Hello everyone and welcome back to our adventure. The story will be converging back with the main story either this chapter or next depending on how I pace it. I will try to get more of the main cast involved as well which may help in speeding up the pace. So without further delay on to the story. As always RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and its associates, my characters are my own.
Omar, Jaune, and Ren were sitting down eating some of the Kale pancakes Ren had made, Jaune was almost turning the same color as the pancakes after just three bites. Spreading a bit of butter and syrup Omar dug in eating the pancakes that were served to him, Jaune stared in disbelief. When he asked for more Jaune asked, "how can you just eat that?" after getting more pancakes from Ren he answered, "well when I trained with my sister it was eat what you can or starve, if you could not catch something forage for something instead." Ren having taken a bite of his own pancakes asked, "Can that not also be dangerous?" "Yeah I've learned the hard way what was and wasn't poisonous." Jaune still sat with his plate full, "so like did you ever think of giving up?"
Wiping his mouth he handed Ren his plate thanking him for the food before answering Jaune, "well if I gave up I would be dead in some cave or forest back home." Jaune looked confused before Omar explained, "where I'm from everything is basically designed to kill you, everything from the wildlife to the plant life. Giving up there is basically asking nature to eat you. Sure there were times that it was almost easier to die then go on but if I did give up there would be people that would not have forgiven me." Ren having grabbed his and Jaune's plate asked, "When did you begin your training?" "When I was around six." Both of them were surprised Jaune more so, "are you serious! You starting training to become a huntsmen at six years old!?" Omar shook his head, "no that training was just to survive at home, the training to become a huntsmen didn't start until I was eleven."
Jaune turned to sit facing Omar, "so like how crazy was it?" "I was either sparring against my sister or traversing the various terrains fighting different Grimm." "Wow" Jaune continued to ask Omar questions about his training as Ren sat quietly listening in.
In the room Yang had finished telling the girls about watching the scary movie and how Omar was scared the entire time. Delilah gave an evil smile, "so he can't handle scary movies huh? This should be interesting." Yang giggled before turning to Ruby, "hey sis you might wanna cover your ears for this next part." Ruby scrunched her face as she complained, "Ewewewewewewewewewew, Yang that's so gross." Delilah tuned her ears forward, Nora with a curious "ohhhhh" scooted forward, and the others all gave their attention to Yang. She continued on with the awkward scene in the truck.
When she finished describing the scene in the Bullhead everyone sat slightly blushing, Pyrrha was the first to break the silence, "my that….was passionate." Yang who now had several shades of red displayed on her face smirked, "yeah." Delilah asked, "So who asked who?" Yang tilted her head in confusion, "who asked what?" Delilah rolled her eyes, "did he ask you to be his girlfriend or did you ask him to be your boyfriend?" "Oh…we really didn't talk about that." Weiss who was sitting in her chair chimed in, "my suggestion would be to wait a day or two to really think about where you want this to go, rushing in like you usually do will only end up badly." Delilah sighed, "Knowing that idiot he'd just rush in without thinking." "Point proven, Yang take your time when thinking about this, if you really want this to work then you have to be sure that this is what you want." Yang nodded as the girls changed the subject into turning the night into a slumber party.
Omar woke up to a kick in the side, sitting up he didn't recognize where he was until he heard someone grumble next to him. Looking around he saw that he was on the ground with a blanket covering his legs, next to him was Jaune kicking in his sleep, Ren slept out of his reach. Still in the shirt and jeans that he was in yesterday Omar got up heading toward the bathroom to wash his face.
The inside of the bathroom was very organized, towels were neatly folded in the cupboard along with four separate cups of different colors housing a toothbrush. The sink was just as neat, feeling a little off about using it Omar quickly washed the sleep from his eyes. Exiting the bathroom he heard a knock on the door that woke Jaune and Ren, opening the door Carmine stood outside in full uniform with an irritated look on his face, "you know when I came back to the room last night it was empty, no note, nothing to say where any of you went, I had to ask Vigil to track you. Now wake up the girls, if you hurry you can avoid being yelled at by Glynda for being super late."
Knocking on the door Omar entered the room, almost everyone was asleep on the floor except for Weiss who had finished changing into her uniform. Weiss looked more than irritated, "excuse me but you can't just waltz right in here." Omar found Levina and Delilah before waving off Weiss, "don't worry just here to collet my teammates, then I'll be out of your way." Leaning down he gently shook Levina, "hey time to get up we gotta get ready for class." Levina stirred awake before nodding. Standing above Delilah he sighed before kicking her in the hip, "get your ass up you already missed first period." Delilah bolted up disorientating herself further from the head rush, she was tripping over herself trying to stand up until Omar grabbed her slinging her arm over him. Bowing to Weiss he dragged her out of the room and back to theirs.
Delilah had called Omar every name she could think of, and when she ran out she had Vigil search for more as she got ready for first period. Carmine sighed as he grabbed the crutch that Omar made, it was able to fully support his weight and was comfortable enough to not cause pain with extended use. Levina had the task of assembling all of their books as each took a quick shower, Vigil had ordered another uniform set for Omar over the weekend which he was changing into. After everyone was ready they headed out to begin classes.
As they entered first period Omar saw Yang, waving to her with a smile he made his way toward her. As he got to the aisle to climb up to her row he saw she had not noticed him, when he got to her row Blake had moved to sit next to her preventing him from taking the seat. As he was about to ask Yang she turned her head away from him, Blake had also turned away ignoring him when he was going to ask what was wrong. Sitting next to Ren and Jaune he saw Delilah walk up the row, Blake moved back to her original seat as Delilah took her seat. When she complained about being woken up the way she was all of the girls laughed, Omar sighed turning back to the front of the class as Professor Port entered the room.
The class dragged on as the professor went into another tangent about his childhood, a story that had no basis about the current subject. Omar was about to text Yang if something was wrong but decided against it, if she ignored him at the beginning of class then it was almost a guarantee that she would ignore any kind of text. Delilah was also out as she was most likely still mad at him. Putting his head down he went over everything he might have done to upset Yang.
