(Author note at the end!)
Chapter 2- Unexpected Turn Of Events.
Ragnar opened his eyes slowly, clearly annoyed thanks to the sunlight that came throught the window. He grumbled as he sit up on his bed.¨stupid sunlight..i need a cover for the window.¨ he said and yawned while rubbing his still sleepy eyes, when he finally opened them and looked outside, it was a clear day and he could see the other houses of the town and For a moment he thought that he was back in Tamriel but he remembered quickly that he was not there anymore but in Vytal sended here by the mad god. He standed up from his bed and he looked at his armor but decided to not put it on yet and walked out of his room, still in the sleeping clothing. Making sure to not hit the small lamp things on the roof with his horns.
Yang and Ruby were already awake, the little sister had been telling the older one the Story that ragnar told her last night, obviously leaving out the part about Tamriel actually existing as part of keeping her promise with her elder brother.¨ and so! Martin Septim sacrificed himself to become the Avatar of Akatosh!, a biiiig dragon of golden light that fought the evil daedric prince Mehrunes Dagon! And, and! Sended him back to Oblivion after a loooong epic fight!¨ ruby said with glee, and looked at ragnar as he walked out of his room.¨hi ragnar!¨
¨wow..That was quite the tale¨ yang said and them she looked at ragnar too like ruby did, she smiled at him.¨thanks for helping ruby last night brother and how do you know that story ragnar?¨
He thought a quick excuse for that, it wouldn´t be a lie since the tale was on the books.¨i read it on some books…back in my homeland and it became my favorite tale since that day, i always saw the Hero of Kvatch as a inspiration.¨ he said with a smile, it was kinda true. As he read how the hero saved Tamriel it slowly inspired to take the life of a adventurous warrior.
Yang smiled widely.¨it sounds really cool!¨ she exclaimed
¨yes it is!¨ ruby agreed
¨well, like i said it is indeed my favorite story¨ he responded, the two sisters looked like they were gonna ask him something else but taiyang came from the kitchen.
¨Yang, Ruby you two better start getting ready for classes.¨
¨aye dad!¨
¨yes daddy!¨
The blonde man smiled and turned to look at the dragon faunus. ¨ragnar your going too, i talked with Signal´s principal and from this day you will start your training to become a Huntsman.¨ the blonde man said.
¨a Huntsman…whats that?¨ the dragon faunus asked.
¨they are people who train to become warriors that are the best of the best in all of Remnant. And our main mission is to fight against the creatures of Grimm and protect the Cities, towns and walls from them, its a dangerous job but its worth it when you save lives of those who cant defend themselves. I am One too, as well as a instructor on Signal Academy, yang and ruby are already training to become Huntresses too…so, are you interested too Ragnar?¨ he explained and finished with that question, he had recieved a message from Qrow before going to sleep, where it especifically told him that Ragnar should become a Huntsman. That option was the best for him
The dragon faunus thought about the option presented to him for several minutes. That thing of the Huntsman/Huntresses reminded him of The Blades and the Penitus Oculatus, both of these groups were the special forces and intelligence arms of the Imperial Army, who also have the job of protecting the Emperors and eliminating any possible threat against The Empire. They were some of the best of the best in all of Tamriel and no one could deny that fact.
When he was done thinking the options he looked at his sisters who nodded positively and gave him thumbs up. He knew his objetive was to save Remnant from the upcoming event, the awakening of Scylla and he knew that becoming a Huntsman will surely help him well in that, he looked at Taiyang and nodded.¨ yes, i will become one too…i want to save this world!¨ he said.
The responce from the dragonborn made the sisters and father feel relieved since they thought for a moment that he would reject the idea. The sisters were happy because their brother was going to join them in Signal. Their father remembered what Qrow told him last night, the kid was already a skilled fighter, so Ragnar would be placed on the same year as Yang. Even if he was told that the dragon faunus knew how to fight, the blonde man wanted to see it by himself.
¨alright! Them let´s go, we will go by foot, the academy is the town´s east side, which is actually close.¨ he said and the three teenagers nodded.
-Later-
When Ragnar came to town with Qrow he didnt manage to see much since it was night time and most people were in their homes sleeping, but now that it was day time, it was them when he realized just how different and advanced Vytal was compared to the one of Tamriel. This people literally had done some magnific technological advances and he would dare to say that some of them leaved the ones of the Dwemer as simple toys.
First was the Flying ships..Not even on his wildest dreams ragnar ever imagined to actually see a ship that instead of going by Sea it could actually g the skies just like a dragon. Second was the so called automatic guns, they incredibly superior to bows and arrows in every aspect, they had faster fire rate, faster reloading time and high accuracy. Next was those things called cars and other things he could quite comprenhend yet, those big mirrors that displayed different images behind transparent walls made out of glass confused him.¨what are those mirrors?¨ he asked while pointing at one.
¨what, what do you mean?¨ yang them looked at the tv store.¨ those are tv´s not mirrors you dummy¨ she said.
¨what is a Tv?..¨ he asked even more curious about it.
¨its a device that allows you to watch other people on programs and play videogames!¨ ruby got in the conversation
That only made him more curious but also confused.¨i dont get it…how they put people inside that..tv thing?¨
Taiyang looked at Ragnar.¨do they have tv´s back in your home?¨
¨No…we dont have things like this¨
¨hmm strange…now that i wonder, where is your home Ragnar?¨
He didnt felt ready to answer directly.¨its in a far away land.¨ he said
¨Vacuo?¨ the blonde man asked.
¨No, the land Where i used to live its very far away from Vytal or any of the other places here¨ he responded.
¨you mean like another continent?!¨ he asked, compleatly surprised, while ruby and yang listened.
Ragnar´s response was only a positive nod.
The responce of the dragon faunus leaved taiyang thinking hard about that fact. Another continent?. It was a possible fact since they havent managed to explore that much of Remnant. It just leaved the elder huntsman wondering about the origins of Ragnar. So far the only answer that the boy gave him leaved wondering even more, but an answer was still a answer, and that was something to begin with.
As they continued their way to Signal, ragnar noticed that there were people with animal features that could either be tails, ears and other things. He asked Taiyang about them and he told him that they were the Faunus. People who obviously had features of different kinds of animals and with hightened senses, like smell, sight, hearing, and other things like agility and strength.
