(You know I think I'm going to try something soon, that something is just some stuff involving Roy.)
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Scale's Room 2 Hours Later
After having met with Cain and Ozpin, I came along to Scale's room for a bit of practice. With Scale currently standing across from me, sword held in one hand and one arm behind his back.
"Well?" He asks
"Hm? Well what?"
He gives a grin, "Well come at me already. I'm ready."
I chuckle and rush at him swinging Cerberus down, with Scale dodging out of the way thrusting the needle-like blade. Blocking it with Aura shielding and counter with a rocket-propelled strike sending him moving back at least two feet.
"Alright, I think your fighting is fine. Since you seem out of your funk." Scale says straightening his tie, sheathing the sword part of the umbrella back into place. There's clapping coming up into the air as I sheath Cerberus. Peach coming up onto the arena floor with a wry grin
"Well I'm disappointed Scaley!" Peach says happily, "I was hoping Axel here would end up thrashing you harder than your last and only relationship!"
Gray frowns and looks at the pink/orangette survivalist. "At least I can actually get someone, what with your lonely nights where you cry yourself to sleep over the fact that you never had a boyfriend?"
I snicker to that, "Oh God that burn!" I wheeze out between laughs
"First of all: fuck you. Second of all: Die alone and in pain you prissy little dandy lion." Peach says with a wide grin
"Ladies first." Scale replies
"Ahhhhh, while it's fun to watch you all fight I think you should both hurry up and get hitched." I suggest sheepishly, earning two glares saying 'Are you a moron?'
There's a buzz in my pocket, pulling out my Scroll there seems to be a message from Ozpin. Opening it up there's something on it that I've been ready to see
Your friends have came into the dorm you reside in, they're waiting for you. Good luck.- Sincerely, Ozpin
I take a deep breath and put the Scroll away. "Guess it's time...isn't it?" Scale asks, I look back at him and Peach and nod. "Hey, here's to hoping for the best eh?" Peach says
I give a small smile, "Yeah...here's too it you psychotics." I say with a roll of the eyes.
"Good luck." Scale adds with a sagely nod
"Tell 'em I said hey." Peach finishes with a wave
I wave back and make my way out of the room, making my way through the hallways I stop at the dorm's door. A lump forming in my throat and anxiety gnawing at me telling me to not do it, they'll scream that they hate you.
"It has been so long since I've gotten to see you." A voice pops up causing me to jump, turning to my left and seeing Cheshire floating a few inches away from me. I sigh and shake my head.
"Seriously?"
"Ohhh? Something wrong?"
"I'm nervous as shit right now and you decide to jump-scare me?"
"You're too tempting a target." He drawls, just before nuzzling against my cheek like the furry Grimm feline he is.
"Still, good to see you my friend." He says smiling, I smile back at him and rub his head. "Good to see you too you little bastard." I reply earning a fee purrs from petting him, stopping and reaching for the doorknob.
My hand stops just around the doorknob, my heartbeat going a million miles a second. "Are you well Axel?" Cheshire asks curiously, I look at the feline Grimm and sigh. "I'm nervous...what if they don't believe me?"
"Then they'll listen, think you're absolutely insane, and welcome you back with open arms."
"Cautious optimism?"
"No my good friend: Fact."
I smile and take a deep breath, turning the doorknob the door creaks open. RWBY, JNPR, and my own team turning their attention towards me.
Each of them sitting in a perfect circle of foldable chairs, sans one that's reserved. Guess it's for me. I trudge over and sit down in the reserved seat with Cheshire floating over and laying down in Ruby's lap.
Let's just keep it a bit simple before bringing out the fart gas.
"I'm going to just assume that Ozpin gave you the details about why you're hear listening to me, the truth. But before I get to that...I just want to say that I'm sorry, I let you all down last time. You all got hurt in some way," I look over to Uriah who's arm is in a white sling, "some...more hurt than others."
They take a look at Uriah who shies away, before looking back to me.
"Anyways: what I'm about to say is going to be utterly insane. So take what I say with a grain of salt if you'd like, but it's the truth. You all know the librarian right? Bald? Goatee? Wears a coat?"
"Yeah?...What about him?" Jaune asks
"He's brought me into something that's a bit of a...small problem." I say a bit nervously
"Why do I get the feeling that what you're about to tell us next isn't exactly a 'Oh no! I'm sick.' kind of a problem?" Uriah asks dully
"It's...it's better if someone else explains this because, even I have no clue why I'm involved." I reply shrugging, I take a deep breath and let out a heavy exhale. "Iä Cthugha! Iä Cthugha! Iä Cthugha!" I chant out.
Ten seconds go by and, nothing.
Weiss gives a rather...concerned look. "Why did you just spout out-" she's cut off by a loud 'thuwsh!' sound and a nearly blinding flash of light the room getting several degrees hotter. Takes a moment for my eyes to adjust again, but there floats Cthugha. Looking like a humanoid inferno with swarms of smaller fireballs orbiting him like moons.
