AHHH I'm so excited to see the new episode!
Anyways this takes place a day before Vol 3 Chapter 5 because I started late...
The Day Before
She looked at the clock with weary eyes, tired from watching so much footage and flicking her eyes between one too many screens for one person to keep up. She rubbed her strained eyes and placed her metal chin in the cup of her hand, her other hand tapping rhythmically on the table. Ripple Corruption housed neatly on her forearm in it's vambrace form.
"Hey Kelly," Her vox receiver sounded in her ear. Kelly paused the match between Emily and Ying with another duo to press a button on her ear. It was Cindy.
"Hn?" Kelly grunted. Finally, after hours of sitting in a char in a empty room someone finally talks with her. She absentmindedly twirled a switchblade in her hand. "What's up?"
"Nothing up, just checking in with you if you found anything worth our attention." She can hear the clicking of boots echo in the background. "Me and Diane have nothing so far."
"Same here," She watched a Atlesian Knight pass from her monitor's reflection. "Unless watching people getting their asses handed to them count, then I don't know anything else."
She hears both of them snort at that.
"Touché." Cindy replied after clearing her throat. "Anyways, let's wrap up, it's already ten past nine. The workers need to do repairs and clean up."
Whack!
Kelly decided the training room is a good place to relax.
Not really, it acted as a de-stresser.
The Ursi holograms disappeared once it hit the ground with a solid smack around her. She spun around on the balls of her heels and pulled out her issued dagger, effortlessly deflecting a holographic claw with a satisfying clink of claws to steel. She took the brief moment to slide back to give herself some breathing space. Another ursa barreled at her side, knocking the wind out of her momentarily as she stumbled for a foothold.
"Two can play a game huh?" She gave a fanged smile and the blade resting at her armored elbow flipped out and locked itself on her wrist, the barrel of her autocannon shifted onto the inside of her forearm, below her hand. She slipped her dagger into the slot under the gun muzzle in a form of a bayonet.
Both of the training dummies charged in different directions at her.
Without taking a breath, she stabbed her fist into the first Ursa, right in it's eye before whipping out her dust revolver and turning her body, shoving the gun barrel and muzzle into it's wide mouth and pulled the trigger on both her weapons, setting off a small and large explosion simultaneously on either side of her.
A loud beeping sound caught her attention, signaling her session has ended. Kelly drew in breaths she didn't know she was holding until now and wiped the sweat off her brow. She looked over her scroll, checking the time she beat all those grimms in.
Breathing without her mask actually felt a bit easier.
"Thirty minutes for five waves," She shrugged. "A bit slower, but not bad."
She can feel a slight pang radiating from her right knee and ankle, right under the metal braces she wear over them. Thing's hasn't been easy for her after the incident with the Crocus Grimm in her first year with her team in Mistral.
"Kelly." She paused at Diane's voice at the steel doors. She places the scroll she is holding on the ground. "Can we talk for a second?"
"What is it?" Kelly turned around to face Daine. "Huh?"
No one was there, but her.
She flicked her tongue once, trying to catch a brief scent in the air if Diane was here.
She placed her mask over her face at Ripple Corruption ran over her arm again. She placed a finger over the vox-network on the side of her mask over her ear.
"Hey Diane," Kelly looked around briefly. "Where you at?"
There was the sounds of crashing pots and pans and a long string of colorful words.
"Uhh, the dorm? Making dinner?" She heard Diane's voice seconds later. "Why?"
"Weird, I heard you here a minute ago." Kelly scratch the back of her head.
"Strange, Cindy is here and Jay is at the bar with Emily." Diane said after moments of silence.
"Did you notice anything odd?" That was Cindy's voice just now. "Any scent whatsoever?"
"No, but I'll stick around for a bit." Kelly hung up, opening her mask to take whiffs of air.
She walked slowly, trying to not make noise from her walking as she looked around, eyes scanning or anything out of the norm. Her scroll was off and taped to her belt via magnetic hatches.
The air smelled off and not of Diane. That is the only clue she needed as she flipped the blade and cannon out on her powerful can see blurs moving around her, too fast for her to see- but not fast enough to escape her nose.
"Who are you?" She hisses into the empty air, certain she is not alone anymore. She felt the wind stop around her.
"Kelly, over here!" Kelly whipped around at the excited voice of Diane behind her.
And nearly got stabbed through the eye with a thin blade had she not moved at the last second.
Diane does not use thin blades whatsoever.
Nor does she sound like Jay either...
She punched Diane, Ripple Corruption exploding in power at the collision of solid matter. She hears the sound of glass shattering, not just seeing it. A few feet in front of her stood a rather small, pink and white dress girl with pink and brown hair and mismatched eyes. Kelly takes careful note on her pink and brown eyes.
"On behalf of Remnant Frontier Patrols identify yourself." Kelly spoke calm and steely while trying to discern if this smaller girl is any threat at all.
She said nothing. Kelly tilted her head in confusion. She catches a slight sounds of clicks and her hand brushed her revolver on her thigh.
"Very well then." Kelly gives a smug grin under her mask. She gives a curt bow, her eyes never leaving her possible target.
As she anticipates, the dual colored girl stepped first, her parasol smacking Kelly's face particularly hard, enough to make her stagger slightly. Kelly responded by trying to sweep her off her feet- only to be jumped over and feeling a hand grab the back of her breastplate and flung overhead into the hard ground.
She rolled aside from the oncoming drop kick before rolling into her feet again and pulled out her combat dagger while pulling them both into a melee stance.
