A/N: Well, I hope you enjoy the chapter guys.
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Snake
Chapter 5: New Moon in the Flesh
"What about him?" Yang asked, curiosity settling itself upon her face, showing she had no clue what would involve the blond knight.
"Well...um…the way you've been acting around him, and I…", Pyrrha got out, embarrassed and not knowing what to say, before Yang giggled a little.
"I get it Pyrrha. Don't worry, you don't have to worry about me stealing him away", Yang said putting her hand on Pyrrha's shoulder, "Not yet at least", she winked before quickly retreating into her dorm, leaving the gaping Pyrrha stunned in the hall. This only lasted a few seconds though, before Pyrrha sighed to herself.
"Damn it Yang, you just can't stop teasing people", she said regaining her composure before heading back to her dorm.
"You alright Pyrrha?" Jaune asked her as she closed the door behind her, traces of concern mixed in with the normal tone of his voice.
"I'm fine, if not a little tired", Pyrrha said yawning. Jaune checked his scroll,
"It's getting late, we should all be getting to bed soon", Jaune said getting up off his bed, "It alright if I take the first shower?"
"Just don't take too long", Ren said as he tried to calm Nora down.
"Right", Jaune said heading into the bathroom, a towel slung around his shoulders. When he came out, Pyrrha blushed at seeing him in nothing but a pair of sweatpants, his developing muscles in plain view. Water slowly dripped from one shallow protrusion of skin to the other, beginning at his pectorals with their small brown areolae, and ending at the bottom of a barely visible six pack. Goosebumps started forming on his white, unmarked skin; his nipples began to poke out a bit from the cold that met him.
"My hair that much of a mess?" Jaune asked Pyrrha when he noticed her staring, which for some reason was making him to feel embarrassed.
"Not at all", Pyrrha said blushing as she looked away.
"Okay then?" Jaune just shrugged it off and hopped into bed, making sure to cover up. Pyrrha grabbed a towel and headed to the bathroom, tried desperately to make herself stop blushing. When she had finished, and was walking out of the bathroom in her nightgown, Jaune had already fallen asleep.
"He looks so peaceful", Pyrrha thought to herself as she climbed into bed.
Suddenly everyone's scrolls went off. Jaune had woken up, but only halfway and just turned his scroll off before going back to sleep. Her, Ren, and Nora turned their scrolls' volume down so as to not wake up Jaune, before opening them. There was a news update about New Moon.
"A cloaked figure was seen running away from another victim of New Moon's. The pedestrian only got a brief look, and from as far as a dozen yards away, so the only confirmed detail about who is thought to be New Moon is that they wear a black cloak that covers them entirely", Pyrrha read.
"A cloak? Wouldn't that just hinder movement?" Ren asked.
"Maybe, but it limits how many details about the killer that can be determined without getting too close", she told him, "The killer could be anyone with that lack of detail. Someone could be sleeping right next to him and never know".
The next day, Pyrrha woke up to see Jaune was missing.
"You know where Jaune is Ren?" Pyrrha asked him.
"He said he going for a stroll around town", he told her. This seemed abnormal to her, though maybe he did just want to take a walk around town.
"I'll be back in a little while. I need to head into town to get something", Pyrrha said after she had gotten done with her morning routine.
"See you when you get back", Ren said polishing his guns.
"Todays a nice day for a walk", Pyrrha thought as she walked through town. The sun shined, with the occasional cloud creating a momentary shadow. She's spotted Jaune, and as much as she hated to think of herself as a stalker, that was essentially what she was doing. She wanted to find a good place to bump into him 'coincidently'. Without warning though, he just started running, pulling out his sword. Looking where Jaune was, she seen what he was chasing. On the rooftops, ran a cloaked figure. Pyrrha quickly pulled out her scroll and started a conference call between team RWBY and the rest of her team as she ran. "Guys, get to town as quick as possible! Jaune is chasing someone who might be New Moon. Head for the docks, it seems like that's where we're approaching!"
"We're on our way!" They all said before Pyrrha ended the call, hurrying to catch up with Jaune.
