Drem Yol Lok, Zeymahe; here is the next chapter of Peyt Arhk Sossedov. The reason I changed the title is because I didn't know about Thu' before; now having found it, the dovahzul (dragon speak) translations will be more accurate. But other than that, it's still the same story. And speaking of which, TO THE THING!
"Umm, Issac; can we get down now?" Ruby asked a few minutes after their reunion. Issac stared at her for a second then realized he was still flying. He nodded sheepishly then slowed the beats of his wings to let them fall.
"Before anything else, did Ozpin get back alright?" Issac said after they landed. He subconsciously scratched the base of one of his horns, accidentally drawing Ruby's attention.
"Umm, yeah; Ozpin got back okay. Some of the teachers say he appeared in a ball of purple and black fire." Ruby said as she tried to get a better look at Issac's horns, unsuccessfully I might add. She really was getting curious now. "Do you have horns, or am I just seeing things?" Issac glanced at her, smiled and lowered his head,
"What do you think?" he asked with a smirk, as he parted his hair to show the horns sprouting from his skull. Ruby reached out and ran her finger along the length of one, causing Issac to shiver. "Please don't do that" He requested as he straightened his back. "I'll be here for at least another three months, we can talk later; first I need to see Ozpin."
Ruby looked at the ground dejectedly, then signaled for Issac to follow. "His office is near the top of the Beacon tower."
"Does it have windows?" Issac asked with a perfect poker-face. Ruby nodded slowly, then Issac got an insane grin. Issac grabbed Ruby around the waist and shot up into the air. "VEN LAAR TINVAAK" the wind lowered its roar in their ears, and then Ruby punched Issac.
"You suck sometimes" she said with a grin, she then just watched at the landscape flow by in a blur. Ruby thought she saw a shadow move on a rooftop, but she put it to the side. 'It's probably nothing'
Issac smiled and enjoyed the flight. 'Wow, I smiled more in one day than I have in seven years… either something has driven me crazy-er, or I really have found my destined mate… I hope it's the latter'. He then pulled up and began to rise. "Which floor is he on?"
"99th floor"
"Alrighty then" Issac stopped outside the window on the 98th floor and stared at it for a moment, then was struck by an idea. Issac aimed his voice at Ruby and let a quiet shout through "BO HROT VIING" Issac then let go of Ruby; who, much to her own shock, didn't fall. She felt air brushing against her back and looked behind herself. Two crimson ethereal wings were sprouting from her back. "Don't try to move them, they follow my will while it's my thu'um. I just needed you to not fall while I pick the lock on this window." Issac then set to doing just that. Twelve picks and three minutes later, the lock clicked. Issac grabbed Ruby again and leapt through the now open window.
(RWBY's Dorm, before the reunion)
Yang pulled herself up onto her bunk after having changed into her PJs, "God, we just fought a war; I am sore as hell"
Weiss layed on her own bunk, a textbook lying on the table next to her bed. "I can't feel my hands"
Blake sat on the desk, staring out the window; a moment later she saw a shadow fly up. "I think I forgot one of my books in my locker, I'll be back in a bit." Blake was met by confirmatory mumbles from both of her other semi-conscious team members. None of them questioned why Ruby wasn't here, she regularly raided the kitchens after classes.
Blake grabbed Gambol Shroud and opened their door, stepped out, then closed it. She then silently sprinted to the roof. She burst through the door and looked up, even in the fading light, there was no mistaking it. That was Issac holding Ruby, no one else in the school had wings like that; and even fewer could get a hold of Ruby like that. It could only be Issac. Blake sat and leaned against a machine unit on the roof.
(I can't remember what their called because I'm running on three hours of REM sleep… and yes, the 'no one else, and even fewer' was on purpose. It is to show that no one in the school could sneak up on the hyperactive little rose.)
"He died, we all saw him die; how is this even possible?" she whispered to herself; before her thoughts could go any further than that question, she saw more upward movement. Blake saw Issac fly up with Ruby in his arms, and stood to chase after them. "Where is he taking her?" she mumbled quietly as she leapt to the roof of the training hall next to the dorm. She sprinted across the featureless roof and jumped to the next building in the complex, but her jump came a little short. Before she missed the roof entirely she used her shadow leap to land on the roof at the cost of flaring her aura. What she didn't know was that she drew the attention of a female flying up high. She followed them to the Beacon Tower and decided to wait at the exit to the tower.
(Back with Issac and Ruby, 98th floor of Beacon Tower)
"I didn't know you could pick locks?" Ruby said as they walked up the one flight of stairs,
"Yeah, any good crawler needs to know how to pick a lock. And having been thrown in as many prisons as I have been, you learn how to break out. And don't worry; I was thrown in there doing my job for the council." Issac explained as he came upon a green and silver door. Before he could knock, he heard very suggestive sounds coming from inside. Issac's nose began to bleed slightly as he smirked mischievously as he knocked on the door. He could hear their panic, as they were probably putting their clothes back on.
