendigo. Accelerating to her fullest, she jumped and spun herself. Even the hood followed Ruby's action and it soon wrapped around her turning her into a drill.

Ruby landed a direct hit causing Wendigo to grunt until he roared and sent out a shockwave that sent Ruby back. Penny caught her friend on time.

"I had enough of this!" Wendigo yelled. He was about to use another Semblance until fate intervened.

"GRAPEFRUIT ENERGY!"

A charged energy arrow struck Wendigo and sent him toppling as it exploded. The arrow belonged to Gaim who had returned to the factory. He noticed Ruby and Penny.

"Are you girls alright?" Gaim asked the two who were stunned by his appearance.

They remained silent for a while. Gaim gotten worried believing they were really hurt until Ruby finally blurted out, "You're the guy!"

"I'm sorry...what?" Gaim took a step back from Ruby's shout. However, Gaim noticed the shout was not the distressed/panicked type but an excited/joyous type.

Ruby shook Penny's shoulders as she excitedly shouted, "Penny, he's the guy! He's the guy from my dream!"

Ruby pointed Penny to the samurai. Penny didn't understand what was happening but she went along with it regardless and cheerfully greeted, "Hi Ruby's guy!"

Gaim was...confused at what was happening. That was not the kind of reaction he was expecting. He did experienced Ryuubi's but this one was...different. Suddenly, a thought came to him. Gaim looked at the girl with the red hood. She looked familiar to him. Did he saw her before?

Not long, Yang appeared to the group having leapt back to avoid being hit. "I'm really starting to hate that scaly bit-"

"Yang!" Ruby nudged Yang. "Look, it's the guy! The guy from my dream!"

"Sis, this is not the time." Yang tried to calm her sister down. However after Ruby said Yang's name, Gaim took a step back.

"Yang?" Gaim whispered. This blonde had the same name as his adopted mother. Gaim analyzed the blonde named Yang. When he did, he gasped after that. Not only by name, the teenager actually looked like a younger version of his adopted mother. Then, the word 'sis' entered his mind. The girl with the hood was the blonde's sister. Does that mean she's...

Yang finally looked at the orange samurai but she raised an eyebrow at seeing his weird behavior. "Uhhh…what's wrong with him?"

No one said as Ruby was suddenly tackled by Ranha attracting their attention. Ruby struggled but Ranha proved stronger as she grabbed the jewel from Ruby's pouch and then tossed the girl away.

"Aha!" Ranha cheered until she got kicked in the chest by Blake causing her to drop the jewel to the floor.

Wendigo shook his head off and saw the jewel. He barked to his cohorts, "Obtain the Forge!"

Blake shouted as well, "Get the jewel!"

Alako was the first to grab the jewel but Yang's fireballs hit him. Blinded in the smoke, the jewel he held was snatched away by Sun.

Sun dodged several pounces by Rinshi and Rinrinshi until a Beowolf Rinrinshi kicked the jewel out of his hand and two Rinshi pounced on the Faunus.

Amazingly, the jewel landed on Weiss' palm who was wondering what was happening right now. Then Ranha appeared and slapped the white haired girl with her fin causing Weiss to drop the jewel. Luckily, Yang caught it.

"I got it!" Yang cheered until two giant clawed hands grabbed her from behind.

Alako snarled. "I'll snap your neck!"

But before he could commit the act, Gaim tackled Alako. Then, Gaim proceeded to mercilessly strike the Koala Beastman with his Sonic Arrow without giving him a chance to fight back.

Yang was distracted, leading Wendigo to fire a surprise shot at the jewel from her hand. The jewel was in the air once more. Wendigo head to it but he was too late as Blake caught it.

Angered, Wendigo fired crimson blasts at her. But before he could do more, Ruby and Penny grabbed him, trying to hold him down.

Blake fled until Ranha appeared in front of her. Ranha hit Blake with her tail. The jewel flew from Blake's grip and Ranha possessed it.

"HAAHH!" Suddenly, Ranha looked up and witnessed the now fiery haired Yang descending towards her with a fiery fist. Then came the explosion.

Wendigo has just tossed Ruby and Penny away while Gaim had just blasted Alako into a machine. The two soon saw the jewel flew past them before it landed on the ground once again.

After seeing that the jewel was not far from where they stood, the two glared at one another.

Gaim don't know what the jewel was but if the RinJyuKen were after it, that meant it was not good.

Gaim and Wendigo remained where they were for a while before running towards the jewel. As they made their way, the two exchanged blasts at one another. Both were very near to the jewel. After jumping over Wendigo's blast, Gaim fired his arrows.

Wendigo fired more blasts but as they were about to destroy Gaim's arrows, the arrows curved. The arrows avoided the blasts surprising Wendigo who then got hit by them.

With it, Gaim was first. He leapt and grabbed the jewel. Suddenly after that, a dark hand grabbed his hand that held the jewel and it belonged to Wendigo.

The two struggled, both determined to have it. But before it continued even further, the jewel responded once more. All of a sudden, the light returned and enveloped the factory once more. It died down a while later. The Grim Claw opened their eyes. They looked around and saw the humans and Faunus that gave them so much trouble were gone.

Wendigo searched and found that the samurai was gone as well. Then, he noticed a light below him. Wendigo looked down at the floor and saw the jewel. The rock glow for a short while before it stopped and died down returning to its normal state.

He picked it up and smirked. He had it and with that, he can go on and retrieved the rest. "Grim Claw, let us return to our fortress! We still have more of the pieces to find!"

