"Everything dies!" Speaking
'Look to the sky.' Thoughts
"To see the end of all creation again." Communications
Meh...Ha ha...La de do Sounds
Did you know I only own by Ocs?
Sweet Cream Team
"I...I'm Velvet...Velvet Scarlatina."
Natsu slowly breathes in awe as he hears the bunny's shy unique voice, 'Grayfia' He calls as Death hugs him from behind giggling like a little school girl.
'Natsu, are you hearing what I'm hearing right now?!'
'Her voice! Ahh...' He stops to prepare to scream to the whole world how cute the bunny girl in front of him was.
'SHE'S ADORABLE!'
"YOU'RE ADORABLE!" Natsu yells as he pulls Velvet into a warm hug and spins around in place with a big smile.
Velvet's face turns into a bright red like glowing tomato as The Dread Hunter greets her like she was his girlfriend.
"You're just the cutest thing in the entire world!" He praises as he tightens his grip around his new friend.
"I...what...a..." Velvet is unable to form any sentences as the man holding her showers her in love and affection.
As Natsu declares that no one else can be as cute as Velvet, they don't seem to notice three individuals standing in front of them while staring at them with questionable stares.
"Miss Velvet Scarlatina...how dare you! Having a secret relationship with not just a man...a good looking one as well! You're unbelievable Velvet! We trusted you like family!" They hear an sarcastic but elegant voice which makes Natsu stop spinning and looks for the source of the voice.
"Co...coco...he...he's not my boyfriend!" Velvet panics as she breaks from Natsu and gives herself some room between her and the Prince.
Natsu watches a woman wearing quiet the fashionable outfit with several bullet belts, holding 7.62 mm dust bullets wrapped around her body, dramatically steps back in shock and covers her mouth, "No...he's your fiance! You two are so young!" She sarcastically panics as Velvet turns into a blushing mess while Natsu only tilts his head in confusion.
'What's a fiance?'
"NO! He's not my fiance either!" Velvet breakdowns and uses her fluffy brown bunny ears to cover her face.
"Ooo, I like this one Natsu." Grayfia ignores his question, looking at the elegant team leader of CFVY.
Natsu sets his curiosity away and decides greet Velvet's friends, "Hello, name's Natsu Dragneel, Nice to meet you." He greets holding his hand out, just like he did with Velvet.
The confident leader shakes his hand and lowers her glasses with her free hand, revealing two dark chocolate eyes, and ogles him with a smirk.
'~Hello to you~' Coco moans as she stares at Natsu like a piece of candy.
"~Nice to meet you too handsome, you can call me Coco~" She flirts and gives him a wink.
"I take it back...I hate this brat." Grayfia comments as she glares at Coco, planning to shorten her lifespan later.
"So you must be Fox Alister and Yatsuhachi Daichi of team CFVY." Natsu assumes as he shakes Fox's hand then Yatsuhachi's.
Fox hums in response as The Dread Hunter shakes his hand while Yatsuhachi smiles at Natsu's happy attitude.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Natsu Dragneel." He greets as he shakes his hand.
"Oh don't worry about Fox...he doesn't talk much...so what's with the decorations? Did we miss a party or something?" Coco asks as she walks over to the serving table with the sweets.
"Nope, you're just in time, Professor Goodwitch told me it was a party for all the second year students and it was themed after the strongest team." Natsu explains as team he and team CFVY follows Coco.
"And it looks like that team is us...just look at this...it's all our favorites sweets." Coco realizes as she puts her finger in the chocolate fountain and sucks on her finger then smiles.
As team CFVY smell their favorites foods they immediately grabs plates and fill them up with the foods that they wanted then made their way to an empty table to eat their food.
"What an interesting bunch of people." Grayfia notes as she watches the team walk away.
'Yeah, but they're good people...I like them.' Natsu clarifies.
"Sure you do...especially the bunny girl and that cocky leader of theirs."
'Yeah...something about Velvet's voice is just so cute...and Coco must be really strong.'
"Sigh...if you keep this up...then all the girls in this school will be wrapped around your finger."
'Now why would I do that, that's just weird.'
"It's an expression Natsu."
'Ohh...like see the light?'
"Yeah...like that."
'Hmm...so what does wrapped around your finger mean?'
''I'll tell you later, so are you gonna eat or what?"
'I don't know...I've never eaten this kind of stuff before...I more of a meat kind of guy.'
"Well you got to try something new every once in a while...so pick something...and eat it."
Before Natsu could answer, he hears someone call him.
"A..are you coming...Natsu?" Velvet asks as she notices Natsu standing by himself by the chocolate fountain looking across the table...almost if he was talking to someone.
Natsu plays it cool and pretends to break from his thoughts, "Oh sorry...just lost in my thoughts...I'm coming." He assures as he follows Velvet with Grayfia right behind him.
Team CFVY captured a large round table covered by a velvet sheet with a little orange balloon in the middle that says welcome back. Fox and Yatsuhachi sits across from Coco with two empty chairs next to her.
"Hey Natsu!~I've saved you a seat right next to me~" She offers as she lays her arm on top of the empty chair next to her.
Fox and Yatsuhashi raises their eyebrows at their leader's strange liking to the pinky as Natsu takes up Coco's offer and sits next to her while Velvet takes the chair next to Natsu.
'Um...where are you going to sit Grayfia?'
"Oh don't worry about it...I'm fine...~right here~" She assures as she leans down behind Natsu and wraps her arms around her arms around neck then presses her naughty pillows on his head with her chin resting on his pink locks. Making Natsu smile as he feels Grayfia embrace him from behind.
'Thanks Grayfia...this feel nice.' He thanks as he leans his head back deeper into Grayfia's cleavage.
"~Only for you hotshot~" She assures as she hugs him closer.
"Are you going to eat Natsu? You don't have a plate with you." Coco asks as she takes slip of hot coco in white plastic cup in her hand.
"I don't know...I've never tried the food being served so I don't know if I'll like it." Natsu explains while scratching his head sheepishly.
"Do...do you want try some of mine?" Velvet offers as she stabs the velvet cake in front of her with her fork then hold out the piece of cake above her plate.
Grayfia notices Fox and Yatsuhashi slightly chokes on their food as soon as the bunny girl offers to feed Natsu.