"Come in" a male voice called out from inside, 'I could almost swear that that sounded like wash' Issac thought to him as he opened the door. He was met by the sight of a flustered and disheveled Goodwitch and a calm man with silver hair.
Issac smirked, "I take it that you're Ozpin, pleasure to meet you" Issac said as he walked into the office, Ruby had decided to wait outside the room. Issac stopped before the desk and extended his hand, Ozpin grabbed his hand and shook it. "Now, would you be so kind to tell me what occurred while you were in Oblivion?" Issac asked his question after releasing Ozpin's hand. Ozpin darkened,
"I was held in a prison of blades, large metal spikes held me in a spot as he tormented me. He plagued my mind with images of things I really don't want to recount, and the red demons beat me regularly. Thank Monty for my aura, else I'd probably be dead" Ozpin sat in his chair and Goodwitch put her hand on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry, Molag Bal was a very sadistic being. But I need to know how you came back to this world." Issac knew exactly what he was talking about; he had seen it happen many times before.
"The blades retracted into the ground and I was consumed in energy. I believe I passed out, and I woke in the courtyard." Ozpin still held his head in his hands. He sighed deeply and shook his head. "I woke up and a man in green robes gave me this little piece of metal, told me to give it to a man by the name of 'Issac'."
"That would be me, let me see this piece" Issac stuck out his hand, Ozpin reached into a drawer in his desk and took out a small metal disk. He placed it in Issac's hand, Issac examined it closely. "This is a version-1 omni-tool, these had no use except for data manipulation." Issac tapped his palm a few times and a black omni-tool materialized on his left arm "this is a version-9 omni-tool, in case you're wondering." Issac then scanned the version-1 tool. A video appeared on his tool.
"Issac, I know that you are the only one who will have an omni-tool in this world." Michael was standing in Chandra next to his tank. "I proposed your foster to the nine, and they gave you permission to take Remnant on as your foster. I would advise you stay in this school, relearn how to fight and learn its history." Issac smiled again,
"I never thought they'd let me take a foster this early, it's awesome that they gave me permission." Issac turned to Ozpin again, "I must ask, is there any way that I may join this school?" Ozpin sighed,
"Yes, I have been told of your fighting prowess in that other realm. There is a group of transfers from other kingdoms that have yet to arrive. You may join them in their initiation. The airship will arrive within the nest two days, they have already been told about the initiation on their way here. It will probably be held tomorrow, I leave it to you to find someplace to sleep."
"I understand, before I leave; may I ask what your position here is"
Ozpin smirked, "Yes, I am the headmaster of this school."
Issac bowed and walked back out the door. "I have been given permission to stay in the school; I just need to find someplace to stay for the night."
Ruby brightened up, "You can stay in our dorm for the night! It's getting pretty dark out, why don't we head there now." Ruby grabbed Issac's arm before he could respond and pulled him down the stairs, fast. Way to fast. They were down all 99 floors in a few seconds. They came to a halt on the bottom floor, right before the exit door.
"You didn't give me a chance to respond, malpeyt. Yes, I'll stay with you for the night, but I need to do something first. Rahgol was destroyed, I need to rebuild him. I'll head over to the forge and do some repairs, could you give me a hand doing something new?" Ruby nodded then sprinted through the door in the direction of the forge, blowing past Blake who gave up and returned to the dorm.
They came upon the forge in a few seconds. "Here's the forge, what is it you need my help with?"
Issac smirked, "I want to make Rahgol into a chainsaw rifle. I am horrible at building guns, and from seeing your monster of a scyfle, thing, you are probably pretty good at it." Ruby nodded and they walked into the empty forge.
"Here, we can use a chain-rifle design from the database here." Ruby said as she tapped on the terminal next to the entrance. A blueprint printed out from the side, a simple select-fire mechanism with an aura powered chainsword mechashift.
(Time jump, four hours later)
"Finally, one last tooth aaaand we're done" Issac said happily, attaching the last dragon scale to the ebony chain. Issac strung up the chain on the rifle in chainsword form.
"Looks good, I think we're done" Ruby said with a peppy tone, "that was fun!" she then took down the rifle from the hanger and handed it to Issac who was whispering to the gem holding the soul. Issac took Rahgol's body and inserted the gem into the opening in the grip. The chain roared to life, then Issac pressed the button and it transformed into a rifle.
"Hell yeah" Issac mumbled as he flipped the weapon around and shifted the weapon back into a chainsword. He then placed it on his back. "Now I need ammo, what caliber does this take?"
