Hello everyone, Melody here. Glad to see people enjoyed the last chapter. Now when I went back and reread the chapters I realized that a small part of it seemed contradictory. Namely the part where Six said he was done travelling then was happy to be travelling again. What I meant by that was he was tired of travelling through something he knew well, like the Mojave. I felt that was somewhat confusing so this is just some clarification. Anyway let's get onto the chapter, as per the norm I'll reply to reviews at the end.
Sincerely, Melody
Normal P.O.V.
A loud boom filled the air as Victoria was fired. As it soared through the air it passed right by the White Fang members it penetrated the ground. When it came into contact with the dirt it caused a large and violent explosion. This blasted the four that were near it into the trees around them. Six pulled down the chamber and the empty shell flew out of the back as he loaded in a new one. The rest of the grunts stared at him in horror. The blank looked remained on his face as he finished reloading.
"Now I guess I missed." He stated monotonously, like a lord of death.
Some of the group shook in their boots while the others just turned to stone statues. He pulled the bolt back as he aimed it. With that a few of them scattered. As they ran off one of them dropped a piece of paper. Six let out a sigh of relief as they ran off. Qrow walked over to the paper and picked one up as Six slung his gun over his back.
"Hey look at this." Qrow said as he read over the paper.
"What is it?" He replied as he walked over and started to read the paper.
"I guess it's that bounty they were talking about. It says you were torturing a faunus, you're wanted dead." He answered as he handed Six the paper. "For 500,000 Lien too." He added.
"You know who would do something like this? Like a crime ring?" He asked as he examined the paper himself to make sure. "Cause none of this shit makes any sense to me. Hell they don't even got a picture of me."
"Honestly I have no clue, maybe someone made a fake bounty to the White Fang 'cause they hate ya. Who else hates you though?" Qrow asked as he leaned against a tree.
"Well your sister for one, a couple years back I did fight this weird group of people and killed their leader so they might. Well if they are still around." He answered as he placed his hand on his chin.
"You remember the name?" Qrow asked as he started to think.
"Nope not really, I was just doin' a favour for Ironwood." Six answered as he put the paper in his pocket.
As they spoke they started to hear slow clapping. They looked around but didn't see a thing. Six pulled out Victoria and started to aim around while Qrow pulled out his sword. Six started to aim around and looked for the source of the clapping. They both were on high guard because of what just happened.
"Well isn't this great! I have the Great Qrow Branwen along with the fabled Ross Goodwitch, or Six as I've heard from some people." They heard a man laugh as the source of the clapping was revealed. "I'm gonna get a big bonus for you Branwen!" He said as he stopped clapping.
The man had coal black hair, tan skin, pale blue eyes, and an arrogant smirk on his face. He wore a dark blue long coat, black dress pants, a dark blue vest with a white shirt underneath, black boots, a black belt, and a tattered scarf. In his hands was a pair of matching silver hand cannons with words engraved into them. As he stared at him he twirled the guns around.
"Who the hell are you?" Qrow asked as he held up his weapon defensively.
"Oh yes my name, that would be Rurik." He answered after a short laugh.
"So what the fuck are you doin' here?" Six asked as raised his weapon.
"Oh well you see I'm an assassin, in all honesty though it is quite dull since most of the targets are easy. You have gained quite a reputation in the underworld, Six the Proffesor at Beacon who has spilled the blood of a man along with Grimm. Seemed like a challenge." He answered with a chuckle. "You really did a number on Lost Oblivion back then, some people still want you dead though."
"And they would be?" He asked as he aimed.
"Oh I'm afraid I can't say. If I did my boss would cut my head clean off my shoulders." He replied with another one of his chuckles.
"So, I guess we're going to have to fight?" Qrow asked as he looked at Rurik.
"Well…" He said as he raised his guns. "Killing you both will be more fun…" He laughed as he pulled the triggers and fired off two rounds.
Six dodged the first bullet that came flying at him as did Qrow. Hastily Six jumped back and fired the shell at Rurik. Rurik threw down a pearl that turned into a smoke cloud as the shell came closer. When it hit the ground, like the previous one, it caused a large explosion but this crater didn't have a bloody, mangled corpse in it like he thought it would. Within a second Rurik had appeared beside Six and kicked him in the back. Knocking the gun out of his hands in the process while also sending him flying.
As Six crashed into a tree Qrow had already dashed over to Rurik and started slashing at him. Rurik started to dodge this as the weapons shifted into a pair of gauntlets and bracers. He started to punch at Qrow which fired off a round from the barrel that was on top of the gauntlets. Occasionally he deflected a hit from Qrow and he'd send a shot at him.
With a heavy swing Qrow tried to cleave Rurik in half only for him to block it. He smirked at this and kicked Rurik in the stomach and knocked him into a tree. When Rurik looked up he saw a branch above him that was breaking off. Before he could move out of the way it fell and slammed into his head, knocking him out easily. Six got up onto his feet and walked over to Qrow and the unconscious man, breathing heavily.
"Fuck this guy." He said as he got out some rope and tied Ruriks hands and feet together.
"Where the hell were you keeping that?" Qrow asked as he saw that Six didn't have a bag.
