Chapter 7: New Weapons and a Friend in Need
Hey, guys I'm back so let's get into this. I don't own RWBY.
It had been a couple days since the whole Cardin incident also since both Nero and Pyrrha started training Jaune in hand to hand or sword and shield. Nero was currently walking down a street in Vale with team RWBY. His team all had plans for the day and Ruby asked if he wanted to come along since he had nothing to do, so he accepted leading to him listening to Weiss talk about how great the Vytal Festival was going to be.
"Wow, you know you make good things sound boring Weiss." Yang said causing Weiss to shush her, while Nero was laughing at the ice themed girl. " See he agrees with me." The brawler announced causing Ruby to laugh with them and Blake smirk behind her book. Weiss just scowled more.
"Hey calm down Ice Wraith." Nero said calling her the nickname he gave her. "It's just a joke I am sure that we all want to here how exciting the event we will all be attending in is gonna be." He said trying t keep a straight face, but failing badly.
"Oh, be quiet you." Weiss said before turning the corner and stopped seeing a shop that had been broken into with police around the front. "What happened over there?"
"No clue wait here." Nero said walking to the edge of the police line getting the attention of the officers. "What happened here?"
"Place was robbed last night, but the thieves left the lien in the register and took all the dust," The bearded officer said. Seeing the confusion on the teen's face. "You're wondering why they would take the dust and nothing else aren't ya?" Nero nodded causing the officer to shrug. "No clue we are as stumped as you are."
"Okay thanks officer." He said walking back to team RWBY and told them what they told him. "It doesn't make any sense." Weiss spoke up.
"I bet it was the White Fang they are probably the reason for all the robberies." She said getting angry scowls from Blake and Nero instantly. "Those animals would do something like that." The instant she said that both of them were in front of the white haired girl.
"Don't talk about them like that." Blake hissed at the girl. "Don't instantly blame them without any proof." Nero nodded next to her.
"Yeah, for all we know it was Torchwick cause he sure has been active lately." Nero explained. "Or did the fact that they are faunas make you oversee him being the most possible suspect?" he said voice raised a little, gritting his teeth showing his fangs had grown a little in his annoyance.
"Okay let's all calm down a little, before we make a scene." Ruby said stepping between the three. "Lets just enjoy our walk, please?" she asked giving her pouty face knowing Nero would break under her gaze. He turned away stepping back a little Blake and Weiss doing the same except they glared at each other.
"Okay now that that is over let's get moving." Yang announced ashe started walking with Weiss in front, Ruby in the middle and Nero and Blake walking behind everyone. "Okay now can someone please tell me why we are at the docks?" Yang asked Ruby agreeing because it smelled like fish.
"Because students from the other kingdoms will be arriving by boat, so as a representative of Beacon I decided to greet them on their arrival." Weiss said with a proud stance.
"So you brought us here to spy on our competition?" The blonde Brawler asked causing the heiress to stumble with her words. She settled on don't be ridiculous.
"Hey stop that no good stowaway!" A voice yelled from one of the ships. Looking over they a monkey faunas jump off the boat and climbed up a light post deciding to hang from it by his tail.
"Hey a no good stowaway would have been caught, I'm a great stowaway." Said the tailed boy. He dodged something being thrown at him and the police telling him to get down which he threw a banana peel at the officer and then proceed to run as fast as he could from the cops passing by them winking at Blake on the way by making her blush as he left police on his tail. Almost literally before they disappeared around the corner.
"Well there goes your competition Weiss." Yang announced before Weiss mentioned something about observing him and took off everyone following.
As they rounded the corner Ruby ran into someone sending both of them to the ground. Ruby jumped up when she realised she was still laying on the person.
"Salutations." the girl on the ground said still on the ground.
"Hello, um here let me help you up?" Nero said holding a hand out for her to grab. She took his hand, weirdly he could feel metal and slight vibrations from her hand. 'Weird' he thought. "Are you okay?"
"Yes ,thank you." She said "I am Penny by the way."
"Nero" He said shaking her hand. Turning around he saw RWBY had taken a step back. "This is team RWBY or Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang." Penny smiled and waved to them.
"Nice to meet you, but we were looking for a blonde ruffian with a tail who ran this way." Weiss said causing another argument with Blake. To which Nero just said goodbye to Ruby, Yang and Penny saying he wasn't gonna listen to another argument.
Nero was walking down the street when he passed by a weapon shop called Necromonger's Emporium. He started think and realised he needed to get some things to do maintenance on his blades, so he went inside. He went and grabbed all the stuff he needed and went to the counter to pay. He set his stuff on the counter waiting for the owner, while standing there he noticed a set of weird looking knives. The blades round an inch from the top of the hilt and looked like it was meant to cover your fingers going past them about an inch and a half.
He went to grab one, but the owner show up drawing Nero's attention to him. He had black that went down the back of his neck, the sides of his head shaved. He also wore bulky black armor with gold designs here and there. The owner looked between Nero and the knives. He smiled at Nero and gestured to the blades.
"Interested in these blades?" he said. Nero nodded and the man looked at him for a little bit. "Do you happen to know any kind of hand to hand fighting style?" he asked.