"7.22, the most common caliber on remnant. All common rifles use it. Here are a couple magazines for it for now." Ruby handed Issac a small bag with three metal clips inside it. Issac loaded a magazine into Rahgol and smiled.
"Perfect, now lets go to bed; I am really tired." Ruby nodded and grabbed Issac, then sprinted out the door to the dorms. "Here we are, as I said before; third floor." Issac and Ruby walked into the dorm building. They reached the room not meeting a single person, and stopped outside RWBY's door.
Issac knocked on the door, Weiss opened the door and gasped; she then slammed the door. "Ummm, Weiss? You okay?"
"No I'm not; you're supposed to be DEAD!" Issac could hear her panic; he turned to Ruby who shrugged. Issac grabbed the doorknob and opened the door.
"What the hell is your problem Weiss, I'm tired… let me sleep." Yang mumbled from her pillow.
"I see the living flame is becoming extinguished" Issac said with a smirk, causing Yang jump up quickly.
"wha-how… what the hell, you're dead. How the hell are you here?!" Yang yelled from her bunk.
"I was resurrected in a Council Medical Facility. It's why Michael cut off my head, so they'd have my brain as well as my soul." Issac explained as he sat on the floor, his wings wrapped around his torso. "Ozpin gave me permission to attend this school; I just need a room to stay in for the night. Ruby said I could sleep in here for the night." Issac said as he took of Krosis and Aus' bracers and leant them against the wall.
"I'm to tired to argue, I'm going to sleep" Yang said as she flopped back onto her pillow. Her snores stared sounding a few second later. Issac then leaned Rahgol against the wall next to Krosis and Aus.
"I'm ashamed to say, but I have to agree with the brute; I'm to tired to argue." Weiss said as she layed back down on her bed.
Surprisingly, none of this even disturbed the sleeping Blake.
Issac opened his P.S.P.D. and took out his comfort sleepwear. Issac dropped his cloak and stripped his armor off; next came his shirt. Ruby watched him strip until he reached for his pants, "please do that in the bathroom". Issac turned to her and nodded, his face crimson red. He grabbed his pants and walked into the bathroom. He dropped his pants and stretched his legs, cracking his hip and knees. He pulled his sleep pants and his shirt, maneuvering his wings through the openings, and walked out of the bathroom.
"Sorry 'bout that" Issac said as he sat on the floor. Issac yawned and stretched his arms, he began his prayers by clasping his hands together with the thumb and little finger pointing out, "stahdim nen, gestahdim dii vulon; bolaav zey praan, ahrk ofan dii moro ko faal meyzein sul. Dein dii grah-zeymahzin ahrk dii lokal. Aak dii tuz ahrk dii thu'um, drem kos voth hi"
(Pain in the ass to find all those words in the dovahzul dictionary; feel free to put those in the translator for the translation. Meyzein is the only thing that won't come up for a translation, the 'ing' in dovahzul isn't set for a rule yet so I made the 'ein' at the end, but if the verb ends in a vowel add 'nein' at the end.)
"Umm, what?" Ruby said, she had dressed in her sleepwear while Issac had been in the bathroom. Issac smiled again and leant his head back and closed his eyes,
"That was a prayer to the nine divines. Whenever I'm at home, I always say that prayer before I go to sleep. Krosis actually taught it to me. It's a little childish, but it makes me feel like I'm home." Issac explained with a small smile.
"You don't plan on sleeping of the floor do you?" Ruby asked then Issac nodded. "No you're not, get up here." Ruby signaled for Issac to get in her bed with her. "Don't try and argue, just get up here"
Issac sighed and silently leapt up to the bed. He *pomfed*onto the mattress, the ropes holding up the bed creaked. Before they could snap Issac used a spell of ebony form on the ropes, turning them into the black material. "That ought to hold my weight" Issac said with a small smirk. "FEIM" Issac whispered, making just his right wing fade. He looped it under Ruby and it solidified under her.
"Eep"
Ruby was pulled close to Issac as he fell into the depths of sleep. Ruby on the other hand was having trouble falling asleep, so she simply enjoyed the warmth radiating from Issac. His wing covering her in warmth, protecting her from the cold of the night. Ruby smiled as she pulled Issac's wing closer to her face, breathing in the musky smell of the soft appendage; she slowly fell into a dreamless slumber.
(Time skip, 1 hour after dawn aka, 9am)
"hmmm… sleepy time over" Issac mumbled childishly as he cracked his eyes open. To be met by the image of four half-dressed girls staring at him, fighting not to laugh. "Damn", that was the final straw. All four burst out laughing, Yang even fell onto her back. "Yeah, ha ha ha. Very funny" Issac mumbled as he rolled off of the bed, and landed on the floor with as much grace as a rock. This meant he landed on his head. Causing RWBY to laugh even harder. Issac groaned on the floor
"Great, it's going to be one of those days"
Issac pulled off his shirt and threw on his silk under-shirt. He stepped into the bathroom and put on his pants. He slipped into his armor and threw on his cloak.
