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Team SSSN were getting bored. They had been hired to protect some VIPs making some deals about some kind of business that none of them really cared about. The most action they had on this trip was some minor Grimm attacks that didn't really do much to curb the boredom.
"Any leads on the next item?" Sun asked Neptune.
"Yeah, I'm close to figuring this next riddle out," replied Neptune, writing on some scratch pieces of paper as notes. "At least I have something to do while we're sitting around on this dull mission."
"We just need to wait three more days and then this job is over," grunted Sage, also bored of this bodyguard mission. They had taken it only because it was the only one that put them close to where they needed to be. Once done, they would head over to try to find the item.
"Still, it's nice to chill after what we've had to go through," commented Scarlet. They all thought back to their training and shivered. Wong really was a teacher from hell.
"Hey, you! Get me a drink!" Demanded the VIP's child, who had been getting on their nerves a lot, always demanding things or ordering them about like they were his servants. Unfortunately, they had to listen to his demands as long as they weren't completely unreasonable.
"Yes sir," gritted Sun as he went to grab a water bottle for the child.
"Eww, I don't want a dirty Faunus to get it for me!" shouted the child.
Sun twitched in fury, his anger reaching its peak. He slowly crushed the boiling water, heated by his anger until Neptune put his hand on Sun, patting him on the back to calm his anger while Sage went to grab it. Unfortunately, the boy was also picky about skin color, causing Sage to almost grab his sword. In the end, Scarlet was the one that had to take care of the child.
"Just three more days, just three more!" muttered Sun as he leaned back on some rocks to relax.
After three agonizing days, the VIPs were finally sent home, allowing team SSSN to head to their next destination.
"Freaking spoiled brat! Oum, I wanted to punch his annoying little ass to the moon!" shouted Sun after going through some forests with his team.
"There's no point in yelling, it's over, let's be thankful for that," replied Neptune looking at the map and marking down some landmarks. He was sure they were getting close now, according to his notes.
As they were about to pull out of a clearing, Sun heard something and pulled them all back.
"What's wrong?" whispered Scarlet.
"I think there's a bunch of people here," whispered Sun.
They all slowly peeked out into the clearing to see two Faunus members walking around with weapons and dark red Grimm masks.
"Blood Fang members," growled Sun, "What are they doing here?"
"Only one way to find out," grinned Scarlet, flipping his gun out.
The two Blood Fang members were just talking about their latest kills when they heard someone shout "Extend!" A second later, one of them was sent smashing into a wall from an extended pole while the other one had a grappling hook suddenly grip his leg. Scarlet pulled him in with Sage's help. The Blood Fang member couldn't even shout when Neptune pointed his trident at his chest, his finger twitching to activate the Lightning Dust.
"So, gonna tell us why you're here?" asked Sun, twirling his staff.
"None of your business, traitor," spat the member.
"Should we try the good cop bad cop thing we learned during our Junior detective time?" asked Neptune.
"No time, let's just knock him out," replied Sun.
"Wait, what?" asked the Blood Fang member before feeling 20,000 volts hitting his body, shocking him unconscious. Strangely the guy smelled like roasted chicken.
"What do you think they're here for?" asked Sage.
"No idea, but it can't be good, knowing these crazy idiots," grumbled Sun.
They carried on after making sure the two other members were well hidden and knocked out for good measure. Soon, they came across the cave that they were supposed to go in, only to find that the entrance of the cave was blocked with several Blood Fang members camping in the area.
"What are they doing here?" growled Sun.
"C'mon!" shouted a woman with brown hair tied into a ponytail, "We got to see what's in this cave for my love!"
"Yes, mistress Ilia," shouted several Blood Fang members before they shouted inside the cave to tell them to hurry up. They could all hear whips cracking and people crying out in pain or sobbing.
"Are they using people as slaves?" gasped Scarlet.
"Only one way to find out," rumbled Sage as he started to pull out his sword.
"Wait," hissed Neptune, "Not everything has to be resolved with brute force. I say we sneak into the cave."
"And how are we going to do that?" asked Sun.
Neptune looked around for a bit before spotting something that he was sure could work.
"How is this going to work?"
"Trust me. I play enough Kojima games to know this is foolproof."
"That's where you got this idea?"
Team SSSN was hiding in barrels and boxes. Scarlet and Sun were inside barrels with the bottom cut out so they could walk along the wall, while Sage and Neptune were inside a huge cardboard box. They were slowly moving towards the entrance of the cave, stopping whenever they saw a Blood Fang member passing by. Several times, they had to stop when the Blood Fang whirled around to look at them. They were sweating like crazy every time a member seemed to inspect them and was about to expose them when they were suddenly called over by somebody else to help out with something. Finally, they managed to make it inside the cave, where they took off their disguises.
"Told you that would work!" exclaimed Neptune.
"Either we have the best luck in the world or these guys are dumber than we thought," commented Sun as they went further into the cave. There were lanterns everywhere, hanging from the walls. As they delved deeper into the cave, they saw tents pitched up and Blood Fang members with whips, overseeing the work of slaves, mostly humans but there were some Faunus as well.
"Faster scum!"
One of them was using it on a young human boy, barely the age of fourteen. The whip ripped into the boy's back as he cried out in pain and stumbled to the ground, sobbing in agony.
"Feel the justice of our wrath!" laughed another as another whip was sent flying towards the boy, leaving another mark, making him cry out once more. His shirt was torn in strips by the lashes, his Aura was drained, evident by the blood flowing from his wounds, sweat covered his body as he tried to get up.
"Stop it!"
A young Faunus girl about sixteen years old with yellow rabbit ears and blonde hair stepped in front of them, as if protecting him. She also had several tears in her clothes and was covered in sweat as well.
