"Why did 7 8 9?"
"That's just sickening."
'Who would do such a thing?'
Sounds are sounds
Ms. Eirwen, Members of ASTU, Members of VPS, Burgundy Clancy, Nila Indigo, and all other Ocs of my creation are owned by me.
-Thank you-
"Are you a veteran Glynda?" Natsu asks his cherished mentor as they walks down the streets of Vale.
The two hunters are on another one of their 'Educational Field Trips' to Vale, today is a special day because today is the day for the ones who put themselves in front of harm's way to protect the innocent. Today is Veteran's day, a day where all who served have a day to finally be rewarded for their sacrifice and valor on the battlefield.
"Me? A veteran?" Glynda mumbles and wounder the same question to herself for a moment then comes to an answer, "I guess so Natsu, I have served under the Atlas Flag once I graduated from Atlas Academy for a few years. Those years I traveled all around Atlas by myself. You see I worked alone, anyways I've saved many from the creatures and darkness till Professor Ozpin offered me a place, here in Vale, as a professor at Beacon Academy. And the rest is history Natsu, so yes, I am a veteran." The blond beauty explains and stops in front of a familiar shop of an old friend.
"Wow...is Nila a veteran too?" Natsu asks as he opens the door for Glynda like the gentlemen he his.
"How about you ask that yourself Natsu, she could use the companionship." She suggests and smiles at his curiosity as the two walk into the store.
"~Well hello hello hello~ What can I do for you two today?" Nila greets the two in a happy singsong tone, organizing some ammo boxes on a shelf by the front counter.
"Nila! Happy Veteran's day!" Natsu calls as he runs toward the Atlas veteran.
The brown haired woman smiles as she feels her favorite costumer wrap his arms around her, "Aw Natsu, come to visit again?" She asks, playing with Natsu's pink hair.
"You're working today Nila? Today is your special day isn't it?" Glynda asks, noticing the cart behind Nila filled with ammo boxes of various types.
"Hmm...oh yeah, it is but you know I'm the kind of person to sit around." She plays it off plainly.
"Well if you're working then, I guess Natsu here will have to ask you another time." Glynda explains and slowly begins to walk toward the front door of the famous weapons store.
"Ask me what?" Nila yells at Glynda, her teasing pipes her curiosity so she looks down to the one hugging her, "Natsu? What is she talking about?"
As Natsu reveals his face from her chest Glynda snaps her fingers to grab his attention, "Natsu, Nila is working, we don't want to keep her busy so let us go." She explains then continues her way toward the door.
"But we just got here...sigh...okay bye Nila." Natsu gives in and begins to let go of Nila.
To his surprise Nila tightens her grip around Natsu and looks at Glynda with a pout, "Fine Glynda you win, I guess I can take a break for a few minutes."
Still with her back away from everyone, Glynda forms a small smirk on her face, "Wonderful."
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After Glynda convince her old friend to take a break, she took her and Natsu to a nearby cafe to eat, now they sit at an outdoor table, listening to Nila tell her experiences back when she was a soldier for Atlas.
"After I graduated from Atlas academy I joined the military, I wasn't qualified to become a specialist so I was enlisted to the ASTU program. There I was trained to become the leader of a small squad of soldiers that operate deep into Grimm territory. Our mission was to clear Grimm infested regions for Atlas expansion or to provide reconnaissance on current Grimm activity." Nila begins her tale of valor and bravery as she takes off her trusted beret then hands it to Natsu.
Natsu gently takes the fancy and examines the patch of the hat with the up most care, 'Whoa, it's look so cool up close'
"That little patch is our logo, some say we're the best of the best once it comes to reconnaissance. I got that on my first mission and it's been with me through out my career as an shock trooper." Nila explains, with a nostalgic tone in her voice remember all those operations she lead.
Natsu listens in awe as he tries to imagine Nila rushing into battle against a hoard of Grimm with only a rifle in her hands but a question pops in his head that breaks his imagination, "But why did you leave?"
"Leave? Ah yes, one stay shot hit me right on my chest, barely missed my heart, on an op in the mountains in Atlas. I remember it like it was yesterday." She says as Natsu hands back her beret.
Great White Mountains, Atlas Region
1800 Hours
Operation Groundhog
ST Nila Indigo leads her team into the Great White Mountains of Atlas to recover a important R&D scientist held hostage by the White Fang.
As the broken moon begins to make it's way toward the middle of the sky, down below the ground is snow, snow that covers the large mountains of Atlas. This is where one of many White Fang strongholds is located, naturally this place was selected by the White Fang for it's natural barrier of snow, covering the stronghold in a white blanket to hide it from the rest of the world.
100 yards from the stronghold is a little hill the over looks, of what could be, the entrance of the facility. This vantage point is where Nila's team is deployed. Nila is crawling her way up the hill where she can make out an unnatural lump in the snow with a familiar black barrel sticking out of the white lump.