"Wow Velvet, aren't you bold today, are you sure you two aren't an...item?" Coco teases as her teammates offer.
"NO, We're not a couple COCO!" Velvet turns away from her to break eye contact with her leader and a large blush forms on her face.
To make matters worse, Natsu smiles, closes his eye, and takes a bite out of the piece of cake Velvet was holding out for him.
As he swallows the creamy cake as an explosion of sweet goodness attacks his taste-buds and makes him moan loudly.
Coco smirks lustfully at Natsu's reaction and notices that a small lump of white cream fell on his cheek. Being the kind woman she is, she waits for Velvet to recover before breaking her again.
Velvet slightly jumps as she feels something on her fork, she looks back and finds Natsu smiling to himself while chewing on the cake that used to be on her fork.
She calms down as Natsu shallows the cake and gives her the thumbs up as he opens his eye again, "Aww...Velvet taste good." He moans and in that moment, Velvet's world slowed down to a stop.
'I...I...I taste good.' She mumbles as she feels her face warm up in embarrassment and something hot between her legs.
Coco starts laughing uncontrollably at Velvet's and her teammates' priceless reactions. While Velvet freezes in place with her face, once again, turns into a radioactive tomato, Fox was patting Yatsuhashi on the back as he chokes on his food from Natsu innocent words, he knows he means well, but he made it sound so sexual.
Grayfia titters as she buries her face in his pink hair while hugging him closer to her.
"What...what...did you...say...Natsu?" Coco asks as she recovers from her laugh.
"I said Velvet taste good." Natsu answers calmly and he hears Grayfia and Coco breakdown into laughing messes while Velvet remains broken from his words.
"Did I say something wrong?" He asks as the situation worsens and he thinks he broke everyone.
After a few minutes, Coco, Yatsuhashi, and Fox calms down while Velvet's condition doesn't change.
"Ahh, that was a good one Natsu, I like you a lot you know that." Coco admits as she wipes a tear forming on her left eye.
"I don't think I've laughed like that in decades Natsu. Thanks hotshot." Grayfia notices as she calms down.
"Did I say something wrong? That's the name of the food right?" Natsu repeats himself.
"Oh yeah you did...Velvet is not the complete name...it's Velvet cake Natsu." Coco explains.
Natsu takes a moment for that to process in his head but he soon realizes the problem, "Ohh...I'm such an idiot." He scolds himself as he breaks eye contact from everyone.
"Aww, don't worry hotshot, I still love you." Grayfia assures as she lowers she tilts her head to the side and kisses him on the cheek.
"Oh don't worry about...but I think you need to do something about Velvet." Coco suggests as she points to her frozen teammate.
Natsu's eye widen and turns to her and bows his head in shame, "I'm so sorry Velvet! I didn't mean to say that...please forgive me!" He pleads.
Velvet finally comes to her senses and slowly nods, "D...don't worry about it." She mumbles as takes a drink of coco in a cup next to her plate.
"Thanks Velvet...I thought I was doomed for a second there." He admits as he gives her a big smile.
The bunny Faunus hums in response as Natsu smiles at her...for some reason her heart skips a beat when he looks at her...so for now on she'll break eye contact with him.
'Oh no, we're just starting.' Coco plans as she steps into phase two of her operation to see how many times you break Velvet.
"Um...Natsu...there's something on your cheek." Coco decides to play the innocent one in this phase of her plan.
The Dread Hunter looks at her and wipes his face, trying to clean his face but misses the lump of cream on his face completely.
"Here, I'll get it for you." Coco says as she leans closer to her face and uses her finger to wipe off the cream off his right cheek then sucks on her finger seductively.
"...T..thanks Coco." The Lady killer mumbles.
"Anytime ~Nat...su~" She flirts and gives him a wink.
"I'm going to kill you..." Grayfia retorts plainly as Coco returns to her seat.
'Let's see if I can't break Velvet one more time before I wrap up.' Coco decides as she takes her cup filled with coco and slowly moves it in a circular fashion.
"So Natsu...have you ever tried Hot Coco before?" She asks slowly.
As Coco talks about hot coco, Fox and Yatsuhashi immediately shallow their food and push their plates away from them, they knew that their leader was going to make Natsu do something or say something sound wrong. So they're going to play it safe and eat their food when Coco is finished with her plan.
"Nope...what is it?" Natsu asks as Coco hands him her cup.
"You'll love it, it's melted chocolate mixed with milk and heated up to create a sweet drink." Coco assures as Natsu takes a whiff of the drink in his hand.
Everyone, at the table, can tell that Natsu liked the drink from the happy smile on his face.
"Go on...take a slip...I don't mind." Coco suggests and everyone complies to her wish and drinks from their own cups of coco.
Natsu chugs down the rest of the Coco's hot coco and sighs happily, "Mmm, Coco." He moans and several coughs can be heard from Coco's male teammates.
Grayfia chuckles as Fox starts to chokes on his drink while Yatsuhashi pats him on the back saying things like "Let it out." and "It's okay."
Velvet blushes as she shallows her drink while Coco grins as The Dread Hunter moans her name...'~Mmm...I like it when you say my name~' She moans as she gets aroused over Natsu's voice.
"It's good huh Natsu?" Coco asks.
"Yeah, you were right! This tastes amazing." Natsu admits.
"I'm glad you like...maybe you can have a...~real taste of Coco later handsome~" Coco whispers the last part so only he can hear it but thinks nothing of it.
"Don't get to familiar with this one Natsu...she'll be gone before you know it." Grayfia warns grimly as she glares at her rival of love.
"Anyway Natsu...if you're not Velvet's boyfriend or fiance? Then why were you hugging her when we first met you, it's seemed like you two were closed friends...a little too close." Coco changes the subject.
'No, not this again!' Velvet prepares herself for more teasing from her leader by covering her face with her brown bunny ears.
"Uh...about that..." Natsu mumbles as he breaks contact from everyone.
"~Well~" Coco persists further.
"I...I just couldn't control myself...something about Velvet was just so cute...I just couldn't help myself from embracing her." He confesses shyly as he blushes a little.
'I'm...cute?!' Velvet realizes as her heart flutters with excitement.