Issac stepped out of the bathroom and grabbed his weapons from the floor. Rahgol roared when he grabbed the hilt, "calm down young one, I'll feed you in a while. Right now I need to feed." Issac placed Rahgol on his back and slipped on his arm-blades then quickly fled the room.
"Mr. Clarke!" Issac heard Goodwitch yell from behind him. He turned and saw her running to catch him. "I would like to thank you for helping get Ozpin back to me- I mean us". Issac nodded and bowed.
"Anything to help, but do you think you could direct me to someplace I can get some food?" Issac asked, his stomach growling, literally, at him. Goodwitch got a eureka face and pulled out a small white device from her belt bag (I don't know… things) and handed it to Issac.
"That is your scroll, if you're going to be attending this school, you will need it. It has a map of the school installed on it. I must be going now, thank you again for getting him back." Goodwitch waved goodbye as she walked down the hall. Issac smiled and activated the device, he tapped the map symbol and a text field opened. Issac tapped in cafeteria and it started running off directions. Ten minutes of walking later, Issac ended up in a huge hall full of students sitting at lines of tables. Issac stepped up to the line that smelled the best, which just happened to be the line serving pancakes. Issac reached the server and asked for a dozen, and surprisingly, received a dozen syrup covered pancakes and a cup of coffee (black, three sugars).
"Issac?" Issac turned around and saw Nora standing there. She dropped her plate, causing the glass to shatter. 'SHIT'. Issac used a telekinesis spell to hold the plate in the air as Nora tackled him laughing. "How in the name of Oum are you alive!?" she shouted, still crushing him with the strength of a troll. 'Jesus, I think she might break a rib… yep, that is a cracked rib'.
"FIEM ZII GRON"
Issac faded out of her grasp, grabbed his plate that was still floating and walked towards an empty section of table. Nora followed him closely with another plate, now full of pancakes. "Are you a zombie? A vampire?" Nora gasped loudly "A zombie vampire?!"
"No, I'm just me. I was resurrected in a medical facility." Issac said before he tore into the pancakes, two dagger thralls in his hands. Issac slammed the side of the plate launching the cakes into the air; then he waved his arms around quickly, cutting the pancakes into bite sized pieces. One bite landed on the tip of one of the daggers while the rest landed back on the plate in a pile. "Yep, I still got it" Issac said with a smile, then placed the bite in his mouth. He almost passed out from the flavor. "By the nine, these are the greatest thing I have ever eaten. Ever. In all time" He dispelled the daggers and began to slowly eat each bite, savoring the taste of each one. Nora watched Issac cut up the pancakes and wanted to try it herself, she grabbed two knives and slammed the plate launching the pancakes into her face. "Focus your energy into the plate and will them up." Issac advised as he took another bite. Nora put all of the cakes back on the plate and did what Issac said, the cakes flew into the air but Nora couldn't cut a single one. "It takes practice, you need to train with knives for a while before you can cut up one, let alone twenty. It was difficult to do the dozen I had"
"But you made it look so easy" Nora pouted, Issac laughed.
"You made it look easy to crush the heads of dremora, all it takes is practice." Issac took another bite with a smile. Nora giggled and set back onto demolishing her pancakes. They sat there in silence, (Amazing, I know. Nora's mouth is full and having choked the day before, stopped talking with whole pancakes in her mouth) until Issac finished eating and downed the boiling hot coffee. "Paaahhh" Issac released a cloud of steam from his mouth and stood up. "Was nice talking to you Nora, I'll see you later." Issac waved as he walked away, Nora happily waved back.
'Mental checklist, date: 10-05-2014-2-10:28
Wake and dress, check
Gather weapons. check
Eat a meal, check
Kill thine enemies, working
HAVE FUN!'
Issac always smiled when he got to the last mark on his list, his mad smile scaring off anyone he passed in the halls. Issac felt Rahgol roar again, "You are getting really antsy, can you wait another hour? Please?" Issac whispered to the weapon, its teeth slowed as he spoke. "Thank you".
"Any new arrivals please report to Beacon Cliffs immediately, your initiation will begin as soon as possible." Issac heard Goodwitch speak through the intercom.
