As I did for my other RWBY story, here is an opening for this one. (Although it is a legit opening, imagine this every time you see this story updated.)
Insert 1st attack on titan theme (Unabridged version)
(Slow part) shows Jaune on his knees, surrounded by the faces of the teams RWBY and JNPR; they slowly fade away as he is engulfed by darkness. Suddenly a light appears, he is sees two figures in the distance. (Cue the increase in tempo).
The three are shown fighting the dragon rider, old dragonslayer, and the pursuer. Then it shows the lost Bastille as they fight their way through, as well as showing them fighting the lost sinner.
Now it shows that there is now two blacked out figures along side of them, the team suddenly rushes forward into the huntsman's copse. They are shown fighting the skeleton lords, the glutton demon, Mytha the baneful queen, smelter demon, and finally the old Iron King.
Now they are shown with two more blacked out figures, as they go into the hole in Majula. It then shows them fighting their way through the Black Gulch, eventually fighting the Rotten.
Now they go through the Shaded Woods, as they fight past the demons and monsters of that area. It then shows them fighting the scorpioness, and then them fighting through the cove, finally ending with them killing the Dukes Dear Freja.
Now it shows them with three new figures, making a total of ten characters, going through the Drangleic castle. They then are shown fighting their way through the catacombs, and dealing with Valstead. The two undead are them shown in the giant memories. The groups are then shown fighting the Throne watcher and defender before finally pausing (At the end of the song) with them staring down Nashandra.
Insert appropriate title card here.
And now that that is done (And I apologize if you had to sit through that) we can continue with the story.
Jaune couldn't think of what to say to these two, they were either nuts or… nope they had to be insane. Problem was that they were strong, they easily dragged him farther and farther into the sewer that feed to some place that they called the tower of flame. That was a name that told Jaune "Hey, wanna die a painful fiery death? Come here, we have a lot of real estate and it sell cheap."
What Jaune did not expect to find was that this tower was actually beautiful, it had a great view of the sunset, it was all white marble, it had a beautiful cathedral, and it had statues that seemed to be guarding it, giving it a real feel of beauty and security.
"Hey, hey, HEY," Jaune heard Douglas yell, "Get your head out of your ass and come with us. These knights will really fuck up your day."
As he said this he pointed at the statues.
"Uhm, knights?" Jaune asked, thinking that he was still crazy. He then saw Teddy charging at one.
"Is he going to destroy that statue for no reason?" He asked Douglas who looked at like he was an idiot.
"Statue? Oh you think that's a bloody statue?" Douglas said before laughing, "You are a real fool aren't you?"
Jaune was about to argue when he saw that the statue was moving!
"What the…" Was all he had time to say before he saw Teddy rush in and start punching like a mad man, and that's when he saw that Teddy was actually breaking off parts of the things armor. He was literally breaking stone with very little effort.
"How?" Jaune asked as he turned to see Douglas charging off at the same knight. He leaped, did a triple backflip, and landed right before he swung his fists in a double laureate that broke the things legs. Teddy then leapt into the air and slammed his fist through the creatures head.
This voice is not kidding; his fist went through this solid stone head and proceeded to keep moving forward. He then landed in a roll before jumping up and pumping his fist, "And that is how you fry an egg!"
Jaune was shocked at this statement, while Douglas seemed to get furious, "What relevance does that have in this situation?!"
"I have no idea, it just felt right!' Teddy yelled as he stretched his arms, right before running at the next knight, this one on a cliff.
Douglas sighed before running at the thing, him and Teddy ready to wreck some face. They charged at the opponent, and proceeded to jump at the same time. They hit the knight in the chest so hard that he flew off the side.
"That'll teach you to be cheap, jackass." Douglas yelled as the knight fell down.
"Wha…?" Jaune asked before Teddy cut him off.
"That one knocked us off the cliff." Teddy said before turning to what looked like a coliseum.
"Knocked off the…?" Jaune stuttered out as the pair charged the arena, where three knights awaited.
"All right, three on two." Teddy said with a crack of his knuckles.
"Hey!" The annoyed knight yelled out.