"Sorry about the late arrival, got a bit caught up in something." He sighs shaking his head, looking to everyone who looks equal parts nervous, confused, shocked and dumbfounded.
"What is? I don't even-" Silas sputters out, hey that's my line!
"I'm...ok then? What?" Yang adds just as surprised
"Well I may know all of you Yang, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Nora, Silas, Pyrrha, Jaune, Uriah, Ren, and Roy." Cthugha says in rapid fire gesturing to all of them, "But you don't know me: I'm Cthugha, one of the Great Old Ones, Lord of Flames, you can guess from my appearance my titles are related to heat and fire."
"Allllllllllllright then! A-A-A-A-A fire person just...here...w-what do I say?" Uriah stutters
"You could thank me for one. I'm doing my best not to burn your flammable...dry...room..." Cthugha says opening a mouth hole, a sort of napalm-like saliva coming out. Right before he wipes it away and composes himself
"Anyways, I've been sort of inside your friend Axel's head. Watching and listening. Now he's called upon me to explain to you all what he's been doing, it'll also explain why I'm here."
The room fills with silence again, "Roy?" I ask, "Can you get that book?"
"I guess it involves this in some way?" He asks back, I nod and he reaches into his metallic backpack and pulls out the book. Carefully handing it over to Cthugha who looks through the book and...surprisingly doesn't burn it up. Huh.
"Uh-huh...I see...alright then!" The fiery eldritch fire thing says closing the book shut and handing it back to Roy, "Time for me to tell this whole thing: this war that Axel here is talking about is something I've come to call 'The Noticing': which is where my kind and our masters have finally noticed man and faunuskind and decided you all should be wiped out. With the end of the war being an apocalyptic event called 'The Arrival' in which our new high priest, the top god of us all, the second most powerful god, and the messenger for the second guy I mentioned all come and everything goes to shit." Cthugha explains grimly, flat and serious
"Well...we can kill 'em, right?" Jaune asks nervously, "They can't be any different from the Grimm!"
Cthugha shakes his head and chuckles, "That's one part I like about you Jaune: optimism. Unfortunately I'm going to put this into tiers related to animals." He says holding a hand nearly towards the floor
"This is you guys, dear 'ol mankind." He then raises his hand slightly higher, "Grimm, to us they're like gnats: they're many but we can easily squish them. If we ever cared enough to do it." He drawls before raising his hand up to his chest, everyone looks to be sweating every slightly. "My kind is here, The Great Old Ones...brace yourself for the next ones."
He starts to float upwards and places his hand on the ceiling, "The Outer Gods. Right here." I think everyone, myself included let out a gasp of shock. Oh God, I didn't realize it worked like that.
"How?...How are we even gonna have an inkling of a chance to survive? Let alone beat them?" Silas mutters
"Don't worry your canine little head. I'm helping, so are three others I brought along...speaking of!" He then points to Roy, Uriah and Silas with Cthugha growing another arm to point at Roy
"Any of you heard voices in your heads?" He asks curiously, with a bit of childish glee.
"Err...yeah?" "What about it?" Uriah and Silas say
"No." Roy adds, Cthugha tilts his head looking at him.
"Hmmm...guess he hasn't shown up yet for you." He mutters before floating back down and his other arm vanishing, "I feel my time about to go. Axel, you can finish this up...I'll be in your head and sleeping."
With that Cthugha vanishes in a puff of billowing white smoke, everyone starring at me as though I have the answer they're looking for. I don't, but I have to try as best as I can to give them hope for a situation like this.
"Is...everything he said true?" Pyrrha speaks up in a voice slightly quivering from fear. I give a nod. Uriah shoots up out of his seat and stares at me, "So you expect us. All of us, to join you in handling a nearly hopeless situation with horrible horrible, possibly sanity shattering monsters that make Grimm look like gnats in comparison?"
I sigh and stand up, "Look. I'm not going to sugar-coat the fact that the world might end if they show up. Hell, maybe it'll happen regardless of what happens." I mutter bitterly, "But...we need to at least make a stand. If they can be killed we kill them, if not then we drive them back, and if that happens we just have to keep tossing them back to wherever they came from until they give up." I add more defiant in tone
"I'm not going to force this on you, I'm not someone who'll do anything to stop this at the cost of morality and something like that. I'm merely handing an offer to do what we're training to do as Huntsmen and Huntresses, protect everyone: no matter what creed they follow, what species they are, anything that we probably don't agree with. We stand as a light against the dark, all that kind of optimistic crap. When one candle eventually extinguishes, another is set alight, and so the battle is still fought. Now...anyone wanna join in?"
