Happy Holidays everyone. To my fellow fans in the US, I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving and was able to spend time with your family. I also hope that those same fans were able to survive Black Friday XD. But in all seriousness the Christmas season has officially begun and soon afterwards a new year. While I wish to make more stories and to update several of my old ones, I feel today was a good day to update. The reason? actually it is my birthday today. I know I do this every year but as I've said before I love this story and with the latest episode of RWBY, I was even more excited. So without further delay onto the next chapter.
Once again One Piece is a big inspiration and many elements will be seen. But several other elements will be added and I hope there are some that can spot them.
Disclaimer; I do not own RWBY as it is own my Roster Teeth and creator Monty Oum. May you rest in peace man.
Tale of the Blue Rogue Pirates
Pyrrha's head shot up when she heard the sound of metal breaking. She was able to see the iron gates, both halves sent flying before the hit the stone wall of the fort. She turned back to the now open front, where the dust was slowly settling from the doors getting ripped off. She can hear voiced coming from it, "Mine went farther!"
"They both hit the wall," the other said as they stepped into the courtyard. She could see a bond teen girl was talking before the one with orange hair next to her added, "But mine hit the wall first."
The blond growled before she turned her head not wanting to deal with their little contest. Pyrrha was confused before she saw more people enter the courtyard and recognized the boy in front. Pyrrha frowned not sure what was going on but they made their way over to her. "hey Pyrrha," Jaune said, "we're here to get you out."
Now Pyrrha was mad "Why are you doing this? This is important. I have to do this. I only have four more days before-"
"You don't have four days," Ruby said softly, "Jaune and the others heard that Cyan guy in the very same restaurant you met him in. He's planning on executing you tomorrow."
Pyrrha gain a look of shock and disbelief. She slumped slightly with her arms supporting her. She stared in front of her before she closed her eyes and tears started to form. "I knew…deep down I always knew he would do this. I didn't focus on that…I didn't even focus on my body or how weak I feel. I only focus on keeping Cyan's attention away from Rika and her mother. I was to make sure he didn't hurt them. That is what made me fight for this long. I guess this is what I get for trusting the word of a pirate."
"That guy's not a pirate," Ren sagely informed her. "And there are pirates who are like that, almost too many to count. But there are those who value their promises. We are one of those rare few and now we are here to help you."
"You're pirates?" Pyrrha asked as she looked at the group, "You don't look like pirates."
"We could say that you don't look like a Huntress." Emerald said as she got the redhead's attention.
"But it's true that we are, and I'm ready to break some legs!" Nora cheered happily twirling her might hammer.
"What the hell is going on out there!?" Cyan shouted as he saw the group of young individuals that were at the tavern, with two more in tow.
Jaune ignored him and looked at Pyrrha first. "So, you want to kick some ass with us and keep this guy from hurting others, or are you suicidal? You don't look suicidal." Jaune commented as he knew that they'd have to fight some people, and that was okay with him.
Pyrrha looked at Jaune's determined face before she closed her eyes for a second. When they open Jaune saw a fire in them, "I'll fight."
Cyan growled before pointing at them "You are dead men for coming here!"
"But there are only two boys with us," Ruby pointed out innocently.
"I mean you are all going to pay for this!" Cyan shouted getting very annoyed. He then fixed his hair from shouting and smirked at them, "And you chose the worst time to try this little rebellion. My uncle is here now and he will make sure all of you die. He is a pirate with a large bounty."
"He is?" Yang whispered to Weiss.
"Only 10 million lien," Weiss replied.
Yang blinked, "Wait that's lower than mine and Ruby's. How is he a threat again?"
"Enough!" Cyan shouted and turned with a huff, "Take care of them boys. Leave enough alive to have uncle to execute for a show to this town." And he left with a snap of his fingers.
The men charged at them ready to fight. Yang cracked her knuckled, "I almost feel sorry for these losers." Before she used her gauntlets to propel herself forward and land a hard haymaker onto a thug's face. Ruby rushed into the fight with her speed and spun her scythe around knocking several men around. Blake, Weiss, and Nora jumped into action, Nora with a cheer as she slammed her hammer into one poor thug and blasted him into the wall on the other side of the courtyard. Yang grinned and caught the weapon of the thug attacking her in her bare hands. The pirate looked startled before he gulped seeing the grin on Yang's face. Yang landed a right hook right into his face before her weapon fired and sent the man flying over the fort outer wall and landed in the street out cold. His aura kept him from getting killed but even then it can only do so much. Jaune held his hand to Ren and Emerald, before they could get into the fight "Ren, get Pyrrha untied."
