(Ah, there you are. Shall we continue this story? As for why it is extremely late is...well, between me and the dear author. Oh, I remember, do you have your guess as to who I might be? Well...let us wait then. But I am not who you would guess.)
Rising Waters
?'s POV, Mountain Glenn
Well night in this ruined pile or Grimm turds is spooky, and ever so slightly maybe-maybe not so scary. But patrolling a ruined city can be dull, duller than some people I've gotten to meet in my life time in fact. However! I'm being paid and I intend to do my job.
Just need to get my sister to get awake. Dear old Tezca, even though she and I shit on one another like pigeons on cars...we're family goddamn it. And we're thick as thieves. Well, thick as mercenaries if someone wants to get specific.
"Hey, are you two even trying to keep awake?" An irritated voice asks, I turn my head to see a frowning White Fang bullet/sword/hammer/whatever-weapon-our-enemies-have sponge. I yawn and give my sister a shake who just snorts and gives a little jump on waking up.
"Relaaaaax will ya?" I ask stretching, "We've seen both our dear friend Jack and the Squat for the past few hours."
"You miserable humans," one of them seethes with not really well contained venom, "If we weren't under-"
"If! We weren't supposed to be working with you," My raven haired sister interrupts, "There'd be two things: Subject A, you would be fighting us. And Subject B, well...we'd have killed you in a fraction of a second." She says with a smirk
"You bitch I!-" he gets interrupted mid speech by the sound of a bark, "What was that?"
"What was what?" The second of the two Faunus fanatics who frantically try to fuck over humans asks.
"I thought I heard a Beowolf or something." He tells him, his friend just lets out a bit of a sour 'Hmph' in response
"Let's just finish our patrol and get back to base. This place gives me the creeps." He says, shuddering a bit at the end with his voice tense. They keep on walking ahead, but me and my sis stay back.
"Stupid bastards." I say shaking my head
"What do you expect Quetz? The White Fang's got very low requirement standards." My sister drawls, I chuckle a bit and sigh.
"So, you ready to get to tracking?" I ask grinning, she gives a nod of confirmation. And so the two of us head to the location to where the sound came from, when we arrive there's nothing. I bend over and can see footprints, small dog footprints...and boot footprints. Looking where they're going, seems they're heading east. I stand back up and point out the tracks.
"Seems it isn't just us and the Grimm out here tonight." I sigh out, Tezca gives me a head pat.
"So it seems, so it seems." She says with a nod and a cross of her arms, "Buuut we should probably get going and find the little boy and his dog." She points out wistfully. I give a nod and the two of us begin following the tracks, she and I've done all sorts of jobs.
Guarding people and places, assassination, destroying things. However, the dear gentleman who hired me and my sister are paying me by the tank-load an hour. Said that by the time the second semi-final match for the upcoming Vytal Tournament rolls around they said we can go. Just needed for us to help the White Fang and his...whatever the fuck the weird things are to prepare something.
So my sister and I make sure to stop at...destroyed building with trees near by six-seven B with a near by enterance to look.
"Hmmm, this one may be sneaky." I mutter to myself, "Better be ready for what might be an ambush. But where are they?"
"Did they go in yet? One bark means yes." A girls voice says in a hushed tone, and what follows after hearing that is a loud dog bark.
"Or they can broadcast their location because they're idiots." My sister deadpans, I sigh and circle around a few buildings until I can see the girl and her dog bellow me. Before coming out I hear her say something.
"Oh! This is it! This is it!" She squeals excitedly however quietly, she pulls out from what here looks like a Scroll. She then just growls, "Aw man! Come on, we gotta get the others!" She groans out, time for a reveal.
I step out from behind, "Excuse me!" I call out catching the girl's attention, "Aren't you supposed to be home and in bed right now girlie?" I ask with a grin, she reaches behind her for something. Guess she forgot to bring her weapon. I shake my head and let out a cat-call, and my sister comes out and grabs the girl by the arms. I drop down and walk over to the two.
