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Mia then turned and looked at Aodh but his face suddenly felt warm. He couldn't help but blush as he stared at the waitress. Mia was also getting slightly rosey cheeked as well. "Ahmm... I'll have what's he's having." Aodh nervously and quickly ordered.
"Thanks, I'll be back with your orders soon." The now heavily blushing Mia then turned and walked towards the Inn's kitchen.
"Smooth going there, Casanova." Qrow softly stated to Aodh.
"Bite me!" Aodh growled back. Aodh felt he would never be able to live this day down.
Volume 1: Chapter 3: Chasing a lead.
Having finished his meal Aodh made his way outside for a smoke. Qrow seen his son move off and thought now would be the best time to ask a few questions for his investigation. Qrow made his way over to a small group of around five bandits. There leader was clearly seen as he was the only one with a pompadour.
"Excuse me gentlemen. But I hope you don't mind if I could ask a few questions." Qrow asked as he sat down. He then placed a piece of paper down on the table. The paper showed two faces. One was of a green haired, dark skinned girl while the other was a pale skinned, silver haired boy.
"Get out of here. We don't tattle on our own kind. We know you're after someone." One of the men grunted towards Qrow as a response.
Another man then planted a knife in the piece of paper Qrow brought out on top of the table. "Get lost or else."
"Or else what?" Qrow asked with a mocking tone. "You wouldn't be able to even touch me." By this stage Aodh had arrived back into the room after finishing his smoke.
"I've killed seventeen men this year alone. I'll be making sure it's eighteen by the end of the night." That same man who planted the knife picked it up and plunged it towards Qrow.
Seeing the oncoming attack Qrow simply sat still in his seat and yawned. The knife then was brought quickly down towards a relaxed Qrow but the attacker soon found his hand wasn't moving towards his victim. He then seen a young looking man holding onto his arm.
'He's fast. I didn't even notice him until after he stopped my arm.' The bandit thought to himself as he stared at Aodh .
"I don't know what the old man here said to piss you off but if you're going to fight I'd take it outside." Aodh coldly stated as he stared at all of the bandits.
"So you wanna fight too kid... Fine then come on boys. Let's teach this kid a lesson he won't forget." The group of bandits then all stood up and walked outside. Aodh then turned to face his father.
"What the hell did you do?" Aodh asked as he narrowed his eyes.
"I'd thought i'd start our investigation. Didn't think you'd be quick to jump in and save your old man."
"Save? You were about to cause a major fight in the bar. And why the hell did you ask a bunch of thugs as well?"
"I was not about to create a major fight. And asking thugs in back water areas away from the prying eyes of the nation's council is the best way of gathering information." Qrow informed Aodh.
"Oh really? Well I can tell you want you were planning to do. You were about to lean back to avoid the knife and the kick the chair forwards into the other thugs in his group. Leaving a one on one with someone who is no where near you in abilities." Aodh then told Qrow what he knew his father was planning on doing in his fight with the bandits.
Qrow looked at his son for a few moment before sighing in defeat. "Was it really that predicable." Aodh didn't respond to his father's response and simply walked outside to face the group of bandits.
Mia has seen the whole thing fold out and nervously walked over to Qrow. "I don't mean to be rude but you'd better stop him. I've seen those men in here before. They are very dangerous and are known not to show mercy."
"Mia was it? You don't have to be nervous. Sit back... The show is about to start." Qrow smiled back to Mia as he too walked out but to watch his son fight.
Outside the Inn Aodh stared down the group of five bandits. "So, we doing this then?" Aodh asked.
There were a few tense moment before, "CHARGE!" The group of bandits all ran towards Aodh .
Aodh remained still and closed his eyes. Taking a deep breath he opened his eyes which had now changed color from hazel to crimson red. The first bandit swung a sword at Aodh but he ducked underneath it. Another quickly followed up with a knife held in reverse grip. The knife was aimed towards the back of Aodh head.