"On it," the teen replied before he ran to the cross and started to untie Pyrrha.
Jaune looked at Emerald, "Emerald, I need you to go inside and steal back Pyrrha's weapons."
Emerald frowned but figured it was best anyways. "what I am looking for princess?" she asked Pyrrha over her shoulder.
"I use a bronze shield and sword," Pyrrha replied "The sword can transform into a spear and rifle as well."
Emerald nodded before she took off, kicking one goon which was then close lined by Yang. Jaune then charged into battle, his shield up to stop a sword strike before the younger male counter with his own.
(scene change)
Raleigh sighed when he sat down into his favorite chair in his small study. He has returned ten minutes ago and he gotten a good hale on his last raid. Several bullheads with a nice amount of Dust and other treasure. He heard a small bit of noise outside but paid it no mind thinking the boys were having some fun. Raleigh took off his top hat, showing short blond hair and stretched his arms. Seeing no need to change out of his black suit he reached out for his wine glass on the side table. He paused when his nephew burst through the door to his study. "Cyan, what did I told you about bursting in here?"
"Uncle," Cyan said with a slight pant of his run as he seen a small bit of the fight going on and grew nervous but knew his uncle would take care of them. "A group of towns folks is attacking, trying to rebel."
Raleigh stared at his nephew, "Are you sure? Why would they be stupid enough to try and fight against me?"
"They are just a group of brats," Cyan stated, "Most likely to try and take Pyrrha Nikos from us."
Raleigh frowned, "Take who?"
Cyan rolled his eyes, "A girl I had tied in the courtyard. I was planning on killing her tomorrow but these rebels are making a mess of things."
Raleigh frowned stayed before he slowly got up, showing he was not that tall, just under five feet. "What have you been doing while I was away?"
Cyan recited with ease, not seeing the danger he was in. "Well I was making sure the town stayed in order, made a deal with Pyrrha and was going to kill her since she cheated and didn't break on the first day. Then I was taking a nice lunch when this brat attacked me. He actually had the gull to hit me uncle. No one hits me, not even you."
Smack!
Cyan fell to the flow, surprised when his uncle backhanded him. His uncle scowled at him, "The only reason I never hit you before because you were not worth the effort. Do you know why I let you get away with so much?"
"Because I'm you beloved nephew," Cyan answered simply.
"Wrong," Raleigh stated as he started to walked out of the study, "I knew I had no worry. I had no fear of you. You don't have the brains nor the courage to try and over throw me. But now I have to fix your mess." He stopped at the door and grabbed his weapon, a cane with a jewel top, "I will have to show them why I am a feared pirate."
(Scene Break)
Emerald was sneaking around Raleigh's fort, looking for Pyrrha's weapons. She was good thanks her time as a pirate and the time alone as a thief. That time was a good solemn reminder of how hard the world was without people like the Blue Rogues.
'Now, if I was that Cyan guy, where would I hide a Huntress' weapon.' Emerald shivered a bit in trying to understand the thoughts of that guy. He might not as bad as the Black Blades, but she could easily tell that he thought more with his ego and lower half then his head. That's when she came to the obvious conclusion of Cyan's personal room. Guys like him would want a trophy for what he did, and that came with another problem. Fortunately for her, that problem was quickly remedied with a nearby goon and a use of her semblance.
"What'cha doing here!? The captain wants everyone to settle the revolt." The grunt said, not even realizing he was talking to a stranger, seeing a fellow member of Raleigh's crew.
"The boss wanted me to collect some weapons from his nephew's room. Something about showing him how to use it or something. I need a quick reminder of where it is." Emerald using her acting skills to maintain the charade.
"Well it's about time," the grunt muttered, "Down the hall and second door on the right. It's the one that's the most girly."
The grunt then ran down the hall not seeing Emerald standing there where the other grunt was. "Too easy" she muttered before she paused wondering what that grunt was doing holding what looked like wanted posters. She shook the thought out of her head and went back to work.
