It has been one day since the four future huntresses and headmaster had received their visions. Weiss and Blake had mostly forgotten their visions, chalking it up as just another strange dream that they had. Yang and Ruby had kept their promise to each other and hadn't told anyone about theirs as Yang tried to forget about it, but the fact that she and Ruby had the same exact dream still kept it around for it to pop back up in her mind every now and then. Meanwhile, Ruby, as well as Ozpin, had done their best to remember their visions, trying to make sense of them since they were both brief and vague at best.
The red reaper was listening to one of her favorite songs as she thumbed through a weapon magazine. Being the gun nut she was, she fantasized on having every single weapon in the catalogue, currently drooling over a railgun/ great sword hybrid. The description read, 'For anything that goes bump in the night. The railsword 39GB guarantees the safety of your belongings and loved ones from all kinds of monsters.'
When she read the word 'monster', her mind goes back to the dream. The alien environment, the two girls, Weiss Schnee and Blake, the monsters, and especially the fear she felt, felt all too real to be some dream. She knows her sister wants them to forget about the whole thing, but she can't shake the feeling that it was more than just some dream.
She would have gone further into her thought if someone wearing a black suit and hat with red shades and a red tie didn't forcefully turn her around. The man pointed to his ear, signaling that he wants her to take her head phones off. She does and asks, "What?"
"I said, put your hands in the air, now." The man demanded from her.
"Are you, robbing me?" The reaper asks.
"Yes!"
Ruby squints her eyes a bit as she replies with an, "oh." Before knocking the guy to the other side of the store.
Meanwhile, on the roof of the store, a dark blue vortex opens in the air, and the unconscious faunus body of the Wraith ungracefully falls out of it. The portal closes as the monster turned human stirs awake.
The Wraith rubs her head to sooth the growing headache in her skull when she stops after feeling her new hair. She feels the rest of her face and comes across the bandages around her new eyes. She goes to pull them off, only to hisses in pain and quickly put them back on as even the subtle moon light is too much for her now sensitive eyes to take. She then moves onto the rest of her body, completely shocked by her transformation. The only calming factor for her was the fact that her scythes were still on her, albeit a bit shorter than she would like.
She tries to stand up on her two new feet like she had seen her brother and the humans do, only to fall back on her butt from loosing her balance. She concentrates for a little bit, and eventually manages to hover a few inches off of the ground and move around that way.
The sound of glass breaking fills her new ears. Curious, she uses her other senses as normal to quietly moves and looks over the railing to investigate. From what she can make out, a little human was getting ready to fight the four other humans in the building after hearing the shifting of Crescent Rose and smelling the hate coming off of the four inside.
She growls in annoyance and goes to leave, both uninterested in their affairs and wanting to find her brothers, but something stops her. A connection of sorts. A feeling that she needed to protect the young one from harm much like protecting the eggs from the hunters. The faunus contemplates if she should protect a small, weak being of another species. Her death would not mean anything to her, since it is only the strong that survive while the weak are left behind and perish. But her instincts had never let her astray before, and it is what helped her, and her brothers survive for so long.
After rolling the ideas around in her head, she comes to a conclusion. She will stay and watch the fight and see if she is worth protecting. After all, the hunters her fellow monsters had faced were worthy opponents. So perhaps this one may grow up to be as strong, maybe even stronger.
Ruby twirls her scythe around before planting the blade into the ground, striking a pose and turning off her headset.
"Ok." Torchwick comments, not expecting to find a huntress. He nods his head towards the girl and says, "Get her." To get his minions to start attacking.
They do so and begin to attack the red child with their swords. One swings down at her but was evaded as Ruby used her weapon for leverage and kicked the man right in the face. She lands back on the ground and fires a bullet, using the momentum to swing her weapon around and knock one of the goons into the air before slamming the back end onto another, smashing him into the ground. Wraith had to move to the side to avoid getting hit by the falling body before she continues watching. Ruby loads another round into the chamber and fires again to avoid the machine gun fire from the last one. She then launches herself back and kicks the gunner, sending him into the air as well before planting her blade back into the ground, swinging herself around, ripping the weapon out of the pavement, and slamming back onto the sidewalk and in front of his boss.
