Chapter 4

Nix

"So let me get this straight." I said while pointing my MAC cannon at Orion, "This town was run over by grimm leaving you as the only survivor?" He nodded, "Then a lone hunter named Mychael found you and trained you for 5 years before he was killed when bandits and mercenaries attack on your 16th birthday?" He winced slightly but still nodded, "Since you haven't had much social interactions with people, especially girls, you spied/stalked me to see if I was a bad person before you tried talking to me?" He nodded once more. I continued to stare at him for a couple of seconds. I inwardly smirked when he seemed to get even more nervous, "That still doesn't explain why you ran away from me earlier. You could have just said you were uncomfortable." He looked away to try and hid the small blush he got when I asked him.

"Well you see since I have only talked to a total of 3 women in my life I may have a small case of… gynophobia." He said to me while still looking away. I tried to keep in my laughter but after 10 seconds I dropped my weapon and fell to the ground laughing.

"Your… hahaha… scared of… hahaha… women and… females in… hahaha… general!" I yelled at him while laughing. I was laughing so hard my stomach started to hurt.

"Hey! it's not my fault! The fact that the first girl I meet after 6 years ends up trying to kill me!" He yells at me but I'm too busy laughing at him to reply. After a couple of minutes I managed to calm myself down.

"Yeah, sorry about that." I said while sheepishly scratching the back of my head. Orion looked me for a couple of seconds before he sighed and rubbed his head.

"Look, we got off on the wrong foot earlier so how about we start over." I thought about it for a couple of seconds before I decided to agree.

"Sure." Orion smiled and held out his hand.

" names Orion, Orion Forsythe. Just a simple wolf faunus looking for a way in life." I smiled back at him and shook his hand.

"My name is Nix Thanos, a rogue huntress of Beacon Academy." I let go of Orion hand when he looked to his right.

"And this is Eclipse a good friend of mine." I looked down to find a large wolf sitting on the ground next to Orion. 'Huh, I completely forgot he was there.' The wolf looked at me and nodded his head.

"Hello." I greeted the wolf. Eclipse walked over to me and stared at me like he was expecting something.

"He wants you to pet him." I nodded my head and started to pet eclipse on his head. Eclipse let out a low growl, but not a threatening one. It was more like he was relaxing. Orion let another sigh while rubbing his head.

"Come on, we can talk more at my house. Follow me." He gestured for me to follow him so I did and Eclipse walked right next to me while I continued to pet him.

Orion

I opened the door to my house, it was a small almost like an apartment. The kitchen and living room were in one room and there was a bedroom to the right and a bathroom to the left. I started to walk towards to the couch I had at the far end of the room

"Hey Orion I was wondering, if there was an attack on the town why didn't anybody come and help them?" Nix asked me.

"Cause the grimm attacked so fast that and brutally that it was over before anybody knew what happened until they were dead." I replied.

"Then what happened to the bandits and mercenaries that came later?" I stopped, even after a year I still don't like to talk about what happened to them.

"There's a reason I'm the only one who knows what happened here." I said after a couple of seconds of silence.

"Oh, I see… so where are their weapons?"

"Wait… what?" I was honestly surprised. I was expecting her to be scared or at least hesitant.

"If you're the only one who knows what happened here then you must know what happened to their weapons cause I haven't found any of them yet and I doubt they're in your house cause its pretty small." I was giving her a surprised look look, 'Does she honestly not care about what happened or is she just dumb?'

"So where are their weapons?" I was snapped out of my thoughts when she spoke again.

"Oh right, follow me." I replied. I walked over to the couch and moved it out of the way. their was a large trap door with a key pad under the couch. I put the code in and opened the trapdoor. It was pitch black, I couldn't see the bottom, probably because I turned the lights off down their. Nix walked up next to me while scratching Eclipse behind his ears.

"Ohhh, this girl has magic fingers, I wonder what else she can do with them?" said Eclipse but only I could understand him. I forgot how perverted Eclipse is.

"Perverted old mutt." I said while I kicked him down the trapdoor.

"Diiiiiiiiiiiiiic-" He shouted but was cut off when he hit the floor.

"Why did you do that?" Asked a surprised Nix.

"Trust me, you do not want to know what that perverted mutt was thinking." I said before jumping down. I could see perfectly fine in the dark but Nix, who jumped down after me, couldn't see so I walked towards the light switch and flicked it on. i could hear Nix gasp at what she saw. I couldn't blame her, I would be surprised too if I wasn't the one who made this underground workshop/armory/forge.

It was at least 5 times bigger than my house, their was a forge and workbench in the north corner, several weapon racks covering the east corner, several computers, electronic parts, and another table in the south corner, a large ring in the center with training dummies, and we were in the west corner next to a ladder that leads up to my house.

"Come on I'll show you the weapons." I said while walking over to the weapons rack. Upon closer inspection the racks were on a revolver type wheel in the wall, so I could store more weapons. Nix let out a gasp when she saw all of the weapons. I pointed to the closest rack,

"Here are all of the bladed and close range weapons." Nix let out another gasp and I swear I could see stars in her eyes. I pointed to the rack next to it,

"Here are all of the ranged and guns." Nix gasped again and this time I could see stars in her eyes and it was starting to freak me out. I pointed to the last two racks which instead of weapons had several bins with labels on them.

"And here are all of the salvageable and usable parts I could find." Nix let out a strange noise almost like a sigh and a groan mixed, but before I could ask her if she was ok I smelt something strange. It was sweet and something else that I hadn't smelt before. I turned to look at Nix and she had a strange look on her face and a small blush as well.

