We are back with another chapter in the story. As always RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and its associates, as always my characters are my own so let's get to the story.
Delilah was walking down the busy street of vendor stalls with Coco and Velvet following next to her, Coco had her sunglasses pushed up as she had a firm grip on her weapon purse. Velvet had a slight twitch in her ears every few seconds, a box which Delilah assumed was her weapon was situated in the small of her back. They had been walking down some of the more busy streets in hopes of seeing Blake, so far Coco had managed to catch some sales in stores she frequented. Looking at her scroll the time read 4:10 PM, feeling a bit hungry from spending most of the day looking for Blake Coco directed them to a small café where they could eat in private.
In the middle of their meal Delilah's scroll began to vibrate, taking it out along with the ear piece which she fitted in her ear she unlocked her scroll. The first thing that popped up was a map of the city with three GPS pins that were pulsing, Delilah was confused at what they were as Vigil took over the screen. "Miss Delilah we have an emergency!" Coco and Velvet leaned in closer to see Delilah's scroll. Delilah asked, "What's wrong Vigil?" Vigil pulsed the closest pin, "it appears that the enemy has made their move, Levina is in the direst of situations." Delilah got up tossing a large amount of lien on the table as she took off running, "where's Omar and Carmine!?" "They are engaged in battles of their own, they will not be able to provide assistance." Delilah huffed as she turned the corner down a winding alley that seemed to be a shortcut on her map.
After cutting across four streets Delilah was only another three blocks away from Levina, cutting down another alley she saw someone sitting on one of the dumpsters lined up behind the building. As she entered the loading area with Coco and Velvet right behind her the person hopped down from their seat and walked into the middle of the alley blocking her path. Coco and Velvet stepped in front of Delilah as the person stepped forward, due to how tall the building was and the time of day it was most of their body was covered in shadow. Coco holding the grip to her bag in a ready position asked, "mind stepping out of the way, we're kinda in a hurry." The person spoke, "I could ask the same for the two of you, my business is with the wolf." Velvet shielded Delilah putting a hand on her box, Delilah gripped the handles to her tonfas. Coco pushed her sunglasses higher up on her nose, "last chance to move." The man adjusted a pair of arms guards he had on, Coco huffed as she stomped forward toward the man.
When she got close Coco swung her bag at the man, he leaned back slightly letting the bag come within mere centimeters of his face. With Coco's arm across her chest the man took his foot and swept it at Coco's feet, Coco fell forward as the man stood in a wide stance, bringing up his fist he uppercut Coco into the air. As she was sent into the air he used his other hand to grab her foot, twisting his body he threw her at a wall nearly putting her through it. As she struggled to get up he threw his hand up to block a kick from Velvet, Velvet tried to kick with her other foot but was blocked by his other hand. With both of her feet in his grasp he spun around and swung her toward Coco, Velvet slammed into Coco knocking her down again. The man stood upright turning toward Delilah, Delilah charged at him with her tonfas drawn. Bringing both tonfas down he blocked with his forearms, while they were locked together she demanded, "WHO ARE YOU!" the man smiled, "if you can land one hit on me I'll tell you." Shifting his weight Delilah fell forward slightly, using that shift in weight the man grabbed Delilah by the gi and flung her over his shoulder right into the ground.
On the ground Delilah threw a kick up which the man blocked, twisting her leg she grabbed the man's ankles using her free leg she used semblance to get a foothold. Twisting her body she tried to throw the man off balance but he swept his foot forward taking a wide stance, he kicked her shoulder and with one hand tossed her up. Delilah was upside down in the air when she saw him line up his fist, delivering a side punch the man sent Delilah flying into one of the nearby dumpsters. As he took a step towards her there was a whirling sound that reverberated throughout the area before a hail of bullets were directed at the man, Coco had a furious look on her face as her sunglasses laid broken at her feet. The man dodge fluidly while blocking some of the bullets with his arm guards, Velvet ran over and helped Delilah up as Coco continued the unrelenting assault.
After Velvet helped up Delilah she told her, "Go, me and Coco can handle things here." Delilah turned to run when they heard Coco scream out, a hail of bullets nearly hit them as they dived out of the way. The man had Coco in an inverted face lock hold, his free hand was used to aim her mini gun at the girls as Coco could not release her grip on the gun causing it to still fire. Delilah rolled a few times as the man continued to aim the mini gun at her, Velvet had one of Delilah's tonfas as she snuck around the side. When his head was turned Velvet sprinted forward and lodged the tonfas in-between the rotating cylinders and the metal panels, the gun jammed. The man back handed Velvet then drove his elbow into Coco's sternum, releasing her from the hold he drove his palm into her face slamming her into the ground. Velvet rubbing her face saw that Delilah was still standing in the alleyway, the man stepped over a recovering Coco and crouched into a dragon stance. Velvet pleaded, "Delilah just go, we can handle ourselves!" Delilah shook her head as she crouched into a stance of her own, "NO, I'm not leave another person behind! I'm staying!" Coco spit blood from her mouth as she rubbed her jaw, "Bun bun is right, you can't stay here." Delilah shook her head again to which the man smiled, "her honor as a martial artist compels her to stay and fight, but her loyalty to her friends wants her to go. Quite the conundrum we have here, stay and fight, or run and be a coward."