Aodh simply stayed low but extended his leg outwards and pivoted around swiping the bandit's leg. The third and fourth bandit quickly transformed there weapons into a rifle and and hand gun but fired several dust rounds towards Aodh .
Aodh stood up and simply moved his head from side to side avoiding all of the bullets fired. "Too slow..."
Mia watched in amazement as Aodh dodged every attack the bandits could throw at him with ease. "Woah... Is that his Semblance?"
"Yeah. Aodh's semblance Drift. It allows Aodh perception of time to slow down allowing an increased reaction time. And with his heightened reactions his semblance also helps him move faster as well." Qrow explained to Mia as she watched in awe. "Plus his sense of smell and hearing get a massive boost with him being a Faunus as well so most of his primary senses are massively boosted."
With three members already taken care of in quick succession Aodh drew out Scath and Solas. With four quick shots Aodh empited the poor thugs aura levels.
The fifth and final member of the group left didn't charge towards Aodh. Aodh glowing crimson red eyes simply stared him down into submission. Aodh slowly walked up towards the last member of the bandits. and took aim with Scath. "Tell the old man what he wants to know."
"I don't know anything... I swear... I know there faces I've seen them before but I don't know there names." The man shaking in fear as he answered Aodh.
Suddenly an alarm rang off. "What's this?" Qrow asked as he heard the local villagers start to panic.
"Oh no... It's a Grimm attack. Quick inside!" Mia shouted towards the bandits and Aodh and she tried to pull Qrow indoors.
"Grimm huh... Hey Aodh, let's see how many have come to greet us."
"Sure why not... But if one is a Goliath I get to kill it this time." Aodh shrugged his shoulders as he and Qrow walked towards where the Grimm were attacking.
Mia was stunned by Aodh and Qrow slack attitude. "Are you two insane! Come back inside!"
"Don't worry little darling. We're Huntsmen. It's our job to look after the people of Remnant and deal with the Grimm." Qrow waved towards Mia with a wide smile on his face.
The bandits and Mia looked worried as they watched Aodh and Qrow walk off. They looked at each other before silently deciding to follow them.
Currently Aodh and Qrow were staring down a horde of Grimm. Around twenty Beowolves, ten Ursai and twenty Creepers. "Seems to be about fifty of those things. Wanna take another bet?" Qrow asked his son.
"What you have in mind?"
"Most kill wins... and Loser must pay for the winners drink for the entire night."
"Rigtio then... I'll just end this quickly." Aodh then stood in front of his father. Mia and the group and bandits by this stage had manged to catch up with them and hid as they watched Aodh and Qrow.
Aodh's chest began to glow red as he heavily inhaled. And then Aodh let out a mighty roar as he faced the Grimm. "BUUUURN!"
But what happened next shocked Mia and the bandits. Flames burst out of Aodh's mouth and the vortex of flames smothered the Grimm.
When the flames subsided there were not even a single Grimm remaining. One of the bandits then realized who Aodh was. "Umm Boss I think I know this guy."
"What? Who is he?"
"He's that the guy who won the 36th Vytal festival in Vale. He's Aodh Branwen, also known as The Red Dragon."
"I've heard that name before." Mia spoke up. "He's said to have Fire and Wind Dust implanted into his lungs."
"Yeah that's the guy. And I'm guessing that's his father, Qrow Branwen. They call him The Grimm Reaper."
"The Grimm Reaper?" Mia was confused by Qrow's nickname. "It is because every person he's fought he's killed?"
"No." The pompadour'd leader of the Bandits spoke up. "It's said he's killed more Grimm than any huntsman, Human or Faunus have hair on there bodies."
"I can't believe we nearly started a fight with that with The Grimm Reaper and fought The Red Dragon himself... No wonder we never touched either of them."
Aodh then started a fit a heavy coughing. Mia in her concern for Aodh rushed towards him. "Aodh are you okay?"
"Yeah i'm fine just got some killer heart burn." Aodh smiled as he joked. He swiftly received a slap to the back of his head. "OW! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?"
"NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR SHITTY PUNS!" Mia shouted out loudly.