"Are you ok Nix, you're blushing and do you smell anything?" I asked her. She jumped a little and her blush spread until her face was almost as red as the streaks in her hair.

"I'm ok you don't have to worry I'm just surprised that their were so many weapons. You made it sound like it was a small group of people, but there's enough weapons here to supply a small army." She replied.

"Ok then follow me so I can finish the tour." I said while walking over to the forge. When we got their the forge was their were several parts thrown about on the worktable as well as some blueprints that were partially covered.

"What are the blueprints for?" She asked. I picked up the blueprints and put them away. I picked up some of the parts.

"Can you pick up the rest of the parts please?" I asked her.

"Ok, but what are they for and you still haven't answered my question."She replied while picking up the rest of the parts.

"Instead of telling you I'll show you, now come on I've spent for ever coming up with the design and building the parts and I don't want to waste another minute." I said while running over to the south corner. I laid the parts down and started to put them together at a fast rate.

Nix

I caught up with Orion and laid the parts on the table with the few remaining parts that orion had brought. He was putting the parts together at an extremely fast rate, his arms were a blur.'He must be using his semblance or something to increase his speed.' I thought to myself and I was correct when I caught a glimpse of silver electricity run down his arms. 'I wonder what he is making? Maybe another weapon, no it's too square and i don't see a blade or barrel, maybe a piece of armor, no they're too many parts and it's too small to wear.' I continued to think to myself when I was reminded of the 'incident' that happened earlier.

"Orion do you have a bathroom down here or is it upstairs in your house?" I asked him.

"I only have the one upstairs." He replied without even looking from what he was putting together.

"Ok thanks." I said before I started to walk over towards the ladder that lead up to his house. I was about to climb up when I accidentally kicked something and it let out a small yelp of pain. It was Eclipse, I had completely forgotten he even existed.

"Sorry about that Eclipse I didn't see you there." I apologized to him. He let out a small growl and shrugged his shoulders. I nodded to him and proceeded to climb up the ladder and go to the restroom.

When I got back to his basement/armory/forge/training room/computer room, you know what I'm calling it his bunker. So when I got back to his bunker he was done with what he was building. I walked up to him to look at what he built. It was a small black rectangle with what looked like a loading bar and two smaller rectangles on the left and right side that were silver in color. I was about 5 inches tall, 8 inches long, and an inch thick. Before I could ask him what it was he started to talk to someone who clearly wasn't me or Eclipse because he was still by the ladder.

"Alpha is the system ready?" I was about to tell him no one was there when I was interrupted again.

"Yes it is ready Creator." A voice said it echoed a little ,almost as if a man and woman were talking at the same time.

"Is it compatable with my aura? And would you please stop calling me Creator, it's really annoying."

"Yes it compatible with your aura and no I will continue to call you Creator just cause it annoys you." The voice, Alpha I presume, let a small chuckle which was slightly creepy since its voice echoed. Orion nodded before he started to channel his aura into the new device. The loading bar thing started to fill up with a silver almost as if it was charging. When it was done filling up he stopped using his aura. I decided to ask him what it was,

"So what is that?" Orion let a yelp and jumped into the air before looking at me.

"Don't scare me like that, I almost dropped my newest creation. Alpha why didn't you tell me she was here?!" he yelled/asked.

"Cause I wanted to see her scare you." Replied Alpha.

"Of course you did." He let out a sigh before continuing, "This my newest creation, a hoverboard." He pressed on the left silver rectangle and the device folded out until it was the same shape as a skate board minus the wheels. He let go of it and it started to hover about 4 or 5 inches above the ground.

"Cool but what was the other button for and who is this Alpha you keep talking to?" I asked him. He picked up the board and it folded in on itself until it was in it original form. He pressed the right button and it folded out again, except it was in the shape of a snowboard.

"The smaller form if for quick maneuvers while the longer form is for traveling longer distances without much interference. Alpha is a artificial intelligence that me and Mychael created about half a year ago." He returned the board to it original form and we started to walk back to the ladder and go up stairs.

"Does it have to go back to its original form before it can switch into another form?"

"Yes it does but I only need one more part and then It can switch forms without having to return to the original."

"Then why didn't you add it?"

"I ran out of them and need to go to Vale to get some more." When we got up the ladder we walked outside and I pulled out a small piece of paper and handed it to him.

"Since your going to Vale can you pick up some of those parts then?" He looked at the piece of paper before handing it back.

"No you can go get them by yourself I only have enough money for my parts at the moment."

"What if I gave you the money?"

"No, if you have the money than you can get them yourself." I was starting to get annoyed, it's not like I was asking him to get much, just some stuff ammo. We were standing in front of his house as well.

"Incase you forgot I'm a rogue huntress, I can't just so up and not go unnoticed. Especially since Beacon is in Vale."

"Then why don't you just wear a hood or borrow one mf my cloaks."

"Then why don't you just get the stuff I need?!" I started to raise my voice cause I was starting to get mad.

"Because you can get it yourself!" He raised his voice as well. But before we could continue we were interrupted by somebody.

"Are we interrupting something? Cause we can always come back later?"

Eclipse

I yawned before standing up only find that it was completely dark in Orion's bunker. I looked around to find that I was alone and they had closed the trapdoor, that only Orion knew the code too.

"Uh… guys?" Nobody answered.

"Orion… are you their?" More silence.

"Anybody?"

Sorry about the long wait for this chapter. With schools end it took way longer then thought to get this chapter finished. This Whole chapter was done by TheLoneWolf, and as always I do apologize for any missed grammar mistakes.

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