Hello, J.V.A. here. I was a bit late in writing this one but I had schoolwork to do and I think I've explained earlier that I'll work on this when I have time.
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"So we have a super dangerous mission, right?" Lapis asked Blaise.
"Yep," Blaise replied paying minimal attention to the tall berserker.
"Where it is really important that we do it?" Lapis asked again.
"Yeah."
"So then why the hell are we in a hardware store?" Lapis practically yelled at the amnesiac in the middle of the store causing several customers and employees to look in their direction.
"I'm here for a temporary weapon," Blaise explained, "Since I explained to Ozpin that my broadswords were damaged he gave me some lien to buy a weapon."
"So then shouldn't we be going to a blacksmith or something?" Zaria asked Blaise.
"Ah, my dear Zaria, that is what anyone would normally think," Blaise said making a matter of factly face and raising his pointer finger, "Weapon Blacksmithing in this society is a busy industry. So when a industry is booming they decide to make lower quality weapon made of weaker metal that are unbalanced. Hardware stores contain higher quality tools because they will be used more, but they may be a bit expensive, but they're more worth it." He then walked over to a rack of solid metal tools and pulled a shovel from the rack. "Shovels are practical because it is a bashing/thrusting weapon, and after you kill the enemy you can dig a hole and bury the body. Although," he put the shovel back and picked up a large metal woodcutting axe, "these are designed to be durable and cut through tough surfaces for a long time and," he looked at the fine print, "this is made of the same material as your battle axe Lapis. Sold." He then walked over to the cashier and on the way he grabbed a black leather belt axe holster and paid for the items.
"Are you guys ready?" Blaise asked his team while walking towards the airship.
"Yeah, as ready as we'll ever be," Lapis said following behind his partner, "Are you sure you don't want to find a better weapon than that?" He pointed at Blaise's hardware store axe.
"I am sure this is going to be fine," Blaise said leaning on the airship, "I'll just have to change my fighting style a little bit, but the axe fighting style is basic and barbaric, you should know Lapis."
"You son of a-"
"Anyway," Eva interrupted Lapis' insult, "Where is our pilot?" After she said that everyone else looked around trying to locate their missing pilot.
"Over here," they heard a voice nearby say. Looking behind the plane at the end of the dock they saw a young man wearing a black beanie and a black scarf wrapped loosely around his neck. He had short blonde hair and a pair of thick rimmed glasses. He was wearing a black short sleeved overshirt over a thin grey longsleeved undershirt. He had on his waist had what appeared to be two cutlasses with magnum pistols in each handle with the blades as an elongated barrel and two regular magnums behind his back. "My name is Joseph Kidman, a second year student here at Beacon. Apparently I am supposed to fly you guys to…" he said then opened his scroll and scrolled through his messages, "the island Xais Cay, north of Vacuo, right?"
"Yeah," Blaise said stepping towards the 18 year old, "So you're our pilot?"
"Yeah," Joseph said pulling a pair of keys from his pocket, "I've had a lot of free time to learn how to fly. Ozpin told me that you guys would probably need a pilot since all of the other ones are with the teams out on missions."
"So that is where your team is? Out on a mission?" Zaria asked Joseph who just froze for a second then started moving again.
"Yeah, they're out on a mission," he said then hopped in the airship, "hurry up or I'll leave you behind."
"So did Ozpin give you any mission details," Joseph asked Blaise who was in the airship's cockpit with him as he steered the ship towards Xais Cay, "Usually he would send you guys on a mission with some details."
"Yeah we have to go to the mountain research facility," Blaise said adjusting his headset, "Apparently there have been reports on strange grimm in the area, he didn't get into detail on that subject. Ozpin thinks the abandoned research facility might be related to the grimm attacks so after we get to the coastal town we'll go investigate the mountain facility."
"Really, the mountain facility? That sounds… interesting," Joseph said then started to descend towards the incoming island. "So your team seems very interesting."
"How so?"
