(Blood on the Ice Part 2)
"You can try all you want...it won't get you anywhere...the day will come when you finally snap and become the vessel of my return..."
I was in the Emerald Forest hunting a group of deer. Slowly they approached my hiding spot. My body was covered with the leaves that fell from the trees above. Before they could even react I had revealed myself from the camouflage and had already mauled 3 out of the 5 deer in the group. A well enough meal I suppose. Walking further into the forest I discovered a large lake. Weird I had never seen this before. I looked at my reflection in the water and didn't see my normal reflection. I wasn't a faunus.I wasn't in my normal werewolf form.I was a full fledged wolf paws and everything. My eyes were my usual red and blue colors with brown fur flowing with the wind on my back. The feeling of a extra limb near my rear. Is this what I can truly become? Was what I turned into before just a beginning?
"So that's what it looks like..." My fathers voice echoed somewhere in the area.
"Dad?" I thought to myself.
"This is your true form. What you turned into before wasn't. It was that demon that tainted you. Trey listen to me what ever evil that monster whispers do not listen to it it's all lies. You aren't at full strength yet therefore you are vulnerable to his influence."
"Where are you!" I howled."If this is a joke It's not funny!"
"Which ever side you chose whether its good or evil...your curse will react and chose a form for you.I beg of you son this is my last message to you. The elders are looking for you do not trust them. If they catch you they'll turn you into a weapon and wreak havoc upon the land. Your power is unlike anything recorded in the books. I believe in you Trey. Make me proud..."
The echoes stopped.
I was in shock...and so was the hunter lurking in the foliage.
I approached the hunter and glared into his eyes as he looked up at a 2 story high wolf.
"P..pp..please don't hurt me I'll leave and never hunt here again just please don't hurt me!" he cried out.
"I'm not going to hurt you, but I ask of one thing in exchange." I said in a strong tone.
"If you speak of my existence to anyone I'll will not hesitate to swallow you whole.I have your scent and it wont be hard to find you. If you don't I will bring you great fortune at some point in your life." I lied
"Y..y...you have my word now please let me go!" he begged.
I motioned him to leave with my snout and he ran so fast his speed had to compare to Ruby's. I should get back to the manor, but how do I change back? I cant just walk into town like this I'd be shot on the spot.
"I hope this works." I told myself.
I cleared my mind and concentrated and before I knew it I was back into my normal faunus self...nude. Shit I need to find some clothes and fast. I climbed over a few fences to find a clothes wire in someone's back all the girly things on the wire I found a muscle shirt and some jeans.I took a look at my reflection on a window I noticed my mouth was covered in blood.
"Crap this looks really bad I hope it was just those deer I ate." I thought to myself.
Looking into the house from the window I saw a digital clock that read "2:31AM".It's pretty late.I remember was sleeping on the floor and then I was out here. Guess I better get walking.
I snuck back into my room where Phoebe laid sound asleep.I put on some sleepwear and tried to layback down on my makeshift bed.
"Trey?..." Phoebe said tiredly.
"Yeah?" I said faking a sleepy voice.
"Can you lay down with me? It's freezing in here..." she said rubbing her eyes.
"Phoebe." I said sitting up.
"Please? It's my birthday." she said in a childish tone.
"Birthday? How old are you? I asked.
" I just turned 17." she said sitting up on the bed.
"Well then happy birthday." I said standing up to check my scroll.
"I'll take you for breakfast in the morning my treat."
"Thank you Trey you're the best. Hey can I get a picture of us on our first mission?" She said hugging me from behind.
"I don't see why not." I said turning around.
"Ok ok wait here." Phoebe said looking for her camera.
"Say cheese!" Phoebe said pulling me towards her followed by a flash of light.
The next morning*
I was sitting across from Phoebe in a booth at a diner near the design was a sort of retro and to be honest I kind of liked it even Phoebe was admiring the old signs on the walls.
"So what do you think? I asked Phoebe who was currently stuffing her face with pancakes.
"Mph... It's awesome!" she said finishing her food.
"Glad you liked it." I said taking a sip from my coffee.