"Aww, the poor wittle bunny traitor wants to protect him," sneered another guard, who was the leader of the group.
"She looks tasty," said another, his tongue slipping out whose nose looked exactly like a pig.
"I say we take a break and break in this girl to show her why she's on the wrong side!" shouted another, receiving a round of laughter and cheers.
"No!"
The boy now stood in front of her protectively, not caring that his back was bleeding. "You're not going to touch her!"
"Aww, a love that transcends past races. How lovely. How it makes me SICK!" shouted the guard, slamming the whip into the boy once more. The girl cried out and tried to go to him, but found herself being held back and manhandled by several Blood Fang members before they slammed her onto the ground.
"It's time for us to... re-educate you," sneered the guard leader, "We'll show you just how much better superior we are to humans in all aspects. 100 lashes to the back should do it."
The girl couldn't scream as they gagged her mouth while they forced the boy to watch. Before the guard could even reach for his belt buckler, he felt something cold touch his neck.
"Don't ….. even think about it, asshole."
The guard looked down to see a giant sword touching his neck and shivered. Sage had managed to sneak up behind him and threaten him to stop. Before anybody could do anything, the rest of team SSSN attacked. Sun summoned several clones and knocked out the men holding the girl. Neptune took out a few other guards swiftly with his guan dao before turning it into a rifle to shoot another one.
"Call for URGH!"
Another sentry tried to shout only for Scarlet's hook from his gun to wrap around his neck before he yanked his target into the ground. Another guard tried to call for help, but Scarlet sent his sword flying. He had decided to upgrade his sword and include a hook attachment on the handle. With a flick of his wrist, the sword changed directions and slashed at several Blood Fang members at once, knocking them out. Soon enough, team SSSN had all the guards and sentry rounded up and tied.
"Gather the civilians," commanded Sun, "We're busting them out of here. Neptune, get the SOS signal going, we're gonna need Mistral forces here for backup, as much as I hate to admit it we're gonna need help. Sage, Scarlet, tend to the injured. Anyone who's willing and can fight, pick up a weapon and follow me!"
The slaves looked at each other before feeling hope and nodded. The braver, more willful people who still had strength took the Blood Fang's weapons while the others helped the injured.
The Rabbit Faunus and the human boy ran to each other and embraced, kissing one another, crying as they reunited.
"What were they doing here?" spat Neptune in disgust as he kicked the head guard.
"Apparently, there was a rare item here," explained the Rabbit Faunus, "The Blood Fang wanted it, so they kidnapped anyone they could find to help them explore the cave. Many of us died when we were forced to go through several traps. It was only recently someone finally managed to get it."
"What did the item look like?" asked Neptune, feeling dread up his spine.
"I think it was... a pair of weird looking golden brown shoes. With clouds imprinted on the side," answered the human boy, grabbing a sword.
"FFFFFFUUUUUUCCCCCKK!" swore Neptune loudly, causing the rest of team SSSN to jump in shock. "That was the other item! How did the Blood Fang know about it?"
"Well, this cave has been here forever," answered the Faunus, "Our village had rumors about something valuable inside it for decades. One of them heard it and decided it was worth exploring. When they had their first group of Blood Fang members died, they took many of us from nearby villages to force us to activate and learn all the traps. Once they got it, they wanted to expand more in the cave to see what else there was."
"We need to go now," recommended Sage, coming back from medic duty, "A lot of these people need proper medical treatment and food."
"All right, let's move out!" shouted Sun.
"What about these guys?" asked Scarlet, pointing to the captured Blood Fang members.
Sun thought about it hard and long for a bit before coming to a decision.
"Force them up and have them walk in front of us. We can't just leave 'em here. It's not proper as a Huntsman to abandon people, even if they are cruel. But if they show signs of trouble, prioritize the citizens first. Kill them if needed," said Sun coldly.
"Traitor! Death to you!" shouted a Blood Fang member with a rat tail.
It had been tempting for Sun to just say execute them all so they could move faster, but it wasn't morally right. Not to mention, he really didn't want to do so if there was a chance to turn over a new leaf. But he wouldn't risk the innocent for that. After prodding them several times, the Blood Fang members were pushed to the front. After a few minutes of walking, they had finally arrived at the entrance of the cave when Sun heard several guns cocking.
"DOWN!" shouted Sun as he grabbed the nearest Blood Fang member with deer antlers and pulled her down. The citizens quickly obeyed, as they were farther back. The front lines, however, weren't lucky. Guns fired, spitting out hundreds of bullets into the cave. Many of their Aura's crackled into nothingness after the first few hits before the bullets pierced through flesh. Almost all of them crumpled on the floor, spilling their blood out from their many holes.
"Did you really think you could sneak past us? A group of Faunus?" laughed Ilia from afar, "We already had people that could smell and hear you! I told them to let them through just to see your hopes dashed in front of you!"
Team SSSN stared at Neptune, who could only look down and mutter about how Kojima had failed him.
"You shot your own men!" shouted Sun.
"Yes, well they outlived their usefulness when they couldn't take care of you guys," scoffed Ilia.
"A lot more Faunus will turn against you once they hear about your cruelty," shouted Neptune.
"Well, you won't be able to tell them if you're dead now, will you?" grinned Ilia maliciously as she held out a red button.
Sun looked at the walls, noticing several explosives rigged around the entrance and paled.
"Fall back now!" urged Sun as Ilia pressed the button.
There was a huge explosion, causing the entrance to cave in as team SSSN tried to get as many people away. While the rocks were falling, several Blood Fang members kept firing through cracks, hitting quite a few civilians in the back and killing them. Soon, the cave was completely caved in.
"Let's go," commanded Ilia heartlessly, "We have what we needed."