"Well you've got the lone badass, the berserker, the ninja, and the small archer. I'd say that is a very interesting lineup," Joseph said as he started to accelerate the descent.
"You like saying interesting a lot," Blaise noted.
"When I was a first year I was a bit of a nerd, so I was bad at fighting, but now I can do a decent amount of fighting by myself," Joseph explained then they looked down at the coastal city of Xais Cay, "Ahh, the five-star vacation coastal city Violet Beach, the town that stretches around the whole island's perimeter, and… it seems to be on fir-"
Before Joseph could finish his sentence Lapis burst into the cockpit saying, "We've got grimm."
"Where?" Blaise inquired.
"Everywhere," Lapis replied, "We've got nevermores coming in hot from behind us and Leviathans under the water's surface. Eva spotted them and she said they'll be here before we make it to the island's shores."
"The island also is under attack," Joseph said pointing at the burning city, "There are some nasty beowolves burning the town. We have to get to Violet Beach fast."
"Lapis when will the nevermores attack?" Blaise asked the berserker then the ship jerked to the left and a bunch of alarms sounded off.
"Now!" Lapis shouted then ran out of the cockpit to where the rest of the team was.
"Joseph, do whatever you can to keep us flying, and get us to that island," Blaise said taking off his headset then he left to join his team.
"What are we going to do?" Blaise asked his team as he entered the area where they were at.
"We cant do much right now," Eva said, "Our best bet is to avoid them until they get close enough for our guns to accurately hit them."
"And they seem to keep spamming their feathers, but we keep narrowly dodging them," Zaria said pulling out her pistol and loading a clip into the weapon, "Right now our melee weapons won't work."
"Is there anyway we can get closer?" Lapis asked Joseph through the radio on their end.
"Only if we turn this ship around and Blaise told me to get to the island," the voice replied on their end, "Shit! Left side! One nevermore snuck up!"
Looking to their left they saw for a brief second a nevermore, then they saw only its back as the nevermore collided with the ship throwing its occupants around the room.
"Guys!" Blaise shouted after he regained his footing, "You hold back the nevermores behind us! I'm going to the island!" Then Blaise hit the side door button and walked over to Zaria and pulled two of her many grapple rope shooters from off of her belt then pulled out his axe and railgun pistol while waiting for the door to open. After the door opened they saw the nevermore about to ram into the ship again and they saw Blaise jump out of the ship and stab the axe into the nevermore's neck then pull the nevermore off course.
"He's going to die," Lapis deadpanned as more alarms sounded off warning the group of the approaching group of nevermores.
"Ok this is very fucking stupid," Blaise said to himself as he pulled on his axe harder pulling the nevermore down towards the island faster. "This is going to happen either one of two ways: one, you fly me down to the island and you die; or two, you die up here and I use your carcass to fly down." The only reply he got was the nevermore screeching and shooting feathers out of its wings trying to hit Blaise. "Ok, choice number two."
Blaise then pulled himself up onto the nevermore's back while pulling his axe out of its neck. Stabbing the blade of the axe into the bird's back and holding onto the handle he changed the pistol's charge to high, aimed the gun at the bird's neck he pulled the trigger blowing its head clean off throwing Blaise back a couple of feet causing a large wound to open on the bird's back from the axe.
After regaining his stance he shot the two grapples and hooked them on the birds wings and tied the ends together. He pulled out his axe from the bird's back and stabbed it onto the bird's tail and pulled causing the bird to descend rapidly towards the island.
"This is either the best or worst idea I've ever had," Blaise said to himself as he neared the town. After he unhooked the two grapples he jumped off the nevermore corpse's back and hooked onto two buildings stopping his fall. "Now that wasn't too bad," he said as he landed on the street then turned around to see a horde of beowolves with flaming claws, "Ok, so that is probably what Ozpin meant by strange grimm."
"Do you think he made it?" Zaria asked her team as they held onto the railings in the ship as Joseph veered to the right to avoid several nevermore feathers.
