(Writer's Block hit me harder than a V2 into London. In any case, let's keep going shall we? It'll all be a fun time, well for you the reader and me the author. Not sure if the characters are enjoying this particular moment.)
Good Wolf Hunting
Cain's POV
The mind numbing boredom of having to deal with nothing happening is able to get to you. Even with the apocalypse coming up, the world always has a way of making you bored out of your skull. Thankfully Ozpin is always an interesting person to speak with should you happen to enjoy stories.
"So what's on the agenda today Ozpin?" I ask taking a stretch in the chair opposite of him
He lets out a weary sigh and rubs his nose. "Not sure myself...besides looking over Qrow's reports, trying to get the Ironwood situation sorted out, there isn't anything else to do." He says with his voice having a mix of tiredness and frustration.
"It's about Him too isn't it?"
"...Yes."
"Something troubling you about it?"
He gives a tired smile and laughs bitterly, "You know all too well it's troubling me Cain. I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how it all came to be."
"Explanation to everything, it'll come sooner or later." I say a bit optimistically with a shrug. He gives a chuckle.
"And to think that someone like you is giving me advice."
I frown and raise an eyebrow at him, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"You know full well what it means." He says in a teasing tone
I roll my eyes and shake my head. There's a knock at the door, sounds a bit frantic. Looking to Ozpin for a moment he brings up the same system for opening the door as per usual, the door opens up for Lind to come inside.
He looks tense, sweat beading on his forehead, knuckles white, over all he looks worried about something.
"Mr. Lind, is there something wrong?" Ozpin asks
"Yeah. There is." He says sounding nervous, "It's about Silas."
"What about him?"
"Something's...I don't know, taken control over him. Took his body."
Hmmm.
"Now he's stuck in the form of a huge white wolf." Lind continues, "I just want to ask you Ozpin: please send someone out to look for him, it can be my team, RWBY, JNPR, anyone to find him." Lind continues
I take a look at Ozpin, a look of sympathy on his face. He sighs and gives a solemn nod, "I'll see what I can do. Thank you for bringing this to my attention."
Lind takes a look at me for a moment, I give a nod as well. He gives a little sad smile with his eyes shining with a mix of hope and dread. He then leaves, closing the door behind him.
"What even happened?" I ask Ozpin
"I don't know myself." He says shrugging, "However, someone should be sent to track Silas."
"Oh God, are you thinking about one of them?"
"Not one. Both." He says, I sigh and clutch the bridge of my nose. Terrific.
Ozpin brings out his scroll and taps on it.
"Heeeeeeey boss!" One professor Amberly Peach draws out, "You need me to do something?"
"I do in fact. You know Silas Silver, correct?"
"Yeup. What about him?"
"He's apparently been trapped in the form of a giant white wolf. I ask that you and professor Scale track him down."
"Righto chief! I'll bring Scaley along and find the little wolfie." She says cheerfully, the call ends and I give a look of concern to Ozpin.
That boy Silas is doomed.
Axel's POV 3 Days Later
Blake is worried, she's just pacing back and forth through the room. Her eyes shifting around, she looks tense. The bags under her eyes adding more to it. Weiss, Roy and Ruby decided to go get some drinks with me, Yang and Uriah keeping the girl company
"Blake. You need to calm down, get some rest." Yang suggests in a motherly tone of voice
"I can't keep calm." She says sharply, "It's been days and they've found nothing about his whereabouts."
"Relax Blake." Uriah adds in, "He'll be found. Someway or another."
"He's right." I add in, "They sent professor Peach and professor Scale to go and track him down. I'm sure at least one will come up with something."
"Ms. Belladonna." Cheshire speaks up, coming in front of the feline Faunus girl's face. "While the worry and fear is giving me a good meal, I'd ask that you stop. It's eating you up from what I can see of it and it isn't doing any good."
"I told you that I CAN'T!"
"YOU CAN, BELLADONNA!" Cheshire snaps back, his voice sounding angry and vicious. "Do you think that Silas would want to see you in such a state of disarray? Do you?"
There's silence, Blake shakes her head. I put a hand ontop of Yang's and give it a slight squeeze, I feel like I'm about to pop.
