(Now, after finishing up on Uriah. Back to our regularly scheduled program.)

Come and See

Third Person POV, Frostpeak Prison

As Ozpin and Ironwood made there way down the cold and concrete hallways of the prison, guards saluted the general as they pass. Each time Ironwood gives a small nod when they do so.

That is until they make their way to an elevator, which after pressing the up button comes up. The door opening up for the two men to then head inside, and soon they are going down...and down...and down...fifty floors down and it comes to a stop.

One event that has happened since yesterday is that Ozpin has been sent pictures of who he assumes to be Klaus Schwarz, along side people dressed in white robes carrying weaponry. And with them are...creatures that he knows that Cain and the Elder Thing that goes by the name Dula know.

As for him? Well, some things are not meant to be learned.

Once the elevator doors open up there is simply two things along the hallway: a door, and two heavily armed guards. "Hello General. Headmaster Ozpin." One says, his voice heavily filtered by a helmet on his head.

"Gentlemen, I need to...speak...with the thing inside the cell." Ironwood speaks with a tense pause

The one who spoke gives a solemn nod, the other approaches with a tablet very much like a Scroll. "I'm sure that you've heard the report a thousand times already General, but...do you want me to go through what crimes it's committed?"

Ironwood sighs, looking to Ozpin who merely nods.

"Yes. Go through it again."

The guard nods and looks to the tablet, "'Two hundred accounts of ritualistic murder, victims reported to have had their skin flayed off and decapitated. Victims ages ranging from as young as...four...to as old as eighty." The guard lets out an audible gulp, "Three hundred forty four accounts of mutilation by removal of the limbs, One hundred twenty nine accounts of arson, fifty accounts of cannibalism, and one act of attempted destruction of the four kingdoms of Remnant."

Ironwood and Ozpin look to one another, just before the door opens. And there they see a man: with long, shaggy, brilliant red hair, wearing a mask over his mouth and a straight jacket across his body. He's hunched over in a chair.

The two friends and headmasters of their schools enter into the small, almost cramped room. Once the door closes the man in the straight jacket, looks up to them with a predatory and unhinged smile. His eyes are sunken with irises that are different from one another, one red and the other orange.

Xipe Totec. The Flayer.

Axel's POV

"Hey Axel you mind helping me answer a question?" I hear Yang ask in a hushed whisper, I stop eating my pretzels and turn toward her. "What's up?"

"You remember Uriah's...I dunno what to call it, passive-aggressive greeting to Neptune?"

I nod, "How could I not?"

"Think it's because of Weiss?"

I snort, "Of course it's because of-"

"Whatcha talking about?" One Ruby Rose cuts in, the two of us stop and take a look and see that everyone is starring. From all of JNPR, to my teammates, to Yang's.

"We're talking about..." Yang starts up nudging me with her elbow

"The mission!" I help for her

"Yeah! Yeah that!" She says with a nervous chuckle

"You're a terrible liar." Blake says shaking her head before going back to eating a tuna sandwich, Silas merely grinning as he drinks soup. Not with a spoon: but by lapping it up like a dog.

I'm sorry, wolf

"And you're terrible at picking disguises to hide your youknowwhatsecret Blake." I chide with a roll of my eyes, she merely smiles and looks at me with an amused expression. "Fooled you though." I frown at her and shake my head.

"So Silas, you think you're ever going to show us your whole...'big-run-or-die werewolf' Semblance you mentioned that one time in your sad story?" Uriah asks

"Yeah! It'd be awesome to see that!" Ruby adds in cheerfully, Silas stops lapping up at the soup to look between us all. He then shrugs, "Depends if we end up having to deal with something big like say some huge ass Grimm or a swarm of things. Buuuuut considering the mission Ozpin is apparently sending us on, that probably won't be happening."

"So the Ferrodillo wasn't big enough for you?" Weiss asks furrowing her eyebrows at him

"'Big' in this case meaning the size of a building Weiss, besides..." Silas starts up before looking down into his bowl of soup, "I'd rather not respond to a tank with a super-weapon."

"Hmmm...I guess."

I chuckle a bit, "Still going to be a degenerate." I say grinning ear to ear at my friend who takes a moment to glare at me. "Can you explain to us why he is a degenerate in your eyes Axel?" Weiss asks

I sigh, "I'll show you in the dorm Snow Pea."