"Hey how come everyone here is armed?" she asked glancing around the room.
"It's a huntsmen hangout. My dad said he'd come here with his team when they were our age." I said putting Moon Fury on the table.
"Say...Is that it?" she said examining Moon Fury.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Is Moon Fury special in any way?"
"Come with me." I said to her.
I led her behind the diner to an alley way with an X painted on a fence across from where we were standing.
"Watch this." I said to her as I pulled out Moon Fury.
I removed the ammo wheel from Moon Fury replacing it with a dust crystal of the same inserted the wheel began to glow a bright red Fury's barrel opened from all four sides releasing small embers from the left and right sides as if it were imitating a flamethrower. I aimed at the painted X and fired. A spear of fire surrounded in rings hit the fence burning it to ash.
"And they say I couldn't play with fire..." I said with a smirk.
"Trey there's someone there." She said pointing into the ally.
She was right.
"Phoebe meet me back at the manor ill take care of this." I turned and said to her.
She didn't argue and took off in the opposite direction.
"I see you're getting around...who was that?"
"What do you want Neo." I said to her.
"Aw I thought you'd miss me after all that time I spent away. Does this mean we're not together anymore?" she said coming closer.
"What do you think?" I said sternly.
"Yes?" she said wrapping her arms around me.
My shadow reacted and broke her hold and crossed its arms.
"No" it said standing in front of me.
"Well if you change your mind and want to get into trouble like before...you have my number." she said seductively. "I've got to run. I hope to see you again Trey." Neo said waving and walking out of the alley.
"There goes my partner in crime aka ex." I said to myself.
What could she possibly be doing back here?
I shouldn't get involved with that girl not what happened after last time.
I went back to the manor to get ready for the gathering. I chose a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up and a black vest. I was only going to need Moon Fury, my gauntlets and a few knives tonight. Guard duty doesn't require a full arsenal.I waited for Phoebe in the ball room with Weiss.
"I'm going to sit with my Phoebe shows sit with us?" Weiss said moving towards her parents table.
"Sure technically it's my job ..."
"Ok don't be long now!" Weiss interrupted.
To kill time I took the place of the usher while he to took a drag. Not a single faunus was invited all the guests were human. The only faunus on the premises were some of the waiters and waitresses, Phoebe ,and I. Sooner or later I'm going to sit down with and discuss a business offer he can't refuse.
"How do I look?" A familiar voice made my faunus ears go up.
I turned and saw Phoebe in a long black dress and a short black leather vest.
"Like you're not packing." I said greeting my partner.
Phoebe pulled her dress to the side revealing her machete strapped to her leg.
"Careful tiger you might get cut..." Phoebe said poking me in the chest.
"Come on the Schnees are waiting." I said pointing over to their table.
Phoebe and I sat next to the Schnees monitoring the ballroom for anything out of place for the past 3 and Phoebe were chatting about something when I noticed someone wasn't where they were supposed to be. There's someone on the catwalk above us.
"Phoebe stay sharp we got activity." I said bumping her shoulder.
Phoebe nodded "Me and Weiss will watch her parents."
I climbed the ladders to where the person was standing.
I looked down below. No one saw me good.
"Hey there shortstack." I heard before getting hit and landing on my ass.
"Darius, so you're back too?" I replied getting back on my feet.
"Yeah, there's a safe around here that needs cracking and I intend to claim its contents." Darius chuckled while cracking his knuckles.(Lol what)
"Over my dead body..." I growled.
My gauntlets wrapped around my arms from under my shirt ripping it up to the elbows.
"Thank god it's a rental." I said to myself
I charged Darius only to be uppercutted off the catwalk and landed on the table next to the Schnees.
"Get them out of here... he's mine." I said spitting blood on the ground.
Darius jumped off the catwalk and landed on his feet.
"And to think you got better since the last time we fought... tch... you're still the same runt that got his ass handed to him when..." Darius blurted out before I slammed his head into the ground with a punch from above.
"Now that's more like it." he snickered.
"Darius let out a flurry of punches and I tracked each punch finding out it's pattern.
Right...left... fakes a right and throws a left...i think I got it.
