In the last chapter we saw some light teasing but a resurface expeirnce for holly. Though we'll see the group search for the keys for the beacon and shade belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. I own the OC's, AU. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 31:Artifact Hunting
It was soon another bright and beautiful morning over the kingdom of vacou right now. With everyone trying to enjoy themselves right now in the city with all of them doing their part right now. Although inside the academy some of them where up for the day with eden sighing feeling very exhausted from yesterdays training
"I did not know that training like that could feel so exhausting"eden said panting with pyrrha seeming to be fine
"I'm fine. Though i do train alot and i can pick up things rather quick"pyrrha shyly replied with her tail swaying from side to side
With mercury chuckling"Funny how nikos can easily pick anything up. Although…i kinda hate how we have to sit here with our thumps up our butts again today"mercury said in annoyance
"You mean how you guys got suspended for uhh your umm…dad"Gwen said nerovusly to sombra who seemed to be in a chipper mood still as she shrugged her shoulders with a hum
"Its fine don't tip toe around me. Besides…maybe their is a way to save him without the blessing"sombra replied which confused some of them for a moment right now as falk scratched his head
"You hit your head or something. Yesterday you where super upset"octavia questioned with a confused look as the sabertooth looked down sighing
"I'm upset but i'm thinking of talking to alcus later. Maybe her serums could work on him…you never tested them on conri in his new form. It also worked on that guy"Sombra mentioned which made xander eyes widden
"Your right! But uh…well i am helping her later after she teaches me and whitley some stuff. Along with erin"Xander mentioned
"Erin?"earl replied as he jumepd slightly
"Oh uh erin shes this nice doctor we met from deepwald. Where getting some training from her and carmine later in medicine. Yep…speaking of which i gotta go see yah"xander said getting up quickly as they didn't care. But both nora and ren shared a look with each other
"Excuse us we have something to do"Ren said getting up with nora following him
"Oh uh okay bye guys"falk waved goodbye as they cotninued to eat their breakfast for the day. Until suddenly approaching them was glynda who cleared her throat getting their attention right now
"Students please come with me we need to discuss something right now"glynda said worrying them right now
"Are we in trouble?"reese asked nerovusly with her shaking her head
"No right now i can see that some of you seem to know more than you know. But we need to talk come to the office now. I've already called a few of the others to meet with us"glynda said as following after her was velvet, cardin, may, eden, razma,pyrrha,falk, yumi, team TPAZ, NDGO, arslan, reese and bolin. Along with jazmine, emerald and mercury in the mix
As they took the elevator one at a time they soon found who was waiting for them. That being general ironwood and headmaster theodore. Along with that their was also artemis who was a sight for sore eyes. Along with that bertilak and zoey. With the malachite twins their in the mix as well to some surpirse. As oobleck was their sipping on some coffee
'Great you kids are here. Names bertilak if your wondering…alot of them are here"bertilak noticed
"Uhhh yeah i mean…how are we sure we can trust some of them. No offense"Zoey said
"None taken."boln replied with oscar at the main table as he cleared his throat staring at them
"Ozpin said its fine because well we need help right now"oscar said peeking their interest
"Really? Help…what gonna send us after my uncle scumbags. Because i'm not helping anyone…fuck…you"jazmine said straight to the general face as he looked away with artemis sighing
"We all need to make the hard decisions in life dear. But right now we all need your help we found the location for the artifact needed for the door here in shade. For the summer maiden"artemis explained making go quiet for a moment before cardin cheered fist pumping the air
"You serious?! Finally some good news!"cardin cheered as zephyra smiled as her tail swayed around in complete joy
"We can claim the relic here now!"zephyra cheered in joy clapping her hands
"Alright lets send an army and nab the sucker"falk replied but their was a but
"But we have a problem on locating it"zoey mentioned as their was always a butt making them all frown in complete disappointment
"Theirs always a stupid butt isn't their"reese growled with an annoyed look as theodore walked over projecting a map of the dunes right now but pointed to one spot specifically right now on the map
"Right now we have located a possible sighting of the artifact for the key for shade. But well others have seem to have figured it out as well. Talon forces have been sighted scouting the area and we believe their searching for it"theodore explained to their disappointment
"So they might have it now"yumi replied but they had good news
'Actually they might not. From my digging it seems the criminal that stole the artifact hide it very well. It on an old property that was abandeonded years ago. But bertilak here knows the area well"oobleck replied as he nodded
"This place is pretty hard not to miss. But we get in and get out grabbing the artifact. We send in a team to grab it. Then head back here to let the others know of our success"bartilek stated
"Wait what about the key for the wards in beacon"perun questioned as they had that covered