Hmmm...

Something wrong there Cthugha?

I dunno man, just feel as though you and your pals here may be walking into a shitshow.

Oh come on. You're being paranoid

Maybe I am, maybe I'm not, it's sure as hell my right to be paranoid. Also to burn things

Speaking of, stop trying to make me a pyromaniac

Awwwww! But you'd like it!

I said NO Fartgas!

Fine, enjoy your lunch human...I'll just go get some methane to inhale

Enjoy breathing in animals farts there buddy

Shut your shitting mouth you shitting little shitfart

Well with animal gas stuck in my head and my stomach well and full, I get up with my tray to go and go to dump it out. As I head over to the trash for dumping out whatever crumbs and the like is still on, I can see Velvet coming over too.

"Hi there Axel!" She says happily with a smile, I smile back and give a little wave. "Hey there Vel, what's up?"

"Ohhh you know...life. Heard your team, Jaune's and Ruby's are going on a mission right?"

"Correcto there."

"Well good luck with that. From me and the rest of CFVY, ya know?"

"I know I know, by the way have you met VOLT yet?"

She puts a finger to her chin before shaking her head, "I don't think so. Why ask?"

"You should probably see with them sometime, not bad group of ladies and one guy."

"Well then, guess it wouldn't hurt."

"Thanks. Tell Coco, Yatsu and Fox I said hey for me."

"You got it." She says nodding, "Oh! Mind if I do something real quick?"

I squint my eyes at her in a bit of confusion, "What is it?"

She smiles and pulls out a camera, "Practice my photography!...well a bit later I mean." She says with a nervous bit of laughter, "Not right now."

I shrug, "Don't see why not. Anyways, take care there my floppy eared friend."

"Thanks, you too."

I head back over to my group of friends and take a seat, "Now anyone have any questions about anything? I'll only answer three" I ask, and everyone raises their hands. Might as well get Nora out of the way.

"Yeah Nora?"

"Do sloths make noise?" She asks with a wide smile, I was expecting either something unknown or something about pancakes

"I mean...yeah? I-I think?"

"A-HAH! Told you Ren!" She cries out happily, leading said narcoleptic to groan and shake his head.

"I was going to ask that you don't answer Nora's question, sorry about that."

I shrug, onto Uriah. I give a point and he puts his hand down

"Where do babies come from?" He asks dryly, I frown at him and shake my head in disappointment

"Not in front of innocent little Ruby and Roy."

"Hey!" The two snap obviously annoyed, I look over at the two and grin. "Calm down, calm down."

"Now then, Jaune?"

"We're going to be fine right?"

"Of course! It'll all be fiiiiiiine." I say reaching over to pat his shoulder

Third Person POV, Frostpeak Prison

Xipe kept looking between Ironwood and Ozpin, dear 'ol Jamey and Ozzy. "You both've aged pretty well!" He says jovially earning a scowl from the general, but nothing more than a frown from Ozpin. "Then again, we did start this whole song and dance when I was pretty little." Xipe then lets out a cackle

"Shut up." Ironwood harshly snaps causing the red-haired man to stop laughing, Ozpin hands over his Scroll and places it in front of Xipe who looks at it curiously. "It seems that associates from your past have come back." Ozpin says in his usual calm tone, "Do you know anything about this?"

"Fuck man, I had no idea. Seems those bright color wearing guys are back...at least their a lot more fun then you guys were."

Ironwood slams his fist on the table and leans in close with a harsh look on his face, Xipe looking disinterested besides a smile partially hidden by the mask on his face. "If you are a part of this in any way, we will find out." He growls, "You can't-"

"Oh Jamey! You're so boring, you know?" Xipe cuts in casually, "Would it hurt you to pull that tree-sized stick out of your ass? But still, look at you now! In your big boy pants. Be proud of yourself!" He jovially says, his gaze shifts over towards Ozpin

"I mean, the guy you're with here has a track record of loosing people." He says with his voice dripping with malice, "But we can't really talk to the last two about their work, can we, Ozzy? What with their rotting carcasses serving as nothing more than Grimm chow."