"Umm, commander?" asked one of the Blood Fang members tentatively, "Did we have to shoot them? We just killed a few of our own people."
"They were fodder," scoffed Ilia, "They gave up their lives for the future, their sacrifice will not be forgotten. Right now it's more important we get this little treasure back to Adam."
"But!" started the Faunus before he felt his right shoulder pierced through by Ilia's rapier. He stared down, unable to believe what was happening before collapsing in pain.
"Anybody else wish to say something mutinous?" Ilia asked.
"No ma'am," shouted all the Blood Fang members.
"Good, let's get out of here! We need to get back to Adam."
The Blood Fang members could only sweat as she changed her personality from dangerous to somewhat a fangirl, her skin changing with her moods.
Sun coughed as he changed out of his armor form. He had protected quite a few thanks to the armor blocking some of the bullets, but the impact had still hit him.
"Team SSSN, roll call!" shouted Sun.
"Neptune alive!"
"Sage alive!"
"Scarlet... shocked but alive."
Sun sighed in relief as he stood up to assess the damage. He frowned as he noticed several civilians were gone, most likely dead from the collapsing rocks. Several more were sporting bullet injuries.
"She... shot at us without even hesitating. She tried to kill us!"
Sun looked down to see the Blood Fang member in shock as her mask fell down to reveal the face of a rather pretty young maiden.
"Now you see why hanging with the Blood Fang is bad?" remarked Sun somewhat sarcastically, "Bunch of crazed idiots who the whole holier than thou attitude."
Seeing that she was still in shock, Sun went around to see what he could to help. Around half an hour later, team SSSN had finished patching the injured.
"How do we get out now?" wailed a citizen.
"We're doomed!"
"Goodbye, cruel world!"
Sun tried to get their attention, but none were paying attention as they shouted to the ceilings how they were dead. It took Scarlet loading an explosive blank round in his gun and firing it to get everyone's attention.
"Alright, people!" announced Sun, "Stand back. We're busting out this place. Get ready to run as fast as possible when I give the signal. And trust me, it'll be pretty obvious."
"How?" asked a civilian.
Sun didn't reply, but rather spun his weapon before pointing it forward and concentrated, focusing his Aura into his Ruyi Jingu Bang.
"Extend and expand."
The pole suddenly pierced through all the rubble, going and going until it reached the entrance, sending rocks flying out. Luckily, there was nobody outside to get hit by all the rocks or to see them. Once Sun shrunk his staff, he shouted for everyone to move, panting from the effort. They all quickly moved, dashing towards the exit as rocks began to collapse. Team SSSN were hurling civilians out the exit as fast as possible before just barely escaping the rocks from caving in the entrance once more.
"Well... that was a thing," panted Sun, lying on the ground.
"Thank you," said one of the elderly civilians, "Take your time to rest. When you are ready, I'm afraid we will have to ask you to escort us to the nearest village."
"No need," grinned Neptune as he pointed to the sky just for several Mistralian ships to arrive, "Back up and transportation has just arrived."
After several heartfelt thanks and a few arrests, the ships were ready to transport the civilians to the nearest villages while team SSSN was taking one back to Haven.
"Shame we didn't get those shoes," sighed Neptune.
"Oh yeah, what exactly do they do?" asked Sun.
"According to your tome, which you still haven't bothered to read, it allows the user to... 'walk on clouds'. At least that's what the closest translation I could find," replied Neptune.
"Huh. Cloud walking? That could be useful," shrugged Sun, "Maybe next time, we can get it back. Are there any other items in that tome?"
"Not that I've found," shrugged Neptune, "I think the rest of it is more lore now. I'll keep reading."
Sun nodded and smiled as he looked over to the Rabbit Faunus, holding her human lover to her as they sat on the ground, hugging him and gently rubbing him to soothe him, planting gentle kisses on his forehead.
Two Days Later, Unknown Location.
"Adam, dear! I brought you a gift!"
Adam Taurus was at the newly created Blood Fang base, practicing with his new arm. It seemed to be going well, as he was able to use all his old techniques still. His new arm was painted blood red, but covered with his usual style of clothes, it was also magnetized so he could grip his sword easily, not to mention a few neat tricks had been installed within to surprise his enemies.
He looked to see Ilia entering the practice room that he was in with some funky looking shoes.
"What is it, my darling?" asked Adam as Ilia approached him.
Ilia shivered at him calling her 'my darling'. It was a pet name that he had made for her only. She felt empowered because of this.
"My troops were excavating some rare artifact that was said to exist. We found them and quickly retrieved them for you. We lost a few, but I believe we killed off a team of Huntsmen. One of them was a traitor to our race. Some blonde boy."
"Was it the dragon boy?" Adam asked, his curiosity piqued.
"No. Some monkey Faunus. We buried them inside the cave. Try out these shoes! They have to be something special, considering how well protected they were." Ilia urged him.
Adam nodded and tried the shoes out. They looked a bit weird and larger than his own feet. Suddenly, after wearing them, they shrunk down to fit him. The two looked in amazement at the sudden fit.
"There has to be something else to these shoes. They can't be just an all size fit," murmured Adam as he examined the shoes. They had clouds drawn on the side. They had to mean something. Testing it out, he put some Aura into the shoes just to find the pictures actually emitting clouds.
"A smokescreen?" asked Ilia, but Adam shook his head. These clouds felt solid for some reason. And the amount of cloud coming out wasn't enough for an effective smoke screen. Taking the chance, he jumped into the air and put some more Aura into the shoes. The clouds formed right under him, allowing him to stand in the air.
"Adam! You're flying!" gasped Ilia.
"Close, my darling, but rather, I'm able to run in the air because of these shoes," corrected Adam as he tested out his new shoes. It was like a whole new plane opened to him. Now, he could use his techniques while still in the air and be able to strike down those who dared to defy him from the air, like a god.
