Hiya everyone, how are you all doing today? Hope you all had a happy New Year. I sadly slept through it and woke up at 12:12. Anyway I don't have a New Years resolution. I do it by month and this month involves me writing and typing better. This means better grammar and sentence structure so this fanfic might do the trick with it…or not Idk. Anyway, this is the 1st real chapter and will hopefully be a bit longer than the Last time so here's hoping!
Oh right RWBY is owned by Roosterteeth and the Late Monty Oum
The Invincible Monster
Chapter 1:Hiding scales can be Such a task!Pyrrha woke up to the sound of her scroll's Alarm going off. It was luckily the weekend so the team didn't have to get up early but sleeping in was not on her agenda today.
She grabbed her stuff and went to take a shower. After about 30 minutes she headed off for a nice jog while it was cool in the morning. She never really liked doing exercise later in the day. Mornings always felt relaxed to her, So with classes and assignments this only happens once in a blue broken moon. Though she can say with studies, the mission spike, the strange incidents going on in town with Grimm and the White Fang. Things have been getting more and more stressful on her mind.
As she got into a steady pace she noticed her arms beginning to itch "Shit not again, It's been a pretty good jog so far"
After taking a moment and looking around seeing no one was nearby. She stopped and sat down by a tree. She rolled up here sleeves revealing scales underneath just budding up from her skin.
"Can't I get one day of peace without these damn scales, or feathers or fur for Oum sake" She took a deep breath and focused on her arms.
After a few moments, the scales receded and she got back up and went on her Jog again. Deciding to head into the city, keeping her momentum of exercising up.
These little Episodes were what Pyrrha had gotten well acquainted with. She remembers when this whole damn situation started in the first place.
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Pyrrha's Grandfather, Tytos would always tell her stories as a Kid when she went over to his house to keep her entertained, Little stories of the world and heroes and monsters. He used to say that the maidens were real and that the Faunus were created from humans that protected the wilds of the world, The ones she liked the most were of Heroes would slay these strange monsters. One story That he loved telling her was called "Drakon and Ophis"
Tytos would tell her "There once was a hero named Drakon who was renowned for slaying monsters in the time before the Grim. He could vanquish armies and defeat almost any champion besides his lover Ophis. He was so renowned that he caught the attention of a Dark King. This Dark King was jealous of their creators and needed warriors to wage war on them. This King asked Drakon to help defeat the greatest enemy of humanity not saying it was the Gods. Drakon agreed but when the day came there forces were utterly crushed and Drakon was betrayed. The Dark King was cursed and thrown into hell."
"The Gods bound Drakon in fiery chains and left him to burn. But Ophis pleaded with the Gods that he wasn't in the wrong and that he did not deserve this punishment. The Gods relented saying that if Ophis accepted a punishment from them then Drakon would go free, and out of love She accepted. Her body was forever transformed into a mockery of humanity and she and every few generations of her descendants would be like this till the day that Dark King was killed off for good."
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She never really thought much of that story….till she was about 15. It was after one of her matches at Sanctum that this started. She seemed to have been feeling under the weather along with exhaustion and went to her room to just lie down.
She woke up in the middle of the night feeling intense pain, As her body was wracked with it she felt the changes go on. It was first in her arms in the form of scales growing on them. Then she noticed her Irises had turned a reddish color.
Finally, her legs seemed to have fused together and elongated into a serpentine form with a club-like tail at the end, Of course, Pyrrha's first reaction was to "PANIC LIKE NO TOMORROW!" But then she decided to go to her Grandfather's house and try to figure this out as her parents were not at home for the next couple of days.
But when she got there it wasn't the best reaction as Tytos almost had a heart attack and almost blasted his granddaughter with a double barrel, But after a moment of calming him down followed by him calming her down she stayed the night after having her Grandfather promise not to tell her parents of what had happened.
In the morning though it seemed to have gone away. But after that whenever she was emotionally or physically put to her limit she would have a higher chance of transforming into that serpentine form. Her Grandpa suggested that she try to figure out more about this ability (as he really didn't want to call it a curse) to see if she can control it and learn more about it. So every so often when she got to be alone away from everything she would transform into that form.