Delilah was watching the professor animate how he had fought a Grimm in his youth, after fifteen seconds she became board. Leaning toward Yang she asked, "So how're you doing?" Yang was doodling in her notebook not paying attention to Delilah, when Delilah nudged her softly Yang's concentration was broken. Yang looked up, "what?" Delilah looked down at Omar before turning back to Yang, "do you really think he's worth it?" Yang rested her chin on her arms, "everyone keeps telling me to think about what I want, then turn around and ask if he's worth the effort. It's a little confusing, and I really do like him but everyone making me second guess myself."
When class finished Delilah walked down toward Omar when his scroll rang, when he answered it she could tell something was wrong. Most of the color had drained from his face, and she could see him sweat. Waiting a minute he hung up the scroll as he slumped into his chair, Jaune and Ren had moved past him and were walking with their teammates. With Omar sitting alone she asked, "Hey what was that about?" leaning back and looking at the ceiling he sighed, "There is a mission directed to me specifically, I leave in a little bit." Delilah tilted her head confused, "but we're students we aren't hunters that can take on missions." Omar shook his head, "that may be true here but I am a registered hunter back home so I can take missions if I want. Turns out this one is for me, I don't know what the details are or how long the mission will take. But since Yang is ignoring me I guess I can take the mission without any worry, looks like I was right about her just being overly friendly." Delilah was about to say something when he got up.
After taking Omar back to the room Delilah went to her next class, they had said nothing the entire time they walked back. Sitting next to Blake and Pyrrha for world history was not the worst as they had excellent handwriting, copying notes from them was easier as they organized them to be easy to read. Blake could tell something was wrong with Delilah but didn't know how to ask.
During lunch Levina noticed that the mood was beyond awkward as Yang who was always smiling was just staring at her food. Omar and Delilah were nowhere to be seen and Blake looked like she had something on her mind. Taking a breath she asked, "Blake is something on your mind?" Blake looked up from her tuna sandwich answering, "sorry it's just that Delilah looked like something was wrong, but she was so deep in thought I didn't want to disturb her." Levina thought for a second before asking, "Yang did you tell Omar that you need time to think, or did you just ignore him?" Yang was stirring her soup in circles, "I might have ignored him in the morning." Levina sighed, "Vigil can you tell me where Omar is so I can clear this mess up." "Sir Omar's currently location is 200 kilometers outside of Vale, it seems he was assigned a mission of great importance and has left the school grounds." Yang asked, "How long will he be gone?" "I cannot answer that, I am sorry but that information is classified." "Oh." The mood seemed to turn even more somber then it was before.
Combat training was the next class that everyone was in, Delilah met up with everyone telling them that Omar had gotten a call to go on a mission. Seeing Yang Delilah joked, "well at least you won't have to see his face for a while." Yang shrugged, "he didn't even say goodbye, or even where he was going." Carmine had had enough, pulling out his scroll he dialed Omar, "Vigil make sure to connect the call." There was a small thumbs up on the screen before the call rang. It rang twice before the line connected.
"Ok Vigil you're going to have to guide me through this, piloting is not something I'm used to yet. But we should be getting to the mines soon." Carmine cleared his throat before speaking, "so when did you decide to go off on a mission on your own?" "Carmine? Well since the mission had my name on it I had to go, why do you care it's not like my attendance affects you grade any." Levina chimed in, "how are you outside of the city so fast anyway, the Bullhead we have and the ones the school has don't go nearly fast enough for you to be as far as you are in that short amount of time." "I'm using the one my sister lent me, something about destroying every vehicle I get in." Delilah grabbed the scroll from Carmine, "you idiot, fine you had to leave but you forgot to tell one person that you were going!" "I had Vigil email the teachers already, I should be fine."
Delilah screamed into the scroll, "YANG YOU COLLOSAL IDIOT, YOU FORGOT TO TELL YANG!" there was a brief silence on the scroll before he spoke, "I thought I already told you Delilah, I already know she was just being flirty with me nothing more. I did something to piss her off, what I don't know, but me leaving for a bit should give her some room to calm down. I guess me assuming we could be more might have been it now that I think about it, that's why when I get back I'll leave Yang alone and give her as much space as possible. I guess Faye was right, I really can't find anyone." Yang was about to say something when Vigil interrupted.
"Sir there appears to be something lodged in the right engine." "Well that doesn't seem safe." Yang grabbed the scroll, "hey," "Sir a fire has been ignited in the right engine, we will not stay airborne for much longer." "Vigil it's back to pull up and forward to go down right?" "Yes sir." "Yang whatever it is that you wanna say it'll have to wait when I'm not about to plummet a few hundred feet." Yang gripped the scroll, "What I was going to say was," an explosion cut her off, "Sir we have lost the right engine and the left is in the process of failing, please gently descend toward the ground." Everyone was worried after the explosion until Omar gritted, "heading toward the ground is not the best idea since I can see the Grimm right underneath us, so I gotta go as high as this thing can and jump out. That should give me some distance on them." When Yang tried to speak the call cut out.
Weiss looked unamused, "how do we know that he really is where he say he is, Delilah you said he was on a mission? Well that's impossible he is still a student and cannot take missions yet." Vigil chimed in, "Please allow me to explain, the mission that he is currently on is not one found on a normal mission board. Rather it is one posted by another member of his family to be completed by another family member. The reward for completing a mission on the family mission board is a favor." Carmine asked, "As favor, that's it?" "Yes, a favor that when called in grants the user the power to direct the debtor to do one thing." Delilah sighed, "One thing that's it?" "Yes and there is no limit on what the favor can involve." Levina figured it out, "it's a free pass to ask anything, be it buy dinner or start a war." "Precisely." "How many does he have on him?" "None, he is very adamant about not owing anyone any favors. But he does have a favor from almost every one of his relatives."As Carmine was about to ask more Glynda came in a disbursed the group.
The class was uneventful as everyone tried to make sense of everything, Yang sighed, and again there was a misunderstanding between them but this time she couldn't fix it with a kiss. Glynda could tell something was wrong with how uninvolved the group was, ending class early she pulled them aside. Lining them up in a semi-circle she asked, "Can any of you explain the lack of involvement in class today? If it is about your teammate I am sure he is fine, I received an email stating that he would not be attending class due to a family emergency. While it is not beneficial for him to be missing some many days there is nothing we can do about it. Now go on, your next class will be starting soon." Everyone filed out of the auditorium gathering in the hall.