Coco huffed as she grabbed one of the empty dumpsters by her and lifted it over her head, taking a few steps forward she slammed it down at the man. Taking a wide step back the dumpster missed him by a few inches, sending a side punch into the dumpster launched it back at Coco sending her flying down the alleyway. Velvet stood up and spread her arms apart as her box lid opened and several beams of light shot out and traced Fox's weapon onto her arms, taking a stance Fox would when wielding his weapons Velvet launched herself at the man. Delilah followed suit and joined Velvet, both girls were seemingly toyed with by the man as he would nonchalantly block their hits or redirect them at each other.
Velvet summon several various weapons, Coco took a boxing stance trying to hit the man, Delilah tried several sweeping attacks but nothing worked. The girls were beginning to lose their energy when the man cocked his head to the side and jumped back from the girls, putting a finger to his ear he seemed to nod. Correcting himself he spoke, "I just got word that your sniper friend just got on the wrong end of a bullet, some big dude was trying to play hero. A bullet to the chest stopped them both though." Velvet had tears fall down her face, "Yatsuhashi?" the man nodded again, "seems like some red haired guy tried to get in the way first, pretty sure he only has one lung now. Even with those two getting in the way, seems like Hush was the first to finish his part." The sun had set enough that the lights in the alleyway flickered on illuminating the man enough for Delilah to make out the exact details of what he looked like.
The man had on a Kung Fu jacket that had the internal lining and accents green, training pants, and flat shoes. His arm and leg guards poked out from underneath the cuffs of his clothes, his jacket had a peculiar pattern that made it look like scales where covering him. Fixing his cuff she saw that his hand looked more like claws, she could even see something beneath his collar. The man saw her observing him and used a claw to pull down his collar, he had what looked like scales line his neck going up to his ears. Giving a toothy smile he saw her figure out what he was, "from the look of your face I can tell you've pretty much figured it out, yes I'm a Faunus." Velvet demanded, "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!" A scowl creeped across the man's face, "prey shouldn't talk back to the hunter." The man spit at the ground, "every one of you is beneath me, does a wolf think it can fight a dragon?" the man took his stance again, "just be quiet and let me hunt you." Delilah charged first, the man threw a punch but Delilah dipped underneath it and using his arm as a bar she swung herself into the air. Using her semblance she kicked off the air dodging his other fist as she brought her's down, the sound her fist made against his face sounded like concrete breaking.
Coco saw Delilah's aura flicker before normalizing, the man just stood there as Delilah leaped back clutching her hand. The man stood straight up slowly raising his hand to his cheek, rubbing it slightly he looked up to the sky, "how long's it been since someone's managed to hit me?" Delilah saw he turn his eyes toward her, they turned reptilian as a wide smile turned into a maniacal grin showing off all of his razor teeth. Turning his head toward her with his smile still on his face he wiped some drool that started to drip, "prey always tastes better when it puts up a fight. True to my word I'll tell you my name," the man looked over at Coco and Velvet, "but those two have no right to that knowledge." Before they could react the man was in front of them, delivering several brutal strikes he knocked Coco into the air before punching her into a wall. Her aura flickered then broke as he continued the assault before kicking her through the wall.
Velvet turned reaching a hand out several seconds to late, the man turned his attention to Velvet. A knee was suddenly crashing into Velvet's chin, the flurry of strikes and kicks were too fast for Delilah to see and for Velvet to register. The man backed off for a moment as Velvet's aura flickered then broke, showing Delilah his claws he slowly walked up to a stunned Velvet briefly looking her over before slashing upwards with his hand sending Velvet into the air. Her jacket was ripped open as Delilah could see the blood coming from the slash wound, Velvet hit a dumpster on the way down before slumping onto the ground face first. The man turned to Delilah licking the blood from his claws, "now that those two are out of the way we can have our real fight, so allow me to introduce myself, I am Wān yān de Lóng." Delilah remembered something her grandfather once told her, 'Delilah if you are to remember one thing let it be this, those of the Long clan are fierce warriors. They do not back down from a challenge, but know that they can let their emotions get the best of them. Should you ever find yourself fighting one you must remember to keep calm, they fight with their emotions which is a double edged sword. No matter what please keep calm.' Wān yān picked Velvet up by her hair, giving her a brief shake he caught Delilah's attention, "if you're going to keep daydreaming I'll just have to eat this thing here to tide me over." Wān yān dropped Velvet as he blocked a punch from Delilah, snarling her eyes went wild, "GET AWAY FROM HER!"