"Actually lucky for you. That miss vincent knows where that little dagger is i'm planning on sending her team to retrieve it"theodore mentioned but a few vacou students where against it
"Vincent?! You do know her family was with the cult"octavia rudely said as nebula glared at her with glynda sighing
"They where on the side of the family who didn't follow their rule. We need some of you to head with them to provide back up. Mr tannin already volunteer to assist on finding the key ward in beacon from vacou"glynda mentioned making some scared hearing that but mercury sighed rubbing his face
"I'll go keep an eye on BBNT."mercury volunteered
"Same here, i owe bash for helping me on an assignment"ame added
"I'll go to keep an eye on vincent. Who knows she may betray us"octavia rudely said making some eye her. As the others for the group heading for the artifact stepped forward
"Well i'm going with you kiddies on the key for the vault. Along with bringing the malachite twins, we might need their covert expeirtise"zoey said with the two twins scoffing in unison
"Oh i can come i think i know the area your talking about too. I used to hunt around their with my dad"may added joining in
"Team ABRN in on this too. Besides i wanna crack some skulls right now"arslan said cracking her knuckles with a grin. As razma shrugged her shoulder
"Welp i'll go gotta keep an eye on my girlfiend"razma joined up
"Guess i can come with. Gotta keep bolin here out of trouble"Tanner said smacking his friend on the back. As something popped into perun mind his mom mentioned
"Wait! Uhhh this is gonna sound random but ummm…well could we maybe perform a show for everyone in the capital"perun said making them stare at him for a moment
"Why would we do that exactly?"Artemis questioned as he froze up with the loudmouth taking charge
"Come on some good music will bolster everyones spirits. Along with that everyone sad or thinking their gonna die. Some music and tricks will liven things up here. Boast the troops moral…come on it'll be fun"tanner said as they stayed silent wondering if they'll just throw it in their faces telling them no. but theodore cupped his chin nodding
"An excellent idea. I can get some of the workers to set a small stage in the center of town. We can have small acts along with others who want to join. "Theodore said as others agreed
"Would liven things up around here"bartilek supported
"Agreed. But still we need to be on guard for that new grimm"glynda added hesitantly as they all decided to leave for the time being. As they all split up to gear up for their journey though sombra and sun sepeartated from them secretly as the two quickly walked off to meet with someone. As someone eyed them supiosuly right now
The couple began to walk through the streets of vaocu toward their desaintion right now. As soon enough they arrived at a small cafe right now with someone waiting for them. That being marrow, vine,declan and his teammates, along with pana, loki,yama. With fenix their as the man chuckled seeing them
"Their you two are…thought you'd flake out on us"Fenix said
"You kidding? You know what we got good news right now they found the key for shade vault and their retrieving it"sun said quietly to them as they looked stunned with pana laughing in joy hearing this
"Ohhh thats wonderful news. We can open shade and we just need to figure out how where gonna steal back the other two relics"pana said in utter joy
"Awesome. Though uhh….did you bring these two with you"loki asked confusing the two as they turned around before sombra frowned. As trying to hide behind a corner was aruna along with jazmine who tried to hide. But she growled walking over snatching the two lifting them in the air
"Dang it"jazmine said
"Why are you two following us? I thought you would be busy doing other stuff"sun asked as aruna tapped her fingers
"Ummmm i totally didn't evasdrop on you two conversation when you came back late last night."aruna said nerovusly as they stared at her with nix sighing rubbing her eyes
"Ther fine kids…come on were heading to celeste place. Though lets make it quick and simple. We ask her to do it and then where out. Got it"nix said as they all nodded in agreement
"I will keep guard when we get their. I rather not see another innocent soul perish when we have the chance to save them"Vine said which surprised some of them as they began to walk
"Wait you two are on our side?"jazmine questioned as the two ace ops nodded
"Kid i was the main one dealing with your sister best friened boyfriend panics attacks. Seriously kid would not stop following me"marrow said as his tail wag as he didn't mind it as some were confused why vine was here
"But why is he here? I mean…he makes sense you…nothing"aruna said as the pale man stayed silent for a moment before a sympathetic look came to his face giving his reason
"When we heard of innocent people being transformed into grimm hybrids. As first i wanted to hunt them down but my teachings from the monastery said otherwise. No matter how small or large a scarfiece is. You should try and save anyone if their is a choice. "Vine said before sighing with a hurt look
"It was pleasant to teach the child some of my temple scriptures. But…carmine wanted to save at least one of the original thirteen. Saving him along with dracona will be beneficial to us"vine said but amrboise scoffed
"Uhhh yeah i'm gonna kill that chick she killed dec daughter. So nah"ambroise said with his opinion
"Come on i mean…she didn't mean it…she really bonded with those kids in three months. Granted that women did try and off herself that one time"marrow mentioned making them creeped out as they continued their walk in silence right now.