"I can tell you that you aren't the only who reacted like that...I did the same thing when I first met Velvet as a matter of fact. Coco assures.
"Really?" Natsu sighs in relief as Coco assures him that he's not the only one who thinks Velvet is adorable.
"Yeah, what ticked me was her cute accent, she said that the people in Vacuo, where she came from, talks just like she does. Pretty neat huh?" Coco teaches.
"Yeah that is pretty cool to know." Natsu admits.
'She's right there you know.' Yatsuhashi and Fox think at the same time as they notice their faunus teammate fidgeting in her seat.
"..Cute...I'm...cute..." Velvet mumbles to herself as the sounds of someone tapping on a microphone interrupt their conversation.
Everyone in the room turn to the stage and find Glynda standing on the stage behind a microphone.
"Attention students...attention...huntsmen and huntresses. Now that your days in the field come to a close, I welcome you all back to Beacon Academy, but before we officially start the school year. Professor Ozpin personally decided to reward you all for your hard work over the summer, we've been watching your progress and we are proud of your achievements. Especially last year's Vytal tournament champions...Fox Alisteir Yatsuhashi Daichi Velvet Scarlatina and their leader Coco Adel...congratulation you four. Now for today, enjoy yourselves to the food displayed on the table in front of the stage, relax, all of you have earned it." Glynda announces then bows and heads down the stage.
Everyone claps for team CFVY and returns to their activities as music starts to echo through the ballroom to signal start of the party.
Mountain Glenn, Vale Region
1100 hours
Operation Red Maiden
Specialist Schnee commands a four-man squad into the deepest part of Vale's abandoned city, hidden in Mt. Glenn, to undercover more information about the recent White Fang activity in that area.
"Listen up gentlemen, General Ironwood wants this mission off the records, so we have to make this quick. We're not even suppose to be here so I'm sure you all know the gravity of this situation." A hologram of a white-haired woman stands inside the passenger section of an Atlesian Dropship with four Atlas soldiers, with black paint on the chest armor and helmet, standing before her with their hands behind their backs.
"So this will be a short get in and get out situation, Understand!?" She asks firmly.
"Yes, Ma'm!" The soldiers assure as they straighten their backs.
The hologram woman is wearing a formal Atlas uniform that consists of a white tailcoat with open sleeves, a waistcoat that reaches down to her ankles, white pants with thigh armor that connects to her grey boots. Her hair is tied to a bun with long bangs covering one of her light blue eyes. She is Weiss's older sister and Ironwood's best specialist...Winter Schnee.
"Arriving at drop-point alpha, ETA, 25 seconds." The pilot of the ship reports as the lights in the ship turn green.
This signals everyone to ready their weapons while Specialist Schnee turns around as the cargo ramp lowers to reveal the city ruins below the ship.
"20 seconds..."
"This is a stealth mission so keep it quiet." Winter warns as the ship lowers itself closer to the ground.
"15 seconds..."
"What's our objective soldiers?" She asks.
"10 seconds..."
"We must find information about the terrorist group White Fang in the Mt. Glenn Region!" All four soldiers yell as the dropship slows down and hovers over the ground.
"5 seconds..."
"Good, keep me posted on comms." She mutters as the hologram dissipates.
"Go go go!" The Pilot orders the squad runs off the cargo ramp.
As the specialist touches the ground, the four soldier provide security around the LZ as the dropship immediately gains attitude as the last soldier hit the dirt.
"Clear right!"
"Clear left!"
The soldiers report as they couch down and aim their rifles in front of them. The soldier holding a white and grey scope-less sniper rifle puts his right index and middle finger on ear.
"Crackle, ST. Aeron, I'll be back at this LZ in a hour but I'm under strict orders, from General Ironwood, to leave you only a 10 minutes window if I don't see you at the LZ so keep that in mind over." He hears from his ear piece.
"Affirmative Sparrow, I'll keep that in mind, over and out." Aeron assures as he watches the dropship disappears into into the distance.
The sharpshooter turns around and looks at his team, three female soldiers and himself, one of the woman has a small red cross on her right shoulder with a pistol and retractable sword, a medic, while the other two women have standard assault rifles and pistols.
"Okay let's get started, I'll set up in that five-story building over there and provide overwatch as the rest of you move up the street." He orders as he points at a tall destroyed building at a street corner, overlooking the entire area around the LZ.
"Right." He hears his teammates comply and he separates from his team.
"You heard him, on me." One of the assault troopers orders as she turns around and jogs over to a destroyed remains of a clothing store at the street corner in front of her with the rest of the squad tailing behind her.
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After 2 minutes of climbing rubble and broken concrete, Aeron reaches the top of the five story building, the shock trooper crouches and slowly tip toes to the edge of the roof and goes prone. He then deploys the bi-pod under the barrel of the rifle as an outline of a scope appears on top of the rifle and digitizes into a solid form.
"Scout mode online." He hears from his hud's A.I as he aims down sights and scans the streets below.
"I'm in position, what's your 20?" He asks as adjusts his aim.
"We're at the street corner behind the collapsed store, you see anything up there?"
"Affirmative, enemy contact roughly 100 meters north of your location." He reports as he spots two members of the White Fang, in his crosshairs, walking up the street with submachine guns in their hands.
"10-4, we see your mark, pushing up the street." His teammate reports as he watches three soldiers advance up the street while using the rubble as cover.
"ST. Aeron, status report?" Winter asks as a small hologram of herself pops on the left side of his hud.
"Ma'm, we spotted two members of the White Fang, permission to engage?" Aeron asks as he puts the terrorists in his crosshairs, now the terrorists have red outlines around their bodies.
"Negative, interrogate them, find out what you can about their recent activities then wait for further orders." Winter orders.
"Rodger that, proceeding." Aeron assures and Winter's hologram disappears.
"Aeron, we're right behind them, what's our next move?"
"Capture the enemies for interrogation."
"Copy that, moving in."
The sniper watches as the two assault soldiers begin to slowly sneak their way to grab the White fang members, two males...one with cat ears and the other with antlers.
The one with cat ears hears something behind him and turns around with his gun raised. As he turns around the Atlas soldier grabs his gun with her right hand, spins around, and elbows him with her left arm. The faunus loses grip of his gun as the soldier snaps her head back to head-butt her target, this staggers him back as the soldier turns around and aims his smg at him.
