"Hi." Ruby said. "Please let me go." Karma said trying to wiggle her way out of Ruby's grip. "Nope. Not until you become my friend." Ruby said. "What if I don't want to?" Karma asked. "Whyyy? I'm fun. Im uh hip." Ruby said. "Well the flowers need tending and you are prohibiting me from doing so." Karma said. When she mentioned flowers Ruby looked around at the batch of flowers and noticed a wilted batch of Crescent Roses. (Fitting I know) She let go of Karma and went over to them "Please leave." Karma said dusting the dirt off of her silk. "Do you know why they are wilted?" Ruby asked observing the shriveled flower that lightly swayed in the wind. "I don't know. It seems like no matter what I do, those flowers just don't stand straight." Karma said. Ruby turned to Karma and gave her a look of disbelief. "I'll tell you what. If I tell you what is making the plants wilt, you gotta be my friend." Karma gave some thought on this and, to her, she was in a sticky situation and finally caved in for the sake of her plants. "Fine. Spill it." Karma said with a sigh. "They are crescent roses. That means they need a crescent moon to bloom." Ruby said with a smile. As karma heard this her blind eyes widened behind the blindfold and she turned around, walked a few steps, laid down on the grass, and screamed into the grass. All Ruby heard was a muffled scream from Karma before skipping out of the room "Bye friend."
When Asura went back to the dining hall everyone was pretty much doing their own thing elsewhere. He decided it was time to see what the teens could do and opened a portal to Hearth. When he stepped out it was early morning. He made his way to the bounty board that was sitting in the shade of the cathedral in the town hall. He looked through all the papers that had been stamped on the board. Before he could choose a man with white hair, yellow eyes, and a wolf pendant. "Ah the butcher of Blaviken. Nice day today isn't it." Asura said sarcastically. "Don't worry. I know that name isn't as it entails. You were just helping. So which monster is so unlucky as to have to fight the grand witcher?" "Well I was hoping for a griffin but no luck. I'll take the noon wraith off your hands." The witcher said while ripping the paper from the board and walking away. "None of these are good enough. I want to see them fight not help scare bandits away. I'll try elsewhere." Asura said walking away. Asura went to the tavern where their room was for the festival but had no interesting leads. He went to the irish pub and sat down at the same seat hoping that Sameal would still be around. "Well if it isn't my old friend." Asura heard behind him, he turned around, thinking it was Sameal but instead it was Scarlett doing a shitty Irish accent. "Well you were the last person I expected to be here." Asura said facing Scarlett. "Well I mean you are pretty much the only person around here with horns and opens portals and drops in and out." Scarlett said sitting down. "Well if you wanted something I can't really help right now I'm short on time." Asura said. "Maybe I can help?" Scarlett asked. "Well I need to find a good monster to hunt. Not some bandit camp or a bear. I just can't seem to find anything." Asura said. "Well you owe me for this. I heard a while ago that there is an Imoogi that's been terrorizing the deserts of Skichi. The planet is pretty much nothing but sand and nothing but a cities here and there and a rail system. If you were such a kind individual, you could go after it." Scarlett said. "Fuck yeah. That's actually perfect. Thanks Scarlett." Asura said before running out the door because he didn't want to hear what she had to say next.
He opened a door back to the keep and started to make his way to RWBY's room. He would take JNPR on another hunt later. As he started to close in on the door he heard talking coming from the other side. "What are you laughing about?" He heard Blake ask. "Bla… hehehe… Blake. Blaaaake ooooon meeeee." Yang started singing "Oh jesus christ." Blake said. "Sing it." Yang demanded. Blake said unpassionately "Blake on me." "Blaaake meeeee ooOOOOON." Yang sang. Blake sang again unpassionately "Blake on me." Before they both started singing way off key. "IIIII'LLL BEEEE GOOOOONNNEE." Ruby then joined in. "IN A DAY OR TWOOOOOO." Weiss gave a sigh. Asura then kicked the door opened and joined in. "BLAAAAAKE OOOOOON MEEEE!" They all burst out laughing and when it died down Asura began to tell them. "Okay I got something for us. In order for you to get stronger I went out and got a bounty for us to go and retrieve. I will warn you though… it's going to be a long journey. We leave in an hour. No if, ands, or buts." Asura said before leaving. After he got ready he went to Athena and told her that she is in charge. When everyone else was ready they met in the dining hall. "Well since it's going to be sandy we'll need these." Asura snapped his fingers and made water, food, and hooded cloaks for everyone. Weiss had white, Yang yellow, Blake very dark purple, Ruby Red and black, and Asura had red and black. He opened a portal and they walked through.