They kept walking for what felt like ten minutes until they finally rounded a corner arriving at their desination. That being a two stroy building made of brick and sturdy woods from the look of it. It was colored dark purple with a crescent moon on the front door that told them who lived here. Walking toward the door fenix kncoked on it a few times until soon enough it opened as someone answered it
That being a women who in her early thirties with her having a pale skin complexion. Along with that having blonde hair that was styled into a bun with a sun hairpin in her hair holding it together. While she had a slender frame with a modest bust. She was wearing some blue jeans with a orange thin sweater on. In her arms was someone else
That being a four year old little girl who had fair skin with her having her eyes closed. But she had tufts of black hair on her head while she wore a blue pair of shorts with a dark grey shirt as she was sleeping in her arms
"Ummm can i help you fen? Because ummm who are your friends?"The women asked as the lion smiled
"Ah cyra their you are. I see that little dancia is still as cute as ever"fenix said wagging a finger near the tot face. But cyra smacked his hand away with her free one
"Why are you here?"cyra questioned with them trying to come up with an excuse. But someone came into view that being celeste wearing some light blue pajamas with a black tanktop on. But she noticed them before she realzied why she was here
"Nope! Get out of here i am not going through the messed up mind of that kid again!"celeste said trying to shut the door. But vine used his aura hand to stop the door holding it open. With marrow stepping forward sighing
"Guess you read us like a book celeste."marrow said as she glared at him
"Amin. i am good friends with bree and ederne…i'm sure they don't know about whatever your planning. But leave before i call nez or the general here. I am spending time with my kids and wife for a couple days"celeste said frimly with cyra holding their daughter in her arms bouncing her as she became a little fussy
"Shhhh its okay sweetie lets get you back to bed. Kick them to the curb dear"cyra said as celeste pulled out a sidearm pointing it straight at marrow head
"You have till i count to ten to leave or your all conisdered trespassing. one…two…three…four..five..six…seven..ei-"she was stopped at eight
"Wait! I..i…please i…we wanna try and convince them to try and save my dad."sombra said making celeste pause for a moment sighing
"Kid we need that blessing to kill salem. I'm sorry but your dad might need to be a sacrifice"celeste said but pana stepped forward
"We have four weapons that are blessed along with one small vial. They told me this man protected my nephew. We won't stay long"pana said as the women paused to think about it as someone added something to sweeten the deal
"If you do it i'll convince decker to let you have a month break with decker. I still have those videos of his drunk antics. Blackmailllll"fenix said sweetly as she liked that. Opening the door she welcomed them into her home. It was a simply little home with a living room that had a couch and chair. Along with a decent size tv.
As the kitchen was in view as it was decent at best. But it also had a decent sized set up as well with an oven and fridge. Though their where some stairs that led upstairs as jillian was in the living room coloring on some paper with someone else here. That being a black cat that had a pair of yellow eyes with a patch of fur on his side being colored yellow. It hissed at them a little
"Oi orion heel kitten"celeste said as the cat known as orion hissed slightly. With jillain standing up looking at the new guest
"Momma who are they?"jillian asked as her mother sighed
"Some work friends it seems. Vine be a doll and take my daughter upstairs she can't see this. Keep cyra up their got it"celeste asked as he nodded taking her out of the room. With everyone taking some seat as celeste waved her hands around summoning her crystal ball sighing
"Alright heres are the rules again. No touching it without my premise…that especially goes for you khan"Celeste siad directly to aruna who looked away
"Rule two no more than two memories. After that leave and give me a list of possible dates i could use. Your lucky i'm a saint"celeste added
"You a saint? I woudl't…ow!"fenix said as she stomp her foot on his. But loki the ever curious snatched her crystal ball making her glare at him as she growled
"Kid…what was my first rule"celeste growled as he shrugged his shoulder
"What not like i'm gonna say show my cousin saving that council guys family or something"loki said but he did. Soon the orb erupted in a bright light enveloping them for a moment. As they rubbed their eyes celeste eye twitched snatching the orb out of his grip growling at him
"You have one more now"celeste said with them glaring at loki who slinked down
"Nice going kid. Though…lets see what you just played"amrboise said as the orb displayed something that being a highrise tower that seemed to be in atlas. Though on the rooftop fishing up as they where working on a control panel was jarvis. With him was hairett and elm for the ace ops of this memory. With the spartans having grinch, pandora, jill and lastly harper.