"Um, yes I Krav Maga why?" The snake teen asked. The owner looked at him for a bit like he was having a flashback. He reached over and grabbed the knives from the stand holding them out for Nero to grab. "Show me your stance holding these please?" Nero got into his boxing stance of Krav Maga. The owner looked him over and nodded his head. Nero went to hand him back the knives only for the man to hand him two sheathes that fit the knives. The teen looked at him confused.
"Take' em, on the house you remind me of the man who used to use these blades, his name was Richard B. Riddick." The shopkeeper said. "You remind me so much of him with those knives on you, besides they would be better with you than sit in here unused." Nero hooked the sheathes to his lower back crossing the sheathed blades.
"Thank you sir, I will put them to good use." The faunas told the man. "Oh, here is the lien for everything else." he said paying for them. "What kind of blades are these anyway?"
"They are Ulaks, the set was named Butcher's Bay." The man said. "And please call me Vaako everyone else does and come back again anytime." Nero nodded walking towards the door waving.
"Thanks I will and you can call me Nero." The teen said as he left the store and walked to the airships. When Nero got to the docks he had a thought about something. He didn't need to walk at all when in a group of four. He walked to his bike and got on. He checked his watch seeing it was 4:30. He sent a message to his partner a message saying that he would be out a bit longer because he had something he needed to do. He pulled out of the motor pool and took off towards Patch. He decided to go as fast as the bike can go to make the trip shorter.
He made it into Patch by 5:10 and rode up to his house parking his bike in the garage. He got off his bike and walked inside. He silently went to the kitchen where he heard a couple voices. He entered the kitchen to see his mom and sisters talking to his dad. His dad saw him, but Nero shushed him as he snuck up to the three girls.
"Wow, I come home to say hi and don't get a hug?" Nero said making his mom and sisters jump. They all hugged him at once almost causing him to fall over. He chuckled. "Now I feel at home."
"Nero, what are you doing here you should be at Beacon?" His dad said.
"Classes ended at 1:30 today, so I came to visit after walking around Vale with Ruby and Yang's team since mine had plans." Nero explained. "Plus since I started Beacon I got to meet lots of people and grow close to my new friends, even saw Jaune there."
"Well that's good are your studies good?" His mom asked to which he nodded. "Wonderful, now I'm gonna guess you came to get your car. But decided to check in on us."
"You always know don't you mom?" He said. "Yeah, I stopped by to get my car so me and my team don't need to walk long distances while in Vale." His scroll started ringing. He pulled it out to see the contact photo of him and Terra leaning on eachother. He forgot how nosy his sisters were as they started to laugh chanting Nero has a girlfriend before his mother shushed them. He answered the call to see Terra's face.
"Hey, Terra whaddya need?" He asked.
"Where are you, we are in Vale looking for you cause you didn't return with team RWBY?" She said with a worried face.
"I sent Atorious a message saying I was gonna be out a bit longer," He responded.
"That's why we didn't know he lost his scroll earlier and couldn't find it." She said. Her eyes looked behind him. "Who is that?" Nero turned to see Sederru looking over his shoulder.
"This is my sister Sederru I am at my house right now to get something." Nero said showing her his family who waved at her. He heard voices with Terra.
"Is that Nero?" Chelsea said stepping up beside Terra who nodded. "Where is he?"
"He's visiting his house right now." The wolf girl said. The brown haired girl's eyes widened.
"Wait you live in Patch don't you that's miles away." She said.
"Yeah, I will be back soon don't worry." He told them. "I'll call when I'm back in Vale."
"Okay, seeya Snakey." Terra said with a smirk making Nero blush as his family heard the nickname. He then smiled back.
"Seeya Wolfie." He replied, before ending the call. Turning to look at his sister's. "Not a word from you two."
He hung around his house for an hour before he had to leave. He went to his room to swap out the sets of keys. He said his goodbyes and went to the garage to retrieve his car. Walking in he went over to the car covered in a tarp. He removed the tarp revealing a black 2007 Dodge Charger srt8. Hopping into the driver's seat he started off towards Vale almost as fast as his bike.
He got back into the city around 6:55. He called Terra. When he saw he pick up he asked her where they were. She said they went to the One-Armed Bandit to get something to eat he said he would meet them there. When he arrived they were walking out of the Bar n' Grill. Rolling down the window he called out for them to get in. Terra sat up front, while Chelsea and Atorious sat in backseat. They started of toward the airship docks to head back to Beacon.
Later that night Nero decided to take a walk around Beacon enjoying the night air. However he heard a person over by the statue. Turning he saw Blake take off her bow revealing cat ears. Stepping out he let himself be known to her.
"You okay there Blake." He said causing her to jump and turn towards him.
"Nero." She said with a gasp. "Look I said something to my team that I shouldn't have, so I'm heading into Vale for a while." She told him as she started to back away before someone spoke up.
"I knew you would look better without the bow." Said the blonde faunas from earlier. "I'm Sun Wukong nice to meet you." he said with a smile.