Carmine pulled out his scroll again as everyone huddled around him, dialing the number again it rang. After three rings Vigil ended the call, "I am sorry sir but it seems like Sir Omar is in a location where connecting the call would be most detrimental to his health and safety." Carmine gave a hard sigh, "fine but when you can connect a calleven if you have to wake us up." "Of course sir." Still not satisfied Carmine left the issue alone as everyone disbursed going to their separate classes.
Two days past with no word from Vigil, on the third day Carmine woke up checking his scroll to see no new messages. After getting ready they left the room to see Ruby and Yang waiting outside anxiously, shaking his face they sighed following them to class. Classes went by uneventfully as Carmine and Delilah were checking their scrolls every chance they had.
During lunch everyone was eating silently until Nora boosted, "come on guys, I bet he'll have some super cool stories to tell us when he gets back." Levina giggled, "Yeah…considering what I've seen him survive, I bet he's just taking the extra time to laze around sleeping all day." The mood lightened as everyone started laughing, Delilah's ears picked up a sound causing them to tune in. As the laughter died down the group could hear people whispering, turning to see what it was they saw someone walking toward them from the end of the room. The left side of the persons face was covered in bandages as well was their neck, and they walked with a slight limp.
As he got closer Delilah was the first to recognize him, "Omar?" for the first time in Ruby's life someone was faster than her. Yang passed her sister being the first to reach him, nearly crushing him. As Yang buried her face in his chest she felt something was off, leaning back she ran her hands up his arms for only a second before she realized only one sleeve was occupied. Omar buried his forehead in Yang's neck using his right arm to bring her closer, "please…..can we just stay like this for a minute?" Yang wrapped her arms around him again as the rest of the group got up standing behind Yang. After a moment Omar leaned back as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Delilah complained, "you know waltzing off on your own is fine when it's on school grounds, but if it's a mission tell us so we can go and help prevent you looking like that."
Ren and Nora helped him to a seat next to Yang to which Ruby asked, "So what was your mission about?" "I'll tell you after I get something to eat, it's been like three days since I last ate anything." Ruby was gone in a flurry of petals before returning with a plate piled high with food. The way he tore into the food could be compared to a wolf eating, using his hand he tore apart most of the solid food into small chunks. Jaune watching gripped his stomach, "I think I'm going to be sick." When Delilah tried to push a glass of water closer to him he snapped at her causing everyone to recoil back. Levina heard her scroll beep before Vigil spoke, "I must apologize for his table manners, he has been in combat for over sixty hours. The Grimm did not leave him much time to eat or sleep, again I apologize for any rude actions he may take." Carmine almost shouted, "What kind of monster did you fight that took over SIXTY hours?"
Yang placed a hand on his shoulder which made him flinch slightly but otherwise he continued eating. His plate was cleaned off when he reached for the water Delilah had pushed toward him, downing the water and wiping his face he leaned back. Levina asked, "Omar, where's your scroll?" reaching into his pocket and tossing it on the table he answered, "It died after the second day." Nora grabbed the scroll placing a finger on the charging port, after a few seconds she handed back to Omar with a smile, "that should be enough juice." The scroll powered on and a loading circle appeared before turning into a sound wave. After another brief moment Vigil went online, "transferring all files to other scrolls… complete switching to sleep mode." A file appeared on Carmine, Delilah, and Levina's scroll named 'Deep_ 4'. "We can watch that in the room, it's easier to show you then tell you."
Omar had set up the holo-player to sync with his scroll that was charging on his desk, classes had finished for everyone else when they all filed into their room. Having changed into a more comfortable set of clothes Omar sat in his chair while the team took turns changing themselves, after which he went to the player standing in front of it. Looking at all of them he warned, "ok what I'm gonna show you is both gruesome and illegal, technically this footage shouldn't exist but since my sister wanted documented proof I did the job here it is." Sitting down on the floor Yang scooted to sit next to him as he pressed play on his scroll.
The screen was black for a brief moment before showing a close up of Omar, "Vigil tell me again why I gotta where this thing?" "Miss Donna requires video graphic proof that you have completed the mission. Any do not worry about damaging the camera, your sister Faye had it built with you in mind." "Why do I feel like that's an insult?" the scene skipped forward to just after the engine started to malfunction, "Sir there appears to be something lodged in the right engine." "Well that doesn't seem safe." The camera swiveled to see the engine catch fire, "Sir a fire has been ignited in the right engine, we will not stay airborne for much longer." "Vigil it's back to pull up and forward to go down right?" "Yes sir." The rest of the conversation played out as the plane began to shake violently. After Omar cut the call off he began pulling back on the yoke making the plane rise into the sky. When the plane was completely vertical he dropped into the loading area opening the hatch.
Another explosion rocked the plane forcing Omar to jump out with sword and scroll in hand, high above a forest the camera spun around to see the plane explode before spinning around again to see the quickly approaching forest. The next scene was of various body parts slamming into different branches before slamming into the ground. Yang had maneuvered herself to sit between his legs wrapping his arm around her as she leaned back fully into his chest. "You know if you wanna be my boyfriend you're going to have to be more careful whenever you have to go on these missions, ok?" "Ok, and I will try to better comprehend when you are joking verses when you are serious, deal?" "Deal." The scene on the screen changed to Omar moving through the forest.
After a minute Omar questioned, "Vigil are you picking up anything? Cause I was sure that I saw Grimm down here when we were flying, but now I can't see anything." "Sir my sensors are currently malfunctioning, it is indicating that we are currently surrounded by Grimm and then just as quickly the signal disappears." Swiveling around he asks, "What does Donna have us out here to kill?" "Reports from the works state that they were attacked by strings that dragged their co-workers into the forest." The camera jerked to a stop, "Did you say strings?" "Yes sir." "Vigil your sensors are not malfunctioning in the way you think, rather their being overloaded." The forest sounds suddenly died out as the roaring of tiny legs scurrying drew closer.