"What? You can fight?" Douglas yelled as the pair preceded to body slams a knight with a great sword that was at least twice as big as Jaune was.
"Well..." Jaune started but was cut off when he heard the sickening crack of stone being crushed under the sheer force of manliness that was on top of it.
"That is death, my friend." Douglas said in a sympathetic tone of voice, right before he dodged that swipe of the other two knights.
"Die, you son of a bitch!" Teddy yelled as he started to punch one of the knights, dividing them up for the two to break. Douglas was calm, and his style showed it. He was light on his feet, and never miscalculated. His punches hit hard and fast, all while showing off his tanned muscles.
Teddy had a different approach, he just let loose. He seemed to be in a berserker fury, dodging only by the skin of his teeth. He made up for it though by hitting at least twice as much as Douglas.
All the while, Jaune just stared. He was shocked at the sheer brutality of the fight, but was also drawn into the pair's forms. While both where incredibly different, each had a certain beauty. Teddy was soon finished with his opponent and charged the one Douglas had almost beaten.
"My fist, your face!" Teddy yelled, but this proved to be a mistake. The knight heard him coming and swung its sword out, cutting his chest open in a fashion that no normal means could heal.
"Ted!" Jaune yelled as he saw the warrior stagger off, before being shocked at what happened next. The blond warrior pulled out a jade flask, and proceeded to take a swig. His wound, ghastly and bleeding, closed up like nothing had happened.
Jaune was at a loss for words before remembering Douglas, who had just broken the opponents face.
"What? You've never seen an estus flask before?" Douglas asked as he approached the path to the right.
"No," Jaune said, "What is this place?"
Teddy and Douglas noticed the teens shock and his look of hopelessness.
"Hey, kid." Douglas said as he approached the teen, offering a hand to the shoulder.
Jaune brushed it away, "What are you?! That wound would have killed an Ursa Major! How can you just act like nothing happened?!"
Teddy and Douglas shared a glance, before Teddy spoke up, "You…really aren't from our world."
Douglas sighed, "Look, it's called an Estus flask. Any undead can use it, it restores flesh and bone. None of us knows how it works, but we are grateful it does."
Teddy piped in, "What do you know of the curse of the undead?"
Jaune looked completely confused.
"We are both cursed with it," Douglas said as he walked towards a lever that had popped up, "The curse is to never die, we are doomed to live until we go hollow, or in laymen's terms, crazy."
Teddy piped in, "When the Herald said that you weren't undead, we thought that she was joking. She wasn't though, I can tell."
Jaune asked a question, "Why do you follow this path? Why must you kill these things? Why are you fighting? Do you seek to end this curse?"
Teddy answered, "We seek the way to rid it from this world, but not for ourselves. We seek to end it so that the world may never have to feel it again. The goal is not for us, it is for a family to have a child without fear of a hollow killing it."
Douglass then asked, "Jaune…Why are you here?"
Jaune thought long and hard, "I don't know, the herald said I seek bravery."
Teddy and Douglas laughed at that.
"Well, you certainly decided to hang with the right crowd then." Douglas said as he pulled the switch.
Jaune was shocked at the sudden transition, but he still followed the pair as they approached who seemed to be a fog wall. There was still the one last knight guarding it, it had watched it bretheren fall and it was not going to let these intruders get away with it.
At least that what it thought as it charged, the two undead merely dodged the stone knight and slammed their fist into the things knees. The knight fell to the ground with a loud crash, and felt the power of manliness crushing its head.
"You fought well," Teddy told the corpse of the creature as it turned to ash, "But not well enough."
The pair stared at the fog door, before Douglas asked, "Big one?"
"Big one." Teddy replied as they both went through the fog gate. Jaune followed them through, not knowing what to expect as they had just killed some really big things.
'What could they be talking about.' Jaune though as he entered, what he saw shocked him yet again.
The pair was fighting what appeared to be a giant man using a huge axe and shield, and the pair was winning even though they only had their fist. Douglas was disctracting the thing by repeaditly punching it in the stomach, while Teddy attacked from behind. They had to compensate, however, for the big sweeping attacks of the axe, each one threatening to take their heads off.
