*BANG!*

*SLASH!*

"GAAAAAH!" Toby yelled in pain, having not just his arms cut off, but his chest and stomach all grazed too by Akame's sword thanks to her sheath.

"...Your body is modified greatly." Akame said as smoke and steam came from her sheath "...That's good. It means I can use you as a test to see how well my sheath works against modified opponents."

"W-What?" Toby gasped, Completely caught off guard by her sheaths function.

Akame slides her Murasame back into the sheath, places her finger on it's trigger, and prepares for another quick-draw swing.

"Get ready." Akame warned.

"AH CRAP_"

*BANG!*

*SWING!*

*SPLATTER*

"Aa...aaah..." Toby could only groan, before his entire body was split in half, Perfectly Vertical.

As both sides of his corpse fall apart, Akame wipes away the blood on her sword and looks down on her sheath.

"...This is actually very useful." Akame commented, Smiling "Ruby did a great job with this."

Then, She remembered something that Ruby brought up.

'...She said I should give it a name.' Akame thought to herself "Hmm...I got one. I'll call it Kaminari. It goes well with Murasame.'

Then, Several Experimented soldiers tried to attack her from behind.

*BANG!*

*SLASH!*

But she sliced all of them in half with one single swing.


*WHIRLE!*

"Wh...What did you..." Kaku gasped, before he held his chest.

"...Huh. that's new." Sheele tilted her head "Even Danger beasts fall down when I use my Semblance on them. You're body's modifications must be quite good."

"Y-Your what?!" Kaku angrily yelled "Stop talking Crazy and just DIE!"

He charged forward at Sheele,

*WHIRLE!*

But she just used her semblance again.

"AAAh...My head. Shit!" Kaku grunted as he held his aching head, with his ears also ringing a bit "How the hell did you..."

"You see, I can make any alive being that I want to become sick with any illness at random. But...Now that I think about it, I've never used it more than once on anything." Sheele coldly stated as she aimed her hand at Kaku "Your body's modifications makes you immune to illnesses. So I'll just have to overwhelm your immunity with even more waves from my Semblance."

"I SAID STOP TALKING CRAZY AND DI_"

*WHIRLE!*

*WHIRLE!*

*WHIRLE!*

*WHIRLE!*

*WHIRLE!*

"GRAH!" Kaku coughed up blood, while his knees were shaking.

"Oh! You've got tuberculosis now." Sheele said, knowing from the blood that came from his mouth "I rarely manage to inflict that one. It would usually by very painful for most humans. but you can't feel most of it can you?"

"Go...To hell...You FREAK!" Kaku tried to get back up.

*WHIRLE!*

*WHIRLE!*

*WHIRLE!*

"Gaaaaaah...BLEGH!" Kaku started to vomit.

"Hmm, It seems like all of the illnesses that I've inflicted on you are finally catching up." Sheele said as she walked over to him with her Extace drawn "I guess no matter how much you modify your body, even the slightest symptoms of some illnesses will still drag you down."

"W-Wait...Wait hold on_"

*SLICE*

But Sheele didn't even let him beg, and sliced his head and shoulders off.

"...I'm sorry." Sheele emotionlessly said to the dead body before turning her attention a batch of Experiments rushing forward at her.


*Swing!*

"That was Slow."

*Swing!*

"That one was sloppy."

*Swing!*

"Okay, that last one was just sad."

Meanwhile, Mine was easily dodging all of Trauma's attacks from his knives with the help of her Semblance warning her where he'd come from before he could actually even start the attack.

"Damn it!" Trauma yelled as Mine dodged another knife swing from him "How can a small little girl like you keep up with me like this?!"

"Why should I even tell you?!" Mine yelled back "You're gonna die anyway! So at least stop embarrassing yourself and die with some dignity."

"GOD DAMN IT STAND STILL!" Trauma yelled and tried to attack faster, And Mine's semblance became more active.

"UUUGH Is Charging in blind ALL you do?!" Mine yelled, very annoyed 'And to be fair, I trained my semblance with both Akame and Ruby. Those two are faster than this guy. Now with my semblance everything feels like it's in slow motion now unless it's against someone that's actually fast.'

Mine dodged a knife attack that was aimed at her face before she easily tripped Trauma by kicked his heel, and aimed Pumpkin pointblank in his face.

"Enough of this Crap." Mine said "Time to die."

"N-NO WAY!" Trauma yelled as he tried to stab Mine in the face with a hidden knife in his boot.

But Mine's semblance warned her before hand, and she just oved her head back a bit and dodged his blade.