The deer faunus is too shocked to react as something kicks his legs and forces him down to his knees, next thing he knows, a pistol barrel is pushing against his right temple and someone's arm is around his throat.
"Aaah! Atlas soldiers?!" The cat faunus recovers from the attack and puts his hands up as soon as he sees the Atlas soldier aiming his rifle at him.
"Where you friends!?" The soldier yells at the cat faunus.
"What? I don't what you're talking about." He defends himself.
"If you don't talk then I'll kill your friend." She warns as the soldier holding the deer faunus digs the pistol barrel deeper into his head.
"I'm not telling you anything you Atlesian sc-NO!" He cries as the one holder his partner strikes him in the side of the head and lets him stagger to the floor, as he cries in pain he looks back at his captor just see the barrel of a pistol in his face, then a muffled bang goes off.
The bullet grazed the faunus's cheek as he closes his eyes behind his Grimm mask to accept death but he only feels a sting pain from his cheek and winces.
"That was your first and only warning! What's the White Fang doing in Mt. Glenn?!" She interrogates.
The cat takes a moment to collect his thoughts, but he gives up in the end. "Fine! Fine I'll tell you, we're here to make contact with a mole." He spills the beans.
"WHERE?!"
"In the park...the park in the heart of the city...we already established a base there. Now we're just waiting for the mole."
"Ask him about the mole Ashley." Aeron suggests.
"The mole? Who is it?" ST. Ashley complies.
The prisoner hesitates for a second and stalls for time by looking at his comrade on the floor looking back at him.
"Answer me!" She snaps.
"Sigh...it's...it's an mole in your military...but that's all I know I swear!" He pleads as he feels the tension in the air worsen.
Ashley looks at her teammates then back at the faunus, "Did you get that Aeron?" She asks.
"Yeah..." He mumbles as Winter's hologram pops up again.
"Your orders?" He asks, he can tell that Winter is obviously disturbed by this new information.
"...Find their base and infiltrate it, then look for anything that relates to that mole or the White Fang's next move." She decides.
"And the prisoners?"
"Eliminate them." She commands and the hologram shuts down.
"Yes Ma'm..." He mumbles.
"Aeron? What do we do now?" Ashley asks.
"Kill the prisoners then hide the bodies, we don't want them warning the others." He explains as he closes his bi-pod and puts his sniper rifle on his back as the scope starts to dissipate into nothing.
"Scout mode offline." He hears as he begins to climb his way down the ruined building.
"Copy." Ashley complies as several muffled shots can be heard on the comms.
30 minutes later
"This must be it." Aeron mutters as he climbs up a grey stair case and stops at a rusty door.
He slowly taps the door and it falls down as it's hinges break. The door slams on the ground and a dust cloud rises from the ground as Aeron walks into the room, finding a long hallway with doors on both sides of it.
"Aeron? What's your 20?" Ashley calls.
"I'm on the seventh floor of the apartment building, I'm almost in position, standby." He reports as he walks down to the middle of the hallway and checks out an apartment door.
'I think this will be far enough.' He assumes as he opens the door to find half the room completely destroyed and exposed to the elements.
The shock trooper shrugs and hits the deck then crawls to the edge of room, looking down below he finds dead trees surrounding by to what looks like the ruins of a fountain, and several large tents.
Aeron pulls out his sniper and, again, deploys his bi-pod, "Scout mode online."
"I'm ready Ashley." He reports as he begins to look for patrolling guards outside the park.
"Okay, do you see us at the entrance?"
Aeron adjust's his aim and finds his team stacked up behind a ruined wall beside the park's main trail to the fountain, "Rodger, eyes on."
"Good, we got 20 minutes before extraction arrives, 30 if this goes south. So let's make this fast." Ashley suggests as she changes position behind a dead tree. She peeks around the tree and finds a patrol of two guards walking toward them.
"Two tangos right in front of you, I'll take the one on the right, you take the left." He orders as he sets his crosshairs on the faunus's head.
"Copy."
As the patrol approaches, Ashley equips her pistol and readies herself then holds her breath.
"This place gives me the creeps." Faunus 1 comments.
"I know right, it's like a war-zone." Faunus 2 responds.
"The sooner leave, the better, I don't want to stay here any longer."
"Hey...what was that?" He asks as he raises his gun and scans the trees around him.
Ashley's gets a little panicked as the guards start walking to her position, "Take the shot." She whispers.
"What, I don't hear anything?" Faunus 2 asks as he stops his comrade from moving any further.
"Something's off...I don't like this." He explains and the two guards both turn around.
The Atlas soldier takes this change to take them out and emerges from the shadows and aims her pistol at the faunus on the left.
"WE'ER UNDER ATTACK! Everyone to your combat stations!" They hear an alarm go off at the camp.
"Come on let's go!" The faunus orders and runs back to camp.
His comrade hesitates but soon chases after his partner to fend of the enemy attack.
"Aeron, what's going on, do you have eyes?" She asks as returns back to cover.
The sharpshooter aims to the gunfire and finds flashes of light in the distance. "Negative, my guess, it's the Grimm."
"Damn, cover us, we're moving in." Ashley orders as she puts her right index finger in the air and spins in a circle then advances toward the camp with her pistol drawn out. The medic and soldier breaks from their cover and follows behind her to the camp.
Aeron watches as scattering White Fang members run into the north exit of the park with weapons in their hands. Turning back to his team, he notes that the medic is checking a tent while the other two provide security outside.
"Oh god...why is this here?" Aeron hears as the medic returns to her group with papers in her hand.
"You got to read this!" She suggests.
"Later, we got to go." Ashley orders as the team retreats from the park.
Aeron scans the park one last time for any contact while his team retreats, he finds a faunus on the floor with a Ursa ripping him to shreds. The Grimm broke through their defensives, "I was right, the Grimm are here and they're overrunning the camp. I'm engaging!" He warns as he aims the crosshairs to a pack of beowulves, charging toward Ashley and the others, and pulls the trigger. A muffled bang goes off and he uses his right hand to pull back the bolt, on the right side of the rifle, and pushes it forward making a bullet to fly out of the chamber, only to be replaced with a new round.
