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 7
Weiss summons her white speed glyphs, surging towards Valke at barely sub-sonic speed. He sidesteps, using the rapier to deflect her attack. It stops at her guard, and he flips the sword, then spins, attempting to slash at her back, but she back flips, dodging the strike. Now at close quarters, she unleashes a series of lunges and thrusts. Valke blocks with sweeping motions, knocking each blow away, until she aims for his forehead. He does a backwards cartwheel, kicking her weapon up, and dashes forward, unleashing a flurry of sweeping cuts from every direction, and ends with a thrust, his blade at her throat.
Weiss walks away in defeat. The others clap as Yang steps up. Valke defeats her using martial arts, and defeats almost all the others: Ruby with a scythe, Blake with duel swords, Nora using a mace, Ren with twin daggers, the monkey, Sun, with a bo staff, and the green haired girl, Emerald, with a chained kama.
Finally, Pyrrha steps up. Being a world renowned fighter, Valke picks a weapon he has great experience with: a large-bladed spear. He takes a semi-crouched stance, the spear held in his right hand, close to the spearhead, the end of the shaft behind his left shoulder.
Pyrrha charges, and Valke spins the spear and slashes, parrying her strike. He then uses the butt of the spear to deflect her incoming shield-bash. Valke then counters with a thrust, and Pyrrha dodges out of the way. He chains with a flurry of stabs, then release the spear when drawing t back, re-gripping it in the middle of the shaft. He lunges forward, and she blocks with her shield. He attempts to punch her in the stomach, but she jumps away and throws her shield. He dodges it and rushes her, not seeing the glowing black aura around the shield. It hits him in the back of the head, and he adjusts by planting the spear on the ground, lifting himself up off the ground, andkicks Pyrrha in the chest. She falls to the ground, and he prepares to stab her once he recovers, but she presses a rifle to his abdomen, stopping him. Slowly, he steps back and approaches his weapons, storing the spear, and then starts clapping.
"Pyrrha here, as expected, is the most prepared out of all of you. But even she's not strong enough to stop all the enemies that you will fight. Not alone. My team," he gestures to Nick, Isabel, and Sara, "have already defeated an enemy I could not. Myself." He picks up a knife, then stabs his left forearm, where there is no sleeve. The black tendrils of blood form, and he coats his face in blood. He becomes the Reaper once again. He speaks, his voice still growling and raspy, but no longer echoic: "I wouldn't show you all this, but it's important to the story. I'll be right back." He steps outside, where it has started to rain. Once the people unfamiliar with his Reaper form have recovered, he returns in human form, soaked from the heavy rain outside.
He returns to the ring. "Let's continue the story then."
Over the next month, Valke introduced Selyn to more videogames, as well as music, the Cross Continental Transmit System, TV, books, movies, and even taught her how to cook. Luckily, she had been taught to read and write by an educated beggar when she was six. She had taken a particular liking to Kamen Rider Kiva, and the band for the show, Tetra-Fang. She also had a high talent for singing, and had been learning songs like crazy. She had become much more sociable and outspoken as well. A month after they had met, Valke is returning home from a two-day mission, which he was getting paid a ton of Lien for. When he opens the door, he is greeted by a familiar song from Kingdom Hearts.
Play Simple and Clean by Utada Hikaru (Recommend the mix of Simple and Clean and Sanctuary by Amalee)
When the song ends, Valke looks at Selyn, who was the one singing, of course. She walks over to Valke and hugs him. "I love you," she says with a blush.
Valke smiles and looks down at her, returning the hug. He begins to sing:
Play This Love Never Ends by Kouhei Takeda (nizz00EX on YouTube has a good English subbed version.)
"I love you too. I think I have ever since I met you. That's probably one of the reasons why I helped you." He lifts his right hand to her head, which is at her shoulder, and starts petting her hair, which is cut to her neck in the back, with a slight outward curve at the end, and in the front she has short bangs and small groups of hair in front of her human ears, which go down to the height of the bottom of her eyes.
Suddenly, he grins and pokes one of her wolf ears, which are oddly sensitive. She jumps back and goes stiff. "Hey, that's not very nice." She puts on a pouty face. "You ruined the mood, too."
Valke laughs. "Sorry, but it was a perfect opportunity, and I couldn't resist."
Selyn glares at you and grins. "That's okay. I beat all your records in Taiko: Drum Masters and in Atlantis in Kingdom hearts 2 while you were gone."
"WHAT!? Dang it Moon, I really envy your rhythm skills, despite how good mine are already." Realizing his mistake, he claps a hand over his mouth.
"What did you call me?" Selyn asks, poking him.
"I… I called you Moon." He looks away, rubbing his neck. "That's my name for you inside my head. 'Cause you're like a moon in the dark night sky of my life."
"Okay!" She smiles and gets a thoughtful face. "Then… you're Eclipse, because you protect me from the world, like the Earth's shadow does the moon during an Eclipse."