*BLAST!*

And fired a shot so powerful, it blew away his entire head!

"Hmph. With all the Danger my semblance puts into my head, My Trump Card gets charged up a lot faster too." Mine said, putting her gun over her shoulders and Smirked "This Aura stuff sure makes things a lot easier~"

*KABOOM!*

"W-What the?!" Mine saw an small explosion go off near by, with many of the enemy experiments getting launched in the air all ripped appart or already dead!

"GGRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Then, She could see Leone roaring with her fists flaming, and she began panting and growling like an wild animal and ripping through the enemy like a mindless berserker. Before her breathing slowed down, and her fists going back to normal.

"Haah...haah...haah...haah...phew." Leone took a deep breath and looked around "Holy shit. I'm AWESOME!"

"Next time, Please give a warning." Mine asked, sweat dropping.

"What, You scared~?" Leone asked.

"Yes! For my life!" Mine yelled.

*Woooosh!*

They both then saw Ruby dash out of the woods, leaving a trail of several dead experiments behind her.

"You done too?" Leone asked as the two walked over to her.

"...For now." Ruby said as she looked around for a bit "Are Tatsumi and Lubbock done inside the hideout?"

"They're still busy in there." Mine answered.

*Warp*

All 3 of them looked over and saw Tatsumi in his armor and Lubbock appear a little far away, With Lubbock having used his Semblance to exit the hideout faster by switching his and Tatsumi's place with something small and unnoticeable that he left outside.

"Yo!" Lubbock called out "We finished up EVERY single enemy inside the hideout!"

"Nothing alive left in there!" Tatsumi gave a thumbs up.

"Good." Ruby nodded "This should end in about...What's that?"

They noticed something flying fast through the air in the night sky, flying toward the hideout.

Ruby used her scope to see what it was, but she saw Najenda with two hooded figures on the flying danger beast!

"It's Najenda!" Ruby announced.

"Whoa what?!" Tatsumi gasped "That's so cool! Too bad our entrance was cooler tho. Wouldn't want to outshine the boss."

"Yeah, totally." Lubbock agreed.

"Everyone!" They looked over and saw Akame and Sheele both running up toward them "You're all here too."

"Yeah." Ruby nodded before pointing at the sky "And look! The Boss came back just now!"

As everyone watches The flying Danger beast in the sky, The last pack of Experiments appeared and surrounded them.

"These should be the last ones." Leone said.

"Let's finish up already." Tatsumi said.

"These last ones will be easy." Ruby said "...This almost seems unfair now."

"Yeah. What else could put the odds in our favor even more than it already is?" Lubbock jokingly asked.

*CRASH!*

But then, One of the hooded figures next to Najenda jumped down and crushed one of the smaller experiments under a strange Staff like weapon.

"...I jinxed it didn't I?" Lubbock asked with a sweat dropped.

"Yeah...I think you did." Leone said.

The figure stood up, revealed to be a tall man with a traditional white outfit, blue hair and...Horns?

'...He can't be a Faunus. So...who or what is he?' Ruby asked herself mentally.

The figure walked forward and his Staff's end extended several blades that began to spin rapidly with high speed, and he ripped through ALL of the Experiments with ease.

"W-Whoa...He's Strong!" Tatsumi said in awe.

"Is it one of our new recruits?" Mine asked.

"HIS WEAPON IS SO FREAKIN' AWESOME!" Ruby yelled, with stars in her eyes.

"Down girl, Down." Leone scolded as she held Ruby back before she just dashes in to inspect his Staff out of the blue.

Soon, the Blue haired man easily took care of every last Experiment by himself single handedly. It was really amazing to see. But for Ruby, she was just gawking at his buzz-saw Staff.

After he was done, He looked over to the others...before he suddenly moved toward Mine.

"W-What?" Mine asked...only for the man to fix her hair and make it more proper.

"Fixed." He said.

"...What." Mine said dumbfounded.

"...Soooo cooooooool..." Ruby gawked.

"Down girl." Leone scolded again.


"WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!" Ruby cheered as they soared through the sky!

While Mine and Lubbock were feeling sick because of the height.

After packing up their stuff, they began to fly on the danger beast The Najenda came with, Now known as a Air Mantra to Ruby. Alongside Doctor Stylish's Teigu too: A pair of Gloves.

"THIS IS SO AWESOME!" Tatsumi cheered too.

"I KNOW RIGHT?!" Ruby agreed.

"R-Ruby be careful! You might fall!" Sheele warned, worried for Ruby's safety.

"BUT THIS IS EALLY COOL!" Ruby said as she spreads her hands open, letting the wind pass through her.

"Hahaha! For someone that Killed like 200 soldiers in one night you're really childish!" the second new recruit, A girl with long chestnut color hair "You're funny~"

"Uh...Sure!" Ruby nodded.

"So, where we going boss?" Leone asked.

"That's easy." Najenda said.


"Welcome to Marg Highlands." Najenda said "Since it's pretty much unexplored, and also has stronger Danger beasts, it's the perfect place to stay for a while. Until the Revolutionary army can find a new place for our new hideout that is."

'Huh. Places like this are practically home territory for me.' Ruby thought 'I guess Sleeping in the wild within Grimm infested Area's did pay off after all.'

and suddenly, the Air mantra began to fly away into the sky.

"Wh-Where's it going?" Mine asked "Is it safe to let it go like that? It had the Teigu we collected too."

"It's too Precious as a transport method for us to hog to ourselves." Najenda explained "So it's going back to it's next in one of the Revolutionary army bases."

"Awwwww Couldn't it stay?" Ruby asked, very sad now "I wanted to fly with it more."

"Quit being a baby!" Mine yelled.

"So, with that out of the way, let me Introduce you all to our new members." Najenda said "First we have...huh?"

They all noticed the chestnut haired girl had vanished now.

"Your hair's so cute Akame~" the girl said as she patted and ruffled Akames hair from behind.

"H-Hey. I already have a girlfriend." Akame said, Feeling uncomfortable.

"Oh? You do?" The girl asked.

"Yes." Akame said as she moved right next to Ruby.

"Yeah that's me." Ruby chuckled while Akame moves closer to Ruby to stay away from the new girl.

"Ooooh." The chestnut hair girl said "That's Cute~. You two actually match each other."

"Thanks." Ruby said "And...you are?"

"I'm Chelsea. I hope we can get along~" Chelsea said before she handed out lolipops "Want some?"

"Welcome." Akame said as she took one Lolipop. And Ruby hesitantly took one too.

'...She's far too friendly.' Ruby wondered as she licked her Lolipop 'If I was still socially awkward I'd run away by now.'

"Now, to our next member." Najenda said as everyone looked over to the blue haired man "Everyone, This is Susanoo. My New Teigu that the Revolutionary army gave to me."

"...Wait, say what?" Ruby asked as everyone stares.

"Oh yeah, He's a Humanoid Teigu." Najenda nonchalantly Explained.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" Everyone aside from Akame Yelled out loud.

"L-L-L-LIKE THAT DOG?!" Ruby yelled, having PTSD from her fight with Koro.

"Psh, Of course not! Susanoo here is FAR more advanced." Najenda bragged "He has the power of not just speech, but to think for himself as well. He ain't no mutt."

"...SOOOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL..." Ruby gawked again with stars in her eyes.

"Down girl." this time, Akame scolded her.

But then, Susanoo's Eye fell on Ruby.

"OH! Uh, Hi! I'm Ruby!" Ruby instantly greeted.

But Susanoo simply went Wide eyed and charged toward Ruby very fast.

"Wha-wha-wha-wha-wha_" Ruby stuttered, wondering if she said something wrong.

But then to her shock, Susanoo first Tidied up the end of her cloak first, then properly fixed the parts of her cloak around her neck, pulled her hood back neatly, and then he balanced out her Mothers symbol pin on her cloak.

"...Fixed." He said.

"...WHAT?" Ruby asked, dumbfounded.

"Oh, And he's a major Neat Freak." Najenda said.

"That explains a lot now." Mine sweat dropped.

"I didn't know Teigu's could be such Perfectionists." Sheele said in amazement.

"...So cool..." Ruby mumbled again.

"So...What's his main skill?" Leone asked.

"...heheheheheheh...Be ready to be amazed." Najenda coolly stated "Susanoo! DO YOUR THING!"

"Understood!" Susanoo said before he started to dash away.


And, In a span of a few minutes, Susanoo had chopped down wood for construction, washed everyone's clothes, hunted a Wild Danger beast, and now was cooking!

"...Is he...doing House work?" Lubbock asked.

"It's cool and all but..." Tatsumi started.

"...Is that...His main purpose?" Sheele asked, feeling...despair for some reason.

"EXACTLY! He was originally made as a bodyguard for a V.I.P! He's naturally good in combat, but he also comes with household skills for his masters needs!" Najenda explained like it was something grand "And he even comes with 1'000 recipes in his repertoire!"

"...Reper...What now?" Ruby asked, Having heard a big word that she's never heard before.

"...Heheheh...So he can do everything perfectly..." Sheele said...as she somehow melted down seeing someone do everything flawlessly. UNLIKE HER.

"There There." Everyone comforted Sheele.

"And he also comes with a Trump card for battle. Right?" Najenda asked.

"Right." Susanoo nodded.

'...Seeing how cool Susanoo is, I can rely on him without a problem.' Ruby thought with a smile 'But Chelsea...I don't know anything about her.'

Then she sees Chelsea teasing a hissing Mine and Lubbock giving Susanoo warnings for some reason.

'...Tho I think we need to first do something on getting along before working on our team work.' She thought, deadpanning at how Lubbock and Mine had issues with the new recruits already, and how...brazen and far too bold Chelsea was.

"Now, Ruby." Najenda called out "I think I need your report on how things went along in my absence."

"...About that..." Ruby said nervously.


"...Seriously?" Najenda asked, Dumbfounded. while the two were sitting down in privet.

"Yes..." Ruby nodded.

"...Esdeath."

"Yes."

"...The same Esdeath that I know."

"Uh huh."

"...WITH YOU?"

"Unfortunately."

"...FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFfuck." Najenda sighed before buring her face into her real hand "...So did she suspect anything?"

"Nope. She just...really loves me I guess?" Ruby shrugged.

"When the hell did you become a Chick-Magnet?!" Najenda asked "Specially for the ENEMY?!"

"I-I DUNNO!" Ruby yelled while Blushing "But...She wasn't all that bad, when she wasn't...you know, Killing or torturing people."

"Don't let that get in your head. She's still very dangerous and needs to be eliminated as well." Najenda strictly ordered.

"Y-Yeah...I know..." Ruby mumbled.

"...You like her too?" Najenda asked out of the blue.

"W-Wha?" Ruby gasped.

"Do you Love her too? Like how you love Akame, Leone and Sheele?" Najenda asked.

"..."

"...I knew it." Najenda sighed in frustration.

"I-I swear I won't get in the way for my personal feelings!" Ruby said "You have my word on that."

"...Then you better not break it." Najenda said "But, Do Akame, Leone and Sheele know yet?"

"...I...Didn't find the right time to tell them..." Ruby answered.

"Fine. Tell them yourself when you're ready. It's not my place to interfere." Najenda said.

"Okay..." Ruby nodded "...So...What about Chelsea and Susanoo's Auras?"

"Actually, I've told the higher ups in the revolutionary army about how you've unlocked our Aura's. They were very impressed." Najenda explained "But I've only given Chelsea and Susanoo small hints about it."

"Why?" Ruby asked.

"Wouldn't want to ruin the surpise for them~" Najenda said "But when the time comes, You can unlock Chelsea's Aura. But for Susanoo..."

"...He still has a soul, Right?" Ruby asked.

"Technically, He should." Najenda answered.

"Then that's enough." Ruby said "I'll try it with him too."

"Okay. You're dismissed for the day." Najenda said.

After their conversation was over, Ruby walked back to the clearing to see Susanoo had already finished a small house where they'd be sleeping in.

"...WOW he works fast." Ruby said to himself.

"Of course I do." Susanoo spoke up behind her.

"WHOA When'd you get behind me?!" Ruby gasped as she turned around.

"exactly 3 seconds ago." Susanoo answered.

"Okay..." Ruby said "...Soooooo how does your weapon work?!"

"My weapon?" Susanoo repeated.

"Your staff!" Ruby said "Or is it a mace? Or a buzz-saw?! AH! BUZZSAW-STAFF-MACE?!"

"...Yes. It is actually a Mace." Susanoo answered.

"OOOOH So how do those Blades move inside it?!" Ruby asked.

"That's rather easy. you see the mechanism within the mace is_"

"...What are they doing?" Lubbock asked as he, Tatsumi and Mine all look from afar as Susanoo breaks down the inner builds of his weapon.

"Obviously talking weapons." Mine sighed "Ruby's a total Weapon-freak. Of course she'd ask about his weapon sooner or later."

"I'm still not sure if it's healthy for her." Tatsumi sweat dropped.

"_And that's how the spinner is kept protected from damage." Susanoo finished explaining.

"WOW THAT IS SO COOL!" Ruby fan girled "Did you name it?! DID YOU?!

"I call it Wolf fang Mace." Susanoo answered.

"That's Such a cool name!" Ruby said "Wait! Have you tried adding a spear to it's end too? So it would spin around as well?! It'll act like a Drill!"

"...Hmmm...That might prove to be very useful." Susanoo thought about it.