She found the room and scowled seeing the man was right, "No guy…should have this much pink in his room." She shivered as she took a quick look around before she found the shield and sword mounted on the wall next to his bed. "Well not anything fancy, but I'll take it." Emerald then ran out of the room and back down the hallway. She knew with more men heading for the entrance she would have a harder time getting past them since her semblance is harder to do on more than one person. So she chose a different route, she opens a window near the courtyard and jumped out. With a swing of her hand her weapon fried off the scythe part of her weapon connected to a chain which connected to the wall. She swung overhead and towards the action. She saw that Ren had free Pyrrha and she stood ready for action. "Hey princess!" Emerald shouted "Catch!"
The thief threw the shied and weapon towards the female fighter. Pyrrha then did something Emerald didn't expect and jumped up. Pyrrha held her hands out behind her and her weapons flew right into her hands. Once armed she landed and spread her arms out, her sword becoming a spear, and caught the weapons of several men what tried to attack Ruby and Jaune when their backs were turned. Ruby and Jaune were surprised at what she did but none more than the men fighting her. Pyrrha twirled her hand, making the spear turn and knocked the men and their weapons off balance. She kicked out to one of the men her shield was blocking and knocked him to the floor. She turned, her spear twisting with her body and around her neck to keep the men back, before she stops and the end of her spear (which was also the end of her gun) shot off and shot forward, jabbing a man in the chest with her hand keeping the weapon still in reach. She turned twirling her weapon, forcing her next opponent to block but when Pyrrha forced his weapon high she swung low and tripped him into his back. She ended that fight with a strong slam to the chest with her knee. She was up at once with her shield raised to block the attack from behind. Her spear became a sword and she attacked. Their swords struck each other three times before they locked together. Pyrrha twisted her sword and disarmed her opponent. He had no time to recover before Pyrrha slammed her armor knee into his chin. When she landed Pyrrha threw her shield to the side and it smacked the face of one charging opponent, before it bounced with little force lost and hit another charging pirate on her other side. Pyrrha stood up and caught her shield and was ready.
Emerald stood there wide eyed, "Are you sure you've been starving for three days?"
Pyrrha gave a small glare at that reminder before her attention and everyone else's turned as someone stepped out into the courtyard. Raleigh did not look pleased seeing most of his men were on the ground or outright knocked out "It seems it is not a small group from the town like Cyan explained to me."
Cyan was next to him stunned at how many of his/his uncle's men were down, "but they came from the town. Who else could they be?"
Raleigh shook his head, "I had a feeling when you mentioned the one boy said the Blue Rouges. I believe I heard of that group. You are pirates after my treasure and turf it seems." He turned to one grunt, the very same one Emerald spoke to inside, and ordered, "Find out if any of these pirates have any bounties. Being rookies themselves it will be amusing to see how cocky they must be to take one someone as great as I."
The pirate followed his orders and looked through the small list of bounties before he found the one for Jaune. He held it up and froze. He shivered and stuttered, "5-5-5-50 million."
Raleigh frowned, "What?"
"H-h-he has a bounty of 50 million lien," the man repeated before he was smacked in the face by Raleigh's cane.
"If there is one thing I find most annoying is being lied too."
"No sir, it says here Jaune 'Blue Rogue' Arc." The thug said as Raleigh looked the bounty. It was true that Jaune's face was on it and it had a bounty of 50 Million Lien. But it made no sense to him, and thought there was some kind of mistake. How could a rookie be worth more than him?
"Well, if there is one other thing I hate other than being lied too, it's UNINVITED GUESTS!" Raleigh said before he used a machine that was on his legs to start jumping, or hopping depending on how you look at it, into the battle.
Jaune barely had time to raise his shield before Raleigh slammed into him. The man laughed as he kicked off the ground and bounced into the air before he twisted in the air and landed onto the side of the fort. He pushed off again and slammed his cane into Jaune. This time Jaune was turned from the blow and found that he lost his grip on his shield and it was on the ground. Before he could grab it Raleigh bounced back and knocked it away. Raleigh was laughing like a manic as he bounced around. He was bouncing from wall to wall, part of the ground and at one point flipped out right and kicked from the very air itself, sending himself flying down and attacking Jaune again. The younger captain tried to attack with his sword but he kept missing Raleigh before a hard hit from Raleigh's cane sent his sword flying until it landed and got stuck inside the stone wall. Yang was jerking her head trying to follow his moments before her anger got the better of her and shot a few blast to try and hit him. But Raleigh was too fast and bounced away before the shots landed or outright missed him in midair. Ruby was looking down the scope of her weapon in rifle mode and couldn't get a second to fire when she had him in her sights before he was gone. With her semblance she knew she can outright out speed Raleigh but the way he kept changing direction showed even if she used it she would not be able to catch him. Yang gave a small scream of fury "This guy is going too fast! How the hell is he even doing this?"