"Guess that's my cue" Issac smirked, leant back and took off in a sprint. Having taken a read on the layout on his flight the night before, he didn't need to check the map for the location of the cliffs. It was fairly obvious which ones they were talking about. Issac leapt, dove and faded past several students in his sprint. "Left turn aaaand… WALL!"Issac turned left at the wrong time and hit a wall face first, going straight through the flimsy wood. He ended up outside, in his element. Issac spread his wings and took off towards the cliffs. He flew fast, the fastest he could. And completely overshot the place he was supposed to land, but the semi-fortunate consequence of his high speed was the air-wave that followed him. Said wave tore off the shirt of one Glynda Goodwitch, showing off the lacy purple bra underneath.
"FIEND!" she screamed, then sprinted back to her home off campus. Ozpin simply stood there laughing; Issac turned around and landed on the cliff.
"Sorry, too fast… way too fast" Issac said scratching the base of one of his horns sheepishly.
"No matter, she'll be fine. You can stand on that platform and wait for the other students to get here on their own two feet." Ozpin stated as if nothing had happened, but then his scroll binged. Ozpin pulled it out and read the message. "You happen to have chaos follow you wherever you go, Mr. Clarke. You know you will have to pay for the whole you put in my school."
"Meh, I'll fix it myself. Give me a hammer, some nails and the paint you used on the wall and it'll be good as new" Issac said as he sat down on a catapult. And tightened the mechanisms in his arm-blades, "Damnit, why does the damn leather always unravel from that pin" he mumbled as he wrapped a small leather strip around the primary pull mechanism. He spent ten minutes trying to get it perfect; in that ten minutes eleven other people arrived and stood on a catapult.
Ozpin began his speech, "for years you have trained to be warriors, and today your skill will be tested in the emerald forest. Your objective is to locate a relic from the temple and return with it, when you arrive we will hold your position and time. As for partners, it would be best to be paired with someone who you can work well with; that being said, the first person you make eye contact with will be your partner for the next four years."Ozpin took a sip from his coffee and pressed a button on his scroll. The catapult that Issac was sitting on tried to throw him, but failed. "Now this is peculiar, Mr. Clarke. Care to explain?" The catapult next to Issac launched the kid in a white coat with white hair into the air.
"My bones are that of the dov, sir. They are much denser than any other being's natural bone structure. If your want, I could overclock this thing to launch me" Issac said as he stood.
"No Mr. Clarke, feel free to jump at your own pleasure" Ozpin said with a knowing smile. Issac grinned. A few people were still waiting for their catapult to throw them; Issac took a few steps back and sprinted at the cliff and jumped off. A few of the other people ignored the event, until they saw Issac fly up and over them.
"Bad jump need more speed." Issac said as he landed back on the cliff, he took a few more steps back and sprinted full out at the cliff and, cackling insanely, leapt off by a few dozen meters and spread his wings still laughing insanely and spinning mid-air. He closed his inner eyelids and beat his wings for a burst of speed, and then a bird flew into his left wing causing him to fall, again."FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"Issac couldn't finish his curse due to the mouthful of tree. But he was still humming it into the branches and leaves.
"A-are you okay?" Issac heard a timid female voice from below him. Issac turned and saw a small girl in a brown body suit with golden highlights on the armored shoulders and joints. But the armor wasn't the weird part, Issac had seen some weird fucking armor in his days, the weird part was the rabbit ears hanging off her head. Issac fought the urge to say "awwww", her expression was adorable. Her eyes were big and shining, and her ears hung low. Issac spit out the wood and leaves and responded
"Yeah, I'm good. Just have to get out of this damn tree" He tried to pull his wings in and felt the points of the tree stab into him, "Damnit, fucking tree branches are stabbing my wings. My thu'um still needs a rest."
"Um, I can help." The rabbit girl said as she lifted her hands and they began to glow gold, then the branches began to pull away from him. Issac fell out of the tree on his face. "Gods are you okay?" she almost screamed when she saw Issac's torn wing. She ran over and tried to help.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just need a breath" Issac said as he pushed himself up, off the ground and leaned back against the tree he had been hanging in the moment before. Issac sat there for a moment then stood up to see the rabbit girl flinch away. "You okay? You seem a little frazzled." Issac asked her, he was met by her pointing behind Issac. Issac turned to see dozens of insect like Grimm rushing towards them, Rahgol roared. "FEEDING TIME!"Issac shouted with an insane smile as he pulled Rahgol from his back and charged, laughing.
"I-I… I have to help." The rabbit girl said as she picked up her staff from next to her and ran to help the man.
Issac charged forward and cut one of the Grimm clean in half; spraying the blood over his body. Another of the creatures tried to tackle him from the side but was incinerated by gouts of fire from the rabbit girl's staff. Issac flipped and landed next to her and turned Rahgol into rifle mode and started to unload on the beasts. While swapping a mag, Issac turned to the girl "Hey, I never caught your name. I'm Issac, and you might be…" He slapped a mag into the receiver and opened fire again, nailing a few of the Grimm in the head
"My name is Velvet; pleasure to meet you, Izzy-kun" Issac stopped his attack and turned to her.