After several minutes experimentation, he landed in front of Ilia, swept her off her feet and kissed her passionately. Ilia sank into the throes of passion as she eagerly returned it. They soon made it to his personal bedroom, throwing their clothes off. As Ilia sank into lust, Adam's mind was still focused.
'Soon, my love, I will take you back from Jaune Ryu-Long. And I shall take everything you hold dear, and I will see to it that everything he loves is destroyed before killing him myself.' thought Adam as he began to take Ilia on a ride. He went at it rougher when Ilia changed her hair black and her skin alabaster white, quite like Blake's. In his mind, as he was doing it with Ilia, he replaced her image with Blake's and imagined what it would be like when he conquered her.
Atlas
Team RWBY was traveling north up the mountains to explore a possible untapped Dust mine. They had run into a few Grimm, but nothing they couldn't take care of, and otherwise encountered no potential problems. Once they reached the mines, they had Weiss run the diagnostics as she was most familiar with the Dust mines, having been to a few with her father. Ruby followed her, interested in what she was doing while Blake and Yang took post outside the mines, looking out for any potential trouble.
"Hmm, this particular vein doesn't look too bad," murmured Weiss, "Quite a bit of Dust here, and if explored further, we can confirm that this is an untapped Dust vein."
"Hey Weiss, I never thought about it, but is it possible for us to ever run out of Dust? Like would it become a limited resource if we continue?" asked Ruby.
"Unlikely," replied Weiss, "Dust forms naturally in nature, and depending on where it is, forms that special vein. Fire Dust is more likely to come from hot places, like Volcanoes while Wind Dust comes from high areas that tend to be windy like this mountain, and so on. They are created at quite a high rate, though it is possible if we somehow use it very fast and wastefully. But human and Faunus population don't grow that much because of the Grimm. Not to mention, Atlas has been making some breakthroughs, especially my company. We've found a way to artificially create Dust."
"Really!?" gasped Ruby.
"Yes, but this is actually top secret, so shush!" whispered Weiss, "Saying we created Dust is actually a bit off. It's more of we tapped into the Dust in its raw state, and then we can cultivate it into whatever type of Dust we want by putting it through artificial nature. That's why Dust mines are valuable. They provide Dust in its raw form, allowing us to form whatever type we need."
"Do we use raw Dust for anything?" asked Ruby.
"No," answered Weiss, "At least, so far, I haven't found any use for raw Dust. I've tried to use it in my glyphs, but nothing really happens. I can't manipulate it like the others."
Ruby nodded before looking around to see everything was normal. She leaned back on a wall when she noticed something off. They didn't feel like the rocks around the other areas, but rather harder.
"Hey Weiss, is that normal? It doesn't feel right."
"What? Hmm, you're right. This rock formation is off. At first glance, it looks normal, but a closer look you can tell something's off. But why?"
"OOH! Think it's some sort of super secret hideout? Like a top secret one that Atlas doesn't even know?"
"Don't be ridiculous! Though we should call Yang and Blake to come, just to be safe."
Blake and Yang were quickly called over to check out the fake wall they were now investigating.
"There has to be some way to get in," murmured Weiss as she inspected the surrounding walls.
"Can't we just bust ourselves in the old fashion way?" asked Yang as she prepped her arm.
"No!" scolded Weiss, "That could cause a cave in and bury us alive!"
"Fine," Yang relented.
"I think I found something!" shouted Blake as she poked one of the outlying rocks. The rock went in, and suddenly needles went flying towards them from a distance. Weiss quickly summoned an ice wall to block it, just to find the needles piercing right through the wall. Yang let out a shout as she punched with her right hand, creating an explosion. The explosion pushed the needles away from them, clattering into the walls around them and pierced through the rocks.
"Ok, wrong rock," blushed Blake.
"Who places traps here!?" gaped Yang.
"Maybe... I think..." muttered Weiss in interest, examining the wall when it suddenly opened.
"You did it!" cheered Ruby.
"I didn't do anything," said a confused Weiss.
Suddenly, feeling like they weren't safe, Ruby tackled Weiss away from the entrance as did Blake with Yang. Just in time, too, as a blast of icy wind smashed through where they had been standing, freezing everything along its path. Even the rocks shattered into ice from such power.
"Honey, you missed."
"They got lucky. I won't miss my next shot."
From the hidden entrance stepped out a rather beautiful woman with platinum blonde hair and blue eyes, channeling a large amount of Aura in both her hands and pointing in both directions. She was wearing an elegant blue dress with two guns behind her.
"Are you part of Salem's crew?" scowled the woman, ready to fire her blasts. She almost did when a cane hooked one of her hands down.
"Calm down," said a man as he stepped out into the light. He was wearing a blue jacket with similar white hair like Weiss but ruffled, and blue eyes, "They don't feel like they are the ones hunting us."
"Salem?" asked Weiss, "You mean the crazy lady we've heard Ozpin talk about before?"
"I knew it!" shouted Ruby, "It was a super secret entrance to some super secret that nobody is supposed to know!"
The male chuckled, "I think I like this girl. She has... silver eyes? Ales, honey, I don't think they are part of her group."
The female named Ales lowered her arms slowly but were still cautious regarding them.
"Wait," mused Blake, "Could you possibly be… Are you the Winter Maiden?"
At this, Ales pointed her hands at Blake, Aura blazing in her hands once more.
"Whoa, whoa whoa!" shouted Yang, "We're on your side!"
"Explain," demanded Ales coldly.
"We're all Huntresses. We were sent here to examine this Dust mine to see if it was worth expanding into when we accidentally found your fake wall. We know about the Story of Seasons and how it's all true," said Ruby quickly.