"The world may never know." He answered as he picked up his rifle. "Now let's drag this bastard with us somewhere quiet so we can get some information outta him." Six told him as he started to pull Rurik behind him.
"Damn Ross, aren't you cold blooded." Qrow chuckled.
"When it comes to technicalities yes I am." Ross replied as he looked over to him.
"What the hell are you gonna do to him?" Qrow asked out of morbid curiosity.
"I'm gonna get a steak, start cooking it, get a popsicle, take off his shirt, get a blow torch and turn that on, then I'm gonna press the popsicle to his back and make him think it's his flesh." He explained. "Then he'll do a whole heap of talkin."
"That sounds hilarious."
"Hey I got it from a movie." He shrugged.
After an hour of walking they arrived at a new village. People looked at them as if they were insane since their clothes were dirty and somewhat ripped except for Ross' duster. Ross also had an annoyed look on his face since Rurik woke up earlier and wouldn't shut up so he had to knock him out again. When they finally found an abandoned building Qrow got the room ready as Six handed Rurik to him and went to buy his supplies. It wasn't that hard to find the stuff but he did have difficulty finding the blow torch. Once he finally haggled his way to get a good price he walked back to the building. When he walked in it took him a minute to find the room but when he did he laughed.
"Now let's get to work." He said as he set everything up.
Normal P.O.V. at Beacon
"So I will be your substitute teacher until Professor Ross returns." Ulysses announced to the class as he wrote his name on the board. "Any questions?" He asked as he looked back at the class only to see almost all of their hands raised. "Yes you." He said as he pointed at a male student.
"So why are you dressed like that?" The student asked as he pointed at Ulysses' outfit since it wasn't something a normal teacher would wear.
"Because it was best suited for survival where I'm from." He answered honestly as he leaned on the desk. "Now let's get started, first I'm going to teach you how to make something called Bitter Drink, it may taste like hell but it will help you live." He told them as he started.
Outside of the room peaking in was Boone, Veronica, Cass, a covered up Raul, and Glynda. Glynda mostly to make sure he was a good teacher and the others out of boredom. She let out a huff as she looked at them. As she did this she placed her hands on her hips.
"So what are you four doing?" She asked with a slightly annoyed tone, they had been following her all morning.
"Well we don't know anything about this world so we figured we follow you… Um what should I call you? I thought Mrs. Boss but that sounds weird." Raul asked with a chuckle.
"There is a library you know, you can learn from the books in there." She told them as she turned back to the classroom. "And Glynda is fine." She added as an afterthought.
"Could you show us where it is?" Boone asked, already not really wanting to piss her off.
"Yes I can do that." She said calmly as she started to walk towards the library. "Follow me." She ordered.
In the Emerald Forest noises could be heard. Snarls and tearing as something appeared to be fighting the Grimm. Just as vicious as the mindless beasts. Standing in a clearing was an extremely thin man that was practically a rotting corpse, fighting off a large Beowolf. It seemed to have the disadvantage as the beast ripped it in half. Until more came out of the forest and started to attack. One of them was even glowing an eerie green.
And that's a wrap. Yes it is a cliffhanger, and yes I am an ass for that. Anyway I hope you enjoyed the chapter cause I had fun writing it. So let's get onto the response to reviews.
RedRat8: It shall be revealed in time
ShadowKnight186: Two things yes it is awesome and my ex used to call me Shadow Knight.
ILikeHotDogs: Best pairing, possibly but there are other parings that are just as awesome like Baked Alaska, and Milk and Cereal as you stated.
Akshka: Yes fuck Cazadores
Tronmaster5704: Yeah it's teleportation/teleportation of objects. He has to know the location or have a picture of it though to be able to get there, same thing when it comes to the items. Glad you are enjoying it.
Guest: Actually in my opinion Dust is a better power source than Nuclear power. It's cleaner and safer like you started, and it has helped the development of technology of Remnant which is more advanced than Fallout's as we can see in the show. The tech in Fallout was made for war and killing really along with experimentation on the population. in RWBY part of it was for war but it was also for defense against the Grimm. Now you said I should've given him a mini gatling laser and made it run off fusion cores. For one that would be a lot more inefficient than dust batteries plus fusion cores don't last that long and aren't even in Remnant. Sure the lights were kept on for about two hundred years but that's lights, they can't run power armour that long and gatling lasers can eat up cores quickly. Plus if someone was in a new place where technology they were familiar with was gone they'd have to adapt to use the newer tech and could discover it was better. But that's just my two cents.
Theothergy: Goddamn that would be annoying to deal with, I just got out the anti-material rifle, loaded it with explosive rounds, and fired away
MCZ: That's kind of why I don't want to play it, it's expensive. Anyway glad you liked the chapter and in due time it shall be revealed.
Anyway that's the end of the chapter. I'm a little curious but would you guys like it if I did a fic related to this one of the years in between chapters four and five? I'm just curious so if you leave a review let me know. That story will focus more on Six, Emerald, Mercury, and Glynda's family relationship. It will be a series of one shots though, but they will still be canon to this story. Anyway thanks for reading, updates might be more frequent if you all want them to be.