"Izzy-kun?"Issac said with a friendly glare, his arm shot out and smashed the carapace of one of the creatures that had flanked him. "Seriously?" Velvet tried to back away from Issac, who reached out and flicked her forehead lightly with a friendly smile "If you're going to make fun of me, go ahead; but you can expect it to be reciprocated". She gasped when he flicked her, then nodded when he spoke. "ya know what; this'd be more fun with the right soundtrack". Issac turned on his omni-tool and started up his music player set to shuffle, a black circle appeared on his back and started blaring music.
(Cue: Bulls on Parade, Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire) (AN, look it up on YouTube if you don't know the song, it's just a pretty heavy song. It's on my shuffle playlist so it's also on Issac's)
Issac smiled madly and dove into the fray, cutting pieces from the creatures with Rahgol. A few of them piled on him with teeth and claws tearing at him, until a firestorm consumed them.
The opening lines of the song started when Velvet shook off her slight shock and started to fight as well, she jumped back and spun her staff around, throwing fire bolts and lightning bolts at several of the insects. One of them had dug underneath her and burst from the ground, knocking her into the air and attempting to impale her. The attack was stopped by a lightning bolt from Issac's palm, but the burst from the ground cracked a rib and that rib was starting to stab into her internal organs.
Issac smiled at her, unaware of her injury, and started to sing along, still killing the beasts with a smile on his face
Issac jumped over one of the Grimm that tried to rush him and cut in half. But was tackled by an immense insect Grimm, larger than any of the others he had fought. Twice as tall as Issac and about as broad as a deathstalker, a huge spiked bone plate for a head. A head designed to crush anything in its path, of which it attempted to do until it was incinerated by a gout of flame from the sky. Issac looked up and saw Paalkriiokaaz fly over. "THANKS!" He yelled, a roar was his response.
"Alrighty then, he'll take care of those Grimm." A roar interrupted him, then a huge crash as Paal landed and began to eat Grimm after Grimm. Burning those that tried to flee, and devouring those that got to close.
"Ummm, was that a dragon?" Velvet interjected, infinite confusion written on her face. Issac smirked and nodded. Issac flicked his arm, shutting off the music player in the middle of the song (Middle of first chorus).
"That is my dragon, and don't forget it." Issac said with a wide grin, his grin became even wider when he saw the fear on Velvet's face; but noticed her face getting paler than what fear should cause, and thought 'I've seen this before; internal bleeding and the adrenaline is stopping the pain from being felt.' "Don't worry, he only eats what I let him. He can't even touch any of you unless I tell him to. My thu'um is greater than his, so I call the shots" Issac threw his arm around Velvet's shoulder and they began to walk. "So, since we're partners, tell me about yourself"
(AN I have to say this now, if Velvet's backstory comes out in canon, don't expect this to be accurate. I'm writing this the day after Vol 2 premiered so Velvet will obviously be OOC.)
"Well, I grew up in Menagerie like most Faunus. My parents both work in a Schnee refinery, not very good pay but it was enough to get me into a combat school for a semester, my grades were good enough to earn a scholarship, despite me being a Faunus." Velvet stopped and flinched when Paalkriiokaaz roared again, a moment of walking later she continued. "I got through Torchlight, my combat school in Menagerie, and applied to Beacon. And now I'm here"
Issac stared at her for a moment and shook his head with a smile, "I asked for you to tell about you, not your backstory" Issac pulled her in for a moment, "I am a great warrior and one of the last of my race, a powerful magick user and a master of Thu'um or the voice of the dragons, I am able to utilize my arm-blades and chainsword as if they were parts of my body. My name is Izekeal Tiberius Clarke and I have been fighting literally all my life." Issac gave his short description and put his hand out to her; Velvet tentatively took his hand they shook.
"Well, I am a dust user and a healer, using my aura to mend the wounds of my allies; I have a dust staff and use my aura for elemental attacks. My name is Velvet Scarlantia, and I have only been fighting for a couple of years; in truth I don't want to fight, I just want to help people. But that means fighting Grimm so I'll do so." Issac released her hand and nodded. But he still kept his arm on her shoulder. "Why do you still have your arm on me?" Issac looked at her and sighed sadly
"You took a hit and didn't notice, I'm healing your internal bleeding while I am in physical contact. If I break physical contact, the bleeding will start back up and you'll bleed out before you will notice." Velvet paled, fear spread across her face. "So, any more questions? No? Good, this way" Issac led her in a direction left of a clearing made by some destroyed trees, the same clearing made by the crashing of the nevermore when Issac had first arrived; the beast's corpse had faded by this point.