"Acknowledge!" Ashley yells as she sprints down the park trail.
"Kill confirmed!" He reports as he watches a Beowulf's head explodes and drops dead on the dirt.
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"ST. Indigo, ST. Aeron said you found something of great interest to us during the Op?" Winter asks as her hologram stands inside the A.D.S Sparrow with Aeron's squad safely on board and returning to Atlas.
ST. Aeron and his squad safely retreated to the LZ just in time as Sparrow arrived to pick them up, the mission was a success with no casualties or with any complications.
"That's correct Ma'm, the White Fang members were right." St. Indigo reports.
ST. Indigo, the medic, rises from her seat, salutes Winter, and shows her a file in her hand then begins to open it.
"Right about what?" Winter plays along with ST. Indigo's pronoun game as she watches her pull out two blue papers and shows it to her.
"The mole Ma'm...these are the blueprints of the prototype mech-suit called the Paladin-290s and the prototype upgrade of the AK-130s, AK-200s. This information requires an level omega clearance to acquire, and it's obvious that the white fang don't officially have the clearance Ma'm." She reports as she notices Winter nods conspicuously in response.
"Anything else?"
"Yes, I...I found a chess piece." She reports as she picks up something in the file and pulls it out to reveal a black queen piece from the game of chess.
"And where did you find this?" Winter asks.
"It was hiding inside the files Ma'm."
'What does this queen mean?' Winter asks herself but decides to asks General Ironwood about it later.
"I understand...thank you ST. Indigo...you and your team have preformed far beyond today's expectations. You recovered new information about the White Fang and a potential mole amongst our ranks. I will personally inform General Ironwood of your achievements and this new information. Return to base for R and R, all of you have greatly earned it. Good job today soldiers, that will be all." Winter debriefs and her hologram dissipates into nothing for the last time.
Beacon Academy Amphitheater
"Alright! This is going to be fun!" Natsu cheers as he stands on the right side of the amphitheater with team CFVY standing in front of him with their weapons drawn and Glynda standing between them while facing the audiance of second year students.
The party of the second year's lasted only for a few hours till Glynda started to noticed the students get a little board of all the dancing and music at sundown. So she decided to test everyone's strength by putting all the teams against each other one-vs-one on the amphitheater for everyone's entertainment. It was a king of the hill kind of match, two teams fight each other till one is defeated, and the winner gets a 10 minute break before the next fight commences. The team continues on the fight till all the other teams have been defeated or they are beaten by another team, if this happens then they take the loser's place and the process repeats. While in the end the overall winner is chosen by the number of teams they've defeated in battle.
Glynda should of seen this one coming, the champions of the Vytal tournament where chosen for the fourth round and they won...and they kept on winning till all the other teams were eliminated. She notes that team CFVY have greatly improve their skills of combat since the last school year...not meaning that the other team didn't improve...they were the ones who improved the most from her observations but they still of 3 years to go before becoming real hunters of the light. Before she could announce that they were the winners, she overhears Natsu asking himself who would win if he would fight against all four of them.
She likes the idea of that battle and uses it as a chance to see Natsu's abilities on the battlefield first hand. So she approves the idea and makes this the final battle of the games, she even put the risks all on the line, if team CFVY loses...then Natsu is declared the winner and chooses a punishment to inflict on the losers, but if team CFVY wins...they get to punish Natsu and they are declared the strongest of the second year students.
And that leads to the present time with Natsu standing on the stage to have a four vs one match against team CFVY.
"Are you sure this is fair Professor G? This is a four verses one...I don't think this will be a long fight." Coco points out as she and her team stares at Natsu with confused looks as he stands all by his lonesome self on the other side of the stage with his trademark smile planted on his face.
"I bed to differ Ms. Adel, Mr. Dragneel has shown quiet the combat skill when engaging multiple targets. Think of this as a test for both of you, can you and your team defeat a powerful opponent before he can defeat you?" Glynda asks
"Well...if you say he's powerful enough to stand his own against all four of us...then I'll believe you. Let's get this started shall we!" Coco assures as she and her team go into their battle stances.
The crowd of students, around the theater, screams in excitement as Coco raises her fist into the air with confidence, they all cheer for team CFVY to wipe the floor with Natsu's beaten body after they defeated them. This one-sided though process was expected from Glynda and Grayfia, the students just met Natsu and have no idea what's he capable of...so they'll support the team that they are the most familiar with...team CFVY.
"Okay, these four don't stand a chance against you, you already got this in the bag. Just show'm what your made of!" Grayfia motivates Natsu as she rubs his shoulder to prepare him for the fight.
Natsu nods in agreement as Glynda gestures everyone to quiet down, "This will be the last match of the night so give this one your all. Team CFVY will fight Natsu Dragneel, remember, lethal attacks will not be tolerated. Now with that being said, let's begin!" Glynda announces as she backs away from the two teams and the display screen above the two combatants shows a countdown starting with the number three.
"3"
"Don't worry Natsu, We'll go easy on you because of your disadvantage." Coco teases and blows him a kiss.
"2"
Natsu smirks at her remark, "Who said this was a disadvantage? I'll take all four of you no problem!"
"That's the spirit Natsu! Rile them up then knock them down when they least expect it!" Grayfia encourages as she cheers him on next to Glynda.
"~Ooo, I love it when you're talk like that~" Adel flirts, giving her whistles from the men and cheers from the women as they find their next pairing to add to their list of couples they hope one day might become a reality.
"1"
The entire room drops dead silent as everyone waits for the start of the match with great anticipation.
"BEGIN!" Glynda shouts from the back of the stage and team CFVY's tank and assassin charge The Dread Hunter while CFVY's support gunner and wild card stayed back as a reserve if their teammates need help if that situation arises.
Natsu studied Yatsuhashi's and Fox's fighting techniques during their previous battles, giving him the upper hand because he figured out what attack patterns in their assaults. Fox uses his speed and agility to overwhelm his enemies by unleashing multiple combos on his them till they're defeated, Yatsuhashi uses brute strength to distract the enemy so his teammates can sneak behind them and strike when they're focused on him. Coco provides suppressing fire with her handbag mini-gun to mow down enemies. Strangely he never seen Velvet fight before, so he has to keep an eye on her, she may be timid, but that won't make him underestimate her. She's the biggest threat amongst team CFVY.