They knew she wasn't some type of Faunus as both her parents were humans and they have had DNA tests in the past. Besides that Faunus didn't have multiple traits from an animal….or animals. As a matter of fact she couldn't really find any real examples of Faunus being able to transform, So Both she and Tytos turned to that old Story of Drakon and Ophis and Tytos got to work looking up any other old stories that could help her with this to see if there's another cure or something like it. Last she called him there wasn't anything new.
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Pyrrha now had a set of rules to follow when it came to her ability to transform and to keep it a secret. She use to call it her "Five step guide to not being found out and getting called a monster and being chased out of town to live as a hermit like her Grandpa"
Step 1:Learn to control your emotions.
Step 2: Keep your emotions in line.
Step 3: In combat keep an eye on your Aura (lower the Aura=Higher chance of transformation or transformation traits)
Step 4: Always find a secluded place to transform once and awhile.
Step 5: Try to learn more about your abilities
She kept to this pattern and this list religiously for the remainder of her time at Sanctum Academy and for the rest of her tournaments. She had to pat herself on the back that even with the pressure of being the center of attention she never showed more than maybe the strange Iris change or maybe a few scales that formed on her body but she had always been able to hide those with ease.
This sadly did not last when she came to Beacon. The school was much more strict on going in and out of the city and even letting visitors on the premises so Her Grandfather could only update her with letters. So she had to also transform out in the nearby forests or when they were out on missions which added a whole layer of problems as she could only do it so often when she needed to or wanted to learn more about her abilities.
Also while she could confidently say she was no slouch at studies, Beacon was not Sanctum and the school rhetoric for huntsmen was close to being brutal. But it did help that she had professors like Peach and Port who, while keeping to the rhetoric, helped make it easier in Port's case spending 90% of the class talking about his past heroics and in Peach's case taking it easy on the assignments and homework. Still, it was very, very stressful.
The last thing that surprised Pyrrha the most with her stress and that was her friends. She never really had close friends at Sanctum even though being the center where it all happened and being very popular you'd think she was rolling in friends but it was just the opposite.
She was treated more like an object or a goal to attain than a human being, an idea to strive for, a destiny to gain. She hated that so much it drove her mad somedays.
This all changed when she was with her team and team RWBY. They treated her normally for once. Like she was just another girl and not something on a high pedestal to look at from afar. While she loved it and was thankful for them she realized that… She doesn't really know how to interact with people sometimes.
With a team like RWBY where you have a hyperactive young girl obsessed with weapons and apparently sugar, a rich girl from a prestigious family and background with maybe a tendency for getting angry at a lot of things, a mysterious Faunus girl with just as mysterious background, and a blonde bombshell who is infamous for her puns, innuendos, and the ability to poke people's buttons. They can be a lot to just have a conversation with.
Though their team has been getting better with Weiss being much more forgiving and patient with people, Blake opening up to others about herself and who she is and not hiding, Ruby becoming a more calm and more collected leader, and Yang…..Yang was still Yang….and Blake had been taking notes from Yang. Oh God, there's going to be two of them now isn't there?
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As Pyrrha was rounding a bend she heard the sound of running behind her followed by deep exhausted breath "Wait up Pyr I….oh boy don't puke Jaune, don't puke…Let me catch up" She turned to see Jaune in a set of black shorts, a pair of running sneakers, followed by his jacket, which when she caught what was on it she couldn't help but have a puzzled smirk on her face.
"Is that a Pumpkin Pete Hoodie?" she almost started laughing but held it in as she was surprised they even had hoodies that weren't just for smaller children.
"Yeah I've had this one forever, I won it after sending in a few box tops" he let himself now have a little grin on his face.
"How many box tops 10? Maybe 20?" Pyrrha said, smiling uncontrollably at this new development "Of course he had a Pumpkin Pete hoodie, the way he reacted to me being the face on the Pumpkin Pete cereal box makes more sense now…"
Jaune got quiet for a second then kicked a bit of the ground before looking back at Pyrrha ``Well it's more like …..50" he said now with a little embarrassment in his voice.
Pyrrha couldn't contain it any longer and started a laughing fit that would make Ruby proud "I'm sorry it's just…I think it looks very nice on you…" Her face turned a slight red from the laughter.
Jaune took it in spades though, unlike Yang or Nora who were masters of teasing, Jaune knew that Pyrrha wouldn't poke his buttons too much. He then pointed down the road. "So could I join you for a Jog? I'd like to get some exercise done before our weekly sparing"
Pyrrha glanced at the road and back at him then thought to herself. "On the one hand I wanted to go jog by myself to clear my thoughts and plan things ahead for the next few weeks. On the other hand…it is Jaune".
She smiled and gave him a nod "That sounds Grand, I promise to keep it at a manageable pace for you Jaune."
Jaune waved his hand exaggeratedly "Come on Pyr, We came here to sweat right? Give me a challenge!" He said before then getting in his best effort to look like a boxer and throw a few joking punches at Pyrrha.
"Well… you reap what you sow Jaune" She then turned to fully look at him and said "Alright Jaune Arc your on, I'll race you to the Docks, The loser has to deal with Nora's Sugar rush Shenanigans and give Ren a break. Are these terms acceptable?"
Jaune gave her a nod though the thought of dealing with one of Nora's sugar highs did not bode well. Ren is the only one that can keep her mostly contained. How he does it is anyone's guess. Theories range from black magic to more personal distraction from what Yang could tell.
Jaune and Pyrrha both lined up neck and neck and got into a sprinters position. With a nod and a count
…3
….2
…..1
They then ran for it, giving it all they got.
...
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It wasn't even close. But now Pyrrha was worried. While she was glad she wasn't gonna have to deal with Nora's…..Noraing It had already been nearly half an hour and Jaune was nowhere to be seen.
"Maybe he collapsed from exhaustion?, or maybe he was really about to vomit? OH no what if he actually picked up a Girl with one of his one-liners" That last one sounded the least likely with Jaune. For all his Bravado when it comes to talking to ladies hasn't seemed to have been able to get a single date.
The thoughts of her blonde-haired partner give her some pause "Why hasn't he hit on me I wonder? Maybe he doesn't like taller girls? No, that can't be right, He did try it on Yang once."
Everyone and their mother knows about Pyrrha's little crush on Jaune….besides Jaune himself. Which has confused Pyrrha to no end. While she hasn't gotten any more, when she first came to Beacon she received multiple people asking her out. Yet Jaune hadn't tried once since their first day when she had just met him.
Jaune has tried it multiple times on Weiss (With a 0% success rate), once on Yang (She actually seemed interested…but in more than the date), Blake once (said she saw him as a good friend), and that one Faunus girl named Velvet (she said she was already in a relationship).
However, Pyrrha didn't really think it would work out with Jaune because of her condition. "How could I tell the Guy I liked that, Hey! I'm actually a crazy weird monster hybrid thing but ignore that please I'm sorry."
Her thoughts are interrupted when she receives a call from Jaune on her scroll. "Pyr where are you? I've been waiting for like 10 or 15 minutes."
Pyrrha scanned around and saw Jaune was nowhere to be seen. "Jaune, where are you?"
Jaune scanned his surroundings for a moment before saying "Dock 123? Why are you lost or something?"
Pyrrha then took a moment to scan to find some indication of where she was, after a little looking she quickly identified the problem "I'm at dock 480, We're at completely different parts of the city's port Jaune."
Pyrrha heard a nervous chuckle from Jaune on the scroll, "Well I guess we will have to find another way to win the bet. Do a coin toss maybe?"
Pyrrha was about to respond till she noticed some commotion happening nearby, "Hold that thought Jaune, Something going on over here."
She headed towards the noise of shouting, It was near a freight ship.