On the other side they stood in the Planetary transport drop zone where travelers got off. He and everyone else walked to the desk and asked when the next rail should pass. "It should be arriving any time now." The robot said. Asura and the others walked outside and gazed upon the never ending seas of sand. A vast expanse of white sand. After a while of standing in the dust and sand, the rail arrived and they all stepped on. They all took a seat in the back and watched as the rail slowly took off. As the rail hit the parts in the track making it wiggle back and forth they all began accustomed to it "So what are we here for?" Blake asked. "Well there's tell of an Imoogi, a large serpent which must survive 1,000 years, complete tasks and gain knowledge in order to grow into a full-fledged dragon. It's not a good one if they are sending us to hunt it. I don't know if they haven't found where it lives or if they don't have anyone strong enough to hunt it." Asura said. "So what happens if we aren't strong enough?" Weiss asked. "No we definitely are." Asura said. "When's our stop?" Blake asked. "We'll stop at the city it's been terrorizing. Latoiabridge. There we will look for information and get a room for the night." Asura said. "How long will it take us to get there?" Yang asked. "We should be arriving at nightfall." Asura replied. "What but we like just woke up!" Weiss said. "Couldn't you just teleport us there?" "Latoiabridge does. Not. Like magic users. This is the best I could do unless you want us to sleep on the streets." Asura said. Hours rolled by and the sun started to set. He called everyone over to look out the window. The sun glistened off the sand making it sparkling gold. Wind blew underneath the sand making it look like creatures were swimming under it. Everyone watched as they rode by the sands, taking in the sights of beauty. Hours rolled by again and most were asleep. Ruby had her head on Asura shoulder and was snoring quietly. Yang and Weiss were in the same position as Asura and Ruby but both were asleep. Blake was awake and watching moonlight. "Asura?" She asked. "Yeah Blake?" He asked. "Are you sure we are ready for this." She asked. "I wouldn't let some lizard kill you." He said. "I got a question for you. What's it like? Being a Faunus I mean." "Well its hard. Some people consider me their dear friend but, to me, they don't know I'm a faunus and I don't know if they'll hate me or not care." She said. "I'm sorry to hear that." Asura said because he never knew what to say in these situations. "I got a question for you." Blake said. "Shoot." Asura said. "Forgive me if this is inappropriate but what was it like? Being a god… alone all those years." Blake asked. Asura was quiet for a few moments. "Well… for one it was torture. Having to cast aside your name, starting over with no recognition. People treat you like trash because to them, you are no one. I put my foot down and made the rule where no one will know who we were, in order to protect my family, because I was dwelling on the past and was scared someone will come after them again." He said. "Why did you make that rule?" Blake asked. "When the first people rose to fight us saying we were not worthy of them. I was young and reckless… dangerous. Still I said they are all talk and if they were truly meaning what they said it will be their downfall. Sure enough they found a way to use and were in the middle of breaking down the door. The others were not but children and shouldn't see what was about to unfold. I wasn't going to take that insult to us. I retaliated and carved through them all like wildfire. I cut them all down, all the way to the portal and I stepped foot on their home turf. I was in such a rage that I wasn't going to take any chances. I slaughtered everyone. Men. Women. Children. Even people that didn't stand with the ones who wanted to kill us. I hated it. I should have given them more humane deaths. The god of destruction name was fitting back then and… today if someone were to do the same thing. It might happen again. I didn't want that point in my existence to mark me as a monster for the rest of my days. I've done whatever I could to forget it… but nothing works. I help people sometimes but end up fighting others and the same monster comes out wanting more and more. I joined the arena to try and satiate it but it doesn't work. Some times when I have to sleep, I don't because the nightmares slither in and try to infect me and haunt me. Like when I first visited Vale and I said I'd wait until morning. I'm scared that during a nightmare I won't be able to tell between reality and the terror and I'll hurt my family. I hate the way I feel, the looks I got when I slipped in the arena by you and the others. My friends and family, the ones I care about, stared upon me like I was a monster and i… i…." Asura tried to continue on but was broken completely now as tears started to roll down his face. "Stop." Blake said. "Don't push yourself. What you did in the past isn't doing to change my thinking of you. It's what you will do now." As Asura tried to reply through the tears and sniffs. He was cut off as Ruby woke up in the middle of the speech and listened but now wrapped her arms around his neck. "It's ok. Don't cry. Calm down." She spoke softly as she calmed Asura down. "You. You sound like Priscilla." Asura said as looked through teared eyes. "That's fine. Come on big guy. Calm down." Ruby said as she wiped the tears of his face with her thumbs. "Even though Asura is a god, he doesn't at like one. He's like your normal person with a really broken past." Ruby thought to herself. She snuggled closer to Asura and drifted back to sleep. Asura and Blake talked some more before she fell asleep as well and after a while of waiting Asura and the others had finally reached Latoiabridge.