Ozpin snaps, grabbing Xipe by the throat. He slams him up against the door...choking him. While Ozpin is usually a man who doesn't let his emotions cloud his actions to have him do something rash, Xipe has pushed the normally stoic headmaster into feeling some things that are rare for him.

Anger, hate, contempt, the desire to hurt this scum so badly that it would make whatever punishment awaiting the psychopathic murderer in hell seem light in comparison. Meanwhile Xipe gives a smile from ear to ear.

"So...you finally gonna do it, huh Ozzy?" He grunts out, "Or are you just gonna put me in the ICU for three months?"

Ozpin relents however, dropping Xipe to the floor. Him and Ironwood looking down on the Flayer who's catching his breath. Xipe lets out a sigh, "What a shame. But back on topic, you think that I would have any part of this if I didn't know about it? I mean...I'd show up telling you all about it, so why are you looking into it now? I got no help for you there."

Ozpin and Ironwood look between each other, they step over Xipe. Opening the door. And leaving. It was a bust

Good work, Xipe. You kept the secrets hidden from them, you always were useful in one way or another.

Axel's POV

"Well with whatever happens, I wish you lads and ladies the best of luck." Chesh says with a wide grin, with me and everyone else ready to head out we figured that seeing Cheshire off wouldn't be too bad.

"Thanks cat." I say with a shrug

"Now go out there and make sure to not get stabbed in any vital regions." He says utterly cheerful, "And bring me back something if you can, starting to get bored urinating in Jaune's hair at times."

"Wait, WHAT?!" Said Jaune yells out in shock, with everyone else either going ew or giggling. I merely sigh and shake my head...and then chuckle a bit, "It's a joke, my dear boy." Cheshire chides dully

"Oh..."

Cheshire smiles again, "Or is it?"

This mission is going to be long, isn't it?

North-East Vale, 5 Hours Later

Tonight is a calm and easy night: with broken moon and the stars lighting the area along with street lamps, empty streets and no cars passing by, and buildings standing with some spray painted with various graffiti. It's eerie to me...but it's a nice little stroll

"Ok so tell me why I couldn't go back in time to fix a mistake." Jaune states a bit frustrated, he and Roy ended up getting into an argument about time travel. No ones taken sides yet but...I don't know who knows.

"Because Jaune! Unless you have the temporal equivalent of a rope wrapped around you and someone to pull you back, if you traveled back in time: you'd get lost in time or trapped in the past!" Roy replies whipping his hands up

"Can't we just calm down?" Pyrrha suggests

"I'd rather see who decides to punch who first." Uriah plainly says, I don't blame him. This is pretty boring

"So I have a joke for you guys." I start up, "What do you get when you cross an hippo, an elephant, and a rhino?"

"Helephino." Yang says with a shrug, and a grin on her face. And the pun causes groans from everyone here

"Goddamn it, Yang." Silas hisses in disgust, clutching the bridge of his nose

"Yang, why did you ruin it for me?" I ask sadly, she smiles at me and pecks my cheek. "Sorry. But I wanted to ruin the joke at least one time."

"Well at least you spared us from Axel saying a horrid pun." Weiss chides

"Hey. At least I have a sense of humor Weiss. And at least I don't have problems involving my, heir." I say with a wide grin, and earning another wave of groans. And now for today's weather forecast:

A punderstorm.

"Say Blake. I have to ask, why are you so catty at times?"

"Ugh..."

"Ren my buddy! Tell me, have you ever lied before?"

"Please...no..."

"Ruby, I'm proud that you've. Rosed up to be with us! I'm proud of you."

"Axel...why?"

"Jaune my blonde friend. Would you say that you're, yellow at times?"

"No more..."

"Silas? Uriah? Whenever either of you wolf-down your meals, do you end up turning green?"

"There is no God this day..."

"Kill me please, anyone."

"Roy!"

"Umm...what's that over there?" Roy asks a bit nervously pointing away from here, catches me off guard and I look to see...something head into a building. Everyone looks between one another and sure enough we follow into the old building...the doors wide open. And once inside it's perpetually black...Silas and Blake seem mortified by whatever is in the darkness.