And ironically he was one of them, thanks to his dragon features…so that explains why he could smell and see things he couldn´t when he didnt have these features. Each time they passed By other fellow faunus they were shocked to see that he was a dragon faunus and they often come up to him to tell him that he was super rare in the faunus kind, he even heard the same from normal humans who were talking about that, on one of those conversations that he secretly listened thanks to his hightened hearing he found out about the Legend about a Dragon Faunus destined to do great things, it kinda reminded him of the Tale of the Dragonborn warriors.
Another thing that he had found out thanks to listening their conversations that there was racial discrimination, hate and prejuices towards the faunus people. It was just the same as how some Nords back in Skyrim treated the Dark Elves and the Khajiit people. He didnt know if he had spent a lot of time with them but he didn´t share that thought that all of the cat people living in Skyrim were thieves and Skooma dealers, some were yeah but obviously not all, that would mean the same like saying that all Nords are ignorant people WHICH was obviously Not true.
He decided to leave that topic for now. He could finally see Signal Academy in the distance. Being compleatly honest Signal Academy was easily the same size as the Palace of Kin- wait no, now that they were closer the size of it was now comparable to the Blue Palace of Solitude which was something that leaved ragnar with his mouth hanging out of awe. It was like if he was looking at the modern version of it. he finally came back to his senses and asked Taiyang.¨ this is the Academy where one trains to be a Huntsman? ¨ he asked
Taiyang looked at him and grinned.¨ yes but this is just Basic level, there are other academies out there that are Better than Signal. Like Beacon or Sanctun. Which are the real deal when it comes to Huntsman and Huntress training, well what are we waiting for?! Let´s go kiddo!¨ he said and the four went inside
Seven Months Later.
Some months passed since he joined the academy too, spending time like this with his sisters all days while training slowly helped him to increase his bond with the two girls as well as taiyang, who was glad to see that his three children were doing incredibly good on their trainings, specially ruby who was improving day by day thanks to the training she was getting from Qrow. Yang was a good fighter too and one of the strongest girls in all of Signal…and finally when it came to Ragnar, Taiyang was always leaved with his mouth hanging. To start things, his aura levels were massive and for a reason, the dragon faunus´s semblance was already unlocked but that was not the weird part. The weird part was the it was divided in several pieces. He asked ragnar about his semblance and he explained to taiyang that his semblance was focused on his mouth, which allowed him to shoot fire, frost, or a powerful wave of blue aura from it and other things that he showed during a class, one of those so called Shouts allowed ragnar to run just as fast as ruby when she used her semblance, he called that ability Whirlwind Sprint. But when he asked about a name for his semblance as a whole, ragnar just simply said: The Way Of The Voice.
As for the weapon, they already knew about the warhammer that Ragnar had with him, Sovngarde. But ruby got the magnificent idea to make a Gun mode for his weapon, he couldn´t help but to agree with his little sister´s idea, it was a good one. And so the brother and sister spent 2 months doing several changes on the hammer. At the end it was a success, ruby and ragnar had managed to create a secondary mode for Sovngarde, it consisted of a button on the hilt of the weapon that when the dragon faunus pressed it would transform into a lethal javelin gun, he did a few several shooting tests of it and he absolutley loved the weapon´s performance, it had good penetration power and accuaracy.
The only downside that Taiyang noticed was that ragnar was quite bad when it came to controlling his Aura to increase his strength and other things normally done with it. Where ruby, yang and any other student of the academy could easily do it, the problem that ragnar had was that he couldn´t control his strength when he used his aura. They learnt it the hard way when the dragon faunus accidentaly injured several combat instructors, the instructor of last week, who was a famous instructor that came from Mistral, ended up with his arm broken and a concussion, all for not paying attention to ragnar´s warnings about that fact. The principal was starting to get annoyed by that problem to the point that he told Taiyang that if another incident happened…ragnar would be expulsed from Signal.
The blonde man thought for several nights for a solution of that problem, till he finally got an idea. Jayce, the Bear Faunus who was friend of him and Qrow. After talking with the pyromaniac faunus and the academy´s principal the 3 decided that ragnar would be graded by going outside the walls with Jayce and search for grimms to kill, depending on the number of grimm killed each day them that would mean the dragon faunus´s grade.
Ragnar accepted the idea quite easily and so far all of the expeditions outside of the town´s walls were all a success and he managed to get good grades in everything related to combat training. The type of grimm that was more common on the Island was the Beowulfs, more rare was Ursas…but today they would encounter a new type of Grimm beast and their luck would change.
-The Town´s main gate-
The dragon faunus was at the town of patch´s gates, doing some last time check ups on his gear, today he wasn´t wearing his Wolf steel armor, but rather just normal clothings, consisting of a light grey shirt and black cargo pants with a steel chestplate over the shirt, boots and gauntlets made of steel too. he picked up Sovngarde and changed it to its Javelin Gun form and took a fresh clip of javelins from a small ammo bag he had and loaded it on Sovngarde them he changed it back to its warhammer form.¨alright, i am all set and ready to go!¨ he exclaimed.
¨you sure are big brother!¨ he heard ruby´s voice from behind and he turned around to look at his younger sister and other sister, he smiled at them.
¨Hi ruby, what are you doing here?¨ he asked
¨well duuh, we came to wish you luck out there!¨ said yang who joined in the conversation and playfuly punched him on the shoulder.
¨yes! We are gonna miss you while you are out there..i know you´ve done this several times already but its still worrying, just you two out there on the gray forrest.¨ the young scythe wielder said
¨come on rubes..i always come back safe and sound!¨ he said
He laughed and grinned.¨well, with both of you wishing me luck i know i´ll be alright!¨ he exclaimed while looking at his sisters.
¨Ragnar! We are going out now let´s go! Move your lazy ass now!¨ Jayce said and the dragon faunus nodded.
¨alright! I´m coming!¨ he started walking but he felt a tug on one of his arms and he turned around to look at ruby who was the one grabbing his arm.¨what´s the matter Rubes?¨
¨here have this!¨ she said while handing him a box of cookies.¨they will give you lots and lots of energy!¨ the young scythe wielder said while smilling at her brother.
He chuckled and them placed the box of cookies inside of one of the pouches he had on his belt.¨thanks Ruby, see you later!.¨ he said and with that ragnar walked out of the town, following Jayce into the gray forrest. As ruby and yang stood there watching them dissapear in the treelines the gates finally closed.