The monster was impressed, but curious as well. This human was definitely strong, perhaps stronger than the hunters, but why did she not kill them? Sure, they're knocked out, but what will stop them from waking up and trying to kill you again. And why didn't they find these types of warriors back on Sheer? They would have been a more favorable opponent than the hunters because 1. It wouldn't be a 4V1 battle which felt unfair to them and 2. An army of them could actually manage to kill every monster on Sheer. 'Did they see us unworthy to fight such opponents?' The monster thought to herself.
Torchwick looks down at the unconscious henchmen and mutters, "You were worth every cent. Truly you were." He takes the cigar out of his mouth and says, "Well, Red. I'll say it's been an eventful evening." To Ruby before dropping the stogie and smothering it with his cane. He points his concealed weapon at the young girl as the sound of police sirens in the distance become louder, "And as much as I would like to stick around. This is were we part ways." A crosshair pops up at the end of the cane before he fires an explosive dust round.
Ruby points the barrel of her scythe down and fires, launching herself up into the air and avoiding the blast. While doing a flip in the air, she notices a woman with features that resemble a certain monster she was just thinking about looking over the balcony of the store. When she lands on the ground, she looks and still sees the strange woman staring at her. But now wasn't the time for questions, right now she has a criminal to stop. She looks around and sees Roman halfway up the ladder of a nearby building, trying to make an escape. The store owner comes to the door. "Is it ok if I go after him?" She asks the man who gives her a nod and a 'uh-huh.'
She takes one last quick glance and sees that the woman hadn't left her spot before using Crescent Rose to pole vault herself up the building. Unbeknownst to her, the real Wraith had turned invisible and was scaling the building while her decoy took her place.
Ruby yells, "Hey!" as Torchwick reaches the end of the building. He mutters, "Persistent.", annoyed at the young girl as his bullhead flies in to pick him up. A light shines in Ruby's eyes as Roman climbs aboard. The suave criminal yells, "End of the line Red!" Before taking out a red dust crystal and throwing it at her feet. He fires at the crystal creating a huge explosion and a cloud of red dust. When it disappeared, he found Glynda Goodwitch in her place with a sigil protecting her from the blast.
As for Ruby, someone else got to her first. Off to the side, Ruby was in the clutched arms of the mysterious naked woman after she warped in and saved her.
Ruby's face turns as red as her cape after seeing that her savior wasn't wearing any clothing. She mumbles out, "Why are you nak~ed." before slowing down at the end as she notices the tattoo of her emblem and the aliens face on her chest. The young girl looks at the faunus's eyes and mutters a silent, "It's you." Before the Wraith put her back down.
Glynda pulls her focus from Ruby and the Wraith to the bullhead and release a swarm of purple balls of energy at the flying machine, making it and its occupants stumble around.
Roman gets to the cockpit and tells the pilot, Cinder Fall, "We got a huntress." Cinder gives the controls to Roman and heads to the back. Glynda uses her semblance to summon an ice storm and pelts the ship with large icicles as Cinder comes into view, her face obscured by a shadow. She hurls a fire ball at Glynda who blocks it with her wand. The glass shards under her glow and Glynda flips backwards to avoid the explosion from underneath her, getting closer to Ruby and the Wraith.
The monster faunus knew that they were going to get caught in the crossfire and needed to end this fight now. She warps up into the air and off the side of the building to get closer to the bull head before using her warp blast ability to close the distance and lath herself onto the engine. She and the engine explode, launching herself towards the two huntresses before using the remainder of her warp to latch herself onto the ledge. Luckily her new aura protected her from getting blown to pieces as well. The bullhead started to fall with Roman doing his best to land the thing as safely as he can. The two criminals ended up jumping out before the ship crashed in the street, soon followed by the whole ship exploding and wrecking nearby cars and lampposts and shattering windows.