Wān yān pushed her back, "why do you care about this lesser Faunus, the two of us are above them. I've read the file we have on you, your grandfather is one of the few dire wolf Faunus still alive. I am a komodo dragon Faunus, we are at the top of the food chain so why do you concern yourself with these lesser beings?" Delilah charged at him again, Wān yān dodged and side stepped leaping away from her. Delilah was standing near Velvet as Wān yān huffed, "well I suppose that's enough talking, I should have enough for now but I will need to eat the rest if I want her complete fighting style." Delilah looked confused as to what Wān yān was talking about as she saw his hair and eye color change to the same shade of brown as Velvet, taking a stance that mirrored hers she could almost see Velvet standing in front of her. Wān yān smiled as he charged Delilah.
Delilah had seen Velvet spar many times in the training room so she knew most of what she was capable of, if Velvet was not laid out on the floor behind her she would have sworn she was fighting her. Wān yān had mimicked her every move, but with more speed and intensity. A side kick knocked her across the alleyway away from Velvet, rolling to her feet Delilah saw Wān yān change hair and eye color again as he took a different stance. Bouncing on the balls of his feet Wān yān had a smile on his face as he began his assault again, Delilah was only blocking as she tried to get a handle on how to counter him. Wān yān lured her with a feint and kicked her in the hip then the knee crumpling her to one side, with the same leg her kick her into the ground. Delilah spun around causing him to step back, leaping back she rubbed her hip that was still throbbing. Wān yān changed color again taking a different stance, Delilah decided to go on the offensive taking her signature stance. Wān yān smiled wider, "about time you started fighting back, I can't take your fighting style if you're not using it while I eat you." Delilah shook her head trying to ignore him, Wān yān continued, "I guess this won't be too much of hassle if I tell you. My semblance allows me to take the fighting style of anyone I face, only hitch is that I have to eat them while their using it. Granted I can get by with a little bit of blood, but if I really want to absorbed their entire style I need to eat all of them bone and all."
Delilah felt dread wash over her as she figured out what his whole speech about eating was, Wān yān licked his lips as he saw Delilah hesitate. Changing his color to green he took his dragon stance again, "I've heard that your howling wolf claw style is pretty good against multiple enemies, so I'm going to take it from you." Taking a deep breath Delilah calmed herself down, focusing on Wān yān she tensed herself waiting for the first move. Wān yān slowly inched closer never taking his eyes off hers, he stopped when their hand were just barely touching. Delilah could hear her heart beat slow as everything around them slowly faded away, with this new focus she was able to see the small drops of sweat glide down the scales on his neck. She could see how his muscles tensed underneath his jacket, she even saw the minut twitches his body made as it waited in anticipation. Wān yān made the first move, keeping her elbows in like her grandfather taught her Delilah was able to see the first strike.
The sound of metal clashing reverberated throughout the alleyway, Delilah was able to keep up with Wān yān's speed as they both were seemingly evenly matched. Wān yān would change styles mid strike to try and confuse Delilah, Delilah would see the change and try to adapt but she could not keep track of his different moves at all times. Wān yān was beginning to win there exchange, Delilah's aura was beginning to fail her as Wān yān was whittling it down strike by strike. Every time he tried to get close for a grab she would dip away or sidestep hitting he with a quick secession of well-placed fists, but striking his scales was beginning to take its toll on her hands and shins.
Delilah jumped back after another attempt to put her into a hold, she was breathing heavily as her knuckles were bleeding. Her aura was nearly depleted as Wān yān only looked slightly out of breath, Wān yān chuckled, "you're fighting style is probably the best I've seen so far, I'm going to really enjoy taking it from you. In fact your style might just be enough for me to finally take this fight seriously." Delilah stood dumbfounded as she tried to rationalize how throughout the entire time they were fighting he was not taking the battle seriously. Wearily she took her stance again as Wān yān took a different stance, both arms were crossed with his claws pointed directly at her, his feet were also crossed the same way. Not wanting him to properly set he self she charged him, Wān yān smirked as he used his foot that was crossed to sweep Delilah's foot just as she set her foot down. With his hand he hit her with a back claw as she was falling forward, when she began to spin he hit her with his other claw just as she was facing the sky. Delilah hit the ground hard as her aura flickered then broke, quickly rolling away she tried to get up only to be hit with a knee to her throat. Wān yān flattened his hand as he stabbed Delilah with his claws in her shoulder, Delilah hit the ground again as her shoulder started to bleed, Wān yān licked the blood from his claws as she tried to get up.
