RWBY Belongs to Rooster Teeth
The girls sat planning for several minutes as they prepared to go back out into the massive citadel during which Ruby decided to ask Weiss a question that had been bothering her. "Weiss?" The Heiress turned to her an eyebrow raised. "Yes Ruby?" Ruby thought another moment before continuing. "Do you remember who originally ruled the Rosewood? before they rebelled?" Weiss nodded. "The tome said that it was a colony established by a member of Atlas's nobility to expand their power to Vytal." Ruby nodded going back into thought before being dragged out of it by Yang. "Come on we don't want to keep papa cat waiting do we?" The smirk that followed was aimed directly at Blake who looked on the verge of facepalming at the team's antics.
Yang stepped out first and was met with a common room that had ten chairs circled around a central table where Ashford was sitting. He looked over as the rest of the team exited the recovery room. "Coffee?" His offer was immediately taken up by Ruby and Yang while Weiss stared at her cup with a raised eyebrow before taking the plunge. Blake meanwhile stared at the cup of tea that she had picked up before taking a sip from the mug.
"So how are you going to teach us?" Ashfords soft smile grew into a slightly skewed grin. "By example. and with pen and paper of course." Yang and Ruby groaned at the prospect of mental work during their weekend, Weiss meanwhile asked her own question. "When will we be able to go back to the surface? We still need to train for the Vytal Tournament." Ashford thought for a moment. "That is in a few days isn't it?In that case we can help train you for that as well, but it is noon at the moment. " They collectively nodded thanking Ashford as he stood up from his seat and downing the rest of his coffee.
He gestured for them to follow him as they walked out of the small common room into a much larger and busier part of the fortress where dozens of vampires were loitering around, some in armor with their weapons handy others not. "Why is everyone armed like this?" Blakes question made Ashford flinch slightly. "I'll tell you when we arrive at the training arena." His short response and increase in pace left no room for argument as they proceeded through the massive room and finally out into Chains Gate proper.
The overall trip was short but showed many more armed vampires and this time some had white fang masks hanging from their belts and bandoliers. Yang looked over to Blake who had a worried look etched onto her face as she looked at all of the masks around. They finally entered the arena and Ashford turned to them a grim look in his eyes. "Have you read the edict?" The four girls blinked at him which earned a head shake. "It is a set of rules and guidelines for vampires all over remnant, one rule states that if a vampire were to rebel to a faction that means ill to the peace of remnant then that faction must be eviscerated and all members at such time must be killed or executed." The reactions from the four girls did not veary in any major way, Ruby, Weiss and Yang looked horrified but Blake's reaction was much more... sorrowful. "So you mean that not a single member of the White Fang currently are allowed to live?, Even if they did not want to align with the rebel vampire?" Ashford nodded a sorrowful look flashing across his face before it was replaced with a slightly hopeful one. "There is an exception, If the mortal governments can capture the White Fang troops WITHOUT any of our relics or any physical evidence of our existence then they will be able to live." The four girls stood there stunned before Blake smiled.
"Alright! Well first question. How does one kill a vampire?" The previous tone returned and the four began to think. "Stake to the heart?"Ashford shook his head at yang's answer. "A stake to the heart will certainly slow a vampire down but in truth it's a multistep process, First you have to cut off the Vampire's head, Second burn the body to ash and spread it at a crossroad, Third you must ensure no Vampire arrives for at least three days before you can leave otherwise there is a possibility the vampire will return. That applies to all steps by the way if you miss one step then you're as good as doomed Krieg taught me that when I thought I killed him in my first year here, by accident of course, freaking headless Krieg carrying his own head around pulling headless horsemen jokes on everyone, went to get breakfast cereal and instead I get his ginning excuse of a head." For all its worth Yang took it the best with a grossed out expression showing least on her face and the most on Weiss's given away due to the green hue that seemed to hang over her for a second.
"Second question! how many Vampiric realms are there?" Weiss raised her hand. "Yes Ms. Schnee?" Ashford asked. Weiss smiled before beginning," There are four Vampiric realms on remnant, one for each kingdom, The titles are as such, The Lord in Vale, The Lord in Vacuo, The Lord in Minstrel and the Lord of Atlas." Ashford nodded. "Correct, partially at least, did your read to the end of the tome? if no then I'll explain it, The Lordships are major titles with the Arch Barons and Barons under them, but there are vampire covens outside of the kingdoms as well as minor vampire factions in plain view. These groups are in charge maintaining surveillance on everything going on upstairs." Weiss nodded in understanding.
"Now then onto how to actually face a vampire in combat." Ashford walked into the arena and stood in front of one of the dummies hooked up to a pulley system, Team RWBY gathered around. "First off you want to cut off any maneuverability a vampire has, for example cornering them, second you will want to get at their neck it's the fastest way to incapacitate them, third try to cut off any means of movement, and last if not least try to get them to surrender." As he explained the steps the dummy moved around on the pulleys with Ashford using his cleaver as an example of what to do with each step. "Now then who wants to go first?."
Elsewhere in Chains Gate Grimoire, Krieg and Wolfram looked to the map of Vale and the countless charts of visitors coming into the kingdom for the tournament. "If they are going to strike at us then they will strike us while the festival is happening." Grimoire nodded at the Baron of War's assumption. "That is likely, I do not like the silence the Fang has been having over the last few days, it worries me." Wolfram nodded. "I found documents on experiments in creating vampires, it seems that Brutus is making an army of his own for this war." Krieg looked to his Lord who had a distant look in his eye. "The good thing is that they only have half the power of a normal vampire, which still means they can fight the huntsmen on a somewhat even scale."
The three looked to the map which had been covered in pegs of varying colors marking locations of the four kingdoms huntsmen or military forces and positions the fang were believed to be in. "I must call a council of lords, we must stop this before it spreads." Grimoire turned and walked out of the room back towards his office. "I do not wish another war, the last one lasted hundreds of years and cost us all many lives." He stepped past a window which showed the arena on the other side. Grimoire looked into the window seeing the four members of Team RWBY hacking away at four impossibly fast dummies though they were landing the occasional blow. He smiled as he walked away from the window. "Lets hope that we are at least ready for this war."
Sorry for the delay! I've been bogged down with school and the like for the last week so I'm going to try and get more chapters out, also ElfCollaborator has inspired me to write a bit of a antic filled version of this story [or maybe just a bunch of different stuff with antics] so yep as always I've been your host, have a pleasant weekend, Please review and follow! off to play some World of Warships!