"So wags and the others have to defuse a bomb. We get stuck with hostage rescue…great"harper said as marrow heard his voice sighing which they noticed
"Whats up with you grunt? You know him"nix asked as he stared at her with an upset look
"He was my best friend…i knew him as a kid…he died…simple as that"marrow answered making them go quiet right now. As in the memory grinch was loading a new magazine into his rifle
"Uhhh not just hostages. The council this is once and lifetime opportunity. Besides maybe we'll finally be rid of this kid now. If he succeeds on mission three"grinch said as zane was in his military attire with that custom assault rifle he made with remorse strapped to his back. With his dual revolvers.
hairett scoffed"Right the little monster. I hate this already, still don't forgive you for tearing torts arm and leg off"she bluntly reminded with elm sighing
"Bree…i'm not doing this right now. Jarvis how much longer on that EMP"elm questioned as jarvis closed the hatch unplugging his hacking device
'You have five minutes. But i checked the camera we have a squad of mercs guarding the staff. Bree were sending a small squad of spartans already their they need your help"jarvis said as she sighed bumping shoulder with zane flipping him off as she descend down a ladder.
"Man she seems peachy. She keeps crying for that kid yet she seemed to hate him"ambrosie commneted
"Bree never liked him. Apparently when they breached the room they kept him in…he um…tore off her arm and leg. He never meant it all that grimm blood and guess his little family semblnace wasn't under his control yet"marrow replied
"It takes alot to master it. The semblance can cause you to act animalsitc since it affects your humanity a little. Its different for our archangel"pana softly said. But in the memory the rest of them hooked up on the side of the building. With grinch repealing on an opposite side as jarvis stayed up top
They started to repeal down the building as they did with harper and zane. Their were two mercs guarding the balcony going for a quick smoke break. As one sighed exhaling some smoke from their mouth
"Man whats with the lights? This gig is shit man…why did we agree with this. We could go to federal prison"the merc asked his fellow merc
"I don't know. But the pay is good getting a good ten grand i–"he was cut off as harper jumped ontop of him. The man grabbed him by his neck before snapping his neck killing him. The second tried to react but zane jumped ontop of him as he began to choke him out. Once the guard was down harper checked his pulse
"Still alive. Good…move in"harper ordered as they did with weapons up at the ready. With the lights out in the house as him and harper split up with jill following them. Two more spartans went with elm and pandora. As they approached a kitchen a guard was getting a midnight snack it seems with harper walking forward as jill snuck around
"Heyya man getting the munchies"harper asked as the guard laughed as he was making a sandwich right now
"Heck yeah man. Guarding this place sucks but where getting paid a nice load for our work. "The guard said as harper laughed sighing
'Where are we guarding the council men and his family again?"harper asked as the guard placed the finishing touches on his sandwich
'You dumb? In his office with his dumb wife and youngest. Some of the boys found the older one in the shower. Their planning on having fun wi–"he was stopped as jill snapped his neck as he fell to the ground as she spit on his face staring at the two
Jill placed a finger on her earpiece"elm we got eyes on wilkins. Him, aera and their youngest are in his office. Don't have eyes on his eldest…sickos are planning to assault her"she said in disgust as the earpiece came to life as they heard it
"Roger. Were clearing the bedrooms here and we can't find her. Maybe tr–"elm was stopped as the sound of crashing and screaming could be heard. This drew all their attention as the three quickly arrived in a spacious area with tables and furniture overturn. As elm and her group came over as they noticed something
That being five mercs with one of them doing something. That was trying to pin holly to the ground who kept fighting back right now with a towel wrapped around her bodie with her bodie being soaking wet like she just came out of the shower.
"Hold…still you…little….dammit! Someone hold her down that fat bastard is taking too long, and i need stress relief"the merc siad like a pig. As two mercs held her down with the merc trying to take his pants off. With the others finding this absolutely disgusting
"Dude! Uhhh this is…oh this so messed up"sun finally broke their silence
"You think? Because my dumb brother just played someone getting raped!"yama said balling her fist pounding against loki who looked horrofied. But marrow winced
"Uhhh she didn't get raped uh…gonna see what harp meant by the kid brutlizing someone now"marrow said scaring a few. As in the memory elm sleintly cursed
"Dammit…okay we get in position and stop them. Heres the plan"elm said starting to explain it. Though with zane it seemed he clenched his fist growling as he drew his assault rifle as he went into his titan form. Then he broke from cover screaming at them
"You sick bastards!"he shouted catching them offguard as he dumped a round into one of their leg as they cried in pain. With the others opening fire on them with the other spartans breaking cover right now. With pandora rushing forward firing a spray of bullets into a merc filling them with lead as they fell to the ground dead.
As elm charged in throwing her hammer foward laucnhing one of the mercs out of the window. It crashed as they went flying out of the window screaming to their death. But zane kept firing shots into two of them as he tossed it away before punching one in the head knocking them to the ground. The second was the one with his pants off
"Crap…crap"he said falling to the ground backing away as he molted his armor away. Then quickly injected a syringe. But he grabbed a shotgun off one of the mercs as he aimed it at his ball before firing a shell off blwoing them off as the man screamed in pain.
Blood was where his private where as bits and pieces where everywhere"you fucking psycho! You blew my dick off! I'm go–"he was stopped as he bashed him across the face disolcoating his jaw as he seethed in rage shaking. As he glared at elm
"What"he growled as she whistles for a moment
"Man weird how they spotted us…right guys"elm said with some of the spartans agreeing with her as pandora shrugged her shoulder
"Shame harp here blew that guys nuts off"pandora said to their surprise they where covering for him. But what came as surprising next was holly still on the ground covering her naked form. But immedialty he tore his jacket off tossing her it as he grabbed a nearby blanket wrapping her up in it.
Jill placed a finger on her ear"we got the eldest. Moving in on the main office we've been compromised"she said as her, harper,elm and the owner of the memory moved upstairs. They reached the room with elm pulling her hammer out as their radios came to life
"I got eyes on the room. Gundy in their with one guard…be advised when i got here before i heard the shots. Caine on the ground might be KIA"grinch warned on the radio
As elm counted down mouthing to three before bashing the doors open with her hammer. They all piled in as it showed the main office with a large glass window on the side. With one man their a man who was very tubby with a balding head. Along with wearing a burgundy color business suit as he seemed in his fifties. In his hands was sinna who was crying and kicking.
But close was aera who was crying shaking her husband who layed motionless on the ground with gundy growling holding a pistol to sinna head
"Dammit! Good your here…now kindly let me go or the brat gets a bullet in the head"gundy warned but on the window behind him was grinch giving an ok sign with harper laughing
"Oh man gonna be hard to shoot with a bullet in your arm"harper said confusing the man
"What ar–"gundy was stopped as grinch fired a shot off shattering the entire window he was on. As it hit gundy in the arm making him drop his pistol with grinch quickly shooting the other thug in the head. As they all moved in pointing their weapon at him with jill running over to provide medical to caine.
"Its over solkov. Drop the girl right now or else your gonna get another round in your head this time"harper said but the man smiled at him
"Drop her…well go and catch her!"gundy said as it showed him throwing sinna to their complete shock right now
"She got thrown out a window! What the hell!"nix shouted but something else happened. As zane was shown running headfirst toward the window ditching his rifle as he undid his reppeal slack as he did something
"I'm going for her, grinch hook up!"he called out handing grinch off his line as he caught it. As the orb showed him jumping out the window as the view of atlas could be seen. But they watched as he began to descent fast as the rope was whriring fast like steam came off of it. But he flipped both revolver back firing off two dust rounds that propeled him forward down the building in blinding speeds
In an instant as sinna was falling screaming for her life they watched on the edge of their seats. As just in time he wrapped both arms around her catching her as he came crashing hard into the building cracking the glass. But some sighed in relief
"Oh my god….my heart…skipped a beat…god"ambroise said in relief
"Soooo that explains why he friends with them now. Awesome"aruna said as her tail swayed with declan finding that impressive wishing he got to mess with the kid on that. In the orb he called them to take him up.