The male gently put Ales' hands down once more before looking at team RWBY before making a decision. "Follow us. But we're going to have to blindfold you."
After walking for what seemed half an hour, team RWBY was finally allowed to take off their blindfolds to see a room that seemed quite cozy After the male got done talking and explaining the situation to someone not currently present he turned to address them.
"Welcome to our temporary shelter," bowed the male, "As you've already met my wife, Ales Frost, the current Winter Maiden. I am her husband, Clodwal Frost. Our other two companions are currently out hunting. Please, tell us how you know of the Maidens."
And so Team RWBY began to tell them what they knew, including Jaune Ryu-Long. Of how Amber was dead, and that Cinder became the new Fall Maiden, eager to kill until she stepped on the wrong toes, so to speak. The new Fall Maiden was up in the air for now, but Ozpin and his group was looking for the next candidate so as to protect her.
"So that's what that giant roar was?" asked Clodwal, "We could hear it all the way up here!"
"Indeed, I don't think even all four maidens combined could've defeated something that powerful," admitted Ales as she sipped her tea, "So what's Ozpin doing now? Still trying to be Headmaster while running the protection group?"
"Ozpin retired," replied Ruby, causing Ales to stop and raise her eyebrow in interest.
Ales looked at her and said "That's surprising. We'll try to find out later, right now I'm more interested in this Jaune Ryu-Long boy. Is he really that powerful? We could use someone like him in our fight against Salem."
"You bet he's that powerful!" cheered Ruby, "I mean if you could see some of the stuff he's done… Blake and I were recently marked, too!"
"Marked?" asked Ales.
"It's not important," interrupted Blake, blushing a bit, "But you said that you're being hunted, right?"
Ales and Clodwal looked at each other before sighing in unison.
Alex began to explain, "Before, we knew we were being hunted when I felt Amber suddenly disappear. We got new that something had happened to her, that's when we suspected something was targeting all of us. Then, from what you've said as the Battle of Beacon, all of us felt Amber's last remaining power transfer to a new host. We could feel the transfer, but we can't tell whether the transfer was a good thing or bad one. Then, from when Jaune killed this Cinder Fall, the transfer happened once more. We know that it's somewhere in Anima, but we can't tell who or exactly where it is until we find her or Ozpin's group locates her."
"Recently, though, there have been people more actively hunting us. People wearing some sort of badge with a green dragon on their shoulders, traveling with someone I suspect to be Salem's next candidate for the Maiden's powers," added Clodwal.
"Jaune's mentioned something about them," said Weiss carefully, "He didn't go into detail, but he did warn us to watch out for them. If they're working with Salem, this is more dangerous than we thought."
Clodwal frowned at this before shrugging, "Ah, well it's not like they'll be able to find us easily."
Suddenly, the door sprang open to reveal two people, Clodwal and Ales's companions, both wounded and bleeding heavily.
"Lady Ales, you must leave at once!" shouted one of them, "They managed to track us down!"
"We will buy you time," coughed the other one, "Clodwal, protect her for us."
"No!" commanded Clodwal, "We leave together."
"It's too late for us," coughed the first one, revealing one of his wounds. His skin was turning purple from the stab. "They used poison. We won't live much longer, but we can at least make sure we buy you enough time."
"No," Said Ales firmly, summoning up her Aura to try to heal them.
"Don't," coughed the other one, "You must leave. It is too late for us. I can feel the poison circulating in my body. It's probably already close to our hearts. So far, we are using Aura to push it down, but it will not be enough. The four young huntresses-in-training, I beg of you. Take Lady Ales and Clodwal with you. Bring them to Atlas. It is no longer viable for us to use nature as our protectors."
And with that, the two withdrew from the door, charging through the maze to fight the enemy.
"Weiss!" shouted Ruby.
"I've already sent the SOS signal for immediate evac," replied Weiss, "My father will send us an aircraft as soon as possible."
"Lady Ales, we have to leave," urged Blake.
Ales looked shocked that her two guardians, her friends, were throwing their lives to buy them some time.
"Come, love" whispered Clodwal, "We have to leave now. We can't let their sacrifice be in vain. To the back exit."
Nodding numbly, Ales stood up while Clodwal led the way to the secret exit.
"Well, that was amusing," giggled Tyrian as he held a cadaver with his new tail, swinging it back and forth.
"Sir, we can't seem to find the Winter Maiden inside their shelter," said one of the grunts who worshiped Drac. "They're running."
"Useless," growled Tyrian before stepping on the companion, a soon to be a cadaver, "Tell me. Where is the Winter Maiden going, spill it and I'll make your death quicker."
"...ck you," grunted the guardian before biting his tongue off, so as never to reveal Ales's location.
"Well then, I guess you're no longer useful," laughed Tyrian as he slashed the guardian's throat, blood spraying onto Tyrians body. "Surround the mountain. There has to be another exit."
"Lady Daki Nerys has already found it and is waiting to ambush her," informed another grunt.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" shouted Tyrian, "We can't fail my mistress!"
"It looks clear," whispered Clodwal as he opened the door.
Before he took a step out, Blake stopped him. She created a clone of herself and had it walk out first. It took only five steps before it dodged three slashes from the sky. A trio of people came down, trying to slash the clone. It dodged and struck the attackers when suddenly a spear stabbed it. The spear was an interesting construct, as the base first hooked downwards before curling up to a sharp tip. The other end of the long steel shaft was a rather big Dust transparent crystal. Weiss was confused when she recognized it as a Raw Dust crystal.
"Tch. It was a fake."
The owner of the weapon withdrew the weapon, revealing herself. She had long white hair, dark brown skin, blue eyes, and blue markings on her face and body. And like Cinder, she had on a rather blue provocative low cut dress, revealing a rather sizable cleavage.