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World of Sangokuden

The battle was over at Shoku. However, another problem has risen. After destroying the invading monsters, Armored War God Gaim suddenly disappeared. Everyone panicked after seeing it.

"Hawawa! This is terrible! Nagata-sama is gone!" Komei panicked. It was like the tournament all over again. Who knew when he would return or if he would return at all.

"Do not panic," Ryofu consoled the younger girl. "He will come back."

"Ren's right! Nagata-niichan would never abandon us!" agreed Chouhi.

Just after saying it, a bright light blinded them. The light faded away soon after. They opened their eyes and to their shock, Gaim had reappeared in front of them.

"Nagata-sama!" shouted Kanu who hugged her leader followed by Ryofu.

Gaim looked around and saw he was back in Shoku. He closed his Lockseeds and allowed his armor to vanish.

"What happened?" Nagata asked, both to himself and the others.

"You disappeared for a moment there, Nagata-sama," Kanu told him.

"I did?"

"Yeah, you just vanished," confirmed Bacho. "What happened?"

Nagata was about to reply but he stopped for some reason. "Hey, do you girls hear that?"

They stayed quiet for a while. Bacho responded, "Yeah, I hear it. What is that?"

"Where's that coming from?" Nagata concentrated further and he soon realized that the sound he was hearing was coming from the sky.

"Heads uuuuuuuup!" Nagata looked up at the sky. Up at the sky, a young girl was falling and she was crashing towards...HIM! "AAAHHH!"

BLAM!

"Nagata-sama!" Kanu rushed towards her love. Nagata laid on the ground, still delirious after being hit by the falling girl. The girl who had a red hood was trying to rub her head while still sitting on top of the Armored War God.

"Ouch..." whimpered the girl. Then she saw someone pointing a spear at her neck. "What...?"

"Step away from Nagata-sama," threatened Kanu.

"Who?" said Ruby Rose.

"The one you're sitting on," Chou'un explained.

Ruby looked down and finally saw the boy she was sitting on. She jumped back in fright and said, "I'm so sorry!"

"You got 10 seconds to explain." Kanu was not having it until Nagata began regaining consciousness.

"Ugh-"

"Nagata-sama!" Kanu tended to the young man. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just had a girl fall on me," Nagata said.

"Compared to falling for you?" Iori joked.

"I'm so sorry!" Ruby apologized to the young man. "I didn't mean to!"

As he rubbed his head, Nagata looked at the girl that fell on him. After taking a small glance, his eyes went wide and he started staring silently at her.

"What is it?" Ruby asked. Nagata continued to stare at Ruby. All of a sudden, he leaned towards her. His face was getting nearer to Ruby much to her fluster. "Can you please...stop staring at me?"

Then, Nagata raised his hands and touched Ruby's cheeks. "Okay, this is getting awkward. I don't like awkward."

The others stared at this in confusion but there was a reason why Nagata was acting like this. He had brief memories to his past. He remembered his adopted mother, Yang, showed him pictures of her days as a teenager with her sister. This girl resembled her. Finally, in front of Nagata was someone he wanted to meet again.

After a long silence, Nagata finally spoke, "...Mom?"

Everyone gasped and Ruby's face was blank for a while before popping up in total shock. "Excuse me!?"

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Hunt of the Armored War Gods Bio:

Mato Tokugawa (AU counterpart of Mato Kuroi from Black Rock Shooter): Mato Tokugawa is Iori Tokugawa and Ichiro Tokugawa's grandmother. When she was young, she was a girl filled with life and energy but it soon ended by the time when she reached 20, her parents put her through an arranged marriage with a man who was head of the Tokugawa Company at the time. After Mato gave birth to Iori and Ichiro's father, her husband trained their child to run the company in the future. Mato and her son rarely interacted and after her husband passed away and her son took over, they lost contact. A sad life it was for her until the day when her son brought his own sons to visit their grandmother. Around the time Iori was three, Mato passed away. Iori was still young so he did not remember her well. Ichiro on the other hand knew his grandmother, Mato very well as a kind and loving woman and that spending time with her grandsons was the best thing that happened to her ever since she entered the Tokugawas.

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Lost Scrolls of the RinJyuKen (Scrolls of the Grim Claw)

Deer-Ken: This is Reedolph's original style which relies on fast and sharp strikes with the limbs and antlers. However after an unknown event that transformed him and his allies into their Grimm personas, Reedolph, now go by the name Wendigo possessed the same but enhanced abilities along with new techniques.

Digestion Assimilation (Shōka Dōka): His technique is to absorb the knowledge and abilities from the prey he devours. Important to note is that this was not part of the skills of the original Deer-Ken.

Piranha-Ken: Ranha's style which utilizes fast moves to overwhelm the enemy, much like a school of piranha when they discover prey.

Tail Transformation (Tēru Henkan): Ranha can change her legs into a tail which enable her to 'swim' through the air at high speed. She can also use the tail as a weapon to smash her enemies. She is very agile and prefers this form as she hates walking.

Koala-Ken: The style utilizes brute force and while the practitioners are quite bulky, they are also surprisingly fast. The user's raw strength and speed allows this style to be very devastating.

Koala Claw Attack (Koara no Tsume Kōgeki): A claw strike attack with devastating results.

Aardvark-Ken: Varkaad's style which is based on the aardvark and relies on long-ranged tactics.

Tongue Slap (Shita Surappu): As suggested by the name, the user performs an attack by utilizing their tongue as a whip.

Ant Attack (Ari no Kōgeki): The user generates a swarm of ants with their Rinki to attack the enemy.