Chapter 21 – Leone
Arrive in the parking lot to Beacon academy is Yang, Leone, and a still paced out Akame. Yang takes off her helmet and puts it back on her bike. Leone is amazed at the feeling she felt as she was on the motorcycle.
"That was awesome, I never had been in a machine like that before." Leone says she with a smile as she walks with Yang, holding her passed out friend on her shoulder. "You have never been on a motorcycle? It is the only way to travel around town." Yang says in a happy tone, "You said your friends are at the gate right. That is right around the corner here."
As they turn the corner, Leone sees her friends; Mine, Tatsumi, and Chelsea. They all are delighted to see there blond friend and great her with open arms.
Yang notices they are about to have a long talk and walks away. To her surprise, she sees all her friends from her team and team JNPR walking towards the gate. She wonder were Ren was and why Nora was carrying and cooked chicken. Everyone starts to greet one another.
"Leone!" Mine says as she runs to hug Leone.
"Yang!" Ruby says as she runs to hugs Yang.
"Ruby?" Mine says questioning why Ruby was here.
"Jaune?" Tatsumi says as he sees Jaune in the distance
"Mine?" Ruby says questioning why Mine was here.
"Tatsumi?" Jaune says as he walks up to see if it was Tatsumi.
"Nora!" Nora says as she wants to be part of the conversation. Akame's eyes twitch as she catches the scent of something
"Chicken!" Akame says as she wakes up at the scent of the cooked meat. She then lunges at Nora and takes the chicken off the plate and eats it whole. She then spits out the bone and looks back at her friend.
"Leone!" she says as she gives her friend a hug. Nora looks in confusion as she holds the plate.
"How are you doing best buddy?" Leone says she smiles at Akame.
"What is going on, why are you two here?" Ruby inquires as she looks at Mine.
"Ruby, as hard as it is to believe, my team and I here are from another world. We are going to fight our enemies from that world to protect our friends here." Mine says in a serious tone.
"I believe you, we are here to help you out. We want to protect our friends also." Ruby says in a serious tone to Mine. She gives her a slight smile to let her know she is ready to help. Tatsumi nods to Jaune to let him know this is the truth. He nods also to say he believes there situation.
Akame then looks at Leone and Tatsumi with sadness in her voice. "Leone, Tatsumi…I need to tell you about Lubbock." Leone interrupts her, "We already know. I found him when I was going to deliver the supplies. Then, I went looking for you. You were passed out. "
"I thought that was your spot to find information about the city, which is where you always go." Akame says as Leone nods.
"Leone called us to let know before she went looking for you. I am sure Lubbock put in everything he had to make sure you could live. We will have time to morn after we deal with the Jaegers and our new enemies." Tatsumi says looking at Akame. She nods as she realizes he was right.
Yang walks over to her Faunus teammate with, talking to her in a concerned tone, "Blake are you okay? What is going on now?"
"I am fine but I cannot talk right now. I am going to going to help this team fight to defend the city." Blake says in a voice of determination.
"Well count me in. I am going to enjoy fighting some bad guys." Yang says in an enthusiastic tone, trying to make Blake smile. As the Faunus girl does, Yang looks to see that her friend is slightly different.
"Are you wearing a different bow? It looks nice." Yang says, causing Nora and Pyrrha to give her an odd look.
"Thank you, I think we should go over and hear the plan now." Blake says before walking over to the Night Raid members. Yang walks over to Pyrrha and Nora, "What did I say?"
"Blake has had a bad last few hours. Just wait till this is over to ask her any? For her sake." Pyrrha says as she and Nora walk over to meet up with the others. Yang follows and looks at Blake trying to hide the fact that she had been crying. Chelsea stand as the center of attention for the group as she address them all.
"Alright, now that everyone has had their moment, so here is the plan. Our enemies are going to attack us form four direction. We are going interests them at these location." She takes out her scroll to show a map of the Vale with four X's on it. "You can thank a traitor from our emery for this map. She gave it to before leaving city."
"Can we trust this map?" Akame says.
"From the information I gathered on my own, this map is accurate to what the enemy will do. Plus, from the look in her eyes when she gave this to me, I do not think she was lying. " Chelsea says as she points to the marked locations on the map.
"These four marked locations are where we are going to intercept the enemy in the city. Each one of you take a location. I sent this image to all your scrolls" Chelsea says looking at her Night Raid teammates.
"The rest for you, divide yourself up to help out my teammates. I am going back that tower to talk with that headmaster about managing the evacuation." She says this as she walks away from the gate. The students look at each other and back at the members of Night Raid.
"I do not have a scroll." Akame say. As some as she finishes her sentence, Chelsea throws hers at the red eyed assassin. She catches it and hears Chelsea talk as she walks off. "You can have mine, I am not a part of this fight so you can have it. Call Ozpin if you have anyone dies. Good luck"
"How are we going to split the groups?" Jaune says.
"I think me and Yang can handle the one west from here. I already know she can take a punch." Leone says, smiling at Yang. "I agree, plus it gives you a chance to see how fast Bumblebee can go again." Yang replies with a smile.
"I think Ruby and I can handle the one in the south. What do you say?" Mine says to Ruby with confidence in her strength. "Alright. Let us go!" Ruby retorts before bolts off south to the location, leaving a trail of rose petals behind her. Mine looks at her friend in the distance. She sighs and starts to try and catch up.
Before getting to far, Mine looks over at her friend with red eyes. "What about you Akame?"
"I think I handle the enemies in the east solo, you all come back alive now." Akame answers as she rushes in direction she was assigned. Hearing the name clearly, Blake remembers the name of the person who Kurome said was her sister. She knew she had to tell her about what had happened to her.
Blake says, "I think I will give her some back up. I do not like the idea of anyone going in alone. Not anymore." She then runs off to follow the red eyed assassin, but sees she is far behind Jaune then looks over at Tatsumi who was the only one left without a team.
"Well, I guess that leaves you with our team heading north. Let me introduces you to Pyrrha and Nora." Jaune says.
"Nice to meet you both." Tatsumi says. Pyrrha replies with the same similar greeting. Nora looks at him with a slight anger.
"Your friend at my chicken." Nora says.
"Sorry about that, she does that when she is really hungry." Tatsumi says in a joking tone. Nora slowly losses her anger as she looks north.
"Alright then, I got the lead. Let us finish this and get back in time for lunch." She says as she starts matching north.
"Is she okay?" Tatsumi says to Jaune in confusion over her response. "She is very energetic, you get used to it." Jaune says as he, Pyrrha, and Tatsumi follow Nora to their destination. All that is left at the gate are the two blonds. Leone then looks at Yang as they start walking to the motorcycle.
"Can I drive it?" She says.
"No, you did not what a motorcycle was a little while ago." Yang says as she puts on her helmet. Leone lets out a sigh of disapproval and hopes on the back of the motorcycle.
"I overheard Ruby talking with that girl in pink, are you really from another world?" Yang says.
"It is true, but we can talk about that later. We have a mission now." Leone says as Yang starts up the motorcycle.
The two ride their location and arrive early. Yang parks out of sight and she and Leone walk out to the middle of the street. The area was empty of civilians now after the evacuation was in place. The only thing that came into view were the salutes of two people walking towards them.
"Do you think that is our enemies?" Yang says as she reloads her weapon.
"Yeah, they both smell of murderous intent." Leone says as she transforms into her beast from.
"Is your hand still broken?" Yang says as she primes her weapon.
"No, it is all healed up." Leone says as her enemies slowly come into view.
"Get ready." Both say at the same time.