Over the next year, Selyn becomes much more courageous, and becomes a mildly famous Faunus Equality activist, with Valke supporting her from the shadows. Of course, her beauty and personality caused several Faunus and even a few humans to propose, despite her only being fifteen. This leads to a rather interesting conversation.
"So, another guy proposed to me as I was leaving the meet today."
"And?" Valke asks smiling.
"I said no, of course."
"Of course. You're my Moon, no one else can have you while we're together."
Selyn giggles. "But, it got me thinking. Having guys propose to me all the time it annoying, so how about… you and I get engaged?"
Valke just freezes and blinks. Selyn waves his hand in front of his face. "Hello? Eclipse-kun? Anybody there?"
Valke shakes his head and starts tearing up. "Do you really mean that?"
She hugs him. "Of course. I will always love you."
"In that case, of course. I would love to get engaged." They fall asleep in each other's arms that night, happier than they had ever been before.
The next day, they go shopping for rings at a jeweler that Valke had helped by stopping some robbers during a heist. Selyn picks a silver band with a smaller ring of purple Tanzanite, because it reminds her of an eclipse.
Valke however, had already wanted to gift her a ring, and the shop owner pulls out a custom ring: a gold band with lines of silver forming a hollow wolf head, with the eyes being glittering peridots. Both return home happily, having spent just over 3,000 Lien.
At her next speech, Selyn announces the engagement, prompting several failed suitors to hunt Valke down, but they never find him, of course. Meanwhile, Valke makes plans to move to Vale so he can attend Beacon, and Selyn would still be close to him. The wedding was planned for after Valke's first year at Beacon, when he would eighteen and she would be seventeen.
To great sorrow, it was not to be. Half a year from the day they were to move, the police chief is murdered, and a new, corrupt one takes his place. He releases several criminals belonging to the gang that had bullied Selyn, the Red Rooks.
Valke had been away on a mission for two weeks, protecting the Mistral Regional Tournament, as he had the two previous years. As expected, Pyrrha Nikos had won again. He had also found the Red Rooks' local headquarters.
He opens the apartment door, to be greeted by the sole sound of a dripping liquid. He cautiously enters, and what he finds inside chills him to the core, his soul torn and devastated. Selyn hangs by her arms from the ceiling, naked, with innumerable cuts and bruises all over her body. Her blood has pooled on the floor, and a message is written in blood on the wall: "Run away, or you're next, freak! With hate- Jim and Muscles"
Valke starts breathing heavily, and walks over to Selyn, cutting the rope. Her corpse drops to the ground, and he collapses, wrapping his arms around her, soaking himself in her blood. He starts sobbing uncontrollably, for the broken future, for his weakness, and for Selyn, who had trusted him to protect him. "I'm so sorry… I wasn't there to protect you when you needed me! I'm a failure again! Damn it!"
He looks at the message on the wall, and feels uncontrollable rage overtake him. He kisses Selyn for the last time, then picks up his large knife with his blood soaked left hand. The blood had seeped into the ring, causing the purple crystal to appear black. He stabs his right arm several times, shifting to Reaper form. He stands up. "So excessive rage lets me control the Reaper form? Perfect." He exits onto the roof and starts running. "Now to find a member of the Red Rooks."
Valke found one in a bar, drunk and causing problems for everyone. He's kicked out and starts stumbling away. Valke approaches him from the shadows and drags him into an alley. The gangster tries to fight back, but is too drunk to do much. Valke slits his throat, blood splashing on the walls of the alley. He then thrusts a clawed hand into the man's chest, tearing through skin, muscle, and bone, until grasping the man's heart. He pulls the still beating organ out, and rips a large chunk out with his needle-like teeth. The heart bursts, filling his mouth with warm, metallic blood. He drops the remains of the tough organ and walks away, as he morphs into the appearance of the now dead man.
Valke approaches an old solitary abandoned building, still in disguise, and pretending to be severely intoxicated. "Hey there Ian! Been hitting the clubs again?" a man standing next to the doors of the building asks. Valke mumbles something indistinguishable. "What was that?"
"I said that YOU CAN DIE!" He summons his weapon in scythe mode, and decapitates the guard, then bisects the body vertically, the blood and organs spilling out as the pieces hit the ground. Valke walks over to the large doors, and kicks them down, no longer in disguise.
"Who the h- WHAT IS THAT?! KILL IT NOW!" A shirtless man in a fur coat smoking a cigar says from the back. Several men with Uzis, Mac-10s, and various handguns surround Valke. They open fire, and Valke dodges to the right. He makes the scythe disappear and summons several rows of spikes along his arms from the wounds he did sustain from the bullets. He rushes the nearest assailant, and stabs him with a spike, pinning him to a wall. The man is bleeding, fatally wounded, but painfully and slowly dying. He repeats this for all the gunmen, and their screams can be heard all across town. He finishes, all the gunmen on the floor, the walls, even the furniture, wailing in pain. The remaining gangsters, panicking, run around and try to escape.