"Hey! Hands off!" She says in a bit of a growl
"Calm down little missy." My sister tells the girl in a soothing tone, "It'll all be over before you know it." She whispers before knocking her out causing her to go limp as a noodle.
"Guess the big guy would want to see her." I drawl
On our way back to the sorta hideout we have set up, we get stopped and dragged along by one of the White Fang. Weirdly he has his glasses being worn on his mask for whatever reason that is, oh well I'm not one to judge four-eyes.
And once we get into the base proper we hear the big boss man who we know as Roja roaring out, "ALROIGHT YA GITZ! GET DEZE 'ERE ON DA TRAIN! YOUZ LOT GOT IT?!" I kind of like him, I play nice with him, mostly because I know this guy could break my spine. If he does at least it's from a pat on the back and not because I pissed of the maybe eighteen foot giant. He's huge I know that.
"Excuse me sir." The glasses Fang speaks up for us, with me and Tezca keeping back and making sure our prisoner on't escape. "We have news."
"It betta be good er...uhh...hmm, lemme tink of yer name fer a moment." Big boss contemplates, "I swear it'z gotta P 'n dere..."
"It's...i-it's Perry sir."
"QUIET DOWN AN LEMME TINK!" Roja shouts at the White Fang smuck who just gulps, "Errr...PERRY! Dat'z it! Got it! Now, Perry, ya betta 'ave me some good newz. 'Cos I'm 'avin a bit ofa bad dey as it were."
Perry gives us a nod, on cue we pull along the little girl and present her to him. He frowns for a moment but shrugs.
"Oh well, gotta take in da good an' da bad." He laments
Axel's POV
"Come on children! We need to press forward into the ruins!" Scale calls out from up ahead, you woke us up at four in the morning goddamn it. Give us a break.
"I could really go for something to drink right now." Uriah grumbles sourly
"I hear you man." I sigh out as well at least we are coming into the place. And it looks like shit. Buildings decaying into ruin, plants taking over, everything looks dead and broken here. It feels like something very bad happened in this place. Hell Peach is looking around with a rather forlorn expression on her face, wonder why.
"Alright. Here we are, Mountain Glenn." Professor Scale says seriously, "Here there be monsters. So, I figured that we all should-" And just as he was about to tell what we were going to do. He just screams in pain after getting run over by a familiar blur, seeing who the blur is it's Oobleck
"COCK-FIDLING SHIT FIRE!" Professor Scale howls out clutching his back, "ALL I FEEL IS FUCKING PAIN! SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!" He says seething before his hands begin to glow near his back, he sighs out shakily.
"I'm...I'm sorry there Gray." Doctor Oobleck tells the surprisingly foul-mouthed teacher of fighting who stares at him in an expression I can only describe as both thankful, scorning, and one with more heated anger to it than the sun itself.
"You. Better. Be." Scale tells him quietly, and as the teachers go through their motions and the like. There's more footsteps coming from behind, seeing who it is. Well it's team RWBY and for some reason Zwei...sans Ruby, where is she?
"What are you guys doing here?" Blake asks tilting her head a bit to the side
"Peach and Scale brought us here to go and exterminate what they figured would be a concentration. What are-" Uriah explains to the three of them
"Excuse me for interrupting you Uriah, but I have a question of my own." Roy tells him apologetically, the tinkerer himself looks a bit concerned. He turns his attention back to the three remaining members of team RWBY. "What happened? Why isn't Ruby with you guys?"
The three girls look to one another for a moment before Yang steps up. "We don't know where she is." She says, the words hitting me like a smack to the back of the head. "She...well she may have been kidnapped, we don't know."
That added more to my worry, and look to Roy well...he looks worried himself. But he seems more tensed than I am. We're gonna have to go out and search for Ruby, I just hope that she's safe.
So our search party follows Zwei, he probably seen Ruby last so he's our best bet right now. After some time he brings us to a hole, and near the hole is the one thing I hoped that we wouldn't find.
