Please enjoy, and constructive criticism is appreciated. (I do not own RWBY, but I do own all the OCs except two, Nick and Isabel. Those belong to my friend, although I did design them.) Re-uploaded to remove lyrics.
Blood of Grimm: Chapter 4
Team CVFY is in southwest Vale, about 200 miles from Beacon, in a small village that had been getting harassed by Grimm recently. They had been there for about a week, killing the attacking Grimm. The previous night there had been no attack, so they are preparing to leave for Beacon. All four of them are excited to return to Beacon and rest, as well as plan the school dance, but it was not to be. Coco, the leader, suddenly gets a call directly from Professor Ozpin. Surprised and curious, she answers immediately. "Yes Professor? What do you need?"
"Young woman, I'm afraid I've made a mistake that you can help fix. Please gather your team."
A few minutes later, team CVFY is assembled. Ozpin continues: "In response to an increase in Dust store robberies, I sent Valke Itzal, leader of first year team VNIS, to investigate as punishment for his actions in the cafeteria two weeks ago. Unfortunately, he has not contacted me in two days. I want you to investigate. His last known sight of investigation is being sent to you now. Sorry to prolong you return, but you are the best choice right now."
"Understood. We will investigate immediately." Coco promises. She looks at her team. "Thoughts?"
"If the rumors are true, then this Valke is strong. If he was taken out, we need to be careful." Yatsuhashi, a tall, tanned boy says. He wears a pale green robe with a black shirt underneath. On his left arm is a green samurai style plate shoulder pad, and his hair is black and cut short. He also wears brown pants and carries a huge single-edged bronze colored sword.
Fox, a dark skinned, muscular teen with numerous scars, nods. He wears black pants and a red vest. His hair is red and his eyes are pure white. Next to him are red weapons that are combination blades, bracers, and knuckles.
"They're mostly true. It was honestly rather terrifying. But he did have good intentions, though I have no idea why he did it," Velvet reports.
"Well, let's get going," Coco says, standing up. Walking to the door, she says: "Let's go find our new friend."
Valke is in a dark room, without any lights, though he can see just fine. There is a large steel door, but everything else is reinforced concrete or stone. The walls are thick enough that there are no sounds, not even vibrations from outside. The door is a few inches thick, and has an opening slot to give him food. He thinks back to the first day of his capture.
He had regained consciousness in a room with several dim lights, hanging from his arms and dressed in a long sleeve brown shirt, with matching pants In front of him was a teenage female fox Faunus, whose hair, ears, and tail are red, in a special White Fang uniform. By the door on the opposite side of the room is the fire-eyed woman. "Ah, you're finally awake. Now I can have some fun," the vixen says, with an eerily happy tone of voice.
"Just remember, don't draw blood. No cutting, whipping, and hitting him in the chest or face. Anything else is fair game," she warns as she leaves.
"Hmm. Now, let's see… How about this?" the torturer inquires, picking up a shock prod up from a table full of unconventional torture instruments. She walks over to Valke, and, lifting his shirt up to expose his abdomen, smiles and presses the prod against him, releasing a powerful shock just strong enough to hurt.
"Aaaaaaaggh!" Valke screams as the prod maintains contact for about six seconds, leaving several feathery scars along his chest. As the torturer takes the prod away, Valke is breathing heavily, smiling.
"Who sent you? How much do they know?" the teen demands.
"Like I would ever tell you. If you had asked nicely, maybe, seeing as I don't owe them any favors. But pain won't make me talk. It's why I fight after all."
After shocking him several more times, to no avail, the fox switches tactics. "Very well. Let's try this then," she walks over to the table and picks up a torch. She returns to Valke and holds it just far enough away to cause a slight burn. The torture continues, including water and hallucinatory torture, until Valke blacks out. He had woken up in this cell and has not been retrieved yet. His internal clock says that two days have passed. The isolation is supposed to be slow psychological torture, but it just gives Valke time to heal and think. The scars and burns from the torture are already healing. The difference is visible hourly. He smiles in the dark.
Team CFVY is at the now-empty White Fang base. They can see traces of recent habitation, and Dust in the air is making them cough, but not enough of it is present to cause an explosion. They find the warehouses that had held the mechs, and enter the one with scratches on the walls.
"Look at those scratches. There was a fight here. Valke?" asks Velvet.
"Likely. Okay, let's start an organized search here!" Coco orders her team.
A few minutes later, Fox finds a Beacon Scroll in the corner of the warehouse. Gathering around, the team activates it, finding several sound files. There are several labeled "Report", then a number 1-8. There is also one called "Extra Info", which they activate.
"These are notes not to be sent to Professor Ozpin until further information is gathered. One, the White Fang are involved. Motives unknown. Two, they are working with Roman Torchwick. Reasons unknown. And three, there is somebody higher than Roman giving orders. Identity unknown." The Scroll says the file had been made four days earlier.
Coco is the first to speak. "The White Fang? Bunch of no-good criminals. They give Faunus a bad name."
"I really hate them, says Velvet, browsing through the Scroll. "Hey, there's a folder here labeled 'Downloads'. It has some more recent sound files. I'll play the most recent one."
Scratchy audio with slight static starts playing. "This is an awesome dagger. It fires armor-piercing rounds, and is surprising accurate for the size of the mechanism. And the blade is highly reinforced organic material," a high pitched voice says.
"Hey, weapon nerd! Put that down. We've been ordered not to touch it!" yells a deep growling voice.
"Who's going to know? Torturer Kytsuna's out for a week."
"Kyt? She's in the White Fang? No. It's probably someone else." Thinks Velvet, recognizing the name.
"You know she has ways of finding things out. Like when those new recruits had snuck in her room and stolen some personal effects of hers."