They walked for a few uneventful minutes, and then reached an immense clearing. A large stone structure stood to their left and a smaller stone temple with the relics stood to their right. Issac glanced across and saw another pair come out of the forest on the other side. "I think you'll be alright now; just take it easy, okay?" Issac requested from her gently, he forced himself to be less blunt; trying his hardest to remember his vocalism lessons from the Kajiit. Velvet nodded and Issac let go of her, she immediately grabbed her arms and shivered.
"Cold?" Velvet nodded again, Issac took off his cloak and placed it on her. "This'll keep you warm and alive. Anything happens, just hide behind this cloak." Issac said as he placed it on her shoulders. Velvet blushed.
"I heard you already have a girlfriend; don't you think this will be a strange thing to explain?" Issac shrugged in response
"I'm helping my partner, and a friend; nothing more." Issac said with a small smile, he then signaled for her to follow him to the temple, where the other two he had seen earlier were staring at the relics. "Drem Yol Lok, fahdomhe" Issac said with a bow as he approached. The other two made little response.
One of them was a slightly short human with short, scraggly blue hair and a blue compound bow on his back. He had a purple-ish hoodie on over what appeared to be a plain white tee shirt; his blue-jeans were faded and patched in places. His eyes glowed crimson, breaking the blue theme he seemed to have. The strangest part was that he appeared to have no armor.
The other was a human wolf hybrid, or as Issac had figured out in his time in the med bay at Beacon, a Faunus. He wore a white leather trench coat, with the sleeves rolled up. Black cotton shirt with leather belts holding on what appeared to be armor plates, simple black jeans held up by a black belt with a demon maw belt buckle. And a pair of black soled, white leather combat boots. Strapped across his back was a large curved sword and a bow-staff. Issac also thought he saw holsters on his hip. His eyes glowed a malevolent blue. His white hair reached mid-chest, and was contained in a pony-tail on his back.
Wolfy made up his mind and grabbed a black knight piece, then began to walk away. Until a roar overwhelmed them all. Issac fell to his knees as an emptiness overwhelmed his soul.
"Nononononononononononononono!" Issac repeated again and again as he flew up into the air and saw a gout of flame sputtering. Issac flew closer and saw a giant, (and when I say giant, I mean GIANT), insect gnawing on Pallkriiokaaz's limp neck. Issac roared and flew directly at the Grimm, just to swatted away by one of its arms. Issac took a deep breath to calm himself, drew a soultrap arrow he carried on his person at all time and summoned a bow. He drew the arrow back and hit the dov in the chink in his chest scales. The arrow reached the dov's heart and his soul was leeched away into Issac's daedric soul gem (The black star) in his linked storage.
The Grimm dropped the dead dragon and followed Issac as he led it to the clearing, Issac saw Velvet grab the other black knight piece and look up to find him. Issac landed next to her. Wolfy and Blue-boy were still standing there, reeling from the roar. "Big problem, HUGE problem. Big bug just killed my dragon, and is now trying for me."
All three of them yelled in unison "WHAT?!" Issac stared at their faces and laughed a bit. Wolfy looked indignant, "the hell are you laughing at?"
"Your face, no hostility intended; just your expression is priceless." Issac explained he laughter and then became serious, "If that thing can kill my dov, then we have a problem. I need to kill it for him. Tell me Wolfy, what can you do?" his eyes flashed orange, he sighed and they became blue again.
"Fire, I'm a pyromancer. I also got a big sword; this blade is pretty big too" He smirked at his innuendo. Blue Boy took out his bow,
"I'm an archer mainly, though I do have a knife for a backup. I have a force semblance if that's any help" Issac smirked and turned to Velvet
"Oh, umm; I have my elemental staff and a nature semblance." Velvet took out her staff and spun it around, then planted one spiked end into the ground.
"Perfect!" Issac yelled with a smile as the giant insect burst through the trees. "Wolfy, set me ablaze; when I fly at it" Issac pointed at Blue Boy "I want you to push me forward at it with all you've got. Velvet, use the trees to hold it in place. Until I'm in position, stay alive; feel free to take any potshots at the thing if you can" they all nodded as Issac finished his orders. Issac spread his wings as Wolfy set him on fire, the heat melded with Issac.
"Look Out!" Blue Boy yelled before Velvet dove out of the path of one of the Grimm's arms, Issac had stopped moving once he was set ablaze
"Thanks!" she yelled in response. She then leapt back a few meters and fired lighting bolts the the Grimm, blackening its white bone armor. Velvet jumped out of the way of another arm as Wolfy set the opposite side of the beast on fire, then pounded its shell with shots from his pistols.