"Ruby's scythe!" Yang gasps
"Oh no." Blake mumbles in a worried tone, "This isn't good." Uriah adds in
Peach looks from the scythe to the hole, "I have a sneaking suspicion that she was trying to find something...or someone."
"Do you think she fell?" Weiss asks Oobleck
"Fell?" He asks looking up
"Down there."
He looks down into the hole, and for a moment his face lights up. "Oh my. Of course!" He exclaims "Of course, OF COURSE, OF COURSE!"
"Doctor? Are you ok?" Silas asks, he gets a nudge from professor Scale. The two look at one another and Scale just shakes his head
"What is it?" Blake asks the good doctor
"How could I be so stupid?!"
"Doctor Oobleck, what's wrong?" Yang asks him
"Did you run out of coffee to drink?" I ask him, gotta at least try to lighten the mood some how.
"Mountain Glenn! Yes, an expansion of Vale that was inevitably destroyed by creatures of Grimm! Previously home to thousands of people! Working people commuting to the city, the main city! Developed a subway system to the inner city! Grimm attacks increased! Population in danger, now desperately searching for shelter! City evacuates into the metro tunnels and what do they find? The southeast quadrant of Vale is known for wild forests and deep caves!"
"Doc, what are you saying?" Yang questions him with a head tilt
"Ohhhhh, don't tell me what I think it means." Professor Scale groans out
"My dear, we're not just looking for an underground crime network, we're looking for an UNDERGROUND crime network!" Oobleck exclaims loud enough to leave an echo, and startling some birds into flying away
"They've been working in caves?" Blake asks him, from the sound of her voice she sounds like she's looking for confirmation.
"No, no, Mountain Glenn was Vale's first serious attempt at expansion. It worked for a short period of time, thanks to an aggressive perimeter defense, and unique transportation; the city developed an elaborate subway system to carry citizens safely from the new territory into the main Kingdom! Sadly, without the many natural barriers Vale had to protect its borders, Mountain Glenn was doomed from the start! As the end drew near, the citizens of the territory made one last attempt at survival: They took up shelter beneath the city! In massive caves that they had cleared out for the subway. And they had cut themselves off from the surface!"
"An underground village?" Yang says aloud
"In a matter of speaking, yes. A safe haven. Until... an explosion opened the mouth of another cavern, filled with subterranean Grimm. After that, the Kingdom officially sealed off the tunnels, creating the world's largest tomb. If Ruby is down there," he pauses for a moment, his thermos extending out and growing a handle. I'm not even surprised, but I'm wondering what the hell the thing does. "We need to hurry."
Rescue mission it is then, "Well. Ladies and teachers can go first." I suggest while gesturing to the hole, so WBY and our teachers make their way down into the hole. Silas and Uriah follow, as Roy's about to head down I stop him. He turns to look at me with a sort of glare that has me worried...one that has less than pure intention behind it.
"Roy, are you doing ok?" I ask him, "You don't look like your usual self."
"I'm fine Axel." He growls, his tone sounding hateful.
"Roy...I know you're lying to me." I tell him softly, putting a hand on his shoulder. "Just promise me that you won't do something you'll regret."
He and I look to one another for what feels like a life time, he finally speaks again.
"You were hurt once, I've been planning on ways of dealing with the people who hurt you." He says sounding like he's rational, "If one of the people who took Ruby hurt her in anyway at all." He growls, he takes a deep breath before speaking again
"I'll teach every last one of those fucks the meaning. Of. Pain." He growls venomously, his tone never raising above a whisper. Leaves me stunned for a moment as he makes his way down the hole.
That was...unusual for him
I hear you. Just hope he doesn't go through with what he has in mind.
Well...I wish you luck
I take a breath and head down into the hole. Ruby better be safe, because those bastards will go through levels of pain that literally cannot be imagined by a mortal mind.
(Help, help me out here. The guy you've seen isn't good, he can't be trusted, he isn't human, he wants to do more than just hurt people, please! You need too...please. don't listen to him, just someone who won't accept my facts. my truths. my touch. i shall see you in the next chapter, and don't worry about the author there. he is going to be fine.)