Chapter 22 – Bols
The two enemies walk down the road. One is a White Fang Lieutenant with a Grimm mask. He drags a large chainsaw. The other is a large man with no shirt and three diagonal scars across his chest. He wears a cloth mask and carries a white flamethrower and a large metal container on his back. The Lieutenant then looks his ally after he noticed the two invaluable in the road in front of them.
"The city is empty." The man says to White Fang Lieutenant.
"Yes, I seems the evacuation air ships left with the civilians before we got here." The White Fang Lieutenant says as he looks down the road to see the two blond woman. He sees both of them hit there fist against each other. "But it seems those two want to fight." he says to his alley as he starts the chainsaw.
"Esdeath told me this would new world would be a new opportunity all of us. But why do I still have to do the same evil deed." The man says as he aims his looks down at his weapon in his hands.
"Focus Bols, our mission is simpler now. Kill these two and we move on to Beacon." The White Fang Lieutenant says as he sees the two blond women start running to then.
"I wonder if my sins carried over in this world" Bols says as he aims his weapon at the two while the Lieutenant wonders what he meant by that statement. Fire then erupts out the weapon and fills the street. Leone and Yang stop running dodge the blast by jumping into the alley way.
The Lieutenant then runs down the burning street to the alley way he saw the two go in. He reeves his chainsaw as he looks in the alley, only to see Leone of them holding a motorcycle. She throws it the Lieutenant, who cuts it in half in midair with this weapon. The beast woman then shoulder charges the White Fang member and sends him into a store across the street. Leone the follows him in the store.
Bols tries to aim at Leone as she runs by, but is ambushed behind by Yang. She tries to punch him across his head, but Bols reacts in time to dodge and regain distance from his foe. Bols then launch a barrage of fireballs at Yang. The blond girl evade the attacks and fire a few shoots from her own weapon. Bols cancels out her attacks with his own fireballs. The two are now at a stalemate with neither one giving an inch.
"Looks like I get to fight fire with fire." Yang says with a smile. Bols looks at her with confusion, wonder if that was meant to be a joke.
Leone sighs, overhearing Yang's taunt. She enter the store to look around for were the Lieutenant was. The beast woman listens for the sound of a chainsaw and hears it come into closer to her right. She sees the foe in time to dodge the assault and backs up from the foe.
"Nice try, but you will have to try better than that." She says with a smirk as she gestors him to try again, "You are lucky you are fighting me. My friend would make you suffer for destroying her ride. I will only make you suffer a little less."
"You are the one threw the motorcycle at me!" He says as she readies his weapon and charges at the beast woman. "You could have just caught it instead of cutting it in half. That is what I would have done." Leone says as she dodges the chainsaw with ease. The weapon was two slow for him to land a hit. Leone lands a few jabs on the Lieutenant but does not have enough of a window to hit with a decisive punch.
The White Fang Lieutenant becomes enraged at the ineffectiveness of his attacks. He then notices the tail on her opponent. The changes up his tactics as he grabs her tail. Leone is shocked and tries to punch him. She is too late as the Lieutenant pulls the beast woman by her tail and throws her against the wall.
Leone tries to get back up but is pined wall by her opponent's weapon. She screams as she feels the agonizing pain of the chainsaw ripping into her left shoulder. The Lieutenant laughs as he forces the chainsaw to cut deeper in her body.
"It pains me to kill a fellow Faunus, but you should not have tried to challenge the White Fang." He says looking into Leone's eyes.
"I am not a Faunus and I will do whatever I want." Leone says as she grabs the throat of the Lieutenant with her right hand. She begins chocking him but the Lieutenant continues to cut deeper into the beast woman's shoulder. Leone grits her teeth as she forces herself forward at the Lieutenant. She head-butts him and cracks his mask. However, the attack caused the beast woman to loss her left arm against the chainsaw. The Lieutenant lets go of his weapon from being stunned from the last attack. Leone pick up the chainsaw and runs it the chest the White Fang Lieutenant. He tries to cough up blood but it drips through the crack of his mask as he slowly stops moving. She then removes the weapon for the corpse and walks out the store. She looks to see Yang still fighting Bols.
Yang continues to try and fire her attack for her Ember Celica. However, her attacks come nowhere close to Bols. He intercepts all attack with fireballs from his weapon, Rubicante. Yang's eyes glow red as she now runs straight at Bols. He is confused to why she is doing something so reckless. He then unleashes a large blast of fire that engulfs Yang, scorching the area.
Bols thinks that he has now finished his opponent when Yang jump out the fire. He tries to block with his weapon but Yang punches through Rubicante and into his chest. He falls back on his container. Before Bols can recover, Leone rushes him from behind and slashes his legs with the chainsaw. She practical cut his leg off as she move to stand by Yang. Leone looks at Yang and sees her in a rage.
"Are you okay?" Leone says.
"THIS GUY JUST BURNT MY HAIR!" Yang screams as she gets ready to launch another attack. Leone smiles as before looking at Bols on the ground. He tries to pick himself up, but knows he cannot stand.
"I understand now." Bols thinks as he looks at the ground, "This world was my punishment for my action in the last. I cannot help my comrades and I will never see my family again." He looks up to Yang and Leone approaching.
"This is my Hell. Now I must burn for what I have done in my old world." Bols says as he pull out a small device with a red button.
"What did he say?" Yang says to Leone. The beast woman does not answer as she looks at Bols' weapon. She recognizes it as an imperial arm. Leone gasps, dropping the chainsaw and grabbing Yang's arm before running away from Bols. Yang looks at her with confusion.
"We have to run, his going to active his Trump card!" Leone says as she look back to Bols press the red button on it and the container starts to glow behind him. It expands and explodes into an enormous ball of fire. Leone looks back in horror as the blast radius is expanding too fast for her to outrun with Yang. She then pulls Yang close to her body and shields her friend from the explosions.
The blast coves a few blocks as it destroys the nearby buildings and houses. The smoke and fire covers the area for a few minutes and then goes away with the wind. It revels the scorched land, the only things on the area were two bodies. Yang coughs as she feels all of her aura has left her body.
She opens her eyes to see a Leone badly burnt shielding her body. She pushes her over to look her friend in the eyes. Tears appear from in her eyes as the blond girl thinks that she has now lost another friend. Leone lets out a weak cough and slightly opens her eyes. She smiles, relived that Yang was okay.
"Leone, why did you do that?" Yang says hysterically.
"I did not want you to get your hair anymore burnt?" Leone says with a small giggle, "I am sorry Yang, my weapon's healing ability is strong but I reached my limit now. I thought I could save us both, but this is goodbye."
"No, you are going to be fine. I will call Ozpin for someone to get here quick." Yang says as she reaches to find her scroll. When she does, she looks to see it was destroyed from the blast. She screams as she throws away the scroll and looks down at Leone.
"Please, Leone, I cannot lose you too. Please!" Yang says as she starts crying over her friend's body. She has her tears wiped away by Leone, who looks her in the eyes.
"Do not cry Yang, I told you that friends do not like it if you cry over their deaths." Leone says as Yang remembers what Leone said to her at The Club. "You know, I was really starting to like this world and the people in it. It is sad that I have to leave so soon. Please, tell the rest of my team that I am glad to have meet them." Leone says as she closes her eyes again.
"You will do great things in this world, Yang. I leave you with one thing to make you even better." With that, Leone says her last words. Her hand fall on her belt buckle, causing her body to revert back to normal. Yang looks down at the smile on Leone's face. She wonders what Leone meant by her last words, until she looks at the belt. She knew now what that really was and what Leone had entrusted to her.