They did but as he got up their aera rushed over to her daughter who was crying for her parents. Aera took sinna in her arms
"Oh my precious little girl..thank you…thank you"aera cried as he nodded before rushing over as nate was finhsing up patching caines wounds but the man was asking for one thing
"W-where are…my daughters…where are they?"caine qeustioned sounding delirious as he kept looking for any sign of them. As he stepped into his view
"Sir their okay. You gotta hold on right now….for your kid okay can you do that for me?"zane asked squeezing his hand waiting for a response as he got a squeeze back. As two medics came rushing in with a stretcher placing him on it. But gundy was cuffed to a nearby desk laughing at them right now
"You might saved that dam beast little brat. But he'll die because then atlas won't have that filith running our council. Those two little freaks will suffer for every thinking they can be with us humans up here"Gunday said sounding like a deranged madman
As in the room right now was harper along with grinch. But for zane something seemed to have snapped as he walked over socking gundy in the jaw hard as he had a bloody mouth slightly
"You brat! Your not–"he was stopped as zane gripped his fingers snapping them as the man began to cry out in pain as he undid his cuff. Then he grabbed him by the collar slamming him onto the table growling at him.
"You talk to much….i can fix that scumbag"he said as he brought him over to an intact window. He reeled the man head back before slamming it headfirst through the glass shattering it. Gundy had glass shards in his hair but zane picked a few open as he forced the man against a wall
"Open wide, don't swallow"he said before jamming the glass shards into his mouth with the other sitting in silence. As he began to bear the ever living hell out of him as blood started to go flying. But eventually soon enough he lit up in electricity screaming in pain as around his neck was a mofided shock collar. Holding the switch was ironwood who released it as two soldier took gundy away
"Thats it! Your too unstable you abomination…you lost your one chance. Along with attacking someone unprovoke. Protocol fifty three is in effect, your to be executed immediately"ironwood said drawing a gun on him but harper stepped foward
"Sir wait! Kid saw the bastard reaching for a gun and he broke one of his ribs. He saved the councilmans daughter and followed orders. Just fail him"harper said as the general stared at him but he fired a shot off near zane ears as he held his head as a ringing noise filled the room.
Though it was inaudible with the general leaving with harper and grinch helping him up as the man patted him on the back
"Well shame you failed kid. But hey…taught a scumbag a lesson. Lets get some takeout my treat"harper said as it ended their. With them sitting silence with some finding the general to be terrible now
"Ohhhhhh i don't like james now"fenix said in anger
"Dude that was one awesome two…my cousin jumped out a fifty storie building…i wish he was here"loki said upset as celeste sighed
"Their you saw something cool. I already know one memory that can work but i aint showing it here. Rather not see a kid get beaten up"celeste said although nix opened her big mouth
"Look at us not arguing like we did on menagerie. Man i almost shot that kid in the head with an anti aura arrow"nix said but covered her mouth eyeing pana who glared at her as she growled grabbing the orb
"Ohhh what happened on menagerie…because i'd like some answers"pana growled as the orb flashed showing what happened on menagerie. That being the discussion they had that night making declan and nix share a look right now. But marrow stared at them with a glare hearing how they wanted to kill him which he understood
Though it showed something that enraged pana a swarm of faunus trying to hang her nephew. As they stayed in silence as it showed the funeral with declan punching him in the skull with nix attacking him. But it then showed roland and his group hunting him down like a dog before it showed him getting shoved into a barrel then thrown into the water. After that it just stopped
Once it died down they all styaed silent as pana clutched the orb in anger right now glaring at them before shoving into celeste chest
"I'm going to think about convincing mother now on letting you use that vial now. Screw you"pana said in anger leaving the house as declan felt cold steel on his neck curiosity of marrow who glared at him
"Mind telling me why i shouldn't slice your tail off old man. Because i just heard you wanted to kill the kid…and you let him get hanged."marrow said with ambroise looking shocked
"I'd like a word too! What the hell?! Seriously…nix your stupid…sure lets attack someone whos scared."ambrosie scolded with nix looking away as sun sighed
"Look we all where scared at that time because of the grimm knights. And…well…didn't help with wolf ears uhh breaking up in a brutal fashion."sun mentioned as marrow scoffing removing his knife from declan throat
"Where talking about this tomorrow. Right now i'm pissed…kid tell your aunt where talking about this tomorrow. Got it"marrow said with loki scoffing as he glared at them
"Maybe i will. No wonder vance slipped up mentioning we had a big fight on menagerie. Come on sis"loki said with yama following her brother. As they left sombra held her head in despair wondering if she can't save her dad now.