"Right now, I'm more worried about us," Lapis said while he regained his stance, "Zaria I have a plan. Hand me two grapple hooks and open the side doors."
After both doors opened Lapis climbed onto the roof while hooking one of the hooks on the edge of the door and attaching the other end of his waist. Sliding to the other side of the roof he hooked the other grapple hook on the other side and attached it to his waist. After he slid down the roof until the cables were tight he pulled out his battle axe and turned it into a rifle.
"Lapis are you sure you know what you're doing?" Eva shouted over the wind to the berserker.
"I know exactly what I'm doing," he said then unleashed a volley of explosive rounds at the pack of nevermores killing three in the process.
"Eva, tell Joseph to slow down the ship," Zaria told the archer as she attached a grapple hook shooter to each of her hands, "I'm going out." Eva then left to the cockpit to tell Joseph. Moments later the ship slowed down and a lot of swearing and gunfire was heard from the roof.
Pulling out her twin katanas, Zaria jumped out of the ship and shot out a grapple which hooked onto a nevermore's feet. Activating her grapple contraption Zaria was then pulled towards the nevermore and activating her semblance she struck the nevermore, everywhere, cutting it into pieces of food for the leviathans down below. Not even wasting her breath she shot her other grapple onto the next nevermore and repeated the process.
"Your friends are crazy," Joseph told Eva, who was now putting on a headset in the cockpit.
"They're all crazy," Eva replied, "That's why Ozpin selected us for this mission. But the real crazy one is down on the island."
"Yeah, I know all too well," Joseph remarked, "My team was really crazy, that's why we were the first team from the first years to go on a mission."
"Shit!" Blaise shouted as he was thrown into a burning building. 'Ok, regular beowolves = scary, flaming clawed beowolves = ultimate nightmare,' Blaise thought to himself as he pulled out his face mask and goggles from his coat's inner pocket and pulled them on.
He stood up and pulled out his railgun pistol. Then he walked out of the hole in the side of the building where a group of beowolves were gathering to see if the human had survived. "This is going to end two ways," Blaise said as he put his axe back in its holster and slid his hand under his coat behind his back, "One, I kill all of you in an epic way. Or two, I die but kill all of you along with me. Make your decision, now." Two beowolves from the group on different sides then jumped at Blaise with claws flaming. "Choice one," he said then pulled out another railgun pistol from under his coat and fired off two bullets instantly killing the two beowolves.
He then turned to his left and aimed the two pistols towards the group of grimm and turned the pistols onto high power. After he fired off a shot he was thrown back a few feet because of the recoil, but he managed to kill five beowolves. A beowolf he landed next to was about to attack Blaise, so he holstered his pistol then pulled out his axe and chopped the beowolf's arm off. After he cut off the beowolf's arm in mid-swing he aimed his unholstered pistol and fired off a round in the beowolf's face. Sheathing his axe he pulled out his second pistol and spun around firing off another round into a nearby beowolf killing it.
Then Blaise aimed both pistols between his feet and fired off a high powered shot rocketing him above the group towards the two grapple hook mechanisms he arrived on. He then hooked his legs on the cables and fired off one high powered round in each of the buildings the hooks were connected to weakening the building. The beowolves looked up to see what Blaise was doing causing them to pause for a moment. Blaise took that moment of confusion to pull on both cables and caused the weakened buildings to start crack and crumble, then the weakened buildings fell right on the herd of beowolves killing them. In mid-air Blaise twisted his body to see the last remaining grimm, the alpha beowolf, standing at the edge of the rubble looking at what remained of its herd then it looked up at the falling assassin with hate in its eyes.
"Your friend seems to be screwed," Joseph told Eva as he started to get close to the made up landing spot the local people had made when they noticed help had arrived.
"Which one?" Eva asked the swashbuckler as she pulled out her spear and expanded it to it's full length. Then a loud thump sounded from the roof signaling that the nevermores had died. Eva left the cockpit and hit the side door button allowing the berserker and ninja back into the ship. "Did you two have fun?"