The entire forest turned dark then almost pitch black, a sea of tiny red eyes glowed in the darkness. The camera slowly turned to show how completely surrounded Omar was, "it wasn't strings that took the workers or blew out the engines, it was webbing." There was a brief moment of calm before the sea of small spider Grimm charged, as they got closer Omar shouted, "I am SO NOT dealing with this!" raising his foot he stomped the ground causing it to ripple outward sending spikes jutting upward skewering the Grimm. The sound of trees being ripped from the ground resonated as dirt and dust covered the area in a thick blanket, when it settled the area was torn apart but clear for one hundred meters around. The sounds of skittering drew closer as more spider Grimm crawled over the ruined landscape and out of the holes created for the uprooted trees. Breathing a heavy sigh he created two long swords, "Vigil I need to focus for the time being so if anyone tries to call send it to voicemail." Charging forward Omar clashed with the cat sized spider Grimm.
"Vigil skip ahead." Ruby gave a sad look, "Aww I wanted to see." Omar smirked, "trust me, you won't miss much if we skip ahead." The scene changed from mid-day to evening, the sea of Grimm did not lessen any. Stomping his foot one last time sending out a larger ripple from before Omar took off launching himself upward into a tree, leaping from tree to tree he asked, "Vigil am I heading the right way to the mine?" "If you turn right at the next tree you will be facing the correct direction." Kicking off the next tree the scene turned into the dark forest zooming by, "Vigil skip ahead." The scene skipped to a still shot of a large cave seen from a tree high above, the camera jostled before lowering down as Omar's legs became visible. "Sir do you think it's wise to be resting so close to the cave entrance?" "Vigil I've been fighting for hours, even I can't keep up with amount of Grimm here. Look set a timer for four hours, I'm taking a nap."
The time skip ahead forty five minutes before everyone could see Omar's legs slowly move then stopped, a large jerk ripped Omar out of the tree toward the ground. "WHAT THE FUCK!" a spider Grimm the size of a Tibetan Mastiff had him by the foot, rearing back his other foot he kicked it sending it flying several feet. Getting up more spider Grimm emerged from the brush, they charged fanged reared as he gave an audible groan before slamming his fist down into each of them crushing them. Staggering a little he picked up his sword, "Vigil how long was I out?" "Forty five minutes sir, I do not think the Grimm like you being here." "I must be close, well since sleeping is out of the question I guess I have to press on."
The video skipped ahead to show the morning and the opening of a large mine, the entrance was encased in webbing but was open enough for Omar to crouch through. "Vigil this is where I might not get out of this alive. If something should happen to me," "Sir from my personal experience and all of the data master has programed into me I can say without a shred of doubt that you will complete your mission alive." "Thanks for having enough confidence for the both of us. But seriously if something should happen send the message I wrote to Yang, and the other one I wrote to Mavis." "Of course sir." Yang tilted her head to see Omar, "what message did you write?" giving her a smirk he kissed her forehead, "I'll have to rewrite it so it doesn't matter." Pouting she crossed her arms turning back to watch the screen.
As the scene turned into a walk through a cave Delilah complained, "didn't you say that it would be gruesome? Well from what I've seen it's a whole lot of boring." "Vigil pause." The video paused at the entrance to an opening, "ok from this point on anyone with a weak stomach should leave." Everyone looking at him did not move, looking down at Yang he asked, "Think you can convince Ruby to head back to your room?" Ruby let out a loud groan as she complained, "Aww come on! I bet the video's getting to the best part." Snuggled back further into his chest Yang giggled, "Well there's your answer." Sighing he relented, "fine, but I am not responsible for the nightmares any of you have. Though Ruby is right from this point on the mission got more intense."
The video resumed showing a large cavern, looking around in the dark gave no details to the area until, "let's see if I remember how to do this right." Holding out his hand and visibly gathering aura Omar made a ball of light that he threw, it stuck to the side of the wall, creating more he illuminated most of the cavern. The scene was almost horrific, dozens of people, men, women, children, even the elderly were strung up to the cavern walls. There was a loud screech as a spider Grimm the size of a Volkswagen beetle came charging out of the opening on the far side of the cavern. The amount of armor it was incased in made its size more intimidating. The ends of its Pedi palps were formed into razor claws that were extended outward as it galloped forward. Charging forward himself he leaped over the Grimm just as it was about to reach him, landing behind it he touched the ground pulling out a long halberd. Spinning it a few time he squared himself to the Grimm that turned around dripping acidic venom from its exposed fangs. Each drop fizzles the ground, gripping the halberd tighter Omar asked, "Vigil if that stuff gets on me, what's the damage I'm looking at?" "Sir it would be most beneficial if you were to not get any of that on your face, I fear it may eat through your skull." The Grimm screeched again as it charged, using the halberd Omar tried to keep a good distance between them.
The fight continued on for a few more minutes as Omar would create new weapons after each one broke or was melted through. As the video continued Omar saw Nora Jaune and Pyrrha sharing a bowl of popcorn, Ruby sat starry eyed holding onto Weiss's arm, and Blake sat next to Ren watching quietly. A small smile emerged on his face as he saw Carmine had an arm wrapped around Delilah, Levina was lying down next to Ruby watching with equal excitement.
Using a spear Omar killed the Grimm, as it died it let out an ear splitting screech that echoed throughout the whole cave. Stumbling backward slightly he was out of breath, looking around to see nothing jumping out at him he crouched down resting his hands on his knees as he took a breath. The sound of coughing gained his immediate attention, turning around he saw one of the workers wrapped up in the cocoon move. Walking toward him Omar briefly looked around, seeing no danger closing in he calmly stood in front of the man. Inspecting him he saw he had on miners clothes, the man was regaining consciousness as Omar tore away some of the webbing. When he was fully awake he had a pained expression before gritting, "my chest….my chest hurts."
Omar remembered looking inside of his chest and seeing a large dark spot, he remembered concentrating hard enough to give the dark spot enough shape to accurately tell what it was. The man looked around as much as he could, "where are the others?" "What others?" "The other members of the rescue team." The man looked at Omar's face and began to panic, "Come on! Enough messing around! Where are the other members of the rescue team!" another voice off to the side wheezed, "kid…..it's just you isn't it." Nodding the other man coughed hoarsely before regaining his breath, "Krieg, there is no rescue team. The kid was probably sent here to inspect the losses…..he probably wasn't even told there were people that worked or lived here, am I right?" walking over and removing some of the webbing around the man's head Omar answered, "I was sent here to get rid of the Grimm, no one told me there were people that lived here."