The Wraith gives out a screech of victory at the sight of the explosion before turning to the two humans behind her and warping to Ruby's side. She growls, "Are you ok?" in her native tongue only to get a confused look from her protectee.
"EH-HEM!" The two turn their heads to Glynda who has her hands on her hips.
Ruby's eyes sparkle as she super speeds herself up to the Huntress, "You're a huntress. Can I have your autograph?"
Her reply was a stern "NO!" before Glynda demanded, "You will both follow me to the police station, you especially." She points her crop at the monster.
"But why?" Ruby cries out in sadness. Her childhood not understanding what she did wrong.
"For you, putting yourself and others in grave danger." She replies before going back to the faunus who has not moved an inch, "And you, for wreak less endangerment of human lives with that explosion, and for public nudity." The monster in front of her doesn't respond. "Are you listening to me!?" Glynda demanded only for the decoy to fade away into non-existence and the real one to be nowhere in sight.
Glynda gives a sigh in defeat before grabbing Ruby by the arm and dragging her away. She would get the teen later once Ruby had been dealt with.
Meanwhile the real Wraith was hanging off the edge of the building and stealthily following the two.
Another vortex opens up above a kitchen island when the Goliath falls out of the portal and breaks the island in half. The monster of a man sits up and cracks his neck before fully standing up. He takes a look at his surrounding with his new red eyes and recognizes it as one of the structures the humans would build. But this only gave him another question, how does he fit in here? He knows very well that he was far bigger than the structures that would have this type of interior, so how does he fit inside of one. He then looks down at himself and sees his new form.
He sighs/ growls at his predicament, 'I hope none of my siblings see me like this. I'll be a laughing stock of the pack.' He thinks to himself.
He sniffs the air to see what else was around him when the scent of fresh meet was picked up. To his left was a shiny metal box with a handle on it and the scent was coming from it. He goes over to the fridge and opens it to find a wide array of food in front of him as the cold air hits him. He licks his lips before devouring every morsel of food in sight, rattling the fridge and making a racket in the progress.
This noise woke up a recently bathed corgi, which had masked his scent, from his slumber. The family pet, Zwei, then stretched his legs, and went downstairs from Ruby's room to investigate. He walks into the kitchen to see someone with large spikes coming out of his back and a spiky tail raiding the fridge. The brave dog growls then barks at the intruder in an attempt to scare him off and protect his home like the good boy his masters would call him.
The Goliath hears the barks and stops his feast. He turns his head with a piece of steak hanging out of his mouth and sees the corgi on the other side of the kitchen. As soon as they locked eyes with each other, Zwei's bravery dropped like a rock in the ocean as every animal instinct he has is yelling at him to get away from the apex predator in front of him. And being the good boy he is, he listens and runs away just in time before the monster pounced.
The scared dog now runs around the room with the beast of a man behind him with the intent of turning him into his next meal Tom and Jerry style. Zwei makes the Goliath crash into furniture and walls to slow him down, and somehow makes the monster slip on a banana peel. But with all this racket their making, neither of them hears the sound of a motor cycle pulling into the driveway.
The Goliath finally manages to pin the dog down and was about to take a big bite out of Zwei when Yang cries out, "What the fuck are you doing!" The monster looks over his left shoulder to see Yang in the door way with the keys still in her hand, completely dumbfounded by what she sees.
A growl comes from the large man before tossing the dog aside and facing his new opponent with his left side towards her, hiding his tattoo away from her without knowing it. Yang activates Ember and Cilica and goes into a fighting stance, "I don't know who you are, what you were about to do to my dog, or why you are naked, not that I don't mind the view." She says, commenting at the man's features and the ginormous dick he's been gifted with, complementary of the black brother. "But you need to leave right now."