"Some kind of semblance?" Emerald suggested as she tried to follow Raleigh's path. He was going too fast for her to use her semblance to try and trap him.
"There's something on his legs!" Blake shouted as he manages to see a bit of metal peeking out of Raleigh's pant leg. "They must be doing this."
"It is definitely a wind dust," Weiss added watching not Raleigh but where he lands and the burst of wind or rather the wind dust used to propel him. "that's his secrets."
"What do we do?" Ruby asked worried as Jaune was taking hits from each time Raleigh shot pass him. His aura mange to block the blows and lessen the damage but Jaune could not get any form of a counter attack in. "Wait for him to run out of dust?"
"I doubt that will work," Pyrrha stated, "Someone who is using this strategy knows he has a fix supply. He must either have a large amount or a way to reload his dust." She gritted her teeth seeing Jaune take another hit.
Raleigh laughed as he bounced pass Jaune before another bounce off the ground sent him into the air. "Time to end this!" he pulled at his cane and a short sword was drawn. "I will show you what a real pirate can do! Not some punk kid pretending!"
Pyrrha gasped slightly seeing Raleigh intended to end the fight. She held out her hand and was about to use her semblance to give Jaune an opening to stop him or to get away when she stopped. When she looked at Jaune she saw he was determined with his gaze locked onto Raleigh as the man flew at him. Jaune's body glowed slightly white before it stopped and his right fist was glowing. He pulled his hand back as if ready for a big punch. She saw that Jaune had a plan or rather ready to stop this fight with his own hands. She only met him today, she only talked to him and the others a short time, and yet…she could not help but trust him. She lowered her hand and smiled at Jaune. 'Get him Jaune.'
Raleigh laughed as he got closer to Jaune, who stood ready. "Die!"
It happened so fast most of the people here missed it, they only saw the end result. Jaune swung his fist in an arch that traveled downward and struck Raleigh's face. The result sent the pirate crashing to the earth causing the rocking courtyard to crack. The hit was hard and everyone jumped from the blow. Raleigh men gapped as Raleigh was still, his sword fallen in front of him and was not moving. Cyan shook slightly before he chuckled, "Oh my uncle and his little jokes. Making them think he would lose to one punch. He will be up to show how weak this boy is and kill him while he's stunned." Cyan kept chuckling and waiting. After a minute he stopped looking at his uncle's still form, "Okay uncle…the joke's over…you can kill him now."
No one said anything. Jaune was standing looking down at Raleigh while the others behind him stared at Jaune. Cyan was shaking, "Okay…get up uncle," he ran forward to shake his uncle, starting to lose it "You aren't beaten! You can't possibly lose to a single…." He stared in horror at the sight before him.
Raleigh was on his side, one arm limp at his side and the other put stretch above his head where the sword was dropped. A heavy bruise on his face where Jaune's fist hit him as well as a bit of blood from the nose and mouth. His mouth was wide open with one tooth missing and his eyes were rolled into the back of his head. Raleigh Frogger was out cold from the punch. Cyan was shaking before he fell onto his rear and crawled away from his uncle's form. One of Raleigh's men was staring stunned with the wanted posters still in his hands limply. The wind picked up and one got loose and flew into the air. It smacked into Cyan's face and he pulled it off and looked at it. He saw the picture of Jaune's serious face and the large bounty that went with it. He then looked up into Jaune's real face and saw the same look. Cyan didn't even scream, his eyes just rolled into the back of his head and fainted.
(Scene Change)
Raleigh Frogger's crew was tied up and disarmed and the locals were now celebrating. Rika's mother allowed them to eat for free this time as thanks, and Pyrrha was happily eating enough food to make up for the time she went without food, only because it felt rude not to accept the offer.