¨do you think they´ll be alright?¨ the younger sister asked, still worried for their brother.
¨i´m sure they will!. Ragnar and jayce have done this multiple times already and besides remember that Dad told us that they are monitoring them thanks to Jayce´s scroll..Now c´mon rubes, Marek and Malik are waiting for us back in Signal!¨
¨right! Let´s go!¨ she exclaimed and the two started running back.
Back with the two Faunus. Ragnar and Jayce had been walking non-stop the moment they stepped out of town. For a while they were in silence but as always the two started talking, most of the Bear Faunus´s topics for conversations was about different ways of using a flamethrower, or other type of stuff that only a pyromaniac would talk about. Once in a while jayce would ask or talk with ragnar about normal things like how they were right now.
¨so..is there any special reason about why we are going this deep into the island´s forrest today?¨
¨well my friend! Today i planed on searching for a Beowulf pack leader or maybe an Ursa Mayor, any of those would classify as a perfect score! And i wanna burn something big today! Not the everyday wolfies.¨ the dragon faunus listened as the bear one explained today´s asignment.
¨this is the first time i´ve gone deep into the island, from what Dad told me, Patch is a rather big island, SO if we get lost i´ll kick your ass Jayce!.¨ Ragnar said while he put Sovngarde on a comfortable position over his left shoulder.
¨hmm dont worry Ragnar we wont get lost, we´ve done this several times already and i know this forrests like the palm of my hand!. But boy this island is just a small thing if you compare it with the continents! Specially Vytal!¨ the bear faunus exclaimed.
¨i´ve haven´t been on Vytal yet.¨ he admited.
¨you havent? Oooooohhh boooooy! You should tell your dad to take you sometime along with your sisters! They have some pretty awesome things there, big cities and…and cheese! Damn, i love eating cheese specially on bread and with lots of honey on it.
Ragnar now felt like if he was talking with Sheogorath again, he looked directly at Jayce with a deadpan expression.¨ I..Hate…Cheese.¨ he said.
¨whaaaaaaaat?! Are you serious boy? Them you always eat hamburgers without cheese?!¨
¨yes, i always disliked cheese but i started hating thanks to a certian someone back home.¨ he said still with the annoyed look on his face.
¨oh, you mean that far away land you told us about? And who was that someone?¨
A quick excuse came into mind, this one a lie but he had his reasons.¨my master, the one who trained me for combat. He was a good fighter, a damn good one...But that crazy old fool was obsessed with cheese an-.¨ he stopped mind sentence and he suddenly got serious.¨did you heard that too?¨
¨yes…and smell them too, looks like we are surrounded Boy!, its time to make some well-roasted wolfs!¨ jayce yelled exited for the incoming combat and just like that, a large pack of beowulfs jumped out of the bushes, all of them divided in two groups that tried to attack the two Faunus at the same time. Ragnar crushed the closest beowulf that tried to claw at him, them rolled out of the way of another´s claw attack, he changed Thu´ums. Marked For Death was equipped now, and the dragon faunus used his semblance.¨ Krii Lun Aus!¨ he shouted and a wave of dark purple energy shot foward from his mouth, some beowulfs evaded it, but the ones that couldn´t avoid it, they could feel how that attack weakened their bony armors, making them feel like if their bone armor was nothing but a fragile glass cover, and a feeling of inminent Doom came into their senses. But before they could reacto their instincts the Next thing was ragnar letting out a battle cry and charging at them, with Sovngarde at the ready, the closest beowulf was hit square on its chest by the warhammer, its body crashed against a tree. The dragon faunus didn´t gave them time to counter attack and continued smashing beowulf after beowulf on his charge, some of them were smart enough to duck or dodge the attack instead of trying to attack the charging faunus.
On Jayce´s point of view, the Bear Faunus was dodging the clawing attacks from multiple beowulfs while he changed Belial´s mode of firing from flamethrower to flame-mortar, which consisted on a mode fired fireballs instead of the classic stream of fire from the normal firing more. The fireballs got to their objectives and the wolf-like grimms were inmediatly caught in crimson flames created by red dust, giving them a slow painful death as the fire burned their fur, skin, muscles, etc.¨hahahahahahaha! Gotta love the sweet smell of Red Dust on the morning!¨ he belowed and gave a low kick to a beowulf that was trying to attack him on his left side, making the creature trip and crash with other two of the werewolf like grimms. The bear faunus changed to the flamethrower mode again, a mad grin was plastered on his face.¨Burn Baby Buuuuurn!¨ as soon as he finished saying those words a torrent of crimson flames shot from the weapon, catching the three beowulfs, they howled in pain as the red flames consumed them, giving them a slow painful death. A fourth beowulf tried to sneak attack Jayce, but it was stopped when its head was impaled by a javelin. Said thing came from Sovngarde´s gun form.
Ragnar grinned at his recent kill.¨you owe me one Jayce, i just saved you!¨ he laughed
¨aaahh! Bloody hell, again?! Alright what do you want this time?¨ he asked as he kicked another beowulf, sending it against a tree.
¨5 hamburgers without cheese!¨ the dragon faunus exclaimed while smashing another beowulf with Sovngarde
¨boy, you really do eat a lot dont ya?¨ the bear faunus complained.
¨hey shut up, you are a freaking bottomless pit!¨ he countered.
¨touche!¨.He responded and now the two faunus were back to back in the middle of the clearing, surrounded by remaining beowulfs, all of them were snarling and growling at the two.¨so, how many do you think they are left?¨ jayce asked.
¨i´d say…like 40 beowulfs left.¨ ragnar responded.
¨20 you and 20 me?¨
¨good idea, just dont try to cheat like last time!¨ ragnar said while changing Thu´ums, to Fire Breath.¨Yol Toor Shul!¨ an inferno of orange flames was released from his mouth as he said the words of the shout, some beowulfs were caught by the dragon faunus´s flames, burning them to ashes. Two beowulfs tried to claw attack him but he did a roll to his left, avoiding the double claw attack directed at him.¨phew! that was close¨
¨i wasn´t cheating! It was a fair strategy!¨ jayce responded to ragnar´s accusation as he fired a stream of red flames that consumed as well several beowulfs, the bear faunus let out a sadistic laugh, he had always enjoyed inflicting pain to the beasts of grimm.