The mans reply was an inhuman roar and a flying fist. In the split second after yang believes that she had heard that roar before but quickly pushes the thought aside to catch the man's fist with one hand. She throws a punch of her own with the other hand and the faunus catches it as well. They stay in a stalemate when Yang complements cockily, "You're really strong aren't yah? You might actually be a challenge for me."
The monster doesn't reply and grabs ahold of both of her fists before inhaling deeply. The blonde tries to escape from his grasp but fails and receives a face full of fire. She finally manages to get her fists free and punches the man, firing an explosive round in the process, and launches him through the glass back door. Her aura had taken most of the damage from the attack, but some of her hair had been singed at the ends. Her eyes turn red and her hair bursts into flames before shouting, "YOU MONSTER!"
The faunus quickly sits back up and thinks, 'Did someone call?' in a daze before getting a rage filled fist to the face, throwing him into a tree and breaking it in half. He lays on the ground and sees Yang jump into the air about to do a slam attack on him, but he uses his position to put his feet up, stop her, then kick her back and knock her into a tree behind him.
She hangs upside down in the indent she made and shakes her head to refocus herself. Her eyes open and she fires her gauntlets to knock her to her left to dodge the huge boulder coming at her. She unloads another pair of shells to launch herself forward and the Goliath narrowly dodges the attack and sending her behind him.
He was about to charge forward but something jumps on his back and tries to bite at him. He grabs it and throws it on the ground right in front of him and sees that it was a beowolf. He stomps on the soulless creature's mid-section and rips the top part of the torso off and throws it behind him, nearly hitting one of the other dozen beowolves coming out of the forest.
The faunus snarls at his new opponents as Yang goes to his right side and gets into a fighting pose again. Seeing there's no point in fighting while the grimm are here, Yang turns her head to the Goliath and says, "What do you say? Temporary truce until these guys are gonnnnnice tattoo." She finally notices the tattoo of her emblem and his old face on his shoulder, and the memory of the dream comes flooding back to her.
The monster ignores her and lets out another roar before leaping into the middle of the pack and smashing right into the ground and knocking them away from him. He then unleashes his fire breath and starts toasting them to a crisp.
Yang snaps out of her daze in time to see a two ursa about to get the drop on the monster while he's busy with the demonic wolves. She follows his example and launches herself into the air and lands right on top of one of the bears and starts unloading her gauntlets into them.
A flaming beowolf smashes into a tree before a clawed fist pulverized its head into a fine black and red paste. With the last of them dealt with, the Goliath went to pulverize the ursa with Yang but was tackled by the packs alpha who had stayed back for his brothers to weaken him. This beowolf was much larger than the others and had a lot more armor, meaning it was much more experienced and much more dangerous. But the Goliath didn't care, all it knew is that he was the strongest, and that this one will die just like the others. So, he kicks the alpha off of him and gets back up on his feet.
The two powerhouses exchange roars before charging at each other. The beowolf sidesteps his opponent and slashes a claw against his skin, reducing his aura a bit. The grimm was then met with the business end of a spiky tail across the face, cracking the face plate slightly. A line of flame erupts from the faunus's mouth once more and singes the wolf before he leaps into the air and smashing the ground, missing its intended target. The demonic wolf then lunges itself at him but instead gets grabs by its waist, lifted over his opponent, and suplexed right onto the ground.
The beast kicks the Goliath off of him and sees that Yang was nearly done with the ursa. Cutting his losses, he runs back into the woods, but the Goliath wasn't about him live to tell the tale, and chases after him to finish the fight.
The last ursa's head goes flying off its shoulders by the final punch from the blonde brawer. She turns back and sees the mysterious monster run farther into the woods. "Hey wait." She yells, wanting some answers. She goes to super jump only to hear the click indicating all her shells have been spent. She groans in annoyance at the inconvenience and runs in after him instead. She runs for a good five minutes, following the path of destruction he's leaving behind, but eventually looses the trail. Knowing that the more dangerous grimm are farther in the woods, and the fact that she's out of ammo, she decides to head on home.