"He he. That one wasn't half bad." Qrow chuckled at his son's pun.
"DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!" This time Qrow received a smack in the back of the head from Mia.
The two huntsmen both shared a look that this young woman was one to be feared and for the remainder of the evening they tried to keep to there best behavior while Mia was near by.
The next morning Aodh woke up to the sound of heavy rain hitting against his room window. He seen his father sprawled out over his bed and heavily snoring. "Shitty old man. Bastard kept me up all night." Angry from being tired Aodh quickly got showered and dressed.
When Aodh walked down towards the reception he found the bandits waiting for him. "What the hell are you guys still here? Get lost." Aodh angrily growled at the bandits.
"We're sorry about yesterday. And to make it up we done a bit of digging up over the two people your father was investigating. And we found something." The pompadour hair styled leader answered.
"What did you find?" Aodh asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Well... After last night we decided to do a little digging as a favour for taking care of those Grimm." The leader of the bandits nervously spoke as Aodh continue'd to glare at him. "Well we found something interesting concerning them being linked in some way to the White Fang."
"The White Fang!?" Aodh demanded to know as he grabbed the bandit leader's collar. "Has there been much activity nearby here in recent months!?"
"there was a rumor going about a few weeks ago of them using a cabin deep in the forest. Apparently they've been using it as a a hideout. I have no idea if they were even there at all as I said it's just a rumor. But it's in roughly that direction." The leader then pointed in the general direction of the cabin.
"That's good to hear. If you don't mind tell my old man when he wakes up where I went off to" Aodh stated as he left to find the old hide out for the White Fang. "The one thing about rumors... There can be a trace of truth in a rumor.
And Cut!
Right please for the love of Christ himself let there be no mentions of Driu other than this one. Alright that wraps up another chapter and we have roughly 6 or 7 chapters left of Volume 1 and as it stands in the pool it 100% one sided in favor of not having Volume 0 within this story.
I have however had a few suggestions over having a prequel spin off story away from this re-mastered and it's something i would think about when caught up and i could post between RWBY volumes.
I have also had a few comment of me just copy and pasting from original posted chapter. Honestly it is true but it also isn't at the same time. A lot of new material has been added in each chapter and the overall structure is a lot better I feel personally.
Anyway let's get going with this chapter's Q&A!
1) If you could have based Driu off of any Marvel or DC character who would it be and why? Well since i'm more of a Marvel guy i'd go for Blade. This is because Driu would be closest to this character in general. Both Half Human (Half Faunus/Vampire), they fight those without souls (Vampires/Grimm) and both wield of course swords.
2) Name a villain from 1 anime show, 1 live action show/movie and 1 comic (not manga) you think would be awesome and bad ass to have in RWBY? From anime I would have Vicious from Cowboy Bebop as a major crime lord.
From a live action movie i'd go for The Xenomorph from Alien as a Grimm .
And for comic there could only be one. The Joker simply he would cause panic and chaos and i feel would fit into Cinder's plans but could he be controlled?
Now I won't be implementing any of these characters into this story simply because this will be a regular Fan Fiction and not a crossover but I won't close the door over possibly writing one in the future as a RWBY x X-Over fan fic.
3) If you're OC had a catchphrase before a fight what would he say (even if it's from another character)? If I was to pick a catchphrase for Aodh it would be either Too slow or Burn.
4) Which anime swordsman do you think would be a great opponent for Adam in a death battle? Woah with this one as i have so many to actually choose from. personally i'd love to see a fight between Guts from Berserk or Hiei from YuYu Hakusho.
5) Which marvel villain do you think could scare Salem the most or which one do you think would be able to seduce her? Honestly i don't think any would scare her but if i could pick one i'd say Thanos would try to seduce her.
So that's all for this chapter folks. If you have a question do feel free to post a review or PM myself. If I don't answer your question on next chapter's Q&A I will try to reply via PM. Thank you for reading this chapter. I hope you've all enjoyed it. Till next time!