"Pyrrha, we can't lose him!" Jaune called out as he realized she was on his tail. The chase continued until they had reached the docks. Everyone had made it there, blocking New Moon from escape as they surrounded him, their weapons drawn.
"Give up, before things get real ugly real fast", Yang said with ember celica at the ready.
"You cannot force me to give up my plans of purification. I must ask you all to let me go. I wish not to spill innocent blood today", A computerized voice told them.
Ren opened fire, but every bullet seemed to phase through him.
"When something is vibrating back and forth fast enough, it appears that object phase right through it. It actuality, the object is simply avoiding the foreign matter", he said before appearing before Ren. He tried to deliver an aura infused punch, but his head flew back, as if a devastating uppercut had been delivered. Ren feel back and hit the ground head first with a thud, a small amount of blood leaking onto the ground beneath his head.
"Damn you!" Nora said attempting to crush New Moon with the swing of her hammer. The ground crumbled and gave underneath New Moon as Nora continued to swing and used her grenades in conjunction with each other.
New Moon simply held his black-gloved hand up with each swing, blocking the crushing force with his hand alone.
"Enough", he said before Nora flew back, Magnhild slipping from her grip as she fell next to Ren.
Ruby took the opportunity to slash as New Moon, but he ducked and jumped to avoid every swing. While he was evading Ruby though, Yang had snuck up from behind and struck New Moon in the shoulder, knocking him to the ground. Ruby took advantage of his and moved to impale New Moon with Crescent Rose's tip.
Ruby didn't know when she had been hit, but she felt pain shoot through her neck, her body limp as she lost consciousness.
New Moon turned towards Pyrrha.
"I regret having to do this", he said, slowly walking forward, "but I doubt that any of you will give up". Jaune quickly moved in front of Pyrrha.
"I'm not letting you hurt anymore of my friends, and I'll kill you for the ones you've already hurt!", he said charging at New Moon, his sword pointed straight at him.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha screamed. Blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth, as New Moon's hand embedded itself in Jaune's chest.
"You are the reason your friends are hurt, and you will be the one to die for their suffering", New Moon said before pulling his hand out, blood flying as Jaune fell back, collapsing into Pyrrha's arms. Her tears fell onto Jaune's face as he laid unconscious.
"You motherfucker!" Yang roared, surrounded in fire as her eyes burned red. She wasted no time, and punched at New Moon as hard as she could from behind. New Moon barely moved as his arm itself was burned as it fell into the bay, the stub of his remaining arm unseen as it hid in his cloak.
"Go to Hell!" Pyrrha yelled as her sword sank into New Moon, going all the way to the hilt as she impaled him. Dark liquid covered the ground as she pulled her sword from him. New Moon stumbled back, tripping and falling back into the bay, no sign of him coming up.
Weiss rushed to Jaune's side, tearing off her jacket. She made quick to use it as makeshift dressing for the wound. Grabbing Myrtenaster, Weiss emptied blue dust on top of where the dressing covered the wound, before using her aura to activate it. This created a thick layer of ice on top of the wound.
"I bought us some time, but he won't last long!" Weiss said checking his vitals.
"I've already called emergency services", Blake said putting her scroll away, "They'll be here any minute with an ambulance". Seconds later, the ambulance pulled up beside them, the workers hurrying to get him on a stretcher. Once, he was in the ambulance, they started working on him. Pyrrha got in the ambulance just before it pulled away.
"It's gonna be alright Jaune, it's gonna be alright", she told more herself then him as she tried to contain her tears.
A second ambulance pulled up, the workers inside beginning to examine Ruby, Nora, and Ren. Yang stood by Ruby, praying that she would be alright, while Blake checked on Ren and Nora.
"This isn't blood", the detective said as he examined the dark liquid left by New Moon when he was stabbed by Pyrrha, "It's oil".
On the other side of the docks, outside the of the detectives sight, a robotic arm grabbed and pulled, hoisting up the cloaked figure. The wind blew hard, moving the hood of the cloak just enough to reveal an eye. A red, glowing, eye.
A/N: So, what do you think of the way I ended the chapter, about the fight with New Moon? Feel free to express any anger, sadness, etc. in a review.