There's dead silence, right before Uriah lets out a frustrated growl. "I would have to say no to that offer just like with anyone else." He says sullen, "But with you guys?" He then gives a smile and chuckles, "Why the hell not?" My eyes go wide before looking to everyone else, who're standing up
Roy jumps to his feet not a moment after, "I'm in!"
"Not exactly sure about this, but might as well join up with some people I like." Silas says shrugging as he stands up
"Someone's gotta make sure you don't end up getting hurt, so you bet I'm coming along." Yang says with a grin on her face coming up
"I don't care how crazy this whole thing is, I'll come with you!" Ruby cheers standing up and knocking Cheshire out of his spot.
"I'll be sure to do all that I can to help." Weiss nodded
"Might as well just take with the rest of the group. Wouldn't mind fighting along side you all against this." Blake chuckles, she actually chuckled
"You were one of the first people to help me out, how could I say no?" Jaune adds in, smiling warmly
"I wouldn't have it any other way." Pyrrha joins in
"I don't really see why not." Ren shrugs
"If Ren's coming with I'm alllll for it!" Nora cries out before bursting into laughter
I smile and close my eyes, they actually believed this. And are willing to fight against these things with me, I'm glad I have these guys for friends.
"Thanks." I sigh quietly, looking back at every one of them. "Uriah, how long until your arm is fine and ready?"
"Well thanks to professor Scale I'd say about er...twelve hours?" He says shrugging, I nod and look over at Roy
"Roy. Keep looking through the book, see if you can find anything else in there." I add, Roy responds with a salute.
"I'll get to work on it right now." He says before heading to his work station and opening it up
"Other than that?...Let's just keep calm, and go about our normal business. Should anything come up involving this, we meet up and figure out something. Sound good?"
They all give a nod in response.
Welcome aboard to the conspiracy.
Third Person POV
Ash was waiting for four people to show up, people he sent Roman to hire due to a plan that if it works will speed up the Arrival. If not then it will have been fun to play interrogator on the person they're looking to capture.
Not a moment later three people come in as the doors open up. A man, a woman, and a teenager
The teen is dressed all in white. White sweatpants, white gloves, white button up shirt, and white dress shoes. He's a pretty little boy (probably much to his chagren, with some girls liking guys who are pretty.) curly white hair, pale, grass green eyes, lean and standing at an average height. With a pair of chakrams on either side
The woman is different however. Black boots, black sleeveless shirt, black short shorts, black boots, and a black cybernetic left arm and right leg. Black hair reaching down to the middle of her back, tall and athletic, icy blue eyes, freckles splashed across her nose, and strapped across her back a rather sharp long sword across her back.
The man however, is a bit...off. Someone dressed in black slacks, a sea blue jacket, a pair of blue gloves, and a black shirt underneath it. He has some soft features about him as well, shoulder-length blue hair and dull grey eyes. A pair of large hand guns splayed in a criss-cross on his chest
"Is this where we're getting our work done at?" The boy asks curiously
"Yeah, this is it. Gingey said there'd be a blonde guy standing around...ugh." She says with a shudder, didn't enjoy her first time with Torchwick trying to flirt with her.
"Awwwww, what's wrong sis? Don't like people who're your age? That's why you go for more er...'fresh' guys get my meaning?" The boy asks coyly with a grin, earning a sharp glare
"Can I at least get your names before you all start killing one another?" Ash dryly asks
"Right! Tezca Polca here, ready to smack around more than a few people. Fight and fight and fight some more." She says a bit excited
"Now for the more professional of the lot. Quetza Cotal. At your service." The boy casually says
The man smiles at the boy, the kind that says he's thinking of wicked things. Right before looking back to Ash he bows, "Honored to make your acquaintance. Huitzilo Ochtli, ready to do what you ask."
Ash smiles before noticing something, there's supposed to be four of them. Not three. He growls and opens up his phone to call Roman
"Hey! Where the fuck is the other one, huh Torchwick?!" He hisses with distain, "Oh, oh you just got there huh? THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID THE LAST TIME I CALLED YOU! Too scared about the last guy? Deal with it you pansy! If you don't come back with the last guy, I don't give a shit what my sister says. You are a sacrifice, I'm gonna sever your arteries and drink your life essence! You worthless sack of fucking worms!"
He then finishes the call with just that.
? POV
I sigh and put away the phone into my pocket, if he wants this guy so bad then why doesn't he go get him? Oh right, because little old me is expendable...typical. I look to Neo who's giving me the 'Roman this is utterly stupid' look I've come so accustomed to see over the years.
"Oh don't give me that look." I growl, "I know this is bad...I'm gonna be talking with a psychopath." I mumble before letting out a sigh, "Let's just get this over with. Tomorrow we're going."
Off to Frostpeak Prison.
(As one bird-like alien who's space's very own version of the Punisher once said, every time he killed a guy in a fight. 'Scratch one!')