"I hated it! Why did you have the plane slow down?! I was up to my ass in nevermores!" Lapis shouted at the short archer them fall on his face from exhaustion to reveal a red haired ninja riding on top of his back.
"I loved every minute on it!" Zaria exclaimed as she jumped off of the passed out Lapis' back, "Did you see what I did to those nevermores? I hooked onto them then BAM they were dead!" She then jumped in the air then her behind landed right on Lapis' back forcing him to wake up while knocking the wind out of him.
"Where is Blaise?" Lapis asked Eva who was about to answer the berserker only to be cut off by the sound of the intercom turning on.
"Blaise just finished battling a herd of beowolves and is now facing the alpha alone," Joseph said prepping the plane for landing, "Should we help him or something?"
Eva then pressed the intercom button on their end and said, "Don't even bother, by the time we get to him the alpha would be ash and Blaise making tea."
"Well then," he said then the ship landed, "Hope you all look pretty because we're about to be in the newspaper as heros."
"You're an interesting creature," Blaise told the wolf after it disarmed his axe, "Flaming claws and enough intelligence to disarm me three times. I'm impressed, I have no pistols or axe, yet you're still going to die." He then jumped at the beowolf. The beowolf tried to swat Blaise out of the air, but Blaise unsheathed his wrist blades and spun in the air cutting off the beowolf's paw. After her landed in front of the beowolf he started to repeatedly stab the grimm in the chest over and over. He managed to get roughly twenty stabs in until the alpha stopped moving then fell on its back.
"That actually wasn't that bad," Blaise said to himself out loud then heard a sound of astonishment coming from around the corner. As he turned around and walked towards the source of the sound he took off the face mask and swapped his goggles for his wayfarers, then we picked up his axe and pistols that were next to the corner. "Hello. Is there anyone there?" he asked then a small calico cat faunus girl walked around the corner.
"Hi," she said then looked downward in embarrassment.
"So are you lost?" he asked the girl as he kneeled down to her level then she nodded, "Alright. Well then let's go find your parents. They're probably worried about you. The grimm are gone now so there's nothing to worry about." He then offered his hand. "My name's Blaise Campione, what's your's."
She then looked at him showing her orange and brown eyes, "My name's Rosie." She then took his hand.
"So where's your house?" Blaise asked the girl as he stood up slightly crouching over to hold Rosie's hand better. She then pointed at a half demolished house that Blaise caused to be that way, "Oh. Well I seems the townspeople are gathered at the beach, so I think that that's our best bet."
As LZE and Joseph exited the plane they were not expecting the amount of applause they were getting. Joseph just kept walking like he'd been through this before. Lapis scratched the back of his head while making a small smile. Zaria fist pumped her fist in the air as a sign of victory. Eva just kept a neutral face as her spear collapsed and she holstered it.
Joseph then raised his hand and motioned for the crowd to be silent which they complied. "Has anyone seen the man we came here with? He flew in on a dead nevermore and he fought the beowolves. He wears a grey trench coat and sunglasses, anyone?"
"Rosie?!" everyone in the crowd heard a man and woman say in unison then they all turned to see Blaise holding hands with a little faunus girl having a little chat then they stopped and looked at the group. The girl then let go of Blaise's hand and ran to her parents who hugged her making Blaise smile a little at that gesture.
"Thank you," the mother said to Blaise.
"No problem, Rosie and I were having a really interesting talk about hunters," Blaise said to the woman then he turned to his team, "You guys missed the party. I almost broke a sweat." Then the crowd started to cheer. "Oh and by the way. Two buildings have been demolished, grimm are crazy," he said making the crowd go silent so the only sounds that were heard was Blaise's nervous chuckle.
Whew, that was something.
Now then, we're at the island, they've encountered strange grimm, Zaria has a lot of grapple hooks, and Blaise made a new friend.
And if you thought this was going a bit fast then strap in because I'm hoping to finish this arc in two to three more chapters.
You stay classy and sleep well readers