Douglas and Teddy broke off to get some distance.
"Plan break?" Teddy asked as they readied themselves for the next attack.
"Ooohhh Yeah," Douglas said in the strangest tone of voice, "Time to snap into a slim jim."
Jaune had no comment on that as the pair charged the being, who was readying another axe swing. He swung his weapon down, hoping to cut one in half, but was unexpected to find that Teddy not only dodged, but grabbed the axe. The axeman could have easily ripped the axe out of the mans hand but was unexpected to find that he was in the air. Douglas had ran around and socked in the back, launching him. Teddy then proceeded to jump up as well.
"Taste the power," He yelled as he readied up a punch, "Of manliness!"
Now, on the scale of a heavy weight boxer to the Hulk, this ranked somewhere near normal Goku on force. The punch sent the being into the dirt and he hit hard, but he was not dead yet. Some flicker of life hid in him and he tried to get up. Douglas finished him off with a curbstomp.
"Eat it." Was all Douglas had to say before the being turned to ash, giving Teddy and Douglas a nice buiqet of souls. Douglas also received the soul of the creature, should he ever need it.
Jaune was flabbergasted, these two men had litteraly just broken a bunch of living statues, healed from wounds that would kill a normal man, and now had literally just punched a man to paste.
"Aye lad, you've come to the right place to learn bravery," Doulgas said before suddenly stopping, "My back tracking sense is tingling."
Jaune had no time to reply as the man shot off towards the other side of the collosuem.
"Just trust him," Teddy said as he ran towards the other side to, "He is never wrong."
Jaune followed helplessly as he tried to figure out what in the name of Dust was going on. He realized that the pair had just left him behind, but he needn't have worrier. The carnage of the pair was pretty easy to follow. The pair had just relesed a giant drawbridge, and were running up it.
Jaune only cough up with them as the pair had stopped to loot a chest.
"Sweet, two rings that just feel right." Teddy said as they put the rings they had found.
"Yep, so big one?" Douglas said as he pointed at the fog gate.
"Oh yeah." Teddy said as he ran for it. This time Jaune ran in with sword and sheild in hand, and was happy he did. The being in the cathedral was already charging the trio, which Jaune dodged. The other did as well, taking their time at punching the thing in the face. This, though, had a little bit more than the other being they killed.
It lept up, before violently slamming its ass on the ground sending out a shockwave of darkness, which knocked the trio back. Jaune was the first up, he was used to such blows, but saw that the being was about to stab Teddy on the ground.
"NO!" Jaune yelled as he ran in and blocked with his shield, hoping that it would hold up. Thankfully, it did allowing Douglas to run in with a shout of praise.
Teddy was also up, "So, Jaune you can fight."
Jane beamed with a smile, already these two were showing respect to him. Teddy smacked him on the back, "Yep, you will be fine with us. By the way, how do you feel about being thrown?"
Jaune had no time to react as he was lifted up into the air, and chucked at the strange being. Now few things went through Jaunes mind, the shock, the anger, and finnaly the determination to prove himself. He slammed his sword into the beings chest, stabbing it through the heart. It fell down dead, and Jaune felt a rush of power.
Teddy and Douglas both laughed as the clapped their hands in a hand shake, before Douglas yelled out, "Jaune, you come here and put your hand in here."
Jaune, still shaken up by his experience put his hand on top of the pairs.
"From now on, you are with us," Teddy said to the teen before Douglas piped in, "From now on we fight together, we die together, and we fucking kill anything that gets in our way. This is who we are, this…is…MANLINESS."
And with that they left for the right again.
OK, notes.
Due to the intrest of the public I will be continuing said story, it will be a nice reprieve from the other RWBY fic I am doing and will pretty update whenever
I just get the urge
When I can't write Eight New Faces due to waiting for the next season/ episode to be published
And on another note, I am sure you are wondering how the fuck that Teddy and Douglas are able to do what they do. The answer is that they are essentially at 50 strength at this point so they punch like a train, they will get stronger as the situation requires it so expect really crazy/stupid things like what they did to the Dragon rider.
Until next time…