Path to Redemption Ch. 6: Bad Blood
IMPORTANT: THANK YOU TO VORPALMEDIA AND SKAANA FOR INFORMING ME THAT I FUCKED UP! THIS IS THE RIGHT CHAPTER!
So my apologies for how short the last chapter was, but I'm not necessarily going to make up for it in one go. Be happy that you go two chapters in one day, because that will not happen with this sinking back into the normal rotation of things {AHR, this, CoG, and the possible other story}. Twitter, once again, Codyknight22. Tweeted my preview already, and let's go ahead and do this thing.
The twins quickly tossed aside another corpse, and pulled the man that they were interviewing into their view.
"Talk," they said in unison.
"I swear," the man said. "I don't know."
"I somehow doubt that," Miltia said.
"Did you see any images of the Station?" Melanie asked, propping her boot on his arm. He felt the blade break part of his skin, and he tensed up. The blade went further in, causing him to cry out in pain.
"I did," he said. "I did." Melanie eased off of the boot pressure, and Miltia leaned in close.
"What we're going to do is going to be such worse," she whispered. Melanie answered a message from her scroll, and then looked over to Miltia.
"So it appears that you aren't telling us the truth," Melanie said. "You have been linked directly to the White Fang."
"They pay for some minor issues," he grobbled. "I swear that there's nothing else."
"We believe you," the twins said in unison. He breathed a sigh of relief.
"But," Miltia said. "We can't let you tell the cops about who did this."
"I promise, I won't," the man grobbled.
"We know," Melanie said. She calmly raised her pistol, and fired off a round into his chest. The twins just smiled, and walked back to the airship.
Beacon Academy: Twins Room
Obviously, the events that had just taken place were after they had run into Yang. It was the day after that little squabble had happened, and Goodwitch had seemed quite eager to get them out into the field again. Regardless, they were 0-2 in terms of finding good sources for information. But it was still slaughtering for them, and they were able to get off on that.
They weren't overly violent people, but violence was what they had known for so many years. It had become apart of them, turned into what they were. But now, they found themselves enjoying it. It was too easy to picture those that they were killing as the ones that had been directly responsible for their parents deaths.
They received a small message on their scrolls, and they briefly checked them.
We're going out for Professor Peach. You're in charge of assisting any of the students. You are allowed to play rank, and all of the students are required to listen to you.
They sighed, and quickly changed out of their blood stained clothes. Luckily for them, their weapons had taken priority in terms of cleaning. Otherwise, there would of have been some questions about their stained weapons.
Bullhead
The twins were silently standing near the exit, Miltia's claws folded across her chest and Melanie rested on her toes. The three teams that were present were the infuriating RWBY, the always late JNPR, and the bully boys of CRDL. Neither of them were particularly excited about the possibility of having to defend them.
"So why are they here?" Pyrrha asked, pointing to the twins.
"Refer to them as the Malachite Twins," Goodwitch requested. "And they're here for extra security. They will stick with the largest group, and I'll be back in the airship."
"Like they'll offer much protection," Yang grumbled.
"Ms. Xiao Long," Goodwitch snapped. "I think that you'll find them more then capable in combat. They have been training since they've gotten here, and now they're the ones with the best technique here." Yang snorted, and Melanie calmly jammed her left heel into the ground. I hope Ozpin knows what he's doing, she thought calmly.
Forever Fall
The large group moved along, with the twins trailing just behind them. Goodwitch spent her time explaining what their goal was for that day, and the twins just ignored her. They weren't participating in the event. None of this was any of any importance to them.
The group finally broke apart, leaving the twins with the group of seven. All of JNPR apart from their forgetful leader Jaune, and then RWBY. Pyrrha seemed slightly saddened by the absence of her leader, but the twins paid no mind. Once again, this wasn't their issue. They were around for nothing more then security.
They could tell that someone was walking up to them, forcing them to turn.
"Hi," Ruby said happily. The twins paid her no mind, and then Ruby just moved closer to them. "So, uh, do you guys talk?"
"We're not paid too," they said in unison.
"Oh, well, can you talk?
"No." Ruby just stood awkwardly, really unsure of what to do.
"Go with your friends," Miltia finally said, unable to stand the presence of the girl in the red hood any longer.
"Hey Rubes," another cheery voice came. "What'ya doing?" The twins turned, and saw Yang walking up to them.
"Convince your sister to stay with you," Melanie ordered. Yang smiled, pleased that Ruby had already gotten under the twin's skin.
"Why should I?" Yang taunted.
"Because we're in charge here," Miltia challenged.
"And because we need to keep an eye on everything," Melanie added in, trying to be a bit more reasonable then her sister.
"So how are you two?" Yang asked, showing no signs of moving. Miltia finally swung around her claws into her jar, breaking the bottom off.
"Looks like you need to get more sap," she said, through gritted teeth. Yang sighed, and went to grab another jar. Melanie just brought her gaze down to Ruby, and stretched out her leg.
"I'll go with her," Ruby said quickly.