Dodging the last flurry I prepared to counter the next. Right...left...wait for the fake...now! I grabbed Darius's left arm and pushed his elbow up.
"ARRGH! " He cried out.
Darius along with the sounds of bone cracking grabbed his arm and put it back in place.
"I'm going to kill you and that bitch aunt of yours only instead your arms I'll snap your necks." he shouted.
"You should be more worried about yours..." Phoebe whispered with her hands around Darius's neck.
Without hesitation Darius threw Phoebe into the air causing her to do multiple flips. Phoebe's eyes glowed amber and spectral wings floated her down to safety.
"I'll ask about it later let's finish this!"
Phoebe began to glow brighter than before and encased herself in the form of a bear as well as yelling like one.
"You got it!" she shouted
I threw 3 knives in a fan formation to create an opening for Phoebe. Darius to was too slow to block them and took all three knives to his clenched her fists together and slammed down ferociously at Darius's body leaving cracks in the floor.
"Hold him down for a while longer I need a few seconds to charge Moon Fury!" I called out.
I need Darius alive for when we make the arrest so ill freeze him until then. I placed a white crystal into Moon Fury's ammo wheel slot and it began to react. Moon Fury's barrel shifted like it did earlier except instead of embers cold air shot out of the pipes.I only got enough energy in the crystal for one shot so I better make this count. I aimed down the sights at Darius and held my breath. Darius broke free of Phoebe's hold and staggered.I fired and hit Darius in the chest freezing him in place.
"Keep an eye on him and call Officer Williams I'm going to go find Weiss." I called out to Phoebe from the exit.
Running down the hall I heard noises coming from the supply closet.I opened the door and nearly had my head blown off by a shotgun.
"Dad!" Weiss shouted at her father.
"Sorry, I thought he was the intruder!" said still holding the gun.
"Give me that." Mrs. Schnee said taking the gun from his hands.
"We got him if you want to see him before he's hauled away now is your chance. I'm taking my partner and leaving once the police show I have no reason to be here anymore." I said to the family.
"Trey wait..." Weiss said trying to stop me.
"I'll see you at BEACON Weiss."
Walking back into ballroom I stopped dead in my had managed to break the ice and get a hold of Phoebe strangling her to death.
"No hesitation...no mercy..."that was something Darius told me a while back.
"If you want to save your friend you know what you must do... kill him...kill him kill him kill him."
My arm had turned into the black claw it had turned into before and without a second thought I charged Darius and slashed deep into his chest sending him into a wall across the room.
"Phoebe are you ok?" I asked holding her in my arms.
"(Cough cough) Yeah I'm fine...i though I was a goner." she said holding her neck.
I heard sirens from outside and in a matter of seconds the room was filled with police.
"Damn what happened in here?" asked Officer Williams.
"He's over there."I said to Officer Williams pointing to Darius who was holding his chest."I'll leave a report in the morning I need to get Phoebe home."
Williams nodded." Ok be careful I'll inform Professor Ozpin of your success."
I called Jack to bring our things to Phoebe's place and surprisingly he showed up within the hour. I gave him 20 Lien for the trouble of coming out so late but he refused to take it.
Phoebe went upstairs to take a shower when I finished mine.
"Hey are your parents home?" I asked from outside the bathroom door.
"Mom's out and Dad never came back" she yelled from the shower.
"Want me to stay the night? I asked
"That would be nice."
"Alright I'll be downstairs." I said going down the staircase.
I sat down on the chair and texted Aunt Katherine that I was staying the night. Phoebe came downstairs in sweatpants and a loose shirt.
"Thanks for staying you're the best." Phoebe said hugging me from behind.
We started watching a horror movie marathon when my scroll wouldn't stop vibrating. The alert on the screen read :SECURITY BREACH followed by a camera feed of Aunt Katherine tied to the table. Then Darius walked into the shot.I ran out the door.
"Trey wait!" Phoebe said trying to stop me... but I was already gone.
The demons voice echoed in my head.
Kill him...
I'm pretty late with this chapter i know but i managed to get it out for you guys with what little time i you enjoyed. Tell me what you thought.