"You can't run! Garden of Shadow!" A circle of blood around the building creates a dome, preventing escape and attacking anyone outside the building, but within the dome. The song Payback by Slayer starts playing on the radio. (Warning, violent song. If you don't want to listen to that, Pain Redefined by Disturbed also works.) He then tears through the building. The fighters die slowly, receiving the same treatment as the previous combatants. The smart ones and the cowards die fast, their throats slit, decapitated, or their organs pulled out, bones, pulverized, eyes plucked out or even sliced into pieces. Eventually, all that remains is the boss and the few innocents.
The boss crawls away, trembling. "Wha- what do you want? Money? Drugs? Women? You can have anything!"
"Fool. I'm just here to avenge a moon now shattered." Valke picks up a chain and craps it around the boss' neck. Tethering the chain to a wall, giving the gangster just enough room to breathe, Valke summons a storm of blade shaped like ravens to surround the man. They cut him, slowly enough to cause pain, but fast enough that he won't die of blood loss before the first bones are exposed. "Nevermore, shall you harm anyone." He walks over to the innocents. They're obviously prostitutes, most of them Faunus, some human, drugged and dressed in the skimpiest clothing imaginable. "Go. You're all innocent. I won't hurt you." They run, the barrier dispelled. One, a young fox Faunus looks back to see him collapsing and crying again, a demon, broken amongst a landscape of blood and gore. He returns to the apartment and packs whatever belongings he wanted to keep. He sleeps on the roof that night, for the first time in two years.
The next day, the new police chief is at the door to arrest Valke. He just ignores the buffoon, walking past him. Outside is the building is the entire population of the town. Alex approaches Valke.
"You're leaving, huh?" Valke nods. "Here. A little something from the townsfolk. They wanted to give it to you when you left for Vale but early is better than never, right?" He hands over the weapon set that Valke uses in the present. "… It's a shame about Selyn. May you find peace where you go, and find a way to repair your shattered soul."
"Hey! I said you're under arrest!" The jerk of a police chief walks out of the building, gun drawn. Valke walks away, still ignoring the man. Enraged, he fires a burst of three bullets, all hitting Valke in the right shoulder, causing that arm to go limp. Valke, broken, doesn't even shift into Reaper form, the black blood oozing onto the asphalt, then disappearing into the air. Alex begins to walk over to him, but Valke waves him away with his left hand. The townsfolk flood the police chief, and he is arrested.
Alex looks to Valke's retreating figure. "There goes a man lifted to the sky, only to be burned by the demons of jealousy and rage. May no more sorrow befall him."
"After that, I wandered Mistral until the time came to come here. I killed whatever criminals I met, saved the victims of war, the Grimm, criminals. But I never settled anywhere. You know the rest."
Everyone is stunned, afraid, and slightly disgusted. He could tell for the look in their eyes. Some, such as Sara, Velvet, Ruby, and even Professor Goodwitch are misty-eyed. Velvet and Sara go to hug him, and the others gather around, silently comforting him. "I know. I know. I'm not alone anymore. I can rely on you all in the worst of times, when I need you the most." He looks outside. "It's getting late. Let's go back."
So they depart for Beacon, as a silent group, contemplating Valke's story. They arrive at Beacon and go their separate ways.
Two days later, it is time for the Vytal Festival Tournament. Valke's team is about to fight, and he is ready, with a bandolier attached to his belt, in turn attached to a leather shoulder guard on his right shoulder. Strapped to the bandolier are vials of bright red blood. His equipment is ready, and he walks with his team out onto the field. "The first fight is team VNIS, versus team SPKR(specter)!" booms Professor Port's voice over the intercom.
"Yes, and this is sure to be good fight! These two teams both have strong fighters, particularly the leaders, who are considered demons by their enemies!" announces Professor Oobleck.
Hello. This is Valkerix. So, I have a few questions for all of you. Would you like to see alternate universes/side stories as a fun thing until volume 4 comes out? (After I reach the current stopping point.) These would include any requests except anything lewd and or sexual. Such as alternate pairing, how I envision an ending for this whole story, more Valke and Selyn story (Although it's probably really awkward because I've never had a girlfriend before.) or anything similar.
Also, the next chapter uploaded will be a bonus of all the fights that were omitted at the beginning of this chapter.
And thanks to The Burning Ruler for the suggestion of Payback by Slayer. It really fits how I had first imagined the fight, with the Feral instinct being honed by Valke's skill, and tearing through as a tornado of blood and vengeance. I would make it bloodier, but I hate blood in real life, and I wrote this chapter's rough draft at school… so yeah. Also I don't want to give anyone more nightmares than I already might have. (Evil smile: MUAHAHA!)