Yatsuhashi raises his sword above his head and swings it down at Natsu's face with tremendous force, but Natsu is quick enough to catch the copper blade at ease, with both hands, as he stares happily at him.
"NOW FOX!" Yatsuhashi yells.
The Prince of the dragons smiles as his senses Fox land behind him and cocks back his left fist for an uppercut aimed for his ribs.
The green armored tank feels suspicious of his opponent's smile and realizes that he was waiting for this, it was too late to warn his friend as Natsu sets off his trap. He uses Yatsuhashi's surprise as he chance to save himself, so he pushes the sword to his left and drops kicks the tank in the chest to stagger him back. As he falls to the floor, Fox misses his target and stumbles to a stop next to Yatsuhashi.
The pinky doesn't stop the fight and quickly gets back on his feet and gives a right hook into Fox's cheek as he turns to him, the hits lands on target and Fox's head is forces to the right as Natsu elbows the tank with the same arm. With the two combatants stunned, Natsu uses his left hand to upper cut Fox in the gut. The assassin leans forward and spits some saliva as he feels the air in his lungs forced up his throat as something grabs his head with an iron grip.
Yatsuhashi recovers from Natsu's blow but is too late as Natsu throws Fox, holding him by the head, straight at him. Making Fox headbutt him and they both fall to the ground.
"FOX! Yatsu!" Velvet calls as her two teammates falls down, she hears loud beeping, coming from above, and looks at the screen above her, "Fox's Aura draining, and fast!" She notifies as she points at the screen above the stage, which has Fox's Aura level's depleting from green, yellow, and finally to orange in a matter of seconds.
"Then it's my turn!" Coco declares as her handbag transforms into a mini-gun.
"Get out of there!" She warns and aims her Gatling gun, straight at her new friend, as the barrels of the gun start to spin around in a circle.
The tank reacts first by throwing Fox away from his leader's kill-zone, but in consequence, Natsu kicks him in the back of the legs and makes him fall to his knees. Then Natsu reaches under his left arm and around his neck while his other arm locks his head in place into a choke hold to use him a human shield.
"NO!" Coco panics as she immediately she lets go of the trigger and tries to move the bullet spray away from her teammate as her bullets burst from her gun.
The audience gasps in shock as the bullets pierce through the air and barely graze Yatsuhashi's chest as they whiz past the two opponents. For some reason Natsu looks more scared then the one he's holding from the bullets that approach him.
"That's right! Use them against each other!" Grayfia yells.
''NO! Don't let it control you!'' Natsu scolds himself, under his breath, as he shakes his head to calm himself...he feels something evil and sinister begging him to kill everyone...but he will die before he'll hurt, let alone kill, his friends.
Dragneel suppresses the urge to kill and uses the confusion to his advantage and lets go of Yatsuhashi then slams his face into the ground while he uses his free hand to draw his gun.
With abnormal skill, Natsu lifts his gun toward Coco and fires three consecutive shots of blue bullets before Coco regains her composure and all three hit dead on target.
The leader of CFVY falls to her knees and feels fatigue take over her body.
"Coco..." Velvet as she kneels down next to her to check up on her leader.
"I...I'm...fine." Coco mumbles as she gasps for air like she just finished a marathon.
The bunny looks for her teammate, "Fox? Yatsu?" She calls as she watches those two try to get back on their feet but ultimately fall back on their stomachs.
"Okay Velvet, let's finish this!" Natsu taunts as he stands in alone in front of her with his gun resting in it's holster.
'Velvet, you can do this, just remember what you learned.' The faunus motivates herself as she takes a deep breath to calm herself down and rises to her feet.
"Take him down Velvet!" She hears the audience and the rest cheer for her to motivate her.
"You got some good friends you know that?" Natsu comments and gives her a big smile.
Velvet smiles back at Natsu kindness...but something felt off...this smile wasn't like the other smiles he show before. She knew something was wrong but she can't quite put her finger on it.
"You're not winning this one Natsu!" Velvet confidently declares and the crowd roars in agreement.
"Good, I'm all fired up!" Natsu yells as he raises his fist in front of his face.
''Calm down Natsu...let her beat the urge out of you.'' He plans as he lowers his defenses for Velvet, but high enough that no one will notice that change while keeping it low enough to give her windows of opportunities to strike him.
Velvet shadows him and changes into a stance that looks similar to Fox's fighting style.
'Something's not right...this looks exactly like Fox's stance.' He notices.
"Who cares?! Just take her out!" Grayfia ignores the similarity.
Natsu nods and waits for the bunny to make the first move.
Velvet gets the hint and lunges at him with her fist cocked back for a right jab, she fires her hand but he dodges it at the last second and her fist grazes his ear, she goes for a left jab and he dodges it again. Then she tries the old one-two and begins with the upper cut. The hit lands and Natsu leans forward just to have Velvet punch him dead center on his cheek and stuns him for a second, in that second, she grabs his gun and swings the grip at the back of his head.
Natsu feels something heavy slam into the back of his skull and falls to the ground.
"Come on Natsu! You got this, get up!" Death calls as Velvet approaches him with his revolver in her hands aimed at his head.
"YEAH! GO VELVET!" He hears as he smiles to himself.
"Okay...I think the urge is gone...phew. Now let's have some fun!" Natsu yells the last part as he forces Velvet on his knees by kicking her and uses his right arm to push her to the ground, making her lose grip of his gun and tosses the gun somewhere.
Natsu untangles his foot from under the bunny and positions himself hovering over Velvet, without a second thought, he cocks his fist back and readies to finish the bunny in one swift move.
"GO NATSU!" The Grim Reaper cheers him on.
Velvet freezes as the tables turned in Natsu's favor in an instant and fear starts gathering in her mind. The Dread Hunter sees this and stops as well, the urge comes back and stronger than ever. His world slows down as his fist grows a mind of it's own and starts to rush toward Velvet's face in full force.
'NO, STOP!' He cries as Velvet closes her eyes and waits for the pain to come.
"STOP!" Someone breaks Natsu's trance just in the nick of time as his fist stops dead in it's tracks right above her nose.
