Chapter 9: Prologue 9
"I've been told by doctors that I'm crazy and I can't become a huntsman. I remember my mother telling me that no matter what people say about me, my family will always be there for me to help me and care for me."
Two lonely figures walked through the streets of Vale with hooded cloaks hiding their faces. They both stopped outside of a bar and looked at each other, they both turned and walked inside. Once they were inside they walked over to the bar and sat at opposite ends of the bar both looking at the thugs they were looking for, they knew they worked for Junior and to get to him they needed to extract information from the man who obviously looked like their leader. The man on the right stood up and he walked down the bar, as he approached the centre he was flanked by four goons. They each grabbed him and led him outside, he looked at the other end of the bar and flashed a quick smile, and the other man stood up and took off his cloak and placed it on the bar. He walked up to the centre of the bar and was also flanked by four more goons.
"Guys, I'd move if I were you" the man smiled.
"No way buddy, either turn away or get shown out" one of the goons said. The man turned to face him and punched him in the face and knocked him out. The other goons stepped back and placed their hands on their weapons, they looked down to realise they weren't armed. The mystery man held up his hands to show their weapons, and without giving them a chance to recover he killed them with their own weapons. A large man walked into the bar and looked at what happened.
"Boss, everything okay?" the big man asked.
"Actually Warren, this little pipsqueak needs to be taught some manners" his boss smiled.
"With pleasure" Warren responded. He grabbed out a mace with his left hand and a sword in his right. The smaller brandished his twin axes, Warren quickly noted two mechanisms on the bottom of the handles and closed the distance quickly between them. He swung his mace overhead and was blocked by a single axe, Warren stabbed his sword and realised that he missed his target too late when he felt a sting in his ribcage. He looked down to see the stranger smiling with his axe buried deep into him, he quickly pulled his axe out and placed the mechanisms together to create a staff with two axe heads on each end. The smaller man spun the weapon with ease quickly throwing a flurry of attacks that Warren barely blocked who realised he was losing the fight and blood quickly. He tried to start a counter attack but was disarmed with the loss of his arms, the mysterious stranger made his weapon two again and decapitated Warren leaving his body to fall to the floor. The man turned to face the leader who petrified by the sight in front of him, the man walked up to him and put his weapons away.
"Okay then, now that you're little pet has been put down you can answer some questions." The mystery man said.
"Okay what do you want to know Mr-?"
"Joker, Joker Teal and the guy you took away was my twin Ace" Joker smiled.
"I'm-"
"I know who you are Garret Parker" Joker spat back.
"What do you want?" Garret asked.
"Where is Ray Parker?" Joker asked.
"What do you want with him?"
"His head" Joker cackled. "But seriously, we have a contract to kill him. My brother actually does, I just help him."
"Okay, he's coming into town for a business meeting with Junior" Garret shuddered.
"Your boss?"
"Yes" Garret responded quickly.
"Where is Ray staying?" Joker asked.
"On his ship but he'll be heavily guarded" Garret smiled.
"You let us worry about that, you just worry about this" Joker said. He grabbed his axe and swung it around to kill Garret, Joker grabbed his weapons and walked out. He saw his brother standing there with three guards on the floor unconscious. Joker simply smiled and started walking off.
"I assume you have the information we need?" Ace asked his brother.
"I wouldn't have left the bar if I didn't" Joker replied.
"So what do you know?" Ace asked annoyed.
"Well this is what he said." Joker started.
A/N: So that was chapter 9 and I introduced our mystery man from chapter 1. As always please review, PM and RWBY belong to Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth.