Holy son of an ice cream sandwiches uncle, with a side of what the darn tooting apple loving puppies of a daughter's father-mother. I FINALLY GOT THIS CHAPTER DONE!
That little bit of self-scolding/ venting out of the way. I am so glad that I got this chapter done finally. It should have not taken this long and I do apologize for that as well. IRL has just been busy for me since the whole pandemic began. I've been helping out my folks, aunt, cousins and my two younger sisters out since this has been all going on. I have quiet the number of family that lives in my area.
Anyways explanations out of the way. Here it is the next chapter of Four Hearts, I did my best to do as much grammar checking as I could; with what I know of when it comes to grammar in the first place. Mostly self-taught just to say, though again I did all I could and I hope you all find it an enjoyable read. I sure did find it fun to write despite how long it took me to get this chapter done in the first place.
Oh also, a few people did point out I have a tendency to use words over and over again. Which I'll admit I didn't realize until that was point out so thank you to those who did point it out, for telling me that. I am trying to break out of the mold slowly while also changing up my writing style a little too. But again it's a slow process.
But enough of all that, onwards to reading!
I do NOT in any way own Kingdom hearts/associated show, game etc. Which belongs to Square Enix and Disney, RWBY which belongs to RT/ Mounty Oum along with all the other added in franchise that belong to their respective creators.
Four Hearts Of One Journey
Ch. 27: The Creed: Pt.3
It had been nearly the rest of the day for Team RWBY, their allies, Ezio and his remaining family members. The group walking and walking down the same dirt path way to what Ezio had said was where his uncle lived. At least that was what he was told, since Ezio and his sister only had really ever heard of said uncle from their parents. Their mother may have known more of the man, but with her current state of mind that would prove impossible to ask.
Still as they walked down the dirt road. All of them were still reeling in at how suddenly their peaceful time had vanished. Now replaced with being on the run for shelter. That and the deaths, the deaths of the three male Auditore's viva hanging. It seemed so… surreal. Like a bad, quickly forgotten nightmare. But they all knew better, this was real and now their life's were going to become more difficult than needed.
"So… Ezio you think we'll be allowed in your uncles home once we get there?" Ruby asked out of the blue to break the silence finally. Ezio looking back at Ruby, then the others in return before looking ahead once more
"I believe so Ruby. I know Claudia, my mother and I will be. You all, I'll make sure you can too even if I have to fight with my uncle to do so." Ezio explained calmly, yet with a seriousness that was slightly unnerving "It's the least I can do after all you've helped me and my family through. Even if I don't think that will be enough to repay you ever."
"Oh Ezio. You don't need to do that. We're friends and we were glad to help honest." Da -Vinci rebutted, the others nodded in absolute agreement
"I know. But I don't think it would been as easy if you hadn't been there. At least now my father and brothers have been avenged… somewhat." Ezio exclaimed as the others were a bit surprised at what he said, though his sister at least still kept silent as she felt the same in a way too
"Ezio you got Umberto. What else could there be?" Yang asked a bit worried for her friends increasingly worrisome mental state
"Much more… Uberto if you remember wasn't the only one there. Sure his death was payment for my father and brothers deaths. But it was only part of it. Until all who plotted with Uberto are killed. I won't rest, not at all." Ezio explained rather grimly, though the others wanting to say something didn't. They could tell Ezio was dead set on this path, that and he probably would not budge from it even if they asked him too. Didn't mean they had to like it. Though Ezio noticing his companions slight discomfort decided to change the subject to a less… grim topic "Anyways. My sister and I thank you once more."
"For what?" Artoria asked this time for the group, as none of them knew what else they could be thanked for
"For telling us about your… you know. Actual origins." Claudia answered, speaking up finally as she kept a good hold on her traumatized mother
Still, yes team RWBY and their rest in their merry little group had all decided it was best to come clean with Ezio and Claudia at least. Again they didn't know if Maria's current state of mind would even hear what they had explained. Anyways, they told the two still mostly sane natives everything. Who they really were, what their mission was and all that. To be perfectly honest some in Team RWBY's friends were worried the two natives would be upset or call them crazy. But to their surprise, the sibling believed them very easily. Why, well from what Claudia had explained. At a young age their father had taught them many little talents, one of them being able to tell a lie from a fake one. Though the two were still pretty much novices in that regard, Claudia more than Ezio. But the siblings could tell from just how calmly and detailed with what Team RWBY along with the rest of their group told them; that they were being honest. Much to the groups relief.
"Oh that, well it was only fair. You've been such good people to us so it felt only right to be honest now." Da-Vinci quipped in reassurance that they had made the right call there
"Ahem yes well…no offense Leonardo but… if I'm being honest myself. It's still hard to believe you're also Leonardo Da-Vinci as well…as in, a female version of him." Ezio exclaimed as he at least was still wrapping his head around on THAT fact, that and the fact he witness what he would most likely call self-cest when those two would flirt. It was all so…confusing still
"Well the world is a big place. So things like I the beauty you behold. Are factors of those possibilities!" Da-Vinci remarked rather smugly as she always praised her good looks
"Anyways, it's good to see at least you and Claudia took it so well. We we're a bit worried you'd be all like you know. Freaking out and possibly trying to burn us." Ikail exclaimed sheepishly
"Why would you…?" Artoria asked curiously as Ikail awkwardly laughed
"Hehe, just a lesson I learned about not acting like a space wizard around Tuskan Raiders." Ikail remarked as it was a rather embarrassing story of how she was almost burnt alive for being labeled a space witch by a clan of Tuskan Raiders she stumbled upon. Not that they weren't wrong fully, but still. Thank god Pierce and Mission were there to help her out of it
"Aside from that though… again we really are glad you two took the news well. But… may I ask, is mother seeming any better?" Blake asked carefully as Ezio looked at Claudia who sighed and shook her head
"I'm sorry Blake. She's… not speaking, a lot has happen and I think it's well…broken her. Maybe once we get to our uncles we can find a way to help her. For now…." Claudia began to explain, as the group noticed the dirt road curved to the left now. All of them by instinct moving along as they began moving to the left. Though as they did, Claudia was the first to cease moving as she saw… them "Oh no…"
"Cla…." Ezio began to say himself as he stopped, the others as well as they saw them too
"You have got to be kidding me…" Mordred muttered angrily as she didn't expect this to happen
What they saw. Was Vieri Pazzi waiting for them in the middle of the dirt road. But with him were a dozen guards, though what was worst was the fact there were another dozen heartless; the Solider variation. Alone these two groups would be easier to fight, but together even with their own numbers it might be hard since they had little to no weapons aside from their hidden blades, one bow and around three swords.
"Buon giorno (Good Day) Ezio, along with of course his little friends and family!" Vieri smugly said as his guards and the heartless Soldiers wait for his command to attack "How could you leave Firenze without saying a proper goodbye?"
"Proper goodbye…yeah right." Blake muttered angrily as she and the rest were ready for the inevitable fight to come
"Ezio…" Claudia said worriedly as she held her mother close to keep her safe, the group moving them behind for extra protection
"What do you want jerk!" Yang yelled angrily as she and the girls glared at the young bratty man
"Oh not much. Maybe a larger palazzo, two steeds, a prettier bride…" Vieri answered smugly yet again, as he looked right at Claudia even if she was hidden behind the others mostly; who shuttered a bit at his gaze. Though he took out his sword seconds later "Oh and yes, all your life's!
Without a second thought, six of the guards and six of the soldiers charged at the group. The remain other six of both enemy groups staying next to Vieri since they were his personal guards. Though before team RWBY could attack themselves. Mordred, Dante, Guin and Scathach moved in front of them. Mordred looking back at team RWBY and the others.
"Stay back here with Ezio and his family. We trust you to keep them safe just in case. That and I personally haven't had a good fight in a bit!" Mordred remarked smirking as she looked back at the charging guards and soldiers. But before anyone could protest, the four charged back at the attackers.
As the battle started, two of the Soldiers slid into the ground itself before launching up for a bottom strike right under Guin. Who kicked one of them so hard into the rocks near him. That it died from impact. The second dodging the kick as Guin grabbed it by the face and threw the Solider in the one of the six attacking guards hard. Taking out the solider and most likely breaking the neck of the guard if his sudden limp body, along with a sudden cracking noise was any indication.
At the same time, Mordred herself elbowed one of the guards in the throat when he tried to swing down at her. Before pulling back and stabbing the hidden blade into the guards eye. Followed by ripping her hidden blade out. As the man screamed from the pain, seconds later he fell to the ground bleeding out. Though got and extra stomp to the throat from Scathach, who had killed another of the soldiers by slitting the heartless throat when it tried to lung at her.
Then came Dante, who for the girls and the others. Really did show his training as a solider from what he'd explained to the servants; while the girls and the others listened for just a refresher on his background once more.
Dante during all this had quickly killed the last three Soldier's with a few well-placed slashes to their necks, with the sword he still had from the guard he killed a while ago. Then as one of the last four guards charged him he kneed the guard in the stomach then stabbed his blade through the man's throat. Before pivoting around him and ripping the sword out. Stabbing the second of the last four guards through the left side of his skull. All of this occurring within less the half a minute. The last two guards seeing he was for a moment busy. We're about to plunge both their blades through Dante's back. But both were killed by two well placed arrows to the face. Their bodies falling down limp as Dante looked seeing Atalanta giving him a nod, as he returned the favor.
Once the small fight was done, the ones who fought all glared at Vieri and his remaining forces. The same could be said for team RWBY and the rest which only intensified the glares aimed at the Pazzi heir. Who flinched a bit, but scowled as he could tell they were daring him to try again. Which only made Vieri livid at the believed to be offense to him.
"Finish them, do not spare anyone!" Vieri ordered angrily as his remaining forces began to get ready for the attack; the guards pulling their swords out while the Soldiers began to charge the group. But before another battle could commence, suddenly a volley of arrows from the groups right. Fired into the remaining six guards through their heads, eyes or throats as their bodies fell down dead with small pools of blood beginning to form. The Soldiers also were hit through their heads or chests by the volley of arrows. Turning into black smoke like heartless usually do; all in all Vieri was shocked by this before his anger rose once again "What sorcery is this?!"
"Not sorcery boy. Skill!" A voice yelled as the group, though happy at the sudden save were curious too. Vieri well…he was even more angry, as he narrowed his eyes
"SHOW YOURSELF!" Vieri demanded as he held his sword out, before an arrow shot it right out of his hand from the same direction as the volley of arrows
"As you wish!" The same voice proudly responded, as from the right a band of six tough looking mercs with axes and mauls appeared in front of the group; then the leader came out
The leader in question was an older looking man in a fully black outfit that would fit a solider turned nobleman. He had slightly light peach skin , medium length black hair, a black mustache, a dark brown right eye as his left eye was glassy looking. Most likely blind if the scar down his left eye socket spoke of his experience. Pulling out a sword he smirked looking upon Vieri.
"You….YOU BASTARD!" Vieri screamed in rage, before this man charged at Vieri who began to running away to what could be seen as a brown horse near a tree behind the man
Though as the leader of the mercs made chase, suddenly four Shades appeared before him blocking the man off. But before the man could attack. He saw Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang run right past him. Plunging their hidden blades into the Shades killing them in seconds as they imploded into dark smoke. The girls sighing in relief, looked back ahead to see Vieri had made it to his horse and was already over the hillside gone from their reach. Then again this attack had just happened so quickly, that they didn't have time to stop Vieri; which the girls worried would make things more troublesome in the long run.
"I thank you four." The man team RWBY saved said, the four looking back as they saw from the corner of their eyes the man's mercs, Ezio, Claudia who was moving Maria with her and their allies coming back up to rejoin them
"No problem dude. You helped us so we helped you. Fair's fair." Yang kindly replied back, as Blake and Weiss nodded in agreement
"Totally. We're just glad those Shades didn't hurt you." Ruby exclaimed happily
"Well again thank you." The man repeated with an appreciative nod, then looked back seeing everyone else. Though notice Ezio move closer to him, before the young man bowed
"You have our thanks." Ezio stated, before straightening himself back up as the man handed him his own sword much to Ezio's on surprise at that "Um, why-"
"Keep the sword Ezio. You'll need it." The man exclaimed kindly as he seemed totally fine handing Ezio his sword
"Hey, how do you know my brother's name?" Claudia asked as she moved next to her brother, Maria was now behind held up by Jeanne who didn't mind helping out the kind woman one bit. The man himself seeing Maria had a moment of a sorrowful look on his face, before looking back at Ezio and Claudia
"Don't you two recognize me?" The man asked smirking, but was a little surprised when he saw no response to his question. But he assumed that to be the case, it had been quite a while, still he smiled anyways as he decided to re-introduce himself "It's a-me, MARIO!"
"Uncle…Mario?" Ezio and Claudia muttered as Mario hugged the two. Before they both had a slight realization that, actually they had meet Mario before. A very long time ago when they could barely even speak or do much of anything by themselves, but they had meet him a few times actually
"Is it me or do I feel like we could be sued for what he just said?" Blake muttered at how Mario said his name
"Yeah…" Weiss replied back as she found an odd feeling of that too
"Really…." Yang muttered herself as she too had that odd feeling of being possibly sued
"Weird." Ruby quipped as she had no idea why she felt that as well, but she couldn't help but smile like some of the others were at the family reunion as they watched Mario hugging Ezio and Claudia some more before letting them go
"It's been a long time la mia famiglia! (my family!) Far too long." Mario exclaimed, but sighed patting the siblings shoulders with a sympathetic gaze "I heard what happened in Firenze… terrible. But come. Let me get you two, your mother and your guest away from here."
Ezio himself just nodded, looking at Claudia who did too before she moved back to bring her mother. The three following behind Mario in silence, while the Mario's mercs followed seconds later too. Team RWBY and the others, stayed behind just for a moment more. Looking at each other, before in silent agreement followed Mario to his home now as well. All of them hoping they can get some rest, even for just an hour.
- 8 hours later-
It had been a good eight hours of rest, as once the group got to the villa which was inside a rather large fortified if not poor city. Still once inside Mario's villa. He lead the group, Ezio, Claudia and Maria to the various empty rooms they had for guests. Guin, Dante, Ezio, Donald and Goofy slumbering inside one of the smaller rooms as they offered to do so. Jeanne, Claudia, Scathach, Mordred, Artoria, Ikail, Da-Vinci. Frankenstein and Atalanta sharing another room which was of the much larger guest rooms that could fit them all then maybe five more. Maria was given a room all to herself, though maybe that because she seemed to need time alone to get out of this trance of hers in peace. Then finally Ruby and Weiss took one of the smaller family rooms, with Jack staying with them. While Blake and Yang took the other family room, with Nursery Rhyme staying with them.
All in all, it had been a taxing day. The group taking the hour they had been awake still to just relax and make sure they were all doing okay. Both psychically and mentally, the answers mostly good though Ezio…well he was in a dark place still. Not that anyone blamed the young man, but they all had their worries.
Though after that, they all ending up having a good night's rest. A refreshing slumber even if some of them had a bit of harder time sleeping. In the end, team RWBY and their allies at least, got a good enough night's rest. Then morning after was fairly happier in tone. Even Ezio seemed a bit more happier along with Claudia.
But currently team RWBY, their servants, their allies, Ezio and Mario were inside his rather large office if one were to give the base explanation of it. Conversing with the man to get to know him better, that and to talk some on the state of the town. Since someone (Jeanne) brought it up their horror for the state of it. For the health of the people and the fact their chapel was in ruins. Which irked Dante and Artoria too being the only other two Christian's in the group. Mario having promised to talk with them about it the day after since they seemed so set in trying to fix the place. Not just those three, but the others too. Some more than others, but all in all the whole group.
"So you're saying if we bring in enough florins once you hire this architect. We just give it to him and it should help with the repairs to the town?" Jeanne asked as she hopped so, not just for the church but also the people who lived here needing a renovation
"Of course. That's how it usual works does it not Lady Jeanne?" Mario replied back as Jeanne sheepishly smiled at the obvious question
"Though… it will cost a lot after a while. That we can all agree on." Artoria added in –"Lord knows how's much it cost after a while when it came to Camelot for repairs after attempted sieges."-
"Well either way at least now we know how to fix the town on our down time here." Weiss exclaimed as the others nodded in agreement "Anyways I guess there's not too much else to speak of huh?"
"Oh actually Lady Weiss. That does remind me. I have something for you and the girls." Mario quipped as he walked over to an old box near the door way to the villa's backyard, while the others were rightfully confused
"Something for us?" Ruby and Blake asked raising an eyebrow at what he meant by that
"Any of you find this odd?" Yang asked as the servants, Ikail, Dante and Guin just nodded in agreement. Donald, Goofy barked/ quack in agreement themselves "Okay good, not just me then."
"Though I do find it strange. We've never met so..." Weiss exclaimed as she was wonder on how even that would work. Because of the whole, not from this world thing
"I'm sure my uncle has an explanation for this." Ezio kindly reassured, before looking back at his uncle "You do...right?"
"Yes, yes I do. You see..." Mario began explaining as he picked up the old box and moved it onto the table. The sight of what was inside had team RWBY wide eyed as Mario smiled " When I was but a boy, an elder man came to our villa. Having been found wounded. We took him in and nursed the man back to health. It was a few weeks before he awoke. But all we learned was that he was from a faraway land. Having survived a deadly battle. We offered him a place to stay, but he said though he did appreciate the offer. He was needed elsewhere. But before he left. He gave us what lies inside this box before you. Telling us that one day we would receive visitors, with them were four young ladies of Red, Black, White and Yellow. These were to be there's when they arrived, is what the man explained. We agreed to keep them here. Though until today. I was starting to think maybe these would end up just being nice garden decorations. Until you all came here with my family."
"Wait just a minute...are you saying this WHOLE time you've kept whatever these are inside the box. For the girls, because a guy you didn't even know asked you too?" Da-Vinci asked raising an eyebrow "Really and what are they even?"
"Summon gems!" Team RWBY shouted in glee that they have even more backup now, well if these gems worked in this place hopefully
"Hm that's quiet the name girls. Still yes miss Da-Vinci. It was the least we could do and he seemed to be a man of honesty." Mario answered kindly back "Now then ladies if you will?"
"What do they do anyways mama?" Jack asked a rather obvious question, as she and the others watched the girls take out the gems. The adults couldn't help but find it amusingly cute Jack asked that, while Nursery Rhyme seemed curios too even if their mothers just said what they were
"Yeah do they shoot out pretty lights!?" Nursery Rhyme happily stated, as Scathach flicked the side of her ear "Ow, big sister that was mean..."
"Indeed, don't do that again...please." Atalanta scolded slightly as Scathach shrugged
"I just did what big sisters do at times is all. Honest Atalanta." Scathach simply stated as Atalanta seemed skeptical. But Scathach let it be smiling at Nursery Rhyme "Now think, you as well Jack. These gems your mothers just called...?"
"..." Nursey Rhyme and Jack didn't say, thinking it over. Then it hit them, but Nursey Rhyme was the one who answered for them both "Oh then they can summon stuff right!"
"Yeppers sweetie!" Mordred sweetly replied this time, as she knelt down and patted the top of Nursery Rhymes head
"Yeah my cousin is super smart!" Jack happily complimented as Nursery Rhyme got a little shy from all the kind words. But smiled none the less
"She's so cute!" Yang gushed at her child, Blake almost did the same but just smiled
"Graw!" Fran growled in agreement
"Anyways. I believe you girls have an idea on what to do with these then?" Artoria stated kindly as the girls all nodded. Looking at their stones. But only Weiss, Blake and Yang's gems were glowing to be used
"Come on, why do mine always give me trouble..." Ruby muttered with a sigh
"Don't worry Ruby. I'm sure it will come around sooner or later." Dante reassured, before looking back at the servants " That's right. None of you have met the girls summons have you?"
"You know now that you bring it up...no. Huh, anyone else find that odd?" Atalanta asked looking at her fellow servants
"Not at all at, I mean we did leave to this world right after we we're summoned two weeks ago. Still girls could you tell us a bit more about your summons?" Jeanne asked as she was very curious now, just like the other servants seem to be
"Well sure we can Jeanne." Weiss replied kindly "Now than mine are all robots of varying types. Questions so far?"
"Yes, what's a robot?" Ezio asked, as Weiss face palmed herself from that lapse of judgement remembering no one native or servant wise here knew what a robot was
"Right, right. Sorry I forgot none of you... never mind. Anyways a robot. Well best way I can explain it. It's like man made of metal." Weiss explained, before Yang cut in
"Yep one that runs in other kinds of energy to live. They are like us, just not flesh." Yang quipped kindly as Weiss gave her a quick thank you smile "So you all get the gist?"
Though none of the others even nodded or anything. Like they were trying to get even the concept of well, metal people. To be perfectly honest the idea was at too out of the realm of actuality for the non-tech savvy folks.
"Lady Weiss, no offense but that sounds a little farfetched." Mario stated honestly, even though it did sound pretty amazing to the older man
"Agreed. I mean if there metal. How do they... you know?" Ezio asked as he stopped himself from saying it since well Jack and Nursery Rhyme were here. The others already knew what he was hinting at
"Really?" Artoria scolded a little, as she raised an eyebrow
"What it's a legit question is all?!" Ezio explained in his defense, before he got a smack upside the head by Atalanta "Gah, what was that for Atalanta?"
"To get your mind out of the gutter is all. Because that seems to always be where it's at sometimes." Atalanta sternly answered, crossing her arms like a scolding older sibling...even though Ezio beat her by a good foot or two in height and beat her also in muscle mass by a quiet a bit
"ANYWAYS!" Jeanne said loudly to divert the current subject back to the main point, as it worked drowning out all other conversations. As everyone gazed upon the saint "Ahem. Weiss I must say though the ideal of men made of metal is an intriguing one. It sounds extremely blasphemous as well."
"Blasphemous?" Team RWBY asked as they had no idea why that was, haven't not been told everything on Christianity yet from Jeanne or Dante
Which they had been learning for curiosity sakes alone. Since Jeanne and Dante seemed so devoted to it. Still they were just on their earlier lessons with the two. Before this whole fiasco occurred.
"Yes indeed. For it impossible for metal to be alive. Only man as a whole can be. For god shaped us in his imagine. So there is no possible way for that to be with your so called robots Weiss. I'm sure it's just creatures in very well crafted suits." Jeanne explained sternly, yet sweet at the same time as she lectured the girls
Though Weiss herself. Suddenly realized when Dante told her and the girls in private to be careful on what they said to Jeanne. Mainly as she was a devoted catholic like him, but even to a more zealous degree from her behavior at times when it came to that particular subject of religion. That and she'd shown a few times to also have a very difficult time accepting new concepts around her. Well it depended honestly on what said concepts were in the first place. But either was in most way's very accepting, but she could also be very stubborn too. Especially when again, it came to religion.
It didn't help that Weiss just remembered two more things. One that Jeanne was considered on her religion a saint from what she briefly explained on her life which was well just that. Then two, when she and some of the other servants explained. That they were SUPPOSE to get information on all that was around them when they'd been summoned. Only to not have any sort of information aside from knowing basic english. So all in all, Weiss at least was worried how Jeanne would react to her and the girls summons. Along with some of the others in Traverse Town.
"Ah right..." Weiss quickly replied with a sheepishly smile "Still those are my summons... so girls maybe explain yours now too please."
"Sure sis." Yang quipped half smirking as she knew Weiss just wanted to bailed out from explaining more to Jeanne at least. She herself would have asked Jeanne at one point how she'd explain Donald and Goofy. But she would wait before opening that can of worms, so clearing her throat. She took over "Alright now that Weiss explained hers. Mine next. Mine are odd, but in a good way."
"Which is...?" Scathach asked as she motioned her hand to go on
"Don't worry Scathcy. I'm getting there." Yang joked as it was a little nicknames she made for her along with the others a while back to use at times "Anyways. Mine are all adept in the mystic arts of magic!"
"You mean that stuff scam artists use?" Ezio asked as Yang and some of the other that knew Yang's summons chuckled "Hm?"
"Sorry, sorry but trust us. Magic is real, especially the magic my summons use. Though how they look well... keep an open mind." Yang quipped as some of the others just shrugged with confusion "Anyways my Blake's are also very interesting!"
"Oh they are, what are they mom. Huh, huh!" Nursery Rhyme happily asked as she jumped up and down in curiosity near her mom Blake; who smiled back at her child
"Easy there sweetie. I'll tell." Blake sweetly rebutted as her daughter nodded back. Looking back at the rest of the servants, Ezio and Mario she cleared her throat "Anyways. My summons are from what I've gathered considering most of them. Outcasts."
"Outcasts?" Artoria asked a bit wary now of what Blake meant by that, the others too
"So like people who aren't nice auntie Blake?" Jack asked herself, as she at least worried if any would be bad men
"No, no hunny. It's more of… they're different. In a good way, like sis here." Ruby quickly answered her daughter as the others listened, though Blake was happy hearing Ruby call her sis already
"Agreed little Alice. I believe your mama means they're unique but in a way that others may want to stay away from them because of those differences." Ezio helped explained, looking at Blake "Right Madam Blake?"
"Correct. I'm sure you'd all like each of them." Blake happily stated with a reassuring smile, then it was quiet for a few moments before Mario decided to say something
"So, Lady Ruby. What of yours?" Mario asked as to him, Ezio and the servants. They noticed Ruby suddenly seemed a bit… hesitant "I apologize if I asked-"
"No, no it's not that honest." Ruby quickly reassured, before sighing a bit "It's just at least two of them well…."
"Ruby, are sure you're okay?" Atalanta asked, as she could see Ruby really seemed wary of saying more. Quickly she turned her gazed to Dante, Guin, Ikail, Donald and Goofy "Do any of you know what's wrong with Ruby?"
"Well…" Dante began to say, but couldn't find the best and nicest words to use
"Arf…. "Goofy well did the same as Dante did, as Donald seemed to keeping tight lipped
"Seriously. What's the issue?" Da Vinci asked now, crossing her arms and seeming a bit more concerned than she usually gave off
"It's not that we don't want to say, we're just trying to find the best words to use." Ikail quickly explained
"Grah, raw, umf, umf?" Fran asked now. Curious herself at what seemed to be the issues regarding Ruby's summons. Thankfully someone seemed to catch on rather quickly since she'd been studying Ruby's body movements and facial expression during this whole conversation
"They're killers aren't they?" Scathach suddenly asked as everyone looked to her, while she just kept staring at Ruby who looked at her eye to eyes "Not like the kind of killing Ezio or some of us have done in the past. More of… unsavory killing correct?"
"…" Ruby didn't answer at first, as everyone else looked at her wondering how such a sweet girl could get stuck with those types of summons if Scathach was correct. Ruby sighing a little, decided she might as well answer "Yeah, the first one is not like the other two though. Those two are…."
"A monster." Blake suddenly, blunt and angrily exclaimed
"A brute." Weiss said with distain, as she was already frowning from the unpleasant memories of her little Rose's last two summons. She was fine with the first one the sweet gentle giant he was, but the last two…well even if one was being nicer; that didn't mean she had a good opinions of them
"Both are well… psychos." Yang added in last, as she was still extremely wary on the other two summons of her baby sister. Especially the latest one, he was the worst so far and she swore she'd kill the man for real if he harmed her beloved baby sister any more than the first meeting between the two. Even if she didn't like to admit to be willing to do so, not one bit
"Are they really that bad Ruby?" Jeanne asked as she herself was very worried for Ruby's safety. Aside from being Ruby's servant, friend and eldest sister figure in some ways already. She wondered if anything could be done with the two more violent of the three summons of Ruby
"Well no. I mean yeah they can be a bit… murderous but they're nice in a way too. At least my second one, my third he's new and we're kind of iffy. Doesn't help I gave him a bloody nose by accident, where he followed by punching me; kicking me and mostly would have killed me if Yang hadn't come in." Ruby answered as Yang smiled in pride of that fact, but Ruby knew Jungle Hunter and Frank were good people; she could just tell despite the issues they had "Still again they're allies and I know they'll be on our side till the end."
"Oh Ruby…" Yang muttered as she found at times her sisters continued optimism refreshing, while other times like right now; found it to be a bit irking at how forgiving Ruby was with her second and third summon
"I guess that makes sense…thanks for telling us Ruby." Mordred replied kindly, as she and the others already were mentally agreeing on keeping an eye on Ruby's second and third summon whenever they were summoned next along with into the far future
"No problem. Thank you all for understanding." Ruby said with an appreciative nod as she and the girls quickly looked back at their newly acquired summon gem. Wiess, Blake's and Yang's sparking with some show of life. While Ruby's still didn't seem to bother doing so, much to Ruby's irk "Hm… mean old gem."
"Don't worry sweetie. It will happen soon, like the others times." Weiss sweetly reassured as she gave Ruby a quick kiss on the cheek, much to the red themed girls sudden glee
"Anyways. Mind showing off what's in those gems of your ladies. I've always wonder since I was a lad." Mario asked, hoping so and was quite relived when he saw the girls all nod in agreement; though Ruby hopped she could soon with her stubborn new summon gem "Good, good. Then follow me to the back yard garden."
So they did, the group and Ezio following behind Mario to the back yard garden which like the rest of the villa was large and covered by the shade of the house currently from how the sun hit it since it was getting close to eight o-clock in the morning by now. Once there, the servants, Ezio and Mario all stood on the left side of the court yard, while the girls were in front of them facing away.
"Right then, ladies. Whenever you're ready!" Ikail happily exclaimed as the girls nodded
Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang seconds later held up their gems. Letting their own energy start to seep into the gems in hopes it would work the same way like the other three times. After a good five seconds. Weiss, Blake and Yang at least could feel yet again something awakening. Then three large puffs of smoke exploded in the center of the gardens ground. The others coughed a bit from the suddenness of the smoke cloud. Before it slowly dissipated and then they could see in front of Weiss, Blake and Yang new summons.
The first of three new summons was in front of Weiss. Aside from Ikail, Guin, Dante, Donald and Goofy. The others were in all rights surprised seeing that like Weiss had explained. It was a metal man. It was all they could accept in their surprise. As the metal man in front of Weiss was well short. Like slightly pass Weiss knees height. With a box like body, then metal arm and legs. Along with bulky metal hands, bulky metal feet, a round metal head, two green large green eyes and a antenna with small red light on top. All in all, Weiss herself was even surprised by the appearance of this summon. But the others surprises didn't stop there as they looked over to Yang's new summon.
Yang's new summon was female. She had lovely pale white skin and striking brown eyes. She wore a blue skirt, black boots that went a bit up the calf's of her legs, a metal chest piece with a cross painted over an odd dark red custom insignia on it and a pair of metal gauntlets. Though what was most striking about this woman, was her bright long scarlet hair. She looked dazed though, like she was finally coming too. Though everyone else could sense a power coming from her and wondered if she was a knight by appearance alone. Especially Artoria and Mordred in that regard. But like Weiss and Yang's summons. Blakes was just as surprising to the group. Mainly because of the number of them and how young most of them seemed, aside from maybe one or two of them.
Yes, Blake's summon or in this case group summon. Were a about seven young girls in their teens, well only one of them looked about ten. While two others at least looked around twenty to twenty- two years old. But all of them had been on the ground groaning in slight confusion. Before slowly standing up for everyone to see.
The first of Blake's seven group summon to be inspect. Was the youngest of them. A little girl with pale skin, orange and yellowish eyes. Wearing what the girls of team RWBY at least could only describe as a green school uniform. With a dark blue bow around the neck, a white skirt, a white collared undershirt poking out around the neck and a pair of brown shoes with somewhat long white shocks. Finally She sported a head of bright blue hair tied in twin pig tails with a dark blue/white bow keeping it up and on the center of her hair was a large orange star with a few others stars attached to it. Though she seemed to be a bit nervous all of sudden and confused.
The second of the Blake's summons to be looked upon. Was what the others all could agree on was the oldest of the seven appearance wise. She was a tall, pale skinned, rust colored eyed, auburn haired and a… curvy woman. The woman's hair though was tied in a way that looked to be a bow like shape on the top of her head held up by a few pins. She also had bangs centered parted and two long strands of her hand that hung over her shoulders. Her attired was that of a kimono styled outfit, that sported a white and orange checkered pattern. With a purple collar, a forest-green skirt, dark purple leggings and dark grey boots. This one looking around seemed curious if not calm.
The third of Blake's seven summons up for inspection. Was most likely the second oldest looking of the seven if her appearance was anything to give off. Like the other two, she had pale skin, brown and reddish eyes. Long black hair with a few parts sticking out on the side, a few bangs and a few strains of hair. She wore a simple black long sleeve dress that had a rope tied around her waist, long grey stocking and black flats. Though oddly enough, she had bandages around her chest, left knee, forehead and neck. But this one also seemed the most out of it with her somewhat blank look.
The fourth in Blakes merry band of seven summons. Was a teen girl, with pale skin, short dark blueish hair with two yellow flower clips on each side, a few strands of hair poking out just a little and two light red eyes. Her outfit looked like a school girls uniform also. But more of an elegant type from team RWBY's perspective at least. Wearing also a navy blue jacket, a pale yellow top underneath and a blue plaid skirt with a blue plaid bow around her neck. The girl also wore light brown shoes with two long dark grey socks. Though this girl herself was like the little girl confused and wary if anything.
Then the fifth of the seven summons of Blake was next. She was pale skinned, with icy blue eyes along with short white hair that curled a bit near the bottom and two long bangs behind her held up by two small dark blue ribbons. Her outfit was a one piece long sleeved navy blue soldiers dress with a white along with white accents around the bottom, wirst and neck of her dress. She also wore a pair of white socks and black shoes. Though this young lady suddenly hid behind the fourth of Blakes group summon seeming really nervous.
Now the sixth and second to last of Blake's group summon was next. She was also pale skinned, with orange eyes along with long blonde hair tied in a ponytail that had a bit of green and orange highlights. She sported a maroon/ white jacket over a white top with a red tie. Wearing also a navy blue knee length skirt, white socks and shoes. She seemed the most not scared or at least nervous, but wary too. Very wary as she eyed the group and girls. Kind in a protective stance in front of the other six.
Speaking of, the group gazed upon the final girl of the Blake's group summon. She like the others had pale skin, with blue eyes and long dark rose-pink hair that had a pair of blue/pink bows hanging off from the left. Wearing like a few of the other girls, a school uniform. With a buttoned navy blue jacket over a white dress, brown shoes and white socks. She seemed half confused and half curious as she looked at the group.
"W-What the heck is-" The seventh of the Blake's summons asked, only to be cut off as Yang's summon cut her off; how by summoning a sword from thin air. Grabbing it and then aiming it at Yang and the group in turn
"Who are you people. Where have you taken me to, tell me now or so help me I will make you!" The summon of yang sternly ordered with a deathly serious glare, the others were quiet shocked at the scarlet hair knights demand, well aside from one or two of the; one of those being… Mordred
"Oh yeah lady, say's you!" Mordred screamed, pulling out the sword she'd ran past Yang in seconds before almost lunging at Yang's summon who in turn was about to counter. Until Mordred felt two pairs of arms wrap around her. Quickly looking to see Yang and Weiss had quickly bolted to make she didn't do that "Hey what gives, she threatened us you know!?"
"Yeah but that doesn't mean attack her!" Yang scolded as she made sure to have a good grip on Mordred
"Agreed now calm down!" Weiss ordered sternly as she also had a good hold on Mordred, who tried to get out of the hold; before sighing and slumping "You better?"
"Yeah…hmf." Mordred replied, pouting a bit as she sheathed her blade
"Good to hear then." Artoria suddenly stated as she walked passed the three, before moving closer to Yang's summon who was still on edge. But had lowered her own blade sensing something from Artoria who stopped a few inches away from her seconds later "I apologize for my daughters behavior. She can be rash, but you did threaten us so you can only expect such a response. Wouldn't you agree?"
"…" Yang's summon didn't say, before getting a good look at the surroundings. Blake summons who was staring at her a bit wary, then Weiss summon doing the same though a little surprised a bit by the small beings look. Then she looked back at others here, all of them looking at her now too. Some of them she could tell had been ready to pull out their own weapons, while others seemed to have wanted to wait and see what would happen. She sighed, realizing she may have jumped to conclusions a bit too soon. De-summoning her sword much to the others summons surprise at least, she quickly did a bow "I see, I apologize then. I was only doing what I thought was needed in the situation, but I hope I didn't-"
"How did you do that miss?" Weiss summon suddenly asked, cutting off Yang's summon as she and the others now gazed upon the small metal man "What?"
"Um sorry… just ah-" Atalanta began to say for everyone else, before she herself was cut off suddenly
"WHAT ARE YOU!?" Da Vinci asked out of the blue running up to small metal man, then lifting him up with both her hands "Y-You are amazing, please tell me what you are. I MUST KNOW!"
"Momma. Big sis is acting funny." Nursery Rhyme suddenly said with a giggle, as Blake looked at her, before sighing and chuckling at her girlfriends servant's current behavior
"Well if you must know I'm-" Weiss summon began to say, before being cut off himself
"SUPER COOL!" The first and youngest of Blake's summons suddenly stated with a wide eyed gaze of awe
"Why thank you child." Weiss summoned replied, before he at least noticed Atalanta moving towards the group of seven young girls
"Um Atalanta, what are you-" Blake started to ask, until she got her answer seconds later
"YOU ARE SO CUTE!" Atalanta squealed in delight, as she picked up the youngest of Blake's seven summons. With a tight if not loving hug as her cat tail poked out wagging in delight and her hood falling down showing off her cat ears. All the while Atalanta was nuzzling her cheeks against the younger child's cheeks "SO, SO CUTE!"
"Did she just…" Guin asked in a mutter
"Arf…" Goofy barked tilting his head to the left a bit
"Quack…." Donald quacked doing the same as goofy
"Yeah…she squealed like in a cute way." Scathach remarked as she was surprised the more serious of her fellow servants could seem so…cute
"Grah!" Fran suddenly growled loudly to get what was going on back on track, but she did not expect a response all of suddenly from one of Blake's other seven summons
"GRA!" The second oldest and third of Blake summons, well growled of all things. Before sprinting and lunging at Fran. Who she knocked on the ground before everyone could see the third of Blake seven summons was oddly… nuzzling her cheek against Frans. Like a sign of kinship between the two had formed "Umf!"
"Umf, umf!" Fran replied back, happily doing the same like she also realized this was indeed a gesture of kinship between the two
"Okay…what?" Ruby asked this time, confused and mostly upset her summon gem wasn't working with her
"Wait, wait just a moment!" The sixth of Blake seven summons suddenly screamed as mostly everyone who wasn't already preoccupied turned their attention back to her. The young woman seemed confused and grumpy because of it "Who are people for real, give us some damn answers already or I'll kill ya!"
Though as the sixth of Blake summons threatened the others, she didn't notice Atalanta placing down the little one in her arms, quickly moving over to her. Then laying on a solid smack across her face hard. The sixth summon quickly blinking her eyes, before glaring at Atalanta.
"The hell was that for lady?!" The sixth of Blakes summons asked angrily, before being smacked again "STOP THAT!"
"Then treat your elders with some respect or you'll get more." Atalanta sternly replied back as both she and Atalanta glared at one another. Thankfully as everyone else was just silent yet again, someone else finally spoke up
"Excuse me ladies." Ezio stated as Atalanta and the sixth summon looked at him, as the young man moved closer "If you don't mind me suggesting. But maybe it would be beneficial to become accommodated with one another."
"H-He has a point…" The fifth of Blakes summons stated in a gentle tone, as the others looked upon her. Making the girl shy away behind the fourth summon even more "I-I'm just saying…"
"Your right though. We should tell each other our names, it would make things less…" Yang summon began to say, but didn't know the correct word for it
"Uneasy?" Weiss summon suggested as he was now being held in Da Vinci's arms like a doll, not that the small metal man seemed to mind much
"Tense?" Jeanne suggested now, still trying to comprehend on what was even going currently
"Both good suggestions. Thank you." Yang's summon happily quipped, giving Jeanne and Weiss summon an appreciative nod before clear her throat to face everyone "Anyways, hello there. I may not know what's going on or where I am or who any of you are. But I am Erza Scarlet, S-Class Wizard of the Fairy Tail Guild."
"Fairy Tales, like the ones in story books!" Nursery Rhyme suddenly shouted, as Erza gave her a look; then smiled and chuckled
"Not quiet, maybe in a way. But it's Tails like what animals have. Sorry little one." Erza replied sweetly, as Nursery Rhyme just nodded and blushed a bit realizing how uncouth she'd behaved just now in her opinion
"Well it's nice to meet you Erza." Blake replied as Ruby, Weiss and Yang all nodded in agreement
"Though what about you little guy? "Ruby asked Weiss summon, while still trying to see if she could get her stubborn summon out of its gem as she could feel the power inside growing by this point
"Yeah please tell us, I… I mean we need to know!" Da-Vinci quipped, letting down the small metal man
"Understandable and I can tell most of you have not seen a being of my kind. Though I am a robot as some would say, I like to say I'm more of a person. With that being explained, you may call me Clank." Clank explained with a quick wave to everyone, some waving back. While Artoria and Jeanne at least seeming a bit uneasy by Clank even if they waved back. Though only two others seemed to have focused on something else with Clank
"Clank seriously, that's stupid?" Mordred and Blake sixth summon bluntly, if not rudely exclaimed. Almost sounding alike for a moment, as they looked at one another. Before giving each other a thumbs up as they seemed to even have just made a kindship with one another, before they got hard smacks to the back of their heads
"OW/ THE HECK?" Both Mordred and Blake sixth summoned yelled, looking to see that the second oldest summon of Blake had smacked the back of her sixth allies head. While Artoria had moved back quickly to Mordred to do the same
"Don't be rude young lady, now apologize." Artoria scolded, as she'd been taking this mom thing pretty seriously since she and Mordred had gotten closer the past two weeks
"Gra, rah!" The second oldest of Blake summons growled at the sixth one, like a scolding mother of sorts
"No, no it's fine honest." Clank replied calmly "No offense taken. To be honest I wasn't so fond of the name at first. But it was given to me by a good friend of mine and I've come to love it."
"Speaking of, what about you seven?" Weiss asked now, she and the others looking back over to Blake seven summons who were all staring at the second oldest oddly "Um, you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah just… this is new for her." The last of Blake summons explained wide eyed a bit, as it seemed the second oldest was behaving all of sudden differently; she and the other five wondered if it was because of that small interaction between their second oldest and Fran somehow
"Hm… well anyways, would you all please be kind to tell us your names dears?" Ikail asked, as the seven girls looked to one another now seemed a bit concerned doing so
"You have nothing to fear of us, we are friends. That we can promise." Guin explained kindly. The seven looking at him and able to tell, he meant every word and held no ill will
"Well I guess so." The last of the Blake seven summon replied, deciding to go first as she cleared her own throat "Anyways um…h-hello my name is Sakura Minamoto and these are my friends."
"Ai Mizuno… pleasure." The fourth summon or now Ai replied calmly, yet still with some wariness in her tone as she did a quick one hand wave before nudging the fifth summon behind her to go next, which she just nodded and moved next to Ai's left
"I-I am… Junko Konno. I.. It's nice to meet you all." Junko quickly said in a slight stutter, doing a quick bow before blushing some at what she believed how much of a fool she'd made herself look. Though the second of the summons gently placed her hand on Junko's shoulder, giving her a warm smile which seemed to help the nervous girl a bit. Before she looked back at the others doing a quick bow of her own, all the while smiling
"Don't mind Junko, she's always been the more skittish of us seven at times. Anyways, I'm Yugiri. I'm sure we'll all become well acquainted friends one way or another." Yugiri happily stated, doing one more bow as he… larger chest did a quick slight jiggle
Which got the attention of at least Ezio and Dante even who stared at that particular area a little longer then need. Thankfully Fran was quick to elbow Dante's side and Jeanne pulling Ezio's ear, both men letting out a quick yip of pain. As Fran and Jeanne gave them scolding gazes, which quickly made the two men sheepishly smile. Though before anymore could happen, the first and youngest of Blake's summons cut in.
"And you may all call me…. THE AMAZING LILY HOSHIKAWA!" Lily cheered in utter glee, doing a quick cutesy pose and an adorable smile to boot. While for a split second, everyone else swore they saw Lily literally sparking like a star
"Was the girl sparkling?" Jack asked in slight confusion, yet awe if that was the case
"Don't question it Jack." Scathach replied as she just patted the top of the little assassins head, while the sixth of Blake summons decided she was next
"Sup peps, call me Saki Nikaido!" Saki cheered, with a loud tone and big smirk
"Wow loud….." Blake and Atalanta muttered in slight pain as they rubbed their cat ears
"Well nice to…wait what about her?" Mario began to say finally, having just watched the oddness going on; though realized the last one hadn't said her name…well if she could even
"Oh that's Tae Yamada, she's just a bit…off. Not in a bad way, but she can't talk." Sakura answered for Tae, who was looking at Donald
"Quack.." Donald quacked as he quickly flew on top of Guin's shoulder, as Tae looked like she wanted to eat him. Thankfully Ai quickly made sure that didn't happen
"No bad Tae, no!" Ai yelled sternly a bit, as Tae groaned sadly; only seeming to change that to joy as Ai patted her head
"Is she…is she like a dog?" Dante asked, before Yugiri to threw a rock at his face "OW, WHY, WHY?!"
"For calling Tae such a thing. She's a sister in arms if you must know. Now apologize you brute!" Yugiri sternly ordered
"What, I didn't even mean-" Dante tried to argue, before he saw Artoria, Atalanta, Fran, Weiss and Blake give him stern looks of their own "Come on…. Fine. Tae I'm sorry."
"Graw!" Tae joyfully roared
"Grah, umf." Fran growled next, as Jeanne deciphered
"Tae said no worries, it was an honest mistake. But please be more mindful next time and I do hope we can be quiet the good friends sir." Jeanne explained, the rather long statement
"You seriously got that all from…Grah, umf?" Ikail asked raising an eyebrow at that
"Oh indeed, Fran and Tae have quiet the language if you listen and learn it. I've called Growlanise!" Jeanne joyfully proclaimed
"But that's not a real language Jeanne!" Da-Vinci argued a bit
"Not with that attitude it won't be DaVin and your supposed to be the adventures inventor out of us." Jeanne replied with a pouty, slight disappointed tone
"Mommy, mama I think this talk is going silly…" Jack stated as she rubbed her eyes a bit, feeling a bit tired as Weiss walked over and picked her up in her arms to rest. Blake did the same with Nursery Rhyme who also looked tired
"One freaking cute!" Saki stated in a rare moment of awe when it came to cute things "Also two, the kiddos right. What I think what we all want to know is…what's going on?!"
"Even if I wouldn't say it like that, I am curious. This looks like nowhere in Earth land." Erza quipped as she found the lack of well anything familiar to Earth land unnerving
"For real, me and the girls need to get back to Saga. Mister Tatsumi is going to be so mad if we miss our practice for the day." Sakura said, as she and her group were kind of looking a bit worried more
"Agreed, would any of you please tell us what's going on. I'd like to know if we can find a way to get to space soon. I'm sure my friend is worried about me." Clank added in, as the others began to realize; mainly the girls, Donald, Goofy, Ikail, Guin and Dante. That these summons were indeed going to have a hard time taking the news they got in, though before anymore could be said. Mario brought up a point they'd all forgotten
"A moment please." Mario stated loudly as everyone turned their gazes to him "I only have realized. But Lady Rose. You have yet to use your gem still, is there something wrong?"
"Yeah actually that's true. Ruby you still having trouble?" Scathach asked curiously
"Anything we can help with?" Guin asked, though had a slight worry that like at least the second and third summon of Ruby's; this one may not be the most…safest
"No but thanks. I just too always have the most troubling summons like I said about…never mind. Anyways…" Ruby stated as she looked at her gem, before poking it "Come on, come on you mean stupid gem summon. Just come on out please!"
"Ruby sweetie, I don't think that's going to work." Weiss stated with an amused smile at her loves childlike antics at times
"I know, it's just so…so…FRUSTRATING!" Ruby screamed angrily, though her gem reacted to the sudden increased surge of energy and then activated creating a large cloud of dust. That blew and actually pushed back the group and new summons away in the same direction
"Ow…" Guin stated, getting up as the dust was slowly clearing
"Hey you people okay?" Saki yelled
"I think we are Saki, but thanks for asking." Da-Vinci replied as she rubbed her head, as the others all just either groaned or grunted in agreement
"Good to know, sorry about this too everyone. I have no idea why-" Ruby began to say, as the smoke suddenly quickly cleared up showing everyone Ruby's…four group summon. Ruby the closest as she could already feel the power coming from them "Ah..."
The four in question, were four women, one pale skin, one peach skinned, one dark skinned and one with a slightly darker skin tone. All four of them wore what was like armor mixed with pieces of clothing. But again Ruby at least already feeling the connection between these four and her, knew they would be hard to control. She was already hoping that maybe they would be cooperated with her, as she and the others inspected all four.
The first of these four was the peach skinned girl, with two different colored eyes which was ice blue for the right and amber for the left which had a red outlining around the eye itself; along with medium length black hair. She also a white uniform with shoulder length sleeves, a pair of white gloves with cuffs, a pair of clothed pants and black shoes with white outlining. Though the oddest thing was the bone like piece on the top her head coving dead center of it and that it also had a single horn pointing out from it. She also gave off a sort of tomboyish feeling.
The second was the much dark skin toned woman, beating the other three in height and muscle mass already. Her green eyes and long dark brown hair helped only add more to the exotic beauty of this woman. Wearing only what could be considered Amazonian armor in some way. She wore a pair of arm bands, a skirt, a top, a pair of long knee black boots, a white chest piece that looked more like just a bra if anything and all of this was in white. Didn't help that for the chest piece her chest was rather large. Which for a few of the men of the group, wasn't easy to not just stare at. But the feeling that she could break each of their backs like a twig, mainly was the reason they didn't stare in the first place. Though also like the first of Ruby's four summons, she wore a bone like three crown piece over her skull and hair; along with having a bone like neckless around her neck. Lastly and most off of all, she had what looked to be large dark hole in the center of her stomach; like it was just normal to be there on her.
The third of the four woman group, was the plane skinned girl. The slimmest of the four, she had olive green hair, lavender eyes and three pink dots under her right eye. Wearing a long sleeved dress that went down her legs and had long clothed sleeves that went over her hands, along with a fuzz black collar. She also if you looked closely wore a pair of white pants and black shoes as well. But the young woman also oddly was covering her mouth with her covered right hand. Like she always did that for some reason. Finally like other two. She had bone mask as well, one that covered over the right side of her head a bit and had a three clip crest connected to it. She gave off a sort of silent and shy vibe despite how dangerous she in a way looked too.
Finally came the last of the four women, the group already feeling like this one was the leader. She had lovely tanned skin, aqua green eyes with thick blonde lashes and short messy blond hair with a three braids tied on it. She wore like the others all white. Which included a high collar jacket, that covered the lower half of face. But a good portion of the lower torso showed being her navel and the bottoms of rather…large chest. A zipper could be seen running along the entire length of the jacket's, along with two beige air filter on both side around the woman's mouth. Lastly sleeves on the jacket completely covered her arms, while black glove-like extensions that looked kind of like cat's paw could be barely seen. While she wore a skirt like pants hybrid and black shoes. This woman was indeed the leader though. As her calm gaze and natural energy was already giving of that impression.
"Ah….." Ruby kept murmuring as the four woman blinked once, twice, then three times before looking down right at Ruby. Who suddenly went felt some uneasy fear like with Jungle Hunter and Frank when they first came were summoned. But she kept her cool, looking at her four new summons "Hi…"
Though as she said hello, the four just stared at her. Before the tomboy of the four, narrowed her eyes before quickly grabbing Ruby by the collar of her jacket. Lifting her up a few inches in the air, which got a quick slightly aggressive stances of attack from everyone else who quickly stood back up. But before they could Ruby quickly cut in.
"No stop please!" Ruby pleaded much to the others confusion for some, though irk for only a few. But before any could say their own grievances. Ruby quickly looked back at one of her four new summons with a big sheepish smile "H-Hey no need for that ah… no reason to be angry r-right?"
"Like hell human, where are we and you better give us an answer we like!" The tomboyish summon angrily screamed
"Yeah and we'll hurt you bad if we don't like you answer!" The Amazonian of her summons added in, pushing the tomboy a bit. Though the action was not taken well…
"Hey what the hell's your problem. I got this handled so back off!" The Tomboy began arguing, pushing the Amazonian with her free arm a bit, who in turn glared back with a scowl
"You couldn't handle getting dress let alone this so you back off!" The Amazonian argued back. Pushing the tomboy with a bit more force as she almost trip which would have brought Ruby down too since the tomboy still had a firm grip on her collar
"Oh yeah!?" The tomboy growled, as the Amazonian and her clashed their foreheads together
"Yeah want to fight about it!" The Amazonian threatened as the two just growled at each other some more. Then the shy one of the summons chuckled as the other two looked at her
"My, my always with the brutish approach. No wonder I'm the most sought after of us three. So sad, but I shall be the better of us three and let you go on. For I know your brutishness is a part of you and who am I to stop that." The shy one quipped, in a somewhat smug and superior way as the tomboy and Amazonian glared at her now
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" The two screamed as the three began to argue, Ruby being dropped on her back side; before Jeanne and Weiss helped her back up
"Thanks girls." Ruby kindly replied back, before she and the others just stared at the three of four of Ruby's summons arguing and bickering as well…like kids
"Quack." Donald quacked, shaking his head at the sigh as they reminded him kind of his nephews when they did fight with each other
"I don't know what the duck just said, but I agree… I must be losing my mind. I would never say that…oh god-OW!" Ai remarked, before screaming in sudden pain as Jeanne had smacked the back of her head "What was that for lady, Jesus christ-OW!"
"You do not use the lord name in vain young lady. Understood!" Jeanne argued back
"Scary lady…" Sakura muttered as at least Junko and Lily nodded in agreement
"Ha, Ai got in trouble." Saki teased Ai somewhat, before getting her ear pulled by Atalanta somewhat hard "Hey, hey let go!"
"I will when you behave… teens why do you have to make trouble for your elders I always wondered?" Atalanta muttered as she watched the three of four of Ruby's summons still argue; as the fourth just seemed to let it happen "Ruby, can you maybe get them to stop?"
"Grah!" Fran growled in agreement as the others either nodded or just stayed silent
"Agreed. They'll cause quiet the scene if anyone catches an earful of this in the back yard. I'd rather not have anyone here get scared seeing well…. These odd people. No offense." Mario replied, looking at Erza, Clank and the girls
"No offense taken." Clank, Yugiri and Lily replied back. While Sakura, Junko, Ai, Tae kind of and Saki nodded back that it was fine
"Anyways. Madam Ruby if you could?" Ezio asked now, but was a bit amused watching the admittedly exotic woman argue
"Oh right thanks for reminding me." Ruby replied appreciatively, before looking back at her arguing three of four servants. Slowly walking over to them "Um excuse me?"
"YOU WANNA DIE!?" The tomboy of the four screamed at the Amazonian and shy one
"Hey ah can you even hear me?" Ruby asked in the kindest manner she could in this sort of situation
"LIKE YOU COULD HURT ME MORON!" THE Amazonia argued back. Sternly glaring at the tomboy with her teeth baring in her anger
"Hello?" Ruby asked once more pouting a bit now, that she was being ignored
"Like I've said before and I will again. You two are such brutish small minded fools." The shy one chastised as the tomboy and Amazonian glared back at her once more
"Hey that wasn't nice ya know?!" Ruby scolded the shy one of the four, or maybe the more shy but snarky one
"WE'LL KILL YA!" The tomboy and Amazonian threatened, seeing dead serious at this point
"Hey wait no stop, listen to me!" Ruby screamed, trying to stop her summons for her view point. Killing each other as she did not want that to happen, thankfully her fourth summon or the leader finally seemed to have enough of her own with these three
"Enough." The leader calmly, if not with a stern authoritative scolded as the other three froze in sudden slight fearing looking at the leader now. Which from Ruby's point of view again, kind of reminded her of a mother scolding her three daughters if anyone were to ask her "You three will cease this arguing. Understood?"
"…." The three other of the four summon didn't say, but looked like a bunch of kicked puppies as they seemed to not like being scolded by what the group plus Ruby could yet again only guess; their mother figure. All three of them doing a quick bow to her "Yes ma'am…"
"Good. But you should also apologize to this child here." The leader stated, looking at Ruby now as Ruby swore she could feel this woman studying her already. Though seconds later that slight uneasy feeling broke when Ruby noticed the other three looking back at her
"We apologize." The tomboy, Amazonian and Shy one said. Though the shy one sounded the sincerest even if she didn't have to apologize since she hadn't done anything, the Amazonians somewhat and the tomboy sounded resentful a bit but did so anyways. Probably not to upset her mother figure, the leader anymore; who herself have the three a nod of a silent thank you. Before she gazed back at Ruby, who felt the uneasy feeling of being studied right away
"Now then. I apologize myself for their behavior. But… I do not fault them. Why are we here. Where ever here is little one?" The leader asked a bit stern, but with also a slightly softer tone too
"Well ah… actually before that. Can you tell us your names. Me and the others were going to do the same but then you all came and that sided tracked us." Ruby asked, much to the confusion of her summons
"Others?" The four muttered, before looking behind Ruby seeing the rest of her group staring at them; only a few seeming slightly hostile even now
"I see. Then I feel quiet embarrassed for the way I behaved. How uncouth of me to show my ugly side because of your brainless brutes." The shy one quipped, playing the innocent one
"Wow blunt." Lily muttered a little wide eyed at how casually the shy summon had insulted the other two
"Like you have room to talk squirt." Saki replied back a bit snarky as Lily had always been in their group of seven the most… blunt a times. Lily just pouted as Saki chuckled
"So, can you please tell us your names. Super please and we'll do the same back promise!" Ruby asked sweetly, even doing a puppy dog stare to add to her request. The tomboy, Amazonia and the shy one even seemed hesitant to do so; but looking at their leader giving them a stare. They knew she was telling them 'Well go on.' The three just nodded, sighing a little before looking at Ruby primarily; the Amazonian going up first
"I am Franceska Mila Rose, 55th Arrancar and loyal to my lady here." Mila Rose stated loudly and proudly, bowing to the leader of the four for a moment. But was pushed aside by the tomboy, who gave one another a quick scowl before the tomboy looked at Ruby now
"You can call me Apacci Emilou shorty. Just don't try anything with me and I won't snap your neck." Apacci bluntly stated with a smirk as she seemed way less informal with titles and such "That and treat our lady here right. Then all will be fine, even if you are a simple human."
"You know that's not very nice." Ruby replied a bit irked at the rudeness of Apacci, who just shrugged before walking back to the others of her group
"Yeah, yeah whatever shorty." Apacci rebutted uncaring, as Weiss watching this at least was able to lunge at the rude woman's behavior to her precious little Rose
"Easy sis-sis. I'm sure that's just her way of saying hello." Yang replied back sheepishly smiling, though internally she felt the same way for the woman's rudeness to her little sister
"I think you need to take your own advice Yang." Jeanne muttered sheepishly herself, as some of the others just felt sheepish themselves. Before they noticed the snarky shy one of the four move up to Ruby now
"I apologize for the brutes there, they have such low manners. Anyways even if you are human. I am happy to meet you young one. You may call me Cyan Sung-Sun." Sung-Sun stated with a shaky of Ruby's hand with her left, all the while she kept her right sleeve covered arm over her mouth
"Nice to meet you too Sung-Sun, you as well Apacci and Mila Rose." Ruby said sweetly, as Apacci just shrugged her shoulder with a huff and Mila Rose a small quick nod. Then Ruby gazed upon the last of her four group summon "How about you, what's your name miss if you'd please tell me."
"Hm, I appreciate the manners from you little one. Very well, you may call me Tier Harribel." Tier simply stated, with a quick nod of her own as Ruby smiled widely
"Oh well nice to meet you to Miss Harribel!" Ruby joyfully responded, holding her hand out to Tier "I hope we can be great friends!"
Though as Ruby said, this for some reason Apacci, Mila Rose and even Sung-Sun quickly blocked Tier from Ruby's hand shake. Giving the girl stern if not somewhat upset glares.
"How dare you act so casually around her. She is our lady and she's will be addressed as so human!" Mila Rose yelled in a slight fury at the young girl
"Yeah talk to her like that again and I'll break your bone's kid!" Apacci just well threatened like she'd done so far, clenching and waving a fist near Ruby's face as if she need to make that more clear
"And I'll finish the job, now show Lady Harribel respect!" Sung-Sun added in sternly, as she narrowed her eyes a bit
"I ah… um…ah…." Ruby tried to say, but she had to admit out of all her summons; this one was the most overwhelming so far. But probably because there were four of them to talk to instead of just one, at least they hadn't attacked her yet so there was that silver lining. Thankfully someone came in so that was the good news, bad news… it was an irked Jack
"Leave mommy alone!" Jack yelled angrily as she ran in front of Ruby, glaring at the three woman
"Jack no stay out of this!" Ruby quickly exclaimed in a sudden fear for her child's safety with at least Apacci since she seemed the most volatile in temperament. Because again of the woman's ahem… manners
"But they're being mean to you mommy and I won't stand for it!" Jack yelled, looking back at Ruby before back at the three who dared threaten one of her mother's "You say sorry meanies!"
"Aw isn't that cute, she's acting tough. Oh yes you are, who's a little-" Apacci began to mock, pointing her index finger right in front of Jack who…well bit her finger seconds later before letting go "GAH DAMNIT… little brat you bit me!"
"Well you we're kind of asking for it. But I suggest you fix your attitudes." Erza sternly stated as she walked up next to Ruby in a protective manner, followed by only Weiss, Da-Vinci, Mordred, Scathach, Saki, Ezio and Dante as a sort, of back up for Ruby
"Yeah so if you got problem with my little rose then you best get ready for a beat down!" Weiss angrily screamed as she slid her finger across her neck
"That and we'll make sure you remember the pain too!" Da-Vinci a little to sweetly added in, with a sweet smile and a girlish charm most would call exotic; the cute wink only added to the threat
"Oh yeah, unless you want to fight now!" Mordred proclaimed with a slightly eager tone
"Indeed. I'd love to show you some of my moves." Scathach remarked smirking as she cracked her neck to also add to her own threat
"And I can show you some of my own moves too, I've been itching for a fight!" Saki proudly boasted as she crackled her knuckles
"They we'll send your souls to the pits of hell." Dante grimly stated, narrowed eyes as other time he could technically do so if he wanted; but this was more of bluff in this world at least
"So what shall it be ladies, behave or not?" Ezio said last, crossing his arms as he wasn't one to usually be so stern with women; but these three at least were already showing to be a bit too aggressive with small mistakes or lack of knowledge. But as Apacci and Mila Rose glared back, while Sung-sun moved back a bit not wanting to tempt fate; Harribel cut in
"I will admit I don't like my girls to be threatened. But you three, especially you Apacci asked for it. So you will cease threating the human girl in red and behave. Even you Sung-Sun, I expected better behavior from you." Tier sternly said as the three wanted to argue that they were just humans and they could take them. But they knew they would never convince their lady of that, especially since they were still with unknowns in and unknown land. The three just nodded, as Tier sighed looking at Ruby and the few that came to her defense the quickest "Again, I apologize for them. Yes they do call me Lady Harribel. But you don't have too, you are not under my command for one and two I believe it would be simpler for you all to call me so."
"W-Well sure… we're all good right?" Ruby asked looking around at the one's with her, then to Weiss "Right snowflake?"
"Hm…fine. But only because you want it." Weiss replied with a sigh, then a quick lip kiss to Ruby before glaring back at the three women who'd threatened her darling little rose "Though you better watch your backs if you threaten my Ruby again got it?"
"Yeah, yeah we'll hurt ya!" Jack added in, as Weiss lifted her back up in her arms. Both glaring at Apacci, Mila Rose and Sung-Sun
"I believe they'll remember." Tier answered for the three, before doing her best to bring the conversation back to the what it had been originally before her girls had flipped… again "Anyways. You all were to tell us your names now correct?"
"She is right, it would be nice to know of your names. Along with again what's going on in the first place." Clank stated now, moving next to Ruby's summons though being poked at by Apacci "Would you please not do that."
"Sorry just…wow, this is freaking something." Apacci muttered as Mila Rose and Sung- Sun sighed and Tier cleared her throat as Apacci stopped just like that "S-Sorry Lady Harribel."
"Can we please just get to the names already?!" Saki screamed as she, Sakura, Ai, Junko, Yugiri, Lily and Tae moved to the right of clank wanting to be not so close to the four scary women even if they admittedly looked pretty cool to a few of them
"I'll agree with Lady Saki. It seems we've been getting off track so far. A little to easily if you ask me." Yugiri stated as Lily and Tae surprisingly had taken notice of that nodding in agreement with the elder of their seven woman group
"Trust us…you'll get used to it." Ikail muttered as that seemed to be a freaking constant in some of their conversations
"So names please?" Erza asked now, as he moved over next to Ruby's summons. Ignoring the slight stares from Mila Rose and Apacci aimed at him like they could sense his power. Now wanting to have a spar with him to place their dominance over him in the hierarchy of whatever this system was
"Right. We'll I'll go first. Hello to you all, I am Ruby Rose please to meet ya!" Ruby happily cheered as Mila Rose smiled a bit finding someone; even a human who had Rose in their name
"And I am Weiss Schnee. Her girlfriend, her very protective girlfriend." Weiss replied next. Glaring at the Ruby's summons for a moment, before looking at Clank kindly in a silent welcome form one summoner to a new summon
"Blake belladonna. Ruby's protective future sister in law." Blake quipped, also glaring at the Ruby's summons before looking at her summons with a warmer smile as Yang took over just like that
"And I'm Yang Xiao Long. Ruby's super protective and loving big sister!" Yang proudly answered with a smile that had a secondary undertone to Ruby's summons that a slow death would happen if they harmed her baby sister
Ikail quickly cut in to make sure Yang didn't go too far with her not so subtle threat, coughing loudly as the new summons turned to her now much to some of the others relief having notice how not so subtlety threating Yang was to Ruby's summons in particular. Especially the once call Apacci, that one those few could tell Yang wasn't fond with already.
"Yes well those are the girls, sweet one's aren't they hehe…" Ikail sheepishly stated, with a big smile
Though the other summons just stared at her. Well Ezra seemed impassive, Sakura, Junko and Ai just awkwardly nodded back. Saki shrugged impassive herself. Clank just did an equivalate to a smile and nodded. Lily just giggled, Apacci only sneered irritably and Yugiri seemed totally okay with whatever was going on. Mila Rose just huffed crossing her arms, Sung-Sun nodded with a small chuckle, Tae was… well chewing on the locks of her long hair and Tier only slightly nodded ever so calm like she'd shown so far.
"Hehe…anyways, I'm Ikail. Pleasure." Ikail quickly quipped smiling widely, awkwardly wide as she felt like she was in a den of Rancor's right now. Well at least with Ruby's summons and maybe Erza, the others were more like adorable Wampa's. She quickly elbowed Guin and Dante in the sides. Both men grunting, before seeing her looking at them and passive aggressively telling them to go on and say their hello's
"Right…" Dante muttered with a sigh. As he wished Ikail wouldn't hit him so much to get his attention, he wasn't that oblivious…mostly "Greeting's. Nice to meet you all, you may call me Dante."
"And Guin, my name I mean. You may call me Guin. I look forward to working alongside each of you." Guin simply stated, as he sometimes wondered what Ikail ate for her to be that strong; the small…ish girl didn't show any kind of muscle on her. But leaving that behind, he motioned the summons to Donald and Goofy "These are our other good friend's. Donald the Duck and Goofy our dog."
"Seriously?" Apacci muttered, rolling her eyes a bit before she saw Donald flew right on the top of her head. Confused she tried to grab him. Only for him to well bite in in a way, he didn't have teeth in his beak but the force of it so suddenly did the job enough. Apacci quickly grabbed her hand, the same hand Jack had bitten as Donald flew back on Goofy's back "AGAIN, GOT BIT AGAIN GAH!"
"You were kind of asking for that." Artoria bluntly stated as she already found Apacci a vulgar woman. Who herself glared at Artoria
"Well screw you shorty!" Apacci screamed as she only didn't attack because she knew her lady didn't want them to attack for whatever reason
"Artoria, you'll address me as such child." Artoria sternly replied crossing her arms, as she was in no way intimidated by the woman. Mainly because she'd dealt with people like Apacci before, mainly with Mordred when she had her tantrums
"Child, I'll sho-" Apacci yet again was about to argue with only a few minutes already, before Mila Rose covered her mouth much to the woman's irritation
"Lady Harribel said to behave and I'll make sure you do. Even if I got beat it in you to." Mila Rose bluntly and sternly said, as she did her best not to laugh at Apacci's bad luck so far. Apacci herself growling a bit as she crossed her arms, helped that she saw Tier give her stern gaze. Though just as that occurred, thankfully the other servants cut in. Mainly Scathach who found all this too amusing so far
"As funny as I'll admit it was seeing the young lady there get bite." Scathach quipped, smirking in amusement as Apacci just glared at the woman who shrugged it off her turning her full attention to all of the summons "Greetings, you may call me Scathach, you've already meet Artoria so that's out of the way. Alright.. who's next?"
"Me, me!" Nursery Rhyme happily cheered, jumping up and down as Scathach and some of the others got a smile from the child's enthusiasm
"Alright. You go next then kiddo." Scathach replied back kindly. Patting the top of Nursery Rhyme's head, as the child giggled in glee before looking back at the new summons. Her big smile never wavering as she bowed
"Hello there. I'm Alice and I hope we can all be the best of friends." Nursery Rhyme sweetly said, with a quick crusty of her own; while smiling ever so
"Oh god… cute." Erza muttered as she found Alice, really adorable. No one though noticed Atalanta doing her own quick hhhnnggg moment. That and even Yugiri a bit, though all three women looked at one another and knew they had the same tastes in cuteness. With that a small union of friendship was already forming between at least three of the people here
Still once Nursery Rhyme straightened herself back up, she grabbed Mordred's hand and tugged it. Like she was wanting Mordred to go next and Mordred knew she couldn't say no. Two weeks had really softened her up to everyone even if she'd never show it too much…mostly. But she had real soft spot for the two kids with the. Smiling back, with a nod she cleared her own throat looking at the summons just like everyone else before.
"Sup… just call me Mordred. You show me and my family respect. We'll all be fine." Mordred stated as she looked at Ruby's summoned primarily or at least Sung-Sun, Mila Rose and Apacci since she didn't feel uneasy with Tier "Sound good?"
The summons though just nodded, even Mila Rose and Apacci. When they saw Sung-Sun and Tier nodded in agreement like the others. Mordred couldn't help but feel some pride that her kind of threat worked actually. She'd have thought she'd have to fist fight Apacci and Mila Rose at least. Maybe Saki, but the girl seemed like more a of sweet heart then she let on.
"Good to know then. Anyways…um… Jeanne why don't you say hello yourself? "Mordred quickly stated as she didn't want to put anyone in the spot light like that. But she wanted the hello's and welcomes to get by so they could get on with well the rest of the day. Thankfully it seemed Jeanne didn't mind at all
"Very well then Mordred." Jeanne kindly quipped, before looking at the other summons. Still trying to reel her mind at what she was seeing; especially Clank and considering what she was. This was had been quiet the surprise for her "Hello fellow allies in arms. You may call me Jeanne. I hope you all will come to see us a friends or even family. In fact I have total faith you shall and if any of you ever feel the need the talk. Please do not hold back, I shall always listen."
The summons all just nodded, a bit taken back by the woman's nearly heavenly nature and aura she gave off. None of them could even think of outright disliking her or to say anything snarky, even Apacci of all the summons. Jeanne seeing herself that every summon seemed to be on the same page with her, motioned Frankenstein to go next; though had forgot one important thing about the berserker class servant for just that moment…she couldn't talk.
"Graw, raw, umf, graw, graw, UMF!" Frankenstein joyfully cheered, doing a cute head tilt at the end and clapping… even though none of the summon could understand a thing she said
"Ah… I don't think I'm the only one but what did she just say?" Saki asked for the summons, all of them confused in every way on what the heck Frankenstein even had said to them. From how she'd behaved it wasn't anything bad or ill willed, but friendly. Still it would be nice to know at least what nice word's she'd said to them
"Jeanne." Ezio remarked as Jeanne chuckled but sighed once again
"Yes I now. Any way's Fran said to you 'A pleasure to meet you all. I'm Fran and I'm sure we'll be good friends later on.' Aw, how sweet Fran." Jeanne translated as Frankenstein gave her a thumbs up and a small smile of pride
"ANYWAYS… aside from that. May I say you have the privilege to meet a beauty such as I!" Leonardo cut in, happy as can be to introduce herself to some new folks. Striking a pose as she let her hood down to show off her lovely looks "You may call me Leonardo and I'm please to meet you all as you must be to meet me!"
The servants though, just stared at her. All staring at the odd woman who seemed to have quiet the opinion of herself even if it was very justifiable since she really was quite a pretty woman. But the one thing that kind of set that off was well… the name.
"Isn't Leonardo a man's name?" Lily bluntly asked, with such a childlike innocents it was kind of perplexing how one could seem so cute and sweet; yet be so blunt at the same time
"My…my what a blunt child….so…very…blunt." Da-Vinci stated through her teeth ever so sweetly, smiling and even titled her head to the right a bit
"LILY!" Sakura yelled in a panic at Lily's bluntness…again "I am so sorry Miss Leonardo .Lily's just a kid and she's doesn't know better honest hehe…hehe…"
"Well I for one think she's quite a cute child." Atalanta stated sweetly as her tail wagged happily and her cat ears twitched in delight "Anyways, you may call me Atalanta. I can tell most of you will make trusted allies. Others though…we'll have to see."
Atalanta just then stared right Ruby's summons, getting a good idea now why Weiss, her little sister Blake and Yang said what they said on Ruby's summons. That and she understood better now on why Ruby seems so… hesitant to speak of at least her second and third summon as the first one sounded stable enough. Still the four gave her sense a uneasy feeling, Tier not as much as she as the leader seemed the most stable. Sung-Sun too, but Atlanta felt a bit more wary of her as the girl seemed well…snake like.
Still it was more of Mila Rose and especially Apacci Atlanta felt the need to keep a close eye on. Mila Rose though seeming just as dangerous, also seemed to more stable between her and Apacci. Apacci meanwhile already had shown to be an issue, one that was tamable somewhat thanks to Tier. But a danger she'd kill if she went out of line. If she was around when the woman did something to warrant death by her bow. But for now all she would do was watch, though she did wonder if any of the others were sensing anything. Still getting her mind off the rather uneasy subject, she realized only one hadn't did their introduction.
Looking at Jack who was back in Weiss arms. Which got a smile out of her. One because she was glad Jack and Nursery Rhyme in tow, had been taken in by two couples who loved them so much already. But with Jack for some reason, some very odd reason she felt…well felt like she'd seen Jack beforehand somewhere or someone like her too. But had failed at saving that child or Jack or well the maybe Jack from then. So again she was happy.
"Weiss, Ruby your daughter hasn't done her turn yet. I think she should go now." Atalanta warmly suggested, as she could see Jack didn't want too. Especially after she bite one of them, granted the woman or in this case Apacci asked for it; but still…
"Agreed, Jack sweetie say hello please." Weiss quipped, though finding it adorable when she saw her daughter grumble in a cute manner at the very suggestion
"Along with saying you're sorry." Ruby quickly added in, as Jack nuzzled her face into Weiss collar some more
"I don't want too… that lady was mean." Jack stated shyly as Apacci grumbled, knowing Jack meant her and the fact she was still irked when the kid bite her finger of course
"Jack you know you should, mean lady or not. You don't bite people okay?" Weiss added in, with a slight stern but calm tone as Jack looked at her; then Ruby before slowly nodding "Good oh and Donald."
"Quack?" Donald quacked curiously as he noticed Weiss smiling a bit too sweetly at him, alongside Ruby
"You'll apologize too won't you. I mean you did bite someone too?" Weiss asked as Donald felt a slight chill down his back, a chill of sudden slight fear of Weiss
"Yeah, it's only proper to do right?" Ruby asked next, giving Donald the same sudden child down his spin as he just nodded much to the couples glee "Great!"
"Indeed. Now Jack I'm letting you down and you do what we asked along with you Donald." Weiss stated as she let Jack down, who shyly looked at the summons while Donald flew landing on top of Jack's head
"Quack, quack." Donald simply well quacked for an apology, as he then quickly flew back on top of Goofy's head again leaving Jack alone feeling shyer than before. Though Ruby and Weiss sighed a bit, realizing the hadn't told Donald to take his time with the apology, but looking at their daughter they were glad Jack was at least going to take her time to seem more sincere with her apology
"Um H-Hi…I'm ah…" Jack tried to say, but she felt nervous more so then she'd ever thought of feeling. That was until Ai of all the summons moved up to Jack. Kneeling down as she gave the child a small smile
"Hey no need to feel nervous. How about this, I give you my name again and you give us yours. Sound good sweetie?" Ai asked with a warm tone, as Jack nodded "Wonderful. Anyways I'm Ai nice to meet you. Now then you are..?"
"J-Jack." Jack answered loudly, though shy still. But also oddly felt safe around Ai like she did with Ezio, his uncle Mario, her mothers and whole family already
"Well that's a pretty name Jack. For such a pretty little girl. So feel better?" Ai quipped as Jack nodded a bit more easily this time, smiling too as Ai couldn't help but feel good for helping this child out "Good to know and I'm sure everyone else thinks that too."
"I think so myself. A cute name." Erza simply stated with a smile of her own, Clank himself just nodded while Saki, Yugiri, Lily and Junko all nodded too
"Totally and don't ever feel like you're in danger around us. We're all nice people." Sakura sweetly stated, before eyeing Ruby's summons "Yep…all of us, right?"
"We are, do not worry little one." Tier calmly replied back first, with a quick nod of her own as she had no ill feeling towards anyone here really. Confused she was yes, but again she wouldn't start placing how she felt about anyone here until she spent enough time around them… even if some were males
"Lady Harribel is correct. You Jack and your kin having nothing to fear from us." Sung-Sun remarked as she gave Jack a quick smile or reassurance or well what the slight change around the upper part of her face would indicate as a smile. That and she didn't find any reason to not dislike Jack, she could feel though that Jack along with the others here weren't normal like most humans were. But putting that behind, she looked to Mila Rose and Apacci "I can't say for these two brutes though. I do apologize for that, for shame really. But what can you expect?"
Mila Rose and Apacci just huffed, not wanting to be scolded again by Tier as they just shrugged. Neither giving an indication or reassurance, but also neither the intend to attack or something along those lines for Jack.
"Graw, graw!" Tae growled herself a bit as everyone aside from Fran who growled a little herself, and yet again were confused. Which in turn turned the groups attention to Jeanne who sighed realizing this may take a while before anyone understood Tae which meant she'd be translator till then
"Right Fran said, that Tae said this 'Totally, don't worry you're new big sisters and metal little brother will keep you safe!' . Wow that's quiet sweet Tae." Jeanne stated as she smiled herself, feeling happy that Tae seemed so kind hearted
"Graw!" Tae growled in utter joy
"Okay for real, has she always been saying this kind of stuff and none of us realized it?!" Saki asked a bit irked if that was the case, then again how were the supposed to know Tae was actually quite a deep and companionate person when all she did was growl
"Let's just put that aside. For now I can tell you all probably have some questions. We'll answer them… actually speaking of. This here is Ezio and his Uncle Mario. We're in a small settlement owned by Mario. So behave." Ruby explained as she motioned the servants to Ezio and Mario
"Yes, like Lady Ruby say's. This is my settlement. Play nice and we'll have no issues." Mario stated first, smirking a bit as he hoped at least the four women Ruby summons would behave or at least two of them. The others seems well enough as it was, even if the young ladies wore the strangest outfits
"But we also suggest enjoying your time here as well. It's quiet a view from up on the walls." Ezio kindly quipped, before Da-Vinci gasped in glee
"I got an idea!" Da-Vinci happily exclaimed, like a kid who'd just found a bowl of candy left alone
"What's that DaVin?" Blake asked using her girlfriend's summons's nickname, Da-Vinci smiling just a sweety as ever
"Well Blake. Since your summons will be out for a bit, at least that's my guest. I suggest we all go into separate groups and get to know each other better. Meaning Ruby, you, your summons and the servants you'd summoned go into one group. The rest of us follow the same thing. Sound fair?" Da-Vinci explained
"Hm…sounds fair. Erza right, how about you?" Yang asked as she looked to the scarlet haired woman
"I believe that would be beneficial if we're going to stuck together for a while. You servants though… they would be fine with it too then?" Erza asked curiously, wondering who was Yang's servants
"You bet ya!" Yang happily answered, picking up Nursery Rhyme as Da-Vinci moved over to Yang "You're in luck. You get to bond with my cute little girl and the one who suggested this."
"Hehe, sounds great. I'll follow your lead then so we four can speak." Erza replied back as Yang just nodded, before giving Blake a quick goodbye kiss on the lips and Nursery Rhyme doing the same but on Bake's left cheek. Before moving into the large villa, Da-Vinci following in, while Erza was the last. Once out of sight, the others now had to get organized themselves
"Alright so anyways… Clank. You'll be with me, Mordred and Scathach here. Any issues?" Weiss stated now, as she moved over to Clank. Alongside Mordred and Scathach also
"No issues here. I can already tell you all have quite a good aura around you. Like Ratchet does if you don't mind me saying so." Clank explained, as Mordred picked him up in her arms first like a teddy bear
"Thanks little guy, nice compliments aside. Weiss lead us somewhere in the villa we can all talk kay?" Mordred stated as Weiss just nodded, before leading them inside the villa ask well now. Once they were out of sight too; Blake now decided it was her turn
"Since they're doing the same. Then you, Atalanta and Fran here will find somewhere nice to just talk. That good with you girls?" Blake asked, feeling like these seven would only add to the amusement and fun their journey so far had been. She couldn't wait to see though
"Sure. You seem nice enough already." Sakura answered first
"Well most of you anyways…" Saki muttered as she gave a quick glance to Atalanta, who took notice before raising an eyebrow. Making Saki quickly look away as she wasn't use to such stern older looking women like Atalanta in her life
"Anyways… we're all fine with it. We trust you'll lead us well Lady Blake." Yugiri stated calmly as ever, doing a quick half bow as Blake was a bit taken back by that
"Sorry about her. She's… old fashion. Like Junko is in a way." Ai quickly explained, as Junko pouted just a bit from the statement before Ai notice Tae and Frankenstein already talking or well…growling at each other in a friendly manner "Well Tae's defiantly fine with you if Fran's alright with you."
"Totally, can we please go inside now. I want to how pretty it must be!" Lily asked excitedly as she jumped up and down a bit
"Hey chill out shrimp." Saki remarked as Lily pouted at the nickname Saki had given her, for as long as they'd know each other
"WELL…aside from the side chatter. For real can we like go inside now, it's kind of cold out here you know?" Sakura asked once more, wanting to get inside
Though a few things went through Sakura's mind, one how was she feeling cold all of sudden and two… how did some of the others even feel pain when they were hit by those rather scary women just a while ago. But the most jarring, why was their skin well… normal looking. Why she thought this, well she and her friends had…good reasons too. But Sakura decided later to figure that out with the girls. Right now was their time to get to know Blake, Atalanta and Fran better. Since it seemed they would be stuck with these three and the rest of their group for a while. Without saying more. Blake made her way into the villa like Weiss and Yang had. Atalanta and Fran following, with the six young ladies followed behind seconds later. Like the last two groups, all that was left was Ruby, her servants and her new summons. Dante, Guin, Ikail, Donald, Goofy Mario and Ezio staying here until they knew Ruby was safe enough. Even with Mordred and Jeanne by her side, it was better to be safe than sorry.
"Ezio. Can you and Mario here take the others inside the villa please?" Ruby asked calmly as she and servants stared at the new summons who just stared back
"Huh?" Ikail asked a bit surprised by that request from Ruby, that and she was a bit unnerved how serious the usually bubbly girl sounded all of sudden
"You sure Ruby?" Dante asked, concerned himself, but would go along with it as he knew Ruby was old enough to be sure on her decisions well most of them. Even if like Ikail, he was a worry wart when it came to her and the girls well being
"Yeah it's no problem. Honest." Ruby answered, looking back at them with a reassuring smile
"Still though…" Ikail trailed off, as she was trying to find an excuse on staying by Ruby for safety sake's alone
"She'll be fine." Guin simply answered, his tone full of calm reassurance himself as Ikail just sighed after looking at Donald, Goofy, Ezio and Mario all nodding in agreement with Guin
"Alright… just stay safe and you two keep her safe as well." Ikail ordered for once, as she really did just want to Keep Ruby safe with the two more aggressive ones in her four connected summon
"Don't worry, I'll keep mommy safe!" Jack happily cheered, as Ruby picked her up this time and snuggle against Ruby a bit
"That's a promise. Ruby is safe as can be." Jeanne added in, reassuring the Ikail mainly
"Right well then come I'm sure we can put you to work." Mario joked a bit, smirking as he made his way into the villa now
"And I'll make you do all the work too. I'll just play off that I helped." Ezio joked himself, shrugging and smirking as he followed behind Mario
"Oh thanks…" Dante muttered sarcastically, Guin chuckling a little as they followed behind with Donald and Goofy; Ikail being the last as she just gave Ruby a pat in the head before following behind the boys
Once they were gone, all that was left was Ruby, Jack, Jeanne with Ruby four new summons Tier Harribel, Sung-Sun, Mila Rose and Apacci. Four beings that gave off an uneasy feeling to Ruby, though more of Mila Rose and Apacci. That and the uneasy feeling was like when she meet Jungle Hunter and Frank. The feeling of cold blooded killers. Mister B was the only summon who didn't give her that feeling, well she wasn't stupid to not realize Mister B probably had killed before. But unlike the others of her summons. Mister B seemed like he only did if they attacked. Make's sense since most wouldn't go against a more than two ton drilled hand person in a heavily armored divers suit. But still that aside, even if these new four made Ruby feel a bit uneasy from the aura they were giving off. She also knew she couldn't show fear or weakness to them. She'd done the same with Jungle Hunter which was a work in progress and with Frank which was a really new work in progress. So these four would just be another file in the friendship folder in her mind.
"So…" Ruby began to say, as she was making sure not to say anything too stupid or somehow offensive "You want to go inside it's cold so you know."
"Well no duh kid." Mila Rose chastised, as Ruby already was scolding herself from the obvious answer there
"Right.. follow me then and um… never mind." Ruby stated, though she had wanted to say more. She didn't know what to even say since she realized something
She'd until now had only dealt with one usually violent prone summon. But now she was dealing with four new summons at once. Two of them already showing they were extremely prone to violence by their mere gesture, one that seemed somewhat violent prone if rarely and another that though seemed the calmest. Also could be just as violent prone if it came to it. Ruby knew she'd have to be extra careful this time, she'd rather not make her impression with these four worse than she already was.
"Right." Tier simply stated, as Ruby already was moving back into the villa. Jeanne following behind as Jack clung around her neck some more and Ruby made sure she was holding her daughter in a comfortable enough position
"Don't worry, you're doing fine Ruby. Just relax and just talk to them like anyone else okay." Jeanne whispered, to help reassure Ruby as she gave her master a warm smile
"Yeah. You're doing good mommy." Jack whispered, nuzzling against Ruby some more which heled her feel more at ease "I love you mommy."
"Hehe. I love you too Jack, same with you Jeanne. You're family already so thanks" Ruby whispered back, smiling a bit as she, Jeanne, Jack in her arms and her new four summons disappeared into the Auditore villa as well now…
-10 Minutes later: With Blake's group-
"So everyone comfortable now?" Blake asked. As she was sitting on the bedside in one of the guest rooms of the villa
Atalanta was at the right of Blake, while having Lily sit on her lap. The huntress already gushing over the little girl. Fran sitting on the ground with Tae. Tae resting her head on Fran's lap. Saki on a chair. Though Saki had gotten Sakura to sit on her lap after convincing her it was better than sitting on the ground. Which was why Sakura on Saki's lap was blushing a bit doing this. Junko and Ai sat next to one another on the ground, with Yugiri sitting on the other side of Ai on her knees.
All ten woman having taking a bit of time to get comfy in the room, before speaking. Which had taken a good minuet or so. Still as they sat around. Blake was hoping things would go smoothly with the others, especially her one day little sister Ruby. With her four new summons, granted only two of them gave off an iffy feeling; the last two not so much. Still Blake pitted Ruby there, aside from Mister B. The rest of Ruby's servants had so far showed to be just blood thirsty monsters if you were to asked her opinion on them. Though trying to not fret too much on the others. She kept her attention with her current company.
"I think I am, hehe." Saki joked as she pinched Sakura's thigh just to see the girls reaction. Which was anything but clam, as Sakura blushed a bit with a eep from the sudden action
"S-Saki!" Sakura quipped, slightly scolding Saki who just smirked as the girl sighed blushing a little bit still
"Anyways. Yes we're fine Blake, thank you for asking." Junko quickly cut in to get the conversation back on track, before it could stray off. Then looked to Lily "Though it seems some of us are more comfortable than others thankfully."
"Yeah I am. Miss Atalanta is so nice!" Lily cheered, as Atalanta giggled a little from the compliment
"D'aw, that's sweet of you to say. You are just such a sweet child yourself Lily!" Atalanta gushed in utter glee a she hugged Lily some more who herself nuzzled a bit back with Atalanta
"So cute…" Ai muttered, as sure she was the more serious of the group. But that didn't mean she didn't like cute things when she saw em, though she didn't notice the slight look of jealously Yugiri had showing if barely at the interaction between Lily and Atalanta
"Good to hear then. Well first off I want to just say if any of you are feeling scared, confused or maybe a bit of both. I won't blame you. Our journey so far has been… odd. If not a bit uneasy at times too. But I promise you all, I'll do everything I can to keep you safe." Blake exclaimed, to make sure her new summons knew she was on their side "But with that said, I need you to work with me. So ask any questioned you'd like of me. Whatever I can tell you, I will and I'll do the same in return. Fair?"
"…Fair." The seven summons all answered, having taken a moment to let what Blake said sink in; along with deciding that Blake was their best bet to stay safe… well where ever they were currently
"Great!" Blake cheered as she clapped her hands, so far so good. Still she'd let them ask some questions to help them feel more at ease before she asked them anything of themselves "Anyways. You can all ask me, Fran and Atalanta questions. Whatever you want honest."
"Well what's with the cat ears you… Atalanta have. That and the cat tail green hair's sporting too?" Saki bluntly asked out of the blue
"SAKI!" Sakura yelled at her friend's bluntness, before quickly looking back at Blake and Atalanta "I'm sorry she's just blunt hehe. No offense here at all HEHEHE….hehe."
"It's fine honest." Blake replied, with a reassuring smile. Though Atalanta seemed just a bit irked by that, but seemed to let it be too if only to avoid any arguments that could arise "To answer your question. I am human in appearance, but I'm actually what you'd call a faunas. Simply a humanoid with animal appendages and traits."
"Wow that's super cool. So what do have like cat reflexes, night vision; what miss Blake?!" Lily suddenly asked herself, smiling in glee "Can you tell us, can ya, can ya!"
"Lily calm down please. I think you're being a little too abrasive with her." Ai quipped, amused a little by the youngest of their group's antics
"Again it's fine honest Ai. Still… Atalanta case is a bit different at least from what I've gathered." Blake explained "Same with Fran actually."
"Really, how so Lady Blake?" Yugiri asked, as Blake sigh a bit feeling that Yugiri was going to keep calling her even if she asked her not to
"Well… I think they should explain themselves." Blake answered, smiling at her sisters, who both nodded. Though Atalanta was the one to explain, since well Frankenstein couldn't
"Right. Well like Blake say's. I and Fran are quite different from what you all are. That of being human. As in fact we are what you'd call spirits reincarnated." Atalanta stated as she set down Lily next to Blake, before standing up with proud look "We are known better as HEROIC SPIRITS!"
-"Did she really have to be so dramatic on that?"- Blake thought, bemused as she noticed Fran gave her a look too. The girls meanwhile, well they just stared at Atalanta in silence except for one
"WOW FOR REAL!" Lily cheered again, with a star gaze upon Atalanta who smiled in glee from the young girls praise
-"OKAY… now that makes sense."- Blake thought yet again, sighing once more as she knew the true reason why Atalanta was so dramatic with her words seconds ago; all to get some praise from the little girl with them
To be honest, Blake and the others had learned Atalanta had quite a…liking to young kids. Nothing bad, just she liked kids. BUT… saying that, to others who hadn't gotten to know the heroic spirit. It would most likely come off as…well that she was freaking pedophile. There was no way to say it nicely, she kind of at times acted a little…too loving to kids. Mainly in the form of excessive hugging and nuzzling her face against there's as she gushed. She did that a lot with Jack and Nursery Rhyme, even Ezio late younger brother Petruccio once or twice. Again it was all in a wholesome manner, but that was for her group since they'd all learned she again just was good with kids and loved making them smile. Still it made way too much sense at why she'd acted like she was for the time.
"Indeed. From the less know, to the most known. We heroic spirits are those who have left their mark in human history!" Atalanta yet again answered, cheerfully and with pride. She even smirked a little wider to look even awesome in Lily's eyes and the others as well. She had yet to notice Yugiri giving her a slightly narrowed glare and frown once more, even if she looked impressed herself by Atalanta's statement
"That pretty cool. But who would you be then?" Junko asked, as she found what Atalanta said amazing beyond belief. In most cases in her early life she'd say this woman was crazy. BUT considering where they were now, that and her groups own… secret. She was more opening minding in that regard to accept Atalanta's story
"Right sorry. As you know my name is Atalanta. But I'm also known as Atalanta the Hunter of Chastity!" Atalanta answered, still trying to sound cooler than she already was to the group, but again mainly Lily
"Wait as it the Argonauts, like from the Greek myths?" Sakura suddenly asked wide eyed and smiling in glee. Despite what most would think when they saw her as just another valley like girl, she was very intelligent. One study she loved learning about, was on myths and legends. That and reading a good story from time to time, so to hear that a person from legends was right before her. The girl was on cloud nine in the geek out department "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!"
"Whoa chill Sakura. No need to get fidgety kay?" Saki quipped, though she was pretty impressed too until she realized something else "Wait, wait how many of you in your group you know; are like you?"
"Quite a few, to simply explain. I and Fran are Blake's servants, since she's the one to summon us a while back. The others are in pairs of two each for Ruby, Weiss and Yang." Atalanta explained once more
"Speaking of, who's Fran supposed to be anyways then? "Ai asked now, as she and the rest of her group looked back at Fran who now had Tae sitting next to her getting petted on the top of her head by Fran herself. Tae looking like she was enjoying every moment of it too
"Right Fran. Well from what she'd explained to me when I could finally fully understand her. Her true name is Frankenstein. Does that ring a bell for any of you?" Blake answered, but to only see her seven new summons go wide eyed in shock "I guess so… is she that famous?"
"Famous...OF COURSE SHE IS!" Sakura yelled all of sudden as Blake and some of the others flinched a bit from it. Sakura looking back ta Fran "Frankenstein is one the most famous horror film and story monsters out there. There's not one person you'll meet that hasn't at least heard a bit on Frankenstein!"
"Fran really?" Blake asked looking at one of her sisters, who sheepishly rubbed the back of her head
"Umf, umm." Frankenstein answered bashfully at Sakura's words
"Grah!" Tae growled in glee, hugging Frankenstein who hugged back in appreciation for the gesture
"But wait…isn't she supposed to be a he?" Yugiri asked as when she had time, had read upon the story of Frankenstein finding it quiet tragic really if not also an entertaining read
"Umf, umf!" Frankenstein replied, seeming a bit offended by the actuation
"Yugiri that was kind of mean." Lily stated with a slight frown of disapproval
"You're right Lily. I apologize Fran. I didn't mean to sound so rude, it's just a shock is all." Yugiri quickly apologizes, as Frankenstein pouted a little before smiling and patting Yugiri's back
"Graw, um, umf, gao!" Frankenstein happily stated, as that was an easy way of saying all was forgiven
"Yes well anyways that who they are. Still I'll let the rest tell you who they are when they feel it's right. Now since you've asked us some questions." Blake quickly cut in, as she wanted to make sure everything would stay on track. The seven new summons just nodded back in agree with Blake's statement along with it being a okay for her, Atalanta and Fran to ask whatever they needed to "First off, I remember you saying someone would be mad at you if you missed rehearsal. Who would it be if you don't mind me asking."
The seven looked at one another, wondering who would say what for their group. But then they looked to Saki. Who groaned as this was one of the few times she hated explaining things. Then again she had made herself leader when they all had first meet. So guess she had too.
"If you gotta know. He's our manger, his name is Tatsumi Kotaro. A jerk and irritating to bat at times. Still we're like a pop idol he formed with us in it." Saki explained, as Blake was a bit surprised by that; while Atalanta and Frankenstein were confused on what a pop idol was
"We're a music group." Junko suddenly added in, as she had taken notice of Atalanta and Frankenstein's confusion
"Ah… so that's what you call music groups now?" Atalanta asked, though Frankenstein now just listened in
"Kind of. Pop idols are a bit different." Blake explained as back at her home world, they even had pop idols. Not many, but enough and heck she even listened once or twice… a lot to that sort of music
"Oh…/Gao…"Atalanta and Frankenstein muttered, understanding it a bit more than before
"Well anyways thank you for telling us." Blake stated kindly, though she had for a while so far noticed. The seven seemed a bit off, well maybe not Tae since that girls seems so…simple minded was the best word to use for her even if she'd shown a more intelligent side of herself "Girls… can I ask but, you all seem off. Are you okay?"
"Well…" Lily started to say this time, but stopped as she seemed hesitant "Never mind Blake."
"Yeah its nothing honest." Sakura said next, as she rubbed the back of her head sheepishly
"Are you sure?" Blake asked yet again, crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow
"Yeah, yeah totally Blake. Nothing wrong here honest!" Saki answered, though she even seemed off
"Is that so…Ai, Yugiri you feel the same then?" Blake quipped, as she knew they were lying. She wasn't one to be nosey, but in this case… well it would be better to make sure nothing hinders her allies minds during battle
"Well…" Ai began to say, but she felt like they should. Blake, Atalanta and Fran had been straight with them so far. It was only fair if anyone were to ask her, looking at Yugiri she felt the same way
"Actually Lady Blake…we do have one thing to tell you three." Yugiri began to say, but before she could say more she was cut off
"Whoa hey, hey maybe we shouldn't gals!" Saki argued a bit, as most of the others just slowly if not nervously nodded in agreement
"But Saki… maybe we should." Sakura stated, being one of the only ones to see where Ai and Yugiri were coming from now "Look at them. They aren't like most people we know, no offense. Still I'm sure they'll understand."
"Still though…" Saki muttered, as she could see where Sakura was going with this. But didn't mean she was fully gun ho for once with exposing there little secret, which was odd for her since she literally had wanted for so long now. BUT with the opportunity showing itself, Saki felt actually a bit nervous
But as this went on, no one noticed Tae having crawled near the window inside the bed room. Looking outside to see the lovely nature before here, along with the town itself. But as she looked outside, she saw a yummy looking squirrel pass by in one of the trees. Feeling a want to chew on the tasty creature, she lunged. Though the window was still down, now for most they'd just smash their faces against the glass and it would hurt. For Tae though, as it looked like it did hurt her. But along with that… her head suddenly popped off like nothing.
Tae's body falling down on the ground with the thump. Loudly echoing as the girls all looked to see what had happened. Only to then hear another thump on the ground…in the center of them with the sight of Tae's decapitated head just lying there looking dead. The six of the seven new summons all looked well not shocked, but worried. Blake, Atalanta and Frankenstein well…
"HOLY CRAP?!" Blake screamed first at the sudden decapitation
"AH!" Atalanta yipped in shock herself, but covered Lily's eye's quickly
"GRRRAAA!" Frankenstein growled in her own form of horror seeing what she found to be a kind of her own kind in the terms of growling, lose her head so suddenly
But as the three screamed for just a bit more, they finally were able to calm down…sort of. Though still shook from what they'd just witness to a rather odd; but sweet girl. Then they saw the looks on the girls, they didn't look heart broken, even Lily who was able to push Atalanta's have from over her eyes. Didn't seemed sad by Tae's decapitation. No instead they all seemed calm yet tired too.
"W-What's wrong with you, you're friend just died and-" Blake began to scold the six girls, only to stop when she felt Frankenstein tap her shoulder "Sister Fran?"
"Umf…" Frankenstein growled in a hushed tone, pointing ahead. Blake confused quickly noticed Atalanta slack jawed in even more shock somehow looking the same direction Frankenstein pointed towards
Blake looking at ahead now, realized very quickly why they were so slacked jawed despite what they were outside of this worlds restrictions. As they watched the headless body of Tae stand up like it was still alive, turning around as Ai picked up Tae's head.
"Tae be more careful. Seriously if you do that out in public it will cause a panic. So again be more mindful or at least as much as you be okay?" Ai stated sternly, yet with a caring undertone
"Graw!" Tae growled back, as a yes to Ai before throwing the head behind her as Tae's body caught it in her hands. Yugiri stood up seconds later, taking the head into her own hands and then placed it on the neck stump. Moving it a bit right to left a little, before followed by a snap and squishy sound. A moment after Yugiri stood back as Tae moved her head a bit as it was secured now "Um, Um, Graw!"
"Welcome Lady Tae. But like Lady Ai said, please be more careful especially out in public." Yugiri sweetly said as Tae just nodded. Looking back she and the girls saw Blake, Atalanta and Frankenstein all but still wide eyed in shock "Ah yes… our secret."
"W-W-What was that?" Blake screamed in utter horror, shock and awe. Though Frankenstein and Atalanta though shocked too, knew well what these girls must have been
"They're undead Blake…" Atalanta simply answered, slight scolding herself for not realizing that
"Umf." Frankenstein added in with a nod and growl, though was a bit happy seeming as once outside of this world she wouldn't be the only of her kind in the group in a technical sense
"Wait undead…like… t-then why do you all look so you know…ALIVE?!" Blake asked as her mind rattled a bit, as even now despite everything that had happened so far, this still shocked her
"To be honest we don't know, that and the fact we can feel pain now doesn't really help with answer either. Ya know?" Saki replied
"Yeah but just to say what you see is how we looked when we died." Lily quipped "Which for me is like super sweet since I'm gonna be li-"
"NO, NO YOU DIED AS A BABY. A CUTE FOREVER TO BE BABY!" Atalanta suddenly, if not understandably stated as she hugged Lily balling her eyes out from the dire news "You all died to young, it's so sad!"
"Umf, umf!" Frankenstein growled with a similar tone as she just was now hugging Tae, Junko and Ai in a fair strong group hug "Graw, graw!"
"C-Can someone help, I'm scared she's going to crush u-us!" Junko pleaded worriedly
"Yes…please…." Ai pleaded next, as she felt like she was going to die all over again from Fran's bone crushing hug. Tae was just enjoying the affectionate hug, smiling or well conveying a smile as best she could considering she seemed dumber than a bag of hammers. Which considering what they were revealed to be, made way too much sense with most of her behavior so far
"Right ah Fran can you let them go please." Blake simply asked, reeling in from the initial shock at this revelation. Fran did so seconds later as Ai and Junko at least sighed in relief, then she looked to her big sister Atalanta "Atalanta can you ah…do the same too. I think you're wetting Lily's face with your tears."
"B-But this baby needs all the love she can get. This u-u-undead BABY!" Atalanta cried some more as Lily looked to Blake
"Does she do this a lot, because I'm kind of worried if she does Miss Blake!?" Lily asked as she appreciated Atalanta's care for her and the girls already. BUT…she didn't want to be tear stained by the end of this
"No…no, I'm kind of shocked to be honest too." Blake answered, as she was really was quiet shocked to see Atalanta so emotional like this. She was mostly calm, serious; yet kind and caring. So to see her so…well emotional was again shocking. But she sighed "Big sister Atalanta. Please can you let Lily go, pretty please."
"W-Well… alright." Atalanta quipped, as she sniffled some more before letting go of Lily since her little sister asked so nicely "Sorry."
"It's fine Miss Atalanta. You're a really nice lady!" Lily responded back cheerfully
"Thank you." Atlanta simply exclaimed, as she felt better already
"Anyways. That aside… so okay. I'm slowly starting to just accept the fact you're all actually undead. BUT… how?" Blake asked as she was curious on the story on how they'd all died so young and how they were even alive now, let alone becoming pop stars
The undead seven meanwhile all just looked at one another. Then at Sakura this time, who sighed realizing she'd been picked to explain it all. Then again it made since as she was the first one out of all of them to 'awaken' all those months ago.
"Right…well sit back and relax then you three. This is going to be a bit of a long if not odd story. So anyways, it all started after my death." Sakura began to explain, though as this occurred. Elsewhere the others were doing their best to get use to their new servants as well. .But only two of three of them seemed to be reaching that goal quiet well…
-With Weiss's group-
Inside one of the rooms upstairs in the Villa lent to her, Ruby and their daughter Jack. Sat on her bed herself, Mordred and Scathach. Clank meanwhile just stood on the opposite of them. Staring at the three women, who'd he'd come to quickly know as three of many Allies.
"So I take it you three have questions?" Clank kindly asked as Weiss, Mordred and Scathach looked at each other, then back at him
"We do. But you must be pretty confused yourself huh?" Weiss asked back, with a sympathetic smile as she could only imagine what the small robot must be feeling right now
"I will admit I am. I hadn't expected to meet creatures such as you. We're I'm from we have similar begins like you. But…different. Either way, I am glad to meet kind creatures such as yourself." Clank exclaimed as the three women couldn't help but like Clank already, even when referring to them a creatures. They could tell Clank only meant it in the kindest way possible
"Hehe. Well good to meet a metal man as nice are you are Clank. But if you want to be more accurate. Our species name is Human. We three are referred to as females, while some of the others are referred to as males. If you didn't know already." Scathach remarked as Clank smiled a bit at the information
"That answers a few of my questions already them. Thank you Scathach. In turn you can refer to me as a robot. In more broader terms I'm sentry bot designation XJ0461, serial number B5429671. But again you can just call me Clank." Clank explained loudly and quickly, as Weiss was the only one to get what he meant while Mordred and Scathach were a bit frazzled by what they could only call gibberish
"Yeah… we'll just call you Clank kay?" Mordred remarked, sheepishly chuckling as Scathach just nodded I agreement
"Still. The fact you have a serial number mean's you are from a mass production line or something like that right Clank?" Weiss asked curiously as Clank nodded back, a little shamefully which the girls took quick notice of
"Something wrong little guy?" Mordred asked next, as she hopped Clank felt comfortable enough to tell them that much
"No just… memories. I was not built like my well I guess you could call them family. Still, not even minutes after being made and awakening. I was set to be terminated. So not great memories. Thankfully after my escape. My friend Ratchet found me. We've been together since." Clank explained, smiling a little bit again from the fond memories
"Well that's good to hear at least. Still maybe you can tell us about him and your adventures if you want. We can do it vice versa about some of our ventures." Weiss suggested as Clank smiled a bit more genuinely this time
"Yeah totally, you're gonna love my stories a lot!" Mordred proudly cheered as Weiss and Scathach chuckled a bit at the Mordred's behavior at times
"I'm sure he will Mordred, still like Weiss suggested. You go first then we'll take our turns." Scathach quipped as she was curious on what adventures the small metal man had gone on so far
"Then I will. Let see hm, well I'll say I've only been on one adventure so far with Ratchet, but it was plenty filled with adventure. Still for how this adventure started, all began when I crashed landed…" Clank joyfully began to explain his past adventure. Weiss, Mordred and Scathach already seeing they would be getting along just fine with Clank…
-With Yang's Group-
"I have to say, this is quite a room, sad it's empty right now. But I'm sure that will change one day." Erza stated, as she, Yang, Nursery Rhyme and Da Vinci all were standing around in the armory of the villa
Shelves, glass cases, armor stands and such. All were there to hold an armory to outfit at least a small group of twenty for battle. But right now it was empty. Not yet used as some durst could be seen on the stands. Erza herself was a bit sad at the sight. But, just seeing Ezio even for a short time. She could feel he'd be the one filling up this armory quickly.
Turing back, she looked to see what she would call her new teammates for now. Well these three and the others. Even if at least four of her allies or summons as she was referred too, made her feel… uneasy. The one's with the bone masks and white clothing. She didn't know why, but they all gave off that feeling of predators. Ready to kill if needed or cornered. But either way, she liked the others already; she felt at ease around them.
"Well it may not be for too long. At least that's what I'm guessing, don't know why but yeah." Da-Vinci quipped "Anyways. You seem to have quiet the eye for weapons, then again you do look like a knight so that makes sense I guess."
"Yeah are you like a knight for a princess miss, are you?" Nursery Rhyme asked sweetly, as she wondered about Erza a lot now. She though she looked really cool in her armor, that and she still wanted to know more about this Fairy Tail she had spoken fondly of just a while ago "If not you can be my knight and I the queen!"
"Well I…" Erza replied, though didn't know what to say from Nursery Rhyme's sudden questions. Thankfully Yang was there to reel in the adorable question hub
"Nursery Rhyme let's give Erza some space okay. This is all still pretty new to her." Yang kindly suggested, lifting up Nursery Rhyme in her arms
"Yes mama. Sorry." Nursery Rhyme shyly said as she rested her head against Yang's collar bone
"It's fine sweetie." Yang quipped, chuckling at how cute her daughter always was even when she was apologizing. Turning her gaze back to Erza she could see the woman though the same if her own small smile told enough "Sorry about my daughter, she's just a curious one is all. But she mean's well honest."
"It's fine Yang. But if I may, I'm kind of surprised you have a child. Since well… you're so young I think and also that you have a girlfriend. Blake the one with the cat ears. Since you know. Not that's it's bad but ah… I'm sorry. I'm good at a lot of things. Talking about this sort of stuff isn't one them." Erza explained, sheepishly smiling and rub the back of her head at the slight embarrassment she was feeling
"I think Yang understands Erza and don't be so nervous. We'll be working together for a good while so it's better we don't get so iffy. But anyways Yang and Blake we're already a couple when they adopted Nursery Rhyme. Who I still see as one of the sweeties little gals." Da-Vinci quipped amusingly as she gently pinched Nursery Rhyme's nose, getting a quick squeal of joy from the child servant
"Hehe she really is. You must be one proud mother Yang." Erza simply stated, as she realized she should have thought of that sooner on the possibility of adoption. Though pushing those thoughts aside, she need some answers now of her own "That aside, I need some answers."
"Oh yeah sure Erza. Ask and we'll try to answer as much as we can." Yang responded back, reassuring Erza that it was fine to ask whatever she felt the need to ask
"Thank you then Yang. First off I'd like to ask… the young man Ezio. I could tell by his eyes he'd just experienced something rather traumatic. Trust me. I know how that is." Erza asked as it was true, her life had been hardships from a very young age and she saw that same sort of trauma in Ezio's own eyes; if not a bit fresher as much as it hurt the woman to see that in someone else having to ever deal with that
"…." Yang did say, Da-Vinci too alongside Nursery Rhyme who just nuzzled her face full into Yang's collar bone with slight sounds of muffled sniffles
"Did I say something wrong?" Erza asked yet again, though she could already tell she must have by the three's reaction to her question
"No…just it's a fresh sort of… issue." Da-Vinci explained, rubbing her left arm a bit as she averted her gaze to the left
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to then. I'm sorry I ever asked." Erza exclaimed, as she felt guilty for bringing back such fresh memories of whatever this traumatic experience must have been; seeing that the other must have been around when it happened too
"No it's fine honest. You'll have to know anyways." Yang answered, as she sighed while keeping a good grip on Nursery Rhyme and cleared her throat "You see. Excluding Ezio and his family. Me and the others aren't from here. Like at all. So when we ended up here, we were meet with Ezio's father. A kind man who paid for us to entered the city we ended up near. After that, we stayed at Ezio's family home for a good two weeks. Those were fun days, easy going and just all around peaceful. That was until yesterday."
"So… this happened just yesterday then?" Ezra asked, as it seemed that must have been the case then…still to be so fresh she could only sympathize with Ezio and the group "What happened next?"
"Let's just say Ezio's father and two brothers were accused of something they didn't do and were… hung." Yang answered with a slight scowl as Nursery Rhyme began to cry a little at the fresh image of the deaths. Da-Vinci just sighed, though scowled too at the memory
"I… I see. I apologize then for asking and bringing it up a bad fresh memory." Erza exclaimed as she walked up to three, wiping the few tears going down Nursery Rhymes cheeks and smiled "Really I am."
"Erza it's fine you didn't know. Besides again you need to know of it. So no harm done." Yang explained kindly as she gave Erza a reassuring smile, Da-Vinci too while Nursery Rhyme feeling better now; just nodded in agreement her mother and basically big sister Da-Vinci
"Well if you say so then. Still… let's talk of more happy subjects. Like, why don't I tell you three some stories I know. Sound fair?" Erza quipped with a chipper tone, as the other three gave it a moment before just smiling and nodding "Great, well I know one to start off with. It all started when I teamed up with a fire loving boy, an ice stripping boy, a flying blue cat and a spirit summoning blonde girl."
So with that Erza began to tell stories from her native home world, stories dear to her heart. She, Yang, Nursery Rhyme and Da-Vinci all wondered how the others were holding up. Though Yang especially, since she knew her sis-sis Weiss and her lovely Blakey would be fine. It was her baby sis Ruby she was rather…extremely worried for. She just hoped things were going well enough for Ruby…
-With Ruby's group-
It was silent…painfully silent. As Ruby, Jack, Jeanne and Ruby four new summons sat inside the rather large and nice attic of the Villa for their private talk. So quiet that you could cut the air with a plastic knife and cut through it like thick butter. Thick, awkward, silent butter.
No talking what so ever went on, to be honest though it was mainly with Ruby. She was kind of scared to say something wrong right now. Again Mila Rose and Apacci were the most temperamental, Sung-Sun along with Tier seemed better. But still Ruby also didn't want to make any more of a bad impression with her four new summons.
Then she felt a gently elbow nudge, looking to her left she saw Jeanne give her kind smile that simple said 'You have to talk Ruby' Ruby herself sighed, looking down at Jack her precious child smiling at her for reassurance. Ruby smiled delightfully herself seconds later, grateful for the support of the two. Taking in one more deep breath she knew what she had to do, even if she felt uneasy still doing so.
"SO…" Ruby said loud and clearly, as her four summons gazed at her now fully. Keeping in her nervousness she kept on course "Let's just get this out in the air… none of you are very…well happy about your situation right?"
"Oh jeez, what do you think brat?" Apacci bluntly answered first, crossing her arms and giving Ruby a unamused glare. Ruby couldn't help but feel a bit irked herself at the snarky woman already
"Well I thought I'd be getting a cooler summon, but I got you instead." Ruby snarked back for once, glaring at Apacci who was quiet surprised that Ruby actually replied back in a similar manner. Mila Rose and Sung-Sun couldn't help but chuckle a little while Tier watched the interaction go on
"Hehe, she's got some good eye doesn't she?" Mila Rose remarked in amusement at Apacci's surprised look from Ruby's come back
"Indeed. The little one sure does know a have a keen eye on inferior beings am I right Mila ?" Sung-Sun joked as Mila Rose agreed for once with her in the whole time Ruby, Jeanne and Jack had seen them interact with each other
"SHUT UP!" Apacci yelled angrily, a slight blush on her cheeks from being laughed at alongside a glare towards Ruby. Though she smiled a little, as the corners of her mouth twitched "So… you think you're funny don't you brat?"
"Funny no, hilarious. Yes!" Ruby replied back seeming a bit more sassy right now, as Jack herself laughed and Jeanne amused too was a bit worried Ruby maybe pushing her luck
"OH…OH…cute. How about you and me do a couple rounds in the back yard then. See how funny you are after…" Apacci sternly suggested, ever so smiling as she narrowed her glare; though Ruby now feeling even more irked; couldn't help but take the obvious threat more personal than she should have
"Is that a threat?" Ruby suddenly asked sternly herself as she could feel Jack's body stiffen from the sudden mood shift; while Jeanne sighed a little as she and Tier looked at one another. Tier doing the same, but both staying quiet hoping this didn't call from intervention from either of them
"And if it is?" Apacci replied back smiling a little more viciously as Ruby couldn't help but scowl some as Jack herself at least already was not liking this woman any more than before and glared a little herself at the woman threating her mommy
"Apacci. Maybe you should-" Sung-Sun began to say, as she may have not been too fond of humans; but Ruby so far had been a sweet girl to them all. So she had no ill will to her or the other two with her in the room. Though she was rather quickly cut off by Apacci
"SHUT IT!" Apacci yelled irritably as this was one of the times Apacci was really not in the mood to be told to behave, looking back at Ruby she smirked even more "So, what you gonna do brat?"
Though before Ruby could say anything, Jeanne covered her mouth. Ruby looking at the older girl who was giving her a scolding gaze of disappointment. Which made Ruby feel more guilty than she thought she would. Before looking down at Jack who was looking up at her. Sighing Ruby realized she shouldn't be doing this kind of behavior. Especially with her child around since Jack seemed to be at that age or at least mind set where she was taking in everything she and Weiss did behavior wise. Looking back up at Apacci she sighed yet again as Jeanne slowly moved her hand over her mouth.
"Nothing." Ruby simply stated as Apacci smirked a little more smugly which irked Ruby even more than before. But she decided to be the better person here and let Apacci have the win if it meant that much to her
"Ha, just what I thought you little weak-" Apacci began to mock, only she stopped when she felt a chill down her spin. By instinct she looked right at her beloved Lady Tier who was giving her a very intense scolding gaze, Apacci quickly shut her mouth as she hated it when she was scolded by Lady Tier
"Apacci. Be silent and behave. Understood?" Tier sternly said, the tone of her own disappointment hurt Apacci more than she showed as the rather aggressive woman flinched a bit from the request. Looking back at Ruby, then down to the ground and rubbed her left arm a bit nervously
"Y-Yes Lady Tier… I'm sorry Lady Tier." Apacci simply said, as Mila Rose and Sung-Sun could only feel slight pity for their third sister in arms. But only a little, as they could sense the mood Lady Tier was in just now as Apacci mocked Ruby. Lady Tier may not be fond of humans much either like them, but she was always one for respect
"It is fine Apacci. But mind your mouth next time." Tier simply replied back, as she looked to Ruby with the same gaze "I do apologize of Apacci's behavior. She's the most… temperamental when it comes to us four. But I'll ask of you not to start mocking my girls back. You seem mature enough for that. Understood?"
"Um…y-yeah sure Tier… sorry." Ruby replied back as she felt herself a chill down her spin, that and some shame at behaving how she did; since she also just realized that she may have made things between her and Apacci at least more tense then needed –"Stupid…stupid. I shouldn't have started arguing back. i should have just let Apacci say her piece."-
"I must apologize myself. I should have made sure she wouldn't start arguing with Apacci. Then again she's never done this. But I do apologize Tier." Jeanne stated as she did feel a very sisterly, almost maternal protectiveness of Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang even for only knowing them for two weeks. She didn't know why, but she really did care for the four; the others equally as the girls also
"You don't have to apologize auntie Jeanne. That lady was being a meanie." Jack stated rather bluntly as she sneered at Apacci "A big old mean stupid head!"
"Jacklyn!" Ruby yelled sternly herself as Jack flinched a bit at her mother yelling at her, nuzzling a bit against Ruby in return
That and only recently did Ruby and Weiss decided to call Jack by the chosen full name for her. Which was spelt 'Jacklyn' instead of Jaqlin since Jack liked her name already and didn't want to change it too much. Still this full name was only used when Jack knew she was in real trouble or did something defiantly her mothers would not approve of. They'd only said it one other time before well… the incident happened with Ezio's family. Either way, Jack did not like it when her mothers used her full name with the current tone of voice.
"B-But she was mommy…" Jack replied back, pouting a bit as she hid her face against Ruby's coat for being yelled at. Ruby sighed, but smiled too as she knew Jack was only being protective of her. That and Apacci mostly didn't give off a good impression. Even Mila Rose the second most aggressive one seemed much more clam minded the Apacci
"I know. But still be nice okay, don't copy mommy. I was in the wrong there. Kay baby girl?" Ruby sweetly stated, as Jack looked up at her and nodded as Ruby smiled and picked her up in her arms "That's my girl. I love you."
"Love you too mommy!" Jack cheered as she hugged Ruby, while Jeanne and Sung-Sun both at least gushed a bit from the cut site. Mila Rose and Tier seemed impassive and Apacci well she looked a bit envious of Jack oddly. That and taking glances at Tier, she sighed in a hushed tone
"Anyways. Look, I know this seems like really unfair. Trust me I've had to deal with two others out of three who think the same. BUT… for now, we're all going to have to get along. I can't return you a back to where ever your home is currently. I can only promise I'll get you back some day. So again, let's all just get along…be friends you know?" Ruby stated calmly and honestly as that was all she could be able to promise, even if they had been doing good so far. She always had a worry that they may die if they slip up, it was a bit worse of a fear until the servants joined. That and when Jack came into her and Weiss life's, sure she was still worried but. Now she had a very good reason to do all she could to get everyone and herself through this journey alive. So moving Jack into her left arm to hold her, she held out her right hand to the four before her "So… friends?"
It was silent yet again, as Ruby hoped this small peace offering would be enough. Still, it was surprising that out of all of the one's to shake first. It was… Apacci. Shaking Ruby's hand with a clam, yet stern and serious gaze.
"You better keep you're promise…Ruby." Apacci simply said, no hint of mocking or hate in her tone. Just honest calm, yet seriousness was all that could be heard
"I will." Ruby simply answered back with the same tone as she and Apacci ceased their hand shake. Mila Rose went next as she smirked, while giving Ruby a slight harder hand shake. Ruby shocked at how strong this woman was with just a hand shake alone
"Got to say, I ain't too happy about all this…but you did give Apacci here a good snarking. So you're fine in my book, well enough that I won't have to kill ya." Mila Rose exclaimed in a way that it seemed like this was just a normal-ish conversation for the Amazonian woman
"Yeah…hehe. Thanks." Ruby sheepishly answered this time, as she had a feeling Mila Rose was fully serious about that last part as Mila Rose let go of her hand, before Sung-Sun shook it now
"Don't mind the brutes. I'm sure you'll keep your promise. You seem to be a girl of your word." Sung-Sun kindly said as she ignored the slightly irritated glares from Mila Rose and Apacci with her little comment. Once she let go of Ruby's hand she looked down at Jack, who suddenly shied away from the woman as she nuzzled her face against Ruby's collar bone. But Sung-Sun just chuckled somewhat "That and you have such a cute child. I'd love to get know her better as a friend. I could use more of those aside from the two brutes here. Lady Tier doesn't count since she's our Lady already."
"Well I think that would be great idea. Jack be nice, Miss Sung-Sun just wants to be friends." Jeanne quipped as Jack slowly looked a bit at Sung-Sun
"Really?" Jack asked shyly as Sung-Sun for once lowered her sleeve she held over her mouth. Showing two small fangs as she gave Jack a sweet smile of reassurance
"Of course. You seem like such a sweet little girl to get to know as a friend. The other one too, I hope I can be both your friends. So what do you Jack, friends?" Sung-Sun asked as she kept smiling at the young girl
"….Okay… but only because your we're nice to me so far. That and I think you have a pretty smile." Jack said less shy now, as Sung-Sun moved back a bit and squealed
"What a sweet child, I envy you Ruby!" Sung-Sun remarked as she looked like she was in tranquility from just being complement on her smile
"Well thanks then Sung-Sun." Ruby replied back, as she could tell Sung-Sun was probably the safest bet if she ever needed to leave Jack alone for a bit with some supervision for one reason or another in the later future. Though she notice Tier take her hand finally and shake it too, before letting go just like that
"I am glad that you can at least promise us a way back home. I do hope as well you can keep it." Tier simply exclaimed, as she was calm yet a seriousness was in her tone that she did expect Ruby to keep her end of bargain; which Ruby caught onto rather quickly
"Like I said I will and I always keep my promises. That much you can hold me to." Ruby answered confidently as she gave Tier a determined look. Tier nodded back, most likely a thank you to her. Once that was done with, Ruby decided might as well get to know her four new summons better "Anyways, how about this. I'll tell you how this all started and get you caught up. Right so first off it started on a normal day like any other for me and the girls…"
With that Ruby began to explain their story so far in this journey of theirs. Ruby just hopped that things from here on would go over smoothly when it came to her summons. That and she prayed if she gets anymore, that they would at least be not so murderous or scary…
-1 week later-
It had been a whole new week for the group. To rest, recuperate and just get their bearings on what was the next course of action. The whole week though also used to help out team RWBY, Guin, Dante, Guin, Ikail, Donald, Goofy, their servants and their new summons who seemed to be still able to stay around much longer maybe because of the world itself; none of the girls knew though. But this whole week had been used to train the girls, servants and their allies at least in more advanced forms of combat with their hidden blades and other weapons. While the girls summons were taught the same. But also were made to looked more the part of being in this world. Which for Blake and Yang's summon was much easier.
Yang's summon Erza deciding to switch her skirt with a pair of brown cotton pants and had a small hood sewed onto a white undershirt she wore under her normal chest piece. Making her look a bit more fearsome since she still wore the whole of her original armor too.
Blake's seven summons being Sakura, Saki, Ai, Junko, Lily, Tae and Yugiri all decided to dress up similarly aside from two of them. Sakura, Junko, Tae, Lily and Yugiri deciding to go for what most would call common dresses. Though they wore pants underneath the lost skirts and boots. They also had small daggers tied to the right side of their ankles just in case they needed to fight. Ai and Saki meanwhile decided to don on similar cotton clothing as Erza while wearing pieces of leather armor instead of metal. Saki having a long sword in her arsenal now. While Ai odd carried around a spear she found in the attic of the Villa.
Meanwhile Weiss summon Clank was a bit harder, not because he wasn't corporative. But mainly because of how he looked and how small he was. But they ended up just putting him inside a small leather backpack that Weiss or anyone would wear when outside the Villa itself. Then came Ruby's summons… oh Ruby's summons.
Those four were the hardest to convince to conform to looking more human in both clothing and physical appearance. Especially psychical appearance. Turns out they'd gained the ability to do so, which Ruby's guess was because of the gems maybe. To be honest the way the gems functions outside from the obvious functions of summoning were still a bit confusing to her and the girls.
Either way, Sung-Sun had been second easiest to change her form. Mainly because she seemed to like Ruby and the others the most, that along with fact she was given a rather well-crafted forest green with gold colored lining dress to help convince her. One that she immediately had wanted to try on. Which she did and has been wearing it since then so there was that. Finally Sung-Sun had a small dagger she kept hidden in a small leather sheath under her right sleeve.
The third easiest was Tier, though the woman was actually the most stubborn when it came to changing into new attire. That and changing into a more human form, BUT… she did relent after a few pleads from Lily, Jack and Nursery Rhyme. The three little girls somehow easily making Tier cave finally. Though Ruby kind of believed that Tier had a secret soft spot for kids. Mainly young girls. Either way she decided to wear armor instead of a dress. Which consisted of a plain long sleeve cotton brown shirt, dark black cotton pants and leather brown boots under some light leather armor. She also had a short sword tied to her belt of her pants.
The came Mila Rose who was the third easiest to convince. She said she'd only do it if someone could beat her in a fist fight. Which ended up having her cave in too, thanks to the three little girls in their group. Again Ruby kind of believed also that Mila Rose a tough woman she was, also had a soft spot for kids; young girls as she seemed to already have dotted on the three like a big sister. Kind of similar to Tier in a more somewhat motherly way. Still Mila Rose was given the steel plated armor and cotton clothing like Erza, Tier, Saki and Ai had been given. That and she was given a two handed sword. Which only made the large woman more terrifying then needed.
Finally and most surprisingly was the Apacci who was the easiest to convince. That and she'd shown she was rather okay with changing to fit in more. That and even wearing a dark purple dress. When asked why she was so okay with this all she said was 'Hey might as well, in a different world so again why the hell not?'. Ruby didn't know how to respond to that, but she went with it.
All in all, things this week had been going very well so far. From learning a bit more about the new summons, said new summons getting a little more use to their new surroundings. The girls learning getting more training alongside Ezio along with everyone else. Still, there was a lingering worry of possible attack from Vieri since he escaped. But that was to change very soon, for the better or for worse.
"And a one, two. Step back and slash!" Dante stated as he was instructing Sakura with some extra spraining lessons. Team RWBY, the servants, their allies and the rest of the summons standing around. A few of them waiting for their turn to spar, while most of the others were resting from the spars they'd done already during the past hour. Thankfully the swords were blunt
"Whoa, whoa!" Sakura screamed, as she had barely blocked the first to strikes before stepping back like Dante instructed only to be pushed back on her backside as the final slash from Dante did the job "Ow… Dante that's was all rough you know?"
"Apologies for that. But it's better I go all out with you then go easy and see you get killed...sort of... you know what I mean." Dante exclaimed, even though by now he and the others not including Blake, her servants and the other six of her group summons; had learned about their secret of being undead. Even Ezio had been told, though surprised he was okay with them still. Aside from the few jokes here and there about their undead state
"Yeah. I guess so. Thanks anyways for the lesson." Sakura kindly exclaimed as Dante lend her hand and she took it, being lifted back up to her feet seconds later "Anyways, guess it's Atalanta and Ruby left right?"
"Correct. Though I'll admit myself that I've had plenty of training already. It never hurts to learn more." Atalanta replied back as she was sitting on one of the wooden creates stacked near the small training dome. Looking at Ruby she smiled "You want to go first Ruby or…?"
"Nah, it's fine Atlanta. Thanks for asking buddy!" Ruby joyfully replied back, as she was happy this week had also given her and everyone else even more time to get to know each other better
She already liked the summons from Weiss, Ruby and her big sis Yang. Hers too for the most part, even if Mila Rose and Apacci still threatened her with death at times. She was okay with them enough so far. Oddly she and Tier were getting along just fine, while she and Sung-Sun were the closest in their growing friendship. All in all, she wa glad they were getting extra training and more time for bonding.
"Very well then, lets-" Atalanta began to say, before she and everyone else heard some commit ion suddenly start to rouse up a bit away from them. Looking up the stairs near the Villa entrance, they all saw Ezio and Mario having quite an argument
"But nipote (nephew), I have given you these skills that you might be better prepared to strike against our enemies." Mario exclaimed calmly, yet slightly surprised
"And if they find me, I will." Ezio replied back calmly himself, though the others were surprised of what he said; they hadn't heard of him speaking of leaving at all. Most of them quickly realizing too, that Ezio probably meant he'd leave by himself which irked a few them; especially the girls
"You want to leave Ezio. To throw away everything your father fought and died for. To deny your heritage. Fine, Come vuoi Arrivederci e buona fortuna! (So be it. Goodbye and good luck!)" Mario yelled angrily, as he made his way downstairs not noticing the others as they'd all watched the scene unfold
"Ezio, what was that about?" Artoria suddenly asked, in a stern manner as Ezio flinched looking now at the group before he sighed knowing he was caught before he could enact his plan
"Oh… you all saw that didn't you?" Ezio asked sighing, as he walked down the stairs and moved up to them pinching the bridge of his nose
"All of it Ezio." Scathach answered crossing her arms "That and what this about you leaving…alone?"
"Well I ah… I was planning on making my way out. Leave my sister and mother here for their own safety." Ezio exclaimed as he rubbed the back of his head, having a feeling most of them wouldn't be keen on the idea
"Without us I assume?" Weiss quipped sternly as she and some of the others crossed their arms
"Grah!" Fran scolded as she wacked Ezio's left arm hard, making the man cringe at the sudden hit and the pain from it
"AH…that was uncalled for Fran." Ezio replied back, as he rubbed his left arm; still surprised on how strong Fran was despite how frail she looked "Anyways. Yes, I was going to go alone for this. It none of you honest, I just.. you did tell me that you aren't from here. So I thought I'd do the rest alone. Let you all be off as soon as you can. You've helped enough honest, that and I didn't want to burden you all anymore with this problem. It's mine alone to deal with so… there."
"You're an idiot." Mordred blunt and quickly replied back as she crossed her own arms
"Big idiot." Erza added in as she had only know Ezio for a week, but she'd come to like the man well enough already
"Super, duper idiot." Sakura surprisingly remarked as she shook her head in slight disappointment while by this point Ezio didn't know what was worse. The anger from his friends or the fact they seemed quiet disappointed with him
"Seriously Ezio. You shouldn't be so gun-ho to get to killing. At least alone…" Apacci also by everyone's surprise scolded as she leaned against the stone wall around the battle circle. That and she, along with the rest of her group had come to like Ezio enough so far. Him and the other males enough. Though she, Mila Rose, Sung-Sun and Lady Tier were still wary of said males to a degree; they were happy that unlike the males back home. These one's were much better in behavior. Though she noticed a lot of her group staring at her "What?"
"Are you sure you're okay. Haven't caught fever?" Dante asked in such a serious and worried tone at Apacci's current behavior
"I concur. I think you've started to finally rise above you're barbaric mind set. Oh joy!" Sung-Sun cheered as she clapped for a moment "Now only if Mila Rose could start, it would be such a more joyful day!"
"I swear one of these days…" Mila Rose muttered as her eye twitched again at the rather blunt jab at her mannerisms; even after all these years Sung-Sun knew how to get under her skin
"Seriously. We need to work on your bluntness missy." Lily replied as she lightly scolded Sung-Sun who chuckled at how cute she found Lily
"Like you're one to talk…" Saki, Ai, Mila Rose, Dante and Da-Vinci muttered as Lily overhearing pouted
"Hmm…. Blake everyone's being mean!" Lily pouted as she grumbled some, while Blake chuckled a little herself
"Please be nice to Lily." Blake kindly asked the one's who'd mutter rather loudly, while Atalanta came in seconds later with her own words to say
"Indeed, Lily is but a child after all. She doesn't mean any ill with her bluntness!" Atalanta stated as she picked up Lily in her arms, while Jack and Nursery Rhyme already on her back since she'd offered waved at Lily since the three young one's had become quite the friends during the week
"You know Atalanta kind of like's little kids a bit too much don't you think…." Tier whispered to Guin as both he and her looked at Atalanta, who seem like she was in heaven right now being the one to hold the three….little…girls… huh…okay ah…huh…
"I think you shouldn't tell her that if you don't want an arrow through the knee…" Guin whispered back at Tier who gave him a raised eyebrow
"Oh and how do you know she would?" Tier asked as she looked at him, Guin turning his own gaze at her as he raised his own eyebrow
"How do you know she wouldn't?" Guin simply asked before looking back at Ezio, Tier doing the same as she smiled a little
"Hm, fair point." Ties simply remarked as she and Guin had oddly made quiet the friendship. One of stares, silence and few words but hey if it works well… it works
"ANYWAYS, maybe we she get back to Ezio and his plans before we overheard!?" Jeanne yelled a little as she wanted to make sure this conversation for how many times, she's lost count. But she wanted to keep the conversation from steering off course, that happened once already the second night she and the others came to this world and it went off the rails
Like by the end they somehow had gotten on who would win in a fist fight. Some person called Lord Magus who was some dead guy from Ikail's world or Jeanne's lord and savior Jesus Christ. Which even Dante and Artoria of all people got into, on Jesus side of course. Still she did scold quiet a few of them for that. Along with making a vow to NEVER have that happen again. Like EVER… this moment being an indicator of the conversation going off topic.
"I don't know, I was quiet-" Ezio tried to say, so they wouldn't talk anymore about his now thwarted plan and him being scolded that was a plus too. Though he stopped when he meet the stern glare from Jeanne "Eh… never mind I said anything Lady Jeanne… hehe…"
"I can already tell who's the Alpha female in this group…" Clank muttered from the leather backpack Weiss had on herself currently
"What about Scathach or Mordred or anyone else?" Jack asked as her mamma and mom were standing close to Atalanta anyways
"Yeah. Our mom's are pretty tough Mister Clank." Nursey Rhyme asked Clank too, overhearing Jack's question to the small metal man. All the while they were tuning out what they called, big sister Jeanne's scolding of the day; the victim being Ezio this time. Even if she and Jack were a bit upset with Ezio's mean old plan themselves, thinking he was being a silly dummy currently
"Simple children. Even if there are quiet a number of females here who could also easily content for Alpha female. Jeanne shows the most qualities to be it. First as you may notice, even the more aggressive of the females seem to keeping quite as Jeanne scolds Ezio." Clank said as he pointed at Jeanne, then those around her. Jack and Nursery Rhyme seeing that all the others, both the females and males in the group were keeping quiet as Jeanne scolded Ezio. Who by now was getting his ear pulled by the holy woman
"Oh…" Jack muttered as Nursery Rhyme nodded in agreement with her cousin
"That and she shows the most maternal instinct out of everyone. You're mothers not counting since they show their maternal instincts with you two alone; not to include the fact from what has been explained. They've only been doing so for three weeks now." Clank explained on as Jack and Nursery Rhyme could see it
They knew their mom's were caring for everyone. But in a more familial sense then how they were with them both. They also knew when it came to it, most of the other females at least had little experience with the type of maternal caring their big sister Jeanne showed. Not that they didn't have any at all, but Jeanne again was pretty much showing she was the best at it."
"In short terms, Jeanne show's all the necessary qualities of being the teams quote on quote group 'Mother'. Again not that you're mothers or anyone else lack at all in that regard, just that Jeanne show's the most qualities for it. Do you understand children?" Clank finished explaining as Jack and Nursery Rhyme smiled before nodding; which made Clank feel good that he could help two of the kids understand his wording fairly easy "Oh and look at that. Jeanne seems to be about done scolding. You should listen in again."
Jack and Nursery Rhyme agreed, tuning back in on the scolding Ezio who was let out a sigh of silent relief as Jeanne let go of his ear. The holy woman's stern gaze, softening as she crossed her arms once more.
"And that is why you shouldn't be leaving like that. Understand?" Jeanne asked as she didn't want to act like such a mother, but someone had too and she knew that no one else was going to be. That along with the fact she knew she couldn't have the girls try and be the team moms; they had enough on their plates as it was. So she didn't want to stress out the four kind hearted teens. Even if it was obvious to her and basically everyone else that they kept in more than four girls their ages should, wishing they'd find the courage to talk to them about their stresses one day.
"Yeah ah… I apologize to you all then. I hadn't thought of any of the points Jeanne brought up." Ezio said a bit shamefully, as Jeanne had brought up quiet a few good points at his flawed plan; that and she just gave him a new rule. Do NOT ever, cause trouble when Jeanne was in what he was now calling her 'Mother Jeanne' mindset; that was like the equivalent to swearing the lords name in vain next to group of nuns. It just wasn't worth it, AT ALL… Thankfully for Ezio though, no one was truly angry with him; they just didn't want him to die
"It's fine Ezio honest." Yang kindly quipped as she gave Ezio a thumbs up
"For real. It's fine, we can see your point. But you should know you aren't getting rid of us that easily right?" Blake asked smirking a little as Ezio sheepishly chuckled already knowing that answered
"Besides. They were you're family yes. But like we said before. They're our now too ever since you let us stay with you." Weiss exclaimed happily as it was true, during this whole journey she'd been getting a bigger and bigger family in her own sense. Even if none were related, aside from her sister and Klein; now her family of just three had grown. Ezio and his family included too in that regard
"Totally and since those other men hiding in the shadows. Hurt our family, we're helping for as long as we can!" Ruby cheerfully proclaimed with a wide smile or reassurance to Ezio "We got you're back Ezio!"
"…." Ezio didn't say at first, as he looked at the girls then everyone else who nodded in agreement one way or another. Which for Ezio, he couldn't help but feel blessed for having meet such helpful people "I see. Then thank you all, truly I forever in your debt."
"As we are again to you and you're family Ezio." Ikail replied back for the others, as she looked down where Mario had walked down not seeing the man anymore "Though, we should find you're uncle and make sure he understand."
"Agreed… though I can't really think why he was mad at me in the first place." Ezio replied back, as he had no idea why his uncle had gotten so mad at him
"Well um…" Junko began to say, as the others looked at her. Causing the shy undead girl to recoil a bit behind Ai like she usually did "N-Never mind…"
"It's okay. No need to feel uneasy here okay Junko?" Da-Vinci reassured as Junko seemed to warm up a bit more at that
"Lady Da-Vinci is correct Junko. You shouldn't be worried, we're all friends here." Yugiri happily added in, as she patted the top of the shy girls head
"Arf, arf!" Goofy barked as he wagged his tail to help Junko feel better more
"Quack!" Donald quacked to help out as well, which seemed to work as Junko felt much more at ease now thanks to the reassurance she was receiving
"R-Right, thank you." Junko sweetly replied as she moved from behind Ai and cleared her throat "Anyways… I was going to say. But Mario is probably mad at you…because well you know. What he told us all about your heritage the night he took us in to stay at the Villa here."
"Grah!" Tae growled in her own way of agreeing with her fellow undead
"Would make sense. He did say that you're families part of the side called the Assassins, while Vieri's family is part of the Templars. That's probably why, he's more mad at you out of worry then anything." Blake quipped as she thought over the information Mario had told them, Ezio and Claudia when they first arrived into the Villa. It was quiet the tale, but it did help make sense with a few reasons why the events that had occurred hours early then had happened at all
"I guess so… I should apologize to him soon then shouldn't I?" Ezio asked as the others thought about it for a moment for the answer to give young Ezio; Tier being the one to give Ezio an answer this time
"You should. But not right now Ezio. It would be best to wait for a bit util your uncle shows himself again at the Villa. Let the anger settle down." Tier simply said as she looked down the way Mario had stormed off "Though that may take a while…"
"Yeah. Maybe we should all head back inside the Villa, get some rest and some food in our stomachs. Sound good?" Ruby suggested as the others all just nodded making their way back into the villa for a nice rest after a hard day of training
Besides it wasn't like anything else was going to go on today, so why worry…
-6 hours later-
"And the little sparrow final was able to fly through the sky, soaring freely as the air breezed through its feathers. The sparrow for the rest of its day would live happily ever after." Ruby sweetly said, as she told Jack a story her mother use to tell her and Yang when they were kids; Weiss holding Jack in her arms as both had their hoods down. Ruby meanwhile was out of her seat making hand gestures with a small candle she found inside the room
"Yay!" Jack cheered as she loved the story her mommy told her, she never heard stories before and this one was an amazing first introduction "Mommy, mommy can you tell me another story please!?"
"No sorry sweetie. But that's all I have for now." Ruby replied as she smiled, patting her daughters head
"Aw…" Jack pouted as she crossed her arms a bit upset, before feeling her mama's hand on top of her head now
"Now Jack, no pouting okay and you better not throw a tantrum or no more stories for a week. Okay?" Weiss kindly, if not also with a slight stern tone quipped as she gave Jack a kiss on the top of her head seconds later
"Yes mama." Jack replied as she sighed, but at least her mama was being fair with her. Though she'd sighed for another reason too, one of being rather tried mentally which her mothers took quick notice of
"Jack…" Ruby said, kneeling down as Weiss gently began to rub her daughters back letting Ruby start with the questioning
"Yes mommy?" Jack asked, as she felt a little uneasy seeing how serious her mommy looked right now "D-Did I do something wrong?"
"Oh no, no Jack. Me and you're mama just noticed you seem a bit down. Is there anything you'd like to tell us?" Ruby asked back, touching her daughters left cheek with her left hand to help comfort their child
"…" Jack didn't say, as she seemed shy to do so and averted her gaze away from Ruby who sighed; then looked at Weiss who nodded back understanding what Ruby was asking her to do
"Jack. You remember what I said a while ago one night. After you got in trouble. Do you remember?" Weiss stated as she almost chuckled seeing Jack seeming to have a little bit of trouble remembering so. Before their cute child slowly nodded no, which got Weiss to finally chuckle "Hehe, no problem sweetie honest. But I said that me and your mom will always listen to you. No matter how much you think we won't want to listen. We will. So you can trust me and you're mommy right?"
"I… yeah…I know mama." Jack replied, as she straightened herself up some more before rubbing her right arm a bit "I…I just don't want to be here anymore…"
Weiss and Ruby didn't really say much, since they could easily figure out why that was. Not that they blamed Jack, it wasn't easy for anyone to see people they'd come to know as family die… like how those three did. That and seeing the aftermath of those deaths. From a traumatized to silenced mother, a silently grieving daughter and a son out for the blood of all those who had part in the deaths.
Then again, when it came to Jack. Ruby and Weiss had learned a few things about their daughter. Especially when comparing Jack to their adorably loved niece Nursery Rhyme. Where Nursery Rhyme was more calm and collected. Jack was more emotional and prone to small quick bursts of anger. Where Nursery Rhyme was more playful in a rougher way which got a few scolding from both them and her own mothers. Jack was much more gentle in that regard. But if one thing that the two adorable kids shared in common. It was that both Jack and Nursery Rhyme had an issue with being open with their family. Most likely feeling like it was a burden to tell either of them. Which both sets of mothers hoped one day, they could break their little girls out of that mindset of unhealthy shyness.
"It's because of everything that's happen correct?" Ruby asked in a more serious and gentle tone, Jack nodding slowly as again Ruby couldn't help but agree with Jack. But Ruby knew they had to stay here, to help Ezio because they owed it to him. She needed to make sure that Jack understood that as well "Jack. I know how you feel… we all do. But we can't, you know why don't you?"
"B-Because we have to help Ezio…right mommy?" Jack answered as Ruby nodded back along with Weiss. Jack knew that though, still… "I…I know we do but….I…I'm just tired…"
"And no one will ever fault you for that. But like we said and you just said, Ezio need's our help. So we need you to do your best and don't ever think we won't listen when ou feel this way." Weiss exclaimed in a very motherly tone, as she turned Jack around on her lap to face her. Then gently placed both her hands on Jack's face like Ruby had done a while ago. Smiling the whole time to help ease Jack as best as she could with her own slowly increasing experience with raising a child from what she remembered of her mother…. Or well maybe not. Lately she was realizing her memories for some reason were off about her mother. But Jack was all that was on her mind right now "Okay our little princess?"
"Yes mama… I love you and mommy." Jack answered, smiling just a bit more as Weiss hugged her
"That's our girl." Ruby remarked as she was proud with Weiss, seeing her skills as a mother becoming more refined from what she'd see. But the moment was quickly interrupted as Ikail came running in as Ruby, Weiss and Jack quickly turning their gaze to the older woman "Huh, Ikail what's wrong?"
"Ezio will explain it soon. He and everyone else are outside at the city gates. I'm here to get you, so come on." Ikail answered in a very serious tone as Weiss got up along with Ruby to their feet. Weiss still holding Jack in her arms, as Jack pulled her mama's hood up first then her own; Ruby last
With that Ikail lead the three down through the villa, then the town before making their way outside the gate. Ruby, Weiss and Jack seeing that everyone else there near the stables waiting for them.
"Hey girls what took ya!" Mordred yelled with a big grin and waved at the four, as they came up to the rest. Before she looked at Ikail smirking "Oh, also three minuets and forty seconds. Thirty seconds later then you boasted. So…?"
"Ugh fine. Here you go." Ikail grumbled as she handed Mordred thirty florins "Never should have made that bet…"
"Yet you did and thank you for you're patronage." Mordred teased as pocketed the florins
"Told you not too. I am her mother after all, I know well enough how Mordred can be when it comes to bets…that and her uncanny ability to usually win them." Artoria quipped, amused a little at the scene before along with some of the others
"And I got that luck from you mom. So thanks." Mordred stated smirking still, before she sighed and looked to get more serious "Anyways. Back to the more serious situation."
"Yeah, what's going on anyways?" Ruby asked, as the others all looked right at Ezio to explain "Ezio?"
"Right, well I was told about half an hour ago that my uncle and a small group of the mercs that stay here. Decided to ride up for San Gimignano. To hunt down Vieri, seems that he's finally decided to cause some worth well trouble for us." Ezio explained as he got on a brown horse near him "I'd decided to join them and help. I would have gone by myself too. But after Lady Jeanne's scolding… I was advises that would be a rather bad idea."
"And you better remember it." Jeanne playfully teased, as she smirked rather sweetly though a slight aura of danger emanated for the saint
-"She can be…scary…"- Most of the others in the group thought as they stared at the saintly woman for a few moments
"So anyways Ezio is saying that we're all going. But there is one issue…" Blake explained now, as she looked back at the three four other horses "There's not that many horses left for everyone."
"Ah…okay I think we see the problem." Weiss replied as she sighed, before looking at Mila Rose who was smirking the whole way through. She wondered why her girlfriends servant was doing so "Mila Rose, why are you… smirking?"
"Simple icicle." Apacci replied this time, smirking herself as Weiss grumbled a bit at the nickname the most vulgar of her little Roses summon had seemed to given her "Me and Mila Rose here run alongside you. Carrying a few of the others of our merry little group."
"Wait what, for real?" Yang exclaimed a bit surprised at the two's suggestion "Could you even keep up, especially you since you're in a dress?"
"Duh, we're not a weak as you think. Trust me." Apacci answered as Weiss noticed now that she had the back pack Clank stayed in on her; before seeing Clank poking his head out
"They really could, I can tell they aren't lying one bit." Clank answered with a thumbs up from
"Well if the little guy say's it fine. I'm sure it is. Besides the horses here could carry most of us easily enough. But they have a limit. So I'd say we spilt into groups of evenly weight groups for each horse. So fair?" Scathach exclaimed as the others looked at each other, then back at her before slowly nodding. Which got a smile out from the older woman as she clapped her hands together "Great, now come on. We don't have any more time to waste!"
"Right come on, we got a friend to help out!" Ruby cheered as she and the others began to quickly as possible; get on the horses. Ready to help out Mario and his band of mercs with the attack on Vieri
-A Half an hour later-
It had taken a few hours to get his men into the city. His scouts had recently just come back after being given a uniforms they got off a few now dead guards. A few close calls when his scouts tried to first get into the city. But luck be the gate guards; at least the two that actually were guarding the gate in the usual standing around sort of stance. While the other guards either waited on in the upper inner walls or walking around the gate itself from the outside in patrols. Still, it was luck the two actual gate guards weren't as diligent in their duties like most. So they didn't really take care to inspect his scouts.
Still it was later in the night and his scouts had said Vieri was in the city. Waiting in the court yard with a few well equipped guards. That and there were extra guards patrolling within the city too. Mario couldn't help but sigh, this was becoming a lose for them by the seconds. He only wished… he suddenly heard the sounds of horse hoofs and… people running from behind. Looking back he was quiet shocked at who he saw.
"What are you all doing here?" Mario asked surprised that Ezio, the girls and the others were here right now. That and he realized that he may have to invest in more horses, a few of the smaller females were sharing a horse. While the other larger one's in the group had been sprinting of all things to keep up, the panting from those one's were indication enough of that fact
"Taking responsibility. Vieri troubles you because of me." Ezio exclaimed, as the girls at least gave him a look of sympathy from the fact he kept blaming himself for stuff that were in no way his fault; their own servants had made sure they'd learn not to do that when it could be helped
"Yeah, we want to help beat up those bad guys!" Lily screamed with a determined look, as she got off the horse she'd shared with, Sung-Sun, Dante and Ai
"That and to just kill a person or two on the way." Apacci remarked smirking as Ruby gave her a slight irritated look for a moment, while Junko who'd she'd actually let hold on, Yugiri who had held on for dear life and Nursery Rhyme had held onto the smaller woman who ran slightly faster than the horses. Clank still in his back pack Apacci was wearing, poked his head out again to see what was going on
Mila Rose, the second of the four runners had let Sakura and Saki hold onto her during the trip. Tier herself had let Ikail and Mordred hitch a ride on her back. Then finally Erza had let Tae, Fran and Jack hold onto her. As the scarlet haired woman had a surprising amount strength and stamina.
The one's who'd been on the horses were again Dante for one. Who'd let Sung-Sun, Lily and Ai ride with him. Ruby who let Weiss, Jeanne and Scathach hitch a ride with her. Yang who let Blake and Atalanta ride with them. Then finally Guin, who had Artoria and Da-Vinci on him. Donald and Goofy in the laps of the two ladies as they didn't weight much more.
Mario seeing them all here, for a moment wondered how these horses seemed is sturdy to hold so much weight. But he wasn't going to question it as they all got of the horses. He could only sigh a bit at his nephews assumption, though he appreciated his want to help. That and the others.
"Vieri troubles us because his is a templar and we are Assassins." Mario explained, as that was the honest truth of it. The undeniable truth that ever Assassin knew when dealing with Templars, especially the stubborn ones
"Well either way, we want to help!" Ruby exclaimed now, loudly and proud as she did her trademark happy smile of reassurance. The others mostly all nodded, only a few just stated neutral on her declaration
"What they say uncle. We wish to help." Ezio quipped kindly as Mario sighed once more. But more from pride then anything
"Alright then. If that's so, then listen up." Mario said more loudly and sternly as he cleared his throat "First off. We must find a quick way inside the city. My scouts were able to get in easily by sheer luck. But what they had reported and seen. It seems that Vieri expects us."
"That's troubling." Artoria suddenly said, as she rubbed her chin in though at the news before looking back at Mario once more "do you know what we will be facing?"
"From what I've been told. Vieri has sealed the gates and sent his men to guard each of them. While in the cities guards are on patrol and Vieri himself is guarded too." Mario explained once more, before someone interrupted again
"And I'm guessing myself, since the city only has two entrances. One in the front and back. It means that if we can somehow scales the walls or have someone get inside and open it. We should be able to attack." Erza quickly explained, before realizing what she'd done "Oh I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt honest!"
"Haha, no worries young miss. You're spot on actually. You see to our fortune, the city's much larger then it's host. The southern gate, the one closest to us though fortified with guards; has only enough to fair off a few dozen of people. Meaning this pathway is our best shot." Mario yet again explained as the others could see his reasoning behind his words "We'll attack once you all are ready. I'd take a few minutes to plan amongst yourself. You are big enough for a small company like my mercs here. So it would be to plan out something to work alongside us."