"So, the Winter Maiden as more guardians than expected," mused the woman.
"Who are you?" asked Ruby as she drew out her weapon, as did the rest of Team RWBY.
"Who I am doesn't matter, as you will all die before the day is out, but I suppose I can give you a name. I am Daki Nerys. Next candidate of the Winter Maiden once I take what rightfully belongs to me and my mistress."
"I don't think so," growled Clodwal as he prepped his staff.
"More than usual, I see," mused Daki, "Usually maidens are supposed to travel alone. So nobody can tell anyone where they are. How is it that you have several companions? Did you get bored? Maybe you have them as your personal plaything? To vent out your sexual frustrations?"
"At least I can get a man," snorted Ales, "You look like you need to have someone piss drunk and with very low expectations."
Daki twitched in annoyance at this insult before pointing her spear at Ales, "I'll enjoy ripping your heart out. Maybe I'll play with that male while I force you to watch as your beating heart bleeds all over while I take him."
"Sorry, not my type," responded Clodwal instantly by reflex, making Daki furious.
The group stood there for two seconds before Ales fired her two guns at Daki, who blocked it. Ales charged forward, changing her guns into escrima sticks as she began to fight Daki. She had quite a grudge against the person who threatened to take her husband. Clodwal followed up with her wife, helping her take Daki down. Team RWBY was left dealing with the other three grunts. Except they weren't like the White Fang grunts they fought at Beacon, but rather much stronger. Still, the grunts were at a disadvantage as it was 3v4, and two members had Mate Marks already.
It took fifteen minutes for team RWBY to finish off the grunts. The first grunt fell when Weiss managed to freeze his foot, allowing Yang to land a right hook enhanced with a shotgun blast into his face. The second one fell by Blake's clones confusing him, allowing Blake to tie him up for Ruby to slice right through his Aura and leave a rather big wound on his chest. The last guard was unable to handle four people at once and fell down quickly. They quickly turned to watch Ales and Clodwal fighting Daki.
Daki was holding well, but she knew she was at a disadvantage. Ales and Clodwal were fighting extremely well together, leaving almost no room for her. Clodwal would engage her staff against spear, and not lose. Ales would keep firing bullets and sometimes close in to attack if needed. What was worse was that Ales had yet to use her powers.
"My, my, it certainly looks like you need help."
Clodwal immediately reacted and blocked a metallic stinger from hitting him, barely touching his chest. Tyrian had arrived. Blake saw an evil glint in Tyrian's eyes, and quickly threw her ribbon, wrapping around Clodwal and pulling him back just in time as the stinger suddenly sprayed poison.
"Damn. Missed," pouted Tyrian as he looked around and saw Ruby, "Oh hello there! Long time no see! How've ya been? Tell me, do you know where your father is? I'm ITCHING TO KILL HIM!"
Ruby gripped her weapon hard as she glared at Tyrian. Here was her mother's killer, but she knew she was no match for him as of now. But it still didn't make it easier. Without warning, they found themselves surrounded by ten other people.
"Enough!" shouted Ales, accessing her powers. Bluish white flames outlined her eyes as she floated up into the skies. She fired off lighting bolts at the grunts, who managed to dodge them before firing it at Daki.
"Finally!" shouted Daki as she spun her spear so the crystal was facing Ales and let the lightning hit her clear Dust crystal. The crystal changed colors, shining bright yellow before she blasted it back at Ales. Ales looked shocked at this and would've taken a direct hit if Weiss didn't react in time, summoning a glyph and forcing Ales to move left to dodge it. The Dust crystal faded back to its transparent color.
"Weiss, I thought you said raw Dust was useless?" questioned Ruby as she saw what had happened.
"I don't know!" shouted Weiss, "She's doing something I've never seen before! Cinder did something similar, using Dust to form her weapons! Some ancient technique or something!"
"Ladies, fight now, discuss later," scolded Clodwal as he blocked an attack from Tyrian.
"Why don't you move away?" giggled Tyrian, "I don't want to fight you. I just want to enjoy slashing the red girl's throat so her daddy knows what it means to take my tail off."
Clodwal frowned before pushing Tyrian away, spinning his staff to block the bullets Tyrian was firing.
"Ales! Setup!"
Ales nodded, and with a sweep of her hands, sent the snow hurling all over the place. Two of them got caught by the sudden movement and was sent over the edge, falling to their death. Clodwal spun his staff and slammed it into the snow. The snow stopped for a moment before gathering before Clodwal. Slowly, legs were formed, followed by a misshapen body and hands before a head was created. It looked like a giant snow monster with ice for fingers and toes.
"Take them down, Marshmallow!" shouted Clodwal.
"Marshmallow? That's not a threatening name," laughed Daki as she dodged the snow monsters grab.
It managed to grab one of the other grunts, and he struggled to get out of its grip. The others were about to blast the hand with fire Dust and explosive when the monster twitched, and suddenly the man froze into an ice sculpture.
"Oh wow. Talk about a cold touch," blinked Yang, slightly cringing as Marshmallow tossed the ice statue into some rocks, shattering the body into pieces.
"I wonder how many slashes it will take to reach the center of this snow cone!" cackled Tyrian as he jumped on the monster's back and started to slash into the body. The monster roared, and Clodwal grunted in pain before sending a mental command to it. Spikes suddenly grew out of Marshmallow's back, forcing Tyrian to dodge before he noticed that Jack was standing still, channeling what seemed to be his Semblance.
"Attack the man! He can't summon this snow monster if he can't concentrate!" commanded Tyrian.