Krieg shouted, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO ONE TOLD YOU PEOPLE LIVED HERE! THERE WAS A WHOLE VILLAGE…..WE WORKED THE MINES FOR THAT DAMN SANZAKI FAMILY! ARE YOU TELLING ME THEY ABANDONED US!" the outburst caused Krieg to have a violent coughing fit, blood was drooling out of his mouth as the audio could hear something restricting his lungs. The man Omar stood in front of became despondent, "they most likely think that no one survived the attack given the amount of Grimm covering the area. Hell the attack only lasted an hour before everyone was dragged down here." When the coughing fit subsided Krieg spat, "Granite shut the fuck up…..kid get me out of here!" Granite coughed with a pain expression, "Krieg even if the kid got you out you wouldn't get very far….the Grimm made sure of that." What are you talking about?" "Those Grimm laid something inside of us, something that is getting pretty active right now."
Pointing two fingers at Granite's chest Omar took a deep breath, "it'd be safer if you tried not to move around too much, I don't want to hit anything vital." Taking a short breath he punctured Granite's chest, the sound of several pops and hisses escaped from the hole as Granite was able to take a breath unhindered. Granite questioned, "How?" "I just looked for the dark spots and helped your body get rid of the 'unwanted guests'." Beginning to tear away the webbing Granite began to struggle more wanting freedom from his restraints. Having been fully freed he was propped against a nearby rock as Omar went to help Krieg.
Krieg screamed in agonizing pain as he thrashed about, his chest pulsed every few seconds as he began spitting up blood. Putting a hand on his shoulder Omar tried to keep him still, "Krieg you have to keep still, I can't get rid of them if you're thrashing around like this." A loud crack silenced Krieg's screaming as his face froze in agony, another cracked and he vomited blood. One last crack and his chest began bleeding profusely, the webbing turned red as something poked out. Another poke and a small spider Grimm crawled out from Krieg's chest, Jaune turned pale, "did that just come out of his chest?" the Grimm crawled upward stopping on Krieg's lifeless face, Omar crushed it tossing it aside, "I'm sorry Krieg."
Picking Granite up and supporting him Omar walked toward the exit, "when we get outside I'll call for a team to come and pick you up." "What about you?" "I still have a mission to complete, I'll be fine." Granite gave a wheezing laugh, "you remind me of my son, stubborn about things that you set out to do." Reaching the middle of the cavern Omar stopped which caused Granite to ask, "what's wrong…..it's blocked isn't it." Feint at first the sound of skittering grew louder as Grimm poured into the cavern from every available opening, "Granite you know these mines right?" "Yeah." "Is there another way out or am I going to have to lose some limbs going out the front door?" Granite took a few breath before answering, "Going further in there should be an access vent, it may be blocked though." "Not a problem, but these things will make it a bigger problem if I don't think of a way to deal with them now."
"Vigil I don't know how much power you have left but can you see if there's an end to these things?" "I have ninety seconds of power left in the device, from what my sensors are indicating that the outer edge of the Grimm is closing in." hoisting Granite closer Omar looked around, "when all of them are in the cavern tell me if you can." "What are you planning kid?" as more Grimm pour into the room Ruby scooted closer to Weiss, "there's so many!" Jaune with a nervous look asked, "How'd you get out of that?" Omar put a finger up to his lips, "shh it's coming up."
"Sir the last of the Grimm has entered the cavern, I am sorry but there is only twenty five more seconds left of power." Granite tried to push himself away, "kid just leave me…..you can get out of here on your own, I'll only slow you down." Looking around the Grimm began closing in, "Granite shut up, I'm not leaving you down here. I need to think of something." "Can't you make a gun or something? I saw you pull weapons out of nothing earlier." "No I can't, guns have too many moving parts that I have to think about." "Then make something simple that can get rid of a lot of these Grimm then." The Grimm were closing in when Omar was thinking, "something simple that goes boom, simple that goes boom, simple that goes….I GOT IT!" Out stretching his hand he created Magnhild in gun form.
Aiming at the entrance he fired off two shells that block in the cavern, aiming to the ceiling he fires off the rest of the four shells into the ceiling. When the shells hit the entire cavern began rumbling as large chunks of rock fell from the ceiling, creating more rounds inside the barrels he fired off more shells around the area destabilizing the cavern even further. Putting Granite on his back Omar ran to the other opening that Granite pointed out. Running right past some of the larger Grimm they both made it into the opening just as a rock collapsed sealing off the cavern as it continued to crumble. Putting Granite down Omar leaned against the wall trying to catch his breath, "Nora, thank you." Nora turned to Omar smiling giving a playful salute that almost hit Jaune in the face, "you're welcome." Turning back to the video she resumed watching.
Granite looked concerned, "kid you don't look so good." The video was still pointed down when Omar answered, "Well considering I've been fighting these things non-stop since yesterday, I would say yes I probably don't look to good. I don't even know what time it is." Granite unsteadily got to his feet bracing himself against the rock wall taking some deep breaths. His face was as slack as the clothes he was wearing, the hair that was not matted in webbing was an ashy grey. He looked like he had been drained of life with how weakly he was clutching the wall. Taking a deep breath Omar slung Granite's arm over his shoulder, "you said you had a son?" they walked further into the tunnel, "yeah, he's around ten."
"So kid you're the youngest of the Sanzaki family right?" "How'd you know?" "Well, since they didn't send a rescue team or even a cleanup squad I guessed that they would send someone in to check things out and report back, am I right?" "Almost, I'm here to check to see if the cave is stable enough for them to send some workers here. I was never told that there was a small mining village or that there workers already here, I'm sorry." Holding his chest Granite laughed, "ha ha, ow ow, I don't blame you kid. And seeing how you fought earlier, you must have experience dealing with these kinds of situations." Pulling Granite closer they squeezed past a narrow passage, "unfortunately yeah, I don't like when people end up dying on my missions. So I will do everything that I can to get you out of here, you said your son was ten….was he one of the people webbed up back there?" "I honestly don't know, when the Grimm showed up he wanted to help in driving them back but I told him to take his sister and leave. My daughter is barely a year old….I hope to god they made it to somewhere safe."