"You do that," Melanie said, watching as Ruby ran after her sister. Yang was seemingly going to do everything in her power to get the twins provoked. But what she didn't know, was that they had full authorization to use any form of force to keep the students under control. They looked over at each other, and then nodded. They didn't need to verbalize the words that they had to speak. Next time she tries and mocks us, we show her who's in charge.
Their thoughts were cut off by a loud roar, forcing them to retrain their attention. There was no sign of a Grimm. Where could that of have been...
"URSA! URSA!" Someone yelled out. The twins looked over, and watched as Russel Thresh and two other members of CRDL came sprinting out of the woods. Russel ran straight into Yang, and she picked him up by the collar.
"What?" She asked. "Where?"
"Back there, in the woods," Russel cried. "It's got Cardin." The twins just watched them all run, and silently pretended as though they didn't hear that. Getting rid of Cardin was going to cut down on their work.
"Jaune," Pyrrha realized. The twins did a quick head count, and sighed as they realized that the leader of team JNPR had gone with them.
"You two, get Professor Goodwitch," Ruby ordered, directing her attention to Blake and Yang.
"You two, go with them," Pyrrha added in, focusing her question over to Ren and Nora. "There could be more." Yang turned over to the twins, and then back at the rest of her team.
"Go help him!" She requested.
"Why should we?" Miltia asked. Yang growled, and signaled for the other three to keep going.
"Because it's your job," Yang argued.
"Part of our job includes full cooperation from you, blondie," Melanie spat. "Since you are clearly not willing to do that, we're going to let the others deal with it."
"Come on," Yang said, reaching her hand out to drag them. Melanie pushed away her hand, and looked at where they had come from.
"You going after them?" Miltia asked, sensing what her sister would say. Yang just took off, and the twins waited a moment before taking off after the others. If Yang hadn't said a word, they would of have gone right after the other four had taken off. But they had to prove a point to Yang.
They didn't take any orders from her, no matter what the situation was.
Beacon Academy: Front Lawn
The twins finished up their sweep, and walked over to a tree. They slowly took a seat, and then pulled out some food that they had prepared. Every student was currently in class, which meant that they were under the supervision of the teachers. They still couldn't use the cafeteria, just in case anyone tried to sneak out, but they did get some food pre-prepared for them.
They started to eat, grateful for the break. Keeping up with the students wasn't hard, nor was any of the "fighting" that they had to do to intimidate them. But after their meeting with the minds with Yang, neither of them were particularly happy with how the rest of the day turned out. She stayed on their minds, no matter what.
As much as either of them would hate to say it, Yang was in their heads. She was cocky, boisterous, arrogant, and obnoxious. All of these things were hard for the twins to push past, since she kept bringing it up. But now they finally just had a solution. Clearly, Yang wanted a fight. So they would give her a fight.
"Hey!" Someone yelled out. The twins looked up, and took another bite of their food. Speaking of the devil, Yang was walking straight up to them.
"Shouldn't you be in class?" Miltia asked boredly.
"Shouldn't you know that?" Yang challenged.
"You're supposed to be in class," Melanie said, brushing off her hand from her food.
"So what are you going to do about it?" Yang challenged again. It was obvious that she came for a fight.
"Still pissy that we didn't run off to help your friend?" Miltia taunted.
"Sucks doesn't it?" Melanie asked. "Having someone else ignore you?"
"I know where you two are going," Yang said, her voice lowering in anger. "But you have a job to do now. So-."
"So nothing blondie," Miltia said, standing to leave the area.
"Our job happens to include you listening," Melanie continued.
"So if you want to fight," Miltia continued. She spun around, and kicked Yang in the stomach.
"Then fight us," Melanie finally finished. Yang slowly stood up, and kept a careful gaze on the twins. She activated Ember Celica, and started to take in deep breaths. Flames started to appear by her, and the twins just waited.
Yang finally sprinted forward, and the twins easily danced out of the way. Yang quickly pivoted, and fried off a round at the stomach of Melanie. She swung up her shoe, and cut down the dust round. Miltia quickly leap frogged Melanie, and swung around her claws in a downward strike. Yang raised up her gauntlets to absorb the blow, but Melanie quickly kicked across her shins.
Yang howled out in pain, and quickly retrained her gaze. She fired off another round, this time focusing it at Melanie. She cut down the strike, and Melanie slid over to Yang. She swung around her boots, forcing Yang to jump out of the way. Miltia was on top of her by the time that she finished her spin, and she quickly swung around her claws at Yang's arms. Yang howled out again as all four of her limbs were injured. She just stared at the twins, and backed away slightly.
"You win," Yang gave in. "This isn't worth it." Melanie quickly picked her up, and stared Yang down.
"Next time, just listen to us," she said in a low voice. She threw Yang from her grasp, and then turned to resume patrol. Miltia ran after her sister, leaving Yang to think about what had happened. Were the twins really that much improved?
Ozpin's Office
"So she finally confronted them."
"Of course. It was only a matter of time before one of them spoke with the other."
"What do we say of this?"
"Nothing. The twins only need to know that they were victorious in this fight, not of our knowledge of it. All in due time, Glynda. All in due time."
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