Chapter IV - BloodLine

Before Elena begins the test; Ironwood gives Elena her weapon as she is warned that she won't die but there are certain elements that could effect her. She understands it even as Nao is still in the gardens with Magro, to where she had her choice made entirely by her. So as she enters the test, she realizes that its not made by Naos choice but her own and that its the start of a new life.

As the door closes behind her and as Ironwood and Auro head to the viewing area, Winter comes in. "Sir, I have a..wait, whos in there?" Winter says as shes looking as Ironwood. "Elena, and is it ready?" Ironwood asks. Winter has a second pause as she thinks, "Yes, sir." Ironwood then goes to the Viewing area as Elena starts the test. As they all head into the area, its decked with fifty screens depicting several areas of the test, and shows what it could entail if Elena goes far enough. Auro says to Ironwood, "Is this really that's needed? As its a little..much.." Ironwood responds seconds after the statement with, "Its for the safety of the others." He gets the signal from Winter and begins the test.

As she walks in her mind is filled with a bit of paranoia, and as she thinks to herself as the darkness is with her. "Its just a test, what can go wrong?" As she thought of that, lights turn on as its a old Tunnelway. Without notice, she hears the siren of something. Ironwood takes the microphone, "This test is focusing on fear, in a way that you will find out for yourself." Elena hears that, and trys to be calm, right before she notices a creature in the next room. Its blocking the way she has to take and must kill it, but before she could of done that, it attacked her, like a guard dog on steroids; making a small laceration in her right leg. She then killed it right after that happened and moved along.

Meanwhile, at the viewing center; Auro looks at the attack and was curious. "What is that creature, Ironwood?" Auro said as hes now intrigued. Ironwood wasn't talking as he was watching Elenas test go. From soon after that, they start to notice her becoming ditzy and more importantly, limping. Winter was compelled to do something to help Elena but Ironwood told her to stand down, with the same response being; "For now we must see how this goes, so if I may say so Mrs. Schnee; don't do anything until I tell you." Within Winters hesitation to follow his orders, she forcefully stops herself from going out to the garden.

As the test is going, Nao and Margro are in the garden as they relax talking about themselves. Nao says to Margro, "If you can't figure out what the difference between a rotten apple or a batch of dark red dust crystals; what can you do?" Margro then responds with, "Wait, really? Well; that'd explain the hell out of that grenade you mentioned in that story." They approach a meadow in the garden as they look at eachother. "Even though its only really been..a day at most, it feels great to have someone that can talk to me and not in a, 'Oohh, whats this weird kid doing with his little sword' way!" Nao responds. Margro then replys with, "Atleast It feels nicer to have someone relatable..even though its probably not going to last after this mission."

Nao looks at her, "..what do you mean?" Margro thinks for a second, trying to word what she'd say next. "Its not easy to just bury..the demons you could of created. I just have a uncertainty to this, this team. It just feels that we are just herding sheep to a pen." Nao listens to her, as she trys to speak. "In the time of the White Fang, I commited awful things, things I wish I never did. I..I did kill so many-" before she was finished, Nao hugged her as she was starting to become tired. "Margro, your past is what doesn't make you what you can be. Its your future that's more..mor.." He trys finishing as he hears something. Nao moves quickly as he hears screaming from a distance.

Margro looks at him, "Whats wrong?" Nao pauses her as he trys hearing it. As soon as he knew who it was, he dashed like a bullet going at rapidly fast speeds. "Nao, Wait!" Margro yelled as she was running with him. It was coming from the house, and Nao immediately kicked the door open. As fast as he kicked the door, Auro; Winter; and Ironwood heard it as Winter was trying to find out who it was. The alarm went off as Nao was running down into the basement. As soon as Margro opened, she noticed the door kicked to where its broken and pushed into the hallway. She immediately heard kicking down in the basement as Nao was kicking the door used for entering the test.

As soon as Margro heads down, Theres a group of Elysian military officers were trying to calm Nao, but he kept beating the crap out of them, kicking them in the groin, the stomach, and head rather aggressively. As Margro watched, she didn't know what to think; of either being horrified that there might be someone similar to her in extreme ways or wanting to help him as she can relate to him. Just as Nao had taken care of the military members in the room, he was kicked to the ground by Auro. "So," Auro says to Nao. As Auro grabs Nao, Ironwood warns him with; "Auro, I am warning you; to put him down, now." Auro looks at him with his face starting to grin; "So that's if what you want." He then drops Nao causing a few broken bones. After that, Ironwood opens the door as Nao rushes in there for Elena.

As Nao hears Elenas cry for help become louder, he sees her as Nao falls down fainting, with Margro coming over for Nao and Winter coming over for Elena. Winter comes over to her and trys to calm her down as Ironwood looks at them, with a face of disappointment. Margro sees the animal that slashed Elena and was confused. "Wait..what..is that a grimm?!" Margro looks at with fear. Ironwood then responds with, "Yes. Its a type of grimm that we found in one of the older White Fang factorys." He bends down to the carcass and says, "I'll explain more when Nao and Elena get treated up..but I do need to talk to you, when you can." Margro nodded as he ordered her to leave as the night goes.

~To Be Continued in Chapter V ~The Thief and the monster~

~0400 Hours till Sunrise

~The City of Atlas

~A Month before Operation: Remnants commences

"Journal Entry, 300. Its been a while since this came into fruition, but lets get caught up to what I'm doing this time. I've been enlisted to do a Hit & Run operation on crime-lord, Hare Wilder. Hes been disguised as a journalist and I've been assigned to take this son of a bitch. What I need to do is..more far." This unknown individual is standing on a rooftop near Founders Lake. "If I don't take him out soon, valuable information will come out of the White Fangs mouth and I can't let that happen." The individual zooms in from her weapon; a black/blue Scythe-Sniper Rifle with supressors, extended clips and more. "I am, Nanto Sori." She makes the target as the night turns into dawn, "And whoever I get contracted to take out..shouldn't of ever been born."

Introducing; Nanto Sori, to the Battlegrounds.