Levina grabbing the bowl of popcorn from Nora froze, slowly turning to Omar she asked, "This is not going to go like how I think it is right?" shrugging he answered, "Donno, after this next part I don't remember a single thing." "What do you mean after this next part?" turning back to the video showed an opening to a large room.
The room that they entered glittered brightly from the light that pour in from the single opening in the ceiling, the crystals that were imbedded in the walls cast a glow of multiple colors everywhere. Walking further in there was a giant hole carved out of the wall, hoisting Granite closer Omar made his way to the light standing directly underneath it. Setting Granite down Omar looked around, "ok better get you out of here fast, the queen may not like visitors in her throne room." The sound of gnashing teeth echoed throughout the cave, putting a hand on his sword Omar stood closer to Granite, "ok I'm going to need you to brace yourself, I'm gonna be sending you up that vent fast." Granite nodded as he braced himself, something thudded behind them causing them to jump. Looking at the slowly dissipating dust cloud almost turned his stomach, a tiny arm torn from the elbow laid on the ground.
"Oh god….baby girl...oh god….please no…..anyone but them…..please anyone but them." Levina, Delilah, Ruby, Weiss, Jaune, and Nora started crying, Pyrrha, Carmine, Blake and Ren teared up. Yang gripped Omar's arm a little tighter as she tried to push herself further back into his chest. Granite tried to crawl to the arm pleading, "please god no, please not them, anyone but them." Omar picked him up and dragged him back to the opening as heavy thuds drew closer, "Granite, I promise you that I will kill every Grimm in this cave. I give you my word on that, but I need you to live right now ok? I need you to live so you can tell my sister to go to hell, when you get out of here find a safe place and wait for me." Looking at the large hole a spider Grimm the size of the knight truck crawled out, "this won't take long."
The Grimm was adorned in pure white bone armor, the small protrusions around the eyes almost formed a crown. Standing in front of Granite Omar tried to distract the Grimm, "why hello there beautiful, is your mommy home?" the Grimm screeched slamming its Pedi palps into the ground, acidic venom dripped in large spurts from its fangs. "I'm sorry but I cannot accept your declaration of love, I'm saving myself for another." Granite asked, "What the hell are you doing?" turning his head slightly back he answered in a hushed tone, "keeping the attention on me so when I rocket you out of here it'll lose the time to react now shut up." Out stretching his hands he continued, "I must say if your mother looks anything like you she must be quite the sight." Massive thuds shook the entire cave as Omar stomped his foot rocketing Granite upward on a pillar.
The princess Grimm made short snorting sounds confusing Omar, "what the…oh no." looking up he saw the crystals move revealing spider Grimm with the crystals imbedded in their abdomens. Granite began panicking, "KID THEY'RE ON THE CEILING!" pointing his hand to the ceiling he clenched his fist bringing it back to his body which made the pillar rapidly descend. As the pillar plummeted two of the Grimm shot out webbing that caught Granite, Omar tried to run toward him but something caught his leg as he was tripped then dragged backward. Looking at his feet he saw a trapdoor spider Grimm was reeling him in closer, extending out his hand and using his other to hold it steady he shot out a spear from his palm skewering the Grimm. Creating a knife and cutting himself free he ran toward Granite.
The Grimm were passing Granite around by swinging him to the next Grimm every time Omar got close, having enough games he slammed his hands on the ground shooting several spears upward taking out multiple Grimm. As Granite fell Omar ran to catch him when two trapdoors opened up and webbing shot out snaring both of his arms, a Grimm on the ground caught Granite. Another one charged forward grabbing hold of his legs as the one holding Granite's upper body pulled back. As the Grimm slowly tore Granite in half more spider Grimm crawled down and shot webbing to tie up the enraged Omar, every step he took forward shattered the ground as more and more webbing was used to slow him.
Granite was too weak to struggle, instead he looked Omar in the eyes, "kid you promise me that you'll kill every single one of these Grimm." Freeing one arm Omar shouted, "I will after I get you out of here, don't die just yet!" the Grimm holding Granite's legs jerked back and there was a sickening pop, Granite began screaming as the Grimm jerked again. Out stretching his hand Omar was about to create a spear when a Grimm came up from his side stabbing his forearm pinning it to the ground with its Pedi palps. Forcing his arm up he tried again only to have a Grimm from behind step on his head slamming it into the ground, there was a louder pop as Granite's screams stopped. Forcing his head up he saw Granite dangle motionless between the two Grimm, the stomach area of his clothes slowly became soaked in blood. The two Grimm gave one last jerk and Granite was ripped in half, his top half was tossed aside landing near the tiny arm.
Everything froze until Granite coughed slowly reaching out a weak arm, taking hold of the arm he brought it close to his chest, "don't worry baby girl…..I got you….I'll be with you soon….hey kid keep….your….promise…..for….me." Granite died clutching the babies arm, the Grimm on Omar's back crawled off heading toward Granite. As it got closer Omar seethed, "don't touch him." The Grimm lifted up its Pedi palps as it turned to look at Omar, "I SAID DON'T TOUCH HIM!" swinging the appendage it sent Granite's body across the room, from where he was Omar could see Granite's face, it was smiling as the tiny hand looked to be caressing his face.
"It right here that I black out." Carmine nodded, "I can see why." The spider princess crawled standing over Granite, it made that same snorting noise that could only be a form of laughter. Straining against the webbing Omar stood up, "Don't you dare!" The princess stopped laughing as it raised one leg high into the air, stomping down it crushed Granite. Kicking the Grimm that still had it appendage lodged in his forearm he ripped his sword out of the webbing and its sheath. "SLAUGHTERSCAPE!" sinking the sword into the ground the webbing he was tied in disintegrated as a large gust of wind emanated outward from the sword, his hands became incased in what seemed like bone but took the shape of a boxing glove with small tendrils of bone vining it way up his forearm. The oversized bone gauntlets expelled fire from the various vents along the knuckles and wrists. A Grimm charged at him only to be sent flying before exploding from a single punch.