There's a knock at the door and Cheshire vanishes, I take a stand and open up the door. It's Peach. She looks bloody and battered, cuts and gashes at one of her arms and some blood at her mouth
"We found him. Gonna need three teams for this." She wheezes out
Ahri's POV
Even with a busy schedule, I heard about what happened with Silas. Should've expected it. And with professor Peach coming back nearly torn to ribbons? I'm having a bad feeling about this.
Still, gives me the idea Peach is more than just a little tough.
Coming down the hallway, I make my way past the RWBY/ASUR dorm. Hmmm, dance is coming soon. Maybe Sun would go with me, yeah, yeah.
"Hello Ahri." A new, brisk and cool voice says.
"Weiss." I state politely, "How's it going?"
"Hmmm. Well, things could be better I suppose. What with 'you know what' occurring right now."
"You honestly think you'll be able to bring him back?" I ask, my voice being distant and calm
"We'll try our bes-"
"Let me repeat, do you think you'll be able to bring him back?"
"I...I'm not sure."
"Weiss, I was taught that if you're to bring back something that you need be prepared for sacrifice. Now on a semi-unrelated note, what do you think of Silas?"
"He's someone that, while at first I had my suspicions. He's a genuinely good person. Although he is not very emotional."
"Ever looked into his eyes?"
"What?"
I sigh and turn to actually look at the girl, "I saw his eyes once. Eyes are the window to the soul as they say, and I saw two parts. One was a white wolf, the other a black wolf. Heads and tails, yin and yang, et cetra. My point? That thing is probably never going to go away." I walk past her, but stop back to back with her. "Keep that in mind." I keep walking away
Damn. Slipped into Raven's teachings there for a moment.
I hope she isn't coming soon.
Third Person POV later that night
Peach and Scale gave the children the location where they last saw Silas. And so the two and three quarters teams consisting RWBY, JNPR, and AUR have made there way into the wilds dressed in their usual attire. The plan? Lure out the thing that has taken over Silas' body, try and get Silas back into control.
"So. How should we handle this?" Uriah speaks up first
"Hmmm, Jaune? You have any ideas?" Axel suggests
"Me? I um, I'm not sure if it's good or not-" he cuts himself off feeling a hand place on his shoulder, Pyrrha's.
"Calm down. There are no bad answers here." She tells him in a reassuring tone, smiling.
He takes a deep breath and gulps, "Alright. We could probably cover more ground by splitting up, if anyone ends up finding Silas. We should radio it on our Scrolls. If any of us end up meeting up again, try and keep together then. We should mark the trees so we don't get lost, sound good?"
"Better than nothing." Yang says shrugging
The eleven share a nod, splitting into different directions. But the Dog has been listening all the while.
"Seems that they've decided to come after all." The Black Dog says to itself, "What do ya think Silas?"
"Don't...hurt them." The Faunus says in a pained voice, trapped in the mind prison by the Black Dog chained to the ground by his arms. The Dog grins and jams his claws into himself, and Silas screams in pain.
"I'm gonna get yooooou~." The Dog sing songs to itself, before leaping through the trees to it's first target.
With time going by as the Dog stalks Nora Valkyrie, he can only be happy for the reward he was given by the Cabal. Oh how great it was...like it'll tell anyone save itself. But enough for that, now is the time to strike.
The Dog leaps in front of the hammer-toting Huntress in training, drool hanging from it's mouth. With Nora quickly grabbing to her Scroll and reaching it to where she can speak into it.
"Guys! Come quick! Found Silas!" She says into it Scroll's video feed
"Where are you at?!" Ren asks over Scroll sounding worried, however the Dog makes it's attack and ends up striking Nora against a tree hard enough to knock her unconscious.
"Nora come in! Nora? Nora?!"
The Dog picks up the Scroll and points it toward Valkyrie for the video feed. "Hope you stop by for dinner everyone. I may get a bit peckish and probably go for an er...snack."
The line goes dead, with the Dog licking it's lips.
In the meanwhile everyone makes their way in a hurry to get Nora, the Dog is only staying hidden. Making it's way through the trees to hunt the rest, ambushing and swiftly reducing them to unconsciousness. No fight happens. Just swift and brutal and incapacitation. Leaving them all vulnerable.
Jaune, Pyrrha, Weiss, Blake, Uriah, Roy, Axel, Yang, Ruby, and Ren. All of them. The Dog smiles and drags them all back to the same spot where Nora was left. And Silas is in a state of mad panic.
Silas POV
Nonononono! Please God no!
"JUST STOP IT!" I scream out, the Dog looking to me and merely smiling.
"Stop what? You brought this on yourself ya know." The Dog coos in a mocking tone, "Didn't let me eat for a looooong time. Now I've come to collect on this, and you get to watch."
"I don't want to kill anymore." I choke out weakly, it hurts right now. "I don't want to be a monster."
The Dog let's out a mad cackle, "You wanna kill Adam don'tcha?! Hypocritical little shit stain! You don't want to kill them, but Adam is fair game! Nuh-uh, you don't get a say anymore. And now since you're such a stoic bastard...time I make you have some emotion for once in your life." The Dog growls into a sinister chuckle
"Tell me now, Silly Silas. Who should I eat first?: Should it be Axel? Your team leader and one of your first friends made at dear 'ol Beacon?" The Dog asks curiously
"Maybe Uriah. Sarcastic little prick that you've become such good pals with. 'Roy-boy' perhaps? Guy's like a little brother to you ain't he, it'd be a shame to see such a bright little mind like his be splattered across the ground. I could show the 'Invincible Girl' Pyrrha that she ain't so invincible after all, and maybe try out a meal that fights back. Maybe I'll do everyone here a favor and kill off that bumbling dipshit Jaune. Maybe find out what Nutjob Nora's brains taste like first...Ren is never really emotional is he? I could get him to cry plenty while I'm chewing on his intestines. Ruby? Well, I wouldn't mind skipping straight into desert. How about the blondie Yang? I need a spicy meal and she's got it. Weiss could be a good first pick to eat. What with the princess being so cold, it'll be a melt in my mouth meal. Decisions, decisions." The Dog lists out pacing back and forth. My brain hurting like it's on fire and my stomach hurting like knives are being shoved into it like a pincushion.
It's face lights up in a moment of realization, "Yes! That's it! I got it! I'll eat your little Kitty Blake!" The Dog exclaims happily, "I see it now! After having spent your time loving her, with the little bitch going for your best friend turned enemy. Now coming back into your life so you can be together and be happy, only to have that extinguished out by having the love of her life be possessed and eaten alive bit by bit until she dies! I'm a GENIUS! Saddle up there Silas! It's time for supper!"
It want's to kill them all, make me taste them, to eat them.
No.
I am not letting this happen. I WILL NOT let this happen! I grab at the chains and start pulling, clenching at my teeth as I pull. It has one point, limiting my emotions is a stupid idea. I'll try showing them out more.
Right now? He gets to see all of my black and burning hatred.
"Those chains can't be broken you know." The Dog smugly says, "You should just lay back and-"
I rip the chains out. I'm free now. Free to kick the parasite that's been stuck in my head out. And right now the Dog looks more than a little worried while I take off the chains. Once the chains are off I begin to walk toward the mutt that's slowly backing away
"H-H-Hey uh...all that stuff I said about e-eating your friends?" The Dog stutters, "It was all just a joke! We can-" I cut off bastard by kicking it up it's jaw.
"FINE! You wanna play that game! You gotta deal with the pain!" It roars out, and at that moment I start feeling a horrible pain at my chest. It's jamming claws into me.
At this point, I don't care. I just want to pay it back for everything it's done and planned to do. I let out a battle cry and go back to beating it back, punching and kicking away at it until it's bleeding and broken.
"Stop! I-I-I'll give whatever I can! Just name it!" The Dog pleads
"You want to know what I want?" I ask coldly, and I raise my foot over it's head. "I want you to shut up. And I want you to NEVER. COME. BACK!" I then slam my foot down on it's head, it's head shattering like glass.
I'm finally free. Back in control.
It seems everyone is back up now...Blake looking worried, tired. I've missed her.
"Silas...?" She says a bit quietly, I approach the group. Return to my normal self, and hug Blake as tight as I can.
"Yeah, it's me Blakey. I'm alright now...I'm sorry I hurt you." I whisper, a moment later she hugs back.
"Don't blame yourself for this." She whispers back, I smile and just keep hugging. Holding an amazing girl in my arms, feels good.
"Glad to have you back Silas." Uriah says warmly, "Been worried about you."
I chuckle a bit, "Yeah. Sorry, but it's good to be back." I reply smiling
So, so good.
(And there you have it, next up: Things you may read, by yours truly.)