¨Fair strategy my ass! you made me trip that time you arse!¨ he yelled, and them changed thu´ums again, this time to Frost breath.¨Fo Krah Diin!¨ as soon as he finished shouting those words, the dragon faunus shoot the icy breath out of his mouth, it was the same thing as with the fire breath thu´um, a large stream of frost. Any beowulf infront of Ragnar could slowly feel how their muscles were going numb and their organs starting to fail cause of the extreme temperatura they were being exposed to.
¨brrrr, its cold!, i didnt know you could also shoot Frost out of ya mouth! I mean, i´ve seen before the blue and dark purple things but not this one.¨ he commented.
¨well, as you may know already..My semblance is divided in several parts that i call Shouts, the blue one is Unrelenting Force, the purple one is Marked for Death, and this one was Frost Breath, which is like the Fire Breath one!¨ he explained as he used Sovngarde´s javelin gun form to impale the remaining beowulfs.
-Back in Signal Academy-.
Taiyang and the rest of his squad were on a small room where they were monitoring Jayce and Ragnar´s advance on the room on a holo-screen, the only thing was that they didn´t have cameras that deep on the forrests, so on the screen was proyect a map with two dots of different colours, one was the dragon faunus who was the one of the grey coloured dot and the bear faunus was the red dot. There was also two pictures on the side of the screen, same thing like the dots, one was of Ragnar and the other was of Jayce, and aura bars were under the pictures, meaning the state of their health. It has been a while since the two faunus headed out, and the map showed that they were really deep in the island.
¨so far everything is going well, and from what their bodycounts tells me they have been having a lot of fun!¨ Karl commented.
¨oh really? Who has the highest score?¨ asked Tyler.
¨so far, its the one with the highest bodycount, the kid is surely having fun with the beowulfs today, 120 beowulfs killed, while jayce has killed 90.¨
Taiyang grinned.¨looks like i´m gonna win today´s bet Tyler, i told you ragnar was gonna be the one with the highest killscore!¨ the blonde man exclaimed.
¨aaaahh fuck you man!..That kid is always charging directly into combat¨ the other blonde complained
¨well, he has told me that most people back in his homeland are like that, specially if they choose the life of a warrior.¨ taiyang explained.
¨so he is a brute?¨ Tyler asked.
¨no, of course Not!, ragnar is a skilled warrior but the kid is also smart and learns somethings fast, but i get confused when he writes in that weird lenguage.¨ taiyang grumbled.
¨what do you mean with that?¨ the other blonde man asked again.
¨yes, what do you meant with that Taiyang?¨ Karl asked, now interested in the conversation.
¨well, only me, ruby and yang know it, but ragnar not only shouts words or speak in that weird lenguage but he can also write on it, but its really hard to understand it, since its composed of Runes, but he is doing his best to teach us.¨ he said with a smile.
¨how does he call that lenguage?¨ the bald man asked.
¨he calls it Dovahzul, from what he told us its a lenguage that originated from his homeland¨ he responded.
¨oh reaaaaally, them why dont you show us.¨ tyle sneered.
¨ Tyler, you are an idiot.¨ taiyang responded calmly and the other blonde´s jaw dropped meanwhile Karl bursted out laughing.
-hours later, back in the forrest-
Ragnar and Jayce had defeated the horde of beowulfs a while ago and they continued moving deeper into the forrests, right now they were on a pause eating lunch. The bear faunus was eating sandwiches of cheese and honey, while ragnar eated the cookies that ruby gave him, even if it were just a few it would keep his belly filled for a while.
¨so you really dont want cheese?¨ the bear faunus asked.
¨are you really going start that again Jayce?¨ ragnar glared at his companion
¨hey! Cant say you dont like it if you haven´t tried it!¨ jayce countered
¨its because i eated so much cheese back in the past that i got sick of it!. There, thats why i hate cheese!¨ ragnar responded.
¨oh i see…well, if you dont want its okay.¨
¨finally you understand! Thank you my friend!¨ he said, and them he finished eating Ruby´s cookies.¨mmm they were really good.¨ ragnar put the box back in one of his pouches and picked up Sovngarde. He was gonna say something to Jayce, but he catched up a scent that put all of his senses in high alert.
¨you can smell it too right?¨ jayce said, now compleatly serious as he readied Belial.¨its a grimm…lots of them again, we are compleatly surrounded.¨ he commented
¨Beowulfs?¨ he asked.
¨no…this ones are different..They are not Beowulfs..But neither are Ursas, this is something new..¨ the bear faunus said, this scent of grimm was compleatly unnerving him, for Jayce who had fought against different types of those beasts of darkness, this was the first time he was feeling scared. From the bushes figures came out. This creatures resembled wild dogs, oversized wild dogs, with black fur and bony armor on its head and other parts of them, their bodies looked like they could take a lot more punishment than beowulfs. Its eyes were black just like its fur, they all had jagged sharp teeth and were snarling at them.¨holy shit…this ones, they are, Tindalos!..i thought every last one of them had been killed at the end of the Human-Faunus War!¨
¨wait, Tindalos?, can you explain?¨ ragnar asked while holding his Hammer at the ready.
¨Tindalos, these Dog-like beast were some of the Type 2 Grimms, they are more dangerous than beowulfs and ursas that are only Type 1 Grimms. These fuckers can take a lot more of hits before falling dead, it tooks us a long time and a lot of good men and women to ¨kill¨ them...but it looks like some of them survived.¨he said, and as he finishd his short explanation, the fight started.
One of the Tindalos charged forward before ragnar could comment something else, choosing the dragon faunus as its target. He quickly brought up his hammer and smashed the Tindalos on its jaw, both faunus could hear the sound of bones breaking and the dog-like grimm was sent flying against a tree. There was silence for several moments, ragnar thought he had added yet another kill to his body counter, but his eyes widened at what happened, the tindalos he just attack standed up again, its jaw was hanging, broken. But that didnt bother the tindalos at all, it just looked at ragnar again, the dragon faunus looked at it too, directly in the eyes. He looked right into those dark abyss that was that beast´s eyes, it started growling at him again and them charged straight at ragnar again.