After getting rid of the trapdoor spider Grimm more starting dropping from the ceiling, as they surrounded him he raised his fists high before slamming them on the ground. The video became engulfed in fire for several seconds, the fire dissipated revealing several charred Grimm. Another Grimm charged from the right, clapping his hands together dissipated the gauntlets in a flash of lightning. Spreading his hands created a long cross spear, lightning arced between the spear points and down the handle. Wielding the spear in his left hand he thrust forward, skewering the Grimm pinning it to the wall creating an extremely large crater that knocked the other Grimm sticking to the wall off and shook the cavern.
Leaping high into the air he threw his hands above his head, as he descended he swung downward wielding a massively large flanged mace. When the mace made contact with the ground it caused a crater that rippled destroying most of the ground of the cavern as ice spikes pierced upward. The cavern shook as a massive spider Grimm emerged from the hole the princess came out from. The 'crown' on top of its head was massive and elaborate, the sheer size of the Grimm was more the ten times the size of the princess. As he turned to face the queen a Grimm leaped out from the corpse of another slashing at his face, the video jerked downward as arterial spray became the main focus. Gurgled coughing was heard before there was thunk, the video looked down and saw a spike protruding out of his chest. Another louder thunk and three more spikes punctured through.
Dropping the hammer a Grimm charged from the front and stabbed him in the left shoulder, when it reared up its other appendage Omar caught it. Coughing up blood he gritted, "I made a promise to kill each and every single one of you…and I intend to keep that promise." The Grimm hissed and reared up its fang, as it tried to drive them down it made a short grunt before going limp. In his left hand was a rapier made of pure white with an elaborate crystal guard, it dissipated after he pushed the Grimm back. Taking a step forward he spun around, a distinct slicing sound was heard as he was shown to be wielding a large scythe.
The Grimm's numbers were starting to thin out as the battle continued as Omar would pull out elaborately designed weapons every few kills. There were still spikes in his chest but he was moving around almost unhindered, his movements became slow at times but picked back up quickly after a few seconds. Looking around he saw only the princess and queen left standing, wheezing with every breath his weapon changed back into his original katana as he faced the queen.
Charging at the queen the princess blocked his path, leaping forward the Grimm drove its fangs down. Putting up his left arm the fangs pierced through his forearm, as it thrashed about it spat venom everywhere. Jerking back then rushing forward the Grimm's fangs almost caught Omar in the neck, unfortunately the fangs were directly above his face. The Grimm hissed before pouring venom down the left side of his face causing him to scream out, using that the Grimm pulled to the side and tried to drag him away from the queen. As it dragged him away he took a deep breath looking at the sword and his shoulder, gripping it tight he placed the sword under his arm. Letting out a feral scream he sliced through his shoulder as the princess jerked backward, as the princess fell back he stumbled backward before turning around facing the queen taking off as fast as he could.
The queen stomped a leg at him as he got closer, when the second one missed he took the opportunity climbing up the leg then leaped at the face. Twisting past the secondary arms he drove the sword through it plated skull, the queen let out an earth shuddering scream as it thrashed about trying to get him off. Driving the sword further in caused the queen to hit the sides of the cavern to try and knock Omar off. Going all the way to the hilt elicited one last scream and thrash which both knock Omar off sending him flying and killing the queen. The video tumbled before coming to rest facing a cavern wall, the sound in the background was slowly fading away as Vigil sped the video up a few minutes.
The video still showed the cavern wall but the bottom of the screen was filled with a pool of blood, there was a clicking sound then an angry hiss and heavy footsteps got closer. The hissing was extremely loud as a shadow was cast over Omar, the princess's shadow reared up as high as it could go with every appendage flared out. As she drove downward her fangs nearly reached his head before it stopped abruptly, the princess made a gurgling sound as she was thrown away. A tall figure stood above him, the shadow it cast was slender almost dainty. "Do not worry child, I am here, I will make sure you do not pass on to the next world." The soft feminine voice spoke with such care and comfort as it crouched down.
Yang could feel Omar trembling. "What's wrong?" the video turned toward the ceiling as a face came into view. The face was pale white, like all of the blood had been drained from it, the soft feminine features gave her an almost heavenly glow. Her eyes were a crystal green, with a single lock of ivory white hair dangling in front. Her hair was tied up in a low ponytail by a silk black ribbon, the way she spoke almost lulled you to sleep. "Dear child, look at you. Worry not for I am here, I will heal your wounds." She brought her hand up to her face, her other hand softly caressed his hair as she bit into her wrist. The blood did not drip from the wound, rather it pooled in the center of her palm growing larger in size until it resembled a volley ball. When she was satisfied with the size and amount she slowly it lowered toward his chest. As she did Omar gripped Yang tighter as he buried his head in her hair.
The woman began to hum as a spurt of blood landed on her face, the tune was a lullaby, one that had been hummed to many children. As she continued to caress his hair she slowly began to sing, "Sleepyhead, close your eyes. Mother's right here beside you. I'll protect you from harm, you will wake in my arms. Guardian angels are near, so sleep on, with no fear. Guardian angels are near, so sleep on, with no fear." Feeling him tremble so much worried her, sitting up and turning around to face him she saw his face was almost as white as the woman's face was. Gently caressing his cheek she asked softly, "hey what's wrong, that lady saved you." Omar shook his head, "she shouldn't be there." "Why not?" slowly looking Yang in the eyes he answered, "Because she died when I was a kid, she was Mavis's best friend and died on a mission, Mavis buried her." Yang slowly turned back to the video as the woman continued to hum as her hand shifted around his chest, with the static nature of the camera he could only guess at to what her hands were doing at the time.
Yang asked, "What was her name?" "It was," "MAAAGNOOOOLIAAAA!" Magnolia continued what she was doing but answered, "yes I am here tending to the young boy's wounds." Heavy footsteps grew closer but the person did not come into view, "he is not to die is that understood, this is the first time seeing my nephew since he was born." Magnolia withdrew her hands turning to the man off camera, "I have finished mending the wounds to his chest. The wound to his skull needs to be dressed as well as the left shoulder, he will live worry not master." Still off camera the man huffed, "good, when that boy told us that his village was attacked I almost paid it no mind. But seeing the infant girl he was carefully clutching I figured it would not hurt to have a look." Magnolia stood up exiting the camera's view, "I believe the child had a mission to complete in this cave, shall we assist him?" "I'll take care of this place, take him outside, his sister will have sent a squad to ascertain his status. Make it look like he crawled outside and mended himself, I don't want Sakura to know I have been in contact with him." "That will be difficult since he is wearing a camera that has been recording the conversation."