She looks down in defeat as she enters through the broken glass door muttering, "Note to self, don't become a detective" since she can't seem to find anyone she looks for. She looks up and sees her dad in the middle of the room with his jaw slack staring wide eyed at her from the messy home he had arrived to find. She nervously said, "I-I can explain." Just before the fridge door fell off.
A ringing came from the father's pocket. He closes his mouth and takes his scroll out and sees that it's a call from the Vale police department. He answers with a "Hello?" and the man on the other end begins talking. A moment goes by before Tai Yang yells, "What!" Another moment of talking, "I'll be right there." He hangs up and grabs his keys from the partially broken coffee table, "Your sister has been arrested." "What!?"
The man heads to the door, "I'm going to go get her. And you are going to clean this mess up."
"B-But how?" She asks while looking at the gigantic mess around her.
"Just start throwing all the broken stuff away." He slams the door, leaving Yang alone with Zwei at her leg to comfort her. She pets the dog as the tv finally falls off the wall, making her sigh heavily.
"Goodnight Miss. Rose. I'll see you at the initiation." The headmaster of says to the child as she leaves the interrogation room.
"Goodbye Mr. Ozpin." She waves back as she goes to her dad in the other room.
A cop comes by and asks, "Are you going to come out?" asking why he hasn't left the room yet.
"I'll be out in a few minutes. I just need to go over a few things in here." Was his reply.
The cop shrugs and replies with an, "Alright." And leaves. The door closing behind him leaving him and Glynda in the room.
Ozpin waits for the sound of the cop's footsteps to disappear before saying, "You can come out now. No one will disturb us, and we do not wish to harm you."
Glynda quirks an eyebrow wondering, 'Who is he talking to?' before the vent cover above them falls onto the table and the Wraith climbs out of ceiling.
The head master turns around as the faunus lands on the table on all fours. He eyes her up and down before speaking, "My, my, you are an interesting sight." He says as he walks around the table while inspecting her more, "Over all of my years I have seen many things. But I have yet to see a faunus such as yourself. A very hard feat to accomplish mind you." He goes back on front of her and takes a sip of his coffee before continuing, "You wouldn't happen to be from another world, are you?"
The monster, who had remained perfectly still through the whole thing, snaps her head and meets her gaze with his. "So, you are." He comments.
"Ozpin." Glynda grabs their attention, "Is this about the dream you had?"
He nods and turns back to the monster who was tilting her head in confusion. "One night ago, I had a vision that four teenagers, followed by four monsters, would be going to my school. And you look just like one of those monsters." He takes another sip, "So, would you like to go to my academy as well?"
"Professor Ozpin. Are you sur it's wise to-" The headmaster puts a finger up to silence Glynda as the Wraith puts a hand on her chin and thinks about his offer.
She doesn't trust the white-haired human, nor the blond one with the crop, but his offer is hard to refuse. She had heard his conversation with the child and knew that she was going to the same place, this 'academy', that he is offering her. If she accepts, she would be closer to her and be able to protect her like her instincts want her to. And the possibility of finding her brothers there as well is too good to pass up. Who knows, maybe the man will even return them to their normal forms. She takes her hand off of her chin and gives a nod in agreement.
The old wizard smiles, "Excellent." He reaches under the table and places a small black duffel bag on the table. "Now, first, you're going to need some clothing."
Aaand that's it. Thanks for reading the new chapter. Remember to leave a like and a comment, maybe even follow the story.
This is Quantumspectrum signing- A metal wall tears down and the Behemoth and Kraken roars in anger- Calm down you two, you'll get your time in the spotlight soon. Sheesh some people have no patience. Signing off now.