Natsu breathes heavily and looks around, he finds Glynda and Grayfia kneeling next to her standing next to him with her hand in the air and Coco lying a few feet behind her with his gun, in her hands, aimed at him.
"Natsu? What's wrong?" Grayfia asks worryingly.
'I'm fine, that was a close one there.' Natsu assures.
Natsu sighs in relief and grabs Velvet by the waist and pulls her and himself up to their feet. Scarlatina opens her eyes to find herself on her feet with Natsu holding her with a smile on his face.
"That was awesome!" He cheers and gives her a quick hug.
"What...what happened?" She mutters as she watches Natsu pick Coco up to her feet but her legs wobble and she falls into his arms.
"That was interesting, team CFVY and Natsu showed quite the show tonight." Glynda interrupts, making Velvet jumps a little.
"Did we lose?"
"Yes and no..." She begins and the bunny tilts her head.
"But so did Natsu, just look at the results." Professor Glynda points to the screen and everyone's picture is on the screen, but all of them have a red bar under their pictures.
"It's...a draw?"
Glynda nods and approaches the front of the stage while Natsu helps Coco walk back to Velvet with Fox and Yatsuhashi limping behind them, "This match is over, the results, a draw!" She reveals.
The audience stops and takes a moment to process the results in their heads...
"YAY!" The room roars with cheers at the powerful display of power and skills on the stage. It made of been a draw, but the fight was satisfying on it's own by a long shot.
"Very impressive Natsu, you are a strong warrior, I respect that." Yatsuhashi praises as he slaps him on the back.
"I agree." Fox mutters as he stretches his body to relieve his muscle tension.
"I recommend all five of you to visit Ms. Eirwen's office to heal those injuries you inflicted on each other. I'll update your new room number after I take care of the rest of us.
Everyone nods to her and limps off the stage with Grayfia walking backwards in front of Natsu about how amazing he did in that match.
"Alright everyone...quiet down...it's time for some shut eye. I updated your new rooms in your scrolls, get some sleep everyone, you all will need for the long day tomorrow." Glynda instructs and watches all the second years leave toward their new rooms.
Nurse's...I mean...Doctor's office
"Ah, I was beginning to wonder if you'd show up at all." Team CVFY and Natsu hear as they walk into the Doctor's office.
"Hi Ms. Eirwen, are you sure this is okay? It's pretty late out." Velvet worries as Natsu leads her team to the medical beds, carrying Coco bridal-style.
"It's my job to heal Beacon's wounded hunters." Ms. Eirwen assures as she walks around a white curtain then toward Team CFVY sitting all on one bed, while Coco sits on Natsu's lap as she cuddles with him.
"Hey she looks different." Grayfia notes, as she sits behind Natsu, pointing at the approaching doctor.
Natsu raises his eyebrow as he looks at the doctor in front of him, she looks a lot younger than the first time they met maybe earlier 20s, and that was yesterday. Now Ms. Eirwen wears a long white coat over a blue turtle neck with a black shirt, black leggings and slip ons. Even her hair was let down into messy blob just like Grayfia, and her skin was a healthy shade of white like Velvet's or Ruby's skin tone.
"How does it look?" Yatsuhashi asks as the doctor examines his head and winces as she touches a bump on his head.
"You'll be fine, just rub this ointment on it and it'll heal over night." She instructs as she hands the tank a small cylinder container then looks at Fox's and Velvet's wounds.
"Hmm...this is nothing you haven't faced before...it's all just scratches and petty bruises. Just sleep on it tonight and your Aura will handle the rest." She suggests and finally looks at Coco hugging Natsu.
"And what happened to Ms. Adel...she looks completely fine?" The snow-haired maiden asks.
"She's been like that since the battle finished Ms. Eirwen." Velvet explains as the doctor touches Coco's stomach.
'Wind dust bullets...that's explains it...these bullets causes fatigue on impact with the target. Used mostly for non-lethal take-downs from a distance.' She mumbles as she senses faint dust energies on team CFVY's leader's tummy.
"She'll be fine, she just tired, that's all. Just get her to her room will you Natsu?" She asks.
"I got this covered Ms. Eirwen!" Natsu assures as she gives her his bright smile and gets back on his feet.
"Natsu? What about your check up?" Velvet asks but Natsu was already out the door.
Eirwen puts her hand on the bunny's shoulder in assurance, "He'll be fine, his Aura already healed his wounds."
She watches Velvet nod and follows Yatsuhashi and Fox out of the infirmary, as the door closes she walks back her desk and sits down.
"Are they gone?" She hears as the monitor in front of her turns on and shows Ozpin sitting at his desk with his mug cutting off at the right of the screen.
"Yes, they're gone Oz." She drops the formalities.
"Now back to what I was asking, what did you learn about Natsu?"
"His story is correct, the scars on his face and chest definitely came from last year, but he's hiding more scars under his jacket. I found numerous scars just a big as the one he shows on his chest and face." She reports.
"And what about the condition of his eye Ms. Eirwen?"
"...His eye is in perfect condition...but he can't see through it. When I opened it, his eye reacted to the change of light but he showed no response of the change."
"Ms. Eirwen is something wrong?"
"..."
"..."
"..."
"I think she was talking to him yesterday..." She admits.
There is an awkward pause between the two as Ozpin's eyes darken, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, when I finished preparing Burgundy's body for...that...I returned to my office to find Natsu on the ground in front of a fading black smoke. I must of been her Oz." She warns.
"...I believe you, sigh, what we need to do is protect him from her grasps and convince him to join us. You said that you've met him before, surely you would have influence over this course of action if you justed talked to him. You are a maiden after all so I fully believe you can convince him Ms. Eirwen." Ozpin suggests.
The nurse slightly flinches at the word maiden but hides her discomfort.
"That may be true, but about that...I didn't met him directly...Oz..." She trails off trying to think of something else to change the subject.
"What do you mean?" He asks.
"It all started at the STRQ incident..." She starts as she stares out the window, behind her desk, and looks at the broken moon in the night sky.
Unknown Location
"Hello again, I assume you have good news for me?" A familiar woman in red talks to someone on her scroll while standing on a rooftop over looking the docks of Vale while the moon light reflects on the salty ocean below. The woman is the beautiful Cinder Fall.
"Of course, General Ironwood just put me in charge of programing the AK-200s A.I to the A.C.T, this should increase the virus's completion by a hefty rate, but I'm rumors of the AK-200s being deployed by the A.A.S."
"My My, you sure have a lot of abbreviations." Cinder teases.
"It wasn't my idea, anyway, if theses rumors are true. Then that virus won't do jack if the bots are out of range."
"And you have an answer to that I presume?"
"Yeah, General Ironwood needs to be in range of any of the four communication towers to use the bots, I suggest when you want to use the virus, use it near a communication tower. That'll enhance the range of the virus, but use this carefully. I can't make any more once you use it, it's my job to prevent virus like this never come back for seconds."
"We'll work it out, just get it done, we're still on schedule and I want to keep it that way." Cinder warns.
"I understand, sigh, here comes the General, we'll talk later...beep." The calls ends with a beep and Cinder smiles as everything goes along right on schedule then calls some one else on her phone with the name, Em.
"Cinder, what's going on?" Cinder hears a droopy voice on the other end of the line.
"You sound tired Emerald, is this a bad time?" She asks teasingly.
"N...no...I was...just going to call you. I got those blueprints you wanted." Emerald reports sounding a little sick.
"Oh really? That's great news Emerald, good work." She praises.
"...Why...do we need these again?"
"We need to know how to use our new toys. So think of them as manuals for them."
"Right..."
"When you return, report back to base, you know where to find me." Cinder orders.
"You got...it...I'll see you later, bye...beep." Emerald assures and ends the call.
Cinder smiles devilishly to herself as she looks up to the broken moon, 'All in due time...the world will burn...I'll make sure of it.'
Dormitories, Beacon Academy
"Here we are, room 15." Velvet mutters as she opens the door with her team and Natsu standing behind her.
"Can you hurry this up Natsu, I'm tired and I want my man with me tonight." Grayfia whines as she yawns standing next to her lover.
'Just a little longer Grayfia...' Natsu assures as team CFVY walk into the dark room in front of him.
One by one, team CFVY and Natsu falls into the room then close the room behind them. Velvet turns on the light and she sees only a plain room with four red beds at the back of the room.
"We'll take the ones on the right, you and Coco can take the ones on the left." Yatsuhashi informs as he and Fox head over to the beds on the right side of the room.
Velvet and Natsu don't say anything as they head over to the two beds on the left side of the room, "You can put Coco down here." The bunny suggests as she sits down on a bed while pointing to the empty bed in front of her.
"That was some fight huh, your team are sure are something special." Natsu mutters as her tries to free himself Coco's strong grip.
Velvet blushes at his praise, "Really? I don't think we're that special."
"Ah don't be silly, if it was up to me, I'll say you guys beat me by a long shot." Natsu admits as Coco finally lets go of him and spreads herself all over the bed.
"I don't know about that, you did take down Yatsu and Fox all in one go and on top of that, you defeated Coco without even breaking a sweat. I think you're stronger than all of us combined."
"But you did beat me into a pulp and the end." He points out.
"Me?"
"Yeah don't you remember, you're the one who turn the tables on me in the end. You even took my revolver and used it against me." He explains as he taps the side of his holster, now holding his black fire arm.
"That...but that was-" Velvet tires to explain.
"I think you're the one who changed the fate of that battle. If it wasn't for you, I would of won that match, you're really a strong person you know that Velvet." The Dread Hunter interjects.
Velvet's eyes widen at the pinky's confession, 'Me? Strong?'
"Well, I think I overstayed my visit, I'll see you tomorrow!" Natsu says his farewells and walks out the room.
The Faunus feels her heart flutter again as she thinks of the pinky, 'Thank you Natsu.' She thinks as she puts her hand over her heart and smiles to herself.
"~It's about time handsome, come here~" Grayfia calls lustfully as she watches Natsu walk into his room.
Natsu looks toward his bed and finds Grayfia covering her naked body with only his red blanket while smiling to him.
"I'm so tired Grayfia!" Natsu groans as he slowly hops his way to his bed while undressing himself.
"I'll make you feel ~all~ better." She moans as a shirtless Natsu falls on her and buries his head between her cleavage like every night before.
Death smiles as Natsu wraps his arms around her and goes to sleep.
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"Good night hotshot."
My...my god...is this real. Do my eyes deceive me! No way, 70+ favorites and 100+ follows.
You readers have my respect and utmost gratitude my people.
NOW FOR SOME IMPORTANT NEW!
The results for the pool regarding Natsu's pairing are in...and the survey said...
NO PAIRING...Yay no love for Natsu this is great-Yeah no that's not what went down.
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What really when down was...HAREM!
It was pretty one-sided with 10+ votes to harem, 4 to single pairing and 0 to no pairing.
So congratulations to the ones who voted and the ones who wanted harem.
That being said...let's get down the business and...defeat the huns-I mean who will officially be in Natsu's harem?
So here's this list of girls who will be in Natsu's harem (These girls were chosen by you readers...not me)
Good Girls/Women
Blake Belladonna
Coco Adel
Death "Grayfia"
Glynda Goodwitch
Pyrrha Nikos
Winter Schnee
Yang Xiao Long
Bad Girls/Women
Cinder Fall
Neopolitan
This list is not complete and will be a list on my profile, and future chapters.
Okay, now let's get down to the good stuff.
CFVY- Natsu seems to love sweets and he can hold his own against all four of them.
Ms. Eirwen- She's is the WINTER MAIDEN if you haven't figured that out by now...and she met Natsu at an event called the STRQ Incident.
Is Natsu a zombie- He doesn't have the cravings to eat other people but he is UNDEAD. Remember Grayfia's explanation, 'Nope...you're still dead...but you're here...on Remnant...breathing and still kicking.'
Operation Red Maiden- Don't worry, this is the one out of two times you will see those Shock Troopers so don't get attached.
ST- Shock Trooper, not Saint.
That sniper that ST. Aeron has is a M700 sniper rifle without the scope.
Aeron- means battle...roughly slaughter
THE MOLE- Someone else is working behind the scenes with Cinder...interesting
"..."- I hope that I held back on the ellipses this chapter.
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