"Right then, people group meeting!" Ruby stated loudly, as most of the others did so right the and there. Only a few others took a moment or so more before getting into the team circle, Ezio waiting alongside his uncle for their answer as Ezio had a good feeling the girls were making a quick plan for their other worldly team
"So squirt. You got a plan or were you just making crap up?" Apacci bluntly asked as Ruby huffed a bit from the on the nose insult
"Are you ever nice?" Atalanta asked sternly, already sick of them woman's rudeness as Apacci just shrugged much to the heroic spirits irritation
"ASIDE FROM THAT…." Guin cut in quickly, as he sighed one for more rude four of Ruby's new summon "I believe it's a fairly simply plan. It's dead of night so it shouldn't be too hard."
"Totally. If what they said was true. Then there are only two gates so it will be easy to help the Mario's men with the siege." Ai quickly exclaimed "I believe if you want my opinion. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang. You four go with Ezio. I'm sure he'll be looking for that Vieri guy you explained to us about."
"Fair point too. The one called Vieri will most likely be in a higher elevated platform to stay safe with guards. Girls you're presences there will help with making sure Ezio does whatever he will be doing." Clank exclaimed from within the backpack Lily wore
"So what we just stay down here and fight the guards. Like fight to kill. I've never killed just so you all know!" Sakura yelled a bit worriedly, as Junko nodded I agreement
"Same here. It's seems really dangerous if you ask me…" Junko remarked wordily in her usual shy tone, before they got a glare form Mila Rose
"Pff, stop belong such weak girls. You either fight or die. Worse others will die if you don't pull your weight. So you better or so help me you'll wish you died in this place." Mila Rose threatened in disgust with Sakura and Junko's nervousness currently
"I think that's a bit much too say miss. They don't have to kill, they can wound too." Jeanne stated, even if she knew that was more than a less effective way to do so. She didn't want to have those here who were against killing, have to if not needed
"I'll have to disagree with you on that Jeanne my friend. You're coddling a bit too much right now." Scathach exclaimed a bit sternly with one of her good friends
"What, I am not-" Jeanne began to argue a bit, offended somewhat by her friends words before she was cut off
"Okay this obviously a sore point ladies. Let's just get to the planning and leave the moral discussions for late alright?!" Dante sternly stated, as some of the others flinched a bit hearing the usual calm-ish man get so stern. It seemed to work too as they all went silent, Dante looking back at Ruby "Ruby, continue."
"Thanks Dante…" Ruby stated, as this was indeed the first time they heard Dante be so stern. If what he'd explain a bit more about his past during the last two weeks, she could see even more of that solider side of him. She cleared her throat before addressing the group once more "So. Arguments and rude comments aside. From what suggestions have been stated. I've decided this. I and the girls will accompany Ezio for back up. The rest of you will accompany Mario and his mercs for the group attack. BUT, if you can. Do what you can do to wound, if you HAVE to kill… well, just…just make it quick."
The others just silently nodded back, though they could all see the instant regret on Ruby's face for having to say that. Most of them understood, while others just rolled their eyes a bit…well just Mila Rose and Apacci. Since those two seemed the more… ahem blood thirsty. Then again unlike most of the others, aside from the more new moral good summons. The other somewhat bloodthirsty teams mates had gotten to know Ruby for longer. So there was that.
Without saying more, the group turned back around to face Ezio and Mario. Ruby moving a bit closer as she motioned the two over to her. A bit of hushed talking occurred, before Ruby stepped back. Alongside Ezio, while Mario gave a big smile before clearing his own throat to address them and the mercs standing around.
"Alright, we're to march to the gates of the city. The one near us will be less guarded so that's where we'll attack. My nephew and the four young woman near him. Will join him on his hunt for the son of Pazzi. The rest of us will be keeping the guards distracted. Got that!" Mario stated as the mercs at least all did a quick semi-loud cheer of acknowledgment. Mario happy with the answer looked to the girls and Ezio "You five stay here. Wait until we start the attack on the main gate. Then go in, open the gate for us to get into the city. Then get that Vieri kid."
"Understood uncle." Ezio stated calmly and with a nod as he could see the girls looking at their group in worry; that and their kids especially. Ezio quickly knew what to say to help quell their worries "Girls."
As he said that, Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang turned their gazes upon Ezio. Who gave then a comforting smile.
"Don't worry about them. They know what they're doing, what be best for them to not worry either is to show them you'll be fine." Ezio exclaimed as the girls seemed to be hesitant, before slowly nodded and taking deep breaths. Ezio smile growing just a bit more seeing this "Good, now let's make sure we're ready."
"Right!" Team RWBY happily cheered, as Ezio nodded before looking at his uncle. Nodding once more as his uncle knew what that meant. Turing around, Ezio swore he could see a small smirk of anticipation for the upcoming battle
"Forwards….CHARGE!" Mario yelled as he and the mercs made a mad sprint for the gates, the servants, summons the rest of team RWBY's allies following behind seconds later
"I hope this will end well…" Weiss said as she, the girls and Ezio stayed behind like planned
"I'm sure it will hunny." Ruby answered, as she gave her love a kiss on the lips and a big smile "In fact I know it will sweetie!"
"Hehe…I guess so." Weiss simply replied back, with her own lip kiss to Ruby as she was glad to have her bundle of joy
"Totally sis-sis. We are so gonna kick some butt!" Yang proudly cheered as she gave Weiss her trade mark smile, Blake chuckling at her lovers usual antics in situations like these
"Agreed. We'll be fine as long as we have each other." Blake stated happily, before looking at Ezio and smirking "That and our human shield of course."
"You wound me Blake, wound me deeply!" Ezio dramatically stated, though the girls apricated the gesture to help them all keep their cool before the big battle. But as they chuckled, they heard suddenly the louds sounds of blades clashing with one another, a bow being shot and… the screams of men dying
"That was fast!" Yang yelled in shock as she didn't think it would THAT quick
"No time then come on!" Ruby stated as she charged ahead, Weiss, Blake, Yang and Ezio following behind with their swords ready for battle
As the five ran, they could see that thanks to the extra back up from their group. The mercs and Mario were having a much easier time fighting off the gate guards thanks to the extra-extra back up. They first spotted Atalanta having taken a snipping position in a tree and shooting the archers close enough to attack if needed. Heck the girls and Ezio didn't even need to open the gate as they saw Mila Rose throw a guard so hard that the gate broke into splinters upon contact.
They also saw Blake summons' doing all they could in the fight. Within non-lethal manners of course as they were either just punching, kicking or in Tae's case biting the guards who were patrol around; then came to aid the gate guards. They also saw a few other guards running away from Clank. All of them screaming demon as the small metal man chased said guards, Erza herself was easily keeping three of the guards at bay alone with her sword. Ruby herself saw Tier, Sung-Sun and Apacci fighting too seeming to not have too much trouble aside from avoiding being stab. That or the other three of Ruby's four summons were just toying with the guards.
They also saw Guin, Mordred and Fran doing a triple tag team as they were flinging or breaking the limbs of the guards attacking them. Scathach and Da-Vinci could been see a little to the right of the gate. Countering some of the attacks from the more heavily armored guards. Dante, Ikail and Artoria like the rest were either dealing killing blows on the guards or wounding them so they couldn't fight back fairly easily. Lastly they saw Jack and Nursery Rhyme riding on Goofy's back like a stead with Donald on Nursery Rhymes shoulder. Chasing a scared guard around, while Jeanne stayed behind the adorable mini Calvary unit. Protecting the little one's from guards who'd actually try to attack them.
But the girls and Ezio knew they had to keep their sights on their target. Vieri Pazzi, the son of a Templar. That and the young man who'd tried murdering them all, before being saved by Mario a week ago. Without waiting any more, the group of five saw a few conveniently placed crates. Stacked high enough they could climb over the wall itself and avoid the ground battle all together. So dodging a few rouge swipes from guards that spotted them. Before being shot by Atalanta, they quickly climbed on the crates, Ezio first, Blake second, Weiss third, Yang fourth and Ruby last to follow. But she saw a guard fall down from the wall to her right with a deep new stab wound were his left eye was before his body went splat below. Ruby shuttering from the sight, ignored it the best she could as she climbed up finally to see Weiss kick a guard in the face, Blake uppercut another one and Yang elbow one in the throat. Ruby dodged a sword swing as she rolled, before low tripping the guard attacking her. The man falling to the ground, as Ezio leaped over her and plunged his hidden blade into the man's throat. The guard dying fairly quickly as Ezio got back up, turning to the girls.
"Well, that was quiet the welcoming party." Ezio joked a bit, before he and the girls heard the sounds of battel cries. He and the girls looking down over the inner wall to see their people had broken through what remained of the splintered gate and were already fighting the guards below
"And it seems we're already beating back the counter strike. Oh yeah!" Yang cheered, before Atalanta landed near them. Startling the five a bit, as the woman looked to them sternly
"What are waiting for, get that Templar now!" Atalanta said as she fired an arrow downwards killing a guard as his screams echoed. Looking back at the group once more, as she smiled all of sudden "Oh and please stay safe, especially you little sis."
" Big sister…" Blake muttered, blushing a bit at her surrogate big sister's dotting even if she didn't mind it really. Atalanta chuckled, before leaping to another building and firing a few more arrows
"Aw, now that's cute." Weiss teased as Blake gave her a sis a slight glare as Weiss couldn't help but chuckle
"Cute is one word." Ezio quipped, amused himself at the moment, before looking around. Turing on his eagle vision. Seeing his allies, civilian's, the guards and then the golden light that was his target Vieri waiting for them at the town square "So he really is at the town square."
"Then what are we waiting for, let's get him!" Yang shouted as the others nodded in agreement. The five of them continuing with their free run as they leaped onto one of the buildings inside the city now
It wasn't too hard to avoid conflict, as Atalanta had taken care of most of them already. Though it was a somewhat longer trek as the buildings were a bit varied in height. So the girls had to do a bit climbing here and there, Ezio having to wait for them usually as the girls were still pretty new to the whole freerunning/ freeclimbing motions.
But it didn't take away from too much time, as the girls started to get the hang of the terrain fairly quickly. All the while the five could see below their allies quickly, if not at a semi-slow pace take out the guards in their way. With only a few of Mario's mercs having fallen so far. Still they knew they had to keep going, thankfully the rest of the way was fairly easy. It didn't take too long before team RWBY and Ezio leaped off one of the shorter buildings. Landing onto the ground with a roll before straightening theirs stances up. Ending up right in the two square. Where Vieri and his six armored guards were waiting for them.
"Well, well. I had a feeling you five would cheat your way here. With your fancy little tricks." Vieri remarked mockingly, as he clapped slowly smirking ever so smugly "But end of the line Assassins, these are some of the best guards money can buy. So why not just lie down and die like good little vermin!"
"Tough words for a coward hiding behind others still!" Yang screamed irritably as she was done with this guy's smugness
"Seriously. Why not fight us head on, let's see how smug you'll be after we're done with you!" Ruby sternly stated, in a rather uncharacteristic tone and glare at the man who flinched just a bit at the intensity of it
"Ah so the little one gets some grit. Well sorry but I'll decline. So get ready to die. Guards kill them!" Vieri stated loudly and smugly as he moved back, while his guards pulled out their swords ready to fight
As the fight started, the girls decided to take two of each guard each in pairs. Ruby and Weiss against two guards. While Blake and Yang against two other guards. Ezio taking the last two himself, while Vieri in his smugness stood back and watched. Ever so smirking in his damn smugness.
Still Ruby against the guard she was fighting, dodged a swipe form him before she swung her own sword at the guards. Only for said guard to grab her arm and pushed her back before trying to stab her in shoulder. But Ruby barely dodged as her shoulder was just grazed. But Ruby pushed through as she charged at the guard once more.
Meanwhile Weiss was having a much easier time against the guard she faced. Her years from young childhood till now, helped her with her duel. Using her rapier she bought. She and the guard were keeping each other on their toes as they were dealing near close strikes against one another. The only wounds Weiss had received was three slashes on her left cheek as the blood leaked out from the wounds a bit. The guard himself only having received a slight stab wound in his left bicep.
As those two fought, Blake was doing a decently easy fight herself. As she'd decided to buy a small knife for her main weapon. Landing small cuts here and there on the guard who was heavily bleeding by this point. She wouldn't kill him, but a that nagging voice in her head. That woman was whispering to her.
-"Fine, you don't have to kill this one. But don't think you'll be able to do this forever or that I won't try and get you to spill some more bloody kitty."- The woman in Blake's mind chastised, mocking Blake's lack of commitment to kill even if she really should be since this guard was trying to kill her –"Just bleed him out I guess. At least he has a chance… but don't say I'm not nice to you child."-
Blake herself couldn't argue with that logic of the voice in her head, even if she hated the voice so far. Meanwhile she did what she could to cause more shallow wounds. So at least the man would stop attacking her, though would have a small chance to be healed later on. Hopefully…
Then when it came to Yang, she was using the war hammer she'd taken and having a somewhat harder time getting a hit on the guard she faced. The armor the guard wore was able to take most of the quicker hits she was trying to deal. But the hard hits she was able to land, had caused a few dents in the guards armor. But in turn the guard was having a hard time landing any kill hits as Yang was quick enough to block most of the hits. Neither having dealt any significant hits though.
Finally when it came to Ezio, he was having a fairly tough, yet easy time fighting off the two guards her faced alone. Dodging a swing from one and slashing the leg of other guard. Ezio kicked the first guard on the face as he backed off from the hit. The second guard cringing from the sudden wound on his leg. But Ezio didn't wait as he moved his attention back to the wounded guard. Impaling his sword right under open part of the guards helmet. The top of the blade going right through the top of the wounded guards and helmet. The second guard getting his footing back from the kick. Was too slow though as Ezio ripped his sword out the front of the now dead guards face and helmet. Blood splattering out as Ezio lunged his sword right through the first guards stomach. The first guard halting in pain as he coughed out blood, Ezio seeing the exposed part of his neck, quickly switched hands with his left hand; then with his right hand. Activated his hidden blade and slit the first guards throat. Before pulling his sword out of the guards stomach. As the guard fell dead.
But Ezio wasn't done, as he saw Yang having the most trouble in her fight, running right behind the guard he lunged stabbing his hidden blade into the guard attack Yang's back. The guard freezing from the sudden sneak attack, while Yang seeing this opportunity slammed the war hammer into the guards stomach. The guard falling over in pain as Ezio finished him off as he stabbed his hidden blade through the guards spinal cord killing him quickly as the body fell. Yang felt a little uneasy seeing that as she had a feeling she was part of this man's death and that rubbed her the wrong way.
Yang though saw Blake finish off the guard she'd been fighting, well more of that the guard was cut up and bloody. But still breathing somehow. Blake giving Yang a small quick smile of relief seeing she was fine, Yang doing the same. But then then saw Ezio pass by them as he threw a small knife he'd bought during the week into the exposed neck of the guard Ruby was fighting. Killing the man as he quickly began to chock on his own blood. Before lunging onto the guard Weiss fought and stabbed his hidden black into the back of that man's neck.
All six guards dead now, the five turned their gazes back upon Vieri. Who himself realizing he was alone, pulled his sword out as he back away a bit as the five walked up slowly closer to him.
"What's wrong, not so brave now are you?" Weiss sternly stated, as she and the girls glare at Vieri, Ezio cracking his neck for a moment as he decided to use just his hidden blade
"Girls. Stay here pleased, this is between me and Vieri." Ezio replied back calmly yet sternly himself as the girls looked to one another; before sighing as they knew Ezio was going to be stubborn on this
"Alright... just be careful kay Ezio?" Ruby kindly said, though she wasn't happy still this would end in a death; despite who the person was. Weiss, Blake and Yang nodded in agreement slightly with Ruby
Ezio nodded back, happy that the girls understood. Though at the same time, they heard the footsteps. Looking back they caught a glimpse of Mario's, his mercs and the rest of team RWBY's group coming up finally the stairs to see the deed done. But Ezio himself quickly looked back at Vieri. The young man scared even more now, before out of fear he lunged at Ezio. Who took a quick breath before he simply kicked Vieri in the stomach and onto his back. Then leaped down as he plunged his hidden blade into Vieri's neck. Doing his best to not savor in the feeling of the blade killing a young man who'd seemed to make it his life goal to make Ezio's life a living hell when around. Now it was over, for good.
As before, when Uberto had been slain. Suddenly the world around them went all white. The digital look of it surrounding team RWBY and their team there. Mario and his Merc's gone suddenly. Why, maybe because the servants and summons were connected to team RWBY is why they were here still in this odd possibly hidden world in between death itself. Either way, it was all too quiet, as the group looked upon Ezio. Who'd gotten back up, before lifting Vieri by his blood stained collar near where team RWBY stood. Kneeling over the dying young man once more, eye's glaring and lifting Vieri yet again up by the collar of his shirt.
"What are you and your allies planning. Is this what my father discovered, is this why he was killed!?" Ezio screamed, as his voice echoed like before in the world outside of the one they all stood at. Everyone else from team RWBY, their first five allies, the newly confused summons, along with some of the servants and their allies who hadn't experienced this the last time. Just stayed silent as they watched.
"I'm sorry…w-we're you hoping for a confession?" Vieri asked smugly, taking in his last dying breath before he went limped; which only enraged Ezio as the world around the girls and the others faded away just like that. Though Ezio wasn't done with Vieri yet, dead be damned
"Pezzo di medra! Virrei solo che avessi sofferto di piu. Hai avuto la fine che meritavi. Sepro che bru- (Piece of shit! I only wish you'd suffered more. You met the fate you deserve. I hope-)" Ezio screamed at the top of his lungs, the only ones who could understand fully were Dante and Da-Vinci as the others just were wide eyed a bit at how angry Ezio seemed even with the dead man's body
"W-What's he saying Da-Vinci, Dante?" Ai asked, a bit put off at how aggressive Ezio was with the dead man's body like he was still alive
"Trust me sweetie. You don't want to know…" Da-Vinci simply said, as Dante slowly nodded in agreement. Though they saw Mario pass them, then the girls who were just as surprised by Ezio's current behavior
"Enough Ezio. Show some respect!" Mario chastised, Ezio letting out a irked huff. Before letting Vieri's body go and stood back up, but still full of anger at this situation
"Respect… after all that's happened?" Ezio argued, anger still fueling him as he scowled a bit "Do you think he would have shown either us….ANY of us such kindness?"
"No, but you're not like him Ezio!" Ruby cut in angrily as Ezio flinched a bit from the usually bubbly girls tone. Ruby stern look slowly softening seconds later "So don't start to alright…"
"Lady Ruby is correct. You are not Vieri. Do not become him." Mario calmly stated, grateful for Ruby's intervention. Moving over to Vieri's body and kneeling, while at the same time the others of team RWBY's group moved up to them to regroup "Che la morte ti dia la pace che cercavi. Requiescat in Pace. (May death provide the peace you sought. Rest in peace.)"
"Do they do this often with the dead?" Tier muttered to the girls, who all just slowly nodded as Tier raised any eyebrow for a moment. But kept quiet along with the rest, while Mario got back up and handed Ezio a letter he'd taken from Vieri's coat
"Take this, our work is here done. Let us all return to the Villa." Mario simply stated, relived and happy that things had gone so well despite the few losses of his men during this battle
With that the group, Ezio and Mario made their way off. To relax and enjoy the small break they would get. Hopefully things wouldn't get any more difficult. How could they in this world the girls found themselves in. No the girls were sure that everything was going to be fairly easy now…
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End of the chapter notes incoming!
Alright so hope you enjoyed that chapter, I'll just say this I did take some liberties to mix up a few things when it comes to the story in ACII; mainly to work smoother with my story. Also again if it does have a few glaring grammar issues I apologize for that. Though some of those error's maybe there for either certain character dialog with how they just speak in general, etc. You get the idea. But yeah as you may have read NEW SUMMONS for the girls. I don't plan on too many more. I already made a list for the remaining one's the girls will have that all carry a theme to them for each girl as you may be seeing already. Plus one that doesn't fit each set of summons themes, but I won't say more on those particular single future summons.
Anyways here's a list of the bio's on team RWBY newest summons:
Team RWBY's new summons:
-Ruby Rose new summon(s)-
Name(s): Tier Harribel, Emilou Apacci, Franceska Mila Rose, Cyan Sung-Sun
Other aliases: Arrancar's, Espada #3 (Tier), Espada #54 (Apacci), Espada #55 (Mila Rose), Espada #56 (Sung-Sun)
World: Bleach (Anime/Manga)
Status: It's complicated…
Weapon's: Zanpakuto's (All), Cero (All), Bala (Apacci),
Equipment/other skills: Sonido (All), Hierro (All), High Spiritual Pressure (Tier, Apacci, Mila Rose), Master/Expert Swordsman (Tier, Mila Rose), Enhanced Strength (Apacci)
-Weiss Schnee new summon-
Name: Clank
Other Aliases: Model number XJO461/ Serial Number B5429671
World: Ratchet and Clank franchise (games/movie)
Status: Non-living metal being
Weapons: His good old steel fists
Equipment/ other skills: Metallic body, Heli-Pack/ Thruster Pack/ Hydro Pack, weapon storage, high intellect
-Blake Belladonna new summons-
Name: Sakura, Saki, Ai, Junko, Lily, Yugiri, Tae
Other Aliases: Franchouchou, undead seven
World: Zombie Land Saga (Anime)
Status: Undead
Weapon: None, if you don't count Tae biting people
Equipment/ other skills: Various life time skills through out their mortal lives before death and being pop idols
-Yang Xiao Long summon-
Name: Erza Scarlet
Other Aliases: Titania the Queen of Fairies
World: Fairy Tail
Status: Alive
Weapon: A lot, lets just leave it there…
Equipment/ other skills: Re-quip magic and expert combatant
And there you have it, the list of team RWBY newest summons . I hope I got most of their personalities right too. It's been a while with a few of the series revolving around these new summons. Anyways again I do hope you all enjoyed this chapter and the next chapter will come when it does (Hopefully not too long this time, super sorry to you all again for that mishap). So until the next time, I wish you all the best days ahead!