The seven leftover grunts tried to attack Clodwal, only to be intercepted by Team RWBY. Not only that, but Ales began to pelt rocks at all of them, breaking them into rather sizable pebbles and sending them flying everywhere. Two more grunts were grabbed, frozen, and shattered into pieces while another two were taken down by Team RWBY. Tyrian and Dalek kept dodging Marshmallow while avoiding the projectiles from them all when they heard a whistle.
"Finally!" shouted Daki before producing specially made earplugs and shoving them in her ears.
Tyrian quickly did the same, confusing all of them when they were hit by a supersonic high pitch attack.
"ARGGGGHHHH!"
They all screamed in pain as Marshmallow fell to pieces. Ales was the first to recover, but before she could do anything, she was hit by a hail of bullets, shattering her Aura, before the spear struck her on the shoulder. Ales screamed in pain as she collapsed.
"Ales! No!" shouted Clodwal, struggling to get up, only for Tyrian to stab him in the shoulder, poisoning him.
"Now, now, you just sit still," grinned Tyrian as he grabbed the man from behind, "You're about to get a good show!"
Two grunts quickly grabbed Ales by her arms and pushed their foot on her back, forcing her up. She grunted as pain spiked through her shoulder. Daki slowly pulled her spear back from Ales's shoulders before putting her weapon on her back and pulling out a white glove.
"Soon, you will be stripped of what shouldn't be yours, and I shall have what I should've been blessed with in the first place."
A Grimm parasite sprouted forth from glove, looking at Ales, who looked at it fearfully, instinctively knowing what this parasite did.
"NOOOOOO!" Ruby shouted as she saw the parasite, instantly flashing back to when Whitley had placed a parasite on her. She instinctively triggered her silver eye powers, ready to blast the parasite with it.
"Oh no you don't, you little bitch!" shouted Tyrian as he fired bullets at Ruby.
Suddenly, images of Blake's shadow appeared, running towards Tyrian and Daki while Weiss managed to use her glyphs to summon parts of her knight to protect Ruby from being hit by bullets. As the parasite was about to spit out its draining spit, Ruby sent a white wave of energy right at Daki's arm.
SHINK
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Daki howled in pain as her right arm was severed from her body. When the light had hit her arm, it froze the parasite, which was in the glove, which froze her whole body for a second. Then, Blake's clone took that advantage and sliced her right arm off, letting it drop to the snowy ground and dying the white snow red.. The light from Ruby's eye managed to temporarily disable Daki's Aura so that she wasn't protected. Taking this chance the clone swiped at the grunts holding Ales, who were forced to dodge and quickly grabbed Ales away.
"Shit! I'll kill you, you meddling little...!" Tyrian ranted as he ran towards Ruby, instantly killing Blake's clone, dodging Weiss's glyphs and ice shots, ducking under Blake's slash, and shot his tail forward. It detached from his tail, sending it flying at high speed right towards the tired Ruby, piercing right through Weiss's summon. Ruby didn't have the energy to even dodge.
"RUBY!" shouted Weiss and Blake in horror.
"Stay away FROM MY SISTER!"
Yang stood up, and with an almighty leap, threw a right hook at the stinger.
"Fool! That stinger will pierce right through your Aura and flesh unless it's... aw shit."
Tyrian just remembered that Yang had her right arm cut off before. And yet she was throwing a right hook. That meant that she had a new arm, one that was not made of flesh and thus, not poisoning her, and possibly stopped it.
The attacks clashed briefly, and with a shotgun shell, Yang smashed the tail down, her hair flaming and eyes glowing red. With a shout, she dashed forward, aided by Weiss's glyphs, shooting her forward, her arms trailing back as she used up shots to accelerate herself faster. Tyrian tried to move but found snowy hands suddenly grabbing his lower body, forcing him to stay.
"Didn't forget about me, did you?" grunted Clodwal as he channeled the last of his strength to create arms to hold Tyrian down. He did not have enough to freeze him, but just delaying him would be enough.
Yang was on him in a flash and sent a right hook into his face. She quickly followed with a left hook, going back and forth at least four times. Right after her left hook, Tyrian slashed at her eyes, but Yang predicted it and bent her waist down as far as she could. The slashed cut some of her bountiful hair, but Yang was past caring that for now. She wanted to pulverize the one who tried to kill her little sister, the one Qrow wanted to kill, and lastly, the one who killed Summer Rose. The woman who she saw as a mother. With a shout, she stepped in and began a right uppercut towards Tyrian's stomach. Her right arm glowed with power, and holes opened up from the back of her elbow. All the heat she had generated from her attacks transferred into her right arm, causing it to glow red from the heat. The snow melted from under her feet as her fist accelerated towards Tyrian's stomach.
Tyrian's eyes opened wide in fear and remotely summoned his tail back to him, sending it flying right at Yang's unprotected back.
"Watch out!" shouted Blake as she fired bullets at the stinger, hoping to knock it off its path. Weiss had gone to help out Ales.
"We'll see who get's the last laugh!" giggled Tyrian as the stinger approached her back.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
With a shout, the punch landed deep into Tyrians stomach, causing him to gasp in pain. The impact created a shockwave that made Tyrian lose focus and forced the Stinger to fly sideways from the shock wave itself. The snow hands that held him melted and blew away from the impact. Tyrian himself went flying into the cliffside. Tyrian's eyes almost rolled back into his eyes as he tried to stay conscious. The attack not only damaged his insides from brute force, it burned where Yang had punched him.
Unfortunately, Yang could not follow up as the two grunts that had purposely stayed behind activated their machine once more, causing them all to fall down in pain.
"You bitch!" rasped Tyrian as he covered his stomach, trying to soothe the pain. He threw up whatever food he still had in his stomach onto the ground.
"Huh, burritos and beans. Don't remember having that recently," grumbled Tyrian.
