Hello everyone and welcome back to HellFall!
Camp is going great still, but its been weird coming home and reentering the RWBY fandom. Lots of really weird stuff that I'd rather not look at.
On the other side now, I activated my semblance. My aura had regenerated itself since my fight at Nicole's house, so my semblance was easy to use.
The driver glanced back, seeing me close, and fired off another round. I side-stepped, slamming into the side door of the car but avoiding the bullet. He looked back at the road, glancing back at me occasionally. I tried to run towards him, but he swerved, knocking me aside. Once he straightened himself he pointed his gun back at me while I was getting up and fired.
I saw the bullet as it quickly approached and reached up, catching it in midair.
The driver turned back to the road, then back to me. Too late. I was already in the front. I reached out and grabbed his coat collar, yanking him out of the seat. I slammed his head against the window, shattering the glass. The back of his head started bleeding.
"Grizzly!" Nicole called, pulling me out of the moment. I looked up, my eyes returning to normal.
"Right" I replied, going to the driver's seat and pressing my hand against the brake pedal until the car stopped entirely.
We both crawled over to the driver, who was leaning against the side door of the car, his head hanging out the broken window.
"I hope you didn't knock him out" She said, looking him over.
"I doubt it" I replied.
Nicole shook his shoulders, and his eyes twitched.
"Open up!" Nicole called, shaking him harder, "I can see that your awake, don't play dumb"
Slowly the man opened his eyes and looked at both of us, first at Nicole, then me, then Nicole again. Perfect, I thought as he looked straight into Nicole's eyes.
"Where are you taking us?" She asked.
"Wait" I said, stepping forward and prying his jaws open. Just like with the last guy, he had no teeth or tongue.
"Oh" Nicole said when she saw his mouth.
"Doesn't look like we can't get anything out of him." I said. "What now?"
She paused to think, the turned to him, "Take us home." She said.
"Shouldn't we investigate a little?" I asked.
"Yes," Nicole replied, "but we shouldn't go in unarmed"
"Right" I replied.
The driver stood and went back to the driver's seat. He sat down and drove us home.
"Go get my suitcases." Nicole told me when I got out, "I'll stay with him, just to make sure"
I ran upstairs, grabbing Barbed Gustav off my bed and latching it onto my belt, which I attached to my waist. I didn't grab my cloak, but went to grab Nicole's suitcases from her room.
As I ran to the door my stomach growled again. I spun around, ran to the kitchen, walked around the dead body, and made some sandwiches. Returning to the car I handed Nicole a few sandwiches and sat down.
"Thanks." She said, then turned to the driver and adjusted his head so that he looked at her, "Take us to your leader"
The driver turned back to the road and drove off.
Nicole joined me in the second row of seats where we ate our sandwiches. Suddenly she started laughing.
"What?" I asked.
"We're still in our PJ's" She said.
I looked down at my green footies, "Oh yeah." I said, laughing a little, "We'll be real intimidating when we show up"
"They'll crap themselves when they see those menacing feet" Nicole joked.
I laughed, almost spitting out my sandwich.
We kept eating for a little bit in silence.
"I wonder where we're going" I said finally, finishing my sandwiches.
"Me too." Nicole said, "We have to prepare for anything"
"Do you have any idea what this is about?" I asked her.
She shook her head, "No idea" She replied, finishing off her sandwich.
Hours later we arrived at a house on the corner of a street block. It was a small, square-shaped house.
The driver got out of the car and opened our door. As we started to get out he yanked us out onto the sidewalk.
"What the heck?" Nicole asked, angry.
"I guess that you weren't specific enough with your orders" I said.
The driver picked us up onto our feet and pushed us towards the building. He opened the door and shoved us inside.
The room we now stood in was empty. There was an open doorway on either wall before us. The man pushed us through the one on the right, leading us into an identical room. He led us to the corner of this room, where he stomped on the floor. A small trapdoor popped open. Both Nicole and I jumped. We hadn't even seen the edge of the door when it was closed.
The man pointed to the trapdoor, indicating for us to go in.
"Ladies first" I said slowly.
Hesitantly she climbed down into it and dropped down. There was no ladder.
"There's no ladder," I told the man, "how do we-" Before I could finish he pushed me through the door. I fell back first, but Nicole caught me before I hit the ground and broke my spine.
The man dropped down after us and pushed us further into the room, which was completely dark save for the spot where we stood.
I heard the trapdoor shut above us. Glancing back, I saw that we were completely covered by darkness.
"Heishi!" A man's deep voice called. "What are you going here? You need to knock them out first"
I felt myself begin panting frantically, terrified. The man before me was a Faunus, like me, but he wasn't like anything I'd ever seen before. He looked more like a deformed human with animal parts. His hair was pale grey and shaggy, sticking out in all directions. His skin was tan and his eyes were pale yellow. He wore a black T-shirt and a grey cargo vest. He wore a grey metal gauntlet on his left fist, and it reached up to his elbow. He wore black cargo pants which were tucked into heavy black boots. The deformity, however, was on his right hand, or rather, it was his hand. It was the hand of an armadillo, and instead of sticking straight outwards like a human hand bent downwards awkwardly. His back bulged out, and he was hunched over, a sand-colored armadillo shell sticking off of it. To top it off, an armadillo tail hung out from his rear.
The man, Heishi, stood next to us, not saying or doing anything. Instead he took us by the arms and pulled us closer to the deformed armadillo Faunus.
"Heishi!" The man called again, "What are you doing? Is there an error?" He stepped forward, observing Heishi in the darkness. Nicole leaned over to me.
"What's going on?" she asked.
I was about to respond when the grey-haired man said, "Nothing important Miss"
He went on observing Heishi. Pulling open his mouth and coat.
"Must be an older model," he mumbled, "2.7 perhaps? Hmm"
He stood up straight, looking at us.
"No matter." He said. "I guess that I'll just have to deal with you myself" He pulled his left fist back, then swung at me. I reached up and caught his fist in midair. "A Faunus?" He asked, looking up at my bear ears. "This'll be interesting" He leapt backwards, creating a fair amount of distance between us.
"Nicole," I started, "looks like I'm about to get into a fight. If you can, stay out of the way"
"How?" She asked.
"Find the edge of the room," I replied, "and stay there"
I heard her backing up behind me until she hit the wall and stopped.
"Heishi!" The man called, "Leave us, I'll call you back later for observation"
Heishi disappeared, running off and vanishing somewhere. Through a hidden door I assumed.
"Who are you?" I called, reaching for Barbed Gustav.
"Rocco Trask." He replied, "And you?"
"Grizzly Karzen" I replied.
Rocco smiled, "Well, Grizzly Karzen, I must admit that I've never seen someone get to me conscious. I'm impressed. How did you do it?"
"I have my ways" I replied.
Rocco leaned forward, his yellow eyes widening.
"Show me."
So there you have it, another cliffhanger. Sorry.
You may recognize the name and hair color of Rocco from Violet I. I hope that you guys already figured that out, but if you haven't then whatever. Violet I was a while ago.
Also, just last night I got a message to write up a chapter just for describing the characters and what they look like, just as a recap. I'll be doing that in the next chapter (which I'll post today), and I'll only be doing the eight main characters. If you want anymore to be done though, I'll try to do so in the future.
Anyways, that's about it, so as usual, favorite, follow, review, tell your friends, tell your enemies, or don't if you don't want to, and I'll see you all in the next chapter.