"Guys?...what do you see?" Ruby asks a bit nervous, I can feel the tension rising and radiating off of everyone. And there is a loud slam, and the place turns black enough to where I can't a thing.

But a moment later, the lights come on. And we see what Blake and Silas were seeing:

They may walk on two feet and have a humanoid shape, but these things here are fish-like. With glassy and bulging eyes, slimy scales in place of skin, fat lips which barley hide needle-like teeth, webbed hands with short claws holding weapons. Meat cleavers covered in grime and muck, and dripping with liquid, and serrated.

They pack up the room from the dozens upon dozens in front of us on the ground we're on right now, to several more on catwalks.

"What...are..." Pyrrha starts up, in response to seeing these things I nudge Silas. "Can we get something from your big bad wolf form Si? I think we might need it." He looks at me for with a stern expression before looking back at the fish people.

There soon comes a deep, rumbling growl out of Silas, and around him a skeleton with a canine head, teeth and claws forms around him which slowly grows more inside as he is slowly incased by what looks like a membrane. The skeleton starts to gain red muscle, sinew, and nerves. It's body is then wrapped in skin which quickly grows white fur.

The final product is a humanoid wolf with white fur, still having Silas' blue eyes. He howls before leaping into the crowd of fish people, already bodies are tossed around like ragdolls. With Silas letting out menacing growls including loud and primal howls and roars.

"We need to get ready, just in case." Roy recommends, and with the sounds of weapons being drawn I pull out Cerberus and wait as the wolf Silas currently is tears it's way through these fish people in a hurricane of claws and teeth. As he keeps going the fish-men start to pull back, running away.

But in there place comes two things from my dreams. Two of those black tar monsters, with all the eyes and teeth. One of them lunges towards Silas and another towards us, but the sound of a whistle stops them mid pounce as they drop to the ground and slither back to where they were.

"I'm sorry for my language here Ruby, Roy." Uriah starts up, "But my mind is full of one question repeating over and over: 'What in the fuck?'"

"These aren't Grimm...that's for sure." Ruby mutters

"Yes. They most certainly are not." A new voice from behind says, turning around theres a man. Dressed in yellow robes with his hands hidden in the sleeves pushed together. He has short black hair and a neatly shaved beard, his hazel colored eyes: half-lidded with no glint of joy in them. He casually walks past us, and as he passes I feel a sense of dread loom over me. Breathing down the back of my neck.

You have to get out of there. NOW.

As Cthugha says it, the man walks beside the two blob things. And the two things rush to block the exits, stretching over them as the man takes center stage. The room silent.

"Who are you?" Jaune asks breaking the silence as the man pulls down his hood, who merely looks over at Jaune without any emotion in his expression. "Who I am is none of your concern, Jaune Arc." He replies leading Jaune to let out a noise of worry.

How the hell does he know Jaune? Also...I can only hope I can pass this off, if they find out I knew about these things existence and didn't tell them? I have a feeling they'd end up having thoughts of having me dead.

"I have simply one question to ask of you." The man states without any emotion in his voice, "Where is the Codex?"

The what?

"We don't know what you're talking about!" Ruby replies back to him, his gaze turns over to her. "Do not make me have to break you now."

When he says Roy moves up in front of Ruby, I can he's not going to let harm come to Ruby if he has anything to do about it.

The man's expression shifts a bit, he looks...sad? He closes his eyes for a good minute before opening them back up with a sigh, "I do not wish to do this. I hope you all understand." And out of the sleeves of his robes come two blades hanging by chains: they have yellow marks on them and...they don't seem to be made from metal, rather bone.

"Guys." Uriah says with a calm and cautious tone, "You remember back during our hunt for the Ferrodillo when our Bullhead crashed and I mentioned the pilot was killed?" He asks. We each give a nod

"I remember seeing those blades there...this is the guy who tried to bring us down."

"How astute of you." The man replies, "If it's any consolation: I did not wish to do what I did then. Nor what I will do now." He says somewhat with a tone of regret in his voice.

The blades come to his hands, and he grabs them by the handles.

"Now: I shall show you what I know of you all."

(Alrighty then! With that done I ask that you leave me your thoughts...seriously I'd appreciate it: constructive criticism, praise, a funny comment, suggestions. I'm fine with it. Hope you enjoyed it.)