She has to give it to her, the intruder is fast and strong.
Every attack she tried to land with either hand were countered, deflected or evaded. It felt as if she was toying with her.
A agitated growl rumbled at Kelly's throat as the green markings glowed as her power fist plates slided begin revealing gears and blades.
A kick to her chest interrupted her charged power fist and felt her leg give away as she was flung into the nearby bleachers, her backplate luckily absorbed the harsh impact.
"Huh?" Jay heard the sounds of metal to concrete echoing around the empty halls.
She was on her way to meet up Kelly after her mini "brawl of a bar" at the lounge downtown. Though the sounds of crashing with that level of noise is a bit concerning. She knows Kelly is big and her sounds of crashing does not make the ground vibrate.
Her steps broke into a light jog to get to the training room to see what happened.
"What the-?" She never looked so confused before when she first looked into the room.
The sight before he made her giggle inside and a bit nervous and Kelly was passed out slumped against the wall, bleachers broken around her.
"Ohh boy…" She looked at the little ice cream colored girl before her, the mismatched eyes staring back at her. She reached for Falling Sky on her back, the blade shifting into its solid blade from instantly as she shifted into her defensive stance.
The girl bowed at her. And Jay made the first move cautiously, her blade rippling the air as it made contact with the parasol the pink girl held. She spun around and blocked a kick with her bracer before grabbing the girl's foot and pulled her over her head to throw her aside and to give her some breathing space.
Jay had a hard time trying to hit the girl- blocked, countered or evaded even with her speed. She tried calling forth her semblance, but she lacked the thrill of doing so as it is replaced by agitation of every time her attack if defends against.
She thrust one more time, hoping to score a hit- but only for her to shatter in pieces of glass.
And the girl is nowhere to be seen.
"What-" Jay looked around frantically, her blade shifting into its chainsword from. She felt a hand grab the back of her purple shirt, choking her as she felt herself flip over someone. She slammed into ground with a loud crash.
The sound of ice shattering broke the air as three bolts of ice the size of a man sped to its target. But the multicolored girl turned away and deflected each one.
The girl spins around to get a better look at the newcomer, expecting another easy target. Needless to say, she looked stunned.
Kelly and Jay looked up expecting Weiss to be at the door, but their reaction mirrors that of the intruder.
A person almost as tall as Kelly, clad in a segmented chrome cuirass, pauldrons tassets and bracers all over a short teal robe stood at the door. A dragon visage helm sat on their head as if glaring into their souls. A kite shield of ice sat on their right arm as their left hand grasped a sword hilt without any blade.
They all seemed to recognize the carved wyvern herald on their upper breastplate, glistening under the moonlight of the open room.
The figure stepped forward, flicking the hilt of the sword once, ice began gathering and forming a long blade, almost as tall as the person themself.
They lunged, the ice sword crashing against the umbrella in shrieks as they did not give her the chance to recover or gain ground whatsoever. The person was gaining the upper hand by grabbing the girl by their collar, hoisting her close to the dragon visage.
"Drak ignum mork zai..." A garbled feminine voice growled out from behind the facemask. Her free hand pulled the visor up, revealing pale white skin, sharp angular features and ice blue eyes glaring into the now white eyes. The blue eyes flicked to the sky briefly. "Mire tron lockhed."
"Now get out of my sight." She threw the smaller woman aside who instantly disappeared in a white flash. She looked at the sky again, this time two comet like things streaked across the stratosphere towards the earth. She flipped the visor over her face again and turned to the two on the ground.
"I'll explain later." She spoke with a accent. "Once we all gather."
Presently
Before them all stood an individual of great untold and unmatched power. She stood tall and proud in all her panoply of war, her helmet hooked to her belt and her white hair pulled into a high ponytail. None of CTDK recognized her at first until a giant ice wyvern appeared from a rift torn in the sky. It's great wings blocked out the sun as it circled overhead, a watchful eye kept on the grounds.
Hauzurfurn.
"Cyres Fulgrin. The Queen of Scyrus," Cindy jay nearly dropped at seeing the ice queen on Vale. "Why are you here."
Cyres brought out a scroll, with the copy of the video of Kelly, Penelope and Leona's discovery back at the underground city.
"We got note of this a few days ago." She cleared her throat as the scroll feed ended. "We were called to aid in the investigation."
"The others are due within the next hour or more."
"Wait, as in team ROCK?" Jay interrupted.
"Correct." She waved her off. "This matter is serious enough for us to look into with you."
"May I inquire why?" Kelly spoke up behind her.
"You are not only tampering with dust magic- but black magic." Cyres turned to face Kelly with a hardened look. "What you saw as rippling shadows is the result of someone is using it wrong. And that poor boy that was fused with metal? Yes, he was the result of that black magic, but the pathway was left open for this to crawl through and it will endanger the whole population of Remnant I've seen it destroy a planet before."
"So is it still open?" Diane asked.
"Thank the overlords no, I closed it before coming to aid Kelly and Jay." Cyres sighed in relief, but her eyebrows furrowed. "But I did not sense it in the tunnels anymore. It moved."
She leaned back, the armor plates clanking against each other as she gives a small smile.
"Now I believe Weiss Schnee and Yang Xiao Long is fighting tomorrow in the dome." She gives a curt bow and turned on her heels. "It will be rude of me to drop by and not visit them."
"O-of course, we won't keep you waiting." Cindy and the others waved goodbye to Cyres, Hazurfurn taking a land on top of the school.
Here is introducing my other team (you may or may not recognize) ROCK