He reacted quickly and turned Sovngarde into its javelin gun form, he quickly looked by the scope of his gun and shoot a javelin. The metallic javelin traveled fast and finally reached its target, impaling itself on the tindalos´s shoulder, the large dog-like grimm staggered but it didnt stop its charge.¨By the Nine…you were right about them taking a lot of punishment!¨ it was the reaction of ragnar, but he quickly aimed at the tindalos again, looking right throught his scope and started firing javelins at the incoming beast, one, two, three and finally four.
With the fourth javelin the tindalos finally fell to the ground, dead just a few meters close to ragnar. But that was not the end of that soon-to-be long night. All of the other tindalos started growling and snarling at the two faunus huntsman.
¨uuhmm..Ragnar.¨ jayce started.
¨you dont need to tell me Jayce,i can see them clearly too!¨ he quickly said and turned Sovngarde into its hammer form again. Them in the blink of an eye all of the tindalos surrounding them charged at the two faunus,
¨Shit, Shit, SHIT!¨ the bear faunus yelled as he started using his flamethrower on the large dog-like grimms, some of them stopped as they were caught up on flames but others didnt stop. Jayce was tackled by one a tindalos on his side, it took him out of balance, another tackled him too, making him fall down, but he quickled rolled and standed up again. Ragnar on his part was sending to fly several tindalos with swings of his hammer, on a moment of distraction a tindalos bit him on his left leg, he grunted out of pain and smashed the head of that tindalos with his hammer, killing it. he changed thu´ums quickly and readied Fire Breath.¨Yol Toor Shul!¨ he released his fire breath, lighting some tindalos on raging orange flames and made the rest of them backdown doing temporarily to rethink their attack strategy.
¨hey Jayce..¨ Ragnar said, while panting.¨ are you fine?¨
¨just a few hits on several parts of my body and a bite, nothing that my aura cant heal, how about you?¨
¨same as you, these bastards attack all at once and there are still quite a lot of them.¨ the dragon faunus said without taking his eyes from the type-2 grimms
¨they´ll just tire us out to kill us more easily, we need to kill them quickly!¨ he said and as if they understood his words, the Tindalos horde got into offensive and charged once again at the two faunus.
¨so no plan?¨ ragnar asked out loud while he was smashing some tindalos with sovngarde
¨yes!, kill as many as we can, make a hole in their numbers and find a way to loose them, they are just too many.¨ jayce said, he was already attacking them with his flamethrower, letting belial´s flames consume them, he avoided the bite attack of one of the tindalos and fired a fireball at it. the beast was lighted in fire in a instant, killing it since this one had already taken some damage. He was gonna fire at another one but a third tindalos clawed him on his back. Well it didnt actually claw at his back directly but rather Belial´s red dust tank was pierced by the Tindalos´s claws. Jayce heard the sound of the bony claws hitting the metal tank, but in the heat of the combat the bear faunus didnt have the time to check it out, thinking that it didnt recieved any damage, he crushed the head of a tindalos with his heavy boot, by doing that he dragged most of the remaining tindalos attention to him, 3 were left Fighting with ragnar.
¨well i wanted to fight more than just three, but this will do! I´ll use your fur as coats!¨ he taunted the three tindalos and them proceded to fight them.
¨i hope ya like Red Dust Fire cause i have for all of you!¨ Jayce bellowed and them prepared Belial to fire, still not realizing the red dust leak on the tank and…he fired. The result was chaotic, all of the red dust was ignited, engulfing Jayce on fire. The bear faunus felt on his knees, yelling at the top of his lungs from the pain, but that was not everything, as the tindalos group walked closer to try to finish off the burning faunus.
¨Jayce!¨ ragnar yelled as he witnessed that, he turned Sovngarde into its compact form and ran towards the bear faunus, thinking that he could save his life by setting off the fire by using the Frost breath thu´um, but in the moment when he was about to reach them, an explotion of red dust happened, apparently Jayce had been carrying incendiary red dust granades too, the flames had ignited them too, making the already obvious blast.
The big red fireball consumed the whole group of tindalos, and it took Ragnar off guard, he didnt had the time to change to the Become Astral thu´um. He felt the heat of the inmense fireball, he did his best to avoid it by doing several backflips, but it wasn´t enough, as the fire reached one of his arms and part of his back. He could feel the fire slowly burning on his right arm and his back. He yelled in pain, the next was the shockwave from the blast. It sent him flying far away from the site, making him fall down from a hill.
The dragon faunus rolled doing the hill nonstop, hitting several rocks that were on the way, luckily none hit his head, most of the punishment was recieved by the iron chestplate given to him for his evaluation. After some moments he finally got himself in a good position and grabbed a rock, stopping his fall on the inclined hill, he looked down and saw that that the hill ended right on a river.¨well shit, thanks to the Nine for this rock.¨ he commented and them slowly standed up on the rock he grabbed, his whole body was protesting in pain, specially his burnt back and arm, he could feel how the back of the iron chestplate was still burning hot and all the dents it had cause of the multiple rocks he hit, his burned arm also protested each time he moved it. He took it off with some efford and threw it away with his good arm, finally he could feel his aura slowly healing his wounds and bruices, he picked up Sovngarde again, the weapon was still in its compact form and he put it on the leather holding on his back.¨alright now let´s climb back up¨ he said.
But as if fate was being a real bitch with him, he heard a howl from up the hill, ragnar looked up and saw a tindalos that had survived the incendiary blast, most of its fur had been burned away making visible the muscle and skin of the large dog-like grimm, the dragon faunus could feel the killer intent and rage emanating from the creature.¨ooh…you´ve gotta be fucking kidding me!¨. he said and in the blink of an eye, ragnar was tackled by the Tindalos. The two started rolling down the rest of the hill till they finally fell on the River.
-15 Minutes Ago. Back in Signal Academy-
Taiyang, Karl and Tyler had taken a break to eat lunch with the rest of the instructors, Qrow had joined them three, but the Huntsmen couldn´t finish their meals as the Scrolls of the four men blared a alarm. They all looked at their respective Scrolls and what they saw made their blood freeze, Jayce´s aura bar was compleatly empty and his heart beat monitor was a flatline, while Ragnar´s bar was on the yellow zone and pulse was accelerated. ¨fuck, fuck! We have to start a search for ragnar and find what the hell happened.¨ Qrow said, he was clearly alterated but he tried not to show it.