"What do you see Aeron?" She asks as she scans the fortified buildings below for any contact out on patrols.
"I see four, two on the catwalk above the front gate and two sentries below it. Not many guards around than intel suggested, I guess we got lucky." The sniper reports as he scans the entrance again for any new contact.
"I guess your right, keep me posted, we're moving in." Nila orders and looks behind her with her finger in the air, moving in a circular moment. After this actions, two white lumps in the snow emerge from the ground as they slowly crawl toward her.
Nila doesn't say a word as she rises up into a crouched position then sneaks to the front gate with her two teammates right on her six.
"Where is everyone? I thought this was a stronghold?" One of Nila's teammates mumbles.
"I know what you mean, I get a bad feeling about this, low security, no activity for hours. Something isn't right about this." The other teammate agrees.
"Approaching gate, cut the chatter." Nila interrupts as she takes cover inside a natural trench just on the front gate's left flank.
The three watch as the guards stand idly for their watch to end, the faunus closest to the three sighs loudly and kicks the snow in front of him.
The sentry mumbles something to himself as Nila tags all four of the sentries, creating little red outlines on all of Nila's team's huds.
"Pick your targets, I got the right one on the catwalk." Aeron suggests as a red laser is pointed at his target's head and follows it smoothly as the target walks to his comrade on the catwalk.
Nila and the two with her raise their rifles and aim at their targets effortlessly and waits for Nila to sound the signal. The team leader takes a deep breath and whispers, "Fire." Then muffles shots emit from the rifles of the recon unit, the White Fang members don't hear a thing as their heads are pierced with dust bullets. The four watch as the terrorist drop to the ground and soak the snow beneath them with their blood.
"Nice job, moving." Nila orders then pulls herself out of the snow trench and moves in on the fallen faunus' positions.
"Ashley, get the gate open, we'll provide security." She commands and crouches next to a keypad on a pillar that connects to the large metal gate.
"I'm on it." The trooper named Ashley lowers her weapon and pulls out a little device, looking like a USB drive, then plugs it into the little keypad.
Nila and the remaining Atlas trooper kill time by covering the bodies of the fallen with snow but they leave the bodies on the catwalk since they can't reach the bodies.
"I got it!" Ashley mumbles as a loud click can be heard by the three, this activates the gate's opening mechanism, making the metal gate to split into two, each half moving to it's own side of the wall.
As the large metal curtain opens, the three hug the wall till the gate opens up complete, when it opens the three quickly rush into the stronghold and hugs the right wall, following it to a door.
"I have no eyes inside the compound so you three are your own, watch yourselves in their." Aeron warns.
"10-4, we'll be out in no time." Ashley replies as Nila slowly opens the door in front of her then goes inside.
Inside the building is a neat little barracks with rows of green cots that filled the room. Seeing the number of cots raises some question for the squad leader, "I don't think four soldiers would need this many cots." She mumbles as the small team moves through the room.
"Heads up, multiple bullheads moving into the stronghold, I suggest you get that VIP now." Nila hears on comms, making the three tense up at this new report.
"How many?" She asks.
"Too many, we can't handle this big of a force if we get spotted."
"Acknowledge, come on, let's fine that VIP." Nila rallies and the three move out of the barracks.
Entering a new room, a hallway, they hear several bullheads landing outside in the courtyard of the stronghold.
The three take cover by a window looking into the courtyard, "Aeron, report."
"..."
"Aeron, report."
Nila begins to think something happened to Aeron as four bullheads land in the courtyard, "Aeron here, I moved to position bravo, I got eyes in the courtyard."
"Copy." She mumbles as waves and waves of White Fang soldiers fill the courtyard and all form up in several lines as two unique individuals converse in front of the hoard of faunus. One was a woman dressed in red with dust infused into the cloth, and the other was a red haired man dressed in black with a Grimm mask covering his face.
"Who are they?" Ashley mumbles as she pops her head out from her cover, exposing herself a little too much that the enemy could spot her.
Her eyes widen as something pulls her down, she drops to the floor and finds Nila holding her down with her finger on her lips, telling her to keep quiet. She could feel that someone was looking toward their position after she pulled Ashley to the ground.
After waiting for a few moment Nila slowly peeks over to the window to find that the woman in red and the man in black stare at two soldiers dragging a person with a bag over the person's head toward them.
"Is that the VIP?" Nila asks.
"Had to be, fits the description." Ashley mumbles, looking at the dirty lab coat the person is wearing.
They three notice that the man and the woman are getting on a bullhead with the prisoner closing in on the bullhead, 'They're moving the target!' Nila realizes and calls Aeron.
"Aeron do you have a shot?"
"Got eyes on the one in black, he's covering the VIP though." He reports.
As the prisoner approaches the bullhead, she realizes that her chance to save the VIP is closing quickly. This is when Nila grabs a flashbang from her belt and aims it at the bullhead, "Take the shot NOW!" She orders and throws the flashbang through the window.
All in the courtyard turn to the sound of the breaking window as the flashbang lands right in front of the prisoner, "GRENADE!" One soldiers screams and begins to flee the scene as a small bang goes off, blinding all in the courtyard. Nila watches as the one in black steps back and covers his eyes, in the confusion Aeron takes the shot and hits the man's shoulder. Blood splats on the snow as he yelps in pain, he then steps back and falls on his back in the bullhead. The woman in red drags the man further into the bullhead as it rises up from the ground.
As the bullhead flees the stronghold Nila opens fire on the confused hoard of terrorist, "Open fire!" She orders and fires her standard Atlas rifle into the group of enemies in front of her. Her two teammates do the same, making each bullet count as they kill one faunus after another.
The ambush is effected, the faunus begin to scatter behind cover or behind the remaining bullheads. The company of terrorist are so confused they're firing their weapons blindly from their cover, hoping to kill whoever ambushed them.
"Keep it up, they think there are more of us then we really are." Nila rallies.
One bullhead begins to flee just to have its pilot be shot from Aeron, making the large helicopter to crash right into the front gate and explode into a fireball.
What seemed to be a least 50 soldiers have been cut down to 4 in a matter of a few minutes of combat. During the firefight, the prisoner didn't know what to do once she fell to the ground so she began to crawl away from the sounds of combat.
The remaining four soldiers hunker down behind a bullhead, looking for the sniper that shot the man in black.
The three stop firing and move out from the building they were in and move toward the prisoner moving toward the flaming bullhead crashed on the front gate. One of the soldiers spots the Atlas soldiers and pops out of his cover with his smg in hand.
"Free-" He warns but Aeron puts a bullet in his head before he could pull the trigger. His teammates watch as his brains are scattered across the snow and bullhead in front of them.
Ashley finishes off the remaining soldier with a standard frag grenade and tosses it right under the bullhead. On impact the three faunus break from cover scared for their lives. One faunus runs directly toward Nila, the team leader turns around swiftly and slams the rifle's stock on the soldier's cheek, putting him out cold. The grenade goes off and screams can be heard as blood covers the bullhead.
"Area secured." Nila mumbles and picks up the VIP and removes the bag from her head. Nila reveals a scared green haired lady.
"Ms. Greene, we're here to save you." Nila calms the scientist.
Greene doesn't say a words an nods softly, "Come one let's go." She suggests and takes her to the remaining bullhead.
"Aeron, move to evac position delta. We'll pick you via bullhead." Nila orders as she leads her team and the VIP to the last bullhead.
"Ashley take the stick." She says as she helps Greene onto the bullhead while her teammates following behind her.
"Right." Ashley complies and takes a seat in front of the bullhead and readies the helicopter for lift off.
"Reinforcements inbound!" The medic of the three reports and engages an incoming bullhead.
"Come on, get us out of here!" Nila yells at Ashley and watches as the medic of the group gets filled with bullets from the enemy heli.
Nila covers Greene from the spray of bullets as the bullhead flies over them. She turns to find her teammate dead on her back with blood forming a puddle below her.
"Red's down!" She screams as she stumbles over to the soldier and checks a pulse as the bullhead rises from the ground and speeds toward LZ Delta.
Nila checks the pulse of the one named Red but she already knows that she's dead the second she fell on her back. She grits her teeth in anger and looks for the enemy airship.
"Tango on our six!" Ashley reports, spotting the bullhead right behind her.
The enemy starts to open fire on them and Nila gets on a 134 minigun on the side of the bullhead. She then turns to the bullhead chasing behind her and pulls the trigger. The 6-barreled gun slowly begins to spin up and unleashes a swarm of dust bullets into the air toward the enemy bullhead.
Nila watches as the enemy heli takes some evasive maneuvers to avoid the gunfire from Nila. Ashley takes the ship around to finish off the bullhead. Now on the enemy's six, Nila sprays another volley at the fleeing bullhead, she watches as she shreds the back of the heli, making a small explosion where the bullhead's mechanical insides are exposed to the elements. The flaming scrap bucket falls to the earth, on impact, the bullheads blows up into a large fireball that melts some of the snow surrounding the crash site.
"Threat eliminated." Ashley reports and returns to her route to pick of Aeron.
The sniper on the ground watches his team approach from the sky, the bullhead lands smoothly behind his position.
Aeron gets up and feels the weight of the snow fall off him as he hops on the bullhead. He frowns at the sight of the body lying next to him covering in blood.
"I'm...I'm sorry." He hears from Nila.
He doesn't seem to hear her, instead he picks up his dead comrade and lays her gently on the seat closest to him.
"Let's get out of here, get her home." He mumbles.
Nila and Ashley remain silent as the bullhead again rises from the ground. Before Nila could relax a she spots out of the corner of her eye that Greene is looking at something with fear in her eyes.
"Ms. Greene, what's wrong?" She asks.
BANG
A sharp pain can be felt emitting from Nila's chest as a loud clack is heard from behind her. She groans as she looks down to her chest, she slowly touches her chest a feels her pain worsen when she touches her chest. The team leader quickly removes her hand from her chest and finds her hand covered in her blood. Then she begins to feel tried, making her lose her balance and fall on one of the bullhead seats.
She turns her head to the side to find a bloody White Fang falling to the ground and Aeron pointing his rifle at the soldier as the bullhead finally makes a route back to base.
"Boss!" She hears as Aeron moves to her and puts his hands on her chest.
"Hey hang in there!" He says before Nila knocks out from the pain.
-Flashback end-
"I was out for a few days before I woke up in the hospital. I recovered easily, it wasn't something too serious, but after I could walk on my own two feet I was honorably discharged for the wound I received from the extraction. Now with no job I decided to start up my own shop down here in Vale with the money I got from the military for my service...and the rest is history." Nila finishes her story with an empty tea cup in front of her.
"That's amazing!" Natsu exclaims, marveled at Nila's story.
Right on time, a waitress stops by their table, "~Here's your receipt, thank you for stopping by~" She says and smiles brightly at the three before leaving to serve the other customers of the cafe.
"Ah...thank you?" Glynda mumbles and looks at the piece of paper in front of her. It has everything they ordered on the receipt but the cost was all 0.00 Lien. Everything they got is on the house, even the waitress left a little smiley face with a note with it.
'Thank you for your service!' Glynda reads and looks for the waitress with a confused look on her face.
"Glynda? Is something wrong?" Nila asks.
After searching for the waitress with no success, Glynda sighs and shakes her head, "No it's nothing."
"I guess were done here, it was fun Glynda, Natsu, but I have to get back to work. Can't leave the store unattended for too long." Nila explains and smiles at the two.
Natsu frowns a little but quickly hides it, "Okay, bye Nila." He says and gives her a quick hug to say his goodbyes.
"Don't look so down Natsu, we'll see each other again." She assures as she breaks the hug.
"Back to work then Nila." Glynda says.
"Yup, see you two later." Nila says her goodbyes and returns to her shop of weapons.
As soon as she out of sight Glynda hears her tablet go off with a little tune, she pulls out her trusted tablet and turns it on to find that Yang is calling her.
She presses a button to receive the call, "Ms. Xiao Long, do you require my assistance?" She asks.
"Professor Goodwitch, is Natsu with you, I have to ask him something."
"Yes he's with me, but why didn't you call his scroll?"
"I did but I went straight to voice mail."
Glynda softly sighs at the possibility that Natsu lost his scroll but let's him off the hook for now, "I'll put him on Ms. Xiao Long." She assures and holds out the tablet to Natsu, "It's for you Natsu."
Natsu tilts his head and takes the tablet, "Hello?"
"Yo Natsu, have you seen Blake by chance? Ruby, Weiss, and I've been looking for her since yesterday." He hears Yang over the tablet.
"Blake, no I haven't seen her, is everything alright?"
"It's a long story, but if you're willing to help. We're by the Dust Till Dawn shop right now."
"Sure I'll help, but don't wait up, we'll find her faster if we split up."
"Alright if you say so, call us if you find her yeah?"
"You got it, I'll call you if anything pops up bye."
"Yup, later." Yang ends the calls followed by a simple beep.
Natsu hands back the tablet to Glynda, "Ms. Belladonna is missing Natsu?"
"Yeah, I'm going to look around here for a bit, do you want to tag along?"
"No that's alright Natsu, I must return to Beacon, I have some pressing matters to attend to. Good luck on your search Natsu." Glynda politely declines.
"Okay that's cool, see you later!" Natsu splits with Glynda after giving her a quick hug.
Glynda watches as her student runs off into the crowd of people in the plaza with a smile on her face, she beginning to get attached to the young hunter.
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"Blake Blake Blake, where could she be?" Natsu mumbles to himself while walking casually down a random street in Vale.
He sighs to himself and stops in an alleyway, 'This is getting me nowhere, let's hope I didn't lose my touch.' He thinks and closes his eye to activate his sensing ability.
All he sees is darkness with multiple blue souls scattered around him, he does spot a group of three souls, one rose red, one fiery orange, and the other a icy blue. 'There's Yang the others, now where's Blake?' He mumbles and takes another deep breath to focus his sight. He see a bird's eye view of he area around him. Through the hoard of blue souls, to the north is team RWBY while to the south is an interesting dark purple soul with a golden yellow soul.
'Who's she with?' He thinks but ignores any possibility that he knows that person and moves on.
"Gotcha!" He whispers and opens his eye, then makes a beeline to Blake's position.
It doesn't take long for Natsu to reach Blake, he turns a corner and spots Blake sitting at a table drinking tea with a yellowed haired faunus.
The Dread Hunter waste no time getting to Blake as he runs up the some stairs and stops next to Blake and the faunus.
He notices Blake's eyes widen as he approaches, "Natsu?!" She gasps almost choking on the tea she's drinking.
"Who's scarface over here? You know'm." The faunus asks then takes a sip of his tea with his messy monkey tail.
Natsu turns to the faunus, "I'm Natsu."
The faunus holds out his fist to him, making Natsu fist bump him, "Sup Natsu, name's Sun." The faunus greets him.
"What are you doing here Natsu?" Blake interrupts slightly annoyed to see him here.
"Yang said you been gone since yesterday, she asked me to help her and the others to look for you and here I am." Natsu explains.
"The others?"
"Yeah, Weiss, and Ruby are looking for you too."
Blake's eyes squint at the mention of Weiss, "Well Yang that I'm doing just fine, I just need some time away from them right now."
"Time away? What happened between you and Weiss?" Natsu asks.
"How'd you know?" Blake says a little bit surprised.
"Wow, I've been trying to make her talk since I met her yesterday, and you come and she start talking her head off. All this time she's been sighing and giving me dirty looks." Sun mumbles, making Blake glare at him grimly.
"Like that one."
"Sigh, It doesn't matter anymore, do you two know about the White Fang?" She asks.
Natsu pulls a chair from another empty table and sits between Sun and Blake, "Yeah, every Faunus on the plant knows about them, personally I think they're a bunch of no good cheats and thugs." Sun explains.
'I've heard of them before." Natsu thinks and shakes his head, "Are you sure, aren't the White Fang a bunch of protesters? I don't think protesters would be filled with bad people." Natsu interrupts.
"That's the old White Fang, they used to be all about peaceful protests and boycotts. That all changed once that leader stepped down from leadership, letting new management to take over. This is when protest became organized attacks on companies that used faunus labor and boycotts became robberies. It was only a mattered of time till the faunus people started to become equally treated in the public eye, but this wasn't out of the goodness of their heart, it was out of fear." Blake gives the run down of the faunus group White Fang.
"You sure know a lot about them, the White Fang I mean." Sun mumbles and takes a sip of tea in front of him.
"That's because..." She stops and looks at Natsu for a second, a little hesitant to reveal her secret.
"What Blake?" Natsu persists.
"It's because I was a member of the White Fang." She drops the bomb on the two hunters.
Sun slightly chokes on his tea and coughs a little bit while Natsu only tilts his head.
"For how long?" Natsu asks.
"My whole childhood, but I swear I left once the White Fang changed, I didn't what to use my skills to hurt others. So I left before I could do any harm to anyone, enrolling into Beacon to become a hunter, using my skills for the greater good for everyone. Not just for Faunus gain, so here I am...a criminal hiding in plain sight with the help of a simple black bow." Blake defends herself, thinking Natsu sees her as a terrorist after revealing her secret.
"I still don't like that bow." Natsu mumbles and crosses his arms then nods his head determinedly.
"True...very true, you're telling us this now, but have you told your friends." Sun asks, "Besides scarface..."
"Yes, this isn't the first time I've told someone this, but I'm telling you two now because I got a feeling that the White Fang are planning something are behind the dust shop robberies going around this past week. I think they're planing on raiding a big dust shipment coming into the city's docks tonight and I want to stop them from capturing that cargo." She explains.
'That must be why she's running from Weiss, she never liked the White Fang.' Natsu realizes.
"Taking down some bad guys and stopping the plans of evil doers in the progress...I'm down." Sun assures and punches his fists together.
"Now that's what I like to hear, three hunters go against terrorists and save the city." Natsu agrees.
Blake looks down at her cup and thinks, 'I can't tell them to leave, they'll just follow me anyways, Natsu might even bring Yang and the others with him if he has the chance. I can't bring them into this, I just can't.'
The faunus of the night sighs, "I guess I can't say no."
Hearing this Natsu and Sun's expressions brighten, "Alright! Time to enforce justice!" Sun yells in determination.
"To battle we fight!" Natsu cheers and stands in front of the two, getting weird stares from everyone around him.
"Come on let's go before you two draw anymore attention." Blake interrupts and walks away from the table after leaving a card of Lien to pay for the drinks. As Sun walks down the stairs, Blake waits for Natsu to past by and she stops him by grabbing his shoulder.
"Natsu, don't tell the others about this, I don't want them to get involved." She pleas.
The teen takes a moment to think about this but he gives in, "Fine, but you have to face them sooner or later, they are your teammates after all." He warns and follows Sun down to the docks.
-1900 Hours-
The three hunters stayed around the docks for a few hours till the sun when down, they spotted the cargo carrier and now are watching for any White Fang activity. From a ledge a few yards away from the ship, Natsu and Blake watch the ship closely with stern eye(s).
The two hear someone land beside them and they turn to the sound, they find Sun with his arms filled with fruits in his hands.
"Stole some food, want some?" He offers, holding out a green apple to Blake.
"Nope I'm good, once I start eating I can't stop." Natsu declines and returns to his recon position.
"Do you always break the law without remorse?" Blake plainly asks, not hungry what so ever.
"Weren't you in a terrorist organization?" Sun retorts.
"Ooooo...too soon." Natsu whispers.
Before Sun could say anything, a spotlight turns passes over them as a bullhead flies, then lands, into the dock. They watch as a squad of masked men with weapons in hand walk off the bullhead's cargo ramp.
"I'm guessing that's them?" Natsu mumbles.
"Yes, that's them, I knew I was right...I just didn't want to accept it." Blake replies but goes on alert once a familiar face walks out of the bullhead.
A man dressed in a which trench-coat and a black bowler hat, Roman Torchwick. They watch as he orders the faunus to pick up something under the bullhead and tug it over to one of the dust containers nearby.
"Hey?! It's that guy when I met Ruby." Dragneel mumbles and points at Roman.
"You know that guy?" Sun asks.
"Yeah, I saw him a few months ago when I first moved to Vale, he was robbing a Dust store."
"This isn't right, why are the White Fang following orders from a human." Blake interrupts and jumps down from their sneaky spot.
"Blake wait!" Natsu calls but Blake was already on the ground when he calls out to her.
"What is she doing?!" Sun whispers.
The two watch Blake get the jump on Roman and hold him hostage, "What do we do?" Sun asks looking at Natsu for answers.
Natsu looks at Blake then back to Sun, "Well there's no going back now, let's move in." Natsu plans and jumps down after Blake.
"Nice! The fight begins!" Sun mutters and follows Natsu.
While running toward Blake, another bullhead join the raid and hovers between Blake and Natsu. Then more White Fang drop right in front of Natsu's and Sun's way to Blake.
Sun clicks his tongue, "They're blocking the way!"
"Get to Blake, I'll boost you over." Natsu plans and gathers wind in his hands.
"What about you?" Sun ask getting ready to jump.
"I got this...COVERED!" Natsu assures as Sun runs up to him and jumps over him, Dragneel turns and launches the wind in his hands toward Sun. Making the faunus easily cross the wall of the 10 soldiers under him.
The soldiers in front of Natsu ignore Sun's advance and focus on the one in front of them, Natsu. All of the soldier have melee weapons of swords or batons.
"Come on! Get'm!" Natsu hears one faunus order and five of the 10 faunus charge him ready to take him out.
"Okay, no guns, I can do that." Dragneel mutters and changes into his CQC stance, which looks like a dragon ready to strike.
Two faunus swing first, one with an overhead strike with a baton, and the other going for the side slash with a sword.
Natsu counters the sword by kicking the sword away from him and stops the baton by catching the user's wrist with his right hand. While the one with the sword staggers back, he strikes the one with the baton dead on his cheek, sending him crashing to the ground. The punch was so powerful the mask of the faunus shattered into bits. He finishes the other faunus by kicking his face with a roundhouse kick, forcing the thug spinning into three of his allies behind him, effectively taking care of the first wave of five faunus.
The second and last wave of faunus all charge Natsu without warning screaming their battle cries. With multiple enemies at once, Natsu quickly charges up a wind ball in his hand then launches it to the closest faunus, sending half the fighting force flying back several yards away from him. With the remaining two thugs, Natsu raises his hand into the air, summoning a stone pillar in front of him, protecting him from the attack.
Continuing his defense, Dragneel kicks the stone wall forward, sending the whole stone wall forward. The two remaining faunus run back with the wall at the six. To their surprise another stone wall rises from the ground in front of them and blocks their path. It is too late for the two as the two stone walls squish the two together with such a force that both the walls exploded into little stone rocks, leaving the two grunts on the floor out cold.
Happy with his work the Dread Hunter claps his hand together in pride, but an explosion interrupts his fun, turning around he finds a bullhead crashed into the ground of the dock. Not to far from the fire is a orange haired girl dressed in a green and black outfit with a oddly clueless look on her face. He takes a moment to study her...'soul'...and finds it a light green color with the smell of metal around it.
'Someone likes their armor.' He assumes and spots Roman Torchwick fleeing the dock by a bullhead.
Roman spots Natsu and he glares at him, 'I know that face.' He thinks then pulls out a scroll from his inside pocket and turns it on. Natsu's face pops on the screen and makes him grin slightly.
"Jackpot." He whispers and closes the side door of the bullhead with his crime cane.
Natsu grits his teeth as the bullhead flees from the scene, but begins to panic when he spots the orange haired girl point her swords at him. "Are you a friend or foe?"
He puts his hands up, "Friend, definitely friend." He explains as he hears police sirens closing in on their location.
"Natsu!" Ruby interrupts and runs up to him.
Seeing Ruby's reaction to Natsu, the orange haired girl lays down her swords and puts them away.
"Ruby, do you know this man?"
"Yeah Penny, this is Natsu, he's my friend."
Strangely Penny faces Natsu and straightens her back, "Salutations Natsu, My name is Penny, I am also a friend of Ruby." The girl words her introduction weirdly.
Ruby blushes at her introduction but Natsu doesn't seem to notice it, "Hi Penny, I saw you fighting back there, I got to say that was amazing. You stopped that bullhead from stealing those dust containers, nice job." He praises and pats her on the back.
"Thank you very much Natsu, I was trained to be combat ready!" Penny explains and nods to him assuringly.
"Aw yeah did you see that, it was like we were in a movie. I was a like bam, pow, then you were all like cashaa!" Sun joins the group.
"Are these your friends as-" Penny starts.
"Yes Penny, that's Blake and that's...um..." Ruby points out but stops when she sees Sun.
"I know right and I launched you in the air it was so...oh He's Sun...we're buds." Natsu explains and the two fist bump each other.
"What's up." Sun introduces himself.
"Hello."
"Salutations, I'm-"
Ruby and Penny introduce themselves while Natsu spots Blake holding a White Fang grunt by the collar. Natsu leaves the group to calm her down.
"What is the White Fang PLANING!" Blake yells at a wounded faunus by the bullhead crash.
"I...don't know...I swear..." He mumbles before passing out.
"Hey, wake up! Tell me!" Blake shakes the faunus.
"Blake, he's out cold, let it go." Natsu interrupts.
The cat lady looks at him then sighs, she drops him on the floor and crosses her arms, "They got away...again."
"Yeah they did, but they didn't take a single gram of dust with them. So I saw today's battle is a victory with a capital V!" Natsu tries to cheer her up.
"I wouldn't call this a victory, this is only the beginning, I just know it."
"Isn't that always the case." He assumes and looks up to the big moon in the sky.
"What?" She asks and stands next to Natsu as he gazes to the sky above.
"It's like a cycle, something bad goes down, heroes fight the villains, someone wins, then something worst goes down. We're never given the chance to rest..." He explains with his hands above his head.
Blake raises an eyebrow at his words and lets him continue, "Until today."
"Huh."
"Come on, isn't it obvious."
"I don't get what you mean." Blake asks.
Natsu only chuckles and wraps his arms around the black cat, hugging her from behind, "Natsu?!"
"You really don't get it do you?" He whispers in her eyes and slides his hands up her body.
Belladonna blushes madly at his boldness, "Natsu, what are you doing?!"
"It's because we have Monday off." He explains and lets go of her body.
'What?'
Natsu frowns, "We don't have school tomorrow so we can sleep in tonight." He explains like it was an obvious answer.
It takes Blake a moment to realize that Natsu was joking and a small smile creeps on her lips. Natsu notices this and smiles, "That's it! You know I love your smile." He admits.
The lady killer's words mark a critical hit on her heart string, making her blush again, "Really?" She whispers.
"Yeah...and these ears."
"My ears?...wait...~ahhh~" Blake moans as her furry cat ears are touched by Natsu's warm hands.
"Wow these are super soft, and you hide these under a bow?" Natsu speaks his mind while he tries something and scratches her ear.
Her moans grow louder and she unknowingly forces her body onto his with each passing second.
"~Natsu~" She moans at the strange pleasure she's receiving from her ear massage.
"Ahem..." The two hear behind them.
Natsu turns around and instantly backs away from Blake then puts his hands high in the air.
"Natsu, why did you..." Blake turns around and copies Natsu, "Stop." She mumbles looking at the squad of police officers pointing their pistols at the two with a woman, could be the captain, staring at the two with her arms crossed. Behind the group is Ruby, Penny, and Sun are getting escorted to off the docks.
"OI! Natsu! The cops are here!" Sun yells, then is pushed up the stairs up the docks.
-Beacon Tower-
Before Natsu and the other were processed by the VPD (Valian Police Department) Ozpin, Glynda, and Eirwen are having another one of their meeting about Natsu.
"I can definitely train him Ozpin." Eirwen confidentially assures.
"Just a moment now, Do we even know if Natsu knows about the maidens? What if he reacts negatively to the revelation?" Glynda interrupts.
"I believe Mr. Dragneel will do the exact opposite as a matter of fact Glynda. As I recall he didn't seem to care of Eirwen's true form." Ozpin points out.
"He's right Glynda, he saw right through my illusion and showed no negative emotions to the sight, he rather was...intrigued by my looks." Eirwen explains, blushing remembering the look on Natsu's face when he first saw her real form, it was almost if he was attracted to her.
"I guess that is a true statement, but that also brings the question of why to train him in the first place?" Glynda questions.
"You seem rather, against, his training Glynda, may I ask why you feel this way?"
Glynda sighs and adjusts her glasses while pulling out her tablet, she presses a few button and presents the screen to the two, it was the old clip of Natsu breathing fire to help Ruby pursue Torchwick.
"Shouldn't we be more focused on this perhaps, this technique of fighting is completely unheard of or recorded in history, Natsu even can breath fire, he must have a whole fighting style judging from his background he told us. Traveling the world for all his life will give the time needed to create such a fighting style. I think this is more important than to train him in something he isn't familiar with, it would be a cost of a large amount of time and it will only hinder our plans correct? So I think we should focus on the abilities he already has and unlock his hidden potential. This can be done during the school year, not after the Vytal Festival like you suggested, saving us time." Glynda argues.
"She does have a point Eirwen." Ozpin agrees.
Eirwen crosses her arm in defeat, "Okay then, who's going to unlock this hidden potential you speak of, It can't be us that's for sure, we're not able to control fire like he can. It would be like a math teacher teaching a lesson on foreign language."
"Well...there is one woman who has some experience with the element of fire." Ozpin interrupts.
This makes the two turn to him, "Who?"
"Spring, the spring maiden."
-Unknown location-
'You can...keep it...cough cough.'
'Natsu?! Natsu stay with me!'
'Cinder...I'm...glad...I...met...you...'
'NATSU!'
A woman wakes up from a nightmare, she wears only black lacy underwear. She breathes heavily as she looks around the room. The woman was non other than Cinder Fall, lying in a large red bed with white pillows. She sighs to herself and closes her eyes again.
'It's just another nightmare.' She thinks and tries to get some shut eye but she can't fall asleep.
She tries for another minute but decides to get the one thing that will help her sleep, so she get up from the bed and looks over the edge of left side of the bed then spots the things she's looking for. She picks it up and sets it down on her bed, in front of her. It was a tan bag with a simple belt to keep it together, it was Natsu's backpack.
She undoes the belt notch and opens the bag then pulls out her most prized possession, a white scarf with a unique smell. She hugs the scarf tightly and feels her heart flutter at the abnormal heat coming from the scarf, it's like he left an essence of himself in the scarf when he gave it to her. She smiles at the warm and puts his backpack next to her bed, but as she was just going to lie down, she spots a woman standing in by the window, staring into the sky.
"Mistress!" She calls and sits up straight looking at her Mistress named Salem.
"Another nightmare again Cinder."
"Yes."
"The same one, the one of...him."
"Yes."
"You know, I find this concept of love the most interesting feeling, when thinking about you humans, you feel strong when your lover is with you but weak when they are away. Love can make people do simply outrages things to make their love interest take notice in them. Love controls people and it's sweet and warm when gained, but it's bitter and cold once broken. Is love really that powerful Cinder, I think so, and the reason you're having these nightmares...is because of love...but the littlest things as a scarf can make them go away for a night...because of love. Love is a powerful strength and weakness, and you love him...don't you Cinder." Salem finally looks at Cinder with curious eyes.
"..."
".."
"."
"I'm asking you a question Cinder, I expect an answer in return." Salem gets a little impatient.
Cinder looks at the scarf in front of him and thinks of Natsu, something about him makes her long to be with him, this is when she realizes her answer. She looks at Salem then gives her answer.
"Yes, I love him." She answers confidently.
Salem studies Cinder for a moment then looks back to the moon, "Good, Goodnight Cinder." She says and snaps her fingers, vanishing into a black smoke.
Cinder waits for a few moments before lying down again with the white scarf held close against her body. She closes her eyes and lets the warm flame of the scarf burn her nightmares away.
"Natsu..." She whispers before falling into a deep, pleasureful sleep.
VOLUME 1 is complete! Readers rejoice, if you actually gave and damn.
If you haven't noticed this is another late special for all those badass veterans out there, to the ones who stand in front of harm's way to keep dumb people like me safe and sound. Everyone knows the drill but I will say it here and now, thank those vets (Even though Veteran's day pasted), they least deserve that much for their sacrifice.
I'm not going to say much but the usual because I work on the next chapter I'll hopefully upload this weekend.
If you like this chapter than good for you.
TILL NEXT TIME!