Though elsewhere after driving by car for a while as joining them on their trip was oobleck to confirm the identity of the artifact. As they soon arrived at an old looking property with may laying on the ground with her sniper out scooping the place out. Though they haven't move in just yet as they wanted to wait for right moment
They where looking at an abdnaoend property that seemed to spread around a decent area of the land. Along with that the walls were in ruins but they could make out one thing. That being two talon company jeeps
"How many do we have?"zoey asked as may put her sniper down sighing
"I count at least….ten normal soldiers i think. Two operatives in the mix, along with that nothing else."may relayed with that being a small problem right now
"So what we just sit here and wait for these guys to come to us"bolin asked with his weapon on his shoulder which was a golden and brown colored staff with ornamental design
"Uhhh heres one we rush in. grab the artifact and we love boom were done"Reese suggest
Miltia scoffed"thats a terrible idea. We've ran into these operaitves back in mistral after you left. These mercs are highly trained."she replied
"They even give our spiders a problem. Including me and my sister"mealnie added
"Ohhh your sisters cute i couldn't quite place it"razma teased as the two fox sister stared at may for a moment
"Shes always like that"may simply replied with zoey chcukling scooping out their problem right now. As bertilak crossed his arm staring at her
"God an idea kid?"he asked as she nodded
"We sneak in and scoop it out. Their might be more they have stealth tech and are probably hiding in the building. We don't even know if they have a grimm knight"zoey said which made them think about that
"Nuh uh i aint dealing with callows. That chick is creepy"may said firmly
"How is she creepy exactly?"Arslan questioned as the sniper and orange tailed fox shared a look
"Trust us shes creepy"zoey said as they went over the plan real quick as they all began to sneak their way over to the property. It took some time but they all split up but kept close enough to try and clear the way for them right now. With two guards patrolling right now as they where turning a corner. They were grabbed by bartielk who slammed both their heads together knocking them out
Another one was patrolling a corner of the property near some building until something was thrown around his ankle. He looked down seeing it was a rope
"What t-"he was stopped before he was pulled up as he looked to the source. That being a rope dart and the person holding it was arslan who grinned as bolin came in smacking them in the face knocking them out as they quickly restrained him
With some other guards they where taking a smoke break themselves near a certain area. As looking at them was the malachite twins along with razma as miltia was about to break for cover but razma stopped her
"I got this, let a girl with some assets work her magic"razma said as the two let her get to work. Unzipping her coat a little more it presented alot more clevage making the two blush as they looked away. But she got into their full view as the two guards noticed her pointing their rifles at her
"Hey! Hold it right their!"The guard called out
"Ohhh heyya big boys. Think you could help me i got lost out here and well i'm in my heat cycle. Faunus but my trait is just a very long tongue."razma said with a toothy grin to the two. As the two looked at each other as she was lucky they where two of the still hired mercs in the group. The two walked over eyeing her goods right now as the first one smiled
"I mean…you looking for company. Savva wouldn't mind us bringing back a new toy"the soldier said
"Yeah. come here sweet cheeks we'll help you"the other added
"Really? Well drop em"razma said sweaty trying to get on their good side. As the two where in the process of that. Though immediately the twins striked as meanlie wrapped her arms around one choking them out. With the other caught offguard as miltia chopped him in a pressure point knocking him out. The twins stared at razma who smirked at them
"Alright maybe being a perv does have its advantages"miltia joked but her sister hummed for a moment
"Maybe but that name….doesn't that sound familiar?"mealnie asked as they kept walking as they where lucky to run into the others who where regrouping in a building. As the rest of the guards where at one building. But they overheard them
"What are you two babbling on about? I got my boys outside the property ready to help us if we need to"bartilek said as the two fox twins shared a look
"I don't know just…our father mentioned a big slaver back in the day. Does the name savva ring any bells"miltia asked him as for some reason that made zoey think about
"Savva….why does that name sound familiar"zoey said aloud confused right now. Before they could question further stepping out of the house was savva but he was holding something. That was a old schimatar sword but it looked brand new. Like it hasn't rusted in ages as the man laughed
"God dam our intel was right boys. We got ourselves the warrior queen sword, rumored to cut through someone aura."savvs said presenting the piece as someone else stepped out of the house which scared them. That being the wyvern knight dracona violet
"Ohhhh shit"bolin mouthed as dracona stepped out clutching her head growling to herself which savva noticed
"Eplison the hell is up with you right now? Get my old business partner under control, shocker that the bitch i sold got turned into this"Savva said as they had a past with dracona growling as her wings flapped