Issac was pulled from his body and saw a black mass in front of him. "These flames are nothing compared to the inferno of your thu'um, you shoul-"the smoky form was cut off by Issac
"No, the inextinguishable flame is not a constant weapon. Convert these flames to the black fire and help me kill this beast for my dov." Issac ordered the entity, which did what was closest to a nod it could do.
Velvet stopped her evade to grab Issac, who was frozen in place with the flames absorbing into his skin. She slapped him across the face, "Wake Up and Get in the Fight!" she shouted in his face. Issac's eyes lit up after being drawn back into his body and he awoke with a grin. The fire burst forth from him, covering him in black fire. The fire began to solidify into ethereal scales. Issac leapt into the air and with a roar flew at the creature.
Blue Boy saw Issac flying at the Grimm and used his force to push him towards it, Issac roared, crimson flames spewing from his throat giving him the appearance of an angry charging demon. Issac flew straight through the creature, carapace, flesh, bone; everything was shredded like paper in the path of the enraged Sossedov. Issac came out of the other side and landed next to the beast, "AND THAT IS WHAT YOU GET!" he shouted at its corpse, kicking it with all his strength causing the bone armor to crack along its length. Issac's ethereal scales faded a moment later.
"That. Was. AWESOME!" Blue Boy yelled as he walked up to the scorched semi-mortal who was still kicking the corpse. "The way you flew right through it, fucking insanely brilliant!"
Wolfy came up behind him, "Calm down Tyler, (No relation to my other fic, just a coincidence that I didn't notice until I wrote his name for the first time in here) I don't want you nerding-out out here" Tyler looked at the ground sheepishly and nodded. "Good job man, only the greatest of hunters can break a Turantule Queen's shell in one hit, let alone break through one side and come out the other."
"Twas nothing" Issac said quietly, as he rubbed his throat with a smile. He pulled his daedric soul gem out and stared at it for a few seconds, then he opened his P.S.P.D. and threw it in. He then grabbed a small metal cube from the open storage and activated it, "Paalkriiokaaz was killed and his soul was saved in a daedric soul gem, this is a councilor directive. I want him resurrected into a Dragonborn, not the Tamrialien variant, the scaled variant. The gem is in my P.S.P.D. I am Councilor 117147E38" Issac opened a tiny rift and threw it through, then closed his storage and the rift. "Let's get back to the school"
(Time Jump, 45 uneventful, silent minutes later [Wolfy had to punch Tyler a couple times to keep him quiet], Beacon Academy Event Hall)
Ozpin stood on a stage in front of the existing student body, "As we had expected, the students from the other kingdoms arrived late. So their initiation was held today. Only three teams were formed today, the first of which consists of…" Issac tuned him out and focused on tuning the auto-mechanism in Rahgol, about two minutes later Velvet tapped his shoulder. Issac looked up and saw that it was their turn to go up. He nodded and followed Velvet up.
"You four have shown great strength and ingenuity today, by not only bringing down a Turantule Queen, but bringing it down together. I would have pushed you together on a team even if you hadn't chosen the same pieces, but I digress. You four gathered the Black Knight Pieces; Issac Clarke, Velvet Scarlantia, Tyler Boan, and James Obelisk Schnee, from this day forth you will be known as team IVST (Invest), led by Issac Clarke." Issac bowed at the Professor, given his honorable instincts. Ozpin returned the bow and walked off the stage. James stared at Ozpin, wondering how he knew that part of his name.
"Congratulations Izzy-kun, I look forward to following your command" Velvet was jumping around, excited about being in the school. James stared at Issac for a moment, fighting the laughter
"Izz-"
Issac glared at him, "You say it and I'll end you." James held his hands up defensively, yet still smiling.
"Nice job killer, you made team leader." Yang popped up behind Issac and threw her arm around Issac's shoulder. "But one thing, why is bunny girl there wearing your cloak?" Issac could hear the malevolence in her voice.
"She was injured, my cloak has a healing enchantment on it that healed her. Nothing like you think Yang, I am no misogynist. My little rose is all I'll ever want or need" Issac said to her, attempting to defuse the nuclear bomb that is an angry Yang Xiao Long. Yang was surprised by how Issac had responded but was satisfied by it. She let go of him so he could be glomped by a streak of red. "Yes my little rose, it's good to see you as we-" Issac was cut off by a pair of lips, he smiled and happily returned the kiss.
So there you go, new chapter. If you're wondering what a Turantule is, it's an insectoid variant Grimm that has a varied shape that fits its job in the hive. Egg Carvers are smaller and have sharper teeth so they can carve stone eggs for the larva, soldiers are larger and have several sharp appendages. The queen is the largest, and has ten long arms for combat as well as three thick legs for locomotion. Other than that, I have nothing else important to say other than: Review, Favorite and Follow. Goodnight, (it is currently 3:30 AM as I finish this)