"I'm Nero." The snake teen said. "And this is Blake." He said noticing Blake started to leave. "Hey, can I ask a favor of you?" Sun nodded. "Follow her and make sure she stays safe, but contact me and tell me where you are if you get into trouble or are going to do something big, alright." Nero asked giving Sun his scroll number before sending Sun to catch up with Blake before heading back to his room.
A couple days passed since he saw Blake, while Sun kept updating him on what they were doing. Team RWY went out to try and find her. Nero was walking out of the One-Armed Bandit as his shift had ended, when he got a message from Sun telling him they were investigating the docks for White Fang activity. Seeing this he called Team RWY and the rest of his team telling them what he knew. As he took of towards the docks in his car. When he got there he called in his locker grabbing his blades as his guns were in his car at all times.
He went through the containers to find Blake hold a Blade to Torchwick's throat surrounded by White Fang members. He felt the wind pick up seeing as Bullheads were landing letting off more Fang members. He heard an explosion and a yelp of pain as he saw the cat faunas fly backwards. Blake managed to avoid more shots from Roman as Sun hit him with a banana peel and a kick to the face. Seeing White Fang swarming Sun, so Nero attacked Roman from behind only to meet his cane.
"Nice try there buddy, but a thief always has his guard up." He said with a cocky smirk swinging his cane at Nero knocking his Wazashi flying into the Harbor. Swinging the cane once more broke the sword Nero was holding in defence. After the sword broke the snake faunas managed to escape when Blake attacked him. The teen to stunned that his first weapon, the one that saved him throughout his years of fighting grim broke with one swing of Roman's cane. Refocusing himself he sheathed the remains of his sword, extra pieces he wrapped in a bandana and threw his knife sheath into the water giving his knife a burial at sea. He then grew determined and drew Butcher's Bay from the sheathes above his tailbone.
He rushed Roman when he was aiming at Ruby after she took his attention off Sun. He did a scaled jumping spin kick to the side of the thief's head causing him to hit the ground. The thief had a second to breathe before Nero started furious slashing, punching and kicking the thief for about twenty minutes, until he was tackled to the side by Ruby as part of a Bullhead hit where he was standing. Torchwick jumped into a bullhead and flew off as the police showed up.
About an hour later Weiss, Yang and the rest of his team showed up after they were questioned by the police. They walked over and Yang hugged Ruby while Terra hugged Nero. Blake watched as Weiss walked up and had a talk about the former being an ex-white fang member which Nero already knew as Sun told him her story.
Ruby being herself looked over at Nero and asked "Hey, Nero how did you know Blake was here anyway?" As soon as she said that everyone but Sun looked at the snake teen who's eyes widened.
"Actually how did you know I was here the only person who knew was…" She turned towards the monkey faunas who stood next to the snake. "You had Sun keep tabs on me didn't you?"
"Yes, I had him keep tabs on you in case you guys did something dangerous like this." He said pointing to the dock yard. "You are my friend Blake I don't like to see my friends hurt or sad." he said with a sincere voice. "I also didn't tell your team because I knew you needed your time, that's why I sent Sun with you." He saw Blake smile and thank him as Nero walked over to the sea with a sad look on his face. Ruby and Yang both notice and walk over to him.
"What's wrong Nero why are you so sad?" Yang said looking at Nero with concern. A drawing sound was made and Ruby gasped scaring her sister. "What's up Ruby?"
"Nero, where is Sonata?" She asked making Yang realise he didn't have his knife on him. "And what happened to Moonlight?" He looked at Ruby with a tears in his eyes.
"They protected me one last time." He said causing Ruby and Yang to put a hand on each shoulder. "Thank you guys." He said looking into the sea with a sad smile.
Yang walked over to the others who looked at Nero confused. "He lost his knife and broke his sword they held sentimental value to him since they were his first weapons." The nodded in understanding. Ruby thought about the fight and turned to Nero.
"Hey Nero what were those things you were attacking Torchwick with?" she asked drawing everyone's attention to them. Nero stood up and unsheathed the blades for everyone to see. "Wow, what kind of blades are these?"
"These are a set Ulaks called Butcher's Bay." he said. "The guy who gave this to me his name was Vaaka I think said the man who used to use these called them that and I think the guy's name was Richard B. Riddick if I'm correct." He heard 4 people gasp who were blake, Weiss, Atorious and Chelsea who looked at the weapons in fear. "What, is there something bad about him?" Atorious spoke up.
"Richard B. Riddick was known as the Furyan Butcher know for creative ways to take criminals away from the world of crime for good." Atorious explained. " Vaaka was his best friend until he died, they were legends and you have his weapons that are basically indestructible. Nero looked at the weapons in shock, before laughing confusing everyone.
"This is quite the interesting year." He said causing everyone to laugh and head back to Beacon Team NACT in Nero's car with Ruby between Chelsea and Atorious, Yang and Weiss on Bumblebee while Blake and Sun ran across the rooves. Quite the eventful year indeed" Nero thought to himself as he drove to the airships back to Beacon to continue their training to become Protectors of Reminant.
Hey guys thanks for reading if you like it thanks again if you don't please be nice about it. Seeya guys later. -ARK OUT