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She moved over to some metal cargo boxes to keep in cover. She saw that there was about a group of 19 or so people with their arms bound behind their backs by handcuffs, armed guards wearing bone-like Grimm masks and white and black vests were all around carrying a menagerie of weaponry. One of them, a very large-looking Faunus with hooves for feet, had a Grimm beowulf with 3 claw marks on the back of his vest.
"They must be White Fang members…. and it looks like they're taking over a dust shipment…. They're gonna use the hostages to get away with the robbery." She quickly whispered into her phone "Jaune you need to get over here right away. There's a group of white fang members taking over a vessel."
Jaune's tone changed immediately with the mention of white fang "I'll meet you over there when I can, get your equipment and hold position till you have back up" With that he closed the call and promptly called his weapons locker at Beacon to his current position.
Pyrrha snuck away from the scene but as she turned around she saw a guard with a pistol drawn. "Crap I need to act fast!"
She quickly dropped down and kicked her assailant in the stomach causing him to go flying into a stack of crates and boxes alerting the rest of the White Fang of her presence and getting a dozen guns aiming her way.
She quickly activated her scroll and ducked behind the nearest Shipping containers before the first shots were fired. She quickly dialed her weapon locker and made the brilliant plan of Running like hell till it got here.
She went through the maze of containers dodging whizzing bullets and armed white fang members till she heard a large crash come from above. Her locker landed in one of the shipping containers.
She quickly hopped up and then down into the container filled with apparently red glowing dust containers and after a few moments and some help with her polarity semblance, she was combat-ready Milo and Akouo in hand. But as she just finished she heard multiple distinctive *clink* noises followed by 3 or 4 objects being dropped into the hole.
"Shit grenades need to move!" With her shield raised up behind her, she used her polarity to quickly rip open the door an-
Jaune heard a large explosion as he was running towards dock 480 "Crap Ren, Nora Get here soon!" He closed his scroll and drew his sword and equipped his shield. And started to move his way toward the docks and he could start to see a large fire from where he was currently.
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Pyrrha found herself suddenly in the water. She had a splitting headache and more importantly, her aura was very low after that dust explosion.
Parts of her arms were now scaled budding up from under her skin.
"Crap If I try to fight like this I'm either gonna die which isn't a great prospect or I'm gonna transform into my serpentine form which wouldn't I'd rather not be discovered just yet."
On one hand, she could do what Jaune asked her to do, wait for reinforcements, and take the fight to them. But if she waits the white fang members could just scatter and maybe even kill their captives.
"If only I had a way for people to not recognize my sel- wait…That's it! Pyrrha You're a genius!"
Pyrrha then decided to go back under the water and make her way over to one of the posts near the dock. Standing around scanning the waters nearby were about 3 guards having their guns trained for any movement.
"Guess it's time to try this out." She closed her eyes and started to feel her legs form together into that familiar serpentine body along with scales growing up and around her arms, she opened her eyes which had now lost their emerald green for a deep red color.
She wrapped her body around one of the dock's posts climbing just enough to poke her upper torso above the water, two of the guards were facing away from her at that moment. They relaxed after a few minutes later.
Guard 1: Hey
Guard 2: Yeah?
Guard 1: You ever wondered why we're here?
Guard 2: It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I me-
Before he could finish that deep philosophical question, He felt something tug at his leg and looked down to see a tail wrapped around it.
Guard 2: OH SHI-
He was then thrown into the water, As Pyrrha grabbed the other guard by his feet with her hands and pulled, knocking his head against the wooden dock and effectively knocking him out.
She quickly grabbed the black part of the guard's vest and the mask, she put the hoodie on which fitted uncomfortably over her armor, and placed the mask on her face effectively at least making her seem like some kinda humanoid Grimm monster.
"Ok Pyrrha, now let's save those hostages" …To be continued
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Annnnd that's all for this chapter. So this is whats its like on the other end of a cliffhanger? huh...I like it. This one felt good or at least fun to make. I really liked trying to figure out how to make a way for Pyrrha to not get recognized right now and I was like "Wait a minute grim masked DUH!"
Anyway, My work finally got me the right days off so I'll be trying to upload earlier on Saturdays from now on.
Till then I'll see you guys later.