The man shifted a little closer but was still out of view, "I don't think we have to worry about that, this is the first time he's is hearing that he has other family from the one that he's known. So nephew if you're re-watching this footage would you mind editing this part out, life for you would be a lot easier if you kept me a secret from your mother. Don't worry when I have finished my business I will find you again and properly introduce myself." Magnolia came back into view before crouching down, her hand slowly covered the camera, the video abruptly cut to static afterward.
"Vigil can you edit the cut to before Magnolia showed up, right after I got thrown from the queen should be fine." Carmine questioned, "are you sure you want to do that?" nodding his head he answered, "he's right aside from my mom I don't know any other family, hell I don't even know my dad's family. So doing this should be fine." Yang gripped his hand, "and what about that woman Magnolia?" looking at the screen he sighed, "I'll figure that one out later." Standing up he stretched, everyone else got up weakly, Jaune complained, "man I didn't think I'd be this tired." With his right hand Omar began tearing away at the bandages covering his face, "yeah sorry, that'd be my fault. I kinda drained everyone of as much aura as I could to speed up the healing process." Ripping the final layer away exposed his face, there was almost no indication that it had been melted off except for the redness.
Yang slowly traced a hand down his cheek, he still had his eye closed, her hand slowly went toward his shoulder, "couldn't fix this?" "Naw if I took anymore it'd be dangerous for everyone." Yang traced her hand back up stopping at his chin, "and the eye?" slowly opening it he smiled, "I'm glad." "Why?" "Because you're the first person I get to see." A pillow hit him in the side of the head, "can you get any sappier?" with the pillow still covering his face Yang leaned wrapping an arm around his neck, giving a short kiss they heard Ruby dry heave, "ew gross Yang!" taking the pillow and throwing it at her sister she remarked, "what I can't kiss my boyfriend?" the room stood silent until Omar made a hushed complaint, "and here comes the screaming." Nora, and Levina shrieked, "AHHH!" Carmine cleared his throat, "well since you now have a girlfriend, no more solo missions." Before Omar could interject Carmine continued, "We're a team, if you have a mission tell us, we can handle ourselves. Granted the first time did not go so well, but you gotta trust us a bit." Omar sighed, "Fine, fine no more solo missions." Picking up his scroll he asked Vigil, "Did you get the video edited?" "Yes I did sir, are you sure about withholding the discovery of your uncle from your sisters?" "Yeah I think they already knew, but just in case I wanna keep it a secret." Looking at the time show 11:15 PM made it more tiring, as everyone filed out the team climbed into bed.
The next day Omar left for the hospital, Dr. Canadensis wanted to check how his injuries were doing and to try out a new aura chamber that might help him. He told Carmine and the team that he would be there for the weekend so they wouldn't worry, Yang promised to visit when she got the chance.
Monday arrive as Delilah woke up, the time she had spent with Carmine Sunday was quiet and relaxing. While not a proper date they did nether the less enjoy each other's company, Levina had set up some spots for them but otherwise left them alone. Sitting up she saw Carmine slowly lower himself to the ground, the side bars Omar had made for the beds were sturdy enough to handle their full weight and then some. Carmine re-did the straps to the new metal leg brace he had gotten from the hospital when they went on Saturday. Removing the brace he took a shower being very careful with the shin area as the last x-ray he had gotten had shown great improvement. Carefully drying himself off and putting on gym shorts he re-did the leg brace with Delilah's help as Levina and she took their turns in the shower.
As morning class was about to start Omar burst through the doors with his left arm in a sling, walking up the stair he sat next to Yang. Delilah scooted over asking, "So you regrew your arm?" "Yeah that aura chamber the doctor has really works, she gave me a full checkup and dialed the chamber to some setting and I got in. Had to stay in for two days though, but anyway how'd your in school date with Carmine go?" "I'm going to assume you heard about that from Levina," he nodded yes, "well it went great actually." Professor Port entering the class cut their conversation short as he wanted to start the lesson as soon as possible.
In combat class he sat next to Carmine in the back row, Carmine had a dejected look as he watched the matches. Looking down and softly rubbing his leg he sighed, "This sucks." Omar was watching the match between Ren and another student, leaning back Carmine asked, "so if you have your arm back why the sling?" "I may have my arm but the nerves and blood vessels still need time to heal, when regrew my arm that day in class I forced the process. If you remember I wasn't using my left arm much that day, the same applies for this time." Carmine nodded sighing, "I wonder when our weapons will come in, your sister did say a few days, but it's been close to a week now." "You did have transforming weapons, hold on let me check."
"Vigil how much longer till Carmine and Delilah's weapons are ready?" Vigil turned into a loading circle for a few seconds then answered, "The weapons should be arriving to the dorm room later this evening, the upgraded battle clothes should also be with that same shipment." "See you'll have your weapon later today." Carmine nodded as Levina and Blake's match started.
The two seemed to be evenly matched as both favored agility over brute strength, no solid hits were made in the five minutes since the match started. Glynda seemed impressed, "good, it seems that unlike your teammates Miss Vulpes you are taking this class seriously. Since we need to be moving on to the next match I will call a victor in sixty seconds." Both took their places on opposite sides of the arena as Glynda waited, when they were ready she started the match again. Levina used her semblance to offset Blake by appearing and disappearing randomly from her vision. After a few brief exchanges Levina manages to get a few hits in on Blake.
When the time expired Glynda called the match, "the winner is Levina, good job please return to your seat." Levina nodded smiling as she walked back with Blake, the two had seemingly become friends despite their pasts. Glynda looking over her scroll called out the next contestants, "will Jaune Arc and Cardin Winchester please step into the arena."
Jaune and Cardin stood opposite each other as Glynda went over the rules, "instructions are simple, fight until I call the match. You will be graded on your performance so keep that in mind. Now begin."