"Doesn't work on the new prisoner. I heard he was whistling in the isolation chamber, the freak. Wonder if he's gone mad already."
"He'll break. They always do. Saw an Atlas major in there once. It wasn't pretty. He could barely speak."
There's a slight pause, then a "thunk", then the voices get farther. "Hey, what if we try interrogating the new prisoner? If it works, we might get promoted. Get us closer to the Torturer. She does have a really nice body. Hehe."
"She does have a history of promoting successful orturers, and we get more money out of it."
"So it's agreed! We'll do it the day before she gets back, so the prisoner stews in the chamber a few more days." The clip ends here.
"That was interesting. Now we know that he's captured, but not where he is."
"Wait, there's a new file that just downloaded. I'll play it now."
The audio is in a mysterious voice. "Location: north 15, west 23, in a forest cave system."
"That's it? And who sent that?" wonders Yatsuhashi. "Well, regardless, we have a clue now, so let's go." Team CFVY walks out to return to their transport, Velvet pocketing the Scroll.
Two days later, the door opens, rather surprising Valke, as for full effect, he should have been left in there for a few more days. He looks up to see two unfamiliar Faunus.
"Hurry up and grab 'im," urges a rat Faunus.
"Fine, watch the door," grunts a bear Faunus in reply.
Valke smiles. "So, they decided to secretly torture me, probably in hopes of getting a promotion. Amateurs." As the bear picks him up, Valke feels a sudden sense that something bad was about to happen, but shakes it off.
Throwing him into a room, they strap Valke into a chair. Pulling out a club and a large butcher knife, they lock the door and approach him. "Now, you're going to tell us everything," the bear says, brandishing the club.
Valke just smiles at them defiantly. "Playing that way, huh? Well, try this!" The club arcs toward Valke, but is stopped by a dark green Aura. The bear swings several times before the club is broken, although Valke's Aura is also gone.
"Okay, forget that, we'll just take a finger if you don't tell us now!" the rat threatens.
"If you draw my blood, then you had better want to die," Valke warns.
"Shut up! You brought this on yourself!" The rat swings the knife toward Valke's left hand, severing a finger, which immediately dissipates.
"You've down it now," Valke taunts as black blood is released in tendrils from his hand. It crawls up his arm and covers his arm, slowly covering his entire body. His arm breaks through the restraints holding him, and he covers his face in blood.
Team CFVY is in a forest at the said coordinates, and has found a cliff after searching for several hours. "This has to be it. There's nowhere else to have a cave for a long while."
They enter, finding several White Fang members. They draw their weapons and charge, completely obliterating the enemies, Fox nimbly attacking them, while Velvet jumps around hitting them with acrobatic martial arts. Coco pulls out a minigun and starts shooting, while Yatsuhashi swings his sword in large, arcing slashes. After, clearing several rooms, no more White Fang appear. They start running through when they hear a scream. They start to follow the direction of the noise, and part way through, Valke's Scroll starts playing "Monster" by the band Skillet, which startles everyone, but they ignore it.
As they arrive at the room Valke is in, they hear several screams, and slicing sounds, then a splashing sound, and a deep voice yelling. "H- help me!" The door bursts open, and a bear Faunus stands in the doorway covered in blood. "Please sto-"
A red scythe passes through his neck, instantly decapitating him. Blood flies, hitting Velvet, who is in front in the face. Then, the scythe changes to a spear and weaves, slicing the Faunus into a million pieces. Blood flies toward Team CFVY, almost soaking them, but Yatsuhashi deflect most of it with his sword.
The crimson blood puddles on the floor as a Grimm steps forward. It is humanoid and shiny black. It has a body structure like a large skeleton. Its feet are draconic and have large red claws and there is a red, thin tail with a black spike at the end. A white tattered and torn robe, with moving, red, dripping blood-like patterns covers it. The left arm has a torn sleeve covering the upper arm, but the forearm is exposed, revealing white bonelike plates protecting the black bone, and the hand has the same white plates on top, with spiked knuckles. The right arm has no sleeve and the upper arm has bone plates, but not the forearm, which has a gap in it like the human bone-system, and a curved, red blade attached to the outer side of it. The hand is completely encased in armor, and both hands have red claws. The face is a red skull mask, with black hollow eyes, and a nose that fits a skull. The mouth is wide and grinning, revealing sharp needle like teeth. It has long, black hair.
"Is that you Valke?" Velvet asks, her eyes wide.
In response, the creature tilts its head. "He…lp…me..." It says in a demonic, and echoic voice.
Velvet recognizes the voice from the cafeteria incident, and gasps. "It is you…"
Then, the creature shakes its head and hisses, reaching out its right hand. Black tendrils flare, and then drop a spear in Valke's hand, the blade from his arm topping it. It crouches down and lunges. Team CFVY turns and runs, until they reach a large room with more room to fight. Spreading out, they surround Valke in a large circle.
Valke swings the spear around, switching it to his left hand, and lashes out at Yatsuhashi, who blocks it and is forced back from the force of the strike. Fox leaps in and releases a flurry of kicks and punches, each laced with offensive Aura. Valke easily dodges all the attacks and catches Fox's leg, then throws him into Yatsuhashi. Coco, prepares to fire her gun, and while she spools the gun up, Valke cuts his right forearm, spilling black blood. This becomes a red wall, shielding him from Coco's bullets. The wall shatters, but Valke is not behind it. A blur rushes toward her, tackling her to the ground. He lifts the spear and is about to impale her when Velvet yells. "STOP! Please don't do this. We want to help…"
Valke stops and grabs his head, in pain. Then, he shakes his head and raises his hand, controlling the remains of the blood wall to rise and scatter, then he snaps and the blood explodes, releasing a blinding light. When the light fades, Velvet looks around the room, but Valke is gone, the exit door open.