"I told you it was a bad idea for me to come here. My host has a grudge with you and…"Dracona paused for a moment as she began to sniff the air like a wild animal which they noticed
"Uhhh why is she sniffing the air like a dog?"reese asked but may and razma flinhced as they knew why
"Oh crap we have our stupid boyfriends scent on us…heh heh…where screwed"razma said as they stared at the two in anger. But dracona sniffed the air as she growled drawing both her swords twirling them as she looked to the building they were at laughing right now
"Ohhh this is interesting…come out i can smell two familiar scents covered in that traidtors scent. But…ohh another one…seems its your turn to die."dracona said as the soldiers all looked over at the building immedialty opening fire on it. As they all broke out with the malachite twins breaking as an operative came in for the kill to pin the two foxes
But the two where much quicker with the operative swinging their sword several times trying to cut them down. Though melanie dodged it as she had a combat knife in hand with mitlia carrying a shorty shotgun. Miltia fired a round into the operative stunning them for a moment as mealnie kept swinging her combat knife trying to stab him
Though the opearitve expertly dodged her swings as he swung into her side making her grunt. They drew their pistol trying to shoot her but miltia dahsed foward leaping off a barrel as she dropkicked the operiatve to the ground knocking them into a wall as they slumped over to the ground groaning. As mitlia scoffed firing off a round into chest as they gasped in pain dying. They had no morals for these scum
With arlsan and reese the two where busy double teaming a few soilders. Reese was on her overboard going straight for three soilders. She kept dodging and weaving through their gunfire as arslan hide behind cover at that moment. As she waited for the right moment as her partner bent backwards kicking up dust launching it in the soldiers face
The sand obseucred their vision making them all cough violently from the distraction. Though this gave arslan the chance to strike. Leaping out from cover she flicked her wrist tossing her rope dart forward wrapping it around one throat. Then she yanked hard launching them into one of their comrade. This made the two stumble as she cocked her fist back clocking the first head as their head whipped back knocking their comrade down to the ground. The third tried to shoot her but reese whacked them over the head with her hoover board knocking them out
"Nice job reese. Lets help the others grab that artifact"arslan said
"Ummm what about her!"reese shouted pointing at dracona who was near savva right now. As arslan stared at her shrugging her shoulder unsure of what to do. Though tanner smiled as he had something in hand his old machete and weapon
"Heres one guys. Cover your ears!"tanner said as next to him was may, zoey and bartliek. They covered their ears as he stood up opening the slits on his mouth before screaming into his megaphone. A defying shriek came from it amplified by his banshee parts in his throat
This caused the soldiers close by to scream out in complete pain as the malachite twins winced heavily as mealnie screamed in pain clutching her head. Which zoey noticed rushing over tapping him on the shoulder as he stopped as her ears where on fire
"Stop! You put too much into that kid"zoey shouted as he looked before flinching seeing mealnie knocked out on the ground with miltia picking her sister up as he cursed
"Sorry"he apologized
"Your good kid. But…."bartilak noticed the sword on the ground as savva was clutching his head. With dracona covering her ears as bolin noticed it breaking for cover snatching the sword up
"I got it!"bolin called out but something happened as he gasped in pain at that moment. As something was drove into his back that being a combat knife laced in anti aura metal from savva. The man panted before rushing over as he swiftly snapped bolin neck making him drop to the ground
Reese noticed this before screaming out in agony seeing her teammates just got his neck snapped infront of her. Arslan noticed going wide eyed grabbing reese who tried to go forward as savva laughed digging his knife out
"Well that was easy….eplsion…do me a favor and kill these idiots. "Savva asked though dracona growled as the sound of airships could be heard coming in which where two manta with talon cruisers. Piling out where some talon soldiers and unseen eye cultist aiming their weapons at them. But she turned to face them as someone broke free as she tried to cut down savva
"Fuck you savva! Your gonna pay!"dracona said as she was in control making him glare. He pulled out his shotgun firing off a round in her chest launching her back as she landed infront of them as pellets where dug into her chest. May noticed this
"Dracona! I…i…your…here we have a syringe we–"she was stopped as the women growled as she dragged bolin bodie handing it to them telling them one thing
"GET OUTTA HERE NOW!"dracona shouted to their shock as bartilak noticed the situation as some of his miltia came in firing at the soilders drawing their fire. He gritted his teeth as savva was quickly boarding a manta with the sword in hand
"Tactical retreat! Were leaving!"bartilak said as miltia rushed out with mealnie in her arms. With two miltia grabbing bolin bodie and weapon. As they all quickly boarded their jeeps but zoey stared back for a moment hearing cries of pain and agony as she closed her eyes wondering something. Why did that name sound so familiar.
It seems the others failed to grab the key for shades vault. But it seems dracona is still in her mind somewhere. Though it seems we got pana reconsidering helping declan and his group cure diego. Thanks for reading!