On Taiyang´s side, he was nervous and trying to think a way to explain to ruby and yang that their brother was now lost deep into Patch´s forrests, it didnt help that the island had a few mountains too.¨yes, lets not loose time, we gotta go out now!¨ he said while picking up his weapon.
A while later.
Qrow and Taiyang could only look in silence as Ruby´s eyes got filled with tears and yang holded her back.
¨Please let me go yang! I want to go too!¨ she younger scythe wielder said as she tried to struggle with her older sister´s grip.
¨rubes, Rubes! Calm down, like this you wont be able to concentrate! Let daddy and uncle Qrow search for him!¨ yang said to her older sister.
¨but…but..i wanna go too!¨ she said as she started tearing up.¨i dont wanna loose another Family member..¨ She mumbled weakly.
¨sshh, its okay Ruby, Ragnar will be fine, remember that he destroys any grimm that crosses his path!¨ yang said while smilling, trying to bring her sister´s spirits up.
¨Yang is right Ruby, he is a tought boy and dont worry, we will find him no matter how much time it takes us!¨ their father reasured.
The younger scythe wielder looked at her father and uncle, she slowly wiped away her tears and nodded, she tried her best to smile but she wasn´t able to do it right now, ruby knew that ragnar would be alive…no matter what.
With that, Taiyang and Qrow walked out of the town by the main gate, joining Karl, Tyler, Kora and James, a faunus Huntress and a Huntsman that came from vale a time ago to help in the town of Patch. The Six made the Search and Rescue party that would locate Jayce´s remains and find Ragnar.
¨alright, let´s not loose anymore time.¨ Qrow said and the six ventured into the gray forrests.
-back with ragnar, deep into the island´s forrest. Four Hours Later.-
After falling into the river the dragon faunus and the Tindalos, he had been taken deeper into the island forrest by the fast waters of the river, in a moment of luck ragnar managed to break the neck of the tindalos that tackled him. With the monster dead he focused on trying to not hit the underwater rocks and not drowing. He was sucessful and he was currently resting on the shore of the river, he was exhausted and all of his wounds had been slowly healing thanks to his aura, but the burnts on his arm and back would take a lot more. ¨heh...Hehehehe, i´m still alive!, suck on this ya fucking tindalos!¨ he said, still laying down on the ground.¨but i´m lost island…greeeat, just what i wanted¨. He said dryly
He waited for several minutes till he could move his body again and slowly standed up, he picked up Sovngarde that was next to him, he made the bones of his neck sound and looked around, and them up at the sky, to see that it was Night time already, it wasn´t a problem for him thought thanks to his faunus abilities, so he started moving already to find a place where he could spend the night without any Grimm bothering him. he had been walking fast, after noticing how some storm clouds were gathering, it was obvious what was coming. A Storm…and a really big one and that also meant lots and lots of Thunders, the sound of the thunders was something incredibly annoying for him and for any other faunus.
The first lighting struck, the sound was as always produced a small pain on his ears, he gritted his teeth but remained calm, he looked at a random direction of the forrest and decided to continue walking.¨Divines guide me..¨ he muttered as he walked.
2 years passed since Ragnar Rose got lost on the island´s forrests, the search party easily found the remains of Jayce, he was given a proper burial and the search for the dragon faunus continued every time they were avaiable but none of the searchs had any sucess. Sometimes Tyler had said that he had died but Taiyang and Qrow refused to believe that, they knew that the faunus was still alive.
For Ruby and Yang was hard, specially for the young scythe wielder, she had several nightmares of him dying but her elder sister would comfort her after each nightmare by telling her stories for her to sleep better, just like ragnar had done too.
Eventually yang had graduated from Signal Academy, ruby was 15 she had to more years to go, but that changed one night after an incident where she fought the infamous criminal Roman Torchwick on Vale, frustating the man´s attempt of robbing a Dust Store.
Now, the little sister was also accepted on Beacon Academy along with her older sister Yang. The two departed yesterday, taking along Ragnar´s Wolf Armour.
1 day before Beacon´s Test on Emerald Forrest.
The professors Bartholomew Oobleck and Peter Port had been sended to Patch island cause of an emergency call, aparently another type of new Grimm had showed up and was attacking the walls of The town of Patch, this type of grimm, had a female humanoid appearence but their skins were grey with some pieces of bone armour covering parts of them and had massive claws for offensive attacks, their agility was also incredible as they were able to dodge bullets if they had the opportunity and were Able to hipnotize if someone looked directly at their eyes for too much time, the had been called Sirens for that feature. The sign that a one of them is near was their characteristic high pitched scream.
¨this just incredible!¨ Oobleck exclaimed as he attacked a Siren with his thermos, lighting it on fire.¨yet a new type of Grimm in just two years! First we have the dangerous Tindalos, that make the Beowulfs and Ursas look like stuffed animals, them we have this ones! Sirens, beatiful yet deadly!¨ even if they were in the middle of a combat Oobleck continued his fast talking.
¨i gotta say the same, i´d like to have a chance to study this Sirens once i manage to capture one alive, but..¨ he dodged an attack that was way too close for his liking at fired his blunderbuss at the siren, obliterating its chest, a second siren came and attacked Port, clawing him on his left arm.¨aaaarrgh! and they do leave nasty wounds too!¨
¨indeed, claws have serrated edges, perfectly made for tearing things apart with them! Be extra careful Peter!¨ oobleck exclaimed.
¨no need to tell me twice my friend! I´ll be!¨ he said as he slashed a beowulf with his blunderbuss´s axe, them turned around to shoot another beowulf, his arm was healing pretty well but slowly.
¨guys you can talk all you want later, we gotta concentrate on killing the beowulfs and sirens remember?!¨ Taiyang said, after killing two more beowulfs that tried to attack him at the same time.
¨why complaining so much Taiyang? We are almost done here!¨ Port said cheerfuly, but as he said that they heard a high pitch scream, one too familiar for them, and they saw two large Deathstalkers coming out of the forrests.
¨great, how could this get any worst?¨ Qrow said dryly. Yet another high pitch scream was heard, this time he looked up at the sky and saw a Nevermore.¨fuck!¨
¨let´s deal with the deathstalkers first! Them we´ll see how to deal with the Nevermore!¨ Taiyang yelled.