"How about More a Surpise Weapon for its other end?!" Ruby asked.

"Yes that also might prove to be useful." Susanoo nodded.

...And so, the two just talked about their weapons for an hour or two.


While everyone was sitting inside the shack Susanoo crafted, They were eating the food he also cooked.

",And so, Chelsea and Susanoo will be the last back up the Revolutionary Army can provide for us." Najenda finished Explaining "Until we can return to the capital, We need to use this time to train. So, Ruby?"

"I got it." Ruby nodded.

"ooooh is it about this secret power-up thing you gave everyone?" Chelsea asked.

"Yup." Ruby nodded.

"I'm also very interested to know about it." Susanoo stated.

"Okay. So first off, It's called Aura." Ruby explained.

"...We...Already have Aura tho." chelsea said.

"No this one's different." Ruby proudly said "Guys? a demonstration please?"


"GRRAAAAAAAAAAH!" Leone roared as she punched through a horde of danger beasts with her Semblance.

*WHIRLE!*

Sheele made a pack of Danger beasts sick as all hell.

"OUTTA MY WAY!" Tatsumi shredded 7 danger beasts with his semblance alone.

*WARP!*

Lubbock threw a rock up in the sky and replaced it with a massive boulder, which fell and crushed every danger beast below it.

All the while, Ruby, Najenda, Akame, Susanoo and Chelsea were watching from above, from a cliff side.

And they both had gone wide eyed.

",And that's the basic rundown of a Semblance." Ruby finished explaining "Any questions class~?"

"...W-Where did you exactly come from?" Chelsea asked with a sweat drop.

"My Country is really far from here." Ruby lied "But a lot of people there also had had different semblances and skills."

"...I'm...very impressed..." Susanoo said "...So much so that I'm at a loss for words."

"We can see." Akame said.

"CAN I HAVE MINE?!" Chelsea asked, excited and with stars in her eyes "CAN I CAN I CAN I CAN I?!"

"Whoa calm down." Ruby said "First, you'll only have Aura. For your Semblance to be unlocked you need to work hard for it got it?"

"I got it!" Chelsea Nodded "Oh! Before I forget. What's your semblance Akame?"

"..." Akame slightly looked away.

"W-Well...Akame hasn't unlocked hers yet." Ruby nervously chuckled.

"Eh? Wait really?" Chelsea asked "Oh. Sorry 'bout that."

"It's fine. I'm over it." Akame said.

'...you don't sound like you're over it." Ruby thought to herself.

"So. Can you start now Ruby?" Najenda asked.

"On it." Ruby nodded as she faced Chelsea and Susanoo "Okay. Who's first?"

"ME ME ME ME ME!" Chelsea volunteered.

"Okay. Stand still." Ruby said as she walked toward her and placed a hand on Chelsea, and closed her eyes.

"...Is it...always like this?" Chelsea asked.

"Yup." Najenda and Akame both nodded.

And shortly after, Chelsea's body began to shine much to her surprise, and her Aura was briefly revealed in a Orange color.

"Whoa..." Chelsea gasped in amazment.

"There ya go." Ruby said before she turned to Susanoo "Okay! Your turn!"

"Understood." Susanoo nodded as he stood still.

'Okay, Let's see if he can have Aura too.' Ruby placed a hand on Susanoo and closed her eyes.

Concentrating hard, She found herself in pitch darkness again, before she saw...a bright white light was shining in her eyes. She almost felt herself become blind with it's light.

'Is that...Susanoo's soul? It's...really bright. Brighter than...a humans.' Ruby thought 'Must be because he's a taigu. let's make it quick.'

She grasped his soul and tried to pull out his Aura like usual...and it felt heavy. VERY heavy.

'Come...On already...COME ON!' Ruby thought before she finally opened her eyes and everyone was shocked when Susanoo's body started to shine brighter than Chelsea!

"So...Bright." Akame said, having to cover her eyes.

"Is this natural?" Najenda asked, covering her eye too before the glow died down soon.

"...He has...A LOT of Aura. SO MUCH OF IT!" Ruby said "I've never seen anyone have this much. Must be because he's a Teigu!"

"...That would be the most reasonable explanation." Susanoo nodded before tightening his fist "And I feel much stronger already."

"This is gonna be fun~" Chelsea smirked, excited about her Aura and what her semblance would be.

'...So...I guess we're stuck here for a while now.' Ruby thought to herself as she looks out into the horizons 'By the time we go back, we'll be ready for the Jaegers. I'm sure of it.'

'...I just...hope We don't have to kill any of them...'