He slowly limped forward towards Yang, who couldn't get up from the second sonic attack.
Tyrian cruelly looked at the disabled Yang, "It's your fault for trying to fight me. However, I will at least remember your name. Yang Xiao Long. Now I think of it, you're that bastard's niece! You'll make a nice message to him, along with his daughter!"
Tyrian cackled in laughter as he raised his stinger, which had attached back to his tail again, and shot it down towards Yang's stomach.
"Yang, watch out!" shouted Ruby, trying to get back up, but unable to do anything.
Suddenly, a glyph appeared right before Yang and blocked the attack.
"Way to go Weiss!" shouted Ruby.
"That wasn't me," replied Weiss, unsure what had happened. She had tried to summon her glyphs but did not have enough Aura to do so, "Wait. Winter!"
Turning around, sure enough, there stood a very angry Winter Schnee.
A few minutes earlier, Winter was sitting on her personal airship belonging to the SDC as it was quickly flying to the distress signal. They had picked up the distress signal from Weiss, and Winter was first in line to volunteer to help out. Grabbing the nearest available personnel, she took her airship and flew off to where the SOS signal was coming from. When they had arrived near the mountain, Winter unstrapped herself from the seat and went towards the docking area and pushed a button to unseal the bottom part of the ship, allowing a clear view of the mountain for Winter.
"Umm, ma'am? Don't you want us to land first?" asked a recruit.
"No need. I'll get there faster," replied Winter as she summoned multiple glyphs that would accelerate her down.
"Ma'am, you're going to destabilize us and delay us a bit if you do that!?" shouted the pilot.
"Then do your job and make sure you don't crash," shouted Winter, "I expect you to be on time!"
With a rush, she ran out and rocketed off right towards the mountain where Weiss's signal was.
"Holy shit, she's crazy!"
She was diving down at insane speeds towards the mountain when she summoned a Nevermore to help her fly and maneuver. She found Team RWBY and two others all down for the count. She saw her enemies, ready to strike. She saw two grunts near a machine that was pointed at Team RWBY. She had the gist of it.
Winter summoned the biggest Ursa Major she had killed and sent it flying right towards the machine. Then, she pushed herself off her Nevermore straight down towards the ground. Then, she made another black glyph and halted her descent right before she touched the ground. A perfect landing without making a crater. The Ursa Major, however, made a huge crater, sitting right above the now wrecked machine. Winter then summoned a glyph to protect Yang from being stabbed.
"Tyrian Callows! You're under arrest, along with all your accomplices here! Surrender now!"
Daki and Tyrian glanced at each other, debating on whether or not they could fight Winter with their remaining grunts when the Bullhead pulled up from behind her.
"You win this time," hissed Daki and she held her missing limb with her left hand and a tourniquet on her right arm.
One of the grunts grabbed a shiny rock with symbols on it from his pocket and threw it on the ground, shattering it. A second later, a gust of wind surrounded them all, forcing Winter to cover her eyes. As the winds died down, they had all disappeared, leaving no trace.
"Damn it," cursed Winter before turning her attention towards the survivors. Team RWBY seemed fine with a few cuts and bruises, along with bleeding ears, but the worst was Ales and Clodwal.
"Get them all on the ship ASAP! These two need immediate medical attention!"
Winter was commanding the troops as they ran out to help while the airship hovered at the cliff, waiting to load everyone up.
"Thank Oum," whispered Weiss before she fell down into the snow. The rest of team RWBY followed suit, fainting on the spot, tired and injured. They blacked out as Winter summoned her Beowolves to carry them onto the ship.
Welp, Ales and Clodwal have officially been introduced in, along with Daki! Anyone want to guess what their characters are based off of? Really should be obvious lol, though Daki might be a little harder. Anyways, next update should be coming... roughly around Thanksgiving? Depends on my muse, really.
Also, got another story idea that I decided to write it out. Super Sentai Gokaigers goes to Remnant! Go check it out and review it if you can!
Now to answer some reviews that I didn't get the chance to. Cept for that one review. Ouch, it hurts :(
Also, the guy named Leader for guest, I prefer the review to be relevant to the story. If you're asking for an OC to be added in, please just pm me. Whether or not I think about it is another story, though. Thanks for the compliment on the last review, though!
Guest asking about the bed scenes and why I merely imply it: I did that on purpose. You can read the more descriptive parts of it on my other story in my profile titled Jaune Ryu-Long Special Scenarios. I avoided putting any lemon into this story as to avoid having this story to be even considered stricken from the site, following all the guidelines. Yes, I know there are a lot of stories with those very descriptive bed scenes and that the administrators don't really care, but I still prefer to avoid a hassle, especially from the group called Critics United.
Too Lazy 2 Login: Yes, he's inspired from there.
Guest asking about Ddraig and Albion: Wouldn't make sense to have Ddraig with Jaune as I already have him with 7 dragons linked. That, any adding boosted gear etc is asking for a cross over. Maybe if I made another story, I could do it, but for now, I've got no plans to use them.
And to finish it off, please have reviews relevant to the story, whether it's a compliment or a flame (in which case, I would be sad). Should I focus less on being descriptive in fight scenes? Etc. etc, anything to improve.
And finally, there will be a special scenario, but I'm going to put a lot of warning signs on that.
One last note. I'm happy to say that Dirtrevor has decided to do a reaction story to this story! Title is Different Views, Story ID 12428320! It'll be chapter 5 of the story, as that story also has other reaction stories to other stories. Dirtrevor has told me he'll try to create another story that'll solely focus on my story when he has the time, but give him an applause for doing one!
Update. Dirtrevor has made a story solely reacting to my story. Story ID: 12736548
Story Title: Reading Jaune Ryu-Long:Dragon contractor