As the four Huntsmen were dealing with the large grimms, something else was looking at the whole escene from one of the trees, it wasn´t a hostile one and was waiting for the exact moment to get into the fight too.
Oobleck and Port dodged the pincers of one of the deathstalkers that was attacking them. The green haired huntsman shot several fireballs against the deathstalker, hitting it on its face. The fire attack leaved the large deathstalker temporarily stunned, they took the opportunity to make their counter attack, Port went for the left pincer starting first by shooting at it several times with his blunderbuss the scorpion like grimm tried using its pincer to attack port but the teacher dodged the attack in time, and them attacked that pincer several times with his blunderbuss´s axe till he managed to slice that one off.
The deathstalker screamed in pain from its pincer being cut off, but that was not the end, as Oobleck did his turn of attacking he attaced several times the other pincer left hitting it several times till that pincer was set on fire. The flames quickly extended all over the deathstalker´s body, the creature started trashing in pain, the grimm colapsed on the ground as the flames consumed it. Port shot it twice with his blunderbuss just to be sure, Them the two teachers started running to avoid the Nevermore´s sharp feathers that had been falling to the ground as deadly proyectiles.
With the flying Grimm´s attetion on Oobleck and Port. Qrow and Taiyang had the enough time to finish dealing with their Deathstalker after weaking it for several minutes with their combined attacks, the older scythe wielder just finished cutting off the point of the tail of the grimm, it screamed in rage and tried to get the two men with its pincers, they avoided its attacks and prepared their counter-attack. Taiyang ran first charging one of his hands with aura, he avoided the pincers of the deathstalker and delivered the scorpion grimm a powerful uppercut that lifted it a few feet in the air.¨Qrow its your turn!¨ the blonde man yelled.
¨on it!¨ qrow said as he ran towards taiyang, the older scythe wielder jumped. He put his hands together as the black haired scythe wielder landed them and propulsed him into the air after augmenting his strength with his aura. Qrow soared thought the air towards the Deathstalker and in the blink of an eye he impaled his scythe´s edge on the scorpion grimm´s face but he didnt stop there, the scythe wielder continued moving foward, cutting the Deathstalker in half from front to back. He landed quietly on the ground while the grimm´s corpse fell behind him.¨Damn i´m good!¨. he said and them they heard the Nevermore´s screech, qrow and taiyang turned around to see Oobleck and Port doing their best to fight off the flying grimm, but it was shooting its deadly feathers continously, leaving them not so much time to aim and shoot back. The Nevermore was about to shoot yet another wave of its feathers at the two teachers who had to fall back to the tree line, the nevermore got too close to the trees, that was its mistake.
From one of the tree´s branches jumped a figure, a tall teenager with well built muscles thanks to nord and imperial roots, the clothing he had gone out with two years ago was mostly dirty and torn apart on several parts, and he had now long blonde hair that reached his shoulders, his silver eyes and pale skin were still the same and the familiar set of dragon horns adorned his head, he also had pointy ears covered with grey escales. on his hands he carried a familiar warhammer and he was letting out a battlecry as it soared right to the Nevermore. Everything seemed to slow for the four adult Huntsmen.
¨is that…?¨ Taiyang began.
¨Ragnar?!¨ Qrow finished for him, Oobleck and Port watched in silent interest the whole escene
As they said that, Sovngarde´s head impacted the nevermore´s head right between the eyes, the attack stunned the flying grimm for some seconds. Ragnar grabbed onto the fur of the nevermore to not fall from its back yet, he turned his weapon into its Javelin gun form and aimed at one of its wings, yes he still had several Javelins, since he had been saving them for the perfect moment like this one.¨Say Hello to my Little Friends!¨ he yelled in dovahzul and shoot all of the remaining javelins all over the nevermore´s left wing, making it useless, flying grimm started to fall to the ground, ragnar jumped off of it.¨Feim Zi Gron!¨ he used his Become Ethereal shout, his skin quickly turned a blue and transparent, that avoided the damage from the fall and landed softly on the ground, forcing the ethereal form off, he looked at where the nevermore landed, it was still alive and incredibly enraged, it screeched at Ragnar.
Port and Oobleck were about to join in the fight but Qrow stopped them, they looked at the Older Scythe Wielder.¨allow him to do this alone, i know he can.¨ Taiyang nodded, agreeing with Qrow´s idea, the two teachers them nodded back and watched along.
¨it will be interesting to see him fight.¨ Port commented.
With its other wing that was still able to move it, the nevermore shoot featers to the dragon faunus, he started dodging them, but at the same time he has moving towards the large flying grimm, that was starting to frustrate the Nevermore, one of the feathers managed to grace ragnar´s right leg, he was about to fall down but he used Sovngarde´s handle as a support, he looked directly at the nevermore, he could feel his aura already slowly healing the wound on his leg.¨alright…come at me Big Ugly Fucker!¨ the flying grimm screeched as if it understood what he said and it started advancing towards ragnar, it rised its wing to try to crush ragnar with its weight, he rolled away from the attack. It lifted its wing to see if it had succeded, but the dragon faunus wasn´t there. Ragnar had actually climbed up the nevermore once again, putting Sovngarde into its compact form again and hanging it on the holder on his back, he pulled off two of the javelins them he started moving towards the head of the Nevermore, when the flying Grimm noticed that he was on its back once again it started trashing around to make him fall off of its back.
Ragnar grabbed hard onto the nevermore´s fur, he tried to move as much as he could on its back, till he finally reached its head.¨hope you like this!¨ he stabbed the javelins on its head, the Nevermore screeched in pain as the metallic javelins were impaled into its head, it trashed a lot more making ragnar finally fall off of it,it did another wing attack this time landing the hit on ragnar and sending him flying a few meters away from it, the nevermore turned around and started moving into the treeline.
The dragon faunus standed up quickly, he felt a small pain from two of his ribs, but it was something that he could handle, he looked at the nevermore.¨oh no…you are Not escaping…Wuld Nah Kest!¨ he ran forward, in incredibly speeds just like ruby, and he stopped infront of the nevermore, and changed Thu´ums…he was feeling exhausted already, he had been the whole day Fighting grimms with no rest, it had been affecting him already, he looked at the nevermore right into its eyes.
Taiyang, Qrow, Port and Oobleck looked in silence.