"Kanpai!" shouted the crew as they toasted their fill.
"He wasn't that tough if one hit took him down." Yang said happily getting drunk, as best she could and even had a strawberry sunrise.
"Yeah, but that really hurt. I mean ouch, and I'm the one that slugged him." Jaune was grateful that his aura was protecting his hand, whether Raleigh was really hard-headed or because Jaune was more of a swordsman then a fist-fighter, it really hurt.
"Don't worry, we did a good thing. We beat the bad guy and saved Stitch." Ruby said, taking her position next to Jaune, and possibly getting a little tipsy. It was still surprising that Ruby could down a drink as fast as Yang or Nora, even if she didn't go drinking that often.
Jaune glanced at Ruby as she leaned on him slightly after take a nice big sip of her drink. Her cheeks were blushing slightly as she closed her eyes and placed her head onto his shoulder. She nuzzled with the shoulder, mostly rubbing her cheek on it, and pulled his arms into a hug. Her smile showed how much she was enjoying herself. At a table over Emerald rolled her eyes, "That girl is such a light weight."
Pyrrha took a large gulp of her drink of help her food before she placed the mug down with a sigh, "Well she looks to be the youngest. It's not that surprising to see she can't handle any alcohol, underage drinking aside."
Emerald gave Pyrrha a look before she glanced at the four dirty plates before Pyrrha. The thief smirked at her, "Hungry? Would you even manage to last the last four days if Cyan didn't try to backstab you?"
Pyrrha gave her a glare, "I could have."
Rika quickly sat down at their table and placed a small plate of rice balls before Pyrrha. She puffed out her cheeks and glared at Emerald though all that did was amuse the thief. "Pyrrha could have done it. She can do anything!"
"Careful girl," Emerald teased Pyrrha, "She might start spreading the word of 'that' being your new catch phrase."
Pyrrha glared slightly before she thanked Rika for the rice balls. She took a bite and was thankful Rika actually used salt this time. She didn't have the heart to tell the girl if the rice balls were harder to eat now that she had eaten and not starving. She turned her gaze back to the group, which now had Yang dancing with Nora as they cheered. "They seem to be having fun," she said as Rika ran over and soon joined the dance with Nora and Yang holding the smaller girl between them.
Emerald rolled her eyes, "Yeah well they're a silly group. Still we manage to take everything from that loser so I say it's a good day for us." She took a drink of her mug and noticed the slightly conflicted look on Pyrrha's face. "Relax princess, we'll only take the treasure, money and dusk from them. Nothing from these people. Besides you don't have to worry about us after this." She finished her drink and set it down, "We'll be leaving tomorrow at least and you will be heading back home before shipping yourself off to Beacon to become a huntress and learn to kill Grimm and hunt us pirates."
"Yeah," Pyrrha muttered looking down thinking.
The door of the restaurant open and two men walked in, "Excuse me," Qrow said aloud getting their attention, "Someone call a pair of huntsmen to take in a group of pirates?"
Taiyang however focus on the loudest group and recognized his own daughters. It was like a sudden hit to the gut seeing them there, Yang dancing with a girl her age and a smaller girl laughing and dancing with them and Ruby sitting next to the boy with the high bounty and leaning against him. His brain froze as he focused on this and more importantly the last part.
"Dad?" Yang asked slightly tipsy from several of her drinks she had, "Uncle Qrow?"
"Hi daddy!" Ruby said waving, slightly out of it and not really paying much attention. "Hi uncle Qrow!"
Qrow blinked seeing his nieces before he pointed at his nieces, "Are you drunk?"
Taiyang however gained a look of fury as he pointed to Jaune with an angry face and teeth bared "Get away from my baby girl!"
Run Jaune! Run! Poor, poor bastard. He's in for it next chapter. Father and daughters are together again after so many years. And we also see the crew in action and got Pyrrha free. But what will happen next? Will Tai try and keep his daughters from being pirates? What will Pyrrha do now that she is free? Will she head back to Beacon or take a path she never saw coming? Should there be a 'World of Remnant' for this story or do you want to find out more of the world through the chapters themselves? Find out this and more surprises next time. Hopefully coming soon. Critical reviews are always welcome and flames will simply be fuel to keep doing more stories like this and more.