Wān yān grabbed Delilah by the neck and dragged her to her feet, when she was standing on her feet he let her go. Delilah saw him change color to match her as he took her stance, Delilah's arms and legs were on fire as they throbbed with radiating pain. Wān yān saw her trying to lift her arms up to form a block, giving a playful smirk he grabbed her arms and put them into position for her. Delilah tensed herself as he went back into the stance, as she let out a breath Wān yān became a blur of fists and kicks. Delilah was only able to stay on her feet because Wān yān would hit her in a way to keep her upright, Delilah knew that the moment he stopped she would fall again. Wān yān hit her directly where her arms were crossed knocking her back before she stumbled falling down again, Wān yān was bouncing up and down as he threw a few playful jabs at the air. As she laid on her back looking up at the sky she could hear Wān yān laughing, "man this is going to be my new favorite style," she could hear him walk closer to her. With every step he took her heart sank a little further until it hit rock bottom when he was towering over her with the same maniacal smile he had on when she first hit him.
Wān yān crouched down beside her head slowly tracing a claw underneath her chin, "where to start? Decision, decision." Delilah choked back tears that were welling up in her eyes, Wān yān licked his lips as he slowly opened her gi. Wān yān could see the torment in her eyes as he signed placing a claw on her lips, "shh, shh, shh, don't worry I'm not going to defile you. That would be unprofessional, no you have the upmost respect from me for matching me as long as you did. Most other martial artists would have been beaten long before I had gotten serious, not only that you're still conscious." Tears fell from Delilah's eyes as Wān yān moved the gi down the shoulder he had stabbed, "remember what I had said about us being above the rest of the Faunus, well that's because our bloodlines are more closely related to our ancestors then the other Faunus. While they chose domestication we thrived off our instincts, we evolved to retain more of our animal DNA then the other Faunus. That is why are faster, stronger, and have better senses then them." Grabbing both of her shoulders he lifted her up, "one other thing, the venom I have exaggerates blood loss. So you'll bleed out well before I finish eating your shoulder and arm." Wān yān's mouth began to drip heavily as he opened his mouth giving Delilah a chance to count every tooth he had.
Delilah screamed when Wān yān first sank his teeth into her shoulder, she felt him tear and chew as she tried to gather the strength to push him away. The sound of a bone snapping in her ear nearly caused her to feint, Wān yān taking another bite shook her out of her daze. When he pulled back she could see he face covered in her blood as he was chewing, his tongue extended enough for him to lick most of the blood off his face. Swallowing what he had in his mouth he chuckled, "you have got to be the most delicious Faunus I have ever eaten, and I don't say that to everyone." As he opened his mouth to take another bite an inky black goo slapped itself onto his face, the goo quickly spread covering most of his face as Delilah saw through the blood and haze to see the goo was attached to some kind of strand. Wān yān clawed at the goo as he stumbled back away from Delilah dropping her, Delilah felt something sticky attach itself to the wound on her shoulder. Taking shallow breaths she could feel the wound close up as she heard another set of footsteps, out of the corner of her eye she saw someone holding their hand out.
The person that came into view was a girl a little older than her, she wore a dark blue leather jacket and jeans, and her light brown hair was in a low ponytail. Delilah couldn't see her face but she did see the same goo that was attached to Wān yān's face was currently creeping up her neck, the girl stood over Delilah, suddenly Wān yān was being hoisted into the air. Wān yān continued to struggle as the girl crouched down next to Delilah putting her hand underneath Delilah's head, "don't worry your safe now, I'm Omar's cousin Lantana. The ambulance should be here any second, after I take care of him we're heading straight to the hospital." Delilah saw Lantana clench her hand into a fist as Wān yān was turned into a ragdoll as the goo visibly shivered then violently shook, Wān yān was slammed into almost every available surface in in the alleyway. Lantana lifted Delilah up as she heard Wān yān being thrown, the sound of sirens grew louder and louder as Lantana carried Delilah out of the alleyway. Delilah tried to squirm in protest but Lantana assured her, "your friends are going to be fine, Omar's sister Faye called us in. Everyone else should be reaching their assigned wards right about now."
Delilah was loaded into one of the three ambulances, she saw two sets of paramedics running down the alleyway toward Coco and Velvet. Lantana never left her side as the doors were closed, Delilah could hear over the paramedic's radio how they found two unconscious girls in critical condition. The sun had set past the buildings when Delilah and Lantana heard the radio crackle, "this is truck 214 we have two priority 2, I repeat we have two priority 2." A third voice responded on the radio, "This is truck 217 we have a priority 1, this is truck 217 we have a priority 1." Delilah couldn't understand what they were saying, Lantana had a sad look as she explained, "priority 1 is critical condition possible DOA." Delilah nearly feinted after hearing this as her mind reeled trying to figure out who it was for, the ambulance drove her to Ravencrest Hospital.