¨Iiz Slen Nus¨ A powerful ice blast came from him, the Nevermore couldn´t do much as it froze into a solid ice statue, compleatly inmobilzing it but not killing it, yes this thu´um was not maded for killing but for inmobilizing. He took Sovngarde and turned it into its hammer form.¨go meet your maker, monster.¨ he said and delivered a powerful blow to its frozen head, shattering it compleatly, the rest of its body just fell limp on the ground as the ice shattered too.
¨phew finally..¨ he said while putting Sovngarde into its compact mode again, he turned around noticing the four huntsmen looking at him, he grinned.¨Father, Uncle! It´s really good to see you two again!¨ he said.
A while later.
The Family reunion between Ragnar, Taiyang and Qrow the three had headed to a fast food place to get something to eat, obviously after they gave the dragon faunus decent new clothes, which consisted of a black cargo pant and a long sleeved cotton shirt, of light and dark grey lines. Ragnar was eating mercilessly hamburguer after hamburguer, it was something he had missed greatly. Taiyang and Qrow could only stare at how fast he was eating them all, finally he finished eating all of the burgers.
¨wow..i really needed this!¨ ragnar exclaimed.
¨i can see that kid…how the hell did you survived two years on the island´s forrests?¨ Qrow asked first.
¨well, finding food out there wasn´t an easy thing because every 5 meters there was a freaking Grimm waiting on a bush to ambush me, but what i mostly ate were berries from bushes or apples i managed to get from trees..Fruits were fine but holy fuck i missed a well cooked meat!¨ he said and them he quickly remembered something else.¨wait, where are Ruby and Yang?¨ he asked them.
Taiyang smiled.¨the girls are fine, they departed yesterday to Beacon Academy...They, they really miss you a lot.¨ he said.
¨i miss them too, dad..Uncle can i go to beacon academy too?¨
This time Qrow grinned.¨of course you can kiddo! But your entrance exam will have to be after Ruby and Yang´s test since theirs is tomorrow morning, so that means you´ll have to do it alone but you´ll be asigned on a Team after you complete it¨ he explained
¨i´ll have to talk with Ozpin once we get back home them, after that you are heading out for Beacon Academy tomorrow.¨
¨i understand, and i´m eager to do that test!¨ he said.
¨alright them! Let´s go back home Ragnar¨ taiyang exclaimed, ragnar nodded in agreement and Qrow went back to his home.
Later that Night
When they got back home, the Dragon Faunus was startled when he saw that his Wolf Steel Armour was not on his room but after his father explained him that ruby and yang had taken it with them to Beacon he calmed down, he also relieved to see that his bags that contained his soul gems and septims were still there on his room along with his map of Tamriel after that he went to sleep.
But taiyang was still awake, he was on a videocall with Professor Ozpin, headmaster of beacon.¨ so..Thats what happened, today we finally found ragnar and he wants to enroll in Beacon too, hows does that sounds?¨ he asked ozpin.
¨sounds like a good idea, but do you have something like a video of him showing his Fighting skills?, i remember you telling me that he was good…but i wanna see it too.¨ ozpin said in his usual calm tone.
¨i knew you would ask for it, yes i have one. I´m sending it right now.¨ he finished and right in that moment Glynda Goodwitch, ozpin´s friend and fellow teacher at beacon stood next to him, with a scroll that displayed a video of Ragnar Fighting the Nevermore alone, the fyling grimm it was one of considerable size. The teachers were both amazed to see the dragon faunus Fighting alone against the type 4 Grimm, ozpin grinned and glynda nodded.
¨this is all i needed for proof, you dont need to worry Taiyang, is accepted in Beacon along with his Sisters and Long. Have a good night old friend.¨ he said.
¨you too Oz, and also remember to give ragnar his armor, its on a big wooden box that should be along Yang´s things.¨ taiyang said too and ended the call, finally he went to sleep without any worries.
The next day, the test had already started as ragnar was now arriving at Beacon academy. As he walked out of the Airship he could see two persons standing infront of him on the courtyard, one was a man on a gree suit with grey hair and the other was a blonde woman in a formal female outfit with a cape. Professor Glynda and Ozpin the headmaster, he had a kinda large wooden box next to him, he walked towards them.
¨Ragnar Rose right?¨ ozpin was the first to say something.
¨Yes, i take it you are the Professor Ozpin that My father told me about right?¨ ragnar asked and ozpin nodded.
¨you are right, and she is Glynda Goodwitch, my assistant and fellow professor at the Academy. Your father already informed us about you, so your test will be done after naming ceremony for the Teams of the first test. When you complete yours, you will be asigned on a team. Also Taiyang informed us to give you this¨ he pointed at the wooden box.
Ragnar smiled and walked towards the box.¨thank you Professor Ozpin, where are the changing rooms?¨
¨that way.¨ glynda responded for him and the dragon faunus nodded, he thanked her and walked away to change into his Wolf Steel Armour and get ready for his incoming test. After a while he was on his full set of armour, including the pouches that had his septims, map and soul gems, he took Sovngarde, which was on its javelin gun form and loaded a fresh clip of javelins, and took his reserve ammo packs.¨alright…i´m ready for it.¨ ragnar said and started waiting for His test.
(Well hello, Orkshasa here! First i want to thank all that have liked the story so far, i know my writting can be messy but i´m doing my best to improve it.)
(and I would like to apologize for the time i took writing the second Chapter, university was drowning me in exams but i finished them and i´m on Break WOOOOOOH!. Now back with things about the story, if you all want an idea of how Qrow looks on his story just look at his official concept art done by Rooster Teeth. I just loved the designs of Him and Winter! And it was also kinda funny how Qrow was forgotten and the attention of almost everyone was on Winter xD. But still the ol´uncle looks like a complete badass)
(Another thing would that, as you guys saw new types of more dangerous and strong grimm beasts will be appearing slowly, just like in this Chapter with the Tindalos, that are harder to kill and are more lethal than a beowulf. So if you want an idea of how they are classified them its: Type 1: normal Beowulfs and Ursas. Type 2: Tindalos and Sirens. Type 3: boarbatusks, Ursa Mayor, Alpha Beowulf. Type 4: Deathstalkers, Nevermore and Albino Beowulf. And Type 5, well there are still no type 5´s on the story obviously, but you will know it once you see one. Also i´m thinking of adding water type grimm. Well thats it for now. Good luck and good night/morning/day for everyone!)
